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New Books List: 519 titles

  • Your Wish Is My Command

    Stephanie Bancroft

    When a quick rub of an old brass teapot set off a tremor that reduced his antiques store to a shambles, Ladden Sanderson groaned. At least the exotic carpet he'd rescued from an estate sale would intrigue designer Jasmine Crowne, but what he really w...

  • A Young Swordswoman's Garden Primer

    Sarah Zettel
    in

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • The Young Savages

    Fred Mustard Stewart

    The sequel to The Magnificent Savages continues the saga of shipping magnate Justin Savage, focusing on his children, Johnny, a dashing blond rake, and Julie, a Chinese-American beauty, as they adventure among the New York Society elite. Reprint. AB...

  • You're Our New Mascot, Chuck!

    Charles M. Schulz

    When Peppermint Patty recruits him for her baseball team, Charlie Brown thinks he has been selected to be their new star pitcher, until he is handed a pelican costume and told to prepare for mascot duty. Original....

  • You Can't Catch Me

    Charlotte Doyle

    Delighted in by toddlers everywhere, a familiar sport is captured in bold, full-color illustrations that prove that getting caught--especially in a reassuring embrace--is even more fun than getting away....

  • Yesterday Will Make You Cry

    Chester Himes

    A classic restored-the complete and unexpurgated text of a great African-American writer's brutal and lyrical novel of prison life. First published in reduced and bowdlerized form in 1952 as Cast the First Stone, Yesterday Will Make You Cry was Chest...

  • Yes, We Did Say Chicks!

    Adam-Troy Castro
    in

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • A Year and a Day

    Virginia Henley

    When Lynx de Warenne, Edward Plantagenet's most prized warrior, invaded Dumfries castle, he took possession of Jane Leslie's home--and soon wanted something more from the headstrong lass. Desperate for an heir, he proposed a handfasting: a Scottish c...

  • Wraith Squadron

    Aaron Allston

    They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing pilots risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must go on a daring undercover mission--as the crew of an Imperial warship. ...

  • World Order

    Andrew Goliszek

    When NASA investigator Linda Franklin is sent to unravel a mysterious plane crash, she finds herself staring into the wreckage of an aircraft that has never existed. Her inquiry leads her through the secret corridors of power in the Pentagon to confr...

  • The Wolf Is Coming!

    Elizabeth MacDonald

  • The Wolf Gang

    Chris Lynch

    When He-Man Wolf leaves his gang to create a club of his own, he causes the old gang great distress when it is noticed that all the new club's members are girls, but when Jerome takes sides with He-Man Wolf, those in the Wolf Pack start to take drast...

  • With This Child...

    Sally Carleen

    LITTLE GIRL FOUND Single father Sam Woodward refused to believe his beloved child was not his daughter. But here was Marcie Turne hesitantly offering official-looking papers claiming that she was his daughter's mother--and that a big mistake had b...

  • Wishes Come True

    Kathleen Nance

    "YOU'RE SO SERIOUS ALL THE TIME. YOU DON'T LAUGH MUCH. YOU DON'T SEE ANYONE. FACE IT, MOM, YOU NEED A GENIE." No, thought Zoe Calderone, a genie was exactly what a hard-working, pragmatic, single mother like herself DIDN'T need. But when she went ...

  • Winter Range

    Alan Le May

    A novel by the author of the classic western, The Searchers, takes place in an Arizona prairie town where the death of a powerful cattleman-banker threatens to ignite an all-out war on the range. Original....

  • Winning Ticket

    Margaret Brownley
    in

    When Paige Roberts wins the three-million dollar lottery, she's ecstatic. She doesn't even mind splitting it with the other winner -- until she learns it's her ex-husband. As Paige and Jeff are brought together, the old sparks start to fl...

  • Winnie the Pooh's Valentine Kit

    Bruce Talkington

    With this holiday kit featuring rubber stamps of Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger, children can make adorable valentines for their friends and family. And, once they've created the cards, children can read how Roo makes his mother a very special valentine in...

  • Will's Choice

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    It's 1866 and 12-year-old Will Scott is not happy to be riding the orphan train. That's because Will's not really an orphan. He has a father--Jesse, a circus performer. But Will is no good at circus tricks, and Jesse tells him he'd be better off with...

  • The Will and the Way

    DeWanna Pace

    Davage Jensen, the chief engineer of Union Pacific Railroad, should have sent her packing. But when the headstrong beauty, Key Calhoun, informs him that she is the "snow expert" headquarters has dispatched to solve the crew's current troubles, Davage...

  • Wildcatter's Kid

    Penny Richards

    FIRST LOVE, SECOND CHANCE For six long years, Laura Ramirez tried to forget the man who'd initiated her passion and given her a baby he'd known nothing about. Now wildcatter Russ Campbell was back, and he was everything she remembered -- and mor...

  • Wild Wind

    Patricia Ryan

    When a fiercely loyal and rugged soldier with no desire for frivolous attachments sets eyes on a beautiful woman from his past, he risks his life and his heart to give her a life of happiness and eternal love. KNIGHT OF PASSION Nicolette de St....

  • Wild Highland Home

    Alexandra Raife

    When Clare Sommerville gives up the London rat race to buy a rustic, isolated cottage in the Scottish Highlands, she finds herself drawn to Donald Macrae, a man of quiet strength who is fighting inner conflicts of his own. Original....

  • The Wild Cat Crime

    Carolyn Keene

    While working for a TV news team, Nancy gets a chance to cover a breaking story at the zoo -- a cougar, belonging to one of the world’s endangered species, has given birth to four cubs. But the wondrous news turns wicked when the cubs are stolen....

  • Wife Is a 4-Letter Word

    Stephanie Bond

    How do you spell "disaster"? W-I-F-E At least, that's what Alan Parish thought. Getting dumped at the altar saved him from making the biggest mistake of his life. From now on, it was the single life for him! And since he'd already paid for his honey...

  • The Widow of Larkspur Inn

    Lawana Blackwell

    When Life Seemed Its Worst, Gresham Awaited Julia Hollis' opulent life in Victorian London crashes to pieces when her husband passes away. Worse, she is told by his bankers that he gambled away their fortune. Now, the family's hope rests on The Larks...

  • A Wicked Way to Burn

    Margaret Miles

    WITCHCRAFT...OR MURDER? 1763. With the end of the French and Indian War and a new king on England's throne, it seems the colonies have entered a peaceful and prosperous new era. And though the fashionable ladies of Boston might find Bracebridge al...

  • Why the Tree Loves the Ax

    Jim Lewis

    After an astounding debut with his novel Sister, Jim Lewis once again proves his remarkable talent with Why the Tree Loves the Ax.Caroline Harrison is a young woman drifting across the country from a secret past to an uncertain future. Stranded by ac...

  • Why So Sad, Brown Rabbit?

    Sheridan Cain

  • Whistle

    Janice Daugharty

    Just out of prison after serving time on a drug charge, Roper Rackard comes across a woman's body while mowing the tall grass at the far end of his new boss's property, and although he is innocent of her death, Roper panics. Terrified that he will b...

  • Where the Road Goes

    Joanne Greenberg

  • Where Serpents Lie

    T. Jefferson Parker

    One man's obsessive quest to protect the innocent -- while facing the guilt in his own past. Terry Naughton has come up against his share of heinous criminals in his years on the force -- but nothing has prepared him for the Horridus, the brillian...

  • Where Do Bears Sleep?

    Barbara Shook Hazen

  • When Will It Be Spring?

    Catherine Walters

    The creator of The Dog Who Found Christmas introduces the not-so-sleepy bear cub, Alfie, who searches for signs of spring in his winter woodland home, but when spring in all its glory does finally arrive, someone is caught napping!...

  • When the Earth Wakes

    Ani Rucki

    The simple story of two bears who awaken from a long winter's sleep with the rest of nature to the soft breezes, sunshine, and budding greenery of spring makes a colorful introduction to the seasons or a complement to Earth Day....

  • When I Grow Up

    Steven Walker

  • Wheels of Love

    Emily Carmichael
    in

    Eric Neal is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, but neither of their hearts are in it, and with the help of two of Cupid's agents, Hearts and Flowers, they'll soon find their true loves. Disguised as the 1966 Austin Healey Eric has just bought, Hea...

  • What Jessica Wants

    Francine Pascal

    Can Devon resist Jessica's charm? Is Jessica Wakefield losing her touch? Usually, she can wrap any guy around her little finger. But Devon Whitelaw, the sexy new guy in town, won't give her the time of day. Of course, his coldness makes him eve...

  • Wednesday Witness

    Colleen L. Reece

    The last thing Juli Scott needs right now is another mystery, but she finds herself in peril when someone in their group witnesses something they shouldn't have seen. The challenge is to keep this unsuspecting witness from becoming a victim....

  • The Wedding Ransom

    Geralyn Dawson

    With just the right blend of laughter and romance, Geralyn Dawson weaves an air of enchantment in her tales of old-time Texas, with characters who charm their way right into our hearts. Now she pairs a handsome thief and an unconventional beauty to s...

  • We're off to See the Lizard

    Stephanie Spinner

    While Weebie and Garth are on a visit to their uncle's Texas ranch, a sudden storm hits, causing a dangerous flash flood, and Weebie, stranded in the storm, has to talk with the Great Lizard in order to find his way to safety and return to the ranch....

  • Water of Thought

    Fred Saberhagen

    It drove men mad...but each in a different way. In one the effect was total, utter addiction. In another, a compulsion to absolute obedience. In a third, idealistic monomania. In a fourth, unending, all-consuming lust. Of all the enigmas surroundi...

  • Watch Over Me

    Carly Bishop

    SHE WAS OUT TO CAPTURE A KILLER Becky DiFalco was trapped -- snowbound -- in the Rockies with two men. One, the sexiest man she'd ever seen; the other, the shrewdest killer she'd ever been up against in her years with the Colorado Bureau of ...

  • Waste Land

    Michael Newton

    The story of Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, is based on interviews, court transcripts, and death-row confessions and chronicles their eight-day killing spree while outlining their psychological profiles. ...

  • War in Heaven

    David Zindell

    RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON

    Danlo wi Soli Ringess has returned from the Vild, the first lightship pilot to escape that hellish region of fractured space and deadly supernovas where giant computer-gods make war on each other.

    But the Civi...

  • Wake up and Goodnight

    Charlotte Zolotow

    Preschoolers are invited to greet the day in one half of an engaging flip-around picture book and invited to share the day's end in the other, depicted in lyrical, soothing verse designed to nurture young ones' language skills....

  • A Voice in the Wind

    Francine Rivers

    In an ancient culture frighteningly similar to modern-day America, a young slave girl fights to save the family--and the man--she has grown to love....

  • The Venice Adriana

    Ethan Mordden

    Greek-American opera singer Adriana Grafanas is the most famous opera singer of her time and her scandals, temperament, and cancellations were the stuff of international headlines. Now, in her early 60s, her voice is in shreds and she is near retirem...

  • Vengeance

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    Rumors of a secret alliance between the Dominion and the Klingon Empire lure Captain Sisko and the crew of the Defiant on a desperate mission into the Gamma Quadrant, leaving Deep Space None vulnerable to a surprise sneak attack! Now an elite Klin...

  • The Velveteen Rabbit

    Elizabeth Chandler

    The Velveteen Rabbit longs to be loved because then he will be real. Find out how a treasured toy becomes real in this Rebus Sticker Storybook, which contains more than 35 brightly illustrated stickers!...

  • Valley of the Lizard

    John Vornholt

    It begins with the murder of a New York socialite. Following the trail of the killers, Spider-Man is soon confronted by one of his oldest, deadliest enemies: the Lizard! Once a respected scientist, Dr. Curt Connors created a serum that he hoped wo...

  • A Valentine From Venus

    Cindy Holbrook
    in

    When Cupid wagers Venus she cannot bring two unlikely lovers together, the goddess of love finds herself faced with the Marquis of Waverly, a writer of love poems, and his lovely assistant, Amelia Thornton, who dispassionately analyzes the romantic n...

  • Valentine for an Angel

    Mary Anne Wilson

    FALLING IN LOVE IS A NO-BRAINER! After years of flawless matchmaking, fairy mother Angelina Moore has lost her grip. That's why she's sent to earth for a crash course in sensitivity training. The first lesson learned: emotions are much more compli...

  • Valentine Baby

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    SUDDENLY DADDY On Valentine's Day, fallen hero Tom Lowery grimly wrote off romance. Retired his shining armor. And grumpily retreated to his lonely lair. Only to find an orphaned infant cooing on his coffee table--and willowy Leslie Harden, his fo...

  • The Valentine Affair!

    Mary Lyons

    Sex. Lies and Valentines! Alexandra Pemberton had promised her newspaper a Valentine exclusive: the story of Leo Hamilton's whirlwind engagement to Fiona Bliss. By fair means or foul - and more likely foul! - Fiona had succeeded where many had...

  • User Friendly

    Spider Robinson

    Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer with his Heinlein-influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories. User Friendly is a new solid chunk of Spider's universe that is inimitably reader friendly....

  • Upchuck and the Rotten Willy

    Bill Wallace

    MY NAME IS UPCHUCK. But please -- pretty please -- just call me Chuck. Okay, so I've told a few rotten dog jokes. So sue me. But we cats have to hang together in a dog-eat-cat world! I can think of a few nasty poodles and a fanged Doberman I'd li...

  • The Unknown

    K.A. Applegate

    There's a new rumor in town. Someone has discovered an item that proves life on other planets exists. And they've been hiding it on a base called Zone 91. The Most Secret Place On Earth. Cassie, the other Animorphs, and Ax already know about life ...

  • Unicorn's Blood

    Patricia Finney

    By the author of Firedrake's Eye: a masterpiece of voice, historical detail, and psychological insight to rival Peter Ackroyd and A. S. Byatt

    England in the mid-1580s faced an array of international foes and was torn internally by religious ...

  • An Underachiever's Diary

    Benjamin Anastas

    Meet William, a devout underachiever. He enters life as the firstborn of identical twin boys. It is the last time he will beat his overachieving brother Clive, or anyone else for that matter, at anything. This is William’s manifesto for the underac...

  • An Uncommon Bequest

    Emily Hendrickson

    The Unexpected Season Left without a farthing by her papa's untimely death, Sophie Garnett was quite resigned to being a genteel lady's companion. Then a letter arrived, summoning her to the reading of a relative's will. She never expected the sec...

  • The Ultimate Challenge: Into the Jaws of Doom

    R.L. Stine

    Featuring a gamelike format, the first installment of a new Goosebumps series places readers into a story in which there is only one path that leads to the safe escape from the notorious Hall of Science. Original....

  • Truth or Scare

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    In the continuing adventures of several interns for television's trashiest talk show, Roxanne seeks revenge on a behind-the-scenes spy, Lisha finds herself dreaming about Sky despite her romance with Alan, and Sky lets nothing stand in the way of att...

  • Trial by Seduction

    Kathleen O'Brien

    Sleeping with her enemy! Mark Connelly had always been the black sheep in his family, and Glenna knew she was playing with fire the (lay she walked back into his life. Once a sexy rebel in a leather jacket, Mark had transformed himself into a s...

  • Trapped in Time

    Ted Pedersen

    Wondering where life will take him next, young Jake, inadvertently accompanied by Nog, is catapulted back in time to Normandy, France, in the middle of World War II, where history is about to be changed forever. Original....

  • Trader

    Charles de Lint

    When Max Trader, a quiet, responsible guitar maker and Johnny Devlin, a lady-killing, drunken, unemployed loser, inexplicably awaken in each other's bodies, Max must venture into the streets of Newford where he must confront Devlin and his own deepes...

  • A Totally Cher Affair

    H.B. Gilmour

  • A Toss of the Coin

    Rob Childs

    Worm's dreaming of joining an archaeological dig when suddenly the Time Rangers are flung back to Roman times. Captured, then sold as slaves, they're trapped in chains. Escape is essential, but making a break for freedom lands the lads in an ancient ...

  • Top Cat and Tales

    Elizabeth Bevarly
    in

    By day, Abby Walden is a shy professor -- but by night, she's 'Candida,' author of a spicy love column. Joel Tandem, who resides just a fire escape away, also lives a double life. Though each thinks the other is the cat's meow, gettin...

  • The Tick: Mighty Blue Justice!

    Greg Hyland

    The sworn protector of The City, the Tick, and his sidekick, Arthur, discuss how to become a superhero, introduce other superheroes and villains, recount their greatest cases, and provide a scrapbook of clippings, interviews, pictures, and other item...

  • Tic-Tac-Toe: Three in a Row

    Judith Bauer Stamper

  • Thursday Trials

    Colleen L. Reece

    Sixteen-year-old Juli hopes her experience as a trial witness in a bank robbery case in Bellingham Bay, Washington, will give her material for writing mystery stories, until she and her church group friends receive death threats and warnings not to t...

  • Thrones, Dominations

    Jill Paton Walsh

    Deemed "one of the greatest mystery writers of this century" by the Los Angeles Times, Dorothy L. Savers first captivated readers nearly seventy years ago with her beloved sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane in the novel Strong Poison. In Busm...

  • Three-Alarm Love

    Carole Buck

    VERY LOUD WEDDING BELLS... Keezia Carew never imagined that her best friend's kiss would send shivers up her spine, set her head spinning and sound off alarms. Or that sexy Fridge Randall would suddenly be hearing wedding bells! With one bad m...

  • Three for Brighton

    Martha Kirkland

    Falling in Love is as Easy as One, Two, Three... Constance Mitchell had the beauty, her younger sister Felicity possessed the brains, and their cousin Regina Farrington, formerly a lady's companion, had the only money among them... five hundred po...

  • This Never Happened

    Elly Summers

    A violent crime propels a man to explore shocking truths about his family's past--things he's been told, and has told himself, never happened--in this compulsively readable, intelligent novel of psychological suspense.

    Richard Hayes gets a cal...

  • These Demented Lands

    Alan Warner

    After the critical success of his first novel,  Morvern Callar, Alan Warner has written an extraordinary, stirring sequel to Morvern's odyssey, confirming him as one of the most original, uniquely gifted writers to have appeared this decade.

  • That Same Flower

    Jostein Gaarder

    Floria Aemilia, a concubine to St. Augustine for more than ten years prior to his spiritual awakening, challenges St. Augustine's view of women and love as described in his Confessions, in a passionate and occasionally erotic fictional letter...

  • Texas Wind

    J.R. Roberts

    After Clint Adams wounds outlaw Pete Jensen and kills his two brothers in a shootout, the ornery outlaw is looking for revenge, but the Gunsmith has other plans to settle their differences--permanently. Original....

  • Texas Lucky

    Maggie James

    AN UNTAMED LAND WOULD AWAKEN HER SPIRIT Tess Partridge traveled west to marry a man she had never met -- and found herself a prisoner in a makeshift jail when her plans went unexpectedly awry. Her cellmate was darkly handsome Curt Hammond, a man acc...

  • The Texan

    Catherine Lanigan

    HOT TEXAS NIGHTS When sensible Angela Morton blew out her thirtieth-birthday candles, she was secretly wishing for a man. And that's exactly what she got. A tight-lipped Texan so sexy, he left her senseless. But after the night of a lifetime, her...

  • Terminal Justice

    Alton Gansky

    HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES? WOULD YOU BREAK THE LAW? LIE, CHEAT, STEAL? WOULD YOU KILL? After an event that shattered his world, David O’Neal courageously sets out to rebuild his life as a speech writer for Barringston Relief...

  • The Ten-Ounce Siesta

    Norman Partridge

    Jack Baddalch knows that there is something big at stake when the Chihuahua named Spike that he is escorting across the desert for his shady boss is stolen by a band of machine-gun-toting women in black leather. Original....

  • Temporary Parents

    Sara Wood

    Back in his bed! Laura had sworn never to return to Cornwall, or to see her ex-lover, Max, again. But now here she was, cocooned in a tiny clifftop cottage with him, watching him play daddy to her small niece and nephew -- and enjoying every minu...

  • Tempest Rising

    Diane McKinney-Whetstone

    Class, race, and sexuality converge in this page-turning story of desire, jealousy, and survival.Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents...

  • Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

    James Baldwin

    A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war."Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American ...

  • Tangled Vines

    Diane Noble

    A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. AN ELEGANT CHATEAU. A SINISTER SECRET. Pelican Bay, California. A sleepy, seaside village where the biggest news in the weekly Pelican Journal is the release of local celebrity Theodora Whimple's latest mystery novel. ...

  • Tales from the Slushpile

    Margaret Ball
    in

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Take Two

    Diane Petit

  • Sweet Baby

    Sharon Sala

    LITTLE GIRL LOST... It all happened a long time ago, so long ago that Tory Lancaster no longer remembered being a little girl who came home to an empty house. Tory is a woman now, trying to leave behind a legacy of abandonment and sorrow, desperat...

  • The Swarm

    John Whitman

    A new evil lurks: Star Wars - Galaxy of Fear Terror is everywhere ... The Sikadian Garden on Sk'rrr is full of beautiful plants and flower . . . and some other, not-so-pretty things. There are also shreevs, batlike creatures that swoop down and...

  • Surrender

    Heather Graham

    Nothing in her privileged life had prepared Yankee beauty Risa Magee for the dangers and intrigues of war ... until she bravely rowed through nighttime waters to carry a warning to a friend behind Confederate lines. Suddenly, she was the prisoner of ...

  • The Surprise Garden

    Zoe Hall

    In simple language and vibrant, full-color cut-paper collages, three children celebrate the delights of planting a garden in the spring, then watching with joyful anticipation what grows from each seed, from green beans to yellow squash to red carrot...

  • Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western

    Ric Lynden Hardman

    The year: 1881.  The place: Odessa, Texas.  Seventeen-year-old Wylie Jackson lands a job as assistant cook on what will be his first cattle drive.  Before he departs, Wylie's friend Alice charges him with taking her pet cattalo, Roselle, to her...

  • The Street Lawyer

    John Grisham

    Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nin...

  • Stone Dead

    Frank Smith

    BODY IN QUESTION A routine robbery investigation turns into something much more sinister when a corpse is found in the well of a cottage belonging to photographer Peter Foster. Foster fears the body is the ex-husband of his current girlfriend, a mode...

  • Stephanie: Heart of Gold

    Cameron Dokey

    Share the dream, as the beautiful hope chest passes to a new generation and a young woman dares to follow her heart on a dangerous voyage in pursuit of true love. Baltimore 1850 Stephanie is crushed when she discovers that her father has sent the ma...

  • Steel to the South

    Wayne D. Overholser

    In "Steel to the South," Clay Bond finds himself in the middle of a range war brought about by the railroad, while in "Fabulous Gunman," gunslinger Bill Womack has to use his gun often as he attempts to hang it up for the last time. Original....

  • Stalker

    Jordan Cray

    The Internet...a world without rules, without boundaries. Where you can be anyone you want, whoever you aren''t. And it''s all just a click away...Mina and Camille share everything. So why would Camille take off without telling Mina? The cops think s...

  • Stacey and the Stolen Hearts

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! Stacey's having a great time running the eighth-grade fund-raiser, selling secret "valentine-grams" to be delivered on Valentine's Day. But then the fun stops: Someone steals the bag of valentin...

  • Spring Fever

    Stephanie Prince

    Sigma Phi Sigma is the coolest sorority on campus. But can four friends from different worlds turn their sorority into a winner?

    Molly knows the Spring Fever Charity drive is her chance to shine -- until she ends up in her perfect sister's shadow....

  • Spider-Man Kingpin

    Stan Lee

  • Spark of Life

    Erich Maria Remarque

    In Spark of Life, a powerful classic from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front, one man’s dream of freedom inspires a valiant resistance against the Nazi war machine.   For ten years, 509 has been a political prisoner in a Ger...

  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Ted Dewan

    How can the Sorcerer, a brilliant inventor, possibly clean up after himself when he spends all of his time working? His solution -- he invents a robot Apprentice to solve his clutter problem! But when the Apprentice is left to clean up the workshop...

  • Son of the Sheriff

    Sandy Steen

    He'd never stopped loving her...but he didn't dare trust her. After sixteen years Annabelle Delacroix has finally come home. After a disastrous marriage arranged by her father, Philip Delacroix, she's ready to start over. But when she's pulled ove...

  • Someplace to Be Flying

    Charles de Lint

    The streets of the city, and the ancient myths of the land. Mystery and portents; glittering dreams. The magic of friendship. Of art and music. And of love. Welcome to the world of Charles de Lint. Here is Lily, a photojournalist in search of the "a...

  • Someone to Love

    Francess Lantz / Francess Lin Lantz

    Unsure about how to feel when her parents decide to adopt a baby, fifteen-year-old Sara meets Iris, a young pregnant teenager to whom she becomes very close, which cause disastrous and unexpected events to occur. Reprint....

  • Solo Variations

    Cassandra Garbus

    Deftly evoking the anxieties and ambitions of urban, female Generation Xers and the rich, demanding world of the performing arts, Solo Variations offers a hip, atmospheric look at an artist's search for identity and renewal. At twenty-six, Gala's p...

  • Solibo Magnificent

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    New York Times notable book of the year
     
    In Fort-de-France, Martinique, a colorful group of musicians, street vendors, and hopeless disciples, including the author, gather under a tamarind tree to listen to legendary bard Solibo Magnificent...

  • Snowbound Bride

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A RUNAWAY BRIDE WEARING GALOSHES Not only was Nora Hart Kingsley stranded in a blizzard, but she was stuck in her wedding gown! Furthermore, her galoshes were attracting the attention of the far-too- good-looking lawman at t...

  • Snow

    Betsy Howie

    A darkly comic, absurdist, and highly original story of one woman’s quest to find herself. In the dead of winter, her marriage over, a young woman leaves New York City with her two cats and drives north with little more than a few cans of Spam and ...

  • Smoke on the Water

    Brian Daley

    Though they contemplated a final suicide mission of blood, guts, and glory, the Exts knew their warrior superskills were no match for the LAW--Legal Annexation of Worlds--who were sent into space by the mighty Periapt potentates to colonize new popul...

  • Slue-Foot Sue and the Witch in the Woods

    Laura Frankos
    in

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Singing in the Comeback Choir

    Bebe Moore Campbell

    The author of Brothers and Sisters follows a successful producer who tries to revitalize the ghetto of her youth while trying to save her grandmother, a once noted singing star, from herself. Reprint....

  • Sinful Pleasures

    Anne Mather

    Falling for a younger man Megan Cross hasn't been back to the Caribbean island of San Felipe since her parents' ugly divorce and her mother's second marriage. Now her mother's husband is desperately ill and wants Megan's forgiv...

  • Silent Zone

    Dean Devlin

    The No. 1 blockbuster movie Independence Day was only part of the story. After the alien invaders are downed and teams are sent out to find survivors, only some personal belongings of Dr. Brackish Okun, head scientist of Area 51, are found.

    Okun's ...

  • Silent Zone

    Stephen Molstad

    A ""prequel"" to the tale of extraterrestrial invasion dramatized in the blockbuster 1996 film, Independence Day, details an evil government conspiracy to conceal the reputed UFO landing in Roswell. National ad/promo."...

  • Signs and Portents

    Jane Killick

    A comprehensive episode-by-episode guide to the first thrilling season of Babylon 5! 

    Babylon 5: Signs and Portents, kicks off with a foreword by actor Michael O'Hare, better known to viewers as Commander Sinclair, and features a fascinating ...

  • A Shooting Over in Jersey

    Justin Scott

  • Shocking Pink

    Erica Spindler

    THEY WERE ONLY WATCHING The mysterious lovers the three girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game no one else was supposed to know about. Especially not Andie and her friends, whose curiosity had deepened into a dangerous obsession.... ...

  • Sharp Edges

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As the director of the Leafbrook Glass Museum, she's been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island -- an artistic haven near Seattle -- to catalog an important collecti...

  • Shadows on the Hudson

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    "A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its cen...

  • Shadows on the Bayou

    Patricia Vaughn

    Between a man and a woman, there can be an arrangement... A young woman of color in 1800s French New Orleans had one destiny--to become the mistress of a rich Creole gentleman. For Sylvia Dupont, her exquisite beauty was a curse. She attracted males...

  • Send Me No Flowers

    Sherry Lewis
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    For fear of ruining their friendship, David Randolph never confessed his love to Shawna. Now, seven years later, she reappears in his life. And it's finally time to be more than a friend......

  • See No Evil

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Detective Marti MacAlister investigates the murder of a young woman whose criminal contacts may put a homeless man at risk. And while Marti looks for one killer, another has come from the past and into her home-zeroing in on all that is dear to Marti...

  • Secrets of the Heart

    Joan Lord Matthews

    Ravenna Marisse didn't believe in curses, but something was wrong at Harlixton Hall. None of the wives of the four brothers who resided there had safely delivered an heir. And when Anne Pembroke lay dying giving birth to her son, Raven's renowned ski...

  • Secret Star

    Nora Roberts

    MURDERED MILLIONAIRESS He was standing face-to-face with a dead woman. . . and she was holding a gun. Lieutenant Seth Buchanan's homicide investigation --- and his heart --- were thrown into turmoil when Grace Fontaine turned up very much alive --...

  • Secret Hearts

    Alice Duncan

    He was irresistible. Handsome as sin. And he filled her nights with dreams no proper lady should enjoy.... HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED -- AND COULD NOT TOUCH... By day she was Claire Montague, prim, demure housekeeper of Partington Place. B...

  • A Secret Cupid

    Rachel Lee
    in

    A widowed minister fights his attraction to his secretary, unaware that his daughter--with a little help--is determined to make their Valentine wishes come true....

  • Secret Child

    Ann Major

    CHILDREN OF DESTINY When Passion and Fate Intertwine -- A Secret Child is Born! Jack West knows that nothing will stop him from tracking down his wife, Chantal, who'd betrayed him and sent him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Chantal had...

  • Second-Grade Ape

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • Second Sight

    Chris Archer

    In the fourth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, an alien encounter gives a teen with psychic powers a dangerous premonition.   Elena Vargas has lived in Metier, Wisconsin, her whole life. But that doesn’t mean she actually believes all ...

  • The Scream

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  • Saving Serenity

    Jenna Jones

    Sweet Serenity She thought he was a cad... As long as she lived, Miss Serenity Hoffenduffle would never forget the scene. Kidnapped in the middle of the night and brought to a house of ill repute, she was stunned to find her fiance, Randall Torre...

  • Savage Heat

    Cassie Edwards

    Ever since the sweltering summer day when Zoe Hawkins pinned on her father's tin star, she'd sworn to uphold the law in rough-and-ready Gracemont, Oklahoma. But how could the lovely sheriff maintain order when she couldn't even subdue her own waywar...

  • Sara's Song

    Fern Michaels

    A brilliant career and loving friends weren't enough to heal Dr. Sara Killian's aching heart. For a brief, magical moment, world famous rock star Dallas Lord was part of her life. Then he was suddenly and tragically taken away. But before he disa...

  • The Sapphire Princess Hunts for Treasure

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

  • Sand Glass

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Set in London where the Sri Lankan narrator lives, The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of post-colonial Sri Lanka. Gunesekera brings to life Prins Ducal and his search for answers...

  • Saints and Villains

    Denise Giardina

    An astonishing historical novel in the tradition of Schindler's List--evoking powerfully the danger and heroism of the Nazi resistance. What is the price of acting morally in a time of great evil, when sin and necessity seem twinned? Saints and Villa...

  • Runaway Fiancee

    Sally Wentworth

    Bring Back My Bride! It should have been the wedding of the year...Instead, his beautiful fiancee was in another country, celebrating her engagement to another man - and she had no memory of ever agreeing to marry Milo Caine! It had taken him...

  • The Royal Four

    Amy Stout

    In her stunning debut novel The Sacred Seven, author Amy Stout gave us an enthralling adventure replete with all the magic and heroism, mystery and power of the best epic fantasy. Now, in The Royal Four, she transports us back to a kingdom known as t...

  • Rough Around the Edges

    Pat Van Wie

    A dark warrior whose touch was as seductive as it was dangerous . . . Alex Jamison knew at a glance that Dr. Kristen Helton spelled trouble! The emerald-eyed physician was an outsider, a rich do-gooder he expected to run if things got rough on the...

  • A Room of My Own

    Ann Tatlock

    Virginia, the daughter of a wealthy physician, lived in an idyllic world until the Great Depression hit, and when she finds herself alongside her father giving medical aid and assistance to the community, she begins to learn the true lessons of life...

  • Rites of War

    C.A. Mobley

    Female NSA agent Jerusha Bailey must prevent a full-scale war by going head-to-head with the commander of a German U-Boat, after attacks are instigated on a North Korean submarine and a U.S. command ship. Original....

  • Riding School Rivals

    Susan Saunders

  • Rhyme and Reason

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    The Scandalous Secret... Emily Talcott has enough to worry about, trying to see her lovely younger sister suitably married before their father's lamentable lack of skill in cards sends them to the poor house. Now this well-bred miss is fending ...

  • Revenge on Eagle Island

    Stephen A. Bly

    The Lewis and Clark Squad is in Montana to watch Jeremiah dance and compete in a pow-wow. Of course, they plan to play 3-on-3 basketball too. Excitement and then stress builds when Larry's prized, autographed basketball is stolen. The only clue is a ...

  • The Reunion

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    Returning home for Christmas break, four friends--Cameron, Zara, Allison, and Bridget--are reunited after spending a semester apart at their respective colleges and try to pick up where their friendships had left off, despite changes and secrets. Ori...

  • Return to the Secret Garden

    Susan Moody

  • Rescue at Boomerang Bend

    Robert Elmer

  • The Rescue

    Suzanne Robinson

    A LADY WHO KNOWS TOO MUCH... There's nothing like witnessing a murder to shake up one's life. That's what Miss Primrose Victoria Dane discovers when she accidentally stumbles upon the scene of a deadly crime. Suddenly the well-bred spinster is on ...

  • Renegade River

    Giff Cheshire

    From moving tales of the hardships faced by ranchers, to wagon trains overcome by Indians on the Oregon Trial, to steamboat builders and pilots on the Columbia River, this eloquent collection of historical narrative is steeped in the frontier life of...

  • Rendezvous

    Bridget Anderson

    SHE RAN FROM DANGER... Lovely, educated Jade Bassett had married a handsome man who told her lies, took all her money, and then was found murdered. Reeling from her shattered world, she is running for her life on the streets of Atlanta, knowing that...

  • Remington and Juliet

    Rebecca York
    in

    All Juliet had were directions to the rival Remington estate - and a mysterious skeleton key. But when she met the reclusive Remington heir at a masked Valentine's Day ball, Juliet would unlock more than the secrets to their families' century-old feu...

  • The Reluctant Husband

    Lynne Graham

    She was still his wife! Frankie Caparelli thought she'd seen the last of her husband, Santino Vitale -- until he breezed back on the scene with some earth-shattering news. Their marriage wasn't annulled, and now he intended to claim the we...

  • The Reluctant Bride

    Kathryn Alexander

    UNWILLING TO WED With her generous heart and dazzling smile, beautiful Micah Shepherd was Rob Granston's dream come true. The handsome attorney knew that Micah felt drawn to him, too. But why did she avoid him at every turn? Micah hinted at a trag...

  • Redwall Map and the Redwall Riddler

    Brian Jacques

    Escape into the land of Redwall with this beautifully illustrated full-color fold-out map. Explore the treacherous terrain, legendary landmarks, and wondrous sites which Brian Jacques has made famous in his Redwall tales. Then, test your Redwall know...

  • Red, Yellow, Green: What Do Signs Mean?

    Joan Holub

    With a lighthearted rhyming text and cheery illustrations, a colorful activity book that introduces the meaning and purpose of everyday signs includes thirty-four bright stickers to peel and stick to corresponding signs found in the book. Original....

  • Red-Hot Lover

    Sarah Holland

    Too hot to handle! Clara Maye and Jared Blackheath are the hottest celebrity couple of the moment. In the public eye, Jared is a charismatic multimillionaire, and in the bedroom he's a red-hot lover. Clara just can't wait to marry him! ...

  • A Real-Live Sheikh

    Jacqueline Diamond

    HOW TO MARRY... A Real-Live Sheikh - Don't let his sexy, take-no-prisoners gaze enchant you - Don't let his delicious, slow-and-sure kisses bewitch you - Don't even think about what's under his robe He swept into her hotel lobby swathed in whi...

  • Ready, Set...Baby!

    Christie Ridgway

    Ready? To be a daddy? Seth Cooper? That footloose world traveler--and confirmed bachelor--would rather tangle with an angry boa constrictor than hold a squirming baby. And yet... Set? Surrogate mother Katie McKay was all set to have her baby...

  • Rapunzel: A Happenin' Rap

    David Vozar

    Rapunzel--she's the spoiled girl in the tower, the one with the lo-o-o-ng hair and unusual flair.



    Witch--she's mean and getting meaner 'cause she's tired of granting Rap's every little wish.



    Fine Prince--this cool stru...

  • A Quiet Knight's Reading

    Steven Piziks
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    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Queen Esther Saves Her People

    Rita Golden Gelman

    Based closely on the Book of Esther and featuring childlike artwork that captures the trappings of the period, a spirited retelling of the Purim story celebrates the Queen Esther's brave defense of the Jews against the king's tyrannical prime ministe...

  • Quaker Indictment

    Irene Allen

    OUTSIDE THE MEETINGHOUSE THE WORLD CAN BE A DEADLY PLACE At the urging of an old friend, devout Quaker Elizabeth Elliot travels far from her peaceful New England home to visit a town simmering with the deadly fallout of a government cover-up. Reba...

  • Pursuit of Justice

    Mimi Lavenda Latt

    Young and idealistic L.A. lawyer Rebecca Morland had a rosy future. She and her husband, Ryan, had a happy and passionate marriage and planned to start a family. Then Ryan vanished. Recently named a partner at one of the city's most prestigious la...

  • Purple Is My Game, Morgan Is My Name

    Judi Miller

  • Punishment in Botany Bay

    Bethany Amber

    Set free by desire...Lalitha's fate is pre-ordained. Trained for the exclusive pleasure of the male sex, she is destined to be sold as a plaything to the libertines of the Hell Fire Club. There, in the caves of debauchery, the instruments of pleasure...

  • Protected Will Never Know

    Leigh Wade

    STAYING ALIVE

    Commander Leigh Wade outwitted death through five harrowing SF tours in Vietnam. n 1965, during his second assignment in Vietnam, Wade volunteered for duty with the newly arrived 173rd Airborne and participated in the first batta...

  • The Prodigal Daughter

    Carol Duncan Perry

    It's the talk of the town! Charlotte--one of the "scandalous" Carlyles--is back, and the townsfolk of Little Falls, Arkansas, are gossiping! Especially about Lottie's relationship with the town's favorite son--confirmed bachelor and millionaire, H...

  • A Private Affair

    Donna Hill

    Nikita Harrell's drive and determination took her to the pinnacle of the New York publishing world. And it also swept her into the arms of Quinn Parker. A proud man with the soul of an artist and the strength to survive on the mean streets of Harlem,...

  • The Prisoner Within

    Donald E. McQuinn

    THE PRISONER WITHIN Given one last chance to save himself from death and dishonor, Captain Lannat is smuggled to a tyrannical planet to hunt down Etasalou, the man responsible for his arrest and disgrace. But Etasalou holds a position of unassaila...

  • Prisoner of Conscience

    Susan R. Matthews

    Andrej Koscuisko is an Inquisitor for the Bench federation of worlds. It is his duty to root out--quickly, efficiently, quietly--anyone who would threaten the ruling order. Andre] has been posted to the penal facility at Port Rudistal. Here hundr...

  • Prince of Sunset

    Steve White

    IT WASN'T MUCH OF AN EMPIRE ANYMORE--BUT IT WAS ALL THEY HAD... . Afterwards, Basil Castellan was always certain that it had all begun the day he'd been rescued by the dragon. Oh, it hacjn't been a real dragon, of course, or so he hastily assured ...

  • Primrose Lane

    Katherine Sutcliffe
    in

    A life of petty crime kept bad boy Joe Norton far from the lovely Camille. Until a twist of fate leads him back to his secret love. Now finally, for her, he's ready to change his ways......

  • Preston Falls

    David Gates

    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Jernigan introduced David Gates as a novelist of the highest order. "Full of dark truths and biting humor,"  wrote Frederick Exley, "a brilliant novel [that] will be read for a long time."After that blackl...

  • The Portable Henry Rollins

    Henry Rollins

    Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word.  As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through two decades of rage and disc...

  • Pocahontas

    Gina Ingoglia

  • Play It Again, Sam

    Victoria Alexander

    So, You Think You Know Romance? You don't. Not unless you know Spencer St. Gregory and Philippa Morgan. Now theirs was a love for the ages. Just boy meets girl -- a story we've all heard -- or think we have. I had. I thought I'd heard ...

  • Pirates Stickers

    Steven James Petruccio

    Heave ho, matey, and step into an adventure-filled world of seaworthy stickers. Nineteen exciting illustrations offer realistic portraits of villainous rogues with swords and muskets, old salts playing musical instruments, a galleon flying the dreade...

  • The Pink Rabbit Caper

    Georgette Livingston

  • A Perfect Match

    Gwynne Forster
    in

    AT NEW YORK'S MOST ROMANTIC SETTING--VALENTINE'S DAY CAN BRING LOVE'S SPECIAL SURPRISE Amid Manhattan's most elegant restaurants, The Rainbow Room casts a golden glow with nights filled with fine dining, magical music and the splendor of dancing h...

  • Pearls of Lutra

    Brian Jacques

    Known as the Tears of All Oceans, six magnificent rosecolored pearls that inspire passion, greed, and deception are mysteriously missing. The only clue is a series of riddles, and Tansy, a young hedgehog maid at Redwall Abbey, is desperate to solve t...

  • Patterns of Love

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Swedish immigrant Inga Linberg might not be as beautiful as her flirtatious sisters, but that doesn't mean she doesn't share their romantic ideas. When Dirk Bridger, a handsome but beleaguered Iowa farmer, approaches her minist...

  • Painted Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    Stevie Lake is going on a class trip to New York City. While Stevie has visions of hanging out in Greenwich Village, her teacher has other ideas--long, boring lectures and a test. Well, Stevie has her own plans. She shakes her classmates and sets off...

  • Overshoot

    Mona Clee

    In the year 2032, eighty-year-old Moira Burke watches as life on Earth becomes a series of natural disasters due to global warming--and the planet's only hope may be a bold new genetic experiment called "The Green Man." Original....

  • Outpost

    Scott MacKay

    Award-winning author Scott Mackay’s "fast-paced action adventure” depicts the story of a struggle for liberty against unknown captors -- and a fight for survival in an unknown world… (The Washington Post). Young Felicitas has woken in a prison ...

  • The Outcast

    Rosalyn West

    The Men of Pride County When War began, the boys of Pride County went off to fight for honor and glory. They returned as men: war-ravaged, shattered, yet determined to find lore and rebuild their lives in a world that had crumbled around them. These...

  • Out of the Blue

    Steven Knight

    Everyday Matthew King wonders how his mother, a poor painter living on the Greek island of Skiathos, ever managed to leave him such an astounding sum of money. One sunny afternoon in London, an intruder shoots his daughter dead. Matthew is convinced ...

  • Our Secret Love

    Miranda Harry

    Just between us... Dana Lipton has totally fallen for Chris Geller. Who wouldn’t? He’s sexy, funny, and smart--and he’s just as crazy about Dana as she is about him. But there’s one problem: Chris is her older brother Brian’s best friend, ...

  • Orphan

    Shashi Warrier

    At thirty-eight, feeling ancient and used up, Raja knows his best years as a commando are behind him. But he will soon be tested as never before...Raja (Colonel Rajan Menon) has barely crossed the border to safety after a daring rescue operation in P...

  • Operation: Titanic

    Carolyn Keene

    Presented with an opportunity to witness the raising of the Titanic, Nancy investigates some disruptions and realizes a saboteur is at work, a situation that turns deadly when Joe Hardy mysteriously disappears. Original....

  • One Step Too Far: Bailey

    Megan Stine

  • One Night: A Story from the Desert

    Cristina Kessler

    In this picture book for older children, Muhamad spends his first night alone in the desert tending to a new mother goat and her kid. Told in Muhamad's voice, the story reflects the culture of the Tuareg, a nomadic people with strong ties to family a...

  • One Night at a Time

    Christa Conan

    TROUBLE HAD NEVER BEEN SO APPEALING.... Special Investigator Doug Masterson was headed for some long-awaited R and R when trouble walked into his office. Tall, beautiful and with curves in all the right places, Arielle Hale had the face of an ange...

  • One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality

    Bradley Denton

    Highlighting this collection is an ingenious new episode in the saga of Jimmy Blackburn, the eponymous serial killer of Denton's third novel. "Blackburn Bakes Cookies" might best be called the icing on the cake that is Blackburn's sto...

  • On the Way to Gretna Green

    Marian Devon

    SHE HADN'T SET OUT TO STIR THINGS UP -- ESPECIALLY HER OWN HEART... Though recently jilted at age seven-and-twenty, Claudia Wentworth was about to embark on a whirlwind adventure. It all began when she enlisted the aid of Lord Thornton after h...

  • On Hope's Wings

    Melody Carlson

    A promise from the past... a hope for today... Fourteen-year-old Allison O'Brian has never known what it's like to, have a real family. Her mother, a popular and glamorous movie star, is more interested in her soaring career than in her daughter, hi...

  • On Baby Patrol

    Sharon De Vita

    ONE MAN'S VOW In one dramatic moment, police officer Michael Sullivan was without a partner, and mother-to-be Joanna Grace without the father of her baby. And now, Michael would fulfill his secret promise to take care of his friend's beautiful wife ...

  • Old Mother Hubbard

    Oyster Books