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New Books List: 632 titles


  • Ye Zhaoyan

    A masterpiece by one of China’s bestselling contemporary novelists, Nanjing 1937 tells the epic story of a passionate courtship played out against the backdrop of one of the century’s most harrowing scenes of war.

    Ding Wenyu is a philander...



  • Timothy Zahn

    Draycos, a golden-scaled draconic K'da poet-warrior, was on a scout fleet ship when it was attacked, with him the lone survivor. Forced to find a new symbiotic humanoid host, he found Jack Morgan. Jack has been on his own, making his way by shipping ...



  • Mia Yun

    Translations of Beauty maps the tender yet tumultuous relationship of twin sisters Inah and Yunah, from their early years in South Korea to their coming-of-age in Queens, New York. At the heart of the narrative -- told from Yunah's intimate, engaging...



  • Rebecca York
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...



  • Kathleen Y'Barbo
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    When Preston Grant could no longer run for God, he began to run from Him. Unfortunately, his running nearly cost him everything he once held dear. Can he forget his own pain and cheer the woman he loves on to victory in Rome at the 1960 summer games?...



  • Sally Wright

    THE WILD AND BEAUTIFUL SEA ISLAND WAS A PLACE TO DIE FOR.
    AND KILL FOR.

    Of all the aristocratic dynasties that once reigned over Georgia’s Cumberland Island, only the Hill family survives. Now they too are threatened. Charlotte, the famil...



  • Alice Wootson

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    Undercover journalist, Alana Duke, and ex-special forces agent, Keith Henderson, combine forces to thwart a plot to cause national devastation. The powerful mutual attraction between the two proves to be a delicious complication.

    ""Mrs. Wootso...



  • Jacqueline Woodson

    You are so light you move with the wind and the snow.... And it lifts you up--over a world of sadness and anger and fear. Over a world of first kisses and hands touching and someone you're falling in love with. She's there now. Right there... Miah an...



  • Sherryl Woods

    Destiny Carlton is finally ready for a little sweet revenge. For twenty years Destiny Carlton has put family and duty ahead of her own hopes and dreams. Now with the orphaned nephews she raised grown and married, it's time for the once free-spirit...



  • James Wood

    "James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick Following the collection The Broken Estate --which established James Wood as the leading critic of his ge...



  • Cheryl Wolverton

    A NEW BEGINNING Turning forty is a major milestone for Annie Hooper, who has been married, with stepchildren, since she was seventeen. The birthday gift of a trip to Holland offers some unexpected and exciting changes to her routine. And when a car ...



  • Gene Wolfe

    Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and SF of his generation. From The Book of the Long Sun to The Book of the New Sun series, to his impressive short fiction oeuvre. Innocents Aboard gathers fantasy and horror stories from the last d...



  • Rebecca Winters

    The sweetest little boy... Leslie Hopkins's heart goes out to Cory Gallagher, a six-yearold boy who lost his mother over a year ago. She delights in her new job as his nanny and is ecstatic when the boy starts to warm up to her. She hurts only whe...



  • Jacqueline Winspear

    Maisie Dobbs is back, and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress'...



  • Derek Wilson

    On a sultry summer night in 1994, Nathaniel and Katherine Gye are guests at a Civil War fancy-dress party. The theme of the occasion is apt because Tripletree, the Jacobean manor house in the heart of the Cotswolds where the event is being held, is s...



  • Jeanne Willis

    Having come up with crazy stories about the horrors of school, such as being fed worms for lunch and having pirates for classmates, Honor Brown finally graduates and is set free--only to miss it after realizing that school wasn't such a bad place aft...



  • Michael Z. Williamson

    One shot, one kill ... It is the code of the sniper, a lone professional in a military organization that prides itself on teamwork and strength in numbers. Feared by his enemies and distrusted by his allies, the sniper can turn tides and win battl...




  • Eileen Wilks
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...



  • Lee Wilkinson

    Can one night lead to many more? When tycoon Graydon Gallagher lends Rebecca a shoulder to cry on at her ex-fiance's wedding, she doesn't expect to wake up next to him the following day! Exactly what kind of comfort has he given her? Th...



  • Sheri Whitefeather
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    Welcome to Steam, the hottest club in Savannah. Here the jazz is smooth, the dance floor is hopping and the attraction between three unsuspecting couples is rising as quickly as the temperature! Under the Cover of Night by Barbara McCauley O...



  • Christopher Whitcomb

    A fifteen-year member of the FBI who received its coveted Medal of Bravery, former agent Christopher Whitcomb electrified readers with his breathtaking memoir, Cold Zero. Now his remarkable past and hard-edged prose illuminate his highly acclaimed fi...



  • Karen Whiddon

    THE NATURE OF THE BEAST... That was all DEA agent Carson Turner had thought of since his partner had murdered his family. Then, just as the trail of evidence went cold, his enemy's beautiful sister, Brenna Lupe, appeared, offering him the chance f...



  • Joseph A. West

    A RACE AGAINST TIME Buck Fletcher plans to ride his horse for a $10,000 prize, money he needs to send his sick daughter to a faraway clinic. Then some outlaws steal his steed--and with it, his sick daughter's last hope. Though it's been ten years ...



  • Robin Wells

    THE BACHELOR Holt Landen was in trouble. He'd been left a six-month-old child he never knew he had, and while he'd attracted plenty of babes in the past, they were always the kind in high heels and garters. Diapers were disturbingly new, and they cal...



  • Anthony Weller

    "A gloriously strange book, both whimsical and brooding." -- Jeremy Jackson, People The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has decided to replace Salt Cove's signature wooden bridge with a concrete monstrosity. The authorities are unreasoning and unyieldi...



  • John Weisman

    From a bestselling author with intimate knowledge of CIA tradecraft comes an electrifying novel of terrifying possibilities -- a story of betrayal and secrets that could implode America's war on terrorism ... and a nightmarish conspiracy firmly roote...



  • Betty Webb

    DEAD, WHITE AND BLUE Patriot's Blood Press publisher Gloriana Alden-Taylor keels over and dies at a Scottsdale book convention after someone sprinkled her salad with hemlock. Private investigator Lena Jones takes a personal interest in the case when...



  • Joanna Wayne

    LYING IN THE SHADOWS OF THE MOONLIGHT... John Robicheaux lived the simple life in Cajun country -- that was until his brother turned up dead in the bayou. He'd be damned before he'd let that crime go unpunished. And John's suspicions about the sud...



  • Susan May Warren

    Ellie Karlson arrives in Deep Haven to fill the job as interim fire chief. The locals in this small town, including Pastor Dan Matthews, a volunteer firefighter, are shocked that a woman would take over this dangerous position. But as Dan and Ellie w...



  • Jim Ware

    A dry, forsaken blip on the edge of civilization. That's what Mike Fowler thinks of the little town of Ambrosia in the Arizona desert. He has no friends, no fun and no answers to the agonizing disappearance of his dad in a top-secret military mission...



  • David Foster Wallace

    In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. On...



  • Patricia Waddell

    LOVE HAS ITS REASONS... When William Fitch Minstead, the sixth Earl of Ackerman, agrees to a private audience with a lovely stranger, he's rewarded with the fateful news that he is the father of a little girl. After the death of her friend Eliza...



  • Ned Vizzini

    Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. . . until the day he finds out about the "squip." This pill-sized su...



  • Dan Vining

    While searching for the person responsible for killing his client's father, private investigator Jimmy Miles walks the dark streets of Hollywood along with the Sailors, restless creatures who own the night, to find the truth, but instead discovers hi...



  • Harry Turtledove

    The Bronze Age. The era of Troy, of Gilgamesh, of the dawning of human mastery over the earth. For decades, fantasists have set tales of heroism and adventure in imagined worlds based on the real Bronze Age, from the "Hyborean Age" of the Conan stori...



  • Valerie Tripp

    Three cheers for Gwen, sports star! She's the fastest runner, the highest kicker, and the top-scoring champion of the soccer team. But when her spelling bee team slides into a losing streak, Gwen learns that good sports are the most winning player...




  • Namrata Tripathi

    The Thunderbirds use high-tech gear in their daring rescue missions. Each device has a unique function that makes it ideal for certain situations. Read and learn about the Thunderbirds' vehicles and gadgets!

    ...



  • Nichelle D. Tramble

    “After two years of drifting I finally knew there was only one place that could offer me a shot at peace, and that was my hometown. The city was my crossroads, the crooked man with the slanted grin, my temptation, and I wanted to beat it. I wanted ...



  • Leonard Tourney

    The crime's the thing.

    William Shakespeare is perhaps the most famous and prolific playwright of all time. Millions have read and seen his works, but few know the man behind the works. For all his fortune and fame, little did he know that the ...



  • Pamela Toth

    After learning of her mysterious heritage, Emma Wright went to The Children's Connection -- and straight to the adoption agency's handsome director Morgan Davis. She wanted the truth, but client confidentiality forbade him from granting her request. ...



  • Elise Title

    As the superintendent of a Massachusetts prison halfway house, Natalie Price thought she'd seen it all. But when the death of a beautiful Boston socialite makes breaking news, Natalie is drawn into one of the biggest scandals of her career. Headli...



  • Rachel Timms

    Welcome to the world of Whatever You Want , a novel that turns twentysomething London into a fantasyland of endless possibilities. Play the game as Barbarella -- alluring, flirtatious, and sharp as the lash from a bondage whip -- or as Barnaby, with...



  • Liz Tigelaar

    After getting caught in the middle of a race riot in North Philly, Meg ends up grounded just before her sweet-sixteen party, but when her boyfriend Luke shows up with tickets to see the Beatles live in Atlantic City, Meg is determined to go....



  • Celia Thomson

    Chloe King is a normal girl. She goes to class (most of the time), fights with her mom, and crushes on a boy…or two. But around her sixteenth birthday, Chloe finds that perhaps she isn’t so normal after all. There’s the heightened night vision,...



  • Victoria Thompson

    As a turn-of-the-century midwife in New York City's tenements, Sarah Brandt has seen more than her share of joy and sorrow, birth and death. Now, she's drawn into a politically charged case where her help is not wanted--but is very much needed... ...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    New York Times bestselling author Vicki Lewis Thompson proves that things aren't always better with age... When twenty-year-old PR exec Kasey Braddock accepts her coworkers' dare to hit on the gorgeous new landscaper, she's excited. Finally here's...



  • Frank Thompson

    In a prequel to Knights of the Round Table, a vastly outnumbered Arthur and his knights are sent by the Roman Empire to defeat a bloodthirsty Saxon conqueror and his powerful army, a mission that takes a romantic turn when Arthur, Lancelot, a...



  • Will Thomas

    An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his apprentice, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar. When a student bea...



  • Scarlett Thomas

    Luke is allergic to everything. He spends his days in a sterile safe-haven designed to keep out all light and dirt, while everything he knows about the world comes from books, movies, the internet and whatever his best-friend Julie tells him. He wo...



  • Marin Thomas

    Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Him To The Altar Again With one bad marriage under his belt and a little girl by his side, Jake Montgomery solemnly swears that he doesn't want another wife. Until a femme fatale in a wedding dress shows up snagged -- lik...



  • Chantal Thomas

    A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent palace succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution. Now e...



  • Pamela Thomas-Graham

    Pamela Thomas-Graham's beguiling and atmospheric Ivy League novels simmer with hot button issues -- and unveil layers of malice and murder inside the life academic. Harvard economics professor Nikki Chase is intent on becoming the first tenured Afric...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Bets Are On In Holly Springs... Once upon a time -- and after too many birthday margaritas -- Holly Springs "Ice Princess" Lily Madsen decides she's had enough of being a virginal Southern belle and bets her friends that she can seduce a visiting ...



  • Sean Taylor

    Dynamic duo Sean Taylor and Bruce Ingman present a boinging, bouncing comedy -- and a masterful display of emergency trampolining skills.

    Holy moly! A terrible thing has happened to the Great Elastic Marvel, five times World Trampolining Cha...



  • Shirley Tallman

    The year is 1880, the place San Francisco. Intelligent, outspoken Sarah Woolson is a young woman with a goal and the fortitude to achieve it. She has always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. The trouble is, everyone believes women belong in the home---th...



  • James Swain

    When Tony Valentine, a master at catching casino cheaters, jets to Las Vegas to look for his missing son, he lands in the middle of a dangerous turf war between rival casinos. Valentine's longtime pal then taps him to figure out how an amateur won $2...



  • Stephen D. Sullivan

    Fans of the new movie based on the hit British TV series of the 1960s can follow the adventures of the Thunderbirds as they battle their nemesis, the Hood--a half-mechanical, completely maniacal villain played by Academy Award-winning actor Sir Ben K...





  • Carsten Stroud

    A prophetic thriller from the author of Cuba Strait, Cobraville follows a covert CIA mission deep in the jungles of the Philippines during a savage civil war. Cole Langan's five-man unit -- in country to repair what they have been led to believe i...




  • Sarah Strohmeyer

    Bubbles Yablonsky has been summoned. Heeding the call from her boss at the News-Times, she's racing her Camaro toward an abandoned coal mine and a potentially big story. What she finds is the love of her life, Steve Stiletto, knocked unconscious--and...



  • Todd Strasser

    Impact Zone: The most dangerous part of the waveYou gotta beat it...or you'll eat it.Ever since he went up against the locals and broke into the lineup, Kai has had his own crew. Spazzy is a summer kid with a lot of fancy gear. He looks like a total ...




  • J. Michael Straczynski

    He raised the bar for epic science-fiction storytelling on television with his television series Babylon 5, then followed it by elevating the way in which superhero tales are told with his critically acclaimed scripts for Marvel's The Amazing Spider-...



  • Penelope J. Stokes

    When tragedy occurs, four friends come together in a bittersweet reunion and are forced to confront the falsehoods and also embrace the truth in their lives.

    On college graduation day, Grace and her friends -- Liz, Tess, and Lovey -- agreed to...



  • Geronimo Stilton

    Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are full of fun -- tastier than Swiss cheese and t...



  • Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    Far, far away, jutting out into the emptiness beyond, lie the Edge. Filled with strange peoples and terrifying crea!tures, this is a world unlike any other, where action -- and danger -- await at every turn. Abandoned at birth in the dangerous Deepwo...



  • Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    Far, far away, jutting out into the emptiness beyond, lies the Edge. Both the land and the air are filled with strange peoples and terrifying creatures; action--and danger--await at every turn. On board the famous sky ship Stormchaser, Twig eagerly l...



  • Mariah Stewart

    THREE DEVIOUS PRISONERS VOWMURDEROUS REVENGE. NOW THE SECOND IS FREE. With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim a...



  • Mariah Stewart

    THREE DEVIOUS PRISONERS VOW MURDEROUS REVENGE. NOW THE FIRST IS FREE. It was inescapably chilling, as if the murderer was methodically working his way down a page torn from the phone book. The three victims brutally killed in their own homes had...



  • Amanda Stevens

    SET APART FROM THE REST... HE HAD NO PAST An accident had robbed Zac Riley of his memory, but then Zac learned he was a supersoldier trained by the covert organization Project Phoenix. And he alone could complete a vital mission, one that would ch...



  • William Steig

    Toby is at it again.

    When Toby and his parents go on a picnic, there's no telling who he'll pretend to be. An owl? A bat? A turtle? Can you guess?

    One thing is for sure: There's lots of fun in store for Toby ...



  • Mary Helen Stefaniak

    Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Book Award "Fans of Amy Tan and Carol Shields will revel in the themes of remembrance, forgiveness, family devotion, and forbidden love." -- BooklistEvery family has its secrets. But toward the end of his life, Geo...



  • Danielle Steel

    Eccentric high fashion meets buttoned-up Madison Avenue in Danielle Steel's captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from two wildly different worlds. In a fresh, funny look at what happens when a woman who has everything finally meets h...



  • Steck-Vaughn Company

    The proven Steck Vaughn Phonics series shapes successful, confident readers using poetry, rhyme, thematic units, color photos, flash cards and activities. Education Categories: Instructional Materials / Language Arts / Phonics. UNSPSC/NIGP Codes: 601...



  • Wendy Corsi Staub

    A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE Woodsbridge, New York, is the sort of upscale community where the American Dream is alive and thriving--shiny cars, beautiful homes, and safe, tree-shaded streets. There are pools where kids splash each other gleefully, and soc...



  • Christopher Stasheff

    THE FINAL ADVENTURE IN THE PHENOMENAL SERIES! After an incredible 35-year run, the story of Rod Gallowglass -- the Warlock in Spite of Himself -- comes to its fantastic finale in the weird and wonderful world of Gramarye. When Gwendolyn -- the...



  • Jim Starlin

    The most powerful, enigmatic villain in the Marvel Universe takes center stage in a galaxy-spanning tale woven by his creator, Jim Starlin (MARVEL UNIVERSE: THE END). He's held ultimate power in his hands, only to see it all slip away time and again....



  • Tina St. John

    Ariana of Clairmont would risk anything to save her kidnapped brother, a quest she knows is fraught with peril. Her only ally is Braedon le Chasseur, a formidable knight with a mysterious past, whose scarred face and brooding nature mask a soul fille...



  • Patricia Sprinkle

    Hopemore, Georgia, county magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough is experiencing some of the weirdest weeks of her life, weighing the cons and more cons of a strange animal in her yard, the return of an old boyfriend, and of course, murder.... Folks in Hop...



  • Nancy Springer

    Ever since the Sheriff of Nottingham killed his father, Rook has run wild in Sherwood Forest, dreaming of his day for vengeance. Finally, he has found his chance. Not with the sheriff himself, but with the evil man’s son, snared by one of the mantr...



  • Kate Spohn

    Lucy is a curious and adventurous mouse who wants to live in a real house. At first Lucy only visits the house occasionally. Each time, the sisters who live there bring her back to the woods and tell her not to come back. But she doesn't understan...



  • Erica Spindler

    The low rumble of an outboard motor shatters the quiet of the lake. Treading water, fifteen-year-old Jane Killian waves her arms to alert the boater to her presence. But instead of veering off, he points his craft directly at her. The boat's hull fil...



  • Sonya Sones

    My name is Sophie.This book is about me.It tellsthe heart-stoppingly riveting storyof my first love.And also of my second.And, okay, my third love, too.It's not that I'm boy crazy.It's just that even thoughI'm almost fifteenI've been having sort of a...



  • Lauraine Snelling

    On the verge of Mt. St. Helens’ historic eruption, three women must face the mountain: two to search for their missing husbands; the third, to rediscover her life…After a local mountain becomes a deadly and imminent threat, three strikingly diffe...



  • James Sneddon

    James Sneddon has mixed a coming-of-age story with the dark fantastic in his first novel, The Tolltaker, in which a young boy comes to terms with death, grief, and the unknown.

    Eight-year-old Bobby Burke doesn't want to move out of his grandparent...



  • Stu Smith

    A fresh new twist to the classic story follows Goldilocks, who, tired of her boring existence, travels to outerspace where she explores a Martian home and discovers that there is no place quite like home on Earth....



  • Stu Smith

    Every school has its share of bookworms.

    Some schools have bugs in their computers.

    And lots of schools have spelling bees. But this school has bears. This school has owls. This school is a ZOO!

    Imaginat...



  • Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

    The intrepid Poppy Rice is back with not one but two cases, separated by thirty years but connected by DNA

    When the body of a young pregnant woman washes ashore on a stretch of barren beach at Boston Harbor, homicide detective Rocky Patel wri...



  • Ian Smith

    A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby ... a Nobel Prize -- winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . . The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian...



  • Debra White Smith

    "Smith shows her expertise with Jane Austen's work. . . . A fun and well-crafted romance through and through."--RT Book Reviews on Reason and Romance Reason and Romance: A Contemporary Retelling of Sense and Sensibility Sisters Elaina and Anna Wood...



  • Dean Wesley Smith

    Our seventh anthology features original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Trek: Voyager®, and Star Trek: Enterprise" stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! Featuring new stories by n...



  • Bobbi Smith

    Casey Turner can rope and ride like any man, but when she strides down the streets of Hard Luck, Texas, nobody takes her for anything but a beautiful woman. Working alongside her Pa to keep the bank from foreclosing on the Bar T, she has no time for ...



  • Christina Skye

    She's an FBI agent. He's a Navy SEAL. Together they're igniting enough heat to blow both their covers. Summer Mulcahey is a workaholic FBI agent with a nose for crime, a mouth for trouble and a heart tied to the job 24/7. But Summer also happens t...



  • Quinton Skinner

    John Wright’s mind is playing tricks on him. He sees people he thinks he knows, but they are only strangers. His memory flickers in and out of focus. He has not seen his fiancée, Iris, in over three years. He fled their Los Angeles apartment one n...



  • Deborah Skelly

    On the edge of turning forty, talent agent Maria O'Mara finds herself coping with a series of crises as she races against time to save her job, find a man, start a family, and deal with possible insanity, in an uproarious look at the life of a modern...



  • Sonia Singh

    Meet Maya Mehra... a hip chick from Newport Beach, California, who's just turned thirty, discovered she's the incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali, and happens to be unemployed and still living with her parents. Saving the world, though, may prove ...



  • Donna Simpson
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    When Sorrow Marchand accepts Bertram Carlyle's proposal of marriage, she is counting on the kindness she believes is hidden beneath his stern exterior. Her family's life is decidedly "original," if not truly eccentric, but Bertram is man enough to me...



  • Anne Rivers Siddons

    “Anne Rivers Siddons’s novels are women’s stories in the best sense, pulling you into the internal landscape of her characters’ lives and holding you there.” " PeopleA poignant novel of the love that unites us and the secrets that drive u...



  • Sharon Short

    Like nearly everyone else in Paradise, Ohio, local laundromat owner and stain-removal expert Josie Toadfern eagerly awaits the upcoming July 4th Founders Day celebration with its highlight, the annual Breitenstrater Pie Company pie-eating contest, sp...



  • Steven Sherrill

    Benny Poteat is, among other things, a tower jockey, his life defined by up or down. Working hundreds of feet in the air repairing tension lines and replacing burned-out lightbulbs, he observes the world from above.

    Benny has seen a lot of th...



  • Suzanne Strempek Shea

    In the latest novel from the award-winning author of Around Again, an American takes an unexpected trip to Ireland and finds the woman she was meant to become.Newly unemployed, Sophie White has nothing better to do when her recently widowed best frie...



  • Jon Sharpe

    There’s a killer on the loose that needs killing…Riding through the desert, Skye Fargo rescues a half-dead man on the run from the law. Fargo returns the fugitive to town, only to find that the accused murderer he brought back alive is sure to be...



  • Jill Shalvis

    Bush pilot Lyndie Anderson has gotten by on her own, and she'd like to keep it that way. She lives only for her plane and the open sky. Then she's hired to fly a drop-dead-gorgeous fireman to a blaze in Copper Canyon, and suddenly she's struggling to...



  • Tor Seidler

    When a litter of cats is born into the McDonahue family, one kitten stands out from the rest. Intelligent and aptly named, Toes has seven toes on each foot. The other kittens tease him and refuse to include him in their games. So one night, a lonely ...



  • David Sedaris

    David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his...



  • Lisa Scottoline

    Everybody around lawyer Mary DiNunzio has decided she isn't allowed to be a Young Widow anymore, even though she didn't know there was an official cutoff. They're all trying to fix her up -- her South Philly Italian parents, her best friend Judy Carr...



  • Amy Schwartz

    When you're in the second grade, you learn new things every day.

    Before Ms. Jones's class, Andrew didn't know how to spell “neighborhood,” how to subtract 348 from 411, how to write in cursive, how to read a chapter book, or how to play...



  • Charles M. Schulz

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    Sally is thrilled by the thought of going to school, until Charlie brown tells her that kindergarten is only two weeks away. Suddenly she's worried that she'll be a finger painting flop. As Sally's nervousness grows, Charlie Brown...



  • Dylan Schaffer

    Gordon Seegerman is a reluctant public defender by day and the Barry-obsessed singer in a Manilow cover band by night. When a routine misdemeanor case exposes corruption among his city's most prominent citizens, Seegerman finds himself having to ...



  • Steven Saylor

    In a relentless quest to secure his claim as ruler of Rome, Julius Caesar becomes entangled with Ptolemy and Cleopatra, sibling rivals to the Egyptian throne. Against the compelling but ominous backdrop of ancient Alexandria, storms are brewing and l...



  • Deirdre Savoy



  • Gail Sattler
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    Brian McDermot has helped build what has become the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. Sophie Dupuis is planning to build the 1992 Albertville, France, Winter Olyrnpics. As the Calgary games progress, they watch the games together but with different persp...



  • Al Sarrantonio

    This daring, star-packed collection is the fantasy publishing event of the year. Challenging the boundaries of modern fantasy, this all-original anthology features stories from Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Harry T...



  • Charlene Sands

    What would it take to win the widow's proud heart? WHO KILLED BOONE SHAW? HIS WIFE, IT SEEMED Glory Shaw survived a nightmare only to awaken to a more disturbing reality -- her dead husband. Wanted for a murder she couldn't recall, she...



  • Lynda Sandoval

    THE PERFECT NIGHT... Single-minded events planner Erica Goncalves was stuck on maintaining her independence -- even if it meant turning down a job to keep a sexy single father away. But after he made an offer she couldn't refuse, Miss Independence...



  • Lynda Sandoval

    Lucy, the commitment-phobe, is about to do something she never thought she would: get hitched. She has fallen in love -- with the right man. Only there's one problem: every first marriage in her family has ended in divorce. Every single one. She thin...



  • R.A. Salvatore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    ALONE ON THE BATTLEFIELD. SURROUNDED BY DEATH. CORNERED BY ENEMIES. AND READY TO DIE. Drizzt Do'Urden has become the Hunter, the bane of the orc hordes still ravaging the North. Cut off, alone, convinced that everything he ever valued has been des...



  • Charles Ryan

    While on a risky mission during World War II to rescue a powerful Mafia capo who can assist the Allies in taking over Sicily, Lt. John "Red" Parnell and his Blue Team become the targets of a ruthless German Waffen-SS officer who is driven by sheer ha...




  • Paul Ruditis

    "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides..." -- William Shakespeare "The Vulcan Science Directorate has concluded that time travel is impossible." -- T'Pol The Starship Enterprise" NX-01 has carried its crew farther into the reaches of spac...



  • David Rosenfelt

    "I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It's an extraordinary accomplishment... With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven't missed an important play since the Carter administ...



  • Robert J. Rosenblum

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  • Christine Rimmer

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  • Cynthia Riggs

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  • Keith Ridgway

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  • Lois Richer

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  • Dusty Richards

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  • Alastair Reynolds

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  • Rob Reuland

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  • Louise Rennison

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  • Kathryn Reiss

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  • Jessica Reisman

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  • Michelle Reid

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  • Christopher Reich

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  • Terri Reed

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  • Paula Reed

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  • Kit Reed

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    As civil war between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy,' nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on t swamp world of Drongar, where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its own. . . . A surgeon who...



  • Cydney Rax

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  • Debbi Rawlins

    July 19, 1983... The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers--Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound"--elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later... Their children were reunited. Repressed ...



  • Karen Ranney

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  • Deborah Raney

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  • David Randall

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  • Raffi

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  • M.E. Rabb

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  • Mary Jo Putney

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  • Sally Prue

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  • Marcel Proust

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  • Bill Pronzini

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  • David Poyer

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  • Lisa Plumley

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  • Tom Piccirilli

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  • Tom Piccirilli

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  • Michael R. Phillips

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  • Carly Phillips

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  • Ann Voss Peterson

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  • Arturo Perez-Reverte

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  • Don Pendleton

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  • Don Pendleton

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  • Robert Newton Peck

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  • Diana L. Paxson

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  • John Allen Paulos

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  • Donita K. Paul

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    Spur Award-winning Author

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  • Rachel Pastan

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  • John Passarella

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  • Sara Orwig

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