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  • Fast Life

    Cassandra Carter

    Caught up in a world of easy money, designer labels and drug-dealing boyfriends, sixteen-year-old Kyra Jones is living life on the fast track. But when her single mom is offered a job that takes Kyra away from her old Chicago neighborhood, and the dr...

  • Forbidden Boy

    Hailey Abbott

    Julianne's Summer Rules: Finish all art projects by August Survive summer job surrounded by cute boys Hit the beach every day Avoid the new neighbors (even though their son is hot!) When Julianne falls for Remi at a bonfire party, her summer i...

  • The Postcard

    Tony Abbott

    The phone rang... “Hel -- “ “So how smart are you?” said a man's voice abruptly. And loudly. The volume of the call was turned up, too. It was an old voice, raspy and thin and a little muffled. “Because now...it’s starting.” A creep...

  • Orbit Wipeout!

    Tony Abbott

    Things are looking up for Ned Banks. His best friend, Ernie, is on his way to visit for a whole week! But then Ned gets an urgent call from the Time Surfers and he has to travel into deep space with Roop and Suzi to check out Centaur One"an abandon...

  • Delusion

    Peter Abrahams

    A woman's world is turned upside down when new evidence frees a man she put in prison with her testimony years ago in this latest ingenious thriller from the author Publishers Weekly calls "one of the best contemporary thriller writers around." T...

  • Attack of the Theater People

    Marc Acito

    In praising "the witty high school romp" How I Paid for College, the New York Times Book Review said, it "makes you hope there's a lot more where this came from." There is. In this hilarious sequel Attack of the Theater People, Edward Zanni and his m...

  • This Far By Faith

    Stacy Hawkins Adams
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    LaShun Tillman's many blessings haven't eased her pain at being abandoned as a baby. Fate has given her an opportunity to reveal to the world that her birth mother, former supermodel Sariah Langston, has an ugly past. But revenge is never simple--and...

  • The Death of Jayson Porter

    Jaime Adoff

    Sixteen-year-old Jayson Porter wants to believe things will get better. But the harsh realities of his life never seem to change. Living in the inland-Florida projects with his abusive mother, he tries unsuccessfully to fit in at his predominately wh...

  • The Hakawati

    Rabih Alameddine

    An astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon. In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to st...

  • Nightshade

    Susan Wittig Albert

    Susan Wittig Albert takes China on a trip down memory lane, where one fresh murder and several cold cases force her to face her dark past ... China's herb shop and catering business may be thriving, but she's still reeling from the circumstances sur...

  • The Great Cock Hunt

    Alex

    Now Alex pens his first novel, taking his blog fans back to his "early" days in college and discovering how he became the hot gay stud he is today! With so many memories and fantasies still lingering from college, Alex gears up for a satisfying t...

  • The Romanov Bride

    Robert Alexander

    The bestselling tale of Romanov intrigue from the author of The Kitchen BoyBook groups and historical fiction buffs have made Robert Alexander's two previous novels word-of-mouth favorites and national bestsellers. Set against a backdrop of Imperial ...

  • A Mile of River

    Judith Allnatt

    Jess would just like to be a normal teenager, go to dances and kiss boys, take her exams and dream of a future far away from the remote farm she shares with her brother and brutal father. This is a startling and original debut novel, set during the E...

  • Lady Lazarus

    Andrew Foster Altschul

    This spectacular, sprawling debut novel tells the story of Calliope Bird Morath, daughter of legendary punk-rock star Brandt Morath--whose horrific suicide devastated the world--and his notorious wife, Penelope. The novel is narrated by both Call...

  • Secrets in the Shadows

    V.C. Andrews

    Everyone Says Her Mother Was Crazy. Is She Doomed to Repeat the Past? Up in the attic, that's where Alice's mother used to escape to...and it's where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her own stepfather. Now, years later, with h...

  • Strike Zone

    Kate Angell

    Faced with the love of her life waiting at the altar, thrill-seeking adventure guide Taylor Hannah lost her nerve and ran. Three years later, the gutsy blonde is back in Richmond to reclaim handsome Rogues pitcher Brek Stryker before he makes another...

  • The Canon

    Natalie Angier

    The New York Times bestseller that makes scientific subjects both understandable and fun: “Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm.” -- Richard Dawkins   From the Pulitzer Prize"winning New York Times science journalist and bestselling...

  • Small Knight and George

    Ronda Armitage

    Targeted at the core pre-school market with special appeal to boys and reluctant readers, this is the tale of a big brave knight, who one fine day went out to fight a very fierce dragon that lived in a cave....

  • Personal Demon

    Kelley Armstrong

    In her acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series, Kelley Armstrong has created a scintillating realm where the supernatural and the human coexist on the edge of darkness, romance, and eternity. Now Armstrong tells the captivating tale of a young woman...

  • Gone to Earth

    Vivien Armstrong

    The new Detective Chief Inspector Hayes mystery - DCI Hayes, part of a special CID branch set up to deal with high-profile cases linked to national security, and his new detective superintendent, six foot, blonde Mo Prentice are investigating a high-...

  • Highlander Ever After

    Jennifer Ashley

    Egan MacDonald was the one person Princess Zarabeth couldn't read. Yet even without being able hear his thoughts, she knew he was the most honorable, infuriating, and deliciously handsome man she'd ever met. And now her life was in his hands. Chased ...

  • Dragons Wild

    Robert Asprin

    A low-stakes con artist and killer poker player, Griffen "Grifter" McCandles graduated college fully expecting his wealthy family to have a job waiting for him. Instead, his mysterious uncle reveals a strange family secret: Griffen and his sister, Va...

  • Shadowmoor

    Philip Athans

    WHEN THE GREAT AURORA COMES... The daylit world of Lorwyn is no more, its beauty forgotten by all but a precious few. The other souls have descended into a darkness that mirrors the sky above their heads, and unthinkable horrors lurk in the eve...

  • Danny Gospel

    David Athey

    Once he'd performed in his family's gospel band, but now most of his loved ones have passed on. Still known as "Danny Gospel," he is living a sedate, quiet life as a postman in a small Iowa town. Soon his tranquil existence is broken open by--a dream...

  • Wicked City

    Ace Atkins

    In 1955, Look magazine called Phenix City, Alabama, "The Wickedest City in America," but even that may have been an understatement. It was a stew of organized crime and corruption, run by a machine that dealt with complaints forcefully and with dispa...

  • If the Horseshoe Fits

    Annie Auerbach

    Dealing with a first crush is not always easy -- especially when you don't know how to approach the boy! Unsure of what to do, Alma turns to Chloe and Zoey for advice. The two sisters quickly jump at the chance to give Alma a makeover. With the t...

  • Summer Snow

    Nicole Baart

    Julia DeSmit is finally learning to accept her new life. Optimistic and anxious to begin again after dropping out of college, she is taking fumbling steps down a challenging yet hope-filled road. But the careful existence Julia has begun to build fal...

  • 1787

    Sean Michael Bailey

  • Simply Perfect

    Mary Balogh

    Against the seductive backdrop of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author May Balogh sweeps us into the sensual, enthralling world of four teachers at an elite academy for young ladies. As headmistress of Miss Martin's School for Gi...

  • The Sellsword

    Cam Banks

    Strike the Anvil of Time! Vanderjack is a mercenary with a troubled past and a sword haunted by ghosts. Hired to rescue a nobleman's daughter from behind enemy lines, the sellsword finds himself a pivotal player in the liberation of Nordmaar from ...

  • Bad Blood

    L.A. Banks

    Sasha Trudeau knows all about working beneath the shadows, back-alley deals, and things that go bump in the night. She also knows that the world is unaware of the existence of the paranormal-and that the government would like to keep it that way. ...

  • Bedded By The Billionaire

    Leanne Banks

    BOUND TO THE BILLIONAIRE Duty demanded Max DeLuca take care of pretty and very pregnant Lilli McCall. She was carrying his late brother's baby, and every DeLuca instinct cried out for Max to protect her unborn child. But the cost of bringing Lilli...

  • Fathers and Sins

    Jo Bannister

    A new mystery from a popular author - When Robin Firths son Mouse is blamed for a fatal car crash, Robins fury stuns both the boy and Agnes, his new wife. Then the village church burns down, and suspicion falls on Mouse. And then theres the interest ...

  • A Tissue of Lies

    Tessa Barclay

    A race against time to save a family name . . . - Jenny Corvill, mistress of the Waterside Mill in the Scottish Borders town of Galashiels, was looking forward to taking it easy as a new wife. But when her sister-in-law disappears with a dashing youn...

  • A Difficult Boy

    M.P. Barker

    It is 1839. Nine-year-old Ethan does not want to be an indentured servant, but his family has no other way to pay off their debt, so Ethan must work for Mr. Lyman, a wealthy shopkeeper in their Massachusetts town. At first, Ethan tries to make friend...

  • The Orientalist and the Ghost

    Susan Barker

    POWERFUL EPIC LOVE STORY CROSSING GENERATIONS BY THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE INCARNATIONS AND SAYONARA BARLonglisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize'Magnificent' Audrey Niffenegger'Highly original' IndependentMalaya 1951, a jungle resettlement camp...

  • Winter Study

    Nevada Barr

    Soon after Anna Pigeon joins the famed wolf study team of Isle Royale National Park in the middle of Lake Superior: the wolf packs begin to behave in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveilla...

  • Murder is Binding

    Lorna Barrett

    Stoneham, New Hampshire, was a dying town until community leaders invited booksellers to open up shop. Now, its streets are fined with bookstores--and paned with murder... When she mooed to Stoneham. city slicker Tricia Miles was met with friendly...

  • The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah

    Nora Raleigh Baskin

    Caroline's mom is Jewish, her dad isn't, and Caroline has never really thought of herself as any religion. But when her nana dies and leaves Caroline a Star of David necklace, Caroline begins to wonder about her heritage. If she starts going to synag...

  • How To Enjoy A Scandal

    Adrienne Basso

    DOUBLE DECEPTION... Twins Jason and Jasper Barrington were once the wildest of scoundrels, but inheriting a title has reformed Jasper. Now it's Jason's turn to try his hand at redemption by posing as his brother to investigate improprieties ...

  • The Red Ghost

    Marion Dane Bauer

    Have you ever had the feeling a doll was watching you?Jenna finds the perfect gift for her sister at a neighbor’s garage sale -- a beautiful old doll dressed all in red velvet. Jenna can’t believe her luck. Not only does Mrs. Tate seem happy to b...

  • Yellowstone

    Marion Dane Bauer

    Visit Yellowstone National Park as Newbery Honor recipient and New York Times bestselling author Marion Dane Bauer takes you on a tour of one of our country’s greatest treasures in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read. Bubbling mud puddles, shooting steam...

  • Peace

    Richard Bausch

    From the prize-winning novelist and world-renowned short story writer, recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Academy Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, a powerful novel about war, trust, and salvation that begs to be read in a single si...

  • New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis, Volume 7: The Trust

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects New Avengers #32-37. Who do you trust? In the wake of the superhero Civil War, outlaw Avengers Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Spider-Woman, Dr. Strange and Iron Fist are still fighting the good fight, joined by two new recruits: mistress ...

  • A Hard Day's Death

    Raymond Benson

    It wasn't Peter Flame's best concert. His tour manager thought the aging rock star--once as big as Bowie or Lennon--seemed a little distracted. But when the manager stopped by his town house later that night, Flame was a lot worse than distracted--he...

  • Audrey, Wait!

    Robin Benway

    California high school student Audrey Cuttler dumps self-involved Evan, the lead singer of a little band called The Do-Gooders. Evan writes, "Audrey, Wait!," a break-up song that's so good it rockets up the billboard charts. And Audrey is suddenly fa...

  • The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted

    Elizabeth Berg

    Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation. What would you do, if you were going to bre...

  • A Rogue's Game

    Renee Bernard

    DARING GAMES. DANGEROUSLY DELICIOUS CONSEQUENCES. Lovely Eve Reynolds plays the role of a naive young debutante, but her demure appearance hides an experienced cardplayer who, at her uncle's instigation, is engaged in fleecing London aristocrats i...

  • Exodus

    Julie Bertagna

    The fifteenth anniversary edition of Exodus, a startling, thrilling novel set in a dystopian future ravaged by global warmingIt is 2099 - and the world is gradually drowning, as mighty Arctic ice floes melt, the seas rise and land disappears forever ...

  • Fast and Loose

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    Thoroughbred trainer Cole Early hopes to make his charmed life even sweeter with a win at the Kentucky Derby. But first, the hotshot media sensation needs a place to stay. With all of Louisville booked for Derby week, he snaps up the snug little bung...

  • A Lady's Secret

    Jo Beverley

    THE NUN AND THE RAKE When Robin Fitzvitry, the fun-loving Earl of Huntersdown, encounters a cursing nun in a French inn, he can't resist the mystery: Expecting only amusement on the tedious journey home from Versailles, he offers to help Sister Im...

  • Deirdre and Don Juan

    Jo Beverley
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    The Rogue Proposes "Don Juan," the dashing Earl of Everdon, was abandoned by his wife shortly following the wedding--and his scandalous behavior is considered an understandable response. Now newly widowed, the errant earl is most eager to ma...

  • The Fortune Hunter

    Jo Beverley
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    FOR LOVE AND MONEY Poor Amy de Lacy. Her father's death has left the family impoverished and she's the only one who can rescue them. Her older sister Beryl, sweet as she is, is just too plain to attract a husband. But Amy, with her stunn...

  • Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma

    Diana Birchall

    It seemed a harmless invitation, after all... When Mrs. Darcy invited her sister Lydia's daughters to come for a visit, she felt it was a small kindness she could do for her poor nieces. Little did she imagine the upheaval that would ensue. But with...

  • Random Victim

    Michael A. Black

    The case wasn't just cold--it was ice-cold. But the murder of Miriam Walker had a pretty high profile in the middle of a tough re-election campaign, so the Cook County sheriff assembled a task force to get results...and put Sergeant Frank Leal on it....

  • Dawn's Light

    Terri Blackstock

    In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice. Will they hoard their possessions to survive---or trust God to provide as they offer their resources to others? #1 bests...

  • Sweet Delights

    Terri Blackstock

    Terri Blackstock, Elizabeth White, and Ranee McCollum

    Who would have thought that chocolate could be so good for your heart? This delightful anthology by familiar authors will appeal to readers of all ages. Each story is followed by ...

  • The Story of Forgetting

    Stefan Merrill Block

    In Stefan Merrill Block's extraordinary debut, three narratives intertwine to create a story that is by turns funny, smart, introspective, and revelatory. Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family's farm in the en...

  • The Duke Next Door

    Celeste Bradley

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE The dangerously beautiful Deirdre Cantor is determined to inherit her grandfather's vast fortune. All she needs is to marry a duke...and be the first granddaughter to walk down the aisle. After all, she has always dream...

  • Don't Hate the Player

    Brandie

    Indulge yourself in a world of drama, sex, lies, and betrayal as Brandie invites you into the lives of Luvly, Money, Chocolate, and Taeko -- four friends who take each other to a higher level. Money and Luvly are playing a dangerous game. He’s a pr...

  • Bullets Over Bedlam

    Peter Brandvold

    U.S. Marshal Flagg is hot on the trail of a rogue lawman, who, after the death of his son and the suicide of his wife, no longer abides by the law and is determined to exact revenge on the cold-blooded killers responsible for destroying his life. Ori...

  • Klondike Fever // Dylan

    Kate Bridges

    On the run, chained to the woman of his dreams! Sexy Mountie Dylan Wayburn is having a bad day. Disguised as a drifter, he fetches up in the same stagecoach as Lily Cromwell, a beautiful redhead who was once a family servant. She could blow his co...

  • When Demons Walk

    Patricia Briggs

    DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME Shamera had spent most of her young life as sorceress and thief, stealing from Southwood's nobility to survive. Now Sham must face the greatest test of her skills... A killer has struck Southwood, claiming the lives of no...

  • Secret of the Scroll

    J.E. Bright

    Po, a clumsy panda who works in a noodle shop, has his dreams come true when he is chosen to learn the mysteries of kung fu, but is not sure all the training will prepare him for a confrontation with the snow leopard Tai Lung....

  • Slave

    Cheryl Brooks

    He may be the last of a species whose sexual talents were the envy of the galaxy. Cat is an enslaved warrior from a race with a feline gene that gives him awesome beauty, fearsome strength, and sensuality and sexual prowess unmatched by any other ma...

  • Dark Wraith of Shannara

    Terry Brooks

    THE FIRST-EVER GRAPHIC NOVEL SET IN THE WORLD OF SHANNARA!Possessing an awesome power he is only beginning to understand, young Jair Ohmsford must summon the devastating yet darkly seductive magic of the wishsong on a fateful mission to save his frie...

  • Little Things: A Memoir in Slices

    Jeffrey Brown

    A collection of funny, poignant, and autobiographical short stories, Little Things looks at the aspects of daily life -- friendship, illness, death, work, crushes, love, jealousy, and fatherhood -- we take for granted. As each story loops into others...

  • Down Home Dixie

    Pamela Browning

    No Self-Respecting Southern Belle Would Consider It! Fresh from reenacting a Civil War battle, Kyle Sherman, dressed in his Union uniform, is lost in Yewville, South Carolina. Dixie Lee Smith knows such a man should be treated as the enemy -- shun...

  • Orphan's Journey

    Robert Buettner

    JASON WANDER is on the firing line again--but this time not as a soldier. He's about to discover that command itself can be an even greater challenge. In the years since the last Slug War, Jason's command style hasn't made him any friends in the A...

  • Full Circle

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    SOMETIMES TO FIND WHAT MATTERS, YOU HAVE TO BACK UP AND START AGAIN. He's a hotshot financial analyst who has lost it all. She's a brokenhearted world traveler forced to come home and beg for money. His job hangs by a thread. Her dreams of making...

  • The Tomorrow Seed

    Andrew Butcher

    Back on the streets of what they used to call home, Travis and his friends must face the abandoned world the Scytharene have left behind. They have escaped alien captivity; if only that meant they were safe. As they str...

  • Small Favor

    Jim Butcher

    The novels of the Dresden Files follow the cases of Chicago's only professional wizard, Harry Dresden, and his never-ending battle against the evil that plagues his world.... Harry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down. The White Council...

  • Enticing the Earl

    Nicole Byrd

    What lady would dare ignore the most basic rules of propriety? What reason could she have for flouting convention? And if she is found out, will she be ruined forever? Selfless widow Lauryn Applegate Harris is determined to retrieve the deed to he...

  • Trapp's Secret War

    Brian Callison

    The new Edward Trapp adventure - 1943. World War Two. A Russian convoy fights its violent, wreckage-strewn course across the Arctic Circle towards Murmansk. Only one ship survives the coffin ship Charon and her complement of misfits, captained by the...

  • The Paper Moon

    Andrea Camilleri

    “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Ag...

  • Goodbye, Ms. Chips

    Dorothy Cannell

    It's back to school for plump girl turned Thin Woman Ellie Haskell! "The headmistress wants to see you." Words to strike terror in the heart of any inmate of St. Roberta's boarding school. Fortunately for Ellie, she is no longer a pudgy, wayward pup...

  • Aliens Don't Eat Dog Food

    Dinah Capparucci

    Three boys, two dogs and a whole lot of trouble. Jordan, Ryan and Boy Dave always get blamed for everything. And OK, most of the time it is their fault - but this is one time it definitely wasn't. How could they have known that trying to save the wor...

  • Keeper of Dreams

    Orson Scott Card

    This huge collection of short stories by one of science fiction's most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. Keeper of Dreams contains 22 stories written since 1990.From the opening science fiction tale, "The Elephants o...

  • The Duchess and the Dragon

    Jamie Carie

    Rising romance novelist Jamie Carie’s second book, The Duchess and the Dragon, tells the epic story of two unlikely soulmates who live worlds apart but soon meet and turn each other’s world upside down. Drake Weston, Duke of Northumberland, ...

  • Mixed Bags

    Melody Carlson

    When her mom died, DJ had to move in with her grandmother, internationally famous ’60s fashion model Katherine Carter. Now Mrs. Carter’s opened a boarding home for young ladies, and DJ -- who would rather wear her basketball team uniform than hau...

  • Twilight in Venice

    Steven Carroll

  • 6 Sick Hipsters

    Rayo Casablanca

    In this hilarious, frenetic, adrenalin-charged debut, Rayo Casablanca does for modern day Williamsburg, Brooklyn, what Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero did for '80s L.A.--but with a knowing grin and a far cooler soundtrack... Williamsburg, Broo...

  • Hot and Bothered

    Dianne Castell

    Savannah, Georgia: city of history, mystery, and more than a few ghosts, as well as four best friends who have never fit in anywhere except with each other. But everything is about to change as an unsolved murder from decades ago draws them close--an...

  • Starstruck

    Michelle Celmer

    This cruise is throwing Claire Mackenzie off balance... After years as a Hollywood wild child, Claire Mackenzie put the urban jungle behind her and laid down roots in British Columbia, where she found stability running a plant nursery. So when ...

  • The Editor's Wife

    Clare Chambers

    When aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece (in between shifts as a fish delivery man and builder's mate), his family is sceptical. But when he is taken up by the London editor Owen Goddard and his cha...

  • Trick of the Mind

    Cassandra Chan

    Scotland Yard Detective Sergeant Jack Gibbons has been shot twice, and even after the surgery he isn't out of the woods and may still be in danger because he can't remember how it all happened. While his colleagues dig into his personal life, his bes...

  • Embrace the Night

    Karen Chance

    Recently named the world's chief clairvoyant, Cassandra Palmer still has a thorn in her side. As long as Cassie and a certain master vampire--the sizzling-hot Mircea--are magically bound to each other, her life will never be her own. The spell tha...

  • Mermaid Rescue

    Linda Chapman

    Electra is very excited. Two of the older mermaids, Keri and Marina, have asked her if she would like to go camping with them on Craggy Island. What an adventure! But the adventure comes to an abrupt end when Electra's mum tells her that she is too y...

  • Wolverine: The Death of Wolverine

    Howard Chaykin

    Wendell Rayfield is a recently divorced, down-on-his-luck ex-cop who's looking down the business end of a 40 with no hope for the future and with demons from his past still haunting him at every turn. All he has going for him is his new job. A job th...

  • Caspian's Army

    Sadie Chesterfield

    All your favorite characters from the movie come alive in this 24-page storybook. With simple text and full-color illustrations derived from the movie style guide on the cover and every page, this 8x8 is perfect for read-aloud fun....

  • The Winding Ways Quilt

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues with The Winding Ways Quilt, in which the arrival of newcomers into the circle of quilters heralds unexpected journeys down pathways near and far. Quilters have flocked to Elm Cr...

  • Marrying For King's Millions

    Maureen Child

    MILLIONAIRE SEEKING CONVENIENT WIFE Wed and bed one of his biggest client's unsavory daughters? No thanks. But the only way millionaire Travis King could get the man off his back was to marry someone else. So he handpicked his temporary and on-his...

  • Firewife

    Tinling Choong

    An original, courageous novel, FireWife draws on the powerful Chinese myth of fire and water to explore how women's sexuality and fate are intertwined. Nin, a photographer, embarks on a five-month journey to photograph women around the world. Her ...

  • Crazy Diamond

    David Chotjewitz

    "I don't wanna be famous I don't wanna be who you are I don't wanna be a trademark I don't wanna be a wannabe superstar I wanna be infamous, Incapable, unfaceable, untraceable..." That's Mira M. And this is the story of her u...

  • Runaway Cowboy

    Judy Christenberry

    "Move Over, Cowboy!" Jessica Ledbetter had worked too hard on her family's Colorado dude ranch, the Lazy L, to roll over and play dead when Jim Bradford showed up as the new manager. The former power broker from New York City was darkly handsome i...

  • Lacrosse Firestorm

    Matt Christopher

    It's early summer, and things are really heating up between Garry Wallis, star of Lacrosse Face-Off, and his nemesis, Michael Donofrio. At the end of last season, Garry sabotaged Michael's chances of becoming the league's top scorer. Now Michael is t...

  • City of Ashes

    Cassandra Clare

    Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? Clary w...

  • Unlawful Contact

    Pamela Clare

    Journalist Sophie Alton is investigating the disappearance of a young mother named Megan, recently paroled and now running from the law with her baby daughter. Sophie's search leads her to Megan's brother, Marc, a convicted killer--and the man she sh...

  • New Mutants Classic - Volume 3

    Chris Claremont

    Collects New Mutants #18-25 and Annual #1. The New Mutants face a demon menace and befriend an alien misfit! A rock concert pulls them into the orbit of a multi-galaxy music star, then the team, with Cloak and Dagger, is drawn into a deadly exchange ...

  • Marvel Fanfare: Strange Tales

    Chris Claremont

    After a string of successes with Thor, X-Factor and Avengers, it's sensational Simonson storytelling for Marvel's First Family - starting when the FF's Congressional hearing is disrupted by dozens of vengeanc-seeking villains! After the famous fourso...

  • Zapped

    Carol Higgins Clark

    Regan and Jack Reilly return to Manhattan after a summer weekend away just as a citywide blackout strikes. Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, is called to an art gallery burglary, while Regan helps her best friend, Kit, abandoned at a comedy cl...

  • Wish You Were Here

    Catherine Clark

    The next morning we meet at the world headquarters of Leisure-Lee Tours. Which is a sentence I never thought I'd write. Ariel Flack never thought she'd write a postcard saying "Wish you were here," especially to Dylan, the boy she's had a cru...

  • Antiques To Die For

    Jane K. Cleland

    When the body of a lively new acquaintance, Rosalie Chaffee, washes up on New Hampshire's rugged coastline, antiques dealer Josie Prescott is pulled into the mystery. A blow to the head suggests foul play. And when the victim's much younger sister, t...

  • Her Baby Dreams

    Debra Clopton

    First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes Dan Dawson, Jr., In The Baby Carriage! The Mule Hollow matchmakers were singing that ditty right in Ashby Templeton's ear. And though she wanted a husband and a baby more than anything, she drew th...

  • Hold Tight

    Harlan Coben

    How well do you really know your child? Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they’d spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his best friend Spencer Hill, they can’t help bu...

  • Satin & A Scandalous Affair

    Jan Colley

    "I WANT YOU..." What would it take for Danielle Hammond to design a necklace for one of the world's highest-priced diamonds? Gem broker Quinn Everard wasn't above using blackmail to get Dani to take the job. She was the only designer worthy of ...

  • The Women of Pemberley

    Rebecca Ann Collins

    The Women of Pemberley follows the lives of five women, some from the beloved works of Jane Austen, some new from the author’s imagination, into a new era of post industrial revolution England, at the start of the Victorian Age. Vast changes are in...

  • The Pemberley Chronicles

    Rebecca Ann Collins

    “Those with a taste for the balance and humour of Austen will find a worthy companion volume.” -- Book News The weddings are over.The guests (including millions of readers and viewers) wish the two happy couples health and happiness. As the music...

  • The Bloody Texans

    Kent Conwell

    Trapper and scout Nathan Cooper returned home to his cabin in East Texas, only to find a sight he would never forget--his wife, his young niece and his niece's intended, all slaughtered. With his heart broken and blood in his eyes, Nathan buried his ...

  • Loose Lips

    Jordan Cooke

    When Anushka Peters is fired from The ?Bu for bad behavior, she blabs to the press and blows the lid off The ?Bu-Hoo. Now the once underground blog has maximum visibility, and all the cast and crew?s secrets are fair game. At first Max, the producer,...

  • Pilot Episode

    Jordan Cooke

    Corliss Myers is the kind of girl who watches TV. (Alone. On prom night.) Not the kid who works in TV. So imagine her excitement when her uncle gets her an internship on The ?Bu, the hottest teen beach drama coming soon to television. Not only does t...

  • A Bride So Fair

    Carol Cox

    Take a trip on a spellbinding thrill ride of intrigue and suspense at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Emily Ralston is delighted when she lands a job at the Children’s Building at the Chicago World’s Fair. When she meets Stephen Bridger, a hand...

  • French Pressed

    Cleo Coyle

    New Yorker Clare Cosi may have found success with her popular coffeehouse, the Village Blend, but managing her family's affairs is proving to be a grind... Dark Brew Clare's daughter, Joy, is immersing herself in the foodie culture with an inte...

  • Footfree and Fancyloose

    Elizabeth Craft

    Best friends Harper Waddle, Sophie Bushell, and Kate Foster committed the ultimate suburban sin: bailing on college to pursue their dreams. Middlebury-bound Becca Winsberg was convinced her friends had gone insane until they reminded her she just mig...

  • Names My Sisters Call Me

    Megan Crane

    NAMES My Sisters CALL ME Courtney, Norah, and Raine Cassel are as different as three sisters can be. Norah, the oldest, is a type A obsessive who hasn't forgiven Raine, the middle sister, for ruining her wedding day six years ago. Raine is Norah's ...

  • Danger Signals

    Kathleen Creighton

    Never trust a blonde claiming to be psychic After tracking a serial killer through six brutal murders, detective Wade Callahan didn't know where to turn. Then Tierney Doyle, an empath and the police force's secret weapon, joined the search. Wade was...

  • Girls in Trucks

    Katie Crouch

    NEVER CHASE MEN OR BUSES. Don't let yourself be seen in a truck in town. These are the simple rules passed down through generations of Camellias, one of the oldest debutante societies in Charleston. Sarah Walters is a member of this antiquated club -...

  • Enlightenment for Idiots

    Anne Cushman

    Nearing age thirty, Amanda thought she'd be someone else by now. Instead, she's just herself: an ex-nanny yogini-wannabe who cranks out "For Idiots" travel guides just to scrape by. Yes, she has her sexy photographer boyfriend, but he's usually gone-...

  • Walk of the Spirits

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    When Miranda Barnes first sees the sleepy town of St. Yvette, Louisiana, with its moss-draped trees, above-ground cemeteries, and her grandfather?s creepy historic home, she realizes that life as she knew it is officially over. Almost immediately, th...

  • Plague Ship

    Clive Cussler; Jack Du Brul

    Clive Cussler returns with a new novel in his New York Times bestselling Oregon Files, as Captain Juan Cabrillo and the motley crew of his high-tech spy ship take on their most extraordinary -- and lethal -- mission yet . . . The Oregon is churning ...

  • A Death in Gascony

    Sarah D'Almeida

    After the death of his father, Henri D'Artagnan, returning home to claim his inheritance, discovers that his father has met with foul play and calls upon his fellow musketeers to help him find the truth, a mission that places all of their lives in gr...

  • Playing With the Grown-ups

    Sophie Dahl

    For Kitty, growing up at Hay House amongst bluebell woods and doting relations is heaven. But for her mother, the restless Marina, a bohemian beauty who paints and weeps with alacrity, this comfortable domesticity cannot provide the novelty and excit...

  • Fifteen Minutes of Shame

    Lisa Daily

    America's favorite TV dating expert just found out her husband is cheating on her.

    Romantic Comedy at its Hilarious Best!

    Darby Vaughn, a small-town girl turned dating guru, has finally landed the life she's always dreamed of: A handso...

  • Matchmaking With A Mission

    B.J. Daniels

    WHO WAS THE HANDSOME STRANGER? The most stubborn of the Bailey sisters was back in town, and determined to start a horse ranch. She'd set her sights on the long-deserted Harper House and no one was going to change McKenna's mind--not the enigmatic...

  • Fallowblade

    Cecilia Dart-Thornton

    Weapons glitter, men's voices are raised in battle-song and bright banners crack and flap in a sharp breeze; armies of steel and bronze are marching to war as the ruthless king of the southern realm executes his plan to seize dominion over the Four K...

  • SEALed with a Kiss

    Mary Margret Daughtridge

    HE CAN HANDLE JUST ABOUT ANYTHING, EXCEPT THIS... Jax Graham is a member of an elite military team, but when it comes to taking care of his four-year-old son after his ex-wife dies, he's completely clueless. ONE PERSON CAN HELP HIM, IF HE'LL LET ...

  • Iron Man

    Peter David

    THE ORIGINAL HEAVY METAL HERO

    Millionaire industrialist Tony Stark’s genius for designing and building high-tech, ultradestructive weapons for America’s armed forces has inspired critics to dub him the modern-day Leonardo da Vinci"as wel...

  • X-Factor - Volume 4: Heart of Ice

    Peter David

    Collects X-Factor #18-24. With mutants an endangered species, can X-Factor stop the Isolationist from making them extinct? X-Factor's battle with the depowered mutants of the terrorist X-Cell reaches a cataclysmic conclusion. Will X-Factor's Rictor r...

  • Military Daddy

    Patricia Davids

    A brash military man like Corporal Shane Ross was not the kind of father Annie Delmar had ever imagined having for her children. But they'd made a mistake that led to an unexpected blessing: Annie was pregnant. Shane wanted to be part of his child's ...

  • The Curse of Addy McMahon

    Katie Davis

    All her life, Addy's heard stories about the McMahon family curse. Her mom says the stories are just jokes, but Addy isn't so sure. In fact, she's got evidence. Like the fact that her archenemy saw Addy shopping for a training bra with her mom. Or th...

  • The Captain's Wife

    Mary Eileen Davis

    Only Vivian knows the truth. Vivian is the new wife of respected Captain Randolph Carlyle, but when Randolph dies at sea, only she lives with the truth. No one else knows that his last words to her were an angry indictment of her secret past life-not...

  • Witness

    Susan Page Davis

    "I saw my neighbor murder his wife!" But the police didn't believe Petra Wilson. They insisted she was mistaken. There was no body, no evidence, no murder. Petra knew what she had seen. And now her dangerous neighbor knew it, too. She needed prote...

  • Jealous? // Social Order

    Melissa de la Cruz

    They have it all: money, looks, popularity, anything their little platinum-encased hearts desire. They also have a new face. After Lauren Page's unexpected and brilliant maneuver at the fall VIP dance, she is in so tight with Ashley Spencer, the numb...

  • Belong to Me

    Marisa de los Santos

    Everyone has secrets. Some we keep to protect ourselves, others we keep to protect those we love. Cornelia Brown surprised herself when she was gripped by the sudden, inescapable desire to move with her husband to the suburbs. Her mettle is quickly ...

  • Girlwood

    Claire Dean

    Polly Greene has always been considered strange, a girl who can see a person's true colors, a thirteen-year-old more comfortable foraging in the woods with her eccentric grandmother than hanging out with friends. But all that is about to change when ...

  • Four Walls

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an ...

  • The Dark Side Of Night // Taken By the Spy

    Cindy Dees

    Don't mess with a man on a mission Kinsey Hollingsworth's tropical-getaway plans didn't include dodging gunshots. Or a speedboat chase with Mitch Perovski, the tall and tempting spy who'd commandeered her boat. But the socialite would handle anyth...

  • The Heartbreak Pill

    Anjanette Delgado

    Is it really necessary to suffer for love? What if an easy-to-swallow pill could turn love off and on? You wouldn't desire what isn't good for you. You wouldn't cry for what cannot be. You'd just live. You'd be happy. Erika Luna is a thirty-somet...

  • Mothers of the Year: Baby Steps

    Anna DeStefano
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    Every woman comes to motherhood in her own way... In Baby Steps by Anna DeStefano, it takes a troubled little boy to help a woman take baby steps toward a loving future with her husband....

  • Giving Up on Ordinary

    Isla Dewar

    In this funny and charming novel, Megs is a woman whose ordinary life is about to become absolutely extraordinary. . . . When Megs became a house cleaner to make ends meet as a single mother of three, she didn't realize that people would be so blin...

  • The Perfect Man

    Kristine Dexter

    Tasha Morgan’s family warned her about Rick Chance. Impossibly handsome and alarmingly sexy, Rick takes Tasha’s breath away. But Rick has a reputation -- as a womanizer and worse. Still, Tasha finds him intriguing. Rick Chance finds Tasha Morga...

  • Winter Haven

    Athol Dickson

    Eleven years ago, Vera Gamble's brother left their house never to be seen again. Until the day Vera gets a phone call that his body has been found...washed ashore in the tiny island town of Winter Haven, Maine. His only surviving kin, Vera travels no...

  • Apache Warrior

    Carol Ann Didier

    A white woman and an Apache brave find forbidden love in the untamed land of the Wild West... Unbidden Yearnings Always Lead To... Every day that Amanda Carroll and her sister travel farther west, they worry about possible Indian attacks. Their...

  • The Rosetta Key

    William Dietrich

    American adventurer Ethan Gage barely escaped with his life from murderous thieves, survived a nerve-racking sea voyage and the deadly Egyptian sands when attached to Napoleon's army, and solved a five-thousand-year-old riddle with the help of a myst...

  • Searching for Spice

    Megan DiMaria

    In this debut novel, readers will meet Linda Revere, a woman who longs to experience true romance with her nerdy, practical husband of twenty-four years. Her desire to add a little pizzazz to her marriage only confuses her husband and frustrates hers...

  • Brothers & Sisters to the Rescue

    Disney Book Group

    In this daring new mission a mean old witch have trapped Hansel and Gretel in a gingerbread house, Its up to  the brave brother and sister duo, Annie and Leo, to follow the clues and rescue Hansel and Gretel from the witch's grasp. Pre-schoolers wil...

  • Lady J

    L. Divine

    For South Bay High's bold, beautiful Jayd Jackson, drama has reached record-breaking heights as she finds herself on the defensive at home, work, and school. Maybe it's time to take her destiny--and her power--into her own hands... Her relationshi...

  • Codex 632

    Jose Rodrigues dos Santos

    When Thomas Noronha, a professor of history and an expert cryptographer, is called upon to finish an unresolved investigation involving an aged scholar who is found mysteriously dead in his hotel room, his life takes several unexpected and dramatic t...

  • Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie: Discovery Bay

    Jon E. Dougherty

  • A Girl Called Rosie

    Anne Doughty

    1924. At nearly sixteen, Rosie Hamilton of Liskeyborough, is growing into a lovely young woman. With only another week to go at Miss Wilson's school in Richhill, she is concerned and preoccupied with what her future might hold. Rosie has always had t...

  • John's Quest

    Cecelia Dowdy

    It's amazing how quickly life can change. Overnight, Monica Crawford finds her neatly organized world turned upside down. Her sister abandons her blind son, Scotty, leaving him on Monica's doorstep. Caring for a handicapped child brings unexpected co...

  • Bewitching Season

    Marissa Doyle

    MAGIC OR MARRIAGE? Wins Persephone and Penelope Leland are anticipating their first London season with mixed feelings. Pen can't wait to flirt with handsome young men at parties, but Persy would far rather stay home and continue her magic studies....

  • The Devil's Daughter

    Laura Drewry

    Shoveling sulfur and brimstone could really get a girl down. When her dad offered freedom from the fiery depths in exchange for one simple soul-snatching, Lucy Firr jumped at the chance. With her considerable powers of seduction, she threw herself at...

  • Kung Fu Panda: The Furious Five

    Scout Driggs

  • Elom

    William H. Drinkard

    Fire from the Goddess and the meat and furs of the mammoth are all that the People need to live. It is a harsh life but a good one and it is one that all cherish.Young Geerna knows that the time has come for her to become a woman and take up the task...

  • Once Upon A Pregnancy

    Judy Duarte

    POSITIVELY PREGNANT? Seems the halls of Walnut River General are harboring a few juicy secrets. Is our ever-proper E.R. nurse Simone Gardner getting a little bigger around the middle? Rumors are flying that she and paramedic Mike O'Rourke have bee...

  • Mulberry Park

    Judy Duarte

    In the San Diego suburb of Fairbrook, past Applewood Drive and up First Street, lies Mulberry Park, a peaceful haven for locals from all walks of life. And at the center of its lush green lawn grows a massive mulberry tree -- tall enough to take a mo...

  • The Marriage Recipe

    Michele Dunaway

    Sweet Sensations! New York loves pastry chef Rachel Palladia's desserts, and her boss in the A-list Italian restaurant where she works is desperate to make her his wife. A country girl's dream come true--until she catches her fiance making love to...

  • Bon Voyage, Connie Pickles

    Sabine Durrant

    Here is the sidesplitting diary of Connie Pickles, age fifteen, on her way to Paris for a school exchange program. She has glamorously big plans to reunite her long-lost French grandparents with her mother, get over a crush on her best friend, Willia...

  • Princess for a Day

    Sarah Dyer

    When Clementine decides that she is going to be a princess for the whole day, her little brother, Mungo, must satisfy her every demand. From sandwiches with their crusts cut off to a special circus performance fe...

  • MIA

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    The accidental death of Rhiann Fahey's second husband leaves her paralyzed by grief and her son Jimmy cutting school and drinking. The widow's problems are compounded by the unwanted advances of her dead husband's friend.Rhiann does her best to cope,...

  • Animal Stories

    Cooper Edens

    This collection of stories and rhymes brings together some of the most beloved animals of childhood: Peter Rabbit, Winnie-the-Pooh, the Owl and the Pussycat, the Billy Goats Gruff, Mary's little lamb, the Runaway Bunny, and many others. Illustrated b...

  • Waterloo Sunset

    Martin Edwards

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  • Pandora's Box

    Clive Egleton

    A new case for SIS Chief Charles Winter - 1962. America has set up a quarantine zone around Cuba, preventing Soviet ships from importing nuclear hardware. Meanwhile, SIS Chief Charles Winter is investigating the death of a double-agent whose KGB cont...

  • The Misadventures of Justin Hearnfeld

    Dan Elish

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  • Shadow Gate

    Kate Elliott

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  • Somers v. Somers

    Julie Ellis

    A womans fight to rebuild her life - Diane Somers has dedicated her life to her husbands political career, but then one day he announces that not only is he defecting, he is also divorcing her. Diane is devastated. Concerned with dividing their share...

  • Punisher Max - Volume 9: Long Cold Dark

    Garth Ennis

    The Punisher's wildest foe is back! Left gut-shot in shark-infested waters, Barracuda's got a major score to settle with Frank Castle. But Barracuda's no dummy. Charging in with guns blazing is for suckers. He's got something serious planned. Somethi...

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    Sam Enthoven

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    John R. Erickson

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  • Blood Price

    Jon Evans

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  • Longarm and the Tiny Thief

    Tabor Evans

    CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRE Longarm thinks the ten-year-old stealing food in the mercantile store is just a scared kid -- until his knife and quick reflexes damn near send the deputy marshal to the happy hunting ground. And when a proper widow unexpecte...

  • The Haunting

    Lynne Ewing

    Meri, Sudi, and Dalila are three girls living in Washington, D.C., but have little else in common. Or so they think. When an ancient magic is revealed, so are their true identities as Sisters of Isis.Strange  things are happening to Sudi. And when h...

  • Shadows in the Sky

    Greg Farshtey

    THE TOA’S MISSION TAKES THEM TO NEW HEIGHTS The Toa Nuva have returned and must continue their quest to awaken the Great Spirit Mata Nui. Their journey takes them to a city in the clouds where new allies and new foes await them. ...

  • Going Dutch

    Katie Fforde

    When Jo's husband ditches her, and Dora ditches her fiancé, both women find themselves living on a barge on the Thames where they must learn to navigate their way around new relationships. They quickly learn the value of friendship and a fresh start...

  • Practically Perfect

    Katie Fforde

    Anna, a newly qualified interior designer, has decided it's time to put her money and her expertise where her mouth is and risk everything to buy a tiny but adorable cottage in desperate need of renovation. Outside, the chocolate-box cottage is pe...

  • Going Dutch

    Katie Fforde

    When Jo's husband ditches her, and Dora ditches her fiancé, both women find themselves living on a barge on the Thames where they must learn to navigate their way around new relationships. They quickly learn the value of friendship and a fresh start...

  • Moon Knight - Volume 2: Midnight Sun

    David Finch

    Three months back on the job, and they're already coming out of the woodwork. The bad guys you expect. The gangsters and the hoods with old axes to grind. They all come with the territory. But the heroes - them you don't expect. Popping up to give yo...

  • Split

    Suzanne Finnamore

  • Braless in Wonderland

    Debbie Reed Fischer

    Allee Rosen is a lot of things: high school senior, overachiever, brain. The one thing Allee is not is supermodel material?at least that?s what she thinks until modeling scouts spot her and she moves to Miami to work with an elite modeling agency. Su...

  • Been There, Crossed Over

    Chris P. Flesh

    An unalive boy named Stephen requests a second chance in the Land of the Living, just as Monsieur DeMise steps down from the Afterlife Committee and is replaced by Officer Officious. Officer O. blames Freekin for starting a revolution and calls him b...

  • Alfred's Nose

    Vivienne Flesher

    Everyone loves Alfred,”with his silly, round face and his big, wet, sloppy kisses. Everyone except Alfred. Alfred especially doesn't like his nose. It's just not a true dog nose. Maybe a costume could give him a new look. Or perhaps a mask. Can A...

  • Ten Cents a Dance

    Christine Fletcher

    With her mother ill, it's up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. But in the 1940s, the only opportunities open to a Polish-American girl from Chicago's poor Yards is a job in one of the meat-packing plants. Through a chance me...

  • Murder on Parade

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    DEAD MAN'S FLOAT Every Fourth of July the town of Cabot Cove hosts an elaborate celebration, and no one is more enthusiastic than the town's newest resident, corporate mogul Joseph Lennon. He's been waving his wealth around, hoping to influence both ...

  • Alphabet of Dreams

    Susan Fletcher

    In the city of the dead, a dreamer awakens.... Young Babak has a magnificent gift: He can dream the future. Mitra, his brave older sister, is sworn to protect him. For them to survive living on the streets, she must do whatever is necessary -- in...

  • Nice to Come Home To

    Rebecca Flowers

    A funny, entertaining novel of love and family for our times: a single woman who fears she's lost her chance at a family of her own, begins to accumulate an ad hoc one around her. In the tradition of Elinor Lipman or Marisa de los Santos (Love Wa...

  • Drive Me Wild

    Gwynne Forster

    Money changes everything! Gina Harkness is stunned when an elderly woman she befriended leaves her an inheritance of millions. Suddenly the former accountant is living in a Park Avenue apartment and interviewing potential chauffeurs. Sexy, charism...

  • Coming Home

    Terry Fowler

    Maggie Gregory was pretty comfortable with the life she'd made for herself, until her elderly friend and landlord, Allene Rogers, passed away. Then Allene's son arrived and accused Maggie of taking advantage of his mother. Dillon Rogers had been ou...

  • Bulls Island

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    Elizabeth "Betts" McGee loved those lazy afternoons on pristine Bulls Island in the Carolina Lowcountry. But everything came crashing down when tragic fate -- coupled with nasty rumor and innuendo -- ended her engagement to Charleston golden boy J.D....

  • The Spooky Nighttime Adventure

    Jennifer Frantz

    The story of Hidden Runner scares Littlefoot, Chomper, and the rest of their friends so much that they're scared to go to sleep. When everyone except Cera has nightmares, they wonder if anyone in the Great Valley will ever sleep through the night...

  • This is Narnia: Prince Caspian

    Jennifer Frantz

  • Prince Caspian: Lucy's Journey

    Jennifer Frantz

    With easy-to-read text and full-color photographs from the movie, this I Can Read is the perfect choice for young Prince Caspian fans. The movie story of the beloved classic has been adapted for the best selling I Can Read format....

  • The Mother-Daughter Book Club

    Heather Vogel Frederick

    The book club is about to get a makeover.... Even if Megan would rather be at the mall, Cassidy is late for hockey practice, Emma's already read every book in existence, and Jess is missing her mother too much to care, the new book club is schedul...

  • Blood Ties

    Pamela Freeman

    A thousand years ago, the Eleven Domains were invaded and the original inhabitants forced on the road as Travelers, belonging nowhere, welcomed by no-one. Now the Domains are governed with an iron fist by the Warlords, but there are wilder elements t...

  • Silent Fall

    Barbara Freethy

    FALLING HARD... Dylan Sanders is attending a wedding in the mountains when his trip takes a terrible turn. A former lover appears out of nowhere, demands a private conversation, and lures him into the woods, leaving him drugged and disoriented. ...

  • Losing You

    Nicci French

    It's Nina Landry's birthday, and she's supposed to have her kids ready to leave in a few hours for a Christmas holiday in Florida with her new boyfriend, but her fifteen-year-old daughter Charlie spent the night at a friend's and hasn't come home yet...

  • Nobody's Prize

    Esther Friesner

    In this rousing sequel to Nobody's Princess, young Helen of Sparta is not about to be left behind when her older brothers head off to join the quest for the Golden Fleece. Accompanied by her friend Milo, and disguised as a boy herself, Helen sets out...