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New Books List: 535 titles

  • Zachary's Virgin

    Catherine Spencer

    Virgin...or temptress? Zachary Alexander was accustomed to beautiful women at his luxury winter resort, but the stunning Claire Durocher took his breath away! Was she looking for a temporary lover? Zach was tempted to oblige her.... In fact, Cl...

  • Yuletide Reunion

    Sharon Kendrick
    in

    MORE THAN JUST KISSES UNDER THE MISTLETOE... Once, Clemmie and Aleck were in love. And now they've found that they're both single parents, and next-door neighbors. Despite the undiminished sizzle between them, they decide they'd better be "just fr...

  • You Belong to Me

    Eileen Goudge

  • Y2K-9: The Dog Who Saved the World

    Todd Strasser

    In a chat room, nobody knows you’re a dog. :-) Byte's been trained to do a tough job -- he sniffs out computer bugs on missions too dangerous for humans. But lately he's just been killing time, chatting with geeks on-line. Then Byte receives an...

  • Wyoming Wildcat

    Myrna Temte

    HE'D HAVE TO BE BRAVE TO TAKE ON HER BROTHERS Grace McBride Kramer knew two kinds of men -- those who stayed and those who left. Trouble was, the men who stayed were her brothers, her self-appointed protectors! But now Travis Sullivan was ba...

  • Writers on Comics Scriptwriting

    Mark Salisbury

    The biggest names in comics scriptwriting talk candidly and frankly about their profession, their approach to writing and the comics industry as a whole.

    Through a series of interviews, these luminaries in the comics field reveal the mechanic...

  • The Wise Virgin: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
    in

    A lord from a rival clan steals the wrong holiday bride for his brother, and discovers his own true love in the witty and wise captive maiden!...

  • The Winter Queen

    Devin Cary

    The King Is Dead The northern kingdom of Albor is in mourning. The realm's benevolent ruler has fallen victim to a fatal accident. Under his reign, Albor has known peace and prosperity, and all the denizens fear that time has come to an end. The kin...

  • A Willing Wife

    Jackie Merritt

    The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges ...and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true-bred Texas love is sure to bring! THE LONER He lived alone and liked it that way. And no one was going to convince Dallas...

  • Wife for Hire

    Cathy Williams

    Marriage on his agenda! Nicholas Knight was a formidably powerful and attractive man, and he had a very tempting proposal for Rebecca Ryan: he wanted to move her into his luxury home, to share his life... and his bed? Rebecca had known and fant...

  • Whiter Than Snow

    Yvonne Lehman

    Jennifer Collins, with a broken arm and cracked ribs, is trapped in her home by the blizzard of the century. Without power or telephone service, and with gale-force winds threatening to tear the roof off her trembling house, she waits for help. He...

  • Whitehorse

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    Love Never Ends Childhood sweethearts Leah Starr and Johnny Whitehorse had nothing in common. She was a senator's daughter. He was the proud grandson of an Apache medicine man and the local "bad boy." But their passion made the rest of the world s...

  • White Knight

    Jaclyn Reding

    Lady Grace Ledys was sure her marriage to the handsome Christian Wycliffe, Marquiss Knighton, would fulfill all her hopes of love. But her innocent dreams are dashed when her husband proves cold and indifferent -- and harbors strange secrets. For ...

  • Whisper Always

    Rebecca Hagan Lee

    A passionate new story of danger, rescue, and a love that scandalized society... Lord Blake Ashford had long ago stopped believing in fairy tales, but the first time he sees Cristina Fairfax, it's clear she needs rescuing--from a real-life prince ...

  • Where the Heart Is

    Sally Laity
    in

    Experience a family saga that begins in 1860 when the painting of a homestead is first given to a young bride who leaves her beloved home of Laurelwood. Then follow the painting through a legacy of love that touches down in the years 1890, 1969, and ...

  • Where She Went

    Kate Walbert

    “Incisive, eerie, sensual, and threatening.” -- The Village Voice
     
    The linked stories in Kate Walbert’s debut collection Where She Went examine the very contemporary predicament of a family without geographic roots. The first half of ...

  • Where Heroes Sleep

    DeWanna Pace

    When it comes to matters of the heart, you can always trust your friends... Where Heroes Sleep Thanks to her best friend Rose's generosity, Kenzy was able to fulfill her dream of becoming an architect. And when Kenzy returns home to build the orpha...

  • Where Do Kisses Come From?

    Maria Fleming

    Show your little ones what makes them so kissable with this adorable Little Golden Book. There are so many kinds of kisses, little one. I-missed-you kisses . . . thank-you kisses . . . feel-better kisses . . . and kisses just because. This del...

  • When All Through the Night...

    Tracy Sumner
    in

    Katherine Peters thought she knew everything there was to know about Tanner Barkley. He was a newspaper man and he was the handsome scoundrel who had broken her heart. His arrival in the small South Carolina town of Edgemont was enough to spoil her C...

  • What Child Is This?

    Karen Young

    LUKE JAMISON: DEDICATED DOCTOR AND RELUCTANT SUBSTITUTE DAD Dr. Luke Jamison would do anything to help his patients -- anything but get emotionally attached. He tried that once, and it nearly destroyed him. Now his boss, the very determined D...

  • Wedding Bells and Mistletoe

    Trisha Alexander

    THOSE CALLAHAN EYES... Years ago two innocent young Texans stole one night of fire and wonder in each other's arms. But they'd betrayed a beloved friend to do so, and remorse drove Keith Callahan clear to Alaska, drove Susan into matrimo...

  • The Wedding Bargain

    Victoria Alexander

    SHE WANTED TO MARRY A HERO Maximillian Wells, the Earl of Trent, couldn't believe his ears -- or his eyes. Before him stood beautiful, unattainable Pandora Effington, the ton's most scandalous beauty. Max believed the fiery heiress would m...

  • The Wedding Arbor

    Valerie Hansen

    He gave her shelter... With a heart full of hope, Sara Stone took refuge in the serenity of the Ozarks. But she never counted on getting stranded in the middle of a raging storm. Like a godsend, brooding ex-cop Adam Callahan gallantly offered her...

  • We Love Harry Potter

    Sharon Moore

  • The Wayward Heart

    Betty Brooks

    A WOMAN LOST IN THE PAST One minute she was headed for a vacation out west. The next, Anne Faraday was swept up by the force of a twister and tossed back in time to 1851 Wyoming. Wandering dazed through the land of blue skies and sagebrush, she's re...

  • War

    S.D. Perry

    HumanturnedPredator Machiko Noguchi finds her loyalties confounded when she stumbles upon a trio of humans who are stranded on a planet seeded with Alien eggs, and Predators who intend to hunt the hatchlings, and anything else at moves. Original....

  • Walt Disney's Mickey's Christmas Carol

    Ron Dias

  • Waiting for Matindi

    Helen Hodgman

    Recovering from an operation in the Australian countryside and Bondi Beach, the wry, ever-observant narrator of Helen Hodgman's beautifully written new novel waits as life washes over her like waves on the sand. Sensing that her lover is pulling away...

  • Void Moon

    Michael Connelly

    In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfe...

  • Virgin Earth

    Philippa Gregory

    In this enthralling, freestanding sequel to Earthly Joys, New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory combines a wealth of gardening knowledge with a haunting love story that spans two continents and two cultures, making Virgin Earth a tour de...

  • Victorian Villainies

    Graham Greene

  • Vengeance

    Don Pendleton

    DOGS OF WAR Algeria is a hotbed of death squads and terrorism, claiming thousands of lives each year as Libyan and Iranian-backed dissident armies murder and maim with abandon. When a CIA contract agent falls victim to the bloodlust. Mack Bolan en...

  • The Veiled Web

    Catherine Asaro

    WEB OF DECEIT Ballerina Lucia del Mar has two great passions: dance, which consumes most of her waking hours, and the World Wide Web, which brings the outside world into her tightly regimented life. Lucia's two passions collide when a White House pe...

  • Vanished

    Alton Gansky

    What sinister secret lies hidden in the town of Roanoke II? How did the entire population of this desert military instillation simply disappear? High-level Pentagon orders call J. D. Stanton, retired navy captain, back to active duty to investigate. ...

  • Valentine Vendetta

    Sharon Kendrick

    Revenge... or romance? As Sam Lockhart was devastatingly handsome, it wasn't surprising that he had a reputation! So when Fran Fisher heard that Sam had broken her best friend's heart, she gladly agreed to help her friend get even. The ...

  • The Vagabond Knight

    Margaret Moore
    in

    Two wounded souls, a roguish mercenary and a stern beauty, teach each other how to live and love again during a yuletide blizzard......

  • Up, Up and Away

    Nancy Holder

    With only a week to redo their science project, Sabrina, Harvey, Valerie, and Libby find themselves accidentally transported back to Paris in 1783 and held captive in the barn of two mad French hot-air balloon inventors. Original....

  • Up and Down Spring

    Johanna Hurwitz

    Together again... Spring break is finally here and Rory and Derek get to go to their best friend Bolivia's house -- by themselves! Bolivia doesn't want to waste one minute and plans hours of games, a night at the ballet, and even a trip in her unc...

  • Until We Meet Again

    Christine McGuire

    "New York Times" bestselling author Christine McGuire packs her riveting legal thrillers with authentic details drawn from her career as a criminal prosecutor. Now McGuire, who "expertly builds suspense" "(Publishers Weekly), " brings back her savvy ...

  • Unspoken

    Lisa Jackson

    WHEN SECRETS ARE REVEALED Shelby Cole thought she'd put Bad Luck behind her. Bad Luck, Texas, that is. She'd left her hometown ten years ago, her world shattered and her illegitimate baby dead. Now she's receiving anonymous letters claiming that her...

  • An Unlikely Father

    Lynn Collum

    AN UNASSUMING HEIRESS There was no question that Miss Emily Collins would agree to accompany Lord Carson's three motherless children from India to their uncle's estate near Bath. An orphan herself, Emily knew what it meant to be abandoned to the mer...

  • The Unexpected Guest

    Deborah Simmons
    in

    The head of the mighty de Burgh family finds his quiet reserve shattered by the seductive young widow who stays at his keep for the twelve days of Christmas!...

  • Undercover Princess

    Suzanne Brockmann

    "THE NAMES WIND, KATHY WIND...." With those words, Princess Katherine Wyndham went from sensible sister to secret agent. Her mission: to locate her brother--the long-lost crown prince. Her cover: nanny for handsome tycoon Trey Sutherland. Cari...

  • An Undaunted Faith

    Andrea Boeshaar

    Bethany is only seventeen years old, but she has already had her heart broken twice. When Pastor Luke McCabe begins paying extra attention to her, Bethany takes his fine-sounding words with a grain of salt. She's heard sweet talk before. This time...

  • Uhl Eharl Khoehng

    Patricia A. Jackson
    in

    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...

  • Typical Male

    Cait London

    "I'm not your run-of-the-mill pampered playboy--I'm a Blaylock!" -- Tyrell Blaylock, corporate warrior and defender of his family land This loner came home to find peace--not to wrangle with Celine Lomax, the hot-mouthed firebrand who'd invaded ...

  • Two Turtledoves

    Flora Speer
    in

    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide season wa...

  • Two Loves

    Sian James

    In Two Loves by Sian James, Rosamund Gilchrist is restless. She has lived her life so far in supporting roles: widowed third wife of the much older Anthony, a famous poet; mother of the enchanting Joss; daughter of eccentric divorced parents, and mis...

  • Twice Bitten

    Gerald Hammond

    A tale of a gun-dog trainer who discovers a dog-switching plot that leads to a mysterious death includes many memorable and hilarious characters, as well as plenty of inside information for dog lovers and gun connoisseurs....

  • Twenty Thousand Leaks under the Sea

    Charles Carney

    This storybook talks, plays music, and creates sounds--such as a hungry shark, the Acme Rabbit Detector, and a submarine--while relating the misadventures of that irrepressible duo, Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam....

  • Twelve Days of Christmas

    Sarah Albee

  • Turbulent Times

    Andrea Boeshaar
    in

    Experience a family saga that begins in 1860 when the painting of a homestead is first given to a young bride who leaves her beloved home of Laurelwood. Then follow the painting through a legacy of love that touches down in the years 1890, 1969, and ...

  • The Truthsayer's Apprentice

    Deborah Christian

    The Truthsayer's robe is his cloak of office, said to have once belonged to the frost giants of a faraway land, and divination is never done without it. When brutal trespassers steal the seer's robe from his mountain alcove, his young apprentice, Dal...

  • Truly Everlasting

    Brenda Jackson
    in

    In "Truly Everlasting" by Brenda Jackson, divorcee Felicia Madaris and football great Trask Maxwell embrace a blazing passion that will light their way through the New Year and beyond....

  • Trouble with Rats

    Tony Johnston

  • Treasures of the Heart

    Tina Runge

    When Amanda agreed to buy Amishman Josiah Miller's family quilt, she had no idea it would turn out to be worth a fortune. In fact, the pattern was a disguise for a treasure map As the two search for hidden riches, they discover the priceless treasure...

  • Treasure Map

    Matt Mitter

  • Trading Places

    Ronald Kidd

    When Doug is prevented by familial obligations from watching his favorite t.v. program, he becomes disgruntled and decides that his friends have it easier than he does. The next day at school, he and his friends argue over who has a better life, and ...

  • Toy Story 2

    Disney Book Group

    Oh, no! Woody has been kidnapped by a toy collector! Buzz races to the rescue, but Woodyâ,"s not sure
    he wants to leave. Should he stay and enjoy a life of fame, or return to Andy, the boy who really loves
    him? The blockbuster film Toy S...

  • Town Called Malgudi

    R.K. Narayan

    In a writing career spanning seven decades, R.K. Narayan enthralled and entertained generations of readers with his deftly etched characters, his uniquely stylized language and his wry sense of humour. A storyteller par excellence, Narayan's greatest...

  • Tough Choices

    Nancy Antle

  • Touchstone

    Dinah McCall

    Love Hurts Leaving her hometown of Mirage, Texas, is the hardest decision Rachel Austin has ever made. But after losing her parents, and then her family's home, staying would be too painful. Leaving, though, means saying goodbye to Houston Bookout...

  • To Tame a Highland Warrior

    Karen Marie Moning

    Only her love could gentle his savage soul.... A WOMAN'S TENDER TOUCH He was born to a clan of warriors of supernatural strength, but Gavrael McIllioch abandoned his name and his Highland castle, determined to escape the dark fate of his ancest...

  • Tiny Toon Adventures: The Big Race

    Sally Bell

  • Tickle Me My Name Is Elmo

    Constance Allen

    In this delightful story, everybody's favorite giggly red monster welcomes you to Sesame Street, then tells you all about himself. He loves being tickled and making funny faces! His favorite color is every color! He likes playing horsie with his pal ...

  • Tickle Me My Name Is Elmo

    Allen

  • Three Women

    Marge Piercy

    There is a place where your worst fears meet fresh opportunities...and new chances to know love. Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college,...

  • Three French Hens

    Lynsay Sands
    in

    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide seaso...

  • The Thran

    J. Robert King
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Before the Brothers' War. Before the five colors of magic. Before history itself, the plane of Dominaira was ruled by the Thran. They built machines and artifacts, the likes of which have never since been seen. But amid this civilization, a shadow...

  • The Third Wise Man

    Muriel Jensen

    THREE VERY DIFFERENT BROTHERS THREE VERY DIFFERENT LIVES ONE GREAT OPPORTUNITY SHEA DELANCEY KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS A year earlier, Shea and Samantha Haskell had marriage in mind. But when his restaurant failed, pride compe...

  • Things in Corners

    Ruth Park

  • Theros Ironfeld

    Don Perrin
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A young boy stood on the dock of his fishing village and watched the minotaur war barge approach. It would change his life from a lad who would have grown to follow in the footsteps of his father, to the greatest weapons-smith in the history of Krynn...

  • There Is a Season

    Margot Early

    The Midwives: Home to Alaska. To her ex-husband. Her family. And the babies waiting to be born.... Midwife Francesca Walcott has plenty of good reasons to stay away from Alaska. Her ex-husband, Charlie Marcus, for one. Her family, for ano...

  • The Man Who Loved Christmas

    Kathryn Shay

    AMERICA'S BRAVEST -- Courageous. Heroic. Strong. They're the men and women who risk their lives to save others. They're America's firefighters... they're America's Bravest. Opposites Attract: Firefighter Dylan O'Rourke loves the holidays. Eve...

  • That Loving Touch

    Ashley Summers

    She was pregnant...and he offered shelter from the darkest of nights. In the midst of a snowstorm expectant mother Carrie Loving found herself on the doorstep of CEO Sam Holt. And although Sam seemed to good to be true, his offered warmth was guarded...

  • Terror of Two-Face

    Suzan Colon

  • Terms of Engagement

    Kathryn Ross

    An engagement of convenience Frazer McClarran had barely blinked when, in order to avoid reconciliation with her ex-husband, Emma had nonchalantly introduced him as her fiance. But he had his own terms: that news of their "engagement" was ...

  • Teranesia

    Greg Egan

    Welcome to Teranesia, the island of butterflies, where evolution has stopped making sense. Prabir Suresh and his younger sister, Madhusree, live in a remote paradise called Teranesia, where their biologist parents are studying an unexplained genet...

  • Taming Jason

    Lucy Gordon

    A MAN TO CARE FOR... Elinor knew it would be difficult to stay calm and professional while nursing Jason Tenby back to health; he was used to calling the shots. Also, she couldn't forget the time years ago when Jason had kissed her passionate...

  • Swept Away

    Marsha Canham

    When a woman who's ready for love meets a dangerous, passionate man, she can easily get Swept Away... Bestselling, award-winning author Marsha Canham's breathtaking new novel transports readers to Regency England as a young woman rescues a...

  • Sweet Sensations

    Adrienne Basso

    SUGAR AND SPICE... Lauren Stuart hasn't spent years perfecting her craft as a pastry chef only to let a stranger steal one of her prized recipes. Writing the definitive dessert cookbook is more than enough to keep Lauren busy, without investigating ...

  • Sweet Mercy

    Katharine Kincaid

    HER UNTAMED HEART... As high-strung and beautiful as the horses she rode so skillfully, no one could tell Mercy Collier what to do. She had defied her father's wish to marry and was an outspoken supporter of the American revolution. At once bewitch...

  • The Stroke of Midnight

    Jenna Ryan

    Secrets and late nights were as much a part of the man as his badge and black leather Detective Riker was six feet tall with a lithe body and dark eyes that gave new meaning to the word seductive. He was an intriguing package, concealing something b...

  • Stranger in the Mirror

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    How would you like to be drop-dead gorgeous?

    Fifteen-year-old Callie Bailey just wants to be beautiful, like her model-sister Laurel. Only her best friend Addison knows her terrible secret: she has the world's biggest crush on Laurel's...

  • Storm Tide

    Marge Piercy

    A washed-up minor league pitcher gets more than he bargained for when his affair with an older woman draws him into a tangled web of deceit and scandal   When Cape Cod high school star pitcher David Greene left home, everyone in his small beach ...

  • A Stockingful of Joy

    Hannah Howell

    When it comes to enchanting her readers with sweeping tales of lasting love, there is no author more cherished than Hannah Howell. In these special holiday novellas, two spirited women embark on an incredible journey...and meet the two men who will m...

  • Steeped in Murder

    Linda French

    Tea and History... As far as untenured junior history professor Teodora Morelli is concerned, nobody waits with bated breath for a new, politically correct history of the infamous Confederate general George Pickett's adventures in the Northwest Indi...

  • Stealth Bomber

    Barnaby Williams

    When an American nuclear submarine goes missing, the super powers move inexorably towards mutual annihilation. The Americans try to retaliate and plan a raid deep in the heart of the Soviet Union. Suddenly it comes to light that a third party is tryi...

  • Steal Away

    Katharine Clark

    Rachel Stark is about to live every parent's nightmare: Her nine-year-old son, David, is snatched off the street in broad daylight with no apparent motive and only one clue--his red bicycle lying on the side of the road. Now, already under the strain...

  • Starlight, Starbright

    Saranne Dawson

    A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WHO LONGS FOR ADVENTURE IS WHISKED AWAY TO A STRANGE AND FASCINATING NEW LAND BY A HANDSOME STARSHIP CAPTAIN. SERENA HAD ALWAYS BEEN CURIOUS: Insatiable in her quest for knowledge and voracious in her appetite for adventure. No ...

  • The Starlight Wish

    Janice Bennett

    Regency readers were first introduced to Xanthe -- an irrepressible fairy godmother and friend to young hearts -- in THE CANDLELIGHT WISH. Now she's back to play matchmaker for another unlikely couple. All she needs to commence her spells is the ...

  • Staring at the Light

    Frances Fyfield

    London lawyer Sarah Fortune masks a numbed heart with a string of lame-dog clients and a retinue of eccentric lovers. Now she finds herself protecting Cannon Smith, a man whose worst enemy turns out to be his own beloved twin brother, Johnny. Long ag...

  • Star-Crossed Lovers

    Zena Valentine

    LOVERS' REUNION Once upon a time, Jessica Caldwell and Kale Noble had had dreamed of marrying and making beautiful babies. But that was before a tragedy ripped their tightly knit families apart. Suddenly their teenage love turned forbidden, and se...

  • Star Wars: The Greatest Battles

    Michael Dana

  • Star Wars: Pilots and Spacecraft

    Golden Books

  • Star Wars Princess Leia, Rebel Leader

    Ken Steacy

  • Star Wars Han Solo, Rebel Hero

    Sandra H. Shin

  • Star Wars Chewbacca the Wookiee

    Sandra H. Shin

  • Star Trek Anthology

    Kevin Ryan

  • A Star to Sail By

    Susan Delaney

    Still distraught over the death of her husband, Peggy Millwright finds a delirious man lying on the beach outside her Jersey Shore home who claims to be a nineteenth-century sailor and rediscovers passions through his innocent eyes. Original....

  • The Sport of the Gods

    Paul Laurence Dunbar

    A landmark in African-American literature, this powerful turn-of-the-century novel was among the first realistic depictions of ghetto life and language. Written by a renowned poet, essayist, and lecturer who was the son of former slaves, its fictiona...

  • The Song of Six Birds

    Rene Deetlefs

    Wishing to make beautiful music with the flute that was given to her by her mother, young Lindiwe captures the songs of six different birds in her flute and shares the irresistible tune with the people of her African village....

  • Something Wicked

    Jennifer Rowe

    On the rambling country manse of Haven, Senior Detective Tessa Vance hopes to find a little piece of heaven. But instead she finds herself immersed in hell.

    A famous pop star lies dead in a toolshed, presumably from a suicide. The three angeli...

  • Someone Like You

    Jacquelin Thomas

  • Someone Else

    John Lutz
    in

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • Snow

    Stuart M. Kaminsky
    in

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • Smoke Screen

    Marianne MacDonald

    Trying to build her fledgling shop and keep her young son and cat fed, Dido Hoare, London's most intrepid antiquarian bookseller, needs some good luck. Her break comes when the aged and daunting Clare Templeton Forbes, the ex-lover of a celebrated Am...

  • Slow Burn

    Eileen Goudge

  • Slocum and the Jersey Lily

    Jake Logan

  • Sleepless in Montana

    Cait London

    Sleepless Nights Hard and haunted--an outsider in his own family--Hogan Kodiak is determined to live his life alone. Love has burned the strong and silent eldest Kodiak brother in the past, robbing him of sleep and leaving a chip on his shoulder a...

  • Sleep Tight!

    Allen

  • The Sixth Phase

    Robert J. Randisi

    A small slipup on the part of detective Nick Turner, a twisted serial killer, and some dogged police work reveal the mysterious motives behind a series of seemingly unrelated murders. Previously published as The Turner Journals. Reprint....

  • Sir Pugsley

    Connie Kash

    Features the creepiest and kookiest family in television history in their own adventure, embellished by such sounds as Lurch's famous "Uhhhh", Uncle Fester's devious laugh, and the Addams Family theme song....

  • Sing with Me: My Name Is Ernie

    Tish Rabe

  • Sing along with Elmo

    Golden Books

    Eight favorite songs--including "We Are All Earthlings," "The Alphabet Song," and "Rain, Rain Go Away"--highlight a musical collection that also features a ten-note keyboard, easy-to-play songs, zany sound effects, and four preprogrammed songs....

  • Simple Tricks

    Chris Cassidy; Tish Pahl
    in

    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...

  • Sharing Is Caring

    Mark Bernthal

  • Shall We Dance?

    Sarah Albee

  • The Seventh Moon

    Marius Gabriel

    As World War II rages, Francine Lawrence and her small daughter, Ruth, wait in the fading splendor of Raffles Hotel in Singapore for Francine's British husband. But when he is delayed, Francine, half-Chinese and unwelcome there, is forced to begin a ...

  • Sesame Street Happy Halloween

    Golden Books

  • The Seduction Season

    Helen Bianchin
    in

    MORE THAN JUST KISSES UNDER THE MISTLETOE... Instead of a Christmas break lazing in the Queensland sun, it seems Anique's aunt has arranged for her to spend her holiday preparing meals for an infuriating, sexy Frenchman. So Anique cooks up her rev...

  • The Seducer

    Margaret Evans Porter

    No Woman could Marry Him. He was one of London's most notorious rakes-a man so skilled at seduction that no woman had ever told him no.or led him to the altar. When Kerron Cashin is suddenly called to his country home, the local misses admire him ...

  • Secrets

    Nuruddin Farah

    “With Secrets, Nuruddin Farah solidifies his reputation as one of the world’s great writers.” -- Ishmael ReedSet against the backdrop of the civil war in Somalia, this stunningly ambitious novel was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Fiction ...

  • The Secret War

    Doris Buchanan Smith

  • Secret Valentine

    Jerry Smath

  • The Secret Journey

    Peg Kehret

    After accidentally stowing away aboard a slave ship bound for Africa, twelve-year-old Emma Bolton is shipwrecked and left stranded on the African coast, where she survives with the help of chimpanzees and lizards. Reprint....

  • The Sea Is Full of Stars

    Jack L. Chalker

    After three passengers--Ming, Ari, and Angel--embark on elite starship journey into the Realm, they unwittingly become ensnared in one man's bloodthirsty vendetta that will alter their very beings. That man is Jeremiah Wong Kincaid. He vows to destro...

  • Saving Christmas

    Pamela Bauer

    Only thirty days till Christmas... Sara Richards had one month to save the sleepy hamlet of Christmas, Minnesota, from extinction and one month to save herself from Joe Gibson. The man who'd fueled her schoolgirl fantasies was home for the hol...

  • Sarah's Christmas

    Elizabeth Graham

    A SEASON TO HOPE... Lovely schoolteacher Sarah Calder was looking forward to sharing in Little Bethlehem's joyous holiday festivities, until she discovered Hunter Winslow had moved back to town. Seven years ago, Hunter had jilted her and married...

  • Sara's Gift

    Jill Henry
    in

    Passing through Moose Creek, Montana, Sara Mercer prays for a single glimpse of the infant girl she gave up for adoption four years before. Instead, she finds herself snowbound with little Mary and her widowed father, Sheriff Gabe Chapman. Sara never...

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    Wendi Lee
    in

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • Sabrina's Guide to the Universe

    Patricia Barnes-Svarney

  • Runaway

    Ed McBain

    A young black man is framed by the police for a murder he didn’t commit in this gritty New York crime story from the author of the 87th Precinct series.   Johnny Lane is outside the Apollo when he sees Luis, and rage floods his veins. Every to...

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    Francine Pascal

    Sam is gone. No. Not just gone. Someone's taken him. Kidnapped him to get to me. And I only have three hours to find him... Or Sam is going to die. All because of me. NO RULES. NO LIMITS. NO FEAR....

  • Rules of Engagement

    Elizabeth Moon

    NATURAL ALLIES ... Esmay Suiza and Brun Meager should be friends--they're both bright, brave, likable and adventurous. But true friendship doesn't run any smoother than true love. Brun thinks Esmay's a stuck-up prig, and Esmay thinks Brun's a spoi...

  • The Ruby Raven

    Michael Dahl

    Finnegan''s uncle receives an invitation to be a finalist in an international mystery writers'' award competition. Since the author must be present to accept the prize, that means exotic Saharan travel for Finn and Uncle Stoppard. The competition win...

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    Olga Daniels

    Charged to fetch Lady Margaret Thurton home from a nunnery, Sir Richard de Heigham never expects to find himself completely captivated with the beautiful heiress. Suddenly thrust into a new life, the innocent Meg is dazzled by the charming young knig...

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    Nick Christian

  • Robin's Secret Valentine

    Kiki Thorpe

    In a lift-the-flap book and a counting book rolled into one, Kermit's nephew, Robin, has a secret admirer, and she's showering him with gifts for Valentine's Day, including ten balloons, nine flowers, and eight crayons. Original....

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    James Baylock

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    Stephanie J. Davenport

  • The River of Souls

    Yvonne Navarro

  • Ring of Destiny

    Jane S. Fancher

    In the third volume of Jane S. Fancher's acclaimed series, three telepathically linked brothers must unite their powers to face an enemy that could destroy them all. The magic behind the rings which power their city may be their only hope--in an epic...

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    Charles L. Grant

    It is the time of the Millennium, of great battles between good and evil. The hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse herald the last days of Mankind. The four novels of the Millennium Quartet reveal the cataclysms that await mankind at t...

  • Resolution: Marriage

    Patricia Knoll

    He has a secret daughter! Garrett Blackhawk hoped his love affair with Mary Jane would one day end in marriage. But no sooner had he left town temporarily, than she married someone else! Now Mary Jane is a widow, with three children...and Garrett ...

  • Remember Me

    Sharon Sala

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    Carol Cox
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  • Regeneration

    Everett Owens

    Head Hunting

    When Leonard Betts's body disappears from the morgue after being decapitated in a violent accident, Special Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the situation. Mulder has a theory that Leonard h...

  • The Reeve's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    As reeve of the small village of Prior Byfield. Simon Perryn must rule on many local disputes--a task he often shares with the steward of St. Frideswide's nunnery. But when the steward is accused of dishonesty and forced to step aside, the worldly Da...

  • Red Mercury

    A. Craig Copetas

  • Raven's Bride

    Kathryn Fox

    TORN BY TRADITION Unaware that Cara Tarakanov is the daughter of a foreign fur trader his clan despises, Tlingit warrior Tall Dancer saves the beautiful white slave from death at the hands of her brutal master. With her settlement so far away, and a...

  • The Rattlebang Picnic

    Margaret Mahy

    Granny McTavish's pizzas and pies were as tough as old boots, but that didn't stop the McTavishes from going on picnics. On a picnic near the hot springs on Mount Fogg, the volcano suddenly starts to erupt. The old rattlebang, their faithful car, has...

  • Ransom Unpaid

    Fred W. Hunter

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  • Radiance Descending

    Paula Fox

    Angry that his younger brother Jacob is clumsy and odd looking due to his Down's syndrome and jealous because of all the attention he receives, Paul can't see his goodness until a series of special happenings make him appreciate Jacob for who he is. ...

  • R2-D2 and C-3po: Droid Duo

    Ken Steacy

  • The Proposition

    Judith Ivory

    No man, gentleman or otherwise, has ever looked at Lady Edwina Bollash the way the brash, handsome man standing before her is doing now. Edwina has accepted the challenge to transform incorrigible Mich Tremore into a gentleman in just six weeks. And ...

  • The Proposal

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because they find us ... well we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in r...

  • Prince Charming

    Robin Wells

    THE TUGBOAT CAPTAIN Desperate for a short-order cook, Cole Dumanski hired a penniless socialite, only to discover she couldn't boil water. Still, the prim and proper Josephine Evans had no trouble raising his body temperature. But while she aimed to...

  • Primary Target

    Joe Weber

    "

    ""Primary Target is a chilling scenario of global warfare. The suspense never stops.""—W.E.B. Griffin

    “Weber weaves a frighteningly real story of international terrorism in America in his newest thriller.”—Publisher...

  • Prickly Pear

    Ronda Thompson

    Camile hadn't earned the name Prickly Pear for nothing. Everyone knew that Camile could rope her way out of Hell itself. Now, Cam knew that her father was looking for a new foreman for their ranch - and she was sure she knew where to find one. Dad...

  • The Price of Onions

    Ashok V. Desai

  • The Power of a Penny

    Glenn Dromgoole

    Sometimes we find ourselves feeling like an old penny. Worthless. Forgotten. Discarded. Flattened. Ugly. Yet, like the penny, we still have value, we can make a difference. We have the power to smile.We have the power to be kind.We have the power to ...

  • Polo at the Ritz

    Jerry Kennealy
    in

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • Poky Little Puppy Comes to Sesame Street

    Anna H. Dickson

  • Poky Little Puppy Comes to Sesame Street

    Tom Brannon

  • Plunder

    Chet Cunningham

    They are the elite of the elite. Handpicked by a reclusive billionaire/patriot from among the top members of the CIA, the FBI, the Navy SEALS, Britain's M1-6; and, Israel's Mossad, they are the most talented--and dangerous--fighting force ever assemb...

  • Play and Sing with Ernie

    Golden Books

  • The Pig Man

    Les Roberts
    in

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • Peter Cottontail Is on His Way

    Andrea Posner-Sanchez

  • Permed to Death

    Nancy J. Cohen

    Meet Marla Shore, a Florida beauty salon owner with a knack for creating dazzling 'dos -- and solving mysteries... Marla was already having a bad hair day, but when one of her clients dies while getting a perm in her salon, her day just can't get an...

  • The Perfect Treatment

    Rebecca Lang

    Intending to be a family doctor, Abby Gibson was presently doing her hospital training, and was thrilled to discover she would be working with Dr. Blake Contini, who had an excellent reputation. Thinking this would be a purely professional relationsh...

  • Perfect Timing

    Alison Roberts

    When surgeon Jack Armstrong heard his father was dying, he felt obliged to return home to New Zealand. Taken on as a locum at the local hospital, he met nurse/manager Amanda Morrison, and at first they clashed over everything! Their mutual delight in...

  • Pecos Belle Brigade

    Jon Sharpe

  • Paul's Bunions

    Robert Kraus

  • A Partridge in a Pear Tree

    Stobie Piel
    in

    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide season wa...

  • Paper Rose

    Diana Palmer

    HER LOVE FOR HIM WAS LIKE A PAPER ROSE, WHICH LONGED FOR THE MAGIC TO MAKE IT REAL... Compellingly handsome Tate Winthrop once boldly came to Cecily Blake's rescue. Her devotion to him knew no bounds, but since the fiercely proud Native American ...

  • The Paper Men

    William Golding

    Join an eccentric novelist on the run from his obsessive would-be biographer in this comic farce by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.Why should I conceal the fact that I had found a full professor of Eng. Lit. rifling my dus...

  • Pagemaster

    Golden Books

    Finding himself thrown into the world of storybook adventure, timid Richard Tyler tries to find the courage to help himself and his new friends, Adventure, Fantasy, and Horror, explore a haunted house, fight pirates, and battle a fire-breathing drago...

  • The Outlaw Bride

    Maggie Shayne

    TIME AFTER TIME... Esmeralda Montoya would never understand the strange magic that had saved her from certain death in the Old West. All she knew was that she had been swept through time, into a world unlike any she had ever imagined -- and into ...

  • Oscar The Grouch's Xmas

    Golden Books

  • Orphans Court

    Laura Lippman
    in

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • Only Spring

    George Livingston

    The loss of a child is every parent's most unspeakable fear. Gordon Livingston survived that tragedy not once but twice in a 13-month period, losing one son to suicide and another to leukemia. Only Spring, based on the journal he began keeping when t...

  • One Leap Forward

    Donna Jo Napoli

    A new angel has to be brave. The Little Angel of Courage is ready for her wings. At least, she thinks she is. But is she brave enough to help Paul with his problem and earn the rest of her feathers? Paul likes to watch his sister's ballet class. Bu...

  • One Deadly Summer

    Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

  • One Christmas Night: Ian's Gift

    Lyn Stone
    in

    Two lonesly hearts find themselves the objects of an intrecate matchmaking plan in Lyn Stone's Ian's Gift....

  • One Christmas Night: A Wife for Christmas

    Jacqueline Navin
    in

    A noble knight uncovers the secrets of a lady who is disguised as his servant in Jacqueline Navin's A Wife For Christmas....

  • One Christmas Night: A Highland Christmas

    Ruth Langan
    in

    A wounded nobleman falls in love with the brave, young woman who rescues him in Ruth Langan's Highland Christmas....

  • Once and Forever

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    Something inexplicable has led Maggie Whitaker to the sixteenth century. Always a woman who has tried to do the right thing and live up to expectations, Maggie is beginning to learn the joy of following her own heart--even if it leads her across cent...

  • Once a Rogue

    Megan Gray

    A DANGEROUS REBELLION Promised to a man she will never love, lovely Flora Buchanan flees the genteel poverty of her father's Edinburgh home and plunges into the confusion of the Jacobite rebellion. Rescued from her father's fury by a Highland soldie...

  • Once a Hero

    Kate Hoffmann

    December 31, 1999 A Moment of magic, a fresh new start. A chance...to get dumped? Maggie Kelley was on the verge of getting a new life, starting at the stroke of midnight when she announced her engagement to Colin Spencer. But when the clock struck t...

  • Of Noble Birth

    Brenda Novak

    HE WAS A MAN WHO TOOK WHAT HE WANTED. AND HE WANTED HER. To escape her cruel stepfather, seamstress Alexandra Cogsworth envisioned sailing far from England . . . though not as a captive aboard a pirate's ship. Pirate Captain Nathaniel Kent's s...

  • Nuremberg Raid

    John Evans

    On the night of 30-31 March 1944, R.A.F. Bomber Command took off on what should have been a routine "maximum effort" raid an Nuremberg. It turned into a major disaster, with Bomber Command suffering its heaviest loss of the war: of the 779 bombers ta...

  • Nooses Give

    Dana Stabenow
    in

    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...

  • No More Mess!

    Ann Braybrooks

  • No Higher Law

    Philip Friedman

    Prosecutor Ben Kaplan, New York chief of Major Crimes in the US Attorney's office, has always known exactly where his loyalties lie. But when his investigation of commercial fraud by a group of orthodox Jews uncovers a brilliantly counterfeited hund...

  • No Greater Gift

    Geri Guillaume

    NO GREATER PASSION When her mother Myra impulsively takes off with a cruise-ship Romeo, sensible Kira Dodd is stunned. Certain that Jimmy Jolivet is a womanizer of the worst sort, Kira heads for his Texas ranch, determined to bring Myra home for Chr...

  • No Disintegrations, Please

    Paul Danner
    in

    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...

  • Ninjas Don't Bake Pumpkin Pie

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

  • Nightmare

    David Pelham