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  • The Second Man

    Steve Zettler

  • How To Hook a Husband (and a Baby)

    Carolyn Zane

    The Plan: Plain Jane Wendy Wilcox vows to get married before her thirtieth birthday. The Catch: She's only months away from her deadline, and there's not a single suitable guy in sight! The Solution: Beg hunky neighbor Travis Donovan to give...

  • Baby Chimp

    Debra Mostow Zakarin

  • Sugar Baby

    Karen Young

    SHE COULD LOSE HER SON, AFTER ALL Little Danny Woodson witnessed a murder, and now the killer is after him. Claire Woodson will do anything to protect her son. Even if it means living with the enemy. And Mack McMollere, Danny's uncle, is the en...

  • Face To Face

    Rebecca York

    She woke in a Baltimore hospital--with amnesia... and with child. Who is she? According to Mike Lancer, her rescuer and the man whose striking face is the last image she remembers, she is Justine Hollingsworth. Nothing about herself seems to fi...

  • Meet the Monsters

    Jane Yolen

  • Leave It to Pooh

    Mouse Works

  • Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse on the Ice

    Mouse Works

  • A Way Out of No Way

    Jacqueline Woodson

    A distinguished anthology of excerpts from some fine modern writing.—The New York Times In this very special anthology, Jacqueline Woodson shares the writings that inspired her as a young African-American growing up in Brooklyn. Within these pag...

  • Elected for Death

    Valerie Wolzien

    AMONG RICH NORTHEASTERN SUBURBANITES, POLITICS CAN BE POISON.
    Hancock, Connecticut--a historic enclave of wealth and conservatism--is in the final heat of a three-way mayoral election when long-shot candidate Ivan Deakin takes a sip of cyanide-lac...

  • In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

    Tobias Wolff

    Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a ...

  • What You Do Is Easy, What I Do Is Hard

    Jake Wolf

    What could be so difficult about gathering pollen from a flower--or spinning a web? Just about everything if you're a squirrel! A funny text and lively, comic illustrations make for a picture-book romp that will keep young readers giggling....

  • No More Mister Nice Guy

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    THE DESPAERATE HOURS Jed Hawkins had lost the only woman who'd ever meant anything to him because he couldn't give her the soul-deep commitment she longed for. His closed and shuttered heart wouldn't let him open himself up to anyone--and neither ...

  • Rancher's Baby

    Anne Marie Winston

    WILL YOU MARRY ME? Freewheeling cowboy Tye Bradshaw had never wanted a wife or children. But thanks to one night of passion, Dulcie Kincaid had borne a child. His child. From the moment he discovered he was a father, Tye vowed that his son would bea...

  • The Blooding

    Patricia Windsor

  • The Wood Wife

    Terri Windling

    Leaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dreams. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing, her his...

  • Blown Away

    David Wiltse

    FBI agent John Becker finds himself in unfamiliar territory. A phantom bomber calling himself Spring has taken New York City hostage, destroying landmark after landmark for five million dollars - and revenge. But unlike the bloodlust that Becker kn...

  • Final Thunder

    Tom Wilson

    WILDERNESS OF FEAR Their plane had crashed in the trackless wilds of Utah. But the passengers and the pilot had survived. Intact as well was the brief that one of the passengers carried--a document upon which the future of America and the world hu...

  • Borrowed Wife

    Patricia Wilson

    To have ... but not to hold! Logan Steele was determined to win back his bride, Abigail -- even after four long years. And if she wouldn't come willingly, then he'd have to make her an offer she couldn't refuse and simply 'borrow'...

  • Mismatched Mommy?

    Mary Anne Wilson

    Reggie Clark * craves order * likes kids--if they're someone else's * Motto: "Everything in its place." Dr. Ben Grant * survives on chaos * being "Daddy" is number-one job * Motto: "Go with the flow." You couldn't get truer opposites ...

  • Becoming Felix

    Wilson

    "JJ has a gift for the clarinet, but he would gladly give up music and the school jazz band to save the failing family dairy farm...Poignant passages as the family loses their herd and way of life make this a moving tale."-Publishers Weekly. "[A] sen...

  • World Mythology

    Roy G. Willis

    A New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book

    Filled with more than 500 color photographs, charts, maps, and line drawings, this is an incomparable guide to the world's most important mythological traditions.
    ...

  • A Suitable Mistress

    Cathy Williams

    Mistress material? Dane Sutherland was rich, powerful and sinfully gorgeous. He had it all--but he wanted more! He wanted Suzanne...and she was equally determined not to fall into his arms, or his bed! Suzanne had a deep grudge against Dane'...

  • Waldo's Christmas Surprise

    Hans Wilhelm

  • Bedtime for Laura

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Now the very youngest readers can share in the Little House adventures with these four new board books! In Hello, Laura!, visit Laura in her little house on the prairie. Join Laura as she helps Ma plant a vegetable garden in Laura’s Garden and Pa b...

  • The Nativity

    Juan Wijngard

  • The Cattle Killing

    John Edgar Wideman

    In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting...

  • Ghost Ship

    Don Whittington

    Winston and Brock encounter a supernatural schooner commanded by the Flying Dutchman and his crew, and they set sail with the Dutch Captain en route to the Bermuda Triangle to do battle against the ancient ones. Original....

  • Deadly Paradise

    Vicki Mason White

    "MY WORST FEARS WERE BECOMING A REALITY. WHERE WAS NIKKI ?" With her son away in Europe, widowed schoolteacher Catherine Hanson faces a long summer alone--until her college chum Nikki surprises her with an invitation to her private island. Amid t...

  • A Brother's Blood

    Michael C. White

    Coming to America to investigate the suspicious death of his brother, a German POW during the war, Wolfgang Kallick joins forces with Libby, a local spinster, to uncover the truth about the death, but the case becomes complicated by the murder of Lib...

  • Icefields

    Thomas Wharton

    At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Acturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse . . . Nearly sixty feet below the surface, Byrne is wedged upside down between...

  • Billy Sunday: Young Readers Christian Library

    W. Terry Whalin

  • A Man's Touch

    Rosalyn West

    IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER Jude Amos thinks of herself as too plain to ever attract a man. Managing a Wyoming way station and caring for her younger brother leaves her only brief moments to dream of being held in the arms of someone who finds her...

  • This Far, No Further

    John Wessel

    Wessel's first novel introduces Harding, a Chicago private investigator who has lost his license to operate and must depend on slick operators to throw work his way, but who nevertheless maintains a cool, wisecracking style. Harding's charming quirks...

  • The Wedding Kiss

    Robin Wells

    "STOP THE WEDDING!" Matt Jordan announced. He wouldn't let his best friend's sister marry the biggest jerk in town! Why is this tall, handsome man storming into the True Love Bridal Salon ordering me around? Ali McAlester wonder...

  • Sunset Detectives

    Herman Weiss

    Two retired cops are learning to enjoy the easy life--the hard way... The sun ... the sand ... the shuffleboard. Florida is not what Joe Chelsea pictured when he thought of retiring. But then again, Chelsea never thought of retiring from the NYPD ...

  • Balloonatics!

    Eric Weiner

    On a class trip to New York City, Marshall loses the Radio City show tickets for the whole class, becomes separated from the other students, and gets caught up by the Woof-Woof balloon during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Original....

  • Extreme Heat

    Joanna Wayne

    HE HELD HER CAPTIVE -- IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE Ex-cop turned security expert Cagan Hall was some kind of man. The secretive type a woman like Merissa Thomas should stay away from. But with a killer and the cops hard on her heels in the bayou, Cagan...

  • Husbands on Horseback: Bride in Waiting

    Margaret Way
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    One of the most influential and glamorous cattlemen of northern Australia, Blake Courtland seems way out of ordinary Carolyn Donovan's reach. She is under no illusions-Blake couldn't possible want to make his aggravating neighbor his blushing...

  • Supernatural Sleuths

    Charles G. Waugh

    Including the work of Hugo Award winner Larry Niven, William F. Nolan,  Ron Goulart, and Paul Levinson - fourteen chilling tales pit supernatural sleuths and ghostly gumshoes against the ne'er-do-wells of the netherworld....

  • Martian Deathtrap

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    MARS ATTACKS(c): Cards, comics . . . and now brand-new, all-original novels of unthinkable terror!
    MURDER MANSION
    The invasion was quick and merciless. Nothing on Earth could counter the superior technology of the interplanetary aggressors. The...

  • On the Mayflower: Voyage of the Ship's Apprentice and a Passenger Girl

    Kate Waters

  • The Story of Kwanzaa

    Donna L. Washington

    It’s time for Kwanzaa!

    Light the candles on the kinara! Fly the bendera, and tell stories from Africa! The festival of Kwanzaa was originated by Dr. Maulana Karenga to honor the customs and history of African Americans.

    The seven pr...

  • Keeping Kate

    Pat Warren

    HELP WANTED: MOTHER For Kate Spencer, serving as caregiver to Aaron Carver's baby was more than a job opportunity - it was a chance to find a family once again. Yes, Kate had been unlucky in that regard before, but one look at the handsome bachelo...

  • 101 Ways To Bug Your Parents

    Lee Wardlaw

    HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU THINK OF TO BUG PARENTS? Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt was born to invent things, and his latest gadget -- the Nice Alarm, which wakes you up with a gentle tap on the shoulder -- promises to make him rich and famous! All Sneeze needs t...

  • The Oyster Pirates

    James Walker

    The kingpin of the river is about to meet his match!When a shipment of gold bullion worth half a million of ready to be delivered to Wells Fargo, Zac Cobb is sent to protect it from river pirates who have taken over in the Delta. Along with his adopt...

  • Dreams of You // Touched by Lightning

    Tina Wainscott

    Nikki In a West Palm Beach homeless shelter lives a fragile young woman in tattered clothes. Every night she is haunted by the frightening secret that drove her to a furtive life on the streets. And every day as she slips through the streets with ...

  • Lanterns

    Patricia Veryan

    AN ABANDONED ESTATE, A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, AND A LADY DRAWN IRRESISTIBLY TO INTRIGUE! As spirited as she is penniless, living sparingly on the dilapidated estate called Lanterns, Marietta Warrington is the backbone of a large family whose fortune...

  • The Silver Cloud Cafe

    Alfredo Vea

    Angels on the roof of the Silver Cloud Cafe beckon special patrons--wanderers, the wronged, the dispossessed. From the author of the acclaimed La Maravilla comes a magical and vibrant new tale of love, history, and the human soul. "Blends Garcia Marq...

  • Night Lamp

    Jack Vance

    Found as a child with no memory of his past, adopted by a scholarly couple who raised him as their own, Jaro never quiet fit into the rigidly defined Society of Thanet.

    When his foster parents are killed in a mysterious bombing, Jaro Fath se...

  • Paradise Promised

    Terri Valentine

    SHE OPENED HER EYES TO A TITIAN-HAIRED GOD . . . Malana disrobes, offering her untouched beauty to the stranger standing before her. For she believes he is Te Tuma, the magnificent god of the volcano to who she has been sacrificed. . . . AND FOUND...

  • Woodland Christmas: Twelve Days of Christmas in the North Woods

    Frances Tyrell

  • Flyy Girl

    Omar Tyree

    The bestselling urban classic novel about a young woman coming of age in the late 1980s. Tracy Ellison, a young knockout with tall hair and attitude, is living life as fast as she can. Motivated by the material world, she and her friends love and le...

  • Winter Kill

    Dodge Tyler

    Witnessing the fall of many men to gold fever, Dan'l Boone begins a search for treasure on sacred Sioux land and soon finds himself in a deadly battle against hostile Sioux warriors, ferocious animals, and a devastating blizzard. Original....

  • Upsetting the Balance

    Harry Turtledove

    NO ONE COULD HALT THE ENEMY'S ADVANCE. NOT CHINA OR THE SOVIET UNION, NOT JAPAN OR NAZI GERMANY, NOT EVEN THE UNITED STATES. From Warsaw to Moscow to China's enemy-occupied Forbidden City, the nations of the world had been forced into an uneasy ...

  • The Laws of Our Fathers

    Scott Turow

    It was another drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most drug-plagued housing projects - but the victim was the ex-wife of a politician. Now this explosive case is about to reunite an unlikely group of men and women who first bonded in the rev...

  • The Thief

    Megan Whalen Turner

    “I can steal anything.” Because of his bragging -- and his great skill -- Gen lands in the King's prison, shackled to the wall of his cell. After months of isolation, he is released by none other than the King's scholar, the Magus, who believe...

  • After Rain

    William Trevor

    "There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world." -- Wall Street JournalTwelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor.  In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumb...

  • The Queen of Dreamland

    Ingrid Tomey

    After accepting an invitation to Dreamland, young Julie finally meets her real mother, an interpreter of dreams, and feels, at first, that she is better than her adoptive parents, yet things take a sudden turn and Julie soon realizes the difference b...

  • Welcome to the Ark

    Stephanie S. Tolan

    Four brilliant yet troubled young people are brought together in an experimental program they dub the Ark. They embark on a mission to stem the violence engulfing the world, but others will stop at nothing to scuttle the Ark.'...

  • Under Cover of the Night

    Roberta Tobeck

    HIS BEST FRIEND'S WIFE... For two years, agent Jess Knight had searched for his best friend's killer by day -- and dreamed of his lovely widow by night. But Gina Michaels was out of his reach -- past secrets made sure of that. And now time was qui...

  • Tabitha: The Fabulous Flying Feline

    Carol Ann Timmel

  • Breaking Faith

    Maynard F. Thomson

    From Simon & Schuster, Breaking Faith is Maynard F. Thomson's unforgettable novel.The theft of vital technological information could spell disaster for Zoltec Industries, the world's only producer of high-powered-microprocessor computer chips. Enter ...

  • Wings of Morning

    Victoria Thompson

    The sudden death of her husband leaves former Philadelphia debutante Emma Winthrop penniless, alone, and at the mercy of the man she despises most: her handsome brother-in-law Grayson Sinclair, whose grand Texas plantation is to be her new home. B...

  • Stuck With You

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    He wasn't about to be hog-tied! Wyatt Logan, champion bull rider, isn't ready to settle down. But from the moment he spots Charity Webster's cute little behind stuck in his aunt Nora's doggy door, he knows he's going to end up eating dust. Then...

  • Hell's Angels

    Hunter S. Thompson

    Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels -- Hell’s Angels, that is -- in this short work of nonfiction.
     
    “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw mo...

  • Texas Love Song

    Jodi Thomas

    McCall Harrison was looking for a man. Not a man to love and hold, for her heart had died with her husband. What she needed now was a man for her mission. Sloan Alexander was looking for redemption. The war had stolen his hope and pride. But a bea...

  • Luke's Fate

    Jim K. Thomas

    Illustrated in full color. Readers are introduced to young Luke Skywalker, who dreams of being a star pilot but has to stay planetbound, helping his uncle run the farm. Then the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO show up...and Luke's destiny beckons irresistibly...

  • Wild Streak

    Raeanne Thayne

    "When I want something, I stop at nothing until I get it..." Keen Malone couldn't believe his ears when Meg O'Neill turned him down for a loan! Determined to make the cool beauty understand that his wildlife center was the mountain's only hope, h...

  • The Fatz Katz

    William Taylor

  • Rogue Wave

    Theodore Taylor

    Eight gripping stories by award-winning author Theodore Taylor capture the power of the sea and the people drawn to it. From the tale of a teenage girl who fights for her life after a rogue wave traps her in the cabin of the overturned boat, to the s...

  • Slightly Scandalous

    Laura Taylor

    He was danger of the sensual kind... Trapped with a rugged stranger when a sudden storm stopped the elevator in midair, Claire Duncan was shocked to feel the undeniable heat of attraction! In Tate Richmond she sensed strength shadowed by loneline...

  • Love With a Stranger

    Janelle Taylor

    Thirty-five-year-old Cassandra Grantham has not been lucky with the men in her life. Twice, she gave her heart, and twice she was badly burned. Now, still reeling from her second husband's betrayal, the financially strapped widow has sought sanctuary...

  • Simeon's Bride

    Alison G. Taylor

    NO LEADS. NO WITNESSES. AND JUST A GHOST OF A CHANCE... Michael McKenna is leaving his wife. Jack Tuttle is trying to keep his. And handsome Dewi Prys lives with his mom. Perhaps the only thing the three Welsh policemen have in common is a murder...

  • The Crystal City

    Janice Tarantino

    Warned in her dreams about the man who would destroy her father's city, Chrysana d'Morne prepares to murder the sensual Drew Richards, but when she falls in love with him, she is forced to choose between her city and her heart. Original....

  • Close to the Bone

    William G. Tapply

    Brady Coyne''s friend Paul Cizek is burned out from his job as a defense lawyer, and when his empty fishing boat is found adrift on the seas, Brady must figure out whether his friend committed suicide, was murdered, or had an accident.

    ...

  • Great Santa Surprise

    Suzy-Jane Tanner

    It’s Christmas eve and Santa is here with presents for everyone. What can they be? Children will delight in lifting the flaps to â€open’ each gift and find out what surprise is waiting inside each colorfully wrapped package.

    ...

  • Seven Japanese Tales

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    Junichiro Tanizaki’s Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of voluptuous cruelty....

  • Alphabet City Ballet

    Erika Tamar

  • Boo to You, Winnie the Pooh!

    Bruce Talkington

  • Winnie the Pooh's Stories for Christmas

    Bruce Talkington

  • Christmas Mouse

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • Prairie Primer A to Z

    Caroline Stutson

    A rhythmic alphabet book captures the flavor and feeling of the early American midwest with scenes from a year in the life of a homesteader family that include such images as a butter churn, knickers, and a sewing circle. Lit Guild....

  • Help! I'm Trapped in the President's Body

    Todd Strasser

    Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and...Sherman? The eyes of the world are on Jake Sherman's school when the President of the United States comes to visit. But no one's watching too carefully, because Mr. Dirksen's crazy body-switching machine goes ...

  • The Laws of Return

    Cameron Stracher

    Colin Stone, third-generation American and secular Jew, is the narrator of acclaimed author Cameron Stracher's debut novel. Colin lives in a world cast loose from spiritual moorings, a world where kids get what they want ... the Hanukkah man sees to ...

  • A Willing Spirit

    Deb Stover

    Winnie Sinclair can't explain how she ended up in an Oklahoma thunderstorm making wild love to Paul Weathers, her ex-husband's divorce attorney, a.k.a "The Barracuda Lawyer". And she certainly can't explain how that same storm swept her back to 1896 ...

  • Home Fires Burning

    Penelope J. Stokes

    Series premiere special price! Link Winsom and his friend Owen Slaughter find themselves on the way to England and eventually onto the battlefield of France. The men fight for survival, while the women in their lives must face their fears and deepen ...

  • Chelli The Great Explorer

    Matt Stoddart

  • Attack Of The Jack-o'-lanterns

    R.L. Stine

    PUMPKIN POWER! Nothing beats Halloween. It's Drew Brockman's favorite holiday. And this year will be awesome. Much better than last year. Or the year Lee and Tabby played that joke. A nasty practical joke on Drew and her best friend, Walker. Yes, th...

  • The Diary of a Mad Mummy

    R.L. Stine

    ALL WRAPPED UP AND NO PLACE TO GO While you're on vacation, you get a chance to check out an exhibit of Egyptian artifacts and a pretty cool mummy. But when you get to where the mummy is supposed to be, all you find is a pile of bandages and a really...

  • The Last Scream

    R.L. Stine

    Final revenge Robin Fear has waited decades for this moment. His evil plan is in place. Dierdre Bradley, her father, and Fear Park will be destroyed. Nothing can stop Robin now. Except one person. Who's been watching--finding out Robin's secrets...

  • Chicken Licken

    Joan Stimson

  • A Marriage of Convenience

    Lois Stewart

    Lovely Sophia Ashley gave up all thoughts of a love match when she wed a much older man. Widowed now, she has inherited his fortune, but lacks the proper station to find titled husbands for her marriageable sisters. In fact, the London season will be...

  • Terror on Cemetery Hill: A Sarah Capshaw Mystery

    Drew Stevenson

    Young detective-in-training Sarah Capshaw tackles a dual mystery when the Wilsonburg bank is robbed just before the new kid in town reports seeing a strange creature from the grave up on Cemetery Hill....

  • His Cousin's Wife

    Lynsey Stevens

    "I asked you to wait for me. But you married my cousin ...." Shea had been devastated when her childhood sweetheart had left to pursue high-flying career. Alex Finlay had been her life--how could he blame her for turning io his cousin for ...

  • Holy Fire

    Bruce Sterling

    Ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann enjoys all the benefits of the late 21st century. It is a world in which power is in the hands of wealthy senior citizens, who have access to the latest in life-extension technology. Mia seems to have it all. Until sh...

  • Waterbound

    Jane Stemp

    In a future existence ruled by anonymous authority, Gem discovers another world. It is a world of water tunnels underneath the city, where handicapped people live. Their struggle to escape becomes Gem's struggle. Messages are sent in paper flowers en...

  • Not Before Marriage!

    Sandra Steffen

    NOT WITHOUT A WEDDING RING! She didn't look like the mother of a sixteen-year-old, but Cori Cassidy certainly had the past to prove it. And knowing too well where temptation could lead, she made a vow: No honeymoon before the wedding. Her pact ha...

  • Unexpected Engagement

    Jessica Steele

    Christmas surprise! Lysan was miles away from home at this special time of year. She missed her family and friends, but found it all too easy to forget that she was engaged--to a man she could never love. And the longer she spent with Dante, her L...

  • A Nightmare's Dozen: Stories from the Dark

    Michael Stearns

    Behold fourteen nightmares, in which readers can-if they dare-visit an amusement park where parents bring unwanted offspring; redeem a ticket for a never-ending plane ride; or join the ghosts of dead children at a midnight playground. “Given the re...

  • The Krytos Trap

    Michael A. Stackpole

    CAN THE ROGUE SQUADRON SURVIVE I'TS GREATEST CHALLENGE YET? They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing fighters risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they face their g...

  • The Little Christmas Angel

    John Spiers

    It's Christmas Eve and the angels are lighting up the night sky with bright evening stars. Then one angel has a truly brilliant idea: she flies down to Earth to make everything--from the carolers' lanterns to the Christmas tree toppers--just as brigh...

  • The Notebook

    Nicholas Sparks

    At 31, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At 29, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy ...

  • Spellbinder

    L.J. Smith

    BEWITCHED Her name is Blaise and she's irresistible to boys. Her dark, smoldering beauty is an invitation to jealousy and madness. And now she's ready for the kill. Eric Ross is the perfect catch, a star athlete who wants to be a vet. "Hands off,"...

  • Because of Francie

    Karen Rose Smith

  • A Groom and a Promise

    Karen Rose Smith

    Wanted: Willing Man To Wed Widow She popped the question after knowing him for one hour. For Beth Warren desperately needed a husband, and Nathan Maxwell was the perfect groom. But though she had planned on a marriage in name only, Nathan wasn't ...

  • Goblin's Revenge

    Dean Wesley Smith

    A deadly serum that causes anyone it touches to go violently insane has been stolen. Spider-Man must find the culprit before the serum is used to wreak havoc on the city. As if that weren't enough, someone has freed Carnage, the psychotic, super-powe...

  • Celebration in Purple Sage

    Barbara Burnett Smith

    IN-LAWS AND OUTLAWS... The centennial celebration of Purple Sage, Texas, has arrived, but Jolie Wyatt isn't in much of a party mood. For one thing, her in-laws are coming. And these nice people still wish their son was married to his first wife, ...

  • Do Not Go Gently

    Judith Smith-Levin

    When a vicious serial killer begins targeting African-American professionals, police lieutenant Starletta Duvall, who fits the profile of the murderer's victims, searches for the insatiable madman. Original....

  • Busy, Busy Elves

    Jerry Smath

    Just in time for Christmas--Busy, Busy Elves joins the popular Sticker Stories series. The busy elves are up to their little ears helping Santa get ready for his big sleigh ride. Readers can help out, too, using more than 75 full-color stickers just ...

  • Irene Jennie and the Christmas Masquerade

    Irene Smalls

    As Christmas Day dawns, excitement runs through the slave quarters as everyone prepares for the Johnkankus celebration, except for Irene Jennie, whose mother and father have been loaned out by their master to work on another plantation during the hol...

  • The Texas Blue Norther

    Lass Small

    MR. OCTOBER Name: Kyle Phillips Occupation: Cowboy--and reluctant hero Damsel in distress: Lauren Davie Kyle had seen every manner of occurrence on his TEXAS ranch--even a freak snowstorm couldn't rattle him. But the pretty young thing he'd...

  • Thank Heaven for Little Girls

    Tracy Sinclair

    One Man, One Woman...And Three Miniature Matchmakers! With his steely body - and silken lines - bachelor Antonio Fortunato was rumored to tempt even saints into sinning. So what mere female could resist this enchanting Casanova? Perhaps only sass...

  • A Regular Guy

    Mona Simpson

    Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father have established Mona Simpson as one of our most accomplished writers. In her new novel--the portrait of a legendary, quintessentially American entrepreneur trapped by the age he helped to define--she brilliantly...

  • My Very First Stable

    Simon Spotlight

  • A Dream Takes Flight

    Simon & Schuster

    The daughter of a fourteenth-century gameskeeper, ten-year-old Juliet and her friend, Marguerite, become entangled in an adventure with a stranger that sees twelve-year-old Marguerite betrothed against her will, but Juliet's courage, loyalty, and com...

  • Town Social

    Trana Mae Simmons

    One Lonely Orphan, Two Hearts United... SUNNY Devastated by her mother's sudden death, she moved to Texas to find her roots--and mend her broken heart... JAKE A rugged Texas Ranger, he was furious when well-bred Sunny moved into town--and...

  • No Cats Allowed

    Lois Simmie

    One rainy night, a stray cat seeks refuge in a warm and cozy hotel. There's no way he can stay, the manager warns. As soon as the rain stops, he has to leave! But before he's put back out on the street, the irresistable cat charms guests and staff al...

  • Walking the Black Cat

    Charles Simic

    In his thirteenth collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic melds folklore and black magic with everyday life.Hamlet’s ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panha...

  • Sex Crimes

    Jenefer Shute

    When pristine lawyer Christine Chandler engages in a one-night stand with a younger man, which leads to more, she finds herself accused of an appalling and shocking crime, and she finds her control slipping as she slowly plunges into a obsessive worl...

  • The Goalie

    Susan Richards Shreve

    Julie is in charge of the household affairs after the death of her mother, but when her father begins to date the mother of Benjie True, her arch rival for the position of goalie on the soccer team, she finds herself doubly challenged....

  • Diary of Lady Murasaki

    Murasaki Shikibu

    The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese impe...

  • The Ganymede Club

    Charles Sheffield

    In the years following the Great War and the death of half the human race, Lola Belman, a therapist on Ganymede, meets a patient whose past is a mystery, and a dangerous group will stop at nothing to keep Lola from exploring the past and discovering ...

  • Apache Arrows

    Jon Sharpe

    Racing toward the unmapped western mountains in a headlong effort to rescue a kidnapped white woman from the Chiricahua Apaches, Skye Fargo is ambushed in the Arizona desert by a femme fatale with a deadly secret. Original....

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    Colleen Shannon

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  • Steel Terror

    David L. Seidman

  • Free Lunch

    J. Otto Seibold

  • Legal Tender

    Lisa Scottoline

    Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato is a maverick lawyer who prosecutes police misconduct and excessive-force cases, and business at her firm of Rosato & Biscardi has never been better. Then, without warning, a savage murder tears the firm apart. All evidenc...

  • Wonder Child and Other Jewish Fairy Tales

    Howard Schwartz

  • Pop! Goes the Beagle

    Charles M. Schulz

    Peanuts and music--a perfect combination for the youngest Snoopy fans! As Linus plays with his jack-in-the-box to the tune of Pop! Goes the Weasel, a mischievous beagle tries to get into the act. Full color....

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    Charles M. Schulz

    Sally wants a Christmas tree, but has no idea how to cut one down, so when the perfect one falls down in her neighbor's yard, she is delighted, until the boy next door accuses her of stealing his tree....

  • Snoopy's Christmas Tree

    Charles M. Schulz

  • Luck of the Draw

    Candace Schuler

    TEXAS MEN MAGAZINE PRESENTS: Bachelor of the Month--Travis Holt. Sweet-talkin' cowboy, easy on the eyes, has his hands full running a ranch. Looking for the motherly type to raise three little girls good and proper. He's got a sound body, a sound m...

  • Minty

    Alan Schroeder

  • Martian Mask

    Scholastic Inc.

    Amazingly transformed by an incredible green mask with superhuman powers, ordinary guy Stanley Ipkiss finds himself outrunning suspicious government agents, local police, and his strange companions, Fish Guy and Putty Thing. Original....

  • Sister Mask

    Scholastic Inc.

    Putting on a new mask that he believes will calm his hyperactive lifestyle, Stanley Ipkiss is distraught when he learns that the second mask is part of an evil plot by Pretorious, who now controls his every move. Original....

  • The Sin Eater

    Gary D. Schmidt

    While living on his grandparents' farm in New Hampshire, Cole hears stories about a mysterious sin-eater which enable Cole to learn forgiveness and to connect with his ancestors. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint....

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    Gretchen Schields

    Mr. Blue suspects that the funny little kitten he brought home yesterday is creating mischief. There is one small problem-Mr. Blue can’t seem to find the pint-size scamp anywhere. But when two burglars surprise Mr. Blue, that mischievous kitten bec...

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    Ellen Schecter

  • Ron Rooney and the Million Dollar Comic

    Susan Schade

    Illustrated in black-and-white. When Ron Rooney happens upon a page torn from a collector's guide that tells him Larry the Lizard No. 1 is worth $1,250,000, he's ecstatic. He actually owns a copy! He races home, only to discover that his little siste...

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    Richard Scarry

    As little readers unfold an eight-foot-long, pull-out novelty book, they will chuckle at the antics of Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, and Sergeant Murphy as they peek and poke their way through Busytown. Original....

  • Starplex

    Robert J. Sawyer

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  • Young Lancelot

    Robert D. San Souci

  • Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

    R.A. Salvatore

    Russian exile Nikolas Rokoff has stolen an ancient crystal amulet--the key to terrifying power. It can be used to conquer the very depths of time and space, but if Rokoff releases its supernatural forces, the gem will rip apart the fabric of reality....

  • The Sex Test

    Patty Salier

    SEX AND THE SINGLE MAN Rachel smith knew better than to get , involved with respondees to her "sex survey"--the questions she was asking for a nationwide study were very intimate. But one look at Zane Farrell--his muscular frame, his oh-so-broad s...

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    Julie Salamon

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    Fred Saberhagen

    In 1792, Philip Radcliffe, the bastard son of Benjamin Franklin, comes to France to deliver a letter to Thomas Paine--only to get caught up in a conflict far more horrifying than the Revolution. By foiling a powerful vampire's attempt at fratricide, ...

  • Heaven's Fire

    Patricia Ryan

    LOVE'S UNCONQUERABLE POWER Young Constance was practically a slave, waiting to be taken at will by the cruel Sir Roger Foliot, lord of the village of Cuxham. But Sir Roger did not count on her ability to escape from him into the protection of prie...

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    Barbara T. Russell

  • Between the Sheets

    Mallory Rush

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    Jill Rubalcaba

  • Beloved and God

    Lambert Royston

  • Untamed

    JoAnn Ross

    MEN OF WHISKEY RIVER Gavin Thomas: sexy, strong-minded, determined to have his own way and to find out the truth about -- Tara Delaney: Beautiful and beguiling. Back home in Whiskey River under duress. Lying through her teeth about somethin...

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    C.P. Rosenthal

    When an urban-reared Elena journeys to the open spaces of Wyoming to visit her widowed grandfather, a special relationship develops between her and the stallion her grandmother trained, and when she gets caught in a desperate situation, she needs tha...

  • House of Guilt

    Robert Rosenberg

    Uneasy with his newly inherited wealth, cranky in unwanted retirement , former Jerusalem Police CID Chief Avram Cohen wants to be left alone to suffer. The new minister of police has other plans. Using emotional blackmail, he coerces Cohen into leadi...

  • Touch Me in the Dark

    Patricia Rosemoor

    The McKenna Legacy: Does Kate Farrell have what it takes to fulfill it? Kate Farrell talked to the wild horses she worked with on the mustang refuge, and she insisted they spoke to her in return - not in words, but in feelings. Yet the mustangs we...

  • 'Twas the Night B'fore Christmas: An African-American Version

    Melodye Rosales

  • The Golem: A Version

    Barbara Rogasky

    In order to protect the Jews of Prague, Rabbi Loew creates Joseph, a golem that only exists to Rabbi Loew, but Rabbi Loew suddenly realizes that his creation has reached into an area reserved by God and will soon have to face the consequences....

  • To Have vs. To Hold

    M.J. Rodgers

    An illicit affair... Attorney Adam Justice was facing the most personal and potentially dangerous case of his career when the body of his wife and her lover were discovered in a seven-year-old car wreck. An illegal marriage... Even more mys...

  • Callahan's Legacy

    Spider Robinson

    Callahan's Law: Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased (and bad puns are always appreciaf For years Callahan's was the place where friends met to have a few drinks, tell a few jokes, and occasionally save the world. Until that unfortuna...

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    Eden Robinson

    A startlingly hip urban novel that tells it like it is, blood, guts and all, Eden Robinson's Trap Lines is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Full of the raw urgency of a youthful yet clear-eyed voice, this collection of four po...

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    Denise Robertson

    Daphne Beford is to produce an expose of one of the leading breakfast TV programmes. She soon discovers the stresses and strains of everyday life in the studios along with the rivalries, ego clashes and disappointments. She then finds out what is in ...

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    Nora Roberts

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  • Wild Bull

    J.R. Roberts

    Wild Bill Hanson has some reputation. Folks say he's killed over 20 men, including Clint's old friend, Wild Bill Hickok. Now a writer wants Clint to help him find Hanson to get his story. Clint is willing to oblige--but for his own reasons. The Gunsm...

  • Cat Parade!

    Bethany Roberts

  • Rapture in Death

    J.D. Robb

    In a time when technology can manipulate moods and emotions, death holds the promise of ultimate ecstasy... They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Th...

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    Ann Rinaldi

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    Penny Richards

    Remember the Calloway women - Mariah, Jo, Tess and Eden? For all the readers who loved Calloway Corners - welcome back! And if you haven't been there yet, join us! Gabe. Gabriel Butler is a successful rodeo clown. Out of costume, he's a confident, ha...

  • Cher's Furiously Fit Workout

    Randi Reisfeld

    T.B. OR NOR T.B.? THAT'S LIKE, THE QUESTION Her Jeep's in the driveway, her Gucci's in the shopping bag, and she's leading a low-impact, high-fashion life. So why's Cher buggin'? Because she just can't be-leeve what's going on: Her t.b. De doesn't...

  • Tenth Insight

    James Redfield

    The adventure that began with The Celestine Prophecy continues as the action shifts to a wilderness in the American Southeast where the narrator's friend has disappeared....

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    Jane Ray

    A retelling of a classic fairy tale finds twelve princesses dancing their shoes to pieces night after night, much to the dismay of their father the king, who offers a young soldier the hand of his princess of choice if he can get to the bottom of thi...

  • Nostradamus Ate My Hamster

    Robert Rankin

    Robert wants to be a star in the movies. He has invented a system with his computer that could put the old stars back on the screen, alongside him. He has the script and the money, but Hollywood isn't keen. Could the perfect partnership lie with Erne...

  • Scaredy Cat

    Joan Rankin

  • The Eyes Still Have It

    Robert J. Randisi

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    Elsa Okon Rael

    Zeesie feels very grown-up indeed! For on this night, her seventh birthday, Zeesie is going to her first package party with Mama and Papa. She even has a brand new dress and a dollar bill -- her birthday gift -- all for herself! The package party ...

  • The Duke Who Came To Visit

    Carol Quinto

    WHEN LOVE COMES CALLING... Regina Westfield, too tall and ill-at-ease to be a hit during her season, proves a smashing success at raising horses in a little village near Newmarket. She's independent, eccentric -- and on the shelf. Until a coac...

  • Lamb to the Slaughter

    Elizabeth Quinn

    Dr. Lauren Maxwell, an Anchorage-based investigator for the Wild America Society, heads to Denali National Park to host a conference for world-class scientists. But when an esteemed Russian botanist is murdered, Lauren is forced to revise the agenda....

  • You Read My Mind

    Janet Quin-Harkin

  • The Pirates of Cyber Island

    Brad Quentin

  • Treachery

    Johnny Quarles

    Goddard had entered Andersonville prison an honorable man, but his escape had forced him to become a liar and a cheat, and years after robbing a Confederate payroll, his allegedly dead ex-partner returns to claim his share of the fortune--and Goddard...

  • Clockwork: Or All Wound Up

    Philip Pullman

    A tormented apprentice clock-maker—and a deadly knight in armour. A mechanical prince—and the sinister Dr. Kalmenius, who some say is the devil.…

    Wind up these characters, fit them into a story on a cold winter''s evening an...

  • The Prestige

    Christopher J. Priest


    In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.

    Their rivalry will take the...

  • Mola

    Maricel E. Presilla

    My little girls,
    You will grow up and marry
    a grown boy.
    You will grow up....
    I will look for molas,
    Molas for the little girls.
    --Cuna Lullaby

    The remarkable Cuna Indians live on the San Blas Islands off the northern coast o...

  • Dead Man Walking

    Helen Prejean

    When Helen Prejean is invited to write to a prisoner on Death Row who brutally killed two teenagers, she has little idea how much it will change her life. Although she abhors his crime, she befriends one man as he faces the electric chair. Dead Man W...

  • Gifts

    Jo-Ann Power

    A YOUNG GIRL'S TRAGEDY BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER As headmistress of The Farrell School for Young Ladies, Jessica Leighton-Curtis had buried her demons by devoting herself to her work --- until one student's plight touches her personally. She sees glimme...

  • Scab Pie

    Pat Pollari

    Angela and Michelle are forced to take over their mother's baking business when she sprains her ankle, but things get out of control when their little brother, Ukiah, leaves his powdered scabs in the Cuisinart...

  • To Wee Or Not To Wee

    Pat Pollari

    Zaraband the Magnificent, a hypnotist, plants five words in Brian's brain that cause him to lose control of his bodily functions on cue, and all five appear in his lines as the star of "Romeo and Juliet."...

  • Return to the House of Usher

    Robert Poe

    John Charles Poe, a small-town reporter in Crowley, Virginia, drinks a lot of bourbon and works because he doesn't have to. The heir to the family fortune, he has just received the most unusual part of the Poe legacy-the casket. The three-foot-long w...

  • Guilty As Charged

    Pocket Books

    From a team of top-notch crime fiction authors comes multiple unique perspectives on the American criminal justice system delivered with crackling courtroom intrigue and whodunit suspense in this collection of gripping stories edited by New York Time...

  • Hold Fast to Dreams

    Andrea Davis Pinkney / Andrea Pinkney

  • Arctic Fives Arrive

    Elinor J. Pinczes

    As a group of Arctic animals gathers together on a hilltop to view the northern lights, this lively book demonstrates how to count by fives with the help of snowy owls, musk oxen, walrus, ermine, polar bears, and more....

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    Marge Piercy

    This novel by a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author follows three “bold, courageous, and entertaining” women through the tumult of the French Revolution (Booklist). For Claire Lacombe and Pauline Leon, two poor women of eighteenth-century France,...

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    Michael Phillips

    A young evangelist and a mysterious drifter search for God’s love across a lawless land in this Western adventure by the beloved Christian author.Kansas, 1890s. Evangelist Mercy Randolph is still young and inexperienced when she suddenly finds hers...

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    Neil Phillip

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  • American Fairy Tales

    Neil Philip

    Includes works and discussion of Washington Irving, Horace E. Scudder, M.S.B., Frank Stockton, Howard Pyle, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Laura E. Richards, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Will Bradley, Carl Sandburg, and Neil Philip...

  • Weighed in the Balance

    Anne Perry

    When Countess Zorah Rostova asks London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone to defend her against a charge of slander, he is astonished to find himself accepting. For, without a shred of evidence, the countess insists that the prince of her small German pr...

  • Faces of Fantasy

    Patti Perret

    In 1984 Patti Perret created a unique book that captured the hearts of science fiction readers. The Faces of Science Fiction captured writers in their homes or workplaces. Now she has created the perfect fantasy lover's book, with more than 100 major...

  • Red Heat

    Don Pendleton

    RED STRONGHOLD America's top missile scientist is poised to defect to North Korea, and Mack Bolan hits the streets of Seoul to stop him. But the mission goes sour, and the defector crosses the border, aided by a former KGB officer. Joining forc...

  • White Nights, Red Morning

    Judith Pella; Michael Phillips

    As Russia plunges from World War I into revolution, the tragic events of Bloody Sunday leave their stain upon the nation--and the Fedorcenko family. After a devastating loss, the Fedorcenkos struggle with their grief and find their loyalties in the c...