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New Books List: 643 titles


  • Jeff Abbott

    What if everything in your life was a lie? Things are going well for 24-year-old Evan Casher: his career as a documentary filmmaker is booming and his relationship with his new girlfriend, Carrie, couldn’t be better. After an urgent phone call fro...



  • Cherry Adair

    The only thing Taylor Kincaid likes more than diamonds is stealing them. But when she snatches the elusive Blue Star diamonds from a murderous terrorist organization--and inadvertently snags the secret security-system codes to a South African diamond...



  • Anna Adams

    Whose baby is he? Three months ago, Isabel Baker's life came crashing down after her husband confessed he'd fallen in love with another woman -- her sister -- and that they'd had a child together. Then tragedy strikes, and Isabel's sister and h...



  • C.T. Adams; Cathy Clamp

    Tony Giodone made his living as an assassin--until one of his marks ripped his throat out and turned him into a werewolf. Now he's the best hired killer there is. When a curvy woman in an expensive suit tries to hire him to kill her, his wolf sens...



  • Swan Adamson

    When Marcello Brunelli--aka Il Principe of one of Italy's oldest and most fabulous families--declared his love to down-on-her-luck, done-with-men Venus Gilroy, she learned a few eyebrow-raising things about love and life. And now she's willing to sha...



  • Kim Addonizio

    Diana McBride, a thirty-four-year-old former child pageant contender, now works in a baby store in Long Beach. Between dealing with a catastrophic haircut, the failure of her marriage, and phone calls from her alcoholic mother, Diana has gone off her...



  • Elizabeth Adler

    The secrets of her past lie in Italy... Lamour Harrington's husband died two years ago. It is the second time she has lest a man she loved to a tragedy: Her father died in a mysterious boating accident when she was seventeen. When a devastating disc...



  • Allan Ahlberg

    Give the Dog a Bone is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! The dog skeleton is falli...



  • Catherine Aird

    Detective Chief Inspector (D.C.I.) C. D. Sloan works in the deceptively quiet town and county of Calleshire, where for many years he's endured the pressures of his demanding, unreasonable boss and the company of Constable Crosby, Sloan's all too cons...



  • Rochelle Alers
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    Disenchanted with the politics of working in an upscale Washington D.C. restaurant, twenty-seven-year-old chef Lydia Lord resigns from her job and resolves to make it on her own. She returns home to Baltimore with plans to launch a gourmet market...



  • Mohammed Naseehu Ali

    A dazzling collection of stories, The Prophet of Zongo Street takes readers to a world that seamlessly blends African folklore and myths with modernity. Set primarily on Zongo Street, a fictitious community in West Africa, the stories -- which are re...



  • Caroline Anderson

    Lights... Five years ago Ben Maguire wasn't just a good doctor, he was a brilliant doctor. Since then he has been living the life of his new persona -- as a daring and courageous TV presenter. Now Ben is about to face his toughest assignment y...



  • Louise Anderson

    Some things it’s better not to know. In Louise Anderson’s terrifying debut thriller, a twisted killer brings to life a woman’s worst nightmareâ€"a dark secret she hoped she’d never have to face again.Hardly ten A.M. and attorney Erin Paterson...



  • Pamela Anderson

    Take a walk on the wild side... Star Wood Leigh is star struck in life and love. A hasty secret marriage to rock 'n' roll bad boy Jimi Deed triggers a chain of events that changes both of their lives. Together they soar to the heights of stardom a...



  • Paul Anderson

    On a frigid winter's night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding. In his hands he clutches a box he has found there. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose last affair has ...



  • Sara Anderson

    Start at the tips of the foamy waves, where the sun glints off the water, and go down to the depths of the sea, where the eel's phosphorescence glows in the dark with otherworldly intensity. Below the waves, there are to be seen, among a myriad of li...



  • Sheryl J. Anderson

    Sheryl J. Anderson introduced sexy and smart advice columnist Molly Forrester in her fabulous debut novel Killer Heels. Now she mixes up another sexy adventure that's equal parts humor, intrigue, and an appreciation for the greatest mystery of all--h...



  • Jay Anson

    “A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times) -- the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe.In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new ho...



  • Charles Ardai
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    Lights...Camera...Murder! Behind the velvet ropes and closed curtains, buried in the back lots, you'll find the darker side of the spotlight. It's where stars are created overnight, and burn out just cis quickly. Where deals are made to be broken,...



  • Carey Armstrong-Ellis

    A wonderfully funny new back-to-school title by Carey Armstrong-Ellis, illustrator of 12 Days of Kindergarten. Seymour's family has recently moved to a new home near the compost pile and he is now facing his first day of Slug School. He's so nervous-...



  • Vivien Armstrong

    When the body of Lulu Starewski, an elderly eccentric antique dealer, is found in her home in an Oxfordshire village by her friend Tessa Cox, Detective Chief Inspector Roger Hayes is soon on the scene. A specialist in Russian Icons, Lulu owned a gall...



  • Jeffrey Ashford

    When unpopular Captain Sewell is found battered in his cabin aboard The Hakota, an old cargo ship, Felix Dunn takes command. Photographs are taken before a burial at sea and on arrival back in the UK, all leave is cancelled whilst the police investig...



  • Robert Asprin; Jodi Lynn Nye

    A GRAND OPENING NOT TO BE MYTHED Someone--or something--masquerading as Skeeve the Magnificent is racking up hundreds of thousands of gold pieces of debt. And it's up to Aahz the Pervect (not pervert!) to put an end to the shopping spree. Turns ou...



  • James Axler



  • Michael Baden

    When a body is found beneath a construction site near the Catskill Mountains, New York City deputy chief medical examiner Jake Rosen is called to the scene, where he meets his match: Philomena "Manny" Manfreda, a beautiful crusading attorney. Togethe...



  • Judy Baer

    "I'm a P.K., preacher's kid (or if I want to get fancy, a T.O., a theologian's offspring). I grew up afraid of my own allowance...." So when over $20 million falls into her lap shortly after she moves to Minneapolis, Cassia Carr views her Midas to...



  • Alison Baird

    In the thrilling tradition of Mercedes Lackey and Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alison Baird concludes her exciting saga begun in The Stone of the Stars and The Empire of the Stars. Revealing the startling secrets of the Dragon Throne, this is a galaxy-span...



  • Roberta Baker

    Olive Elizabeth Julia Jerome worries that having her seventh-birthday pirate party at her Aunt Tiffany's house will be a disappointment, in a spirited story that celebrates kids' special relationships with elderly relatives....



  • Anjali Banerjee
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The eighth title in a new fantasy adventure series for young readers.

    The Silver Spell continues a new series of adventures written specifically for
    readers ages 8-12. Sized to fit the young reader market, the series follows the
    adventur...



  • Kate Banks

    An award-winning team again join their talents When summer ends, a family pack their suitcases and bid the big blue house farewell. All seems quiet. But soon the leaves change color; then comes the snow. A cat creeps into the house and curls up in th...




  • Jo Bannister

    When she called her business "Looking for Something?" Brodie Farrell hoped to receive challenging commissions from interesting clients. Even by her standards, though, demon rock musician Jared Fry is hard to please. Fortunately his manager, the chari...



  • Joan Barfoot

    One woman is an ex-beauty-queen, one is a recovering addict to virtue, and one is an artist. The man of the big old house on the hill, Philip Lawrence, is suddenly dead and his departure is bound to have dramatic effects. The abruptly widowed No...



  • David Bart
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    Lights...Camera...Murder! Behind the velvet ropes and closed curtains, buried in the back lots, you'll find the darker side of the spotlight. It's where stars are created overnight, and burn out just cis quickly. Where deals are made to be broken,...



  • Don Bassingthwaite
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    IN EBERRON, THERE ARE TERRORS OLDER THAN THE NATIONS OF MEN. A chance rescue brings bitter rivals together. With a mysterious ally, the two warriors embark on a mission of vengeance, but the enemy waiting for them in the depths of the Shadow Marches...




  • Charlene Baumbich

    Charlene Ann Baumbich has won a loyal following of readers with the first three books in the Dearest Dorothy series, featuring the amusing and touching adventures of the townspeople of Partonville. Now Charlene Baumbich uses her wonderful gift of sto...



  • M.C. Beaton

    AGATHA RAISIN...AND THE CASE FROM HELL She's nosed in on murder investigations, annoyed law enforcement on two continents, and been targeted by everyone from a hit man to a killer secretary. But now Agatha Raisin must take on her greatest nightmar...



  • Elizabeth Becka

    A gripping suspense novel that introduces forensic expert Evelyn James as she tries to decipher trace evidence and solve a bizarre crime It's a cold Cleveland November day when forensic trace evidence expert Evelyn James is summoned to the scene of a...



  • Rexanne Becnel

    Road Trip for Three? They were three girlfriends whose love lives had seen better days, and they were driving to a reunion in New Orleans, the town they'd left behind. MJ, a gorgeous younger woman whose older husband died in the bed of...well, ...




  • Ted Bell

    Aboard a ship in the south of France, an American spy faces certain torture and death for the vital, explosive intelligence he possesses. In Paris, a ruthless and powerful descendant of Napoleon has forged an unholy alliance with China for its growin...



  • Aimee Bender

    "Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book ReviewAimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastic...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Jessica Jones and Luke Cage's lives have been destroyed by the events of the Secret War, so what is Jessica going to do about it? Fans of Secret War - feel The Pulse as it pounds out more gritty intrigue even as it welcomes a new artist: award-winnin...




  • Ron Benrey; Janet Benrey

    Etienne Makepeace, England's celebrated "Tea Sage," vanished without a trace in 1966, leaving the whole of Great Britain wondering what became of the famed radio personality. Forty years later his hastily buried remains are discovered beneath two sic...



  • Lara Bergen

    Every morning the palace clock awakens Cinderella for a day of hard work. But one magical night, she gets to attend the ball-until the clock strikes twelve. Will she have enough time to make her dreams come true? Her fairy tale comes to life in this ...



  • Lara Bergen

    This beautifully illustrated padded storybook is a perfect way to share the true classic fairytale of  Cinderella with your little princess! Plus with it's sparkly padded cover, this book is a wonderful companion to the Cinderella: Special Edition D...



  • Michael Bergey

    The creatures of legend have come upon hard times. Their power stems from human belief, but humans believe in "Science" now. We have little use for magic. Even Coyote - shiftiest and most adaptable of them all - can't quite comprehend this new view o...



  • Anne Bernays

    Trophy House is an extraordinary and complex novel, at one level a romantic thriller, at another a deeply satisfying story about the disintegration of a marriage and the consequences for all concerned. It begins with the construction of a totally ina...



  • Mark Bernthal

    Don't miss these thrilling stories based on episodes from the Duel Masters TV show!

    Shobu finally gets invited to compete in the Temple! In order to reach the next level and battle the famous Hakuoh, he has to earn 50 winner's tokens.

    N...




  • John Gregory Betancourt

    The thrilling stories collected in this 12-story volume cover a wide territory. Intended for mature readers, included are monster tales, stories of psychological suspense, traditional ghost stories, and variations on fairy tales. Leading off with ...



  • Helen Bianchin

    Made to marry -- for her baby's sake! Nic Leandros knows that most people want only his money. So when he finds out beautiful Tina Matheson is pregnant with his late brother's child, he's certain her price will be high.... However...



  • Ilsa J. Bick

    While traveling to a medical conference, the Runabout Missouri encounters a strange anomaly that sends the runabout crashing to the surface of an unknown planet, leaving its two passengers -- Dr. Elizabeth Lense of the U.S.S. da Vinci and Dr. Julian ...



  • Randall N. Bills

    When he is chosen by the Oathmaster to be his protege and possible successor, Kisho, a member of an elite clan of warriors, must place his faith in the supernatural and the gifts of the Mystic Caste in order to save his brethern from a most certain d...



  • Ally Blake

    EVERYONE WAS TALKING ABOUT THEIR ENGAGEMENT... Emma's colleagues had been shocked and delighted she was marrying the oh-so-successful-and-gorgeous dot com millionaire Harry Buchanan. Only, the engagement was purely for convenience.... It wo...



  • James Carlos Blake

    Hailed as "one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life" (Entertainment Weekly), James Carlos Blake turns to the blazing story of Stanley Ketchel, the legendary ragtime-era middleweight boxing champion and daring rakehell, who...



  • Toni Blake
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    Mia Drake is a down-on-her-luck artist in need of employment. So when her aunt suggests she take a job painting a local tavern, she jumps at the chance to make some money--and maybe get cozy with the bar's hunky owner, Rick Rose. But the last thing R...



  • Alice Blanchard

    Research scientist Daisy Hubbard has one driving purpose in life: to find a cure for the rare disease that killed her brother. A rising star in a prestigious Boston laboratory, Daisy is more comfortable with the mice who are the subjects of her endle...



  • Francesca Lia Block

    Where were the kisses? Weetzie Bat wondered. And so begins a magical journey of discovery. As she turns forty and the relationship with her secret-agent lover-man Max falls apart, Weetzie packs up her lime green and bright orange bikini, orange suede...



  • Chris Bohjalian

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a novel that examines wildly divisive American issues like gun control and animal rights with Chris Bohjalian’s trademark emotional heft and spellbinding...



  • Jay Bonansinga

    Fear Never Dies. Deep in the Alaskan wilderness, a mummified body is discovered in the ice, the victim of a bizarre ritualistic killing that happened nearly six thousand years ago. For journalist Maura County, this story is her ticket to the big ti...



  • Stephanie Bond
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    Stand-up comic Ellie Evans is determined to keep her relationship with comedy writer Charlie Webster strictly professional -- in spite of the attraction. But just when Charlie's about to check into the Heartbreak Hotel, he gets personal advice on how...



  • Kate Borden

    Mayor and single mom Peggy Jean Turner is happily anticipating her favorite holiday. But this year is different. Dealing with an obnoxious neighbor and organizing a reenactment of the first Thanksgiving for the tourists, she's being pulled in more di...



  • Jorge Luis Borges

    At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these storie...



  • Mark Bouton

    While driving to warn his partner Rick Dover of a lethal group, Stretch's Bronco erupts in a fireball and plunges into a canyon. Stretch's wife tells Dover the group had a computer connection, so Dover takes Stretch's PC to investigate. Dover and his...



  • Rhys Bowen

    Constable Evan Evans scours a Welsh mountainside to find a missing woman--and then copes with the subsequent disappearance of his beloved Bronwen--in the newest novel in this series... Mt. Snowdon--Yr Wyddfa to the locals--is crawling with tourist...



  • Scott Bradfield

    Scott Bradfield's newest collection, Hot Animal Love, reads as if Raymond Carver penned Charlotte's Web -- though for the kids this collection is surely not. Bradfield's witty, sardonic prose is brilliantly on display as the harsh emotional realiti...



  • Christopher Bram

    Previously titled Father of Frankenstein, this acclaimed novel was the basis for the 1998 film starring Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser. It journeys back to 1957 Los Angeles, where James Whale, the once-famous director of such cla...



  • Peter Brandvold

    MEN AT WAR Tom Navarro, a hostler at the Bar-V Ranch, has retired his gunslinging ways to find peace of mind. As much as he enjoys working for Paul Vannorsdell, and operator of the Bar-V, Navarro has plans of moving up north with the woman he loves ...



  • Matt Braun

    Teddy Roosevelt's wife and mother died on the same night in his home in New York City. To outdistance his grief, he turned his back on a promising political career and fled to the badlands. Dakota deals with the restoration of his spirit during this ...



  • Libba Bray

    Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy -- spending time with her friends in the city, attending balls in fancy gowns with plunging necklines, and dallying with the handsome Lord Denby. Yet amid these distractio...



  • Simon Brett

    Carole Seddon's estranged relationship with her son Stephen has improved since he started seeing Gaby Martin, and she cannot be more pleased that they've decided to marry in Fethering. She does find it a bit odd, though, that Gaby's parents have no i...



  • Patricia Briggs

    Centuries ago, the wizards of Colossae unleashed an unimaginable force of destruction: the Stalker. Only the sacrifice of their entire city could contain the menace they had wrought--but even then, the Stalker was only imprisoned, and it can still fi...



  • Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    The beast isalive and prowling the high seas. As extremist Islamic pirates, armed and supported by a powerful Saudi terrorist, prey on civilian vessels in the Gulf of Aden, America aggressively answers with serious muscle -- a next-generation littora...



  • Sandra Brown

    Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town -- the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon...



  • Amanda Browning

    The plan is to bed her, not wed her... Samantha Lombardi was in love with lawyer Ransom Shaw. But, forced to marry another man to save her family from financial ruin, she had to convince Ransom that she'd never loved him at all. Six years l...



  • Ken Bruen

    For the Southeast London police squad, it's rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuos, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is unpredictable, wild, angry--and the cops don't ev...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Melinda Andrews loves deeply. She often pours that love into caring for hurt animals and sketching the deer that live in the woods behind her farm. This regularly gets her into trouble with her "maam" and "daed," who feel she shirks her duties to "te...



  • Megan E. Bryant

    Enjoy six of your favorite Strawberry Shortcake stories again and again in a beautiful treasury that includes Meet Strawberry Shortcake, Strawberry Shortcake at the Beach, and Strawberry Shortcake's Seaberry Mystery. ...



  • M.M. Buckner

    Nasir Deepra, a wealthy executive who rules 23rd-century Earth, instigates minor wars, broadcasting his "war surfing" escapades on the Net, until he meets a young girl with an insatiable thirst for danger who pushes him into a war that exposes his se...



  • Chris Bunch

    HELL UNLEASHED The Star Risk, Ltd., team is escorting a group of privileged -- and slightly wild -- girls from a finishing school on Earth to one of the luxury worlds. But what should be an easy contract turns deadly as the team runs a treacherous g...



  • Niki Burnham

    Busting my a** makes me feel good. Bulletproof, that's how Jenna Kassarian sees herself. It's all about control: As long as she works hard, nothing can hurt her. So Jenna constantly pushes -- for perfect grades, the ideal boyfriend, the best, best...



  • J. Lee Butts

    When Ruby, his commanding officer's niece, goes missing, Texas Ranger Lucius Dodge, armed with three pistols, a derringer, and a bowie knife, sets out to find her and becomes caught in the middle of a rival clan war. Original....



  • Ellen Byerrum

    Home of the helmet hairdo and congressional comb- over, Washington, D.C. is a hotbed of fashion faux pas. If anyone should know, it's "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian. She dishes out advice to the scandal-scorched and clothing-clueless...



  • Georgia Byng

    You're Getting Sleepy... And You're Starting To See Multiple Mollys. In Molly Moon's latest great adventures, she's bumping into earlier versions of herself--four of them to be exact--all kidnapped and transported back in time by Molly's most fearso...



  • Meg Cabot

    Top ten things Samantha Madison isn't ready for: 10. Spending Thanksgiving at Camp David 9. With her boyfriend, the president's son 8. Who appears to want to take their relationship to the Next Level 7. Which Sam inadvertently and shockin...



  • Rachel Caine

    NEVER TRUST A MAN BEARING RED ENVELOPES Jazz Callender -- don't ever call her Jasmine -- is an ex-cop with a goal: opening her own private detective agency and proving her former partner is innocent of murder. Too bad no one will lend her the mone...



  • Rochelle Cane

    Every little girl knows that Princesses know jewels better than anyone. After all, no princess is a Princess without her sparkling tiara, her shining rings, and her shimmering bracelets. So join the Disney Princesses for a six-spread romp through all...



  • Stephen J. Cannell

    BETWEEN A COLD WAR Shane Scully has found his footing while his partner is going down in flames and a serial murderer rattles L.A.. Each corpse has been mysteriously defiled. Then, in the middle of the hunt, Scully gets an idea that may cost him his...



  • Jacqueline Carey

    IF ALL THAT IS GOOD CONSIDERS YOU EVIL. ARE YOU? Supreme Commander Lord lanaros fled the realm of Men and chose darkness when he killed his adulterous wife and his liege king who cuckholded him. A thousand years have passed in service to his maste...



  • Susannah Carleton

    Double Trouble Michael Winslow, the Duke of Fairfax, must oblige to the duty of his dukedom -- and his nagging grandmother. It is time to find a suitable bride who will bear him an heir. Normally this would be a simple task, yet Michael wants a br...



  • Philip Carlo

    Someone is brutally murdering priests in New York City. The killer seems to be everywhere at once, striking almost at will. With pressure mounting, the mayor, the governor and the police commissioner all want this madman stopped before one more body ...



  • Teresa Carpenter

    One glimpse of her impossibly long legs and Mayor Jason Strong knew trouble had just arrived in Blossom, Texas. Her name was Lady Pandora -- and she claimed she could predict the future. Even though he didn't buy the beautiful gypsy's phony claim, he...



  • Michael Carroll

    God said, 'Let there be lights in the huge space of the sky...' And that's exactly what happened... And God said, 'Let the water be filled with living things. Let birds fly above the earth...' -Genesis 1:14, 19-23 (NIrV) In Fish, Bugs & Birds, curiou...



  • Janice Carter

    Just as ever bee returns to its hive... She came home to help her dad. But Annie Collins never expected to run the family business on her own. Nor could she have guessed that the daughter she gave up at birth would seek her out. Will Jennings ...



  • Kate Cary

    MY DEAR DAUGHTER, I FEAR AN OLD ENEMY HAS RETURNED. AN ENEMY MY FRIENDS AND I• HAD HOPED OUR OWN CHILDREN WOULD NEVER KNOW. FROM WHAT YOU HAVE TOLD ME, I BELIEVE QUINCEY -HARKER IS DESCENDED FROM THE SAME EVIL, PARASITIC PRESENCE I HELPED REMOVE FR...



  • Dixie Cash

    Welcome to Salt Lick, Texas, home of big hair, big ranches, and two of the biggest busybodies ever to wield a blow-dryer -- Debbie Sue and Edwina, also known as the Domestic Equalizers. Their motto: Don't run over him -- get over him! Their missi...



  • K.N. Casper

    Sixteen years ago Nina Lockhart left Moscow to escape her past. Now she's helping a small Russian boy fit into his new life with his adoptive father, Jarrod Morrison, here in the States. But part of helping seven-year-old Sasha means returning to her...



  • Dianne Castell

    They Had Their Differences As a Chicago cop, staring down a gun barrel had never fazed Jack Dawson. But his being in constant danger was his wife's undoing. About a decade was all Maggie could handle before she left him for the safety of a Mon...



  • Jack Cavanaugh

    "American nurse Annie Rawlings finds herself behind enemy lines in WWII, captured and alone with a wounded German soldier. Through shared danger, faith, and a love of music, the two forge a bond that will be tested by prejudice and the separations of...



  • Denys Cazet

    Cow friends Minnie and Moo search for a thief who stole Minnie's jelly donut and who may have left behind a blue feather as a clue to their identity. By the creator of Minnie and Moo Meet Frankenswine. Reprint....



  • Cassandra Chan

    A CHARMING WIDOW WITH A TROUBLING HISTORY As if by magic, Annette Berowne seems capable of dazzling men from the moment she meets them. But when Annette becomes the primary suspect in her husband's poisoning death, she arouses entirely different fee...



  • J-P Chanda

    The Turtles are furious! A shrieking ghoul has been scaring people and robbing valuables from banks, stores, and museums -- and the mayor wants to cancel Halloween! No one messes with the Turtles' favorite holiday, so they decide to find o...



  • Mary Chase

    Maureen Swanson is the scourge of the neighborhood. At age nine, she already has a reputation as a hard slapper, a loud laugher, a liar, and a stay-after-schooler. The other kids call her Stinky. So sometimes when Maureen passes the crumbling (and ha...



  • Martin Chatterton

    Bad Dog goes undercover in this rollicking canine caper!

    He's the baddest dog in town. A 100% high-steppin', bone-crunchin', cat-chasin' pooch with one small problem: he has three days left on Death Row at the City Pound for Unwanted Canines...



  • C.J. Cherryh

    This omnibus volume combines two Alliance-Union novels: Hugo Award nominee Cuckoo’s Egg and Locus Best Novel Award nominee Serpent’s Reach. In Cuckoo’s Egg:  They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was ugly ...



  • Maureen Child

    Jo Marconi has her hands full working hard at the family business and struggling to get her belated college degree. The last thing she needs is a ten-year-old boy to look after. But that's exactly what she gets when her stepbrother comes to live with...



  • Lisa Childs

    "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." -- William Shakespeare A starter marriage hadn't been the first act Mary Ellen Black had meant to script for herself, but bowing out provided hard-won perspective: The most impor...




  • Judy Christenberry

    Accustomed to hiring and firing in a snap, Pete Scholfield was at a complete loss when it came to finding a wife. So why, when he engaged Ms. Thomasina Tyler to relocate his business, did he find himself considering her for another role? Sure, the ch...



  • Marie Torres Cimarusti

    Here is a Halloween book in the same large-flap format as the highly successful Peek-a-Moo! and Peek-a-Zoo! Toddlers will enjoy playing peeka-boo with familiar, friendly, not-at-all frightening Halloween figures. Guess who? Peek-a-hee-hee-hee-heee...



  • Pamela Clare

    It's been years since her child's father dumped her, and since then Kara McMillan has kept men at bay--although every day she aches more for a lover's touch. But to get that, the hard-boiled journalist must become vulnerable--a feeling she vowed neve...



  • Lucy Clark

    The single father Oliver Bowan came to Katoomba to create a home for his daughter and seek custody. He wanted nothing to get in the way of that, but distraction came to the new head of E.R. in the shape of Dr. Stephanie Brooks. Their attraction wa...



  • Simon Clark

    The Tower stands in solitude. What began as a seventeenth-century manor house has grown over the centuries into something very different. Something evil. There are the stark walls, the shadow-filled rooms, the lonely corridors. But the Tower is haunt...



  • Chris Cleave

    I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself. In an emotionally raw voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, a woman mourns the loss of her husband and son at the hands of one of history’s most notorious criminals. And in appealin...



  • Barbara Cleverly

    India, 1922. In this, the fourth in the acclaimed Joe Sandilands series, Scotland Yard detective Joe arrives in the princely state of Ranipur at the request of the Maharajah, an old ally of the British. The Maharajah is dying, and the succession is u...



  • Christopher Coake

    Short fiction about love in the face of mortal threats, in a prize-winning collection by the author of You Came Back.   In this extraordinary collection of short fiction, characters wrestle with the moments in life that test us most deeply, in w...



  • Lucille Colandro

    This spooky twist on the wildly popular "There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly" is perfect for fun Halloween reading!What won't this old lady swallow? This time around, a bat, an owl, a cat, a ghost, a goblin, some bones, and a wizard are all on ...



  • Babette Cole

    A modern fairy tale for the twenty-first century and a second adventure for the irrepressible and highly popular Princess Smartypants. Princess Smartypants has decided she'd like to have a baby but doesn't want the husband to go with it. The King and...



  • Linda Conrad

    BEAUTY BESTS THE BEAST? The hurricane that imprisoned them...alone...in his island fortress was nothing compared to the storm raging within him. For two years, Nicholas Scoville had forbidden himself the pleasure of a woman, a self-imposed sentenc...



  • Jerri Corgiat

    What she always wanted was right before her eyes. After shaking the Ozark dust from her designer stilettos for the last time, Marigold McKenzie O'Malley headed to Kansas City to find fame and fortune. But now, eight years later, Mari is unemployed...



  • Donn Cortez

    JACK RABBIT SPEAKS A tall figure stands alone, waiting to be engulfed in flames. It is the Burning Man, the giant wooden centerpiece of Nevada's famous weeklong arts festival. Every year, thousands flock to the middle of the desert to push the limit...



  • Colin Cotterill

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  • Mat Coward
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  • Cleo Coyle

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  • Sara Craven

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  • Sharon Creech

    Who are you, babynewly bornwho's this little babe?

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    No matter what kind of baby they are, all new babies see, hear, think, ...



  • Robert Crisp

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  • A.C. Crispin

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  • Michael Crummey

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  • Priscilla Cummings

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  • Richie Tankersley Cusick

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  • Richie Tankersley Cusick

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  • Rowan Cutler

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  • Mary Daheim

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  • Jack Dann

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  • Paula Danziger

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  • Peter David

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  • Maryjanice Davidson; Anthony Alongi

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  • Martin Davies

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  • Alan Davis

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  • Patrick A. Davis

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  • Peter Dawson

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  • Ly de Angeles

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  • Jeffery Deaver

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  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    Starfleet Corps of Engineers When a new security guard reports for duty, it sets da Vinci security chief Domenica Corsi off in ways that confuse both her staff and her sometime lover Fabian Stevens. When Stevens confronts her, it only makes matters ...



  • Lulu Delacre

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  • Genell Dellin

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  • Kate DiCamillo

    Mr. and Mrs. Watson have a pig named Mercy. Mercy is a porcine wonder. One night, Mercy decides she does not want to sleep in her own bed. She would much rather snuggle up with Mr. and Mrs. Watson. This is not good news for the Watsons' bed. Or for...




  • Disney Book Group

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  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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  • Franklin W. Dixon

    Four cases. Two brothers.

    One mission:

    Justice.

    Follow Frank and Joe Hardy through their first four cases working as undercover agents for ATAC (American Teens Against Crime) as they crack cases and catch criminals left ...



  • Daniel Duane


    A brutally honest novel about love and illusion from the author of Caught Inside

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  • Sarah Duncan


    Isabel and Neil are old marrieds. Suburban old marrieds, at that. While the routine that's as comfortable as an old shoe seems to suit Neil just fine, Isabel--professional wife and mother and one the nicest women in the line at school pick-up--is...



  • Jeanne Duprau

    When Duff's Ford Escort BREAKS DOWN after barely a hundred miles, he uses his laptop and some quick thinking to piece together a way to continue his trip. What he doesn't plan on are the characters he meets along the road, including A HITCHHIKER WITH...



  • Michael Allen Dymmoch

    John Thinnes, a detective on the Chicago police force, and Jack Caleb, a well-known psychiatrist, were friends---unlikely friends, maybe, with very different lives, but men who liked and respected each other. And they had one significant experience i...



  • David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    After two devastating defeats and the utter annihilation of two armies, the hideous Vlagh still vows to invade the land of Dhrall. A voracious insectile overmind, she can breed millions of soldiers in mere days and even evolve entire new species in j...



  • Michelle Edwards

    Jackson Magnet is having a talent show. Howie is excited because everyone will be there to hear her sing. But at the final dress rehearsal in front of the entire school, she gets so scared she can't perform her song. Will Howie make it through Openin...



  • Pamela Duncan Edwards

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  • Courtney Eldridge

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  • Dan Elish

    Henry Mann is a 32-year-old bachelor who has spent the last few years watching everyone he knows get married. After the most recent wedding, where an intoxicated Henry proposes to no less than three women (including the rabbi), it dawns on him that b...




  • Bret Easton Ellis

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  • Lynn Emery

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  • Carol Emshwiller

    Bobby Lassiter has some important secrets--but it's not as if anyone's paying attention. It's the middle of the Depression, and while Bobby's mother and older sister knit all day to make money, Bobby explores the California desert around their home. ...




  • Jennifer A. Ericsonn

    Alternating between a child's and a mother's voice, a tender story chronicles a day in the life of a mother and daughter separated by the mother's business trip, celebrating the joyful reunion when the mother returns home....



  • Steven Erikson

    The Sixth Book of the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen from bestselling author Steven Erikson

    The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan and under the fanatical...



  • Loren D. Estleman

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  • Mary Anna Evans

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  • Tabor Evans

    A sexy songbird flies the coop.With her heavenly voice, chanteuse Miss Claire has just about every man in Denver wrapped around her little finger, but she needs a man like U.S. Marshal Custis Long to keep her alive. Notes of the not-so-musical kind h...



  • Stephanie Feagan

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  • Jo Ann Ferguson

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  • Marie Ferrarella

    Since her mother's death, FBI Special Agent Cate Kowalski had to cope with the deep emptiness she felt -- and the shocking revelation that she was adopted. The news came too soon after losing her fiance and destroyed the very foundation of her identi...



  • Amy J. Fetzer

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  • Acton Figueroa

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  • Karen Fisher

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  • Paul Fleischman

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  • Dirk Fletcher

    With ambitious would-be gold miners flocking to Bodie, California, in search of a fortune, the town is overrun by gangs of thieves out to steal the gold, and Spur's visit to an old friend, John Trevarow, forces him into a deadly confrontation with a ...



  • R. Barri Flowers

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  • Christine Flynn

    Dear Diary, Sam MacInnes is back in town. He's still so gorgeous, but there's a haunted look in his eyes. People say he's a cop now -- he must see some awful things on the job. I used to have the biggest crush on him! He never noticed me, but I wr...



  • Ray Flynt

    Brad Frame lived a serene but aimless existence on Philadelphia's Main Line until his mother and sister were kidnapped and murdered. The tragedy transformed his life and gave him a sense of purpose. After helping the police catch their killers, and w...



  • Mary J. Forbes

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  • Jeffrey Ford

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  • Pamela Ford

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  • Gwynne Forster

    Lacette Graham's twin sister, Kellie, has been competing with her since they shared a crib. And in thirty-three years, nothing has changed--except success, money, and men have come into play. But when the girls' parents separate, and their grandmothe...



  • Suzanne Forster

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  • Nicole Foster

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  • Sharon Ewell Foster

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