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  • The Big, Red Blanket

    Harriet Ziefert

    When Kara's sister, brother, and father are too busy to play with her, she finds a big, red blanket and plays with it by herself, in a simple story that includes stickers that contain each of the words...

  • Buster Gets Braces

    Jane Breskin Zalben

    Like any young dinosaur, Buster is not happy about getting braces, but his sister is elated, taking the opportunity to tease her brother about his new mouth on his birthday. By the author of Beni's First Chanukah. ...

  • Looking Out for Lacey

    Cheryl Zach

    Choosing between love and friendship .. . Lacey and Megan have always seen best friends, even though Megan's idea of friendship has often meant getting into trouble -- and counting on Lacey to bail her out. But in their junior year of high school, M...

  • The Shepherd of the Hills

    Harold Bell Wright

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Harold Bell Wright, ‘The Shepherd of the Hills.’ The Shepherd of the Hills is Harold Bell Wright's most famous work. In The Shepherd of the Hills, Wright spins a tale of universal truths acros...

  • Pirates!

    Denis Woychuk

  • This Is My God

    Herman Wouk

    "Valuable, wise, and quietly moving" (Chicago Tribune), This Is My God is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Herman Wouk's famous introduction to Judaism. A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing religion w...

  • Dream Mender

    Sherryl Woods

    MR. APRIL The Man: Frank Chambers, expert carpenter. The Challenge: To overcome insurmountable odds. To resist... The Woman: Jenny Michaels. But she wouldn't take "no" for an answer! When a tragic fire landed frank in the hospital, all he ...

  • Hot Property // Island Storms

    Sherryl Woods

    MEET MOLLY DEWITT -- WORKING MOM, AMATEUR SLEUTH, AND MURDER SUSPECT... Molly DeWitt, one-time debutante, struggling single parent, had made an upscale move to escape Miami's violence. Finding a corpse in the cardroom of her elegant new Key Bisc...

  • Little Mouse's Painting

    Diane Wolkstein

  • Storeys from the Old Hotel

    Gene Wolfe

    Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best fiction collection, Stor...

  • The Marriage Bracelet

    Rebecca Winters

    "You will marry a tall, dark stranger." Heather Martin thought the old Gypsy's prediction was just a fortune-teller's cliche. Besides, the only "dark stranger" she'd met lately was the overbearing Nick Antonovic, whose ...

  • Beauty for Ashes

    T.R. Wilson

    Friendship turns to bitter rivalry for Hannah March, the daughter of a laborer, and spoiled and wealthy Isabel Goodwin as their idyllic childhood bond is broken by romance and the dawn of the modern age....

  • Reality Is What You Can Get Away With: A Screenplay

    Robert Anton Wilson

    Here are images of our culture's absurdities, injustices, violence and desires, shot at you in a machine gun like assault on your senses and intellect.

    A hilarious, chilling and irrevocably mind-altering, - a left brain/right-brain challenge...a co...

  • Walk Upon the Wind

    Patricia Wilson

    Sun, sea-and seduction Emily was no longer innocent or vulnerable enough to fall for a ruthless man like Alexi Karivalis. In the five years since their love affair ended, she had channeled her emotions into building a career-her work had become he...

  • Sharks!

    Lynn Wilson

    Did you know... That sharks have been around since the time of the dinosaurs? That the smallest shark could fit into the palm of your hand, and the largest is longer than a moving van?
    You'll find out lots more about sharks in this exciting book...

  • Hazel the Guinea Pig

    A.N. Wilson

  • Tropical Thunder

    Kathy Willis

    Their passion was as wild as the uncharted Florida wilderness! UNTOUCHED PASSION Her plan was to rescue her brother from the godforsaken Florida wilderness, reunite him with his two children, then return with all speed to England. That was befo...

  • Bewitching Nights

    Wynn Williams

    HOME SWEET HOME Handsome architect Nick Herreford was no criminal, but he'd managed to end up on someone's most-wanted list! With patience and charm, he convinced pretty private investigator Jayna Jerome he was harmless. Then he attempted the impo...

  • And in the Beginning. . .

    Sheron Williams

    An African-American tale of the creation of humankind follows Mahtmi, the Blessed One, as he creates a man in his image from the richest and darkest soil at the foothills of Kilimanjaro and uses the smoothest part of the pearl for his smile....

  • Joseph and His Magnificent Coat of Many Colors

    Marcia Williams

    Using a colorful, comic-strip format, this entertaining retelling of the biblical story follows Joseph's adventures, from his father's gift of a magnificent coat, to his slavery in Egypt, to his rise to power and reconciliation with his family....

  • Antarctica Book

    Geoffrey Williams

  • Firebrat

    Nancy Willard

  • My Only Love

    Lee Wilkinson

    "I've given it plenty of thought. I don't want any children!" Tane had found her. After four years of searching, she was his once more and he had no intention of letting her out of his sight. But Laura's life had changed during...

  • In Name Only

    Barbara Wilkins

    SCANDAL All her life Beth Carol Barnes has had everything money can buy. But when she's involved in a scandal, the likes of which her hometown has never seen, she does the only thing she can -- she runs away. Beth Carol arrives in Hollywood deter...

  • Dead Center

    Collin Wilcox

    As millionaire playboy Tony Frazer reluctantly leaves the sanctuary of his restaurant to join his wife at home, he is pained at the distasteful sight of a street person, unkempt and shuffling toward him. But when Frazer tries to sidestep the man, he ...

  • Woman Without a Past

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    She had a past she never knew and a future barred by strange and powerful secrets... A strange sense of foreboding warned me not to relax my guard - that every shadow might be haunted .... Successful author Molly Hunt, the adopted daughter of L...

  • A Heart Set Free

    Nicola West

    Laurie had grown up And Russ Brandon didn't think he liked the big-city girl she'd become. The handsome lawyer didn't think she had it in her to fulfill the terms of her uncle's will. He didn't think Laurie could spend three mo...

  • It Zwibble and the Hunt for the Rain Forest Treasure

    Lisa V. Werenko

  • Begin to Exit Here

    John Welter

    Kurt Clausen has been fired from several newspapers already. He always gets into trouble--always. It isn't that Kurt can't write; quite the contrary. It's just that much of what gets into newspapers is stupid, and Kurt can't keep his mouth shut about...

  • Forbidden Magic

    Angus Wells

    THE GODWARS In the time of the beginning, when the First Gods created all things, they brought forth two children, Tharn and Balatur, lesser gods, to walk upon the new world. But Balatur was arrogant, Tharn was consumed with madness, and the First...

  • A Dry and Thirsty Ground

    Mike Weiss

  • The Reign of Istar

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

    Open the door to the magic and wonder of the Dragonlance world... Meet an irrepressible kender determined to become a Solamnic knight. A bounty-hunter of heretics. An unlikely ogre savior of the dwarven race. And a black-robed mage juggli...

  • The Winter Widow

    Charlene Weir

    SHE'D BEEN ONE OF SAN FRANCISCO'S FINEST--HARD-BITTEN, CYNICAL AND HAPPILY UNATTACHED... Until Daniel Wren blew in like a tornado, sweeping Susan off her feet, and back home to Hampstead, Kansas--new bride of the small town's police chief. Ten day...

  • Harry's Last Tax Cut

    Jim Weikart

    His involvement in shady doings in the tax business spell trouble for Jay Jasen when his friend Harry Sage, the man who persuaded him to join in on a deal, is murdered and the police begin asking questions....

  • Man of the Moment

    Jackie Weger

    INNOCENT ... OR GUILTY Prison life was no picnic for Stormy Elliot, but at least the bars and locks had kept out people like Tyler Mangus. Driving the getaway car when a bank was robbed sent Stormy up the river for eleven months. Now that she w...

  • Touched by Angels

    Peggy Webb

    JAKE--A Tormented Prince Who Dared to Tempt Fate... He took curves too fast, jumped from planes, and tested the limits of recklessness-but when a little girl ran in front of his car, Jake Townsend risked his life for real and swerved to save her!...

  • The Singing Tree

    Anne Weale

    "Your grandfather thinks we should get married." Roderick Anstruther had made Flower Dursley an offer she could hardly refuse: the beautiful house she thought of as home, a comfortable life-style and a handsome, exciting husband. As well, ...

  • Brain Drain

    Matt Wayne

  • Say No and Know Why

    Wendy Wax

  • Bright Hopes

    Pat Warren

    WELCOME TO TYLER JOIN THE CROWD Sit in the bleachers and catch up on the latest gossip. Share the passions and pastimes of America's favorite hometown. THE HOMETOWN HERO AND THE LADY COACH Patrick Kelsey, Tyler's former all-star, is not impre...

  • Grace

    Jill Paton Walsh

    When young Englishwoman Grace Darling spots a wreck offshore, she enlists the aid of her father to rescue the survivors--an act that brings her the adoration and rejection of her nation. By the author of A Chance Child. ...

  • The Bridges of Madison County

    Robert James Waller

    Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.
    If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason co...

  • Buffalo Gal

    Bill Wallace

  • A Dog Called Kitty

    Bill Wallace

    Who could resist the fuzzy little brown puppy? Ricky could, that's who. Ever since he was attacked by a dog when he was just a little kid, he's been afraid of dogs. So even though the pup is tiny and skinny, with sad brown eyes and a friendly, waggi...

  • Vengeance Trail

    Dalton Walker

  • Sleepytime Book

    Jan Wahl

  • Sailor Bear

    Martin Waddell

  • David and Jonathan

    Cynthia Voigt

    When Jonathan's cousin David, a holocaust survivor with mental and emotional problems, comes to live with his family, their closeness threatens Jonathan's relationship with Henry, his best friend since childhood. Reprint....

  • A Fire upon the Deep

    Vernor Vinge

    A space saga awesome in conception, and a riveting novel of conflict, love, loss, and survival... "Fleeing a menace of galactic proportions, a spaceship crashes on an unfamiliar world, leaving the survivors-a pair of children-to the not-so-tender ...

  • King Solomon's Carpet

    Barbara Vine

    From an Edgar Award–winning author: Murder intrudes on a student’s secret history of the London Underground in this “brilliantly unexpected” mystery (The Times, London).   Jarvis Stringer is a young man of many peculiarit...

  • Sandblast!

    John Vincent

  • Crocodile's Masterpiece

    Max Velthuijs

    Despite all of his hard work, no one comes to Crocodile's art studio, until one day Elephant drops by--a visit that inspires Crocodile to even greater artistic heights. By the author of Frog in Love. ...

  • Benedict Canyon

    Laura Van Wormer

    In L.A. to help television star Lydia Southland complete her promised tell-all autobiography, book editor Kate Weston begins to reevaluate her life and her true love as Lydia's deeply personal work evokes painful memories in Kate. 75,000 first printi...

  • Green Valley Justice

    Phillip Underwood

    Convinced that Joey Pike--the son of a wealthy mine owner and a bullying womanizer--is not the man who raped and murdered two women in her town of Green Valley, Colorado, nineteen-year-old Christie Hinkle is willing to risk her life to prove it...

  • Pass the Jam, Jim!

    Kaye Umansky

  • Lost Futures

    Lisa Tuttle

    When her brother dies tragically, Clare suddenly finds herself living several different lives--in a mental ward in one, doomed to a failed relationship in another, and with her dead brother in a third. Original....

  • Cold Feet

    Kerry Tucker

    Hired to shoot the Nonpareils, the legendary group of jazz tap dancers that is making a comeback, photojournalist Libby Kincaid finds herself arrested as an accomplice to the murder of the group's leader. Reprint....

  • Terminate

    Dan Trevor

    Slaves of the megacorporations and at the mercy of notorious corporate assassin Aleister Molay, the citizens of the year 2030 must rely on salvation in the person of John Gray and his revolutionary platoon. Original....

  • Rachel

    Lynda Trent

    Flirting with danger A Man With A Secret Rachel Pennington was fast approaching spinsterhood. But what was she to do? She simply refused to marry a man who wasn't dashing and mysterious. And no man in her sleepy village so far from London f...

  • The Flaming

    Pat Tracy

    Into the fire... Gambling For Love Rancher Morgan Grayson stood to inherit a bundle-if he married his uncle's spinster sister-in-law. And spirited Anya Delangue was hardly the frumpy Englishwoman Morgan had expected. In fact, he was willing...

  • No Place to Run

    Marilyn Tracy

    TO SERVE AND PROTECT That was Dave Reynolds's motto as sheriff of sleepy little Portales, New Mexico. Unfortunately, Janey Anderson couldn't allow herself to get involved with another law enforcement type, no matter how helpful he was -- or how ha...

  • The Times of Wichita

    Bruce H. Thorstad

    The Aubrey brothers head west to start a newspaper, but their dream requires they take part in the dangerous events of the land before they can report on them, leading to the death of one and the other's vow to avenge his death. Original....

  • Velvet Is the Night

    Elizabeth Thornton

    To save her family from the guillotine, a young beauty becomes the mistress of a ruthless commissioner--only to find herself falling in love with him.. . SHE SWORE SHE'D NEVER LOVE HIM He was cold, ruthless, evil... and as the newly appointed com...

  • Critical Moves

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    From wrestling coach to baby-sitter Advertising executive Ginny Westerfelt needed someone to supervise her son during the summer. Thirteen-year-old Arnold had a brilliant idea. Why not hire the wrestling coach? So Mitch Adamson moved in, traini...

  • Death by Misadventure

    Estelle Thompson

    Finally locating her father, who has started a new life after serving time for murder, Lyn Sutton attempts to smooth things over with him, but instead becomes caught up in a mystery involving one of his neighbors....

  • When the Road Ends

    Jean Thesman

    Three children--rebellious Adam; stubborn, sensible Mary Jack; and a little girl who refuses to speak--are thrown together when they move into a foster home run by "Aunt Cecile," a woman recovering from an accident that had killed her husband....

  • Ethics

    Susan Terkel

    Presents the what and how of right and wrong, employing examples to which young people can relate to explore why we should act morally, responsibility toward others, and other important ethical issues....

  • The Liberation of Layla

    Sarah Temple

    Layla Odell knew firsthand how much a little trust and a warm smile meant to a troubled teenager, and she was determined to keep the town's young rebel in line--and out of jail. Ruggedly handsome veterinarian Paul Tressler was the only person around ...

  • Praying Mantis

    Domini Taylor

    Born beautiful, unscrupulous Victoria Courtenay is determined to get whatever she wants in life, even if her insane ambition ruins the lives of her family and friends as well as her enemies. Reprint. PW. ...

  • Tight Lines

    William G. Tapply

    THREE CORPSES AND A FAMILY TREE .. . The flaming New England autumn always makes Brady Coyne uncomfortable, what with its intimations of death--and the end of fishing season. And the lawyer's mood is not lightened when a New England blue blood urges...

  • Saint Louie Blues

    Jake Tanner

    When a D.E.A. agent is killed by a car bomb in a small Missouri town, forensic consultant B. F. Hopper must pose as a crooked representative from a missile parts manufacturer in order to gather clues on the case. By the author of Old Black Magic....

  • Blue Remembered Hills

    Rosemary Sutcliff

  • Lords of Creation

    Tim Sullivan

    While paleontologist David Albee struggles to protect his remarkable discovery of live dinosaur eggs, the alien architects of life on the planet rush to Earth to make contact, armed with the secrets to the origins of the universe. Original....

  • Here Come the Monster Trucks

    George Sullivan

  • Stephen Crane

    Mark Sufrin

    Explores the twenty-eight-year life of Stephen Crane, who transformed modern literature after rebelling against his father's puritanical view of the world and embarking on exciting journeys that provided him with background for his novels....

  • Heat Lightning

    Anne Stuart

    HEAT WAVE Despite the sultry heat of Florida swamp country, Jassy Turner was usually coolheaded in a crisis. But Turner's Landing had never seen anything like the steamy heat of Caleb Spenser. Handsome as sin and twice as mean. Caleb was rumore...

  • Home Truth

    Janis Stout

    With the institution where Lisbeth, her mentally retarded sister, lives closing for the Christmas holiday, Meg, a young mother with a shaky marriage and money problems, must face the difficulties her dependent sibling is sure to bring....

  • Shock Treatment

    Ron Stillman

    Maj. Nat Tracker--ninja-trained and the possessor of computerized vision--takes on the champion of a billionaire group of swindlers, Dr. Shock, a psychotic techno-fiend who has supercharged his weaponry with the force of nature. Original....

  • Far Cry

    Michael Stewart

    Efforts to cure Jonathan's seemingly split personality through advanced brain research only make matters worse, merging the little boy's twin worlds of good and evil into a horrifying evil. By the author of Monkey Shines. Reprint....

  • River Rats

    Caroline Stevermer

    A Murky Future Decades after a nuclear holocaust, a troop of orphans travels up and down the toxic Mississippi River in an ancient but sturdy paddle wheeler. In exchange for food and provisions, they deliver mail to settlements along the river. And f...

  • Eddie's Luck

    Kathleen Stevens

    Eddie has trouble at school, trouble in the neighborhood, and trouble at home when his grandfather moves into his room, but Pop turns out to be a pretty cool roommate as they build a trusting relationship and help each other out of some jams....

  • Freddie's First Night Away

    Danielle Steel

  • Freddie's Trip

    Danielle Steel

  • Paddle to the Amazon

    Don Starkell

    It was crazy. It was unthinkable. It was the adventure of a lifetime.

    When Don and Dana Starkell left Winnipeg in a tiny three-seater canoe, they had no idea of the dangers that lay ahead. Two years and 12,180 miles later, father and son had eac...

  • Hannah and the Special 4th of July

    Hilda Stahl

  • Kathy's Baby-Sitting Hassle

    Hilda Stahl

  • Dreaming and Dreams

    Patricia A. Stafford

  • Summer's Echo

    Lee Stafford

    Marry in haste... They'd had a whirlwind courtship. Alain Deslandes was a worldly academic, while Roxanne wasn't much more than an inexperienced girl. As Alain's wife, she hadn't been prepared for the nights she'd had to spend ...

  • Before I Wake

    Steven Spruill

    HE STALKS HER IN THE SHADOWS OF SLEEP... Night after night, Dr. Amy St. Clair is a small child again, wandering in the dark woods. A strange voice is calling her name-commanding her to look at some-thing too horrible to see. Night after night, she a...

  • Mother's Blessing

    Penina Keen Spinka

    A prequel to White Hare's Horses, presents the saga of a Chumash Indian girl from one thousand years ago whose destiny is tied to a prophecy meant for a boy but who, nevertheless, claims her birthright as leader of her people....

  • That's All Folks

    Greg Snow

  • My Grandma's Chair

    Maggie Smith

  • Witch Tree Inn

    Jeri Smith

    Love is a deadly masquerade at...WITCH TREE INN DON'T FORGET WHO YOU ARE, MAGGIE! After a shocking train wreck, Maggie Mansfield wakes to find herself in a room at Witch Tree Inn, surrounded by a circle of strangers. Everyone there insists...

  • Make-Believe Ball Player

    Alfred Slote

  • The Singing Teacher

    Susan Skramstad

    Lilly Blake, a former opera singer now a wife and mother, must cope with her husband's strange behavior, her best friend's affair with a tennis pro, and her aging parents, in a humorous and poignant novel about mid-life...

  • In the Night

    Jonathan Shipton

  • Child of Faerie, Child of Earth

    Josepha Sherman

    Percinet, half-human son of a queen of Faerie, falls in love with a mortal, the daughter of a medieval count, and leaves his realm of magic to defend her against her cruel stepmother, a secret sorceress...

  • My Life as a Whale

    Dyan Sheldon

    Stalked by women after appearing in an article on bachelors, Michael invents a wife but later tells people he and she have split, but when female body parts turn up in his apartment building, Michael becomes a murder suspect...

  • Colorado Quarry

    Jon Sharpe

  • Dying Cheek to Cheek

    Diane K. Shah

    In 1940s Hollywood she’s dancing cheek to cheek -- and coming face-to-face . . . with murder.

    Hollywood, 1947. It’s a still a town of glittering stars and lavish excess, but the postwar boom is changing things fast. Even Paris Chandler fe...

  • A World Ablaze

    Con Sellers

  • Wild Again

    Kathrin Segal

    After-hours Manhattan. Where promiscuity has taken on a new moral spin...where cocaine is a given and old time whiskey the latest kick... where the "haves" live in dangerous proximity to the "have-nots"...and where a man like Art Glenn and a woman li...

  • Ghost Dancer

    Fela Dawson Scott

    Torn Between Two Worlds... She was the Ghost Dancer, spiritual leader of the Nahhe Lakohta. Born the daughter of pioneers, she had never doubted that her destined place was with the Indians who had rescued her from a Cheyenne massacre -- or that she ...

  • Sam

    Ann Herbert Scott

  • Loyalties

    Alan Scholefield

    Confident in her position as head of a television and newspaper empire, Anna Webster suddenly must confront the consequences of her wartime liaisons with Ben Ramsey, a man she loved, and Cuno Beckerman, a man she despised....

  • Save the Rainforest

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Amos

    Howie Schneider

  • Toad on the Road

    Susan Schade

  • Big Bedtime Storybook

    Patsy Scarry

  • Solo Plus One

    Ragnhild Scamell

    Solo, a cat with a penchant for smashing eggs to get at their delicious, runny insides, is disgusted when his expected treat breaks open to reveal a little duckling, who promptly adopts Solo as its mother....

  • Stranger Calls Me Home

    Deborah Savage

    Set in New Zealand, this compelling, romantic tale is about three teenagers, Paul, Simon, and Fiona, who are trying to understand their past, their place in the present, and what the future holds for them....

  • The Contentious Countess

    Irene Saunders

    The Perplexing Proposal It was a mystery to Melanie Grenville why the wealthy, handsome Earl of Denby, who could have wed any belle of the ton, asked her and not her dazzling sister to be his wife. Her ignorance was bliss, for had she known, she w...

  • Mountain Ecstasy

    Linda Sandifer

    His touch ignited her most wanton desires! SHE WAS A MARRYING WOMAN Hattie Longmore knew that a divorced woman with nothing more to her name than some gold dust was worth about a barrel of shucks to a man, so she traveled to her brother's Idaho...

  • Children of the Blood

    Michelle Sagara

    For three hundred years Lady Sara has slept, held by her Lord’s magic while he prepared the world for her waking. Now the last of the lines has fallen, bringing at last the peace Sara had always desired, and Stefanos, First Servant of the Dark H...

  • Soul Daddy

    Jacqueline Roy

    The daughter of a black father and white mother, Hannah Curren always has felt out of place in her predominantly white London neighborhood, until her reggae star father drifts back into the family, bringing with him money and a new heritage....

  • Grover's Ten Terrific Ways to Help Our Wonderful World

    Anna Ross

  • Dark Money

    Arthur Rosenfeld

    Martial artist and ex-cop Nestor Dark is back on the streets after a five-year hiatus, this time investigating a rare coin counterfeiting scam on Wall Street that could have fatal consequences for the former SWAT sharpshooter. Original....

  • The Company of Cats

    Michael J. Rosen

  • How the Animals Got Their Colors

    Michael J. Rosen

  • Hide-and-Seek in the Yellow House

    Agatha Rose

  • Sweet Texas Magic

    Evelyn Rogers

    GAMBLING LADY Beautiful casino owner Lorelei Latham confronted her kidnapper, her blue eyes blazing. This hot-headed Texan had had the nerve to make trouble in her place --- and abduct her when she tried to catch him! And how dare he look her over a...

  • Dust Devil

    Kenn Sherwood Roe

  • The Gold Train Bandits

    Lee Roddy

  • A Blood Affair

    Jan Roberts

    A young British woman, who blocks the horrors of her past and tries to get on with her life, unwittingly marries into the Mafia and begins a love affair with the priest to whom she turned for solace. A first novel....

  • Mustang Man

    J.R. Roberts

    When a drunken gambler gets plugged during a game of poker, Clint Adams gets dealt a handful of trouble. Now the dead man's daughter wants to exact her own brand of vengeance...and she wants the Gunsmith's help. But Clint soon discovers that most ...

  • Nobody's Angel

    Karen Robards

    AN AMERICAN INNOCENT In Carolina Colony, the community admired Susannah Redmon, plain eldest daughter of the preacher. Her herbal healing skills made her an angel of mercy, her determination held together the family's farm, and her strong will alway...

  • Stories of God

    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Rilke's haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in Stories of God he...

  • Stellar Attraction

    Eugenia Riley

    She wanted a divorce!! But her husband didn't. Nickie Stellar couldn't believe it. They were mismatched --- she was plain, Jason was spectacular; she was quiet and shy, he was confident and outgoing. Why had he ever married her? Oh, she'd been use...

  • Hunting Ground

    John R. Riggs

  • Ice Warrior

    Ruth Riddell

    Rob has to move to Minnesota when his mother gets remarried, and he feels like a loser in his new town, but when his macho father visits, he tries to make him proud and learns an important lesson about winning....

  • Deliberate Provocation

    Emma Richmond

    MAN WITH A MISSION Few men would have the audacity to accuse a woman lying in a hospital bed of having an affair with his business partner. Kiel Lindstrom did that and more--he insisted Justine accompany him to the island of Madiera to reclaim som...

  • Mad Maria's Daughter

    Patricia Rice

    Divine Madness London society thought beautiful, fiery-tempered Daphne Templeton mad for spurning the only gentleman to seek her hand. The highwayman who captured her on the way to her Aunt Agatha's estate thought her mad for refusing to trem...

  • GreedyAnna

    Frank Remkiewicz

  • Glass House People

    Kathryn Reiss

    Beth’s mother, Hanny Lynn, hasn’t spoken to her parents or her sister, Iris, in twenty years. But she decides it’s time to set aside old grievances, so sixteen-year-old Beth and her brother, Tom, find themselves spending a sweltering summer wit...

  • The Curse of the Trouble Dolls

    Dian Curtis Regan

    Angie Wu loves her Guatemalan "Trouble Dolls," but when she lends them out to her friends, they start getting lost or broken, and worse yet, they seem to lose their magic properties as well. By the author of The Class with the Summer Birthdays. <...

  • Brer Rabbit and His Tricks

    Ennis Rees

  • Interrupted Flight and Delayed Dream

    Colleen L. Reece

  • Dance With Fire

    Joanne Redd

    PRINCESS OF FIERCE PASSIONS Fire Dancer was Chickasaw to the depths of her soul. Her white mother had bequeathed her stunning green eyes, yet her blood was pure with unfettered Indian pride. Now her chieftain uncle had wounded her spirit by giving ...

  • Star Precinct

    Kevin D. Randle

  • Graduation Day

    Janet Quin-Harkin

  • Primitive People

    Francine Prose

    After fleeing the chaos and violence of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Simone takes a position in a home in the Hudson Valley, where she observes the barbaric rituals that pass for social and family life. Reprint....

  • Inside One Author's Heart

    Eugenia Price

    "In these pages I have simply tried to share myself.  To give you, whose affection and loyalty and prayers have sustained me, a deeply personal idea of what this writer's life is like. I have also attempted to respond to a few of the questions you'...

  • The Keepsake Chest

    Katherine W. Precek

    Meg is miserable about her family's move to an old farm and passes her time in the attic of her friend's great-grandmother, where she finds an old chest dated 1774 that leads her to uncover some ancient secrets....

  • Last Call

    Tim Powers

    A lifetime ago, dark magic destroyed the Fisher King "Bugsy" Siegel...and a new lord arose to rule the Las Vegas wasteland. Twenty years ago, one-eyed gambler Scott Crane lost his body and soul in a bizarre floating card game in the middle of Lake...

  • Lightning

    Patricia Potter

    A RAVISHING SPY Lauren Bradley was the new coquette in the tropical port of Nassau. Only the kindly shopkeeper posing as her uncle knew the beautiful young woman with the haunted eyes had agreed to avenge her brother's death by becoming a Yankee spy...

  • The Hole by the Apple Tree

    Nancy Polette

  • Love Junkie

    Robert Plunket

    The “diabolically clever, shamelessly brass-balled, wrenchingly funny” (NY Native) story of love, lust, and the agony of romantic disillusionment.Adored by the likes of Amy Sedaris, Madonna (who optioned the film rights), and Gordon Lish, Lo...

  • The Queen's Secret

    Jean Plaidy

    PRINCESS KATHERINE'S WEDDING TO THE KING OF ENGLAND WAS A STORYBOOK ROMANCE COME TRUE. After a miserable childhood, Princess Katherine of France was enchanted to find herself married to the handsome young King of England, Henry V. But England's tr...

  • Buffalo Brenda

    Jill Pinkwater

    Determined to make their mark on their high school, ninth graders India Ink and her zany best friend Brenda Tuna organize an underground newspaper and then provide a live buffalo as a mascot for the football team...

  • Night of the Living Rat

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • The Ancient Evil

    Christopher Pike

    Certain that the newest chain letter is a joke since the perpetrator of the original one is dead, the group takes its receipt lightly, until Fran is killed and the members realize the evil power driving the letters is still alive. Original....

  • Alanna: The First Adventure

    Tamora Pierce

    NIGHT VISION Alanna of Trebond is no ordinary girl--her dream is to become a knight, so she disguises herself as a boy and begins training at the palace of King Roald. Manna quickly finds out that the road to knighthood is not an easy one, hut her...

  • Lioness Rampant

    Tamora Pierce

    KNIGHT TIME At last, Alanna of Trebond has become the first female knight errant in Tortall. She sets out on an impossible quest to find the Dominion Jewel, a legendary gem that, in the right hands, has limitless power for good. But while she sear...

  • The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

    Tamora Pierce

    ALANNA ALONE A knight at last, Alanna of Trebond heads out to seek adventure in the desert of Tortall. Captured by desert tribesmen, she is forced to prove herself in a magical duel to the death. But her real challenge doesn't come until after she...

  • Songs of the Humpback Whale

    Jodi Picoult

    Sometimes finding your own voice is a matter of listening to the heart.... Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment....For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of he...

  • Night Magic

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    TONY -- HIS VOICE COULD MAKE THE CLOTHES SLITHER OFF HER BODY.... Tony Murretti knew exactly what he wanted when he hired Mercy Sloan to design the grounds of his new home -- but he never expected what he got: a spellbinding redhead who made him ...

  • Maid for Marriage

    Sue Peters

    She travels fastest who travels alone! Dee Tredinnick knew what she wanted. Travel, excitement, a challenging career - she had no time for romantic entanglements. But try telling that to her matchmaking family. But surely, not even Cupid coul...

  • Tania's Trolls

    Lisa Westberg Peters

    As the big music festival approaches, Tania must conquer the trolls that her grandmother, a concert pianist, has told her about--the mischievous spirits who grab children when they play sour notes. Reprint. SLJ. PW. AB. K. ...

  • Was It a Rat I Saw?

    Sue Perry

    This psychological thriller involves split brain research, animal rights, and a love quadrangle. It was originally published in hardcover by Bantam-Doubleday-Dell.Neuropsychologist Clare Austen conducts research on the leading edge of reality. She ha...

  • Belgrave Square

    Anne Perry

    When an obscure moneylender named William Weems is murdered in the humble Clerkenwell district, there are no mourners and more than a little discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he so mercilessly devoured. Yet when Inspector Pitt f...

  • Highgate Rise

    Anne Perry

    Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor, has died in a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate. But the blaze was set by an arsonist, and it is unclear whether she or Dr. Shaw was the intended victim--or did the doctor himself set the bl...

  • Eye of the Storm

    Don Pendleton

    STRIKE FORCE A ruthless Arab terrorist force has pushed its campaign of fear into high gear, spreading its message in blood across America -- and feeding daily propaganda to a hungry news machine. With an agenda of their own, Mack Bolan and the St...

  • My Father, the Enemy

    Michael Pellowski

  • A Firing Offense

    George P. Pelecanos

    As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow-out sales and shady deals were his life. When one of the stockboys disappears, it's not news: just another metalhead who went off chas...

  • Kelsey's Raven

    Sylvia Peck

    As Kelsey Martine's secure world begins to crumble--her single mother falls in love and she loses her best friend--she finds comfort in her relationship with a raven. By the author of Seal Child. ...

  • One potato tu

    Gayle Pearson

    Life is always interesting in twelve-year-old Lindsey's family, whether her mother is going off to summer camp to escape the kids or big brother Eric is being forced into a bird-calling contest by a bet with a neighbor....

  • Uncle's New Suit

    Lisa Passen

    When Uncle Carmen announces that he has a new job, the entire family--including parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cats and dogs--accompanies him to the men's store to buy a new suit. By the author of Grammy & Sammy.

  • Andy and the Alien

    Francine Pascal

    Andy Franklin has heard that UFOs have been seen at Secca Lake, and he thinks it might be true. His classmates don't believe in UFOs, and they won't stop teasing him. But when Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield follow Andy into the woods during a school...

  • Barnyard Battle

    Francine Pascal

    During a field trip to a pioneer farm, which closely reproduces life on a farm hundreds of years ago, the boys and girls discover that life without hair dryers, television, and junk food may prove difficult. Reprint....

  • Elizabeth and the Orphans

    Francine Pascal

    Friends in need.... Elizabeth Wakefield's friend Melissa McCormick needs help. Her mother died suddenly, leaving Melissa and her brother, Andy, alone. Their father left years ago, so they have only each other to depend on. If the social workers f...

  • Soap Star

    Francine Pascal

    When Jessica and Elizabeth win roles in Jessica's favorite soap, which had been looking for a set of beautiful blonde twins for a special week-long storyline, Jessica becomes carried away with the publicity. Original....

  • Venom Virus

    Richard Parry

  • Working Frog

    Nancy Winslow Parker

    Winston is a seven-inch, one-pound bullfrog. He works at the Bronx Zoo. He tells his story himself--from his capture on to how he was taken to the zoo's reptile house--and all the events that led up to his job as a working frog....

  • Charisma

    Orania Papazoglou

    Away from the convent, a former nun stumbles onto the path of a killer Susan Murphy is still getting accustomed to blue jeans. For seventeen years, she has worn a nun’s habit, and she was used to the coziness of her cape, the anonymity of her u...

  • Weeping Grass

    Catherine Palmer

    THE CALL OF THE WILD Elephant researcher Fiona Thornton thought her worst threat was the ivory poachers skulking around her Kenya campsite--until she came up against safari company owner Rogan McCullough. For a woman who'd always felt safe in t...

  • To Know a Woman

    Amos Oz

    As an Israeli secret service agent, Yoel Ravid’s ability to sense the truth made him invaluable. Now widowed and retired, he lives with his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, and the haunting memory of his wife. A New York Times Notable Book ...

  • A Spirited Bluestocking

    Joan Overfield

    A MYSTERIOUS GENTLEMAN Bloody hell! Lord Lucien Seabrook swore. As an agent for His Mahesty's Government, he was close to capturing smugglers operating on the English coast - until the adventurous bluestocking Miss Elinore Denning and her broth...

  • Thunder Rolling in the Mountains

    Scott O'Dell

    This powerful account of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce Indians in 1877 by the United States Army is narrated by Chief Joseph's strong and brave daughter....

  • That Darn Cat!

    Shannon O'Connell

    Attorney Nathan Blackstone wasn't about to let some scruffy cat stand in the way of putting his past to rest. For some reason, his eccentric late aunt had left millions to Milton, her new kitten. And now Nathan was forced to fight the will -- and hau...

  • Never Tell Him You're Alone

    Richard O'Brien

    During the lonely days when her husband is on business trips, Frances becomes obsessed with the high school sweetheart she sees in the supermarket, but her obsession turns to suspicion when women in the neighborhood start turning up dead...

  • Pomona Queen

    Kem Nunn

    Lost in a southern California barrio, Earl Dean has a hard time believing there is one living soul in this foul-smelling night who wants to be found by a salesman hawking vacuum cleaners. What awaits Earl in the faint flow of a distant porch light is...

  • This Day and Age

    Mike Nicol

    With tremendous political daring, South African novelist Mike Nicol offers a luminous parable of his country's past. Bawdy and terrifying, fantastical yet eerily familiar, This Day and Age realizes the prophecy told to a newly elected president on th...

  • Jigsaw

    Michael Newton

  • The Weight of Light 1849-1890

    Betty Palmer Nelson

  • Bella

    Barbara Neil

    THE passions of their past became the foundation of their future Bella Ashton both feared and delighted in the return of her husband, Mr. Anthony Ashton. If anything, he appeared stronger and more handsome for his two years in Canada. He had l...

  • The Need

    Andrew Neiderman

    An erotic horror tale of passion and the many faces of evil, from master storyteller Andrew NeidermanI awoke with blood on my hands . . .   When Hollywood actress Clea Cave wakes up next to her dead lover, she rushes to the nearest pol...

  • Three Little Chaperones

    Helen R. Myers

    WHAT NEXT?! Lovely divorcee Abby Gordon had always fantasized that one day her sexy, dynamic boss, judge Aaron Marshall, would see her as more than just the most efficient, capable assistant in the world. However, that didn't mean she wanted him t...

  • The Whirlwind

    Bill Myers

    Carved from the Blood Mountains, a perpetual reminder of Imager's great love for mankind, the mysterious Bloodstone opens a gateway into multiple dimensions. As Denise, Nathan, and Joshua visit these fantastic realities and learn of Imager's unfathom...

  • Murder in Pug's Parlour

    Amy Myers

  • The Ultimate Death

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    WARNING: DEATH IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH The great health-food movement in America was a victim of fowl play. Folks who had switched from prime beef to pure poultry were winding up dead meat. The country's Chicken King was squawking at the top of hi...

  • The Catswold Portal

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    At the bottom of artist Braden West's California garden is a door of rich dark wood carved with beautifully stylized cats. On the other side of this magic portal lies the Netherworld--a realm of shapeshifting Catswolders, of human rebels and their cr...

  • Darkness

    Bharati Mukherjee

    Twelve stories of immigrants who navigate the ancestral past of India as they remake their lives -- and themselves -- in North America. These are stories of fluid and broken identities, discarded languages and deities, and the attempt to create bonds...

  • Way Past Cool

    Jess Mowry

    Gordon, age thirteen, is the leader of the Friends, a gang of young black boys who struggle to hold a few blocks of bleak, ragged turf in Oakland--known to the homeboys as Oaktown--California. When a more powerful sixteen-year-old drug dealer tries t...

  • Summer Girl

    Deborah Moulton

    Sent to live with her father because of her mother's serious illness, thirteen-year-old Tommy journeys from resentment to understanding of the man she has not seen since her parent's divorce many years ago....

  • Jazz

    Toni Morrison

    From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword...

  • The Future of Yen-Tzu

    Winifred Morris

  • Mystery Loves Company

    Kate Morgan

    THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER ... AND DIED Handsome, smooth-talking Harrison Powell dropped in on a friend in Hamilton ... and stayed. The newcomer charmed almost everyone--except Dewey James. She knew something wasn't right--and her suspicions were pr...

  • Beyond Eden

    J.M. Morgan

    In the sequel to Desert Eden, the children of the scientists who entered the sealed dome of Biosphere Seven twenty years earlier to escape a deadly plague begin to grow restless in their hermetically sealed world and long to leave. Original....

  • Regency Quartet: Pride House

    Gwyneth Moore
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    Elfreda Pride arranges a marriage of convenience in order to restore her father's home, but the honeymoon changes everything! Hero: Stephen Jeffreys Heroine: Elfreda Pride...

  • One Snowy Night

    Ellen Moore

    THE LONE STAR It was one of the worst snowstorms Randy Taylor had ever seen in his years as a trucker. The entire North Carolina coast was covered with snow and sleet that made driving conditions treacherous. When his headlights pointed to a lone ...