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New Books List: 610 titles


  • Kris Radish

    Eight Women on a Journey That Will Change Their Lives as Lovers, Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Friends Just after midnight in a small town in Wisconsin, eight women begin walking together down a rural highway. Career women, housewives, mothers, divor...



  • Jack Higgins

    Now an enemy has emerged with a dark secret from America's past--and a score to settle with agent Dillon. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler entrusted his "holy" diary--a document detailing clandestine communications between Nazi Germany a...



  • Jay MacLarty

    With explosive action, an international conspiracy, and a hero that readers can root for, Jay Maclarty's THE COURIER is an edge-of-your-seat debut thriller that delivers! Simon Leonidovich is a high-tech, international courier of "packages" that r...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    A thrilling collection of submarine warfare fiction, detailing the earliest submarines and U-boats, as well as the latest high-tech underwater vessels, includes contributions from Jim DeFelice, James H. Cobb, Brendan DuBois, R. J. Pineiro, and Willia...



  • Ted Bell

    While sailing in the Caribbean, young Alex Hawke witnesses an act of unspeakable horror as modern-day pirates brutally murder his parents. It is a tragedy that will haunt him forever, and shape his destiny.... As a direct descendant of a legendary...



  • Patricia Anne Phillips

    Coming In From The Cold... Real estate agent Tracey Woods is an energetic woman leading an orderly, ideal life--or so she thought, until the horrible night her husband was killed in a car accident. At age fifty-two, Donald Woods was twenty years her...



  • Jeff Rovin

    A half-dead Singapore pirate is plucked from the Celebes Sea in the Western Pacific, setting off alarms halfway around the world in Washington, D.C. Traces of radiation are found on the man, causing Australian officials to call in Op-Center for a to...



  • W.G. Griffiths

    You're about to enter a new world of pro wrestling...one where an ancient demon, hungry for revenge, is waging unscripted battles-and finding the perfect killing ground... TAKEDOWN Long Island detective Gavin Pierce, fresh from defeating the un...



  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    After the catastrophic events of Wildfire, both Captain David Gold and Commander Sonya Gomez return to their homes, to take refuge in family in the wake of tragedy. But neither commanding officer nor first officer finds the road to recovery an easy o...



  • S.P. Somtow

    Every five thousand years, so the people of the planet Thanet believe, the world ends in fire and a new cycle of creation begins. Now the Last Days are once again upon them, and a fiery star draws near. This is the Death-Bringer, the Eater of the Wor...



  • John Vornholt

    The passing of the Genesis Wave has damaged hundreds of worlds in the newly named "Genesis Sector," and chaos reigns throughout that area of space. Each world has been changed in different ways, and a group of extraordinary men and women -- some old...



  • Christie Golden

    After seven long years in the Delta Quadrant, the crew of the Starship Voyager now confront the strangest world of all: home. For Admiral Kathryn Janeway and her stalwart officers, Voyager's miraculous return brings new honors and responsibilities, r...



  • Matthew Stover

    Mace Windu is a living legend: Jedi Master, skilled diplomat, and devastating fighter. But he is also a man of peace--and for the first time in a thousand years, the galaxy is at war. The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, the homeworld Mace barely reme...



  • Dean Wesley Smith

    In the sixth year of its ongoing mission, the Strange New Worlds writing competition has once again sought out exciting new voices and imaginations among Star Trek's vast galaxy of fans. After scanning countless submissions for signs of style and ori...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Jessica investigates Spider-Woman, a woman who may have more in common with Jessica than just her first name. Plus: J. Jonah Jameson hires Jessica to find out Spider-Man's secret identity. Collects ALIAS #10, 16-21....



  • Margaret Peterson Haddix

    FROM BAD TO WORSE LUKE GARNER, AN ILLEGAL THIRD CHILD, SPENT HIS FIRST TWELVE YEARS IN HIDING. For the past four months Luke has lived among others, using the identity of Lee Grant, at the Hendricks School for Boys. But just as things are finally s...



  • James P. Hogan

    Earth has been devastated after a near miss by a white-hot protoplanet ejected from Jupiter. The poles and climatic bands have been shifted, continents and oceans resculpted in titanic cataclysms, and civilization as we know it has ended. Only the...



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  • Fred Saberhagen

    Fred Saberhagen continues his Berserker Series®, a chronicle of a war between humanity and the terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction. Pilot Harry Silver's name is know throughout the galaxy. While he has defeated his sha...



  • J. Michael Straczynski

    While Aunt May comes to terms with her nephew's secret identity as Spider-Man, high school teacher Peter tries to keep his marriage to MJ intact as he continues to battle villains such as the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus....



  • Peter David

    Gifted with his late father's power of Cosmic Awareness, Genis, the new Captain Marvel, tries to discover his place in the universe and live up to his father's legacy, while others in the universe seek to use him for their own ends....



  • Suzan Colon

    Learn how to crack a whip with feline ferocity! Uncover the secrets of the all-leather wardrobe! Study the sizzling one-liners that keep Batman aching for more! Chock-full of insightful feline fatale tips, this illustrated tell-all delivers the seari...




  • Stan Lee

    The second collection of classic early material finds The Hulk opposed by the army, arch enemies, and even his girlfriend as General "Thunderbolt" Ross tries to destroy him and the Leader and the Abomination, two other humans altered by gamma radiati...



  • Steve White

    THE OLD GODS ARE RETURNING- AND SOME OF THEM ARE NOT FRIENDLY! When Derek Secrest was suddenly pulled out of Naval flight officer school to take part in a top secret government project involving telepathy--because tests showed that he had a stro...



  • Scott Ciencin

    Welcome to a new world of action and adventure. Welcome to a new generation of Transformers! A cosmic civil war fought between two powerful factions -- the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons -- has spread across the galaxy, and the lat...



  • Bruce Jones

    An official comic-book adaptation of this summer's sure-fire hit movie explains how mild-mannered scientist Bruce Banner is transformed into the walking engine of destruction known as The Incredible Hulk. Original. Michael France, David Hayter, & Jam...



  • James BeauSeigneur

    WHAT CHILD IS THIS? Amid plagues and nuclear war, the United Nations gains control of the new world order. Israel is rebuilding the Temple of Solomon. And journalist Decker Hawthorne is raising an orphaned ward, Christopher Goodman. But Christophe...



  • Garth Ennis

    From critically acclaimed, best-selling writer Garth Ennis (Preacher) and artist Greg Staples (Slaine: King of Hearts) comes a wild collection of Dredd adventures! "Innocents Abroad" features the welcome return of the Emerald Isle's Judge Joyce, on t...



  • Pat Mills

    From the legendary creative team of Pat Mills (Judge Dredd, Sláine, A.B.C. Warriors) and Kevin O’Neill (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) comes a new kind of hero... Marshal Law is back, continuing his mission to rid San Futuro -- and the world...



  • Marvel Book Group

    Everything anyone could ever want to know about The Incredible Hulk is gathered in one comprehensive edition, which gives details about his television career and an inside scoop to his new action movie being released this summer....



  • Lyda Morehouse

    A potent mix of technology and salvation is the trademark of Lyda Morehouse's brilliant novels. Now, Messiah Node takes her uniquely-imagined world one step closer to its fate-as AIs and archangels, prophets and criminal masterminds face the final da...



  • Dan Jurgens

    Following Odin's death, Thor inherits the rulership of Asgard and leaves behind his human life as a member of the Avengers, but his concern for the well-being of Earth prompts Thor to transport Asgard above New York City....



  • Kevin Ryan

    FACING AN UNKNOWN FUTURE As Max, Michael, Isabel, Liz, Maria, and Kyle pile into their van and leave Roswell behind, they are each hoping for positive experiences--or at least something different from most of the events of the past three years. Af...



  • Mark Fabi

    When Ben Bridges, a brilliant young man who suffers from a severe case of Tourette's Syndrome, discovers the secret of Red Mercury, a substance that will allow terrorists to build very small nuclear devices, he teams up with a schizophrenic cleaning ...



  • Alastair Reynolds

    Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors--alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache ...



  • Doug Moench

    Comics pre-eminent star of martial arts action -- Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu -- is back. If Moench and Gully's seminal Master of Kung Fu successfully tapped into the Bruce Lee kung fu craze and popular James Bond spy flicks, then their revamped MOK...



  • Rick Shelley

    THE LUCKY 13TH The 13th Spaceborne is the elite fighting force of the Accord of Free Worlds. For decades, the Accord tried to keep out of the war that divided the galaxy. But now, they have no choice. It's fight or die. And the soldiers of the 13t...



  • Martin Delrio

    AN INEVITABLE WAR... Since the failure of the interplanetary communications system, the ages-long peace within The Republic of the Sphere has begun to shatter. Power-hungry factions--such as the Steel Wolves--are raiding vulnerable worlds to estab...




  • Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #416-420. It's once again time for the X-Men to mutate. First, will Juggernaut -- one of the X-Men's toughest foes -- actually join their ranks? Then, as the high-flying Archangel goes through a major physical transforma...



  • Larry Segriff

    A Nebula Award-winning Author

    Writer Jeffrey Conner researches his books on pseudo-science and leaves life's mundane details to others. Then his insurance company calls to say they've received obstetrical bills for his wife, but have him listed a...



  • Mike Resnick

    Featuring contributions from Janis Ian, Mercedes Lackey, Severna Park, and Laura Resnick, among others, an imaginative collection of stories, dealing with space-time travel, male enhancements, and nanotechnology, are written by women from the actual ...



  • Chris Claremont

    After saving the world from the Madripoor, Gambit and Rogue face the possibility that they will never regain their powers, while their leader Storm relearns how to walk, and Bishop and Sage search for a homicidal mutant with unusual powers....



  • Darren Williams

    After a week lost in the Australian outback, thirteen-year-old Tom Ferry makes his way back to Angel Rock. To the horror of everyone in the small town, he is alone. Exhausted and traumatized, he can't remember what happened to Flynn, his little broth...



  • Amy Gutman

    Three women. One serial killer's legacy. The writer who profited from his infamy. The lawyer who defended him to the death. The guilt-ridden girlfriend who never faced the truth. All three women believe they are safe from serial killer Steven ...



  • Aniruddha Bahal

    A brilliant international thriller, set in contemporary Kashmir, about an investigative journalist, espionage, and the temptations of drugs, sex, and corruption in the Indian Army

    Our hero, known as MM, is a pleasure-seeking journalist working...



  • Emma Harrison

    Dylan, Natalie, and Alex are on the case of a missing titanium ring that holds secret information about HALO--Hidden Alias List Operation--and its now-vulnerable witnesses, who are in danger of being discovered....



  • Sarah Smith

    Meet Joe Roper, tough-minded young graduate student, who has been lucky enough to land a job cataloging the famed Kellogg Collection of Elizabethan texts and curiosities. Joe's been passionate about Shakespeare since he read a duct-taped paperback at...



  • Rick Wilber

    Cold . . . cold is all Melissa O'Malley feels, growing up in the frigid expanses of rural Minnesota. The one thing keeping her warm is the obeah talent she has inherited from her island mother, who mysteriously left when Melissa was only five. Bright...



  • Nicholas Drayson

    A murder, a vanished tropical island, a thwarted love affair. . . clues to the origin of Charles Darwin's famous theory. A nameless narrator, abandoned on an island soon to be obliterated by volcanic activity, tells the story of his life and exile fr...



  • Jennifer L. Holm

    Caleb Devlin is a legend on Mockingbird Lane, the boy who terrorized an entire town before he got sent away. They say he hurt other kids, tortured animals, set fires, and did things grown-ups speak of only in whispers. But that was all before Penny a...



  • Harker Moore

    A COP IS CHASING THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL IS MAKING ANGELS. THE CRUELEST SEASON HAS BEGUN... A madman is pushing New York to the edge of panic, leaving dead bodies on display-unbloodied, naked, posed with the giant white wings of birds. Facing press...



  • Jefferson Scott

    Muslim raiders have destroyed a village in the Christian south of Sudan, killing men and seizing women and children as slaves. Now Jason Kromer and the Firebrand team of Christian commandos are sent into the breach. Upon their arrival, they discover ...



  • Ethan Black

    Three more by tonight. Your fault. That's the dire message Conrad Voort receives on his birthday, standing over a dead stranger. With both his career and his life in jeopardy, Voort races against time to hunt down an ingenious killer whose threat has...



  • Carolyn Parkhurst

    A poignant and beautiful debut novel explores a man's quest to unravel the mystery of his wife's death with the help of the only witness -- their Rhodesian ridgeback, Lorelei....



  • T.F. Banks

    For twenty years, England and France have been at war. Now the war has come home... On a sunny July day in 1815, Plymouth Sound is crowded with boats vying for a view of England's great battleship HMS Bellerophon. For aboard the vessel is the stou...



  • J.F. Freedman

    OUR PARENTS ARE THE REASON WE EXIST. From the New York Times bestselling author J. F. Freedman comes a roaring suspense thriller about one family's deadly encounter and the disturbing betrayals uncovered by three brothers. BUT WHAT IF EVERYTHING ...



  • Karen Harper

    Early one morning Claire Malvern awakes to an empty bed -- and her husband missing. There is no trace of Keith Malvern -- only an eyewitness who claims a man jumped off the bridge at Bloodroot Falls in the middle of the night. It is the spectacula...



  • Owen West

    With style and nonstop action, Owen West, winner of the Boyd literary award for best military novel of 2001, returns with Four Days to Veracruz -- an adventure-thriller that sizzles with international intrigue, relentless suspense, and straight-from-...



  • Dennis Burges

    A riveting tale, set in 1922 London, Graves Gate straddles the frightening intersection of early psychiatry and the paranormal. At the center of the tale is the prominent author and public figure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is offered a surprise oppo...



  • Erica Spindler

    To the outside world, Cypress Springs, Louisiana, is a postcard-perfect town where moral, decent citizens lead safe, wholesome lives. But outsiders, it seems, don't fare so well.... When journalist Avery Chauvin returns home to Cypress Springs, Lo...



  • Karen Novak

    "The dark corners of the human soul are Karen Novak's specialty, and there are few writing today who able to illuminate them with such courage and elegance." -Karen Karbo

    When private investigator Leslie Stone's own thirtee...



  • Michele Mitchell

    Kate Boothe is sitting pretty in Rome, drinking good wine, and trying to take a well-deserved breather from her work as a political consultant in Washington, D.C. Then her business partner, Jack Vanzetti, flies out to tell her that someone has been s...



  • Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

    Gambling runs through the blood of the Navarro family. And like the luck needed to score big, the Navarro clan will certainly need a lot of it, if they're going to hold themselves together through a hilariously highstakes game of family history and s...



  • Steven Ford

    ETERNAL YOUTH Plastic surgeon Paul Tobin has a thriving career and a successful marriage … until he threw both away for the bottle. Now he’s been given a second chance at the De Leon Life Extension Center. Located in Coral Key, Florida, the ex...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    Amidst the tension and drama of a war that pits brother against brother and father against son, the dark side of men and women can reach a boiling point. Here are stories of betrayal, murder and malevolence in a world already marked by besieged honor...



  • Robert Rice

    1915: A German torpedo sinks the British passenger liner, RMS Lusitania. With almost 1,200 passengers drowned, the attack is one of Germany's most vicious acts against civilians. . . .

    2000: A postal worker and a customer are found murdered in...



  • Rick Mofina

    Witness San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burnt out. The breaking story of a jewel heist gone violently awry--with the murder of a cop and the abduction of a female hostage--is one most journalists would kill for. Tom hopes it will be his l...



  • Valerie Block

    With a nod to Ed McBain and Fay Weldon, author Valerie Block creates a hilarious tale of a heist gone wrong that ranges from the living rooms of Park Avenue to the parking lot of the White Castle on Queens Boulevard.Mitch Greiff, celebrity tax accoun...



  • Penelope Lively

    It opens with a snapshot: Kath, at an unknown gathering, hands clasped with a man not her husband. The photograph is in an envelope marked DON'T OPEN -- DESTROY. But Kath's husband does not heed the warning. The mystery of the photograph, and of Kath...



  • Carter Elliott

    In this powerful and frequently stunning debut novel set in a remote mountain county of West Virginia, just as the criminals, who prove not to be brilliant tacticians, and the police, who are not corrupt clods, defy their stereotypes, so does Molly S...



  • Jack Warner

    Shikar marks the spectacular debut of Jack Warner. Totally absorbing, it is a thriller of verve, accomplishment, tension, and imaginative power. This is the kind of story that keeps us awake and reading into the early morning hours, makes us miss our...



  • Nicola Griffith

    AUD (IT RHYMES WITH "SHROUD" ) TORVINGEN is six feet tall with blond hair and blue eyes. She can restore a log cabin with antique tools or put a man in a coma with her bare hands. As imagined by Nicola Griffith in this ferocious masterpiece of litera...



  • Janice Law


    There are persistent whispers from the past, growing increasingly stronger. Ever since Leslie suffered a miscarriage several months ago, she’s felt as though there’s more to her childhood than she understands -- or can remember. Why are there...



  • Rupert Holmes

    Where the Truth Lies is a tour de force of sinister mystery, sly comedy, grand cuisine, and incredible sex--a sensual, sardonic, neo-Dickensian thriller in which a latter-day Alice careens through the seductive Wonderland of New York and Los Angeles ...



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    IN A DEADLY GAME OF SKILL AND DECEPTION... The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibited - and the show's director, Morgan West, can't ignore her growing uneasiness. She's certain she hasn't seen the last of the inf...



  • Joanna Wayne

    UNBREAKABLE VOWS A string of murders reunited homicide detective Dallas Mitchell with a woman he'd tried to forget. Years had passed, but the passion was still there. Only, this time it was fraught with danger. Because Nicole Lancaster was a marri...



  • Caroline Burnes

    A CRY FOR HELP Rebecca Barrett had come to Mississippi to oversee the excavation of priceless artifacts at Blackthorn. But it was the search for a heard-but-never-seen baby that became the focus of her days. However, the harder Rebecca looked for an...



  • Laura Leone

    While trying to save her spiraling career, Sara Diamond befriends her new next door neighbor, Ryan Kinsmore. A soft-spoken younger man with charm and good looks, Ryan leads a mysterious double life which becomes increasingly hard for him to conceal f...



  • Beverly Barton

    Grace Beaumont had it all once: wealth, social prominence, a family. Until the accident that tore apart her life. An accident, she'd just discovered, that might not have been as random as it seemed. Now she was determined to uncover what had happened...



  • Jessica Bird

    She has a chance to find something more precious than gold, if she's brave enough to trust her heart. . . . Her intense passion for unlocking the secrets of the past is what made Carter Wessex an archeologist. Now she's been given a chance to dig ...



  • Lynn Erickson

    As a young girl, Ashley Mann was kidnapped and held for months in an abandoned mine, high in the Colorado Rockies. Now, twenty years later, she must relive her worst nightmare... Because her tormenter has been paroled. And Ashley's fifteen-year-o...



  • B.J. Daniels

    A MAN SHE'D NEVER SEEN... His face was concealed by a mask...yet piercing blue eyes inexorably drew Jill Lawson into his arms. What came over her, she'd never know -- but a case of mistaken identity landed her in more than a little hot water, because...



  • Susan Kearney

    JACK DONOVAN: Highly trained pilot and Shey Group operative ASSIGNMENT: Find out who wanted his childhood friend dead THE ALL-GROWN-UP GIRL NEXT DOOR Jack Donovan needed a vacation, not another dangerous assignment from the elite paramilitary Shey...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    Intrepid Lady Priscilla Flanders and her rakish friend Sir Neville Hathaway return to bucolic Hempten-on-Heath in Jo Ann Ferguson's newest tale of Regency romance and adventure, only to find that murder has cast a pall on the Michaelmas Faire... ...



  • Kate Huntington
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    Everard Montclair is ready to throttle his younger brother for returning from the war with a foreign bride. Michael had a long-standing engagement to Lady Linnea, and its sundering is sure to result in a scandal. Worse, Linnea's father has gambled aw...



  • Amanda McCabe

    Two Hearts, One Love Recently widowed, Sarah, Lady Iverson, is expected to quietly live off her substantial inheritance until she remarries. Instead she chooses to forge ahead with her late husband's work, excavating an ancient Viking village ...



  • Alice Holden
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    With only a meager competence and no prospects, Kate Hamilton must make her own way in life as a governess. Her good friend, veterinarian Daniel Nealy, offers to help her acquire a position with a local wealthy family, where she meets the irrepressib...



  • Mary Kingsley

    HE CAME TO HER RESCUE... Wounded in body and soul while serving his country in the Peninsula, all Charles Kirk now wants is peace. He hopes to settle back into civilian life by managing a property owned by his brother. But his plans hit a snag when,...



  • Elizabeth Powell

    Stuff and Nonsense That's what Jane Rutledge thinks of suffering through an endless Season. Stuck in London for her sister's come-out, the lovely miss would much prefer being on horseback in the country. But she quickly changes her mind when a mos...



  • Martha Kirkland

    One Glance A catch of the breath. A beat of the heart. And Miss Olivia Mallory is gone. Over the moon at the ripe age of five and twenty. The man who has captured her attention: the roguish-- and dangerous--Lord David Crighton. A former British sp...



  • Julia Parks

    Has He Met The Ideal Matchmaker... The honorable Montgomery Darby loves only one thing in life--Darwood Hall, the derelict estate that his father's dissolute ways have reduced to near ruin. It will take a fortune to restore the place to glory, and a...



  • Laura Paquet
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    Lady Lucinda Denham yearns to be taken seriously by the sophisticated writers who flock to her mother's parties. All the more humiliating, then, when Stephen Charlton, London's most daring playwright, overhears Lucy telling a friend that his female c...



  • Carol Reddick

    It's been said you can never go home again, but Gillian Guy has done just that and she plans to stick around for a good long while. With hope in her heart and cash in hand, she buys a dilapidated antique shop, Bachelor's End, which she dreams of retu...




  • Debra Webb
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    Michal Arad wanted vengeance when he kidnapped former CIA agent Ami Donovan, claiming she'd posed as his lover to set him up as an assassin. But Ami had amnesia and no way of knowing the truth...until Michal took her in his arms. In spite of her fear...



  • Gail Sattler
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    Carla Wainwright was building a house - and a future - with the man she loved. But when he walked out of her life, she held on to her dream of the house....Now, with the help of a reluctant contractor, Jack Dugan, she sees her project - and her hopes...




  • Leslie Gould

    Two Loving Friends. One Powerful Faith. A Life-Threatening Secret.Raised by a mother who was haunted by worry and fear, Jill vowed to live a different kind of life. As a young woman, she planned out what she wanted -- a husband, a large home full of ...



  • Jacqueline Wilson

    In the final volume of the fresh and funny Girls Quartet, Ellie’s best friends do the unthinkable -- bond without her -- until the girls realize how to really be friends.Ellie knows the rule: Best friends always come before boys. But Russell isn’...



  • Jacqueline Wilson

    Ellie finally meets a boy. The right boy. And she wants to spend all her time with him. Her curfew is way too early, but if her stepmother doesn’t tell, her father will never know she’s been out late. It’s not like anything bad is going to happ...



  • Claire Berlinski

    CAREER ADVICE TO ASPIRING SPIES: IF YOU WANT TO JOIN THE CIA, DON’T FALL IN LOVE. AND IF YOU DO FALL IN LOVE, WATCH YOUR MOUTH.Few books about life inside the Central Intelligence Agency have been written by women, and none have the wit, suspense, ...



  • Stephanie Perry Moore

    "Walk Worthy Press books remind us that in every area of our lives He truly cares for us." -T. D. Jakes Zoe Clarke has a strong prayer life, a good job, loyal friends...and today she was going to marry her college sweetheart and make a lifelong c...



  • Susan May Warren
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    Carla Wainwright was building a house - and a future - with the man she loved. But when he walked out of her life, she held on to her dream of the house....Now, with the help of a reluctant contractor, Jack Dugan, she sees her project - and her hopes...



  • Catherine Palmer

    In Victorian England, Jane Fellowes searches for the truth behind Newton's Box--which may in fact contain proof of the existence of God. Tension mounts as those who touch the box suffer strange, unexplained bouts of illness. As Jane and scientist Tho...



  • Joan Elliott Pickart
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    She'd do anything to save her son . . .

    He Was Her Last Chance . . .

    For her son, Glynis Hamilton would do anything -- even confront the man who'd broken her heart years before. Once Glynis had loved Cort McBride, but, consumed by ambit...



  • Gigi Levangie Grazer

    Everything Clarissa Alpert wants, Clarissa Alpert gets. Gorgeous, funny, and wildly uninhibited, her exes are a veritable Who's Who of Hollywood power players. At twenty-eight (thirty-one), she is blessed with a firm (if curvaceous) bod, a desig...



  • Cathy Hopkins

    Trust me to go and fall for someone who lives on the other side of the planet. Nesta has met the perfect boy: good-looking, fun, sweet. But there are problems, too. Simon's from a rich, upper-class background -- with a lifestyle to match -- and it...



  • Susan K. Downs
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    Carla Wainwright was building a house - and a future - with the man she loved. But when he walked out of her life, she held on to her dream of the house....Now, with the help of a reluctant contractor, Jack Dugan, she sees her project - and her hopes...



  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
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    Carla Wainwright was building a house - and a future - with the man she loved. But when he walked out of her life, she held on to her dream of the house....Now, with the help of a reluctant contractor, Jack Dugan, she sees her project - and her hopes...



  • Francess Lantz / Francess Lin Lantz

    Five best friends go coastal in this fabulously fun surfing series from Roxy Girl! Luna, Rae, Kanani, Cricket, and Isobel are in for the summer of their lives working at Tuck and Cate's coed surfing camp. But these five girls are more than just c...



  • Kate Brian

    SHABBY…CHIC? Carina, a real European princess, is dying to hook up with the sexy American rock star she met online. Too bad about all those bodyguards watching her every move. Then Carina spots her down-and-out near-twin, Julia. For a fast ten gran...



  • Deborah Raney

    In the four years since her husband’s death, Melanie LaSalle’s life has been consumed with managing the family design firm and caring for her five-year-old daughter, Jerica. The possibility of a new relationship is the last thing on her mind. But...



  • Jill Nelson

    From bestselling author Jill Nelson comes a sexy and uproarious novel about Lydia and Acey, two best friends whose career successes are matched only by their romantic and sexual frustrations -- until one night, over a bottle of wine, they concoct a p...



  • Carolyn Chambers Sanders

    WHEN THE 'HOOD IS YOUR PAST, IT'S YOUR PRESENT, TOO. Three sizzling sistahs-for-life grew up on the roughest streets of West Palm Beach-and knew they wanted more than triflin' men and hustling for nothing. Now these crazy-successful businesswomen...



  • Barbara McCauley
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    Heads turned and telephones rang when Clay Bodine came to town. Yet the solitary rancher's scandalous past made Paige Andrews, the primmest, most proper woman in Wolf River, secretly long to redeem him. And when Clay came asking her for help, Paige k...



  • Fern Michaels

    Atlanta police detective Aggie Jade is still recovering from the raid that took the life of her partner and former boyfriend -- and nearly killed her and her beloved K-9. She's not ready to hit the streets again, but she's desperate to hunt down the ...



  • Francess Lantz / Francess Lin Lantz

    Five best friends go coastal in this fabulously fun surfing series from Roxy Girl! Rae hasn't been her usual self lately, and no one at camp seems to know why. Her crabby attitude is starting to affect everyone, including her best friend, Luna. Wh...



  • Lyn Stone
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    In order to collect her inheritance, a daring debutante needed a husband. Could she convince her childhood sweetheart--now a penniless ex-soldier-to elope with her in exchange for a share of her fortune?...



  • Julie Kenner
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    Can volunteer elf Annie turn department-store heir Brent Carrington from snooty Scrooge to sexy Santa?...



  • John Burdett

    A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world's most exotic cities. Witnessed by a throng of gaping onlookers, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok br...



  • Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Boys4U is the world's most popular singing group - at least among teenaged girls - and they have closed out their sold-out world tour with a series of shows in Chicago's brand new arena. The premier group of the inexplicably popular "boy band" trend,...



  • Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    The second in the acclaimed Brazilian series featuring Inspector Espinosa, the detective hailed by critics for "his existential sensibility, his exotic beat, and his literary merit" (San Francisco Chronicle)A retired policeman spends a typically alco...



  • Peter Lovesey

    The corpse of a beautiful woman, clad in only a bathing suit, is found strangled to death on a popular Sussex beach. When she is finally identified, it turns out she was a top profiler for the National Crime Faculty, who was working on the case of a ...



  • Leslie Glass

    Shaken after a terrifying confrontation with a cop-killer, NYPD Detective Sergeant April Woo struggles with a mystery that threatens everything she holds dear - her career, her family, her love, even her life itself. The murder of her mentor and frie...



  • Clyde Phillips

    When San Francisco's most beloved philanthropist is murdered in a downtown hotel, Jane Candiotti gets the high-profile case. That same night a homeless man is found stabbed to death at the docks -- a murder that also lands in Candiotti's hands. Th...



  • Pam Binder

    In present-day Montana, William MacAlpin courageously fights fires as a smoke jumper in the rugged backcountry, but this reckless endeavor masks an even more dangerous calling. For William is from a dying breed of immortals sworn to protect the earth...



  • Lois Greiman

    PASSION'S PRISONER Princess Tatiana needs a groom to help her rule her vulnerable country. So she embarks on a desperate mission -- traveling in disguise to a neighboring land to forge an alliance with the dashing Cairn MacTavish, the fabled "Pira...



  • Kathleen Nance

    As the Minstrel of Kaf, Zayne keeps the land of the djinn in harmony. Yet lately, he needs a woman to restore balance to his life, a woman with whom he can blend his voice and his body. And according to his destiny, this soul mate can only be found i...



  • Roger L. Simon

    A quarter of a century after he first appeared in the now-classic The Big Fix, Moses Wine remains a private investigator par excellence. Still a Berkeley radical at heart, Moses is now thoroughly chastened by the events that have led to the war on te...



  • Kathryn R. Wall

    FROM CHARLESTON TO HILTON HEAD, FAMILY MATTERS...AND MURDER IS RELATIVE When a fifth cousin twice removed calls Bay Tanner - a young, recently widowed, financial consultant - from the Beaufort County Jail, it's no accident. Mercer Mary Prescott sp...



  • Michael Slade

    Isolated in the Riverside Insane Asylum is the Ripper. He believes he's the notorious butcher who terrorized Whitechapel more than a century ago. In the black hole of his imagination he reenacts the crimes. In the darkness of his heart he still crave...



  • Steve Hamilton

    Winning the Edgar Award for A Cold Day in Paradise, Steve Hamilton introduced one of the most compelling characters in modern fiction: Alex McKnight, a gritty ex-Detroit cop who can't say no to a friend in need-no matter the cost. Now McKnight finds ...



  • Sue Henry

    Recovering from knee surgery that will cause her to miss the upcoming dogsled racing season, champion "musher" Jessie Arnold feels empty and bored--so she grabs an opportunity to fill her days manning the Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair. But ...



  • Jane A. Adams

    The new novel featuring blind ex-policewoman Naomi Blake, first introduced in Mourning the Little Dead. Tally Palmer is a successful international photographer, and a celebrity in her own right. When she abruptly breaks off a relationship with Simon ...



  • Martha Conway

    Nicola is having a really bad day. She's tired of her job, her boss, and even her San Francisco apartment, which she's just heard she's being evicted from anyway. Her life's only excitement is fueled by fantasy -- about the expensive lingerie she w...




  • Russell Andrews

    A man burdened by his past, former top homicide cop Justin Westwood has retreated to a small-town Long Island police force. Drowning his troubles in mindless traffic duty and lots of scotch, he's awakened to action when a young woman journalist is br...



  • Melinda Rucker Haynes

    The Sword Returns! The riveting sequel to the critically acclaimed novel The Eternal Trust.

    Jonathan Spencer has no memory of being a psychic spy until past life hypnotherapist Rian Farsante helps him remember too much. But Rian knows the one thin...



  • Solomon Jones

    Sometimes, Philadelphia Police Detective Kevin Lynch feels he has spent his whole life trying to put his past firmly behind him. But a frantic call for help from a childhood friend whose child has gone missing changes all that. Now Lynch must summ...



  • Simon Kernick

    It's a typical cold November night and Detective Sergeant Dennis Milne, a very atypical policeman, waits in the Traveller's Rest Hotel parking lot for the arrival of three men. Cynical and jaded, Milne earns money on the side by doing what he does be...



  • L.T. Fawkes

    I want to tell you a story. It's about friends, hard work, good love, bad love, and murder. My name's Terry Saltz. Here's me: Six-five. Twenty-six. Smart-ass. Long black hair tied back with a leather shoelace. Plaid flannel shirt with the elbows ...



  • Stephen J. Clark

    After exposing a major money-laundering operation in Litchfield, Alabama, reporter Nelson Ingram soon discovers that the case is far from over when people begin dying and his cabin is burned down to the ground. Original....



  • Judith Cook

    The first in a brand-new series featuring an ex-cop turned environmental crusader. Retired policeman John Latymer is happily settled with his new wife Tess, and occupies himself with a part time job as a tour guide leading groups around England. When...



  • David Bowker

    For struggling author Billy Dye, ghost writing the memoirs of Manchester gangster Malcolm Priest seems like a great way to make a quick buck, but when Priest tires of the wry writer he hires a vicious hitman to take him out. When the assassin--named ...



  • Gregory McDonald

    When Boston Police Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn’s barely adolescent daughter asks him to rescue her friend Billy from the cemetery, where he’s been fastened to a tree by a nail through his earlobe, the good inspector is pretty sure there’s so...



  • Carolyn Wilkerson

    From debut novelist Carolyn Wilkerson comes this tale of an often-ignored problem facing the American Southwest - illegal immigrants - and one mother's quest for justice in a world where no one is who they seem, and danger is everywhere....



  • Eric Dezenhall

    From his curved-glass desk in a casino overlooking the Atlantic City boardwalk, Jackie "Disaster" DeSesto--an ex-welterweight boxing champ and former top flack for the Atlantic City Police Department--has a great view of the hustlers he now makes his...





  • Sarah Stewart Taylor

    NOW HER TOMB LIES QUIET... Sweeney St. George looks nothing like a university Professor with her unruly red curls and preference for vintage clothing. Single and wary of relationships, she pours her energy into her college teaching and a passionate ...



  • George Edward Stanley

    GREEN VEGETABLES AREN'T ALWAYS GOOD FOR YOU The new restaurant in town is a hit, but when several diners get sick, the Health Department threatens to shut the place down. And if the restaurant closes, Todd and Noelle's new friend, JoAnn, may have to ...




  • Ron Roy

    Meet Tyrone the Tyrannosaurus, Green Lawn’s newest -- and biggest! -- visitor. The kids’ old friend Jud Wheat is in town, and he’s raising funds for a dinosaur museum by taking the T. rex on tour. But after the show in Green Lawn, all Jud’s m...



  • Joani Ascher

    In Vengeance Tastes Sweet, the second in the Wally Morris murder series, Beverly Cohen, a local caterer with big aspirations, doesn't care whose toes she steps on in her quest for success. Her ability to insult people is matched only by her insensiti...



  • Grace Gray Sample

    In spite of her father's disapproval, Nicole Downing is leaving Minnesota to visit the home of her childhood in Iowa, and her mother's close-knit family, the Wingates. Years earlier when she was four her father, Milton Downing was found guilt...



  • Lisa Scottoline

    Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato has her eye focused firmly on the bottom line, especially since she has three dedicated young associates and a very pregnant secretary on her payroll, and she takes a professional risk, charging into a class action l...



  • David Rosenfelt

    When a cop's body is found burned and decapitated, the last thing Andy Carpenter expects is for a stranger to waltz into his office and admit to the crime. For the wisecracking millionaire defense attorney suffering from "lawyer's block," the case lo...



  • Anne Ashley

    A dangerous game of spies and seduction... Spirited Katherine O'Malley, sent to France to flush out a traitor, is prepared for discomfort, fear, even danger in her country's service. She isn't prepared to work with handsome rake Major Daniel Ross ...



  • Tracie Peterson

    As a Harvey tour guide, Rainy Gordon spends her days in the magnificent landscape of New Mexico. Having already fled a tainted past, Rainy is alarmed when she becomes a suspect in an investigation of stolen Hopi Indian artifacts. The man she loves ha...



  • Candice Proctor

    Can life ever be a real adventure without falling in love? Ever since she can remember, India McKnight has craved adventure, dreaming of lands past the horizon. Following her calling, she becomes a travel writer, a vocation that takes her far and ...



  • Linda Madl
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    The youngest of seven daughters, beguiling Eden has been chosen to act as caretaker to their aging papa. Not to be dissuaded from enjoying life's adventures, when she meets Anthony, Viscount Romleigh, a devastatingly attractive rake of the first orde...



  • Liz Ireland

    Chaining herself to the saloon doors seemed like a good idea, but Lacy Calhoun quickly learned reforming her happily scandalous Texas town would take more than do-gooder theatrics. Even harder would be getting the better of roguishly handsome barkeep...



  • Leigh Greenwood

    A GOOD MAN... Holt Price had come to Galveston in search of the woman he loved. After the pain, the heartbreak, the terrible devastation of war, he was ready to settle down with the green-eyed beauty he'd pledged to marry. Instead, he found himself ...



  • May McGoldrick

    THE PROPOSAL Driven to undo the evil wrought by her dead husband, Millicent Wentworth must find a way to save her estate and free the innocent people her husband enslaved. Her only hope is a marriage--in name only--with the notorious widower, the Ea...



  • Helen A. Rosburg

    Once upon a time, a knight and the daughter of one of Henry III's barons fell in love. He was Stephen of Bellingham; she, Amarantha of Ullswater. They were brought together by a desperate bid to escape the madness of Baldwin, Earl of Cumbria. The tas...



  • Mary Reed McCall

    EVERY MAN IN ENGLAND WANTED HER... She was called "the Crimson Lady." But Fiona Byrne wants no part of the notorious life she was compelled to lead, adopting instead the disguise of a simple seamstress. Then she is discovered by Braedan de Cantor,...



  • Julia Justiss

    The Season was proving to be disastrous! Caragh Sudley's father had entrusted Lord Branson with finding husbands in London for Caragh and her sister, Ailis. But Ailis had proved difficult and had run away with a notorious rake. Now Caragh realized sh...



  • Thea Devine

    There is desire in deception... On a bloody Victorian battlefield, the penniless soldier of fortune, Dar St. Onge, has just been recruited for a covert mission to uncover the dark secrets of a mysterious family by taking the place of its dying heir...



  • Pamela Kaye Tracy
    in

    Misreading an order for bridles, a New England farmer sends his four sisters-in-law as mail-order brides to Lickwind, Wyoming. When the four women step off the train, astonishment turns to mayhem as the men of the town suddenly spruce up and make tim...



  • Janelle Schneider
    in

    Misreading an order for bridles, a New England farmer sends his four sisters-in-law as mail-order brides to Lickwind, Wyoming. When the four women step off the train, astonishment turns to mayhem as the men of the town suddenly spruce up and make tim...



  • Cathy Marie Hake
    in

    Misreading an order for bridles, a New England farmer sends his four sisters-in-law as mail-order brides to Lickwind, Wyoming. When the four women step off the train, astonishment turns to mayhem as the men of the town suddenly spruce up and make tim...



  • JoAnn A. Grote
    in

    Misreading an order for bridles, a New England farmer sends his four sisters-in-law as mail-order brides to Lickwind, Wyoming. When the four women step off the train, astonishment turns to mayhem as the men of the town suddenly spruce up and make tim...



  • Rachel Druten

    Leaving her home in the Philippines, Rebecca Spaneas took a step of faith. With her young son Davy, she looks to the future with hope - but she carries in her heart the powerful memory of her beloved, deceased husband. Courtney Fielding's body ...



  • Kasey Michaels
    in

    In a twist of fate, an innocent young lady and a handsome rogue were caught in bed together. But before their unavoidable marriage could begin, they found themselves facing an altogether unexpected challenge ... love!...



  • Carolyn Brown

    Grace Benjamin Listen was just trying to rescue a poor helpless kitten. She certainly didn't plan on falling out of the tree and landing on Dodsworth's newest resident, Dr. Gatlin O'Malley - breaking her arm and wounding her pride in the fall. Gatlin...



  • Candace McCarthy
    in

    Journeying to Essex, Jane Graham never expects to be set upon by highwaymen. Nor does she anticipate having a mysterious stranger ride to her rescue. But Jane is in for an even greater surprise when her hero turns out to be Broc Lawson, the wickedly ...



  • Deborah Simmons

    A MAN of MANY TALENTS ...and a woman with too much spirit. LOSING HIS SPIRIT Christian Reade, heir to the earldom of Westhaven, is tired of ghosts. It's his own fault for debunking a haunted house in Belles Corners as the work of two silly p...



  • Meg Alexander

    FROM GOOD FRIENDS TO THE IDEAL MATCH! Despite constant admonitions to be discreet, Amy Wentworth had never learned to hold her tongue! Bright, honest and forthright, she couldn't bear any form of unkindness, and it was her good nature that mad...



  • Karl Fieldhouse

    Madeline Howell takes a position as companion to Lady Sophia Mannering, mother of Sir Garret Mannering. Madeline needs to work because she is in debt to her uncle; she also hopes to compile the data of her botanist father. Garret at first disappro...



  • Dorothy Garlock

    No one captures the indomitable American spirit better than bestselling author Dorothy Garlock. No time needed that spirit more than the Depression era. And no road fostered more dreams than U.S. Route 66, the path to golden California. Now Dorothy G...



  • Debbie Raleigh
    in

    Soft-hearted Charity Malone wants nothing so much as to find a way to comfort her friend, Anthony, Lord Caldwell, who blames himself for his younger brother's death. But nothing she does or says seems to reach him...until the night he catches her in ...



  • Juliet Landon

    What price would the lady pay for her heart's desire? THE SCOUNDREL'S SEDUCTION... Though Queen Elizabeth I's court at Richmond was a notorious hotbed of illicit liaisons and broken hearts, only beautiful Adorna Pickering remained unscathed...a...



  • Virginia Ellis

    Chosen by the Romance Writers of America as One of the Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year

    As a nation of young soldiers marches off to war, two women left behind will embrace a final keepsake, a profound reminder of the moment before their liv...



  • Celeste Bradley

    RULE #1: NEVER FALL IN LOVE THE PRETENDER, the first book in the wildly fun, exciting, and sexy new Liar's Club series featuring irresistible heroes who are out to steal their leading ladies' hearts! SHE HAD A SECRET SHE'D DO ANYTHING TO HIDE. ...



  • Gayle Wilson
    in

    After twelve long years, a widow and a jaded earl were reunited against all odds. But as the past threatened to destroy their newfound happiness, would love be enough to save this battle-scarred man from a lifetime of loneliness?...



  • Joanna Maitland

    Would the lady's virtue be the rake's reward? REFORMING A RAKE... Desperate to support her widowed mother, Marina Beaumont had agreed to become a companion to a dowager countess and found herself in an impossible situation. She had never antici...



  • Barbara Scrupski

    Part Gone with the Wind, part Doctor Zhivago, and thoroughly captivating, Ruslan is the epic story of a destitute young countess in Tsarist Russia who tries every avenue to restore her fortunes.In glittering St. Petersburg, we meet Countess Alexandra...



  • Gail Ranstrom

    Sarah Hunter Was a Lady of the Night. Sarah Hunter was a lady of the night. Not in the salacious sense, but Ethan Travis had no way of knowing her close-held secrets. He saw, instead of an avenging angel, a lost and vulnerable soul who needed his un...



  • Katherine O'Neal

    He broke her heart...Now a struggling actress must put on the performance of a lifetime... Orphaned at the age of thirteen, actress Liana Wycliffe was no stranger to life's cruelties. But nothing had prepared her for the despair she felt when the ...



  • Mary Balogh

    Meet the Bedwyns...six brothers and sisters-- men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...a...



  • Regina Scott

    From beloved Regency author Regina Scott comes this sparkling new romance about a woman who knows the stars better than her own heart, a man more interested in a legend than his own destiny--and a love as rare as a falling star... Make A Wish... ...



  • Elizabeth Boyle

    A SCANDALOUS ELOPEMENT The Marquis of Templeton has faced every sort of danger in his work for the King, but chasing after a wayward spinster who's had the effrontery to run off with the wrong man hardly seems worth his considerable talents. But...



  • Patricia Grasso

    He is a runaway prince stalked by a dangerous past. She is a shy, young innocent swept boldly into his daring gambit. Together, they will embark upon an adventure that will prove fairy tales do come true... She is Samantha Douglas, second daugh...



  • Sophy Burnham

    The year is 1209: A baby girl, dressed in a white silk dress strewn with pearls, is found in a meadow outside the smoking city of Béziers, where 20,000 people have just been massacred. Adopted by Lady Esclarmonde, the fiery Jeanne is educated in the...



  • Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux

    When Lord Nicholas Thornton returns home after the war, he is content to shut himself off from the world. But his solitude doesn't last long. The local vicar's daughter, Christina Wakelin, climbs his tree to rescue a cat and falls right into ...



  • Connie Lane

    ALL HE WANTS IS TO WIN THE BET.... BUT WHAT IF THE PRIZE IS MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR? There's nothing Nicholas Pryce, Viscount Somerton, and his friends like more than an outrageous wager. And there's nothing Wilhelmina Culpepper, daughter of an ...



  • Ronda Thompson

    THE EMBER Abandoned by her father, Rachel Brodie was adopted and raised by the Mescalero Indians. Silent Wind she was called; and the smoldering eyes of Swift Buck -- her handsome adoptive brother -- urged her to drop all pretense of being White, ...



  • Karen L. King

    Returning from the war disillusioned both by men's violence and the infidelity of women, Major Anthony Sheridan is not surprised to find himself engaged in a duel. But he's only mildly interested in the tale of the cursed pistols--weapons that will r...