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New Books List: 586 titles

  • Cow Buzzed

    Andrea Zimmerman; David Clemesha

    A bee sneezes and the cow catches the cold -- and his buzz. Then the cow sneezes and the pig catches the moo, the duck oinks, and the dog gets the quack in ‘this rambunctious book [that] will have kids mooing, oinking and giggling.’ -- BL. ‘A d...

  • Take Care of Brown Bear

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Weekend Wife

    Carolyn Zane

    Bachelor in Need Tyler Newroth, an up-and-coming executive, was the reluctant object of his new female supervisor's desire. But Ty had an idea that was guaranteed to put a damper on his brazen boss. A gorgeous, too-good-to-be-true secret weapon......

  • Hearts Divided

    Cheryl Zach

    Elizabeth Stafford, a plantation belle from Virginia, dreams of breaking away from her father's grasp and of being more than a proper Southern lady and wife. Her dreams seem possible at Madame Corday's Charleston boarding school, where Elizabeth lear...

  • The Wild Hunt

    Jane Yolen

    Living in the same house but in different parallel dimensions, Jerold and Gerund find out about each other from a talking cat who lives in both worlds, and they are brought together for a bizarre adventure. Reprint....

  • Hiroshima

    Laurence Yep

    Based on real accounts by Hiroshima survivors, the fictional story of twelve-year-old Sachi follows her witness to the devastation in her city as a result of the bombing and describes her healing process as she helps to rebuild her home. Reprint....

  • Later, Gator

    Laurence Yep

  • Thief of Hearts

    Laurence Yep

    Stacy has always felt she is just like all her friends. She never thought much about being Chinese American, even with her great-grandmother, Tai-Paw, living at home. Then Hong Ch'un came along. Newly arrived from China and paired reluctantly with St...

  • The Garlic Ballads

    Mo Yan

    The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket,...

  • The Gift of Driscoll Lipscomb

    Sara Yamaka

  • Easy Money

    Barbara Wright

    After her father gambles away her college money, eighteen-year-old Jacqueline "Jay" Winbourne flees to New York City, determined to make it on her own, only to fall in love with a young man much like her dissolute father. A first novel....

  • Deadly Obsession

    Sherryl Woods

    LOVED TO DEATH Investigative reporter Amanda Roberts knows that "family" is sacrosanct in Atlanta, and that their secrets are guarded behind closed mansion doors. So why would Hamilton Kenilworth, a scion of one of the city's oldest families, want...

  • Second-Best Bride

    Sara Wood

    "Marry me now. Or I'll walk out of your life forever." Claire Jardine's wedding day was supposed to be the happiest clay of her life, but her whirlwind courtship had her reeling: who was the real Trader Benedict? Her perfect partne...

  • The Basement

    Bari Wood

    Living a privileged life in a fine Connecticut community, Myra Ludens becomes aware of a sinister force that resides in her basement, resists all her barricades and renovations, and has given her the power to kill. Reprint....

  • Raki

    B. Wongar

    'Raki' is the Australian Aboriginal generic word for rope, the unifying metaphor of Wongar's novel, representing the conquered or bound state of oppressed people. From the confines of an outback Australian prison cell to war-torn Serbia, 'Raki' invok...

  • Vicarious Bride

    Winifred Witton
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    As chaperone to Miss Kitty Wellfleet, Abigail Fordham takes great delight in planning her charge's marital plans. But when Kitty disappears on the day of the wedding, Abby wonders who will walk down the aisle with handsome Lord Ashley--the man who ha...

  • Question of Consent

    Seymour Wishman

    In Seymour Wishman’s riveting novel about law, murder, and twisted justice, a woman accused of an unthinkable crime must put her fate in the hands of an enemy.

    When it comes to establishing reasonable doubt in the minds of a New York ...

  • No More Secrets

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    NEVER LET HIM OUT OF YOUR SIGHT Security specialist Nikki Price knew the drill: Be alert and keep the subject alive. But Dr. Scott Carter was no routine assignment--and no ordinary man. Five years ago she'd worked undercover in his home to expose ...

  • The Baby Business

    Rebecca Winters

    "Doesn't your job ever make you yearn for a child of your own?" Rachel Ellis had come to Spain to find her brother and, instead, discovered a tiny niece she hadn't even known existed. Rachel longed for a baby of her own but, since ...

  • Reckless Hearts

    Bonnie K. Winn

    RAVISHING RANCHER Abigail Fairchild was a beautiful young widow who owned the Triple Cross ranch. Going against tradition, she was determined to learn to ranch herself--and to fall in love with whoever she wanted. HELPING HAND Honest, loyal, an...

  • Night Frost

    R.D. Wingfield

    DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JACK FROST Jack Frost, Denton Division, is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he's something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly, with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut corners. They'd like nothing better...

  • A Touch of Frost

    R.D. Wingfield

    DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JACK FROST Jack Frost, Denton Division, is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he's something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly, with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut corners. They'd like nothing better t...

  • Helen and the Hudson Hornet

    Nancy Hope Wilson

  • The Memoirs of Hecate County

    Edmund Wilson

    Controversial upon publication in 1946, Memoirs of Hecate County remained banned for more than a decade before being reissued. A favorite among his own books, Edmund Wilson's erotic and devestating portrait of the upper middle class still holds up t...

  • The Dandelion Garden and Other Stories

    Budge Wilson

    Ten stories that follow themes of life changes includes a girl discovery a painful secret about an older brother, a girl who falls in love with an older man, a character who realizes human potential, and more. By the author of The Leaving. ...

  • Vengeful Seduction

    Cathy Williams

    "I have returned, Isobel, and this time I am calling all the shots!" Ruthless, sophisticated Lorenzo Cicolla had one single, dramatic goal -- revenge! Isobel Chandler had betrayed him once, and now it was her turn to pay.... But what Loren...

  • Beginnings

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins
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    Take one very special baby cradle, carved long ago with love and care... And you get three romantic stories celebrating the joys of motherhood in one treasured collection. Gina Ferris Wilkins, bestselling author, brings the three stories full c...

  • I Won't!

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    I DO Maddie Carmichael had always been levelheaded. But while on vacation, she'd been swept off her feet by sexy Case Brannigan. Before she knew it, she was standing at the altar, waiting. And waiting.... I DON'T Case Brannigan, ex-DEA offic...

  • A Man for Mom

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    It takes a very special man to win that special woman! Single mother Rachel Carson had devoted herself to her two beautiful children...and to the business that had been her late husband's dream. She'd learned to hard way that life was serious and...

  • My Little House Songbook

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Now little listeners can sing along with all of Laura's favorite songs! The happy music of the Ingalls family's evenings come alive in this package that includes My Little House Songbook and a musical tape of 14 songs. Full-color book....

  • Someone to Hold

    Lauren Wilde

    SOMEONE TO SEEK The year is 1898..and the world is an exciting and dangerous place for journalist Andrea Williams. Truly ahead of her time, Andrea travels wherever the news takes her. No secret is safe from her. SOMEONE TO FIND An American agent...

  • Charged with Guilt

    Gloria White

    She should have taken a check. She shoud have had it in writing. And she should have gotten away before the cops entered the picture and charged her with murder. But P.I. and B & E specialist Ronnie Ventana had gone ahead and done the job - for cash ...

  • Almost Heaven

    Becky Lee Weyrich

    Angela Rhodes has just found out the hard way that there is life after death. A fatal automobile crash along a snowy Maine road has sent her spiraling toward heaven. But she has left behind unfinished business: her husband and infant daughter. S...

  • Chevalier's Pawn

    Sarah Westleigh

    Beloved Hostage... Lady Katrine Lawtye had been Lord Rhun's hostage for five years until she was rescued by rebel Raoul de Chalais - a man with revenge in his soul. Electricity fueled their passion even as Raoul discovered her secret - that she was b...

  • The Lost Language

    Tracey West

    The robots of New Earth City are acting strange. They will not do their work. They will not take commands from humans anymore. Now they are talking to themselves in a language no human understands... What are thy talking about? Can Mak use her skills...

  • Warp World 3030

    Terry M. West

  • House of Moons

    K.D. Wentworth

    Haemas Tal, founder of the controversial mindtalent training school called the House of Moons, is no ordinary schoolmistress. She is also the sole initiate of the dangerous timeways of the enigmatic aliens known as the Old Ones and under the protecti...

  • The Hand-Me-down Chimp

    Ellen Weiss

    Baby-sitting a mischievous young chimp who communicates with sign language, Lisa and her friends are disturbed when they learn that Gumbo is being sent to an ordinary zoo and launch efforts to find their friend the perfect home. Original....

  • Kitten Alert!

    Ellen Weiss

    Admiring Ms. Hanson's adorable new kitten, Sebastian, Eliza, Lisa, Abby, and Molly are horrified when Sebastian is nearly poisoned and wonder if the cantankerous, cat-hating Mrs. Gresham is responsible. Original....

  • Knights of the Black Earth

    Margaret Weis; Don Perrin

    MAG FORCE 7 They are the finest mercenary squad in the known universe, agents who carry out missions too hot for anyone else to handle. No one can stand against them and nothing can divide them--except their leader, Xris, who is on a mission of ve...

  • Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

    Larry Weinberg

    The first book in the companion series to the classic Star Wars(TM) movie trilogy begins with a hectic chase after a runaway droid and escalates into an adventure of galactic proportions as young Luke Skywalker becomes embroiled in the struggle betwe...

  • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

    Larry Weinberg

    The Rebels are on the run!  Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, and the droids are captured by the Empire.  Can Luke use his Jedi training to confront Darth Vader, lord of the dark side of the Force, and save his friends?  ...

  • It's Not My Turn to Look for Grandma

    April Halprin Wayland

    Illustrated in full color. From early morning till sundown, folks on the farm take turns fetching Grandma, because someone's got to keep her out of trouble! Grandma's always in a heap of mischief--she's either telling jokes to her dog, sliding down t...

  • Mennyms in the Wilderness

    Sylvia Waugh

    The follow-up to Sylvia Waugh's award-winning debut, The Mennyms.The Mennyms are faced with a crisis when plans to build a motorway straight through their home are announced. They've successfully survived living on Brocklehurst Road for forty years, ...

  • Shattered Vows

    Pat Warren

    In the wake of a series of murders targeting nuns, Toni Garette finds a personal stake when her cousin becomes a victim and, swept up in an affair with the detective on the case, sets a trap with herself as the bait. Original....

  • Make Believe

    Teresa Warfield

    Real love comes in many disguises... JOSIE All of St. Louis was in a frenzy to see the magnificent actress Josephine Gavin -- including a little girl, Maggie, who crept out against her father's wishes to catch a glimpse of the star... THOM...

  • Delightful Deceiver

    Phylis Warady
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    Identical in appearance, quite different in temperament, Hester and Hannah Astell are eager to embark on their first London season. But intrigues abound when the mischievous twins meet two attractive but most unlikely suitors....

  • Puppies at Play

    Samantha Walker

  • Fixed in His Folly

    David J. Walker

    When knife-wielding street punks warn private investigator Malachy Foley against "bein' even close to happy," the message isn't about Mal's state of mind. Harriet "Happy" Mallory, a high-powered Chicago attorney with political ambitions, has just hir...

  • When the Teddy Bears Come

    Martin Waddell

    When Mommy comes home from the hospital with a new baby, Tom is amazed at the parade of teddy bears that arrive from friends and family members, and when he fears that the teddy bears have left no room for him, Tom find a spot on Mommy's lap....

  • Swim for Cover!

    Sue Vyner

    An introduction to life on a coral reef finds an octopus escaping from a predator toward the safety of her cave while warning her friends about oncoming danger and each sea creature seeking its own respective shelter....

  • Leather Wings

    John Vornholt

  • Beneath the Surface

    Evelyn Vaughn

    It hungered. Deep in a Louisiana bayou lurked the heart of darkness - and Guy Poitiers' penance. A tragedy in his youth had torn him away from sweetheart Mary Deveraux and consumed his life with guilt. Now only Mary's white magic and a single gold c...

  • Reluctant Enemies

    Vivian Vaughan

    Priscilla McCain can rope a calf, brand a steer, and outride, outgun and -- she prays -- outsmart the handsome Philadelphia lawyer who's staring at her as if he'd never seen a girl in breeches before! But when he looks at the spirited blue-eyed beaut...

  • Goldsworthy and Mort in Spring Soup

    Marcia K. Vaughan

  • Goldsworthy and Mort in Summer Fun

    Marcia K. Vaughan

    Goldsworthy and Mort hope to get rich with a lemonade stand--at which their only customers are each other--and cool off at the beach with ice cream cones, as Mort tries to guess Goldworthy's favorite flavor....

  • Prairie Knight

    Donna Valentino

    WHAT AN ABSURD FLIGHT OF FANCY . . . . . . A knight in shining armor on the Kansas prairie of 1859! Ever since her young husband's tragic death, Juliette Walburn had denied her sensuous nature and her dreams of love, struggling to be a prim, pract...

  • The Stolen Throne

    Harry Turtledove

    THE BORDER WARS An uneasy peace had prevailed these last few years between the Empire of Videssos and rival Makuran. But now Makuran's King of Kings alerted his border holdings--even the small fortress where Abivard's father was lord--to prepare f...

  • Heaven Can't Wait

    Linda Turner

    A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN. HEAVENLY MATCHMAKER: I'm one of the highest authorities in heaven and even I can't manage to get Zeb Murdock and Prudence Sullivan married off. Well, this is their last earthly chance to get it right... PRUDENCE SUL...

  • One Brave Summer

    Ann Warren Turner

  • Happy Never After

    Kathy Hogan Trocheck

    NUMBER 1 WITH A BULLET Callahan Garrity is a former Atlanta cop, a part-time sleuth and full-time owner of House Mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues f...

  • Swing Hammer Swing!

    Jeff Torrington

    From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors...

  • Accusations

    Lois Tilton

    FRIENDS LIKE THESE He came to Babylon 5 from out of Commander Susan Ivanova's past. His cryptic, urgent message asked for an immediate meeting, but when Ivanova arrived to meet her old friend, Ortega was dead--murdered--and the word from Mars Colony...

  • Once Around the Realms

    Brian M. Thomsen
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    On a dare, Volothamp Geddarm pledges to circumnavigate the globe without the aid of his magic and becomes an unwitting pawn in a devious plan that threatens the realm of Faerun. Original. 75,000 first printing....

  • Philo Fortune's Awesome Journey to His Comfort Zone

    Julian F. Thompson

    Philo Fortune sets off, in his old red Squareback, on a cross-country survey of financial success stories, meets up with Thea and her dog, Diogenes, and drives headlong into an unexpected incident. By the author of A Band of Angels. ...

  • The Starstruck Summer

    Joan R. Thompson

    When Lucy's friend Jason, a teenage television star, joins the local theater company where she is on an internship for the summer, a romantic comedy comes to life behind the scenes, and heads for a disastrous finish. Original....

  • A Wild Justice

    Craig Thomas

    A NEW KIND OF WAR An American executive in Siberia is murdered. A few days later, at a glittering Washington party, ex-CIA agent John Lock celebrates his sister Beth's birthday. By the next morning, Beth and her husband, Billy Grainger, an importa...

  • Cross Country with Grandma

    Karen Testa

    For the doctor, absorbed in her work, it begins with an envelope. For the grandmother, 85 years old and still turbo-charged, it begins with the anniversary of a mystery. And for Lil Maude, it begins with the opening of a safe deposit box and the unfo...

  • Squire

    Peter Telep

    EVERY KNIGHT NEEDS A SQUIRE, EVEN THE GREATEST KNIGHT OF ALL TIME! WARRING RANDS OF MARAUDIIRS RAVAGED THE LAND. YOUNG CHRISTOPHER HAD SERVED BOTH SIDES, AS SQUIRE TO SAXON AND CELL. ONLY FIFTEEN, HE HAD WADED WITH THE KNIGHTS INTO BATTLE--INTO TH...

  • Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored

    Clifton L. Taulbert

  • Finally a Family

    Moyra Tarling

    LONG-LOST DADDY... He'd been her first love, her only love, and Claire Maclnnes had always known she'd encounter him again someday. She had even imagined how she'd act, what she'd say, so he wouldn't guess her secret. Now someday had come .... ...

  • Stolen Dreams

    Libby Sydes

    In a desperate effort to rescue her kidnapped son, Lady Lara Winthrop Chalmers turns to Hunter Hamilton, the ruthless pirate who had held her captive in body and heart and whom she vowed never to see again. Frantic to rescue her kidnapped son, Lad...

  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    Catherine Storr

  • I Saw You That Night!

    R.L. Stine

    This summer's going to be a real killer. Sand. Surf. Sun. Roxie lives for the summer. But this summer things aren't going the way Roxie planned. It all started when she broke into Lee Blume's house just to win a stupid bet. Because while she wa...

  • Night of the Living Dummy II

    R.L. Stine

    You can’t teach an old dummy new tricks! Amy's ventriloquist dummy, Dennis, keeps losing his head...for real. So Amy begs her family for a new dummy. That's when her dad finds Slappy in a local pawnshop. Slappy's kind of ugly, but Amy's having fun...

  • Switched

    R.L. Stine

    She traded places with a killer... There's a little cabin in the Fear Street woods where a girl can really lose her mind. In fact, she can change it into someone else's. That's what happened to Nicole and Lucy. Now Lucy is in Nicole's body, and Ni...

  • Third Encounter

    G. Harry Stine

    Carrying a powerful cargo that could result in the destruction of twenty-first-century humankind, William M. Corry, the captain of an American super-sub, is distraught by orders that send him into the heart of enemy territory. Original....

  • Nobody's Son

    Sean Stewart

    What happens after Happily Ever After?Shielder's Mark dares a great quest, breaks an ancient curse, and claims the hand of a princess - all by the end of Chapter 1. But everything has consequences, and this working class hero soon finds himself figh...

  • Merlin: The Prophetic Vision and the Mystical Life

    R.J. Stewart

    Now in a one-volume edition, The Prophetic Vision of Merlin and The Mystic Life of Merlin comprise a complete working guide to the life and teachings of the famous prophet as based on the twelfth-century histories of Geoffrey of Monmouth....

  • An Indefinite Wedding

    Marcy Stewart
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    When the commanding Duke of Weston becomes engaged to lovely Lady Sarah, he promises to give up his profligate ways ... until one last secret wager threatens to overturn his romantic plans and to drive away the woman he now realizes he cannot live wi...

  • Wildfire

    Donna Stephens

    U.S. Marshal Parker Denison is annoyed by the unsolicited help of Tyler O'Neal in his pursuit of the outlaw who killed her brother, until he finds himself at her mercy. Nobody can stop fiery Tyler O'Neal from going after the vicious killer who mu...

  • The Mummy

    Barbara Steiner

    Volunteering at a museum's Egyptian exhibit, Lana is drawn to the mummy of Prince Nefra and learns the story of Nefra's wedding-night death and that she looks like the princess bride whose own mummy has been stolen. Original....

  • Help Me

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    A young girl begins to question her sanity when she experiences severe depressions that threaten to overtake her life, and she decides to seek help when her mother, who had valued self-sufficiency, commits suicide. Original....

  • Petrosinella: A Neopolitan Rapunzel

    Diane Stanley

  • The Great Adventure

    Patricia Mary St. John

    A clear, simple introduction to prayer for children aged between eight and twelve. Based on the author's long experience as a missionary teacher in the Lebanon and children's author, this book explores key questions: What is prayer? Does God really c...

  • Love Bites

    Margaret St. George

    She wanted one taste of passion... Trevor d'Laine's sexy voice seduced her every night with his late-night radio talk show. So Kay Erickson couldn't pass up the chance to be his personal assistant-despite his insistence that he was a vampire. ...

  • Know-Nothings

    Michele Sobel Spirn

  • Slow Heat

    Erica Spindler

    The closer to the edge, the more he liked it.... Jack Jacobs thrived on excitement, thrilled to a challenge, and always played to win, so when the sexy TV film critic was teamed with Jill Lansing, he expected fireworks! Five years before, they'd ...

  • A Little Corner of Paradise

    Catherine Spencer

    From the moment in which it appeared by the city, Nick had caught Madeleine between his networks. His big delight mixed with this dangerous way of living through the love, there were components against which it was turning out to be unable to fight, ...

  • Two Cool Cows

    Toby Speed

    Stealing the black button-back boots from the children at their farm, cool cows Millie and Maude begin a midnight adventure of moon jumping and partying with the other cool cows. By the author of Hattie Baked a Wedding Cake. ...

  • Dark Temptation

    Maris Soule

    She brought a flicker of light into his darkened soul.... Had special-effects genius Jason McLain really murdered his wife, as the tabloids claimed? Valerie Wiggins approached his spooky old house, hoping to convince him to help make their Hallow...

  • New Hope

    Henri Sorensen

    Jimmy loves to visit his grandpa in New Hope, and never tires of hearing the story of Lars Jensen, Jimmy's great-great-great grandfather. Newly arrived from Denmark, Lars founded the town of New Hope when a broken axle kept him from going west. "Fami...

  • The Diamond War

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    Eddy Wong and friends want to cut down a grove of trees to build a baseball diamond, but Kate and Aurora insist that the trees are the magical Unicorn's Grove. By the author of Fool's Gold. Original....

  • Who Hunts the Hunter

    Nyx Smith

    HUNTER AND HUNTED From the distant forests of Maine comes the deadly Weretiger known as Striper, seeking nature's own special justice. From the shadowed heart of the South Bronx comes the shaman called Bandit, interested only in the pursuit of ...

  • Destiny

    Nancy Covert Smith

    In the fourth book of the pioneer adventures of DeLanna Roinsohn Tabor and her husband, the two reach the Ohio Firelands, where DeLanna must endure the jealousy and coldness of the women and the greedy attentions of the men. Original....

  • Pallas

    L. Neil Smith

    True to his namesake, Emerson Ngu follows the way of individualism, making him the hero of Pallas, a libertarian paradise atop an asteroid, and the enemy of former senator Gibson Altman, the jealous leader of a communist dystopia. Reprint....

  • The Show and Tell War

    Janice Lee Smith

  • Superkid!

    Janice Lee Smith

  • Wizard and Wart at Sea

    Janice Lee Smith

  • The Escape

    Dean Wesley Smith; Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Pocket Books is proud to present the first original novel starring the crew of the Starship Voyager. Stranded far across the galaxy, theirs is a voyage of a lifetime that will take them far into uncharted space...where no one has gone before. The ...

  • Impulse

    Lass Small

    HEADED FOR THE ALTAR? The stranger's name was Chas Cougar and he was so divine that Amy Allen just had to meet him. He was in town for a Cougar family wedding, so she decided to pose as Cougar kin and crash the festivities. Oh, sure, it was decept...

  • Painting with the Wind: A Book about Color

    Teddy Slater

  • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bully?

    Teddy Slater

  • Bridge of Dreams

    Christina Skye

    1794-Rake and reckless hero, Gabriel Montserrat falls prey to blackest treachery-his death a mystery to be locked away forever in the deepest recesses of Draycott Abbey. 1994-American-born beauty Cathlin O'Neill finds herself named in a strange be...

  • Family Story

    Alison Scott Skelton

    The resurfacing of Eric Levine, now a beggar, ten years after he disappears after the kidnapping and supposed death of his daughter, serves to bring together three generations of two families scattered across America and Europe. A first novel. ...

  • Dreamboat

    Linda Joy Singleton

    Annoying Josh Cortez shows up on the same cruise that Cassidy Cooper is taking and proceeds to ruin her chance for romance with Marcus O'Roark, until Cassidy's feelings for Josh begin to change. ...

  • Does Anybody Know Who Allison Is?

    Tracy Sinclair

    Allison Who? She'd come to the affluent New England town hoping to discover her parentage, and Allison Riley got more than she'd ever bargained for. In her search for her true identity, she may have also found true love - and true heartbreak. ...

  • The Ghost Dancers

    Gordon D. Shirreffs

    IN THE UNFORGIVING. ARIZONA DESERT, ONE MAN FOUGHT TO SAVE A DYING TRIBE AND A COURAGEOUS WOMAN. With a viciousness uncommon even for the lawless land, the raiders looked and killed just like Apaches. They were really a notorious band of Mexican o...

  • Orphans of the Night

    Josepha Sherman

    Thirteen tales include the works of such authors as Jane Yolen, Mike Resnick, and Lawerence Watt-Evans and bring readers to the worlds of the hideous Sidhi-kur of Mongolia, the Njuggle demons of the Scottish lochs, and the German Doppelgangers....

  • The Gifts of Wali Dad: A Tale of India and Pakistan

    Aaron Shepard

    Though Wali Dad lives in a hut, he feels he needs nothing more than he has. So when he sees that the coins he has saved have filled a pot to the brim, he isn't sure what to do with the money. At last he buys a lovely gold bracelet and sends it as a ...

  • Proteus in the Underworld

    Charles Sheffield

    In the 22nd century, biofeedback techniques have enabled humans the ultimate expression—the ability to transform the body into any viable form. What began as an innocent technique to reduce anxiety without drugs has raised fundamental questi...

  • Rogue River Feud

    Jon Sharpe

    Traveling to Oregon's Rogue River Valley only to encounter a sea of hostility, Skye Fargo learn's of a local timber baron's plan to pay an assassin to wipe out an entire family--including its many lusty female members. Original....

  • Much Ado About Nothing

    William Shakespeare

    Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. First published in 1600, it is likely to have been first performed in the autumn or winter of 1598-1599, and it remains one of Shakespeare's most enduring and exhilarating plays on stage. Sty...

  • Tale of Cutter's Treasure

    David Seidman

    In an attempt to rescue his little brother, Rush Keegan is forced to team up with the family ghost to confront the spirit of a deadly pirate who jealously protects his buried treasure from beyond the grave. Original....

  • The Haunting of Holroyd Hill

    Brenda Seabrooke

    When her family moves to the Virginia countryside, eleven-year-old Melinda, her older brother, and their new friend Dan work together to solve the mystery of a Civil War-era ghost who is haunting their house...

  • Forged in Honor

    Leonard B. Scott

    After the American Embassy in Burma is bombed, retired Special Forces colonel Joshua Hawkins is recalled to active duty by order of the president. A secret government mission will require the intimate knowledge of the exotic country that only Hawkins...

  • Traitor to the Race

    Darieck Scott

    When a boyhood friend is brutally raped and murdered, a dreamy, unemployed New York actor is forced to confront his homosexuality, his guilt about keeping a white lover, and his uneasy relations with other African-American men. Reprint....

  • On Mother's lap

    Ann Herbert Scott

    Scott's well-loved story sensitively captures the cozy warmth of a universal childhood experience, portrayed in an Eskimo setting. Michael loves cuddling in the rocking chair with his mother and his favorite toys. When his baby sister wants to join i...

  • Forsaking All Others

    Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

  • BJ and Scooter

    Scholastic Inc.

  • The Love Letter

    Cathleen Schine

    Helen MacFarquhar is smart, stunning, independent, and sexy. She was married once, and that was enough. Now she is perfectly happy raising her eleven-year-old daughter, running her own bookstore, and having pleasing passing affairs with sensibly sele...

  • The Terminal Experiment

    Robert J. Sawyer

    Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they all have escaped from Hobson's computer into the web-and one of them is a killer....

  • Between Two Worlds

    Sarah Sargent

    As thirteen-year-old Janet struggles with her overly complicated life, she retreats more and more into the world of her favorite soap opera. Moving between fantasy and reality, she tries to live as though she were a character on TV but finds that the...

  • Shadow of the Watching Star

    William Sarabande

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    John Sandford

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    Barney Saltzberg

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    Sharon Sala

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    Angie Sage

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    Patricia Ryan

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    Patricia H. Rushford

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    Nicole Rubel

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    Alura M. Rossiter

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    JoAnn Ross

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    Joel Rosenberg

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    Elliott Roosevelt

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    Lisa Rojany

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    Maureen Roffey

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    J.R. Roberts

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    Mark Rivers

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    Bruce Richards

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    William Relling Jr.

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    Michelle Reid

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    Dian Curtis Regan

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    Victoria Redel

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    Betty Layman Receveur

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    Angie Ray

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    Doreen Rappaport

  • Tapestry

    Karen Ranney

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    Random House

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    Laura Rader

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    Laura Rader

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    Sheila Rabe

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    Greg Henry Quinn

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    Bonnie Pryor

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    Reynolds Price

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    Steven Pressfield

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    Heather Graham Pozzessere

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    Fred Powledge

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    Cheryl Anne Porter

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    Felix Pitre

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    Daniel Pinkwater

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    Nicholas Pine

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    Margret Pierce

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    Susan Beth Pfeffer

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    Laura Petose-Battyanyi

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    Clarice Peters

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    Penguin Books

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    Don Pendleton

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    Don Pendleton

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    Melvin Van Peebles

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    Jane Peart

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    Caroline Peak

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    Diana L. Paxson

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    Gudrun Pausewang

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    Gary Paulsen

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    Gary Paulsen

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    Francine Pascal

  • Curse of the Ruby Necklace

    Francine Pascal

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    Francine Pascal

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    Francine Pascal

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    Francine Pascal

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    Francine Pascal

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    Francine Pascal

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    Francine Pascal

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    Valerie Parv

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    Robert B. Parker

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    George Papaellinas

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    Liz Osborne

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    Elane Osborn

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    Alice Orr

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    Ifeoma Onyefulu

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    Patricia Oliver

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    Jenny Oldfield

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    Kevin O'Malley

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    Jodi O'Donnell

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    Jane O'Connor

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    Eric Nylund

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    Frank Norwood

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    Chris North

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    Joan Lowery Nixon

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