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A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.

Once innocent, Con Somerford has returned from war, weary and worldly, to assume the role of Earl of Wyvern.

In 1970 the shabby members of a California commune pull up stakes and move to the harsh interior of Alaska.

Teenage America, a not-black, not-white, not-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.

When Jordan Greene moves to Manhattan, he learns to keep up with the fast pace of a Wall Street job, a stylish apartment, and a sexy girlfriend.

Nathan Bedford Forrest was the most reviled and celebrated, loathed and legendary, of Civil War generals.

Instead of lauding the hero Beowulf, the spotlight shines on Grendel, whose grotesque body and blood thirst condemn him to the life of an outlaw, but whose soul delights in dark humor, dramatic pir

Chance Carter doesn't like his Grandmother Rista.

Senator Ashley Butler fervidly opposes any legislation supporting biotechnology and strives to outlaw cloning. His adversary, Dr.

Twelve-year-old Lily mourns her brother, and has not spoken since the accident she feels she could have prevented, but the summer Tinny comes to town she is the only one who realizes Lily's secret.

Eighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legen

It is the final year of the Great Tribulation -- and no one is safe.

A lifestyle correspondent for a New York morning television program, Lucinda Trout is tired of reporting on thong underwear, so she heads to the Midwest.

Recently widowed, Love Mercy Johnson longs to make amends with her estranged grandchildren.

Attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair, Benni Harper's enjoyment of the fair's activities are put on hold after the theft of a quilt intended for a special exhibition and the discovery of a corpse