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New Books List: 704 titles

  • Gem Squash Tokoloshe

    Rachel Zadok

    She just sat there hardly moving, staring at the drive. Black marks formed under her eyes where her lashes bled their waxy coating onto her skin. Her rouged cheeks were smudged. Mother looked like she was melting in the heat. Faith leads an isolated ...

  • Silent Heart

    Barbara Youree

    In sixteenth-century Europe, Francoise Chaplain is mourning the loss of her fiance and close family members. She, her mother, and one surviving brother find refuge on a farm, but they must escape war and sickness, and seek safety at a villa in Milan....

  • The Wedding Date

    Elizabeth Young

    One wedding. No funeral. One unqualified catastrophe. "Dominic" was the little white lie thirty-and-still-unwed Sophy Metcalfe told to soothe her nagging mother. But now her perfect sister Belinda is tying the knot, and Sophy's going to have to p...

  • Bodyguard Rescue

    Donna Young

    Nuclear physicist Kate MacAlister had made a valuable scientific breakthrough and someone wanted her formula badly enough to kill for it.... But staging her disappearance only brought her face-to-face with Roman D'Amato -- the enigmatic man who'd bro...

  • Except the Queen

    Jane Yolen; Midori Snyder
    in

    Sisters Serena and Meteora were once proud members of the high court of the Fairy Queen- until they angered her highness. Separated and banished to the mortal realm of Earth, they must find a way to survive in a strange world in which they have no po...

  • Tiger's Blood

    Laurence Yep

    Ever since Tom became the apprentice to Mr. Hu, the Guardian of the phoenix egg, his life has been a whirlwind. Now Mr. Hu is weak after saving Tom's life in battle, and the two must flee with their motley crew of friends to the dragon kingdom, fa...

  • Couch World

    Cathy Yardley

    P.J.'s life is simple. Wake up at 2:00 p.m. In someone else's place, on someone else's couch. Shower. Clothes. Club. P.J.'s a punter -- someone who fills in if a DJ isn't able to make a gig. San Francisco is a hotbed of glam bands and alternative roc...

  • The Schopenhauer Cure

    Irvin D. Yalom

    From the internationally bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept, comes a novel of group therapy with a cast of memorably wounded characters struggling to heal pain and change livesSuddenly confronted with his ...

  • Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market

    Elisabeth Wynhausen

  • Freyberg's War: The Man, the Legend, and Reality

    Matthew Wright

  • Aloha Love

    Alice Wootson

    When helicopter pilot Jeanine Stewart popped in on her mechanic to have her chopper checked out, she had no idea she'd meet the man who'd win her heart: her mechanic's brother, Chris Harris. An architect with a serious fear of flying, Chris is more i...

  • Three Down the Aisle

    Sherryl Woods

    Love's in Bloom... When Melanie D'Angelo arrived at Rose Cottage, she was only looking to mend her shattered heart and restore the beautiful house her grandmother once called home. The last thing she wanted was to become involved with her landscap...

  • One For Sorrow, Two For Joy

    Clive Woodall

    “An epic tale in the tradition of Watership Down and Lord of the Rings.†-- Alan Yentob, BBC Director of Drama and EntertainmentDarkness has fallen over the realm of Birddom. The skies rain blood, no nest is safe, and the winds are...

  • The Language of Sycamores

    Lisa Wingate

    Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of life-- immersing herself in a high-pressure job, ignoring the emotional distance it her marriage, avoiding memories of a sudden miscarriage and a bout with cancer that stole her chance of ev...

  • The Vanished Hands

    Robert Wilson

    It's the summer of 2002, more than a year after the shattering events recounted in Blind Man, and Falcón, the chief homicide cop in Seville, Spain, has finally regained his confidence and powers of concentration. Still, he cannot fathom why Rafael Ve...

  • Bob's Spring Parade

    Sarah Willson

    It's time for the Spring Parade! But first Bob and his team must remove a fallen tree from the parade route -- and fix a big bunny problem! Young readers will enjoy decorating the scenes with the enclosed holographic stickers....

  • Geodesica: Ascent

    Sean Williams; Shane Dix

    The year is 2388. Humanity has spread to the stars, but the far-flung Arc Systems chafe under the tight control of the Exarchs, post-human AIs whose domination of Faster-Than Light technology gives them unsurpassed power. Then the discovery of a vast...

  • The Billionaire Boss's Bride

    Cathy Williams

    At the boss's pleasure... Billionaire Curtis Diaz is determined to uncover why his new executive assistant, prim and proper Tessa Wilson, fuels his desire like no other woman. Is there life beneath her sensible, shapeless business suits? On...

  • Entangled

    Eileen Wilks

    After one sultry summer together, Dixie McCord's affair with Cole Ashton had grown chilly. Unable to stay with a man who put business before love, Dixie had left Napa, never expecting that one day she would return to Louret Vineyards -- and once agai...

  • Prickle Says I'm Sorry

    Lisa Wilkinson

    Explore the world of Happy Day® Books -- filled with fun-to-read stories that teach Christian values. Level 2 books are specifically designed for beginning readers and use harder words, longer sentences, simple stories, and dialogue.

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  • Always Look Twice

    Sheri Whitefeather

    SHE CAN READ MINDS, BUT CAN SHE SEPARATE TRUTH FROM LIES? Beneath the bright lights of Hollywood, women are being brutally murdered. The Slasher has come to L.A., and psychic Olivia Whirlwind is on the case. Brought in to help because of her abili...

  • Ice Princess

    Suzanne Weyn

  • The Night Dance

    Suzanne Weyn

    Under the stars, in a secret world... Rowena, the youngest of twelve sisters, loves to slip out of the castle at night and dance in a magical forest. Soon she convinces her sisters to join her. When Sir Ethan notices that his daughters' slippers loo...

  • South Beach Sizzle

    Suzanne Weyn

    Is Enrique trying to win her over -- or just trying to win? Road trip! Lula Cruz has her last summer before college all mapped out. She's checking out of NYC and checking in to the sizzling hot "SoBe" scene with her best friend, Jeff. When the...

  • The Moneypenny Diaries

    Kate Westbrook

    My heart breaks for James---so begin the explosive, true, private diaries of Miss Jane Moneypenny, personal secretary to Secret Service chief M and colleague and confidante of James Bond. Bound by the Offcial Secrets Act not to reveal anything about ...

  • Normal Pokedex

    Tracey West

  • Racing Stripes

    Tracey West

    A feel-good family movie in the tradition of BABE. Part live-action, part CGI, it's the story of a baby zebra who dreams of becoming a racehorse. Starring the voices of Frankie Muniz and Mandy Moore.

    When a baby zebra is abandoned by his trave...

  • Devil's Kin

    Charles G. West

    Jordan Gray rode with a posse of townfolk to track a gang of killers. While out looking for the killers, they doubled back and struck his homestead, slaughtering his entire family. Unwilling to wait for the town to form another posse, Jordan goes aft...

  • Honey

    Arnold Wesker

  • Here Come The Holidays!

    David Wenzel
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • The Cowboy Way

    Christine Wenger

    A RODEO ROMANCE! Young widow Beth Conroy had long ago vowed never to lose her heart again. She spent all her time caring for her son, who had been in a wheelchair since the accident that killed his father. Then Kevin won a trip to the ranch of his b...

  • Bolo!

    David Weber

    CYBERNETIC COMRADES IN ARMS BOLOS. For a millennium and a half, they have been humanity's warriors. They have fought Man's battles, died in Man's wars, battled to save Man's children, even from his own kind. They have guarded Man's worlds . . ...

  • The Preacher's Son

    Carl Weber

    NOW A NETFLIX MOVIE Bishop T.K. Wilson, the popular pastor of the largest African-American church in Queens, New York, has decided to run for borough president. But his family values platform is on shaky ground, because the Wilson kids are givin...

  • Dying To Play

    Debra Webb

    A baffling series of multiple homicides leaves Atlanta's Deputy Chief of Detectives Elaine Jentzen no choice but to call in FBI agent Trace Callahan. Elaine is aware of Trace's reputation for being as ruthless as the killers he tracks -- but she isn'...

  • Rooster

    Elizabeth Nixon Weaver

    Set against the backdrop of the '60s, a dramatic novel follows Kady, who no longer wants to be associated with Rooster, a brain-damaged boy from Cuba, and her struggling family, especially since she starting hanging out with her new boyfriend and his...

  • Seppuku

    Peter Watts

    Lenie Clarke--amphibious cyborg, Meltdown Madonna, agent of the Apocalypse--has grown sick to death of her own cowardice.For five years (since the events recounted in Maelstrom), she and her bionic brethren (modified to work in the rift valleys of th...

  • Hometown Girl

    Margaret Watson

    To escape from her hometown, Claire Kendall has to leave her past -- and her sister -- behind... Now her sister's sudden death has Claire going home to confront her past and her orphaned nephew -- who blames her for saving herself and not his mot...

  • Forgotten Son

    Linda Warren

    Caroline Whitten has never met a man like Eli Coltrane. From the first moment he touched her, Caroline knew there was something special about him. But is she being honest with herself? Have her feelings for Eli grown out of love, or out of gratitude ...

  • Seek the Living

    Ashley Warlick

    Since her mother’s death, Joan Patee has kept the peace between her wayward brother, Denny, and her strong-willed father. Now confronted with her own troubles—a marriage strained by distance and the desire to have a child—Joan disco...

  • A Matter of Time

    Linda Walters

    In this sequel to On a Wing and a Prayer, radio executive Michael Townsend finds himself engaged in a battle of wills with his new wife, flight attendant Lauren Traynor. Michael reluctantly consents to a special arrangement in order to get Lauren to ...

  • Cousin Cedric Goes Bananas

    Karen Wallace

    Cousin Cedric, the Egyptologist, invites the Primly-Proper children, Jack and Daisy, to Egypt so that they can help him return the Golden Bananas to the temple of the Weather Monkey before the climate goes totally awry...

  • Life's for Living

    Elizabeth Waite

    When good-for-nothing Bill dies in a fire of his own drunken making, it is a bit of relief for wife Joan. Behind on the rent, scraping a few pennies together for food, at least now she is free from his physical abuse. With the support of sister Marth...

  • Like Death

    Tim Waggoner

    Scott Raymond is a man haunted by his past and terrorized in the present. As a young boy, he witnessed the brutal murder of his family, but there is so much of the gruesome tragedy that he simply cannot remember--including the identity of the killer ...

  • Code Name: Fiancee

    Susan Vaughan

    SHE FELT AS FALSE AS THE RING ON HER FINGER When legendary antiterrorist agent Vanessa Wade was assigned to impersonate the glamorous fiancee of international businessman Nick Markos, she reluctantly found herself on one last undercover mission. B...

  • An Embarassment of Mangoes

    Ann Vanderhoof

    Who hasn't fantasized about leaving their job, saying goodbye to the rat race and escaping to some exotic destination in search of sun, sand, and a different way of life? Ann Vanderhoof and her husband did just that. In the mid 1990s, the author and ...

  • Now You See It . . .

    Vivian Vande Velde

    Now you see it ... now you don't. Wendy isn't as blind as a bat -- there are bats who can see better than she can. That's why, when her new glasses break, she's all too happy to wear the dorky sunglasses she found on her lawn. Oddly enough, they ma...

  • Diamond Matters

    Kadir Van Lohuizen

    Very luxurious edition: small size (11 x 12 cm), 216 pp, with twelve dropdown pages. With over 100 photographs in duotone and Tritone. Everything printed on five different paper types, bound in suede cover plate, which containes a real diamond....

  • Meet the Gecko

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    Even superheroes have problems. That's what Nolan discovers when he gets to meet Chase Morton, the boy who plays his favorite television superhero,The Gecko, on The Gecko and Sticky. Chase is being hounded by a sleazy tabloid reporter known as the M...

  • Blue Valentine

    Alison Tyler

    If a picture is worth 1,000 words, they why does photographer Alexandra Valentine go speechless whenever she snaps a photo? Especially when she's taking pictures of her sexy dates. Newly single, and busy living the sex-and-the-city lifestyle in L.A.,...

  • New Zealand Beers: A Tasting Guide

    Kerry Tyack

  • Counting Up, Counting Down

    Harry Turtledove

    Bestselling author and master of the short story, Harry Turtledove offers a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios that illustrate his literary skill and unbridled imagination. Inside you'll discover FORTY, COUNTING DOWN: ...

  • A Cold Treachery

    Charles Todd

    "You'll hang for this -- see if you don't! That's my revenge! And you'll think about that when the rope goes around your neck and the black hood comes down...." Called out by Scotland Yard into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutle...

  • Divided Kingdom

    Rupert Thomson

    One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their country’s inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violenc...

  • Share A Story My Friend My Morris

    Pat Thomson

  • The Chosen

    Celia Thomson

    CHLOE KING MAY BE THE ONE.Despite a rocky few weeks, Chloe King is starting to get it. She's figured out who she is (a girl with catlike superpowers), where she belongs (at home with Mom), and what she wants to do (chill with her friends).Yes, she's ...

  • Surviving Sarah

    Vicki Lewis Thompson
    in

    Financial planner Luke Richards has entered a battle-of-the-brawn reality TV show for one reason. He wants the "prize" -- Sarah Donovan, former teen star and Luke's high-school fantasy. Only fantasy has nothing to do with Reality TV......

  • Sex, Lies and Fairytales

    Kate Thompson

  • Daddy By Choice

    Marin Thomas

    Unconditional Love, Yes -- But Not Surrender Ex-rodeo rider JD Gonzalez may be a poor Texas rancher, but he's not dumb. He knows that money can't buy love. So when Josephine Delaney arrives in Brandt's Corner and announces that her motherless nephew...

  • The Velvet Rope

    Brenda L. Thomas

    Life is a party. When Tiffany Johnson, a street-smart publicist at Platinum Images, decides to launch Teaz Entertainment and open a club, she's setting out to be the queen of Philly nightlife. Keeping it in the family, she partners up with her fi...

  • Intimate Surrender // Snowbound in Sweetwater Ranch

    Raeanne Thayne

    After an unbelievable makeover gave her the confidence to strut her stuff at a charity ball, Kate Crosby went from harmless flirt to bedroom vixen. But she wasn't about to let a single night of oh-so-sultry passion with archenemy Peter Logan become a...

  • When All Else Falls Away

    Marianne Thamm

  • Beneath a Panamanian Moon

    David Terrenoire

    WANTED: Private firm seeks former military personnel for overseas assignment. Must be proficient in firearms and explosives. Experience in special operations a plus. Successful candidate must also play piano. $1.5K/day. Compensation package includes ...

  • City at War

    Michael Teitelbaum

    For years the Ninja Turtles hoped to rid the world of Shredder's terror. Now with Shredder out of the picture, everything should be just fine — but it's not. The chaotic remains of Shredder's Foot Ninjas, the Purple Dragons, and the New York mob...

  • Blood Lust

    Vickie Taylor
    in

    FEEL THE TOUCH OF DARKNESS... Follow a vampire hunter who can be as deadly as her prey. Meet a down-home southern girl who's found out, much to her chagrin, that vampires are her type. Feel the euphoria of fear in the shadow of a reluctant Queen o...

  • Queen of the Amazons

    Judith Tarr

    Judith Tarr returns to the always fascinating character of Alexander the Great in this fantasy novel that springs from the legend that the Queen of the Amazons came to meet him in Persia, and became his friend.

    Hippolyta was Penthesilea, or ...

  • Second Sight

    William G. Tapply; Philip R. Craig
    in

    Philip R. Craig and William G. Tapply -- veteran mystery novelists and longtime fishing buddies -- are back with a second joint novel starring their respective series heroes, J. W. Jackson and Brady Coyne. And something big -- something very big ...

  • A Ring and a Rainbow

    Deanna Talcott

    He'd been the love of Claire Dent's life. But when her childhood sweetheart left for the big city, her dreams of happily ever after vanished like a rainbow after a storm. She'd built a good life in her hometown and she refused to be affected by the r...

  • Engaged to the Sheik

    Sue Swift

    Dearest Godmother, I'm almost to my matchmaking goal. If I can get this couple to the altar... Of course, I should have known better than to match an expert heartbreaker like Selina Carrington with a sheik of legendary charm. The sassy exec's ...

  • A Wedding To Die For

    Leann Sweeney

    With big dreams, a big heart, and a really big bank account, spunky Texas heiress Abby Rose thinks she's finally found her true calling as an adoption PI in Houston. But when marriage meets murder at the altar, her next case proves to be anything but...

  • The Year of Our War

    Steph Swainston

    Unique among his fellow immortals and mortal folk alike, Jant Comet can fly. His talent is a gift and a curse that has earned him a place in the Castle Circle as Messenger to the Emperor San--soaring high and free above the bloody battlefields of his...

  • The Majority Rules

    Eugene Sullivan

    Tim Quinn, a Washington DC lawyer on the move, was flattered to be recommended by his friend Harry Winston to a vacancy on the bench caused by the unsavory death of one of the judges. He was also surprised to see how easy his nomination and confirmat...

  • My Granny's Great Escape

    Jeremy Strong

    ‘Do you think I should ask him out, Nicholas, or is that a bit forward?’ ‘GRANNY!’ We all stared at her. Dad had to sit down. Nicholas’s granny has fallen in love â€" with the elderly Hell’s Angel next door! Yurrrgghhh. Nicholas’s dad i...

  • Bubbles Betrothed

    Sarah Strohmeyer

    Debuting as a full-time reporter, Bubbles lands an interview with a woman accused of murdering a beloved high school principal. After the suspect keels over dead--in midrevelation--Bubbles's confidential notes become a life-threatening hot commodity ...

  • Operation Code Red

    Spencer Strange

  • The Long Way Home

    Sarah Storme

    Sam Calvert is the only veterinarian within a hundred miles of Rocky Butte, Colorado. He doesn't have time to get involved with anyone, but when a stranger appears at the local restaurant, he can't let her walk out into the night alone. She isn't dre...

  • Once Upon a Bride

    Jean Stone

    Can love, romance, and marriage really be better the second time around? That's what four best friends are about to find out in Jean Stone's sexy, smart, and poignantly funny new novel about saying "I do" all over again. It's an idea just crazy enou...

  • Darkest Dawn

    R.L. Stine

    The teens at Shadyside High are not intimidated by the old Fear Street lore, so when a hot new club is built on the Fear mansion site, no one thinks anything of it, until they learn that the evil of Fear Street has returned in a different shape....

  • Midnight Games

    R.L. Stine

    Dana Fear isn’t thrilled about spending her senior year at Shadyside High. The Fear family history goes way back in this town, and she’s not so into lugging around the baggage.But then she gets in with the Night People. Shadyside’s pretty cool ...

  • The Mona Mousa Code

    Geronimo Stilton

    Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing adventure stories. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are funny, fa-mouse-ly funny. They are whisker-lick...

  • Beauty Sleepover Bash!

    Monique Z. Stephens

    Nazalia(tm) has a birthday coming up, and she''s throwing a beauty sleepover bash to celebrate! But when none of her friends can make it, Nazalia is totally bummed. When the Lil'' Bratz(tm) girls see how sad their friend is, they know something must ...

  • Just Between Friends

    Sandra Steffen

    She can't start a new life without her old friends... On the surface, thirty-six-year-old Brooke Valentine has a picture-perfect life: a gorgeous, Main Line husband, a precocious pre-teen daughter, a great career in advertising, and a stunning house...

  • Tales For The Midnight Hour V1

    Judith Bauer Stamper

    These seventeen stories are guaranteed to keep you awake and shivering with fear. We dare you to read them alone, late at night. The moon is full. The clock strikes twelve. Don't be afraid. But what's that sound? Footsteps in the hall? It's just the ...

  • Tales For The Midnight Hour V2

    Judith Bauer Stamper

  • Killer Curves

    Roxanne St. Claire

    He's fast. She's furious. They're in for the ride of their lives. Rising star Roxanne St. Claire puts the pedal to the metal in a story of intrigue and passion that will get your heart racing! When sexy NASCAR racer Beau Lansing tracks down h...

  • Blind Curve

    Annie Solomon

    FROM DARKNESS Bullets are whizzing around him, but he can't shoot back. In the middle of a weapons bust, undercover cop Danny Sinofsky suddenly goes blind. Now this man who has always looked out for himself can't cross a room without the help of his...

  • Dragon Sword

    Ree Soesbee
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Released from Maddoc's spell, Asvoria sets out to reclaim her most treacherous weapon: a magical sword. Davyn and his friends have one hope left. If they can locate the sword first, they may have a chance to stop Asvoria and free Nearra. Only one ...

  • Opal

    Lauraine Snelling

    Book 3 in the bestselling Dakotah Treasures series. Dove House has burned to the ground, Ruby and Rand have married, and now Rand's ranch is home for them all. Ruby's younger sister, Opal, is taking to ranch life like a hummingbird to sugar water. Sh...

  • On Beauty

    Zadie Smith

    Just outside of Boston, in the small college town of Wellington, lives a family that is anything but typical. Liberated by education, complicated by race, and hobbled by self-delusion, they are about to stray onto the battleground that divides person...

  • Los Angeles

    Peter Moore Smith

    It is a hoarse whisper over a crackling cell phone - "Angel" - and then the connection is lost. Angel is convinced that the voice belongs to his beautiful and enigmatic neighbor, Angela - and that she is terrified for her life. He paces the floor, wa...

  • Bead on Trouble

    Barbara Burnett Smith

    Meet Kitzi Camden, former stateswoman. When she retired, Kitzi dreamed of doing what she loves best--beading. She certainly didn't plan to try her hand at amateur sleuthing. But lately, trouble seems to find her wherever she goes--even deep into the ...

  • Deke!

    Deke Slayton

  • Faithless

    Karin Slaughter

    Internationally bestselling crime writer Karin Slaughter brings back her two most fascinating and complex characters--medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver--in a heart-pounding tale of faith, doubt, and murder...

  • Sex and the Serial Killer

    Jennifer Skully

    Who'd have thought an ordinary housewife could hook a serial killer... When her husband of fifteen years deserts her for his married high school sweetheart, Roberta Jones Spivey changes her looks, shortens her name and follows her soon-to-be ex. ...

  • The Dark Lord

    Patricia Simpson

    FAY RAE LAMBERS IS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO MEN... Simeon, debonair and charming, and Michael, street-smart and sarcastic. Simeon thinks Michael is crude and base; Michael thinks Simeon is evil. Really evil. When Rae's beloved mentor, Michael's fathe...

  • Technical Hitch

    Jane Sigaloff

    Wedding planner Jessica James has pulled off the society wedding of her career, but when it comes to her own Big Day, she gets cold feet. Does marriage still mean something, or is it simply so twentieth century? She looks at her nearest and dearest, ...

  • Fleabiscuit Sings

    Marlene Fanta Shyer

    Twelve-year-old Nicky and his family are delighted to discover that their neighbor's dog Fleabiscuit can howl along to Irish tunes. He joins their musical act in the New York City subways but then disappears, and Nicky must find him....

  • Constantine

    John Shirley

    Hidden from mortal eyes are the angels and demons that coexist with mankind ... supernatural beings who seek to influence our lives for better and for worse. Amoral and irreverent renegade occultist and paranormal detective John Constantine is blesse...

  • Blood River

    Jory Sherman

    LONE MAN, SAVAGE LAND Chip Morgan and his kin knew life would be harsh on the Texas frontier. Yet they never thought the Comanches could be so rough...Seeming to come out of nowhere, Chief Red Hand's men swooped down in clouds of dust to steal Pa'...

  • Killing Bliss

    E.C. Sheedy

    YOU CAN RUN... In a seedy section of Seattle, three street kids live under the brutal rule of their prostitute foster mother, Belle Bliss. Then comes the night that changes everything. Belle is viciously murdered. A new baby in her care goes missing...

  • Our Two Sons

    Kathryn Shay

    It all started with an autograph... Only her son, Kyle, can get Professor Jacelyn Ross anywhere near a sports arena. Especially when the celebrity in question is a boorish football jock. But Kyle means everything to Jacelyn -- and he wants the si...

  • Shades and Shadows

    Sophia Shaw

    A PASSIONATE FUTURE... Since leaving her abusive husband, stunning twenty-nine-year-old Jade Winters has focused on her career as the owner and instructor at a small dance school in downtown Chicago. She's also vowed to avoid men--until handsome ad e...

  • Undercover Babies

    Alice Sharpe

    Stumbling upon a beautiful woman with no memory of her past and a tan too fresh to make her an Indiana native, ex-cop Travis "Mac" MacBeth quickly learned a significant fact about the woman he'd dubbed Grace: she'd recently had a baby. As Grace clung...

  • Secrets of Sant'Angelo

    Jeff Shapiro

    The inhabitants of Sant'Angelo D'Asso, a small Italian village tormented by a series of misfortunes--endless rain, an influenza epidemic, and a series of bizarre deaths--are given new hope and faith by the arrival of two mysterious newcomers, Rosa Sp...

  • Titus Adronicus and Timon of Athens

    William Shakespeare

  • Ever So Humble

    Fran Shaff

    Marisa Orlando loves the sense of community she feels in her apartment building in Houston, where her neighbors all pitch in when another is in need. Therefore she's dismayed to find out that the building has been bought by a developer and that the i...

  • Robert and the Eggheads

    Barbara Seuling

  • Robert Goes to Camp

    Barbara Seuling

    It's summer vacation, and Robert is off to Camp Chicopee whether he likes it or not (he doesn't). Even though camp looks lame, Robert manages to make a new friend -- Zach, who knows plenty of jokes -- and to avoid the irritating Lester, who's pushy a...

  • The Fierce and Tender Sheikh

    Alexandra Sellers

    ROYAL AFFAIR The instructions were simple: seek out and return home with the long-lost princess of Bagestan now that her family had regained control of the throne. But when he found her, Sheikh Sharif Azad al Dauleh fell hard and fast for Princess...

  • Pocket Elephant

    Catherine Sefton

    Mary's elephant lived in her coat pocket. When Mary's elephant reads about the wild elephants, he takes himself off to the garden outside. He has fun playing in the garden - until it gets dark. Who will help Mary's elephant and how will he ever find ...

  • I feel Skitty!

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Puppy Tales, Too!

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Scooby-Doo! Adventures

    Scholastic Inc.
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • The Secrets of Droon, Volume 2

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Tonka Truck Collection

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Yu-G-Oh! the Movie: Master Duelist Activity Book

    Scholastic Inc.

    Yugi has acquired the three all-powerful Egyptian God Cards and restored order to the world. But an ancient evil, a creature of darkness, is determined to destroy Yugi and take over the worls! Now Yugi must fight the greatest battle of his life. Join...

  • Racing Stripes

    David Schmidt

    A feel-good family movie in the tradition of BABE. Part live-action, part CGI, it's the story of a baby zebra who dreams of becoming a racehorse. Starring the voices of Frankie Muniz and Mandy Moore.

    When a baby zebra is abandoned by his trave...

  • Old Man's War

    John Scalzi

    John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce--and alien r...

  • Better Off Dead

    Meryl Sawyer

    SHE'D BETTER RUN... Devon's used to a life on the run - when she entered the Witness Protection program, she had to give up her friends, her family...even her name. But now someone's cracked her FBI file and sent a hired killer after her, and Devo...

  • Siren

    Cheryl Sawyer

    From the coral beaches of the Caribbean islands to the colorful streets of New Orleans, Siren is an epic of high seas adventure, passion, intrigue and war that will leave you breathless in its wake ... Jean Laffite was a pirate of brutal reputat...

  • Operation Aces Wild

    Charles W. Sasser

    The struggle against the terrorist jihad is a battle to the death. But the battlefield is shifting from the Middle East to America's doorstep. A nuclear device has been smuggled across the Mexican border, as a fiendish cabal of wealthy and dangerous ...

  • Strawberry Shortcake's Seaberry Mystery

    Sonia Sander

    Noticing that someone is stealing all of Coco Calypso's seaberries at Seaberry Beach, Strawberry Shortcake, along with her friends Blueberry Muffin and Rainbow Sherbert, decide to look into the matter to find out who is to blame in order to put a sto...

  • Timmy's Eggs-Ray Vision

    Catherine Samuel

    It's the town's annual Easter egg hunt, but Timmy hasn't had any luck finding eggs. So he wishes for X-ray vision, and suddenly he can see through everything! But is seeing everything all that it's cracked up to be?

    ...

  • Confident Readers Allies Crocodile

    Angie Sage

    He's large and wet and he's a crocodile. But Allie can't let the traffic warden tow him away, so she takes him home. that's before she realizes just how complicated it is, looking after a fussy and rather grumpy guest. How is Allie going to feed the ...

  • Confident Readers Crocodile Canal

    Angie Sage

    Allie, Gran and the crocodile go on holiday on a canal boat. But Ernest Python and his family are also on the canals and Ernest is still determined to catch the crocodie. Chases and comic confusion ensue, both on and under water as Allie and the croc...

  • When the Beast Ravens

    E. Rose Sabin

    The thrilling conclusion to the award-winning fantasy trilogy that began with A School for Sorcery...
    As Gray Becq is about to discover, there are fates worse than death. It has been a full year since his escape from the Dire Realm. A year since a...

  • Rogue Berserker

    Fred Saberhagen

    Harry Silver has already had a lifetime of trouble from ordinary Berserkers, the automated killing machines programmed an age ago to denude the galaxy of life. Now when his own family is kidnapped, he faces a deviant machine, a good fit for some or a...

  • The Substitute Fiancee

    Rebecca Russell

    Agreeing to pose as her glamorous twin sister while the bride-to-be "found herself" one week before her wedding, Jessie Taggert wasn't prepared for all the strings that came attached to this innocent ruse. From the final dress fitting, to the office ...

  • What A Week To Fall In Love

    Rosie Rushton

    It is Holly's 14th birthday and an opportunity to get back with her ex, Scott. Disaster strikes when her party is cancelled by Holly's unfeeling parents. But the girls hatch a plan to go ahead with it anyway. They end up in big trouble, but older and...

  • What A Week To Make A Stand

    Rosie Rushton

    Cleo is fed up with being the shy, dumpy member of her group of friends. She's also saddled with Diana, her deeply embarassing actress mother, who's always been number one at overshadowing Cleo. But when Cleo discovers that she has a great singing vo...

  • What A Week To Make It Big

    Rosie Rushton

    Tansy is obsessed with finding out who her real father is and when she gets picked for a TV quiz show, she sees it as an ideal opportunity to announce the search for her missing father on TV. This doesn't impress the TV crew or her mother, but by the...

  • The White Wolf

    Ron Roy

    W is for WOLF . . . Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are thrilled to visit Wallis Wallace at her new cabin in the Maine wilderness. On their very first day, they glimpse a white mother wolf and her babies on a cliff nearby. But soon after the kids spy the ...

  • Dead Rising

    Jeff Rovin

    When a cadre of treasonous political leaders known as the Huntsmen seizes control of a top-secret government satellite capable of infiltrating and monitoring any computer network in the world, threatening to unleash its power against the U.S., Comman...

  • Night of Sin

    Julia Ross

    Years of roaming the Far East have turned Lord Jonathan Devoran St. George into an intrepid, solitary world traveler, estranged from family and homeland. Yet the theft of a precious fossil has forced Jack back to England. The thief has planted the pr...

  • Presidents' Day

    Natalie M. Rosinsky

  • Thank You, Squanto!

    Peter Roop; Connie Roop

  • Business Affairs

    Shirley Rogers

    An impulsive bid at a bachelor auction had won Jennifer Cardon a romantic getaway with her sexy boss, Alex Dunnigan. Jennifer had always been incredibly attracted to Alex, but bedroom fantasies were one thing -- having her dreams come true in the fle...

  • Witch's Dog

    Frank Rodgers

    Wilf wants to be a witch's dog. His friends don't think he can as witches don't usually have dogs as pets - they have cats, spiders and bats. But when Wilf sees an advertisement for a witch's pet he decides to apply. He disguises himself as a cat whi...

  • Witch's Dog At The School of Spells

    Frank Rodgers

    Wilf, the Witch's Dog, has problems with his spells and looks like being bottom of the class at the School of Spells. As soon as he discovers that Sly Cat and Tricky Toad are interfering with his note book and messing up his spells, things begin to i...

  • The Linoleum Room

    Katy Robinson

  • The Princess and the Pirates

    John Maddox Roberts

    As I walked back through the City, my mood was moderately elevated. This appointment did not displease me nearly as much as I pretended. Like most Romans I abhorred the very thought of sea duty, but this was one of the rare occasions when I was looki...

  • The Firefighter's Baby

    Alison Roberts

    Jason Halliday is used to emergencies. But when an abandoned baby -- his baby -- is left at the station, the handsome firefighter is out of his depth.The only person he can turn to for help is paramedic Laura Green. Laura's not Jason's type -- he'...

  • Liberation Road

    David L. Robbins

    With his acclaimed novels of World War II, David L. Robbins awakened a generation to the drama, tragedy, and heroism of some of history’s greatest battles. Now he delivers a gripping and authentic story set against one of our greatest wartime achi...

  • Survivor In Death

    J.D. Robb

    New York City of 2059 'Murder was always an insult, and had been since the first human hand had smashed a stone into the first human skull. But the murder, bloody and brutal, of an entire family in their own home, in their own beds, was a different f...

  • With Violets

    Elizabeth Robards

    Paris in the 1860s: a magnificent time of expression, where brilliant young artists rebel against the stodginess of the past to freely explore new styles of creating--and bold new ways of living. Passionate, beautiful, and utterly devoted to her a...

  • One Little, Two Little, Three Little Apples

    Matt Ringler

    Ten shiny apples ready to eat. What can we do with fall's favorite treat? This family makes an apple pie while doing other fall activities. The book incorporates a song about apples based on the familiar tune....

  • Brooklyn Rose

    Ann Rinaldi

    In this novel set at the beginning of the twentieth century, a fifteen-year-old Southern girl marries and moves to the unfamiliar world of Brooklyn.It’s 1900, the dawn of a new century, and fifteen-year-old Rose Frampton is beginning a new life. Sh...

  • Stranded With The Groom

    Christine Rimmer

    The Thunder Canyon Nugget reports that the annual mail-order bride reenactment was a smashing success -- until librarian Katie Fenton found herself hitched to a mystery man! Our local cutie was stunned to find herself gazing into the eyes of handsome...

  • At Risk

    Stella Rimington

    A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it’s an “invisibleâ€-- Mi5-speak for someone traveling under a British passport. Virtually impossible to find before it’s too late.

    The job falls to Liz Carlyle, the most res...

  • California Girl

    Patricia Rice

    THE OPEN ROAD WILL OPEN THEIR HEARTS Free spirit Alys Seagraves and her elderly, eccentric friend Mame are about to embark upon an epic road trip along historic Route 66 when Mame suffers a medical setback that throws a wrench into their plans. Ne...

  • Table For Five

    Kaitlyn Rice

    Bothered, Bewildered -- and Bewitched Kyle Harper's got too much on his plate -- three motherless girls, a father who needs looking after and a restaurant business that demands an around-the-clock CEO. So when a free spirit named Zuzu Clark disrup...

  • The Devil's Right Hand

    J.D. Rhoades

    KNOW WHO YOU KILL. Ex-cons DeWayne and Leonard thought it was a simple plan: Swipe the payroll from a local construction company and make off with easy cash. Pity they left the owner dead. Bigger pity is that the owner's son is a violent drug-dealer ...

  • Princess Tales

    RH/Disney
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    190 pages step 1 level for preschool-kindergarten. Big type, and easy words. Rhyme and rhyme. Picture clues. Steps into Reading is designed to give every child a successful reading experience. The grade level are only guide. Contents of book: Cindere...

  • Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

    Alastair Reynolds

    Alastair Reynolds returns to his bestselling Revelation Space universe with two novellas of interstellar exploration. DIAMOND DOGS The planet Golgotha--supposedly lifeless--resides in a remote star system, far from those inhabited by human coloni...

  • Cross Bones

    Kathy Reichs

    When an Orthodox Jewish man is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her it ...

  • The Full Cleveland

    Terry Reed

    "When we were rich, we had no real use for the Easter Bunny." With trademark elegance and wit, Boyce Parkman, the young narrator of Terry Reed's smart, sexy novel, The Full Cleveland, begins the story that follows a privileged Shaker Heights family's...

  • The Whole

    John Reed

    From John Reed, author of the controversial Orwell parody, Snowball's Chance, comes a subversive satire of modern culture, the complete lack thereof, and a lost generation that no one even tried to look for. In the middle of America's heartland, a y...

  • Cyrils Cats Mouse Practice

    Shoo Rayner

    This work contains two stories about Cyril and his cat Charlie. Cyril finds homes for all but one of Charlie's kittens, who is a real chip off the old block. Finally, Cyril thinks he has found a home for Chip, but Charlie has other ideas. In the seco...

  • Tiger's-Eye

    Belinda Ray

  • Card Games

    Dana Meachen Rau

  • Jump Rope

    Dana Meachen Rau

  • The Secret Seder

    Doreen Rappaport

    Jacques and his parents are hiding in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, pretending to be Catholics. On the first night of Passover, Jacques and his father elude Nazi soldiers to gather with other Jews and celebrate the Seder in secret. For th...

  • A Red Silk Sea

    Gillian Ranstead

  • Oh, the Pets You Can Get!

    Tish Rabe

    The Cat and Co. take off to the faraway land of Gerpletz where they know quite a lot about caring for pets—especially cats, dogs, guinea pigs, birds, and bunnies! From the food, shelter, exercise, and medical care they need to the love and comp...

  • Falling For You

    Kathryn Quick

    Stephanie Martin, a single mom with a teenaged son, believes in hard work, not in fairy tales. So when she finds herself flat on her back on the ice at the local skating rink, she has no idea that it's her very own Prince Charming coming to her rescu...

  • Wait Until Midnight

    Amanda Quick

    Gentle Reader, It could have been a scene from one of my novels. As a rule, respectable ladies do not accept calls from Mysterious Gentlemen on business of the most grave importance--but I confess that I was possessed of a lively curiosity. The pa...

  • The Outlaw Groom

    Pat Pritchard

    Stand By Your Man Seems like every female in Lee's Mill, Missouri, is married or about to be--but Cora Lawford doesn't even have a beau. Not for long...the young schoolteacher's pretty face and figure--and her independent spirit--are much admired by...

  • Sleepers

    Christopher J. Priest; Michael Ahn

    In effect cosmic police officers responsible for protecting the universe, the Green Lantern Corps is an organization numbering in the hundreds of members, with each Lantern assigned sectors of space to patrol. First introduced in the 1940s, Green Lan...

  • The Butterfly House

    Marcia Preston

    In clear, luminous prose, Marcia Preston brings readers the story of three women, connected by friendship, family secrets and a single moment that binds them together forever. As a child, Bobbie Lee found refuge from her lonely life at her best f...

  • The Birthday Kitten

    Cynthia Pratt
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    Johnna and Ramsey Dillon's polite marriage of mutual respect suits them both until Ramsey brings home a mischievous stray kitten for his wife's birthday. The irrepressible cat sets in motion a string of events that nearly leads to catastrophe--until ...

  • Do You Come Here Often?

    Alexandra Potter

    See the happy bride-to-be! Grace Fairley lives in South West London with her fiance, Spencer, a divorce lawyer. They've been engaged for two years and still haven't set a date, a fact that has started to irk Grace no end. In fact, things just hav...

  • Bad Heiress Day

    Allie Pleiter

    What would you do with $1 million? That's a question Darcy Nightengale never thought she'd need to answer. But a sudden inheritance of just over $1 million begs a more immediate response. And when Darcy learns of her father's last request that ...

  • The Good Guys

    Joseph D. Pistone

    At Columbia University, a professor of Russian literature has gone missing. A few miles and light-years away, Little Eddie LaRocca and Bobby San Filippo are on the move-dealing in everything from hot-sheet hotels to bootleg Fuji film. When the hoods ...

  • Girls Hold Up This World

    Jada Pinkett-Smith

    Actress Jada Pinkett Smith--wife of superstar Will Smith--lovingly captures the strength, unity, and beauty that live in girls in this poignant photographic book.We are sisters of this Earth -- members of one powerful tribe. /Every color, shape, and ...

  • The Fairy Tales

    Jan Pienkowski

    Stunning silhouettes and luminous marbleized backgrounds breathe new life into the earliest versions of classic fairy tales, embodying the dark magic and enchanting worlds of "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella."...

  • MacAllister's Return

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Nevada Assistant D.A. Jesse Burke loved his parents enough to give up his career -- and his dreams -- to help run the family ranch. But then his parents are killed in a car accident. And Jesse discovers he isn't their son at all.... Jesse heads fo...

  • Necessary Secrets

    Barbara Phinney

    SECRET MISSION...SECRET BABY Warrant Officer Sylvie Mitchell had resolved to put her last top secret military assignment behind her. Then Jon Cahill, her unborn baby's uncle, showed up, demanding answers about his brother's death in the line of fire...

  • The Astral Summer

    Ken Petti; John Amodeo

    I've always like the Astral Summer. Now that we all have our powers, Persuaja's promised to take us away so we can focus on our abilities. I'm nervous, though. I don't know how I will manage with two powers especially when I still haven't learned to ...

  • A Love Woven True

    Tracie Peterson; Judith Miller

    With memories of her loveless, arranged marriage behind her, Jasmine Houston, widowed with a young son, longs to establish her life in the bustling textile town of Lowell, Massachusetts. But news of her mother's failing health lures Jasmine back to h...

  • The Relentless Gun

    Pete Peterson

    Young Jack Dancer is just in town for a little fun on a Saturday night, but Cash McCabe is on the prowl. Before the night is done Jack is fleeing for his life with a smoking six-gun in his hand.

    Thinking he has killed a man during the fight he wa...

  • Springboard

    Steve Perry

    A NEW CENTURY. NEW SUPERPOWERS. A NEW BREED OF HOMELAND SECURITY. When a top-secret Pentagon wargame is shut down, only Net Force has the expertise to track down the hacker. The Department of Defense decides to strike while the iron is hot - and...

  • Gimme an O!

    Kayla Perrin

    When L.A. sex therapist Dr. Lecia Calhoun writes a self-help book called The Big O there's no doubt what she's talking about. But this expert on making the right moves in the bedroom, known to the country as Dr. Love, has to admit to herself that it'...

  • Transformers: Showdown

    Don Perlin

    Amazon US Exclusive Edition! Face to face with a cultural icon! Inspired by the top-selling toy line, animated TV series and movie, these are the stories that thrilled a whole generation, classic tales re-presented for the first time ever in book for...

  • Dangerous Women

    Otto Penzler

    Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today's finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and s...

  • Devil's Bargain

    Don Pendleton

    DANCING WITH THE DEVIL Alpha Deep Six. Wet work specialists so covert, they were thought dead. Now this paramilitary group of black ops assassins and saboteurs has been resurrected in a conspiracy engineered somewhere in the darkest corners of mil...

  • Lethal Payload

    Don Pendleton

    ROGUE'S GALLERY A rescue mission in the South Pacific turns up a wild card that puts Mack Bolan on the trail of an elusive enemy mounting a horrific and ingenious attack against the U.S.--one that involves traitors deep inside one of the world's m...

  • Best of American Splendor

    Harvey Pekar

    Experience the heartwarming all-American story of a crank and his comic book.

    What’s a file clerk from Cleveland doing with an Oscar nomination? How did a movie about Harvey Pekar win the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival? ...

  • Nobody Comes Back

    Donn Pearce

    Donn Pearce, the author of Cool Hand Luke, again revisits the subject of men under tremendous pressure, living and dying according to oppressive circumstances. Now, he brings you another tragic hero, thrust out of the only world he knew and forced to...

  • The Sound of Blue

    Holly Payne

    Aspiring to teach English to the children of Hungarian statespeople, Sara Foster leaves America only to find herself working in a refugee camp, where she meets a celebrated young composer whom she works to exonerate from an accusation of his brother'...

  • Hop, Hop, Hop!

    Ann Whitford Paul

    Little Rabbit encounters lots of trouble when following in the footsteps of Big Rabbit -- until he figures out how to keep up with his bigger, faster friend. Beginning readers will love this simple Step 1 -- perfect for springtime!...

  • Conviction

    Richard North Patterson

    Fifty-nine days. That's how long Rennell Price has to live -- after spending fifteen years on death row for the horrifying sexual assault and murder of a girl whose body was found floating in San Francisco Bay. But attorney Terri Paget, who has fough...

  • 4th of July

    James Patterson; Maxine Paetro

    The Bestselling New Detective Series of the Decade Just Got Hotter, Deadlier, and More Suspenseful. In a deadly late-night showdown, San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer fires her weapon...and sets off a dramatic chain of events that leaves ...

  • Deadly Drive

    David Patneaude

    Nine years ago, a hit-and-run driver killed Casey's mother. Casey swears revenge if she ever finds out the identity of the driver. Complicating her feelings, every year on the anniversary of her mother's death, Casey receives an anonymous envelope fu...

  • Big Superhero Wish!

    Erica Pass

  • Thailand

    Erica Pass

  • The Last Judgment

    Craig Parshall

    As a happily married husband and proud father of a nineâ€"yearâ€"old son, the last thing attorney Will Chambers wants on his hands is a religious apocalypse. Will defends a Christian convert from Islam against charges of causing a religious riot. W...

  • Miss Dempsey's School For Gunslingers

    I.J. Parnham

    When tonic sellers Fergal O'Brien and Randolph McDougal decided to settle in Destiny, they reckoned the new railroad would make Destiny a boomtown, but it only brought an onslaught of surly gunslingers. While Fergal sells his tonic---a universal reme...

  • Cars

    Steve Parker (1)

  • Seek the Prophet

    Daniel E. Parker; Lee Miller

    As Alice's friends reveal to him the keys to her coded diary entries, Tom slowly uncovers the truth about what may have happened to Alice, but those secrets may also put Tom's life in danger. Original....

  • The Wedding Planner's Daughter

    Coleen Murtagh Paratore

    Twelve-year-old Willa Havisham is a classics reader, a cherry-cordial eater, and quite possibly the world's worst wisher. But when she and her glamorous single mother, Stella, move to Bramble, Cape Cod, Willa's wishes are beginning to come true: She ...