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New Books List: 571 titles


  • Pam Zollman

    Megan Hollander--who hates bugs--must collect twenty-five different species of bugs for her science project and to make matters worse, her little brother is a bug-lover who keeps trying to rescue the bugs she's already caught....




  • Kazumi Yumoto

    Tomomi Kiriki feels herself turning into a monster. Her body is changing, and so is her heart. Since the death of her grandmother, this spring threatens to take away the closeness her family once felt, and brings haunting dreams into Tomomi's home.



  • Su Xiaokang

    A compelling memoir -- both gripping and deeply personal -- by one of the leaders of the democracy movement in China, who managed to escape to America with his family only to find himself faced with a tragedy more terrifying than he had ever imagined...



  • T.M. Wright

    Harry Briggs led a fairly normal life. He had a good job, a nice house, and a beautiful wife named Barbara, with whom he was very much in love. Then he died. That's when Harry's story really began. That's when he found himself in a strange little tow...



  • Sue Owens Wright

    BAD TO THE BONE Murder comes to beautiful Lake Tahoe with a serial killer dubbed the Tahoe Terror. Journalist Elsinore "Beanie" MacBean and her basset hound, Cruiser, unofficially assist the local law, looking for similarities among the victims -- a...



  • John Wray

    This extraordinary debut novel from Whiting Writers’ Award winner John Wray is a poetic portrait of a life redeemed at one of the darkest moments in world history.Twenty years after deserting the army in the first world war, Oskar Voxlauer returns ...



  • Bonnie Worth

    The sometimes sad, always fascinating true story of Jumbo the Elephant, star of Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth. Follows Jumbo's life, from his capture in Africa through his years in the Paris and London zoos to his days with
    P. T. Barnu...



  • Mary Wormell


    A simple barnyard tale for very young children.

    Bernard, a proud, speckled rooster, takes his job of waking everybody up very seriously. And he's usually happy. But today he's been cross with the dog, the chickens, the pony, and even Lucy...



  • Alice Wootson

    "Dream Wedding reunites high school sweethearts Missy Harrison and Jimmy Scott, who meet again after Missy's car breaks down as she returns home to marry someone else. ""Author Alice Wootson has a gift for penning wonderful scenes that seem to draw t...



  • Stuart Woods

    Palm Beach is the most glamorous scene of the crime yet for cop-turned-investigator Stone Barrington, who becomes reacquainted with a case he thought was buried years ago - and must settle romantic entanglements that haunt him still.... FAIR-WEATH...



  • Dave Wolverton

    It's 1937 and twelve-year-old Alex O'Connel is living in Egypt, looking for adventure. He doesn't expect the Scorpion King to rise from the dead in search of revenge!
    Includes three pages of fun facts about ancient Egypt!...



  • David Wojtowycz

    When Claude the polar bear wakes up from his nap, he asks his mother to play with him but is told that he has to wait for her to finish her task, so when she doesn't come right away, Claude begins to fear that she doesn't love him until his mother ap...



  • Rebecca Winters

    FBI agent Max Calder is working undercover to bring down a Russian Mafia ring, which is running an elaborate scam staging accidents and bilking insurance companies. He's disguised as a Russian immigrant, Anatoly Kuzmina, and has successfully -- or so...



  • Laura Wilson

    DEADLY LEGACY It was a media circus that only the British tabloids can create: the kidnapping of beautiful Susan Blackstock by a radical group -- and the refusal of her multimillionaire husband to pay the 10-million-pound ransom. Eight-year-old Do...



  • F. Paul Wilson

    Repairman Jack has been tearing up the urban adventure scene ever since he was introduced in the New York limes bestseller, The Tomb. Jack has no last name, no social security number, and no qualms when it comes to getting the job done--even if it me...



  • Tad Williams

    THE END OF A UNIVERSE... Otherland--the private, multidimensional universe created and controlled by The Grail Brotherhood, an organization made up of the world's most powerful and ruthless individuals--was crumbling. The Brotherhood's plans for i...



  • Gerard Williams

    When a Russian politco is murdered in the criminal underworld of 1891 London, Dr. James Mortimer and his new wife, Dr. Violet Branscome, investigate in hopes of exonerating the young revolutionary who has been arrested for the crime....



  • Cathy Williams

    Her boss insisted on marriage! Victoria Lokhart's relationship with Max Forbes, her sexy new boss, had to stay strictly business... just in case he discovered her secret -- her young daughter, Chloe. Even after their passionate night togeth...



  • Carol Lynch Williams

    Fifteen-vear-old Sage Olivar is writing a Romance novel-with a capital "R." The book's heroine, Angelica, is Sage's ideal
    wornan-sensitive, strong, and sexy. There is only one small problem with Sage's novel-it's absolutely dreadful!

    Enter ...



  • Doug Wilhelm


    Casey needs a way out of the dark

    Ever since his mother fled the scene, thirteen-year-old Casey has taken over her role: cooking, cleaning, and looking after his father when he's "sick." In denial about his father's secret drinking and dru...




  • Lori Wilde

    Just what the doctor ordered... Nurse Lacy Calder is in one heck of a fix. All her life she heard her family's stories about the legendary thunderbolt that strikes to signal The One. But now that she's met her Dr. Right -- sexy surgeon Bennett Sheri...



  • Susan Wiggs

    October 8, 1871 -- One small spark ignites the entire city of Chicago, sending its residents into panic. But amid the chaos, a miraculous rescue kindles an unexpected new love. As she flees the raging inferno, Lucy Hathaway risks her life to save ...



  • John Whitman

    Ten years have passed since adventurer Rick O'Connell and his wife, Evelyn, awakened and evil mummy and barely escaped with their lives. Now Imhotep has risen from the dead once more on a quest for immortality. One buried warrior can give Imhotep ete...



  • Kimberley White

    Talya Stevenson is a woman on the run from an abusive relationship. After nearly being beaten to death by her boyfriend, Talya flees and tries to start over. While working as a financial advisor, she meets millionaire real estate tycoon Meridian West...



  • Ellen Emerson White

    May 6, 1889 At Iolani Palace, Father and I met with Papa Moi and Mama Moi in the throne room. Papa Moi was solemn, as he reminded me that it will be my responsibility to do as well as possible, and in that way, further the hopes of our nation. I was...



  • Anne White

    Writer Ellen Davies is pursuing an exciting feature story when she lands an interview with an expert on the work of legendary artist Georgia O'Keeffe, who spent many summers at upstate New York's beautiful Lake George. But her face-to-face with the a...



  • Donald E. Westlake

    "I'm a robber, not a grave robber," John Dortmunder says. So why is he knee-deep in dirt in a Long Island cemetery? It all started when Andy Kelp went into cyberspace and surfed his way into the clutches of master manipulator Fitzroy Guilderpost, wh...



  • Tracey West

    Jinkies! An adorable little doll is terrorizing the toy convention. Little Cindy isn't nearly as cute as she looks. In fact, she's downright devilish! Velma must help her cousin Elmer when the Living Doll steals his newest invention--Bananas, the el...



  • Chassie West

    Her name is not her name... Her past is clouded by shadow... Leigh Ann Warren was tough enough to make it as a cop on the meanest of D.C.'s streets. Now it's time for a different career, a marriage, and a new life. Then her phone rings, and a l...



  • Angus Wells

    FROM ANGUS WELLS COMES A STIRRING TALE OF MAGIC, ADVENTURE, AND PASSION AS ONLY HE COULD IMAGINE IT--THE SAGA OF TWO ANCIENT PEOPLES, LONG DIVIDED BY A BLOODY PAST, AND THE COURAGEOUS YOUNG MAN WHO MUST SAVE THEM BOTH OR DIE WITH THE WOMAN HE LOVES.....





  • Nicholas Weinstock

    For ten long years, Oscar Campbell has done everything from picking up his boss's drycleaning to FedExing her tropical fish. His job as personal assistant to a legendary -- and temperamental -- publisher in New York City has given him more headaches ...





  • Meredith Webber

    The amnesiac doctor? He fell at her feet, literally, out in the Australian rain forest. Nurse Sam Abbot knew the man was injured, and it wasn't just his ankle. The only thing he could remember was some medical knowledge. Was he a doctor? Ei...



  • Debra Webb

    Ian Michaels was one of the best investigators at the Colby Agency -- also one of the most gorgeous. Nicole Reed knew...all too well. Together they had worked to protect a federal witness. In close quarters, desire erupted and distracted and caused t...



  • Charles Webb

    As a discerning reader of nineteenth-century American fiction, Englishman Colin Ware is familiar with the tradition of transcending disastrous love affairs by booking the next ocean liner to Europe. Now that he has experienced the pain and humiliatio...



  • Jude Watson

    Peace over anger. Honor over hate. Strength over fear. Murder. Kidnapping. Torture. Jenna Zan Arbor will stop at nothing in her quest to discover the secrets of the Force -- and use them for her own power and greed. One Jedi remains i...



  • Pat Warren

    THE AGENT: Jeff Kirby, M.D. in the making. THE MISSION: Making sure his beautiful bride lives to see their wedding vows through! THE HEARTBREAKING TRUTH: Married in haste, Jeff and Tish were more strangers than man and wife.... They had ma...



  • Jane Ward

    Anna Rossi grew up in a home where every meal was boiled until the flavor was gone. Now, years later, a gifted cook, she finds her own appetite draining away as her marriage dissolves into blandness. Desperate to hold her lawyer husband's attention f...



  • Pamela Walls

    "Take good care of your sister," Pa said. "We'll send for you as soon as Ma is better." But what if Ma dies -- and I never see her again? Abby thought, her heart gripped in worry. When Charlotte Kendall falls to a mysterious fever on Oahu, Abby ...



  • Pamela Walls

    When the Kendalls lose their ranch, Abby's family and friends decide to check out the sugarcane business on Kauai. Upon arriving, they're welcomed by the wealthy Reese Cutter, who offers them jobs and a place to live. But things soon turn sour in thi...



  • Vivienne Wallington

    GALAHAD GROOM Precious seconds slipping away, Mack Chaney crashed Sydney's Wedding of the Year to expose a betrayal...and save the bride from marrying a snake in gentleman's clothing. Suzie Ashton had been his woman once, before their romance ende...



  • Pamela Walker



  • Kate Walbert

    From the National Book Award nominated, New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Women and The Sunken Cathedral, Walbert’s beautiful and heartbreaking novel about a young woman coming of age in the long shadow of World War II -- “A...



  • Margot Wadley

    Winner of the Malice Domestice Award for Best First Traditional Mystery NovelIn Northern Scotland The Gripping Beast introduces readers to a land full of ancient history and modern day intrigue. Orkney Island was first inhabited by the Picts and then...




  • Patricia Veryan

    Mrs. Regina Stansbury, a woman of high fashion and dwindling fortunes, has just trapped London's most courted bachelor into agreeing to marry her daughter Cordelia. Though young Miss Cordelia Stansbury has admired the handsome and dashing Gervai...




  • Mari Privette Ulmer

    Enjoy Taos as it celebrates its sacred and secular festivals. It’s murder. Ole!



    The warm portrait of New Mexico’s Hispanic community recalls Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me Ultima (0-446-60025-3) or John Nichol’s Milagro Beanfield War...



  • Andrea U'Ren

    Good boy?

    Mike and his pup are great friends. Every day Mike takes Pugdog for a walk in the park; every night he treats Pugdog to a belly scratch before bed. But Mike doesn't know very much about dogs. Not only is Pugdog not a pug -- Pugdog is...



  • Lynn M. Turner

    Anna MacFrail loves her organic farm in Eastern Canada, but despite her best efforts, it is quickly sinking into impossible debt. She bought the farm with a large chunk of her inheritance money a few years back when she and her fiancé David had gran...



  • Bonnie Tucker

    She was looking for a little heaven on earth... What's a girl to do when she thinks she's got only one month to live? In shy accountant Suzanne Mercer's case, she's decided she's not waiting any longer to seduce the man she's lusted over for most of...



  • Jane Toombs

    HE WAS TALL, DARK...AND TEMPTING Mysterious Mikel arrived out of nowhere. Rescued Rachel's elderly relative. Then stayed on at her remote Michigan farm to see her through the crisis. Yet with her haunted past, Rachel couldn't risk trusting anyone,...



  • Aimee Thurlo; David Thurlo

    Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is on the run. Justine, Ella's cousin and fellow officer, disappeared after the two women argued publicly over Justine's new boyfriend. Human bones are discovered at the spot where the younger woman had to...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Bachelor of the Month -- Mark O'Grady This charming rogue has been looking for love,,,and finding it far too easily! But now he's ready to settle down. And he's looking for a woman who will make him happy -- day and night... Sexy stockbroker Mark...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    She was having his baby... Mary Jane Potter owed her best friend for practically raising her, so having a child for Arielle didn't seem like such a sacrifice -- until Arielle's husband arrived with news that would change their lives forever.... ...



  • David Thompson

    To survive in the untamed wilderness a man needs all the friends he can get. No one can battle the continual dangers for long on his own. Even a fearless frontiersman like Nate King needs help now and then and he's always ready to give it when it's n...



  • Jacquelin Thomas

    Deborah Anne Peterson is grateful for her loving family, loyal friends, and the peaceful Georgia town that has sheltered her since childhood. But most of all, she gives thanks to God for giving her a phenomenal voice. Every time Deborah sings her hea...



  • Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    It is May 23, 1948, and Jewish and Muslim forces have been in brutal conflict since the new State of Israel was proclaimed nine days ago. The Zion Gate is closed and the Haganah patriots, struggling to hold on to the Old City, are running out of supp...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Who ever heard of cold feet on the wedding night? Kelsey Lockhart had been the black sheep "baby" sister of the family since forever. Fickle, stubbornly single...the only virgin in the great state of Texas, she was sure! But she'd never needed a m...



  • Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

    A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 -- and now an international bestseller. Address Unknown When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Pu...



  • Chad Taylor

    When Penrose, a part-time futures broker and full-time existentialist, makes a deadly discovery, he suddenly finds himself caught up in a dangerous and bizarre battle against an evil he does not understand, in a terrifying novel of obsession....



  • Joni Eareckson Tada

    Twelve-year-old Darcy, trying to project a "normal" image in junior high school despite her wheelchair, runs for office with the promise of exposing cruel and unfair teachers in the school, until prayer and her friends reveal to her that every situat...




  • Denise Swanson

    When she left Scumble River years ago, school psychologist Skye Denison thought she'd never be back. But after a run of bad luck in the big city, she has a new appreciation for the down-home charm of small-town life--and decides to start over in the ...



  • Brad Strickland

    After an earthquake sends him tumbling down a cliff, young Kurt awakens unhurt, but terrified. He can't remember anything -- not even his own name! Hopelessly confused, Kurt stumbles away from the cliff, unknowingly wandering deeper into dangerous ra...



  • Matthew Woodring Stover

    On earth, Hari Michaelson was a superstar. But on Overworld, he was the assassin Caine. Real monarchs lived and died at his hands and entire governments were overthrown -- all for the entertainment of millions back on Earth. But now Han, stripped of ...



  • S.M. Stirling

    Both Sarah and John Connor have survived repeated attempts on their lives by advanced Terminator killing machines sent from a grim tomorrow to ensure the total destruction of humankind. Now, hiding out from the U.S. Government in Paraguay, Sarah and ...



  • Paul Stickland; Henrietta Stickland

    A pop-up sequel to Dinosaur Roar! follows a collection of leaping lizards on their way to a celebration at the swamp, a party that dinosaurs of every color and size look forward to attending. BOMC....



  • Carol Steward

    Could a tossed bouquet predict the next bride? Alex MacIntyre believed that particular wedding tradition was a myth, until Katarina Berthoff caught her newly married sister's wildflowers. Reunited after eight years at the wedding of Katarina's sist...



  • Brooke Stevens

    Tattoo girl is an evocative story of perseverance and discovery in the face of insanity and corruption. A young girl is found alone in an Ohio mall long after closing hours, unable to speak, and covered head to foot in fish-scale tattoos. Her ident...



  • John Richard Stephens

    A diverse selection of remarkable talent, from Anne Rice and Elizabeth Peters to Bram Stoker and Agatha Christie, appears in a collection of stories about the Mummy--its curse, reanimation, revenge, and the other cast of characters associated with an...



  • Jill Stengl

    Of all the foolish things Myles Trent has ever done, falling in love with his boss's daughter is undoubtedly the worst. Everyone in town knows that Beulah will marry Al Moore someday. Everyone. But if that's true, why does Beulah seem to work so hard...



  • William Steig

    Can you guess what Toby is,

    In Toby, Where Are You? Toby led his parents in a merry game of hide-and-seek. Now he's making mischief again as a boy of many disguises. For starters, he can turn himself into a doormat or a flyswatter or a plate...



  • Danielle Steel

    It was just before Christmas, 1940. The war is raging in Europe when Kate Jamison makes her debut in New York City. In a room filled with the scions of East Coast society, it is Joe Allbright who catches Kate's eye. At twenty-nine, Joe is already a l...



  • Marisa Kantor Stark

    This iPublish original brings to vivid life the powerful story of one woman's struggle to build a future out of the wreckage of the past....



  • George Edward Stanley

    Hair, Hair, Everywhere Someone's been digging up Mrs. Ruston's tomatoes. She thinks it's Noelle's dog, Rover, and unless Noelle can find the real thief, Rover's in big trouble. It's the hairiest case yet for Mr. Merlin's Third-Grade Detectiv...




  • Judith Minthorn Stacy

    Maggie Sweet has had it! For nineteen years, she's kept house, raised a pair of battling twin daughters, put up with her frugal husband, Steven, humored his impossible mother, and kept her mouth shut. But when Steven spends their life savings on a ce...



  • Britney Spears

    Holly Faye Lovell sure can sing. Everyone in Biscay, Mississippi, knows that. And when at fourteen she becomes the youngest student ever to win a scholarship to the prestigious Haverty School of Music, her dream of pursuing a singing career is on its...



  • Teresa Southwick

    ABOUT THAT NIGHT... Sensible attorney Madison Wainright did all she could to hide the torch she carried for her friend -- sexy bachelor Luke Marchetti. But one shocking night, Maddie lost her senses -- and her virginity -- in Luke's passionate arm...



  • Lemony Snicket

    Dear Reader, You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of thei...



  • Tamara Sneed

    As heir to the throne of an island nation, Davis Beriyia's entire life has been planned out for him, including who will become his bride. Determined to have one last chance at freedom before his arranged marriage, he disguises himself as a building h...




  • Kathryn Smith

    Who is the mysterious Varya? On the surface she's a woman who tempts men beyond reason, but no one has touched the heart of the elusive creature...that is, until now Miles Christian, the Marquess of Wynter, never expected to be abducted at gun...



  • Joseph A. Smith

    Timothy is not excited about the circus coming to town because he is new to the area and he doesn't have any friends, but when he finds the circus train stuck on the abandoned tracks by his new house, Timothy races to save the day and makes some new ...



  • Haywood Smith

    PROUD AND UNTAMED Bastard son of an English father and Scots mother, Duncan Maxwell is as untamed as the Scottish borderlands he defends. Proud and stubborn, he has a fierce hatred for his father's kin, but with seven motherless children to feed, ...



  • Bobbi Smith

    SECRET FIRES In the midst of the vast, windswept Texas plains stands a ranch wrested from the wilderness with blood, sweat and tears. It is the shining legacy of Thomas McBride to his five living heirs. But along with the fertile acres and herds of ...



  • Jeri Smith-Ready

    Set in modern-day Washington, D.C., REQUIEM depicts the end of the Devil's ten-billion-year career. For the first time in his existence, Lucifer falls in love, and this event threatens to transform his identity and perhaps even his destiny. Gianna O'...



  • Christina Skye

    CAROLINA SULLIVAN NEEDS A MAN'S BODY BAD. . . . Only the most gorgeous hunk will save fast-track photographer Carly Sullivan's job, but finding the right man isn't easy when you're on a ship in the middle of the Caribbean and the model you hired tur...



  • Peter Sis

    "Not to be missed" -- Kirkus Reviews

    One hundred years ago a young man named Jan Welzl left his home in Europe and headed for the Far North. He rode off in a horse-drawn cart, traded the cart for a sled pulled by reindeer, and was gone for thi...



  • Deborah Simmons
    in

    Treat yourself to slow seduction and sweet surrender!-- with these outstanding tales of three English officers who fight their most challenging battle yet: winning the love of a good woman... Wounded on the field of battle, Captain Kit Armstrong, ...



  • Judy Sierra

    Look out! There's a sleepy, creepy, deeper-than-you'd-think mud puddle on the preschool playground, and it has swallowed up a pizza van, a fire engine . . . even a tow truck! But don't worry, this group of clever preschoolers knows just how to rescue...



  • Anita Shreve

    From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of i...



  • Edwin Shrake

    In the bestselling tradition of Larry McMurtry, a sweeping novel that tells the tale of how mighty Texas was born--now available in paperback.]

    In this epic novel set in 1839, author Edwin Shrake, himself a Texan, presents a portrait of Tex...




  • Sharon Shinn

    She was a girl... ...with a talent for witchcraft and a taste for adventure. The illegitimate child of a royal lord, she longed for a man who could never be hers. And she lived for her summers at Castle Auburn. She is a woman... ...who has gr...



  • Martha Shields

    A devoted member of Edenbourg's royal household, lady-in-waiting Rowena Wilde was determined to obtain answers regarding the king's disappearance -- starting by playing nanny to the prime suspect's son. Yet the harder she tried to prove Jake Stanbury...



  • David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    Six agents have died hideously trying to penetrate the crime families behind a vast empire of pleasure and debauchery-- Now it's up to the Marines to break the circle. Most people will visit Havanagas only in their dreams, for few can afford the ...



  • Jon Sharpe

    TWO BAD In the desolate wastes of West Texas, there are two men you don't ever want to meet. One is Sharp Knife -- a renegade Indian leader with a taste for blood and a habit of slaughtering anyone who dares to cross his path. The other is Big Red F...



  • John Shannon

    Jack Liffey is a decent guy who drives a beat-up car. Still, the 1979 Concord gets him around. It takes him into LA’s massive metropolitan sprawl … into the city’s forgotten suburbs, derelict neighborhoods, and volatile ethnic communities that...



  • Marilyn Shank

    Gabriella Gibson, a drama teacher from Atlanta, takes on the toughest acting job of her life when she flies to Land's End, Colorado to become rancher Clay Forrester's make-believe bride.

    His father's serious heart attack prompted him to arrange t...



  • Darren Shan

    THIS IS A TRUE STORY. I don't expect you to believe me -- I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't lived it -- but it is. Everything I describe in this book happened, just as I tell it. The thing about real life is, when you do something stupi...



  • Mary Lee Settle

    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 and a Washington Post Book World 2001 Rave.

    In this beautiful and feelingly written book, Mary Lee Settle tells the story of Roger Williams: the most compelling figure in colonial America. Plucked from obs...



  • Aileen Schumacher

    BURNING SECRETS New Mexico engineer Tory Travers is summoned home to Gainesville, Florida, where her estranged father, a powerful senator, lies in a coma after a hit-and-run accident. While preparing to face the demons of her past, Tory finds hers...



  • Diane Schoemperlen

    what would you do if you found the blessed virgin mary standing in your living room ? ON AN APPARENTLY TYPICAL MONDAY MORNING, a middle-aged writer enters her living room and finds a woman standing by her fig tree. The woman is wearing a blue tren...



  • Laura C. Schlessinger

    Nothing is going right for Sammy. His kindergarten teacher told him he could do a better job on his picture. His best friend didn't want to come over and play. And his mother punished him for forgetting to take out the trash. Sammy feels that his ...



  • Jeanne Savery
    in

    A charming collection of Regency romances celebrates motherhood and includes Jeanne Savery's Happily-Ever-After, in which logical Justina Dunsforth sets rules in place to raise her young niece and nephew until their godfather, Lord Earl Mowbr...



  • Cynthia Rylant

    Mr. Paris ties balloons outside his toy store every morning. On Fridays, the balloons disappear! What is special about Fridays? And who is taking the balloons?

    This sounds like a case for the High"Rise Private Eyes "" Bunny Brown and ...



  • Joanne Ryder

    An intriguing journey into the natural world — from deep in the grass to high overhead.There's a worm on a string,who is swaying in space.There's a white butterflyon a circle of lace.As a young child takes a walk in the woods, the world comes al...



  • Nan Ryan

    Ellen Cornelius knows exactly what Mister Corey is: an unscrupulous swindler...a man without morals who will fleece her foolish old aunt out of her fortune. But as the group travels west in search of the fountain of youth, Ellen is both repelled and ...



  • Jennifer Ann Ryan

    After her husband's death, Kate Long moves with her young daughter to the Australian mountian town of Ferntree Heights. Determined to forge a new life for herself and her child, she is unsettled by Aaron Frazer, a successful entrepreneur and man of f...



  • Cynthia Rutledge

    Taylor Rollins was struggling to save her family; the last thing she needed was to be unemployed. She prayed for help, never dreaming God's answer would be a fake engagement to CEO Nick Langan III! Yet the deal Nick offered was too good to pass up......



  • Roxanne Rustand

    Rodeo is his life... Jake Landers has been a cowboy since he was 18. The rodeo folk -- bull riders, bullfighters, clowns, announcers, producers, and contractors -- are like a second family to him. Now -- thanks to an injury -- he's in danger o...



  • Ron Roy

    KC Corcoran always watches the news. So it’s no surprise that she notices right away when the president starts acting funny on TV. He’s stiff and awkward. He’s even signing papers with the wrong hand. There’s only one explanation -- the presi...



  • Laura Joh Rowland

    When veteran samurai-detective Sano Ichiro, the Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is called on to investigate the burning of a cottage belonging to the Black Lotus Temple, he makes a shocking discovery. The three victims ...



  • Wendy Rosnau

    HE'D TAUGHT HER HOW TO KISS, HOW TO MAKE LOVE, HOW TO LOVE. And then he'd broken her heart. So if it hadn't been for that pesky gunshot wound in her arm, Margo certainly wouldn't have found herself being held captive -- for her own good, of course...



  • Katie Rose

    Amateur chemist Mary Lou Finch once blew up her own laboratory -- but that was nothing compared to her explosive first meeting with Pierce Thorndike. Mary Lou fibbed outrageously to win the position of governess to Thorndike's son. In reality, she is...



  • Melodye Benson Rosales

    Hester Merriweather's grandmother gives her a handmade rag doll that proves to be very special indeed, in the first book of a series which includes historical background on Chicago's African-American community during the 1930s. 50,000 first printing....



  • Michael Romkey

    A DARK, UNHOLY COVENANT
    In an ancient monastery, far from the bustling streets of London, an order of monks celebrates the glories of art and music. Separate from the world, they conceal a secret. For within the sheltered walls, a beautiful woman ...



  • Trevor Romain

    At his grandfather's urging, a boy sets out in search of the secret of life in order to inherit the old man's riches, and he learns that riches are to be found in unexpected places and the journey "under the big sky" is its own reward....



  • Amy Keating Rogers

    When a cyclops monster becomes the subsitute teacher at Pokey Oaks School, the Powerpuff Girls immediately think that the teacher must be evil, and they learn a valuable lesson about judging a person by their exterior....



  • Lee Roddy

    How Far Would You Go To Prove You Were Grown-up? Galen, a ten-year-old orphaned Philistine boy, wants nothing more than to be a man. Surely, if he becomes Goliath's shield bearer, he'll win the acceptance he desperately craves. But earning...



  • Emily Rodda

    Deltora is a land of monsters and magic… The evil Shadow Lord is plotting to invade the land of Deltora and enslave its people. All that stands against him is the magic Belt of Deltora with its seven stones of great and mysterious power. When the ...



  • Emily Rodda

    Deltora is a land of monsters and magic… Lief, Barda, and their unpredictable new companion Jasmine are on an urgent mission to find the seven stones stolen from the magic Belt of Deltora. The golden topaz has already been found. But only when all...




  • J.R. Roberts

    GUARDIAN WITH A GUN Clint Adams has never been what you'd call the fatherly type. But he has no choice when he finds a young boy named Billy wandering in the Colorado badlands, the only survivor of a bloody bandit attack that killed his family. Takin...



  • Bethany Roberts

    A spring-time book to germinate a deep appreciation for nature. While a little girl plants seeds in her garden in neat straight rows, the wind whirls seeds of flowers and trees every which way. The little girl weeds and waters her garden, the wind ju...



  • Candace M. Robb

    The acclaimed author of the Owen Archer Series “lovingly re-creates medieval Edinburgh” in a novel that introduces Scottish sleuth Margaret Kerr (Publishers Weekly).   In the spring of 1297, the English army controls lowland Scotland and Mar...



  • John Ringo

    THE ALIENS HAD ARRIVED WITH GIFTS, WARNINGS--AND AN OFFER WE COULDN'T REFUSE Our choice was simple: we could be cannon fodder, or we could be . . . fodder. We could send our forces to fight and die (as only humans can) against a ravening horde tha...



  • Ann Rinaldi

    THE YEAR IS 1861. When spirited teenager Sarah Louisa learns that she is to be married off to her despicable neighbor, she runs away from home. Disguising herself as a boy, Sarah boldly joins the army -- and before long is a soldier in the Civil Wa...



  • Christie Ridgway

    A GUN TO THE BACK COULD MAKE A WOMAN THINK ABOUT THINGS... And Annie Smith had had a revelation the day she found herself an innocent bystander in an armed bank robbery! Once the danger was over, she discovered there was one thing in her life she ...



  • Phyllis Richman

    An ambitious young reporter with the looks and brains to become a star, new hire Ringo Laurenge is poised for a great future with the Washington Examiner. Too bad most of the staffers -- including Chas Wheatley -- wish the arrogant, back-stabbing cre...



  • RH/Disney

    Six colorful tabs make it easy for young readers to find their favorite pages in this delightful board book featuring everybody’s favorite bear, Winnie the Pooh. Mind Your Manners, Pooh! shows everyone that Pooh knows just when to say “please” ...



  • RH/Disney

    It’s a sunny day in the Hundred-Acre Wood, so Pooh and his friends enjoy the fun, flowers, and sunshine of spring. The colorful and inviting tabs make it fun for young readers to find their favorite pages....



  • RH/Disney

    Children love lifting flaps and this book has plenty of them"over 60! With big board pages easy for little hands to hold and illustrations bold and inviting, each spread retells the best parts of four classic Winnie the Pooh stories....



  • Robert Reuland

    Brooklyn prosecutor Andrew Giobberti can still remember himself as a father, as a husband, and as the chief of the Homicide Bureau, working out of a hard city’s hardest precincts. That was before a car accident took his daughter but left him untouc...



  • Stanley Resnicoff

    He offers great advice, high-fives, mellow companionship, and unconditional love. But of course he does! He's Stanley, the Seal of Approval, and he's the perfect pet. And, when he saves a little girl's life at the beach and gets a job as a lifeguard,...



  • Louise Rennison

    I think I have snog withdrawal. Georgia Nicolson is dating the Sex God so life should be perfect ... except in Georgia's life, nothing is ever perfect. Her cat, Angus, is terrorizing the neighborhood. Her sister, Libby (who is slightly mac), hides h...



  • Francis Ray

    (2001); reissue: Nov. 2011 as TROUBLE DON’T LAST ALWAYS Desperate to escape her abusive marriage, Lilly Crawford files for divorce, then slips away from her small east Texas hometown with little more than the clothes on her back. With broken dreams...



  • Bill Ransom

    During his sleep a Vietnam veteran finds himself transported to an alien world where he is able to control the thoughts of its inhabitants, but soon one of them finds a way to track him down...



  • Karen Ranney

    She Swore to Hate Him... He was her enemy, a British colonel in war tom Scotland. But as a youth, Alec Landers, Earl of Sherbourne, had spent his summers known only as Ian, running free on the Scottish Highlands--and falling in love with the temp...




  • Tara Taylor Quinn

    Sam Montford left Shelter Valley 10 years ago. He's a direct descendant of the town's founder, the first Samuel Montford, and for him, Shelter Valley's expectations had become oppressive. Home had become smothering instead of sheltering. Sam retu...



  • Amanda Quick

    An enterprising woman allies herself with a mysterious spy, only to be caught up in a torrid brew of treachery--and temptation.... From the moment the stranger burst into her antiquities shop in Rome, Lavinia Lake knew he was nothing but trouble. ...



  • Bill Pronzini

    Jack Hollis has finally decided to murder his daughter's viscious, abusive, and powerful husband, David Rakubian, but after David does not meet Jack at the rendevous point at which he is to be murdered and is found dead at his home, Jack begins a sea...



  • Patricia Polacco

    Patricia Polacco shares a never-before-told story about her mother's favorite doll.

    "My Darlin Trisha, my mother wrote..." So begins the story of Patricia Polacco's mother's favorite doll.

    Whenever Mary Ellen needed Betty Doll, she was there. She...



  • Susan Plunkett

    For Alicia James, something was missing, and her entire life seemed off-key. She found solace in the fact that her career was inspiring and her sisters were the most loving family a woman could have. Together with those sisters, Alicia found a magic ...



  • Belva Plain

    They met at school and have been inseparable ever since: Cecile, confident, elegant daughter of privilege; Norma, extraordinarily gifted and sadly troubled; and beautiful, ambitious Amanda, determined to rise above her humble southern beginnings. Two...



  • Daniel H. Pink

    From the author of Free Agent Nation, comes a short manifesto about the 7 words you should never use as you try to be your own manager or start your own business. In the new economy, everyone is a free agent. That can be a headache for managers -- o...



  • R.J. Pineiro

    Hunted by the top companies in America, Michael Patrick Ryan was offered the world: high starting salaries, stock options, and signing bonuses. Ryan set his sights on SoftCorp, Inc., a company with only one client--the Internal Revenue Service. Bu...



  • Tamora Pierce

    It's been four years since Briar Moss began his training as a plant mage, but he still hasn't put his past behind him. Wandering through a Chammuri market, Briar comes across a street girl using powerful magic to polish stories for a merchant. He res...



  • Jodi Picoult

    A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: Once a teacher at a girls' prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now" washing dishes ...



  • Tori Phillips

    A Gifted Healer One touch of Venus was nothing compared to the magic in the hands of Jessica Leonardo. The mysterious signorina was a woman unlike any Francis Bardolph had ever known, for she alone could make him face his most dangerous secrets -- a...





  • Tracie Peterson

    A Powerful Novel From Tracie Peterson"A child of my Own. Flesh of my flesh..." That is the deep yearning that fills Tess's heart. Despite years spend under a doctor's care and advances in medical technology, she and her husband have discovered their ...



  • Susan Peterson

    TEMPERATURE'S A-RISING! How do you make the perfect pizza, er... couple? Easy. Mix Quinby Parker, one sincere but insecure female rookie who's loving and looks good in all the right places, and Josh Reed, one male supercop with a heart of gold and...



  • Steve Perry

    In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control there control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force. It's the rich man's drug of choice - and...



  • George Perez

    The Avengers must confront their greatest foe yet: Ultron, the sentient robot created by Avenger Hank Pym, who has seized control of the world's media and destroyed the Eastern European country of Slorenia....



  • Danica Perez

    Twelve years ago, Los Angeles photographer Danica Perez set out to chronicle the miracle of birth with her camera. The result is THE GLOW. THE GLOW is a collection of unforgettable pictures of mothers, babies, and birthing that features prominent pro...



  • Don Pendleton

    BROTHERS IN BLOOD Mack Bolan teams up with his brother Johnny to leave a blood trail of chaos across two continents, uprooting a conspiracy involving the CIA and the Russian Mafia. Frozen out of Stony Man's intelligence circles, the Bolan brothers...



  • Don Pendleton

    A sanctioned enforcement arm of the Oval Office, Stony Man sidesteps official channels to defend the free world and avert threats against America. Now, with three hot zones propelling the world toward disaster, this elite team of commandos and cybern...



  • Francine Pascal

    A school dance makes everybody crazy! When Elizabeth accepts Ronald's invitation to the school dance, Blue has to take someone else. It's OK that Blue's date is gorgeous. And super cool. And smart. And fun. And exotic. What does Elizabeth ca...



  • Francine Pascal

    She's in trouble. Big trouble. Liz could get deported. Unless someone from Pennington mansion stands up for her. But who? Everyone hates her. Especially Sarah, her boss's daughter, who'd love to see her sent back to America....



  • Francine Pascal

    Love is in the stars for Elizabeth. Gemini -- Your Lovescope: Be prepared to face a part of your past you thought was behind you. You are at a major turning point, and if you listen to your emotions, your next step will become clear. Somebody s...



  • T. Jefferson Parker

    Merci Rayborn is back. It's two years after the death of Tim Hess, her partner and the father of her child, and Merci is working hard to hold it all together. She and her son are living with her father. She's also dating Mike McNally, a respecte...



  • T. Jefferson Parker

    With the horrible remnants of a childhood tragedy forever visible across his otherwise handsome face, Joe Trona is scarred in more ways than one. Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a charismatic politician who sensed his dark potential, Joe is ...



  • F.M. Parker

    Emerging from the mountains to start a new life, fur trapper Jacob Tamarron finds joy in his new wife and his job at a New Mexico ranch, but soon his newfound happiness is destroyed when a band of brutal scalphunters kill his wife and destroy his ran...



  • Linda Sue Park

    Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a twelfth-century Korean potters’ village. For a long time he is content to live with Crane-man under a bridge, barely surviving on scraps of food. All of that changes when Tree-ear sees master potter Min making his bea...



  • Marilyn Pappano

    THE LAWMAN'S PROMISE With his sexy grin and considerable charm, Reese Barnett could make a woman swoon. Neely Madison could attest to that. She'd once been desperately in love with the rugged lawman, but then came the tragedy Reese refused to forg...



  • Catherine Palmer

    Hidden Indian burial grounds host a dormant killer. Tragic family secrets remain unspoken. Dr. Marah Morgan must discover the truth about her past in order to break the dangerous silence. Successful pediatrician Marah Morgan returns home to help...




  • Victoria Pade

    MARRIAGE...VEGAS-STYLE Two months ago Kate McDermot had left for Las Vegas a levelheaded virgin -- and returned with a marriage certificate and a baby on the way. Experience had taught her Brady Brown would feel trapped by the news that he was goi...



  • Soren Olsson

    Between the bully in school, his crush on Nadia Nelson, his on-going fights with his three brothers, and his crazy rock band, young Ned Floyd, a.k.a. Treb Vladinsky, has a lot to write about in his diary to help him keep it all straight and somewhat ...



  • Janette Oke

    I thought I had given up on God. But I didn’t realize he hadn’t given up on me… OUR LITTLE TOWN, nestled in the valley, was a charming, secure place for us kids during our growing-up years. Our family probably wasn’t perfect, but we had a lo...



  • Deborah G. Ohrn

    A very special collection of short biographies offers insightful sketches of the lives and accomplishments of 150 of history's most influential and brilliant women, including Clara Barton, the legendary Trung Sisters of medieval Vietnam, and many oth...



  • Joyce Carol Oates

    A collection of twenty original crime stories includes contributions by Edna Buchanan, Jeffery Deaver, Jeremiah Healy, Laurie R. King, Margaret Maron, Joyce Carol Oates, Bill Pronzini, and many others. Reprint....



  • Matt O'Keefe

    Lou Farren loves two things in life: rock and roll and his friend Cree, a beautiful drummer in a pop band who has no idea how he feels. Adrift in a post-college world of boring computer jobs, Lou agrees to be the roadie for the Day Action Band, a ...



  • Leslie O'Kane

    Dress rehearsal For the PTA fundraiser is at its chaotic peak when one of the seven identical clowns cavorting on stage pulls out a gun and shoots the director, Corrinne Buldock. Molly Masters, also dressed as a clown, is a stunned and baffled witnes...




  • Meg O'Brien

    Six women have come to Thornberry, a small writers' colony on a tiny island off the coast of Seattle. They have come to work on their own writing at this secluded resort, but they have also come to hide, each harboring her own secret. A devastati...



  • Jane O'Boyle

    A humorous and inspiring collection that celebrates little-known people who led remarkable lives.

    You won't find them in history books. They're people you've probably never heard of, but they made the world a more interesting place while they were ...



  • Andre Norton; Rosemary Edghill

    1807 Under King Charles II, England's New World colonies are flourishing, as is France's colony, Louisianne. Napolean is the dreaded Master of the European continent...And Sarah Cunningham, a woman from our own world, knows all too well what a diffe...



  • Diane Noble

    From California’s rugged Big Valley
    to the fleeting glory of the Silver Screen,
    one family struggles to save its heritage.


    AT PLAY IN THE PROMISED LAND
    California Chronicles, 1915"1923

    In the final installment of her...



  • Joan Lowery Nixon

    In partnership with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation come authentic novels set in the 18th century about actual people, places, and events in this celebrated Virginia town.

    Eleven-year-old Will Pelham's father is the gaoler for the city of...



  • Garth Nix

    Bestselling author Garth Nix's amazing Seventh Tower series is back--now with a great new look!

    The Underfolk are restless. For a long time, they have kept quiet, occupying the lower levels of the Castle. But now they are going to be heard... ...



  • Garth Nix

    Who is Lirael? Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she should have received the Sight that is the Clayr's birthright, she feels alone, abandoned, unsure of who she is. Nevertheless, the fate of ...




  • Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Alice is starting high school, and everything is new. But it’s the new girl, Penny, who’s making ninth grade a real challenge for Alice. Penny is tiny and perky and a real flirt, and she seems to be focusing her attention on Patrick. Even worse, ...



  • Melissa Nathan

    She was the star in the world's greatest love story. Her costar was one of the world's sexiest men. Things couldn't have been any worse... And they couldn't have been any better! It starts as a lark for Jasmin Field, the charming, acerbically w...



  • Donna Jo Napoli



  • Donna Jo Napoli

    Everyone's good at something. Stanley can't seem to do anything right. He doesn't draw well, he's not good at sports, and sometimes it feels like his parakeet, Casper, is the only one who listens to him. What's the point of trying new things if he k...



  • Bill Myers

    MADCAP MYSETERIES WITH A MESSASGE Who has put a curse on the town? Why is Sean looking more and more like Bigfoot? Will Midvale bulldoze the brand-new high school? When the Midvale Tigers start flubbing plays after a mysterious woman curses the new f...



  • Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    PEACE, LOVE AND DESTRUCTION. JUST ANOTHER DAY IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA. Barkley, California, has always been a counterculture kind of a place, but now, its local historical society has decided they've had enough of Washington's politically incorrect...