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  • Stick Boy

    Joan T. Zeier

  • Love, Bones and Water

    Adam Zameenzad

    In Gulroza, Valley of Flowers, lies a shanty town whose people are soon to be brutally evicted in the name of progress and political convenience. Desperately poor, yet defiant and filled with a love of life, they are to be swept aside like leaves. Th...

  • Pudmuddles

    Carol Beach York

  • Predator

    William F. Wu

    When the MC Governor breaks itself down into six component robots and launches its parts into the remote past, only an experimental robot named Hunter and a hastily assembled team of human experts have a chance to retrieve them. Original....

  • Between Madison and Palmetto

    Jacqueline Woodson

    Margaret and Maizon are back together on Madison Street, but their friendship is different now. Margaret needs more time alone, and it's not just the two of them any more-their new neighbor and classmate, Caroline, has become part of their lives. Bu...

  • L.A. Times

    Stuart Woods

    DEADLY AMBITION After turning a film student's directorial debut into a hit movie, New York mobster and movie fanatic Vinnie Callabrese takes off for the bright lights of Hollywood, where he begins a new life as Michael Vincent, Producer. A natura...

  • The Ones You Do

    Daniel Woodrell

  • Gentle Hearts

    Deborah Wood

    A LOVE THAT ENDURES ALL HARDSHIP IS A LOVE TO TREASURE FOREVER... LAURIE: She cherished the little girl she was hired to care for. But her gruff employer was a hardened cattleman through and through. GABE: He loved his daughter, Ammie, but he n...

  • Green City in the Sun

    Barbara Wood

    With World War I behind them, the Treverton family set out from England to make its fortune in the unspoiled paradise of Kenya. Sir Treverton, eccentric and handsome, vowed to carve a vast coffee plantation out of the virgin wilderness. His frail wif...

  • Egg!

    A.J. Wood

  • Nightside of the Long Sun

    Gene Wolfe

    It has been nearly a decade since the completion of Gene Wolfe's four-volume epic The Book of the New Sun, "one of the modern masterpieces of imaginative literature - an evocation of a world so far in the future that magic and technology, poetry and ...

  • What Remains and Other Stories

    Christa Wolf

    What Remains collects Christa Wolf's short fiction, from her early work in the sixties to the recently published title story, which was widely debated when it appeared in Germany in 1990.These powerful and often very personal stories examine a wide r...

  • The Battle for the Castle

    Elizabeth Winthrop

    As William turns twelve, he wonders if Jason is still his best friend. In the past year Jason has grown a foot taller while William is still a shrimp. When Jason challenges William to "jump the trains," William is terrified. How else can he prove him...

  • For Better, for Worse

    Rebecca Winters
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    Kit Spring and Rafael de Mendez wanted to have their wedding at his family's estate in Spain. Instead, the ceremony took place in a hospital room in Idaho, with Rafael about to undergo emergency surgery. To Kit's profound relief, lie survived the ope...

  • When Lilacs Bloom

    Clara Wimberly
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    About to tie the knot the second time, Georgia Lee drops everything when she receives an urgent letter form her ailing former mother-in-law. But when she arrives in Alabama, an old flame is rekindled...as a magical first love blooms anew....

  • The Tall Ship Shakedown

    Neil S. Wilson

  • Two Against the World

    Mary Anne Wilson

    BODY HEAT Steven Rider was in the witness protection program, hiding in a Colorado mountain cabin. And no one was supposed to find him! But he found an unconscious, frostbitten redhead. Who was this sultry stranger? Was she as innocent as she look...

  • The Cassandra Prophecy

    Charles Wilson

    Searching for the killer of his errant younger brother, Secret Service agent Clay Rodgers finds all kinds of slimy clues crawling out from under the rocks of his Mississippi Delta hometown in this uneven tale of crime in the New South. When their fat...

  • Bloody Waters

    B. Wilson

    With her ex-husband far away in Los Angeles and a new husband in Virginia, Kara Noble Worthington finally feels safe, that is, until her new husband becomes a stranger--loyal only to his strict, bitter mother. Original....

  • Before the Mask

    Michael Williams
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Too Scared to Love

    Cathy Williams

    Passion against all odds... Roberta was looking for a fresh start -- she wasn't looking for romance! But as soon as she arrived at Grant Adams's home in Toronto, she knew she was heading for trouble.... As au pair to Grant's headstr...

  • Kelly & Me

    Carol Williams

  • Cold, Cold Heart

    Ann Williams

    TO SAVE A CHILD Jake Frost -- FBI agent. Specialty: Finding missing children. Status: Self-imposed exile, in hiding -- from himself. Rachel Dryden -- Single mother of kidnapped child. One step away from falling apart completely. After being ...

  • Hardworking Man

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Ranch hand Jared Walker was a man who worked hard and looked after his own. He damn sure didn't need any help from anybody--not even his long-scattered brothers and sisters. The way he saw it, he and his son were doing just fine, all by themselves......

  • Angel Kiss

    Kelley Wilde

  • Jewel of the Sea

    Susan Wiggs

    A generation after Columbus made his great discovery, the tired old World is striving to conquer the new lands in the West, seeking gold and riches beyond their wildest dreams. From Spain to England to the Caribbean, follow the fortunes of Armando...

  • The Paper Anniversary

    Joan Wickersham

    A wonderfully real, sexy, surprising romance--a modern comedy of conjugal errors. Jack and Maisie had a beautiful thing going, until life and marriage got in the way. Jack headed to Maine and Maisie took off for New York. Now, one year married, they ...

  • Sean Donovan

    Lori Wick

    CHARLOTTE DIDN'T KNOW THAT MEN LIKE SEAN DONOVAN EXISTED... Feeling betrayed by his father and alienated from the God he once loved, Sean Donovan leaves Santa Rosa as an angry young man. Joining a gang of thieves, he is caught during his first ban...

  • Comic Book Rebels: Conversations with the Creators of the New Comics

    Stanley Wiater

    This book: Comic Book Rebels: Conversations with the Creators of the New Comic is interesting. Welcome to the front lines of the war. There is a war going on today throughout the comic book industry. The business environment in the comic book industr...

  • Still Married

    Diana Whitney

    LAST CHANCE FOR LOVE When Kelsey Manning first met Luke Sontag, the air crackled, charged with an excitement neither could deny. But time - and tragedy - had destroyed any chance of lasting love. Yet Kelsey knew her estranged husband, though rough a...

  • The Nomad Queen

    James Gordon White

    The acclaimed screenwriter of such Hollywood cult classics as The Thing with Two Heads and Bigfoot turns his creative talent to this epic sword-and-sorcery adventure. Armed with sharp steel and iron resolve, the deposed Queen Sheela sets out for the ...

  • Moonfall

    Susan Whitcher

    In an endearing bedtime story, the moon gets caught in Mrs. Schwartz's lilac bush, and Sylvie, a young girl who witness the event, decides that the moon needs a good bubble bath, but disaster strikes again....

  • The Two Medicine River

    Richard S. Wheeler

    RIVERS WEST Discover one of the most thrilling frontier series of our time...tales of mountain men and intrepid women, pioneer families and Native American warriors. Discover North America in all its awesome splendor. THE TWO MEDICINE RIVER Down...

  • Calling All Monsters

    Chris Westwood

  • Cops and Robbers

    Donald E. Westlake

    The Grand Master of Mystery delivers “nerve-end-entertainment” when two of New York’s finest set out to become two of New York’s richest (Kirkus Reviews).   Tom and Joe have been walking the beat on the mean streets of the Big Apple long...

  • The Kingdom by the Sea

    Robert Westall

    During World War II twelve-year-old Harry and a stray dog travel through war-torn England in search of safety....

  • The Promise

    Robert Westall

  • The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral

    Robert Westall

    """I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower ... And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if some wild beast was eating him.""

    When steeplejack Joe Clarke is hired to repair the stonework at Mu...

  • That Tickles! The Disney Book of Senses

    Cindy West

  • Hidden Gold of Widow's Mountain

    Patricia Werner

    Whoever goes to Widow's Mountain...dies. For years, Hilary Fenton had dreamed of finding her father - ever since Gaspar Fenton had struck for the gold mountains of the Yosemite Valley to claim his fortune - and never returned. Then fate summoned ...

  • Viking Magic

    Angela Wells

    Destination: Denmark Attractions: Elsinore Castle, Tivoli Gardens...and Rune Christensen Gina Price had gone to Copenhagen on a mission -- to find her willful teenage sister. She hadn't planned on the help of a gorgeous Viking -- especially o...

  • Fay's Fairy Tales: Cinderella

    William Wegman

  • On Basilisk Station

    David Weber

    HONOR IN TROUBLE Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket ...

  • Captive Splendor

    Rochelle Wayne

    With his Sioux brother convicted of a crime he hadn’t committed, rugged half-breed Bart Chandler devised a plan to save him from the hangman’s noose. He would kidnap the daughter of Fort Laramie’s commanding officer; then ransom her in exchange...

  • Temporary Arrangement

    Shannon Waverly

    She didn't want to be there. He didn't want her to stay. The arrangement was temporary -- but their marriage was for keeps! The last thing high-powered Colorado lawyer Mark Johnson wanted was to be saddled with Kim Wade, his only sister&...

  • Come Be My Love

    Patricia Watters

    Headstrong Sarah Ashley didn't travel all the way to Canada just to have her dreams smashed to bits by Vancouver Island's arrogant young governor Jon Cromwell. Come hell or high water, the stunning suffragette will open her own mercantile business - ...

  • Nowhere to Run

    Pat Warren

    When Detroit socialite Carly Weston's father is murdered by a madman bent on vengeance, she is forced to flee from the killer, who has taken to stalking her. By the author of 'Til Death Do Us Part. Original....

  • The King of Cards

    Robert Ward

    Ward once again explores the alchemy of stubborn yearnings and unrealized dreams amidst the well-tended rowhouses of his native city. There’s a mounting fury in Tommy Fallon’s heart in the fall of 1965. He’s finally found his life’s calling ...

  • Matthew and the Sea Singer

    Jill Paton Walsh

    Nicholas, a spirited French boy, survives a year in a boys' primary school and recounts his numerous adventures, including sitting for a class picture, taunting a substitute, and kissing up to their teacher. All ages....

  • Mafia Wars

    Leslie Waller

  • Operation Isolation

    Susan Wallach

  • Think of a Beaver

    Karen Wallace

    A poetic text and charming, realistic illustrations offer a close-up look at the lives of beavers, including how they build tunnels, how they communicate, how they play, and how they use their webbed feet....

  • Think of an Eel

    Karen Wallace

    Graceful verses and fluid illustrations follow an eel from its birth in the Sargasso sea, through its years in the ocean and its trip to freshwater, to its return to the sea to have children, illuminating the life of this amazing creature....

  • Never Say Quit

    Bill Wallace

    Forming a team of their own after the hot-shot soccer teams reject their attempts to join, Justine, Randy, and Brandon create "The Misfits," and come to understand that the first step towards winning is teamwork. Reprint....

  • Big Men, Big Country

    Paul Robert Walker

    In the great spirit of American storytelling, this anthology features nine tales about such legendary American heroes as John Henry, Paul Bunyon, and Pecos Bill. By the author of The Slugger's Club: A Sports Mystery....

  • Peter

    Kate Walker (1)

    Pressured by his peers and society to conform to the stereotyped macho image, fifteen-year-old Peter feels both confused and repelled. His confusion and his horror increase when he finds himself attracted to his brother’s best friend, David, who is...

  • The Counterfeit Collection

    Ann Wald

  • Anna is Still Here

    Ida Vos

    With the end of World War II, Anna, a young Dutch Jew who had been in hiding during the Nazi occupation, can safely emerge from concealment, but she experiences great difficulty in adjusting once again to a normal life....

  • The Untraviolet Sky

    Alma Luz Villanueva

  • Coriander

    Barbara Victor

    After learning that her husband has apparently died in a charter plane crash, Coriander Wyatt, a surgeon, agrees to help special investigator Adam Singer clear up charges that her husband was an embezzler...

  • Ask Me No Questions

    Patricia Veryan

    PENNILESS, DISGRACED, AND WITH TWO SMALL NEPHEWS TO SUPPORT, SHE IS IN DIRE STRAITS INDEED.... But by pure luck and a dash of feminine wiles, Ruth Allington is able to put her generous artistic talent to work by restoring an ancient mural at the e...

  • My Loving Enemy

    Lisa Ann Verge

    HONOR PRIDE, AND HERITAGE ... SHE WOULD RISK ALL FOR HIS LOVE Headstrong heiress Alienor de Tournan cheered when her father captured the renegade knight who had stolen her dower lands and ruined her chances for marriage. Yet when she saw the gravel...

  • Maravilla, La

    Alfredo Vea

    A nine-year-old half-Indian, half-Mexican boy struggles to find his place in the world in a novel set in the desert outside of Phoenix in 1958. A first novel. 12,000 first printing. National ad/promo....

  • Passionate Adventure

    Karen Van Der Zee

    "Dr. Grant, I presume?" Sasha had come to Africa in search of adventure, and to visit her niece Vicky, a nursing teacher in remote Obalabi: She hadn't quite expected the adventure to begin when Dr. Ross Grant met her at the airport. ...

  • Louisiana Caress

    Terri Valentine

    VIRTUOUS VIXEN On the brink of taking her final vows, convent-bred Desiree Dufour trembled at the sight of a magnificent golden-haired god astride a snowy-white steed. Yet little did the Louisiana innocent know that the stranger she'd spied in the c...

  • Shella

    Andrew H. Vachss

    From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its na...

  • Wizard in Wonderland

    Jean Ure

    A spirited sequel to The Wizard in the Woods finds Joel and Gemma in Wonderland with their wizard friend Ben-Muzzy, but when the Airy Fairies steal Ben-Muzzy's broomstick, the friends face high adventure trying to retrieve it to return home....

  • Departures

    Harry Turtledove

    From the undisputed master of Alternate History comes an original collection of twenty provocative stories springing from the imaginative reinvention of history. Traveling down ancient roads and into far-off futures, Harry Turtledove poses the what i...

  • Death Echo

    Kerry Tucker

    Professional photojournalist and amateur sleuth Libby Kincaid is never one to turn down a terrific opportunity. So when Pam Bates, an old friend, asks her to find out who is blackmailing her mother, Libby agrees. In return, Libby's magazine gets an e...

  • Gathering Darkness

    Jane Toombs

    Despite the isolation of their California fortress, designed to keep out mysterious assassins, the Volek family faces the dangers of their own dark powers--powers that mutate with each succeeding generation. Original....

  • Return to Bloodstone House

    Jane Toombs

    Something wicked this way comes... Centuries before the first white man set foot on Mount Sangre, the ancient ones warned that something slept there, something unspeakably evil...And yet, one terrible night, that evil was awakened by innocents too...

  • Among the Dead

    Michael Tolkin

    “An amazing novel” that plunges into the all-too-gray area between the public and private in contemporary American life (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   Michael Tolkin’s acclaimed second novel, Among the Dead, is an arresting examination...

  • Pot Luck

    Tobi Tobias

  • The Best Woman

    Elise Title
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    Wildlife photographer Zach Jones fell head over heels in lust with gorgeous Kendall Morgan. They were ready to mate for life ... until the marital mayhem started. Zach and Kendall barely lived through the ceremony, somehow survived the reception, but...

  • Just the Way You Are

    Elise Title

    CAN'T LIVE TOGETHER, CAN'T LIVE APART... Lucy Warner doesn't know why she married Mike Powell--an uptight, pompous, smug stuffed shirt. Mike's had it with Lucy's extravagance, irresponsibility and fiery temper. The minute Lucy signs the divo...

  • Jenna's Big Jump

    Faythe Dyrud Thureen

  • Fools Rush in

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    A BAD MOVE When Kyla Finnegan threw herself at Pete Beckett and demanded they make love, she had only one thing on her mind--help! Hiding from two thugs in Pete's arms seemed like a good idea at the time. But now she wished she'd kept her troubles...

  • Tenderfoot

    David Thompson

  • In His Hands

    Mack Thomas

  • Cherish the Dream

    Jodi Thomas

    THEY CHERISHED A MOMENT IN TIME WHEN DREAMS TRIUMPHED ON THE WINGS OF LOVE... From childhood through nursing school, Katherine and Sarah were best friends. Now they set out to take all that life had to offer - and were swept up in the rugged, posi...

  • Wake up, Wilson Street

    Abigail Thomas

  • Shooting Star

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

  • Thelwell Country

    Norman Thelwell

    Since their debut in Punch over forty years ago, Norman Thelwell's cartoons and drawings have delighted millions of people all over the world. His portrayals of sporting pursuits, human beings at play, the life of the countryside, and, of course, ...

  • Beguiled Again

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    A THIEF IN THE NIGHT... When Emma Wilson tackled the man in her shrubs, he turned out to be a burglar...one who had stolen her heart. Unfortunately, Emma would rather have gone to jail herself than come face-to-face with Joe O'Reilly again. Joe...

  • Sweet Seduction

    Julie Tetel

    Fair Game A swirl of petticoats disappearing up a tree had been James Stewart's first sight of the impetuous Miss Shaw. And though he wondered whom she met at her early morning rendezvous, he wondered even more what she looked like without all tha...

  • All About Allergies

    Susan Neiburg Terkel

    Answers numerous questions that children have about common and uncommon allergies, discussing the causes, the typical sufferer, possible treatments, and more. By the author of Ethics and Abortion: Facing the Issues. ...

  • Grab Hands and Run

    Frances Temple

  • Soccer Mania!

    Erika Tamar

    Illus in black and white. Pete and his friends love to play pick-up soccer, and they're getting so good that when one of the kids' dads sees them in action, he delares it's time they formed an official team. This sounds like a great idea, but the kid...

  • Who's Counting?

    Nancy Tafuri

  • My Only Love

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    Her passionate nature and secretive past made Olivia Devonshire one of the most notorious women in England... Miles Warwick was a disreputable rogue, the black sheep of his family. But he never gambled on losing his heart to the woman he married for ...

  • The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup

    Rosemary Sutcliff

  • Deadly Stranger

    M.C. Sumner

    Without their parents knowledge, Kelly and Lauren sneak off on a ski weekend that quickly becomes a deadly nightmare when the handsome hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a demented lunatic intent on killing them. Original....

  • Never Walk Behind Me

    Lin Summerfield

    Eighteen-year-old Rowena is in love with her adoptive brother, Simon, who is twenty-six, but the arrival of Simon's beautiful fiancee sets into motion a series of tragic events that could implicate Rowena...

  • Dead on Delivery

    Robert M. Stutman; Richard Esposito

  • Jordon's Showdown

    Frank C. Strunk

    A murder in the Depression-devastated Kentucky coal town of Buxton brings roadhouse manager Berkley Jordon out from behind the bar and into a dangerous race to prevent the next killing. By the author of Jordon's Wager. ...

  • The Throat

    Peter Straub

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story brings the chilling Blue Rose Trilogy to an astonishing close -- secrets unearthed, demons revisited, and mysteries solved. • “A masterpiece…. The most intelligent novel of suspense to com...

  • What Time of Night Is It?

    Mary Stolz

  • The Cheater

    R.L. Stine

    Under pressure to perform well on her math exam, Carter Phillips persuades math whiz Adam to take the test for her in exchange for one date, but one date is not enough for the dangerous young man....

  • Cat and Mouse

    Dawn Stewardson

    In the hunt for sunken treasure, she swam in dangerous waters... They say that a cat has nine lives... But master thief "El Gato" - The Cat - had even more. With rakish charm and clever disguises, he stayed one step ahead of the law as...

  • Live, Laugh, Love

    Ada Steward

    Proud, intelligent and sensual beyond imagining, Dillon Ruiz was one of Texas's most eligible bachelors - and the object of Jessica Carder's long-ago unrequited passion. With warmth, wit and irresistible desire, Dillon now opened her mind and heart t...

  • Touched by Desire

    Lynsey Stevens

    Within reach Todd Jerome might have been Kris's matchmaking sister's hunk of choice, but Kris wasn't interested. In fact, she really didn't like the man--especially after his unenlightened comments regarding female pilots. She'...

  • Obsessed!

    Amanda Stevens

    POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL... Since childhood, Laura Valentine had struggled to be someone she wasn't. Finally she'd created a comic-strip alter ego-a sleek, sophisticated fictional heroine who never faltered. Now Laura's editors demanded a love intere...

  • The Dark Room

    Barbara Steiner

    His drive to preserve their beauty for eternity cannot be controlledDerrick, now David, tried to suppress the bad place within himself—the part that wanted to punish the girls who had shunned him. He knew he was good at his work—his actua...

  • Photographer I

    Barbara Steiner

    The homecoming court says "cheese" for the photograher, quiet, peculiar Derrick, but they soon find themselves becoming quite ill and the group photograph, once a stunning reflection of their beauty, develops into something hideous...

  • Twisted Dragon

    Kevin Stein

    Jaeme, new lord of Castle Elfwood, Decutonius, an unpredictable mage, the druidess Laela, and the venerable knight Cedric must confront the evil that threatens to crush Elfwood in only three days. Original....

  • Desert Prey

    Larry Steelbaugh

    In the midst of World War III, Captain Max Tag and his fighting team, "No Slack Too," must use their impressive arsenal to protect the oil fields of Saudi Arabia from the clutches of a madman. Original....

  • Fruit Blasterz from Outer Space

    Brooke Stauffer

  • The Rains Are Coming

    Sanna Stanley

  • Hannah and the Daring Escape

    Hilda Stahl

  • Sexual Chemistry

    Brian Stableford

  • Death of a Dunwoody Matron

    Patricia Sprinkle

    LIFE-STYLES OF THE RICH AND FATAL Dunwoody is the kind of place where opulent homes and luxury cars are the measure of a person's worth...where the veneer of suburban serenity and gracious hospitality is rarely shaken. But behind the tennis dates ...

  • The Foursome

    John D. Spooner

    Four young caddies at a Boston golf course begin a friendship in the 1950s that will carry through into adulthood, with golf remaining the unifying force in their lives. By the author of Sex and Money. 15,000 first printing....

  • Home Field

    David Spohn

  • Bless The Child

    Cathy Cash Spellman

    AN INNOCENT CHILD IN MORTAL DANGER. AN AGE-OLD BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. Bestselling author Cathy Cash Spellman imagines a terrifying realm of devilish menace in a novel that will touch your heart -- and chill you to the bone. Vibrant, youth...

  • Lyon's Pride

    Maris Soule

    The Lyon and the Lamb Cartoonist Greg Lyon--and his alter ego, Leo--made a healthy living at satire, with doctors among their favorite targets. But when Greg took a tumble in nowheresville, Indiana, he needed more than Leo's mockery to mend his br...

  • Black Butterfly

    Stephen Smoke

    Years after a serial murderer supposedly had died in prison, someone copies his bizarre method of adorning his beautiful female victim's bodies with painted lady butterflies, and the Los Angeles police must find the twisted killer. Original....

  • The Angels Weep

    Wilbur Smith

    At the dawn of a new century, a bold adventurer and his proud missionary sister, establish a legacy that will dominate Rhodesia for centuries to come. But in the hills, the Matabele indunas are already preparing for the bloody rebellion which will sc...

  • The Leopard Hunts in Darkness

    Wilbur Smith

    BLOOD LEGACY He is the son of Ballantynes, the powerful dynasty that had conquered a continent. Today, amid the violent conflicts of emerging Africa, Craig Mellow confronts a bloody colonial past... and a perilously uncertain future. New rul...

  • Men of Men

    Wilbur Smith

    When the stone falcons fly, then war will come. So ran the prophecy for a part of Africa glittering with the promise of diamonds and raging with the fever of human hearts. In this dangerous land where only the strongest and luckiest survive, a pow...

  • Sunbird

    Wilbur Smith

    A Journey of Wonder and Terror It all begins with a blurry, black-and-white aerial photograph. To the trained eyes of Dr. Benjamin Kazin, it is the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: evidence of an unknown ancient African civilization and the...

  • Wren's Quest

    Sherwood Smith

    Yearning for adventure, Wren journeys to find her family, but her travels are threatened by an assortment of shady characters, as well as by her traveling companion's preoccupation with magic. Reprint....

  • Love in Bloom

    Karen Rose Smith

    Never Look Back Fresh from a clinic in Africa, Dr. Paige Conrad wasn't quite sure what to make of Langley, Maryland. With its square dances, Little League games, and holiday picnics, the town was hardly a cultural mecca, but the people appealed to...

  • Jazz Funeral

    Julie Smith

    Homicide detective Skip Langdon finds herself smack in the middle of a sweltering New Orleans summer with a most unenviable case: the stabbing death of the universally beloved producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. But it's not on...

  • Chimney Rock

    Charlie Smith

    Novelist Charlie Smith takes on the illusion and madness of America's fantasy factory. Hollywood is home for Smith's narrator, Will Blake, the scion of two generations of movie folk, himself an actor by default, though a good one, for who could bette...

  • Beneath Passion's Skies

    Bobbi Smith

    Desperate to escape the clutches of her brutal brother-in-law, headstrong Angel Windsor kidnapped her young nephew and fled Philadelphia. But an even more dangerous destiny awaited the emerald-eyed innocent in New Orleans when she hired a notorious h...

  • A Disruptive Influence

    Lass Small

    RISQUE BUSINESS It all started with a pair of French silk unmentionables. Who but lively department store buyer Sally Yoder would be brazen enough to feature the flimsy briefs on a mannequin in quite that way? She'd planned her display to draw a c...

  • Oddballs

    William Sleator

    In a comic tour de force, William Sleator introduces us to one of the most unforgettable families ever -- his own. Meet Bill, the mastermind oldest brother who runs the show; Vicky, the only sister, who loves to dye herself and her friends purple wi...

  • Get the Message

    Gloria Skurzynski

  • A Mystery of Venice

    Edward Sklepowich

    When the corpse of an English photographer is discovered in a Venice alley, expatriate American author Urbino Macintyre is asked to investigate. By the author of Death in a Serene City. Reprint....

  • Blood Feud

    Sam Siciliano

  • Harry on Vacation

    Dyan Sheldon

    Harry, the cat-like alien, and Sara Jane Thomas, alias Chicken, return in a rib-tickling illustrated adventure in which a typical vacation leads to a battle with Chicken's older siblings that forces Harry to once again use his time-travel skills....

  • My Brother Is a Visitor from Another Planet

    Dyan Sheldon

    Adam's big brother Keith is selfish and mean, but Adam has doubts about Keith's claims that he is an alien, but his doubts start to vanish when Keith shows Adam his strange powers and threatens Adam if he tells....

  • Divergence

    Charles Sheffield

    A group of single-minded researchers--among them Darya Lang, Hans Rebka, and Louis Nenda and the Cecropian--follow the trail toward the Builder artifacts released from the Quake during Summertide, the planetary upheaval. Reprint. NYT....

  • The Mind Pool

    Charles Sheffield

    Calling all humans... In the 23rd century, out of all the races of the galaxy, only humanity has discovered the secret of travel between the stars-not so much because we're so smart, but because we are incredibly gadget-oriented. We are also, comp...

  • Texas Triggers

    Jon Sharpe

  • Swimming in the Volcano

    Bob Shacochis

    A vibrant portrait of love and politics in the tropics from the National Book Award"winning author: “the finest first novel I have read in many years” (William O’Rourke, Chicago Tribune).   Winner of the National Book Award for First Fic...

  • All's Faire

    Pamela F. Service

  • Benjamin Bigfoot

    Mary Serfozo

  • Fair Warning

    Catherine Sellers

    A Second Chance Kendall Jamison was surprised when Sheriff Jacob Sentell offered her the job. Not every man would hire an ex-convict to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for his five motherless children. Jake had serious reservations abou...

  • Man of the Hour

    Maura Seger

    NOWHERE TO HIDE Escape... With every mile she put between her and the city, Lisa Morley breathed a bit easier. Surely in her sleepy midwestern hometown she'd find sanctuary from the stalker menacing her and her little boy. And never again would sh...

  • Tapestry

    Maura Seger

    A LOVE THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN Lady Aveline realized that at the age of twenty most women her age were mothers several times over, cloistered nuns or already dead. Instead she lived quite happily among the holy sisters of Thorney designing ma...

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    Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

    "Beautifully and gracefully written . . . delightful to read." The New York Times Book Review.
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    Coral Smith Saxe

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    Deborah Savage

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    Deborah Satinwood

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  • Embrace the Wind

    Linda Sandifer

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    Glenda Sanders

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  • The Twilight Gate

    Rhondi Vilott Salsitz

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  • Lady of Mercy

    Michelle Sagara

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  • Bittersweet Legacy

    Jenna Ryan

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    Olivia Rupprecht
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    Christopher Rowley

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    Shelley Rotner

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    Marylyle Rogers

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  • Dog Days

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    Willo Davis Roberts

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    Meg-Lynn Roberts

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    Leigh Riker

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    Leah Rewolinski

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    Kathryn Reiss

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    Carl Reiner

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    Mickey Zucker Reichert

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    Joshua Quittner

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    Nina Porter
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  • Breathless

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    Steve Perry

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    Anne Perry

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    Don Pendleton

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    Cathie Pelletier

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