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New Books List: 478 titles

  • Adam Pig's Everything Fun Book

    Selina Young

    A treasury of stories and entertaining hands-on activities follows the days of Adam Pig as he shops with Mom, helps Grandma in the garden, and works on such easy-to-follow activities as building a cardboard car and making a sock puppet. Children's BO...

  • Having His Baby

    Karen Young

    A marriage of convenience... It made perfect sense. Or so Dr. Talbot Rebichaux told Dr. Stephanie Sheldon. Since both had busy hospital practices, their baby would be much better off - and their own lives much easier - if they shared parental dut...

  • The Little Tree Growing in the Shade

    Camille Yarbrough

    A history of the African-American spiritual and its unique cultural significance discusses the origins of these songs in the music of slaves who used the songs as expressions of hope, fear, sorrow, and freedom. By the author of Cornrows. ...

  • That Way Lies Camelot

    Janny Wurts

    Journey through time and space to alternate worlds and the near future in a beautiful collection of interconnected short stories. In the title story, Wurts poignantly addresses mortality and what it is to wish. Sandy is in the last throes of life wit...

  • Warhost of Vastmark

    Janny Wurts

    Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior, to find that his brother’s ship yards have been meticulously destroyed and abandoned. But where is Arithon? The forces of light and shadow circle and fei...

  • The Cowboy and His Baby

    Sherryl Woods

    A year and a half ago Melissa Horton made a mistake that cost the lovely single mother her one true love--and her baby girl a father. Now Texas rancher Cody Adams was back, shocked to discover he was a parent--and determined to make Melissa his wife....

  • Looking for the Mahdi

    N. Lee Wood

  • Shore to Die

    Valerie Wolzien

    THE BODY IN THE BEACH HOUSE IS DEAD AS A DOORNAIL. Summer's coming, and Island Contracting's all-woman construction crew is working overtime, glitzing up the old house on the north end of the island. Then the firm's owner, redheaded Josie Pigeon, ...

  • Esther's Story

    Diane Wolkstein

  • Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones

    Lana Witt

    Rolling into remote Pick, Kentucky, wayward Californian Tom Jett finds himself surrounded by a host of characters who hint at murderous secrets that Tom must overcome before he can call the place his new home. Reprint....

  • The Veracruz Blues

    Mark Winegardner

    Based on the actual events of 1946, a portrait of major league baseball is seen through the eyes of the Pasquel brothers, a family of rich industrialists who want to bring the major leagues to Mexico. Reprint. Tour....

  • Big Yellow Taxi

    Ken Wilson-Max

    An interactive, die-cut yellow taxicab book invites young readers to lift sturdy cardstock parts in order to check the engine, fasten seat belts, steer the car, check the meter, and go through a car wash....

  • Gutenberg's Gift

    Nancy Willard

  • A Valentine Wish

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN LOVE Dean Gates was burned out. His high-powered job and his ex-wife's demands were driving him crazy. On top of it all, he was fast approaching Black Wednesday--Valentine's Day. He needed to escape! When he first set eyes on ...

  • McKenna's Fortune

    Lauren Wilde

    Georgianna Mead fled the staid respectability of 19th-century England to seek adventure in Spanish Florida, an unsavory frontier where Seminole chiefs traded with smugglers. Now, with a dangerous raid imminent, she is forced once more to take to the ...

  • The Skystone // Excalibur

    Jack Whyte

    We all know the story - how Arthur pulled the sword from the stone, how Camelot came to be, and the power struggles that ultimately destroyed Arthur's dreams. But what of the time before Arthur? What were the forces that helped create him? And how di...

  • Eric carle's dragons, dragons

    Laura Whipple

    Beautiful full-color collage illustrations complement an anthology of poetry about such mythological creatures as centaurs, mermaids, and the yeti by Anne McCaffrey, John Gardner, Myra Cohn Livingston, X. J. Kennedy, and other notable writers. Reprin...

  • The Magic School Bus Gets All Dried Up: A Book about Deserts

    Suzanne Weyn

  • The Outrageous Dowager

    Sarah Westleigh

    THE Wild Widow OF LONDON After a long seclusion, Lexie Hamilton set out to enjoy a Season in London. And so she had, until one night she found herself swept up in the strong arms of the Marquess of Stormaston. Flirtation and fancy were delights in...

  • Siren Song

    Sue Welford

    When Sabra's mother is posted to Damos, Sabra decides to go along for the ride to get away from earth. She soon finds herself entranced by the mystery of the alien planet and by the Sea-Sirens that sing of Damo's past. But Damos is threatened by disa...

  • Trash Talk

    Dan Weiss

  • Deadline

    Eric Weiner

    Glimpsing a beautiful women in a painting, Hector and the Ghostwriter team stumble upon a murder plot that leads them to an eerie cruise ship where they are forced to identify a killer before midnight strikes. Original....

  • Wonderful Wedding: Dear Barbie

    Jean Waricha

    In this wedding-story picture book, Barbie is the maid of honor at her cousin's wedding. Her little sister Stacie is the flower girl. In spite of careful preparations and a sunny wedding day, Stacie tears her dress by mistake just before the ceremony...

  • Connie Came to Play

    Jill Paton Walsh

    When her friend Richard refuses to share his toys, young Connie sets out to prove that her imagination is better than any toy and imagines herself a fairy castle and a locomotive that travels to distant lands....

  • Infinite Jest

    David Foster Wallace

    A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essentia...

  • The Best Medicine

    Elizabeth Neff Walker

    LOVE IN THE SHADOW OF LOSS In San Francisco's prestigious Fielding Medical Center, Dr. Roger Janek was known as a brilliant, dedicated specialist in the operating room. But in his private life, he was locked in mourning for his beautiful wife, Ker...

  • The Gates of Twilight

    Paula Volsky

    In a fragile alliance, the natives are stirring uneasily under their foreign rulers. Rebellion is brewing, and at the heart of the conflict lies the bloody and powerful cult of the god Aoun, whose followers will stop at nothing to rid their land of a...

  • Infinity of Grace

    O.V. Vijayan

  • Between Sisters

    Nina Vida

    Lela begins her life a second time within a new adoptive family. Through their kindness she is able to hide from the horror that once embraced her. But when a strange man arrives with a neglected child who needs her love, Lela must again confront her...

  • Yesterday's Reveille

    Robert Vaughan

    They were soldiers young and brave in a war that would change America forever. Some came from the gray cliffs of West Point. Some came from the bloody caldron of the Civil War. By train and steamship they traveled West to fight against an enemy ba...

  • From Ice to Fire

    Helen Upshaw

  • Family Secrets

    Lynda Trent

    Caught up in a case in which a child's life is at stake, beautiful attorney Kirby Garrett finds her obsession threatening her relationship with her husband, while her sister, Mallory, trapped in a loveless marriage, seeks refuge in a series of love a...

  • Buchanan's Bride

    Pamela Toth

    ONE LONELY COWBOY... What was it about that long, tall cowboy that wouldn't let Ashley Gray keep her distance? Sure, Taylor Buchanan was a whole lot of man, enough to cause any woman a few sleepless nights. But there was far more to it than that ....

  • The Wedding Deception

    Kay Thorpe

    Stop that man -- or the wedding! Ross Laxton was determined to stop his brother's "shotgun wedding"! And the only person who could stop him was Claire Marcroft! The sister of the expectant bride to be, she had more reason than most for...

  • Mimi's Tutu

    Tynia Thomassie

    Longing for a special and unique tutu for an upcoming recital, young ballerina Mimi is helped by her mama, aunts, and grandmother, who create an exquisite lapa skirt and teach Mimi about an element of her African-American heritage....

  • Last Orders

    Graham Swift

    Four men -- friends, most of them, for half a lifetime -- gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment o...

  • Queen of the Dixie Drive-In

    Peg Sutherland

    Welcome to Sweetbranch, Alabama. Folks are friendly, children are safe and down-home hospitality abounds. Once in a while, though, things are not quite what they seem.... "VALENTINES ARE FOR SAPS!" And don't you forget it, fourteen-year-old Carso...

  • Devotion

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    Trey Hawthorne had once been the most eligible man in Northern England. A notorious rogue, the young Duke of Salterdon had a line of admirers that could stretch all the way around his magnificent estate. But after being wounded, Trey suddenly found h...

  • Dead South

    Winona Sullivan

    MISSING IN MIAMI Last seen drinking Blue Lagoons in the Hotel Place St. Michel, CIA agent Bradley Locke has vanished into the steamy South Florida night. Soon thereafter the Miami underworld takes careful note of a beautiful nun driving a red F...

  • Wordsworth and the Tasty Treat Trick

    Todd Strasser

    Lovable Wordsworth, the talking dog. is back in his fifth amazing adventure. When the sneaky next-door neighbor, Adam Pickney, plots to expose Wordsworth's secret on national television, it's up to Wordsworth and his pal Dee Dee to keep things under ...

  • The Music of What Happens

    John Straley

    A defense investigator working out of Sitka, in the Alaskan coastal archipelago, Cecil Younger walks a narrow line between the truth and what his clients pay him to find.... Younger's got the child custody case from hell, and a client to match. Sh...

  • The Face

    R.L. Stine

    They say something horrible happened that day, but Martha can’t remember any of it -- not even the smallest detail. They say it will come back to her in time. But someone wants her to remember now. She draws his face, over and over -- the face of a...

  • Night of the Living Dummy III

    R.L. Stine

    WHEN DUMMIES SPEAK...EVERYBODY LISTENS! Trina O'Dell's dad used to have a ventriloquist act. That's why he has all those dummies in the attic. He calls it his Dummy Museum. There's a dummy with freckles. And one with a sneer just like Rocky. Trina an...

  • Heir to Stonemoor

    Kay Stephens

  • Spring Break

    Barbara Steiner

    Anticipating the perfect spring break at the beach, Angie and her four best friends find the only available accommodations with creepy Mr. Jamison, whose old house harbors a terrifying family secret. Original....

  • A Wife in Waiting

    Jessica Steele

    Everything comes to he who waits.... Josy Fereday, widowed and wary, has decided that she isn't marriage material. But now that her twin sister, Belvia, is happily wedded, Josy must get on with her own life. Dacre Banchereau is offering her...

  • Rogue Squadron

    Michael A. Stackpole

    JOIN THE MOST ELITE FIGHTING FORCE IN SPACE ON A DO-OR-DIE MISSION ONLY THE X-WINGS WOULD DARE! They are sleek, swift, and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who...

  • The Renegade

    Margaret St. George

    He was a great advertisement for heaven! The sexy blond guy who appeared before Brett Thatcher in the swirling Colorado snow looked anything but angelic. In tight jeans and a leather jacket, he almost made her forget she was the chief suspect in h...

  • Amazing Tilly

    John Speirs

  • Fearless Joe

    John Speirs

  • Summer in February

    Jonathan Smith

    Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern Art. The effect of his diatribe is doubly shocking, leaving not only his distinguished audience gasping but also many pe...

  • The Long Night

    Dean Wesley Smith; Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Centuries ago, the Supreme Ruler of the planet Jibet fled a democratic uprising, taking with him many priceless works of art. Now Quark's greed leads Commander Sisko and his crew to the lost treasures--and to the Supreme Ruler himself, preserved in c...

  • A Gift from Heaven

    Bobbi Smith
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    Tennessee,1865. A Yankee soldier and a Southern belle are ready to start their own civil war--until a heavenly visitor draws up terms of surrender that will bring them anal bliss....

  • The Bride of Texas

    Josef Skvorecky

    From the widely acclaimed author of Dvorak in Love and The Engineer of Human Souls comes an unusual Civil War novel based on the documented memories of Czech soldiers who fought for the Union in the 26th Wisconsin battalion under General William Tecu...

  • After the Storm

    Susan Sizemore

    A LOVE FOR ALL TIME Don't fraternize with the locals. Every member of the Time Search time knew that was the cardinal rule of team travel. But when Libby Wolfe was swept back to medieval England, she met the one man who could make her ignore it. Ba...

  • Make-Believe Mom

    Elizabeth Sites

    DO YOU TAKE THIS WOMAN--FOR LIFE? Marriage? Prim and proper Laura Gardiner was shocked by rancher Nick Rafland's scandalous proposal. Why, they barely knew each other! And since she wasn't planning on saying "I do," she had no business wondering w...

  • Babysitter Beware

    Linda Joy Singleton

  • Meadowlark

    Sheila Simonson

    Having recently moved with her professor husband from California up to the Shoalwater Peninsula in Washington state, Lark Dodge has been busy renovating their new home and setting up her bookstore, Larkspur Books. The former basketball player and occ...

  • Wiley and the Hairy Man

    Judy Sierra

  • The Wonder Book of Air

    Cynthia Shearer

    The fractured lives of three generations of a Southern family unfold in this lyrical and piercing debut novel. As a young man, Harrison Durrance comes into his own during World War II, but when the war ends, he loses his bearings. His notions of the ...

  • Forever, Dad

    Maggie Shayne

    SECRET AGENT, SECRET SONS Secret agent Torch Palamaro had finally found her--the mysterious Alexandra Holt who'd disappeared six months ago with something he desperately wanted. The woman was his only chance for revenge against the man who'd taken...

  • Caveman Dave

    Nick Sharratt

  • Pointy-Hatted Princesses

    Nick Sharratt

  • Utah Trackdown

    Jon Sharpe

    Lured into the desolate Unitas mountains by a beautiful woman's promise of a big payoff, Skye Fargo encounters a crew of mysterious murderers and a gang of religious fanatics called the Destroying Angels. Original....

  • Going to the Chapel

    Alice Sharpe

    ALWAYS PLANNING A WEDDING, BUT NEVER HER OWN For jilted bride Elinor Bosley, romance was strictly business. Her days were spent running the Lakeside Wedding Chapel, marrying impulsive strangers in quickie ceremonies. But Elinor had sworn off "happ...

  • Whisper of Romance

    Alice Sharpe

    Stranded in San Diego with little more than her pride, Laurel Manchester must find a viable way to return to her Oregon farm. Reed Thorne needs someone to help him sail his boat home. A completely inexperienced sailor, Laurel reluctantly agrees to se...

  • Richard II

    William Shakespeare

    Considered one of Shakespeare's greatest history plays, The Tragedy of King Richard II concerns the ill-fated reign of a king whose eventual overthrow marks the beginning of Shakespeare's history cycle, including Henry IV, Part I, Henry IV Part II; a...

  • Veil of Secrets

    Maura Seger

    DARK MAGIC Conan, Baron of Wyndham, was a man dark of spirit. And he certainly wasn't pleased when the Queen commanded him to a mist-wreathed island in Glastonbury to investigate a monk's murder. There he found the accused, Alianor of the Lake, a wo...

  • The Manikin

    Joanna Scott

    The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton has become America's preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a world-fi...

  • Cinderella Bride

    Christine Scott

    THE BRIDE OF HIS DREAMS VANISHED AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT Millionaire bachelor Ryan Kendrick had every woman in town chasing him. But the playboy prince had eyes only for the mysterious woman he'd danced with at the ball. Though he didn't know he...

  • New Times in the Old South

    Maryln Schwartz

    A hilarious and perceptive look at the people, trends, and attitudes that are making the Old South rise again. "The Old South ain't what it used to be. To know about the new times, the new people, and the new money, you'd better listen to Marilyn Sch...

  • In the Language of Love

    Diane Schoemperlen

    In this astonishingly inventive novel, Diane Schoemperlen uses the 100 stimulus words from the Standard Word Association Test as a narrative framework for exploring her heroine's growing understanding of the meaning of love. A tour de force of wit an...

  • Cupid's Challenge

    Jeanne Savery

    ROSES ARE RED, A LADY IS BLUE Lady Anne Montmorency is an enigma. She hides her magnificent hair beneath a dreadful cap, moves into the garret of her sister-in-law's elegant mansion, and refuses to attend a single London soiree. In fact, confirmed b...

  • Valentine

    Tom Savage

    Believing she has it all in a successful writing career, an attentive lover, and lots of friends, Jillian Talbot is stalked by a secret admirer who calls himself Valentine and who is hunting her down as the holiday approaches. Reissue. (A Warner Bros...

  • Delta City

    Felicity Savage

    The remaining survivors of the old order began to plan their rebellion against the god Pati - and only one person could lead this revolt - Humility Garden. She vowed to retake Salt from the Divinarch, even if it meant giving up the very thing which k...

  • McNally's Puzzle

    Lawrence Sanders

    Sex, secrets, and suspense. Nobody lives for them like Archy McNally, the playboy-turned-Palm Beach P.I. Wealthy bird-store owner Hiram Gottschalk feels his life is in danger. And he's right - as McNally realizes when his mutilated body is found. Bet...

  • Beware! This House Is Haunted

    Lance Salway

  • Luthien's Gamble

    R.A. Salvatore

    Disguised as the magic-wielding outlaw called the Crimson Shadow, Eriadoran noble Luthien Bedwyr has struck the first blows for his people's liberation. But now his ragtag rebel army of elves, dwarfs, and humans must rally against the threat of a new...

  • You Belong to My Heart

    Nan Ryan

    FROM LOVE TO HATE She was a blue blood. His ran dirt poor and red. That didn't matter to them. But it did to those whose devious trap destroyed their young love. FROM INNOCENCE TO ECSTASY As the Civil War raged, a different kind of war exploded ...

  • Sea Without a Shore

    Sean Russell

    THE LODESTONE The secrets of the Mages had been lost with the passing of Erasmus Flattery, a man of Talent who had served the last known Mage. It seemed to be the dawn of a new era--a time of reason, science, and exploration. And Tristam Flattery,...

  • Bundori

    Laura Joh Rowland

    Enter a magical world of warriors and mystics. A timeless place marked by tradition and desire. A lush, exotic land were honor--or death--is found at the end of a sword. Here you will discover the romantic splendor and epic mystery of seventeenth-cen...

  • Broken Arrow

    Jeff Rovin

    Surviving after their stealth bomber crashes, a pair of co-pilots must do anything to recover the two devastating nuclear weapons that the plane was carrying, even if they are forced to kill each other. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Shattering Glass

    Nancy-Gay Rotstein

  • To Lasso a Lady

    Renee Roszel

    "There should be a law against kissing like that." Amy Vale was determined to be the best rancher's wife in Wyoming. She'd found someone nice to spend her life with; someone honest who could make her smile. Passion, as far as Amy ...

  • Nurses

    Marcia Rose

    "A fast-paced, unabashedly soap-operatic tale of love and betrayal in a hectic Manhattan clinic."
    --Kirkus Reviews

    As director of New York's first and only nurse-run inner-city clinic, Marty Lamb wages the daily fight to keep the clinic run...

  • The Vampire Princess

    Michael Romkey

    "I HAVE FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN AWAKENING YOUR KILLER INSTINCT.... "There will be many opportunities for you to indulge in your wildest desires aboard the Atlantic Princess. But if you refuse to abandon yourself to my bloody bacchanals, I will find a...

  • Sweet Potato Pie

    Anne Rockwell

  • The Elliott Bay Murders

    J.R. Roberts

    Lovely Deirdre Crawford is a woman of experience -- and to Clint Adams, that makes her a fine choice for showing him all the pleasures Seattle has to offer. But for some, the city offers only death. A young lady is drowned in Elliott Bay. A few days ...

  • The Stallion

    Harold Robbins

    Continuing the phenomenal story in The Betsy, The Stallion reintroduces the Hardeman family and the cutthroat world of their vast automobile empire, where the stakes are high and every man, and woman, is a gambler.      Loren Hard...

  • Forever and a Day

    Connie Rinehold

    HE DEFIED THE BOUNDARIES OF TIME . . . He thundered out of the moonlit mist, out of her dreams, and onto the deserted English road leading to the inn she had crossed the ocean to claim. Dark and brooding astride his dappled silver steed, he watched ...

  • The Man, the Moon and the Marriage Vow

    Christine Rimmer

    WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS... ...is what Evie Jones has wanted all her life--husband, children, the white picket fence. But these ordinary wishes have eluded her miserably...because Evie is far from ordinary.... ...IS ONE GOOD MAN Erik Riggins, with...

  • Myth & Magic: Helen of Troy, New York

    Paula Detmer Riggs
    in

    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...

  • The Bachelor Chase

    Emma Richmond

    Man trouble! Tano Cavallieri should have come with a government health warning: mad, bad and too dangerous to know. The Italian hunk was used to women chasing him! But when it came to pretty brunettes like Rea Halton, he was prepared to slow down!...

  • Hot Blood

    Tony Richards

    Who dares to challenge a vampire? Two very different immortal creatures have arrived in New York City. One is Tanya Merrit, the last of the Ykrall, a race that lives among-and depends on-human beings. The other is Janos Wolkran, an ancient and extrem...

  • Aim for the Heart

    Sue Rich

    Ten years have passed since the ruthless Boggs brothers massacred Jessalea Richardson's entire family. Now seventeen, the courageous beauty disguises herself as a boy and sets off to find the murderers and deliver her own brand of justice. Armed with...

  • The Tomboy

    Mary Lou Rich

    In the heart of Texas lives a family as big and bold as the state itself The Daltrys are as different as they come, each with his or her own strengths--and weaknesses. Every time a Daltry turns twenty years old, they are presented with a task by thei...

  • Purgatory Road

    Bob Reiss

    One year after accidentally causing the death of his best friend, Antarctica research scientist Jack Amirault's sister is killed, and his subsequent unauthorized investigations result in his being charged with murder...

  • An American Betty in Paris

    Randi Reisfeld

  • The Patriot

    Piers Paul Read

    The author of Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors draws from a palette of love, theft, politics, and murder to create a thrilling new novel. Set in 1991, after the fall of the Wall, and one year later in Moscow, The Patriot tells of a Russian sec...

  • American Story: The REA Award for the Short Story

    Michael M. Rea

    Established by the Dungannon Foundation in 1986 to honor living American writers who have made a significant contribution to the short story form, the annual Rea Award for the Short Story has become one of America's most prestigious literary prizes. ...

  • Hey Diddle Diddle

    Shoo Rayner

  • The Cowboy and the Centerfold

    Debbi Rawlins

    A Trustin' Texan... One minute Cash McCloud was a fine, upstanding cowboy in Maybe, Texas, and the next he was guilty of harboring a centerfold. He thought he'd hired a matronly tutor for his teenage son, but beneath her baggy T-shirts and baseba...

  • Husband Material

    Rita Rainville

    THE LAST MAN SHE'D MARRY! Libby Cassidy knew from experience that Matt Flint wasn't husband material ...and marriage was definitely on Libby's mind. Oh his long, hard body and hot kisses were enough to make her swoon, but if Matt wasn't ready to s...

  • Romance, Inc.

    Jocelyn Raines

    In one unexpected turn of fate everything changed. Her Marriage. Her Future. Her Heart. Caroline Shaw had been a poor rag doll of a girl in golden Palm Beach, Florida. But her dreams were rich, formed by her wide-eyed visits to her mother's place ...

  • Secret Valentine

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Sending herself a valentine from an imaginary secret admirer, Lexie Taylor finds more trouble than she anticipated when her friends expect her to attend the forthcoming Valentine's Day dance with him. Original....

  • Jazz, Pizzazz and the Silver Threads

    Mary Quattlebaum

    Hanging on to his desire for a pet despite his parents' belief that he is irresponsible, Calvin Hastings becomes involved with caring for his friend Jenny's pet hamster and helping Ms. Eva's dance troupe prepare for a dance recital....

  • Shattered Rainbows

    Mary Jo Putney

    FORBIDDEN DESIRE Honed by danger and haunted by the past, Lord Michael Kenyon finds it easy to risk his life for his country's sake. But in the shadow of war, he faces a far more dangerous threat --- the loss of his heart to the beautiful battlefi...

  • Baffled in Boston

    Gary Provost

    Baffled in Boston marks the debut of the most likable--and unlikely--sleuth to come along in years. Burned-out true-crime writer Scotty Scotland has been abandoned by his wife, ordered to give up coffee by his doctor, and according to his latest revi...

  • Mount Dragon

    Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

    Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionar...

  • Beginners Bible: Lift-and-Peek into Noah's Ark

    David Prebenna

    A die-cut board book highlights more than fifty interactive lift-flaps that invite young readers to uncover their favorite animal friends aboard Noah's Ark while helping Noah count his supplies and learn the ABCs....

  • Mummy's Revenge

    Roy Pond

    Trying to make their weird cousin, Harry, feel at home, Josh and Amy play the Mummy Monster Game that he shows them and find the game becoming all too real when they discover themselves trapped in an actual tomb. Reprint....

  • Protektor

    Charles Platt

    Trained to evaluate computer errors, Tom McCray serves as the Protektor to a pacifistic system that serves the entire known universe, but a band of hardcore cyberpsychos sabotage the system by turning virtual reality inside-out. Original....

  • The Cold People

    Christopher Pike

    Frozen enemies make for a chilling challenge in this fifth book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series -- now on TV!Adam and his friend are exploring the forest near Spooksville when they come across huge blocks ...

  • The Dreamer

    L.D. Pierce

  • As She Rides by

    David M. Pierce

    V. (for Vic) Daniel, Los Angeles private investigator, is back - six feet seven inches, wearing loud Hawaiian shirts, and driving a classic pink-and-blue Nash Metropolitan - and he is at the top of his form. Now his precious peace and quiet is threat...

  • The Vampire

    David Pierce

    Believing the pale-faced owner of the Total Body Renewal Center to be totally creepy, Charlie and Martha become worried by the owner's influence on Charlie's sister Gail, who has been acting like a vampire. ...

  • Friends, Lovers...and Babies!

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    THE BABY WAGER Sure, her best friend's brother was drop-dead gorgeous. But as long as Deedee Hamilton had known him, ex-cop Ryan MacAllister was also oddly aloof. So the matchmaking MacAllister clan might be wagering on Cupid, but Deedee knew ...

  • Kiss An Angel

    Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    WEDDING DAY Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Mar...

  • The Rose of Ravenscrag

    Patricia Phillips

    The daughter of a nobleman and a common peasant, Rosamund believed she was doomed to marry a simple swineherd. Then a desperate ruse swept the feisty lass from her rustic English village to a faraway castle. And even as Rosamund posed as the betro...

  • Star Lord

    Donald G. Phillips

    STEFAN THE TERRORIZER An ancient evil has slumbered for centuries, passing from generation to generation, until one day a man discovers the truth of his genetic heritage--and proclaims himself Star Lord of the Inner Sphere. Disguising his army of ...

  • Dead Souls

    Richard Pevear

    Nikolai Gogol s "Dead Souls" is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces. Gogol hoped to show the world the untold riches of the Russian soul in this 1842 nove...

  • The X Files Collection

    Stefan Petrucha

    Here are seven stories from the bestselling comic series plus an exclusive interview with Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files. "Real strong stories, real hot book, real good timing. Phenomenon is the right word for this market-rocking TV adaptation....

  • Hunting Cry

    Don Pendleton

    SPOILS OF WAR A new white slavery ring is being set up in Europe, and Mack Bolan's mandate is to shut down the operation, by any means necessary. His take-no-prisoners blitz begins in Bosnia, with and lightning pimps strikes who are against th...

  • The Killing Star

    Charles Pellegrino

    The only survivors from Earth after an alien species attempts to wipe out all life, a small group of people frantically studies the destructor's technology in the hopes of escaping the same fate. Reprint....

  • Warrior's Song

    Judith Pella

    Sky Killion, a half-Cheyenne seventeen-year-old torn between the two worlds of his heritage, finds acceptance when he is befriended by a rancher's son, but a horrible tragedy followed by an act of betrayal forces him to leave his home...

  • Gypsy World

    Ted Pedersen

  • The Zenith of Desire: Contemporary Lesbian Poems about Sex

    Gerry Pearlberg

    For Valentine's Day or any other day when the time seems right, this is the ideal gift book for the lesbian market. The focus is on the 20th-century and contemporary poet, and the contributors include Chrystos, Gertrude Stein, May Swenson, Pat Califi...

  • Very Little Duck

    Ellen Patrick

  • Don't Talk to Brian

    Francine Pascal

    Ostracizing local bully Brian Boyd, who has lived in a foster home ever since he had been taken away from his abusive parents, Elizabeth Wakefield experiences tremendous guilt when she helps get Brian kicked out of school. Original....

  • Elizabeth Hatches an Egg

    Francine Pascal

  • A Kiss Before Dying

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica Wakefield promises eternal love to gang member Christian Gorman when the latter promises to never fight again, while Elizabeth and her friend Rosie Shaw scheme to end gang warfare once and for all. Original....

  • Mandy in the Middle

    Francine Pascal

  • It Came from the Drive-In

    Norman Partridge

    Focusing on the world of drive-in theaters, B-movies, and steamy windows, a collection of first-run tales includes the titles "The Blood on Satan's Harley," "The Thing from Lover's Lane," and "59 Frankenstein." Original....

  • Risque

    Laura Parker

    Transforming Madeline Foucant, an impoverished, convent-bred beauty, into England's most famous courtesan as part of a bet, Sebastian D'Arcy, the rakish Marquis of Brecon, is drawn despite himself to his own sensuous creation. Original....

  • Blood Relations

    Barbara Parker

    A high-profile rape has drawn Sam Hagen, head of Major Crimes for Dade County, back into the moral twilight of South Beach - where his own teenage son died a year before. Hagen's investigation of the case only exacerbates his wife's ongoing grief ...

  • Old Money

    Elizabeth Palmer

    In a witty and compelling commentary on money, family, and marriage, two unscrupulous but charming fortune hunters, Tom Marchant and Morgan Steer, each set out to marry a fortune. By the author of Scarlet Angel and Plucking the Apple. ...

  • Tickle My Fancy

    Rebecca Paisley
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    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...

  • Jonah and the Whale

    Mary Packard

  • Favorite Norse Myths

    Mary Pope Osborne

  • Fear's Justice

    Marc Olden

    When Fear Meagher, an old-fashioned, middle-aged police officer, investigates the murder of his lover, Linda, a detective married to a corrupt cop, he discovers that the supposed culprit, a homeless Black man, may have been set up by fellow cops work...

  • Bitter Bananas

    Isaac Olaleye

    Young Yusuf tries to think of a way to keep the baboons from stealing the sweet palm sap that he sells at market, in a story set in the African rain forest with illustrations by the Caldecott Medalist for Lon Po Po. Reprint....

  • The Names of the Dead

    Stewart O'Nan

    After his wife leaves him, Larry Markham, a thirty-four-year-old Wonder Bread delivery man, battles his inner demons and his recurring memories of being a young medic during the Vietnam War. Reprint. Tour....

  • The Skin Palace

    Jack O'Connell

    A young filmmaker with Mafia connections and an inquisitive photographer find themselves drawn into an adventure in the seedy underworld of a decaying New England town, the black heart of which resides in a lavish porn theater...

  • The White Chip

    Nelson Nye

    The Lost Dutchman was the most fabled gold mine of the Old West. Since Jacob Walzer struck gold in the Superstition Mountains of southwestern Arizona, hundreds of hopefuls had risked everything to comb the deadly mountains for it -- and many never ca...

  • The Butterfly Tattoo

    Barry Norman

    When Archie Beckway, a powerful London politician and notorious womanizer, becomes the target of a gang of blackmailers disguised as cartoon characters, he turns to old friend Donovan, a crime lord out to gain respectability, and ex-boxer-turned-priv...

  • Immortal Game

    Douglas Niles

    Queen Danis and farmboy-turned-knight Holton join their friends--a dwarf, a giant talking owl, and an absent-minded mage--on a quest to destroy the Crown of Vanderthan, a powerful artifact of the immortals, and save their world. Original....

  • The Rod of Seven Parts

    Douglas Niles

    When the Rod of Seven Parts, a symbol of the conflict between law and chaos, gets broken and its pieces scatter throughout the land, an assortment of characters ranging from heroes to monsters compete to find the pieces...

  • The Lost Coast

    Steven Nightingale

    A diverse cast of characters--a hard-drinking cowgirl, a professor and her teenage daughter, an amorous painter, a shy contractor, a Jamaican journalist, and a beautiful attorney--band together on a journey across the Great Basin to the legendary Los...

  • The Lost Coast

    Steven Nightingale

    There are places of sure enchantment: Nevada's Great Basin - the classic Western high desert - is one of them. It's a wilderness, with good bars in little towns far out in the long quiet valleys. In one of those bars, in the town of Eureka, in the ...

  • Breaking Point

    Liz Nickles; Martina Navtatilova

    A tennis promoter's assistant plunges to her death at a gala reception in Paris. And Jordan Myles, women's tennis-champ-turned-sports-therapist, is convinced it was no accident. While searching for clues, she clashes with her old archrival Kelly Kend...

  • Remember That

    Leslea Newman

    A young girl looks forward to Friday nights with her grandmother, Bubbe, but soon Bubbe can no longer take care of her apartment and moves in with the family, and Friday nights still remain the best nights of the week....

  • Changing Seasons: 1954-1980

    Betty Palmer Nelson

  • A Hot Country

    Shiva Naipaul

  • A Man of Mystery and Other Stories

    Shiva Naipaul

    Sharply observed, wryly comic yet touched with sadness, these eight stories were written between 1969 and 1974. 'A Man of Mystery' charts the tragic downfall of Mr Green, a shoemaker overtaken by commercialization. Other stories range from the hilari...

  • The Seven League Boots

    Albert Murray

    The break-out novel by an unrecognized master--"a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition" (Washington Post Book World). Told from the point of view of a young Alabama college graduate in the 1920s, this brilliant novel recounts the ex...

  • The Man from Forever

    Vella Munn

    WARRIOR FROM THE SHADOWS When she first came to the sacred tribal lands in the California wilderness, anthropologist Tory Kent paid little heed to the tales of a ghostly warrior keeping watch there. But then a dark figure appeared before her--and ...

  • Spirit of the Eagle

    Vella Munn

    It is 1872. American Expansionism is at its peak. Landso nce thought uninhabitable are coveted by white settlers, miners, and traders who are spreading throughout the West. The last of the Modoc tribe are being forced by the U.S. government to leave ...

  • Bible Stories for Adults

    James Morrow

    Short fiction of biblical proportions -- and bent -- from the science fiction satirist and author of The Godhead Trilogy.   James Morrow, “the most provocative satiric voice in science fiction,” unabashedly delves into matters both sacred a...

  • Toward the Sunrising

    Gilbert Morris; Lynn Morris

  • Tracks of Deceit

    Gilbert Morris; Alan Morris

    Dangerous mountain passages. A rough gang of laborers. A ruthless murderer. Katy Steele must overcome these obstacles on her quest for justice. With her partner, ex-gambler and actor Sam Bronte, Katy trails the saboteur of the Central Pacific Railroa...

  • The Fields of Glory

    Gilbert Morris

    Two families--the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans--are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking the people and events through th...

  • Mexican Standoff

    Lee Morgan

    Captain Boyd McMasters is sent in by the Cattleman's Protective Association when rancher Ben Allison is threatened by vicious rustlers who may have been hired by a powerful scoundrel from across the Rio Grande. Original....

  • I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore

    Ethan Mordden

    "We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." In this, the first volume in Ethan Mordden's acclaimed trilogy on Manhattan gay life, he introduces a smal...

  • Sister Dearest

    C.L. Moore

  • Going Home

    Nicholasa Mohr

    In this sequel to Felita, Felita's going to Puerto Rico! It's like a dream to her, although she'll miss her friends. But Felita's summer isn't at all what she expected. Her uncle's small village is boring, and none of the girls wants to be friends wi...

  • The Parafaith War

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    A standalone military science fiction adventure from, L. E. Modesitt, author of the bestselling Saga of Recluce series, The Parafaith War combines hard science fiction adventure with an insightful examination of the relationship between the sacred a...

  • The Duke's Dilemma

    Nadine Miller

    A Compromising Position Miss Emily Haliburton could not hope to match her cousin Lady Lucinda Hargrave in either beauty or social standing. Certainly she could never compete with the lovely Lucinda for the hand of the devastatingly handsome, daunt...

  • Tank Girl

    Martin Millar

  • Sonic the Hedgehog: Up against the Wall

    John Michlig

    In the Great Forest of the planet Mobius, the brave Freedom Fighters were listening to Antoine, their record keeper. 'Dr. Robotnik and his Badniks have been quiet lately, ' he reported. 'Maybe he's ready to give up!' said Tails, the two-tailed fox. '...

  • Wish List

    Fern Michaels

    IF YOU HAD JUST ONE WISH, WHAT WOULD IT BE? A brilliant career, two adoring husbands--none of it is enough to erase the memory of Ariel Hart's one true love. Back when she was plain, starry-eyed Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed boy touched her heart . ....

  • Valentines

    Barbara Metzger

    BALD LIES Audrina is desperate to ensure that Lord Blanford not only notices her beautiful cousin but marries her as well. However, Max's head is beset by larger worries than matrimony--though he is curiously diverted by the antics of the flame-ha...

  • Assignment: Marriage

    Jackie Merritt

    THE COP SAYS, "I DO?" Marriage wasn't in his job description, but officer Tuck Hannigan's latest assignment was playing husband to an extremely vulnerable--and incredibly beautiful--witness. He'd protect Nicole Currie from danger--he'd even share ...

  • Night Lace

    Emma Merritt

    NOW . . . Seeking a cure for a mysterious new virus, devoted doctor Beth Balfour travels to a far-off Scottish castle to find a remedy described in an ancient text: a delicate, silvery flower called Nightlace. It exists, to her dismay, only in the p...

  • Breath of Magic

    Teresa Medeiros

    An enchantress from seventeenth-century Massachusetts collides with a future beyond her imagining...and with a handsome cynic who's about to learn a lesson in the power of love. AN EXQUISITE ENCHANTRESS LOST IN TIME Arian Whitewood hadn't qui...

  • Going to the Sun

    James McManus

    Seven years ago, Penny's boyfriend was savagely attacked by a bear, setting off a chain of tragic events. Now, fighting a debilitating illness and haunted by her past, she finds herself incapable of emotional or sexual intimacy. As a way to break dow...

  • Sheik Daddy

    Barbara McMahon

    THE FATHER OF HER CHILD WAS A SHEIK? A decade ago Ben Shalik had disappeared from Megan O'Sullivan's life, leaving her with nothing but memories... and a baby. Now he was back, causing Megan to tremble with more than desire. For Ben was of royal ...

  • No Time to Cry

    Lurlene McDaniel

    Dawn Rochelle has been through chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, and the death of her best friend. Now a sophomore in high school, she wants nothing more than finally to live a normal life and be an ordinary high school student. The freedom o...

  • Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs

    Max McCoy

    Fresh from a ride on a Nazi submarine, Indiana Jones is persuaded by a beautiful missionary to search for her missing father in Mongolia. Professor Angus Starbuck has discovered a dinosaur bone in the Gobi Desert. But unlike other such discoveries, t...

  • Scimitar

    Ashley McConnell

    THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE... He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can die only if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Qui...

  • Man of the House

    Stephen McCauley

    Stephen McCauley's much-loved novels The Object of My Affection and The Easy Way Out prompted The New York Times Book Review to dub him "the secret love child of Edith Wharton and Woody Allen." Now McCauley stakes further claim to that title -- and m...

  • Forsaking All Others

    Susanne McCarthy

    In name only... "You're the woman who stood at the altar with my cousin not more than a few hours ago, vowing to forsake all others. You - didn't manage to keep it up very long, did you?" Leo Ratcliffe had kissed his cousin's new bride and disc...

  • Crystal Singer Trilogy

    Anne McCaffrey

    CRYSTAL SINGER
    Young and beautiful, Killashandra Ree was a trained musician with no prospects . . . until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild on the planet Ballybran, where the fabled Black Crystal was found. For those qualified, the Guild w...

  • The Bounty Hunter's Baby

    Jule McBride

    Had he been hired to track down the mother of his own child? Remy Lafitte was charismatic - a tracker of men, a seducer of women, a Cajun healer. But one steamy New Orleans night, it was prim attorney plain Jayne Wright who won the man's heart. M...

  • Sea Raven

    Patricia McAllister

    THE RAVEN AND THE HAWK As proud and stubborn as the clan she springs from, as wild and unpredictable as the waters she sails, she is any man's equal on the high seas. Sworn to defend her homeland against English tyranny, she bravely confronts the ...

  • Magnificat

    Julian May

    “Fascinating . . . May has cemented her position as one of this generation's foremost storytellers. . . .This satisfying end to a remarkable feat of the imagination is a necessary purchase.” -- Library JournalBy the mid-twenty-first century, huma...

  • Treasured Vows

    Cathy Maxwell

    A DEPT OF HONOR A SCANDALOUS DUTY The reckless and impoverished heiress Phadra Abbott swore that no amount of scandal would stop her from finding her spendthrift explorer father. Not even her forbiddingly handsome guardian Grant Morgan could stand in...

  • Murder Among the Angels

    Stefanie Matteson

    The search for a plastic surgeon draws Hollywood legend and amateur sleuth Charlotte Graham to upstate New York, where she discovers a utopian community’s darkest secrets Zion Hill is paradise in the Hudson River Valley. A religious utopia founded ...

  • The Loves of Ruby Dee

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    THE END OF THE ROAD The first moment Will Starr saw Ruby Dee D'Angelo step out of her Ford Galaxie, he knew she would have to go. Hired as a nurse for Will's ailing father, she was too young and beautiful to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with ...

  • Made in Heaven

    Felicia Mason
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    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...

  • Taken By You

    Connie Mason

    A PIRATE'S PASSION He is Morgan Scott, an English nobleman once held captive on the high seas by the brutal Spanish master and crew who murdered his family. Now he sails the seas as a British privateer, taking his revenge by attacking and plunde...

  • 'Til Tomorrow

    Sandra Marton

    When Manhattan businesswoman Kathryn Russell inherits Charon's Crossing, her first instinct is to sell it. A busy career woman didn't need a tropical island getaway. But destiny brings Kathryn to Charon's Crossing discovers that her new possession is...

  • Spring Bride

    Sandra Marton

    When a will leads to a wedding... It's Kyra's turn: "My father's legacy allowed me to assert my independence after years of being the pampered Landon 'princess.' But I've discovered independence has its own problems....

  • Abby and the Secret Society

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! When Abby signs the BSC up to help reopen a country club that's been closed for twenty years, the girls find more than just cobwebs to clear away. There's a decades-old mystery to solve, too: Th...

  • Karen's Big Sister

    Ann M. Martin

    From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!Sister troubleKaren loves her stepsister Kristy. Then Daddy gives Kristy a special pin. Karen is jealous. She wants the pin. But K...

  • Karen's Grandad

    Ann M. Martin

    From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!Good friendsKaren is happy that Granny and Grandad are living at the little house. But Grandad has not been feeling well. He canno...

  • Stacey McGill, Super Sitter

    Ann M. Martin

    Need a baby-sitter? Save time! Call: the babysitters club Sitting for the Cheplins seems like a dream job to Stacey. The pay is great. One of the kids is diabetic and needs Stacey's help. And even though Mrs. Cheplin keeps giving her lists of thi...

  • The Proposal

    Catherine Marshall

    Christy looked at David in surprise. Something in his expression sent a shiver of excitement mixed with uncertainty through her. Could it be. . . ? Christy should be thrilled when David, the handsome minister, proposes marriage. So why do thoughts o...

  • The Captain's Fire

    J.S. Marcus

    In a comic, disturbing, intense, coming-of age novel that takes readers from the suburbs of Milwaukee to the ruins of the old Prussian capital of Konigsberg--and introduces them to skinheads, drag queens, and international hustlers--Marcus chronicles...

  • Green Team

    Richard Marcinko; John Weisman

    In Portsmouth, England, an aircraft carrier has been sabotaged, killing the American Chief of Naval Operations, one of the few friends the Rogue Warrior had left in the Navy. Marcinko discovers a holy war is brewing--a violent religious movement, enc...

  • Falconer's Law

    Jason Manning

    Setting out across the harsh desert in order to forge a new path to 1837 California, daring mountain man Hugh Falconer leads his band of roughnecks and outcasts through the dangerous land against menacing odds. Original....