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  • Zeo Beginning

    Scott Peterson

    It's Zeo time! Join Kat, Tanya, Rocky, Adam, and Tommy as they battle King Mondo and The Evil Machine Empire in the new generation of Power Rangers! With amazing new weapons and the forces of the Zeo Crystal, the Zeo Rangers are powered up and ready ...

  • The Yuletide Gift

    Hannah Howell
    in

    Fleeing an arranged marriage, Jessa runs out into a raging Highland snowstorm. The only shelter she can find is a dreary castle -- where she helps a handsome but unhappy laird turn the Yuletide bright with the magic of unexpected love....

  • Year in the City

    Kathy Henderson

  • Wrong Bride, Right Groom

    Merline Lovelace

    YOU MAY KISS...THE MAID OF HONOR! When her flighty sister decided she couldn't go through with her wedding, Abby Davis reluctantly agreed to give the groom-to-be the bad news. And when the prospective groom was assigned to active duty, his best ma...

  • Writers Harvest, 2

    Ethan Canin

    A bountiful collection of previously unpublished stories-by Julia Alvarez, Frederick Barthelme, Michael Chabon, Alice Fulton, Mary Gaitskill, David Haynes, Gary Krist, Jill McCorkle, Melanie Rae Thon, and ten others-whose royalties benefit Share Our ...

  • Woolly Jumpers

    Andrew Davies

    Raj is a bit of a troublemaker. His teacher is just at her wit's end when she hits upon the idea of asking him to take responsibility for the entire class. Raj rises to the challenge and his behaviour calms down as a result....

  • Won't You Be My Husband?

    Linda Varner

    Lauren West: Imagine, Nick Gatewood, the sexy town bad boy, gallantly rescuing me from an obnoxious male pursuer. But did he have to say we were engaged?! Nick Gatewood: It was nothing, really. Especially because I need one night of Lauren's time,...

  • The Woman and the Ape

    Peter Hoeg

    The Woman and the Ape is the story of a unique and unforgettable couple -- Madelene and Erasmus. Madelene -- a sleeping beauty drowsing gently in an alcoholic stupor -- is the beautiful and disillusioned wife of Adam Burden, a distinguished behavior ...

  • The Wolf and the Dove

    Linda Turner

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE ENCOUNTER Dr. Lucas Greywolf had carved a life for himself in Wyoming, tending to the needs of his people -- until Rachel Fort...

  • A Winter's Courtship

    Lynn Collum
    in

    In "A Winter Courtship," a widow prefers her independence to remarriage; while in "The Winter Heart," a woman resists the charms of a seductive adventurer; and in "The Wager," a notorious rake takes a gamble on love. Original....

  • The Winter Wager

    Isobel Linton
    in

    In "A Winter Courtship," a widow prefers her independence to remarriage; while in "The Winter Heart," a woman resists the charms of a seductive adventurer; and in "The Wager," a notorious rake takes a gamble on love. Original....

  • The Winter Heart

    Jo Ann Ferguson
    in

    In "A Winter Courtship," a widow prefers her independence to remarriage; while in "The Winter Heart," a woman resists the charms of a seductive adventurer; and in "The Wager," a notorious rake takes a gamble on love. Original....

  • Winter Fire

    Elizabeth Lowell

    Orphaned at thirteen, a mail-order bride at fourteen, widowed at sixteen, Sarah Kennedy has learned to depend upon no one but herself--reserving all her love for her younger brother Conner, and for the wounded hawks she heals and returns to the air. ...

  • Wildwood

    Katharine Kincaid

    A LAND UNKNOWN Englishwoman Emma Whitefield arrives in Calcutta intent on claiming her legacy: Wildwood, a plantation deep in the sultry heart of India. Her only hope of safe passage through this wild jungle lies with the roguish Alexander Kingston,...

  • A Wild West Christmas

    Linda Turner
    in

    Years ago Priscilla Rawlings gave Wyatt Chandler her innocence. He repaid her by running out on her. Now he'd come back to the Rawlings ranch for Christmas, and Priscella had to face the one man who had broken her heart. . . but whom she'd never stop...

  • Whom Shall I Fear?

    Athol Dickson

    As Texan Garrison Reed investigates the murder of his old friend Ernest B. Martin, found hooked on a fish stringer, he wonders how he could have missed his friend's drug habit, tries to avoid being arrested for the crime, and grows in his Christian f...

  • While the Rivers Run

    Wynema McGowan

    Seeking revenge on the three strangers who had destroyed her home and brutally killed her husband, Nessa Fane joins forces with Texas ranger Tom Doubletree to track the killers across the dangerous and unforgiving wilderness. Vengeance was the onl...

  • While the Music Plays

    Diane Austell

    Once Laura Chandler had dazzled all of Washington with her beauty and poise. But the sudden death of her husband, the great senator Robert Chandler, seemed to change her forever, leaving her afraid to care for anyone or anything again. Yet now, in 18...

  • While She Was Out

    Edward Bryant
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Where the Oceans Meet

    Bhargavi C. Mandava

    By way of linked stories, in which characters appear and reappear, a deeply sensual and erotic story explores the mysterious depths of desire within Indian culture as seen through the eyes of Indian and Indian-American women and girls. A first novel....

  • Where Is Percy's Dinner?

    Anna Nilsen

  • When Night Falls

    Cheryln Biggs

    From behind his mask of mystery he dared to uncover his soul... Scarred by tragedy and devastated by guilt, Anton Reichard had hidden himself deep in the Louisiana bayou, running his empire with ruthless indifference -- until reporter Dani Coronea...

  • What Newt Could Do for Turtle

    Jonathan London

    In a touching story of friendship for beginning readers, Newt, always being saved from problems and difficulties by his friend, Turtle, finally finds a way to pay Turtle back for his kindness by helping him in his own time of need....

  • A Week 'til the Wedding

    Beth Henderson

    The good news: The man of your dreams is finally ready to tie the knot. The bad news: He's going to marry someone else. Brenda Burton has just one week to stop Fletch Layton from making the biggest mistake of his life. His witchy girlfriend...

  • The Wedding Raffle

    Geralyn Dawson

    In her humorous, heartwarming Western romances, Geralyn Dawson creates characters we adore -- we laugh with them, we cry with them -- and, in her newest story, we wish like all get out we were them, as an independent widow and one hard, handsome Texa...

  • Wedding Dress and Other Short Stories

    Carrie Young

  • Water's Edge

    Robert Bloch
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • The Wassail Bowl

    Mary Balogh
    in

    For your holiday pleasure, five star storytellers serve up their most delicious recipes for romance. MARY BALOGH tells of lost love found when a betrayed beauty and a jealous lord learn how hard it is to resist each other. SANDRA HEATH stirs up ember...

  • War and Peas

    Jill Churchill

    Wealthy old Auguste Caspar Snellen, the legendary "Pea King," is long gone, but his greatest legacy lives on: the Snellen Museum, an institution dedicated to the glorification of local lore and legumes. But at this year's annual Pea Festi...

  • Wanted!

    JoAnn Ross

    MEN OF WHISKEY RIVER Rory Mannion: An 1890s gunslinger turned marshal. A lone wolf, he doesn't need anyone's help - especially not a woman's. Jessica Ingersoll: A very 1990s woman and Whiskey River's county attorney. Used to being in control ...

  • Wake Up to Murder

    Steve Allen

    America's favorite amateur sleuth tunes into a highly-rated new series...of murders. Steve Allen has just been asked to fill in as host for the popular morning talk show Good Morning U.S.A. But his debt is barely underway when the program is inter...

  • A Vow of Poverty

    Veronica Black

    With money tight and resources stretched, the Order of the Daughters of Compassion must find a way to increase revenue. So Sister Joan is sent to clean out several attic storerooms in the hope of discovering valuable antiques. But if the rooms are...

  • A Vision of Sugar Plums

    Jennifer Blake
    in

    Meghan Castle is a real Scrooge about the holidays --- until she finds an abandoned baby in her store on Christmas Eve. Change is certainly in the air --- especially when late shopper Rick Wallman walks in with yet another delightful holiday surprise...

  • A Very Special Kwanzaa

    Debbi Chocolate

    Remembering how the kids made fun of his dashiki, beads, and sandals the previous year, Charlie is reluctant to participate in the present year's Kwanzaa Festival at school, until he remembers the deeper meaning of Kwanzaa. Original....

  • Valley of a Thousand Smokes

    Dan Cushman

    WesternTaking advantage of his dual Canadian and American citizenship, Tom Flynn joins the Mounties in investigating the brutal death of a boy from the mission school at Assumption very likely an attack by Black Jack Survays vicious wolf dog. Flynn s...

  • Utopia

    Isaac Asimov

  • Utopia

    Roger MacBride Allen

  • Up in the Attic

    Liza Alexander

  • The Untamed

    Kasey Michaels

    It has been five years since a brutal Indian raid claimed Brighid Cassidy's family. But with the resilience and generosity of a young girl, Brighid has grown accustomed to the beautifully simple life of the tribe that took her hostage, then loved her...

  • The Unified Field

    Mark Leon

    Setting off for an adventure in the stars, the unusual Alan Fain and his hacker companion, Lew Slack, face history-changing circumstances involving the Holy Grail, Atlantis, and an alien goddess on a Texas ranch. Original....

  • The Unexpected Father

    Kathryn Ross

    Pregnant and alone--but not for long! Samantha Walker is facing a new life in a new town, widowed and pregnant. A man just isn't on her list of priorities until she meets Josh Hamilton. As far as Samantha can tell, Josh is in no position to...

  • The Turnip

    Pierr Morgan

  • Tuesday's Child

    Jenevy Michaels

    A TURBULENT AGE. A WOMAN OF RARE GRACE AND BEAUTY... Possessed of a luminous beauty and a delicate grace that belied her spirit and fierce intelligence, Tess Bradford left Maryland for London on a mission of the greatest importance. Her husband, a ...

  • Trust No One

    Sarah Stegall

    A detailed third-season episode guide, with insights into all episodes Unique and candid photos from the set published for the first time Exclusive on-the-set interviews with cast and crew--including Chris Carter, David Duchovny, and Gillian Anderson...

  • Trouble at Lone Spur

    Roz Denny Fox

    The Lone Spur Ranch Crockett County, Texas Lizbeth Robbins has been following the rodeo circuit for the past six years, learning the farrier's trade, dragging her little girl from town to town. But now her daughter's in school and Lizbeth...

  • The Trophy Wife

    Rosalie Ash

    Marry in haste... India had married Brad after a whirlwind romance -- and discovered his deep, dark secret just too late. Result: she'd fled from the groom before the wedding day was over. Brad refused to accept that their marriage was fini...

  • Trials

    Anne Tolstoi Wallach

    Pax Peyton Ford and Rosa Macario are both New York City judges. More than that, they have bonds of deep affection that go back to when the older Pax played the part of mentor to Rosa, helping to guide her from a childhood in the barrio to a place on ...

  • The Trial of Jessica Wakefield

    Francine Pascal

    When Jessica is arrested for cocaine possession, her relationship with new boyfriend Nick is tested, and Alexandra, who has received evidence of Jessica's innocence from a drug-abuse hotline, considers breaking confidentiality. Original....

  • A Touch of Jungle Fever

    Diana Noonan

  • Torch Song

    Valerie Kirkwood

    When 1920s bootlegger and night-club owner Nick Marvel is transported to the 1990s, he finds himself face-to-face with troubled history professor Toss DuLauriers, whose feelings for Nick are threatened by the past. Original....

  • Too Wise to Wed?

    Penny Jordan

    The seductress! Star Flower: She's cynical about marriage. No man really wants to be tied down. What he wants is fun without responsibility. Kyle Henson: He's opposed to sex without emotional commitment. So just why is he accepting din...

  • Tonight and Always

    Linda Lael Miller

    Linda Lael Miller introduces a passionate new heroine: Kristina, the daughter of Miller'; beloved characters Maeve Tremayne and Calder Holbrook. Her smoldering beauty befits a child of vampires, but Kristina does not possess their dark, seductive gif...

  • To Save his Child

    Margaret Watson

    THE WOMAN HE'S SWORN TO FORGET Caine O'Roarke worked alone and he liked it that way. Romantic entanglements had no place in a mercenary's world. He'd made only one mistake: Lexie Hollister, the boss's daughter. Forbidden in more ways than one. Wa...

  • Timeswept Rogue

    Amy J. Fetzer

    In 1789, sea captain Ramsey O'Keefe is a man among men, hardened in battle and fearless in feats of daring. But he will need all the courage he possesses when a capricious fate sweeps him over two hundred years into the future. Frantically searchi...

  • This Year It Will Be Different

    Maeve Binchy

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake comes This Year It Will Be Different, a stunning new work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit,...

  • The Thirteenth Hour

    Barbara Sofer

    An American-born woman biologist living in Jerusalem and an American-raised Muslim woman are recruited for a deadly, secret mission, finding themselves unlikely allies in a growing web of violence that threatens their families, heritage, and lives. R...

  • There's Something About the Nanny...

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Alan Magnus didn't believe in miracles... But his daughter finally liked one of the nannies! In fact, Deanna insisted she had wished for Misty (Elf of the Morning Mist), and Alan had to admit there was something different about this nanny.... ...

  • That Saturday

    Martin Milk

    That Saturday, Mick Phillips received his giro cheque, repaid a debt, got drunk, lost his girlfriend, got robbed, made a new friend, had a fight, bought a Lottery ticket and won over three million pounds. Set in London, the story moves from the East ...

  • Terms of Surrender

    Kate Hoffmann

    Feuds + Families Rivals + Lovers Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: DeWildes, Paris. M...

  • Tennessee Moon

    Norah Hess

    TENNESSEE MAN Tall, quiet, and darkly handsome, Matt Ingram had shouldered more than his share of life's burdens. Besides working his farm in the Cumberland Gap and raising his little nephew, he had to keep a watchful eye on his womanizing wastr...

  • Ten Indians

    Madison Smartt Bell

    When child psychologist Mike Devlin opens a Tae Kwon Do school near the Baltimore housing projects, the brutality of the streets, a series of violent deaths, and deadly misunderstandings shock him into seeing how minimal his influence in life has bee...

  • Tempting Miss Prissy // Wild Hearts

    Sharon Ihle

    SWEET DECEPTION Respectable rancher's daughter Priscilla Stillbottom always wanted to perform on the stage. But she never expected that in fleeing from an unwanted husband, she'd become the star saloon singer in a rough-and-ready Colorado mi...

  • Temptation

    Sherryl Woods

    Modern career woman Callie Smith has just lost everything: her job as a Wall Street broker, her husband, her self-esteem. Well, not quite everything--she still looks like a million, even if her bank account is at an all-time low. Then she does a walk...

  • Temporary Husband

    Day Leclaire

    Wynne Sommers was invited to a wedding -- her own! Wynne Sommers needed a husband to secure her inheritance. She got Jake Hondo! He was a mean, moody rancher who needed to get married, on paper at least. Wynne wasn't his idea of a tempora...

  • The Tears of Things

    Ralph M. McInerny

  • The Tall, Dark Alibi

    Kelsey Roberts

    Everything was strangely familiar... ...though somehow Kendall Butler recognized that the Rose Tattoo and some of her old friends weren't exactly the same. But the raven-haired hunk standing before her was definitely the man pictured in the locket...

  • Tales of the Bounty Hunters

    Kevin J. Anderson

    In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters--amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe...for a Rebellion by target...

  • Tale of Tobias

    Jan Mark

    The king becomes angry with Tobias's father and makes life for his family very difficult, but when a stranger possessing magic and wisdom enters his life, things begin to take a turn for the better, in a retelling of a story from the biblical Apocryp...

  • The Tale of the Curious Cat: Are You Afraid of the Dark?

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Unable to resist anything that incites her curiosity, Natalie Holland stops at a strange crafts fair booth, touches a forbidden carving of a cat, and finds her fate linked to that of a sinister black cat named Shadow. Original....

  • Sweet Revenge

    Jenna Ryan

    He didn't look like a hero. Someone was stalking attorney Victoria Summers. She didn't know why, when or where her shadow would strike next, but one threatening note gave her a shocking lead - to the only man who could save her. They called h...

  • The Survivor

    Tim Champlin

    Running for his life, Marcel Dupre, an escaped prisoner, carries a manuscript that could destroy the French government, and Jay McGraw, an express messenger for Wells Fargo, is hired to protect Marcel and get him safely across the West, but a bloodth...

  • Surrender the Shadow

    Sandra Chastain

    To possess her, he had to cross the thin line between love and betrayal... No one could get in or out of dangerous places better than Conner Preston, the handsome enigma nicknamed the Shadow by his Green Beret buddies, but Erica Fallon presented a...

  • Sugar and Spice

    DeWanna Pace

    There is a place that lives within every heart...a special place where only love can bloom. And from the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find their home--and where true ...

  • Stryker's Wife

    Dixie Browning

    MR. NOVEMBER Reluctant Bachelor: Kurt Stryker didn't want to marry, but he sure needed a wife! Unsuspecting Bride: Sweet, sexy Debranne Kiley. The Proposal: Gulp! Rugged Kurt Stryker wasn't a man of many words, but he did have one heck of a h...

  • Storybook Bride

    Pat Montana

    STUBBORN COWBOY Kody Sanville had vowed never to trust a woman with his heart. The only thing the handsome half-breed held dear was his ranch. But with lawyers nipping at his boots, Kody was suddenly forced to do something he despised ...ask a bea...

  • The Story of B

    Daniel Quinn

    From the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning bestseller Ishmael and its sequel, My Ishmael, comes a powerful novel with one of the most profound spiritual testaments of our time â€œA compelling ‘humantale’ t...

  • Stories from the Old Testament

    Simon & Schuster

  • Stoneface

    James Axler

    PITY THE LIVING In 2001, the face of the earth changed forever in a nuclear firestorm. Generations after the apocalypse, Ryan Cawdor leads the courageous struggle for survival in a brutal world, striving to make a difference in the battle raging bet...

  • Stolen Heiress

    Joanna Makepeace

    Revenge and...Marriage? Clare Hoyland had witnessed the most vicious behavior between her family and those dreadful Devanes. But when her brother killed all but one member of the Devane family, Clare knew she was next to suffer. For as she set out...

  • Stealth

    M.E. Morris

    Relinquishing his command of the U.S.S. Ford to take part in a top-secret military mission, Captain Joshua Dunne, aided by counterpart Sheila "Frosty" Kohn, must stop a nuclear terrorist in communist China. Original....

  • Stealing Midnight

    Sonia Simone

    HE STOLE HER JEWELS -- AND HER HEART! The masked highwayman looked deeply in Zoe's eyes as he palmed her jewels -- intoxicating her with a fantasy so sweet, her heart ached as he rode off into the night. Posing as England's most notorio...

  • Starstruck

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Meeting handsome actor Byron Slater after winning a contest, Miranda Peterson enjoys the attention of the media and the glamour of Byron's world, until she stumbles on the private actor's deadly secrets. Original....

  • Star Wars: The Art of Ralph McQuarrie

    Ralph McQuarrie

    Ralph McQuarrie is the production artist whose visionary designs helped shape the look and feel of George Lucas' hugely successful films. Featuring stunning reproductions of McQuarie's matte paintings, production paintings, and concept sketches, a de...

  • Star Trek: These Are the Voyages: A Three-Dimensional Star Trek Album

    Charles Kurts

    Celebrates thirty years of the classic television show with 3-D depictions of some of Starfleet's finest moments, accompanied by first-hand accounts of exciting adventures, fierce enemies, and exemplary crews...

  • Stand Up and Cheer!

    Linda Joy Singleton

    Convinced that her squad can win the state regionals, Cheer Squad member Tabby Greene becomes alarmed when her overenthusiastic father offers too much help and incites trouble between Tabby's squad mates and their coach. Original....

  • Stand Facing the Stove

    Anne Mendelson

    In 1931, Irma S. Rombauer, a recent widow, took her life savings and self-published a cookbook that she hoped might support her family. Little did she know that her book would go on to become America's most beloved cooking companion. Thus was born th...

  • Spring Rain

    Susan Weldon

    AN UNLIKELY LOVE After losing one man to a tragic accident on her wedding day, Libby Chandler’s second chance at love had just vanished in the haunted wilderness of Dead Man’s Canyon, leaving her plagued by nightmares, marked as jinxed, and do...

  • Spider-Man's Strangest Adventures

    Stan Lee

  • Spider-Man: The Octopus Agenda

    Diane Duane

    An investigation into a simple cellular-phone fraud leads both Peter Parker and his alter-ego, the Amazing Spider-Man, to a fiendish plot: using unique counterfeiting equipment and a devastatingly large stock-pile of bombs, someone plans to desta...

  • Spencer's Bride

    Laura Gordon

    She was a beautiful bride... She should have been Drew Spencer's bride. But Joanna Caldwell had chosen another man...even though passion still flared between her and Drew. Silently Drew vowed one day he'd get her back... Joanna's marriage was...

  • Space Jam Digest

    Gail Herman

    Getting his pals Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Tweety, and Wile E. Coyote into a terrible fix, Bugs Bunny begs super athlete Michael Jordan to help them win a critical game against a crew of space creatures. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Space Jam

    James Preller

    Refusing to take their abduction by aliens lying down, Bugs Bunny challenges the aliens to a game of basketball that will determine the freedom of the Looney Tunes, and he enlists the help of Michael Jordan. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Space Jam

    Kimberly Weinberger

    A wild adventure in cartoon space becomes the faceoff of the galaxy when Bugs Bunny and his "Tune Squad" companions must beat the alien "Monstars" in a crucial basketball game with the help of athlete Michael Jordan. Movie tie-in....

  • Sophie's Syllabub

    Sandra Heath
    in

    For your holiday pleasure, five star storytellers serve up their most delicious recipes for romance. MARY BALOGH tells of lost love found when a betrayed beauty and a jealous lord learn how hard it is to resist each other. SANDRA HEATH stirs up ember...

  • Some Kind of Hero

    Sandy Steen

    TEXAS MEN MAGAZINE PRESENTS: Bachelor of the Month--Jared Markham This tall, gorgeous game warden is a real lone wolf. He's yearning for a woman to end his solitary days--and nights. Jared Markham isn't looking for love but he'd sure like a...

  • Sofia's Heart

    Sharon Cadwallader

    Sofia With a heavy heart, Sofia DuFay leaves her home in Monterey Bay, taking with her bittersweet memories of happier days with friends, rodeos, glittering rancho balls... and a love that might have been. San Diego, Alta California 1845 Not yet eig...

  • The Snowball

    Jennifer Armstrong

    Watch out below! Here comes a giant snowball tumbling down a hill, picking up everything--and everybody--in its path! This Early Step into Reading Book tells a story of a huge snowball on a collision course with laughter. Full color...

  • Sneezing After Sex Prevents Pregnancy

    Peter Engel

    Old Wives' Tales: Are they really words of wisdom or just plain nonsense?

    -Does cracking your knuckles cause arthritis?
    -Can microwave ovens make men sterile/
    -Is it true that swallowed chewing gum never digests?

    These are the wor...

  • The Smartest Man in Ireland

    Mollie Hunter

    To live up to his boast of being the smartest man in Ireland, Patrick Kentigern Keenan will do anything--he’ll even try to outwit the fairies. When the first three battles of wits end in draws, the fairies enchant Patrick’s son. To win back his b...

  • Slocum and the Frisco Killers

    Jake Logan

    A KILLER BET San Francisco just wasn't Slocum's kind of town. He was mad enough when he lost his last five hundred dollars at the racetrack. But when he learned the race was rigged, he knew there would be hell to pay -- especially since one of the...

  • Sliced

    Eric Weiner

    Wishing that the boss would trust her with pizza deliveries, Meredith is ecstatic when her first opportunity arrives, until a series of accidents, including the destruction of the cheese factory, proves troublesome. Original....

  • Slam!

    Walter Dean Myers

    Seventeen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris can do it all on the basketball court. He's seen ballplayers come and go, and he knows he could be one of the lucky ones. Maybe he'll make it to the top. Or maybe he'll stumble along the way. Slam's grades aren't...

  • Skylance

    Don Pendleton

    When a crisis calls for covert intervention, the most effective counterterrorist installation in the world is called into action. Stony Man Farm, Virginia, is the nerve center where state-of-the-art computers and satellites can target anything on lan...

  • Sing the Warmth

    Louise Marley

    On the ice planet of Nevya, summer comes but once every five years. Only the powers of the Cantrixes--with their flutelike fillas and angelic voices--can reach into the very air and provide warmth, light, and healing to the people of Nevya. Kept c...

  • Silver Bells

    Debbie Macomber
    in

    Celebrate the magic of Christmas with the Manning family. . It wasn't easy for Phillip Lark to single-handedly raise his rambunctious teenage daughter. But the girl had hatched a plot to find her father a wife, and lovely Carrie Weston seemed to fi...

  • Silent Honor

    Danielle Steel

    A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions. His eighteen-year-old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions a...

  • A Silence in Heaven

    Gilbert Morris

  • The Sign Is Mendel's Window

    Mildred Phillips

  • Short Straw Bride

    Dallas Schulze

    ONE OF THEM WOULD HAVE TO MARRY The McLain brothers were fed up and tired --- tired of the hunger in their cowboy-sized stomachs, tired of dingy curtains and dirty dishes. Tired of worrying about who to leave the ranch to when they were gone. Luke...

  • Ship Fever

    Andrea Barrett

    1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, the...

  • Shannon: A Chinatown Adventure San Francisco, 1880

    Kathleen Kudlinski

    Arriving in San Francisco from Ireland, Shannon meets a young Chinese girl, Mi Ling, and notices that Mi Ling is terribly afraid of something, but when Shannon discovers what it is, she quickly finds herself involved her own grand adventure....

  • Shadows of the Heart

    Tracy Grant / Teresa Grant / Anna Grant

    TROUBLED BEAUTY Like an avenging angel, he overwhelmed her attackers, leaving one dead and another running for his life. She awoke to darkness and terror, alone in a barn with a stranger named Paul, bloodied yet bandaged with her own tattered pettic...

  • Shadow of a Man

    May Sarton

    A Harvard grad student falls in love with an older woman in this beautifully written novel set in Paris Francis Chabrier is a 26-year-old graduate student still looking for direction when his mother dies. The reverberations of her sudden demise are ...

  • Shadow Lover

    Carly Bishop

    Years ago, a mysterious woman changed her identity and opened a specialty service of bodyguards called Protection Enterprises, Incorporated... Abbie Callahan agreed to impersonate Olivia Simons Cameron to help a man she admired protect the wife h...

  • Sentinels

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

  • Second-Best Wife

    Rebecca Winters

    Luca della Provere was all Gabriella Holt had ever wanted in a man and more -- tall, dark and devilishly handsome. Gaby had taken one look into his eyes and fallen -- hard. But it hadn't taken her long to discover that Luke was well and truly out...

  • The Second Mrs. Adams

    Sandra Marton

    An accident... Amnesia.... A chance to fall in love all over again! David Adams is going to have to let his wife back into his life. He'd been about to divorce Joanna, when she had the accident. True, sheer undergone a complete personality ch...

  • The Second Coming

    Joe Gores
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Second Chance

    Edward D. Hoch
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Search for the Fox

    Stephen Overholser

  • Scandals

    Georgina Devon

    Defiant! Beautiful Samantha Davidson, the toast of the London stage, has been pursued by many men, but never has she been harassed by their families! And certainly not the family of the greatest duke in the land. Well, they're nothing to her, not eve...

  • A Scandalous Season

    Nancy Lawrence

    A WAGER TO STEAL ONE KISS MAY BREAK TWO HEARTS Headstrong Lady Eleanor Chilton resolves to be so disagreeable during her first season that no one will dance with her...let alone offer for her. She plans to return to her country estate to make a mat...

  • Say You Love Me

    Johanna Lindsey

    Left penniless after her parents' deaths, Kelsey Langton must now take responsibility for the well-being of her younger sister, Jean. But when circumstance and human frailty conspire to leave them homeless as well, Kelsey is forced to resort to drast...

  • Savage Cut

    Jo Dereske

    THE CRUELEST CUT She was the prodigal daughter, returning to the Michigan hometown she'd fled in disgrace seventeen years before. But now Ruby Crane is back at her family's isolated lakeside cabin--alone except for her fourteen-year-old daughter, Jes...

  • Saratoga

    Michael Jan Friedman

    When the Borg destroyed the U.S.S. Saratoga at Wolf 359, killing Captain Sisko's beloved wife, one chapter in his life came to a tragic end. Now painful memories are reawakened when the U.S.S. Defiant carries the survivors of the Saratoga to an impor...

  • Santerra's Sin

    Donna Kauffman

    A hero just born for trouble, and a lady strong enough to handle him! She provoked him, tempted him, made him hunger for what he could never have, but if he managed to keep her alive, would he ever be able to let her go? HE LIKED HIS SALSA HOT, AN...

  • Santa Reads Romance

    Dara Joy
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    During a snowstorm, a romance writer is surprised when a handsome stranger dressed as Jolly Old St. Nick arrives at her isolated cabin--and stirs up a blizzard of desire....

  • Sanctuary

    Christopher Golden

    They live as outcasts, hated and feared by the very humanity they protect. They are mutants, born with strange and wonderful powers that set them apart from the rest of the human race. Under the tutelage of Professor Charles Xavier, they are more tha...

  • Sagebrush Skeletons

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo rides out to investigate the savage slaughter of wagon train men, women, and children in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where the Cheyenne roam and where a bevy of beautiful women proves dangerous. Original....

  • Sabriel

    Garth Nix

    Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to f...

  • Rueful Death

    Susan Wittig Albert

    In search of respite, China takes off to St. Theresa's Monastery with her friend Maggie, a former nun. The goal is a brief, tranquil retreat--but there's a conflict at the convent. The mother superior has recently died, and a battle over the future o...

  • The Royal Switch

    Sarah Ferguson

  • Rolling Thunder

    Cassie Edwards

    FREE SPIRIT Flaming red hair hidden beneath a hat, Tanzey Nicole Hunter rode free from dawn to dusk. Her unbridled spirit matched the hot, blazing Texas plains where her family bred mustangs and where her twin brother had mysteriously disappeared. N...

  • A Roller Coaster for the Twins!

    Francine Pascal

    When their new friend presents them with a gift of their very own roller coaster in their backyard, Jessica and Elizabeth invite all their friends over for rides, but things get out of hand when the entire school shows up. Original....

  • The River to Pickle Beach

    Doris Betts

    Bebe Sellar and her husband Jack are managing several cottages in Pickle Beach, North Carolina, when they meet Mickey McCane, an aggressive and tormented man, and together they all try to deal with the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the hot summ...

  • River of Fire

    Mary Jo Putney

    He was known as the Demon Warrior. As rebel, soldier, hero, and spy, Kenneth Wilding has never known defeat, until he returns from the Napoleonic wars to an empty title and a ravaged estate. Then a stranger offers a devil's bargain: financial salvati...

  • Rights Guide for Home Owners

    Paul Moorhouse

    The Rights Guide for Home Owners is a reliable and up-to-date guide to the financial rights of home owners. It contains full details on cutting mortgage costs, repairs and improvements and legal rights and court action'...

  • Riding for a Fall

    Lillian M. Roberts

    MURDER WASN'T PART OF HER PRACTICE. . . . Palm Springs veterinarian Andi Pauling is struggling to keep her new business afloat. So when Ross McRoberts appears in her doorway, he seems like an apparition conjured up by her own wishful thinking. A ...

  • Rider

    Marian Wolbers

    A Japanese woman named Mai has retreated from her marriage and career to ride the Tokyo subway system, exposing the social pressures on women in the subway while Mia works through the trauma of a friend who committed suicide. A first novel....

  • Ribbons in the Wind

    Margaret Brownley

    SHE THINGS SHE'S IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT Elizabeth Davenport is vowing to do what no other woman ever did -- win the cross-country race in a new fangled Model T. Petite but feisty, she has a steel will that makes up for her lack of driving skills. She'...

  • Revenge of the Hairy Horror

    E.W. Leroe

    While trying to scare his cousin Kristen with a cardboard cutout werewolf, Mark inadvertently unleashes the spirit of a real one, and the two must work together to stop the red-eyed creature. Original....

  • The Return of Cord Navarro

    Vella Munn

    SHE'D HAD IT ALL Cord Navarro had been her first love--her only love. He had taken Shannon from girlhood to womanhood, and taught her the ways of his Ute ancestors. SHE'D LOST EVERYTHING It had been seven years since she had lain in her husband'...

  • Resurgence

    Brian Lumley

    Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead, and Earth's greatest vampire hunter, has been searching for his wife and infant son, gone missing during Harry's war against the vampires. This obsession has left him open to subtle influ...

  • A Report from the Bunker

    Victor Bockris

    Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned the bridge with logic and wrote the classic Naked Lunch, has a court recorder in Victor Bockris. Bockris has collected into a cogent whole the man's most brilliant moments of conversation, thin...

  • Remembering

    Virginia Mayo

    Well-illustrated picture book in remembrance of a British soldier lost in WWI. Beautiful illustrations with brief dialogue between a grandfather and his grandchildren as they touch on the universal feelings of family, loss, remembrance, and honor....

  • Remember When

    Judith McNaught

    Alone on a moonlit balcony at Houston's White Orchid Charity Ball, Diana Foster had no inkling of the extraordinary journey that would begin that night. Recently jilted by her fiance for a blonde Italian heiress--an insult delivered via a sleazy tabl...

  • Red-Hot Ranchman

    Victoria Pade

    He was a potent package... And he moved into the ranch next door. From across the range, John Jarvis's denim-clad swagger was downright sexy. Up close he was more man, more cowboy than Paige Kenton could have dreamed. But strange things -- un...

  • Rebel Moon

    Bruce Bethke

  • Rebel Angels

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    When exact opposites Sarafina and Peter are killed in a car accident, they meet face-to-face in heaven and, with the help of a team of angels--Gabe, Zeke, A.J., and their leader, Mrs. Carmichael--the disputing duo learn what they must do to become fu...

  • Rawhide

    T.T. Flynn

    Collects classic Western tales, including "The Rawhide Kid," in which sixteen-year-old Laramie Scott joins forces with veteran gunslinger Holy Joe Moran to protect hidden gold, and the Texas border, from a horde of Mexican bandidos....

  • Raven

    S.A. Swiniarski

    NIGHT HUNTER He'd been left for dead, waking in a storm in the middle of the winter, his head badly bloodied, his body half-frozen. He never should have regal consciousness -- yet he had not died. He had no memo of what had happened to him, of how...

  • The Rancher and the Baby

    Elizabeth August

    ONLY A MOTHER KNOWS Amelia Varden wasn't her baby's natural mother, but she'd raised the little boy from birth. Now, after lying to the world about their family ties, it was time to pay for her deception. Because someone had come to cl...

  • A Rake's Reform

    Anne Barbour

    THE RAKE AND THE REBEL Lord Charles Trent was as infuriating, and as handsome, as Hester Blayne expected him to be -- and more. He made no secret of his scandalous love life as leading rake in the realm, or of his scorn of anyone who would censor...

  • Rachel's Hero

    Debra Dier
    in

    The Freedom Inn -- Port Freedom, New Hampshire Across the centuries, the warmth of its hearth brings true hearts together at Christmastime. 1781 When Alexander Stark left his family's inn to join the War for American Independence, little did...

  • The Queensville Temptress

    J.R. Roberts

    Nobody ever thought a town like Queensville was possible. It was built for one reason: gambling. Poker. Blackjack. Roulette. Every game of chance a cocky cowpoke can lay a wager on. But Clint Adams knows how to gamble, and has the luck of a man smoki...

  • The Queen's Man

    Sharon Kay Penman

    Epiphany, 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine sits upon England's throne. Her beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing, presumed dead--and the court is whispering that her younger son, John, is plotting to seize the crown. Meanwhile, on the snowy highroad fro...

  • The Proof Is in the Pudding

    Barbara Metzger
    in

    For your holiday pleasure, five star storytellers serve up their most delicious recipes for romance. MARY BALOGH tells of lost love found when a betrayed beauty and a jealous lord learn how hard it is to resist each other. SANDRA HEATH stirs up ember...

  • Promises To Keep

    Victoria Alexander
    in

    After a trip to see a department-store Kris Kringle, a lonely business woman is swept back to a long-ago Christmas-and given a second chance to share a passion that will prove to her it really is a wonderful life....

  • The Prodigal Daughter

    Allison Lane

    Battlefield of Love Amanda Morrison ignited her father's fury when she eloped with dashing Jack Morrison. She dared to follow her gallant husband when he went off to war, and mourned him when he fell at Waterloo. Now the beautiful and impoverished y...

  • The Price of Freedom

    William R. Forstchen; Ben Ohlander

    WHO SAYS THE WAR IS OVER? In Heart of the Tiger the Kilrathi empire was eradicated through the bravery of a few flying aces. Now, Captain Blair and his wing are fighting a more familiar menace--their fellow humans. Blair had settled down to the qu...

  • Present Tense

    Dave Duncan

    THE GREAT GAME IS AFOOT! In the midst of the horror of the first World War, a stranger falls from nowhere into the mud and death of the Flanders battlefield--bruised, babbling, and star naked... with a remarkable story to tell. Wrongly accused ...

  • A Predatory Woman

    Sharyn McCrumb
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    “An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century''s worth of superb crim...

  • The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette

    William Hill Brown

    Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-...

  • Porphyria's Lover

    Maggie Power

    Kathleen Mangan is willing to do anything to escape her life of poverty within the walls of the notorious Resurrectionist Club - a whorehouse famed for its titillating blend of spiritualism and vampirism. Smitten with the good looks of Gabriel Feaver...

  • Polly Pocket: Just Like a Real Ballerina

    Carol Thompson

  • Perseus the Boy with Super Powers

    Laura Geringer

    Young Perseus, the half-human son of Zeus, dreams of becoming a hero and embarks on a series of quests that test his powers, including the slaying of Medusa, a creature so hideous that one look at her can turn a person into stone. Original....

  • Perilous Friends

    Carole Epstein

    Suddenly unemployed, vivacious amateur detective Barbara Simons finds herself embroiled with a dead philandering husband, a gang of gay cigarette smugglers, and a Montreal detective with a thing for people speaking English. A first novel....

  • The Perfect Wife

    Victoria Alexander

    THE PERFECT WIFE An ideal spouse, Lord Nicholas Harrington, the Earl of Wyldewood had decided, should be pleasant to look at and agreeable to display on his arm. She should have little effect on his well-ordered life, and little to do with his pri...

  • People Pitcher Strikes Out

    Scott Peterson

  • The People Across The Canyon

    Margaret Millar
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Patriots

    David Drake

    Revolt on a frontier planet! The corrupt government of Earth is sending an army to the planet of Greenwood in order to remove the pioneers who found and settled the planet. The potential profits are too great to leave an entire planet to the scrag...

  • Party Pooper

    Pat Pollari

    Forced to accept a baby-sitting job at the Holbrooke home, Aisha fears here charges' smelly habits and comes armed with rubber gloves and cans of air freshener, and her challenges include a lasagna fight and worse...

  • The Panic Hand

    Jonathan Carroll

    The twenty stories collected here transmit the same intense charges of intellect and emotion that characterize Carroll's longer works. Among the many pleasures are: "Friend's Best Man" - An award-winning story about a dog that teaches its owner the r...

  • Out West

    Fred Leebron

    Taking a job as a night desk clerk at a seedy San Francisco hotel, ex-convict Benjamin West meets up with Amber, an L.A. fugitive on the run after torching her ex-boyfriend's apartment, an encounter that leads to murder when Amber's ex suddenly turns...

  • Out of the Dark

    Welwyn Wilton Katz

    After the tragic loss of Ben Elliot's mother, his father moves him and his younger brother Keith to a tiny village on Newfoundland's isolated northern peninsula. Ben's father had been born and brought up there, but Ben hates it. He's had to leave his...

  • Operation Shatterhand

    Jake Page

    THE INVASION
    May 7, 1944. In the dark of predawn, across the Mexican border and into the sleepy, sparsely populated desert lands of the American Southwest rolls a convoy of military vehicles--half-track trucks, troop trucks, and tanks. The very fe...

  • One Fine Day

    H.B. Gilmour

    Two divorced people, each with young children, are forced to help each other get through one particularly hectic day and keep their New York City lives, careers, and kids intact. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • One Big Happy Family

    Andrea Edwards

    A DATE WITH MR. DESTINY... When Samantha Scott was six years old, a mysterious old woman promised her true love if she found the courage to fight for it. Twenty years later, Sam was convinced that Mr. Right had taken a permanent vacation. Then...

  • Once and Forever

    April Thorne

    Christine Winters planned to fall in love only once and to make that once last forever, but Mark Harrison upset all her plans. Falling in love with him was easy, but how could she hope to make love last when he had no heart to give? She soon le...

  • The Old School Dies

    Kate Morgan

    SCHOOL DAYS, CRUEL DAYS No one liked Victor Salgo -- that much was clear. He was pompous and abrasive and rubbed just about everyone the wrong way. But that didn't prevent him from becoming headmaster of Hamilton's prestigious Jefferson School befor...

  • An Ocean Apart

    Henri Vanderbilt

  • The Nursery

    Judi Culbertson

    When her newly adopted son is found murdered in his crib, Caroline Denecke finds herself the prime suspect in the murder, but Caroline insists that the baby is not her own and, with the help of a determined reporter, sets out to uncover the truth...

  • Now or Never

    Carmen Green

    Hoping to start over in Atlanta after the death of her daughter and the end of her marriage, Mia Jacobs vows to avoid relationships before meeting Adam Webster, whose own losses have made him renew his hope for happiness. Original....

  • Noblesse Oblige

    Cynthia Smith

    My life priorities are very simple--I work only to subsidize my very high style of living. And I don't see why I have to look like a bag lady when I do it... With her impeccable manners, a wardrobe to die for, and the perfect combination of beauty...

  • The Nitpicker's Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers

    Phil Farrand

    Every episode of the first four seasons of equipment oddities, weird science, strange but true observations, and nutty technical difficulties for discriminating fans of Deep Space Nine . Commanders Log, DS9 : Star Date 46379.1:Bajor below.The co...

  • Nine Sons

    Wendy Hornsby
    in

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Night of the Living Clay

    David Bergantino

    When Tasha Karne goes to check the noisy, smelly, and creepy things going on in her basement, she finds nothing, not even her brother's clay statues, until a growling in the shadows and a set of sharp, pointy teeth reveals the truth about the creatur...

  • Night Games

    R.L. Stine

    It’s all fun and games until a prank goes fatally wrong in this spine-tingling young adult thriller from Goosebumps author R.L. Stine.Diane and her friends have been sneaking out every night to play pranks while Fear Street sleeps. She loves breaki...

  • Night before Christmas

    Sharon Holland

    Jeffrey, an orphan who has nothing but his cat, gets a job at a toy factory where he secretly fixes broken and discarded toys to deliver them to the orphanage, but when the village miser tries to stop Jeffrey's generosity, someone else sees his good ...

  • Nico the Unicorn

    Frank Sacks

    Nothing would ever be the same. Not for eleven-year-old Billy Hastings. The day drunk driver ran a stoplight and crashed into their car, his father was killed instantly, and Billy was forced to wear a brace on his crippled leg. he had hoped that when...

  • New Kind of Magic

    Lois Szymanski

    Inconsolable at having to leave her beloved horse, Magic, and her home when the family farm is foreclosed, Jenny finds that city life in an apartment offers its own pleasures and challenges. Original....

  • Never A Lady

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    HAUNTED BY HER SISTER'S MEMORY... A vision brought traveling preacher's daughter Mary Sheppard to the wicked city of London--she saw the image of her runaway identical twin Josephine, bloodstained and begging for help. But Josephine has vani...

  • Naughty or Nice

    Sandra Hill
    in

    When a young beauty sets out to steal some Yuletide cheer, she expects to end up with a stocking full of coal. Instead, a run-in with Santa's most virile helper brings her the best gift of all: a heart full of love....

  • Naughty or Nice

    Olga Bicos
    in

    Just when Phoebe Nichols is starting to get cold feet about her Christmas wedding, fate steps in: She's trapped overnight in an elevator with a handsome department store Santa. He's the most impossible man she has ever met --- impossible to resist, i...

  • Nature's Chaos

    James Gleick

    The essence of the earth's beauty lies in chaos, in the disorder of grasses strewn in a meadow, the blotching of green lichen on a tree trunk. Eliot Porter's photographs of the natural world, spanning thirty-five years and five continents-from an Ant...

  • Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles

    Pat Murphy

    Growing up on the edge of Missouri wilderness in the 1830s, Nadya knew she was not like other girls. But when she became a woman and the change came, she discovered just how different she was. For Nadya was a shapechanger, a werewolf like her moth...

  • The Mysterious Dr. Q

    Francine Pascal

    You are getting sleepy . .  .



    Something very strange is going on at Sweet Valley  Middle School. It all started when the Mysterious  Dr. Q hypnotized Jessica Wakefield and her  classmates during a school assembly. They were soÂ...

  • My Worst Date

    David Leddick

    In Miami, where the sun always shines and the people are always fabulous, sixteen-year-old Hugo is ready for something more than school and hanging out. When he meets Glenn Elliot Paul, he thinks that, maybe, he had found something to look forward...

  • My True Love Gave To Me

    Julie Beard
    in

    On Christmas Eve, a woman searches for her beloved black cat -- and meets a tall dark knight......

  • My Lady Midnight

    Laurie Grant

    A noblewoman is forced by her uncle, an ally of King Stephen, to kidnap the children of her sworn enemy, not knowing that she will fall in love with that enemy, or that the secret of his son's birth could cost a royal crown. A Norman widow becomes ...