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New Books List: 513 titles


  • 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...



  • David Brin



  • 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...



  • Barbara Fischkin

    She'll take Manhattan. He'll take Managua. When two ambitious reporters from the same New York newspaper get married, something's got to give. And in this wry, witty tale of a modern globe-spanning romance, what gives is the conventional and the expe...



  • Jack Dann

    Featuring contributions from Poul Anderson, William Sanders, Kage Baker, and Bruce Sterling, this unrivalled collection of sixteen time-travelling alternate history stories reveals what might happen if we could change the past. Original....



  • Marc Cerasini; Alice Alfonsi

    And who better to head up the investigation than the indomitable Inspector Jacques Clouseau--whose unparalleled love of flaky croissants makes him the ideal gendarme for the job! After visiting the various culinary crime scenes--and sampling trays fu...



  • Christine Feehan

    Now she plunges two lovers into a game where danger and passion lurk in the darkest shadows of the mind... Jack Norton is a GhostWalker, a genetically enhanced sniper with a merciless sense of justice, a phantom welcomed by the anonymity of the ni...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm plays bodyguard -- and the job has its benefits… Custis Long would rather have his backside branded than act as bodyguard to Congressman Howard Palmer’s ornery, ugly wife and her daughter. Seems the suit’s liberal notions about Indian r...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure!When Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long turns the tables on a band of stagecoach bandits, he does more than just save the day. After blasting one of the badmen, he discovers a map of Nevad...



  • Jake Logan

    Some things you pay for with blood…All Slocum wanted in Charlotte’s Town was a little rest. But local ranchers are mysteriously disappearing…or being murdered. Thornton Real Estate ends up owning their land, and the sheriff doesn’t do a thing...



  • 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....



  • Sara Donati

    It is the summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the Caribbean islands for Luke's wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet's rescue is not the resolution they'd hoped for. While captive,...



  • 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 ...



  • Maggie Barbieri

    Safely away from the chaos of Manhattan, St. Thomas, a small college on the banks of the Hudson River in the Bronx, is supposed to be tranquil, bucolic, and serene. Unfortunately, English professor Alison Bergeron has found it to be anything but. Rec...



  • Cassandra Chan

    Cassandra Chan dazzles with her mastery of the traditional English mystery in this second novel featuring the investigative duo of Gibbons and Bethancourt. Move over, Peter Wimsey! THERE'S BEEN A DEATH IN THE COUNTRY Scotland Yard Detective Sergeant...



  • Jennifer Crusie
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    Mayhem ensues under the mistletoe as a determined shopper grabs the very last hot toy action figure off the shelf, only to find herself plunged into the middle of a real-life spy game--in the arms of a sexy secret agent. . ....



  • Elaine Barbieri

    THEIRS WAS A TALE OF TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH Four children abandoned in an orphanage. Two missing parents. One man whose hatred had divided a family, whose duplicity ended in murder, inextricably weaving their lives together in a web of lies that only t...



  • Simon Clark

    Modern scientists have proven Dr. Frankenstein right. They have discovered a way to raise the dead. Unlike Dr. Frankenstein's monster, these gentle creatures docilely serve their masters, but the living have begun to despise the dead among them. They...



  • 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...



  • Christine Feehan

    Now she plunges two lovers into a game where danger and passion lurk in the darkest shadows of the mind... Jack Norton is a GhostWalker, a genetically enhanced sniper with a merciless sense of justice, a phantom welcomed by the anonymity of the ni...



  • Stephanie Bond

    Q: Where to go when you've lost your mojo? A: Baby, drive south. When attorney Gloria Dalton arrives in the small town of Mojo, Louisiana, she's desperate for change. Her past haunts her-;at sixteen she was forced into the witness protection pro...



  • Gina Buonaguro; Janice Kirk

    "A fantasia of a double tale skimming through the art capitals of Europe with double muses, double love pursuits, double Raphaels, even double authors, a tale dripping with idealized romantic settings, mystery, art, and a touch of magic, The Sidewalk...



  • Wil Mara

    It's draft time in the National Football League. For high-ranking team executives, this means long days and sleepless nights, endless negotiations, and determining which young men deserve to become millionaires and which do not. Careers will be made ...



  • James A. Hetley

    Two unusual families living in Stonefort, Maine--the shapeshifting Morgans and the Haskell witches--find their uneasy, generations-long alliance threatened by the vengeful spirit of a dark sorcerer, desperate to live once again....



  • Ly de Angeles

    Among us walk a race older than time-called the Travelers, Tuatha dŽ Dannan, the Sidhe, the Fair Folk, and the F‡’dh, they are the magical beings who remember when forests covered much of the earth and people revered the older gods and goddesses...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Kate Kingsbury

    WELCOME BACK TO THE PENNYFOOT To ring in the holiday season, Cecily Sinclair Baxter is hosting a party at the Pennyfoot Hotel for the children of Badgers End to meet Father Christmas. Unfortunately, the jolly old man fails to appear. Instead, his ...



  • 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...



  • Sandra Hill

    BAITED... Straitlaced Boston lawyer Veronica "Ronnie" Jinkowsky knows something's fishy when her estranged grandfather lures her to his New Jersey treasure-hunting business with woeful tales of old age and bankruptcy. But she never expected the salt...



  • Cathie Linz

    When Skye Wright saw flashing lights in her rearview mirror, she figured she'd just charm her way out of yet another speeding ticket. How could she have known that the handsome cop who stepped out of the police cruiser was a Studly Do-Right capable o...



  • David Mack

    He has a past shrouded in mystery. A skeleton sheathed in indestructible metal. Unbreakable claws that can cut through almost anything. And a "mutant healing factor" that can mend virtually any wound. His friends call him Logan. The X-Men call...



  • 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...



  • 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,...



  • Keith Baker
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A band of war-weary soldiers have uncovered a plot that may tear the very fabric of reality forever. To save their own lives and to prevent a long-banished race of monsters from unleashing an army of horrors upon the waking world, they must reach the...



  • Alexandra Benedict

    Tempted by the Enemy A lord so sinful he is dubbed the "Duke of Rogues," Damian Westmore lives for pleasure -- until the day his brother dies at the hands of pirates. Abandoning the libertine life to pursue revenge, Damian finds the criminals he...



  • 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...



  • Jonathan Luckett

    David Sands longs for a woman who has disappeared and might not even exist, but he vows to find her anyway -- even if learning the truth drives him mad.David Sands is a painter who has just moved into a spacious new loft -- he's readying his oils and...



  • Robert Masello

    Release the beasts of Eden... A manuscript illuminated with fantastical creatures said to have roamed the Garden of Eden, the bestiary has been handed down throughout the centuries by one of the Arab world's most prominent families. Commissioned t...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Peter Crowther

    An anthology of science fiction short stories by some of today's top authors to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet. Filled to the brim with provocative tales of worlds where humans were never mea...



  • Alex Irvine

    Gotham's never been so scorching, the Joker's never been more despicable, and Batman's never been in such grave danger. With more than thirty fires raging out of control across the city, Gotham is indeed a hell on earth. But torching the populatio...



  • 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....



  • Kevin Killiany

    When Anastasia Kerensky declares the Steel Wolves mercenaries, selling their battle skills and military prowess to the highest bidders, many of the warriors join forces with her enemy, Star Colonel Varnoff Fetladral, who believes she has betrayed the...



  • 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 father"and-daughter grifters knocking over the town’s bank, he can’t let them get away with ...



  • Allie MacKay

    Tour guide Mara MacDougall stops at a London antique shop-and spots perhaps the handsomest bed ever. Then she bumps into the handsomest man ever. Soon Mara can't forget the irresistible-if haughty-Highlander. Not even when she learns that she's inher...



  • 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...



  • Lee Goldberg

    When Dr. Mark Sloan wakes up in his own hospital's ICU after three days of unconsciousness, he doesn't remember how he got there. But what really shocks him is that he can't remember anything from the last two years of his life -- including a wife he...



  • Michael Cadnum

    A poet journeys into the underworld to rescue his bride  His name is Orpheus, and he is the greatest poet on Earth. With his lyre, he can make music so beautiful it causes the gods to weep, but they are not who he wants to impress. Orpheus has b...



  • Dixie Cash

    To single mom Allison Barker, men are a heap of heartbreak. So when her twelve-year-old daughter confesses that she's posted Allison's profile on an Internet matchmaking service and has been pretending to be her mom, Allison hits the roof . . . just ...



  • Henry Chang

    Detective Jack Yu is assigned to the Chinatown precinct as the only officer of Chinese descent. He investigates a series of attacks on children and a missing mistress, shifting between the world of street thugs and gangs and the Chinatown of the rich...



  • Patricia Cornwell

    The Book of the Dead is the morgue kg, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning. Starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in the historic city of Cha...



  • Carl Hiaasen

    Honey Santana--impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes"--has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She's taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarkete...



  • Robert Littell

    The New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell presents a suspenseful and brilliantly topical new thriller that looks at the cycle of political violence in the Middle East. In the near future, an unprecedented Arab-Israeli settlement is brokere...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Robert Wilson

    As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcn 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...



  • 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...



  • C.J. Cherryh

    Sixteen years have passed since the dramatic events of Fortress of Dragons, and Cefwyn, king at last, must rebuild his devastated kingdom. The embattled ruler is aided by his powerful friend Tristen Sihhe and two surprising allies in a struggle he mu...



  • David Gemmell

    The Sunday Times bestselling author David Gemmell brings the myth and legend of Troy to life in this epic story filled with triumph and tragedy. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. "This is how the oldest tales sh...



  • Parnell Hall

    When Benny Southstreet, a small-time hustler with a big-time gift for constructing crosswords, accuses Cora of stealing one of his creations, it's clearly a case of mistaken identity...until Cora's own attorney files a plagiarism suit against her. Wo...



  • David Hewson

    On an August night on a small island near Venice, a fire explodes in a glassmaking shop. When help arrives, two people are dead, a rich Englishman is implicated, and investigators from Rome are assigned a case no one wants them to solve....In this sp...



  • 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...



  • Katherine Hall Page

    In 1970, a popular, wealthy student, Helne 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Charlaine Harris

    When I was fifteen, I was struck by lightning. I recovered, mostly. I have a strange spiderweb pattern of red on my torso and right leg. I have headaches. I have many fears. And I can find dead people. That was the part that interested the professor....



  • Elizabeth Flock

    With deceptive simplicity, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Flock brings Henry Powell's poignantly familiar story to life; he is the friend we have all known, living in a family curiously similar to our own. Through Flock's deft, compassio...



  • C.S. Harris

    June 1811. The beautiful young wife of an aging marquis found dead in the arms of the Prince Regent. From her back protrudes a jeweled dagger. Around her neck lies a bluestone-and-silver necklace said to have been worn by Druid priestesses--and reput...



  • Jack Fredrickson

    An extortion letter arrives at Crystal Waters, one of Chicago's wealthiest gated communities. It makes no specific threats, gives no instructions, demands only that $50,000 be gotten ready---chump change for an enclave where the cheapest house is wor...



  • 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...



  • Richard Kunzmann

    Even your soul isn't safe in death... On the outskirts of shimmering Johannesburg, Detective Harry Mason and his crew are summoned to a grisly crime scene. By all accounts, discovering the mutilated corpse of a young child is a horrific and heart...



  • Michael Gregorio

    Most honourable Procurator Stiffeniis, You talents have been brought to Our attention by a gentleman of eminence, who believes that you alone are capable of resolving a situation which holds Our beloved Königsberg in a grip of terror. All...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Orson Scott Card

    The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages bet...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • David Farland

    Certain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as monuments, towering above the rest of the category. Authors of those works, such as Stephen R. Donaldson, Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind, come immediately to mind. Add to that list David Farl...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Claire Matturro

    In her never-ending quest to log more billable hours, Sarasota lawyer Lilly Cleary agrees to defend Angus and Miguel, two fervent environmentalists who are being sued for libeling ... an orange! In the Sunshine State, people take their citrus serious...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

    One sister's secret brings danger and deception to an Ohio Amish community. Putting her rumschpringe (running-around years) behind her, Grace Hostettler returns to Holmes County, Ohio; joins the Amish church; and begins a new life with a new roman...



  • Debra Ginsberg

    Books can be a dangerous business . . . Angel Robinson loves books, loves reading, loves anything to do with the written word. But when Blue Moon Books, the Bay Area bookstore where she has worked since college, is squeezed out of business, Angel...



  • J.M. Gregson

    There’s nothing like a murder to shake up a quiet neighborhood in this “British procedural that delivers what fans of the genre want” (Booklist).   Gurney Close, a recently-built development in Gloucestershire, includes three charming hous...



  • Duncan Harding

    Can the Mediterranean be saved from the Fascists? - Hot-headed Catalan Angles fought against the Fascists in Spain before joining the British Commandos. In 1941, Naval Intelligence Commander Ian Fleming (of James Bond fame) learns that Hitler wants F...



  • Kristen Heitzmann

    The blow came like the torrent below, hard and swift and unexpected. She screamed -- and fell... When a young woman stumbles out of the Hanalei Mountains on the island of Kauai with no memory of who she is or how she got there, Cameron Pierce relu...



  • Elizabeth Hoyt

    THERE COMES A TIME IN A LADY'S LIFE Widowed Anna Wren is having a wretched day. After an arrogant male on horseback nearly squashes her, she arrives home to learn that she is in dire financial straits. WHEN SHE MUST DO THE UNTHINKABLE... The...



  • Sarah A. Hoyt

    Every one of us has the beast inside. But for Kyrie Smith, the beast is no metaphor. Since she was 15, when she first shape-shifted into a savage, black panther, Kyrie has questioned her humanity. Although she's managed to keep her inner beast secret...



  • Maddy Hunter

    DANGER DOWN UNDER! When Emily Andrew lands in the Land of Oz -- Australia, that is -- she and her hearty group of world-touring seniors know they're not in Iowa anymore. Winter is summer, drains drain counterclockwise, and all the comforts of home...



  • Larry Karp

    Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It's destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he's told no -- "Ragtime is colored music." So Brun runs away from ...



  • Stephen King

    Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark... Lisey Landon shared a profound and sometimes frightening intimacy with her husband, Scott, a celebrated bestselling novelist -- and a man with many secrets. One was the place where his gifts...



  • Ken Kuhlken

    It's late summer, 1972, up in California's redwood forests. They seem a ""safe and wondrous place,"" but some of Evergreen's population is growing pot up in the trees and others are bent on stealing it. Then there's the coming folk festival, a jambor...



  • Leslie LaFoy

    A WAYWARD ROGUE Tristan Townsend has come home to London to assume his duties as the Marquis of Lockwood after all the men in his family have died. Desperate to rid himself of the "Lockwood curse" and restore his family's honor, marriage is the furt...



  • Erik Larson

    A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush" In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supe...



  • Marianne MacDonald

    A mystery featuring antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare Dido is generally pleased to do business with book scout Gabriel Steen, but after he receives a disturbing call he suddenly offers her a share in a medieval illustrated manuscript. It is of unknow...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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.....



  • 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...



  • John Lutz

    The Justice Killer There's a twisted serial killer stalking the streets of New York City, dealing his own perverse version of justice. He kills swiftly and silently, leaving his calling card--a red "J"--on the bodies of his prey. His victims have on...



  • Tamera Alexander

    Words, once spoken, can mend a broken life...or cripple it. But words left unspoken can haunt the soul, inflicting a far deeper wound. Annabelle Grayson has been given a second chance at life, but she can't claim it with the cloud of her past hang...



  • Beverly Barton

    Sometimes love is the most dangerous truth of all . . . For Lausanne Raney, romance meant nothing but trouble. Once it cost her her freedom and her baby girl. Now she's got a respectable life . . . but desperately needs money to find her child. W...



  • Sandy Blair

    A Rogue By Any Other Name Scoundrel. Seducer. Sir Ian MacKay deserves to be called the Thief of Hearts. Yet he is a man with a mission: to return Scotland's rightful king to his ancestral throne. But first he must find out the true identity of the...



  • Brett Ellen Block

    Corruption, race, justice, and honor collide in this riveting thriller set against the backdrop of the infamous Newark Riots of 1967 They say lightning never strikes the same spot twice. But Detective Martin Emmett is about to prove the exception...



  • Ben Bova

    Microbiologist Michael Cochrane has been murdered. His brother Paul wants to find out who did it...and why. Accompanied by a beautiful industrial spy, Elena Sandoval, Paul follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along the ...



  • Stella Cameron

    ONCE ACCUSED When Max Savage opens his practice in a remote, seductively beautiful bayou town, he hopes it's the start of a new life. He's got his reputation as a skilled surgeon, his two brothers by his side and a fresh chance here in the sultry he...



  • Dianne Castell

    When Rory O'Fallon found a beautiful baby girl on his front porch it was just the beginning of Dianne Castell's captivating trilogy about the strong, loyal O'Fallon men of the Mississippi River. Now, the story that began in 'Til There Was U and conti...



  • William Christie

    The enemy has found a new path to America's doorstep, and is approaching fast. In South America, covert operatives Ed Storey and Lee Troy discover that Al Qaeda and the criminal underworld have combined their resources, with money moving from the jun...



  • Kyra Davis

    If I really press myself, I can remember. The warning signs were there. No neon signs, mind you, just a little sparks at the end of a very long string. Funny that I could have been blind enough not to realize that the string was a lighted fuse. W...



  • Christine Flynn

    THANKSGIVING NEWS FROM THE ROSEWOOD READER Dear Readers, You've all been wondering what big-city Rebecca Peters has been doing after moving to sleepy little Danbury Way. One thing's for sure: Rebecca's full of secrets -- and surpris...



  • Wallace Ford

    Gordon Perkins has been one of Wall Street's most successful investment bankers. There's no one he can't double-cross or double-deal, including his partners at the Morningstar Financial Services firm. But his hunger for money doesn't match his appeti...



  • Dara Girard

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  • Joe McKinney

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  • Lynne Graham

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  • Joan Elizabeth Lloyd

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