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New Books List: 599 titles


  • Harriet Ziefert

    Children will love lifting the flaps of this bright and cheerful book to see all of the wonderful things that teachers do, such as giving juice and cookies when it is snack time and leading trips to the museum. Original....



  • Jane Yolen

    A well-known ballet is presented to young readers as Prince Ivan, with the help of the Firebird, must win great battles to save the lives of ten maidens held captive by the evil wizard Kostchei the Deathless....




  • Elizabeth Wurtzel

    Elizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times best-selling memoir, with a new afterword "Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back." -- New York Times "A book that became a cu...



  • Nancy Means Wright

    KILLER BEES When a local university student is found dead in a patch of deadly nightshade, one of several illegal plants cultivated by beekeeper Gwen Woodleaf, Gwen turns to neighbor Ruth Willmarth for help. The dead young man had driven Gwen's mi...



  • John C. Wright

    The Golden Age is 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion celebrating the thousand-year anni...



  • Lenora Worth

    LOVE BLOOMS...IN THE GARDEN Women had been Lucas Dorsette's passion, but one glance at Willa O'Connor, and he knew he would give anything to love and protect her. Yet she was keeping a secret from him, a secret he was afraid she might lose her lif...



  • Stuart Woods

    BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE Hired by an odd client previously unknown to him, Stone arrives in London, on a mission he thinks he understands, but doesn't. Soon he finds himself not only out of his territory, but out of his depth as well. Baffl...



  • Sara Wood

    Helen was very much in love with her tall, handsome husband, Dan -- but she'd caught him in flagrante with his secretary, and now their marriage was over. Actually, Dan had never betrayed her -- Helen had got the wrong idea. But he didn't see...



  • Linda Randall Wisdom

    Love Si the Greatest Adventure It was the trip of a lifetime and hairstylist Ginna Walker was going to take full advantage. She'd forget all her worries back home and concentrate only on the sun, the sand...and her whirlwind romance with Zachary S...



  • Tim Winton

    From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia.After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are indus...



  • Rebecca Winters

    Philippe and Kellie Didier have been blissfully married for just a month when a revelation blows their world apart. A woman Philippe once knew, before he met Kellie, claims he is the father of her child. What's more, the innocent baby now needs a...



  • Natasha Wing

    A little girl and her parents prepare to welcome a new member to their family in this addition to the Night Before series!A brand-new baby is about the join the family! The little girl helps her parents decorate the nursery and imagines all the fun t...



  • Crystal Wilson-Harris

    Savannah Raven Dailey thought she had it all, until the day her husband cleared out their bank accounts and disappeared. Shattered, she has no choice but to pick up the pieces and go on. What she doesn't know is that she will emerge from the hurt a...



  • Jeanne Willis

    Meet a city girl with a big Wild West dream.

    "I don't want to be a good girl-
    Good girls have no fun.
    I can't play quiet games indoors,
    I love the rain and sun.
    I don't want to be a girly girl
    Who likes to sit and chat.
    I jus...



  • Dale C. Willard

    Share the romance, drama, and adventure of small-town life among the mice of Tottensea Burrows -- as told by a very entertaining bird In the garden of an English cottage live the lovable, highly literate field mice of Tottensea Burrows -- Peebles Car...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    All gruff, rugged Donovan Chance had to do was briefly watch over Chloe Pennington, his billionaire boss's prospective fiancee. Hardly hazardous duty -- no matter how much Donovan disapproved of the calculated marriage of convenience. Then again, he ...



  • Alice Wilder

    Are you ready to play a new game? Blue and each of her friends have rhyming riddles to tell. Guess the answers, and then check if you're right by turning the answer wheel so that Steve points to the riddle teller. Can you guess them all?...



  • Kevin Wignall

    A highly skilled and somewhat humble professional killer finds himself on the wrong end of a sniper's scope when someone within his own trusted inner circle targets him for assassination. Reprint. 15,000 first printing....



  • Alicia Wiggins



  • Julia Whitty

    Bringing a unique perspective and a singular voice to contemporary fiction, A TORTOISE FOR THE QUEEN OF TONGA features lush, poignant stories about the natural world. Here are mammals, historical figures, everyday people who discover the liberating p...



  • Karen Toller Whittenburg

    PETER BRADDOCK: The youngest Braddock brother puts honor to the test and lives up to the proud legacy! The Braddock blood ran fierce and true in Peter Braddock. Yet his scandalous past kept the youngest Braddock sibling from feeling he really belo...



  • John Whitman

    It's twelve years before Captain Leo Davidson of the space station Oberon crash-landed on the planet of the apes. Attar is a teen just coming up in the military, and Ari is his good friend -- sympathetic to the human cause, yet loyal ...



  • John Whitman

    It's twelve years before Captain Leo Davidson of the space station Oberon crash-landed on the planet of the apes. Border patrols are growing more aggressive, with hundreds of humans from the tribes near Ape City being taken captive. D...



  • Kate White

    Meet Bailey Weggins-the thirty-something, single again Manhattan true crime writer with a sixth sense for truth, fashion, and murder most dishy...IF LOOKS COULD KILL Bailey's in bed with her commitment-phobic lover when she gets a frantic call fro...



  • Sophie Weston

    His pretend princess! Conrad Domitio likes to keep his title of Crown Prince of Montessuro a secret. After all, it doesn't affect his life in England. Or at least not until his grandfather calls to say his country needs him -- and that he'...



  • Tracey West



    Die-cut to look like everyone's favorite robot, this book is filled with lots of cool facts like Who is Cubix?, What can he transform into?, What other special powers does he have?, this book is the ultimate guide to a very special robot. wit...




  • Joseph A. West

    The bones of the first Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered have been unearthed in Montana’s dusty cattle country, circa 1908. But Chinese American detective Chester Wong has another body to worry about -- that of the paleontologist who discovered the...



  • Jane Wenham-Jones

    Cari is devastated when her husband Martin leaves her for another woman. Her friend, wide-boy Nigel, persuades her to get a bank loan and buy a house to do up for rental, but it soon becomes apparent that he's contravened every rule and regulation in...



  • Robin Wells
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    Every woman wanted Austin Parker, the hottest ticket on the racing circuit. Yet Frannie Hannon's pearls and pink sweater sets couldn't compare with his boots and tight-fitting jeans -- or so she thought.......



  • Sue-Ellen Welfonder

    She planned to seduce -- only to succumb... A WARRIOR IN CHAINS, A LADY IN CHARGE, AND A SEDUCTION TOO HOT TO HANDLE! As chieftain of the clan MacInnes, Lady Isolde will do anything to protect her people--including sacrifice herself to the enem...



  • Sarah Webb
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    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...



  • Peggy Webb

    Twenty years ago, Hunter Wolfe vanished in Denali, Alaska, after a near-fatal plane crash...and was never found. Until sexy photojournalist Hannah Westmoreland, hot on the trail of a story, discovered a rugged man amongst the snow-capped mountains......



  • Debra Webb

    Atlanta's most beloved news reporter wants her new cameraman fired. Why? Because she can't even glance at the sexy Latino without wanting to touch him to see if he feels as hot as he looks. He's a distraction she can't afford...not when her first pri...



  • Joanna Wayne

    Isabella Trueblood made history reuniting people torn apart by war and an epidemic. Now, generations later, Lily and Dylan Garrett carry on her work with their agency, Finders Keepers. Circumstances may have changed, but the goal remains the same. ...



  • Jude Watson

    The second and final Jedi Apprentice Special Edition--paving the way for the Episode II titles coming April 22, 2002.

    In a land where the old rule, the young rebel. Obi-Wan Kenobi, now 16, is ready to take a big step to becoming a Jedi Knight....



  • Jude Watson

    OBI-WAN KENOBI AND ANAKIN SKYWALKER. MASTER AND APPRENTICE. CHOSEN BY FATE. DESTINED FOR CONFLICT. Fourteen-year-old Anakin Skywalker is strong in the ways of the Force. His lightsaber skills are exceptional, and his piloting is legendary. He sh...



  • Wendy Warren

    But Annette Owens saw an irresistible man who dared her to take a chance on love. Yet once Nettie was up close and personal with all that raw masculinity, the pretty widow discovered she didn't know the first thing about seduction! Or about Chase...



  • Marina Warner

    A sensual, compelling new novel inspired by dramatic chronicles, contemporary events, and the tragic figure of a woman-goddess in permanent exile

    Room XIX of the Museum of Albion doesn't usually have many visitors. But when a huge crowd of dis...



  • Pamela Walls

    Abby: South Seas Adventures is a fun, new series that is a surefire hit for 8- to 12-year-old girls. Lots of excitement will keep kids coming back for each new Abby title. In books 7 & 8, Abby, her family, and her best friend Luke have many adventure...



  • David J. Walker

    Chicago-based Malachy is a man of great principle or is simply pig-headed, depending on how you look at it. Years ago when he used to be a lawyer, he promised a client that he wouldn't reveal a confidence. Although the court ruled that under the circ...



  • Mark Waid

    Returning from an alternate universe, Captain America, a.k.a. Steve Rogers, finds terrorists conspiring against the U.S. and must face Hydra, Skrulls, and adoring fans without benefit of his fellow Avengers or his shield....



  • Walter H. Wager

    The five ace intelligence agents gathered at the secret St. John Institute are the best of the best. The best at tradecraft. The best at weapons handling. The best at analyzing a volatile situation, getting in, getting what they came for, and gett...



  • Patricia Waddell
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    Does the course of true love ever run smooth? For these three couples, the answer is a resounding "no," as they experience thrilling adventure and spellbinding romance on the bumpy path down the aisle. Different times in history, different places on ...



  • Cynthia Victor

    A teenage boy's shooting rampage during an attempted robbery at an exclusive boutique brings together Kip, Eloise, and Nora--three women with very different backgrounds, goals, and lifestyles--as their narrow escape from harm forges an extraordinary ...



  • Salley Vickers

    When a man dies and leaves behind a wife and a mistress, we expect certain responses to follow. But as the narrator of Salley Vickers's second novel explains, "this is not an account of feminine jealousy, or even revenge, and not all human beings (no...



  • Lynn M. Turner

    Crashing through the waves, the cutter barely skimming treacherous shoals, blinded by fog...

    Late one night, on a deserted Nova Scotian beach, Susan Stead witnesses the brutal kidnapping of little Amy Sutherland. When she rushes to save the child...



  • Gail Tsukiyama

    Bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama is known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Dreaming Water is an exploration of two of the richest and most layered human connections that exist: mother and daughter and lif...



  • Jane Toombs

    THERE'S A NEW MAN IN TOWN... Ex-lawyer David Severin came to Tourmaline to escape his problems. Psychologist Amy Simon came to Tourmaline to solve problems. But working at the counseling center run by David's aunt, she couldn't help but notice that ...



  • Caron Todd

    Paleontologist Susannah Robb just lost a prestigious job to her rival Alexander Blake, and she has to figure out a way to work with him. But that quickly turns out to be the least of her problems. Someone is stealing fossils from the site she disc...



  • Cate Tiernan

    I love Morgan. She is my soul mate. But I must find my parents. Now I have information. There are leads that seem promising. I feel myself getting closer. But am I strong enough for what I might find? ...



  • Mark W. Tiedemann

    After the diplomatic failures of the Spacer mission on Earth-which began with the assassinations of key diplomats and politicians, and culminated with the uncovering of a vast plot to create cyborgs from terminally handicapped infants-Ambassador Arie...



  • Victoria Thompson

    As a midwife-in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen suffering and joy, birth and death. Now she is thrust into a twisted case of murder -- when a seductress falls victim to her own charades... To Sarah Brand...



  • David Thompson

    When his wife Blue Water Woman is taken by a mysterious and powerful beast, Shakespeare McNair will stop at nothing to destroy this inhuman creature and save his beloved wife. Original....



  • Jacquelin Thomas

    Critically acclaimed author Jacquelin Thomas returns with a poignant, passionate, and inspirational novel about one couple's journey from betrayal and sorrow to forgiveness, healing, faith...and joy. Once, Tori and Jake Madison had a loving, satis...



  • Raeanne Thayne

    NEVER A BRIDE? Ten years ago, Cassidy Harte had stood at the altar waiting for Zach Slater. And when he didn't show up -- and was said to have disappeared with her brother's flirtatious wife -- she did the only thing she could do. Held her head up...



  • Sheri S. Tepper

    A startling, provocative, and remarkable tale of a future in need of a savior...and a champion as unlikely as true justice. The "magic" that once was America died horribly along with most of the Earth's inhabitants when an asteroid crashed into th...



  • Melanie Tem

    Leila, a woman who is only able to see the world in colors and shapes due to her near blindness, is plunged into a world of terror when she is kidnapped by Russell, a man who believes that her blindness is caused by the evil that lurks within her hea...



  • Susanna Tamaro

    Susanna Tamaro’s writing has deeply affected people throughout the world. Though her voice is unique and her stories firmly rooted in her native Italy, the power of her words and her understanding of human lives are universal. In 1994 her novel Fol...



  • Nancy Tafuri

    A story of independence and reassurance from top-selling author-illustrator Nancy Tafuri, three Little Bears explore their forest home, yet never wander too far from the security of their Mama.

    One afternoon, Mama is teaching her three Little ...



  • Denise Swanson

    There are times when school psychologist Skye Denison still feels like a fish out of water in Scumble River, the Midwestern hometown to which she reluctantly returned a few years ago. Now, still broke, another car totaled, and her love life a minefie...



  • James Sturz

    In the small Italian town of Mancanzano, the bodies of two teenagers turn up in the deep caves surrounding the village, and, as police investigate the deaths, four experts arrive to investigate the stunning frescoes found on the cave walls and other ...



  • Jeremy Strong

    It's the first day at PIRATE SCHOOL for Ziggy, Smudge, Carkella and Flo and they have lots of new things to contend with. Their headteacher is the scary Patagonia Clasterbotton and they have to take lessons include walking the plank and hand-to-hand ...



  • Andy Straka

    Years ago, homicide detective Frank Pavlicek left the NYPD under less than ideal circumstances. Now the divorced father of a teenage daughter, he works as a private investigator in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he indulges his passion for falconry...



  • Crystal Stovall

    A MOTHER AT HEART... Stranded with a handsome stranger and his infant daughter as a tornado roared above them, Jessie Claybrook didn't know why God had brought her here. Until a mighty gust landed the infant in her arms...and suddenly she knew tha...



  • Sarah Stone

    After a year, central Africa has finally started to feel like home to Anne, a human-rights activist from California. Deeply committed to helping the strife-torn nation of Burundi during its first democratic elections, Anne has also begun an intoxicat...



  • Peggy Stoks

    After years of fame, love and secret pain Elena Breen finds herself on a dangerous precipice. With a singing voice damaged by misuse and a career cut short by the man who built her into a celebrity, Elena is haunted by her past and afraid to face her...



  • Manya Stojic

    “Far away in the deep blue sea . . .”

    For one little girl this is how all stories begin. They are family stories of her mother’s childhood on a small island with a pebbly shore. And now the little girl is going to that island. It is her ...



  • Jessica Stirling

    Jessica Stirling's Glasgow comes to scintillating life in The Piper's Tune, a story of love and fortune set in Edwardian Scotland.Lindsay Franklin's life is an adventure she has just begun to enjoy. At eighteen, Arthur Franklin's cosseted daughter ha...



  • Jessica Steele

    Thank goodness for charming, suave, and handsome city hotshot Harris Quillan! Mallon had thought she was stranded and homeless until Harris came along. After hearing her story, he didn't hesitate to offer her a job as his housekeeper. It all s...



  • Les Standiford

    In Key West, a small-time hustler is being beaten by a cop--and John Deal steps in to stop it. It's only a temporary rescue, though--the same man is found slain two days later. The cops are claiming ignorance. The locals aren't saying a word. All Dea...



  • Elizabeth Spurr

    Perrier is no ordinary pig. He is a purebred potbellied pig who lives with the Hollywood movie star Mirabella. Whisked away to exotic locations, pampered, and praised, Perrier is the toast of the town. He has it all . . . so so why does he feel as th...



  • Elizabeth Spires

    When Little Cat unleashes a rather loud and startling meow, he disrupts catnaps, scares the feathers off of the catbirds in the catalpa tree, and even engulfs the sun, in a delightful story of learning how to embrace one's differences....



  • Annie Sparrow
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    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...




  • Dean Wesley Smith; Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    It's Not Easy Being Green

    At first it seems amusing when Kyle Valenti's skin takes on a lime-colored hue. But within hours, the hospital has become a disaster area, full of humans who look more like al...



  • Barbara Burnett Smith

    "Purple Sage, Texas, is experienceing a natural disaster, with floodwaters rushing through the streets and torrential downpours continuing with no end in sight. This calls for a dinner party! The governor's in town to assess the damage, and Jolie Wya...



  • Lisa Smedman
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    When Shade Enclave returns from thousands of years of exile in the Plane of Shadow, all of Faerûn is open to its dark designs. When a tribe of kenku confront the archwizard who gave them magic but kept them as slaves, the skies rain death. When a ...



  • Susan R. Sloan

    For more than half a century, a landmark Seattle clinic has provided full family medical services, including abortions, until one February afternoon when an extremist's bomb kills almost two hundred men, women and children. When the police arrest a c...



  • Glenn R. Sixbury

    Waneta Young, a woman of Cherokee descent, finds a mysterious red crystal lodged in a piece of pottery discovered at an archaeological dig. This red crystal contains a centuries-old destructive force guarded by tribal shamans against those who might ...



  • Nicky Singer

    “Top flat, Chance House. You can go there. . . . You are the sort of boy who can fly.”

    That’s what Edith Sorrell, mysterious resident of Mayfield Rest Home, says when Robert asks her to share a wisdom with him as part of a class project....



  • Dani Sinclair

    THE MAN FROM HER PAST Struggling waitress Brie Dudley had managed to keep the identity of her daughter's father a secret for years. Until wealthy, powerful Drew Pierce came back to Moriah's Landing. With one glance, Drew saw what the town hadn't -...





  • Anita Shreve

    New Hampshire, 1929 - when Sexton Beecher proposes to Honora Willard, she lays aside his flaws as one might overlook a small stain in a beautifully embroidered tablecloth. But as the couple begin their new life in the house at Fortune's Rocks, their...



  • Sharon Shinn

    There is only one Jenna Starborn... A baby harvested from the gen-tanks on the planet Baldus. A girl scorned by the only family she has ever known. A woman bold enough to seek her own way, strong enough to stay true to herself, and brave eno...



  • David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    The Marines were told it was a simple peasant rebellion -- but the mission proved to be far deadlier. . . . Gunny Charlie Bass isn’t the only Marine mystified by the order sending the entire 34th to put down a few seditious serfs on planet Kingdom...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo goes for the gold in a gut-wrenching Galveston gunfight...It's a deadly race for riches as the Trailsman rides a fine line between digging for buried treasure in Texas -- and digging his own grave......



  • Isabel Sharpe

    YOUR EYES MEET...INSTANT CHEMISTRY! THAT'S A MANHUNTING MOMENT, AND THE CHASE IS ON... When Tracy Richards ran into a drop-dead-gorgeous stranger on the beach, just locking eyes with him had her relearning the subject of chemistry. Her friends insis...



  • John Shannon

    In the gripping fifth novel of what the Philadelphia Inquirer calls a “lean and literate” crime series, Jack Liffey -- the rough-edged, compassionate private detective who garners even more enthusiastic reviews and fans with each new case -- once...



  • Darren Shan

    Tunnels of Blood is the compelling sequel to the horrifically imaginative and bestselling Cirque Du Freak and The Vampire's Assistant. Darren Shan was just an ordinary schoolboy until his visit to a mysterious freak show led him on a journey into the...



  • Viviane Schwarz

    A brilliantly original picture book about seeking acceptance offers a cleverly hidden image on every page.

    Meet the Nose, a simple fellow who just wants to belong. It’s easy enough for the Nose to stick out, but will he ever be able to fit i...



  • David J. Schow

    Brain-scorching review hyperbole!Pithy critical commentary!Big-name blurb mongering!Hardcore buy-or-die sales pitch hysteria!You'll find none of that in Seeing Red, David J. Schow's very first collection of short stories, back in print for the first ...



  • Scholastic Inc.

    My Homework Assignment Book!Includes a Pull-Out Parent Guide!Get students to do their homework and parents involved in the process with this terrific year-round book! 36 weeks of forms for homework assignments, reading record keeping and parent commu...



  • Patricia Scanlan

    When everyone expects you to fall apart, do the unexpected: Get a life. After years of being the perfect wife and mother, Francesca Kirwan realizes one dreary fall day that her life is a sad cliche when she catches her husband, Mark, with another ...



  • Diane Sawyer

    RACE AGAINST MURDER Photographer Lilli Masters is more than willing to embark on a little undercover work with her new boyfriend if it means spending time together. His assignment is to head to Daytona Beach, Florida, on the trail of a killer who's ...



  • Jeanne Savery

    He swore to bring her to justice -- and make her his own... A DANGEROUS LADY If the stakes hadn't been so high, Therese Marie would not have risked so much. With her family's fortunes reduced by The Terror, with many on their estate depen...



  • Deborah Savage

    Charlotte Williamson Thorpe -- Wim -- comes from a long line of sea captains based out of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Since her best friend died the summer before, all Wim wants is to be left alone, to finish her senior year in peace and spend time ...



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    If it's true that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, then what better way to entice the typical American male than with apple pie? Talia believes An Apple a Day and a few herbs are the key to healthy living, but Dr. Coridan scoffs at th...



  • Barney Saltzberg

    Hip knows exactly what she wants for her birthday--a trip to the Royal Roller Rink. She leaves hints everywhere so that her best friend, Hop, can't possibly go wrong with her gift. Or can he? When Hop surprises Hip with disappointing presents--includ...



  • James Sage

    Farmer Boast lives next door to Farmer Bluster, who lives next door to Farmer Smart. Each thinks his cornfield is the best -until the mice move in! Farmer Boast and Farmer Bluster make bumbling attempts to drive out the mice, but only Farmer Smart ha...




  • Marilyn Sachs

    Lily is surprised to discover that Mr. Freeman--who has a reputation for being a mean, old man--is actually a kind man who cares deeply for his four ugly cats, but when he dies suddenly and the other tenants look to give the cats away, Lily gets invo...



  • Cynthia Rylant

    When Aunt Lucy announces she is getting married to Michael, Lily, Rosie, and Tess take on the task of taking care of all the arrangements and so must work closely together to ensure that everything goes perfectly during the special affair on Cobble S...



  • Pam Munoz Ryan

    Pam Munoz Ryan and David McPhail open the door to the imagination in this lyrical, rhyming picture book. Two young children act, pretend, sing, invent their way into wondrous realms with creativity, charm, and a little does of magic....



  • Nan Ryan

    Theirs was a passion born of scandal The boy who left to fight for the Confederate army 20 years ago had been a trusting fool. He had trusted the girl who promised to wait for him. He had trusted the friend who betrayed him. Now he has come home t...



  • Mary Ryan
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    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...



  • Nancy Rue

    To be a creative person, you don't have to be a musician, an artist, or even a writer, because everyone has a creative niche. Author Nancy Rue's The Creativity Book helps girls discover their creative self, no matter what it is. Bright, modern, and f...



  • Nancy Rue

    At some point, every girl wonders why she was born, why she's the way she is, and what good she can offer. Nancy Rue answers all those nagging uncertainties from a biblical perspective in this book filled with lots of activities that girls can explor...



  • Ron Roy

    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for the election season! In the second book of the Capital Mysteries -- an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from...



  • Laura Joh Rowland

    FROM A REMOTE, EXOTIC WORLD... Sano Ichiro, Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, awakens from a turbulent dream into a real-life nightmare. Lord Matsudaira Mitsuyoshi, the shogun's cousin and heir, has been murdered after a...



  • Kathryn Ross

    Mixing business and pleasure ... Self-made millionaire Steven Cavendish had enjoyed a purely professional relationship with his extremely efficient assistant, Chloe Brown. Until one unexpected night when work was forgotten in the heat of passion ....



  • JoAnn Ross

    Danielle Dupree, daughter of a prominent judge, was the closest thing to a princess the sleepy Louisiana town of Blue Bayou ever had. Her passionate teenage love affair with Jack Callahan was cut short for reasons that were never clear to Dani -- but...



  • Michael J. Rosen

    In Michael J. Rosen’s funny, provocative novel, a reluctant move to the heart of hunting country spurs a lonely teen’s obsession with e-mail and Top Ten lists -- and a passion for animals that takes on a life of its own.

    Fourteen-year-old ...



  • Hebby Roman

    Step By Step They say a woman never forgets her first love...and Maricel Cardona knows it's true. She still remembers dancing all night with Salvador Montalvo--and just how wonderful it was to be in his arms, moving to sensual rhythms and music th...



  • Kristine Rolofson
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    P.I. David Solomon has been hired by ailing Warren Cooper to deliver three precious envelopes to each of the Webb siblings.... David Solomon is stunned to discover that Diana Webb, the recipient of the last envelope, is the mysterious and intense ...



  • Shirley Rogers

    After being caught in a compromising position, Russ Logan was forced into a shotgun engagement to Lynn McCall. At first, the ironhearted, solitary ranch foreman resisted...until he realized that this provocative spitfire who'd relinquished her virtue...



  • Luis J. Rodriguez

    From the award-winning author of Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. It is a life brimming with hope and vitality, the depiction of which reaffirms Luis J. Rodriguez as not only...



  • Colby Rodowsky


    A book for young readers about realizing one’s passion

    Jason Miller’s family is always on the go, and always for the same reason: ball games. Jason spends a lot of time on the sidelines, because he’s not much for playing sports. He s...



  • Nora Roberts

    When the Lusitania sank, more than one thousand people died. One passenger, however, survived to become a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief but keeping a small silver statue that would become a family heirloom to future generations. ...



  • J.R. Roberts

    At the request of the U.S. Secret Service, Clint Adams is sent to the border town of Perro Rojo to infiltrate the revolutionary gang led by Colonel Diego Varillo that is threatening the region, hoping to head off all-out war between the U.S. and Mexi...



  • J.R. Roberts

    DOUBLE TROUBLE Travis Jennum had lost his marbles. But no one in Labyrinth, Texas, knew this--until it was too late. Until he carved a scar down his left cheek in an attempt to emulate his hero, the Gunsmith. Until he stole Clint Adams's wagon and...



  • Barrie Roberts

    In the sixth of Barrie Roberts’s highly accomplished pastiches of the masterly Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is facing only dull professional prospects in London when Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard arrives at 221b Baker Street with a...



  • J.R. Ripley

    Murder Strikes a Deadly Chord. When a broken arm sidelines the bad-boy rhythm guitarist for the popular country band Clint Cash and the Cowhands, ex-lawyer, ex-restauranteur, now struggling musician Tony Kozol gets a gig as the temporary replaceme...



  • John Ringo

    TWO COMMANDERS, ONE HUMAN, ONE ALIEN, BOTH ALIKE IN DIGNITY After five years of battling the Posleen invaders, human civilization is down to a handful of highly industrialized valleys where survivors create larger and larger engines of war to oppo...



  • Christie Ridgway
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    "I ALWAYS GET WHAT I WANT ... AND I WANT YOU.” Ethan Redford never proposed a deal he couldn't close. So when he proposed marriage -- and motherhood -- to day care director Cleo Kincaid Monroe, he expected a "yes." After all, he knew being a bride...



  • Tina Reilly
    in

    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...



  • Michelle Reid

    She can save her marriage -- by getting pregnant! A year has passed since Leona left her husband, Sheikh Hassan ben Khalifa Al-Qadim. She misses him very much, but what was the point of staying when she'd failed to deliver the one thing Hass...



  • John Reed

    A fast-paced nonstop ride full of thrills and intrigue.

    Sourcebooks Landmark is proud to add John Reed and The Kingfisher's Call to its list. Written in the tradition of a Tom Clancy novel, Reed's rapid-fire thriller will consume the reader wi...



  • Cheryl Reavis

    Maria Markham had survived the War only to tolerate the Occupation -- barely, while daily facing haunting memories of loss. But then Max Woodard, an enigmatic Army colonel with a gentle heart, offered her passion and a loving partnership in a brave n...



  • Francis Ray

    In her mind's eyes, she could see Wes, tall and elegant in his tailored tuxedo with a patterned vest, black tie, and snow white pocket square. Her red Valentino slip gown highlighted her honeyed complexion and chocolate brown eyes. The gown also pick...



  • Karen Ranney

    A stranger to his ancestral Scottish lands, the dashing nobleman came to the Highlands to reclaim his birthright -- only to find something more wondrous and unexpected awaiting him -- his bride! A MARRIAGE HE NEVER WANTED Though a descendant of p...



  • Random House

    Anakin, Amidala, Luke, and Leia -- young fans will be thrilled to learn all about the history of the Skywalker family in this full-color 8 x 8 picture book, illustrated with photos from Star Wars: Episode II and the rest of the Star Wars saga....



  • Random House

    One restless night, Thomas looks out and sees a shooting star flash by. Determined to see where it went, Thomas sets out into the darkened countryside. The strange nighttime sights and noises add up to a wonderful after-dark adventure for Thomas....



  • Tara Randel

    Florida hotel manager Teri Price finds herself with a slew of problems at her beloved hotel, the West Wind. Strange noises, missing contractors, and the handsome new security chief, Jack Bishop, keep her hopping--especially after Teri learns that Jac...



  • Debbie Raleigh

    Sarah, Emma, and Rachel Cresswell are known throughout London as the Devil's Daughters--and rejected by the ton because of it. But like their charming rascal of a father, the Devilish Dandy, nothing can crush the spirits of these three indomitable si...



  • Simon Puttock

    Piglet One, Piglet Two, and Piglet Three hate taking baths, so Mama Pig adds lots of bubbles and three rubber ducks to make their bathtime fun, in a tale with adorable illustrations and lots of fun bathtime sounds....



  • Philip Pullman

    Spring-Heeled Jack: The name evoked awe from both criminals and upstanding citizens alike. Some thought he was the devil, but he was actually the original superhero -- leaping over the buildings of Victorian England with the help of springs in the he...



  • Morag Prunty
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    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...



  • Christopher J. Priest

    Written by Christopher Priest. Art by Cover by Joe Jusko, Mike Manley, Mark Bright and Jimmy Palmiotti. Published in 2001, Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $16.95. If you want additional books, I ship as many books as you want for a lo...



  • Maggie Price

    A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Called to Mission Creek to help find the Lone Star Country Club bomber, Chicago Police bomb tech Hart O'Brien never imagined he'd walk straight into the arms of his first -- and only -- love. Body Perfect spa manager Joan Coope...



  • Rachel Pollack

    What happens to a detective with more secrets than the killers he investigates?

    Lieutenant Simon Goldtree is the boy wonder of the Essex City Police Department in upstate New York. The man who gets all the really tough homicide cases, Simon ...



  • Lisa Plumley

    Advice from Miss Julia's behavior book: A proper lady should never give her heart to a driftin' man! Mistress of decorum, Julia Bennett wrote the book on etiquette. Three volumes, in fact! So why did the arrival of Graham Corley, rakish adventurer...



  • Tamora Pierce

    NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Tamora Pierce takes readers to a world filled with adventure and magic.Daja and Frostpine expect to have a peaceful winter's visit with old friends in Kugisko, a port in the vast empire of Namon. But there is no peac...



  • Barbara Pierce

    A Lady's Influence Wynne Bedegrayne seems destined to become a spinster. Her beauty and charm mean nothing when her intelligence frightens off every suitor--and her charitable work with the Benevolent Sisterhood leads her into scrapes no sensible ...



  • Jan Pienkowski

    Daring and different as always, Jan Pie´nkowski presents a lively pop-up book filled with funny -- and yucky -- things to eat!

    The king is coming to lunch. Since he’s a hungry lion, the animals scramble to make pizza, pronto! With flaps to ...



  • Robert Picardo

    Voyager's sharp-tongued Emergency Medical Hologram provides a lively, illustrated guide to life in the holographic world, offers helpful advice to other holographic beings struggling to survive and thrive in an organic world, and furnishes gu...



  • Diane Pershing

    Cassie Nevins longed for someone to save the day, someone like Cowboy Charlie, the hero she'd created for her daughter's bedtime stories -- and the hunk who'd starred in a few of her own not-so-innocent fantasies. Charlie followed the cod...



  • Don Pendleton

    Blinding Fire A diamond mining operation in war-torn Angola is being used to finance guerrilla warfare and rampant slaughter. A human rights nightmare, its tentacles reach across Europe to America, where the Mafia shares the profits of an enterpri...



  • Don Pendleton

    Beyond Any Law. The President of the United States has at his disposal a covert action force that operates beyond the law. When the security of the free world or America is threatened, it's the Man alone who gives the order to dispatch Stony Man to ...



  • Alba Marie Pastorek

    Budding opera singer Dallas Jones and her aunt, Eula, are touring Spain when they are involved in a car crash. When dashing, mysterious Rick Santana appears with offers of help, Dallas is instantly suspicious. With nowhere else to turn, she allows hi...



  • Francine Pascal

    Conner and I have been friends for a long time. Sometimes it's scary how well I know him. Like, the fact that he does things his own way--or not at all. But I'm not going to let him throw away his future just because things aren't working out the...



  • Julie Parsons
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    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...



  • Craig Parshall

    A respected professor… A slash-and-burn lawyer… A small time preacher… Who is telling the truth? Depressed, down on his luck, and dropped by his law partners, Will Chambers is an attorney whose troubles are starting to exceed even his...



  • Nancy J. Parra

    Samantha Herrington is determined to prove to her father, the owner of a big city newspaper, that she can write more than laundry tips and sewing advice. She is a serious reporter and bets she will find her front page story in Amesville, Wyoming. Ins...



  • I.J. Parnham

    There's enough gold to make you think you can live forever, but Shamus McGinty has hidden it where no one can ever find it. The only way to find the gold is to stop looking, but once you find it, you won't even realize it.

    So goes the legend of S...



  • T. Jefferson Parker

    A beautiful young woman is dead in the bathroom of her home. Her husband--a promising young cop named Archie Wildcraft is shot in the head, but still alive. It looks like an attempted murder/suicide, but something tells Detective Merci Rayborn that t...



  • Michael Palmer

    In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more malevolent than flulike symptoms begins hemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by an unknown disease, rapidly descends into a letha...



  • Diana Palmer

    From the moment powerfully seductive Rey Hart first set eyes on Meredith Johns, he became mesmerized by the lovely young woman. For not only did Meredith stir his jaded soul with her tempting innocence, he discovered she was a top-notch biscuit maker...



  • Laurie Paige

    FAIRYTALE WEDDING? One steamy night wrapped in the arms of sexy rebel Jean-Paul Augustave, Earl of Silvershire, left innocent Princess Megan Penelope Penwyck longing for more passion's play -- and pregnant! Now, torn between causing a royal scanda...



  • Ann Packer

    How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer’s intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparisons with ...



  • Julie Ortolon

    WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MR. SLOW AND STEADY... The forecast is smooth sailing for Oliver Chancellor, scion of Galveston's premier financier. Destined to take his place in the hallowed marble corridors of his family's bank, Chance is content with the futur...



  • Jane Orcutt

    Merrilee wants only the best for the child she cannot keep. Nora dreams of being a mother to a child of her own. Lullaby is a tender story of a courageous teenage girl and a woman who longs for a baby. A stirring novella that explores the depths of a...



  • Kenneth Oppel

    The forest heaves and splits in a terrible quake, and Griffin, a newborn Silverwing bat, is sucked down a fissure deep into the earth. Shade, Griffin's father, soon realizes that his son has been drawn into the Underworld and embarks on the most dang...



  • Mel Odom

    Since the beginning of time, the angelic hosts of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in a struggle for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now come to the mortal realm...and neither Man nor Demon nor...



  • Mel Odom

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... Picture Perfect Cordelia has a vision of a young child being attacked by a squid-like demon at the same time that Gunn is rescuing a young artist whose studio has been attacked by vampires. ...




  • Joan O'Neill
    in

    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...



  • Gemma O'Connor
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    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...



  • Ed O'Connor

    As inspector John Underwood and his team frantically try to piece together the last hours of Olympic athlete Lucy Harrington, events take an extraordinary turn. Harrington's murderer contacts English Literature lecturer Heather Stussman and challenge...



  • Amelie Nothomb

    The Japanese believe that until the age of three children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amélie Nothomb's new novel The C...



  • Howard Norman


    Bringing together eight previously published stories the bestselling author of The Bird Artist explores the lives of a range of characters who share a sense of loneliness and obsession. In the title story Tokyo-born Mrs. Moro is driven every day ...



  • Howard Norman

    From the bestselling author of The Bird Artist, the final book in his Canadian trilogy (with The Bird Artist and The Museum Guard): a novel about spirit photographs, adultery, and murder

    It is 1927. Young Peter Duvett has accepted a job as an ...



  • Diane Noble

    Filled with warmth and tender insights, Heart of Glass follows the unforgettable Fairwyn March from young adulthood through midlife during the final decades of the nineteenth century.

    A free-spirited beauty whose life brims with mountain lore ...



  • Steve Niles

    Cal McDonald has made a career helping and hunting the dark creatures that haunt the world, and has made as many friends as he has enemies. Among the docile ghouls of the city he is a friend. But to most, those who prey on innocent human lives, Cal i...



  • Kerry Newcomb


    Mickey free knew he belonged with the Apache people who has raised him from infancy, with his father, the warrior Geronimo, and his mother, Gray Willow. Then a terrible and one brutal act of betrayal forced the red-haired, blue-eyed Apache to set...



  • Antonya Nelson

    "Nelson's prose is precise and energetic, and her insights delight because they manage to be at once surprising and so right as to seem inevitable." -- The New York Times Book Review Antonya Nelson is widely regarded as one of America's most talent...



  • Heather Neff

    “You must promise me to go back to Wisdom one day. You see, little girl, Wisdom is your Source. It’s where your blood was born. . . .”

    The words of her grandfather echo in her ears as Maia Ransom, a nurse from Michigan, arrives on the is...



  • Clare Naylor

    Yesterday, Liv Elliot had it all: a great flat in London's Notting Hill, an actual career (okay, as an accountant), and a coveted fiance. Every girl's dream, right? But then Tim declared that the wedding was off--leaving Liv shell-shocked. Luckily, s...



  • John J. Nance

    The passengers of Meridian Flight 6--delayed for hours and mistreated by airline personnel--have been pushed to the edge. When Captain Phil Knight makes a forced emergency landing in war- torn Nigeria, abandoning his copilot to certain death, violenc...



  • Meera Nair

    The ten exquisitely crafted stories in Video introduce a gifted new writer whose straight-forward, elegant prose and bewitching storytelling talent combine in brilliant miniatures of contemporary Indian life.In the title story, an Indian man’s chan...




  • Earl Murray

    The American West has long inspired intrigue and violence-everything from gunfights at the OK Corral to modern-day murders, scandals, and botched investigations that dominate the nation's headlines. With many of them based on actual events, this coll...



  • Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    STAY TUNED FOR MORE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. Somebody is using television as a mind control vehicle, sending subliminal messages to hollow-eyed viewers, and turning ordinary couch potatoes into raging mobs programmed to kill. A secret enemy dares to...



  • Robert N. Munsch

    Rene loves to play pretend but sometimes there's no substitute for the real thing.After convincing her dad to build her a playhouse, a playbarn, and play farm animals, Rene feels something is missing — people! Rene wants a play mommy and a play...



  • Debra Mullins

    Rules Are Made to Be Broken... When Garrett Lynch bursts the glittering Raynewood ballroom a Wild mail, a hapless footman clinging to each powerful arm, Lucinda Devering is equally appalled and impressed. How uncivilized! How barbaric! How... stir...



  • JoJo Moyes

    At a celebration in honor of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953, the rebellious young Joy falls in love at first sight and marries the man of her dreams. Now, forty years later, Joy's fifteen-year-old granddaughter, Sabine, seeks shelter at her ...



  • Katherine Mosby

    From the acclaimed writer of Private Altars, comes a story of driving lyrical force set in Manhattan in the 1950s. When he is expelled from boarding school, Gabriel Gibbs is sent to live with his older brother Spencer in New York. Rather than a ...



  • Carole Mortimer

    Eligible, elusive...and engaged! Logan McKenzie liked his life exactly how it was -- with no surprises, and without a wife. Then Logan learned his mother was about to marry for the third time, and that Darcy, his very pretty stepsister-to-be, w...



  • Elspeth Morrison

    Dorothy Dunnett has earned worldwide acclaim for the masterful blending of historical fact and imagination in her two series of novels set in brilliantly reconstructed fifteenth- and sixteenth-century landscapes. The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II...



  • Michael Morris

    “Erma Lee is a wonderful character ...It is hard to believe that Wiregrass is a first novel.” -- --Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Nora, Nora“...truly inspiring and uplifting without ever being preachy or didactic. A real page turner with very...



  • Caiseal Mor

    Brave, copper-haired Aoife was the daughter of a king, a bold young woman full of life and mischief. But on one winter's night she and her brothers took part in an act of careless mischief with consequences they could never have imagined -- and a dea...



  • Margaret Moore

    The Warrior's Bride Everyone knows that red-haired women are nothing but trouble! So when enchanting, flame-haired Fiona MacDougal rides into his castle courtyard announcing that she is willing to become his bride, Caradoc of Wales knows to be wa...



  • Lilian Moore

    Meet Little Raccoon.

    "Little Raccoon was little, but he was brave."

    Little Raccoon is a precocious and curious young creature. Whether facing down the scary thing in the pool, exploring the world beyond his familiar woods with a pair of...





  • Else Holmelund Minarik

    It's Mother Bear's birthday, and Little Bear wants to find the perfect present. As he searches, he has some help from his friends, each of whom has an idea about what Mother Bear would like best!

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