Books Published in May 1993

New Books List: 572 titles

  • Uncle Carmello

    David Zucker

  • The Pigman & Me

    Paul Zindel

    Eight hundred and fifty-three horrifying things had happened to me by the time I was a teenager. That was when I met my Pigman, whose real name was Nonno Frankie. The year Paul Zindel, his sister, Betty, and their mother lived in the town of Travis, ...

  • The Cow Buzzed

    Andrea Griffing Zimmerman

  • What's a Vacation?

    Harriet Ziefert

  • What's a Wedding?

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Where's Bobo?

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Wedding of Don Octavio

    Patricia Zelver

  • The Last Command

    Timothy Zahn

    The conclusion to the epic adventure begun in the number one New York Times bestselling Heir to the.Empire and continued in Dark Force Rising, this final volume spans a galaxy in flames, as the Empire threatens to engulf the New Republic and its brav...

  • That Mighty Sculptor, Time

    Marguerite Yourcenar

    This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spiri...

  • The Shaman's Knife

    Scott Young

    RCMP inspector Matteesie Kitologitak, the “great brain of Arctic crime,” is drawn into the case surrounding a grisly double murder when the only witness to the crime is revealed to be his mother. With the help of a shaman and his own Inuit backgr...

  • Afghan Tales

    Oleg Yermakov

    A collection of short stories probes the legacy of Russia's involvement in Afghanistan, examining the lives of a schoolmistress in a rural hamlet, a young man awaiting conscription, and a wounded veteran trying to rebuild his career. 10,000 first pri...

  • The Lover

    A.B. Yehoshua / Abraham B. Yehoshua

    A man searches for his wife’s lover during the Yom Kippur War, in a novel by the award-winning author hailed as the “Israeli Faulkner” (The New York Times).   In Haifa, at the dawn of Israel’s 1973 war, the lives of a middle-class garage...

  • Little Buddy Goes Shopping

    Patrick Yee

  • Little Buddy Meets Bobo

    Patrick Yee

  • Red Sorghum

    Mo Yan

    The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering ho...

  • Bank on It

    Sherryl Woods

    MURDER...COMPOUNDED WITH INTEREST Amanda Roberts was ignoring the rules every woman knows. She agreed to meet a strange man at night, in a dark, creepy place--a cemetery, no less. If she hadn't been so depressed over her love life, she might not h...

  • Look!

    A.J. Wood

    Apparently identical facing pictures, depicting beautifully rendered and informative nature scenes from a dozen fascinating locales, actually contain numerous subtle differences that assiduous searchers can discover. Reprint....

  • Wednesday Night Match

    Meg Wolitzer

    Julie and her friends, Alison, Trina, Susan, and Stacy are now in the sixth grade, but they haven't forgotten their fifth grade teacher, Mr. Graham -- or their plan to help him. The girls want to do something really special for the handsome young wid...

  • Make Lemonade

    Virginia Euwer Wolff

    Come together LaVaughn needs a part-time job. Something she could do after school to help earn money for college. Jolly needs a babysitter. Someone she could trust with two kids while she works the evening shift. It doesn't matter that LaVaughn is f...

  • The Horsemasters

    Joan Wolf

    In the lush green valleys of southern France, long before the mists of time, as humankind takes its first defiant steps to tame the earth, one special tribe among the Kindred is ruled by the Priestess Arika. But a feared change is coming, for the dis...

  • Cody's Ride

    Stan Wiseman

  • Ten Sly Piranhas

    William Wise

  • The Countess and the Cowboy

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    COWBOYS AND INDIANS NEVER FOUGHT LIKE THIS When Letitia DeMarco won the deed to her ex's Montana ranch, she didn't know it came with a negative cash flow--and Tyler Barnes, a foreman with a state-size chip on his shoulder. Before she could even un...

  • Hero on the Loose

    Rebecca Winters

    She'd helped to convict him -- but was he innocent? Andrea Meyers was on the jury that convicted prominent New Mexico stockbroker Lucas Hastings of defrauding his clients. She was never comfortable with the verdict, though; the case against hi...

  • My Color Is Panda

    Deborah Winograd

  • Yakuza, Go Home!

    Anne Wingate

  • Malefice

    Leslie Wilson

  • Music in the Night

    Etta Wilson

    One night, all the farm animals join the dog as he howls at the moon, but when the day comes, the rooster stops their noise, in a brightly illustrated tale that teaches the sounds of a farm and its animals....

  • Princess: Based on Hans Christian Andersen's the Princess and the Pea

    Anne Wilsdorf

    "Shunning his mother's list of marriageable girls, an enterprising young prince brings home a shepherdess named Princess. His dubious mom tests the girl's bona fides with the old pea-under-the-mattress trick. Come morning, Princess is indeed black-an...

  • Once in a Blue Moon

    Penelope Williamson

    Once on a wild and windswept moor... Those who knew spoke of the infamous Trelawny men in hushed, shocked whispers. But to flame-haired Jessalyn Letty, wild, captivating child of the storm-tossed Cornish moors, McCady Trelawny was the most fascin...

  • Beachhead

    Jack Williamson

  • Selena

    Gordon Randolph Willey

    Retired archaeology professor Colin Edwards returns to the small town on Florida's Gulf Coast at the request of his cousin Charles, who believes there's a killer among the trustees of his family's estate. Charles's fears are realized when one of the ...

  • The Shark-Infested Custard

    Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford

    From the master of Miami noir comes this tale of four regular guys living in a singles apartment building who experience firsthand that there's more than one type of heat in Miami.Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private s...

  • Sister Water

    Nancy Willard

    "Heavenly...Marvelous...Uplifting...A kind of miracle...A magical web of language that both seduces with poetic power and moves the heart."
    PEOPLE
    Jessie Woolman and her family are suddenly faced with unforseen tragedy. Her mind is beginning to...

  • Web of Murder

    Harry Whittington

  • Voice in the Dark

    Judy Whitten

  • Bad Attitude

    Tiffany White

    EVERY WOMAN WANTS AN OUTLAW And every woman in the world seemed to want Mitch Marlow, Hollywood's hottest hell-raiser. His bad-boy looks--complete with matching attitude--had made him a highly bankable movie star. But lately his reckless life-sty...

  • Jaydium

    Deborah Wheeler

    When a chain reaction between a jaydium deposit and Eril's force during a mining run send Kithri and Eril adrift in time, they are joined by a spaceman from an earlier era and an anthropologist from an alternate universe. Original....

  • Mirrors of the Sea

    Sally Wentworth

    Changing course... Alys had run away, raw and devastated, from Titus Irvine and the love that had fallen victim to stubborn, uncompromising anger. Time had done little to heal the wounds. Now, the cruise ship they were coincidentally both aboar...

  • Wild Magic

    Angus Wells

    When the First Gods created all things, they brought forth two lesser gods, Tharn and Balatur, to walk upon the new world. But greed and power twisted their minds and turned their ambition into madness. And so the First Gods condemned them to eternal...

  • Hurricane City

    Sarah Weeks

  • Dolphin Sunrise

    Elizabeth Webster

  • The Spell of the Black Dagger

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    Tabaea was an ordinary thief, sneaking and prowling and stealing for a living. Then one night while burgling a house, she witnessed a wizard teaching his apprentice a spell -- the creation of a magic dagger.

    Tabaea decided to try the magic for...

  • This I Ask of You

    Pat Warren

    Dark family secrets, half-remembered whispers from the past, sent Nikki Spencer running from her home, from everything she knew and loved. Her desperate flight brought her at last, hurt, exhausted and heartsick, to an isolated cabin high in the red-r...

  • Swept Away

    Linda Warren

    JAKE--A Blue-Eyed Scoundrel Whose Grin Promised Delicious Seduction... He'd never intended to return to the family whale-watching business, but Jake Marlow suspected sabotage--and he had to consider every possible suspect, including Maria Santos,...

  • Arctic Spring

    Sue Vyner

    As winter ends, arctic animals emerge from their lairs, the seal surfaces from under the ice, and the polar bear guards her cubs, in an illustrated evocation of the excitement of spring in the far North....

  • Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs

    William Vollmann

    A collection of stories by the author of Whores for Gloria, You Bright and Risen Angels, The Rainbow Stories, The Ice Shirt, and An Afghanistan Picture Show features tales of pimps, tramps, pornographers, and witch doctors....

  • Prim and Improper

    Rachel Vincer

    Love and War The last person Julia wanted to see at the story conference was Martin Taylor. Since he'd joined the staff of Canadian Horizons, he had swiped every important article that came along. His English accent and worldly manner had bowled o...

  • Hector's New Sneakers

    Amanda Vesey

  • Waiting for the Wolf Moon

    Evelyn Vaughn

    Under a Raging Moon... Nobody had to tell Sylvie Peabody that some things were beyond human understanding. After all, she was a witch--a white witch of uncommon power. But even she was powerless to explain the nightmare that gripped the little tow...

  • Danilo the Fruit Man

    E.G. Valens

  • Tintin in the New World

    Frederic Tuten

    In this New York Times Notable Book of 1995, Tintin, who's been to the Yucatan and Tibet, to the South Seas and the Great American Plains, and even to the Moon, charts the dark, restless geography of his own mind. "A song about the community of beaut...

  • What Kouka Knows

    Truus

  • The Mudpack And Me

    Joan R. Thompson

    Beauty is only skin deep. . . What are two thirteen-year-olds doing at a health resort? Susan Hubbard wants to lose ten pounds before school begins. Her roommate, silent, sullen Tessa DeCosta is there on her soap opera star-mother's orders. What a ...

  • Mermaid Janine

    Iolette Thomas

  • Come and Play, Hippo

    Mike Thaler

  • The Forever Night

    Myrna Temte

    All right, he'd made a mistake. A big mistake. In a bout of bone-deep loneliness, he, straitlaced sheriff Andy Johnson, had cut loose in a night of carnal bliss with spitfire Ginny Bradford. But did that mean he'd never live it down? Looked that ...

  • Breath on the Mirror

    Dennis Tedlock

  • Just a Memory Away

    Moyra Tarling

    When the past lies in shadow... Alison Montgomery awakened alone in a hospital room, unable to remember her own name. The doctors were kind and comforting, but their worried glances, and their hushed whispers outside her door, spoke of dark secret...

  • The Shingle Beach

    Sue Sully

    Recently widowed, Elizabeth Pengelly travels from the Australian outback to her native England where she is reunited with her old flame, Edward, but her young daughters, Agnes and Katherine, do not find England so friendly...

  • High Sheriff of Huntingdon

    Anne Stuart
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    A gentle convent-bred daughter of an enterprising earl is unwillingly wed to a handsome, wicked lord - and awakens the goodness in her new husband's tormented soul with the potent power of love....

  • The Virgin & the Unicorn

    Kelly Street

    Live the Fantasy Our deepest and dearest romantic fantasies are rooted in fairy tales, myths and legends. 1n these beloved stories of destined love, of true love conquering all, we recapture the magic of romance. Once upon a time, a virginal pr...

  • Hocus Pocus

    Todd Strasser

  • Kitty and Me

    Dorothy M. Stott

  • Puppy and Me

    Dorothy M. Stott

  • The Girl Who Cried Monster

    R.L. Stine

    SHE’S TELLING THE TRUTH...BUT NO ONE BELIEVES HER! Lucy likes to tell monster stories. She's told so many that her friends and her family are sick of it. Then one day, Lucy discovers a real, live monster: the librarian in charge of the summer read...

  • Bagels for Tea

    Serita Stevens

  • Triplecross

    Linda Stevens

    Three strikes and you're out... Sam Spade never saw a pair like this.... Lizzy Green's charity case of the month was playing detective for a sweet little old lady who'd misplaced an heirloom. But suddenly the rules of Lizzy's li...

  • Spider-Man: Origin of Hobgoblin

    Roger Stern

  • The Afterlife of George Cartwright

    John Steffler

    For George Cartwright - soldier, explorer, naturalist, entrepreneur, gentleman, adventurer - time stopped on May 19, 1819, the day of his death. In the 170 years since, his spirit has wandered the byways of his youth, his mind returning always to the...

  • Until Tomorrow

    Sandra Steffen

    The Truth About Conor Bekka Stevenson had wanted to know the truth about Conor since they were both kids. Always considered a bad boy around town, Conor Bradley had seemed exciting and dangerous. No one knew who started the blaze that burned his h...

  • The Fifth Sacred Thing

    Starhawk

    An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression.Declaration of the Four Sacr...

  • Wakefield Hall

    Francesca Stanfill

    Summoned to the elegant Berkshire mansion known as Wakefield Hall to write the biography of recently deceased actress Joanna Eakins, reporter Elisabeth Rowan is unprepared for the passion, malevolence, and misdirection she encounters. Reprint....

  • The Willing Captive

    Lee Stafford

    Six months was hardly a life sentence! After all, Linnett found Cassie, her six-year-old charge, a delight. She would enjoy the time she spent helping the little girl with her English. It was spending time with Max di Angeli, Cassie's fathe...

  • Becca's Independence

    Judith Stafford

    HAD SHE WON HER FREEDOM ONLY TO LOSE HER HEART? A TANGLED WEB INDEED .. . Lady Rebecca Jane Alexandra Dunlevy had no qualms about becoming plain Rebecca Dunn if it meant escaping from a distasteful marriage. Using a distant family connection, s...

  • Pleasure in the Sand

    Adrienne Staff

    ERIC--A Tormented Hero Who Made Her Dream of Happily Ever After... He lifted her from the waves and comforted the lovely stranger with his gentle touch and a voice she believed was only a dream, but Jody Conners was shocked to discover she'd been...

  • Blossom's Family Album

    Devra Newberger Speregen

  • Moon-Kissed Promises

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    Their love was a temptation beyond all imagining... He was a young man destined to seek his uncharted future in the great land that was America. But Michael Cord was haunted by a tragedy from the past --- a secret that forced him to travel from to...

  • Wild Wanton Love

    Ashley Snow

    His touch aroused her most shameless desires! BOLD SEDUCTRESS Orphaned Maud Mellingham knew there had to be more to life than being a servant at a country estate. So when a troupe of traveling players passed through Thornhill, the lowborn Engli...

  • Can't Buy Me Love

    Joan Smith

    Just in thyme... Real estate developer Wilf Jameson had found the perfect location for his country club. All he had to do to close the deal was buy the farmland that sat smack in the middle of his future golf course. His partner claimed the owner ...

  • Big Pig's Hat

    Willy Smax

  • Wonderful Feast

    Esphyr Slobodkina

  • Back to Before

    Jan Slepian

    Two cousins who have each lost a parent--one to divorce, the other to a heart attack--are swept into a time warp that takes them back in time when Linny's mother was still alive and Hilary's father lived at home....

  • Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant

    Jan Slepian

    The food-loving monster is back in a welcome sequel to the all-time favorites The Hungry Thing and The Hungry Thing Returns. Freem's fantastical illustrations enhance the absurdity and humor in this fun-filled fantasy. Full color....

  • Round and Round

    James Skofield

  • Liquid Desires

    Edward Sklepowich

    A shocking murder draws Urbino Macintyre into the dark side of the Venice art world Summer in Venice is brutal, and the heat is beginning to drive the people of this quiet city mad. A woman storms into the galleries at the Biennale art fair and slash...

  • Slate Blues

    Sheri Cooper Sinykin

    When the famous rock star Slate comes to Reina's home to recuperate, Reina learns that Slate is her aunt, and she discovers more about Slate, her mother, and herself. By the author of Next Thing to Strangers. ...

  • It's Hard to Read a Map with a Beagle on Your Lap

    Marilyn Singer

  • Scottish Ecstasy

    Rebecca Sinclair

    HE CLAIMED HER VIRTUE Scottish beau order had willingly offered herself as pledge, to be held by Alasdair "the Devil" Gray until Clan Forster could pay the fine they owed to him. She counted on her high standing and the March Wardens to prot...

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Pamela Simpson

    A TERRIFYING IMAGE They are only fragments of a memory, flickering shards of shadow and fear, but they fill Alexandra Wyatt with indescribable dread. For somewhere in the deepest corners of her mind, the child in her remembers ... murder. A SUR...

  • Final Frenzy

    Barbara Siegel

    Before he can leave Ghostworld and return to the living world, sixteen-year-old Andy Moser, accompanied by his ghost friend, Elizabeth, must locate the ghost who has stolen the secret of death from the Grim Reaper...

  • Tell Me You Love Me

    Seymour Shubin

  • Vindication

    Frances Sherwood

    Vindication is a prodigious, spectacular debut - a whirlwind of a novel that offers a passionate and surprising vision of life and love through the lens of the turbulent, romantic, often brutal eighteenth century."Sherwood's heralded debut is an arre...

  • Journey's End

    R.C. Sherriff

    The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play deals with the horror and futility of trench warfare, as Captain Stanhope an...

  • Moon Lake Massacre

    Jon Sharpe

    In the town of Moon Lake, Utah, to help his old friend, Ben Adams, Skye Fargo discovers that Ben has been murdered, and soon he is in the middle of a savage struggle between a smooth-talking rancher and a group of farmers. Original....

  • Rocky Mountain Feud

    Jon Sharpe

  • Angel of the Lake

    Ana Seymour

    LOST AT SEA Josh Lyman was lucky to have survived the wreck of the S.S. Atlantic. His fragile young wife had perished instantly, but his rescue of a Norwegian emigrant girl had been proclaimed a miracle --- a miracle that plagued him with guilt ever...

  • A Suitable Boy

    Vikram Seth

    Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata's--and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra's--attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independ...

  • White Trash, Red Velvet

    Donald Secreast

    Set in North Carolina and echoing a rich tradition of Appalachian storytelling, Donald Secreast's second book of fiction explores with deeply felt sympathy and acute insight the delicate web of family relations, the natural cycles of growth and l...

  • Your Mother Was a Neanderthal

    Jon Scieszka

    Anything to avoid homework! Thanks to The Book, Joe, Sam, and Fred are back in the Stone Age, where there aren't any math problems. But there's a tribe of hostile cavewomen, a hungry-looking saber-toothed tiger, a bone-rattling earthquake, and a w...

  • Strong Arms of the Law

    Dallas Schulze

    THE HOSTAGE AND HER "HUSBAND" When Kate Sloane agreed to testify as a witness for the state, she had no idea she'd become a voluntary hostage-to a sexy stranger who was armed and dangerous. Drew Hunter had ice-blue eyes, a police detective's ba...

  • Getting Smart

    Meg F. Schneider

  • Word Book with Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm

    Richard Scarry

    Young readers are encouraged to find the objects pictured along the side of the page in the illustrations of Huckle and Sally Cat and their family, Lowly Worm, and Goldbug at home, shopping, visiting the doctor, and at the playground...

  • Fossil Hunter

    Robert J. Sawyer

    Toroca, the son of Afsan the Far-Seer and a geologist searching for the rare metals needed to take his species to the stars, discovers an artifact that may reveal the true origin of the dinosaurs. Original....

  • Paradise

    Marc Savage

    When her gambling beau, Misty, sets off across country with a bundle of stolen cash, Molly agrees to give her ex-beau, private eye Izzy Stein, a second chance if he will go easy on Misty. AB. PW. LJ. ...

  • Table Rock

    Les Savage Jr.

    As a result of being framed for cattle rustling, his father is killed and his mother is wounded by vigilantes, forcing seventeen-year-old Gordon Conners to overcome his aversion to guns to survive in the mountains. Reprint....

  • The Down Home Heifer Heist

    Eve K. Sandstrom

    THIN ICE It's a mean winter in Catlin County, Oklahoma, as modern-day rustlers are taking a deep cut out of the area's cattle production. The operation is slick...and murder is just another day's work. Rancher Joe Pilkington, neighbor to Sheriff ...

  • Indiana

    George Sand

    Cette édition classique a été convertie par eBooksLib.com.J'ai écrit Indiana durant l'automne de 1831. C'est mon premier roman; je l'ai fait sans aucun plan, sans aucune théorie d'art ou de philosophie dans l'esprit. J'étais dans l'âge où l'o...

  • The Mongol

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages, and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. A slave of the savage Tatars, Casca is a champion in the blood-sports tha...

  • Room 13

    T.S. Rue

  • Over the Edge // Murder on the Clifftops

    Betty Rowlands

    Successful Cotswolds thriller writer Melissa Craig, accompanies her friend Iris to the Cévennes, where Iris is running an art course and Melissa is researching the history of the Camisards for her next novel. Within a week, two bodies are found s...

  • Zero Hour

    Patrick F. Rogers

  • Closet Case

    Robert Rodi

    As he tries to conceal his homosexuality from his co-workers, Lionel Frank runs into some snags, including a crush on a straight Transylvanian anarchist medical student. By the author of Fag Hag. ...

  • Mrs. Wolf

    Shen Roddie

  • Who Do You Think You Are?: Stories of Friends and Enemies

    Hazel Rochman

  • Nevada Guns

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams thinks that Allentown, Nevada, will be just the place for a break from the hot, dusty trail -- the kind of town where you can find a soft bed and a soft woman. But as soon as he checks into the hotel, Clint finds that looks can be deceivi...

  • Shenanigans

    Casey Roberts

    THE OPPONENTS Paul Sherwood was a man with a mission: to take over ailing cosmetics giant Cheri Lee. Lauren Afton was a woman with a goal: to save her mother's self-made empire. THE CHALLENGE Paul was smooth, all right, right down to the off...

  • Dreamsicle // Hail Storme

    W.L. Ripley

    While on a hunting vacation in the Ozarks, former NFL star Wyatt Storme stumbles upon an underworld drug ring with plans to create a highly addictive drug called "dreamsicle," and he reluctantly assumes the role of detective...

  • Letters from a Stranger

    Connie Rinehold

    THEY WERE A PAIR OF LOST SOULS . . . Lovely Angela Winters had settled into a quiet life designing greeting cards at home. Filling her time with friends and activities, Angela carefully avoided the emotional risks of love. But then she wrote a cheer...

  • Kill Crazy

    L.S. Riker

    When Griot, a small-time street hustler, is pushed off the roof of a high-rise, Swag goes after Griot's possible killers, men dealing in a deadly new substance that is turning citizens into paranoid maniacs. Original....

  • Love of My Heart

    Emma Richmond

    When Irish eyes are smiling...there's trouble in store! Ellie was struck by the warmth and kindness of the Irish; ever since she'd arrived in their country, they'd been only too willing to welcome her, and it seemed that Feargal McMaho...

  • Somewhere Out There

    Emilie Richards

    THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Like a scorching mirage, the stranger materialized from the sandswept Australian Dryas naked and nameless as a newborn babe. But even without his memory, he was every inch a man .... A man whose missing past-and eerily hy...

  • Hannah's Hero

    Denise Richards

    Someone to Watch Over Hannah Hannah usually loved the solitude of mornings on the New Mexico farm. The daily rituals of scattering chicken feed, collecting eggs and running the dog were a source of comfort, a way to -recover from the tragic event ...

  • Once in a Wood

    Eve Rice

  • Magic Spring

    Nami Rhee

  • More Whatdunits

    Mike Resnick

    A collection of space-age whodunits features the tale of a precognitive alien brought to earth to make millions for a large brokerage firm, an alien telepath who performs mind-reading acts on human worlds, and seventeen other stories. Original....

  • Whatdunits

    Mike Resnick

  • Tomorrow on Rocky Pond

    Lynn Reiser

  • The Best Little Boy in the World

    John Reid

    The classic account of growing up gay in America.
    "The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the ...

  • Gus and the Green Thing

    Janet Reich

  • Summer Token

    Joan Reddin

    SEASON OF LOVE Amelia Randall's position as a night nurse at a pediatric hospital in rural Arkansas is the perfect job for a woman who has spent her life hiding from the world. But she can't hide forever. Her best friend knows that. So does the m...

  • Sheridan's Ride

    Thomas Buchanan Read

  • Garth Pig Steals the Show

    Mary Rayner

  • The Dork of Cork

    Chet Raymo

    When Frank, an Irish dwarf, writes a personal memoir, he moves from dark isolation into the public eye. This luminous journey is marked by memories of his lonely childhood, secrets of his doomed young mother, and his passion for a woman who is as unr...

  • The Big Green Pocketbook

    Candice Ransom

    On her day in town with her mother, a little girl starts off with an empty big green pocketbook--just like her mother's--and along the way collects pieces of her day to put inside, inventing stories for each treasure. Color illustrations. Trophy edit...

  • Hard Look

    Robert J. Randisi

    There's a song extolling the pleasures of autumn in New York, but for Miles Jacoby, a private investigator who spends too much of his time on the Big Apple's streets, the opportunity to go to Florida in October has certain charms. Not the least of th...

  • The Snow Leopard

    Theresa Radcliffe

  • The Wedding Deception

    Sheila Rabe

    A FAIRY TALE... Innocent young Celeste Hart had always been dearly loved--and properly spoiled. When her father lost the family fortune, her storybook life was in jeopardy. In a desperate attempt to help her family, Celeste promised herself to ...

  • Kill the Boss Good-By

    Peter Rabe

    Pander wore dark glasses and fancy suspenders and he moved into the San Pietro rackets like a sandblaster gone berserk. Fell, the boss, was mysteriously away and Pander grabbed the chance to bury his hands in the heavy money. Then Fell came back. At...

  • Thunder and Roses

    Mary Jo Putney

    PASSION'S BARGAIN They called him the Demon Earl. They said he could do anything. Son of a rogue and a gypsy, Nicholas Davies was a notorious rake until a shattering betrayal left him alone and embittered in the Welsh countryside. Desperation ...

  • A Place of Stones

    Deirdre Purcell

    Seeking her fame and fortune in Dublin, small-town Irish woman Molly O'Brien finds herself torn between the love of the American who breaks down her defenses and the Irishman whom it is a sin to desire. Original....

  • Poison Ivy and Eyebrow Wigs

    Bonnie Pryor

    In the sequel to Vinegar Pancakes and Vanishing Cream, Martin Snodgrass enters the fourth grade and tries to act more grown-up by writing love notes to his teacher, trying out for the school play, and more....

  • The Perilous Pit

    Orel Odinov Protopopescu

  • Where Shadows Go

    Eugenia Price

    After giving up a career as a British Royal Marine, John Fraser agrees to his wife Anne's fondest wish: that they return from London to Cannon's Point, her family's lush plantation on St. Simons Island, Georgia. There, as John struggles to master the...

  • Operation Wandering Soul

    Richard Powers

    National Book Award FinalistFrom the Pulitzer Prize"winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment, an exquisitely rendered novel set in the pediatrics ward of a public hospital that examines the power, joy, and anguish of storyte...

  • Renegade

    Patricia Potter

    AN EXQUISITE CREATURE OF LIGHT Prisoner Rhys Redding never wondered why an angel with gleaming ebony hair and startling violet eyes would appear in the hellish Confederate jail. All he cared about was that she was his only hope of escaping Richmond ...

  • Goering's List

    J.C. Pollock

    Almost fifty years after World War II, the art collectors who own the spoils of Nazi plunder are targeted by a ruthless international terrorist, and CIA counterterrorist Micke Semko begins a deadly game of cat and mouse. Reprint....

  • Mining the Oort

    Frederik Pohl

    Mars was harsh and unforgiving, but for the colonists who called it home, its future was as bright as the comets that hung in the night sky, for locked in those icy bodies were the water and gases that would make Mars live again, mined from the vast ...

  • The Eternal Enemy

    Christopher Pike

    A VCR that could tape tommorrow's news. Rela has just bought herself a new VCR. She sets the machine to tape a movie she plans to show at a party she is throwing. But instead of the movie she gets the news -- tomorrow's news. Soon Rela is regularly...

  • Road Hog

    Jan Pienkowski

  • Crossing the River

    Caryl Phillips

    From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his thre...

  • Most Precious Blood

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    You can buy a lot of things with enough money, but you can’t buy the truth After Val skips one Sunday dinner with her cousin Michelle’s family, everything changes. Val and Michelle’s fathers aren’t getting along, and she just wanted to avoid ...

  • Trying to Get Toothpaste Back into the Tube

    Lorraine Peterson

  • The Making of a Monster

    Gail Kane Petersen

  • Flames of Heaven

    Ralph Peters

    The Soviet Union: eleven time zones, one sixth of the world's land mass, seized for decades by a tyrannous social experiment, drenched in blood and falling in chaos. New York Times bestseller, soldier and writer Ralph Peters, takes us into the heart...

  • Satisfaction

    Diane Pershing

    T. R.--A Charismatic Outlaw Who Was Irresistibly Wicked... He stood dangerously, disturbingly close to her beach chair, and teased her in a low voice that promised sensual pleasures shed never tasted--but Kate O'Brien had vowed never to fall for ...

  • The Tea Party Book

    Lucille Recht Penner

    Illus. in full color. Little girls will be inspired to have tea parties with this guide to the art of the tea party. Brimming with simple menus, kid-pleasing recipes, and lovely decoration and favor ideas, each party has a theme--from valentine and t...

  • Battle Plan

    Don Pendleton

    FIRST BLOOD The Baltic has become a powder keg, and the fuse is communist North Haakovia. Its egomaniacal leader has an arsenal of nuclear and chemical weapons and an elite cell of terrorists. Unless the U.S. acts quickly, Eastern Europe will fall...

  • Onslaught

    Don Pendleton

    BLOOD MONEY The Brotherhood--an alliance between a North American Mafia family and a South American drug cartel--could spell doom for a newly free Russia. Fearing that a sudden crime wave might shift the balance of power back to Communism, the U.S...

  • A World Waiting to Be Born

    M. Scott Peck

    Just as The Road Less Traveled  provided hope and guidance for individuals seeking  growth, this major new work by M. Scott Peck,  M.D., offers a needed prescription for our deeply  ailing society. Our illness ...

  • The Rage of Innocence

    William D. Pease

    The murder of the wife of a wealthy real-estate developer leads police detective Christine Boland on an investigation that leads into the center of national politics and reveals long-hidden secrets about a fifty-year-old crime. Reprint....

  • Hidden Charges

    Ridley Pearson

    New York Times-bestselling author: This thriller about a suburban mall taken hostage by a madman offers “sheer edge-of-your-chair excitement” (Wilmington News-Journal).   The setting is The Yankee Green -- an enormous shopping center and ent...

  • The Animals' Lullaby

    Tom Paxton

  • The Inner Side of the Wind, or The Novel of Hero and Leander

    Milorad Pavic

    Two lovers in Belgrade, one from the 1700s, the other from the 1900s, reach out to each other across a gulf of time, in a story that parallels the myth of Hero and Leander. By the author of Dictionary of the Khazars. ...

  • Someone Was Watching

    David Patneaude

    1995-1996 South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award1997-1998 Utah Children's Book Award1995-1996 Texas Lone Star Reading List1997-1998 Young Hoosier Book Award Master List (Indiana)1995-1996 Nebraska Golden Sower Young Adult Award Runner-Up1996 Sunshine Stat...

  • Who's Afraid of Tigers?

    John Patience

  • Are We in Love?

    Francine Pascal

    Love or friendship? Annie Whitman's new stepsister, Cheryl, is finally having fun in Sweet Valley, thanks to the friendship of her neighbor Steven Wakefield. Soon everyone--even Steven's twin sisters, Jessica and Elizabeth--assumes that Steven and...

  • The Case of the Hidden Treasure

    Francine Pascal

  • Paper Doll

    Robert B. Parker

    She was a model wife and mother, bludgeoned with a hammer on the streets of Beacon Hill. Spenser's searching for a motive and a murderer--and finding more secrets than meet the eye......

  • The Strawberry Dog

    Betty Paraskevas

  • Cradlesong

    Jessica Palmer

  • Calamity Mom

    Diana Palmer
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    A mom for all calamities . . . that was what Faulkner Scott's young son wanted. The motherless twelve-year-old was determined to appoint Shelly Astor his new mom after she saved his life. Then she met his dad! Who was going to save Shelly's heart fro...

  • Gunman's Lady

    Catherine Palmer

    WELL-BRED In Kansas City, Rosie had wealth and culture, but she dreamed of the wild frontier--and the man she once loved... HALF-BREED Son of an Apache warrior, Bart lived on the wrong side of the law--a wanted man with a wanting heart... GUN...

  • Destiny's Promise

    Laurel Pace

    Running From A Nightmare When Lucinda Chandler fled her powerful husband in an act of desperation and disguised herself as a governess, she'd never thought she'd find happiness. Still, her new life on a remote Georgia plantation seemed almost idyl...

  • Belle of the Ball

    Joan Overfield

    THE LADY CHANGES HER MIND At twenty-six, Belle Portham has turned a cold shoulder on many a would-be suitor, preferring to marry for position rather than risk her considerable inheritance for some handsome rake with an eve on her fortune. Lord Mar...

  • Blue Moon Soup Spoon

    Mimi Otey-Little

    An authentic blue moon, something rare and magical that can bring people together, makes stale food taste fresh and teaches a make-a-wish tune. By the author of Daddy Has a Pair of Striped Shorts. ...

  • Pretty Predicament

    Sara Orwig

    After Marietta Clelland foils a bank robbery and inherits a fortune from a beloved friend, she must contend with Jordan Bank, the stingy trustee who casts his handsome eyes on the willowy beauty. Original....

  • The Mouse Who Wanted to Marry

    Doris Orgel

    I want to marry, said a fine young mouse. So she set out to find a suitable mate--someone dependable and strong to keep her company. In this gentle, charming tale, perfect for reading together, the mouse learns that the best choice is right under her...

  • Dead Water Zone

    Kenneth Oppel

    For as long as he can remember, Paul has looked after his younger, weaker brother Sam. But when Sam leaves home to work as a research assistant in Watertown, he disappears into the dark folds of the city's noxious slum. When Paul goes looking for Sam...

  • At Sea

    Toby Olson

  • End of the Empire

    Denise Ohio

  • Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh; Pooh Can ... Can You?

    Carol North

  • Caleb's Friend

    Eric Jon Nones

    When Caleb's harmonica falls out of his hands, a young boy from the sea rescues it, and the two became fast friends, a strong friendship in which each saves the other's life. By the author of The Canary Prince. ...

  • Come Here, Cat

    Joan L. Nodset

  • The Starlight Cloak

    Jenny Nimmo

    A colorfully illustrated Celtic version of the Cinderella story follows the adventures of the young princess Oona, who is mistreated by her wicked sisters until her foster mother reveals her magical powers....

  • A Daughter of Zion

    Thomas Nelson

    She survived the Holocaust at great personal cost. But will her past now destroy her? It’s January 1948. After suffering the horrors of years in a Nazi concentration camp, Rachel Lubetkin has at last come home to Jerusalem . . . and the family ...

  • The Return to Zion

    Thomas Nelson

    The Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel's statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forces, within and without, which engulf the Middle...

  • Alice in April

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    In Alice in April, Aunt Sally reminds Alice that she will be turning thirteen soon (like anyone could forget such a momentous occasion) and that she will be the “woman of the house.” Alice dives into her new role by planning her father’s fiftie...

  • A Flag on the Island

    V.S. Naipaul

  • Norfin Trolls Campout Adventure

    Karen Berman Nagel

  • Bee's Sneeze

    Ellis Nadler

  • Little Nina and the Radio

    Nadja

  • The Shining Face

    Harold Myra

  • Point Blank

    Mike Morris

    Duggan and Dye, an anti-terrorist team that steps across the law to crush criminals, go after terrorists who have stolen enough nerve gas to exterminate every living thing in a thousand-mile radius. Original....

  • The Invention Of Truth

    Marta Morazzoni

    An intertwining of two narratives follows three hundred of the most talented women in a kingdom in Northern France as they bring to life their queen's vision of what will become of the famous Bayeux tapestry....

  • Boy and the Giants

    Fiona Moodie

    In a folktale from the Hebrides, when his friend Kate is kidnapped by a terrible giant, Thomas, a brave fisherboy, comes to her rescue, and because of the good deeds that he has done in the past, friends are eager to help Thomas....

  • Daddies Boat

    Lucia Monfried

  • Museum of Unnatural History

    Kees Moerbeek

  • Roots of Evil

    Kay Mitchell

    Chief Inspector John Morrissey begins probing the death of a town's chief planning officer, whose car plunged off a bridge. Though the death was ruled an accident, Morrissey uncovers a dark side of the village where the event happened - and a killer ...

  • The Tapestry

    MaryAnn Minatra

    FROM TENNESSEE BATTLEFIELDS TO THE WHITE HOUSE ITSELF, THIS SWEEPING CIVIL WAR EPIC TRACES THE LIVES OF TWO BROTHERS -- LINKED BY ONLY A BROKEN LOCKET, THE PEOPLE WHO LOVED THEM, AND THE TRIUMPH OF FAITHFUL PRAYER Ethan Alcoa could not ignore war ...