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  • Yor's Revenge

    Roy V. Young

    Welcome back to Leiblein, where the redoubtable outrageous captains--Yor, Dword, and Trebormatch wits against Yor's ex-lover, the treacherous Lady Katherine Lee, and her deadly minions. Before they can recover Yor's stolen amulet, the petrified eye o...

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

    The acclaimed collection of fantastic fiction features entries from established authors and talented newcomers--including Scott Bradfield, Charles de Lint, Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee, and Nicholas Royle--along with editors' summations of the year in fan...

  • Wrong Side of the Law

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Witnessing a bank robbery, Frank and Joe are baffled by the masked gang's near-perfect heists, and when Vanessa offers a surprising source of information, the Hardy boys must protect her from the gang. Original....

  • The World's Birthday

    Barbara Diamond Goldin

    Anticipating the forthcoming celebrations of Rosh Hashanah, young Daniel learns that Rosh Hashanah is to commemorate the world's birthday and decides to throw the entire world a great big party. Reprint....

  • A World Away

    Pam Rock

    A privileged passenger on the skyliner Moon Courier, Alena Yor was waiting for the journey to end and her new project as a high-ranking cartographer to begin when she first met virile officer Garner Rie. Handsome and courageous, Garner intrigued Alen...

  • Wordsworth and the Roast Beef Romance

    Todd Strasser

    Playing matchmaker for Roy and Razel, young Dee Dee asks Wordsworth, the talking Basset Hound, to call Razel and pretend to be Roy, a plan that backfires until another wacky invention by Mr. Chandler sets things right. Original....

  • The Women in Joe Sullivan's Life

    Marie Ferrarella

    From single, without children, to... Women? Sexy bachelor Joe Sullivan considered himself an expert. But little girls? What Joe didn't know about children would fill volumes. Yet suddenly the beleaguered uncle had three rambunctious nieces to raise. ...

  • A Wolf in Death's Clothing

    Elizabeth Quinn

    HUNTER OR HUNTED? PREDATOR OR PREY? A trail of blood leads Dr. Lauren Maxwell, Anchorage-based investigator for the Wild America Society, to Alaska's remote Nowitna Wildlife Refuge to investigate the near-fatal shooting of her friend Belle Doyon. The...

  • Wizardry: The Legend of the Crimson Crescent

    James E. Reagen

    A party of six adventurers assemble at an inn and embark on their quest. Although they are well-developed characters who make their own way, they also interact with a deity who is surprisingly like a contemporary game-player--a story on two levels. O...

  • Wizard's Heir

    Daniel Hood

    UNHOLY ACTS Despite what people think, inheriting a wizard's familiar did not make Liam a wizard. But he is shaping up to be quite a detective. When his late friend Tarquin's magic artifacts are stolen, and then used to commit further crimes, Liam...

  • Without Trace

    Katherine John

    Dr. Tim Sherringham goes out on an emergency call early one morning and vanishes on the way from his flat to the hospital. Without trace.Daisy, his physician wife, is plunged into a nightmare of terror and doubt as she tries to discover what has beco...

  • Witch

    Donald E. McQuinn

    Rose Priestess Sylah's successful quest for ancient knowledge had shattered the unity of the Church and branded her a witch. Her only protection, and the only hope for a better future, lay with Gan Moondark, ruler of the united Three Territories. But...

  • Wishes

    Kathleen Kane

    Journeying to her late sister's home in order to retrieve an orphaned nephew, New York spinster Matilda anticipates the loving responsibilities of family until she meets Mike, a sheriff in the young boy's hometown who also wants to adopt him. Mati...

  • Winter of the Raven

    Janice Kay Johnson

    Assisting a museum ethnologist on the 1880s Queen Charlotte Islands, missionary's daughter and talented photographer Katharine Hewitt hopes to solve her father's murder but struggles with the western influences on the native culture. Kath...

  • Winter Moon

    Elaine Barbieri
    in

    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Winning Colors

    Elizabeth Moon

    "The difficult we do immediately. The impossible may take a little longer:..." Booted from the fleet as her reward for saving a villainous superior from catastrophe, Heris Serrano has been marking time captaining a rich lady's interstellar yacht. ...

  • The Wilde Bunch

    Barbara Boswell

    MR. AUGUST Wilde Man: Rancher Mac Wilde desperately needed a woman's help. Not-so-wild Woman: Kara Kirby could be a wonderful wife, but would she agree to Mac's marriage proposal? Mac knew Kara hadn't come to Montana to find a husband! But ...

  • Wild Texas Bride

    Dana Ransom

    He gave her her first kiss when she was thirteen. But now Billy Cooper has taken up with a dangerous gang of outlaws. So seventeen-year-old Sarah Bass dons boots and breeches and rides out to rescue the man she loves from a life of crime. But when in...

  • Wild in the Night

    Patt Bucheister

    He'd recognize her scent in a roomful of women.... She expected he'd be grateful that his office was no longer an impossible mess, but instead Paul Forge told efficiency expert Coral Bentley that he wanted all his junk back exactly where he'd left ...

  • Wild Hunger

    Charlotte Lamb

    You can never too rich, or too thin... When Gerard Findlay looked at Keira, he saw a tall, willowy beauty who took his breath away .. . . When Keira looked at herself in the mirror, she saw an unattractive girl who wasn't quite thin enough ...

  • Widows' Watch

    Nancy Herndon

    Elena Jarvis is an officer in the Crimes Against Persons department of the Los Santos, Texas, police. She's got a sharp mind and a strong sense of justice. She's also got a condescending boss, a chauvinist partner, and an overprotective narc ex-husba...

  • Whoops!

    Nancy Springer
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Whispers in the Night

    Barbara Benedict
    in

    Julie Ward is a woman without a memory. She finds it again when she enters an empty Long Island mansion -- and lands in a long-ago era where danger and a mystery lover are waiting.......

  • Where's Home?

    Jonathan London

    After hitching a ride to California, fourteen-year-old Ben and his father endure some tough times on the streets of San Francisco and in a homeless shelter while trying to find a real home for themselves...

  • When the Dead Scream

    Mark Rivers

  • What She Did on Her Summer Vacation

    Tracy Sinclair

    ROYAL SINGLE DAD! So this was England! American tourist Melanie Warren was enchanted, even by the rain. Until a ferocious downpour left her stranded - and at the mercy of David Crandall, the wickedly sexy seventh Viscount of Castlebury. Still,...

  • What Is a Friend?

    Josie Firmin

    Interactive fold-out flaps reveal a colorful cast of cats playing together, eating, cleaning up, fighting, making up, and having sleepovers, in a whimsical picture book that celebrates the joys of friendship....

  • The West Virginian

    Sharon Brondos

    FAMILY COMES FIRST Charismatic frontiersman Jacob Barr has made a life for himself and his twelve-year-old daughter deep in the forests of West Virginia. But his success has brought him enemies, and now his home, Jacob's Well--the unique community...

  • Were-Wench

    S.M. Stirling
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Weeping Moon

    G. Clifton Wisler

    Remembering his carefree boyhood days before the arrival of the white man, Buffalo Horn, a member of the Southern Cheyenne, witnesses his tribe's failing courage and spirit and becomes a motivator in a fight to preserve their land. Original....

  • Wayward Angel

    Sue Rich

    A Man of Secrets... Tormented by clouded memories of a malicious crime, Bragen Alexander has searched for the one man whose lies could send Bragen to the gallows. Now, tantalizingly close to confronting his most hated enemy, he strikes a bargain ...

  • The Way to a Man's Heart

    Esther Friesner
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Warrior Moon

    Sara Orwig

    VANESSA: Her father controlled a railroad and could call up the military with a word. Yet he could not control his oldest daughter. Vanessa was en route to a Denver convent when she escaped the wagon train to bathe in the river. First, a small ch...

  • Wanted: Perfect Partner

    Debbie Macomber

    Single mom Meg Remington and her teenage daughter begin a conversation. Daughter says nervously: "Uh, Mom, maybe this would be a good time to tell you about Steve." Meg says absently: "Who?" Daughter says quickly: "Umm, Steve--your date for ...

  • Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West

    Kathleen Winsor

  • The Wallflower

    Linda Francis Lee

    In the heart of Texas lives a family as big and bold as the state itself. The Daltrys are as different as they come, each with his or her own strengths--and weaknesses. Every time a Daltry turns twenty years old, they are presented with a task by t...

  • Voices from Silence

    Douglas Unger

    The author of El Yanqui and Leaving the Land offers a poignant tale of suppression and intrigue as an American journalist returns to Argentina to help the victimized family he befriended as an exchange student....

  • Virus

    Graham Watkins

    Drs. Mark Roberts and Alexandra Walton's patients are addicted to their computers, and no one knows what could cause such an unusual number of educated, generally affluent individuals to succumb to the exhaustion and malnutrition this addiction has c...

  • Virtuosity

    Terry Bisson

    Sid 6.7, a criminal personality developed for training policemen via virtual reality, manages to escape to the real world, and Parker Barnes, a former policeman convicted of killing his family's murderers, is released from prison to stop him...

  • Virtual Death

    Shale Aaron

    Giving up her career as a near-death experience performer, celebrity Lydia Melmoth is unwilling to subject herself to another brush with death, until her mother's pressing need for money pushes Lydia into a comeback. Original....

  • Virgo: Desperately Yours

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    Struggling with her work as the editor for the Fairview High newspaper, student Virginia Wells becomes alarmed when a reporter disappears just before the newspaper is sabotaged and Virginia herself finds a threatening message. Original....

  • The Vienna Passage

    David Porter

    Toby Burgate falls in love in Vienna at the turn of the century and, as appreciation for the art and music of the city sweeps over him, learns that not all is beautiful and that the pervasive antisemitism he observes is terribly wrong...

  • Very Important Day

    Maggie Rugg Herold

    "Captures the excitement of immigrants who are becoming U.S. citizens. All across New York City, people are preparing for 'a very important day'...not the least bit daunted by a snowstorm....A tale told with vigor, exuberantly displayed in Stock's pe...

  • Velvet Bond

    Catherine Archer

    LORD RAYNOR WAS NO MATCH FOR THE LOVELY WOMAN HE'D BEEN FORCED TO TAKE TO WIFE Though Lady Elizabeth Clayburn was no stranger to the flattery of men, the enigmatic Baron of Warwicke wielded a power over her more potent than anything she had ev...

  • The Veil of Illusion

    Rebecca Ryman

    Set in nineteenth-century India, a novel examines the repercussions of romance between Maya Raventhorne, daughter of a bitter half-caste who is presumed dead, and Christian Pendleton, the naive son of an English official with a secret past. 35,000 fi...

  • Vanquished

    Valerie King

    Beloved romance author Valerie King is known for her stories that capture Regency England in all its excitement and intrigue. Now, that era's gilded ballrooms and elegant boudoirs become the backdrop for the sensual tale of a woman haunted by desire ...

  • Vampire Mom

    Don Whittington

    Winston is horrified when a mysterious necklace transforms his cookie-baking mother into a strange creature straight out of a monster movie, and when she is attacked by a neck-biting demon, Winston decides to save her. Original....

  • Valley of the Screaming Statues

    Don L. Wulffson

    The reader is set in the jungles of Malaysia, searching for missing family members who disappeared into the Valley of the Screaming Statues, and is offered many alternative ways out of the Valley. Original....

  • The Valentine Legacy

    Catherine Coulter

    In the early 1820s, horse racing was a down and dirty sport. James Wyndham, who owns racing stables in both England and America, finds his racing nemesis in red-haired Jessie Warfield, renowned hoyden and champion jockey, who knows as many dirty raci...

  • Up Close and Personal

    Diane Pershing

    He loved her rough and tender .... A master at getting others to reveal their secrets, Evan Stone never let a woman get close enough to touch the scars that marked his soul. But when teacher Chris McConnell dared confess the sorrows that haunted h...

  • Until the End of Time

    Polly Whitney

    IN DYING COLOR Roller-blading duo Ike and Abby return, still divorced and still working together. Ike is the gorgeous producer of "Morning Watch," Abby is the director. And in between their constant verbal sparring they have another mystery to sol...

  • Undying Laughter

    Kelsey Roberts

    More than one man had a date with Destiny... Destiny Talbott, The Rose Tattoo's newest headliner, was head-turningly gorgeous, but her arresting allure brought on more than her share of suitors, including Wesley Porter, the boss's sexy son. But a ...

  • Under the Moon

    William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats

    While working on a facsimile edition and transcription of W. B. Yeats's surviving early manuscripts, renowned Yeats scholar George Bornstein made a thrilling literary discovery: thirty-eight unpublished poems written between the poet's late teens and...

  • Under the Beetle's Cellar

    Mary Willis Walker

    SHEER TERROR CAN BEGIN IN THE MOST UNLIKELY PLACE.... DEEP BENEATH THE TEXAS FLATLANDS, A SCHOOL BUS HAS BEEN BURIED BY A MADMAN. INSIDE THE BUS, ELEVEN HOSTAGES ARE ALIVE--FOR NOW--BUT THE STRANGE KILLING COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN. ABOVEGROUND, WHIL...

  • Under Ground

    Michael Daly

    When Jack Swain, a New York City policeman, fatally shoots a teenage thief in the subway, his life changes forever, sending him on a dramatic journey through the city he thought he knew so well. Reprint....

  • The Ultimate X-Man

    Marvel Book Group

  • The Ultimate X-Calibre

    Marvel Book Group

    Publisher's summary America is dead. What sits in its place is a gangrenous wound of a nation -- the American dream of the creature Apocalypse. These altered states of America have become a staging area for Apocalypse's next, best nightmare -- t...

  • The Ultimate Generation Next

    Marvel Book Group

  • The Ultimate Factor-X

    Marvel Book Group

    In the Age of Apocalypse, Cyclops serves under Sinister in his Slave Pens, where Dark Beast does genetic manipulation on the prisoners they keep. Can Cyclops reject the evil that he serves and will he have to kill his brother Havok to do so? Reprint...

  • Ultimate Astonishing X-Men

    Scott Lobdell

    Written by Fabian Nicieza. Art by Andy Kubert and Matt Ryan. Published in May of 1995, Softcover, 96 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95. If you want additional books, I ship as many books as you want for a low flat fee....

  • Two Crows Counting

    Doris Orgel

    Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages three to eight as they develop reading skills.

    Level 1 (PRE-K-GRADE 1) books are perfect for reading aloud with children who are gettin...

  • Twist with a Burger, Jitter with a Bug

    Linda Lowery

  • Trusting Sarah

    Cassandra Austin

    Two Lonely Hearts, Destined To Meet Again Sarah Tanton had headed west seeking the promise of a fresh start, and freedom from the memories that haunted her...Yet, little did she know that every step brought her closer to the man she'd loved and lost...

  • True Lies

    Ingrid Weaver

    WHO WAS EMMA CASSIDY? That was what Detective Bruce Prentice had come to the Maine woods to find out. But the more he learned about her, the less he understood. All he knew was, those flights across the Canadian border in her private plane simply ...

  • The Triumphant

    Keith Laumer

    Two new powerhouses of science fiction, David Weber and Linda Evans, continue the amplified history of the Bolo, the nearly indestructible tank/artificial intelligence that changed the shape of the galaxy. David Weber tells the story of a Bolo, th...

  • Tractor

    Craig Brown

  • The Trackers

    Jake McMasters

  • Touched by Moonlight

    Carole Howey

    THE LOVESICK READER Terence Gavilan could turn a sleepy little turn-of-the-century village into a booming seaside resort overnight. But the real passion of his life was searching for Emma Hunt, the mysterious and elusive creator of the tantalizin...

  • Total Amazon Windows

    Simon & Schuster

    Explore the magic of the Amazon rainforest. Inspired by a new exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park. Total Amazon is the riveting multimedia adventure that transports you deep into the rainforest, where you'll learn how to...

  • Too Many Grooms

    Kay Wilding

    Here comes the groom... When daredevil Hunter Townsend was told he was dying, he did the honorable thing--and jilted Susan Willingham so she wouldn't have to witness his demise. Trouble was, two years later Hunter felt downright healthy. And when ...

  • Too Damn Rich

    Judith Gould

    Sex, money, and a high-class auction house form the center of Gould's latest glitzy look at intrigues among the wealthy....

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Francine Pascal

    Unicorns only...

    The Unicorns are back -- the real Unicorns, that is.Remember all those girls we were hanging out with who weren't really Unicorn material? We're through with them. Now they're calling themselves -- get this -- the Angels. Pret...

  • Tonight and Forever

    Brenda Jackson

    Meet the sexy Madaris men and the women who tame them… Don’t miss a single reader-beloved story in this unforgettable collection from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson!Tonight and ForeverAfter her marriage ends in bitter divorce, L...

  • Toad Eats Out

    Susan Schade

    Toad is back in another delightful escapade.  This time, it's our warty hero's birthday, and he decides that he would like to go to a restaurant.  To his surprise, all of his friends are waiting there to make his birthday a ribbity riot!  ...

  • The Tinker's Daughter

    Sheila Hayes

  • Timeswept Bride

    Eugenia Riley

    TIMELESS DESIRE The death of an unfaithful wife has left Jake Blarney with twin daughters to raise and a farm to run on his own. Desperate and angry, he challenges Destiny to bring him a new helpmate --- and is rewarded with a breathtaking gift from...

  • Time After Time

    Antoinette Stockenberg

    HE WAS THE DARK HERO OF EVERY WOMAN'S DREAMS Her face was covered with plaster and dust when he came calling-and she tumbled out of her attic crawl space into his arms. Jack Eastman was as arrogant, as effortlessly elegant as his Newport mansion, wh...

  • Till the Butchers Cut Him Down

    Marcia Muller

    FLYING SOLO Now that private investigator Sharon McCone has struck out on her own, she needs all the clients she can get--even a shady character from her Berkeley days. T. J. "Suitcase" Gordon's made millions as a "turnaround man," a corporate tro...

  • Tides of Love

    Jennifer Taylor

    Marcus Cole was convinced that Eden was his brother-in-law's mistress. And she couldn't tell him the truth -- that he had mistaken her for her sister -- not when he was threatening to take the story to the papers! Eden found Marcus's dark...

  • Thunder in the Valley

    Jim R. Woolard

    Western writer Jim R. Woolard’s classic award-winning debut still rides hard and fires point blank from all barrels . . .Bitter experience has taught Matthan Hannar wound his way upriver, avoiding settlers that wanted to hang him, and Indians seeki...

  • Three Billy Goats Gruff: Just a Friendly Old Troll

    Alvin Granowsky

  • The Thread of Life: Twelve Old Italian Tales

    Mary GrandPre

  • Thirst

    Pyotyr Kurtinski

    BEYOND THE GRAVE… He has lived -- undead in time and space, master of darkness, servant to none. A soulless being cursed by the sunlight, exalted by the night’s embrace, he stalks his human prey with little danger or retribution. As old ...

  • These Bones Were Made for Dancin'

    Annette Meyers

    Leslie Wetzon is dusting off her tap shoes for a good cause: a benefit revival of the landmark Broadway musical Combinations. Using her headhunting smarts, she tracks down the original cast from eighteen years ago -- all except for Terri Matthews, wh...

  • Texas Temptation

    Barbara McCauley

    FORBIDDEN LOVE Tormented by haunting memories, Stone denied himself happiness. But when sultry Annie Baily unexpectedly came back to town, he desperately wanted to believe in forgiveness. Because his brother's ex-fiancee was everything he wanted, ...

  • The Texan

    Janice Kaiser

    Brady Coleman: Rough-and-tumble Texas Cowboy. Ladies man. Lone star lover. Nothing and no one would stand in the way of avenging his sister's death. Jane Stewart: Baby doctor. Beautiful. Classy. Successful -- except when it comes to love. The...

  • Testament

    Valerie J. Freireich

    Treated like an outcast in a genetically engineered world, human throwback Gray Bridger hopes to escape Testament and the powerful Bridger matriarchy that plots to use Gray for its own devices. Original....

  • Terrormazia

    Anna Nilsen

    A loony labyrinth places readers on the trail of the dastardly Captain Sharkshin and his hidden treasure, with a series of magic tunnels that give way to a page-turning adventure of crocodiles, gorillas, and lava lizards....

  • Tempting Jake

    Molly Liholm

    HE WAS A TEMPTING SIGHT Jake Collins: Six feet two inches of raw male animal. Bedroom eyes. Gorgeous smile. So what was he doing driving a bus full of rowdy senior citizens? Tour guide Nora Stevens had her suspicions about her latest Merry Trav...

  • Teacher's Pet

    Josepha Sherman
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Teacher Vic Is A Vampire--Retired

    Jerry Piasecki

    Ghoulish Teacher Vic is is afraid of garlic bread but loves the school blood drive, wears a black cape, and keeps his class laughing, in a story that provides readers with Freaky Facts about Vampires. Original....

  • The Tattooed Map

    Barbara Hodgson

    "I'm beside myself, I can barely write this the design on my left hand is now extended up my wrist ..."
    So deepens the enigma of The Tattooed Map, a richly illustrated and thoroughly captivating first novel by Barbara Hodgson...

  • Tattoo

    Dale Banks

    Seeking the ideal human canvas for the masterpiece of her career, tattoo artist Ashleigh Thomas meets him in a clandestine Los Angeles bar and is drawn into a world of power, pleasure, and possession. Original....

  • Target for Terror

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy travels to the small island nation of Philonesia to help the president's daughter, a promising violinist, escape a series of kidnapping attempts, while the Hardy boys infiltrate an animal rights group at San Francisco University. Original....

  • A Tale from Camp Crypt

    Vincent Courtney

    When the other campers gang up on spoiled Walter Ridgemont III, a mysterious woodsman comes to his aid, but Walter soon discovers that the woodsman expects a terrifying reward for his services. Original....

  • The Takeover

    Stephen Frey

    Investment banker Andrew Falcon is spearheading , the biggest hostile takeover in Wall Street history and counting on a staggering five-million-dollar fee if he can pull it off. But Falcon doesn't realize that he has stumbled onto the secret power of...

  • Taken by Storm

    Danelle Harmon

    WANTED When the last of a rare breed of racehorses faces extinction, Lady Ariadne St. Aubyn resorts to desperate measures. Cramming her brilliant red hair into a stableboy's cap, she steals the one-of-a-kind stallion from her wastrel brother -...

  • Tactics of Duty

    William H. Keith Jr.

    TYRANNY. REBELLION. WAR.Treachery, tribulation, and a relentless slide into the bloody jaws of Armageddon! Insurrection sweeps through the fragmenting Federated Commonwealth, pitting Steiner against Davion forces, and civilians against their petty op...

  • Sweet Enchantment

    Elizabeth Graham

    FROM THE GLITTERING BALLROOMS OF CHARLESTON... Proud, high-spirited Calista Shelby is determined to keep Meadowmarsh, her family's sprawling island plantation. Her mother's will has made it clear: in order to do so, she must marry before h...

  • Surf's Up!

    Beth Cruise

  • Super Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs

    Q.L. Pearce

    The fifth volume of Super Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs includes eleven thrilling tales that will creep into the imaginations of you ng readers everywhere. Great for campouts, sleep-overs, or any dark, stormy night....

  • Sunset Tears

    Cherie Bennett

  • Summertime Blues

    Amy J. Fetzer
    in

    When unconventional artist Kayla Fairchild stumbles into an abandoned Texan well, she also stumbles into a different century...as a frontier schoolteacher with a lesson to learn about love....

  • Summer Storm

    Karen Lockwood
    in

    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Suitors Duel

    Douglas Niles

    The immortal game continues...with a deadly duel! Princess Danis Vanderthan is proud, beautiful, intelligent . . . and stubbornly independent. When her father the king announces a contest for noble suitors, Danis insists that her friend Holton Jak...

  • Strangers at the Gate

    Leonard Gross

    In a fast-paced thriller, a wealthy Jewish police detective from San Francisco puts his own career--and the woman he loves--on the line when he enters the violent Californian underworld of immigrants from Hong Kong. By the author of The Last Jews...

  • Stormy Weather

    Carl Hiaasen

    Two honeymooners wake up early, make love twice, and brace themselves for a spectacle they won't be watching from the sidelines. A seductive con artiste stumbles into a scam that 'promises more cool cash than the lottery. A shotgun-toting mobile home...

  • Stories of the Old South

    Ben Forkner

    Focusing largely on the works of nineteenth-century authors including Twain, Poe, Kate Chopin, and George Washington Cable, this collection reveals the contribution of Southern writers to American literature...

  • The Stone of War and the Nightingale's Egg

    Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Stinger

    Don Pendleton

    America's finest tactical neutralization arm, Stony Man is the Presidents wild card in the deadly game of global terrorism. Acting both within and beyond the law, these dedicated combat and techno warriors operate on one principle: terrorists must pa...

  • Sting in the Tail

    Gerald Hammond

    The latest mystery in the John Cunningham series finds the amateur sleuth sniffing out trouble at the plush Three Oaks Kennel, where a cheerful springer spaniel is mysteriously wounded and an investigation uncovers fraud and murder....

  • Star-Crossed

    Susan Krinard

    A beautiful aristocrat risks a forbidden love ...with a dangerously seductive man born of an alien race. STAR-CROSSED At sixteen, Lady Ariane Burke-Marchand had loved Rook Galloway with all the passion and pain of unrequited love. It didn't mat...

  • Stage Fright

    Clare McNally

    Picking up the pieces of her life after a crazed psychopath brutally murders her lover and best friend before committing suicide, theater director Hayley suspects that the killer has returned from the grave to claim her...

  • Spring Fever

    Ginny Williams

  • Spider-Man: Clone Genesis

    Gerry Conway

    This TPB collects material from Amazing Spider-Man #141 - 151 (Feb. - Dec. '75) and Giant-Size Spider-Man #5 (July '75). This trade paperback is VG to F with one crease on the front cover - book does lie flat. There are no markings or blemishes to b...

  • Spider-Man: Carnage in New York

    Dean Wesley Smith

    The Amazing Spider-Man must go head-to-head with his most dangerous enemy: the psychotic murderer known as Carnage! A vicious serial killer named Cletus Kasady has had his body chemistry altered by an alien creature. Now, Kasady can transform himself...

  • Special Relationship

    Robyn Sisman

    Once in love with an American Rhodes scholar at Oxford with strong political ambitions, Annie Hamilton succeeds in keeping the past affair a secret, until her eldest son stumbles upon the truth of his parentage. Reprint. PW. ...

  • Soup 1776

    Robert Newton Peck

  • Soumchi

    Amos Oz

    A tale of “dazzling brilliance . . . a simple story which conveys boundless meanings both modest and diverse, set in Jerusalem directly after WWII” (Historical Novel Society).When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in Briti...

  • Sophy and Auntie Pearl

    Jeanne Titherington

    One morning Sophy wakes up and discovers she can fly. No one seems interested, except Great-Aunt Pearl--and she has a good reason! Here is a book for young readers and their elders to enjoy together. Full color....

  • Songs in Ordinary Time

    Mary McGarry Morris

    It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Marie Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen -- invol...

  • The Song of el Coqui and Other Tales of Puerto Rico

    Nicholasa Mohr

    Three Puerto Rican stories include the title story, which represents the land's indigenous Tainos; the tale of la Guinea, which is rooted in the nation's African culture; and la Mula's tale, a story of Spanish origin....

  • A Song for Little Toad

    Vivian French

    Lulling her young tadpole to sleep, a mother frog is advised by a sheep, duck, and nightingale that "baaa," "quack," and gentle lullabyes are sure-fire successes, but the baby frog will only fall asleep to the sound of croaking....

  • Something's Coming!

    Richard Edwards

  • Somebody's Baby

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    She was somebody's baby, but whose? A woman's entire life is turned upside down by her mother's deathbed confession: Snow Devane was stolen as an infant and is someone else's child. At thirty-one. Snow believes she has everything she wants--a s...

  • Smoke Cat

    Linda Newbery

    Every day Simon sees mysterious and magical soft shadowy cats of every shape and colour in next door's garden, There they twine themselves around the ankles of a strange old lady. But there's one cat, smoky-coloured, named Blue, who won't go to her, ...

  • Slow Funeral

    Rebecca Ore

    Running away from Bracken County and its corrupt magical practices after her parents are killed, Maude Fuller attempts to deny her witch destiny, until her beloved grandmother's impending death summons Maude back home. Reprint....

  • Slow Dance Heart Break Blues

    Arnold Adoff

    "Adoff addresses his poetry to modern, urban teens in a gritty, hip-hop style. He manages to create poetry from the universal concerns of love and loneliness, the specific teen concerns of acne and braces, and unpleasant realities like selling and ta...

  • Slocum and the Spotted Horse

    Jake Logan

    AN OUTLAW, A DRIFTER...AND A LOSER Will Jameson fancied himself a gamblin' man, but he could barely win a hand...even when he cheated. And as his traveling companion, Miss Delia Tremaine, could attest, he wasn't too skilled at other games, either....

  • The Sky Fisherman

    Craig Lesley

    With his third novel, Craig Lesley comes into his own as an important American writer. Combining the familial loyalties and betrayals of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It with the dead-on perfect ear for western dialect and local ritual of Tho...

  • Sixteen in Nome

    Max Brand

    Nearing starvation, Joe May, a desperate, overgrown youth, accepts a job helping Hugh Massey, the owner of the most famous husky in Alaska, unaware that he has been made the bait his employer needs to lure a hated enemy into a deadly trap. Reprint....

  • The Silver Dolphin

    Diana Lord

    Abandoning Houston high society for a simpler life in Hawaii, heiress Carrie Debary marries marine biologist Alex Madison, only to be swept up in an affair with another man when Alex is seriously injured in an accident. Original....

  • Silver Creek Showdown

    Lee Morgan

    Believing that he is in for an easy assignment when he is sent to locate some cattle rustlers in Silver Creek, Texas, Captain Boyd McMasters is surprised when he learns about the stolen bull's value and the rustler's intent to kill him. Original....

  • Silent Thief

    Judy Baer

    Strange symptoms dizziness, clumsiness, confusion have been plaguing Lexi Leighton's mother for weeks. Sometimes it appears as if her mom is drunk! Tripping over her feet, dropping food on the floor, wearing sunglasses inside the house what is go...

  • Shipboard Wedding

    Francine Pascal

    Spring break is here, and the Sweet Valley University gang is in for six nights and seven days of sun, fun, and romance -- on a college students-only Caribbean cruise! Overboard! Jessica Wakefield has a plan. She's going to reenact her first thrill...

  • Shin's Tricycle

    Tatsuharu Kodama

    A beautifully illustrated true story of another family's experience of the bombing of Hiroshima. Shin's uncle is able to get him the impossible: the tricycle he desperately wants. He is riding the wonderful, brand-new tricycle when the atom bomb i...

  • Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street

    William S. Baring-Gould

  • Shards of Memory

    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in her Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life, to record the history of a spiritual movement that has woven itself into the fabric of th...

  • Shadows from the Fire

    Mary Ryan

    On a balmy May evening in 1969, three young women face very different futures. Patricia is in love, and finally agrees to spend the night with her boyfriend Paddy in the beautiful valley of Glendalough. Joan, studying for her Leaving certificate, dre...

  • Shadowed Past

    Pamela Hatton

    The forgotten marriage... Despite his insistence, Clare tried to convince Jake Kincade that she didn't know him! But how could she avoid him when she desperately needed his help to uncover the secrets of her shadowed past? Jake obviously didn't...

  • Shadow the Deer

    Theresa Radcliffe

  • Shadow Moon

    George Lucas

    From two of the greatest imaginations of our time comes a magnificent novel of adventure and magic...SHADOW MOON: First in the Chronicles of the Shadow
    War.

    The genius of Star Wars(r) creator George Lucas and the vision of Chris Claremont, ...

  • Shadow Man

    Melissa Scott

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    In the far future, human culture has developed five distinctive genders due to the effects of a drug easing sickness from faster-than-light travel. But on the planet Hara, where society is increasingly instability, caught between hard-liner tradi...

  • The Seventh Sentinel

    Mary Kirchoff
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Shadow of the past! A wizard sacrificed himself to preserve the secrets of magic. Centuries later, the survival of magic is again in question. The key is a young lord whose heritage is tied to the tuatha dundarael, faerie folk who practice powerfu...

  • Selling the Lite of Heaven

    Suzanne Strempek Shea

    Advertising to sell her engagement ring after being left at the altar by a man who decided to enter the clergy instead, a young woman meets Randy, a recently engaged prospective buyer who keeps coming back to see her....

  • Seize the Wind

    Heather Graham Pozzessere
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    Available for the first time in ebook! Plunge into the drama and romance of this historical from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. Originally published in the anthology Renegades in 1995.Traveling through the forest north of London, K...

  • Secret Admirer

    Patricia Bourgeau

    Laura Reed feels safe and happy in Cape Christian, a little jewel of Victorian architecture and quiet streets on New Jersey's southern tip. The children's books she writes are earning her modest fame; her husband Jimmy's art gallery is flourishing; a...

  • Second Chance at Marriage

    Pamela Dalton

    For better, or worse... It had been a long time since Dina Paxton had shared her home with a man, but now she knew almost everything about her brazenly male housemate, Gabriel Randolph...including what he wore to bed! The young widow had resigned ...

  • Seafort's Hope

    David Feintuch

    October 12, 2194: The UNS Hibernia was bound from Earthport Station to the Hope Nation Colony, a cruise slated to take eighteen months. Seventeen-year-old Midshipman Nicholas Seafort was proud to be aboard. Though he'd done well at the Academy and...

  • Sea Princess

    Wanda Owen

    Growing up on her sea captain father's ship, the willful Stormy Monihan finds romance with rugged sailor Jason Hamilton, who vows to face any risk in order to save Stormy from a brutal attacker. She was passionate and wild... The willful daug...

  • Schoom

    Jonathan Wilson

    Wiseguys, adulterers, schoolboys, and a New York fur salesman are among the curious characters who populate this debut collection of short stories--tales wryly observant of men and their fluctuating fortunes--set in London and Israel during the '40s ...

  • School Days

    B.G. Hennessy

  • Scarlet Woman

    Barbara Faith

    Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks and then marrying the son of the wealthiest man in town had made Holly Moran the center of gossip. So she'd left home. But even now, years later, returning for a visit as a widow, Holly was stirring up m...

  • Scaredy-Cat Elizabeth

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth Wakefield is scared. Patty, the new third-grader on the bus, is big and mean -- and she's after Elizabeth! Nobody knows why Patty is so nasty, and nobody can stop her. Elizabeth's twin sister, Jessica, tries to help, but that makes Patty ac...

  • Savage Secrets

    Cassie Edwards

    Searching the wilds of the Wyoming Territory for her outlaw brother; Rebecca Veach was captured by the one man who fulfilled her heart's desires. But could she give herself to the virile warrior without telling him about her shameful quest? Blazin...

  • Sauce for the Goose

    Robert Campbell

    Jimmy Flannery is as Chicago as the Cubs. He's a streetwise city sewer inspector, the Twenty-seventh Ward Democratic committeeman, and an amateur detective. He's also happily married and a new dad. Mary, his wife, suggests he improve himself by takin...

  • Sarah's Dilemma

    Judy Baer

    As they gather material on how handicapped people are treated for the student-run television news show at their high school, Sarah's friends gain insight into the difficulties she faces being confined to a wheelchair...

  • Santa Fe Floozy

    Dirk Fletcher

    Spur McCoy, while enjoying the attentions of his latest paramour, will let nothing stand in his way of ending the White Brothers' reign of terror against secluded ranches and lone travelers. Original....

  • Sam 'n' Tommy and the Snakeman

    Pauline Cartwright

    When 12-year-old Sam is lumbered with three-year-old Tommy, he's not very happy about it. However, when they have to survive the horrors caused by the Snakeman, Sam is glad of Tommy's company. In a lot of ways young Tommy is tougher than Sam himself....

  • Salt Dancers

    Ursula Hegi

    Salt Dancers is at once a brilliant portrait of an American family, a story of the secrets families guard, and a moving account of one woman's journey back to a past filled with elusive memories and suppressed rage. Why did Julia's mother disappear ...

  • Rookery Blues

    Jon Hassler

    "UNFORGETTABLE . . . Hassler has skillfully encapsulated an entire world of humanity and emotion in one tiny town in northern Minnesota."
    --San Diego Union-Tribune
    Rookery State College in the late 1960s is an academic backwater if ever there w...

  • The Romance Reader

    Pearl Abraham

    Widely applauded when it was published last year, Pearl Abraham's debut novel The Romance Reader possesses that quality that distinguishes all great fiction -- a fresh look at the universal truths that bind us together. Like Chaim Potok, who revealed...

  • The Rogue Knight

    Merline Lovelace
    in

    In Pozzessere's "Seize the Wind," a highwayman makes a stand against corrupt government officials, while in Michaels's "Apache Fire," a warrior fights prejudice in order to claim the woman he loves and in Lovelace's "The Rogue Knight," a mercenary wo...

  • The Robot King

    Brian Selznick

    "Ezra, a mute since his mother's death, compulsively collects small things that older sister Lucy uses to craft mechanical toys. When she assembles a man-sized figure and inserts their mother's music box as a heart, it comes to life -- and what a lif...

  • The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven

    Rick Moody

    A spirited collection of stories revealing the extremes of the human experience from the author of The Ice Storm In his first story collection, Rick Moody provides readers with a poignant, brazenly honest glimpse into the lives of a wide array of cha...

  • Rider at the Gate

    C.J. Cherryh

    A forgotten colony lost on a planet of wild beauty and unimaginable danger. A people held together by a renegade band of outcast heroes, called to their destinies by alien dreams. A world of Riders and Nighthorses, their minds linked together on the ...

  • The Riddle in the Rare Book

    Carolyn Keene

    When a series of rare-book thefts strikes the Bloom’s Bookstore & Coffeehouse in River Heights, Nancy Drew finds her only clue in the handwriting of a dead woman....

  • Rice

    Su Tong

    Set in famine-stricken 1930s China, Rice chronicles the complete debasement of a city family after it takes in a young man named Five Dragons, a starving wanderer from the provinces whose desire for power and sex is insatiable. In this mesmerizing no...

  • Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes

    R.L. Stine

    SOMEONE'S BEEN STALKING IN MY GARDEN! Two pink flamingos. A whole family of plaster skunks. Joe Burton's dad loves those tacky lawn ornaments. But then he brings home two ugly lawn gnomes. And that's when the trouble starts. Late at night. When eve...

  • Revenge

    Diane Hoh

    When the students at Salem University are terrorized by a vengeful stalker, Addie Adair, a co-ed who is working on an English paper at the computer lab, fears that she will be the next victim when she discovers a strange disk. Original....

  • Return to Sender

    Rebecca Winters

    "Dear Mrs. Brown..." So the letter began and Sarah read on, only to wonder why a Mr. Jonah Sinclair was writing to tell her of his imminent arrival in Denver! But she realized it was too late to do anything about this mail mix-up when a se...

  • Renegade Lady

    Kathryn Hockett

    VENGEANCE IS MINE Josie McLaury had come to Showlow with one purpose: to kill the man who'd shot down her younger brother in cold blood. She thought she'd found him...only to end up in a deadly duel. Before she knew what had happened, she ha...

  • Red Earth and Pouring Rain

    Vikram Chandra

    Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country....

  • Red Card

    Richard Hoyt

    At the first U.S.-hosted World Cup, a package is delivered to German team manager Jens Steiner. Inside, Steiner finds one red and two yellow cards. Hours later, two of the team's hottest players are killed. Steiner realizes that in soccer the cards r...

  • The Real-Skin Rubber Monster Mask

    Miriam Cohen

    Jim loves his Halloween mask with all his heart -- until the night he wears it. When he sees it reflected in the big glass doors, suddenly his mask looks scary. Too scary. Halloween will be horrible! That's what Jim thinks, until his friend Willy com...

  • The Real Mother Goose Book of American Rhymes

    Debby Slier

  • Real Live Monsters!

    Ellen Schecter

    Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages three to eight as they develop reading skills.

    Level 2 (Grades 1-3) books are written especially for children who are on their way to r...

  • Ready . . . Set . . . Read and Laugh

    Joanna Cole

    There's nothing like humor to get children reading as well as laughing. What better way could there be to introduce them to the joys of reading than a superb treasury of humorous works by beloved children's book authors and illustrators?

    Crea...

  • Razzamatazz

    Sandra Scoppettone

    Murder is nothing new to Colin Maguire-he was wrongly accused of fatally stabbing his family in Chicago. The true culprit was never found. Once again in peaceful Seaville, Maguire is accused of committing a series of murders marked by bizarre symbols...

  • Raptor Red

    Robert T. Bakker

    A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers.  She is an intelligent killer...

    So begins one of the most extraordinary novels you will ever read.  The time is 120 million years ago, the place is the plains ...

  • Random House Book of Stories from the Ballet

    Geraldine McCaughrean

    "In this attractive book, ten of the world's best-known ballets, including The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, and Cinderella, are introduced to young readers.  The essence of a ballet production is successfully captured by the f...

  • The Rancher and the Redhead

    Suzannah Davis

    OF BACHELORS AND BABIES What was rancher Sam Preston to do when he found himself saddled with an infant? Holler for his best pal, of course. A single gal like Roni Daniels might not have first-hand experience raising kids, but at least she was a w...

  • A Rake's Journey

    Violet Hamilton

    Gwyneth Winword swooned -- and then she slapped Major Giles Fitzalen-Hill. The handsome, haughty British officer seemed to think that one stolen kiss would make her breathless. Well, in truth, it did, but Gwyneth would sooner die than admit it. Never...

  • The Raggly Scraggly No-Soap No-Scrub Girl

    David Francis Birchman

  • R.L.'s Dream

    Walter Mosley

    It’s 1939 and Easy and Mouse are young men just setting out in life -- Easy has yet to develop his skill for unraveling the secrets of others, and Mouse has yet to kill his first man. But all that will soon change.Soupspoon Wise is dying on the unf...

  • Quicksilver's Knight

    Christopher Stasheff

    SWORD AND SORCERY. SOME GUYS HAVE IT ALL... Geoffrey Gallowglass is a young man in demand--who must make a choice. Should he trust the beautiful, brave Quicksilver--a bandit who stole the land of a lord for herself? Or should he fall for the sultr...

  • The Queen of the Tambourine

    Jane Gardam

    Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year: “Gardam’s portrait of an insanely imaginative woman in an elusive midlife crisis is impeccably drawn” (The Seattle Times).With prose that is vibrant and witty, The Queen of the Tambourin...

  • The Pumpkin Book

    Jim Becker

  • Priscilla Twice

    Judith Caseley

  • Prince of Dreams

    Lisa Kleypas

    She is his future...and his past A wealthy and bitter exile, the most dangerous and desirable man in all of England, he burns to possess a proud, headstrong beauty who is promised to another. But winning Emma Stokehurst's exquisite hand through t...

  • Praying for Sleep

    Jeffery Deaver

    A storm-lashed night. A dangerously paranoid schizophrenic. a woman with a reason to be terrified. And a desperate search for the ultimate truth behind a shocking murder. Michael Hrubek has escaped from a mental hospital for the criminally insa...

  • The Power of Love

    Elizabeth Chandler

    One month after Tristan's death, Ivy becomes aware of his presence as her celestial guardian, but she is unwilling to believe in the existence of guardian angels until Tristan's killer begins to stalk her. Original....

  • Pocahontas Disney

    Justine Fontes

  • Pocahontas

    Justine Korman Fontes

    Ten unique sound effects and colorful illustrations tell the traditional tale of Pocahontas and how she saves the life of Captain John Smith, in an entertaining version based on the new Disney animated film....

  • Playing to Win

    Laurel Ames

    SERA HAD ALWAYS LOVED A CHALLENGE, BUT TONY WAS PROVING TO BE DIFFICULT EVEN FOR HER CONSIDERABLE SKILLS! Despite her bookish exterior, Sera Barclay was an imp with outrageous charm and depths undreamed of by London's stuffy ton. A woman who wou...

  • The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes Up In Space

    Nancy McArthur

    The boy's amazing sock-eating plants have been chosen for the Space Program. Stanley's duty is to pick up trash in the Space Shuttle, while Fluffy helps out with lab experiments on Earth. Who would believe those crazy sock-eaters return home with som...

  • Planetfall

    Scott G. Gier

    FIRST CONTACT...TWICE Genellan--a beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff-dwellers waited in fear for the day the warlike bear people would return... Genellan--the only refuge for a ship's crew and a detachment of spacer marines, aba...

  • Planet of the Dips

    Bruce Coville

    Finding himself and his crew on the silliest planet in the universe after a mischievous mad scientist fiddles with the spaceship wiring, Captain Blork is challenged to discover the planet's strange secret. Original....

  • Planet of Terror

    Don L. Wulffson

  • Pizza War

    Erica Farber