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  • Good Boy!

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    Owen has a dog-walking business, but no dog of his own -- until he meets Hubble. The strange brown mutt isn't from the neighborhood, or even the planet Earth!

    Now Owen must help Hubble with his secret mission from space: preparing Earth dogs...

  • Fairy Tale Classics Easy To Read Collection

    Harriet Ziefert

    Includes The Gingerbread Boy, Henny-Penny, The Little Red Hen, Little Red Riding Hood, The Magic Porridge Pot, The Princess and the Pea, and The Ugly Duckling.

    Illustrated by Robin James....

  • Home for Navidad

    Harriet Ziefert

    Rosa is ten years old, and she lives with her grandmother, her little brother, and her uncle in a small town in Mexico. But her mother lives in the United States, trying to earn much-needed money to send home to her family. So Rosa has not seen her m...

  • Cool Yule! A Creative and Crafty Christmas

    Debra Mostow Zakarin

    Easy-to-follow instructions and adorable illustrations accompany a funky how-to guide to making perfect gifts for the holidays, including necklaces, bulletin boards, and homemade bubble bath. Original....

  • Holiday Ha-Ha's: Christmas Jokes & Riddles

    Craig Yoe

    Ho, ho, ho! Ha, ha, ha! Santa Claus is laughing his way into town, and he's carrying a copy of Holiday Ha-Ha's: Christmas Jokes & Riddles! This one-of-a-kind joke book is jam-packed with more than 300 ho-ho-hilarious Christmas-themed jokes, riddles, ...

  • Ten Little Mummies

    Philip Yates

  • Night Blooming

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Set in the court of Charlemagne the Great, this is the 15th novel in the popular series about the immortal vampire, Le Comte de Saint-Germain, who meets an albino woman afflicted with stigmata who is accused of witchcraft....

  • A Loyal Character Dancer

    Qiu Xiaolong

    The second book in the Inspector Chen investigationsInspector Chen’s mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to th...

  • Ruling Passions

    Laura Wright

    OVERTHROWN BY PASSION Crown Prince Alexander Thorne's honorable intentions were overturned when he rescued a red-haired siren from the sea and gave in to the chemistry raging between them. Alex had sworn he would never again be ruled by a woman, y...

  • Flamingo Diner

    Sherryl Woods

    Welcome to Flamingo Diner Where Friends and Family Come First Like television's Cheers, Flamingo Diner has always been a friendly place where everyone knows your name. Unfortunately, in the small town of Winter Cove, Florida, it is also the place ...

  • That Summer

    Joan Wolf

    Growing up in the rolling hills of Virginia horse country, Anne Foster helped her father train the prize Thoroughbreds at the Wellington family's racing farm...and longed for the boy beyond her reach, young Liam Wellington. But her teenage dreams wer...

  • I Love You Just the Same

    Erica Wolf


    A comforting story that explores the many milestones that come with growing up

    "As the sun came up, Little Bear felt his mother's warm nose nudging him gently. 'Come, Little Bear, spring has arrived and it's time for us to leave the den.'"...

  • Dancing Granny

    Elizabeth Winthrop; Maurice Burton

  • Promise of Grace

    Bonnie K. Winn

    WHAT ELSE COULD POSSIBLE GO WRONG? After surviving a serious accident and being jilted by her fiance, Grace Stanton couldn't help wondering where God was in all of the bad things that had happened to her. She still had a long road to recovery ahea...

  • Day of the Iguana

    Henry Winkler; Lin Oliver

    Hank Zipzer: He's smart. He's creative. He's funny. His pencils are sharpened. His binders are bound. He wants to do well in school -- he really does. He tries not to be lazy, like his parents claim he is. So why is he always getting into trouble? ...

  • The Return of Calico Bright

    David Winkler

    An epic coming-of-age story

    She suspects her boyfriend of cheating and her best friend of betrayal. But that's not the worst of sixteen-year-old Callie Weston's sorrows. The unveiling of not just one but two of her mother’s deceptions has dr...

  • Texas Cooking

    Lisa Wingate

    What seemed like a road to nowhere might be leading her straight home... No one is more surprised than Colleen Collins when she's offered a job writing fluffy magazine articles about rural Texas cooking. The big-city investigative reporter know...

  • A Frog in the Bog

    Karma Wilson

    There's a small, hungry frog sitting on the log in the middle of the bog. He flicks ONE tick off of a stick. He sees TWO fleas in the reeds. He spies THREE flies buzzing in the skies. The frog is feeling pretty fine, but then... the log in the mi...

  • The Midnight Country

    Marianne Willman
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    An American researching her family history in Europe stumbles upon an enchanting chateau and its enigmatic master, who is convinced she is the key to a terrible curse......

  • The Shade of My Own Tree

    Sheila Williams

    Beloved author Sheila Williams beautifully captures the bittersweet humor and vivid adventures of women who survive the worst life can toss at them -- and fight back to claim their right to be free, to be themselves, and to live in . . . The cou...

  • Rudolph's Bright Christmas

    Don Williams

    It’s Christmastime in Christmastown. Santa is getting ready to deliver toys to all the girls and boys -- but where is Rudolph? Press the button to light up Rudolph’s nose. Young readers will discover lots of bright surprises as they look for Rudo...

  • Present Value

    Sabin Willett

    Fritz Brubaker and his wife, Linda -- an attractive couple in their mid-forties -- have it all. He’s a toy-company executive and she’s a million-dollar-a-year lawyer. Their children are in private school; they have a McMansion in a Boston suburb ...

  • Heaven's My Destination

    Thornton Wilder

    Drawing on such unique sources as the author's unpublished letters, business records, and obscure family recollections, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world.

    ...

  • Heavenly Days

    James Wilcox

    Over the course of twenty years and seven novels James Wilcox has established himself as one of the most distinctive and beloved voices of the South, a comic master whose work has been praised by writers as diverse as Robert Penn Warren and Anne Tyle...

  • Hide and Die

    Stella Whitelaw

    The fourth in the much-acclaimed Jordan Lacey series Jordan Lacey, Latching's intrepid and unconventional P.I., has two new cases to solve: a paternity dispute and a weird cross-dressing mystery. Neither case is as simple as it seems and during her r...

  • A Haunted House in Starvation Lake

    Gloria Whelan

    Dawn Zonder is finally starting to feel at home in Starvation Lake with all her new friends when she finds out she might have to move again. If only Dawn could convince her family to stay in Starvation Lake for good. But the only house the Zonders ca...

  • When Pigs Fly!

    Lisa Wheeler

    Fitch & Chip "I am always the lone wolf," Fitch tells his friend Chip on Hero Day at school. Chip and all the other kids are dressed as Hyper Hog from TV. But it is not what a wolf wears that makes him a hero. It is what he does. Laugh alon...

  • The Small World of Binky Braverman

    Rosemary Wells

    Binky Braverman's stay with his aunt and uncle in Memphis unexpectedly proves to be full of adventure when characters on the boxes and jars in their kitchen come to life and become his friends. 15,000 first printing....

  • Confidence Game

    Michelle M. Welch

    SHE DIDN'T BREAK THE RULES. THEY BROKE HER. Beneath its peaceful exterior, Dabion is a land of violence and intrigue, its politics run by judges, schemers, and spies. Elzith Kar is one such spy, gifted with an uncanny skill derived from rigorous ...

  • Between Worlds

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

    Breath of air, soul of fire, Grant this night my heart's desire. Womb of earth, tears of sea, Bring my lover back to me. The Halliwell sisters are no strangers to Halloween hijinks. But this year, the Wiccan celebration of Samhain is met with a rash...

  • Brain Power

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

    Since its debut in 1996, DEXTER'S LAB has been one of Cartoon Network's top-rated shows. Now Scholastic teams up with the boy genius and his pesky sister Dee Dee for original chapter and picture books

    Dexter's made the most amazing discovery k...

  • The Annotated Legends

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A key trilogy in the Dragonlance line, collected in an annotated paperback.

    This annotated version of Time of the Twins, War of the Twins, and Test of the Twins contains extensive notes by The New York Times best-selling authors Margaret Weis ...

  • Dragonlance - The War of Souls Trilogy Gift Set: Dragons of a Fallen Sun/Dragons of a Lost Star/Dragons of a Vanished Moon

    Margaret Weis

    This slip-covered gift set contains the three New York Times best-selling titles that make up the epic War of Souls trilogy: Dragons of a Fallen Sun, Dragons of a Lost Star, and Dragons of a Vanished Moon. Authored by Dragonlance saga co-creators Mar...

  • The Little Women

    Katharine Weber

    A delightfully clever contemporary novel inspired by the Louisa May Alcott classicIn Katharine Weber's third novel, The Little Women, three adolescent sisters--Meg, Jo and Amy--are shocked when they discover their mother's affair, but are truly devas...

  • Crown of Slaves

    David Weber; Eric Flint

    BEGINNING A NEW SERIES SET IN DAVID WEBER'S HOIVORVERSE! The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in I the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs. I Added to the longstanding problem of a slave labor pl...

  • Outback Engagement

    Meredith Webber

    Fake engagement...real passion! Outback vet Tom Fleming has a problem with women -- they want to marry him! After being featured in a magazine, the so-called "Lonely Country Bachelor" is surrounded by would-be wives, his ex and a hotshot reporter!...

  • Whispers in the Night: Protective Instincts

    Debra Webb
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    Elizabeth Young had been FBI agent Collin MacBride's prime suspect in the murder of a prominent psychiatrist. She'd had a brief affair with the doctor...but so had several of his other female patients. Now, one by one, these women were being killed. ...

  • Bill in a China Shop

    Katie McAllaster Weaver

    Bill the bull, who loves to collect china, finally finds a china shop without a "keep out" sign directed at himself. But he soon finds out that he is not quite as welcome as he had hoped, and in his worry, he breaks nearly everything in the store,...

  • Patriots in Arms

    Ben Weaver

    VICTORY DEMANDS THE IMPOSSIBLE Major Scott St. Andrew has served on both sides of the war between the mighty Terran Alliance and the colonial forces of the Seventeen Worlds -- abandoning the tyrannical former to fight for the latter's noble cause....

  • By Design

    Angela Weaver

    Beautiful Lauren Hughes has worked hard to earn her reputation as the best in the renovation of New York's finest brownstones. Now, with her thirtieth birthday just around the corner, she has only six months to complete her quest to travel around th...

  • 11th Hour

    Bradley Warshauer

    They said he was the best. Julian Lloyd has it all--talent, moves, and a record-breaking contract that can launch his career into the stratosphere. Until a severe injury ends his dreams before they've begun. But his new boss isn't giving up on his ...

  • Fringe Benefits

    Nancy Warren

    ALL WORK AND NO PLAY? After being fired from her last job because a creepy co-worker hit on her and she hit back, Jane Stafford has decided enough is enough. To keep men at bay, she dons a fake wedding band in the hopes of being judged on her brai...

  • A Long Time Ago Today

    Sally Warner

    Ever since her mother died six years earlier, twelve-year-old Dilly Howell and her father spend every summer in upstate New York at Mummie's farm, even though Dilly resents how her dead mother continues to intrude on her life....

  • The Last World War

    Dayton Ward

    It started small, with an unprepared band of Marine reservists encountering deadly extraterrestrial visitors in the backwoods of Missouri. But this fatal First Contact rapidly escalates into a global crisis as mankind discovers that two warring spec...

  • Dislocation

    Caroline Walsh

    Over the last decade, Ireland has undergone massive change. Traditional values have been uprooted; established notions of Irishness overturned; rural and urban landscapes altered forever. Dislocation is a collection of eleven stories by writers who h...

  • Moon in My Room

    Ila Wallen

  • Not Me Monster

    Ila Wallen

  • Restless

    Rich Wallace

    Frank, a teen-aged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died. Reprint....

  • Grave Instinct

    Robert W. Walker

    A horrifying series of murders has shocked a stretch of America's southern heartland. Not only are women turning up dead, but the killer has removed their brains with chilling surgical precision. A new murder has sent FBI medical examiner Jessica Cor...

  • Blackbox

    Nick Walker

    Cross a road, take a train, or get on an airplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger -- every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible and as human as you are. Then the person turns out not to be a stranger at all, and suddenly it's muc...

  • Judge Dredd: Necropolis Book One

    John Wagner

    Disillusioned with the Law he served for so many years, Judge Dredd has taken The Long Walk, left Mega-City One forever. In his place, Judge Kraken, a genetic clone of Dredd who was rehabilitated after trying to destroy the Judges. But is Kraken wort...

  • Judge Dredd: The Day the Law Died

    John Wagner

    From the phenomenal British classic sci-fi comic series, 2000 AD, comes the story of the ascent to power of the crazed head of the Special Judicial Service- Judge Cal!

    When Judge Dredd returns from the Cursed Earth, he’s convicted of murder! Wit...

  • Christopher Columbus

    Mary Dodson Wade

    K-Gr 2-A small-format biography that's suitable for beginning readers with little or no background knowledge. Wade provides a basic outline of who Columbus was, what inspired him to explore, and why. The contributions of King Ferdinand and Queen I...

  • He Said Yes

    Patricia Waddell

    ALWAYS A GENTLEMAN... Evelyn Dennsworth may not be entitled to use the word "Lady" in front of her name, but that doesn't stop her from behaving like one. Even a vicar's daughter turned Bond Street shop girl can rise above her meager beginnings if...

  • And Now You Can Go

    Vendela Vida

    Vendela Vida’s fearless, critically acclaimed fiction debut follows the unpredictable recovery of a young woman as she tries to make sense of her life after an encounter at gunpoint.Accosted one afternoon in Riverside Park by a man who doesn't want...

  • The Lawmen

    Robert Vaughan

    Too Old. Too Angry. Too Tough To Surrender... In Risco, Texas, John Carmack and Charley Dawson had both held the office of Sheriff and built two competing bases of support. But the rivals shared a granddaughter, Lucy, born to Charley's son and John...

  • Witch's Wishes

    Vivian Vande Velde

    When a little girl helps out a witch who has an accidental collision with a helicopter while returning from the market on her broom, the witch decides to grant all the girl's wishes for one magical evening that leads to a state of chaos no one could ...

  • Halloween Knight

    Rachel Vail

    Beloved author Rachel Vail's newest series, about an earnest young dinosaur who tries as hard as he canand his frazzled mother who always knows how to save the day.

    Halloween is finally here and T is all dressed up in his brand-new knight cost...

  • Mama Rex and T Stay Up Late

    Rachel Vail

    Beloved author Rachel Vail's newest series, about an earnest young dinosaur who tries as hard as he can and his frazzled mother who always knows how to save the day.

    What time does a Tyrannosaurus rex go to sleep at night? At bedtime! But toni...

  • The Mark of Salvation

    Carol Umberger

    Author Carol Umberger combines her love of history, romance, and God in a quartet of powerful stories set in 14th-century Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's great hero king....

  • A Baby...Maybe?

    Bonnie Tucker

    Cara Romano doesn't want a husband -- despite her mother's pushing. In fact, her mother's been pushing so hard, Cara decides to escape. Several states and a time zone away, she figures out that even without the husband, she wants a baby. But just whe...

  • Bright, Shiny Skylar

    Valerie Tripp

  • Hallie's Horrible Handwriting

    Valerie Tripp

  • Thank You, Logan!

    Valerie Tripp

    Nature-loving Logan comes to school on her day to take care of the class rabbit even though she has a cold, prompting Miss Sparks to teach the students about proper sneezing etiquette. Includes tips for parents to help their children with learning....

  • Little Drummer Boy

    Irene Trimble

  • A Winchester Homecoming

    Pamela Toth

    CHARMING, CONFIDENT, SEXY...AND A HEARTBREAKER That's how rancher David Major remembered his ex-love Kim Winchester. Romance had budded between them in high school, but ended abruptly when Kim moved away without even saying goodbye. Now she was ba...

  • Bite

    C.J. Tosh

    GO ON. DO IT. BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW. It's Sam Leighton's job as a celebrity journalist to get the scoop on Hollywood's top celebs. But when rumors fly that she cozied up too close to an Oscar-winning Australian, she finds herself looking f...

  • Dark Matters

    Stan Timmons

    When his ship is hurtled out of hyperspace by a chunk of mysterious dark matter, pilot Paul Stein is confronted with the difficult task of saving his transport vessel from a crew of dangerous misfits with a deadly scheme to not only destroy his trans...

  • Moira's Story

    Cate Tiernan

  • American Fantasy Tradition

    Brian M. Thomsen

    The ancient tales of long-dead civilizations to the wild success of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, fantasy has fired our imaginations for as long as there has been story. Whether sweeping sagas of fantastic adventures or cautionary tales tol...

  • Civil War Battleship: The Monitor

    Gare Thompson

    The U.S.S. Monitor was an entirely new type of warship when it launched in 1862. Dubbed "the forefather of the modern Navy," this ironclad ship changed how wars are fought at sea. But on New Year's Eve, 1862, it sank off the coast of North Carolina i...

  • The Ring Bearer

    Kathy Thomas

    Told in playful rhyme, here's all the excitement and joy of a wedding day as seen through the eyes of a young ring bearer. From getting all dressed up and walking down the aisle, to watching the vows and tasting the cake. THE RING BEARER shows, in a ...

  • Twice And For Always

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    July 19, 1983... The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers--Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound"--elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later... Their children were reunited. Repressed ...

  • The Companions

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Three planets in deep space were named by their human discoverers to reflect their environments: lush and foreboding Jungle, which swallowed up an exploratory team; Stone, phenomenally rich in rare ore; and Moss, the most enigmatic -- and dangerous -...

  • Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights

    Gustaf Tenggren

    The city is under siege! The King, enraged by his wife’s dishonesty, has vowed to marry every young woman in the city only to have each bride beheaded the following day at sunrise. But Scheherazade, the beautiful and wise daughter of the King’s v...

  • Fathers And Other Strangers

    Karen Templeton

    THE FATHER OF HER CHILD? Jenna Stanton had raised her niece, Blair, from birth, with nary a clue as to who the child's father was. Until now -- when the piece of paper in her hand led her to the inexplicably attractive grouchy ex-cop Hank Logan. H...

  • A Golden Opportunity

    Michael Teitelbaum

    A strange gold crown sent to Clark Kent causes Superman to become weak and traps him in a giant cocoon, and when he emerges, he has no recollection of his former self, his friends, or the Justice League....

  • Hammer of the Gods

    Christopher Tebbetts

  • Lakota Flower

    Janelle Taylor

    Threatened by the ever-encroaching Bluecoats, the Oglala Lakotas must strike hard and fast to ensure their tribe's survival. With the cunning and bravery befitting a chief's son, War Eagle leads his hunting party on a raid, killing many soldiers and ...

  • Wild Cat And The Marine

    Jade Taylor

    Jackson Gray has finally come home... Jackson had always hated living on a farm and, as soon as he could, he got out of Engerville, North Dakota, leaving Catherine Darnell behind. Now, back temporarily to help his ailing father, Jackson is happy t...

  • Fault Line

    Janet Tashjian

    A hard-hitting novel that breaks open the gritty world of teen relationship abuse

    Seventeen-year-old Becky Martin dreams of being a stand-up comic. She also craves the affection of a boyfriend. When attractive Kip, a rising star in the San ...

  • You Are Special, Little One

    Nancy Tafuri

    This cozy companion to I LOVE YOU, LITTLE ONE celebrates all the ways children are special.

    "Deep in a tree trunk by a woodland grove, a fox kit asks, 'How am I special?' And her Mama and Papa reply, 'Dear little one, with your glossy red coat...

  • Jaldi's Friends

    Kalpana Swaminathan

  • Eliot's Banana

    Heather Swain

    Things should be peachy. Junie isn't entirely sure what her problem is. She's just moved into a Brooklyn apartment with her cool longtime boyfriend Leon, a drummer who adores her. She flits through a string of temp jobs in funky thrift store clothes...

  • Crooked Heart

    Cristina Sumners

    Life isn't easy for Tom Holder. Middle-aged, appallingly married, and bored out of his wits, Tom is Chief of Police in Harton--an idyllic New Jersey town where, in spite of its eccentric cast of characters, nothing ever seems to happen. His dreary ro...

  • Operation Bassinet // Operation Cradle

    Joyce Sullivan

    "YOUR DAUGHTER IS NOT YOUR BIOLOGIVAL CHILD." Detective Mitch Halloran's words were enough to shatter a single mom's world. And as much as Stef Shelton wanted to fight his accusation and disprove his claim, the quest to locate her missing child pr...

  • What Madeline Wants

    Linda Style

    What Madeline Wants: A second chance. And she figures she'll get that at the Tripplehorne Ranch in Arizona, where she's been hired to teach English to the Spanish-speaking staff. What Madeline Gets: A big surprise. The owner of the Trip...

  • The Amulet of Samarkand

    Jonathan Stroud

    Presenting a thrilling voice in children's literature -- a witty, gripping adventure story featuring a boy and his not-so-tame djinni. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot...

  • Deployment Pakistan

    P.W. Storm

    They are a covert Marine SpecOps unit -- a lethal weapon so secret only a handful of powerful men know of their existence. To get this far, they had to be the very best of the best. To get home, they'll have to be even better. FORCE 5 RECON ...

  • M Is for Mistletoe

    Tanya Lee Stone

    Each letter of the alphabet represents an element of the holiday and is accompanied by sweet, rhyming text, in a holiday book which also includes an explanation of Christmas celebrations around the world and the origin of Santa Claus in the back. Ori...

  • P-Town Summer

    Lisa Stocker

    In this novel, Lisa Stocker follows the adventures of two lesbian couples who escape to the fun and sun of Provincetown, only to find that a week among the beautiful and the butch, the needy and the needling, brings more drama and trauma than they ba...

  • Christmas Carol Mad Libs

    Leonard Stern

  • Quicksilver

    Neal Stephenson

    Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and w...

  • Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Merry Christmas

    Monique Stephens

    Strawberry Shortcake sets off for an adventure through Holidayland to find the perfect presents for her pals, but when the presents are accidentally destroyed, Strawberry fears that the big day will be ruined....

  • About Face

    Jill Stengl
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    Christmas - Military Style Life... i is never still in the military. Even Christmas is a season of challenge. . .a season of change. This year, several servicemen and women will face a range of life-altering experiences. Captain Tim Falkirk, a ...

  • CDC?

    William Steig

    To figure out William Steig's word puzzles you need merely read the letters, numbers, and symbols aloud. If at first the messages aren't clear, there are clever pictures accompanying each one to give you hints. Some are easy, some are hard, but all a...

  • Promises

    Niqui Stanhope
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    Gilliam Asher is in a bind. In order to bring her grandmother back from death's door, she announces that she is engaged to be married. And it works! Nana recovers and now Gillian has to produce the happy groom-to-be. In times of crisis, a shopping se...

  • A Grave Denied

    Dana Stabenow

    Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak, who was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property, knew him. But she, the Park's ...

  • What Do Angels Wear?

    Eileen Spinelli

    Can angels fly?

    Can angels sing?

    Yes, child. They can.

    If angels can fly and angels can sing, what do they wear when doing these things?

    In this book from Eileen Spinelli and Emily Arnold McCully, a youn...

  • The Night We Met

    Rachel Spencer

    In the tradition of Married to the Mob and The Wedding Banquet, Rob Byrnes' wickedly funny debut novel serves up the most deliciously wacky love story in ages--a screwball romantic comedy where boy gets gorgeous Mafia boyfriend, boy loses Mafia ...

  • The Playgroup

    Nelsie Spencer

    Before she signed up for the mommy role, Ellie Fuller was a stand-up comic, a good best friend, and on her way to substantial success in the TV world. Then good-looking Peter came along, and she was quick to succumb. Marriage redefined her personal l...

  • The Wedding

    Nicholas Sparks

    After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun (originally recounted in The Note...

  • To Kiss A Sheik

    Teresa Southwick

    ALWAYS BE HONEST Desperate for a job, American beauty Crystal Rawlins would have done anything to become nanny to Sheik Fariq Hassan's children. And telling a little white lie about her looks to secure a dream job in an exotic location seemed like a...

  • The Afterlife

    Gary Soto

    You'd think a knife in the ribs would be the end of things, but for Chuy, that's when his life at last gets interesting. He finally sees that people love him, faces the consequences of his actions, finds in himself compassion and bravery . . . and ev...

  • Song for Athena

    Linda Sole

    Julia is bored with her lifestyle as a secretary in London; the only excitement is meeting attractive Nick Ryan. When she gets a phone call from the older sister she barely knows, and an invitation to go to Spain for a while, she agrees wholeheartedl...

  • The Red Hat Club

    Haywood Smith

    Meet Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda--five women who've been best friends through thirty years since high school. Whenever they get the chance, they don their red hats and purple outfits for a delicious monthly serving of racy jokes, iced tea ...

  • The Rundown

    Dean Wesley Smith

    BLOOD AND GOLD! Deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle, far from the constraints of civilization, the wild and lawless town of Helldorado attracts only the most daring of visitors -- and the most foolhardy. When Travis, the son of an underworl...

  • Sons of Thunder

    Cotton Smith

    Preacher Rule Cordell has been trying very hard to put his days as a pistol-fighter behind him. When his friends and neighbors are threatened with losing their family spreads to a cunning carpetbagger, Rule realizes it's time for his preacher's colla...

  • One Wild Night

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    I have always taken pride in my bad reputation. Polite society viewed me as depraved and utterly dissolute, for I was a disciple of passion. Pleasure was my hallmark, women my pastime. That is, before the incomparable Lady Charlotte Quinton disrupted...

  • There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Boot

    Smith

  • A Faint Cold Fear

    Karin Slaughter

    An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent "su...

  • Little Porcupine's Christmas

    Joseph Slate

    Little Porcupine's mother calls him the "light of her life," but it's not until the night before Christmas, the very night of the Christmas play, that Little Porcupine sees the truth in her words.

    ...

  • The Pursuit

    Elizabeth Skurnick

    Michael Vaughn’s father left him a legacy: A calling to a world filled with necessary lies. Dangerous exploits. And the chance to make a difference. Michael is ready to be an agent for the CIA. To do whatever it takes to honor his father’s memory...

  • Desert Heat

    Janice Sims

    Dr. Katharine Matthews' first meeting with Rafael Grant is memorable, to say the least-she mistakes him for a terrorist and attacks him in an airport terminal in Tucson, Arizona. Despite their rocky beginning, Rafe, newly assigned to Tucson as a U.S...

  • Dancing the Ring Shout!

    Kim L. Siegelson

    It is the last day of the harvest, and everyone at Appling Farm is preparing for the ring shout-a celebration filled with dance, song, and praise shouted out to God for the year's blessings. Everyone in Toby's family will play an instrument that spea...

  • The Witch Queen

    Jan Siegel

    Jan Siegel has created one of the most compelling fantasy series in recent memory. What began with Prospero’s Children and continued with The Dragon Charmer now comes to a dazzling conclusion with The Witch Queen. Magnetically gifted Fern ...

  • Outranked by Love

    Tammy Shuttlesworth
    in

    Christmas - Military Style Life... i is never still in the military. Even Christmas is a season of challenge. . .a season of change. This year, several servicemen and women will face a range of life-altering experiences. Captain Tim Falkirk, a ...

  • Skye's the Limit

    Megan Shull

    Eleven-year-old Skye O'Shea is homesick and afraid as she sets out for a three-week bicycle adventure camp on British Columbia's Cat Island, but despite a bully, mountains, and other challenges, she has the time of her life. Original. 20,000 first pr...

  • Yours Truly, Skye O'Shea

    Megan Shull

  • Avengers Legends, Volume 3: George Perez, Book 1

    Jim Shooter

  • Flavor of the Week

    Tucker Shaw

    Cyril Bartholomew isn't exactly everyone's idea of a dream date he's a little on the heavy side. Not that he gets pushed around or anything, but it does cause him to keep one very important secret from everyone: he loves to cook. The only person who ...

  • Arkansas Assault

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo gets mean with a man-hunting Mayor!Noah Tillman, the land baron of Tillman, Arkansas, has his own way of celebrating the Fourth of July. He kidnaps several of his own townspeople, brings them to a private island, and hunts them down like d...

  • ABC Dog

    Connie Sharar

  • The Vampire Prince

    Darren Shan

    Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan -- Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant, faces certain death. Can Darren reverse the odds and outwit a Vampire Prince, or is this the end of thousands of years of vampire rule? Darre...

  • Trade Secrets // Dealing with Annie

    Jill Shalvis
    in

    A group of MBA students at Harvard made a pact -- to each become CEO of a Fortune 500 company before they reached forty. Now their friendships, their loves and even their lives were at stake... Annie Hughes had become the Martha Stewart of cosmeti...

  • Miracle Girl

    Kieth Scribner

    When a series of visions and spontaneous healings begin occurring in Hudson City, a dying industrial city in upstate New York, John Quinn investigates claims that a beautiful Vietnamese-American hearing-impaired girl is performing miracles. 20,000 fi...

  • Chronicles of the Canongate

    Sir Walter Scott

    Published in 1827, Chronicles of the Canongate marks Sir Walter Scott's first foray into shorter fiction. This collection of three stories--"The Highland Widow," "The Two Drovers," and "The Surgeon's Daughter"--delves into the dramatic lives of Scott...

  • FrostLine

    Justin Scott

    Hired to act as a mediator between former diplomat Harry King and his troublesome neighbor, gruff Vietnam veteran Ronnie Butler, real-estate agent Ben Abbott gets more than he bargained for when Butler's ex-con son is killed in an explosion on King's...

  • Reiver's Bride

    Amanda Scott

    Once, long ago in Scotland, matchmaking members of the Secret Clan wove magical mischief to encourage romance among the mortals they assisted. Sometimes the results weren't quite what they expected... When reivers swoop down on Lady Anne Ellyson ...

  • Me Oh Maya!

    Jon Scieszka

    GAME ON! One minute Joe, Sam, and Fred are shooting hoops in Brooklyn. The next they're on a court that is definitely not New York, and the other team is saying something about losers being the next blood sacrifices. Uh-oh. Tossed back in time to Ch...

  • Bullets of Rain

    David J. Schow

    Widowed architect Arthur Latimer has become a recluse in his own home: a storm-proof fortress that doubles as a shrine to his dead wife. But the outside world beckons in the form of a bizarre party downbeach. Now, just as the biggest hurricane ev...

  • I Spy Pirate Treasure

    Scholastic Inc.

    Ahoy, mateys! Play I Spy!

    This book features Spyler and CeCe, characters from the I Spy TV show.
    Spyler and CeCe look for pirate treasure as they follow a treasure map.
    When Spyler and CeCe have found everything, the two friends bury the...

  • It's Halloween!

    Scholastic Inc.

    Celebrate Halloween with Barney! This coloring and activity book has an eye-catching photographic cover.

    Join Barney and friends as they make Halloween decorations, choose costumes, and go trick-or-treating.
    This coloring and activity book ...

  • Little Mermaid

    Scholastic Inc.

    Level 2 Hello Reader! adaptation of the original, classic fairy tale.

    This Level 2 adaptation tells the story of a mermaid princess whose dream is to become human in order to marry the man she loves. She sacrifices a lot for this wish by tradi...

  • A Distant Love

    Janelle Burnham Schneider
    in

    Christmas - Military Style Life... i is never still in the military. Even Christmas is a season of challenge. . .a season of change. This year, several servicemen and women will face a range of life-altering experiences. Captain Tim Falkirk, a ...

  • Mrs. Sartoris

    Elke Schmitter

    An international sensation, Elke Schmitter’s explosive debut novel presents a modern-day twist on Madame Bovary.Margarethe can remember very clearly the last time she was happy: she was eighteen, prized for her beauty, and swept off her feet by her...

  • She is Me

    Cathleen Schine

    The Love Letter was a beloved and bestselling novel, and She Is Me is a return to that winning form -- a novel about women's friendships, love, and family....

  • That Crazy Barb'ra

    Milton Schafer

    Truth be told, Barb'ra is a little crazy-crazy about a boy named Hubert Clumpty! Adapted from an acclaimed children's song first performed on stage by entertainer Danny Kaye, this funny, spunky look at a mad crush is sure to evoke smiles of recogniti...

  • Zermatt

    Frank Schaeffer

    Calvin Becker is back in a timeless story about the volcanic sexual curiosity of a fourteen-year-old boy born into a fundamentalist family so strict that he has never seen a movie, watched television, or danced (and has to hide his five copies of Mad...

  • Someone Says

    Carole Lexa Schaefer

    An energetic combination of onomatopoeic language and vivid illustrations follows a group of Asian children as they use their imagination throughout the day, transforming themselves into prancing ponies, swooping birds, and slurping tigers....

  • Richard Scarry's Father Cat's Christmas Tree

    Richard Scarry

  • A Merry Mistress

    Judith Saxton

    Little Nell Gwyn grew up in a London slum. From a cockney sparrow quick with a curse and quicker with a laugh, she became the most successful comedy actress of her day. But despite the hard work necessary in the competitive theatrical world, she beca...

  • Hybrids

    Robert J. Sawyer

    In Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry -- making him the ulti...

  • The Reluctant Witch

    Jeanne Savery
    in

    Lady Samantha Forsythe, the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, may have been born a witch, but during her first season in Town, she longs to dance and flirt like any other young debutante. Unfortunately, before long Samantha is importuned to rea...

  • Bitten

    Lynsay Sands
    in

    After brooding Keeran MacKay saves Emily Wentworth Collins from a storm-tossed ship, he offers her shelter in his secluded castle. But when a savage kiss reveals Keeran's true nature, Emily realizes that yielding to Keeran's untamed desire may change...

  • Single White Vampire

    Lynsay Sands

    The Family Argenau SWM--"Lucern." Successful biographer of family, books recently categorized as "paranormal romances." Something of a recluse. Hates crowds, aggressive women. Doesn't like sunbathing, garlicky dinners or religious symbols. Likes o...

  • The War Angel

    Michael Salazar

    A military adventure that puts you at the scene of some of the most intense covert action--from an Air Force combat crewmember who's experienced what it's like to fall from heaven armed for hell... The War Angel As a member of the Air Force's e...

  • Carlucci

    Richard Paul Russo

    Collected together for the first time in one volume-this is Richard Paul Russo's critically-acclaimed science fiction trilogy featuring police Lt. Frank Carlucci investigating high-tech crime and corruption in a near-future San Francisco....

  • War Against the Animals

    Paul Russell

    From the author of the acclaimed Boys of Life and the award-wining The Coming Storm comes a novel about a small town in upstate New York riven by tensions between the old residents and the newcomers. Cameron Barnes, formerly of New York City, lives i...

  • Shell Games

    Kirk Russell

    Masters of crime fiction immediately hailed Shell Games, which introduced a dynamic new hero and an exciting new author. Michael Connelly: "You know when you read this one that you are on to something good. Kirk Russell comes out of the gate with a s...

  • Calabash Cat And His Amazing Journey

    James Rumford

    Calabash Cat, a West African cat, sets out one day to find where the world ends. His adventures take him across a desert, grasslands, a jungle, and the ocean, until he finds what he is looking for. Illustrated in the style of the calabash engravers...

  • Ten Little Witches

    Paul Ruditis

    An Other Realm Halloween party ...for mortals?
    When Harvey Kinkle gets an invitation, he's told he can bring one witch -- and what better witch to party with than Sabrina? But even Salem, the master of dastardly tricks, can't...

  • Out of the Mist

    JoAnn Ross

    Lily Stewart is busy planning the summer Highland Games at her family's Great Smoky Mountain resort. So the last thing she needs is some arrogant, demanding Scotsman -- no matter how sexy -- arriving to film the annual festival. It's bad enough that ...

  • The Elephant's Pillow

    Diana Reynolds Roome

    A story about bedtime rituals

    The imperial elephant, known far and wide as one of the grandest sights in the kingdom, hasn’t been the same since the old Emperor died. One day a rich merchant’s son decides he wishes to see the magnificent a...

  • Dark of the Moon

    Evelyn Rogers

    Matt acknowledges a reality lovely widow Juliana Rains refuses to admit: Some drives are too fierce, too powerful, to deny. Like Matt's need to prove himself to his father and brothers. Like his burning desire for revenge against the low-down sna...

  • At the Firehouse

    Anne Rockwell

    Jason loves fire engines. He wants to know all about firefighters, their clothes and their tools, their pumper trucks and their ladder trucks. And, when he gets a chance to sit in the driver's seat, he feesl just like a real firefighter, too.

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  • Best Class Picture Ever!

    Denis Roche

    Denis Roche makes her SP debut as both author and artist with her bright, funny story about a teacherless classroom of children who find themselves a wonderful and inventive new teacher.

    It's class picture day, and Class 202 is in an uproar. T...

  • London's Dark

    James Robinson

    In 1940, London is in the middle of World War Two; bombers fly overhead nightly, and blackouts are enforced by air-raid wardens. With this violent, uncertain setting, multi-award winner James Robinson and acclaimed artist Paul Johnson spin a masterly...

  • Cirque Du Soleil: A Parade of Colors

    Patrisha Robertson

  • Remember When: Hot Rocks

    Nora Roberts
    in

    Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that...

  • The Witching Hour

    Nora Roberts
    in

    A kingdom is plagued by tragedy until a wizard-god's spell brings forth a courageous and beautiful young woman who must follow her heart in love and follow her destiny in battle......

  • The Mistressclass

    Michele Roberts

    A painter's death sets into motion a story of desire--past and present--and its enduring repercussionsCatherine and Vinny are sisters and writers living in contemporary London. Catherine, a professor, publishes erotic novels under an assumed name, ke...

  • The Only Law

    J.R. Roberts

    After helping a man escape from a brutal gang of outlaws, Clint Adams doesn't know what to believe when the outlaws claim that they are actually a posse of lawmen, and sets out to find the truth, while placing his own life in danger. Original....

  • Heat of Passion

    Harold Robbins

    Win Liberte has it all. He prides himself on never having worked a day in his life. He has everything he wants-fast cars, beautiful women, a racing yacht, a penthouse in Manhattan. Orphaned at eleven, Win inherited an international diamond business t...

  • Last Citadel

    David L. Robbins

    David L. Robbins has won widespread acclaim for his powerful and splendidly researched novels of World War II. Now he casts his brilliant vision on one of the most terrifying -- and most crucial -- battles of the war: the Battle of Kursk, Hitler's de...

  • Remember When: Big Jack

    J.D. Robb
    in

    Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that...

  • The Cemetery Yew

    Cynthia Riggs

    West Tisbury's police chief knew what she was doing when she officially made ninety-two-year-old Martha's Vineyard native Victoria Trumbull her deputy. Though a little slow on her feet, Victoria eyes--and mind--are still sharp, which is why she is th...

  • Diana

    Adele Richardson

  • Hades

    Adele Richardson

  • Hercules

    Adele Richardson

    Provides the story of Hercules and his importance in Roman mythology, including his connection to such figures as King Eurystheus and Queen Hippolyte, and describes the role of myths in the modern world....

  • SpongeBob Airpants: The Lost Episode

    Kitty Richards

    It's a bird! It's a plane! It's . . . SpongeBob! SpongeBob dreams of flying with the jellyfish. And this time he sets out to make his dream a reality. From a makeshift flying machine to a hapless bat costume, SpongeBob's airborne attempts are grou...

  • That Old Familiar Feeling

    Emilie Richards
    in

    "To the one I love..." The letter appeared mysteriously on the doorstep, and the Colman sisters' fantasies went straight to work. But what mystery man had sent it -- and to which sister? That Old Familiar Feeling by Emilie Richards Emilie Rich...

  • Death for Dessert

    T. Dawn Richard

    JUST DESSERTS The dark stain on the dead woman was chocolate, but it may as well have been blood. Mrs. Berkowitz had gone to her death savoring poisoned brownies. New to the Active Senior Living complex, May List finds the body, but has her own reas...

  • Blackwood Farm

    Anne Rice

    Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious dining rooms, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgang...

  • Bear with Me

    Ann Rhiannan

  • Bone Dry

    Ben Rehder

    The opening of deer season always brings a Texas-sized wave of excitement to sleepy Blanco County, but this year, game warden John Marlin is finding mysteries as thick as ticks on a whitetail's rump. First, there are reports of a blonde bombshell who...

  • Predator's Gold

    Philip Reeve

    TOM AND HESTER ARE IN DANGER Pursued by the grim aviators of the Green Storm, they stumble onto the ice city of Anchorage just in time. But Anchorage is not a safe refuge: devastated by plague and haunted by thieves or ghosts, the city is barely lur...

  • Welcome to Kaya's World, 1764

    Dottie Raymer

  • Eve in the City

    Thomas Rayfiel

    “They say the city never sleeps. It does. Just before dawn you can hear it snore. Light hangs in the air, directionless, not yet pressed into rays. The smell of a hidden sea soaks through stone. The streets themselves have that booming emptiness of...

  • Ghost Girl

    Delia Ray

    Eleven-year-old April Sloane has never set foot in a school before, and now that President Hoover and his wife are building a one-room schoolhouse in the hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains where April lives, she is eager to attend it. But these are t...

  • Ten Thousand Lovers

    Edeet Ravel

    Israel, 1970s. Lily, a young emigrant student exploring the wonders and terrors of her new land, finds the man of her dreams -- Ami, a former actor. Handsome, intelligent, and exciting, but like his beautiful, disintegrating country, Ami has a ter...

  • Dr. Seuss

    Dana Meachen Rau

  • Neil Armstrong

    Dana Meachen Rau

    Meet Neil Armstrong!Fact-filled Rookie Read-About Biographies introduce the youngest readers to influential women and men, both past and present. Colorful photos and age appropriate text encourage children to read on their own-as they learn about peo...

  • Hokey Pokey Elmo

    Random House

    Elmo invites readers to dance along as he and his friends do the Hokey Pokeyâ,”with a bit of a twist! In addition to the usualâ,”putting in hands, feet, and other body partsâ,”thereâ,"s Cookie Monster putting his cookie in, Big Bi...

  • High Stakes

    Robert J. Randisi

    All bets are off in this collection of thrilling stories, filled with high stakes, dangerous games, greed, and corruption, from Las Vegas to small-town bingo parlors, that features contributions from such bestselling authors as Lawrence Block, Leslie...

  • The Bewitchment of Lord Dalford

    Debbie Raleigh
    in

    Annie Winsome may be a witch, but the mortal world has never lost its fascination for her--and a London Season is too tempting to resist. Believing an innocent potion will polish her bumbling friend Lord Dalford, she is stunned to find him transforme...

  • Who'll Pull Santa's Sleigh Tonight?

    Laura Rader

    Christmas is just around the corner. The sleigh is polished. The toys are wrapped. The lists are all checked (twice). Everything's right on schedule -- until Santa finds all eight reindeer in bed with the flu. Uh-oh! How can Santa deliver presents...

  • Say That To My Face

    David Prete

    Yonkers, New York, finds its place on the literary map of America. Transcending all the limitations of "ethnic literature" and mobster stereotyping, David Prete flawlessly (and seemingly effortlessly) nails Italian-American life to the page and eleva...

  • Monstrous Regiment

    Terry Pratchett

    War has come to Disc world . . . again. And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks'...

  • Anyone Who Has a Heart

    Jacqueline Powell

  • The Matchmaker

    Lisa Plumley

    Someone was matching up men and women all over town -- and, tarnation! it had to stop! Marcus Copeland had been elected to "investigate" the most likely suspect. But he didn't have time to romance any secrets out of the unconventional Molly Crabtr...

  • Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy: Part 1

    Dav Pilkey

    George and Harold are in a sticky situation. Their latest prank has snotty school brainiac Melvin Sneedly seeing red, and he can't wait to get them back. But when Melvin tries to transform himself into a bionic-powered superboy, things get a little g...

  • My Cold War

    Tom Piazza

    A sharp, searching novel of an American son and the family he left behind 埦rom a writer of rare breadth and human insight.

    My Cold War is a critically acclaimed debut novel of extraordinary depth and range : the story of a man's alienatio...

  • Trust No One

    Barbara Phinney

    NOWHERE LEFT TO RUN... There was only one way out for Helen Eastman: Fake her own death and start over, far from harm's way. But her plans were jettisoned one night by a stranger who posed a more intimate peril. He was seductive bad-boy cop Nick ...

  • The Heartbreaker

    Carly Phillips

    As the eldest of three rebel-rousing brothers, Chase Chandler has waited a long time to leave his small-town roots behind. All bets are off when the single journalist meets a redhead who arouses a lot more than lust. Yet Sloane Carlisle isn't just an...

  • Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Three, Vol. 2

    Douglas Petrie

    If I'm not the Slayer, I mean...what do I have to offer?-- Buffy Summers, HelplessOnly in Sunnydale could a new watcher be a harbinger of badness, and only the Hellmouth could offer refuge for a lovelorn vampire. But as Cordelia Chase learns when she...

  • Ransom

    Diane Pershing

    She was a polite person, normally. But Hallie Fitzgerald was expecting a call -- on the pay phone outside the hardware store -- from the burglar who'd robbed her. The same phone a gorgeous former marine, and the town's new police chief, currently occ...

  • Always In Her Heart

    Marta Perry

    MARRYING MAN? In the eight years since their romance had ended in confusion, Link Morgan and Annie Gideon had barely spoken. But when tragedy left twenty-month-old Marcy, Link's goddaughter and Annie's niece, parentless, the two stepped in to prot...