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  • Zomo the Rabbit

    Gerald McDermott

    Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him what he wants. Is he clever enough to do as Sky God asks? “The tale moves along with the swift co...

  • Zombies Don't Do Windows

    Erica Farber; J.R. Sansevere

    There's no April freshness at the Pinch family's house.  Their new cleaning lady smells disgusting.  But that's pretty normal...for a zombie!  And she's turning everyone else in Critter Falls into zombies, too.  It's up to the Howls to stop h...

  • Zoe and the Best Man

    Carole Buck

    WANTED: BRIDAL BLISS Zoe Armitage was on the lookout for her pt husband. He had to be stable, sincere...anyone but thrill-seeking, smooth-talking Gabriel Flynn! Sure, they'd shared steamy kisses at their best friends' wedding, but Zoe had decided th...

  • Young Mouse and Elephant: An East African Folktale

    Pamela J. Farris

    Young Mouse sets out to prove that he is the strongest animal around, not Elephant, as his grandfather suggests. Young listeners will eagerly join boastful Young Mouse's hunt for Elephant and cheer him on in his quest....

  • You have the Wrong Man

    Maria Flook

    Maria Flook’s novels have garnered the higher praise from writers and critics alike. The New York Times called her first novel “jolting,” her writing “ethereal, spare, and erotic.” Novelist E. Annie Proulx placed her “in the front ranks o...

  • Yesterday's Promise

    Teresa George

    CAN SHE FIND THE PASSION SHE HAS ONLY DREAMED ABOUT... History professor Serena Brooks fears for her sanity. She has moved back into her ancestral Virginia home-only to be haunted by visions in which she is dressed like her great-grandmother... ...

  • X-Men: Legionquest

    Scott Lobdell

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1981) #318-321, X-Men (1991) #38-41, X-Men Unlimited (1993) #4-7, X-Men Annual (1992) #3, X-Factor (1986) #107-109, Cable (1993) #20. The epic story that ushered in the Age of Apocalypse! Legion’s once-shattered psyche is fi...

  • X-Men: Dawn of the Age Apocalypse

    Jeph Loeb

  • X-Men Visionaries: The Art of Andy and Adam Kubert

    Andy Kubert

  • X Men Twilight of the Age of Apocalypse

    Marvel Book Group

  • Would My Fortune Cookie Lie?

    Stella Pevsner

    Alexis worries a great deal--about her mother's threat to move the family from their Chicago condominium to a house in the suburbs and about the strange man who has been shadowing her and her friend Suzy--but after Alexis confronts the man, she learn...

  • World Without End

    Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

    Trapped in the turmoil and panic Atlantis's destruction is a modern-day man, Sam Smith. In the 1990s, he finds himself the target of an international network of conspirators bent on destroying anyone who has found a clue to the location of the lost c...

  • The Wood Beyond

    Reginald Hill

    Police Inspector Peter Pascoe is looking for a place to bury his grandmum's ashes, when he stumbles upon a startling family secret--an ancestor unjustly executed in wartime. So preoccupied is Pascoe that he hardly notices the uproar in his own depart...

  • Wonder Thing

    Libby Hathorn

    Through a lyrical poem and stunning linoleum-block prints, readers are guided on a journey around the world to a deeper appreciation of the wonder thing -- water -- that is all around us. This Australian import is a winner -- it's a learning experie...

  • Women on Hunting

    Pam Houston

    The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Cowboys are My Weakness has drawn together a collection of texts that explores territories most often left for men. From the perspectives of both the hunter and the hunted, here are rich and varied wo...

  • Woman Who Walked on Water

    Lily Tuck

    The Woman Who Walked on Water is a beautifully crafted, dark fable, the story of a woman's search for meaning, from the author of The Double Life of Liliane.

    Adele leaves her comfortable life in Connecticut for India, to follow a guru she has...

  • Wolf, No Wolf

    Peter Bowen

    Du Pre remembers when you could send animal skins to Sears Roebuck and get merchandise in return. Now the wolves are gone from the mountains, and outsiders want them back. The trouble is, a tussle over wildlife is getting people killed. First, two...

  • The Wizardry Quested

    Rick Cook

    WIZ ZUMWALT ON THE INGREDIENTS OF THE PERFECT QUEST: GOOD COMPANIONS: "Malkin's a kleptomaniac adrenaline junkie, June's crazy, Danny's still kind of wild and the dwarf, Glandurg, is just plain dangerous." MAGIC WEAPONS: "The sword Blind Fury...

  • The Witch's Revenge

    Christopher Pike

    Encounter witchly wonders in this sixth book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series -- now on TV!The time has come for Adam and his friends to again face Spooksville’s most powerful citizen, Ms. Ann Templeton. ...

  • The Winter Journey

    Georges Perec

    One of a series of small-format books devoted to short texts. This tells of the discovery, by an academic, of widespread plagiarism in the literary world. Returning from National Service, the academic finds the book missing and embarks on a torturous...

  • Winter Hawk Star

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Tyler is a good, solid hockey player, but not a great one. That honor belongs to the obnoxious Riley, a sixteen-year-old spoiled superstar who makes Tyler's life miserable. When Tyler and Riley are sent to volunteer at a local youth program, Tyler fi...

  • Winged Magic

    Mary H. Herbert

    Peace has come at last to the Dark Horse Clans, but when Kelene and Gabria are kidnapped by a Turic tribesman, the fragile truce is threatened. Mother and daughter must come up with a plan to foil the diabolical Fel Karak, who coerces them into teach...

  • The Wind After Time

    Chris Bunch

    BLAST FROM THE PAST Ten years had passed since mankind had won the Great War. The dreaded Al'ar, loathsome aliens who killed by mere sight or touch, had been vanquished. Now they were gone. forgotten. and humanity was free to expand throughout the...

  • Wild Hawk

    Justine Dare

    THE OUTCAST RETURNED TO CLAIM HIS LEGACY -- AND HER HEART When Jason Hawk, bastard son of industrialist Aaron Hawk, came to his father's funeral, he stunned Aaron's greedy widow, Alise, and transformed the life of Aaron's executive a...

  • Wicked

    Evelyn Rogers

    REDEEMING LOVE Gunned down after a bank robbery, Cad Rankin met a heavenly being who made him an offer he couldn't refuse. To save his soul, he had to bring peace to the most lawless town in the West. With a mission like that, the outlaw almost re...

  • Whose Song Is Sung

    Frank Schaefer

    After being sold into slavery, Musculus Herodes Formosus--a former jester and counselor to kings--embarks on a journey during which he crosses paths with Beowulf, Slayer of Monsters, and becomes part of a legend. Reprint....

  • White Wind

    Susan Edwards

    GOLDEN SPLENDOR When her beloved stepfather died, lovely young Sarah Cartier knew it was time to set out on her own -- to escape her evil guardian's clutches and perhaps to discover the father she'd never known. But Sarah didn't make it far before...

  • Whispers of the River

    Tom Hron

    Lured by the promises of wealth to the harsh terrain of Alaska, Eli Bonnet, a legendary lawman, and Hanna Twigg, a woman who pursues freedom despite the danger, become partners in a saga of the Yukon's golden days. Original....

  • Where's the Fly

    Caron Lee Cohen

  • Where a Nickel Costs a Dime

    Willie Perdomo

    A first book of poems by one of the best new voices to emerge from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Where a Nickel Costs a Dime captures the hip-hop rhythms and in-your-face intensity of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a downtown Manhattan club where the hottest ...

  • When Willard Met Babe Ruth

    Donald Hall

    Enjoying the annual baseball game between the married and single men in his community, twelve-year-old Willard Babson assists talented baseball star Babe Ruth when the latter's car accidentally slides into a ditch....

  • When Lightning Strikes

    Rexanne Becnel

    HE HAD THE SMILE OF A FALLEN ANGEL. SURE. EASY. SEDUCTIVE. He reached down and plucked her from the thick mud, then lifted her effortlessly into his lap, setting her crosswise on the tall gray horse. He was a total stranger, who thrilled her with ...

  • When It Is Night and When It Is Day

    Jenny Tyers

    Here are the cycles of darkness and light and the behavior of the animals that skitter, hoot, and prowl through the night and the day. The author imbues the twenty-four-hour cycle with a sense of mystery, encouraging readers to wonder at what is happ...

  • When Frank Was Four

    Alison Lester

    Here is a cheerful scrapbook of the small hurdles and accomplishments of childhood, featuring the familiar cast of characters from Clive Eats Alligators. The seven children are followed as they grow from age one to seven, each in their own special wa...

  • When Darkness Calls

    Janet E. Gill

    Trying to fit in as the new kid in town, Ellie is delighted when she is singled out by the most popular clique in school until she learns of the group's ugly cult membership and its devotion to murderous secrets. Original....

  • When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing

    Virginia Hamilton

    Based on African-American folktales told in the South during the plantation era, a collection of stories originally gathered by journalist Martha Young pays tribute to the human spirit in the face of terrible hardship....

  • The Wheel of Justice

    William E. Holland

    Brad Chapman, an enterprising Minnesotan who lives with his family in an American enclave just outside Moscow, views Russia as a land of unlimited opportunity. JorSov, the joint Venture he's formed with the Russians to rebuild the postal system, has ...

  • Whatever Happened to Jennifer Steele?

    Jean Ruryk

    Recognizing a sickly bag lady as her daughter's childhood friend and a once-promising soap opera actress, sixtyish Cat Wilde takes in the bedraggled Jennifer and tries to help the young woman recover her lost memories...

  • What Matters Most

    Cynthia Victor

    They were childhood friends, so Lainey Wolfe's agreement to be legal guardian of Farrell Cole's children seemed no more than a natural promise--until the unthinkable happens: A terrible accident claims the lives of Farrell and her husband, and Lainey...

  • What Engagement Ring?!

    Martha Schroeder

    "The second my brother's four-carat diamond engagement ring was on your finger, you jilted him." - Jake Singleton, attorney. April Kennan had refused to even date Jake's sniveling brother -- let alone marry him! And now Jake insisted she return a rin...

  • What Are Roses For?

    Sandol Stoddard Warburg

    Provocative poetry and pictures inspire the reader to ponder new levels of relationships and meaning in this lyrical exploration of things -- from a simple seed in a flowerbed to the whole expansive universe....

  • Western Rose

    Lynna Banning

    The Schoolmarm Needed a Lesson.... And Jake Bannister was just the man to teach Sally Maguire a thing or two. Especially if it would win him the grassland he needed to save his ranch. But would staying after school get him more than he'd bargained f...

  • Welcome to the Sea of Sand

    Jane Yolen

  • The Wedding Assignment

    Cathryn Clare

    RAE-ANNE BLACKBURN IS GETTING MARRIED... She's always fantasized about the day she would walk down the aisle. In her dreams, her groom was Wiley Cotter. In real life, it's someone else. But she's going to live happily ever after--no matter what. ...

  • Warrior's Deception

    Diana Hall

    Love Had No Place In The Life Of. Roen De Galliard, Knight Of Normandy For the past had taught him well the perfidy of women, and the beauteous Lady Lenora was likely no different. But now duty called for him to ferret out a traitor--by surrenderi...

  • Warrior Moon

    Marilyn Jordan

    Dedicated to upholding the ancient ways of her race, Phada was loath to mix with the men of her world -- especially the hard-muscled brutes who protected her homeland. Yet, despite her resolve, the young Keeper couldn't understand her attraction ...

  • The Warrior

    Fayrene Preston

    The danger that glowed in his eyes called her name .... Jonah Damaron exuded power like a force of nature, untamable and sensual in a way that awakened every nerve ending in Jolie Lanier's body! But she was playing a dangerous game, taking risks f...

  • The War Within

    Tom Wells

    The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam is a painfully engrossing and popularly written account of how the battle on the home front ended America’s least popular war. This absorbing narrative, hailed by critics of every persuasion, is the f...

  • Wanted: Wife

    Stella Bagwell

    KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM, MISTER! Tall, dark, rich and powerful, Lucas Lowrimore was one of the most eligible bachelors in town. Usually, women just fell at his feet! So when he couldn't even sweet-talk his way out of a speeding ti...

  • Wake Not the Dragon

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    Traveling to newly conquered Wales, Lady Gizela de Montpellier seeks to join her husband only to encounter instead Rhys ap Cynan, a Welsh chieftain who has vowed to sacrifice anything in order to rid his country of the hated English. LOVE AND WAR ...

  • A Wagonload of Fish

    Judit Z. Bodnar

  • Voodoo River

    Robert Crais

    L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history an...

  • Voice from the Grave

    Carol Mercado

    Based on the shocking true story that gained national exposure on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, this is the story of the death of Chicago's Edgewater Hospital inhalation therapist, Teresita Basa, and the assumption of the victim's personality by co-worke...

  • Virtually Eliminated

    Jefferson Scott

    As the deadly, self-proclaimed "Patriot" stalks the virtual reality computer Net, only one man-virtual reality programmer and committed Christian Ethan Hamilton-has the professional expertise, conviction, and supernatural guidance to pursue the high-...

  • Virtual Destruction

    Kevin J. Anderson; Doug Beason

    Virtual reality is the technology of the future. Groundbreaking. Dangerous. Almost limitless in its potential. It could replace nuclear power as the most coveted knowledge on the planet. And in a supersecret installation in California, under the most...

  • Violet // A Worthy Man

    Leigh Greenwood

    HEALING HEART Broken and bitter, Jefferson Randolph could never forget all he had lost in the War Between The States -- or forgive those he had fought. Long after most of his six brothers had found wedded bliss, the former Rebel soldier kept himse...

  • Violent Sunday

    Lee Morgan

    Hired by the Cattleman's Protective Association, McMasters takes on a ruthless, deadly gang called the Hell Killers, outlaws who have been terrorizing and slaughtering the inhabitants of Montana's Blue Pine Hills...

  • Unwanted: Dead or Alive

    Gene Shelton

    Framed for rustling and cattle theft by the corrupt banker who foreclosed on their employer's ranch, Buck Hawkins and Dobie Garret decide to live up to their reputations as wanted men by teaming up with spitfire Marylou Kowalski to plan the ultimate ...

  • Untamed Lover

    Sharon Kendrick

    He'd returned to claim his wife! As young and reckless teenagers they had married in haste and separated just as quickly. Scarlett had put Liam Rouse behind her and moved on. Liam, too, had acquired a new sophistication, but underneath still b...

  • The Unromantic Lady

    Penelope Stratton

    SHE BELIEVED LOVE WAS FOOLISH - UNTIL IT TAUGHT HER OTHERWISE! Diantha Halstow liked to declare that love was nothing but a mere illusion to trap fools. Rexford Lytham, Earl of Chartridge, couldn't agree more. He was, Diantha thought, a most sens...

  • Under the Covers

    Linda Warren

    His make-your-own-rules grin should have been a warning ... He'd never been followed bit a woman so downright determined, Simon Faro noted with admiration--and more than a touch of curiosity! Detective Jo O'Neal was outrageously persistent in trac...

  • The Two Georges

    Harry Turtledove; Richard Dreyfuss

    A precious and historic painting has been stolen by terrorists -- radical separatists who will stop at nothing to shatter the union. Colonel Thomas Bushell, the government's most fearless agent, is the only man who can stop them. But this is not o...

  • The Two Dead Girls

    Stephen King

    The Green Mile tells the story of two men, a prison guard and his new death row inmate, and their suddenly intertwined lives. What would it be like to walk those last 40 yards to the electric chair, knowing you were going to die there? What would it ...

  • Twin Pickle

    Ann Doro

    Identical twins Jenny and Ivory are always in the thick of the fun, spending each day jumping on beds, standing upside-down, and playing outdoors, and readers are challenged to guess which twin is which....

  • The Turquoise Lament

    John D. MacDonald

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Turquoise Lament is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Funny thing about favors. Sometimes they come back to haunt you. And Travis ...

  • Trying to Smile and Other Stories

    Sara Lewis

    Lewis’s premier collection of short stories reveals the quietly extraordinary in the lives of the ordinary-actresses who wait tables, expectant parents, jittery fiancés. These nine subtly interrelated tales create a familiar world of unlikely hero...

  • Trust Me

    Charlotte Moore

    Take at Walk on the Dark Side of Love... Man of Secrets 'There was something wrong, terribly wrong, in the long-abandoned building that was Margo Stafford's new home. And now a stranger swore that the evil she sensed threatened her very life. B...

  • The True Prince

    Walt Disney

    Accepting an invitation to dinner, the lovely Belle finds herself dancing in a grand ballroom with the Beast and enjoying the first stages of a blossoming friendship, in a colorful storybook that features interactive pull tabs....

  • True Confessions

    Mary Bringle

    Grace Peacock longs for the world of true romance stories as she struggles with the absurdities of modern life as she copes with ex-husbands, raffish friends, a loving mother, a disapproving ex-mother-in-law, an imaginary daughter, and unfulfilled dr...

  • Tropical Depression

    Laurence Shames

    Murray Zemelman, a.k.a. "the bra king," wakes up one morning contemplating suicide. Instead, he leaves his trophy wife and his thriving lingerie business, gets in his car, and drives to Key West to start a new life. Was it brilliant insight or a glit...

  • The Tranquillity Alternative

    Allen Steele

    On the dark side of the moon, six missile silos stand in silence, poised for a war that never happened. Today, they will be taken over by corporate interests. Tomorrow, they will be activated......

  • Traitor's Gate

    Anne Perry

    Someone in the Colonial Office is passing secrets to Germany about England's African strategy. While Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt investigates this matter of treason, he is quietly looking into the tragic "accidental" death of his childhood ment...

  • The Trail West

    David Thompson

    Accepting a job to guide a rich Easterner across the untamed Rockies, master trapper Nathaniel King is directed to safeguard his charge from hostile Native Americans, renegade settlers, and greedy robbers at the cost of his own life. Original....

  • Trail of Secrets

    Eileen Goudge

    Once, Ellie Nightingale has been an unwed teenage mother, adrift in New York City. Now, she is a renowned psychologist, married to a brilliant doctor--but unable to forget what had happened to her and her baby in that nightmare time. Once, sociali...

  • Tracks

    David Galef

  • Touchstone

    Linda Hilton

    Aurelia Phillips, Nethergate Hall's resident spinster -- a quiet, reserved miss whose inability to tell even a polite lie had made her unmarriageable in London society -- expected death to come calling. Her adopted grandfather, the Duke of Winter...

  • The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    Babylon 5, designed to be a place of peace in a troubled universe, has erupted into rioting as visiting cultures clash and passions explode.  Security chief Garibaldi must use all his skills to quell the violence between races.  But the troubles ...

  • Too Blue

    Betsy Haynes

  • Tom

    Daniel Torres

  • To Catch a Thief

    Debra Carroll

    TO CATCH A THIEF Luke Dalton: Tough, mysterious, incredibly sexy and charming. But why is he so intent on seducing -- Claire Sterling: Beautiful, vulnerable, determined. She's searching for her father -- not a handsome but dangerous lover...

  • To Catch a Little Fish

    Mercer Mayer

  • Timespell

    Robert N. Charrette

    FACING THE DARK TOWER The long apprenticeship was over. Yan was certified in the light magics, and warned to avoid the dark. He had won the right to wear his claviarm, the amulet that was the tool, weapon, and sign of every mage. But did he rea...

  • Tiger's Tail

    Gus Lee

    A career officer who trained at West Point. The number-one son of a hardworking Chinese family. A soldier still tormented by his tour of duty in Vietnam. Jackson Kan is a man caught in the middle of clashing worlds. Now Kan is bound for Asia once aga...

  • Thunderherd

    Kathi Appelt

    As a mighty storm cascades down the mountains like a thundering herd, one fearless mustang gives chase. "Appelt's vivid yet lyrical prose meshes nicely with Sayles' dreamy pastel paintings. The comparisons between wild horses and a brewing thundersto...

  • Thunderbird Spirit

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Hockey stars Mike "Crazy" Keats and his new friend, Dakota, are caught in a web of violence which makes winning a championship the least of their concerns. Dakota Smith is in trouble. But Mike "Crazy" Keats doesn't care. He is new...

  • The Three Lives of Harris Harper

    Lynn Cullen

    Between his summer baby-sitting job, his anxieties about talking to girls, and his increasing sense that his family is, well, embarrassing, twelve-year-old Harris is having a stressful summer....

  • This Is Me, Laughing

    Lynea Bowdish

    A young girl begins to laugh, and her laugh becomes contagious as spreads throughout her home, onto her block, and through all the streets of her small town, affecting everyone in her community with smiles and joy....

  • This and That

    Julie Sykes


    Cat's making the rounds of the farm, borrowing "this and that" from each of her barnyard friends. The animals are curious, so they follow her to the stable, where they discover Cat's secret-newborn twin kittens named This and That!

    ...

  • They Thought They Saw Him

    Craig Kee Strete

    Little chameleon sits on a brown branch, in the green leaves, in the tan sand, and on a golden rock. A snake, an owl, a fox and a boy all think they've seen him, but the chameleon never seems to be where they think he is. Craig Kee Strete and the pop...

  • Texas Renegade

    Dana Ransom

    Kenitay -- the handsome, mixed-breed Texan who felt he didn't belong in the world of either the white man or the Indian. Leisha -- the headstrong, caring woman who loved him enough to show him the way to a place of his own. Leisha and Kenit...

  • Texas Lonesome

    Alice Duncan

    SHE GAVE ADVICE TO EVERYONE -- BUT SHE COULD USE A BIT HERSELF Emily von Plotz barely eked out a living giving advice to readers of the San Francisco Call as "Aunt Emily." Then she chanced to meet the man who had signed himself "Texas Lonesome" -...

  • Texas Kidnappers

    J.T. Edson

    The Ysabel Kid was being followed as he rode the trail back to Rio Hondo Country. The three hombres behind him were robbing cowhands of their cattle-drive pay. And the Kid had been deputized to stop them. Riding out on his lonesome, he intended to br...

  • Tender Captive

    Rosemary Carter

    Getting even. Fraser Donaldson believed Stephanie was to blame for Timothy's accident, and he was in no mood to listen to reason. Stephanie couldn't remember the details -- it had all happened so fast. Convinced that she had no choice, Stepha...

  • The Tempest

    Ann Keay Beneduce

    A lavish young reader's edition of the classic Shakespearean tale follows the adventures of cast-out duke Prospero, who lives on an enchanted island with his daughter, Miranda, and the magical spirits helpful Ariel and evil Caliban....

  • Tell Me about When I Was a Baby

    Lisa Rojany

    Entertaining pop-up artwork, pull-tabs, a wheel with see-through windows, and more bring to life the developmental milestones in a small child's life, in an interactive picture book that contains space to record a youngster's "firsts."...

  • The Tears of the Madonna

    George Herman

    Leonardo da Vinci and his companion, Niccolo, a dwarf with a photographic memory, race about Renaissance Venice in search of a priceless diamond necklace, a quest that puts them in the middle of an assassination plot in the Mantuan court...

  • Tears of Blood

    Daniel Parker

    Desperate to protect her boyfriend, Jean-Paul, from his evil twin brother, Alison James joins the brother's mysterious Red Sect and learns about his dark magic, which threatens to overcome her unless Jean-Paul can save her. Original....

  • Task Force Blue

    Richard Marcinko; John Weisman

    Richard Marcinko's #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, brought SpecWar combat out in the open. But only fiction could tell the whole, unrestricted story, in two more explosive New York Times bestsellers--Rogue Warrior: Red Cel...

  • Tarnished Gold

    V.C. Andrews

    GABRIEL LANDRY IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS HER BELOVED BAYOU Her high school graduation just days away, Gabriel is blissfully happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Then rich cannery owner Octaviou...

  • Tapes of the River Delta

    Peter Cunningham

    Committing a murder after thinking about doing so for most of his life, Irish fugitive Theo Shortcourse remembers the events that led up to his act, in a chilling saga that spans three generations of a nineteenth-century town. A first novel....

  • The Tale of Nervous Nell

    Margaret Hopkins

  • The Sword of General Englund

    Donald Honig

    In 1876, Captain Thomas Meynard is sent to Fort Larkin, a small military outpost in the Dakota Territory, to investigate the murder of General Alfred Englund and uncovers the shocking truth about the crime . . . much to the military's dismay. 10,000 ...

  • Swift as the Wind; The Cheetah

    Barbara Juster Esbensen

  • Sweet Laurel

    Millie Criswell

    Fiercely determined to become an opera singer, innocent Laurel arrives in Denver where a bawdy saloon is the only place she can find work. Suddenly she is wearing shockingly low-cut gowns, singing to drunken hooligans, and feeling more than a little ...

  • Surrender to the Dawn

    Annee Cartier

    Beautiful Gwen Marsh was one of 1890's London's luckiest debutantes... until she was attacked by the Lancer, a shadowy killer who targeted young society women. Scarred emotionally and physically, she tried to lose herself in charity work. But now she...

  • Sunrise Song

    Kathleen Eagle

    IN THE DARKNESS OF YESTERDAY'S SHADOWS SHINES A GOLDEN PROMISE FOR TOMORROW A mixed-blood Lakota Sioux, Zane Lone Bull spent long years fighting -- on a distant foreign battlefield and in his own country -- and has vowed to fight no more. Now a t...

  • Sub Zero

    John T. Campbell

    When a heavily armed assault team is dispatched from North Korea and prepares to grab the United States's most devastating military secrets, an undertrained, outgunned band of servicemen, scientists, and civilians becomes the nation's only hope. Orig...

  • String A long Numbers

    Tricia Tusa

  • Stress

    Loren D. Estleman

    A young black cop goes head-to-head with Detroit’s elite undercover squad when one of its officers is accused of a racially fraught murderFor Paul Kubicek and the city of Detroit, 1972 ends in a haze of blood. A police officer in need of extra ...

  • Step in Time

    Anne Barbour

    A Timeless Dilemma It was had enough that Amanda McGovern's dreams were dashed by the man she adored in the 1990's. But romance offered even greater danger when she traveled back in time to Regency London and found herself being kissed by ...

  • Stay Away from That City..They Call It Cheyenne

    Stephen A. Bly

    Just when Pepper thought life settled down to a normal pace, she had to prepare for a rocky ride, now that she was hitched to the unpredictable Tap Andrews. Married life isn't turning out quite the way they planned. The ranch is gone. They've moved t...

  • The Stalker

    Carol Ellis

    Performing in a school production of Grease, Janna is delighted when her talents win her much praise and the attentions of an apparent fan, until the harmless token gifts of flowers and notes become the threatening moves of a stalker. Origina...

  • Spring Collection

    Judith Krantz

    PASSION... Three innocent beauties on the city of fashion and love... SCANDAL... It's the hottest thing that's ever happened to Loring Model Management. Three of its unknown models have been chosen to star in the debut spring collection o...

  • Spray

    Robert J. Blake

    Hating his new home on Martha's Vineyard, Justin believes that his only friends are the wind and the sea and dreams of sailing away forever in his little dinghy, until a storm brings him face-to-face with his hero, Captain Slocum....

  • A Spoon for Every Bite

    Joe Hayes

  • The Spider Who Created the World

    Amy MacDonald

    At the beginning of time, a spider named Nobb, floating on a long soft thread, sets out to find a place to safely set her ready-to-hatch egg and weaves a net that she hangs across the sky, in a lyrical, original creation tale. By the author of Ra...

  • Space Bingo

    Tony Abbott

    Ned Banks is miserable.  He's the new kid in school--and he sticks out like a sore thumb.  His life is going downhill fast.  Until something happens.  Ned's not  sure how he did it--but he beamed two kids from the year 2099 into his bedroom...

  • Sophie's Dance Class: A Pull-the-Tab Book

    Ruth Tilden

  • Song of the Vampire

    Carmen Adams

    Believing that peace has returned to sleepy Blue Mesa after dispatching the vampire members of the The Band, Megan and Iris find their lives disrupted again when a group of the undead invades the beach town of Turo. Original....

  • Song in a Strange Land

    Gilbert Morris

    Two young men united by blood but divided by loyalties court the affections of Jeanne Corbeau in a conflict that allows no neutrals.

    A Long, Dangerous Journey into the Crucible of the American Revolution!

    Dake Bradford was a blaz...

  • Something to Hide

    Peter Levine

    Planning to turn in his dissertation and leave Yale behind, graduate student Zach Blumberg is devastated when his work, a study of an obscure nihilistic French philosopher, mysteriously disappears just before a fellow student is murdered...

  • The Someday House

    Anne Shelby

  • Somebody Else's Child

    Terris McMahan Grimes

    Learning about a murder and kidnapping in her elderly mother's hometown, amateur sleuth Theresa Galloway is forced to agree when her mother insists that she has a better chance of solving the crime than the police do. Original....

  • Slumber Party!

    Judith Caseley

    An amusing, heartwarming tale about the classic childhood get-together describes how Zoe throws a slumber party and invites all her friends over to spend the night, but when bedtime comes, the excitement and fun really begins....

  • Slow Hands

    Debra Dixon

    A hold-your-breath-handsome professor who taught her the pleasure of play... Sam Tucker wasn't the kind of man to wait for an invitation, not when his mission was to help Clare McGuire learn the joys of losing control! Convinced Sam wanted onl...

  • Sisters

    Penny Richards

    A SECRET BABY... Nineteen years ago, farmgirl Skye Herder was all chaste, forbidden temptation while her older sister was a ripe, willing female. A boy on the brink of manhood, Cash Benedict had to choose... Now, tormented by memories, compell...

  • Sister of the Bride

    Valerie Parv

    Deception...or desire? Terise O'Neill has a goal--revenge for her stepsister Clair's unhappy marriage. She needs to get close to Ryan Westmore, and a job in his home--as nanny to his and Clair's twin girls--provides her with the ideal ...

  • Sister Dellie

    Cindy Bonner

  • A Simple Texas Wedding

    Ruth Jean Dale

    "Friday's child is loving and giving." It began simply enough, when Trace Morgan hired Hope to organize his sister's engagement party. But when the bride-to-be asked Hope to plan the wedding as well, then things got complicated--Te...

  • Short Fiction

    William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats

    Yeats's short fiction, rich in metaphor and symbolism, is preoccupied, like his poetry, with 'the war of spiritual with natural order'. Themes and figures recur, notably Hanrahan the Red, the last of Ireland's Celtic singers, and several of Yeats's r...

  • She Came by the Book

    Mary Wings

    As a lesbian, I never thought that I would mind another woman wearing the same dress to a big event. But the woman was Tracy Port, and the dress looked great on her even while she was being poisoned at my feet... San Francisco P.I. Emma Victor has...

  • The Shadowsmith

    Bill Fawcett

    MAGIC AND MENACE Mountain boy Hitch had no plans beyond reaching the palace of the Dreamwright and delivering Princess Diligence up to her mother, the immortal Amonwelle of the Unseen Wall. But when they arrived, they found the palace besieged by ...

  • Shadow of Doubt

    Jonnie Jacobs

    Kali O'Brien thought she'd left Silver Creek far behind. Until her father's death brings her back to her Sierra hometown, where she has to cope with past tragedy and present-day murder. All the evidence in a bizarre homicide case points to an old hig...

  • Shadow of Ashland

    Terence Green / Terence M. Green

    A request from his dying mother sends Leo Nolan on a quest in search of his long-lost uncle, who left Toronto for the U.S. at the height of the Depression and has not been heard from in more than fifty years, along a trail that takes him to the small...

  • Setting the Pace

    Lauraine Snelling

    When Lindy Randall announces her engagement to Robert Crowder, DJ is floored. How can her mother even consider taking on a husband and twin boys when she is only now beginning to get along with the family she has? DJ turns to her training at Briones...

  • The Serpent Garden

    Judith Merkle Riley

    In the court of Henry VIII, there are many secrets -- and some people will kill to keep them hidden. Susanna Dallet is the daughter of a Flemish painter and wife to a philandering husband, living in the court of Henry VIII. When her husband is mur...

  • Selected Writings

    Lady Gregory

  • Secret of the Bulls

    Jose Bernardo

    From an exciting new Cuban-American writer comes a lively, lusty novel that moves from the turn of the century to the late 1930s, alive with passion, romance, machismo, and the unerring wisdom of women....

  • Secret Admirer

    R.L. Stine

    A young actress draws a sinister spotlight in this spooky installment in R.L. Stine’s bestselling Fear Street series -- now with a fresh new look!Selena has it all. She just scored the lead in her high school play, and everyone adores her. So when ...

  • The Secret

    Nancy Rue

    With everything they've been through in the past year, Josiah thought he could trust his sister Hope -- until he sees her with one of their worst enemies. Though she tries to persuade him otherwise, Josiah does all he can to keep her from danger, and...

  • A Season of Knives

    P.F. Chisholm

    In 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier fleeing his creditors, his father's wrath, and the close scrutiny of his Queen, came north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March. The presence of his true love, the marri...

  • Seafort's Challenge

    David Feintuch

    This exciting omnibus volume brings together two complete novels of military adventures: Prisoner's Hope and Fisherman's Hope. Drawing on the strength of the blessed and the courage of the damned, one man must try to set a safe course for the human r...

  • The Scarlet Ruse

    John D. MacDonald

    McGee was too busy with his beloved houseboat, The Busted Flush, to pay attention to the little old man with his missing postage stamps. Except that they weren't ordinary stamps. No indeed. They were rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars' wor...

  • Scandal's Daughter

    Carola Dunn

    A home in a harem simply wouldn't do for prim Miss Cordelia Courtenay. Her impetuous mama had created a scandal by dragging Cordelia along as she traveled the world. Now, her death had left Cordelia stranded in Turkey...where the pasha decreed sh...

  • Satan's Thrust

    Don Pendleton

    The nation's elite extralegal arm remains ready for action in the covert gray area between diplomatic pressure and military intervention. Only word from the President sanctions Stony Man's deployment in a crisis. But when the Commander-In-Chief is ou...

  • Sarah on Her Own

    Karen Mueller Coombs

    Surviving a tortuous sea journey to the New World, fourteen-year-old Sarah finds herself orphaned and facing marriage or servitude if she is to survive and vows to save enough money to return to England. Original....

  • Sands of Deception

    Jean Rabe
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  • The Samaritan

    Nancy Rue

    Josiah's world seems to be falling apart. A family friend lies dying, something terrible has happened to Hope that she won't talk about, and a widow and her baby are in trouble. When Josiah reaches out to help, it seems no one wants or needs him. But...

  • Rumpole and the Angel of Death

    John Clifford Mortimer

    The irascible but always entertaining Rumpole is back, this time in a series of short stories that have him facing the usual assortment of human detritus at the Old Bailey. Rumpole's delightful compatriots--the determined and politically correct Miz ...

  • Rules of the Net

    Gerard Van Der Leun

    Explains how to become a master of the "Twelve Essential Commandments of Good Net Behavior," learn appropriate e-mail etiquette, how to properly converse with fellow net surfers, and become a responsible cybercitizen. Original. (All Users)....

  • Ruby & Spear

    Todd Walton

    Fired sports columnist Vic Worsley discovers a renewed vigor for life when he becomes involved in the promising career of Spear, a talented young basketball player, who refuses to trust Vic's encouragement.Sportswriter Vic Worsley is forty-four, divo...

  • The Royal Raven

    Hans Wilhelm

    Wishing that his ordinary raven's feathers could be colorful and more exotic, Crawford is thrilled when a magical old woman transforms his black feathers into a magnificent golden plumage until he attracts the wrong kind of attention....

  • Rosie's Ballet Slippers

    Susan Hampshire

    The thrill of a young girl's first ballet lesson is captured in the story of Rosie who, with her brand new pale pink slippers, enters her class and begins the steps to achieve her dream of becoming a real ballerina....

  • The Rose Revived

    Katie Fforde

    Joining a team of housecleaners as a means of supporting themselves, recently unemployed May, single mother and hopeful artist Harriet, and star-seeking Sally find themselves in hotter water than they could have expected....

  • Roping Colors

    John Speirs

  • Romance

    Ed McBain

    THE 87th PRECINCT... is where criminals and cops share secrets, tricks, and truths, where strangers meet, fall in love, and sometimes kill. ROMANCE... is a would-be hit play about an actress in a hit play pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. Until...

  • Roman Hasford

    Douglas C. Jones

    After the War Between the States, Roman Hasford headed West to carve out his own piece of the new frontier. He had suffered the untold indignities of war and was eager to seek adventure. Along the way, he helped to get a glimpse of the Indian Nations...

  • Rogue Saucer

    John Vornholt

    While its own saucer section receives needed repairs, the U.S.S. Enterprise tests a new experimental saucer. In theory, the new saucer can survive a planetary crash landing, but will it come through intact under genuine test conditions? Riker, Data, ...

  • Robin Hood

    Margaret Early

    Meticulously detailed paintings and beautiful, colorful borders bring to life the life and legend of the great English folkhero Robin Hood, Maid Marian, the evil Sheriff of Nottingham, and Robin's fellow outlaws, Little John, Friar Tuck, and Alan a'D...

  • Roanoke: The Lost Colony

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    Series premiere special price! Roanoke: The Lost Colony recounts the life of Jocelyn Colman, whose faith is tested and refined when she follows the husband she barely knows to an unexplored land. Jocelyn struggles with her husband's bitterness and gu...

  • The Road to Mingulay: A View

    Derek Cooper

    This is an account of Derek Cooper's journey across the Hebridean archipelago on his way to Mingulay, where his grandmother was born. Whilst travelling, he met all kinds of people and received every kind of opinion on the joys and trials of island li...

  • Rivers of the Black Moon

    Andrew Goliszek

    Richard Zarnoff, the world's leading AIDS researcher, has been brutally murdered in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the eve of making a world-shattering announcement. Speculation runs rampant--what did Zarnoff know that made him a target? Somehow, it all tie...

  • The Rise and Fall of a Dragonking

    Lynn Abbey

    “I, Hamanu…” Hamanu the Innocent -- his parents killed by an invading party of trolls. Hamanu the Survivor -- enlists as a soldier, forging himself into the same heartless mercenary that killed his parents. Hamanu the Victorious -- powerful...

  • The Ring

    Sylvia Halliday

    Determined to find the charming viscount who had stolen her heart and then sailed away to the colonies, Prudence Allbright books passage on a ship bound for Virginia and forges a daring alliance with a man with his own dark past. Prudence Allbrig...

  • Riding Shotgun

    Rita Mae Brown

    In a delightful contemporary farce with a riotous twist, Rita Mae Brown welcomes you to Virginia's horse country, where a fox hunt is about to lead a 1990s woman, Cig Blackwood, into a 1690s adventure of the heart. Infidelity, single motherhood, fami...

  • Ridge: the Avenger

    Leanne Banks

    SHE WAS THE MARRYING KIND... Ridge Jackson's plan was simple: protect lovely Dara Seabrook and get revenge on her godfather at the same time. Ridge was professional; he knew the dangers of mixing business with pleasure. How then had the voluptuous...

  • Riddle-icious

    J. Patrick Lewis

    Illustrated in full color. From poet extraordinaire J. Patrick Lewis, here is a splendiferous treat for kids who love riddles and rhymes--and who doesn't?  Each colorful page contains a riddle that is also a poem.  And every riddle-icious poem de...

  • Ribbons

    Laurence Yep

    If you asked her, Robin would say that ballet means everything to her.

    But no one's asking Robin. Not her parents, who can no longer afford ballet lessons because all of their money is going toward bringing Robin's Chinese grandmother to Ameri...

  • Return of Merlin

    Deepak Chopra

    The author of the million-copy best-seller Ageless Body, Timeless Mind emerges as a powerful new force in fiction with a luminously written novel about the final act of the Arthurian legend playing out in modern England. The Return of Merlin is a bri...

  • The Return

    Joe de Mers

  • Relative Sins

    Anne Mather

    Whose baby? Sara Reed has a secret. Returning to her husband's family home after his death isn't easy for Sara. Her mother-in-law clearly despises her, but the person she most dreads seeing again is Alex. Her husband's brother, h...

  • The Reformer

    Diana Whitney

    HEY, KIDDO-- I suppose you know I'm crazy about your mom. What man wouldn't be? Especially since she has such a great kid. But I want to talk to you man-to-man and tell you what my intentions are. Even though your mom is the most beautiful, wonder...

  • Red Wolf Country

    Jonathan London

    Two red wolves travel the perilous landscape of the North Carolina wilderness in search of a safe place to den and must protect each other from such perils as a snappy alligator and a gun-toting farmer....

  • The Rebel

    Grace Johnson

  • The Reason Why

    Ruth Rendell

    One of the world's most acclaimed mystery writers presents an anthology of literary depictions of murder that delves into the human passions, terrors, and foibles that incite the act and linger in its wake. Includes such writers as Sophocles, Shakesp...

  • The Rancher and His Unexpected Daughter

    Sherryl Woods

    Widower Harlan Adams had plenty of experience with children - male children. So when a rebellious teenaged girl stole his truck and went for a joyride, Harlan was baffled. Then he confronted her intriguing, sassy mother and was totally thrown for a l...

  • Race around the World

    Golden Books

  • The Quiet One

    Alicia Scott

    WANTED... Sheriff Cagney Guiness came back to Maddensfield for peace and quiet--and found himself right in the middle of a murder investigation. He also found his prime suspect, a woman who could help him escape his past--if only her past were free ...

  • A Question of Guilt

    Carolyn Keene

    AMERICA'S TOP TEEN DETECTIVES TEAM UP TO FIND THE BOTTOM LINE IN A MURDEROUS FINANCIAL DISPUTE. NANCY DREW and her father, Carson, have come to Philadelphia to attend a meeting of the Vidocq Society, a group dedicated to the investigation of unsolve...

  • Queen of the May

    Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna

    When Dr. Mike gets overly busy with seasonal flu cases, Colleen decides to keep her school problems to herself, a situation that teaches her a lesson in communication when things spiral out of control...

  • Pure Instinct

    Robert W. Walker

    Responding to a call by a New Orleans police commissioner to help in a serial murder investigation, Dr. Jessica Coran faces a second challenge when a murderer she helped put away escapes from prison and comes after her. Original....

  • The Proving Ground

    Wally E. Davis

  • Prototype

    Brian Hodge

    Meeting an injured man in the hospital who warded off three attackers, Adrienne finds her life forever changed by Clay, a genetically engineered individual who has been programmed to be one of the most dangerous people on earth. Original....

  • Private Matters

    Amberlina Wicker

  • The Princess and the God

    Doris Orgel

    A modern retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, narrated by Psyche herself, describes how the jealousy of her older sisters and of the goddess Venus drive her to marry a mysterious "dragon-bridegroom" and how true love conquers pain and separatio...

  • Pride of Lions

    Morgan Llywelyn

    Lion of Ireland was the breathtaking chronicle of Brian Boru, the Great King who led the bickering chiefs of Ireland to unity under his reign. He overthrew traditions, reformed society, and became the Irish Charlemagne. The Ireland of 1014 was a drea...

  • Priceless

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A CHILD... Architect Leah Frazier had taken a great risk once -- when she went to extreme measures to conceive her child. She adored her son, Coty, yet it would take another daring move to turn her life around. Her husband, long an invalid, was dyin...

  • The Poison Tree

    F.M. O'Rourke

    Growing up to become a member of the IRA after his father is killed by British soldiers, Billy Quinn becomes an unsuspecting pawn in a terrorist plot that targets an innocent girl and her doting grandfather...

  • Point Man Devotional

    Steve Farrar

    Building upon the crucial topics addressed in Steve Farrar's best-selling Point Man, Farrar's new Point Man Devotional walks men through the Scriptures, asking the question: What does God say about these subjects that are so critical to men? This eas...

  • Playing Daddy

    Lorraine Carroll

    ONCE A FATHER... When Cable McRay opened his home to singe mother Sara Nelson, he hadn't expected to play daddy to her three-year-old son. But beautiful Sara needed his help, and Cable couldn't deny this compelling woman anything. Even if ...

  • Plainsong for Caitlin

    Elizabeth M. Rees

    Caitlin With the terrible news of a disaster at sea, fifteen-year-old Caitlin's world crumbles, as does that of her older sister Rebecca. Orphaned and with meager funds, the sisters leave New Bedford to begin a new life on the western frontier. Swee...

  • A Place to Fall

    Roger Director

    The executive producer of Moonlighting and a writer for Hill Street Blues presents a funny, often poignant novel. Transplanted New York writer Billy Ziff, after conceiving a phenomenally successful show, learns just how little Hollywood success often...

  • Pirate Soup

    Erica Farber; J.R. Sansevere

  • The Pirate

    Kate Hoffmann

    SWASHBUCKLER -- GRIFFIN ROURKE: PIRATE, SPY. HE WANTS REVENGE ON THE INFAMOUS BUCCANEER, BLACKBEARD, FOR KILLING HIS FATHER. AND NOTHING -- NOT EVEN A BEWITCHING WOMAN NAMED MEREDITH -- IS GOING TO STOP HIM. When Meredith Abbott finds rugged Grif...

  • Perfect Strangers

    Rebecca Sinclair

    Gabrielle Carelton is one of Queen Elizabeth's most devoted ladies-in-waiting. But her loyalty is put to the test when Her Majesty commands her to marry Scotsman Collin Douglas. Then, on the eve of her wedding, Gabrielle is kidnapped by Collin's twin...

  • People of the Plains

    Ken Englade

    Tony Hillerman endorses this richly evocative new series that portrays the day-to-day lives of Native Americans in the west during a volatile time of betrayals great and small. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 called for a reallocation of tribal lands...

  • Pentecost Alley

    Anne Perry

    The ritual murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley would ordinarily occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis. But, under the victim's body, the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the nam...

  • The Pen Pal Puzzle

    Carolyn Keene

    When Nancy’s English postage stamps disappear before she can display the on her pen pal poster for Parents’ Night, she has to discover who has taken them, and why....

  • The Pearl Stallion

    Rae Muir

    SAVAGE! Innocent Dina Wilmount hid aboard The Pearl Stallion, desperate to return to England. But the vessel provided no safe harbor, for she soon learned that the price of her passage would be her soul. Cast out on London's streets, Anson Sau...