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  • Zombies Don't Play Soccer

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    THERE ARE SOME PRETTY WEIRD GROWN-UPS LIVING IN BAILEY CITY. Coach Graves has really turned the Bailey School soccer team around. But after a confrontation with a strange old woman, she seems to fall under some sort of spell. Was Coach Graves really ...

  • Young Wolf's First Hunt

    Janice Shefelman

    Young Wolf's greatest wish is to join his tribe in pursuing buffalo, but his father thinks he is too young.  However, Young Wolf prepares himself for the hunt--just in case his father changes his mind--in this moving story of courage and perseveran...

  • Young Man's Darling

    Lee Scofield

    Trying to escape marriage to an older man, Jesse Mae Banning runs away to the West, but is unprepared for George's dogged pursuit or the determination of handsome cowboy Luke McCarthy to make her his own. He was everything she didn't want... ...

  • Young Adolf

    Beryl Bainbridge

    In this hilarious and ingenious novel set in 1912, Young Adolf Hitler, age twenty-three, comes to Liverpool, penniless, traveling with false papers, and perpetually stalked by imaginary enemies. His half-brother, Alois, who works as a hotel waiter an...

  • Writing Home

    Alan Bennett

    Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van,...

  • A Woman of Passion

    Anne Mather

    Is Helen Gregory a woman of passion ? To outsiders, Helen appears to be a typical cool English blonde. Only Matthew Aitken guesses that her icy exterior hides a warm and vibrant woman ...and he wants her! In the heat of Barbados Helen finds her...

  • Witch's Fire

    Beverly Butler

    When firelight reflects in a windowpane, they call it witch's fire. There may be some truth in those words. Kirsty Hamilton has had to except a lot of hardship -- life in a wheelchair, her father's new wife, and moving far from anything fa...

  • A Wish and a Prayer: A Novella

    Robin Lee Hatcher
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    Three stories follow the adventures of a young woman who dares to tame a wild animal and a cold-hearted assassin, a dressmaker whose prayers are about to be answered, and an enchanted daughter of a Welsh chieftain who is drawn to a prisoner. He lo...

  • Winter Storytime

    Rita T. Kohn

  • Windy City Blues

    Sara Paretsky

    FRIENDS & FAMILY CAN BE MURDER Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense attitude, V.I. has barely finished her morning coffee when she sees an ad in the paper asking for information about her own mother, long dead. Enter her newfound Italian ...

  • Wild Blood

    Anne Logston

    Dreaming of returning to her elven ancestors and locating her twin brother, Ria is forced to make a decision regarding her arranged marriage to a human and hopes to form an alliance between humans and elves. Original....

  • Wig!

    The B-52s

  • The Wife of Bath and Other Cantebury Tales

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide....

  • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

    Gregory Maguire

    When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch -- nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what i...

  • Wicked

    Michael Bates

    Andy has the chance of a lifetime. His cousin, Steve "Stealth" Thurman, is a famous masked rock star who's had enough of life in the fast lane. Andy is more than happy to take on Steve's life behind the mask. But there were some things cousin Steve d...

  • Who's in My Christmas Tree?

    Christopher Santoro

    Twinkling stars and icicles, little drums--and singing pickles?  In this not-so-traditional tree-trimming adventure, readers and flap-flippers will encounter some real surprises while reading around a brightly illustrated, three-dimensional Christm...

  • Who's Been Sleeping in My Grave?

    Stephen Roos

    THE GHOSTS OF FEAR STREET -- THEY'LL HAUNT YOU FOREVER! Do you believe in ghosts? Don't say no until you take a walk down Fear Street. Pat the woods -- where no birds sing. Past the lake -- where something lurks beneath the water. Past the cemetery ...

  • Who Killed James Dean?

    Warren Newton Beath

    Forty years after young James Dean dies tragically in California, a cult of devoted Dean worshippers fervently anticipates the return of its idol in the wake of strange events that include the disappearance of Dean's body and several murders...

  • White Lace

    Caroline Bourne

    FROM THE SHADOWY BACK STREETS OF LONDON... She is Tallie Edwards, a shy British beauty who has just witnessed a savage murder. Forced to leave her child behind, she flees England to escape a man of unspeakable terror -- the powerful nobleman she bel...

  • When the Whippoorwill Calls

    Candice Ransom

    "Young Polly describes how her family is removed from their land in the Blue Ridge Mountains when the government buys it to create Shenandoah National Park. They are given a modern house and land in exchange, but they miss the hills they have calledh...

  • When the Goblins Came Knocking

    Anna Grossnickle Hines

  • When She Was Bad

    Ryanne Corey

    GOOD GIRLS DON'T... Jenny Louise Rossi was the sweetest, purest young thing ever to come out of Toluca, Texas. But when her dull-but-reliable fiance ran off with a double-jointed stripper, Jenny decided being good got her nowhere. So she trans...

  • When Pigs Fly

    June Rae Wood

    Buddy's life has never been easy -- between caring for Reenie, her younger sister born with Down's Syndrome, and watching her parents struggle to pay the bills, she barely has time for normal teenage worries. But when her parents decide to sell their...

  • When Jane-Marie Told My Secret

    Nancy Poydar

    Carolyn and Jane-Marie are best friends. That means they share everything: gymnastics and snacks after school, jokes, and secrets. But then Jane-Marie tells Carolyn's secret, and nothing is the same anymore. This upbeat, funny chapter book, with brig...

  • Whatley's Quest

    Bruce Whatley

  • What Is in the Closet?

    Ruth Tilden

  • What Happened in Mr. Fisher's Room?

    Nancy J. Hopper

    The students in Mr. Fisher's science class have dreamed about the perfect revenge against their difficult teacher, but when those wishes begin to become reality, Lanie realizes that she must help Mr. Fisher....

  • Welcome to This World: A Love Letter to Little Ones

    Debby Boone

    The singer and best-selling children's author shows how God welcomes His children each day through the miracles of nature, from the sun's warming rays to the stars' glow in the night sky, captured in bright, simple pictures. IP. ...

  • Welcome Home!

    Sylvia White

    This series explains how everyday objects an d activities can reflect one''s culture, showing that looking at things people use and the way they do things can be a wo nderful way to learn about the similarities and differences between cultures. '...

  • Wee Mouse Christmas

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

  • Weather Eye

    Lesley Howarth

  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963

    Christopher Paul Curtis

    Enter the hilarious world of 10-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's 13 and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Momma and Dad decide it's time for ...

  • Watchdog and the Coyotes

    Bill Wallace

    Some dogs have a bark bigger than their bite. But Sweetie, The Great Dane, can't afford to bark -- or bite. After three little nips and three masters, the next stop is the pound. So when the burglar comes calling, he waves his tail. When coyotes come...

  • Waiting for the Moon

    Kristin Hannah

    Selena doesn't remember who she is or how she came to the hidden mansion on the isolated Maine coast. Lost in a confusing world filled with strangers, she finds comfort in a man whose eyes reflect her own desperate loneliness. Dr. Ian Carrick inv...

  • The Voyage

    Robert MacNeil

    A woman’s mysterious disappearance off the coast of Finland threatens the career-and marriage-of a distinguished New York diplomat in this “restrained, mature love story” (People) with an “extraordinary narrative grip” (Publishers Weekly, s...

  • The Virgin and the Unicorn

    Joan Smith

    Miranda Vale had learned that Lord Rotham was a rake, when her sister’s heart was broken. But Miranda couldn’t resist being charmed by the man, who had such courage and daring. She and Rotham’s brother, Pavel, got caught up in the adventure Rot...

  • Violations

    Susan Wright

    Under the guise of helping the crew find a way home, a group of aliens board the U.S.S..Voyager, and then steal the main computer. To get it back, Captain Janeway is forced to negotiate with the thieves -- who are from a consortium of planets where t...

  • Very Last Unicorn

    Marita Conlon-McKenna

    Befriending a unicorn in his yard, young Sam learns that it is the very last in the world and desperately needs a safe place to live, and in the days that follow, Sam finds a special place for the unicorn to stay....

  • The Very First Christmas

    Laura Kelly

  • The Vanishing Smile

    Earl Emerson

    Marian Wright is an amateur sleuth in the employ of two attractive young women eager to catch up with their no-account ex-lovers. But when Marian's investigation ends abruptly and ferociously, Seattle private eye Thomas Black has a new case on his ha...

  • Valley Justice

    Gilbert Morris

  • The Valkyries

    Paulo Coelho

    A Magical Tale About Forgiving Our Past and Believing in Our Future The enchanting, true story of The Valkyries begins in Rio de Janeiro when author Paulo Coelho gives his mysterious master J., the only manuscript for his book The Alchemist. Haunted...

  • Val McCall, Ace Reporter?

    Fran Manushkin

    Val's debut in the local newspaper is a disaster when someone switches her piece for some offensive material, upsetting everyone in town in the process, and it is up to her guardian angel to save her from losing face. Original....

  • Utterly Yours, Booker Jones

    Betsy Duffey

    Distracted from working on his sci-fi masterpiece, Space Cows, aspiring writer Booker Jones must contend with an ailing grandfather and write a speech arguing that the school mascot should not be a pickle....

  • Until Tomorrow

    Rosanne Bittner

    Tonight, they had passion. But love would have to wait ... UNTIL TOMORROW Addy Kane couldn't wait to leave her small Illinois hometown to take a teaching job in the gold-rich Colorado hills. Then robbers burst into the bank where she was withdrawi...

  • Undercover Cleo

    Anne Scott

    Rooting for the school newcomer during student council elections, teen misfit and expert sleuth Cleo Oliver discovers that the opposing candidate is plotting to rig the election, and Cleo must work quickly to save the day...

  • Under the Garden

    Graham Greene

  • Uncegila's Seventh Spot

    Jill Rubalcaba

  • Umney's Last Case

    Stephen King

  • The Ultimate Weapon X

    Marvel Book Group

    Gold Edition TPB. Collects Weapon X (1995 1st Series) #1-4. Written by Larry Hama. Art by Adam Kubert. Wolverine's story during the Age of Apocalypse... co-starring Jean Grey! Softcover, 96 pages, full color....

  • The Ultimate Gambit and the X-Ternals

    Marvel Book Group

  • The Ultimate Dragon

    Byron Preiss

    A treasury of engrossing dragon stories, many never published before, displays the imaginative talents of such authors as Anne McCaffrey, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Lois Tilton. Original....

  • Ultimate Amazing X-Men

    Fabian Nicieza

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

  • The Ultimate Alien

    Byron Preiss

    A collection of the best science fiction writing on UFO sightings and alien encounters features classic and previously unpublished stories by such writers as S. P. Somtow, Michael Crichton, and Don D'ammassa. Original....

  • Two Faced Woman

    Lucy Gordon

    PARTNERS IN CRIME... Private investigator Debbie Harker had had her share of tough assignments -- and going undercover as a notorious gangster's moll was certainly one of them. But tougher still was her self-appointed coconspirator, Detective Inspec...

  • A Twist in Time

    Lee Karr

    A CAPTIVE IN TIME... Della Arnell kept men like Colin Delaney at a cool distance. Too tall, too handsome and too sure of himself, this man could have any woman he desired. Yet even as she condemned the heir of the Delaney fortunes, she was compe...

  • Twin Again

    Linda Joy Singleton

    When her late identical twin sister visits as a ghost, Miranda is disgusted by Melody's mischievous attempts to match their mother up with a local bully but cannot successfully counter Melody's ghostly powers. Original....

  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses

    Sucie Stevenson

  • Turkey Trouble

    Janice Lee Smith

  • Turandot

    Marianna Mayer

    "Set in Peking, this story concerns the princess Turandot, who will consent to marry only a man who can answer the three riddles she poses. The many suitors who fail her challenge forfeit their heads, but when Calaf arrives, he falls in love with Tur...

  • The True Adventures of Daniel Hall

    Diane Stanley

  • The Trouble with Mister

    Debra Keller

    Since his parents refuse to get a dog, Alex decides to draw his own dog, a big purple one with bright yellow socks, and when this dog magically comes to life, Alex learns lessons about life and friendship....

  • Trouble in Texas

    Leann Harris

    SMALL TOWN NEEDS The beautiful blonde with the mysteriously broken-down '66 Mustang was exactly what Sheriff Derek Grey's small West Texas town, and his young daughter, needed--an honest-to-goodness doctor. She was also everything he wanted .... ...

  • Treasured

    Patricia Werner

    WITH A PASSION FOR PIRACY... Eldora Rawley is her father's daughter -- the pirate queen. As mistress of the ship Cordelia, she takes what she want and gives the devil his due. Then, one night in a bawdy tavern, she meets her match... ...THEY PLAY...

  • Traveling With the Dead

    Barbara Hambly

    Down through the deathless centuries, the vampires had drunk human blood for sustenance and for sport. They preyed where they willed, for no mortal humans could resist their unclean powers. But now came the ultimate perversion, the unthinkable: someo...

  • Train

    Charles Temple

  • The Trailblazer

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    THE TRAILBLAZER T R. McGuinnes: A Manhattan businessman. Intelligent. Decisive. And a little wild. He's come out West looking for adventure. But he doesn't expect his greatest challenge to be a sexy spitfire named Freddy. HIS WOMAN Freddy Single...

  • The Tower of Beowulf

    Parke Godwin

    Under the harsh tutelage of a merciless father, young Beowulf grew to be a strong and skillful leader of men. But shame, guilt and loss have marked him a coward in his own mind -- unworthy of praise and the noble trappings of victory. Attend the sag...

  • Touched by Angels

    Debbie Macomber

    SKY'S THE LIMIT New York City is always in need of a miracle, and this Christmas is no exception. Thank heavens the divinely inspired, if slightly dizzy trio-Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy-have winged in to answer three Christmas wishes and teach a fe...

  • Touch

    Charlotte Watson Sherman

  • Too Many Rabbits and Other Fingerplays: About Animals, Nature, Weather, and the Universe

    Kay Cooper

    Colorful cut-paper illustrations combine with lively rhymes in a collection of twenty fingerplays that demonstrate how young readers can imitate blinking fireflies, sprouting seeds, spinning planets, and more....

  • To Have & To Hold

    Patricia Gaffney

    Sebastian Verlaine, the new Viscount D'Aubrey, was cynical, sophisticated, and too handsome for his own good. He was also bored. Why else would he agree to sit on the bench with two fellow magistrates to judge the petty crimes of his tenants and neig...

  • The Titan of Twilight

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    For untold centuries, a banished titan has lurked in the cold, forbidden dusk of the Twilight Vale -- imprisoned for a crime as black as the boreal night. With the birth of a new king comes the titan’s freedom. The Kingdom hangs in the balance...

  • A Timeless Treasure

    Joyce Carlow

    A TIME TO FORGET... After the break-up of her relationship, Maddie Emerson decides that a "mystery weekend" on an island near Nova Scotia is just the distraction she needs. But during an unexpected summer storm, she falls unconscious...and awakens ...

  • A Time for Dancing

    Davida Wills Hurwin

    Sam and Jules - everyone knows that when you see one, the other can't be far behind. Best friends for more than half their lives, the two are practically inseparable. And in the summer before their last year of high school, Sam and Jules are certain ...

  • Tiger's Whisker and Other Tales from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East

    Harold Courlander

  • Tiger in the Rain

    Laura Parker

    THE TIGER... One night long ago, Michaela Bellegarde had fled from a dark, brooding tiger of a man who had taunted her, tasted her passion, then turned her away. But Guy Matherson had never forgotten their brief but searing encounter. Haunted by h...

  • Tiger Burning Bright

    Marion Zimmer Bradley; Mercedes Lackey

    The House of the Tiger has skillfully ruled Merino in times of peace. But now the indomitable armies of the Emperor Baithasar stand poised to crush the vulnerable city/state. And in the enemy's midst is the gray mage Apolon--foul necromancer who serv...

  • Thunder Road

    Chris Curry

    A series of horrifying incidents in the California desert town of Madelyn thrusts police chief Moss Baskerville and local cowboy Tom Abernathy into an all-out battle with the evil Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Original....

  • Three Tales of Horror

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Three spine-chilling horror stories by three masters of the macabre. In "Hop-Frog", a gruesome tale by America's father of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe, a king's jester, both a dwarf and a cripple, exacts a terrible revenge. Ambrose Bierce's "The B...

  • The Three Little Pigs

    David McPhail

  • Three Little Kittens in the Enchanted Forest: A Pop-up Adventure

    Hilary Aaron

    The adventures of three little kittens--Max, Buttons, and Ginger--are highlighted by elaborate pop-ups and three punch-out, die-cut kittens as they set out to retrieve their stolen mittens from the Magic Mountain Bird in the enchanted forest....

  • Three for the Road

    Shannon Waverly

    PREGNANT...AND ON HER OWN! Mary Elizabeth Drummond. She's a sheltered "good girl" with a pedigree a mile long. She's three months pregnant. She has no intention of marrying her baby's father. She's lost her credit cards, her driver's ...

  • The Three Blind Mice Mystery

    Stephen Krensky

  • The Thistle and the Rose

    May McGoldrick

    DESPERATE DECEPTION Celia Muir must escape from a burning castle into the Scottish Highlands before English soldiers capture her. With her are loyal friends and servants, all united to protect the infant Kit from unknown enemies. For her clandestine...

  • This Is the Bear and the Bad Little Girl

    Sarah Hayes

  • The Third Uncle

    Sara Seale

    He treats me like a child--I'll show him! Nineteen-year-old Gilly was insulted as only a young woman can be. She had come to Marley College to meet her guardian, Oliver Blunt. But he proved to be a domineering man who refused to believe she was a...

  • Thief of Light

    David Ramus

    After one of his artists is murdered and a fake Monet deal goes terribly wrong, corrupt Manhattan art dealer Adrian Sellars, who makes a fortune selling art forgeries and spends most of it feeding his heroin addiction, takes to the streets to save hi...

  • Thicker Than Water

    Linda Barlow; William G. Tapply

    Dr. Rachel Morgan inherited mystical healing powers from her mother, Ruth Morning Star, who suffered only pain and persecution as a result of her "gift". Rachel has always denied her legacy, but now, with the lives of her son, Jake, and the man she l...

  • Theatre Book

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • Tenorman

    David Huddle

    Mixing fictional and real-life jazz greats, a novella recounts the life of an aging saxophone player as seen by a researcher and jazz fan, who persuades him to leave his native Switzerland and come to the U.S. IP. ...

  • Ten Scary Monsters

    R.U. Scary

  • Ten Points for Style

    Walter Jon Williams

    A trilogy which includes: The Crown Jewels, House of Shards and Rock of Ages. The Crown Jewels: Peleng is a planet ripe for the plucking, and Drake Maijstral is an Allowed Burglar rated in the Top Ten by the Imperial Sporting Commission. But what s...

  • Teacher Creature

    Betsy Haynes

    Feeling uneasy about their bulging-eyed, slimy-tongued new teacher, Joey and Nate soon realize the truth about the mean and creepy Mr. Batrachian--that he likes to eat sixth-graders for snacks. Original....

  • Tea Time

    Dorothy Howell

    Sometimes the heart has a mind of its own... ALLISON: She was delighted to return to Brighton, Nevada -- and shocked when she found the charming town overrun with saloons and dance halls... CADE: He was thrilled to have a saloon of his own -- a...

  • Tarot Says Beware

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Madame Rosa, the eccentric local fortune teller, has been murdered, and the only witness is her parrot,Tarot. But he’s not talking. Herculeah Jones thinks she knows who the killer is, but she’s not the only one. . . . Someone else knows -- someon...

  • The Tarnished Lady

    Sandra Hill

    SILVER FLAME Banished from polite society for bearing a child out of wedlock, Lady Eadyth of Hawks' Lair spent her days hidden under a voluminous veil, tending her bees. But when her son's detested father threatened to reveal the boy's true paternit...

  • Tara's Child

    Susan Kearney

    Her child was her world... Outside, the blizzard raged, but inside, Tara Larson cradled her year-old son in a circle of warmth. Nothing could break the bonds between her and the boy--not even the strange events that were happening again in their n...

  • Tanya's Reunion

    Valerie Flournoy

  • The Tangerine Tree

    Regina Hanson

  • Taming the Wolf

    Deborah Simmons

    Champion of Her Heart Though Marion Warenne's past was but a dim nightmare, her present held a vision of glory - the formidable Dunstan de Burgh. A fierce knight who was determined to win their battle of wills, all the while protesting mightily th...

  • Taming the Wild Man

    Delayne Camp

    "What Daughter?" Nicholas Thunderheart moved through the steamy forest with the strength of a jungle cat. Primal...predatory. Years ago, scandal had driven him to isolation in the Smoky Mountains. But now that solitude was shattered-by a woman. ...

  • Taming the Lone Wolf

    Joan Johnston
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    A unforgettable man--modern heroe who have the courage to fight for what is right... Rugged. Sexy. Heroic. A lone wolf like Stony Carlton wasn't easy to tame. He didn't seem to need anyone. Until he was introduced to the right woman, that is. T...

  • Talked to Death

    Louise Shaffer

    The megahit talk show Cee Gee! featured love addicts, serial killers, and mothers who stole their daughters' boyfriends. But no on-camera drama compared to the behind-the-scenes murder of Cee Gee's ex-producer. Newly hired producer Angie DaVito was t...

  • Tales from Crypt

    Jane B. Mason

    a good sport becomes a terrifying avenger when a bully scares away his pet mouse, and in "Hunted," a hunter who is tracking a dangerous mythical beast is horrified when he learns that he has become the prey....

  • Talent Show Mess

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

  • The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors

    D.J. MacHale

    Trying to understand the mystery of her new neighbors, Emma Toll and her brother David realize that ten-year-old Lex Braun is not registered in school, and, like his parents, only comes out at night. Original....

  • Taking Time for Tea

    Emilie Barnes

  • Systems Crash

    Graham Marks

    The second part in a trilogy featuring Dez, a very special 11-year-old who holds information vital to two warring alien races which they are each desperate to get back. Dez just hopes he does not get vapourized in the process....

  • Swan Necklace

    Peggy Hanchar

    THEY CAME FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS,
    AND FOUND A LOVE THAT WOULD BECOME A LEGEND....
    Standing bound and dirty on the auction block, Swan Necklace, daughter of Red Hawke, chief of the Cree, remained proud and defiant. Struck by her beauty and courag...

  • Surrender

    Rochelle Wayne

    When Michelle Beauclair, the spirited mistress of Tall Oaks plantation first lays eyes on handsome northerner Brent Sheldon, she knows it will be the love of a lifetime. But she has no illusions. They believe in different dreams, live in separate wor...

  • Superstitious

    R.L. Stine

    Stine is the world's bestselling horror writer for children, but this is his first novel for adults. Liam is a bachelor professor of folklore and he's incurably superstitious. When people start getting murdered, it seems that Liam's demons are real....

  • Sunshine and the Shadowmaster

    Christine Rimmer

    IT WAS NOTHING SHORT OF SHOCKING! Heather "Sunshine" Conway was a respectable, small-town widow cheerfully waiting tables to make ends meet. Her brother-in-law, single father Lucas Drury, was a scandalous celebrity -- the Shadowmaster. Only their ...

  • Sunset Spirit

    Cherie Bennett

    When the Flints land a big recording contract with Polimar Records, the original members of the gang join together again and launch a tour, but their subsequent adventures change everyone's lives. Original....

  • The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of the Wind

    Rosa Guy

    Having found hard-won success, a brash, attractive black artist suffers a nervous breakdown and flees to the Haiti of the 1970s, where she incurs the wrath of the authorities and saves a helpless child. 10,000 first printing. Tour....

  • Summer Promises

    Diane Schwemm

    Silver Beach... An exclusive summer resort where families have gathered for generations. A place where nothing ever changed -- until the summer Elli Wells turned sixteen. Ethan Wells, heartbroken when Laura McIver dies, turns once again to dangerous...

  • Summer Madness

    Susan Lewis

    It Was a Summer that Would Change Their Lives Forever... It sounded like a heavenly vacation--three months in the South of France, sipping champagne, bronzing in the sun, and having the time of their lives. But friends Louisa, Sarah, and Danny--th...

  • The Summer Before the Summer of Love

    Marly A. Swick

    The stories in The Summer Before the Summer of Love seductively combine life's barren sorrow with a sensual fullness. Marly Swick is consistently original and unflinching in her observations of the dynamics between friends and lovers, parents and chi...

  • Stud Poker

    John Francome

    Investigating the suspicious suicide of a horse jockey, Paul Raven discovers a connection between the death and a private poker school that is comprised of Europe's wealthiest and most powerful people. Reprint....

  • Stranglehold

    Jack Ketchum

    As her husband descends into insanity, Lydia Danse becomes determined to protect her beloved young son from his father, but a possessive Arthur Danse refuses to give up on the boy he considers his property. Original....

  • Stranger in My Arms

    Madeline Harper

    DO YOU HAVE A SECRET FANTASY? Kasey Halliday does. She's always wondered what it would be like to fall hopelessly, irrevocably in love with a dark, dangerous stranger. Will Eastman, Kasey's new neighbor, fits the bill perfectly. He's h...

  • Strange Traffic

    Irene Dische

    A collection of stories finds its main characters in unlikely places and situations, from an affluent Jewish American who returns to Germany to a homosexual restauranteur who gets the chance to cook another meal for his first lover...

  • Story of the Pilgrims

    Katharine Ross

    Learn the story of the Pilgrims in this picture book that's a perfect fall read-a-long!

    From the dangerous voyage across the Atlantic to the first harsh winter to the delicious Thanksgiving feast, all the excitement and wonder of the Pilgrims...

  • The Story of the Milky Way: A Cherokee Tale

    Joseph Bruchac

  • Stormswept

    Deborah Martin

    THE FIRST WEDDING NIGHT that Lady Juliana St. Albans spent with her bridegroom, the dark and daring Rhys Vaughan, was one of divine discovery, as she realized the fiery fulfillment of a man's driving hunger and her own awakened sensuality. THE S...

  • Storm Rising

    Mercedes Lackey

    The Dire Threat of War with the powerful, sorcerous, Eastern Empire has forced the kingdom of Valdemar into an uneasy coalition with its traditional enemy, the neighboring kingdom of Karse. But now, mysterious mage-storms are wreaking havoc on bo...

  • The Star Gift

    Flavia Weedn

  • Squire's Blood

    Peter Telep

    A SQUIRE'S BATTLE THE BLOODY CONFLICT BETWEEN CELT AND SAXON STILL RAGES, REDDENING THE GORSE AND HEATHER OF THE MOORS. IF THE SAXONS CAN BREACH THE WALLS OF THE CASTLE OF SHORES, THEY WILL HAVE A STRONGHOLD FROM WHICH ALL THE HILLS AND VALES WE ...

  • Spring Planting

    Rita T. Kohn

    Early childhood concepts, such as counting, quantity, sequence, and spatial relationships are highlighted in each of these four seasonal picture books. Each story takes place in a woodland region along the Great Lakes of North America, the traditiona...

  • Spirit of the Place

    Dennis Hamley

    A time-slip novel in which the views and works of a poet and scientist, Nicholas Fowler, living in 1173 influence the life of a young student living today. Her boyfriend becomes obsessed with theories related to Fowler's work and an unearthly power b...

  • Spear of Heaven

    Judith Tarr

    Obtaining permission to accompany a powerful mage on a quest to a high mountain kingdom, willful heiress Daruya is horrified when her kingdom is threatened by evil forces on the eve of her departure. Reprint....

  • Southern Nights

    Susan Weldon

    SHE WANTED NO MAN... Leah Stanton dreamed that Riverwynd would one day be hers. All she had to do was show her ailing uncle that she could run his Florida sugar plantation better than any man. Her demure twin Rachel could flirt and entertain suitors...

  • Soulmates

    Elizabeth Chandler

    Targeted by the same killer who murdered Tristan, Ivy finally learns that Tristan has become her guardian angel and works with him to prevent her own death, but when Ivy finds true love, Tristan must let her go. Original....

  • Sophie's Lucky

    Dick King-Smith

    Sophie already has a rabbit and a cat and a dog, but what she''d really love is a pony. Good fortune comes Sophie''s way when she''s invited to spend her summer holiday in Scotland with Great Aunt Al.

    ...

  • Sophie's Heart

    Lori Wick

    A lonely widower. A woman far from home. Will they ever find what their hearts long for? After the tragic death of his wife, Alec Riley struggles to put his life back together. He and his three children are lost in their grief...until Sophie wal...

  • Songs of Papa's Island

    Barbara Kerley

    Through an afternoon of lyrical stories, Mama sings to her daughter of their life and adventures on a tropical island. Papa's island is a place where you can feed fish straight from your hand, walk through clouds of butterflies, race hermit crabs on ...

  • Someplace Else

    Carol P. Saul

  • Some Prefer Nettles

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    Junichiro Tanizaki’s Some Prefer Nettles is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition -- and the profound disquiet that accompanied its passing.
     
    It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misak...

  • Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime

    J. California Cooper

    Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncanny ability to reach out to readers like an old and dear friend.  Her characters are plain-spoken and direct: simple people for whom life, despite its ev...

  • Some Fine Grampa!

    Alan Arkin

    Grampa's amazing stories about living in the jungle with card-playing gorillas and meeting a polar bear who knits sweaters make people think his mind is wandering, but Molly believes he is telling the truth....

  • So Happy // So Sad

    Julie Paschkis

    A two-in-one book expresses two familiar emotions as they are experienced by animals, portraying a chuckling chipmunk and a belly-laughing bullfrog on the happy side while a camel curls his lip and a gorilla feels grumpy on the sad side....

  • The Snowstorm

    Richard Scarry

    Hilda Hippo's great strength causes problems in the classroom and in her work as a playground monitor, but when the school bus goes off the road in a snowstorm, it takes her strength to get it back on the road...

  • Snowflakes

    Peggy Darty
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    Some brief encounters stir deeply-felt emotions, then slip away. But after a chance airport meeting with a beautiful dress shop owner whose name he does not know, lab scientist Colin McCrea resolves to find and win over the mysterious woman who so co...

  • A Snow Story

    Melvin Leavitt

  • Snow

    Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

  • Snail and Buffalo

    Jim Latimer

  • The Smell of Apples

    Mark Behr

    Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times
    Winner of the M-Net Award
    Winner of The Eugene Marais Award
    Winner of the CNA Literary Award
    Winner of the Betty Trask Award
    A Booker Prize Nominee

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  • Small Ceremonies

    Carol Shields

    The superb first novel from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General's Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.Judith Gill is a well-respected biographer who desperately wants to write fiction. When s...

  • Slocum at Dog Leg Creek

    Jake Logan

    HE WAS NEARLY DEAD ON ARRIVAL... Slocum was headed for Dog Leg Creek to take a job at Happy Kramer's spread -- but before he even got there, he was ambushed by a gang who roughed him up and warned him off. When he finally made it to the ranch, he ...

  • Sleepover Madness

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    When everything goes wrong during her first week of sixth grade, Kaitlin Durham is relieved when she makes two new friends in Emily Delgado and Lexie Taylor, and the three plan a weekend sleepover, with disastrous results. Original....

  • Sleeping Beauty

    Jane Donnelly

    “Who are you behind that Mona Lisa calm?” It was a strange question for Rafe Drayford to ask. Caroline's future was mapped out for her and she had been happy with it: marriage to Christopher, the man she loved and respected, followed by a...

  • Sleeper Spy

    William Safire

    “An international insider’s feel for a story with a master’s touch for telling it. Pick it up and you won’t put it down.” -- Dan RatherIn the wake of an important KGB agent's disappearance, an event of international proportions, journalist ...

  • Sleep, Sleep, Sleep

    Nancy Van Laan

  • Sky Tree

    Thomas Locker

    A tree stands on a hill by a river. As the sky changes, so does the tree, its branches filling with clouds, stars, snow, birds, mists, and the golden spring sun. One tree can mean many things.

    Thomas Locker's lyrical text records the changes...

  • Sky Dogs

    Jane Yolen

  • The Skelly Man

    David Daniel

    Rasmussen is trying to find out who is sending threatening letters to fading TV talk-show host Jerry Corbin, a Lowell native who is returning to his hometown to premier the new show he hopes will resuscitate his career. Alex has a surfeit of suspects...

  • Skateboard Monsters

    DK Publishing

  • A Sip of Aesop

    Jane Yolen

    A verse retelling of thirteen familiar Aesop's fables includes "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Tortoise and the Hare," and "The Dog and the Bone," and delivers each story's moral with a humorous twist....

  • Simple Twist of Fate

    Marianne Evans

    A man realizes that his baby is the result of his wife's affair and leaves her. Embittered, he lives by himself in a small town. A single mother collapses and dies, whilst her toddler finds her way into the man's house. He adopts her, not realizing t...

  • Simisola

    Ruth Rendell

    THE LADY VANISHES No one admitted to spotting the doctor's missing daughter--even after the murders began. Melanie Akande, eschewing privilege, had insisted on going to the jobsearch office to find employment. But between that office and the bus sto...

  • The Silent Strength of Stones

    Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    In summer, magic is warmly borne on the gentle, wafting breeze. It is a season of many wonders, with many secrets ripe for discovering ... and some best left in shadow, unexplored. Summer has come to Sauterelle Lake. And inquisitive young Nick is ...

  • Sights Unseen

    Kaye Gibbons

    SIGHTS UNSEEN is an unforgettable tale of unconditional love---and of a Southern family's desperatesearch for normalcy in the midst of madness. It is the story of Maggie, "the Barnes woman with all the problems"...and Hattie, a child struggling to...

  • Sick

    Jay Bonansinga

    When a mysterious growth on exotic dancer Sarah's mind is discovered to actually be the growing seed of an evil force, Sarah and a team of medical scientists set out to destroy it before discovering that the cure is twice as deadly. Original....

  • Showdown at Centerpoint

    Roger MacBride Allen

    THE ADVENTURES OF STAR WARS REACH THEIR EXPLOSIVE CONCLUSION IN BOOK THREE OF THE CORELLIAN TRILOGY... When a loyalist ship approaching Selonia is blasted out of space, Han Solo quickly realizes that rebel forces are turning planetary repulsors in...

  • Shoes, Shoes, Shoes

    Ann Morris

  • Shocker on Shock Street

    R.L. Stine

    TALK ABOUT SHOCK TREATMENT! Erin Wright and her best friend, Marty, love horror movies. Especially Shocker on Shock Street movies. All kinds of scary creatures live on Shock Street. The Toadinator. Ape Face. The Mad Mangler. But when Erin and Marty ...

  • Shock Tactic

    Don Pendleton

    KILL FEVER War has been proclaimed on the human race -- in the name of protecting the environment. A fanatic "green warrior" wages his war using robbery, extortion and mass murder. Now he is about to send a one-two-three punch that will shock Amer...

  • Ship Ahoy!

    Judy Delton

    Invited to film a TV commercial while on board a luxury cruise, the Greens, Aunt Ivy, and Lois look forward to living the lives of millionaires until Aunt Ivy leaves her purse and home and then gets seasick. Original....

  • Ship

    David MacAulay

    In Ship we join a group of underwater archaeologists as they search for a long-lost caravel in the reefs of the Caribbean Sea. A combination of drawings, maps, and diagrams details the ship's recovery, and as clues to the past are pieced together, a ...

  • Shepherd of the Wolves

    William S. Slusher

    Investigating the sudden death of an elderly school custodian, Sheriff Lewis Cody begins a scandalous interracial affair with the victim's attorney granddaughter and is shocked when a second murder takes place. Original....

  • The Shattered Sphere

    Roger MacBride Allen

    Striving to retrieve a stolen planet Earth and restore it to its proper solar system, an unlikely band of human scientists, dictators, and professional troublemakers face two enemies in the powerful Charonians and the mysterious Adversary. Reprint....

  • Sharkbait!

    Vincent Courtney

    Stumbling across Dr. Piranoid's illegal genetics lab, the four Bolton brothers become the victims of a diabolical experiment that mixes up their DNA with that of a shark and transforms them into superhero shark-boys. Original....

  • The Shark Master

    Ann M. Martin

  • The Shaman

    Christopher Stasheff

    THE UNINTENDED HERO The Ulin were the Elder Race, powerful in arms and in magic, scornful of men, elves, and the other Younger Races. And worst among these tyrants was the terrible Ulahane the Red... Only one Ulin dared oppose the Scarlet One. ...

  • Shadow Academy

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new, ...

  • The Sensational Samburger

    David Pelham

    In order to catch a thief who has been stealing hamburgers throughout the neighborhood, Sam and Samantha concoct the world's worst hamburger, which includes such delicacies as shampoo mayonnaise and crunchy caterpillars. Lit Guild....

  • Self-Help

    Lorrie Moore

    From the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs -- and a master of contemporary American fiction -- comes “a funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories" (The New York Times Book Review). In these tales of loss and pleasure,...

  • See You in September

    Ellen Conford

    Four teen summer romances follow themes of first kisses, sunsets at the beach, love at first sight, and more, and include the writings of Katherine Applegate, Ellen Conford, Alane Ferguson, and Lee Wardlaw. Original....

  • The Seduction of Samantha Kincade

    Maggie Osborne

    A WOMAN RIDING FOR REVENGE A MAN GAMBLING FOR LOVE Samantha Kincade was after a man. As a bounty hunter that was her job. But in a rowdy Colorado saloon, a gambler with golden tiger eyes saw through her boy's disguise. A little frightened, and mo...

  • Seduced and Betrayed

    Candace Schuler

    BACHELOR ARMS: Come live and love in Bachelor Arms. In each book, enjoy a wonderful love story and meet colorful neighbors you'll bump into again and again. For Hollywood bad boy Zeke Blackstone, apartment 1-G brought back painful memories. He'd f...

  • Secret Weapons

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    The Castle Court Kids are back—and this time, they’re teaming up to fight the bad guysKate Nicely and her BFF, Aurora Pappas, haven’t told anyone about their top-secret science project that’s going to win first place at the An...

  • The Secret Baby

    Day Leclaire

    A baby in the boardroom? Damien Hawke had Sable Jameson had the perfect partnership, in business and pleasure. Or so it had seemed. Five years ago Sable had been accused of selling company secrets, and she had lost her job and her man! Now Dami...

  • Sebastian's Trumpet

    Miko Imai

  • The Seal Prince

    Shelia Macgill-Callahan

  • The Screaming Skull

    David G. Hartwell

  • The Scoundrel

    Ann Carberry

    "When I seduce you...I want you to be as eager for me as I am for you. In the soft glow of candlelight, I will watch as your eyes darken with desire. And when neither one of us can survive another moment of glorious passion, we will join our bo...

  • Scanlin's Law

    Susan Amarillas

    Kidnapped! The word tore at Rebecca's heart. Her child was gone. And standing before her was Luke Scanlin, U.S. Marshal, the only man who could save her son. But how could she trust him again when she knew that Luke held the power to ruin her...

  • Scandale D'amour

    Anne-Marie Villefranche

  • Say Hola, Sarah

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Caramba! Sarah Cole can't believe it. Benjamin  Bean has wrecked her whole weekend. In front of the  whole class, he told Mrs. Halfpenny that Sarah  would do a report on Columbus with him. But Sarah  doesn't know one thing about Columbus. Now...

  • The Savage Land

    John Killdeer

    Striving for freedom in the untamed Pacific Northwest, frontiersman Cleve Bennett, his Cheyenne wife Second Son, and their son Billy-Wolf are attacked by a renegade band of Chipewyans who are looking to capture slaves...

  • Savage Frontier

    Frank Burleson

    In 1854, as tensions between the North and South threaten to tear America apart, Lieutenant Nathaniel Barrington confronts legendary Apache leaders Victorio, Mangas Coloradas, and Geronimo, who refuse to make peace in the New Mexico territory. Origin...

  • A Savage Betrayal

    Lynne Graham

    Destination: Revenge! Once upon a time, Mina Carroll had fallen in love with her boss, Cesare Falcone, and into his bed -- only to find herself dismissed by him as a gold-digging tramp. But the story didn't end there: four years later, Min...

  • San Francisco Blues

    Jack Kerouac

  • Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett

    Steven Kellogg

    On the day she is born this amazing baby proudly announces she can out-talk, out-grin, out-scream, out-swim, and out-run any baby in Kentucky. Within a few years Sally is off to the frontier, where she stuns a hungry grizzly bear, makes a lasso ou...

  • The Saint of Bourbon Street

    BJ James

    HE WAS AN UNLIKELY HERO Mitch Ryan knew the streets of New Orleans better than a beat-up alley cat, so it made sense for Katherine Rivard to beg him to rescue her missing sister. Yes, he'd fled that town--and his past--years ago, and didn't want t...

  • Rumpole and the Younger Generation

    John Clifford Mortimer

    The first-ever Rumpole story, introducing many of the characters and setting the scene for the whole series. In reminiscent mood, Horace Rumpole, barrister, looks back to his successful defence of 16-year-old Jim Timson, member of a large and industr...

  • A Rose Remembered

    Michael Phillips

    The Secret of the Rose series continues with this thrilling novel of international intrigue, unexpected romance, and unshakable faith.   At the beginning of this second installment of Michael Phillips’s bestselling Secret of the Rose series, ...

  • Rosata

    Holly Keller

  • Rogue Fever

    Jan Hudson

    She couldn't help asking for his brand of trouble... Long legs in dusty jeans, eyes shaded by a cowboy hat, Ben Favor looked every inch a scoundrel -- and Savanna Smith felt his smile as a kiss of fire on her skin! She'd come to the sleepy...

  • Rock of Tanios

    Amin Maalouf

    An exploration of myth, passion and loyalty from the Lebanon's troubled past, The Rock of Tanios is another superbly rich and rewarding novel from the author of Samarkand and Leo the African. Expertly controlling his multi-faceted narrative with pros...