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New Books List: 513 titles

  • A Habit for Death

    Chuck Zito

    Escaping the heat and heartbreak of New York City for a summer in rural Pennsylvania sounded like the perfect plan to Nicky D'Amico. Little did he know that what began as a heavenly idea would turn out to be a hell of a job!Each year the nuns of rura...

  • The Curse of the Raven Mocker

    Marly Youmans

    Offers readers a fantastical tale of adventure as Adanta finds herself alone on a journey through the wilderness and the land of the Hidden People of the mountains in the hopes of locating her parents who have fallen under the spell of the Lean One. ...

  • Project: Parenthood

    Trish Wylie

    She hid from love, but it found her anyway... Teagan Delaney has made sure that she's too busy for love...too busy to get hurt! But when she has to become stand-in mom to her sister's tiny kids and enlists the help of her gorgeous neighbor, Brenda...

  • Fugitives of Chaos

    John C. Wright

    Fugitives of Chaos is a tale about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they may not be human beings. The students at the school do not age, while the world around them does. The orphans have been kidnapp...

  • The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After

    Patricia C. Wrede; Caroline Stevermer

    Ten years have passed since Kate and Cecy married Thomas and James, and England is now being transformed by the first railways. When James is asked to look into the sudden disappearance of a German railway engineer, he and Cecy make a shocking discov...

  • Flushed Away: Movie Novel

    Penny Worms

    From the creators of Shrek and Wallace & Gromit comes a madcap animated comedy set on and beneath the streets of London.

    The story of a pampered, uptown rat named Roddy who is flushed down the toilet in his penthouse apartment and ends up in t...

  • Santa, Baby // Carolina Christmas

    Sherryl Woods
    in

    When Amy Riley's son disappears in the mall, Santa--who is actually police officer Nick DiCaprio--comes to the rescue. Whoever said the Big Red Guy wasn't sexy?...

  • Always A Chance

    Angela Winters

    Having fled to Europe years ago, Lily Wolfe vowed to leave Atlanta and her reputed crime-family roots behind. But when her father suffered a stroke, she found herself back in the family fold, caring for him and a real estate empire built on deception...

  • Holiday Confessions

    Anne Marie Winston

    He had never seen her face...and yet he could read her better than any sighted man ever had. For ex-model Lynne Devane, meeting someone as powerful and sexy as Brendan Reilly--a man without an agenda--made her want to finally confess who she really w...

  • The Godfather's Revenge

    Mark Winegardner

    The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family-one of the most enduring lineages in American literature and cinema-achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the as...

  • The Hidden Assassins

    Robert Wilson

    As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón investigates a faceless, mutilated corpse, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building confirms everybody's terrorist fea...

  • The Deception of the Emerald Ring

    Lauren Willig

    Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of trouble since she's been spying on the Pink Carnation and the Black Tulip--two of the deadliest agents to saunter the streets of nineteenth-century England and France. Not only has she ...

  • The Bejewelled Bride

    Lee Wilkinson

    SHOWERED WITH DIAMONDS, MARRIED FOR REVENGE... Millionaire Joel McAlister doesn't trust Bethany Seaton, and he certainly doesn't love her. But he WANTS her, so he won't let anyone else have her.... But Joel has misjudged Bethany, bel...

  • The Date Next Door

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR? Attending her neighbor's high school reunion wasn't exactly Nicole Sawyer's idea of a good time. But widower Joel Brannon had asked her along to help fend off his classmates' prying questions, and she couldn't seem to refuse ...

  • Some Like It Hot

    Lori Wilde

    If you can't take the heat... The kitchen at the Hotel Marchand is hot and steamy, but it's not the simmering gumbo that's kicking up the heat. Head chef Robert LeSoeur and sous-chef Melanie Marchand have been battling each other since their first...

  • Love Walked In // Second Chance Gift

    Merrillee Whren

    Getting close to new neighbor Clay Reynolds was not a consideration for Beth Carlson. The single mom had her hands full with her troubled teen and had no time for romance, especially since Clay's stay in Pinecrest was only temporary. Besides, she'd l...

  • A Sultan's Ransom

    Loreth Anne White

    The countdown continues... An heir denied his throne. A deadly virus without an antidote. One woman who holds the key to saving the world. The warrior blood of his ancestors urged Sheik Rafiq Zayed to claim what was rightfully his. But first ...

  • Surviving Antarctica

    Andrea White

    The wind and snow blow so hard, you can't see your hand in front of your face. Your heating fuel is nearly gone, and so is your food. How do you survive? Five fourteenâ€"yearâ€"olds face this desperate situation on a deadly journey in Antarctica. It...

  • Missing Magic

    Karen Whiddon

    Heir to the kingdom of Rune, Cenrick sees it is his responsibility to seek out the truth. There are disturbing reports of a great evil befalling his people. The solution lies in the world of mortals, in a quest that may mean his very soul--and his he...

  • Water Song

    Suzanne Weyn

    "ONCE UPON A TIME" IS TIMELESS Young, beautiful, and wealthy, Emma Pennington is accustomed to a very comfortable life. Although war rages abroad, she hardly feels its effect. She and her mother travel from their home in Britain to the family...

  • A Mistress For the Taking

    Annie West

    Made to be his mistress... Inexperienced Marina Lucchesi must save her brother from ruin. Rich, handsome Ronan Carlisle wants to settle a score. Ronan's strategy is simple: if Marina poses as his mistress, he'll ensure that the man who made the...

  • The Half Life of Stars

    Louise Wener

    Claire's older brother, Daniel, has disappeared. He leaves work one Friday afternoon, shortly before Christmas, and vanishes into thin air. Married, successful, rich, there seems no reason why he would abandon his life. Has he been killed? Has he bee...

  • Confessions Of A Not-So-Dead Libido

    Peggy Webb

    When longtime best friends, Patsy Leslie and Louise Jernigan decide to jump-start their not-so-dead libidos, quilting and bridge suddenly take a backseat to, well, more amorous pursuits. Local tongues wag, and Patsy's son and Louise's daughter--who h...

  • A Colby Christmas

    Debra Webb

    IT'S CASE NO. 25 FOR THE COLBY AGENCY...BUT WILL THEY CLOSE THE FILE BEFORE CHRISTMAS MORNING COMES? Golden boy Brad Gibson never expected his climb up the corporate ladder would involve dodging bullets. But after he discovered corruption at a leadi...

  • Unbreakable

    Debra Webb
    in

    Although she's been hired to prove that drivers are serious athletes, Dr. Maxine Gray doesn't think much of NASCAR racing. So in the spirit of Christmas, driver Rush Buchanan is determined to show the good doctor the "rush" that racing -- and race ca...

  • Maverick Christmas

    Joanna Wayne

    CHRISTMAS CAME TO SHERIFF JOSH McCAIN'S HOUSE MORE THAN A FEW SURPRISES He'd been solitary for so long--his own man. Then suddenly a single father doing his best. But above all, the Montana lawman did what was right no matter the cost. Until he met ...

  • British Bad Boys

    Nancy Warren

    What woman isn't a sucker for a sexy hunk with a hot English accent and a very large...estate? Fall in lust with three British Bad Boys who like it shaken and stirred, and who know exactly how to give a woman the royal treatment, in bed and out... ...

  • The Shadow Walker

    Michael Walters

    As winter falls upon the streets of Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, a serial killer is just getting warmed up. When the mutilated body of a fourth victim is found in one of the city's most expensive hotels, Nergui, the former head of the Serious Crimes squad,...

  • The Dark Foundations

    Chris Walley

    The Dark Foundations continues the epic story begun in The Shadow and Night. Far beyond the tranquility of the Assembly worlds, Nezhuala, Lord-Emperor of the Dominion, is preparing a merciless and crushing attack on Farholme as a prelude to an onslau...

  • The Shadow And Night

    Chris Walley

    In the first book in the epic Lamb among the Stars series, author Chris Walley weaves the worlds of science and the spirit, technology and supernatural into something unique in science fiction. Twelve thousand years into the future, the human race ha...

  • The Long Night of Winchell Dear

    Robert James Waller

    The steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousnes...

  • Reckless

    Cecily von Ziegesar

    EVERY GIRL DREAMS ABOUT IT. SOME JUST HAVE IT . HOW FAR WILL ONE GIRL GO TO BECOME... the It Girl When Jenny Humphrey arrived at Waverly Academy, the student body immediately started buzzing about her and her body. She quickly caught the eye o...

  • High Heels are Murder

    Elaine Viets

    Mystery shopper--and solver--Josie Marcus made her debut in Dying in Style. Now Elaine Viets brings back the undercover retail spy and single mom, who's out to change the world one boutique at a time.... There are some major benefits to Josie's jo...

  • Little Monkey's Big Peeing Circus

    Tjibbe Veldkamp

    Little Monkey’s Big Peeing Circus will make a big SPLASH!An exceptionally talented pee-er, Little Monkey opens a peeing circus so he can show off his talents. Mimi wants to perform in it, too, but can Mimi pee without a pee pee? This humorou...

  • Paint the Town

    Crystal Velasquez

    ¡MUY CALIENTE!
    Visit the wacky and wonderful world of Maya & Miguel with these books that tie into the hit show on PBS!


    ¡Eso es! Maya has a great idea to brighten up the Community Center and showcase Miguel and Maggie's talents---a bi...

  • The Law of a Fast Gun

    Robert Vaughan

    A man haunted and changed by war-;whose fingers are equally skilled in the arts of music and death-;Mason Hawke has found a new home in Braggadocio, Nebraska. But a dustup in the local saloon has forced his hand, and now two bodies lie lifeless on th...

  • Limitations

    Scott Turow

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes a compelling new legal mystery featuring George Mason from Personal Injuries. Originally commissioned and published in the New York Times Magazine, this edition contains additio...

  • Murder at the Opera

    Margaret Truman

    Margaret Truman, who knows where all the bodies are buried inside the Beltway, has written her most thrilling novel of suspense yet. Murder at the Opera features the popular crime-fighting couple Mac Smith and his wife, Annabel Reed-Smith, as they na...

  • At Home In Dry Creek

    Janet Tronstad

    A NEW HOME'S PROMISE With two kids to raise and her ex-husband in jail, Barbara Strong moved to Dry Creek for a fresh start. She loved the town, but apparently her feelings weren't reciprocated. Didn't the folks in Dry Creek trust her? Truth was, S...

  • Home to Big Stone Gap

    Adriana Trigiani

    Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her beloved family and friends for generations. But with her daughter, Etta, having flown the nest to enchanting Italy...

  • Master of Souls

    Peter Tremayne

    IN JANUARY OF A.D. 668, Fidelma of Cashel -- sister to the kings of Ireland and advocate of the Brehon law courts -- is called to investigate the brutal murder of Abbess Faife and the mysterious disappearance of six young female religieuses while on ...

  • Turning Japanese

    J. Torres

    TURNING JAPANESE It's the end of Ellie's senior year, and as though final exams aren't enough to worry about, she's been placed in a compromising position by one of her bosses at a comic book company. Is quitting her only option? J.T. turns to th...

  • The Moon Riders

    Theresa Tomlinson

    When a young Amazon woman, Myrina, becomes one of the warrior priestesses known as the Moon Riders, she is well prepared to perform their sacred dances, hunt and fight when necessary. But the Moon Riders who inhabit the plains of Troy are drawn into ...

  • A Whole New Life

    Betsy Thornton

    Failed poet turned creative-writing instructor Jackson Williams realized his life changed the moment police told him his wife Jenny died in a car accident on an Arizona mountain road. He didn't realize just how much until he was arrested for her murd...

  • The Cursed One

    Ronda Thompson

    Wed and widowed in one day, stunning socialite Amelia Sinclair's honeymoon is anything but typical. Then again, neither is Amelia--rebellious and impulsive, marrying Robert Collingsworth was the one sensible thing she ever did. Now he's dead and she ...

  • People of the Forest

    David Thompson

    When Nate King chose a new valley in which to build his home, he wanted to get away from all civilization and the inevitable trouble it brings. But Nate can't duck trouble for very long. A hostile band of Indians has also laid claim to the Kings' val...

  • Heat Lightning

    Colleen Thompson

    An unidentified man is terrorizing Luz Maria Montoya. Almost strangled to death outside a deserted parking lot, she has no idea who is the perpetrator of this very personal hate crime. Investigator Grant Holcomb has been assigned to find her attacker...

  • Texas Rain

    Jodi Thomas

    New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas delivers a tender tale of the Old West, a handsome Texas Ranger, and a mysterious woman fleeing a terrible fate. The first in the powerful new Whispering Mountain trilogy... Honest, straightforward, an...

  • Baby Steps

    Karen Templeton

    It was bad enough that her partners left shy store owner Dana Malone to scout new retail space with devastatingly handsome Realtor C. J. Turner. Then--wham!--her way-out wayward cousin literally left a baby on Dana's doorstep, and a birth certificate...

  • The Bargain

    Julia Templeton

    HE SAW... Saxon beauty Aleysia Cawdor is willing to do anything to protect her dear twin brother during a conquest that could strip her of her everything. Her last resort is to enter into a sensual bargain with her worst enemy, and submit to his bru...

  • The Truth About Stacey

    Raina Telgemeier; Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters come to life in a new graphic novel series!

    Poor Stacey. She's moved to a new town. She's still coming to terms with her diabetes. She's facing baby-sitting problems left and right. And her parents are no help.<...

  • The Blonde

    Duane Swierczynski

    The night before a big meeting, Jack Eisley is sitting in an airport bar in Philadelphia, chatting up a pretty young blonde. Sure, Jack has a wife and daughter at home, but this is just a little harmless flirting. Harmless, that is, until the blonde ...

  • Ebony Eyes

    Kei Swanson

    Corie Rickmanââ,¬â"¢s parents have always indulged her, but chafing under their protective care, she chooses to marry a man from the wrong side of the tracks. After one too many beatings from her husband, she leaves him and starts her life over. Unf...

  • Avengers and Power Pack Assemble!

    Marc Sumerak

    Hot on the heels of their adventure with the X-Men, Power Pack returns for another titanic team-up... and this time, it's Earth's Mightiest Heroes leading the charge! Collects Avengers and Power Pack Assemble! #1-4....

  • Warrior's Heart

    Stephen D. Sullivan

    Catriona Goodlund was born to be a warrior. Now, after years on the road to knighthood, protecting and saving her friends, it’s time for Cat to face the secrets of her past and finally decide her future.

    But when she returns to her hometown,...

  • The Ghost

    Brian Studler

    The Ghost, a legendary figure who has gone by so many aliases his real identity is a mystery, has created a double-edged hallucinogen that is both a blessing to psychiatry and a powerful weapon that can ignite mass hysteria. When the mad scientist is...

  • Cold As Ice

    Anne Stuart

    NEVER GET IN THE WAY OF A MISSION The job was supposed to be dead easy -- hand-deliver some legal papers to billionaire philanthropist Harry Van Dorn's extravagant yacht, get his signature and be done. But Manhattan lawyer Genevieve Spenser soon r...

  • The Jennifer Morgue

    Charles Stross

    SAVING THE WORLD FROM EVIL IS A 24/7 JOB -- NO OVERTIME PAY INCLUDED. Ruthless software billionaire Ellis Billington has unearthed a device that will enable him to raise an eldritch horror, code-named "JENNIFER MORGUE," from the ocean's depths for t...

  • Bubbles All The Way

    Sarah Strohmeyer

    The Agatha Award -- winning series returns with a new tale of suspicions, steel-town secrets, and homicide by hair product.... For years the local ladies of Lehigh, Pennsylvania, hay wished aloud that Debbie Shatsky would meet an untimely end so t...

  • Blood Diamonds

    P.W. Storm

    After assembling his own "private security" force made up of the able and disenchanted from the U.S. military and British Secret Intelligence Service, Mad Dog and his team are off to Angola to recover a missing cache of gemstones. In a land where blo...

  • The Sky People

    S.M. Stirling

    In the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union sent unmanned probes to Mars and Venus -- and discovered worlds teeming with life. At that point, the "Space Race" was on in earnest. Now, in 1988, Marc Vitrak has been assigned to Jamestown, the ...

  • Party Poopers

    R.L. Stine

    JENNIFER ECCH IS IN LOVE... - Bernie Bridges runs away whenever he sees her. He calls her Nightmare Girl. And he calls her The Ecch. - But Jennifer doesn't care. She calls Bernie "Honey Cakes" and "Lamby Pie." And she plants loud, smoochy kisses al...

  • Bedroom Window

    Amanda Stevens

  • Double Life

    Amanda Stevens

    AN OIL FORTUNE AND AN ILL-FATED HEIR Ash Corbett had been gone for twelve years. And now he was back in Jacob's Pass, Texas, as brash and as beautiful as ever. But something about him wasn't right. His family knew it...Emma Novick knew it. And what ...

  • Cool Cat

    Michael Anthony Steele

    Bring on The Batman!

    There's a catastrophe in Gotham City! A priceless cat-shaped diamond and a saber-toothed tiger are missing, and Catwoman has something to do with it. Can Batman catch all three cats before the end of the night?...

  • Tropical Warnings

    April Star

  • 'Tis the Silly Season

    Roxanne St. Claire
    in

    NASCAR Busch Series racer Clay Slater needs a ready-made family -- fast -- to impress a potential sponsor. Lisa Mahoney can't resist the chance to give her kids the storybook Christmas she's never been able to . . . and if that includes a kiss under ...

  • Sins of the Fathers

    Sally Spencer

    Politician spills his guts ? all over the road! The discovery of Bradley Pine's body off a busy road signals the end of his bid to win a local election. But why would the killer risk dumping the body so publicly? And why should he not only reduce the...

  • It's My Party!

    Justin Spelvin

  • Dear John

    Nicholas Sparks

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes an unforgettable tale of a man who must make the most heartrending decision of his life--in the name of love ... "Dear John," the letter read. And with those two words, a heart was br...

  • ES Vol. 3: Eternal Sabbath

    Fuyumi Soryo

    ONLY HUMAN

    What does it mean to be human? Dr. Mine Kujyou thought she knew, but then she met Isaac and Shuroâ€"genetically engineered superhumans who can read minds and control people with their thoughts. For support, Mine turns to her oldest ...

  • The Super Mom

    Karen Rose Smith

    THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR With three kids to care for and two jobs to make ends meet, the last thing on Angela Schumacher's mind was a relationship. And then Santa delivered the perfect man to her door.... Football coach David Moore a...

  • We the Underpeople

    Cordwainer Smith

    In a far-flung future, planoforming ships knit together a galaxy ruled from Earth by the ruthless benevolence of the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, who presided over a utopia without death, danger-or freedom. The Underpeople, humanlike bein...

  • Hired Gun

    Bobbi Smith

    Trent Marshall is a hard man. Ever since his older brother was shot down in cold blood, he's pursued justice with only his Colt .45 revolver to back him up. So when he agrees to go after a young girl abducted by the Apache, he knows he has tracking s...

  • Eyes of Crow

    Jeri Smith-Ready

    SHE WAS BORN TO DIE...AGAIN AND AGAIN For Rhia was bound to the Spirit of Crow, gifted with the foresight of Death's approach and doomed to the isolation of one feared and set apart. There must always be one whose magic can ease the passage of the ...

  • Wednesday's Woes

    Gayle Jackson Sloan

    With an ex-husband that she despises and can no longer trust, a rebellious teenage son with a hoochie-in-training girlfriend, the death of a loved one, and sisters who have lost their minds, can anything else go wrong for Zoe Knight? Follow the twist...

  • Kamikaze

    Michael Slade

    Two killers--one targeting a survivor of the Enola Gray bomb crew that incinerated Hiroshima years ago, and one targeting those responsible for murdering her father during the fall of Hong Kong in 1941--make a horrifying discovery about each ...

  • Long Last Call

    John Skipp

    It was closing time at the strip club. The bartender was cleaning up, and the girls were looking forward to calling it a night. Then he came in, a well-dressed stranger with a lot of cash to spend. A briefcase full, in fact. But this is no normal ...

  • Flushed Away: Heroes, Henchrats & Hooligans

    Fiona Simpson

    From the creators of Shrek and Wallace & Gromit comes a madcap animated comedy set on and beneath the streets of London.

    The story of a pampered, uptown rat named Roddy who is flushed down the toilet in his penthouse apartment and ends up in t...

  • Awaiting the Night

    Donna Lea Simpson

    From the national bestselling author of Awaiting the Moon comes a spellbinding romance about a man who's hiding from his past, the woman who gives him hope for the future -- and the legend that could destroy them both... Alarmed by the wolves who ha...

  • His Dark Kiss

    Eve Silver

    SAINT... Set high atop a hill, Manorbrier Castle is shrouded in darkness and savage rumors: No servant has ever survived for long...Stay away from the Round Tower...There's death there... And then there is the dark lord of the manor himself...a ...

  • Water

    Bapsi Sidhwa

    An eight-year-old is sent to live in a community of widows in India, and finds a new purpose there, in a novel by “a writer of enormous talent†(Newsday).Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eig...

  • Six-Gun Law

    Jory Sherman

    The Nomad: Lew Zane believed he was delivering justice -- not vengeance -- when he tracked down and killed the men who murdered his parents. But taking the law into his own hands has taken its toll on his soul. Ridding himself of his land and propert...

  • Resolute

    Mike Shepherd

    Kris Longknife, who turned her back on her privileged and moneyed upbringing for a career in the Navy, has at long last been given her first independent command -- in the very remote system of Chance. For an officer with a rep for bucking the system,...

  • Dangerous Lover // One Magic Summer

    Maggie Shayne

    No sooner had Selene Brand cast her love spell than dark, handsome--and freshly stabbed--Cory Forrester fell at her feet. She felt as destined to save this stranger as she was to love him, even if it meant exposing her secret life as a witch. But the...

  • High Plains Griffers

    Jon Sharpe

    Fargo always finds his mark…The boomtown of Plum Creek, Kansas, is already going bust when Skye Fargo rides through. So when he witnesses a team of fatherâ€"and-daughter grifters knocking over the town’s bank, he can’t let them get away with ...

  • My Wicked Pirate

    Rona Sharon

    First He Gave Her A Wicked Kiss . . . Azure-eyed Alanis was by far the most exquisite treasure ever claimed by the black pirate known as the Viper, but his motives went deeper than his silken promise to ravish the feisty Yorkshire heiress. Commandi...

  • Slawter

    Darren Shan

    That's when the demon bursts out of the manhole and grabs him. It happens in a blur, and is so fast, so violent, so shocking, that several people in the crowd cry out with alarm. The demon is green, slimy, with fierce yellow eyes, four long arms with...

  • The Rising Tide

    Jeff Shaara

    As Hitler sweeps through Europe, America is drawn into the war, standing side by side with her British ally, the last hope for turning the tide of the war. In North Africa, tank battles unfold in, a tapestry of dust and fire unlike any the world has ...

  • When Push Comes To Shove

    Earl Sewell

    At the age of nineteen, Cynthia married her first sweetheart, Butch, who vowed to love her unconditionally. But his dependencies and mood swings have her living in fear, and she escapes back home. The safe haven her mother provides is short-lived whe...

  • Suzuka, Volume 2

    Kouji Seo

    FIRST COMES FRIENDSHIP, THEN COMES LOVE?

    After moving from the boonies to downtown Tokyo, Yamato toils at his aunt’s all-girl apartment complex. But along with free room and board, he gets to live right next door to Suzuka, the girl of his d...

  • Saddled with Trouble

    Michele Scott

    Trainer Michaela Bancroft has worked hard to make it in the man's world of showing and breeding quarter horses. After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, she's left with a broken heart and mounting debts. Then death strikes and Michaela is su...

  • Marco? Polo!

    Jon Scieszka

    The Time Warp Trio meets Marco Polo!

    What would happen if someone had a time-warping book he got from his uncle who was a magician, and he took it to the local YMCA pool while he played Marco? Polo! with his best friends? In the sixteenth adventure...

  • Holiday Wishes: The Perfect Chrismtas

    Mary Schramski
    in

    Growing up as a lonely child, Gwen Anderson always dreamed of a Christmas pulled from the pages of a Currier & Ives illustration. She's long since abandoned that dream. Until her mother realizes that she didn't give her daughter enough time as a chil...

  • Nicky Deuce: Home for the Holidays

    Steven R. Schirripa

    If you ask Nicholas Borelli II--better known as Nicky Deuce--winter in New Jersey is awfully boring compared to summertime in Brooklyn, where he had the best two weeks of his life. Now it's cold out, he's back in school, and he has to live without Gr...

  • The Android's Dream

    John Scalzi

    SAVING THE PLANET, ONE SHEEP AT A TIME A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart. Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior alien race. A lone man races against time and a host of enemies to find the one object that can save our plane...

  • Three Wishes

    Darlene Scalera

  • Promising Angela

    Kim Vogel Sawyer

    Following her drug-related arrest, Angela finds herself out of rehab and in God's family. She's working at New Beginnings to fulfill her community service hours, but beyond that, she's never felt more alone. Her old friends only want her the way she ...

  • Body of Lies

    Deirdre Savoy

    Dangerous Assignment Clinical psychologist Alexandra Waters always tackles the tough cases. Counseling a convicted rapist is one of them. Alex believes she has made a difference in that man's life until she's called in to track down a serial killer....

  • You Belong to Me

    Patricia Sargeant

    When her ex-husband, a man with no backbone, buys the movie rights to her first book, writer Nicole Collins discovers that he has become a changed man when a deranged fan-turned-killer starts threatening the lives of those around her. Original....

  • Tell Me Everything

    Sarah Salway

    Discover a novelist that Neil Gaiman describes as ‘an astonishingly smart writer’.When a chance meeting with a stranger leads to an offer of a room in exchange for telling her stories, Molly jumps at the chance.Slowly she builds a new, eccentric ...

  • The Quiet Child

    Debra Salonen

    Meet the Four Radonovic Sisters. Their Gypsy Mother Has a Prophecy For Each of Her Daughters... Alex's prophecy: A child's laughter can heal a wounded heart, but first you have to heal the child. Alex Radonovic isn't particularly lo...

  • Nine Lives

    Sharon Sala

    They say cats have nine lives. Lucky for Cat Dupress, she's got seven left. Bounty hunter Cat Dupress first cheated death when she was thirteen. The second time left her orphaned and scarred. And the only thing that will diminsh her lust for rev...

  • Murder In the North End

    P.B. Ryan

    July 1870. Amidst the splendor and opulence of the Gilded Age, Nell Sweeney enjoys a different kind of wealth as governess for the Hewitts of Boston. Her employment has been a privilege in an era of severe class distinctions. But her contact with hig...

  • Dearest Enemy

    Nan Ryan

    Susanna LeGrande lost her fiance, her brother and her beloved home to the Union army. But her grief only strengthened her resolve to spy for the Confederacy. The once-pampered Southern belle charmed her way through Washington society, falling brazenl...

  • Tempting Juliana // Juliana

    Lauren Royal

    A self-proclaimed matchmaker for others, Juliana Chase finds her latest romantic plan going awry when Dr. James Trevor, Earl of Stafford, instead of focusing his attention on her friend Amanda, decides to beat her at her own game and prove that she i...

  • The Red Chrysanthemum

    Laura Joh Rowland

    THE TRUTH IS DRENCHED IN BLOOD... Tokyo, 1698: Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to become the shogun's second-in-command, is investigating rumors of a plot to overthrow the ruling regime. He discovers that Lord Mori, a political oppo...

  • Must Love Dragons

    Stephanie Rowe

    Single Female Dragon seeks love and good times in the big city. Theresa Nichols is a red-blooded young woman-trapped in a red-hot dragon's body. Until the chance for a real-live date with her cyber boy toy Zeke sends her running to Satan to strike...

  • Clandestine

    Julia Ross

    She's been watching him for days. Guy Devoran, the handsome and charismatic nephew of a powerful duke, is Sarah Callaway's only hope for finding her missing cousin. But first she must get close enough to uncover the dark secret that he's hiding. Hono...

  • Horizons

    Mary Rosenblum

    Ahni Huang is hunting for her brother's killer. As a class 9 empath with advanced biogenetic augmentations, she has complete mental and physical control of her body, and can read other people's intentions before they can even think them. Ahni soon fi...

  • A Day of Small Beginnings

    Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum

    Poland, 1906: on a cold spring night, in the small Jewish cemetery of Zokof, Friedl Alterman is wakened from death. On the ground above her crouches Itzik Leiber, a reclusive, unbelieving fourteen-year-old whose fatal mistake has spurred the town's a...

  • Banjo Granny

    Barry Root

    Granny’s heart is set to see her new grandbaby, but how can she ford a fast river, climb a steep mountain, and cross a wide desert?With a dose of determination, a well-stocked banjo case, and the charm of a simple bluegrass song -- that’s how!Pa...

  • Mistletoe Kisses: A Soldier's Tale

    Elizabeth Rolls
    in

    Dominic, Viscount Alderley's family are looking to him to marry an heiress, but only his downtrodden, compassionate cousin Pippa seems able to ignore his scars.......

  • Snakebite Creek

    J.R. Roberts

    When Henry Whiteoak, a bumbling con-artist, stumbles upon a scheme to poison an entire town, forcing him to go on the run, he enlists the help of his old friend Clint Adams to expose the mastermind behind this plan. Original....

  • Fangs 4 Freaks

    Serena Robar

    We only accept certain people in my sorority-no fullblooded vampires allowed.

    Psi Phi is just like any sorority on campus-except for the part about them being half-blood vampires. Colby Blanchard emancipated her fellow halfbloods and laid th...

  • Death in the Orchid Garden

    Ann Ripley

    Louise Eldridge is taking her public television garden show on the road--to Hawaii! But the tropical paradise isn't so idyllic once murder makes an unexpected appearance... Lush with hibiscus, ficus, plumeria, and monkey-pod trees, the island of Ka...

  • Becoming Americana

    Lara Rios

    The poster child for the American Dream, Lupe Perez, a former East L.A. bad girl who has escaped her unsavory background to attend school, work, and volunteer at a teen center, has turned her life around, until her professor assigns her the task of w...

  • Unto the Breach

    John Ringo

    ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH ... ichael Harmon has been there and done that. Rescued o-eds, killed major terrorists, stopped nuclear assaults. ow he'd just like to kick back and relax with his harem of lovelies. Unfortunately, the world keeps turning...

  • The Horse Creek Incident

    Dusty Richards

    When a brutal cattle baron lays siege to Horse Creek, Montana, controlling both the law and the land, Herschel Baker, after his friend is murdered, decides that enough is enough and takes a stand against greed and injustice. Original....

  • The Water's Lovely

    Ruth Rendell

    Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the be...

  • The Biggest Bear

    Adam Relf

    A little boy hunts for the biggest bear in the world and finds it in a twinkling starlight surprise--the Great Bear constellation--at the end of this heartwarming book!

    Toby thinks his shadow looks like the biggest bear in the world. But Dad s...

  • Ladies, Start Your Engines

    Kimberly Raye
    in

    All Savannah Calloway wants for Christmas is a chance to prove her talents with an engine -- and hot young NASCAR driver Mackenzie Briggs is ready to play Santa. But they soon find that winning the race isn't nearly as important as winning each other...

  • My Husband's Girlfriend

    Cydney Rax

    A celibate husband and wife are the two most dangerous people on earth . . .Neil and Anya Meadows are stuck in a sexless marriage. Anya suffers from a hormonal disorder that leaves her with no sex drive at all, while Neil has a voracious sexual appet...

  • Indiscretions

    Gail Ranstrom

    Tropical heat...burning passion Daphne had sacrificed everything to remain unknown in her tropical paradise. But if Lord Lockwood recognized the woman who had fled England with a crime on her conscience, nothing could keep her safe.... Even the...

  • Autumn in Scotland

    Karen Ranney

    Abandoned by a rogue Betrothed to an earl she had never met, Charlotte Haversham arrived at Balfurin, hoping to find love at the legendary Scottish castle. Instead she found decaying towers and no husband among the ruins. So Charlotte worked a mira...

  • Bleeding Hearts

    Ian Rankin

    A PROFESSIONAL ASSASSIN is paid well to do his work and ask no questions. Total secrecy is part of the job. But after Michael Weston completes a successful mission in London, the police are immediately on his tail. How did they know where to find him...

  • Merry Christmas, Babies

    Tara Taylor Quinn

    She wanted a family...but four babies at once? Business hotshot Elise Richardson is successful, beautiful, single...and her biological clock is clanging like a church bell. So independent Elise takes matters into her own hands and now she's pregna...

  • Coyote and Quarter-Moon

    Bill Pronzini

  • The Threat

    David Poyer

    Medal of Honor winner Commander Dan Lenson wonders who proposed that he be assigned to the White House military staff. It's a dubious honor---serving a president the Joint Chiefs hate more than any other in modern history. Lenson reports to the W...

  • Jack's Widow

    Eve Pollard

    The iconic First Lady, Jackie lived her life in a fishbowl yet she was shrouded in mystery. She was the epitome of style, poise, grace, and femininity, but her lifelong silence in front of the media has left many unanswered questions. In this jui...

  • Sweet Southern Comfort

    Candice Poarch

    Monroe Bedford wanted to do the right thing for his ailing grandmother's business--not go head-to-head with Melanie Lambert, a sassy single mom intent on saving the town's shopping complex. But the feisty beauty wouldn't give up easily, and the more ...

  • The Rascal

    Lisa Plumley

    Grace Crabtree has no need of a man. Except Morrow Creek's reprobate saloon keeper, Jack Murphy, keeps getting in her way. She's bewildered as to why she can't stop thinking about his infuriatingly handsome face. So Grace will use her feminine charms...

  • The Night My Sister Went Missing

    Carol Plum-Ucci

    A taut YA crime thriller from the author of The Body of Christopher Creed. “There’s no doubt Plum-Ucci can tell a heck of a story†(Booklist).   A tiny pistol, passed from friend to friend at a party on an abandoned pier, suddenly fires --...

  • The People of Paper

    Salvador Plascencia

    THE PEOPLE OF PAPER is an astonishing debut novel about the anguish of lost love. Author Salvador Plascencia, a "once-in-a-generation talent" (George Saunders), weaves together the stories of a large cast of colorful characters, including: a disgrunt...

  • Death Calls

    Caridad Pineiro

    When FBI agent Diana Reyes fell in love with Ryder Latimer, she knew that there were things she would give up. For the passion her vampire lover brought into her life, it seemed a fair trade. Now she isn't so sure. The darkness vampires walk in wa...

  • Terrier

    Tamora Pierce

    BEKA COOPER IS a rookie with the Provost's Guard, and she's been assigned to the Lower City. It's a tough beat, but Beka can hear the voices of the dead on the wings of pigeons, and Beka's birds clue her in to two major murderers on the loose. The r...

  • Blacktop Cowboys

    Ty Phillips

    A fascinating account of the world of competitive steer wrestling and the talented, live-fast, bruise-hard rodeo cowboys who do it.Ty Phillips's Blacktop Cowboys chronicles the 2004 rodeo season through the eyes of several steer wrestlers trying to m...

  • Whispers of Winter

    Tracie Peterson

    The unforgiving descent of Alaskan winter has Jayce Kincaid and Jacob Barringer struggling for survival after their ship is trapped in the ice floes of the Arctic. Back at Last Chance Creek, Leah and Helaina endure the long separation -- Leah wonderi...

  • Critical Exposure

    Ann Voss Peterson

    NOTHING COULD BE WORSE...OR SO SINGLE MOTHER ERIN SLOANE THOUGHT Her brother had disappeared after a security breach and the detective assigned to help her find him assumed him guilty. But the flinty-eyed Rand McClellan was her only hope...especiall...

  • Lady Sings the Cruels

    Eric Pete

    An ambitious but unsuccessful singer, Amelia Bonds gets a second chance at stardom thanks to a small-time gig at a local nighclub, where she meets Ike, a corrections officer with shocking ties to Amelia's past. Original. 25,000 first printing....

  • A Christmas Secret

    Anne Perry

    Just in time for the holidays, Anne Perry gives her fans a marvelous gift: a new yuletide yarn full of light celebration and dark mischief. Dominic Corde is thrilled to "fill the robe" as substitute vicar in the village of Cottisham, while the Rev...

  • Homeland Terror

    Don Pendleton

    ENEMY WITHIN Mack Bolan's hard probe into the coordinated movement between domestic militia groups exposes a conspiracy deep within the U.S. government. Someone has spent years fanning the fires of discontent, fueling righteous ideology, doing wh...

  • State Of Evil

    Don Pendleton

    ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON A call from an old friend sends Mack Bolan to the Congo, armed and ready to extract a young man from cultists calling themselves The Process. Led by a fanatical sociopath who believes his ultimate power lies beyond the divine-b...

  • Mark of the Cross

    Judith Pella

  • The Higher Power of Lucky

    Susan Patron

    Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has. It's all Brigitte's fault -- fo...

  • Hundred-Dollar Baby

    Robert B. Parker

    A client from a decades-old case reaches out to Boston PI Spenser-but can he rescue troubled April Kyle once more? Longtime Spenser fans will remember that once upon a time, though not so long ago, there was a girl named April Kyle-a beautiful te...

  • Heroes Assembled

    Jeff Parker

    When global threats surface, they have to contend with the combined might of: Captain America, Storm, Iron Man, The Hulk, Giant-Girl, Wolverine and Spider-Man! Still, powers higher-up think their new computerized defenses will be even MORE reliable t...

  • Black Arrow

    I.J. Parker

    In I. J. Parker's latest mystery set in ancient Japan, a cold and hostile land pits Akitada against his deadliest foe yet I. J. Parker's engrossing historical novels bring eleventh-century Japan to life in all its colorful, treacherous glory. As Bla...

  • Punisher: Very Special Holidays

    Jimmy Palmiotti

    Spend the holidays with the Punisher! In Red X-Mas, 'tis the season... for revenge. Following an eight-casket funeral, a group of vengeful mob widows go holiday shopping for the perfect assassin to take down the man responsible - and enlist the servi...

  • Unto Us A Child . . .

    Catherine Palmer
    in

    When Jeremiah Maddox agreed to let university adminstrator Lara Crane house international students in his guest cottage, he never expected he'd be hosting a married couple with three children. Nor did he imagine circumstances would compel him to baby...

  • The Cracked Throne

    Joshua Palmatier

    The second book in the gripping and gritty fantasy Throne of Amenkor trilogy, the story of an unlikely heroine in a city devastated and altered by the mysterious White Fire

    Varis learned to survive as a very young child in the slums of Amenkor...

  • Stage Fright

    Michael Paine

    Built in 1890, the Imperial Theater stands on one of the small islands dotting the Ohio River. A vast, ornate, crumbling pile of brick and mortar, it abounds in fantastic architectural details and decades of history.   And ghosts. They are waiti...

  • Acquiring Mr. Right

    Laurie Paige

    TAKEOVER! Brilliant and beautiful executive Krista Aquilon was shocked when the struggling appliance company she'd slaved over for years was sold in a surprise takeover bid. And even more surprising was her new billionaire boss, corporate raider L...

  • The Body in the Ivy

    Katherine Hall Page

    In 1970, a popular, wealthy student, Helène Prince, fell to her death just before her graduation from Pelham College. The police ruled it a suicide, but Prin's twin sister never believed the official account of the events. Thirty years later, now an ...

  • Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa

    Micol Ostow

    Emily is a Jewish girl from the suburbs of New York. Her mother has family in Puerto Rico, but Emily has never had contact with them -- ever. Then Emily’s grandmother dies and Emily is forced to go to the Caribbean for her funeral. Buttoned-up Emil...

  • Scandals From The Third Bride

    Sara Orwig

    HIS HALF-MILLION-DOLLAR OFFER Katherine Ransome never expected to see the man who had jilted her at the altar again. But Cade Logan was back, bidding $500,000 at a bachelorette charity auction to have her for an evening. Katherine vowed never t...

  • Train Man: A Shojo Manga

    Machiko Ocha

    LONELY HEARTS UNITE!

    Geeky fanboy Ikumi Saiki has a dream that someday, somehow, he’ll finally get a girlfriend. Then one day, on the train home, he rescues a beautiful girl from a troublesome drunk. Now the girl sees the hero inside the ota...

  • Keeper of the Keys

    Perri O'Shaughnessy

    For ambitious, troubled architect Ray Jackson, the nightmare begins one sultry California night when his wife disappears. No phone call, no ransom note, no body, reveals whether Leigh is dead or alive. Then, suddenly, a woman shows up on Ray's do...

  • Helltown

    Dennis O'Neil

    Meta-humans, aliens, magical entities, or mortals driven by iron wills. Super heroes, renegades, or villains-out for justice, vengeance, or cash. Whether legendary, infamous, or little known, these extraordinary beings are the true champions of the.....

  • His Best Friend's Baby

    Molly O'Keefe

    A man at the crossroads... Jesse Filmore has a new life waiting for him. There's just one thing he has to do first--face his painful past in New Springs. This dusty desert town is filled with bad memories, not to mention the accusing looks of all the...

  • Twice in a Lifetime

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    The Yellow Brick Road Gang, otherwise known as Metaphysical Misadventures in the Search for Enlightenment, is a circle of women who came together as a book club. Together they began a spiritual search -- and throughout the last eight years each wo...

  • Christmas In Hawthorn Bay

    Kathleen O'Brien

    Fear, envy, rumors of buried treasure -- Hawthorn Bay is braced for the return of Jack Killian... Mayor Nora Carson knows that council's plan to bulldoze the Killian family's mansion won't just stir up bad blood--it will attract the ...

  • Just Like the Ones We Used to Know // The Best Christmas Surprise

    Brenda Novak
    in

    Angela Forrester is determined her foster child will get the one thing she wants for Christmas: to meet her real father--even though he doesn't know he has a little girl....

  • A Taste of Magic

    Andre Norton; Jean Rabe

    "The Green Ones favored me this day." Thus begins A Taste of Magic, the latest magical world creation by Andre Norton. Wisteria is magically attuned to the world around her. Her senses relish the tastes of magic that the wonders of nature offer...

  • New Millennuim

    Douglas Niles

    Imagine if H.G.Wells' Martians launched their attack tomorrow. First there was the mysterious loss of contact with the Mars probe. Then a few flashes of light detected via telescope on the planet's surface, and several pieces of undefined space...

  • Angel in Red

    Christopher Nicole

    The thriller sequel to Angel from Hell Anna Fehrback is not yet twenty-one, the picture of innocent beauty, and a deadly assassin with seven kills to her name. Recruited by the Nazis under threats of reprisals against her family, she has served as a ...

  • A Serpent In Turquoise

    Peggy Nicholson

    IF ADVENTURE HAS A NAME, IT'S RAINE ASHAWAY Careening down a winding pass in Mexico to escape a truckload of goons wasn't how dinosaur hunter Raine Ashaway planned to meet Anson McCord, the archaeologist who'd written her regarding a p...

  • Talk of the Ton

    Mary Nichols

    Her name was on everyone's lips. They were agog to find out what Miss Elizabeth Harley had been doing down at the East India Docks. And in such shocking apparel! Why, her uncle's generosity in giving her a London season had been thrown back in his fa...

  • Street Love

    Walter Dean Myers

    Junice What am I doing? He'll take one quick look And wish he was anywhere else but here I'm already ashamed of what I think He will think of me, of the life I lead Damian Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings ...

  • Good Times, Bad Boys

    Melanie Murray

    Love in the time of Top 40 . . . Echo Brennan's life is stuck on pause, instead of chasing her dream job at Disc, music's hottest magazine, she's still writing for a small-time paper. And helping her boyfriend, Matt, who's had a record deal for y...

  • I'm Your Girl

    J.J. Murray

    From the author of Original Love comes a sweet, sexy tale of two lost souls who discover that real life can be stranger than fiction, and that happy endings are there for the taking--if you're willing to take a chance... For public library clerk Di...

  • The View from Castle Rock

    Alice Munro

    In stories that are more personal than any that she's written before, Alice Munro pieces her family's history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburgh's Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can s...

  • The Sunday Night Book Club

    Multiple Authors

    A stunning collection of stories from twenty-two bestselling women’s fiction writers.

    In collaboration with Woman and Home magazine and Breast Cancer Care of Britain, twenty-two best-loved women’s fiction authors have generously donated th...

  • The Pull of the Ocean

    Jean-Claude Mourlevat

    On a stormy night, little Yann Doutreleau wakes up his six older brothers, all twins. He lets them know that they must flee their home--or risk being killed by their violent father. Without question, the siblings follow Yann into the wet darkness. An...

  • The Good Nearby

    Nancy Moser

    Sometimes good things are nearer than expected. Margery has a nothing job, a nothing marriage, and zero self-esteem. Angie has everything she could ever want, except a life of her own making. Talia is overwhelmed by her pregnancy, by handling her car...

  • Rumpole and the Reign of Terror

    John Clifford Mortimer

    Just in case Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders gave fans the impression that the Great Defender was resting on his laurels, his new case sends him at full sail into our panicky new world. Rumpole is asked to defend a Pakistani doctor who has bee...

  • New X-Men Vol. 4 - Riot At Xavier's

    Grant Morrison

    Collects New X-Men #134-138. Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted is a sanctuary, a safe haven for oppressed mutant youth. But the unimaginable happens when a student reinvents himself as Kid Omega and decides to take over the school. It's mutant...

  • New X-Men Vol. 7: Here Comes Tomorrow

    Grant Morrison

    Collects New X-Men #151-154. Meet the X-Men from 150 years in our future. While some faces may seem familiar, readers will discover all-new heroes and villains for the first time. What incredible force threatens to destroy the mutants of the future, ...

  • The Christmas Marriage Rescue

    Sarah Morgan

    When her marriage to gorgeous Spanish A and E consultant Alessandro Garcia hit the rocks, Christy decided to leave, praying he would come after her, to prove that he saw her as more than a wife and mother. Only he didn't. And she still doesn'...

  • Marimba!: Animales from A to Z

    Pat Mora

    After the visitors have left the zoo and the animals have settled down for the night, a mischievous monkey starts a ting-tong rhythm on the marimba and slowly the animals awaken. Lions and llamas samba and cougars and coyotes conga as all the animals...

  • The Rancher's Rules

    Lucy Monroe

    The millionaire's forbidden virgin Grant Cortez is rich, famous and seriously sexy. But although he arouses feelings in virginal Zoe that no other man ever has, as her best friend he's strictly a no-go zone.... Grant wants Zoe badly, bu...

  • Darkfever

    Karen Marie Moning

    My name is MacKayla, Mac for short. I'm a sidhe-seer, one who sees the Fae, a fact I accepted only recently and very reluctantly. My philosophy is pretty simple--any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book. I haven't had many good ...

  • Soarer's Choice

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to the world of Corus and concludes the trilogy of the intertwined stories of Dainyl, the Alector, and Mykel, the native soldier, which began in Alector's Choice and Cadmian's Choice. The civilization of the Alectors, w...

  • Holiday Wishes: Who Needs June in December, Anyway?

    Stevi Mittman
    in

    Teddi Bayer could use some holiday magic this year, especially since Grandma June is making everything worse. If only there was a magical menorah Teddi could rub, and pouf! But rubbing it while humming "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" seems to be...

  • Dreamgirls

    Denene Millner

    It was a time of miraculous change in America, as the cry for justice and equality rang out, from the Deep South to the West Coast. And in the Motor City, a new sound was about to explode that would break down the barriers between white and black. Th...

  • Sierra's Homecoming

    Linda Lael Miller

    When she moved to her family's ancestral ranch, single mom Sierra McKettrick was disconcerted by the Triple M's handsome caretaker, Travis Reid. But when her son claimed to see a mysterious boy in the house, and an heirloom teapot started popping up ...

  • Daylight Comes

    Judith Miller

    Truth Wyman has watched Nicodemus, Kansas, grow into a busy little prairie town. And she has grown up, too. Her family was among the first settlers to homestead this area, and there is nowhere she'd rather live. She's always thought her husband felt ...

  • Ultimate Fantastic Four - Volume 6: Frightful

    Mark Millar

    Collects Ultimate Fantastic Four #27-32. A guilt-ridden Reed Richards attempts to undo his greatest failure by using time travel to fix the snag that caused the teleportation accident that resulted in Ben Grimm's becoming the Thing. Plus: the aweso...

  • Motherhood Without Parole

    Tanya Michaels

    When a corporate oversight lands her new husband in jail, Kate St. James feels as if she's the one being sentenced. True, her ritzy new home in the suburbs looks nothing like the Big House. But for a woman barely able to keep her tropical fish afloat...

  • A Candle For Nick

    Lorna Michaels

    Mallory Brenner's life was in a tailspin. Her son, Nick, had been diagnosed with a fatal disease and his best hope of survival was Dr. Kent Berger, the one man Mallory never expected--or wanted--to see again. For more than ten years Mallory had ke...

  • High Heels and Holidays // Maggie On The Edge

    Kasey Michaels

    All mystery author Maggie Kelly wants for Christmas is to snuggle under the mistletoe with her fictional Regency Era creation who’s miraculously come to life. Too bad someone has something a bit more sinister in mind for Maggie this holiday seasonâ...

  • The Christmas Stocking

    Fern Michaels
    in

    Philadelphia businesswoman Amy Baran is determined to raise money for a new seniors' center by harvesting Christmas trees from the small-town Virginia farm she remembers from her childhood. Trouble is, Gus Moss has come home from California with his ...

  • Checkmate

    David Michaels

    He operates outside of every law. And kills in the line of duty. Few know he exists. But when millions of American lives are at stake, Third Echelon special operative Sam Fisher is the man to depend on. He handles covert missions either too sensit...

  • Eyes of Wisdom

    Heyoka Merrifield

    In this first volume of The White Buffalo Woman Trilogy, author Heyoka Merrifield celebrates the sacredness of nature and the return of a culture hidden by time. Eyes of Wisdom offers a deeply moving narration of life and ceremony on the plains that ...

  • Eleanor Roosevelt and the Scary Basement

    Peter Merchant

    As a girl Eleanor Roosevelt was scared of many things: swimming, mice, horses, robbers. Most of all she was scared of the dark. So when her aunt Edith asked for ice one night to soothe her scratchy throat, Eleanor froze. How could she get ice for her...

  • Never Trust a Troll!

    Kate McMullan

    After spending the summer at spooky Camp Dragononka, Wiglaf and his pals are back at DSA. They're no longer the youngest lads and lasses -- now they're in Class II, and they are expected to show new students the ropes. Wiglaf not only has to put up w...

  • Dawn

    Dean McLaughlin

  • Dead City

    Joe McKinney

    Texas? Toast. Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star State is reeling from the worst devastation in history. Thousands are dead or dying -- but the worst is only beginning. Amid the ...

  • Feels Like Falling

    Michelle McGriff

    Feels Like Falling is a layered story of a family thrown from their tower of security into the throes of the five stages of grief.

    The story, broken up into those five stages, delves deep into the inner workings of life pitted against Denial, Ang...