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New Books List: 576 titles

  • Night, Knight

    Harriet Ziefert

    Night, Knight; Pear, Pair; Sale, Sail. Homonyms, those mischievous words that sound the same but have different meanings, are celebrated in this fun-filled lift-the-flap book. Every page hides a delightful surprise- two words that sound exactly alike...

  • Wee G.

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Moving Mama to Town

    Ronder Thomas Young

    In 1947, his head filled with the advice and wisdom of his runaway father, thirteen-year-old Freddy moves his mother from their Georgia farm into town and takes on the challenge of holding his family together...

  • Cinderblock

    Janine Ellen Young

    In twenty-first-century America, where reality is what one makes it, a young man with a supernatural affinity for computers and an armed revolutionary are pursued by the Virtuals, a group of online dictators. Original....

  • Summer Dreams

    Kathleen Yapp

    Summer love - those two words conjure up memories for just about everybody. Readers are sure to delight in this inpspirational romance collection, featuring four never-before published contemporary novellas, all set in summer, by such well-known auth...

  • The Story of Junk

    Linda Yablonsky

    Witty, terrifying, and utterly cool, Yablonsky’s roman à clef is a searing, hyperreal account of the heroin underground in 1980s Manhattan Told with dark humor and unremitting honesty, Linda Yablonsky’s riveting first novel explores the New York...

  • A Scientific Romance

    Ronald Wright

  • Death of a Winter Shaker

    Deborah Woodworth

    SISTER ROSE IS ON A MISSION... TO CATCH A KILLER The peaceful Shakers, pledged to hard work, worship and nonviolence could scarcely believe there was a dead body in their herb house. The handsome young drifter known as a "Winter Shaker" had professe...

  • Danielle's Daddy Factor

    Sherryl Woods

    THOSE WATKINS BOYS! THAT WILDE WOMAN! When handsome single dad Slade Watkins came to town, all Riverton wagered that a wedding was in the offing. The hapless widower hadn't a clue about taming his two rambunctious sons--until pretty Danielle Wilde...

  • The Seduction Trap

    Sara Wood

    An irresistible temptation! Tessa Davis came to France to visit her long-lost mother. Instead she found three cottages and Guy de Turaine, who clearly intended to charm her out of her mother's property! Well, his ploy wouldn't work, no mat...

  • Stories of Tobias Wolff

    Tobias Wolff

  • Dracula

    Leonard Wolf

    In the 100 years since its publication, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print.  Once introduced to the world by the silent film classic Nosferatu in 1921, Dracula became an enduring icon of fear, forever immortalized as a frightful embo...

  • Gut Symmetries

    Jeanette Winterson

    The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity.O...

  • Strangers When We Meet

    Rebecca Winters

    IS IT POSSIBLE? During Desert Storm, Rosie Armstrong's husband went off to war. He didn't return. She was told that he was missing in action -- and presumed dead. For years, she couldn't accept that Nick was dead, couldn't believe it. But she...

  • No Angel's Grace

    Linda Winstead

    Falling in love with the sharp-tongued Grace Cavanaugh, who is in his charge and out of place on his western ranch, Dillon Becket tries to educate the European miss in the ways of frontier life. Grace Cavanaugh was no angel. Not as far as Dillon ...

  • She Came to the Castro

    Mary Wings

    It's autumn in San Francisco. The Castro is holding a Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The whole city is talking politics, caught up in a nasty three-way mayoral race. And behind the scenes, Emma Victor is performing her own lucrative brand of public s...

  • The Redemption of Deke Summers

    Gayle Wilson

    A man without a name... Deke Summers was a man on the run, with no possessions, no connections. Caring about another person was his most forbidden luxury. A woman without a heart... Becki Travers was the kind of woman who always set an extr...

  • Death Brims Over

    Barbara Jaye Wilson

    MEET BRENDA MIDNIGHT She's a savvy young designer with her own hat shop, who has never even thought of chasing crooks. But when crime invades her cobblestone Greenwich Village neighborhood and the cops don't have a clue, Brenda has to drop everyth...

  • Wind Water

    Jeanne Williams

    Tells the story of Cap and his adopted daughter, Julie, who travel around the Heartland erecting windmills, but when they stop to help three boys living on their own, tragedy strikes and Julie must go on alone...

  • Younger Than Springtime

    Greg Williams

    A successful lawyer finds himself rejuvenated by an affair with the gorgeous paralegal he hires, and he gets rid of his old life completely, but his renewed youthfulness disappears when she leaves him and he must ponder aging gracefully...

  • The Wrong Wife

    Eileen Wilks

    HE WOKE UP NAKED, IN BED WITH HIS BEST FRIEND'S SISTER... One minute Gideon Wilde was lamenting his recent broken engagement. The next, he was saying "I do"--only, he'd married the wrong wife! Always in control, Gideon had no room ...

  • Dream Dancer

    Denise Dietz Wiley

    Struggling to keep her father's failing circus afloat in the face of her father's drinking problem, Calliope Kelly faces new disruptions when Brian O'Connor, a dashing animal tamer whom Calliope has long adored, returns and an unknown enemy sets out ...

  • 24/7

    Amy S. Wilensky

    Dina Mazlin fell hard for gorgeous ski instructor Matt Harbison. After an intense week on the slopes, Dina believed Matt’s promise that they’d be together again. But that was a year ago. Dina hasn’t heard from Matt in months. And it doesn’t h...

  • Animal Adventures

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Join Laura's animal adventures! Laura Ingalls and her family were always surrounded by wild animals. From bears and deer to badgers and panthers, Laura always managed to find herself caught up in some kind of adventure! ...

  • School Days

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Come to school with Laura! School was always exciting for Laura Ingalls and her sisters. Laura knew that learning could be fun and that there would be many new friends to play with at recess! ...

  • Until It Hurts

    Polly Whitney

    WHO'S GOT THE SHOOTER When a shotgun blast drops basketball superstar the Big Chill at Madison Square Garden's center court, it's another murder for Ike and Abby, co-workers at TV's "Morning Watch." As the bickering ex-spouses dive into the world ...

  • Death Star

    John Whitman

    Takes young Star Wars fans behind the scenes of the Empire's most devastating weapon as it hurtles through space on a mission to destroy the secret Rebel base, in an interactive pop-up book that is packed with high-adventure details....

  • Remote Control

    Stephen White

    A shocking act of violence plunges Boulder, Colorado, clinical psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory into the most challenging and dangerous case of his career. At the heart of the sensational crime are two women trapped by the furies of fame. One is the ...

  • North of Havana

    Randy Wayne White

    White's newest thriller takes Doc Ford to Havana, where a friend is being held by the Cuban government. Still haunted by his suspected involvement in a plot against Castro, Ford leaves Florida and ventures to Cuba--where he finds himself entangled in...

  • Final Diagnosis

    James White

    It's a massive hospital space station on the Galactic rim--384 levels, a staff of thousands--where human and alien medicine meet.

    But Patient Hewlitt, new to Sector General, doesn't want to meet alien medicine--or alien doctors, or alien nurse...

  • Bad Baby Brother

    Martha Weston

  • A Woman's Heart

    Rosalyn West

    FROM THE STORMY SHORES OF SALEM... Suddenly stripped of her family fortune, Eliza Parrish is heartlessly rejected by the Montgomerys, her fiance's family, who then turn her into an indentured servant. Now she must accompany their spoiled daughter ...

  • I Don't Care, Said the Bear

    Colin West

  • The Guilty Wife

    Sally Wentworth

    Can their marriage survive the truth? Lucie has everything. The perfect husband, a cherished son and a new baby on the way.... Her marriage is blissful--until a secret in her past returns to haunt her. How can Lucie tell her husband, a glamorou...

  • Breakaway

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

  • Triumph of the Darksword

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    In a realm where magic is life, Joram was one of the Dead. Born without power, he was denied his royal birthright and sentenced to the Turning--his mind to be imprisoned inside a husk of living stone. Yet at the last moment, Saryon took his place...

  • No Holding Back

    Kathi Webb

    THE THRILL OF LOVE Divorced Kaitlin Ross is too busy launching her fashion consulting business and organizing a community charity event to even think about starting a new relationship. Then a rugged, world-famous stuntman called Blaze walks into ...

  • A Marriage Has Been Arranged

    Anne Weale

    Pride and prejudice! Holly knew she wasn't beautiful, but still hoped that one day she'd find a man who would love her and wed her! Trouble was, the only man she had ever really wanted was Pierce Sutherland! What chance did she have wit...

  • The Dark Side of the Moon

    Margaret Watson

    HER LIFE WAS ON THE LINE.... Eagle Ridge was turning out to be far from the tranquil oasis Tory Falcon had envisioned. A serial killer was loose in the town, preying on single women, and the police feared Tory would be his next target. She could t...

  • A Cottage by the Sea

    Ciji Ware

    Some might call it running away... But after a scandalous Hollywood divorce, Blythe Stowe considered it damage control for body and soul. The pain, the humiliation, the daily tabloids shouting details as her famous husband dumped her for her own si...

  • Flea Circus Summer

    Cheryl Ware

    The summer before seventh grade, Venola Mae Cutright, Belington, West Virginia's best newspaper carrier, writes a series of humorous letters to her best friend away at camp, the Imperial Magic Sea Monkey Company, and her newspaper boss....

  • The Book of Genesis

    Walter Wangerin Jr.

    Now the story of Genesis is told as you've never heard it before--with exciting detail and passionate energy. Reading like a historical novel, it dramatizes the sweep of biblical events, making the men and women of this book come alive in vivid detai...

  • Little Bean's Friend

    John Wallace

    Little Bean rides her tricycle, runs through the garden hose, and has a grand time playing by herself in her yard, but when she discovers someone else in her garden, she learns the joys of friendship....

  • Conspiracy

    Margie Walker

    Forced by circumstances beyond her control to walk away from her lover, Marcellus Cavanaugh, Pauline Sinclair returns as unexpectedly as she had left, only to become the prime suspect in the poisoning murder of the president of Marcellus's company. O...

  • A History of Violence

    John Wagner

    Bringing down a pair of local thugs, family man and diner owner Tom McKenna becomes a small-town hero but is tormented by his secret past which thrusts him into an odyssey of heists, killers, and suspense...

  • Branded

    Vivian Vaughan

    "WHEN A MAN HAS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE, BEWARE." Five years ago, Jacy Kimble was devastated by the scandal that sent her brother to prison and destroyed her father's political career. Now, far from her pampered life in Arizona, near-destitute in El ...

  • How I Survived Being a Girl

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    No one ever said being a gift was easy -- especially when you're stuck with two brothers. So Carolyn has learned a thing or two about how to survive. She keeps her hair too short for ribbons. She wears boys' clothes whenever possible. And she avoids ...

  • Always In My Heart

    Donna Valentino

    SHOTGUN WEDDING One minute Matt Kincaid was negotiating the business deal of his career --- the next, he was getting married in North Platte, Nebraska, a century past, and with a bullet in his shoulder! It was an accident. Shooting him, that is. K...

  • Even More Scary Mysteries for Sleep-Overs

    Allen B. Ury

  • Fangs!

    Allen B. Ury

  • Still More Scary Mysteries for Sleep-Overs

    Allen B. Ury

    Provides young thrillseekers with a collection of ten spine-tingling mysteries, including the story of the girl most likely to destroy the world and a tale in which one takes a flight to infinity. Original....

  • Where the Owl Hunts

    Aeres Twigg

  • Buchanan's Return

    Pamela Toth

    THE BUCHANANS ARE BACK! Kirby Wilson didn't know if she was more mad or grateful. In one shocking moment she had learned that she was adopted--and that she had two brothers she had never known about. The revelation brought her to brother Donovan's...

  • Echoes of Issel

    Diann Thornley

    Reunited with his son, Tristan, and his wife, Darcie, who were marooned for years on a wild planet, Lujan Serege realizes that the war in which he has played a major role is not over when Tristan is called to return to action. Reprint....

  • One Mom Too Many

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    The Game of Matchmaking The players--Maureen O'Malley and Bridget Kingsford Two mothers with marriage on their minds--for their kids. Little do they suspect that they have done their work too well.... The pawns--Daniel O'Malley and Rose Kingsf...

  • Ghost Story

    Julian F. Thompson

    Moving to her parents' new country inn in Vermont, Anna is discouraged by all the hard work she must perform there, until she meets the ghost of young Roxy Cray, who died in 1817 and who saves Anna from an unsavory photographer....

  • The Grounding of Group 6

    Julian F. Thompson


    Now in hardcover for the first time, a book that has been hailed as a classic: As part of their high school orientation, a group of students hikes into the woods. What they don’t immediately realize is that their parents do not plan for them to...

  • Blood Hunt

    David Thompson

    With only his oldest friend and his trusty long rifle for company, Davy Crockett explored the wild frontier, looking for adventure ... and finding it. The courageous pioneer had the strength and cunning to get out of any scrape and face any enemy, no...

  • Tower to the Sun

    Colin Thompson

    One hundred years in the future, when the earth is so polluted that the sun can't be seen, the richest man in the world wants his grandson to experience the blue sky and orange sun he remembers from his childhood. So he spends 20 years and all of his...

  • Slave Day

    Rob Thomas

    From the creator of Veronica Mars comes a timely novel that looks at a high school fundraising tradition of auctioning off students as “slaves.” At Robert E. Lee High School, the traditional fundraising event is Slave Day, in which the student...

  • In Too Deep

    Raeanne Thayne

    She was a sweet taste of heaven after a journey through hell.... He stopped her for speeding on a Wyoming back road, but when Andrea McPhee couldn't resist teasing Sheriff Will Tanner about his roadside manner, the green-eyed rebel really got unde...

  • One Hot Cowboy

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    HOW TO MARRY... One hot cowboy! - Keep a lasso handy. - Saddle a fast horse - Chase him into the sunset. Maggie Porter planned to find a cowboy husband, not a job! Yet, when she rode onto Jake MacIntyre's ranch, she agreed to stay -- as nanny to Ja...

  • Swept Away

    Julie Tetel

    When the mismatched Miss Sedgwick and Mr. Winthrop find themselves cast adrift together on a beautiful Caribbean island, the adventure begins, and the sparks fly. How can our heroine not fall in love with a hero who is willing to walk across burning ...

  • Revenge of the Barbeque Queens

    Lou Jane Temple

    WHEN HEAVEN LEE IS JUDGING THE BARBEQUE CONTEST, TROUBLE SEEMS TO STICK TO HER APRON. Although she's Kansas City's premier restaurateur and a helluva barbeque queen, this time around Heaven Lee is just a judge at the Barbeque World Series. But tha...

  • The Mommy School

    Valerie Taylor

    He was the perfect mom! Janet Resnick could juggle an appointment book with the best of Wall Street, but two days of caring for her sister's three kids stopped her cold. They'd already eaten her out of house and home -- including Vaseline, housep...

  • Tales Out of School

    Benjamin Taylor

  • Battle of the Buzz

    I.K. Swobud

    Learning about honey-making while his human friend Molly prepares to enter a recipe contest, Dex learns about Swarm, a martial arts force that attacks with shotgun sprays of deadly killer bees. Original....

  • Escape from Edenoi

    I.K. Swobud

    Escaping from his home planet, Dex crash-lands in the back yard of the Stewart family and begins his mission to thwart the evil Count Dregon, but his first step is to fit in on Earth and find a flea collar for his friend, Ferbus. Original....

  • Amy

    Peg Sutherland

    A golden wedding usually means a family celebration. But the Hardaway sisters drifted apart years ago. And each has her own reason for wanting no part of a family reunion. As plans for the party proceed, tensions mount, until it even begins to look a...

  • Deadly Secrets

    M.C. Sumner

    Knowledge is power, but ignorance has a strength of its own. Through accident, blind searching, and faith, Noah and Harley have stumbled upon the world's most carefully guarded secret. They are about to witness the truth of the Extreme Zone....

  • The Back End of Nowhere

    Jenny Sullivan

  • Lethal Lessons

    Karen Hanson Stuyck

    As a public relations professional, Liz James strives to keep the reputation of the Houston Mental Health Center spotless. But when a charismatic colleague is accused of murdering her own husband, Liz is painfully reminded that sometimes bad publicit...

  • Death and the Language of Happiness

    John Straley

    Ninety-seven-year-old William Flynn is none too clear on what's happened this week, but he's razor-sharp on the events of eight decades past. What's happened this week is the murder of Angela Ramirez, a young woman who used to visit Flynn in the nurs...

  • Some Like It Hotter

    Deb Stover

    Abigail Kingsley can't believe it! Hasn't she been through enough deprivation and heartache in the wake of the Civil War? Now a big, handsome Yankee has appeared uninvited in her great hall, insisting he's from the future.... For Natchez detectiv...

  • Till We Meet Again

    Penelope J. Stokes

  • Daughters of Silence

    R.L. Stine

    Summoning the dark powers of their family to bring back their dead daughters, Angelica and Simon Fear unflinchingly begin an act of black magic that calls for the sacrifice of two innocent girls....

  • Don't Go to Sleep!

    R.L. Stine

    IT'S A NO-SNOOZE SITUATION! Matt hates his tiny bedroom. It's so small it's practically a closet! Still, Matt's mom refuses to let him sleep in the guest room. After all, they might have guests. Some day. Or year. Then Matt does it. Late one nigh...

  • It Came From Ohio!

    R.L. Stine

    Has he had a horrifying life? -Was RL Stine a SCARY kid? -Did he have a WEIRD family? -Did his friends at school think he was STRANGE? - Why does he like to TERRIFY his readers? -Where does he get the frightening ideas for his stories? All ...

  • The Rich Girl

    R.L. Stine

    Fear Street -- Where Your Worst Nightmares Live... Emma and her best friend Sydney always share their secrets. And now they have a big one: They found a duffel bag filled with cash and swore never to tell anyone. But Sydney broke her promise -- she ...

  • Secret Agent Grandma

    R.L. Stine

    Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!Your parents are going away so your super-cool grandma is coming to stay with you. But when you go to meet granny at the train station you start seeing double -- double grannies!There's on...

  • Close Relations

    Lynsey Stevens

    A family scandal! Georgia had imagined becoming Jarrod Maclean's wife a hundred times -- until she'd found him in what seemed like a passionate embrace with his own stepmother.... Devastated by his betrayal, Georgia had convinced herself s...

  • Change of Heart

    Tracy Stern

    In love and ecstatic about their child on the way, Kerry is devastated to learn that Brad has been killed in an icy car crash and does not know what to do in the face of pressure to give up her baby for adoption. By the author of This I Promise Y...

  • The Trouble With Trent!

    Jessica Steele

    Separate bedrooms? When Trent de Havilland waltzed into Alethea's life, it was a relief to have some adult male company for a change. Her mother, sister and three young nieces were driving her mad and she was desperate to leave home. Then Tren...

  • The Ranch

    Danielle Steel

    They had been inseparable as roommates in college, Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. But in the more than twenty years that followed, the three had moved on with their lives. By chance, each would find herself alone for a few weeks one summer, wrestling w...

  • Outlaw Love

    Judith Stacy

    Of All the Rotten Luck! Kelsey Rodgers was already in trouble up to her elbows. The last thing she needed was a U.S. Marshal staying at her hotel. Especially one as sharp, sexy and dangerous as Clay Chandler was turning out to be! Clay just kn...

  • Secret Star

    Nancy Springer

    When a strange and wild boy walks into her life, Tess is forced to confront a past she had long ago forgotten Fourteen-year-old Tess can't remember the first ten years of her lifeand if they were anything like her life now, she'd prefer that they ...

  • Fortune

    Erica Spindler

    A MOTHER'S ULTIMATE SACRIFICE... A BROTHER'S DARK OBSESSION... AND ONE WOMAN'S DESPERATE FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL... Something dark and dangerous had long shadowed Skye Dearborn's life. She had seen the fear of it in her mother's eyes. It was ther...

  • Crazy About the Future

    Devra Speregen

    Stephanie becomes alarmed when her friend Allie, after visiting a fortune-teller, becomes frustratingly superstitious, and Stephanie devises a plan to prove to Allie that the fortune-teller is a fake. Original....

  • Reality and Dreams

    Muriel Spark

    Acclaimed by the likes of John Updike and Gore Vidal, the author's twentieth novel unveils the sexual secrets, eccentric imagination, and troubled family life of a film director, in a voice at once sinister and sympathetic. Reprint. 10,000 first prin...

  • Hunting a Detroit Tiger

    Troy Soos

    It is early spring. 1920, and all Mickey Rawlings wants is a .250 batting average, twenty stolen bases, and a regular place in the Tigers' lineup. But when Emmett Siever, an old-time baseball player trying to organize a players' union, is killed at a...

  • Bug Boy

    Carol Sonenklar

    Charlie's love of bugs takes him a bit too far when he comes across "The Amazing Bug-A-View" gadget, which he uses to see life through the eyes of a bug and, in doing so, finds that he is transforming into a spider himself....

  • Angela Weaves a Dream: The Story of a Young Maya Artist

    Michele Sola

    Vibrant photographs complement a portrait of ten-year-old Angela, who is learning the tradition of art weaving from others in her village while also become aware of the myths behind the symbols that are used, in a study accompanied by a glossary and ...

  • Thunder Cave

    Roland Smith

    Determined, after his mother's accidental death, to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya....

  • Spares

    Michael Marshall Smith

    They were raised for one chilling purpose.... A loner, an ex-cop, Jack Randall is the dangerous veteran of a savage war. All he's held dear has long been destroyed. For the last five years, he's been hiding out on a Spares Farm, guarding those who...

  • Soulmate

    L.J. Smith

    ETERNAL LOVE Hannah Snow's life was so together. Friends, terrific grades, dreams of a career in paleontology. Everything was perfect . . . until the notes started appearing. Notes in her own handwriting, warning of the danger that was coming. Dea...

  • Because of Francie // Falling For Her Boss

    Karen Rose Smith

    ROMANCE ON ICE When businessman Noah Gordon arrives in the quaint town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to sell off one of his "Roller Fun" skating rinks, no one is more surprised than the rink's manager, Francie Piccard. Because of her, Roller Fun is...

  • Petticoat Rebellion

    Joan Smith

    WHY MUST SEDUCTION BE A SPORT ENJOYED SOLELY BY GENTLEMEN? For Abbie Fairchild, an art teacher and aspiring artist, the opportunity to spend a week at Penfel Hall with its grand art gallery is a dream come true. But the field trip takes a scandalo...

  • Secrets in Satin

    Haywood Smith


    He thought she was as cold as ice.

    With her pale face and black mourning gown, Elizabeth, Countess of Ravenwold, was completely emotionless as she stood over the body of her dead husband. But Edward Garrett, Viscount Creighton, had no idea...

  • Because You're Lucky

    Irene Smalls

  • Chancy's Cowboy

    Lass Small

    JUST ONE OF THE BOYS Chancy Freedman had grown up on the Bar Q ranch. She had learned how to rope and ride, and the ranch hands had looked out for her 'best they could.' But they couldn't teach her the art of being a lady, and poor Chancy had made...

  • Morning at Pride Rock

    Teddy Slater

  • A Stirring of Dust

    Susan Sizemore

    When a string of decapitated murder victims is discovered, vampire detective Nick Knight suspects a recently released former inmate who had killed his wife the same way, but he wonders if one of his own kind is really responsible. Original. TV tie-in...

  • Marrying Well

    Lynda Simons

    How to Marry a Millionaire by Jeannie Renamo 1. Irk your boss, handsome magazine publisher Kyle Hunter, by creating controversial new column--"Marrying Well: A Practical Guide." 2. Accept Kyle's challenge to follow guidelines and land a rich h...

  • The On-Line Spaceman and Other Cases

    Seymour Simon

    America's favorite science sleuth is back! Seymour Simon is not only the award-winning author of the best-selling solar system series, he is also the creator of a brilliant series of brainteasers starring Einstein Anderson, a twelve-year-old whiz ...

  • In My Pocket

    Dorrith M. Sim

    Told in a child's voice, this story of a young German-Jewish girl who, in 1939, is carried to a new, safe life in a foreign country transcends time and offers an immediate, intimate glimpse into a world on the brink of war....

  • All the Money in the World

    Robert Siegel

    n Siegel's remarkable debut novel, Lou Glasser, a New York criminal defense attorney, represents some of the city's finest drug dealers. When his best client is arrested, Lou comes to the rescue--and soon discovers that the DEA is after him, not his ...

  • The Dark Side of Nowhere

    Neal Shusterman

    Jason is having a bad day. The kind of day when you just don't feel like yourself. Only for Jason, it's not just a feeling. He really isn't himself. Not any more. Who is he? That's the problem. Jason isn't sure. And it's not just him. Everyone ...

  • Spiritride

    Mark Shepherd

    GHOST BIKERS IN THE SKY... Randolf "Thorn" Wilson died a long time ago. But that doesn't stop him from riding his ghost Harley through the sky, trying to help other bikers. Now he's caught in a battle between an elven King and his skateboard-ridin...

  • Young Wolf and Spirit Horse

    Janice Shefelman

    The action continues in the third book of the popular Young Wolf series! In this exciting tale of friendship and adventure, Young Wolf's beloved mare, Red Wind, is stolen by a magical wild stallion. Braving all sorts of danger, Young Wolf goes in sea...

  • Soma Blues

    Robert Sheckley

    The owner of the Alternative Detective Agency, Hob Draconian, embarks on an investigation that takes him to Paris, London, and the island paradise of Ibiza in search of a powerful new narcotic, a quest that leads to a deadly confrontation with kidnap...

  • Forever Enchanted // By Magic Enchanted

    Maggie Shayne

    Bridin’s destiny is to rule a faraway fairy kingdom, but another sits on her rightful throne, so the enchanting lady is forced to flee into the mortal realm. Bridin awaits for the man who can help her return home, but the stranger who shows up is ...

  • Rocky Mountain Nightmare

    Jon Sharpe

    Gadding about in the farthest reaches of the Rockies, Skye Fargo runs right into a gigantic castle complete with a monstrous hunchback, a master with more gold than sense, and a mistress sizzling with sensuality. Original....

  • Simon Said

    Sarah R. Shaber

    SHE HAD A CAMEO CHOKER AROUND HER NECK Eyebrows are raised as yellow crime-scene tape drapes across the once-distinguished Colonial Bloodworth House. For the mansion, nestled cozily amidst the tranquil academia of Kenan College, may have once been t...

  • The First Casualty

    David L. Seidman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Hercules possessed a strength the world had never seen, a strength surpassed only by the power of his heart. He journeyed the Earth, battling the minions of his wicked stepmother, Hera, the all-powerful Queen of the Gods. Wherever there was evil, whe...

  • The Perfect Couple

    Maura Seger

    THEIR FUTURE HANGS IN THE BALANCE... First the argument ripped Shane Dutton and Brenna O'Hare apart. Now a plane crash has stranded Shane in the Alaskan wilderness. Miles apart, all they can do is wait. And hope. And remember... THEIR PAST IS ...

  • Solemn Duty

    Leonard B. Scott

    SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO TELL WHERE RIGHT ENDS AND WRONG BEGINS.

    As punishment for putting the truth before the reputation of the Bureau, FBI agents Eli Tanner and Ashley Sutton have been exiled to the backwater of Columbus, Georgia. They are tr...

  • Maggie's Man

    Alicia Scott

    MAGGIE FERRINGER WAS NOT HAVING A GOOD DAY... It was bad enough being called for jury duty - but being taken hostage...! Ok, maybe her captor appealed to her on a primitive level, but getting involved with a convicted murderer was hardly a sensibl...

  • The Body Is Water

    Julie Schumacher

    "Four generations of us had occupied this space, argued in it and inexplicably blighted each other's days in it, all while looking out at the ocean, crashing and advancing every year."

    Three months pregnant after a two-night stand, Jane Haus resign...

  • Tessa's Child

    Dallas Schulze

    National bestselling author Dallas Schulze takes her Walker family saga to new heights. A WOMAN...PREGNANT AND ALONE On the run from a heartless past, Tessa Wyndham left her home for the open road. Then the fragile beauty found refuge from the st...

  • The MADHOUSE NUDES

    Robert Schultz

    John Ordway is an artist obsessed with his work. In New York City that preoccupation merely aroused the ire of feminist art critics, but now that he and his girlfriend, Jamie, a potter and weaver, have retreated to tiny Delphi, Iowa, he finds himself...

  • Toad Takes Off

    Susan Schade

    "Roar down the runway, faster and faster, straight for the fence and TOTAL DISASTER." Come along to Eagle Airport with Toad, that bug-eyed, wide-mouthed jokester, his friends, Pig and Cow, and read all about why and how Toad learned to fly an airplan...

  • Richard Scarry's Mr. Frumble's Bedtime Stories

    Richard Scarry

    Nine stories feature the loveable pig Mr. Frumble, as he becomes involved in such predicaments as getting caught in a car washing machine, celebrating a special birthday, and taking a trip in a time machine....

  • A Summer Picnic

    Richard Scarry

  • Darling Daughters

    Jeanne Savery
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    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... Jeanne Savery's "Darling Daughters" sweeps us away to a c...

  • Under a Different Sky

    Deborah Savage

    Two teenagers of widely different backgrounds--Ben, born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, who spends much of his time working and riding his horse, Galaxy, and Laura, a troubled student at an exclusive boarding school--find each other and new meanin...

  • Personal Agendas

    Al Sarrantonio

    LINKS IN THE CHAIN G'Kar, once the Narn ambassador to Babylon 5, is a warrior's warrior. Now, with his homeworld enslaved by the Centauri, he is a prisoner on his enemy's planet. Despite the chains that bind him, he keeps the one freedom that fate a...

  • Neubla Awards 31 SWFA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

    Pamela Sargent

  • The Deed

    Lynsay Sands

    Lady Emmalene Eberhart was dying to DO IT. She even begged the King to make her husband do it to her--because she wanted to be a good wife. But then her husband died, and Emmalene was still as much a virgin as on the day she wed. Suddenly, the in...

  • The Night Crew

    John Sandford

    Bestselling author John Sandford takes all the action and suspense of his acclaimed Prey novels and heads west to the dark gleam of L.A. - where the Night Crew works. A mobile unit of video freelancers, they prowl the midnight streets for news to sel...

  • Finders Keepers

    Sharon Sala

    MORE THAN JUST A DADDY Little Joey knew his father was absolutely perfect, but the toddler craved a mother too. Then he blundered into Molly Eden's backyard and knew he'd found the mommy of his dreams. Joseph Ross was entranced by his son's cho...

  • Mr. Putter & Tabby Row the Boat

    Cynthia Rylant

    It is HOT. Mr. Putter and his fine cat, Tabby, are sweating. Their neighbors Mrs. Teaberry and her good dog, Zeke, are sweating, too. Looks like the perfect day for a trip to the big pond!
    ...

  • Twice the Spice

    Patricia Ryan

    Emma was in for the adventure of a lifetime--or two. Emma Sutcliffe was content playing the "good" twin to her outrageous double, Zara. But after she walked a mile in Zara's killer spike heels and leather miniskirt--followed by the sexiest man sh...

  • Celestial Dogs

    Jay S. Russell

    A former TV teenage heartthrob, fortysomething P.I. Marty Burns begins investigating the brutal murders of Hollywood's street girls, a search that takes him to the very bottom of Tinseltown's cold and dangerous heart...

  • The Rival

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    A LAND SCARRED BY WAR MUST FACE A CONQUEROR WITHOUT MERCY Twenty years after their first attempt, a new Fey invasion threatens Blue Isle, headed by the ruthless Black King Rugad. The island is more than a stepping-stone to conquest of the continen...

  • Place in the Sun

    Jill Rubalcaba

    When Senmut, a young stone sculptor, is exiled for life to the gold mines of Nubia, he must count on all his skills in order to survive. A novel of bristling intrigue, set against the dramatic historical backdrop of 13th century b.c. Egypt....

  • Eve's Apple

    Jonathan Rosen

    Ruth Simon is beautiful, smart, talented, and always hungry. As a teenager, she starved herself almost to death, and though outwardly healed, inwardly she remains dangerously obsessed with food. For Joseph Zimmerman, Ruth's tormented relationship wit...

  • Kill Kill Faster Faster

    Joel Rose

    After his unprecedented success as a Broadway playwright, an incarcerated Joey wants nothing more than to create a good Hollywood script for a big-time producer, but things get violently out of hand when Joey falls for the producer's wife. Reprint....

  • The Stars Dispose

    Michaela Roessner

    The story of Tomasso de Befanini, son of the astrologer to the Medicis, whose quest to become Catherine de Medici's master chef is interrupted by war, intrigue, and magic, includes a glossary and recipes for several of the dishes involved. Reprint....

  • Once Upon a Time This Morning

    Anne Rockwell

  • First Cut

    Leah Ruth Robinson

    Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe's world is a place chaos, violence, and, sometimes, miracles. Now terror has followed her into the emergency room of University Hospital.

    A tough professional addicted to the adrenaline rush of life-and-death emergency medicine...

  • Hotel

    Jeffrey Robinson

    Jeffrey Robinson gained access to one of the world's greatest hotels. This is the story of his five months there, shadowing the staff and management. Many tales are recounted, from the planning of an official state visit, to the catering of a Royal b...

  • Atlantis Found

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    When four expedition teams go missing after undertaking a dangerous journey back to the Bronze Age, Jake Bento and his Argo rescue squad teammates are sent to discover what went wrong and undertake a history-threatening mission. Original....

  • Homestead Law

    J.R. Roberts

    Around Truxton, Missouri, there's only one thing folks hate like death. And that's taxes. So when the Homestead Inspector is shot through the heart, no one cares--save for Clint Adams. The Gunsmith thinks he knows the cowards who did it. And he's abo...

  • Mouse Told His Mother

    Bethany Roberts

    At bedtime, a mouse announces to his mother that he is going on a journey, and with the help of his imagination, taking a bath, brushing his teeth, and putting on pajamas are transformed into a treasure dive, a mountain climb, and a round-the-world f...

  • Atonement Child

    Francine Rivers

    In one horrific, terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, her doting family torn apart. Her seemingly rock-solid faith is pushed to the limits as she faces the mos...

  • Secret Wedding

    Emma Richmond

    Just married? Gillan Hart was one of Nerina Micallef's two favorite people in the world. The other was her big brother, Refalo. He was an overprotective, cynical millionaire. Gillan was a feisty, independent female. Nerina--a romantic. If only...

  • Every Day

    Elizabeth Richards

    In the rare moments when Leigh Adelman has time to consider her chaotic life, it takes her breath away: there's her 14 year-old son Isaac, fierce and vulnerable; eight-year-old Jane, wise, tart-tongued and practical; baby Daisy, her joyful last child...

  • Music from the Dead

    Bebe Faas Rice

    Spending a week alone at creepy Stoneycraig, Marnie and her cousin Peter become increasingly alarmed at the strange sounds and unexplained events that take place, and they learn about a tragic event from sixteen years earlier. Original....

  • The Way Home Is Longer

    Christopher Renino

    Draws a moving parallel between Jackie Robinson's 1947 experiences with the Dodgers as the first African American to play major league baseball and the personal life of nineteen-year-old Vinnie, a Dodgers ball boy...

  • The Headless Bride

    Kathryn Reiss

    Owning a haunted dollhouse that is an exact replica of the house where a little girl accidentally killed her evil nanny, Zibby realizes that her mother's wedding is doomed, unless she can get rid of the nanny's ghost...

  • The Deception

    Barry Reed

    A SUICIDAL PATIENT JUMPS FROM A BALCONY--AND ATTORNEY DAN SHERIDAN IS MAKING SURE SOMEONE TAKES THE FALL... A promising young tennis player with an overly demanding father, Donna DiTullio is hospitalized with suicidal manic-depression. Within week...

  • Leaving Missouri

    Ellen Recknor

    Follows the life of Chrysanthemum "Clutie Mae" Chestnut, who rises from life with her redneck family to travel across the country and abroad, befriend royalty, and establish herself as the "Duchess" of Dollar Creek. Original....

  • The House of Death & Other Feluda Stories

    Satyajit Ray

  • Love, Marriage and Other Calamities

    Debbi Rawlins

    Jolie Duval often leapt before she looked... That's how she wound up losing so many jobs. And needing this one badly enough to marry Mike Kramer to get it. Which led to Calamity #1 Maybe signing on as cook hadn't been such a hot idea. Well, a...

  • Star Quality

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Determined to outshine her popular twin, Tamera auditions for the school play and is cast in the leading role opposite the handsomest boy in school, but when stardom goes to her head, Tia promises to save her. Original....

  • Affair

    Amanda Quick

    Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex. Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives--an arresti...

  • The Monsters from Beyond Time

    Brad Quentin

    Hearing strange reports of prehistoric monsters in the Venezuelan jungle, Jonny and the Quest Team find themselves in a primeval wilderness, desperately battling a half-man, half-dinosaur creature. Original....

  • The Song of the Dodo

    David Quammen

    “Compulsively readable -- a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” -- Bill McKibben, AudubonA brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in prec...

  • The Angel's Mistake

    Francine Prose

  • Best of Interzone

    David Pringle

  • I Spy in the Garden: A Lift-the-Flap Book

    Richard Powell (1)

  • Surprise! Surprise! It's Grandfather's Birthday!

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • Mangaboom

    Charlotte Pomerantz

    Daniel is walking in the woods one day when he comes upon the biggest mango tree he's ever seen. But even more amazing is it occupant, a lady giant named Mangaboom. She's nineteen feet tall. She speaks Spanish and English. She like to skinny-dip a...

  • Shoe Chew

    Pat Pollari

    Luckily, after the impeccably mannered Darci is warned by a fortune-teller that if she does not commit some act of bodily grossness in three days, she will die, she meets Nadine, queen of the vulgar. Original....

  • Molly in the Middle

    Stobie Piel

    Sheep, sheep, sheep Ach! The bumbling boobs were everywhere, and as far as Molly was concerned, the stupid beasts were better off mutton. But Molly was a sheepdog, a Scottish Border collie, and unless she found some other means of livelihood for her ...

  • An Image to Die For

    Mike Phillips

    Street-smart reporter Sam Dean finds himself embroiled in another whodunit when the television producer who offers Dean the onscreen job of investigating a murder is himself murdered, leaving Dean to solve both mysteries....

  • A Dangerous Love

    Michael Phillips

    A wedding is on the horizon for the preacher woman and the cowboy -- if evil-doings don’t separate them first. Second in the faith-filled Western series. After a visit to her family in Louisville, young evangelist Mercy Randolph returns to her new ...

  • The Psalm Killer

    Christopher Petit

    Billionaire BRUCE WAYNE is asked to support the military's newest weapon, the ParaBomb X, a high-tech orb that emits a paralyzing light. But during the weapon's demonstration, a general grabs the orb, crashes through the window, and falls to the stre...

  • The Psalm Killer

    Chris Petit

    In the explosive city of Belfast, where senseless, violent death is a daily affair, Detective Chief Inspector Cross discovers the grisly handiwork of a serial killer. A man obsessed by homicide, Cross--both British and Catholic--finds working among h...

  • Crystal Fire

    Scott Peterson

  • Darkness Bound

    Scott Peterson

  • Enemy Within

    Scott Peterson

    The evil Dread Wing turns the Dragon Flyz's most trusted allies, the Dragons, against them, in a storybook adventure based on the toys and the children's television program, Dragon Flyz. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Scavenger

    Scott Peterson

  • World Beyond

    Scott Peterson

  • Target Earth

    Steve Perry

    Legendary actor, director, and author Leonard Nimoy has created a grand, galactic adventure saga incorporating concepts developed by SF master Isaac Asimov. Now New York Times bestseller Steve Perry brings Leonard Nimoy's Primortals to life in... ...

  • Awake and Dreaming

    Kit Pearson

    Theo and her young, irresponsible mother seem trapped in their miserable, poverty-stricken life. Theo dreams of belonging to a “real” family, and her dream seems to come true when she is mysteriously adopted by the large, warm Kaldor family. But ...

  • Morning Glory Mother

    Carol Lynn Pearson

    A divorced mother of two, who feels like a maternal failure, reaches the end of her rope when she discovers her children had to be bribed to participate in the local church's Mother's Day pageant and decides to run away for two days...

  • Purple Hat

    Pearson

    "First there was Lilly's purple purse, and now there is Annie's purple hat. Annie spots the hat in a catalog, and when it arrives, it is perfect. But when she goes out bird-watching with the Bird Lady and the rest of her class, her hat is lost...[The...

  • The Stone Prince

    Fiona Patton

    THE PRICE OF POWER-- The DeMarians, the royal line of Branion, have been blessed, or cursed, with the power of the Flame, a magic which--if wielded properly--none can stand against. But called upon by one untrained or not strong enough to control ...

  • Breakfast of Enemies

    Francine Pascal

    What's in a healthy breakfast? Juice, toast, milk...and identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield! That's right--the twins have been chosen to appear on a Corny O's TV commercial! But there's only one Corny O's girl, and the twins can't agree o...

  • Dead Before Dawn

    Francine Pascal

    Time is running out for Bruce Patman. He has fewer than 48 hours to find out who poisoned him. . . and why. Forty-eight hours before the deadly toxin in his body takes his life.



    Everyone around Bruce has a secret. Everyone seems suspic...

  • Fashion Victim

    Francine Pascal

    Fired! Elizabeth Wakefield has been booted from her magazine internship--for stealing an idea she thought up in the first place! With the help of her twin sister, Elizabeth sets out to prove she was framed. Her snooping leads her into terrible dange...

  • Good-Bye, Mrs. Otis

    Francine Pascal

    In the words of 7-year-old Elizabeth Wakefield...



    Mrs. Otis is leaving our school. Forever.



    We're having a party to say good-bye.



    But Mr. Bunny (our class pet) is lost!



    Mrs. Otis gave him to...

  • One Last Kiss

    Francine Pascal

    Too young to die . . . Gin-Yung Suh is dying. A crushed Todd Wilkins is devastated -- especially since he's been rekindling his love for Elizabeth Wakefield instead of caring for Gin-Yung. Now he must take what little time he has to make it up to he...

  • The New Life

    Orhan Pamuk

    Osman is a young university student whose life is changed by a chance encounter with a mysterious book. Osman becomes obsessed with the book, which seems to contain all the magic and power of life and love. Romantic and elusive, Orhan Pamuk's The New...

  • Down East

    Katherine Hall Page

    Anticipating a boring summer at Maggie's parents' inn, Maggie, Christie, and Vicki become alarmed by an increasingly dangerous series of practical jokes and take the investigation into their own hands....

  • The Third Pandemic

    Pierre Ouellette

    Theorizing that a bacteria of unprecedented power will kill sixty percent of the global population within one year, Dr. Elaine Wilkes is horrified to see her prediction coming true and races to find a cure. Reprint....

  • Dolphins at Daybreak

    Mary Pope Osborne

    IT'S SINK OR SWIM... for Jack and Annie when the Magic Tree House whisks them off to the middle of the ocean. Luckily, they find a mini-submarine on a coral reef. Unluckily, they are about to meet a giant octopus and one very hungry shark. Will the ...

  • Looking After Dad

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    Single dad requires protection! When Lorcan Hunter is threatened by someone opposed to his latest business project, and leggy blonde Jess Pallister presents herself as the person to protect him, Lorcas is more than a little skeptical! But when his...

  • Another Homecoming

    Janette Oke; T. Davis Bunn

    THE WORLD IS AT WAR. A young man bravely kisses his weeping bride goodbye at the train station, leaving her all alone. Then the dreaded telegram, and a decision nearly tears her apart… A LITTLE GIRL GROWS into young womanhood, unaware of the force...

  • Beethoven in Paradise

    Barbara O'Connor

    Martin had always liked music -- liked to listen to it, liked to make up tunes in his head. More than anything, he wanted an instrument to play, but he knew that all he had to do was say the word "piano" to his father and all hell would break loose...

  • Down by the River

    Edna O'Brien

    Down by the River is a newly reissued novel from Edna O’Brien, the author of Girl -- “one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR’s Weekend Edition).Set in the author’s native Ireland, a powerful and passionate novel ab...

  • Spirit Seeker

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Spirit Seeker from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.          Holly Campbell’s life has suddenly become a newspape...

  • Renaissance Moon

    Linda Nevins

    The strikingly glamorous Selene Catcher, an American scholar renowned for her books on Italian Renaissance art, is obsessed by a fierce devotion to the ancient Moon Goddess, Artemis. Selene's domineering father, who both worshiped and betrayed the G...

  • Home Again

    Lenora Nazworth

    A battle of wills between antiques lover Jody Calhoun and wealthy developer Chase Spence culminates in Jody's being sent back in time to the Civil War, where she and Chase play lovers in order to put a ghost to rest. Original....

  • Trouble on the Tracks

    Donna Jo Napoli

  • Den of the White Fox

    Lensey Namioka

    Who is the White Fox? Is he merely the mysterious, charismatic leader of a doomed political rebellion? Or is he a powerful spirit, taking revenge on the occupying force that desecrated his shrine? And who-or what-shoves Zenta off a cliff on a dark an...

  • Birds of Bookhaven

    Susan Murray

    Birds of Bookhaven is Susan's fifth book in her AVALON series featuring exotic birds. The first four titles in the series, Birds of a Feather, Birds of Paradise, Love Birds, and Bird on the Wing are available now from AVALON....

  • Seminole Song

    Vella Munn

    As the U.S. Army surrounds their reservation in the Florida Everglades, a Seminole warrior chief clings to the slave girl who once saved his life after fleeing from her master, a wife-murderer who is out for blood. Reprint....

  • The Silver Star

    Gilbert Morris

    New York City Had Left Its Scars. Would Los Angeles and Hollywood Prove to Be a Better World? All of her life Priscilla Winslow had yearned for what she now had -- the theater, New York City, fancy clothes. But despite all of the adoring audiences, ...