Books Published in September 1990

New Books List: 575 titles

  • Zena and the Witch Circus

    Alice Low

  • Yesterday's Dream

    Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton has always been there for her friends--a consistent source of help and stability for those in need. But an early morning phone call from the hospital begins a series of events that starts her personal life on a downward spiral. The ...

  • Yellow Gardenia

    Anthony Mancini

  • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1990

    Edward D. Hoch

  • The Year of the Panda

    Miriam Schlein

    Daxiong mao is rare and mysterious, like a god, living in the midst of the mountains. Strange things are happening on Lu Yi's farm. First, some men from the Chinese government ask Lu Yi's father to sell the property that has belonged to the family...

  • Yamato: A Rage in Heaven

    Ken Kato

  • X-Men Legends: The Dark Phoenix Saga

    Chris Claremont

  • Wren to the Rescue

    Sherwood Smith

    All her life Wren has hoped for an adventure. Now she has one—with a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician. What does it matter if the princess is only Tess, her best friend from the orphanage; if the prince is a youngest son...

  • The World's Last Night

    William Jovanovich

  • Woodsong

    Gary Paulsen

    For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska....

  • Wonkers

    Layne Littlepage

  • Women of Darkness II

    Kathryn Ptacek

  • A Woman of Our Times

    Rosie Thomas

    A woman who dreams of everything and more... a woman who wants to have it all... But Harriet Peacock has everything. What more could she possibly want? She has come a long way. From small shopkeeper and betrayed wife, she has made herself the Cit...

  • The Wizard of Rue Morgue

    Simon Hawke

    A gorgeous model, murdered. An artist, famed for drunken rages, jailed. But who carved ancient runes all over the dead girl's body? DARKNESS IN THE CITY OF LIGHT Responding to an ally's plea, the bearers of the runestones--Wyrdrune; Kira; Modre...

  • Witchery Hill

    Welwyn Wilton Katz

  • The Witch's Eye

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Lynn Morley and her best friend, Mouse, thought their lives would be back to normal after Mrs. Tuggle's house burned down. But now Lynn's little brother, Stevie, is acting strange, and when Lynn confronts him in his room, she discovers that the witch...

  • Witch House

    Norma Tadlock Johnson

    When Ginny and her family move into the mansion they have inherited from Great Aunt Maybelle, they are unprepared for the ghostly Maybelle's nighttime visits....

  • The Witch Has an Itch

    Donna Guthrie

  • The Witch Family

    Eleanor Estes

    This story of two girls trying to banish a witch is “full of wonderful fun, excitement, and humor†(Library Journal).   Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly around on her broomstick, crying “Heh-heh!†and casting abracadabras. But ...

  • Wiseguy

    Nicholas Pileggi

  • Wing Leader

    J.E. Johnson

    Johnnie Johnson joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1939 as a week-end flier, and finished the war as the top-scoring Allied fighter pilot with 38 confirmed victories.

    WING LEADER is his account of the Battle of Britain, of the bitter...

  • The Windsor Knot

    Sharyn McCrumb

    Racing to complete her doctoral research, Elizabeth MacPherson is completely booked for the summer -- until her Scottish fiance calls from across the seas with a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to tea with Her Majesty the Queen. There's a hitch, of cou...

  • Wild Virginia Nights

    Christine Dorsey

    UPPITY FEMALE BOSS A lady boss! Mining engineer Nicholas Colton would never have sunk so low if the loyal Englishman hadn't been doing an old friend a favor Now he was stuck playing nursemaid to an American wench who had a bad habit of reminding him...

  • A Wild Iris

    Muriel Jensen

    NOTHING IS THE WAY IT SEEMS Melanie Quinn is going back to her childhood home, home to the bucolic Harvest Lake where the wild iris grow. She envisions three months of lazy summer days and long peaceful nights. But that isn't what Aunt Reba...

  • The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar

    Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

    Based on a true story, this is a girl's touching recollection of the unusually severe winter of 1903, which she spent on a small island near Nantucket. Although her father, who worked for the Coast Guard, visited regularly, the girl and her mother we...

  • Wife for Hire

    Janet Evanovich

    The Prospective Husband with a Racy Past. . . . Hank Mallone spotted trouble when she sat down and said she'd marry him! Maggie Toone was a tempting firecracker who'd make his life delightful hell if he let her pretend to be his wife in order to i...

  • White Bird

    Clyde Robert Bulla

    John Thomas, a boy who lives in the woods of Tennessee with his stern guardian Luke, leads a lonely, solitary life. One morning after a storm, he finds an injured bird and makes his pet. When another young boy steals White Bird, John Thomas sets out ...

  • Whiskey River

    Loren D. Estleman

    In 1931 Detroit, the era of Prohibition, the booming auto industry, and the Mob, newspaperman Connie Minor chronicles the rise and fall of gangster Jack Dance, a story that makes him a witness of and key player in a dangerous game...

  • Where's That Turkey Lurking?

    Stephanie St. Pierre

  • Where Love Dwells

    Elizabeth Stuart

    IN HER CAPTOR'S GENTLE EMBRACE, SHE WOULD FIGHT HER HEART'S FIERCEST REBELLION... -- In an age when duty was sovereign, the highlands of Wales resounded with the clash of arms as Welsh lord and English knight met in bloody conflict. And amid the r...

  • When Moose Was Young

    Jim Latimer

  • When Autumn Comes

    Robert Maass

  • What's in the Prehistoric Forest?

    Peter Seymour

  • What's in the Deep Blue Sea?

    Peter Seymour

  • Wedding Bell Blues

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    UNHOLY MATRIMONY If Kaitlin O'Herlihy got one more wedding invitation, she was going to scream. Suddenly everyone she knew--including her grandmother, for heaven's sake!--was getting married, and it was making a shambles of her well-ordered existe...

  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas

    Michael Hague

  • Washington Deceased

    Michael Bowen

    For some it is an "honor cottage." For United States Senator Desmond Gardner it's a minimum security federal prison that he and Sweet Tony Martinelli now call home. Unlike Gardner, Martinelli's rap sheet smacks more of crime in the streets than crime...

  • Warriorwards

    Dafydd ab Hugh

  • The Warlock Rock

    Christopher Stasheff

    IF MUSIC BE THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE...ROCK ON! Mysterious, floating crystals have captured the eyes --and ears--of the good folk of Gramarye, young and old alike. Enchanting, yes. But what exactly are these strange, musical rocks ... and where did they...

  • Walls of Fear

    Kathryn D. Cramer

  • Wade's Haunted Halloween

    Jim Davis

  • The Vor Game

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    THE PRINCE AND THE MERCENARY Together, they can get into a lot of trouble. Trouble only the combined forces of the Free Dendarii Mercenaries can get them out of. At least, that's what they're hoping... In this latest adventure with the galaxy's...

  • A Voice from the Attic

    Robertson Davies

    Outlining the delights of reading, the author tells of what mass education has done to readers, to taste, to books and to culture. The book covers writers from various countries and old and recently-published books, both well-known and obscure. From ...

  • The Very Last Gambado

    Jonathan Gash

    Lovejoy returns to East Anglia towork as an antique consultant for a movie about a museum robbery. But soon, Lovejoy becomes the center of a vicious web of theft, murder and disappearances and must use all his wits tocome out live....

  • Up Goes the Skyscraper!

    Gail Gibbons

  • Under the Gypsy Moon

    Lawrence Thornton

    “Beautifully lyric . . . [Lawrence Thornton’s] prose is finely honed and his touch sure.†-- Chicago Tribune The year is 1936. The tide of fascism is overwhelming Europe. In Spain the Guardia Civil wages war on the citizens. Spanish-German nove...

  • Under Siege

    Stephen Coonts

    In an explosion of terror, America's worst nightmares come true when Colombian suicide squads hit the streets of Washington. They have gone to war, and will destroy everything and everybody in their path. With its power and communications system b...

  • Ugh

    Arthur Yorinks

  • Two Friends Too Many

    Dorothy Haas

  • The Twins Get Caught

    Francine Pascal

    Against their better judgment ...



    Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield can't wait until Saturday night.  Their friend Aaron Dallas is throwing "the party of the year" at a new teen club called The Hangout.  Everyone from the sixth grade...

  • Twice Told Tales

    Daniel Stern

    This may be the most unusual love story in contemporary fiction -- the love affair between an American writer and five great writers of the past. Daniel Stern reinvents six great literary works and puts his own signature on them in this imaginative ...

  • Twelfth Child

    R.V. Over

  • Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

    Dav Pilkey

    From Dav Pilkey, creator of the New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes a tall tale of tall-tailed toms!

    On the night before Thanksgiving, a group of children visit a turkey farm and meet Farmer Mack Nug...

  • Turnaround Jack

    Richard Abshire

    DALLAS DETECTIVE JACK KYLE IS ON THE TRAIL OF AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE -- A TRAIL THAT ENDS DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS'S CRIME WORLD private eye Jack Kyle is back, and his new client, Guy Borodin, has just the kind of simple case Kyle loves. Borodin s...

  • The Turkeys' Side of It

    Janice Smith

  • Turkey on the Loose!

    Sylvie Wickstrom

  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

    Avi

    The Seahawk looms against a darkening sky, black and sinister. Manned by an angry, motley crew at the mercy of a ruthless captain, the rat-infested ship reeks of squalor, despair...and mutiny! It is no place for the lone passenger, thirteen-year-old ...

  • The Trouble with Santa

    Elizabeth-Ann Sachs

  • Trouble for Breakfast

    Sandy Gullikson

    With Mama Cactus-Eared Rabbit down with the flu, her mischievous twins, Munchit and Crunchit, and their friends--Rufus Coyote and his grumpy sister, Greyer, and cousin Arnold the Armadillo--set out to cook Mama a perfect get-well meal...

  • Trouble at Timpetill

    Henry Winterfeld

  • Trick or Treat

    Francine Pascal

    BOO!



    It's almost Halloween, and identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield have two great costumes to choose from: a witch outfit and a princess dress. Both girls want to be the princess. This becomes a problem. And the result is ...

  • Trial

    Clifford Irving

    Young Texas attorney Warren Blackburn was watching his career go to hell in a hand-basket. Falling for a client's sob story had pushed him into telling a little white lie...and cost him a year's suspension. Now he's back in the courtroom with not one...

  • Tree House Hideaway

    Hilda Stahl

  • Treasury of Humor

    Robert M. Quackenbush

  • Track of the Giant

    Will Baker

  • The Toy Cupboard

    Lee Jordan

    An exhilarating, sensational thriller. As Jo Townsend set up her antique stall in Camden Lock Market, shewas certain she was being watched. And when she was beaten up in her own house and a cryptic message was left for her husband, Mike, she knows s...

  • A Touch of Forgiveness

    Emma Goldrick

    The meanest woman in Northport That's what folks called Kitty Anderson. But Kitty didn't care -- she couldn't forget how they'd duped her brother and exploited her family's land. But it was hard to be mean when Joel Carmody...

  • Torment of Mr. Gully

    Judith Clarke

  • Tomorrow's Promise

    Judy Baer

    In Yesterday's Dream Lexi Leighton's personal world collapses around her and her faith in God is shaken, but in the end she is assured that He is still with her. Yet her beloved grandmother only gets worse and so does the darkness of the circumstance...

  • Tomorrow, up and Away

    Pat Lowery Collins

  • Toad School

    Cathy Bellows

  • To Sleep

    James Sage

  • To Buy a Groom

    Rita Clay Estrada

    The marriage contract said hands off! One million dollars-that's what Sable LaCroix paid Joe Lombardi to marry her. She desperately needed a complete family to make sure her late husband's parents didn't gain custody of her son. It was the perfect...

  • The Tin Heart

    Karen Ackerman

  • Time Bomb

    Jonathan Kellerman

    By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt. While the TV news crews feasted on the scene and Alex began his...

  • Tigers by Night

    Sandra Canfield

    Everyone was worried about Jake Cameron He'd been ordered to take a break from police work and simply relax. But driven first by guilt, then by desire, Jake had created a situation that was neither simple nor relaxed. He'd volunteered t...

  • Tiger Rose

    Sonya T. Pelton

    DECEPTIVE DEVIL Promised in wedlock to a British aristocrat, prim, sheltered Daniella Rose Wingate accompanied the elegant stranger down the aisle, determined to forget the swashbuckling adventurer who had kissed her in the misty woodland grove and ...

  • Tides of Valor

    Peter Albano

    Rodney and Nathan Higgins are of the same blood, but they are destined to lead two very different lives. Rodney loves the life his father had worked for, living on New York’s Fifth Avenue in all the luxury that comes with it. Nathan is a Marxis...

  • A Ticket to the Boneyard

    Lawrence Block

    Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate eno...

  • Throw a Hungry Loop

    Dona Schenker

  • Threads of Destiny

    Arnette Lamb

    THE WIND ACROSS THE HEATHER WHISPERED OF THEIR PASSION ... AND WARNED OF THEIR FATE Lady Suisan Harper couldn't take her eyes from the dangerously attractive man whose presence filled the candle-lit room-Myles Cunningham. She had expected a weakli...

  • This Time Forever

    Margaret Chittenden

    He'd waited a lifetime for her Liz Brooks felt like a swimmer caught in a powerful undertow. One minute she was an ordinary travel rep, her feet planted firmly on the ground. The next she was swept into the past -- the eighteenth century, to b...

  • This Old Man

    Carol Jones

    This peep-through-the-hole book depicts the travels of "this old man" and his young companion through the house and garden. The engaging pictures are filled with action and humor and things to count and discover....

  • This and That Bread

    Joan Ellis

  • The Thieves of Peck's Pocket

    Teryl Euvremer

  • That Time in Malomba

    James Hamilton-Paterson

  • That Champion Chimp

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • Tender Savage

    Iris Johansen

    The Charismatic Revolutionary... Ricardo Lazaro, legendary poet-warrior and rebel leader of Saint Pierre, had been captured saving her brother, and Lara Clavel had come to the Caribbean island ready to risk her life to free him. She knew the rescu...

  • Tempter

    Nancy A. Collins

    Smart New Yorker Charlotte Calder thinks she has found herself a great catch when she meets and falls for Adam Rossiter, never suspecting that the man she is sleeping with is controlled by an evil force...

  • Take a Good Look

    Tor Seidler

    After an insightful remark from his brother, Paul Motley begins screenwriting after a move to Manhattan. There, he meets an attractive and childish actress and waitress. After taking a job at the same restaurant to be closer to her, Paul is forced to...

  • The Sword of the Dawn

    Michael Moorcock

    In Michael Moorcock's vast and imaginative multiverse, Law and Chaos wage war in a never-ending struggling over the fundamental rules of existence. Here in this universe, Dorian Hawkmoon traverses a world of antique cities, scientific sorcery, and cr...

  • Swf Seeks Same

    John Lutz

    No matter how much you think you know, you're still taking a chance when you shop for a new roommate. But after Allie Jones throws out Sam, her sexy but two-timing live-in lover, she desperately needs someone to split the rent on her Upper West Side,...

  • Sweetwater

    Sandra Chastain

    SHE CAST HER LURE...AND LOST HER HEART AT SWEETWATER LAKE. The simple pleasures of a summer sojourn at Georgia's grand Sweetwater Hotel were lost on Portia MacIntosh traveling Shakespearean acting troupe. Feisty Portia was determined to win it bac...

  • Sussex Summer

    Lucy Muir

    Had she been foolish to hope for more than friendship? When Captain Edward Tremaine returned from the Peninsular War, the first sight to greet his weary eyes was the natural beauty of Miss Jane Hampton tending to her English country garden. Dr...

  • The Suspense Is Killing Me

    Thomas Maxwell

    A journalist searches for the true story of his glamorous sibling's death When rock star J. C. Tripper died, only his brother Lee was by his side, and in the decades since, Lee has been deviled by questions of what really happened that night in Ta...

  • Surrender

    Amanda Quick

    At four and twenty Victoria Huntington thought herself quite adept at fending off fortune hunters...until she came under siege from Lucas Colebrook, the darkly disturbing new Earl of Stonevale. Amidst the brightly plumed birds of the ton, Lucas was a...

  • Surprise in the Wardrobe

    Val Willis

    All the kids at school have amazing things--from a rabbit munching lettuce in a box, to a birthday cake hidden inside a desk--but no one can match Bobby Bell and the extraordinary surprise in his wardrobe...

  • Sunny Day - Rainy Day

    Lea Hayden

  • Sunny

    Linda Madl

    Like so many others, Sunny Lang and her brother Jeff were struggling to rebuild their lives after the brutal devastation of the Civil War. When the tall, lean stranger came to their west Arkansas ranch, they were happy to hire him as a hand. But ther...

  • Summer Heat

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Having learned not to expect too much from life, Laurie Beth's plans to marry her high school boyfriend and start a family in her small farm community are upset by the arrival of Dylan, a motorcyclist who teaches her to write poetry and dream...

  • Sugar Ships

    Bonnie M. Parsley

  • Such Nice Kids

    Eve Bunting

    This cautionary tale, as tantalizing as a tabloid headline, illustrates the manner in which a single error in judgment can set off an avalanche of mistakes. When Pidge needs to borrow a car for a hot date, he turns to best friends Meek and Jason. Unw...

  • Strategic Moves

    Franklin W. Dixon

    While studying at Oxford University for the summer, Frank and Joe Hardy discover the perils of international relations when their new friends, Soviet twins Pyotr and Petra Zigonev, are kidnapped to force their father, a Soviet peace negotiator, to sa...

  • Story of the Tooth Fairy

    Sheila Black

    A delightful book about losing baby teeth and giving them to the tooth fairy is accompanied by an adorable tooth pillow. This book & pillow set is the perfect way to help your child through this time in their life....

  • Stolen Dreams

    Susan Anderson

    Abducted by a thief--and seduced by love! Jocelyn had always possessed a fiery spirit...but a new fire was ignited within her by the burning caresses of the handsome highwayman who was her captor. Dash was tortured by dark memories and driven b...

  • The Stolen Bride of Glengarra Castle

    Anne Knoll

    "'Tis an evil place mum and haunted too Some say a banshee wails in the Tower!" It had seemed like exile to young Elly Kincaid when she was packed off to England to be raised by an aunt after her mother's death. Now, at eighteen, her long awaited ...

  • Stepwives

    Phillis Stevens

  • Station West

    Luke Short

    Lieutenant Haven is ordered to retrieve or destroy a shipment of Army uniforms bound for Fort Stambaugh in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of the outlaws who have intercepted all of the town's recent gold shipments...

  • Star-Crossed Lovers

    Kay Hooper

    HER ENEMY, HER LOVE... Perhaps if she'd stayed in Atlanta, Michele Logan would never have had to face Ian Stuart, the ruggedly handsome architect whose family had feuded with hers for centuries. But in the sultry paradise of Martinique fate threw ...

  • SPQR // The King's Gambit

    John Maddox Roberts

    FOR THE SENATE AND PEOPLE OF ROME... They were evil times for the great Republic of Crassus and Pompey-- when vicious gangs ruled the streets, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembow...

  • The Spirit of the Blue Light

    Marianne Mayer

    When Michael, a young soldier, comes to the aid of a ragged old man in an enchanted forest, he is rewarded with a secret that leads to a beautiful princess, half a kingdom, and the fulfillment of his heart's desire...

  • Spider-Man: Parallel Lives

    Gerry Conway

  • Southern Cross

    Jenna Ryan

    Was it her imagination? At NORStar Space Park, fantasy became reality. There, robots ruled the far reaches of the galaxy, and good battled evil. At NORStar, dreams came true... . But so did nightmares. Especially for Kristian Ellis, who witness...

  • The Soup Bone

    Tony Johnston

  • The Song of the Christmas Mouse

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

  • The Song of Eve: An Illustrated Journey into the Myths, Symbols and Ritual of the Goddess

    Manuela Dunn Mascetti

  • A Song For Silas

    Lori Wick

    Amy thought love would never pass her way again. She didn’t know how close it was...until she met Silas. He is an answer to prayer for her injured father, Grant Nolan, who welcomes him with open arms. The brotherly way Silas feels toward Amy soon...

  • Someone's Mother Is Missing

    Harry Mazer

    Sam's world turns upside down when his wealthy uncle dies and his emotionally fragile aunt walks out on his cousin. Suddenly cousins Lisa and Robyn must leave their comfortable house and move in with Sam's family. Sam's house is small and chaotic, an...

  • Some Enchanted Season

    Patricia Burroughs

    The Hunk with the Wicked Grin... Once Kevyn Llewellyn spotted him in the crowd, she knew her search was over. Rusty Rivers had the magnificent body she needed for the warrior-god of her fantasy painting, and she had to have him right away-even if ...

  • The Society Ball Murders

    Jack Albin Anderson

    Reporter-sleuth Patty Nottingham and her boyfriend, pianist Rex Murphy, embark on their own investigation after the police claim that the bizarre death at a society ball of San Francisco society matron Binky Crenshaw was due to over dieting and lipos...

  • Soccer Is a Kick

    S.S. Gorman

    Chris, a member of the High Fives--a club consisting of five boys from Bressler Elementary who are members of the new soccer team--is ready to call it quits when his pushy father nearly ruins his game...

  • So You Want to Be a Star

    Randi Reisfeld

  • Snow Toward Evening: A Year in a River Valley

    Josette Frank

  • Snack Attack: A Tasty Pop Up Book

    Lynette Ruschak

  • Small Fur Is Getting Bigger

    Irina Korschunow

  • A Slay at the Races

    Kate Morgan

  • Skyfire

    Mack Maloney

    FREEDOM'S LAST STAND All but obliterated by the poisonous fallout of a first strike nuclear attack, America has been reduced to a war-blackened wasteland, struggling to survive. Up from the broken dreams of what was the most powerful country on ea...

  • Skin Deep

    Carol Davis Luce

    Then
    She is young, she is in love, and she is the first runner-up in a San Francisco beauty pageant. Regina Van Raven’s head is filled with hopes and dreams but they’re shattered in one unspeakable instant when a psychopath, obsessed wit...

  • Singularities

    W.T. Quick

    W.T. Quick give corporate warfare a new name in his esteemed novel, Singularities... "Luna Inc. would live, he promised himself dourly. Even if he, the last of the Schollanders, died in the survival effort. It was in his genes, maybe, as Auntie Elain...

  • The Silver Kiss

    Annette Curtis Klause

    Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother. Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeki...

  • Shocker : No More Mr. Nice Guy

    Randall Boyll

  • Shine Hawk

    Tom Smith

    Returning for a confrontation after seven years exile, Billy Crew discovers his best friend is now married to Billy's former lover, and the three set out on a journey during which they run afoul of the law...

  • Shadowspeer

    Jo Clayton

    Now in ebook for the first time, the second book of Clayton's classic sci-fi trilogyThe price of a world's death was extremely high, but Ginbiryol Seyirshi would give any buyer his money's worth. Creator of Limited Editions, "productions" in which en...

  • Shadow Play

    Paul Fleischman

    A puzzle version of the classic fairy tale about a beautiful young girl whose love breaks an evil spell that had transformed a handsome prince into a hideous beast, is set against the backdrop of a shadow-puppet production...

  • Sesame Street Favorites

    Golden Books

  • Servant of the Empire

    Raymond E. Feist; Janny Wurts

    Kelewan: the world on the far side of the magical rift where Tsurani court intrigue is as legendary as it is deadly. In Daughter of the Empire the inexperienced Mara of the Acoma is thrust into this realm of vicious political machinations with no all...

  • The Serpent Amongst the Lilies

    P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    An investigation into the mysterious woman known as Jeanne of Arc...The turbulent times of the 15th century are perfectly captured in Paul Doherty's gripping mystery, The Serpent Amongst the Lilies. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Susanna Gregor...

  • The Sensational She-Hulk

    John Byrne

  • The Sensation

    Rebecca Flanders

    A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE Fame. The cheekiest flapper at the Handley Hotel for Young Ladies, Alice Fontaine has bobbed her hair, shortened her skirt and come to New York to realize her dream: become the Sensation of the Decade. Fortune. Nic...

  • Secrets of Scary Fun

    Stephen Mooser

  • Seasons of Swans

    Monica Wellington

  • Seasons of Death and Life

    Maggie Ross

    Memoir of the author's sojourn in the American wilderness where she takes a job as a caretaker and meets some extraordinary characters who become her teachers and companions. Here she receives healing from these people and from the land....

  • Seasons

    Lisa Gregory

    THERE IS A TIME TO LET GO OF LOVE...AND A TIME TO FIND IT AGAIN. Every woman faces a moment when she discovers nothing stays the same forever... not even love. For beautiful Sharon Thompson, giving herself completely to a man for the first time, l...

  • Seasons

    Warabe Aska

  • Scrambled Eggs

    Suzanne Allen

  • Scout's Honor

    Diana Whitney

    A WOMAN NAMED JOSIE McGEE... Single parent Cruz Erickson couldn't believe that the fiery-haired female in the leather duds and red motorcycle helmet was his eleven-year-old son's new Scout leader. With her wild coppery curls and outspoken ideas ab...

  • Science Spook

    Hanya Bloom

  • The School Trip

    Nick Butterworth

  • School for Laughter

    Terry Denton

  • Scene of the Crime

    Mickey Alman

  • Scary Scary Huckleberry

    Judy Delton

  • Scared Silly

    James Howe

    It''s Halloween night and spooky things are going on at the Monroe house. The wind is howling. The walls are creaking. Howie, the little dachshund, is scared silly. And Chester, of course, is sure the vampire bunny, Bunnicula, is up to something. Har...

  • Sati

    Christopher Pike

    Those who meet Sati, a beautiful and mysterious young woman who claims to be God, are somehow changed by the experience but it is Michael, the trucker who takes her in, who unravels the heartbreaking mystery of her origin...

  • Sarah Cobb

    Catherine M. Rae

    When her arranged marriage to Henry Cobb, an affluent widower twice her age, ends with his untimely death, Sarah Cobb turns to Henry's son William for emotional support, but their blossoming love is threatened by an agonizing Cobb family secret...

  • Santa Fe Fantasy

    Judith Steel

    When lovely gunrunner Adeline Montclair rescues Captain Trace Randall, and then falls into his heated embrace, she doesn't realize that he has been riding the Santa Fe trail to find out who has been supplying rifles to the Comanches Adeline Montcl...

  • Sand Against the Tide

    Paul Bishop

    A retired cop-turned-fishing boat captain, Calico Jack Walker must pay for ignoring his instincts when he charters his boat to two shady characters who try to hijack the ship and almost murder his son. Reprint....

  • Sailing with the Wind

    Thomas Locker

  • Saddle Club-Boxed Set 4 Vols.

    Bonnie Bryant

  • Saddle a Whirlwind

    Eugene C. Vories

    Journeying to Texas to escape some trouble in Colorado, Clint Austin becomes involved in the problems of Becky Major and her family as they struggle against overwhelming odds to hand on to their debt-ridden ranch...

  • The Ruby Knight

    David Eddings

    THE MAGIC BHELLIOM Ehlana, Queen of Elenia, had been poisoned. A deep enchantment sustained her life, but only while the Knights aiding it still lived -- and already they were dying, one each month. Then Sparhawk, Knight and Queen's Champion, l...

  • Rubberband Stew

    Ann Hodgman

  • Rosie Runs Away

    Maryann Macdonald

  • The Rose Thieves

    Heidi Jon Schmidt

    The Rose Thieves gives us the Vanderwald family: flamboyant, hot-tempered Lila, who feels trapped living in a small New England town; her sentimental, eternally optimistic husband, a failed futures-market investor; and their children. An affectionate...

  • Rose

    Jill Marie Landis

    Across the Golden Plains, Two Searching Hearts Find Love ROSA The sultry, dark eyed beauty dared to leave her home in a small Italian village and journey to America, to join her husband on the wild frontier. But a tragic twist of fate left her a...

  • Romeo in the Rain

    Kasey Michaels

    GIRL TROUBLE... A little rain couldn't dampen vacationing widowed mother Courtney Blackmun's spirits. After all, she wasn't at the beach in November to get a tan or socialize - she was there to be alone. Or so she thought. Her teenage daughter, ex...

  • The Robin Hood Ambush

    William F. Wu

    In a future where time travel is common and Time Patrolmen insure that time tourists do not tamper with history, Bob, Will, and Alan travel back to the time of King Richard the Lion-Hearted and pose as Robin Hoods...

  • Risks

    Stella Cameron

    WAS SHE READY FOR A NEW BEGINNING? Jennie Andrews was bravely coping with a new business, a house in constant need of repairs, and two teenage sons. Then life suddenly tipped that precarious balance. Peter Kynaston had been the family's best fr...

  • Risk 'n Roses

    Jan Slepian

    In 1948, newly-moved to the Bronx, eleven-year-old Skip longs to shed her responsibility for her mentally handicapped older sister and give her whole attention to her new friendship with the bold and daring girl who sems to run the neighborhood....

  • The Right Number of Elephants

    Jeff Sheppard

    " In] a joyous twist on the counting-book concept, a girl decides how many elephants are needed to pull a train out of a tunnel, paint the ceiling, go to the beach. . . .Bond's well-executed illustrations project] a contagious sense of movement. A p...

  • Ride with Me, Mariah Montana

    Ivan Doig

    This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's passionate and authentic trilogy about the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies.Jick McCaskill, the illustrious narrator of English Creek, ...

  • Richard's Feet

    Carey Harrison

    In a bizarre series of events, English solicitor Richard Thurgo borrows the identity of a German soldier and sets off to seek his fortune in war-ravaged Germany, leaving behind a wife and family who believe him to be dead. Reprint. NYT. ...

  • Rhyme or Reason

    Erica Spindler

    The Passionate, Privileged Physician... Dr. Walker Chadwick Ridgeman was bold, confident, a devilishly handsome man of science who liked order and sense--why, then, was he so drawn to a lovely seductress with flaming hair and dreamer's eyes that s...

  • Return to Gone-Away

    Elizabeth Enright

    In this sequel to "Gone-Away Lake," eleven-year-old Portia and family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures an...

  • Rescue from Yesterday

    Marisa Carroll

    Simon McKendrick had a mission Fifteen years after the fall of Saigon, his sister Rachel and his brother Micah were being held prisoner in Vietnam by a corrupt government minister. The ransom for their release: a flawless pearl necklace. Simon ...

  • Renegade Steele

    J.D. Masters

    STEELE MUST DIE! Like all good programmers, the scientists who brought Steele back to life kept a backup copy of the software containing the mind and personality of Lt. Donovan Steele. But the matrix is more than just a copy -- it is Steele. It has ...

  • Rememory

    John Gregory Betancourt

    For catmen Hangman and Slash, prowling the burned-out urban Sprawl is the ideal life. These genetically modified people live to rip off hot cargoes from rival animen. It's a fine life of thief vs. thief...cat vs. dog... Fine, that is, until Slash sco...

  • A Relative Stranger

    Charles Baxter

    "In his quiet cosmic wonderment, Baxter is the equal of John Updike and Anne Tyler at their largest and best."―GQ

    Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our fine...

  • Recon by Fire

    John Sievert

  • Ready, Willing and Abel

    Nancy Martin

    LOVESTRUCK! Professor Abel Fletcher didn't believe in love at first sight. It had to be the sacred love stone he'd recently acquired that was making him act like such a dope. What else could explain his sudden attraction to coolly aloof Samantha W...

  • Ready for Blastoff

    Rick North

  • A Rats Tale

    Tor Seidler

  • Rascal Money

    Joseph R. Garber

  • Rainy Day Kisses

    Debbie Macomber

    She was a woman on the rise Susannah Simmons had a five-year plan for career success. And it didn't include falling in love with her next-door neighbor! Nate Townsend was undeniably attractive, and he obviously had money, but he seemed to l...

  • Rain Talk

    Mary Serfozo

  • Quicksilver Passion

    Georgina Gentry

    SHE MEANT WHAT SHE SAID Beautiful Silver Jones had been called every name in the book. But now that she owned her own tavern in Buckskin Joe, Colorado, she didn't care what the self-righteous citizens thought of her. She never let a man touch he...

  • The Queen of Sheba

    Roberta Kells Dorr

    This stirring account of the Queen of Sheba's search for truth and love paints a captivating portrait of a woman struggling with her passions and responsibilities in the ancient Middle East.. Dorr tells of a beautiful, intelligent, and in...

  • Puss in Boots

    John S. Goodall

  • Prodigal Lover

    Margo Gregg

    TRUTH OR LIES Keely Easton's dreams were shattered the day her husband's helicopter crashed in a Nicaraguan jungle. Since then, Keely had worked to pull her life back together without Bryan Easton. But seven years after the accident, Keely's ca...

  • A Prior Engagement

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    Cupid's song is the sweetest of all... A race to the altar Genevra did not give a fig for marriage; it was the violin she loved. The pretty miss had never lacked for suitors, mind you -- but a penchant for jilting them had left all prospects f...

  • Prince of Dreams

    Carly Bishop

    She was no ordinary doctor He was no ordinary man The Petrakis men were legendary. Power, wealth, adoration -- they had it all. But for Alex Petrakis, locked in a coma after a daredevil accident, all the money in the world couldn't guarantee ...

  • Prince Henry the Navigator

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • The Price You Pay

    Hannah Wakefield

    COMPROMISING POSITIONS The murder of prominent journalist Amanda Finch raises many questions. For eminent psychiatrist David Blake, the question is why his wife was found beside the body of a Chilean exile -- who just happened to be a former mental p...

  • The Price of Ransom

    Alis A. Rasmussen

    She crossed an ocean of stars in her search for freedom

    Though the revolution is won, Lily Ransome and the crew of the Forlorn Hope are renegades, pursued by the forces of the liberator they gave their blood to proclaim.

    Now their only ...

  • The Power

    James Mills

    American scientist Jack Hammond finds himself involved in a game of cat-and-mouse with a duplicitous and beautiful Soviet agent when he begins investigating the Soviet Union's use of paranormal forces for defense purposes...

  • Postmortem

    Patricia Cornwell

    Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalizing clues about the inner workings of ...

  • The Postman's Palace

    Adrian Henri

  • Poppy

    Barbara Larriva

    From the day nine-year-old Poppy mysteriously appears in the hospital room of lonely, cantankerous Allegra Alexander, the aging movie-star's life begins to change. The old woman's spirit-crushed years ago by her husband's untimely death and her son's...

  • Pondlarker

    Fred Gwynne

  • The Poison Heart

    Amanda Hemingway

    Blamed by her father for her mother's death during childbirth, Elsa becomes obsessed with winning her father's love, but the trail of that destructive obsession is strewn with jealousy, deceit, duplicity, possible murder, self-denial, and self-blindn...

  • Playing the Dozens

    William D. Pease

    When the man accused of killing a cop is found hanging in his cell, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Holden investigates a bizarre case involving drugs, money, sex, and corruption. Reprint. NYT....