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  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Marcus Galloway

    Undertaker Nick Graves has buried folks for pay . . . and killed some for free. Now settled in Ocean, California, with a good woman he loves, he'd like to forget the wild young man he once was--a man who buried a fortune in stolen jewels in the Badla...



  • Tim Green

    Success comes with risk and a high price in this thrilling standalone football novel from New York Times bestselling author and former NFL player Tim Green. Perfect for fans of Mike Lupica.Ever since Ty Lewis was orphaned and forced to stay with his ...



  • Michael Gruber

    An artist born outside his time, Chaz Wilmot can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsboroughand he refuses to shape his talent to fit the fashion of the day. His unique abilities attract the attention of Werner Krebs, an art dealer with a dark past and s...



  • Sally Gunning

    Alice Cole spent her first seven years living in two smoky, crowded rooms in London with her family. But a new home and a better life waited in the colonies, or so her father promised--a bright dream that turned to ashes when her brothers and mother ...



  • Dan Gutman

    The weirdness never stops! A.J. and the gang are graduating! But the out-of-control PTA president is turning the whole thing into a huge ceremony complete with fireworks, a petting zoo, and a flyover by the Blue Angels! Is moving up to third grade s...



  • Sarah Hall

    In her stunning novel, Hall imagines a new dystopia set in the not-too-distant future. England is in a state of environmental crisis and economic collapse. There has been a census, and all citizens have been herded into urban centers. Reproduction ha...



  • Cheryl Harness

    How did a day-dreamy girl, who loved to read and draw, end up getting born into a messy, restless family with FIVE little brothers? That's what 12-year-old Carmen Cathcart wanted to know. Somewhere up in heaven before she was born, she must have gott...



  • Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Annie Darling discovers the secret of the Franklin house, but Death Walked In . . . Max Darling hasn't been interested in crime since his brush with a seductive young woman put him in danger of losing his freedom. He even refuses to talk to a wom...



  • Kevin Henkes

    Spencer thought the house might be haunted. Mitch knew it wasn't. And he knew why. The whole time Spencer and Mitch hung out together at Bird Lake that summer, there were secrets keeping them apart. And maybe a secret knowledge keeping th...



  • Mary Hogan

    That's what I am. A funny girl. A friend. Nobody's girlfriend. The girl with the pretty face. Hayley wishes she could love living in Santa Monica, blocks from the beach, where every day--and everybody--is beautiful and sunny. But she just doesn't...



  • Erin Hunter

    There will be three, Kin of you kin.... Who hold the Power of the stars In their paws. A secret prophecy shapes the lives of Firestar's grandchildren, but only one of the three knows about it. Jaypaw is captivated by the power it promises, ...



  • Dan Jolley

    When billionaire Tony Stark is kidnapped in a foreign land, his captors order Stark to build them a devastating weapon. Instead, Stark uses his technical brilliance to create a high-tech suit of armor and escape. Back home, Stark uncovers a dangerous...



  • Laura Kasischke

    Afterward, Terri will tell everyone that, from the beginning, she knew something terrible was going to happen on spring break. Something bad was going to happen. She knew. It was supposed to be the perfect vacation: hot guys, impeccable t...



  • Chuck Logan

    A nameless sniper is targeting participants in popular Civil War battle reenactments, and Minnesota reenactor Paul Edin is killed at the mock Battle of Kirby Creek, near Corinth, Mississippi. His death is ruled an accident, but Paul's widow, Jenny, d...



  • Jennifer McMahon

    While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having do...



  • Donna Jonas Milner

    He will change their lives forever. . . . At fifteen, Natalie Ward believes her life is perfect. Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia less than two miles from the American border, she knows little of the outside world. ...



  • Elizabeth Noble

    How do you cope in a world without your mother? When Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware that they'll be facing the trials and triumphs of life without her at their side. But how can she leave the...



  • Don Robertson

    On a quiet autumn afternoon in 1944, nine-year-old Morris Bird III decides to visit a friend who lives on the other side of town. So he grabs the handle of his red wagon and, with his little sister in tow, begins an incredible pilgrimage across Cleve...



  • Angie Sage

    There's trouble at the Castle, and it's all because Merrin Meredith has returned with Darke plans for Septimus. More trouble awaits Septimus and Jenna in the form of Tertius Fume, the ghost of the very first Chief Hermetic Scribe, who is determined t...



  • Michael Stanley

    SMASHED SKULL, SNAPPED RIBS, AND A CLOYING SMELL OF CARRION. LEAVE THE BODY FOR THE HYENAS TO DEVOUR -- NO BODY, NO CASE But Kalahari game rangers stumble on the human corpse mid-meal. The murder wasn't perfect after all. Enter Detective David "Kubu...



  • P.W. Storm

    Michael "Mad Dog" Hertzog lived for soldiering--but he wasn't willing to die following the orders of bureaucrats and incompetents. Now he and his private army of warriors-for-hire are doing war Dog's way. Hertzog's right hand man has vanished . ....



  • Stephen Sullivan

    Billionaire Tony Stark invents a high-tech suit of armor that he hopes will save the world. But when his stolen designs are used for evil, Stark must wear the suit himself. Will his superhero shell be enough to stop a villain bent on destruction, ...



  • Jenny Valentine

    Me: Lucas Swain--I'm nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed. The Missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares ex...



  • Cynthia Voigt

    They're brother and sister, but Angus is bigger. He is a good, brave, and clever dog -- and he likes that. Sadie isn't as quick to learn -- or to obey. Angus thinks she's scared of everything, but Sadie knows that's not true. Newbery Medalist Cynt...



  • Linda Windsor

    Ellen isn't sure true love exists. That is until she landscapes the estate of the widower next door, Adrian Sinclair. Adrian has it all--at least on the surface. A successful businessman, he's engaged to a beautiful woman and he'll soon have a stepmo...



  • Adele Ashworth

    From bed partners . . . Two years ago, while on assignment for the Crown, darkly handsome Garrett Burke left Lady Ivy Wentworth sleeping naked in his bed as he went in search of the missing Martello diamonds. After apprehending the dastardly thie...



  • Jordan Dane

    A Dark Message The body of a brutally slain man is found on the holy grounds of a chapel, and a cryptic message pinned to his chest unravels the lives of people touched by a dark secret. Detective Raven Mackenzie and her partner uncover the dead ...



  • Jo Dereske

    THIS CASE IS ONE FOR THE BOOKS... No one could be more orderly or organized than dedicated librarian Helma Zukas. No one could be more rash and raucous than avant-garde artist Ruth Winthrop. Yet the two women are best friends and a resourceful, in...



  • Louise Erdrich

    Louise Erdrich's mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime ...



  • Jeaniene Frost

    YOU CAN RUN FROM THE GRAVE, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE. . . Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She's still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, tau...



  • Ann Herendeen

    The meddling mothers of the Regency would do anything to wed their daughters to Andrew Carrington, the wealthy, handsome, and athletic heir to an earldom. There is one problem, however. No woman in all England would suit the determined bachelor, for ...



  • Beverly Jenkins

    A proposal she had no choice but to accept . . . Though Eli Grayson is one of the most handsome, charming, and intelligent men in Grayson Grove, no one will take a chance on a confirmed bachelor. Unwilling to give up his dreams, Eli convinces his...



  • Anne Mallory

    Three nights of danger... When her brother was arrested for murder, the ton shut its doors to Marietta Winters. No one would help her save him from the gallows -- no one but Gabriel Noble. In exchange for taking the case, Gabriel requests three fa...



  • Melissa Marr

    Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their shadowy power struggles. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo, all she knows is that she has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves fo...



  • Jacquelyn Mitchard

    Bridget Flannery and Maureen O'Malley have been BFFs since forever. Then a brief moment of inattention on an icy road leaves one girl dead and the other in a coma, battered beyond recognition. Family and friends mourn one friend's loss and pray for t...



  • Jerry Spinelli

    Ninth grader Will Tuppence is in control. He plans everything obsessively, from the perfect stargazing night with his crush, Mi-Su, to the regular Saturday-night games of Monopoly with his friends. He's even planned his entire adulthood: career as...



  • David Stahler Jr.

    Jacob can see--and his vision brings him great power. But he still hasn't found what he's been looking for. . . . Danger is closing in. The stars are calling. And young Jacob Manford is restless. He's tried settling into life as a Seer, but he ha...



  • Tamara Summers

    Victoria Finnegan to marry Kevin Ork in the Rose Bower of Cynthia Flair Botanical Gardens Sunday, June 17, 3 p.m. Dress: very flowery. Yay. Paris Finnegan is marrying Jiro Kuan on the beach at Huntsville National Park Saturday, August 1...



  • Rachel Vail

    It's all good . . . and lucky Phoebe Avery plans to celebrate by throwing an end-of-the-year bash with her four closest friends. Everything will be perfect--from the guest list to the fashion photographer to the engraved invitations. The only thing l...



  • John Whitman

    Operating out of a nearly empty space in Los Angeles, the newly created CTU faces its first major crisis. A large amount of plastique explosive has vanished and could be anywhere--with criminals, crazies, outlaw bikers . . . or in the bloodstained ha...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 bes...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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-...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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, ...



  • 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...





  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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,...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 -...



  • 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-...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...




  • 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 ...



  • 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...