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  • Fear

    Jeff Abbott

    Everyone has a memory they'd like to forget. For federal witness Miles Kendrick, it's the shoot-out that left his best friend dead -- and Miles a hunted and haunted man. While helping his psychiatrist with a mysterious favor, Miles stumbles upon an i...

  • A Few Small Repairs

    Jeff Abbott
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • Captive Moon

    C.T. Adams; Cathy Clamp

    World-class entertainer and Sazi councilmember, Antoine Monier has taken his big cats all over the world without any trouble--until his latest trip to Stuttgart, where one of his tigers is stolen and killed. To Antoine's surprise, the German police h...

  • Bling Addiction

    Kylie Adams

    After a hot summer of partying in sexy South Beach, the fabulous five of the Miami Academy for Creative and Performing Arts are back in school but no less scandalous! You met them in Cruel Summer: Vanity, the gorgeous celebutante; Dante, the hip-ho...

  • Negima! Volume 11

    Ken Akamatsu

    FOUR’S THE CHARM

    The first lo-o-o-o-o-ng day of the Mahora Academy Festival is finally coming to a close. Of course, Negi needed to repeat the day four times, courtesy of a bit of magic, in order to make it through his to-do list. And thanks...

  • Yes

    Jez Alborough

    YES! The cuddly hero of HUG and TALL is back!

    Bobo's mother has no trouble getting her little chimp to take a bath. "Yes!" he shouts. But when it's bedtime for Bobo, he responds with a definite "No." In this tale of two words, it takes some pa...

  • Face-off

    Alice Alfonsi

    SPOT ON! Hannah Montana, aka Miley Stewart, has been recruited as the face of Magic Glow Skin Cream--everyone's favorite zit zapper! But when she sneaks a peek at their huge new billboard the night before it's unveiled, she's horrified. It shows Mil...

  • Antiques Roadkill

    Barbara Allan

    Determined to make a new start in her quaint hometown on the banks of the Mississippi, Brandy Borne never dreams she'll become the prime suspect in a murder case... Moving back in with her eccentric, larger-than-life mother, Brandy Borne finds sma...

  • Clay

    David Almond

    Fourteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their local Catholic Church. They’re full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes to town. Father O’Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea for Davie and Geo...

  • Just For Kicks

    Susan Andersen

    Las Vegas showgirl Carly Jacobsen keeps finding out the hard way that her idea of fun differs radically from that of her neighbor Wolfgang Jones. Sure, he looks incredible, and he seems to have a thing for her legs, but the man's a robot. So what'...

  • Second Genesis

    Jeffrey Anderson

    SURVIVAL IS AN INSTINCT. In a private compound deep in the jungles of the Amazon rain forest, a team of scientists, expert in stem cell engineering, is playing God. With unnerving success. Among them, young biologist Jamie Kendrick is grappling with...

  • Sor Juana or the Breath of Heaven

    Paul Anderson

    Apocalyptic, lyrical, and erotically charged, Sor Juana or the Breath of Heaven is a novel of genius, obsession, and mystery surrounding the Baroque-era Mexican nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. When she died in 1695, she was arguably the greatest wri...

  • No Nest for the Wicket

    Donna Andrews

    LINE YOUR DUCKS UP IN A ROW... The hilly terrain next to the old Sprocket house that Meg Langslow and her fiance, Michael, are refurbishing is the perfect location for an "extreme" croquet field--even the legs of cows and sheep are convenient extra ...

  • Air Apparent

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When the Good Magician Humfrey's son Hugo suddenly vanishes, his disappearance sets in motion a series of madcap misadventures that send a collection of colorful characters on a perilous pair of parallel quests. Among them are Debra, a pretty young g...

  • The Trouble with Aliens

    Christopher Anvil

    TROUBLE, EXTRATERRESTRIAL STYLE... Humans on the space frontiers may have enough problems with befuddled bureaucrats, rules that don't fit the realities of very dangerous situations, and general rear-echelon incompetence without bringing in unfriend...

  • The Home Front

    Charles Ardai
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • The Nightmares That Ghosts Have

    Louise Arnold

    When you have a ghost as an Invisible Friend, like Tom Golden does, you quickly learn the benefits. Grey Arthur supplies Tom with pens in class, grabs Tom's lunch when he forgets it on the kitchen counter, and generally helps him out as any best frie...

  • Burn

    Black Artemis

    Struggling to overcome her own troubled past, a female bond agent is plunged into the modern-day graffiti subculture, where she must confront a dangerous and unexpected destiny. By the author of Picture Me Rollin'. Original. 25,000 first prin...

  • What Could Be Better Than This?

    Linda Ashman

    Two lost souls--a lonely king and a beautiful treasure hunter--find each other and get married, and when they make their family complete by having a baby, they ask each other every night "What could be better than this?"...

  • Phule's Errand

    Robert Asprin

    From a New York Times bestseller, a commander in charge of a legion of misfit troops must track down his missing butler in this sci-fi comedy.   Phule is without a doubt the only captain in the Space Legion with his own butler, but Beeker has s...

  • The Yacoubian Building

    Alaa Al Aswany

    August Book Sense Pick

    A fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed ‘scientist of women.’ A purring, voluptuous siren. A young shop-girl enduring the clammy touch of her boss and hating herself for accepting the modest banknotes he tucks into...

  • Swans in the Mist

    D.E. Athkins

    After her newlywed sister dies mysteriously, sixteen-year-old Lyda is imprisoned in a tower by her brother-in-law, but the gift from her sister--a beautiful plush swan--may hold the key to her release. Original....

  • The Book Without Words

    Avi

    From Avi, the 2003 Newbery Award-winning author of "Crispin: The Cross of Lead," comes the story of Thorston, an alchemist who works to concoct a potion that will enable him to live forever--and keep dying and rising from the dead as a result....

  • Lords Of The Deep

    James Axler

    APOTHEOSIS OF MALICE The web of treachery, secrecy and manipulation spun by humanity's enslavers to snare mankind in relentless submission has begun to unravel -- ripped apart by rebels pledged to free Earth from unearthly domination. Renegades by th...

  • Norah's Ark

    Judy Baer

    Hi, my name is Bentley. I'm a mutt with a dash of pit bull in the soup, and I have issues. I'm not likely to win any beauty pageants, and I'm afraid of cats. But my human, Norah Kent, thinks I'm the greatest despite all my shortcomings. The pro...

  • The Judas Field

    Howard Bahr

    Its been twenty years since Cass Wakefield returned from the Civil War to his hometown in Mississippi, but he is still haunted by battlefield memories. Now, one afternoon in 1885, he is presented with a chance to literally retrace his steps from the ...

  • Postcards from Last Summer

    Roz Bailey

    Smart, perceptive, and deliciously funny, Roz Bailey's novels are impossible to put down. In Postcards From Last Summer, she follows the lives and loves of three girlfriends as they reconnect in the Hamptons each summer for cold margaritas, hot hooku...

  • Murder Passes the Buck

    Deb Baker

    Gertie Johnson may be outspoken, distrustful of banks, and a quick draw with the pepper spray, but she hasn't lost her marbles. Her son Blaze, the sheriff in a backwoods community of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is petitioning to become her legal guar...

  • Hawk's Passion

    Elaine Barbieri

    THEIRS WAS A TALE OF TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH Four children abandoned in an orphanage. Two missing parents. One man whose hatred had divided a family, whose duplicity ended in murder, inextricably weaving all their lives together in a web of lies that on...

  • An Iliad

    Alessandro Baricco

    Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters in the narrative idiom of our modern imagination. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homeric detachment and admits us to rea...

  • Flower Fairies Friends

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • The Last Flight of Jose Luis Balboa

    Gonzalo Barr

    “Captivating” short stories set in vibrant, multicultural Miami (Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents).   This collection of short fiction, a winner of the Bakeless Prize, captures the international hub city of Mi...

  • A Man Of Honor

    Linda Barrett

    Heather Marshall is fearless. But to Officer Dave McCoy, the social worker's fearlessness spells trouble. And he can't understand why she's so afraid to trust her safety -- and her heart -- to a cop. Heather's dad was a cop -- one with problems...

  • To Love Again

    Janet Lee Barton

    A year has passed since her husband, Brian, died, and Ronni Melrose is still discovering ways in which he betrayed her. Learning to forgive him is hard enough. Opening herself up to more hurt by loving another man is simply impossible, and she determ...

  • Magic Man

    Ron Base

    A charming novel of old Hollywood, first loves, and man with a touch of magicA mysterious young man named Brae Orrack arrives in Venice, California, in 1928, claiming to be a magic man who can turn stones to bees. Brae also comes carrying a curse. He...

  • In the Company of Crazies

    Nora Raleigh Baskin

    Thirteen-year-old Mia Singer thought that she had it all under control. Sure, her grades were slipping a little bit (well, really, more than a little), and she couldn’t explain her occasional compulsion to shoplift, but things weren’t that bad. T...

  • I'm Not Afraid of Halloween!

    Marion Dane Bauer

    On Halloween, a little monster excitedly gives treats to all his gruesome and ghoulish friends, but when an adorable kitten, bunny, and fairy come to his door, they're just too scary for him, in a pop-up and flap book that offers a humorous twist on ...

  • Santa Fe Passage

    Jon R. Bauman

    IT WAS A LIFELINE AND A TRAIL OF DEATH In 1823, one long trail connected the backwater colony of Mexico with a booming America. Here, only the most daring, ambitious and lucky would survive--transporting goods at enormous risk and for bigger profit....

  • James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time

    Stephen Baxter

    In the eighteenth century, the received wisdom, based on biblical calculations, was that the Earth was just six thousand years old. James Hutton, a gentleman with a passion for rocks, knew that could not be the case. Looking at the irregular strata o...

  • The Prophecy

    Hilari Bell

    Perryn is a hopeless prince. His drunken father scorns his love of books, the master of arms ridicules his swordplay, and someone in the castle may be trying to kill him! But Perryn's books are his best weapons to stop the dragon that is destroyin...

  • Spy

    Ted Bell

    In this exhilarating tale of international suspense, New York limes bestselling author Ted Bell's counterterrorist operative Alexander Hawke, must save the United States from a devastating terrorist operation. When a mysterious explosion destroys ...

  • Spider-Woman: Origin

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Spider-Woman: Origin #1-5. This all-new epic chronicles the intriguing secret history of Jessica Drew and her journey from child experiment to Hydra agent to S. H. I. E. L. D. agent to super hero to private eye to Avenger!....

  • The Begotten

    Lisa Tawn Bergren

    The year is 1339, and a secret a half millennium old is on the brink of being exposed. Centuries ago, Paul's letters became part of the foundation of the Christian canon. Only a few know of another letter, potentially written by Paul. Kept secret ...

  • Lifeless

    Mark Billingham

    It's hardly a life. But he'll take it anyway. . . . To friends and enemies alike, it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father and berated for seriously overstepping the mark on his last case,...

  • Sheriff Luke Ludd

    D.J. Bishop

    Luke Ludd has only been the sheriff in Rising Star for a year when he finds his friends Tom and Beth Tidwell shot dead, their home ransacked and their mules and wagon stolen. With grief and vengeance in his heart, Luke follows the wagon tracks west t...

  • Parent Swap

    Terence Blacker



    Danny Bell's problems can be summed up in three simple words: Mum and Dad. His mother has left home, and his father spends all his time slumped in front of the TV, dreaming of the good old days when he was a nearly famous rock star. So when D...

  • The Mortician's Daughter

    Elizabeth Bloom

    Ginny Lavoie has just been suspended from her job with the NYPD when she gets a late-night phone call from her childhood best friend whose teenage son, Danny, was savagely beaten to death. Now, Ginny is back in the scruffy New England mill town she l...

  • Murder a la Carte

    Prudy Taylor Board

    Shooting on location at the lush Far Horizons beach resort on Rattlesnake Key, Clyde Colby, host of Miami's hit cooking show Gourmet Galley, discovers getting out of the kitchen is too hot to handle. Never mind the sumptuous dishes prepared by guest ...

  • Burning Dreams

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

    Before James T. Kirk, another captain stood on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, spearheading its mission of exploration into the uncharted reaches of the galaxy. He was a man driven to perfection, a brooding soul whose haunted eyes reflected the ...

  • Body Movers

    Stephanie Bond

    Okay, so Carlotta Wren's life hasn't turned out as she'd planned. She didn't plan for her parents to skip bail for a white-collar crime, leaving her to raise her younger brother. She didn't plan on having the silver spoon ripped out of her mouth and ...

  • You Can Leave Your Hard Hat On

    Stephanie Bond
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    Successful architect Samantha Stone finds the tool belt and bulging muscles sexy, but her employee Teague Brownlee digs dirt for a living. If backhoes are his business, then his sweet backside is none of hers!...

  • The Princetta

    Anne-Laure Bondoux

    PREPARE TO BE SWEPT AWAY Fifteen-year-old Princess Malva is about to be married off to a stranger of her father's choosing. But Malva wants nothing to do with an arranged marriage. On the eve of her wedding she stows away on a cargo ship with her m...

  • One Last Breath

    Stephen Booth

    Set in England's legendary Peak District, Stephen Booth's acclaimed mysteries tell tales of men and women under siege by both ordinary life and extraordinary crime. Now, in a stunning, fascinatingly intelligent novel, Booth's uneasy young policeman, ...

  • Evanly Bodies

    Rhys Bowen

    Detective Constable Evan Evans and his new bride, Bronwen, are settling into married life in their little cottage above the village of Llanfair when they meet the daughter of one of the village's newest families, a sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl nam...

  • Strip Search

    Shelley Bradley

    If the Feds want to nail a Mafia kingpin, they need a slick trap to catch him. Enter Mark Sullivan, built for the job - to go undercover as a male stripper in the mobster's Vegas club. The perk? The club's owner. Sure, she's got some unsavory connect...

  • Pushed Or Was Fell

    Jay Brandon
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • So Caught Up in You

    Beverly Brandt
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    Four all-new stories that show there's no place like a wedding to catch the perfect man.

    To go down the aisle or not to go down the aisle. Is that even a question? Well, it depends on whether you're the bride or just a bridesmaid-for the fif...

  • Saying Yes To The Boss

    Jackie Braun

    Regina Bellini doesn't believe in love at first sight. After all, she knows firsthand that thinking with your heart can only lead to trouble. But then Regina is forced to work for the one man who makes her heart stand still -- Dane Conlan. And the...

  • Camelot's Destiny

    Cynthia Breeding

    Britain, Fifth Century A.D.--a time of Pagan magic and Christian piety, a place of mystery, treachery and dark enchantment. Here the legend of Camelot was born, and with it, bold passions and forbidden desire... Young, lovely, and willful, Gwenhwyf...

  • The Stabbing In The Stables

    Simon Brett

    Carole Seddon accompanies Jude to Long Bamber Stables so her friend can apply her healing touch to a lame horse, only to stumble upon the body of a man beyond medical help -- alternative or otherwise. The victim, former equestrian champion Walter Fle...

  • The Trouble with Twins

    J.E. Bright

    This follow-your-own-destiny romance series lets the reader choose her fate. Will her decisions lead to terminal embarrassment...or a delicious first kiss?

    Identical twin brothers Jeremy and Jason are both totally gorgeous...and totally into y...

  • Into the Storm

    Suzanne Brockmann

    In a remote corner of New Hampshire, SEAL petty officer Mark Jenkins and Troubleshooter/security expert Lindsey Fontaine are involved in a raid-and-rescue training exercise. But practice turns into a real emergency when a team member vanishes in the ...

  • The PMS Club

    Carolyn Brown

    Dixie Nelson arrived in Florida with a mad spell sitting on her shoulders. Her two friends Faith and Jill could flirt with the tanned and gorgeous men on the beaches all they wanted. She wasn't going to do anything but try to get over her anger and e...

  • The Return of Skeleton Man

    Joseph Bruchac

    In this sequel to the middle grade modern horror classic Skeleton Man, Joseph Bruchac revisits his most terrifying villain yet. "Will surely keep readers turning pages," proclaimed Publishers Weekly.Molly thought she’d put her traumatic past b...

  • The Bishop's Daughter

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    The Amish bishop's daughter is off limits to an outsider like Jimmy... Even though Jimmy Scott's typical American upbringing isn't as far removed from the Amish as it may appear. After his mother dies from cancer, Jimmy learns he was not his parents...

  • Dzur

    Steven Brust

    When you're a short-statured, short-lived human in an Empire of tall, long-lived Dragaerans, you've got to hold on to your wits. Long ago, I made a good living as a captain of the Jhereg, the noble house that runs the rackets in the Imperial city. B...

  • The Scout Master

    Luisa Buehler

    MERIT BADGE FOR MURDER Hoping for some quality time with her eleven-year-old stepson, Grace Marsden volunteers to accompany the Boy Scouts on a cleanup project in Robinson Woods. But along with the trash, the group unearths a World War II-era army...

  • Factotum

    Charles Bukowski

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterOne of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follo...

  • The Doublecross Program

    Chris Bunch

    M’chel Riss and the Star Risk team are enjoying a little well-deserved R&R . . . until funds get a bit low. Then it’s time to swing back into action. The next thing they know, they’re in the middle of the weirdest gig they’ve had yet: a s...

  • Go West, Darcy!

    Laura J. Burns

    One boring August, Darcy's mother surprises her with a plane ticket to Los Angeles so she can see her old friends for a weekend, but when Darcy's Bailey friends come along too, it is more of a weekend of culture clash than of fun....

  • Barbie In The 12 Dancing Princesses

    Daniela Burr

    Genevieve and her eleven sisters live in a kingdom full of dance and laughter, but all that changes when their greedy aunt Rowena moves in. Rowena is supposed to teach the sisters manners, but instead she strips all the joy from the castle. And worst...

  • Deborah's Story

    Ann Burton

    When she is sentenced to death by her cruel master after saving the life of an innocent man, Deborah is rescued by Lappidoth who takes her into his home, where she heals and learns to use her gift of sight to become a prophetess for God's chosen peop...

  • When You Were Mine

    Adrianne Byrd

    Screenwriter Joey Adams is sure her boyfriend -- plastic surgeon Laurence Benson -- is about to propose. But when he confesses that he has fallen in love with a leggy, silicone-stuffed model-actress, Joey is devastated. The worst part is having to ex...

  • How to Be Popular

    Meg Cabot

    Do you want to be popular? Everyone wants to be popular-or at least, Stephanie Landry does. Steph's been the least popular girl in her class since a certain cherry Super Big Gulp catastrophe five years earlier. Does being popular matter? ...

  • Bloodstone

    Barbara Campbell

    New trouble lies ahead for Darak and Griane, now the Memory-Keeper and Healer of their tribe. Keirith, the eldest of their three children, has been apprenticed to the Tree-Father but is dismissed when his master learns that he has been riding the spi...

  • White Sister

    Stephen J. Cannell

    Back from the New York Times bestselling Cold Hit, Detective Shane Scully goes up against the beautiful, blonde wife of powerful hip-hop mogul--who stands at the center of a ruthless conspiracy Leaving L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his w...

  • Falling for Dallas

    Carolynn Carey

    Beth Ann Stanfield truly believes she's not a dream girl. She's a young widow with a son to raise, a huge medical debt to pay, and a monstrosity of a house that gobbles up all her extra cash. When sophisticated, educated, and wealthy Dallas Vance mov...

  • Every Visible Thing

    Lisa Carey

    When unthinkable tragedy strikes, at what point must a family turn away from the past and move forward into the future? The extraordinary new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Love in the Asylum and The Mermaids Singing is a darkly absorb...

  • The Chocolate Bridal Bash

    Joanna Carl

    SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHIING ASKEW Caught up in a whirl of champagne and china patterns, bride-to-be Lee McKinney has butted heads with her future mother-in-law over every detail of the wedding bash. The last thing she needs is trouble with her own m...

  • The Murder Hole

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    American journalist Jean Fairbairn, on an assignment for Great Scot magazine, is covering a new effort to unravel the mystery of Nessie, Scotland's Loch Ness monster. At the helm of the controversial probe is an American scientist who believes his te...

  • Iron Man: Inevitable

    Joe Casey

    It was only a matter of time before Iron Man's longtime enemies re-emerged to confront him once again. And now, they've got more than revenge on their minds. An all-new, action-packed story spotlighting the return of classic villains like the Living ...

  • Penelope Jane

    Rosanne Cash

    Tall as an eyelash, quick as a plane was the tiniest fairy, Penelope Jane.

    Penelope Jane de la Fesser, a flying French fairy, is just the perfect size to live in the right-hand dresser drawer of her very best friend, five-year-old Carrie. Wh...

  • A Whisper in the Dark

    Linda Castillo

    Until now, no one has suspected the truth about down-to-earth bookseller Julia Wainwright. But the arrival of six threatening letters indicates someone has discovered her secret -- and wants her to pay for her sins... Ever since he accidentally kill...

  • In the Midst of It All

    Shonda Cheekes

    Shonda Cheeke's provocative follow-up to the critically acclaimed Another Man's Wife welcomes readers back into the world of Yani, Alex Chance, and the ever-popular Asia Fenton as they strive to stay strong in the face of tough choices, unexpected co...

  • Safe Enough

    Lee Child
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    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • Learning To Hula

    Lisa Childs

    Everyone in town thinks Holly DeJong has handled her husband's death well, including her. Until the day she spots a cupcake display at Smiley's General Store and lets loose. Holly's husband is dead...because he cheated on her. He didn't have just one...

  • Sex in the Hood 2

    White Chocolate

    When her world of wealth and privilege is shattered by her father's death, pampered princess Victoria is forced to live with her grandmother in one of Detroit's toughest neighborhoods, where she takes up with Duke Johnson, the leader of a gang, and t...

  • The Lucifer Gospel

    Paul Christopher

    In the desert of North Africa, Finn Ryan stumbles upon a seventy-year-old plane wreck--and a shocking revelation that threatens to unravel an entire faith.... Young archaeologist Finn Ryan and charismatic pilot and photographer Virgil Hilts are sc...

  • Light of the World

    Scott Ciencin

    From sea to sea to shining sea,

    I bade that she come back to me --

    Without her look, without her face,

    I bade I too would leave this place.

    The Charmed Ones couldn't be happier -- Phoebe and Piper's childhood friend Lyssa i...

  • Heaven Can't Wait

    Pamela Clare
    in

    A sexy romp featuring characters from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Clare's I-Team series. Lissy Charteris and Will Fraser are two weeks away from getting married when Lissy suggests they put a bit of traditional romance into their lives by giv...

  • New Excalibur - Volume 1: Defenders of the Realm

    Chris Claremont

    Excalibur is back, just the way you like them! From the ashes of House of M a new Excalibur team is formed to combat the aftereffects of this cataclysmic event! Witness the birth of Captain Britain's new team forming, as a sinister force already trie...

  • Nanny And The Beast

    Donna Clayton

    Sophia Stanton has worked too hard building a thriving nanny-placement service to risk it and try juggling career and family. But when single dad Michael Taylor fires three of her nannies in quick succession, Sophia decides to confront the Beast (tha...

  • To Thine Own Self Be True

    Judy Clemens

    Stella Crown rarely takes a break from managing her Pennsylvania dairy farm unless it's to take a spin on her Harley, but in the midst of the Christmas season she treats herself to a new tattoo. Halfway through the sitting at Wolf Ink, her tattoo art...

  • Entrapped

    Harlan Coben
    in

    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • Violet Dawn

    Brandilyn Collins

    Something sinuous in the water brushed against Paige’s knee. She jerked her leg away. What was that? She rose to a sitting position, groped around with her left hand. Fine wisps wound themselves around her fingers. Hair? She yanked backward, but th...

  • The Last Quarry

    Max Allan Collins

    The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders...

  • Super Truck

    Mara Conlon

    A group of young fire engines learn that it takes more than a shiny coast of red paint to make a hero. Stories taken from the show on Cartoon Network's hot new preschool block, Tickle U.

    Red daydreams about being more than just a little red en...

  • Crisis

    Robin Cook

    A partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice, Dr. Craig Bowman has reached an impressive level of success. But this idyllic situation comes to a grinding halt when he's served with a summons for medical negligence--and things get much, much w...

  • Riptide

    Donn Cortez

    The Miami Dade Crime Lab is called in to examine the body of a young woman who has washed ashore on an island in Florida Bay. Lieutenant Horatio Caine is quick to identify the probable murder weapon: a shark dart used by the navy as part of an experi...

  • Disco for the Departed

    Colin Cotterill

    Dr Siri Paiboun, reluctant national coroner of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, is summoned to a remote location in the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the current government had hidden out in caves, waiting to ...

  • Gunfight at Cold Devil

    Ralph Cotton

    HELL TO PAY Ranger Sam Burrack and Marshal Pete Summers apprehend two wanted men in the town of Cold Devil. One is a sheriff gone bad. The other, a saloon keeper, manages to post a bounty for anyone who'll kill the two lawmen and set him free. A ban...

  • Born To Be Wild

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Get yourself ready for Mary Lisa Beverly - a soap-opera phenom who's just won her third Daytime Emmy for her role as Sunday Cavendish on Born to Be Wild. She's fun and lovable and has lots of crazy friends, most of whom hang out at he...

  • The Slow Moon

    Elizabeth Cox

    On an early spring night, Sophie and her boyfriend Crow slip away from a rowdy high school party and sneak off into the woods. But what is meant to be an idyllic, intimate evening turns into a nightmare. Sophie is attacked and refuses to speak; Crow ...

  • Murder Most Frothy

    Cleo Coyle

    Endless Summer, Bottomless Cups Clare Cosi's new friend, millionaire David Mintzer, has an offer no New York barista could turn down: an all-expenses-paid summer away from the sticky city. At his Hamptons mansion, she'll relax, soak up the sun, an...

  • The Riddle

    Alison Croggon

    Maerad is a girl with a tragic past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the Treesong before their kingdom erupts in chaos. The quest leads Maerad ...

  • Wanted!

    Pam Crooks

    Tough, rugged and a dead-eye shot -- Ross Santana is the kind of man a woman wants at her side...and in her bed. Respectable, refined, her town's virtuous bank-teller -- Lark Renault hides a dark secret. Their new passion heals old wounds, but ...

  • The Merlot Murders

    Ellen Crosby

    Leland Montgomery's death was deemed accidental, but when his daughter Lucie returns home from France, she finds the once-thriving family vineyard run down, collapsing under huge debt. Lucie's godfather warns her that Leland's demise may have been th...

  • Shadowed By Wings

    Janine Cross

    The Dragon Temple Saga continues as Zarq Darquel embarks on a trial by fire, defying Dragon Temple scripture by undergoing the rigorous training of an apprentice dragonmaster, while desperately searching for the doctrine that allows women permission ...

  • Can You Hear the Sea?

    Judy Cumberbatch

    Sarah's grandfather gives her a seashell and promises that if she listens carefully, she will hear the sea inside. But Sarah is distracted by the bustling noise of her island community. Laundry flip-flaps in the wind, people haggle in the market, ...

  • A Killing on Church Grounds

    Barbara Cummings

    Five Star Mysteries are standard print, first editions from award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming authors of the Mystery genre. These hardcover first editions will consist of new novels and short story collections plus novels that have been ...

  • Please Play Safe!

    Margery Cuyler

    Penguin's boisterous young animal friends play together in silly, then safe ways in this companion to PLEASE SAY PLEASE!

    Penguin and his rambunctious young friends are off to the playground, running so fast that they knock each other down. Is ...

  • Saks and Violins

    Mary Daheim

    Slay That Funky Music Life has hit some sour notes as of late for B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cousin Renie. Graphic design guru Renie's up to her eyebrows in debt after some seriously overzealous spending sprees. Meanwhile, Judith's g...

  • Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly

    Robert Dalby

    An irresistible Southern charmer about small-town gossip, second-chance romance, strange weather, and ballroom dancing in the most unlikely places. Laurie Lepanto is on the horns of a dilemma. Her favorite market, the Piggly Wiggly, of Second Cre...

  • Happy Birthday, Jamela!

    Niki Daly

    What Jamela wants for her birthday is a pair of beautiful princess shoes. What she gets instead is clunky, practical school shoes. Jamela is definitely disappointed, but with glitter, beads, and glue - and a burst of inspiration - she transforms her ...

  • Realm of Darkness

    Cynthia Danielewski

    Mark Tanner took the job of Police Chief in sleepy New Smyrna Beach, Florida looking for a change from his hectic big-city job and to recover from the death of his wife. Life was going well, he had befriended his neighbor, Brooke Jennings who was rec...

  • Undeniable Proof

    B.J. Daniels

    SECRETS KEPT CAN ONLY BE TROUBLE... Though Cape Diablo had a reputation for being cursed, Willa St. Clare -- the only eyewitness to a murder investigation -- found the remote island the perfect place to disappear. Only, she never realized she was ...

  • 24 Hours

    Kay David

  • Goodbye Lemon

    Adam Davies

    a piercing and hilarious story about love, family, and redemption Finally, after fifteen years, Jack Tennant is going home. Against his better judgment, he has succumbed to his mother's guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father, who suffe...

  • The Conjurer's Bird

    Martin Davies

    The Conjurer’s Bird is a beautiful story in the spirit of Possession that is as exciting as The Club Dumas, inspired by one of the great puzzles of natural history: that of the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta. Seen only once, in 1774, by Captain Cook’s...

  • Bud and Gabby

    Anne Davis

  • Ask For It

    Sylvia Day

    England, 1770. Beneath the silk and lace of London society lies a secret, elite organization of spies. Protecting the Crown from its enemies is hazardous; but for Marcus Ashford, protecting his heart from an unyielding passion is the far greater peri...

  • Haunted Echoes

    Cindy Dees

    THE GHOST, THE THIEF AND THE INTERPOL AGENT Interpol agent Ana Reisner has big problems. She's been ordered -- by the president of France -- to solve a murder that hasn't happened yet and recover a stolen item that the owner refuses to name. Worse...

  • Spider-Girl Presents Avengers Next - Volume 1: Second Coming

    Tom Defalco

    On another day unlike any other, a new collection of the World's Mightiest Heroes rocked their own remarkable reality! Enemies alien and Earthbound vie to end the new era of Avengerdom! Featuring the heir of Captain America and the son of the Black P...

  • Bringing Ezra Back

    Cynthia DeFelice

    September 1840 marks five months since twelve-year-old Nathan Fowler's life-threatening encounter with Weasel, the heartless man who stalked Nathan like a wild animal through the forest. Nathan hasn't been the same since, wary of every new pe...

  • Mercy Watson Fights Crime

    Kate DiCamillo

    The beguiling porcine wonder turns bucking bronco to snare a robber in this hilarious new addition to the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series. Leroy Ninker is a small man with a big dream: he wants to be a cowboy, but for now he's just a thief. In f...

  • Viva Las Bad Boys

    Helenkay Dimon

    Welcome to Vegas's hottest spot--the Berkley Hotel and Casino--where a trio of bad boys are more than happy to put the "sin" in Sin City... Jackpot Jack McAllister is looking to get lucky on his vacation, and the jilted bride sitting at the slot...

  • The Jump Off

    Doug Dixon

    In Doug Dixon's hip, sexy novel, a dedicated player is about to discover that the free and easy lifestyle can wind up being anything but... Charming, successful engineer Troy Sanders likes his relationships short, hot, and hassle-free. Until one da...

  • Trouble in High Heels

    Christina Dodd

    When Brandi Michaels discovers her fiance hopping a flight to Vegas to marry his girlfriend, she pawns her engagement ring, buys herself a fabulous outfit and spends one sultry night in the arms of a gorgeous Italian stranger named Roberto Bartolini....

  • Seventy Times Seven

    Brandt Dodson

    The next fast"paced suspense novel in the Colton Parker Mystery series, from Brandt Dodson, author of Original Sin.

    Lester Cheek had everything a man could want. A beautiful home, thriving business and money to burn. But he was alone -- ...

  • My Best Sweet Potato

    Rainy Dohaney

    A little girl cries and searches frantically after a curious weaver bird carries away Woolyman, her favorite toy friend, but before the day is out, the girl and Woolyman are reunited, and they both even make a new friend....

  • Forbidden Zone

    Stacey Donovan

    Inspired by the sensual Showtime series, four erotic stories explore the compelling world of sexual fantasy and uninhibited escapades in The Art of Loneliness, The Picnic, Sex in the Hamptons, and the title story, in a which a...

  • Lost Angel

    Mike Doogan

    Moses Wright founded the Christian commune of Rejoice. The rough-and-tumble interior of Alaska may seem a strange place for such a community, but for twenty years it has served as a beacon in the wilderness. Two decades later Moses granddaughter, Fai...

  • Shoulda Been A Cowboy

    Charlotte Douglas

    B and B owner Caroline Tuttle has dreamed of moving out west and marrying a cowboy ever since she saw her first horse. But with her recent inheritance of Blackberry Farm, Caroline's future seems bleak...until she meets her sexy, secretive tenant, Eth...

  • Druid's Sword

    Sara Douglass

    1940. The skies above London are filled with German planes on nightly raids, a Blitz that brings a barrage of bombs that pound the city into rubble. Each morning Londoners face the night's handiwork and though they are presented with the possibility ...

  • Hot and Bothered

    Annie Downey

    She’s offbeat, off balance, and at times off-the-wall, a late-thirties mother of two living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and trying to figure out who she is now that her husband has left her. He’s a rat, anyway, and currently attends Sex Addicts ...

  • Other Times Than Peace

    David Drake

    THEY MAY NOT BE FLAWLESS HEROES -- BUT THEY'LL GET THE JOB DONE In the past, the present, or the future, life is grim and often short for the few who protect the many, usually for little pay, less gratitude, and dim prospects of growing old. *A squ...

  • Piggley and the Magic Doll

    Laura Driscoll

  • The Perfect Wife

    Judy Duarte

    Until her divorce was finalized. She'd been trying to figure out how her carefully planned out life had gone off track -- and then she met a wonderful man. Only, Bo Conway was everything wealthy Carly wasn't looking for: A regular guy. A ...

  • The Last Flight

    Brendan DuBois
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    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage....

  • The Marriage Campaign

    Michele Dunaway

    Campaign fund-raiser Lisa Meyer has worked hard to be her own boss and will let nothing -- especially romance -- interfere with her success. Then fate places sexy Mark Smith back in her path and sparks begin to fly. But if she lets herself fall for M...

  • Marriage Terms

    Barbara Dunlop

    THERE WERE RULES COUPLES LIVED BY... Rule #1: Ex-husbands weren't supposed to still entice their ex-wives. Millionaire businessman Daniel Elliott affected his ex-wife, Amanda, as if they were still the couple whose unbridled passions -- and une...

  • Ingo

    Helen Dunmore

    A whisper on the tide Sapphire's father mysteriously vanishes into the waves off the Cornwall coast where her family has always lived. She misses him terribly, and she longs to hear his spellbinding tales about the Mer, who live in the underwater ki...

  • Comeback

    Doranna Durgin

    ATHENA ALUM SELENA SHAW JONES'S MOTTO: NEVER LET HIM SEE YOUR FEAR Her intervention in a hostage crisis had made her an instant hero. But Selena Shaw Jones still had nightmares. Now the CIA had approached her for another do-or-die mission -- to lo...

  • Death in West Wheeling

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    “Breakneck pace and solid atmosphere are the hallmarks here.” -- AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION When a local schoolteacher disappears from rural West Wheeling, acting sheriff Homer Deters investigates. Before long he's got three more missing perso...

  • Major Crush

    Jennifer Echols

    Marching to the beat of a different drum... Tired of the beauty-pagean circuit, Virginia Sauter tosses her tiara, pierces her nose, and auditions for the most unlikely of roles -- drum major of the high school marching band. Virginia wins...

  • The Camberwell Beauty

    Jenny Eclair

    Don't miss the unforgettable new novel from Jenny Eclair - INHERITANCE is out now___________'Viciously funny' Daily MailWelcome to one of the nicest streets in one of London's vilest boroughs: a determined middle-class oasis of skips and bay trees, w...

  • The Younger Gods

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    In this thrilling conclusion to The Dreamers, the Vlagh prepares for one final, merciless attackone that will pit her forces against the might of both the Elder Gods and the Younger Gods. But all the painstaking preparations of these noble allies mig...

  • Mixed-Up Rooster

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

    The morning sun is rising, but where's Ned's cock-a-doodle-doo? Ned's just not a morning bird. Daisy Mae and the other farm hens have an egg business to run, and they've no use for a lazy, mixed-up rooster. It's time to call in another rooster! <...

  • The Keep

    Jennifer Egan

    Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep -- the tower, the last stand -- is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. T...

  • Open Season: The Movie Storybook

    Kate Egan

    An unlikely pair--Boog, a domesticated grizzly bear who finds himself stranded in the woods, and Elliot, a scrappy, loudmouthed deer--must work together to protect themselves and their fellow forest dwellers from overzealous hunters....

  • Fire Island Summer

    Julie Ellis

  • Ultimate Galactus - Book 3: Extinction

    Warren Ellis

    Collects Ultimate Exinction #1-5. It's time for the coming of Gah Lak Tus! And his arrival could mean the end of all life on this planet! Not even the power of S.H.I.E.L.D or the brilliance of Fantastic Four leader Reed Richards seems able to stop it...

  • Blood on the Bones

    Geraldine Evans

    Rafferty and Llewellyn are faced with an unholy puzzle of a case Lapsed Catholic DI Joe Rafferty isn?t best pleased when he learns their latest case is at the local Roman Catholic Convent, where a body was discovered in a shallow grave in the grounds...

  • Longarm and the Sweetheart Vendetta

    Tabor Evans

    They’ve kidnapped the wrong woman -- Longarm’s!Deputy Marshal Custis Long is bringing an accused murderer to Colorado for a fair trial, when he hears tell of a gang of savage killers on the loose. But it’s not Federal business, so Longarm mosey...

  • Schrodinger's Ball

    Adam Felber

    “Tender, hilarious, and packed with delightful surprises . . . If Einstein and John Cleese had written a novel together, this would be it.”"Joseph Weisberg, author of 10th GradeFour friends set out into the night in Cambridge, Massachusetts, un...

  • A Night in Hollywood Forever

    Andrew J. Fenady

  • The Prodigal M.D. Returns

    Marie Ferrarella

    It's not going to stay cold up here in Alaska for too much longer...not with sizzling hot doctor Ben Kerrigan back in town. The best-looking man the town of Hades has ever seen isn't just toiling in the town's only medical clinic; I hear he's also do...

  • The Spy Who Loved Her

    Marie Ferrarella

  • Much Ado About Grubstake

    Jean Ferris

    Grubstake is a grubby down-on-its-luck mining town filled with grubby down-on-their-luck miners. So when a decidedly nongrubby city slicker shows up and offers to buy the tapped-out mines, the miners are sorely tempted. But not Arley, the brash sixte...

  • The Fourth Bear

    Jasper Fforde

    Jack Spratt and Mary Mary take on their most dangerous case so far as a murderous cookie stalks the streets of Reading. The Gingerbreadman--psychopath, sadist, genius, and killer--is on the loose. But it isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary...

  • Dead Man's Gold

    T.T. Flynn

  • When You Dance with the Devil

    Gwynne Forster

    After the death of her bitter and demanding mother, Sara Jolene Tilman finds herself alone in the world for the very first time--and ready for a fresh start. Leaving behind the pain and isolation of her former life, Sara becomes Jolene, and moves int...

  • Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

    Ben Fountain

    The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught--to both disastrous and hilarious effect--in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate conn...

  • Home Is Where the Heart Is

    Jennifer Frantz

    Boog is spoiled rotten. Beth makes his bed for him, feeds him fishy crackers, and sings him a sweet lullaby each night before he goes to sleep. But when she decides her domesticated friend is too big and too old to be pampered in her cozy garage,...

  • A Play of Knaves

    Margaret Frazer

    In the pages of Margaret Frazer's national bestselling Dame Frevisse series, the player Joliffe has assumed many roles on stage, to the delight of those he entertains. Now, in the company of a troupe of traveling performers, he finds himself cast in ...

  • The Power Broker

    Stephen Frey

    Christian Gillette, the dynamo chairman of a famous New York private equity firm, plans to open a new casino in Las Vegas and launch an NFL franchise. But the mob makes it clear that Christian will have to pay if he wants to play. To complicate matte...

  • Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost!

    Cornelia Funke

    Get scared silly! Dripping sticky slime wherever it goes, an Averagely Spooky Ghost is hiding out in Tom's cellar. Why? Because he's being haunted, too -- by a much bigger, way badder Incredibly Revolting Ghost. Confused? So is Tom! Good thing his ...

  • Death's Head 3.0: Unnatural Selection

    Simon Furman

    It's one hundred years in the future and the now-benevolent organization known as AIM has been fighting a non-violent conflict with the fascist government it wishes to change. But there's a splinter group that's ready to return to its violent roots w...

  • Chellini's Solution

    Jim Fusilli
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    This volume compiles 18 gripping stories about relationships from some of the top mystery writers working today, including Harlan Coben, P.J. Parrish, Lee Child, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Jim Fusilli, Jeff Abbott, Charles Todd, and Tom Savage.

  • Remember Texas

    Eve Gaddy

    Coincidence...or fate? Ava Vincent hightailed it out of Texas more than twenty years ago, vowing never to return. Too many bad memories. Too many people she'd abandoned and let down. So she's shocked to find her new job has brought her to the very t...

  • Revenge of the Rose

    Nicole Galland

    An impoverished young knight living in rural Burgundy, Willem of Dole greets with surprise -- and apprehension -- his summons to the magnificent court of Konrad, Holy Roman Emperor, whose realm spans half of Europe. Immediately overwhelmed by court a...

  • Helen of Troy

    Margaret George

    Acclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face "launched a thousand ships" in this New York Times bestseller.The Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Hom...

  • Against Gravity

    Gary Gibson

    Live long enough, and this could be your future... It is the late 21st century, and it is a very different world. Meet Kendrick Gallmon, survivor of The Maze, a secret research facility where thousands of political prisoners became unwilling guine...

  • Dollar Daze

    Karin Gillespie

    Moons and Junes are the flavors of the month for the Bottom Dollar Girls, whose sudden fondness for wooing and cooing has them in a Dollar Daze. From the night of the Sweetheart Dance, love begins blooming all over Cayboo Creek. Though every rose mus...

  • Golden Country

    Jennifer Gilmore

    Golden Country vividly brings to life the intertwining stories of three immigrants seeking their fortunes: the handsome and ambitious Seymour, a salesman turned gangster turned Broadway producer; the gentle and pragmatic Joseph, a door-to-door salesm...

  • One Forbidden Evening

    Jo Goodman

    In USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman's sizzling new tale of wicked desire and daring liaisons, the most unlikely couple embarks on an adventure fraught with danger -- and a passion too powerful to deny... As a masked ball reaches its fe...

  • Ms. Turtle the Babysitter

    Valeri Gorbachev

  • Hansel and Diesel

    David Gordon

    "Guzzle, guzzle, drip and drool, who is drinking all my fuel?"

    When Hansel and Diesel set out to search for fuel in their junkyard, they leave a path of nuts and bolts behind to show their way home. But when snow falls and they get lost, bro...

  • Fast Track

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Ordered to protect a valuable thoroughbred entering a horse race offering the biggest purse in history, Secret Service Agent Dev Mallory must save his partner's life when she is kidnapped by a high-stakes player who is determined to beat the odds. Or...

  • Powder Keg

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    It only takes one spark . . . A new "Robin Hood" is riding the range -- a hero bank robber who's handing over the spoils to poor farmers and needy townsfolk. But the bandit's using powerful explosives in his endeavors -- and military investigator...

  • Gone with the Windsors

    Laurie Graham

    The scandalous divorcee who led the besotted Prince of Wales to abdicate his throne first appears in the fictional diary of Maybell Brumby as her schoolmate Bessie, a charity girl with pretensions and good cheekbones. "I'm Wallis," she snarls, "and i...

  • Another Green World

    Richard Grant

    In 1929, at a youth summit in the Weimar Republic, a group of young Americans meet on a remote mountaintop. Their shifting alliances, rivalries and sexual intrigues foreshadow the turmoil and violence that will soon engulf Europe. Fifteen years l...

  • Your Planet or Mine?

    Susan Grant

    With outrageously false accusations piling up against her famous political family and an ex-fiance in hot water determined to take her down with him, the last thing Jana Jasper needs is more trouble -- especially man trouble. But when she heads to th...

  • What a Fool Believes

    Carmen Green

    Forgive And Forget... Pretty TV weatherperson Tia Amberson has gone from being as sweet as a summer's day to a category five hurricane. Her longtime boyfriend dumped her on Valentine's Day, and to add insult to injury, she's been placed under arrest...

  • Dead Cat Bounce

    Norman Green

    Stoney gave up drinking, but it couldn't save his marriage. Leaving the big house in New Jersey to his wife and kids, he's living in the City-still working the profitable, if not 100 percent legal, angles with his partner, "Fat Tommy Bagadonuts." The...

  • The Knowland Retribution

    Richard Greener

    With tainted meat the weapon and corporate greed the motive, The Knowland Retribution is an extremely topical suspense-revenge thriller. Walter Sherman, a/k/a the Locator, is a tracker who honed his skills in Vietnam. The colorful cast of characters ...

  • Swords of Eveningstar

    Ed Greenwood

    Florin Falconland has always dreamed of adventure. When he saves the life of the king of Cormyr, his dream comes true! Unfortunately for Florin, he also manages to earn the enmity of some of Cormyr's most dangerous denizens. Florin and his friends, ...

  • A Gentle Fragrance

    Pamela Griffin

    The daughter of a missionary in the South Pacific, Sarah LaRue enjoys the simplicity and beauty of nature. When an injured man washes up on the shoreline, Sarah is oddly captivated by him. As he comes to know Jesus under her father's care, Sarah's he...

  • Saving Caravaggio

    Neil Griffiths

    Under a searing Calabrian sky, detective Daniel Wright is shown the world�s most famous stolen painting � Caravaggio�s Nativity. As a Caravaggio lover and expert in art recovery, he is determined to rescue it from the mafia bosses w...

  • End of the World Blues

    Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    From Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the celebrated Arabesk series, comes a stunningly inventive novel of futuristic noir set in a world of shifting realities. Here a man is drawn into a gritty postmodern subculture and a secret kingdom of otherwor...

  • Murder in Jerusalem

    Batya Gur

    Modern Israel is a place filled with contradictions: the beautiful landscape often rife with human conflict; the tranquil and the peaceful in constant struggle with terrible destruction; and amazing human love and kindness set against a backdrop of c...

  • Letter Perfect

    Cathy Marie Hake

    IF HER OWN TWO FEET DON'T END UP TRIPPING HER, Ruth Caldwell's mouth is likely to get her into equal trouble. But Ruth has the best of intentions. Truly. It's just that her attempts to live up to her mother's expectations of how a lady should act hav...

  • Spoke Of Love

    Cathy Marie Hake

    The death of her husband forced Garnet Wheelock to become a mail-order bride. The torturous ship voyage was eclipsed only by the cruelty of her master in the New World of Virginia. But the Lord's hand was upon her, and she has been bought by a new ma...

  • A Separate War and Other Stories

    Joe Haldeman

    Here are fifteen stories-never before collected- spanning 36 years of Joe Haldeman's award-winning writing...tales that tread upon familiar Haldeman territory, as well as explore the outer reaches of his phenomenal imagination. From the first sho...

  • Your Bed or Mine?

    Candy Halliday

    The Housewives Fantasy Club Is Now in Session Every Saturday night, best friends and neighbors Zada, Jen, Tish, and Alicia heat up their quaint little cul-de-sac of Owl's Roost Road with the infamous Housewives Fantasy Club. Everyone has a secret fan...

  • Spying in High Heels

    Gemma Halliday

    L.A. shoe designer Maddie Springer lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfrien...

  • The Coldest Places

    Heather Hammonds

  • Little Creatures

    Heather Hammonds

  • Looking at the Birds

    Heather Hammonds