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New Books List: 597 titles

  • Animal Husbandry

    Laura Zigman

    "If someone asked me a year ago why I thought it was that men leave women and never come back, I would have said this: New Cow. New Cow is short for New Cow Theory, which is short for Old Cow-New Cow Theory, which, of course, is short for the sad sor...

  • Clown Games

    Harriet Ziefert

  • A Dozen Dozens

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Good Girls

    Karen Young

    The lives of three Southern women are tainted by one man -- the charismatic, ruthlessly ambitious Jack Sullivan -- until he's finally stopped by a bullet Suzanne: Beautiful, intelligent and burning for a career in the law, she is nearly destroyed by...

  • The Prince of Egypt

    Jane Yolen

    First in the DreamWorks Classics CollectionTM, this big, beautiful storybook is the best way for fans to recapture the magic and grandeur of The Prince of Egypt. Acclaimed author Jane Yolen provides a powerful, finely crafted retelling, that matches ...

  • Brother of the Groom

    Judith Yates

    THE BRIDE Though five years had passed, Holly West still couldn't forget being left at the altar. She'd fled town in disgrace, taking with her a secret she prayed no one would ever discover -- that she was carrying her fiance's child AND THE BAB...

  • Masquerade

    Kathleen Yapp
    in

    Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....

  • Faith, Hope and Chicken Feathers

    Andrea Wyman

    Three new kids--YL, Sophie, and Harper--are finding it difficult to be accepted by the other children, so they form a special friendship, until Harper's desperate search to locate her father threatens to tear them apart. Reprint....

  • The Ghost in Room 11

    Betty Ren Wright

    The new kid in school accepts a dare -- and finds himself facing some spooky and surprising consequences: “[A] page-turner” (Booklist). Matthew Barber thinks that being the new kid in school will be the scariest thing about fourth grade. But is h...

  • Amazing Incredible Sulk

    Diane Wooley-McAffee

  • Murder Manual // A Manual of Murder

    Steven Womack

    ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MURDER I LEARNED IN NASHVILLE The bestselling toast of Tennessee, author Robert Jefferson Reed has made big bucks with his little book of folksy homilies like "Never go to bed angry" and "Eat your vegetables." He ...

  • Mike and Psmith

    P.G. Wodehouse

    Pelham Grenville Wodehouse on born on 15th October, 1881 in Guildford, England to distinguished parents who were visiting the UK from Hong Kong where his father was a magistrate.After two years in Hong Kong Wodehouse and his two brothers were sent ba...

  • Mike at Wrykyn

    P.G. Wodehouse

  • Money for Nothing

    P.G. Wodehouse

    Lester Carmody of Rudge Hall has put himself in the hands of Dr. Twist, the aptly named owner of that establishment. Enter the Molloys, who, along with their old pal Twist, have a devious money-making scheme that depends on the greed of Carmody. And ...

  • Baby in a Million

    Rebecca Winters

    Cord and Ashley McKnight are proud to announce the birth of their son Cabe. Weight: Nine pounds, four ounces Height: twenty-three inches long... The doctors had told Cord McKnight he would never father a child. The doctors had been wrong. For on h...

  • Bride by Day

    Rebecca Winters

    Cynical millionaire Perseus Kostopoulos is no Prince Charming - his Greek-god features are marred by a two-inch scar above his jaw. But Samantha can't help but find her boss attractive, especially when, in return for a simple favor, he offers to ...

  • Undercover Husband

    Rebecca Winters

    She's his client... Roman Lufka is a rough, tough private investigator. He's been hired to protect Brittany Langford. The easiest way to be by her side, twenty-four hours a day, is to go undercover-as Brittany's husband ...and his ...

  • Revelations

    Douglas E. Winter

    Revelations  is a unique publishing event -- a visionary collaborative epic novel by today's bestselling and most respected dark fantasy authors.

    Decade by decade as the Millenium approaches, we take an unforgettable imaginative journey of terror ...

  • The Disappearance of Lyndsey Barratt

    John Wilson

    Brutally attacked by a group of cruel athletes, Lyndsey Barratt vanishes, but now, seven years later, someone is exacting deadly revenge on these same attackers, and two people--journalist Julie Adams and Inspector Frank Illiffe--must delve into a wo...

  • Accessory to Murder

    Barbara Jaye Wilson

    BRENDA WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A FRIEND. . . Irrepressible Greenwich Village milliner Brenda Midnight has already proved shes as good at unmasking murdered as she is creating gravity-defying hats. This time shes in hot water. Worse, shes dragged oth...

  • Bloodstained Kings

    Tim Willocks

    Tom Willock’s first book, Green River Rising, earned the kind of reviews that are rarely accorded to most so-called literary thrillers. This remarkable debut was hailed for its rich, powerful writing as well as its dramatic, page-turning suspense. ...

  • Backwards Day

    Laura E. Williams

    When Timmy accidently wears his shirt backwards to school because he is deep in thought about what to do for his birthday party, his friends join in to save him from ridicule, which prompts him to have a Backwards Day party, in a unique book that pro...

  • Seducing Savannah

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Bestselling author Gina Williams has created an unforgettable trilogy about three Southern women--and the secrets they're hiding.... In the small town of Honoria, Georgia, nobody could cause a scandal quicker than the wild McBrides. And when Savan...

  • Don't Cut My Hair

    Hans Wilhelm

  • Beyond the Picket Fence: And Other Short Stories

    Lori Wick

    An uplifting anthology of short stories, each accompanied by the author's personal insights into the characters or background of the tale, ranges from a delightful tale of camping the wilderness to enjoying a Disneyland Christmas, all the while shari...

  • Life Out There

    Michael White

  • The Wild West

    Kim Whalen

    LOVE COUNTRY STYLE Playing good sport to appease her best friend was one thing, but sophisticated Gail Martin was hardly equipped for a Colorado camping trip. Especially when their mountain guide was a rough-edged cowboy who was as untamed as the ...

  • Tale of the Ghost Cruise

    David Cody Weiss

    Anticipating a pleasure cruise aboard a luxury liner, Merle Devereaux and Norris Beachum see their vacation turning disastrous when they are warned by a ghost that they are headed into danger. Original....

  • Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

    Robert Weisbrot

    "Hercules:The Legendary Journeys" first burst onto television screens as a series of five action-packed movies.  But unlike previous Hercules movies, these didn't feature togas and flowery language.  Instead, the producers created a Hercules for ...

  • The Dragons of Chaos

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

    The Chaos War Rages For fans of Dragons of Summer Flame, this is a new short-story collection, featuring the brave heroes, dark villains, differing races, and all varieties of dragons of one of the most popular fantasy worlds -- Krynn. Edited b...

  • A Magic Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic

    Margaret Weis

  • The Soulforge

    Margaret Weis
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of magic. Raistlin Majere is six years old when he is introduced to the archmage who enrolls him in a school for the study of magic. There the gifted and talented but tormented boy comes to see magic as his s...

  • Grave Secrets

    Cyril Wecht

    In the foreword to this book, Michael (Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner) Baden, M.D. says that Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D. ("no shrinking violet") has selected from his 35-year career "a fascinating batch of cases in which his knowl...

  • More Than Honor

    David Weber

    DAVID WEBER In just a few short years, David Weber has shot to the forefront of science fiction with his top-selling novels of Honor Farrington, the toughest, smartest starship captain in the galaxy. Now two more military SF-world-beaters join him i...

  • The Sheikh Surgeon's Baby

    Meredith Webber

    Charmed by a mother and her little girl Heart surgeon Melissa Cartwright is traveling to Zaheer to tell Sheikh Arun Rahman al'Kawali she is pregnant with his child. She wants nothing from him--she guards her heart as fiercely as he guards his. ...

  • Angels on Zebras

    Peggy Webb

    He wanted to woo a wildcat--so he began with a kiss that made her purr . . . . Joseph Beauregard laid down the law--no live animals at his nephew's christening, no matter how temptingly Maxie Corban begged! Dressed as a naughty seductress, her vo...

  • Head Over Spurs

    Heather Warren

    THERE WAS NO TELLING WHAT SHE'D DO TO HIM NEXT.... Her entire summer was shot. That's what Callie Masters thought when she was assigned to design log homes in the middle of nowhere for three bachelor cowboys. Except the McCall brothers weren't the...

  • Benny's New Friend

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    When Benny hears that someone his age has moved in down the road, he's thrilled! Benny hops on his bike and rides over, excited to meet the boy. Then Benny reads the name on the boy's shirt. BETH. The new kid is not a boy. She's a girl!...

  • The Black Pearl 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 are visiting Ha...

  • The Cereal Box Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    When the Aldens come across a robbery at an antique store, they decide to use their detective skills to help locate the stolen ruby ring, bracelet, and necklace. Yet, before their investigation even begins, someone breaks into the Aldens'' home and s...

  • The Mystery at Peacock Hall

    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 are all visiting ...

  • The Mystery of the Lake Monster

    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 taking a vacatio...

  • The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Boxcar Children are vacationing in London, England, where there is so much to see and do. They watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and see the famous crown jewels of England. But is someone following them?...

  • The Mystery of the Stolen Sword

    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 are visiting a ...

  • The Panther 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 are going to vi...

  • The Windy City Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Aldens are on their first trip to Chicago―the Windy City―and from Wrigley Field to the Sears Tower to Grant Park, there is so much to see. However, when they are given a series of clues in rhyme, they find themselves in the middle of two myst...

  • The Paladins

    James M. Ward
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Double Diamond Triangle Saga continues! Lord Piergeiron has fallen ill, but his loyal retainers prepare to rescue his abducted fiancee. But their quest lies far beyond the areas around Waterdeep, and in the uncharted Utter East....

  • Find the Fish

    Amanda Wallwork

  • Current Danger

    Marilyn Wallace

    It starts with a phone call luring her into the night--and before it ends five people will be grotesquely murdered, never knowing why they had to die.

    Claudia Miller is a strong and independent woman, a successful general contractor in the tou...

  • The Girl with the Curious Hair

    David F. Wallace

    Until his death in 2008, David Foster Wallace was one of the most prodigiously talented and original young writers in America, and "Girl with Curious Hair" displays the full range of his gifts. From the eerily real, almost holographic evocations o...

  • Extreme Instinct

    Robert W. Walker

    In novels such as KILLER INSTINCT and DARKEST INSTINCT, FBI pathologist Dr. Jessica Coran has probed the deepest recesses of the criminal mind, coming face-to-face with killers as brilliant as they are vicious. But now Jessica must face a deadly ne...

  • Murder on the Titanic

    Jim Walker

  • The Singing Geese

    Jan Wahl

    Sam, the unlucky farmer, brings home a goose for his wife to cook for dinner, but just as they are about to sit down to eat, a flock of geese flies through the window in an attempt to save their unfortunate companion....

  • Coyote Moon

    John Vornholt

    Of Shapeshifters and Skinwalkers.... As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. The seedy carn...

  • The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

    Barbara Vine

    When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at al...

  • Messiah

    Gore Vidal

    When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal’s deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy,...

  • Diego Rivera: An Artists Life

    Sarah Vazquez

  • The Man Next Door

    Cynthia Van Rooy

    Jilted by her fiance, California executive Giselle D'Amato has decided to trade in her broken heart for a newfound independence. Inheriting her great-aunt's house on Oahu's North Shore is just the incentive she needs to start life over. Until she dis...

  • Pirate of my Heart

    Donna Valentino

    SHE RISKED EVERYTHING... Promised in marriage to a wealthy Dutch planter she'd never met, Analisa Vanderman was en route to the Dutch East Indies and social respectability. Love was an impossible dream--until a darkly handsome smuggler was taken abo...

  • Grace & Favor

    Caroline Upcher

    Two Sisters. Total Opposites Wife, mother, and London suburbanite, Favor was raised by her roguish publishing-magnate father, but always wondered about the mother she was told died in childbirth-and the sister she's never met. Now, she's determine...

  • The Consul's Wife

    W.T. Tyler

    In The Consul's Wife, W.T. Tyler returns once more to Africa, specifically to the Congo, where his protagonist, Hugh Mathews, a young foreign service officer, must cope with his embassy's ineptitude and its shallow-thinking bureaucrats even as he com...

  • A Marriage-Minded Man?

    Linda Turner

    THE MAN: Cynical, sworn-to-go-it-alone private detective Sam Kelly. THE MISSION: Getting just the facts--on an about-to-be-committed crime! THE WITNESS: Lovely Jennifer Hart: either the most trusting woman alive...or the biggest con artist....

  • Desperate Measures

    Robert Tine

    San Francisco cop Frank Conner goes to unorthodox lengths to find a bone marrow donor for his dangerously ill son, only to discover that the ideal candidate is convict Pete McCabe, a sociopathic genius who sees it as an opportunity for himself...

  • A Gift for Abigail

    Dwight Tilton

    This turn-of-the-century novel from The Victorian Bookshelf, follows the eventful life of lovely Abigail Renier, a poor but proud orphan girl who discovers that the life of the rich is not as happy and virtuous as she dreamed it to be....

  • No Lease on Life

    Lynne Tillman

    It's 5:00 a.m. and Elizabeth Hall can't sleep. She sits at her apartment window, entertaining murderous fantasies, while on the street below morons smash bottles, flip trash cans, vomit, and dance. Elizabeth struggles heroically to keep her wits, whe...

  • A Dog's Best Friend

    Gare Thompson

  • Jenny and the Cornstalk

    Gare Thompson

  • The Lost Valley

    David Thompson

    For even the hardiest of frontiersman, mere survival in the magnificent, uncharted Rockies was a daily struggle against brutal blizzards, wild animals, and bloodthirsty renegades. But to the brave souls who battled the vast frontier, the prize they s...

  • Gas Station Angel

    Ed Thomas

    Bron meets Ace six days after his house falls into the sea. Their families may share a past of fairies, angels, axe-murderers and chickens, but what do Bron and Ace need with the past when they've got imagination and a tinted glass blue Marina 1800 T...

  • Bridie

    Christine Thomas

    Bridie O'Neill is just sixteen years old when her beloved mother dies. Mad with drink and grief, her father shamefully abuses his eldest daughter, who flees her Irish home for safety in England. There she finds refuge as a housemaid to Francis Homes...

  • Herb's Pajamas

    Abigail Thomas

    With her own special brand of delicate, elliptical, and humorous fiction, Abigail Thomas offers another extraordinary visit with people she knows far better than they know themselves. There's Walter, newly abandoned by his wife; there's Edith, a fift...

  • Strong for Potatoes

    Cynthia Thayer

    Cynthia Thayer's acclaimed debut novel, Strong for Potatoes, is the resonant story of the difficult youth of Blue Willoughby, a remarkable girl growing up in eastern Maine. In a life beset by tragedy, beginning with the death of her twin sister Berry...

  • The Beduins' Gazelle

    Frances Temple

    When she and he were only babies, they were pledged in marriage. Now Atiyah has been sent away -- a political pawn in a war between the Beduin tribes in the year 1302. He vows to return to her as soon as he can.

    But while Atiyah is studying at the ...

  • Reading Between the Lines

    Linda Taylor

    When Julia Cole abandoned her safe job and raced up the M40 to read English at Oxford, she didn't give a thought to the future. But now that she's thirty and newly graduated, it's pay-back-time - at least as far as the bank is concerned. With Fleabag...

  • Wife For Real

    Jennifer Taylor

    Katherine's marriage seems perfect. Her husband, Jordan James, is handsome, charming and wealthy -- and their home idyllic. However, in reality, theirs is a marriage of convenience. Katherine has been happy to accept this -- it's easy, comf...

  • Waiting for the Healer

    Eamonn Sweeney

    Paul Kelly is the manager of a successful pub in southeast London, but his life has become a constant drunken binge since his wife's death. When Paul's brother Johnny is murdered, their mother calls him home to the town in Ireland where he grew up. T...

  • Jelly Roll

    Luke Sutherland

    When struggling band The Sunnys lose a member on the verge of a tour of the Highlands of Scotland, they are left a saxophone short with a series of gigs to fulfil. When Liam is introduced to the band, he is perfect in every sense except one: he is bl...

  • Over the Line

    Faye Sultan

    When Jimmy Weir, a not-too-bright but apparently harmless delivery boy (though he is, in fact, a very large man) for the local grocery store, murders and sexually mutilates two elderly women in the small town of Dixon, South Carolina, the defense tea...

  • Death's a Beach

    Winona Sullivan

    DEATH IN HIGH PLACES In Miami, murder is nothing special. But the brutal slaying of Elliot Barclay proves otherwise. He was rich and he knew the right people. And a few wrong ones, too, as beautiful nun/investigator Sister Cecile discovers when sh...

  • Help! I'm Trapped in My Camp Counselor's Body

    Todd Strasser

    This summer, Jake Sherman picked a camp for him and his friends. He thought he chose a place where they could play video games and eat fast food. But instead they're starving at Camp Grimley. There are no lights, no cabins, no bathrooms. And they hav...

  • The Delirium Waltz

    Mark Strand

  • Cheerleaders: The Evil Lives

    R.L. Stine

    Corky Corcoran and her classmates at Shadyside High are shocked when the evil spirit that once targeted cheerleaders returns, and Corky realizes that the secret to defeating the spirit is hidden in Sarah Fear's grave. Original....

  • Cry of the Cat

    R.L. Stine

    In the light of the full moon, I saw the cat sprawled on its back, its head twisted to one side, its four paws straight up in the air. Even from my bedroom window high above the ground, I recognized the cat. The cat named Rip. And I knew wi...

  • Love for Sale

    Sharon Stewart

    Romance was for fools... And CEO Matthew Kent was anything but. So what was he doing in Arizona as half owner of a shop devoted to romance? He blamed it all on his aunt. The silly woman had thought he wouldn't be happy until he was married, so she...

  • Mad Elaine

    Helen Stevenson

    On the face of it, Madelaine is a dumpy, dull librarian, respectable, outwardly timid, inwardly enraged, and of no consequence to anyone whatsoever. That is, until a mysterious would-be novelist enters her life and turns her world upside down....

  • King Koker's Sword

    Michael Stephens

    Felix, Margo and Ramon are members of The Horror Club. They need to do something truly horrifying, so they visit the Donaghue place. Locked behind steel shutters, no one has been near it since a family suddenly disappeared over a century ago. Just wh...

  • Hungry Ghosts

    Ellen Steiber

    It is Yu Lan in San Francisco's Chinatown, the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts -- a time of year when offerings are made to appease the ghosts roaming the earth. Only this time several murders have occurred, and the last victim left behind one message:...

  • Pignocchio

    Steck-Vaughn Company

    Once there was a lonely woodcutter named Geppetto-who dreamed of having a boy of his own. So one day he carved a boy out of wood and named him Pinocchio.When the puppet comes to life, it's Geppetto's dream come true.Except Pinocchio turns out to be n...

  • Rain Forest Adventure

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • The Urban Muse

    Ilan Stavans

    The complexity of the American city is captured in seventeen extraordinary stories that compose this exceptional anthology edited by award-winning author Ilan Stavans.



    The stories in this collection travel between the greatest of Ameri...

  • Allison: The Townie

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    Commuting to school from upstate New York, Allison struggles with the stressful demands of her daily schedule, her waitressing job, and her overprotective parents, who squelch her dream of leaving the nest by restricting her driving privileges. Origi...

  • Pope Joan

    Peter Stanford

  • Say You'll Stay and Marry Me

    Patti Standard

    One lean and lonesome cowboy stood between Sara Shepherd and her vacation plans. But Sara wasn't sure she wanted Mac Wallace out of her way! If she truly wanted to go, why stay to help out the rancher and his sons after he'd fixed her truck? Mac hadn...

  • Joe's Girl

    Margaret St. George

    Follow Your Dream Joe Townsend had fallen in love with Moly Stevens in Mrs. Paulson's eighth grade English class when she was the most beautiful girl in the school. Over the last fifteen years he'd watched her -- in magazines and on TV -- become t...

  • Is There a Dead Man in the House?

    Elizabeth Daniels Squire

    Acclaimed author Elizabeth Daniels Squire presents an exciting new mystery featuring Peaches Dann--an amateur sleuth who's slightly forgetful...and totally unforgettable! Peaches's father and his new wife, Azalea Marlowe, were in Tennessee to over...

  • The Borrowers

    Sherwood Smith

    Based on the novels by Mary Norton, a fun-filled movie novelization recounts the adventures of the Borrowers who live beneath the floorboards of the Lender home, which is slated for demolition by the evil Ocious Potter to make way for a slum called P...

  • Witchlight

    L.J. Smith

    Keller is a black panther. At least when she's not being a tough, no-nonsense seventeen-year-old girl. She's a shapeshifter who grew up on the streets and will do whatever it takes to survive. But when Circle Daybreak hires her to protect a new Wild ...

  • Murder While I Smile

    Joan Smith

    Mystery and intrigue once again provide adventure for the Berkley Brigade -- the aristocratic foursome with a nose for the ton's most incriminating scandals... Headstrong Corinne deCoventry, dashing Lord Luten, dilettante poet Sir Reginald Pra...

  • Castaways

    Debra White Smith
    in

    Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....

  • Texas Honor

    Debra White Smith
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    The summer of 1885 finds Rachel Isaacs caught in a heart-searching, life-threatening situation which will forever change her destiny. Rachel is determined to make her Texas ranch succeed without accepting assistance from her fiance', Samuel James....

  • Echoes

    Dean Wesley Smith

    The U.S.S. Voyager finds itself in a system where a planet might have existed, but doesn't. Where the planet should have been, millions and then billions of people are appearing from nowhere and dying in the vacuum of space.To solve the mystery and s...

  • Blood Sport

    Lisa Smedman

    With her companion, a would-be combat biker named Rafael in tow, ex-Texan Leni joins a group of blood-thirsty Latin American pagans to investigate the murder of a prophetess who claimed to be her grandmother. Original....

  • Betrayed

    Bertrice Small

    Bertrice Small brings history to life through indomitable women who live with wit, intelligence, and courage and who love with fierce delight. Now she sweeps us to a time and place of fiery power struggles, where one woman holds the key to a country'...

  • Max's Money

    Teddy Slater

  • The Tenor Saxophonist's Story

    Josef Skvorecky

    The celebrated author of THE BASS SAXOPHONE, THE REPUBLIC OF WHORES, and THE BRIDE OF TEXAS, Josef Skvorecky has won international acclaim for the acerbic, funny, and haunting novels of his native Czechoslovakia--the wry world of political repression...

  • Cassandra

    Gloria Dale Skinner

    Bad weather and marauding rustlers nearly wiped out Cassandra Rakefield as a rancher. She can't pay her cowboys or her mortgage unless she gets her inheritance, controlled by a law firm in Kansas City until she turns twenty-five. She needs the mo...

  • Wickerby

    Charles Siebert

    Outside my window, the city lights are taking hold now, the breeze-brushed, gently pulsating grid. Why is a cemented aggregate of homes arranged in a tall, tight cluster any further from nature than one wood home within the woods? Because it is so th...

  • Moses

    James R. Shott

  • Return to Camerein

    Rick Shelley

    In The Buchanan Campaign bestselling author Rick Shelley created a bold scenario of interplanetary invasion. In The Fires of Coventry he returned to that explosive universe to pit advanced technology against nature's most elemental weapon. Now he pre...

  • Bullets and Bridles

    Jon Sharpe

    On his way to meet a woman from his past, Skye Fargo rides to the aid of a beautiful rancher whose attempt to stand up to a ruthless organization of Kansas landowners is met with arson and gunfire. Original....

  • The Unexpected Salami

    Laurie Gwen Shapiro

    The Tall Poppies--a few days ago, they were just another Aussie band watching their fame ebb faster than a nitrous high. Then Stuart, the drummer, is gunned down by Australian drug lords, and the band is suddenly news in Australia, America, and even ...

  • Show Me the Way

    Jill Shalvis

    "I promise you, I don't bite -- unless I'm invited . . . ." Outfitter Kyle Spencer knew prosecutor Katherine Wilson had signed on for his trek through the Sierras as a break from her high-pressure job. But he didn't know what caused the haunted ...

  • Fountain of Weird

    Sherry Shahan

    Marshall and Simon find themselves at the Old Fogey's Farm, run by Dr. Beelzebug, who has discovered a way to stop people from aging. But he uses hormones from young people to do it--and he plans for the boys to be his next donors....

  • Sesame Street Take-along Box

    Sesame Street

  • Wife on Demand

    Alexandra Sellers

    TO LOVE, HONOR...AND OBEY They'd come together in a whirlwind of passion, with little time for words of love. Now Jude Daniels was on trial for a crime that could destroy his career. He'd relied on Hope Thompson as a lover, but could he count on h...

  • Alien Dreams

    Larry Segriff

    BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR .. . Three weeks ago, there were only three things Tom Jenkins wanted out of life: 1) He wanted off of Brighthome, the interstellar reformatory, and into the Space Guard. 2) He wanted Alex, the latest incorrigible to b...

  • Murder Under Blue Skies

    Willard Scott

    SOMEWHERE, A FOUL-WEATHER FRIEND WILL STRIKE AGAIN... After twenty years as the nation's most popular weatherman on the top-rated TV morning show, Hello, World! Stanley Waters looks forward to semi-retirement and a sunny future as innkeeper of the...

  • Hollywood Hook-Up

    Stefanie Scott

  • 20th Century Childrens Book Treasury

    Janet Schulman

  • Every Kid Needs a Hero

    Candace Schuler

    She was a Delacroix; she was bred to win... Widower Matt Taggart, the local vet, had a couple of kids to raise and not a lot of time for headstrong, jet-set women like Jax Delacroix. Jacqueline Delacroix had succeeded beautifully doing a man's...

  • Barney's Alphabet Fun

    Scholastic Inc.

  • In the Year of the Boar

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Orca Song

    Scholastic Inc.
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  • Silent Scream

    Dan Schmidt

  • In Lizzy's Image

    Carolyn R. Scheidies
    • / Historical Romance
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    Lady Deena Heyford's sister, Lizzy, left the family home in England years ago to marry an American, and it could be said that Deena was happy to see her go. The sisters were as different as summer and winter. After the death of her father, Deena i...

  • For a Song

    Kathleen Scarth
    • / Historical Romance
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    Margarethe's heart sings for only one man. In a time when floods and endless border wars ravage the land, there is one brave heart whose faith burns bright. For Lady Margarethe, life at Castle Adlerschloss goes on much the same as always-her days sp...

  • Richard Scarry's Iciest Day Ever

    Richard Scarry

  • When Bunny Grows Up

    Richard Scarry

  • Daemon in the Machine

    Felicity Savage

    Crispin, taught the ways of a daemon handler as a child, uses his talents to take himself on a wondrous and exciting journey to Kirekune to hunt for his long-lost love, and then to the distant lands of America...

  • Walking the Dog

    Gail Sattler
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Doreen McCullough is content with her self-made business of daycare for dogs and has developed quite a clientele. Between her Lord, her church, and her best friend Gretchen, a Standard Schnauzer, life for Doreen is in good order. That is until the...

  • The Love Talker

    Barbara Samuel
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    A faery lord is condemned to haunt the misty glens, cursed by his need to seduce mortal women to their deaths --- until a simple maid defies his spell and captures his heart....

  • The Moment I Saw You

    Lisa Samson

    Natalie St. John, the owner of a country inn in the Blue Ridge Mountains, feels drawn to one of her guests, an attractive and charming professor who is looking for nothing more than some peace and quiet in which to write a book...

  • The Love Twin

    Patty Salier

    WRONG TWIN Browning thought he'd gotten over the woman who had once jilted him, but now she was back--lying in his arms, wearing next to nothing, clinging to him for dear life. Seeing her again reignited his still-smoldering desires, and he vowed he...

  • Island of the Colorblind

    Oliver Sacks

    At once intensely personal and intellectually exhilarating, The Island of the Colorblind gives us a fascinating, intimate understanding of Oliver Sacks' unique vision. By the author of Awakenings and An Anthropologist On Mars. Simultaneous hardcover ...

  • The Woman in Black

    Jenna Ryan

    THE MAN WAS HARD TO RESIST ... .Aidan Brodie's sensual stare could seduce a woman almost against her will. Samantha Giancarlo found herself to be no exception. Her reporter's instincts screamed at her to stay far away. But fate--in the form of a w...

  • Infestations

    Charles Ryan

  • The Wedding Trap

    Eva Rutland

    Bride on the run! Judy had thought she was doing the right thing: marrying a man who could save her father's business. But she didn't love him and, as she was about to take her wedding vows, she knew she had to escape.... Jake had expe...

  • Lady Moses

    Lucinda Roy

    This powerful debut novel is the story of Jacinta Moses, the child of a passionate and courageous love. Jacinta's father is a black African writer, Simon Moses; her mother, Louise, is a white British actress. Her father dies when she is young, sendin...

  • Married by Mistake!

    Renee Roszel

    When Lucy Crosby's ex-fiance came to town, parading his new bride-to-be for all the world to see, she longed to wipe the smug smile off his face once and for all. But presenting the disturbingly attractive Jack Gallagher as her own new fiance, wa...

  • After the Dark

    Patricia Rosemoor

    Flint Armstrong woke from a nightmare to a nightmare - a dead woman in his bed. Charged with murder, he has no alibi, no memory of that night and no one to believe in him. Except his sister-in-law. Who may be all he needs. Nicky Keating has alway...

  • The Vampire Virus

    Michael Romkey

    When researcher Dr. Bailey Harrison ventures into the dense jungles of Costa Rica to investigate the death of a archaeologist from a strange and deadly new virus, she stumbles upon a secret world dominated by a unique man who hungers for blood. Origi...

  • Along Unfamiliar Paths

    Amy Rognlie
    • / Historical Romance
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    Raine Thomas has been relieved of her position as headmistress of the London mission school. Going back home to live with Papa is out of the question, but what else can she do? Before she can decide, dashing shipping owner Ben Thackeray bursts into h...

  • Jewels

    Belinda Rochelle

    Lea Mae loves spending time with her grandparents and treasures their stories of the past, including the tale about Harriet Tubman leading her great-great grandfather to freedom, as if they were rare and precious gems....

  • Eater of Souls

    Lynda S. Robinson

    Someone--or something--is slaying innocent persons on the night streets in the royal city of Memphis. Frightened citizens believe it is the gruesome work of the Devourer, the eater of souls, one of the most fearsome gods in the Egyptian pantheon. Eve...

  • American Woman

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    R. Garcia y Robertson applies his considerable talents in historical research and writerly depiction to an epic of American history, the legendary Battle of the Little Big Horn and Custer's last stand--and turns the legends upside down. First, he tel...

  • Booth

    David M. Robertson

    A gripping historical novel in the bestselling tradition of The Alienist and Time and Again, Booth brings vividly to life a figure who continues to haunt the American imagination--John Wilkes Booth. The story begins as an elderly John Surratt, the on...

  • Sea Swept

    Nora Roberts

    A champion boat racer, Cameron Quinn traveled the world spending his winnings on champagne and women. But when his dying father called him home to care for Seth, a troubled young boy not unlike Cameron once was, his life changed overnight... After...

  • Showdown at Little Misery

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams doesn't ditch his friends in times of trouble. But when the friend is an up-and-coming politician named Teddy Roosevelt, the "trouble" could cost the Gunsmith his life. After foiling a murder plot against the Roosevelt family, Clint co...

  • In Love With the Boss

    Doreen Roberts

    THE NINE-TO-FIVE WIFE Sadie Milligan wasn't the type to get involved with a sexy, arrogant man. But then, the prim-and-proper secretary had never worked for anyone like gorgeous Jordan Trent. Suddenly she found herself putting in some very wifely ...

  • The Senator's Wife

    Karen Robards

    Ronnie Honneker is the senator's wife. When she fell for the dashing politician, the stars in her eyes kept her from seeing his flaws. And when she discovered his constant need for other women, it was already too late. Now all the glamour of politics...

  • The Bat

    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Cornelia Van Gorder does not scare easily and is excited to be playing detective, but after stumbling upon a corpse, Cornelia realizes that it is no game and that she is hot on the trail of an evil killer known as The Bat. Reissue....

  • The Nine-Month Marriage

    Christine Rimmer

    BABY MINE Once upon a time, Abby Heller was the lovable, headstrong kid who idolized Cash Bravo. In her hero-worshiping eyes, the Wyoming rancher could do no wrong. But one urgent April night, Cash made a woman of Abby... and Abby came up pregnant. ...

  • Toad's Journal

    Kana Riley

  • Faithfully Yours

    Lois Richer

    TEMPORARILY YOURS Taking a new teaching job wasn't as easy as Gillian Langford had hoped. First she clashed with the school's proper - but very handsome - new principal, Jeremy Nivens. Then her aunt decided Jeremy needed a little matchmaking. Now ...

  • A Very Merry Christmas

    RH/Disney

  • Apples for a Teacher: A Bushel of Stories, Poems, and Prayers

    Colleen L. Renee

  • The Road Back

    Erich Maria Remarque

    The sequel to the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back is a classic novel of the slow return of peace to Europe in the years following World War I.After four grueling years, the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few ...

  • PaperQuake: A Puzzle

    Kathryn Reiss

    Violet's paralyzing fear of the earthquakes that are rocking the San Francisco Bay Area makes it difficult for her to overcome her "baby" image. But things change when her family renovates an old building. While she helps her sisters sweep up, an aft...

  • Numbered Account

    Christopher Reich

    Nick Neumann had it all: a Harvard degree, a beautiful fiancee, a star-making Wall Street career. But behind the dazzling veneer of this golden boy is a man haunted by the brutal killing of his father seventeen years before. Now chilling new evide...

  • Hearth of Fire

    Colleen L. Reece
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Patti Thompson, RN, misser her special friends at Seattle's Shepherd of Love Hospital. Seeing the married nurses on and off duty is not the same as sharing living quarters. When will she find her own happiness in marriage? Lonely and recovering fr...

  • Tenderly // The Music Box

    Cheryl Reavis

    COYOTE, EARTH's MISCHIEF-MAKER, WAS RUNNING WILD IN WINDOW ROCK... Navajo policeman Ben Toomey was out of harmony. And knee-deep in something worse than Window Rock's usual chaos. Wealthy Eden Trevoy, the little visitor he'd once adored, was bac...

  • Mending Fences

    Livia Reasoner

    From the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find a home--and where true love is always right around the corner... OUR TOWN Stepping off the train in Zephyr, Texas, yo...

  • Alms for Oblivion, Vol. I

    Simon Raven

  • The Last English King

    Julian Rathbone

    In 1066, a ‘jumped-up little Norman and his bunch of psychopaths’ cross the water and alter the course of English history. Three years later and Walt, King Harold's only surviving bodyguard, is still emotionally and physically scarred by the loss...

  • The Insider

    P. V. Narasimha Rao

  • Live from Cedar Hills

    Michael Rose Ramirez

    Chana and her friends, known as the Squinkles, are the center of attention when they build a huge snowman in front of their school and weatherman Sonny Day films the gang, posing by the snowman, and interviews Chana, causing her, her friends, and her...

  • The Last Battlemage

    Irene Radford

    THE PRICE OF PEACE had proved extremely high for Nimbulan and his wife Myrilandel-he, the soul-weary Battlemage forced to give up his own family in order to preserve the University of Magicians and the kingdom of Coronnan; she, a practitioner of a ...

  • Bashi Elephant Baby

    Theresa Radcliffe

  • Hidden Agenda

    Thom Racina

    Hoping to persuade her boyfriend to propose, Audrey Goh "kidnaps" him for a fantasy weekend in the unfinished luxury hotel she owns in Hawaii, but an obsessed stranger has slipped through the hi-tech security system, someone who is determined to have...

  • Durer

    Ernest Raboff
    • / General Fiction
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    The book contains a very brief biographical sketch of the artist and approximately fifteen full-color reproductions of his work, as well as many smaller drawings and designs. Great resource for introducing young readers to this artist....

  • The Lake of Terror

    Brad Quentin

    When the Future Edge, a camp for wealthy children, decides to use the monster of Lake Benedict called the Thrasher to frighten the children across the lake at Camp Odyssey, Jonny Quest and his friends come to save the day and find themselves confront...

  • Dangerous Gifts

    Mary Jo Putney
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    A shy mortal girl rashly accepts a faery lord's offer of beauty and charm. Then he comes to claim a terrible price --- the loss of her new love and everything she holds dear....

  • The Dastardly Duke

    Eileen Putman

    HIS FAIR LADY Julian LeFevre, Duke of Claridge, found being a reformed rake terribly dull. So he wagered a friend that he could make any pretty trollop in London pass for a lady of the ton. But when his friend presented him with Miss Hannah Gregory,...

  • Pleasures and Regrets

    Marcel Proust

  • Guided Tours of Hell

    Francine Prose

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    The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex -- their entir...

  • Aliens of Affection

    Padgett Powell


    Aliens of Affection marks new territory for Padgett Powell, picking up where his first collection of stories, Typical, left off. Although his characters continue to revolt against the received instructions of modern American living--refusing to b...

  • Your Place or Mine?

    Cynthia Powell

    A pirate never asks for permission, but was his lady ready to be ravished? Captain Diego Swift fell through the eye of a storm only to find a pretty twentieth-century spitfire pointing a gun at his heart! Catalina Steadwell ordered the half-naked ...

  • Starcatcher

    Patricia Potter

    Marsali Gunn had been betrothed to Patrick Sutherland when she was just a girl, yet even then she knew the handsome warrior would have no rival in her heart or her dreams. But when Patrick returns from distant battlefields, a bitter feud has shattere...

  • Ten Little Medicine Men

    Bill Pomidor

    DEADLY PRACTICES Someone at the financially stressed Riverside General Hospital seems to have forgotten the edict "First do no harm." It begins when forensic pathologist Dr. Calista Marley, her physician husband Plato, and six other division chief...

  • With This Kiss

    Candice Poarch

    Hardworking single mother Karina Wallace is appalled when not only do her triplets take it upon themselves to find her a new husband, but they pick Phoenix Dye, the only man she ever really loved and has never forgotten. Original....

  • The Dangerous Quest

    Christopher Pike

    When someone casts a wicked spell on Watch, he is forced to journey into a mirror world of Spooksville, where he finds someone just like him who also needs saving, but the duo realizes that only one of them can survive. Original....

  • A Patriot's Heart

    Stobie Piel

    After British captain Damian Knox finds her illegally stealing food to feeding orphaned children during the American Revolution, Nina Evans must brave the harsh winter of 1778 while deciding whether to follow her forbidden love or her freedom. A ...

  • The Defiant Governess

    Andrea Pickens

    A Lady's Deception Lady Jane Stanhope, vowing that no one would bridle her spirit, had devised the most extraordinary plan to escape an arranged marriage. The high-spirited, highborn, and highly pampered Lady Jane was running away...to enter s...

  • Bride of the Dragon

    Patricia Phillips

    As the bravest knights in the land competed in Stoneham Magna's jousting tournament, Isobel marveled at their prowess. She was pleased when her stepbrother Lionel seemed to be winning the tourney, but her heart filled with dread when he was challenge...

  • Five Geese Flying

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    Branded a heretic and a witch for practicing medicine and consorting with a Jew, Jeanine De La Fontaine faces death by the hand of the man who was to have been her husband. Having rejected Antoine Colbert because of his distastful nature, Jeanine now...

  • The House on Windridge

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    When her mother dies in childbirth, Jessica's father sends his infant daughter from his ranch in Kansas back to New York to be raised by an older aunt. But Aunt Helen only cares for social standing and proprieties. She tells Jessica nothing of her fa...

  • Reading Between the Lies

    Lynn Peters

    When Carol bumps into childhood friend Jilly one day, she's so pleased to see her she's tempted to stab her with a coat hanger. Gradually Carol begins to wonder if she's misjudged her. But Jilly hasn't finished with Carol yet, and what she has planne...

  • Hayloft

    Lisa Westberg Peters

  • Montgomery's Children

    Richard H. Perry

  • Again, My Love

    Kayla Perrin

    Toronto actress Marcia Robertson seems to have it all. Her career is taking off and she has a solid relationship with her boyfriend, Jackson Reid. The relationship is so solid, in fact, that when Marcia's old fiance, Gavin Williams, arrives back in t...

  • Viking Treasury of Classics

    Penguin Books

    Enhanced with full-color illustrations, this charming collection is filled with classic fairy tales and poetry, including The Snow Queen, The Selfish Giant, A Little Princess, Treasure Island, Mary Poppins, and other notable children's favori...

  • Law of Last Resort

    Don Pendleton

    RIGHTEOUS WAR In today's global hot zones, Stony Man puts out the fires that threaten world peace. The battle-hardened tactical unit backed by elite cyber warriors remains in ready-reaction mode, to go where the law can't or won't -- to terror at ...

  • Rage for Justice

    Don Pendleton

    BLOOD TIES Bootleg electronic goods are manufactured by slave labor in a remote part of China, then imported by a Houston-based mob family and sold below market prices. This unholy alliance is making huge profits off U.S. consumers and the misery ...

  • Zero Tolerance

    Don Pendleton

    DEATH DANCE The Bayou Boys, lords of the New Orleans underworld, are facing some serious and deadly competition. The Haitian posse is snatching a huge piece of the drug trade in the Big Easy, leaving a high body count in its wake. Mack Bolan's ...

  • Darkside

    John Pelan

  • The Fight For Justice

    John Peel

    SKYWALKER DATA PAD ENTRY LOCATION: TATOOINE In just half a day, my whole world has changed. The farm, my aunt and uncle.... They're gone. Destroyed by the Empire. All my life I've been waiting for something to happen to me. Something important. A...

  • Lost in Vegas!

    John Peel

  • The Boyfriend Game

    Francine Pascal

    All's fair in love and war in part one of a special two-book Valentine's Day miniseries.

    Sweet Valley Middle School is celebrating Valentine's Day by hosting a TV game show!  The contestants choose their dream dates by asking funny and perso...