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  • Who Took the Cake?

    Zoey Zucker

  • Amazon Fever

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum and is always zooming off to strange places. Now Uncle Roy is taking Jeff with him to the steamy Amazon jungle. Maybe they’ll track down crocodiles or poisonous snakes or jaguars for Uncle Roy’s museum. Wrong! On ...

  • The Lost Van Gogh

    A.J. Zerries

    When Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Monsieur Trabuc turns up unexpectedly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art--a $50 million painting shipped from Argentina via UPS, like an ordinary package--the case goes to Clay Ryder, the NYPD Major Case Squad detec...

  • Second Chances

    Rebecca York
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    A magical painting, a mystical gateway... Legend has it that a heartbroken artist used magical paint to create thel beautiful "Midnight Magic"--and then stepped into the painting and was never seen again. Or so Sara Drimmon is told when she visits...

  • Bedtime Eyes

    Amy Yamada

    Amy Yamada is one of the most prominent--and controversial--novelists in Japan today.  She bursted onto the scene in 1985 with her short novel "Bedtime Eyes," which for critics embodied the spirit of the 'shinjinru'--i.e. Generation X-- in much the...

  • A Whale of a Tale!

    Bonnie Worth

    Laugh and learn with fun facts about whales, porpoises, dolphins, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style and starring the Cat in the Hat! “What’s the story today? Funny that you should ask. We’re go...

  • Waking Up In Charleston

    Sherryl Woods

    Oh, God! She's in love with her preacher. But it's not as if Amanda O'Leary set out to fall for the most gorgeous (and unattainable) man this side of South Carolina Low Country. It's just that he organized building a cozy home for her and her chil...

  • Where Seagulls Soar

    Janet Woods

    Following a romantic shipboard marriage, Joanna Morcant has everything her heart could desire: a dashing new husband and an adorable baby son.But an unforeseen tragedy leaves Joanna destitute and with no choice but to return to her childhood home, th...

  • Lime Ricky

    Jill Winters

    A tart new comedy of love and murder from the national bestselling author of Just Peachy

    The man is Class A: When Gretchen Darrow awoke to a fi re in her New York City apartment, she also woke to firefighter Rick Pallucci-so cocky, so intimi...

  • Child of Mine

    Bonnie K. Winn

    It was love at first sight when Matt Whitaker opened his door to see a baby in his brother's arms -- Matt's nephew, Danny, abandoned by his heartless high-society mother. And then Danny's father was killed in an accident, and Matt, an ill-prepared ba...

  • Wizard's Return

    Dan Willis

    Find out if Nearra can reclaim her magic in the thrilling finale to the Trinistyr Trilogy.

    Wizard’s Return is the highly-anticipated follow-up to Wizard’s Betrayal, the second volume in the Trinistyr Trilogy. Set in the popular Dragonlance...

  • 5 Minutes and 42 Seconds

    T.J. Williams

    Cameisha Douglass has it all -- a sprawling home in a posh neighborhood, a fancy car, three healthy children, and a husband, Fashad, who is devoted to her. Her biggest worry is catching her daytime soap operas before the kids come home from school an...

  • Ethics: Twelve Lectures

    David Wiggins

    Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly propo...

  • Complete Stephen King Universe

    Stanley Wiater

    The myriad worlds and universes King has created are, in reality, one world, one universe. Here is the guide to that universe.
    The Complete Stephen King Universe is the only definitive reference work that examines all of Stephen King's novels,...

  • Harry And Dinosaurs And The Bucketful Of Stories

    Ian Whybrow

    A collection of all the classic stories about Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs! Everyone has their favourite Harry story and here they all are in this roaringly good collection! This superb collection features Harry and the Snow King, Harry and t...

  • Echoes of Coventry

    Richard C. White

    WHAT'S PAST A special six-part S.C.E. event that flashes back to previous adventures of the S.C.E. crew from the 23rd century to the height of the Dominion War, with special guests from all across the Star Trek universe! 2375: Before he joined the ...

  • Best Laid Plans

    Anne White

    Preparations for Emerald Point's lucrative tourist season are well under way, but Mayor Loren Graham fears murder could be this year's major attraction. First, she finds a body in a locked display case of French and Indian War memorabilia--but it dis...

  • The Princess's Secret Scandal

    Karen Whiddon

    It seems royal PR man Chase Savage is involved in a scandal. Savage announced his engagement to Sydney Conner, the illegitimate princess from Naessa, who is pregnant with our late Prince Reginald's heir. Savage was reportedly sent to bribe the ravish...

  • The Fire Arrow

    Richard S. Wheeler

    Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies. In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved Crow Indian wife, Victoria, is cr...

  • Specials

    Scott Westerfeld

    Special Circumstances TALLY THOUGHT THEY WERE A RUMOR, but now she's one of them. A Special. A superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid. But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus...

  • The Reckless Gun

    Joseph A. West

    Based on the TV series, this exciting Western adventure follows Marshal Matt Dillon, who, after his session with a fortune teller is interrupted by gunfire, finds himself caught in the middle of a war between a corrupt Colonel and men bent on revenge...

  • Outlaw

    Charles G. West

    A good man becomes a wanted one in this gripping tale of the Old West from Spur Award-winning author Charles G. West.When war came to the Shenandoah Valley, Matt Slaughter and his older brother, Owen, joined the Confederate army. But three years defe...

  • My Shining Star

    Rosemary Wells

    For every family. For every classroom. For every child...
    A parenting guide that prepares children for success in school -- long before the first day of class...

    Rosemary Wells shares ten proven principles sure to help any child succeed in ...

  • The Soul Hunter

    Melanie Wells

    "WHAT DOES PETER TERRY WANT WITH MY SON?" "THE SAME THING HE WANTS WITH ALL OF US. PETER TERRY IS A HUNTER," I SAID. "HE'S HUNTING SOULS." DYLAN FOSTER, A PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, IS PREPARING FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT DA...

  • Flying Lessons

    Peggy Webb

    If this is Beth Holt Martin's life, she wants a refund. It's true. At fifty-three, all Beth's got is a sex-starved marriage to Howard the psychiatrist, an (almost) empty nest and a suitcase full of long-forgotten dreams of becoming...well, someth...

  • Raw Talent

    Debra Webb

    NEW BLOOD...LITERALLY When a confidential file was stolen from the prestigious Colby Agency, it was A. J. Braddock's mission to retrieve it. His assignment: locate Gabrielle Jordan, the enigmatic woman who'd vanished with it. Except he never ex...

  • Four Little Problems

    Carrie Weaver

    Patrick Stevens is a great teacher. All of his "kids" say so -- except Emily Patterson's oldest son, Jason. Jason is Patrick's lone failure -- the one student he couldn't reach. And that's too bad, because when Patrick and Emily are thrown togethe...

  • The Cattle Baron's Bride

    Margaret Way

    THE CITY GIRL -- AND THE RUGGED OUTBACK CATTLE BARON The wilderness at the heart of the Australian Northern Territory was no place for delicate city beauty Samantha Langdon. Cattleman Ross Sunderland wouldn't have agreed to act as guide if h...

  • What If?: Mirror Mirror

    Daniel Way

    What if... Captain America fought in the Civil War? What if... the Fantastic Four were Cosmonauts? What if... Daredevil lived in feudal Japan? What if... Namor grew up on land? Hacking into the internet of an adjacent reality, teenager Hector Espejo ...

  • Oscar's Party

    Etsuko Watanabe

    Who can resist a birthday party? There are presents to wrap, balloons to blow up, and don't forget the ingredients for the cake. Before long, it's time to celebrate! With more than twenty flaps to open plus wheels to turn, young readers will love ...

  • The Wedding Trap

    Tracy Anne Warren

    From ugly duckling to beautiful swan Eliza Hammond has always been quiet and reserved -- hardly the best qualities for finding the man of her dreams and living happily ever after. A new heiress, Eliza is financially secure, courtesy of her aunt's ...

  • The Wife Trap

    Tracy Anne Warren

    Your presence is requested at a wedding deception. After orchestrating a scandalous high-society ruse, Lady Jeannette Brantford is banished from her family's estate in England and sent to live with boring elderly cousins in the Irish countryside. ...

  • Pistols at Dawn

    Nancy Warren
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    Uptight Sylvia Preston is terrified when she time travels to a twenties party. But when Tucker Green gets her dirty dancing, Sylvia wants to see just how uninhibited she can be -- in bed with Tucker....

  • Bishop's Reach

    Kathryn R. Wall

    Bleached-blond call girls rarely bring good news, especially the one who bursts through the door of Bay Tanner's struggling inquiry agency and into her already complicated life. Karen Zwilling swears she's been viciously attacked but can't--or won't-...

  • Thieves of Blood

    Tim Waggoner
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Discover the dark world of Eberron as one assassin-turned-cleric searches for peace in a land that knows only blood Diran Bastiaan was once one of the most feared assassins in the land -- one of the best money could buy. But after a life-alterin...

  • Only In Your Dreams

    Cecily von Ziegesar

    Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I are the biggest stars...whether or not the cameras are rolling. Enter the world of Gossip Girl--a world of VIPs and red carpet premier parties, where jealousy and betrayal will get...

  • Rainbows End

    Vernor Vinge

    The Mysterious Stranger and Mr. Rabbit World-famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored. reality's a shock. Book...

  • Murder Unleashed

    Elaine Viets

    With a resume that includes attempted assault and alimony evasion, Helen Hawthorne has no choice but to take on a series of dead-end jobs to make ends meet. Unfortunately, they're exposing her to a lot of people who end up dead. At the Barker Brot...

  • The Happiness of Kati

    Jane Vejjajiva

    Every morning Kati is woken by the clatter of Grandma's spatula and pan and every night she goes to bed wishing for her mother. Like the canal that flows past her door, Kati's life has a gentle rhythm. But beneath the peaceful surface runs an under...

  • Make Him Look Good

    Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

    The "him" in MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD is Ricky Biscayne, sexy Latin singing sensation who has taken the pop world by storm. The women who orbit him include: --Milan, Ricky's new publicist, smart as a whip and chubby as only a girl who still lives at ho...

  • You, Maybe

    Rachel Vail

    Josie is an independent, self-assured sophomore who doesn't care what anyone thinks about her -- until Carson Gold, senior and hottest guy around, suddenly shows an interest. Neither Josie nor her best friends quite understand why she tentatively ind...

  • The Silver Bough

    Lisa Tuttle

    The award-winning author of The Mysteries returns with another captivating novel in which modern-day enigmas and age-old myths come together with spellbinding results. Here is an enchanting tale set in a land rich with folklore -- and ripe for a reki...

  • Stories of the Golden West

    Jon Tuska

    Rocky Rhodes returns home because his father has been murdered. 'Rocky Rhodes of Roaring Camp' (WC. Tuttle) finds his brother-in-law accused of the murder...In 'Riders of the Crimson Trail' (Jack Natteford), Billy Bronson is witness to the attempted ...

  • Fort Pillow

    Harry Turtledove

    In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was comprised of almost six hundred troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to...

  • Bad Twin

    Gary Troup

    Sometimes evil has a familiar face . . . Paul Artisan, P.I. is a new version of an old breed -- a righter of wrongs, someone driven to get to the bottom of things. Too bad his usual cases are of the boring malpractice and fraud variety. Until now...

  • Master of Desire

    Jessica Trapp

    A WOMAN'S SECRET Lady Ariana of Rosebriar is a woman with a past. She killed her abusive husband to protect her son. And now she is being blackmailed. A Lancastrian rebel will reveal her crime--and destroy her life--unless she delivers messages to e...

  • Long Live the King

    Lyn Tornabene

  • The Bachelor Trap

    Elizabeth Thornton

    It began as a game of seduction -- until love got in the way... From the nationally bestselling author whose novels are "delightfully entertaining" (Philadelphia Inquirer) comes the provocative tale of a gentleman with a secret...and the i...

  • The Untamed One

    Ronda Thompson

    Running from angry villagers and the man who ravaged her, the witch Lucinda flees into the forest to have her child. But Lord Jackson Wulf hunts her down, believing her death will break the family curse that transforms him into a monster. Instead of ...

  • Around Another Corner

    Grace Thompson

    Ancret has a gift: the hats she creates are the most beautiful and fun designs this side of Ascot. She just needs two things for her life to be perfect: for her mummys boy boyfriend Jonathan to stop badgering her to give up her ambitions and marry hi...

  • Becky/The Restless Sea

    E.V. Thompson

    Combined for the first time are two enchanting stories from acclaimed novelist E. V. Thompson. In Becky, Ferg...

  • Good-bye, Chunky Rice

    Craig Thompson

    This here be the first ever “graphical novel book” by Craig Thompson. It was winnning a Harvey Award, no less. It documentates the once upon a time in our fishing village town and a short turtle lad name of Chunky, last name Rice.

    Mister C...

  • The Deadliest Denial

    Colleen Thompson

    The worst day of Claire's life begins with a 5:00 AM knock on her door, the summons every cop's wife dreads. But instead of telling her Spence has been killed in the line of duty, his sergeant has even worse news for Claire. Her husband is in jail. F...

  • An Unlikely Father

    Cynthia Thomason

    First she nearly runs him down with her truck, then she's taking potshots at a sailboat with empty beer cans and leading him on a wild-fish chase! She's the craziest -- and most interesting -- woman he's ever met. What Ethan doesn'...

  • Essential Classic X-Men - Volume 2

    Roy Thomas

    Enemies both infamous and obscure abound in another archive of the X-Men's early adventures! Mainstay malefactors like Magneto and the Juggernaut are joined by the thunderous threat of Factor Three! Plus: the first appearances of Banshee and Polaris!...

  • Dalton's Undoing

    Raeanne Thayne

    He was known as a major player who'd left a swath of broken hearts across the Teton Valley. Yet when single mother Jenny Boyer saw the tenderness in Seth Dalton's eyes when he looked at her children -- not to mention her -- it was impossible for her ...

  • The Consultant's Adopted Son

    Jennifer Taylor

    Beautiful nurse Rose Tremayne would have done anything to have kept her baby. Circumstances forced her into adoption, though there hasn't been a day when she hasn't found herself wondering what happened to her precious little boy. Then Ros...

  • Yellow, Volume 4

    Makoto Tateno

    • The curtains for the shocking final stage will now be drawn!! Just when their love for wach other was finally realized, Gou and Taki's relationship is torn apart by the killer Sandfish. It's now time to come to terms with Taki's dark past...

  • Gacha Gacha, Volume 4

    Hiroyuki Tamakoshi

    THE ORIGINAL FOUR

    After struggling to deal with Kurara’s many personalities, from the sex-crazed Arisa to the innocent Alice, Kouhei must now face his greatest challenge. The Original 4 are the most fearsome personalities hiding within Kurar...

  • Deadman's Bluff

    James Swain

    A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world's largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters wh...

  • X-Men and Power Pack: The Power of X

    Marc Sumerak

    Power Pack returns... and this time they've brought some very special friends! Marvel's merry mutants team up with our super-powered siblings for more fun-filled all-ages adventures! Collects X-Men and Power Pack #1-4....

  • The Gladiator's Honor

    Michelle Styles

    Sold into slavery! A hardened survivor of more than a dozen gladiatorial combats, Valens's raw masculinity fuels many women's sexual fantasies. He is outside polite society, and Roman noblewoman Julia Antonia knows she should have nothing to do with...

  • I Love Tools!

    Philemon Sturges

    Tools can cut things apart . . .

    . . . or put them back together again.

    You can use tools to make almost anything!

    From the clamps that hold down the wood for the very first cut through the paintbrush that adds the finishing tou...

  • The Clan Corporate

    Charles Stross

    IN The Family Trade and The Hidden Family, Miriam got in touch with her roots. Now those roots have begun to strangle her. A young business journalist from Boston, Miriam discovered that her family comes from a parallel timeline, that she is very we...

  • Violette Between

    Alison Strobel

    "A beautifully wrought tale full of characters that live and breathe. This surprising story from Strobel, a bold and engaging storyteller, left me sighing with pleasure and wanting more. She's not to be missed." -- CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY...

  • The Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great

    Richard Stoneman

    He was destined to rule the world ...A prince is born under a star of good fortune. It is prophesied that he will become the greatest king of all time. Alexander grows up to fulfil this destiny - powerful as a lion, skilled in the art of war and lead...

  • These Darn Heels

    Julie Stone

    Swingin' single gal Alex Sanders has everything she's always wanted--terrific friends, a loyal dog, and her own business, a card and invitation shop called Correspondence, located in the trendy Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.

    But as her thi...

  • Three Times a Charm

    Jean Stone

    Thanks to a high-profile wedding extravaganza for a media mogul, the wedding-planning business created by four longtime friends is really taking off. Not surprisingly, each of the friends is handling success in her own special way -- and one is about...

  • Man With A Past

    Kay Stockham

    Joe Brody: Out of prison but still serving time -- all because no one in his hometown believes he's innocent. He'd leave the place in his dust, but his father -- the only family he has left -- needs him. Ashley Cade: Widowed with a toddler to take...

  • The Heinie Prize

    R.L. Stine

    Is BELZER a Loser? - Just because his T-shirts that say I NEED A TUTOR and ASK ME ABOUT MY ALLERGIES? - Just because he picks scabs off his knees and eats them? - Belzer's parents think he's a loser. They want to take him out of Rotten School. Ev...

  • Fergus Crane

    Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life -- attending school on the ship Betty Jeanne and helping his mother in the bakery. But then a winged mechanical horse appears and whisks Fergus off to meet his long-lost uncle. Not only that, he finds out that...

  • Shark and Lobster's Amazing Undersea Adventure

    Joel Stewart

    A silly shark and lobster are in a panic to ward off a land-bound menace in this comical ode to the power of suggestion, the joys of teamwork, and the fun to be found in a narrow escape.

    Out in the sea, Shark told his friend Lobster one day: "...

  • The Spinster's Beau

    Jill Stengl
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    Amid the rich history of Mackinac Island, the power of faith and love is tested. When Neal Wellington is forced to seek help, Ninette Curvier comes to his rescue. Will her faith give him the strength to face his past? When Jane Douglas nurses "Mad" A...

  • Ironic

    Pamela Leigh Starr

    Teresa Lewis is living in a cabin in the Smoky Mountains while taking time off to write. Her life takes an unexpected turn when a plane crashes near her cabin and she becomes rescuer and nurse for a man she thinks is a bigot. Trapped inside by the ho...

  • The Big Boom

    Domenic Stansberry

    The Big Boom features the return of Dante Mancuso, the hero of Stansberry's Chasing the Dragon, an obsessive private investigator working the streets of his San Francisco neighborhood. He is a dark-eyed, complex figure---melancholic, tender, with fie...

  • Blonde at Heart

    Natalie Standiford

    When Elle Woods, a sophomore in high school, falls for Hunter Perry, the star basketball player who advocates for school spirit, Elle decides to transform the cheerleaders, the basketball team, and herself....

  • Doppelganger

    David Stahler Jr.

    Doppelgangers are monsters, hardwired for murder.They are not supposed to have doubts, but this one does. He wishes he could be different. More human, maybe. But even that can't stop him from killing people so he can take their places and live their ...

  • Jared's Runaway Woman

    Judith Stacy

    He's found her! Her past has finally caught up with her After years on the run, Kinsey Templeton has settled in Crystal Springs. But when a handsome stranger steps from the stagecoach, Kinsey knows her past has finally caught up with her. I...

  • Midnight Secrets

    Jennifer St. Giles

    A woman discovers that in the quest for her lost cousin, she'll find the truth in the Dragon's Curse: When two are born together, one will die by the other's hand... After her cousin Mary is mysteriously swept away by the sea, Cassiope...

  • Welcome to Yesterday

    Ian Spiegelman

    Leon Koch is not having a good day. And his night's about to get worse. When a drug-addicted talent agent -- whom Koch, a young reporter at New York's most powerful gossip column, had just disgraced -- is found dead, Koch wakes up at the center of th...

  • Riding the Range

    Justin Spelvin

    Join the Backyardigans on an adventure in the Wild West! - Level One expands the vocabulary and uses longer sentences for kids who are just starting to read. Some Level One books also employ rebuses or picture icons....

  • Unsafe Harbor

    Jessica Speart

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent Rachel Porter's devotion to endangered creatures has carried her to many remote, exotic places. Now she's in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, trying to help stop the import of illegal flora and fauna. This is a differe...

  • Now Is the Hour

    Tom Spanbauer

    The year is 1967, and Rigby John Klusener, seventeen years old and finally leaving his home and family in Pocatello, Idaho, is on the highway with his thumb out and a flower behind his ear, headed for San Francisco. Now Is the Hour is the wondrous st...

  • Dreamlight

    Janet Spaeth
    in

    Amid the rich history of Mackinac Island, the power of faith and love is tested. When Neal Wellington is forced to seek help, Ninette Curvier comes to his rescue. Will her faith give him the strength to face his past? When Jane Douglas nurses "Mad" A...

  • Something's Gotta Give

    Teresa Southwick

    The whole thing was rigged! What else would you expect from lawyers and a judge with family connections? Former detective Sam Owen Brimstone was not looking for work, but now he was stuck with it and had to admit that in this case, the body he was as...

  • Es, Volume 1

    Fuyumi Soryo

    MIND CONTROL

    Ryousuke Akiba calls himself ES, a code name taken from a mysterious scientific experiment. Ryousuke will live to be at least two centuries old and possesses strange mental powers: He can enter people’s minds, discover their dar...

  • Completely Irresistible

    Sheridon Smythe

    It all started with Larry, Moe, and Curly: three spoiled standard poodles with an uncanny knack for mischief. Kasidy Evans knew she'd have her hands full when she agreed to take on their care, but she never imagined she'd find them engaged in a tu...

  • Mrs. Crump's Cat

    Linda Smith

  • Glasses (Who Needs 'Em?)

    Lane Smith

  • Custody For Two

    Karen Rose Smith

    He'd lost the only family he'd ever known. His sister and brother-in-law were dead -- and their premature baby was fighting for his life in a Wyoming hospital. The globetrotting photographer lost no time rushing to the preemie's side. But much to...

  • The Rogue Report

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    Dear Reader, I have a secret. Several, in fact... Most people know me only as the headmistress of a charity school. Having a son but no husband has made me a social outcast, which is no great inconvenience since I despise Society, especially th...

  • The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner

    Andrea Smith

    Canaan Creek, South Carolina, in the 1950s is a tiny town where the close-knit African-American community is united by long-term friendships and church ties. Bonnie Wilder has lived here, on Blackberry Corner, all her life, and would be content but f...

  • My Pop Pop and Me

    Irene Smalls

  • A Distant Tomorrow

    Bertrice Small

    My dear readers, Five years have now passed since the Winter War between the Outlands and Hetar. But Gaius Prospero has not given up his scheme to become emperor, and unexpected tragedy causes Lara to once again heed the pull of her destiny. Find...

  • Tale of Two Summers

    Brian Sloan

    08:06 p.m. Saturday 07.29.06You are in L-O-V-E. Notice how I have no hesitation spelling it. At all. Reason? That was just the wildest entry you've posted! Ever....You are so seeing the world through the eyes of L-O-V-E.A ten-year best friendship is ...

  • Code Name: Blondie

    Christina Skye

    Miki is living every woman's fantasy -- stranded on a desert island with a rugged Navy SEAL. But little does Miki know she's a suspect in an international high-tech robbery, and her steely-eyed companion is ready, willing and able to do anything to m...

  • The Man of My Dreams

    Curtis Sittenfeld

    Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. And somewhere in between these two extremes -- just maybe -- lie the answers ...

  • Sword Play

    Linda Joy Singleton

    "Help her," insists the spirit of Kip, the jock from her old school who died in a car accident. But his cryptic message is the last thing on Sabine's mind as she packs up to move back home. She's not happy about leavi...

  • That Summer At American Beach

    Janice Sims

    After New York City party planner Rayne Walker learns that the only father she has ever known is seriously ill, she immediately heads to American Beach, Florida, where her father is recuperating in his vacation home. Having been warned by her mother ...

  • Animal Antics

    Fiona Simpson



    When Verne the turtle and his woodland friends wake up from their hibernation, they find a suburban neighborhood encroaching on their forest home, Verne's first instinct is to retreat into his shell and leave, but then he meets R.J., a con-ar...

  • Emergency Vehicles

    Seymour Simon

    SeeMore Readers are designed for every young reader. Large, bright pictures instantly engage readers in the subject. Exciting yet simple text provides the information that kids, parents, and teachers want from key facts to fascinating trivia. Each Re...

  • Planet Mars

    Seymour Simon

    SeeMore Readers are designed for every young reader. Large, bright pictures instantly engage readers in the subject. Exciting yet simple text provides the information that kids, parents, and teachers want from key facts to fascinating trivia. Each Re...

  • Pretty Birds

    Scott Simon

    The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds, Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character"a young woman in the besieged city o...

  • Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure

    Simon & Schuster

    SWASHBUCKLING FANTASY features excerpts from 10 series by bestselling and critically acclaimed authors such as Margaret Petersen Haddix, author of the Shadow Children series, D.J. MacHale, author of the Pendragon series, Scott Westerfeld, author of U...

  • Like Mother, Like Daughter

    Jane Sigaloff

    Imagine your mother being more determined to find a man than you've ever been. When single-again newspaper columnist Suzie Fletcher announces that her only wish is for her and her daughter to be dating someone by the time of her sixtieth birthday ...

  • Absurdistan

    Gary Shteyngart

    Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA (don't even ask), and patriot of no country save the...

  • A Student of Living Things

    Susan Richards Shreve

    In the Washington, D.C., of a near future, a city of floods and frequent terrorist bombings, the tightly knit Frayn family has carved out its own comfortable, if eccentric, existence. Then, in the moment it takes Claire Frayn to dig into her book bag...

  • Animal Instincts

    Gena Showalter

    Unleashing your inner tigress isn't easy when you're a doormat by nature! Still, after escaping a wretched marriage to a cheating SOB, Dallas party planner Naomi Delacroix isn't about to let another man sweet-talk her into sheathing her protective cl...

  • Warlord

    John Shirley

    Englishman and amoral occultist John Constantine has been out of sorts lately, disconnected from himself...and this time not from another bender, but quite literally, as his soul is cast adrift during a fouled-up spiritual quest in an Iranian monaste...

  • Dream-Maker's Magic

    Sharon Shinn

    Kellen’s mother has always insisted that her only child was born male, not female -- so Kellen has been raised as a boy. At school, she meets Gryffin, whose mind is as strong as his legs are damaged, and the two become friends and allies. A few yea...

  • Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah

    Allan Sherman

    The illustrator of the Zack Files series presents an illustrated version of the song in which a young camper describes all of the horrors of Camp Granada and begs his parents to let him come home. Reprint....

  • Don't I Know You?

    Karen Shepard

    In 1976 in New York City, Gina Engel was murdered in her front hall. The police believed the victim had known her attacker. But they had few suspects, and as time went on, the case remained unsolved. Yet the suspicions of those who knew Gina both int...

  • Mindswap

    Robert Sheckley

    In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which...

  • Oasis of Blood

    Jon Sharpe

    There’s no rest for the wicked… The sun-swept badlands of New Mexico Territory don’t seem like heaven on earth to Skye Fargo. But nevertheless, some pioneers have set their sights on it…and it looks like there’s going to be trouble in ...

  • Lord of the Shadows

    Darren Shan

    Darren Shan is going home -- to old ghosts and new nightmares. Enemies await. Scores must be settled. Destiny looks certain to destroy him, and the world is doomed to fall to the Ruler of the Night. . . . Author Darren Shan's vivid detail and origina...

  • Elephants In The Bathtub And Other Silly Riddles

    Brenda Sexton

    This unique lift-the-flap format is full of silly elephants doing silly things and having colorful, wonderful, laugh-out-loud fun!

    This unique lift-the-flap joke book features zany elephant jokes and bright, bold, and hysterical illustrations ...

  • Theodora Twist

    Melissa Senate

    "I'm going to have to come up with something really good to get you back into the public's good graces. I have no idea what, but trust me. I'll think of something." Well that's what Theodora pays her agent $100,000 a year for, isn't it? Theodora T...

  • Basilisk 1: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls

    Masaki Segawa

    THE BATTLE BEGINS

    The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has ...

  • There Will Never Be Another You

    Carolyn See

    “Carolyn See has written a novel alive with wit and love and energy"a book about things falling apart that turns out to be a day at the beach. . . . Pure joy.”"Joan DidionAccomplished author Carolyn See triumphantly returns to fiction"seven...

  • The Foreshadowing

    Marcus Sedgwick

    It is 1915 and the First World War has only just begun. 17 year old Sasha is a well-to-do, sheltered-English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to be a doctor, she wants to nurse, yet girls of her class don't do that kind of work. But as the w...

  • Her Cinderella Heart

    Ruth Scofield

    Shy schoolteacher Cassie Manning had never been in love. After literally stumbling over new parishioner Peter Scott at New Beginnings Church, Cassie was certain God had answered her prayers! Handsome, worldly and a man of faith, Peter seemed to be ev...

  • America's Victories

    Larry Schweikart

    In America's Victories, Professor Larry Schweikart restores the truth about our amazing military heritage. Just as he did in his acclaimed previous book, A Patriot's History of the United States, Professor Schweikart cuts through the distortions pas...

  • Glamorous Disasters

    Eliot Schrefer

    Noah rose from humble beginnings and, through pure grit and resourcefulness, got himself through Princeton. Now staggering under the weight of massive student loans and dazzled by life in the big city, Noah enters the rarefied field of SAT tutoring i...

  • Falling Out Of Bed

    Mary Schramski

    Melinda had never questioned her perfect life. Why should she? Her husband's successful, she's not working for the first time in years and their only daughter is in college. Her father -- a workaholic, perfectionist, runner and health nut to boot -- ...

  • Vampire Transgression

    Michael Schiefelbein

    There are only two rules that govern the lives of vampires. First, vampires are forbidden to associate with one another. And second, vampires must depart to the Dark Kingdom upon creating a new vampire. Victor Decimus, once a Roman officer in the day...

  • Poison

    Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

    A tour de force about marriage, deceit, envy, and the reverberations of a life and a life's work. The death of flamboyant writer and womanizer Peter Grosvenor sets in motion a series of spiraling events surrounding his legacy and his estate. His b...

  • Code of Love

    Cheryl Sawyer

    At the height of the Peninsular War, English agent Sir Gideon Landor is assigned the task of deciphering the Grand Paris Cypher, a code created specifically for Napoleon, but his mission is complicated by Delphine Dalgleish, a young Parisian assigned...

  • The Women In Cages

    Vilas Sarang

  • Chicks Ahoy

    Lynda Sandoval

    While working on the cruise ship that her father captains during summer vacation, Camille and her friend Jiggy, trying to make the best of a bad situation, party with their co-workers, but when Jiggy's partying gets out of control, Camille learns the...

  • Dead Watch

    John Sandford

    Senator Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the aisle. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barbwired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and missing his head. ...

  • One Daddy Too Many

    Debra Salonen

    Meet the four Radonovic sisters. Their gypsy mother has a prophecy for each of her daughters... Kate's prophecy: You can't escape your destiny or avoid the past...when the two intersect. Kate's ex-husband is being paroled and he wan...

  • Ardneh's Sword

    Fred Saberhagen

    It's been a thousand years since the time of Ardneh, the transcendant being that saved humanity from the vicious archdemon Orcus. It was a legndary battle between magic and technology that killed them both, but left behind tales of Ardneh's heroism a...

  • High-Heeled Alibi

    Sydney Ryan

    His allies murdered and his identity erased, secret agent Mick James was as good as dead. His only chance -- blow the conspiracy that set him up and turned his covert agency against him. His only hope -- a resistant alibi in stilettos named Bitsy Lei...

  • Tristan's Gap

    Nancy Rue

    She thought they had the perfect family... For eighteen years Serena Soltanis has poured herself into her family, making every effort to please her husband and to protect her daughters from the evils of the world. Respected and admired for her obv...

  • Detective Camp

    Ron Roy

    Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are off to summer camp! And this isn't just any camp . . . it's a camp for detectives. The kids can't wait to spend a whole week following clues and learning about the science of crime solving. Soon the counselors have all t...

  • Fireworks at the FBI

    Ron Roy

    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for the election season!  In the sixth book of the Capital Mysteries -- an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous ...

  • Date Me, Baby, One More time

    Stephanie Rowe

    IF YOU THINK LIFE IS COMPLICATED, TRY IMMORTALITY. Justine Bennett is cursing her life. She's the Guardian of the Goblet of Eternal Youth, she hasn't left the house in ages, and it's been over 200 years since she's had sex. Oh, and the Goblet has ...

  • Girl in Development

    Jordan Roter

    Vintage-chic, East Coast transplant Samantha Rose would rather be reading Virginia Woolf than Variety. So when her uncle arranges a surprise summer internship at a hot film development company, Sam is not prepared for the Tinsel-town twist. From her ...

  • Impulse

    JoAnn Ross

    Hazard, Wyoming, is a quiet mountain town where there's snow on the ground from October until June, the wind blows all the time, and nothing much ever happens. But that's all about to change. Because, just when the wind suddenly stops, a killer comes...

  • Blue Nude

    Elizabeth Rosner

    Once a prominent painter, Danzig now shares his wisdom and technique with students at San Francisco’s Art Institute -- yet his own canvases remain empty. When he meets Israeli-born Merav, the beautiful new model for his class, he senses she may rei...

  • The Spy With The Silver Lining

    Wendy Rosnau

    THEY CALLED HER THE ACTRESS Known as a cool seductress with a taste for couture, chic superspy Casmir Balasi had played her role too well this time -- getting love-struck master criminal Yuri Petrov to propose on bended knee...and fall into her trap...

  • Sullivan's Evidence

    Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

    In New York Times bestselling author Nancy Taylor Rosenberg's riveting novels, Sullivan's Law and Sullivan's Justice, gutsy probation officer Carolyn Sullivan proved she's a heroine readers can root for--a single mom intent on serving justice even as...

  • Queen of Blades

    Aaron Rosenberg

    Former marshal-turned-rebel Jim Raynor has broken away from the power-crazed Emperor Arcturus Mengsk. Enraged over Mengsk's betrayal of the powerful telepath, Sarah Kerrigan, to the ravenous Zerg, Raynor has lost all faith in his fellow humanity. ...

  • Here Comes the Night

    Anne Rockwell

    Getting ready for bedtime, step by step

    It's bedtime for one little boy, and time to say good night. Even the next-door cat and Buster the dog are ready for sleep. Told from the point of view of a mother easing her child through the steps of b...

  • Ghost Force

    Patrick Robinson

    The year is 2011. An oil-hungry world is starving... . . . and Argentina, with Russia's help, is determined to brutally wrest the petroleum-rich Falkland Islands from British hands. Enraged over this brazen act of international piracy, Great Brit...

  • What to Wear to a Seduction

    Sari Robins

    "What does one wear to a proper seduction?" Edwina groaned as she stared at her reflection in the tall gilded mirror. "And what now? I'm putting on the clothing simply to have it taken off." And why would proper Lady Edwina Ross dress to sedu...

  • Firebird

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    In the fantastic land of Markovy east of Europe, in the Iron Wood filled with werewolves and other unpleasant creatures, in the house of the dreaded Bone Witch, lives a young orphan girl named Aria. Her life is changed forever when a foreign knight, ...

  • A Point of Law

    John Maddox Roberts

    Being under suspicion of murder did not hamper my freedom. This is because Romans are civilized people and don't clap suspects into prison like barbarians do. It would take an order of a lawfully convened court even to place me under house arrest. ...

  • The Road to Hell

    J.R. Roberts

    After rescuing a group of Indian women and children from being sold into slavery, Clint Adams must stand his ground against Big-Bellied Umberto and his posse who are armed with a wagon full of lead with Clint's name on it. Original....

  • Vanished

    Karen Robards

    Ten years ago, Sarah Mason's six-year-old daughter vanished during an outing at a local park in Beaufort, South Carolina. Despite a furious search, little Lexie was never found, and Sarah was left to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and go on...

  • Braced 2 Bite

    Serena Robar

    When Colby Blanchard is attacked and turned into a half-vampire, her senior year of high school becomes surreal as she vacillates between trying to save her life and worrying about losing her place on the cheerleading squad....

  • Indian Pipes

    Cynthia Riggs

    Lively 92-year-old Martha's Vineyard native Victoria Trumbull is the first to spot the body of her neighbor, reclusive engineer Jube Burkhardt, dead from a tumble off a 200-foot-high cliff. The police conclude it was accidental, but Victoria's suspic...

  • The Reckoning

    Christie Ridgway

    "Emmett, danger is the way you live your life. But that's not my life." -- Linda Faraday, survivor After ten stolen years in a coma, hanging on to life by strands of uncertainty, Linda Faraday is finally awake. All she knows is she used to be an ...

  • My Secret Diary by Ariel

    Kitty Richards

    "Have you ever wondered why Flounder is Ariel's best friend? Or what Ariel thinks of her six sisters? Ot what her favorite human things are? Have a look inside the little mermaid's very own diary, and learn the answers to these questions and more!"--...

  • The Death Collector

    Justin Richards

    The foggy streets of Victorian London are thick with thieves. But when Eddie 'Dipper' Hopkins steals George Archer's wallet, he has no idea that he is entering a bizarre, dark world. In a heart-stopping race against time, he has only one chance to fo...

  • The Comeback Kiss

    Lani Diane Rich

    ALL IT TAKES IS ONE LITTLE KISS... In order to keep custody of her teenage sister, Tessa Scuderi told a small (okay, big) lie to the people of Lucy's Lake, Vermont, about what really happened ten years ago when Dermot Finnegan took off with her virg...

  • The Four Forges

    Jenna Rhodes

    Kerith is a land bereft of magic after the devastating war that killed off the Magi, leaving behind their Galdarkan minions, the fighting force they had created. Warlike Galdarkans, peaceful Dwellers, Kernan tradesmen and merchants, and brutish Bolge...

  • Startled by His Furry Shorts

    Louise Rennison

    On the rack of romance. And also in the oven of luuurve. Woe is Georgia: Dave the Laugh has declared his love for her (at least she thinks he was talking about her), and she has finally given Masimo an ultimatum to be her one and only and he has ...

  • The Thief

    Ruth Rendell

    From the author of End in Tears comes a chilling thriller for “Quick Reads” -- books for emergent readers, published as part of the UK’s World Book Day Adult Literacy Initiative 2006.

    What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you...

  • Play Ball with Me

    Lynn Reiser

    A kitten, being picked up from preschool by his parent, asks, “What will we play today? Let’s play a ballgame!” This book with sturdy cardstock pages and clever die-cuts is made for active youngsters who long to play grown-up games. Though they...

  • Shanks for Nothing

    Rick Reilly

    Life is going pretty well for Raymond "Stick" Hart. He's happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting by writing smart-mouthed ...

  • Strictly Confidential

    Terri Reed

    From the desk of Colleen Montgomery: Alessandro Donato -- there's more to Lidia Vance's nephew than meets the eye. * Says he's an accountant for the European Union (but spends a lot of time here in Colorado Springs). * Pops up whenever anyth...

  • The Chase Is on

    Tennant Redbank

    Readers would rather walk the plank than miss out on these two amazing 8x8 retellings of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Each book will retell a different portion of the story and will provide kids with action-packed scenes from the fil...

  • A Field of Darkness

    Cornelia Read

    There are people who can be happy anywhere. I am not one of them. When the house on the next street went up in flames for the second night in a row, I wondered again what I was doing in Syracuse. Madeline Dare would be the first to tell you her mone...

  • The Gate

    Kevin D. Randle

    When scientists open a Gate, which is a portal into a wormhole that allows travelers to bend and shape space at will, several test subjects, who believe they are hunting aliens, discover a deadly threat that could destroy humanity. Original....

  • Some Like It Cold

    Jerry Raine

  • Living On a Prayer

    Sheila Quigley

    A week before Christmas Debbie Stansfield’s life falls apart. Her son -- her funny, cheeky, kind Richard -- has been found hanging from a tree at the Seven Sisters. The police think it’s suicide but Debbie won’t -- can’t -- accept it....

  • Second Sight

    Amanda Quick

    Venetia Milton's memories of a romantic night with Gabriel Jones--an alchemist's descendant--are shattered soon thereafter by news of his death. Adopting the guise of his respectable widow, she embarks on a new career as a fashionable photographer in...

  • Everything After

    Sharon Pywell

    Nineteen-year-old Iris Sunnaret thought her two brothers died bravely in combat during the Vietnam War. Months later, though, she hears a different account: that one brother killed the other. Determined to uncover the truth-and to keep her family fro...

  • Charlie Monkey

    Roger Priddy

    Brand new series of multi-sensory board books.

    Featuring wacky characters and crazy tales.

    Includes a touch and feel element on every page.

    Each book features an electronic sound that kids will love to hear.

    ...

  • Dead Connection

    Charlie Price

    Is Murray psychic? He talks to the dead and comforts them in their lonely graves, even as they provide solace for him--they are his best friends. When he hears a new voice in the cemetery, he's sure it's Nikki, the cheerleader who has been missing fo...

  • Gatsby's Girl

    Caroline Preston

    Just as Jay Gatsby was haunted by Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fizgerald was haunted by his own great first love -- a Chicago socialite named Ginevra. Alluring, capricious, and ultimately unavailable, she would become his first muse...

  • Three Days to Never

    Tim Powers

    When Albert Einstein told Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 that the atomic bomb was possible, he did not tell the president about another discovery he had made, something so extreme and horrific it remained a secret . . . until now. This extraordinary new ...

  • Heart's Revenge

    Julia C. Porter

  • The Sheikh's Disobedient Bride

    Jane Porter

    SHE MUST BE TAMED -- WILLING OR NOT... He's a warrior -- fierce, traditional and hardened by tragedy. Sheikh Tair lives by the strict rules of the desert. When he finds Tally has broken one of those sacred laws, endangering the safety of his...

  • Ex-Girl to the Next Girl

    Daaimah S. Poole

    Ever since Shonda stole Malik from his fiancee--at the altar, no less--she's believed that marrying him would be her ticket to happiness. But when he finally steps up and makes it happen, Shonda is in for a rude awakening. From the day he moves his e...

  • Ten Thousand Charms

    Allison K. Pittman

    Unfit for Love? Pregnant - by a man who will never know or care. Gloria, born into a life of prostitution, sees only one solution: get rid of the child. But then she meets John William MacGregan, a miner, left with a newborn daughter and no one to ca...

  • Ludmila's Broken English

    D.B.C. Pierre

    A wild and brilliant tale by the winner of the Man Booker Prize and one of our most original storytellers. On a Tuesday in terror-struck London, Blair and Bunny Heath become the first adult conjoined twins ever successfully separated. On a Tuesday in...

  • Prince of Ice

    Stobie Piel

    The power of the Arch Mage has grown strong enough to immobilize the defenders of Amrodel, woodland kingdom. Only one hope remains: a girl, the would-be sorceress Cahira. Upon her shoulders lies the fate of her people. Cahira's task is to find the...

  • A Wedding In Willow Valley

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    SHE'D LEFT HER HEART IN WILLOW VALLEY Laurel Windsong had thought leaving Willow Valley -- and her first love, Ben Skeeter -- would be the hardest thing she'd ever done. But returning home ten years later proved much more difficult. Rumors swir...

  • Dream of Life

    Michael Phillips

    From the coast of Africa to the Trail of Tears, the destiny of three races is altered forever as a country is plunged into Civil War. Chigua and Sydney LeFleure. Slaves with a past . . . and an unexpected future. Carolyn and Richmond Davidson. A ma...

  • The Hobgoblin Proxy

    J.T. Petty

    At the behest of her friend Chaphesmeeso, Clem must help Kennethurchin, who was stolen from his cradle as a baby and replaced with a changeling, find and destroy the imposter so that he can become a hobgoblin, but the changeling, who is now nine-year...

  • Project Daddy

    Kate Perry

    How do you find the perfect match for the boss from hell? Katherine Murphy needs to know. Her obsessive, demanding supervisor has given her an assignment that goes way beyond the call of duty: find her a man. But not just any man--he must have the ...

  • Water Balloon Doom

    Rhea Perlman

  • Fantastic Four Visionaries: George Perez - Volume 2

    George Perez

    One of the FF's top talent gives Mr. Fantastic a really new look... as the Molecule Man! Once the team deals with this ultimate infiltration, they still must face sorcery, Skrulls and super-powered statues! Plus: the power of Franklin Richards! G...

  • One Cold Night

    Kate Pepper

    “Jam-packed with heart stopping suspense.” "Book Fetish ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED… New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn’t solve.  A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only ...

  • Dual Action

    Don Pendleton

    OPEN ATTACK Mack Bolan is on the trail of a lethal mystery weapon used to destroy a U.S. military tank in Iraq. The supergun has proven armor-piercing capabilities and has fallen into the hands of a neo-Nazi group in the American Midwest. The gro...

  • Path To War

    Don Pendleton

    Stomping Grounds War for sole ownership of blood-soaked Angola has begun, but now the ruthless shadow hand is a cabal of former CIA-DOD top operatives calling themselves Phoenix Consortium. Backed by millions in stolen black funds, the goal is a ...

  • Book of Doom

    John Peel

    Now that one of the Three Who Rule has escaped, the Diadem is in serious danger. Nantor, Pixel's ancient, evil self, has taken over the young magic user's body and is threatening to, once again, rule the worlds. Poor Pixel is alive in a small cell of...

  • Glad News of the Natural World

    T.R. Pearson

    The hilarious and heartbreaking sequel to T.R. Pearson’s beloved bestseller, A Short History of a Small Place.Twenty years ago, T. R. Pearson’s A Short History of a Small Place was hailed as “an absolute stunner” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washin...

  • East Wind, Rain

    Caroline Paul

    December 1941. The inhabitants of Niihau lead a simple life. Mostly Hawaiian natives, they work the ranch of Niihau's eccentric haole owner, who keeps his island totally isolated from the outside world, devoid of cars, phones, and electricity. But th...

  • School's Out Forever

    James Patterson

    IT'S YOUR BEST DREAM AND WORST NIGHTMARE: SCHOOL'S OUT-FOREVER! Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, Angel, and Maximum Ride: six incredible kids genetically engineered with the ability to fly, free as birds ... until Max and her gang are discovered by an FBI ...

  • Trial by Ordeal

    Craig Parshall

    Sweating in a hot cauldron of lawsuits, red tape, and Mafia threats is history professor Kevin Hastings. The young, modestly successful professor stumbled across just the right investment property in downtown Chicago. And met just the right buyer f...

  • Archer's Quest

    Linda Sue Park

    TWELVE-YEAR-OLD KEVIN, A Korean American math whiz, is shocked beyond belief when a young man, complete with bow and arrows, crash lands in his bedroom. And that's just the beginning. The man, called Skillful Archer, claims to be a legendary ruler fr...

  • Junie B., First Grader: Aloha-ha-ha!

    Barbara Park

    It's a week in "Pair-o-Dice"! Junie B. and her family are going on a vacation to Hawaii! And ha! Mr. Scary is giving her a real, actual camera to take on her trip! But taking good vacation pictures is not always easy. 'Cause what if your airplane is...

  • Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey

    Lisa Papademetriou

    While fighting over the last copy of Queen of Twilight, mortal enemies Veronica Lopez and Heather Simms find themselves transported into the story, where, after accidentally killing the story's heroine, they must find a way to the end of the ...

  • Love You Madly

    Linda Palmer

    Daytime drama writer Morgan Tyler figures she has only one thing in common with the men and women of her story lines: "I don't know what's going to happen next in my life, either..." As head writer of Love of My Life, Morgan specializes in imperil...

  • Leaves of Hope

    Catherine Palmer

    An adventurous spirit has always set Beth Lowell apart in her family, creating tension with her mother, Jan, who cherishes stability. Beth, a risk taker who traverses the globe for her job, wonders how Jan, now widowed, can endure her staid, predicta...

  • A Different Kind of Heat

    Antonio Pagliarulo

    Luz Cordero is on fire. She’s burning up with rage. She was there the night her brother got killed. She saw the cop pull the trigger. She tried to do something positive about it by going to protests, but all her anger got her into trouble. Now Luz ...

  • Pug Hill

    Alison Pace

    For Hope McNeill, pugs are love, unconditional friendship, happiness, and freedom-all qualities currently in short supply in her own life. Though she doesn't have a pug of her own, she does have Pug Hill in Central Park, where pugs (and their owners)...