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New Books List: 642 titles

  • Yuck! Stuck in the Muck

    Corinne Demas

    A humorous Level 1 Scholastic Reader about a duck, a truck, lots of muck, and a little luck!

    Dog chases Duck into the swamp, setting off a very muddy chain of events. Chuck tries to pull Dog out of the muck and also gets stuck. One by one, eac...

  • Young Cam Jansen and the Spotted Cat Mystery

    David A. Adler

    It’s a rainy day when Cam and her classmates arrive at school. Meow! A cat with a spot on its tail is napping near the coat rack. How did a cat get in their classroom? Did it run away? Click! Read along as Cam solves this easy-to-read cat caper....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Year of Henry James

    David Lodge

    In 2004, three major novels featuring Henry James as a character were published - one of them went on to win the Booker Prize. It was not David Lodge's "Author Author". In this fascinating new book, a kind of postscript to his novel, Lodge traces the...

  • xxxHolic, Volume 7

    CLAMP

    KimihIro Watanuki has a wish on layaway with Yûko Ishikawa, the sultry time-space witch who can grant anyone’s deepest desire . . . for a price! Still, working like a slave in Yûko’s shop hasn’t dampened Kimihiro’s enthusiasm for his cute c...

  • X-Men: Firestar

    Tom Defalco

    Before the Avengers, before the New Warriors, mutandom's fiery favorite almost had a vocation in villainy thanks to the teacher from Hellfire, the White Queen! Can she find her way to heroism before things get too hot? Guest-starring the New Mutants!...

  • X-Men The Last Stand: Rogue Finds a Home

    Harry Lime

  • X-Men Last Stand: Meet the X-Men

    Harry Lime

    Professor Xavier created his School for Gifted Youngsters for individuals with special powers. These students are the famous X-Men! Meet all your favorite X-Men characters and learn about their special powers as they fight to keep the human and mu...

  • 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....

  • X-Men 3: The Last Stand

    Chris Claremont

    TAKE A STAND. The world has acquired a lethal new weapon against X-gene mutants, whose superhuman powers separate them -- for better, for worse, forever -- from ordinary mortals. Now, for the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their godlike...

  • The WWW Club

    Anita Notaro

    In their quest for cellulite reduction and a sexy self-image, Ellie Simpson, a Dublin nanny, and her three best friends--Maggie, a secretary; Pam, a divorced mother of two; and Toni, a nurse--have tried them all: Atkins, Weight Watchers, South Beach,...

  • The Write Match

    Margaret Carroll

    Kit McCabe may be a newly minted associate editor at New York's most exclusive bridal magazine, but her personal life owes more to bad karma than to romance. That is until she falls into a cab with Wall Street player Mark Dawson III, who is gorge...

  • Wow! America!

    Robert Neubecker

    An exuberant introduction to the wonders of our country shows Izzy and her little sister Jo rowing down the Mississippi, eating pies at the Kentucky State Fair, marveling at Niagara Falls and the California sequoias, and much more....

  • Worth

    A. LaFaye

    Before the accident Nathaniel's life seemed pretty good. His help around the farm made his father proud. But now, with a busted leg, Nathaniel can't do farmwork anymore, so his father adopts another son through the Orphan Train. Feeling replaced and ...

  • The Women In Cages

    Vilas Sarang

  • Wolverine Classic, Volume 3

    Peter David

    "I'm the best there is at what I do... Nobody's better at gettin' into trouble than me." The first of Peter David's occasionally seen and always entertaining Wolverine arcs, "The Gehenna Affair" sets Logan, Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman) and their frien...

  • Wolf's Trap

    W.D. Gagliani

    Nick Lupo is a good cop--a bit of a renegade at times, with the instincts of a great detective...or maybe a wolf. Lupo has a lot in common with wolves, which is only natural considering he's a werewolf. He's battled the creature inside him for years,...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • With A Mother's Heart

    Joyce Livingston

    Judy Alexander, alias Judy Smith, and her nephew Timmy are on the lam, running from the man who shot and killed the boy's father during a bank robbery in Dallas where Judy was the eyewitness whose testimony brought about conviction. Wealthy Ben Bramw...

  • Witch's Sabbath

    J.M. Gregson

    Chief Inspector Percy Peach, Detective Sergeant Lucy Blake and the team, hindered as usual by the direction of Chief Superintendent Thomas Bulstrode Tucker, have one of their most puzzling and compelling mysteries to solve.In an area famous for the L...

  • The Witch's Boy

    Michael Gruber

    This critically acclaimed tale of a witch and her goblin-child is wholly original, and the legendary characters of old who touch their story -- Cinderella, Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin -- are made new through Michael Gruber's imaginative lens. Gruber...

  • Wish I'd Known You Tears Ago

    Stephen A. Bly

    In this closing book of the Horse Dreams trilogy, soul-searching Indiana schoolteacher Develyn Worrell has finally found her groove. Ready to savor the end of summer in a small Wyoming town she once visited as a child, she settles in for a time of pe...

  • Winter Door

    Isobelle Carmody

    In the midst of the worst winter on record, Rage is beset with worry. Her mother still hasn’t fully recovered from her car accident despite Rage’s successful quest for healing magic. Her stoic uncle seems to be having second thoughts about lookin...

  • The Wildest Brother

    Cornelia Funke

    By day, Ben is one brave brother--but when night falls, even the wildest boy sometimes needs protecting by his big sis. The third hit picture book by the best-selling Funke and award-winning Meyer.

    Brave as a lion, strong as an elephant, Ben i...

  • 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. ...

  • Wife Living Dangerously

    Sara Susannah Katz

    She's recycling glass with plastic. She's passing off store-bought brownies as homemade. And she's thinking of doing more than flirting with that hot college professor... WIFE LIVING DANGEROUSLY She went from being the good girl to the good w...

  • Wife And Mother Wanted

    Nicola Marsh

    Brody Elliott is a single dad, struggling to bring up his young daughter, Molly. Brody blames himself for the loss of Molly's mother, and is determined to protect his little girl from heartbreak again. So when Molly befriends their pretty and lively ...

  • Wife Against Her Will

    Sara Craven

    The bartered bride! Darcy Langton is stunned when she finds herself engaged to businessman Joel Castille -- traded as part of a business merger! While Joel represents everything that she detests in a mate, he's also the most charismatic man sh...

  • Widdershins

    Charles de Lint

    Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. Since they were introduced in the first Newford story, "Timeskip," back in 1989, their friends and readers alike have been waiting for them to realize what everybody else already knows: that they belong together....

  • Who Took the Cake?

    Zoey Zucker

  • White Shadow

    Ace Atkins

    Tampa, Florida, 1955: a city pulsing with Sicilian and Cuban gangsters, cigar factories, sweet rum, and violence. The bludgeoning death of retired kingpin Charlie Wall shocks the city and sends cops and reporters and associates scrambling to discover...

  • White Guys

    Anthony Giardina

    Back in hardscrabble Winship, Massachusetts, in the early 1970s, Billy Mogavero was everything his best friend Timmy wanted to be--tough, sexy, graceful, a leader of young men. Twenty years later, Billy is a paint salesman still living with his paren...

  • Where the Shadow Falls

    DiAnn Mills
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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...

  • Where The River Flows

    Irene Brand

    In one night, Edward Moody lost his young wife and Rose Thurston became a surrogate mother to a sickly infant. Ten years later, Rose must face the man who's selfish actions gave her a family, and Edward must come to terms with the consequences of his...

  • Where the Lies Begin

    Robert S. Levinson

  • 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...

  • When Light Breaks

    Patti Callahan Henry

    New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry delivers a novel that explores the power of lasting love through the connected stories of two women from opposite sides of the sea.Twenty-seven-year-old Kara Larson is bogged down in the stress o...

  • When It Happens

    Susane Colasanti

    When you find something real, everything else falls into place.... Seniors in high school, Sara and Tobey couldn't be more different. She is focused on getting into her first-choice college; he wants to win Battle of the Bands. Sara's other goal i...

  • When He Hollers, Let Him Go

    Teresa McClain-Watson

    Matty Johnson, the handsome new pastor of rural Georgia's Fountain Hope Baptist Church, hasn't been anywhere near a pulpit in six years. He was ousted from his last church under a cloud when a woman he hardly knew became obsessed with him and took dr...

  • When Harry Hit Hollywood

    Mara Goodman-Davies

    Brad and Jen were fun to watch. Britney and Kevin, even better.

    But...what if you woke up on the A List?

    Jessica used to paint idly in her East Hampton garden. Now she ducks paparazzi hiding in the bushes. She used to live quietly, happ...

  • 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...

  • What Should Have Been

    Helen R. Myers

    She'd heard Mead Regan was back in town. But nothing prepared single mother Devan Anderson for her first heart-stopping glimpse of the man who'd changed her world forever one passion-filled night...only to vanish from her life. Mead didn't want a ...

  • 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 ...

  • What Goes Around

    Parry Brown

    THE SISTER HAD IT ALL -- UNTIL KARMA CAME TO TOWN. A successful businesswoman, Catherine Hawkins has lived an enviable life of luxury, thanks to an ambition that has made her stop at nothing -- including abandoning her own twin daughters when they...

  • A Whale of a Tale!

    Bonnie Worth

    Onboard a vessel that would make Jacques Cousteau green with envy, the Cat and Co. take to the high seas in search of whales, dolphins, and porpoises—those aquatic mammals known as cetaceans. While learning how cetaceans stay warm without hair,...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Way Out West with Pirate Pete and Pirate Joe

    A.E. Cannon

  • Water Balloon Doom

    Rhea Perlman

  • Watchers on the Walls

    Christopher L. Bennett

    For years, many have believed that the rise of superpowered mutants represents a threat to the survival of ordinary humans. The uncanny X-Men have dedicated their lives to proving that peaceful coexistence is possible. When a refugee spacecraft crash...

  • The Washingtonienne

    Jessica Cutler

    The Capitol Hill aide who scandalized Washington, D.C., with her blog has now written a sharp, steamy, utterly unrepentant novel set against the backdrop of the nation's capitol.

    When Jacqueline Turner's fiancÉ gives her two days to move out ...

  • 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...

  • Wanted

    Franklin W. Dixon

    ATAC BRIEFING FOR THE REAL AGENTS FRANK AND JOE HARDYMISSION:Two guys are running around the state, committing crimes left and right -- and they’re leaving a clear trail for the police. They’d be a cinch to catch, but the thing is, the police are...

  • Walk Back the Cat

    Pamela Binnings Ewen

    From AD 33, to the 1950s, to 2005, Walk Back the Cat tells the intricate, page-turning story of Wesley Bright. A corrupt, mediasavvy clergyman, he's out to destroy the Christian church of the God who was never there during his childhood.Like a cat re...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Very Special Delivery

    Linda Goodnight

    It was the surprise of a lifetime for recluse Molly McCreight when single dad Ethan Hunter entrusted her with his infant daughter while he delivered medicine to an elderly man during an ice storm. Past experience had taught Molly how fragile life cou...

  • Vengeance on High

    Joani Ascher

    It was tradition for most of the residents of Grosvenor, NJ, to come into the town center for celebrations, eating, enjoying the festivities, and watching the annual Fourth of July fireworks.

    Except this year it was different. Greedy developer Ke...

  • Vegemite Vindaloo

    David McMahon

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Valley of Secrets

    Charmian Hussey

    Stephen Lansbury is an orphan. He thinks he has no relatives at all -- until the day a letter arrives telling him that a distant uncle is dead. Suddenly Stephen finds himself the only heir to a great estate in the countryside. So Stephen sets off to ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Unspoken Years

    Lynne Hugo

    "She was always crazy. Looking back, I see no doubt about it. It was a deceptive craziness, though, sometimes luminous and joyful. Even when it was, my brother and I knew it was important not to relax...." Sometimes things -- no matter how hard a ...

  • Unspoken Fear

    Hunter Morgan

    A DANGER THAT CAN'T BE SEEN... Vineyard manager Rachel Gibson's once-blissful marriage crashed to an end with the imprisonment of her husband following a series of senseless tragedies that peaked one night on a bloody stretch of Delaware highway. Fi...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories

    Valerie Martin

    From the Orange Prize-winning author of Property comes a vital and heartbreaking collection of short stories that turns an unflinching eye upon artists -- driven and blocked, desired and detested, infamous and sublime -- as they struggle beneath the ...

  • The Unexpectedly Bad Hair of Barcelona Smith

    Keith Graves

  • Ultimate X-Men / Fantastic Four

    Mike Carey

    Cerebro has been stolen - and the trail points directly at the government's premier think tank, the Baxter Building! The X-Men aren't happy about it - and the Baxter Building's most famous residents, the Fantastic Four, aren't happy about an angry te...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 15: Silver Sable

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #86-90 & Annual #1. The head of Roxxon Oil sics the world's greatest mercenary, Silver Sable, on Spider-Man to learn why the web-spinner has targeted Roxxon on his nightly patrols. How violently Ms. Sable wants to ha...

  • Ulterior Motives

    Susan Kearney
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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...

  • True Riches

    Gail Gaymer Martin
    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...

  • 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...

  • The Trial of True Love

    William Nicholson

    Bron is a thirty-year-old writer living in London, a seemingly incurable heartbreaker and dodger of commitment. He is fascinated by the symbolist painter Paul Marotte and has made the artist the centre of a book he is writing about love at first sigh...

  • 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...

  • The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show

    Ariel Gore

    Orphaned at age four and raised by her black-clad, rosary-mumbling, preoccupied grandmother, Frankka discovered the ability to perform the stigmata as a way to attract her grandmother's attention. Now twenty-eight, Frankka's still using this extraord...

  • The Torch of Tangier

    Aileen G. Baron

    War time Tangier, policed by Franco's Guardia Civil, thick with many nationalities including Germans and Allies, bitter with the insults of Colonialism, is a dangerous place. Archaeologist Lily Sampson, recruited from her studies in Chicago by the en...

  • Timedancers

    Steve Cash

    Outwardly indistinguishable from human beings, but with abilities no human can claim, the Meq search for their lost history and face a mysterious prophesied reckoning. . . . It has been thirty-eight years since Zianno -- known as Z -- turned twelv...

  • Time Warped

    Kol

    Princess Natasha travels back in time to assure that the election which has brought her father, King Carl, to power, actually turns out successfully--without the interference of Lubek, her evil uncle....

  • Time After Time

    Jo Leigh
    in

    When history student Betty Kroger is transported to WWII, it feels right -- and even more right to show sailor John Stevens what sex is like twenty-first-century style!...

  • Thunderbird Falls

    C.E. Murphy

    IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD...AGAIN. For all the bodies she's encountering, you'd think beat cop Joanne Walker works in Homicide. But no, Joanne's a reluctant shaman who last saved mankind three months ago -- surely she deserves more of a break! Yet...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Those Were the Days

    Julie Kenner
    in

    After breaking off her engagement, Natalie Bowman finds herself in the 1800s being auctioned off as a sex slave! She's even more shocked when the highest bidder is Andrew Greenwood -- the fiance she dumped....

  • This Time

    Ingrid Monique

    Is A Passion Reignited... Tropical nights, hot winds, and hotter kisses greet New York interior designer Kelee Kingsly when she visits the island of St. Pala. And it's all because of Sean St. John, Minister of Security, who sweeps her off her feet w...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Theft

    Peter Carey

    Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-"really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when ...

  • 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 ...

  • That Old Feeling

    Cara Colter

    Of all the favors her beloved father could ask, helping Clint McPherson was the only one Brandy King wanted to refuse. Of course, her dad didn't know his right-hand man had once rebuffed her kiss. Well, that was then. This was... No different. Som...

  • Texas Born

    Ann DeFee

    Dr. Olivia Alvarado, town vet and sometime coroner of Port Serenity, Texas, is nobody's fool. So when Sheriff C. J. Baker charged into her life, the last thing Livy expected was a broken heart. She should've known better. Because he seemed absolutely...

  • The Tenth City

    Patrick Carman

    The final thrilling installment of the NYT-bestselling Land of Elyon trilogy!

    The Land of Elyon has begun to fail, poisoned by the evil that creeps across the Dark Hills and into Bridewell.
    As she moves toward a thrilling conclusion, Alexa ...

  • 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...

  • Temptation

    Jeanie London
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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...

  • A Taste of Darkness

    Nina Bangs

    He'd lived a thousand years for this? Reinn Mackenzie was one ticked-off vampire. Werewolves--furry pains in the butt. Werecats--sneaky whisker-twitching manipulators. Reinn hated them all. But most of all, he hated his job. Guardian of the Blood....

  • The Tango Singer

    Tomas Eloy Martinez

    Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the...

  • Tall, Dark & Dead

    Tate Hallaway

    The first Garnet Lacey novel in the delightful paranormal series by the author of The Vampire Princess of St. Paul novels!The line between magic and sanity is very thin.That’s part of why I, Garnet Lacey, quit cold turkey.Never touch the stuff. No ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Taking of the King

    Nelson Blish

    The Soviet Union is no more. Various nation states struggle with each other even as their old enemy, the United States, races ahead in military strength and technology. But there are those within the ranks of the Soviet fleet who seek to regain their...

  • 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...

  • Sweet Talkin' Demon

    Laura J. Burns

    SWEET TALKIN' DEMON His story's sweet, his method's new -- But this man's so perfect, he can't be true. Find the secret, find his source Or an Innocent's life may run its course.... Phoebe can't believe her luck -- finally, she's met the pe...

  • Sweet Ruin

    Cathi Hanauer

    Thirty-five-year-old Elayna Leopold lives with her young family in suburban New Jersey. Working from home so that she can raise her six-year-old daughter, Hazel, while her husband, Paul, puts in long hours as a corporate lawyer, Elayna is typical of ...

  • Sweet Home Carolina

    T. Lynn Ocean




    Jaxie Parker is a sexy, savvy advertising executive content to savor Atlanta's nightlife in expensive suits, sipping martinis and gossiping with her best friend. She is enjoying life in the fast lane when, all of a sudden, she's put in ch...

  • 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...

  • Sun-Kissed

    Melissa de la Cruz

    Sometimes when the sun shines, it scorches. Third time's the charm as Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui head back to the Hamptons. This summer the au pairs are doing it right: in style, in step, and "in" everywhere. Mara has the VIP hookup at all the new ...

  • Sun Storm

    Asa Larsson

    On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies mutilated and defiled -- and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall....So begins sa Larsson's spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden's Best First C...

  • The Summer King

    O.R. Melling

    On the anniversary of her twin sister's mysterious death. Laurel returns to Ireland in search of answers. What drew her quiet. bookish sister up onto that mountain ledge? And what clues does Honor's journal offer. with its scribblings about a "roly-p...

  • Summer Is Summer

    Phillis Gershator

    School is out and it's the perfect time to explore the magic of summer!

    What is summer? For so many children summer is lemonade and salty air, baseball and ice cream, fireflies and starry nights, and much, much more. Join four friends as they...

  • Summer Dreams

    Elizabeth Lindsay

  • 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...

  • Suffering Fools

    Ed Gaffney

    Attorneys Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach -- friends, partners, and complete opposites -- have perfected the recipe for legal disaster. Begin with a fool for a client -- a man who can't even testify convincingly to his own name, much less to an alibi. ...

  • Stupid and Contagious

    Caprice Crane

    HEAVEN'S IN HELL... There's very little I know for sure. I know that men who wear khakis are immediately suspect, and that waitressing is what karma makes you do when you've been unforgivably bad. That pretty much covers it. AND BRADY JUST MOVED...

  • 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...

  • Strictly Lonergan's Business

    Maureen Child

    SEDUCED BY THE BOSS Tired of going unnoticed by the boss she loved for years, Kara Sloan decided now was the time to pack her bags and quit. But just as she was about to storm away, Cooper Lonergan surprised her with a night of seduction. He co...

  • 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...

  • Strange Happenings

    Avi

    APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING... Children become cats and birds, a once-invisible young woman pieces herself back together, and the identity of a mysterious baseball mascot is uncovered--all within this eclectic collection from master storyteller A...

  • 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 ...

  • Stink and the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawbreaker

    Megan McDonald

    Spurred by a newfound awareness of false advertising, Stink Moody becomes the proverbial kid in a candy store as his letter-writing campaign yields him heaps of free rewards When Stink buys a mammoth jawbreaker that doesn't break his jaw, he writes ...

  • 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 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...

  • SpongeBob Rocks!

    Kelli Chipponeri

    SpongeBob SquarePants, Sandy, and Patrick have started a band, and no one can get enough of their new song, "Jumping Jellyfish"! But what happens when their instruments mysteriously disappear? Can the band think fast enough to save their big ...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Some Like It Cold

    Jerry Raine

  • Snow, Fire, Sword

    Sophie Masson

    On the island of Jayangan, old beliefs and magic exist side by side with new pop songs and motorcycles. . . .

    Adi is a fisherman's son, proud to be studying with the greatest of traditional sword makers. Dewi is the daughter of a healer, cu...

  • Snipped in the Bud

    Kate Collins

    When I swapped the thorny problems of law school for the budding business of my flower store, Bloomers, I vowed that I, Abby Knight, wouldn't be caught dead visiting that hateful campus ever again. But sometimes a girl's got to face down her dragons....

  • Snatched

    Pete Hautman

    From award-winning author Pete Hautman and Mary Logue comes a lively mystery series. When high school student Alicia Camden suddenly disappears, the small town of Bloodwater is in shock. And it’s up to Roni Delicata, reporter for the school newspap...

  • Small Town Secrets

    Sharon Mignerey

    EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE... Finally back on her feet after a nasty divorce from local cop Foley Blue, Lea Webster was getting ready to adopt the baby she'd always wanted. But Foley was stalking Lea and his once-idle threats were escalatin...

  • Slocum and the Mescal Smugglers

    Jake Logan

    They’ll put a fire in your gut…In a dirt-squat mining town near Mexico, Slocum walks in on a bloody mess after a shopkeeper is tortured and murdered by border-hopping mescal movers out for a quick plunder. With time short, Slocum takes the job of...

  • Slipstreams

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Blending science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and westerns, twenty noted authors, including Tanya Huff, Alan Dean Foster, and Jean Rabe, present an imaginative collection of hybrid stories, from a mountain man who encounters a demon in Yellows...

  • Slipstream

    Leslie Larson

    In Slipstream, Leslie Larson traces the intertwining paths of five characters as each struggles to stay afloat in the face of major setbacks, minor failures, and a reckless pursuit of elusive second chances. When Rudy loses his job cleaning jets at t...

  • Sleepover Sleuths

    Carolyn Keene

    Eight-year-old Nancy Drew has her first case to crack! Can you help? Nancy and her two best friends, George and Bess, are so excited! They have been invited to Deirdre's sleepover party! There will be pizza, cake, and even a pajama fashion show. B...

  • Skrull Kill Krew

    Marvel Book Group

  • 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...

  • Sisterchicks in Gondolas

    Robin Jones Gunn

    Ciao bella!

    SISTERCHICK n.: a friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and provides a reality check when you’re being a brat.

    When Jenna is invited to Venice for a week of cooking for a small re...

  • Sister Swap

    Lilian Darcy

    Wealthy businessman Gino di Bartoli couldn't put his finger on exactly what was different about the high-profile horticulturist he'd hired to landscape his villa. But somehow "Rowena" seemed warmer, sexier, more vivacious...and he was suddenly attrac...

  • Sister Girls

    Angel Hunter

    Jealousy, envy, and pure hateration. Maybe you've been there, or maybe you know someone who's going through it. Whatever the case, you know when things get rough, you can always count on your Sister Girls to be there for you. Take a look inside the l...

  • Sinful Pleasures

    Mary Reed McCall

    A Noble Knight... Once, Lady Alissende de Montague and Sir Damien de Ashby were passionate, secret lovers -- until the day Alissende had to turn her back on him, shattering both their hearts and changing their lives forever. Knowing he would neve...

  • A Sin and a Shame

    Victoria Christopher Murray

    After fleeing Los Angeles when her attempt to break up her best friend's marriage fails, Jasmine is now a changed woman...and a Christian. She vows to attend church every Sunday, swears off married men, and begins her search for the soul mate she is ...

  • 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...

  • Silent Wager

    Anita Richmond Bunkley

    From the banks of Texas's Buffalo Bayou to the blue waters of Hawaii, this powerful novel from acclaimed author Anita Bunkley tells the story of one resilient woman's fight to save a family legacy--and create a future for herself and her daughter... ...

  • 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...

  • She's No Princess

    Laura Lee Guhrke

    A Royal Pain... The illegitimate daughter of a prince and a notorious courtesan, Lucia has been confined to schools and convents for most of her life. But that hasn't stopped her from causing one scandal after another. Exasperated, her royal ...

  • 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: "...

  • 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 ...

  • Shadows of Caesar's Creek

    Sharon M. Draper

    In the third of the Clubhouse Mysteries series, Ziggy and his friends are excited about their overnight camping trip to Caesar's Creek State Park. The park is named after a Shawnee chief and their camp counselor is a descendant of Caesar! She fills t...

  • Shadow Watch

    Linda Conrad

    From the moment Dr. Victoria Sommer laid eyes on sexy Navajo medicine man Ben Wauneka, her dreams filled with images of Ben protecting her, holding her -- making love to her. But Tory had a lot to learn about Ben's world, and with an eerie enemy stal...

  • The Serpent Gift

    Lene Kaaberbol

    The third book in the thrilling fantasy adventure series, The Shamer ChroniclesA watching face in a market crowd, a mist-shrouded figure on the moor, a haunting presence seen only when he wants to be seen? Sezuan, possessor of the Serpent Gift for li...

  • Seeker

    William Nicholson

    When his brother is exiled from the Nomana without any explanation, sixteen-year-old Seeker sets off on a journey to rescue him--and to find out what really happened. Along the way, he meets two other young people who are on quests of their own, and ...

  • The Secrets of Boys

    Hailey Abbott

    Eric: Loves surfing, has killer abs, an even better smile, and a heart of gold. Joe: A sarcastic goofball who gives great advice, which no one ever takes. Zach: Sophisticated college boy, wise in the ways of French painting as well as other F...

  • Secret Weapon Spouse

    B.J. Daniels

    WEDDING PLANNER UNDER COVER By day, quiet and reserved Samantha Peters worked for a high-end wedding planner. By night she was a top-notch agent with Miami Confidential. Then she met sexy Alex Graham after tragedy struck outside the Weddings Your Wa...

  • 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...

  • The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo

    Peter Orner

    When Mavala Shikongo deserted them, the teachers at the boys' school in Goas weren't surprised. How could they be? She was too beautiful, too powerful, and too mysterious for their tiny, remote, and arid world. They knew only one essential fact a...

  • Second Chances

    Judy Hinson

    Lynn Bowman is in love with Steve Rogan, the man of her dreams. When she discovers she is pregnant, she tries to give him the happy news, but before she can tell him, he drops a bombshell. He tells her he is tired of the boring life in Raleigh and in...

  • 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...

  • The Sea of Trolls

    Nancy Farmer

    Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon villa...

  • Scream for Ice Cream

    Carolyn Keene

    How can a contest this sweet turn so sticky? Nancy and her friends think there is nothing more fun than ice cream in the summer. So when they find out that the owners of the local ice-cream factory are hosting a contest, the Clue Crew can't wait ...

  • Scrambled Eggs at Midnight

    Brad Barkley

    Calliope (or Cal as she calls herself) wants nothing more than to stay put; to stop traveling cross-country with her mother, sleeping in a tent, and abandoning all belongings whenever they pull up stakes. Meanwhile, eliot misses the happy times he le...

  • 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 ...

  • School Rumble, Volume 2

    Jin Kobayashi

    DOWN BUT NOT OUT!

    Harima Kenji has never lost a fight, but his love for the clueless Tsukamoto Tenma is proving to be his greatest challenge. After catching his cherished Tenma-chan and an unexpected rival in a lunchtime tryst, Kenji spirals i...

  • Savannah by the Sea

    Denise Hildreth / Denise Hildreth Jones

    First, I had to lie to my boss. (Sort of.) Then my parents had a fight. (They never fight.) The pint-sized lapdog that is treated better than I am has thrown up. (Twice.) This vacation hasn't even started...and I'm ready to go home. No one in her ...

  • The Saddlemaker's Wife

    Earlene Fowler

    After the death of her husband Cole, Ruby McGavin is shocked to learn that she's inherited part of a cattle ranch in Tokopah County, California. But she's even more surprised to find out that the family he claimed died years ago is very much alive. ...

  • The Ruin

    Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Rogue dragons become heroes when a millennia-old curse is revealed. But knowing the cause of a disease and curing it are two very different things. And when most of the victims of the curse would rather not be cured of it at all, it gets a whole l...

  • 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 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....

  • Rim Of The World

    James Axler

    The conspiracy of secrecy manipulating post-nuclear Earth takes a terrifying new turn as the mysterious oligarchy becomes something far more sinister. No longer shrouded in the cloaks of hybrid-human divinity, the nine barons have evolved into their ...

  • Rileys Fire

    Lee Merrill Byrd

    Riley Martin is a boy whose great curiosity takes him to a place he never imagined and a future that might seem impossible. But impossible is a word that doesn't exist for Riley.

    A second grader from El Paso, Texas, he lies in a high hospita...

  • Riding with John Wayne

    Aaron Latham

    In his latest triumphant novel, Aaron Latham pits Texas guts against Hollywood glitz when a modern-day cowboy turned screenwriter dusts off his Stetson in order to solve a murder. Chick Goodnight has arrived in Hollywood to write a screenplay about ...

  • 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....

  • Rhiana

    Michele Hauf

    Winter, 1433 -- and Jeanne d'Arc's ashes still glow... In the battle between Good and Evil, the Black Knight's sword fells enemies with silent grace. The Knight has sworn that fallen angel Lucifer de Morte and his cruel brotherhood will pay for t...

  • Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes

    Cathy Holton

    kud zu kud-z n: a ubiquitous vine/weed found in Southern climes that, left uncontrolled, will grow over any fixed object in its path, including trees, power lines, and the entire state of Georgia. debutante de-byu-tnt n: a young woman makin...

  • Return To Falcon Ridge

    Rita Herron

    P.I. PROTECTOR As a child, Elsie Timmons had barely escaped Wildcat Manor with her life. As an adult, she'd mysteriously inherited the crumbling structure, ghosts and all. Now, after a lifetime spent running from her past, Elsie was ready to confr...

  • Resistance

    Daniel Kalla

    No treatment. No cure. No hope Once it seemed as though penicillin and other antibiotics had won humanity a lasting victory over harmful bacteria. But now hardier bugs, resistant to most common classes of antibiotics, are emerging -- with potentia...

  • Regeneration

    Julie E. Czerneda

    With the alien Dhryn cutting a pathway through the inhabited spaceways-bringing about the annihilation of many of the races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following-time is running out for all sentient life-forms. Can bi...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Really Raoulino

    Dina Fischbein

    Animal Incognitum reads the sign over Raoulino's cage at the Metropolitan Zoo. That means no one knows what kind of animal Raoulino is, least of all Raoulino. He does know that he wants to go home -- home to the wonderful little island where he was c...

  • 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...

  • Rash

    Pete Hautman

    Consumption of alcohol: Illegal. Football and other "violent" sports: Illegal. Ownership of guns, chain saws, and/or large dogs: Illegal. Body piercings, tattoos: Illegal. It's late in the twenty-first century, and the United Safer States of America ...

  • 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...

  • The Rags-To-Riches Wife

    Metsy Hingle

    BLACKMAILED INTO MARRIAGE He hadn't known the name of the woman he danced with at the masquerade ball. Not even after their one night of passion. For millionaire Jack Cartwright never expected to see her again. Then he received a letter informi...

  • Rabbit Heart

    Colleen Hitchcock

    Nicollette Caron is every man's ideal mistress. Pity, then, that all of her lovers die trying to satisfy her insatiable appetite. Forced to flee town after town so that no one will discover her terrible secret, Nicollette is haunted by the ghosts of ...

  • The Quillan Games

    D.J. MacHale

    Let the Games Begin.... Quillan is a territory on the verge of destruction. The people have lost control of their own future and must struggle simply to survive. The only chance they have of finding a better life is by playing the Quillan Games. H...

  • The Queen's Soprano

    Carol Dines

    ANGELICA VOGLIA HAS THE VOICE OF AN ANGEL.... But in seventeenth-century Rome, her talent is considered downright sinful. The pope has forbidden women to sing in public, so the gifted seventeen-year-old is forced to hide behind her shuttered windo...

  • 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. ...

  • Quarry

    Susan Cummins Miller

    With crimes of passion striking the quiet University of Del Rio campus, geologist Frankie MacFarlane is enmeshed in the case of a fragile psyche pushed to the edge... Just as Frankie arranges her doctoral dissertation's long-awaited defense, a polic...

  • 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)...

  • Pucker

    Melanie Gideon

    Thomas Quicksilver, known to his classmates as "Pucker," has always been an outsider. His crazy mother, the secret of his family’s strange origins, and above all, the terrible scars on his face from a childhood fire -- these things have kept Thomas...

  • Proven Guilty

    Jim Butcher

    There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Wa...

  • Protective Measures

    Dana Marton

    Congresswoman Kaye Miller didn't survive the honed jaws of politics to fall prey to a deadly hate crime. So when sexy bodyguard Daniel DuCharme was assigned to protect her, they found themselves sharing every waking moment...and Kaye worried that his...

  • The Prophet of Yonwood

    Jeanne Duprau

    War looms on the horizon as eleven-year-old Nickie and her aunt travel to the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina. There, one of the town's respected citizens has had a terrible vision of fire and destruction. As the people of Yonwood scramble to m...