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  • Sarah Zettel

    From the wilds of Moreland to the court of Camelot, a woman searches for her true powers... Fleeing from the knowledge that her father had promised her to an evil sorcerer, Risa of the Morelands refused to be a sacrifice. Armed with her bow and he...



  • Timothy Zahn

    A dangerous, mission to salvage a piece of Jedi past threatens to make Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker history.... After fifty years, the remains of Outbound Flight--a pioneering Jedi expedition viciously destroyed by the alien warlord Thrawn--have ...



  • Bil Wright

    Small in number yet formidable in spirit, the Leave Him and Live Sisterhood adopts a recent widow, challenging everything she knows about life and loving.Rowtina Washington is devastated when her adoring husband, Turtle, is killed in a tragic acciden...



  • Sherryl Woods

    A DATE DECREED BY DESTINY... Charismatic playboy Mack Carlton lit up a room -- even a hospital room -- like no one else. Dr. Beth Browning had to admit Mack's visits were a tonic for her young patient, but her own reaction was much more confusi...



  • Janet Woods

    Now a wealthy young widow, former peasant girl Siana Forbes has overcome her humble beginnings to become mistress of Cheverton Manor, the handsome estate which her infant son Ashley will one day inherit. She is at last beginning to recover from her g...



  • Valerie Wolzien

    MURDER TAKES A HOLIDAY For Susan and Jed Henshaw and their friends Kathleen and Jerry Gordon, the tiny Caribbean resort called Compass Bay has everything. White sand, luxurious cottages, rum punches to die for--even a gorgeous unattached blonde or...



  • Diane Wolkstein

    At the beginning of the world, it was dark and silent and nothing stirred anywhere, until a voice roused the sleeping Sun Mother in the sky, telling her it was time to wake up all the creatures of the earth.

    The indigenous people of Austral...





  • Robert L. Wise

    The story of one family's struggle for survival in an apocalyptic world -- where one choice will determine their future....



  • Rebecca Winters

    A Mediterranean marriage! Mallory Ellis is facing the ultimate dilemma. Mediterranean aristocrat Rafael D'Afonso is offering her the family she's always wanted. But can she risk giving up her high-flying career for the chance of motherhood...




  • Laura Wilson

    Alice Conway's world was shattered when her fiance, famous comic Lenny Maxted, committed suicide. Now it's seven years later, and Alice is living quietly on an isolated farm in Oxfordshire, trying to forget the pain of her past--until an anonymous cl...



  • Suzanne Williams

    Weird things are happening to Matthew McGhee. First a purple blob follows him home. Then he hears his mom making plans to send him off to a faraway place. When Matthew finds an egg-shaped bruise on his arm, he knows for sure something very str...



  • Julie Williams

    Allie Benton's summer at her grandparents' house in Minnesota is the same as it's always been: northern lights and pine trees, family gossip and root beer floats. She's come here to escape Nebraska's tornado season every summer for as long as she...



  • Ian Whybrow

    Learning is fun with Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs! Harry and his dinosaurs are having a very busy day looking for shapes and they need some help. Peep through the die-cut holes and open the fold out pages to join in the fun!...



  • Ian Whybrow

    Learning is fun with Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs! Harry and the dinosaurs are playing hide-and-seek with colours and Harry needs some help to find all his dinosaurs. Peep through the die-cut holes and open the fold-out pages to join in the f...



  • Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Love's On The Loose In Providence... Nothing less than divine intervention can quell the commotion when the Danville girls of Providence, Rhode Island, get involved! Cool, confident Miranda is the take-charge beauty of the family. Not content w...



  • Carolyn Wheat
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    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the class...



  • Suzanne Weyn

    The Scooby gang gets real - AGAIN! Now Sarah, Freddie, Matthew, Linda, and Scooby himself are back on the big screen for the follow-up to the June 02 box office smash.

    The kids from Mystery, Inc. are about to receive their highest honor yet......



  • Scott Westerfeld

    strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma. time freezes. nobody moves. For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of teenagers know about the secret hour...



  • Tracey West

    The Scooby gang gets real - AGAIN! Now Sarah, Freddie, Matthew, Linda, and Scooby himself are back on the big screen for the follow-up to the June 02 box office smash.

    Scooby-Doo is back on the big screen! This reader format is designed to app...



  • Kurt Wenzel

    "Brilliantly plotted, ""Gotham Tragic"" is a pitch-perfect send-up of money and celebrity culture. It''s not a black comedy so much as a red, white, and blue one, and the next big step forward for a writer whose gifts are as impressive as the Manhatt...



  • Monica Wellington

    While moving her crĂŞpe cart to different locations around Paris, young Suzette delights in all the sounds, sights, and smells of the city's colorful scenery as she meets with the tourists and mixes with the locals to sell her tasty treats....



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

    With the dragon orbs and newly-forged dragonlances, the forces of good finally stand a chance against the minions of the Queen of Darkness. Then a new darkness--one from within--threatens the Companions. Old loves and new treacheries will shake the C...



  • Ellis Weiner

    A one-time mild-mannered bookstore clerk transformed into a hard-boiled private detective thanks to a head injury, Pete Ingalls decides to open up his own detective agency, taking Raymond Chandler as his model, and finds himself on the trail of a var...



  • Meredith Webber

    City girl goes bush! Dr. Hillary Green never wanted to work in the Outback. But now she's been appointed to the Flying Obs and Gynae service, taking tiny planes to little rural hospitals, along with an airsick anesthetist and a boss who hates wome...



  • Ingrid Weaver

    SUBJECT: Gideon Faulkner, aka Achilles FAMILY HISTORY: Raised by "Aunt" Agnes and "Uncle" Oliver, "family" and "extraordinary" were separate worlds to him DEEPEST SECRET: After years of obeying orders, he's about to break out of his "prison"...



  • Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

    The first full-length novel starring the Starfleet Corps of Engineers! Now it can be told: The origin of the S.C.E.! In the twenty-fourth century, the U.S.S. da Vinci and its S.C.E. team led by Commander Sonya Gomez roam the galaxy, solving the tec...



  • Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...




  • Vivienne Wallington

    ONE NIGHT WITH THE WRONG BROTHER Rugged wildlife photographer Zac Hammond returned from the jungles of Africa to his family home in the outback as soon as he'd heard of his twin brother's death. And it took only one look into young widow Rachel Ha...



  • John Wallace

    Little Charlie would do anything for his mama. He would smile his biggest smile for her, draw a special picture for her, and he'd even let her be his best friend! So when it's time for bed and Mama asks him to snuggle down, shut his eyes, and slee...



  • Robert W. Walker

    The bodies of young girls are turning up--piece by piece. The ghastly mementos are being delivered to Detective Lucas Stonecoat and Dr. Meredyth Sanger, signaling the beginning of a gruesome game. But who's playing it? Why? And how far will it go? St...



  • Martyn Waites

    Switching continuously between 1984 and the present day, Martyn Waites' gripping crime thriller follows the intertwined lives of a small group of characters, all linked in various ways to the miners' strike: Tony Woodhouse, a professional footballer ...



  • John Vornholt

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...




  • Susan Verlander

    Alarms ring, birds sing. Traffic cops twirl, street sweepers swirl! It's morning in the city! This colorful picture book brings the sounds, sights and rhythms of the busy city to life. Its zingy text and zippy pictures make it perfect for very young ...



  • Edna Ventre-Auerfeld

    She can cure the sick. She can give life to the dying. But can she save herself? Penny Chaney was a living miracle. The victim of a lethally sudden virus, no medicine could help her, and no doctor could bring her back. Then, in the realm between thi...



  • Robert Vaughan

    As a student at Litchfield College, Dewey Bradley wants nothing more than to graduate, marry his girlfriend Unity, and become pastor of a church. But when war breaks out, Dewey-impassioned by the atrocities of the Nazis-drops out of school to enli...



  • Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader

    Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's ex...




  • Edo Van Belkom

    Highway To Hell Amanda Peck is stuck in a dead end job, lives with a deadbeat boyfriend, and is dead set on changing her life. With no thought to what tomorrow might bring, she packs her meager belongings and hits the road, hitching rides from truck...



  • Kimberly Valzania

    The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe! With this series all about geography, emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities, nations, waterways, and habitats around the worldand right in their own backya...



  • John Ure

    For centuries, settled peoples have contemplated nomads with fascination and envy, or with disdain and fear. Both Americans and the British have had an obsession with nomadic peoples, stemming from their own wanderlust and admiration for the unfetter...



  • Urban Books

    There’s a saying that if you come from my part of town, you're from around the way. Around the Way Girls is a fast-paced look at the lives of some street-smart women who might think they know it all but are about to get the lessons of their lives. ...



  • Harry Turtledove

    THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN! When Avram became King of Detina, he declared he intended to liberate the blond serfs from their ties to the land. This noble assertion immediately plunged the kingdom into a civil war that would prove long and bloody, ...



  • Peter Tremayne
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    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...




  • Hannah Tinti

    With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses.In these ten strange, funn...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson
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    This April 1, anything is possible... Dare to desire... When Lena Walsh is handed a challenge to find the hottest guy she knows and take him out for an unusual date, she sets her sights on the office Adonis, Andre Dumont. But when silly turns to ...



  • Frank Thompson

    After two short weeks under siege, the climactic battle of the Alamo lasted under an hour, but its aftermath spawned a legend. The Alamo: A Cultural History explores the transformation of the fort from its 1718 inception as a Franciscan mission to it...



  • Melody Thomas

    A Breathless Passion After a whirlwind courtship and elopement, Lady Alexandra Marshall watched helplessly as her husband was shipped off by her irate father. An annulment followed, and though Alexandra waited with packed bags, Christopher never re...



  • Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    2005 Gold Medallion Award finalist!
    Be transported once again to the dark and tumultuous times of first-century Jerusalem. Return to the story of Peniel, the no-longer-blind beggar who still longs for the connection of home and family. Meet new ...



  • Patricia Thayer

    HE NEVER TURNED DOWN A CHALLENGE Bull-riding champion Dylan "The Devil" Gentry had females of all ages eating out of the palm of his hand. Except his pretty physical therapist, the no-nonsense Brenna Farren. His stolen kisses -- aimed to make her ...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Finding Love In Holly Springs... Once upon a time, Janey Hart eloped... with the wrong man. Twelve years later the proud and feisty Janey is widowed, running a bakery, raising her son -- and fighting her reckless streak. Until she runs smack-dab ...



  • Jonathan Tel

    Freud - dying of cancer - has come to London to escape persecution in Austria, bringing with him his famous couch, his collection of tribal totems and his insights into the English. Cared for by his biographer and doctor, Jones, Freud explores the ci...



  • Heather Tekavec

    When all the animals on the farm decide that the horrible smell is coming from the new baby piglet, they collectively decide to help rid him of his odor by washing him, covering him in hay, and even decorating him with flowers to help improve his nat...



  • Michael Teitelbaum

    Tonka Trucks keep on rolling! #11 in the popular IF I COULD DRIVE series, this realistic and factual 8x8 storybook illustrates what a young boy imagines it would be like to drive a big tanker truck.

    With detailed, realistic illustrations, this...



  • Lisa Teasley

    Ray Rose is a charming construction worker in Florida, plagued with guilt about a violent crime he committed. Ruby Falls is a beautiful animator whose freewheeling L.A. lifestyle is derailed when she stumbles upon a bloody crime scene at the Laurel C...



  • Mark Taylor

    When an apple-shaped birdhouse is placed in the tree, a curious frog thinks that it may be a home meant just for him and so moves in, but other animals have the same idea and soon the frog has a whole cast of interesting visitors dropping on by his u...



  • Andrew Taylor

    England 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of...



  • Judith Tarr

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

    Hippolyta was Penthesilea, or ...



  • Marcia Talley
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    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...



  • Beverly Swerling

    From the author of the acclaimed novel City of Dreams, the passionate story of Quentin Hale and Nicole Crane, set against the bloody and turbulent backdrop of the French and Indian War.1754. In a low-lying glen in Ohio Country, where both the French ...



  • Larry Stroman

    The first in an all-new Titan Books series, created by Carl Potts (The Punisher) and written and drawn by a host of comics’ superstars, with a new cover by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer (JLA: The Nail)!

    Meet the Alien Legion -- home to every cree...



  • Todd Strasser

    Her street name is MaybeShe lives with a tribe of homeless teens -- runaways and throwaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold city streets, and no family except for one another. Abused, abandoned, and forgotten, they struggle against ...



  • P.W. Storm

    For decades, the oppressive North Korean beast has been secretly building up its arsenal of destruction, waiting for the right opportunity to launch a second full-scale assault on its wary neighbor to the south. That time is now. War looms on the hor...



  • Karen Stolz

    Now available in paperback--from the author of World of Pies comes a charming portrait of the American heartland as told through the intertwined lives of twin sisters.

    When Karen Stolz's World of Pies was published two years ago, readers an...



  • 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...




  • Amanda Stevens

    HE WAS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY MALE The kind a small-town girl like Marly Jessop had rarely -- if ever -- seen in the flesh. Deacon Cage arrived in Mission Creek, Texas, like a specter in the night, stealthy and secretive. And his ability to stir M...



  • D.A. Stern

    MAKE THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME. FBI agent Frank Castle’s final case ends with a literal bang, when a wannabe weapons smuggler is gunned down during a sting operation. But the dead man isn’t just any punk. He’s the son of Howard Saint, th...



  • Susan Stephens

    The Ford family caused Xavier Bordiu's brother's death. Now Sophie Ford works for him! Tempted by her beauty, Xavier will take his revenge in the most pleasurable way... Sophie is still a virgin. But, as Xavier's skillful seduction awa...



  • Olen Steinhauer

    Eastern Europe, 1956: Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar, who is a proletariat writer in addition to his job as a state militia homicide detective, is a man on the brink. Estranged from his wife, whom he believes is cheating on him with one of his co...



  • Jessica Steinbrenner

    When Bess is in her sleepy room, she feels snug and warm, like a big hug. Whether she is daydreaming, reading, playing, or sleeping, her room is her haven. Everything in it — her books, her beloved panda, her doll house, and her bunny clock ...



  • Michael Anthony Steele

    Mission: movie sequel! Agent Cody Banks, the junior James Bond, is back on the big screen - with gizmos, gadgets, spy skills and . . . acne.


    In the sequel to the original hit, our young Agent Cody Banks finds himself back at summer camp--i...



  • Michael Anthony Steele

    The second G.I. JOE 8x8 storybook! This action-packed adventure has awesome full color illustrations and an exciting storyline -- perfect for younger G.I. JOE fans.

    The second G.I. JOE 8x8 storybook takes place on a deserted island, where Ship...



  • George Edward Stanley

    ATTACKED! Someone knocked out Todd and Noelle's friend Pops Verner, the night watchman at the department store, and stole his treasured pocket watch. He's pretty sure the robber is one of three men who work in the storeroom. But how can he figure ou...



  • Judith Stacy

    What did a stagecoach robbery, an ancient love goddess and the Rockies have in common? Easy, lawman Spence Harding thought -- that'd be Maggie Peyton, potential museum burglar and possessor of the cutest caboose in Colorado. But he had to forget she ...



  • Brian Stableford

    The eleven stories in Designer Genes showcase the latest volume in this intriguing science fiction that explores intriguing future possibilities in biotechnology, ranging from stories of imminent technology reflecting issues that are already controve...



  • Roxanne St. Claire

    GALE-FORCE ATTRACTION Quinn McGrath's Irish grandmother always said he'd know "the one." Only, the well-meaning matriarch hadn't cautioned that the perfect woman would literally fall from overhead into his arms -- or hate him desperately the momen...



  • James Spencer

    During World War II, James Spencer was a cocky, risk-addicted young pilot who lived with death every day-but considered it a privilege to fly the B-24s that helped win the war in the Pacific. The extraordinary result is The Pilots, a novel-in-stories...



  • Mary Sojourner

    The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest. Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-l...



  • Meilo So

    Who ever heard of a cat so greedy it swallowed its friend, the parrot, then a nosy old woman, a farmer and his donkey, and even the sultan’s royal wedding procession? Meilo So’s hungry, irascible tabby just opens his mouth and -- gobble, gobble, ...



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  • Don J. Snyder

    A moving novel about love, loss, and an extraordinary lifelong passion for golf, by the acclaimed author of The Cliff Walk and Fallen Angel.Ross Lansdale never knew his mother and father and grew up at St. Luke's Orphanage for Boys in the 1950s. The ...



  • Thomas E. Sniegoski

    good? Or evil? Or both? The time has come for Aaron Corbet, the eighteen-year-old son of an angel and a mortal, to face his worst enemy. Verchiel, the fallen leader of the Powers, is determined to defeat the prophecy that foretold Aaron's power ov...



  • Lemony Snicket

    This may look like just another book in Lemony Snicket's wretched series. Looks are deceiving.

    Just as Lemony Snicket has spent years researching the distressing lives of the Baudelaire orphans, now you too can record your own unfortunat...



  • Janice Davis Smith

    Dry Gulch becomes the smelliest town in the West when a posse of stinky cowboys arrive and refuse to take baths. Things get so bad, even the stinkbugs leave.

    No baths today! No baths tomorrow! No baths ever! roar the funky cowpokes.

    And ...



  • Ali Smith

    From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. What happens when you run into Death in a busy train stat...



  • Alexander McCall Smith

    Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established with many satisfied customers, and in her mid-thirties ("the finest age to be") she has a house, two adopted children, a fine fiance. But, as always, there are troubles. Mr. J.L.B. Ma...



  • Lisa Smedman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Hlondeth A city populated by the humanoid serpents known as the yuan-ti, and ruled by House Extaminos The powerful House of Serpents, and the ultimate target of The Pox A human cult whose members worship the goddess of plague and disease, an...



  • Gillian Slovo

    Leningrad. 1933. Loyalties, beliefs, love and family ties: all are about to be tested to the limit in a fight to see who will survive one of the most crushing moments the world will ever know. Boris Ivanov, the father who understands politics and pra...



  • William Sleator

    When his best friend is killed in a plane crash, Ken makes a decision: He will never die. He finds a woman who claims she can make him invulnerable to pain and death for the unbelievably cheap price of fifty dollars. And her strange ritual works. Ken...



  • Ian Slater

    The fight against terrorism has reached the next level-- and now America will really go to war. A series of cataclysmic events is exploding around the world. Two divisions of Chinese ground troops move against a neighboring Muslim nation, while a...



  • Liesel Moak Skorpen

    There's a bear outside my window. He's looking in at me.

    A sleepy little boy is so surprised to see a small, sad bear outside his window one night that he decides to invite him in.

    Originally published in 1968,...



  • Karen V. Siplin

    Karen Siplin, whose first novel, His Insignificant Other, earned her critical praise from her peers and fans, presents Such a Girl -- a sexy and engaging new novel. In Such a Girl, Siplin brings to vivid life the story of a woman who ends a love affa...



  • Donna Simpson

    LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT... An angel--that's what Dante Delacourt, Viscount Pierson, spies as he staggers home one foggy night. Admittedly, he is quite in his cups, but the blonde vision in the passing carriage is surely the archetype of goodness--a mora...



  • Walter Simonson

    Spanning epic tales of heroism and treachery, love and war, writer/artist Walter Simonson's groundbreaking work on THE MIGHTY THOR is regarded as that long-running title's definitive run. From the majesty and mystery of Asgard to the gritty streets o...



  • Kate Silver

    She Picked His Pocket... Orphaned and penniless, Miriame Dardagny has learned to survive in the back alleys of Paris using her wits and quick fingers, desperately seeking any chance to escape her fate. Jaded as she is, however, she cannot leave a ba...



  • Sharon Shinn

    The award-winning author returns to Samaria in this richly romantic tale that begins where Archangel left off. In that time, the women who craved the attention of angels were known as angel-seekers, a term used with awe by some--and scorn by others....



  • Ben Sherwood

    The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud tells the haunting story of a young man who narrowly survives a terrible car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries se...




  • Jesse Shepard

    "In his debut story collection, set mostly in Northern California, Jesse Shepard proves tough, canny, wildly inventive."-Seattle Times
    In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O'Connor, Jubilee King offers spare and deft na...



  • Aurelie Sheehan

    A single, young working girl living in the big city, Winona Bartlett struggles to juggle her safe job as a secretary at a New York City law firm with her aspirations of becoming a filmmaker and her disastrous love life, a situation that is complicate...



  • Barbara Seuling

    These adorable, age-appropriate Robert flip books are a great value -- get two stories in one book!

    In Robert and the Great Pepperoni, Robert tries to find a new home for a neighborhood dog - but it's his job to take care of Pepperoni in the m...



  • Larry Segriff

    From the author of Wizardspawn.

    Jonathan Hayes has a great life -- a loving wife, two great kids, and dreams that are just starting to come true. All that changes when the police show up at his front door in force, arresting him for the murder of ...



  • Sophfronia Scott

    Crita has come a long way from her small-town Ohio roots. A successful tax accountant living in Manhattan, she finally has the independent life that she dreamed of as a girl. However, with one fateful phone call, Crita's life is turned upside down. S...



  • Joanna Catherine Scott

    Discovering the gravestone of a woman believed lost at sea in the early nineteenth century, Joanna learns the story of Cassandra, who eloped with a French lieutenant, nursed a sick mother-in-law, and eventually fled to New Orleans before her ship was...



  • Melanie Schuster

    HE WON HER HEART... Marcus Deveraux has two goals in life - running the family business, and winning the love of Vera Clark Jackson. When he first met her, Marcus was a college student and Vera was ten years his senior - and married. Now Vera is sin...



  • Julie Schumacher

    Frances Cressen has the perfect summer planned. She’s going to Camp Whitman with her best friend, Agnes. But Frances’s mother has something else in mind for the family: Mountain Ash, a spiritual retreat in the middle of nowhere. Frances can’t t...



  • Charles M. Schulz

    When Charlie Brown reminds the gang it's Mother's Day, everyone begins searching for special ways to celebrate their moms. Snoopy types his mom a letter, Woodstock picks his mom a flower, and Lucy, Peppermint Patty, and Marcie shop for cards. But...



  • Mark Schultz

    Superman. Batman. Wonder Woman. The Flash. Green Lantern. They are the world's greatest super heroes, fighting endlessly against corruption and injustice. Each of them is a formidable opponent of evil, but banded together their powers are unmatche...




  • John Saul

    The dark history and dire secrets of a peaceful small town are summoned from the shadows of the past. Unholy forces are stirred from long slumber to monstrous new life. And two young misfits discover the chilling art of turning persecution into retri...



  • Gill Sanderson

    A knight in SCBU Special Care Baby Unit ward manager Jane Wilson has come to the Wolds Hospital to put the past behind her. After losing her husband, she's abandoned her dream of having a family to devote herself to the tiny babies in her care. Un...



  • George Sand

    Set against the backdrop of France's industrial revolution, this 1859 novel by the controversial, passionately socialist George Sand follows the fortunes of the dynamic, young metal smith Etienne Lavoute, known as Sept-Epees (or Seven Blades), as he ...



  • R.A. Salvatore

    From his usurped throne in Ursal, Aydrian, son of former queen Jilseponie, attempts to conquer the entire world of Corona. Even Aydrian does not fully understand what drives his ambition, the guiding voices he first heard from the shadow of Oracle, o...



  • Cynthia Rylant

    Every year Henry and his dad (with help from Mudge, of course) make Henry's mother a funny lunch for Mother's Day. Shopping for their juicy, crunchy surprise is fun, and preparing it is even more fun. But sharing it with Henry's mother is the most fu...



  • Cynthia Rutledge

    FROM PRINCESS TO PAUPER...TO WIFE? After a disappointing relationship, heiress Libby Carlyle needed to change her life. So she winged a prayer heavenward and traded places with her less privileged best friend. No sooner did she step into her new w...



  • Edward Rutherfurd

    From the bestselling author of London and Sarum -- amagnificent epic about love and battle, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of eleven centuries. The Princes of Ireland brilliantly weaves impeccable historical research an...



  • Rudy Rucker

    In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents. Society and the biosphere alike have been transformed by biotechnology, and the natural world is almost gone.Frek Huggins is a b...




  • Jeff Rovin

    An experimental U.S. Submarine, the Tempest D, with a propulsion system five-times-faster than traditional drives is to be tested in the remote South Polar waters. Chinese intelligence learns of the test and sends their own submarine to observe. When...



  • Howard Roughan

    Every perfect murder starts with a perfect lie... Howard Roughan's debut, The Up and Comer, was hailed as one of the most hip and entertaining thrillers of the year. Now Roughan returns at full stride with a scintillating novel of deception that ...



  • Lucinda Rosenfeld

    You have to love her, even when you’re laughing at her -- Phoebe Fine, that is, the star of this hilariously eccentric and affecting new novel.

    On the cusp of thirty, Phoebe has fled the high life and, ultimately, the no life of trying and f...



  • Michael Romkey

    Through the endless waltz of time, a man becomes a monster and a monster reclaims his humanity by saving one human soul. . . . 1863 Even the opium pipe and its dark dreams isn't enough to erase the memories that haunt Nathaniel Peregrine. His hom...



  • Marlys Rold

    A new adventure romance from the author of The Mercenary.

    Kelly Griffin has come to the coast of Asia to search for her missing brother, a wildlife photographer who is feared dead -- killed by the man-eating tigers that inhabit the island regions ...



  • Anne Rockwell

    Each child in Mrs. Madoff's class knows just how to celebrate Mother's Day. Jessica and her mom go hiking together. Sam helps pick out a new kitchen table. Sarah and her dad take Grandma to her favorite restaurant. And when a surprise visitor come...



  • Michael Robotham

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  • J.R. Roberts

    When a British diplomat is murdered, the U.S. Secret Service hires Clint Adams to investigate, plunging the notorious Gunsmith into a world of treason, treachery, and corruption leading back to the Civil War where a ruthless assassin waits to silence...



  • John Ringo; Linda Evans

    SURPLUS ON LOAN It was the last step in life for an obsolete bolo. Loaned out to a Concordiat ally, left to guard the backdoor against the Deng while the rest of the Dinochrome fought, and died, against the Melkonians. Well, SOL-0045 managed to st...



  • Kaitlyn Rice

    He's the bad boy who's no longer off-limits She's the good girl who needs a safe man Could it be the sea-green bandanna knotted in his blond hair? Or maybe it's the quicksilver eyes that sparkle with laughter before they deepen to hurricane-gray. ...



  • Raymond A. Reid

    The Gate Seldom Found by Raymond Reid

    This historical novel, drawn from actual incidents and real people, dramatizes the true story of a little-known house church fellowship that flowered late in the 19th century. The saga opens in southern Ontari...



  • Wilhelm Reich

    A new autobiographical work by one of the most original and controversial thinkers of our time.

    "I looked up every day from behind the bars to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Her light shone brightly into a dark night." With these word...



  • Mary Reed; Eric Mayer

    Winner, Glyph Award for Best Book SeriesNominee, Bruce Alexander History Mystery AwardIn 542, Peter, John the Lord Chamberlain's elderly servant, claims a heavenly visitor revealed a murder to him. It transpires that Peter's old army friend has indee...



  • Diane Redmond

    Young hero Joshua Cross encounters untold dangers, evil, and his own destiny as he journeys through time on an odyssey that will lead him from the Thames River to ancient Greece and into a confrontation with the man who had destroyed his father and w...



  • Elizabeth Redfern

    An exile and fugitive from England, Ned Warriner returns to his homeland in spite of the danger to search for his beloved, Kate Revill, unhappily married to an ardent anti-Catholic, and becomes caught up in the intrigues of the early seventeenth-cent...




  • Robert J. Randisi

    Young boys are being kidnapped and then strangled to death in Chicago, while the same is happening to girls in St. Louis. Is there one killer driving up and down I-55, or two separate killers? Detective Joe Keough and his partner, Harriet Connors, re...



  • Debbie Raleigh
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    Aware that even a rakehell must set up his nursery sometime, Lord Robert Marlow believes that choosing Anna Dashell for his bride will be a simple matter. He hasn't bargained on the interference of his childhood nemesis, spirited Charlotte Rowe--or h...



  • Melissa Pritchard

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  • Robert M. Price

    H. P. Lovecraft was the eerily prescient genius who first electrified readers in Weird Tales magazine. His tales changed the face of horror forever and inspired the bloodcurdling offerings of a new generation. These brilliant dark visionaries forge g...



  • Tracy Price-Thompson

    Embracing the shattered pieces of the soul and championing the resilient nature of the heart, A Woman’s Worth takes readers on a journey of startling depth. From a speakeasy whorehouse in the bottoms of Alabama to a luxurious high-rise apartment in...




  • Jill Pitkeathley

    They were beloved sisters and the best of friends. But Jane and Cassandra Austen suffered the same fate as many of the women of their era. Forced to spend their lives dependent on relatives, both financially and emotionally, the sisters spent their t...



  • Brian Pinkerton

    When she sees her son, who had been kidnaped two years before, on a bus stopped at the curb, Anita Sherwood, unable to make the police believe her claims that her son is still alive, will stop at nothing--even murder--to get her son back. Original....



  • Caridad Pineiro

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  • Joan Elliott Pickart

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  • Gervase Phinn

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  • Twist Phelan

    On the verge of leaving the family law firm for a better job, attorney Hannah Dain finds her career on the line when a real-estate deal suddenly goes awry, with two million dollars in investors' money disappearing, and sets out to uncover the truth a...



  • Patricia Curtis Pfitsch

    Don't tell anyone -- the only safety is in secrecy. During the summer of 1894 the giant sequoia trees -- the oldest living things on earth -- are being felled for lumber in northern California. When fifteen-year-old Francie finds a note hidden in...



  • Ken Petti; John Amodeo

    I thought things would get easier when I found my first musing. I couldn't have been more wrong. Lately it seems like nobody is on my side, and that nothing I do is right. But then I wake up in a whole other dimension. Here, everything is perfect! Ev...



  • Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson

    Winona waved her kerchief and called:Good-bye, cat!Good-bye, swing!Don't forget me!Like so many Americans in the late 1930s, Winona's family must flee the dust bowl and begin the long trip west to California in hopes of starting a better life. Th...



  • Elizabeth Peters

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  • Marta Perry

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  • Anne Perry
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  • Tom Perrotta

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  • Don Pendleton

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  • Don Pendleton

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  • Ben Pearson

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  • Pearson


    How to foil a bully's tactics

    Myrtle is happy. Her mom loves her. Her dad loves her. Her baby brother loves her. She has a good life -- until Frances moves next door. Frances does not love Myrtle, and she makes it her mission to keep Myrtl...



  • James Patterson; Andrew Gross

    Someone in the Women's Murder Club is about to die... The Women's Murder Club returns in a shockingly suspenseful thriller. Plunging into a burning townhouse, Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers three dead bodies...and a mysterious message at the sc...



  • Francine Pascal

    The sight of blood makes my heart race. The slightest noise makes my palms sweat. A tiny spider makes my stomach drop. Everything frightens me. And I've never been happier....



  • Craig Parshall

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  • Robert B. Parker

    When Marlene Rowley hires Spenser to follow her cheating husband, Spenser finds not only a two-timing spouse, but another detective hired to shadow the wayward Marlene. Not the most trusting couple in town--but, as Spenser's about to learn, certainly...



  • Marilyn Pappano

    SECRETS AND LIES Ex-detective Jace Barnett's finely tuned instincts went into overdrive when he met his beautiful new neighbor with the fictitious past. His attempts to uncover her true identity met a dead end every time. She was a tantalizing mys...



  • Catherine Palmer

    Olivia Hewes has one dream: to make Chatham Manor's wool-producing venture profitable. When she meets Randolph Sherbourne, the heir of her largest competitor, the two are drawn toward a forbidden love that will mean betraying both their families and ...



  • Robin Paige

    Coronation Day, 1902. Charles and Kate Sheridan are pleased to be witness to the crowning of their king. Expatriate author Jack London is also watching the festivities--but with a more skeptical eye. He has come to London to write an expose of the Ea...



  • Josephine Page

    Chapter book readers will love reading about the adventures of their favorite Big Red Dog!

    Clifford wants to go on a whale watch with Emily Elizabeth and her friends. But Jetta is afraid he'll scare the whales away. After Clifford swims away, ...



  • Jean Reynolds Page

    Joanne Timbro and Darla Stevens grew up next door to each other in a small Texas town. Their childhood days nurtured a rare friendship that carried them into adult years. As young women, Darla and Jo enter into an agreement that will change their liv...



  • Mary Packard

    Young children wil love larning to read with these storybooks. Once they can recognize and identify the words used to tell each story, the will be able to successfully read on their own. Features a word list....



  • Mary Pope Osborne

    In a land lost in mist, in a time before time, there is a powerful Sword of Light. Now Merlin the Magician needs that sword for the good of all Camelot. But who can go on this dangerous mission? Merlin turns again to Jack and Annie - two modern kids ...



  • Juilene Osborne-McKnight

    Bright Sword of Ireland is the third in Juilene Osborne-McKnight's wonderful retelling of cherished Irish folktales. A dedicated researcher into the origins of Celtic myth and legend, Osborne-McKnight infuses her stories with passion, romance and mag...



  • Jan Ormerod

    Emily is an ostrich with attitude, and Albert is an unflappable elephant. Whether Emily is curing a cold Albert didn't know he had, teaching him to dance correctly (ballet, of course) or explaining to him how to read the right way (the way that inclu...



  • Eugenie Seifer Olson

    A game that's fun for all ages! Some assembly required. . . . . . Step One: Open Box Warning: Some Pieces May Have Sharp Edges Former art student Toby Morris is twenty-five, and she knows she's supposed to be out there . . . somewhere . . ....



  • Pat Olliffe

    Presenting the official comic book adaptation of Marvel's 2004 blockbuster motion picture ­ starring John Travolta, Thomas Jane and Rebecca Romjin-Stamos. Frank Castle is an undercover government special agent pushed over the edge when his family is ...



  • Kathleen O'Reilly

    PLAYING WITH FIRE... Jessica Barnes has a one-way ticket to the career of her dreams as a corporate VP when Adam Taylor, the sexy consultant and chief hatchet man, arrives on the scene. Suddenly Jessica's not sure whether her job will get axed if ...



  • Jody Lynn Nye

    In Taylor's Ark and Medicine Show, Shona Taylor fought death and disease--with a menagerie of very special assistants. Now, in an all-new novel, Dr. Taylor takes on a new assignment, and discovers a chilling reality behind a picture-perfect planet......



  • Celeste O. Norfleet

    Cautious and conservative architectural designer Angela Lord didn't know quite what to expect when she decided to fly to Puerto Rico to learn the truth about her family background. She was stunned to discover that not only was she the exact double of...



  • Bette Nordberg

    With candor and compassion, Silver Angel award-winning writer Bette Nordberg explores the struggles and heartaches associated with homosexuality and AIDS to create a gripping novel that reveals the comfort of a personal relationship with Jesus. Colle...



  • Christopher Nicole

    On holiday in the Bahamas, Frances Ogilvie meets a strangely attractive man whom she allows to hypnotize her, she supposes as a party trick. But on her return to England she realizes that he has not removed the spell, that she is still under his cont...



  • Kim A. Nelson

    "Marriage is God's plan for eternity," writes Kim A. Nelson. "It's our path to becoming more like him, knowing the things he knows, and experiencing a fullness of eternal joy. That's a pretty lofty expression of the desired outcome, especially for pe...



  • Mindy Neff

    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 ...



  • Yvonne Navarro

    Brought into the world through a pagan ritual, Hellboy struggles to come to terms with the fantastic powers that have allowed him to benefit all humankind by transforming him into the world's greatest paranormal investigator, but that also have kept ...



  • Naomi Nash

    Posing as a witch, outcast high school coed Vickie Marotti attempts to use street magic and a dangerous persona to make her life easier, that is, until popular upperclassman Gio Carson sees through her smoke and mirrors. Original....



  • Beverle Graves Myers

    Venice, 1731. Opera is the popular entertainment of the day. Tito Amato, mutilated as a boy to preserve his enchanting soprano voice, returns to the city of his birth with his friend Felice, a singer whose voice has failed.Disaster strikes Tito's ope...



  • Andrew Murray

    Chester the cat and Buddy the dog are always fighting.

    But one day Chester decides he's had enough and sets off on his own. Buddy can't believe it -- he actually misses Chester. With the help of some alley cats, Buddy decides to find his old...



  • Rita Murphy

    Harmony McLean has been different from the moment she was discovered. When a falling star struck his chicken coop, Felix McGillicuddy never expected to find a baby girl miraculously left behind. He names her after the harmony of spheres in honor of h...



  • Roxie Munro

    This brilliant lift-the-flap book ushers readers through delightful doors of all kinds. Discover and rediscover real worlds as fantastic as the Space Station or as familiar as the inside of a refrigerator. Sail a boat, ride a train, peek behind a sta...



  • Tara Jaye Morrow

    "If I were a monkey who swung on a tree and you were my mommy, who swung after me . . . imagine how happy and fun it would be."

    Hand in hand a mother and child monkey spend the entire day together doing the special things ...



  • Mary McGarry Morris

    A man returns to his hometown after twenty-five years in prison, in this “richly atmospheric” novel by the acclaimed author of Songs in Ordinary Time (The Washington Post). After decades in prison for a senseless juvenile murder, Gordon Loomis re...



  • Gilbert Morris

    Book 31 of House of Winslow. Jennifer Winslow had known only the finest life had to offer--until her family lost everything in the crash of '29. Moving from New York to a small farm in Georgia, Jenny struggles to adapt to her tough new life. Then, th...



  • Richard K. Morgan

    Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn’t just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness an...