Books Published in May 1993

New Books List: 572 titles

  • Zorina Ballerina

    Enzo Giannini

  • Zero Hour

    Patrick F. Rogers

  • 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...

  • You Never Know: And Other Stories

    Isabel Huggan

  • You Can Die Trying

    Gar Anthony Haywood

    Eight months after racist cop Jack McGovern guns down 12-year-old liquor-store thief Lendell Washington and insists--despite the evidence--that the kid fired on him first, McGovern's remorseful suicide flushes out Mitchell Flowers, a cowed, guilty wi...

  • Yesterday's Dreams

    Margaret Mayo

    Could yesterday's dreams become today's happy ending? Businessman Drake Rivelin was still Sapphire's husband. But their marriage was long since over, killed by Drake's driving ambition and lack of consideration. Their parting had b...

  • Yes

    Josse Goffin

  • Yakuza, Go Home!

    Anne Wingate

  • X-Men VS. the Avengers

    Chris Claremont

  • Wrangler

    Dorsey Kelley

    Wild horse Walker and the widow lady Walker Marshall had a way with horses--even the wild mustangs of the California mountains. But women... Well, he'd never been able to make sense of them. The city-bred widow visiting the Bar M was no exception....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Wonderful Feast

    Esphyr Slobodkina

  • The Woman Who Saved Things

    Phyllis Krasilovsky

  • The Wizard of Seattle

    Kay Hooper

    HE TAUGHT HER A FORBIDDEN ART She looked like a ragged, storm-drenched urchin, but from the moment Serena Smyth appeared on his Seattle doorstep, Richard Patrick Merlin recognized the spark behind her green eyes, the wild talent barely held in che...

  • With Downcast Eyes

    Tahar Ben Jelloun

    A young Moroccan girl in Paris confronts the sophistication of an unfamiliar country and the weight of a prophecy stating that she will one day discover a treasure that will save her Berber community. By the author of Sacred Night. ...

  • Winter Palace

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    What price must be paid in the struggle for power, for wealth, for souls, in the fragmented new Russia? Jeffrey Sinclair could scarcely believe his good fortune. Two years in London had won him success in the international antiques trade, a new unde...

  • Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

    Janet Campbell

  • 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...

  • Willie's Wonderful Pet

    Mel Cebulash

  • Wilder's Wilderness

    Miriam MacGregor

    The things one does for love... First, Lucy agrees to act on her favorite aunt's behalf. She travels into the New Zealand wilderness to persuade Silas Wilder, her aunt's stepson, to kiss and make up--to renew his family ties. Lucy even tri...

  • 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...

  • Wild River Massacre

    Jack Curtis

  • 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...

  • Wild Conquest

    Hannah Howell

    SLAVE OF PASSION To spare her family shame, spirited Pleasance Dunstan sneaks into Tearlach O'Duine's room at night -- in order to retrieve torrid letters of love indiscreetly penned by her foolhardy sister. But her scheme is undone by Tea...

  • A Wide and Capable Revenge

    Thomas McCall

    Disabled policewoman Nora Callum investigates the shooting of a seemingly innocent mother of three in a cathedral and uncovers a trail of mystery that leads from present-day Chicago back to World War II-era Russia....

  • Why the Sea Is Salt

    Vivian French

    In a retelling of a Norwegian folktale, kindly Matilda's generosity toward a stranger brings her a magic butter churn that gives her family everything it needs, and brings her greedy uncle exactly what he deserves....

  • Who's Afraid of Tigers?

    John Patience

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

    Hazel Rochman

  • 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...

  • Whispers in the Dark

    Jonathan Aycliffe

    When Charlotte Metcalf, a desperate orphan, shows up on the doorstep of the Ayrtons, her father's relatives, they welcome her into their home, where Charlotte experiences a series of mysterious incidents. Original....

  • Where's Bobo?

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Where There's Smoke

    Sandra Brown

    No one knows why Lara Mallory opens up her medical practice in the rowdy Texas town where Tackett Oil owns everything. But everyone remembers her role in the well-publicized scandal that caused the downfall of White House hopeful Senator Clark Tacket...

  • Where the River Runs

    Nancy Price Graff

  • 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...

  • Whatever Happened to Janie?

    Caroline B. Cooney

    How could it possibly be true? But it is true. As Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl on the milk carton, she was overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl-- it was she.... With the mystery of her kidnapping no...

  • Whatdunits

    Mike Resnick

  • What's a Wedding?

    Harriet Ziefert

  • What's a Vacation?

    Harriet Ziefert

  • What Kouka Knows

    Truus

  • What Do I Do at Eight O'Clock?

    Carla Dijs

  • What About Charlie?

    Melodie Adams

    What about Daddy? Clint Blackwell was the local hero when it came to handling young troublemakers. When the rugged cowboy met that rascal Charlie Whitney, he knew the little guy only needed lots of love -- the kind of love Clint had been saving fo...

  • Western Enchantress

    Wendy Garrett

    A SONG IN HER HEART Risking everything to find her long-lost father, Rianne Kierney journeyed to the frigid Yukon wilderness alone...only to discover that her father's life was in a shambles, his mining claim mortgaged to a rugged but decidedly ...

  • Weekend Girl

    Amy Hest

  • Wee Sing Pop-Up Nursery Rhymes

    Pamela Conn Beall

  • Wednesday Wizard

    Sherryl Jordan

  • 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...

  • Wedding of Don Octavio

    Patricia Zelver

  • 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 ...

  • Web of Murder

    Harry Whittington

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

    Carol North

  • Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Book of Colors

    Rita Balducci

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Voice in the Dark

    Judy Whitten

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Vampire Encyclopedia

    Matthew Bunson

    The first A-to-Z compendium on vampires and vampiric lore. In approximately 2,000 entries, from Hades to Hematomania to Lycanthropy and Lugosi, The Vampire Encyclopedia tells readers virtually everything they could possibly want to know about vampire...

  • The Upstairs Lover

    Emma Darcy

    He made her an offer she couldn't refuse When Shane Courtney followed her home from Paddington Bazaar, Christine Delaney knew she'd met a man who didn't take no for an answer. He didn't have to -- he came from one of the richest, m...

  • Upland Outlaws

    Dave Duncan

    COME THE MILLENNIUM The power-mad dwarf-sorcerer Zinixo had driven Emshandar V from his throne. He had shattered the ancient Protocol that kept tenuous peace among Pandemia's warlocks. And his conquest had only begun. Somehow the deposed Impero...

  • 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...

  • Under the Mosquito Net

    Elizabeth Dunkel

    When a sophisticated New York career woman takes a spur-of- the-moment trip to the Yucatan, she encounters an intriguing man and embarks on a steamy affair. By the author of Every Woman Loves a Russian Poet. ...

  • Uncle David

    Libby Gleeson

  • Uncle Carmello

    David Zucker

  • Trying to Get Toothpaste Back into the Tube

    Lorraine Peterson

  • Truth or Dare

    Janis Reams Hudson

    JARED --- His devastating Smile Burned the Clothes Off Her Body . . . He'd interviewed a dozen potential assistants, but television station manager Jared Morgan was beginning to believe he'd never find the right person for the job --- until Rachel...

  • True Colors

    Elizabeth Hewitt

  • 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...

  • The Trial of the Man Who Said He Was God

    D.E. Harding

  • Trapped

    Dean Koontz

  • Trail of Love

    Amanda Browning

    "You're in trouble with a capital T!" Kay Napier was a happy, intelligent young woman who had been brought up in a loving home. But then lightning struck.... The first bolt came in the disturbingly attractive shape of Ben Radford. The second...

  • Tower of the Gods

    Thomas A. Easton

  • The Tormentors

    Lynn Hall

  • Tomorrow on Rocky Pond

    Lynn Reiser

  • The Tolkien Companion

    David Day

    A guide to the mythical world of Middle-Earth and the Undying Lands, this companion arranged in an A-Z format explores and explains the creatures, plants, events and places that make up these mythical lands. It is aimed at anyone who loves Tolkien's ...

  • To Hold an Eagle

    Justine Davis

    Everything had its price.... PASSIONATE PERIL Chandra Lansing was a woman with dangerous information. Of that, Naval investigative agent Linc Reese was certain -- though she couldn't hide much in the swimsuit she'd been wearing when he'd fishe...

  • To Have and to Hold

    Jennifer Baker

  • To Arms! to Arms, in Dixie!

    J.T. Edson

    Assigned to investigate mysterious consignments of priceless weapons for her new employer, the U.S. Government, former rebel spy Belle Boyd runs up against the secret Brotherhood for Southern Freedom, a sinister band of renegades...

  • 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...

  • Timelike Infinity

    Stephen Baxter

    WAR BETWEEN THE AGES Once mankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Now it is oppressed by the Qax--until the loose end of a time tunnel, long since set adrift, whips back through the solar system. In one desperate leap, a band of rebel...

  • Time Remaining

    James Mccourt

    Well, it just sings. -Susan Sontag'Drugs, dick, disco, and dish-remember?' That's how the drag queen Miss Mae Mae describes the good times in James McCourt's 1993 novel, Time Remaining. She is on her deathbed, clutching a stuffed bear, and she marvel...

  • Ties That Blind

    Leigh Michaels

    Abbey Stafford was a snob So she wasn't going to sit idly by while her mother made a fool of herself by marrying Frank Granger, the neighborhood handyman! Ironically, the only one who could help Abbey put a stop to this engagement was her ...

  • Thunderstick

    Don Coldsmith

  • 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 ...

  • Thumper's Book of Opposites

    Rita Balducci

  • The Three-Legged Cat

    Margaret Mahy

  • Three Happy Birthdays

    Judith Caseley

  • The Thread That Binds the Bones

    Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award: Tom can see ghosts -- and that’s the least of his gifts. Now he must harness his newfound magic to save Chapel Hollow. A drifter trying to hide his extraordinary powers -- and find a place where he belongs -- Tom Re...

  • 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...

  • This Home We Have Made

    Anna Hammond

    Inspired by a mural painted by formerly homeless children in New York City, this story, told in both English and in Spanish, centers on a young girl who joins a parade of animals and musicians and finds a home....

  • This Above All

    Barbara Faith

    Fiddle-de-dee. Laurel Merritt's assignment that sultry Georgia night should have been simple for a Southern belle: sweet-talk elusive Christian Dumond into selling a tiny piece of his dusky tropical isle. Unfortunately, Christian's dark, hypnotic sen...

  • The Thirteenth Apostle

    Gloria Gonzalez

  • 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....

  • Thirst

    Stephen Amidon

    Daniel's alcoholic father Cal walked out on his family to dry out in the parched, ravaged landscape of Phoenix, Arizona. Now, 13 years later, Daniel travels to the lunar wastelands of the American desert to unravel the mystery of his father's strange...

  • Thicker Than Water

    Penelope Farmer

    When her cousin Will comes to live with her family after his mother's death, Becky, who lives in an English mining town, finds herself caught up in a haunting mystery that involves ghostly weeping and an old mining tragedy....

  • Thea's Marquis

    Carola Dunn

    A FAMILY AFFAIR .. . Family meant everything to Miss Thea Kilmore, even though she never expected to have one of her own. She was happy to spend all her considerable energy seeing to the well-being of her mother, sisters and brother. Until she met...

  • That Tricky Coyote!

    Gretchen Will Mayo

  • 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...

  • Texas Medico // Dusty Boots

    Lee Floren

    Tod Morgan and his hard-bitten wranglers face off against frontier veterinarian Wade Russell in "Texas Medico," and in "Dusty Boots," Kirk Roper gets in the middle of a gunfight while helping an editor friend. Original....

  • The Texan's Bride

    Geralyn Dawson

    SHE LIVED BY HER OWN SET OF RULES.... Katie Starr knew the rugged Texan was trouble the moment he stepped into her father's inn. Overbearing, overconfident, and overwhelmingly attractive. Branch seemed to delight in sparking her anger -- and her pas...

  • Terry Jones' Fantastic Stories

    Terry Jones

  • Terms of Surrender

    Shirl Henke

    THE GAMBLER Devilishly handsome, Rhys Davies owned half of Starlight, Colorado within weeks of riding into town. But there was one "property" he'd give all the rest to possess. THE LADY The glacially beautiful daughter of Starlight&#...

  • The Ten Thousand

    Harold Coyle

  • Ten Sly Piranhas

    William Wise

  • Telling Lies

    Wendy Hornsby

    Exposing the truth is investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen's business. She's smart, skeptical, and stubborn, with a hard-edged, wise-cracking approach to life that hides her vulnerable heart. Maggie's passion for truth is first inspired when h...

  • Tell Me You Love Me

    Seymour Shubin

  • Teeth Week

    Nancy Alberts

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Tangled Webb

    Eloise McGraw

    Twelve-year-old Juniper Webb and her best friend Alison find themselves enmeshed in a tangled web when the two girls begin to investigate Juniper's new stepmother's in this middle grade novel from the author of The Seventeenth Swap....

  • Tall Order

    Linda Jenkins

    GRAY -- Bold Conqueror Who Made Her Beg to Surrender... He'd never liked flamboyant women, but when his eyes met Garnet Brindisi's, she wouldn't let go -- and he couldn't! She was spectacular, a tall siren who liked to flirt and to...

  • Take-Out City

    Cynthia Lawrence

  • Take Back the Night

    Dee Holmes

    Wild in the streets. VENGEANCE IN BLUE JEANS DEA agent Cage Murdock was like a panther -- dark, sleek and ready to stalk the vermin that had gunned down his brother in a brutal drive-by shooting. Revenge was his sole reason for coming to M...

  • 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....

  • 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,...

  • Sweet Water

    Christina Baker Kline

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about buried secrets and the redemptive power of forgiveness -- includes a special PS section...

  • Sunshine and Shadow

    Kathleen Harrington

    SCANDALOUS LIES Colonel Roderick Fielding returns to England as a war hero with the title of earl, yet without a penny to his name. His family fortune stolen, he's prepared to wed an heiress...when one arrives conveniently on his doorstep. ...

  • Sunset Surf

    Cherie Bennett

    We're all having a great weekend in San Francisco! Sam's birth mother sent her a plane ticket, Carrie's on another photo stint, and Emma, of course, can afford to go anywhere she wants. So here we are. One problem, though -- it seems that Emma is fa...

  • Sunset after Hours

    Cherie Bennett

    Rediscover Sunset Island in Sunset After Hours, the riveting third book in Sunset After Dark -- the new series about Darcy Laken. She's a girl from the wrong side of the tracks with an eye for what others can't see. I've always had a little ESP, a...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Stroke by Stroke

    Patt Bucheister

    TURNER--His Lips Tasted Like Hot Nights... For two years, he'd been obsessed by her mystery, intrigued by her, distance, and fascinated by the way she turned his blood to molten lava just by entering his office, but Turner Knight had never admitt...

  • The Strawberry Dog

    Betty Paraskevas

  • Storm of Passion

    Jenny Cartwright

    Restless... Eleanor had gone to Wales to figure out what to do with her life. She could work at her safe, stable job and marry a safe, stable man -- everyone else's favorite choice -- or she could pursue a career that allowed her to travel and...

  • Store-Bought Woman

    Linda Lael Miller
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    Jilted at the altar, a young woman of refinement sets out for America's heartland after impulsively agreeing to marry a stranger - only to find herself smitten with her fiance's charmingly uncouth ruffian brother....

  • Stopping for a Spell

    Diana Wynne Jones

    In three wild and wacky tales, find out what can happen when......An old armchair that you've finally decided to get rid of comes to life -- and has a definite attitude. It thinks it can rule the entire household!...Not one, but four grannies come to...

  • Stolen Thunder

    David Axton

    In a plot to avenge her husband's hideous death at the hands of terrorist's Tariq Talal's forces, Captain Tamasin Masterson, her father, and a carefully chosen crew steal a retired B-52 and plan to annihilate Talal's Libyan camp...

  • Stolen Bones

    Joan Carris

    While in Montana as part of a paleontological dig with his surly grandfather, "Dr. Dinosaur," Alec Wright tries to solve the mystery of the disappearing fossils. By the author of Aunt Morbelia and the Screaming Skulls. ...

  • 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....

  • Stable Manners

    Bonnie Bryant

    No one knows more about horses than Stevie, Carole, and Lisa. Or do they? The Saddle Club's knowledge is going to be tested in a Know-Down at the next Horse Wise meeting....

  • Spindrift

    Miranda Jarrett

    From the moment she found the stranger washed up on her shore, Demaris knew her life would never be the same. For though he claimed to have lost his memory, rumors of pirates in Rhode Island's waters abounded, and Demaris could not dispel her fear th...

  • Spider-Man: Origin of Hobgoblin

    Roger Stern

  • 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...

  • A Special Request

    Judith Duncan
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    Sarah Jeffrie's son didn't want much --- just a dog and a dad. Nat Anderson had the dog --- and he'd be a prime candidate for dadhood, except Nat was just passing through. Sarah refused to fall for a sexy smile, but Nat wasn't leaving till he fulfill...

  • A Sparkling Affair

    Mary Chase Comstock

    AN IMPETUOUS HEROINE They were really too wretched, sighed lady Selinda. She had never dreamed that the aunts who bad taken her and her younger sister in after their parents' death would turn out to be such gorgons! It was a most difficult task inde...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Somebody's Darling

    Sarah Benton

    College professor Stacey Anderson receives a three-million-dollar trust fund from an anonymous source, but her newfound prosperity and a whole new life-style threaten her relationship with Steve Travis. Original....

  • So Far from God

    Ana Castillo

    The beloved feminist classic of Chicano literature that "could be the offspring of a union between One Hundred Years of Solitude and General Hospital: a sassy, magical, melodramatic love child who won’t sit down -- and the reader can hope -- will n...

  • Snow White Giant Sticker Fun

    Golden Books

  • The Snow Leopard

    Theresa Radcliffe

  • Snapshot

    Linda Barnes

    Every Friday a child's snapshot arrives at the Boston office of P.I. Carlotta Carlyle. There's no note. No return address. Just pictures of the child as a newborn, as a toddler, as a preschooler. Maybe Carlotta should have tossed them all in the tras...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • The Silver Scalpel

    Nancy Baker Jacobs

    In her latest case, Twin Cities P.I. Devon McDonald investigates the disappearance of pregnant teenagers from a small fundamentalist town and the possible link to an anti-abortion group. By the author of A Slash of Scarlet. ...

  • The Siege

    Peter David

    Deep Space NineTM is forced to curtail entry to the wormhole due to increased graviton emissions, and an air of biting tension settles over the station. This anxiety leads to the murder of an Edeman religious leader, Commander Benjamin Sisko and Secu...

  • A Shrine of Murders

    C.L. Grace

  • The Shining Face

    Harold Myra

  • 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...

  • The Sheriff and the Pheasant Hunt Murders

    D.R. Meredith

    When the most loathed man in Crawford County -- ruthless banker Rich Hansford -- is killed on the first day of the annual Panhandle Pheasant Hunt, the consensus is that whoever fired the shot deserves an award. But Sheriff Charles Matthews is determi...

  • Sheridan's Ride

    Thomas Buchanan Read

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shadows in Their Blood

    Marian Babson

    Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair are starring in a new Dracula film, but when the weather turns foul during the tense shooting, Trixie and Evangeline are suspected of being real vampires and murder makes a cameo appearance...

  • Shadow Play

    Frances Fyfield

    Crown Prosecutor Helen West is doubly frustrated. Her lover, Geoffrey Bailey, is off to a police education course, with weekend visits only a slight possibility. And she has just failed for the fifth time to convict a menacing little man called Logo....

  • A Sensible Match

    Anthea Malcolm

    Love can lead even the most cautious heart astray... A SENSIBLE LADY Aristocratic Alessandra di Tassio had learned her lesson in love only too well, and now, at one-and-twenty, was no longer given to giddy swoons and foolish romantic yearnings....

  • 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 Secret Sisters

    Ann Maxwell

    THE SEARCH FOR HER SISTER COULD COST CHRISTY HER LIFE! Christy McKenna, the toughest, smartest fashion writer in New York, thought she had escaped her childhood in the impoverished rural West. Then came a call for help from the one person she coul...

  • Secret Shores

    Kelly Ferjutz

    The restless daughter of a self-made shipbuilder, Samantha knows more about ships than ten men put together. She would gladly abandon ruffles and curls for the chance to make her mark in an industry she was weaned on. When tragedy strikes her family,...

  • Seaward

    Brad Leithauser

  • Season of the Monsoon

    Paul Mann

    A corpse has been discovered in a lake in Film City, the Hollywood of India. The victim has been so badly mutilated that it is impossible to identify the body as male or female, let alone give it a name. It is clear to Inspector George Sansi that thi...

  • 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...

  • The Scorpio Illusion

    Robert Ludlum

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Don’t ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.” -- Chicago Sun-Times   Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer -- one of the best -- until the rain-swept night in Amst...

  • Scandal's Darling

    Nancy Bush

    IN PROPER VICTORIAN ENGLAND, THEY DEFIED CONVENTION -- AND SURRENDERED TO A PERILOUS, MAGNIFICENT LOVE! Lady Veronica Elizabeth Ashworth was the talk of London, ever since society gossip linked her with a notorious rake. To save the family reputat...

  • Save Me, Joe Louis

    Madison Smartt Bell

    One fateful decision pushes a soldier from a life of stifling order to a life of freedom as doomed as it is thrillingMacrae, a nice kid from a small town in Tennessee, joins the army only because the boys he grew up with enlisted before him. But when...

  • 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 ...

  • Sante Fe Run

    Will Camp

  • Santa's New Suit

    Mike Lester

  • Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett

    Caron Lee Cohen

  • A Safe Place to Die

    Janice Law

    For the rich and security conscious, Branch Hill offers the posh Estates - an exclusive community of impressive homes and a state-of-the-art security system. Anna Peters and her artist husband arrive there for his gallery exhibit - but murder steals ...

  • Rouse a Sleeping Cat

    Dan Crawford

    THE HIGHER THE THRONE, THE THICKER THE PLOT... Only nine years old, the King of Rossacotta is a lure that attracts courtiers, nobles, ambassadors--and assassins. Nimnestl came from her native land to ensure that the child-King would live to be ...

  • Round and Round

    James Skofield

  • 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 ...

  • Room 13

    T.S. Rue

  • The Romulan Prize

    Simon Hawke

    Hermeticus 2--a planet so shrouded in secrecy that few in the Federation even know of its existence. When a Romulan spy learns of the world, it becomes the centerpiece of a far-reaching Romulan plan. On routine patrol near the border of the Neutra...

  • Rogue's Mistress/My Heart's Desire

    Jo Goodman

    A MAN SHE COULD NOT RESIST They said her father was dead, but Rennie Dennehy refused to believe that. Vowing to uncover the truth behind his strange disappearance, Rennie headed to the wilds of Colorado-and the only man who could help her. Bounty ...

  • Rocky Mountain Feud

    Jon Sharpe

  • The Road to Wellville

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the veg...

  • Road Hog

    Jan Pienkowski

  • Rise and Shine

    Nancy White Carlstrom

  • Riding the Yellow Trolley Car

    William Kennedy

    A collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed takes on Joyce's Dublin, Sinatra, Fellini, Norman Mailer, Ernest Hemingway, Paul McCartney, Diane Sawyer, Ingmar Bergman, and other topics. National ad/promo....

  • The Riders of High Rock

    Louis L'Amour

    HOPALONG TAKES ON A GANG OF RUSTLERS AND A COLD-BLOODED KILLER WHO WANTS HIM DEAD Hopalong rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in ...

  • 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...

  • Rescue 911

    Alison Hendrie

  • 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 ...

  • Relics

    John Desjarlais

    Consumed by an impossible longing for the lovely Baroness Blanch DuVal, trapped in the middle of a conspiracy to assassinate King Louis IX, and struggling to keep his faith, Jean-Michael finds that love, war, and treachery await him at every turn....

  • Regret Not a Moment

    Nicole McGehee

    Devon Richmond's main passion is breeding and training thoroughbred horses, until the raven-haired beauty meets and marries John Alexander, but tragedy soon strikes, and Devon spends the next years of her life battling misfortune...

  • 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...

  • The Real McCoy

    Patricia Knoll

    The Bride ran away. The Groom ran after her. Their Marriage was over...or was it? Bret Calhoun and Ginny McCoy had met barely two weeks before their wedding. And Ginny had left him five months later--after realizing that neither of them was real...

  • Rainbow Man

    M.J. Engh

  • Rails West!

    Franklin Carter

    THEY BUILT A RAILROAD -- AND A NATION! After the bloodshed of the Civil War, America turned West ...The future of the nation lay in waiting, and so the race began to build a railroad to carry settlers across the Plains to the Pacific. This is the ...

  • 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....

  • Race to Danger

    Stephanie Calmenson

    In search of transportation for his prom, sixteen-year-old Indiana Jones heads for the laboratories of Thomas Edison, only to find himself caught up in an investigation into the theft of the designs for a new electric car. Original....

  • Quinn Eisley's War

    Patricia Gardner Evans

    SECRET WEAPON Quinn Eisley: Special agent, U.S. Naval Intelligence. Specialty--works alone, high-risk missions. Blue Harrell: Secret bodyguard. Specialty--invisibility. Rating--excellent, little regard for her own life. Working undercover as a ...

  • Quicksand

    Jennifer Greene

    MR. MAY The man: Cooper Maitland. Ex-workaholic. He wants: Rest and relaxation away from the corporate rat race... But: Sassy neighbor Priss Neilson keeps him anything but relaxed! Cooper's "all or nothing" creed had almost cost...

  • A Question of Proof

    Joseph Amiel

    Amiel's courtroom drama features a Jewish lawyer in Philadelphia. Dan Lazar defends low-life clients with high-profile cases, and he's having a tough week. Peter Boelter, owner and publisher of the Philadelphia Herald, prints inside info on Dan's pim...

  • The Pure Cold Light

    Gregory Frost

    Guerrilla activist and rebel journalist Thomasina Lyell discovers a destructive, mind-shattering power that threatens the future of humankind and will stop at nothing to reveal it to the world. Original....

  • Puppy and Me

    Dorothy M. Stott