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New Books List: 588 titles


  • Wen Spencer

    Meet Ukiah Oregon, a unique young man with accelerated senses who was raised by wolves, domesticated by two women, and trained as a tracker by a private investigator. And that's the normal part of his life.... Ukiah's alien-enhanced abilities are ...



  • Simon R. Green

    Taylor is the name, John Taylor. My card says I'm a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding lost things. It's part of the gift I was born with as a child of the Nightside. I left there a long time ago, with my skin and sanity barel...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    Six adrenalin junkies who call themselves the Daredevils Club hold the fate of the world in their hands. In an ancient undersea cavern, one of them, oil man Frik van Alman, discovers a set of stones that are unlike anything else on Earth. Fitted toge...



  • Susanna Vance

    Nothing really bad has ever happened to Birdie. And she hates it! She needs drama, angst, tormentā€"something to provide fodder for the amazing book she wants to write. When her parents take a yearlong sabbatical to the Caribbean, she gets her wish. ...



  • Stephen Coonts; Jim DeFelice

    A spy plane gathering data on a new Russian weapon is blown out of the sky by a mysterious MiG. Is it an accident or the start of the next world war? One U.S. agency has what it takes to find out--the National Security Agency and its covert operation...



  • Randy Wayne White

    Doc Ford returns to his stilt house on Dinkin's Bay to find an old friend and onetime lover waiting for him. Her real-estate developer husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead. She's sure there's worse to follow--and she's right. Ford follows...



  • Ken Abraham; Daniel Hart

    Continues the story of several individuals caught up in the turbulent events following the world-shattering Rapture as they become involved in the battle of an Islamic mujahideen out to wrest power from the weakened nations of the West....



  • David Morrell

    KNOW HIM. SEE HIM. STOP HIM-OR DIE. No one knows his real name. No one knows where he lives. Trained by Delta Force, calm in moments of absolute terror, Cavanaugh stops threats before they strike-silently, swiftly, and lethally. His latest assignm...



  • Laura Peyton Roberts

    Alpha Kappa Chi sorority sister Jen Williams has recently died of "natural causes." Turns out that Jen was also a rookie agent for SD-6. AKX is spending spring break in Waikiki, and Jen was supposed to undertake an important mission for SD-6 there. B...



  • J.G. Hertzler; Jeffrey Lang

    "The true test of a warrior is not without...it is within." Sins of the past collide with hopes for the future as Martok fights for the right to lead the Klingon Empire. With the secret of his usurper exposed, the ousted chancellor and his ragtag ba...



  • Mike Collins

    When your ship falls under the thrall of the ancient Landru super-computer, or when you discover an alien device planted on your world before life evolved, call in Captain David Gold and the miracle workers from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team ...



  • John C. Wright

    Phaethon of Radamanthus House has been exiled, his ship confiscated. He embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms. For the first time in his centuries-long life, he must look r...



  • Jude Watson

    Join Anakin Skywalker on Mawan -- a planet decimated by war and chaos -- in this sixth adventure in the Jedi Quest series! The Mawan population has taken refuge underground while three crimelords battle on the surface over the planet's resources. Onl...



  • Paul Ruditis

    The first official, comprehensive guide to the hit television series Star Trek: Voyager provides a definitive overview of the show's seven seasons, its characters, plot lines, and villains, with dozens of illustrations, complete episode summa...



  • Susan Grant
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    Novella, republished as Star Raider Raider Captain Romjha Bā€™kah seeks out the riskiest missions. After a lifetime of loss, only the rush of adrenaline can make him feel fully alive. That changes when Taj enters his life. For the first time he co...



  • Rosemary Edghill

    This collection of Edghill's finest short fantasy works includes: "The Piper at the Gate" where Mary Frances Baynes longs all her life for Real Magic and finally achieves it . . . at a price; "The Intersection of Anastasia Yeoman and Light" where a m...



  • Donald Moffitt

    Many centuries ago, an alien race known as the Nar was able to recreate human beings from genetic code, broadcast from Earth into outer space by a beleaguered humanity. They allow a group of humans to travel millions of light years through the galaxy...




  • John Christopher

    A dark vision of the near future, where entertainment and power have become indistinguishable. Is this the Europe of tomorrow? Virtual Reality has become the predominant form of entertainment for the masses: with a helmet and glove and appropriate so...



  • Nancy Holder

    BIGGEST BADDEST BUFFY OF THEM ALL The First has come to Sunnydale and set its sights on taking down the Slayer. On the side of the White Hats: Buffy, Xander, Willow, Anya, Dawn, Giles, Spike, Faith, Angel, and an assortment of young, innocent,...



  • Les Daniels

    Now updated, expanded, and available in paperback -- the definitive chronicle of DCā€™s celebrated characters and their talented creators! In the nearly 70 years since the creation of the first super- heroes, DCā€™s legendary team of artists, writers...



  • Russell Blackford

    Judgment Day is coming! Following the events of Book 1 (Dark Futures), the future war between the human Resistance and the forces of Skynet takes an unusual twist as Terminators from an alternate timeline invade the world of John Connor and his mothe...



  • Keith Laumer

    The Convulsing Earth had shattered Civilization --and Something Was Moving In To Pick Up The Pieces ? Mal was heading across an America ravaged by worldwide earthquakes when he ran into a dying stranger who babbled of men who weren't really men. ...



  • James White

    At Sector General, anything can happen-and frequently does. In this vast hospital in the depths of space, the thousands of staff, human and alien both, have a single mission: to care for all patients, of all species. For decades, these dramas of huma...




  • Garth Ennis

    After ten years writer Garth Ennis (Preacher) returns to Mega-City One for the ultimate Dredd saga.

    In Helter Skelter, the very structure of reality is altered in Mega-City One. Dredd finds himself on the run, pursued by ghosts and demons from his...



  • Simon Furman

    Continuing Titanā€™s bestselling Transformers collections, this never-before-collected reprint of the extremely hard-to-find Transformers UK comic material collects the Legacy of Unicron storyline, which relates directly to the events of the DVD smas...



  • Margaret Atwood

    From the #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ The Handmaid's Tale

    Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggl...



  • S.M. Stirling

    THE WAR IS FAR FROM OVER... THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE FACE THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE. THE ELECTRONIC BRAIN BEHIND HUMANITY'S DESTRUCTION COMES ALIVE....



  • Jeff Stanley

    Del Rey Books is proud to be publishing Tainted Garden. This powerful first novel from an exciting new writer was selected by online readers as the winner of the Del Rey Online Writing Workshop First Novel Contest in the science fiction category.Livi...



  • John Ridley

    Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark writes her own rules. Usually it gets her in trouble. On her first day with the L.A.P.D.'s elite MTAC squad, Soledad takes down an outlawed super-powered freak with a k weapon she designed herself--i a definite violation. Her...




  • Norman Green

    In the fall of '73, Brooklyn, New York, is home to worn-down hotels, wise guys, immigrants, the disturbed, the disenfranchised, and a few people just trying to make an honest buck. When Silvano Iurata's troubled brother, Noonie, rumored to be living ...



  • James H. Pence

    Disillusioned by the tragic loss of his family, Thomas Kent just wants to die. But a mysterious message and a voice from the past stir him to fight for his life and the lives of a family he doesn't know. He is reluctantly drawn into the murderous plo...



  • Anthony Bourdain

    From the host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, a crime novel about a lovable criminal, a fabulous cook, and a botched robbery that sets the pair on the run.

    After doing ten y...



  • Marne Davis Kellogg

    Meet Kick Keswick, an elegant and self-possessed American who has been at London's venerable Ballantine & Company Auctioneers for over thirty years. She is an expert on paintings, furniture, and objets d'art, and so far has lived a perfectly happy li...



  • Rick Riordan

    Triple-crown winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards, Rick Riordan delivers an electrifying thriller of a man whose life takes the sharpest, most dangerous of turns. Now the question isn't whether or not hell fall but how far, how hard, and w...



  • Chris Priestley

    A gripping historical mystery, full of 18th century atmosphere.Fifteen-year-old Tom lives in the murky city of London where he helps his father run a print shop. Among the customers is wise old Dr. Harker, a retired physician and seafarer, whose pati...



  • Isaac Adamson

    Tokyo, July 2001: Hard-boiled reporter Billy Chaka is back in the neon metropolis interviewing a has-been pop singer turned pachinko fanatic for Youth in Asia magazine. Looks like an easy assignment until he witnesses a beautiful young woman suff...



  • Dean Koontz

    He's Hollywood's most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted soul. His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic "messages" breaches the exq...



  • Jake Thoene

    When barrels of sodium cyanide are stolen and two federal agents murdered during a truckjacking in Mexico, Agent Steve Alstead and the FBI's counterterrorism team, Chapter 16, are called into action. The clues expose a large-scale terrorist plot, and...



  • Minette Walters

    The travelers have come to town. They've set up their motor homes and buses in the woods and are planning to stay a while. Their leader knows more about the people of Shenstead Village than he should. And he's about to make their lives a living hell....



  • E.R. Frank

    This stunning novel by E.R. Frank explores what happens when the truth is worse than the rumor.Twelve-year-old Alex loves her small alternative school. She hangs out with her best friend, Tim, every day, and Simon is the coolest teacher -- heā€™s eve...



  • Erin Hart

    When farmers cutting turf in a peat bog make a grisly discovery -- the perfectly preserved severed head of a young woman with long red hair -- Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin team up in a case that will open old...



  • Mat Johnson

    Horizon Realty is bringing Harlem back to its Renaissance. With the help of Cedric, Bobby, and Horus-three ex-cons trying to forge a new life-Horizon clears out the rubble and the rabble, filling once-dilapidated brownstones with black professiona...



  • Thomas Sanchez

    On New Year's Eve 1957, a terrorist bomb rips through Havana's famous Tropicana nightclub. King Bongo, a rogue Cuban American, tortured by a mysterious past and possessed of a mythic musical talent, goes on the hunt for the culprits, and for his sist...



  • Nicci French

    THEY SAY YOUR MEMORY CAN'T BE TRUSTED. THEY SAY YOU WERE NEVER BLINDFOLDED...STARVED... OR IMPRISONED. BUT YOU KNOW IT HAPPENED. AND YOU KNOW IT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN. LAND OF THE LIVING Abbie Devereaux lies flat on her back, her arms and le...



  • Peter Blauner

    THE PAST IS A DANGEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD Lynn Schulman returns to suburban Riverside, New York, with her family, believing you really can go home again. But that's before a headless body floats down the Hudson River and the victim is identified as som...



  • Alex Minter

    WELCOME TO NEW YORK A PERILOUS PLAYGROUND FOR THE RICH, THE YOUNG AND THE TROUBLED, AND THE CRIMINALS WHO PREY UPON THEM. Fueled by black coffee and vengeance, Felix Novak speeds across the country to New York City on a mission to find and kill ...



  • Lynn Kostoff

    In sun-baked Phoenix, Arizona, this never-predictable tale tosses into its antic mix a dead father, his two sons--one a small-time ex-con with a consistent genius for sabotaging his own best interests, the other a straight, uptight solid citizen with...



  • Larry King; Thomas Cook

    From Larry King, host of CNN's Larry King Live, and Edgar Award--winning mystery writer Thomas H. Cook comes a madcap caper about the bright lights and dimwits of Manhattan. When the lovely Allison Vandameer disappears, she has no idea what forces...



  • Maggie O'Farrell

    Falling in love at first sight with the mysterious architect Marcus, Lily finds herself moved into his waterfront loft within a week, where she learns about his ex-girlfriend, Sinead, who seems to have disappeared abruptly and whose lingering aura be...



  • Nelson George

    "In New York City, there are at least three times as many doors as people. I work behind those closed doors. I work in darkness even when the light is on. My name is Night and I do night work." Dark-skinned chocolate, sexy and smooth, Night earns ...



  • Francine Pascal

    When Sam disappeared, I thought the pain would kill me. Now that he's back, I'm thinking I had it wrong. The pain's not gonna kill me. He is....



  • Kevin O'Brien

    Different Victims The blonde film student. The brunette paralegal. The red-headed artist. Different Methods The first victim is strangled. The second is stabbed repeatedly. And the third is pushed out an open window. Same Madman In the...



  • Tom Bradby

    St. Petersburg, 1917 - the glittering capital of the Tsarist empire and a city on the brink of revolution - where the jackals of the secret police maneuver for their own survival and their aristocratic masters indulge in one final moment of hedonism....



  • Austin Bay

    After witnessing the murder of innocent civilians in Iraq four years earlier, while the U.S. government stood by and watched, Peter Ford, now a superior officer, must wade through a sea of deadly double agents and dark secrets in postwar Iraq to disc...



  • Jasmine Cresswell

    Charlotte Gray's world has been turned upside down. Her husband of six months has disappeared, and now FBI agents inform her that Dan, the love of her life, is a wanted international terrorist. But before Charlotte has a chance to absorb their sho...



  • Rachel Lee

    A former top cop and now a crackerjack attorney, Chloe Ryder always gets to the heart of the matter with stunning precision. She never lets anything or anyone get past her cool, protective exterior. Yet even she can't keep her feelings on ice when a ...



  • Helen R. Myers

    Metal sculptor Bay Butler spent six years in a Texas prison for a crime she did not commit -- until the efforts of a powerful client get her conviction overturned. Suddenly Bay is free, but she is still plagued with questions. Why was she imprisoned ...



  • Dinah McCall

    THERE'S NO PLACE TO HIDE FROM THE TRUTH.... CIA agent Jonah Slade is back from deadly undercover work in the jungles of South America, battered, bloodied, but successful in putting a notorious drug czar behind bars. But, he discovers, the war has ...



  • Jessica Hall

    Raven has no intention of returning to her life as an undercover government agent. The stunning beauty doesn't doubt that years ago she was betrayed by the agency she worked for--and by her devastatingly handsome boss, General Kalen Grady. Instead...



  • Donna Simpson
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    "Father knows best"...unless he's denying his family the chance to find him true love! Some stubborn papas need a bit of encouragement to try romance once more...but we know the fathers in these special stories will charm you from the start! "The...



  • Gayle Buck

    A Gallant Rescuer The lovely heiress, Miss Thea Stafford, has just come into her own. But in the bat of an eye, her hopes for a happy life are dashed like the chards of her mother's porcelain. One night, her sister's betrothed kidnaps Thea...



  • Mona Gedney

    CAN A BOLD DECEPTION... Elise MacGregor is in a fix. While visiting London to buy clothes for her upcoming marriage to an older gentleman, she develops a tendre for a handsome young man. Only after Elise has written to call off her engagement does...



  • Rhonda Woodward

    Love Storm On a dark and rainy February night, the greatest concern on the Duke of Westlake's mind is which of his conquests he'll sneak of to meet. The rake hardly expects a family emergency to summon him front a party at his country esta...



  • Maria Greene
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    "Father knows best"...unless he's denying his family the chance to find him true love! Some stubborn papas need a bit of encouragement to try romance once more...but we know the fathers in these special stories will charm you from the sta...



  • Victoria Hinshaw
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    "Father knows best"...unless he's denying his family the chance to find him true love! Some stubborn papas need a bit of encouragement to try romance once more...but we know the fathers in these special stories will charm you from the sta...



  • Shannon Donnelly

    A SCANDALOUS IMPROPRIETY In order to protect his elder brother from disinheritance, Theodore Winslow must incur his father's wrath. How better than to marry a low-born strumpet? He sets out to find someone to play the part in return for a handsome s...



  • Nancy Butler

    Healing Hearts Repaying a debt of honor by helping the illustrious General Sir Janus Paltry write his memoirs, Morgan Pearce must leave London -- and a most delectable married woman -- behind. And though he's not happy about venturing out to t...



  • Donna Simpson

    A LADY'S CHANGE OF HEART... Rachel Neville is the envy of the ton, possessing youth, extraordinary beauty, and a supremely "suitable" fiance. Yet despite the secure future that lies ahead, she is suddenly restless--bored with the amusements of the S...



  • Nancy Rue

    Toni Wells is a successful churchgoing career woman with full custody of her son. But her commitments escalate as she deals with defiant behavior from five-year-old Ben and takes a niece into her home. Toni cuts her hours temporarily to part-time, te...



  • Bill Myers

    An action-packed allegory that captures our growth from non-believers to mature Christians.

    Through the mysterious Bloodstone, which symbolizes Godā€™s great love for mankind, three children are whisked into strange and wondrous worlds. Soon...



  • Karen Ball

    Caught in a blizzard, they expected to fight for their lives. What they didnā€™t expect was a miracleā€¦Renee and Gabe Roman are on the edge -- relationally and spiritually. Both believe they are followers of Christ who know God. So why is their marr...



  • Julie Moffett
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    Come experience the magic and joy that only true love can bring in this heartwarming collection of tales featuring three governesses who find romance when they least expect it... "Love Passages" by Kate Donovan Miranda Kent has no idea what lies...



  • Gary E. Parker

    The Rousing Conclusion to a 100-Year Family Saga

    Abigail Porter Holston gathers the strength to pass on to her great-granddaughter, Lisa, the legacy of a truly remarkable life journey -- one that began more than 100 years earlier in the remote ...



  • Yvonne Lehman

    Set in the panoramic Blue Ridge Mountains and the backdrop of the Nantahala River's rushing waters, His Hands is the story of two strangers whose lives are irrevocably changed by each other. Matthew MacEwen was a celebrated artist when he rescued a y...



  • Joanne Harris

    Joanne Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat, presents her most accomplished novel yet--an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupcon of sensuality. Britanny, 16...



  • Maggie Shayne
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    After years of silence, evidence has surfaced of government experiments in genetic manipulation. The media has even speculated that these experiments were successful and that the extraordinary children could be anywhere...and anyone. Wild rumors are ...



  • Anne Marie Winston
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    After years of silence, evidence has surfaced of government experiments in genetic manipulation. The media has even speculated that these experiments were successful and that the extraordinary children could be anywhere...and anyone. Wild rumors are ...



  • Julie Anne Peters

    First time I saw her was in the mirror on my locker door. I'd kicked my swim gear onto the bottom shelf and was reaching to the top for my calc book when she opened her locker across the hall. She had a streaked blond ponytail dangling out the back o...



  • Shaunti Feldhahn

    They have the house, the two kids, and the minivan. They have a well-meaning but shallow church. What Sherry doesn't know is that Doug has a shameful struggle with his thought life. When an exotic dancer's life intersects theirs, this suburban couple...



  • Kate Donovan
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    Come experience the magic and joy that only true love can bring in this heartwarming collection of tales featuring three governesses who find romance when they least expect it... "Love Passages" by Kate Donovan Miranda Kent has no idea w...



  • Fran Shaff

    The noise coming from her neighbor's garage is making it impossible for Carly Ross to work. When her attempts to convince Devin Serrano to stop using his noisy power tools are unsuccessful, Carly gets an idea. If she sets Dev up with a girlfriend, he...



  • Lahisha Wallace

    Claudia seeks the love of her dreams and proceeds to confide in her best friend, when, lo and behold, her friendship is put to the test when she finds out that he, her best friend, also has the same objective: Her!...



  • Eileen Wilks
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    After years of silence, evidence has surfaced of government experiments in genetic manipulation. The media has even speculated that these experiments were successful and that the extraordinary children could be anywhere...and anyone. Wild rumors are ...



  • Janice Kay Johnson
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    Twelve years ago, one bad decision ruined Nora's life. She lost everything -- her best friend, her boyfriend, her future. Now, for the first time since that awful night, she's coming home. She doesn't expect understanding or even forgiveness from any...



  • Gilbert Morris

    Book 2 of Lions of Judah. Much-loved master storyteller Gilbert Morris has turned an imaginative pen to the lives of the patriarchs. Combining extensive research with skillful plotting, Morris creates believable scenarios in which his fictional chara...




  • Dawn Miller

    Pioneer woman Callie McGregor and her family are determined to survive the Indian massacres, prairie wildfires, droughts, and blizzards of the Montana territory in the 1800s with their faith intact....



  • Brenda Jackson

    Sage Dunbar has been dealt a shattering double blow. On the same day she discovers her fiance has depleted her bank accounts, she also learns that the father she adores has been having an affair. Reeling with disappointment and shock, Sage accept...



  • Gilbert Morris

    He is a young Welshman who forsook the family shipbuilding business to study medicine . . . until, poised at the brink of a brilliant career, tragedy broke his heart and shattered his dreams. She is a daughter of London's inner city, a woman-child we...



  • Cathy Hopkins

    "Yeah but...," I started, then I decided to confront what I thought was probably really bothering her. "Look, about Jonno. I didn't mean for anything to happen. He just kind of..." After a game of truth or dare, Lia manages to gain the interest of...



  • Travis Thrasher

    Choices made. Promises broken.

    Three Roads Home explores the painful heart-trials that all couples must weather and the unexpected shelter they find in the restorative love of God. Brimming with honesty and hope, these stories offer moving p...



  • Gloria Cook

      Set during WWI, a ā€œcompelling and dramatic story about the crumbling British upper class launches what should prove to be a fascinating family sagaā€ (Booklist).   1917. The First World War casts its shadow over the Harvey family of Fo...



  • Hannah Alexander

    Book 3 of The Healing Touch. The town of Dogwood Springs has been deluged by spring storms. As tornadoes and torrential floods rage, Archer and Jessica Pierce struggle with doubts about their local church ministry. In the midst of the havoc, Archer d...



  • Lori Handeland
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    Come experience the magic and joy that only true love can bring in this heartwarming collection of tales featuring three governesses who find romance when they least expect it... "Love Passages" by Kate Donovan Miranda Kent has no idea what lies...



  • Vince Flynn

    CIA superagent Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown -- just when the world needs him more than ever.... Returning from a covert mission, Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president for his role in the fight against terrorism. After years of work...



  • Clare Curzon

    "Curzon sets her crimes in the leafy Thames Valley, a lovely enough part of old England where one of the old villages seem right out of a nineteenth-century painting. But people are the same mix of good and bad whatever scenery surrounds them, an...



  • Jane Haddam

    Cavanaugh Street is a mostly quiet Armenian neighborhood in downtown Philadelphia where nearly everyone knows everyone else and certainly knows their business. But that quiet is destroyed when the Armenian Orthodox church is destroyed by a bomb and i...



  • Steven Torres

    Angustias, Puerto Rico, 1990. Even a tropical paradise can have its little murders. Luis Gonzalo, sheriff of the small town of Angustias in Puerto Rico's central mountains, knows all there is to know about the people he has worked to protect for ...



  • Sally Spencer

    'Spencer's latest is her best: an ingenious puzzle that goes straight to the heart' - Kirkus Starred Review A miscarriage of justice for DCI Woodend Though it is thirty years since Margaret Dodds was tried and executed for the brutal murder of ...



  • Suzanne Chazin

    FDNY Fire Marshal Georgia Skeehan hunts a killer walking the streets of Manhattan in the five-alarm thriller and third in the series. In Fireplay, Skeehan is forced to collaborate with an arsonist-turned-FBI informant-a man she believes is a maste...



  • K.J. Erickson

    AN IRONCLAD ALIBI Heiress Terri Jackman was brutally murdered, and everyone--including Minneapolis Homicide detective "Mars" Bahr--believes that her abusive husband, basketball star Tayron "T-Jack" Jackman, did it. But he has an unshakeable alibi......



  • John Sandford

    Lucas Davenport's old boss, Rose Marie Roux, has moved up to the state level and taken Lucas with her, creating a special troubleshooter job for him for the cases that are too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. In addition, Lucas...



  • Tony Hillerman

    The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle. Why did the Was...



  • Julie Kenner

    Jason Murphy could talk to creatures of the sea. He could also change into a dolphin, and had a ton of other superpowers like all Protectors; but none of them really helped his situation. The love of his life didn't trust him anymore -- thought his d...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    When bad girl Geneva McBride died, she assumed she'd go straight to hell, but it turned out the Big Guy had a sense of humor. To earn her angel's wings she had to match her former husband with his ideal mate. Luckily, she had a foolproof plan...



  • Christine Feehan
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    FOR EACH, THERE COULD BE ONLY ONE They came from the darkest places: secluded monasteries, the Carpathian mountains, galaxies under siege. They were men with the blackest pasts--warriors, vampire monks, leaders of armies--but whose passions burned...



  • Karen Fox

    Brandon Goodfellow may be the greatest illusionist in the world, but he's no magician. Just ask Rose Thayer, the beautiful faery who possesses the one thing he covets most of all: true magical power. Years ago, she captivated his senses and captured ...



  • Janet Chapman

    A tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills... When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can't resist taking his photo -- and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce s...



  • Susan Squires
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    FOR EACH, THERE COULD BE ONLY ONE They came from the darkest places: secluded monasteries, the Carpathian mountains, galaxies under siege. They were men with the blackest pasts--warriors, vampire monks, leaders of armies--but whose passions burned...



  • John Shannon

    In the sixth novel of this best-selling private-eye series, Jack Liffey probes the complex ethnic mix-Muslim, Jewish, Baha'i, Christian, and secular-of the Persian communities in Los Angeles. A gripping tale that confronts youthful idealism with perf...



  • James W. Hall

    Before Thorn fell in love with crime-scene photographer Alexandra Rafferty, he was involved with Anne Joy, a beautiful woman who abandoned a violent life to forge a new, happier one in the Florida Keys. But her past includes her sadistic brother Vic,...



  • Bill Pronzini

    Shamus Award-winning author

    Few writers have ever had such a loyal reader following as Bill Pronzini and his "Nameless Detective." In terms of life on the printed page, the "Nameless Detective" celebrates his 35th birthday in 2003. The fourteen st...



  • Leonard Chang

    Edgy and as engrossing as Leonard Chang's acclaimed debut crime novel Over the Shoulder, Underkill finds Korean American investigator Allen Choice on a case that becomes as much a personal journey as an exploration of murder and its harrowing consequ...



  • James Sallis

    As he has shown so often in previous novels, James Sallis is one of our great stylists and storytellers, whose deep interest in human nature is expressed in the powerful stories of men too often at odds with themselves as well as the world around ...



  • Giles Blunt

    In the wake of a dual murder during a freak winter warm spell, Algonquin Bay homicide detectives Delorme and Cardinal link the killings to other unsolved murders spanning back some thirty years, a case with possible connections to Quebec terrorist ac...



  • Michael Allen Dymmoch

    "Thinnes specialized in homicide. He hated working rapes. Rape was more like a drive-by shooting than anything else because it was often a matter of the victim being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But drive-bys usually happened in the killer's...



  • James Hime

    Some folks think the big-bellied sheriff of Brenham, Texas, isn't smart enough to get reelected. But he's savvy enough to ask retired Texas Ranger Jeremiah Spur for help when Sissy Fletcher is dug up in a pasture outside of town. The hell-raising dau...



  • Naomi Rand

    Single motherhood hit Emma Price like a sledgehammer -- a double whammy to go along with the considerable pressures of her job as an investigator with the Capital Defenders Office. Having to raise a toddler and a troubled teen and dig up mitigating e...



  • C.J. Box

    It's an hour away from darkness. a bitter winter storm is raging, and Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand. his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right -- and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse ...



  • Anthea Fraser

    Meet Rona Parish, a talented biographer who has a skill for writing about the past and encountering danger along the way, and her adorable golden retriever, Gus.When Rona Parish is asked to write the biography of an acclaimed thriller writer who dro...



  • John R. Erickson

    An unearthly being has burrowed in Sally Mayā€™s vegetable garden. Hank tries to dig the space monster robot out of its hole. But when Sally May catches Hank in the ruined garden she blames him. Ashamed, Hank hits the road. Beginning his exile he run...



  • James Preller

    Jigsaw Jones is a, puzzle fanatic detective who deals with all kinds of cases. He knows that mysteries are like jigsaw puzzles--you've got to look at all the pieces to solve the case.

    Missing hamsters, lost coins, haunted houses...Jigsaw Jones...



  • Mark de Castrique

    "[A] marvelous mystery you won't want to put down." -- Publishers WeeklyBarry Clayton has a job he doesn't want. When his father became stricken with Alzheimer's, Barry left the Charlotte police force for the small mountain community of Gainesboro, ...




  • Lisa See

    When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death--...



  • Clare Curzon

    The first novel by bestselling crime-writer Clare Curzon, originally published only under the pseudonym of Marie Buchanan and the title Greenshards. Greenshards had been Olive Minton's family home for years, but now it was owned by the Blanchards - t...



  • April Smith

    April Smith electrified readers with her debut thriller, North of Montana, and introduced a new kind of cop in gutsy, complex, maverick FBI agent, Ana Grey. Now, Ana is back in a riveting story of obsession, violence, and the fine line between cop an...



  • Peter Tonkin

    The third book in the Master of Defence series, featuring Elizabethan sleuth Tom MusgraveDuring rehearsals for the first-ever performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tom is called away to hear the news of his brother's death. The cause? Fear John w...



  • Madeleine E. Robins

    On the mean streets of Regency London, a truly different adventure-with an unforgettable heroineIn a Regency London that isn't quite the one we know, young women of family whose reputations have been ruined are known as the Fallen. Young Sarah Tolera...



  • Julian Jay Savarin

    Featuring Muller and Pappenheim, heroes of A Cold Rain in Berlin A network of snipers, highly skilled professional killers, has been murdering apparently unconnected victims. The apparently happy family men who have been targeted share a secret from ...



  • Stan Jones

    ā€œIn a robust sequel to White Sky, Black Ice, this Alaska state trooper is still burdened by his urban upbringing and his aversion to ice and snow . . . Active maintains his awe of the vast Alaskan tundra, a forbidding region that Jones renders...



  • John E. Gardner

    The second book in the new detective series from a master storyteller The year is 1941, and London is still at war. After her adventures in Bottled Spider, WPC Suzie Mountford is back, and working the beat in West End Central - a notoriously dangerou...



  • Barbara J. Ferrenz

    Theodora Zed dresses the part of the gothic author wearing heavy make-up and tight leather skirts, then heads home to her life as Mary Kate Flaherty, suburban wife and mother. At a horror convention, Mary Kate is implicated in a murder. Mary Kate has...



  • David A. Adler

    It's field trip day in Cam and Eric's class. Only where is Eric's permission slip? He had it on the bus, but now it's gone! Did someone take it? Did it blow away? After a few red herrings, Cam's click-click memory kicks in just in time for Eric to jo...



  • William Lashner

    "Lust will make a fool of any man, but it is only love that can truly ruin him." So says Victor Carl, the ethically adventurous Philadelphia lawyer who usually ends up doing the right thing, but, as his law partner says, often for all the wrong reaso...



  • Randy D. Singer

    Bright but inexperienced attorney Mitchell Taylor is torn between warring personal and professional interests. Can he help his client -- a young surrogate mother -- and save the child she carries without sealing the fate of others? A FIGHT FOR LIFE....



  • Indu Sundaresan

    The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's lush second novel, The Feast of Roses. Here, Mehrunnisa comes into Jahangir's harem as his twentieth a...



  • Thomas Kinkade; Katherine Spencer

    This moving novel in Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer's New York Times bestselling Cape Light series takes us back to the tightly knit community on the New England coast that has captured our heartsā€¦   Now that the Cape Light election is o...



  • Pam Rosenthal

    A Daring Masquerade... For three years, London's haute ton has been captivated by the cool elegance of a dandy named Mr. Philip "Phizz" Marston. Tall, refined, an expert gambler with a cold, unerring eye for style, the mysterious Mr. M...



  • Deborah Hale

    Could She Defeat His Darkness and Bring Him Back to Life? Handsome rakehell turned scarred recluse Lord Lucius Daventry had returned from battle intent on forgetting the past. Yet once home, Lucius was presented with one final mission: marry Angel...



  • Sally Laity

    Unable to forgive the Germans for her brother's death in the war, Tricia travels to England to do her part to fight the enemy. Working for her uncle at an American news service, Trish finds herself attracted to photographer Doug St. Claire. But beyon...



  • Lynn Kerstan

    The Golden Leopard was the first book in Lynn Kerstan's powerful new trilogy. Now, she continues her mesmerizing saga with an unforgettable tale of vengeance and forbidden passion... One of the most beautiful women in all of England, Mira Holcombe...



  • Hannah Howell

    Bestselling author Hannah Howell returns to her magnificent Murray family with the first in a stunning new trilogy -- a tale of vengeance and passion in the wilds of Scotland... Sir Payton Murray's reputation as a lover is rivaled only by his...



  • Denise Hunter

    Emily Wagner will be a mail-order bride. This arrangement will answer all of her problems - best buried. But when she arrives in Cedar Bend, Kansas, she finds her world has been turned upside-down. Cade Manning needs a mother for his son Adam. He ...



  • Margaret Moore

    WANTON INNOCENT The instant Lady Diana Westover spies Edmond Terrington, Viscount Adderley, across a crowded room, the lovely, sheltered miss believes she's found the man she's been searching for. Though she knows nothing of men, Diana longs to pe...



  • Genell Dellin

    AN OUTLAW HEART A proud Cherokee Lighthorseman, Black Fox is determined to hunt down the notorious Cat -- a brazen thief who robs from the wealthy to give to the poor. But his satisfaction at finally capturing the elusive outlaw turns to shock whe...



  • Rebecca Brandewyne

    Racing along the rocky coast of Cornwall, on a night fit for neither man nor beast, Verity Collier's coach is attacked by the notorious highwayman plaguing the Cornish countryside. The villain's commanding strength and cloak of dangerous sensuality h...



  • Lorraine Heath

    Of all the eligible noblemen in London, husband-seeking Lydia had to lose her heart to the scandalous Marquess of Blackhurst. BEST LAID PLANS GONE SCANDALOUSLY AWRY Clutching her well-worn copy of Blunders in Behavior Corrected Miss Lydia Westl...



  • Linda Ford

    Joining her husband, Kingston, who has returned to his family's farm in Canada following the Great War, Maryelle faces the trials of her new life. Two years and many miles have separated the couple, who were married just before the war. Now, all Mary...



  • Katherine Greyle

    The rookeries are slums, but an assassination is being planned there and Marcus Kane, Lord Chadwick, will not be able to navigate the labyrinthine underworld alone. His time spying in France is not experience enough; he will require a partner. Fantin...



  • Katie MacAlister

    sometimes love is like a smoking gun... Dear Worthy Reader: I take quill in hand to warn you of the inaccurate picture hinted at in this very tome of my modest self. A poor widow I returned to England eager to take my place in the ton only to f...



  • Lisa Bingham

    Mail-order bride Phoebe Gray should have come stamped "handle with care." Guarding dynamite in a lightning storm would be easier than guiding this one willful redhead all the way west, Gabe Cutter fumed. Yet his Pinkerton-honed instincts told him he ...



  • Cassie Edwards

    RACING HEARTS Leaving her native Ireland behind, Maureen O'Rourke arrives in America with her watercolors, her canvasses, and her boundless dreams. She is hired to paint the impressive manor house of Louisiana cotton farmer Taylor Clairmont -...



  • Margo Maguire

    Dorothea Bright would never be the same... Life On The Run Certainly Had Its Attractions When she left quiet Oxford for her esteemed father's London home, Dorothea Bright never dreamed she'd be thrown into intrigue and danger with the likes of ...



  • Holly Cook

    When Myles Dampier saves her from drowning, Sabina Grey imagines him to be a selkie: a legendary seducer from the deep who means doom to foolish maidens. He is no myth, however, but a flesh-and-blood Englishman, one she falls in love with and marries...



  • Justine Wittich

    The follow-up novel to Chloe and the Spy -- the book that Romantic Times called, ". . . enchanting . . . a definite winner", and gave a four-star rating! When Sierra Shaw descends on London society she announces at the outset that she wants to mar...



  • Nita Abrams

    London, 1813: Napoleon is retreating under the relentless British advance, but as those loyal to him scramble to form new alliances, no one can be trusted and no motive is without question. And for James Meyer, the rebellious son of one of Wellington...



  • Julianne MacLean

    My dear sister Clara, London society is so much more complicated than I could ever have known! Every night is a different ball or assembly, and a different swirl of glittering jewels and rustling gowns. Though I fear I am making social blunders lef...



  • Freda Chrisman

    Carrie Warden knows Alfred Rafter will never hold the key to her heart. But her father's lust for a financial alliance has sealed her fate: Carrie will marry the fifty-year-old widower and break the promise she made to her grandmother - to wait for h...



  • Elizabeth Rolls

    A Forbidden Attraction... When Lady Mathilda Cavendish arrived at a house party hosted by her young cousin's suitor, she had only one goal in mind -- to stop the proposed match. The chaperon never imagined that her cousin's betrothed would be the on...



  • Darlene Mindrup

    Before her mother died, she arranged for Disa to marry Thorvald, a man of mystery to the settlers of Greenland. But their leader, Erik and Red, trusts Thorvald, and Disa knows she has no choice in the matter. If she does not marry, her land will be g...



  • Julia Byrne

    Rorik finds an exquisite beauty lying beaten and helpless in an English manor hall and can't leave her to her vicious husband -- or to be found by the advancing Viking raiders. So he carries her away to his ship. But is Rorik intent on saving her -- ...



  • Sara Hely


    In the wonderful tradition of Elizabeth Jane Howard, War Story tells an extraordinarily authentic tale of both rationing and riches during the war years and at the same time unfolds a mesmerizing and unforgettable love story.

    After war bre...



  • Nicola Cornick

    THE LADY RAKEHELL'S REDEMPTION... Unmarriageable, untamable, unforgettable, Lady Juliana Myfleet was the Ton's most notorious widow. With her reputation nearly in tatters, Juliana knew the one thing that would save her from ruin was the one thi...



  • Elizabeth Lane

    Alone, pregnant and on the run! Desperate Times Called for Desperate Measures.... And widow Cassandra Logan was as desperate as they come. Who could blame her for the audacious falsehood she told for the sake of her baby? No one -- except mayb...



  • Christopher Pike

    David, a twenty-eight-year-old artist, is recovering from a bad breakup with the mysterious and beautiful Sienna when he discovers a woman's dead body half-buried on the beach near Lompoc, California. To his surprise, David is interviewed not just...



  • V.C. Andrews

    Three girls from different worlds with one thing in common: They were born to be wild. Robin...With a mom who's more absorbed in her singing career than in her own daughter, Robin's left to her own devices when the two move to Nashville. That's wh...



  • Melanie Tem

    The Devil, they say, is in the details. The small decisions we make every day. But for the Harkness family, this expression is all too literally true. For many years the members of this family have gotten seemingly helpful advice at key moments in th...



  • Graham Masterton

    When Jessica's parents are tragically killed in a car crash, she goes to live with her grandparents in their big old house in Connecticut. Bullied at her new school because of the injury she suffered in the crash, Jessica finds solace in her favo...



  • James M. Thompson

    A Desire Beyond Reason As a vampire, Elijah Pike (alias Roger Niemann) has been a slave to instinct--consuming human blood to satisfy an unquenchable thirst. As a doctor, he relies on his intellect in the pursuit of a cure that will end not only h...



  • Brian Keene

    When a horrifying plague turns most of the world into powerful flesh-eating zombies, Jim Thurmond, while on a cross-country quest to save his son, joins forces with an elderly preacher, a scientist, and a reformed prostitute to save civilization from...



  • Darren Shan

    Trials of Death is the fifth book in the bestselling Cirque Du Freak series. Darren, the vampire's assistant, must pass five fearsome Trials to prove himself to the vampire clan -- or face the stakes in the Hall of Death. Author Darren Shan's vivid...



  • Philip Gooden

    'Another clever criminal plunge into history' GuardianOn a foggy morning in 1602, a boyhood friend of Nick Revill arrives in London. When Peter Agate announces that he wants to try his hand at acting, what can Nick do but offer him a part with his o...



  • C.J. Sansom

    MEET MATTHEW SHARDLAKE, ESQ."THE SHARPEST HUNCHBACK IN THE COURTS OF ENGLAND" The year is 1537 and England is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the king and the newly established Church of England. When a roy...



  • Suzann Ledbetter

    "The simple truth is, I was born clever...." So says spirited young Denver City detective Joby (Josephine Beckworth) Sawyer -- and she isn't bragging. With a whip-sharp mind, self-taught expertise in biology, herbology, chemistry, criminality, and le...



  • Rosemary Stevens

    In Regency England, Beau Brummell stood as the uncrown king of genteel Society. Whatever he wore was the height of 'fashion. Wherever he went was the place to be. And the last place one would expect to find him was in the middle of a murder mystery. ...



  • Boris Akunin

    Moscow, May 1876. What would cause a talented student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public? Decadence and boredom, it is presumed. But young sleuth Erast Fandorin is not satisfied with the conclusion that this death...



  • J. Robert King
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The battle rages on! Amid the titanic clash between Phage and Akroma, all Dominaria shuddered. Now, out of the destruction and chaos a new force arises, and Kamahl must face his greatest foe: Karoma. Her arms spread to the very clouds, and her rob...



  • Scott Ciencin
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When the gods are banished from the heavens, they must travel through Faerūn in the guise of mortals. When four companions, last survivors of the Company of the Lynx, find themselves in possession of a mysterious amulet, they must escape death at ...



  • Paul B. Thompson; Tonya Cook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The mighty Ergothian empire is gripped by civil war. Centuries before the first Cataclysm sunders Ansalon, two imperial dynasties struggle for supremacy. Brutal warlords jockey for power, while corrupt wizards sell their skills to the highest bidd...



  • Michael Phillips

    It's impossible to describe to anyone who's never been a slave what it's like to suddenly realize you're free. I would never forget what I felt like that day as long as I lived.... Two very different girls, one the daughter of a slave, the other t...



  • Max Brand

    The three novellas collected here showcase Max Brand s outstanding ability to create living, breathing characters whose unforgettable exploits linger long after the last page is turned. In The Canon Coward, you ll meet Harry Clonnell, a tracker who r...



  • Susan Campbell Bartoletti

    When his father dies, Finn Reardon must support his family by selling newspapers on the streets of Manhattan, where he finds himself in the middle of the Newsie Strike of 1899.

    When Finn Reardon's father dies, he decides to support his mother ...



  • Carolyn Meyer

    August 3, 1638 Papa Matthiae arrived last evening, accompanied by Jacob Henrik Elbfas, the court painter. I feared this meant I should have to pose for another official portrait. They dress you in wretchedly uncomfortable gowns and make you stand pe...



  • Tabor Evans

    A Tucson gang is on fire, but Longarm turns up the heat!A gang of killer bandits are on a spree -- hijacking gold and silver shipments and gunning down anyone who might get in their way. Longarm goes in to stick close to the wagon train owner -- only...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    A new novel of the Old West from the critically acclaimed author of Relentless and Ghost Town...

    When Marshal Ben Tully came riding back into his town, there wasn't a soul stirring. Not the sprawled, bloody man outside his door. Not the stra...



  • Martin Corrick

    TOM AND WILL are identical twins, born as the church bells ring out the armistice of 1918. Largely ignored by their preoccupied mother and adulterous father, the brothers share a close bond through their rambunctious boyhood, but have gone their sepa...



  • Cameron Judd

    BROTHERS IN ARMS Joseph and Liam Carrigan may have the same strong Irish blood running in their veins, but the similarity ends there. Where Joseph is level-headed and forthright, Liam is temperamental and roguish. After fighting on opposing sides...



  • Jake Logan

    After claiming their reward money for destroying four of the ruthless Conrad brothers, Slocum and Sam Biggle find themselves in hot water when a con-artist, using two brazen beauties as bait, tries to swindle them out of their hard-earned money. Orig...



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    When General Sherman appoints lawyers Thomas Ball and Joe Woolfolk as counsel to Satanta and Big Tree, two Kiowa warriors who have been accused of murdering seven cowboys, Thomas and Joe, ordered to prove them guilty, instead find themselves defendin...



  • Fred Grove

    Estranged from his family due to his decision to join the Union militia, Daniel Wade, recovering from a war injury, returns home only to discover that a gang of vicious outlaws have taken the entire town hostage, forcing him to once again engage in b...



  • Robert Vaughan

    It Wasn't Your Land Until You Fought For It. It Wasn't Your Life Until You Were Willing To Die... Cole Collier once was a preacher, but in the smoke and fire of the Civil War, he found a bloody calling--with a gun that was faster and deadlier tha...



  • Larry McMurtry

    The indefatigable Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family trek on through the unexplored Wild West of 1830s America -- and suffer the harsh realities of the untamed wilderness, including sickness, brutal violence and death, the desertion of trust...