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New Books List: 618 titles

  • Sugar Daddy

    Relentless Aaron

    Toy grew into her name long before she grew up--a plaything for men in a world dominated by fast money and endless greed. As a bartender, she was used to being hit on by players...and then along came Colin. He was smart and sensitive. He had goals. A...

  • Down Time

    Lynn Abbey

    She can move through time and free those fated to suffering. But sometimes, duty can become a curse unto itself.. Emma Merrigan and her mother, Eleanor--whose time spent in the other world known as the "wasteland" has left her outwardly younger th...

  • The Riddle Of Zorfendorf Castle

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Eric and his friends have long known about the mysterious and beautiful Zorfendorf Castle. But when Emperor Ko launches a surprise attack, the kids discover that the castle is not ...

  • Oblivion

    Peter Abrahams

    What determines your identity? Is it the clothes you wear? The way other people treat you? The stories, anecdotes and experiences you have stored in your memory? When Nick Petrov wakes up in a hospital room, his clothes are two sizes too big. Everyon...

  • Down the Rabbit Hole

    Peter Abrahams

    "My all-time favorite. Astonishing." (Stephen King)Down the Rabbit Hole is the first book in the Echo Falls mystery series by bestselling crime novelist Peter Abrahams. Perfect for middle school readers looking for a good mystery.Welco...

  • The Diary of Pelly D

    L.J. Adlington

    This is the diary of Pelly D. It's totally secret, so if you are reading it I hate you already. The notebook is wrapped in faded brown paper, sealed in a battered water can. Toni V, who works on the City Five demolition crew, unearths it as he's d...

  • Baby Galileo Sees the Stars

    Julie Aigner-Clark

  • The Girls' Global Guide To Guys

    Theresa Alan

    Notes From The Guide To Guys 1. Paris. City of Lights? Romantic. Heavily accented gropers? Not so much. 2. Venice. Pasta, wine, art, and men who tell you you're bella even when your hair hasn't been washed in three days. What's not to love? ...

  • War by Candlelight

    Daniel Alarcon

    “The engaging stories . . . draw on Peru’s violent history, the plight of Lima’s poor and the hopes of immigrants in New York . . . finely crafted fiction.” -- Chicago TribuneWinner of the Whiting Writers’ AwardIn this exquisite collection...

  • Beyond Business // To Take a Chance

    Rochelle Alers

    Keeping her condition a secret while temporarily sharing her boss's home put Renee Wilson at a disadvantage. The sultry secretary desperately needed the job at Blackstone Farms. She couldn't afford to leave, but she didn't dare stay with widower Shel...

  • From the Halls of Montezuma

    David Alexander

  • Her Gentleman Protector

    Meg Alexander

    Miss Emma Lynton was stranded in France, in the middle of a revolution, totally alone! Handsome aristocrat Simon Avedon came to her rescue and vowed to escort her home. But Emma began to find Simon's orders rather irksome -- until she was told of...

  • Revenge of the Sith Movie Storybook

    Alice Alfonsi

    Fully illustrated with the most exciting color photographs from the movie, the Star Wars: Episode III Movie Storybook follows the story from beginning to end with easy-to-read text. It’s the perfect collector’s item for Star Wars fans of all ages...

  • Murder on the Salsette

    Conrad Allen

    Genevieve Masefield and George Porter Dillman make a living anonymously, cruising the seven seas aboard the early twentieth century's most extravagant sailing vessels as ship's detectives. In this line of work they've experienced more than their shar...

  • The Pleasure Garden

    Regan Allen

    His One Desire A secret agent in His Majesty's service, Jason Kitterage is much in need of diversion--and a solitary stroll through the shadowy, perfumed lanes of Vauxhall provides it. Quite by chance he meets Miss Angelica Pruitt, a young beauty wh...

  • A Little Learning Is A Murderous Thing

    Lou Allin

    Life at Copper University in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has been good for Professor of Victorian literature Maddie Temple, but the school year is about to get off to a deadly start. Maddie's first day of school is marred by the death of a student who...

  • The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories

    Steve Almond

    Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a master of the modern form and risks getting him arrested. The cast of characters in The Evil B.B. Cho...

  • Sleeper Cell

    Jeffrey Anderson

    Biodefense, the nation's top-secret agency against bioterrorism, must race against time stop a nanotechnological plague that has been unleashed on the unsuspecting population by a sleeper cell within the United States. Original....

  • Owls Well That Ends Well

    Donna Andrews

    A YARD SALE... Meg Langslow was actually looking forward to renovating the old Victorian mansion she and her boyfriend, Michael, bought. But she wasn't thrilled by the lifetime of junk accumulated by the house's eccentric previous owner, Edwina Spro...

  • Crazy For You

    Kate Angell

    From the moment she spotted his hamburger-and-French-fry emblazoned boxers with the word supersized on them, Bree knew Sexton St. Croix was trouble. Here was a man with just one thing on his mind, but Sex had hired her to do a job and she'd let nothi...

  • Looking after Little Ellie

    Mike Archer

    Five little mice...one BIG babysitting job!

    When Little Ellie's mother needs to go out, she asks her friends the mice to look after her baby. The only problem is, Little Ellie isn't so little! Children will delight in the mishaps and mayhem t...

  • The Rise of the House of McNally

    Philip Ardagh

    In this, the third and final Unlikely Exploit, the reader is taken on a journey through time in all directions, even revisiting some events from the previous Exploits and traveling back further still to a time before the McNally family's extraordinar...

  • Brass Man

    Neal Asher

    From the Philip K. Dick Awardnominated author of Cowl, an adrenaline-powered new SF adventure: Brass Man. Neal Asher returns to his trademark Polity future setting in this sequel to Gridlinked, which SFRevu.com called brilliant and audacious work, ch...

  • Beware of God

    Shalom Auslander

    Violent rabbis, lovelorn wives, a busy Grim Reaper, shame-filled simians, and one seriously angry deity populate this humorous and disquieting collection. Shalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wid...

  • The Harmony Silk Factory

    Tash Aw

    Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Anthony Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. In Tash Aw, we now have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape.The Harmony Silk Factory traces the story of textile mercha...

  • There Is Room for You

    Charlotte Bacon

    In a braided narrative that unites the stories of two striking women, Charlotte Bacon explores the emotional and psychological turbulence of suppressed family histories, the bravery needed to renew broken lives, and the difficulties we all have in re...

  • In a Texas Minute

    Stella Bagwell

    THREE OF A KIND... Sierra Mendoza was nursing yet another broken heart when an unexpected distraction appeared at her door -- an abandoned baby who was truly the man of her dreams. But Child Services wouldn't consider the unmarried Sierra as a possi...

  • Death Of A Prince

    Susan P. Baker

    Criminal Defense Attorney Sandra Salinsky is hired to defend the alleged murderer of plaintiffs' attorney Phillip Parker, her mother's best friend.Salinsky and her mother, Erma Townley, are law partners as well as sparing partners and different as ni...

  • Sleeping Over

    Stacey Ballis

    When is a sleepover appropriate? A. When you have insomnia and you call your close friend... who also happens to be your handsome boss? B. When you're at a wedding and forced to share tight quarters with a good-looking groomsman? C. When sex is ...

  • Simply Unforgettable

    Mary Balogh

    New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh invites us into an intoxicating world--a select academy for young ladies--and introduces two unlikely lovers: a truly marvelous heroine, music teacher Frances Allard, and the man who seduces her with a pa...

  • Maya Running

    Anjali Banerjee

  • Armies Of Hanuman

    Ashok K. Banker

    The original Ramayana -- a classic tale of war between absolute Good and Evil -- was written 3,000 years ago by Valmiki, a reformed thief-turned-sage. Now, with breathtaking imagination, Indian novelist Ashok K. Banker has recreated this epic tale fo...

  • Vertigo

    Ashok K. Banker

  • Blackthorn's Changing Seasons

    Cicely Mary Barker

    In Blackthorn's Changing Seasons, Blackthorn discovers she loves spring and summer the most because it's warm and sunny and her blossoms are in full bloom. The book has a die-cut cover with holographic foil and is filled with Barker's colorful illust...

  • Rose Plays Hide and Seek

    Cicely Mary Barker

    In Rose Plays Hide and Seek, Rose gathers all the fairies to play a game. Bumble Bee sets off to hide, but who will find him and win the prize?The book has a die-cut cover with holographic foil and is filled with Barker's colorful illustrations and b...

  • The Mourning Sexton

    Michael Baron

    WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO START LIFE OVER AGAIN? WHO WOULD YOU TRUST THIS TIME? AND WHAT WOULD YOU RISK? Attorney David Hirsch was the managing partner of a prestigious St. Louis law firm when he was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to federal...

  • Hard Truth

    Nevada Barr

    Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna’s investi...

  • Paternity Unknown

    Jean Barrett

    WHO'S THE FATHER? Gossips in Lauren McCrea's small town speculated about the identity of her baby's father. But not even the daddy knew. And if her daughter hadn't been kidnapped, he never would have.... Coming face-to-face with Lauren was like...

  • Girl vs. Wave

    Scott Bass

    Ruby is a surfer girl. At least she's going to be one someday soon. Her father is showing her all the things she needs to know to hang ten-- how to prepare the board, how to balance, how to paddle out to the waves. And he's right there with her th...

  • Hamster Camp: How Harry Got Fit

    Teresa Bateman

    Concerned about Harry's weight gain and lack of exercise, his pet hamster arranges for him to spend a month at a unique camp, where Harry is transformed into someone who understands that eating right and staying in shape can be fun....

  • Dear Zoe

    Philip Beard

    DON'T MISS THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SADIE SINK OF STRANGER THINGS!Dear Zoe is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and naive, world-worried and self-centered, funny and hear...

  • Sins Of The Fathers

    James Scott Bell

    A parent’s worst nightmare. A lawyer’s biggest challenge. A young boy’s life on the line. The unimaginable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are dev...

  • Glimpses of Paradise

    James Scott Bell

    Two high school kids in small town Nebraska have their dreams. Zee, a minister's daughter, wants to be a movie star. Doyle, the son of a wealthy lawyer, is expected to follow in his father’s footsteps and practice law. But World War I explodes and ...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 12: Superstars

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #66-71. A bizarre occurrence brings Spider-Man and Wolverine together for the weirdest team-up in super-hero history! As the two struggle to get to the bottom of this mystery, their lives literally unravel. Why are both...

  • Lords Of Grass And Thunder

    Curt Benjamin

    As Prince Tayy prepares to assume the leadership of the Qubal clans, treacherous enemies threaten his ascension with dark magic-and only the apprentice shaman destined to be Tayy's bride can save him....

  • Life. Get One.

    Jim Benton

    What do you give the graduate who has an answer for everything? It's Happy Bunny!


    In this updated edition of the classic, LIFE. GET ONE., It's Happy Bunny provides nuggets of wisdom to take with you as you go out into the world (or on to J...

  • The Year of Pleasures

    Elizabeth Berg

    In this rich and deeply satisfying novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending, and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an unforgettable journey of adventure, self-discovery, and renewal. Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the de...

  • The Winter Duke

    Louise Bergin

    After a failed London Season, Miss Lydia Grenville returns to the country with little hope of finding a love match. She seeks solace in her sketching, often sneaking out of her house to draw in the woods surrounding nearby Winterbourne Castle. But...

  • The Marriage Adventure

    Hannah Bernard

    Maria knows she's a wimp, but she's terrified of heights and petrified of all things scary: so why on earth has she agreed to jump out of a plane? She blames her stubborn pride -- and her need to get the better of Eddie, who'll be skydiving with h...

  • The Disobedient Bride

    Helen Bianchin

    Twelve months ago their marriage was perfect.... Then billionaire Tyler Benedict returns home to find his bed empty and Lianne Marshall, his wife, gone! Now Tyler will do anything to get his bride back! Tyler hires Lianne to be his personal law...

  • Lost Time

    Ilsa J. Bick

    STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS Almost a year after the S.C.E. crew on the da Vinci helped Lieutenant Nog of Deep Space 9 " salvage the hulk of DS9's sister station Empok Nor, a booby trap left behind by the Androssi threatens the Bajoran system. But...

  • Loopy

    Dan Binchy

    Dan Binchy's first two novels were delightful stories of small town Ireland and filled with a range of eccentric and hilarious characters. Both books received warm praise--The Washington Post called The Neon Madonna "terrifically funny and a hilario...

  • A Table By The Window

    Lawana Blackwell

    Having survived a tumultuous childhood, Carley has fashioned an orderly life for herself in San Francisco. Then a private investigator brings her news of a large inheritance--and a house in Tallulah, Mississippi, from a grandmother she can barely rem...

  • The Butterfly Garden

    Annette Blair

    In 1883 Walnut Creek, Ohio, partially ostracized midwife Sara Lapp rushes to help Abby Zuckerman give birth for the fourth time in four years. However, Abby's spouse Mad Adam refuses to allow her to see his wife. Instead he tells her to take his four...

  • Peacemaker: Conquistador's Gold

    Clifford Blair

    Professional troubleshooter James Stark and his wife Prudence accompany young Sarah Walker into the rugged Wichita Mountains in search of her missing fiancé, Timothy Rankin.

    Rankin, a professor at Northeast University in New York City, disappear...

  • Carousel Cat

    Robert J. Blake

    Watching the little cat mill about the Pavilion on the boardwalk, no one thinks too much of the stray, but when a fire breaks out and the cat goes back to rescue all her kittens, one by one, everyone quickly realizes that she is quite a special cat a...

  • Nightworld

    Arthur Bloch

    Robert Bloch, the creator of Psycho, takes you into the inner recesses of the mind of a madman. A man bent on revenge that comes out of the night, grabbing its victims by the throat and giving no quarter¨. From the moment Karen Raymond entered the s...

  • Black Fly Season

    Giles Blunt

    Only someone dumb or high would go out unprotected during Algonquin Bay’s black fly season. But when a beautiful young woman covered in bites stumbles into a tavern, the local cops discover she is neither. The woman has a bullet in her brain -- and...

  • The Third Translation

    Matt Bondurant

    An ancient mystery, a hidden language, and the secrets of a bizarre Egyptian sect collide in modern-day London in this ingenious novel of seduction, conspiracy, and betrayal alter Rothschild is an American Egyptologist living in London and charged by...

  • Sleep Rough Tonight

    Ian Bone

    When he gets out of the detention center for serving time due to Alex's confession, Jockey acts as a friend to Alex again and dares him to spend a night out on the streets with him, yet in taking the dare, Alex quickly comes to realize that surviving...

  • Alternate Generals III

    Baen Books

    Once Again, Great Leaders Make Great History -- but Not History as We Know It. . . .History shows that leadership is crucial in war, but there are other factors at work. What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea ...

  • Shock Wave

    James O. Born

    Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Bill Tasker is still smarting from a near-lethal run-in with the FBI. But he reluctantly helps the Bureau track down a stolen Stinger missile. As usual, the Feds take all the credit--but something about thi...

  • Bleedout

    Joan Brady

    "Watch your back most carefully when someone you trust steps behind you." Even after Hugh Freyl lost his sight he was invincible. But late one night, in the library of the elite law firm that bears his name, he was beaten to death. The obvious sus...

  • Navarro

    Peter Brandvold

    In the USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series, love can be the most dangerous frontier...Hardened ex-gunslinger Taos Tommy Navarro turned away Karla Vannorsdell, a rancher’s granddaugther, when she needed him most. Now, angry and full...

  • Song In the Park

    Martin Brant

    A tale of two men haunted by their past.

    Nothing would ever be the same for Michael Anderson, a renowned San Diego surgeon, after losing a little girl on the operating table. He blamed himself, rightfully, having stayed out the night before, indul...

  • Forgiveness

    Jean Brashear

    Ria Channing fled from her family six years ago, running away after committing a sin no parent could forgive -- driving drunk in the crash that killed her younger brother. The golden child, gone. The demon child, walking away unharmed. Now Ria ...

  • In the Shelter of his Arms

    Jackie Braun

    Abandoned as a child, Roz Bennett has never felt she belonged anywhere. Now, just when she thinks she's lucked out again, with no money and a broken-down car in the middle of nowhere, she's rescued.... Handsome, brooding Mason Stricker offers Roz ...

  • The Fifth Season

    Don Bredes

    In Don Bredes’s Cold Comfort, Hector Bellevance left Vermont for Harvard, graduated into a job with the Boston Police Department, made detective, married, divorced, accidentally shot his partner during a raid gone bad, and then returned to Vermont ...

  • The Betrothal: The Claiming of Lady Joanna

    Terri Brisbin
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    Terrified by rumors about her intended's wicked ways, Lady Joanna runs away from her wedding and seeks sanctuary in a church. Will the boldly handsome Lord Braden, the so-called "Warlock of Wynwydd," woo her into his arms -- or sweep her away to the ...

  • Double Identity

    Annette Broadrick

    "Love 'em and leave 'em" was his specialty...and that made Jude Crenshaw the perfect man for this assignment. His blond, craggy good looks would make it easy for him to woo innocent, sweet Carina Patterson. The skilled secret agent knew he could secu...

  • A Confidential Source

    Jan Brogan

    - Jan Brogan's first novel, "Final Copy (Larcom Press, 2001), won "The Drood Review of Mystery's Editor's Choice Award and was named one of the best eight mysteries published in 2001.- Like the novels of Edgar Award-winning author Laura Lippman, this...

  • The Angel and the Sword

    Sigmund Brouwer

    In the second book in The Guardian Angel series, angel Pelagius visits AD 1351 and introduces readers to Raphael, a young man trained to be a court jester in Avignon, France. His study of juggling, acrobatics, and knife throwing is supported by hi...

  • The Angel and the Ring

    Sigmund Brouwer

    In this first book of The Guardian Angel series the story’s narrator, Pelagius the angel, introduces us to life in 1364 A.D. and to Brin, a teenage gypsy who is despised by his people because his mother died of the plague and his father was a fo...

  • The Wager

    Carolyn Brown

    Ivy Cameo Johnson, an oil baroness from Houston, has wealth that draws men like flies to honey, yet she also possesses intelligence and an awkwardness that runs them off.

    John William Dalhart, a Texas oil baron himself, out to prove his father an...

  • Treason

    Don Brown

    The stakes are high . . . and the entire world is waiting for the verdict. The Navy has uncovered a group of radical Islamic clerics who have infiltrated the Navy Chaplain Corps, inciting sailors and marines to acts of terrorism. And Lieutenant Zack ...

  • Color Me Evil

    Steve Brown

  • Murder Most Crafty

    Maggie Bruce

    Blending handicrafts and murder into a delightful collection of whodunits, an anthology of all original short fiction features contributions from Susan Wittig Albert, Monica Ferris, Gillian Roberts, Margaret Maron, Dorothy Cannell, Parnell Hall, Shar...

  • Rilke on Black

    Ken Bruen

    “The most startlingly original crime novel to emerge this decade.” -- GQ

    “The reading equivalent of a boxer’s sharp jab to the solar plexus. It’s fast-paced, tough and pretty sexy.” -- Pulp

    In south London, an unlikely gang...

  • Blue Jeans and a Badge

    Nina Bruhns

    FLIRTING WITH DANGER The arrest should have gone off without a hitch. Except that the sexy man in tight jeans Luce Montgomery had just nabbed was no bail-jumping fugitive. He was a cop! And Philip O'Donnaugh was proving to be more trouble than her e...

  • Grandma's Doll

    Wanda E. Brunstetter
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    Lydia Dunmore is preparing to move from her country house to a retirement home in the city and has invited her four granddaughters to choose something to keep from her attic of long-forgotten treasures. Sheila seeks a doll she played with as a child,...

  • Space Princess Cosma

    Megan E. Bryant

    It's Princess Cosma's birthday, and her best friend Princess Nebula has planned an enchanted star search through space! But what will Princess Nebula do when one of the stars is missing? Will the birthday surprise be ruined?...

  • Trial by Fire

    D.W. Buffa

    Attorney Joseph Antonelli finds that murder can be a very public affair-in this moody and scintillating novel of love, loyalty, and revenge in the Edgar Award-nominated series. Joseph Antonelli's never lost a case he should have won. . . until now....

  • After Hours

    Morgan Burke

    THE PARTY ROOM. On Manhattan's Upper East Side. Everybody's fabulous. No one gets carded. Then someone dies. Kirsten is still recovering from the death of her best friend, Samantha. And trying desperately to forget that she hooked up with Kyle -- be...

  • The CEO

    Owen Burke

    You're the boss....Now make an executive decision.You are the CEO of Fleece Industries. So far, you've made all the right choices. The result: Your life's work -- building a company from an idea scrawled on a bar napkin into a clothing empire -- has ...

  • Beauty

    Nancy Butcher

    Beauty to die for... Queen Veda of Ran does not believe in growing old gracefully. In fact she will shun anything that makes her look or feel less than the fairest in the land including her daughter, Ana. Luckily Ana has both beauty and intelligenc...

  • Just My Luck

    Tajuana Butler

    Today is no ordinary day for thirty-eight-year-old Lanita Lightfoot. Today represents the culmination of years of struggle and sacrifice. Today she graduates from college. But first, Lanita’s husband treats her to a day of beauty at an upscale blac...

  • Abbie's Outlaw

    Victoria Bylin

    "You gotta face the ghosts." More poignant advice the Reverend John Leaf had yet to hear for dealing with his haunted past. A man of God now, he'd done things that would shame the devil himself, not the least of which was loving -- and leaving --...

  • Princess in Training

    Meg Cabot

    Princess for president Student body president, that is. It's all the fault of Princess Mia's power-mad best friend and campaign manager, Lilly, who nominates her in the first place. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, even i...

  • Confessions of a Teen Sleuth

    Chelsea Cain

    "If you are reading this, then I am gone and this manuscript, per my instruction, has been delivered to the writer Chelsea Cain for publication as she sees fit..." America's favorite girl detective is back to set the record straight. According to...

  • Armored Corps

    Pete Callahan

  • California Holiday // Escape

    Kate Cann

    Dear Mel, Okay, it's not a dream job. The kid is alright, but her mom treats me like a personal slave/shopper/chef. And she's vile to the pet iguana who is now my only friend -- sad or what? Maybe I'll run off to San Francisco -- maybe my next pos...

  • Red Meat Gold

    Max Cannon

    ***This eBook includes three-panel cartoons and is best-suited for devices that can display content in landscape orientation.***The long-awaited third Red Meat collection is a glittering mother load of twisted hilarity mined from the award-winning al...

  • Little Spotted Cat

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    Not wanting to take a nap, Little Spotted Cat heads for the hills where she jumps, leaps, and plays while Mama Cat keeps a watchful eye and calls to her from a distance, in an amusing tale about a very spunky feline....

  • Summer Begins

    Elizabeth Doyle Carey

  • The Secret Portrait

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    TARTAN AND TERROR Bonnie Prince Charlie's lost treasure lures Edinburgh-based American magazine editor Jean Fairbairn to the Highlands, where madness, murder and ghosts bring the past to life--and sudden death. Retired university professor George Lo...

  • The Italian Secretary

    Caleb Carr

    FOUL WHISPERINGS... Mycroft Holmes's encoded message to his brother, Sherlock, is unsubtle enough even for Dr. Watson to decipher: a matter concerning the safety of Queen Victoria herself calls them to Edinburgh's Holyrood House to investigate the co...

  • A Real McCoy

    Tori Carrington

    In the next twenty-four hours defense attorney Kat Buckingham will discover she's adopted, her biological father is very much alive, and she has five very protective older brothers -- all working in law enforcement. Oh, yeah, and she'll be wrongfully...

  • Face

    Michael Cart

    Bold, innovative, and eclectic -- that’s Rush Hour, the place for thought-provoking work from today’s most distinguished voices, both established and new. “Face” is the captivating theme of Volume Three, and it goes far beyond skin deep to pr...

  • Goddess of Light

    P.C. Cast

    Interior designer Pamela Gray has nearly given up on romance. She's tired of controlling egomaniacs. She wants romance and she wants it with someone with real godlike qualities. As she whispers her wish, she unwittingly invokes the Goddess Artemis, w...

  • Friday Night in L.A.

    Mary Castillo
    in

    Whether they're flirting en espanol, gossiping over mojitos, or dancing with their latest papi chulos, these characters prove that there is nothing quite like a night out with your chicas. Set in New York City, Miami's South Beach, downtown Chicag...

  • Love, Texas

    Ginger Chambers

    Back In Love Love, Texas, hadn't lived up to its name for Cassie Edwards. Unhappy and lonely, she left at eighteen with no plans to return. Now, ten years later, a business deal brings her back -- and right into the life of Will Taylor, Cassie's t...

  • Devil's Domain

    Tim Champlin

    There was a reason people called Andersonville Prison hell on earth. With more than thirty thousand Union soldiers held captive in the worst conditions possible, death and disease were daily visitors. If scurvy or starvation didn't kill them, the gua...

  • Four's a Crowd

    J-P Chanda

    The four Turtles always work together as a team. But one day Raphael storms off in anger. Leonardo doesn't care -- until he and his other two brothers confront devious enemies in a real fight...and get locked in a museum vault! Will Raphael show up b...

  • The Happy Hippos

    Liza Charlesworth

    Addition is easy when you're adding happy hippos! Children are sure to learn a lot from this humongously humorous tale! Designed to boost important early numeracy skills by helping children recognize numbers, count, add, subtract, and more. Also incl...

  • Two Bunny Slippers

    Liza Charlesworth

    After Lottie drifts off to sleep, her two bunny slippers hop around her room and have quite an adventure. This two-rific bedtime story is sure to make you smile! This tale is designed to boost important early numeracy skills by helping children recog...

  • Sick of Shadows

    Marion Chesney

    A DEADLY FIRST SEASON Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience -- convenient for Rose, who wants to avoid being sent to India with all the other failed debutantes. Despite her considerable good loo...

  • The Sugar Camp Quilt

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    A week after Uncle Jacob's death, Abel Wright came to pay his respects. Dorothea Granger took him to the grave and stood some distance away while he bowed his head in silent prayer. Then he looked up and said, "I have something to tell you and your f...

  • Finding a Family

    Judy Christenberry

    HE'D HIRED THE WRONG WIDOW! Ranch hunk Hank Brownlee wanted only two things from his new housekeeper -- companionship for his grieving father and some stick-to-your-ribs country cooking. What he got was something altogether different. The "matron" ...

  • Head to Head

    Matt Christopher

    Mark finds that he is jealous when his friend Jonas seems to learn kung fu much more quickly than he did....

  • The Prince Next Door

    Sue Civil-Brown

    When Serena Gregory's clothing-optional Caribbean cruise fell through at the last minute, the thrill-seeking dermatologist decided that helping Darius Maxwell, her mysterious new neighbor -- who might or might not be a crown prince -- commit a felony...

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 5

    CLAMP

    THE END OF A FAIRY TALE

    Following the trail of the stolen children of Spirit Town, Sakura is captured at the forbidden castle, where she encounters the golden-haired ghost! Syaoran and his friends"the sociable magician Fai D. Flowright, the ...

  • Dr. Cusack's Secret Son

    Lucy Clark

    The father of her child. Dr. Rachael Cusack never expected to see her one and only true love again. He broke her heart and unknowingly left her pregnant. Now she has a wonderful son, an independent life, and the gorgeous Joe Silvermark is the last...

  • No Place Like Home

    Mary Higgins Clark

    In a riveting thriller from the #1 bestselling Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to the childhood home she wanted to leave behind forever -- and where her hidden past emerges with a new and deadly twist. Ten-year-old Liza...

  • Third & Forever

    Lowen Clausen

    While attending college for an advanced degree, Officer Grace Stevens, along with her partner Katherine Murphy, investigates a charming football hero who is also a serial rapist, forcing them both to enter the competitive world of college sports wher...

  • Babylon Sisters

    Pearl Cleage

    Catherine Sanderson seems to have it all: a fulfilling career helping immigrant women find jobs, a lovely home, and a beautiful, intelligent daughter on her way to Smith College. What Catherine doesn’t have: a father for her child" and she’s sp...

  • Two Times the Fun

    Beverly Cleary

    Jimmy and Janet are twins, but that doesn't mean they are just alike. When we first meet Jimmy, he wants to dig a real hole. He likes to use a real, grown-up shovel. While he's working, his sister, Janet, pretends to be a bird! She likes to use her ...

  • The Innocent

    Harlan Coben

    YOU NEVER MEANT TO KILL HIM... One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight--and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing ...

  • Sword of Sedition

    Loren L. Coleman

    The Republic orchestrates a summit of Inner Sphere leaders on Terra as a tribute to the assassinated Steiner-Davion, a gathering that reveals treachery and betrayal in the upper eschelon of the Senate, placing newly elected Exarch Jonah Levin in dang...

  • The Opal Deception

    Eoin Colfer

    After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl had his mind wiped of his memories of the world belowground. Any goodness he had grudgingly learned is now gone, and the young genius has reverted to his criminal lifestyle. Artemis is in Berli...

  • Blood of the Innocents

    Chris Collett

    When two teenagers go missing on the same day on Mariner's patch, it seems to be nothing more than a coincidence. Yasmin Akram is the talented grammar-school educated daughter of devout Muslim professionals. Ricky Skeet disappears after storming out ...

  • The Captain

    Lynn Collum

    STILL WATERS...STORMY PASSION If Andrew Morrow knows anything, it's his own mind. He has no intention of following through on an arranged marriage to merchant's daughter Jacinda Blanchett -- especially when he loves another. He'll set ...

  • Shelf Life

    Robert Corbet

    On aisle 1, Louisa's crying.
    On aisle 2, Adam's trying to get fired.
    On aisle 4, a renegade shopper is releasing the fizz from soda bottles.
    At the service counter, an irate customer can't understand why his Long Life Milk went bad after a f...

  • Air Dance Iguana

    Tom Corcoran

    A "GOES-AROUND" PAST IS BACK TO VISIT Alex Rutledge strayed from ad agency photo jobs to tropical magazine assignments. He went for extra income in the crime scene business, but now he wants out. He misses his carefree Key West lifestyle. Then his l...

  • To Love, Honor and Defend

    Beth Cornelison

    Two years ago, Libby Hopkins and Cal Walters scorched the sheets with their steamy affair. Then he shattered her heart. Now divorced, Cal needed a stable home for his daughter. For her own safety, Libby agreed to a strict "hands-off" marriage of conv...

  • Sleeping Arrangements

    Amy Jo Cousins

    Aunt Adelaine's final will and testament said that "Addy Tyler shall inherit all of my estate, including my quirky but very large castle of a house and its current tenant, the very stubborn lawyer, Spenser Reed. The only condition on this will is tha...

  • Web of Deceit

    Carol Cox
    in

    Love Tangles the Pursuit for truth In 1860 San Francisco, when the newspaper workers strike, four women take on the task of reporting the news in a man's world while skirting danger and romance. Who can they trust? Amy Lattimer's allegiance to ...

  • All This Heavenly Glory

    Elizabeth Crane

    A glittering book from the author hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "unique, intriguing, and often hilarious." Here are the events that make up a life: a junior high school fashion crisis, a best friend's betrayal, substance abuse, recovery, finding ...

  • In the Face of Jinn

    Cheryl Howard Crew

    Christine and Elizabeth Shepherd are on a buying trip in India for their California silk business when Elizabeth mysteriously disappears. In search of her sister, Christine ventures alone into Afghanistan and Pakistan disguised in the traditional ga...

  • Rules of Attraction

    Susan Crosby

    Hired to keep Claire Winston's sister under surveillance, Quinn Gerard was stunned to find he was following the wrong woman when he and Claire came face-to-face...body to body. Knowing Claire would eventually lead him to his quarry, the daring P.I. v...

  • Midnight Diary of Zoya Blume

    Laura Shaine Cunningham

    Your first memory is your point of view, says Zoya's mother. But what is Zoya's first memory? When her mother must leave home, promising to return in seven days, Zoya Blume begins a midnight diary to keep the dark forces at bay. She writes of secrets...

  • Common Sense and Fowls

    Jane Cutler

    What is a community without heart?

    Uh-oh! - Mrs. Krnc is at it again! Rachel and her younger friend Brian know that their other neighbor Mr. Gioia is going to be especially unhappy about Mrs. Krnc feeding the pigeons because he has repeatedly ...

  • Angel of Vengeance

    Ron Cutler

    In Edgar Award nominee Ron Cutler's terrifying new thriller, psychologist Holly Alexander must unmask an avenging angel--and uncover a legacy of evil... The first to die was a convicted abuser recently released from prison--only to be abducted, dra...

  • Light in the Storm

    Margaret Daley

    JOURNEY OF THE HEART Freedom! After raising her three siblings, high school teacher Beth Coleman was finally, at thirty-eight, responsible for herself alone. With her nurturing nature, she'd loved caring for her family, but now she could travel, s...

  • New Mercies

    Sandra Dallas

    Natchez, Mississippi, in 1933 is a place suspended in time. The silver and china is still dented and cracked from Yankee invaders. And the houses have names...and memories. Nora Bondurant is running away--from her husband's death, from his secrets, a...

  • Bulletproof Girl

    Quinn Dalton

    In Bulletproof Girl, Quinn Dalton offers eleven raw and witty stories powered by a rich mix of women's voices.The stakes are high in these diverse narratives. "Dinner at Josette's" explores the nature of female friendships in the story of a woman who...

  • Kiss and Run

    Barbara Daly

    Tips for a One-Night Stand: Buy a slinky dress. Get some lacy lingerie. Practice on a married man? A brief trip to Dallas for a wedding offers veterinarian Cecily Connaught a chance to break her sexual dry spell and seduce a man, but she fears ...

  • The Marble Kite

    David Daniel

    Private investigator Alex Rasmussen has loved carnivals since he was a boy, and what better way to enjoy one as a grown man than with a lovely woman at his side? As he and his date stroll along the midway, playing games of chance, the soft September ...

  • Crossfire

    B.J. Daniels

    Courage Bay, California... a community founded on bravery. Now meet the town's new generation of heroes -- the men and women of Courage Bay Emergency Services. Bold enough to risk their lives -- and their hearts. Fearless enough to face any emerge...

  • Anacaona: Golden Flower

    Edwidge Danticat

    Edwidge Danticat, the award-winning, best-selling author of THE FARMING OF BONES and KRIK? KRAK! offers a powerful addition to The Royal Diaries series with the story of Haiti's heroic queen Anacaona.

    With her signature narrative grace, Edwidg...

  • The Sinner's Tale

    Will Davenport

    This is the US edition of The Perfect Sinner, published under the pseudonym 'Will Davenport.' From the acclaimed author of The Painter comes a mesmerizing novel of war, redemption, and love, as the timeless legacy of a medieval knight reaches across ...

  • Judgment Day

    James F. David

    Kingdom of Light; The Forces of Darkness Ira Breitling---Man of God; Manuel Crow---Lord of Darkness Even the universe is not big enough for the both of them . . . especially when Ira Breitling is handed a divine gift---an interstellar engine th...

  • Hello, Gorgeous!

    Maryjanice Davidson

    THEY WANT HER TO SAVE THE WORLD. AS IF. One minute I'm out with my sorority sisters; the next there's a terrible accident (beyond my friend Stacey's outfit) and I'm waking up in some weird clinic transformed into a human cyborg--with a mission: to...

  • Real Treasure

    Tish Davis

    After being dumped by Gary Erickson, her first and only love, Chloe has spent the past six years mending her broken heart. Marriage to wealthy Trevor Renolds would be the best thing - according to Chloe's father - but it doesn't appeal to Chloe's wou...

  • Fresh Off the Boat

    Melissa de la Cruz

    Dear Peaches, America is PERFECT! I love it here. I wish you could come visit -- we could go shopping on Market Street and you could meet all my new friends. And my new boyfriend. He looks EXACTLY like Toby Maguire (from Spider-Man, not Seabiscuit...

  • Tall Cool One

    Zoey Dean

    If you have to ask, you'll never be on ...THE A LIST Anna needs a time-out from all her boys, and Sam's hunting for a good one to love. So together they make a getaway to Las Casitas, Mexico, the super luxury spa where Angelenos go to get more sun...

  • An Outline of the Republic

    Siddhartha Deb

    Intrigued by a disturbing photograph of a woman, a young journalist in Calcutta embarks on a quest to learn the story behind the violent incident captured on film - a strange odyssey that leads him to a volatile remote corner of India mired in civ...

  • Serenity

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Five hundred years in the future, Captain Mal Reynolds, a hardened war veteran (on the losing side), ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thin...

  • The Missing Manatee

    Cynthia DeFelice

    A tribute to Florida, fishing, and familyAll Skeet Waters wants is to catch a big, beautiful tarpon on his fly rod - and to keep everything else in his life in Florida the way it's always been. But on his spring break from school, Skeet overhears his...

  • The Road to Home

    Vanessa Del Fabbro

    The surviving child had survived again....Why had I been spared now, when the last two carjack victims in this hospital had not? When my own brother had not?... I hesitated even to put shape to the idea forming in my head. Was there a divine purpose ...

  • Bullseye: Greatest Hits

    Steve Dillon

  • Dinosnores

    Kelly DiPucchio

    Such are the trembling sounds of the gigantic dinosnores. Not everyone knows that the earth used to be made up of one huge supercontinent "" until the loud snores of the dinosaurs caused the land to quake and split!

    Kelly DiPucchio's f...

  • Fantastic Four/Spider-Man Classic

    Steve Ditko

    Marvel movie stars past and present unite in a series of senses-shattering slugfests for the ages! At the dawn of the Marvel Age, Spider-Man meets the Fantastic Four and battles the Chameleon! Also featuring a battle royal with the Frightful Four, th...

  • He Loves Lucy

    Susan Donovan

    WHEN A JUNK FOOD ADDICT WITH A HEART OF GOLD... Marketing exec Lucy Cunningham is thrilled when her firm lands The Palm Club account. The campaign concept for Miami's hottest fitness club was Lucy's idea: take one fitness-challenged woman, put her i...

  • Spring in the Valley

    Charlotte Douglas

    North Versus South... Police officer Brynn Sawyer is all but married to Pleasant Valley, her picture-perfect Southern hometown. And even if she were in the mood for romance, smooth New York lawyer Rand Benedict is the opposite of everything Brynn wa...

  • Wicked

    Shannon Drake

    THE EARL WAS KNOWN AS A BEAST Camille Montgomery is aware of the wicked man's reputation. But as an expert in antiquities, she also knows his family's Egyptian artifacts are the finest in England. The problem is, her wayward stepfather kno...

  • Their Unexpected Family

    Judy Duarte

    SERVICE WITH A SMILE... Well, readers, Juliet Rivera, our favorite waitress at the Hitching Post, has finally followed her doctor's orders and is taking some much-needed time off before her little bundle of joy arrives. And she's got company -- wo...

  • Dance, Recover, Repeat

    Alasdair Duncan

    From an edgy new voice comes a frenetic novel about boredom, porn, and pills. Brandishing a unique, comic worldview, Alasdair Duncan assembles a surprising, devastating narrative using dialogue, emails, Internet chats, fantasies, notebook entries, bl...

  • Midnight Hero

    Diana Duncan

    Book-loving Bailey Chambers yearned to give herself, body and soul, to sexy SWAT cop Conall O'Rourke. His passionate kisses torched a four-alarm blaze in her body, but her growing fears of losing him to the hazards of his job led to a New Year's Eve ...

  • Emilie's Voice

    Susanne Dunlap

    Set against the backdrop of Paris and the court of Versailles, émilie's Voice introduces a young heroine of modest upbringing who possesses a special gift: the voice of an angel. When distinguished composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier hears émilie's v...

  • Scrub Match

    Bill Eisele

    Starting over in San Francisco after college, Paul Carter, haunted by a painful breakup, joins the Gay Men's Basketball League where he meets Evan "Twitch" Hartwitch, and as they begin to fall in love, Paul becomes caught in the middle of a biracial ...

  • Where There's A Will

    Aaron Elkins

    Rancher Alex Torkelsson has just gotten word: after going missing ten years ago, Alex's late uncle Magnus's plane has been found south of Hawaii's Big Island. So too have Magnus's few skeletal remains, now handed over to the only man who can fit toge...

  • In the Company of Liars

    David Ellis

    In the Company of Liars is that rare animal - a truly original thriller, strikingly fresh and unpredictable. Told chronologically in reverse, from its enigmatic end to its brilliant beginning, it's centered around a woman on trial for murder - Alliso...

  • Liars and Legends

    Emily Ellison

    Everyone loves a good story. And Liars and Legends contains 40 of the South's most interesting and . . . well . . . just plain curious stories. This book grows out of the popular Turner South television show, Liars and Legends and will be promoted on...

  • Angelwalk and Stedfast

    Roger Elwood

    With more than 200,000 copies sold, this is an acclaimed international best seller that tells the fascinating story of an angel named Darien who must convince himself that Satan really does deserve eternal punishment. It is newly revised and expan...

  • Nova Rocks

    Tea Emesse

    The first book in an exciting new series for girl readers.

    Nova Rocks launches a new series of real-life adventures written specifically for girls ages 8 and up. Sized to fit the young reader market, the series follows a group of friends who r...

  • Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co.

    Maria Amparo Escandon

    From the author of L.A. Weather comes “a whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run” (Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision).“1,001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison . . ...

  • The Carpet Makers

    Andreas Eschbach

    Since the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hairs of wives and daughters; they are so detailed and fragile that each carpetmaker finishes only one singl...

  • Little Black Dress

    Loren D. Estleman

    WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A HIT MAN MEETS HIS NEW MOTHER-IN-LAW?Multiple Shamus Award winner Loren D. Estleman is "a superb stylist as well as a deft storyteller [who] paints his people and his city with acerbic wit and wry affection" (San Diego Union-Tribun...

  • Full Bloom

    Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes

    Dear Reader, The temperature's on "sizzle" again in Beaumont, South Carolina, where peach trees are in season and ripe for the picking. So is its newest entrepreneur, Annie Fortenberry, who has inherited her grandmother's B&B (and its eccentric ha...

  • Longarm and the Lunatic

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s latest job is making him question his own sanity…Longarm is in a real mess this time. Billy Vail, his boss and good friend, has asked him to escort two very different men to Denver for two very different reasons. One is an accountant ch...

  • Longarm And The Paiute Indian War

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm finds peace -- in war.Longarm has never had to try too hard to get a lady. Now he’s having a hard time shaking one. The wealthy Miss Lilly Hutton of Denver has her heart set on being Longarm’s missus. Luckily, he’s saved by the call of...

  • Outcast

    Lynne Ewing

    Four guys living in Los Angeles: A rock star, a rebel, an artist, and a shaman. Like most students at Turney High School, they're just trying to survive. But for these four--Renegades on the run from the sinister world of Nefandus--survival means lea...

  • Seven Tears into the Sea

    Terri Farley

    BECKON THE SEA, I'LL COME TO THEE.... SHED SEVEN TEARS, PERCHANCE SEVEN YEARS.... At the age of ten, Gwen Cooke had a strange encounter with a boy with dark, slightly tilted eyes. He came to her on the beach, whispered strange words in her ear, and ...

  • Show Her the Money

    Stephanie Feagan

    THAT'S MS. PINK TO YOU! CPA-with-an-attitude Whitney "Pink" Pearl has just blown the whistle on the accounting scam of the decade. And in true scapegoat fashion, she's lost her job and reputation and has moved back home to start again at the botto...

  • Exile's Return

    Raymond E. Feist

    Saved by a mage's intervention from certain death, Kaspar, the evil Duke of Olasko, is lord no more -- reduced to an exile's existence and forced to wander the harshest realms of the world he once enslaved. Merciless deserts, forbidding mountains,...

  • The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank

    Ellen Feldman

    "An appealing and inventive novel…original and cathartic." -- Dana Kennedy, New York TimesOn February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked and eventually came to love, had confided to her that if he got...

  • The Wild Girl

    Jim Fergus

    From the award-winning author of One Thousand White Women, a novel in the tradition of Little Big Man, tracing one man's search for adventure and the wild Apache girl who invites him into her worldWhen Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads We...

  • Bram Stoker's Dracula

    Fernando Fernandez

  • The Ranger's Woman

    Carol Finch

    Widow's weeds could cover a multitude of sins...and when lawman Quinn Callahan got a look at what Piper Sullivan was hiding beneath them, he wanted to sin plenty! The woman was a glory to behold -- all sass and bristling passion. But damned if he did...

  • Company Man

    Joseph Finder

    IN ONE MOMENT... Nick Conover is the CEO of a major corporation, a local boy made good, and once the most admired man in a company town. But that was before the layoffs. When a faceless stalker menaces his family, Nick, a single father of two si...

  • Hot Stuff

    Flo Fitzpatrick

    SHE SAID YES Tempe Walsh is fluent in ten languages--and she can't say no to adventure. Next stop: India! Her mission: find the priceless--and mysterious--statue known as Shiva's Diva. Her man: Briggan O'Brian, a sexy Irishman on the run from the ...

  • Six Cheers for Ladybug

    Maria Fleming

    Hip, hip, hooray! Ladybug turns six today! Read all about her very special party in this totally terrific tale. Designed to boost important early numeracy skills by helping children recognize numbers, count, add, subtract, and more. Also includes an ...

  • San Diego Sirens

    Dirk Fletcher

  • The Maine Mutiny

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    ROCKING THE LOBSTER BOAT Cabot Cove, Maine, is a quiet little community--perhaps too quiet. Although the town profits from the lobster trade, tourists avoid the Main Street shopping district. The First Annual Cabot Cove Lobster Festival promises t...

  • Fade to Black

    Alex Flinn

    THREE PERSPECTIVES -- ONE TRUTH The victim: After his windshield was shattered with a baseball bat, HIV-positive Alex Crusan ducked under the steering wheel. But he knows what he saw. Now he must decide what he wants to tell. The witness: Daria Bic...

  • Trading Secrets

    Christine Flynn

    Jenny Baker's return to bucolic Maple Mountain was propelled by her desire to mend her broken heart...and to repair a reputation shattered by big-city betrayal. Vowing to stay far away from men, she was surprised to develop an instant connection with...

  • His Hired Bride

    Susan Fox

    HE'S HER BOSS Though Eadie's business is slowly but surely going under, she relies on the extra cash she earns working for Hoyt Donovan. Only she has a secret: she's madly in love with him! THEN ONE DAY EVERYTHING CHANGES... Hoyt nar...

  • Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes

    Kameron M. Franklin

    The second book in a series of classic Dragonlance tales, now with a new cover.

    This re-release of the second volume of Dragonlance short stories ever published features a dramatic new cover treatment. It includes stories by some of the best-l...

  • Flashman on the March

    George MacDonald Fraser

    It’s 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back! Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Mexican bandits, the French Foreign Legion, and the relatives of an infatuated Austrian...

  • The Trick to Getting a Mom

    Amy Frazier

    Alex didn't want to be too pushy. She'd heard her dad say Kit Darling was a wild thing, and she knew you had to be patient with wild things or you might scare them off. And she wanted the famous travel writer to stick around. Kit was not only way coo...

  • Stanley Mows the Lawn

    Craig Frazier

    One day, Stanley sets out to mow his lawn. Up and back, up and back, there's only one way to do it...or is there? Renowned graphic designer and illustrator Craig Frazier has combined bold, dynamic illustrations with a simple story that celebrates the...

  • Flower Girl

    Kathy Furgang

    In the beginning, Anna makes it clear that she has no desire to be the flower girl at her Aunt Julie's upcoming wedding, but when the girls take her up to Grandma's attic to look at old veils, gowns, and photos, Anna decides that being in a wedding p...

  • Someone I Loved

    Anna Gavalda

    Abandoned by her husband, a young woman forms a profound and life-changing relationship with her father-in-law, in a new novel--featuring both the English translation and original French text--by the author of I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me S...

  • Lessons

    Bonnie Geisert

    Summer was drawing to a close, and Rachel would soon return to school to begin fifth grade. Like many of her classmates, she was anxious about her friends, the strict Mrs. Kelly, and the timed arithmetic tests, but there was something else worrying R...

  • Carnosaur Crimes

    Christine Gentry

    "[T]he snowballing pace will keep the reader turning the pages until the unexpected finish." -- Publishers WeeklyWhen paleoartist Ansel Phoenix finds a burnt body hanging from the mouth of her life-sized Allosaurus replica outside the Big Toe Natural...

  • The Sad Truth about Happiness

    Anne Giardini

    A beautiful and affecting novel -- bittersweet and comic -- on the elusive nature of happinessMaggie is in her early thirties, gainfully employed, between relationships, and ready for a change. But when she takes a quiz in a magazine that promises to...

  • Stealing Home

    Rhonda Gibson
    in

    The game four young men started as children has turned into a competition to see who will wait the longest to get married-and collect a hefty chunk of invested money. Will Adam's penchant for rescuing lost strays put an end to his membership in the c...

  • Sovereign Silk

    ElizaBeth Gilligan

    Sovereign Silk is the third book of a series set in the mythical kingdom of Tyrrhia, where courtly politics, magic, and the silk trade intersect.The very future of Tyrrhia is endangered when assassins target Alban, the beloved king, while his wi...

  • Drug Related

    Roy Glenn

    When her brother mysteriously disappears, Gabriel Childers, believing that her husband, Chilly, a major player in the drug world, is responsible, hires private investigator Nick Simmons to find the truth, but Nick becomes too immersed in the case, wh...

  • Wildwood Road

    Christopher Golden

    Michael and Jillian Dansky seemed to have it all -- a happy marriage, two successful careers, a bright future. But late one October evening, all that changed. Driving home from a Halloween masquerade, Michael momentarily nods off behind the wheel -- ...