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New Books List: 597 titles

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Wright Bros at Kitty

    Jennifer Litzel

  • The World Is Not Enough

    Zoe Oldenbourg

    Baron Ansiau rides with Richard Coeur de Lion into the horror and agony of the Third Crusade, while his young wife, Alis, assumes the management of their castle and lands and of her own interests and affairs This might be defined as a fictional Li...

  • Wonder of Easter

    Golden Books

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • A Wish for Nicholas

    Jackie Manning

    She Was Of The Land, He Of The Sea... Still, Becky Forester sang her own kind of siren song of home, family and forever -- and Captain Nick Sinclair, though wedded to the ocean's adventure, found himself succumbing to its lure...! Newly knigh...

  • Winter Warmers

    Stan Nicholls

  • 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 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 ...

  • Wild and Willing!

    Kim Lawrence

    MISTRESS MATERIAL -- OR WILLING WIFE? Eminent doctor Adam Deacon had his life neatly planned: a high-flying career -- and a suitable bride! Then he met Anna, the eldest of the Lacey triplets. Anna was the complete opposite to Adam: unconvention...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Wife for a Night

    Carol Grace

    THE BRIDE WAS TOO YOUNG! Margaret Kidder was glad she hadn't waited till her wedding night. But when groom-to-be Cody Ralston took her to bed, Margaret discovered that though she'd longed to become a woman in the sexy cowboy's arms, she just wasn'...

  • 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...

  • White Boys

    Reginald McKnight

    The winner of numerous literary awards including the Pushcart Prize explores the meaning--and meaninglessness--of race through a range of black and white characters who cross the color line, often paying the price of ostracism by their peers....

  • White Bear's Woman

    Candace McCarthy

    Having killed her evil stepfather in self-defense, Hannah Gibbons escapes to the New World only to become a slave of the Seneca Indians, but she finds her new master stirs her heart with desire, not fear. She Ran From The Arm Of English Law... ...

  • Whisper on the Water

    Earl Murray

    A proud Native American woman nicknamed "Spirit Woman" is unable to stop the massacre of her village by the war-hungry Blackfeet, but when she is captured by the feared "Long Knives," she discovers that Jim Ayers is not like the other white men. Repr...

  • When Bunny Grows Up

    Richard Scarry

  • What the Nursery Needs...

    Terry Essig

    MISSION: BABY Her biological clock ticking loudly, Catherine Nicholson set "Plan Baby" into action. But with no good man in sight, the sperm bank seemed like the only way to get what the nursery needed. Then she met her neighbor, gorgeous Jason En...

  • What Love Remembers

    Muncy Chapman
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Kristen Kelly has an all-expense paid summer at Florida's beautiful barrier islands in exchange for her companionship to eight-year-old Janelle Bradley. Weston Bradley,III hopes that Kristen can help his daughter adjust to the idea of a new mother. B...

  • What in the World?

    Eve Merriam

    In a new picture book edition, the author's classic poem becomes a simple guessing game featuring clever fold-out pages that reveal a variety of playful surprises. By the author of The Inner-City Mother Goose. ...

  • 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...

  • The Way of the Serpent

    Torgny Lindgren

    Unto him that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him who hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. As the narrator suggests, that is the inescapable conclusion of this slim, moving parable about a Swedish peasant f...

  • Was It Something I Said?

    Valerie Block

    When Justine and Barry meet during a plane crash just before the Christmas holidays, the relationship that follows is wild, turbulent, and maybe, just maybe, a keeper. Justine is a pretty, smart, ambitious lawyer who's tired of being set up on lou...

  • A Warrior's Bride

    Margaret Moore

    The Bride Wore Chain Mail . . . or would have, if she could, for the Lady Aileas Dugall was more concerned with things martial than marital. Nevertheless, she was the woman Sir George de Gramercie desired. Though he wondered if she would come to th...

  • Walking the Dog

    Gail Sattler
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Wake up, Groundhog!

    Susan Korman

  • 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...

  • A Vow of Adoration

    Veronica Black

    With her friends Brother Cuthbert and Detective Sergeant Alan Mill both away, Sister Joan of the Order of the Daughters of Compassion must rely on her own wits when she finds the body of a homeless man in a creepy abandoned chapel high on the Cornish...

  • Visitors

    Anita Brookner

    The extraordinary Anita Brookner gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.Dorothea May is most at ease in the...

  • Violets in the Snow

    Patricia Grasso

    He was her guardian, the duke of darkness--and desire. She tried to drive him away from Arden Hall. Instead, Isabelle Montgomery was charmed by the rakehell John Saint Germain, the handsomest--and most dangerous--man she'd ever met. He said she wa...

  • 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...

  • The Vig

    John T. Lescroart

    PAYBACK IS MURDER A beautiful woman paid it with her body. A seedy lawyer used somebody else's money. It's the vig - the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money. Now, in the city by the Bay, everyone has to pay... Down-and-out-...

  • A Very Merry Christmas

    RH/Disney

  • 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...

  • Valley of the Shadow

    Charlotte Hughes

    Within every shadow... A former crime reporter heads to her small hometown in search of solace. But acclaimed suspense writer Charlotte Hughes deftly turns the comforts of home into a dark tale of treachery and murder. Lies an Unsettling Secret ...

  • The Valentine That Ate My Teacher

    Dean Marney

    A valentine adventure by the author of The Easter Bunny that Ate My Sister finds Lizzie, Scott, Sybil, and their substitute teacher, Mr. Bernstein, sucked into the class valentine box and swept into another world. Original....

  • Valentine Surprise

    Karen Ball
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    City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...

  • 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...

  • The Unspeakable

    Charles Laird Calia

    The Unspeakable tells the story of two men, both priests, whose strange and divergent paths collide. Peter Whitmore, an administrator for the Diocese of St. Paul, is asked to investigate and ultimately discredit a priest who, it is rumored, possesses...

  • An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence

    Jamie Harrison

    BIG SKY, OLD BONES, AND MURDEROUS OBSESSION. BLUE DEER, MONTANA HAS IT ALL... A Cleveland hunter had just shot off his best friend's hand and the first blizzard of the season was blowing into Blue Deer, Montana, when a camper found an old skeleton...

  • Unforgiven

    Mary Balogh

    Moira Hayes hadn't seen Kenneth Woodfall in nearly eight years. Nor did she want to see this man who stirred such feelings of anger in her. After all, their families had been rivals since their great-grandfathers' day. And he was the reason- though i...

  • 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 ...

  • An Unexpected Love

    Andrea Boeshaar
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Nurse Lorenna Fields always took her job at Chicago's Lakeview Hopsital seriously, determining never to becomes personally involved with her patients. Then a mysteroius man with eyes like onyx is admitted after a shipwreck on Lake Michigan. He has lo...

  • 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 ...

  • Under the Snow

    Kerstin Ekman


    From the author of Blackwater comes this atmospheric and chilling tale of small-town secrets and jealousy set in the icy northern landscape of Lapland. When an artist named Matti is killed at a mah jongg party, Police Constable Torsson skis to th...

  • Unchained Hearts

    Linda Ford
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    What kind of man thinks he has to kidnap a bride? Brewster Johnson is scarred-physically and emotionally-by a painful childhood. With no hope of finding love, he sets out to take what he needs-a wife. But he did not anticipate a woman who would he...

  • The Uncanny

    Andrew Klavan

    Richard Storm is passionate, hot-blooded, and running at of time. Sophia Endering is cool, beautiful, and haunted by a centuries-old mystery. Now the Hollywood filmmaker and the troubled young woman have come together in a race against the unbelievab...

  • Tuff's Luck

    Jenny Dale

    In their most dangerous case yet, Neil and Emily cross paths with a poacher who has set up traps and a secret hideout deep in the woods. With the help of Tuff, a Jack Russell terrier, Neil almost catches the culprits . . . but he is caught first. It ...

  • A Trusting Heart

    Judith McCoy Miller
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Confronted with unforseen challenges, Claire Winslow is forced to make all her decisions based on what will affect her multi-handi-capped daughter. Though widowed, lonely, and working full-time, Clair has decided marriage would only further complicat...

  • The Trouble with Valentines

    Elaine Moore

  • A Trip to the Firehouse

    Wendy Cheyette Lewison
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Here's the perfect book for any child who has ever wanted to sit behind the wheel of a fire truck, try on a firefighter's helmet, or see what happens when a fire alarm sounds. Action photos bring the firehouse to life, capturing the daily routine of ...

  • Trials of Friendship

    Hazel Hucker

  • Tree House Trouble

    Beverly Lewis

    Abby Hunter and Stacy Henry are building a tree house--with a little help from Stacy's grandpa....

  • Toil, Tears and Sweat

    S. Jacoby

  • Toad's Journal

    Kana Riley

  • To Truly See

    Kristin Billerbeck
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Brenda Turner has achieved huge success as vice president of marketing for a large company in the Silicon Valley. She works hard every minute to maintain her position and doesn't have time for the neurological disease that is attacking her muscles an...

  • To Love a Cowboy

    Barbara Ankrum

    NOWHERE TO TURN Lost, alone, desperate, Carly Jamison had returned to the Colorado high country, and to the only man she had ever loved -- a man she had walked away from years before .... Rafe Kellard's secluded ranch was a place of healing...

  • The Time of Roses

    L.T. Meade

    It was on a summer''s evening early in the month of August that the little Mummy was once again seen on the platform at Dawlish.She looked now very much like she did when we saw her of yore-slightly broadened, it is true, by the added years, but she ...

  • Tight As a Tick

    Toni L.P. Kelner

    Laura Fleming and her husband Richard are back in Byerly, North Carolina and Laura thinks it's going to be a relaxed trip. But before they're even unpacked, Aunt Maggie is telling them about last weekend's murder of Carney Alexander, a dealer at Byer...

  • Tiger Claw Tree

    P.A. Krishnan

  • Tidewater Blood

    William Hoffman

    The secret was buried deep within the high mountains of West Virginia. It spiraled down to a devastating legacy of betrayal, revenge, and rage that was destined to destroy a dynasty. Charley LeBlanc is the black sheep, a disgrace to the family nam...

  • Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes

    Grace MacCarone

    A twist on the tale of the Three Little Pigs finds the Big Bad Wolf on the trail of the clever porkers, each of which possesses a set of magic shapes that, when put together, create a wolf-proof house. Original....

  • Three Nights at a Country Inn

    Monique Ellis
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    FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...

  • Thomas

    L. Stafford Betty

                The queen of the great Chola Empire has taken the tall, light-skinned saint from the mysterious West for her guru and, as if predestined by some primordial karma that must play itself out, she falls in love with him. 

  • This Time Forever

    Abby Gray

    LOVERS' REUNION Single mother Tracey Walker has returned to her Oklahoma hometown to accept a teaching job, but she's the one put to the test. For a handsome man catches her eye, challenges every emotion, and brings back a flood of bittersweet me...

  • They're the One!

    Mindy Neff

    THE TEST WAS POSITIVE! But Briana Duvaulle couldn't remember how - or by whom! -- she'd gotten pregnant. And to make matters worse, the most handsome, gallant man she'd ever met had launched an all-out, no-holds-barred, romantic pursuit of her - t...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Tennessee Waltz

    Elizabeth Leigh

    After the Battle of Shiloh, Lottie Jackson's 12-year-old brother is all the family she has left. Determined to save him from the dangers of the Civil War, she keeps him occupied helping her run her Smoky Mountain boarding house - and a secret moonshi...

  • 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...

  • Tender Remembrance

    Una McManus
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Nothing but death could ever separate Joel and Val Bennigan. They proclaimed those vows on their winter wedding day-nearly a year ago-and they'd meant every word. But who could have predicted a near fatal automobile accident on a snow-slickened hi...

  • Tend the Light

    Susannah Hayden
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    The Wells family has tended the lighthouse on a remote Lake Superior peninsula for fifty-four years. It is expected that nineteen-year-old Lacey will want to carry on the family tradition, but what of all her girlhood dreams of life in a big city tha...

  • 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...

  • The Temple of a Million Years

    Christian Jacq

  • Tall, Dark and Temporary

    Susan Connell

    AN UNLIKELY GROOM Widow Megan Sloan had already been a wife and was ready to be a seductress! So she decided to take rugged Nick Buchanan up on his offer of a brief, passionate affair.... Nick knew he had it bad for Megan from the moment he fir...

  • Tales of the Night

    Peter Hoeg

    These eight stories are linked by a date and a motif. All of them have to do with love. Love and its conditions on the night of March 19, 1929.In his second book and his only collection of stories, Peter Høeg proves himself to be a true storytelle...

  • Tales of the Age of Apocalypse: Sinister Bloodlines

    John Francis Moore

  • 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....

  • Sword and Sorceress XV

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    WOMEN OF MAGIC AND MIGHT... An apprentice sorceress must pass through the realm of the dead to gain the power to save the life of her mentor.... A young fugitive must unravel the mystery of a deadly curse or her companion won't live long enough...

  • Swept Away

    Yvonne Lehman

  • Sweet Surrender

    JoAnn A. Grote
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    When Alexander Bixby's assignment as a Pinkerton agent sends him to River's Edge, Minnesota in 1894 in search of counterfeiters, he doesn't expect beautiful Amanda Mason's inexperienced attempts to help solve the case. Nor does he expect to fall in l...

  • Suspicion

    Christiane Heggan

    A YOUNG LAW CLERK IS KILLED. A HIGH-PRICED CALL GIRL IS STRANGLED. TWO MEN ARE FRAMED FOR THEIR MURDERS. AND ONE WOMAN INTENDS TO PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE. Defense attorney Kate Logan has become embroiled in two important murder cases. One is the def...

  • Suspense

    Parnell Hall

    ``I don't deal in danger,'' Stanley Hastings aptly tells his latest client. But Maxine Winnington, who obviously hasn't seen Stanley's r‚sum‚, hires him anyway to identify the person who's been harassing her with anonymous threatening phone calls...

  • Super-fine Valentine

    Bill Cosby

    Great stories about great kids, just like you! Little Bill hates being teased. But now everyone is saying that he's in love! What can he do? Written by America's most beloved comedian and storyteller, Little Bill Books affirm the value of fri...

  • Summer Rose

    Carole Dean

    CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS Writer Rosie O'Hanlon has a way with words -- and when it comes to matters of the heart they're pure poetry. So what can go wrong by writing professional love letters for the lovelorn? Plenty, when a handsome stranger respon...

  • Summer Place

    Peggy Darty
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Has she fallen in love with a thief? Mary Kate Moore, WJAK Television's newest on-the-street reporter, captures the vulnerable side of Blake Taylor, one of the most prominent developers in Florida, as he leaves the courtroom after being acquitted ...

  • A Suitable Groom

    Liz Fielding

    The perfect couple Veronica Grant needed a man to take to her cousin's wedding in order to keep her matchmaking mother at bay. A man like Fergus Kavanagh. He was the perfect suitor -- rich, charming and sexy. If he'd accompany Veronica, he...

  • 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 Stranger Next Door

    Amelie Nothomb

    When E+a7mile Hazel moves with his wife, Juliette, to the French countryside, he finds himself beholden to a bizarre neighbor and trapped by his own weaknesses, in the American debut of one of France's rising literary stars....

  • Strange Bedfellows

    Shane Lacy Hensley

    Deadlands crosses over with White Wolf's "Werewolf Wild West" in this savage trio of Dime Novels, starting with Strange Bedfellows. What happens when Ronan Lynch and company are forced to team up with a team of werewolves with some serious attitude i...

  • Storms

    Rick Leslie

  • The Storm

    Kahlil Gibran

    "The Storm" gives definitive expression to many of Gibran's key themes: the injustice meted out to the poor and the weak; the beauties of nature needlessly destroyed by man; and the innocent purity of young love, so often crushed underfoot by society...

  • Stone Fox

    Karen Anelli

  • A Stolen Tongue

    Sheri Holman

    “Part rollicking historical potboiler, part theological mystery” from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger and The Mammoth Cheese (Entertainment Weekly).A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen...

  • Stolen

    Penelope Neri

    STEALING AWAY Rose Trelawney thought she'd been caught red-handed robbing the Duke of Cumberland's London estate. But she soon realized she'd been mistaken for the Duke's mistress, and the tall stranger who'd found her was out for revenge. Suddenl...

  • Stargazer

    Laura Baker

    Can the power of love defeat time? SENT THROUGH TIME TO SAVE HIS TRIBE... For Lonewolf, the old ways were the only ways -- until a mysterious force pulled the Navajo stargazer one hundred and thirty years into the future. His enemy Kit Carson is...

  • The Starfire Quilt

    Alice Allen
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Her mother is long dead. Her only sibling is missing. Her father, Doctor Elliott, is perpetually working at the hospital, trying to save the injured and dying Patriots of the American Revolution. Confusion, chaos, and destruction are all part of Mere...

  • 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...

  • Spit and Polish

    Carl Muller

  • Spirits Walking Woman

    Margaret Allan

    Worshipped by the ancient Olmec people of Mexico, Spirits Walking Woman, a prophetess, trades her destiny as the queen of an empire for a journey to enlightenment that exposes her to the machinations of her evil blood sister. Original....

  • Spider Legs

    Piers Anthony

    At a time when Earth's hungry inhabitants demand more than even the ocean's endless boundaries can provide, strange things are born in the oceanic depths--things that the sea throws back up onto the land in retaliation of decades of pollution and abu...

  • The Spellsong War

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    The Spellsong War, the second book in New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle about a singer and music instructor at Iowa State University who gets far more than she expected when she is magical...

  • Spelling Bee

    Ann M. Martin

    From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class! Hank Reubens likes math problems and puzzles and games. he is not afraid when Ms. Colm...

  • Spaces of a Life

    Ricardo Bofill

  • 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...

  • The Song Within

    Megan Davidson

    SHE SURRENDERED HER HEART As innocent as she is lovely, raven-haired Una lives a simple life in the heather-covered moorlands of her beloved Glenfinnan -- unprepared for the man who will cast her destiny to the winds of love. When she discovers the ...

  • Someone To Watch Over Me

    Ruth Owen

    A renegade who wanted revenge, he chose passion as his weapon... . Ex-cop Rafe Ramirez had learned the hard way not to trust television reporter Victoria Chandler, but when Tory's daughter begged him to investigate a shadowy threat against her mot...

  • Somebody Else

    Charles Nicholl

  • Soccer Scoop

    Matt Christopher

    Who’s making a fool of Mac? Mac Williams, goalie for the Cougars, is known as much for his upbeat game chatter as for his outstanding saves. But when an anonymous artist starts making fun of him with a weekly cartoon, Mac is anything but upbeat....

  • Snowbound

    Carolyn Keene

  • Snow Treasure

    Jennifer Litzel

  • Snow Inside the House

    Sean Diviny

    Snow, snow. Right out there! Snowy ground and frosty air. If it snowed inside here too, think of all that I could do.

    Haven't you ever wondered what would happen if it snowed inside instead of out?

    Snowmen in the living room, one in every chair.....

  • Sneaking Out

    Francine Pascal

    On the run... All the kids at Sweet Valley Middle School are talking about the big Johnny Buck concert. For the second year in a row, the twins' parents say they are too young to go. Elizabeth is disappointed, but will do what her parents say. But n...

  • The Small One

    Katherine Brown

  • Slocum and the Real McCoy

    Jake Logan

    OUT FOR GOLD Curly Bill Brocius is fed up. Been accused of murder. Spent a day in jail. And he hasn't had a robbing that's panned out in weeks. So when Slocum heads to Tucson to deliver some gold, you can bet Curly Bill's right there, cocked and read...

  • Sleeping with Random Beasts

    Karin Goodwin

    Bargain Books are non-returnable.

    In this hilarious and touching gem of a first novel (discovered in a towering heap of unsolicited manuscripts -- yes, it happens!), Bean, otherwise known as twenty-nine-year-old Eleanor May Shank, is leaving Bosto...

  • Skull Session

    Daniel Hecht

    Paul Skoglund wasn't prepared for the horrifying condition of his aunt's estate. The rambling old house on the Hudson River had been vandalized so savagely, so violently, that it could only be the work of a dangerous, unstable mind. Paul himself was ...

  • 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....

  • Simply Irresistible

    Rachel Gibson

    Truly Unforgettable Georgeanne Howard, charm school graduate and Southern belle extraordinaire, leaves her fiance at the altar when she realizes she just can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. John Kowalsky u...

  • Simply Irresistible

    Geri Guillaume

    Caught redhanded stealing her car back from her ex-boyfriend, Dara Lange reluctantly agrees to four weekends of volunteer work with executive Nick Bordeaux, only to find herself falling in love with him. Original....

  • Silent Scream

    Dan Schmidt

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Ship of Magic

    Robin Hobb

    Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awaken...

  • The Sheriff with the Wyoming-Size Heart

    Kathy Jacobson

    IN LOVE WITH THE SHERIFF From the moment little Ariel popped her head over the fence in search of her lost kitten, Margo Haynes was a goner. She'd come to Laramie, Wyoming, to start a new life...alone, but now some red-haired moppet and her im...

  • The Sheikh's Seduction

    Emma Darcy

    Who was seducing whom? With her family's future happiness in Tareq al-Khaima's all-controlling hands, Sarah Hillyard was persuaded to become the sheikh's traveling companion for a year. She remembered his gentleness toward her as a you...

  • 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. ...

  • She's the One!

    Elda Minger

    Love at first sight! PI Sam Cooper knew gorgeous Amanda Hailey was the woman for him. But first he had to save her from a fate worse than death--marriage to Hollywood mover and shaker Marvin Burgess. Marvin didn't love her--he just wanted a trophy...

  • Shadow Wars

    Clyde Farnsworth

    When Russian physicist Dmitri Sherbatov defects to Israel with the means to create synthetic gold, it is not the Israeli government that will profit from his secret, but rather a group of Mossad officers and the CIA. A first novel. 15,000 first print...

  • Shadow of the Wolf

    Connie Flynn

    BENEATH A SHADOWY MOON . . . No one in New York City knows Lily's frightening secret --- or that she had been swept into a life of terror by a power too strong to resist. Miraculously, she escaped that world, and now has the chance to find a happy, ...

  • Shades of Gray

    Amanda Ashley

    Alexi Bound by chains of silver, the vampire had slept for a hundred years, locked in a world of pain and hunger, until the seductive scent of one woman's blood recalled him to ravenous life. Marisa Unnerved by the sight of the carnival's ca...

  • Sesame Street Take-along Box

    Sesame Street

  • 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 Seduction Project

    Miranda Lee

    The wanting... When Molly transformed herself into a striking redhead, the entire male population of Sydney stood up and took notice! But her new look was for Liam Delaney's benefit alone; she loved him and she wished he felt the same about h...

  • 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...

  • The Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier

    Ann M. Martin

    During a Christmas shopping spree, Mary Anne racks up a large debt on her father's credit card. Baby-sitting won't cover the charges so she takes a secret job as a department store elf to pay her father back....

  • Second-Best Bride

    Ruth Glover

    Meg couldn't compete with her sister. She'd quit trying a long time ago. So she was only vaguely disappointed when handsome homesteader Royce Ferguson transferred his affections to her beautiful and flirtatious sister. When Rocye left town for the Wi...

  • 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...

  • Sea Strike // Stormdragon

    James H. Cobb

    Brimming with heat-of-battle action and state-of-the-art technology, Sea Strike plunges Commander Amanda Garrett, first introduced in Choosers of the Slain, and her stealth destroyer, USS Cunningham, into action. After suffering internal revolt, Comm...

  • The Scent of a Woman

    Peggy Nicholson

    SOMETHING WONDERFUL THIS WAY COMES Beautiful perfumer Demi Cousteau is at her wit's end. Her company is in jeopardy, her love life in tatters. Then comes a mystery man with a cool half million to invest. But what is he really buying? Inqui...

  • Scandal's Captive

    Mandalyn Kaye

    Marcus Brandtwood is renowned for the generous trinkets he gives his mistresses--right before he casts them off. But Lady Thacea Worthington is different! Her respectability is as genuine as her gentle smile, enchanting eyes and blue-black hair. So w...

  • 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...

  • Sam and Delilah

    Jenny Dale

  • Ryan's Rescue

    Karen Leabo

    WHO CAN YOU TRUST? Christine Greenlow wasn't sure she knew anymore. In just a few days, she'd been abducted from her spoiled-little-rich-girl existence and then rescued--maybe--by a man who might be every bit as dangerous as her kidnappers .... ...

  • Rose's Garden

    Carrie Brown

    Conrad and Rose met as children, fell in love as teenagers, and married young. Conrad earned a living as a gilder, raised homing pigeons, and worshipped Rose. Rose gardened. They lived together for more than fifty years, and then Rose died. At sevent...

  • A Rose in Winter

    Shana Abe

    At sixteen, Lady Solange had pledged her love to Damon Wolf, had dreamed they would be together forever. But when her ruthless father threatened Damon's life unless she agreed to marry another, Solange did the only thing she could: she scorned he...

  • A Rose in Scotland

    Joan Overfield

    A DELICATE FLOWER Lady Caroline Burroughs is desperate. Her unscrupulous guardian is squandering away her inheritance, and now wants to gain complete control over her dwindling wealth by forcing her to wed his aged crony. But Caroline has found a s...

  • The Rock Child

    Win Blevins

    Asie Taylor is a half-blood Indian raised by Mormons, a gifted musician and a sharp-tongued philosopher; Sun Moon is a Tibetan nun who has been kidnapped and sold into prostitution in California. Each is on the run--Asie toward his heritage and the s...

  • Robert Bloch's Psychos

    Robert Bloch

    Twenty-two short horror tales collected by the Horror Writers Association include Stephen King's "Autopsy Room Four"; Richard Christian Matheson's "Please Help Me"; and Charles Grant's "Haunted." Original....

  • 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 ...

  • Right Husband! Wrong Bride?

    Lori Herter

    ARE YOU GETTING NOWHERE WITH MR. RIGHT? The new self-help book HOW TO MARRY YOUR DREAMBOAT can fix that. It teaches you -- yes, you! -- how to win the man of your dreams. How? By turning yourself into the woman of his dreams... It certainly w...

  • Right by My Side

    David Haynes

    Move over, Holden Caulfield, and meet Marshall Field Finney, in the 30th anniversary edition of Right by My Side, by a celebrated chronicler of Black middle class life in the American Midwest A Penguin ClassicWith wit and realism, David Haynes p...

  • Richard Scarry's Iciest Day Ever

    Richard Scarry

  • Rich Blessings

    Racine Leonard Davis
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Vashti Shelton shuns involvement with her handsome client for fear of jeopardizing her legal career. Cameron Grande's search for happiness after the tragic loss of both parents ends a moment after entering Vashti's law office. Whie Vashti protects...

  • The Revenge of the Substitute Teacher

    Jan Lawrence

    You’ll never forget this substitute! All summer long, Jeff and Matt have waited to hear who their fifth-grade teacher will be. Then the letter arrives: Mr. Manlin, Room 512. Oh, no! Not Mr. Manlin! Anyone but Mr. Manlin! Everyone knows that he's...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Reluctant Valentine

    Loree Lough
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    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....

  • Rehoboth

    DiAnn Mills
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Katie Colter never expected her father to die; neither did she expect to abandon her home among the Comanches to live with her uncle and aunt at Fort Davis. Leaving behind Lone Eagle, the warrior whom she was to marry, Katie sets out to begin her lif...

  • Red Starrise

    Richard Baker

    Red Starrise is an ALTERNITY adventure that serves as a prelude to the STAR*DRIVE campaign setting. This spine-tingling, far-future space opera is designed for level 1 heroes and is a great introduction to the ALTERNITY game....

  • Red Petals

    Debra Hamilton

    Jack Darlington was too handsome, too self-assured, too splendid by half for a plain, twenty-six-year-old diplomat's daughter from Edinburgh. Rosaline's one chance at love had been cruelly stolen, and now she had little choice but to be marri...

  • Red Blizzard

    Will Henry

  • Red Alert

    Jenny Dale

    Red was the Parkers' first ever kennel guest -- and now he's back. The beautiful, friendly red setter is an instant hit with Neil and Emily. Before long, he's like one of the family. But disaster strikes when fire blazes through the kennels! Can any...

  • Reaper

    Ben Mezrich

    You cannot escape. No place is safe. Not even your home. Turn on your television...boot up your computer...and meet Reaper, a brilliantly lethal man-made virus that travels the electronic highway, infecting its victims with the flick of a switch. W...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Rancher and the Runaway Bride

    Susan Mallery

    A bride is on the run... A cowboy puts his life on the line... Danger is a heartbeat away... Randi Howell led an interesting life, to say the least. Moments from becoming a reluctant bride, she'd been chased from the church by a gun-toting stran...

  • Rain Forest Secrets

    Kathleen Knepp

    1998 Skills through Literature, Reproducible Activities Grade 3 -- Arthur Dorros Rain Forest Secrets (P) ***Contents: *On-Level Skills *Enrichment Skills *Review Skills ***ISBN-13: 9780439044554 ***17 Pages...

  • Rain Forest Adventure

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • 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 ...

  • Race the Wind

    Marie Bourdon

    DREAMBOAT Lila Cooke has the talent--and the nerve--to race a million-dollar boat in America's Cup. Much to the dismay of the Amazing Grace's irresistibly handsome--and skeptical-- designer who's already starting to make waves. For Lila, winning t...

  • Race of Love

    Melanie Panagiotopoulos
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    A series of accidents and illnesses has kept Niki Alexander, a world champion runner, from competing in the Olympic Games for three consecutive times. She is bitter that God could have allowed a drunk driver to steal her last Olympic dream. Her hope ...

  • Rabbit's Wish for Snow

    Carolyn Ewing

    Having wished that the snow would pile up so high that he could easily reach the shoots of a tree, Rabbit happily gets his wish, but his long bushy tail becomes caught in the tree and is reduced to a puff. Original....

  • The Puzzled Heart

    Amanda Cross

    Kate Fansler's husband, Reed, has been kidnapped--and will be killed unless Kate obeys the carefully delineated directives of a ransom note. Tormented by her own puzzled heart, Kate seeks solace and wise counsel from friends both old and new. But who...

  • Pushing the Bear

    Diane Glancy

    In a novel that “retains the complexity, immediacy, and indirection of a poem,” Glancy brings to life the Cherokees’ 900-mile forced removal to Oklahoma in 1838 and gives us “a powerful witness to one of the most shameful episodes in american...

  • The Purveyor of Enchantment

    Marika Cobbold

    Clementine Hope, a newly divorced, thirtysomething woman teaching music and working on a collection of fairy tales left to her by her great aunt, learns, in a moment of crisis, how to overcome the fear that paralyzes her life. BAKER & TAYLOR...

  • A Proper Match

    Dorothea Donley

    BOUND BY DUTY With her parents long-dead, Lady Charlotte had devoted herself to raising her only sibling Sydney, the Duke of Audley. But when the callow youth developed a tendre for the most unsuitable young woman, Charlotte turned to Sir Roland Mar...

  • Promise Me Forever

    Andrea Boeshaar
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Julia McGowan once had visions of a happy home filled with children and love, until Mark Henley left her at the altar, brokenhearted and carrying his child. Ashamed, Julia left her small hometown to live with distant relatives-a Christian couple w...

  • A Promise Given

    Samantha James

    A PROMISE GIVEN The proud head of his Highland clan, Ian MacGregor has returned, cloaked in secrets, to the place where he spent many carefree years, in order to marry Margaret Kincaid -- the lowlands lass to whom he has been betrothed since his you...

  • The Prodigy

    Noel Hynd

    Just as his international tour is about to commence, brilliant pianist Rolf Geiger is violently tormented by an unimaginable evil force, his dead mentor, the renowned maestro Rabinowitz, who demands that Rolf murder his beloved as payment for his ext...

  • Priscilla's Promise

    L.T. Meade

    Priscilla Peel forges a friendship with Maggie at St. Benet's College for Women, but it is threatened by false accusation. Never a seeker of popularity, Priscilla holds true to her noble character. But is she prepared for what it will cost her?....

  • 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 ...

  • Prince of Dogs

    Kate Elliott

    HELD CAPTIVE BY THEIR DESTINIES SANGLANT--the Prince of Dogs, King Henry's bastard son; though believed dead by all who could succor him, he is being held captive in the city of Gent by Bloodheart, the Eika warlord. Cursed by his mother's blood wi...

  • The Prince and the Bogus Bride

    Jennifer Drew

    A Royal Wedding? Reporter Leigh Donovan couldn't believe her luck! The Handsome prince she'd been searching for had just run her car off the road, and now he was proposing the deal of a lifetime: one juicy interview in exchange for her hand i...

  • The Price of Failure

    Jeffrey Ashford

    Lord and Lady Awkwright, awakened in the night, lie bound and gagged in the dark while kidnappers carry their daughter away, holding her for ransom. It seems a typical kidnapping, yet in fact it is the kidnappers' intention that they should be seen t...

  • Pope Joan

    Peter Stanford

  • The Policy

    Patrick Lynch

    ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Alex Tynan is a life insurance actuary. Numbers are her job - statistics, probability. So when the numbers stop adding up and a high-level executive dies, she begins to think the two are connected. As the company where she w...

  • Polar Bears Past Bedtime

    Mary Pope Osborne

    It's icicle city... when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie to the frozen Arctic. Luckily, a seal hunter on a dogsled lends them warm clothes. Unluckily, they get stuck on cracking ice. Will the giant polar bear save them? Or will Jack and A...

  • Point In Time

    Linda O. Johnston

    As a successful Hollywood executive, Mariah is on the lookout for the perfect screenplay, and while scouting locations in Pittsburgh, she thinks she has it. With an old-fashioned setting and Thorn, a hero to die for, she knows it will make a great mo...

  • Pleasures and Regrets

    Marcel Proust

  • Pleasure Wars

    Peter Gay

    The fifth in the series of the author's accounts on the lives of the bourgeoisie, this final volume uncovers the hidden side of the nineteenth-century Victorians, portraying them as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the pas...

  • Please Forgive Me

    Francine Pascal

    Will Elizabeth surrender to love? Elizabeth Wakefield's heart is being ripped to shreds. The rivalry between her longtime boyfriend, Todd Wilkins, and the mysterious Devon Whitelaw has erupted into violence. Forget choosing between them. A disguste...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Phoenix Cafe

    Gwyneth Jones

    After two hundred years colonising earth, the Aleutians prepare to return to space, leaving behind humanity and an earth that have been shaped by their presence, their care, and their cruelty.In the dying days of Aleutian rule, Catherine has altered ...

  • The Perfect Wife

    Gina Fields
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Pastor John Miller needs a wife...someone to complement him in his ministry, share his lonely evenings, and fill a void in his mundane life. And soon after free-spirited hairdresser Sandi Peterson moves in his small Smokey Mountain town, he thinks he...