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  • Family Guardian

    Laurie Alice Eakes

    Surrounded by the most beautiful scents and potions in the world, The Honorable Miss Clarissant Behn toils away, unconcerned with romance. She doesn't spend her days planning a wardrobe for the Season or wonder who she will marry. Against all convent...

  • To Thine Own Self Be True

    Judy Clemens

    Stella Crown rarely takes a break from managing her Pennsylvania dairy farm unless it's to take a spin on her Harley, but in the midst of the Christmas season she treats herself to a new tattoo. Halfway through the sitting at Wolf Ink, her tattoo art...

  • The Olive Sisters

    Amanda Hampson

    When Adrienne's marketing company goes down, her lifestyle does too. She retreats from the city to the beautiful, abandoned olive grove once owned by her Italian grandparents. A 'tree change' isn't what Adrienne has in mind, however, and life in the ...

  • Mhudi

    Sol T. Plaatje

    An epic historical romance, Mhudi is the first novel in English to be written by a black South African writer and renowned as one of Africa's most important literary works.

    After witnessing the genocide of her tribe, Mhudi wanders the ...

  • Moin and the Monster

    Anushka Ravishankar

    When Moin discovers a monster under his bed, he has a lot of fun with it at first, but the difficulty of keeping the monster a secret from everyone around him makes him decide that he has to send it back where it came from....

  • Book of Lost - Volume 1: Introductions All Around

    J. Michael Straczynski

    The destinies of most people are defined early on. Then there are the others - the lost. Those whose numbers aren't in yet, who could go toward the light or toward the darkness - indeed, who could be tipped one direction or another. And everything st...

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 6: Return of the King

    Mark Millar

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #26-33. Magneto, the X-Men's deadliest villain, returns. They've faced the Weapon X program, Proteus and even the superhuman strikeforce known as The Ultimates. Now, still licking their wounds from their prior battles, can Xav...

  • Cable & Deadpool, Volume 5: Living Legends

    Fabian Nicieza

    Collects Cable/Deadpool #25-29. Cable has forged a paradise haven that threatens to destabilize countless governments and religions. One man wants to find out what Cable's intentions are before it's too late. Plus: Cable sees the signs forming..can A...

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 9: The Tempest

    Brian K. Vaughan

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #46-49. The X-Men have become more than a team. They've become a family. And the death of one of their own leaves the remaining X-Men struggling to deal with the loss. And even before a moment of silence can pass, the myste...

  • Essential Luke Cage Power Man - Volume 2

    Don McGregor

    Luke Cage wraps up his early solo career against the likes of Zzzax, Chemistro and Gideon Mace - then launches a new era with Iron Fist, forming one of Marvel's oddest and most enduring partnerships! Garish gangsters, sexy scientists, monolithic muta...

  • Spider-Woman: Origin

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Spider-Woman: Origin #1-5. This all-new epic chronicles the intriguing secret history of Jessica Drew and her journey from child experiment to Hydra agent to S. H. I. E. L. D. agent to super hero to private eye to Avenger!....

  • Decimation: X-Men - Son of M

    David Hine

    Collects Son of M #1-6. He's lost his powers, his sister and his cause. How far is he willing to go to get them back? All he wanted was to make the world a perfect place for mutantkind. Pietro Maximoff was Quicksilver, the fastest living creature on ...

  • Norah's Ark

    Judy Baer

    Hi, my name is Bentley. I'm a mutt with a dash of pit bull in the soup, and I have issues. I'm not likely to win any beauty pageants, and I'm afraid of cats. But my human, Norah Kent, thinks I'm the greatest despite all my shortcomings. The pro...

  • Stamping Butterflies

    Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    From Marrakech to China's Forbidden City, from a doomed starship carrying a cryogenically preserved crew to an island prison camp, the fate of the world is being played out in the minds of two dreamers. One, a would-be assassin obsessed with enigmati...

  • Coraline

    Neil Gaiman

    THE DAY AFTER THEY MOVED IN, CORALINE WENT EXPLORING.... In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until...

  • Mixed Up With The Mob

    Ginny Aiken

    DEATH AND A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS Strange things were happening to Lauren DiStefano. Since her brother's funeral, a mysterious driver had tried to run her down, menacing mobsters threatened her and a handsome FBI agent saved her life. Something was s...

  • Purchased By The Billionaire

    Helen Bianchin

    Purchased for his pleasure... Kayla removed Spanish billionaire Duardo Alvarez's wedding ring after just seventy-two hours of marriage. But now desperate circumstances have forced Kayla to beg her ex-husband for help. Duardo's price is ...

  • Suburban Secrets

    Donna Birdsell

    Grace Becker needed to get a life... And thanks to '80s night, one too many Flaming Togas and a game of Truth or Dare with her girlfriends, this woman who has let her Day-Timer rule her life has found excitement in spades. Rather than reveal the t...

  • Her Better Half

    C.J. Carmichael

    Lauren Holloway: The mother of twin daughters, this cashmere-and-pearls housewife has always been careful to do the "right" things in life. Erin Karmeli: Clad in tight jeans and low-cut tops, she's a vodka-swilling, straight-shooting single mother...

  • No Place Like Home

    Debra Clopton

    When her ancient RV caught fire, candy maker Dottie Hart was stranded in Mule Hollow. So much for her promise to help her brother with his women's shelter. She would never make it to California now! Help arrived in the nick of time, in the shape o...

  • The Rebel King

    Kathleen Creighton

    Paris is the perfect haven for a runaway prince. Until a black-garbed figure trailing a tantalizing perfume steals into Nikolas Donovan's hotel room. And something about his sensual assailant is hauntingly familiar.... Attack first and ask questio...

  • The Merry Widow's Diary

    Susan Crosby

    Saturday, September 22 1. Get a dog cat. 2. Get a man. 3. Get adventurous (go skinny-dipping!) 4. Get a life! She'd been the pampered and protected wife. Now she was a widow with both daughters off at college and she was suddenly d...

  • The Impostor Prince // A Crown for a Lady

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    A deception of royal proportions had thrust Ian MacEwen into the very center of the ton's marriage mart, forcing him to choose a bride who would be queen. He'd wanted only to uncover answers denied him all his life. Instead he found Claire Wentwort...

  • Lucky's Woman

    Linda Winstead Jones

    SHE SAW A KILLER IN HER DREAMS... Annie Lockhart's colorful exterior concealed a serious psychic ability. And if her latest visions were true, a serial killer was preying on couples deeply in love. She had been burned by her talents before, so ins...

  • The Ladies' Man

    Susan Mallery

    She'd resolved to "act more sophisticated" and "get out more." But the rumpled bedding, the coffee brewed by other hands and The Note reminded Rachel Harper that she'd done something completely out of character. She'd brought a man home from a bar. ...

  • The Right Brother

    Patricia McLinn

    SOMETHING TO PROVE... Everyone thinks life has been easy for pretty, popular Jennifer Truesdale. In reality, it's been anything but--especially since her no-good ex-husband left her in dire financial straits with a child to raise. She'll show them a...

  • A Little Change Of Plans

    Jen Safrey

    HUSABND...IN A HURRY! Entrepreneur Molly Jackson had always been a success, the type of woman who could achieve anything once she put her mind to it. Then a one-night stand left her pregnant--right before the biggest job interview of her life. ...

  • His Mistress By Morning

    Elizabeth Boyle

    Oh, how I wish... When a promised inheritance turns out to be a fraud, shy spinster Charlotte Wilmont makes an impetuous wish that despite her lack of charm and fortune, she could capture the heart of the one man whom she's forever adored -- ...

  • The Trouble With Witches

    Shirley Damsgaard

    Ophelia has always considered her psychic abilities an imposition, except for those times she's been able to put her paranormal talents to good use-like when a friend asks her to help find a missing teenager. Unfortunately it means she and Abby, her ...

  • Something Sinful

    Suzanne Enoch

    It was lust at first sight . . . She was a vision, an exotic goddess who floated across the ballroom, conjuring images of warm nights and silk sheets, and Lord Charlemagne Griffin felt lightning shoot straight to his . . . well, he was definitely i...

  • No Man's Bride

    Shana Galen

    No Man's Plaything . . . Catherine Fullbright has vowed never to marry. Growing up with a disreputable father, she witnessed male behavior at its very worst. Unfortunately her ambitious parent refuses to marry off Catie's pretty, pliable younger ...

  • The Cinco de Mayo Murder

    Lee Harris

    MAYDAY! When Christine Bennett is invited on a sightseeing trip to Arizona, she jumps at the chance for a little adventure. But the excursion reminds her of a former high school classmate, Heinz Gruner, who died twenty years earlier on Cinco de Ma...

  • The Keeper

    Sarah Langan

    Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedford's unemployed residents soon find themselves with far too much time to dwell on t...

  • To Distraction

    Stephanie Laurens

    The gentlemen of the Bastion Club have proven their courage while fighting England's enemies, but nothing has prepared them for dealing with that most formidable of challenges: the opposite sex. Deverell, Viscount Paignton, is in desperate need o...

  • Hysterical Blondeness

    Suzanne Macpherson

    Do blondes really have more fun? In Suzanne Macpherson's delightful new novel, one woman is about to find out the truth about life, love, and hair color . . . Patricia Stillwell went to sleep a brunette and woke up blonde! That experimental we...

  • The Perfect Seduction

    Margo Maguire

    A Captive Longing To burn with passion . . . to surrender to the power of a man's desire . . . Kathryn de St. Marie's years in a French convent have taught her such things are forbidden. Still the chaste Norman beauty dreams of a soul-stirring lov...

  • Through the Darkness

    Marcia Talley

    Cancer survivor Hannah Ives looked Death in the eye . . . and walked away victorious. But the terror she once felt in its shadow pales before the ice-cold fear that now grips her heart in the wake of an unthinkable crime: the kidnapping of Hannah's i...

  • Pointblank

    David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    A bold new contingent -- Force Recon -- joins the explosive Starfist space epic of marines at war.  A Confederation army is besieged on the planet Ravenette, cut off by and facing destruction at the hands of a dozen Secessionist Coalition world...

  • Edge of Darkness

    Cherry Adair

    Beneath a veil of darkness, danger threatens to strike. An anti-terrorism agent with a warrior's body and a magnetic smile, Duncan Edge is working for T-FLAC's special paranormal unit on a mission to halt a lethal terrorist cell. Along the way, Du...

  • Snake Eyes

    Max Allan Collins

    Luck is on the side of most during the incident at the Four Kings Casino and Hotel, when the simmering tension between two rival biker gangs suddenly boils over into all-out violence -- miraculously, there are only two fatalities despite the hundreds...

  • Bayonet Skies

    John F. Mullins

    1975: With the Vietnam War drawing to a close, Captain James Carmichael begins a new life far from the front lines, in Bad Tlz, Germany. Married to a beautiful Russian emigre and awaiting his first child, Carmichael should be content training the 10...

  • A Simple Gift

    Karyn Witmer

    Avery and Mike thought they had the perfect American family until their daughter ran away. Now Fiona’s back in town...and nothing will ever be the same again.

    Avery Montgomery’s life changed forever in the checkout line at the Food-4-Less ...

  • Too Far Gone

    John Ramsey Miller

    Alexa Keen is the best the FBI has to offer, a special agent who can achieve the impossible: finding victims of abduction before they can be killed. Casey LePointe West is heiress to one of the greatest fortunes in America. Now, as Hurricane Katrina ...

  • Dead End Dating

    Kimberly Raye

    BITING IS SO LAST SEASON. A vivacious vampire with a flair for accessorizing, Lil Marchette is unlike most of her kind. She prefers lively shades of pink to dismal black (soo not her color), plus she's a hopeless romantic. In need of a steady payc...

  • Bloodlines

    Karen Traviss

    Civil war looms as the fledgling Galactic Alliance confronts a growing number of rebellious worlds--and the approaching war is tearing the Skywalker and Solo families apart. Han and Leia return to Han's homeworld, Corellia, the heart of the resistanc...

  • Dreaming of You

    Francis Ray

    LURING A MAN INTO LOVE Successful Santa Fe hotelier, Faith McBride has loved Brandon Grayson since she was a wallflower in high school and he was her big brother's best friend. Now hard-bodied Brandon is running a trendy restaurant a stone's throw f...

  • Last Whisper

    Carlene Thompson

    Someone is tracking her every move... A killer who knows that true nightmares never end... And that the perfect murder is always worth waiting for... Brooke Yeager's childhood ended the night she crept downstairs to find her beautiful, gentle mo...

  • Lifeless

    Mark Billingham

    It's hardly a life. But he'll take it anyway. . . . To friends and enemies alike, it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father and berated for seriously overstepping the mark on his last case,...

  • Tears of a Class Clown

    Sara Faith Alterman

    Just when you thought you'd put the past behind you-; the forlorn crushes, the awkward fashions, the cliques, the pigeonholes, those rampant, raging hormones-;it sneaks up on you when you least expect it, and suddenly you're invited to turn back the ...

  • To Catch a Husband

    Lindsay Graves

    in the exclusive Southern California community of Colina Linda, money means everything. But snagging a man who has money means even more. When billionaire David Clemente files for divorce, his newly single status is the gossip among the ladies-who-lu...

  • All Aunt Hagar's Children

    Edward P. Jones

    In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever Returning to the c...

  • The Space Mission Adventure

    Sharon M. Draper

    Ziggy and his friends blast off to space camp in this freshly repackaged chapter book from bestselling author Sharon Draper! Ziggy and his friends are excited to be going to Space Camp, where they'll get to learn about weightlessness and how astro...

  • Disney's Marie

    Kitty Richards

    Marie, the adorable white kitten from TheAristocats, travels the globe in afabulous new series of books. Precociously funny, Marie takes readers on sightseeingadventures around the world, offering her petite French perspective oneverything she finds....

  • Wild Ducks Flying Backward

    Tom Robbins

    Known for his meaty seriocomic novels"expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow"Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to acto...

  • Pirate Penguins

    Frank Rodgers

    Paisley, Posso, Kelty and Spott are pirate penguins. And they're HUNGRY. But there's nothing to eat - all the fish have disappeared from the sea! Could the gang of scary, sharp-toothed cats have anything to do with it? It's time for Paisley to come u...

  • The Heritage of Shannara Books One and Two

    Terry Brooks

    Here together for the first time in one volume are the first two books in Terry Brooks’ enthralling epic, The Heritage of Shannara.

    Since the death of the Druid Allanon, the Four Lands have changed profoundly, with magic strictly forbidden i...

  • Faster Faster Nice And Slow

    Nick Sharratt

    A third title in this superb series by award-winning best friends, Sue Heap and Nick Sharratt. Here is the perfect way to learn about opposites. Whether it's a quiet cat and a noisy dog, a freezing cold or a hot and sunny day or a super fast leopard ...

  • Its Lovely When You Smile

    Sam McBratney

    An endearing and heart-warming tale guaranteed to make everyone smile. When Little Roo wakes up, he just feels grumpy. He doesn't want to play and he doesn't know why. His mother tries to cheer him up by playing in the leaves, hiding in their favouri...

  • My Secret World Mystical Mermaids

    Kay Woodward

    Mermaids have always been favourite subjects for little girls, and this book covers everything there is to know. With great make-and-do ideas and easy-to-read text, this beautiful book incorporates everything young girls need to know about the lives ...

  • Witchs Dog And The Talk

    Frank Rodgers

    Wilf, the Witch's Dog, is very excited about the painting competition for witches' pets. But the judge has disappeared! Wilf and his friend Weenie must find her before the show is ruined. With the help of a magical painting, Wilf and Weenie set off o...

  • Kevin And Sadie The Story Continues

    Joan Lingard

    A collection of the last three Kevin and Sadie titles: Into Exile, A Proper Place, Hostage to Fortune. Each book can be enjoyed on its own as a stand alone story and, together with Across the Barricades and The Twelfth Day of July, these books make u...

  • After the Dinosaurs: Mammoths and Fossil Mammals

    Charlotte Lewis Brown

    After the age of the dinosaurs, strange and powerful mammals ruled the earth. . . . Paleontologist Charlotte Lewis Brown’s easy-to-read and fascinating descriptions of these ancient animals are brought to life in Phil Wilson’s detailed illus...

  • Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls

    Masaki Segawa

    LOVE AND DEATH

    The bloody battle to rule Japan has begun: The Iga and the Kouga clans are locked in a fight to the death. Driven by a centuries-old hatred, each clan will do anything to annihilate the other. The Kouga clan is engaging in a lit...

  • ES: Eternal Sabbath

    Fuyumi Soryo

    DANGEROUS THOUGHTS

    Mine Kujyou is a brilliant and beautiful scientist who has unlocked some of the darkest secrets of the human mind. But she’s about to discover the hard way what the mind is really capable of. Mine joins forces with Sakaki ...

  • Negima! Volume 11

    Ken Akamatsu

    FOUR’S THE CHARM

    The first lo-o-o-o-o-ng day of the Mahora Academy Festival is finally coming to a close. Of course, Negi needed to repeat the day four times, courtesy of a bit of magic, in order to make it through his to-do list. And thanks...

  • Gacha Gacha, Volume 5

    Hiroyuki Tamakoshi

    COULD IT BE LOVE?

    Kurara finally confesses her love for Kouhei, but something’s not quite right. She looks like Kurara, she sounds like Kurara, she even punches like Kurara"but it seems too good to be true. Is this really Kurara, or could ...

  • School Rumble, Volume 3

    Jin Kobayashi

    HAVE A NICE DEITY!

    Love (in the form of Tsukamoto Tenma) betrayed Harima Kenji, but he has moved on in an effort to find himself. He’s become a fortune teller who can communicate with animals. Some even mistake him for a helpful deity who wa...

  • Entrapped

    Harlan Coben
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    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • Puppy Takes a Bath

    Christine Ricci

    Dora the Explorer wants to give her puppy a bath. But first she has to find him! - Level One expands the vocabulary and uses longers sentences for kids who are just starting to read. Some Level One books also employ rebuses or picture icons....

  • The Real Ghostbusters: Which Witch Is Which?

    Dan Abnett

  • Australian Adventure

    Susan Ring

    The Little Einsteins, equipped with their camera, go on a journey through Australia, viewing some of its unusual animals and exploring its rainforests and the Great Barrier Reef, with a slideviewer for young readers to view pictures of what they saw....

  • Galactic Goodnight

    Susan Ring

    The Little Einsteins, equipped with their camera, go on a journey through space, exploring each of the planets, landing on Mars, and looking at the Earth from their spaceship, with a slideviewer for young readers to view pictures of what they saw....

  • Queeny

    Ridley Pearson
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • Safe Enough

    Lee Child
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • The Home Front

    Charles Ardai
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • The Last Flight

    Brendan DuBois
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • Part Light, Part Memory

    Bonnie Hearn Hill
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • Blarney

    Steve Hockensmith
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • Heat Lightning

    William Kent Krueger
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • Till Death Do Us Part

    Tim Maleeny
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • The Cold, Hard Truth

    Rick McMahan
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • One Shot

    P.J. Parrish
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • Cyberdate.com

    Tom Savage
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • Home Coming

    Charles Todd
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • The Masseuse

    Tim Wohlforth
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • A Few Small Repairs

    Jeff Abbott
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • Chellini's Solution

    Jim Fusilli
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • One True Love

    Laura Lippman
    in

    A trade paperback collection of 16 short stories, some new, some published before, all together for the first time, featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eye For the first time together in one ...

  • Wifey

    R.L. Stine
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • Pushed Or Was Fell

    Jay Brandon
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • The Dream

    Gilbert Morris

    Lanie Freeman had to grow up fast. Her mother died when she was just fourteen and now her father is in prison. The oldest of five children, seventeen-year-old Lanie has transformed into a surrogate mother … and a beautiful young woman. Not only mus...

  • Hot and Bothered

    Annie Downey

    She’s offbeat, off balance, and at times off-the-wall, a late-thirties mother of two living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and trying to figure out who she is now that her husband has left her. He’s a rat, anyway, and currently attends Sex Addicts ...

  • Violet Dawn

    Brandilyn Collins

    Something sinuous in the water brushed against Paige’s knee. She jerked her leg away. What was that? She rose to a sitting position, groped around with her left hand. Fine wisps wound themselves around her fingers. Hair? She yanked backward, but th...

  • This Life She's Chosen

    Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

    "An impressive debut" by "a promising young writer" (The New York Times Book Review), this intimate collection of stories illuminates the pivotal moments in family life, particularly between mothers and daughters. The "still and hauntingly ambiguous"...

  • Game Over

    Kol

    Natasha, the princess of Zoravia and a secret agent, must discover how a popular computer game controls minds and destroy it before her evil uncle, Lubek, unleashes the game's brainwashing power in an effort to reclaim the Zoravian throne....

  • Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four - Volume 3: World's Greatest

    Jeff Parker

    All adventure, all action, for all ages! Join Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing for a wild ride of all-new, unforgettable exploits. Collects Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #9-12....

  • X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl

    Peter Milligan

    It's hard to keep a good girl down... especially when she's Dead! After a brief hiatus caused by their deaths, everyone's favorite mutants are back! And this time, they're bringing a host of... questions with them. Like why do some heroes and villain...

  • Women of Marvel

    Stan Lee

    It's a First-Issue Frenzy as Marvel collects the crime-fighting debuts of the Dazzler, Ms. Marvel, Shanna the She-Devil and the Cat - with distaff deviltry from the Enchantress and the White Queen! Plus: the Black Widow gets a new costume and the She...

  • Spider-Girl Presents Avengers Next - Volume 1: Second Coming

    Tom Defalco

    On another day unlike any other, a new collection of the World's Mightiest Heroes rocked their own remarkable reality! Enemies alien and Earthbound vie to end the new era of Avengerdom! Featuring the heir of Captain America and the son of the Black P...

  • The Younger Gods

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    In this thrilling conclusion to The Dreamers, the Vlagh prepares for one final, merciless attackone that will pit her forces against the might of both the Elder Gods and the Younger Gods. But all the painstaking preparations of these noble allies mig...

  • The Mortician's Daughter

    Elizabeth Bloom

    Ginny Lavoie has just been suspended from her job with the NYPD when she gets a late-night phone call from her childhood best friend whose teenage son, Danny, was savagely beaten to death. Now, Ginny is back in the scruffy New England mill town she l...

  • White Sister

    Stephen J. Cannell

    Back from the New York Times bestselling Cold Hit, Detective Shane Scully goes up against the beautiful, blonde wife of powerful hip-hop mogul--who stands at the center of a ruthless conspiracy Leaving L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his w...

  • The Floating Island

    Elizabeth Haydon

    Long ago, in the Second Age of history, a young Nain explorer by the name of Ven Polypheme traveled much of the known and unknown world, recording his adventures. Recently discovered by archaeologists, a few fragments of his original journals are rep...

  • Hunters of Dune

    Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

    Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. B...

  • Copper River

    William Kent Krueger

    In well-crafted settings that are beautiful and unforgiving, with unforgettable characters and jaw-dropping surprises, William Kent Krueger's Cork O'Connor thrillers have drawn a flood of awards and praise. The latest in the series finds the sheriff ...

  • Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws

    Janette Rallison

    Josie I don't ask for much in life -- unless you count Ethan Lancaster's attention as "much." He's gorgeous, available, and unfortunately only notices me when I'm falling on my face. (Figuratively and literally.) My best friend, Cami, says she can...

  • The Wish House

    Celia Rees

    From the best-selling author of WITCH CHILD and SORCERESS comes another engrossing, atmospheric novel following a teenage boy as he uncovers the secrets of the mysterious and provocative Wish House.
    It's the start of summer vacation, and fifteen-...

  • Everlost

    Neal Shusterman

    Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident... ...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, fi...

  • The Conjurer's Bird

    Martin Davies

    The Conjurer’s Bird is a beautiful story in the spirit of Possession that is as exciting as The Club Dumas, inspired by one of the great puzzles of natural history: that of the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta. Seen only once, in 1774, by Captain Cook’s...

  • Twilight

    Erin Hunter

    BEFORE THERE IS PEACE, BLOOD WILL SPILL BLOOD... New territory brings new troubles for the fierce cats of the warrior Clans. Dangers they have never faced before are lurking in the twilight shadows, and former allies are acting strangely hostile. ...

  • Amelia's Guide to Gossip

    Marissa Moss

    "Did you hear the rumor making the rounds? A Note from the Author Amelia! ""Everything you always wanted to know about gossip -- it''s the hottest rumor around!"" -- Me, Amelia ...the one about Amelia and her guide?

  • Confessions from the Principal's Chair

    Anna Myers

    In Denver, Robin (a.ka. Bird) is in with the cool clique. They wear the same clothes, talk the same way, and pick on the same girls. But when her Mom hears about a cruel prank against a less popular girl, she isn't going to tolerate the Queen Bee beh...

  • Mercy Watson Fights Crime

    Kate DiCamillo

    The beguiling porcine wonder turns bucking bronco to snare a robber in this hilarious new addition to the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series. Leroy Ninker is a small man with a big dream: he wants to be a cowboy, but for now he's just a thief. In f...

  • Corby Flood

    Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have noticed that anything is wrong, but Corby is highly observant and has a lot of time for note-taking and e...

  • Think Pink!

    Jim Jinkins

    Pinky wakes up one morning to find that her lovely yellow hair has turned bright, raving pink! When she discovers how and why, she and her little brother also learn that change, big or small, can be a good thing....

  • Santa Clause 3, The: The Escape Clause: The Junior Novelization

    James Ponti

    Ho...ho...ho...Scott Calvin (aka Santa Clause) is back and everything seems perfect for him and his family. But when Jack Frost tries to take over Clause’s holiday, Santa has to pull double-duty. He must figure out away to keep his family happy and...

  • Saving Santa's Workshop

    James Ponti

  • Beware, Take Care

    Lilian Moore

    A fun fright-fest for any time of the year There's always something lurking in the spooky-but-fun urban world of these poems. Maybe it's a lost dragon (a wizard's loving pet--please return if found!) or a twelve-toed creature, or perhaps it's a mons...

  • Barbie in the Twelve Dancing Princesses

    Tennant Redbank

    Princess Barbie and her sisters dance the night away in a magical, musical adventure in Barbie in the Twelve Dancing Princesses! Barbie and her princess sisters love to dance and sing, but thier evil Aunt Rowena doesn't believe it's proper princess b...

  • Into the Bucket

    Art Mawhinney

    Based on the popular new TV show on Cartoon Network, here is the tale of how Harry first discovered he could go into the the bucket to Dino-World. When Harry's hat gets dropped in the bucket and disappears, he is nervous about jumping in, but the hat...

  • The Three Little Neighbors

    David Lewman

    With a flap and a pop-up on every spread, a humorous fractured fairy-tale adventure follows the Three Little Neighbors, aka SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward, as they find houses to live in before Small Bad Plankton comes along to destroy their new h...

  • Santa's Secret

    James Ponti

    Ho...ho..ho...Scott Calvin (aka Santa Clause) is back and everything seems perfect for him and his family. But when Jack Frost tries to take over Clause’s holiday, Santa has to pull double-duty. He must figure out away to keep his family happy and ...

  • Grace's Turn

    Christy Carlson Romano

    Determined to make her junior year in high school one to remember, Grace di Giovanni, an aspiring Broadway star who longs to shine, must overcome many challenges to beat out her rival, impress a Broadway director, and make her dream of starring in

  • Cold Sleep

    Narise Konohara

  • A Poem for Tink

    RH/Disney

    Terence likes everything about Tinker Bell. In fact, he likes her so much that one day he writes a poem about her. Too bad Terence is too shy to give it to Tink. But, in magical Never Land you never know where a poem might end up! Readers will love t...

  • Mysterious Messages

    Tennant Redbank

    There's going to be a grand gala in Never Land and everyone is invited. But, no one knows what the party is for or who is sending those mysterious messages asking each talent group to prepare a party treat. Readers will love trying to figure out the ...

  • Terminating the Toxic Tonic of Disrespect

    Thomas Nelson

    He's b-a-a-a-ck. The new Bibleman is on duty to defend kids from the dastardly dirty deeds of the devil's dupes.

    Something has gone very wrong with the local little league team. They're dissing each other and their coaches, resulting in a c...

  • The Mighty Street Sweeper

    Patrick Moore

    Despite its size, the street sweeper has one mighty job! The street sweeper is a little truck with a very big job. While it is not the largest, fastest, or most powerful truck, a street sweeper does something that no other truck can do: it keeps ...

  • Cyber Cinderella

    Christina Hopkinson

    Izobel Brannigan is an ordinary girl, working a good but dull public relations job, and with a lousy--but slightly less dull--boyfriend. Out of boredom, she decides to Google herself and finds an entire Web site devoted to her, describing a fun, exci...

  • Hidden Riches

    Jerry B. Jenkins; Chris Fabry

    An unexpected chance to help the school bully gets Ashley and Bryce into a tough spot. When they’re spotted snooping around a possible crime scene, the culprits will stop at nothing to keep them from getting in the way.

    Will their quick ge...

  • Alchemist's Cat

    Robin Jarvis

    The year is 1664 when young Will Godwin comes to London. In order to survive, he becomes an assistant to a wicked alchemist, Elias Theophratus Spittle. On an errand one freezing night, Will finds a mother cat and her three kittens, and brings the fam...

  • Fear

    Jeff Abbott

    Everyone has a memory they'd like to forget. For federal witness Miles Kendrick, it's the shoot-out that left his best friend dead -- and Miles a hunted and haunted man. While helping his psychiatrist with a mysterious favor, Miles stumbles upon an i...

  • Werewolf Rising

    R.L. LaFevers

    Just before his thirteenth birthday, an uncle he never knew takes Luc deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, where he learns that he is a werewolf whose pack is in danger from fanatics who are following his trail....

  • A Tale of Two Sisters

    Anna Maxted

    Cassie is slender, clever, charismatic, successful. The one flaw in her perfect life may be her marriage. Her sister Lizbet is plumper, plainer, dreamier. An aspiring journalist, she's stuck writing embarrassing articles on sex for Ladz Mag. Her one ...

  • My Dog's A Scaredy-Cat: A Halloween Tail

    Henry Winkler; Lin Oliver

    I have the greatest idea for my Halloween costume. I'm dressing up as a table in an Italian restaurant. That's right -- I'll be wearing a red-and-white checkered tablecloth, and be carrying breadsticks in one hand and garlic-scented olive oil in the ...

  • What Do You Do When a Monster Says Boo?

    Hope Vestergaard

  • The Scarecrow's New Clothes

    Lisa Thiesing

  • What Could Be Better Than This?

    Linda Ashman

    Two lost souls--a lonely king and a beautiful treasure hunter--find each other and get married, and when they make their family complete by having a baby, they ask each other every night "What could be better than this?"...

  • Everyone's Hero: The Movie Storybook

    Tracey West

  • The Costume Copycat

    Maryann Macdonald

  • Keep on Swinging!

    Tracey West

  • Screwie's Adventure

    Tracey West

  • High Five: An Anthology of Short Stories from Ten Years of Five Points

    Megan Sexton

    On the ten-year anniversary of the inaugural issue of Five Points, the literary journal of Georgia State University's Department of English and Creative Writing Program, comes a celebration of its finest contributions throughout the years. Five Point...

  • Creepy Crafts for Boys and Ghouls

    Kate Hurley

    Halloween is creeping up again -- be ready for it with Creepy Crafts for Boys and Ghouls! In this activity book, you’ll learn how to make spooky masks, ghostly party decorations, and even some deliciously chilling Halloween food. Filled with innova...

  • The Kid with Too Many Nightmares

    Harland Williams

  • Stormbreaker: The Official Script

    Anthony Horowitz

  • Triptych

    Karin Slaughter

    In the city of Atlanta, women are dying -- at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives,...

  • Iron Man: Inevitable

    Joe Casey

    It was only a matter of time before Iron Man's longtime enemies re-emerged to confront him once again. And now, they've got more than revenge on their minds. An all-new, action-packed story spotlighting the return of classic villains like the Living ...

  • Ultimate Galactus - Book 3: Extinction

    Warren Ellis

    Collects Ultimate Exinction #1-5. It's time for the coming of Gah Lak Tus! And his arrival could mean the end of all life on this planet! Not even the power of S.H.I.E.L.D or the brilliance of Fantastic Four leader Reed Richards seems able to stop it...

  • New X-Men: Childhood's End - Volume 2

    Craig Kyle

  • Spider-Man Visionaries: Kurt Busiek - Volume 1

    Pat Olliffe

    The wall-crawler's back in Midtown High's hallowed halls when award-winning creator Kurt Busiek reveals lost lessons of Spider-Man's early career! Return to the first starts of our hero's circle of friends and foes, and meet the ones Lee and Ditko fo...

  • Not By Chance

    Kathy Herman

    In Search of Significance Thirty-year-old Brandon Jones arrives at his parents' doorstep burned out, jobless, and now fianceee-less. Ellen and Guy can provide a place for him to stay only until he figures out what to do with his life. When he takes a...

  • Reluctant Burglar

    Jill Elizabeth Nelson

    The Art of Art Thievery When Hiram Jacobs is murdered, the responsibility for his internationally renowned security company falls upon his daughter, Desiree. But a container full of stolen paintings screams the ugly truth - that her father was a thie...

  • The Guy I'm Not Dating

    Trish Perry

    Kara Richardson has finally suffered one breakup too many. She's decided to go the no-dating route to romance, although she's not quite sure how that works. She couldn't have picked a worse time to meet Gabe Paolino. Gorgeous men hardly faze Kara. A...

  • Spy

    Ted Bell

    In this exhilarating tale of international suspense, New York limes bestselling author Ted Bell's counterterrorist operative Alexander Hawke, must save the United States from a devastating terrorist operation. When a mysterious explosion destroys ...

  • Into the Storm

    Suzanne Brockmann

    In a remote corner of New Hampshire, SEAL petty officer Mark Jenkins and Troubleshooter/security expert Lindsey Fontaine are involved in a raid-and-rescue training exercise. But practice turns into a real emergency when a team member vanishes in the ...

  • Golden Country

    Jennifer Gilmore

    Golden Country vividly brings to life the intertwining stories of three immigrants seeking their fortunes: the handsome and ambitious Seymour, a salesman turned gangster turned Broadway producer; the gentle and pragmatic Joseph, a door-to-door salesm...

  • Apples of Gold

    Lisa Samson

    “Once upon a time, many years ago, when true love walked hand in hand with kisses and promises, and decisions were made to last forever, two girls received a summons to appear before the governor.…” So begins the story of two sisters in a long-...

  • Schrodinger's Ball

    Adam Felber

    “Tender, hilarious, and packed with delightful surprises . . . If Einstein and John Cleese had written a novel together, this would be it.”"Joseph Weisberg, author of 10th GradeFour friends set out into the night in Cambridge, Massachusetts, un...

  • Open Season: The Movie Storybook

    Kate Egan

    An unlikely pair--Boog, a domesticated grizzly bear who finds himself stranded in the woods, and Elliot, a scrappy, loudmouthed deer--must work together to protect themselves and their fellow forest dwellers from overzealous hunters....

  • Open Season: The Junior Novel

    Judy Katschke

    An unlikely pair--Boog, a domesticated grizzly bear who finds himself stranded in the woods, and Elliot, a scrappy, loudmouthed deer--must work together to protect themselves and their fellow forest dwellers from overzealous hunters. Original....

  • Home Is Where the Heart Is

    Jennifer Frantz

    Boog is spoiled rotten. Beth makes his bed for him, feeds him fishy crackers, and sings him a sweet lullaby each night before he goes to sleep. But when she decides her domesticated friend is too big and too old to be pampered in her cozy garage,...

  • Open Season: Best Buddies

    Julia Simon-Kerr

    When Boog suddenly finds himself lot in the forest, he must rely on his new friend Elliot to lead the way home. There's just one problem- Elliot doesn't actually know how to get there! Boog leaves Elliot behind, only to discover that the mean hunte...

  • Incredible Mr. E

    Monique Z. Stephens

  • Meet the Characters

    Monique Z. Stephens

    What do a warmhearted bear, a wisecracking deer, an army of squirrels, two ducks, and two skunks have in common? They are all being pursued by a group of hunters. Will they figure out how to work together and fight back?

    ...

  • Clouds and Eclipses

    Gore Vidal

    Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and commentator, Gore Vidal is less known for the exquisitely crafted short fiction he wrote as a young man. Like the work of Truman Capote and Tennesse...

  • New Excalibur - Volume 1: Defenders of the Realm

    Chris Claremont

    Excalibur is back, just the way you like them! From the ashes of House of M a new Excalibur team is formed to combat the aftereffects of this cataclysmic event! Witness the birth of Captain Britain's new team forming, as a sinister force already trie...

  • Death's Head 3.0: Unnatural Selection

    Simon Furman

    It's one hundred years in the future and the now-benevolent organization known as AIM has been fighting a non-violent conflict with the fascist government it wishes to change. But there's a splinter group that's ready to return to its violent roots w...

  • The Cubicle Next Door

    Siri Mitchell

    Siri Mitchell's insightful, funny chick-lit style shines in this story of putting up walls and tearing them down--all for love. Jackie Harrison, a computer administrator at the Air Force Academy, is a self-proclaimed geek who must share her cubic...

  • James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time

    Stephen Baxter

    In the eighteenth century, the received wisdom, based on biblical calculations, was that the Earth was just six thousand years old. James Hutton, a gentleman with a passion for rocks, knew that could not be the case. Looking at the irregular strata o...

  • Dead Cat Bounce

    Norman Green

    Stoney gave up drinking, but it couldn't save his marriage. Leaving the big house in New Jersey to his wife and kids, he's living in the City-still working the profitable, if not 100 percent legal, angles with his partner, "Fat Tommy Bagadonuts." The...

  • Murder Passes the Buck

    Deb Baker

    Gertie Johnson may be outspoken, distrustful of banks, and a quick draw with the pepper spray, but she hasn't lost her marbles. Her son Blaze, the sheriff in a backwoods community of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is petitioning to become her legal guar...

  • Fate and Ms. Fortune

    Saralee Rosenberg

    When destiny called, she pressed 1 for more options With the name Robyn Fortune, shouldn't luck be a sure thing? Instead, black clouds love me. All I did was show up at a family bar mitzvah and cue lightning . . . this huge storm blew in. My ...

  • The Total Package

    Jennifer LaBrecque
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    Software genius Deke Foster wants marketing whiz Abby Carmichael to fix his image so he can bag a wife. He's adorable as is, but career-oriented Abby doesn't want a husband -- especially one with a pocket protector!...

  • Her Hero?

    Rhonda Nelson
    in

    Her high-school sweetheart, Jackson Harper, was always hot, but not exactly ambitious. So prestigious clothing supplier Carley Deluna's hopes soar when Jackson tells her he's moved up in the world. "I'm a used-car salesman now," he says. Oh....

  • Lords Of The Deep

    James Axler

    APOTHEOSIS OF MALICE The web of treachery, secrecy and manipulation spun by humanity's enslavers to snare mankind in relentless submission has begun to unravel -- ripped apart by rebels pledged to free Earth from unearthly domination. Renegades by th...

  • A Man Of Honor

    Linda Barrett

    Heather Marshall is fearless. But to Officer Dave McCoy, the social worker's fearlessness spells trouble. And he can't understand why she's so afraid to trust her safety -- and her heart -- to a cop. Heather's dad was a cop -- one with problems...

  • You Can Leave Your Hard Hat On

    Stephanie Bond
    in

    Successful architect Samantha Stone finds the tool belt and bulging muscles sexy, but her employee Teague Brownlee digs dirt for a living. If backhoes are his business, then his sweet backside is none of hers!...

  • Coming Home To The Cowboy

    Patricia Thayer

    New York advertising executive Rebecca Valentine is now facing her biggest challenge -- her biological clock. In an effort to get her life sorted out, Rebecca travels to a tranquil ranch in Wyoming.... Charming, easygoing Mitchell Tucker isn't at ...

  • Haunted Echoes

    Cindy Dees

    THE GHOST, THE THIEF AND THE INTERPOL AGENT Interpol agent Ana Reisner has big problems. She's been ordered -- by the president of France -- to solve a murder that hasn't happened yet and recover a stolen item that the owner refuses to name. Worse...

  • Ian's Ultimate Gamble

    Brenda Jackson

    WINNER TAKES ALL Casino owner Ian Westmoreland thought he had seen the last of Brooke Chamberlain, until she checked into his resort claiming to need a little R & R. Brooke had betrayed him years before, and Ian was willing to bet there was more t...

  • Nanny And The Beast

    Donna Clayton

    Sophia Stanton has worked too hard building a thriving nanny-placement service to risk it and try juggling career and family. But when single dad Michael Taylor fires three of her nannies in quick succession, Sophia decides to confront the Beast (tha...

  • The Hometown Hero Returns

    Julianna Morris

    When Luke McCade returns to Divine after a long absence, Nicki Johansson realizes that she may have lost the bad clothes and haircut, but it's hard to shake an old crush. Especially when she's never forgotten the first kiss he gave her. Nicki doesn't...

  • With This Kiss

    Susan Meier

    The Capriottis and Fegans were more Hatfield and McCoy than Montague and Capulet. Still, there was that one night when chief of police Jericho Capriotti had spotted Rayne Fegan in a red dress -- a vision that still haunts him. Yet despite that one lo...

  • No Nest for the Wicket

    Donna Andrews

    LINE YOUR DUCKS UP IN A ROW... The hilly terrain next to the old Sprocket house that Meg Langslow and her fiance, Michael, are refurbishing is the perfect location for an "extreme" croquet field--even the legs of cows and sheep are convenient extra ...

  • Dzur

    Steven Brust

    When you're a short-statured, short-lived human in an Empire of tall, long-lived Dragaerans, you've got to hold on to your wits. Long ago, I made a good living as a captain of the Jhereg, the noble house that runs the rackets in the Imperial city. B...

  • Crisis

    Robin Cook

    A partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice, Dr. Craig Bowman has reached an impressive level of success. But this idyllic situation comes to a grinding halt when he's served with a summons for medical negligence--and things get much, much w...

  • The Second Horseman

    Kyle Mills

    Brandon Vale is a career thief---the best there is. Or at least he was before he was thrown in prison for a jewel heist gone bad. And even more embarrassing, he had nothing to do with it. His time inside is going fairly quietly until the night he's b...

  • The Trouble with Aliens

    Christopher Anvil

    TROUBLE, EXTRATERRESTRIAL STYLE... Humans on the space frontiers may have enough problems with befuddled bureaucrats, rules that don't fit the realities of very dangerous situations, and general rear-echelon incompetence without bringing in unfriend...

  • Von Neumann's War

    John Ringo; Travis S. Taylor

    TARGET: EARTH Mars is changing. Seemingly overnight the once "Red" planet is turning to gray. Something is happening, something unnatural. A team of, literally, rocket scientists figure out a way to send a probe, very fast, to Mars to determin...

  • As Dead as It Gets

    Cady Kalian

    Maggie Mars used to be a journalist on the East Coast, but now she's come to LaLa Land to make a name for herself as a screenwriter... and maybe live her fantasy of someday meeting Jack Nicholson. When Maggie's dear mentor Roger, the Executive Di...

  • Mistress

    Anita Nair

    Christopher Stewart, a handsome, young scholar from the U.S. travels to India to interview a famous musician named Koman. Christopher spends a lot of time with Koman and his beautiful, unhappy niece Radha. Radha is blessed with a husband who adores h...

  • Coronado: Stories

    Dennis Lehane

    A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a high-powered rifle. . . . A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger. . . . An innocent man is hunted by government age...

  • Benighted

    Kit Whitfield

    It is a world much like our own, with one deadly difference: ninety-nine percent of the population is lycanthropic. When the full moon rises, humans transform into lunes, bloodthirsty beasts who cannot be reasoned with or tamed. Those few born unable...

  • First Friends

    Marcia Willett

    Cass and Kate meet at school--and are firm friends for the rest of their lives. Both marry naval officers, but Cass's infidelity has far-reaching consequences for her children--and Kate's. Many of the characters in First Friends (published in the UK ...

  • Swans in the Mist

    D.E. Athkins

    After her newlywed sister dies mysteriously, sixteen-year-old Lyda is imprisoned in a tower by her brother-in-law, but the gift from her sister--a beautiful plush swan--may hold the key to her release. Original....

  • The Princetta

    Anne-Laure Bondoux

    PREPARE TO BE SWEPT AWAY Fifteen-year-old Princess Malva is about to be married off to a stranger of her father's choosing. But Malva wants nothing to do with an arranged marriage. On the eve of her wedding she stows away on a cargo ship with her m...

  • The Riddle

    Alison Croggon

    Maerad is a girl with a tragic past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the Treesong before their kingdom erupts in chaos. The quest leads Maerad ...

  • Sky Burial

    Xinran

    It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China.Xinran made the...

  • A Little Love Story

    Roland Merullo

    Jake Entwhistle is smart and handsome, but living with a shadow over his romantic history. Janet Rossi is a bright, witty aide to the governor of Massachusetts, but Janet suffers from an illness that makes her, as she puts it, “not exactly a good l...