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  • Zoey Comes Home

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Zoey comes home. And home, for Zoey, is Lucas. They've always loved each other--even through ...

  • Zebra and Other Stories

    Chaim Potok

    "In six quietly powerful stories, Potok explores varieties of inner and outer healing, both in individuals and families: 'Zebra' begins to regain use of his crushed hand and leg creating art assigned by an intinerant teacher; 'Isabel' finds unexpecte...

  • Zagwitz : The Thingummagadgetician

    Inigo Jones

  • You'll Grow Soon, Alex

    Andrea Shavick

  • Yesterday's Scandal

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    A mysterious stranger has come to town... Former cop, Mac Cordero, was going undercover one last time to find and exact revenge on the man who fathered, then abandoned him. All he knew was that the man's name was McBride -- a name, he discovered, ...

  • The Year of Miss Agnes

    Kirkpatrick Hill

    It's 1948 and ten-year-old Fred has just watched her teacher leave -- another in a long line of teachers who have left the village because the smell of fish was too strong, the way of life too hard. Will another teacher come to the small Athabascan ...

  • World Turns Round and Round

    Nicki Weiss

    Whether you say mjomba or uncle, chachi or aunt, jidd or grandfather, you will recognize the love in the pages of this book. Whether your relatives live in Maine or Mexico, Colorado or Kenya, they are linked to you and you to them. The cultures that ...

  • World Holidays: A Watts Guide for Children

    Heather Moehn

  • Word and Song Christmas Storybook

    Stephen Elkins

  • Woo!

    Ana Martin Larranaga

  • A Wizard in the Way

    Christopher Stasheff

    Under the nom de guerre of Gar Pike, renegade psychic wizard Magnus D'Armand travels the stars fighting injustice and oppression, like his father, Rod Gallowglass, the Warlock in Spite of Himself. But unlike his famous father, Magnus refuses to play ...

  • Without Mercy

    Lois Gilbert

  • Witch Hunt

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    When Abbey Hanover's parents inherit an old house in Massachusetts, she discovers that Felicity Crane had been hanged there three hundred years earlier as a witch, and soon Abbey is hurtling back into the past to save Felicity. Reissue....

  • The Wise Woman

    Christian Jacq

    They built a civilization ahead of its time, and dominated the ancient world. They defined an era of war, love, passion, power, and betrayal. They were a people of mystery whose secrets have turned to dust - but who inspire our awe and wonder even to...

  • Winter Range

    Claire Davis

    Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best NovelIn Winter Range, the intimate details of ranching and small-town life are woven into the suspenseful story of three pe...

  • Winter Passing

    Cindy Martinusen

    2001 Christy Award finalist!
    Darby Evans stands before her grandmother's bed, wondering why the dying older woman calls the name of a stranger--Tatianna. A young woman searches for clues to her grandmother's love and legacy lost during Wor...

  • Winnie the Pooh's Play-Along Rhymes

    RH/Disney

  • Winnie The Pooh's Bedtime Hummables

    RH/Disney

  • Will You, Won't You?

    Jessie Haas

    Mad Parker has just graduated from eighth grade, where she had nearly perfected the art of becoming invisible, unnoticed, gone-to teachers, to classmates, to her mother, almost to herself.  Now she is spending the summer ( a summer of Three Rs: r...

  • Wild Woman

    Carol Rose

    A GOOD GIRL... As a small-town mayor's daughter, a perfect student, and the friendly girl next door, twenty-six-year-old Emily Loughlin realizes she has become an expert at pleasing everyone--except herself. So, in one impulsive move, she packs her ...

  • Wild Justice

    Phillip Margolin

    Thursday: Subject is still combative after four days of applied pain, sleep deprivation and minimal food. Vice squad detective Bobby Vasquez, for months on the trail of a slippery underworld figure, receives an anonymous tip that directs him to a ...

  • The Wicked

    L.A. Banks

    Damali and Carlos have finally tied the knot, but there is no happily ever after. There are bigger problems on the horizon. Eves son, Cain, has escaped his banishment in order to assume his fathers throne and is now the new Chairman of the Vampire Co...

  • Why She Left Us

    Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

    After giving birth to a child out of wedlock on the eve of World War II, Emi Okada flees to the U.S. where she endures internment in the Colorado desert and then embarks on a lifetime of unraveling the family secrets that have shaped her troubled exi...

  • The Wholeness of a Broken Heart

    Katie Singer

    An evocative debut novel chronicles the lives and fortunes of four generations of Jewish women, as their stories span two continents, from Eastern Europe to modern-day Cleveland, and one young woman, Hannah Felber, struggles to resolve her troubled r...

  • Who Gets to Marry Max?

    Neesa Hart

    Million-dollar question: Who gets to marry Max? Enigmatic toy tycoon Max Loden had built a financial empire on that catch phrase. But the world's hottest catch had never been tempted to satisfy anyone's curiosity -- until now.... Least likely answe...

  • Whirlwind Wedding

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    SHE WAS A TOTAL STRANGER, YET SHE SAW RIGHT INTO HIS SOUL Austin Randolph Jamison, Ninth Duke of Bradford, met the uncanny beauty at the ball at Bradford Hall. And from that first moment, he was stunned. How could this unsophisticated female, who ...

  • When We Were Orphans

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prizeâ€"winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of ni...

  • Wheel Wizards

    Matt Christopher

    Twelve-year-old Seth Pender thinks his life came to an end when he suffered a spinal injury that left him confined to a wheelchair. Seth, an athlete who loves basketball, is sure he'll never play again. He grows sullen and silent, unresponsive when h...

  • Wheel of the Moon

    Sandra Forrester

    When Pen's mother dies and har home is taken away from her, Pen ventures alone to London.  With only a few pieces of clothing and a large supply of determination, she sets out to find a life for herself in the big city.

    But London in 162...

  • What She Saw...

    Lucinda Rosenfeld

    A fresh (in more than one sense) and honest new voice in fiction is extravagantly displayed in this first novel that candidly dissects modern romance.Plagued with weird parents, an underdeveloped body, and a mind on the verge of self-deconstruction, ...

  • What Is up When You Are Down?

    David F. Marx

  • Well of Darkness

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    LOEREM: A world where humans, elves, dwarves, and orken co-exist in a fragile balance maintained by the Dominion Lords, warrior-peacemakers forged from the magic of the Soveriegn Stone. But evil slumbers at the sacred Stone's core. Second in line ...

  • Welcome to the Great Mysterious

    Lorna Landvik

    Megastar of stage, screen, and television, Geneva Jordan now has a command performance in Minnesota, where she agrees to look after her thirteen-year-old nephew, a boy with Down’s syndrome, while his parents take a long-overdue vacation. Though Gen...

  • Welcome Home, Mary Anne!

    Ann M. Martin

    Mary Anne's been going through some big changes lately, but when a friend who's facing her own difficulties comes to stay for the summer, can Mary Anne help her cope?...

  • The Wedding Deal

    Janelle Denison

    The bride contract Tall, dark Luke Bodene had been propositioned by women before -- but they'd never had marriage in mind! Yet, his employer, ranch owner Eden Lowe, had just invited him to dinner...and asked him to be her husband! If Eden didn'...

  • Web Sight

    Pam Pollack

    While touring with her mother, former rock star Molly Phillips, Fiona Kane starts receiving e-mails on her laptop with links to Web sites with specific details about her mother's future and what will happen on the tour....

  • The Way Home

    Irene Hannon

    SHE SEEMED TO HAVE IT ALL... Amy Winter was a top-notch TV reporter who thought work was all she needed to make her happy. Until handsome attorney Cal Richards walked into Amy's life. Suddenly he had her questioning everything she'd ever believed...

  • The Wary Widow

    Barbara Hazard

    SUSPICIOUS OF LOVE The charms of Vienna are certainly not lost on Cornelia, the widowed Countess of Wyckend. But she has come to this beautiful city with a very important responsibility--she must look after a young relative whom she and her dista...

  • Warrior's Honor

    Georgina Gentry

    TORN BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY A warrior who values duty above all else, Talako is honor bound to recapture a runaway brave sentenced to hang for his crimes. But then he confronts the fury and determination of ebony-haired Lusa, his quarry's sister....

  • War Season

    Don Pendleton

    FLASH AND BURN America reels in horror and shock when terrorists slaughter hundreds in Philadelphia, using a prototype weapon of megadeath called the Annihilator. The blood trail leads to a private arms dealer on the U.S. military payroll, selling...

  • Walks Alone

    Brian Burks

    This powerful, factually based novel explores the human instinct for survival and self-determination through one Apache girl’s fortitude in the face of extreme hardship and loss.
    ...

  • Waiting for You

    Kasey Michaels

    Slowly tumbling into ruin, once-stately Coltrane House is nevertheless a place of mirth and mischief, dazzling variety, and endless surprise. Any visitor can quickly see why: the sparkling presence of Meredith Fairfax, the red-haired imp who is ward ...

  • Waiting for Deliverance

    Betsy Urban

    In 1783, orphaned fourteen-year-old Livy and her cousin Ephraim are taken in by a woodsman and his family, including a young Seneca man who changes Livy's attitudes toward the Indians she was raised to hate and fear....

  • Voice from the Border

    Pamela Smith Hill

    Where was life taking her?

    Fifteen-year-old Margaet Reeves O'Neill isn't likely to forget the day the war came home to Springfield, Missouri. That was the day her father left to join the Confederacy, fighting for principles he ...

  • Very Grouchy Christmas

    Random House

  • The Veritas Conflict

    Shaunti Feldhahn

    Claire Rivers races to the mailbox to receive a letter of acceptance to Harvard University while a heavenly battle rages. In this fast-paced, suspenseful novel, the ageless war for the hearts and minds of students on our college campuses is revealed....

  • Venola in Love

    Cheryl Ware

  • Unification

    Jeri Taylor

    Based on the epic two-part television episode, here now is the story STAR TREK fans have awaited for five long years, the story that brings together Spock--the enigmatic Vulcan who personified the original, classic STAR TREK--with the crew of the Nex...

  • The Unicorn

    Allison Lassieur

    The Land is Wounded Shadwlands monsters mass on the edges of Rokugan. The Crab Clan, long vigilant in battling them, seems unable or unwilling to stop the demonic onslaught. But from an unlikely quarter, a hero arises. She will lead her forces ...

  • Unforgettable

    Madeline Baker

    The last thing Shaye Montgomery needs is another man in her life. Especially a gambler who was hanged a hundred years before she was born. But Alejandro Valverde won't leave her alone. As she walks the deserted streets of a California ghost town, his...

  • Underwear Do's and Don'ts

    Todd Parr

    Originally published in mini hardcover (paper over board) editions, four of Todd Parr's very first books are now available in a chunky board book format with brand new cover designs. Bold and bright, funny and reassuring, these are perfect packages f...

  • Undercover Protector

    Cassie Miles

    EVEN THE TOUGHEST MAN HAS A WEAKNESS... ... and hard-as-nails intelligence agent Michael Slade feared his enemies had found his. Officer Annie Callahan, the woman he'd loved and left years ago, was being stalked. And Annie was the one thing Micha...

  • An Uncommon Courtship

    Martha Kirkland

    Rascal's Return Miss Eloise Kendall had long known that Gregory Ward was a rascal in the first degree. So when he returned from London to visit Threwsbury Park--and raise money for his burgeoning political career--she assumed his warm demeanor bel...

  • Tyranny in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    In post-apocalyptic, dystopian North America, an ex-mercenary leads forces against an evil brewing in Mexico -- from a USA Todayâ€"bestselling author.   The patriot army of Ben Raines went toe-to-toe with the most powerful enemy in the world -- ...

  • Two Promises Too Many

    Adam Beechen

    Yikes! Eliza's promised to build a home for a young crocodile, but she's also promised to help her Dad, Nigel, find his Lord Willy-Nilly pen so he can finish his script. Torn between her two promises, Eliza comes up with what she thinks is a fool...

  • Twenty and Out

    Ian Gibb

  • Turtle and Snake and the Christmas Tree

    Kate Spohn

  • Turkey Ticklers

    Katy Hall

    Finally, a collection of knock-knock jokes to be thankful for! Lift the flaps and join a group of festive school kids as they serve up the funniest Thanksgiving play ever. After feasting on this corny collection of knock-knock jokes, you'll be beggi...

  • Tucker Over the Top

    Leslie McGuirk

  • Tucker off His Rocker!

    Leslie McGuirk

  • Trust No One

    Meryl Sawyer

    WHEN A MAN WHO LIVES ON THE EDGE... A Navy SEAL, Brody Hawke is alone in the world, never feeling the need to put down roots - or shrink from danger. Then he receives a letter from a man who insists he is Brody's father. Instantly, the news change...

  • Truffle's Christmas

    Anna Currey

    Not knowing what to ask Santa to bring him for Christmas, Truffle the mouse finally dispatches his letter but fears he has made a mistake when Christmas Eve arrives and there is no room for him under the family's shabby blanket....

  • True to His Word

    K. Sue Morgan

    With her father dead and the Union Army occupying Vicksburg, Elizabeth Benedict had to grow up quickly. Determined to hold onto her family home until her brother Jonathan returned from the war, she was stunned when long, tall Texan Jake Travers arriv...

  • True Love

    Brenda Jackson

    Revenge can be oh so sweet... Successful manager Shayla Kirkland has landed her dream job with one of Chicago's top new firms, Chenault Electronics. Now she's in a perfect position to destroy the company for unjustly ruining her mother's career. But...

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Liz Ireland

    Roy McMillan had vowed to live and die a bachelor! But the McMillan credo didn't set too well the day that Ellie Fitzsimmons stepped off the train in Paradise, Nebraska. The confounded beauty lit up an October day with her sunshine. And though she...

  • Troll Teacher

    Vivian Vande Velde

  • Trigger Point

    Don Pendleton

    TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING The United States Constitution is about to be dissolved by an internal threat. A conspiracy conceived in the last days of the Third Reich is gaining momentum and putting democracy at risk. For fifty years the tentacles of ...

  • The Trigger

    Arthur C. Clarke; Michael Kube-McDowell

    It is the ultimate antiweapon. A device that can render guns and bombs virtually harmless. At least that is how Dr. Jeffrey Horton, the brilliant young physicist who developed the Trigger, hopes his discovery will be used. Yet, like the scientists wh...

  • Trials and Tribble-Ations

    Diane Carey

    Almost a century ago, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise first encountered the irresistible (and astonishingly prolific) life-form known as the tribbles, resulting in one of the most unusual adventures in the annals of Star...

  • Trial By Fire

    Terri Blackstock

    Pastor and fireman Nick Foster found the body in the inferno engulfing his church. From the bullet wound in the head, it's clear this is no ordinary fire victim. The quiet community of Newpointe, reeling from the shock of the dead man's identity, str...

  • The Treasure

    Jim Kraus

    The Treasure is the second book in the four-book Circle of Destiny series set during the 1800s Gold Rush. Four college friends begin a life adventure that will change their thinking and their perspective forever. The Treasure's protagonist, Gage Davi...

  • Toy Tales

    Helen Cooper

    The trials and tribulations of four beloved toys

    Toys, like children, sometimes get hurt, and Helen Cooper lets readers know how they feel when it happens in this charming book of four stories. Tim's favorite playthings are a teddy bear, a stu...

  • To the King a Daughter

    Andre Norton; Sasha Miller

    Oak, Yew, Ash, and Rowan: the four powers of the world, all once great and mighty, now yielding to the effects of centuries of war. A King of Oak and a Queen of Yew sit on the thrones of the land--the King is a drunken lout, the Queen a magical schem...

  • To Love A Stranger

    Colleen Coble

    Bessie Randall is stunned to learn that her sister engaged in a long distance flirtation with an army officer using Bessie's name. Even more shocking is the fact that Jasper Mendenhall is now her husband by proxy--thanks to her sister's meddling. But...

  • To Dinner, for Dinner

    Tololwa Mollel

  • A Time To Embrace

    Lynn A. Coleman

    Beatrice Smith arrives at the port of Key West caught up in a whirl of emotions. The time has come for her to release her young charge into the care of his uncle. But a rocky introduction to Ellis Southard has Beatrice clinging even more to the man's...

  • Time of Your Life

    Hope Whitley

    The bad news: Marielle Stevens is downsized right out of a job and dumped by her corporate climber boyfriend. The good news: she's inherited a ranch in the remote mountains of Wyoming. Make that a sheep ranch. It's time for a change of scenery... and...

  • Tidings of Peace

    Tracie Peterson

    Four Christmas Love Stories in One Book! Bestselling author Tracie Peterson presents four Christmas love stories from World War II. Moving from the homefront here, to the front line, to the South Pacific, each story in Tidings of Peace features brave...

  • Three's a Charm

    Adrienne Burns

    MAGICAL MATCHMAKERS Witches Mini and Reuben Costello had their powers revoked by the witches' council as punishment for a crime Reuben committed against mortals. Now they must live as mortals themselves-and that means getting a job to pay the bill...

  • Three Magic Balls

    Richard Egielski

    When Uncle Dinkleschmidt buys three rubber balls for his toy store, it's up to Rudy to take very good care of them. But as soon as he is left alone in the shop, Rudy discovers that these are no ordinary balls, and that's when the magic begins. . ....

  • Theseus and the Minotaur

    Scott R. Welvaert

  • Their Convenient Marriage

    Mary Lyons

    Married for love...or for convenience? When Antonio Ramirez takes over the company that has been trading with her family's business for decades, Gina Brandon is appalled. Years ago, she had been humiliated by the gorgeous Spaniard! Now Anto...

  • The Dog and Her Little Glass Slipper

    Diane Goode

    Offers an amusing twist to the classic tale as one deprived pup becomes the star of the ball after having her wish come true by her fairy godmother. By the illustrator of The Dinosaur's New Clothes. ...

  • That's My Baby

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Daddy knows last... Nat Grady is finally home -- older and wiser. A year and a half ago, when the woman he'd loved had hinted at commitment, Nat had run far and fast. But now he knows he can't live without her. So he's back, hoping they'll be able...

  • That Apple Is Mine!

    Katya Arnold

  • Thanksgiving Parade Surprise

    Cecile Schoberle

    Join Elsie as she scrambles after her new puppy, Freddie, at the Thanksgiving parade. The feisty puppy just won't stay put, giving Elsie one very unique reason to be thankful this holiday season. Add the reusable foil stickers to the pages of this...

  • The Test of Love

    Irene Brand

    SPIRITUAL HEALING When Joseph Caldwell started the New Life Center's program, he wanted only to regain mobility in his leg. He didn't realize the center's philosophy was to rehabilitate the body... and the soul. He also didn't know he'd have such ...

  • Tempted

    Janelle Denison

    Forbidden fruit? Brooke Jamison is finally going to get a life! Newly single, she's planning to shed her inhibitions and indulge all her romantic fantasies. But the only man in those fantasies is her oh-so-sexy ex-brother-in-law, Marc. So when he ...

  • The Temptation of Sean MacNeill

    Virginia Kantra

    THERE WAS A NAKED MAN IN HER BED... And she didn't know who he was. But the strong lines of his back, the curve of his neck and his tousled hair drew her ever closer. Until she remembered her two kids in the car. And the mountain of luggage to...

  • The Telling

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    From award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a highly anticipated addition to her acclaimed Hainish cycle, "a social anthropology of the future, fascinating and utterly believable" (Peter S. Beagle). Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka...

  • Tea at the Treedome

    Terry Collins

    SpongeBob is invited to have tea with a new karate-chopping lady friend, Sandy Cheeks. But when he finds out that Sandy lives in a dome filled with air, SpongeBob's plan for a new friend might "run dry!"...

  • Target

    Brian Freemantle

    In the midst of the Cold War, a secret project in the jungles of Central Africa threatens to ignite World War IIIPeterson is bewildered by the satellite photos in front of him. As head of the CIA, he is never supposed to be surprised, but what could ...

  • Takedown

    Cliff Garnett

    After a devastating hurricane sweeps across Haiti, an American supply ship brimming with relief is hijacked by a man who intends to mount a violent coup, and TALON Force is sent to stop him. Original....

  • Take Me to the River

    Al Green

    Alone among the greatest vocalists and song-writers in American music.  Al Green has fused these opposing concepts into an intense and original sound that transcends the divide between the sacred and the profane.  With an extraordinary appeal th...

  • Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson

    Quincy Troupe

  • Sydney and the Sea Monster

    David Elliot

  • The Swordsman's Oath

    Juliet E. McKenna

    SWORDMASTER... Ryshad was a warrior, a sworn man pledged to defend the Empire and his lord with his sword and his life. Livak was a thief, a woman as dangerous and cunning as she was beautiful. Brought together by fate--and the wily wizard Shiv--the...

  • Sweet Georgia

    Ruth Birmingham

    Her personal life may be a mess. She might have trouble standing up to her meddling mother. But as lead detective at Atlanta’s Peachtree Investigations, hard-nosed, fast-talking PI Sunny Childs is always capable of cracking a case. Peachtree Inves...

  • Swan's Grace

    Linda Francis Lee

    He was a man who made the rules, while she wanted onlt to break them.... Grayson Hawthorne is everything blue-blooded Boston society admires--rich, ruthless, untainted by scandal. While always keeping a tight rein on his emotions, he has never for...

  • Surviving Brick Johnson

    Laurie Myers

  • Summer of Pearls

    Mike Blakely

    Ben Crowell remembers the Great Caddo Lake Pearl Rush of 1874. He was fourteen that year, and his home, the riverboat community of Port Caddo, was dying. By the end of the summer, the pearl boom was over, Port Caddo was doomed, and the mystery over w...

  • The Sugar Island

    Ivonne Lamazares

    Ivonne Lamazares is one of the most original and exciting new voices on the literary scene. Born and raised in Cuba, she writes of her homeland with unmatched authenticity, immediacy, and poetry. The story of a mother and daughter who flee to America...

  • The Sugar House

    Laura Lippman

    Baltimore locals recognize the Sugar House as a stubborn and defiant legacy of the city's past. Tess Monaghan thought she knew it too -- until she was forced to take on the most disturbing case of her accidental career. A client named Ruthie -- ...

  • Street Level

    Bob Truluck

    Winner of the 1999 St. Martin's Press/ PWA Award for Best First Private Eye Novel

    When we meet private detective Duncan Sloan he's just handed back a five thousand-dollar check meant as advance payment on a job. The wealthy prospective client ...

  • Strawberry Tattoo

    Lauren Henderson

    IS NEW YORK READY FOR SAM JONES? Sam Jones, sculptress and reluctant sleuth, can't resist the opportunity to do Manhattan when she's invited to New York for a group show at a gallery featuring young British artists. New York, loud and brash as Sam...

  • Strawberry Hill

    A. LaFaye

    Raleia doesn't feel like she belongs in the modern world. And she doesn't feel like she belongs with her hippie parents, either. So when her family moves to Tidal, Maine, Raleia is excited to be in town with some history -- especially one that was de...

  • Strangers in the Night

    Amanda Harte
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    Bogie and Bacall graced the silver screen. People collected LPs. Jukeboxes played and Sinatra crooned. In an era that bore a generation wartime heroes and heroines, men and women realized the value of life and love. Couples slow-danced night and day;...

  • Story Time for Little Porcupine

    Joseph Slate

    Before he is ready to go to sleep, Little Porcupine wants to hear--and tell--stories about the Big Porcupine in the Sky, the sun, who pokes holes in the "moon's night cloak" to watch over all the little porcupines in the world....

  • Stormbreaker

    Anthony Horowitz

    RECRUITED! They told him his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But fourteen-year-old Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's windshield confirm his suspicions. But nothing prepares him for the news that the uncle he always...

  • Stolen Moments

    Dianne Mayhew

    SHOCKING LOSS Sionna Michaels was a starry-eyed newlywed when tragedy turned her into a grieving widow overnight. Now she's about to confront the stranger she holds responsible for her husband's sudden death. But from the moment she looks into David...

  • Stella in Heaven: Almost a Novel

    Art Buchwald

  • Star Wars: Bounty Hunters

    Javier Saltares

    Collects Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters - Aurra Sing, Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters - Kenix Kil, Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters - Scoundrel's Wages, Star Wars: Boba Fett - Twin Engines of Destruction . The Star Wars galaxy is populated by rogues, Rebe...

  • The Spyglass

    Richard Paul Evans

    There once was a king who ruled over a darkened kingdom. Crops were planted and then failed, houses were built and then neglected, people were impoverished and dispirited. But when a traveler arrives at the crumbling palace, he shows the monarch his ...

  • A Spy Among the Girls

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Valentine’s Day is coming up and love is in the air between Beth Malloy and Josh Hatford. When they are spotted holding hands, Josh tells his teasing brothers that he’s simply spying on the girls to see what they’re plotting next. When Caroline...

  • Spooky Trick or Treat Fun

    Cecile Schoberle

  • The Spooky Scrapbook

    Kees Moerbeek

    WARNING: Open this book at your own risk!

    Inside this eerie scrapbook is the tale of a most unusual birthday party -- the guest of honor has already died twice!

    Each haunted page features spooky pop-ups, pu...

  • The Spirit Woman

    Margaret Coel

    According to legend, Sacajawea--the Native American woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition through the American wilderness--is buried on the Wind River Reservation. Now, a college professor--and longtime friend of Arapaho attorney Vick...

  • Spider-Man: Murder by Spider

    Marvel Book Group

  • The Spear of Tyranny

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    The unforgettable sequel to By Dawn's Early Light. A tale of faith, love, terror- and hope.It seems like a dream come true.Especially to a world ravaged by war and exhausted by drought. Especially to a society grown fearful from widespread crime and ...

  • Sophie

    Rosie Rushton

    Sophie wishes her self-centered mother would take more interest in serious matters, so she gets involved in her father's charity work in London, where she meets Tony, who is biracial, and feels he could become more than a friend....

  • The Song and the Truth

    Helga Ruebsamen

    Set against the backdrop of the Dutch East Indies and Nazi-occupied Holland, this luminous novel delivers epic themes filtered through the rich imagination of a young girl. Living with her parents on the island of Java in the late 1930s, five-year-ol...

  • Something Wicked's in Those Woods

    Marisa Montes

    After their parents' death, Javi Cisneros and his little brother, Nico, move from their home in Puerto Rico to live with their Tití Amparo in northern California. As Javi struggles to adapt, he becomes increasingly worried by Nico's new imaginary fr...

  • Some Babies

    Amy Schwartz

  • Society Within

    Courttia Newland

    SOCIETY WITHIN takes us back to the Greenside Estate, West London, scene of Courttia Newland's ground-breaking and hugely successful first novel, THE SCHOLAR. Newly arrived on the estate is Elisha: sweet, bright, sassy and just eighteen. As Elisha...

  • So Amazing

    Sinclair LeBeau

    Jessy is thrilled with her new job and new lease on life. Her joy short lived when she learns that not only is Laurence devilishly handsome and arrogant, but he's also the man who gave her the new job....

  • The Snowman's Path

    Helena Clare Pittman

  • The Snow Pumpkin

    Carole Lexa Schaefer

    The author-illustrator team of the celebrated picture book The Squiggle team up again to tell of a heartwarming and surprising snowy adventure.

    No school tomorrow! With a few inches on the ground, Lily is off to the park bright and early to fi...

  • Snow Baby

    Brenda Novak

    It happened one snowy night... When Chantel Miller gets lost during an unexpected snowstorm, a stranger named Dillon Broderick rescues her. In the hours they spend together they become very close and the intimacy of that night creates a special b...

  • Snatched from Earth!

    Bruce Coville

    Tim and Pleskit are abducted in this eighth book in the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework and My Teacher Is an Alien, Bruce Coville.Tim Tompkins has always want...

  • Snake Camp

    George Edward Stanley

    Stevie Marsh is off for the summer to learn about computers at Camp Viper. He’s not happy about being in the woods with all the bugs and poison ivy and -- yuck! -- snakes. But how bad can computer camp be? Then Stevie finds out Camp Viper isn’t a...

  • Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret

    Michael Kupperman

  • The Smuggler's Bride

    Bess Willingham

    MISCHIEVOUS MAIDEN An ill-advised romp finds spoiled and headstrong Lady Rosalind Yardley emerging from an empty wine barrel in the cellar of a terribly attractive stranger. Then Rosalind discovers her mystery smuggler is none other than Rafe Lawle...

  • Slow Waltz Across Texas

    Peggy Moreland

    "I've come to take my family back home where they belong." -- Clayton Rankin, husband on a marriage-rescue mission World rodeo champ Clayton Rankin had honorably married Rena when she'd gotten pregnant... hell, he'd given the twins his name! What...

  • Slocum and Wild Bill's Lady

    Jake Logan

    Slocum's always got a lovely lady on his arm. But when he gets involved with Wild Bill Hickok's favorite girl everyone in Abilene sees trouble brewing....

  • Slice and Dice

    Ellen Hart

    MURDER A LA CARTE If all goes according to plan, Connie Buckridge's culinary empire will soon boast a state-of-the-art cooking academy And restaurant in her hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Unfortunately, just when the kitchen queen and her bicke...

  • Slay Bells

    Jo Gibson

    Diana Connelly is amongst the hundreds of new employees at the Crossroads Mall. The mall will be opening shortly, and all workers must prepare for the grand opening. After hours of preparation, the police come to advise them of a winter storm. After ...

  • The Sky is Falling

    Sidney Sheldon

    The Winthrops are America's royal family, and its Prince Charming is the sexy, charismatic Gary Winthrop. Now the man on his way to becoming the Senate's brightest new star is found murdered in his home--the latest in a series of accidents that have ...

  • Sizzle All Day

    Geralyn Dawson

    SHE NEEDS A GHOST, NOT A GROOM... Of all the castles in all of Scotland, it's Gillian Ross' bad luck to live in one that isn't haunted. The ancestral home must be sold, but the single interested buyer requires a wraith in the rafters. ...

  • Sitting Pretty

    Cheryl Anne Porter

    It could happen to you... Jayde Green is in one heck of fix. After landing a job house-sitting for tycoon Bradford Hale, she should have been sitting pretty. Only, she hadn't expected having to tell her parents a tall tale just to keep her job. A...

  • Sisters of Cain

    Miriam Grace Monfredo

    Washington City is a hotbed of roiling emotions in 1862. President Lincoln, reeling from defeats at Manassas and Ball's Bluff, rallies the Union troops for the large single campaign of the Civil War: the Virginia Peninsula campaign. And two of Seneca...

  • Sims

    F. Paul Wilson

    A NEW SPECIES, MADE TO ORDER Just a few hundred genes separate humans from chimpanzees. Suppose you altered chimp DNA, creating a new species of worker, somewhere between simian and human? SimGen, a powerful new corporation, has done just that...

  • The Silver Thread

    Gilbert Morris; J. Landon Ferguson

    A sister missing. A brother searching. Each needing an answer to save a life.

    Abby DeSpain is missing--gone without a clue! But her brother Grant has his suspicions. The very idea that Abby could be chasing after that rogue Billy Rogers and...

  • Shrine of Stars

    Paul McAuley

    Who would lay time to rest, or raise it up from its tomb?The Ancients of Days - humans returned from a long exile in the depths of time and space and history - brought heresy and doubt to the artificial world of Confluence, and ignited a terrible ...

  • Showdown at the Okeydokey Corral

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

  • Shoe Shoe Baby

    Bernard Lodge

    Shoe Shoe Baby comes from a great family of shoe-mad shoe people and owns a shoe store that is named after her. From bouncy ballet shoes to super-secret spy shoes, Shoe Shoe's got the shoe for you! With colorful, wacky illustrations and a very readab...

  • Sherlock Holmes Is Missing

    Alexander Simmons

    The first book of a new series where Sherlock Holmes appears as a role model and mentor follows a band of Victorian street urchins on a top-secret mission through the alleys of London's dangerous East End. Original....

  • Shattered

    Dick Francis

    After his friend is killed in a horse-racing accident, up-and-coming glass artisan Gerard Logan finds himself embroiled in a deadly search for a stolen videotape. His friend had it. Some very bad people want it--and they think Logan's got it. Believ...

  • The Shamus Game

    Robert J. Randisi

    The Private Eye Writers of America present a new anthology of stories by Shamus Award-winning mystery writers, including works by Jeremiah Healy, Loren D. Estleman, Max Allan Collins, Gary Phillips, Les Roberts, S. J. Rozan, and many others. Original...

  • Shakespeare's Scribe

    Gary Blackwood

    When an outbreak of the deadly Black Plague closes the Globe Theatre, William Shakespeare's acting troupe sets off on a tour of England. Widge, the orphan-turned-actor, knows that he'll be useful on the trip. Not only does he love the stage, but hi...

  • Shadows of Glory

    Owen Parry

    In a snow-swept Northern town, Union officer Major Abel Jones struggles to solve the riddle of Federal agents tortured to death, an act of stunning brutality cloaked in fear and lies. Confronted with murder and madness, sedition and seances, selfless...

  • Shadows of Amn

    Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Bhaal is dead! But his disciples want to bring him back. The blood of the god of murder runs through his children, and bad blood attracts bad people. Shadow thieves, vampires, ninjas, and rockworms run rampant on the Sword Coast in the action-p...

  • Shadows at Sunset

    Anne Stuart

    HOUSE OF SHADOWS The house on Sunset Boulevard has witnessed everything: from the infamous murder-suicide of a '50s starlet and her lover, to the drug-fueled commune in the '60s, to the anguish of its present owner, Jilly Meyer, who is struggling to...

  • The Seventh Sin

    Eben Paul Perison

    When Meagan Heller decided to divorce her husband, she thought she was taking the first step toward a new life. Instead, she's stepped into a nightmare.... A man has been found brutally murdered in one of San Francisco's most elegant hotels, his f...

  • Seventh Heaven

    Catherine Anderson

    Ten years ago Joe Lakota had left behind his small Oregon town and the only woman he'd ever truly loved for the empty promises of the big city. Now he's returned, seeking to raise his young son with values you can only find at home, and longing to re...

  • Setting Fires

    Kate Wenner

    Setting Fires is the gripping story of Annie Fishman Waldmas, a documentary filmmaker, wife, and mother of two young children, who uses her professional skills to unravel the shocking secrets behind the two fires that come to dominate and haunt her l...

  • Sergio and the Hurricane

    Alexandra Wallner

    In Puerto Rico, a little boy and his village experience the drama and destruction of a hurricaneSergio lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico. San Juan is usually sunny and peaceful, but one day the sky grows dark and the ocean gets choppy. A hurricane is co...

  • Sellevision

    Augusten Burroughs

    Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, Sellevision explores greed, obsession, and third-tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home-shopping network. Welcome to the troubled world of Sellevision, America's premier retail broadcasting netwo...

  • Secrets from the Book

    J. Stephen Lang

    Author J. Stephen Lang weaves the timeless truths of Scripture into this intriguing, deeply moving novel about one town's encounter with spiritual truth. When a mysterious stranger visits the people of the valley, their lives are changed forever. The...

  • The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

    Ruth Francisco

    Jackie Kennedy quite famously said, I want to live my life, not record it. She remains elusive, her interior life hidden, her feelings and motivations secret. Yet who has not wondered what lay behind those sunglasses? Havent we all wondered how Jacki...

  • Secret Love Diaries: Elizabeth

    Francine Pascal

    From the journal of Elizabeth Wakefield: I can't tell anyone. They'd all freak--my sister, my friends, my family. I don't even get it myself. Somehow I always end up back with Todd Wilkins . . ....

  • The Secret in the Stars

    Carolyn Keene

    WHEN NANCY GOES STARGAZING, SHE CATCHES A COMET OF AN ADVENTURE BY THE TAIL! Nancy and George are thrilled when Bob "Dr. Stars" Steller, a cool astronomer with a popular radio program, comes to River Heights for the Perseid meteor shower. Bess goes ...

  • The Secret Footprints

    Julia Alvarez

    The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints, is reinvented by renowned author Julia Alvarez. Although the ciguapas fear humans, Guapa, a...

  • The Secret Fairy Boutique

    Penny Dann

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Frankenstein Monster

    James Gelsey

  • Scion of Cyador

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Scion of Cyador continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Having survived an extended stint fighting both barbarian raiders and the giant beasts of...

  • Scared Little Bear

    Keith Faulkner

    Jolted awake by a horrible racket in the night, little Teddy wonders if some kind of wild animal may be responsible and repeatedly calls to his father before gathering the courage to venture to his parents' room, where the noise is coming from....

  • Scar Culture

    Toni Davidson

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest originality mixed with the divine audacity of William Burroughs and Irvine Welsh. Thought-provoking, erotic, sharp-witted, and totally riveting, Scar Culture marks the debut of a groundbreaking writer. With the power o...

  • A Scandalous Bride

    Selina MacPherson

    SHE WAS A BACKWOODS BEAUTY... Feisty Reagan Dawes had been brought against her will from the backwoods of Kentucky to the wilds of Missouri Territory, where her brutish stepfather planned to sell her into marriage. She intended to rebel at all costs...

  • Say You Are My Sister

    Laurel Stowe Brady

    The storm skipped round, digging out its swath like skipping rocks through town, mashing a house here to matchsticks, leaving one next door to stand untouched. Our farm was spared, but that don't mean we were the lucky ones.

  • Saturday Night Jamboree

    Lee Wardlaw

  • Sanchia's Secret

    Robyn Donald

    It had been three years since Sanchia had last laid eyes on Caid's rangy, sexy body, his powerful Greek ancestry apparent in all its glory. Caid's forceful charisma still had the ability to steal her breath away. Yet Caid's reaction to her now was on...

  • Sam's Wild West Christmas

    Nancy Antle

  • Salt and Saffron

    Kamila Shamsie

    Aliya may not have inherited her family's patrician looks, but she is as much a prey to the legends of her family that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. Aristocratic and eccentric-the clan has plenty of stories to tell, and secrets to hide....

  • Saint Francis and the Christmas Donkey

    Robert Byrd

    When Saint Francis stumbles upon a sad donkey, he feels obliged to tell him about the wonderful history the donkey has in the Christian religion as the animal who carried Mary to Nazareth when she was pregnant with Baby Jesus. 25,000 first printing....

  • Safe by His Side

    Debra Webb

    No one could find special agent Jack Raine if he didn't want to be found. So who was the beautiful amnesiac on his doorstep, and how had she gotten to his hideaway? When a killer soon followed, Jack suspected a trap -- so he took the lady and ran.......

  • Rules of Conflict

    Kristine Smith

    Jani Kilian knows what she faces if the Commonwealth Service ever catches up with her--execution for the murder of Rikart Neumann. Even though Neumann masterminded the horrific events at the idomeni hospital at Knevçet Shèràa, he was still her comman...

  • Rowing in Eden

    Elizabeth Evans

    Pynch Lake is quiet nine months of the year but bursts into life each summer when the vacationers arrive. In the summer of 1965, year-round residents Harold and Peg Wahl find the world that once belonged to them is now being taken over by their older...

  • The Rose and the Beast

    Francesca Lia Block

    With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out....

  • Rope Burns

    F.X. Toole

    In this hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales, F.X. Toole breathes life into vivid, compelling characters who radiate the fierce intensity of the worlds they inhabit:

    • An aging cut ...

  • Romancing the Rogue

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    When Michael Kenyon, the Marquess of Stokeford, finds his grandmother having her palm read by a gypsy beauty, he's convinced that Vivien Thorne is a fortune hunter. The Marquess is determined to expose her as a fraud-and Vivien is equally determined ...

  • Rodeo Hearts

    Patricia Ellis

    TO FORGE A FUTURE... Kate DeCosta is no sweetheart of the rodeo. A rodeo brought John Sterling into her life ten years ago, and a rodeo took him away, leaving her pregnant and heartbroken. She should have listened to her rancher father. He warned he...

  • Rock Solid

    Jennifer Greene

    LEGENDARY LOVER He was the man women dreamed about, but never thought they'd actually meet. Yet here he stood, Cash McKay, Mr. Dashing and Rugged... and Lexie Woolf's shadow for the next several weeks. She'd come to his mountain retreat for a ...

  • The Robots Are Coming - And Other Problems

    Andy Rash

  • Road Kill

    Marianne MacDonald

    When Dido Hoare, antiquarian bookseller and single mother, receives a frantic call for help in the middle of the night, she rushes to her friend (and nanny's) side. Dido has no idea that she is about to enter a world where no one is what they appear ...

  • A Risk of Rain

    Dar Tomlinson

  • Ride'Em Rodeo!

    Rebecca Gomez

  • Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot Vs. the Mutant Mosquitoes From Mercury

    Dav Pilkey

    Ricky Ricotta may be a small mouse, but he has a VERY big friend -- a giant flying Robot! And when an evil, outerspace villain named Mr. Mosquito invades Earth with an army of Mutant Mosquitoes from Mercury, Ricky and his Robot know exactly what to d...

  • Revolutionary War on Wednesday

    Mary Pope Osborne

    It is a dark and snowy night when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to colonial times. General George Washington is about to lead his army in a sneak attack against their enemy. But now the terrible weather is making the great general q...

  • Revolution

    Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    The masters of astonishing military technology that enables them to deploy almost instantaneously to any part of the Earth, the Dreamland team must now stop a dangerous revolution in the making in Eastern Europe--wherea mysterious group of insurgents...

  • Revere Beach Boulevard

    Roland Merullo

    Vittorio (Vito) and Peter Imbesalacqua, father and son, opposites in so many ways, have never had an easy time with each other. From the moment Vito arrived in the United States from Italy in 1936 he did his best to live as a good man--hard-workin...

  • The Revelation

    K.A. Applegate

    Things were already really weird. Fighting aliens. Battling to have Earth. And still trying to be normal. Marco and the other Animorphs are almost used to it. But things are changing. The Yeerk invasion of Earth started out passively, secretly. But n...

  • Return of the Sewer King

    Craig Bartlett

    Something strange is happening to the city's water supply, and it's up to Arnold and Gerald to get to the bottom of it. But when they descend to the dark depths of the sewer system and see the Sewer King, an even bigger mystery unfolds. Will Arnold a...

  • The Rescue

    Nicholas Sparks

    Volunteer fireman Taylor McAden is driven to take terrifying, heroic risks to save lives. But there's one leap into the unknown he can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love. A man who likes to rescue troubled women, he inevitably leaves them...

  • Requiem

    Peter David

    When the U.S.S. Excalibur was suddenly and mercilessly destroyed, Starfleet lost one of its finest starships. But the crew members of the Excalibur lost their captain...and their home. Now, in mourning for their ship and Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, Fi...

  • Renaissance

    Peter David

    The ship is only a memory, but the drama unfolds.... The U.S.S. Excalibur has been obliterated. Its captain, Mackenzie Calhoun, is gone. Now the surviving crew members are dispersed throughout the galaxy, seeking to forge new lives in the wake of ...

  • The Reluctant Warlock

    Donna Bell
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    "The Reluctant Warlock" by Donna Bell A commotion in Hyde Park rouses the shy Miss Gilly Gillingham to "rescue" a black kitten from quick-tempered, darkly handsome Sir Felix Baring. Little does she dream that -- hounded by his eccentr...

  • Rebel Sutra

    Shariann Lewitt

    Maya is a world controlled by a self-perpetuating aristocracy, the Changed, who maintain their superiority by tinkering with the genes of their children. This long tradition of genetic manipulation and the brain patterning that goes with it all...

  • Rat King

    James Axler

    FRACTURED REALITY What was once the United States is now the rad-blasted world of Deathlands...a place that more than lives up to its name. Led by a one-eyed warrior called Ryan Cawdor, a straggling band of survivors roams the nuke-ravaged land, h...

  • The Random House Book of Nursery Stories

    Helen Craig

  • The Random House Book of Easy-to-Read Stories

    Random House

    Early readers will find their favorite authors and illustrators in one great big book-including works by Dr. Seuss, P.D. Eastman, Richard Scarry, Stan & Jan Berenstain, Torrie dePaola, and Marc Brown....