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  • Zoe Rising

    Pam Conrad

  • Zip

    Bruce Brooks

    Zip and Kenny had been close friends, until Kenny left the Wolfbay Wings to play for the rival team, now Zip must control his anger and channel it to become the best goalie possible to save his team from finishing in last place. Original....

  • Ziggurat

    Ivan Southall

  • Young Arthur

    Robert D. San Souci

    To protect his life, Arthur, son of King Uther, was hidden from the court when still a baby. Growing up in Sir Ector's household, Arthur knew nothing of his noble birth. Then one day at a tournament, he forgot to bring a sword for his brother, Kay. L...

  • You Only Die Twice

    Ryan Hughes

    Lo Wang: The Shadow Warrior. The darkness made whole, the night made flesh. Master of all martial arts. Master of all explosive weapons. These talents are of little use to Lo Wang, trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed mountain. As his air and...

  • You Can Call Me Worm

    Dan Haas

  • Yon Ill Wind

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    This Xanth villain is full of hot air. “Anthony’s unflagging sparkle, verve and wordplay spin everyday trials of Mundane life into storytelling gold” (Publishers Weekly).   A fickle flux in the fabric of space has allowed a horrendous hurr...

  • Yesterday's Gold

    Bobby Hutchinson

    With her wedding to Mr. Right only two weeks away, Hannah Gilmore had more on her mind than traveling to a ghost town. Yet there she was, driving her widowed mother, an incontinent poodle, and a bossy nurse through a torrential downpour. And just whe...

  • The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition

    Joan Hess

  • The Year My Parents Ruined My Life

    Martha Freeman

    Kate Sommers is stunned when her parents announce that the family is moving from sunny California to Belletoona, Pennsylvania. Kate can't bear leaving her friends, her cool surfer boyfriend, and the beach. But maybe, just maybe, Belletoona won't be s...

  • A Year Full of Stories

    Georgie Adams

    Each day of the year becomes special in this one-of-a-kind treasury!

    The whole world of childhood is contained in this big, bold, boisterous treasury.  On January 1, read a story about the new year.  On February 14, how about a Valentine t...

  • The World of William Joyce Scrapbook

    William Joyce

    Packed with a year's worth of holiday photographs, hilarious anecdotes, early sketches, snippets of future projects, and more, this book takes readers on a leisurely ramble through the mischievous landscape of a critically acclaimed author-illustrato...

  • The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time

    Todd Cameron Hamilton

    Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters.

    The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that bec...

  • Work: Sock at Work!

    Shelagh Canning

  • The Word "Desire"

    Rikki Ducornet

    A madman recalls his first erotic encounter, a priest loses sleep over a heretic, a scholar searches for the anomaly that inspired the Hindu divinities, a spinster hallucinates her own seductions, a pope suckles a wet nurse. Erotic and fiercely funny...

  • Wooing Wanda

    Gwen Pemberton

    Woo or Walk... Wanda Rockman wanted her husband back. Not that he'd actually left. He'd just become a stick-in-the-mud, married to his work. Nevertheless, she had a plan to retrieve the man she'd fallen in love with. Unfortunately, Wanda's sche...

  • Woodsie

    Bruce Brooks

    After the coach of the Wolfbay Wings leaves the team and takes five of the team's best players with him, rookie hockey player Dixon Woods must do all he can to make the team the champions they once were, despite the devastating loss of his coach and ...

  • Witness to Evil

    Janet Dawson

    Private investigator Jeri Howard can scarcely believe that someone is actually paying her to go to Paris, even if it is only to fetch a wild teenager home. But the wanderer, eighteen-year-old Darcy, turns out to have a serious reason for her unauthor...

  • With Wings As Eagles

    Patsy Baker O'Leary

    In lyrical language and with deft characterization, Patsy Baker O'Leary explores the beauty and the ugliness of a small southern town in the 1930s as two young boys anxiously await their father's return from prison. Twelve-year-old Bubba longs to be ...

  • The Witches' Monkey and Other Tales

    David Lubar

    A boy discovers his neighborhood has turned into a Land of the Lawn Weenies. Sound peculiar? How about zombies behind the counter of your local hamburger stand? A roadside motel where the guests are on the menu? A party where everyone who turns up is...

  • The Witch in the Pumpkin Patch

    Francine Pascal

    In the words of 7-year-old Jessica Wakefield...Our class took a field trip to a pumpkin patch! Everyone had fun--everyone except me and my twin sister, Elizabeth. We think we saw a witch! Is the Sweet Valley pumpkin patch haunted? I'm going back to f...

  • Wish List

    Lisa Tawn Bergren
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  • Winter White

    Joanne Ryder

  • Winter Dreams

    Trana Mae Simmons

    Before she gets married, Laura wants to race her huskies across Alaska, and hires Sandy, in desperate need of a job, who accepts the position to train her dogs and realizes that she is his kindred spirit. Laura Goodman wants one last opportunity t...

  • The Winter Bride

    Lynne Graham

    From mistress... Angie Brown loved Leo Demetrios but his desire for her was brief and meaningless. After all, he was heir to a Greek shipping fortune and she was just the butler's daughter. And mother... For over two years Angie has kept se...

  • Willing to Wed

    Cathy Williams

    Not the marrying kind? James Kellern was an eligible bachelor -- in search of a wife. He denied it, of course, but somehow he caught himself daydreaming about being a husband, and a father. Strangely, it happened every time he met one particular woma...

  • The William Problem

    Barbara Baker

  • Will's Mammoth

    Rafe Martin

  • Wild Masquerade

    Lisa Bingham

    Though the most sensible of the Pegigrue sisters, Constance has long harbored a romantic dream of working in the theater. But she never expected that a string of disasters would leave her stranded in New York -- and in debt to scandalously successful...

  • Wife by Contract

    Raye Morgan

    BRIDE? WHAT BRIDE? Joe Camden came home to Alaska to find a bride and two adorable kids on his doorstep. Chynna Sinclair claimed she and her brood were his mail-order family, but when Joe tried to explain that it was his brother who'd sent for a ...

  • Wicked for the Weekend

    Carolyn Keene

    Invited to play the part of a murder victim in the school play, fraternity president Michael Wentworth nearly dies when he is poisoned and turns to Nancy Drew for help in averting a determined killer. Original....

  • Who's The Man?

    Hank Herman

    A basketball team is supposed to win, right? Star center Will Hopwood is totally annoyed when the Branford Bulls' coaches keep putting the second-stringers in the game. When Will tells the coaches to stick with the starters, they order him to butt ou...

  • The White Elephant Caper

    Georgette Livingston

  • Where's Waldo Now?

    Martin Handford

    And now a second classic Waldo adventure gets the deluxe 25th anniversary treatment! Prepare to find: A striking new jacketed cover An original poster on the underside of the jacket A spot-the-difference game between the jacket and the self-cov...

  • When Shadows Fall

    Brian Scott Smith

    Martin doesn't believe his aunt's sudden death was an accident, and he and his buddies are determined to find the truth. But when he starts sneaking around the house of his aunt's friends, he witnesses a blood-drenched satanic ritual with a young gir...

  • When Midnight Comes

    Lori Handeland
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    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • When Did We Lose Harriet?

    Patricia Sprinkle

    A teenage girl has been missing from her Montgomery, Alabama, home for six weeks. She may be a runaway, a crime victim, or both. What's amazing is other people's lack of concern. Just one person cares that she's gone: a spunky amateur sleuth on the s...

  • When Bear Stole the Chinook

    Harriet Peck Taylor

    A colorfully illustrated story from the Siksika Indians follows a boy and his friends--Owl, Coyote, Weasel, Prairie Chicken, and Magpie--as they set out to find out how winter becomes spring and why bears hibernate....

  • What's Alice up To?

    Harley Jessup

  • What Mommy Said

    H. Paul Jeffers

    During a swimming accident, nine-year-old Sebastian Duncan stops breathing. While others attempt to resuscitate him, he has a near-death experience, wherein he meets his mother, who died the previous year from an overdose of sleeping pills. She tells...

  • What Child Is This?

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Katie, a foster child, wants only one thing for Christmas: a family. However, there are no wise men coming from the East or shepherds watching in the fields. There’s also a teenager named Matt, who believes in doing a good deed. And another teenage...

  • Werewolf Skin

    R.L. Stine

    IT'S A FULL MOON...DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR WEREWOLF IS? Picture this -- Alex Hunter, photography freak, hanging out in Wolf Creek. Who lives in Wolf Creek? Alex's uncle Colin and aunt Marta. They're professional photographers. Uncle Colin and Au...

  • Wear and Scare

    M.T. Coffin

  • The Wayward Knights

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The heroic conclusion to the tale of Sir Pirvan the Wayward! Despite his humble beginnings, Sir Pirvan has managed to ascend to the highest orders of the knights of Solamnia. Along the way, he has become known as the founder of an obscure group of...

  • Watch Me Dance

    Andrea Davis Pinkney / Andrea Pinkney

    Help boil the greens, flip the fish, and slice the pie for a mouth-watering family meal in I Smell Honey, then join the fun as a baby boy discovers the unique features that make his face so special in Pretty Brown Face. In Shake Shake Shake and Watch...

  • War Woman

    Robert J. Conley

    Spanning ninety years and both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this story of War Woman documents the life of a remarkable Cherokee woman, who was there when trading began with the Spanish in Florida and at the first conflict with the newly a...

  • War of the Gods

    Poul Anderson

    The story of the great King Hadding is one of the darkest and most violent to come down to us from the old North. Hadding was raised by giants far from his rightful throne, as his father, a Danish king, was slain shortly after Hadding's birth. But th...

  • War Dog

    Martin Booth

    Jet, a black Labrador, was well-trained by a young English poacher, Fred Parry. When Fred is caught and jailed shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Jet is requisitioned by the army, where her training stands her in good stead. This is the fas...

  • Wanted: Husband, Will Train

    Marie Ferrarella

    EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE...RIGHT? Her father's will was positively medieval! Blue blood Courtney Tamberlaine had to select a blue-collar spouse -- pronto -- or lose her huge inheritance. Luckily, right on the Tamberlaine estate was a raw, earth...

  • Walker's Point

    Marilee Dunker

    Amanda Kelly, an antique dealer, the mother of two daughters, and the wife of a man with more interest in his work than in her, has a chance meeting in New York City that causes her to revisit Walker's Point, where she had spent her childhood summers...

  • Wake up, Sleeping Beauty

    Jonathan Allen

  • Wake up Charlie Dragon

    Brenda Smith

  • The Wager

    Rexanne Becnel
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    Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...

  • Violin

    Anne Rice

    In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day wor...

  • Verdict: Parenthood

    Jule McBride

    Years ago, seven mysterious matchmaking millionaires secretly started an adoption agency in Manhattan called Big Apple Babies... and now 'the sexiest man in Manhattan,' Grantham Hale, has become the overnight adoptive daddy of quadruplets and twi...

  • Vengeance in Death

    J.D. Robb

    In a time when technology links the law and the lawless, predators and prey can be one and the same... He is an expert with the latest technology ... a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then h...

  • The Velocity of Money

    Stephen Rhodes

    Young Manhattan attorney Rick Hansen has ascended to the top of the financial ladder by landing himself a plum position at the blue-chip-global investment firm of Wolcott, Fulbright & Company. Here on "the Street," he is in close proximity to the peo...

  • The Veil of Snows

    Mark Helprin

    After many years of peace, a queen prepares for the birth of her first child, only to be forced to confront an impending danger, as the Usurper once again threatens her city, while her husband and his army are vanished into the wilderness, in the thi...

  • Vegas Sunrise

    Fern Michaels

    Fanny Thornton, the proud matriarch of the Thornton dynasty, will do anything for her family. Her four children, now grown, mean everything to her--as does Babylon, the most dazzling casino in Las Vegas, and the Thorntons' crowning achievement. But h...

  • Variable Cloud

    Carmen Martin Gaite

    Sofia is a mother of three grown-up children and trapped in a loveless marriage to Eduardo. Mariana is a successful psychiatrist, incapable of forming stable relationships with men. The two women fill notebooks with their insights and recollections, ...

  • The Vanishing Vampire

    David Lubar

    There's something strange going on at Washington Irving Elementary School. People are turning into monsters -- literally! In The Vanishing Vampire, Sebastian's life has become a real pain in the neck. It all started the night he walked home from the ...

  • Up Jumped the Devil

    Blair S. Walker

    A reporter for the Baltimore Herald, Darryl Billups is a hardworking black journalist who's been passed up and looked down upon because he won't kiss butt and always speaks his mind. He's also one of the best damn newspapermen on the East Coast. And ...

  • The Unwilling Witch

    David Lubar

    Turned into a witch by a mysterious old woman, Angie makes a mistake casting her first spell when she transforms her brother, Splat, into a tree, and she must undo the spell before her father gets home. Original....

  • Untold Tales of Spider-Man

    Stan Lee

    Presents a dozen original tales spanning the life history of the ever-popular super-hero, from the earliest days of his career to the death of Gwen Stacy, to the eve of his marriage to Mary Jane Watson. Original....

  • Underworld

    Don DeLillo

    A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo’s most powerful and riveting novel -- “a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner” (San Francisco Chronicle) -- Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century...

  • The Uncivil War

    Sheila Solomon Klass

    Having the name Asa Alfita Anderson is not easy for a young girl and only becomes more difficult when a mean-spirited boy suddenly joins the class, but with a name like Robert E. Lee, she does not feel he should be teasing anyone--and the battle begi...

  • Twinkle Twinkle: An Animal Lover's Mother Goose

    Bobbi Fabian

  • Twilight Comes Twice

    Ralph Fletcher

  • The Twelve Days of Christmas

    Emily Bolam

  • Trojan Horse: A Look-Look Book

    Golden Books

  • Trojan Horse: A First Act Play Book

    Holly Jones

  • Trojan Horse

    Jack Stein

  • The Tribes of Palos Verdes

    Joy Nicholson

    Joy Nicholson's The Tribes of Palos Verdes is a Los Angeles Times bestseller and now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Garner, Maika Monroe, and Cody Fern.“Nicholson captures the California-coast culture. . . . Medina shows what it’s like ...

  • Trespassing

    Gwendolyn M. Parker

    “A striking memoir of a gifted black woman’s lonely, difficult, and unsatisfying climb to the heights of American power and prestige.” -- Kirkus ReviewsParker’s compelling memoir offers a revealing glimpse inside corporate America through th...

  • The Tree That Came to Stay

    Anna Quindlen

  • Treaty's Law

    Dean Wesley Smith; Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    The Day of Honor is celebrated throughout the Klingon Empire. But every tradition had to begin somewhere.... Signi Beta is an M-class planet ideal for farming. The Federation wants Signi Beta, but the Klingon Empire has the stronger claim. Captain...

  • A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories

    Bettye Collier-Thomas

  • Trapped!

    Brian Brown

    At Nero's birthday party, Tacticus's Christian faith is discovered and he is thrown into a dungeon. He must decide whether to worship Nero or stay true to his faith and risk death. Will Ben and the children be able to save him?....

  • Trapped

    Brian Brown

    In this episode of the Story Keepers, Tacticus's Christian faith is discovered. He is thrown into the dungeon and must decide whether to worship Nero as a god or stay true to his faith and risk death. Will Ben and the children be able to save him?....

  • The Toyotomi Blades

    Dale Furutani

    AN ANCIENT SWORD CUTS TO THE HEART OF A BAFFLING MYSTERY Unemployed computer operator and amateur sleuth Ken Tanaka is thrilled at the chance to visit his ancestors' homeland, especially when it's courtesy of a Tokyo talk show that wants to interv...

  • Toward the End of Time

    John Updike

    Set in the near future of 2020, this disconcerting philosophical fantasy depicts an America devastated by a war with China that has left its populace decimated, its government a shambles, and its natural resources tainted. The hero is Ben Turnbull, a...

  • Touched by the Gods

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    When the baby Malledd is born to an ordinary family in a small country town, the oracles name him the true chosen Champion of the Domdur Empire. Should the Empire find itself at war, Malledd will be the one to lead them to victory, by the gods' decre...

  • To Tame a Warrior's Heart

    Sharon Schulze

    The Lady Catrin Had Survived A Nightmarish Past Now her willful ways had plunged her headlong into danger -- and into the arms of Nicholas Talbot, a man whose very presence stirred up emotions she had long thought buried forever. He Alone Could...

  • To Preserve and Protect

    D. Kears

  • To Mend A Spell

    Lisa Higdon
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    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... When a young would-be witch carelessly places a curse on a handsome sea c...

  • To Marry a British Lord

    Judith O'Brien

    Now, with her signature mix of love and laughter, Judith O'Brien crosses new boundaries by sending a lively belle from the war-torn South into the dazzling world of Victorian England's aristocracy--where she intends to wed, if not wisely, at least ve...

  • To Love a Stranger

    Connie Mason

    MARRIAGE ON THE RUN Wild and rowdy Pierce Delaney and his two brothers are notorious throughout Dry Gulch, Montana, for attracting all sorts of trouble. Now a misunderstanding has left Pierce with a bullet in his back, forcing him to take refuge in ...

  • Timequake

    Kurt Vonnegut

    At 2:27 P.M. on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in self-confidence. Should it go on expanding indefinitely? What was the point?...

  • The Time Machine and Other Cases

    Seymour Simon

    In ten illustrated, chapter-length, joke-filled cases, junior scientist Einstein Anderson solves such mysteries as how to make catsup pour faster using elementary principles of science. Original title: Einstein Anderson Tells a Comet's Tale. ...

  • Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War

    Zak Mettger

  • Threshold

    Bill Myers

    From the realms of science, the paranormal, and Bible prophecy emerges a novel for our times: fast-paced, carefully researched . . . with a warning none can ignore.

    Some say Brandon Martus has a mysterious ability to see into the future, to ...

  • Three Brides, No Groom

    Debbie Macomber

    All dressed up with nowhere to go... They were college friends with plans to become blushing brides. Gretchen had the beauty, Maddie the brains...and Carol the bounce--she was a cheerleader, after all! And they each had a man to marry. Gretchen...

  • A Thousand Words for Stranger

    Julie E. Czerneda

    MIND-BLOCKED! Ambushed by unknown assailants, cut off from her escort, and on the run with no memory of who she was, what she was doing on the world known as Auord, or why she was driven by a compulsion to find a specific ship and head for an unkn...

  • This Child Is Mine

    Janice Kaiser

    Sometimes love is Destiny... The fortune cookies at Madame Wu's Destiny House are special: their predictions come true! Three women's lives are affected; three new loves are born.... PAIN CAN BE THE MIDWIFE OF JOY. That's what ...

  • The Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon

    Steven Nightingale

    In this new tale, the acclaimed author of The Lost Coast continues the rollicking and amorous Pacific journey of our unlikely band of travelers. Joined by a magical puffin, a blind poet named Homer, and a forlorn prophet named St. Francis of Assisi, ...

  • The Thanksgiving Monster

    Alison Inches

    In a colorful lift-the-flap story, a monster steals the wonderful dinner that Kermit has prepared for a Thanksgiving celebration with his friends, but the holiday is not ruined because Kermit and his guests have plenty to be thankful for. Original....

  • Thanksgiving Is . . .

    Louise Borden

  • Terror Spin

    Don Pendleton

    UNHOLY WAR A diehard extremist group, the Spear of Allah, has a grim record that includes death and destruction throughout Europe. But now they've brought their carnage to America, and have effectively thrown down the gauntlet. After heinous blood...

  • Tender Comrades

    Patrick McGilligan

    More than thirty survivors of the blacklisting that took place in Hollywood in the late 1940s share their stories, in a study that includes interviews with Ring Lardner, Jr., and Martin Ritt, the director of The Front. 15,000 first printing....

  • Temptation

    Victoria Christopher Murray

    Kyla and Jefferson Blake count their 16 years together as a wonderful blessing from God. Their marriage is passionate, their daughter is a joy, Jefferson's medial career is prospering and they have loyal friends. Kyla knows her newly divorced and li...

  • Temporary Girlfriend

    Jessica Steele

    Should his every wish be her command? What choice did Elyss have but to put up with Saul Pendleton calling the shots? Because of a series of dreadful mistakes, she owed him a whole lot of money and hadn't a hope of being able to pay him back. How...

  • Tea Party For Two

    Michelle Poploff

    Calling all girls! You're invited to a special tea party with best friends Kim and Amy. Time: Right now. Place: Kim's backyard. Too bad Amy doesn't like tea. But with a few adjustments--and some big surprises--a tea party for two becomes a fun-filled...

  • Tasting Salt

    Stephanie Dowrick

    From the author of Intimacy and Solitude, this literary novel explores the search for freedom, satisfaction, and meaning in life, as two women who have lost love enter new phases in their lives....

  • Tarzan's Greatest Secret

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Tanya and the Magic Wardrobe

    Patricia Lee Gauch

  • The Tangerine Bear

    Betty Paraskevas

  • Tales of the Wicked Witch

    Hanna Kraan

  • Tales From the Blue Archives

    Lawrence Thornton

    For more than ten years, Dolores Masson has joined the women who march each Thursday in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo in memory of los desaparecidos--the countless men, women, and children who vanished without a trace at the hands of the generals durin...

  • Taking Tea with Alice

    Dawn Hylton Gottlieb

    This delightful party planner combines the magic of Alice in Wonderland with the timeless charm of tea, showing readers how to create six of their own magical tea parties with "Alice" themes, and featuring recipes for a wide variety of scrumptious tr...

  • The Sun Girl and the Moon Boy

    Yangsook Choi

    "A long time ago in Korea, there was not enough light.It was before the sun and the moon had been created." So begins one of the most treasured folktales of Korea. Reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood, this ancient tale reveals how a hungry tiger tr...

  • Stray Hearts

    Annie Kimberlin

    Lovesick Melissa March was always more comfortable around her patients. As a busy veterinarian, she was used to wagging tails, sloppy kisses, and unconditional love. But when it came to men, she knew to trust her instincts anymore - they'd led he...

  • The Stranger

    Eric James Fullilove

    In a troubled future, the search for redemption may carry the stiffest price of all.

    A teenage boy is found dead in the Los Angeles city subway with no identity--no prints, no records, nothing on file--an unusual, fatal fugitive from the digit...

  • Strange Brew

    Kathy Hogan Trocheck

    A TASTE FOR TROUBLE Cleaning lady cum sleuth Callahan Garrity has cautiously watched her seedy bohemian Atlanta neighborhood morph into a trendy haven for yuppies. But just as she fears, too much cappuccino and new money can be a bad mix. When the...

  • Story of Hanukkah

    Norma Simon

  • Story of Christmas

    Anne Civardi

    The story of the first Christmas is beautifully retold in this colorful book and puzzle package. From the birth in the manger to the three wisemen's visit, eight anecdotes combine to bring this special story alive for young readers. Children can piec...

  • Still Water

    John Harvey

    When the battered body of a young woman is discovered, the second corpse that is found, Charlie Resnick becomes involved in the case because his lover had been acquainted with the victim and her abusive husband and investigates the brutality that som...

  • A Stiff Risotto

    Lou Jane Temple

    THE KNIVES ARE OUT! Heaven Lee--proprietress extraordinaire of Kansas City's celebrated Cafe Heaven--knew she had to watch her back at Aspen's gossipy Real Dish Food Festival. But it wasn't until the saucy cook stumbled across the battered body of...

  • Stay!: Keeper's Story

    Lois Lowry

    Born between a board fence and a set of trash cans, the hero of this absorbing novel by Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry is a lowly stray dog. Abandoned at an early age by his mother and separated from his siblings, he faces every challenge with his nose ...

  • Star Wars Log Book

    Chronicle Books

  • Star Wars Han Solo: At Stars' End

    Archie Goodwin

    Collects Classic Star Wars: Han Solo at Stars' End (1980) #1-3. Adapting Brian Daley's classic novel! For fans of the film -- fans of all ages -- this is one worth waiting for. Searching the galaxy for a rogue shipbuilder to repair the Millenium Fa...

  • Star Bright!

    Andrew M. Greeley

    It's beginning to look a lot like an American Christmas: unpleasant relatives, miserable travel, a slobbering dog-and one "harmless American of Irish origins," Jack Flanigan, who is reluctantly falling in love with a young Russian woman studying at H...

  • Spy Girl

    Francine Pascal

    Danger is Jessica's middle name....

    Jessica Wakefield can't believe it when her boyfriend, undercover  cop Nick Fox, finally offers to take her along on an assignment.  She knows they'll make a great team.  But will Jessica's big mouth g...

  • Spur-Of-The-Moment Marriage

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    A Whiplash Wedding Montana Millionaire Max McKendrick had a hankering for arranging whirlwind romances for his heirs. As his attorney, Cisco Kidd had executed the old man's plans with the precision of a master matchmaker. But the cowboy counselor ...

  • Spunky's First Christmas

    Janette Oke

    During a Christmas shopping trip in the big city, Spunky, a lovable, energetic, and mischievous puppy, accidentally becomes separated from his seven-year-old master, in a story designed to teach preschoolers about the true meaning of Christmas....

  • Spider-Man: Revelations

    Todd Dezago

  • Spider Storch's Teacher Torture

    Gina Willner-Pardo

  • Spider Storch's Carpool Catastrophe

    Gina Willner-Pardo

  • Spellbound

    Jo Ann Ferguson
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    GOBLINS, GHOSTIES, AND A MAGICAL EVE TO FALL IN LOVE... The frost is on the pumpkins and the harvest moon shines bright when Halloween brings romance to the London townhouses and grand estates of Regency England. Now lords and ladies meet to make ...

  • A Spell of Mists and Roses

    Amy Elizabeth Saunders
    in

    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... Banished to a cursed castle, an arrogant nobleman seeks the help of a beautif...

  • Sparring with Shadows

    Archimede Fusillo

  • South of Resurrection

    Jonis Agee

    Having left home at the age of sixteen, Moline returns to her small-town community in Missouri to take care of some simple family business, but upon her arrival, she sees that the town is nearing extinction and stays to save the family's land and hel...

  • The Soul of Indiscretion

    Karla Hocker
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    GOBLINS, GHOSTIES, AND A MAGICAL EVE TO FALL IN LOVE... The frost is on the pumpkins and the harvest moon shines bright when Halloween brings romance to the London townhouses and grand estates of Regency England. Now lords and ladies meet to make ...

  • Soul Food

    Lajoyce Brookshire

    Teri, Maxine and Bird are as different as three sisters could be. Teri is beautiful and practical, a successful lawyer who has no patience for dreamers. Maxine is a happy, loving wife and mother, but wonders if she is doing anything important with he...

  • The Song of Princes

    Gilbert Morris

    Two families--the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans--are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking the people and events through th...

  • Somebodys Child

    Dennis Williams

    In New York and Boston in 1976, two African American brothers, high school teacher Quincy Crawford, who does not love his pregnant girlfriend, and former basketball player Elliott Davis, who is considering reconciliation with a woman who has has a ch...

  • Soccer Cousins

    Jean Marzollo

    David travels to Mexico to watch his cousin Miguel's soccer tournament, and when a player gets injured, David joins the team for the match of his life, in a story that also weaves in the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead. Original....

  • So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847

    Barry Denenberg

    Friday, July, 9,1847 Lowell Mrs. Abbott's house is so near the mills we were able to walk there.... I never dreamed earthly hands could make anything that big. It looked to me like all the people in Ireland could fit inside. 'Twas like a fortress. T...

  • Snug Bug's Play Day

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Human-sized household items become a fun-filled bug-sized playground for Snug Bug and his friends, in an easy-to-read tale that teaches young readers about the importance of sharing and taking turns. Simultaneous....

  • Snowball

    Nina Crews

    The weather report says "Snow." Yet there is no sign of it on Monday, or on Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday. But oh, when it comes, it is as thick and white and wonderful (and perfect for snowballs) as the exuberant young narrator dreamed. Young fan...

  • Snow Dance

    Lezlie Evans

    Bright, childlike watercolors capture the joy of the season's first snowfall, as two young children revel in the long-hoped-for, freshly fallen snow, until exhaustion sends them home to a cup of cocoa by the fire....

  • A Small Dark Place

    Martin Schenk

    Without jobs, without savings, without hope, the Wiley family has fallen on hard times. Until they hear the story of a little girl who slipped down an abandoned mine. Americans respond with prayers. And cash. Now the Wileys hatch their own desperate ...

  • Slocum and the Comanche Rescue

    Jake Logan

    Slocum is sent to rescue Myra McChristian from her Comanche captors but ends up rescuing two women and must return them to their families, if he does not make a mess of whole situation in the process. Original....

  • Sleeping With the Crawfish

    D.J. Donaldson

    A DEAD MAN CAN'T BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE...EVEN IN NEW ORLEANS Strange lesions found in the brain of a dead man have forensic pathologist Andy Broussard stumped. Even more baffling are the corpse's fingerprints. They belong to Ronald Cicero, a li...

  • Slave of My Thirst

    Tom Holland

    Dr. John Eliot's search for a missing friend leads him to the seductive Lilah--who will not rest until she has coaxed Eliot's most monstrous impulses out into the open--in this mesmerizing tale set in the back streets of 19th-century London....

  • The SKULL OF CHARLOTTE CORDAY

    Leslie Dick

    A brilliant and chilling collection of short stories that descends into the deeper recesses of the human mind and maps the bizarre and troubling byways of human history.Dark, witty, and entertaining, The Skull of Charlotte Corday: And Other Stories r...

  • Six Silent Men...book Three

    Gary Linderer

    "The Eyes and Ears of the Screaming Eagles . . ."By 1969, the NVA had grown more experienced at countering the tactics of the long range patrols, and SIX SILENT MEN: Book Three describes some of the fiercest fighting Lurps saw during the war. Based o...

  • Six Haunted Hairdos

    Gregory Maguire

    In this sequel to Seven Spiders Spinning, the rivalry between the boys and girls in Miss Earth's class takes a ghostly turn when the girls transform themselves into the Six Haunted Hairdos, but the whole class will have to cast aside their ri...

  • Sisters at War

    Francine Pascal

    What's on the Thanksgiving menu?   Turkey, pumpkin pie...and the biggest fight the Wakefield household has ever seen!

    For identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, Thanksgiving has always meant food, family, and fun...but this year it...

  • Sisters At Heart

    Susan Bowden

    FAMILY REUNION Anne Barry Dysan hasn't seen her father Ryan Barry, in twenty-eight years -- since her mother's death, when he walked away, taking her sister with him and leaving Anne to be raised by and aunt. Now she has written to him at Hammer...

  • Sirens

    Marco Glaviano

  • Singing Down the Rain

    Joy Cowley

    Step into a town where all the children are friends, but a drought has made the adults so grumpy they can't stop arguing! Only a miracle can heal this divided town.Folks are so hopeless, they almost don't recognize that miracle when it appears as a w...

  • Sing for Your Father, Su Phan

    Stella Pevsner

    Days and nights become filled with bombings, lootings, and terror with the outbreak of the Vietnam War, and the tranquility of Su Phan's village is disrupted, but when her father is taken captive by the Communist army, Su Phan must adjust to the chao...

  • The Simpsons

    Matt Groening

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    It''s hard to believe that the Simpsons have been around for more than a decade. Today, The Simpsons is the longest-running animated series of all time (dethroning The Flintstones in February 1997), and an intrinsic part of pop culture.

    Th...

  • The Silent Cry

    Anne Perry

    Deep in London's dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but it happened now and then that the price he paid was his life. Now, in sunless Water Lane, res...

  • Signal to Noise

    Carla Sinclair

  • She Grows and Graduates

    Sheila Greenwald

    While focused entirely on gaining admittance to the posh Hillyard School next year, eighth-grader Rosy Cole neglects her friends and her real talent until she finally makes an important discovery about herself...

  • Shadows of Camelot

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    He is the secret son of Merlin...separated from his true family by time and treachery, heir to a magic that belongs in a shining moment when the earth was good, green, and perfect, when there was a place called Camelot... Truan Monroe was raised a...

  • Shadows

    Jonathan Nasaw

    Jamey Whistler, the Oxford-educated secret vampire from The World on Blood, returns with a Romanian vampire-arsonist-hit-man in pursuit of him and his former lover, Selene Weiss, a high priestess of Wicca. Reprint....

  • Shadow Walk

    Jane Waterhouse

    After one of her friends is mysteriously murdered, a true-crime writer who had sworn never to pen another book becomes determined to locate a man from her hometown of Spring Lake, New Jersey, who, in 1970, one by one shot his mother, wife, and childr...

  • The Shadow King

    Stobie Piel
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    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • Sex Toys of the Gods

    Christian McLaughlin

  • The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor

    John Yeoman

    The ancient tale of Sinbad, the son of a rich merchant, who sets sail from Baghdad to make his fortune, follows his seven incredible voyages, which bring him through the Persian Gulf to deserted islands and strange kingdoms....

  • The Seraphim Rising

    Elisabeth Devos

    HERALDS FROM THE MESSIAH OR HARBINGERS OF A DOOMED MILLENNIUM? Most of the world wanted to believe the six special visitors were the messengers of God. The Seraphim themselves said they had come to open the gateway to paradise. There were, however...

  • Senatorial Privilege

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    When a teenage girl is brutally murdered, revered Iowa Senator David Cummings sees to it that a local youth is convicted of the crime, and only District Attorney Amy McGuire can uncover a deadly scandal. Reprint....

  • The Secrets Within

    Emma Darcy

    A mother's lust for power... A daughter's desire for revenge. Eleanor Vandelier -- a woman of invincible strength and ruthless determination. She controls two of Australia's most prominent vineyards. Her family has been sacrificed in her lust for...

  • The Secret of the Lost Kingdom

    Michael Bolton

    An award-winning singer and songwriter pens his first children's title in this charming story of a king's son who, disgusted with the greed that power can bring, leaves his father to travel the kingdom as a commoner....

  • The Secret of Candlelight Inn

    Carolyn Keene

    When Emmaline Whitby died, she bequeathed the historic Candlelight Inn to the Guiding Eyes foundation. Dedicated to helping the blind, the foundation plans to create a training center for Seeing Eye dogs. But as Nancy is about to discover, the inn is...

  • Second Wives

    Cindy Blake

    With the early loss of both their younger brother and their mother, the Preston sisters have spent most of their lives haunted by tragedy. But Meg, Beth, Amy, and Leonora are determined to find happiness. Meg and Amy, second wives grappling with thei...

  • Second Time Around // Woke Up Dead

    Tina Wainscott

    "I never got a chance to tell Sam I love him!" These are young Jennie Carmichael's dying thoughts. A tragic accident is ending her life -- and she's never told her boss, private eye Sam Magee, how much she loves him. She was too timid -- why would...

  • Search for Amelia Earhart

    Rebecca Price Janney

  • Screen Test

    David Klass

    High-school senior Liz Wheaton lands a big movie role and discovers the glamour and darker side of Hollywood, where everyone she meets is playing a part. By the author of California Blue and Danger Zone. ...

  • Screamplays

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • The Scream Factory

    Kelly O'Rourke

  • Scarlet Lady

    Sandra Chastain

    "If you win, the money's yours, but if I win, I get you ...." He ran his riverboat casino like the rogue he'd been named for, but Rhett Butler Montana wasn't prepared for the night a vision in crimson dared him to play her for everything he had! K...

  • Scare Bear

    Gene Hult

    Tired of being treated like a little kid, Tim throws away his teddy bear, Baby Curly, and is horrified when the teddy bear comes to life and seeks revenge on the boy who would cast him aside. Original....

  • The Scandalous Return of Jake Walker // The Rebel's Return

    Myrna MacKenzie

    Re-issued by the author in ebook as - The Rebel's Return TOO GOOD TO FORGET He'd left the town of Misunderstood without a backward glance, his bad-boy reputation firmly set in stone. And as Tess Buchanan had watched him drive away, a...

  • Saving Susannah

    Beverly Bird

    A WOMAN... Widowed dad Joe Lapp needed help. A nanny for his children, a woman to soothe his soul. And when Kimberly Mancuso showed up on his doorstep, looking for her long-lost brothers, his prayers were answered.... A HOME... Kimberly's daught...

  • Saving Sirena

    Susan Krinard
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    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... Save cat, get witch: When a rescued black cat turns into a beautiful, ever-so...

  • Sarah Conley

    Ellen Gilchrist

    From National Book Award Winner Ellen Gilchrist, a pillar of Southern literature hailed by the Washington Post as “a national treasure,” comes a poignant novel about contemporary living and the sacrifices we make through the variou...

  • Santa's Short Suit Shrunk and Other Christmas Tongue Twisters

    Nola Buck

    Celebrate the season with silly sentences about Santa. These tricky tongue twisters are simply super as a stocking stuffer or perfect for packaging as a pretty present if you prefer. Nola Buck's zany tongue twisters and Sue Truesdell's hilarious illu...

  • Samantha's Journey

    Joanna Campbell

    Haunted by the past...

    Samantha McLean has a terrible scare when she sees Cindy, her adoptive sister, fall over Whitebrook's track rail during a workout. Cindy's accident is frighteningly similar to the one that caused Samantha's m...

  • Sam and Derek, Derek and Sam

    Michael Levin

    When Sam and Derek meet, their likeness to each other prompts them to switch places, allowing Derek to go off to prep school and Sam to try his hand at runway modeling, but their scheme spins wildly out of control. Original....

  • Running Girl

    Sharon Bell Mathis

  • The Runaway

    Terry Kay

    When two twelve-year-old boys--Tom and Son Jesus--decide to embark on an adventure involving fishing, rafting, and exploring, they find a human bone, which leads to a murder investigation that causes the local townsfolk to question their convictions ...

  • Run Away Home

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

    HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS. It's 1888 in Alabama, and Sarah Jane has witnessed an escape. An Apache boy has jumped off a train headed for an Indian reservation -- and a life he doesn't want. Sarah Jane hopes he'll run far away. After all, people d...

  • The Rugrats' Book of Chanukah

    Sarah Willson

    Based on the Rugrats' Chanukah" Special

    It's Chanukah, that special time of year, and Chuckie, Angelica, and Tommy are ready to see Grandpa Boris in the annual pageant. But there's more action going on backstage, with excitement that has e...

  • Ruby

    Ruth Langan

    The Town Sheriff and the Town Tease... Ruby Jewel was a flirt of the first order who flouted authority at every turn, but she couldn't charm her way past Marshall Quent Regan. Quent had vowed he'd make Hanging Tree's heartbreaker toe the line, eve...

  • Rogue's Wager

    Thomas Gately Briody

    When a clamdigger accidentally injures a diver with a dynamite blast, rogue reporter Michael Carolina writes up the story and forgets about it, until a mobster disguised as a nurse murders the injured man while he is in the hospital...

  • The Roald Dahl Treasury

    Roald Dahl

    A wonderful collection of works from the popular author of The BFG, includes portions of his autobiography, notes written prior to the publication of Esio Trot, and an assortment of unpublished work, such as Christmas cards, personal ...

  • The River at Sundown

    Earl Murray


    After the Civil War, Holly Porter and her young son, Justin, journey to the Montana Territory wilderness to find her gold-fevered husband, Isaac. Near Fort Phil Kearny, she and Justin are captured by a renegade band of Sioux and separated. In cap...

  • Ritual Sins

    Anne Stuart

    A WOUNDED WOMAN Rachel Connery is a woman with a mission--to destroy Luke Bardell, the charismatic man who seduced millions of dollars from her dying mother, thus robbing Rachel of her inheritance. Now Rachel wants revenge--and she's willing to e...

  • Rising

    S.M. Stirling; James Doohan

    STILL READY TO LEND A HAND -- Introducing Flight Engineer Peter Raeder--He's already lost a hand, and if he can't find the traitor on his new ship, he'll lose much more! Peter Raeder became the Commonwealth's first ace pilot in the Molly war....

  • Ring Game

    Pete Hautman

    Directed by a family friend who wants him to investigate his daughter's fiance, ex-cop Joe Crow finds himself caught in the middle of a conflict between the would-be groom and the man's murderous cult. Reprint....

  • A Rift in Time

    Michael Phillips

    From best-selling author Michael Phillips comes a gripping novel about an archaeologist who discovers Noah's Ark and searches for the Garden of Eden. A great book for all readers, especially those with an interest in end-times fiction like the Left B...

  • Return to the Carnival of Horrors

    R.L. Stine

    IT’S THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE... AGAIN! Oh, no! Could it be? Yes. You're back at the Carnival of Horrors! You escaped the first time. But Big Al, the evil carnival manager, wants your second visit to last forever! You've got to get out of there -- ...

  • A Return to Christmas

    Chris Heimerdinger

    Until he was three years old, Artemus Holiday and his twin brother, Andrew, had shared the adventures of life together. But when young Artemus lost his brother in a terrible tragedy on Christmas day, the miracle of the Christmas season seemed forever...

  • The Return of Santa Paws

    Nicholas Edwards

  • Retribution

    Bill McCay

    The survivors of the tragic war on Abydos stagger back to Earth through a smashed StarGate," through a storm of treachery, greed, defeat, and bitterness. Some are prisoners. Some are outcasts. All know the final war has yet to come. The titanic, p...

  • Rent-A-Cowboy

    Barbara McMahon

    She rented a cowboy...and found the man of her dreams! Becca Montgomery wanted to travel the world. But, after being left her father's ranch, she had to forget her plans for a while until her stepbrother returned from college. However her s...

  • Remembering You

    Penelope J. Stokes

    In this moving conclusion to the Faith on the Home Front series, Owen Slaughter returns from the battlefields of Europe to Eden, Mississippi, to keep a promise made to the dying Charlie Coltrain. Charlie's sister, Willie, is overjoyed that Owen is al...