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  • Blood Russian

    R.D. Zimmerman

    Hoping to earn the money necessary to break free of his wife, and start a new life with his beloved Lara, Boris devises a profitable smuggling scheme, not realizing that his wife and her brutal lover are plotting his demise...

  • Hurry up, Jessie!

    Harriet Ziefert

  • So Hungry!

    Harriet Ziefert

    Illus. in full color. Lewis and Kate are hungry and make a snack. The story incorporates concepts such as 'bigger' and 'faster' while depicting an accurate account of sibling competition. The print is bold and well spaced for easy reading. Good mater...

  • Far from Over

    Brittany Young

    THIS HEART FOR HIRE Samantha was good . . . very good. Well, maybe pretty good was a better description of Samantha English's detective skills. She certainly couldn't take much pride in having landed in jail after she broke into the wrong hotel ro...

  • Evidence to Destroy

    Margaret Yorke

    At first Lydia Cunningham seems just a nice, neat, self-contained widow in reduced circumstances, who has problems with her children... Her daughter Thelma, recently divorced, has just paid a rare visit - bringing along a young man she met on the...

  • Nights in Ghostland

    Carol Beach York

  • The Three Bears Rhyme Book

    Jane Yolen

  • A Flame in Byzantium

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Atta Olivia Clemens had received St. Germain's darkest gift -- would his love save her from the True Death?...

  • Signs and Portents

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Corkscrew

    Ted Wood

    Reid Bennett and his dog Sam serve as the police force for not-so-quaint Murphys Harbor, Ontario. They have yet another perilous but important task. There are some pretty nasty bikers disrupting the fa ade of serenity of Murphys Harbor, and Reid must...

  • Wicked Invader

    Sara Wood

    "Please, kiss me. I want you to kiss me." Cool, reserved Olivia Kent hardly recognized herself when she begged a complete stranger in the Royal Academy Gallery to kiss her--twice. She couldn't even explain herself to the bearded rep...

  • In Our Time

    Tom James Wolfe

  • Highland Sunset

    Joan Wolf

    A tidal wave of desire flooded through her at the touch of his lips. She clung to him as he pressed her back onto the pillows, his powerful body following hers... When beautiful, dark-haired Vanessa MacIan met Edward Romney, Earl of Linton, she to...

  • The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse

    Ruth R. Wisse

  • Illinois Prescott

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • It Started With a Kiss

    Kit Windham

    When Henrietta Jones jumps out of a cake into the arms of a stranger at her future brother-in-law's bachelor party, she's the one who gets the surprise--he kisses her in front of all her friends! But Sam Marchand's impulsive act isn't typical. And He...

  • The Ortiga Marriage

    Patricia Wilson

    He was all she'd longed for, all she feared The same call that delivered the tragic news of her mothers death delivered Meriel back into the force field that was Ramon Ortiga--the man she had left Venezuela seven years ago to escape. Nevert...

  • Eddy Deco's Last Caper

    Gahan Wilson

    In words and pictures, the popular "New Yorker" cartoonist and short story author parodys the classic Sam Spade-type, hard-boiled detective novel in this story of hard-drinking private detective Eddy Deco...

  • The Crown Jewels

    Walter Jon Williams

    Drake Maijstral, a dispossessed aristocrat and master thief, is commissioned to steal the invaluable jeweled box that has become the focus of the power struggle between the Khosali alien conquerors and the successfully rebellious Humans...

  • The White Audi // Persona Non Grata

    Timothy Williams

    Northern Italy, 1985: Commissario Piero Trotti is on the verge of retirement from the police force. He is 56 years old, and though he is widely respected for his integrity and work ethic, he is not widely liked. The junior detectives he works with tr...

  • The Glass Menagerie

    Tennessee Williams

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    Few plays have explored the byways of the human heart as poignantly and poetically as Tennessee Williams'' The Glass Menagerie. In this touching audio, we meet the embattled Wingfield family: Amanda—faded southern belle, abandoned wife, dom...

  • Desert Moon

    Jude Williams

  • Hero in Disguise

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    She was holding out for a hero Settling down was not for Summer Reed. Party by night, work by day and let tomorrow take care of itself--that was her motto. But when Derek Anderson, her roommate's globe-trotting brother, crashed into her life, Summ...

  • The Slipper

    Jennifer Wilde

    They started out with nothing but their dreams, determined to meet destinies filled with fame and fortune. ONCE UPON A TIME.... There were three young women who dreamed of glittering, magical lives, of living with Prince Charming happily ever aft...

  • Florence and Eric Take the Cake

    Jocelyn Wild

  • Briar Rose

    Susan Wiggs

    DANGEROUS PASSION From the moment Briar Rose sets eyes on Lord Gareth Hawke's magnificent Saxon face -- his golden hair gleaming in the sunlight -- she is captivated. She has found her knight -- a loving partner to one day be lord of Briarwood, he...

  • Deadly Green

    Leonard S. Whiteley

  • Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder

    Michael Whelan

  • Matters of Form

    Scott Wheeler

    The Shan, immortal alien shape changers, who could offer mankind both the freedom of the starways and an eternal lifetime to explore the universe. The Phoenix Group, shipwrecked Shan, separated from the last remnants of their race, working secretly o...

  • Big Bird's Bedtime Story

    Rick Wetzel

    Illus. in full color. Big Bird wants a bedtime story about himself, and he gets one: all about what happens one day when an enormous egg appears on Sesame Street. Big Bird doesn't see what the egg has to do with him and soon falls asleep--but young l...

  • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

    Pamela Elizabeth West

  • Love and War

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The legend of Raistlin's daughter! A strange story that cannot be confirmed, yet it is whispered among the elves of Silvanesti, gossiped about by the kender of Krynn, and told here for the first time by Caramon, the enigmatic mage's surviving twin...

  • Lost Lagoon

    Anne Weale

    Yes, he was perfect... But having a permanent man in her life just didn't appeal to Alexandra Clifford. To Alex, falling in love was "a trap for the unwary" and "never again" was her motto. When fate brought Laurier Tait ont...

  • Battlefields Beyond Tommorow

    Charles G. Waugh

  • Final Verdict

    Pat Warren

    Tony Adams was a brilliant prosecutor who'd stricken the word commitment from the record. It killed romance and never lasted. His summation: keep relationships shallow and avoid divorce court. Attorney Sheila North fell hard for charming, cynical ...

  • The Forgotten Murders

    John William Wainwright

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 15

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • The Women's Decameron

    Julia Voznesenskaya

    10 women quarantined in a Lenin maternity clinic tell each other stories that reflect women's experience in the contemporary USSR. The author, who was a founder of the first independent women's group in the USSR, was imprisoned and then exiled for he...

  • Love's Golden Promise

    Lynette Vinet

    SHE WAS THE CAPTIVE OF HIS DARK DESIRE. Penniless and .heartbreakingly beautiful, Wynter McChesney, knew of only one man who could lend her the vast sums she needed to save her ancestral manor. But the collateral Cort Van Linden demanded was an ou...

  • Life in The Land of The Living

    Daniel Vilmure

  • Cousins

    Judy L. Vernon

    This episodic first novel centers around an area in Mississippi where a plantation named Alibamo supposedly once stood. It consists of nearly unrelated short stories about various historical, semimythical, and fantastic personages who inhabited, inva...

  • Ride the Eagle

    Vita Vendresha

    He could torment her days with doubts and her nights with desires that fired her soul. He was everything she ever wanted. But they were opponents in a labor dispute, each fighting to win. Would she risk her brilliant career for the promise of lo...

  • Three Dog Winter

    Elizabeth Van Steenwyk

    The world of sled dog racing in northern Montana forms the background for a twelve-year-old boy's adjustment to his father's death, his mother's remarriage, and the integration of two families into one....

  • The Fires of Fu Manchu

    Cay Van Ash

  • Sea Dream

    Terri Valentine

    NO TIME FOR ROMANCE Since her father died, headstrong Erica Armstrong had run his vast shipping company, finding the success and freedom she always craved. Still, there were moments when the sensuous blonde yearned to luxuriate in her femininity and...

  • Danny and the Real me

    Vicki Tyler

  • Chase the Storm

    Alison Tyler (1)

    ASSIGNMENT: KISS AND NEVER TELL Jennifer Heath's a knockout...in looks and karate moves. Now she's shopping the most expensive Paris boutiques and doing a little favor for the CIA. But her little assignment turns into big trouble when she goes to...

  • Crowned Heads

    Thomas Tryon

    Though the greats of Hollywood may fade, their secrets live on foreverFedora is dead, and movies will never be the same. A star since the early days of Hollywood, she survived the business for an unprecedented four decades before retiring to Crete. A...

  • Lady

    Thomas Tryon

    LADY recreates a small New England town of the 1930s and '40s. Seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy, Woody, we meet Lady, a charming widow, owner of an imposing home on the Green. As does Woody, we come to care for and love his "special fri...

  • The Other

    Thomas Tryon

    NYRB Classics presents the landmark psychological horror novel about 13-year-old twins living in a bucolic New England town -- one good and the other very, very evil. “A whirlpool of Oh-My-God horror.” -- Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby...

  • Lessons of October

    Leon Trotsky

  • A Certain Smile

    Lynda Trent

    Left to their own devices, freedom-seeking Megan Wayne and responsible Reid Spencer had trouble enough with their improbable attraction. But at the mercy of Reid's rebellious daughters, their burgeoning passion seemed destined for destruction. Me...

  • Shadow of the Gallows

    Doyle Trent

  • The Persuading Stick

    John Rowe Townsend

  • Thunderstruck

    Pamela Toth

    Honey Collingsworth adored her twin brother and loved working on his hydroplane crew. The racing "thunderboats" took her breath away. Unfortunately, so did tall, muscular driver Alex Checkhov--the hated competition. Though Honey cherished stolen m...

  • The Sky Jumps into Your Shoes at Night

    Jasper Tomkins

  • Nothing Lasts Forever

    Roderick Thorp

    Traveling to Los Angeles for Christmas, Joe Leland, a veteran cop and former war hero, stumbles upon a sensational terrorist crime in progress and is forced to quickly make hard life or death decisions...

  • Anna Delaney's Child

    John Thorndike

    Meet Anna Delaney, a smart, loving woman whose life is shattered when her car skids on some unexpected ice-the last remnants of winter-and her nine-year-old son Kevin is killed. Reeling from this loss and bruised by the effects of a now-defunct marri...

  • One Of Those Days

    Pat Thomson

  • Texas Blonde

    Victoria Thompson

    She swore she'd share his name -- and win his heart! DESPERATE FOR A HUSBAND When dashing Josh Logan rescued her from death by exposure petite Felicity Morrow realized she'd never survive rugged frontier life without a man by her sick And...

  • Out on the Rim

    Ross Thomas

    Would you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist--never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted ...

  • Come to Africa and Save Your Marriage and Other Stories

    Maria Thomas

    By the author of Antonia Saw the Oryx First comes a book of characters who, for their own personal reasons, come to Africa and find not the exotic retreat they imagined but a country where reality shines even more harshly....

  • Golden Pastures

    Joyce Carol Thomas

  • An adultery

    Alexander Theroux

    The third novel from acclaimed, award-winning Alexander Theroux is a darkly realistic tale of adultery set in contemporary New England. Christian Ford is a man who is betrayed in an adulterous affair, only to discover that he himself betrayed a woman...

  • Mad as a Wet Hen!

    Marvin Terban

  • Raven's Gathering

    Keith Taylor

    A POET AND A PIRATE, THEY WERE THE DEADLIEST TEAM ON THE NORTHERN SEASHE IS FELIMID MAC FAL, once a bard of Ireland. Now he uses his wits and his magic in the service of his lover, the most notorious pirate on the seas of ancient Britain.SHE IS GUDRU...

  • Wild Is My Love

    Janelle Taylor

    SET IN A THRILLING AGE OF NOBLE KNIGHTS AND LADIES FAIR, HERE IS A MAGICAL, ROMANTIC TALE OF BOLD ADVENTURE, EXOTIC FANTASY AND WILD, ENDLESS LOVE... She is the bewitchingly lovely Princess Alysa. He is a mysterious stranger who has come to res...

  • Psychic Spawn

    Ryder Syvertsen

    EVIL IN ASHES... It had been the most important work undertaken by Nazi Germany, the key to the future of the master race--an ultrasecret, super-advanced genetics project designed to perfect the world's ultimate, most devastating weapon, the human m...

  • In Other Words

    May Swenson

  • Unfair Advantage

    Jessica Summers

  • The Mall from Outer Space

    Todd Strasser

  • Venture to Love

    Jocelyn Stirling

    There is something exceptional about Argent Wood, a dignity and determination that set her apart from other young women of 19th century Europe. Indeed, that fateful morning Argent steps from the coach and confronts London's grime and congestion, her ...

  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

    Janet Stevens gives us a new look at the confrontation between three billy goats and an ugly troll. “The pictures are exceptionally well reproduced, and Stevens makes clever use of her layout, propelling the actions out of the borders at times, giv...

  • Blood and Dust

    Robert Steelman

  • Kaleidoscope

    Danielle Steel

    The World War II love affair between lovely Frenchwoman Solange Bertrand and American GI-turned-actor Sam Walker burned too brightly and ended in tragedy, leaving their three young daughters orphaned. Hilary, the oldest (and the only one who remember...

  • What's Happening to My Junior Year?

    Judith St. George

    Steppie Emerson's wonderful plans for her junior year and going steady with senior Roger Curtis go awry when her mother's obsession with playing pool leads to the opening of an after-school pool hall for "delinquents" in the Emerson basement...

  • Halberd, Dream Warrior

    Lloyd St. Alcorn

  • Pin-Up

    Hajime Sorayama

    Recounts the life of one of the greatest movie stars of the 1940s, revealing the dreams and heartbreaks of Betty Grable's career and personal life, from the little girl ruthlessly torn from her family to her years as a cancer patient...

  • Favorite Son

    Steve Sohmer

    “Fast, characterful, intricate, surprising . . . Sohmer knows his way around television, politics, Washington and suspense fiction.”  -- Los Angeles Times Book Review   It begins with an assassination. A Nicarag...

  • Rage

    Wilbur Smith

    A World Aflame Never have the destinies of a nation and of a family been so dramatically entwined. In the decades after World War II, South Africa struggles against the tribal violence at its heart--between Englishman and Afrikaaner, white and bla...

  • Letters to a Lady

    Joan Smith

    A HIGH STICKLER LIKE HARRUP WRITING LETTERS TO A LADYBIRD! 'TWAS SCANDAL IN THE MAKING! Having been his neighbor all her life. Diana Beechum thought little of delivering some documents to Charles, Lord Harrup in London, when he had requested a...

  • Entombed

    Guy N. Smith

    Years Ago . . . the children toiled in the dank slate mines of Cowmgilla, hostages to their mad overseer . . . helpless victims in his evil satanic rites. Now . . . on the outskirts of the charming Welsh village, something stirs deep in the...

  • LeRoy Is Missing

    Marilyn Singer

  • The Image and Other Stories

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    The Image is a collection of twenty-two entertaining stories that range in time from the old days in Warsaw to recent years in America. The title story is haunted by a unique love that falls like a shadow between a newly married couple.

    ...

  • The Straight Man

    Roger L. Simon

    It's not a good time to be Moses Wine. After the events of California Roll, his life seems to have taken a turn for the worse-he's lost his high-paying security job at the Tulip Computer Corporation, his kids don't pay any attention to him, his love ...

  • Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself in

    Georges Simenon

    Upon returning home, Charles Dupenn, a humble bookkeeper, locks himself in the attic and will not respond to his wife or his daughters, who remain downstairs speculating on what might be happening as they cast anxious glances at the ceiling...

  • Festival of Lights: The Story of Hanukkah

    Maida Silverman

  • Here I Am, an Only Child

    Marlene Fanta Shyer

  • Run Away Home

    Marianne Shock

    Burke Julienne had firmly scheduled his future, and it didn't include Savannah Jones. Yet when her ailing eighteen-wheeler stranded her on his lush California estate, he was unwillingly mesmerized by the scruffy, delicate trucker. Savannah napped ...

  • Winds of Betrayal

    June Lund Shiplett

    She was caught between two passionate men -- and her own wild desire SHE WAS ONE MAN'S LAWFUL WIFE--AND ANOTHER MAN'S LAWLESS DESIRE Beautiful, voluptuous Lizette Kolter deeply loved her husband Bain Kolter, even though the handsome adv...

  • To Love a Rogue

    Valerie Sherwood

    Lovely Lorraine London had a sensuous charm that seemed to ignite the passions of every scoundrel in New England. Born in revolutionary America, she was sold into indentured servitude until she caught the roving eye of Raile Cameron, a renegade gunru...

  • Songbird

    Linda Shaw

    In the wake of the Civil War Jessica saw Conrad Montgomery, the man she loved, driven out of Texas-threatened by the vengeance of a man sworn to destroy him. but in time Conrad returned to a new Texas-magnificent, wild, arrogant a land that fueled hi...

  • Hostage Arrows

    Jon Sharpe

  • The Tender Devil

    Colleen Shannon

    He was the devil in the flesh. She was an angel in his arms.. Aimee Lingstrom ... a blonde Norwegian beauty, she vowed no man would ever possess her. Yet to save her family from financial ruin, she recklessly gave herself in marriage to an abso...

  • The Fall Guys in Burners and Breakers

    Richard Severy

  • Sea Gate

    Maura Seger

    They were worlds apart... BRAVE NEW WORLD... Andrew Paxton was a man of science -- he dealt with the facts and left the fantasizing to others. His work involved classified government material, so when his small son discovered a raven-haired bea...

  • Golden Days

    Carolyn See

    Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marv...

  • Ballad of the False Messiah

    Moacyr Scliar

  • How the Spider Saved Christmas

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Give and Take

    Anna Schmidt

    FRINGE BENEFITS The position was only temporary--Joshua Carrington needed someone to design the windows of his Milwaukee department store, and Marlo Fletcher needed a job to help take a load off her bank balance. The situation was perfect for both...

  • The Goldcamp Vampire, or the Sanguinary Sourdough

    Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    Pelagia Harper, aka Valentine Lovelace, published her memoirs of her time in Draco, Texas and became an established writer -- at least in her own mind. But when her father dies and her stepmother steals her royalties, she finds herself destitute. Als...

  • Starring Stephanie

    Susan Saunders

    Stephanie blows an audition for the lead in the school play and shy Patti gets the part. If Stephanie can't act in the school play, who will she ever be a video star?...

  • War Weapons

    Craig Sargent

    After his encounter with Gen'l Patton III, The last Ranger is out for revenge. As he hunts for the renegade rmy man who is looking to build a fascist empire, Stone finds that he is also being hunted himself....

  • Baltasar and Blimunda

    Jose Saramago

    “A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power.” -- The New York Times Portugal, 1711. The Portuguese king promises the greedy prelates of the Church ...

  • Fran Ellen's House

    Marilyn Sachs

  • The Golden People

    Fred Saberhagen

    The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Inventions . . . Emiliano Nowell was a world-class genetic engineer. He was also a wealthy and idealistic man with the time and money necessary to follow his dreams. In secret laboratories far from Earth he used...

  • Birthday Presents

    Cynthia Rylant

  • In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen

    Cynthia Rylant

    Meet The COBBLE STREET COUSINS • Lily, who wants to be a poet • Tess, who wants to be a Broadway star • Rosie, who wants a little cottage with flowers by the door Right now, though, the cousins are sharing an attic bedroom in their Aunt Lu...

  • This Is Your Captain Speaking

    Ivy Ruckman

  • Hangdog

    Graham Round

  • Carnival Madness

    Erin Ross

    THE BRASS RING Elizabeth couldn't take it anymore. The carnival in Venice was crowded with nothing but foolish partygoers. She'd much rather be completing her historical research in Scotland, but her aunt had insisted on her taking a break. Elizab...

  • Loop's Progress

    Chuck Rosenthal

  • Billy Ray and Good News

    Frank Roderus

  • The Playboy Prince

    Nora Roberts

    LADY OF MYSTERY Prince Bennett Bisset of Cordina had been making gossip headlines since his teens--but the prim and proper Lady Hannah Rothchild wasn't his usual choice in women. Something in her eyes intrigued him, and he was determined to discove...

  • Trial by Fire

    J.R. Roberts

    A likable hunchback dies trying to save Clint's life. His last request extracts a strange promise from the Gunsmith. Now Clint must find the dead man's long lost daughter. A fortune waits for the missing gal, if only the Gunsmith can find her. It'...

  • Santa's Puzzle Bag

    Edward Roberts

  • Night Magic

    Karen Robards

    WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A SECRET AGENT? Author Clara Winston was snuggling in for the night when the strange men burst into her carriage house apartment. Terrified, she couldn't make sense of their heavy Russian accents, but they seemed to be dema...

  • Palace of Mirrors

    Charles Rigdon

    After agreeing to help a wealthy but dying Palm Beach grande dame find her two illegitimate children, Brett Farrell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo-journalist encounters a major anti-Castro, revolutionary terrorist...

  • Outback Nights

    Emilie Richards

    WELCOME TO OZ Russet Ames had escaped! As the plane flew over the Australian countryside, Rusty felt no regret at having left behind the glittering New York world of modeling. She was looking forward to a quieter pace, a tranquil life in the land ...

  • Bah Koo

    Robert Rhodes

    Bah Koo leaves his forest home, where the other animals laughed at him for being different, and goes to live with a human family where he discovers he possesses a magical gift that can help all humans...

  • Curious George at the Airport

    H.A. Rey

  • The Dark Lady: A Romance of the Far Future

    Mike Resnick

    In the 7th millennium, humans have spread throughout the galaxy and govern most of the inhabited planets. Leonardo, Our Humble Hero and purple-blooded Bjornn of the planet Benitarus II, is sent as an expert appraiser to the Claiborne Art Gallery o...

  • Sundance

    Bill Reno

    THE BADGE To a violent land, a frontier yet untamed, came a man who wore a badge of law and order. He faced the myriad dangers and paid the price in blood to become one of the most enduring heroic figures of the Old West. SUNDANCE U.S. Marshal ...

  • New Moon

    William Relling Jr.

  • Easy Money

    Jamie Reid

    The adventures of Lex Parlane, a self-made Glasgow millionaire, bookmaker, and gambler, are set against the colorful world of steeplechase horse racing, in a tale that culminates at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival...

  • Catholic Girls

    Kit Reed

  • The Devil's Home on Leave

    Derek Raymond

    A man’s corpse is discovered in a London warehouse, bundled into five shopping bags. Our nameless narrator from the Unexplained Deaths division of the Met is put on the case. As he probes a world of horror in South London, a terrible secret from hi...

  • Night Caller

    Daniel Ransom

    The antique telephone sat in darkness in the attic. Dust and cobwebs obscured its once gleaming surface. Wires hung limply from its rusted innards. It should have been nothing more than an interesting piece of junk. Except that sometimes, late at nig...

  • Kaleidoscope

    Candice Ransom

    CHANGING PATTERNS When Cress's uncle died, her mother inherited his old, run-down house in the Shenandoah Valley. Cress was not too happy to learn that she would have to share the job of cleaning it and getting it ready for sale. The place was hopel...

  • Gentle Persuasion

    Rita Rainville

    WANTED WOMAN Nothing ever happened in Saratoga, California, until the day Kaylie West went to the jewelers and found herself in the middle of a robbery. Just one witness could identify the crooks, and she it. Still, Kaylie was sure she didn't need...

  • Brownstone Facade

    Catherine M. Rae

  • Smooth Move

    Berniece Rabe

    Gus records in his journal the many adventures and misadventures of his family's move from Portland, Oregon, to Washington, D.C., including packing, broken-down moving vans, and the first day at a new school...

  • In the Name of the Father

    A.J. Quinnell

  • Surf's Up

    Janet Quin-Harkin

  • Danger Adrift

    Folco Quilici

  • Skin of Dreams

    Raymond Queneau

    In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy.The Skin of Dr...

  • Sherlock Chick and the Peekaboo Mystery

    Robert M. Quackenbush

    Look out Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Chick hatched from his egg with a detective’s hat and magnifying glass, and he’s looking to track down a missing mouse in this adorable, easy-to-follow mystery from Robert Quackenbush.When Mother Mouse’s son S...

  • Mrs Pepperpot and the Hidden Treasure

    Alf Prysen

    Mrs. Pepperpot has a problem -- a huge problem -- she shrinks! And when she shrinks she finds herself in all sorts of trouble. Poor Mrs. Pepperpot has shrunk again! Puss wants to show her some treasure in the neighbor's barn, and they set off with Mr...

  • The Magic Ark

    Brian Price-Thomas

  • Republic and Empire

    Jerry Pournelle

  • Blue Bug Goes to Paris

    Virginia Poulet

  • Tales from the Planet Earth

    Frederik Pohl

  • Plasm

    Charles Platt

  • Henry's Leg

    Ann Pilling

  • Leprechaun

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Blake Pemberton knew he had to be dreaming, or else he'd lost his mind -- there was an enchanting green-haired alien standing next to his bed! But it was Nichelle Clay who froze at the sight of the sinfully gorgeous man wrapped in one thin, rumpled ...

  • Exile

    David Peters

    In exile from her home world, Tivia, a warrior princess, disguises herself as a man and joins a group of space pirates who intend to destroy Bhodi Li, the man she loves, and the rest of the Photon Guardians...

  • Conan the Defiant

    Steve Perry
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Before avenging a friend's death, the youthful Conan must battle undead warriors and Men With No Eyes--two formidable factions seeking the Source of Light, a talisman that can make Neg the Malefic unconquerable or destroy him forever...

  • The Secret Diary of Katie Dinkerhoff

    Lila Perl

  • Robbie Taggert, Highland Sailor

    Judith Pella; Michael Phillips

    After his love for Jamie MacLeod was refused, Robbie Taggart left the Scottish Highlands to seek fortune and adventure on the high seas. But when military discipline becomes too constraining for him, he resigns and takes a position on a freighter bou...

  • Nighthawk's Embrace

    Gloria Pedersen

    Nicholas Harrowe had taken Elissa aboard his ship as a prisoner of war, then captured her heart with a single burning kiss. He had claimed her hand in a hasty midnight ceremony, then dueled the man who doubted her virtue at dawn. He had made her a wo...

  • Experiment in Terror

    Bernal C. Payne

  • On the Edge

    Francine Pascal

    Headed for trouble... Regina Morrow and Bruce Patman have been going together for months. But when beautiful, devious Amy Sutton is paired up with Bruce on a school project, she schemes to steal him away from Regina. Little by little Bruce's resist...

  • Outcast

    Francine Pascal

    No one to turn to... Ever since Regina Morrow's tragic death at Molly Hecht's party, everyone has been treating Molly as if she has the plague. Nobody at school wants to talk to her, her parents have permanently grounded her, and even her good frie...

  • Stretching the Truth

    Francine Pascal

    What's wrong with Mary Robinson? That's what Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield want to know. She has a rich new stepfather who has a fabulous yacht and is going to build them a huge house. So why has Mary been acting so strange? Jessica is confident th...

  • Enormous Turnip

    Kathy Parkinson

  • Riches

    Una-Mary Parker

  • Poor Man's Orange

    Ruth Park

    First published in 1949 as the sequel to the award-winning "The Harp in the South", this novel continues the story of the Darcy family of Sydney. The author also wrote "Swords and Crowns and Rings", which won the Miles Franklin Award....

  • Woman Hater // Mountain Man

    Diana Palmer

    MOUNTAIN MAN Everyone in the office described the boss's mysterious older brother as a real woman hater -- an absolute bear of a man. So, when Nicole White had to travel with her ailing employer to his brother's home in Montana, she was prepared ...

  • When Hearts Dream

    Laurel Pace

    No dream was impossible for Anne and Wes Major and minor setbacks hadn't stopped Anne Torrence from opening a boutique in Charlotte, North Carolina. Long, pressure-filled days never prevented successful engineer Wes Jordan from moonlighting as a j...

  • Saint Mike

    Jerry Oster

  • Pandora's Box

    Mary Pope Osborne

  • Midnight Soup and a Witch's Hat

    Doris Orgel

  • Mother Goose's Melodies

    Christina Ong

  • Living Dangerously

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    She was sure he'd listen to reason Claudia couldn't let her brother risk his life just to prove something to their macho father. She just had to step in and cancel the contract he'd signed to be a movie stuntman. But Harry Kavanagh,...

  • Brain Wave

    Raymond Obstfeld

    In a race against time, Geoffrey Kane strives to untangle the unfathomable truth behind a vicious network of hitmen and thieves called Excalibur, who use the money from jewel heists to buy blackmarket plutonium--the key ingredient in a homemade atomi...

  • The Serpent Never Sleeps

    Scott O'Dell

    Pocahontas and early Jamestown are brought to life through the eyes of the Newbery Award winner's historical heroine....

  • Moontide Embrace

    Constance O'Banyon

    NIGHT CLOAKED SPLENDOR Ever since notorious Judah Slaughter had kissed thirteen-year-old Liberty Boudreaux in thanks for helping him escape, she knew there could be no other for her. Now, five years later, the gangly girl had become a breathtaking ...

  • The Gate of the Cat

    Andre Norton

    Come. Step through an ancient arch in the Scottish highlands--and into a world beyond all earthly possibilities ... Where fearsome creatures abound and witches rule supreme. Where a sparkling jewel carries a strange and awesome power. Where ...

  • Fat Chance, Claude

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    "In the frontier town of Hideyhole, feisty Shirley resists her parents' attempts to marry her off--especially since the only bachelor left is dull Elmer Twaddle."--Publishers Weekly. Full-color illustrations....

  • Room for One More

    Virginia Nielsen

    WHAT WAS FIVE YEARS' AGE DIFFERENCE? Nothing, as far as Seattle technician Brock Morley was concerned. He loved widow Charlotte Emlyn with all his heart and was determined to marry her. Charlotte was ready to agree--until her teenage son Wade d...

  • No Laughing Matter

    Marie Nicole

    LAUGHING ALL THE WAY When Marti McGregor burst into his office, wanting him to produce her film, Stephen Townsend knew his life would never be the same. He liked the surface Marti--confident, funny, beautiful--but he was captivated by the woman be...

  • Sweet Dreams

    Barbara J. Neasi

  • Beetles, Lightly Toasted

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Fifth-grader Andy Moller will do anything to win the Roger B. Sudermann essay contest so that he can win fifty dollars and get his picture in the local newspaper. His cousin and rival, Jack, feels exactly the same way. But how can Andy be inventive a...

  • The Discovery of Slowness

    Sten Nadolny

    In The Discovery of Slowness, German novelist Sten Nadolny recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The reader follows Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager t...

  • When the Fat Man Sings

    William Murray

    SHIFTY TAKES A BIG GAMBLE ON A FAT MAN Rotund Fulvio Gasparini is the world's greatest operatic tenor and worst gambler. He is losing at the tables and losing big... until magician Shifty Lou Anderson steps in with his hot hand for dice and recoups ...

  • Last Call

    Harry Mulisch

    "This is the highest kind of achievement of which fiction is capable. . . . Ranks with the finest European fiction of recent years."--The Christian Science Monitor

    Uli Bouwmeester is a retired variety artiste who spends his days whiling away his ...

  • Tides of War

    Douglas Muir

    To ensure the success of the D-Day invasion, U.S. submarine commander Lieutenant Skeet Merrill and sensuous but deadly Norwegian spy Sigi Petersen must face the wrath of an ace U-boat commander and the Gestapo's top manhunter...

  • Wish for the Moon

    Carole Mortimer

    She despised him now - hadn't he killed her cousin? Elizabeth Farnham had met Quinn Taylor before she became the mistress of Farnham Hall, and she had loved him during his brief visit. But when she discovered he was responsible for Fergus...

  • Witchchild

    Carole Mortimer

    'I AM NOT PREPARED TO LET A LITTLE GOLD-DIGGER LIKE YOU ANYWHERE NEAR MY SON!' It was a case of mistaken identity, but Leonie Spencer wasn't about to clear the air immediately and make things easy for Henry Hawker Sinclair. After all, he had accu...

  • Run Wild, Run Free

    Nancy Morse

    HE WAS NO ORDINARY COWBOY Hank Reardon could outrope and outride any man in Wyoming but guilt over his wife's death while he was out on the rodeo circuit forced him to retreat to his ranch to breed horses and break mustangs, vowing never to compet...

  • From Camelot to Kent State

    Joan Morrison

    A look back at the major events of the 1960s, told by the voices of both the famous and those they affected, which, as a result, creates a powerful focus on the human dimension of that turbulent decade....

  • Angels in Hell

    Janet Morris

    Altos, Hell's only Unfallen Angel, tours the nether regions and observes as Genghis Khan teaches a military historian a lesson, Marilyn Monroe kisses the Devil, Stalin rewrites the Bible, and Napoleon's lover ponders an offer to enter Heaven...

  • The Little Red Riding Hood Rebus Book

    Ann Morris

  • Room Service

    Frank Moorhouse

  • Crystal Oracle

    Leroy Montana

  • Kismet

    Helen Mittermeyer

    Thane Stoner was a hunk to be sure. Tru Hubbard admitted, but was he a man to be sure of? Feeling dizzy and happy and just a bit reckless was a wonderful change for her from the months of hurt and struggle as her marriage was ending, but could she fi...

  • Taos

    Hank Mitchum

    Jeanne Townsend had to get out of Albuquerque fast. An undercover Pinkerton agent, she had damning evidence against the corrupt Darryl Landreth. When the red-haired beauty took the north bound stage to Denver. Landreth's hired hardcases set out in cl...

  • Travel Light

    Naomi Mitchison

    "Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast out onto the hills to die. She lives among bears; she lives among dragons. But the time of dragons is passing, and Odin All-Father offers Halla a choice: Will she stay dragonish and ...

  • Never the Twain

    Kirk Mitchell

  • A Louisa May Alcott Diary

    Karen Milone

  • Strictly Business

    Leigh Michaels

    They had always been "just friends" Gianna West and Blake Whittaker were senior partners of the successful family-owned Westway Cosmetics in Chicago. It was a perfectly satisfactory relationship -- friends since childhood, they were imperv...

  • Search the Shadows

    Barbara Michaels

    Born of a secret tainted bloodline... Haskell Maloney came to Chicago to study Egyptology, following in her mother's academic footsteps. But it was more than a degree she was seeking. Haskell was looking for answers to her mother's untimely death-...

  • Denny's Tapes

    Carolyn Meyer

  • River of Joy

    Jack Metzler

  • The Jewish Adv Club

    Helen Merkin

  • Enchantment

    Daphne Merkin

    A bold, provocative "pioneering novel" (Los Angeles Times) about family, womanhood, and growing upSet on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Enchantment is narrated by Hannah Lehmann, the wry survivor of a troubled childhood. Hannah's perceptions of her Ort...

  • Adam's Smile

    David McPhail