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New Books List: 532 titles

  • You're an Animal, Viskovitz!

    Alessandro Boffa

    In this wickedly hilarious collection of fables, Alessandro Boffa introduces us to Viskovitz and his never-ending search for his true love, Ljuba. As he changes from a lovelorn lion to a jealous finch, from a confused dung beetle to an enlightened po...

  • Yeats Is Dead!

    Joseph O'Connor

    Roddy Doyle, Conor McPherson, Gene Kerrigan, Gina Moxley, Marian Keyes, Anthony Cronin, Owen O’Neill, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O’Connor, Tom Humphries, Pauline McLynn, Charlie O’Neill, Donal O’Kelly, Gerard Stembridge, and Frank McCourtFifteen o...

  • Wolf Queen

    Tanith Lee

    Claidi, the witty diary writer who captivated readers in Wolf Tower and Wolf Star, is back to complete her trilogy and delight her loyal fans. Our intrepid heroine has finally returned home for a reunion with her fiancé, Argul. But someone has poiso...

  • With His Promise

    Liz Madison
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    Victoria Woodville is any man's equal. Fabled knight Stephen de Burgh realizes this as he helps her to victory during a siege. She's a woman of unparalleled appeal who inflames his desires as never before, igniting a rapturous alliance as they face d...

  • Witch's Dog And The Icecream

    Frank Rodgers

    Wilf's school ski trip has been cancelled because there's no snow. Wilf and his friends help the Ice Cream Wizard to find his stolen wand, and their reward is a covering of ice-cream over the whole hill. Wilf uses his magic to freeze the ice cream an...

  • Witch Twins

    Adele Griffin

    Ten-year-olds Claire and Luna are identical twins--and witches. Even though they can cast simple spells (with the supervision of their five-star-witch grandmother, Grandy) and know all sorts of magic, unfortunately no special charm can keep their di...

  • The Winter Zoo

    John Beckman

    A sexy, hilarious novel of wayward young expatriates -- and the difference between doing good and feeling good.

    In 1990, a young man named Gurney abandons his newborn daughter in an Iowa delivery room and escapes into Krakow, Poland, where i...

  • Willie's Birthday

    Anastasia Suen

    A "Bring Your Pet" birthday party gets out of hand when the pets show more interest in chasing each other than in celebrating, in an easy-to-read story based on the characters created by Ezra Jack Keats. Reprint....

  • The Wildcatter

    Peggy Nicholson

    Penniless wildcatter Miguel Heydt has come seeking his fortune -- oil -- on Suntop land. But the cranky old owner of the Colorado ranch will tolerate no mineral exploration on his spread, so Miguel hires on with the ranch's haying crew and explor...

  • Wicked Forest

    V.C. Andrews

    In the second novel of the thrilling De Beers series, readers will discover that it’s easy to get lost in a world of hidden dangers.After discovering her true identity, Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina town to live with her real mother and...

  • Why Do Cats Meow? / Why Do Dogs Bark?

    Joan Holub

    2 books in one flip book: *Why do Dogs Bark?: This fun and fact-packed book takes a look at the history, characteristics, and ever-interesting antics of America's most popular family member-pet dogs. Ideal for on-your-own reading or school-time repo...

  • Whoa, Jealousy!

    Woodleigh Hubbard

  • White Male Infant

    Barbara D'Amato

    Dr. Dooley McSweeny and his wife, Claudia, dearly love the son they adopted from Russia four years ago. But when medical tests indicate that their little boy could not possibly have come from Russia, the couple is plunged into the dark, complex and e...

  • Whistler's Hollow

    Debbie Dadey


    Lillie Mae's mama has just died, and with her father not back from the Great War that ended over a year before, Lillie is shipped by her mean Aunt Helen off to relatives she has never met. Although she misses her parents terribly, Lillie Mae feel...

  • Whisper of Evil

    Kay Hooper

    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence. Three victims have fallen to a killer's savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community--yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murd...

  • The Whirlwind Wedding

    Day Leclaire

    Watching her best friend walk up the aisle is the happiest day of Emma's life.... Or it would be if Gray Shaw wasn't sitting right next to her, insisting Emma is going to be married herself -- in two weeks -- to him! The only way to convin...

  • Which Would You Rather Be?

    William Steig

    Both simple and profound, Which Would You Rather Be? was celebrated author/artist William Steig′s recent triumph of humor and creativity-a charming, game-like picture book illustrated by the renowned illustrator Harry Bliss. The duo could not ha...

  • When Second Graders Attack

    Lawrence David

    Something is amiss in Blootinville! Someone has replaced all the food in town with Chef Nibbles's disgusting ultra-chemical Snoodles and Cheaze. To make matters worse, a roving band of second graders calling themselves the Nibblettes have immobili...

  • What's Your Pleasure?

    Julie Elizabeth Leto / Julie Leto

    PICK A PLEASURE... Mystery author Devon Michaels is in a fix. Her publisher has offered her a lucrative contract, if she makes the jump to erotic thrillers. The problem: Devon's love scenes are...well, really bad. She's just never experienced sex wo...

  • What Men Think about Sex

    Mark Mason

    Tim and Rob are 20-somethings who both fall madly in lust with an American who has to come to work in their office, the fabulously sexy Clare. In a drunken moment they devise the "Clare Jordan Five and Three Quarter Feet Handicap Stakes," wherein the...

  • What About the Love Part?

    Stephanie Rosenfeld

    Infused with gleaming insight and exceptional grace, here is an affecting debut of ten loosely linked stories that speak volumes of truth about mothers and daughters, girlfriends, and the weird propensity of smart women to choose lousy boyfriends. Wh...

  • The Wedding Dress

    Virginia Ellis

    Julia and Victoria Atwater were barely brides before their husbands marched off to fight in the Civil War. Now alone, with scarcely enough money to see them through until spring, they embark on an impetuous mission to bring joy back into their younge...

  • Wedding at White Sands

    Catherine Mann

    Ex-Intelligence officer Jake Larson was on a top-secret mission and didn't need some "wife" tagging along. But feisty P.I. Allie St. James had followed Jake to the White Sands Resort on her own investigation, giving them the perfect cover...as loving...

  • The Weather in Berlin

    Ward Just

    A New York Times Notable Book: “An elegantly written, strikingly intelligent novel” about wrestling with the past and the future in a reunified Germany (Newsday). Shot in Germany in the late 1960s, Dix Greenwood’s first film, Summer, 1921, is r...

  • Waterwoman

    Lenore Hart

    Feeling out of place with her family and her role in the world, Annie Revels gets a chance for a whole new life when her father suddenly dies, she is forced to take his place aboard the family oyster boat, and she finds a comfortable new role as a wa...

  • Water in the Desert

    Elizabeth Daish

    Sparks fly under the Arabian sun . . . After a year out recovering from the violent death of her boyfriend, Dr Sarah Brackley has returned to the international oil industry to take part in a conference staged in the sweltering heat of the Middle East...

  • Water

    Robin McKinley; Peter Dickinson

    Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson share tales of mysterious merfolk and magical humans, all with close ties to the element of water. From Pitiable Nasmith's miserable existence in a seaside town whose inhabitants are more intertw...

  • Walls of Silence

    Philip Jolowicz

    From his Manhattan office, Fin Border surveys his future with confidence. He's a hot young attorney bound for partnership in his prestigious law firm, his client list is the envy of his colleagues, and he truly believes that he's overcome the shame a...

  • The Waking

    Mike Nichols

    To neighbors in the small Midwestern town, Will and Sandy Dunby are a golden couple--wealthy, attractive, selfless, and very much in love. But when a treacherous skid on the March ice sends Sandy's car over a bluff, plunging her into a coma, the faca...

  • Wait for Me

    Terry Fowler
    in

    How many times will Shelby Tate, editor of Agape Today magazine, place an ad for a "Write to the Heart" columnist? Not just anyone will do. The magazine's owner requires the person to be single - after all, who better to advise the unmarried? But kee...

  • The Void

    Teri A. Jacobs

    Tormented by dreams depicting a nightmarish world called Xibalba where deranged gods and blood-soaked demons reign supreme, Leslie finds herself poised on the brink of insanity, while the Dark Man waits in the shadows to steal her soul and send her t...

  • Vivian: An Autobiography

    Sherrie Krantz

    Meet Vivian . . .A small-town girl who conquers the Big City on her own terms . . . a sucker for happy endings with an attraction to all things fattening -- and a personality that oddly gets her in (and out of) trouble at lightning speed. This is her...

  • Virgin

    Robin Maxwell

    ...a riveting portrait of Elizabeth I as a romantic and vulnerable teenager, dangerously awakening to a perilous liaison with the wrong man. England, 1547: King Henry is dead. Elizabeth's half-brother, nine-year-old Edward, is king in name only. T...

  • Vineyard Enigma

    Philip R. Craig

    THE ART OF MURDER Violent crime is a rarity on the tranquil shores of Martha's Vineyard, which is why ex-cop J.W. Jackson turned in his Boston badge to retire to the idyllic isle. And that's what makes a six-month-old murder so troubling to the pe...

  • Vengeance Beyond Reason

    Joani Ascher

    Wally Morris, a nursery school teacher, mother and new grandmother, has a penchant for solving puzzles. She has a desire to help people that borders on meddling and she hates loose ends. The murder of a college freshman and the disappearance of one o...

  • Up and down with Kate

    Kay Chorao

    Kate, the littlest elephant in her family, tries her hardest to be good all the time, but sometimes it just doesn't work and she suddenly finds herself in some type of trouble, in a charming easy reader with full-color illustrations....

  • Until the Final Verdict

    Christine McGuire

    Judge Jemima Tucker has been brutally murdered in her chambers at the Santa Rita County courthouse -- and Kathryn Mackay vows to bring her friend's killer to justice. But when both Tucker's husband and another judge become suspects, Kathryn ends up w...

  • An Unlikely Suitor

    Nicola Cornick

    At twenty-three and a bluestocking to boot, Miss Lavender Brabant feels her chances of marriage have passed her by. But the problem isn't that she's never met a man to make her pulse race. It's that she's an admiral's daughter -- and the man of her d...

  • Under the Covers

    Rita Herron

    Marriage counselor Abigail Jensen faked it, and she is going to have to keep on faking it. She wrote the book on how to keep a relationship alive, and now the public is clamoring for more than her advicethey want her to demonstrate her techniques! B...

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 1: The Tomorrow People

    Mark Millar

    Humanity now faces mutants, a mysterious sub-species that is gifted with strange and frightening powers. Hidden among the population, they are feared and hated by their human cousins. As rumors and urban myths about their existence spread across the ...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 1: Power and Responsibility

    Brian Michael Bendis

    In a retelling of the Spider-Man saga that has been updated for the twenty-first century, teenager Peter Parker is bitten by an experimental spider from the laboratory of Osborn Industries, and develops super powers as a result....

  • The Ultimate Lover

    Adrienne Basso
    in

    Three independent women, three high-stakes wagers -- and three losses. Now these daring ladies set out to lose their maidenhood to the ton's most dangerous rogues -- but might find love where they least expect it . . . To wreck her domineering...

  • Two to Tangle

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

    SHE'D HEARD OF BROTHERLY LOVE... Window dresser Chloe Weston doesn't believe in lust at first sight -- until she catches her boss, Troy Langtree, reveling half-naked in a rainstorm. So when she finds herself alone, on a secluded beach, with the objec...

  • The Tutor

    Peter Abrahams

    Master of psychological suspense Peter Abrahams returns with an ingenious tale of an ordinary family that unknowingly invites the agent of their destruction into their own home.When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled t...

  • Trust Falls

    Daniel Parker

    Hey man, This place is crazy. They (I'm not exactly sure who "they" are, but that oaf of a dorm counselor I told you about is at the top of the list for sure) actually planted chewing tobacco in some kid's bag so that they could expel him. And I tho...

  • True Love, Inc

    Jackie Braun

    Cam Foley was mad -- scratch that -- he was furious. The last thing the widowed father wanted was a dating service pestering him. True Love, Inc. owner Maddie Daniels never intended to infuriate the sexy single dad. But the irresistibly gorgeous C...

  • Tricks of the Trade

    Ben Tyler

    In this sharply written debut novel, Ben Tyler spins a wickedly witty, name-dropping yarn of a spurned studio publicist who's determined to leave Being gay in Hollywood is never easy, but thanks to his homophobic female boss, Bart Cain's life is a l...

  • Treasures of the Heart

    Terry McDermid

    Tessa Montgomery has known Like Hunter since she was five years old. Back then, he treated her as the pesky friend of his little sister and didn't have much to do with her. Now, he seems to be around all the time. He accepts the co-chair of the first...

  • Transformation

    Kara Dalkey

    Nia and Corwin have each fought their own battles. Now they are Joined together to face their most dangerous enemy yet: Ma'el, the evil Avatar. In order to defeat Ma'el, they must retrieve a magical sword from Atlantis. But after a treacherous journe...

  • Touch and Go

    Francine Pascal

    I want Conner back. He says he wants me back. But "they" say people like us shouldn't date each other. And I'm starting to wonder if "they" might be right....

  • Too Much Fun

    Carol Pugliano-Martin

    Max can’t seem to get enough of anything! His mom makes some cookies and says Max and Emmy can only have one. But Max wants more! When he takes a trip to Dragon Land, Max meets the Wantmore Twins who allow him to overdo everything. He eats too much...

  • Toes Have Wiggles, Kids Have Giggles

    Harriet Ziefert

  • To Trade the Stars

    Julie E. Czerneda

    JASON AND SIRA-- he a human telepath and independent trader, she now Speaker for the Clan Council, as well as Jason's life partner--are trying to forge a life for themselves free of the demands of both the Clan and the Drapsk, a race determined to c...

  • To Tempt an Angel

    Patricia Grasso

    She is Angelica Douglas, the Countess of Melrose. Driven to poverty by the men who bankrupted her father, forced to support her family with skillful cheating at cards and dice, she yearns for revenge. And she is not above enlisting the aid of a chiva...

  • To Love an Older Man

    Debbi Rawlins

    She Needed a Place to Call Home Beth Anderson was pregnant and had nowhere to turn -- until handsome, and much older, lawyer David Matthews offered her a warm place to stay for the night, no strings attached. But a well-meaning matchmaker saw the ...

  • To Catch a Spy

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    With a hilarious new Hollywood thriller and in the hire of the urbane, amusing screen star Cary Grant, private investigator Toby Peters continues a madcap career that has cast him as sleuth to such movie luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, the Marx Brothe...

  • This Side of Heaven

    Ruth Langan
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    On the run from her abusive brother-in-law, a young woman and her nephew find a safe haven with a solitary Montana rancher until the boy's father, bent on vengeance, tracks them to the secluded ranch and threatens their newfound family....

  • This Pen for Hire

    Laura Levine

    Steamy personals ads. Daring declarations of love. Writer-for-hire Jaine Austen has penned them all. But when one of the love connections she made is broken up by murder, Jaine finds herself freelancing free-of-charge--and uncovering more than she ba...

  • A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla

    Nick Fowler

    From the moment her daschund humped his leg on a Soho street, aspiring rock star/subway performer Curtis Birnbaum knew he was a goner. He sensed Camilla was a woman who would equally inspire and terrify him. And, miraculously, his ploys for her affec...

  • They Shall See God

    Athol Dickson

    After 25 years, the man Ruth and Kate helped lock away is released from prison, thrusting them into a horrible nightmare. Suddenly a series of bizarre crimes hits Ruth's Jewish community in New Orleans, reigniting the flames of age-old hatred. A page...

  • That Maddening Man

    Debrah Morris

    Ellin Bennett had a daughter to raise, a career to save, and a newspaper to run. Rescuing a stranded Santa Claus from the roadside was not on her To-Do list. Worse yet, "Santa" was none other than sexy Jack Madden, schoolteacher and part-time writer ...

  • Testimony

    Felicia Mason

    After eighteen years of firm faith, Roger McKenzie is questioning his calling as leader of the gospel choir, The Triumphant Voices of Praise. Not only have the Voices failed to achieve commercial and critical success, relationships within the choir a...

  • The Tavern in the Morning

    Alys Clare

    At the end of a dark and dreary market day, Goody Anne's inn at Tonbridge is finally settling down for the night. But while Anne's serving maid and boy finish up their chores, a man lies dying in the guest chamber -- poisoned by a piece of pie made b...

  • Taste of Honey

    Eileen Goudge

    With Carson Springs still reeling from Samantha Kiley's romance with a charismatic younger man, her best friend Gerry Fitzgerald fires up the town with another sensational scandal. The child Gerry gave up for adoption twenty-eight years ago--and kept...

  • Tangled Up in Love

    Hailey North

    SHOULD SHE CUT AND RUN... Being left at the altar once was enough for high-powered, workaholic exec Stacey St. Cyr. Stacey's supposed to be on vacation at a posh spa. Instead she's stuck in Doolittle, Arkansas-population next-to-nothing -- watching ...

  • Tamed by Your Desire

    Jen Holling

    Refusing to marry a man she does not love, Fayth Graham is forced to flee her ancestral home. Her freedom is short-lived when she is captured by her most reviled enemy -- Alex Maxwell, who would never forgive her for teasing him mercilessly and then ...

  • Talking in the Dark

    Laura Glen Louis

    Beautifully crafted and movingly told, the stories in Talking in the Dark read like small exquisite novels. From betrayal to sacrifice, obsession to abandonment, each tale speaks the truth of the underside of love, evoking images of lowered voices an...

  • Take a Hike, Snoopy!

    Charles M. Schulz

    As the PEANUTS gang go on nature hikes and camping trips, they have many hilarious adventures along the way, in an entertaining story based on the comic strips and characters created by Charles M. Schulz. Simultaneous....

  • Tainted Trail

    Wen Spencer

    Meet Ukiah Oregon, a unique young man with accelerated senses who was raised by wolves, domesticated by two women, and trained as a tracker by a private investigator. And that's the normal part of his life.... Ukiah is hired to locate a missing hi...

  • The Tail Of Little Skunk

    Marsha Diane Arnold

  • Surrender the Stars

    Linda Lea Castle

    Betrothed But Loving Another...Or So He Thinks Desmond Vaudry du Lac is appalled when King Henry III commands him to wed Aislinn, who's been dubbed the Poison Flower of Seven Oaks, having buried four husbands in five years. But Desmond is loyal ...

  • The Sunsets of the West

    Tony Johnston

    When Pa decides to leave New Hampshire for a new life in the west, the family packs up and gets on the move, but their journey becomes more treacherous than they had expected and they have to stay united to make the trip successful....

  • Sunset in St. Tropez

    Danielle Steel

    As Diana Morrison laid the table for six at her elegant Central Park apartment, there was no warning of what was to come. Spending New Year's Eve together was a sacred tradition for Diana, her husband of thirty-two years, Eric, and their best friends...

  • Sun Valley

    Gena Hale

    Will Ryder knows trouble when he sees it--especially when it's wearing a slinky red dress that's cut down to there. Gorgeous Neala Delaney's mixed up in some very bad business--and Will has agreed to hide her away on his Montana ranch, Sun Valley. Bu...

  • Sun Dog

    Monique Roffey

    Sun Dog introduces a writer of tremendous originality and maturity, with a warm and startling gift for revealing the magic in the everyday. August is a large, awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, hiding his unnatural body away b...

  • A Stylish Marriage

    Patricia Waddell

    A thoroughly modern woman A hopelessly old-fashioned man A marriage that will surprise them both...when love becomes part of the bargain Even if the Merriam Falls society matrons don't believe running a boardinghouse is a proper endeavor for a yo...

  • Stuart's Wild Ride

    Patricia Lakin

  • Stuart Little 2: The New Adventures of Stuart Little

    Laura Hunt

    When a sweet, lonely bird named Margalo falls into Stuart's life, he invites her into his home, but Margalo isn't as nice as she seems and Stuart must show her how important being nice can be. Original....

  • Stuart Little 2: The Movie Storybook

    Julie Michaels

    Having saved Margalo's life from an angry falcon, Stuart Little is surprised to find his new friend and Mrs. Little's diamond ring gone one morning, thus Stuart sets out to get the ring back and find out if Margalo was involved in the theft. 150,000 ...

  • Stuart Little 2: Stuart Little's Big Adventures

    Julia Richardson

    These fantastic storybooks are illustrated with colour photo stills from the film!

    Stuart Little's Big Adventure

    Stuart Little is having a big adventure! Whether he is rescuing a new friend, trying out for the soccer team, or flying ...

  • Stuart Finds a Friend

    Patricia Lakin

  • Stroke of Fortune

    Christine Rimmer

    LSCC MEMBER: Millionaire rancher Flynt Carson Brooding, sexy, tough outer shell-hard nut to crack SOCIAL STATUS: Handsome young widower METHOD OF SEDUCTION: This elite member's guarded demeanor draws women like honey! Eligible bachelor Fl...

  • Stranger to the Sun

    Jeff Mariotte

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... NEVERENDING NIGHT When Wesley opens a package that arrives special delivery, he is instantly sent into a coma-like slumber. It's obvious he has fallen victim to a spell, and Angel sets off w...

  • Strand of a Thousand Pearls

    Dorit Rabinyan

    Redolent with the scent of lilac and oleander blossoms, and bursting with the flavors of quinces and overripe plums, Strand of a Thousand Pearls is the story of the imagined and actual marriages of the Azizyan girls, their years of yearning, restless...

  • The Storm

    Frederick Buechner

    The Boston Globe calls Frederick Buechner "one of our finest writers." USA Today says he's "one of our most original storytellers." Now this acclaimed author gives us his most beguiling novel yet--a magical tale of love, betrayal, and redemption insp...

  • The Stone Forest

    Karen Harper

    Stone County, Indiana - a stunning landscape of rock quarries, caves and underground rivers - is a place of unique beauty...and a place marked by an unsolved tragedy. One warm night 16 years ago, sisters Jenna and Amanda Kirk disappeared. Days lat...

  • Still Waters Run Deep

    Leslie Esdaile

  • Step to the Graveyard Easy

    Bill Pronzini

    Matthew Cape has no time to worry about his fears; caught up in events not of his making, but inescapable, he does things he's never dared and goes places he's only dreamed about. He's given up everything he ever had, but nothing at all of what he is...

  • Steal My Heart

    Hayley Ann Solomon
    in

    When Lady Fern Reynolds confided in a sympathetic houseguest that she was considering running away to London to escape betrothal to an unknown suitor, she didn't expect him to offer her shelter. And she certainly didn't imagine tumbling for him, the ...

  • Star Struck

    Nancy Baker Jacobs

    A GOOD LOOKING CORPSE Hollywood Star reporter Quinn Collins thinks she's seen it all--covering the oddball beat that is Tinsel Town--until she stumbles onto the body of gorgeous Shane King, a notoriously incompetent "baby mogul" producer, dead in ...

  • Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams: The Official Movie Storybook - Junior Novel

    Kiki Thorpe

    When the new head of the OSS gives his children, Gary and Gerti Giggles, a special assignment, Spy Kids Carmen and Juni Cortez take the job for themselves and travel to a mysterious island to recover the missing Transmooker device....

  • Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

    Lara Bergen

    When the new head of the OSS gives his children, Gary and Gerti Giggles, a special assignment, Spy Kids Carmen and Juni Cortez take the job for themselves and travel to a mysterious island to recover the missing Transmooker device....

  • Spirit Warrior

    Cassie Edwards

    A SPIRITED BEAUTY As the daughter of a wealthy adventurer, Denise Russler longs for excitement. But when a terrifying Indian attack leaves her stranded in the untamed land of Wyoming, she must turn to a man she does not trust.... A POWERFUL WARRI...

  • Spaceland

    Rudy Rucker

    Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It...

  • Sonoran Sweetheart

    Nancy J. Farrier

    Having worn the yoke of slavery, Lavette Johnson knows bitterness. Even now, she is bound by a commitment that limits her freedom. Resentment over what she has lost has robbed her of any spiritual peace. Though blacksmith Josiah Washington knows ...

  • Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars

    Sheri Holman

    10th day of the 1st moon, 17th year of King Chinp'yong It is the Hour of the Pig when the whole palace is settling down to sleep and only the watchmen and astronomers are awake. I have not had a chance during the festival season to sit at my favorit...

  • Somebody Else's Music

    Jane Haddam

    Every school class has a target. It was just the way the world worked. A long time ago, in the small town of Hollman, Pennsylvania, it was Liz Toliver, once too smart and too shy for her own good. Today, she's a popular author, and an esteemed CNN pa...

  • A Soldier's Duty

    Thomas E. Ricks

    Majors Cindy Sherman and Bud Lewis are the best young combat officers the army has, and they’ve both been tapped for plum positions as aides-de-camp for two of the Pentagon’s most senior generals. The Pentagon is a cauldron of careerist jockeyin...

  • The Solace of Leaving Early

    Haven Kimmel

    Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana...

  • Soccer Season

    Alice Downes

  • Smooth-Talking Texan

    Candace Camp

    For temporarily-relocated-from-Dallas hotshot defense attorney Lisa Mendoza, a year working for the public defender's office in tiny Angel Eye, Texas, was just a slight detour off the path she'd mapped out for her life. Then she ran smack-dab into ha...

  • Slow Dance With a Cowboy

    Linda Style

    Nicole Weston is shocked to encounter the man she loved -- and left -- 10 years ago. Ex-cowboy Cameron Colter appears at her classroom door because his son, Michael, is one of her students. Michael's only recently become part of his life, and being a...

  • Slocum and the Widow Maker

    Jake Logan

    When a landowner gets greedy, Slocum marks his territory -- with bullets.Landowner Seth Draper bullied his way through town, buying up smaller ranches and adding the acreage to his own. But when rancher Ian MacTavish refuses to sell, Draper plays dir...

  • Sixgun Justice

    Jon Sharpe

    The Gold Rush boomtown of Ophis, California, is plagued by series of vicious robberies, extortion schemes, and murders, and with no sheriff in town to keep the peace, things can only get worse, until the Trailsman arrives to face down the outlaws. Or...

  • Six Strokes Under

    Roberta Isleib

    Hole in one...or one in a hole? Cassandra Burdette used to carry clubs on the PGA tour -- now she's swinging them at the Qualifying School for the LPGA Tour. The competition is fierce, but the standout so far is Kaitlin Rupert -- whose talent and ...

  • Sisters Pixie

    Candlewick Press

  • Single Father Seeks...

    Amy J. Fetzer

    Once they'd shared an unforgettable encounter, but Ciara Caldwell had disappeared into the night, leaving Bryce Ashland with no clue to her identity. He still remembered his mystery woman's face, but now Bryce was a bachelor dad who didn't have time ...

  • Sinfully Delicious

    Lora Kenton

    A sure-fire recipe for true love: In a Texas whorehouse combine the two main ingredientsa New Orleans socialite and an ex-bounty hunter. Watch Kyra Lourdes and Cliff Baldwin's emotions bubble to the surface, as old feelings are stirred up in the chi...

  • Simple Recipes

    Madeleine Thien

    A poignant and insightful anthology of short fiction explores the lives and feelings of families torn apart by conflict between generations, cultures, and values in which characters desperately struggle to reconcile family loyalty with individual dre...

  • A Simple Habana Melody

    Oscar Hijuelos

    It is 1947, and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love, and sadness, returns to Cuba after being mistakenly imprisoned during the Nazi occupation of France.

    When Levis arrives back in Habana, his mind...

  • The Silent Bride

    Leslie Glass

    THE SHELTERED BRIDE... A beautiful bride's glorious trip down the aisle is cut short by a sniper's bullet. The crime has stunned the city and baffled NYPD detective April Woo. The sweet, modest, eighteen-year-old virgin couldn't have had an enemy ...

  • Shotgun Nanny

    Nancy Warren

    Annie Parker doesn't believe in taking life too seriously; she is, after all, a clown by profession. Her motto is "Have fun, make 'em laugh, and move on." That applies to her love life, too. So why does superserious ex-Mountie and bachelor "dad" Mark...

  • Shipwreck

    Dave Horner

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  • A Sheriff in Tennessee

    Lori Handeland

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  • Sheepshagger

    Niall Griffiths

    Robbed of his ancestral home - a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales - Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother's cottage into a weekenders' barbecue party but on all those who have violated...

  • Sheba

    Nicholas Clapp

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  • She's My Mom

    Rebecca Winters

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  • Shattered Sky

    Neal Shusterman

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  • Sharks!

    Catherine Nichols

  • The Shadows of Power

    James W. Huston

    A small nation that bolsters the terrorist cause is flexing its military muscle in a far corner of the world. On a mission to the now-volatile Mediterranean, F/A-18 pilot Lieutenant Ed Stovic shoots down an Algerian MiG at the climax of a dramatic, h...

  • Shadow Without a Name

    Ignacio Padilla

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  • Shadow of the Protector

    Elizabeth Lord

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  • The Shadow Hunter

    Pat Murphy

    The clash of prehistoric shamanic traditions with future technology makes for a gripping tale in this first novel by the Nebula Award-winning author.

    On a moonlit night thirty thousand years ago, a young Neanderthal boy dreamed a true dream. ...

  • Shades of Honor

    Wendy Lindstrom

    HE WAS A BROKEN MAN... Former Union soldier Radford Grayson returns to his small hometown, looking for a stable and comforting place to raise his young, motherless daughter. Despite his troubled past, his hopes are to reconcile with his family and p...

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    Elizabeth Gunn

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  • Sequoyah

    Robert J. Conley

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  • The Seduction

    Julia Ross

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    Jo Manning

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    Jule McBride

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    Annette Mahon

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  • The Secret Agent

    Francine Mathews

    WHO WAS JACK RODERICK? They called him the Legendary American: Trained by the OSS, Jack Roderick plummeted into Bangkok one rainy morning in 1945 and never left. He was feared and respected as a foreign spy, a business kingpin, and a trader in men's...

  • A Second Glance

    Kathleen Paul
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    The Steadman Mill is the heart of industry in Eaststead, Massachusetts, weaving miles of cloth that is shipped throughout the country and abroad. The Kindred Hearts Orphanage is the pulse of the town's charity efforts...and, most recently, the focus ...

  • Second Chance Bride

    Carolyn Davidson
    in

    Any man would be shocked to find that his new wife is already pregnant, but when a mail-order bride discovers that her overbearing new husband has a four-year-old secret of his own, it's the lonely little girl who gives her a reason to make their mar...

  • Scooby Doo and the Invisible Android

    Jesse McCann / Jesse Leon McCann

    Scooby-Doo is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past three generations. The snack-sniffing sleuth and his pals are in the midst of a huge popularity boom.



    It's a robot ruckus!

    Scooby and the gang are ...

  • The Sceptred Isle Club

    Brent Monahan

    In 1905, John Le Brun makes his first excursion to England to visit import broker Geoffrey Moore. Le Brun and Moore became friends six years earlier while Le Brun was Sheriff of Brunswick, Georgia and enmeshed in a perplexing murder case at the very ...

  • Sanctuary

    Lynn Abbey

    "It is long after the days of Jubal, Shadowspawn, and their contemporaries, and there is barely more than a single survivor who remembers the city's full history. Molin Torch-holder, the survivor at hand, has assassins on his trail (some things never...

  • The Russian Debutante's Handbook

    Gary Shteyngart

    NAMED ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS A visionary novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Little Failure.The Russian Debutante's Handbook introduces Vladimir Girshkin,...

  • Run-Away Roley

    Alison Inches

    Bob and the team must find a way to help Roley when he begins sleep-rolling through the town, in a lively Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read story that will help preschoolers develop their reading skills. Original....

  • Run of the Mill

    Susan K. Downs
    in

    The Steadman Mill is the heart of industry in Eaststead, Massachusetts, weaving miles of cloth that is shipped throughout the country and abroad. The Kindred Hearts Orphanage is the pulse of the town's charity efforts...and, most recently, the focus ...

  • Royal Spy

    Valerie Parv

    PRINCESS'S SECRET PASSION REVEALED! Tamiri princess caught with a handsome commoner -- or is he? Princess Nadia Kamal was preparing to marry the man her father had chosen. Then mysterious Gage Weston appeared. The bold so-called diplomat forc...

  • Royal Protocol

    Christine Flynn

    Accomplished Admiral Harrison Monteque deemed lady-in-waiting Gwendolyn Corbin an ice maiden. Until the two worked closely to search for a missing prince and her warmth began to melt his hard-edged heart. However, the eye-catching admiral feared that...

  • Roux the Day

    Peter King

    For six generations, the Belvedere family dominated the culinary landscape of New Orleans, a city that boasts what is perhaps the most vibrant, exciting, and authentic cuisine in America. But each generation relinquished control of the family restaur...

  • Rosy's Visitors

    Judy Hindley

    It’s moving day for Rosy, who is setting out to find a whole new house, just for her. With blanket and books and toys and all of her favorite things in tow, she comes upon the perfect place - right in her backyard. Soon she’s made a sign and bell...

  • Roses Will Bloom Again

    Lori Copeland

    When Emma returns home to Serenity following her sister's untimely death, she must confront Sam and the feelings she never fully dealt with after their broken engagement. A strange clause in her sister's will forces Emma to stay and work with Sam to ...

  • The Root Worker

    Rainelle Burton

    Terrified by the frightening world that surrounds her, from her family and school to the voodoo priestess who holds her mother in thrall, Ellen, an eleven-year-old African-American girl growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, desperately searches for a s...

  • A Rogue's Promise

    Peggy Waide

    A LADY'S QUEST Eighteen years before, deep in the mountains of China, Lady Joanna Fenton's father found a sacred statuette. The two-headed dragon was reputed to beget prosperity, but for Joanna, it had brought nothing but heartache. Her father had b...

  • A Rogue's Deception

    Valerie King

    A DEVASTATING KISS When William Pinfrith, a charming stranger, swept her into his arms at a masquerade ball, he won Alice Cherville's instant sympathy. His half-brother, the arrogant Earl of Bradenstoke, had mistreated him also. For, too, regard...

  • The Rogue and the Hellion

    Connie Mason

    STAND... When an audacious highwayman holds up his coach and points a pistol at a rather crucial part of his anatomy, the Marquis of Bathurst has a critical choice to make -- give up his dead brother's ring or lose the family jewels. Gabriel dec...

  • Ring of Hope

    Birdie L. Etchison

    Life moves in circles. Aaron Walker watched his sister slowly die, then spent years running from the pain he felt. Now he finds himself working in a Maine lobster pound, feeling a strange desire to settle down. There's something about the job...t...

  • A Rich Man for Dry Creek

    Janet Tronstad

    MONEY CAN'T BUY EVERYTHING... Tiny Dry Creek, Montana, was the last place on earth personal chef Jenny Black would come to find a husband -- and a wealthy playboy was the last man on earth she'd find appealing. But when her employer's son caught h...

  • Riccardo's Secret Child

    Cathy Williams

    Millionaire businessman Riccardo Fabbrini was furious that his child had been kept a secret from him! He blamed his daughter's guardian -- the very pretty Julia Nash. And he intended to use seduction as his revenge! After all, no woman had immuni...

  • Ribbon of Gold

    Cathy Marie Hake
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    The Steadman Mill is the heart of industry in Eaststead, Massachusetts, weaving miles of cloth that is shipped throughout the country and abroad. The Kindred Hearts Orphanage is the pulse of the town's charity efforts...and, most recently, the focus ...

  • Ribbiting Tales

    Bruce Coville

    An anthology of eight humorous stories celebrating the slimy frog includes original tales by such authors as Robert J. Harris, Brian Jacques, Bruce Coville, Janet Taylor Lisle, and Jane Yolen. Reprint....

  • The Revenant

    Michael Punke

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  • The Reunion

    Curt Autry

    "[An] intriguing tale of espionage, murder and suspense" -- Publishers WeeklyNine surviving members of a U-boat crew captured duringWorld War II gather in North Carolina for their 60th reunion, only to find themselves targets for a group kill.Meanwhi...

  • Reservations for Murder

    Tim Myers

    Tucked away in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains is the charming Hatteras West Inn and Lighthouse. Innkeeper Alex Winston watches over the cozy getaway and guests count on him to take care of everything from basic repairs to breakfast. But la...

  • Rescue Ferrets at Sea

    Richard Bach

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  • Replenish the Earth

    Anna Jacobs

    Can a marriage of convenience lead to true love?It is 1735. When her mother dies penniless, Sarah Mortonby is shocked to discover she has inherited a wealthy estate. Advised to sell the crumbling manor house to her neighbour, Matthew Sewell, she visi...

  • Regina's Song

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    “A story of murder and revenge . . . Outstandingly well paced and tightly plotted, the novel also stands out in its handling of various psychological themes.” -- Booklist Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical t...

  • Red River Crossing

    Kent Conwell

    Martin Wallace had bucked the tiger, seen the elephant, fought with Nathan Forrest Bedford, battled Quanah Parker and his Comanches, skinned three thousand buffalo, and slipped unseen through Indian Territory, all with no more than a scratch or bad c...

  • The Red Herring

    Sally Spencer

    The discovery of the body of a young, red-haired school mistress, lying in a pig-pen with her face half-eaten away, is the beginning of a new investigation for Charlie Woodend. But it is to be an investigation he is soon ordered to abandon when Helen...

  • The Red Church

    Scott Nicholson

    The church was constructed in the 1860s under the guidance of Reverend Wendell McFall. His sermons declared the existence of God s Second Son- whose mission is to undo all of Jesus work on Earth. McFall had the church painted red to summon the First...

  • The Real McCoy

    Darin Strauss

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  • Read Me a Story

    Rosemary Wells

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  • Rangle River

    Zane Grey

    This gripping collection captures the essence of the Wild West and includes two short stories, two short novels, and two first-hand accounts of the author's own adventures in the territories he writes about. Reprint....

  • Random Gunfire

    J.R. Roberts

    Forced to seek refuge from a vicious storm in the remote town of Random, Oklahoma, Clint Adams runs afoul of Bittermeyer, the local mayor, bank owner, and overlord, who controls everything--and everyone--in the town. Original....

  • The Rancher's Bride

    Tara Taylor Quinn

    LostHis bride. She’d turned tail and run minutes before her father was about to pronounce them man and wife. What demons were pursuing the girl Max Santana had waited eleven years to marry?FoundHer flesh and blood. Rachel Blair thought she’d fina...

  • The Rake

    Suzanne Enoch

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  • The Rainbow Singer

    Simon Kerr

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    Steve Metzger

  • The Puzzle Bark Tree

    Stephanie Gertler

    When Grace Hammond Barnett's parents die suddenly, she is bequeathed a lakeside house she never knew existed. Leaving her city life behind, she travels to the house for refuge-and meets a man who helps her unravel a devastating secret buried in her p...

  • Punitive Strike

    Charles W. Sasser

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  • Promises to Keep

    Gloria Mallette

    New from the author of the national bestseller Shades of Jade: a story about the tragic loss of a son, the struggle to keep a family together, and the hunt for a murderer who didn’t leave any clues behind

    After a bitter divorce, Troy Kirkwoo...

  • The Prince's Pleasure

    Robyn Donald

    Passion and the Prince... Prince Luka of Dacia is a man with a lot to lose if his secret leaks out too early. He trusts nothing and no one, least of all his unexpected desire for Alexa Mytton. She might be beautiful, but she's dangerous -- and...

  • A Prince at Last!

    Cathie Linz

    From the desk of Luc Dumont Head of Security St. Michel June 2002 Day 60 The missing heir has been found! The dowager queen and the royal council are overjoyed -- I, however, feel there must be some mistake. Learning that I, a presumed commoner,...

  • The Prince & the Pregnant Princess

    Susan Mallery

    SHE WAS ALL KINDS OF WRONG FOR ROYALTY... When it came to kingdoms, impulsive, up-from-the-streets Cleo Wilson was no Cinderella. Why, mere months ago she'd done the unthinkable: fallen for arrogant, irresistible Prince Sadik -- and come up pr...

  • Present Tense

    L.A. Graf

    The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise is exploring the seemingly peaceful and uninhabited world of M-3107 when a bizarre and inexplicable transporter accident causes both Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy to vanish completely. Transporter records suggest that t...

  • Prelude to War

    Don Pendleton

    The ultra-covert arm of the Justice Department known as Stony Man is America's last and best hope when crisis strikes. A team of brilliant computer specialists and strategists and a field force of bathe-hardened commandos make rapid deployment respon...

  • Precinct Puerto Rico

    Steven Torres

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  • The Prayer of Jesus for You

    Hank Hanegraaff

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  • Prague

    Arthur Phillips

    BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, The Egyptologist, and Angelica. A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows fi...

  • Practice Makes Perfect

    Kathryn Shay

    They'd grown up at Serenity House -- a group home for girls. Now they're coming together for the first time as adults. Childhood friends who'd shared difficult times, who'd shared hopes and fears, laughter and tears -- and perhaps most important of a...

  • The Power of the Rat

    Megan Stine

  • Possession

    Sonia Icilyn

    British fashion designer Eve Hamilton is determined to get justice for her beloved brother's death. And she thinks she knows who's responsible...attractive Professor Theophilus de Cordova. On the pretense of sponsoring a fundraiser, she decides to ...

  • The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

    Jeffrey Ford

    A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque tells the story of portraitist Piero Piambo, who is offered a commission unlike any other. The client is Mrs. Charbuque, a wealthy and elusive woman who asks Piambo to paint her ...

  • Pooh's Chalkboard Book!

    Dennis Shealy

  • Polly's Really Secret Diary

    Frances Thomas

    Polly’s had enough: her hamster‘s gone missing, her best friend isn’t her best friend anymore, and the entire world is baby crazy! She’s going to run away once she’s saved up enough money and food. In the meantime, she’s got to cope with ...

  • The Poet and the Pauper

    George MacDonald

    Tells the story of "Wee Sir Gibbie of the Highlands," a seemingly destitute orphan whose life communicates truth and goodness despite his inability to speak, and the story of Gibbie's best friend, Donal Grant....

  • The Pleasures of a Wager

    Colleen Faulkner
    in

    Three independent women, three high-stakes wagers--and three losses. Now these daring ladies set out to lose their maidenhood to the ton's most dangerous rogues--but might find love where they least expect it . . . American heiress Alison May was ...

  • A Playdate With Death

    Ayelet Waldman

    In between planning playdates and playing dress up, Juliet finally gets some much-needed kid-free time, working out at the local health club. It's going well. She's losing weight. She's even happy--until her personal trainer commits suicide. A che...

  • Play

    Marilyn Kaye

    Amy’s encounter with dinosaurs and cave dwellers -- and aliens -- was pretty wild. Now her quest to stop the spread of the infectious bacteria gets even more bizarre as she agrees to take another perilous voyage.A voyage inside a plague-ridden huma...

  • The Plain Prairie Princess

    Stephen A. Bly

    Retta Barre has faced a dizzying prairie storm, a stubborn buffalo, and a murderous Indian twice. But that's nothing compared to what happens when her family is left alone in the middle of the prairie. They face one life-threatening danger after anot...

  • Pixie Cool Cat

    Candlewick Press

  • Piggy's Pancake Parlor

    David McPhail

    After being taught the secret recipe to Mrs. Todd's fantastic pancakes, Piggy gets an idea to open a pancake parlor and so turns to hungry Fox and the rest of his friends for help in getting his plan put into motion....

  • Pig Parade

    Patricia Hubbell

  • Picture Perfect

    Alison Inches

    Cassie asks each of her friends to help her paint a mural for the playground, but everyone turns her down. They would all rather do something they’re good at. “Nobody wants to help me,” Cassie says sadly. But with a little pep talk from Quetzal...

  • Picture a Letter

    Brad Sneed

    People, places, animals, and more come together to demonstrate the different words that can begin with a single letter, in a boldly illustrated, wordless alphabet book by the illustrator of Sorry. ...

  • The Perfect Wife

    Mary Burton

    Keeping secrets and telling lies was no way to start a marriage. But what else, Jenna Winslow ruminated, could a woman running from scandal do? Who would ever want an unschooled virgin with a fatherless baby in tow? Certainly not rugged rancher Rowe ...