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  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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!...



  • 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...



  • Neta Jackson

    For the Yada prayer sisters, getting' caight up in troubles isn't the problem, it's how to get free. Only weeks ago, we Yadas toughened our prayer knees when one of our own was the victim of a vicious, racial attack. Now it seems each household is...



  • 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...



  • Peter Milligan

    It's hard to keep a good girl down... especially when she's Dead! After a brief hiatus caused by their deaths, everyone's favorite mutants are back! And this time, they're bringing a host of... questions with them. Like why do some heroes and villain...



  • Stan Lee

    It's a First-Issue Frenzy as Marvel collects the crime-fighting debuts of the Dazzler, Ms. Marvel, Shanna the She-Devil and the Cat - with distaff deviltry from the Enchantress and the White Queen! Plus: the Black Widow gets a new costume and the She...



  • David Thompson

    In the harsh wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, every day presents a new challenge. Nate King and his family have survived by overcoming those challenges, one by one. But in the new valley that is their home, they face perils they've never before kno...



  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel from the acclaimed Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and critic. Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow ...



  • Susan Meier

    The Capriottis and Fegans were more Hatfield and McCoy than Montague and Capulet. Still, there was that one night when chief of police Jericho Capriotti had spotted Rayne Fegan in a red dress -- a vision that still haunts him. Yet despite that one lo...



  • Frank Rodgers

    Wilf, the Witch's Dog, is very excited about the painting competition for witches' pets. But the judge has disappeared! Wilf and his friend Weenie must find her before the show is ruined. With the help of a magical painting, Wilf and Weenie set off o...



  • Celia Rees

    From the best-selling author of WITCH CHILD and SORCERESS comes another engrossing, atmospheric novel following a teenage boy as he uncovers the secrets of the mysterious and provocative Wish House.
    It's the start of summer vacation, and fifteen-...



  • Daniel Woodrell

    Meet Ree Dolly -- not since Mattie Ross stormed her way through Arkansas in True Grit has a young girl so fiercely defended her loved ones. Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks and belongs to a large extended fam...



  • Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    As she dangled precariously over the edge, she screamed, 'Save yourself, Quint!' High above the Edge, on an immense floating rock anchored by a giant chain, the city of Sanctaphrax is home to the Edgeworld's academics. At its heart is the famed Kn...



  • Jennifer Richard Jacobson

    Zoe’s the smartest,†said Vanessa, I’m the best actress, and you, Winifred Fletcher . . .†she said, turning to Winnie. You are the best†Winnie waited to hear what Vanessa would say. It seemed as if Vanessa had to check every cupboard in h...



  • B.J. Hoff

    B.J. Hoff's unforgettable characters from A Distant Music reunite for an even more gripping, dramatic episode in The Mountain Song Legacy.When Maggie MacAuley returns to the small coal town of her childhood, she has no intention of staying. Her life ...



  • Tom Robbins

    Known for his meaty seriocomic novelsâ€"expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrowâ€"Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to acto...



  • R.L. Stine
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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....



  • Pamela Ribon

    Belinda "Benny" Bernstein doesn't brag about her life in Los Angeles, but she is proud of her independence. She's got a job and a place to live, and she even goes out on dates now and again. But when Benny's mother and sister get into a car accident,...



  • Margo Lanagan

    Ten brilliant stories to unsettle and intrigue from the astonishing Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Black Juice. 'White Time is book of absolutely outstanding short stories . . . a collection of extraordinary richness and power t...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Susan Johnson

    It was common gossip that "Duff" D'Abernon, Marquis of Darley, had returned from Waterloo a changed man. Gone was the reckless youth and in his place was a sullen recluse more interested in tending his horses than attending balls. But now the Marquis...



  • Mary B. Morrison

    With some high-profile legal trouble behind him and a promising NBA career ahead of him--plus his engagement to his spirited soul mate, the irrepressible Fancy Taylor--former playboy Darius Jones is back on top. But bad news soon threatens to take hi...



  • Stevi Mittman

    Last year I, Teddi Bayer Gallo, nearly killed my husband. This year he's nearly my ex. Last year money grew on trees. This year if my three delicious children and I don't eat, my new interior decorating business might survive. Last year I'd never see...




  • 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?"...



  • 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...



  • R.L. LaFevers

    Just before his thirteenth birthday, an uncle he never knew takes Luc deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, where he learns that he is a werewolf whose pack is in danger from fanatics who are following his trail....



  • Whitney Lyles
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    Say "I do" to these four romantic stories about matrimonially-challenged women that demonstrate how one of the best days of your life can go so wrong -- and still be sexy, hilarious, and deliciously right… To go down the aisle or not to go dow...



  • Kelly McCullough

    Even magic has to keep up with the times. Ravirn is not your average computer geek. A child of the Fates-- literally-- he's a hacker extraordinaire who can zero in on the fatal flaw in any program. Now that twenty-first-century magic has gone digit...



  • Emmi S. Herman

    In this easy-to-read book, a family enjoys a day of fall fun at an apple orchard.

    Sam and Jan go to the apple farm with a neighboring family, dog included! Three friends pick apples, drink cider, bundle hay, and go on a hayride. But the best p...



  • 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 ...



  • Rose Impey

    Join Wanda Witch in her third Level 3 Scholastic Reader adventure!

    Wanda Witch doesn't want to go to school EVER AGAIN! She is always in trouble with her teacher Miss Foulbreath.

    But little witches have to go to school to learn to read,...



  • 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...



  • Merrill Markoe

    Dawn Tarnauer's life isn't exactly a success story. Already twice divorced, the young Californian is too busy job-hopping to start a career, her Life Coach sister provides perpetual interference, and her eccentric parents need parenting. Dawn's only ...



  • Ann Voss Peterson

    BLACK TIE REQUIRED The wedding invitation sent to Cordell Turner had looked innocent enough. But the person who had sent it, notorious serial killer Dryden Kane, was anything but. With the calculating murderer on the loose, Cord was headed for a m...



  • John Ringo; Travis S. Taylor

    TARGET: EARTH Mars is changing. Seemingly overnight the once "Red" planet is turning to gray. Something is happening, something unnatural. A team of, literally, rocket scientists figure out a way to send a probe, very fast, to Mars to determin...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • M.I. McAllister

    On a cold night, a night of riding stars, a newborn squirrel is found all by his lonesome on a distant beach, shivering, and close to death. His mother is nowhere to be found, so he is adopted and raised by a kind squirrel, in the land of Mistmantle....



  • Mary Nichols

    Widowed Lady Charlotte Hobart and her two young daughters have lived comfortably under her father- in-law's roof, but everything changes on his death. The new Lord Hobart fills Easterley Manor with his disreputable friends and treats Charlotte with c...



  • T.K. Welsh

    In 1904 New York City, the spirit of a deceased German American teenage girl searches for the person responsible for the General Slocum steamboat fire that claimed her life and the lives of more than one thousand other passengers....



  • Kate Kingsbury

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Comp...



  • Laurie Paige

    They were supposed to be tourists, not detectives There's a dead woman in Matt Anderson's hotel room and he has no idea how she got there. When Kerry Johnston appears from next door to help, both she and Matt recognize the woman as a local waitres...



  • Ronald Kidd

    With the help of her grandfather's special aging machine, eight-year-old Maggie Murphy and her younger brother Arthur set out to solve the case of the missing tuna as adults, but don't have much time before the machine's powers wear off. Original....



  • 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 ...



  • Brian K. Vaughan

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #46-49. The X-Men have become more than a team. They've become a family. And the death of one of their own leaves the remaining X-Men struggling to deal with the loss. And even before a moment of silence can pass, the myste...



  • Mark Millar

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #26-33. Magneto, the X-Men's deadliest villain, returns. They've faced the Weapon X program, Proteus and even the superhuman strikeforce known as The Ultimates. Now, still licking their wounds from their prior battles, can Xav...



  • 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...



  • Chris Knopf

    Sam Aquillo â€" ex-boxer, ex-corporate executive and accidental hero of The Last Refuge â€" is back in this action-packed, page-turning sequel.

    All Sam wants to do is hammer a few nails into his ramshackle cottage, drink a great deal of vodka,...



  • Erin Hunter

    BEFORE THERE IS PEACE, BLOOD WILL SPILL BLOOD... New territory brings new troubles for the fierce cats of the warrior Clans. Dangers they have never faced before are lurking in the twilight shadows, and former allies are acting strangely hostile. ...



  • Kimberly Llewellyn

    It's not bad enough her cousin's stealing her thunder. She's also stealing her dress. Who doesn't love a wedding? Nina Robertson sure doesn't, since the wedding in question is that of her hyper-competitive, catty cousin Celia. And Nina's own enga...



  • Shirley Damsgaard

    Ophelia has always considered her psychic abilities an imposition, except for those times she's been able to put her paranormal talents to good use-like when a friend asks her to help find a missing teenager. Unfortunately it means she and Abby, her ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Sherwood Smith

    Big trouble is brewing in Oz! Sinister clouds boil ominously over the Emerald City, Dorothy has gone missing, and there are rumblings of rebellion in the Nome Kingdom. So a desperate plea for help goes out from Princess Ozma to two resourceful sis...



  • 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....



  • Jane Yolen

    For sixteen-year-old harpist prodigy Moira, the annual Dairy Princess event in Vanderby is just another lame publicity op. Twelve girls have been selected to have their likenesses carved in butter and displayed on the Trollholm Bridge. Its a Vanderby...



  • Karin Slaughter

    In the city of Atlanta, women are dying -- at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives,...



  • Judy Waite

    Wanting to make Matt fall for her, Erin teaches him magic to lure him away from his interest in Kirsty, but when Kirsty is found dead and Erin realizes that Matt is to blame, Erin must put aside her feelings and make the right decision in order to se...



  • Erica Orloff

    HER GIFT FOR WORKING A CRIME SCENE PUT HER IN A SERIAL KILLER'S SIGHTS Criminalist Billie Quinn lived and breathed the evidence. People lied. But DNA never let her down. Or could it? For the case that put her fight for justice in the media spot...



  • Jennifer LaBrecque
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    Software genius Deke Foster wants marketing whiz Abby Carmichael to fix his image so he can bag a wife. He's adorable as is, but career-oriented Abby doesn't want a husband -- especially one with a pocket protector!...



  • John Ramsey Miller

    Alexa Keen is the best the FBI has to offer, a special agent who can achieve the impossible: finding victims of abduction before they can be killed. Casey LePointe West is heiress to one of the greatest fortunes in America. Now, as Hurricane Katrina ...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Stephanie Laurens

    The gentlemen of the Bastion Club have proven their courage while fighting England's enemies, but nothing has prepared them for dealing with that most formidable of challenges: the opposite sex. Deverell, Viscount Paignton, is in desperate need o...



  • Lindsay Graves

    in the exclusive Southern California community of Colina Linda, money means everything. But snagging a man who has money means even more. When billionaire David Clemente files for divorce, his newly single status is the gossip among the ladies-who-lu...



  • Joan Lingard

    Tilly is shocked to discover that there are badger baiters operating in her small Scottish village. At first her suspicions fall on the new family when she discovers a locked barn in their grounds. But the locked barn turns out to be completely innoc...



  • Tim Maleeny
    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....



  • Marcia Talley

    Cancer survivor Hannah Ives looked Death in the eye . . . and walked away victorious. But the terror she once felt in its shadow pales before the ice-cold fear that now grips her heart in the wake of an unthinkable crime: the kidnapping of Hannah's i...



  • David Lewman

    With a flap and a pop-up on every spread, a humorous fractured fairy-tale adventure follows the Three Little Neighbors, aka SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward, as they find houses to live in before Small Bad Plankton comes along to destroy their new h...



  • Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

    "An impressive debut" by "a promising young writer" (The New York Times Book Review), this intimate collection of stories illuminates the pivotal moments in family life, particularly between mothers and daughters. The "still and hauntingly ambiguous"...



  • Jim Jinkins

    Pinky wakes up one morning to find that her lovely yellow hair has turned bright, raving pink! When she discovers how and why, she and her little brother also learn that change, big or small, can be a good thing....



  • Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

    MERE ANARCHY A new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trek® history, continuing with an adventure that takes place during the historic five-year mission! Book 1: THINGS FALL APART Mestiko: a world on the brink of interstellar space ...



  • Kim Vogel Sawyer

    Carrie Mays knows that to whom much is given much is required. That's why she has to figure out what to do with the large inheritance she's about to receive. She doesn't want people to look at her and see dollar signs; she just wants to be loved for ...



  • Thomas Nelson

    He's b-a-a-a-ck. The new Bibleman is on duty to defend kids from the dastardly dirty deeds of the devil's dupes.

    Something has gone very wrong with the local little league team. They're dissing each other and their coaches, resulting in a c...



  • Stef Penney

    10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION - FEATURES READING GROUP QUESTIONS AND NEW MATERIAL FROM STEF'S UPCOMING EPIC NOVEL, UNDER A POLE STARCOSTA AWARD WINNER and WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER. A breathtaking tale of mystery, buried secrets and romance, set in nineteen...



  • J.R. Moehringer

    Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradi...



  • Roxanne Rustand

    Much more than she bargained for... All Abby Cahill wanted was a quiet summer job in the beautiful Wisconsin woods. But the hospital where she's filling in turns out to be overcrowded, understaffed and decidedly stretched for cash. And as if she d...



  • Sara Faith Alterman

    Just when you thought you'd put the past behind you-; the forlorn crushes, the awkward fashions, the cliques, the pigeonholes, those rampant, raging hormones-;it sneaks up on you when you least expect it, and suddenly you're invited to turn back the ...



  • Jeffrey S. Stephens

    THE ENEMY HAS A THOUSAND WAYS TO STRIKE. WE HAVE JUST ONE WAY TO RETALIATE. HIS NAME IS JORDAN SANDOR. In Targets of Deception, which suspense master Robert K. Tanenbaum called “a fast-paced thriller,†Jeffrey Stephens introduced CIA agent...



  • Jude Watson

    WHO ARE THE LAST OF THE JEDI? Since evil Emperor Palpatine destroyed the Jedi Knights and seized power, his reign has been absolute. He controls the Senate. He controls the Imperial Army. He controls the galaxy. He is a Sith. And now, for myst...



  • Marta Perry

    Finally meeting the wealthy family she'd never known should have given Corrie Grant the information about her father she'd craved all her life. But the Mannings of Savannah were a secretive and hostile bunch. All except Lucas Santee, her grandfather'...



  • Anna Maxted

    Cassie is slender, clever, charismatic, successful. The one flaw in her perfect life may be her marriage. Her sister Lizbet is plumper, plainer, dreamier. An aspiring journalist, she's stuck writing embarrassing articles on sex for Ladz Mag. Her one ...



  • Kathryn Ross

    Nicole's relationship with her handsome boss is not just business. She and Luke Santana work hard and play hard -- no complications, no strings attached, just perfect passion. But rules are made to be broken. Nicole wants more than Luke has promi...



  • 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, ...



  • Angie Sage

    THE PERFECT PRESENT FOR A GHOST Sir Horace is about to turn five hundred years old! Araminta and Wanda need to find him the perfect gift. Araminta finds an ancient sword in a grotto hidden under her haunted house -- and it should be a cinch to get i...



  • 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....



  • Robert Westfield

    A dazzling, remarkably original dark comedy about a young New Yorker's failed attempts to isolate himself in a city that won't take solitude for an answerFor years it's been Andy Green's job to stump students nationwide by coming up with the wrong an...



  • 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...



  • Miriam Toews

    "[A] memorable portrait of a struggling young person who finds unexpected resilience and peace . . . Hilarious, heartbreaking, and poignant." -- BooklistMiriam Toews welcomes her readers to the Haveâ€"aâ€"Life housing project (better known as Halfâ€...



  • Susan Wiggs

    Real estate expert Olivia Bellamy reluctantly trades a trendy Manhattan summer for her family's old resort camp in the Catskills, where her primary task will be renovating the bungalow colongy for her grandparents, who want one last summer together f...



  • Donna Birdsell

    Grace Becker needed to get a life... And thanks to '80s night, one too many Flaming Togas and a game of Truth or Dare with her girlfriends, this woman who has let her Day-Timer rule her life has found excitement in spades. Rather than reveal the t...



  • 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...



  • Dean Wesley Smith

    Strange New Worlds 9 celebrates the 40th anniversary of Star Trek by featuring stories that span the entire universe! Each of these unique stories is based on original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Tre...



  • Luis Sepulveda

    A cat. A seagull. An impossible task.
    A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperback!

    Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her fi...




  • Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    From Marrakech to China's Forbidden City, from a doomed starship carrying a cryogenically preserved crew to an island prison camp, the fate of the world is being played out in the minds of two dreamers. One, a would-be assassin obsessed with enigmati...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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 ...




  • 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...



  • Holly O'Dell

    Kate Brown has the opportunity of a lifetime: If she successfully completes her next big project, she’ll be promoted to partner in her publicity firm -- one of the best in Manhattan. The only trouble? The “big project†is restoring the image...



  • 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!....



  • Pat Olliffe

    The wall-crawler's back in Midtown High's hallowed halls when award-winning creator Kurt Busiek reveals lost lessons of Spider-Man's early career! Return to the first starts of our hero's circle of friends and foes, and meet the ones Lee and Ditko fo...



  • 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...



  • Marisha Pessl

    Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her f...



  • Sharon M. Draper

    Ziggy and his friends blast off to space camp in this freshly repackaged chapter book from bestselling author Sharon Draper! Ziggy and his friends are excited to be going to Space Camp, where they'll get to learn about weightlessness and how astro...



  • Julian May

    King Conrig Ironcrown's plan-to preserve his ruthless reign over High Blenholme Island by marrying his heir, Orion, to a barbarian princess-lie in ruins. The Salka are launching an audacious attack to seize the heart of High Blenholme, and King Conri...



  • 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...




  • Suzanne Enoch

    It was lust at first sight . . . She was a vision, an exotic goddess who floated across the ballroom, conjuring images of warm nights and silk sheets, and Lord Charlemagne Griffin felt lightning shoot straight to his . . . well, he was definitely i...



  • Karen White-Owens

    The course of true love never runs according to plan, at least not for Shae Weitherspoon whose love life is in need of critical care. As a nurse practitioner her focus is always on others, especially patients and clinic staff. When drop-dead gorgeous...



  • Marilyn Pappano

    Romance writer Jayne Miller was determined to make a new life for herself and her daughter, far from the heartache she'd left behind. She arrived in a late-winter storm -- only to collide with a snow-dusted stranger. Her neighbor Tyler Lewis seeme...



  • 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...



  • P.J. Tracy

    Already major bestselling authors in the UK, the brilliant creators of the Monkeewrench team and their law-abiding counterparts on the Minneapolis PD are setting a new standard for the modern thriller, combining brilliant plotting, razor-sharp dialog...



  • Max Allan Collins

    Luck is on the side of most during the incident at the Four Kings Casino and Hotel, when the simmering tension between two rival biker gangs suddenly boils over into all-out violence -- miraculously, there are only two fatalities despite the hundreds...



  • 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 ...



  • Jake Logan

    Slocum’s caught in the middle of a rancher’s rumble…  When an American and a Mexican rancher square off over some border-hopping cattle, they hire gunslingers to settle the dispute. And Slocum finds himself up against his sometime friend a...



  • William Joyce

    Olie must find a way to turn Pappy’s frown upside down -- all before bedtime -- in this classic picture book-turned-beloved-TV-show from the brilliant mind that brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.It’s bedtime in the Rol...



  • Xinran

    It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China.Xinran made the...



  • Karyn Witmer

    Avery and Mike thought they had the perfect American family until their daughter ran away. Now Fiona’s back in town...and nothing will ever be the same again.

    Avery Montgomery’s life changed forever in the checkout line at the Food-4-Less ...



  • Janet Logan

    Silver Butterfly is a love story that spans a half-century. Junior high school sweethearts Steve and Serena are parted at fourteen when Steve's family moves from Brooklyn, New York to south Jersey. By the time fate reunites them, Serena has been marr...



  • Sarah Morgan

    Dr. Alice Anderson doesn't believe in love--no matter how much the small community of Smugglers Cove tries to persuade her otherwise. That is until she meets the doctor she will be working with...the charming Sicilian, Dr. Giovanni Moretti. Gi...



  • Jeff VanderMeer

    An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris--previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen--Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and ho...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Terri Reed

    When physician's assistant Gwen Yates arrived at the airport for her mission trip to Africa, she was shocked to find her boss had made her the new trip leader...and added his handsome son to the expedition. Worse, as executive director of Healing Mis...



  • Marcia King-Gamble

    Desiree Alexander has never been happier. A popular teacher at a prestigious prep school in Baltimore, she's sure the position of dean is hers for the taking. But before the final decision is made, a shocking secret from Desiree's past comes back to ...



  • Suzann Ledbetter

    Suzann Ledbetter has researched and written about American history for almost twenty years. The depth of her work is reflected in these well-crafted and enormously entertaining biographies of little-known---till now---Shady Ladies. Some were crackpot...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Brandt Dodson

    The next fastâ€"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 -- ...



  • 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...



  • Don Pendleton

    As the free world stands united against the ruthless onslaught of global terrorism, a covert, action-ready force known only to the President operates behind the scenes, on red alert. A crack cybernetics team works tirelessly assessing and fielding in...



  • Ann Purser

    She's mopped up Murder on Monday and flushed out Fear on Friday. But on Saturday, working-class mum and cleaner extraordinaire Lois Meade finds that part-time sleuths never catch a day off... Gossip thrives in the village of Long Farnden and Lois ...



  • Lois Richer

    WHOM COULD SHE TRUST? With a happy marriage, a thriving business and a beautiful young daughter -- Shelby Kinkaid and her husband had the perfect life. Until he was killed in a mysterious accident. After that, Shelby's life revolved around litt...



  • Heather Reed

    Life in Rock Valley is nothing like Paris, with its fashion shoots and runway shows, and that's just how Angela Kensington wants it. Five years after she left to become a famous clothing designer, Angela can't wait to come home and relax. She's made ...



  • Ellen Meister

    At once tender and hilarious, this captivating story turns suburbia upside down, revealing the inner lives of three characters who have more humor, heartache, and heat than one PTA can hold When a Hollywood location scout comes to Applewood, Long...



  • Melanie Milburne

    Bought: the mother of his child! Jake Marriot had always been clear about the terms of his relationships-no marriage, no babies. So when Ashleigh Forrester found out she was pregnant with his child, she ran! But Jake's back. The billionaire has...



  • Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    It is difficult growing up in the shadow of heroes revered throughout the galaxy. But that is the lot of young Khorii-daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate, Aari-who must now follow her own destiny through a fantastic universe of wonders ...



  • Mike Lawson

    Joe DeMarco, a political gunslinger and trouble-shooter for John Mahoney, the conniving Speaker of the House, is asked to investigate what appears to be a minor case of fraud at a U.S. naval base. DeMarco discovers instead that an Asian espionage rin...



  • Kyle Mills

    Brandon Vale is a career thief---the best there is. Or at least he was before he was thrown in prison for a jewel heist gone bad. And even more embarrassing, he had nothing to do with it. His time inside is going fairly quietly until the night he's b...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Marilyn Todd

    The latest adventure for the glamorous Roman sleuth Claudia. Blackmailed into investigating the murder of a child in south-west Gaul, Claudia is plunged into a bizarre world of nature priestesses, known as the Hundred Handed, who talk with their hand...



  • Adam Felber

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



  • Jin Kobayashi

    HAVE A NICE DEITY!

    Love (in the form of Tsukamoto Tenma) betrayed Harima Kenji, but he has moved on in an effort to find himself. He’s become a fortune teller who can communicate with animals. Some even mistake him for a helpful deity who wa...




  • 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...




  • Neil Griffiths

    Under a searing Calabrian sky, detective Daniel Wright is shown the worldĂ¯Â¿Â½s most famous stolen painting Ă¯Â¿Â½ CaravaggioĂ¯Â¿Â½s Nativity. As a Caravaggio lover and expert in art recovery, he is determined to rescue it from the mafia bosses w...



  • Karen E. Quinones Miller

    Regina Harris has been through it all, orphaned at 13 and forced to use street wits to survive. Now living in Harlem with her four-year-old daughter, she thinks her life has finally stabilized--but where there's Regina, there's always drama. She runs...



  • Charlotte Hardy

    A powerful love story set in 19th century Whitby Sarah Shaw arrives in the fishing port of Whitby alone and almost destitute, fleeing her abusive husband. In desperate need of accommodation and employment, she takes a post as governess in the househo...



  • James Ponti

    Ho...ho..ho...Scott Calvin (aka Santa Clause) is back and everything seems perfect for him and his family. But when Jack Frost tries to take over Clause’s holiday, Santa has to pull double-duty. He must figure out away to keep his family happy and ...



  • 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 Ponti

    Ho...ho...ho...Scott Calvin (aka Santa Clause) is back and everything seems perfect for him and his family. But when Jack Frost tries to take over Clause’s holiday, Santa has to pull double-duty. He must figure out away to keep his family happy and...



  • Kelly McClymer

    Prudence Stewart had it all at Beverly Hills High: straight A's, the cutest crush, and a sweet gig as captain of the cheerleading squad. Then poof! Mom and Dad announce they're moving to Salem, Massachusetts. Turns out, Pru comes from a long line of ...



  • 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...



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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.




  • Lucy Hawking

    Tired of her unfulfilled, unfocused life and going-nowhere career selling fake antiques, thirty-something Fleur Bonner joins the other misfits, lonely, and lost individuals of the Battersea Park New Runner's Club to train for the London marathon, but...




  • 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...



  • Patricia McLinn

    SOMETHING TO PROVE... Everyone thinks life has been easy for pretty, popular Jennifer Truesdale. In reality, it's been anything but--especially since her no-good ex-husband left her in dire financial straits with a child to raise. She'll show them a...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Tucker Malarkey

    A lost past. A hidden Gospel. A shocking discovery. It's 1948, and British nurse Gemma Bastian travels to Cairo to close the affairs of her late father, staying at the home of David Lazar, her father's oldest friend, and his enigmatic sons. While...



  • 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...



  • Jill Elizabeth Nelson

    The Art of Art Thievery When Hiram Jacobs is murdered, the responsibility for his internationally renowned security company falls upon his daughter, Desiree. But a container full of stolen paintings screams the ugly truth - that her father was a thie...



  • Simon Kernick

    There is only one truth left in your world. They want you. And they want you dead -- the new stand-alone thriller by crime-writing's rising star. John Meron, a happily married father of two, who's never been in trouble, receives a phone call that ...



  • Beverly Martin-Lowry; Sue Blotz

    When Megan Wakefield returns home from college, the last thing she expects is to find her father's ranch transformed into an elaborate movie set, complete with an Old West-style main street and an entire film crew on location from Hollywood. Megan ma...



  • M.L. Tyndall / MaryLu Tyndall

    Lady Charlisse Bristol sets off on a voyage in search of a father she never knew, only to find herself shipwrecked on a desert island. Near starvation, she is rescued by a band of pirates and their fiercely handsome leader, Edmund Merrick. Will Charl...



  • Peter Sasgen

    A United Nations-brokered detente between North and South Korea is about to make history when two powerful bombs rock Midtown Manhattan, killing the warring nations' representatives as well as innocent bystanders. A renegade North Korean general is b...



  • Kathleen Creighton

    Paris is the perfect haven for a runaway prince. Until a black-garbed figure trailing a tantalizing perfume steals into Nikolas Donovan's hotel room. And something about his sensual assailant is hauntingly familiar.... Attack first and ask questio...



  • 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...




  • Bill Yenne

    When there was nowhere else to turn, President Tom Livingstone called his old friend General Buck Peighton, and from the shadows, Peighton called on the Raptor Force. . . .***Why can't somebody stop them! The woman screamed, breaking into tears as sh...



  • Michelle Reid

    Bedded for revenge When Enrico Ranieri discovers that Freya has hidden the existence of his son, he demands her hand in marriage. Enrico won't give Freya his heart, but he will give her his special brand of bedroom pleasure.... Wedded for pas...



  • Timothy Sheard

    In the midst of a brutal heatwave, the hospital workers at James Madison University Hospital are outraged by the death of a young woman from a botched abortion. They say the cold-blooded surgeon Dr. Odom is a murderer. But hospital bosses defend him,...



  • Mandy Loader

    At last the fishing net lay in the bottom of the boat. Lek stepped forward and opened the net. He picked up the blue and white thing. It was a plate, Lek started to laugh. But his friend Daeng thinks the plate could be worth alot of money....



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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....



  • Jay Brandon
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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....



  • Helen Bianchin

    Purchased for his pleasure... Kayla removed Spanish billionaire Duardo Alvarez's wedding ring after just seventy-two hours of marriage. But now desperate circumstances have forced Kayla to beg her ex-husband for help. Duardo's price is ...



  • Christine Ricci

    Dora the Explorer wants to give her puppy a bath. But first she has to find him! - Level One expands the vocabulary and uses longers sentences for kids who are just starting to read. Some Level One books also employ rebuses or picture icons....



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  • 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...



  • Lauraine Snelling

    Bestselling Author Lauraine Snelling Returns to Her Beloved Red River Valley.... Unforgettable stories of the next generation ELLIE WOLD CAN'T WAIT TO GRADUATE. She and Andrew Bjorklund have been waiting to get married since...well, since forever, ...