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New Books List: 465 titles

  • Little Mouse Meets the Easter Bunny

    Harriet Ziefert

    A sturdy lift-the-flap book follows Little Mouse on her trip to the mall where the Easter Bunny is supposed to be visiting, and of her search through doorways, around corners, and behind newspapers to find him. Original....

  • Unwilling Wife

    Carolyn Zane

    Double Take Suddenly Will Spencer was seeing his children's nanny in a whole new light. She was more vibrant than he'd ever realized and more desirable than he'd ever dreamed. Had the perfect woman been right under his nose all along? Double Trou...

  • Jenni Finds a Father

    Brittany Young

    Chilly British nobleman Alec Devereaux seethed with desire to reclaim his ancestral estate. Warmhearted American Tess Parish longed to gain custody of her orphaned kid sister and give Jenni a daddy. Via one sly document, both could achieve their dre...

  • Ships of Merior

    Janny Wurts

    As the prophecy foretold, the art of power over light and dark was channeled through two princes: And the fogs that had smothered Athera's skies were dispersed. But in defeat, the Mistwraith set its two royal captors at odds under a powerful curse of...

  • Way Past Dead

    Steven Womack

    With his cash flow down to a slow drip, times are tight for Nashville gumshoe Harry James Denton. Things are tough all over Music City, U.S.A. And in some instances, they're murder, as Harry finds out the hard way when he lands a case he'd rather not...

  • The Age Of Consent

    Geoffrey Wolff

    Ted and Maisie's parents moved to the community of Blackberry Mountain in upstate New York full of hope for the future; they would live a wholesome life rooted in the natural world, free from social constraints and the ugly urban climate of the early...

  • The Duke's Double

    Winifred Witton

    LOVE BY THE BOOK... After her papa's death left her nearly penniless, Celeste Moreau packed her portmanteau and sailed away from France. Once in Britain, she would heed the advice of her favorite novel and snare a duke (not a baronet, for they...

  • The Bride Wore Blue Jeans

    Mary Anne Wilson

    THE WEDDING MARCH BEGAN... ...and the bride bolted. An eleventh-hour discovery about her would-be groom sent Annie Thomas on the run. She was desperate to reach her daughter before he did, when her car was run off the road by a reluctant savior in a...

  • Golden Glory

    Jean Wilson

    Postponing her medical studies to pursue a mysterious vision that calls her back to her Indian homeland in Colorado, Dr. Sarah Callahan draws the admiration and passions of her guide, W. T. Elliot, an ambitious legislator. Original....

  • That Devil Love

    Lee Wilkinson

    "I mean to have and own you completely." Annis Warrener had only agreed to accompany her friend Stephen to an office party out of kindness and was expecting a rather dull evening. So she was taken aback to discover that Stephen's new b...

  • Nanny Angel

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Heaven Sent... What Sam Oliver needed was a nanny to help with his five-year-old daughter. What he didn't expect was one to step out of his trash can and into his arms...naked! And claiming to be an angel from the Guardian Angel nanny service, no...

  • Sleepless in St. Louis

    Tiffany White
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    The only 'date' hunky bachelors Nicholas, Tristan and Alec have on New Year's Eve is consoling one another! Determined to find the woman of their fantasies by Valentine's Day, they each run a very special personal ad... Alec McCord isn't losing s...

  • Legacy

    Steve White

    Lt. Robert Sarnac thought the space academy had prepared him for anything. . . .A quick dazzling smile and Artorius was gone, riding along the lines and acknowledging cheers. Sarnac was left gaping after him, with barely enough time to settle back in...

  • Northlight

    Deborah Wheeler

    Venturing into dangerous territory against orders, Kardith and her missing friend's brother Terricel, set off to find Avi, leaving Laureal City in turmoil after an assassination and uncovering a secret beyond their wildest imaginings. Original....

  • My First Love

    Callie West

    In over her head ... Amy Wyse has everything--except love. She doesn't want a boyfriend to get in the way of her dreams of college and a swimming scholarship, goals for which she's worked so hard. But then she's swept off her feet by Chris Shephe...

  • Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

    Philip Weiss

    Encountering the daughter of a political candidate at the Democratic National Convention, Jack Gold, an idealistic lawyer, finds himself caught up in Burry's world of dirty tricks, society parties, and the New York media. A first novel....

  • Second Generation

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The children of heroes. A fabulous quest to retrieve the Gray stone Gem. The legend of Raistfin's daughter. Many years ago, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman told the story of how the Companions of the Lance fought to save the world from sliding int...

  • Jack and Jill

    Eric Weiner

    Blackmailed by a classmate, computer geek Martin Rucker, Jack Washburn and Jill Marshack set out to rid themselves of their parasitic tormenter, but they soon discover that true evil is difficult to destroy. Original....

  • A Calculated Magic

    Robert Weinberg

    Journeying to Las Vegas on a quest for his master, Merlin the Magician, Jack Collins seeks out Old Man in the Mountain, a demon force that plans to unleash a deadly biological plague and can only be countered with advanced mathematics. Original....

  • Can't Stop Loving You

    Peggy Webb

    "Ready to be wooed, wildcat?" Helen Sullivan made her entrance in a red dress that fit like sin -- and Brick wanted to toss his ex-wife over his shoulder and make love to her until she confessed why she'd left him. He'd come seeking revenge, but ...

  • Border Music

    Robert James Waller

    Most people don't run out the back door of a place called The Rainbow Bar in Dillon, Minnesota, with someone they don't even know, get in a pick-up truck, drive all day, and end up in a motel room. But that's exactly what Jack Carmine and Linda Lobo ...

  • Loser Deals

    Peter Viertel

    From the golden age of Hollywood to present-day Spain, a richly detailed, tragi-comic novel chronicles the life of a retired movie actor and his tempestuous relationships with family members, colleagues, and lovers. 15,000 first printing....

  • Any Given Moment

    Laura Van Wormer

    Dorothy and Henry Hillings, owners of the Hillings & Hillings Literary Agency, have nurtured and developed their authors' talents for almost fifty years. When their small agency becomes the target of a corporate takeover, the Hillingses' most success...

  • Wyrm Wolf : Based on the Apocalypse

    Edo Van Belkom

  • Go

    Holly Uyemoto

    Facing an identity crisis in the week before her twenty-first birthday, Wil struggles with her Japanese-American family's high ideals and a failed relationship and finds solace in the wisdom of her ancestors. By the author of Rebel Without a Clue...

  • The Killing Floor

    Peter Turnbull

    REMAINS TO BE SEEN Social worker Pam MeArthur had a talent for making enemies and wasn't missed much when she disappeared. But when her mutilated body is found nearly eight months later--head and hands removed in an attempt to conceal her identity...

  • Song of Abraham

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor

    This novel unfolds the tumultuous saga of the father of both Jews and Arabs, and the spiritual father of Christians. Abraham, prince of Ur, left behind the greatest civilization of his day to follow words of promise with deeds of faith. This richly c...

  • Love's Desire

    Jane Toombs

    A SWEEPING LOVE STORY OF TWO SISTERS...AND TWO DANGEROUS AND IRRESISTIBLE MEN. Rosalind...When her Michigan-bound steamboat is captured by Rebel soldiers, the eighteen-year-old orphan is intrigued by a black-bearded stranger who treats her gently....

  • Your Heart's Desire

    Elise Title
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    The only 'date' hunky bachelors Nicholas, Tristan and Alec have on New Year's Eve is consoling one another! Determined to find the woman of their fantasies by Valentine's Day, they each run a very special personal ad... Divorced Boston lawyer Nic...

  • The Sunshine Killers

    Giles Tippette

    Acclaimed western storyteller Giles Tippette brings his unique brand of justice and revenge to the Arizona territories . . .When a man of few words rides into town, his shirt soaked with blood from the bullet still lodged in his side, the people of S...

  • Monster

    John Tigges

    Even a brute monster with incredible strength has a weakness, and Sasquatch discovers his at the hands of a beauty who cannot conquer his monumental strength, but is able to tame the savage beast within. Original....

  • The Cowboy's Courtship

    Patricia Thayer

    That Night in the Rockies... Colorado cowboy Lafe Colter never refused a willing female. Until the night heartsore Michelle Royer let him kiss away her tears -- and her inhibitions. Lafe had nobly sent Michelle packing. He wasn't a man who make prom...

  • Sweet Surrender

    Julie Tetel

    Laurence Harris Was Ready For A Challenge And a woman in need of help was one he was happy to accept. Particularly when that woman was Cathy Davidson, whose hair carried the scent of apple blossoms and whose lips were as sweet as honeyed wine. ...

  • Destiny Mine

    Janelle Taylor

    JANELLE TAYLOR brings us the thrilling story of an Indian maiden who has been trained as a warrior--and the Cheyenne brave who is everything she desires . . . and everything that is forbidden. By the age of twenty, the maiden called Kionee can rid...

  • Come and Go, Molly Snow

    Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

    Mary Ann Taylor-Hall's highly acclaimed first novel, Come and Go, Molly Snow, introduces us to Carrie Marie Mullins, a gifted Kentucky bluegrass fiddler and singer in the Hawktown Road band. After moving to Lexington to develop her talents, Carrie be...

  • Arrows of the Sun

    Judith Tarr

    Estarion, the embittered heir to the Endros empire, grieves over the murder of his father while journeying to the Golden Palace of Asanion, where conspirators wait to kill Estarion before he can claim the throne. Reprint....

  • Rosina's Roman Holiday

    Mallory Tarcher

    Anticipating the great food and ancient sites of Rome, Italy, the Adventurers befriend junior soccer player Giovanni Verdi, whose success at the national finals will determine whether he can afford a much-needed operation for his sick mother. Origina...

  • Deception and Desire

    Janet Tanner

    Ros Newman has disappeared, but the police are not concerned. They believe her high-pressure job at Vandina, a world-renowned fashion firm, and the obsessive jealousy of her hard-drinking husband have driven her to take an unannounced vacation.But Mi...

  • In Still and Stormy Waters

    Reay Tannahill

    Set between 1856 and 1898, this is the story of two women - rivals for the inheritance of a Scottish castle and the love of one man. The action takes place on both sides of the world, from eventful, bustling Hong Kong to the misty, mysterious Highlan...

  • Little Icicle

    Lois Szymanski

    Rescue!

    Matt and his friend Holly were following pony tracks through the woods when they saw it. An ice-covered pony was stuck in the frozen pond -- her eyes were closed and they couldn't tell if she was even breathing. While Matt stayed w...

  • Dreamboat

    Doug J. Swanson

    Fans of Dallas private eye Jack Flippo, the unlikely hero of Doug J. Swanson's acclaimed debut novel, Big Town, will happily note that Jack's risen in the world since last they've seen him. Now he's a 'recovering no-account' with an office of his own...

  • The Good Father

    Peg Sutherland

    TYLER STERNE WANTED TO BE A GOOD FATHER But when his ex-wife literally dropped his teenage son on his doorstep, he found he had a lot to learn about fatherhood. Things were difficult enough. Then his unconventional mother moved in after she and he...

  • Miracle

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    Clayton Hawthorne looked exactly like his twin brother Trev. It should be simple, therefore, for the two to carry out their scheme to find a wife for Trey. Clayton, a notoriously dashing rogue, will travel to the misty Isle of Wight to captivate the ...

  • Lord Devlin's Dilemma

    Olivia Sumner

    Before setting sail for Englan, Miss Jane Sterlin, the new owner of Lyon Hall, envisioned stone towers, a grand sweep of lawn, and servants in livery. Instead, she finds a crumbling manse, waist-high weeds, and a crotchety butler. However, Lyon Hall ...

  • Taken by a Stranger

    Lin Summerfield

    The author of Never Walk Behind Me offers a novel of psychological suspense that portrays the world of Nicky, a lovely little girl of eleven, and Darren, a frightened, careful, lonely young man in his twenties....

  • First Loves

    Jean Stone

    In this moving novel about the power of second chances, Jean Stone proves that it’s never too late to go after the one that got away.   For every woman, there is a first love. And for Meg, Zoe, and Alissa, that love has never been forgotten. N...

  • The Tree People

    Naomi M. Stokes

    Drawing on the ancient lore and rituals of her people in order to track down a vicious killer, Jordan Tidewater, the first female sheriff of the Salish Reservation, finds a clue in an ancient cut-down cedar tree. Reprint....

  • Cuckoo Clock of Doom

    R.L. Stine

    DON’T BEAT THE CLOCK! Tara the Terrible. That's what Michael Webster calls his bratty little sister. She loves getting Michael in trouble. Making his life miserable. Things couldn't get any worse. Then Mr. Webster brings home the antique cuckoo...

  • Truth or Dare

    R.L. Stine

  • The Super-Duper Sleepover Party

    Megan Stine

  • The Armchair Detective Book of Lists

    Kate Stine

  • Brigitta and Other Tales

    Adalbert Stifter

    The heroine of "Brigitta" makes a corner of the Hungarian plains bloom. "Limestone" tells of a priest whose erotic encounter determines his behaviour. "Abdias" is the epic story of a Jew raised in the African desert. The hero of "The Forest Path" is ...

  • Angel Angel

    April Stevens

    A droll and poignant novel of family dysfunction, certain to be relished by Anne Tyler and Alice Hoffman fans. April Stevens' spare prose and ear for the varied vernacular of life-styles and generations make her debut novel a wonderfully appealing, a...

  • Bachelor's Family

    Jessica Steele

    He was two different men! "You must be the most impudent female I've ever employed!" Vere Tolladine had a nerve--how dare he imply that she was the one with the attitude problem? The man was infuriating, objectionable! So why did he...

  • Rats in the Attic and Other Stories to Make Your Skin Crawl

    George Edward Stanley

    A chilling collection of scary stories offers such wicked delights as rats in the attic, hide-and-seek in the funeral parlor, vampires in old tunnels, and walks at midnight with hooded strangers. Original....

  • The Winds of Catawba

    Laurie Stahl

    Kendra longs to tell the world of her love for Court, but he has sworn her to secrecy till he is a free man. Can she keep her true feelings hidden--or will impatience destroy her chance of happiness? Set in post-Revolutionary war days, this sequel to...

  • Larque on the Wing

    Nancy Springer

    Going through a messy mid-life crisis, forty-year-old wife and mother Larque Harootunian gets carried away with her latest doppelganger--herself at age ten--who helps transform her into a young, strong, courageous, and gay man. Reprint....

  • Love Just in Time

    Flora Speer

    Betrayed by her husband, Clarissa Cummings vows never to trust another man, until a bizarre accident transports her back in time and into the arms of gorgeous Jack Martin--an English rogue turned farmer--and as their love blossoms, dark secrets from ...

  • The Possessed

    L.J. Smith

    JOURNEY INTO FEAR They're gifted -- and damned, linked by psychic powers, pursued by an evil genius determined to own them, body and soul. Kaitlyn Fairchild and her four friends have no choice: They must follow the dream that drives them onward to...

  • Damsel in Distress

    Joan Smith

    LADY CAROLINE ATTRACTED TROUBLE LIKE MOTHS TO A FLAME! Her romantic antics provided society with a good many minor scandals--which didn't stop the incomparable Caro from catching the eye of Lord Dolmain, a dashing widower. But as was custom...

  • Ren and Stimpy: Seeck Leetle Monkeys

    Dan Slott

    A graphic novel. This Year's Model Part One: Dressed for Some Mess, Whatcha Want for Valintine's Day Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen - The Poachman Always Rings Twice! U.S.Ohhhhh NO! Powdered Toastman in Bread Over Heels! Ren & Stimpy's Minimalist Chap...

  • Jellybeans!

    Bea Sloboder

  • Guilt by Association

    Susan R. Sloan

    December 22, 1962: A pretty coed is brutally beaten and raped by her date, a handsome, wealthy Harvard student. No one sees him do it. The police don't believe her story. Her life is ruined. His flourishes. Now he's running for president, and a despe...

  • Forevermore

    Rebecca Sinclair

    Stealing several valuable bonds in an attempt to escape a dangerous Denver tycoon, Hannah Clairborn is thwarted--and intrigued--by private investigator Clint Murdock, a hardened man who has difficulty resolving his job and his feelings for his quarry...

  • The Vicar's Daughter

    Deborah Simmons

    Lord Wycliffe Had Finally Met His Match. With golden hair and eyes of springtime green, Charlotte Trowbridge was the toast of the London Season. "An incomparable goddess" her dazzled admirers proclaimed. But the earl of Wycliffe knew she ...

  • Keepers of the Dawn

    Alfred Silver

    In 1750, the Mohawk Valley was a heaven of peace and plenty. Indians and Englishmen lived in amity and harvested the same rich land. But Tskleleli, the little bird of rumor, sang of trouble coming. Sage Canienga counselors sought to prepare for futur...

  • A Bridge Between Us

    Julie Shigekuni

    Four generations of Japanese American women make  their home in a large house in San Francisco,  united by the obligations of family and tradition and,  perhaps, by love. In alternating chapters, the  four wome...

  • Georgia on My Mind and Other Places

    Charles Sheffield

    Georgia on My Mind and Other Places is a brilliant collection of visionary short fiction by Charles Sheffield, author of The Ganymede Club and Godspeed. It includes the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning title story, as well as other widely praised works....

  • Texas Terror

    Jon Sharpe

    Hunting mad-dog killers in the Lone Star state, Skye Fargo receives a warm welcome from a hot-blooded beauty, but things turn deadly cold when he is framed for murder and the law is suddenly on his trail. Original....

  • The Holy Innocents

    Kate Sedley

    SPRING IS IN THE AIR -- AND SO IS DANGER In his wanderings throughout the countryside, Roger the Chapman has solved many a mystery with his quick wit and keen intelligence. Arriving in the village of Totnes, the peddler-cum-sleuth hears the fright...

  • Proud Helios

    Melissa Scott

    The free flow of traffic to the Gamma Quadrant is vital to the recovery and survival of the planet Bajor and to Federation interests as well. When a mysterious cloaked ship begins raiding wormhole shipping, cleaning out holds and killing entire crews...

  • Hardscape

    Justin Scott

    Ben Abbott, just returned to his small Connecticut hometown, is hired by a New York City private eye to videotape the activities in newcomer Rita Long's bedroom--where the ravishing Rita cheats on her husband. But murder wasn't part of the deal. And ...

  • Stonedust

    Justin Scott

    Hardscape, in Susan Isaacs' words, had "enough suspense to make the reader hyperventilate". Now witty, literate Ben Abbott--who served time for a Wall Street indiscretion and is struggling to revive his family's real estate firm--returns in a mystery...

  • Highland Fling

    Amanda Scott

    Highland Fling is Amanda's best story yet--a lovely blend of comedy and drama, true love and true grit. In the aftermath of the Jacobite rebellion, Maggie MacDrumin and Edward Carsley, fourth Earl of Rothwell, meet. She is Scottish. He is English. Sw...

  • A Slender Thread

    Lee Scofield

    THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL Jennifer had worked very hard to put the scandal of her once privileged and pampered life in Philadelphia behind her. Yet when she settled as the schoolteacher in a quiet Kansas town, she never dreamed that a veritable str...

  • Barbie: Birthday Surprise for Skipper

    Andrea Haas Schneider

  • Sleep Tight, Pete

    Ellen Schecter

    Pete loves bedtime stories—especially when they're all about him! Mom's three tales about their special adventures together make perfect bedtime reading for anyone who loves a good laugh.About The Bank Street Ready-To-...

  • The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

    Ellen Schecter

    The adaptation of a beloved Aesop fable about two mouse cousins features the country mouse from the quiet lane and the town mouse from the bustling city streets and reveals how they learn what "Home Sweet Home" really means....

  • One to Ten

    Richard Scarry

  • A Kiss in the Dark

    Meryl Sawyer

    EVEN IN THE DARKNESS OF THE MOONLIT NIGHT HE SAW THE PASSION BLAZING IN HER GREEN EYES.... His kiss was hot and powerful, a primal act of male domination. She hated him, hated herself for responding to Mitch Durant, the man who stole her heart wit...

  • A Shower of Summer Days

    May Sarton

    "At long last in early June the Gordons were expected home at Dene's Court, the house in Ireland which Violet Dene Gordon had inherited." So begins May Sarton's evocative early novel about Violet Gordon's return, after thirty years, to her childhood ...

  • McNally's Trial

    Lawrence Sanders

    Smooth, sexy, and shocking Lawrence Sanders returns with a double martini of a thriller sure to delight fans of his smash bestsellers McNally's Risk and McNally's Caper. Everyone's favorite playboy-turned-sleuth, Archy McNally, is back on the Palm Be...

  • The Sword of Bedwyr

    R.A. Salvatore

    Young noble Luthien Bedwyr is too privileged to understand that his-once-proud land, Eriador, suffers under the demonic oppression of Wizard-King Greensparrow. Until the day Luthien seeks justice for a friend's murder--only to become a fugitive fleei...

  • Stranglehold

    Jennifer Rowe

    After seventy-year-old radio star Max Tully announces his engagement to his young, seductive housekeeper, Mai Tran, Verity Birdwood is called in to investigate nasty threats against the enigmatic beauty, threats that lead to murder. Original....

  • Tom Clancy's Op-Center

    Jeff Rovin

    TOM CLANCY'S OP-CENTER ...is a beating heart of defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology. It is run by a crack team of operatives both within its own walls and out in the field. And when a job is too dirty, or too dangerous, it is t...

  • A Diving Rock on the Hudson

    Henry Roth

  • Legacy of Lies

    JoAnn Ross

    A white-hot story of passion, revenge and obsession. Talent would take Alexandra Lyons to Paris and into the world of haute couture-a kaleidoscope of dreams, ambitions and bold sensuality. And it would take her to Hollywood, where her star burned ...

  • Rabbit's Carnival

    H.L. Ross

    Illustrated in full color. Once a year, when the moon is full and spring is in flower, the rabbits brush away the cobwebs and bring a bygone carnival back to life! From the opening notes of the merry-go-round calliope to a finale of firefly fireworks...

  • The Road Home

    Joel Rosenberg

    All Jason Cullinane - swordsman, baron, and son of the Warrior, Karl Cullinina - knew was that he had to find and stop his friend Mikyn. Mikyn, who had been his childhood playmate; Mikyn who knew all too well the cruelties of slavery; Mikyn, who had ...

  • White House Murder

    Elliott Roosevelt

  • The Bunnies' Easter Bonnet

    Nan Roloff

    When twin bunnies Clarence and Clarissa Cottontail set out to win a bicycle built-for-two in the Easter bonnet contest for the Alfaville Easter Parade, they have lots of competition from other animals who are putting together fantastic creations....

  • Raven

    Evelyn Rogers

    A WOMAN OF SECRETS Haunted by memories of the terrible night that left her innocence shattered, Raven Chadwick prefers the world of make-believe to the cruel realities of everyday life. So she leaves her girlhood home of Savannah to pursue a stage c...

  • Murder at the God's Gate

    Lynda S. Robinson

    When a priest dies in a mysterious fall from atop a statue of Tutankhamun, many consider the death a fateful one for the fourteen-year-old pharaoh and his reign. Indeed, the Hittites are already at Egypt's borders, and the enemies of the late here...

  • The Ransom

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams could never turn down a friend in trouble. So when Delores Lake's telegram came, he was on the next train to New Mexico. Delores's husband and son had been shot down in their own ranch house -- and her grandson had been snatched by cold-h...

  • Raiders

    Harold Robbins

    Struggling with his illegitimate son for control of the vast family fortune, Jonas Cord, Jr., teams up with his father's sidekick, Nevada Smith, and moves his enterprise to Las Vegas and Cuba, where he incurs Mafia wrath. Reprint....

  • The Forever House

    Mark Rivers

    Refusing to believe rumors that speak of a dark evil force behind the peaceful streets and beaches of Taggard Point, Amy learns the horrifying truth when her friend, Jon, takes a dare to enter a deserted house and disappears...

  • Unspoken Vows

    Connie Rinehold

    "NO RESPECTABLE MAN WILL HAVE YOU," HER MOTHER SAID. Rachel Parrish knew better. While growing up in her mother's house of ill repute, she'd learned that anything could be bought . . . even the kind of life that most people take for granted. Deter...

  • Journey's End

    Mildred E. Riley

    From the dusty plains of Oklahoma to the silver hills of Colorado...from Massachusetts to the wide open spaces of Texas, acclaimed author Mildred Riley weaves a sprawling tale of passion and peril in a wild west romance where love can be the most thr...

  • Lady Alex's Gamble

    Evelyn Richardson

    Lady Luck All London was abuzz about a gambler who seemed to have the devil's own luck in besting the best gamesters in town. None suspected that it was skill, not luck that took trick after trick, just as no one dreamed that this cool-headed ...

  • Fatal Games

    Bruce Richards

    When a seemingly harmless prank unleashes a deadly force on young Al, the unsuspecting teen finds his dreams invaded and is overcome by a sinister power that causes him to turn against the people closest to him. Original....

  • Humpty Dumpty and Other Mother Goose Songs

    H.A. Rey

  • Sherlock Holmes in Orbit

    Mike Resnick

    Authorized by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, twenty-six original, ingenious tales by masterful storytellers are set in every age and feature a confrontation with Fu Manchu and Moriarty and a commission for a vampire, among others. Original....

  • Change of Heart

    Adrienne Ellis Reeves

    Deciding to finally live her own life after the deaths of her husband and mother, Emily Brooks undertakes a business venture that introduces her to author David Walker, a man who makes her realize that it is not too late to start over. Original....

  • In The Year Of The Long Division

    Dawn Raffel

    Dawn Raffel's debut delivers us to the wild spaces of a youth in the Midwest and to the blank terrors of the heart. There is a cold wind blowing through these stories, whose sentences come to us as a rebuke to anything felt. In her flight from sentim...

  • Flight from Fifth Avenue

    Catherine M. Rae

    Maida Jardine, daughter of a New York banker, bored with the social scene of 1911, flees home to avoid an arranged marriage and finds danger, romance, and family secrets working on an orphan train and at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory...

  • Relic

    Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

    Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human.... But the muse...

  • People of the Mesa

    Charlotte Prentiss

    When the leader of Nara's tribe is killed, she must lead them against the evil giant, Barem, and his band of vicious followers, and save her peace-loving people. By the author of Children of the Ice. Original....

  • Once upon a Time

    John Prater

  • Remembrance

    Jo-Ann Power

    AN UNDYING DREAM Odyssey House was the old Georgetown mansion that Washington reporter Stephanie Douglass had inherited --- along with its ghosts. Shadowy images seemed to glide through the gardens; the scent of flowers permeated her sleep. And a wa...

  • Last Bongo Sunset

    Les Plesko

    Step into the dark and mysterious underworld of the crime-ridden streets of California as Les Plesko’s striking and hip debut novel follows a young drug addict through the streets of Venice.Stuck in the daunting and mindless routine of drug use...

  • The Last Story

    Christopher Pike

    The popular Remember Me trilogy comes to a spellbinding and unforgettable conclusion as Shari Cooper, a Wanderer-turned-writer, discovers that her latest work is really a mystical blueprint that warns of evil creatures that despise all humankind. Sim...

  • Flashflood

    Jessica Pierce

    Grieving over her grandmother's death, ten-year-old Taylor McKenzie finds comfort and strength in a book in which the two main characters share a relationship similar to the one Taylor shared with her grandmother. Original....

  • Pax Pacifica

    Steve R. Pieczenik

    Journeying to Beijing to confront escalating tensions between the United States and China, Assistant Secretary of State Dr. Desaix Clark uncovers a brutal power struggle that spells all-out war in the Pacific rim. Reprint....

  • Boyfriend Blues

    Lauren M. Phelps

    Tough sledding... To make money for a school ski trip, Kristen Barrett, her boyfriend Jason, and her best friend Heidi start an outdoor babysitting service taking little kids sledding and playing in the snow. When they discover they need more manp...

  • Nobody's Daughter

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Depicting an orphan's life at the beginning of the twentieth century, the story of eleven-year-old Emily Hasbrouck tells of life at the Austen Home for Orphaned Girls where tragedy leads to the triumph of courage and honesty....

  • The Forever Drug

    Steve Perry

    Abandoning his life on Earth after his lover is murdered, Venture Silk starts over on New Earth with Zia, a beautiful spy who is hunted by enemy agents for the secret she holds--the key to eternal life. Original....

  • Blood Debt

    Don Pendleton

    A series of terrorist attacks between Lima and Berlin is revealed to be the result of a deadly plot, and the Stony Man team prepares a retaliatory three-pronged attack in the hopes of identifying the plot's source. Original....

  • Select Fire

    Don Pendleton

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    Gary Paulsen

    "An incredible sled-dog race through the Alaskan wilderness??—??a stunning journey of discovery and survival.

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    Bettina Paterson

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  • Happy Easter, Bunny!

    Bettina Paterson

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  • The Easter Bunny Battle

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica Wakefield can't wait! Sweet Valley Elementary is having an Easter egg hunt -- and the prize is a bunny! Best of all, Jessica's twin sister, Elizabeth, is in charge of hiding the eggs. Jessica's positive she can trick her sister into telling h...

  • Elizabeth the Seventh Grader

    Francine Pascal

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  • No Means No

    Francine Pascal

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  • The Pom-Pom Wars

    Francine Pascal

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  • The Unicorns at War

    Francine Pascal

    Unicorn against Unicorn...

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  • Nothing But the Truth

    Richard Parrish

    Why would Meyer Lansky, the central banker and most brilliant brain in organized crime, seek counsel from attorney Joshua Rabb at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Tucson, Arizona? Who put the corpses of two Chassidic Jews on the nearby Papago Indian R...

  • Evergreen

    Delia Parr

    She was a prisoner... Moriah Lane has been condemned by society and sentenced to life as an outcast for a crime she didn't commit. With only her faith to sustain her, she is determined to right the wrongs that have held her captive for four years......

  • Flashback

    Michael Palmer

    Toby is eight years old. He's had an operation. Routine. It went fine. Now he's gone home. To terror. Months have passed. But Tbby still bursts-into tortured screams. Because something is very wrong. Tbby can remember every moment of the operation...

  • Betrayals

    Charles Palliser

    At once a hypnotic murder mystery, scathing literary parody, soap opera, and brilliant pastiche, Betrayals is an astonishing virtuouso performance by a modern master of literary gamesmanship in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth.
    The...

  • Gingham and Gold

    Rebecca Paisley
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  • The Knotted Strings

    Jake Page

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  • Shouting Sharon

    David Pace

  • Murder in the Napa Valley

    David Osborn

    Nestled among the sprawling hills and vineyards of Napa Valley, the 200-year-old Abbaye de Ste. Denise Winery has proved four generations of Seldridges with the finest cabernet sauvignon in America. Until a shocking act of sabotage results in the dea...

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    Doris Orgel

    From America's Most Trusted Name in Early Childhood Education

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

    Level 2 (Grades 1-3...

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    Joyce Carol Oates

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    Victor O'Reilly

    Bringing an end to the reign of the terrorist mastermind known as Hangman, Irish ex-soldier and war photographer Hugo Fitzduane is forced to protect himself from a fierce retaliatory group on the streets of Tokyo. Reprint....

  • Seasons

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    Three Sisters... The Sullivan sisters seem to have it all. They all grew up beautiful and their every dream came true--Allie's "Donna Reed" perfect marriage; Ginny's wealth and success; and Nancy's exciting life on the fast track of an advertising c...

  • Mandate for Marriage

    Catherine O'Connor

    Fee was bowled over by Grant's charisma and rushed headlong into marriage. But the old saying "Marry in haste, repent at leisure" soon proved all too true. She should have known that the handsome American would have an ulterior motive for...

  • Get Lost, Laura!

    Jennifer Northway

    Lucy and her cousin Alice, two African-American girls who do not want to play with Lucy's little sister, Laura, suddenly learn a lesson about responsibility when Laura cannot be found during a game of hide-and-seek....

  • The Birddog Tape

    Barry Norman

    Bobby Lennox, a successful London realtor and ex-boxing champion, is a frequent victim of mistaken identity, whether from his questionable resemblance to film actor Michael Caine, or now due to a mixup that convinces some mobsters that he's a hit man...

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    Bao Ninh

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    Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, pr...

  • Things to Be Lost

    Lionel Newton

    Randall Roberts, a twelve-year-old African-American boy whose bitterness eventually causes him to murder his obscurely religious father, struggles with his mother's position as a community leader and his sister's involvement with the wrong crowd. 15,...

  • Dearest Love

    Betty Neels

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  • Watching for Willa

    Helen R. Myers

    Willa 's new neighbor was watching her. .. . Her every move, her every breath. A horror writer with a mysterious past, Zachary Denton was an irresistible enigma. He claimed he only wanted to warn her, protect her--possess her. And like a butterfly...

  • The Adventures of Maqroll

    Alvaro Mutis

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  • Rise of the Robots

    Jim Murdoch

    A novel to tie in with the computer game "Rise of the Robots", launched by Time Warner in November 1994. It is set in the world as the game and loosely reflects its "plot". On the planet of Ti Creda, in the city of Metropolis 4, the robots, led by th...

  • Daughter of the Forest

    Vella Munn

    The forests of the Pacific Northwest are lands of mist and rain, of towering trees and salmon-choked rivers. Where forest approaches sea, there live the Tillamook and the Nisqually, two tribes other by hatred. Madsaw, war chief of the Tillamook, k...

  • Amelia's Notebook

    Marissa Moss

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  • The Yukon Queen

    Gilbert Morris

    His Was a Blinding Ambition for Riches, and He Was Serena's Only Hope of Escape. Late in 1896, Cassidy Winslow leaves his family's ranch in Wyoming to pursue his own fortunes but is hardly prepared for life in New York. He hates his job and tires of...

  • An Improper Widow

    Kate Moore

    LADY WITH A PAST Susannah Bowen was disgraced during a disastrous first Season--and has posed as a widow ever since to prevent further entanglements. Now she has been offered a home and independence -- if the shamed miss can steer her troublesome co...

  • I'd Rather Be Eaten by Sharks

    Elaine Moore

  • Source of Trouble

    Debra Monroe

    Winner of The Flannery O'Connor Award, this critically acclaimed debut collection features ten stories set in the plains of the Midwest and the honky-tonks of the South. This is a world where happiness is half heartache, dreams dwindle, and infidelit...

  • Wild, Cold State

    Debra Monroe

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  • Blackwater Spirits

    Miriam Grace Monfredo

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  • Murder in a Hot Flash

    Marlys Millhiser

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  • To My Dear Slimeball

    Rich Miller

  • The Reluctant Bodyguard

    Lorna Michaels

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  • The Secrets of the Heart

    Kasey Michaels

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    Judith McWilliams

    A GHOST OF A CHANCE Just one good deed was all it'd take for a certain rather lazy ghost to finally get into heaven and join his fiancee. And since the nice folks at the China View Inn figured a fake ghost would be good for business, well, maybe h...

  • Dragon's Eden

    Glenna McReynolds

    "If you kiss me, l swear I'll never let you go...:" When he awakened and met the gaze of a sensual, silver-eyed angel, Jackson Daniels couldn't decide whether the tropical island was his prison--or sanctuary! Sugar was fascinated by the powerful w...

  • Vile Acts

    Dorothy McMillan

    Elizabeth Rosemond, a struggling artist and happily married woman, is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy that harbors a violent serial killer, who forces Elizabeth to confront her darkest passions. Original....

  • Blood Treachery

    Jake McMasters

    Clay Taggart and his wild Apaches are out for revenge, and it will take more than brute strength to defeat them--but a rival chieftain learns that the face of a friend can hide the heart of an enemy. Original....

  • Shining Through

    Barbara McMahon

    "I don't believe in love and shan't risk it again." When Melissa worked for him, Bret Terrell accused her of espionage. Married to him, she was nothing more than the obliging stepmother of his son. Was there any way that Melissa co...

  • Cured by Fire

    Tim McLaurin

    Two men on opposite ends of the social scale are united among the homeless in Seattle after losing what they hold most dear and find support and redemption in each other, a journey through America, and their own hearts. By the author of The Acorn...

  • Caught Dead

    Bridget McKenna

    MEET CALEY BURKE, P.I. Caley Burke never expected to become a P.I. But then the thirtysomething redhead never expected her marriage to end, either. She never expected to be living alone in northern California, investigating criminal cases, and packi...

  • Golden Prophecies

    Pam McCutcheon

    A Futuristic Romance set among the Apollo worshipping people on the planet of Delphi. She is the Golden Python, the most accomplished oracle on her planet. Yet Thena cannot foretell the danger one Terran man brings to her world--or the storm of desir...

  • The Member-Guest

    Clint Mccown

    A series of interconnected short stories is set in a tiny middle-American town during a country club's annual golf tournament and recounts the experiences of the town members as they struggle with lost dreams, divorce, careers, and more...

  • No Place for Love

    Susanne McCarthy

    His father's mistress... Lacey Tyrell's relationship with Sir Clive Parrish was entirely innocent. The only people who didn't believe that were Clive's sexy stepson, Jon, and the journalists who were after Lacey's blood... Jon Parrish was deter...

  • Makes Me Wanna Holler

    Nathan McCall

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fiftee...

  • Cowboys Don't Cry

    Anne McAllister

    MR. FEBRUARY The rock: Ranch foreman Robert Tanner-a man who never let any woman get close to him. The hard place: The Bar C--the Wyoming spread he was used to running like it was his own. And in between was Maggie MacLeod--the unwanted, unw...

  • Gordy

    Anne Mazer

  • The Ruby // Whirlpool

    Ann Maxwell

    DANGER AT EVERY TURN When an exquisitely crafted, authentic imperial Faberge egg mysteriously shows up at Laurel Swann's home studio, she knows it can only be from one person--her father, who has drifted in and out of her life for as long as she c...

  • Hilda and Pearl

    Alice Mattison

    To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends. Frances does not question the love between the two women until her father's job as a teacher is threatened by a...

  • The Western Way Omnibus

    Caitlin Matthews

    This is a two-part practical guide to the Western mystery tradition: its history and relevance to the present day, now brought together in one volume. The first section deals with shamanism, early-mysteries and myths of the otherworld, while the seco...

  • Now You See It

    Richard Matheson

    The author of I Am Legend transforms a lonely mansion into a madhouse where a group must face grisly tricks, shocking twists, and the mind of a killer.In Now You See It, the prolific master of suspense and horror delivers a knock-out tale the li...

  • Cyberweb

    Lisa Mason

    Carly Nolan was once a professional telelinker with a powerful corrupt legal firm. Now she lives an outlaw life at the bottom of the human garbage heap -- a penniless recovering cram addict wanted by the authorities for dubious crimes against the Dat...

  • Jessi and the Troublemaker

    Ann M. Martin

    Need a baby-sitter? Save time! Call: THE BABYSITTERS CLUB and reach seven experienced baby-sitters. Kristy Thomas, President Mary Anne Spier, Secretary Claudia Kishi, Vice-President Stacey McGill, Treasurer Shannon Kilbourne, Alternate Of...

  • Karen's School Mystery

    Ann M. Martin

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  • Karen's Ski Trip

    Ann M. Martin

    Hit the Slopes! Karen can't wait to go to a ski resort at Shadow Lake. She is excited to spend time with her big-house family and try a new sport. Karen is sure she'll be a good skier. But once she's on the slopes, Karen keeps falling down. And...

  • Kristy and the Missing Fortune

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! In an old history book of Stoneybrook, Kristy finds a name that really catches her eye: Christina Thomas. The more she reads about Christina, the more excited Kristy gets. It turns out that Chr...

  • The Matzah That Papa Brought Home

    Fran Manushkin

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  • Rachel, Meet Your Angel!

    Fran Manushkin

    The new Angel Corners series, in which four ten-year-old girls meet their guardian angels, includes the adventures of Rachel Summers, a newcomer to Angel Corners, who must clear her name after being accused of stealing. Original....

  • Toby Takes the Cake

    Fran Manushkin

    In the special town of Angel Corners, ten-year-old Toby Antonio, whose family runs a bakery, almost lets her sweet-tooth destroy her dreams, until her own personal guardian angel, Serena, comes to her aid. Original....

  • Wedding of Jean and Cyclops

    Paul Mantell

  • The Border Captains

    Jason Manning

    In 1812, as Americans make their way westward to seek their fortunes following the Revolutionary War, frontiersman Nathaniel "Flintlock" Jones clashes with the legendary Tecumseh and his Shawnee, as well as will the power of the British military. Ori...

  • The Ganja Coast

    Paul Mann

    Where there's drugs, there's violence ...A sleepy community on the Indian coast, Goa is a paradise for the international hippie brigade, drawn by the golden beaches and endless supply of cheap dope.Goa is used to a certain manageable level of brutali...

  • Marriage on Demand

    Susan Mallery

    To hear Glenwood's womenfolk whisper, notorious Austin Lucas was temptation incarnate. Delicious as forbidden sin, he even tempted bashful, cherubic Rebecca Chambers. But, amid countless adoring females, he'd never notice the tongue-tied do-gooder. ...

  • Marriage in Name Only

    Doreen Owens Malek

    INDECENT PROPOSAL Years ago Ann Talbot had been forced to leave Heath Bodine without a goodbye. Now she was back, and though Heath still had the power to make her insides quiver with longing, he had changed. Yes, he was proposing marriage. But no...

  • Jeremy Kooloo

    Tim Mahurin

    A unique alphabet book, full of richly evocative paintings and containing works in ABC order, follows Jeremy the cat as he gets in all kinds of hilarious trouble trying to get to some tempting and delicious milk....

  • Everlastin'

    Mickee Madden

    HE'S A SPIRIT... 1843. Lachlan Baird brings his bride to the house he'd built especially for her. But the honeymoon is cut short when Lachlan is murdered. He's been haunting the place ever since... SHE'S THE REAL THING... 1994. After years ...

  • Same Time, Next Year

    Debbie Macomber

    HIS SUMMER BRIDE That sparkly New Year's Eve in Vegas, dignified Judge James Wilkens impulsively rescued a most seductive damsel in distress. And one unforgettable night with Summer Lawton had him vowing to meet her at the same time, the same plac...

  • The Last Night on Bikini

    Patricia MacInnes

    Told by Navy brat "Lucky," the story of a military family on an island base at the equator during Cold War nuclear testing exposes the realities at the edge of ground zero, the coverup, and the devastating aftermath...

  • Follow the Leader

    Loree Lough

    Everything Valerie held dear has been ruthlessly vanquished by the Civil War. How could the God her family loved and worshipped take away her family and home? Struggling to survive, Valerie accepts a teaching position and is slowly drawn to the to...

  • The Snake Gulch Swindlers

    Jake Logan

    GOLD BULLION, GREEN ENVY Slocum's instructions from the marshal are too easy: deliver a stolen deed to a mine's rightful owner. But when Gold Hill's owner gets croaked right after naming a new foreman, Slocum doesn't have to see a tail to smell a ...

  • Friends No Matter What

    Mark Littleton

  • An Easy Day for a Lady

    Gillian Linscott

    "An easy day for a lady" is a phrase well known to Nell Bray, a suffragette with a knack for landing in the middle of murder mysteries. The saying, notorious among mountain climbers, denotes something so effortless it's not worth doing. Where Nell is...

  • One Smiling Grandma

    Anne Marie Linden

  • Veil of Fear

    Judi Lind

    Someone didn't want her to get married.... Written warnings made it clear that a trip to the altar could mean death for Mary Wilder. She quit planning her fairy-tale wedding to Washington, D.C.'s most eligible bachelor--long enough for her fiance ...