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New Books List: 512 titles

  • Zoey Plays Games

    Katherine Applegate

    Zoey plays games with Aaron and sets off a wave of broken hearts. Because Lucas is in love with Zoey, Claire has vowed to make Aaron her own. But the island is too small for big secrets. Zoey's playing games with Aaron, and Lucas is still in love wi...

  • You're the Top

    Cole Porter

    A Valentine keepsake, this greeting-card sized package brings to life the loving and tender words of one of Porter's most popular and poignant songs, with lyrics complemented by beautiful black and white photographs. 75,000 first printing....

  • You Run

    Sarah Shankman
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  • The Xander Years, Vol. 1

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    "This is new territory for me. My valentines are usually met with heartfelt restraining orders." Unfulfilled crushes. Awkward first conversations. A date who wants you...dead. Having a Y-chromosome in Sunnydale is never easy. But Buffy the Vamp...

  • World Elsewhere

    Peter Brooks

    A moving novel about a young eighteenth-century Frenchman who is forced by circumstance to examine the world beyond his nobility delves into such classic themes as European exploration and civilization versus savagery as it describes his journey to T...

  • Wolf Moon

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Years after Reeves double-crossed him after a bank robbery, Chase is out of jail and out for revenge, and to carry out his vengeance, he journeys to the town where Reeves is setting up his next bank heist. ...

  • Wither

    J.G. Passarella

    The college town of Windale, Massachusetts is proud of its colonial heritage -- including the legend of a dark witches' coven dating back three hundred years. No one in Windale actually believes in witches, or imagines that the blood-chilling history...

  • With Evil Intent

    C.N. Bean

    Captain Rita Trible, head of Wisconsin's Criminal Investigation Division, prayed she would never be assigned to cases involving child victims. But the photos of 26 missing children that land in her office remind her of the grim reality of her job. Fa...

  • The Witch's Gift

    Christopher Pike

    The Witch invites the Spooksville gang to her castle as part of her farewell to the town, offering to grant each of them a wish, but they soon discover that the Witch's gift may have unexpected and dangerous repercussions. Original....

  • Wishing

    Miranda Jarrett

    Captain Samson Fairbourne is a confirmed bachelor, a deep-water sailor happily wedded to his work. When he pens a description of the perfect, obedient wife, and hefts the missive overboard in a bottle, all he has in mind is a cutting joke to tech his...

  • The Winners on the Road

    Cherie Bennett

    As the newly crowned Miss Teen Spirit and her runner-up tour America, they visit contestant reunions across the country and become caught up in the continuing dramas of their friends, including Pepper, who struggles to cope with a secret pregnancy, a...

  • Winds of the Cumberland // Cumberland Crossing

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    It's 1862 and the Civil War has swept over the Cumberland Mountains into the heart of Tennessee. Jesse Dodson and his wife, Alcie, want only to farm the land and raise their children in peace. But instead the cataclysmic forces of war have torn their...

  • Windows on the Hill

    Beverly Lewis

    When her parents are away, Merry Hanson hopes to take advantage of her stay with Miss Ruby Spindler to find out what secrets "Old Hawk Eyes" is hiding, but her visit is marred by worries about the disappearance of her cat, Abednego, although she trus...

  • Windfall

    James Magnuson

    In his twenties and thirties, Ben never thought about money--more or less what you'd expect  from a scholar whose specialty was the transcendentalists.  But now, in his forties, trying to raise two children on a  thirty-...

  • A Wife and Child

    Rosemary Carter

    Instant daddy. To bachelor Sterling Taylor it seemed only natural to rescue a damsel in distress. What he hadn't reckoned on was that saving Sara, the pretty waitress at his favorite restaurant, from unwelcome attentions from one of her customers w...

  • Wicked

    R.L. Stine

    Marla Newman is worried that her dream of becoming valedictorian of her senior class is slipping away, until she meets two juniors who offer her the power to get anything she wants, but she soon discovers that this power comes with a horrific price. ...

  • Who's Been Sitting in My Chair?

    Louise Cooper

    It's only an armchair.So why does Opal, Rhoda's cat, hiss and spit and refuse to go anywhere near it? Rhoda's baffled - until she discovers, that the chair is haunted by the ghost of a cat called Sheba. And Sheba's not just going to sit down quietly....

  • The White Hunter

    Gilbert Morris

    Peril and Adventure in the Land Once Called the White Man's Graveyard. John Winslow is a restless young man who drops out of college, tries many jobs, and finally goes to Africa to visit his missionary relative, Barney Winslow. Uninterested in relig...

  • While I Was Gone

    Sue Miller

    Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a rewarding career. But she feels a sense of unease. Then an old housemate reappears, sending Jo back to a distant past when she lived in a communal hou...

  • Where to Choose

    Penny Mickelbury

    Carole Ann Gibson: She used to uphold the law. Now she fights for justice.

    Life isn't fair, but former D.C. Lawyer Carole Ann Gibson believes it should be just. A year ago, catching her husband's killer strained her faith in the legal system t...

  • When Nighttime Comes Near

    Judy Pedersen

  • What's a Man Got to Do

    Lynnette Kent

    He knows what he has to do Rancher Dex Hightower wants custody of his six-year-old daughter. He's tired of arguing with his ex-wife about visitation rights. But she'll never agree, even though she's more interested in her career than in being a mo...

  • What a Truly Cool World

    Julius Lester

    Discovering that making a world takes a lot of work, God calls on his secretary Bruce and the angel Shaniqua to help him create bushes, grass, flowers, and butterflies. By the award-winning author of How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have! ...

  • Wedding? Impossible!

    Karen Templeton

    HER MISSION, SHOULD SHE ACCEPT IT... Was to get her well-meaning matchmaking mother and meddlesome sisters off her back. So exasperated wedding planner Zoe decided to say yes, just this once, to the blind date everybody else was so nuts about. Becaus...

  • The Wedding Betrayal

    Elizabeth Power

    Secrets and lies When Lydia accepts a job in Bermuda as a nanny, she is stunned to discover her young blind charge's father is none other than Blaine Caldwell. She and Blaine had shared a strong, sensuous bond thirteen years earlier, before th...

  • Wedding at Wildwood

    Lenora Worth

    THE WEDDING OF HER DREAMS... Isabel Landry hadn't intended to set foot on the Wildwood Plantation ever again. But now she'd come home-and it seemed like only yesterday that small-town ways had sent her running from love. For the very idea of a farme...

  • The Watcher

    Melinda Metz

    Life will never be the same... Max is dying. No one wants to believe it, but he knows it's true. And as the end grows closer, he can only think of one thing: Who will protect Liz if he's not there? Liz can't stand watching Max suffer. She's d...

  • Warriors' Honor

    Michael Kosser

  • The Warrior King

    Chris Bunch

    The Seer King’s mighty empire of Numantia has become a living nightmare -- especially to the loyal general who helped the wizard Tenedos to power. The wizard has returned to command hellish demons in his drive for absolute power.Only Damastes, impr...

  • Warmth in His Heart

    Deborah J. Merrill

  • Waiting for Stardust

    Joanna Campbell

    Can any horse replace Lightning?

    Giving up Lightning was the hardest thing Ashleigh Griffen has ever done. Nothing can replace her beloved mare, and nothing anyone can say or do will make Ashleigh fell better. How can Ashleigh ever fulfill her drea...

  • A Vow, a Ring, a Baby Swing

    Teresa Southwick

    Rosie Marchetti is planning on getting married without her family, but is surprised to see long time family friend Steve Schafer show up. Rosie has always loved Steve. She is even more surprised when he tells her that her future groom will not be com...

  • Virtual Vandals

    Steve Perry

    In the future, computers rule the world. The Net Force was formed to protect America from any and all criminal activity on-line. But there is a group of teenage whiz kids who sometimes know more about computers than their adult superiors. They are th...

  • The Virgin Bride

    Miranda Lee

    He wanted...an innocent bride When handsome bachelor Dr. Jason Steel took up residence in the small Australian town of Tindley, he soon knew who he wanted as his wife. Though Emma Churchill hesitated when Jason proposed, he was prepared to wait a ...

  • Vengeance!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    They are bold men and women who chase their dream from the cities of the East to the wild vastness of the West. Daring and determined, they seek their fortune in a rough-and-tumble new land, forging their destiny along with that of the great American...

  • The Velvet Shadow

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    "It is said that as Cahira, daughter of the great Irish king Rory O'Connor, lay dying of a wound from a Norman blade, she lifted her hand toward heaven and beseeched God that other would follow after her, bright stars who would break forth from the c...

  • Vector

    Robin Cook

    New York City cabbie Yuri Davydov is a disgruntled Russian emigre poised to lash out at the adoptive nation he believes has denied him his American dream. A former technician in the Soviet biological weapons system, Yuri possesses the knowledge to wr...

  • Valentine Murder

    Leslie Meier

    It's Valentine's Day in Tinker's Cove. And while the cupcakes Lucy Stone is baking for her children will have pink frosting and candy hearts, Lucy's thoughts aren't centered on sugary sentiments. She's barely arrived at her first board meeting of the...

  • Untamed Time

    Susan Plunkett

    The Bolivian Jungle, 1998. Hardened by violence, Rafe Stricter was a career soldier dedicated solely to his missions and his men. When one of his comrades was seriously wounded during a covert mission, Rafe prayed for a miracle--and was sent by an ex...

  • Untamed Love

    Judy Veisel

    Falling in love at first sight with Caro Fenton, born a white woman but adopted by the Shawnee, Taggart Asherton, Earl of Elmgrove, finds himself unwillingly married to the wild blonde woman, whom he struggles to teach proper English behavior. Origin...

  • Untamed Heart

    Maureen McKade

    The Man with a Future Everytime Tyler Ashburn sees pert Gabby Wade sashaying down the streets of Sawtooth, Wyoming his righteous blood begins to boil. He's ready to clean up this booming town, and women like Gabby--who owns a gambling salon--make it...

  • Unexpected Family

    Laurie Campbell

    THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT...FAMILY She had wanted to give her husband his first child, but it hadn't worked out that way for Meg McConnell. Now she was opening her home to a boy with Joe's eyes--a child he'd known nothing about. And though ...

  • Under the Black Hills

    G. Clifton Wisler

    A legacy from his long-lost, disgraced father leads Tory Bratton on a dangerous quest in search of a fortune in gold and a chance to reconcile himself to the painful secrets of the past. By the author of Massacre at Powder River. Original....

  • Twin Willows

    Kay Cornelius

    LOVE AND ADVENTURE... Graduating from her prim Philadelphia finishing school, Anna Willow McKnight eagerly heads west to the wilds of the Kentucky territory where she will see her father, a Scots fur trader, and visit the place her lovely Delaware I...

  • Turtle and Snake at Work

    Kate Spohn

  • Tumbleweeds

    Will Henry

    Presents a collection of short stories that chronicle the exploits of frontier outlaws Jesse and Frank James and Cole Younger and his brothers, as well as "Home Place," featuring an early episode in the life of Ben Allison, and other action-packed ta...

  • True Blue

    Robyn Amos

    SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN LOVE Toni Rivers has always lived her life by the books. But the expert advice in the self-help books she's always depended on have never fixed her disastrous love life. So when her sister announces that they've won the lottery...

  • Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

    Lewis Hyde

    In Trickster Makes This World , Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old storiesHermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote i...

  • Totally Dead

    Michael Stone

    STREETER, DENVER'S FAVORITE EX-LINEBACKER AND P.I., BATTLES A WHOLE NEW SET OF LOWLIFES IN NIS LATEST ADVENTURE In the gritty underworld of unsavory thugs, Streeter finally has an innocent client in Nicky "Space" Lucci. Getting the kid off ingrati...

  • Tonopah

    Christopher A. Lane

    She found the fossils out in the sun-baked Tonopah desert, along with more trouble than she'd ever dreamed of . . . . If Melissa Lewis had known that she and her three high school students were trespassing in a restricted military zone, they'd have l...

  • Token of Remorse

    Michael Stone

    A DOUBLE DOSE OF NOIR IN STREETER'S BADDEST OUTING YET In this third walk on the wild side with Denver's finest -- and sexiest -- private eye, ex-linebacker and bounty hunter Streeter tangles with the nasty, sultry, and the dim-witted as only ...

  • To the Rescue

    Caragh O'Brien

    TO THE RESCUE by CARAGH O'BRIEN Everyone is busy preparing for the festival of Sukkot -- everyone, that is, except Mr. Levy. Then, a mysterious wind and some friendly neighbors change everything. Mass Market Paperback: 171 pages Publisher: ...

  • To Be a Somebody

    Gareth Roberts

    The latest investigation for police psychologist Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, from the popular Cracker television series, concerns an apparent racial murder by a skinhead, a case that develops some disturbing complications....

  • Tight Rope

    Deanie Francis Mills

    In south-central Texas, an imprisoned electronic surveillance expert is granted an early release from prison--with a catch. The FBI has arranged for her early parole in exchange for her services as an informant. Her job is to infiltrate the organizat...

  • Tides of the Heart

    Jean Stone

    I am your baby---the one you gave up. Isn't it time we met? The unsigned letter, postmarked Martha's Vineyard, arrives like a thunderbolt out of the blue, instantly sweeping Jessica Bates back thirty years. It was 1968 when young Jess went to Larc...

  • Thunderwoman

    Nancy Wood

    Waiting on the rebirth of his dear wife Thunderwoman, Kobili is thrilled to learn that she has been born to the chief of the Pueblo, but he must patiently wait as she grows to discover whether or not she will help him on their final mission....

  • Thumbelina

    Andrea Koenig

    Angelica Skyler certainly wasn't a perfect mother to fourteen-year-old Thumbelina, but when she is found dead in the local duck pond, Thumbelina yearns to have her back. Six feet tall with thick glasses covering a face she doesn't even know is pretty...

  • Throwing 7's

    Denis Hamill

    Acclaimed novelist and columnist Denis Hamill knows the streets that glisten at night and the ones that soak up the dark; he knows the boroughs, the bingo halls, the harbors, and the hangouts. Now, Hamill brings his urban savvy to this new Bobby Emme...

  • Three Negro Classics

    James Weldon Johnson

    UP FROM SLAVERY

    The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who strug...

  • Thomas the Tank Engine's Big Yellow Treasury

    Rev. W. Awdry

    Here are a trio of Thomas the Tank Engine favorites: Thomas and the Pony Show, Thomas Goes to School, and Henry Goes to the Hospital. Filled with charming art and wonderful adventures, this collectible three-in-one treasury book is sure to become a m...

  • Thomas the Tank Engine's Big Blue Treasury

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • This Is the Bread I Baked for Ned

    Crescent Dragonwagon

    Having spent the afternoon preparing a special dinner for her husband, Ned's dedicated wife is shocked when he decides to throw a party and sudenly appears at the door with a large group of his friends in tow, in a humorous, rhyming, cumulative tale....

  • The Third Pinnacle

    Bob Langley

    In 1961, Joseph Lassimer, a US Naval officer, his crew and his aircraft went missing without trace. The government were convinced they had defected to Communist China with their cargo: six million dollars in gold bullion.

    In 1998, the wreck of the ...

  • Thin Air

    Storm Constantine

    Back in the mid-90s the UK music scene was rocked by the mysterious disappearance of Richie Edwards from the Manic Street Preachers. Author Storm Constantine was intrigued by this story and found herself thinking ''What if...?'' Thin Air is the novel...

  • Thief of Hearts

    Katherine Stone

    World-renowned thriller writer Jesse Falconer lives on a clifftop estate in remote Hawaii. But temptation -- and torment -- will arrive on his doorstep: the chance to save his twin's life...and the allure of the woman who comes to plead that dying br...

  • There Really Is an Easter Bunny

    Richard Scarry

  • That Devil Called Love

    Lynda Chater

  • The Testament

    John Grisham

    HEART OF DARKNESS In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions, a message that will touch off ...

  • A Tender Flame

    Al Lacy; Joanna Lacy

    After a lifetime apart, a widow and a widower wonder if their hearts still harbor...the tender flameGrant Smith and Lydia Reynolds fell in love at a young age and their "tender flame" continued to burn. When President Polk suddenly announced that war...

  • Tell No Tales

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    The blissful aftermath of Marti MacAlister's second wedding doesn't last long when her longtime partner Matthew "Vik" Jessennovik interrupts the honeymoon with some disturbing news. Two murders-one recent and another decades old-shock a wealthy Chica...

  • Teeth

    Hugh O'Neil Gallagher

    Hugh Gallagher's acclaimed debut novel follows the global soul-search of Neil, a dentally challenged, reluctantly hip downtown scribe. Disenchanted after his East Village writing career crumbles, he takes off for Hollywood, the tropical wilds of Indo...

  • Tangled Sheets

    Lori Foster
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    Night after night, bar owner Cole Winston was seduced by prim and proper Sophie Sheridan's way with hot chocolate...until her sexy and outrageous twin, Shelly, walked into the bar......

  • Taming the Night

    Paula Detmer Riggs

    Dr. Summer Laurence knows the horror of addiction from the wrong side. But after life-changing therapy, she becomes a drug counselor, hoping to help young kids before they get into trouble. When Summer's dear friend Dottie offers her an old house to ...

  • A Tale Of Two Sisters

    Richard Timothy Conroy
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  • Sweet Sensation

    Carmen Green
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  • Sweet Possession

    Candace McCarthy

    A BALTIMORE BEAUTY As innocent as she is idealistic, Amelia Dempsy arrives in Michigan knowing nothing of life in this untamed land or of the Indian people she has come to help. It's no wonder she immediately clashes with Daniel Trahern, a rugged bl...

  • Suspicion

    Barbara Rogan

    Emma Roth, successful novelist, never imagined living anywhere but New York City, until she finds the perfect house. It's a beautiful coastline mansion on Long Island, with a glassed-in tower library any writer would kill for. But no sooner does Emma...

  • Survivor

    Chuck Palahniuk

    Tender Branson -- last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult -- is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplan...

  • The Survival of Juan Oro

    Max Brand

    He would never know who his parents were or from where he had come. His name is Spanish, but he's an American. After being captured in battle, he is apprenticed to outlaw Matias Bordi. Once a master of weapons, he must kill his mentor. ...

  • Sunnyside

    Donna Cantor

    According to Joanna Barron's mother the criteria for success should include: earn a credential, marry a man with potential, improve yourself, and surround yourself with culture.Unfortunately, the life that twenty-seven-year-old Joanna has carved out ...

  • The Sun and Moon

    Lisa Desimini

  • Sugaring-Off Party

    Jonathan London

  • Suddenly Married

    Loree Lough

    FINALLY A BRIDE Teacher Dara Mackenzie loved kids with all her heart. Trouble was, she seemed destined to remain forever single, forever childless. Until two solemn, motherless tykes in her Sunday school class caught her eye, captured her heart--a...

  • Suddenly a Family

    Leann Harris

    SUDDENLY A WIFE Toni Anderson knew she owed Zachary Knight a favor. But she never dreamed he would propose a marriage of convenience so she could be a mother to the twin daughters he'd never known he had! With the girls' real mother gone, Zach...

  • A Sudden Change of Heart

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Some secrets are too terrible to share--even with your best friend. Nothing hurts like the truth. A truth that has haunted Claire Benson all her life. A truth that Claire has revealed to no one, not even her best friend, international art dealer L...

  • Strudel Stories

    Joanne Rocklin

    A lively and evocative novel full of sweet, sad, and funny moments in the history of a Jewish family.

    Imagine a cozy kitchen in another time and place. A family is baking apple strudel together, and while they work, they tell each other storie...

  • Strawberry Sunday

    Stephen Greenleaf

    While recovering from a gunshot wound, John Marshall Tanner meets a woman worth fighting for John Marshall Tanner left most of his blood in a vacant lot on Twentieth Street, along with the body of his closest friend. Tanner and Charley Sleet shot eac...

  • The Storytelling Stone

    Susan Feldmann

    Creation and death, the wily trickster, wolves,  magic, and passion -- these are part of a rich  heritage of Native American mythology and folktales.  From tribes that vanished long ago, as well as  from great tribes like the Ojibwa and Zuni ...

  • The Stones Cry Out

    Hikaru Okuizumi

    The Stones Cry Out is the story of an amateur geologist and bookseller who is collapsing under the burden of his own history. Tsuyoshi Manase learned his first geology lesson from a dying soldier in a cave at the end of World War II. The soldier, a c...

  • Step into Chaos

    William Shatner

    After defeating the dreaded Hunzza fleet, Jim Endicott wants a "normal" life. But his wish is not to be, for a new and even more terrible conflict is stirring. Earth's former ally, the Alba Packlord, suspects that humans are about to "Leap"--transcen...

  • Stealing Time

    Leslie Glass

    NYPD Detective April Woo finds herself caught between New York City powerhouse politics and ethnic expectations when a young Chinese-American mother is beaten unconscious, and her newborn son is gone. The woman's domineering husband wants to control ...

  • Stardust

    Neil Gaiman

    Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria--even bring her the star they watch as it falls from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient barrier that borde...

  • Star of Cursrah

    Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Lurking in the ruins is a horrific tale of greed, power, and revenge. The Protector crawls forth, the shade of a dead city whose rulers refuse to die, and young companions in two distant epochs learn of a dreadful destiny they cannot escape . . . ...

  • SS #1 GDR I Spy Is

    Lynette Evans

  • Spunky's Circus Adventure

    Janette Oke

    Spunky's young master is on the verge of making his dream of working in the circus come true, until a nasty prank makes him hated by everyone, and Mark and Spunky have to prove that he was not involved in the prank in order to set things right once m...

  • Springwater Seasons: Savannah

    Linda Lael Miller

    Montana Territory, Summer 1875
    Springwater Seasons takes place in the tiny stagecoach stop called Springwater, as it blossoms into a bustling Montana town. For a dance hall girl who's never had much luck with dreams, Springwater may hold t...

  • Springwater Seasons: Rachel

    Linda Lael Miller

    Montana Territory, Spring 1874
    Springwater Seasons takes place in the tiny stagecoach stop called Springwater, as it blossoms into a bustling Montana town. For a pretty schoolteacher who is new to Springwater, an unexpected love turns up i...

  • Spring Break

    R.L. Stine

  • Special Delivery

    Rochelle Alers
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    Rochelle Alers gets the sparks flying, as a high-maintenance banker finds herself falling, against her better judgement, for a handsome delivery man who walks into Rosie's......

  • Special Deliveries

    Marisa Carroll
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    Nine-year-old Dani Jenson and her little sister think Christy, their new neighbor, and their dad would be a really good match, and Dani has figured out a perfect plan to get them together. Unfortunately, the anonymous cards the girls have been sendin...

  • The Space Race

    Judith Bauer Stamper

  • The Sound of Trumpets

    John Clifford Mortimer

    The Sound of Trumpets is the third installment in The Rapstone Chronicles, and John Mortimer's social savvy dazzles once again. With the literary brilliance of Anthony Trollope and the savage wit of Christopher Buckley, Mortimer skewers political fri...

  • Soul Killer

    Richard Lee Byers

    Belasco, the demon lord who is one of the X-Men's deadliest enemies, has found a way to destroy the barrier that keeps the evil Elder Gods from overrunning the Earth--by using the X-Men's Rogue! When Rogue is kidnapped by Belasco and possessed by his...

  • Song Lee in Room 2B

    Suzy Kline

    There's only one girl who can surprise Room B as much as Harry does: Song Lee! Song Lee may be shy, but underneath it all she has a big heart and a big silly streak. Just ask anyone in Room 2B! Who else would dress up as a cherry tree, wear green ...

  • Solo Command

    Aaron Allston

    Wraith Squadron: they are the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force. Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the first in battle, the last line of defense. Now they must find and destroy a wily enemy more powerful than the Empire itself. Their covert ...

  • Soft Shoulders

    Kimberly Llewellyn

    DRIVE ME CRAZY Snowbound and stranded in the Berkshire Mountains, just days before a Christmas visit with the family, Tori Adams's holiday vacation has taken a turn for the worse. Until rescue comes in a big rig, manhandled by a denim-and-flannel...

  • Society Bride

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    Fortune's Children: The Brides: Meet the Fortune Brides -- six special women who perpetuate a family legacy greater than mere riches! IT WAS A BAD TIME TO BE A GOOD GIRL... Debutante Renee Riley's getaway weekend at the Final Destinat...

  • Snow in Summer

    Tess Farraday

    Christopher "Kit" Gallatin was a soldier for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth -- until a betrayal in battle struck him down and pinned on his name the undeserved label of traitor. In despair, Kit's brother made a box out of Kit's sword hil...

  • The Snow Falcon

    Stuart Harrison

    Michael Somers, a smalltown man avoided by his neighbors after he tried to destroy his family, rescues and nurses a wounded gyrfalcon, and in the process, develops a deep and healing connection with a troubled boy and his mother. A first novel. Repri...

  • Slocum and the Comanche Princess

    Jake Logan

    Slocum takes on an army to save a beautiful Comanche Princess.Seven settlers -- including two women -- have been scalped, and the U.S. Cavalry is ready to make the local Comanche pay. But Slocum knows better. Comanche don't scalp women. And he'll fin...

  • Sleuths

    Bill Pronzini

    For over thirty years, Bill Pronzini has created fictional sleuths. The most famous dubbed the Nameless Detective appeared in twenty-five novels. But there are many others like Fergus O'Hara who, with his wife Hattie, plies his trade at the time of C...

  • Sky Coyote

    Kage Baker

    Facilitator Joseph is quite a guy. He's sailed with the Phoenicians, and he's been an Egyptian priest, an Athenian politician, and secretary to a Roman senator. After all, his employer, the twenty-fourth-century Company, sends immortal cyborgs like J...

  • Skull and Crossbones

    Frank Lauria

  • The Sisters

    Cynthia Victor

    Cynthia Victor, bestselling author of The Secret and What Matters Most, unravels the hidden passions that drive a picture-perfect family toward the brink of destruction--in a sexy and suspenseful novel of the ties that bind... Elizabeth and Joey R...

  • Sister of My Heart

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta...

  • Simply Irresistible

    L.K. Wright

    Amanda Shelton is losing her family's restaurant due to her lack of cooking skills, when a mysterious old man not only turns her into a great chef but also brings her the affection of trendy Tom Bartlett, who is about to open a gourmet restaurant...

  • The Silly Season

    Susan Holtzer

    STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE MICHIGAN SKY The gathering horde of psychics, alien abductees, and millennialists swear it's an authentic UFO hovering over UM, but to student and Daily sports reporter Zoe Kaplan, the sightings look like a group of fireflies...

  • Shanji

    James C. Glass

    THEY HAD KILLED AND RAPED HER MOTHER--AND NOW SHE HELD THE FATE OF TWO WORLDS IN HER HANDS Poor Kati! She was a barbarian child, she was violently orphaned, she was taken captive by the Emperor's men ... and she was not quite human. Taken into the...

  • Shamrock Shenanigans

    Diana G. Gallagher

    A confrontation with a mischievous leprechaun named Finicky Fergus as unexpected repercussions for Sabrina as she is forced to find and steal the King of the Leprechaun's gold, and deal with her enchanted human friends who embark on their own treasur...

  • Shaman Winter

    Rudolfo A. Anaya

    Wheelchair-bound by day, Alburquerque P.I. Sonny Baca is tormented by night with strange dreams: One by one, his female ancestors are abducted before his eyes. Soon Sonny learns the worst. His old archenemy, Raven, is controlling the nightmares and p...

  • Send Me No Flowers

    Kristin Gabriel

    Rachel had had it with Valentine's Day No wonder she and her other single girlfriends call it Black Sunday! The pressure of being a couple on Valentine's Day can send people over the edge. As a therapist she knows all about it. So Rachel d...

  • Self-Portrait with Ghosts

    Kelly Dwyer

    In the aftermath of Luke's suicide, his sister Kate struggles with single motherhood and family betrayal while his niece Audrey struggles with her grief over losing Luke, who has been a substitute father. By the author of The Tracks of Angels...

  • The Seductive Spy

    Martha Kirkland

    A DARING MISS Weary of domestic confinement, Rosalind Hinton resolved to visit Lieutenant Ashford, newly released from a French prisoner-of--war camp. But instead of the soulful youth of her childhood dreams, she found him a bold charmer whose tanta...

  • The Seductive Sheik

    Tracy Sinclair

    PRINCELY. PASSIONATE. PERSUASIVE. Sheik Jefri of Jalameer believed he could seduce any woman into sharing his bed -- until he met the unattainable Holly Barnett. This innocent was not used to his worldly ways and left Jefri little choice but to whis...

  • The Seduction Game

    Sara Craven

    SEDUCING ADAM... After a disastrous relationship, career girl Tara Lyndon had almost given up on men. But then she met Adam Barnard... The devastatingly sexy hunk could have stepped straight out of her fantasies. Unfortunately, it also seemed as ...

  • Secrets of the Ancient Goddess

    Brenda Gates Smith

    Two prehistoric women, one a priestess taken captive by a gang of horsemen, the other a young mother banished from her tribe as a jinx, fight to regain their rightful place within the cult of the Great Goddess. Original....

  • The Secret president

    Barbara Paul
    in

    Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...

  • Secret Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    Stevie Lake, Carole Hanson, and Lisa Atwood are hoping to compete in a prestigious horse show. To that end, they are doing everything they can to stay on stable owner Max Regnery's good side -- including doing extra chores around Pine Hollow such as ...

  • The Secret Heart

    Laurel Collins
    in

    A tale of a Colorado spinster's transformation into the belle of a Valentine's ball -- and the object of an admirer's hidden desire....

  • Secret Daddy

    Vivian Leiber

    What's a bachelor to do when he finds out he's a daddy? Dr. Corey Harte, Chicago's most eligible man, had wealth and success, but there had been only one woman for him: Robyn O'Halloran. Four years ago at the debutante ball, she'd been a vision in...

  • Secret Dad

    Raye Morgan

    SECRET MARRIAGE? She called herself "Charlie Smith," and only Denver McCaine remembered her as Adrianna Charlyne Chandler. But Charlie was no longer the aloof-but-beautiful heiress a rugged mercenary like him could only dream about. Now she was a ...

  • Second Love // Second Chance

    Claire Lorrimer

    Louise Endor is just seventeen when she discovers she is pregnant and alone. The father, a married man with two other children, has no intention of leaving his wife. But despite the disgrace imposed by the rigid social morally, Louise is determined t...

  • The Second Lady

    Peter Crowther
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  • Second Contact

    Harry Turtledove

    Now he expands his magnificent epic into the volatile 1960s, when the space race is in its infancy and humanity must face its greatest challenge: alien colonization of planet Earth. Yet even in the shadow of this inexorable foe, the United States,...

  • Sealed With a Kiss

    Loree Lough

    Can a needy child heal the hearts of two wounded souls...? Jet-setting Ethan Burke had no plans of becoming a father-especially not to the eleven-year-old daughter of his best friends! The shock of losing her mom and dad in the same tragic car wr...

  • The Seagull

    Dot Meharry

  • Sea Escape

    Lynn A. Coleman

    Dr. Alexandra Tucker has come to Martha's Vineyard for sabbatical-to pray and grow closer to the Lord, who appears to want her single for life. God, however, has a few surprises in store for Alex on the Vineyard. They start one evening when a powe...

  • Savage Joy

    Cassie Edwards

    Shanndel Lynn had lived all her life in the white world. Secretly named Rain Singing by her Iroquois mother, she had nothing of her Indian heritage but that name. Then a group of Shawnee stopped in town to spend the winter, and when she glimpsed thei...

  • The Runaway Princess

    Christina Dodd

    MASQUERADE English orphan Miss Evangeline Scoffield has spent her life contenting herself with dreams. But with an unforeseen inheritance, she can afford one perfect summer--a summer she will spend the rest of her life remembering. She buys hersel...

  • Run Hard, Die Fast

    Mel Odom

    To save his former partner and present lover, Andi Sencio, from an intelligence operation gone sour--thanks to a reckless megacorporation--Argent the shadowrunner dons his steel armor and samurai weapons to forestall her doom. Original....

  • Royal Whodunnits

    Mike Ashley

  • A Rose at Midnight

    Jacqueline Navin

    Dire Need Had Driven Caroline Wembly Into the Arms of the Infamous Earl of Rutherford But though she was his lawfully wedded wife, Caroline was certain the desires Magnus aroused couldn't possibly be legal. This marriage of convenience was fast be...

  • Room at the Inn

    Deborah Decker

    LOVE, SUITE LOVE The quaint Royal Inn isn't exactly a four-star hotel but it's where architect Steve Preston had planned to stay -- until Dusty Thomas, the charming but dizzy owner, informs him that she can't find his reservation. Now there's no ...

  • The Roadshow

    Gary Jennings

    The epic saga of Spangle takes us on a grand tour of two continents, from an embittered post-Civil War South, to the glittering and decadent capitals of Europe. In The Road Show we meet Zachary Edge, a Confederate soldier, on his way home at the war'...

  • River's End

    Nora Roberts

    Olivia's parents were among Hollywood's golden couples...until the night a monster came and took her mother away forever. A monster with the face of her father... Sheltered from the truth, an older Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror--bu...

  • Ride into Yesterday

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    When Stephen Payne rides into Favor to investigate the death of his younger brother, Art, he figures he'll have his work cut out for him. The rumor spreading through town is that Art had robbed a stagecoach and then hanged himself. Art had a history ...

  • Reunion

    Sharon Sala

    The facts are public knowledge: five people have recently been murdered. Each has died from a blow to the head. And the killer--the press has named him Prince Charming -- has left a "calling card" with each victim. A rose. But there's another fact...

  • The Return of Little Big Man

    Thomas Berger

    Jack Crabb, hero of Little Big Man and beloved chronicler of the Wild West, is back in the saddle again. This time he meets, drinks with, and rides with Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, and Doc Holliday, and even travels with Buffalo Bill Cody to meet Qu...

  • The Return

    Marilyn Kaye

    When twenty-five New York City high school seniors emerge from class to find the school... the streets. . .the city empty of people, they realize that they are the sole survivors of some mysterious catastrophe, and are now the LAST ON EARTH But...

  • Rescue Party

    Mark A. Garland

    Every day, Loro enviously watches caravans of armored Brachiosaurs leave his town and cross the bridge into the dangerous jungles of the Rainy Basin. Someday, he promises himself, he will go there too. Then a deadly storm sweeps over Dinotopia, and t...

  • Remembering Jody

    Randy Sue Coburn

    Having grown up Jewish in the South, Marcia Rose, in Seattle the summer of 1989 with her lover, wonders if she can escape her past, until she finds her childhood friend, Jody, who is mentally disturbed--a condition for which Marcia feels responsible-...

  • A Reluctant Wife

    Cathy Williams

    Husband not required! Sophie had been a trophy wife -- once -- and was never going to make that mistake again! She had her beautiful daughter, Jade, and she was a happy, fulfilled single mother. She simply didn't need a man! And she wasn...

  • Red, Red Rose

    Marjorie Farrell

    An Officer... and a Gentleman? An officer's daughter, Elspeth Gordon grew up following the drums of war...and soon blossomed into a most unconventional young lady. But when her carriage was attacked one day by ruthless Spanish bandits, neither ...

  • A Real Engagement

    Marjorie Lewty

    Inheriting a house in the south of France was a wonderful surprise for Josie. After the loss of her mother, some time in the sun was just what she needed. But the other half of the villa belonged to architect Leon Kent - who firmly believed he had bo...

  • Ransom

    Julie Garwood

    In the dark days after the death of Richard the Lionhearted, lives and lands would fall into upheaval at the hands of a power-hungry British ruler and his violent minions. One victim of the scourge is innocent Gillian, who is a mere child when the cr...

  • Rage Factor

    Chris Rogers

    Bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan is well acquainted with the difference between law and justice. But not even she can believe a sleaze like Lawrence Riley Coombs, on trial for a sadistic rape, will walk--especially after jumping bail and attacking her w...

  • Rabbit Stew

    Donna Kosow

  • The Puppet King

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Treason within, war from without. Torn asunder by the nightmares of a mad king, the elven realm of Silvanesti has nearly been restored to its former grandeur. But the elf Porthios, returning to his homeland, launches a rebellion against young Gilt...

  • Prometheus

    William R. Forstchen

    Risking everything to follow his dream of reaching for the stars, Justin Bell struggles to cope with Martian colonists demanding freedom from the paternalistic Earth government, while dealing with hostile aliens out to destroy all human civilization....

  • Prom Date

    R.L. Stine

  • Princess Daisy Finds a Friend

    Kirsten Hall

    Princess Daisy sneaks away from the castle in search of a true friend, and spends the day picking daisies, chasing butterflies, and more with her new-found friend, in a tale that includes a bracelet with four gold charms....

  • The Princess

    Lori Wick

    She's so special already, Lord, Dania Parker prayed. Now she has You; and I can't help but wonder if You might have something very remarkable and unfamiliar for our Shelby. IN THE LAND OF PENDARAN, LIVELY, AFFECTIONATE Shelby Parker was born to a...

  • The Pretenders

    Joan Wolf

    Gentle Reader, At the time it seemed like a good idea. Reeve and I had been friends since childhood, so when he needed to persuade his trustee to turn over his inheritance, we decided to pretend to get engaged. Reeve was the Earl of Cambridge, af...

  • The President's Daughter

    Annette Broadrick

    SLEEPLESS IN THE WHITE HOUSE Never falter. Never flinch. And never let anyone get too close. Steely Special Agent Nick Logan knew the rules for protecting the First Family. What he didn't know was why Ashley Sullivan, the president's...

  • Predator: Big Game

    Sandy Schofield

    The Slayer and the Slain--

    A modern Navajo warrior follows the trail of his people's most savage legend come to life.

    Deep in the rugged New Mexico desert, a strange aircraft has landed. In response, the commander of a nearby army base ...

  • The Poyson Garden

    Karen Harper

    The letter came in secret, with a pearl eardrop from an aunt long thought dead, resurrecting the forbidden past. Banished by her spiteful half sister, Queen Mary, to Hatfield House in the English countryside, twenty-five-year-old Princess Elizabeth c...

  • Portal

    T.J. MacGregor
    in

    Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...

  • Political Decision

    John Lutz
    in

    Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...

  • Playing Dead

    R.G. Belsky

    It's been eleven years since David Galvin terrorized New York City with a series of gruesome murders. He picked his victim at random and stalked her silently, taking pleasure in a game of pretend until he captured his prey, played out his sick fantas...

  • The Playboy's Baby

    Mary Lyons

    The millionaire daddy... Tycoon Matthew Warner had broken Samantha's heart once--she was determined never to let him get close to her again. But what he was proposing wasn't exactly marriage, but more of a casual affair. Samantha knew s...

  • Playboy Book of Science Fiction

    Alice K. Turner

  • Planet of Darkness

    Christopher Perkins

  • Plan B

    Sharon Lee; Steve Miller

    Dragon's Luck Pursued across space by the ultra-secret Department of the Interior, hunted by the galaxy-wide Juntavas syndicate, former Agent of Change Val Con yos' Phelium and his ex-soldier lifemate Miri Robertson have commandeered the only spaces...

  • Pipsqueaks! Maze School: A Book of Beginning Mazes

    Patrick Merrell

  • Pipsqueaks! Maze Party: A Book of Beginning Mazes

    Patrick Merrell

  • The Pilgrim's Progress

    Cheryl Ford

    1992 Gold Medallion Award winner!
    For over 300 years Christians have found life within the pages of The Pilgrim's Progress. This edition by Cheryl Ford provides a fresh, modern rendering as biblical truths are weaved into a simple yet pro...

  • Picture Perfect

    Shirley Harrison

    Davina Spenser is shocked when her dying father reveals that he is actually Maceo James, the brilliant painter who went into hiding decades ago after being accused of murder. Determined to clear her father's name and protect his legacy, she decides t...

  • Perfect Ten

    Bonnie Purcell

    A SPORTING CHANCE Young athlete scores big win for high school football team! For lovely Bo Bohannon, single-and-loving-it sports announcer at a small Alabama TV station, the local news event is a golden opportunity. The boy's father, Major Mitc...

  • The Perfect Fantasy

    Kayla Perrin
    in

  • Patterns

    Pat Cadigan

    This is a book of science fiction - without galactic fleets or plucky scientists' daughters; a book of fantasies - without elves, barbarians or wizards; a book of horror - without clichéd mad slashers in hockey masks.If one must categorize this coll...

  • Patchwork Hearts

    Cynthia Sterling

    From the first time she laid eyes on handsome Yankee Trace Abernathy, Lucy O'Connor felt an undeniable thrill between them. Her friends noticed, too, and urged Lucy to finish the traditional bridal quilt that would ensure a loving marriage. But Lucy ...

  • Parker Penguin and the Winter Games

    Jon Chardiet

    Even though his team is the worst in the school, Parker Penguin cares only about winning the Winter Games until his father shows him that winning isn't everything, in a simple story for beginning readers about team spirit. Original....

  • Outward Bound

    James P. Hogan

    Fifteen-year-old Linc Marani is from the wrong side of twenty-second century L.A.'s tracks. Everyone he knows is addicted to dope, booze, and the violence that masquerades as bravado in life on the streets. When a chance at some cold hard cash is off...

  • The Outlaw Jesse James

    Cindy Gerard

    BORN ON THE WILD SIDE OF A WYOMING BLIZZARD... Rodeo was the only full-time mistress in cowboy Jesse James's life. He liked slow seductions and fast goodbyes. Then Sloan Gantry sashayed his way, and this forever kind of filly knocked the saddle ou...

  • Outlaw

    Lisa Plumley

    HE STEPPED OUT OF THE PAGES OF A NOVEL... Mason Kincaid didn't have time to rescue the fancy fluff female stranded in the middle of Arizona territory. He was hell-bent on a mission to reclaim his young son and his good name from the men who stole bo...

  • Out of the Woods

    Chris Offutt

    From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer, Out of the Woods is Chris Offutt’s fiercely original short story collection the New York Times calls “a magical book”.Arriving seven years...

  • Other People's Children

    Joanna Trollope

    For eight-year-old Rufus, life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have had to become involved, like his mother's new husband Matthew and his father's new frie...

  • One Wedding Required!

    Sharon Kendrick

    Rule number 2: For the perfect wedding...set a date! Amber O'Neill was engaged to her boss, Finn Fitzgerald. Now all she needed to do was agree on a date for the wedding and find the perfect dress! Then Finn became aloof and distant; he was...

  • One of a Kind

    Bette Ford

    BEING FRIENDS WAS NOT ENOUGH... When legal secretary Anthia Jenkins went through tough times, her friend Dexter Washington, director of a Detroit community center, was there for her. She could never have handled her teenaged son's troubles without D...

  • One 2 Many

    Francine Pascal

    What's up with Jessica? Elizabeth doesn't get it. Lately Jessica wants to hang out with her all the time, 24/7. She doesn't mind--Jessica is her twin and her best friend. But when Jessica asks if Liz wants to wear the same outfits to school, it...

  • Once Upon a Mattress

    Vicki Lewis Thompson
    in

    Amelia Townsend's Bedroom Fantasies store is a tremendous hit, but being the boss has definite drawbacks. Though she feels a bit awkward indicating any personal interest in her deliveryman, Will Murdoch, the guy makes her salivate every time he muscl...

  • On a Par With Murder

    John Logue

    THE DEADLY SIDE OF FAME He made the whole world go weak at the knees. With his skill, grace, and innocence, young golfing phenom Buddy Morrow even won over the cynical press Corp And with legions of fans following his every move, Buddy Morrow was...

  • October Sky

    Homer Hickam

    It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Sonny Hickam (aka Homer Hickam, Jr.) nurtured a dream: to learn how to build a rock...

  • Ocean Sea

    Alessandro Baricco

    "Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review

    With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocea...

  • The O'Keefe Empire

    Jane Candia Coleman

    Joanna O'Keefe journeys to New Mexico to meet up with her husband at the Circle MC, but when she arrives she finds her husband has been murdered, and it is up to Joanna to drive the cattle across the Mojave Desert to San Diego....

  • Not Exactly the Three Musketeers

    Joel Rosenberg

    Introducing the heroes of Castle Cullinane: Kethol--The pretty fellow, a long and lanky redhead with an easy smile and an easygoing attitude that his clever eyes deny. He is quick with a quip...and quicker with a sword. Durine--The big man, a h...

  • Not Abigail!

    Suzanne Forster
    in

    Abigail's handsome boss, Max, wanted her to find him a wife! Then a sip of a delectable low potion made Max fall for his lovely assistant. But was his love forever, or fleeting?...

  • No Place for Memories

    Sherry Lewis

    A man is lucky to live his life in a place like Cutler, Colorado. At least that's what Fred Vickery thinks and he ought to know. A lifelong resident, Fred is seventy-three and still going strong. He plans to live in Cutler for the rest of his life--a...

  • No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock

    Marina Warner

    An exciting new work, richly illustrated, on the age-old images and stories about frightening men.

    In this provocative new work, Marina Warner goes beyond the terrain she covered in her widely praised From the Beast to the Blonde. She explores...

  • The Nine-Dollar Daddy

    Day Leclaire

    NAME: Hutch Lonigan AGE: 10 1/2 LOOKING FOR: A Dad! Hutch Lonigan knows exactly what he's going to get his Mom for her birthday -- a man! But his marriage-shy mother is determined her dating days are over. So Hutch walks into the Yell...