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  • Duel Love

    Barbara Youree

    Proud Albret Maseo believes honor must precede love. Although he loves Anabella Biliverti with all his heart, his peasant status spurs him to earn the affection of this noble-blooded lady. Caught up in a peasant revolt, Albret knows he must release A...

  • Scion of the Serpent

    J. Steven York
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Anok Wati, a young warrior of the streets, strikes a pact with an ancient and forbidden god who gives him a seemingly impossible task. To unravel the mysteries of the past and avenge his father's death, Anok must join the sinister cult of the snake-g...

  • Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole

    Wong Herbert Yee

    “Delightful. . . . A real winner.” -- School Library Journal “The friendly, cooperative tone of the text is reminiscent of the Frog and Toad series.” -- Kirkus Reviews “Yee’s comfy beginning reader (dedicated to ‘Friends of Frog and Toa...

  • Watch Hour

    Camille Yarbrough

  • Gentleman of the Old School

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
    in

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology.

    Nineteen original, macabre tales of terror by the world's greatest horror writers, including Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Whitley Strieber, F. Paul Wilson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and many oth...

  • States of Grace

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Franzicco Ragoczy di Santo-Germano is a successful merchant in Venice. His lavish lifestyle and rumored cache of magnificent jewels have attracted the wrong sort of attention, and without Santo-Germano's noble―and papal―connections, he might b...

  • Whiskey on the Rocks

    Nina Wright

    Still reeling from her husband's sudden death, 33-year-old Whiskey Mattimoe has her hands full managing her real estate business and keeping track of Chester, the 8-year-old son of a touring superstar harpist. And then there's Abra--her late husband'...

  • I'll Go to Bed at Noon

    Gerard Woodward

    "A loving and harrowing account of the havoc alcohol can wreak on a family." ―Sarah Lyall, New York Times

    Colette Jones has had problems of her own with alcohol, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to booze. H...

  • Show Way

    Jacqueline Woodson

    Winner of a Newbery Honor!Soonie's great-grandma was just seven years old when she was sold to a big plantation without her ma and pa, and with only some fabric and needles to call her own. She pieced together bright patches with names like North Sta...

  • Amaranth Moon

    Janet Woods

    A touching romance set in Regency Dorset Twenty-year-old Geneva Tibbetson's association with the Earl of Ashby goes back to her childhood, when he gave her a pendant with a blue stone, and told her that if she looked at a new moon through it and the ...

  • The Christmas Hat

    A.J. Wood

  • Death at a Premium

    Valerie Wolzien

    DEATH ASSURANCE After signing a lucrative deal to remodel Bride's Bed and Breakfast, island contractor Josie Pigeon thinks her summer is set. And with her upcoming nuptials to Sam Richardson, she's definitely in the marriage mood -- that is, until...

  • Contact Zero

    David Wolstencroft

    Framed and dispossessed for a crime he did not commit during his first assignment, a recent Spy School graduate learns that several of his fellow classmates have been murdered, a situation that forces him to search for the enigmatic Contact Zero, a m...

  • To The Castle

    Joan Wolf

    Twelfth-century Normandy -- as a fierce battle for the crown erupts, a powerful knight and his innocent bride will discover their destinies are passionately entwined.... Just weeks away from taking her holy vows, Nell de Bonvile learns of her e...

  • Pencil Play 2

    Teri Witkowski

  • Pardonable Lies

    Jacqueline Winspear

    IN THE THIRD NOVEL OF THIS UNIQUE AND MASTERLY CRIME SERIES, a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton, KC, to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator...

  • Life Priorities Calculator

    Paul Wilson

  • Confirmed Kill

    Michael Z. Williamson

    The sniper must face many enemies ... sometimes it's someone on his side Army Rangers Kyle Monroe and Wade Curtis are the best at what they do: eliminating their nation's enemies from a distance with one well-placed bullet to the head. When Inte...

  • Conventions of War

    Walter Jon Williams

    The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- at the mercy of the merciless insectoid Naxid, who now hunger for domination. But the far-flung human descendants of Terra have finally tasted li...

  • At The Italian's Command

    Cathy Williams

    In the office... Millionaire businessman Rafael Loro dominates everyone around him. Until plain but determined Sophie Frey is assigned to work with him. After hours... Rafael is used to beautiful, well-groomed women who are eager to please him. ...

  • Apache Nights

    Sheri Whitefeather

    KEEPING SECRETS Joyce Riggs's biological clock was like a time bomb ready to explode and her desperation to defuse it drove her straight into the arms of Kyle Prescott. The half-Apache combat trainer knew all about exorcising demons. He reluctantl...

  • Fire in the Hole

    Richard S. Wheeler

    In Skeleton Gulch, Brave Men Disappear... ...where widows are turned into whores, and suckers end up dead in rat-infested alleys. Dink Drago's specialty is getting rid of vermin, and now the Rocky Mountain Detective Agency has sent him to Skeleton G...

  • Peeps

    Scott Westerfeld

    OKAY, LET'S CLEAR UP SOME MYTHS ABOUT VAMPIRES. FIRST OF ALL, YOU WON'T SEE ME USING THE V-WORD MUCH. IN THE NIGHT WATCH, WE PREFER THE TERM PARASITE POSITIVES, OR PEEPS FOR SHORT. THE MAIN THING TO REMEMBER IS THAT THERE'S NO MAGIC INVOLVED. NO ...

  • Blizzard of Lead

    Joseph A. West

    Recovering from a shoot-out on the trail, which left him with a broken leg, Marshal Matt Dillon must go up against a gang of bank robbers, who, during a bad blizzard, take several townspeople hostage, forcing Matt to take some serious action. Origina...

  • McDuff's Christmas

    Rosemary Wells

    When a blizzard comes to town on Christmas Eve, Fred and Lucy are worried that Santa won't be able to make it, and, after everyone goes to bed, McDuff waits patiently for Santa to arrive, making a new friend in the process....

  • Chasing Fire

    Michelle M. Welch

    Returning to the land of Confidence Game and The Bright and the Dark, Michelle M. Welch revisits the Five Countries, where magic is suspect, loyalty drives a hard bargain, and war is just a misstep away. Now, as a devastating plague takes its deadly ...

  • Fear the Fever

    Nancy Weber

    Once you catch it, there is no cure... It comes upon you suddenly: the sensation of needles on your skin, a rise in body temperature, and the chill of a cold sweat. You can't stop the desire. You can't hold back the pain. And you can't save your so...

  • Gift of Evil

    Nancy Weber

    New York is scary for lots of parents, but it wasn't fears about terrorist attacks or strangers on the subway that impelled single mother Jill Everts off to the suburbs. She had to get Daisy away from the other kids in her playgroup. Darling kiuds...

  • Old Soldiers

    David Weber

    OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE Captain Maneka Trevor was the sole human survivor of the Dinochrome Brigade's 39th Battalion ... but she hadn't wanted to be one. The Bolo known as "Lazarus" -- Unit 28/G-179-LAZ -- was the 39th's sole surviving Bolo ... but h...

  • The Man in the Shadows

    Ingrid Weaver
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    Private investigator Erika Balogh is obsessed with a dead man. NYPD detective Sloan Morrissey has been missing for a year, but Erika is sure she's spotted his powerful form stalking the dark streets...sure she's inhaled his scent in her bedroom. Is s...

  • Security Measures

    Joanna Wayne

    He would break all the rules to protect his daughter... APB DADDY! Beautiful, widowed, a single mother -- Janice Stevens had been given a new identity, if not a new lease on life, when she testified against a mob killer. For fifteen years she&#...

  • Gun Theory

    Daniel Way

    Everyone who's laid eyes on Harvey is dead. That's because Harvey is a hired killer whose victims never see him until it's too late. Through years of practice, Harvey's appearance and demeanor have become so devoid of humanity that he has become invi...

  • Dark Warning

    Jude Watson

    WHO ARE THE LAST OF THE JEDI? Obi-Wan Kenobi is on a mission. Along with the former Jedi apprentice Ferus Olin and a headstrong kid named Trever, he is trying to keep the Jedi's most important secret from the inquisitive Empire. With Boba Fett on th...

  • Lust

    Robin Wasserman

    Alpha girl Harper is used to getting what she wants, and that means Adam, Beth's all-American boytoy. Blond, boring Beth, who Kane, the charming playah, secretly wants too. Miranda thinks Kane is out of her league, but she wants him all the sam...

  • Undercover Nanny

    Wendy Warren

    MARY POPPINS -- P.I.? Private investigator D.J. Holden lived by the one rule she learned from her boss and foster father: Never go undercover. But when she discovered that his agency was in trouble, she accepted a job to investigate Maxwell Loto...

  • In Sheep's Clothing

    Susan May Warren

    On the run from the murderer of her best friends, missionary Gracie Benson is all alone in Siberia. What she doesn't know is that she has in her possession a medical secret that will save millions of lives -- or cost hers. Trying to keep her alive is...

  • The Game Store Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    When a new store called the Game Spot opens in their town, the Aldens are thrilled. But it's not fun and games when the other stores at Crossroads mall are robbed. What's more, letters are disappearing from the sign in front of the shopping center!...

  • Midshipwizard

    James M. Ward

    From "His Majesty's Articles of War" "THE USE OF HIGH MAGIC is expressly forbidden on any of His Majesty's ships. If any officer, mariner, or soldier, or other aforesaid uses High Magic on board His Majesty's ship, every such person so offending, ...

  • Dark Lover

    J.R. Ward

    In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other--six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes k...

  • Penguin Dreams

    Vivian Walsh

  • Hamsters to the Rescue

    Ellen Stoll Walsh

    Henry and Pell have plenty of determination and courage. Never mind that they're just a couple of hamsters. They're hamsters with a mission--they found a feather and need to return it to the seagull that lost it. Nothing they encounter along the way ...

  • Bait & Switch

    Aury Wallington

    Get the story behind the TV show--stories you won't find anywhere else! Everything's changing in the O.C.

    Enter the world of the O.C.

    Told from different points-of-view and using different storytelling techniques, it's a unique look in ...

  • King Kong

    Edgar Wallace

    The giant prehistoric gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture. So great is the mighty Kong's hold on the popular imagination that his story -- a gripping yarn of man versus nature, coupled with a fantastical update of th...

  • This Little Light of Mine

    Sylvia Walker

    An inspiring, favorite children's song complete with CD recording and musical notation!

    Sing along and read this uplifting story about a child's giving nature that keeps on shining, no matter what happens. Illustrated by popular artist Sylvia ...

  • Veniss Underground

    Jeff VanderMeer

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, Veniss Underground, takes readers on a journey to a labyrinthine city of tunnels, and the dangers lurking behind each turn. This paperback edition features ...

  • Timothy Tugbottom Says No!

    Anne Tyler

  • The Double Eagle

    James Twining

    In Paris, a priest is murdered, his mutilated body dumped into the Seine. He has taken a secret with him to his death -- a secret that is revealed during the autopsy, reawakening memories of Depression-era politics and a seventy-year-old heist. Je...

  • The Time of Troubles II

    Harry Turtledove

    Abrivard, marshal of Makuran, has been given an impossible task by his King: destroy the mighty Empire of Videssos. Even as he pondered how to obey, Videssos's legions are on the march, attacking Makuran first. Abrivard finds himself fighting a defen...

  • Fooling Around

    Linda Turner
    in

    Before inheriting half a detective agency, Josie London's only adventures came courtesy of her favorite books. Now, suddenly she was donning disguises and teaming up with her new partner, Wiley Valentine, to trail a mobster -- a man who'd use any mea...

  • Confessions of a Middle Child

    Trudi Trueit

    A coveted invitation to a "popular" girl's party has Julep hoping for an exciting life beyond her invisible middle child status, but a disastrous event forces her to choose between her newfound social status and the family that needs her. Reprint....

  • Very Funny, Elizabeth

    Valerie Tripp

    Elizabeth Cole and her best friend, Felicity, are "the merriest girls in Virginia" -- at least that's what Felicity's father calls them. The merry friends think it's very funny to play tricks on Elizabeth's snobby older sister, Annabelle. When Annabe...

  • Chicken Little: The Junior Novelization

    Irene Trimble

    This time the sky is falling, but Chicken Little isn’t sure he wants to give up his newfound glory on the baseball field to warn everyone. (You remember what happened last time!) The Junior Novelization, featuring eight pages of full-color movie st...

  • Flying Butter

    Patricia Trattles

  • Lawmakers and the Police

    John Townsend

    The laws of every country have developed and changed over hundreds of years. Lawmakers have kept adding to the laws of the land. None more so than the USA where many amendments keep the ‘law books’ up to date....

  • Teacher's Pet

    C. Tobin

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


    Usually Paco is a chatty parrot, but he's been too quiet lately. Maya thinks he's silent because he's...

  • Ariel

    Grace Tiffany

    Ariel is beautiful and magical, a creator of dreams and of mischief. Sprung from the mind of a dazed sailor shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle, she rules half of her enchanted isle, dreaming of the savior from the east who will help her conquer all....

  • Asimov's Aurora

    Mark W. Tiedmann

    The Third Law of Robotics states that a robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. After the diplomatic failures of the Spacer mission on Earth, Ambassador Ariel Burgess and robot...

  • Asimov's Chimera

    Mark W. Tiedmann

    Coren Lanra is the head of security for DyNan Manual Industries. A former Special Service agent, he's never cared for bureaucracy, piracy, or deception. Lanra's troubles begin when Nyom Looms, daughter of DyNan president Rega Looms, is murdered durin...

  • Asimov's Mirage

    Mark W. Tiedmann

    The First Law of Robotics states that a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human to come to harm. At a crucial conference uniting the Spacers, the Settlers, and representatives of Earth, Senator Clar Eliton of Earth and ...

  • The Abducted Heiress

    Claire Thornton

    Should she trust this dangerous rogue? Lady Desire Godwin's gentle existence is rudely interrupted when a handsome brigand crosses the parapet of her rooftop garden. She watches, dismayed, as the impudent stranger is carried off to jail. As the...

  • Out with the Old, in with the New

    Nancy Robards Thompson

    "Ask your husband what he's been doing all those nights he claimed to be at the hospital...." The aforementioned suggestion would never be welcomed by any woman who'd been married for the better (well, mostly) part of twenty years. But for Kate He...

  • Sweet Charity

    Janice Thompson

    A vivacious, undisciplined two year old named Charity has Shauna Alexander seriously questioning her calling as a child care provider. The toddler seems to thrive on wreaking havoc wherever she goes. Pastor Kent Chapman's heart is still raw from losi...

  • The Ravencliff Bride

    Dawn Thompson

    As the coach flies up the Cornish coast, Sara sees the end of her journey: Ravencliff Manor. But what sort of man would rescue her from debtors prison by marriage, sight unseen, by proxy? Obviously, a wretch--the same sort of man who lets a strange, ...

  • Grave Review

    Cynthia Thomason

    In the second of the Jubilee Showboat Mysteries, Gwen Barlow, her mother, brother and a cast of colorful performers face another murder mystery on the Jubilee Palace showboat. This time the Jubilee has stopped in Moss Hollow, Kentucky, hometown of th...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel, Volume 1

    Roy Thomas

    Branded a traitor by the vicious Colonel Yon-Rogg of the Kree for defending the people of Earth, Captain Mar-Vell assumes the human identity of Walter Lawson and becomes the planet's protector against an awesome array of interstellar baddies! Prepare...

  • Super Slam Turtles!

    Jim Thomas

    Casey Jones and the Turtles are watching a Super Slam hockey match when a group of parahawks suddenly fly into the arena -- and take off with the Golden Puck, the game's ultimate trophy! Outraged by the theft, Casey vows to retrieve the trophy. He an...

  • When Wallflowers Dance

    Angela Thomas

    When we were two, we were no longer babies-we were becoming little girls. And when we were thirteen, we were leaving childhood behind, becoming young women. But somewhere along the way, we stopped becoming. We became "un-women." Wallflowers who are j...

  • Fourth Dawn

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    In their most dramatic, ambitious, and significant historical series to date, Bodie and Brock Thoene once again transport readers back in time to first century AD and the most critical events in the history of the world. In Fourth Dawn, Herod, the ki...

  • The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again

    Nancy Thayer

    When Polly, Beth, Carolyn, and Julia meet in a hot tub at the spa, the find a common thread of experience: toxic relatives. What's there to be done about undermining, meddling, scheming in-laws? These amazing women decide to fight fire with fire, and...

  • The Forever Assignment

    Jennifer Taylor

    Yesterday, today and always... Now that Dr. Kasey Harris is part of the team, the Worlds Together aid unit is complete and ready for their assignment. The only problem is, the head of the team is gorgeous, arrogant surgeon Adam Chandler -- and Ada...

  • Nervous Water

    William G. Tapply

    In one of the finest novels yet in Tapply's long-running series, Nervous Water explores the previously hidden past of his much beloved character, Boston attorney Brady Coyne. Contacted by an aged relative with whom he'd long lost touch, Brady agrees ...

  • Fury

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    In Brooklyn, a female jogger is brutally raped; the assailants are convicted and later exonerated by the Kings County DA. Now the guilty are filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the city of New York, the police, and the two Brooklyn Assistant...

  • Gacha Gacha, Volume 1

    Hiroyuki Tamakoshi

    SECRET CRUSH

    Lately, Kouhei can’t get his friend Kurara out of his mind. Even though he has known her since elementary school, all of a sudden, ever since she came back from summer vacation, he has been crushing on her . . . hard.
    But so...

  • Pirate School

    Jeremy Strong

  • Pirate School Bun Gun

    Jeremy Strong

    A very funny story about the children at Pirate School. Fourth in the series within Colour Young Puffins. The children are planning to raid Patagonia Clatterbottom's food store - but grown-up pirates, the Woppagobs, are trying to steal the goodies as...

  • The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives

    Sarah Strohmeyer

    After a whirlwind overseas romance, down-home girl Claire Stark has moved to her new husband’s hometown, Hunting Hills, Ohio, where the men earn seven figures, the women wear size two, and if everything isn’t absolutely perfect, you’re expected...

  • The Protector's War

    S.M. Stirling

    It's been eight years since the Change rendered technology inoperable across the globe. Rising from the ashes of the computer and industrial ages is a brave new world. Survivors have banded together in tribal communities, committed to rebuilding soci...

  • Freaks And Shrieks

    R.L. Stine

    Wimp or Chimp! Max made a deal with Nicky and Tara, the two ghosts who live in his bedroom: If he helps them figure out how they got turned into ghosts, they'll help him prove to his dad that he isn't a worthless wimp. Well, Max is about to make g...

  • Vox

    Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    When young librarian knight Rook Barkwater is taken captive and forced to work for Vox Verlix " nominally the Most High Academe, but no more than a prisoner in reality " he stumbles across a terrible truth. Vox is brewing a plot to destroy the go...

  • Hard Truth

    Mariah Stewart

    TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL Two children who mysteriously disappeared twenty-one years ago are the last thing on Lorna Temple's mind when she returns to her Pennsylvania hometown to sell the old family property in the wake of her parents' p...

  • Exposure

    Talitha Stevenson

    “Rich and psychologically astute . . . refracts the life of an upper-middle-class English family . . . through the prism of a single, scandalous affair.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)Prominent lawyer Alistai...

  • Life Happens

    Sandra Steffen

    Well, everyone is hiding something -- but Mya Donohue's secret is knocking on the front door, in no uncertain terms. Mya is about to answer to the daughter she'd given birth to nineteen years ago, and Elle has news for her biological mother. Mya is n...

  • Book of Crooks

    Michael Anthony Steele

    Dramatic action. Amazing gadgets. The thrill of super-villains being shut down by the guardian of Gotham City's shadows. That's right -- THE BATMAN is back!

    In the first THE BATMAN handbook, the supervillians take center stage, as Batman prese...

  • The Bounty Hunter

    Cheryl St. John

    Nick Harding had seen enough of life's darker side...and bore the scars -- inside and out -- to prove it. Plus, years of tracking reprobates had hardly improved his opinion of his fellow man. Yet some spark of hope remained in him, he suspected. W...

  • The Peterkins' Thanksgiving

    Elizabeth Spurr

  • Blackstone and the Fire Bug

    Sally Spencer

    Rivalling Anne Perry, the fourth in the Victorian series by the author of the much-loved Sally Spencer DCI Woodend books If the Fire Bug's true purpose is to make the government hand over one hundred thousand pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to ...

  • At First Sight

    Nicholas Sparks

    There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, never become a parent. Now Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, Nor...

  • The Big Book of Rules

    Stephanie Spadaccini

    An indispensable rule book for over 300 games we play For any game player who has ever wondered how to signal a cartoon in charades, whether a flush in spades beats an equivalent flush in diamonds, or what happens when an opposing player catches the ...

  • Third Girl from the Left

    Martha Southgate

    The New York Times hailed Martha Southgate’s previous novel, The Fall of Rome, as “powerful,” O, the Oprah Magazine called it “quietly accomplished,” and Essence lauded it as “a bracingly honest look at race, class, and self-acceptance....

  • You Can Say You Knew Me When

    K.M. Soehnlein

    Charming underachiever Jamie Garner is living a sexy slacker's life in San Francisco during the dot-com boom--avoiding his stalled career as a radio producer, barely holding on to his relationship, but surrounded by fun-loving friends. And then Jamie...

  • The Magic Nation Thing

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    Abby O’Malley is a girl who likes things to make sense. School makes sense, and her best friend Paige makes sense (most of the time), but Abby’s flighty mother never makes sense. Abby’s mom seems to think that she and Abby are descended from a ...

  • The Savior

    Faye Snowden

    People are dying in The Pit. The poorest section of California's Dunhill County seems to have a love affair with tragedy, yet lately, more and more unfortunate souls are slipping through the cracks. Dr. Kendra Hamilton got herself off the mean stre...

  • Bad River Boys

    Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

    Told from the point of view of three Lakota boys, this story examines how Lewis and Clark's expedition effected the natives which lived on the uncharted lands they explored, creating misunderstandings on both sides that led to future trouble....

  • Saturday Morning

    Lauraine Snelling

    Broken by life's disappointments, four women forge a friendship that leads in unexpected directions. Hope Benson is determined to do all she can for the broken souls who come to Casa de Jesus, a women's shelter in the heart of San Francisco. When ...

  • Vanished World

    Anne Gertrude Sneller

    A personal portrait of a young American girl's rural childhood - including reminiscences of the Civil War and pioneering in the West. Renewed interest in wilderness, rural farm life, and the experiences of pioneer women has prompted the reissue of th...

  • Jack's Run

    Roland Smith

    hen Jack Osborne's father was arrested for drug trafficking, he agreed to tell the authorities everything he knew about his ex-boss, the ruthless drug czar Alonzo Aznar. But betraying a man as powerful as Alonzo has consequences. The Osbornes have sp...

  • A Heartbeat Away

    Maureen Smith

    DEA investigator Samille Broussard has been tasked to look into a series of mysterious illnesses targeting affluent Washington, D.C. teenagers. Her involvement in the high-profile case could take her career to the next level and help her make a name ...

  • Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    Alexander McCall Smith

    In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie gets caught up in a highly unusual affair of the heart. When Isabel is asked to cover for vacationing Cat at...

  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

    Jane Smiley

    Over an extraordinary twenty-year career, Jane Smiley has written all kinds of novels: mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. “Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do?” raves Time magazine. But in the wake of 9/11, Smiley faltered in her hith...

  • Long White Con

    Iceberg Slim

    Iceberg Slim, bestselling author of Pimp and Trick Baby, brings us yet another riveting classic about the most incredible con man ever to have risen.Picking up where Trick Baby left off, we dive into the world of Johnny O’Brien, better known as Whi...

  • What Star Is This?

    Joseph Slate

    The spiritually enchanted tale of the arrival of Baby Jesus - from Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem to the comet that illuminated the sky for the Wise Men - detailed in lyrical language and stunning illustrations, perfect for Christmastime....

  • A Perfect Gem

    Melynda Beth Skinner

    A new-found love is a treasure indeed... SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND... Conscientious and caring, Miss Leah Gray secretly returns the trinkets that her eccentric Uncle John pilfers from the unwary--but the dear old scamp just picked the wrong pocket....

  • Sea Switch

    Linda Joy Singleton

    Cassie's family is on a beach clean-up expedition in Oregon, and this time Cassie's best friend Rosalie has joined them. The two girls are ecstatic about the vacation and Cassie feels ready to tell Rosalie about her bizarre adventures . . . until Ros...

  • Make Me Over

    Marilyn Singer

    A thought provoking approach to a current culture of readily available plastic surgery, makeovers and underlying obsession with beauty, 11 stories delve into the theory, truth, and even occasional humorous side to fascination with reinventing oneself...

  • Make Me Over: Eleven Stories of Transformation

    Marilyn Singer

    What kind of a makeover has the power to change a person, inside and out? These stories, specially written for this collection, delve into our culture’s fascination with beauty and present different views about all kinds of makeovers. Sometimes fun...

  • Return To Stony Ridge

    Dani Sinclair

    A CHILD IN JEOPARDY It wasn't every day that P.I. Teri Johnson pulled a gun on a man in his own home, but she was desperate. Her sister was in a coma and her missing nephew was in grave danger. She had to find the little boy before he was lost for...

  • Days from a Different World

    John Simpson

    `I have already touched on my childhood in Strange Places, Questionable People. But the further through life I get the more I want to revisit it. I want to look at the whole of my childhood, the England I grew up in and my family. Family and country ...

  • The Holding

    Merilyn Simonds

    An intoxicating debut novel that twines the lives of two women on the same land, a century apart. Alyson Thomson has left the city for a simpler life on an abandoned farm with her lover, Walker, a potter. Wandering there, she uncovers, in the ruins o...

  • Read along with Blue!

    Simon Spotlight

    An omnibus collection of five Ready-to-Read stories starring Blue and her friends includes Hello, Spring!; Blue's Beach Day; My Dress-up Party; My Visit with Periwinkle; and Hooray for Polka Dots! ...

  • Backward-Facing Man

    Don Silver

    Chuck Puckman, Lorraine Nadia, and Frederick Keane came of age in the late 1960s. Like that era, their lives were mysterious, idealistic, passionate, even romantic -- but ultimately confused and often ineffectual. More than thirty years later, their ...

  • Lost on the Darkside

    David Silva

    Preying on the darkest fears of its readers, this fourth installment in the acclaimed horror series features contributions from David B. Silva, Michael Reaves, Ramsey Campbell, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, and Mark Samuels. Original....

  • Bone Factory

    Steven Sidor

    The aging riverboat casinos and decrepit cut-rate hotels that line the dark waters running through downtown Booth City reveal the seething underbelly of a Midwestern city down on its luck. Booth is filled with a collection of lonely souls looking for...

  • Sweetwater Creek

    Anne Rivers Siddons

    Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter survived her mother's abandonment and her beloved older brother's death -- and now finds purpose in training her father's magnificent spaniels . . . and refuge in the magic of Sweetwater Creek. But a new friend has...

  • Heart of the Dragon

    Gena Showalter

    Their forbidden love would either bring their worlds together -- or tear them both apart... Searching for her missing brother, Grace Carlyle never dreamed she would discover a secret world populated by mythological monsters -- or find herself facing...

  • Eating Heaven

    Jennie Shortridge

    Nothing gets Eleanor Samuels's heart racing like a double scoop of mocha fudge chunk. Sure, the magazine writer may have some issues aside from food, but she isn't quite ready to face them. Then her beloved Uncle Benny falls ill, and what at first se...

  • Grail Conspiracy

    Lynn Sholes; Joe Moore

    SNN Breaking News: Vatican Claims Grail Relic Authentic ROME - in an announcement to the world press, Cardinal Antonio Ianucci, Vatican Curator and Director of Art Antiquities, said the artifact recently discovered in Iraq is believed to be the cup...

  • The Pig Scrolls

    Paul Shipton

    "A quickfire barrage of puns, gags, and one-liners. An apic hit." -- Eoin Colfer, author ARTEMIS FOWL

    "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of . . ." a talking pig? Behold Gryllus, ancient Greek hero of our epic tale, a smarty-pan...

  • Planet Janet in Orbit

    Dyan Sheldon

    Janet's symbiotic relationship with her best friend is put to the test by the arrival of a controlling boyfriend in Dyan Sheldon's witty, diary-style sequel to PLANET JANET.

    Now that her mum, the Mad Cow, has split from her cad of a dad, Janet...

  • The Bride Wore a .44

    Maggie Shayne
    in

    They're sexy. They're smart. And they aren't afraid of a little danger--not even when it comes to matters of the heart... Four of today's hottest authors present a quartet of stories about bold women who take no prisoners--either in a fight or in ...

  • Someone to Believe In

    Kathryn Shay

    She has the face of an angel. But Bailey O'Neil goes where other angels fear to tread: the roughest neighborhoods of New York City. With a heart as big as the city itself, Bailey--known to some as the Street Angel--works to keep teens away from drugs...

  • The California Camel Corps

    Jon Sharpe

    Those are some mighty funny-lookin’ horses…Skye Fargo’s been in the saddle long enough to know that if it has hooves, he can rope it, break it, and ride it. But even he has his hands full when the U.S. Army hires him to lead a caravan of camels...

  • A Dictionary of Maqiao

    Han Shaogong

    From the daring imagination of one of China s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality the story of a young man displaced to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a ...

  • The Lake of Souls

    Darren Shan

    Darren and Harkat face monstrous obstacles on their desperate quest to the Lake of Souls. Will they survive the savage journey? And what awaits them in the murky waters of the dead? Be careful what you fish for......

  • Get a Clue

    Jill Shalvis

    And you think you've had a bad day? City girl Breanne Mooreland gets left at the altar, takes the flight from hell to her honeymoon--alone--loses her luggage, and ends up snowed in at a Sierra mountains lodge run by the kookiest staff this side of...

  • Rat Run

    Gerald Seymour

    In the military family there is no worse crime than cowardice. Malachy Kitchen, Intelligence officer, posted to Iraq, appears guilty of it while on patrol with an infantry platoon ambushed by insurgents. When word spreads that he was ‘yellow’ und...

  • Some Friends to Feed

    Pete Seeger

  • Officer Down

    Theresa Schwegel

    ONE COP LIES DEAD... The Chicago Police Department says Samantha Mack shot her partner, Fred, during the confusion of a bungled pursuit. Mack says it was their quarry, a violent pedophile named Marco Trovic, who fired the deadly round in that darken...

  • When Roses Bloom

    Lois Schwartz

    Michelle Slate, the financial manager of her family's tree farm in Tennessee, burns her wedding dress on the front lawn, declaring she's done with men because they're all after her money. When her father dies suddenly and leaves her in charge of the ...

  • A Fool for You

    Melanie Schuster

    Dr. John Flores has had an amazing year, to say the least. In a few short months, he moved from LA to Ann Arbor, Michigan to take a professorship at the University of Michigan, found out that he was adopted, discovered that his friend of several year...

  • Peanuts Holiday Treasury

    Charles M. Schulz

    Provides readers of all ages with a collection of five illustrated holiday favorites featuring Charlie Brown and all his friends, including "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving," "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and more....

  • Ants Go Marching: Sing and Read Storybook

    Scholastic Inc.

    Sing, read, and march along to this silly classic with an attached audio CD!

    Sing along to this catchy tune with these marching, counting ants as they reach their final destination down in the ground to get out of the rain! With bold illustrat...

  • Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family

    Steven R. Schirripa; Charles Fleming

    It's July, and Nicholas Borelli II's parents are scheduled to spend two weeks on a cruise while Nicholas spends those two weeks, as he does every summer, at Camp Wannameka. The night before he's to leave, however, there's a phone call: thanks to an e...

  • Princess from Another Planet

    Mindy Schanback

    Fourteen-year-old Gracie Wright escapes her impoverished and unconventional life by impersonating her rich cousin at an exclusive summer camp, until a series of weird events convinces her that her mother's delusions about being the deposed queen of a...

  • The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

    George Saunders

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it ca...

  • Despite the Falling Snow

    Shamim Sarif


    “A perfectly balanced novel of love and tragedy.”
    ---Waterstone’s Books Quarterly (UK)

    In present-day Boston, seventy-year-old Alexander Ivanov has built a successful business empire. A kind, passionate man, he has managed to bur...

  • Drive

    James Sallis

    Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there’d be no doubt. But f...

  • Rider On Fire

    Sharon Sala

    COME AND GET ME... Like a bat out of hell, undercover DEA agent Sonora Jordan jumped on her motorcycle and blasted off to parts unknown, foiling the deadly drug dealers who had put a price on her head. Sonora felt compelled by a mystical force beyon...

  • Yellow Ribbon

    Sharon Sala
    in

    Every day, women across North America reach out and change lives in their communities. Five have been selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award -- and five New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors have generously...

  • Mr. Beast: A Monster Fright in the Night

    James Sage


    A deliciously scary story!

    Charlie LOVES monsters. And he adores doughnuts. Which is why he has a BIG problem when his mother makes him a whole sugary panful. Mr. Beast, Charlie’s favorite monster, wants them, too!

    This wonder...

  • There Was No Snow on Christmas Eve

    Pam Munoz Ryan

    There was no snow on Christmas Eve. Instead, a desert zephyr blew And palm fronds sang a rustling tune To welcome the awaited birth. There was no snow, no fireplace, no need for woolen caps and gloves on that very first Christmas. Instead there was a...

  • The Guardian

    Jenifer Ruth

    Sequel to The Protector

    Las Vegas magician's assistant Carrick 'Rick' Murphy has been raised to be the Helper of the Protector, Alana Devlin, who defends the city from Otherworldly threats. He's thrown himself in front of countless monsters for her...

  • Dead Game

    Kirk Russell

    Named one of the top ten crime novels of 2005 by the American Library Association, Deadgame marks the return of "far and away the most inventive new detective hero" (Booklist). Ex-DEA agent John Marquez, now head of the undercover unit of the Califor...

  • Shalimar the Clown

    Salman Rushdie

    “Dazzling . . . Modern thriller, Ramayan epic, courtroom drama, slapstick comedy, wartime adventure, political satire, village legend -- they’re all blended here magnificently.” -- The Washington Post Book World “Absorbing . . . Everywhere [...

  • If the Shoe Fits

    Stephanie Rowe

    BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL WOMAN IS THE RIGHT PAIR OF SHOES Run hard. Run fast. Just don't try to run in heels. Especially if your name is Paris Jackson and you're fashion-impaired. Designer labels and stilettos aren't exactly Paris's thing. Give...

  • Fever

    Sean Rowe

    Matt "Loose Cannon" Shannon is an ex-FBI agent turned head of security for the world's largest cruise line. It's a career move that owes more to his predilection for the bottle and a few well hidden skeletons than his fondness for the Miami sun. I...

  • Chloe Leiberman (Sometimes Wong)

    Carrie Rosten

    This is the deal with Chloe Leiberman (sometimes Wong):· She lives, breathes, sleeps, eats and drinks fashion. · She's half Jewish (father) and half Chinese (mother).· She has one bow-tie(like Tucker Carlson)-wearing brother.· She’s stuck in th...

  • Friends With Benefits

    Lawrence C. Ross Jr.

    Up-and-coming attorney Jason Richards, tired of not having a social life, enters into a fast-paced world of sex, supermodels, and glamorous parties with the help of a smooth-talking co-worker, but when he finally finds someone to settle down with, hi...

  • Perfect Assassin

    Wendy Rosnau

    "PERFECTION HAS REPLACED PERFECTION." -- HOLIC REZNIK, WORLD-CLASS ASSASSIN With the world's most wanted assassin behind bars, the good men of ONYXX could relax. Until the killing started again -- and every shot bore the mark of the master. But t...

  • Condition of Marriage

    Emilie Rose

    HE WOULD GIVE HER BABY A NAME To avoid adding more disgrace to the family, Mercedes Ashton agreed to marry her best friend, Jared Maxwell...for convenience sake. Yet the truth was, she was having feelings for him. No, she had the hots for her husb...

  • Vampire Plagues II: Paris, 1850

    Sebastian Rook

    A thrilling new suspense trilogy with a twist. For a thousand years, an ancient and all-powerful vampire god has lain dormant in the Mayan jungle. In 1850, he awakes - and sets out for Europe...

    Jack wants to believe it was only a dream, that ...

  • The Perfect Friend

    Yelena Romanova

    Every dog needs a best friend Archie wants someone to play with – a friend who will throw a ball for him to catch. One morning his family leaves the house promising a surprise when they return. Archie is hopeful, but, remembering past surprises...

  • Witch's Dog And The Box

    Frank Rodgers

    Wilf the Witch's dog is having a difficult day. It's Weenie's birthday and everything is going wrong. A box of tricks has gone missing at Weenie's school concert and it looks like Sly Cat and Tricky Toad have been up to some nasty tricks of their o...

  • The Laird's Lady

    Joanne Rock

    When Malcolm McNair sees the ethereal beauty on the battlements, wielding her crossbow, he swears he's been bewitched by a powerful fairy queen. But Rosalind of Beaumont is definitely all woman, a lady of fierce determination, ready to do all it take...

  • Fifty Degrees Below

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers -- and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation's capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of ...

  • The Ghost of Goliad

    J.R. Roberts

    REMEMBER THE ALAMO? Beautiful Elizabeth Vargas may dress like a man, but to Clint Adams she's all woman. Her charms aren't the only reason he agrees to meet her father, Don Carlos, though. How can he pass up an opportunity to speak to a man who might...

  • Blood Royal

    Harold Robbins; Junius Podrug

    Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, was an ordinary young woman who was picked to be the future queen. Her wedding was a worldwide sensation. But she was deceived and betrayed before the honeymoon was over. Five months after a fairy tale weddi...

  • Wallace & Gromit

    Ian Rimmer

    More all-new comic strip adventures from the Oscar-winning, animated superstars Wallace & Gromit as they turn their hand to football! When Wallace takes over the running of a local football club, he uses all his inventive skills to set it on the road...

  • Art in a Box

    Sarah Richardson

    This new edition of the award-winning Art in a Box is an ideal way to stimulate children's artistic creativity and teach them about some of the greatest artists of all time, including Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Alexander Calder. Packaged in ...

  • Big Game

    RH/Disney

    Disney puts a new spin on a classic tale! After the embarrassing “acorn incident” in which Chicken Little thinks the sky is falling, he becomes the laughing stock of the town! But when Chicken Little discovers that something really is falling fro...

  • Stag

    Tim Relf

  • Marry Your Baby Daddy

    Maryann Reid

    When their unassuming Grandma June dies, Giovanna, Keyah, and Fatima are shocked to learn she had saved a small fortune and has left three million dollars to them, her granddaughters. But there's a catch: each sister must marry the father of her chil...

  • Did the Earth Move?

    Carmen Reid

    It's all about Eve. At least, it should be -- after divorce with Dennis and being jilted by Joseph, Eve could use a little "me" time. Yoga and tending her tiny organic garden keep her centered, but life's complicated when you have two barely grown...

  • Guilt Trip

    Ben Rehder

    Turkey season is in progress, former juvenile delinquent Lucas Burnett's house just exploded, and a Ford Explorer is floating downstream after a gullywasher. It's another ordinary day in Blanco County, Texas... Game warden John Marlin hopes that L...

  • Next of Kin

    Ami Elizabeth Reeves

    Welcome to Delight, Arkansas, where the roots of family trees grow so deep, old secrets poison the groundwater.

    When marathoner Sally Brown shows up in Arkansas, her sister Suzanne gives her such a chilly reception that even ten-mile runs can't w...

  • Thelonius Turkey Lives!

    Lynn Rowe Reed

    Every Thanksgiving, a turkey disappears from Felicia Ferguson’s farm. And this year, Thelonius Turkey is the only turkey left. So with only a week to go before Thanksgiving, Thelonius won’t sit around waiting to be stuffed and roasted"he’s no...

  • Dogs of Truth

    Kit Reed

    The Dogs of Truth contains 17 new or previously uncollected short stories. Included are "High Rise High," about a student revolt at the ultimate "secure" high school; "Focus Group," where a star-struck fan dictates the fate of soap opera characters ...

  • Patchwork Christmas

    Colleen Reece; Renee DeMarco

    An Heirloom Quilt Mends Tattered Hearts A retired schoolteacher, Olivia Forester wants to leave one last legacy for two of her students and rewrites a portion of her will. Then an old patchwork quilt arrives on the doorsteps of two couples just wh...

  • Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus

    Tennant Redbank

    With four-color photographs straight from the movie, this Step 2 reader retells the magical story of the DVD in the simple language that will help Barbie’s little fans Step into Reading on their own....

  • The Legendary Kid Donovan

    E.K. Recknor

    Orphaned and far from the comforts of civilized New York, Horace Tate Pemberton Smith arrives in Tonto's Wickiup, Arizona, to meet his uncle and ends up inheriting a bordello. But the trouble really starts when he gets credit for killing a renowned g...

  • A Wall of Light

    Edeet Ravel

    A powerful and unforgettable story of secrets, family, love, and destiny set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    Following on the heels of the critically acclaimed Ten Thousand Lovers (finalist for the...

  • Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To-Do List

    Janette Rallison

    A lot of girls dream of going to Hollywood and becoming famous. But they shouldn't -- because, hey, I don't need any more competition than I already have. I'm determined to make it as an actress, even if that means having to put up with a bit part ...

  • Some Like It Wicked

    Deborah Raleigh

    In this sizzling tale of irresistible temptation, when business mixes with pleasure, the product is wickedly delightful... A canny, successful businesswoman, Miss Jane Middleton goes to London in search of a husband--only to find herself virtually ...

  • To Tame the Beast

    Deborah Raleigh
    in

    The Scottish highlands echo with legends of great battles, brave heroes--and, hidden deep in the swirling mists, creatures that belong to the night. In this sensual new collection, meet three vampires whose highland blood drums fierce and hot in thei...

  • Sam Katz on the Loose!

    Frank Radice

    Meow, more than ever, the world needs a furry hero"and his name is Sam Katz. Sam Katz is on the loose in this wildly original, glitter-sparkling book of 3-D scenes guaranteed to amaze and amuse children of all ages. Who is Sam Katz? Let’s put it ...

  • The Finest Choice

    Jean Rabe

    They were the Finest Creations--mystically forged creatures of perfection sent by the creators to aid the Fallen (mankind) during their mortal existence.
    Though they resemble ordinary horses they are highly intelligent, capable of communicating te...

  • 25 Years: Best Friends

    Tara Taylor Quinn

    Jolene and Tina have been best friends for twenty-five years. Too bad Jolene's marriage isn't as solid as her friendship. But who better to talk to about your most intimate problems than your very best friend?...

  • Diary of a Married Call Girl

    Tracy Quan

    In this irreverent take on infidelity and modern marriage, newlywed topflight prostitute Nancy Chan finds herself struggling to adjust to the realities of domestic bliss. She’s honing her respectable image as the wife of investment banker Matt, coo...

  • Axle Annie and the Speed Grump

    Robin Pulver

    Axle Annie, the beloved school bus driver, is back on the scene, this time finding herself involved in a hilarious mission to stop Rush Hotfoot, the neighborhood speed demon from tearing down Burskyville's streets....

  • The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Novelization

    Price Stern Sloan Publishing

    Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit are determined to solve the mystery behind the garden sabotage that threatens the annual Giant Vegetable Growing Contest in their village, in a novelization based on the new claymation feature film. Original....

  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Graphic Novel

    Price Stern Sloan Publishing

    Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit are determined to solve the mystery behind the garden sabotage that threatens the annual Giant Vegetable Growing Contest in their village, in a graphic novel based on the new claymation feature film. Original....

  • Tyrannosaur Canyon

    Douglas Preston

    A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The greatest scienti...

  • Case of the Food Fight

    James Preller

    Looking for intriguing mysteries, great friendship stories, and quality chapter books for beginning readers? Look no further: Jigsaw and Mila are the best detectives on the market!

    FOOD FIGHT! When someone starts a food fight in the school caf...

  • Thud!

    Terry Pratchett

    Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest amon...

  • The Biggest Test in the Universe

    Nancy Poydar

    Fearful of taking the Big Test that he is certain is as bad as everyone says, Sam's nerves begin to get the best of him as he worries about what he will soon be forced to face, in an amusing tale about test-taking hype gone awry with full-color illus...

  • Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus

    Andrea Posner-Sanchez

    Barbie Doll stars as Princess Annika in Barbieª and the Magic of Pegasus. When Princess Annika refuses to marry the evil wizard Wenlock, he turns the entire kingdom into stone. Annika’s long-lost sister, Brietta, returns to help"but Wenlock has ...

  • Deadly Detail

    Don Porter

    It's Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Alex Price, a Bethel bush pilot, is looking forward to a pleasant evening visiting his old friend and prospecting partner Stan and Stan's lovely Athabaskan Indian wife, Ang...

  • Out of the Night

    Robin T. Popp

    OUT OF THE DARKNESS Lanie Weber isn't afraid of danger. As a volunteer firefighter, this seemingly mild-mannered librarian has faced life-or-death situations before-and survived. But she has no idea what's waiting for her in the dark Amazon jungle...

  • The Art of Uncontrolled Flight

    Kim Ponders

    A stunning literary debut about a woman - an airforce pilot - torn between duty and desire. The long shadow of a charismatic father leads Annie Shaw to decide, as far back as she can remember, to follow in his footsteps and become an air force pil...

  • Queen of the Universe

    Barbara Plum

    He's Crazy About Her... Easygoing cop Finn Bishop is gaga about his fiance Kelsy Chandler. He can't wait to be a doting husband to her and devoted dad to her five-year-old son. To him, Kelsy is a goddess, the Queen of the Universe. If only he could ...

  • The Reckoning

    Sarah Pinborough

    They were children then, in that magical summer so long ago when Robert, Carrie-Anne, and Jason first met Gina. It was a summer of fun, of friendship, and of discoveries--including the discovery of Gina's strange abilities. But it all ended in a mome...

  • Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot Vs. the Uranium Unicorns from Uranus

    Dav Pilkey

    From Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants, and acclaimed artist Dan Santat, a thrilling friendship adventure with all-new full-color illustrations and mini-comics throughout!Having a big best friend isn't always big fun...Ricky Ricotta loves his...

  • Will of the Empress

    Tamora Pierce

    A searing reunion -- the Four mages are together again! For years the Empress of Namorn has pressed her young cousin, Lady Sandrilene fa Toren, to visit her vast lands within the Empire's borders. Sandry has avoided the in' tion for as long as it wa...

  • Home Again

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Before Joey, his culinary repertoire was comprised of bad scrambled eggs, his spare bedrooms gathered dust and the master bedroom seemed destined to remain mistress-less. But when his nephew became his 24/7 responsibility literally overnight, Mark Ch...

  • The Ice Harvest

    Scott Phillips

    “BITTERLY FUNNY . . . [A] SLEEK FIRST NOVEL . . . NOIR CRIME . . . HAS FOUND A STERLING NEW CHAMPION IN PHILLIPS.”"The New York Times Book Review“A FUTURE HARD-BOILED CLASSIC"TIGHT, COLD, AND CACKLING WITH IRONY. On Christmas Eve [in Wichit...

  • Chicken Little

    Elizabeth Difanis Phillips

  • Dancing in the Dark

    Caryl Phillips

    In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874 -- 1922), the child of recent...

  • Every Sunday

    Peter Pezzelli

    Peter Pezzelli's remarkable debut, Home to Italy, won the hearts of readers and critics alike.  Now, with Every Sunday, Pezzelli has created another unforgettable tale about life, love, family and friendship.In Providence, Rhode Island, everybod...

  • A Time for Angels

    Sandie Petit

    Hand-crafting Christmas angels and giving them away as gifts sets love in motion for two couples, making the holiday even more special. This unique collection, A Time for Angels, includes two wonderfully written novellas, as well as patterns for read...

  • Catherine Wheels

    Leif Peterson

    Thomas’s carefully built life has been shattered. Everywhere he turns, he finds tragedy. After being left at the altar, he retreats to a remote castle in the mountains of Northwest Montana to live with an old college friend dying of lupus. But thei...

  • Scandalous

    Jenna Petersen

    Katherine Fleming has lived her life without even a hint of indiscretion. So she is devastated to discover the nobleman she's engaged to has a secret he's kept from her: a wife! Suddenly Katherine's enmeshed in a scandal that has the ton buzzing -- a...