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New Books List: 513 titles

  • Transgressions, Volume 4

    Sharyn McCrumb

    New York Times bestsellers Sharyn McCrumb, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Perry each provided a brand-new, never-before-published tale for this unique collection of stories edited by New York Times bestselling author and mystery legend Ed McBain. "T...

  • Larkspur

    Ramona Cecil

    Becky Hale Declares War Against Conventional Medicine. . . . . .after watching her young cousin die at the hands of a prominent Cincinnati physician. She returns home to Larkspur, Indiana, promoting a gentler, herbalistic approach to medicine, while ...

  • Fury: Peacemaker

    Garth Ennis

    Before he presided over S.H.I.E.L.D., before he ran with the Howling Commandos, Sgt. Nick Fury fought on the blood-stained sands of the Tunisian desert. It was here that he came face to face with the incomparable might of the 21st Panzer Division and...

  • 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....

  • Captain America and the Falcon: The Swine

    Jack Kirby

    The King keeps Cap's quests coming with menaces from deep in space and deeper in the human soul! Even the evil of the Red Skull might pale before the fearsome Bio-Fanatic! Plus: Magneto and a rarely seen batch of evil mutants! Featuring the Falco...

  • Squadron Supreme - Volume 1: The Pre-War Years

    Gary Frank

    It all starts here! Hyperion, Nighthawk, Blur, Power Princess, Doctor Spectrum and the rest of the deadliest super-team around are joined by a new group of super heroes, as only J. Michael Straczynski and Gary Frank can imagine! As the U.S. governmen...

  • 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...

  • The Spears of God

    Howard V. Hendrix

    In the early decades of the twenty-first century, the most commonly held truth is that knowledge is power. Yet a select few men and women begin to suspect what few will admit: we know nothing at all. The world's oil resources have dwindled. The r...

  • This Forsaken Earth

    Paul Kearney

    He's spoken of only in whispers. His origins are a mystery. Some say that he's descended from the last of the angels. Others say much worse. By all appearances, Rol Cortishane is just another ruthless pirate roaming the lawless seas, raiding warships...

  • Carnival

    Elizabeth Bear

    ON A RENEGADE PLANET RULED BY ARMED, EDUCTAED, HIGHLY EVOLVED WOMEN, TWO SECRET AGENTS LIVING A LIE DISCOVER A POWER NO MAN CAN TOUCH... In Old Earth's clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen we...

  • Luscious Craving

    Cameron Dean

    WHERE THERE’S BLOOD, THERE’S PASSION. Sexy vampire killer Candace Steele is back on the Las Vegas strip and determined to steer clear of Ash, the seductive vampire whose smoldering allure begs her to surrender to the dark side. But determination ...

  • The Prince Kidnaps a Bride

    Christina Dodd

    Once upon a time...three princesses were forced to flee their kingdom in the Pyrenees -- vanishing without a trace -- until the day a prince can bring each princess home. Betrothed in the cradle, Princess Sorcha and Prince Rainger were destine...

  • Land of Mist and Snow

    Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald

    THE GREATEST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR WON'T BE THE NORTH AGAINST THE SOUTH... 1862. In the fire and fury of the War Between the States, another secret war is being waged -- with all human life hanging in the balance. Called to duty at last, Li...

  • For the Love of a Pirate

    Edith Layton

    He's searching for a proper bride . . . Constantine, Lord Wylde, is a gentleman beyond reproach. Now it's time for him to find a suitable gentlewoman to wed--a well-bred, well-behaved lady, as proper as . . . well, Constantine himself. Bu...

  • 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...

  • Nova

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Four years after the end of the Brood War, Emperor Arcturus Mengsk has rebuilt much of the Terran Dominion and consolidated a new military force despite an ever-present alien threat. Within this boiling cauldron of strife and subversion, a young woma...

  • 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...

  • Nip, Tuck, Dead

    Lori Avocato

    A NOSE JOB TO DIE FOR Ex-nurse-turned-insurance fraud investigator Pauline Sokol's willing to risk anything to put a bad doc out of business--even her best friend Goldie's near-perfect proboscis! Her cross-dressing compadre has agreed to get his s...

  • Pleasure For Pleasure

    Eloisa James

    Josephine Essex has barely appeared at her first ball before she's labeled the "Scottish Sausage". What's Josie to do? Fueled by the knowledge that notoriety is better than failure, witty, unconventional Josie does what no proper young lady should...

  • Tempest

    Troy Denning

    Forty years after the Battle of Yavin a dangerous new era in the Star Wars epic begins -- the revelations are shocking, the stakes desperate, and the enemy everywhere. As civil war threatens the unity of the Galactic Alliance, Han and Leia Solo h...

  • Brother Odd

    Dean Koontz

    Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunte...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Under the Wire

    Cindy Gerard

    BECAUSE OF HER, HE LOST EVERYTHING. Manny Ortega is a man without a country, and he has one woman to thank for it. She was his first and only true love, and when she left, she took more than his heart--she took his life as he knew it. Hardened and h...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Drop Dead Gorgeous

    Linda Howard

    Blair Mallory has already survived one murder attempt. Now, while planning her wedding and dealing with holiday-season madness, Blair once again dodges a bullet. Or more precisely, a Buick. And though the driver's identity remains a mystery, his or h...

  • Next

    Michael Crichton

    Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? ...

  • Forging the Sword

    Hilari Bell

    There isn't much time left in the Hrum's self-imposed limit -- only a few months. If in that time they don't put down all of Farsala, then the Farsalans will regain their independence, and those previously taken into slavery will be returned to thei...

  • 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 ...

  • Midnight Rider

    Joan Hiatt Harlow

    It's 1775 and the American colonies are on the brink of revolution. Boston is swarming with soldiers, spies, and secrets. Tempers are flaring between the Whigs and the Tories. Fourteen-year-old Hannah Andrews is thrown into the middle of it all when ...

  • Adventures in Unhistory

    Avram Davidson

    * Where did Sinbad Sail? * Who Fired the Phoenix ? * The Boy Who Cried Werewolf * The Great Rough Beast * Postscript on Prester John * The Secret of Hyperborea * What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet? And many more--fictional? autho...

  • Pepper's Snow Day

    Linda Bleck

  • Blue 2: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages

    David A. Carter

    It's another work of art by David Carter! The guessing continues in the sequel to New York Times bestseller One Red Dot with Blue Two. This book has a limited print of 100 copies in full-cloth binding and full-cloth slip case. An additional pop-up is...

  • It's My Party!

    Justin Spelvin

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Gundam Seed Destiny, Volume 2

    Masatsugu Iwase

    THE FORTUNES OF WAR

    The ZAFT Empire and the Earth Alliance are caught in a deadly stalemate now that the Alliance has attempted to retaliate against the Plant. Meanwhile, Princess Cagalli, free after escaping a political marriage to the prime ...

  • Negima! Volume 12

    Ken Akamatsu

    SECRET, SECRET, WHO DOESN’T HAVE A SECRET?

    At the Mahora Academy Festival, the Budokai Martial-Arts Tournament is well under wayâ€"and it seems that all participants have something to hide. What has awakened inside Asuna during the battle wi...

  • A Good Dog

    Jon Katz

  • Ivy + Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go

    Annie Barrows

    IVY + BEAN ARE BACK IN ANOTHER ADVENTURE! There's a ghost in the bathroom at Emerson School! Ivy and Bean can see its cloudy form and its glowing eyes. They can hear its moaning voice. This is the best thing that ever happened at school -- until the...

  • Shanna, the She-Devil

    Justin Gray

    She's bold, she's beautiful, and she's your best hope of escaping the raptors nipping at your heels. She's Shanna, the She Devil! Award-winning creator Frank Cho brings you Marvel's bodacious jungle girl as you've never seen her before: Reborn from N...

  • X-Men Fairy Tales

    C.B. Cebulski

    In the tradition of the X-Men classic, "Kitty's Fairy Tale," comes a series of new legends, reimagining the greatest X-Men stories through folktales, myths and fables from across the globe. Collects X-Men Fairy Tales #1-4....

  • 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...

  • Heroes Reborn: Iron Man

    Scott Lobdell

    Collects Iron Man (1996) #1-12; Avengers (1996) #6, 12; Fantastic Four (1996) #12; Captain America (1996) #12; material from Heroes Reborn (1996) #1/2; Captain America (1996) #6. In 1996, the hottest creators of the day teamed up to reimagine and rei...

  • Aftermath

    Jim Grimsley

    Having recovered from the catastrophic events of Wildfire, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team on the U.S.S. da Vinci meets its new second officer: Mor glasch Tev, an arrogant Tellarite who's the best there is -- and he knows it. Even as Captain G...

  • Holiday Wishes: If I Make It Through December

    Kate Austin
    in

    From balance sheets to blue plate specials, Heather James has a lot to learn about running a restaurant. But a well-informed business plan isn't enough to prepare her for the holiday rush-- or head chef Sam Cappelletti. Is lasting love the bottom lin...

  • Pleasured In The Billionaire's Bed

    Miranda Lee

    His mistress for a night...his child's mother for a lifetime? When Jack Cassidy first set eyes on Lisa, he had to have her. He knew it would take time, careful planning and execution--Lisa was the ultimate ice princess, perfectly groomed, cont...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • Yellow Rose Bride

    Lori Copeland

    Seven years ago, seamstress Vonnie Taylor's husband of twenty-four hours, Adam Baldwin, had their marriage annulled. Now she faces the ultimate indignity: sewing the wedding dress for his new intended! Vonnie hasn't gotten over the handsome Texas ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Impossibly Tongue-Tied

    Josie Brown

    In truth, the industry's favorite "erotic phone operatrix" is Nina Harte, a struggling actress who has put her career on hold so that her husband, Nathan, can pursue his own dreams of stardom. When Nathan's career takes off, so does he, leaving Nina ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • It's Snow Joke!

    Nancy Krulik

    Katie's actress friend Rosie invites her to a movie shoot at a ski lodge during winter break. Katie can't wait to hit the slopes for the first time. But unfortunately, the magic wind doesn't ever take a break. When Katie turns into the ski instructor...

  • Playing Nice

    Kit Daniels

  • Treasure Well

    Max Brand

    When the money he saved to pay off his sheep ranch is stolen by a bandit named Bill Ransome, Tom Fernald, forced to find another way to save his land and herd, sets out to find a miser's treasure, which is rumored to be buried in the area. Reprint....

  • Cold Trail

    Cliff Farrell

  • X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic - Book 4

    Scott Lobdell

    Collects Generation Next #4, X-Calibre #4, X-Man #4 & #53-54, Factor X #4, Gambit And The X-Ternals #4, Amazing X-Men (1995) #4, Weapon X (1995) #4, X-Universe #2, X-Men: Omega, Blink #4 and X-Men: Prime. Learn who lives and who dies in either re...

  • The Best American Series 2006 - Silver Gift Box: Three-Volume Boxed Set

    Houghton Mifflin Company

    The set, boxed in a lavish silver metallic, features The Best American Travel Writing 2006, edited by Tim Cahill; The Best American Spiritual Writing 2006, introduced by Peter J. Gomes; and, like the first set, The Best American Short Stories 2006, e...

  • The Best American Series 2006 - Gold Gift Box: Three-Volume Boxed Set

    Houghton Mifflin Company

    The set, boxed in a rich gold metallic, includes The Best American Mystery Stories 2006, edited by Scott Turow; The Best American Sports Writing 2006, edited by Michael Lewis; and The Best American Short Stories 2006, edited by Ann Patchett....

  • 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, ...

  • Fantastic Four: First Family

    Joe Casey

    For the first time, untold secrets of the FF's earliest days are revealed! What happened the moment after Reed Richards' rocket crash landed? What happened - to Sue Storm, to Ben Grimm, to Johnny Storm - in the days following that fateful event? An i...

  • 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...

  • Spider-Girl - Volume 7: Betrayed

    Tom Defalco

    Who will lead the New York underworld? Will the Green Goblin go good or give grief? What secret is Mary Jane keeping? And who is the NEXT true Spider-Man? Guest-starring the Fantastic Five! Collects Spider-Girl #34-38, 51....

  • Fires of War

    Larry Bond; Jim DeFelice

    Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Dangerous Ground, and Jim DeFelice have earned widespread acclaim for the gritty authenticity and spellbinding suspense of their military-political adventures involving the First Team."The Team" lead b...

  • 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...

  • Weatherwitch

    Cecilia Dart-Thornton

    Atarial is a beautiful young woman, the darling of the Weathermaster clan. She nears adulthood in a place of peace and power, but she keenly feels the absence of her parents. For Astarial has received two gifts from her parents that set her apart ...

  • 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...

  • Star-Crossed

    Linda Collison

    Patricia Kelley has been raised a proper British lady--but she's become a stowaway. Her father is dead, and her future in peril. To claim the estate that is rightfully hers, she must travel across the seas to Barbados, hidden in the belly of merchant...

  • Santa Cruise

    Mary Higgins Clark; Carol Higgins

    America’s Queen of Suspense -- Mary Higgins Clark -- joins forces with her daughter Carol -- bestselling author of the Regan Reilly mysteries -- in this fast-paced novel set on a special holiday cruise that sets sail from Miami the day after Christ...

  • The Better Angels of Our Nature

    S.C. Gylanders

    On the eve of Shiloh, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, a mysterious visitor appears at General William Tecumseh Sherman’s camp. Without family or home, with only a uniform and the name of Jesse, this prepossessing stranger is an intri...

  • Saffron Skies

    Lesley Lokko

    From Lesley Lokko, an outstanding new voice in women's fiction, comes a story of family, love, grief, and power . . .

    In this sweeping family saga, Amber Sall has the world on a platter---everything a girl could ever want. She has a handsom...

  • Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories

    Yasunari Kawabata

    Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" written over the spa...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Shelter

    Beth Cooley

    After her dad died, Lucy never imagined that things could get worse.
    But they did.

    She and her mom and little brother lost their new home. Her friends faded away. And the upper middle class life she'd always had slipped fast through her fin...

  • Pictures

    Robert Daley

    Vince Conte was a New York cop until he punched the senior officer having an affair with his wife. Forced to resign, he's bored by his work for a private security firm. Tony Murano was a tennis player dating the daughter of royalty. Then his car...

  • 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...

  • 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 King's Chorus

    Linda Hayward

    As King of the Barnyard, Kadoodle thinks he can do whatever he wants, including crowing at all hours of the day -- and night. No one in the farm can get any sleep. Finally, Honketta the goose takes it upon herself to set this rooster straight. She te...

  • Drumfire

    Graham Ison

    The new and unusual case for Detectives Brock and Poole - One Saturday night, a masked gunman walks into a jazz club and murders the drummer. Very soon, Detective Chief Inspector Brock and Detective Sergeant Poole find themselves taking an interest i...

  • Daredevil: The Devil, Inside and Out, Volume 1

    Michael Lark

    Collects Daredevil (1998) #82-87. For the past few years, Matt Murdock's life has been teetering on the edge of destruction. Now, pushed beyond the limit, Matt finds himself behind the eight ball, in jail, with no clear way out, the people he calls...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense - Volume 1

    Stan Lee

    "In 1958, Stan Lee stood before the decimated Atlas line. Having gone from editor of a line of dozens of titles to just eight, Stan refocused his eff orts on only the biggest and best: enter Tales of Suspense! Anchored by the visual ...

  • Marvel Adventures Spider-Man - Volume 1

    Marvel Book Group

  • One More Time

    Claire Cross

    Mild-mannered Matt Coxwell has finally decided that his long-abandoned dreams are worth fighting for. In fact, it's only after he's left his marriage that he realizes he hasn't fought this hard for anything since he fell like a ton of bricks for his ...

  • Pink Ice

    Susanna Carr

    A stunning pair of pink diamond earrings transforms the lives of three beautiful sisters--Sabrina, Lindsay, and Nicole--as the jewelry brings their hottest erotic fantasies to life, in a trio of seductive and steamy tales. Original. 30,000 first prin...

  • Bloodring

    Faith Hunter

    In a near-future world caught in the throes of an ambiguous apocalypse, seraphs and demons fight a never-ending battle. But a new species has arisen. Neomages are human in appearance, but able to twist leftover creation energy to their will. A threat...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shadowbred

    Paul S. Kemp

    The Lady has spoken to me. It has already begun. Shadows move out of the shrinking desert, south to the rich and arrogant cities of Sembia. "Be brave, little man," says the shadowman, and the boy thinks his voice is surprisingly soft. "Stay ...

  • Cooking Up Murder

    Miranda Bliss

    Annie and Eve are life-long best friends who have absolutely nothing in common--except a lack of skill in the kitchen. So when they sign up for a cooking class at the local gourmet shop, they figure the only things at risk are a few innocent fruits a...

  • Death of a Musketeer

    Sarah D'Almeida

    Alexandre Dumas's Four Musketeers--the noble Athos, the cunning Aramis, the loyal Porthos, and sharp-witted DArtagnan--now add crimesolving to their duties as swashbuckling sleuths in the court of King Louis XIII. All for one, murder for all Ce...

  • Here With Me

    Beverly Long

    Melody Song's dream man came out of nowhere... Dissatisfied with her life, Melody Song quits her job as a social worker and returns home to her family's Napa Valley vineyard. On the way, she stops at a local beach to clear her head. But when a str...

  • Murder on a Hot Tin Roof

    Amanda Matetsky

    IT'S TOO DARN HOT Intrepid crime magazine reporter and mystery novelist Paige Turner has a taste for danger, and she's nearly met her maker more than once in the course of her sleuthing. But a New York heat wave is more daunting than any murderous...

  • 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...

  • Light My Fire

    Katie MacAlister

    I'm Aisling Grey, and multitasking is my middle name.... It's not easy being a demon lord, a Guardian, and a wyvern's mate all at once. Luckily, I just moved to London to study all things Guardian with my mentor. A new start is exactly what I need...

  • Mrs. Mallory and a Death In the Family

    Hazel Holt

    Sheila Malory is less than thrilled when her loathsome cousin Bernard comes to Taviscombe looking for information to complete his family tree. After all, she's got better things to do than listen to Bernard's pompous genealogical lectures and watch h...

  • 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...

  • Odyssey

    Jack McDevitt

    To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about "moonriders," the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems. But the team soon discovers that their odyssey is no mere public-rel...

  • The Transformer Omnibus

    M.A. Foster

    The classic science fiction trilogy in an omnibus edition.
    Back in print after two decades!

    To the totalitarian state of Oerlikon, change is the most fearsome enemy. So a secret weapon was created to preserve the status quo-the Morphodite. A bio...

  • Hinterland

    James Clemens

    Following the Battle of Myrrwood, an ominous artifact is discovered: a skull, twisted and corrupted by dark Graces. But it is neither Man nor beast that has been tainted so foully. It is the skull of a god--and the work of the Cabal, a faction of dae...

  • Vampaholic

    Harper Allen

    KAT CROSSE IS FALLING FOR THE SEXIEST MAN AROUND. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, HE HAS TO KILL HER. The Crosse triplets have had a hell of a year. To their shock, their grandfather Darkheart revealed that the sisters hail from a long line of vampire sla...

  • The Tycoon's Instant Family

    Caroline Anderson

    One boss -- two kids -- and a baby! When wickedly handsome business tycoon Nick Barron recruits Georgie Cauldwell to work for him he also ends up saving her shattered heart. They spend a few gorgeously romantic weeks together. But just when Ge...

  • The Spider Stone

    Alex Archer

    A cryptic message linked to a lost African tribe holds a terrifying curse... In the crumbling remains of a tunnel that was part of the Underground Railroad, a mysterious artifact reveals one of the darkest secrets of Africa's ancient past. Intrigu...

  • Hydra's Ring

    James Axler

    CIRCLE OF DEATH The mysterious barons who once controlled postapocalyptic America have evolved into their true entities, inhuman overlords poised to reclaim the planet they were forced to abandon millennia ago. All that stands between the complete en...

  • To the Rescue

    Jean Barrett

    Leo McKenzie was an American investigator tracking a hard-to-find woman through the English countryside. But trailing antiques agent Jennifer Rowan through an impassable blizzard only amounted to a concussion and a developing cold crush. After fin...

  • Bedded Then Wed

    Heidi Betts

    WHAT'S THE BRIDE WORTH? Wealthy rancher Mitch Ramsey had never given much of a second look to his neighbor Emma Davis, until an unexpected encounter led to a night of unbridled passion. Mitch figured their affair could be a discreet diversion, one...

  • How To Marry A Billionaire

    Ally Blake

    Dream job -- dreamier man -- nightmare situation! Cara Marlowe's new TV job will make her career -- as long as nothing goes wrong. So it's bad news that billionaire Adam Tyler wants the show stopped, and it's worse that Cara can ha...

  • A Woman With Secrets

    Inglath Cooper

    The truth about Kate... Kate Winthrop's sizable inheritance was stolen by her ex-husband. So she does what any wronged woman would -- she gets even. When she breaks in to his empty house, she stumbles onto a large sum of her money. She takes i...

  • Court Me, Cowboy

    Barbara White Daille

    Not the Present He'd Expected This Christmas Three weeks. Gabe Miller's marriage ended in divorce so fast it had hardly begun. Which is why he couldn't quite believe his luck--or his "ex"--when she returned a few months later with the news that le...

  • Keeping Christmas

    B.J. Daniels

    Ten years ago Dixie Bonner was the favorite wild child of a powerful Texas oilman. But after uncovering a dark family secret that cast suspicion on everyone close to her, she took off for a new life and never looked back. Chance Walker was the co...

  • Possessed

    Stephanie Doyle

    WHEN THE DEAD WANT TO SPEAK SHE IS THEIR VOICE Cassandra Allen's gift is so uncanny that even the skeptical police now consult her on murder investigations. But when she's called in to investigate a rash of serial murders, her mind is assaulted ...

  • Nearlyweds

    Beth Kendrick

    Everyone says the first year of marriage is the hardest . . . but what would you do if you found out that you were never really married in the first place? In this irresistible romantic comedy from award-winning author Beth Kendrick, three wildly di...

  • The Substitute Millionaire

    Susan Mallery

    Successful businessman Ryan Bennett had agreed to masquerade as his wealthy cousin for a blind date. But from the moment Ryan saw Julie Nelson to the moment he should have said good-night, he was captivated and couldn't resist an invitation to sha...

  • Plain Jane's Prince Charming

    Melissa McClone

    When plain Jane meets her Prince Charming... For waitress Jane Dawson happily-ever-afters only happen in fairy tales.... So when she approaches sexy millionaire Chase Ryder she's thrilled he'll sponsor her charity. Of course, there's no chance Cha...

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

    Brenda Novak
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    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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Santa, Baby // Carolina Christmas

    Sherryl Woods
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    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?...

  • Deck the Halls

    Holly Jacobs
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    TV reporter Merry Deluca's "'tis the season to be greedy" story is about to get complicated--her new cameraman is recently ex-fiance Patrick MacFarland! And he's got a whole new angle for her story.......

  • Assignment Humbug

    Darlene Gardner
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    Retail manager Joy O'Connell is fraying at the edges when rheumatologist Ed Hall and his three child-terrors enter her store. Between shopping hell and bah humbug, can Ed uncover the true Joy of the season?...

  • 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...

  • Hot Dish

    Connie Brockway

    HERE SHE IS... Years ago, Jenn Lind's family's dynasty crashed, forcing them to move out of their Raleigh penthouse and into a cabin in Fawn Creek, Minnesota. But Jenn saw a way out: She'd win the Buttercup pageant, grab the scholarship, and run fa...

  • The Expectant Executive

    Kathie DeNosky

    WHEN EAST COAST SOCIETY MINGLES WITH WESTERN CHARM... After one night with rich, sexy rancher Travis Clayton, fashion magazine executive Finola Elliott discovered she was pregnant. The baby was a welcome surprise, but Fin would need the next nine ...

  • Having The Boss's Babies

    Barbara Hannay

    A new arrival -- in the office! Like the rest of the staff at Kanga Tours, Alice Madigan is nervous about meeting her new boss--but when he walks through the door it's worse than she ever could have imagined! Alice had shared one very special ni...

  • The Night Before Christmas

    Melinda Curtis
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    Simon Castle's on his way to a make-or-break meeting unseasonably scheduled for December 25 -- until the gorgeous redhead subbing for his limo driver takes him on a detour.......

  • All the Christmases To Come

    Anna Adams
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    Single dad Andrew Durham had resigned himself to losing Rachel Ford. After all, she wants more kids, and he doesn't. But the minute he finds out his second child is coming he goes after Rachel......

  • Falling Into the World

    Karen Brichoux

    Six years after leaving graduate school to care for her father, paralyzed in the same accident that had claimed her mother's life, and her rebellious younger sister, Saphi, Augustina Fletcher gets a chance to reassess her life and come to terms with ...

  • Notes from a Spinning Planet -- Ireland

    Melody Carlson

    It's pretty humiliating to admit, but I've never flown in a plane before today. So wouldn't you think that I'd be feeling pretty jazzed right now? Instead I keep grabbing onto these armrests as I ask myself why on earth I ever agreed to come on this ...

  • It's Never Too Late to Look Hot

    Heather Estay

    I've survived a disastrous divorce (and some equally disastrous first dates). I've survived my friends' menopause madness and my daughter's nerve-racking nuptials. I'm dating Tim (a Truly Extraordinary Kisser), my career is steady and fulfilling, the...

  • Queen of Shadows

    Edith Felber

    It is fourteenth-century England. Wales has been brutally crushed, while Scotland's brave hearts remain rebellious. With treason everywhere, England's beautiful Queen Isabella -- humiliated for years by her weak, unfaithful husband -- is emer...

  • 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...

  • Lady of the Light

    Donna Gillespie

    Auriane, warrior maiden of the Chattian tribe, was sworn to remove the cursed Romans from the lands of the Rhine. Then fate intervened: she was captured, brought to Rome in chains, and trained to fight in the arenas as a gladiator - only to fall in l...

  • 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...

  • Ines of My Soul

    Isabel Allende

    Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless hus...

  • 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...

  • Deadwood Gulch

    John Edward Ames

    SENSELESS SLAUGHTER After ten years of working as a bounty hunter, Cas Everett has earned a reputation as a quick-draw artist and the enmity of more hardcases than he'd care to admit. But he never expects that hatred to destroy his family. Then he r...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Just-So Woman

    Gary Blackwood

    The Just-So Woman likes everything to be just perfect. In the morning she wakes up before the rooster crows. She does her chores. She feeds the cat. Then she fixes breakfast. That is how she likes things done, and so that is how she does them ever...

  • 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...

  • The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album

    Matt Groening

    At last! The Simpsons tell-all book in a wicked new format!

    You''ll gasp in amazement at this revealing, no-holds-barred, and (in one minor instance) poignant family album.

    Nothing omitted! No punches pulled!

    Assembled and narrat...

  • Wild Fire

    Nelson DeMille

    Welcome to the Custer Hill Club--an informal the Custer Hill Club's game reserve.The death appears to be a hunting accident, and that's how the local police first report it, but Detective John Corey From #1 New York Times bestselling author N...

  • Two Mirrors at the Ashram

    Shiv Kumar Kumar

    In a secluded ashram in Mullagarhi, arrives Rajesh Sahni - novelist, habitual drinker, womanizer and atheist - in search of characters for his next book. Incapable of believing in the promise of salvation, and contemptuous of godmen, whom he often po...

  • 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...

  • More Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet

    Lola Douglas

    HOLLYWOOD STARLET EXPOSED! "Doesn't anyone get it? These days, I'm trying to get away from the spotlight, not run further into it." Morgan Carter was head over heels in love with the simple life she'd built in Fort Wayne, Indiana. But then 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...

  • 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...

  • Battle at Ice Palace

    Charlotte Fullerton

  • Dragon's Teeth

    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....

  • The Shining Isle

    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...

  • 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...

  • Mark of the Cross

    Judith Pella

  • 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...

  • Slay Bells

    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 ...

  • 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...

  • Pink Jinx

    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...

  • Bad Girls Don't

    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...

  • Road of Bones

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • The Gates of Night

    Keith Baker
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Too Great a Temptation

    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...

  • 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...

  • Dissolve

    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...

  • Bestiary

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Forbidden Planets

    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...

  • Batman: Inferno

    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...

  • 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....

  • Wolf Hunters

    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...

  • 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 ...

  • Highlander In Her Bed

    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...

  • 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 Double Life

    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...

  • Nightsong: The Legend of Orpheus and Eurydice

    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...

  • I Gave You My Heart, but You Sold It Online

    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 ...

  • Chinatown Beat

    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...

  • Book of the Dead

    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...

  • Nature Girl

    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...

  • Vicious Circle

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 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...

  • Fortress of Ice

    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...

  • Shield of Thunder

    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...

  • You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled

    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...