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New Books List: 513 titles


  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Leslie Alan Horvitz

    It just didn't make sense. When Michael Friedlander heard how his brother had died, he couldn't accept it. So he started to look for his own answers. But every lie he uncovered or secret he exposed simply drew him deeper and deeper into a chain of co...



  • Paul Badgon

    Gettysburg was the end for Jake Sinclair. When the blood-drenched battle ended, the Confederate sharpshooter looked over the field of dead and dying soldiers and decided he'd had his fill of war. He planned to go home and put it all behind him. He di...



  • Lawrence Light

    It's the impossible dream of every trader and dealer on Wall Street--an accurate means to predict the ups and downs of the stock market. The Reiner sisters have made that dream a reality in the form of a computer program they call Goldring. The siste...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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? ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Mark Crilley

    Akiko's always prepared for something out of this world, but when she goes on a pleasure trip to Gollarondo with Poog, Mr. Beeba, Spuckler Boach, and Gax she can barely believe her eyes--Gollarondo is a city that was built completely upside down! For...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Dan Greenburg

    Klatu, Lek, and Ploo head back to Groom Lake to fix their busted spaceship. But the spaceship is gone--it's been taken to Area 51. There's nothing for the aliens to do other than sneak in and search for it. Instead they find something they weren't lo...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Bendis's lengthy, award-winning crime saga comes to a close in this volume, as story lines conclude and questions are answered. Bendis has transformed Daredevil into a gritty crime novel, focusing on the inner life of the brooding hero while steep...



  • 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...



  • Dean McLaughlin



  • 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...



  • Tony Bedard

    The Exiles are gonna party like it's 2099! The World Tour continues and the Exiles just might happen to pick up another teammate! Our money's on Hulk! Or Skullfire! Plus: What's that? You thought the Exiles World Tour was going to slow down? What are...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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, ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Garth Ennis

    Prepare to be punished! For the first time ever, Marvel's one-man-army takes center stage in a no-holds-barred Mature Readers series! Writer Garth Ennis and artist Lewis LaRosa take Punisher to the MAX - literally - as the hunter becomes the hunted! ...



  • 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...



  • 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,...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...




  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • John Lange

    DIVER JAMES McGREGOR IS USED TO EXPLORING SUNKEN SHIPS. But there's something strange about the wreck of the luxury yacht Grave Descend. No one who was aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the matter of the mysterious...



  • 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....



  • Don Lasseter

    Lady KillerRichard Namey, 26, drug abuser and woman-beater, had already threatened a previous girlfriend with a gun, but she'd gotten away. Sarah Rodriquez, 21, wasn't so lucky. On April 16, 2002, in Orange County, California, she and her true love, ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Kelly Braffet

    Twenty-something drifter Miranda crashes her car late at night on a lonely highway and is picked up by a passing stranger who soon reveals himself to be more sinister than at first glance. No one knows Miranda is missing: her father died in a plane c...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 --...



  • Jim Lehrer

    Veteran newsman and acclaimed novelist Jim Lehrer exposes worlds both intimate and universal, builds suspense with an accomplished hand, and reveals a savvy understanding of the modern social landscape. With The Phony Marine, Lehrer dives into a high...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Sharron McClellan

    SHE'D LEARNED THE HARD WAY TO HIDE HER ABILITY FROM THE WORLD Tru Palmer's dowsing ability--she feels resources hidden in the earth--is a gift and a curse. Years ago, she trusted the wrong people with her secret and was locked away. Now, in the Nubi...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Bonnie Hearn Hill

    This will be the story of her life Journalist Geri LaRue is outraged when she loses the paper's "Off the Record" column to an insufferable colleague. To salvage her career and her waning self-confidence, Geri needs a break -- and fast. The perfec...



  • Kit Daniels



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Sharon Ewell Foster

    I have discovered there's Indian in my family heritage.... The time is 1838. Armentia pointed to a well on the land their Cherokee master owns. "It seems hard to believe now, son, but someday we'll have our own land. Land with a well just like this o...



  • 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...



  • Karen Fenech

    To save her son and people from a deadly enemy, Lady Katherine Stanfield marries her former betrothed, a mand she'd betrayed but has never stopped loving.

    Katherin has never revealed her reason for the betrayal and now, five years later, she belie...



  • Michelle Buckley

    For reporter Lacy Foxx the humour and horror of being a young black female who's single and searching is all too real. She is also struggling with the death of family members, job woes, baby momma drama and family interference disguised as caring con...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Cindy Martinusen

    Eventide: the time from when the sun begins to set until total darkness has descended.It was once of those magical seasons that lives forever in memory. An Italian seaside village. Days of adventure and romantic exploration. Moonlight swims in a spar...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Kate Brian

    Reed Brennan's future is looking as bright as the two-karat diamonds in her new housemates' ears. Being accepted to the most prestigious private boarding school in the country wasn't enough for Reed. She had to break every rule to do it, but she has ...



  • Eddie De Oliveira

    The personal meet the political in this "rare find" (Booklist) of a novel from promising author Eddie de Oliveira.

    Johnny Hazzard's an American boy living in London for the summer. He's not used to being a foreigner, and even less used to fend...



  • 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...



  • Joy

    Baby Girl McCoy, a product of rape, searches for a "daddy" figure in her life, while Harlem Lee Jones, even though she's found God, and a new man named Jazzy, cannot escape the choices she has made in her life. Original....




  • 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...



  • Lesley Dahl

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