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  • Zero Hour

    Benjamin E. Miller

    The events portrayed in this novel are purely theoretical. According to computer models studied at MIT, a hurricane of extreme magnitude could be generated above a lake or ocean whose temperature exceeds 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists predict di...

  • Zap! A Science Fair Surprise!

    Peter Lerangis

    Join Max, Jessica, Quincy, and Selena in this hilarious chapter book series about the adventures and misadventures of an after-school magic and mystery club.

    It's time for the annual science fair. This year that kids at Rebus Elementary will b...

  • Yet Another Ghastly Christmas

    Shonagh Koea

    Witty and poignant, wicked and touching, another entertaining novel from popular writer Shonagh Koea. As Christmas approaches, Evelyn's 'friends' the Clarks become more and more anxious about where she is going to spend Christmas, or more precisely w...

  • X-Treme X-Men, Volume 2: Invasion

    Chris Claremont

  • X-Force: Famous, Mutant & Mortal

    Peter Milligan

    Long persecuted for their genetic differences, the members of the all-new, all-different X-Force are cashing in on their special gifts--and living Professor Charles Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence between man and mutant--but the world is unawa...

  • X-Force, Volume 2: Final Chapter

    Peter Milligan

    Written by Peter Milligan. Art by Mike Allred, Darwyn Cooke, and Duncan Fegredo. Cover by Mike Allred. Published in November of 2002, Softcover, 224 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99. If you want additional books, I ship as many books as you wa...

  • World War, Boom, and Bust: 1917-1930s

    Nextext

  • World of Plants

    Kirsteen Rogers

    This collectible series builds into a fascinating library of reference material, covering every aspect of Key Stage 2 science and beyond. When used in conjunction with www.usborne-quicklinks.com, the reader has direct access to all featured Web addre...

  • Wondrous Beginnings

    Martin H. Greenberg

    An out-of-this-world collection of fantastical stories by such masters of the science fiction genre as Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, and Arthur C. Clarke features profound insight into the origin of each story and the individual authors' careers....

  • Without a Past

    Debra Salonen

    Jenny, Andrea and Kristin Sullivan are much more than sisters -- they're triplets! Growing up as one of a threesome meant the days were never lonely...or dull. Now they're adults -- with separate lives, loves, dreams and secrets. But undernea...

  • With One Touch

    Karen Rose Smith

    Every time Brooke Pennington's new boss looked at her, she felt a quickening inside. The handsome veterinarian made her wonder if her long-denied dream of home and family could be fulfilled after all. But she knew Dr. Nate Stanton valued the truth ab...

  • Witchblade: Demons

    Mike Baron

    When a big-shot antiquities dealer is found with his head severed, the case falls to NYPD Homicide detective Sara Pezzini and her partner. Sara enlists sword polisher David Kopkind, a student of Japanese history, who recognizes the killing blow of a ...

  • Winterheim

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Shrouded in ice, the stronghold of the ogres has stood for eons as an impregnable bastion of the Icereach. But now Strongwind Whalebone, king of the Highlanders, has been imprisoned in the ogre fortress. Outside its walls, a band of his compatriots p...

  • Winter Shadows

    Will Henry

    From the very beginning of his long and illustrious career, Will Henry wrote from the Native American viewpoint with authenticity and compassion. This volume collects two of his finest short novels, each focused on the American Indian. The title nove...

  • Winter King

    Stephen Krensky

    Longing to return to the magical land of Great Kettles, Sarah is happy to help Old Man Winter retrieve the Weather Mill, which has fallen into the hands of a madman, but when Old Man Winter is kidnapped, Sarah, along with Jack Frost, must race agains...

  • Winner Take All

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Following a surprising courtroom victory, attorney Marcus Glenwood takes on an equally surprising new client-Dale Steadman, the CEO of the very company Marcus prosecuted. His job is to find Steadman's dangerously unstable ex-wife, Erin Brandt, who ki...

  • The Wings of Merlin

    T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    As winter's longest night approaches, Merlin faces the most difficult challenge of his life -- to unite all of Fincayra against the evil warlord Rhita Gawr. But in the midst of this comes the mysterious Sword Arms, who is hunting and attacking Fincay...

  • Will and a Way

    Elizabeth White
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    This collection of novellas will delight readers with stories of love showing up in the most unexpected places: a couple thrown together at the airport when their flights are cancelled; two violinists competing for first chair during a European orche...

  • Wildfire, Book 2

    David Mack

    The U.S.S. da Vinci's mission to salvage the U.S.S. Orion and the deadly Wildfire warhead has gone horribly wrong. Captain Gold and Security Chief Corsi are gravely injured, and the da Vinci is literally coming apart at the seams as it drifts further...

  • Wildfire, Book 1

    David Mack

    The da Vinci goes on a dangerous salvage mission: to rescue the U.S.S. Orion from a gas giant. As if the turbulent atmosphere of the planet wasn't enough, the Orion is carrying the prototype of the deadly Wildfire device -- a protomatter warhead that...

  • Wild Earth : Volcano!

    Lorraine Jean Hopping

  • Why Do Rabbits Hop?

    Joan Holub

    Why Do Rabbits Hop?And Other Questions about Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Hamsters, and GerbilsDid you know that rabbits can jump 10 feet in one hop, guinea pigs bump noses to say hello, and baby gerbils are called pups?...

  • Why Do Horses Neigh?

    Joan Holub

    Do you love horses? If you do, you're not alone. There's so much to know about these amazing animals. Why do horses neigh? What are baby and adult horses called? How do horses communicate? Beginning readers can find out the answers to these questions...

  • Where the Heart Leads

    Marilyn Herr

    They'll Risk It All To Follow... When Rachel Whitfield's brother Zeb is taken from the family trading post in Western Pennsylvania by French Canadian marauders, English trader Jonah Butler is taken with him. But Jonah reappears weeks later, and thou...

  • When the Messenger Is Hot

    Elizabeth Crane

    Features the stories of women recovering from loss, addiction, or betrayal, from a woman who decides to live on the patio rooftop of her friend's apartment, to a writer whose identity is compromised by the actress who portrays her, to a daughter who ...

  • What's the "Matter" with Dee Dee?

    Anne Capeci

  • What's a Man's Gotta Do

    Karen Templeton

    THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME Itinerant chef Eddie King had spent most of his life moving from place to place, looking for something he could never seem to find. But suddenly he found himself headed for the place that had most seemed like home -- onc...

  • Whales and Dolphins

    Susanna Davidson

  • Welcome to Heavenly Heights

    Risa Miller

    A first novel written by PEN Discovery Award Winner Risa Miller, Welcome to Heavenly Heights describes a group of American Jews who have left the United States, not just to move to Israel, but to live in a settlement on the West Bank. Miller conjure...

  • Weekend Warriors

    Fern Michaels

    EVERY WOMAN HAS A STORY... AND THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING. Life isn't fair. Most women know it. But what can you do about it? Plenty... if you're part of the Sisterhood. On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be--but each has had...

  • The Wedding Wagon

    Cathy Marie Hake
    in

    Four noteworthy authors of Christian romance fiction join together to recreate life-and love-on the Oregon Trail. Each author takes a leg of the journey and intertwines their story with the characters and events of the other stories while developing ...

  • A Wedding Story

    Susan Kay Law

    Unlike her two sisters who followed their dreams to the altar,Kathryn Bright Goodale doesn't want to be a bride. What she needs is to win the Great Centennial Race now that her late husband has left her penniless. So Kate reluctantly turns to the ...

  • Wedding for One

    Dawn Atkins

    Running out on her own wedding years ago is coming back to haunt Mariah Monroe. Now she needs to go home to persuade ex-groom Nathan Goodman to keep running her family's company. But he's determined to free his inner wild man. And even worse, it seem...

  • Weathercock

    Glen Duncan

    Duncan is a sharp, sometimes savage observer of the human condition, whose talents are as many as the legions of Hell' -- Matthew Baylis'His use of language is so precise, his dissection of male and female emotions so spot-on, it almost takes your br...

  • We Weren't Lovers like That

    Navtej Sarna

    At the start of the new millennium, Aftab's life came undone. He turned forty, and his wife of fourteen years left him for another man, taking their only child with her. As he looks back on his imperfect past, crowded with personal and professional c...

  • The Way to Paradise

    Mario Vargas Llosa

    A New York Times Notable BookFlora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the dow...

  • Waste Not, Want Not

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    Something's rotten in the garbage business -- and CURE is ready to take out the trash . . . IF IT LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE AND SMELLS LIKE TROUBLE . . . Mayana -- a South American country known only for a mass cult suicide -- is poised to become the ...

  • The Warrior's Game

    Denise Hampton

    Out of a Perilous Intrigue... Proud, desperate Lady Ami will not be the plaything of powerful men! But without the aid of the warrior Michel, she will be forced to submit to her king -- who wants free entry to Ami's bedchamber by wedding her to ...

  • The War of the Crowns

    Christian Jacq

    Christian Jacq, author of the international sensations Ramses and The Stone of Light, continues his epic Queen of Freedom trilogy as the fiercely determined Queen Ahhotep struggles to save her people -- and reclaim her own legacy. The barbaric Hykso...

  • Wanderlust

    Chris Dyer

    Taking a job writing a low-budget travel column for a New York newspaper, Kate Bogart soon discovers that her dream job has some drawbacks, including a hectic schedule, not-so-exotic destinations, and uppity British journalist Miles Maxwell....

  • Walks in the Wild

    Prosenjit Das Gupta

    The author has scoured the forests of India in search of adventure and the perfect photograph. this book chronicles the experiences. Das Gupta shares with his reader the unpredictability that is wildlife photography, and his encounters in the wild....

  • Waking Up Screaming

    H.P. Lovecraft

    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”"H. P. LOVECRAFTWelcome to the world of H. P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of terror. His work has inspired countless ni...

  • Waiting for Rain

    Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay

    In the Kolkata of the early 1970s, the naxalite insurgency holds the city in thrall. Somsundar, an unemployed youth, and Manju, a young woman brought up in the protected environment of the upper middle class, wrestle with reality and change as the ci...

  • Waiting for an Angel

    Helon Habila

    WAITING FOR AN ANGEL marks the debut of one of Africa's most promising new writers. Lomba is a young journalist living under military regime in Lagos, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and thenov...

  • Wait for Love

    Melanie Schuster
    in

    Interior designer Janice Van Hook never dreams her new client is none other than Curt Bowden, the same man who stood her up at the college dance. Yet even after twelve years, they both still feel an overwhelming attraction for each other--and Valent...

  • The Virgin's Proposal

    Shirley Jump

    Successful rebel Matt Webster came to make peace with his past and his family. But he'd never thought that to appear "respectable," he'd become the pretend fiance of a banana-wearing store owner! Yet how could he refuse spunky Katie Dole, the woman u...

  • Varjak Paw

    S.F. Said

    "There are Seven Skills in the Way of Jalal," whispered the Elder Paw. "We know only three of them. Their names are these. Slow-Time. Moving Circles. Shadow-Walking." Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue kitten. He lives high up in an old house on a hi...

  • The Vanishing Point

    M.R.D. Meek

    Lennox Kemp and his assistant, Franklyn Davey, investigate two seemingly unrelated disappearances as Kemp tries to locate the missing Sieglinde Prentiss and Davey determines the fate of Annabel Angus, presumed dead in the World Trade Center terrorist...

  • Valentines: A Read-and-Do Book

    Judith Moffatt

    Children will have fun creating Valentine's Day cards with this Level 2 Hello Reader! that has simple instructions and colorful cut-paper artwork by Judith Moffatt.

    Minky the cat and best friend Mouse are back together again--this time they're...

  • Valentine's Love

    Leslie Esdaile
    in

    Gift shop owner Denise Blake spends her days helping others find the perfect gift for that special person in their lives. But with no one to call her own, she's beginning to think she'll never find Mr. Right--until Cupid strikes and brings her the l...

  • Valentine's Change of Heart

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    Heart and Soul Valentine Wharton has been drowning is sorrow ever since he lost his beloved Penny Foster to the town gossips. But Wharton no longer cares what the members of the ton have to say--not since high society scorned his beloved Penny. No...

  • The Valentine Poem

    Victoria Hinshaw
    in

    A bitter misunderstanding... A secret longing... A bold deception... This Valentine's Day, can Cupid find a way to soothe ruffed feelings and open closed hearts? Miss Susan Kimball has happily spurned any number of suitors to pursue her dream of j...

  • A Valentine for Tommy

    Wendy Wax

  • Valentine Dreams

    Donna Simpson
    in

    A delightful trio of Regency romances, celebrating the romantic mayhem wrought by Cupid, includes Julia Parks's "The Ugly Duckling's Valentine," in which Lady Claire Lester, believing that she is unattractive, is pursued by an amorous secret admirer,...

  • The Unholy Deception

    L.A. Marzulli

    'The Cadre' claims to have Christ's body preserved and hidden in an ancient tomb. For journalist Art 'Mac' Mackenzie, the scenario smacks of an alien agenda. He determines to unearth the truth at any cost. But the Cadre doesn't surrender its secrets ...

  • Unhinged

    Sarah Graves

    It began with the mysterious disappearance of Eastport, Maine's snoopiest resident. Everyone is convinced the old busybody bolted out of town to escape her creditors--everyone except Jake and her best friend, Ellie. And just as Jake starts poking aro...

  • Unforgiving Heights

    Betsey Barnes

    Mitra Kittredge is a young, multi lingual american diplomat in a small himalayan kingdom. When her senior colleague is sent to Washington for medical treatment and political unrest begin to mount. Mona's talents are tapped for negotiations at the ver...

  • Undercover Wife

    Debra Webb

    SECRET MISSION: MAN AND WIFE Specialist John Logan was dedicated to duty -- the mission always top priority -- and he'd do anything to carry out an assignment. Even if it meant posing as the unthinkable: husband to the newly "recruited" Erin Bailey....

  • Under the Sea

    Alastair Smith
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • Under Siege

    Catherine Mann

    RULES OF ENGAGEMENT To the air force, Lt. Col. Zach Dawson was a dress-blue bona fide hero, complete with medals and behind-enemy-lines battle scars. But a hero didn't allow an airman's pregnant wife to become a widow under his watch. And a hero d...

  • Under Alaskan Skies // Fly Me Away

    Carol Grace

    A little Northern exposure A compassionate man, Dr. Matt Baker couldn't deny the urgent request to fly to a remote Alaskan village and tend to an injured child. Especially when the call had come from the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen.... ...

  • Uncharted Waters

    Linda Castillo
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    IN THE NEWS: Ex-navy search and rescue pilot Drew Evans FAMILY HISTORY: His adopted brother is one of the genetically engineered Extraordinary Five DEEPEST SECRET: Haunted by the only mission he failed Hardened hero Drew Evans had thought his tr...

  • Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1: Hope

    Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #410-415. Wolverine, Iceman, Archangel, Nightcrawler, Stacy X, and Monet head to Scotland when Xavier reported a distress call he picked up. But to complicate matters, the Juggernaut has shown up!...

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 7: Blockbuster

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #34-39. Wolverine returns to New York after a short time away from the X-Men -- with a strange strike force armed with sophisticated military technology on his tail. To survive, he's forced to rely on the Big Apple's own Spid...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 5: Public Scrutiny

    Brian Michael Bendis

    What's it take to ruin SpiderMan's reputation and turn him into Public Enemy #1? Collects Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #28-32!...

  • The Ugly Duckling's Valentine

    Julia Parks
    in

    A bitter misunderstanding... A secret longing... A bold deception... This Valentine's Day, can Cupid find a way to soothe ruffed feelings and open closed hearts? Lady Claire Lester is convinced that when it comes to beauty she can not hold a candl...

  • Two Hearts

    Karen Hawkins
    in

    Lady Whistledown Tells All! Society is abuzz when the Season's most promising debutante is jilted by her intended only to be swept away by the deceitful rogue's dashing older-brother- in New York Times bestseller JULIA QUINN's witty, charming, and...

  • Twisted Shadows

    Patricia Potter

    A riveting novel about a man who thought he'd escaped his unsavory past--and a woman who didn't know she had one... Samantha Carroll's world is turned upside-down when the life she always thought was perfect turns out to be a lie. When two cold-ey...

  • Twist of Fate

    Beverly Clark

  • Twilight Girls

    Paula Christian

    Taken from the Golden Age of lesbian pulp fiction, two classic full-length novels in one spectacular volume follow beautiful stewardess Val MacGregor as she loses her heart to passionate and caring Toni Molina, and comes to terms with her lifestyle i...

  • The Tutankamen Affair

    Christian Jacq

  • Turning the Storm

    Naomi Kritzer

    She is called musician, rebel, soldier, legend. After months of leading an uprising against the treacherous religious order of the Fedeli and the ruling Circle of Mages, young Eliana is known throughout the land. Striking from the blighted wastelands...

  • The Truth about Cassandra

    Laurie Brown

    A WOMAN OF VIRTUE A willing spinster, Anne Weathersby has set aside her own needs to care for her siblings. But debts and good deeds take their toll. To make ends meet, Anne embarks on a secret, scandalous career as a novelist. A MAN OF VICE Th...

  • The Truth

    Robert Doherty

    AT LAST, WE WILL LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT HUMANKIND'S ORIGINS... BUT DO WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW? The Ark of the Covenant ...Excalibur...The Holy Grail... Finally, the world's legendary artifacts have been unearthed, their secret powers revealed. Now,...

  • Tricks of the Light

    Alison Fell

    Broom is in her 50s. An artist and theatre set designer, she is spending Christmas in the Alps working on a commission for an opera in Leipzig. Five years before, she had fallen passionately in love with the flawed but lovable Al. But their fiery and...

  • Trespassing

    Uzma Aslam Khan

    A world-class tale of love and deceit, rivalry and destiny from the Lahore-based writer Uzma Aslam Khan.'Standing in a room with eight thousand tiny creatures, witnessing them perform a dance that few humans even knew occurred; this was life. Everywh...

  • A Treasure Deep

    Alton Gansky

    The best-seller A Treasure Deep is now available in an inexpensive mass market paperback edition! Treasure-unbelievable, historic, and dangerous-awaits famed engineer Perry Sachs. Buried just outside Tejon, California, the ancient booty is rigged wit...

  • Travelling Girl

    Sally Steward

    Kate Kirkby has promised Andrew Carmichael that she'll do just one more season working for Three C's travel company, before settling down and becoming his wife. She is sent out to accompany a tour to Russia and despite the company's strict guidelines...

  • Tough Luck

    Jason Starr

    WINNER: Barry Award for Best Paperback Original

    FINALIST: Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original

    Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a neighborhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He's got a nice girlfriend. H...

  • To the Nines

    Janet Evanovich

    Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli...oh, the list goes on). An ordinary ...

  • To Kiss a Spy

    Jane Feather

    In this first of two romances featuring two unconventional sisters whose quest to solve the mystery surrounding their lives puts each of them in the path of a dangerously irresistible hero, Jane Feather tells the story of a daring young widow and a m...

  • Titus Rules

    Dick King-Smith

    WHO'S MORE IMPORTANT than the Queen? Whom does she serve? Her royal corgis, of course! But life isn’t just royal thrones and unlimited biscuits for young Titus, Her Majesty’s favorite pup. There are burglars to catch, fires to put out, leaking tu...

  • A Tisket, A Tasket

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Tippy Lemmey

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

    A New Dog in Town Tippy Lemmey is no ordinary dog. Not only is he the only dog Leandra, Paul, and Jeannie have ever met with a first and a last name, he's a living, breathing monster! When they ride their bikes, he chases them, snapping at th...

  • Time Pincher

    Ruth Koeppel

    Level 2: Reading Independently

    • More complex stories • Varied sentence structure • Paragraphs and short chapters

    Jimmy uses his special time machine to bring Thomas Edison to the present! But how is Jimmy going to get him ...

  • Ticket Out

    Helen Knode

    Ann Whitehead is sick of her job. She's a movie critic for a counterculture rag in Los Angeles and she needs a break badly. Instead of a break, she gets a murder. A woman dies in Ann's bathtub: the victim is a film school grad and industry hopeful. I...

  • Three Dog Night

    Peter Goldsworthy

  • Three Dirty Women and the Shady Acres

    Julie Wray Herman

    PERMANENTLY RETIRED Korine McFaile has managed to keep her sense of humor surrounding her mother-in-law Dora's increasing "absentmindedness." After all, at least Dora hasn't killed anybody. Until now. Somehow, she got the car keys and ran over poor ...

  • Three Classic African-American Novels: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglas; Clotel, William Wells Brown; Our Nig, Harriet E. Wilson

    William L. Andrews

  • Thoughts While Having Sex

    Stephanie Lehmann

    "All through the movie, I kept salivating. And I felt like he must be able to hear me swallowing, so he must know that I was salivating, so he must know that I wanted him. And I didn't want him to know that my body is capable of such bodily excretion...

  • This Side of Brightness

    Colum McCann

    From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City.In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandh...

  • This Little Egg Went to Market

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Thirty-Six Valentines

    Julia Quinn
    in

    Lady Whistledown Tells All! Society is abuzz when the Season's most promising debutante is jilted by her intended only to be swept away by the deceitful rogue's dashing older-brother- in New York Times bestseller JULIA QUINN's witty, charming, and...

  • Things to Do Indoors

    Sheena Joughin

    Sisterly sharing goes beyond the pale when 26-year-old Chrissie finds a postcard from her boyfriend to her sister signed, "Kisses, Nick.” Within moments, she severs her two central relationships, looking boldly forward to the haphazard pleasures o...

  • Thicker Than Water

    P.J. Parrish

    On a hot summer night in Florida, a beautiful young woman is brutally raped and murdered... Twenty years later, the man convicted of her slaying is released from prison--only days before another horrific crime is committed... Now, Louis Kincaid...

  • Then Comes Marriage

    Christie Ridgway

    Honor Witherspoon suddenly found herself up to her neck in the most delicious trouble she'd ever been in: Marriage! After she was rescued from a harrowing kidnapping, Honor's billionaire father decreed she'd be completely safe in the hands of Bram...

  • Thanksgiving

    Natalie M. Rosinsky

  • Ten Guineas on Love

    Claire Thornton

    A Wager To Wed To Charity Mayfield's shock, she discovered a year after her father's death that his debts could mean losing her home. Only by marriage could she touch her inheritance and save Hazelhurst. The one sensible candidate was Edwa...

  • Tell No One

    Marion Lennox

    July 19, 1983... The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers - Seattle's Kennedys. Their 'compound' - elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later... Police officer Jaron Dorsey had resc...

  • Tattoo for Two

    Dawn Atkins

    To her family, Nikki Winfield is a successful store owner who's married to a doctor. Truth is, she's a tattoo artist with a commitment issue. A family emergency has called her home and she has to produce a groom. Enter Hollister Marx. He's a dentist ...

  • The Tattletale Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The town of Greenfield is having an art contest to celebrate the work of local artists. The Boxcar Children are getting to know the artists and the gallery owner and learning all about art. But could the gallery be filled with stolen paintings?...

  • A Taste of Reality

    Kimberla Lawson Roby

    On the surface, Anise seems to have it all: a successful career, a solid marriage, and good friends. But when she applies for a promotion at work, she loses out to a white colleague who isn't nearly as qualified for the job. And after being married f...

  • Tangled Web

    J.R. Roberts

    LADY (BAD) LUCK Clint Adams hates to see a lady in distress--especially if he's shared a memorable night with her. He's not about to play bodyguard, but the Gunsmith does have a reputation of righting wrongs...and Elena Halliwell can be awful p...

  • Taking Liberties

    Diana Norman

    Makepeace Hedley is frantic when she learns that her young daughter, sailing home to England from the rebelling American colonies, has been taken prisoner by the British. With her usual determination, Makepeace sets out for Plymouth to rescue her chi...

  • Sweetheart Fairies

    Cecile Schoberle

    Join the cheerful Sweetheart Fairies as they fill everyone's day with love! Behind every kind word, every smile, and every hug and kiss, the Sweetheart Fairies are there. Place the shimmery Sweetheart stickers in this book, or anywhere that could...

  • Sweetest Valentines

    Jane E. Gerver

    A classroom project teaches a little bear named Fred the true meaning and importance of Valentine's Day.

    Tomorrow will be Valentine's Day!
    The class is making cards.
    Here are paper, lace, and glue.
    Fred says, "This won't be hard!"
    ...

  • Sweet Agony

    Nancy Huston

    On a snowy New England evening in a small college town, Sean Farrell"a hard-drinking, libidinous poet and professor"hosts a Thanksgiving dinner. The eleven guests include two fellow professors (one a novelist, the other also a poet), two of Sean...

  • Sweet Accord

    Felicia Mason

    PERFECT HARMONY Light, melodic tones. That was a worship service. Not guitar music! At least, Haley Cartwright believed that, and she was willing to do anything to prevent the new choir director from changing things. No matter that the man stirred u...

  • Sweet 18

    Francine Pascal

    The twins graduate -- and say goodbye to SVH for good. Elizabeth can't believe she's finally turning 18 and graduating high school. She's been waiting for this moment her entire life. She can't wait to say good-bye to the past and start a new life...

  • Swan Bay

    Rod Jones

  • Swallowing Diamonds

    Marilyn Duckworth

  • Sutter's Cross

    W. Dale Cramer

    Men and women of all ages will warm to Cramer's elegant prose and Southern charm. William Faulkner once insisted that great stories must capture the "old universal truths...love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice." Sutter's Cr...

  • Surprise! Snow Day!

    Courtney Baker

  • Surprise

    Donna Hill
    in

    From four fabulous bestselling authors come four stories of women with a plus-sized joy for life who find the best of everything in the most unexpected places. In Rochelle Alers's Reunion, Long Island broker Elaine Jackson Stewart is 42, divorced, a...

  • Surface Tension

    Joanna Hines

    It is the long, hot summer of 1976. Six friends share an idyllic few months at Grays Orchard. But the endless days of art, love and abandonment - immortalised in the celebrated paintings of resident artist, Gus Ridley - come to a brutal end when one ...

  • Sulky Vulture

    Sally Grindley

    Head pulled down, shoulders hunched up, toes curled in, Boris the vulture is sulking. when Boris's friends see that he needs cheering up, they try to help out--but nothing seems to go quite right and Boris ends up even grumpier! Finally, he goes h...

  • Sucker Punch

    Rick Shelley

    The Alliance of Light has achieved many victories in the ongoing war against the Ilion Federation through the success of the elite military force comprised of alien soldiers from each planet in the coalition... Sergeant Bart "Dragon" Drak and the su...

  • Stuck on You

    Patti Berg

    Love's One Big Mystery... It's common knowledge in Plentiful, Wyoming, that bookstore owner Scarlett O'Malley imagines trouble brewing everywhere. Of course, real trouble bubbles over the day an enigmatic stranger named Logan Wolfe shows up in tow...

  • Strictly Business

    Francis Ray
    in

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  • A Stranger's Desire

    Kimberly Raye

    SWEET OBLIVION In life, Cain had been a destroyer. In death, he still was. Only now lust was his weapon. Slain long before in a moment of despair, the one-time Viking had been collected by the Evil One and forced into servitude. He'd become an i...

  • Stormy Weather? Stick Together!

    Suzy Spafford

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    While a storm rages outside, the Duckport ...

  • A Stormy Day

    Gilda Berger

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    Linda Hall

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  • Starman

    Sara Douglass

    Axis is the StarMan of prophecy and legend, destined to lead the three races of his world to unite as one people. The Prophecy fore-told that Axis would defeat his half-brother, reclaim the land of Tencendor, and find a traitor in his camp. The Proph...

  • The Spymaster's Secret Code Challenge

    A.M. Vale

  • The Spy's Guide to Master Spy Missions

    Hena Khan

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    Bill Pronzini

    After a near brush with death, Nameless once again enters the dark underbelly of San Francisco to search for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who was brutally slain, a search that leads him to a small California town rife wit...

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    Cotton Smith

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    Monica McInerney

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  • Spilling Clarence

    Anne Ursu

    What if you could suddenly remember everything that ever happened to you, every joy and every sorrow that you had ever endured Would it be a blessing -- or a curse

    This is the fate of the residents of the town of Clarence, who fall under the spell ...

  • Spies, Lies and a Pair of Ties

    Sheralyn Pratt

  • Spies

    Michael Frayn

    The sudden trace of a disturbing, forgotten aroma compels Stephen Wheatley to return to the site of a dimly remembered but troubling childhood summer in wartime London. As he pieces together his scattered memories, we are brought back to a quiet, sub...

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    Elizabeth Moon

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    Erica Orloff

    "Real life was messy. Sloppy bathrooms I could handle. Love I could not." For thirty-three-year-old Cassie Hayes, life is about to get messier. She can't cook, unless you count coffee as a meal (she does). She can't commit (just ask her ex-husband...

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    Bill Doyle

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    Fiona Kidman

    The experience of working for Violet Trench in her small-town cafe in the summer of 1963 shapes the lives of a group of women including Jessie Sandal, who follows Violet's influence as far as Cambodia.

    Fiona Kidman explores family relationsh...

  • Someone to Watch Over Me

    Roz Denny Fox

    Gabe Poston is giving up his job, with all its traveling and high finance, because he's ready for a simpler existence. He might even be ready for a wife and family -- and meeting Isabella Navarro only confirms that feeling. Isabella has experience...

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    Jamie Sobrato

    If the half-naked man asleep on her bed is a sign of things to come, then Lucy Connors is in for the time of her life! She's never been given such a sexy gift. Wide-awake, Judd Walker is irresistible, and suddenly she's shedding her conservative ways...

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    Timothy Sheard

    Author Timothy Sheard has captured the pulse of hospital life and given voice to the unseen minions who keep a great medical institution running in this finely crafted murder mystery. With the James Madison University Hospital board of directors desp...

  • Snow

    Maxence Fermine

    Yuko Akita had two passions.Haiku and snow.It is April 1884 and Yuko Akita has reached his seventeenth birthday on the Island of Hokkaid in the North of Japan. The time has come to choose his vocation, warrior or monk, but against the wishes of his f...

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    Vivien Armstrong

  • Small Town

    Lawrence Block

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    Tatyana Tolstaya

    “A postmodern literary masterpiece.” "The Times Literary SupplementTwo hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job -- transcribing old books and presenting them as...

  • Slocum and the Nebraska Swindle

    Jake Logan

    A Man of No Consequence John Slocum and his pard have finally steered two thousand head of cattle from Abilene, Texas, to their Kansas home. After six weeks on the trail, both men are itchin' for some company of the female kind. Abigail Stanl...

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    Lemony Snicket

    Dear Reader, Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness...

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    Pamela Silin-Palmer

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  • Sleeping Beauty & the Marine

    Cathie Linz

    IT WAS PAYBACK TIME FOR LEGENDARY LADY KILLER U.S. MARINE CAPTAIN SAM WILDER... And newly blond and buffed journalist Cassandra Jones was just the woman to deliver it! True, she'd rather chew glass than get her story by spending weeks glued -- ...

  • Sleepers

    Don Pendleton

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    Deborah Joy Corey

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  • Six Easy Pieces

    Walter Mosley

    The beloved Ezekiel Rawlins now has a steady job as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, a nice house with a garden, a loving woman, and children. He counts the blessings of leading a law-abiding life, but is "nowhere near happy." Ea...

  • Six

    Jim Crace

  • The Sister Circle

    Vonette Bright; Nancy Moser

    The Sister Circle, book one of this charming contemporary series, introduces Peerbaugh Place, the quaint Victorian house that becomes a refuge to seven women of vastly different ages, personalities, and backgrounds. Through struggles and triumphs, th...

  • Sins Out of School

    Jeanne M. Dams

    "She thought the lack of cranberry sauce was going to be her biggest problem, but a missing schoolteacher, a murdered man, a troubled child, and a call for help were difficulties Dorothy Martin most definitely hadn't foreseen." "She had wanted to hav...

  • Sing and Read She'll Be Coming 'Round Mountain

    Chris Demarest

  • Simply Irresistible

    Kristine Grayson

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  • Silent Partner

    Stephen Frey

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  • A Shortcut in Time

    Charles Dickinson

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  • Shipwreck Fever

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    Jeff has found a treasure map hidden in a dusty old book, but Uncle Roy doesn’t believe it’s real. The only way to find a sunken ship, Uncle Roy insists, is through long, hard research. But sometimes, maybe “X” really does mark the spot!...

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    Paul Kearney

    The end of peace The five Ramusian kingdoms exist in an uneasy religious split, their peace with the savage Merduks a fragile one. In the last decade, an entire generation has grown up that has never known war. But that will change as old enemies cl...

  • Shelter from the Storm

    Cheryl Wolverton

    Lily Hammond was tired of hiding, tired of being afraid. She needed time to heal and a place to start over. She prayed Pride, Louisiana, would be that place. With newfound faith, here she could begin again, guarded by a man who vowed to keep her safe...

  • The Sheikh's Bidding

    Kristi Gold

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  • She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain

    Ann Owen

  • Shadow of the Sphinx

    Carla Jablonski

    Shadow of the Sphinx Shifting sands, eternal dust, unending time moves as it must. But ancient wisdom works through me, time is mine -- where e'er I be. Paige Matthews is having a minor identity crisis. She is slowly but surely embracing her long los...

  • Shadow Boxer

    Eddie Muller

    Now, in Shadow Boxer, Billy is back on the beat for the San Francisco Inquirer. But his problems are hardly behind him. A man's in jail, accused of murder. But did he do it? By aiding a beguiling woman, Billy stumbles on evidence that could exonerate...

  • Shades of Midnight

    Linda Fallon

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  • Shades of Earl Grey

    Laura Childs

    Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is finally invited to a social event that she doesn't have to cater -- but there's more than champagne bubbling... Theo is mingling with the cream of Charleston society at the engagement soiree of t...

  • Seventy-Two Hours and Counting

    Linda Walters
    in

    With three days to go until February 14, Morgan Collins is having man trouble with her boyfriend of two years, Garret Stansfield. So when she meets charming and irresistibly handsome Danton Yearwood at an out-of-town conference, she is swept off her...

  • Seven Tales of Sex and Death

    Patricia Duncker

    Illuminating the dark side of the erotic, these interwoven stories explore obsession, violence, and the thin line between sex and death. Under a Mediterranean sun a man searches for the Temple of Zeus as his wife awaits her stalker; a sex worker at a...

  • Seraglio

    Janet Wallach

    Transporting readers to the menacing yet majestic world of eighteenth-century Turkey, biographer and Middle East expert Janet Wallach brilliantly re-imagines the life of Aimee Dubucq, cousin of Empress Josephine, in her first novel Seraglio.

    A...

  • Sentenced to Wed

    Adrianne Lee

    HOW WOULD SHE EVER GET BLOODSTAINS OUT OF HER WEDDING DRESS...? Well, Livia Kingston would have all of February to think about it while she got a second chance to take her marriage vows -- instead of a bullet for a convicted murderer! Surely it wou...

  • See Jane Score

    Rachel Gibson

    THIS IS JANE A little subdued. A little stubborn. A little tired of going out on blind dates with men who drive vans with sofas in the back, Jane Alcott is living the Single Girl existence in the big city. She is also leading a double life. By day, ...

  • Seduction of Water

    Carol Goodman

    Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), feels the “buts” are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married. Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine Morrissey, leads to a shot at lit...

  • The Seduction Challenge

    Sarah Morgan

    GP Joel Whittaker's return to Cornwall to work in his father's practice becomes even more enjoyable when he meets the gentle nurse. Joel's reputation with women is legendary, and there's something deliciously irresistible about Sister...

  • The Secret She Keeps

    Cassie Miles

    HE WAS HER FIRST LOVE, THE FATHER OF HER SON -- AND A COMPLETE STRANGER... Eden Miller had once loved and lost the man of her dreams. But twelve years later he returned, and she learned he'd been undercover for the FBI, investigating her family. P...

  • Secret Lullaby

    Isabel Sharpe

    July 19, 1983...The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers---Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound"---elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart.

    Twenty years later...Their children were reunited. Repressed me...

  • A Secret Life

    Laura Peyton Roberts

    It's Sydney Bristow's first mission -- in Paris. Her first alias. Her first real enemy. Her first real crush. And her first big mistake. There are a lot of firsts for Sydney. But no second chances....

  • A Second Chance for Tina

    Marilyn Snyder

  • Season of the Assassin

    Thomas Laird

    Tough, taut, and terse, this crafty crime novel challenges Chicago police detective Jimmy Parisi -- the sharp, no-nonsense cop who first appeared in Cutter -- with two terrible crimes separated by three decades. Thirty years ago, in the 1960s, seven ...

  • Season of Migration to the North

    Tayeb Salih

    '"Season of Migration to the North" is an Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterio...

  • Sea Hunter

    Paul Garrison

    There is something swimming beneath the placid surface of Caribbean waters--something sleek and frightening, an inexplicable perversion of the natural order. Virgin Islands charter captain David Hope has seen it, and his passenger, beautiful reneg...

  • The Sea Between Us

    Elizabeth Smither

    Annie's inner conflict was spiraling out of control by her constant struggle with the memories of her past, her unceasing battle with her present, and ever looming dread and fear for her future. How could she find peace with all three? Each night, he...

  • Screaming Mummies of the Pharaoh's Tomb II

    James Howe

    Dear possible reader of this book,I wasn’t sure I'd be able to write a book ever again after Canine Quarterly reviewed my series, Tales from the House of Bunnicula. They said I would never win the Newbony Award. Was I depressed! And I didn’t even...

  • The Scornful Moon

    Maurice Gee

    Former right-wing cabinet minister James Tinley decides to run for office again, and is assured of the National Candidacy when his opponent shoots young and brilliant Owen Moody. The trial causes a political sensation and exposes the cracks in the fa...

  • Scooby-Doo and theSecret Admirer

    Jesse McCann / Jesse Leon McCann

    SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past 3 generations. Scooby is in the midst of a huge popularity boom, with new TV episodes and a live-action movie on video.

    It's Valentine's Day, and it looks like ev...

  • The School Skeleton

    Ron Roy

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  • Scavenger Hunt

    Robert Ferrigno

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  • Scandal

    Heather Cullman

    A SECRET TO KEEP When Gideon Harwood returns from India a wealthy man, he vows to do anything to raise the station of his impoverished family. Then, while searching for his missing brother, Gideon stumbles across a terrible secret about one of Londo...

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    Hilda Gurley Highgate

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  • Sanctum

    Denise Mina

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  • Samaritan

    Richard Price

    Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him bea...

  • Rusty

    Ruskin Bond

    For several decades now, Ruskin Bond's inimitable stories about Rusty have enthralled and entertained children. Rusty is a quiet, imaginative and sensitive boy who lives in his grandparents' custody in pre-Independence Dehra Dun....

  • Roughing It with Ryan

    Jill Shalvis

    Suzanne Carter has sworn off men...really! Her inability to take life seriously drives them crazy, so it's best she leaves them alone. Then one night, strong, handsome Ryan Alondo rescues her and she simply melts. Who could resist all that rough-and-...

  • A Rose Called Moonlight

    Elizabeth Daish

    The young and beautiful Charmian finds her father, Lord Altone, murdered in the middle of the night. It transpires that rather than leave Hornbeam Manor and its estate to Charmian's glamorous but manipulative stepmother, Lord Altone has made his daug...

  • Robert and the Troublesome Tuba

    Barbara Seuling

  • Robert and the Embarrassing Secret

    Barbara Seuling

  • Robert and the Clickety-Clackety Teeth

    Barbara Seuling

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    Barbara Seuling

    Note: Has inventory number written on front. Never opened!!! Thus the price reduction. TOP SELLER!!! Satisfaction GUARANTEED. We provide a tradition of excellence providing high quality products prices to sell. Ships from Georgia, Alabama, and Tenne...

  • The River

    Patrice Newell

  • Rising Son

    S.D. Perry

    Months ago, young Jake Sisko came upon a mysterious prophecy in the ruins of B'hala, one that told of a Son destined to enter the Celestial Temple of the Prophets and return home with a lost Herald. Certain that the ancient text was intended for him...