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New Books List: 770 titles

  • Journeyman Wizard

    Mary Frances Zambreno

  • Violette's Embrace

    Michele Zackheim

    A novel based on the turbulent life of Violette Leduc, an obscure French writer who became a lesbian, a member of the existentialist circle of Sartre and Camus, and a black-marketeer during World War II...

  • Here There Be Angels

    Jane Yolen

  • Hobby

    Jane Yolen

    "MY NAME IS HAWK." YOUNG MERLIN IS HAUNTED BY HIS DREAMS -- VISIONS THAT FORETELL FIRE, DEATH, AND DESTRUCTION. CALLING HIMSELF HAWK, HE FALLS INTO A BAND OF TRAVELING PERFORMERS. THEY RENAME HIM HOBBY AND TRY TO HARNESS HIS TALENT FOR SEEING THE ...

  • Passager

    Jane Yolen

    The legendary wizard’s early years are explored in this magical adventure by the acclaimed author of the Pit Dragon Chronicles. A boy is abandoned in the woods of medieval England. A year passes -- a year of terror and hunger, of sleeping in trees ...

  • If I Had a Robot

    Dan Yaccarino

    Faced with a parental demand that he eat his vegetables, a young boy dreams of having an obedient robot to do all of his unpleasant tasks, from taking baths and doing homework to kissing his Aunt Louise....

  • Dirt

    Stuart Woods

    Feared and disliked for both her poison pen and ice-queen persona, gossip columnist Amanda Dart finds the tables have turned. When an anonymous gossipmonger begins faxing the scathing details of Amanda's sexual indiscretions to national opinion maker...

  • Beyond the Kiss

    Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
    in

    Full-length novella, the wedding of Jeff Birmingham of THE FLAME AND THE FLOWER and his new bride Raelynn inflames the jealous ire of a determined rival......

  • The Price of a Cigar

    Peter Wood

  • Invasion of the Giant Bugs

    A.J. Wood

  • White Wave

    Diane Wolkstein

    A lonely young farmer finds an iridescent snail shell that contains the moon goddess, White Wave, and the farmer's loneliness soon disappears, but when he yearns for more than he is given, he loses what he loves....

  • The Mischief Kit

    Dan Witkowski

  • Sparkle Circus

    Dan Witkowski

  • When a Man Loves a Woman

    Bonnie K. Winn

    What if ...she'd said yes? Hotshot attorney Barbara Callister kept her feelings as tightly buttoned as her power suits. But ever since she took a case against the devastatingly handsome Kenneth Gerrard, she found herself thinking of Billy Duncan, ...

  • Police Patrol

    Katherine K. Winkleman

  • Hispanic Holidays

    Faith Winchester

  • Whiff of Danger

    Nancy Hope Wilson

    Dressing up as characters from The Wizard of Oz on Halloween, Maggie, Howie, and Just Rick realize that they are being followed by a prankster witch as they make their trick-or-treating rounds. Original....

  • Strong, Silent Cowboy

    Leanna Wilson

    COWBOYS ARE TROUBLE.... Kirk Manning was at home in a saddle, at a rodeo or on a ranch. But when it came to speaking his heart, well, this rugged cowboy was a greenhorn! So he asked lovely Shannon Montgomery for help.... COWBOYS ARE DANGEROUS.......

  • Gahan Wilson's The Ultimate Haunted House

    Gahan Wilson

  • A Watch in the Night

    A.N. Wilson

    Julian Ramsey, biographer of the literary Lampitt dynasty, spends an evening in London confronting a cast of characters from his past, reminiscing about old loves, and unraveling the mysteries surrounding two violent deaths. Reprint....

  • Rock of Ages

    Walter Jon Williams

    After years of struggle, Drake Maijstral has been rated Number One Burglar by the Imperial Sporting Commission. Surely by now he deserves a vacation— and he fully intends to take one, on Earth. But valuable items keep disappearing, and it&#x...

  • Emily at School

    Suzanne Williams

  • The Price of Blood and Honor

    Elizabeth Willey

    A powerful fantasy novel in its own right, set in an expansive and complex fantasy universe, The Price of Blood and Honor brings to a grand climax the tale, begun in The Well-Favored Man and A Sorcerer and a Gentleman, of the kingdoms of Landuc, Noro...

  • Going West

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    With the My First Little House picture book series, the youngest readers can share in the joy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books in these illustrated adaptations of the beloved series! 

    It’s a fond good-bye to the ...

  • Hello, Laura

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • Laura Helps Pa

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • Laura's Garden

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • Zeitgeist

    Todd Wiggins

    Set in 1999 against a backdrop of race riots, well-armed zealots, discount euthanasia, and sexual worship, Zeitgeist is a searing portrait of a nation facing Armageddon....

  • AAAhh! School Lunch

    Molly Wigand

    The wacky monster trio is at it again as they play around with a group of humans' school lunches in an attempt to gross them out, but things do not go as planned and the result of their trick is far from what they had expected....

  • The Teddy Bear under the Bed

    Molly Wigand

  • Dark Charm

    Don Whittington

    Possessing the ability to sense the future, Titus, the new kid in town, realizes that he and his fellow student, Molly, are somehow cosmically linked by an approaching evil that they must confront together in order to survive. Original....

  • Two-Penny Wedding

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    And the bride wore...What? Gentry Northcross was determined to marry the man of her dreams in the wedding gown of her choice. She would not, under any circumstances, put on the "magic" wedding dress her father had purchased for her, and she scoff...

  • Daddy of the House

    Diana Whitney

    DADDY COME HOME We used to be one big family until Mom and Dad got divorced. Dad works all the time and that makes Mom mad. But he came for a visit and broke his ankle. Now he has to stay home and take care of us kids while Mom works. It's really fu...

  • Sierra

    Richard S. Wheeler

    The discovery of gold in the Sierras triggered the greatest migration in United States history, the gold rush of 1849. In this sweeping story of the rush to California by land and by sea, four young people discover what gold fever can do to a person'...

  • The Emperor's Birthday Suit

    Cindy Wheeler

    Illustrated in full color. Here's a fresh and funny retelling of the beloved classic! A vain Emperor is duped by two tailors who make him a magic birthday suit. While everyone in the land pretends to see the new suit, a brave child shouts that the Em...

  • American Pie

    Michael Lee West

    The lives of the three McBroom sisters of Tallulah, Tennessee, were tangled before the eldest, Eleanor, discovered their mother hanging from the Venetian blinds—and the years have done little to comb out the knots. Now a drunken encounter with t...

  • The Witches' Scary House

    Mick Wells

    Five punch-out witch figures roam the halls of their haunted dwelling, cooking newt stew in the kitchen, looking under beds for ghosts, and watching bad news on TV. Features pop-up and movable illustrations....

  • A Horse for All Seasons

    Sheila K. Welch

  • Flying Substitute

    Ellen Weiss

    Herman A. Sherman School is a place where anything can happen. From the show and tell egg that hatches into a travel-hungry teacher's best friend to the talking potato in Baxter's lunchbox, here are four stories about the wackiest school ever. Comes ...

  • Don't Look Down!

    Eric Weiner

    Taking care of a neighbor's cat on the thirteenth floor of a skyscraper, height-phobic Denise is infuriated with her brother, who teases her that the cat has jumped out of the window, a situation that is complicated when the cat really escapes. Origi...

  • Runaway Bus!

    Eric Weiner

    Fighting his own tendency for lateness in order to get five-year-old Samantha to school on time, young Freddy is horror-stricken when two bank robbers hijack the bus and take Samantha hostage. Original....

  • Thrill Ride

    Eric Weiner

    Tagging along when a gang of older kids sneak into Playland amusement park, Annie is delighted when they get the huge roller coaster to work and becomes terrified when it stops upside-down at the top of the highest loop. Original....

  • William Wegman's Mother Goose

    William Wegman

  • Indiscreet

    Peggy Webb

    One look at him made women bare their secrets .... Bolton Gray Wolf appeared every inch the savage when he arrived to interview Virginia Haven, but the moment she rode up on a white Arabian stallion, challenge glittering in her eyes, he knew he wo...

  • The Wolf and the Woman's Touch

    Ingrid Weaver

    THE LADY AND THE WOLF She was a desperate woman and he was the only man who could help. So Jenna Lawrence climbed a snow-covered mountain to reach Damien Reese's isolated cabin. She had just a single request - that he find her kidnapped niece. But...

  • Michael's House

    Pat Warren

    HE HAD A WAY WITH KIDS That was what Fallon McKenzie kept hearing about Michael Redfield. So when she needed to find her missing sister, all roads led to Michael's House. But the more she saw of him, the more confused she became. Who was this weal...

  • The Hurricane Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Aldens visit South Carolina and learn a friend of theirs has an ancestor who was a pirate! They hunt for the pirate's hidden treasure, but someone else is looking for it too. Can the Boxcar Children find it before the next big storm hits the coas...

  • An Alcott Family Christmas

    Alexandra Wallner

    When a neighbor comes to the Alcott home on Christmas and tells them that his wife and child are sick, the Alcott family gathers together to do what they can to help the unfortunate family in their time of need in a true spirit of Christmas good will...

  • Imagine You Are a Tiger

    Karen Wallace

  • Little Bean

    John Wallace

    Little Bean does not like it that her Daddy is so busy preparing for his trip, and keeps herself busy all day while he is gone, but when Daddy returns from his trip they find a chance to spend some time together...

  • Jojofu

    Michael P. Waite

  • Aftershock

    John Vornholt

  • Bertie and Gertie Space Detectives

    Antje Von Stemm

    Follow Bertie and Gertie on their first case! Travel through the galaxy in search of their missing friend, and collect pieces to a colorful jigsaw puzzle that reveals the solution to the mystery. Fun pop ups and moving pieces make this much more than...

  • Necessary Losses

    Judith Viorst

    The classic New York Times bestseller about the many forms of loss we experience throughout our lives, and the necessity of letting go.In Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we gro...

  • Texas Glory

    Robert Vaughan

    In Texas during 1836, men like Crockett, Houston, and Bowie fight their way to the Alamo and, although outnumbered forty-to-one, prepare to do battle with one of the most powerful armies in the world. Original....

  • By the Lake of Sleeping Children

    Luis Urrea

    By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists,and relief workers, fearsome coyotes and their desperate clientele. In sixteen indelible portraits, U...

  • Morality Play

    Barry Unsworth

    Short-listed for the Booker Prize, Morality Play is a medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time -- and lessons for our own time -- by a master storyteller. It is a cold winter in the fourteenth century, and a young renegade priest...

  • The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants

    Priscilla Turner

    The unknown history of letters

    For as long as any letter could remember, Vowels and Consonants had been enemies.

    U without N? Q without U? Mpssh! you say. Yet once, long ago, P's and Q's minded their p's and q's, and though U and I dese...

  • Big Night

    Joseph Tropiano

    Set during the early 1950s, this story of love and linguini, purity and compromise--soon to be a major motion picture from MGM--takes a poignant and pointed look at Old World vs. New World values and provides a rueful assessment of the American Dr...

  • Shroud for the Archbishop

    Peter Tremayne

    In the autumn of A.D. 664, Sister Fidelma has arrived in the Holy City of Rome, the capital of Christendom. The sharp-witted, outspoken young religieuse, trained in criminal investigation, is being called upon to solve a murder. The archbishop des...

  • Beloved Outcast

    Pat Tracy

    The Wagons Went West - Without Her... ...but nothing could stop Victoria Amory from pursuing her 'great adventure.' Not even a reprobate like Logan Youngblood, whose lazy-lidded gaze and lopsided grin dared her to do things that should have made ...

  • Code Name: Daddy

    Marilyn Tracy

    SECRET AGENT, SECRET LONGINGS... The world believed FBI Agent Alec MacLain was dead -- and that was the way he wanted it. Two years ago his life should have ended when the woman he loved had been ripped from his powerless grasp. Now Cait and their d...

  • Chain Reaction

    Robert Tine

  • Eraser

    Robert Tine

  • Family Vacation

    Robert Tine

  • Seasons of the Heart

    Alexandra Thorne

    The only daughter of a notorious Texas senator, Peaches Morgan-Strand looks every inch the pampered Southern belle she is. But as the owner of a magazine and the single mother of two, she is a no-nonsense businesswoman determined to make it on her ow...

  • The Insult

    Rupert Thomson

    "We are in the dark side of the brain--full of grief and deliciously strange comedy. I've never read anything like it."
    --Michael Ondaatje


    With this eerie, provocative, and utterly original novel, Rupert Thomson takes the psychological...

  • Infiltrator

    W.R. Thompson

    Centuries ago, followers of the tyrant Khan Noonien Singh left Earth for the planet Hera to continue his experiment in selective breeding. Now, they are finally ready to launch their plan of universal domination -- with the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM as ...

  • Baker's Dozen

    Michael M. Thomas

    A vice president under the most admired CEO in the world, Lucy Preston's initial attraction to her boss, Jack Mannerman, is tempered by fear when a rival within the company disappears and a series of grisly murders follows....

  • The Thundering Underground

    Jake Thoene

  • My Other Life

    Paul Theroux

    In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel "a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond." The book spans almost thirt...

  • The Puppies Are Here!

    Marc Tetro

  • The Circus Escape

    T.L. Tedrow

  • The Legend of the Missouri Mud Monster

    T.L. Tedrow

  • Brother Wolf

    Harriet Peck Taylor

    Wolf is a friend to everyone, even Raccoon, who likes to tease him. Then one day Raccoon goes too far. He covers Wolf's eyes, so that Wolf does not know night from day.

    In his misery, Wolf calls out to the birds. Woodpecker, Blue Jay, Cardinal...

  • Evil Intent

    Bernard Taylor

    Believing the people of Valley Green to be cruel and deceptive, John Callow seeks his revenge in an ancient curse that enables him to cause the painful deaths of everyone who has slighted him. Original....

  • William Cooper's Town

    Alan Taylor

    William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
     
    William Cooper rose from humble or...

  • Falsely Accused

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    Battling the city on behalf of a former government employee, attorney Butch Karp finds himself working alongside his wife, Marlene, a detective specializing in domestic violence cases, when a series of shocking crimes joins their cases. Reissue....

  • Amazon Diary

    Hudson Talbott

    The handwritten diary of a twelve-year-old boy offers readers a perspective on the Yanomami tribe that takes him in when his plane crashes, a story that follows such adventures as Alex's participation in the rescue of a kidnapped girl....

  • Excalibur

    Hudson Talbott

    When the young Arthur pulled the sword from the stone and became High King of all Britain, he didn't realize that an even greater task lay ahead: that of uniting his country behind him. Wielding the great Pendragon sword, Arthur leads his men to v...

  • The Post Office

    Rabindranath Tagore

    In this volume we venture to the East. To met a writer who speaks a common language of love and mysticism which continues to convey valuable insights into universal themes in contemporary society. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who was a gifted Beng...

  • Brass Ring

    Nancy Tafuri

  • Free Fall

    Joyce Sweeney

    When four boys decide to spend the day exploring a cave, they have no idea that their fun afternoon is about to become a fight for survival Neil and his best friend, Randy, can’t wait to explore a nearby cave for the afternoon. But when Neil’s li...

  • By a Woman's Hand

    J. Swanson

    An anthology of works by notable women writers contains nearly three hundred alphabetical entries that include profiles of acclaimed authors, book plots, titles, and popular mystery characters. Reprint....

  • The Scarlet Rider

    Lucy Sussex

    Melvina Kirksley's first assignment is to find out who wrote a mysterious newspaper serial back in the 1860s, but when she comes across her own name and begins to have strange dreams about a mystery woman, she wonders if she is being possessed. Repri...

  • Sam Sunday and the Mystery at the Ocean Beach Hotel

    Robyn Supraner

    When things turn up missing from the Ocean Beach Motel--such as the silver, the china and more--Sam Sunday, the world's greatest detective, enters the case to find out which one of the guests is grabbing all the goods....

  • Bogus

    Linda Sunshine

  • Devil's Tower

    Mark Sumner

    The turning point of the Civil War had come when the bodies got up at Shiloh. Dangerous magic had risen on a flood of blood and violence, and it swept across the land, washing away all but the strong and the lucky. Unnatural powers had been loosed, a...

  • Held Accountable

    Karen Hanson Stuyck

    For ten years, Liz James has worked-as public relations officer for the Houston Mental Health Center. Now she has her work cut out for her--as someone targets clinic employees for murder... As a therapist, Gina was trained to recognize the signs o...

  • Prince of Swords

    Anne Stuart

    She is an impoverished noblewoman who lives by her wits as a Tarot reader for the English nobility. He is London's most notorious cat burglar. They met one dark, glittering night. Yet even Jessamine Maitland cannot foresee the destiny that will s...

  • How I Created My Perfect Prom Date

    Todd Strasser

    "Pollution is no longer just a problem of industrialized nations. Some of the worst polluters are the unregulated developing countries. Unless something is done to slow pollution down, there will be no high school proms in the year 2200. "But ther...

  • Forbidden Secrets

    R.L. Stine

    Bride of Fear The dark power of the Fear family consumes all those connected with it. No one can escape the evil of the family's curse--not even the Fears themselves. Savannah Madison doesn't believe that. She marries Tyler Fear. But then she goes...

  • The Knight in Screaming Armor

    R.L. Stine

    It was a knight to dismember. . . Your cousins, Kip and Abbey, have come to visit you from jolly old England -- and guess what they brought with them? Two huge crates, each containing a suit of armor and a curse. But it doesn't matter, 'cause you'r...

  • Legend of the Lost Legend

    R.L. Stine

    TALK ABOUT A HORROR STORY... Nobody loves a good story like Justin's dad. He's a famous writer and story collector. That's how Justin and his sister, Marissa, ended up in Brovania. Their dad is searching for an ancient manuscript called The Lost Lege...

  • The Loudest Scream

    R.L. Stine

    In the wake of several terrible accidents at Fear Park, Diedre Bradley pursues a relationship with the intense and mysterious Robin Fear and learns of his plans to destroy the park, even at the cost of Diedre's life. Original....

  • Bimmi Finds a Cat

    Elisabeth Jane Stewart

  • A Baby's Cry

    Amanda Stevens

    A baby's cry echoed through the years... Taylor Robinson and Dillon Reeves had once been the perfect couple - high school sweethearts voted the most likely to marry and have a big family. Only, Taylor's wealthy family had proven too rich for Dillo...

  • A Wizard in Peace

    Christopher Stasheff

    THE ROGUE WIZARD Under the nom de guerre of Gar Pike, renegade psychic wizard Magnus D'Armand travels the stars fighting injustice and oppression, like his father, Rod Gallowglass, the Warlock in Spite of Himself. But this time the Rogue Wizard ma...

  • Still More Night Frights

    Judith Bauer Stamper

  • To Love a Thief

    Margaret St. George

    Glitz -- Glamour -- Theft - Romance Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: DeWildes, M...

  • Mama's Birthday Surprise

    Elizabeth Spurr

  • Bumples, Fumdidlers, and Jellybeans

    Arnold Spilka

  • Rose Red

    Flora Speer

    Once upon a time...they lived happily ever after. "I HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS, ONE A FLOWER AS PURE AND WHITE AS THE NEW-FALLEN SNOW AND THE OTHER A ROSE AS RED AND SWEET AS THE FIRES OF PASSION." Bianca and Rosalinda were the only treasures left to ...

  • Destiny Strikes Twice

    Maris Soule

    He was the man she'd been looking for all her life .... Effie Sanders returned to the lake to pack up her grandmother's house and the memories of summers spent tagging along with her sister Bernadette . . . and Parker Morgan. With his blue eyes an...

  • Rapture

    David Sosnowski

    What would you do if you woke up one morning and discovered you have wings? From the winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize comes an entertaining and inventive tale acclaimed by The New York Times Book Review as a "wry, dry first novel [about] an...

  • Dakota Destiny

    Lauraine Snelling
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    Since childhood they have been together and now the war to end all wars -- World War I -- has cruelly torn them apart. But when Mary Moen receives the letter informing her that Will Dunfey is missing in action, presumed dead, she presumes nothing of ...

  • Out of the Blue

    Lauraine Snelling

    An unexpected phone call from the biological father DJ Randall has never met leaves her reeling. Why, after fourteen years of silence, is this stranger named Bradley Atwood suddenly interested in getting to know her? And how will this affect DJ's rel...

  • Pirate Plunder's Treasure Hunt: A Pop-up Whodunit

    Iain Smyth

  • Texas Standoff

    Ruth Alana Smith

    Cheyenne Moon Ranch in the Texas Hill Country The Cowgirl and the City Slicker She's all Texas spunk and sass. Her love is the land -- her father's legacy. Nothing else can catch her eye until he washes in on a Texas flash flood. He's t...

  • The Happy Hocky Family

    Lane Smith

    The author of Glasses (Who Needs 'Em?) introduces young readers to the whimsical world of the happy Hocky family--Baby Hocky; his brother Henry, who chases his sister with a dead spider; and Holly, who awakens her brother with a tuba blast. R...

  • Most Eligible Dad

    Karen Rose Smith

    "I didn't know she was pregnant when I left!" Dr. Gavin Bradley was back for one reason: Jessie Windsor. The bachelor had never forgotten his first love, or the night of passion they'd shared. But it seemed Jessie had forgotten to tell him about o...

  • Put Me to Bed!

    Nicola Smee

  • The Princess Lost Her Locket

    Jerry Smath

    Poor little princess! Somehow, somewhere, she's lost her favorite locket. But this little princess doesn't give up easily. She sets off to search every nook and cranny of the castle to find her missing keepsake. Includes 25 fabulous, jewel-like stick...

  • Fenwick's Suit

    David Small

  • The Fabulous Flying Fandinis

    Ingrid Slyder

    Bobby is not at all interested in meeting his new neighbors, the Fandinis, but when he finally gets around to paying a visit, he is shocked to discover that their house has no walls but rather a large collection of exotic animals, a couple of trapeze...

  • Butcher of the Noble

    William S. Slusher

    Consumed with preventing a colleague from destroying his career in a quest for vengeance, lawman Lewis Cody becomes involved in a series of bizarre horse killings that leads to a choice between two beautiful women. ...

  • Dana's Best Friend

    Teddy Slater

  • Ransom

    Gloria Dale Skinner

    Swearing vengeance on bank robber Eagle Clark after his fiance is gravely wounded, Sheriff Grason Spencer attempts to raise cash in a sharpshooting match and is bested by markswoman Kasey Anderson, who seeks Clark on behalf of her sister. A man of...

  • Crazy for Cartwheels

    Linda Joy Singleton

    MEET THE LOSERS Wendi! Tabby! Krystal! Anna! They're the best they can be at kicks and cartwheels, and cheers that will dazzle the crowds. But they never had a chance when they tried out for the Castle Hill Cheerleaders. Only the coach's daughter Da...

  • Spirit Song

    Linda Joy Singleton

    Enjoying the prompt success of their cheerleading squad, Wendi and her friends prepare to compete in the county regionals but become worried when they learn about their new coach's unsettling past. Original....

  • Legacies

    Alison Sinclair

    Five generations after their ancestors had accidentally destroyed their home planet and fled to another world, Lian D'Halldt, Daisainia Travassa, and the other outcasts prepare to return to the lost world. Original....

  • Red Leaves

    Paullina Simons

    Everyone at Dartmouth College knows Kristina Kim, Conni Tobias, Albert Maplethorpe, and Jim Shaw. Attractive, intelligent, and poised for brilliant futures, they are campus elite, and ever since freshman year, they've been inseparable almost like fam...

  • Maiden Bride

    Deborah Simmons

    Gillian Hexham Soon Learned Her New Lord Was More Wedded To Revenge Than To Her For Nicholas de Laci had sworn to exact payment for the sins of her uncle. Why, then, did his eyes belie his words, speaking naught of retribution --- but promising ni...

  • The House That Drac Built

    Judy Sierra

  • Hand-Me-Down Hearts

    Linda Shertzer
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    Four heartwarming stories of the ties that bind. FOUR MASTERS OF ROMANCE. FOUR TALES OF LOVE DESTINED TO LAST FOREVER. ONE QUILT WEAVING A CIRCLE OF ETERNAL PASSION AND HOPE... Linda Shertzer's Hand-Me-Down Hearts A young widow is touche...

  • Colorado Wolfpack

    Jon Sharpe

    Threatened by the notorious Wolf Rollins at the height of a silver war in southwest Colorado Territory, Skye Fargo joins forces with Ike McDermott, a foul-tempered prospector, and Morning Sky, a beautiful Ute widow. Original....

  • A Feast of Words

    Anna Shapiro

    "Shapiro has created inventive menus to accompany the pleasures of reading Proust, Isak Dinesen, and Charlotte Bronte. Over 50 recipes for such delights as Queso Rellono (Serenade), Quail with Potaoes and Grapes (""Babette's Feast""), Lamb a la Robin...

  • Portofino

    Frank Shaeffer

    Looking forward to a summer trip to Portofino, Italy, Calvin, the son of a dysfunctional missionary family, dreads his father's dark moods, his mother's efforts to convert others, and his sister's melodramatic ideas. Original....

  • Black Sky River

    Tres Seymour

  • What's What? A Guessing Game

    Mary Serfozo

    Challenges young readers to come up with answers to simple questions about their surroundings while teaching them about the concepts of dark, light, wet, dry, hard, and soft with the help of rhyming text and amusing, full-color illustrations....

  • Four Pups and a Worm

    Eric Seltzer

    Illustrated in full color. Who are you going to call when you cannot tie your tie, when your chopper will not fly, when your car begins to steam, when your mower spurts and screams? Why, you call Four Pups and a Worm, of course--the most industrious ...

  • Construction of Social Reality

    John R. Searle

    In this fascinating, provocative account, eminent philosopher John Searle shows how our everyday actions and cultural knowledge are of a metaphysical complexity that is truely staggering. He explores the charecter of the structures of our daily work ...

  • The Passive Voice

    G.C. Scott

    In The Passive Voice, G.C. Scott creates a woman who discovers a new pathway to love and the delights and consequences of her pleasure-bound journey. This is a contemporary literary novel of sexual surrender....

  • I Do? I Don't?

    Christine Scott

    ONE BRIDE, TWO GROOMS. Niki Adams had finally gotten her life together. She was about to be married to a handsome doctor who treated her like gold. Everything was going great -- until Jack Sinclair came home, declaring that he was the one she should...

  • I'll Be Home Soon, Snoopy

    Charles M. Schulz

    Meet the Peanuts Gang!

    When Charlie Brown goes on a trip with his family, he leaves Snoopy with Linus and Lucy, and tells him, "We'll be back in a few days." But it seems like it's been a hundred years. Will the round-headed kid ...

  • Couplings

    Peter Schneider

    Eduard, a molecular biologist living in West Berlin, along with his friends Theo, a writer from East Berlin, and Andre, an international composer, scientifically examine every form of love and its complications and ironies, during the re-unification ...

  • D3: The Mighty Ducks: Junior Novelization

    Jonathan Schmidt

  • Keepers

    Alice Schertle

  • The Teeny Tiny Monster

    R.U. Scary

  • There's a Monster in the Closet!

    R.U. Scary

    Illustrated in full color. Poor Zoe. She sees monsters everywhere--behind the mirror, under the bed, in her closet, and in her head. But soon she finds the not-so-scary truth about those big, bad monsters!  ...

  • Billy Dog's Bad Day

    Richard Scarry

  • Ho-Ho Homicide

    Corinne Holt Sawyer

    When Birdy Benton turns up dead under the Camden-sur-Mer Christmas tree, members of the posh California retirement community are shocked by this unexpected holiday event. Despite their sadness, resident sleuths Angela and Caledonia see it as a golden...

  • Plant Dreaming Deep

    May Sarton

    The author’s tribute to the 18th-century New England farmhouse she called home: “[A] tender and often poignant book by a woman of many insights†(The New York Times Book Review). In Plant Dreaming Deep, Sarton shares an intensely personal ...

  • The Poet and the Donkey

    May Sarton

    "May Sarton conducts us on a small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write . . . and a young, mischievous female donkey who . . ...

  • Day Into Night

    Christopher Santoro

  • Just Rewards

    Steve Sanfield

  • Midnight Train from Georgia

    Glenda Sanders

    The Right Train When Erica O'Leary learns that her grandmother needs her, she immediately boards a train to Baltimore. She never expects to find herself surrounded by a rowdy group of Irish-American attorneys, continuing their St. Patrick's Day part...

  • Scandalous Suzanne

    Glenda Sanders

    Teasing her father's handsome Yankee guest Ethan Todd, Suzanne Crane is accidentally locked in the ice house with him and must marry him to avoid scandal, and the stubborn pair soon find that the match is not entirely unpleasant. Original....

  • The Red Heels

    Robert D. San Souci

  • Dancing Moon

    Barbara Samuel

    FORBIDDEN VOWS When Tess fled from her husband's cruelty, her only desire was to live in peace. Then she found herself intrigued by the Santa Fe trail and the laughing eyes of the exotic Joaquin Morales. AN UNBREAKABLE BOND Their love was be...

  • Sunday

    Synthia Saint James

    Celebrates all the special rituals of Sunday--like sleeping late, a delicious breakfast, a morning at church, and, afterwards, a subway trip to Grandma and Grandpa's home to spend the afternoon together....

  • For the Thrill of It!

    Patricia Ryan

    Isn't there some sort of limit on thrills? Clay Granger thrived on life in the fast lane. He wasn't afraid to take on his friend Izzy's "problem." Besides, a temporary wife was just what he needed; matchmakers were making his life miserable. Iz...

  • Burning Love

    Nan Ryan

    HE MADE HER HIS PRISONER... Ravishing, impulsive, and far too wealthy and independent for any gentleman to claim, Temple Longworth travels to the Arabian desert seeking adventure. And she finds it when she is captured by bandits and imprisoned in th...

  • The Sparrow

    Mary Doria Russell

    A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first c...

  • In Too Deep

    Patricia H. Rushford

    Jennie McGrady's summer has just settled back into a comfortable lull when her chemistry professor turns up dead from a drug overdose. A suicide note seems to close the case, but Jennie smells foul play in the lab. The challenge is convincing the pol...

  • What about Emma?

    Ken Rush

  • Kill Me Again

    Leslie Rule

    In her dreams, her life was not her own. Awake, the threat of danger was real. Everyone said that she was crazy. But when Alexis dreamed of dying, she knew she had been killed before. And if it had happened once, it could happen again......

  • Foxspell

    Gillian Rubinstein

    Todd is living a very troubled life, which causes him to be involved with a gang and do poorly at school, but after he buries a dead fox, a fox-spirit offers him the chance to become a fox himself and Todd must decide what is the best thing for him t...

  • Yesterday in the Back Lane

    Bernice Rubens

    Bronwen's life has been tainted by her killing of a man who tried to rape her in the lane behind her parents' house. She tells nobody about the incident but her guilt manifests itself in the frequent nosebleeds she has at awkward moments. Fifty years...

  • Mandarin Plaid

    S.J. Rozan

    Elegant, porcelain-skinned Genna Jing is sure her latest designs are worth a fortune. That's why she is willing to pay the fifty grand being demanded by the person who stole her design book. But when Lydia--backed by her partner Bill Smith--makes the...

  • Mutiny

    Easton Royce

    Lieutenant Hawkes, an in-vitro himself, is angered when, after damage is caused to the ship, the human members of the space crew state that the unborn in-vitros have to be sacrificed in order for them to live, leaving Hawkes to debate whether or not ...

  • Voltage

    Easton Royce

    Acts of nature'or acts of revenge? When Agents Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate the freak lightning storms killing off residents in a small Oklahoma town, they uncover a jolting pattern. All of the electrified victims also happen to be enemi...

  • Someone is Following Pip Ramsey

    Ron Roy

    Illustrated in black-and-white. Strange things start happening to Pip Ramsey after he buys an old Russian doll at a yard sale. First, there's a peculiar phone call. Then his backpack disappears, and the toys in his room are rearranged. Pip is sure he...

  • Children of the Dawn

    Patricia Rowe

    Nine thousand years ago, the horses died, leaving the band of people called the Shahala hungry. Their Moonkeeper, Ashan, led them across the Tabu land, but ahead waited a woman with secrets that would destroy the love between Ashan and her mate....

  • Can You Spot the Spotted Dog?

    John Rowe

  • Lamb to the Slaughter

    Jennifer Rowe

    His was a homecoming watched round the world -- but was he an innocent victim or a coldhearted killer?
     
    After serving five years for the murder of his wife, Trevor Lamb was a free man . . . thanks to idealistic lawyer Jude Dilanchion, whose...

  • Irma the Flying Bowling Ball

    Tom Ross

    Irma, a bowling ball, has her own carrying case, gets polished every day, and wins lots of tournaments, until she sees a balloon and mistakes it for a flying bowling ball and her desire to fly changes her life, sending her on a series of topsy-turvy ...

  • Southern Comforts

    JoAnn Ross

    Welcome to Raintree, Georgia -- steamy capital of sin, scandal and murder. To her fans, Roxanne Scarbrough is the Genteel Southern Queen of good taste -- she's built an empire around the how-to's of gracious living. To her critics--and there many-...

  • Savage Plains

    David William Ross

    Strong passions enflame a nation racing relentlessly toward war. Slaves smuggled across the dangerous Missouri border seek freedom in bloody Kansas, their deadly pursuit bringing guerilla warfare to an already violent West. Terror spreads like wildfi...

  • Moonbathing

    Liz Rosenberg

  • Tell Me No Lies

    Patricia Rosemoor

    The McKenna Legacy: Does Skelly Mckenna have what it takes to fulfill it? Skelly McKenna didn't believe in his grandmother's legacy. But then Rosalind Van Straatan walked into his office and into his heart. Rosalind held the key to the story of a...

  • Armando's Great Big Surprise Gullah Gullah Island #5

    Maria Rosada

  • The Texan Takes a Wife

    Kristine Rolofson

    TEXAS MEN MAGAZINE PRESENTS: Bachelor of the Month--Ben Bradley This sexy rancher is six foot two, lean and muscular. He loves his land, horses and women-although not necessarily in that order. Ben doesn't want or need a wife, so when his ma...

  • Code Blue

    Lisa Rojany

  • Bumps in the Night

    Frank Rodgers

    The Pickle family love living at the Hungry Horse Cafe. However, they're not getting much sleep because something is making peculiar noises in the night, and things are going missing too. Is the cafe haunted by a greedy ghost? Can the Pickles solve t...

  • Washington City Is Burning

    Harriette Gillem Robinet

    Although Virginia lives a comfortable life as a slave of President Madison, she does not believe in the cruelty of slavery as a whole and so devises a plan that sets many slaves free when the White House catches fire during the War of 1812....

  • The Virgin and the Dinosaur

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    Returning from a dangerous time travel voyage, field agent Jake Bento and his paleontologist companion Peg create their own time travel firm, but Jake's jealous former employer seeks to discredit them and sabotages an expedition. Original....

  • Collision Bend

    Les Roberts

    Shock waves ride through the city of Cleveland when up-and-coming local television reporter Virginia Carville is found strangled to death in her home. Even more surprising is when Mary Soderberg, the station's top sales executive, implores P.I. Milan...

  • Buried Pleasures

    J.R. Roberts

    The Barrows Boarding house in Sullivan City is one friendly place. Run by only Linda Barrows and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Lisa. the smiles are warm as fresh pie and doubly wide. But isn't it strange they never seem to have more than one guest ...

  • Scotland the Brave

    Jennifer Roberson

    THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE... He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can die only if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Qui...

  • Coyote Woman

    Judith Redman Robbins

    Torn between the customs of her tribe and the truth about her birth, which decrees she is foreordained to a higher calling, Anasazi Shawnadese is drawn to a handsome young warrior, as well as to a Mayan prince. Original....

  • The King's Bishop

    Candace M. Robb

    FROM THE MURKY THAMES TO THE MISTY MOORS OF THE NORTH, MURDER STALKS WELSH SOLDIER-SLEUTH OWEN ARCHER AND HIS DEAREST FRIEND... It is 1367. When Sir William of Wyndesore's page is found drowned in the icy Windsor Castle moat, some say he was done ...

  • Eagles of Fire

    Timothy Rizzi

    Duke James, the hero of Strike of the Cobra, embarks on another adventure when he travels to an island in the Sea of Japan to forge an alliance with an aging North Korean general with secret plans to reunite his divided country. 25,000 first pr...

  • A Love Divine

    Alexandra Ripley

    Joseph of Arimathea is the man who gave his own tomb to the crucified Jesus of Nazareth. He is a mysterious figure about whom little is known. In the tradition of "The Robe" and "Ben Hur", Alexandra Ripley, the author who brought Margaret Mitchell's ...

  • Bonjour, Lonnie

    Faith Ringgold

    The Love Bird visits the orphan Lonnie, who wants more than anything to find his family, and then transports him to 1920s Paris where Lonnie gets to meet his grandfather and eventually his African-American father and his Jewish mother...

  • Old Winter

    Judith Benet Richardson

  • Chesapeake Song

    Brena Lane Richardson

    Set against the backdrop of rural Maryland, CHESAPEAKE SONG tells the unforgettable story of three indomitable African-American women... Tamra and Charles Lane have known they were meant for each other ever since they were kids. But past hurts and...

  • The Kiss

    Kathryn Reines

    During their flight from Berlin, Rebecca and Richard seek sanctuary in the ancient home of the Count and Countess Viroslav, two ageless, exquisite vampires who seduce their new guests into a web of evil through erotic fantasy and the promise of undyi...

  • Hollyberry's Christmas Surprise

    Alexandra Reid

  • Big Bug Hunt

    Teresa Reed

    Miss Melody takes the children on a field trip where they discover many interesting bugs and then shows them--and young readers--how to make a poster so they will remember their very special day forever. Original....

  • Something's Fishy

    Teresa Reed

    Allegra takes care of Reed's fish while he is away and, because her friend, Poco, is upset, comes up with a great idea and gives him a fish mobile in order to make him feel better, in a story featuring simple instructions on how to create a mobile. O...

  • Winterlude

    Colleen L. Reece
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    A single out-of-place snowflake in San Diego lures Ariel Dixon home to Ketchikan, Alaska, despite her wealthy fiancé's protests. When she encounters slim, handsome Jean Thoreau, a childhood friend presumed dead, a swift rush of events changes the cou...

  • Stealing Heaven

    Jaclyn Reding

    ABDUCTED BY GREED Torn from her bed by an unknown abductor, heiress Gillian Forrester found herself on the way to Gretna Green and a forced marriage with a wastrel she despised. If she must choose between her life or her innocence, she would risk d...

  • The Golden Key

    Melanie Rawn; Jennifer Roberson

    IN MAGIC'S IMAGE -- In the duchy of Tira Virte fine art is prized above all things, both for its beauty and as a binding legal record of everything from marriages and births to treaties and inheritances. And although the Grand Duke is aware that the...

  • Woman in the Moon

    Jama Kim Rattigan

    Because of her extraordinary imagination and skill, Hina, the finest tapa maker, or cloth maker, in Hawai'i, escapes the restrictions on the women of her time and receives a special gift from the moon....

  • The Loneliest Magician

    Irene Radford

    Forbidden to use the dragon magic that is their only defense against their enemies, the people of Commune place their hopes in the hands of untested young magician Yaakke, who can discover his true identity from the dragons. Original....

  • Cimru the Seal

    Theresa Radcliffe

  • Snow Angel

    Thom Racina

    Julia Larsen has stepped into a nightmare. What was supposed to have been a joyous family reunion has become deadly, as she finds her parents' bloodied corpses inside their secluded mountain retreat. Julia, estranged from her husband, turns to longti...

  • The Dawning of a New Age

    Jean Rabe
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    THE CHAOS WAR IS OVER. MAGIC HAS GONE AWAY...OR HAS IT? The gods have vanished, and magic wanes from Krynn. It i$ the Age of Mortals, but also the Age of Dragons, more massive and powerful than any seen before. They are devastating villages, ensla...