Books Published in August 1994

New Books List: 521 titles

  • The Accident

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Acts of Love

    Emily Listfield

    From the acclaimed author of Waiting to Surface comes a “searing” (Publishers Weekly) and emotionally powerful novel about a family and a community torn apart after an unthinkable tragedy.In a suburb near Albany, New York, Ted and Ann Waring are ...

  • Adopted By the Eagles

    Paul Goble

    Stunning full-color portraits of the wildlife and landscapes of the Great Plains complement a dramatic retelling of a Lakota tale of treachery and adventure. By the Caldecott Medalist for The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. ...

  • A Aga

    Jake Gordon Young

  • Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener

    M.C. Beaton

    Never say die. That's the philosophy Agatha Raisin clings to when she comes home to cozy Carsely and finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor neighbor, James Lacey. The beautiful newcomer, Mary Fortune, is superior in ...

  • Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves

    Peter Roop; Connie Roop

    A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and recipient of the Florida Sunshine Award: In this absorbing chapter book, Ahyoka helps her father, Sequoyah, unlock the mystery of “talking leaves” to create the Cherokee alphabet Ahyoka is...

  • Air Charlie

    Shari Lewis

  • All Fall Down

    Lee Gruenfeld

    Within hours after a passenger jet nearly crashes in a Washington State fog, the National Transportation Safety Board receives a demand for $5 million. The extortionist's threat: to electronically scramble the brains of virtually any aircraft flying ...

  • Allegra

    Alicia Rasley
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    ROMANTIC ALLEGRA Lady Allegra scarcely knows the handsome and dashing husband who returns to her from the war...yet she soon finds herself falling beneath his passionate spell. And when it comes to love, this is one battle Sir Nicholas pent intends ...

  • Aloha

    Mark Christensen

    When the unbalanced Crawford brothers inherit a fortune, Frank schemes to set off an underwater volcano to create a private Hawaiian island, and sends Tod to the former Soviet Union to purchase nuclear explosives...

  • Alphabet Soup

    Kate Banks

    Illus. in full color. "A fantasy-adventure takes place at the lunch table when a disgruntled boy refuses to eat his soup and daydreams instead. His reverie is shaped by the letters he pulls out of his soup, forming words that come alive: bear, sword,...

  • Alphaboo!

    Carol Thompson

    Kids can search for over 100 hidden letters throughout this spook-tacular All-Aboard alphabet book! There's a page for each letter, featuring an appropriately named monster and lots of objects in the picture that also begin with the same letter. Idea...

  • Amber, Sing Softly

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    In AMBER, SING SOFTLY, Joan takes us back to the Texas of 1875. Amber Prescott is a frontierswoman struggling to keep her homestead and family together, and the last thing she needs is a wounded gunslinger on her doorstep. Drifter Logan Wade knows he...

  • The Ancient One

    T.A. Barron

    When Kate travels to Blade, Oregon to spend a quiet vacation with her Aunt Melanie, she has no idea of the adventures that lie ahead. Blade, Oregon is the home of the magical Lost Crater, in which a grove of giant redwood trees has remained untouched...

  • The Angel Gang

    Ken Kuhlken

    As The Angel Gang begins, thoughtful, capable ex-private detective Tom Hickey is married to the delicate Wendy, whose unworldly innocence and faith in her "angels" provides her with a stronger shield against evil than even Hickey's devotion and th...

  • Angel's Kiss

    Judith Steel

    FROM THE SCANDALOUS SECRETS OF HER BIG-CITY PAST . . . As shots ring out along the dusty streets of Alder Gulch, Willemina Glenn ducks for cover. Had she spent every last penny fleeing St. Louis --- only to get herself killed in this wild Montana bo...

  • Angels & Awakening

    Cameron M. Grey

  • Angie

    Pat Bezzant

    Sixteen-year-old Angie is bright, funny, cute . . . and learning disabled. She feels alone and different from her family and fellow classmates. Then Steven, the best-looking guy in shcool, begins to pay attention to Angie. She can't believe he's real...

  • Arms of the Magnolia

    Amanda Wheeler

    When Rae Montgomery accepts a new consulting job, her passion for her new business partner involves her in scandal and extortion, and forces her to risk everything--as a witness for the prosecution--when her lover's fiance+a7e is murdered. Original....

  • The Asylum

    John Edward Ames

    Welcome to the Cypress Island Clinic. Located on an isolated stretch of the Mississippi River, it is the brainchild of a brilliant chemist - an asylum for disturbed teenagers. No one really knows what goes on there. Except the patients. And for them,...

  • At Sword's Point

    Scott MacMillan

    A BATTLE TO THE DEATH... A series of gruesome murders has left European police baffled -- the victims have been found drained of all their blood. LAPD detective John Drummond knows who's behind the killings. He also knows no one will believe the trut...

  • Aunt Skilly and the Stranger

    Kathleen Stevens

    To a wily thief, old Aunt Skilly seems the perfect victim, but when the man tries to steal the quilts Aunt Skilly plans to sell, he discovers that he has underestimated her intelligence and self-sufficiency -- not to mention her pet goose....

  • The B Book

    Brian Randall

    Brian Randall spent eight years building The B Book. Each of its lavish 46 color plates was painstakingly created by hand. The sets, the costumes, the spectacular photography, along with the punchy text unite in telling a riotous story and modern-day...

  • Baby, Come Back

    Erica Spindler

    The very handsome man sitting on Alice Dougherty's sofa and asking for her advice was none other than Hayes Bradford-the widowed father she'd once come so close to marrying. It seemed like yesterday that Hayes had broken her heart, yet it had been ...

  • Bachelor Daddy

    Sandra Steffen

    HOW TO BE THE PERFECT DADDY... Mitch Harris avoided commitment like the plague. He lived alone, dated sparingly and never gave away his heart. Until ...he discovered he was a father. Suddenly the responsibility of a precocious two-year-old had thi...

  • Back in Society

    Marion Chesney

    The Poor Relation hotel is the toast of London, its guests are paying hard cash, and its owners are preparing to sell up and return to a life of quality. But one last romantic adventure awaits them. Lady Fortescue and her friends, newly attired in...

  • Backtrail

    Elizabeth Fackler

  • Bad Intent

    Wendy Hornsby

    Investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen finds herself in the urban war zone of South Central L.A. when a ruthless politician decides to get the minority vote by resurrecting a fifteen-year-old cop-killing case. He claims the police, including MacGowe...

  • Bare Essentials

    Bonnie Jeanne Perry

    NEED With her father dead and the family business in danger, Skye MacKenzie will do anything to get her life back on track. Except_ reconcile with Logan Wolf, her handsome heartbreaker of an ex-husband! What Skye doesn't know is that Logan is determ...

  • The Baron and the Bookseller

    June Calvin

    The Innocent Seductress On the surface, Miss Gwynneth Dunlevvy seemed simply a sweet, shy young lady who ran a humble bookstore in the tiny town of Guilford. Few realized the ravishing beauty cloaked by her dowdy dresses. And no one knew of the le...

  • Bats and Other Animals of the Night

    Joyce Milton

    Illus. in full color. Explore the mysterious world of the crepuscular and nocturnal critters. Discover why bats can catch the tiniest insect on the darkest of nights, why cats' eyes seem to glow in the dark, and which creature seems to be calling for...

  • Beautiful Dreamer

    Ann Lynn

    True Grit And Deep Desire Lindy Falen's dearest secret lay buried on the Texas range. Still, she was rock-hard determined to tame a piece of the wild West as her own. Even if it meant she had to corral the next stranger that rode over the hill. ...

  • Beguiled

    Eboni Snoe

    After losing her job and her boyfriend in quick succession, all Raquel Mason wants is to escape her troubles for a few hours. But from the moment she walks into downtown Miami's hottest nightclub--where she is approached by two strange men--Raquel fi...

  • Behind the Border

    Nina Kossman

  • Beneath the Web

    Lynn Abbey

    As the Walensor Web, a magical artifact that joins together the souls of gods and humans, begins to die, only Berika, a young shepherdess with untried magical powers, can stop the destruction of her world. Original....

  • Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Artful Murder

    Robert Lee Hall

    Ben Franklin becomes immersed in London's fashionable--and sometimes deadly--art world when Europe's most famous diamond disappears from an artist's studio and the wealthy Lady Shenstone hires the American agent to investigate. Reprint....

  • Benny the Breakdown Truck

    Willy Smax

    Five hilarious stories filled with puns, jokes, and slapstick humor introduce the zany inhabitants of Mike McCannick's Smallbills Garage--Benny the Breakdown Truck, Alfie Romeo, Carmen Gear, and the others....

  • The Best Friend Game

    Francine Pascal

    The competition between the Unicorns and the Eight Times Eight Club goes nationwide when the groups take their rivalry from Sweet Valley Middle School to the Best Friends television game show. Original....

  • Best Friend's Girl

    Beth Cruise

  • Betrayal

    Gwen Hunter

    "My name is Nicolette Dazincourt DeLande, and I have committed murder. . . ." So begins this spellbinding novel, the passionate story of a young girl's marriage into a Louisiana family so monstrous that only an extraordinary woman could escape from i...

  • Betrayals

    Christiane Heggan

    In a world of glamourous passion, no one knows Stephanie Farrell's secrets; no one knows of the betrayals that have scarred her forever, and no one knows of the danger in her past that is threatening to destroy her.... On the surface, Stephanie Fa...

  • The Bette Davis Murder Case

    George Baxt

  • Better Place

    Barbara Hall

    A Southern novel in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Anne Rivers Siddons, A Better Place marks the adult fiction debut of one of television's most successful and creative writers In an attempt to discover why her life hasn't worked out the way she...

  • Beyond Malice

    R.A. Forster

    Defending her ne'er-do-well sister in what appears to be an open-and-shut murder trial, attorney Amanda Cross and her handsome assistant-for-hire must overcome an unfortunate lack of experience and even less fortunate lack of leads....

  • Bite of the Living Dead

    J.R. Black

    Josh has the scary job of trying to put some Zombies back to sleep, after he realizes that the decorations in his new backyard are really tombstones and their residents appear to be hungry for a human snack. Original....

  • Black Beauty Keepsake

    M.J. Carr

  • The Black Book

    Orhan Pamuk

    Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel-loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Cell, a popular newspaper columnist? But Cell, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he find...

  • Blind Eagle

    Don Pendleton

    As conflict in the Middle East threatens to draw the United States into a world war, the Stony Man confronts a shadowy enemy with ties within his own agency, who possesses a powerful technology capable of rendering spy satellites inoperable. Original...

  • Blood Trail

    Jake Logan

    SHOWDOWN FOR A DEAD MAN Somebody got to Slocum's old pal Trace Nolan and put him six feet under. As sure as hellfire, Nolan's wildcat daughter Charlene wants revenge, and she turns to Slocum to pin the murder on a land-greedy viper named Boss Lars...

  • Bloodletter

    Warren Newton Beath

    BRIGHT LIGHTS DARK PASSIONS After years of delays, the ultimate vampire movie is about to be filmed. But… The author is suicidal and possibly insane. He’s convinced his fictional vampire, the Bloodletter, is real. He may be right. The Bloo...

  • Blow

    Bruce Porter

    BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business...

  • The Blue Afternoon

    William Boyd

    "A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged fath...

  • The Body Beautiful

    Marilyn Kaye

    A near tragedy and shocking on-the-air testimony by a teenage model force Sharon Delaney and Tyler Ratcliff to realize how easy it is to be tempted by superficial appearance and values and that true beauty comes from within themselves. Original....

  • The Book Chase

    Jacqueline Woodson

    The young detective team from the public television program, Ghostwriter, is on the case when a prized family heirloom and a rare copy of Frederick Douglass's autobiography disappear at a family reunion. Original....

  • Book for Christmas Pop-Up

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Book of Fruit

    Barbara H. Lember

    Introducing fourteen fruits and showing how and where they grow--from cranberries on delicate vines to apple trees laden with fruit--a collection of vivid photographs presents each fruit in still-life, landscape, and close-up views....

  • The Book of Intimate Grammar

    David Grossman

    With The Book of Intimate Grammar, leading Israeli novelist David Grossman gives us the story of the greatest and most universal tragedy, the loss of the world of childhood. At twelve, Aron Kleinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem ...

  • Born Bad

    Andrew H. Vachss

    From a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short stories -- some never before published -- that distill dread back down to its essence -- and inject it straight into the re...

  • Boy and the Cloth of Dreams

    Jenny Koralek

    In a mystical parable, a boy sleeps peacefully under a brilliant quilt made by his grandmother, until the cloth accidentally tears, nightmares escape, and the child must find within himself the courage to mend the tear....

  • Breaking the Rules

    Ruth Wind

    IN TOO DEEP Mattie O'Neal was on the run. She'd stolen a car, cut off her hair, changed her name and was slinging hash in a small Arizona town. She thought she was safe--until Zeke Shephard walked through the door. His rugged, muscled body set ...

  • The Bridal Path

    Alaina Hawthorne

    Women! Why couldn't they be more like horses? Jack Fitzpatrick understood horses. But women -- well, forget it. And he was surrounded by them! There were the girls who worked at his stables...and then there was his own temperamental daughter. ...

  • Bride of My Heart

    Rebecca Winters

    Guilty! Of loving a married man... Nickie's been in love with Miguel Aldabe--secretly, hopelessly in love--for as long as she can remember. Hopelessly because Miguel, who belongs to Nevada's close-knit Basque community, has been trapped in...

  • Bridesmaid Blues for Becky

    Elaine L. Schulte

  • Brigid Bewitched

    Kathleen Leverich

    Illus. in black-and-white. Brigid Thrush is petrified of jumping off the new high dive at the town pool. But something bizarre is afoot--a strange girl at the park seems to have cast a spell on Brigid--can Brigid break free and find a way to conquer ...

  • Bringing Up Father

    Maggie Simpson

    I NEED YOU, DADDY! The sadness in little Billy Lupton's eyes spoke his need more clearly than words ever could. But Nick Lupton, Billy's father, was fighting demons of his own - unanswered questions about his wife's death and about the strange...

  • The Bucks of Goober Holler

    Gilbert Morris

    With fast-paced action, this favorite author blazes a trail to the Ozarks, where the Buck brothers make a home for themselves after their parents' death. Their outrageous capers lead to lessons about friendship, honesty, and faith in God....

  • Buckskins and Blood

    John Legg

    A THIRST FOR JUSTICE Alexander Campbell thought he'd left lawmen behind when he left Scotland yet already the law was on his trail. As an apprentice, he had killed the man who had threatened his family. Escaping across the ocean. he arrives in Ame...

  • The Burning Goddess

    Ian Hammell

    In a fantasy adventure based on the role-playing game, experienced navigator Zed must use his teleportation skills to brave the perils of the planet Kulthea--and the wrath of an evil goddess--to unlock the world's long-lost secrets. Original....

  • Button Soup

    Doris Orgel

    One old button and a pot of boiling water? What kind of soup is that? With Rag-Tag Meg as cook and Mandy as her trusted helper, it's a tasty concoction as well as a valuable lesson. A brand-new twist on a well-loved old folk take--perfect for...

  • By My Lady's Honor

    Joanna McGauran

    SHE WAS HER ENEMY'S GREATEST CHALLENGE... She was a flame-haired beauty, a fiery adversary to the Norman warrior who invaded Stewart Castle, her demesne. Pledged to save her little brother, the clan's heir, Aylena Stewart sent six-year-old Ian to sa...

  • The Calling

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Faye Summer has been haunted by a three-thousand-year-old-murdered Egyptian princess, one of the five daughters of Nefertiti and the doomed pharaoh Akhenaton, since she was a young girl...and has glimpsed her desperate ghostly face in darkened mirror...

  • Calum's Way of It!

    Willie Robertson

  • Cannibal Killers

    Moira Martingale

    Anthropophagy - humans eating their fellow-humans - creates a curious blend of revulsion and fascination in the ‘civilised’ Western world. When the perpetrator is a murderer - most commonly a sadistic serial killer - the crime not only shocks but...

  • The Captain's Inheritance

    Carola Dunn

    WHEN LOVE TAKES COMMAND... Lady Constantia Roworth had no fortune and didn't give a fig about rank. But her father, the Earl of Westwood, expected his offspring to make matches that befitted their station -- or enriched the family coffers. Alas, Cap...

  • Carrie

    Carole Gift Page

  • A Case of Rape

    Chester Himes

    From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a brilliant, short novel about four black men in Paris wrongfully convicted of raping and murdering a white womanIn spare, dispassionate prose with all the austerity of a deposition, A Case o...

  • The Case of the Floating Crime

    Carolyn Keene

    Volunteering on a hospital ship that brings medical care to South America, Nancy begins to suspect that someone is using the ship to transport illegal cargo and must track down the clues before her own health is risked....

  • Casting Couch

    Becky Bell

    Young Jason McIver is desperate to make it as a frontline actor. So, when he is invited to LA he is eager to seize his chance. Once in LA, Jason discovers a world of predatory feamales and he discovers that if he's going to make it, he has to first d...

  • Chaos in Wonderland

    Clifford A. Pickover

  • Chatting

    Shirley Hughes

  • The Child Queen

    Nancy McKenzie

    THE CURSED QUEEN On the night of Guinevere's birth, a wise woman spoke a fate of doom over the babe: she would be the gwenhwyfar, the white shadow--for though grow to become the greatest lady in the land, she would also betray her king, and be her...

  • Christmas Story

    Josse Goffin

  • Chrome Circle

    Mercedes Lackey

    There are mages out there. And some of them are kind of cute. Like Tannim, for instance, a young human mage with a predeliction for hot rock, fast cars and dangerous women. Now he thinks he's found Ms. Right, but there are three tiny little proble...

  • Chutes and Adders

    Barbara Block

    Recently widowed Robin Light runs Noah's Ark, a Syracuse pet shop specializing in puppies and parakeets, bunnies and boas. Robin can't resist rescuing a stray kitten--or finding the vicious killer who set her up to take the rap...for murder. Deadl...

  • Circles of Fate

    Anne Saunders

    The engagement ring on her finger had not assuaged the keen romantic longing in Anita's eye. Will she find romance in Leyenda, her dead mother's island home? What is the mystery behind her engagement, and what strange compulsion is directing ...

  • Claudia and the Clue in the Photograph

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! Claudia's new passion for photography has her snapping pictures everywhere -- at BSC meetings, at breakfast, and all over Stoneybrook. One afternoon she uses up a whole roll of film on the Sto...

  • Cold, Cold Heart

    James Elliott

    He's a Russian defector given a new life in America by the U.S. government. Now he's exploded into violence--driven by a mad lust to kill young women.

    An embarrassed CIA knows it must stop him--and that only one man can do the job.  But form...

  • College Bound

    Mel Gilden

    A Malibu beach vacation follows the gang's struggles with their college acceptances and rejections, new romances, moving away from home, separation from each other, and prospects for the future. Original....

  • Collinsville High

    Lynn Craig

    Katelyn tells her diary about her busy fall semester, including being elected to student council, deciding to keep God and prayer in the Forever Friends club, and realizing that she and her pal Jon are becoming more than just friends....

  • Come A-Smokin' and Horses, Women and Guns

    Nelson Nye

    In Come A-Smokin', Grete Marratt is falsely accused twice and runs from the law to clear his name; in Horses, Women and Guns, Jim Final escapes from prison and seeks revenge against the swindlers that framed him. Original....

  • Conan and the Treasure of Python

    John Maddox Roberts
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Condor's Egg

    Jonathan London

    Detailed, realistic paintings complement the story of a family of California Condors and their struggle to survive while their habitat is being destroyed, told in a carefully researched text accompanied by information on helping preserve the Condor. ...

  • Confession

    Nancy Pickard

    Jenny Cain would never forget the hot Massachusetts summer day fate knocked at her door. Fate was a teenaged boy with rumpled clothes, a motorcycle, and a shocking byt credible story: Jenny's husband, Geof, was his biological father. The boy, David M...

  • Core

    Paul Preuss

    One of the world's top scientific minds, Cyrus Hudder once made an astonishing discovery that inspired an obsession--one that cost him his family, his reputation...and, perhaps, his life as well. Now the planet teeters on the brink of catastrophe-...

  • The Cottage at the End of the Lane

    Elaine Mills

  • Countdown to Halloween

    Dan Witkowski

  • The Counterfeit Gentleman

    Charlotte Louise Dolan

    STOOPING TO BE CONQUERED Miss Bethia Pepperell owed her life to the dark and handsome stranger who called himself Digory Rendel and who had fished her out of the sea. That, however, did not mean she should give him her heart in return. It was unth...

  • Courting Season

    Jo Anne Cassity

    WAS IT TOO LATE FOR THEIR LOVE? MEGAN: She came to the bustling town of Boonville, Missouri, to work as a veterinarian -- and to seek out a man from her past... JIM: The deputy sheriff's life -- and his heart -- were overturned when Megan H...

  • Cover Story

    Jane Donnelly

    "He's not my type!" Newspaper boss Adam Shofield didn't normally have problems attracting women. Rich, successful dynamic, he had most of the qualities that appealed to the opposite sex. But Millie was impervious to his charms...

  • Creepy Classics

    Mary Hill

    Illus. in black-and-white. A haunting compilation of the scariest horror that literature has to offer--classic short stories, poems, and excerpts from novels by Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Sir Authur Conan Doyle and 17 other masters o...

  • Crime Story

    Maurice Gee

    A novel by an award-winning New Zealand author which spans politics and high finance, and asks questions about the perpetrators and victims of crime, and about the price of greed and personal isolation. It features a confrontation between a petty thi...

  • Crimson Green

    Bruce Zimmerman

    THE WOULD-BE CHAMPION'S FINAL ROUND With twenty million television viewers glued to their seats, Brad Helfan is one stroke away from capturing the U.S. Open Champion-ship in a nerve-shattering upset. But in a sudden hail of gunfire, he comes in d...

  • The Curse of the Calico Cat

    Ellen Weiss

  • Cynthia

    Leila Prince Golding

    Cynthia Carlson felt as though her life had fallen apart her long-time boyfriend had broken off their relationship, her college studies seemed lifeless-So when Cynthia is offered a position as a fire-watcher in a secluded forest tower, she jumps at t...

  • D-Day in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    "When people take from society in the form of criminal acts, I see no point in keeping those people around. Not at taxpayer expense. If they come into Rebel Territory with anything on their minds other than obeying the law and working hard and respec...

  • Danger on Midnight Trail

    Mark Littleton

  • Dark Angel

    Mary Balogh

    The Scandalous Suitor Miss Jennifer Winward was engaged to be wed. Even better, her husband-to-be was the dazzlingly handsome, impeccably upright Lord Lionel Kersey, the man of her dreams since girlhood. But Jennifer had never dreamed that a man l...

  • Dark Apollo

    Sara Craven

    Seduced! Nic Xandreou thought Katie was a gold digger, out to trap his brother into marriage. Camilla knew her sister better and was determined to champion her cause even if it meant a visit to Xandreou's stronghold on the island of Karthos. ...

  • Dark Fate

    Charlotte Lamb

    A marriage of minds... "It's fate - even when we're miles apart the link between us holds!" Saskia thought that two years was long enough to confirm that she would never be reunited with her estranged husband, Domenico. But it...

  • Dark of the Eye

    Douglas Clegg

    A girl named Hope becomes the prey in a monstrous hunt in this chilling supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg. A tragic accident leaves young Hope Stewart with an extraordinary power that is both blessing and curs...

  • Darnell Rock Reporting

    Walter Dean Myers

    DARNELL ROCK IS not the kind of kid who volunteers to write for the newspaper -- it sounds too much like homework. But this is Darnell’s last chance to pull himself together and make a positive contribution to his school. At first, Darnell would ra...

  • Dawn and Whitney, Friends Forever

    Ann M. Martin

    Dawn gets a special job through the We ♥ Kids Club. Actually, it's not really a baby-sitting job. Dawn has been hired to keep twelve-year-old Whitney company while her parents are out. Whitney, who has Down's Syndrome, is delighted to have Dawn as ...

  • Dawn Shadows

    Susannah Leigh

    PASSION IN PARADISE Maria McClintock was as beautiful and free-spirited as the windswept Hawaiian island of Maui where she was born and raised. And she soon caught the eye and woke the lust of powerful planter Royal Perralt, who trapped her in a w...

  • Deadlock

    William Cross

    Alex and Jenny Gregory come to the tiny rural town of Picksburg, West Virginia, in search of a peaceful life and a safe environment to raise children, but their dreams are transformed into a nightmare by a backwoods family with evil schemes of their ...

  • Deadly Devotion

    Patricia Wallace

    WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS... It was a gracious home in a lovely San Diego neighborhood. The baby's expensive toys filled the nursery. But as Sydney Bryant moved around the room, videotaping every inch of space, she could feel the terror... see the blo...

  • Deadly Engagement

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Searching for Sanjay, the son of a New York City jeweler, the boys learn that Sanjay is planning to elope with the niece of his father's archenemy, and that ten thousand dollars in gold is also missing. Original....

  • A Deadly Schedule

    Roy Hart

    THE LONG ARM OF MURDER During a much-needed idyll on Crete, and with instincts honed by twenty years of police work, Inspector Douglas Roper discovers the body of a well-to-do Englishwoman, bludgeoned to death in his hotel. Roper reluctantly le...

  • Dearest Mary Jane

    Betty Neels

    "The moment I set eyes on a handsome, rich man I shall marry him." So said Felicity, and as she was the glamorous sister with a successful career as an international model, Mary Jane had no reason to doubt her. Mary Jane was the stay at h...

  • Debt of Honor

    Tom Clancy

    In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war . . . The end of history. The new world order. Fine phrases, but as Jack Ryan is about to discover, history isn't dead yet - and only the nature of the threat is new. On the Pacific island of S...

  • Deep Flight

    Scott Carpenter

    THE SWORD OF THE PACIFIC IS POISED TO STRIKE--IN A LIGHTNING BID FOR WORLD DOMINATION! Rick Tallman, Lieutenant Commander, USN, has been recalled to duty on the Steel Albatross, a sonar-proof stealth sub that has already revolutionized underwater ...

  • Deep in the Bayou

    Joanna Wayne

    Was he captor or savior? When Melissa Bentley was kidnapped at gunpoint by a man whose haunted eyes penetrated hers, whose hands shook as he held her captive, she thought she knew what she was up against. But when her abductor saved her life, she ...

  • A Deeper Magic

    Jillian Hunter

    A DEEPER MAGIC is set against the tempestuous backdrop of mid-19th-century Scotland. Amid the clash of ancient magic and new science, seething rivalries and dangerous alliances, a love strong enough to triumph over every adversity is born. From the m...

  • Desperate Measures

    Fern Michaels

    An orphan whose wealthy uncle saved him from a life of poverty, Pete Sorenson has lived a fairy tale life--complete with a sweet princess named Annie who provides the emotional support that Pete needs to launch his career as a high-powered attorney. ...

  • The Devil in Velvet

    John Dickson Carr

    Professor Nicholas Fenton enters a pact with Satan and goes back in time to bawdy, turbulent Restoration London to prevent a murder that is about to take place. But he falls in love with the intended victim and resolves to alter the course of history...

  • The Devil's Saddle

    Norman A. Fox

    Tracking the efforts of a gold-searching sharpshooter who holds the key to a legendary trove, rough-riding cowhands Rowdy Dow and Stumpy Grampis monitor her abduction by a murderous band, and uncover an unexpected treasure that promises danger. Reiss...

  • The Devouring

    Douglas D. Hawk

    Lurking beneath the streets of rundown neighborhoods, evil, unseen forces prepare to attack the weak and defenseless with a raging fury that soon promises to victimize anything that lives and breathes. Original....

  • Diamonds and Toads

    Ellen Schecter

    FROM AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED NAME IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages four to eight. The three interconnecting levels of the series are ...

  • Disappearance at Harmony Festival

    Eileen Charbonneau

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  • Dixie City Jam

    James Lee Burke

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    Rachel Vail

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  • The Dobie Paradox

    Desmond Cory

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  • Don't Be Cruel

    Cassie Miles

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    Jill Newton

  • The Door into Sunset

    Diane Duane

    Only Freelorn, the banished Prince of Arlen, can rescue the dying land of Arlen from the usurper king and the evil that threatens it, by rediscovering a missing ritual, lost at the time of Freelorn's father's murder. Reprint....

  • The Door under the Stairs

    Keith Moseley

  • Double Jeopardy

    Linda Randall Wisdom

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  • Down at Angel's

    Sharon Chmielarz

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  • Dr. Nightingale Rides the Elephant

    Lydia Adamson

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  • Dragon War

    Mark Acres

    Seeking to deliver their land from the reign of a tyrannical king, mortal thief Bagsby and elf-mage Shulana fulfill an ancient prophecy when they steal a set of mystical golden eggs and hatch the first dragons in more than five thousand years. Origin...

  • Dream Weaver

    Marti Jones

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  • Dreams and Schemes

    Merline Lovelace

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  • Dreamtime: Aboriginal Stories

    Oodgeroo Nunukul

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  • The Drop-In Bride

    Margaret St. George

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  • Duck's Breath and Mouse Pie

    Steve Jenkins

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  • Dun Lady's Jess

    Doranna Durgin

    Finding a strange woman on their property, Dayna and Eric learn that she has been accidentally transformed from her original shape of a horse and desperately seeks her missing rider for fear that her human side will forget her purpose...

  • Earthbound

    Richard Matheson

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  • The Edge

    Mark Olshaker

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  • Eggs

    Aliki

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  • Eleanor

    Sylvia Andrew

    AN INDEPENDENT SPIRIT! Miss Eleanor Southeran was reliably informed that independence of mind was not a desirable quality in a young lady. But, convinced that she could not love any of the fashionable fribbles of the Ton, Eleanor had so far evaded...

  • Electric City

    K.K. Beck

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  • Embers

    Antoinette Stockenberg

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  • Enchanted

    Elizabeth Lowell

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  • Enchantment

    Coral Smith Saxe

    They called her the Hag of Cold Springs Hollow, yet Bryony Talcott couldn't cast a spell to curdle milk. Then she chanted an incantation to bring change into her life and, to her surprise, conjured up dashing Adam Hawthorne. Beneath his cool demeanor...

  • Enchiladas, Rice, and Beans

    Daniel Reveles

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  • Esther

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor

    Esther never dreamed that one day she would sit beside the monarch of Persia as his queen. But, when the beauty and simple charm of this Hebrew girl sweep her to sudden greatness, she is destined to fill a role far greater than that of empress. God h...

  • Eternal Light

    Paul McAuley

    In the aftermath of an interstellar war an enigmatic star is discovered, travelling towards the Solar System from the galactic core. Its appearance adds a new and dangerous factor in the turbulent politics of the inhabited worlds as the rival factio...

  • Even More Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs

    Q.L. Pearce

    Are the suspicious deaths of several students related to Robert's terrifying mental powers? How can Becky meet her pals for a reunion at the swamp--after she's dead? Around the campfire or hiding under the covers, kids can turn their campouts and slu...

  • The Evening of Adam

    Alice Thomas Ellis

    This collection of short stories offers a series of insights into the failures of communication and expectation between men and women, and the complex web of motives which dominates our hidden, interior lives. Alice Thomas Ellis is the author of "The...

  • Everything to Gain

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    MALLORY KESWICK LIVED A PERFECT LIFE -- UNTIL THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED Mallory Keswick revels in the happiness she has found with her successful husband and their six-year-old twins. Living in Manhattan and Connecticut, she earns the love and resp...

  • Fabia's Choice

    Violet Hamilton

    HE WAS AN OFFICER...BUT WAS HE A GENTLEMAN? The calendar said Spring, but a cold wind chilled Dorsetminster's daffodils and Miss Fabia Thurston. Yearning for her balmy childhood home in the West Indies, the nineteen-year-old orphan took a miss...

  • Face of an Angel

    Denise Chavez

    Last in a long line of long-suffering women, once-divorced, once-widowed Soveida Dosamantes reflects on her 30 years as a waitress at the El Farol Mexican restaurant. Looking back, she hears a rich chorus of Latino voices whose touching, funny and sa...

  • Face Up to Love

    Nikki Danner

    Always too busy with art to worry about boys or looks, Amanda Lindsay splurges on a complete make-over to attract handsome Jordan Michaels and suddenly becomes popular with the whole school, but at a high cost. Original....

  • Family Reunion

    Marilyn Singer

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  • Fashionably Late

    Olivia Goldsmith

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    J. Patrick Lewis

  • A Few Dying Words

    Paula Gosling

    Every year, the normally staid citizens of Blackwater Bay celebrate Halloween with a carnival of madness and laughter " they call it the Howl. Practical jokes are the speciality of the day and every town in the county competes for the wildest ‘H...

  • Fifth and Final Sun

    C. Shana Greger

    Back in the earliest memories of the world, the God of the Night ruled the skies, but his reign as sun was ended by the jealousy of the God of the Wind. The ancient gods' struggle for supremacy raged for ages, until the creation, by sacrifice of the ...

  • Fifty Ways to Be Your Lover

    Connie Bennett

    How did Matt Gallagher love her? With fuzzy stuffed animals and catered gourmet dinners... With fantastical origami swans... By having a maid magically appear at her door... By having a fife-and-drum corps serenade her down the street. Kate ...

  • File Under: Missing

    Sarah Lacey

    Twenty-five-year-old tax inspector Leah Hunter, who made her debut in File Under: Deceased (SMP, 1993), has returned. She hadn't planned to try her hand at crime-busting again, but when retired friend Dora presents her with a puzzle to solve and Leah...

  • Final Resort

    Ian St. James

    Longing for a sense of self-worth despite his financial successes, Cyril Todd stakes his entire fortune on a potentially explosive investment that brings him face-to-face with danger on the lush isle of Majorca. Reprint....

  • Fire Across Texas

    Susan Tanner

    Married to a fire-and-brimstone preacher, Hannah Barnes had given up hope of love and happiness. Then three gunmen killed her husband, and she feared she would lose her life as well. A former Texas Ranger, Jeb Welles was determined to save the tar...

  • Fireballs

    Dan Binchy

    In the continuing chronicles of Brulagh, the small southern Irish backwater first introduced in his internationally bestselling The Neon Madonna and The Last Resort, Dan Binchy delights again in the shenanigans of his now well-known characters in thi...

  • Fireflies for Nathan

    Shulamith Levey Oppenheim

  • The First Horror

    R.L. Stine

    Twin sisters Cally and Kody Frasier aren't thrilled that their family has moved to Fear Street. They've heard the strange stories. They know about the centuries of nightmarish terror. But what they don't know is that they've moved into the one hous...

  • The First Liar Never Has a Chance

    Jim Garry

    The author of This Ol' Drought Ain't Broke Us Yet presents a new collection of folklore and tall tales that capture the rich traditions and larger-than-life world of the Old West. 10,000 first printing....

  • First Offense

    Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

    As a probation officer, beautiful Ann Carlisle knows what it means to walk a treacherous thin line between dangerous criminals who have scores to settle - and the system that seeks to punish them. But now an unseen assailant has shot and seriously i...

  • Fisher

    Douglas Florian

  • A Fit of Tempera

    Mary Daheim

    Framed Pity poor Judith McMonigle Flynn! Taking a much-needed break from Hillside Manor, she and irrepressible cousin Renie have barely set foot in their family's backwoods vacation cottage--and already they're having a brush with the local law. ...

  • Flintlock

    Jason Manning

    Legendary Kentucky frontiersman Flintlock Jones is enlisted by President Thomas Jefferson to infiltrate a gang of conspirators, led by Aaron Burr, out to detach the western states from the Union to build his own private empire....

  • Floating City

    Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader

    Deep within the Vietnamese jungle lies Floating City, a secret empire run on riches and murder. At its heart is Rock, an American Vietnam vet--a killing machine raised on war and rock-and-roll. Ruthless and bloodthirsty, he rules like a god supreme o...

  • Flying Tortoise: An Igbo Tale

    Tololwa Mollel

    Proud of his shiny, magnificent shell, greedy Mbeku the tortoise demands the best of everything from the other animals, until tired of his tricks, the birds decide to give him his comeuppance, in a traditional Igbo tale from Nigeria....

  • Forbidden Objects

    Valerie Townsend Bayer

    The third in the Marlborough Quartet of novels chronicling the secret history of the turbulent Forster family follows the hidden life and times of Emma, the most illustrious member of the clan, in a story of taboo, lust, and redemption....

  • Foreign Foes

    Dave Galanter

    The Hidran race and the Klingon Empire have been at each other's throats for seventy years, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has been asked to do the near-impossible: take the U.S.S. Enterprise" to the planet Velex to mediate a treaty that will end the ...

  • The Freshman Frenzy

    Beth Cruise

    The "Saved by the Bell" gang has moved on to college, but they soon discover that adjusting to campus life is not always easy, as they cope with classes, sports, homesickness, and romance gone awry. Original....

  • Fusion

    Cait London

    MR. AUGUST Name: Quinn Donovan Turn-ons: Old-fashioned small-town girls Turn-offs: All-business city women Favorite Romantic Interlude: At this point, anything! Unfortunately, abstinence is a way of life for a single dad like me. I haven't b...

  • The Gathering

    Isobelle Carmody

    Fifteen-year-old Nathaniel Delaney, a newcomer in Cheshunt, senses that something is very wrong and joins forces with a small group of new friends to defeat the age-old evil presence that holds the town in its horrific grip....

  • The Gents

    Bruce H. Thorstad

    Self-styled Western gentlemen Riley Stokes and Cass McCasland take a job protecting a shipment of Army gold and end up helping a Kiowa woman find her sister, who has been kidnapped by treacherous whiskey men. Original....

  • Geraldine's Baby Brother

    Holly Keller

  • The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed

    Bruce Coville

    When sixth grader Nina Tanleven starts working at an antiques shop, she never expects to stumble onto a mystery -- or into danger. But that's exactly what happens when she and her best friend, Chris, go to pick up an antique wardrobe at old Miss Wats...

  • The Ghost Who Couldn't Boo

    Ron Fontes

  • The Gift

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    After raising her daughter on her own, successful career woman Julia Edwards finds herself alone for the first time in her life. So when she hears a sultry feminine voice calling out to her from the TV, she fears the solitude is starting to get to he...

  • Go For It, Patti!

    Katy Hall

    Moving to Illinois from Texas, Patti hopes that she can make it onto the Paxton squad and continue the cheerleading she has loved all her life, but fears her partner's inability to perform a split will be a big problem...

  • Gold and Glitter

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    WHAT IF... When cowboy Michael Spencer came to work for Libby Carter, she tried to quell her unwanted attraction to his rugged, sexy looks. His deep love for the young daughter he was raising alone make him even more appealing. But he was a man w...

  • Golem and the Dragon Girl

    Sonia Levitin

    Laurel Wang knows that the ghost of her beloved great-grandfather lives in the oak tree outside her house. But now her grandparents are arriving from China, and the family must move to a bigger place, leaving the protective spirit behind.
    Twelve-y...

  • The Good Husband

    Gail Godwin

    "[A] BRILLIANT, WITTY AND PROVOCATIVE NEW NOVEL."
    --San Francisco Chronicle
    As a young woman, the brilliant and eternally curious Magda Danvers took the academic world by storm. Then, to everyone's surprise, she married Francis Lake, a mild, mi...

  • Grass Dancer

    Susan Power

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  • Green Tales

    Beatrice Tanaka

  • Gumpisms

    Winston Groom

  • Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

    Tom Robbins

    When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you -- an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker -- are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re go...

  • Halloween: Big Coloring Book

    Golden Books