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New Books List: 715 titles

  • Pooh Helps Out

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    Poor Pooh doesn't have a thing to do until he decides to do a little something to help each of his friends, and it isn't long before Pooh finds himself lending a paw with cleaning, dusting, putting away, and gardening. 25,000 first printing....

  • Pooh's Neighborhood

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

  • Pooh's Scrapbook

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

  • The Angelic Darkness

    Richard Zimler

    An ineffable mixture of light and dark, desire and death. Richard Zimler's The Angelic Darkness is an unforgettable, tender, and magical portrait of San Francisco in the mid-80s as well as its lost souls, struggling to find love and intimacy in a cit...

  • Pariah

    Thomas Zigal

    In Aspen, ex-hippies drive Volvos, ski bums cut million-dollar deals, and Sheriff Kurt Muller is the law: a single father with a checkered past and the notion that right and wrong still matter. But one evening, against his better judgment, Muller spe...

  • Baby, Talk!

    Harriet Ziefert

    Most of all what Max wanted to know was:
    When will she talk?

    Max is thrilled with his new baby sister. He can't wait to talk and play with her! But all the baby seems to do is eat, sleep, and cry. Though Max feels a little impatient, he nev...

  • First Night

    Harriet Ziefert

    Although others participate by driving, riding, and making music, Amanda Dade--with baton in hand--leads the parade of one-of-a-kind, humorously-clad characters to welcome the arrival of the New Year....

  • Where Am I Learning Riddles

    Peter Ziebel

  • Cave of Stars

    George Zebrowski

    Old Earth is gone. Humanity has been scattered to the stars. Some left their dying planet in spaceship arks, in search of new worlds to inhabit. Others, nanoengineered for near-immortality, explore the far reaches of interstellar space in gargantuan ...

  • Tomatoes from Mars

    Arthur Yorinks

    They came from outer space. They were . . . Tomatoes from Mars!

    When these vicious Martian fruits invade Earth and threaten to cover it in sauce, the whole world looks to one man, one genius--Dr. Schtickle--to save it from becoming the seco...

  • Momma and the Meaning of Life

    Irvin D. Yalom

    As the public grows disillusioned with therapeutic quick fixes, people are looking for a deeper psychotherapeutic experience to make life more meaningful and satisfying. What really happens in therapy? What promises and perils does it hold for them? ...

  • Suddenly, Annie's Father

    Sherryl Woods

    CONGRATULATIONS, IT'S A GIRL! Slade Sutton might never have thought of himself as a father, but his young motherless daughter was proof to the contrary. So when Annie was suddenly dropped into his lap, Slade knew he needed help. And he'd take it f...

  • The Impatient Groom

    Sara Wood

    Marrying in haste! No sooner had Sophia Charlton discovered she was the descendant of an Italian count and heiress to a fortune than she was whisked away to Venice by the sultry Prince Rozzano di Barsini--having consented to be his bride! Dazed by...

  • Bloodrights

    N. Lee Wood

    An epic fantasy--a tale of an imperiled kingdom under the throes of a corrupt church, and the return of its rightful ruler... Born of the royal leaders of Adalon and the White Sea Islands, Antonya Terhune was orphaned as a babe when her wicked unc...

  • About Face

    June Rae Wood

    Having been born with a large birthmark on her face, Glory finds making friends difficult as she is teased about it constantly, yet when she meets Marvalene, a young girl who travels on the carnival circuit, Glory thinks she has finally found someone...

  • Breakfast at Madeline's

    Matt Witten

    A Sleuth's Work Is Never Done.... Jacob Burns -- husband, father and frustrated writer -- has finally sold a screenplay. But success isn't all it's cracked up to be. Now he has writer's block, and spends his days drinking coffee in his favorit...

  • Nell of Branford Hall

    William Wise

  • The Hijacked Wife

    Bonnie K. Winn

    Do you take this stranger? One minute Summer Harding was reeling from a broken heart. The next, she was a stranger's wife and a chubby toddler's mother. And on the run for her life... Summer knew it took a lot for fugitive witness Jack Anderson to en...

  • A Season for Love

    Linda Windsor
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    In this anthology of four novellas,(three proven favorites and one new delight), "animal attraction" gains a whole new meaning! Four couples discover love thanks to unexpected, sometimes hilarious, and always entertaining assistance. In Cupid's Chase...

  • Black Canyon

    Tom Wilson

  • Tricked for Treats!

    Sarah Willson

    Angelica tries to trick the babies out of their Halloween candy by warning them about "ghosts and gobblings and grumblins." By mixing a few chills with plenty of chuckles, this original story is a howling treat!...

  • Spider Storch's Desperate Deal

    Gina Willner-Pardo

  • The Crown Of Eden

    Thomas Williams

    When a simple blacksmith unearths the lost crown of Eden, he is torn between his love for a beautiful maiden, who is promised to marry a tyrannical prince, and his duty to honor a 100-year-old prophecy. To deliver the crown is to lose her. To hide...

  • Mountain of Black Glass

    Tad Williams

    "The Grail Brotherhood has built the most powerful, sophisticated, simulation network imaginable. At the same time, they have manipulated and injured the minds of thousands of children." This proclamation from the mysterious Mr. Sellars confirmed ...

  • Fortysomething

    Nigel Williams

    Paul Slippery is 49 years and 5 months old, and lives with his long-suffering wife in Wimbledon, together with their three children. As well as the impending birthday, Paul hears that the character he has played for 20 years in a radio soap is being ...

  • The Ghost Stallion

    Laura E. Williams

    I didn't have no hope of seeing the ghost stallion but I looked anyway. 'Course he wasn't really a ghost. He was flesh and bone, with blood running through him so wild that nobody tried to break him. Since Ma ran off, Pa doesn't pay much attention...

  • Proposition: Marriage

    Eileen Wilks

    One memorable adventure was what pretty, practical Jane Smith had wanted. After all, her life had proved to be as ordinary as her name. But Jane never dreamed she'd end a conventional vacation almost kidnapped by rebels, then rescued by the most sedu...

  • That First Special Kiss

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    WITH ONE KISS... Kelly Morrison went from being Shane Walker's best friend to his most desired woman! Now she longed for Shane in ways she hadn't realized -- and that scared her. For Shane and his family were the closest to kin the orphaned beau...

  • Brookfield Days

    Maria D. Wilkes

    It's 1845, and Caroline Quiner lives in a little frame house in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. Each day brings new adventures for Caroline as she helps Mother, Grandma, and her five brothers and sisters run the family farm.

    The ...

  • Sugar Snow

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    With this illustrated adaptation from the beloved Little House series, the youngest readers can share in the joy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved classics.

    In Sugar Snow, Laura is delighted when a soft, thick snow falls in late spring in...

  • Sammy and the Dinosaurs

    Ian Whybrow

    In a dusty old box in the attic, Sammy finds some dinosaurs that his sister says are junk, but Sammy knows better, and takes care of each one, and they begin talking to Sammy, but just loud enough for him to hear. Children's BOMC Main. Jr Lit Guild....

  • A Dad of His Own

    Diana Whitney

    FATHER FOUND Ten years ago, Chessa Margolis thought one lie wouldn't hurt anyone. But when little Bobby tracked down the dad on his birth certificate, Nick Purcell appeared--claiming his newfound son! Chessa knew she and Nick had never actually me...

  • The Case of the Missing Marbles / The Case of the Rising Moon

    John Whitman

    Shirley becomes curious about the new student at Sussex Academy, especially after Bo takes a liking to her, and so begins an investigation to find out who she is and from where she came. Original. TV tie-in....

  • The Taming of Pyre

    John Whitman

    Time to fight fire...

    The time has come for our heroes, Rohan, Angus, Ivar, and Deirde, to tame Pyre, the Fire Dragon of Dare. The four friends are confident that they won't have much trouble, thanks to their Mystic weapons and armor.

    ...

  • The Blind Side of the Heart

    Michael C. White

    From the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Brother's Blood, comes a haunting story about an Irish housekeeper who must discover the truth when her friend, the parish priest, is accused of horrible crimes.Maggie Quinn has had her share of mis...

  • Mind Changer

    James White

    It's where human and alien medicine meet: a massive hospital space station on the Galactic Rim, with 384 levels and a multispecies staff of thousands.In the course of practicing deep-space medicine, that staff has seen more than its share of challeng...

  • Unhallowed Ground

    Gillian White

    Like a combination of Cold Comfort Farm and Psycho, Gillian White's brilliant new novel begins very quietly, almost romantically, then builds inexorably to nearly unbearable suspense.It's about an attractive, fortyish widow, very lively but deeply wo...

  • Brent and Dad

    Marv West

  • A Rattle of Bones: A Halloween Book of Collective Nouns

    Kipling West

  • A Birthday Surprise!

    Ellen Weiss

  • Muppet Manners

    Ellen Weiss

    Familiar Muppet characters such as Kermit the Frog and Animal combine real-life manners lessons with hilarious situations to make learning manners fun for preschoolers, in a fun picture book with flaps to lift. Original....

  • Alien Vacation

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

  • Treasures of Fantasy

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    Here be dragons--and elves, wizards, and unicorns and all the wonders of fantasy!

    Here they are, collected in one indispensable volume--the most acclaimed stories of our time by the world-famous authors who have made fantasy the most excitin...

  • Flavia And The Dream Maker

    Flavia Weedn

  • The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

    Evelyn Waugh

    A "lavishly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) distillation of Waugh's genius--abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century's most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form.Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in...

  • The Marriage Protection Program

    Margaret Watson

    HER GUARDIAN GROOM Fiercely independent Janie Murphy knew she was Deputy Ben Jackson's only hope for gaining custody of orphaned Rafael. He needed to marry immediately, and their one night of soul-searing passion had become grist for Cameron's rum...

  • Madison Finds a Line

    Sunny Warner

    Madison is out playing in her yard when she happens upon a piece of rope. Determined to find out just where the rope leads, she and her little black cat follow the line of the rope. They zig and zag and shimmy-shammy from one dance step to the next, ...

  • Making up Megaboy

    Virginia Walter

  • Remember Me

    Margie Walker

    Sometimes, Love's Secrets... DNA lab technician Layla Griffin has made an important discovery that can clear a man awaiting lethal injection for one of Texas's most sensational murder trials. Knowing she must report her findings, she places a call t...

  • Over in the Meadow

    Louise Voce

    Friendly advice for reading fun included in every book!

    READ AND SHARE is a unique first library for parents and children that helps build early readers’ confidence. Grouped in four progressive levels, Read and Share books - available indivi...

  • The Gods Go Begging

    Alfredo Vea

    “Luminous... a beautiful book.” " Carolyn See For Vietnam veteran Jesse Pasadoble, now a defense attorney living in San Francisco, the battle still rages: in his memories, in the gang wars erupting on Potrero Hill, and in the recent slayin...

  • In Her Lover's Eyes

    Tina Vasilos

    STRANDED... Nurse Abby Chance recognized her patient on a soggy, country road just before he collapsed of exhaustion. She brought Zach Andros to her weekend getaway cabin, but hadn't expected to become stranded with a man too tormented by memories f...

  • Pumpkins from the Sky!: A Cobtown Story: from the Diaries of Lucky Hart

    Julia Van Nutt

    The year: 1845. The place: Cobtown, USA. The writer: ten-year-old Lucky Hart, whose vivid diary entries evoke the special place she calls home and the many colorful and endearing folks who share her daily joys, her adventures, her traditions and her ...

  • Hannah's Helping Hands

    Jean Van Leeuwen

  • Everybody Pays

    Andrew H. Vachss

    A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer. An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly. A two-bit graffiti...

  • Household Gods

    Harry Turtledove; Judith Tarr

    Nicole Gunther-Perrin is a modern young professional, proud of her legal skills but weary of the daily grind, of childcare, and of sexist coworkers and her deadbeat ex-husband. Then after one exceptionally awful day she awakens to find herself in a d...

  • Personal Injuries

    Scott Turow

    Robbie Feaver (pronounced "favor") is a successful personal injury lawyer with a burgeoning practice, a way with the ladies, and a beautiful wife (whom he loves) dying of an irreversible illness. He also has a secret bank account where he occasionall...

  • Among the Odds and Evens

    Priscilla Turner

    When X and Y, two Adventurers from the Land of Letters, crash-land in the Kingdom of Wontoo, they quickly learn that it is populated by two sorts of Number: the Odds, an eccentric bunch, and the Evens, orderly and predictable. A pun-filled text and h...

  • The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, 1864

    Ann Turner

    Mean Mouth shouts directions... There are so many men in blue! They make loud cries, their horses stamp, and all the time the Nakai is shouting directions to us...."Make a line, all together! You can bring your animals." Kaibah names him Mean M...

  • Night and Day: A Book of Eye-Catching Opposites

    Herve Tullet

    Interactive illustrations encourage youngsters to look through the hole in each picture, then turn the page to see the difference between circles and squares, full and empty, fast and slow, nothing and everything....

  • The Language of Threads

    Gail Tsukiyama

    Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel twists of fate, including the loss of her closest f...

  • Designated Daddy

    Jane Toombs

    007 FACES FATHERHOOD Steely government agent Steve Henderson was a lone wolf. Afraid of nothing. Needing no one. Until compassionate nurse Victoria Reynaud placed a newborn in his arms, inexplicably calling the baby girl HIS! The orphaned li...

  • Ordinary Miracles

    Stephanie S. Tolan

    Mark Filkins is going through a tough year he's tired of being an identical twin and of being the son of a fundamentalist minister, and he's stunned when he learns that a beloved neighbor, a brilliant scientist, has cancer. All the Filkinses last see...

  • I Love You Winnie the Pooh

    Ellen Titlebaum

    When Christopher Robbin tells his favorite bear that he loves him, Pooh decides to do all the best things a Best Bear should, but after a long day of making his friends grumpy, he isn't sure whether he really is a Best Bear and Christopher Robbin wil...

  • Bachelor Father

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Every Man Has His Price! Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming--to put themselves on the auction block! ...

  • Cilla Black

    Douglas Thompson

  • Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree

    Dana Thompson

    It's up to Thomas to get the Christmas tree for the annual Tidmouth Station Christmas Party. But when a blizzard traps Thomas and the precious Christmas tree it's time for another kind of party--a rescue party! Will the other engines free Thomas in t...

  • Serefina under the Circumstances

    Phyllis Theroux

    Serefina has an imagination as vivid as clear blue sky. She also has a problem keeping secrets under certain circumstances. And you can bet a combination thereof will have hilarious results when the circumstances involve a surprise birthday party for...

  • Her Surprise Family

    Patricia Thayer

    With these Rings HIS SURPRISE WIFE? Rafe Covelli saw marriage as The Great Surrender. But new-gal-in-town Shelby Harris had this die-hard bachelor's mind swimming with thoughts of home-cooked meals, passionate bedtime kisses and baby cuddle...

  • Between Husbands and Friends

    Nancy Thayer

    Lucy met Kate when they were both young wives and mothers. In the years since, the two women and their husbands and children have become inseparable, spending every August together in a house on Nantucket. Lucy and Kate, each other's most trusted con...

  • Dr. Cowboy

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Get ready for some fast and loose matchmaking from The McCabes of Texas. John and Lilah McCabe have four of the sexiest sons Laramie, Texas, has ever seen -- but no grandbabies! Now they're fixin' to get a whole passel of 'em. Local husband hun...

  • Pilgrim Stars

    Peter Telep

    Combat Alert In Deep Space!

    Welcome to the real world! Christopher Blair, his sexy flymate, Dev, and his pal Maniac graduated from the Confed's elite Academy straight into a nasty, three-way war. Their ship, the Tiger Claw...

  • A Virtual Soul

    Kevin Teixeira

    In a near future society, genetically engineered slaves known as tubies are an expendable workforce. Em-printers implant the empty minds of tubies with rudimentary personalities and cognitive abilities, yet they are missing the one thing that would m...

  • Pooh's Wishing Star

    Bruce Talkington

  • Tales of King Arthur: Lancelot

    Hudson Talbott

  • The Final Faberge

    Thomas Swan

    Rumor has it that a mysterious Fabergé Egg disappeared in the days just before the Russian Revolution. It's up to Scotland Yard art crime detective Jack Oxby to solve the mystery and find the infamous art treasure. Trouble is, whoever attempts to fi...

  • The Scent of Roses

    Rachel Summers

    A WOMAN'S SMILE Rosalyn Delaney's husband, Josiah, had vanished six years ago. Following a private detective's lead, Rosalyn leaves Salt Lake City and boards a train heading to the mining town of Whiskey Ridge, Arizona. She arrives at Rose House, an...

  • Burning Rubber

    George Sullivan

  • Delivery

    Anastasia Suen

  • Grandfather's Christmas Tree

    Keith Strand

    Beginning their life together in the Colorado wilderness, a young rancher and his wife work hard, and joyfully anticipate the birth of their first child. Their many hopes and dreams for their new family are suddenly put in danger when a merciless win...

  • Go Away, Shelley Boo!

    Phoebe Stone

  • Beauty and the Badge

    Lyn Stone

    Preschool teacher Mary Shaw craved nothing more adventurous than car pools and cookie baking. Then FBI agent Ford Devereaux swept her off her feet - literally - and into his murky, perilous world. Did she dare believe her muscular, magnificent captor...

  • Minerva Louise at School

    Janet Morgan Stoeke

    While on her early morning walk, Minerva Louise the hen happens upon a school that she mistakes for a barn, where she views the chairs as milking stools, the wastebasket as a chicken-feed bucket, and cubbies for nesting boxes. Reprint....

  • Winter Walk

    Matt Stoddart

  • Full Moon Fever

    R.L. Stine

  • The Haunted Car

    R.L. Stine

    Goosebumps now on Disney+!Mitchell Moinian tried to do some homework. But he kept jumping up and going to his bedroom window to peer down at the car.A street light made the chrome bumpers sparkle and the sleek blue body glow. Mitchell couldn't resist...

  • Falling for the Enemy

    Dawn Stewardson

    Unavoidable liaison... Every Tuesday, Hayley Morgan drops off her six-year-old son, Max, at the baby-sitter's, then drives the deserted stretch of highway south from New Orleans to the maximum security prison where she works. Every Tuesday, Max wai...

  • Don't Make Me Laugh

    James Stevenson

    "Mr. Frimdimpny, a heavy, bossy, gloomy alligator, lays down the rules for this book: do not laugh! Do not smile! If you do, you have to go back to the front of the book. Then various slapstick scenes show animal characters in mess and mayhem-caused ...

  • My Big Dog

    Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

    Merl the cat’s pampered life is turned upside down when a golden retriever puppy moves into the house. With hilarious illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Janet Stevens, My Big Dog is perfect for story time!...

  • The Blair Witch Project

    D.A Stern

    In the fall of 1994, three student filmmakers, Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael Williams, ventured into the Black Hills of Maryland to investigate the legend of the Blair Witch. They never returned and to this day are still considered ...

  • Festival Foods around-the-World

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Princess and the Castle

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • A Cowboy's Code

    Alaina Starr

    AN IRRESISTIBLE ATTRACTION... Years ago, Emma Reardon had transformed herself from a poor farmer's daughter to an independent career woman. And though she'd sworn to never look back, everything changed while interviewing Nick Barlow. For Emma wa...

  • One Seal

    John Stadler

    When a sudden gust of wind snatches the kite from his hands, a little boy follows it down to the beach where he meets a seal, and then one by one, animals arrive on the scene and join forces to help the boy retrieve his kite. Children's BOMC Main....

  • A Stairway to Paradise

    Madeleine St. John

    From the Booker Prize nominee, a wise novel that takes a clear-eyed look at the profound nature of love and the inconvenience of desire. This smart novel ensnares three thirty-something Londoners in a moral quandary of emotion, desire, and discontent...

  • The Marriage Experiment

    Catherine Spencer

    An explosive passion! Dr. Grant Madison's return might be causing a stir amongst the single women of Springdale, but he's back for one reason only -- to rebuild his marriage. When he and Olivia first got married, they had one thing in c...

  • When All Hell Breaks Loose

    Camika Spencer

    It's a Sunday morning, and while most people are thinking about getting the paper and breakfast, Gregory Alston has something other than eggs on his mind. Today he's going to propose to Adrian Jenkins, his girlfriend of three years. But when he actua...

  • A Walk to Remember

    Nicholas Sparks

    There was a time when the world was sweeter... when the women in Beau fort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and men donned hats... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort ...

  • Jumbo's Lullaby

    Henri Sorensen

    Enhanced with full-color illustration, this bedtime book offers young readers a gentle tale about a mother elephant's love for her child and the song she sings to put the little one to rest every evening....

  • Mighty Boy

    Carol Sonenklar

  • Of Time and Memory

    Don J. Snyder

    Don Snyder knew nothing about his mother aside from the terrible fact that she died at the age of nineteen, just sixteen days after giving birth to him and his twin brother. All his life Don had been too shy, too deeply pained to ask his father or gr...

  • Billy The Conkerer

    Wendy Smith (1)

    Billy comes from a strong family. His mum drives a cement lorry, his dad is a bouncer and his sister is a junior weight lifter. But Billy is spindly, like a stick insect, and prefers inventing things on his computer to taking exercise. When Killer Ka...

  • Ecstasy

    Bertrice Small
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    Dagon, Prince of Aramis, has been betrayed by his twin brother, and sold into slavery. He vowed to escape his tortured life, and seek revenge...until he was brought to Kava. Now Dagon is under the rapturous spell of the women who rule this kingdom an...

  • Boltzmon!

    William Sleator

    When the boltzman comes to deliver his wish for power, young Chris gets much more than he expected and soon his life is turned inside out in this suspenseful science fiction thriller for young readers....

  • Manhunt

    Ian Slater

    IN AMERICA, YOUR BROTHER IS YOUR ENEMY.... Under an iron fist, the militia movement has mushroomed. Now two legendary leaders have been liberated from a heavily guarded Phoenix hospital--and hostages taken for a furious, bloody ride to the Califor...

  • Ship Ahoy!

    Peter Sis

    While sitting on his living room couch that is atop a big blue rug, little Matt begins to pretend that he is on an incredible sailing adventure on the wide-open seas, yet when his mothers enters the room with the vacuum, his journey takes an unexpect...

  • Welcome to Addy's World, 1864

    Susan Sinnott

    Presents a look at southern plantation life and a northern city during the Civil War period, as seen through the eyes of nine-year-old Addy Walker who, with her mother, escaped from slavery and fled to freedom in the North....

  • Welcome to Kirsten's World, 1854

    Susan Sinnott

  • Solomon Sneezes

    Marilyn Singer

  • For Keeps

    Janice Sims

    A Secret Love Giving in to her mother's advice that the land of the Big Sky was no place for a young woman, Cheyenne Roberts left home for the bright lights of Chicago. Now a successful accountant, Cheyenne has been summoned home to Montana to res...

  • Greta's Revenge

    Steven J. Simmons

    Steve Simmons and Cyd Moore's hit picture book Alice and Greta introduced two witches with very different views of the world: Alice, who uses her magic to help others, and Greta, who is always conjuring up trouble. In Greta's Revenge, Alice has f...

  • Legends 1

    Robert Silverberg

    The Great Anthology of Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy STEPHEN KING tells a tale of Roland, the Gunslinger, in the world of The Dark Tower, in "The Little Sisters of Eluria." ROBERT SILVERBERG returns to Majipoor and to Lord Valen...

  • Assassin's Blood

    Malcolm Shuman

    Experience has taught Baton Rouge contract archaeologist Dr. Alan Graham that the picturesque landscape of Louisiana is rich with history that is both glorious ....and deadly. The tiny town of Jackson, Louisiana, is the site of Alan's newest inves...

  • Million Dollar Marriage

    Maggie Shayne

    The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges ...and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true-bred Texas love is sure to bring! THE PRICE Like his infamous father before him, Holden Fortune led a carefree existence....

  • Texas Hellion

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo takes on a town of Texas cutthroats -- with a pint-sized partner...Skye Fargo has seen it all -- but nothing can prepare him for a spitfire named Wes, a ten-year-old kid with a quick draw and a deadly aim. He's searching for his beloved co...

  • Nate the Great and the Monster Mess

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    Nate the Great loves his mother’s Monster Cookies. Her Strawberry Draculas, her Chocolate Frankensteins, and especially her Cinnamon Werewolves. But now her Monster Cookie recipes are missing! Nate, the great detective, has never solved a case for ...

  • The Dangerous Husband

    Jane Shapiro

  • The Acrobat and the Angel

    Mark Shannon

    After his grandmother dies, Pe+a7quele+a7, a boy with a talent as an acrobat, finds a home at a monastery where he must give up his "carnival ways"--until he performs one last miraculous time. 50,000 first printing....

  • Lizard's Home

    George Shannon

    Lizard has always livedsnug as a bugon his rock. But one day Lizard returns home to find that Snake has moved in! Zoli, zoli, zoli! Snake is big and fearsome and yricky.What can Lizard do to send him packing? From the incomparable creators of Lizards...

  • The Sanyasin's First Day

    Ned Shank

    On a special day in India, it is the first day of work for a holy man, a traffic policeman, a farmer, and a plumber, all of whom ask only for the chance to do their jobs well and a little good fortune....

  • The Summer of '39

    Miranda Seymour

    In a tale of evil set on the eve of World War II in New England, an elderly woman staves off madness by writing her memoirs, a seemingly artless series of recollections that keep winding back to a fateful visit from strangers in the summer of 1939...

  • Boing! No Bouncing on the Bed

    Jane Seymour

    Big Jim Cat shows patience and understanding as the two excitable kittens go about bouncing and jumping on all the furniture, yet when they attempt to try out Big Jim Cat's favorite chair, his perception of events changes in a big way....

  • Penguin Dreams

    J. Otto Seibold

    Penguins don't dream! And, they can't fly either, but in this zany story from the bestselling author and artist team who created Olive, the Other Reindeer, anything goes! Before the alarm sings ding-a-ling, one special penguin finds himself flying up...

  • The Interior

    Lisa See

    It begins when an old friend from a village deep within China's interior asks Beijing police detective Liu Hulan to find out the truth about her daughter's suspicious suicide. Hulan can't refuse--even though the case will take her deep into her own b...

  • Xmas Ghost

    Brenda Seabrooke

  • Extreme Faction

    Trevor Scott

    Jake Adams, former CIA officer and Air Force Intelligence captain, is back with a new thrilling adventure. This second installment pits Jake against some of the most idealistic terrorists ever to strap on a suicide bomb. Jake is hired by a Portland, ...

  • Now And Always // Para Siempre

    Caridad Scordato

    Meet Connie Gonzalez. She's saucy, single, and one of the best FBI agents this side of South Beach. Not bad for a scrappy marielita! All that's missing from Connie's life is aman--someone unlike Victor Cienfuegos. The dashing Cuban-American M.D. is t...

  • On Beyond a Million

    David M. Schwartz

    Professor X and his dog, Y, teach kids how to count exponentially by powers of 10 (1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, etc.), beginning at 1 and working all the way up to a googol (a 1 followed by 100 zeros) and beyond. Children fascinated by large numbers wi...

  • A Lady's Pleasure

    Robin Schone
    in

    Seeking shelter from a storm, Colonel Robert Coally intrudes on Abigail Wnyfred while she is reading a book that would surely raise more than one eyebrow in London society. When the lonely Abigail confides in him that she aches for the touch of a man...

  • The Grannyman

    Judy Schachner

    Simon is a very old cat.  He has had a wonderful life chasing butterflies, eating houseplants, and even playing the piano.  His family adores him and they do everything they can to keep him comfortable.  Now that he is old, Simon feels...

  • Best Halloween Masquerade Ever!

    Richard Scarry

  • A Love for Lydia

    Jeanne Savery

    When a gentleman falls in love, two's company...six orphans are a crowd! ENOUGH LOVE TO GO AROUND.... Lydia Cottrell had such dreams for her six half-brothers and sisters! She prayed their new guardian, the dashing Lord Huntingdon, would be...

  • 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense

    Al Sarrantonio

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology"One of the best anthologies of horror and suspense of all time." -- Rocky Mountain NewsFrom award-winning author and “master anthologist”* Al Sarrantonio, 999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horro...

  • A Straw for Two

    Eric Sanvoisin

    Bitten by an ink-drinking vampire who is allergic to blood, Odilon, the son of a bookstore owner, has become an ink drinker. Now he loves using a straw to devour books, but he has no one to share his secret with. He’s lonely . . . until a new girl,...

  • We're Thankful! with Sticker

    Angela C. Santomero

    This interactive Thanksgiving gift book features many colorful stickers that show young children just what Blue and her friends are thankful for, and encourages readers to draw in the people and things they are thankful for. 100,000 first printing....

  • Almost a Woman

    Esmeralda Santiago

    Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, whe...

  • The Switch

    Lynsay Sands

    TO BOY When they first met Lord Jeremy William Radcliffe, Charlie and her twin sister, Elizabeth, were escaping from their uncle -- taking turns acting the young gentleman to avoid detection. But Charlie couldn't help falling head over heels ...

  • Night Whispers

    Karen Sandler

    Almost 140 years ago, young prospector Noah Simmons was killed in the Hoyo del Diablo of the Arizona desert. Now, after almost a century and a half of haunting his lonely cave, he watches a group of settlers arrive--including a lovely young woman... ...

  • The Huckabuck Family: And How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back

    Carl Sandburg

    A picture-book version of the classic Rootabaga story.

    Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories have amused generations of children with their distinctly American fairy-tale flavor. In The Huckabuck family, which was from his first collection, Jonas ...

  • The Spine of the World

    R.A. Salvatore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Road to Redemption Even the brutal streets of a treacherous city can't hide a tortured soul forever. The barbarian Wulfgar sets upon a dangerous path toward redemption when an old friend finds him in the city of Luskan. Wulfgar's journey tw...

  • Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815

    Anne Salmond

  • Remember September

    Jon Salem

    Stephanie Hart is a sharp and aggressive young lawyer fighting on behalf of battered women. Her work is gratifying, her husband, Peter, is handsome and passionate, and her daughter, Tuesday, is adorable. On the outside her life is perfect. On the ins...

  • Animal Music

    Donald Saaf

    A rollicking picture book is full of vibrant illustrations and musical fun as Mr. Lion's Marching Band marches by with a boom-a-boom and a rat-a-tat and Sheep's Dance Band, with a goose on the mandolin and a cow playing the cello, calls all the farm ...

  • Poppleton in Fall

    Cynthia Rylant

    Fall is filled with fun for Poppleton, the posh and persnickety pig created by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant and acclaimed illustrator Mark Teague!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at chi...

  • The Siege of Mt. Nevermind

    Fergus Ryan
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A miraculous machine . . . and a nightmare! Innova, a young gnomish recluse, finds himself in a terrible situation. Tried in a gnomish court for an unfortunate accident and sentenced to spend months at the bottom of Mt. Nevermind tuning gnomefling...

  • Guess Who's in the Jungle

    Naomi Russell

  • The Black Queen

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    The Fey Empire has been at peace for fifteen years. But Queen Arianna, who holds the Black Throne, has become increasingly troubled by a mysterious presence that is waking in her mind. It is a force of ruthless power, determined to seize the throne e...

  • The Thanksgiving Beast Feast

    Karen Gray Ruelle

    Although Harry has always enjoyed Thanksgiving because of all the great food, he begins to appreciate it more after his mother explains the story of the holiday and the meaning behinds its traditions....

  • Stone Quarry

    S.J. Rozan

    Bill Smith's country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city's savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen...

  • Matzah Ball Soup

    Joan Rothenberg

    Every year at Passover, Rosie's grandma puts four matzah balls in each bowl of chicken soup. But Rosie wants to know, why does she need four of them? So Grandma tells Rosie the funny story of the famous matzah ball contest that occurred many years ag...

  • Bride on the Loose

    Renee Roszel

    HE WAS ONE GORGEOUS COMPLICATION.... In one impulsive act, Dana Vanover dumped her fiancé, jumped overboard and -- for good measure -- decided to lose her memory. If no one knew who she was, it would be easier to shake her past! Enter Sam Taylor,...

  • The Way Home

    Nan Rossiter

    Finding an injured Canadian goose, Samuel and his father tend to the bird all season, but when the time comes for the bird to fly south with the rest of the geese for the winter, he feels terrible having to watch him go, until the following spring br...

  • The Halloween Showdown

    Eileen Ross

  • Run - Jump - Whiz - Splash

    Vera Rosenberry

  • Cowboy Justice

    Patricia Rosemoor

    ALL OR NOTHING -- THAT'S THE COWBOY WAY After a lifetime of struggling, Cash Abreu had everything he'd ever wanted -- except Reine Kendrick. One touch of her skin and Cash knew he wanted her, this time forever. And with Reine's cousin in danger -...

  • Summer Dreams // Suenos De Verano

    Hebby Roman

    Where else but in her beloved New Mexico would Natalia Colon want to spend a summer? In the strong arms of macho Rafael Montalvo, that's where. But when she arrives home, Natalia discovers her childhood pal has become a minor league baseball player, ...

  • Two in the Wild

    Susan Fox Rogers

    Thelma and Louise get sporty (and survive) in this anthology of true stories about women whose idea of fun involves sharing adventures--big and small--in the great outdoors. In essays that not only take you to mountains, forests, lakes, and rivers bu...

  • Long Ago Yesterday

    Anne Rockwell

    "Not so long ago," each of these ten stories begins. And if yesterday is long ago, toddlers will understand the truth and immediacy of these tales and realize that their lives can be transformed into story. For here is real life itself:adventures ...

  • Family Feud

    J.R. Roberts

    NO STRANGER TO DANGER A visit to a rancher friend is no vacation--once Clint finds himself caught up in his buddy's lethal love triangle. With twelve angry men on his tail, even the law doesn't want to touch this one. But the Gunsmith is used to a ch...

  • Baby on the Way

    Lois Richer

    Widow Caitlin Andrews is weeks away from welcoming her new baby into the world when she unexpectedly comes in contact with her late husband's brother. Though Jordan tells Caitlin his concern is for the new baby, he still yearns for the girl he should...

  • Angelica's Awesome Adventure with Cynthia!

    Kitty Richards

  • Be Brave, Chuckie!

    Kitty Richards

  • Star Spangled Babies

    Kitty Richards

    Angelica, Susie, and the babies get a big dose of American history when they meet George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Betsy Ross--as children--in a time travel fantasy for early readers. Original. TV tie-in....

  • One Moment Past Midnight

    Emilie Richards

    EVERY SECOND COUNTS... Hannah Blackstone's little girl had been kidnapped, but no one was willing to help her. No one except Quinn McDermott. Hannah hardly knew more than his name, but all that mattered was that her mysterious new neighbor had tak...

  • Curious George's Pop-Up Storybook House

    H.A. Rey

    The adventures of the famous mischievous monkey come to life with Curious George's Pop-Up Storybook House. Just unwrap and unfold the book to find scenes based on the classic stories by Margret and H. A. Rey. Secure the slots and punch out the play p...

  • Leopard in the Sun

    Laura Restrepo

    In Laura Restrepo's stunning novel, a feud between two Colombian drug families escalates into a bloody, high-stakes war that will leave no one in its path untouched. The Barragáns and the Monsalves are rival clans, each steeped in wealth and power, ...

  • Earthdance

    Lynn Reiser

    Offers a charming story about family love as an astronaut mother promises her daughter she'll be back from outer space in time for her play, complete with an overview of astonomy, the planets and more....

  • Ice Station

    Matthew Reilly

    AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GLOBE... Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On the edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself...

  • Hussar's Kisses

    Joy Reed
    in

    After enjoying a successful London season, the news that Hussar Captain Lawrence Westmoreland is returning a hero from Waterloo sets Camilla Leslie's heart aflutter. For it was this gallant soldier who left her without an expected proposal. It will t...

  • Choices

    Abigail Reed

    For young Dierdre, pregnancy is the end of hope. Abandoned by her lover, she cannot imagine having a baby alone while in law school. For Treva, pregnancy is a miracle, but one that her high blood pressure makes extremely dangerous. For Pepper, it is ...

  • Colony Girl

    Thomas Rayfiel

    In Arhat, Iowa, there are cornfields and there's the Colony. Smart and precocious fifteen-year-old Eve is feeling stymied by both. So she gets her first job as a highway work crew flagman, falls in love with a local teen Adonis and his widowed fath...

  • Basket Moon

    Mary Lyn Ray

  • Overnight Father

    Debbi Rawlins

    Suddenly a husband... Matthew Monroe was about to get married--except he already was! Apparently he'd forgotten to have his marriage of convenience to the lovely Lexy Constantine annulled--although he'd never forgotten Lexy. ...and a daddy! Lexy...

  • Happy to Be Nappy

    Chris Raschka

  • Maya, Tiger Cub

    Theresa Radcliffe

    When their mother went in search of water, Maya and her brother were suppose to remain in their den, yet curious Maya decided to look about and ended up having to face-off with a vicious and hungry hyena....

  • Love Potion

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    When T.J. and her dad move to L.A., her fantasies spin out of control. She dreams of meeting the perfect California boyfriend, and strolling along the beach with him, arm in arm...Sure enough, she meets the guy of her dreams-a TV star-and with a litt...

  • The Tragedy of Errors & Others

    Ellery Queen

    “ELLERY QUEEN IS THE AMERICAN DETECTIVE STORY” So wrote the great critic Anthony Boucher about the contributions of Ellery Queen to the mystery story. Queen appeared in novels and short stories, in the movies and on television, on the radio an...

  • Thomas in Danger, 1779

    Bonnie Pryor

    Thomas Bowden hates the Tories, the colonists who have sided with the English during the Revolutionary War. He especially hates their Native American allies who tortured and killed many of his neighbors in a terrible massacre.still, he and his mot...

  • These Hands

    Hope Lynne Price

    An inspiring book by Hope Lynne Price and illustrated by four-time Caldecott Honoree Bryan Collier
    These hands create. These hands can build. These hands can reach. Can stretch. Can teach.
    Begging to be read aloud, this engaging, poe...

  • Santa's Shiny Sleigh

    Price Stern Sloan Publishing

  • The Lonely Scarecrow

    Tim Preston

  • Tess

    Fayrene Preston

    LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Tess Baron knew she was in trouble the second she laid eyes on the mysterious - and oh-so-sexy stranger. Why had Nick Trejo suddenly appeared, asking her for a private meeting? And what was it about Nick that made Tess long to ...

  • Sewer People

    David L. Preston

  • Old Dog Cora and the Christmas Tree

    Consie Powell

  • On the Edge

    C.E. Poverman

    Stay clean. Pay the bills. Keep the marriage together. Get the career off the ground. Frank August's is not your average laundry list--and Frank is not your average guy. He wants the White Picket Fence, but sometimes self-destruction is just too damn...

  • Star Keeper

    Patricia Potter

    As the war of independence rages on, Philadelphians are riveted by the seafaring escapades of a rogue rebel sympathizer known only as the Star Rider. This daring hero uses his own vessel to sabotage the British -- until his ship goes down in a fero...

  • Hairy Toe

    Daniel Postgate

    Friendly advice for reading fun included in every book!

    READ AND SHARE is a unique first library for parents and children that helps build early readers’ confidence. Grouped in four progressive levels, Read and Share books - available indivi...

  • Intimate Secrets

    Candice Poarch

    Years ago, Jonathan Blake’s fiancée died the night before their wedding. No one has been able to capture his heart since. But Jonathan carries a secret that could come back to haunt him. Johanna Jones returns to Nottoway, Virginia, ...

  • Queen of the Nights

    Sharon Pisacreta
    in

    Ah Venice In the whirling decadence of Carnival all forms of desire are unveiled. Amidst the crush of those attending the balls, filling the waterways, and traveling in the gondolas of post-Napoleonic Venice, nothing is unavailable--should one kno...

  • Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space

    Dav Pilkey

    He defeated the diabolical Dr. Diaper.... He terminated the terrible talking toilets....Now he's in for the fight of his life. Can Captain Underpants and his drawers hold up under the pressure from three massive, tentacled space aliens (in disguise) ...

  • Free Falling

    Stobie Piel

    ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE How did anyone talk her into jumping out of a plane strapped to a stranger? And why didn't anyone tell her that the stranger was going to be her wildly handsome ex-boyfriend Adrian de Vargas? Cora Talmadge never thought...

  • Lady of the Knight

    Tori Phillips

    SIR ANDREW FORD WAS NOBODY'S FOOL He knew that looks could be deceiving. And though his friends warned him that Rosie would be nothing but trouble, there was something very special about the woman beneath the tangled mane of hair and the dirt-smud...

  • Stockings of Buttermilk: American Folktales

    Neil Philip

    This handsome volume brings together eighteen American stories from eleven states, all of which are based on traditional tales of the European cultures that had the earliest influence on this country-the British Isles, France, Spain, and Germany. Som...

  • Miss Muriel and Other Stories

    Ann Petry

    “Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and u...

  • The Narrows

    Ann Petry

    “Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and u...

  • Separate Roads

    Tracie Peterson; Judith Pella

    Book Two in repackaged RIBBONS WEST SeriesWhile the Civil War is raging, Brenton Baldwin has promised to provide a safe escort to California for Caitlan O'Connor. But now that his heart is totally hers, how can he leave her once they finally arrive?...

  • Since You've Been Gone

    Marta Perry

    NICK O'NEILL WAS BACK People in close-knit Mannington never forgot. Why, folks still whispered about respectable widow Emily Carmichael's scandalous first love and how he'd fled fourteen years ago, vowing never to forgive the town he'd left behind...

  • Edge of Night

    Don Pendleton

    A covert action group known only to the President, Stony Man's ultrasecret command center, cyberintelligence network and crack commandos battle terror with swift and deadly force. But with the new millennium, Stony Man faces a nightmare that may turn...

  • Shadow Target

    Don Pendleton

    HARDSITE AMERICA Captured Russian crime boss Rurik Baklanov has turned state's witness and fingered his friends in high places. He gets a new face and a new identity for his efforts -- then stages a bloody double cross that spearheads his blueprin...

  • Blue's Big Pajama Party

    Adam Peltzman

    When Blue has a pajama party, it's time for a nighttime game of Blue's Clues, and young readers must help find Paprika's pacifier, figure out who's hooting, and even find something special in the night sky. 100,000 first printing....