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New Books List: 527 titles

  • Second Death

    Michael Zuroy

  • Distant Shadows

    Alison York

    Will past wrongs destroy their love? Although Fay Danby had worked hard to establish her small interior decorating business, was crumbling before her eyes. And then the attractive Richard Ellerby crashed into her life--offering an important restor...

  • A Matter of Compromise

    Judith Yoder

    HE WAS TOO HOT TO TOUCH . . . ... in more ways than one. Susan O'Toole knew that Tony Brandon was off-limits. He was born into high society with all its trappings--and she was from the wrong side of the tracks. But the high-powered Washingto...

  • The View

    Harry Yoaker

    When the man in house Number Six builds an addition to get a better glimpse at the ocean, everyone in the neighborhood follows suit, in a crazed building bonanza that leaves the town with nothing but brick walls to look at....

  • Cat's Claw

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Someone leaves murdered corpses on the doorsteps of the wealthy. Jared Eden is arrested for the crimes, and attorney/part-time detective Charlie Moon is hired to defend him. To discover if Eden is innocent or not, Moon turns to his ancient Indian her...

  • Trophy Wives

    Lois Wyse

    Three extraordinary women--friends since childhood--who have struggled and schemed their way to becoming the second wives of America's unseen powerbrokers fight privately to hold onto the husbands they have won. Reprint....

  • The Master of White Storm

    Janny Wurts

    GALLEY SLAVE, MERCENARY, MASTER OF WHITE STORM -- His past a mystery even to Haldeth, fellow galley slave and the one man he'd allow to name him friend. Korendir had sworn that the future would give him the wealth to build an unbreachable citade...

  • Noble Deception

    Eileen Winwood

    A brief encounter...and a lasting love Lady Juliana Westlake lived a staid and secluded life...or so it seemed. For the green-eyed beauty had a secret life as a spy - and it was while she was disguised as a French barmaid that she carried out the ...

  • The Trail to Buddha's Mirror

    Don Winslow

    What begins as a routine missing person's case becomes a complex web of deceit, danger and international intrigue in this superb mystery. On sabbatical from duties as an operative for a group known as Friends of the Family, Neal Carey, is visited in ...

  • Midnight Lovestorm

    Linda Windsor

    He haunted her dreams. Then awakened her desires. She dreamed his caress: Dr. Catalina McCulloch was proud of her newly-earned medical degree and eager to begin her new job in Los Reyes, California. On her trip from East Texas, a masked bandit robbed...

  • Silent Witness

    Charles Wilson

    A rape and murder scene very seldom reveals all that happened during the commission of the heinous crime, and some thins are never learned -- and best not known. Following a stormy night that must have muffled her screams, a teenager is found dea...

  • First Grade King

    Karen Lynn Williams

  • The Chicken Book

    Garth Williams

  • All the Dead Heroes

    Stephen F. Wilcox

    Assigned to investigate the career of one of the first Black major league players, Frank Wooley, free-lance reporter T.S.W. Sheridan finds that the rumors of wife beating and gambling are hiding an even ghastlier secret...

  • Barbara Frietchie

    John Greenleaf Whittier

  • Bea's 4 Bears

    Martha Weston

  • The Tall Book of Make-Believe

    Jane Werner

  • Stormy Voyage

    Sally Wentworth

    Tempest at sea Bad luck, dire circumstances and a hearty desire to save her skin left Zara no choice but to stow away on board the Spirit of the Wind. With immense relief, she escaped the Arabic port of Oran. Then she met the ship's captain, T...

  • On a Hot Hot Day

    Nicki Weiss

  • Crusade

    David Weber; Steve White

    In the middle of hard-won, uneasy peace between the humans and the cat-like Orions, a mysterious space ship appears. Sucked out of the warp point everyone avoids for its Bermuda Triangle-like magnetic pull, the ship responds to the Orion patrol&rsquo...

  • Child Star

    Lydia Weaver

    Ten-year-old Joey Norman helps his family survive the Depression by landing a silent movie role in Hollywood, but he worries about what will happen to his career when sound becomes a part of the motion pictures....

  • Unjust Desserts

    Matt Wayne

  • Hurray for the Fourth of July

    Wendy Watson

  • Under Sunny Skies

    Pat Warren

    Handsome, decorated fly-boy Blake Hanley had the world by the tail ... until a fiery crash broke his body, shattered his dreams and left him feeling half a man. A bitter, wounded lion, he wanted only to escape prying eyes and useless sympathy. But...

  • Branded

    Linda Warren

    TANNER-His Bad-Boy Grin Tempted Her to Ride Off into the Sunset with Him .... He'd never touched her, never tasted her fire or pressed his lips to her honey hair when shed been another man's wife. But Tanner Danielson had wanted Julie Fielding fr...

  • White Roses of Brambledene

    Joyce C. Ware

    "DRAW THE CURTAINS, MISS GRAYSON. SHE'S STILL HERE, YOU KNOW." Yearning for a few days' respite from her work as assistant to an austere New York physician, delicate Violet Grayson accepted the invitation to a weekend houseparty at Brambledene. ...

  • Madam Mystery

    Rebecca Ward

    HOW LONG COULD SHE KEEP HER IDENTITY -- AND HER FEELINGS -- IN DISGUISE? With an eccentric family to support, Damaris Cardell -- alias Desmond Winter -- was a mystery writer of great popularity. Of course no one realized that "he" was ...

  • Morning Has Broken

    Lynda Ward

    Clay McMurphy looked dangerous From the moment he stumbled, dazed and bleeding from a motorcycle accident, into her elegant restaurant, Christine Dryden knew her well-ordered life would never be the same. Clay's rough, leather-clad exterior held a...

  • Gardening with Peter Rabbit

    Jennie Walters

    A gardening book divided into sections according to the seasons features kids' favorite cotton-tailed vegetable lover and shows young gardeners how to grow carrot ferns, make a cress hedgehog, create a fairy Christmas tree, and more....

  • Bigfoot and Other Legendary Creatures

    Paul Robert Walker

    Stories about seven mysterious creatures from Big Foot to the Loch Ness monster keep readers guessing about their existence, and are each followed by a factual account of the current scientific research and speculation about the creatures....

  • Storming Iraq

    Greg Walker

    Bo Thornton must take on another of the dirtiest jobs on earth when he is commissioned to stop the ruthless Iraqi colonel who instigated the invasion of Kuwait and who is now crushing a Kurd rebellion. Original....

  • Company Man

    Brent Wade

  • Little Dracula at the Seashore

    Martin Waddell

  • Little Dracula Goes to School

    Martin Waddell

  • Over the Moon

    Charlotte Voake

  • Live and Let's Dance

    John Vincent

  • As Sweet As Candy

    Linda Varner

    BACHELOR BABY-SITTER Ben Ryder figured that spending a week caring for his cute little niece, Candy, would be easy as pie. Boy, was he wrong! Instant fatherhood became instant panic when the adorable toddler locked herself in the car and promptly ...

  • Philly and the Playboy

    Linda Turner

    FINDING MR. WRONG To pretty, caring Philadelphia O'Neil, playboy politician Morgan Stewart II got by on his good looks and good genes. So she decided to make sure his actions spoke as loud as his words by challenging him to a dare: if Morgan would...

  • Two Sets of Footprints

    Pamela Toth

    Sage Edwards was a man with a plan--convince Carly Golden to hire him on at The Rolling Gold and then cut out as soon as he had money in his pocket. The first task was easy. With a ranch that was falling down and a dearth of good men, Carly needed hi...

  • The Sixth Battle

    Barrett Tillman

    Commander of a task force off the South African coast, Vietnam veteran Rear Admiral Chuck Gideon faces his greatest challenge as South Africa falls prey to Union of Eurasian Republic-sponsored invaders. Original....

  • Proud Rooster and the Fox

    Colin Threadgall

  • Intimate Strangers

    Alexandra Thorne

    THEY WERE DESTINED TO MEET, AND FATED TO FALL IN LOVE.... At thirty-two Jade Howard was facing a world of shattered dreams: once a bestselling novelist with all of Hollywood at her feet, she was now the critics' favorite target. And all she wanted...

  • Blazing Texas Nights

    Victoria Thompson

    A FIERY HEIRESS Strong-willed Leah Harding had her hands full protecting her family's vast ranch from scheming landgrabbers. So when ruggedly handsome gunslinger Calhoun Stevens suddenly showed up with an unproven claim on her family, she swore to t...

  • Cannons of the Comstock

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

  • Beauty

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought provoking and finely crafted novel that thoroughly involves the reader in the life of one of the most captivating heroines in modem fantasy -- Beauty. On ...

  • Pins and Needles

    John Talbot

    Jean Pierre the elephant and his sidekick Bonsoir the mouse try to cope with a very uncomfortable problem--Jean Pierre's trunk has fallen asleep. In a seemingly endless series of visits to a variety of family and friends, the two are offered a succes...

  • What Bunny Loves

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • The Improper Playwright

    Margaret Summerville

    No Role For A Lady Beautiful young Lady Verity de Lacy had a shocking secret talent and an even more scandalous hidden ambition. She wrote rivetingly romantic plays, and longed to see them performed in public. Should the truth come out, her pa...

  • Unholy Fire

    Whitley Strieber

    Father John Rafferty, a dedicated priest tempted by the beautiful young woman he has been counseling, must face the greatest test of his faith when an evil force embodied in someone near the church begins a killing spree. Reprint....

  • Under Her Influence

    Kelly Street

    The lady and the lawman Sheriff Mitch Connor believed in rules -- professionally and personally. Which meant never getting involved with beautiful Tish d'Angeli. But from the moment he pulled her over for speeding, the sexy package of trouble ...

  • The Golden Bird

    Hans Stolp

  • Free Agent

    Robert Stokesberry

    With plans to level a major American city, a group of terrorists steals a shipment of plutonium, but they meet stiff resistance in the person of Ryan Austin, a lone warrior skilled in the martial arts and backed by high-tech weaponry. Original....

  • The Prom Queen

    R.L. Stine

    DANCE OF DEATH.... A spring night...soft moonlight...five beautiful Prom Queen candidates...dancing couples at the Shadyside High prom -- these should be the ingredients for romance. But stir in one brutal murder -- then another, and another -- a...

  • Caroline's Mystery Dolls

    Molly Mia Stewart

  • Monkey Shines

    Michael Stewart

    While cramming for finals, wheelchair-bound quadriplegic Allan Mann takes some pills intended to increase the learning ability of his primate companion, and soon the man and his monkey begin having overlapping dreams. Reprint....

  • Louisiana Heat

    Jennifer Stevens

    A spectacular novel of a grand plantation in the days before the Civil War! MAGNOLIA ROAD There was perhaps no place in history more filled with romance and beauty than the old South in the days before the Civil War. Now, journey down Magnolia R...

  • Fortune's Mistress

    Michele Stegman

    Raven Winthrop had thought her troubles were over when a swashbuckling seaman rescues her from a band of vicious pirates, but her hero is really a Winthrop family nemesis whose revenge is sweet indeed. When swashbuckling Jeffrey Fortune rescued he...

  • Red Bear

    Bodel Alan Stamaty

  • The Animal that Drank Up Sound

    William Stafford

  • Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper!

    Barbara Spurll

  • Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole?

    Jerry Spinelli

    It’s football season at Plumstead Middle School, and everything is up in the air. Sunny has become a cheerleader -- the first ever to wear a frown and beat up fans who refuse to cheer. Eddie has gone out for football to prove that he's grown up de...

  • Baby Mine

    Erica Spindler

    Maggie Ryan Adler was going to be a mother tomorrow. And all she'd carried for the past nine months was sadness over her separation from the husband she still loved. Unable to have a child, Maggie had finally convinced the man who'd never wanted chil...

  • Naturally Loving

    Catherine Spencer

    An ill-timed attraction Emotions were running high the day Nina Sommers finally met her fifteen-year-old daughter--especially with a high-handed adoptive father telling her how to deal with her own child. Especially since Hugh Cavendish was the mo...

  • Viking Passion

    Flora Speer

    VIKING CAPTIVE Her spirit unbroken despite the terrifying raid that destroyed her home, Lenora vowed she would hate all Norsemen. But her vow proved difficult to fulfill when she was given to Erik the Far-Traveler. Unlike his brother, who had captur...

  • Other Voices, Other Vistas

    Barbara H. Solomon

    A selection of short stories includes the work of Nadine Gordimer, Bei Dao, Anita Desai, Kobo Abe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Chinua Achebe, Wange Anyi, R. K. Naryan, Yukio Mishima, and fifteen others....

  • The Vanished Child

    Sarah Smith

    "Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why."New England, 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered. His grandson, Richard, the only witness, is shocked into silence, then disappears, presumed kidnapped and killed.Switzerla...

  • The Barefoot Baroness

    Joan Smith

    AFTER ONE DISASTROUS SEASON, LAURA HARWOOD HAD NO DESIGNS FOR SNAGGING A HUSBAND... She hardly felt qualified to accompany her cousin Olivia, Baroness Pilmore, to London for her debut. However, Olivia's fears of social failure proved unfounded...

  • Fire on the Wind

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    The flames of revolution sweep relentlessly through India, threatening the life of free-thinking Sarah Faulkner. Fleeing the impending holocaust, the sheltered Victorian beauty is irresistibly drawn to Damien Coleridge, the renegade son of an English...

  • By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

    Elizabeth Smart

    Originally published in 1945, this book of poetic prose encapsulates former journalist Elizabeth Smart’s relationship with poet George Barker. Instantly, upon picking up a book of his poetry while browsing through a London bookshop, Smart fell in l...

  • Dominic

    Lass Small

    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE With his old-world values and passionate nature, Dominic Lorenzo had built a fortune by keeping three things constant: work, family and pride. He had thrown over convention only once, in the untraditional way he'd obtained cust...

  • Bunny Hop

    Teddy Slater

  • Almost Perfect

    Linda Joy Singleton

    Self-conscious about her permanent limp, Serena Waller is flattered when handsome, popular Sonny Sinclair asks her out, but as her feelings for Sonny grow, she begins to suspect he is dating her out of pity. Original....

  • Till the End of Time

    June Flaum Singer

    Today, her name is Andrianna DeArte. Gorgeous and seductive, she runs only with the ultrarich, is seen only at the pleasure capitals of the world. They would all be shocked to learn that there is no Andrianna DeArte... only a woman haunted by a deadl...

  • The Lovely Summer

    Marc Simont

  • Summer of Night

    Dan Simmons

    It's the summer of 1960. The sixth-grade boys of Elm Haven, Illinois, are forging the powerful, magical bonds that a lifetime of growth and loss will never erase. Amid the sun-drenched cornfields and the sly flirtations of the town's young girls, tha...

  • The Secret Defector

    Clancy Sigal

    A passionately realized novel about an affair between a wandering American and cutting-edge female novelistClancy Sigal’s fourth novel centers on expatriate Gus Black, a freethinker who moves to England in search of a new life. He absorbs the n...

  • The Whip

    Luke Short

    With a smoking rifle and a stinging lash, it was Gannon's job to cut a path through the outlaw gangs grown thick as a mesquite over the Midland stage route. The final challenge came when a hardcase crew knocked over one of his coaches carrying a heav...

  • Look What I Found!

    Nick Sharratt

  • Blood Bounty

    Jon Sharpe

  • Desert Death

    Jon Sharpe

    HELL BY ANY OTHER NAME Jornada del Muerto meant Journey of the Dead. But Skye Fargo had another name for this New Mexico desert that no one in his right mind tried to cross. That name was Hell, and the Trailsman headed into its searing center to r...

  • Separate Houses

    Robert B. Shapiro

  • Why Would Anyone Have a Crush on Horace Beemis?

    Jacqueline Shannon

  • Darktraders

    Eluki Bes Shahar

    Butterfly St. Cyr, an honest darktrading smuggler, must bring Tiggy, the young hellflower heir to the chief diplomat of the AlMayne mercenaries, back to the Starbringer family's home world fortress. Original....

  • Happy Birthday Book: A Party-Time Book with Lights and Music

    Peter Seymour

  • The Bandit's Bride

    Ana Seymour

    Kidnapped! Snatched from her sleep by Pancho Villa's notorious outlaws, Meg Atherton's only thought was to get out of Mexico and back to her daddy's ranch. And sly Meg was sure she would have escaped, if not for Villa's American bandido, Timothy C...

  • Dirty Kurt

    Mary Serfozo

  • Acts of Faith

    Erich Segal

    They met as children, innocents from two different worlds.  And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined. Timothy : Abandoned at birth, he finds a home--and a dazzling career--within the Catholic Church.  But...

  • Judy Scuppernong

    Brenda Seabrooke

  • Charity's Angel

    Dallas Schulze

    THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS ... Charity Williams had been on mercy dates before. But when Gabriel London showed up at her bedside each day after the accident he'd caused, she got the feeling this one was different. Gabe had appointed himself her perso...

  • Little Frog's Song

    Alice Schertle

  • My Grandfather's Hat

    Melanie Scheller

  • Richard Scarry's the Cat Family Takes a Trip

    Richard Scarry

  • Silent Prey

    John Sandford

    Once, Bekker indulged his brilliant obsession with death; now he is in prison. Once, he was hunted by a man who understood the genius of murder; now he wants revenge. . . . Lieutenant Davenport should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. . . ....

  • The Firebird

    Robert D. San Souci

  • Monkey Soup

    Louis Sachar

  • Missing May

    Cynthia Rylant

    Since Summer was six years old she lived with dear Aunt May and Uncle Ob. Now, six years later, Aunt May has died. Summer, who misses May with all her might, is afraid something will happen to Ob. Most days Ob seems like he doesn't want to go on. ...

  • The Forest Prime Evil

    Alan Russell

    JUST DYING TO SAVE THE TREES... Part hero, part activist, the Green Man is a modem-day Johnny Appleseed whose grass roots campaign to preserve the redwoods gets the ax when he is felled by a plummeting branch. But echoes of foul play reverberate t...

  • The Disappearance of Edwin Drood

    Peter Rowland

    Hired by Cloisterham choirmaster Jasper John to ascertain the fate of his nephew, Edwin Drood, Sherlock Holmes and his trusty Dr. Watson set out to solve the mystery that Dickens began in his unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood....

  • Private Pleasures

    JoAnn Ross

    SHE TURNED HER BACK ON LOVE FOR THE PROMISE OF WEALTH AND SUCCESS... UNTIL A DARK SECRET FROM HER PAST UNLOCKED A PASSION TOO POWERFUL TO DENY JADE The girl from the wrong side of the tracks in Gallagher City, Oklahoma who grew into a breath...

  • Twice Blessed

    Ninotchka Rosca

  • Fag Hag

    Robert Rodi

    Natalie, an overweight, fun-loving secretary, is head over heels in love with a gay artist named Peter and will do anything to thwart his relationships with other men, until Peter meets Lloyd Hood, a gay survivalist and gun-shop owner. 15,000 first p...

  • Animal Stew

    Shen Roddie

    Once in the caldron, the animals in Eva the Enormous Giant's stew eat one another, until finally only Bear is left. Too much pepper makes him sneeze, and everyone escapes, leaving Eva with only pepper soup. A lift-the-flap book with large, simple art...

  • Our Yard Is Full of Birds

    Anne Rockwell

    A little boy lovingly describes all the birds that reside in his backyard--from the wren living in the birdhouse, to the pair of cardinals who seek shelter in the tall pine tree, to the yellow goldfinches splashing in the birdbath...

  • The Falcon and the Swan

    Diane Gates Robinson

    YANKEE'S BOLD KISS High-spirited Ariane Valcour's mettle was tested when she brought her wounded father back from the Shiloh Battlefield, but that was only the first of the Confederate belle's daring escapades. When Memphis fell to the Union Army A...

  • Seeing the Elephant

    Les Roberts

    #5 in the Saxon mystery series. Saxon returns to his hometown, Chicago, where one of his oldest pals, cop Gavin Cassidy, has died of a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol in a cheap hotel. Saxon arrives for the funeral to find his old crowdȁ...

  • Five Against Death

    J.R. Roberts

    The town of Los Alamos is about to be swallowed whole by the notorious bandit El Gigante. Only four dare to fight back -- but they know it will be a losing battle unless Clint Adams agrees to step in. The Gunsmith isn't about to sell his hide for a p...

  • Broken Wings

    Doreen Roberts

    COMMAND AND CONTROL... Freedom. That was what Commander Ward Sullivan of the Blue Angels Flight Team sought with each takeoff into the wild blue yonder. Freedom from the memory of Sarah and the haunting accusations of her family. A hero. Tha...

  • Walking on Air

    Casey Roberts

    He'd fallen from grace For Jason Brock, it was a long fall: from running an entire network to working at a small station in Arizona. But when he met producer Kate Gregory, Jason began to think that maybe he'd be able to pick up the pieces of his s...

  • There's a Building on Sixth Avenue

    Rodney Rigby

  • Krindlekrax Or How Ruskin Splinter Battled a Horrible Monster and Saved His Entire Neighborhood

    Philip Ridley

  • Lady Sarah's Charade

    Nancy Richards-Akers

    A CONTRIVED COURTSHIP Lovely Sarah Clement-Brooke wants no part of romance. She prefers, instead, to pursue the ghosts that reputedly haunt her "grace and favour" apartment at Hampton Court--a predilection that makes for diverting evenings, but do...

  • Touched by Magic

    Patricia Rice

    Nothing could break passion's spell SEDUCED AND CONQUERED Lady Cassandra Howard was nearly ruined. He rakehell brother forced her to frequent the London demimonde, then tried to sell her into a marriage with a dissolute lord. Though the world belie...

  • Chance Encounter

    Molly Rice

    Carl set up a camera in her bedroom Then he proceeded to turn Joanna Keller's peaceful life upside down. Suddenly she was sharing her home with a man who carried a gun and was not afraid to use it. FBI agent Carl Donay was determined to catch t...

  • Promise You Won't Tell

    Ann Reit

    When exotic and graceful Pam moves into the apartment across the hall, Jo is certain that Pam is the best friend for whom she has always longed, but when Jo accidentally reveals Pam's secret, it threatens to destroy that friendship...

  • Any Kind of Dog

    Lynn Reiser

  • Sex, Death and God in Los Angeles

    David Reid

    A patchwork of pop culture--with eleven unusual pieces of reportage, memoir, and fantasy--attempts to capture the elusive spirit of Los Angeles, a city growing "at a rate comparable to supercities of the Third World."...

  • Millie and the Mud Hole

    Valerie Reddix

  • The Elephant

    Richard Rayner

    The son of a British undertaker tells of his painful relationship with his father, in a coming-of-age story about lying, cheating, stealing, sexual hysteria, and the truth in provincial northern England during the sixties. 15,000 first printing....

  • Jenny's Bear

    Michael Ratnett

  • Chain of Command

    Kevin D. Randle

    With a heavily armed space armada from the galaxy's most hostile race bearing down on all opposing life forms, Brigadier General David Steven Jefferson attempts a desperate maneuver--capturing the aggressors's home world--that could end the war. Orig...

  • Deadly Allies

    Robert J. Randisi

    An anthology of mystery works by the two most influential mystery writers' organizations includes stories by Sue Grafton, Loren Estleman, Susan Dunlap, Sara Paretsky, Ben Schutz, Max Allan Collins, Jeremiah Healy, and others. 15,000 first printing....

  • Afterward

    Catherine M. Rae

    Left to care for her siblings, along with older sister Angela, when the rest of their family is killed in a 1904 excursion boat fire, Maud Evans questions Angela's decision to marry a wealthy older man...

  • Shoofly Pie to Die

    Joshua Quittner

    Antique collectors Sam Popkin and Sara Amstel are ill-prepared for the ""treasure"" they discover in the Pennsylvania Dutch chest they have purchased--a dead body--and soon they are involved in an adventure-filled mystery....

  • Defiant Rose

    Colleen Quinn

    IN A WORLD WHERE DREAMS COME TO LIFE, HER HEART FOUND A DARING PASSION... Rose Carney ... Across the new frontier, she ran Carney's Circus with an unsinkable spirit that was part of her show-business heritage. The world of fun-loving peformers was...

  • My Phantom Love

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    The phantom of Fillmore High… When Aimee Harrison transfers to a city high school for the performing arts, she expects a world of drama, music, and sophisticated new friends to greet her. Instead, the students at Fillmore High don't want an intrud...

  • Embrace The Serpent

    Marilyn Tucker Quayle; Nancy Tucker Northcott

    Fidel Castro is dead of a sudden heart attack. The Russians, anxious to regain their influence in the Western hemisphere, are about to install their stooge, Caesar Valles, as the new President of Cuba. Only the members of La Causa, a dedicated group ...

  • Show Stopper

    Mary Monica Pulver

    BLUE RIBBON, BLACK HEART A horse show sets the pace for excitement when Kori Brichter's Arabian beauties place second in dressage. But excitement turns to terror when a trainer is murdered. It was no secret that Keith Bulward was a cruel and bruta...

  • Beaver Boys

    Bonnie Pryor

  • A Love to Treasure

    Melinda Pryce

    Raised on the sea stories of her salty Uncle Peg, Rosamunde Wickes yearns for adventure but finds humdrum romance with a vicar, until the arrogant and handsome Lord Merritt arrives with the tale of a family fortune lost at sea. Original....

  • Swamp Kill

    James Pruitt

  • A Magnificent Affair

    Fayrene Preston

    MAX -- He Was the Best Kind of Kisser: a Man Who Took His Time -- and Took Her Breath Away He was a man who'd chosen not to be tied down to any one place or woman, but when Ashley Whitfield crashed her car into the garden of his seaside inn, M...

  • Enemy Ace: War Idyll

    George Pratt

  • The Junk-Drawer Corner-Store Front-Porch Blues

    John R. Powers

  • Taxicab Tales

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • Busy O'Brien and the Caterpillar Punch Bunch

    Michelle Poploff

  • The Pleasures of Love // The Merry Monarch's Wife

    Jean Plaidy

    SHE WAS READY TO ENDURE ALL -- FOR THE PLEASURES OF LOVE Newly married to King Charles II, Catherine of Braganza has left her sheltered upbringing in Portugal to become part of the notoriously licentious English court. She soon falls deeply in lov...

  • I.O.U.

    Nancy Pickard

    Winner of the Agatha Award and finalist for the Edgar Award.Jenny explores her own family’s unsettling, mysterious past, beginning with her mother’s death in the seventh book in the award-winning Jenny Cain mystery series that was called “excel...

  • Walt Disney Bambi's Game

    Joan Phillips

  • Storky Jones Is Back in Town

    Anne Peters

    PISCES MAN Aviator David Waterman got the shock of his life when he was "bought" at a charity bachelor auction by childhood nemesis Storky Jones. David couldn't believe the gawky teenager he had teased had become the tall, elegant woman before him...

  • Storm Warning

    Don Pendleton

    DESERT RUMBLES America has destroyed the Iraqi war machine in the Mideast. Now It's payback time: Terrorist atrocities against the US. have citizens paralyzed with fear. Mack Bolan and Phoenix Force are dispatched to the Persian Gulf, while Able T...

  • Class Clown

    Michael Pellowski

    When class clown Reggie falls for serious student Bernadette Brownle, whose interests lie in the debating team and Future Deep Thinkers Club, Reggie knows that winning her affections will be an uphill battle. Original....

  • A House Divided

    Judith Pella; Michael Phillips

    As the war in the Balkans nears its end, Prince Sergei Fedorcenko returns to St. Petersburg and to his love, Anna Burenin, whose brother, Paul, has joined the revolutionaries. Torn between love for her family and devotion to the Fedorcenkos, Anna's f...

  • Where in America Is Carmen Sandiego?

    John Peel

    When world-famous thief Carmen Sandiego and her helper escape from Alcatraz and begin robbing their way across America, the reader is challenged to locate them in the busy, colorful United States maps on each page....

  • Lenore's Big Break

    Susan Pearson

    Lenore ignores the occasional sideways glances coming from coworkers who think she is a nerd and concentrates on making her dream come true by training her houseful of talented birds to make their Hollywood debut....

  • Catamount

    Michael Peak

  • The Jewel of Fire

    Diana L. Paxson

    With all but one of the four jewels of the Power recovered, Prince Julian, claimant and true heir to the throne of Westria, must summon his strength to retrieve the final jewel and save the kingdom. Original....

  • You Have the Right to Remain Silent

    Barbara Paul

    NOBODY'S TALKING Down the mean streets of Manhattan's Alphabet City, Marian Larch discovers that even a cop's tough emotional hide can be riddled by the area's violent, twisted crime. Another murder is added to her caseload, and it's a beauty: fou...

  • Jonah and the Whale

    Geoffrey Patterson

  • Bambi: Peek-A-Boo

    Denise Lewis Patrick

  • Elizabeth Meets Her Hero

    Francine Pascal

    Dr. Mean



    Elizabeth Wakefield can't wait for the next class trip.  She's going to get to see a taping of her favorite TV show, Dr Snapturtle's Animal Hour.  The trip is a lot of fun until Elizabeth overhears Dr. Snapturtle yelling ...

  • The Stolen Diary

    Francine Pascal

    Will lies destroy Elizabeth's life? Todd Wilkins has decided that he and Elizabeth Wakefield should start dating other people. At her twin sister Jessica's urging, Elizabeth accepts a date with handsome Kris Lynch, a cartoonist for The Oracle. After...

  • Mr. Perfect

    Doris Parmett

    CHASE--He Could Charm a Lady's Socks Off-- and Then All the Rest... He was a confirmed bachelor with a taste for leggy blondes, so why did Chase Rayburn feel wildly jealous that Sloan MacKay would be dating guys who saw her personal ail bn a billb...

  • Operation Homefront

    Marilyn Pappano

    MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? At last Libby Harper had made a home for herself and her seven-year-old son, Justin. After years of moving around, they were finally going to stay in one place--except Justin didn't seem to be adjusting to his new life too well...

  • The Case of the Mesmerizing Boss

    Diana Palmer

    MR. MARCH Name: Dane Lassiter Description: A private eyeful at home... and on the range. Secret Sorrow: A family is forever denied to him. Current Focus: Tess Meriwether, gentle, vulnerable -- and targeted for danger. He had been a Texas...

  • Akira #4

    Katsuhiro Otomo

  • Basic Instinct

    Richard Osborne

    Nick Curran, a San Francisco detective, investigates the murder of a rock star, and finds himself becoming obsessed with Catherine Tramell, a beautiful, bisexual novelist, and the prime suspect in a series of ice pick murders...

  • Spider Kane and the Mystery Under the May-Apple

    Mary Pope Osborne

    From the author of the Magic Tree House series comes a new kind of hero… LEON LEAFWING is about to find out that there is one answer to three questions: 1. Who can solve the mystery of a terrible kidnapping? 2. Who can lead an army against an ...

  • Sweeter Than Sin

    Sara Orwig

    DADDY'S GIRL: Dazzlingly beautiful, Cheramie was the daughter of San Francisco's richest business tycoon, the wife of a charismatic senator -- and a woman with a secret lover she would do anything to keep. -- SUPERSTAR: A retired baseball great, Je...

  • Noah's Cats and the Devil's Fire

    Arielle North Olson

  • They Called Her Mrs. Doc

    Janette Oke

    There had never been a reason to think of any other life . . . until he walked into hers. The only daughter of a noted Montreal physician and educator, Cassandra Dell Winston enjoys all the opportunities of Eastern society and affluence. She...

  • To Love Again

    Marian Oaks

    Empty Nest...Empty Heart... That seemed to be Libby's agenda for the rest of her life. She filled her days with work, kept her house sparkling and her garden blooming, and learned to do alone all the things she and Jim had done together. Yet at n...

  • Rituals

    Cees Nooteboom

    Inni knew that life was chaotic. He knew that there were two ways to live it. As he did, with indolence and lethargy, a dilettante drifting along. Or as Arnold and Philip did, each in his different way creating a personal system of ritual and control...

  • Prophet of Moonshae

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Ffolk have forsaken their goddess, the Earthmother, and have turned to the new gods to protect them. Now, capricious and malevolent, one of the new lords has turned the worship of the Ffolk against them. It falls to the royal daughters of High Ki...

  • The Secret of Montroth House

    Muriel Newsome

    Lorene Kilmer heads for the wilds of British Columbia and her two eccentric aunts when her father dies, and there she encounters an evil presence at their abode, Montroth House, a threat against her life, and an enigmatic, handsome stranger. Afte...

  • 19th Precinct

    Christopher Newman

    "Tough, gritty suspenseful...Newman is one of the best in the business."
    William J. Caunitz
    Author of EXCEPTIONAL CLEARANCE
    A ruthless IRA terrorist is loose on the streets of New York City. A C.E.O. and his mistress are killed execution-sty...

  • First To Die

    Peter Nelson

    Seven teens trapped underground after an earthquake discover that the only person who knows their location is a criminal who would rather them dead.   For sixteen-year-old Mollie Fox, selling earthquake insurance is just a way to keep her belove...

  • Little Nina and Baby Bear

    Nadja

  • Little Nina Plays Ball

    Nadja

  • The Flying Shoes

    Bernice Myers

  • The Garden in the City

    Gerda Muller

  • Forgotten Days

    Kate Mueller

  • But Not Kate

    Marissa Moss

  • Knick Knack Paddywack

    Marissa Moss

  • For Love and Duty

    Maisie Mosco

    When her mother dies tragically, Bella Minsky must give up her dream to attend Oxford in order to attend to her younger brother and sister, and she takes over the family clothing store, transforming it into an international business. Original....

  • Echoes

    Nancy Morse

    FULL CIRCLE In the past decade, Catherine Coleman had found herself in many roles: rebellious teenager, society bride, rich man's daughter, and now penniless celebrity. With her marriage over and her fortune gone, Catherine had no choice but to re...

  • Confirmed Kill

    Mike Morris

  • The Chalchiuhite Dragon

    Kenneth Morris

  • A Warrior's Heart

    Margaret Moore

    Safe Haven From the moment Emryss Delanyea stole her away to his dark and misty valley filled with ancient magic, Lady Roanna Westercott felt safe for the first time in years. Though he bore the scars of battle, the Welshman seemed invincible. Lit...

  • Sarah with an "H"

    Elaine Moore

  • Rebel

    Arthur Moore

  • Bay of All Saints and Every Conceivable Sin

    Ana Miranda

    Ecclesiastical poet Gregorio+a7 de Matos deplores the corruption and hypocrisy he witnesses when an investigation into the assassination of a controversial political figure divides the already fragile government of seventeenth-century Brazil. 25,000 ...

  • Wild, Wild Wolves

    Joyce Milton

    Illus. in full color. A fascinating introduction to the world of wolves, one of nature's most enduring and misunderstood creatures. Wolf-pack behavior, body language, and the meaning of howls are all demystified in this natural history. "Nonfiction a...

  • A Visit to Amy-Claire

    Jane Mills

  • Practice to Deceive

    Timothy Miller

    Two plastic surgeons of opposing temperaments--the devoted Lionel Stern and the unscrupulous Morris Gold--wind up on opposite sides of the table when Stern is asked to investigate the death of one of Gold's patients....

  • Caroline and the Raider

    Linda Lael Miller

    Holding her lovely head high, Wyoming schoolmistress Caroline Chalmers did what no lady should: she marched right into the local saloon to sec the dashing and reckless Guthrie Hayes. Worse still, she went to ask him for help. She needed the former Co...

  • The 600 Mile Stretch

    Jim Miller

    For ex-Texas Rangers Wash and Chance Carston, Charlie Goodnights’ first cattle drive spelled danger and making it through alive turns out to only be half of the fight in this Western novel based on the real Charlie Goodnight and his legendary f...

  • Farm Noises

    Jane Miller

  • Promise Me Forever

    Cara Miles

    A ROGUE'S ARMS Lily Montague had no plans to wed any of the suitors gathered at her coming-out ball -- especially not Captain Matthew Hawke. With the merest glance from his smoldering eyes, the audacious American privateer dared her to resist his br...

  • Old School Ties

    Leigh Michaels

    However the cookie crumbles... The closing of the school in Archer's Junction had been a blow to the fiercely proud neighborhood. Now the abandoned building was a disgrace and cookie-store proprietor Heather DeMarco was determined to do someth...

  • Tune in Tomorrow

    Laura Michaels

    ONCE MORE WITH FEELING As a Washington, D.C. Correspondent, Liz Sherwood had made her mark. And she was looking at a plum promotion -- a job anchoring the nightly news for one of the major networks -- when her life began to fall apart. Always one...

  • The Lost Upland

    W.S. Merwin

    A collection of stories pay tribute to the ancient land of the Lascaux caves in southwestern France, where aristocrats, shepherds, wine merchants, and innkeepers lead anachronistic lives. 10,000 first printing....

  • Fighting Words

    Eve Merriam

  • Gate of the Tigers

    Henry Meigs

    When an American employee of a Tokyo computer firm is murdered, Lieutenant Mori of the Japanese police and Ludlow, a cynical CIA free-lancer, reluctantly team up to solve the crime. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo....

  • The Zebra-Riding Cowboy

    Angela Shelf Medearis

    When a handsome city slicker shows up at the Z-Bar Ranch to borrow a horse, the cowboys there decide to make him the butt of a joke, offering him Zebra Dun, the meanest bucking bronco they have, in a colorful version of a traditional cowboy song....

  • Farm Boy's Year

    David McPhail

    A month-by-month diary, accompanied by full-color paintings, chronicles the daily life of a young boy growing up on a New England farm in the 1800s as he sleds in January, gathers sap in March, harvests hay in July, and picks apples in October....

  • Range War

    Will McLennan

  • Sea Change

    Alison McLeay

    Katherine Summerbee, has been brought up on a boat by her gruff father with no luxuries and little love. She meets handsome, courageous Matthew Oliver, an Englishman who is smuggling Confederate gold out of Civil War-torn New Orleans on the eve of th...

  • The Medium Is Murder

    Molly McKitterick

    KYYY TV's consumer affairs reporter Lauren Michaels is murdered before she can blow the lid off the philandering of St. Louis's most powerful men, and soon Lauren's colleague, William Hecklepeck, is investigating her murder...

  • Free Radicals

    Jack McKinney