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New Books List: 406 titles

  • The Specialist

    Gordon Aalborg

    The specialist is a serial killer with very specific, unique tastes. Kirsten is a jewelry designer whose hobby is caving, and she carries a lot of emotional baggage, above-ground or in the bowels of the earth. Her sister Emma goes missing en route to...

  • Enemies of Fortune

    Lynn Abbey

    Empires rise and fall, but Sanctuary lives on.
    Sanctuary, a lawless city governed by evil forces, powerful magic, and political intrigue where survival is an unexpected bonus.

    A recent storm has left a ship filled with exotic cargo and arca...

  • Hunter's Moon

    C.T. Adams; Cathy Clamp

    She needs a White Knight Sue Quentin has reached the end of her rope--she's desperate, and there's only one way out: death. Her plan doesn't include falling for Tony, the mysterious hit man she hires. He listens when she speaks and somehow convinc...

  • Secret Shadows

    Judie Aitken

    Dane White Eagle is an undercover FBI agent searching for the drug dealers who have been poisoning the residents of the Cold Creek Lakota Reservation with designer narcotics. Dr. Claire Colby works the graveyard emergency shift at the hospital, patch...

  • Negima! Volume 4

    Ken Akamatsu

    A FIELD TRIP INTO PERIL

    Ten-year-old teacher/magician Negi Springfield is looking forward to taking his class of beautiful girls to the historic cities of Kyoto and Naraâ€"but there’s a catch! Negi’s student, Konoka, is a kidnap target of ...

  • X-Statix, Volume 4: X-Statix Vs. the Avengers

    Mike Allred

    Who's stronger? Who can beat whom? Well, you're about to find out! And how! America's favorite mutant team, X-Force, squares off against Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, in the rumble of the century...or at least the next four months!Collectin...

  • Terminator Hunt

    Aaron Allston

    A HUNT FOR THE TRUTH A HUNT FOR SURVIVAL Skynet, the most advanced artificial intelligence ever developed, has long since outstripped its human creators for deviousness, duplicity, and sheer ruthlessness. In 2029, as the human Resistance inexo...

  • Afraid of the Dark

    Donna Anders

    As a single mother struggling to get by in a tough neighborhood, policewoman Jessie Cline knows she can't protect her son from the streets forever. For his sake, she takes a job as assistant police chief in a small island town off the coast of Washin...

  • Body Search

    Jessica Andersen

    THE PRODIGAL SON HAD RETURNED Dale Metcalf had spent fifteen years running from his past. Then a string of suspicious deaths linked to a fierce epidemic forced the outbreak specialist to return to his boyhood home on Lobster Island with Dr. Tansy ...

  • Assignment: Christmas

    Caroline Anderson

    E.R. consultant Tom Whittaker is Sister Fliss Ryman's perfect man: tall, dark and not shy of commitment. With four children to bring up alone, Tom is the most committed man she knows, and he has no intention of taking on more. Nevertheless, he has fe...

  • Access Denied

    Donna Andrews

    If she had a nose, Turing would smell something fishy. She's been monitoring criminal-at-large Nestor Garcia's dormant credit card. Then, several thousand dollars' worth of purchases show up--and packages ordered on Garcia's card have been sent to a ...

  • Robot Adept

    Piers Anthony

    The robotic Mach and the human Bane are the only contact between the technological world of Photon and the fantastical world of Phaze. So the Adverse Adepts devise a scheme to control the duo by kidnapping their lovers....

  • Schism

    Catherine Asaro

    Return to the early years of the Skolian Empire Before open conflict waged between the Skolian Empire and the Euban Traders, there was a cold war, a battle of subterfuge and treaty negotiation. But now, Eube senses an opportunity, for strife has r...

  • Bless This Mouse

    Dianna Hutts Aston

    One of the smallest animals in the forest offers a prayer, moving in its simplicity, powerful in its message, beautiful in its visual and -- literally -- touchable art.As day breaks and the sun rises, the woodland night creatures prepare for sleep. T...

  • East Side Story

    Louis Auchincloss

    A “novel of power and hypocrisy in upper-class New York” that follows the rise of one prominent family, generation after generation (The New Yorker). How did the families who live on Manhattan’s Upper East Side get to where they are today? This...

  • Shaking Earth

    James Axler

    Madness of the gods After a nuclear blast all but vaporized the Western Hemisphere in the late twenty-first century, America became known as Deathlands, a hellhole that has proved itself a formidable foe in the fight for survival--a place where th...

  • Hamster In The Holly

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy and ...

  • Home on Leave

    Stella Bagwell
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    A trio of brand-new stories about three women who meet -- and become friends -- while stranded at the airport, en route to a holiday getaway where love is in store! Annette Broadrick introduces Kayla Parker, who can hardly believe that her best fr...

  • The Life of the World to Come

    Kage Baker

    From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza's once and future love. Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she's sent back from the twenty-fourth century...

  • High Desert

    Todhunter Ballard

    Dan Halliday, in order to save his herd from dying, concocts a clever scheme to take down Bruce Alban, the brutal owner of the Gunlock ranch, by marrying his niece Maria Mulrooney, the rightful heir of Gunlock who has been locked away in a convent. R...

  • The Depths of Solitude

    Jo Bannister

    A LONELY PLACE TO DIE An enterprising woman who earns her living by locating things that are hard to find, Brodie Farrell is not easily shaken. But when her estranged friend Daniel Hood puts a For Sale sign on his house and disappears without a trac...

  • A Place Called Home

    Janet Lee Barton

    Jeb will never settle down. At least that's what Beth's husband-to-be always said about his cowboy brother, Jeb. Since Harland's death, Beth has worked to create a home for Harland's two young children, Cassie and Lucas. Now, it seems that Jeb is ...

  • I'm Your Man

    Timothy James Beck

    Tuesday, 9:35 a.m. To do list: 1.Try to smile when people mention my backstabbing, lying, ex-boyfriend, Daniel.2.Ply my ugly cat, Dexter, with some catnip--the good stuff--to keep him away from my last fur-free Hugo Boss suit. 3.Decide whether or not...

  • Powers, Volume 7: Forever

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Society is lashing out at its superheroes. Anti-powers groups are rising up with a series of gruesome murders against the city's most powerful capes. With Walker retired, Detective Pilgrim teams up with a new partner to investigate the murderous supe...

  • Daredevil, Volume 10: The Widow

    Brian Michael Bendis

  • Amnesia

    David Best

    Close your eyes... Gibson State is a mental hospital controlled by an eccentric administrator with cutting-edge theories on memory. But it's what psychiatrist Marti Segerson remembers that brings her to this isolated asylum in rural Tennessee--seria...

  • His Pregnancy Ultimatum

    Helen Bianchin

    She's carrying the Greek tycoon's baby! Mia Fredrickson has no idea what possessed her to share the bed of a complete stranger. Her handsome lover turns out to be Greek tycoon Nikolos Karedes, and when he discovers Mia's secret -- she&...

  • Who's Burning Paloma Blanca?

    Linda S. Bingham

    The folks of Paloma Blanca are sitting up in shifts to guard against a serial arsonist. Houston arson investigator John Bolt arrives just as the garage of the chief of the volunteer fire department is burned down. Bolt's investigation opens up the li...

  • Buried By Breakfast

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the patrons happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam si...

  • A Hard Man Is Good to Find

    Jane Blackwood

    STOP THE PRESS... Here's the front page story: Pulitzer Prize-winning, buttoned-up journalist, Harry Crandall, becomes publisher of small-town newspaper. Firing reporters left and right, he makes no friends in the newsroom, especially not with the c...

  • A Rogue in a Kilt

    Sandy Blair

    The Bravest Heart To win a wager--and the keys to a castle from his liege lord--Sir Angus McDougall must find a bride in three months' time. What woman would refuse so bold a knight? His slightly tarnished armor and battle scars should not matter--a...

  • A Cold and Silent Dying

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Lincoln Prairie Homicide Detective Marti MacAlister does not get along with her new boss. Lieutenant Gail Nicholson disapproves of what she calls Marti's sloppy work habits, and regards her success as a fluke rather than the result of hard work and s...

  • Time Will Tell

    Lauralee Bliss

    Everyone loves a bargain - but Connie Ortiz gets more than she bargained for when she buys an old cuckoo clock at a yard sale. Suddenly, strange people begin entering her life. An elderly man appears at her doorstep, offering to buy the clock. The...

  • East of the Border

    Johnny D. Boggs

    An award-winning voice in Western fiction presents an exciting collection of stories that center around the infamous exploits of Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Texas Jack Omohundro. Reprint....

  • Rusty Comes Home

    Ruskin Bond

  • To Save A World

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    An omnibus volume of two of Marion Zimmer Bradley's classic, long-unavailable Darkover novels, including the first Darkover novel ever written! To Save a World includes The World Wreckers and the Planet Savers, plus the short...

  • The Cat Who Went Bananas

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Somehow, prizewinning reporter Jim Qwilleran and his extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum always land on their feet in the beloved bestselling series... With the opening night of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest fast approachin...

  • Two's Company

    Annette Broadrick
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    A trio of brand-new stories about three women who meet -- and become friends -- while stranded at the airport, en route to a holiday getaway where love is in store! Annette Broadrick introduces Kayla Parker, who can hardly believe that her best fr...

  • Hot Target

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Unwillingly facing a month's leave from the Navy SEALs, Cosmo Richter offers his- services to Troubleshooters Incorporated, a private-sector security firm. Richter's first case, surrounding a Hollywood film by the maverick movie producer Jane Mercede...

  • The Christmas Marriage Mission

    Helen Brooks

    She's a beauty... When Kay Sherwood steps into Mitchell Grey's office he's so fiercely attracted to her fiery good looks he insists that she join him for dinner. Can she tame the beast? But up until now Mitchell has indulged only in no-strings affai...

  • Straits of Power

    Joe Buff

    The next world war rages. With the Allies at a stalemate with the Berlin-Boer Axis, every battle takes on a new significance. But in a conflict fought with billion-dollar technology and campaigns comprising millions of soldiers, the outcome may rest ...

  • A Salty Piece of Land

    Jimmy Buffett

    Wander to "where the song of the ocean / Meets the salty piece of land" with Tully Mars, washed up from Margaritaville and in the mood for monkeyshines, in a shimmering Caribbean epic by the late king of tropical rock, Jimmy Buffett. I...

  • Spin Control

    Niki Burnham

    Valerie Winslow never thought life in the tiny country of Schwerinborg could be so great. But then she never thought she would be dating the prince of Schwerinborg either! Georg, a real prince, is also her first real boyfriend. And then everyth...

  • Making Choices

    Laura J. Burns

    Now that Ephram and Amy are newly single, they've been spending a lot of time together. There's always been something between them, something just crackling under the surface. And now that Amy is over Colin and Tommy, and Ephram has realized things w...

  • The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle

    Joanna Carl

    BARKS AND BITES The lakeside town of Warner Pier, Michigan, is tickled pinker than a strawberry truffle. Flashy Aubrey Andrews Armstrong has just swept into town, dropping celebrity names and claiming he's an independent Hollywood producer. For hi...

  • Nuclear Dragon

    Ken Carodine

    The development of a viable nuclear fusion reactor on a remote island in the South China Sea draws the United States and China into a deadly confrontation in which the top-secret--and dangerous--technology becomes the ultimate prize. Original....

  • Enough Is Enough!

    Jodi Carse

  • Elphame's Choice

    P.C. Cast

    I was marked from birth as belonging to the Goddess Epona -- but that didn't make my life easy. Because of my "blessings," I was set apart, worshiped, unable to make real connections with others. Then came the Feeling, and with it a glimpse of my des...

  • A Cowboy and a Kiss

    Dianne Castell

    She'll Show Him... After a nasty crack on the head, smooth-talking lawyer Sophie Addison wakes up convinced she's Sunny the showgirl, sworn to save the ramshackle saloon she was supposed to be selling for her best friend. That might be good news f...

  • The Seduction Request

    Michelle Celmer

    ONE STEAMY SUMMER NIGHT... When millionaire Matt Conway returned to his Michigan hometown to expand his business, he hadn't counted on running into Emily Douglas -- or being asked to seduce her! Now, in a secluded lake house under the stars, Matt ha...

  • Extreme

    Marc Cerasini

    She can do anything! What a mess. First Kim's best friend, Ron Stoppable, starts writing for the school paper. No big, right? But then he starts digging for dirt-and finds it. Adrena-Lynn, the big TV star known for her "extreme" adventures, is nothi...

  • The Queen's Knight

    Deborah Chester

    As Pheresa, rightful Queen of Mandria, stands ready to claim her crown and her destiny, a deadly mist fills the cathedral. And when it clears, Pheresa has vanished. Only Sir Talmor, her sworn protector, can find and save her--but in doing so he re...

  • Into the Danger Zone

    Matt Christopher

    When an old friend comes to visit, Charlie is not at all happy with the changes he sees--especially when Rick gets reckless on his snowboard, chasing X and some of Charlie's other friends off the slopes....

  • The Transformers Legends

    David Cian

    Featuring works by authors who have worked on the Transformers comic books and animated series, an all-new anthology of short stories presents original adventures featuring the Transformers with tales based on Transformers: Armada, Transf...

  • Great Puffin Bites

    Margaret Clark

  • Afterlife

    Douglas Clegg

    In New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg's page-turning blend of psychic thriller and gothic mystery, a brutal murder ignites a series of dark, erotic, paranormal invasions. Julie Hutchinson believes someone's breaking into her house while...

  • The Inquisitor

    Peter Clement

    A new and vicious strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has hit America hard--and is menacing St. Paul's Hospital in Buffalo, New York, like a wolf at the door. While the medical staff desperately try to protect their patients and one an...

  • Wanted Men

    Walt Coburn

    Contains "Broken Wings," in which Capt. Stuart MacLane is forced by vicious kidnappers to steal a million dollars in gold, and "Wanted Men," in which an orphan, after helping a wanted man escape a certain death, searches for someone he can trust. Rep...

  • Sing a Song of Tuna Fish

    Esme Raji Codell

    Like every fifth grader, Esmé Raji Codell spent her days within the small world of school, neighborhood, and family. But this small world provides rich material for the often hilarious, always engrossing stories and vignettes in this book. Esmé tel...

  • The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003

    J.M. Coetzee

    In his acceptance speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, J. M. Coetzee delivered an intriguing and enigmatic short story, "He and His Man." The story features Robinson Crusoe, long after his return from the island, reflecting on death and spe...

  • Died Blonde

    Nancy J. Cohen

    There's no love lost between Marla and Carolyn Sutton since Marla left Carolyn's Hairstyle Heaven to open her own place. Still, it’s a nasty shock when Marla enters the meter room behind the shopping center that houses both salons and stumbles ove...

  • Tombstone Travesty: Allie Earp Remembers

    Jane Candia Coleman

    Here is a magnificent human drama based on the memories of one who lived it, filled with facts history books omitted. Orphaned at an early age, Allie and her brothers and sisters were parceled out to foster families. She eventually moved in with her ...

  • Dangerous Memories

    Barbara Colley

    THEY SAID HER BABY'S FATHER WAS DEAD Clinging to the thought of the child growing inside her, Leah Davis slowly rebuilt her life after her husband Hunter's death -- until the day he showed up on her doorstep, alone, confused and very much alive. But...

  • Road To Purgatory

    Max Allan Collins

    It's 1942, and -- from the Atlantic to the Pacific -- the world is torn apart. Ten years earlier Michael O'Sullivan accompanied his gangster father on the road, fleeing from the mobsters who killed his mother and young brother. After an idyllic upbri...

  • Lost Truth

    Dawn Cook

    ONE LAST LESSON Alissa is steadily advancing in her magical studies with the last surviving Master at the legendary Hold. But she's haunted by dreams--dreams revealing that other Masters have survived... Alissa's dreams lead her to a distant is...

  • Bitter Creek

    Dane Coolidge

    Conned out of $20,000, Cal Watson, a prospector and mine owner, devises a clever, yet dangerous, scheme to win back his money and publicly humiliate the man who tricked him, which he soon discovers is no easy task. Reprint....

  • Dark Zone

    Stephen Coonts; Jim DeFelice

    DEEP BLACK; THE MOST SECRET ARM OF THE MOST SECRET U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. The mission seems routine: go to London, meet someone in a park, obtain a list of computers that are being used secretly by terrorists to pass messages. But just as Deep Bl...

  • A Regency Invitation: The Fortune Hunter

    Nicola Cornick
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    Playing host at his country estate, Major Anthony Lyndhurst is making his return to Society, which has shunned him for four years. Rumor and speculation still surround the mysterious disappearance of his young bride. As family, friends and servant...

  • The Puddle Pine

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • The Lady and the Footman

    Wilma Counts

    THERE'S NO ACCOUNTING FOR ATTRACTION... Twenty-four and unattached, Lady Allyson Crossleigh considers herself happily free of the marriage mart frenzy. If she has her way -- and she usually does -- her future will be one of independence and adve...

  • Crux

    Albert E. Cowdrey

    Schemes, betrayals, adventure, and satire blend in this delightful debut novel in the spirit of Poul Anderson's classic Time Patrol stories and Fritz Leiber's The Big Time. Albert E. Cowdrey is a bold new voice in science fiction. Centuries ago, the ...

  • I Remember You

    Karen Crane

    Nothing Is Ever Forgotten When Abby Wade Ryan left Sweetwater, Oklahoma, she vowed she'd never look back. Now, sixteen years later, the chance to rebuild her out-of-control life draws her again to the place she's never stopped referring to as home. ...

  • A Catered Wedding

    Isis Crawford

    Bernadette and Libby Simmons are back! The two sisters and owners of A Taste of Heaven get more than they bargained for when they have to fit one more event into their busy schedule: catering a high-society wedding that takes a very low turn. Lee...

  • State of Fear

    Michael Crichton

    In Paris, a young physicist performs an oceanographic experiment -- then dies mysteriously after a romantic tryst with a beautiful stranger. In the jungles of Malaysia, powerful hypersonic cavitation technology -- capable of toppling mountains wit...

  • Peacemaker Pass

    Kit Dalton

    While succumbing to the charms of Mariellen, Morgan is offered a fortune in gold by her conniving uncle, Harrison Chapel, if he delivers a shipment of arms to Alaska, a job that pits Morgan against every renegade in the territory. Original....

  • Winter of Discontent

    Jeanne M. Dams

    When the body of Bill Fanshawe, curator of the museum in the quaint English town of Sherebury, is found dead in the Roman tunnels beneath the museum, Dorothy Martin's heart goes out to the octogenarian's close friend Jane Langland. But what at first ...

  • A Will to Love

    Angie Daniels

    Jesse James has to marry or give birth to a son in order to recieve her inheritance. With no intentions of giving up her hard earned independance, the tomboy decides to have a baby. After a complete makeover, Jesse visits a Philiadelphia nightclub in...

  • Mrs. Hudson and the Case of the Spirits' Curse

    Martin Davies

    What if Baker Street’s most gifted resident wasn’t called Sherlock Holmes?An evil stalks London, blown in from the tropics. Stories of cursed giant rats and malign spirits haunt the garrets of Limehouse. A group of merchants are, one by one, dyin...

  • Uncanny X-Men: The New Age, Volume 1: The End of History

    Alan Davis

    New alliances are forged as old friendships are rekindled, but one thing is certain: The X-Men will never be the same! With the team split in two, the Uncanny X-Men must face the unbridled force of the Fury on two sides of the globe! Will the vil...

  • Rightfully His

    Sharon De Vita

    CLAIMING HIS FAMILY Sophie was the woman Max McCallister had always loved but couldn't have. He told himself that he did the right thing when he stepped aside so his brother could marry her. And when his brother hadn't been able to give Sophie the...

  • The Truth about Plain Jane

    Roxann Delaney

    Marriage had never been a priority for Trey Brannigan. The Triple B Dude Ranch always came first -- until he found himself distracted by a certain guest of the female variety. But why was the obvious beauty hiding her good looks beneath those frumpy ...

  • Night Fall

    Nelson DeMille

    It is dusk on July 17, 1996. A man and a woman who are married--but not to each other--make love on a Long Island beach as a video camera records their pleasure... and something more. Out over the ocean, TWA Flight 800 suddenly explodes with 230 vict...

  • Smoky Mountain Christmas

    Kathie DeNosky
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    A trio of brand-new stories about three women who meet -- and become friends -- while stranded at the airport, en route to a holiday getaway where love is in store! Annette Broadrick introduces Kayla Parker, who can hardly believe that her best fr...

  • Kong

    Joe DeVito; Brad Strickland

    Since its release in 1933, Merian C. Cooper's film King Kong has shocked and delighted generations of movie fans, setting the standard against which all such movies have been judged ever since. In December, 2005, Peter Jackson - whose films of the Lo...

  • An Unconventional Widow

    Georgina Devon

    When Sir Hugo Fitzsimmon returns home from the battlefields, he is stunned to find Lady Annabell Fenwick-Clyde working on his estate. He had left his steward in charge, but it had never crossed Hugo's mind that he would hire a woman! Hugo is cons...

  • The Baby's Bodyguard

    Jacqueline Diamond

    SHE'S UNARMED -- AND DANGEROUS! Security expert Jack Arnett comes running when he hears his estranged wife, Casey, is being threatened by a stalker -- and is stunned to discover he's a father-to-be. He's never wanted children -- still doesn't. ...

  • Death of a Chancellor

    David Dickinson

    A sinister secret at the heart of Compton Cathedral leads to murder. England, 1901. The cathedral in the town of Compton in the west of England is preparing to celebrate a very special anniversary: one thousand years of Christian worship. But a few ...

  • My Favorite Things

    Disney Book Group

    Glass slippers, special treasures, and great friends are just a few of a princess’s favorite things. And when they’re covered in shimmering and sparkling fabric, these things are even more special! This dynamic board book has shiny surprises on t...

  • Spider Dance

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Opera singer. Adventuress. American abroad. Irene Adler is all of this ...and is also the only woman to ever have outwitted the great man, Sherlock Holmes. After numerous adventures Irene has finally come home, not out of loyalty to her native sh...

  • A.I.S.

    Gardner Dozois

    Ten masters of speculative fiction, including Roger Zelazny, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, and Nancy Kress, explore the future of computerized intellect and how humanity will interact with machines that can outthink them--and are learning to outsm...

  • Sand and Stars

    Diane Duane; A.C. Crispin

    Vulcan: linchpin member of the United Federation of Planets. Home to a civilization dedicated to o'thia, the ruling ethic of pure logic. But it was not always so; thousands of years before, Vulcans were a violent, warlike race, with tempers surpassed...

  • State of Happiness

    Stella Duffy

    In her accomplished and affecting novel State of Happiness, Stella Duffy has created a story as tender and captivating as Love Story about a great love challenged by illness. Jack and Cindy are immediately attracted to one another from the moment the...

  • Khamsin's Heir

    Doranna Durgin

  • The Moon in Our Hands

    Thomas Dyja

    From the author of the award-winning novel Play for a Kingdom comes a masterful story inspired by the early life of Walter White, a dynamic but now all-but-forgotten figure in the history of civil rights. The twenty-four-year-old White was recruited ...

  • File M For Murder

    India Edghill

    Cornelia Upshaw is a single mother now living in New York and working as a temporary secretary at Dayborne Ventures, Inc. Some executives there get expensive perks and any of them would kill for a corner office - and one of them has. Cornelia soon be...

  • Proud Eagle

    Cassie Edwards

    She has a boy's name and a man's job, but beneath the flannel shirt of this "lumberjane" beats the heart of a fiery and passionate woman. With her step-brother plotting to overthrow her and the company's future hanging in the bala...

  • Mysterious Pleasures

    Martin Edwards

    Ever since its creation, the Crime Writers’ Association has championed the very best in murder and mystery. Now, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this esteemed organization, Mysterious Pleasures showcases the short stories of some of its most...

  • The Blue Rose

    Anthony Eglin

    Alex and Kate Sheppard have found the perfect house; the home they had always dreamed of owning. Nestled deep in the Wiltshire countryside and surrounded by a two acre walled garden, The Parsonage was to be their little paradise…but nothing stays p...

  • Where Have All The Birdies Gone?

    Aaron Elkins; Charlotte Elkins

    If there is one thing the young golfer Lee Ofsted doesn't have on her mind, it is her chances of being selected for the Stewart Cup Tournament { the competition that pits the greatest American golfers, male and female, against their British and Europ...

  • Husband and Lover

    Lynn Erickson

    Twelve years ago, a man was convicted of killing the beautiful wife of an up-and-coming orthopedic surgeon in Aspen, Colorado. HIGH STAKES Now new evidence has emerged, forcing the district attorney to release the man convicted of the crime--and ...

  • If the Stiletto Fits...

    Wendy Etherington

    Thanks to an amazingly efficient business manager, Lily Reaves finds herself teetering -- in stilettos, no less -- on the brink of distinction now that her line of come-get-me pumps shows every sign of becoming a huge success. Which is why James's an...

  • Longarm and the Boys in the Backroom

    Tabor Evans

    When these boys invite Longarm to step outside, they have no idea what they’re in for…Folks in Sioux Siding don’t take kindly to strangers. Especially one who arrives with a hand on his holster and a chip on his shoulder. But this Pitcairn’s ...

  • Longarm and the Comstock Lode Killers

    Tabor Evans

    FOOL'S GOLD Only a fool would expect to find gold in the decaying Comstock Lode mines. Still, folks are buying mining shares by the linear foot. Sounds like a scam to Longarm. Especially when stock investors start disappearing. And the federal offic...

  • Call Home the Heart

    Shannon Farrell

    Bewildered and terrified after her bridegroom puts a pistol to his head and pulls the trigger, lovely young Muireann Caldwell takes a chance and makes a new life for herself on her husband's estate, Barnakilla. Her late husband's darkly handsome esta...

  • Paradise Fields

    Katie Fforde

    It's not as if Nel Innes doesn't have enough on her plate already: keeping track of her unnervingly beautiful teenage daughter, sorting out a house full of animals, and organizing a farmers' market in the picturesque Paradise Fields. The last thing s...

  • The Last Honest Outlaw

    Carol Finch

    Murder and abduction had introduced Rozalie Matthews to Eli McCain, who'd taken her hostage in a hail of gunfire. Yet as she tended him in a deserted cabin, she knew two things for sure: this rough and ready loner was no outlaw...but he was a thief o...

  • Helena Hellion

    Dirk Fletcher

    Ordered by the Secret Service to protect Libby Adams, a political figure armed with a killer body and a clever brain who is campaigning to make Helena the capital of Montana, Spur McCoy has his work cut out for him when a hail of bullets follows the ...

  • Oh Baby!

    Pamela Ford

    Six years ago Annie McCarthy was a waitress in an all-night diner and Nick Fleming was just a customer. Late at night they shared their dreams over coffee and pie. Then along came a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity -- if they married, Nick would inheri...

  • Path of Honor

    Diana Pharaoh Francis

    A year has passed since Reisil's arrival in Koduteel. Instead of receiving honor and respect, she is met with chill suspicion. The nobility fear her power--comparing her to the wizards who devastated Kodu Riik in the recent war. Others wish to use he...

  • Kathy Little Bird

    Benedict Freedman

    All of her life, Kathy Little Bird has heard stories of her grandmother, Mrs. Mike, from her own mother, a Cree Indian nurse who married a wounded Austrian soldier during the waning years of World War II. Living with her mother and stepfather on the ...

  • All She Ever Wanted

    Barbara Freethy

    Sometimes our darkest memories hold the key to our dearest hopes... She was their closest friend, or so they thought--until years later, when her secrets send them on a perilous search for the truth about who she really was... and why she died... ...

  • Run The Risk

    Scott Frost

    LAPD homicide detective and single mother Alex Delillo knows the risks of the job. But when a series of explosions is detonated by a serial bomber and Alex's teenage daughter is kidnapped, she discovers the catastrophic stakes as well. The bomber's n...

  • Stark Realities

    Alexander Fullerton

    A thrilling World War One adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers.It is October 1918 and Germany is suing for peace. All U-boats have been ordered home from patrol. Among them is U81, commanded by Otto von Mettendorff: young...

  • Bourbon Street

    Leonce Gaiter

    In 1958, gambler Deke Watley decides to leave the comfort and golden dust of Texas for the toxic chiaroscuro of Mardi Gras New Orleans: he smells the chance of a lifetime. It gets even better when this opportunity to win big collides with Hannah, a w...

  • Night Life

    Katherine Garbera

    MOTHER BY DAY, AGENT BY NIGHT Sasha Sterling had been one of the best covert agents in the field, until she discovered how lethal the price could be. With a son to raise and her marriage on the rocks, there was no room for the kind of clandestine ...

  • The Glass House

    Ashley Gardner

    Cashiered cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey of the 35th Light Dragoons lost much on the battlefield during the Peninsular Campaign. But he still retains his innate sense of right and wrong when faced with injustice... It is known as The Glass ...

  • Winter Heat

    Darlene Gardner

    It's going to be a very hot Christmas! Architect Riley Carter never does anything without a blueprint, including moving next door to his ex-girlfriend, Kate Marino. The only thing he wants for Christmas is Kate back in his arms and he has a secret, ...

  • Her Other Thief

    Glenda Garland

    APPEARANCES ARE DECEIVING... Who will marry Miss Lucy Bowes now that her luckless brother stands accused as a thief? But though Lucy's brother has stolen her future, her dearest friend, the marchioness, has stood by her--and invited Lucy to Dash...

  • Naughty or Nice

    Melanie George

    'Tis the season of merriment and joy -- but the prospect of having a guardian imposed on her leaves Lady Francine Fitz Hugh feeling distinctly un-merry. She'll just have to drive the crotchety old man away! Unfortunately, Lucian Kendall turns out to ...

  • For Love and Money

    Leslie Glass

    Successful stockbroker Annie Custer is the perfect working mom -- her only problems are her career and her domestic life. Impossible clients are driving her mad, and home is total chaos. But things get even worse when Annie reluctantly agrees to do a...

  • MOB

    Roy Glenn

    When three friends find themselves laid off from their comfortable jobs, they decide to live by their own set of rules, beginning with "money-over-babes," but when the lovely Me'shelle Lawrence appears, the trio's code may be broken. Original. 20,000...

  • Death Takes A Gander

    Christine Goff

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Special Agent Angela Dimato responds to a report of a sick bird... and finds her partner dead. Officially, his death is ruled a suicide--a theory Angela finds suspicious. Especially when hundreds of dead and dying geese are fou...

  • Enemy of My Enemy

    Christie Golden

    Captain Chakotay and his sister, Sekaya, are being held captive beneath the surface of Loran II by a Changeling -- an outcast Founder masquerading as Chakotay's second-in-command, Andrew Ellis. To Chakotay's horror, the Changeling gives the two priso...

  • Dragon Secrets

    Christopher Golden; Thomas E. Sniegoski

    TIMOTHY....A VILLAIN? After fighting for his survival in the treacherous city of Arcanum, Timothy must repay a debt and help his friend Verlis's clan, the Wurm. Though the Wurm are known as bloodthirsty, child-eating dragons, Timothy has agreed to...

  • The Least Likely Groom

    Linda Goodnight

    One glimpse of a dusty boot and a muscular, jean-clad leg, and nurse Becka Washburn knew trouble had entered the emergency room. Up close, rodeo rider Jett Garret was even more handsome...and more dangerous to her fragile heart. So she stitched him u...

  • Telling Tales

    Nadine Gordimer

    Rarely have world writers of such variety and distinction appeared together in the same anthology. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war...

  • The Monte Carlo Proposal

    Lucy Gordon

    MEET SASSY, BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL DELLA MARTIN: "Why on earth did I agree to this crazy plan? This multimillionaire Jack Bullen had a proposal for me: to pose as his girlfriend so he could avoid an unwanted marriage. I said yes -- it was a whole lo...

  • Echoes

    Erin Grady

    A whisper of suspicion Tess Carson isn't surprised when her irresponsible sister, Tori, vanishes from her remote California town. But when Tess arrives in Mountain Bend to look after Tori's daughter, she realizes there is more to the disappearance t...

  • The Scarlet Empress

    Susan Grant

    FIVE WOMEN. ONE GOAL: FREEDOM. CAM TUCKER The Kingdom of Asia: Shot down over Korea, modern-day U.S.A.F. fighter pilot Cameron "Scarlet" Tucker is put in biostasis. She wakes one hundred and seventy years later to find her wingmate and best frien...

  • Tool & Die

    Sarah Graves

    When her new housekeeper starts receiving death threats, Jake Tiptree and her best friend Ellie White promise to check out the most likely culprit: the woman's ex-husband. Jim Diamond is an ex-con and a deadbeat, but he doesn't have a history of viol...

  • Wild for You

    Suzanne Gray

    "Special Delivery" Has Just Taken On A Whole New Meaning... Annie Peterson has a comfortable life. Teaching high school math, getting together for takeout and videos with her girlfriends, thinking about all the sex she isn't having. Yep, when "comfo...

  • Wild In The Moment

    Jennifer Greene

    ONE WILD MOMENT I NEVER ENOUGH... Recently burned by heartache, a fierce blizzard and a sexy stranger were exactly what Daisy Campbell needed. When she returned to her hometown and found herself stranded with Teague Larson, she never expected to t...

  • By Order of the President

    W.E.B. Griffin

    W.E.B. Griffin launches an all-new series of action-packed military novels set against the backdrop of the modern war against terror... When a Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the security agencies of the Unit...

  • Bratz vs Boyz

    Grosset & Dunlap

  • Bethlehem Road Murder

    Batya Gur

    Internationally acclaimed author Batya Gur is known for her psychologically astute mysteries set in Israel and for the brooding and attractive Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon they feature. In her latest novel, the body of a young woman is discove...

  • Tropical Animal

    Pedro Juan Gutierrez

    Pursued by Gloria, a proud and sophisticated prostitute bent on curbing his wandering instincts, Pedro Juan is holed up in his crumbling Havana apartment -- painting, beset by a growing sense of melancholy as he observes the lives of the hustlers, hi...

  • One Chance in a Million

    Cathy Marie Hake

    Having endured a grueling voyage from the British Islands, Mariam arrives at the Chance brothers' ranch expecting to help her sister care for two children and six men. But Miriam is shocked to learn that her sister has died and her two nieces have be...

  • The Cattleman's English Rose

    Barbara Hannay

    Deep in the Outback, nestled in Star Valley, lies Southern Cross Ranch, home to the McKinnon family... A hot and dusty cattle station is the last place Charity Denham thought she'd end up searching for her missing brother -- but she won't leave un...

  • Enchanted by Magic

    Gloria Harchar

    It was another crazy mission. Allegro and Largo thought they'd seen the toughest test that two semi-competent, always bickering faeries from the magical, musical kingdom of Quelgheny could see, but again they were being asked the impossible. Get the ...

  • The Scorpion Jar

    Jason M. Hardy

    AGENTS OF DESTRUCTION... Exarch Damien Redburn has called for the election of his replacement. Paladins assemble from all corners of The Republic, and those vying to be elevated are creating a lively nomination process. But machinations behind the...

  • Operation Michael's Sword

    John Harriman

    Delta Force is America's elite, a highly covert counterterrorism team that can carry out surgical strikes anywhere in the world at a moment's notice. But the one scenario that eluded them was a terror attack on American soil... From a commercial a...

  • Hello Kitty, Hello Christmas!: Book and Ornament

    Harry N. Abrams

    A festive book and keepsake Hello Kitty and friends celebrate Christmas in style. The hand-painted resin ornament is the purr-fect way to add cheer to any Christmas tree, and the fun story offers a look into how Hello Kitty makes her holiday celebrat...

  • Aspen Pulp

    Patrick Hasburgh

    It's off-season in Aspen, Colorado, and former TV writer turner private eye Jake Wheeler is hired to find bimbette-in-training Tinker Mellon. Using what little he's learned from The Rockford Files and other TV detective shows, Jake's search for the c...

  • The Wallflower, Volume 2: Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge

    Tomoko Hayakawa

    THE SPIRIT OF A LADY

    Four fabulous guys must completely transform a high school girl if they want to keep living rent-free in her aunt’s luxurious mansion. But Sunako Nakahara, the most fashion-hopeless girl in Japan, would rather live like ...

  • My Sleepover Bag

    Elissa Held

    Preparing for a sleepover is exciting. This interactive book is perfect for helping you pack your bag and get ready for a night of fun!

    In this book you'll find everything you need to be ready to sleepover! You can:

    ? feel the fuzz...

  • Milady's Revenge

    Anne Herries

    Corinna Knolls arrives in London after a year of mourning her much loved mother and immediately falls in love with Edward Fitzroy, the new Marquis of Lanchester. The marquis admires the lovely but na?ve young girl, though he has no wish to marry her ...

  • Angelina's Silver Locket

    Katharine Holabird

  • Windfall

    Cindy Holby

    1864: Jake awakens from months of unconsciousness with his body healed, but his mind full of unanswerable questions. Is there a woman waiting somewhere for him? A family? A place he belongs? Shannon walks away from her abusive father and the only hom...

  • Nothing But Blue Skies

    Tom Holt

    There are many reasons why British summers are either non-existent or, alternatively, held on a Thursday. Many of these reasons are either scientific, mad, or both-but all of them are wrong, especially the scientific ones. The real reason why it rain...

  • Valhalla

    Tom Holt

    As everyone knows, when great warriors die, their reward is eternal life in Odin's bijou little residence known as Valhalla. But Valhalla has just changed. It has grown. It has diversified. Just like any corporation, the Valhalla Group has had to ada...

  • Falling Sideways

    Tom Holt

    From the moment Homo Sapiens descended from the trees, possibly onto their heads, humanity has striven towards civilization. Fire. The Wheel. Running Away from furry things with more teeth than one might reasonably expect-all are testament to man's u...

  • Only Human

    Tom Holt

    Something is about to go wrong. Very wrong. What do you expect if the Supreme Being decides to get away from it all for a few days, leaving his naturally inquisitive son to look after the cosmic balance of things? A minor hiccup with a human soul and...

  • Snow White and the Seven Samurai

    Tom Holt

    Once upon a time, everything was fine. Humpty Dumpty sat on his wall, Jack and Jill went about their lawful business, the Big Bad Wolf did what big bad wolves do, and the wicked queen plotted murder most foul. But the humans hacked, cried havoc, shut...

  • Valentine Hearts: Holiday Poetry

    Lee Bennett Hopkins

    Lee Bennett Hopkins brings together today's best children's poets in this cheerful collection of Valentine verse. From heart-shaped sandwiches to homemade cards to sweet candy hearts, there's avalentine here for everyone!

    ...

  • The Bloody Crown of Conan

    Robert E. Howard

    In his hugely influential and tempestuous career, Robert E. Howard created the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery -- and brought to life one of fantasy’s boldest and most enduring figures: Conan the Cimmerian -- reaver, slayer, barb...

  • Othello, Volume 2

    Satomi Ikezawa

    WAIT WHILE I CHANGE INTO SOMEONE MORE COMFORTABLE

    Shy Yaya spends her time in awkward conversations with her handsome classmate, guitarist Moriyama; dressing up with fellow fans of the rock group Juliet; and avoiding her bitter, sadistic ex-fr...

  • Dancin' Divas

    Alison Inches

  • Lady of the Knight

    Jackie Ivie

    Set against the turbulent backdrop of fourteenth-century Scotland, Lady of the Knight tells the breathtaking tale of a brave lass left on her own and surrounded by treachery.... HER HONOR DEMANDED VENGEANCE When her family is destroyed by clan F...

  • Riding The Storm

    Brenda Jackson

    WOMEN CALLED HIM THE PERFECT STORM Women called him the perfect storm. Because he could sweet-talk any woman into his bed, and regularly did so. Firefighter Storm Westmoreland used lovemaking the way other men used a long, hot shower -- to blow of...

  • Mercies and Miracles

    Sharon Downing Jarvis

    What will happen next in the Fairhaven families we’ve come to love?

    The folks in Fairhaven find themselves, along with the rest of the country, reeling in the aftermath o the September eleventh attacks. In spite of the impact on their hearts, mo...

  • A Moorland Hanging

    Michael Jecks

    THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR They had all joined taking three vows: poverty, chastity, and obedience... for they were monks: warrior monks, dedicated to the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land--until stories spread by an avaricious king who wanted their ...

  • The Man Under the Mistletoe

    Muriel Jensen

    'Tis the season of hope Rosie DeMarco is finally climbing out of the grief that locked her heart. Her brother, father and unborn baby died in the span of a week. And no one -- not even her husband, Matt -- could reach Rosie as she withdrew into da...

  • Blown Away

    Muriel Jensen

    Courage Bay, California...a community founded on bravery. Now meet the town's new generation of heroes -- the men and women of Courage Bay Emergency Services. Bold enough to risk their lives -- and their hearts. Fearless enough to face any emergency....

  • Wrath of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    Shoot A Mountain Man In The Back... On the frontier, a man's word is his bond, and only fast guns and good friends can save your life. So when Smoke Jensen trusts his gravely injured comrade to the care of a small town doctor, the last thing he expe...

  • Sadie-in-Waiting

    Annie Jones

    Wileyville, Kentucky, needs a graveyard superintendent. Accepting the mayor's proposition, Sadie adds 'Fraidy Sadie the Cemetery Lady to the other roles that sometimes seem unreal to her -- former Dogwood Blossom Queen, pharmacist's wife, mother of t...

  • Coach Carter

    Jasmine Jones

    When former Richmond High School basketball legend Ken Carter agrees to take over his alma mater's floundering team, he has the players sign a contract that demands good grades, perfect class attendance, and suits on game days. With Coach Carter a...

  • Running Scared

    Linda Winstead Jones

    IT WASN'T THE FIRST TIME HE'D KIDNAPPED HER But it just might be the last. Quinn Calhoun was a trained mercenary whose sinful body bore the scars to prove he would do whatever it took to accomplish his mission. But keeping his hands off of the spoil...

  • The Sun Witch

    Linda Winstead Jones

    For three hundred years, the Fyne women have called their cottage on the mountain home. The villagers stay away from the Fyne sisters, fearing their witchery. But Isadora, Juliet and Sophie use their sorcery for good--most of the time... A curse p...

  • Her Frog Prince

    Shirley Jump

    Dearest Godmother, This time I'm making a match for my old school chum -- with the man she deserves! If there's ever a socialite who needed her comeuppance, it's personal consultant Parris Hammond. Lucky for me, scruffy but sexy marine biologis...

  • The Last Dark Place

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Abe Lieberman is a veteran Chicago detective who prefers to use his head and heart more than his gun. He and his Irish partner, Bill Hanrahan, are known on the streets as the Rabbi and thePriest and their commitment to justice is sorely tested everyd...

  • Protector S.O.S.

    Susan Kearney

    SEEKING A SAVIOR When Sandy Vale was forced to enlist the help of Travis Cantrel -- the last man on earth she wanted to see -- she didn't expect a more intense, more in-control version of his former self. Since he was a member of the top secret Sh...

  • A Dreaming Detective

    H.R.F. Keating

    "Who killed the preacher?" Harriet Martens is taken aback. This is her first face-to-face meeting with the new Chief Constable, and he shot the question at her the moment she took the seat in front of his desk. Why is he setting out to antagonize ...

  • The Fire Baby

    Jim Kelly

    In the stifling heat wave of June 1976, an American plane crashes on the Cambridgeshire Fens, the point of impact the remote Black Bank Farm. Out of the flames walks a young woman, Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms. Twenty-seven years late...

  • Make Me Over

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

    Professor Drew Bennett is thrilled when he learns he'll get the chance to promote his latest book, Beyond Eliza Doolittle, on national television...even if it means getting involved in reality TV. But still, how hard can it be? All he has to do is tu...

  • The Big Scoop

    Sandra Kelly

    Sally Darville's Fabulous Plan for Saving the Town: 1) Treat taste buds with new flavors of ice cream. It makes people happy; it makes for news; both of which mean more publicity. 2) Invite award-winning journalist Jack Gold to visit. 3) Ignore ...

  • The Bad Breakup Regime

    Beth Kendrick
    in

    It's not just another midnight.... Celebrate the start of something new with In One Year and Out the Other ...a sparkling New Year's Eve story collection by today's rising fiction stars! Cara Lockwood puts self-improvement to the test with ...

  • The Mediterranean Prince's Passion

    Sharon Kendrick

    The Prince's mistress -- by royal command! It was like a scene out of a movie! Who was this fit, handsome guy, who rescued Gabriella Scott from a sticky situation and made incredible love to her all night? He was Nicolo Louis Fantone Caccia...

  • Abby's Christmas

    Lynnette Kent

    Abby Brannon and her father, Charlie, run the Carolina Diner -- the place where everyone in town comes for Abby's special brand of TLC. Abby longs to travel, to see other places -- to have someone take care of her for once. And she has someone specia...

  • Beyond Tuesday Morning

    Karen Kingsbury

    It's been three years since the terrorist attacks on New York City, but FDNY widow Jamie Bryan keeps waking up to the aching pain of that one Tuesday morning, the morning of September 11, 2001. Determined to find meaning in her grief, Jamie pours he...

  • Fire When Ready

    Kate Kingsbury

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In World War II England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartle...

  • The Trouble with Unicorns

    Katherine Kingsley

  • Embers

    Helen Kirkman

    Alina, Princess of the Picts, had betrayed Brand -- and earned his undying hatred... Their reckless affair had once cost him all he had called his own. Now, restored to his former wealth and power, duty demanded that Athelbrand of Northumbria abdu...

  • Life Expectancy

    Dean Koontz

    Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. ...

  • The Good Neighbor

    William Kowalski

    When Francie and Colt Hart drive past an abandoned 150-year-old farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, they both fall head-over-heels in love with it -- but for entirely different reasons. Colt, an ambitious, hard-charging stock trader, sees it as a potent...

  • The Crow Chronicles

    Ranjit Lal

    The corrupt, though democratically elected avian government of the Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur is forcibly taken over by a monstrous white crow from Bombay and his crack force of commande 'crownies', by means of treachery, deceit and violence. ...

  • The Sweethearts of Soul

    Evelyn 'Slim' Lambright

    Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting the legendary Sweethearts of Soul.... At long last the Rock and Soul Foundation is honoring Ruth Thomas, Adeline Lights, Venus Jones and Brenda Wade with a place in its hall of fame. So music reporter Legs Diamond ...

  • Abby Cooper: Psychic Eye

    Victoria Laurie

    You'd think being clairvoyant would give Abigail Cooper the ability to avoid danger. But being psychic doesn't necessarily allow you to sidestep murder and mayhem--it just lets you know that they're coming.... In Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit,...

  • Bedded By the Boss

    Miranda Lee

    Dare she sleep with the boss? Jessie was thrilled to be offered a job at a top Sydney advertising agency. But her heart sank when she saw the boss -- because she'd met Kane Marshall before.... However, Kane hired Jessie there and then; he ...

  • Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2

    Stan Lee

    Collects Tales to Astonish #59-79. Kicking off with a Hulk/Giant-Man throw down, and pulling no punches into a toe-to-toe with the mighty Hercules, Dr. Robert Bruce Banner's mean, green alter ego battles General Thunderbolt Ross, the Leader and his...

  • The Truth about the Tycoon

    Allison Leigh

    WHEN TWO HEARTS COLLIDE... Worldly tycoon Dane Rutherford was accustomed to handling billion-dollar negotiations, though one small-town girl had just gotten the better of him. He'd come to Lucius, Montana, with only one goal in mind -- revenge. Bu...

  • The Last Minute Marriage

    Marion Lennox

    Peta O'Shannassy and Marcus had a wonderful whirlwind wedding -- but their vows are a sham: it's a marriage of convenience! Now billionaire Marcus Benson is showering his bride with gifts and offering a life of luxury. Surely that would be a dream co...

  • The Motive

    John T. Lescroart

    With their park view and their old-fashioned detail, the Victorian houses on San Francisco's Steiner Street were highly valuable. With their wooden construction, they were also highly vulnerable. So when Paul Hanover's multimillion dollar home went u...

  • Ask a Dead Man

    Robert S. Levinson

    "A book full of sex and violence, fueled with enough treachery and paranoia to light up a small city." -- Chicago Tribune“Bury the past,” he said, “or it will always be there to haunt you.” So says KC McClory’s husband, Frankie, before his ...

  • Headhunter // Murder in the South of France

    Roy Lewis

    The wind in Headhunter is a chilling one, and Arnold Landon may require a good deal more than archeological know-how in solving a case that could quite literally be the death of him. Here, the headless torso of a child has been fished out of the Tyne...

  • The Hornbeam Tree

    Susan Lewis

    Just as celebrated columnist Katie Kiernan thinks life is over, it suddenly arrives on her doorstep in the shape of her sister Michelle, and all the intrigue she brings with her. Friction, resentment and old jealousies make life in their house doubly...

  • Rotten Relations

    Denise Little

    Fifteen talented writers--including P. N. Elrod, Susan Sizemore, Josepha Sherman, David Bischoff, and Jody Lynn Nye--offer different, unusual, and some outright disturbing perspectives on such classic tales as Cinderella, Beowulf, and even Hamlet. Or...

  • Resolved: A New Year's Resolution List

    Cara Lockwood
    in

    It's not just another midnight.... Celebrate the start of something new with In One Year and Out the Other ...a sparkling New Year's Eve story collection by today's rising fiction stars! Cara Lockwood puts self-improvement to the test with ...

  • I Love You!

    Frank Loesser

    A bushel!And a peck!A barrel!And a heap!

    Mutual affection grows between two flirty ducklings as they bill and coo around the farmyard in Rosemary Wells's young and sassy interpretation of a beloved Frank Loesser song. This calls for hugs aro...

  • Slocum and the Teton Temptress

    Jake Logan

    A black-hearted woman makes Slocum see red…In the shadows of the Grand Tetons, Jackson Hole is no place to spend a winter. But, it’s where Slocum hoofs it after getting a desperate letter from his friend Hovis Benton. A swamper at the Silvertip S...

  • Slocum and the Slanderer

    Jake Logan

    Slocum’s shot a lot of men -- but never in the back…Max Furling has a piece of paper that says he owns the Reilly spread -- lock, stock, and barrel. And since Reilly is dead, Max’s claim is foolproof -- almost. He’s started a rumor that Reill...