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New Books List: 678 titles

  • 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...

  • Zack Zeroes In

    Beth Cruise

  • Your Own Christmas Magic Show

    Marvin Miller

  • Young Ghosts

    Daniel Cohen

    A spooky collection of ghostly tales includes the story of a boy who brings a murderer to justice, the legendary and doom-predicting appearances of Radiant Boys, and more. By the author of Great Ghosts. ...

  • You Read My Mind

    Emma Drummond

    In 1896, Knightshill, home of the Ashleigh family for 13 generations, is owned by Sir Gilliard, a general who treats his grandchildren as military subordinates and who is obsessed with the continuation of a distinguished line....

  • 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...

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1994

    Edward D. Hoch

    A nineteenth edition edited by a writer for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine includes works by Bill Prozini, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, and other distinguished mystery writers....

  • The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: 3rd Annual Edition

    Jon L. Breen

  • 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....

  • 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, ...

  • 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....

  • Wonder's Sister

    Joanna Campbell

    Samantha McLean is ecstatic over finally owning her own horse and sets out to turn Shining, Wonder's difficult and neglected half-sister, into a winner, but then the parents of a little girl who cannot walk offer to buy Shining. Original....

  • Wolfe Wanting

    Joan Hohl

    THE THIRD BIG BAD WOLFE BROTHER Megan Delaney thought she'd sleep easier with Sgt. Royce Wolfe right in the next room, all six feet five inches of him sprawled on her sofa. But after what she'd been through, a good night's sleep would be a long t...

  • Wolf-Woman

    Sherryl Jordan

  • The Wolf

    Margaret Barbalet

  • Without Sin

    Spencer Klaw

    "Without Sin chronicles the rise and fall of nineteenth-century America''s most succesful experiment in Utopian living: New York''s Oneida Community (1848-1880). Founded by the charismatic Christian Perfectioniost John Humphrey Noyes, this remarkabl...

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

    Brock Tully

  • The Witches' Hammer

    Jane Stanton Hitchcock

    A respected surgeon and rare book collector is brutally murdered in his elegant Manhattan home, just hours after showing a book dealer the fifteenth-century manual of black magic -- a grimoire -- he'd received from a grateful patient. Now the healer'...

  • Witch's Ring

    Rachel Taft Dixon

  • The Witch on a Windy Night

    Bernice Chardiet

  • 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...

  • The Wise Old Woman

    Yoshiko Uchida

  • A Winsome Widow

    Teresa DesJardien

    THE CHASE IS ON! It all began when Regist, Viscount Collingsworth, overheard that scoundrel, Lord Willernott, laying odds at White's that he could woo and win the lovely Lady Stephana Monroe. Regist had always held the incomparable Stephana in...

  • Winnie the Pooh and the Perfect Christmas Tree

    Bruce Talkington

  • Winds of Destiny

    Laurel Pace

    What Fate Awaited Them? Though at one with the Spirit of Life, Ethan Woodard walked alone. Until the day Elizabeth Merriweather, possessed of sun-splashed beauty and untested strength, came to the place he called home... and changed the landscape ...

  • The Wind-Witch

    Susan Dexter

    Book Two of "The Warhorse of Esdragon"
    Faithful wife to a small landholder, Druyan had lived her life in other people's shadows. And if she could sometimes hold the clouds at bay or whistle up a wind, Druyan made sure to keep that talent to hersel...

  • Wild Horses

    Dick Francis

    Once a blacksmith, now famous and respected as a newspaperman, Valentine Clark knows everyone who is anyone in the racing world. Aged, confused, blind and dying, he harbors a daunting secret that he is desperate to be rid of. he makes his last confes...

  • Wife for a While

    Donna Clayton

    Desperate Bachelor Ben Danvers was about to lose everything -- unless he was married within the next few weeks. The terms of his grandfather's will were outrageous -- but airtight. Ben had just about given up hope when the last woman he ever exp...

  • 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...

  • Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?

    Lorrie Moore

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā€¢ In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America -- and a master of American fiction -- we share a grown womanā€™s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth. "An enchanting novel."&#x...

  • Who the Hell is She, Anyway?

    Marisa Acocella

    Black-and-white and two-color illustrations chronicle the zany exploits of She--a gorgeous woman with a certain knowledge of who she is and what she wants--from birth through the defiance of her school years, escape from the world of corporate ...

  • Whittler's Tale

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • 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...

  • White Bear, Ice Bear

    Joanne Ryder

  • The Whispering Outlaw

    Max Brand

    The Whisperer, a mysterious frontier bandit who never shows his face or speaks in his own voice, recruits a ragtag band of outlaws to assist him in a series of daring robberies designed to make them all rich. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • Where's My Baby?

    Elizabeth Ergas

    While researching a series of child abductions and disappearances, reporter Molly Deere uncovers a diabolical conspiracy, but her investigation soon turns terrifyingly personal after her own young son, Petey, vanishes. Original....

  • When the Moon Is Full

    Robin Moore

    Interweaving elements of Allegheny folklore and history, a spine-tingling collection of six tales of the supernatural includes that of a young man whose skill with the fiddle bewitches a half-woman, half-wolf creature....

  • When Lightning Strikes

    Kristin Hannah

    A MAN LOST IN THE PAST, A WOMAN LOST IN TIME... Romance writer Alaina Costanza has given up on dreams and fairy tales. Then one storm-tossed, enchanted night she is plunged back in time to the wild, Western world of her newest novel. Disoriented a...

  • When Bear Came down from the Sky

    Toni de Gerez

  • 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...

  • What Is Christmas?

    Lillie James

  • What I Lived For

    Joyce Carol Oates

    The stunning, classic portrait of a powerful man's downward spiral to moral ruinJerome "Corky" Corcorn. A money-juggling wheeler dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and successful womanizer. It is a Memorial Day weekend, and we are about to l...

  • Web of Smoke

    Erin Grady

    With the police racing against time to stop a serial killer targeting small children, Christie McCoy has no one to turn to when an unknown stalker invades her world and must brave the shadows of her own life to unmask the mad intruder. Original....

  • 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....

  • 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 Warrior's Tale

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    Captain Rali Emilie Antero came from an illustrious family of traders, wizards, and adventurers. But Rali cared little for magic, and even less for journeying. She was a soldier, captain of the elite Maranon Guard, staunch defenders of the majestic c...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Vr Virtual Realit Spy

    Dina Anastasio

  • The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill

    Nancy Willard

    ā€œBoth 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. . . . Donā€™t pa...

  • Vodoun

    David Madsen

    When prize-winning Washington journalist Ray Falco becomes involved in the disappearance of Jean-Mars Baptiste, a Haitian politician, he is drawn into a deadly web of political corruption and discovers the strange, dangerous world of vodoun. ...

  • Virtual Reality Magician

    Dina Anastasio

  • Virgin Bride // Lady of Eve

    Tamara Leigh

    SHE WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO AVOID BEING SENT TO A CONVENT-- EVEN HER VIRTUE Lady Graeye Charwyck was desperate to escape the fate her father had planned for her--to spend the rest of her life in a convent. She could envision only one way out: to li...

  • 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. ...

  • A Very Kroll Christmas

    Betty Paraskevas

  • 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...

  • 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. ā€œThis informative, well-written book provides excellent report material on a subject that is both interesting and complex.ā€--School Lib...

  • Valley in Bloom

    Grace Thompson

    Every village has its secretsā€¦ 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...

  • 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...

  • Untamed Heart

    Georgina Devon

    UNWILLING BRIDE! When Lord Alaistair St. Simon, better known as 'Saint, ' won the young Baron Stone's inheritance at the gaming tables, he fully intended to return Stone's vowel the next day. But the next day, Stone was dead, and h...

  • An Undomesticated Wife

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A GROOM WHO JUST WON'T DO Regina Morrisey had a lively wit, a flawless education...and nary a shred of domestic experience. But that didn't stop her diplomat papa from wedding her by proxy to the Marquess of Daniston. Leaving exotic Algiers ...

  • Under the Bridge

    Ellen Kindt McKenzie

    When Ritchie's younger sister Rosie gets very sick after their mother suddenly goes away, Rosie begins to receive letters from a lonely troll, and these letters help Ritchie cope with his mother's absence, his father's seeming indifference, and the f...

  • Uncle Smoke Stories

    Roger L. Welsch

  • Two Hearts Too Late

    Christie Clark

    INSTANT FATHERHOOD One moment Carl Tannon was a carefree bachelor; the next, he was a daddy. Not that he minded. He was perfectly willing to tackle bottles and diapers and ...whatever. All he had to do was retrieve his daughter from Kirby Gordon a...

  • 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...

  • Turn Back the Night

    Jennifer Drew

    The Beautiful Disbeliever Dawn Girard believed there was a logical explanation for everything. Even the midnight noises in her sister's old house. Nobody would convince her otherwise. Not even a handsome stranger with eyes as dark and seductive ...

  • Turkey Trouble

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    It's going to be a great Thanksgiving week! Ms. Rooney's class is having a special feast and competing in a Good Neighbors Contest. But for Emily Arrow lots more is going on: Her mother is going to have a baby very soon. Everything would be perfect i...

  • 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 Trouble With Angels

    Debbie Macomber

    A Season for Giving...and Loving It is a time of joy and gladness--yet even the wonder of Christmas cannot brighten lives burdened by loneliness and despair. So when three "rush" prayers fly up from the City of Angels, three real angels fly down t...

  • Troll's Search for Summer

    Nicolas Van Pallandt

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Tough Loser

    Barthe DeClements

    Jenna tries to help her brother, Mike, the only good player on the worst hockey team in the area, overcome his anger over continually losing, before he does something that jeopardizes his chance to attend hockey camp....

  • 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...

  • Tomorrow Sucks

    Greg Cox

    Journeying from the streets of old London to the decks of interplanetary spaceships, a new collection of science fiction vampire tales features short stories by Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Dean Ing, Spider Robinson, and other notable authors. Origin...

  • Tolliver

    Paul A. Hawkins

    Vowing to practice medicine despite the prejudices of those who brand him a traitor, army doctor James Tolliver finds himself rescued by a grateful Lakota Indian, who brings him into the tribe when Tolliver's acts get him into trouble. Original....

  • To Race a Dream

    Deborah Savage

  • 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...

  • Time and Time Again

    Dennis Danvers

    While researching her new novel, which is based on a true event from eighteenth-century Virginia, author Marion Mead travels to her character's family home and begins a haunting and desperate love affair with the plantation's owner. Reprint....

  • Time and Tide

    Eve Gladstone

    The devil and the deep blue sea Thoroughly modern Bree Kealy was obsessed by a legend. Over a century ago, amid rumors of dark betrayal and bitter revenge, devilish seafarer Alexander Devane went down with his doomed clipper. Yet now his restless ...

  • Throat Sprockets

    Tim Lucas

    Spending his lunch hours in a porno theater to relieve his boredom, a young advertising executive discovers an obscure film called Throat Sprockets and develops a fascination for women's throats that gradually consumes his life....

  • 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...

  • Three Cheers for You, Cassie!

    Katy Hall

    THE PAXTON CHEERLEADERS! Outstanding and Unique! Incredible! Elite! They'll sweep you off your feet! Go Patti! Go Cassie! Go Lauren! Go Tara! Cassie's running for co-captain of the Paxton Cheerleaders. And she's sure she's going to win. Cassi...

  • Three Bears Big Book

    Byron Barton

  • Those That Mattered

    Barbara Angle

    Returning home from college to her West Virginia, coal-mining roots, Portia Crowe escapes a bad marriage and follows in her family's footsteps to become one of the first female members of the United Mine Workers...

  • This Fierce Loving

    Judith E. French

    The white man's cruelties have hardened the heart of Fire Talon. And now his honored father is in their hands, forcing the handsome Delaware war chief to take a captive of his own. She is called Rebecca, the beautiful, untouched bride of his most hat...

  • The Third Horror

    R.L. Stine

    Kody Frasier always swore sheā€™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...

  • 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...

  • They Followed a Bright Star

    Joan Alavedra

    This adaption of a German nativity story offers readers a brightly illustrated picture book about the shepherds and kings who were summoned to a Bethlehem stable to prepare for and witness the birth of Jesus Christ....

  • There's a Dragon in My Sleeping Bag

    James Howe

    This wry tale of two brothers who amiably try to outdo each other by creating jumbo-size imaginary friends makes a great read-aloud and is a follow-up to Thereā€™s a Monster Under My Bed....

  • There Was a Little Girl

    Evan Hunter

    After Matthew Hope slips into a coma--the result of a drive-by shooting--his friends, private eye Warren Chambers and police detective Morris Bloom--must follow in his investigative footsteps to discover why he was shot. All signs point to the local ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Temptation Texas Style!

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. OCTOBER Tough Guy: Tony Callaway. Roughed-up rodeo cowboy--set in his wild ways. Tender Gal: Christina O'Reilly. Shy and sweet--but determined to find her roots. Together? Well, anything can happen.... When Christina O'Reilly showed u...

  • Temptation

    Donna Hill

    WHEN DESIRES CAN BE HAD FOR THE ASKING... In lavish San Francisco Valley, Noelle Maxwell unveils her secret. Liaisons is the ultimate fantasy--a chic retreat where romantic dreams are yours for the right price. But Noelle has other secrets ...years ...

  • 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...

  • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

    Yukio Mishima

    Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple...

  • Tears of a Tiger

    Sharon M. Draper

    Andy tackles his guilt and grief in the first book of Sharon M. Draperā€™s award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy.Tigers donā€™t cry -- or do they? After the death of his longtime friend and fellow Hazelwood Tiger in a car accident, Andy, the driver, b...

  • A Taxi Dog Christmas

    Debra Barracca

  • Tangled Destinies

    Sara Wood

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

  • Tale from the Heart: Bloodlines

    Marvel Book Group

  • 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...

  • The Sword of Maiden's Tears

    Rosemary Edghill

    MAGIC GONE ASTRAY- It was Beltane Eve and student librarian Ruth Marlowe's thirtieth birthday when she stumbled over New York City's latest mugging victim. He was tall, with long silvery hair, catlike eyes, pointed ears, and he was garbed in the f...

  • Sweet Dalliance

    Lisa Bingham

    When Micah St. Charles wakes up at the wrong end of a gun aimed by a women who has stolen his clothes, he decides to get clear of Eliza Wilder's barn fast. On the run from the Union army -- accused of treason by the one man who should have lo...

  • Suspended Animation

    Wally E. Davis

  • 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...

  • Sunset Fantasy

    Cherie Bennett

    After getting into a terrible fight, Emma, Samantha, and Carrie have similar dreams about what the three of them will be doing ten years into the future, and what a mutual enemy will finally get as just desserts. Original....

  • Summer's Reason

    Cherokee Paul McDonald

    Modern-day crime in the Florida sunbelt is illustrated through the experiences of Jessie Summer, a young, idealistic cop, who is trying not only to survive, but also to maintain a sense of justice in her life and career. By the author of The Patc...

  • Sullivan's Law

    Amanda Clark (1)

    "Is that why you're marrying Philip?" Ben looked skeptical and vaguely disapproving as he spoke. "Because Chris needs a father?" "I'm not -- I didn't mean -- That's not the only consideration, you know." ...

  • Strawberry Lace

    Amy Belding Brown

    Despising the snobbish attitudes of the Winters, whose barbecue she is hired to cater, Chelsea Adams finds herself falling for the family's son and accepts another man's proposal in order to run from her feelings. Original....

  • Stowaway Heart

    Leona Karr

    From the banks of the mighty Colorado, Trish Winters watched the boats struggling against the rapids that had taken many strong men down. A frontierswoman of rare courage and an exquisite beauty hidden beneath her ragged calico dress, Trish vowed tha...

  • Story of the Year

    John Cunliffe

  • Storm-Tossed

    Lee Karr
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    Stranded with two staffers and three children, hospital administrator Elizabeth Preston cursed the raging winds and rainfall that held them captive. Then Davin Delmar emerged unscathed from the hurricane, offering his help... and mesmerizing Elizabet...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Step in the Dark

    Marjorie Lewty

    Love is so complicated! Cynical businessman Saul Jarrett didn't believe in hearts and flowers. So why did he go along with Nicola's request that he pose as her loving fiance, and why did he give all the appearance of being a man in love? Nicola di...

  • 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...

  • Starwalker

    Billie Green

    "Be careful what you ask of the gods -- you just might get it...." Born of two bloods, torn between two worlds, Marcus Aurelius Reed was arrogant, untamed -- and the only man who could save Laken Murphy's brother's life! She neede...

  • 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...

  • Star of the Parade

    Francine Pascal

    Hoping to make the elementary school's float the best in the Thanksgiving parade, Jessica plans to get a local child star's participation, and wonders how to get through the girl's many fans in order to ask. Original....

  • St. Agnes' Stand

    Thomas Eidson

    Encountering the survivors of an Apache ambush deep in the New Mexico desert, Nat Swanson is disturbed when their leader, Sister St. Agnes, insists despite her own shaken faith that Nat has been sent by God to lead them to safety. Reprint....

  • Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night

    Alice Low

  • Spider-Man: The Return of Sinister Six

    David Michelinie

  • Spencerville

    Nelson DeMille

    The cold war is over, and Keith Landry, one of the nation's top intelligence officers, is forced into early and unwanted retirement. Restless, Landry returns to Spencerville, the small Midwestern town where he grew up. The place has changed in the qu...

  • Spellbound

    Jim Thomas

  • Spare Parts

    Rick Hanson

    Someone is ripping people off--relieving upwardly mobile professionals of vital organs. It's the Yuppie Ripper, spreading mayhem and murder throughout the greater Seattle area... But body parts aren't all that are missing. So's the mild-mannered o...

  • 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...

  • Something Terrible Happened

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • Something Borrowed, Something Blue

    Adrianne Lee

    Something old... After the Carlyle family lost its wedding heirloom that guaranteed bliss, all marriages failed. Now Lyssa set out to retrieve the necklace from the Rival family - to ensure her own future happiness. Something new... For Craig...

  • Someone at the Door

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    BEWARE THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS The phone and the radio were dead, but they'd already heard the news: a mass murderer was on the loose. Hannah and her younger sister Meg were miles from the nearest neighbor, trapped in a raging blizzard, home...

  • So Who Says I Have to Act My Age

    Kevin Johnson

  • So Little to Die for

    Lucretia Grindle

    During his long-overdue vacation in the Scottish Highlands, Chief Inspector Ross investigates the murders of actress Claudia Furnival, her sister, and their husbands, a crime for which a local shepherd is charged. Original....

  • Snowman's Christmas Surprise

    Lucinda McQueen

  • Snow Angels

    Stewart O'Nan

    Now a major motion picture from Warner Independent starring Sam Rockwell and Kate BeckinsaleIn Stewart O'Nan's Snow Angels, Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974. Enduring the pain of his parents' divorce, his world is shatter...

  • Smoke Screen

    Sandy London

    Taking a job at the Everest Training Equipment corporation, a former field hospital administrator, becomes caught in a dangerous power struggle between her magnetic new boss, Dominic Croft, and Everest's ruthless new president. Original....

  • A Small Sacrifice

    Ellen Hart

    When Cordelia Thorn ventures to Summer Green, Wisconsin, for a reunion with some old college friends, she finds trouble in paradise. Twenty-plus years have definitely changed things. Soap opera star Diana has become an alcoholic. Curt and Annie's mar...

  • 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...

  • Slocum and Quantrill

    Jake Logan

    AN UNWILLING REBEL Slocum thought the Confederacy was as dead as his former Army commander, General William Clark Quantrill -- a merciless killer of civilian and soldier alike. But Quantrill's beautiful and ruthless daughter is alive -- and gather...

  • 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...

  • Sleeping Beauty: The Ballet Story

    Marian Horosko

    A beautifully illustrated retelling of the enchanting story of the classic ballet by Tchaikovsky follows the beautiful bewitched princess who sleeps for one hundred years and the handsome prince whose kiss awakens her....

  • Slam Dunk Saturday

    Jean Marzollo

    Illus. in black-and-white. It's almost time for Slam Dunk Saturday, and Billy is practicing like crazy for the Shoot-Out Contest. Will he beat Chad--who's huge, rude, and the best player in school?Ā Ā This play-by-play story reveals an important mess...

  • 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 ...

  • Sister's Keeper

    Randye Lordon

    After a life-long family friend is killed in a traffic accident, P.I. Sydney Sloane begins to uncover her friendā€™s unsuspected secret life. No longer believing her friendā€™s death was accidental, Sloane starts to investigate and finds herself foll...

  • Sing to Me Dreamer

    Shonagh Koea

    As she sorts out her deceased mother's estate, Margaret reflects on her time in India as mistress to a Maharajah. However, there are many things that she has to confront in the present - her bullying lawyer, the aggressive neighbour, and the spectre ...

  • Simpsons Comics Extravaganza

    Matt Groening

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    Welcome to the remarkable first four issues of Simpsons Comics, brought to you by the Bongo Comics Group, a small but overachieving band of merry artists, designers, lawyers and publicists. Their work looks effortless, but the Bongo gang has shed...

  • Showdown at Lonesome Pellet

    Paul Ratz de Tagyos

  • She Walks These Hills

    Sharyn McCrumb

    Fear more chilling than approaching winter blankets the Appalachian community of Dark Hollow, Tennessee. Some believe that the ghost of Katie Wyler, kidnapped by Shawnee two hundred years ago, is once again roaming the hills. Even more frightening, a...

  • Shark Shock

    Donna Jo Napoli

    Eleven-year-old Adam finds it easier to cope with some of his worries when he regains his ability to talk with his freckles and when he makes friends with a blind boy during the family's vacation at Cape May...

  • The Shark Callers

    Eric Campbell

    After a volcano erupts two very different young men find themselves struggling for life in shark-infested waters and one must be sacrificed to the swarming blood lust of the sharks if the other is to survive. Ā€ĀœThe authorĀ€Ā™s exceptional depiction...

  • 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...

  • Shame of Man

    Piers Anthony

    A magnificent epic of danger, desire, triumph and tragedy, Piers' Anthony's Shame of Man is nothing less than the story of humanity itself. It is the story of two lovers reborn throughout history--Hugh, a dreamer and musician, and his beloved Ann, a ...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Shadows on a Sunset Sea

    Sabine Kells

    A SHADOW IN THE DARK, A WHISPER IN THE NIGHT, A MAN REACHING OUT TO HER . . . Surely, Carolyn was dreaming. The ghostly legends of Thornwyck Castle couldn't be true. Tiernan O'Rourke had lived nearly three hundred years earlier; he couldn't stil...

  • Shadows and Whispers: Tales from the Other Side

    Collin A. McDonald

    The author of The Chilling Hour presents eerie tales of strange shadows and stranger events, in which a boy finds himself dodging bullets in a gunfight that took place one hundred years in the past, and more....

  • Shadow Song

    Terry Kay

    In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine Hill Inn. A rural Southerner, he had never heard the word meshugge until Avrum Feldman -- a retired New York City furrier -- became his unlikely friend. For Bobo, no...

  • Shadow of the Mountains

    Gilbert Morris; Lynn Morris

    Cheney faces two enemies—superstition and greed . . .Cheney Duvall has proven herself as a true doctor to those 200 brides with whom she traveled to the West. But arrival in Seattle with a string of medical successes during the voyage does not ...

  • 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...

  • The Seven Days of Kwanzaa

    Angela Shelf Medearis

    Introduces the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa, and provides information on holiday parties, recipes for African-inspired dishes, instructions for holiday craft projects, and brief biographies of individuals whose lives represent each of the seve...

  • Serpent and the Rainbow

    Wade Davis

  • The Sepia Siren Killer

    Richard A. Lupoff

    Prior to World War II, black actors were restricted to mainstream film roles as chauffeurs, maids, night club entertainers, and comic buffoons. But there was a second Hollywood, a BLACK Hollywood, where great producers and directors like Oscar Michau...

  • Separating

    Susan Bowden

    When her husband announces that he is leaving her for a woman half his age on their silver anniversary, Riona embarks on a journey that could lead to an unexpected new romance, but old bitterness may destroy her chances for a passionate future. Origi...

  • Seeing Is Believing

    Lindsay McKenna
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    A quest for a missing psychic sends mercenary Wes Montgomery into the canyons of Arizona with medicine woman Diana Thurston. From different worlds, both are headed for a collision -- until the haunting caverns reveal secrets that change them forever....

  • Secret Santa

    Ann M. Martin

    Kristy, Claudia, and the rest of the Baby-sitters Club work hard to make one little girl's Christmas holidays the best ever, in an entertaining package that includes a storybook, greeting cards, letters, and a friendship necklace....

  • The Search

    Diane Carey

    The Dominion: The mysterious rulers of the worlds on the other side of the wormhole. The Dominion: a ruthless planet-conquering race unknown even to those they rule. The Dominion: the most dangerous foe the Federation may ever face. At the edge of t...

  • Scrooge

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Scary, Spooky Hunt

    Jeffrey Nelson

  • Scar Tissue

    Michael Ignatieff

    At the heart of Michael Ignatieff's riveting novel about a woman's descent into Alzheimer's are the tangled threads of a Midwestern family, frayed by time and tragedy yet still connected - as much by pride, embarrassed love, and sibling rivalry as...

  • 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-...

  • Santa's Furry Friends

    Demi

    A collection of twelve delightfully illustrated books feature the different inhabitants of Santa's North Pole, including reindeer, polar bears, and even Santa himself, all telling stories about themselves....

  • The Sandman and the Turtles

    Michael Morpurgo

  • Sanctuary

    Faye Kellerman

    A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Los Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. Investigating detective Decker is stumped--faced with a perplexing case riddled...

  • Sam Curtin

    Doug Bowman

    Times are hard for the Curtin clan. Farming and raising cattle don't bring in enough money, and payments on the ranch are due. Curtin is the best there is with a six-shooter--and there are more wanted men than the law can handle. To save the ranch, C...

  • Sabotage at Sea

    Franklin W. Dixon

    After signing on as crewmembers of a replica of a century-old schooner, Frank and Joe find their sailing skills--and their sleuthing talents--tested to the limits by ghostly apparitions and sabotage at sea. Original....

  • Running the Halls: Middlefield Mayhem

    J.T. Bergen

  • 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...

  • Runaway Christmas Toy

    Linda Hayward

  • 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....

  • Rosie's Fishing Trip

    Amy Hest

  • 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...

  • Rocking the Babies

    Linda Raymond

  • Rock and Ride!

    Justine Korman Fontes

    The sole survivors of the Plutarkian conquest of Mars, the Biker Mice flee to Earth only to discover that one of the planet's leading citizens, Laurence Limburger, is a Plutarkian in disguise, who is plotting the same fate for Earth as Mars. Original...

  • Rock and Ride

    Random House

  • Road Wars

    James Axler

    THE FUTURE UNCERTAIN Emerging out of the ashes of the nuclear apocalypse, no one has been more successful and determined than Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists. But if the wasteland's endless miles come 'between them, the odds for get...

  • 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 ...

  • Rights Guide for Home Owners

    Jo Tunnard

  • The Right Kind of Man

    Jessica Hart

    A working relationship? Lorimer wanted an efficient, reliable PA, preferably one who could type! Skye Henderson didn't seem to fit any of these criteria, but he didn't have any other options. Skye had run away from man trouble in one town only ...

  • Rhino and Mouse

    Todd Starr Palmer

  • Rescued by Time

    Amy J. Fetzer
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    Christine Warner's South Carolina island vacation takes a mysterious turn when she encounters a handsome stranger -- born over a century before! Alexander Dearborn gallops out of the mist to steal Christine's heart...and then vanishes. Can Ch...

  • Requiem

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Twenty-five years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard conducted breakthrough negotiations with an aggressive race called the Gorn. Now, on the anniversary of that achievement, Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterpriseā"¢ are headed for the Gorn Homeworld to ...

  • The Reluctant Viking

    Sandra Hill

    "PICTURE YOURSELF FLOATING OUT OF YOUR BODY -- FLOATING...FLOATING...FLOATING..." The hypnotic voice on the self-motivation tape was supposed to help Ruby Jordan solve her problems, not create new ones. Instead, she was lulled from a life full 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...

  • Red Cat, White Cat

    Peter Mandel

  • The Rebounder

    Thomas J. Dygard

    Transfer student Chris Patton looks and moves like a basketball player--but claims he's not one. Coach Doug Fulton wants to know why, and he discovers a tragedy in Chris's past that prevents him from playing the game he loves. "Readers who look for p...

  • The Real Mother Goose Book of Christmas Carols

    Laurence Schorsch

  • Reach for the Stars

    Nancy Knight

    Alone now and at a turning point in her life, Eve Travers found herself remembering happy girlhood summers spent at her family's camp, Reach for the Stars. Now, the abandoned South Carolina camp was hers. Maybe instead of selling, she could bring...

  • 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...

  • The Raider's Daughter

    Kimberly Cates

    SHE HAD A FIERY SPIRIT ONLY ONE MAN COULD TAME... The vitality of colonial Virginia had transformed Lucy d'Autrecourt Blackheath into a defiant and self-assured young woman -- and made her restless and hungry for adventure. When a parcel arriv...

  • The Quiet Cowboy

    Jack Curtis

    Mustang wrangler Wes Bengard and his Paiute partner, Red, take on Beecher Turnbull, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in Nevada's Juniper Valley, who is responsible for the murders of five "rustlers" who made the mistake of straying onto Turnb...