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New Books List: 620 titles

  • Yesteryear

    Dorothy Garlock

    Addie Hyde spent four years waiting to see if the high-spirited husband she had married in haste would come back after the South lost the war. Yet Kirby Hyde was never among the Confederates in rags and tatters straggling through Arkansas. Addie alwa...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Writer's Worlds

    Trudy Smoke

  • The World's Last Bachelor

    Pamela Browning

    NAME: Deke Washburn AGE: 32 STATUS: S.T.U.D. #4 OCCUPATION: Self-made Millionaire To his friends, Deke Washburn was the world's last bachelor-to single women, an impossible catch. But the playboy millionaire had just met his match .... Beaut...

  • Work in Progress

    Lisa Ede

  • Wonderful Farm

    Marcel Ayme

    "Two real little girls enter into magical adventures with talking animals of their farm and the nearby woods. Children will enjoy the trickery of the animals and the girls' mischievous behaviour." -- SLJ. "Unusually delightful (stories with a French ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Wizard of La-La Land

    Robert Campbell

    Kenny Gotch is a small-time doper and street hustler dying of AIDS in a Los Angeles hospice. Why would anyone bother to slit his throat when the disease would have finished him in a week or so? Vice cop Isaac Canaan hears that it may have been to pre...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • With an Everlasting Love

    Kay Arthur

    With its all-new cover, Kay Arthur’s captivating novel of love and trust is sure to attract readers. With an Everlasting Love (over 400,000 copies in print), a delightful, spellbinding love story with an intriguing twist, wil...

  • The Winning Heart

    Norma Jean Lutz
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    After her grandfather's death, Kassier reluctantly keeps her promise to him and leaves Wyoming, hoping to rebuild her relationship with her older sister. But life in Virginia with Glorence is a stifling contrast to the wide open spaces if Kassie's fo...

  • 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...

  • Winding Highway

    Janelle Burnham
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    When David Porter is called to be the first pastor in Dawson's Creek, British Columbia, his widowed sister, Jerusha, volunteers to accompany him as housekeeper and parsonage hostess. But very soon she regrest her decision: No longer the elegant pasto...

  • Wind

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Wild Wings, Wild Heart

    Elizabeth Lane

    Kelly Ryan was used to calling the shots, but when brash businessman Jake Drummond insisted on taking off in inclement weather, the beautiful bush pilot was forced to comply. And when the little plane crash-landed in the Alaska wilderness, Kelly and ...

  • Widow's Peak

    Gillian Linscott

  • Who Goes There?

    Susan Evans McCloud

    It began as an innocent excursion, a trip to get Laura's mind off the death of her husband. But as she and her daughter, Penelope, eagerly pursue their genealogical interests, they are also being pursued - by Callum MacGregor, an English police inspe...

  • White Gold

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    Kindred Souls Cross McCree was mestizo - a half-breed man of the mountains. A man as rough as the land he loved. Yet passion pooled within him, and Lilly Blackwell feared the depths of his heated gaze. In her hoopskirts and dainty shoes, Lilly...

  • White Boys and River Girls

    Paula K. Gover

    From an exciting new voice in American fiction comes nine tales of barmaids and musicians, single mothers and burned-out businessmen--about lives lived a little too close to the edge and love longed for, lost, and sometimes regained....

  • Whispering Woods

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

    HELP WANTED: WIZARD'S ASSISTANT Must be willing to relocate in space and time... Gull should have known better than to take the job. But with his village destroyed and a half-wit sister to look after, what choice did he have? At least the pay wa...

  • 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...

  • What People Do: Level A

    Hazel Underwood

  • What a Wonderful Day to Be a Cow

    Carolyn Lesser

  • 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...

  • The Weight

    Allen Steele

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Water

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Watch out for Strangers

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Wartimes

    Robin Chapman

  • Warlock Watson

    Dick King-Smith

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Vurt

    Jeff Noon

    Hailed as the novel that reinvented cyberpunk, The 30th Anniversary edition of Jeff Noon's award winning cult classic, Vurt.Scribble and his gang, the Stash Riders, haunt the streets of an alternate Manchester, chasing the immersive highs that come f...

  • Voyage of the Exiles

    Patricia Hickman

    The story of the Prentice family, torn apart by the English judicial system, is the saga of the colonization of Australia and the struggles of people in bondage to the white slavery of the penal colony. Original. IP. ...

  • Vial Murders

    Marsha Landreth

    Dr. Samantha Turner is back in Wyoming, believing that her life is resuming normalcy, until the corpse she examines reveals death through smallpox and she must discover who has unleashed the remaining, once frozen virus before it turns into another p...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Valentine Chase

    Valerie King
    in

    Had the haughty, handsome, and utterly impossible Lord Castleton sent governess Meg Woodville a valentine? Her heart soared...then plummeted. Of course not. The missive came from her pupil, Castleton's sister Hope, writing to say she had eloped! Now ...

  • Valentine

    Jane Feather

    A quirk of fate has made Sylvester Gilbraith heir of his sworn enemy, the earl of Stoneridge. But there's a catch: to claim his inheritance he has to marry one of the earl's four granddaughters. The magnetically handsome nobleman has no choic...

  • Valentine

    Carol Carrick

    Waiting for her mother to return home from work on Valentine's day, young Heather stays with her grandmother and is called upon to assist in the rescue of a newborn lamb. By the author of Patrick's Dinosaurs. ...

  • Unwanted Wedding

    Penny Jordan

    "I'd be better off in the personal columns advertising for a husband...." Rosy Wyndham -- had to be married within the next three months or face the consequences. Guard Jamieson -- was successful, sexy--and single. With no other can...

  • 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...

  • Ultimate Star Trek Quiz Book

    Robert W. Bly

    Fans of the cult classic television show Star Trek can test their knowledge of trivia and little-known facts about the original series, its sequels, the films based on the show, and Star Trek books, events, and products. Original....

  • The Two Killers of Rillington Place

    John Eddowes

  • 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 ...

  • Tulsa Tempest

    Norma Jean Lutz
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    When country girl Tessa Jurgen learns that her bootlegging father has promised her in marriage to a man she doesn't love, she seeks refuge in the supposedly progressive boom town of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The year is 1921. As governess to the children o...

  • Trunk Show

    Alison Glen

    Amateur sleuth Charlotte Sams gets involved with murder when the elephant keeper at the Columbus Zoo is found dead just before Charlotte is scheduled to meet him and soon finds herself trapped in the zoo with a human predator...

  • Trumpet on the Land

    Terry C. Johnston

    “Terry Johnston is an authentic American treasure.” -- Loren D. Estleman, author of EdselIt was a day that shocked a nation. June 25, 1876. The day General George Armstrong Custer fell at Little Big Horn. Now the U.S. Army is on the march. Vowing...

  • The Truest Pleasure

    Robert Morgan

    Ginny, who marries Tom at the turn of the century after her family has given up on her ever marrying, narrates THE TRUEST PLEASURE--the story of their life together on her father's farm in the western North Carolina mountains. They have a lot in comm...

  • True Colors

    Doris Mortman

    Isabelle de Luna is an ethereal figure as alluring and haunting as her paintings. Her talent will make her legendary. But neither fame nor love can protect her from a killer waiting for her to remember the long-ago night she watched him murder her mo...

  • The Trouble With Going Home

    Camilla T. Crespi

    Simona Griffo expects chaos as usual from her eccentric family during her visit to her native Rome, but when she witnesses the murder of an American art student, her trip is off to an ominous start. And when the murder weapon turns out to belong to a...

  • Trepassers Halcyon

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  • Tragic Magic

    Wesley Brown

    Foreword by Ismail Muhammad Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a Black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War....

  • Tools As Art

    Harry N. Abrams

  • Too Late for Regrets

    Liza Hadley
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    She was right back where she'd started Cathy hadn't wanted to return to Italy, but when another feature writer for Cuisine for Cooks broke her leg, Cathy had to take her place covering the new cookery course in Florence. But nothing could have pre...

  • The Toll-Bridge Troll

    Patricia Rae Wolff

  • To Keep Faith

    Carolyn R. Scheidies
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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 ...

  • To Grandmother's House We Go

    Barbara Collins
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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...

  • 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....

  • A Time for Roses

    Elaine Coffman

    Driven apart by the very passion that brought them together, neither of them knew love could be so powerful or so painful.... She gave him love ... and he betrayed her. Then a shocking tragedy left Natasha Simonov shattered. Suffering and loss onl...

  • The Tick: Seven More Exciting Adventures

    Ben Edlund

  • Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Ted Dewan

  • This Is the Dreaming: Australian Aboriginal Legends

    Jean A. Ellis

  • Third Culprit

    Liza Cody

  • They Fly at Ciron

    Samuel R. Delany

    As this novel begins, the peaceful village of Çiron faces conquest and domination by the army of Myetra, as led by a cruel prince. The Myetrans subdue Çiron, killing many and enslaving the rest.

    But Rahm escapes -- and then befriends one of ...

  • There's Always Tomorrow

    Brenda Bancroft
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Kristin Allen takes her well-meaning client's meddling in her private life lightly. Unitl, that is, she becomes the winner of an all-expense paid trip for two to the Circle K dude ranch in South Dakota. After Kristin has worked so hard to hide the sc...

  • Tender Mercy

    Elizabeth Murphy
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Before her marriage to minister Joel Bennigan, Val had beed seduced by the promises of a frightening religious cult. Now these deranged minds want her back, and they'll stop at nothing. Kidnapped and then imprisoned in a dank basement, Val is give...

  • Ten Little Crocodiles

    Colin West

  • 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...

  • Teenage Genius

    Helen V. Griffith

  • Tap, Tap

    David Lozell Martin

    TAP, TAP What if your best friend started killing your worst enemies? For Roscoe Bird, this nightmare becomes reality when an old childhood friend comes knocking at his door. TAP, TAP Peter Tummelier talks about past hurts and old enemies as if ...

  • Sweet Sinner

    Diana Hamilton

    MEMO Private & Confidential To: Mr. Cade From: Zoe Kilgerran, your employee I find this difficult to say and don't know where to start, so I'll take a deep breath and begin! I'm afraid you've formed the worst possible imp...

  • Sweet Desire

    Rosemary Badger

    "I'm no gold digger!" Catherine believed she couldn't possibly be anyone's idea of a gold digger, until she discovered that was exactly how Mike Donahue saw her. It hadn't helped that her mother had invited Catherine to vis...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Summer Light

    Elyse Guttenberg

    Spirit Singer and Shaman. Elik was not like the others. She could not sew a seal skin with the tiny stitches that would make a kayak watertight. She could not set a trap as silently as drifting snow. Or throw the weighted strands of a bola into a flo...

  • 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....

  • Street Music

    Karen Barbour

    This jazzy paean to city life features original poems about skyscrapers, Sunday concerts in the park, and even honking taxis snarled in traffic jams -- all illustrated with exuberant paintings that sway with an infectious rhythm all their own.

  • 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...

  • Stradivarius

    Donald P. Ladew

    "

    An inspirational story of young love and the transforming power of music, ""Stradivarius"" is a novel that will engage and delight everyone who believes that wonderful things can happen to good people.

    On the Korean peninsula during the freezi...

  • The Story of the Fisherman and the Turtle Princess

    Carolyn Graham

    The story of The Fisherman and the Turtle Princess is a delightful wellknown Japanese folktale retold in English by Carolyn Graham and illustrated by John Himmelman. This story of a young fishermans adventure to the bottom of the sea is written in si...

  • The Story of Myrtle Marie

    Carolyn Graham

  • Story of Hanukkah

    Bobbi Katz

  • Storm Haven

    Marion Lennox

    Could Nikki's home be a haven for Luke? As a general practitioner to Eurong on the Queensland coast, Dr. Nikki Russell deliberately led a quiet life with small daughter Amy. Needing three weeks to review for an exam, she took on a locum to all...

  • Stone of Tears

    Terry Goodkind

    Using his emerging arcane talents and the power of the Sword of Truth which only he can wield, Richard faces the ultimate evil, the dread Keeper of the Underworld, who has freed the spirit of Richard's nemesis, Darken Rahl, Unless Richard can control...

  • The Stone Movers

    Patricia Mullen

    Challenging an Old Faith alliance among the Human, Dwarf, Elf, Peskie, and Ogre tribes of Morbihan, the dread Tyrant of Moer and his New Faith devotees conspire to make Humans the dominant species by destroying the other tribes. ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Stepping Out

    B.B. Calhoun

    Thrilled to be a fashion model working in New York, the last thing Russian-born Katerina Doeskev wants is her great-aunt from Russia meddling in her life--especially when she meets the guy of her dreams. Original....

  • 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...

  • Stable Witch

    Bonnie Bryant

    When Veronica diAngelo, a rider at Pine Hollow Stables, discovers that her stirrup leathers have been cut before an important hunter jumping exhibition, everyone assumes that practical joker Stevie Lake had something to do with it. After all, Stevie ...

  • Splendor

    Charlene Cross

    Her abductor's name was Rolfe de Mont St. Michel, and Lady Catherine hated him. Already, with each stride of his horse, everything she had ever known was fast disappearing into the morning mist. Today she was to have married in a perfect match, u...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Songs of Earth & Power: The Infinity Concerto and the Serpen

    Greg Bear

    The Song of Power opened the gateway to the Realm of the Sidhe, allowing young Michael Perrin to slip through. Now Michael faces years of captivity and deadly struggles for the future of the Realm and of Earth--leading finally to a terrible confronta...

  • Something Lost, Something Gained

    Susan Evans McCloud

    Take a step back in time, back to the 1830s, and meet a young girl whose experiences will capture your imagination as they also teach you about what life was like for Mormon girls nearly two hundred years ago....

  • Slower Than a Snail

    Marilyn Burns

  • Slocum and the West Texas Plunder

    Jake Logan

    When a wealthy madam who owns most of Roseville, Texas, dies, Slocum has his hands full making sure her greenhorn nephew gets his rightful inheritance--instead of a bunch of bandits willing to kill for the loot...

  • Slingshot

    Jack D. Hunter

    Discovering that his estranged father has been murdered, Florida reporter Matt Cooper teams up with fellow journalist Tina Mennen in an investigation that links his father's killing to the assassinations of several prominent politicians. Reprint....

  • Slashback/Riptide

    Paul Levine

    Miami Dolphin linebacker-turned-trial-lawyer Jake Lassiter is a throwback, a 'brew and burger guy in a quiche and white wine world.' He has his own definition of chivalry - 'I help little old ladies cross the street ... and sometimes tall young ones'...

  • Skyhammer

    Richard Hilton

    An ex-Vietnam jet fighter jockey and one of New World Airlines' best pilots, Emil Pate is a man with a grievance....

  • 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 ...

  • Sitting on the Farm

    Bob King

  • Sisters in the Sun

    Shirley Rhode
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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 ...

  • Sins of Our Sons

    Sonny Girard

    For the sake of his wife and baby daughter, Mickey Boy Messina, the unexpected boss of the Calabra crime family, struggles to lead his Family out of crime and into legitimacy. By the author of Blood of Our Fathers. 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...

  • Sign of the Spirit

    Kay Cornelius
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    The young life of Susannah McKay Campbell has been painted with layers of hatred and tragedy. As political outcasts, she and her husband, James, fled Carolina for the Kentucky wilderness, only to encounter there the rage of native Indians. As a wi...

  • Sierra Passage

    Franklin Carter

    THEY CONQUERED MOUNTAINS TO BUILD THEIR DREAM... These thin ribbons of steel would one day unite a nation. But in 1867, the railroad was still a struggle and an adventure for the men who slowly forged its path -- mile by mile across the most rugge...

  • Sierra

    Shari MacDonald

    When beautiful Celia Randall travels to eastern California for a short-term photography assignment, she unexpectedly locks horns-and falls in love-with the editor of the award-winning High Sierra magazine, Marcus Stratton. Yet, broken by recent losse...

  • 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...

  • Show Business Kills

    Iris Rainer Dart

    Soap opera star Jan is nearing fifty and considering a face-lift. Ellen fought her way to the top of a Hollywood studio only to face menopause jokes from her male colleagues. Rose, a screenwriter, is finding it tough to pitch stories to executives yo...

  • Shotgun!

    Kit Dalton

    Pursuing a ruthless gang of cattle rustlers who are out to capture every steer in Miles City, Buckskin Lee Morgan has his hands full ferreting out every vicious outlaw--and seducing every young cowgirl in the territory. Original....

  • Shortstop from Tokyo

    Matt Christopher

    Stogie Crane wants to play shortstop for the Mohawks, but a new boy from Japan is assigned to the position. Stogie tries not to become resentful of Sam Suzuki, but he can't help it. When Sam's glove is found ruined in Stogie's yard, it looks as thoug...

  • The Ships of Earth

    Orson Scott Card

    The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar s...

  • The Shelter of Her Arms

    Jean Barrett

    Fugitive...and father? Richard Davis awoke to a nightmare. He was alone on a yacht with three lifeless bodies, one of them his ex-wife's. Because he had the motive and the smoking fun, he was bound to become suspect #1. So he jumped ship... J...

  • Sheba

    Jack Higgins

    The lost Temple of Sheba is not just a biblical legend. A German archaeologist has found it. The Nazis have claimed it. And one American explorer has stumbled upon their secret--a plot that could change the course of World War IL.. This elec...

  • Shatter

    Brian Harper

    As Donna Wildman, a profiler for the Los Angeles County Police Department, becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is targeting prostitutes, the trail begins to lead ever closer to the police force itself. Original....

  • The Sharpshooter Blues

    Lewis Nordan

    ALA Notable Book; Mississippi Arts and Letters Fiction Award. Lewis Nordan's remarkable third novel, THE SHARPSHOOTER BLUES, is in part a meditation on America's love affair with blue-steel barrels and soft-tip bullets, and in part a look at the viol...

  • Sharing Sam

    Katherine Applegate

    How can you take the guy your best friend loves . . . when your best friend’s going to die? Alison Chapman has always believed she’d fall in love hard. And she does -- with Sam Cody, a new guy with a gorgeous face and brooding eyes, a guy who...

  • Shake, Rattle and Roll

    Maire Buonocre

  • Seven Steps to Midnight

    Richard Matheson

  • Seth and Samona

    Joanne Hyppolite

    Seth and Samona are an unlikely pair--he's a quiet boy from a proper Haitian-American family, and Samona's the wildest girl in the fifth grade. But he's her accomplice in every adventure. When Samona decides to enter the Little Miss Dorchester page...

  • 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...

  • Self-Defense

    Jonathan Kellerman

    Dr Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients any more, but for a young woman called Lucy Lowell he's prepared to make an exception. Referred to him by the police detective Milo Sturgis, Lucy had been a juror at the harrowing trial of a serial k...

  • Seasons of Love

    Shirley Eskapa

    FROM THE STREETS OF ROME, TO THE ELEGANT SUITES OF FIFTH AVENUE... CECILIA: She rose from a world of poverty and shame and found suffering and love in the arms of three men. But only one man knows the terrible secret she has carried with her all ...

  • 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...

  • Search for Yesterday

    Mary Hawkins
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Hilda Garrett has watched the man she loved marry someone else. Then her father died. Now she's discovered that her father wasn't her birth father after all. While she manages her family's sprawling farm in Australia, Hilda is determined to discov...

  • Scarhill

    Jane Beeson

    A novel about the effect on the local community of a London family moving to an isolated Devon farm. Kate has farmed Scarhill for 15 years. When she is forced to sell, Alec Deneuve sets about developing and exploiting the moor for aforestation. And h...

  • 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...

  • The Saints' and Angels' Song

    John Fischer

    After the death of his best friend, Ben, Jonathan Liebermann is forced to face his grief when a series of strange occurrences and appearances lead him to believe celestial beings are helping him to face the world again...

  • 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...

  • Sabretooth Deathhunt

    Marvel Book Group

  • Ruby

    Dick George

  • Rotten Apples

    Natasha Cooper

    Death...and taxes Willow King, civil servant, and Cressida Woodruffe, author of sweeping romances, are one and the same. But it is the former who's called into play when she is asked to probe the case of Fiona Fydgett, a famous art historian whose ta...

  • The Road Home

    Susannah Hayden
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Julie has finished her studies, broken her engagement to Dennis, her college sweetheart, and relocated to her grandmother's childhood home in Seabridge, Maine...all in an effort to become the artist she longs to be. Plagued with self-doubt about h...

  • The Road Home

    Ellen Emerson White

  • 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...

  • Rings on Her Fingers

    Susan Connell

    He had enough charm to make an angel tumble.... She sure filled her Christmas stockings, Steve Stratton decided upon seeing the long-legged brunette dressed as a holiday elf! Gwen Mansfield felt her heart racing when the gorgeous architect invite...

  • A Ring and a Promise

    Andrea Edwards

    Montana cowboy Jake MacNeill knew that only the land lasted, while love was as reliable as a grinning rattlesnake. Heck, prairie fires were easier to handle than a woman. So why was he heeding an eerie siren call from the city, seeking a lady with an...

  • 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...

  • The Reluctant Hunk

    Lorna Michaels

    "I WANT THAT MAN." And Ariel Foster wanted scientist Jeff McBride for just one thing--to do a series on hurricanes for her TV station. She knew every woman in Corpus Christi would tune in to watch the drop-dead gorgeous man. Convincing Jeff to ...

  • Rekindled Flame

    JoAnn A. Grote
    • / Historical Romance
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    After being left at the altar, then becoming engaged to the notorious outlaw Rasmus Pierce, Marian Ames is happy to come to Minneapolis where no one knows her scandalous history. Losing herself in exciting work with needy children at a local missi...

  • The Redneck Way of Knowledge

    Blanche Mccrary Boyd

    This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blan...

  • Redeye

    Clyde Edgerton

    A New York Times Notable Book. Hang on to your ten gallon hats--Clyde Edgerton has taken his eye for detail, his ear for humor, and his nose for the odor of religious hypocrisy to the Wild West. In REDEYE, he leads us back to turn-of-the-century Colo...

  • 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....

  • The Red Geranium

    Janette Oke

    It wasn’t that Gran Thomas hadn’t taken on difficult challenges in her lifetime. She’d always met them head on before and fought her way through. But now. Now there seemed to be no reason to put in all that effort. What would she gain? With her...

  • Red Dancing Shoes

    D C Heath & Co

  • Raven - The First Bird of Prey

    Anthony Masters

  • Ratspell

    Paddy Mounter

  • Rama Revealed

    Arthur C. Clarke; Gentry Lee

    THE CONCLUSION TO ONE OF THE MOST HERALDED SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OF ALL TIME! On its mysterious voyage through deep space, a massive, alien starship carries its passengers to the end of a generations-long odyssey. The great experiment has failed,...

  • 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...

  • The Quiet Heart

    Rae Simons
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    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...

  • A Question of Justice

    Rachel Lee

    GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT Garrett Hancock: He wasn't usually on the side of the defense--but he was always on the side of the truth. Sandy Keller: She couldn't stand by as an innocent man was sent to prison. As Texas Ranger Garrett Hancoc...

  • Pyne

    Jonathan Guy

  • Pure Delights

    Stella Cameron

    Headstrong artistic rebel Paris Delight doesn't expect Mr. Right to come charging up on a silver steed. High-powered dealmaker Tobias Quinn is Seattle's sexiest divorced man, and he needs Paris to save his fortune and possibly his life. Between these...

  • The Provost's Woman

    Anne Vivis

  • A Proper Companion

    Candice Hern

    Anyone can arrange a marriage-but only the heavens can decree true love! Her grandson, the Earl of Bradleigh, had just announced his engagement to a thoroughly unlikeable chit -- and Lady Bradleigh was determined to do something about it. Why, just ...

  • Promises To Keep

    Karen Harper

    In the small town of Lockwood, Ohio, Amanda Wynne harbored special hopes for this first Christmas after the Civil War. Yet so much had changed. Her husband, Matt, had returned a broken man and would soon be lost forever. And while she took two war wi...

  • The Promise

    Mandalyn Kaye

    Arren Grayland, fleeing in terror from ruthless men bent on destroying her. Duncan MacCraig galloping out of the dark Scottish night ... just in time to save Arren from certain death....

  • 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....

  • A Private View

    Anita Brookner

    Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. ...

  • Private Altars

    Katherine Mosby

    A portrait of two generations of the Daniels family explores the lives of a dynasty of eccentric misfits and outsiders in a small West Virginia town and their impact on a town dedicated to its own stagnation. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • Prince of Dreams

    Susan Krinard

    A beautiful woman risks the ultimate temptation -- love with the sensual vampire who's invaded her dreams.... PRINCE OF DREAMS San Francisco psychologist Diana Ransom can't take her eyes off the gorgeous, green-eyed stranger. But when she finally...

  • 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...

  • Presidents' Day

    Laura Alden

  • A Present for Big Pig

    Debi Gliori

  • 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...

  • Prairie Flower

    Pat Muchmore

    Realizing that a claim in the Cherokee outlet of wild Oklahoma will force her into a life of harsh challenges, Amy teams up with reckless Colby Grant and finds in him the freedom to pursue her most intimate dreams. The wild Oklahoma land rush was...

  • A Pony for Keeps

    Jeanne Betancourt

    Do you love ponies? Be a Pony Pal! Anna loves her pony, Acorn. She knows that he is perfect for her. But her parents think Acorn is the reason why she is doing badly in school. If she doesn't get better grades, they will take him away. Pam and ...

  • Polmena Cove

    Mary Lide

    Hoping to help their North Cornwall community recover from the Second World War, cousins Emma Trevarisk and Lily Polleven struggle with Emma's disheartened fiance+a7 and threats to Lily's family home. By the author of Sea Scape. ...

  • Point-Counterpoint

    Herbert M. Levine

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • A Place for Love

    Mary Louise Colln
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    When Dr. Emily Richards returns to her hometown to set up her medical practice, she is burdened with guilt. The town has pooled its resources to set up an impressive clinic for her, but Emily has plans to leave after a two-year commitment to join her...

  • Pitchfork Hollow

    Dean Feldmeyer

    IT SURE TURNED INTO ONE HELL OF A DAY OFF... though it started deliciously, with a mouthwatering heart-attack breakfast courtesy of May June Hall, the wife of the constable here in sleepy Baird, Kentucky. While I preach only to thirty or so people...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Phonics, Book A

    Barbara K. York

  • Peril in Paradise

    Diana Mars

    A HALF-NAKED MAN!? One minute Clementine Cahill was taking a stroll; the next she was running after a half-clad hunk with a body that just didn't quit! As a P .I., Clemmie had a knack for chasing trouble, but the handsome hunk was more dangerous t...

  • Pebbles on the Beach

    Evelyn Hood

  • Passing Through Midnight

    Mary Kay McComas

    Her hand over his heart branded him for always.... All women were mysteries, Gil Howlett believed, but he had to discover what had driven Doric Devries into hiding in his hometown! Dorie wondered if deep sorrow ever healed, but Gil's tenderness s...

  • Passing By

    Jerzy Kosinski

    A collection of writings offers a revealing and provocative self-portrait of an author whose life was shrouded in enigma.   Jerzy Kosinski was one of the most important and original writers of his time. Passing By serves as his legacy. This coll...

  • Party Animal

    Morris Hershman
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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...

  • Partner For Love

    Jessica Hart

    She was here to stay -- whether he like it or not! Darcy discovered that the remote outback ranch she'd inherited came complete with a hostile partner -- Cooper Anderson. It seemed he'd go to any lengths to get back his family home -- even...

  • 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...

  • 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 Paperboy

    Pete Dexter

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER     “An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished.” -- The New York Times Book Review   The sun is rising over Moat County, F...

  • 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....

  • The Painter

    Peter Catalanotto

  • Painted Lady

    Delia Ellis

    IT ALL BEGAN WITH A GOOD TURN FOR A LOVELY STRANGER. Miss Eleanor Needwood was about to married to a most unsuitable suitor when Philip Markham came to her rescue. He arranged for Eleanor to be in London for the Season, a guest of Markham's si...

  • 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...