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New Books List: 576 titles

  • Zoo Dreams

    Cor Hazelaar

  • Zero Hour

    Tony Abbott

    WHEN ROOP GOES missing on a routine mission, Ned, Ernie, and Suzi know they’ve got a big problem. Kurtz is back and meaner than ever. He’s evil. He’s nasty. And he’s 15. Deadly combination. But Ned is determined to save his friend. If only he...

  • Your Baby or Mine?

    Marie Ferrarella

    BOSS + BABIES = LOVE Her handsome boss was finally about to kiss her--until a baby began wailing at the top of its tiny lungs! And since single mom Marissa Rogers was the hired help, she had to leave those elusive lips to give his baby--or maybe h...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Young Mozart

    Rachel Isadora

    The first volume in a new series, this illustrated biography provides a look at the childhood of one of the world's greatest musical geniuses, recounting some of his earliest achievements and remarkable musical talents as a young boy....

  • Yolanda's Yellow School

    Kelly Asbury

  • The Xibalba Murders

    Lyn Hamilton

    The co-owner of a Toronto antiquities store, Lara McClintoch is obsessed with finding rare and beautiful artifacts. Her travels take her to the ends of the earth, where history jealously guards its treasures--and where the mysteries of the past meet ...

  • X Files Book of the Unexplained Volume II

    Jane Goldman

  • 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 ...

  • Wrath of the Prophets

    Peter David

    When a fatal disease spreads over Bajor, threatening the entire planet with extinction, Captain Sisko must accept aid from an unexpected source: Ro Laren, Starfleet officer turned Maquis renegade. Major Kira and Ro reluctantly join forces to track th...

  • The Wrangler's Bride

    Justine Davis

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE COWBOY He'd always been an outsider. And Grant McClure liked it that way. Stepson to the Fortunes, he'd made his own destiny...

  • World Beyond

    Scott Peterson

  • Wooden Guns

    Max Brand

    Working hard to establish himself as the fastest gun the Western mountains, Big Jim Conover is driven from his home only to return years later, a broken man facing a score of vengeful enemies. Reprint....

  • 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 ...

  • Wizzer's Bad Day

    Sue Kassirer

    Wizzer, a precocious Dalmatian puppy, is simply having a bad day as he gets stung by a bee, falls into a puddle of mud, and gets soaked by the sprinklers, but fortunately things turn around for him in the end....

  • Wizard of Bones

    Robert N. Charrette

    THE LIGHT FROM TIME BEFORE The defeat of the drakkenree at Rastionne has given Yan Tanafres the solitude he needs. In a remote cavern far from the imperial city Sharhumrin, he broods over the Serpent's Eye, seeking to reawaken the mysterious orb a...

  • A Winter Spy

    MacDonald Lloyd

    A young corporate private investigator and former CIA agent returns to the world of espionage to save the woman he loves from becoming strangled in a deadly web of Cold War intrigue and to protect a presidential hopeful. Original....

  • 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...

  • The Wild Baron

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Rohan Carrington, Baron Mountvale, proud scion of a family renowned for its philandering and charm, is bewildered. He has received a letter stating that his late, younger brother, George, ruined a young lady. But how could this be pos...

  • A Wife for Dr. Sam

    Phyllis Halldorson

    HOW TO MARRY A DOCTOR... The gossip around town was that Dr. Sam Lawford would rather swallow his stethoscope than marry, but woman after woman faked sore throats and got stung by bumblebees just to have Sam's hands on their bodies. So what was an ...

  • A Whisper of Black

    Clay Harvey

    In the sequel to A Flash of Red, former special operative Tyler Vance hopes to return to a quiet retirement with his family, but millions of dollars from illegal gun deals are still floating around, and Vance finds himself charged with gettin...

  • Where the Owl Hunts

    Aeres Twigg

  • When Daddy Took Us Camping

    Julie Brillhart

    Captures the excitement of one family's first camping trip as a father exposes his two young children to everything from preparing their own place to sleep and hiking to studying nature and making shadow pictures on a tent....

  • What's Wrong with This Book?

    Richard McGuire

  • What to Do About Baby

    Martha Hix

    HUSH LITTLE BABY Through a miracle of modern medicine, Caroline Grant's fifty-nine-year-old mother gave birth to a baby girl. Now, two years later, Caroline has "inherited" little Natalie. Caroline had always wanted a child of her own -- but rais...

  • What Color Was the Sky Today?

    Miela Ford

  • Wee G.

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Wedding Pictures

    Jacqueline Carey

    Illustrated with plucky paintings, a wry novel about the obsessions of the thirty-something generation--relationships, faith, betrayal, and clothes--follows on one couple's halting trip to the altar. IP. ...

  • The Wedding Escapade

    Kate Denton

    It should have been the wedding of the year... But if Amy thinks arranging millionaire Max Evans's wedding will put her wedding consultancy on the map, she's wrong.... The bride doesn't show up, the guests run riot and the groom falls ...

  • The Wedding Day Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

    WHEN CRIME CRASHES THE PARTY, IT'S TIME FOR NANCY TO GET CRACKING! Happily Ever After, Inc.: Making weddings beautiful and romantic is their business, and they're working overtime -- four in one weekend. The place: Heights House, an old mansion on...

  • We Sing the City

    Mary Beth Lundgren

  • We Love the Dirt

    Tony Johnston

    An early reader storybook is set on a small farm and explores how the farmer, the pig, the frog, the cricket, the earthworm, the tree, the flower, and the scarecrow each involve themselves with the dirt in a special way. 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...

  • Waterman's Child

    Barbara Mitchell

  • Water Witches

    Chris Bohjalian

    One of the very first novels by the number one bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant: a prescient, environmentalist political drama in which a small-town lawyer finds himself torn between his career and his family, and between money...

  • Watch William Walk

    Ann Jonas

  • Wandering Heart

    Patricia Lynn

    WHERE IS LOVE? Jo Allison has spent the last ten years trying to outrun the painful past, and the unforgettable betrayal that turned her heart against the false promises of love. Until her car breaks down and she finds herself -- feverish and str...

  • The Walls of Jericho

    Jon Land

    American Ben Kamal is a Detroit police detective whose police training makes him valuable to the new Palestinian police force on the West Bank. He's glad to help--but hooking up with the Israelis to find a serial killer was not part of the deal. Dan...

  • Volcano: the Coast Is Toast

    Jerome Armstrong

    Thirteen-year-old Kelly Roark is excited about spending vacation with her father, who is divorced from her mother. But when your dad is head of Emergency Management, the only think you can really count on is disaster. Watching your dad fight a molten...

  • Vignette

    Valerie King

    A desperate lady and an incorrigible rake become caught up in a scandalous game of intrigue and irresistible desire... FIRST ACT Treachery and seduction, magnificent entertainment and midnight assignations are part of Lady Somercote's elegant...

  • 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 ...

  • An Unspoken Promise

    Georgia Bockoven

    SHE MADE A VOW TO SAVE HER SISTER--NO MATTER WHAT. From the time her little sister first escaped her playpen, Diana Winchester has been Amy's only protector in a life filled with crises. But when Amy hits bottom at age twenty-four, Diana realizes ...

  • Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories

    Ursula Hegi

    In this stunning collection of stories, bestselling author Ursula Hegi focuses on the problems of love -- familial, parental, conjugal, and emergent. With compassion and her "unfailing immediacy of language," she raises the struggles of her character...

  • Underneath the Lemon Tree

    Jenna Jones
    in

    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • 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...

  • An Unconventional Miss

    Alice Holden

    Love Scores A Hit Amanda Lofton, daughter of an exceedingly wealthy merchant, has fashionable clothes, impeccable grooming, and dreamy brown eyes. What she doesn't have is a suitor who wants her love, not her money. Meeting a blond stranger en...

  • Unabomber Handled With Care

    Marc Cerasini

  • Two-Week Wife

    Miranda Lee

    Bedding Bianca.... Adam had always been in love with Bianca, but his feelings weren't quite returned. Bianca did care for him, but as a best friend. His was the shoulder she'd cry on, and he never let her down... Until the day Bianca co...

  • 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...

  • Truck Talk

    Bobbi Katz

  • 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 Trouble With Tonya

    Lorna Michaels

    She was a walking disaster area! Tonya Brewster's life was a mess. Little things like holding down a job or driving within the speed limit baffled her. So why in the world had her grandfather found her a job at an inner city youth center? She knew n...

  • Trouble on the Tracks

    Donna Jo Napoli

  • 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...

  • Triple Feature

    Louise Bagshawe

    Three women in the male-dominated, glamour town of Hollywood--supermodel-turned-actress Roxana, studio head Eleanor, and scriptwriter Megan--pool their resources to pull off the movie-making coup they have all been dreaming of...

  • Trial

    Parnell Hall

    Hall's latest one-word title describes the further adventures of Manhattan investigator Stanley Hastings. Attorney Richard Rosenberg, the personal injury specialist who usually employs Stanley, has him investigate the alibi of his latest client, a ri...

  • Treachery at the River Canyon

    Stephen A. Bly

    The Lewis and Clark Squad wasn't prepared for what teammate Cody Clark encountered in the River Canyon that day: an injured Chad Levine with his truck and money stolen. Could the unknown visitor who's come to town be to blame? Cody and his friends be...

  • Tracks in the Snow

    Lucy Jane Bledsoe

    Erin and Tiffany are snowbound, with only one thought - survival!

    For fans of Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, a story of two girls who must rely on their wits to stay alive when they become trapped in the snow. When Erin goes looking for her babysitte...

  • 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...

  • Touch of Texas

    Judy Christenberry

    THE TEMPERATURE'S RISING... Dr. Susan Kelly returned home eager to start a medical practice and enjoy a more relaxed, uncomplicated life. But she didn't realize how little had changed in the dusty west Texas town since she'd left so many years be...

  • Tortoise Brings the Mail

    Dee Lillegard

  • The Toady and Dr. Miracle

    Mary Blount Christian

    Luther brings crowds to Dr. Miracle's wagon for a demonstration of a magical potion that will cure Luther of swallowing a toad, in a tale in which a boy outwits a traveling medicine man. Simultaneous....

  • 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...

  • To Love a Dark Stranger

    Colleen Faulkner

    In a moment of shattering violence, Meg Randall's life changes forever. Desperate to save her newborn son from her husband's murderous wrath, she kills this cruel, deformed tyrant she was forced to wed against her will. Now, with blood on her...

  • To Bury the Dead

    Brian Andrew Laird

    On the way back to the O'odham reservation from Los Angeles, Gary Napoleon is shocked when the dead body of his dear friend Ryder, whom he is bringing home for an Indian burial, disappears and realizes he must find the body to fulfill his promises...

  • Till We Meet Again

    Penelope J. Stokes

  • Tiki Doll of Doom

    Betsy Haynes

    Receiving a Hawaiian necklace from her aunt, Lucy begins to experience strange dreams that come true, and as the dreams increase in weirdness and intensity, she fears she cannot get rid of the necklace. Original....

  • Tie Your Shoes!

    Sue Hendra

    As a brightly-colored green shoelace wends its way through this innovative, interactive board book, a curious cat and mouse try to guess its identity: Is it a tightrope? Minty toothpaste? Green spaghetti?  To each silly guess, a playful monster res...

  • 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....

  • Thumbelina

    Emma Chichester Clark

    A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale follows the story of the tiny Thumbelina, who is born of a magical grain of corn and who endures many challenging adventures in the outside world before finding other people her size....

  • Three Yellow Dogs

    Caron Lee Cohen

  • This Side of Heaven

    Emma Blair

    When she was sixteen, Sheila Beattie knew exactly what her future would be. She would marry her sweetheart Eric, a fisherman like her father, and they would raise their family and dream their simple dreams in the village which they'd been born. Her l...

  • This Matter of Marriage

    Debbie Macomber

    If I want to get married & have a family (& I do) it's time for a plan!! Starting now. --From Hallie McCarthy's diary The alarm on Hallie's biological clock is buzzing. She's hitting the beg three-O and there's no prospect of marriage, no man in ...

  • This Little Piggy

    Nicholas Heller

    Everyone knows the rhyme of the five little piggies and what each one did, but do you know the story behind the story? Well then, sit back and listen to Donald's grandmothe's comical spin on a favorite nursery rhyme. It's guaranteed to tickle your...

  • This Is the Place for Me

    Beverly Collins

  • 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....

  • Texas Embrace

    Rosanne Bittner

    With her father murdered by renegade Apaches, Tessa Reeves feared she'd be their captive forever - that no one would ever find her. And even if she were found, she'd be scorned by those who called Indians savages...and their woman prisoners forever u...

  • 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...

  • Ten Fat Hens

    Tony Geiss

  • Temporary Bride

    Phyllis Halldorson

    TIME WAS RUNNING OUT . . . . Shane McKittrick wanted to hire a woman to be his wife and bear his child. Karen Muir, driven by her love for him and sure that she could win his love before the time limit on their marriage had expired, became his wif...

  • 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... ...

  • Tangle Town

    Kurt Cyrus

    "One morning the mayor of Tangle Town gets himself stuck in his own office, while mayhem ensues outside. It's Roxy Toppler to the rescue! Much fun."-The New York Times Book Review"Good slaphappy wordplay."-Kirkus Reviews...

  • Tallchief

    Dinah McCall

    A Dream...Or A Nightmare? Ever since the night Morgan Tallchief lost the only woman he would ever love, he has struggled to seal away the past. But now Kathleen Ryder is back in his life--still pursued by the deadly secrets that forced her to flee...

  • Tales Out of School

    Benjamin Taylor

  • Taken to the Cleaners

    Dolores Johnson

    IF THE SUIT FITS... Mandy Dyer is all business. She has to be. Left high and dry by her would-be-lawyer ex-husband, Mandy turned to her uncle's Denver dry-cleaning company--and soon found herself in charge. Now, amid the hissing presses, rattling ...

  • Tainted Blood

    Andrew Billings

    Moving to the lumber town of Buckthorn after the death of his wife, Peter Cochran learns that the town and his family have been terrorized for years by an elusive murderer who is targeting young men. Original....

  • Switch

    Kevin McColley

  • Swimming across the Hudson

    Joshua Henkin

    Living in San Francisco with his girlfriend and her daughter, Ben Suskind finds his life thrown into upheaval when he receives a letter from a woman claiming to be his birth mother and embarks on a painful, secret quest to find out the truth about hi...

  • 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 ...

  • Sweet Companion

    Nancy Lawrence
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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... In Nancy Lawrence's "Sweet Companion," a much too serious...

  • Surrender the Heart

    Nina Beaumont

    Christopher Blanchard was everything she'd ever needed... yet didn't want. Ariane de Valmont prized her independence above all else, and to secure it, she'd struck a seductive bargain with a tantalizing American. Now she feared that in this heart's g...

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

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • A Summertime Song

    Irene Haas

    One warm summer night, a frog jumped into Lucy's room with an invitation for her to a birthday party and a magic paper party hat. Lucy put it on, and out in the garden, when a moonbeam touched the hat, Lucy was as little as a leaf. So begins Lucy's w...

  • A Summer Picnic

    Richard Scarry

  • 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 Sultan's Daughter

    Ann Chamberlin

    Giorgio Veniero, once a Venetian sailor and now a eunuch, guards the life and honor of his beloved mistress, Esmikhan, the Sultan's daughter. When forbidden passion tempts her, Giorgio finds that he holds Esmikhan's happiness in his hands - and risk...

  • Suffer the Little Children

    Al Lacy

    Continuing with the adventures of Old West heroine Breanna Baylor, book five of the Angel of Mercy series finds Breanna once again facing danger and reaching out to those in need of love . . . and Christ. After accidentally learning of a planned assa...

  • 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...

  • A Stranger to Love

    Patricia McLinn

    A STRANGER TO LOVE Cully Grainger was the one who got away. Actually, it was worse than that--Jessa Tarrant had all but pushed the man out of her life. Men like Cully didn't show up in a town like Bardville, Wyoming, every day. Not that it matt...

  • 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...

  • Stories of Tobias Wolff

    Tobias Wolff

  • Stop the Wedding!

    Trisha Alexander

    THE RIGHT BRIDE As her wedding day approached, Kristin Blair looked forward to it with feelings decidedly unbridelike. Her fiance was fine on paper, but his embraces left her cold--unlike another man who, years before, had ignited her passion and th...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Starring Mirette & Bellini

    Emily Arnold McCully

    Mirette and the Great Bellini sweep all of Europe with their act on the high wire, but when Bellini is arrested after a performance in St. Petersburg, Mirette is challenged to master the Death Walk to save him from prison, in the sequel to the Caldec...

  • 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....

  • Spring Break

    Johanna Hurwitz

    It was going to be the best vacation ever… But two days before her trip to Washington, D.C., with her best friend Zoe's family, Cricket Kaufman trips on a curb and winds up on crutches. Worse still, Zoe invites Sara Jane Cushman to go to Washing...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Spiderweb

    Susan Berman

  • Spider, Spider

    Kate Banks

    As a young boy watchers a spider crawl across the floor and tells his mother he will become a spider, he and his mother tease each other back and forth about what he will do once he becomes a spider, and what she will do to him....

  • 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...

  • Soul Mates

    Bridget Anderson

    With their marriage threatened by the hectic pace in their lives, Cheryl and Jamal Houston decide to take a Caribbean cruise to reignite the passion in their lives, but their new happiness is turned upside down by a stranger out to possess Cheryl, an...

  • 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...

  • Something Queer in the Wild West

    Elizabeth Levy

    On vacation in New Mexico, Gwen and Jill discover an old barn believed to be haunted by a wild horse, and as strange happenings begin to occur, the girls find themselves curious and decide to take a look behind the barn's padlocked doors....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Snow Swan

    Barbara Jean Hicks

  • Snakes and Ladders

    Gita Mehta

    India is a land of contrasts. It is the world's most populous democracy, but it still upholds the caste system. It is a burgeoning economic superpower, but one of the poorest nations on earth. It is the home of the world's biggest movie industry afte...

  • Slocum and the Lady in Blue

    Jake Logan

    When the beautiful Betty Welles acquires the title to a sprawling Arizona ranch, she is targeted by a brutal gang of killers and a schemer named Ralph Moore, and she hires John Slocum to protect her passage to Arizona. Original....

  • The Sleeping Car Murders

    Sebastien Japrisot

    The task of finding the killer of a beautiful young woman found sprawled in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseilles to Paris is handed to an overworked, crime-weary police detective named Pierre Emile Grazziano, who would rather play hide...

  • Sleeping Alone

    Barbara Bretton

    After years of lies, loneliness, and betrayal, she's finally left her wealthy husband in London -- and moved into her own house in the run-down resort town of Sea Gate, New Jersey, the place of her childhood dreams, and now, her grown-up hopes. ...

  • 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...

  • Slaughter in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    Cannibal mutants endanger the future of a post-apocalyptic America in this explosive adventure from a USA Today"bestselling author.   After the apocalypse destroyed what was left of America, Rebel leader Ben Raines helped create the Tri-States...

  • Skye Legacy

    Krista Janssen

    Journeying to the Dakota valley where her half-Sioux father had grown up, Skye MacKinnon is hired by Kyle Wyndford, who is unaware that she is related to the Native American tribe he holds responsible for his brother's death. Skye Mckinnon has...

  • Simply Love

    Catherine Anderson

    SIMPLY WILD The wealthy owner of a Colorado mining empire, Luke Taggart has seen and done it all. Now, bored with saloons, gambling and loose women, he feels a restless yearning -- for what, he doesn't know. Until he meets a woman as fresh and p...

  • 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 Silver Treasure

    Geraldine McCaughrean

    A treasury of myths and legends contains tales of such well-loved figures as King Arthur, William Tell, and Babushka, and includes the Japanese folktale about a girl who falls for a lighthouse keeper and the Alaskan story, "The Raven and the Moon."...

  • 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, ...

  • Silent Warrior

    Donna Kauffman

    Touching her was tempting fate--and tempting him to risk it all.... Her note read, "fin in trouble," and John McShane sensed the desperation in Cali Ellis's plea for help. He'd flown to the Caribbean on a rescue mission, but the woman whose defian...

  • 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....

  • The Sheriff's Son

    Stella Bagwell

    WHOSE BABIES WERE THEY? When single mother Justine Murdock found baby twins abandoned on her doorstep, she saw the Murdock chin and big green eyes in those sweet little faces. Oh, maybe she was just imagining the family resemblance. Or maybe she w...

  • 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 Sharp Teeth of Love

    Doris Betts

    After dumping her boyfriend in Reno on her way to California, Luna Stone hides out in the mountains near Donner Lake, where her solitude is invaded by the ghost of Tamsen Donner, a runaway boy fleeing a child-porn ring, and a young Lutheran minister...

  • Sextet

    Sally Beauman

    Journalist Lindsay Drummond is about to re-make her life: she plans to move out of London, change her job, and above all cure herself of her hopeless love for her unfairly handsome colleague, Rowland McGuire. Deadline day is Hallowe'en - but an encou...

  • 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 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...

  • The Seduction

    Laura Lee Guhrke

    WHEN AN HEIRESS AND A ROGUE MEET... Although her father sent her to England to fin a titled husband, beautiful and headstrong Margaret Van Alden rejects every fortune hunter she meets. The only man who does excite her is Trevor St. James, an unsenti...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Secret of the Old Rifle

    Stephen A. Bly

    When the Lewis and Clark Squad discover a trunk full of old rifles--and one with a mysterious code written inside--they're off on their next adventure. What does the code mean? And who could have put it there? The Squad wants to know. Between basketb...

  • 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...

  • Season of Comebacks

    Kathy MacKel

    Molly is envious of her sister, Allie, the best softball pitcher in the state, but when Molly gets drafted to Allie's team, the Blazers, the pressure to perform becomes intense as she and Allie are now equally responsible for bringing home the champi...

  • A Scientific Romance

    Ronald Wright

  • 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! ...

  • Scenes From Sistah

    Lolita Files

    Recounts the adventures and loves of two independent-minded, free-spirited African American women--Misty Fine and Reesy Snowden--who have been friends since childhood, as they make their way across the country...

  • Scavenger

    Scott Peterson

  • Scam

    Parnell Hall

    The good news is Stanley Hastings has a real, paying client. The bad news is his client, Cranston Pritchert, cant seem to tell him anything more than that he’s being set up. And after some initial sleuthing to try to unravel the alleged set-up, all...

  • Savage Heart

    Cassie Edwards

    Christa and her brother David left Boston with hope of making a fortune in the timber country near Seattle, Washington. But cholera had taken their parent on the journey west, and now an isolated cabin near Puget Sound was all they possessed. Until...

  • Sandman: Book of Dreams

    Neil Gaiman

    There is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things. He is Morpheus, the lord of dreams. Older than humankind itself he inhabits--along with Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, his Endless si...

  • The Saint

    Burl Barer

    Hired by a corrupt Russian dictator to steal the formula for cold fusion from American nuclear physicist Emma Russell, international thief and master-in-disguise Simon Templar is challenged by his feelings for her. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • The Ruby Tear

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    Nearly recovered from the auto accident that almost crippled her, beautiful actress Jessamyn Croft struggles to make a comeback, haunted by Nic, her former fiance+a7, who is doing everything he can to stop her, and by a mysterious foreigner who may b...

  • Rose

    Kathleen Leverich

    Poor Rose has given up on being a flower girl. Then, finally, she gets her chance -- at her mother’s wedding! Rose’s friends think this is great news; but Rose is not so sure. Rose has been taking care of her mom for years. She doesn't want -- or...

  • Room 13

    Henry Garfield

  • 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....

  • The Roaring Girl

    Greg Hollingshead

    A collection of short fiction, a winner of Canada's Governor-General's Literary Award, includes the title story about a boy whose life is changed after his parents take into their home a tough, adolescent drifter. Reprint. 25,000 first printing....

  • River Rats

    Franklin W. Dixon

    While rafting on the Big Bison River, the Hardys are shocked when their friend Owen is nearly killed by a sniper, and Joe's relationship with Owen's attractive daughter is interrupted by a firebomb. Original....

  • 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...

  • Ricochet Baby

    Fiona Kidman

    When Roberta falls pregnant her whole family is filled with joy. Fallen is not exactly how Roberta would describe it, for she and Paul have planned the baby and it has been conceived at exactly the time that they chose. But the birth itself is not as...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Rex and Lilly Playtime

    Marc Brown

  • 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 Rescued Heart

    Melinda McRae

    A HANDSOME STRANGER Beautiful young Bess Williams was resigned to living a quiet life of genteel poverty in the English countryside after her officer father died fighting Napoleon. Then one day a stranger arrived, the most handsome, irresistibly gall...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Remake: As Time Goes By

    Stephen Humphrey Bogart

    R. J. Brooks' parents left him little but a few memories and one of the best-loved movies of all time: As Time Goes By. It's unthinkable that anyone would ever attempt a remake. But in true Hollywood fashion, the unthinkable is now in the works....

  • The Refining Fire

    Wally E. Davis

    As Sheriff Matt Page's skills as a lawman grow, he wonders if he can keep the peace and still remain true to his spiritual commitments, and if it is possible to build a life for himself and his family and still be sheriff...

  • 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...

  • Rebus Riot

    Bonnie Christensen

  • 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...

  • Reading in the Dark

    Seamus Deane

    Set in postwar Northern Ireland, where the unquiet ghosts of the Troubles walk alongside the warriors and changelings of Celtic legend, Seamus Deane's first novel is the transfixing story of a boy trying to uncover the secrets of the adult world. And...

  • 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...

  • Rage of a Demon King

    Raymond E. Feist

    A loyal soldier and a wealthy merchant have served bravely in the flames of an enduring war that is ravaging their land. But swords, bows, wits and courage will no longer be enough to defeat the scourge that is descending upon their home. For a foul ...

  • 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...

  • Purple America

    Rick Moody

    A son is tasked with an impossible decision in this poignant, astutely observed portrait of a family in crisis from the author of The Ice Storm While visiting his mother, Billie, who suffers from a degenerative neurological disease that has left her ...

  • The Psychozone: Kidzilla & Other Tales

    David Lubar

    Don't bother looking for the PsychoZone on a Map. It's not a place...but a state of mind where the worlds of reality and imagination collide. A place where a kid can wake up and have morphed into a giant lizard. Or where one can place a long distance...

  • 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...

  • 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 Project

    Zev Chafets

    It's ten years after the Gulf War and U.S. Speaker of the House Dewey Goldberg has been sworn in as President of the United States following the accidental deaths of his predecessors. But he soon discovers that Israeli Prime Minister Elihu Barzel may...

  • Princess Charming

    Jane Heller

    What happens when you put three divorced women and one desperate hit man on a ship bound for the Caribbean? You get Jane Heller's sparkling new novel of love, sex and murder... Every since they first met in divorce court, Elaine Zimmerman and her ...

  • The Primrose Path

    Barbara Metzger

    'TWAS MORE THAN JUST A BONE OF CONTENTION BETWEEN NEIGHBORS! Seventh Viscount Knowle--a war hero, a rising star in politics, a nonpareil in tonnish circles-- has become a laughingstock. His legacy has gone to the dogs--literally. Primrose Cott...

  • Presumption of Guilt

    Terri Blackstock

    Just one person can save the children from a terrifying future. But to do so, she must master her past. Beth Wright, a newspaper reporter, is hot on the trail of a story that could expose something very ugly at the St. Clair Children’s Home. Someon...

  • Press Send

    John McLaren

    When Hilton Kask dies he leaves a parcel for each of his special friends - his twin brother Conrad, soul-mate Lisa, and his martial arts instructor. Inside is a mobile phone with one simple instruction: "Press Send". But for his enemies, Hilton has e...

  • Premlata and the Festival of Lights

    Rumer Godden

  • Potshot

    Gerry Boyle

    "Boyle has a wonderful sense of place--in this case, Maine, where Jack McMorrow has fled to escape the workaholic drive that led him to become a top reporter for the New Yolk Times Now he works as a freelancer, which leads him into places most report...

  • Postman Pat Makes a Splash

    John Cunliffe

    Postman Pat and Jess are going to Greendale Farm to meet the new baby, Paul. Suddenly a pig escapes from the farm and Pat is left to change Paul's nappy. He soon finds that it's not as easy as wrapping a parcel....

  • Postman Pat and the Pet Show

    John Cunliffe

  • Postman Pat and the Bees

    John Cunliffe

  • Postman Pat and Spring Cleaning Day

    John Cunliffe

  • Porcupine Ranch

    Sally Carleen

    THE HUNGRIEST COWBOY IN TEXAS Clayton Sinclair ran the toughest ranch in Texas, and all he wanted at the end of a long day was a steak dinner and a tidy house. But his pretty new housekeeper couldn't boil an egg to save her life. Maybe the lad...

  • Plum Island

    Nelson DeMille

    Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen -- and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found o...

  • Pleasure of Believing

    Anastasia Hobbet

    Disillusioned with her urban California existence, a woman returns to her uncle's western ranch and finds herself caught between her aunt's environmental activism and a neighbor's desire to raise his livestock....

  • The Players

    Stephanie Cowell

    In 1564 a boy was born to a middle-class family in the little town of Stratford.Thirty-four years later he would write Hamlet.  In between was his both troubled and carefree childhood, his disastrous forced marriage and his early ...