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New Books List: 513 titles


  • M.C. King

    Zack and Cody can't believe that the hit television show Go Dance USA is holding a dance contest -- right at the Tipton Hotel! Their friend Max, who has the coolest moves of anyone at school, has always wanted to be on the show. Then Max asks Zack to...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Susan Page Davis

    RACHEL HAS BEEN TAKEN CAPTIVE Sioux Indians captured Rachel Haynes two years ago, then traded her to the peaceful Arapaho tribe. Rachel hasn't seen another white person for ages, so when the Barkleys show up to trade, she longs to rejoin her peopl...



  • Karen McCombie

    Jude's never had much luck with boys. In fact, all the blokes in her life seem to be allergic to treating her right - including her dad...Then she meets Gareth. He's not like the others: he's sensitive, caring and actually listens to her. Could it be...



  • Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    They watched their sons, their brothers, and their husbands enlist to fight a growing menace across the seas. And when their nation asked, they answered the call as well... Virginia longs to find a purpose beyond others' expectations Helen is d...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Betsy Thornton

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



  • Tracie Peterson

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



  • Earl Sewell

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



  • C.S. Harris

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



  • 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...



  • Gail Giles

    "The setting is claustrophobic, the characters are complex and the story will keep readers on the edge of their seats," KLIATT raved of this vivid, fast-paced psychological thriller in a starred review. Kyle Kirby has planned a cruel and unusual reve...




  • Gayle Jackson Sloan

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



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Suzanne Weyn

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



  • Bapsi Sidhwa

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



  • 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,...



  • Cassandra Chan

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



  • Alice Munro

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



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



  • 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...



  • Julia Justiss

    UNTUTORED. UNTOUCHED. UNTIL... Imprisoned as a child by her spiteful father, Helena Lambarth vowed upon his death to never again live under a man's rule. But to honor her mother's last wish, she journeys to London to enter society -- and f...



  • 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...



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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Joanne Fluke
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    Take two lovestruck teachers. Add a dollop of conspiring kids. Place in a boarding school over Christmas break. And add a little help--and eight, great recipes--from amateur sleuth Hannah Swenson, and you've got a romantic holiday tale that's sweet, ...



  • Shirley Jump
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    Of all the luck--Natalie Harris can't believe she drew Jake Lyons as her Secret Santa pal! The dreamy hunk leaves her completely tongue-tied. But with twelve days of secret gifts, sweet notes, and steamy emails to go, she just may conquer her fear an...



  • 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...



  • Raina Telgemeier; Ann M. Martin

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

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




  • Rosemary Aitken

    Helena Tregenza has a loving family, beauty, a gift for music and a lively intelligence -- but no one would envy her. A childhood accident destroyed her sight, leaving her with little place in the Edwardian world, confined to the house, an embarrass...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • La Jill Hunt

    Quincy Westbrooke has been in the dating game long enough to know exactly what he's looking for in a woman: tall, attractive, long hair, intelligent, no kids, independent, and most of all, drama free! His perfect criteria is thrown out the window whe...



  • 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...



  • Dilly Court

    'I ain't always going to be poor, I made me mind up to that.' Dismissed from her position as housemaid under a cloud of misunderstanding, Tilly True is forced to return home. But Tilly is determined to make something of her life and, rather than a...



  • 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...




  • David Poyer

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



  • 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...



  • Sandy Blair

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



  • Kate Hardy

    When Kit and Natalie Rodgers lost their baby boy, it felt like nothing would be the same again. After six years apart, they unexpectedly find themselves working together in the pediatrics department at St. Joseph's. So much has changed, but they r...



  • 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.......



  • 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...



  • Tamora Pierce

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Andre Norton; Jean Rabe

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



  • 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...



  • Janet Lane

    The Gypsy girl Sharai escapes a slave ship infected with the plague, only to later be sold as a slave for seven pounds and three solidi. As an adult, she performs her silky, exotic dances to earn enough to sustain herself and the toddling orphan girl...



  • Candice Poarch

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



  • 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...



  • 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 fourteen"year"olds face this desperate situation on a deadly journey in Antarctica. It...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Loreth Anne White

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



  • 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...



  • Carol Hutchens

    A foundling, raised by two old maids, Emiline Anastasia Gray wants to make a name for herself more than anything in the world. With sewing as her only skill, Ellie enters a contest to study in New York with a famous clothing designer. Ellie's resembl...



  • Walter Dean Myers

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



  • Don Pendleton

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Dara Girard

    Sick-of-being-single business consultant Dawn Adjani has two goals--earn the biggest payday of her stalled career by restructuring an ailing medical-technology company and catch the eye of Jordan Taylor, the company's sexy CEO. While revamping the co...



  • David Farland

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



  • Lori Wilde

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



  • L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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



  • Kyra Davis

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



  • 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....



  • Jake Logan

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



  • Edward Lee

    The trichinosis worm is one of nature's most revolting parasites. Luckily, these worms are rarely more than a few millimeters in length. But guess what? Now there's a subspecies that's thirty feet long... When Nora and her research team arrived o...




  • 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 ...



  • Darren Shan

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



  • 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 ...



  • Jory Sherman

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



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

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



  • Sally Spencer

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



  • 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...



  • Linda Hudson-Smith

    Forty-five-year-old Savannah Richmond knew her trust in God would see her through the dark storm of sadness that followed losing her beloved husband of twenty-five years. Understanding that she cannot let her grief immobilize her, Savannah relocates ...



  • 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 ...



  • Gina Buonaguro; Janice Kirk

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



  • Sandra Marton

    Bedded by blackmail -- wedded by Christmas? Sicilian tycoon Dante Russo has become rich and successful the hard way. So there's no mercy in his heart when he hears that Taylor Sommer's business is struggling. She's the woman who ended ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Dave Barry

    One of the warmest, funniest, and most delightful Christmas stories ever -- from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dave Barry. With fond nostalgia, Dave Barry takes readers back to a simpler time: The year is 1960, and young Doug Barnes is playing a she...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Michael Walters

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



  • Laura Anne Gilman

    The Quest for the Holy Grail has begun. Three teenagers, Gerard, Ailis, and Newt, have earned a place on the Quest alongside the Knights of the Round Table. But they are not the only ones seeking this treasured cup. King Arthur's sinister half sister...



  • Chris Walley

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



  • 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...



  • Andrew M. Greeley

    One of America's most beloved storytellers, Father Andrew Greeley returns with an explosive novel about the corrosive political culture tearing apart America--and one man's family. Tommy Moran, an Irish Catholic kid from the West Side of Chicago, fig...



  • Mary (1) Kennedy

    Summer plans go awry when beautiful, blond Amber Fielding, a high school senior-to-be who lives in the penthouse of her father's exclusive South Beach hotel, meets gorgeous film student Nick Crawford....



  • Sara Orwig

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



  • Donna Hill

    With a new job at Pause for Men spa and wealthy Sterling Powers in her bed, Ann Marie Dennis is about to realize her goal--the perfect life. Then fate intervenes and her grown daughter moves in, crowding her once-empty nest. Next Ann Marie's ex shows...



  • 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?...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Jack Fredrickson

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  • Terri Farley

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  • David Mack

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  • Jeff Shaara

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  • Lynne Graham

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  • Laura Joh Rowland

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  • Cecily von Ziegesar

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  • Lisa Plumley

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  • Larry Karp

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  • Sara Donati

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  • Jimmy Palmiotti

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  • Garth Ennis

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  • Trish Wylie

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  • Paul Dowswell

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  • William W. Johnstone

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  • Kristi Gold

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  • Erica David

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  • Miranda Lee

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  • Eloisa James

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  • Lynn A. Coleman

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  • Cecelia Ahern

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  • Gideon Defoe

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  • Marc Cerasini; Alice Alfonsi

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  • Sandra Hill

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  • Susanna Carr

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  • Robert Daley

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  • Jim Lehrer

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  • David Thompson

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  • Salvador Plascencia

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  • Yasunari Kawabata

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  • Crystal Velasquez

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


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  • Claire Cross

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  • Bonnie Hearn Hill

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  • Michael Crichton

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  • Grant Morrison

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  • Douglas Niles

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  • 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...




  • Ken Akamatsu

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

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  • Beth Kendrick

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  • Joan Elizabeth Lloyd

    What keeps you up at night? For one woman, finding her lover the perfect Christmas gift is challenging, until she borrows a friend's sex toy catalog. Now the question isn't what to buy but what not to try... She's never been a woman for one night...



  • 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...



  • Rona Sharon

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  • Shirley Hailstock

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  • Cydney Rax

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  • Stephanie Rowe

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  • Amanda Matetsky

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