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  • Zot Goes Camping

    Ivan Jones

    Clive and Zot the dog are off on their summer holidays - this year they're going camping. A ride on an old steam train, the Ketley Dodger, takes them into the country and they find a perfect spot to pitch their tent. But Master Rat and his brother wa...

  • Yu-G-Oh! the Movie: Master Duelist Activity Book

    Scholastic Inc.

    Yugi has acquired the three all-powerful Egyptian God Cards and restored order to the world. But an ancient evil, a creature of darkness, is determined to destroy Yugi and take over the worls! Now Yugi must fight the greatest battle of his life. Join...

  • The Year of Our War

    Steph Swainston

    Unique among his fellow immortals and mortal folk alike, Jant Comet can fly. His talent is a gift and a curse that has earned him a place in the Castle Circle as Messenger to the Emperor San--soaring high and free above the bloody battlefields of his...

  • The Year Before Sunset

    Hugh Gantzer Colleen

  • The Wounded Hawk

    Sara Douglass

    The Middle Ages. Finally, the Black Plague has passed, and for a while it seems evil has been defeated. Europe recovers; prosperity returns, trade resumes, and people slowly recover from the effects of the plague. Then, just as the Church relaxes its...

  • The World Turned Upside Down

    Baen Books

    GET READY FOR A GIANT, MIND-EXPANDING DOSE OF THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION EVER WRITTEN BY THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS OF ALL TIME!When readers first encounter science fiction, they find adventures on other planets and in future worlds, explorat...

  • With Violets

    Elizabeth Robards

    Paris in the 1860s: a magnificent time of expression, where brilliant young artists rebel against the stodginess of the past to freely explore new styles of creating--and bold new ways of living. Passionate, beautiful, and utterly devoted to her a...

  • Witch's Dog At The School of Spells

    Frank Rodgers

    Wilf, the Witch's Dog, has problems with his spells and looks like being bottom of the class at the School of Spells. As soon as he discovers that Sly Cat and Tricky Toad are interfering with his note book and messing up his spells, things begin to i...

  • Witch's Dog

    Frank Rodgers

    Wilf wants to be a witch's dog. His friends don't think he can as witches don't usually have dogs as pets - they have cats, spiders and bats. But when Wilf sees an advertisement for a witch's pet he decides to apply. He disguises himself as a cat whi...

  • The Witch of Clatteringshaws

    Joan Aiken

    Dido Twite’s sharp wits are put to the test in this new adventure in the Wolves Chronicles. After King Richard dies, Dido’s good pal Simon is put on the English throne, but he hates being cooped up in drafty St. James Palace, and his crusty old a...

  • Winter

    Jeff Mariotte

    Kerry has seen the error of her trusting ways. Turning to someone for help turned out to be a complete mistake. So now she is back on her own -- mulling over the same issues, stuck with the same baggage: Find the witch named Season. Avenge Daniel's d...

  • Winning Streak

    Mark Bernthal

    Duel Masters, the newest trading card game sensation, explodes with fast-paced and funny creature combat excitement! It's from Wizards of the Coast.

    THE BIG LEAGUES

    At an invitation-only tournament, Shobu seems unstoppable! Will he be a...

  • Wings of Riches

    Al Lacy; Joanna Lacy

    Introducing a new trilogy called Dreams of Gold, master narrators Al and JoAnna Lacy tell the stories of three major gold strikes that took place in North America in the nineteenth century. Craig Turley, the son of a wealthy Manhattan business owner,...

  • A Window in Copacabana

    Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    A ruthless group of corrupt cops is playing a lethal game of cat and mouse in the latest installment in the seductive bestselling Brazilian crime seriesCopacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. They w...

  • The Wilderness

    Karen Novak

    When the body of an elderly man is found naked, frozen to death on the grounds of an abandoned petting zoo near where private investigator Leslie Stone lives with her family, the discovery triggers what Leslie calls the "haunted amusement park...

  • The Widow's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    In the spring of 1449, widow Cristiana Helyngton has been kidnapped, defamed, and imprisoned in a nunnery--as h late husband's duplicitous relatives seek to obtain contr., aver her lands and children. To secure her freedom an save her daughters, Cris...

  • A Wicked Wench

    Anne Herries
    in

    Arabella Tucker and her sister Nan arrive in London in 1756 to try and find themselves husbands. Although from an aristocratic background, their father's loss of fortune means he can no longer provide for them and they must find another man to do so....

  • The Whole

    John Reed

    From John Reed, author of the controversial Orwell parody, Snowball's Chance, comes a subversive satire of modern culture, the complete lack thereof, and a lost generation that no one even tried to look for. In the middle of America's heartland, a y...

  • Who Killed Swami Schwartz?

    Nora Charles

    Once a snowbird, now full-time resident and sometime sleuth Kate Kennedy "is a stylish and sophisticated Miss Marple, seeking justice in sunny South Florida instead of a rainy English Village, and meeting the moss delightfully eccentric suspects in t...

  • Whitethorn

    Bryce Courtenay

    The time is 1939.White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six ye...

  • The White Wolf

    Ron Roy

    W is for WOLF . . . Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are thrilled to visit Wallis Wallace at her new cabin in the Maine wilderness. On their very first day, they glimpse a white mother wolf and her babies on a cliff nearby. But soon after the kids spy the ...

  • Whirlwind Groom

    Debra Cowan

    JOSIE WEBSTER WAS NOT A BORN KILLER... but her thirst for justice could make her one. The outlaw who'd murdered her parents and fiance had gotten off scot-free. And now the only thing standing between her and vengeance fulfilled was Sheriff Davis Le...

  • When the Beast Ravens

    E. Rose Sabin

    The thrilling conclusion to the award-winning fantasy trilogy that began with A School for Sorcery...
    As Gray Becq is about to discover, there are fates worse than death. It has been a full year since his escape from the Dire Realm. A year since a...

  • When All Else Falls Away

    Marianne Thamm

  • What The Dogs Have Taught Me

    Merrill Markoe

    Award-winning comedy writer Merrill Markoe, the slightly warped mind behind Stupid Pet Tricks, is an old hand with dogs. She knows who’s boss (they are) and the myriad ways a loving pet can make you feel guilty twenty-four hours a day. This new edi...

  • What an Earl Wants

    Shirley Karr

    What's a lord to do? The devilishly attractive Earl of Sinclair is having trouble holding onto servants, what with so many of them pairing up and running off to be wed. Luckily, his able new secretary, J. Quincy, seems scrupulously loyal, and...

  • What A Week To Make It Big

    Rosie Rushton

    Tansy is obsessed with finding out who her real father is and when she gets picked for a TV quiz show, she sees it as an ideal opportunity to announce the search for her missing father on TV. This doesn't impress the TV crew or her mother, but by the...

  • What A Week To Make A Stand

    Rosie Rushton

    Cleo is fed up with being the shy, dumpy member of her group of friends. She's also saddled with Diana, her deeply embarassing actress mother, who's always been number one at overshadowing Cleo. But when Cleo discovers that she has a great singing vo...

  • What A Week To Fall In Love

    Rosie Rushton

    It is Holly's 14th birthday and an opportunity to get back with her ex, Scott. Disaster strikes when her party is cancelled by Holly's unfeeling parents. But the girls hatch a plan to go ahead with it anyway. They end up in big trouble, but older and...

  • Whales on Stilts!

    M.T. Anderson

    Lily Gefelty is just an average twelve-year-old girl. But her dad -- a normal-enough seeming guy -- just so happens to work for an evil genius who plans to unleash an army of extremely cranky, stilt-walking, laser-beam-eyed whales upon the world. ...

  • Well up for It!

    Simon Cheetham

  • The Wee Sing Collection

    Pamela Conn Beall

    12 Volumes: Sing, Sing Together and Rocka My Soul; Round 'n' Round and Day is Gone; Wiggleworm Workout, Whew!It's Bedtime, and Another Holiday... So Soon?; Water, Just One More Cracker, Please, How Many More Miles Did You Say? and Another Day, Anothe...

  • A Wedding To Die For

    Leann Sweeney

    With big dreams, a big heart, and a really big bank account, spunky Texas heiress Abby Rose thinks she's finally found her true calling as an adoption PI in Houston. But when marriage meets murder at the altar, her next case proves to be anything but...

  • The Wedding Planner's Daughter

    Coleen Murtagh Paratore

    Twelve-year-old Willa Havisham is a classics reader, a cherry-cordial eater, and quite possibly the world's worst wisher. But when she and her glamorous single mother, Stella, move to Bramble, Cape Cod, Willa's wishes are beginning to come true: She ...

  • The Wedding Date

    Elizabeth Young

    One wedding. No funeral. One unqualified catastrophe. "Dominic" was the little white lie thirty-and-still-unwed Sophy Metcalfe told to soothe her nagging mother. But now her perfect sister Belinda is tying the knot, and Sophy's going to have to p...

  • We Are All Fine Here

    Mary Guterson

    Struggling with an unsatisfying job, her husband's flirtations with a younger co-worker, and her teenage son's estrangement, Julia remembers her first love and impulsively participates in a tryst during a friend's wedding, and when she discovers that...

  • Water Wings

    Lauren Mccrossan

    Amelia Armstrong, Milly to her friends, has been a struggling actress for so long that even she thinks it might be time to call it a day. But as the prospect of leaving Dublin and returning shamefaced to her parents in England looms, she decides to g...

  • Walking Home

    Gloria Goldreich

    For Manhattan public relations exec Rochelle Weiss, everything in life has come easily -- good looks, good grades, professional success -- until her life is turned upside down by the news that her beloved parents are dying. Determined to care for...

  • Walk By Faith

    Rosanne Bittner

    AN UPLIFTING ROMANCE SET DURING THE 1860s LAND RUSH ABOUT THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS... To provide a better life for her young daughter, Clarissa Graham joins a wagon train headed west. But as the trail turns increasingly dangerous, Clarissa fears her...

  • Wake up and Smell the Pizza

    Todd Hafer

  • Wait Until Midnight

    Amanda Quick

    Gentle Reader, It could have been a scene from one of my novels. As a rule, respectable ladies do not accept calls from Mysterious Gentlemen on business of the most grave importance--but I confess that I was possessed of a lively curiosity. The pa...

  • The Wacky Substitute

    Sally Derby

    When Mr. Wuerst, the substitute kindergarten teacher at Merryvale School, drops his glasses into the frying pan one morning, he ends up wearing a dish towel to school instead of his scarf and he mistakes the class gerbils for fur caps....

  • The Voyeur

    David Lambkin

  • The Virtuous Woman

    Gilbert Morris

    When Phil and Cara Winslow learn that the daughter they thought had died in infancy is still alive, their life of status and ease is turned upside down. With the help of a private detective, they find the girl, now twenty years old, who turns out to ...

  • The Virgin

    Erik S. Barmack

    When Joseph Braun decides to lie his way onto the Network's hottest new reality show, he's sure he'll find what he's always sought: attention fame and, perhaps, love. But once he lands a spot on "The Virgin," a show in which a twenty-six-year old bea...

  • The Villa of Mysteries

    David Hewson

    In Rome's crowded Campo dei Fiori, a woman rushes up to two carabinieri lounging in their sunglasses and uniforms, insisting that her sixteen-year-old daughter has just been abducted. Detective Nic Costa sees the scene unfold and intervenes. Because ...

  • The Velvet Rope

    Brenda L. Thomas

    Life is a party. When Tiffany Johnson, a street-smart publicist at Platinum Images, decides to launch Teaz Entertainment and open a club, she's setting out to be the queen of Philly nightlife. Keeping it in the family, she partners up with her fi...

  • The Vanishing Moon

    Joseph Coulson

    In The Vanishing Moon, Joseph Coulson writes with insight and beauty about the American working-class, about the strength and strain of family bonds, and about tragic incidents that haunt the human psyche over a lifetime. Set in Cleveland and Detroit...

  • The Vanished Hands

    Robert Wilson

    It's the summer of 2002, more than a year after the shattering events recounted in Blind Man, and Falcn, the chief homicide cop in Seville, Spain, has finally regained his confidence and powers of concentration. Still, he cannot fathom why Rafael Ve...

  • Valley of Bones

    Michael Gruber

    The setting is Miami. Rookie cop Tito Morales arrives at the Trianon Hotel to investigate a routine disturbance call -- and, to his shock and horror, watches as a wealthy oilman plunges ten stories and impales himself on a nearby fence. Soon Morales ...

  • A Valentine Kiss

    Carla Fredd

  • UOUS

    Tanith Lee
    in

    SOME ARE FAIR. SOME ARE FOUL. ALL ARE FANTASTIC... Here are six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy, all with one common thread -- The Fair Folk. In Tanith Lee's "UOUS," a young woman with an unpleasant family is granted three...

  • Unseen Companion

    Denise Gosliner Orenstein

    In the late 1960's, in the small community of Bethel, Alaska, a beaten teenager named Dove Alexie is in prison. One day, he mysteriously vanishes, and curiously, there is no mention of hi s arrival or departure on the prison records. Four young peo...

  • Unlucky For Some

    Jill McGown

    Michael Waterman is a self-made millionaire. His casinos and nightclubs ensure a constant flow of cash, and Waterman knows what he needs to do to keep it that way. So far, it seems, he has stayed on the right side of the law. Certainly, no one seriou...

  • The Unlikely Groom

    Wendy Douglas

    His dreams had died...and Lucas Templeton often wished he'd gone to the grave with them. Instead he went to Alaska, opened a saloon and closed off his heart. But Ashlynne MacKenzie, a newcomer full of pluck and passion, could very well hold the key t...

  • United Jokes of America

    Alan Katz

  • Unfeeling

    Ian Holding

    Set against the backdrop of a post-independent African country during the notorious farm attacks, Unfeeling is a powerful narrative that captures the moral, political and social complexity of a nation torn apart by violence. Sixteen-year-old Dave...

  • Undercover Mistress

    Kathleen Creighton

    ANOTHER OPENING... Exiled soap star Celia Cross had taken a lot of diverse parts in her life, but when she rescued a clinging-to-life man off the Malibu shore, she also found the role of a lifetime. Because said man was in fact a federal agent who h...

  • Undercover Blessings

    Debra Kastner

    With a financially successful career, Lily Montague's days of needing help were behind her. That is, until her seven-year-old daughter was suddenly in danger and needed protection, in the Georgia mansion where Lily grew up -- and thought she'd never ...

  • Undercover Babies

    Alice Sharpe

    Stumbling upon a beautiful woman with no memory of her past and a tan too fresh to make her an Indiana native, ex-cop Travis "Mac" MacBeth quickly learned a significant fact about the woman he'd dubbed Grace: she'd recently had a baby. As Grace clung...

  • The Uncollected Henry James

    Carroll & Graf Publishers

    More than two decades of research, study, and literary detection lie behind this treasury of stories by one of the undisputed giants in the field of American fiction. Professor Floyd Horowitz here offers a stunning collection of tales that he himself...

  • Ultimate Elektra, Volume 1: Devil's Due

    Marvel Book Group

  • Twilight

    Meg Cabot

    This time it's life or death. Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day's work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth-century hottie. But wh...

  • Twilight

    Stephenie Meyer

    About three things I was absolutely positive: First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him -- and I didn't know how dominant that part might be -- that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love...

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 4

    CLAMP

    A FAIRYTALE TURNED NIGHTMARE!

    Young Syaoran embarks on a worlds-spanning adventure to restore the memory of the most important person in his life, the princess Sakura" even though he knows that she’ll never remember her love for him. The t...

  • Truly, Madly, Dangerously

    Linda Winstead Jones

    HEADING FOR DANGER... She'd left her small town and now could handle kidnappers and thieves as easy as pie. But going home? Well, that was risky indeed -- especially as it led to serving pie while helping out in her aunt's motel/diner. And things ...

  • True Blue

    Jeffrey Lee

    Molly hates being the new kid. Chrys hates being the weird kid. Both have secrets. Molly’s is at home; Chrys’s is under the ratty trench coat he wears to school every day. But when Molly realizes that she and Chrys would make a winning team for t...

  • The Trouble With Valentine's Day

    Rachel Gibson

    THE TROUBLE WITH VALENTINE'S DAY: that one day each year when being single is a sin. Kate Hamilton should know. Dumped by her boyfriend, stressed out by her job, she's returned to Gospel, Idaho, for some rest and small-town fun. But when her first...

  • Trouble In Paradise

    Pip Granger

    Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Nancy Revell, a heart-warming saga set in post war London from Sunday Times bestselling author Pip Granger. "She brings the East End to life..." - Barbara Windsor"Read it straight through..." - ***** Reader revie...

  • Transformers: Showdown

    Don Perlin

    Amazon US Exclusive Edition! Face to face with a cultural icon! Inspired by the top-selling toy line, animated TV series and movie, these are the stories that thrilled a whole generation, classic tales re-presented for the first time ever in book for...

  • Torpedo Juice

    Tim Dorsey

    The drinks are on Sunshine State historian/spree killer Serge A. Storms, who's decided it's high time he got married. So he's motoring down to the Florida Keys -- the ultimate end of the line -- in search of Ms. Right ... and finding his doped-up bas...

  • Too Far

    Mike Lupica

    “Real-life news reports of out-of-control hazing by high school sports teams give Lupica’s tale a ripped-from-the-headlines thrill.” -- Publishers Weekly   South Shore High School’s nationally recognized basketball team is in the midst o...

  • Too Beautiful for You

    Rod Liddle

    An ambitious fiction debut filled with lust, longing, and moral depravity.The tales in Too Beautiful for You, Rod Liddle’s dazzling debut, sweep readers into the lives of characters whose sexual frustrations and deviant desires lead them to the ver...

  • Tonka Truck Collection

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Toms Private War

    Robert Leeson

    Tom and his gang know there is going to be a war. Then the evacuees arrive. One of them, Scouser, sparks a conflict in Tom's gang and as the air-raids intensify, the children's battle culminates in a terrifying adventure in a disused mineshaft deep b...

  • Tommy Glover's Sketch of Heaven

    Jane Bailey

    When Kitty Green returns to the Gloucestershire school where she was once a child evacuee during World World II, she discovers that it is to be rehoused on the premises of the old boys' home Heaven House. At the time Kitty had been inseparable from o...

  • To Tempt a Texan

    Georgina Gentry

    TEMPERANCE When Lacey Van Schuyler Durango and Blackie O'Neal stake their claim for the same piece of Oklahoma land, the battle lines are drawn. On Lacey's side: teetotaling, abstinence, and do-gooding. On Blackie's side: betting, boozin...

  • To Reign in Hell

    Greg Cox

    At last -- the untold chapter in the history of Star Trek's most notorious villain, KHAN. Searing and powerful, To Reign in Hell masterfully bridges the time period between Khan Noonien Singh's twenty-third-century revival in the Original Series clas...

  • To Heal a Heart

    Arlene James

    While hurrying to catch a plane, widowed lawyer Mitch Sayer finds a single page from a handwritten letter, a letter offering forgiveness to an unknown recipient. But thoughts of its possible owner flee his mind when he meets his attractive seatmate, ...

  • Titus Adronicus and Timon of Athens

    William Shakespeare

  • Timmy's Eggs-Ray Vision

    Catherine Samuel

    It's the town's annual Easter egg hunt, but Timmy hasn't had any luck finding eggs. So he wishes for X-ray vision, and suddenly he can see through everything! But is seeing everything all that it's cracked up to be?

    ...

  • The Time of New Weather

    Sean Murphy

    THE TIME OF NEW WEATHER IS AT HAND"AND IT’S NOT A PRETTY SIGHT.

    In this exhilarating adventure of absurdist wit, rollicking revolution and romance, the future isn’t what it used to be and the past won’t leave us alone. Bringing to mind...

  • Tiger's-Eye

    Belinda Ray

  • Tiger's Blood

    Laurence Yep

    Ever since Tom became the apprentice to Mr. Hu, the Guardian of the phoenix egg, his life has been a whirlwind. Now Mr. Hu is weak after saving Tom's life in battle, and the two must flee with their motley crew of friends to the dragon kingdom, fa...

  • Tiger Turcotte Takes On the Know-It-All

    Pansie Hart Flood

    There are plenty of things that Tiger Turcotte likes about the second grade. His classmate Donna Overton is NOT one of those things. She's a mean, bossy know-it-all. And lately, she's trying hard to make Tiger mad. Tiger might decide to fight back...

  • Tides of Destiny

    Kevin Andrew Murphy

  • A Thug's Life

    Thomas Long

    Dayvon and Ty ran the drug game in West Baltimore for years as the heads of the DFL (Dogs For Life) family. However, after Ty gets sent to prison on a suspect charge and Dayvon decides that he wants outta the game, drama is about to jump off between ...

  • Three Down the Aisle

    Sherryl Woods

    Love's in Bloom... When Melanie D'Angelo arrived at Rose Cottage, she was only looking to mend her shattered heart and restore the beautiful house her grandmother once called home. The last thing she wanted was to become involved with her landscap...

  • A Thousand Tomorrows

    Karen Kingsbury

    Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life to the fullest, taking risks...

  • This Human Season

    Louise Dean

    It's not personal, he says. But that's a lie in a place where everything is personal, and a matter of life and death too.  This Human Season is award-winning Booker longlisted author Louise Dean's second novel set in Belfast, Ireland, durin...

  • This Christmas

    Jane Green

    The holidays can sometimes make or break a relationship. Now, in this trio of warm, witty, insightful stories, three very different women face questions of the heart that could change all their Christmases to come. . . When her husband's job takes hi...

  • Their Secret Son

    Judy Duarte

    The towheaded son of stunning socialite Kristin Reynolds had to be his child. Because once upon a time fireman Joe Davenport and Kristin had been lovers, pulled apart by her prestigious family. He hadn't wanted to give her up then, and he refused to ...

  • That Way Murder Lies

    Ann Granger

    Meredith Mitchell is delighted when an old friend from her consular days, Toby Smythe, turns up on leave between foreign postings. But Toby has a problem -- or rather his relative Alison Jenner has -- and Toby wants to enlist the help of Meredith'...

  • Thank You, Squanto!

    Peter Roop; Connie Roop

  • Thailand

    Erica Pass

  • Texas Lawman

    Carolyn Davidson

    It was quite an introduction, but before sunrise, Sheriff Brace Caulfield knew Sarah Murphy was a woman to match him in every way. The amazing woman was so determined to rescue her nephew from abuse that she'd put herself smack in the middle of dange...

  • Tenor of Love

    Mary di Michele

    A NOVEL OF PASSION AND BETRAYAL, ART AND AMBITION BASED ON THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE TEST NG OF ALL TIME One summer day in 1897, a young singer, Enrico Caruso, arrives at the home of the Giachetti family. He has come to Livorno to sing on the summer ...

  • The Temple of Music

    Jonathan Lowy

    America is starkly divided between the haves and the have-nots. A Republican president seeks reelection in the afterglow of a war many view as unnecessary and imperialisttic. He is bankrolled by millionaires, with every step of his career orchestrate...

  • Tell the Truth, Tyler

    JoDee H. McConnaughhay

    Explore the world of Happy Day® Books -- filled with fun-to-read stories that teach Christian values. Level 3 books are specifically designed for independent readers and use longer stories, greater vocabulary, paragraphs, and more complex ...

  • Technical Hitch

    Jane Sigaloff

    Wedding planner Jessica James has pulled off the society wedding of her career, but when it comes to her own Big Day, she gets cold feet. Does marriage still mean something, or is it simply so twentieth century? She looks at her nearest and dearest, ...

  • The Tea House on Mulberry Street

    Sharon Owens

    Muldoon's Tea Rooms, beloved for its cozy atmosphere and luscious 'desserts, has started looking a bit outdated--and the same could be said about the proprietors, Penny and Daniel Stanley. After seventeen years, their marriage has started to fade and...

  • Tea for Two

    Mary Man-Kong

    A rainy day turns into a fun day when Barbie throws a tea party for Kelly. Barbie and Kelly make invitations for each other, decorate the living room, wear frilly hats and dresses, bake cookies -- and of course, drink tea! Press-out invitations are i...

  • Tangle of Kittens

    Valerie King
    in

    When a leisurely stroll through the hills of Bath results in a surprising--and quite mistaken--kiss from a stranger, Anne Cassington's world is tumbled upside down. Now, a fortnight before Valentine's Day, finding homes for her sisters' kittens promi...

  • Tales For The Midnight Hour V2

    Judith Bauer Stamper

  • Tales For The Midnight Hour V1

    Judith Bauer Stamper

    These seventeen stories are guaranteed to keep you awake and shivering with fear. We dare you to read them alone, late at night. The moon is full. The clock strikes twelve. Don't be afraid. But what's that sound? Footsteps in the hall? It's just the ...

  • Table For Five

    Kaitlyn Rice

    Bothered, Bewildered -- and Bewitched Kyle Harper's got too much on his plate -- three motherless girls, a father who needs looking after and a restaurant business that demands an around-the-clock CEO. So when a free spirit named Zuzu Clark disrup...

  • Sweetgrass // The Secrets We Keep

    Mary Alice Monroe

    Mary Alice Monroe returns to the heart of the Lowcountry with a richly textured story about family, loss and the heartbreaking compromises people make in the name of love. Sweetgrass is a historical tract of land in South Carolina that has been ho...

  • Swapping Lives

    Jane Green

    What if a successful, single Londoner and a comfortable, Connecticut mother of two were to walk in each other's shoes for a month? Vicky Townsley is the director of Poise! magazine and lives a glamorous London life. She has everything she wants -- ex...

  • Survivor In Death

    J.D. Robb

    New York City of 2059 'Murder was always an insult, and had been since the first human hand had smashed a stone into the first human skull. But the murder, bloody and brutal, of an entire family in their own home, in their own beds, was a different f...

  • Surviving Sarah

    Vicki Lewis Thompson
    in

    Financial planner Luke Richards has entered a battle-of-the-brawn reality TV show for one reason. He wants the "prize" -- Sarah Donovan, former teen star and Luke's high-school fantasy. Only fantasy has nothing to do with Reality TV......

  • Surfers Mutiny In Space

    Cherith Baldry

  • Surfers Mind Reader

    Pete Johnson

    Matt is known as Spud because his nose looks like a potato. Matt can also read people's minds. He can find out secrets and he has this great sense of power. It's amazing! But Matt soon discovers that knowing what people are thinking isn't always a go...

  • Surfers Mad Myths Stone Me

    Steve Barlow; Steve Skidmore

    Perce and Andy are worried because their new teacher is turning the pupils into stone. They go to the library to investigate and discover that she is in fact Medusa from the Greek myth. With the use of mirrored sunglasses, they manage to stop her and...

  • Surfers Mad Myths Must Fly

    Steve Barlow; Steve Skidmore

  • Superstar Charlie

    Claire Mishica

    Explore the world of Happy Day® Books -- filled with fun-to-read stories that teach Christian values. Level 3 books are specifically designed for independent readers and use longer stories, greater vocabulary, paragraphs, and more complex ...

  • Super Spy

    Alison Inches

  • Sunnyside:

    Joanna Murray-Smith

  • The Suicide King

    Robert Joseph Levy

    As a series of student suicides jolts Sunnydale High, Buffy Summers and her gang begin to suspect that there is something supernatural behind the deaths and race against time to uncover the truth and to defeat an ancient evil known as the Suicide Kin...

  • The Substitute Fiancee

    Rebecca Russell

    Agreeing to pose as her glamorous twin sister while the bride-to-be "found herself" one week before her wedding, Jessie Taggert wasn't prepared for all the strings that came attached to this innocent ruse. From the final dress fitting, to the office ...

  • A Stroke of Midnight

    Laurell K. Hamilton

    How much of my human side will I have to give up, and how much of the sinister side of faerie will I have to embrace? To sit on a throne that has ruled through bloodshed for centuries, I might have to become that which I dread the most. In Los Ang...

  • Strip Poker

    Stacey Donovan

    Inspired by the sensual Showtime series, a trio of erotic stories, based on the series screenplays, explores the compelling world of sexual fantasy and uninhibited escapades in Hard Labor, Slow Train, and the title tale about a lonely...

  • Strawberry Shortcake's Seaberry Mystery

    Sonia Sander

    Noticing that someone is stealing all of Coco Calypso's seaberries at Seaberry Beach, Strawberry Shortcake, along with her friends Blueberry Muffin and Rainbow Sherbert, decide to look into the matter to find out who is to blame in order to put a sto...

  • Strawberry Shortcake and the Butterfly Garden: All Aboard Reading Station Stop 1

    Kelli Curry

    When one of the butterflies escapes the butterfly garden while she and her friends are visiting, Strawberry Shortcake worries for her safety and so goes on a search to find the missing butterfly in order to bring her back home. Original....

  • A Stranger, A Thief, and a Pack of Lies

    Chris Auer

    Many secrets lie within the walls of Eckert House, but no one is prepared when a stranger claiming to be the sole heir of Eckert House shows up. Dan and his friends aren't convinced. Things get complicated when accusation hits close to home. Can they...

  • Strange Blood

    Lindsay Jayne Ashford

    Last year Frozen introduced Welsh crime writer Lindsay Jayne Ashford to U.S. mystery fans. Now Strange Blood, the next in this critically acclaimed series, has been shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Fellow nominees ...

  • Stranded With The Groom

    Christine Rimmer

    The Thunder Canyon Nugget reports that the annual mail-order bride reenactment was a smashing success -- until librarian Katie Fenton found herself hitched to a mystery man! Our local cutie was stunned to find herself gazing into the eyes of handsome...

  • Stolen Memory

    Virginia Kantra

    Reconstructing Simon He was as impressive in person as he was to read about in the papers. Simon Ford exuded his trademark power and intelligence...despite having amnesia. For small-town police officer Laura Baker, there were countless reasons to ...

  • Stella, Get Your Man

    Nancy Bartholomew

    "JUST ONCE I'D LIKE TO HAVE A PLAN GO MY WAY. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?" Smart-mouthed P.I. Stella Valocchi is finally in business, with the office and the aggravating employee -- former fiance Jake Carpenter -- to prove it. And when a client with ...

  • Stay with Me

    Beverly Long

    Something strange has happened to Sarah Jane Tremont... One moment, she was walking along a beach outside Los Angeles, contemplating her future. The next, she was wandering through an unfamiliar wilderness... Confused and exhausted, she stumble...

  • Status Anxiety

    Alain De Botton

    “There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status -- a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who’s e...

  • Springboard

    Steve Perry

    A NEW CENTURY. NEW SUPERPOWERS. A NEW BREED OF HOMELAND SECURITY. When a top-secret Pentagon wargame is shut down, only Net Force has the expertise to track down the hacker. The Department of Defense decides to strike while the iron is hot - and...

  • Special Victims Unit

    Elizabeth Massie

  • South Beach Sizzle

    Suzanne Weyn

    Is Enrique trying to win her over -- or just trying to win? Road trip! Lula Cruz has her last summer before college all mapped out. She's checking out of NYC and checking in to the sizzling hot "SoBe" scene with her best friend, Jeff. When the...

  • The Sound of Blue

    Holly Payne

    Aspiring to teach English to the children of Hungarian statespeople, Sara Foster leaves America only to find herself working in a refugee camp, where she meets a celebrated young composer whom she works to exonerate from an accusation of his brother'...

  • Song of the Earth

    John R. Dann

    In Song of the Axe, his magnificent family saga of prehistory, John R. Dann told of a tribe whose chieftains were always named Grae, after a glorious ancestor from whom they were all descended. Now Dann returns to tell the earlier epic story of that ...

  • Something Fishy

    Derek Hansen

    the one that got away, the one that got too big and the one that went horribly wrong - from the author of Dead Fishy. Get hooked on Hansen. these stories feature killer trout, trophy marlin, vengeful giant turtles, frozen margaritas, an exorcism and ...

  • Something Borrowed

    Jule McBride

    Been There, Done That! Personal trainer Mallory Benning walked down the aisle once impulsively, and it was a disaster. Little wonder she's exercising caution with the new man who's suddenly appeared in her life, gorgeous Cash Champagne. Why, she's e...

  • Something About Emmaline

    Elizabeth Boyle

    Every gentleman in England wants a wife like her -- beautiful, uncomplaining, and never underfoot. There is definitely SOMETHING ABOUT EMMALINE Perhaps it's the fact that she doesn't exist! Alexander Denford, Baron Sedgwick, invented a ...

  • Sojourner Truth

    Barbara R. Moore

  • Snap Happy Annie

    June Crebbin

    Snap-Happy Annie is always snip-snapping at her friends. At Monkey's birthday party she begins to spoil the fun until Thud the elephant throws her out. As her mother marches her back to the party, Annie realises she must apologise and be kind and fri...

  • Slocum and the Bixby Battle

    Jake Logan

    When you mess with Slocum’s friends, you mess with Slocum…Mexican siren Senora Amanda Debaca beckons Slocum to Texas, where a corrupt colonel has been itching to rid the Lone Star State of all Mexicans -- starting with Amanda.   Though she...

  • Slipping Away

    Emma Harrison

    Despite his growing closeness with Amy Abbott, Ephram Brown is upset when his father refuses to allow him to hang out with her the entire time during their Thanksgiving skiing break at Vail, until an avalanche separates Ephram and Amy from their fami...

  • Slippers That Answered Back

    Gyles Brandreth

  • Sleepers

    Christopher J. Priest; Michael Ahn

    In effect cosmic police officers responsible for protecting the universe, the Green Lantern Corps is an organization numbering in the hundreds of members, with each Lantern assigned sectors of space to patrol. First introduced in the 1940s, Green Lan...

  • Sister of the Dead

    Barb Hendee; J.C. Hendee

    PART VAMPIRE. PART HUMAN. PERFECT HUNTER. THE NOBLE DEAD SAGA CONTINUES AS MAGIERE AND LEESIL, THE SLAYERS OF THE UNDEAD FROM DHAMPIR AND THIEF OF LIVES, EMBARK ON A QUEST TO UNCOVER THE SECRETS OF THEIR MYSTERIOUS ORIGINS-AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE...

  • Siren

    Cheryl Sawyer

    From the coral beaches of the Caribbean islands to the colorful streets of New Orleans, Siren is an epic of high seas adventure, passion, intrigue and war that will leave you breathless in its wake ... Jean Laffite was a pirate of brutal reputat...

  • The Sinner

    Kathleen O'Brien

    Can a sinner ever really change his ways? No one is more surprised than Bryce McClintock when he is mentioned in his father's will. The two had been estranged for fourteen years, and Bryce hadn't expected -- or wanted -- any part of his fa...

  • Silver City Carbine

    Kit Dalton

    When Lee Morgan signs on as head of security for Silver City Mining in Nevada, he finds himself embroiled in a tale of land-grabbers, independent miners, and a beautiful young woman named Megan O'Reily. Original....

  • Silent Heart

    Barbara Youree

    In sixteenth-century Europe, Francoise Chaplain is mourning the loss of her fiance and close family members. She, her mother, and one surviving brother find refuge on a farm, but they must escape war and sickness, and seek safety at a villa in Milan....

  • Sight Hound

    Pam Houston

    There's Rae, and her dog Dante, the wolfhound known as the Enlightened One, who teaches "his human" that love is stronger than fear. As Rae grapples with Dante's advancing bone cancer and her own love troubles, many other characters step forward with...

  • Shut the Door

    Amanda Marquit

    In the vein of "American Beauty," Shut the Door offers a glimpse into the world of a family in crisis. It focuses on two teenage sisters struggling to carve their identities as young adults, taking risks and undergoing disturbing transformations that...

  • A Short History of Paradise

    Norman Bilbrough

  • The Sheik & the Bride Who Said No

    Susan Mallery

    EVERYTHING ABOUT THE PALACE HAD ALWAYS INTRIGUED HER... Including the incredibly handsome crown prince himself. There was no denying that Murat was a man of mystery, power and many talents. But for a husband, Daphne Snowden wanted more. Sure, futu...

  • Shedding Skin

    Nick Marsden

    A humorous look at the trials of settling in a new country and having to learn English. Mr Peter, returning to NZ after years on the road, is a slightly hapless English teacher who ends up with moral dilemmas that take him beyond the call of duty. Am...

  • She Said, He Said

    Cheryl Kushner

    Megan Jack's my oldest friend. Or he was...until we did It. Big mistake! It ruined everything between us. Because he only did It because he felt sorry for me. And he's a guy, so sex was the obvious consolation. Now? I am so over him. Still, I'...

  • Share A Story My Friend My Morris

    Pat Thomson

  • Shadows over Chinatown

    Steve Murphy

  • Shadows of Myth

    Rachel Lee

    NO MEMORY, NO FUTURE, AND ONLY A WHITE ROSE TO IDENTIFY HER... The Ilduin Bane are myth and legend: assassin mages whose blades drip poison and whose minds share a common purpose -- one of death or control. All who have gone against them have been l...

  • Shadow Valley

    Gwen Hunter

    Mackenzie Morgan thinks she's doing the right thing by taking her teenaged daughter, Bella, into the Appalachians on a photography shoot. Fleeing a crumbling marriage, Mac needs some time to bond with her daughter and escape the betrayal that still l...

  • Shadow of the Sphinx

    Christian Jacq

    The time has come for the final confrontation. Appointed supreme magistrate and first minister of Egypt, Pazair and his wife Neferet must join forces against the Finance Minister, Pazair's sworn enemy, now openly presenting himself as spokesman for t...

  • Shades and Shadows

    Sophia Shaw

    A PASSIONATE FUTURE... Since leaving her abusive husband, stunning twenty-nine-year-old Jade Winters has focused on her career as the owner and instructor at a small dance school in downtown Chicago. She's also vowed to avoid men--until handsome ad e...

  • Sex, Lies and Fairytales

    Kate Thompson

  • Sex and the Serial Killer

    Jennifer Skully

    Who'd have thought an ordinary housewife could hook a serial killer... When her husband of fifteen years deserts her for his married high school sweetheart, Roberta Jones Spivey changes her looks, shortens her name and follows her soon-to-be ex. ...

  • Seven Easy-To-Read Stories

    Grace MacCarone

  • Serial

    Max Allan Collins

    With a brutal serial killer on the loose in Las Vegas, Gil Grissom and his CSI team search for the person responsible for a series of vicious Jack the Ripper style killings, a crime spree complicated by the presence of an annual convention gathering ...

  • Seppuku

    Peter Watts

    Lenie Clarke--amphibious cyborg, Meltdown Madonna, agent of the Apocalypse--has grown sick to death of her own cowardice.For five years (since the events recounted in Maelstrom), she and her bionic brethren (modified to work in the rift valleys of th...

  • Seize the Night

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Hail, Glorious Reader: I was born the noble son of a legendary Roman senator. I walked through the ancient world as a general, admired and supreme until a brutal betrayal caused me to bargain my soul. Now I'm an immortal Dark-Hunter, bound to prot...

  • Seek the Prophet

    Daniel E. Parker; Lee Miller

    As Alice's friends reveal to him the keys to her coded diary entries, Tom slowly uncovers the truth about what may have happened to Alice, but those secrets may also put Tom's life in danger. Original....

  • Seek the Living

    Ashley Warlick

    Since her mother’s death, Joan Patee has kept the peace between her wayward brother, Denny, and her strong-willed father. Now confronted with her own troubles—a marriage strained by distance and the desire to have a child—Joan disco...

  • Secrets of Sant'Angelo

    Jeff Shapiro

    The inhabitants of Sant'Angelo D'Asso, a small Italian village tormented by a series of misfortunes--endless rain, an influenza epidemic, and a series of bizarre deaths--are given new hope and faith by the arrival of two mysterious newcomers, Rosa Sp...

  • The Secrets of Droon, Volume 2

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Secret Soldier

    Dana Marton

    CAN THIS MARRIAGE UNDER FIRE... A member of the elite Special Designation Defense Unit, Jack "Spike" Logan had only days to stop a bomb-wielding terrorist, but first he had to secretly recruit an academic lost in the sands of the Middle East. Dr. Ab...

  • The Secret Seder

    Doreen Rappaport

    Jacques and his parents are hiding in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, pretending to be Catholics. On the first night of Passover, Jacques and his father elude Nazi soldiers to gather with other Jews and celebrate the Seder in secret. For th...

  • Secret of the Spa

    Carolyn Keene

    When I scored tickets to the grand opening of a new spa in town, I knew I had to take Bess. George came along too, but she's been acting so weird. I knew this wouldn't be her idea of a total blast, but she's just been no fun at all. It's unlike her t...

  • Second Sight

    William G. Tapply; Philip R. Craig
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    Philip R. Craig and William G. Tapply -- veteran mystery novelists and longtime fishing buddies -- are back with a second joint novel starring their respective series heroes, J. W. Jackson and Brady Coyne. And something big -- something very big ...

  • The Second Generation

    Simon Furman

    The robots in disguise are back! Inspired by the top-selling toy line and TV show, this is an ongoing series collecting classic UK and US Transformers comic stories.

    The comic strip collections from the Transformers UK weekly continue with the Aut...

  • Searching for Sunshine

    Ben M. Baglio

    Andi Talbot is thrilled to receive horseback-riding lessons as a gift from her father. But when a friendly cooper-colored pony named Sunshine suddenly disappears from the riding center. Andi is forced to put her lessons on hold while her pet-finding ...

  • The Search

    Christiane Heggan

    When Philadelphia assistant district attorney Sydney Cooper gets an urgent late-night call from her best friend asking to meet her, she can't help but wonder what kind of trouble investigative journalist Lily Gilmore has gotten herself into this time...

  • Scoot Over, Skinny

    Donna Jarrell

  • Scooby-Doo! Adventures

    Scholastic Inc.
    • / General Fiction
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  • The Schopenhauer Cure

    Irvin D. Yalom

    From the internationally bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept, comes a novel of group therapy with a cast of memorably wounded characters struggling to heal pain and change livesSuddenly confronted with his ...

  • Saturday

    Ian McEwan

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish in this “dazzling [and] powerful” novel (The New York Times). Henry Per...

  • The Saratchandra Omnibus

    Saratcandra Cattopadhyaya

    Saratchandra Chattopadhyay is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Indian novelists of the twentieth century. His novels, serialized in periodicals and subsequently published in book form, earned Saratchandra immense fame in the early decades o...

  • Santa Fe Sunrise

    Kathleen Fuller

    Luke Jackson, a volunteer soldier based in Santa Fe, is eager to return home to San Antonio, Texas. Weary from the war and healing from a serious injury, he is given one last assignment before his discharge--to escort the daughter of a wealthy busine...

  • Sail Away

    Quinlan B. Lee

  • Safer Than Houses

    Frances Fyfield

    There's no place like home.When Sarah Fortune inherits an apartment from one of her many lovers, she moves in and begins to receive letters from someone claiming the apartment belongs to him instead. At first she believes the letters to be harmless, ...

  • Running with the Reservoir Pups

    Colin Bateman

    Eddie has a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Otherwise, he never would have gotten mixed up with the Reservoir Pups, the scrappy gang of boys who rule the streets in his new town. And he definitely wouldn’t have agreed to th...

  • Running On Empty

    Michelle Celmer

    Detective Mitch Thompson had caught the biggest break of his life when the biggest surprise of his life landed right dab in the path of his...shopping cart. But the beautiful woman he rescued from the floor of the local discount store couldn't rememb...

  • A Rose At Midnight

    Sylvie Kurtz

    Nine years ago, Christiane Lawrence surrendered her innocence to the mysterious young Daniel Moreau. Even after he left her without warning, the memory of his lovemaking haunted her. And as the child he left in her womb grew, she wondered who he'd re...

  • Rosamund's Revenge

    Madeleine Conway

    A MIFFED MINX He vexed her... Once, Rosamund Lovelace believed Rory Buchanan was the answer to her dreams. Now, seven years later, she's quite certain she wouldn't have him if he were the last man on earth! Gone is the green girl whose affections he...

  • Rooster

    Elizabeth Nixon Weaver

    Set against the backdrop of the '60s, a dramatic novel follows Kady, who no longer wants to be associated with Rooster, a brain-damaged boy from Cuba, and her struggling family, especially since she starting hanging out with her new boyfriend and his...

  • Roll Up Roll Up Its Rita

    Hilda Offen

  • Rogue Berserker

    Fred Saberhagen

    Harry Silver has already had a lifetime of trouble from ordinary Berserkers, the automated killing machines programmed an age ago to denude the galaxy of life. Now when his own family is kidnapped, he faces a deviant machine, a good fit for some or a...

  • Rocky Mountain Mystery

    Cassie Miles

    Five years after his sister was murdered, investigative reporter David Cross was still racing from one brutal crime scene to the next, searching for the serial killer who'd stolen her young life. Now, "The Fisherman" had resurfaced and set his sights...

  • Rockville Pike

    Susan Coll

    Jane Kramer never imagined a life selling discount furniture and commuting between grocery stores and soccer fields via minivan. But when her father-in-law has a heart attack, she and her husband, Leon, trade in their glamorous New York life for a st...

  • Robota

    Orson Scott Card

    Academy Award-winning artist Doug Chiang & best-selling science fiction author Orson Scott Card join forces in this extraordinary illustrated adventure. ''Robota'' follows the fortunes of our hero, Caps, as he navigates an ancient, decaying world in ...

  • Robert Goes to Camp

    Barbara Seuling

    It's summer vacation, and Robert is off to Camp Chicopee whether he likes it or not (he doesn't). Even though camp looks lame, Robert manages to make a new friend -- Zach, who knows plenty of jokes -- and to avoid the irritating Lester, who's pushy a...

  • Robert and the Eggheads

    Barbara Seuling

  • The Rite

    Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Rampaging dragons appear in more and more places every day. And if the soulless lich Sammaster gets his way -- and there's every reason to suspect he will -- the disaster has only just begun. But then all the dragons have to do to avoid the madness ...