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New Books List: 570 titles

  • Into Thin Air

    Thomas Zigal

    IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN THE FIRST BLOOD HAS BEEN DRAWN.... His deputy wears Birkenstocks. His childhood friend got rich on drugs. And his hometown has become a playpen of money, power, and sex. But hippie-turned-sheriff Kurt Muller sti...

  • Lady of Steel

    Roger Zelazny
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Conquerors' Heritage

    Timothy Zahn

    In Conquerors' Pride, Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award -- winning author of the New York Times bestselling Star Wars trilogy, unfurled an epic tale of drama and courage as the interstellar Commonwealth faced savage invasion by alien starships of unknown orig...

  • A Perfectly Irregular Christmas

    Abbie Zabar

  • Yor's Revenge

    Roy V. Young

    Welcome back to Leiblein, where the redoubtable outrageous captains--Yor, Dword, and Trebormatch wits against Yor's ex-lover, the treacherous Lady Katherine Lee, and her deadly minions. Before they can recover Yor's stolen amulet, the petrified eye o...

  • The Eyes of Derek Archer

    Vickie York

    Derek Archer had been called a killer.. . He'd been hunted, stalked and pursued as a fugitive--until he'd vanished altogether. Shortly after the case against Derek Archer was closed, the man managed to escape and create a new identity. Then he set...

  • Under the Moon

    William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats

    While working on a facsimile edition and transcription of W. B. Yeats's surviving early manuscripts, renowned Yeats scholar George Bornstein made a thrilling literary discovery: thirty-eight unpublished poems written between the poet's late teens and...

  • Castle of Horror

    Don L. Wulffson

  • Cave of Fear

    Don L. Wulffson

    While hiking in the mountains, the reader is lead into a mysterious cave full of gold, odd fauna, and human remains, and is presented with more than twenty possible ways out, in an interactive novel. Original....

  • Planet of Terror

    Don L. Wulffson

  • Valley of the Screaming Statues

    Don L. Wulffson

    The reader is set in the jungles of Malaysia, searching for missing family members who disappeared into the Valley of the Screaming Statues, and is offered many alternative ways out of the Valley. Original....

  • Keeper of the Harvest

    Lance Wubbels

  • One Small Miracle

    Lance Wubbels

  • Barbados // Silver Sea

    Cynthia Wright

    He promised to protect her, but he seduced her instead.... 1818: Adrienne Beauvisage was both outraged and intrigued by the dashing rogue hired to be her protector. She knew little of the danger that lurked in the beautiful English countryside.....

  • Thunder in the Valley

    Jim R. Woolard

    Western writer Jim R. Woolard’s classic award-winning debut still rides hard and fires point blank from all barrels . . .Bitter experience has taught Matthan Hannar wound his way upriver, avoiding settlers that wanted to hang him, and Indians seeki...

  • Oh My Baby Bear!

    Audrey Wood

  • American Knees

    Shawn Wong

    Coping with the usual challenges of love and relationships, divorced Chinese-American Raymond Ding and Japanese-Irish Aurora Crane are further challenged by age-old family traditions and the expectations of their own generation. Reprint. 15,000 first...

  • Longer Than Forever

    Bronwyn Wolfe

    WHERE ANGELS GO, LOVE IS SURE TO FOLLOW TWO LOST SOULS Patrick was in trouble, alone in turn-of-the-century Chicago and unjustly jailed with little hope for survival. And then the honey-haired beauty came to him, as if she had heard his praye...

  • Weeping Moon

    G. Clifton Wisler

    Remembering his carefree boyhood days before the arrival of the white man, Buffalo Horn, a member of the Southern Cheyenne, witnesses his tribe's failing courage and spirit and becomes a motivator in a fight to preserve their land. Original....

  • Counterfeit Husband

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    TO DO: - Get a haricut - Cancel appointments - Hire husband? It was the only way Chloe Sumner could protect herself from a lecherous business rival on a luxury cruise. But what "husband" could Chloe trust to spend every day -- and every night -...

  • Return to Sender

    Rebecca Winters

    "Dear Mrs. Brown..." So the letter began and Sarah read on, only to wonder why a Mr. Jonah Sinclair was writing to tell her of his imminent arrival in Denver! But she realized it was too late to do anything about this mail mix-up when a se...

  • Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West

    Kathleen Winsor

  • The Last Chance Ranch

    Ruth Wind

    A WOUNDED SOUL For years Tanya had dreamed of the day she'd be free, and able to be with the young son for whom she'd sacrificed everything. Antonio was her baby, her entire reason for living... A PASSIONATE HEART Ramon had known that somed...

  • The Hiding Room

    Jonathan Wilson

    Part political thriller, part poignant love story, The Hiding Room recounts the passionate, tortured affair between Esta Weiss, a Jewish refugee living in Cairo, and Archie Rawlins, a British intelligence officer. But Esta has secrets darker than any...

  • Schoom

    Jonathan Wilson

    Wiseguys, adulterers, schoolboys, and a New York fur salesman are among the curious characters who populate this debut collection of short stories--tales wryly observant of men and their fluctuating fortunes--set in London and Israel during the '40s ...

  • The Monster Storm

    Jeanne Willis

    Hoping to overcome his fear of thunderstorms, young Dennis the Monster figures that as a monster he can scare anything away, even a thunderstorm, and decides upon the next storm to do his frightening best....

  • Spring Fever

    Ginny Williams

  • Too Many Grooms

    Kay Wilding

    Here comes the groom... When daredevil Hunter Townsend was told he was dying, he did the honorable thing--and jilted Susan Willingham so she wouldn't have to witness his demise. Trouble was, two years later Hunter felt downright healthy. And when ...

  • Grim Weeper

    Donald Whittington

    Failing to find solace with an online support group known as Threnody, an unhappy victim decides that he will systematically track down and destroy each of his oppressors, and a policeman struggles with his secret sympathy for the killer. Original....

  • Vampire Mom

    Don Whittington

    Winston is horrified when a mysterious necklace transforms his cookie-baking mother into a strange creature straight out of a monster movie, and when she is attacked by a neck-biting demon, Winston decides to save her. Original....

  • Until the End of Time

    Polly Whitney

    IN DYING COLOR Roller-blading duo Ike and Abby return, still divorced and still working together. Ike is the gorgeous producer of "Morning Watch," Abby is the director. And in between their constant verbal sparring they have another mystery to sol...

  • Passage to Petrograd

    Charles Whiting

    Common Smith's most dangerous mission yet...Russia, 1924. Lenin, Communist Dictator of Russia, is dying. In the wings, his chief aides are jostling for power, and in the provinces revolution is brewing once more. Soviet Russia is on the brink of expl...

  • Naughty by Night

    Tiffany White

    DO YOU HAVE A SECRET FANTASY? Ashleigh Frost does. She'd always been a good girl: pleasing others, marrying the man her parents thought was the right choice, letting her husband protect her. Well, look where that had gotten her. Divorced and broke...

  • Francesca

    Sally Wentworth

    Poor little rich girl.... Francesca Brodey had the best of everything: beauty, clothes, even men! But, however much she had, it didn't alter how empty she felt inside. She wanted a man who could love her for what she was, not what she possesse...

  • True Lies

    Ingrid Weaver

    WHO WAS EMMA CASSIDY? That was what Detective Bruce Prentice had come to the Maine woods to find out. But the more he learned about her, the less he understood. All he knew was, those flights across the Canadian border in her private plane simply ...

  • The Guardswoman

    Lawrence Watt-Evans
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • In the Empire of Shadow

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    A handful of ordinary Americans -- housewives, lawyers, interior decorators, and the like -- found themselves caught up in a transdimensional conflict, and transported from their homes to realms where magic worked, to desert planets and rebel worlds,...

  • Virus

    Graham Watkins

    Drs. Mark Roberts and Alexandra Walton's patients are addicted to their computers, and no one knows what could cause such an unusual number of educated, generally affluent individuals to succumb to the exhaustion and malnutrition this addiction has c...

  • Blood Calls to Blood

    Elisabeth Waters
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Nobody's Child

    Pat Warren

    WHOSE CHILD AM I? All her life, adoptee Liza Parker had tried to answer that question. But when she located the sleepy community of Pine Bluff, it looked as if the key to her identity was suddenly within reach. And then everyone in town stopped ta...

  • The End of Evolution

    Peter Ward

    In a highly praised study, a paleontologist explores the clues to the extinctions of the past and shows that another great extinction is underway now due to the destruction of the environment. Reprint....

  • Under the Beetle's Cellar

    Mary Willis Walker

    SHEER TERROR CAN BEGIN IN THE MOST UNLIKELY PLACE.... DEEP BENEATH THE TEXAS FLATLANDS, A SCHOOL BUS HAS BEEN BURIED BY A MADMAN. INSIDE THE BUS, ELEVEN HOSTAGES ARE ALIVE--FOR NOW--BUT THE STRANGE KILLING COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN. ABOVEGROUND, WHIL...

  • Fever Pitch

    Elizabeth Neff Walker

    Neurologist Dr. Nan LeBaron and emergency room chief Dr. Steven P. Winstead, are fighting for their medical lives. They are co-defendents in a malpractice suit after their best efforts failed to save a patient's life. But even as the drama of their l...

  • John, Joe and the Big Hen

    Martin Waddell

    Running away when he is scared by an oversized hen, little John Joe inadvertently sets off an adventure for older siblings Sammy and Mary as the pair attempts to discover where John Joe has hidden himself....

  • M. C. Turtle and the Hip Hop Hare: A Happenin' Rap

    David Vozar

    In a new rhyming and rhythmical twist to the old classic of The Tortoise and the Hare, these two up-to-date characters race to the finish line with snappy lyrics and a hip-hop beat sure to please any child....

  • Conspicuous Consumption

    Stewart Von Allmen

    Pursuing anonymous existences as normal American teenagers, a group of individuals know as the ""Lost Pups"" is summoned by their Garou parents to fight the evil Wyrm, who has abducted the Garou champion. ...

  • The Pancatantra

    Sarma Visnu

  • Armor/Amore

    David Vierling
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Voices from Silence

    Douglas Unger

    The author of El Yanqui and Leaving the Land offers a poignant tale of suppression and intrigue as an American journalist returns to Argentina to help the victimized family he befriended as an exchange student....

  • Goddess for a Day

    Harry Turtledove
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Instead of Three Wishes

    Megan Whalen Turner

    A leprechaun is sighted in smallâ€"town New Hampshire. A city boy becomes a hero in prehistoric Sweden. An elf prince tries to reward a girl who wishes he'd just leave her alone. In these and other delightful stories, magical adventure appears in the...

  • Felicity's Pastimes

    Valerie Tripp

  • Rice

    Su Tong

    Set in famine-stricken 1930s China, Rice chronicles the complete debasement of a city family after it takes in a young man named Five Dragons, a starving wanderer from the provinces whose desire for power and sex is insatiable. In this mesmerizing no...

  • Sophy and Auntie Pearl

    Jeanne Titherington

    One morning Sophy wakes up and discovers she can fly. No one seems interested, except Great-Aunt Pearl--and she has a good reason! Here is a book for young readers and their elders to enjoy together. Full color....

  • Naming the Spirits

    Lawrence Thornton

    No one who read Lawrence Thornton's stunning debut novel, Imagining Argentina, will ever forget its mesmerizing narrative voice, its mixture of realism and magic, or its haunting story of Argentina's Disappeared -- the thousands who vanished without ...

  • Heaven's Little Helpers: Precious Moments

    Thomas Nelson Publishers

  • Cattail Moon

    Jean Thesman

    Hearing a musical, enchanting voice coming to her from across the marshes, Julia rushes out and briefly glimpses a beautiful, white-clad figure and is drawn into the mystery of the unknown girl and a boy named Luke. Reprint....

  • Dangerous Dr. Octopus

    Michael Teitelbaum

  • Tides of Love

    Jennifer Taylor

    Marcus Cole was convinced that Eden was his brother-in-law's mistress. And she couldn't tell him the truth -- that he had mistaken her for her sister -- not when he was threatening to take the story to the papers! Eden found Marcus's dark...

  • Justice Denied

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    THE SYSTEM IS MURDER A diplomat is gunned down in midtown Manhattan. A girl is raped and thrown out a tenement window in Alphabet City. A Mafia muscle man is running rings around the law. A beautiful Yuppie's career is cut short with a knife. In a...

  • Follow Your Heart

    Susanna Tamaro

    Fearing her encroaching death, an elderly woman decides to write a long letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love-letter and part confession, it is a bequest of advice from an old woman who acknowledges that she has always bowed...

  • A Christmas Gift

    Glendon Swarthout

    A youngster relates how his grandparents donated a valuable family heirloom, their melodeon, to the church in an unselfish act of giving one Christmas during the Depression when they had nothing to give each other...

  • Bride of the Lion

    Elizabeth Stuart

    In an age of chivalry tainted by bloodshed and betrayal, two unlikely lovers are swept up by a passion strong as steel, sensual as velvet; and eternal as the stars... JOCELYN MONTAGNE Reckless, exotic daughter of a Celtic noblewoman and a Norma...

  • Wordsworth and the Roast Beef Romance

    Todd Strasser

    Playing matchmaker for Roy and Razel, young Dee Dee asks Wordsworth, the talking Basset Hound, to call Razel and pretend to be Roy, a plan that backfires until another wacky invention by Mr. Chandler sets things right. Original....

  • Illegal Motion

    Grif Stockley

    "GRIPPING . . . [Stockley] writes with wit, irony, and a good lawyer's intimate understanding of the daily life of the defense bar and the dynamics of trial. Illegal Motion reads like a thriller and reverberates like the news."

    *Entertainment...

  • Time After Time

    Antoinette Stockenberg

    HE WAS THE DARK HERO OF EVERY WOMAN'S DREAMS Her face was covered with plaster and dust when he came calling-and she tumbled out of her attic crawl space into his arms. Jack Eastman was as arrogant, as effortlessly elegant as his Newport mansion, wh...

  • Were-Wench

    S.M. Stirling
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • The Evil Moon

    R.L. Stine

    Overwhelmed by his desire to own a particular sleek, white Cataluna car, Bryan becomes willing to steal and eventually kill for the object of his desire, unware that the vehicle harbors an evil nature that threatens to destroy him. Original....

  • Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes

    R.L. Stine

    SOMEONE'S BEEN STALKING IN MY GARDEN! Two pink flamingos. A whole family of plaster skunks. Joe Burton's dad loves those tacky lawn ornaments. But then he brings home two ugly lawn gnomes. And that's when the trouble starts. Late at night. When eve...

  • Man and Dog

    Brad Steiger

  • Brittany Butterfield and the Back-To-School Blues

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    Dreading the new school year and struggling with a poor self-image, Brittany Butterfield is befriended by Nathan, a teenage guardian angel, who encourages her to think positively and pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Original....

  • Quicksilver's Knight

    Christopher Stasheff

    SWORD AND SORCERY. SOME GUYS HAVE IT ALL... Geoffrey Gallowglass is a young man in demand--who must make a choice. Should he trust the beautiful, brave Quicksilver--a bandit who stole the land of a lord for herself? Or should he fall for the sultr...

  • Whoops!

    Nancy Springer
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Back-To-School Cool

    Devra Speregen

    Teaming up with handsome newcomer Justin, a Hollywood teen, for a class video, Stephanie becomes the envy of every girl in the class, until she is called upon to deliver an original rock song for their tape. Original....

  • Ghost Invasion

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    It’s almost Halloween, and the Castle Court Kids are ready to raise some ghostsThe old Anderson barn is haunted. According to sixteen-year-old Bettina Katzenbach, the ghosts of Addie Anderson and her bandit boyfriend return every Halloween. Ent...

  • Spider-Man: Carnage in New York

    Dean Wesley Smith

    The Amazing Spider-Man must go head-to-head with his most dangerous enemy: the psychotic murderer known as Carnage! A vicious serial killer named Cletus Kasady has had his body chemistry altered by an alien creature. Now, Kasady can transform himself...

  • Candy Corn!: Scratch and Sniff Fun!

    Bea Sloboder

  • The Real Mother Goose Book of American Rhymes

    Debby Slier

  • Come the Dawn

    Christina Skye

    Dearest Reader, If you like adventure--along with a heady blend of passion--I'm certain you'll enjoy this second book in the exploits of the eccentric and aristocratic Delameres. Handsome, cynical, and exquisitely charming, the twelfth earl of ...

  • Special Relationship

    Robyn Sisman

    Once in love with an American Rhodes scholar at Oxford with strong political ambitions, Annie Hamilton succeeds in keeping the past affair a secret, until her eldest son stumbles upon the truth of his parentage. Reprint. PW. ...

  • The Baby-Sitters Club

    A.L. Singer

  • What She Did on Her Summer Vacation

    Tracy Sinclair

    ROYAL SINGLE DAD! So this was England! American tourist Melanie Warren was enchanted, even by the rain. Until a ferocious downpour left her stranded - and at the mercy of David Crandall, the wickedly sexy seventh Viscount of Castlebury. Still,...

  • Total Amazon Windows

    Simon & Schuster

    Explore the magic of the Amazon rainforest. Inspired by a new exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park. Total Amazon is the riveting multimedia adventure that transports you deep into the rainforest, where you'll learn how to...

  • Bra Melting

    Janni Lee Simner
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Bed of Roses

    Suzanne Simmons

    AN ANGELIC LADY The last thing the beautiful and determinedly unmarried Lady Alyssa Gray wanted at her ancestral home was a man. Yet the Queen had heard about the "haunting" of Graystone Abbey and was sending an emissary to investigate. Since Alyssa...

  • Exchange Program

    Susan Shwartz
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • No Biting, Horrible Crocodile!

    Jonathan Shipton

    Everybody has problems dealing with Flora, who disguises herself as a crocodile and bites all the other children in her class, until she accidentally damages a stuffed monkey and vows to stop biting forever....

  • Green

    Frances Sherwood

    A second novel by the author of Vindication presents the story of a young woman coming of age in 1950s America as she searches for a worthwhile cause and ultimately learns that she must find her own way. 25,000 first printing....

  • Teacher's Pet

    Josepha Sherman
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Jump Pay

    Rick Shelley

    THE LUCKY 13TH The 13th Spaceborne is the elite fighting force of the Accord of Free Worlds. For decades the Accord tried to keep out of the war that divided the galaxy. But now they have no choice--it's fight or die. And the soldiers of the 13th ...

  • Alien Harvest

    Robert Sheckley

    ALIEN TREASURE: A MISSION IMPOSSIBLE This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woma...

  • Selling the Lite of Heaven

    Suzanne Strempek Shea

    Advertising to sell her engagement ring after being left at the altar by a man who decided to enter the clergy instead, a young woman meets Randy, a recently engaged prospective buyer who keeps coming back to see her....

  • Nez Perce Nightmare

    Jon Sharpe

    A routine call to duty brings Skye Fargo face-to-face with a lynch mob out to string up a Nez Perce youth, a vengeful group of Native Americans on a blood hunt, and a preacher's voluptuous widow. Original....

  • The New Britomart

    Eluki Bes Shahar
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • The Robot King

    Brian Selznick

    "Ezra, a mute since his mother's death, compulsively collects small things that older sister Lucy uses to craft mechanical toys. When she assembles a man-sized figure and inserts their mother's music box as a heart, it comes to life -- and what a lif...

  • Shadow Man

    Melissa Scott

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    In the far future, human culture has developed five distinctive genders due to the effects of a drug easing sickness from faster-than-light travel. But on the planet Hara, where society is increasingly instability, caught between hard-liner tradi...

  • Imitation Bride

    Christine Scott

    Hired Bride... Single mom Lacey Keegan had received some odd assignments through her personal errand service, but Michael Damian's request was downright outrageous. The man actually expected her to pose as his bride-to-be! Still, he was her best cli...

  • At the Midnight Hour

    Alicia Scott

    A CHILD'S KEEPER Elizabeth Guiness had her work cut out for her. Her precocious young charge quoted morbid statistics twenty-four hours a day, desperately seeking just one ounce of his father's affection. But brilliant scientist Richard Keaton see...

  • Razzamatazz

    Sandra Scoppettone

    Murder is nothing new to Colin Maguire-he was wrongly accused of fatally stabbing his family in Chicago. The true culprit was never found. Once again in peaceful Seaville, Maguire is accused of committing a series of murders marked by bizarre symbols...

  • Cara and the Terrible Teeners

    Elaine L. Schulte

  • Lovers and Strangers

    Candace Schuler

    IT WAS LUST AT FIRST SIGHT Cynical reporter and ladies' man Jack Shannon is back. Bachelor Arms was his home - until his brother's tragic and mysterious suicide. Now Jack's returned to find some answers...and maybe assuage his guilt. Having a drin...

  • Burn Out

    Alan Scholefield

    Dr. Anne Vernon has recently taken a job as the only woman in an all-male prison. Her role there is twofold: She must cater to the physical well-being of the prisoners and also investigate their mental problems - a job description that is as challeng...

  • My Worst Days Diary

    Ellen Schecter

    From America's Most Trusted Name In Early Childhood EducationEvery book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages three to eight as they develop reading skills.Level 3 (Grades 2-3) books are desi...

  • Real Live Monsters!

    Ellen Schecter

    Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages three to eight as they develop reading skills.

    Level 2 (Grades 1-3) books are written especially for children who are on their way to r...

  • Toad Eats Out

    Susan Schade

    Toad is back in another delightful escapade.  This time, it's our warty hero's birthday, and he decides that he would like to go to a restaurant.  To his surprise, all of his friends are waiting there to make his birthday a ribbity riot!  ...

  • The Best Baby-Sitter Ever

    Richard Scarry

  • Camping Out

    Richard Scarry

  • Mr. Frumble's New Cars

    Richard Scarry

    LOOK OUT, EVERYONE! Mr. Frumble's pickle car has been in Mr. Fixit's shop for repairs, but when it's time to leave, the confused pig drives off in Roger Rhino's bulldozer by mistake. Oh no! What could be worse than Mr. Frumble behind the wheel of a ...

  • The Stone of War and the Nightingale's Egg

    Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Lost in Place

    Mark Salzman

    From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China ...

  • Dragonslayer's Return

    R.A. Salvatore

    THE FINAL BATTLE It's been four years since Gary Leger slew a dragon and returned home from Faerie. And almost half a year since his father died. Ever since that fateful day, he's been aching to take his wife, Diane, leave Earth behind, and go bac...

  • In the Garden

    Angie Sage

  • In the House

    Angie Sage

  • The Veil of Illusion

    Rebecca Ryman

    Set in nineteenth-century India, a novel examines the repercussions of romance between Maya Raventhorne, daughter of a bitter half-caste who is presumed dead, and Christian Pendleton, the naive son of an English official with a secret past. 35,000 fi...

  • Because You're Mine

    Nan Ryan

    STOLEN LAND, CAPTURED HEART Golden-haired Sabella Rios knew that she was the rightful owner of the Lindo Vista ranch in the lush cattle country of Southern California. But her legacy had been stolen by the father of handsome Burt Burnett, who now ...

  • Shadows from the Fire

    Mary Ryan

    On a balmy May evening in 1969, three young women face very different futures. Patricia is in love, and finally agrees to spend the night with her boyfriend Paddy in the beautiful valley of Glendalough. Joan, studying for her Leaving certificate, dre...

  • Heart of Dreams

    Jeanne Rose

    Dreamstalker... Mara Fitzgerald couldn't get Luke Naha out of her dreams. Nightly she was haunted by frightening--yet erotic--images of him that left her breathless and wanting. Even more disturbing was the mysterious, brooding Native American's ...

  • Cloud Castles

    Michael Scott Rohan

    The Spiral: where past and present meet, where myth and legend infiltrate the mundane world, where Hy Brasil and Babylon are but a short voyage away - via the cloud archipelagos...You can't always find it - but it can always find you.And when it find...

  • Gentle Rain

    Evelyn Rogers
    in

    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Beauty vs. the Beast

    M.J. Rodgers

    And then there was one... When psychologist Damian Steele killed off the nasty half of his dual-personality patient, he never expected that the 'widow' would file a wrongful-death suit. Nor did he expect that a breathtaking beauty would be his sav...

  • A World Away

    Pam Rock

    A privileged passenger on the skyliner Moon Courier, Alena Yor was waiting for the journey to end and her new project as a high-ranking cartographer to begin when she first met virile officer Garner Rie. Handsome and courageous, Garner intrigued Alen...

  • Born in Ice

    Nora Roberts

    When the harsh storms of winter descended upon western Ireland the locals stayed indoors--and visitors stayed away. Brianna Concannon's bed-and-breakfast became a cold and empty place. But that was fine with Brianna. She enjoyed the peace and quiet, ...

  • Undying Laughter

    Kelsey Roberts

    More than one man had a date with Destiny... Destiny Talbott, The Rose Tattoo's newest headliner, was head-turningly gorgeous, but her arresting allure brought on more than her share of suitors, including Wesley Porter, the boss's sexy son. But a ...

  • The Omaha Heat

    J.R. Roberts

    To the Gunsmith, there's no one more low-down than a rich man who pays other people to do his dirty work. Michael Percy. a businessman from Omaha, Nebraska, seems to be in the habit. First, he has his own mistress killed. Then, he has a corrupt sheri...

  • In the Dead of Summer

    Gillian Roberts

    Mellow old Philadelphia, where life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have flourished for centuries, now has a new claim to fame. The City of Brotherly Love has been proclaimed number one in the nation ... for hostility. English teacher Amanda P...

  • An Irresistible Pursuit

    Rebecca Robbins

    Pursuing her obsession for ancient relics, young dilettante Phoebe Lawton plots to hide in the London Museum and "purchase" an Egyptian amulet, but her plan is thwarted by the appearance of archaeologist Sir Malcolm Forbes. Original....

  • When the Dead Scream

    Mark Rivers

  • Timeswept Bride

    Eugenia Riley

    TIMELESS DESIRE The death of an unfaithful wife has left Jake Blarney with twin daughters to raise and a farm to run on his own. Desperate and angry, he challenges Destiny to bring him a new helpmate --- and is rewarded with a breathtaking gift from...

  • The Bachelor Party

    Paula Detmer Riggs

    THE LAST BACHELOR Sheriff Ford Maguire had no time for romance. Keeping the peace in Clover, South Carolina, kept him busy, while reminding him that most people weren't to be trusted. Then single mom Sophie Reynolds came to town, testing Ford's no...

  • The Love Trap

    Emma Richmond

    Jenna had one thing in mind when she went to Spain -- to recuperate from her accident. She wasn't looking for excitement, or romance. But fate had chosen otherwise. Next door was a famous writer -- Bay Rawson -- who was insecure enough to feel th...

  • MacDougall's Darling

    Emilie Richards

    TO LOVE AND PROTECT Fiona Sinclair had come home to face the demons of her past. And when Andrew MacDougall offered the shelter of his arms, she was ready to face her future. This compelling man made her long for more than protection. Now she want...

  • Wayward Angel

    Sue Rich

    A Man of Secrets... Tormented by clouded memories of a malicious crime, Bragen Alexander has searched for the one man whose lies could send Bragen to the gallows. Now, tantalizingly close to confronting his most hated enemy, he strikes a bargain ...

  • Loving Mollie

    Jeane Renick

    A SONG OF LOVE PLAYS FOREVER Stranded overnight in an airport, Mollie McDeere is astonished to encounter world-famous musician Gray Walker. They were lovers as teenagers until Gray's sudden disappearance eighteen years ago--a wound in Mollie's hea...

  • Beyond Ragnarok

    Mickey Zucker Reichert

    THEY'VE SURVIVED THE END OF THEIR UNIVERSE.... But now, nearly three hundred years after the time of Ragnarok--the death battle of the gods--humankind faces a new and potentially fat trial. The balance between Law and Chaos has long been maintaine...

  • Dark Trail

    James Reasoner

    Struggling to maintain order in the face of the transcontinental railroad, rivaling miners, and a justice-seeking marshal, Cole Tyler and Billy Casebolt encounter more trouble in a vengeful stranger from New Orleans. Original....

  • Wizardry: The Legend of the Crimson Crescent

    James E. Reagen

    A party of six adventurers assemble at an inn and embark on their quest. Although they are well-developed characters who make their own way, they also interact with a deity who is surprisingly like a contemporary game-player--a story on two levels. O...

  • Wild Texas Bride

    Dana Ransom

    He gave her her first kiss when she was thirteen. But now Billy Cooper has taken up with a dangerous gang of outlaws. So seventeen-year-old Sarah Bass dons boots and breeches and rides out to rescue the man she loves from a life of crime. But when in...

  • Miss Meredith's Marriage

    Lindsay Randall

    A SCANDALOUS PROPOSAL Meredith Darlington had long ago rejected the ton, preferring to be a true "Original "--a group of unconventional women. But now she was desperate to do a most conventional thing--marry. According to the terms of her papa's wil...

  • Shadow the Deer

    Theresa Radcliffe

  • A Wolf in Death's Clothing

    Elizabeth Quinn

    HUNTER OR HUNTED? PREDATOR OR PREY? A trail of blood leads Dr. Lauren Maxwell, Anchorage-based investigator for the Wild America Society, to Alaska's remote Nowitna Wildlife Refuge to investigate the near-fatal shooting of her friend Belle Doyon. The...

  • Mrs. Toggle and the Dinosaur

    Robin Pulver

  • Hunters and Gatherers

    Francine Prose

    Hunters and Gatherers, Francine Prose's withering look at the New Age, is a novel about men and women, power and friendship, sex and competition, and who does what to whom. Reeling from the shock of a failed romance, Martha, a fact checker at a ch...

  • Seize the Wind

    Heather Graham Pozzessere
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    Available for the first time in ebook! Plunge into the drama and romance of this historical from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. Originally published in the anthology Renegades in 1995.Traveling through the forest north of London, K...

  • Defiant

    Patricia Potter

    Only the desire for vengeance had spurred Wade Foster on, until the last of the men who had destroyed his family lay sprawled in the dirt. Now, badly wounded, the rugged outlaw closed his eyes against the pain...and awoke to a tender touch. He'd neve...

  • The Vienna Passage

    David Porter

    Toby Burgate falls in love in Vienna at the turn of the century and, as appreciation for the art and music of the city sweeps over him, learns that not all is beautiful and that the pervasive antisemitism he observes is terribly wrong...

  • The Mummy's Mirror

    Dawn Aldridge Poore

    With her three sisters finally wed, Miss Roxanne Sydney is free to pursue her favorite pastime: a mystery! Accompanied by Miss Flora Rowe, her poor but proper traveling companion, Roxanne is off to uncover the grandest of all mysteries, the land of E...

  • Hard Drive

    David Pogue

  • The Lost Mind

    Christopher Pike

    She didn't know what she had done. She awoke in the woods beside a dead body. There was a knife in her hand, blood on her clothes. Had she killed the young woman who lay beside her? She couldn't remember. She couldn't remember anything. Not even h...

  • The Dollhouse

    David Pierce

  • Teacher Vic Is A Vampire--Retired

    Jerry Piasecki

    Ghoulish Teacher Vic is is afraid of garlic bread but loves the school blood drive, wears a black cape, and keeps his class laughing, in a story that provides readers with Freaky Facts about Vampires. Original....

  • Dance of the Mongoose

    T.J. Phillips

    Journeys into the private world of Joseph Wilder, a struggling novelist whose approach to criminal evil is strictly literary, until a trip to the Virgin Islands becomes his first case as a real-life detective. Reprint....

  • Dawn of Liberty

    Michael Phillips

    Political unrest shakes the foundations of a war-torn country -- and of the McCallum family as they fight for their faith in the Secret of the Rose series.   Many years after their daring escape from a divided Germany, Sabina and Matthew McCallu...

  • Up Close and Personal

    Diane Pershing

    He loved her rough and tender .... A master at getting others to reveal their secrets, Evan Stone never let a woman get close enough to touch the scars that marked his soul. But when teacher Chris McConnell dared confess the sorrows that haunted h...

  • Omega Game

    Don Pendleton

    BOMBS AWAY Mack Bolan's worst nightmare is now a reality: the Mob is going nuclear. At the helm is Don Luigi Calo, whose burgeoning global syndicate, the Star, has branched out beyond routine Mafia trafficking to infringe on international diplomac...

  • Stinger

    Don Pendleton

    America's finest tactical neutralization arm, Stony Man is the Presidents wild card in the deadly game of global terrorism. Acting both within and beyond the law, these dedicated combat and techno warriors operate on one principle: terrorists must pa...

  • Field Trip

    John Peel

    After talking their teacher into organizing a field trip to the other side of the Wormhole, Jake Sisko and his classmates become alarmed when a Cardassian raider shoots down their runabout, trapping them on a planet run by plants. Original....

  • Soup 1776

    Robert Newton Peck

  • More Super Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs

    Q.L. Pearce

  • Super Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs

    Q.L. Pearce

    The fifth volume of Super Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs includes eleven thrilling tales that will creep into the imaginations of you ng readers everywhere. Great for campouts, sleep-overs, or any dark, stormy night....

  • A birthday basket for Tia

    Mora Pat

  • The Cousin War

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are psyched when  their favorite cousin, Robin, comes to visit. They  can't wait for Robin to meet their friends_and  maybe even find a date for the Girls-ask-boys dance  at Sweet Valley Middle School.

    ...

  • Jessica the Genius

    Francine Pascal

    Todd Wilkins is driving Elizabeth Wakefield crazy. Now that college basketball scouts are showering Elizabeth's boyfriend with flattery and attention, he thinks he's hot stuff. He even tells Elizabeth she's lucky to have him! When Todd's head gets to...

  • A Killer on Board

    Francine Pascal

    Just when you thought it was safe . . . Convicted murderer John Marin is back! His one goal: to kill Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. Using his cunning and ingenuity, he has escaped from jail and is stalking the California coast in search of his pre...

  • Scaredy-Cat Elizabeth

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth Wakefield is scared. Patty, the new third-grader on the bus, is big and mean -- and she's after Elizabeth! Nobody knows why Patty is so nasty, and nobody can stop her. Elizabeth's twin sister, Jessica, tries to help, but that makes Patty ac...

  • Shipboard Wedding

    Francine Pascal

    Spring break is here, and the Sweet Valley University gang is in for six nights and seven days of sun, fun, and romance -- on a college students-only Caribbean cruise! Overboard! Jessica Wakefield has a plan. She's going to reenact her first thrill...

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Francine Pascal

    Unicorns only...

    The Unicorns are back -- the real Unicorns, that is.Remember all those girls we were hanging out with who weren't really Unicorn material? We're through with them. Now they're calling themselves -- get this -- the Angels. Pret...

  • Come Back, Amelia Bedelia

    Peggy Parish

    In this vibrant edition, newly recolored by the original illustrator, Amelia Bedelia's job search gets her into another ‘homonym hot seat because she does what she's told'literally. For example, she gets a job as a file clerk, only she takes out a ...

  • A Basket of Wishes

    Rebecca Paisley

    "I AM CALLED SPLENDOR WHILE I AM WITH YOU I WILL DO WHATEVER YOU DESIRE." Clad only in her ankle-length copper tresses, Splendor lay atop the twelfth Duke of Heathcourte, who was speechless at having been thrown by his horse and caught by a violet...

  • Breach of Trust

    Preston Pairo

    Baltimore lawyer Harry Walsh has been protected by mobster Sam Giardino since Harry's father was killed by a bullet meant for Sam, but now Harry's police-officer brother is dead and Harry cannot figure out which side Sam is on...

  • Death at Gallows Green

    Robin Paige

    A Body in McGregor's Garden An American living abroad in Victoria's England, Kathryn Ardleigh spends her days penning pseudonymous "shilling shockers" for an eager, sensation-hungry populace. But now that she is sole mistress of Bishop's Keep, Kat...

  • The Case of the Accidental Heiress

    Victoria Pade

    THE CASE: An "accidental" heiress THE CLIENT: Maggie Morgan was dead. At least, that's what everyone told her. But as she pursed her lips and moved her muscles, she knew she was very much alive.... And in a heap of trouble! THE DETECTIVE: Viril...

  • Soumchi

    Amos Oz

    A tale of “dazzling brilliance . . . a simple story which conveys boundless meanings both modest and diverse, set in Jerusalem directly after WWII†(Historical Novel Society).When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in Briti...

  • Sea Princess

    Wanda Owen

    Growing up on her sea captain father's ship, the willful Stormy Monihan finds romance with rugged sailor Jason Hamilton, who vows to face any risk in order to save Stormy from a brutal attacker. She was passionate and wild... The willful daug...

  • Hearn's Valley & Tough Hand

    Wayne D. Overholser

    In a double edition, Vic Hearn and Ellie Dunn return to the Oregon valley to battle a greedy rancher, and Jim Sullivan joins a band of guns-for-hire to help the beautiful Troy Manders reclaim her land. Original....

  • The Keeper of Time

    Joan Overfield
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    Tourist Gillian Brooke enters a quaint antique shop... and is suddenly swept into Victorian London, where a handsome scientist could be her only hope of returning home... or her one, passionate reason to stay....

  • Afternoon on the Amazon

    Mary Pope Osborne

    Vampire bats and killer ants? That's what Jack and Annie are about to run into when the Magic Tree House whisks them away to the Amazon River. It's not long before they get hopelessly lost. Will they be able to find their way back to the tree hous...

  • Warrior Moon

    Sara Orwig

    VANESSA: Her father controlled a railroad and could call up the military with a word. Yet he could not control his oldest daughter. Vanessa was en route to a Denver convent when she escaped the wagon train to bathe in the river. First, a small ch...

  • Two Crows Counting

    Doris Orgel

    Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages three to eight as they develop reading skills.

    Level 1 (PRE-K-GRADE 1) books are perfect for reading aloud with children who are gettin...

  • Slow Funeral

    Rebecca Ore

    Running away from Bracken County and its corrupt magical practices after her parents are killed, Maude Fuller attempts to deny her witch destiny, until her beloved grandmother's impending death summons Maude back home. Reprint....

  • Deadly Pursuit

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    On the verge of turning fifty, Silas Pine defies advice to tend to his bad heart and travels to Grafton, Wyoming, determined to set things right with his son, but the reunion is not quite what he had planned when he arrives in the middle of a bank ro...

  • The House at the End of Ferry Road

    Martin Oliver

    The house at the end of Ferry Road has just been built so it can't be haunted - can it? But then Beth sees two ghostly children who warn her to stay away from the ruined glasshouse. Images and sounds of World War II are constantly in her mind. Is his...

  • Night Before Halloween House

    C.J. Ocheltree

  • Lights Out

    Bernard O'Keane

  • Bewitched

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    If there's one thing successful career woman Suzanne Griffin and her New Age friend Leslie agree on, it's that chivalry is dead and men aren't what they used to be. Until Leslie offers to conjure up a lover from yesteryear. Suddenly, there he is: Ian...

  • On Equal Terms

    Catherine O'Connor

    An adult desire... Sebastian Ferrari had accused Kate of being a spoiled, selfish child and his harsh words had made her angry. Why couldn't her stepbrother accept that she'd grown up and changed? Her feelings for him were certainly differ...

  • I'll Love You Till I Die

    Meg O'Brien

    A WOMAN'S DESPERATE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH PLUNGES HER INTO A WEB OF DECEPTION, DESIRE, AND DANGEROUS OBSESSION. Joanna Carr awakens in a hospital after six months in a catatonic state, only to be told that her beloved husband, David, has been bruta...

  • The Growling

    Jody Lynn Nye
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    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Firehand

    Andre Norton

    Preparing to travel through time in order to face a band of predatory aliens, Ross Murdoch plans to leap into the feudal period of Dominion, where he can help win a war that will bring defeat to the aliens. Reprint....

  • Fortune's Wheel

    Lisanne Norman

    MIND-LINKED They had been brought together by mutual need when both their peoples were faced with the threat of the warlike Valtegans, an enemy bent on conquering any other race it encountered. She was Carrie, the daughter of the human governor...

  • Terrormazia

    Anna Nilsen

    A loony labyrinth places readers on the trail of the dastardly Captain Sharkshin and his hidden treasure, with a series of magic tunnels that give way to a page-turning adventure of crocodiles, gorillas, and lava lizards....

  • A Breach in the Watershed

    Douglas Niles

    AND THE. PURE WATER SHALL RUN FOUL... For centuries, the pristine lands of the Watershed were at peace: Dalethica, the land of life; Faerine, the realm of magic; and Duloth-Trol. land of death and decay, where the Darkwater flows. But now, the Wat...

  • Suitors Duel

    Douglas Niles

    The immortal game continues...with a deadly duel! Princess Danis Vanderthan is proud, beautiful, intelligent . . . and stubbornly independent. When her father the king announces a contest for noble suitors, Danis insists that her friend Holton Jak...

  • Horseman

    Mike Nicol

    "A dark and terrifying novel presenting a mythical account of the development of evil through the history of Southern Africa."--Seattle Times. This ferocious new novel by one of South Africa's visionary writers is a post-colonial reimagining of the B...

  • Beyond Uhura

    Nichelle Nichols

    The personal story of Nichelle Nichols, a well-recognized cast member from the original Star Trek series, covers such areas as her love affair with Gene Roddenberry, career, the historic interracial kiss, and personal relationships. Reprint....

  • Smoke Cat

    Linda Newbery

    Every day Simon sees mysterious and magical soft shadowy cats of every shape and colour in next door's garden, There they twine themselves around the ankles of a strange old lady. But there's one cat, smoky-coloured, named Blue, who won't go to her, ...

  • Till the Butchers Cut Him Down

    Marcia Muller

    FLYING SOLO Now that private investigator Sharon McCone has struck out on her own, she needs all the clients she can get--even a shady character from her Berkeley days. T. J. "Suitcase" Gordon's made millions as a "turnaround man," a corporate tro...

  • R.L.'s Dream

    Walter Mosley

    It’s 1939 and Easy and Mouse are young men just setting out in life -- Easy has yet to develop his skill for unraveling the secrets of others, and Mouse has yet to kill his first man. But all that will soon change.Soupspoon Wise is dying on the unf...

  • An Innocent Ruse

    Mary Morrow

    A YOUNG LADY OF CHARACTER When orphaned Madeline Smythe returned to England and a home she had never seen, her mother's family had high hopes of using her as a pawn in an arranged marriage. But while Madeline might be from the wilds of Canada, she...

  • Songs in Ordinary Time

    Mary McGarry Morris

    It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Marie Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen -- invol...