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New Books List: 513 titles


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



  • 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...



  • Laurie Paige

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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......



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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?...



  • Janet Tronstad

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



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Amanda Stevens



  • Lee Wilkinson

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



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Adam Relf

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

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



  • Leanne Banks

    One convenient download. One bargain price. Get all June 2010 Silhouette Desire with one click! Bundle includes: Dante's Ultimate Gamble by Day Leclaire, CEO's Expectant Secretary by Leanne Banks, Secrets, Lies...and Seduction by Katherine Garbera an...



  • 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...



  • Ty Phillips

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



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Mary Kay Andrews

    DECK THE HALLS WITH ROMANCE, INTRIGUE, AND GREAT ANTIQUES! It's the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to garnish her shop for the Savannah historical district contest. She's ready to shoot herself with her glue g...



  • Katherine Hall Page

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



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Michael Hague

    In folklore, fairies have lived tantalizingly close to humans for centuries. Now, you can travel through the lands of fairies, goblins, brownies, and elves in this rich and varied collection of stories and poems. Renowned fantasy illustrator Micha...



  • David Maine

    "This is the story of my life and it's not a happy one. If you wish to read about me you're welcome to but if you're looking for something to give you hope & joy comfort & inspiration then you had best leave off here straightaway and go find ...



  • 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...



  • Margaret Mayo

    Bought bride... Dione Keristari will do anything to help her sick father. But begging gorgeous Greek billionaire Theo Tsardikos for cash is more than she bargained for. Now he's demanding a marriage contract in return for the money! She has no c...



  • Devan Aptekar

    Teen Titans: Five teenage super heroes fighting for truth, justice, and the last slice of pizza!

    The Puppet King has been pulling some strings, and the Teen Titans are in real trouble! The Puppet King has trapped Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy i...



  • Max McCoy

    This exciting historical account paints a vivid portrait of the life of Wild Bill Hickok, from his first showdown at the age of twenty-four, to the legendary events in Springfield, Missouri, that made him a legend in his time. Original....



  • Nancy Warren

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Jennifer Johnson

    Victoria's Life has taken an unexpected turn, and the crash into the rugged mechanic's Corvette doesn't help matters. Forced into making her own way, the riches-to-rags Victoria Thankful must rely on the kindness of her sister-in-law until she is abl...



  • Lorna Michaels

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Jennifer Frantz

    Mr. Zuckerman has entered Wilbur in the County Fair. If Wilbur can win the blue ribbon, everyone will finally know how special he is. It's up to Charlotte to spin the perfect web, with the perfect word, so everyone will know Wilbur is the perfect ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Abby Green

    He needs an heir; she's carrying his baby... Tall, bronzed Frenchman Xavier Salgado-Lezille isn't a man a girl can say no to easily. Jane tries to play it cool, but she's inexperienced...and a virgin. Falling in love isn't part of ...



  • Kathleen O'Brien

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



  • Sarah Morgan

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



  • Kinky Friedman

    It's a Christmas tale only a man called Kinky could tell. King Jonjo Mayo the First is in a bind. Every Christmas, he commissions an artist to paint a traditional nativity scene to be dramatically revealed after midnight mass. This year, though, th...



  • 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...



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



  • Tina Leonard

    Two Precious Gufts Jessica Tomball Farnsworth has never seen a cowboy before, so is quite unprepared for her strong physical reaction to him. And when her little indiscretion results in a baby--make that babies--she's more than a little overwhelme...



  • Jillian Hart
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    When a misunderstanding caused millionaire Colton Nichols to be taken for Santa Claus by neighbor Amanda Richard's young son, Colton was determined to keep his distance. But the Christmas-wish letter Jeremy sent broke his heart -- Jeremy asked only t...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Merline Lovelace

    To Drew "The Riever" McDowell, this seemed like a fairly straightforward assignment: track down Tracy Brandt and find out her connection to a top secret mission. But when Drew finds her, he realizes Tracy has a mission of her own--solving the sixty-y...



  • 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...




  • Peggy Webb

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Michael Anthony Steele

    Bring on The Batman!

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



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Marly Youmans

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



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Chris Walley

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



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • Dean McLaughlin



  • Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum

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



  • 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 ...



  • Joe McKinney

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



  • Carol Costa

    When a retired Chicago reporter dies under mysterious circumstances in a nursing home, investigative journalist Dana Sloan takes it personally. Dana's editor -- who'd considered the ex-newswoman both a mentor and friend -- believes the woman had stum...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Charlene Baumbich

    Just in time for the holidays-a Partonville Christmas story that all Dearest Dorothy fans will have on their wish list Through four Dearest Dorothy novels, Charlene Ann Baumbich has beguiled a growing legion of readers with the humorous and endearin...



  • Nan Ryan

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



  • 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...



  • Ann Ripley

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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.......




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Laura Iding

    It's Christmas at Trinity Medical Center, and intensive-care nurse Dana Whitney loves the festive season. She is determined that this will always be the most special time of the year--if only she could persuade her new boss to get into the Christmas ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Matt Dray

    Dougal was a shy little bear with a heart of gold. He never got to play with the other toys in the house because they were all new and clean and perfect and he was not. He often wished he could be new like them...

    Then one rainy afternoon, Dou...



  • 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 ...



  • Kaza Kingsley

    Life is not easy for twelve-year-old Erec Rex. His single mother can barely support her six adopted kids. And they've moved into an apartment so tiny that Erec sleeps with the washing machine. Worse, there is a strange force within Erec that is makin...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Patricia Hickman

    Jeb Nubey and Fern Coulter's wedding date is set, but their plans are derailed when a trip to visit Fern's family in Oklahoma catapults them into her past--a past she would prefer remain buried. Simultaneously, Jeb is called to lead a wealthy church,...



  • Kei Swanson

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



  • Peter Merchant

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    In the Nevada desert, the high-tech future of warfare is being conceived and constructed at a top-secret military facility called Dreamland. END GAME A volatile U.S. ally has fallen prey to the terrorist beast. India is the target of radical Islamic...



  • 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...



  • Diana Groe

    An Irish princess. A Viking warrior. His people's raids on her country should have made them bitter enemies. But when he washed up on her beach with no memory of his life, Brenna found herself drawn to the handsome stranger. His kind words and gentle...



  • 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 ...



  • T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Avalon, the great tree world connecting the earth and the heavens, is about to be destroyed. The warlord Rhita Gawr is bent on conquest--and using an army of deathless warriors, a corrupted crystal, and a plague of arrogance and greed to succeed. ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Jeri Smith-Ready

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



  • Heyoka Merrifield

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



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Serena Robar

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

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Fiona Simpson

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

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



  • Penny Worms

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

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



  • Kristan Higgins

    Millie Barnes is this close to finally achieving her perfect life . . . Rewarding job as a local doctor on Cape Cod? Check. Cute cottage of her very own? Check. Adorable puppy suitable for walks past attractive locals? Check! All she needs is for...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Catherine Mann

    A fine line between duty and desire They'd shared one wild weekend of passion, then she'd left without a word. Five years later, Nola Seabrook tracked down Captain Rick DeMassi to apologize for her hasty departure, not realizing this fresh encount...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Beverly Barton
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    Wounded Special Ops officer Mack MacKinnon doesn't have any reason to look forward to the holidays -- until he rescues pretty widow Katie Hadley from a raging blizzard. Now, in a season of miracles, he's falling as hard and fast as the Christ...



  • Morgan Hill

    In the veiled and shadowed history of the West there rides a mysterious horseman. His headless shoulders testify to his death at the hands of the law -- in a state that forbade Mexicans like him to own property. A state that turned a deaf ear to the ...



  • 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...



  • John Jakes

    In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, was a cauldron of undeclared class warfare where reputations were made and lost in a whirlwind of parties and fancied slights. Where giant marble mansions called "cottages" arose and where--amid ...



  • Jon Katz



  • 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...



  • Melanie Murray

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



  • 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....



  • 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 ...



  • Joshua Doder

    “A page-turning escapade for middle-grade readers.” -- Kirkus Reviews

    The Malts and the Raffifis are on holiday in New York City. But when a billion-dollar statue at the National Museum goes missing, the police need help catching the culp...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Louise Wener

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



  • Elizabeth Berg

    In this wonderful novel about love and trust, hope and belief, Elizabeth Berg, the bestselling author of We Are All Welcome Here and The Year of Pleasures, transports us to Nazareth in biblical times to reimagine the events of the classic Christmas s...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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.....



  • Geri Guillaume

    She was a force of nature he couldn't resist... Proud, penniless Darion Haddock worked hard and kept to himself, earning both respect and responsibility at Jon Holling's Montana ranch--and the honor of driving through a snowstorm to get his boss's...



  • Fiona Lowe

    Surviving a plane crash in the alpine forests of Australia sparks the beginning of a real connection between Dr. Will Cameron and nurse Meg Watson. A connection they delight in strengthening when Will finds himself helping Meg in her understaffed out...



  • Teresa Hill

    SISTERS, SISTERS... For years, Kathie Cassidy suffered in silence, determined that no one would ever find out she'd fallen in love with her beloved sister's fiance! And then the unthinkable happened. Her sister's longtime engagement wa...



  • 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...



  • Jeff Parker

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...