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New Books List: 647 titles


  • Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Since when are vacations ever relaxing? All Chicago police Detective Paul Turner is hoping for on his annual retreat from the city and his job is a little peace and quiet. This time he's headed to the Canadian Great North Woods for a couple of weeks ...




  • Fumi Yoshinaga

    Rikuko has been in love with close friend Koichi for a long time, but has never revealed her true feelings. When she discovers Koichi is romantically involved with her older brother, Rikuko suffers a broken heart that could destroy their friendship....



  • Yugi Yamada

    • Relationships are tough, but relationships between friends can be even tougher. That's what Koreeda discovers when Noda ― one of his college buddies ― offers to become "friends with benefits." Until recently, Koreeda has had a s...



  • Kathleen Y'Barbo

    As executive chef at Austin's exclusive Bentley Crown Hotel, Bliss Denison thought she had it all. Then an accident changed her life and she found she really had - not much of anything. She returns home to Latagnier, Louisiana, hoping to rest and ree...



  • Stefanie Worth

    REFLECTIONS OF THE PAST Detroit journalist Navena Larimore thought her romance with NBA star Maxwell McKnight would last forever, but forever came to an abrupt end fifteen years ago, leaving her brokenhearted. Now Maxwell is back in her life as the...



  • Valerie Wood / Val Wood

    When Laura Page returns to the remote Holderness village of Welwick, it is to try and discover the mystery of her mother Susannah's early life. Now a prosperous business woman in Hull, Susannah never speaks of her childhood, when she was brought up w...



  • Maryrose Wood

    Meet Felicia, 14-year-old student at the Manhattan Free Children's School (also known as the Pound). In Felicia's world, she and her best friends, Jess and Kat, like to refer to themselves as the Sex Kittens, and the boys they know as the Horn Dawgs....



  • Virginia Euwer Wolff

    When Allegra was a little girl, she thought that the music was hidden inside her violin. Now that she is 12, she believes the music is in her fingers, and she has to train them well. Shes the youngest contestant in the Ernest Bloch Young Musicians Co...



  • Nancy Wolff

    Grab your lunch boxes and head to school because Tallulah is the teacher!

    This spunky cat makes learning fun--there's story time and show-and-tell of course, but also cool crafts like creating place mats and snackitty crackers (some snack!). T...



  • Joan M. Wolf

    On the night Nazi soldiers come to her home in Czechoslovakia, Miladas grandmother says, "Remember, Milada. Remember who you are. Always." Milada promises, but she doesnt understand her grandmothers words. After all, she is Milada, who lives with her...



  • Ellen Wittlinger

    Angela, who has never felt comfortable as a girl, finally comes out as transgendered and begins life as Grady, a boy. While it feels natural to him, Grady isn't prepared for the reaction he gets from his family, friends, and classmates. With humor an...



  • Elizabeth Winthrop

    Every night a monster comes into Maggie's room. The monster crashes into the furniture with her big hairy feet, knocks books off the shelf, and sits in the chair and grumbles to herself. Maggie doesn't know what to do until her mother suggests that m...



  • Angela Winters

    With four grown children and a multimillion-dollar empire, Janet Chase has been the perfect partner to her husband Steven, Founder and CEO of Chase Beauty. But her well-ordered world seems to be falling apart... Daughter-in-law Kimberly Chase has...



  • Lisa Wingate

    Adopted at thirteen, Dell Jordan was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. Now, at twenty, after a year abroad with a traveling symphony, a scholarship to Julliard is within reach. But underneath Dell's smoothly polished su...



  • CeCe Winans

    Becoming the princess God intended you to be has a lot to do with discovering -- who you are as His daughter and who you can be as a sister to those who walk beside you. Award-winning singer CeCe Winans has a heart for God and a heart for you and yo...



  • Mary Anne Wilson

    A Modern-Day Pirate Picks the Wrong Woman to Plunder Covering for her father while he takes a much-needed vacation, Dr. Morgan Kelly thinks she's ready for anything--until she has to play nursemaid to Ethan Grace. Even though the handsome develope...



  • Gayle Wilson

    Lindsey Sloan teaches the best and brightest students at Randolph-Lowen High School--exceptional teens with promising futures far from their small Alabama hometown. So when brash detective Jace Nolan arrives from up north and accuses her kids of sett...



  • Eric Wilson

    In The Best of Evil, Aramis Black uncovered family secrets and historical conspiracies, hoping that his own dark past had come to certain resolution. But now, in the dark of night, he finds his brother unconscious and tied to a statue in Nashville's ...



  • Jeanne Willis

    'My name is Queen Delilah and I come from a land far, far away, really I do.' My mother says, 'Really you don't, darling.' But if Delilah did rule the world, what a fun place it would be! Except she would be the first to tell you that she's not naugh...



  • Susan Wilkowski

    When she walks into class and finds the notorious Bad Luck Chair placed before her desk, Addy fears the rumors that abound at Brookside Elementary and turns to her classmate, Katie, for guidance on how to rid herself of the bad luck that she is certa...



  • Carole Wilkinson

    In the time of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, a young orphan struggles to fulfill her destiny. Ping has survived her days as a slave at Huangling Palace, but new challenges await her in the desolate mountains of Tai Shan. The aged dragon Danzi is ...



  • Andrea Wilder

    "We can surrender or we can fight." For fearless Kieran MacAuley and his men, the choice was simple. This day, their legend would be plowed into the soil, carried on the wind to be heard far and wide across the Isle. But of all his br...



  • Lori Wick

    Token Creek, Montana Territory, 1880--Cassidy Norton is a fine seamstress who makes her living sewing for others. Amid the bustle of a busy frontier town, her life is rich. What time her business doesn't take, her friends and church family fill. But ...




  • Merrillee Whren

    Father Knows Best Raising daughters wasn't easy for a single dad, especially when one daughter was a troubled teen with questionable friends. So Grady Reynolds moved his family to small- town Pinecrest, Washington, hoping for a fresh start. Instead ...



  • Edmund White

    In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip ab...



  • Charles G. West

    An unrepentent outlaw meets a relentless lawman in this western from Charle G. West...Boot Stoner spent twelve years of his life behind bars for stealing horses and rustling cattle. Upon release, he added murder and kidnapping to his criminal skills ...



  • Kurt Wenzel

    Los Angeles, a few years from now. Technology has changed the rules of the movie business with old, long-dead stars brought digitally back to life. Billboards cover every available surface of the city, beaming out a constant flood of commercials ...



  • Kate Welsh

    FROG FOR A HOUSEMATE...PRINCE FOR A HUSBAND? Feisty tomboy Samantha Hopewell wasn't the marrying kind--and neither was her handsome new housemate, Italian speedboat driver Niccol Verdini. But when the sexy, oh-so- charming playboy was nearly kille...



  • Phaedra Weldon

    First in an excitingly different and new paranormal series. Zoë Martinique has turned her unusual ability into a career. When she's traveling, she can't be seen which makes her an ideal professional snoop. Industrial espionage, surveillance, whateve...



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

    The story starts in the Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthus, which is under assault by the forces of the Kingpriest. The wizards, knowing they must surrender, remove as many valuable artifacts as they can. An elven wizard named Feal-Thas takes a drago...



  • Michael Lee Weems

    In the summer of 1909, Solomon Mayfield awoke to find his mother and sister had disappeared. Left with his alcoholic and abusive father, Sol lived his life believing the story he'd been told, the story all the people of Varner Creek believed ab...



  • Minda Webber

    KOOKS, SPOOKS & THE INFAMOUS DR. BLUEBEARD When your father is not only an infamous pirate but the husband of six vanished wives, respectability's hard to come by. That's why Eve invented herself a husband. How else was a nineteenth-century gal to...



  • Will Weaver

    Maybe it was bad karma. Maybe it was just bad luck. Whatever the reason, fifteen-year-old David was born defective. His bug eyes, pinched face, and hearing aids are obvious, but there is a secret David keeps from everyone, even his foster parents. Be...



  • Angela Weaver

    Department of Justice operative Miranda Tyler has her hands full. The maternally-challenged beauty has been drafted to hide the daughter of a witness in a high-profile, murder case. The assignment means returning to her Georgia hometown and seeking h...



  • Joanna Wayne

    NO COLLINGSWORTH WOULD EVER TURN HIS BACK ON A WOMAN IN DANGER Langston Collingsworth was a man to be reckoned with. Powerful and president of the family oil business, opportunists looked at him and saw money, but he saw the land as his life force...



  • Margaret Way

    Needed: a mother for the cattle baron's daughter... Marissa Devlin has vowed to protect her orphaned half brother--even if it means becoming governess to the daughter of dark, brooding Holt McMaster. Marissa soon feels like a mother to Holt...



  • Robin Wasserman

    FOUND: One girl, age 13. Unconscious. Unharmed. Unclaimed. Unidentified. LOST: Everything. JD is on the run, searching for answers about her past...and about the strange and dangerous abilities she's beginning to discover she has. She knows she can...



  • Robin Wasserman

    The end of the year, the end of an era... Lucky Miranda's finished strong. She has what she's always wanted: Kane. Reformed, relationship-ready, really boring. Harper has prom queen in the bag -- but sadly, her ...



  • Daniel Wallace

    In the middle of a dusty Southern town, in the middle of the twentieth century, magician Henry Walker entertains crowds at Jeremiah Musgrove's Chinese Circus. Though not the world-famous illusionist he once was, Henry, with his dark skin and green ey...



  • Shiloh Walker

    In this dazzling sequel to the bestselling Hunting the Hunter, Shiloh Walker returns to tell the story of another unique hero at the heart of a strange new world... HIS MISSION Vax was once committed to his life as a Hunter, tracking down the evil b...



  • Tina Wainscott

    THE PAST WON'T LET HER BE. When Maggie Fletcher's sister is murdered, presumably by stalker Colin Masters, Maggie is left devastated--and furious. There isn't enough evidence to prove that Masters did it--unless Maggie falsely claims, under oath, th...



  • Lee Vance

    Peter Tyler appears to have it all -- a loving wife, a powerful job on Wall Street, a sprawling house in the suburbs. But in a moment of weakness, Peter indulges in a one-night stand with a beautiful trader. A few weeks later, his house is broken int...



  • Kimberly Van Meter

    One night is all it takes One night of loosened inhibitions and Natalie Simmons's world has come completely unraveled. It must have been the experience of the white-water rafting. Or maybe it was the result of being dumped and on the rebound. Eith...



  • Yuki Urushibara

    DARK MOUNTAIN

    Mushi, a terrifying primitive life-form, take countless shapes"most of them deadly to the human race. Enter Ginko, a mushi expert, known as a mushishi. Though his laconic smile and soft-spoken manner don’t seem imposing, he r...



  • Urban Books

    There’s a sayin’ that if you come from my part of town, that you’re from around the way. Around the Way Girls 4 is a look at the life of some street-smart women who think they have the world in the palm of their hands, but are about to find out...



  • Blair Underwood; Tannarive Due

    An unputdownable and sizzling mystery in the heart of Hollywood, perfect for fans of Devil in a Blue Dress and Miami Vice.Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous, sexy actor and former gigolo, living on the fringes of the go...



  • Omar Tyree

    OMAR TYREE DOES IT AGAIN! The Philadelphia-born author, who jumpstarted the urban fiction craze more than a dozen years ago with Flyy Girl, presents the riveting new tale of Shareef Crawford, a celebrated writer of romantic fiction, who leaves his su...



  • John Twelve Hawks

    A SHATTERING VISION OF A SOCIETY WHERE BOTH HOPE AND FREEDOM ARE ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR. TWO BROTHERS born into a race of Travelers -- prophets able to journey to different realms of consciousness -- have just discovered that their long lost father may ...



  • Linda Turner

    Gold Mine...Or Death Trap? When Buck Wyatt and his sisters inherit Broken Arrow Ranch, it comes with a catch: One of them has to be on the premises at all times for one year, or they'll lose it. So Buck counts on setting up stakes. What he doesn't...



  • Steven Torres

    Brian Hanson works as a therapist, counseling some very troubled people. When Tammy, a former addict, comes to him with a wild story of conspiracy and corruption, he sees her as a textbook case of paranoia. Then she turns up dead. What if Tammy wasn'...



  • Carrie Tiffany

    In this sensual, witty, and startlingly original first novel, Jean Finnegan searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. Carrie Tiffany captures the frailty and beauty of the human co...



  • Elizabeth Thornton

    The pursuit of a scoundrel is about to become a most desirable affair... From nationally bestselling author Elizabeth Thornton comes the sinfully seductive, delightfully romantic story of a woman who discovers a most thrilling type of pursuit. . ....



  • Dawn Thompson

    Joss Hyde-White left London for answers about who and what he was. What he found, with night falling, Cornwall consumed by a snowstorm quickly obscuring the road, was a carriage--a brougham by the look of it--its snow-covered horses standing like two...



  • Colleen Thompson

    Hell On Wheels... The full moon brings out the crazies; anyone in emergency services knows that. But for hospice nurse Beth Ann Decker, the gruesome murder that rocks Hatcher County is shockingly unexpected. As is the return of the Texas communit...



  • Will Thomas

    The hunt for a serial killer leads a private detective to Victorian London’s most powerful secret society in this “marvelously wrought” historical mystery (Kirkus Reviews).When a twelve-year-old girl from the upper classes goes missing in the E...




  • Mimi Thebo

    Eudora, a small town in the middle of wheat, oil, and cattle country, is on the verge of extinction. And Lottie Dougal, the local stationer with a healing touch, may be the only one who can bring the community back together -- if she doesn't destroy ...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    She'll Run the Ranch--and Her Life -- Her Way! Rebecca Carrigan is determined to run an alpaca ranch in the middle of Texas cattle country, and succeed on her own! What she doesn't count on is constant interference from Trevor McCabe, the bossy ...



  • Mark Terry

    Derek Stillwater, bioterrorism expert for the Department of Homeland Security, already has his bags packed for vacation when he gets the call: Sarin gas attack on a Detroit restaurant. Fifty-two dead. The killer calls himself the Serpent and demands ...



  • Richard Taylor

    A novel of love, redemption, and second chances. "Lily died the day we signed the escrow papers," Theo Parker writes of his bride and of Monroe House, the bed-and-breakfast they'd just bought in the picturesque coastal town of Cambria. Theo soon lea...



  • Jennifer Taylor

    The Italian's newfound family Arriving in beautiful Sardinia to take up her new position as junior registrar, Dr. Kelly Carlyon is horrified to find her new boss is Luca Ferrero, the brooding Italian who once broke her heart. But the hands...



  • TaRessa

    Public relations whiz Kendra Harrell is hopelessly in love with love. But her latest crush presents a real conflict of interest. Yusef Huntley is the sexy chief of staff for Atlanta's high-profile congressman, who happens to be Kendra's client. Does ...



  • Shirley Tallman

    Nineteenth-century attorney Sarah Woolson is still trying to get her life together. Against her family's wishes, she opens her own San Francisco law firm, only to find that clients---paying clients, that is---are wary of allowing a woman to manage th...



  • Aoibheann Sweeney

    Miranda's father has always seemed to her as obscure and elusive as the thick New England fog that surrounds their isolated island home. When she was three years old, her parents moved from Manhattan to tiny Crab Island off the coast of Maine so he c...



  • Ellen Sussman

    "I behave badly to set myself apart. To test myself. To push myself. To prove something. To shock someone....I behave badly because I can." That's how Ellen Sussman describes her mischievous endeavors. In this anthology of personal essays, she's invi...



  • Doug Stumpf

    Brazilian-born Gil shines the shoes of the richest, most powerful men on the face of the earth--Wall Street traders and execs, uninhibited as they are ruthless. To most of these money mandarins, shoeshine boys are usually invisible, as are Gil's frie...



  • Julia Stuart

    “[A] frothy debut, as enchanting as Joanne Harris’s Chocolat” -- from the New York Times"bestselling author of The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise (More Magazine).The charming tale of a small French town in which the local barber, whose...



  • Diane Stortz

    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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  • Diane Stortz

    Explore the world of Happy Day® Books -- filled with fun-to-read stories that teach Christian values. These books are specifically designed to teach Bible stories every child should know.

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  • P.W. Storm

    The client is the CIA, as a beautiful, seductive Company agent enlists the help of Mad Dog and his men. The assignment is Uzbekistan, where an America-hating warlord plans to assassinate the country's newly elected, U.S.-supported president. But the ...



  • Nick Stone

    Max Mingus wanted to turn down the case--fifteen million bucks on the table or not. The boy was dead, Max was sure of it. Three years had passed since Haitian billionaire Allain Carver's five-year-old son was abducted. Why bother now? The huge bounty...



  • Janet Morgan Stoeke

    Insecurities and anxieties fade as a group of neighborhood kindergarteners step aboard the big, bright school bus for the first of many happy rides together, in a fun-filled picture book by the author of Waiting for May....



  • R.L. Stine

    Wish that summer would never end?Not THIS Scary Summer!The third GB Graphix collection features acclaimed artists Dean Haspiel, Kyle Baker, and Ted Naifeh.Three hot, talented comic artists adapt these bestselling Goosebumps books into a cool new grap...




  • David Ezra Stein

    Although it sometimes gets lonely out on the range, Cowboy Ned and his loyal companion, Andy, always find a way to keep each other entertained, but when Ned gets a crush on Miss Clementine and starts visiting her in town, Andy wonders if there will b...



  • Michael A. Stackpole

    Time is running out. Nalenyr is besieged on all sides by those who would save the fabled land--and those who would enslave it. Soon the realm will be ravaged by the scourge of magical warfare--overrun by terrifying forces created by an ancient enemy,...



  • Jennifer St. Giles

    Mighty warriors sworn to protect humanity, the shape-shifters known as The Shadowmen move between two worlds. Now their dark leader has exiled himself from the spirit world, opening the door to the forces of chaos...and to the power of love. Half ...



  • Roxanne St. Claire

    A PLEASURE DOING BUSINESS Miami millionaire Parker Garrison had dated his way through most every eligible woman in the city. So when he needed a last-minute escort he turned to his ever efficient assistant. Who knew unpretentious Anna Cross would ...



  • Kathryn Springer

    To: Rachel From: Andrew Re: I've met the most fascinating single mom... Everyone thinks I'm this high-living playboy.... I wish I could reveal my real mission in life: rescuing missing children. Though right now, helping Miranda Jones is my top prio...



  • Irini Spanidou

    The setting is New York City in the 1970s--a time and place of creativity, licentiousness, rebellion--and unforeseen perils. At its center is Beatrice: twenty-five, mesmerizingly lovely and intelligent, at once conventional and different from everyon...



  • Dalia Sofer

    In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappear-ance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have ...



  • Ree Soesbee

    Dragonlance's favorite girl wizard takes on the Crescent Cabal!

    A tempest off the coast of Krynn threatens to overwhelm Planthas, and once again the Wizard's Conclave sends Nearra on a treacherous journey. As Nearra works to uncover the Cresce...



  • Lauraine Snelling

    She couldn't wait to leave the Red River Valley.... CERTAIN SHE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HAMRE BJORKLUND, the impetuous Sophie Knutson rejects her father's request to postpone her marriage until after graduation and convinces Hamre to elope. But far from ...



  • Dean Wesley Smith

    Ambassador Sarek meets his future wife. Captain Ransom atones for his sins. T'Pol pursues a composer, after she is captivated by the human's music. Strands of DNA are woven together from four Starfleet captains, creating one man with one mission. An ...



  • Bobbi Smith

    It was a town whose reputation matched its name--a place where the sheriff had been shot dead and outlaws ran wild. But Jace Madison plans to change all that. Ever since his fiancee was killed by stagecoach robbers, he's devoted his life to bringing ...



  • Patricia Smiley

    Management consultant Tucker Sinclair is trying to get her own firm off the ground in Los Angeles. But when you get mixed up in a private investigator's business, trouble is always a prospect.... Tucker Sinclair has finally escaped the oppressivel...



  • Christina Skye

    Ex-cop Gina Ryan traded in her Smith & Wesson to follow a dream. Now she's creating decadent desserts aboard a luxury cruise ship in the Caribbean. But a gorgeous passenger is about to send her perfect world up in smoke... Trace O'Halloran is a hard...



  • Susan Sizemore

    They are the Enforcers. An elite group of vampires who must serve and protect their secret community--and uphold the...Laws of the Blood Selena Crawford is a Chicago homicide detective. She is also the unwilling companion of Istuan, chief of the ...



  • Sivadasa

    One of the most important works of Indian narrative fiction, passed down orally through the centuries and first recorded in medieval times, The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie has at its center the half-mythical, heroic, and sagacious emperor Vikr...



  • Judy Reene Singer

    Can a badly abused elephant halfway across the world help a woman win back her cheating husband? In this funny, heartwarming story, the author of the beloved novel Horseplay presents another smart, memorable heroine and the animals--and men--she love...



  • Dani Sinclair

    Kelly O'Donnell was anything but a damsel in distress. But after her father's murder, she found herself struggling to save the family business. Of course she wanted answers. But first she needed a champion, someone wealthy and experienced enough to h...



  • Nea Simone

    Five years have passed since Mignon Samuels first discovered the priceless journal that chronicled the lives of the strong women who came before her. Now she's ready to add her own history to that of the four previous generations documented inside. ...



  • Holly Shumas

    On paper, Nora's life looks perfect. She's moving in with her boyfriend Dan, she has a stable job and a great group of friends. But she's stuck in what she refers to as "meta-life," the plight of overthinking and secondguessing to the point of se...



  • Lionel Shriver

    Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories...



  • Lionel Shriver

    Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep o...



  • Gena Showalter

    Alien hunting can get a girl killed. It can also get her a date. High school senior Camille Robins and her best friend are determined to snag the attention of their crushes before graduation next month. Armed with red-hot outfits and killer hair,...



  • Will Shetterly

    Christopher Nix is 14 years old, and it's 1969. His life is a turbulent echo of the times as he discovers sex, drugs and rock 'n roll in the heart of Florida. But into this struggle between the young long-haired hippie and the rednecks who'd just as ...



  • Barrie Sherwood

    Aozora---idle university student, future crooked bureaucrat, fresh broken heart---has been playing too much mah-jongg and now finds himself deep in debt. When Auntie Okane dies and leaves him and his sister Mai a priceless inheritance, he thinks h...



  • Jory Sherman

    When his parents were slaughtered by Arapahos, Jared Sunnedon and his sister Kate made it out alive, only to be taken prisoner. Then and there, they vow that if they are ever separated, they'll never give up the search for each other. After Kate is c...



  • David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    Combat vets David Sherman and Dan Cragg know firsthand the courage, sacrifice, and hell of war -- and their experiences have made the popular Starfist novels thrill rides of the highest order. Now the explosive action continues on the remote planet R...



  • Sophia Shaw

    A Seductive Dream Becomes... Hard-working Cadence Carter can't believe her dreams are finally coming true. With her artistic career finally taking off, she moves to sunny Orlando, Florida. Once there, things really begin to heat up when she meets ru...



  • Chantelle Shaw

    Revenge, passion and an arranged marriage... Duke Javier Herrera needs a wife in order to inherit his family's banking business. In Grace Beresford, whose father swindled Javier out of millions, Javier can take revenge and a convenient wife. A...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Fargo cuts a trail of trouble…Skye Fargo is in California at the behest of Hiram Stoddard, a powerful man who wants to establish the first stagecoach line along the Old Mission Trail -- and he’s not the only one. But when Fargo sees how ruthless ...



  • Mary Serfozo

    Quiet crept into the dark forest deep. Wrapped in the hush, everyone seemed asleep. Until . . . "Whooo's there?" said Old Owl.

    It's nighttime, but the forest is alive with sights, sounds, and even smells! Whooo's out there? That's what Old Owl...



  • Jonathan Selwood

    For years, painter Isabel Raven has made an almost-living forging Impressionist masterpieces to decorate the McMansions of the not-quite-Sotheby's-auction rich. But when she serendipitously hits on an idea that turns her into the "It Girl" of the L.A...



  • Susan Holloway Scott

    London, 1660: Ready to throw off a generation of Puritan rule, all England rejoices when Charles Stuart returns to reclaim the throne. Among those welcoming him is young Barbara Villiers Palmer, a breathtaking Royalist beauty whose sensuality and cle...



  • Kieran Scott

    The Sand Dune High cheerleading squad has gone coed, and not everyone is happy about it. Annisa's psyched when her boyfriend signs up, and stunting with the guys is pretty cool. But then the battle of the sexes heats up, and Annisa is caught in the m...



  • Jon Scieszka

    After being warped back to ancient China, Joe, Fred, and Anna are faced with some big tasks. They must rescue General Li Shimin from prison so he can defeat the awful ruler, Wang. Then they must figure out how to free Sam, who is trapped in . . . The...



  • Melanie Schuster

    Funny and feisty true-crime writer Dakota Phillips has almost everything she wants. She's still looking for the perfect man: very tall, very educated and very cultured--all wrapped up in rich chocolate brown. So far, her insecurities about her genero...



  • Ellen Schreiber

    The most important night of the year is drawing near . . . but not without a little trouble from the Underworld Dullsville's newest night-faring intruder may be only a tween, but Raven knows that Valentine Maxwell, the younger sibling of two nefario...



  • Mark Schorr

    The Bronx can be a tough place. And Luis Ramos can tell you it's even tougher to raise a daughter there. How can he keep her safe when every street leads to a new threat, an unseen danger? Now his daughter, Jasmine, is missing, and Luis will stop at ...



  • Robyn Schneider

    THE ART OF THE CLIMB Meet the Social Climber. Charming to the masses, fully intriguing, she is nothing if not unique and confident. Call her a rising star, a fashion-forward thinker, just don't mistake her for the (let's admit it) arrogant and awf...



  • Paul Schmidtberger

    As can only happen in New York, two strangers find themselves railroaded into an anger-management class, where they soon become fast friends. Iris is there because of an eminently justifiable meltdown on a crowded flight, whereas Ken got caught defac...



  • Laura Amy Schlitz

    Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters. Maidens, monks, and millers' sons -- in these pages, readers will meet them all. There's Hugo, the lord's nephew,...



  • John Saul

    After his father's untimely death sends fifteen-year-old Ryan McIntyre into an emotional tailspin, his mother enrolls him in St. Isaac's Catholic boarding school, hoping the venerable institution with a reputation for transforming wayward teens can w...



  • Pamela Satran

    America’s thirst for all things model related will be quenched with this juicy novel about a young Wisconsin girl who is discovered during a graduation trip to New York City, by the author of the hit novel-turned TV show Younger.The Reasons Amanda'...



  • Visnu Sarma

    Enduring and profound, among the earliest and most popular of all books of fables

    First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical t...



  • Sonia Sander

    Based on the new Care Bears theatrical release, Oopsy Does it!

    When Oopsy Bear accidentally ruins the rollarcoaster at the new Funderland amusement park right before the grand opening it's up to him to try to fix it. But when a mean bear named...



  • Chris Ryan

    The new blockbuster from the bestselling author of The Increment and Greed -- a former SAS commander and the only member of his team to escape from Iraq during the Gulf War. Three people. Three stories. And a dangerous struggle for survival in a c...



  • Christopher Russell

    Smuggling is a dangerous game, but Reuben has no choice. Being on the wrong side of the law is the only way to bring in the money his family desperately needs. The smugglers are safe as long as they stick together - but someone has betrayed them, som...



  • Matt Ruff

    Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons--"Bad Monkeys" for short...



  • J.K. Rowling

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