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New Books List: 678 titles

  • Leap of Faith

    Sharon Zukowski

    I've never had a client who was a month away from being born,'' says Blaine Stewart after the death of her original client- -widowed acquaintance Judith Marsden, whose in-vitro egg is currently growing inside surrogate mother Hannah Wyrick, who has t...

  • An Echo of Death

    Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, go on the run when they find an ex-teammate and friend of Scott's murdered in their apartment. With the killers now on their trail, with the death of Scott's friend still a myste...

  • Loch

    Paul Zindel

    Blip...blip...blip... Sonar screens stalk the astonishing, massive water creatures that have been sighted in a remote Vermont lake. Fifteen-year-old Loch Perkins is aboard the Revelation, a high-tech search yacht, when the first creature explodes f...

  • What Is Hannukah?

    Harriet Ziefert

    Why do we light candles? Whatis a dreidel? Josh learns the answers to these questions and the story of Hanukkah as he celebrates this special holiday with his family.

    Why do we light the menorah? What do the letters on the dreidel mean? Josh l...

  • A Poison in the Blood

    Fay Zachary

    Hester Jones is a nurse specializing in the care of her invalid father. A favorable ruling in a lawsuit would have allowed Hester to care for him in comfort for the rest of their lives. But the defense attorney Liz's father saw to it they received ne...

  • Jewels And Ashes

    Arnold Zable

    Like Schindler's List, this is a haunting document for the next generation of Holocaust survivors. Zable travels from Australia to the Eastern European countryside of his parents' remembrance to understand the present-the inner lives of those who, li...

  • The Honor Price

    Erin Yorke

    Alanna O'Donnell Lucas had named her his wild Irish witch. For, with hair the color of the sun and eyes blue as the sky, she had bedazzled him beyond imagining. Making him forget that she tore his heart asunder between duty and desire. Lucas de...

  • A Touch of Panic

    Laurali R. Wright / L.R. Wright

    Karl Alberg investigates the mysteries of love -- and some peculiar goings-on -- in his supposedly sleepy town. Gordon Murphy is charming, intelligent, the recent winner of the lottery -- and searching for the perfect woman. Four times he thought he...

  • Wages of Sin

    Sherryl Woods

    DEATH TAKES A BRIDE Amanda Roberts knows what makes a woman tick. A gorgeous, gutsy senator's aide who joyfully puts down a deposit on a wedding gown does not commit suicide a few hours later by deliberately slamming her brand-new Jaguar into an o...

  • Red River City: A 3-Dimensional Story Frieze with Punch-out Characters

    Rosemary Woods

    Children can create their own Wild West adventures with a three-dimensional story frieze, featuring punch-out characters, that recreates a town on the frontier with sixteen fold-out panels, each showing a different storefront, pop-ups, pull-outs, and...

  • Stay of Execution

    William P Wood Jr.

    Small-time operator Bobby Carnes took a shot at a big score, setting up a major drug sale with some high rollers in Marina del Ray. He went in with a few bags of crank-methamphetamine and a .44 and walked out a stone-cold killer: a suitcase full of c...

  • Tangled Destinies

    Sara Wood

    "Perhaps I'm not your brother after all..." Those words bewildered Tanya Evans. How could István Huszár be anything else? Growing up with him in a Devonshire vicarage, she'd idolized him--until her discovery that he'd seduced...

  • The Vengeful Groom

    Sara Wood

    Weddings, Inc. For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are more than willin...

  • Share of Freedom

    June Rae Wood

    Terrified of being separated from her brother after an alcoholic binge lands her mother in a treatment program, Freedom Jo Avery runs away, but her plan misfires, leading to the discovery of her long-lost father and a reevaluation of her mother's str...

  • Catcher

    Mia Wolff

    Looking for a scary adventure, Mia practices on the trapeze with her friend Donna, but when it comes time to climb the ladder to the high trapeze, Mia has to reconcile her love of flying with her fear of heights....

  • Don't Call Me Beanhead!

    Susan Wojciechowski

    The author of Patty Dillman of Hot Dog Fame presents Beany, a regular youngster with regular-kid worries, twenty-three freckles, and a bossy best friend, in five entertaining stories about Beany's life at home and at school....

  • Christmas Tree Ship

    Jeanette Winter

    For more than twenty years, Captain Herman Schuenemann had brought Christmas trees to the citizens of Chicago aboard his schooner, but when a blizzard fells his ship, it is up to the captain's family to carry on the tradition in their own way....

  • Find Her, Keep Her

    Anne Marie Winston

    UNMARRIED, NO CHILDREN Dane Hamilton had always expected to be happily wed and raising a family before he turned thirty-five. Now that the deadline was looming, he needed a wife -- pronto! So when single, sweet, sexy Annie Evans popped into his li...

  • Angel Unaware

    Clara Wimberly

    Accustomed to paying - and getting - her own way, wealthy widow Anne Benefield is shocked when an unyielding judge won't let her buy her way out of a sheaf of parking tickets...and sentences her to six months of community service. What's more...

  • Tender Deceit // Burden of Innocence

    Patricia Wilson

    Sarah Thorpe's visit to Celine Couvier in France was a strictly limited one; she had promised her dead father to spend a month getting to know the woman he had loved. What she hadn't bargained on was that she should be so strongly attracted t...

  • Green River Rising

    Tim Willocks

    After three years' hard time, minding no-one's business but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal war, and the prison falls into the hands of its inmat...

  • The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill

    Nancy Willard

    “Both children and adults will be delighted with the humor that these illustrations display. . . . [This book] blends fact and imagination, provides a wonderful way to introduce speculation, one of the higher-order thinking skills. . . . Don’t pa...

  • Babies on Board

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! Kate Hennessy could imagine only one scenario worse than being stranded in the jungle with three infants: being stranded with three infants and Matt Sullivan. If his infuriating know-it-all a...

  • A Little House Christmas Holiday

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    In her beloved Little House books, Laura Ingalls Wilder describes some of the Christmases she and her family celebrate on the frontier. Even if they don't have much money for presents, they always have one another, and that's enough to make any Ch...

  • Christmas Spirit: Two Stories

    Robert Westall

    A pair of Christmas stories involves unexpected holiday visitors--a young boy receives a warning of impending disaster from the "Christmas Ghost," and a girl's unhappy holiday visit is redeemed by a pregnant cat in "The Christmas Cat."...

  • To Have and to Hold

    Sally Wentworth

    A runaway wife Mix North had fallen in love with Rhys Stirling the first time she had met him. Now Mix's dream was about to come true--Rhys had asked her to marry him. Rhys Stirling was an ambitious man, and the only thing that stood betwee...

  • Moonspeaker

    K.D. Wentworth

    In this thrilling science fiction classic, author K.D. Wentworth sets the stage for her ground-breaking House of Moons series, introducing Haemas Sennay Tal—the Moonspeaker. Daughter of one of the most powerful families of the mindtalented Kas...

  • Uncle Smoke Stories

    Roger L. Welsch

  • Night Sounds, Morning Colors

    Rosemary Wells

  • Lords of the Sky

    Angus Wells

    The Ahn, age-old enemy of the Dhar, have mastered a powerful new battle sorcery and are massing for an attack on Dharbek's shores. It will be the last and greatest battle--a merciless conquest of the lands they once owned and the total destruction of...

  • Tempt a Lady

    Susan Weldon

    NO PLACE FOR A LADY Rayne was a little girl when her father, Jasper North, abandoned her to make his fortune out west. Now as a woman, she heads to Nevada for a reunion with the supposedly repentant reprobate. But someone else is waiting for the pro...

  • Field of Dishonor

    David Weber

    Honor Betrayed The People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious. But Manticor...

  • The Carradine Brand

    Margaret Way

    The rancher's daughter and the cattle king Curt Carradine is one of the biggest landowners in Australia. Smart, tough, extraordinarily handsome. Other men admire him. Women fall in love with him. Rachael Munro is no exception. As a teenager...

  • Out of This World

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE Like most suburbanites, Pel Brown had problems in his basement. But his were somewhat out of the ordinary: a portal from a world of magic had opened, and now barbarian swordsmen were demanding that Pel help them defeat Shadow, ...

  • Country Sunshine

    Teresa Warfield

    The price of falling in love... CAROLINE The small farm she shared with her mother and grandfather was home sweet home. But to a smooth-talking land developer, it was prime property... ROBERT The city slicker had big plans for Dubuque, Iowa--...

  • The Perfect Bride // Cornwell Bride

    Sheila Walsh (1)

    The Best Laid Plans Serena Fairburn should have been the happiest of young ladies-for she could look forward to the best of marriages. Soon she would be bride to the fabulously wealthy Cedric, Duke of Cornwall, and her family would be rescued from...

  • True Friends

    Bill Wallace

    An unlikely friendship ensues when Lacy Valentine, the most popular girl in her class, and Judy, a misfit with an eccentric mother, become the only sixth-grade girls who are accepted onto the cheerleading squad. Reprint....

  • The Little Obie and the Kidnap

    Martin Waddell

    In the American Old West, Mrs. Jumping Joseph takes two lost boys to her cave to be their mama, and it is up to Obie's grandparents to rescue the two youngsters. By the author of Little Obie and the Flood. ...

  • La Natividad

    Julie Vivas

  • Anna's Book

    Barbara Vine

    Anna is a young woman living in turn-of-the-century London, confiding her rebellious thoughts and well-guarded secrets only to her diary. Years later, her granddaughter discovers that a single entry has been cut out--an entry that may forge a link be...

  • Only You

    Cynthia Victor

    Beautiful Harvard grad Carlin Squire thought she had everything she wanted - an exciting, fulfilling career with the NYPD... and the perfect lover in handsome, charming photographer Derek Kingsley. Then back into her life came Ben, an adored high sch...

  • Dad on the Job

    Linda Varner

    Full-Time Father My business partners and I made a pact: No women. No flirting, no dating, no ...nothing. No problem for me. With two kids to raise by myself and my long hours, I have no time for romance. And where would I even find the kind of...

  • The Memory Book of Starr Faithfull

    Gloria Vanderbilt

    The intensely erotic diary of a beautiful young heiress, Starr Faithfull, whose battered body washes up on a New York beach, recreates the illicit affair between a child and her cousin, a prominent Boston politician, in a story based on a real-life c...

  • Troll's Search for Summer

    Nicolas Van Pallandt

  • Outsider in Amsterdam

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    "[Van de Wetering] is doing what Simenon might have done if Albert Camus had sublet his skull."  -- John LeonardOn a quiet street in downtown Amsterdam, a man is found hanging from the ceiling beam of his bedroom, upstairs from the new religious...

  • Rites of Passage

    Mark Vakkur

    Medical students Clark Wilson and Tracy McHugh confront the tragedies and triumphs of their chosen profession as they spend their third year at a teaching hospital, coping with old memories, sleepless nights, long workdays, and real people with real ...

  • Crocodile Gene and His Friends

    Eduard Uspenski

  • The Afterlife and Other Stories

    John Updike

    “Marvelously moving . . . These tales evoke a certain peace and a definite wonder at what an astonishingly graceful writer Updike is.” -- USA TodayTo the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: “...

  • The Wise Old Woman

    Yoshiko Uchida

  • Christmas House

    Ann Turner

  • Rights Guide for Home Owners

    Jo Tunnard

  • With Hope We Can All Find Ogo Pogo: For the Child Within Us All!

    Brock Tully

  • Drift Away

    Kerry Tucker

    Andrea has been defending an accused murderer when she herself is found murdered, with her client the leading suspect, but Andrea's college friend Libby is not convinced and becomes determined to find the true culprit. Reprint....

  • The Zimmermann Telegram

    Barbara W. Tuchman

    In the dark winter of 1917, as World War I was deadlocked, Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war. But President Wilson remained unshakable in his neutrality. Then, with a single stroke, the tool to propel Am...

  • A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose

    Marina I. Tsvetaeva

  • Flycatcher

    Elleston Trevor

    The novel begins with a single scream that rips across Fifth Avenue from Central Park and into the bedroom and the psyche of Tasha Fontaine, proprietor of a tony fashion boutique. In the park, the police find a serial killer's latest victim: Chris...

  • Memory's Lamp

    Marilyn Tracy

    Speak, memory... It was as if Sandy Rush had stepped into someone else's nightmare...As she cradled a dying woman is her arms, a strange, disturbing memories suddenly flooded her mind - memories that simply could not be her own. And those unwanted...

  • Frobisher's Savage

    Leonard Tourney

    In their eighth case, Elizabethan sleuths Joan and Matthew Stock investigate a murder in which an Eskimo, brought to England in 1576 by Sir Martin Frobisher, becomes a suspect because of blind prejudice, in a mystery based on factual events....

  • Who's There?

    Stephanie S. Tolan

    When fourteen-year-old Drew and her mute younger brother come to live with their father's estranged relatives after their parents' sudden death, they discover that the house is haunted by ghosts and a deadly family secret...

  • I Wish

    Hannah Tofts

    Wishes for a variety of unusual experiences are accompanied by a photographic collage of toys and found objects that capture the world from such perspectives as inside a color television, in a hurricane's eye, or with a bird in the air...

  • Dangerous at Heart

    Elise Title

    DOWN AND OUT IN PITTSVILLE Life was the pits for Rachel Hart. Single and pregnant, at least she'd had the good sense not to marry the no-good father of her child! Things couldn't get worse, she assured herself. Then her ex-dance turned up dead. An...

  • South of Heaven

    Jim Thompson

    Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserte...

  • Texas by the Tail

    Jim Thompson

    To everyone he's every played dice with, Mitch Corley seems like the luckiest guy around. But in truth, Corley's fast hands are the only gift fate's ever given him. He's never held down a steady job, and when it comes to women, his luck might just be...

  • Valley in Bloom

    Grace Thompson

    Every village has its secrets… the charming conclusion to the Valley sagasAs 1954 draws to an end, the village of Hen Carw Parc is changing. The post-war boom brings a creeping lethargy as the villagers stay in watching their new TV sets, instead o...

  • Prairie Blood

    David Thompson

    Rugged mountain man Nathaniel King braves the perils and hardships of the Rockies to build a new life for himself far from city corruption, but his world falls apart when his young son disappears. Original....

  • The Nutcracker Ballet

    Carol Thompson

  • Spellbound

    Jim Thomas

  • Pearl's Paints

    Abigail Thomas

    Featuring illustrations that cleverly imitate the styles of great painters, a celebration of the creative instinct tells how Pearl's obsession with painting starts to worry everyone except her aunt, who knows that Pearl is a born artist....

  • Mystery Lights of Navajo Mesa

    Jake Thoene

    Four young private eyes are about to become your juvenile reader's newest heroes! In this blockbuster book and video series from Tyndale and Focus on the Family, Mike, Ben, Wynnona, and Spencer unravel mysteries from their headquarters in a restored ...

  • The Twilight of Courage

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    A retelling of World War II intertwines the stories of two American journalists' escape from the collapse of Warsaw, with those of an orphaned baby's journey to Jerusalem, a mathematician's attempt to crack Nazi code, and more. $250,000 ad/promo. Tou...

  • Nothing Grows Here

    Jean Thesman

    Everything changed abruptly when her father died, but the loss of the garden they had planted together haunts Maryanne still. It is not until she is able to get her hands in the soil and plant her own garden that Maryanne truly begins to grow again h...

  • The Headless Bicycle Rider

    Nola Thacker

    A third addition to a humorous horror series continues the adventures of the kids at Graveyard School, when a new student in the class puts a different twist on the original version of "The Headless Horseman." Original....

  • Love Potion #5

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    She'd accidentally downed a love potion... ...and now Jill Sutherland was desperate to find the antidote! When she'd imbibed the offensive drink, she'd been gazing deep in Remy Beauregard's eyes. Now she couldn't keep her mind--or hands!--off the in...

  • Sleeping With the Enemy

    Myrna Temte

    The Seduction Proud tribal leader Jackson Hawk was as powerful as the all-knowing night ... and just as seductive. His magnetism drew Maggie Schaeffer ever closer--awakening her passionate nature and daring her to face her long-denied heritage. In...

  • Surrender the Night

    Susan P. Teklits

    TREASON Vanessa Davis played the role of Tory seductress for the sake of the Patriot Cause, charming secrets out of powerful, foolish men before they could claim her body. Until the fateful night when a dashing British officer outwitted her at her...

  • Bitter Blood

    Karen E. Taylor

    Remember me? Deirdre Griffin, vampire? As you may recall, I didn't want to be one, but in matters of blood, a woman doesn't always have a choice. After living in London for the past two years, I'm finally back in my favorite city. But life in New Yor...

  • Starlight and Splendor

    Janelle Taylor

    MOONDUST AND MADNESS... STARDUST AND SHADOWS... novels of universal desire and intergalactic adventure... Now, the magic continues amidst the blaze of STARLIGHT AND SPLENDOR... Many years have passed since Commander Varian Saar spirited the lovel...

  • Rosina Saves the Day

    Mallory Tarcher

    During a sailing trip off the coast of Maine with Adventurers, Inc., an unexpected storm and a freak accident seriously injure their teacher-chaperone, John, and it is up to Rosina to find help and get the other club members to safety. Original....

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh's Christmas

    Bruce Talkington

    Looking forward to the celebrations of the holiday before realizing that he has forgotten to get presents for his friends, Winnie the Pooh becomes even more upset when he realizes that nobody in the Hundred Acre Wood has stockings. Reprint....

  • Winnie the Pooh and the Perfect Christmas Tree

    Bruce Talkington

  • Life Itself

    Paco Ignaci Taibo II

    A Mexican crime novelist, Jose+a7 Daniel Fierro decides to become the police chief of Santa Anna and fights gunslingers, traitors, lunatics, and visionaries to find the murderer of an American photographer. Reprint....

  • The Bluebell Pool

    Sue Sully

    Young Nancy Gillimore is dazzled by gentleman explorer Aubrey Farringdon, until they leave London for his family manor when, drawn into his scandalous past, Nancy discovers a disturbing and destructive story of passion and betrayal...

  • Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane

    Bob Stromberg

  • It's Magic!

    Todd Strasser

  • Phantom of the Auditorium

    R.L. Stine

    LIGHTS...CURTAIN...PHANTOM? Brooke's best friend, Zeke, has been given the lead role in the school play, The Phantom. Zeke's totally into it. He loves dressing up in the grotesque phantom costume. And scaring the other members of the cast. Brooke th...

  • The Third Horror

    R.L. Stine

    Kody Frasier always swore she’d come back to 99 Fear Street. She knows the spirit of her dead sister, Cally, is trapped there, waiting to be set free. Now Kody is starring in a movie about the evil that murdered Cally, and she hopes she can find an...

  • Kate of Still Waters

    Martha Bennett Stiles

  • Gone with the West

    Dawn Stewardson

    CHESTER CITY, NEVADA 2014 A.D. ALANNA DeRAIN: Feisty, independent and daring. As a ghostbuster, she was used to encountering the unexpected. Then she met John McCully .... JOHN McCULLY: Traditional, resourceful and headstrong. He never dreamed ...

  • Globalhead

    Bruce Sterling

    Enter a world where scientists are superstars and gene-hackers unleash "Our Neural Chernobyl," creating drooling geniuses, TV-drugged cats, and gangs of raccoon toughs. A rock star becomes the voice of the people in a crumbling America...and the u...

  • Raw Deal

    Les Standiford

    "John Deal is such a rich creation, full of anger, courage and doubt, that you may have to remind yourself that you're reading fiction." -- Chicago TribuneJohn Deal's life is finally coming together -- he is reunited with his lovely wife, they have a...

  • An Easy Man To Love

    Lee Stafford

    She didn't like this man, Frankie thought after Julian Tarrant had refused to work with her because she was a woman! But Frankie couldn't help seeing his rejection as a challenge and was determined to change his mind. Pretty soon she had earn...

  • Heaven Can Wait

    Cheryl St. John

    Paradise In her secret heart, sheltered Lydia Beker yearned for more -- a sea of sensation, a husband to be tender with. Surely such longings couldn't be wrong? And then came Jakob Neubauer, an outsider who promised her a world of passion... ...

  • Rogue's Lady

    Scotney St. James

    THE LADY... Juliana Lowell had had it with men. First, she was jilted by her faithless cad of a fiance...who then went and married her sister. As if that wasn't bad enough, Juliana's father gave away her dowry in the bargain! Now, the humiliated L...

  • Crazy Horse

    Judith St. George

    A biography of the legendary Oglala Sioux warrior who defeated General Custer provides a close-up look at a man who, angered by broken promises and the destruction of his world, battled to save his people, their way of life, and their land....

  • Gumdrop Tree

    Elizabeth Spurr

  • The Mystery of the Holy Spirit

    R.C. Sproul

    Drawing on the witness of Scripture and the testimony of the church's greatest thinkers, Sproul looks at God the Holy Spirit and his roles. This second volume in his trilogy on the Trinity covers this perplexing doctrine as well as the baptism of the...

  • Stop the Wedding!

    Maris Soule

    The Groom Is a Snake Matt Stewart is intent on stopping his stubborn sister from making the biggest mistake of her life. But... The Bride Is Insistent First he has to win over Kristi Beeler, a beautiful--but seriously misguided--wedding consulta...

  • Changes in Attitude

    Jeffrey Solomon

  • My Name Is Amelia

    Donald J. Sobol

    Shipwrecked on a small uncharted island, Lisa encounters a man named Freemont who uses a time machine to bring together on the island two hundred notables from the past, and Lisa must join forces with a young Amelia Earhart to escape Freemont's diabo...

  • Karma

    Mitchell Smith

    IN A WORLD RULED BY FATE, there are moments that are beyond any one person's control. For Evan Scott, that moment comes high atop a half-finished skyscraper under a starlit Manhattan night, when he witnesses a woman plunging thirty stories to her de...

  • Never Let Me Go

    Joan Smith

    To find true love in the present, Belle must venture back to the past. SHE WAS HELD IN THRALL BY THE MAGICAL WARMTH OF HIS PHANTOM EMBRACE... Romance writer Belle Savage came to England looking for a hero -- the kind of rakish stranger women ha...

  • Pagemaster

    Smith

  • Christmas Story

    Nicola Smee

  • Dirty War

    Charles H. Slaughter

    The powerful story of Argentina's Dirty War portrays a young boy who looks the other way when people disappear, until his father is taken and he has to find the courage to ask questions--and to stay alive....

  • In My Dreams

    Susan Sizemore

    INTO THE MISTS OF IRISH LEGEND California biker Sammy Bergen was a cool dude. He thought he'd seen everything. Then he was summoned back in time to medieval Ireland by a druidic song spell--and he met the singer, the bewitchingly lovely Brianna. ...

  • The Three Golden Keys

    Peter Sis

    The incomparable range and imagination of Czech artist Peter Sis is known the world over through his animated films, paintings, and best-selling children's books such asKomodo!, The Dragons Are Singing, and Follow The Dream. Now, with The Three Golde...

  • The Devil's Lady

    Deborah Simmons

    she could not escape his shadowy promise Piers Montmorency 'Twas whispered that the mysterious Red Knight was more than mortal. Perhaps he'd even struck a devil's bargain to assure his warrior prowess. Yet Aisley sensed that Pier&...

  • John Chancellor Makes Me Cry

    Anne Rivers Siddons

    Anne Rivers Siddons invites you into her home and her heart

    In this collection of heartfelt and involving vignettes, Anne Rivers Siddons--the beloved bestselling author of Downtown, Hill Towns, and Colony--offers a stirring ...

  • Wish You Were Here

    Barbara Shoup

    Everything is falling apart for high school senior Jackson Watt. His best friend Brady disappears without a word. His mom remarries, which means a new stepdad, a new house . . . a new life. He falls in love with the girl of his dreams, and then risks...

  • Forgotten Vows...?

    Maggie Shayne

    THE PERFECT SCAM It was no secret that reporter Ashville Coye was hot on the trail of the Syracuse Slasher. But only Josephine Bradshaw knew that he was destined to become the killer's next victim. And when Ash landed in the hospital with amnesia,...

  • Babes in Toyland

    Gina Shaw

  • Ambush at Skull Pass

    Jon Sharpe

    Caught between a tribe of vengeful Utes and a crazed gold prospector's town, Skye Fargo tries to hold his own with the town's deceitful leader, an Indian princess who claims him for her own, and a fiery bar girl. Original....

  • Hello-- This Is My Father Speaking

    Mitchell Sharmat

  • The Black Sea

    Richard Setlowe

  • Storm at the Edge of Time

    Pamela F. Service

    Thrown together by ancient magic, three young people--Jamie, a girl from the present, Arni, a Viking boy, and Tyaak, a boy of the distant future--embark on a dangerous quest and fight the forces of Darkness....

  • Fifth Discipline

    Peter Senge

    Leading management guru Peter M Senge defines the five business 'disciplines' which together help to build learning organizations. These companies will be the successful ones in the coming decade because of their ability to learn, to absorb new ideas...

  • My Idea of Fun

    Will Self

    Will Self has established himself as one of the most brilliant, daring, and inventive writers of his generation. My Idea of Fun is Will Self’s highly acclaimed first novel. The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard a...

  • The Quantity Theory of Insanity

    Will Self

    What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on earth? What if the afterlife is n...

  • Place Where Nobody Stopped

    Jerry Segal

  • Yellow Moon

    David J. Searls

    A wave of fear engulfs idyllic Cleary, Ohio, when thirty ragged strangers appear and five local boys disappear, but it is nothing like the terror that overwhelms the town when the children return from a nightmarish world, bringing with them an unspea...

  • Gemini Game

    Michael Scott

    After people start falling into comas while playing their Night's Castle game, "Game Makers" BJ and Liz play it themselves to see what is happening--and soon become involved in a game of life and death....

  • Day of Delight

    Maxine Rose Schur

  • The Real Mother Goose Book of Christmas Carols

    Laurence Schorsch

  • Merry Christmas to All: Favorite Stories, Poems and Songs for the Holiday Season

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Shadow Children

    Steven Schnur

    "Maybe for us it's over. But not for the children. For them it will never be over."

    One summer after the Second World War, Etienne visits his beloved grand-father near the French town of Mont Brulant. A two-m...

  • Miranda's Day to Dance

    Jackie Jasina Schaefer

  • To Race a Dream

    Deborah Savage

  • Heaven to Touch

    Veronica Sattler

    SHE WAS HAUNTED BY A PAST SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER...AND A HUNGRY PASSION SHE COULD NOT DENY Fate is playing fast and loose with the notorious rakehell and ladies' man Captain Nicholas Sharpe. First, he inherited an unwanted legacy from his late...

  • My Funny Guy

    Helen Santori

    Writing up some hot new material for her ambitious boyfriend when his original comedy routine bombs, Connie Fernandez is crushed when he fails to realize the extent to which she is making his subsequent success possible. Original....

  • Playboy McCoy

    Glenda Sanders

    HE WAS A HUNK-AND-HALF! PLAYBOY McCOY Real name: Roy McCoy. Occupation: History professor. Course: "Sex Throughout History." Hobbies: Hands-on research. Status: Confirmed bachelor. Laurel Randolph had all the "facts" on McCoy. But sh...

  • The Brave Little Taylor

    Robert D. San Souci

    A spirited retelling of the favorite tale from the Brothers Grimm, lavishly illustrated. A little tailor who kills seven flies at one blow is so impressed with his own bravery that he ventures out to tell the world. Armed only with his wits, he must ...

  • Black Hornet

    James Sallis

    With this flashback novel to Lew Griffin’s past, James Sallis takes readers to 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists.   A sniper has fatally shot five people. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin i...

  • Annie and the Outlaw

    Sharon Sala

    OUTLAW ANGEL Harley-riding hellion Gabriel Donner had broken every rule, sinning enough for at least two lifetimes. And it would take just as long to right all his wrongs and earn his way to heaven. But his time was running out .... Then Gabrie...

  • White Bear, Ice Bear

    Joanne Ryder

  • One Hundred Is a Family Pam

    Pam Munoz Ryan

  • Traitors

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Vowing to destroy those responsible for killing his family, Diate joins the secret police so as to arrange the assassination of Sheba, until he falls in love with her and realizes he has risked his chance for happiness. Original....

  • The White Mists of Power

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    An innocent excited boy, a prince and heir, takes his first journey to the city. The streets teem with merchants in velvet robes, magicians, half-mad preachers, with life and color, poverty and noise. He doesn't want to miss any of it.But this marks...

  • China Trade

    S.J. Rozan

    CRIMSON NEW YEAR'S BANNERS WITH GOLD LETTERS SNAP IN THE WIND. IN CROWDED STORE WINDOWS THERE ARE CHICKENS, DUCKS, AND CHAINS OF RED-WRAPPED FIRECRACKERS... It's a city within a city, of smells, sounds, dark shops and close-knit families; it's a w...

  • Ghost Whispers

    Renee Roszel

    WHAT'S A NICE GIRL LIKE ALICE DOING IN A HAUNTED CASTLE LIKE THAT? If she'd had any other choice, Alice Woods would have run from Percival Castle the moment she saw it. But the Gothic monstrosity was her last refuge--she needed somewhere to recove...

  • Whisper of Scandal

    Kathryn Ross

    "Make a mistake and you'll regret it, I can assure you of that." Marc Kingsley's brand of charm was lethal -- but worse, he despised Sabrina. She felt that her connection with Marc's stepfather was no one's business but her...

  • Homecoming

    Dana Fuller Ross

    It's 1899, and in Taos, New Mexico, the enterprising Michael Holt pursues a personal dream...a vision of the West that will forever alter the American landscape. Half a world away, U.S. intelligence agent Henry Blake has watched his government sink i...

  • Little Dinosaur's Little Sister

    Ross

    Illus. in full color. After trying every trick in the book to make his little sister stop crying, Little Dinosaur gets so frustrated that he bursts into tears. Little sister finds this very funny, and she starts to laugh!  ...

  • Sky Cops

    Amy Rosenthal

    A veteran of the NYPD Aviation Unit provides an insider's glimpse of the work of police airborne forces, detailing such exploits as the rescue of victims of the World Trade Center bombing, foiling an attack on the White House, and pursuing dangerous ...

  • Mama Goose

    Liz Rosenberg

  • A Magic Merry Christmas!

    Amye Rosenberg

  • World of Hurt

    Richard Rosen / R.D. Rosen

    Harvey Blissberg, ex-major league outfielder turned private eye, is summoned to Chicago by his brother, Norm, to look into the murder of real-estate agent Larry Peplow. Norm once played basketball with Larry and feels an obligation to this pleasant, ...

  • A Letter to Grandma

    Paul Rogers

    Lucy eagerly anticipates the arrival of her Grandma the next day, but when she awakens, she discovers that her house is now standing all by itself on an island in the middle of the sea, and she begins to worry that Grandma will not know where to go....

  • Born in Fire

    Nora Roberts

    Gifted, reclusive, stubborn, free-spirited... Maggie Concannon is a glassmaker whose exquisite works are more than mere objects of beauty, but reflections of her own true nature. Attempting to hide from her troubled past, reclusive Maggie, who hides...

  • Night Smoke

    Nora Roberts

    FLASHPOINT Ryan Piasecki: A man's man. A woman's fantasy. The kind of guy who got the job done, no matter what the obstacles...or how beautiful they were. Natalie Fletcher: Cool, calm, collected. Until someone started making trouble for her busine...

  • Things Remembered

    Kelsey Roberts

    Could she trust him? Tyler Cantrell was bold, brash and unbelievably attractive, but that wasn't why the rugged cowboy gave Danielle Baylor the jitters. His father had been convinced of murdering her parents over twenty years ago - and now, at Da...

  • Conan and the Manhunters

    John Maddox Roberts

    Treasure beyond imagining waited in the temple of Ahriman, a god so evil and terrifying that even the despicable priests of Set aided in his banishment. None dared to steal the treasure--until Conan the Cimmerian came to Shapur. Now he must smuggle t...

  • Orphan Train

    J.R. Roberts

    There's not much one man can do against a dozen outlaws -- unless that one man is the Gunsmith. When Clint Adams runs across a gang of Comancheros ambushing a small wagon train, he heads for cover and sets up a hail of lead that makes the bushwhacker...

  • An Unusual Inheritance

    Rebecca Robbins

    A MAIDEN'S SURPRISE Several rude shocks have, of late, set Miss Emily Hastings' pretty head a-spin. First she learns her adored deceased father was not a naval hero as she was led to believe, but a brazen pirate instead. And now she is expected firs...

  • Hell-O-Ween

    David Robbins

    On Halloween night, two buddies decided to play a cruel trick on the class brain...but the joke was on them. They only wanted to scare their enemy to death...but their prank went awry and one of their friends ended up dead, her body ripped to piec...

  • Prank Night

    David Robbins

    Beneath sky pitch-black and moon full bright, lurks terror twice as dark as night. Newly risen from the grave. Hot, flesh red blood it does crave. Grisly death it brings the brave; The cowardly will rant and rave. Halloween is a time for fri...

  • The Lady Chapel

    Candace M. Robb

    OWEN ARCHER, THE INTRIGUING WELSH ARCHER-TURNED-SLEUTH IS BACK--IN ANOTHER RIVETTING CHALLENGE! High summer, 1365--and York is glorious with pageantry for the Feast of Corpus Christi. But wool merchant Will Crounce, who acts in "The Last Judgement...

  • Shadows on the Longhouse

    Mike Roarke

    Avoiding the war that they believe is not theirs to fight, trapper Sam Watley and his son Thad live their own lives, until Sam is brutally betrayed by a British colonel and plunges into a furious struggle in the wild Adirondack Mountains. Original....

  • A Wayward Love

    Emma Richmond

    HIS GIRL FRIDAY! Paris had resolved to give men a wide berth since her last romantic entanglement had gone horribly wrong. All men but most especially actors. They couldn't be trusted. Which was unfortunate since her latest position was as ...

  • The Genuine Article

    Patricia Rice

    The Fortune Hunter Lady Marian Oglethorp came to London to snare a husband with a fortune large enough to save her family from ruin. She had to move fast. Flaunting her bewitching beauty while keeping her biting wit out of sight, she captured the ...

  • The Year the Wolves Came

    Bebe Faas Rice

    In this fast-paced, turn-of-the-century thriller, a young homestead girl's fairy-tale family turns upside down when a mysterious pack of wolves appears, eliciting very peculiar--and terrifying--behavior from Mama....

  • We Three Kings and Other Carols

    H.A. Rey

    The creator of Curious George interprets ten Christmas carol favorites with charming, full-color illustrations opposite lyrics and piano arrangements, in a sturdy, spiral-bound songbook for the entire family....

  • Alternate Outlaws

    Mike Resnick

    Judith Tarr, George Alec Effinger, Frank M. Robinson, David Gerrold, and other notable writers present a collection of entertaining science fiction tales in which the bad guys go legit and some of history's heroes take up a life of crime. Original....

  • Deals With the Devil

    Mike Resnick

    A collection of stories about mortals who exchange their souls for eternal youth, fame, love, or other irresistible opportunities includes the writings of Jane Yolen, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon, and others. Original....

  • The Peppermint Race

    Dian Curtis Regan

    When the fourth graders have a race selling bags of peppermints to raise money for the school library, Tony has his heart set on winning a guitar, but ambitious Veronica wants the same prize, in a chapter book for newly independent readers....

  • Rocking the Babies

    Linda Raymond

  • Shaker Boy

    Mary Lyn Ray

    A lyrical picture book by the author of Alvah and Arvilla celebrates the world of the Shakers, which emphasizes work, devotion, and song, in the story of young Caleb, who hears angels singing and makes the songs into a book....

  • Orson

    Rascal

  • The Greatest Show Off Earth

    Robert Rankin

  • Rock and Ride

    Random House

  • Dancing on the Wind

    Mary Jo Putney

    DANGEROUS DECEPTION Like his namesake, Lucifer, Lord Strathmore, is known for unearthly beauty and diabolical cleverness. A tragic past has driven him to use his formidable talents to protect his country from secret enemies, and it is a job he do...

  • Loving Spirits

    Melinda Pryce

    A haunting love... Two years had passed--but Diana Barlow could not forget the husband she had lost. Now she fears she may lose her home as well, as the new heir arrives. A rough-hewn American whose rugged masculinity seems out of place in an Engl...

  • Viking Tempest

    Ashland Price

    THE DREAM For years, Dana Swansen had been haunted by a recurring dream of a faraway time and place. And here, at an ancient Celtic site in Ireland, where she'd come seeking refuge from an unhappy love affair, those visions seemed closer than ever. ...

  • Ghost Dance

    Price

    Using her shape-changing, hypnotic powers, a shaman's apprentice whose homeland is plundered by the Czar's empire infiltrates the palace and wins favor as his "Black Angel," but makes a terrible enemy in the process....

  • One Enchanted Autumn

    Fayrene Preston

    "You taste like strawberry wine -- sweet and spicy ...." Though intrigued against his will by the elegant attorney, Matthew Stone stuck to his guns-no wedding between his aunt and her beau, no matter how enchanting the matchmaker! Samantha McMilla...

  • Only You

    Fayrene Preston

    LOVE BY ANY OTHER NAME... All her life Faith has known the name of her soul mate: Damon Bradley. But that's all the Ouija board and the fortune-teller told her, and Faith knows she can't wait around forever for her true love. Now, just as she acce...

  • Jennie

    Douglas Preston

    Douglas Preston's Jennie, based on the real story of the chimpanzee who inspired Curious George, is the celebrated novel that was made into the award-winning Disney television film The Jennie Project. Translated into many languages, Jennie became a w...

  • Slow Burn

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    Faced with the brutal murder of her husband, Spencer Huntington demands answers from the one man who should have them -- ex-cop David Delgado, her husband's former partner and best friend. Her former lover. Spencer and David are bound by a relucta...

  • The Passage

    David Poyer

    The Navy's most sophisticated destroyer, the USS Barrett carries a top-secret computer that can pilot an unmanned ship and send it into battle. As the weapons officer charged with its first mission, Lieutenant Dan Lenson has a chance to make naval hi...

  • Can You Hear Me Scream?

    Richard Posner

    Determined to help their school board candidate beat his hateful opponent, Kate Bennett and Drew Meyer have the campaign threatened by Drew's kidnapping and a cold-blooded killer who has lethal plans for both of them. Original....

  • Something Terrible Happened

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • Fly Away Home

    K.D. Plum

  • Dear Benjamin Banneker

    Andrea Davis Pinkney / Andrea Pinkney

    Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Banneker attacked the institution of slavery and dared to call ...

  • Breaking Up

    Nicholas Pine

    Breaking up with her tough greaser boyfriend, Danny, after he breaks up a high-society party, rich girl Robin Anderson is alarmed when her wealthy friends start getting killed off and fears that Danny is out for ultimate revenge. Original....

  • Dog Breath!: The Horrible Trouble With Hally Tosis

    Dav Pilkey

    From Dav Pilkey, creator of the New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes Hally Tosis, the adorable dog that will take your breath away!Hally Tosis is a great family dog, but there is one rotten thing about her: her brea...

  • Trapped

    Jessica Pierce

    After stumbling upon a mysterious old book about a captive young girl in the attic of her new home, Jenny becomes obsessed with freeing Sara from her captors only to be trapped herself within the pages of the story. Original....

  • The Worker in Sandalwood

    Marjorie Pickthall

    A classic Canadian Christmas tale features Hyacinthe, a poor apprentice left to complete an intricate cabinet on Christmas Eve, who is aided in his tiresome task by a mysterious, gentle carpenter who comes to help just in time....

  • Caledonia

    Michael Phillips

    The issue of Scottish independence becomes a forum for reflection and revaluation by a young member of Parliament, Andrew Gordon Trentham, as he contemplates the turbulent history, strong spiritual heritage, and rich culture of his ancestral homeland...

  • The Arabian Nights

    Neil Philip

    A newly illustrated collection of the classic stories from The Arabian Nights, including "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," gives these familiar tales new energy, revitalizing them for today's readers....

  • I Have a News

    Neil Philip

  • Sara Kate, Super Kid

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    When Sara Kate can suddenly start throwing a basketball for long distances with incredible accuracy and her grandmother says she has inherited temporary superpowers that run in the family, Kate hopes her powers last long enough to win the basketball-...

  • I Hate Company

    P.J. Petersen

    Sandwiches in the sofa. Carrots in the pencil sharpener. Dan can't take it anymore! Dan thinks having company is bad enough. They hog the bathroom and make Dan give up his nice, soft bed. But Dan's mom's best friend and her bratty three-year-old J...

  • Ian Penney's Book of Nursery Rhymes

    Ian Penney

    Embracing the dreamlike logic of traditional nursery rhymes, Penney envisions their subjects almost as figures in a jazzy antique toy store, eerie and stately all at once. His perspectives are wonderfully skewed, almost surreal, while his composition...

  • Killing Range

    Don Pendleton

    BLOOD LUST South Africa's White Wolves are working overtime to reinstate apartheid's brutal code--with a racial bloodbath as their goal and terrorism as their means. But Mack Bolan is hitting the White Wolves where they live, spreading a loud an...

  • Warhead

    Don Pendleton

    RULES OF THE GAME Command center for an elite antiterrorist operation, Stony an has the equipment and personnel needed to gather Intelligence and make war on the nation's most elusive enemies. Taking orders directly from the President, Stony Man isn...

  • Prisoners of Peace

    John Peel

    Deep Space Nine becomes a tension-filled battleground as Jake, Nog, Ashley, and T'Ara become caught between Jakar, a Bajoran boy whose parents have been killed by the Cardassians, and Kam, a stowaway and the daughter of a Cardassian official. Origina...

  • Runaway Heart

    Jane Peart

    'End of the line!' The stagecoach driver's shout sent a chill down Holly Lambeth's spine. What an ominous sound! Was Riverbend, Oregon, to the be the end of the line for her? she had come West to escape the swirling gossip about her broken engagement...

  • Innocent Deceiver

    Lilian Peake

    "You will allow no man into your bed except me!" How dared Brendan Stewart take such a high-handed tone with her? He wasn't capable of distinguishing between love and lust. And, until he learned that important lesson and trusted Terri ...

  • The Vanishing Feast

    Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

    The award-winning author explores the issue of biodiversity, how it is threatened, and how we can preserve it. “This informative, well-written book provides excellent report material on a subject that is both interesting and complex.”--School Lib...

  • Taft

    Ann Patchett

    This second novel from the author is narrated by John Nickel, an ex-drummer who manages a Memphis bar that is a sort of anti-Cheers. He is also African American, a fact you can soon forget. For one thing, in Patchett's Tennessee, everyone, regard...

  • Amy's Secret Sister

    Francine Pascal

    Learning that she has a half-sister from her father's previous marriage, Amy Sutton is excited when Ashley comes to Sweet Valley to spend Thanksgiving and worries about how she and a new sibling will get along. Original....