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  • Reef of Death

    Paul Zindel

    PLUNGE IN... Seventeen-year-old P.C. McPhee is in Australia to help his uncle solve a mystery involving buried treasure, a beautiful Aboriginal girl, and a horrifying sea creature. P.C. quickly realizes that they're not the only ones looking for the ...

  • Pushkin Meets the Bundle

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Beni's First Wedding

    Jane Breskin Zalben


    On the day of Uncle Izzy and Sashi's wedding, Beni has butterflies in his stomach. As he walks slowly and steadily down the aisle with the wedding ring on the pillow, he hears friendly voices cheering him on. But just when Aunt Gertie calls out "...

  • The Ice Man

    Brittany Young

    HE WAS THE ONE MAN SHE HAD NO BUSINESS WANTING But from the moment undercover investigator Kyra Courtland laid eyes on Jack Allessandro, she was consumed by a fierce and undeniable desire for the aloof, all-business ship-ping tycoon. If Jack wa...

  • Libation by Death

    Dorian Yeager

    Vic Bowering is still in hot pursuit of stardom on the New York stage (or screen; she's not picky). but even a future superstar needs to eat once in a while. So she takes a breather, temporarily, and begins working at McAleer's Pub as a bartender--r...

  • The Angry Angel

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    In Bram Stoker's dark classic Dracula, three "weird sisters," make a brief but unforgettable appearance. The beautiful, mad brides of the vampire lord, their untold histories are at last revealed to us in Sisters of the Night, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's...

  • Captain of the Caryatid

    Richard Woodman

    Captain James St John Stanier, formerly Porth Ardur's ambitious Harbour Master, has now been promoted to Commissioner of Celtic Lighthouses. And from this elevated position he is determined to get one over on Septimus Macready, captain of the lightho...

  • Sweet Dream Pie

    Audrey Wood

    An entertaining tale about a pie that's too irresistible to pass up--made of sweet chocolate, gumdrops, licorice, and more--and the outrageous dreams it causes is presented by the Caldecott-winning author of King Bidgood's in the Bathtub. ...

  • Weddings Are Murder

    Valerie Wolzien

    DEAD ON ARRIVAL Suburban housewife Susan Henshaw dips into the middle-age blues after hearing the news that her little girl, Chrissy, is getting married. To bolster her spirits, Susan plans to produce the wedding to end all weddings. Chrissy's ...

  • Problem of the Missing Miss

    Roberta Wogow

    An unlikely pair of rescuers, Charles Dodgson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle unite forces to save the kidnapped daughter of Lord Richard Marbury, a liberal stalwart in Parliament who has made many enemies....

  • As the Crow Flies

    Elizabeth Winthrop

    Michael's parents live seven states apart, and it is extremely difficult for him to be with only one parent at a time, so when his father comes for a visit, he is able to spend a lot of time with him and learn things about him that he had never known...

  • Until There Was You

    Rebecca Winters

    Secrets and lies... Rickie Taylor has just learned a devastating secret about her family's wealth. It's tainted because of what her grandfather did. Not only that, he may still be alive--and in hiding. Jordan Browning, ex-Navy Seal, is keeping...

  • Katarina

    Kathryn Winter

    Set in World War II Slovakia, an unforgettable first novel illustrates the struggles of Katari+a7na, a Jewish girl running from the Nazis and believing in the protection of the saints of her newly found Catholic faith....

  • Sweet Dreams

    Jean Wilson

    Saving Pace Lansing from the hangman's noose for a second time by announcing their engagement, Mercy Goodacre is determined to melt his icy reserve and turn their marriage into one of passion and love. Pleasant Valley, Kansas 1875 Virtuous, ch...

  • Ransom My Heart

    Gayle Wilson

    SHE'D NEVER TOLD HIM... The night before he'd left town, Chase McCullar and Samantha Kincaid had finally shared a long-simmering passion. But Chase's brother's death had sent him on a mission that consumed him--leaving Samantha behind. For five lo...

  • Scotsman's Kiss

    Frances Engle Wilson

  • Ken Wilson-Max's Amazing Circus Performers

    Ken Wilson-Max

  • Cherish

    Crystal Wilson-Harris

    Managing her grandparents restaurant in North Carolina after a car accident claims the lives of her family, Corinthia Justice tries to rebuild her life and meets race-car driver Brad Marshall, who implores her to sponsor him, and as their passion gro...

  • The Tortilla Cat

    Nancy Willard

    When each of Doctor Romero’s five children becomes ill, one after the other, with the same fever that took his dear wife, the doctor is not able to help them. Yet each child is quickly cured when a little cat comes in the night, offering a tortilla...

  • Prairie Day

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    With the My First Little House picture book series, the youngest readers can share in the joy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books in these illustrated adaptations of the beloved series!

    Laura and her family are journeying across t...

  • The Gatecrasher

    Madeleine Wickham

    A survivor from the school of hard knocks, beautiful Fleur Daxeny knows the best place to meet a rich widower is--at his wife's funeral. Her modus operandi is to gate crash the service and charm her way into the widower's life, his bed, and his bank ...

  • Baby on His Doorstep

    Diana Whitney

    SPECIAL DELIVERY! The only thing executive Colby Sinclair worried about was business until his gurgling niece was abandoned on his doorstep. This bachelor didn't know the first thing about fatherhood... but he was determined to do right by this b...

  • The Heartbreaker

    Kim Whalen

    HANDLE WITH CARE As athletic director for the Parks Department, Lucki Stevenson spends most of her time coaching unruly teenagers instead of giving her heart a much-needed pep talk. And then Dr. Sam Kirk moves back to town, Lucki wants to forfeit...

  • Mission to Seduce

    Sally Wentworth

    Her personal bodyguard... Allie had teased him, insulted him, but still she seemed to be stuck with Drake Marsden as her official chaperon! He'd been appointed to look after her during a crucial assignment in Russia, and he refused to leave her s...

  • Deceptions

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

  • Cool Shade

    Theresa Weir

    SHE KNEW TROUBLE WHEN SHE SAW IT -- BUT NEVER HAD IT LOOKED SO GOOD. Jobless, flat-broke, and anxious for a change of scenery, disc jockey Maddie Smith decides to visit her flaky, estranged sister in Nebraska. But she finds that after a brief en...

  • Behind the Screams

    Ann Weil

  • The Impatient Virgin

    Anne Weale

    Her future husband? Anny Howard was still a child when she met Giovanni--Van--Carlisle. He was nine years her senior, and Anny had soon developed a severe case of hero worship for Van. Over the years her youthful infatuation has blossomed into lov...

  • Walking Point

    James Watson

    INSIDE THE NAVYS TOUGHEST FIGHTING FORCE WITH A WARRIOR WHO WAS THERE

    Known worldwide for their incredible combat skill, the Navy SEALs are one of the most elite sectors of the U.S. military. Now veteran SEAL Chief James Watson, who thrilled reader...

  • The Story of My Disappearance

    Paul Watkins

    Although Paul Wedekind has created a new life for himself as a fisherman on the coast of Rhode Island, he is haunted by his violent past. As a patriotic young man, he enlisted in the East German Stasi and was sent to Afghanistan, where he and a fr...

  • Pamela's First Musical

    Wendy Wasserstein

  • Catty-Cornered

    Cheryl Ware

  • All the Dead Lie Down

    Mary Willis Walker

    SOME PEOPLE CAN FORGIVE AND FORGET. MOLLY CATES ISN'T ONE OF THEM. When crime reporter Molly Cates's father died more than twenty-five years ago, the case was ruled a suicide, and Molly's efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and t...

  • Public Affair

    Margie Walker

    After her father dies in a plane crash, Marlena Lord runs for his congressional seat and enters the corrupt world of politics, where she meets and falls for devastatingly handsome Miles Chase, until she uncovers dark secrets about Miles and her fathe...

  • Fortune Favors the Bold

    James Walker

    Initials on front cover - A unique, unvarnished look from the only British citizen serving in the U.S. Army in Vietnam AN UNCONVENTIONAL SOLDIER Born in England to a British father and a Canadian mother, James Walker was raised almost exclusively at ...

  • Captain America: Man without a Country

    Mark Waid

  • Mimi and the Dream House

    Martin Waddell

  • Mimi and the Picnic

    Martin Waddell

    At a picnic, Mimi's littlest brother, Hugo, disappears from the leaf where he is sitting while all the other brothers and sisters are at play, and when they discover he is missing, the bigger mice search everywhere without finding little Hugo....

  • When the Teddy Bears Came

    Martin Waddell

  • Yum, Yum, Yummy

    Martin Waddell

  • Manjinn Moon

    Denise Vitola

    A female werewolf in a nightmarish Earth of the future, Marshall Ty Merrick goes after an assassin with strange powers who has rendered District One defenseless against a violent hurricane and kidnapped the man she loves. Original....

  • Nick's Child

    Tina Vasilos

    "You have a baby son..." As soon as Nick Marcopoulos heard the mysterious voice over the phone, he rushed to Tessa Lee's side to demand answers. If their passionate summer had resulted in a baby, why hadn't she told him? "...And Tessa needs you...

  • Ports of Call

    Jack Vance

    Myron''s parents insisted that he study economics, and Myron dutifully applied himself. But Myron had an aunt--his great aunt Hester Lojoie, a woman of great wealth inherited from a dead husband, and even greater flamboyance of nature. And when D...

  • Little Fish Lost

    Nancy Van Laan

  • With a Whoop and a Holler

    Nancy Van Laan

  • Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    Grams told me my binoculars were going to get me into trouble. I just didn't believe her. Sammy Keyes isn't looking for trouble when she trains her binoculars on the Heavenly Hotel across the street. So when she spies a man with gloves pawing throug...

  • Safe House

    Andrew H. Vachss

    In Burke, Andrew Vachss gave readers of crime fiction a hero they could believe in, an avenger whose sense of justice was forged behind bars and tempered on New York's meanest streets. In this blistering new thriller, Burke is drawn into his ugliest ...

  • Gunnar's Daughter

    Sigrid Undset

    The first historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter

    A Penguin Classic

    More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, ...

  • Taos Death Cry

    Dodge Tyler

    Daniel Boone rides into New Mexico to protect a man who once saved his life, when he finds himself in danger when the Spanish begin to set the Indian tribes against the fur-trappers of Taos. Original....

  • A Patchwork Planet

    Anne Tyler

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved Pulitzer Prize"winning author tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He h...

  • The Proposal

    Linda Turner

    HE HAD A WAY WITH WOMEN.... That was what everyone said about attorney Noah Baxter - and with one look into his wicked blue eyes, by-the-book judge Sadie Thompson knew that the rumors were true. SHE HAD HAD IT WITH MEN! Unlucky in love once, Sa...

  • Dorcus Porkus

    Tasha Tudor

  • Contract Wife

    Kay Thorpe

    The marriage contract When Kyle Beaumont's niece, Jodie, is orphaned at the tender age of nine, Kyle is determined to adopt her. But to do that he needs his wife back.... Shannon Beaumont knows better than most what kind of a man Kyle is. T...

  • Eve's Men

    Newton Thornburg

    Brothers clash over the woman they both love in this provocative thriller by “one of the truly great American writers of the 20th century” (The Guardian).   A classic bad seed and his good-guy brother fall in love with the same woman. Wild m...

  • Manhunting in Montana

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    The chase Photographer Cleo Griffin was frustrated. She'd become famous for her calendar shots of sexy, sweaty, muscle-bound hunks--but she was taking more cold showers than she was photos! She needed a man! So, on her upcoming shoot in Montana, Cle...

  • Welcome to Paradise

    Ronda Thompson

    WALK ON THE WILD SIDE When wildlife photographer Haley Lamb extended an invitation to Professor John Jacobson, the world-famous expert on animal behavior, she was looking for a mate -- but not for herself. Haley's not hunting for anything but hel...

  • A Darker Shade of Crimson

    Pamela Thomas-Graham

    The new president of Harvard University becomes a prime suspect in the death of Rosezella Maynette Fisher, the opinionated, African American Dean of Students at Harvard Law School, and it is up to economics professor and amateur sleuth Veronica Chase...

  • The Return to Zion

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    Their Enemies Vowed to Strangle the Ancient City, but There Were Those Who Remembered the Promise to Israel.... The Jewish people, gazing down the vista of time, had longed for the rebirth of their nation. Out of the ashes of the Holocaust, thousand...

  • Snow Baby

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    A marriage of convenience? It had been a long time since single dad Edmund Fairfax had held a baby -- or woman for that matter. Now he wanted nothing more than to have Emily Bancroft and her child complete his family. And it seemed fate, in cahoot...

  • The Experiment

    Todd Temple

  • Pie-Rat's Revenge

    Michael Teitelbaum

  • Eye of the Storm

    Luisah Teish

  • Top Secret Affair

    Lorna Tedder

    SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME Nothing fazes Mallory Garrett -- until the pretty single mom is placed under house arrest for a crime she didn't commit! When a top secret government turns up in the day care center's recycled paper, her little daughter's...

  • Taming the Tycoon

    Kathryn Taylor

    THE LAST UNATTAINABLE MAN Ian Bradford had it all: money, power, charisma and a parade of women who would love to snare him for their own. But the sexy entrepreneur was not about to succumb to any female--least of all Shannon Moore, feisty guardia...

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh's Easter

    Bruce Talkington

    Winnie the Pooh is confused and surprised when he happens upon a strange and colorful egg, but after much adventure, Christopher Robin helps Pooh and his friends understand what Easter eggs are all about....

  • Easter

    Bruce Talkington

    Discovering an enormous decorated egg in the middle of the Hundred Acre Wood, Winnie the Pooh is baffled when Rabbit insists that the egg can talk, and the lovable bear goes to considerable lengths to compel the egg to share its mysterious message...

  • Only With You

    Libby Sydes

    It began as a marriage of convenience, and it ended in all-consuming love.... ONLY LOVE An impulsive kiss behind the schoolhouse and Jennifer Delaney's reputation was shot! Now she was about to lose her job and her beloved ranch--until a tall, ...

  • Bijou, Bonbon and Beau

    Joan Sweeney

    On a cold dark night, a mama cat seeks shelter for her newborn kittens in a Parisian theater known for its ballet and for the famous artist who comes there to sketch. While the ballerinas practice, Bijou, Bonbon and Beau make themselves right at home...

  • A Royal Connection

    Margaret Summerville

    Foreign Affairs Lady Selena Paget possessed the rank, fortune, and figure to be a prize in the Marriage Mart, but alas, the gentlemen of the ton bored her senseless. Only the Earl of Heathfield attracted her -- a man of mystery, a reputed seducer,...

  • The Arm of the Stone

    Victoria Strauss

    HE REMEMBERS THE TALE. Of a day when Mind and Hand were one, bound by the all-powerful Stone. Of an unfathomable evil which seized the Stone with ruthless treachery. Sundered its worlds. Used its might to conquer the domain of Mind. And shielded the ...

  • Jericho Moon

    Matthew Woodring Stover

    The second book in the Barra the Pict series...

  • How the Rattlesnake Got Its Rattle

    Jeffrey Stoodt

  • Birthday Girls

    Jean Stone

    Once they were childhood friends who celebrated birthdays together, sharing laughter and tears and heartfelt dreams. Then they lost touch. Yet now, on the brink of turning fifty, one of them is desperate enough to contact the others--looking for more...

  • Checkout Time at the Dead-End Motel

    R.L. Stine

    The reader can choose from more than twenty different endings to the terrifying tale that begins with the reader and friends checking into the Dead Hotel--where the guests are all ghosts--after breaking down on a deserted highway. Original....

  • Invasion of the Body Squeezers (Part 1)

    R.L. Stine

    "I am ready," I repeated, speaking from my robotlike trance. "They are coming!" "Stop that, Jack," Mrs. Hansen scolded. "You're scaring everyone." "Huh?" Voices buzzed in my ear. I could barely hear my own voice. "The others are coming. From the...

  • Flood Tide

    Sally Stewart

  • Heart and Home

    Lily Stevens

    MEGHAN'S CHOICE Nate Sloan was a gorgeous, sexy man. So when Meghan Reilly runs into him backstage, she does what she has to: hands him a skimpy swim suit to change into and sends him out as one of the Twelve Hunks from Heaven at the charity auc...

  • The Long-Lost Heir

    Amanda Stevens

    A CHILD WAS STOLEN... Bradlee Fitzgerald was a little girl with a big crush, sworn to protect the little boy she adored, when Adam Kingsley disappeared. All these years later, she hasn't forgotten him, the feeling that the key to his disappearance ...

  • Raven Stole the Moon

    Garth Stein

    “Deeply moving, superbly crafted, and highly unconventional.” -- Washington TimesRaven Stole the Moon is the stunning first novel from Garth Stein, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain.A profoundly poi...

  • Nick's Long-Awaited Honeymoon

    Sandra Steffen

    Bachelor Gulch: In this little town no bachelor is safe from marriage! Wanted: Brides! This small South Dakota town needs women of marriageable age. And Silhouette Romance invites you to visit the handsome, extremely eligible men of: Bachelor Gulch...

  • Married in a Moment

    Jessica Steele

    It all happened so fast! Gideon Langford suggested to Ellena that, to gain guardianship of baby Violette, she should marry him. It took Ellena a few seconds to get over her shock - just one of many since Violette's parents went missing on vaca...

  • The Long Road Home

    Danielle Steel

    At seven, Gabriella Harrison believes, as she is told, that she is to blame for her mother's rage -- and her father's failure to protect her. Her world is a confusing blend of terror, betrayal, and pain, where there is no safeguard and no safe haven ...

  • A Wizard in Midgard

    Christopher Stasheff

    Under the nom de guerre of Gar Pike, renegade psychic wizard Magnus D'Armand travels the stars fighting injustice and oppression like his father, Rod Gallowglass, the Warlock in Spite of Himself. Now the Rogue Wizard wanders the galaxy alone, havi...

  • Monkey Sunday: A Story From a Congolese Village

    Sanna Stanley


    "Luzolo's father is the village preacher, and [Luzolo] has promised she will sit still during his sermon because it is a special occasion...It seems as if every animal in the village, from chicks to monkeys, interrupts her father, but Luzolo mana...

  • Rosemary for Remembrance

    Audrey Stallsmith

    DON’T MISS THE VERY FIRST THYME WILL TELL MYSTERY! Who was the sinister hand behind Alden Culver’s murder? Regan’s life depends on an answer only thyme will tell…Regan Culver’s beloved father has been killed: poisoned"apparently by his ...

  • Standing in the Shadows

    Michelle Spring

    The shocking murder lingered in the tabloids for weeks. A sweet elderly lady viciously killed in a quiet corner of Cambridge, her skull crushed with a concrete block by her eleven-year-old foster child, Daryll Flatt. Hideous as the crime was, the cas...

  • The Rich Man's Table

    Scott Spencer

    A man's impassioned search for his legendary rock star father becomes a journey of self-discovery in this masterful novel from bestselling author Scott Spencer Billy Rothschild's obsession with legendary '60s folksinger Luke Fairchild could be con...

  • Cave Hill Treasure: And Other Stories

    Nancy Speck

  • Message in a Bottle

    Nicholas Sparks

    Theresa Osborne is divorced and disillusioned, but all that is about to change when she finds a bottle on the beach with a mysterious love letter inside. What happens next is unexpected, and perhaps even miraculous--for it embraces all our hopes for ...

  • Big Bushy Mustache

    Gary Soto

    It's almost Cinco de Mayo, and Ricky's class is going to put on a play to celebrate the festive Mexican holiday. When asked to choose his costume, Ricky picks a big, bushy mustache, just like his dad's. He's tired of everyone telling him he looks lik...

  • Knock at the Door

    Eric Sonderling

  • This Land, This Love

    Linda Sole

    Aden Sawle cares for only two things in life: his land, and lovely Rebecca Cottrel. But Rebecca's father has raised her to expect a better match than a poor Cambridgeshire farmer, so Aden distracts himself with another girl - until a shocking turn of...

  • My Ex-Best Friend

    Violette Smith

  • Murder Comes to Mind

    Joan Smith

    The members of the Berkeley Brigade, London's most aristocratic and stylish foursome, find themselves once more enmeshed in mystery and romance.... Though Lady Corinne deCoventry and dashing Lord Luten are now officially engaged, their wedding is ...

  • Prophet's Power

    Dean Wesley Smith

    PROPHET'S POWER: Haute, the lowly Na Pali slave who would soon be called the Prophet, had fled to safety in the desolate hill country. There he found the hidden wreckage of an ancient spacecraft, and even more important, found the artificial intellig...

  • The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton

    Jane Smiley

    See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Jane Smiley in Large Print* About Large PrintAll Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceSix years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three ...

  • At Paradise Gate

    Jane Smiley

    In this brilliant novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Jane Smiley delves into the domestic drama of the Robison family. While seventy-seven-year-old Ike Robison is dying in his bedroom upstairs, his wife defends the citadel of their ...

  • Taken by a Texan

    Lass Small

    TANGLIN' WITH A TEXAN Ranch hand Rip Morris had quite the reputation...although what he really knew about women wouldn't add up to a pile of hay. So who would have guessed a lovely socialite like Miss Lu Parsons had requested the pleasure of his c...

  • Emily Just in Time

    Jan Slepian

    Although Emily is growing up quite fast--pouring her own milk and going down the twisty slide--she still cannot spend the whole night at her grandma's because of her fear of the dark and the unfamiliar surroundings....

  • Lucky in Love

    Tracy Sinclair

    DAUGHTER KNOWS BEST Who was the parent, and who was the child? Michelle Lacey's mother had gone and attached herself to some mysterious "millionaire" who seemed all too interested in her family's financial affairs. Now it was up to ever-resourcef...

  • Heart's Whisper

    Rebecca Sinclair

    HEART'S AWAKENING Moyra Elliott had retreated to her childhood home, the once-glorious Castle Wyndehaghen, to mourn the death of her father; when a wounded stranger appeared at her gates. Though she wished only to be alone with her memories, she c...

  • No Ordinary Man

    Suzanne Simmons

    A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE... Victoria is the sole heiress to a vast fortune. The darling of East Coast Society, Torey has grown up with all the advantages and privileges that wealth and social position can provide. Then danger and excitement enter her li...

  • Come along, Daisy!

    Jane Simmons

    Daisy's mother warns her to stay close, but there are so many distractions in the pond! After all, there are fireflies to chase and lily pads to jump on. A sudden, scary noise teaches Daisy to heed her mother's words. The author's colorful illustrati...

  • A Cure for the Meanies

    David Silva

    As Meanie the Witch, Dotty stars as a very cranky little witch whose faulty broom forces her to make an emergency landing in Balloony Town, where balloons grow on trees and everyone is happy. Although she manages to burst everyone's balloons and spre...

  • The Queen's New Clothes

    David Silva

    Dotty stars as Queen Cat the Great of the Land of Brrrr, whose insatiable desire for balls of yarn is beginning to unravel her subjects. When she decides to hold a Great Yarn Ball, the queen is surprised to learn that her subjects cannot attend - bec...

  • Bellevue

    Marc Siegel M.D.

    David Levy, an intern at New York City's Bellevue Hospital, is caught between two equally undesirable worlds--that of Dr. Fat Goldman, his uncaring supervisor, and Sal Vertino, his rebellious best friend, whose career may be headed for disaster...

  • Goalie

    Susan Shreve

  • Nosferatu

    Jim Shepard

    A New York Times Notable Book:The richly imagined fictional life of one of cinema’s founding fathers from National Book Award finalist Jim Shepard In 1907, while waiting for a train that would take him from his quiet rural hometown to university in...

  • Professor Sniff and the Lost Spring Breezes

    Alex Shearer

    P.J. Sniff collects wind from around the world, cultivates it at his farm, and sells it to kite flyers, boaters, windsurfers, and others, but a Florida hurricane that grows into a typhoon nearly sweeps away the entire Callender Hill....

  • The Summer Sisters and the Dance Disaster

    Alex Shearer

    A trio of young entrepreneurs experiments with Native American rain dances and sun dances to supply the right weather for their patrons' vacation needs, but they sometimes find the dance steps a little tricky....

  • Until I Saw the Sea

    Alison Shaw

    The sights, sounds, and excitement of the sea are celebrated here in a variety of poems and vibrant photographs from award-winning photographer Alison Shaw. The collection encapsulates all the activities of seagoing from making sand castles on the sh...

  • Kansas Carnage

    Jon Sharpe

    With the aid of a Pawnee Indian beauty, Skye Fargo attempts to head off an all-out war between a gang of outlaws disguised as U.S. cavalrymen preying on Indian women and the Plains tribes hell-bent on revenge. Original....

  • Occupation: Millionaire

    Alexandra Sellers

    Tallia Venables was in a bit of a bind. The gorgeous scientist needed some big-time funding for her latest project. But beauty and brains? No one was willing to take her seriously. So, ever resourceful, she donned a brainiac disguise and set out to w...

  • Matthew Unstrung

    Kate Seago

    Matthew's father does not want him to help run his brother's ranch but rather complete his education and become a minister, but Matthew wants to follow his heart and knows he must take a stand against the wishes of his father in order to do so....

  • Barney's Big Surprise

    Scholastic Inc.

    Winner of Performance Magazine's 1997 Reader's Poll Award for Best Variety/Family Show Tour of the Year. Shhh! Barney the Dinosaur is planning a Super-Dee-Duper surprise party for BJ and it's going to be a musical extravaganza! Professor Tinkerputt w...

  • Lost in Space

    Scholastic Inc.

    Young readers can thrill to the science fiction tale originally introduced as a television series of the same name which is now being released as a full-length movie from New Line Cinema featuring an all-star cast. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Lost in Space Deluxe Storybook

    Scholastic Inc.

    The hit television series of the same name is now being released as a major motion picture with a new, all-star cast, and a collector-quality storybook features photos from the movie. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Mei Fuh: Memories from China

    Edith Schaeffer

    A personal memoir captures the life of a young girl growing up in China and tells of her walks along busy streets, tasting buffalo cream on toast and, finally, her thoughts as she departs China on a ship to her new home in America....

  • Balloons and Other Fun Things

    Richard Scarry

  • Mr. Fixit's Magnet Machine

    Richard Scarry

  • Richard Scarry's Best Mysteries Ever

    Richard Scarry

  • X-Rays and Other Fun Things Lowly Worms How Where Why Books #4

    Richard Scarry

  • Danger on Crab Island

    Susan Saunders

    The first installment of a series of maritime adventures intended to encourage youngsters' concern for the environment and for the humane treatment of animals involves a girl who lives at a haven for injured sea animals and her reckless cousin. Origi...

  • Disaster at Parsons Point

    Susan Saunders

    Parsons Point lighthouse on the Atlantic coast is home to cousins Dana and Tyler and to Project Neptune, a volunteer group started by Danas parents that works to protect the environment and rescue sick and injured sea animals harmed by human careless...

  • Table for Two

    Karen Sandler

    BREAKFAST IN BED Handsome CEO Jack Hanford wants Rachel Reeves to be his wife... in name only for a publicity stunt. And Rachel says yes! After all, she's just signed on as spokeswoman for the Hanford House of Pancakes family restaurant chain. ...

  • The Demon Spirit

    R.A. Salvatore

    Elbryan and Pony--soulmates from childhood who grew even closer over time--fervently hope that the tide of darkness is at last receding from the land of Corona. Yet if evil is on the retreat, why are hordes of goblins and bloody-capped powries slashi...

  • Surprise Party

    Marilyn Sachs

    Feeling overshadowed by her mischievous younger brother despite her many special achievements, Genevieve decides to get her parents' attention once and for all by throwing them an anniversary bash, with chaotic results....

  • Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night

    Cynthia Rylant

    In this seventeenth book of their adventures, Henry and Mudge go camping with Henry's parents. They'll go on hikes and smell good smells. They'll see deer and raccoons and waterfalls and rainbows. Henry's mother will cook camp food and Henry's father...

  • Poppleton and Friends

    Cynthia Rylant

    From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant and acclaimed illustrator Mark Teague comes Poppleton, a posh and persnickety pig with friends and adventure abound!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at...

  • Poppleton Everyday

    Cynthia Rylant

    Every day is an adventure with Poppleton, the posh and persnickety pig created by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant and acclaimed illustrator Mark Teague!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at ...

  • Shame

    Alan Russell

    Gray Parker’s execution was front-page news and his case even inspired a bestselling book. Everyone wanted to hear about the man who strangled all those women. Everyone except his young son. As soon as he was old enough, Caleb moved away, started a...

  • Shame Signed Edition

    Alan Russell

    Gray Parker’s execution was front-page news and his case even inspired a bestselling book. Everyone wanted to hear about the man who strangled all those women. Everyone except his young son. As soon as he was old enough, Caleb moved away, started a...

  • Next Week Will Be Better

    Jean Ruryk

    DEATH BARGAIN Getting out of bed at four in the morning to spend weekends rubbing shoulders in the summer heat with flea market hagglers isn't furniture restorer Cat Wilde's idea of fun. But she couldn't refuse friend Rena, who needed someone to run...

  • The Guardian

    Nancy Rue

    Life in Salem Village becomes more dangerous as Josiah and his friends set out to stop some of their neighbors from cruelly killing a pack of wolves -- and Josiah's little cousin Rebecca tags along and tries to help. Josiah and Hope will learn that s...

  • At First I Hope for Rescue

    Holley Rubinsky

    Maclean's Editors' Pick: Best Books for Summer ReadingFrom the Journey Prize winner Holley Rubinsky comes a collection of linked stories that paints no-nonsense characters with a heartfelt hand. Rubinsky unearths the compulsions that rile ordinary li...

  • Disney Doug Chronicles

    Jim Rubin

  • Gabriel Club

    Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

    Set in 1970s Budapest, this novel tells the story of a group of artists who form an underground collective dedicated to opposing the repressive Communist regime. The club disbands when the founder mysteriously disappears, but are reunited 17 years la...

  • The Case of the Soccer Camp Mystery

    Della Rowland

  • The Shanghai Murders

    David Rotenberg

    A young, ambitious homicide detective in Shanghai is worried about his wife and marriage, frustrated by his superiors, and consumed by the Dim Sum serial killer case, and in the end all these factors comverge in an explosive climax...

  • Yo, Aesop!: Get a Load of These Fables

    Paul Rosenthal

  • Dog Who Walked with God

    Michael J. Rosen

  • The Key

    Gayle Roper

    Shortly after Kristie Matthews moves to an Amish farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, she encounters old Mr. Geohagan in the hospital emergency room, who gives her a key and swears her to silence. When she finds herself at the center of a petty cr...

  • Murder in the Map Room

    Elliott Roosevelt

    A delightful combination of history and mystery, he Eleanor Roosevelt novels bring readers back in time as our most beloved First Lady scours the nation's capital for clues, while crossing paths with many of her famous contemporaries. ABROAD THERE...

  • Always Hiding

    Sophia G. Romero

    My birth should have been an auspicious occasion for my parents because I was their first child. But I was born a girl and in the Philippines that made all the difference," writes Maria Violetta Rosario Dananay, the narrator of this story. Her life w...

  • Someone to Watch Over Her

    Kelsey Roberts

    He was supposed to guard her body... not steal her heart Charly Delacroix didn't agree that she needed a keeper. So her father, Justin Delacroix, swore that handsome, protective Marshall Avery was only a personal trainer and his presence had nothi...

  • Criminal Kin

    J.R. Roberts

    THE FAMILY HAT GUNS TOGETHER...RUNS TOGETHER! The little girl who shot Sheriff Frank Dobbs couldn't have been more than ten. But what do you expect from a kid whose mother, father, brother, and sister are across the street robbing the bank? It loo...

  • Time and Trouble

    Gillian Roberts

    In one picture-perfect corner of Marin County, dark secrets flourish under the California sun Seasoned investigator Emma Howe has been in the business so long nothing can surprise her. But her new assistant, an overeducated single mother named Bil...

  • Sword-Born

    Jennifer Roberson

    The fifth book in the Sword-Dancer saga continues the legendary adventures of Tiger and Del, magic wielders and skilled warriorsIn the three years since Tiger and Del’s fateful meeting, these mismatched companions have become true partners, their a...

  • Her Prince Charming

    Nikki Rivers

    One man will change her life forever! Charlotte Riesling counted on predictability, her 9 to 5 life and her soup-for-one. But change was underfoot - and its name was Jacob. He'd scaled walls, tormented waiters and created scenes throughou...

  • Death of a Political Plant

    Ann Ripley

    Ann Ripley's horticultural heroine, Louise Eldridge, enchanted mystery lovers of all varieties in Death of a Garden Pest and Mulch.  Now she returns in a witty new tale of muckraking, murder, and deeply buried--and very dangerous--secrets.&...

  • 365 Ways to Say Good Night

    Susan Ring

  • The Long Falling

    Keith Ridgway

    Grace Quinn is an Englishwoman living in rural Ireland. Isolated by religion and circumstance, she endures both an abusive husband and a strained relationship with her son, Martin, whose open homosexuality her husband refused to accept. After an act ...

  • A Hopeful Heart

    Lois Richer

    LOVE'S GREATEST PRIZE Her dream was within her grasp. Melanie Stewart's contest award would allow her to continue the Lord's work. But Mitch Stewart claimed he had won the prize. And amidst all the confusion, Melanie discovered that the town was p...

  • The Girl Who Ate Chicken Feet and Other Stories

    Sandy Richardson

    Chronicles the adventures, experiences and mishaps of Sissy, a young pre-adolescent girl living in the South during the late 1950s, as she tries to find herself amidst her busy homelife and extended family....

  • Pindharee

    Joel Richards

  • Anybody at Home?

    H.A. Rey

  • How Do You Get There?

    H.A. Rey

    Now back in print after a long hiatus, this title was first published the same year as Curious George. Illustrations show different landscapes and people who need to get to faraway destinations. Children guess the means of transportation to be used a...

  • Cherry Pies and Lullabies

    Lynn Reiser

    Here is a book about everyday love and how one family expresses it. Four generations of mothers and daughters share family traditions that are the same but become slightly different as the times change. And whether they are sharing cherry pies or qui...

  • Alaskan Gold

    Robert Reese

    In the wake of the 1886 Alaskan gold rush, New Orleans gentleman Clay Macon journeys to the rough frontier territory of Alaska in search of the fabled gold fortune his father left behind, only to discover some terrible secrets instead...

  • The Gravity of Shadows

    David Ramus

    The Gravity of Shadows . . .

    To save his business, art dealer Wil Sumner returns to Palm Beach--the monied world in whose shadow he'd enviously spent his childhood. Now, though, he would be inside its gilded gates, appraising the private collectio...

  • Night of Claw

    Jay Ramsay

    Returning from Africa with his wife and daughter, British photographer Alan Knight is unaware that the African talisman he has brought back with him contains an ancient and irrepressible evil that he is about to unleash on England. Reprint. LJ. PW. K...

  • The Virtues of Patience

    Carol Quinto
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    Celebrate the blossoming of a mother's love for her children and a man's devotion to the woman who cares for his family in these exquisite tales by three highly acclaimed Regency authors... Hoping to make a good marriage for her beautiful ...

  • Father: Unknown

    Tara Taylor Quinn

    Her name is Anna. And she's pregnant. That's all she knows, all the doctors can tell her. Anna was in an accident, and when she regains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is or where she came from. She has no idea who the father of her b...

  • With This Ring

    Amanda Quick

    Leo Drake, the "Mad Monk of Monkcrest", is notoriously eccentric and unquestionably reclusive. But he is also a noted antiquities expert, which is why Beatrice Poole has demanded his reluctant assistance. The freethinking authoress of "horrid novels,...

  • The Rake

    Mary Jo Putney

    Rewrite of The Rake and the Reformer THE RAKE It was predicted that Reginald Davenport, disinherited and disgraced, would come to a violent end. But fate has given him one final chance to redeem himself, by taking his place as the rightful mast...

  • Foolproof

    Dianne G. Pugh

    The violent death of a dear friend spells trouble for comfortable investment counselor Iris when the woman's husband and business partner, Kip, turns up at the top of the suspect list and the only witness to the crime is his five-year-old daughter. R...

  • The Magic Man

    Fayrene Preston

    A spellbinding sorcerer, he mesmerized her at first sight.... He had to be dreaming, Wyatt Damaron decided, when the beautiful woman appeared out of the mist, all grace and intriguing femininity in her silken clothes. But the golden fire in her e...

  • Cardinal and Sunflower

    James Preller

    On a winters day, a mother and child take a stroll through the park, tossing sunflower seeds along the way. Unbeknownst to them, these seeds start an entire cycle of life around them. One stray seed sprouts into a sunflower, while a pair of cardinals...

  • Ravenspire

    Marilyn Prather

    When Andrea Lane accepts a position as tutor to widower Holt Carraday’s eight-year-old daughter, she anticipates that her move from Boston to the rugged Pacific coast will help her heal from troubling memories of a broken engagement. But Ravenspir...

  • Tomahawk

    David Poyer

    The bestselling novels of David Poyer have been read by millions around the world, and The New York Times Book Review has proclaimed: "Poyer knows what he is writing about when it comes to anything on, above or below the water." Now he unleashes a he...

  • A Vision of the Future

    Stephen Edward Poe

    From its inception, Star Trek: Voyager was destined to be a different kind of series. As the flagship program of the brand-new United Paramount Network, a great deal of attention would be paid to the new captain, her crew and their unique mission to ...

  • Legacy of Silence

    Belva Plain

    In Legacy of Silence, New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain creates an unforgettable story of a remarkable family -- and a deception that reaches across continents, oceans, and generations.   Caroline Hartzinger flees wartime Europe with...

  • Stolen Hearts

    Sharon Pisacreta

    A FATEFUL FALL After colliding with a man as splendid as a god, Mattie Crawford felt her wrist and her heart go limp. Dazed by the pain, she let the concerned gentleman help her to a doctor. Soon, as drugged by laudanum as she was by Lord Cameron'...

  • Dying Man's Bluff

    Caleb Pirtle

  • Tris's Book

    Tamora Pierce

    Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006, this title in the Circle of Magic quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Coincides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb.Four elements of power, four mages-in-training learni...

  • Baby Wild Animals

    Jan Pfloog

  • A Promise for Tomorrow

    Tracie Peterson; Judith Pella

    When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Carolina's stepdaughter, Victoria, becomes enthralled with handsom...

  • Brunswick Gardens

    Anne Perry

    In London's affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood--a "new woman" whose feminism a...

  • The Seville Communion

    Arturo Perez-Reverte

    SOMEONE HAS HACKED into the Pope's personal computer, not to spy on the Vatican, but to send an urgent plea for help: SAVE OUR LADY OF THE TEARS. The crumbling Baroque church in the heart of Seville is slated for demolition--but two of its defenders ...

  • Jackal Hunt

    Don Pendleton

    HOSTILE TAKEOVER An international consortium of the biggest players in organized crime has invested vast amounts of laundered money in the arms and weapons industry. But the U.S. President's global arms control initiative is jeopardizing the syndi...

  • Rebels and Hostiles

    Don Pendleton

    STRIKING DISTANCE Bolan's soft probe into rumors of foreign involvement in the American militia movement takes him to Idaho, and undercover in the Brotherhood of Patriots. What he discovers is a dead-serious agenda and a plot to destabilize the g...

  • The Innocent

    John Peel

    School's out on the planet Tarshish...forever.

    Humans have established a thriving colony on the planet Tarshish, until a native species of semi-insectoids awakens from a long incubation and attacks the colony. Only the children survive--and a ...

  • Courageous Bride

    Jane Peart

    Niki's heart was thrumming as the taxi stopped with a jerk in front of the gray, stone building behind tall, black iron gates. On a metal plaque was engraved Les Soeurs de Merci. Niki thrust several franc notes staring through the rungs of the gate. ...

  • Mercury Rising

    Ryne Douglas Pearson

    When Simon Lynch, a sixteen-year-old computer wizard, breaks a government code, the National Security Agency sends a beautiful terrorist after him, with only FBI Special Agent Art Jefferson to save him...

  • Beguiled

    Susan Spencer Paul

    Lady Lillian Walford had the Look of Perfection. Yet a fateful flaw doomed her to a life of silence. And although Anthony Harbreas, the gallant Earl of Graydon, had showered her with his attention, Lillian knew she was fit to be no man's wife. So why...

  • Boot Scootin' Secret Baby

    Natalie Patrick

    BULL-RIDING EX?-HUSBAND... Alyssa Cartwright was still married to the sexiest cowboy on the rodeo circuit, though Jacob "Cub" Goodacre thought she'd had their marriage annulled. But while Cub assumed she was ending their marriage, Alyssa was giving ...

  • Play All Day

    Julie Paschkis

  • Danger: Twins at Work

    Francine Pascal

    In the words of 7-year-old Elizabeth Wakefield... My twin sister, Jessica, and I get to spend the day with our mom. She works in a big, fancy department store! I'm going to work hard. So is Jessica...I think. We can't get into too much trouble whe...

  • Good-Bye, Elizabeth

    Francine Pascal

    So long, Sweet Valley . . . Elizabeth Wakefield is about to say hello to an exciting new school. But first she has to say good-bye to everything -- and everyone -- she loves. Good-bye to Nina Harper, her best friend. Good-bye to Todd Wilkins, the ex...

  • Happy Mother's Day, Lila

    Francine Pascal

    Lila's got the Mother's Day blues...

    When Lila Fowler hears about the Sweet Valley Middle School spring fashion show, she knows she's got to be one of the models.  After all, not only is she one of the most beautiful girls in school, she als...

  • Love and Murder

    Francine Pascal

    The man of her nightmares...

    When Lila Fowler meets the mysterious, sexy Damon Price, the connection is too intense to be explained.  Lila instantly feels as if she's known him for ages.  And when she experiences the recklessly passionate ...

  • Defending the Truth

    Richard Parrish

    With America caught in a national crisis, attorney Joshua Rabb goes against public opinion to take the case of a Tucson professor accused of traitorous activities. As the truth and law collide, Rabb is swept into a maelstrom of lies. With everyone he...

  • The Whispers

    Dan Parkinson

    Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.—Edwin LimmerIt is a fateful day when Lucas Hawthorn awakes in his own home to find Edwin Limmer standing before him. Lucas first met old man Limmer back in 1952. Only now Limmer ...

  • Elvira: The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

    John Paragon

    Things turn ugly in Elvira's neighborhood when her young friend Brad becomes convinced that he is a werewolf and begins to act like it, forcing the black-beclad priestess of the night to save him from the neighbors. Original....

  • The Overnight Alibi

    Marilyn Pappano

    A STRANGER IN HIS BED Millionaire Mick Reilly was desperate to prove his innocence. But his only alibi was the mysterious red-haired beauty who'd disappeared after an unforgettable night of passion. Could his bedtime wanton possibly be Hannah Clar...

  • The Bride Who Was Stolen in the Night

    Diana Palmer
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    Readers are invited to three very special weddings under the big country sky. So don't miss these three exciting new stories of love in the great outdoors by three masters of romance. The first to walk down the aisle is young Abby, whose plans to mar...

  • The Angel's Crime

    Preston Pairo

    Former Baltimore police officer Jimmy Griffin, whose career as a hunter of serial killers has cost him his family, is recalled from retirement when a homicidal high school student clashes with a computer preacher and self-appointed scourge of God. Or...

  • Apacheria

    Jake Page

    In this riveting, action-packed alternate history, the Apaches forge their own bold nation and enter the World of racketeering and politics--all the while maintaining their traditional ways--as a new neighbor to a United States that will never be the...

  • Decidedly Married

    Carole Gift Page

    After nearly twenty years of marriage, Julie Ryan didn't want to admit that her marriage was in jeopardy. But when her husband, Michael, finally confessed that he felt emotionally distanced from her, she had no choice but to face the truth about hers...

  • Out of My League

    Everett Owens

    Ian Rowe never has a problem getting a date--with junior girls. But when he develops a major crush on blond beauty Jennifer Patt, he knows he doesn't have a chance. Not only is she the most sought-after female in the school, she's a senior. Everybody...