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New Books List: 620 titles

  • Nicky, 1-2-3

    Harriet Ziefert

    A lively kitten is introduced to a variety of baby animals and learns to count along the way, and is accompanied by interactive flaps to lift that reveal surprises and familiar images to young readers. Original....

  • In Search of the Dove

    Rebecca York

    In New Orleans everyone wore masks, everyone hid secrets.... Michael Rome: He was a master at assuming other identities, while never revealing his own. A sharp mind and deadly hands were his only companions. Until Jessica Duval scaled his defense...

  • Phonics, Book A

    Barbara K. York

  • Xanadu 3

    Jane Yolen

    Award-winning editor Jane Yolen presents 34 tales of fantasy and delight in this third volume of her original anthology series, Xanadu. The contributors include prize-winning poet Marvin Bell, Ruth Berman, Jo Clayton, Christine Crow, Nancy Etchemendy...

  • Grass Soup

    Zhang Xianliang

  • Vampire Bugs

    Sharon Dennis Wyeth

    Beware of conjurers and voodoo queens!  In their wake, strange things happen.  Witches shrink to the size of peas, and children are transformed into bugs or birds.  But if fear hides in the folds of the voodoo queen's cloak, so does power.  C...

  • King of the Mountain

    M.K. Wren

    When conservative millionaire A. C. King hosts his annual house party at his spacious mountain lodge, he has no idea it will be the last family reunion.

    Yet the mellow autumn air is tension-filled with the presence of A. C.'s beautiful second ...

  • Still Waters

    Margaret Woodward

    When a young Laura Spencer's sister and mother are murdered and her father's mistress is accused of the killings, she must confront the ugly truth about her family and deal with the lust and deceit hidden beneath the tranquil surface....

  • Imperfect Strangers

    Stuart Woods

    STEP ONE: PERFECT THE PERFECT MURDER Sandy Kinsolving's once-glittering life hangs by a desperate thread; his future depends on his wife's inheritance and whether or not she's about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn't give for a solution...

  • Asian-American Literature

    Shawn Wong

  • The Toll-Bridge Troll

    Patricia Rae Wolff

  • All That Remains

    Robert L. Wise

    After 43 years of separation, David Richards is reunited with his birth mother, who tells him for the first time of his Jewish heritage. The news astonishes David, who was raised a Christian, and prompts a journey that takes him into the crossfire of...

  • Chase the Lightning

    Linda Winstead

    FLASH AND FURY Renata Parkhurst couldn't believe her luck. The proper young daughter of a Philadelphia doctor had run away to her cousin's Colorado spread hunting for love, and the day she arrived, a wounded rancher fell right into her arms. Al...

  • Wolverine: Weapon X

    Barry Windsor-Smith

    Collects Marvel Comics Presents #72-84.  Wolverine's a lot of things to a lot of people, but to one infamous enclave he was nothing but a - weapon. And weapons kill people. They found that out well enough. This title presents a collection of 'Ma...

  • The Old Man Who Saw Newgrange

    J.N. Williamson
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    CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINES

    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • Masquerade Waltz

    Claudette Williams

    A mischievous mix-up turns a lady's love life topsy-turvy... TWO MR. WRONGS...MAY ADD UP TO THE RIGHT LORD TO LOVE! Lord Waremont was the very pink of the haut ton...too wild by half, and much too flirtatious. But what he had just done was ...

  • A Burning Passion

    Cathy Williams

    For the sake of their child... Marie Stephens had been young and naive when she'd first met charismatic Holden Greystone -- and had fallen head over heels in love. But their whirlwind romance had soon turned sour and Marie had walked out, vowi...

  • Sam's World

    Ann Williams

    SOMEWHERE IN TIME Far in the future, when love was unknown and freedom a crime, a lone rebel was desperate to learn what his world had lost. In a daring experiment, he reached into the past--and found a woman unlike any he had ever known .... M...

  • A Sorcerer and a Gentleman

    Elizabeth Willey

    Once there was only the land of Phesaotois, with a cold and baleful Stone at its magical heart. Much later came the land of Pheyarcet, younger and hotter, with its Well of Fire inextricably bound up with its ruler, the great Panurgus. Then Panurgus d...

  • Undercover Baby

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    UNDERCOVER DADDY Detective Dallas Sanders had taken part in some unusual undercover operations, but cracking the baby-smuggling ring was the toughest. Especially since it meant playing the part of an unwed, pregnant woman -- complete with baby ha...

  • Heart's Refuge

    Quinn Wilder
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    She was bad luck personified Caroline Pickford--Fame magazine had named her one of the twenty most intriguing women in the world. Mainly because Elroy Pickford, probably the richest man in Canada, had once ended confirmed bachelorhood at the age o...

  • Llama Land

    Vera Lee Wiggins
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Arriving intentionally unannounced, Fritzi has succeeded in disrupting the lives of her mother, her daughter Teddy, and Teddy's new husband Brand. Gram Marland's llama ranch is thriving and an imminent merger with Brand's ranchland is being herald...

  • Misplaced Angel

    Vera Lee Wiggins
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Rachel Dorland lives by this Scripture. After giving birth to twins who keep her up all night, she cares for them and her eleven-month-old son joyfu...

  • Maggie's Secret Longing

    Eric Wiggin

  • The Knight and the Dove

    Lori Wick

    “King Henry says I am to marry one of the daughters of Vincent of Stone Lake." For Bracken of Hawkings Crest, there could be no refusal. But could there ever be love? Eager to secure a permanent loyalty from this promising young knight, King Henr...

  • The Adventurer

    Diana Whitney

    Devon Monroe had finally come home, home to a haunting memory that made him want to keep running. Home to a woman who made him want to stand still and stare into her eyes. For there was something about Jessica Newcomb that made him forget about his o...

  • The Road Home

    Ellen Emerson White

  • Jeepers Creepers

    Suzanne Weyn

    When horrifying half-insect, half-rodent creatures begin to hatch from the strange purple eggs that have suddenly begun to appear all over their house, it is up to Michael and Sara to rid themselves of these rapidly multiplying killers before it is t...

  • A Lady of Independent Means

    Sarah Westleigh

    A SIMPLE TRIP TO PARIS Miss Louisa Finsham thought it would be a casual affair--visiting the battlefields of Waterloo with her aunt Amelia. But from the moment their ship set sail, Louisa encountered all sorts of difficulties, including one Lord H...

  • Ten Little Crocodiles

    Colin West

  • With This Ring

    Marian Wells

    Rebecca Still Had Her Mother's Wedding Dress. Would She Ever Wear It? There was little left from Rebecca's past. She had her mother's wedding dress, and her mother's Bible had been a source of truth and light and reality during those last, dark year...

  • Dishonourable Seduction

    Angela Wells

    "Every woman does have her price ..." Steel Anastasi's cynicism appalled Ginny -- but she knew she couldn't walk away from his offer. It was up to her to ensure that the company survived, even if that meant interference from the h...

  • Fire Your Shrink!

    Michele Weiner-Davis

    Empowering readers to stop building on problems and start living solutions, the author of Divorce Busting offers revolutionary behavior strategies based on Solution-oriented Brief Therapy (SBT) for creating change in all areas of life. 75,000 f...

  • Oath of Swords

    David Weber

    Whom the Gods Would Recruit, They First Tick Off Our Hero: The Unlikely Paladin Bahzell Bahnakson of the Horse Stealer Hradani is no knight in shining armor. He's a hradani, a race known for their uncontrollable rages, bloodthirsty tendencies, an...

  • More Bonnie Fitch

    L. Waterhouse

    Bonnie Fitch is back and it's going to be one hectic term. Lynda Waterhouse goes from strength to strength with this, her second novel, featuring the fat, funny, clever, kind heroine of our time, Ms Bonnie Fitch....

  • Outlaw Lovers

    Pat Warren

    Man Most Wanted Nick Dean needed a hideout--and fast. An attempt on his life forced him to seek shelter, and like a beckoning angel, Sara Lewis took him in. But once she offered Nick her passion, he knew all the rules had changed. Now he wasn't th...

  • Six Myths of Our Time

    Marina Warner

    Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do ...

  • The Chocolate Sundae Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're helping out ...

  • The Dinosaur Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather -- and a dinosaur myster...

  • The Mystery at the Ballpark

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    Jessie and Violet are selected to play on the local baseball team, Henry gets a job helping the coach, and even Benny has a special role―as batboy. But at this ballpark, there's more than just a game going on―there's a mystery....

  • The Mystery Bookstore

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and are going on a trip ...

  • The Mystery in the Cave

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Boxcar Children are visiting Dragon Mouth's Cavern. Their plan is to explore the area and go rock hunting. But when Benny finds a way into secret underground caves, the children have even more to explore. The problem is, it seems like someone doe...

  • The Mystery of the Stolen Boxcar

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they''re fixing up their boxcar so they can ride it in the big Greenfield Founder''s Day parade. There''s just one problem: Someone h...

  • The Mystery of the Stolen Music

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather -- and an orchestra is co...

  • The Pilgrim Village Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. A super-special mystery for the Boxcar Children! Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a h...

  • The Provost's Woman

    Anne Vivis

  • The Good Negress

    A.J. Verdelle

    “Haunting . . . To read The Good Negress is to fall under a spell, to open a window, to fly.”  -- Los Angeles Times Book Review   Twenty years after its initial publication, The Good Negress continues to be an important part of the...

  • From Star Wars to Indiana Jones

    Mark Cotta Vaz

    George Lucas has produced some of the most popular movies ever, including the classic Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. Thanks to Lucas's foresight and the dedication of Lucasfilm archivists, the artifacts used in the making of his films have be...

  • Superheroes

    John Varley

    A science fiction superhero anthology features Alan Dean Foster's "Earth Spirit," Roger Zelazny's "Hugh Glass," Lawrence Watt-Evans's "Captain Cosmos," Michael A. Stackpole's "Revenant," and John Varley's "Bolshoiman." Reprint....

  • Parrot Blues

    Judith Van Gieson

    A FULL-TIME ATTORNEY AND A PART-TIME SLEUTH, SHE'S ALL BUSINESS WHEN A RARE BIRD FLIES THE COOP She may be a divorce lawyer, but Neil Hamel uses her PI's instincts when a millionaire's rare indigo macaw and newly endangered wife are kidnapped toge...

  • Entertaining Angels

    Marita Van der Vyver

    Griet Swart is a recently divorced, 30-ish woman living out of a suitcase in a borrowed flat in Cape Town, South Africa. A collector of fairy tales for a children's book publisher, Griet soon finds herself viewing her own life in storybook terms. Whi...

  • Missing

    Jonathan Valin

    GOOD MEN DIE HARD The woman lived on Blue Jay Drive, and the love of her life had vanished into thin air. For Cindy Dorn, the man had been a safe haven, a good lover, and good friend. But Mason Greenleaf had his demons, and when Harry Stoner began...

  • What People Do: Level A

    Hazel Underwood

  • The Best of Friends

    Joanna Trollope

    Gina and Laurence had been the best of friends ever since they were teens - but never in love. Gina married Fergus Bedford, an antique dealer who bought the sophisticated and elegant High Place for them to live in. Laurence married Hilary, a down-to-...

  • Best Friends

    Lynda Trent

    The relationship between two women, Chelsea Cavin and Karen Baker, best friends since childhood, is threatened by their mutual love for handsome, dynamic Ryan Morgan....

  • Outlaw Justice

    Doyle Trent

  • Divine Right

    Richard Tomlinson

  • The Nightingale's Song

    Robert Timberg

    Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of w...

  • Winds of Fortune

    Victoria Thompson

    When fate brought them together on the Florida coast during the Spanish-American War, Sean Tate and Maud Campbell knew they had found something special. The son of a wealthy Texan, Sean needed to find out what being Roosevelt Rough Rider could show h...

  • Prisoner of Passion

    Trudy Thompson

    THE ICE QUEEN The last of her line, Thea possessed strange and inexplicable powers, yet she couldn't resist the charms of a virile captive. But with her frozen land facing annihilation, she had to trick the blond giant into risking a daring ruse tha...

  • Wolf Pack

    David Thompson

    Before the yoke of civilization had tamed the land, a man had to fight for his life in the Rockies. If hostile Indians weren't hunting for his scalp, ferocious grizzlies or man-eating mountain lions were after his flesh. And if the summer heat wasn't...

  • Bear and Mr. Bear

    Frances Thomas

    Reluctantly visiting the local town on the day a carnival arrives, grumpy recluse Mr. Bear is appalled when he sees a dancing bear abused by his trainer and finds an unlikely connection with a fellow living creature....

  • The Weatherman

    Steve Thayer

    It's the dead of winter. A serial killer of pretty young women has frozen a city in fear.... Andrea Lahore is a beautiful, ambitious TV newscaster. She's hungry for a story that could make her career. Now is her chance.... He's called The Weath...

  • Miss Charlotte Surrenders

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    He wanted one sweet taste... Brett Forrest had stepped right into the pages of Gone With The Wind. When a feisty Southern belle caught his eye, he felt every bit as wicked as scoundrel Rhett Butler. Beguiling and insufferable, Miss Charlotte ...

  • Lost Creek Mission

    Cheryl Tenbrook
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Erin Elizabeth Corbett is thrilled with her first teaching assignment. The Lost Creek Mission, Lost Creek, Missouri, is a poor and remote community of honest and hard-working citizens who desperately need her. Convinced God is leading her, Erin arriv...

  • The Well

    Mildred D. Taylor

    Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.For David Logan, a time of distress means taking the higher road.  During a drought, the Logan family sh...

  • Susette the Ghost Buster

    Mallory Tarcher

    While visiting Rosina's family in an ancient castle on the coast of Spain, Susette stumbles upon the portrait of a young girl who bears a striking resemblance to Rosina, a discovery that ignites a series of eerie events and reveals clues to an old mu...

  • Playing Happy Families

    Julian Symons

    Gathering for the thirty-year anniversary festivities of John and Eleanor, the Midway clan is sent into chaos when daughter Jenny Midway suddenly disappears, and Detective Superintendent Hilary Catchpole must seek out the truth. Reprint....

  • The Bear Went over the Mountain

    Maggie Swanson

  • River Of Time: A Memoir Of Vietnam

    Jon Swain

    "A splendid memoir...a tale, at once tragic and beautiful, of love and loss, of coming of age and of witnessing the end of Indochina as the West had known it for more than a century." -- Los Angleles Times Book Review. From the writer immortalized in...

  • Music of the Heart

    Olivia Sumner
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    On the eve of going to war, Lord Talland sweeps shy, sweet Juliet into his arms at the annual London valentine Ball. They pledge to meet there again the following year, but when Lord Talland returns to England, he is a bitter sightless recluse. Now J...

  • Please Don't Be Mine, Julie Valentine

    Todd Strasser

    Thinking that pretty Julie Valentine will not give him the time of day, a boy gives in to a dare to send her a strange flower and then finds out that the enamored miss has a determined heart of her own. Original....

  • Time Raider

    R.L. Stine

    Challenging readers to partake in a time-travel adventure with an amazing time machine, the author of the Goosebumps series provides twenty possible endings to a journey that begins with a push of a button. Reissue....

  • Wrong Number 2

    R.L. Stine

    Call waiting... to kill! Don't answer than phone! "You're not safe anywhere. I'll get my revenge!' Can it really be Mr. Farberson on the line? He has to still be locked up after trying to kill Jade and Deena last year. Maybe the calls are jus...

  • The Prince and the Pilgrim

    Mary Stewart

    Eager, burning, and young, Alexander sets off towards Camelot to seek justice from King Arthur for the murder of his father. But he is diverted from his quest by beautiful, sensual Morgan le Fay, who persuades the young prince to attempt a theft of t...

  • A Physical Affair

    Lynsey Stevens

    Seducing Keira... Keira had been working for dynamic Eden Cassidy's company for five years. It was the job of a lifetime until Eden had virtually accused her of playing with his nephew's feelings! Obviously, he didn't consider her g...

  • Ragdoll

    Kelly R. Stevens

    Until the night of her high school graduation Rebecca Wesbrook seemed like most intelligent, likable teenager. She had trouble pleasing her mother, but then she was becoming an independent woman. Until the night of her high school graduation. W...

  • Dark Obsession

    Amanda Stevens

    Demon lover... Horror novelist Erin Ramsey's latest bestseller brought a dark and tormented vampire into her readers' world. But such dark and tormented heroes existed only in her imagination. Or so she thought. How wrong Erin had been. Now her...

  • The Diamond Age

    Neal Stephenson

    Set in twenty-first-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life--and the entire future of humanity--is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....

  • Death of a Postmodernist

    Janice Steinberg

    At the Capelli Foundation for Postmodern Art, visitors expected the unexpected. One exhibit featured a hall of mirrors that trapped helpless viewers inside. Another artist was preparing an avant-garde performance piece -- which might or might not inv...

  • The Magic Bullet

    Harry Stein

    At thirty-one, Dr. Daniel Logan has gotten the biggest break of his career - a research fellowship at the prestigious American Cancer Foundation near Washington, D.C. The patients who come here know it is their last hope for survival. No matter how g...

  • Expectant Bachelor

    Sandra Steffen

    STRATEGY: Seduction It was shocking but true. Demure schoolteacher Gina Jenson planned to seduce--and abandon--Taylor Harris, the most desirable bachelor in town. Donning a slinky red dress, letting her hair down, she tantalized Taylor, savoring the...

  • The Weight

    Allen Steele

  • Air

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Fire

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • How's the Weather?

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • I'll Push, You Pull

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • It's Autumn!

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Looking Around

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • My Five Senses

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Safety at Home

    Steck-Vaughn Company

    Reading level: Ages 4 and up Paperback Publisher: Steck-Vaughn (January 1, 1995) Language: English ISBN-10: 081143723X ISBN-13: 978-0811437233 Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inches Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces...

  • Watch out for Strangers

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Water

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Wind

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Colorado Gold

    Jack Stanford

    Learning that a gold claim he filed with an old friend is about to prove out, Joel McCann realizes that he and Corky are in for trouble when the gunmen for a greedy railroad tycoon seek to jump their claim by any means necessary. Original....

  • Spellbound

    Adrienne Staff

    "Trust me, and open your heart...." He saw her first in the shadows, and sensed the pretty artist somehow held the key to his secrets--but when Edward Rockford entered Jamie Payton's loft, he was stunned to discover that her painting revealed wha...

  • Bred for War

    Michael A. Stackpole

    A PERILOUS LEGACY Along with the throne of the Federated Commonwealth, Prince Victor Steiner-Davion inherited a number of problems. Foremost among them is the Clans' threat to the peace of the Inner Sphere--and a treacherous sister who wants to su...

  • Red Planet Run

    Dana Stabenow

    Star’s twins have made the Asteroid Belt too hot to hold them and Charlie keeps trying to get Star laid, so when Star is offered a commission to survey the fabled ruins of Cydonia on Mars she jumps at the chance....

  • D J and Stephanie Flipover Book

    Devra Newberger Speregen

    A flip-over format features observations of the Tanner clan by Stephanie on one side and D.J.'s opinions on the other, and includes sixteen pages of color photographs from the popular television series Full House. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Dolphins

    Stephen Spender

  • Home Song

    LaVyrle Spencer

    Principal Tom Gardner comes face-to-face with a past indiscretion when a new student transfers to his school: Kent Arens. Tom only has to look at him to see that this teenager is the son he never knew he had, the result of a one-night stand on the ev...

  • Boys at Work

    Gary Soto

  • Restraint

    Sherry Sonnett

    A fast-paced novel hailed by Entertainment Weekly as a "well-crafted, suspenseful thriller [which] offers sex, erotica, and more sex."In Sherry Sonnett’s compelling first novel, Vega Johnson, a successful L.A. investment counselor, is leading a res...

  • Jasmine Nights

    S.P. Somtow

    Growing up on the exotic estate of his aunts and wicked uncle, twelve-year-old Justin survives his family's superficial traditions as well as the civil rights movement of the 1960s by escaping into his imagination....

  • Trepassers Halcyon

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  • Writer's Worlds

    Trudy Smoke

  • A Nuisance

    Lass Small

    MR. JANUARY Name: Stefan Szyszko (Pronounced "Cisco"), confirmed bachelor. Allergic To: Horses...and marriage-minded women. His Ex-Girlfriend: Carrie Pierce. A long-legged filly just lookin' for love. For Stefan, footloose and fancy-free was ...

  • Murder on the Rocks

    L.V. Slyke

    A STIFF SHOT OF MURDER--NEAT When a red-hot joint called "Barmy's" turned ice cold, a bartender named Bally was left with some good memories, some bad debts ... and a solid reputation as a guy who can get things done. Curiosity may have killed ...

  • Bewitching

    Gloria Dale Skinner

    Unemployed governess Cheval Worthington believed in the power of miracles when wealthy shipowner Austin Radcliffe rescued her from the dockside streets of Baltimore. But she'd learned that no act of kindness comes without a price. In exchange for Rad...

  • The Man Who Changed Everything

    Elizabeth Sites

    Why This Man? He swept into town like a storm - and turned Clary Cameron's world upside down. He aroused her sense of adventure, and awaken her desires. Ross Nicholas swept into Clary Cameron's world and turned it upside down. Ross wasn't the husban...

  • Prancing Tiger

    Philip Singerman

    "A ROLLER-COASTER RIDE OF SEX AND VIOLENCE THAT CAREENS ALONG AT TREMENDOUS SPEED."
    --St. Petersburg Times
    It's a setup pure, and simple. Somebody did a professional job of making it look like a reckless young man raped and killed a beautiful b...

  • The Quiet Heart

    Rae Simons
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Thrilled at the opportunity to work near Liam, the love of her life, Dorrie Carpenter has accepted a teaching position in a school for troubled children in upstate New Youk. In time, however, Dorrie finds herself in more and more diffuculty. Not o...

  • Fire Horse

    Bill Shoemaker

    Straight from the Winners Circle, the greatest jockey of all time draws on his vast experiences on and off the track to spin this suspenseful mystery starring jockey-turned-sleuth Coley Killebrew. . . .
    It all starts when Johnny Rousseau, Coley's ...

  • Bold Legend

    Gordon D. Shirreffs

    Responding to his government's orders to assist the invasion of New Mexico, estate owner and frontiersman Quint Kershaw finds his greatest challenge in his wife Lupita and her fierce loyalty to her Spanish ancestry. Reprint....

  • Arousing Anna

    Nina Sheridan

    Anna is a secretary at a South London University, and unhappily wed. While husband Paul is away on another business trip, her boss asks her to act as unofficial hostess to a visiting French lecturer, Dominic Gerard. During his stay, he teaches her al...

  • Cheap Lives

    Antony Sher

    Yusuf is on Death Row for murder. Adrian had a lucky escape years earlier when he survived Yusuf's murderous assault during an afternoon of casual sex. The story contrasts their different experiences of a divided pre-Mandela country during its attemp...

  • The Wizard at Home

    Rick Shelley

    One sorcerer rises against evil -- with the powers of a goddess within him. Second in the Seven Towers series from the author of The Wizard at Mecq.The ruins of Mecq still smolder in the English countryside, and in the ashes, the wizard Silvas mourns...

  • Twilight Illusions

    Maggie Shayne

    Master of the damned There could be no doubt that the one called Damien was the master of the shadows, the greatest of his accursed kind. But now his ancient mantle of mystic power was threatened by a terrible weakness-a fatal passion for a woman ...

  • Where the Willows Weep

    Patricia Shaw

    Laura Maskey and her wayward ways... Where the Willows Weep features characters from Valley of Lagoons and Mango Hill, as the legendary Pace MacNamara's son Paul takes up the fight for the land he loves. The perfect read for fans of AnneMarie Brear a...

  • Ghost Ranch Massacre

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo steps in when a series of vicious murders terrorizes the Arizona mountains, but his search for the killers is undermined by a ruthless rancher, Indians who believe that ghosts stalk the region, and a magician and his two gorgeous daughters...

  • Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    Nate the Great hates mushy stuff. But when he spies a big red paper heart taped to Sludge's doghouse, Nate knows he must help his favorite pooch. Who could possibly have left Sludge a secret valentine? It’s a mystery until Nate finds out that hi...

  • Sunburn

    Laurence Shames

    When Vincente Delgatto, an aging Mafia godfather, heads down to I Key West to spend time with his half-Jewish bastard son, Joey Goldman, hee thinks that the worst thing that can happen is that he'll get a little too much sun.... But it's other peo...

  • The Surrender of Nora

    Maura Seger

    Treachery in Belle Haven... DEADLY INHERITANCE The conclusion of the Belle Haven Saga Delighted by the lovely seventeenth-century home that was her family legacy, Nora Delaney innocently journeyed to Belle Haven, Connecticut, and promptly fo...

  • Broken Promise

    Theresa (1) Scott

    Hunters of the Ice Age At the dawn of time a proud people battled for survival, at one with the harsh beauty of the land and its primal rhythms. Among the warring tribes, the jaguars were the mightiest, and the hunter called Falcon was feared l...

  • Hollow Vows

    Alexandra Scott

    "The honeymoon's over!" "It's not as if we married for the usual reasons!" Briony protested as Finn Lawrence carried her off on honeymoon.... But, at first, their marriage seemed to have a chance. Then everything started to...

  • The Way Home

    Dallas Schulze

    NOW HE'D KISSED HER. AND EVERYTHING WAS CHANGED. She was the waif he'd befriended when she was only four years old... the beautiful blue-eyed ten-year-old he'd taken for a dizzying ride in his plane... the dazzling seventeen-year-old stranger who ...

  • Heartthrob

    Betty J. Schuler

  • Never Too Late

    Martha Schroeder

    Ginny McDougall likes her New York apartment and her job as secretary, paralegal, and "mother hen" to young hotshot Manhattan lawyer Dennis Havilland. So when her boss's father comes to town to open a new law practice, she's pleased ...

  • Clifford's Book about Me by Me

    Scholastic Inc.

  • To Keep Faith

    Carolyn R. Scheidies
    • / Historical Romance
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    Faith waited for Carter, marquess of Aven, to return from the war against Napoleon and claim her as his bride. A petite beauty and the daughter of an earl, Faith would be a prize catch for any young man, but long ago she gave her heart to Carter. He ...

  • The Man Who Never Was: Freudian Tales of Women and Their Men

    Janet Sayers

  • Loving Tyler

    Susan Sawyer

    Deciding to take in boarders in order to help provide for her family, Georgia schoolteacher Julia Carey is astonished when her first guest, an unconscious gunshot victim, turns out to be the wealthy Tyler McRae--her father's sworn enemy. The sole ...

  • The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee

    Douglas Savage

    On July 3, 1863, the massed armies of North and South met in fury near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When silence fell, more than 22,000 Southern boys lay dead or wounded and their enemy stood unvanquished. It was General Robert E. Lee’s worst defeat; ...

  • The Case of the Dude Ranch Rustlers

    Susan Saunders

    Investigating the disappearance of Annabelle and Brownie, their two favorite horses, Roxie Roper and Ross McArdle are unwilling to believe that one of their friends from the Double R Dude Ranch is a horse thief. Original....

  • Call Me Ruth

    Marilyn Sachs

  • Nocturnas

    Shawn Ryan

  • East, West

    Salman Rushdie

    From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this bo...

  • The Stone Garden

    Mary Rosenblum

    Discovery of the mysterious asteroids called Stones had quickly spawned a new breed of artists: "sculptors" who shaped the Stones into vivid collages of sensation and emotion by layering human experiences into them one by one. Although asteroid-bel...

  • The Lost Book of Paradise

    David Rosenberg

    An astonishing interpretation of the Eden story by the co-author of the bestselling The Book of J. Just as that book turned Biblical scholarship on its ear by concluding that parts of the Hebrew Bible were written by a woman, The Lost Book of Paradis...

  • Pandora

    Alan Rodgers

    Resisting the governmental captors who have kept her existence a secret ever since her spacecraft crashed in the New Mexico desert, Pandora seeks revenge against the strange world and its unfriendly inhabitants. Original....

  • Lord of Enchantment

    Suzanne Robinson

    Clairvoyant Penelope Fairfax, self-exiled to a deserted castle on the isle of Penance, discovers a young man among the rocks on the beach, and is soon caught in a tangled web of deceit and assassination. A SHIPWRECKED RAKE Women had always been...

  • Lovers' Vows

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    Victoria Colefax shocked the ton when she broke off her betrothal to the Marquess of Wexford. He wanted a dull marriage of convenience; she needed his passion and his heart! But cupid's arrow is ready to fly when they both take part in a Valentine's ...

  • Seminole Vengeance

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams paid a visit to the Florida Everglades to see his friend Buddy Braganbut when he got there he saw nothing but trouble ahead. Bragan's suspected of selling guns to the Seminole Indians...and now the bullets are flying faster than the rumor...

  • Walking After Midnight

    Karen Robards

    WAS HE DEAD, OR... The nude male body an the embalming table, battered beyond recognition. Gingerly, Summer McAfee, chairwoman, CEO, and sole employee of Daisy Fresh cleaning service reached out to touch an arm to reassure herself that she hadn't ...

  • Oh, Susannah

    Leigh Riker

    THIS WAS NO HONKY-TONK AFFAIR When her best friend is killed in a freak accident, socialite Susannah Whittaker is devastated by the loss. But grief gives way to anger when she confides her suspicions of foul play to Clary's brother Cody. It seems ...

  • By the Cut of Your Clothes

    Dusty Richards

    The popular Rice Sisters return in their second hilarous western adventure, enduring a misbotten stage robbery, a crazed trip to a mining town, and a gunfight outside the church where Stout Rice just got married. Original....

  • The Silver Witch

    Sue Rich

    An enthralling tale of 1820s Florida weaves a spell from a long-past but still potent love, deep in the steamy mystery of the exotic Everglades... It's a place where flowers stretch toward the sun, and moss hangs from branches in gray-green spl...

  • Class Trip II

    Bebe Faas Rice

    Becoming lost in an isolated mountain town, Hallie and her friends are charmed by Holyoake's old-fashioned customs and friendly ways until they realize that the people there have no intention of letting them leave. Original....

  • Sisters in the Sun

    Shirley Rhode
    • / Historical Romance
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    When Elise Waller returns home from boarding school, she hopes her family will become more filled with Christ's peace. Her father, however, thinks only of his business schemes, her younger sister is filled with rebellion, and her stepbrother has his ...

  • Bitterroot Landing

    Sheri Reynolds

    Moving in with the recently widowed deacon River Bill when he offers her a home, an orphaned Jael struggles with the voices that surround her, from those of her fellow incest support group members, to the words of the Virgin Mary. Reprint....

  • The Magic School Bus Hops Home: A Book About Animal Habitats

    Patricia Relf

    When a bullfrog hops out of the classroom window, Ms. Frizzle and her students take a wild ride from a frog's-eye-view to learn about animal habitats in a book that complements the new PBS animated series. Original. TV tie-in....

  • The Mystery on Walrus Mountain

    Dian Curtis Regan

    Encouraging a young champion skier who won't go near the slopes after breaking his leg, the ghost twins get caught up in their guest's computer game--literally--and must retrieve their dog before it is too late...

  • Belated Follower

    Colleen L. Reece
    • / Historical Romance
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    "What about the sheep?" Benjamin's words seem to echo across the hills on this starry night in Judea. This night, proclaimed long ago by the prophets, has finally come and only he of all the shepherds seems to be concerned with his woolly charges! ...

  • Flower of the North

    Colleen L. Reece
    • / Historical Romance
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    Bernard Clifton is on top of the world-thoughts of his upcoming medical school graduation with highest honors and his hoped for engagement to socialite Julia Langley. But, thanks to the revengeful plan of a misquided friend, Bernard is not to real...

  • Flower of the West

    Colleen L. Reece
    • / Historical Romance
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    The only daughter of Heather and Brian O'Rourke, Daisy is far from a coddled hot-house flower. Determined to be a Harvey Girl-a waitress at one of Fred Harvey's famous restaurants-she tumbles headfirst into a Wild West adventure. And adventure she...

  • Tempting Fate

    Jaclyn Reding

    A PASSION FOR REVENGE. A HUNGER FOR LOVE. Beautiful, flame-haired Mara Despenser hated the English under Oliver Cromwell, and she vowed to avenge Ireland and become mistress of Kulhaven Castle again. She would lure the castle's new master, the inf...

  • The Diablo Grant

    James Reasoner

    THE DEVIL'S BUSINESS

    When a crumbling piece of paper slides from the Bible of Juan Espina, the town drunk, the New Mexico territory settlement of Garrison is royally surprised. It appears to be a centuries-old land grant -- issued by the K...

  • Feluda's Last Case

    Satyajit Ray

  • Burn

    Bill Ransom

    From the New York Times"bestselling co-author of The Jesus Incident, this “fascinating” genetic engineering thriller has “plenty of flare” (Publishers Weekly).   The vivid and gritty sequel to Bill Ransom’s ViraVax  Burn takes t...

  • Miss Marcie's Mischief

    Lindsay Randall

    HE THOUGHT SHE WAS A RUNAWAY WAIF Heiress Marcelon Darlington simply bad to escape from Miss Cheltenham's School for Ladies...even if it meant stealing away in the dead of night--and nearly getting run down by the Mail Coach! She was aghast that the...

  • Cargo Machines and What They Do

    Derek Radford

  • Spirit Trail

    Johnny Quarles

    Hoping to pick up his life after the deaths of his wife and son and a struggle with alcoholism, former gunslinger Samson Roach accepts an offer to lead a westward-bound wagon train and encounters Indians, hostile settlers, and murder...

  • Light in the Darkness

    Marilyn Prather

    When marine biologist Susan Miles moves to the picturesque seaside village of Gull Harbor, the last thing she expects to do is play detective in the perplexing case of a missing child. And the last thing she needs to do is fall in love. Yet both happ...

  • American Knights

    Nick Pollotta
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    An exciting book that allows you to make decisions that determine the adventures outcome. In this book you face ruthless robots, animal mutants, vampire dentists, biker librarians, cyborg pirates and more....

  • Search the Sky

    Frederik Pohl

    Something Was Very Wrong, Out There Among The Stars...The interstellar transport had touched down on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic dis...

  • The Paris Review

    George Plimpton

    This international literary quarterly celebrates its 40th anniversary with interviews on the craft of writing with America's premiere playwrights David Mamet and Wendy Wasserstein, plus an account, taken from Plimpton's Capote: An Oral Biography, of ...

  • The Substitute

    Nicholas Pine

    The substitute teacher befriends unattractive Iris Hancock and concocts a potion that makes Iris beautiful--but she expects Iris to repay her by kidnapping and selling a baby, and Iris's life is on the line when she refuses. Original....

  • The Cold One

    Christopher Pike

    The Los Angeles police are investigating two strings of gruesome deaths. One killer has left several horribly mangled corpses; the other murderer kills his victims seemingly without touching them. The investigators have only a single set of fingerpri...

  • Listeners

    Christopher Pike

    FBI agent David Conner is investigating the Listeners, a channeling group that seems to have access to highly classified information. Though he quickly falls in love with Lucy, one of the twins who are the heart of the group, David remains skeptical ...

  • The Curse

    Richard Pierce

    Like a modern-day Frankenstein, Sarah Watkins brings her boyfriend back from the dead, but he is doomed because he has the blood of monsters, and Sarah must end the curse--even if it means destroying the boy she loves. Original....

  • Dr. Couch Saves a Cat

    Nancy Pickard
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    When a bad man with a nice cat was murdered during World War II, the police asked Dr. Franklin Couch for his assistance. Now, many years later, the old veterinarian tells his granddaughter about the investigation, which involved many cats and many cl...

  • A State of Independence

    Caryl Phillips

    Phillips examines the transitions of a Caribbean nation from colonialism to a dubious state of independence through the experiences of Bertram Francis, a young man who leaves St. Kitts at the age of thirteen to study law on a coveted scholarship in E...

  • Angel's Cause

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    Angeline Monroe can't resist a worthy cause. Not only does Angeline want to right wrongs, but she loves the attention it brings. The only one who doesn't applaud her activism is her lifelong friend, Gavin Lucas. When Angeline-or Angel, as Gavin calls...

  • Forever Yours

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    At twenty-three, Daughtry Lucas knows she will end up an old maid unless she can somehow escape her overprotective father. He refuses to trust her out of his sight, keeping all prospective suitors at a distance. A newspaper advertisement for a wif...

  • The Heart's Calling

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    Sent away from the man she wants to marry by her wealthy parents, Pamela Charbonneau now finds herself in a stifling small town in Missouri under the watchful eye of her strict grandmother. But trouble has a way of finding Pamela no matter where she ...

  • Vanishing Act

    Thomas Perry

    Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness--not the tree-filled variety but the kind created by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one-woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membe...

  • Lone Star

    Steve Perry

    Responding to a summons by a desperate local leader, Cinch Carston journeys to the jungle planet Mtizito in order to round up a gang of terrorists and discovers an unexpected web of corruption that targets the Stellar Ranger himself. Original....

  • The Hyde Park Headsman

    Anne Perry

    Not since the bloody deeds of Jack the Ripper have Londoners felt such terror as that aroused by the gruesome beheadings in Hyde Park. And if newly promoted Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt does not quickly apprehend the perpetrator, he is likely to...

  • Home Lovely - Vermont Center

    Lynne Rae Perkins

  • Deadly Contest

    Don Pendleton

    CLEAN SWEEP The island of New Amsterdam is fast becoming a major drug depot, money laundry and haven for criminals -- the effort of a Colombia-Cuba alliance. Elections are approaching, and the cartel wants its man in power. The opposition badly...

  • Killpoint

    Don Pendleton

    DEADLY SHADOWS Violent global chaos has erupted, and Bolan is fighting it head-on. Sudden death is rocking the free world as old-guard KGB moles are reactivated to carry out assassinations -- among those targeted are the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ...

  • Stranger at Stonewycke

    Judith Pella; Michael Phillips

    Stranger at Stonewycke is the first book in The Stonewycke Legacy and continues the Ramsey family story portrayed in the three previous books of The Stonewycke Trilogy. The Stonewycke fortune is being stretched to its limits as the family tries to...

  • Chain of Evidence

    Ridley Pearson

    Can Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli uncover the truth? Or, more importantly, does he dare? Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli made one critical mistake in his police career: He chose to ignore a piece of evidence in a case labeled a suicide that might have ...

  • The Dragons of the Rhine

    Diana L. Paxson

    Throughout the long winter, the Wolf and the Raven shared the warmth of their hearts and bodies. And when the time came for parting, the noble Wolf swore he would soon return for his beloved... The Dragons of the Rhine welcomed Sigfrid Sigmundson ...

  • Call Me Francis Tucket

    Gary Paulsen

    Francis Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle just about anything. A year ago, on the wagon train, he was kidnapped from his family by a Pawnee hunting party. Then he escaped with the help of the mountain man Mr. Grimes. Now that he and ...

  • Escape from Fire Mountain

    Gary Paulsen

    Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts tries to help two children trapped by a forest fire but finds her efforts blocked by poachers who want her to become one of the fire's victims....

  • Auld Lang What?

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    CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINES

    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • Eyes of a Child

    Richard North Patterson

    Ricardo Arias is found dead, the gun still wedged in his mouth. It looks like suicide, but the physical evidence strongly suggests murder. The police investigation uncovers an estranged wife, Terri Peralta; an ugly custody battle over their six-year-...

  • Kiss the Girls

    James Patterson

    First came the stunning number-one bestseller Along Came a Spider. Now comes the scariest, most unforgettable novel in several years. In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful ...

  • Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain

    Glenn Patterson

    In the centre of EuroDisney's Magic Kingdom, the night that the Croatian city of Vukovar falls, a German canteen assistant and a Northern Irish construction worker are held at gunpoint in the cavernous interior of Big Thunder Mountain. Their attacker...

  • Jessica Plays Cupid

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield love their babysitter, Molly. And they think her boyfriend, Jack, is cool. But after Molly and Jack have a fight, Molly's no fun anymore. She never wants to play with the twins. All she does is sulk and talk about Jack...

  • Kiss of the Vampire

    Francine Pascal

    A creature of the night . . . Elizabeth Wakefield is falling in love . . . with Nicholas des Perdu, her boyfriend Tom Watts's new boss. Nicholas is tall, dark, dangerously handsome . . . and keeper of a deadly secret. Will Elizabeth abandon her frie...

  • Lila's Secret Valentine

    Francine Pascal

    Lila Fowler is dreading Valentine's Day. She has no valentine, and she's determined not to let her friends in the exclusive Unicorn Club know. So she tells everyone that she does have a boyfriend and sends herself flowers and candy to prove it. Her v...

  • Sorority Scandal

    Francine Pascal

    While Jessica tries to find a way back into the prestigious Theta sorority, Lila Fowler and her nemesis Bruce Patman are stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains and Elizabeth enlists the help of Professor Martin to get her sister out of trouble. Orig...

  • Wanted for Murder

    Francine Pascal

    Wanted ... dead or alive. Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield set off on a road trip to the mountains of Colorado, ready for five days of skiing and the best Christmas break of their lives. Scott Culver is a guy with a broken-down car and a face to die...

  • P.S. I Love You

    Valerie Parv

    Dear Mr. Branden, I'm sure you receive thousands of letters, but this one is different, so please, please read on.... How Penny wished her young niece had never written that desperate plea! For, with a cruel twist of fate, it brought Reid Bra...

  • Curtain Going Up

    Jill Parsons

    Senior Ashley Martin is thrilled to have the lead in her high school's production of Oklahoma, until she realizes that her former best friend, Daniel Stern, who had dropped her when he left for college, will be returning to direct the musical...

  • Side Effects

    Michael Palmer

    Kate Bennett. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Untl one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate’s close friend. Soon it will threaten Kate’s marri...

  • Ming

    Robert B. Oxnam

    Meihua and Longyan, first daughter and second son of prominent families, discover a powerful bond in their conflict with the centuries-old social codes of the Ming dynasty. Although forbidden education, Meihua secretly learns to read and write. Longy...

  • Prom Night

    Jesse Osburn

    Preparing for the festivities despite her breakup with her boyfriend, prom committee member Kim Delany hopes to find the perfect date to match her perfect dress, unaware that she is being stalked by a desperate killer. Original....