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New Books List: 715 titles

  • Zooman Sam

    Lois Lowry

    It's Future Job Day at Sam's nursery school, and Sam decides to dress up as a Zookeeper. But he wants to be more than that... he wants to be important, interesting, and more than ordinary: the Chief of Wonderfulness. Will he find a way to be the Chie...

  • Zagazoo

    Quentin Blake

    A pretty pink creature, a zagazoo, arrives at George and Bella's house--bringing the couple much joy until one morning Zagazoo turned into a screeching vulture, then an accident-prone elephant, and later a mud-loving warthog....

  • Yudonsi: A Tale from the Canyons

    Robert J. Blake

  • The Young Person's Guide to Shakespeare

    Anita Ganeri

    Who was Shakespeare, and why has his work remained so compelling to us for so many centuries? With conversational text, informative sidebars, and full-color photographs, The Young Person’s Guide to Shakespeare makes Shakespeare’s life and work ac...

  • Young Hercules

    Keith R.A. Decandido

  • You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman

    Claudia Mills

    The sequel to Losers, Inc. Twelve-year-old Julius Zimmerman is the former vice president of the defunct organization Losers, Inc. Ethan Winfield, the former president, no longer feels like a loser. But Julius still does, maybe because his mother thin...

  • You Know My Name

    Matt Braun


    His career spanned the West itself, from the days of reckless cowboys and their long-barrel colts to an age of mobsters, tommy guns, and cars. Now, the last days of his towering story are told.

    Bill Tilghman was the real thing, a lawman wh...

  • Xmas Ghost

    Brenda Seabrooke

  • The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost

    John Bellairs

    A young man fights to save his father from a spirit’s curse in the epic finale to a series starring “a terrific hero” (The New York Times)
     
    The sea is calm, the air is fresh, and the bobbing boat feels like ...

  • Worst Band in the Universe

    Graeme Base

    Castigated for defying tradition and playing an original tune on his Splingtwanger, thirteen-year-old Sprocc leaves Planet Bipp in search of musical freedom and enters the annual Worst Band in the Universe Competition. Includes a CD of songs supposed...

  • Word of Honor

    Terri Blackstock

    What will it cost to keep a promise? Of the four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off, three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose in the hospital and might not survive. Who would do such a thing?...

  • Women Warriors

    Marianna Mayer

    From days of old, they have intrigued people all over the world: brave, defiant warrior women who stir imaginations, rouse passions, and often inspire thousands of followers. These fierce and fearless spirits are goddesses, queens, and peasants; they...

  • Winter's Bride

    Catherine Archer

    Tristan of Brackenmoore Was Desperate If a bouquet of forget-me-nots could but make the Lady Lily Gray remember what they once shared, Tristan would have gathered the flowers from beneath the winter snows. But his one true love had no memory of th...

  • Winter Walk

    Matt Stoddart

  • Winning

    C.S. Adler

    When Vicky makes the tennis team, she expects her problems to be solved, but she is soon confronted with a whole new set of problems when her vehement focus on tennis threatens her relationship with her best friend, and her new tennis partner, Barbar...

  • Winnie The Boo! Paint Box

    Golden Books

  • Willed to Wed

    Wilma Counts

    WILL A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE Her Grandpapa's will was outrageous. Lady Emily Longbourne would inherit only if she wed the heir to the adjoining estate. Of course, Grandpapa thought her fiance would be sweet Robert Markholme. But the young man's ...

  • Wilderness

    Karen Ball

    Mady Donovan and Jason Tiber have little in common-or so they think. When they find themselves lost together in the wilderness of Washington's North Cascades, they realize they share one disturbing similarity: anger with the God they each believe has...

  • Who Said Boo?

    Nancy White Carlstrom

    Trick or Treat! Glowing jack-o'-lanterns. Haunted houses. Scary monsters and spooky shadows. What is more fun than Halloween? This collection of twelve lively poems, perfect for reading aloud, is a delightful chronicle of a family's adventures on tha...

  • White Elephant Dead

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Murder is, surprisingly, not all that uncommon on timy Broward's Rock, an idyllic sea island community off the South Carolina coast. Annie Darling's popular mystery bookshop, Death on Demand, is where the locals come to discuss the juicy details of e...

  • Whispers from Yesterday

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    Following her father's death and her own attempted suicide, pampered socialite Karen Butler seeks refuge at the home of Sophia Taylor, the grandmother she has never known. Determined to escape Sophia's broken-down ranch as soon as she can, Karen resi...

  • Where's the Baby?

    Pat Hutchins

    How much mischief can one baby make? Plenty, when it's a baby monster! Follow the trail from room to room as Grandma, Ma, and Hazel try to catch up with the baby before he can turn the whole house upside-down in this uproarious companion book to The ...

  • Where Is the Apple Pie?

    Valeri Gorbachev

  • Where Am I Learning Riddles

    Peter Ziebel

  • When Will Sarah Come

    Nina Crews

    Listening to all the different sounds of the vehicles as they pass the house, Jonathan keeps himself entertained, but when he hears the rumble of the school bus, he becomes extra happy because he knows that his big sister has returned home from schoo...

  • When Uncle Took the Fiddle

    Libba Moore Gray

  • When Jeff Comes Home

    Catherine Atkins

    Sixteen-year-old Jeff, returning home after having been kidnapped and held prisoner for three years, must face his family, friends, and school and the widespread assumption that he engaged in sexual activity with his kidnapper....

  • When I'm Big

    Tim Drury

  • 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...

  • What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?

    Carol Jones

    Drooling over his yummy-looking barnyard buddies, Mr. Wolf plans an elaborate dinner party for them, and when they ask "What's the time, Mr. Wolf?," he sends them searching for special ingredients, but are his friends the main course, or does he have...

  • What Am I? Halloween!

    Alain Crozon

    Lift the colorful flaps to solve the holiday riddles in the third pair of books in this popular, playful series. With a peek-a-boo format and adorable art, toddlers will love to play these simple guessing games over and over again....

  • What Am I? Christmas

    Alain Crozon

    Lift the colorful flaps to solve the holiday riddles in the third pair of books in this popular, playful series. With a peek-a-boo format and adorable art, toddlers will love to play these simple guessing games over and over again....

  • Welcome to Kirsten's World, 1854

    Susan Sinnott

  • Welcome to Felicity's World, 1774

    Catherine Gourley

    Through the eyes of nine-year-old Felicity Merriman, provides an in-depth look at daily life and historical events in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, including home life, work, medicine, and play....

  • 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....

  • The Wedding Jewel

    Doris Elaine Fell

    A PRECIOUS GIFT Tobby Michelson came home to Auburn to help her troubled family. She never expected to meet a man like Jon Woodward. The rugged, globe-trotting photojournalist won her heart with one dazzling smile. But behind his laughter and s...

  • The Wedding Countdown

    Barbara Hannay

    Should she go ahead with the wedding? With just four days to go until Tessa's big day, Isaac Masters has come home! The soul mate she always dreamed would be her husband, Isaac is now more attractive than ever. And when he stands in for her self-cent...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Walker's Crossing

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    When Ryan's brother Gil begins to spend most of his time with a militant anti-government and racist group, Ryan finds himself re-evaluating his family and friends, and his ambition to be a cowboy on the Wyoming ranch where he lives....

  • 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 ...

  • Wake of the Perdido Star

    Gene Hackman; Daniel Lenihan

    Academy Award winner Gene Hackman and leading underwater archaeologist Daniel Lenihan have combined their talents to create one of the most exciting--and critically acclaimed--adventure novels of our time. A rousing saga of shipwrecks, sea battl...

  • Waiting for Christmas

    Ruth J. Morehead

    The adorable Holly Babes are back, and now they are Waiting for Christmas. They want to make sure everything is just right for Christmas, so they trim their tree, sing their carols, and give out gifts. The Holly Babes' simple text and charming illust...

  • 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...

  • Villa Fontaine

    Julie Ellis

    Janice Carleton is all set for her two-week European holiday, but just as she is about to leave she receives a letter from her sister Holly. Unbelievably, Holly, an actress working on a low-budget film in Rome, has met, fallen in love with and marrie...

  • Vienna Blood

    Adrian Mathews

    Set vividly in a future city, this tale of murder and corruption reaches back into Vienna's darkest past--Hitler's dream of a master race--to render a tale of human evil never fully conquered. A first novel. Reprint....

  • The Victim in Victoria Station

    Jeanne M. Dams

    A charming, quick-witted woman of a certain age, Dorothy Martin once more finds herself embroiled in a most puzzling crime...and a saga of greed, jealousy and murder. The victim: a fellow American, her seat companion on a commuter train to London....

  • A Very Scary Witch Story

    Joanne Barkan

  • A Very Scary Jack-O'-Lantern

    Joanne Barkan

  • Vengeance

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Three years ago Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State Attourney's Office in Cook County, Illinois, and drove his rattling Toyota south to escape the memories of his beloved late wife. Headed for Key West, the Toyota broke down i...

  • The Vanishing Violinist

    Sara Hoskinson Frommer

    KILLER PERFORMANCE The prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis lures musicians the world over, and this year, Joan Spencer's own future son-in-law is competing. More than beautiful music, however, Joan discovers a world of amb...

  • Vanish

    S.R. Martin

  • Vampire Baby

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

  • Unwelcome to Grouchland

    Constance Allen

  • Untamed

    Sharon Ihle

    GOOD MEDICINE... Working as a laundress at Lolo's Pleasure Palace, Josie Baum doesn't know anything about playing nursemaid. But when a Cheyenne warrior whisks her off to care for his friend, Daniel McCord, she doesn't have a choice. Sud...

  • 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...

  • Tycoon for Hire

    Lucy Gordon

    She got more than she paid for! Jennifer Norton asked the agency that her escort be tall, dark and good looking. And her was. Only Steven Leary wasn't officially an escort, he was simply standing in for a friend. In real life, he was a millio...

  • 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...

  • The Twenty-Four-Hour Groom

    Laura Anthony

    "MARRY ME, KATIE" When Detective Truman West rescued the beautiful bridesmaid in distress, he couldn't believe his eyes. Katie Prentiss had blossomed from a chubby schoolgirl into a very desirable woman. And that made her the perfect c...

  • Twelve Days of Christmas

    HarperCollins

    In this festive rendition of the popular Christmas counting song, Vladimir Vagin captures the lavish Christmas celebrations of old with timeless elegance. His detailed, jewellike paintings reflect a unique mix of cultures: the medieval Russian fl...

  • Tune in Anytime

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Intrigue. Suspense. Romance. Evil Schemers, Innocent Victims, and True Love. Is it a TV soap opera? Not exactly. It's what's happening to sixteen-year-old Sophie Olivette. Her father has announced that he wants out of his marriage because he's found...

  • Trust No One

    Christiane Heggan

    Eight years ago an innocent woman was killed in a terrorist bombing. Now a powerful politician is brutally murdered and an old man dies in a strange accident. Somehow these deaths are parts of the some puzzle -- a puzzle that consumes one woman'...

  • True Story of Humpty Dumpty

    Sarah Hayes

    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 Trophy

    Dean Hughes

  • The Troll With No Heart in His Body

    Lise Lunge-Larsen

    As tall as trees and as ancient and rugged as the Norwegian landscape from which they come, trolls are some of lore's most fascinating and varied creatures. Some live under bridges, others deep inside caves. They can carry their heads under their arm...

  • Trickster and the Fainting Birds

    Howard Norman

    With spare grace and lively wit, acclaimed author Howard Norman chronicles the hilarious antics of a provocative troublemaker. Whether cheating in a sleepwalking contest, teaching the shut-eye dance to ducks, or halting a wedding by transforming the ...

  • 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!...

  • Trick or Treat Countdown

    Patricia Hubbard

  • 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...

  • A Traitor Among the Boys

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    After all the trouble at Christmas, the Hatford boys make a New Year's resolution to treat the Malloy girls like sisters. But who says you can't play tricks on sisters? The girls will need to stay one step ahead of the boys, and are willing to pay bi...

  • 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...

  • Traffic Jam

    Seymour Chwast

    Babs and her kitten are crossing the road and all traffic comes to a halt! Fire trucks can't get through, the school bus, much to the delight of its passengers, is stopped dead, commuters are late for their trains, groceries are spoiling, and everyon...

  • Too Popular

    Francine Pascal

    All Jessica wanted was for supercute Damon Ross to notice her. Did he? Of course not. But Ronald Rheece, geek extraordinaire, noticed. And he's been acting like he's her boyfriend--gross! But nobody actually thinks he is, right? Right?!...

  • Too Cool

    Duff Brenna

    "An unfaltering, unflinching, piercing look into a tormented, youthful heart."--The New York Times

    In the dead of winter, in the midst of a blizzard, Elbert Earl Evans--known as Triple E--has escaped from a Colorado reform school in a stolen O...

  • Tomcat in Love

    Tim O'Brien

    A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIEDIn this wildly funny, brilliantly inventive novel, Tim O'Brien has created the ultimate character for our times. Thomas Chippering, a 6'6" professor of linguistics, is a m...

  • 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...

  • Toestomper and the Caterpillars

    Sharleen Collicott

    Toestomper is mean, rude, and disgusting. Along with his friends Nightmare, Basher, and Barfy-the Rowdy Ruffians-he loves to make trouble and pick on folks. But when a slew of warm and fuzzy caterpillars begin following Toestomper around and look up ...

  • To Save His Baby

    Judi Lind

    The Father Of Her Baby...? One look at her patient's chocolate-brown eyes, and Dr. Valerie Murphy knew that beneath the straggly beard and the bruises was Gil Branton. Gil had disappeared from her life, her bed, her future, four months ago. And no...

  • To Find a Place: Western Stories

    Robert Easton

    Quick and the Cat tells of a bounty hunter who kills a mountain lion only to find himself in the cave where she has made her den. In Nobody Danced, modern ranch life is depicted as two men confront each other at a town dance. And a black outlaw bull ...

  • A Time for Dreams

    Jen Holling

    A PASSION SO INTENSE it frightened her... intrigued her... consumed her... and called to her from another time. What would possess an intelligent, self-sufficient woman to step into a world of magic and mystery, a dangerous land of intrigue an...

  • Thunder Oak

    Garry Kilworth

    Long ago, long before Sylver the weasel was born, the humans all left Welkin. Now life for a weasel - under the heavy paw of the vicious stoat rulers - is pretty miserable (unless you hap,pen to be a weasel who LIKES living in a hovel and toiling all...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • This One and Magic Life

    Anne Carroll George

    A dark shadow envelops the grand old homestead overlooking Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, as a family gathers to mourn the untimely death of the remarkable woman who lived there. Artie Sullivan: world-famous artist, beloved daughter, sister and a...

  • Thirst

    Ken Kalfus

    This acclaimed short story collection “veers between whimsical postmodern playfulness and a darker realism [with] sophisticated comic flare” (Publishers Weekly).Distinguished by black comedy and an international perspective, Ken Kalfus’ stories...

  • The Third Heiress

    Brenda Joyce

    When Jill Gallagher's fiance is tragically killed, she brings his body home to his aristocratic English family. Once there, she enters a world of hostility, suspicion, and closely guarded secrets. Then she finds an old photograph of an American heire...

  • 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...

  • These Hands

    Disney Book Group

  • There's No Such Thing

    Tony Mitton

  • Theo

    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

    When the Nazis announce that all orphans in Athens are to be rounded up and sent to Germany, Theo and his older brother Soc travel to a small village where they can hide and join the resistance movement. But upon reaching their destination, Soc is ex...

  • Their Other Mother

    Janis Reams Hudson

    INTRODUCING THE WILDERS OF WYATT COUNTY... When Belinda Randall showed up to help her widowed brother-in-law take care of his three sons, it was obvious that she had a Wyoming-size soft spot for her beloved nephews -- and that she didn't care one ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Thanks to a Lonely Heart

    Elaine Bonner

    Steven needs a mother for his five children. Emily wants a famiy and a home of her own. So thier marriage seems like a good arrangement for them both. But when Emily sets out with Steven for east Texas, she certainly never planned on her home bein...

  • Texas Vigilante

    Bill Crider

    The powerful sequel to Outrage at Blanco, Edgar & Shamus Award nominee Bill Crider’s startlingly original western crime novelSix months ago, Ellie was a newlywed, working the dry land in 1880s Texas. Then the desperados came. They raped her...

  • 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...

  • Texas Angel

    Judith Pella

    A Riveting Tale Where Revenge Meets Redemption Courageous and reckless, Micah Sinclair escaped the domineering, heavy hand of his father as a boy to join the cause of his beloved Texas. Driven by revenge, Micah sets out to destroy the Mexicans--first...

  • 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 ...

  • Terra!

    Stefano Benni

    In the year 2157, during the nuclear winter of six atomic wars, a bizarre collection of irreverent representatives of the remaining superpowers competes in a frenzied space race to reach Terra, the planet that promises the new Eden...

  • The Tentmaker

    Michelle Blake

    "In Michelle Blake's The Tentmaker, we not only have the pleasure of meeting Lily Connor, an Episcopal priest who wrestles with doubt and temptation while solving a murder mystery--we also learn about the intrigues of church politics and the struggle...

  • Teamwork

    Ann Morris

  • A Taste of Murder

    Jo Grossman

    Including : Lilian Jackson Braun * Harlan Coben * Sue Grafton * Tony Hillerman * John Lescroart * Sharyn McCrumb * Richard North Patterson * Robert B. Parker * Anne Perry * And Dozens More!

    From Red Herrings to Just Desserts . . .

    It's ...

  • Tara Road

    Maeve Binchy

    New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy has captured the hearts of millions with her unforgettable novels. Binchy's graceful storytelling and wise compassion have earned her the devotion of fans worldwide -- and made her one of the most be...

  • 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.

    ...

  • Talk to Me

    Jan Freed

    TALK! PILLOW TALK, SMALL TALK. DOUBLE TALK. BABY TALK. CAN WE TALK? Kara Taylor has a few questions when it comes to men. Why won't they talk about their feelings? Why can't they admit they're wrong? And what is it about The Three Stooges? Tr...

  • Tales of King Arthur: Lancelot

    Hudson Talbott

  • System

    Larry Burkett

  • Switcheroo

    Olivia Goldsmith

    At forty, Sylvie Schiffer has everything: a gorgeous house, two perfect children, a successful husband with a lucrative business. Everything but what she wants most: passion and romance. With the twins off to college, Sylvie thinks her marriage is ab...

  • 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 ...

  • The Surrogate Wife

    Barbara Leigh

    Meagan Reilly Was Innocent! Yet she was condemned to a life of servitude for a crime she did not commit. And though many would call her punishment light, they could not imagine the suffering of each day spent with a man whose forbidden touch would...

  • Sunnydale High Yearbook

    Christopher Golden

    It's senior year for Buffy Summers and her friends. And that means homecoming, senior prom, finals, graduation -- all the usual evil doings guaranteed to make the Chosen One long for recess. Slayer duties caused Buffy to miss picking up her Yearbook,...

  • The Sun King

    David Ignatius

    Washington Post columnist David Ignatius is one of the most highly regarded writers in the capital, an influential journalist and acclaimed novelist with a keen eye for the subtleties of power and politics. In The Sun King, Ignatius has written a lov...

  • The Sun God

    Katherine Deauxville
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    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...

  • 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...

  • Summer Gone

    David Macfarlane

    "The admired, bestselling author of The Danger Tree joins Knopf Canada with his masterful first work of fiction: a haunting novel about love experienced and love remembered that is also an unforgettable celebration and evocation of the brief beauty...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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 Stubborn Pumpkin

    Laura Geringer

  • 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,...

  • The Story of a Million Years

    David Huddle

    The acclaimed poet and story writer David Huddle weaves a masterly portrait of two couples and their shared histories, desires, and secrets. Marcy, Allen, Uta, Jimmy -- each becomes the hero of his or her own story, as all mine the past for evidence ...

  • 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...

  • Stolen Charms

    Adele Ashworth

    A Flawless Beauty Bored with her pompous suitors, Miss Natalie Haislett longs for romance and adventure. She is inflamed by dreams of the mysterious Black Knight -- a daring English thief who has stolen her heart from afar with his legendary explo...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Stacey vs. Claudia

    Ann M. Martin

    Stacey and Claudia never dreamed anything could threaten their best friendship. But when they both fall for the same boy, the biggest rivalry in BSC history begins....

  • 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...

  • Spider Storch's Desperate Deal

    Gina Willner-Pardo

  • Speak of the Devil

    Joe Gores

  • The Spanish Prisoner and the Winslow Boy

    David Mamet

    Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet ranks among the century's most influential writers for stage and screen. His dialogue--abrasive, rhythmic--illuminates a modern aesthetic evocative of Samuel Beckett. His plots--surprising, comic, topical--have evoke...

  • The Soul Collector

    Kathleen Kane

    A WOMAN WHO WORKED THE LAND On her remote Colorado ranch, Rebecca Hale struggled to raise her small son alone. The last thing she needed was a drifter on her land - a drifter with no horse, no gear and no memory... A MAN WHO TOUCHED THE SKY ...

  • Sophie Skates

    Rachel Isadora

    The author of Lili on Stage uses a story about a young girl who loves to ice skate to introduce the sport: the parts and care of skates, the techniques of different skating moves, and ice skating competitions....

  • Somewhere Lies the Moon

    Kathryn Lynn Davis

    For free spirit Ena Rose, the daughter of Ailsa Rose, growing up in Glen Affric has been idyllic. But womanhood looms; she faces tormenting questions of the heart -- and a love that can never be. Then there are the women whose destinies hay unfolded ...

  • Somewhere in France

    John Rolfe Gardiner

    As John Rolfe Gardiner's gripping and elegant new novel opens, World War I is raging and letters home from Major William Lloyd describe his life as a volunteer doctor in charge of a base hospital in the zone of advance.     &...

  • Some Trust In Horses

    Sally Krueger

    Hannah Butler has chosen to follow her father's veterinary profession, but her job, usually held by men, incites her mother's wrath. Hannah has a secret love, which, if satisfied, could put her in the position her mother desires for her. The area'...

  • Solomon Sneezes

    Marilyn Singer

  • Soft Maniacs

    Maggie Estep

    From Maggie Estep, heralded author of Diary of an Emotional Idiot, comes this darkly funny collection of inter-connected stories. Jody Ray, a young psychiatrist, conceals her own nymphomania -- and a penchant for stiletto boots -- behind a conservat...

  • Snow!

    Christine Ford

  • Snow Bear

    Jean Craighead George

  • Slocum and the Cattle King

    Jake Logan

    Slocum goes up against the biggest, baddest cattle baron in the territory...John Chisum, a ruthless cattleman, is aiming to run off anyone in the way of his new project -- blocking the local water supply and forcing everyone to buy their water from h...

  • Sleepyhead CL: Autob

    Barbara Mariconda

  • Sky Dance

    Scott Ciencin

    Since he was small, Marc has wanted to be a tightrope walker - even though he has no sense of balance and a fear of heights. His buddy Gentle, a Parasaurolophus, dreams of being a musician - even though his notes are wildly out of tune. Through sh...

  • The Skull Mantra

    Eliot Pattison

    The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the grisly remains clearly belong to someone too important for Chinese authorities to bury and forget. So the case is handed to v...

  • Skin Deep

    Kathleen Cross

    Nina Moore never thought of herself as a white woman. Sure she was pale with eyes bluer than a windswept sky. But until her move from metropolitan Los Angeles to small-town Glendale, Arizona, it didn't bother her when people perceived her as anything...

  • Sink the Scharnhorst

    Duncan Harding

    January, 1942. Hitler is paranoid about Norway. He thinks the new Anglo-American coalition will invade and urgently transfers forces north. Now he needs naval firepower to ward off enemy sea attacks -- but from where?

    Since April 1941, two great Ge...

  • Singing the Sadness

    Reginald Hill

    TOO HOT TO HANDLE Private investigator Joe Sixsmith, a former lathe operator whose skill at detection is part pure luck and part and uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, rushes into a burning cottage to save a young woman tr...

  • The Singing Snowbear

    Carol Grigg

    When Snowbear hears a beautiful and mysterious sound coming across the ice floes, he wonders who or what is making it. Snowbear wants to learn how he can make this music too. The melodies haunt him until he feels he has to find out where they are com...

  • 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...

  • Simply Delicious!

    Margaret Mahy

    As Mr. Minky bikes along a lumpy, bumpy track to deliver a treat to his little boy, a series of animals and insects try to eat the treat, and Mr. Minky must outwit the wily predators and get home before it melts. Jr Lit Guild....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shibumi and the Kitemaker

    Mercer Mayer

  • 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...

  • Shackle and Sword

    Alanna Morland

    SLAVE The son of an innkeeper, Farris possesses an expertise with swords and horses that is uncanny. He desires to join the King's Elite and leave his life of servitude. But when his mother dies, Farris' dreams become nightmares, as his stepfather s...

  • Sewer People

    David L. Preston

  • The Service of Clouds

    Susan Hill

    At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. The muslin curtains billow out towards her like clouds. There is a touch of brilliant red, the ribbon on her hat. Th...

  • 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...

  • The Separation

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because they find us ... well we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in r...

  • 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?...

  • The Seduction of Sydney

    Jamie Denton

    THE SEDUCTION... For weeks, Derek Buchanan has been trying to tell gorgeous leggy pal Sydney Travers that he loves her. And he's planning on seducing her.... But even Derek's surprised when one night the softhearted veterinarian turns to him for c...

  • The Seduction Business

    Charlotte Lamb

    Seducing the Boss? Bianca Milne looks the part of the ambitious female executive, with her sleek, touch-me-not looks and her cool, controlled manner. But there's another Bianca underneath she never lets the business world see. Until she's ...

  • The Secret Fairy Party Book

    Penny Dann

  • Second Sight: Stories for a New Millennium

    Jeremy Engleman

  • Second Harvest

    Jean Giono

    Panturle lives in the village of Aubignane, in the Provencal uplands. He is a huge man: "When he met a living animal, he looked at it without moving: it was a fox, a hare, or a big snake in the rubble. He did not move; he took his time. He knew that ...

  • 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...

  • The Scoundrel's Vow

    Sherri Browning

    THE SCOUNDRELS SURPRISE Six years of Lady Shelbourne's School for Girls gave her polish. But nothing could tame the passion Calandra Locke felt for Sir Scarborough Weston, her father's employer, the man she'd loved since childhood. She knew that Sc...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Vampire's Revenge

    James Gelsey

  • Schrodinger's Baby

    H.R. McGregor

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Santa's Shiny Sleigh

    Price Stern Sloan Publishing

  • Santa's Little Helper

    Golden Books

    Kids will love to paint their favorite scenes from the classic holiday television special, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." This festive activity book comes with a set of watercolor paints packaged right on the cover....

  • San Antonio Rose

    Constance O'Banyon

    The story of a flamboyant cantina dancer, intent on avenging her family, who loses her heart to a handsome soldier. Sam Houston understands that he needs all the help he can get if his small, ragtag army is to defeat Santa Anna's seasoned fighting m...

  • Samuel Todd's Book of Great Inventions

    E.L. Konigsburg

    Meet Samuel Todd When he wakes up, Samuel Todd looks in the mirror to make sure he's still Samuel Todd. The mirror is just the first of the great inventions that Samuel Todd celebrates every day. From the belt loops and Velcro that make it ea...

  • Samuel Todd's Book of Great Colors

    E.L. Konigsburg

    What's Your Favorite color? Samuel Todd likes colors, colors of all kinds. Colors are full of surprises: A pumpkin is all orange, but not all orange is a pumpkin. And if pink is supposed to be for little girls, why are boy flamingos just as pink as g...

  • 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....

  • The Safe Hostage

    Cassie Miles

    Carrie Lamb thought nothing could be worse than being held hostage-until she began falling for her captor! Ryan Dallas rescued Carrie, only to take her prisoner himself-and the man's hard body and sexy smile were giving her ideas no captive should ha...

  • Sad Water

    Teri Holbrook

    Nadianna Jesup, a pregnant young photographer from rural Georgia, is visiting Mayley, a village in Yorkshire, England, on an arts grant when she discovers a burned corpse floating in a river. No one, including historian Gale Grayson, Nadianna's compa...

  • Run - Jump - Whiz - Splash

    Vera Rosenberry

  • Rotten Ralph's Thanksgiving Wish

    Jack Gantos

    This Thanksgiving, Sarah's cat, Ralph, has something extra to be thankful for: his cat-cousin Percy is cooking the big turkey -- with Ralph as junior chef. Will dinner ever be served?Pull back the flaps to see each of Ralph's deliciously rotten Th...

  • Rooster's Antlers

    Eric A. Kimmel

  • Romiette and Julio

    Sharon M. Draper

    Star Crossed Lovers When Romiette Cappelle meets Julio Montague, she feels as though she has met the soul mate who can rescue her from her recurring nightmare about fire and water. But like the Shakespearean characters whose names echo theirs, Romie...

  • The Road to Mars: A Post-Modem Novel

    Eric Idle

    What makes humans bark?Is the funny bone funny?What is the algebra of comedy?Did the sitcom originate with the ape?Carlton is an android (a 4.5 Bowie Artificial Intelligence  Robot) who works for Alex and Lewis, two comedians from the twent...

  • Road To Hell

    Gerard Houarner

    Max is a man. An assassin, to be exact. But within him lurks the Beast, an unholy demon that drives Max to kill -- and to commit acts even more hideous. Throughout the years, the Beast has taught Max well, and Max has become quite proficient in his c...

  • The River Warren

    Kent Meyers

    One early spring morning Two-Speed Crandall, with his wife at his side and a semitrailer full of cattle, drives through the middle of Cloten, plowing into the hardware store and killing himself, his wife, and most of the cattle. Was it an accident or...

  • Right Here On This Spot

    Sharon Hart Addy

    Right here on this spot, where today Grandpa drives a tractor in his cabbage field, Indians in ancient times lit their campfires, chipped stone into tools, and then moved on. The moon rose and set over the field, season followed season, trees grew in...

  • Rift

    Kay Kenyon

    There is a fine line between transformation and ruin....

    Twenty-four-year-old Reeve Calder has spent his life on a high-tech space station, watching as terraforming gradually fails on his home planet of Lithia--a failure that has doomed the co...

  • Return to Love

    Viveca Carlysle

  • Remembering Jake

    Cheryl Biggs

    ONE AND THE SAME MAN Someone had betrayed him. Someone had wanted him dead. Now Jake Blagette was back to find out who, and his prime suspect was the woman he'd once loved more than anything in his life. Tina Peychaud had meant the world to him, u...

  • Remember Summer

    Elizabeth Lowell
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    Rewrite of Summer Games DANGER The most grueling challenge of Raine Smith's equestrian career looms before her--the Olympic Games. Little does she realize that she's about to face greater perils in the arms of a stranger than she's ever found o...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Remember Me

    Laura Hendrie

    Readers who enjoy the novels of writers such as Barbara Kingsolver and E. Annie Proulx will love Laura Hrie, whose prizewinning story collection, Stygo, launched her literary career in 1994. Now, Hrie has delivered a major novel featuring the wily an...

  • Reggie the Veggie

    Cambria Gordon

  • Reform of the Playboy

    Mary Lyons

    Tall, dark and dangerously sexy... Finn Maclean has a reputation as a ruthless playboy, never seen without a beautiful woman on his arm. It's no wonder that Harriet is suspicious of his lethal brand of attraction. Harriet Wentworth might be...

  • Red Roses Mean Love

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    Yellow for friendship. Pink for passion. But . . . Red Roses Mean Love. She dreamed of roses.... Orphaned and abandoned by her fiance, Hayley Albright is determined to care for her younger siblings even if it means having to give up her own dr...

  • Razzle Dazzle

    Lisa Hendrix

    An ambitious businessman is working overtime on a very personal merger that could save his career -- but his heart just isn't in it. And when his meddlesome mother tries to work some magic, the result proves that business and pleasure don't m...

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

    Kipling West