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New Books List: 726 titles


  • M.J. Zellnik

    M. J. Zellnik takes us back to 1890s Portland, Oregon, when horse-drawn carriages crowded the busy streets. The booming city offers refuge to Libby Seale who has fled New York and an abusive husband. As a seamstress for the prominent Rose family, she...



  • Alisha Yvonne

    Holiday Simmons, a successful financial analyst, tries to discover what 'real love' is by taking advantage of the affection of two former male colleagues. Holiday likes the taste of having her cake and eating it too, but she soon learns that betrayal...



  • Rebecca York

    HE WANTED BACK HIS LIFE...AND HIS WIFE After security expert Gage Darnell was rocked by a lab explosion, he regained consciousness a marked man. Wanted for murder, Gage went on the run for his life, with little time to uncover the conspiracy at Cr...



  • Michiko Yokote

    DEEPLY IN LOVE AND DEEPLY IN TROUBLE!

    Mermaid princess Lucia Nanami has survived several villainous attacks, that also threaten her fellow princesses, her relationship with her beloved, Kaito, and the health of the seven seas! When the evil Ga...



  • Laurence Yep

    Tom has always been a reluctant apprentice. But since his grandmother's death, he's assisted the tiger Mr. Hu in guarding the magical phoenix egg. When the phoenix hatches prematurely, Tom faces his greatest challenge of all. The phoenix believes ...



  • Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    This original anthology gathers together eighteen fantastical stories about cats, dogs, mice, and other furry creatures from realms beyond our world.Includes stories by Michael A. Stackpole, Keith DeCandido, James M. Ward, Jody Lynn Nye, Nancy Holder...



  • Yugi Yamada

    What would you do if your crush of umpteen years suddenly got married? After attending his beloved Saitoh's wedding, broken-hearted Nagai gets a little too drunk, landing himself in a hotel room with the bride's...



  • Qiu Xiaolong

    Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the party to take the lead in a corruption investigation - one where the principle figure and his family have long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach of ...



  • Trish Wylie

    Sean O'Reilly had become so close to his colleague and friend Maggie Sullivan that he was beginning to imagine their friendship could lead to more. Only now, bizarrely, she's backed off--and, even more strangely, she's started looking for love on the...



  • Stephen Woodworth

    Natalie Lindstrom has finally left the underworld behind for a new career in the art world. But there's one world she can't escape: the Other world of the dead. As a former Violet, an elite crime-fighter with the power to channel murder victims, Nata...



  • Stuart Woods

    Short Straw reintroduces Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle, who first appeared in Stuart Woods's 1992 thriller, Santa Fe Rules. In his first adventure, Ed fell in love with the seductive Barbara Kennerly, and married her-against his better judgment. Turns...



  • William P Wood Jr.

    He was a war hero and a member of Congress. Now he's dead--shot down the day after he made a scathing speech blasting corruption in Washington. For Sacramento police detectives Terry Nye and Rose Tafoya, the investigation is a time bomb. They have ju...



  • Marv Wolfman

    It's the Sorcerer Supreme against the Emperor of the Undead! Dracula wants Earth to fall under the spell of the Darkhold, but Doctor Strange has joined Blade and the Nightstalkers in a quest to vanquish all vampires! See the origins of vampirism itse...



  • Gene Wolfe

    Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed. The two previous novels, com...



  • Elizabeth Winthrop

    "Dream your dreams, my child, and knit them into the wool."

    A long time ago a girl named Claire learned to knit by her mother's side. As the mother knit mittens, scarves and all sorts of clothing for the wealthy people of the town, Claire set ...



  • Don Winslow

    Frank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex -- surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront when he's not juggling any of his other three part-time jobs or trying to get a quick set in on his longboard. He's a stand-up businessman, a devot...



  • Marcia Willett

    Picking up the story of Kate Webster and Cass Wivenhoe that began with First Friends, A Friend of the Family tells the tale of one of their friends, Felicity, a married woman who has been dallying with George, another mutual acquaintance. When Felici...



  • Edward Willet

    A thrilling sci-fi novel of communication and learned trust between human and alien

    Kathryn was a human empath whose world and life had been destroyed when, as a young child, she watched helplessly as the alien S’sinn slaughtered he...




  • Susan Wiggs
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    Five bestselling authors Five real-life heroines They're your neighbors, your aunts, your sisters and your best friends. They're women across North America committed to reaching out and changing lives, one good deed at a time. Five of these except...



  • Robert Whitlow

    Can he trust his client's dreams and visions-even when they threaten to destroy his future? Supernatural visions filled with images of keys, hatchets, hammers, and fires. An eccentric old man in jail-accused of robbing a church and knowing things ...



  • Diane Whiteside

    Once a medieval Spanish knight, Don Rafael Perez has been a vampire for seven centuries, clinging to his code of honor despite years of torture. He has risen to become the leader of the largest vampire territory in North America, spanning Texas and O...



  • Sheri Whitefeather

    HIS TO CLAIM Like a man possessed, Dylan Trueno had searched for--and finally found--Julia Alcott, the one woman he could not forget. Though they were practically strangers, he vowed to brand her as his own...even if it meant preserving a secret t...



  • Pat White

    Where do you put your service revolver when all you're wearing are spandex briefs? This is just one of the challenges facing DEA agent Jason McBain when he goes undercover as pro wrestler Jack the Stripper. His assignment: to find out who is distribu...



  • Loreth Anne White

    Three men. One mission. Only love can save them. The Man: Hunter McBride--he'd buried his past and his emotions long ago to become the ultimate warrior. The Mission: Get the only proof of a deadly toxin out of the Congo jungle--with or without ...



  • Gloria Whelan

    A critically acclaimed historical novel “that roars” (Kliatt), from the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Homeless Bird. Africa is the only home Rachel Sheridan has ever known. But when her missionary parents are struck with influen...



  • Nadine Bernard Westcott

    In preparation for his big trip, the reindeer make the cocoa, Santa brushes his teeth, and the bags are packed in this exciting and interactive pop-up book with bright and bold colorful spreads filled with holiday cheer for preschoolers and beginning...



  • Joseph A. West

    While keeping his eye on a prizefight between a rancher and a desperate man in need of money to purchase his sister's freedom, Marshal Matt Dillon deals with a maniacal preacher and his angry mob, as well as a serial killer known as the Moonlight Rip...



  • Sarah Weeks

    A rollicking series about two best friends and their misadventures from Sarah Weeks, the star author of SO B. IT


    Nat Boyd and Boyd Fink love making up crazy games to play. In their latest, Faboo Facts, the two Boyds go head-to-head, battli...



  • Sarah Weeks

    It’s bath time for Scruff. But does anyone know where he’s hiding? Have the cows seen him? Moo-no! How about the pigs? Oink-no! Looking for that dog is just too tough! But not for toddlers. If they look carefully, they’ll find Scruff hiding on ...



  • David Weber; Linda Evans

    GATEWAY TO HELL'S FURY The Union of Arcana has expanded through the portals linking parallel universes for over a century and a half. In that time, its soldiers and sorcerers have laid claim to one uninhabited planet after another-all of them Earth,...



  • Carl Weber; Mary B. Morrison
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    National bestselling authors Carl Weber and Mary B. Morrison team up to bring a hot, hilarious, page-turner featuring two of their favorite characters. The path of true love never runs smoothly--and neither does the path of raw desire--as the ultimat...



  • Minda Webber
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    Talk show host Lucy Campbell has made a career of interviewing Druid witches, trolls, and an occasional goblin. But now she wants more. Only she wasn't expecting to get involved with a vampire detective who has a slight incubus problem....



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  • Peter Watts

    Two months since the stars fell....Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveil...



  • Jeannie Watt

    Making over the creaky Victorian into a bed-and-breakfast is probably a crazy plan, but the ramshackle house is all Tara has. And even though she can barely scrape together her brother's college fees, she won't give up. Until the townsfolk decide to ...



  • Livia J. Washburn

    All year round, retired schoolteacher Phyllis Newsom is as sweet as pie peachpie, of course, made with Parker County peaches, the sweetest in the state of Texas. All year, that is, except during the Peach Festival whose blue ribbon has slipped throug...



  • Susan May Warren

    An inexplicable ailment was striking down the children of Russia; in less than forty-eight hours, American medical missionary Sarai Curtiss had watched two young patients slip away, and she feared she might have an epidemic on her hands. Yet how coul...



  • Linda Warren

    He's proven his father wrong Beau McCain has become a successful lawyer, held the family together, mended fences and watched while others found love.... Now it's his turn. Or it would have been if Beau had managed to show Macy Randall that he wasn't...



  • Christine Warren

    WHEN A ROYAL REBEL... Queen Mab's niece, Fiona, has long been bored to tears by the intrigues of Court life. She'd prefer to cut loose at a punk club, knock back a few Thai beers, and hook up with a likely lad of similar interests. But when Fiona go...



  • Robert Ward

    Broke, recently divorced, and a total deadbeat, Bob Wells has spent his life as a psychiatrist only doing good in the world. When one of his patients with clear paranoid delusions starts to lose a grip, Bob has no choice but to intervene. Emile Barda...





  • Bill Wallace

    The day of the Naming is an important one for young roadrunners. That's when roadrunner parents judge the speed, courage, and hunting skill of their offspring and choose fitting names for them. One proud fledgling dreams of being named Muscles, or D...



  • Saskia Walker

    She is Abby Douglas, an investment advisor who has enticed many men. No commitments. No regrets. No games. Then she meets a dangerously sexy stranger in the elevator of her office building - and suddenly she's submitting to the kind of raw fantasies ...



  • Pamela Walker

    On her fourteenth birthday, Cassidy Chen receives five ancient and mysterious Chinese coins, which introduce her to the supernatural world known to her Chinese and Irish ancestors and which lead her to accept her destiny as a warrior princess....



  • Pamela Walker

    As fourteen-year-old Cassidy Chan prepares for the Wing Chun tournament in Hong Kong, to hopefully become one of the chosen four, she finds that her destiny as a warrior princess is not always the easiest path to follow....



  • Pamela Walker

    To her dismay Cassidy discovers that the Kung Fu tournament in Hong Kong is concurrent with the annual Feast of the Hungry Ghosts and that she must defeat the vengeful ghosts before they destroy all the spirits of her ancestors and thus cancel out he...



  • Lea Wait

    WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE TWELVE YEARS OLD AND YOUR WORLD IS FALLING APART?It's 1838. Jake's father has lost his job and his savings. Hearing of work in Maine, the family leaves their large home in Boston and heads north, taking with them a few fur...




  • Cecily von Ziegesar

    Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live in decadent penthouses, massive townhouses, and come summer, fabulous beach houses. Enter the world of Gossip Girl--a world where espadrille sandals are flown in from Spain, c...



  • Brian K. Vaughan

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #54-57. It's the ultimate reality show as mutants convicted of capital crimes are released on an island where contestants hunt them down. Longshot has survived longest, and the X-Men are sent to rescue him until they become pa...



  • Donna VanLiere

    Jane Gable thinks 1947 will be like every other year in Morgan Hill, Tennessee but but it's the year everything changes. Jane first lays eyes on young Milo Turner the day that her abusive, alcoholic father is buried in the Morgan Hill cemetery. The T...



  • Catherynne M. Valente

    Every once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us -- to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the Arabian Nights for our time -- a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed to spirit y...



  • Peter Turnbull

    This is a Hennessey and Yellich Mystery.

    A badly burned body - male, presumed local. And then another charred corpse. Related? Crimes of passion or revenge? Family feud? Possibly the latter, but neither of the children seem likely perpetrator...



  • Minoru Toyoda

    LOVE ROMA 4

    Hoshino’s never been afraid to tell Negishi just how he feels about her. Hoshino loves Negishi heart and soul"after all, she’s his very first love. But suddenly it’s gotten harder to share his feelings, because now he’s f...



  • Steven Torres

    Angustias, Puerto Rico, 1982 Even a tropical paradise can have its little murders... In the early morning hours, a neighbor named Tomas Villareal knocks on the door of the home of Luis Gonzalo, the sheriff of Angustias, a small town in the mount...



  • Pramoedya Ananta Toer

    Now available for the first time in English, a classic from "a novelist who should get in line for the Nobel Prize" (Los Angeles Times)
    Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia's most celebrated writer, with over thirty works of fiction translated int...



  • Frank Tieri

    One is a villain that has been plaguing civilization since the time of the Pharaohs. The other is the deadliest vampire to ever walk the earth. Enemies since the Crusades, they've met again in 19th century London. It's the battle to end all battles a...



  • Ronda Thompson
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    Lady Anne Baldwin longs to break free from her proper bonds. When she meets the mysterious Merrick, whose eyes glow like a wolf's, she may have found more than she bargained for....



  • Paul B. Thompson; Tonya Cook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    While the Elven Exiles struggle for survival in the distant kingdom of Khur, the elves remaining in Qualinesti face persecution, enslavement, and extermination. Amid great suffering and unrelieved evil, a rebel leader -- masked, anonymous, and with s...



  • Nancy Robards Thompson

    Join the PTA? Yes, according to Maggie, Barbara and Elizabeth. Because despite their differences--one is a recent widow; one is a late-in-life mother; and one is a supermom whose surprise pregnancy, she fears, will result in complications--all three ...



  • Janice Thompson

    When a $25,000 night deposit mysteriously disappears from the Clark County Savings and Loan, Annie Peterson has reason to be concerned and to assume the role of amateur sleuth. Her husband's job at the bank makes him a potential suspect, but knowing ...



  • Scarlett Thomas

    A cursed book sends a young woman on a philosophical journey through an alternate dimension in this “stylish and dizzying” novel by the author of PopCo (The New York Times).   Graduate student Ariel Manto has a fascination with nin...



  • Roy Thomas

    Jaded by heroes who come back from the dead? Meet the hero who started there and stayed there! His stare's the only thing that's empty about the adventures of Simon Garth through mad science and madder magic! Terrors criminal, corporate and just plai...



  • Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    The little town of Nazareth is a long way from Jerusalem and King Herod's evil clutches. Yet is anywhere in Judea far enough? In their most dramatic, ambitious, and significant historical series to date, Bodie and Brock Thoene once again transport re...




  • Jennifer Taylor

    Major incident headquarters... 1500 hours A tanker loaded with toxic chemicals is headed straight for an oil rig. The only possible outcome--disaster! Grace Darling Hospital... 1530 hours A team, led by Dr. Seb Bridges, is ready and waiting-- to...



  • Janelle Taylor

    A FACE FROM THE PAST... Olivia Sedgwick never really knew her wealthy father, and she can't imagine why he bequeathed his summer cottage to her. It's a cozy little place, but Blueberry, Maine, holds only bittersweet memories for Olivia--heartrending...



  • Judith Tarr

    The Kingdom of [anon was without an heir until the arrival of the young wandering priest with the look of the departed princess in his face and the disk of the sun in his palm. Mirain announced he was the son of the princess and the Sun-God Avaryan h...



  • Tui T. Sutherland

    The end of the world is only the beginning

    From New York to Los Angeles, Chile to Egypt, five teens awake to find their cities eerily deserted. Why have they survived when so many others haven't? What force connects them to one another? Movi...



  • Patrick Suskind

    An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion -- his sense of smell -- leads to murder.

    In the s...



  • Thomas Sullivan

    A professional dispeller of myths and manipulation, Lane Andersen journeys to Ireland to investigate the legend of the Water Wolf, who guards the gates of hell, where he falls in love with a woman of inhuman origins and discovers an underground world...




  • Brad Strickland

    The lovable underdog Lewis Barnavelt and his best friend Rose Rita are at it again -- investigating the curious (and possibly supernatural?) goings-on in their town of New Zebedee. They get more than they bargained for when a new family moves into th...



  • Libby Street

    What comes around... Photographer Sadie Price is known for her thick skin and infallible instincts. A lofty education has made her skilled in her craft, and a fear of poverty -- and love for Jimmy Choo -- has made her one of the East Coast's mos...



  • J. Michael Straczynski

    Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #40-45. Just one chance. . . That's all Peter Parker has to win back Mary Jane Watson, the love of his life. Tired of playing second fiddle, to Peter's heroic responsibilities as Spider-Man, Mary Jane left him for a...



  • J. Michael Straczynski

    After receiving information from Ezeckiel that calls the origin of his spider-powers into question, Peter must face off against the otherworldy hunter Shathra, who has targeted Spider-Man as her prey....




  • J. Michael Straczynski

    The lives of Peter Parker and everyone close to him change forever! Haunted by unsettling dreams. Disturbed by a growing sense of dread. Convinced that people are out to get him. A portrait of someone on the edge of a nervous breakdown? Nah. Simply a...




  • Megan Stine

    The Rules of Prom Night: #1:  Never break up with your boyfriend right before the prom -- unless you have a backup. #2:  Never buy the same dress as any other girl in your school. #3:  Never, ever tell your parents where you're really...



  • Geronimo Stilton

    Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are full of fun -- tastier than Swiss cheese and t...



  • Mariah Stewart

    When underwater archaeologist Sam McGowan is asked to help salvage a sunken Confederate blockade runner, he's eager for the opportunity to investigate his own family history--especially since the project is being handled by Gordon Chandler, a notable...



  • Carol Stephenson

    With her healing gift and extra senses going haywire, epidemiologist Eve St. Giles knew the deadly flu outbreak in the small Swiss town was no natural disaster. Had someone manufactured a virus--one that targeted women? If Eve didn't track down the o...



  • Susan Stephens

    She yearns for the sheikh's touch... Zara Kingston has gone to the desert city of Zaddara to confront the man she blames for her troubled past. But when, during a sandstorm, she's protected by a dark stranger, she finds that the desert hol...



  • Danielle Steel

    Princess Christianna is a young woman of her times: born in Europe, educated in America, responsible beyond her years. Her father, the Reigning Prince of a European nation that takes its royalty seriously, has ironclad plans for his only daughter's l...



  • J.B. Stanley

    Amateur sleuth Molly Appleby has a keen knowledge of antiques, a special fondness for collectibles, and a canny acquaintance with the criminal mind... A writer for Collector's Weekly, Molly Appleby is in Richmond, Virginia, to cover a taping of th...



  • Natalie Standiford

    WHAT'S YOUR DATING STYLE? Check all the statements that sound like you. --I believe in love at first sight. --I'm attracted to the cool, quiet type. --I always go after the hottest guy in the room. --I know I'm cute, and I expect the best. ...



  • Roxanne St. Claire
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    ROXANNE ST. CLAIRE unwraps the thrills of Christmas in New York, where a female bodyguard toys with a dangerous desire for a mysterious hunk while protecting his young daughter. It's a risky game with passion as the prize in "You Can Count on Me."...



  • Susan Squires
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    All Major Davis Ware wants to do is propose to the beautiful Emma Fairchild. Instead, he is called back into battle, and a desperate fate. And Emma will venture into hell itself to save him....



  • Catherine Spencer

    Passion, pregnancy...and an arranged marriage? Diana Reeves's search to find her birth mother takes her to a French village, and into the employ of Anton, Comte de Valois. It's not long before their shared passion leads to pregnancy and Anton i...



  • Julia Spencer-Fleming

    One horrible murder. Two people destined for love or tragedy. Emotions explode in the novel Julia Spencer-Fleming's readers have been clamoring for. Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne's first encounter with Clare Fergusson was in the hospital emergenc...



  • Kerrelyn Sparks
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    Be Of Good Fear, Christmas Is Here! And just in time comes this grand gift of seasonal mystery and romance from six of popular fiction's most supremely talented "Santas"-;for 'tis the season for scandals, suspense, and all sorts of unexpected surp...



  • Justin Somper

    Twins, Connor and Grace, never dreamed that there was any truth to the Vampirate shanty their father sang to them before he died, but that was before the two were shipwrecked and separated from each other. For Connor, who is taken aboard a pirate shi...



  • Asali Solomon

    Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits -- a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting part...



  • Jenna Solitaire

    My name is Jenna Solitaire, and everything I thought I knew about myself, my family, and my future is wrong. My life is not my own. It never has been. I just didn't know it―until now... Having found the Board of Fire, Jenna and Simon hurry to deci...



  • Maria V. Snyder

    A LESSON IN LOYALTY -- A MASTER CLASS IN INTRIGUE Yelena is a survivor. Kidnapped as a child, held prisoner as a teen, then released to act as a poison taster, she is now a student of magic. But these magic skills place her in imminent danger, an...



  • Lemony Snicket

    Like an off-key violin concert, the Roman Empire, or food poisoning, all things must come to an end. Thankfully, this includes A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The thirteenth and final installment in the groundbreaking series will an...



  • Guy N. Smith

    A terrifying journey through time, from a master horror writerIn a hunting lodge in the remote American Midwest, a family prepares to sit out a devastating storm. In the morning the hut is still standing, but has deteriorated, and is filled with a dr...



  • Evelyn E. Smith

    Aristocratic and philanthropic assassin Susan Melville sets out to terminate a former flame, Brad Robertson, a U.S. senator and presidential candidate who has become a ruthless international terrorist....



  • Cotton Smith

    Former Texas Ranger John Checker is ready to go home to Dodge City. He and his friends have survived--barely--a bloody battle with Checker's half-brother, Star McCallister, and his gang. But heading home and getting there alive are two different thin...



  • Alexander McCall Smith

    Dream Angus is one of the earliest of the Celtic deities, and one of the most beloved. Angus comes bounding over the heather with his bag of dreams to dispense to those who want them. He is lithe of foot and beautiful -- as befits one who is also t...



  • Bertrice Small

    Orphaned by England's War of the Roses, betrayed by her half sister, Elizabeth of York, Adair Radcliffe is taken captive during a border raid and sold into servitude to Conal Bruce, the laird of Cleit. The laird seeks a housekeeper and bedmate--but i...



  • Michele Slung

    A rich Christmas cake of an anthology, stylishly packaged and brimming over with heartwarming drama, seasonal merriment and unexpected thrills. Michele Slung, who has been creating original and highly praised collections for thirty years, believes in...



  • Obert Skye

    You must be ready to join Leven Thumps, Clover Ernest, and Winter Frore as they journey across Foo to free Geth from his existence as a toothpick and restore him as the rightful heir to the throne. It won't be easy. Foo is in chaos, and Leven must ov...



  • Gloria Skurzynski

    Having fled aboard their spaceship to the Isles of Hiva after winning the virtual war, Corgan realizes that leaving Brigand roaming the universe was a bad decision and so, with Sharla and Cyborg, begins to plot an attack against his nemesis to finali...



  • Jennifer Skully

    She is a woman desperately seeking more... In a family of bona fide psychics, Opal Smith feels like, well, a misfit. So when she sees a phantom body falling from an overpass, she's thrilled because this is her first honest-to-God vision. Unfortunate...



  • Nicky Singer

    When Cassina is blown-up by a suicide bomber in a station in England, life, as she knows it, is over. Except that she doesn't die. And - miraculously - neither does the bomber. Cassina survives as something that can live in the heads of humans, knowi...




  • Sharon Shinn

    National bestselling and award-winning author Sharon Shinn continues her entrancing saga of the Twelve Houses with a story of hidden magics and forbidden love... The King's Rider Justin has been dispatched to watch any suspicious activity at the c...



  • Kio Shimoku

    OTAKU FROM ANOTHER PLANET

    On a lunch break at the Genshiken, Madarame is minding his own business when in walks Angela, a blond, blue-eyed otaku unlike anyone he has ever seen. However, Angela seems to know all about him! It turns out that Ang...



  • Sara Shepard

    EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE -- ESPECIALLY HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS SPENCER, ARIA, EMILY, AND HANNA. Spencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. Hanna uses some ugly t...



  • Connie Shelton

    Albuquerque private investigator Charlie Parker becomes involved in an unsolved mystery in the small town of Watson's Lake, New Mexico. A wealthy local man, David Simmons, has been missing for four years after an explosion destroyed his house and kil...



  • Maggie Shayne

    Foretold centuries ago, it is a destiny they cannot escape... Far older than his legend, the immortal Vlad Dracul has wandered the earth for centuries in search of the reincarnation of his wife, Elisabeta. Now he believes he has found the woman poss...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Fargo must match up against a murdering monster!In his time, Skye Fargo has tracked, trapped, and tussled with every sort of man or beast west of the Mississippi. But now, he’s headed east, where he’s been hired by a group of Illinois citizens to...



  • Leanne Shapton

    A SINGULAR EXPLORATION OF MODERN LOVE AND ALL ITS DEMONS, IN WORDS AND DRAWINGS

    In this brilliant gem of a book, artist/writer Leanne Shapton weaves together a voyeuristic tale of love and life through epigrammatic vignettes and sleek line d...



  • Laurie Gwen Shapiro

    Landing an internship at an ad agency isn't what her principal or her mother wanted for Jordie Popkin, aspiring journalist. At sixteen, Jordie is glad of the chance to collect "real world" experience and finds working with the "creatives" at the agen...



  • Harry Shannon

    In October, of 1993 a small Special Ops team roped down in Somalia to assassinate a cult leader. The mission went horribly wrong. Their leader was killed, the medic shot in the spine. Only two of the D-Boys, Red Burke and Scotty Bowden, came away uns...



  • Kirk Scroggs

    In the third book in the series, hapless, goofy Grampa and his grandson Wiley are in for another zany adventure: They're out to capture Moby Fizz, the biggest, bloated, most deformed bass the world has ever known--dead, alive or deep-fried. Readers b...



  • Martin Scott

    In the enchanted city of Turai, the royal family is corrupt, the politicians can be bought, and the civil guards have better things to do than guarding. Thraxas, the overweight and somewhat disreputable private eye working out of an even more disrepu...



  • Joanna Catherine Scott

    Eugenia Mae Spotswood, the daughter of a failed aristocrat, longs to regain the life she lost. The slave Tom wants one thing: freedom. After becoming the property of Eugenia Mae, a dangerous affection grows. But he learns freedom is not something she...



  • Bradford Scott

    Join bestselling author Bradford Scott's most famous Texas Rangers for two action-packed adventures, now presented in paperback for the first time. In "Drums of Doom" Walt Slade goes undercover to nab a ruthless band of cattle rustlers. But what awai...



  • Jon Scieszka

    After a marshmallow mix-up, Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha find themselves back in 1805 on an adventure with the famous Lewis and Clark explorers! Along the way, they meet Sacagawea, a seventeen-year-old Shoshone girl, and learn the ropes of wilderness ...



  • Jon Scieszka

    Someone has stolen The Book from Joe's room! Follow Joe, Fred, and Sam as they follow the time"warping thief back to ancient Babylon. Visit the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the World; meet the king and queen of Babylon; learn cu...



  • Virginia Frances Schwartz

    As members of Ms. Hill's class, the fifth-graders of PS1 are challenged to talk, learn, and write about one another in ways that teach these city kids a great deal about each other, themselves, and their complicated young lives....



  • Betty Schwartz

    Pull down a foil-covered flap to see the pop-up surprise inside and get a glimpse of the many types of gifts Santa is getting ready to give out this year, including music box toys, teddy bears, a ballerina, and more!...



  • Karl Schroeder

    It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion s...



  • Joe Schreiber

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  • Patricia Schonstein

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  • Al Sarrantonio

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  • Sonia Sander

    ¡MUY CALIENTE!
    Visit the wacky and wonderful world of Maya & Miguel with these books that tie into the hit show on PBS!


    Maya & Miguel can't wait for Christmas, and this year, they want to get one another something really special. But n...



  • Alex Sanchez

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  • R.A. Salvatore

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  • Brittney Ryan

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  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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  • Brent Runyon

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  • Elizabeth Rudnick

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  • Greg Rucka

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  • Wendy Rosnau

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  • Anne Roiphe

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  • Emily Rodda

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  • Anne Rockwell

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  • Nora Roberts

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  • Mark K. Roberts

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  • J.R. Roberts

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  • J.R. Roberts

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  • Alyson Richman

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  • Lois Richer

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  • Kat Richardson

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  • Kristopher Reisz

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  • Dietlof Reiche

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  • James Reese

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  • Lynn Rowe Reed

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  • Helen Recorvits

    In My Name Is Yoon, Yoon's parents encouraged her to write her name in English instead of Korean. Now it's Yoon's turn to teach her parents about something she's learned in America. When Yoon's teacher lends her a book about Santa Claus, Yoon can't w...




  • Melanie Rawn

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  • Candice Ransom

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  • Janette Rallison

    If they gave out diplomas for what you learn at the mall, Charlotte could graduate with honors. Ever since she got a job as a perfume spritzer, she's become an expert on all things shopping related―oh and she's getting really good at spying on h...



  • Tara Taylor Quinn

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  • Mary Quattlebaum

    Colonel Lightfoot is never modest, especially when it comes to his dancing or his fine Virginia land. One piece of that land is turning to mud, and the devil himself is rumored to live in that murky mess, for on dark nights sparks fly high. How to pu...



  • Cherie Priest

    The fields at Chickamauga, Georgia--America's oldest national military park--claimed 35,000 casualties during the Civil War. Any good guide will tell you that the grounds are haunted. The battlefield even has its own resident haunt, called Old Green ...



  • Price Stern Sloan Publishing

    Even though they are very different in some ways, two emperor penguins named Mumble and Gloria have been best friends since they were hatched, and know they will remain so for the rest of their lives. Original....



  • James Preller

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  • Terry Pratchett

    At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen. . . . But the Wintersmith ...



  • Richard Powers

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  • Gabrielle Pina

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  • Christopher Pike

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  • Vonetta Pierce

    When she tests positive for HIV, Jasmyn, the ultimate drama queen and party girl, must decide whether or not to tell the men from her past and the love of her life, Kyle, who is now involved with someone else. Original....



  • Helena Pielichaty

    It's just "so" unfair! Mum's so busy with all her committees and stuff that she "never" has time for me. And now everyone's saying I've got attitude problem. Well, thanks a bunch. I think they must have the wrong girl -- I'm just misunderstood, an an...



  • Charles Phipps

    Thomas Duvalle is the most gifted man of the future. A master scientist, a superb warrior, and a dashing gentlemen. He is a man who is about to be drawn into conflict between his adopted homeworld of Mars and his birth world of Earth...



  • Charles Phipps

    Book Two in the Machines Unbound Universe series.

    James Brody has fled the nightmare of Prime One to try and forge a family with his wife, Ecaterina. But strange dreams plague him and the death of their infant child leads him to seek the aid of an...



  • Susan Beth Pfeffer

    When Miranda first hears the warnings that a meteor is headed on a collision path with the moon, they just sound like an excuse for extra homework assignments. But her disbelief turns to fear in a split second as the entire world witnesses a lunar im...



  • Marta Perry

    'TIS THE SEASON...FOR MURDER As a teenager, Dinah Westlake had witnessed the murder of her pregnant cousin, but a concussion blocked her memories of that night. Now, ten years later, her cousin's widower, Marc Devlin, had returned to Charleston to...



  • Anne Perry

    Anne Perry's intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder set during World War I follows the travails of an honorable English family--brothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley and their sisters, Judith and Hannah. In March 1916, Joseph, a chaplain ...



  • Don Pendleton

    COLLATERAL DAMAGE Using the Intel emerging after the execution-style slaying of several Washington judges. Mack Bolan launches a hard probe into a Salvadoran street gang. Organized. brutal and fearless, the group is almost impossible to infiltra...



  • Don Pendleton

    Forged in the hellfires of combat, the paramilitary operatives of the covert organization known as Stony Man are the President's first response team when crisis strikes. Unencumbered by red tape or protocol, they've got no margin for error. If Stony ...



  • Laura Pedersen

    "We're approaching Cat in the Hat level chaos and no one's even had breakfast yet." When the death of her father leaves her mother bereft and incapacitated, card shark Hallie Palmer returns home from college to raise Hallie's eight younger sibling...



  • Dale Peck

    A Book Sense Children's Pick

    "[A] thrilling debut novel for young people . . . Readers will flip madly through the many pages . . . to see how the siblings navigate the hazards on the Sea of Time." -Publishers Weekly, starred review

    "B...



  • Susan Spencer Paul

    My Dearest Reader, For as long as I can remember, my life has been a solitary one. Do not think me a pitiable recluse, for, as the Earl of Graymar, I have taken my place in Society when I must, and enjoyed both the company and pleasure of desirab...



  • Norman Partridge

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  • Catherine Palmer

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  • Victoria Pade

    FAMILY MATTERS Small-town cop Luke Walker smelled trouble the moment Karis Pratt arrived on his doorstep, claiming the baby she held in her arms was his. Luke had been devastated once before when Karis's sister left town with the daughter she conf...



  • James A. Owen

    Set in 1917, an undergraduate is given a special book that he is told was the reason for his professor's murder and so must now protect it with his life as he goes on a journey like no other to places that are only supposed to exist in history and dr...



  • Wayne D. Overholser

    Morgan Dill has returned to Twin Rocks to claim his half of the ranch that passed to his sister Celia when his father died three years ago. However, Celia's new husband has no intention of giving up any of the Rafter D. In fact, he's arranged a prett...



  • Micol Ostow

    These walls have watched the witches;

    the witches have watched the world.

    These walls now turn against them --

    some evil's been unfurled. . . .

    The one thing any Halliwell witch has always been able to count on is ...




  • Sara Orwig

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  • Karen E. Olson

    Awakened by a loud commotion, New Haven reporter Annie Seymour wanders outside to discover a favorite Italian eatery engulfed in fire. Even more shocking is the bullet-ridden body found in the debris. Then things get personal. Annie's father, a Vegas...



  • Jack Oliver

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  • Nick Oldham

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