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New Books List: 627 titles

  • The Messenger of Athens

    Anne Zouroudi

    Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched by the modern world. So when the battered body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of a cliff, the local police--governed more by archaic rules of honor than by the law--are quic...

  • Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

    Gabrielle Zevin

    If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have ...

  • Heaven Sent

    Dynah Zale

    Heaven is a recovering drug addict who was just released from prison to a female Christian halfway house. The problem is that she doesn't believe she has a drug problem. She has no intentions of staying clean, until she meets Deacon Washington, a you...

  • Crusade

    Robyn Young

    The year is 1274, and, after years of bloodshed, peace reigns in the Middle East, in part due to the efforts of a mysterious group known as the Brethren. However, one of their number, Will Campbell, suspects that the Brethren have been betrayed. Thei...

  • Don't Say Anymore Darling

    Fumi Yoshinaga

    Kouhei is a doctor at the local university hospital who lost touch with his high school friend Tadashi. While Kouhei grew up to become a successful young doctor, Tadashi became a jobless, poor-as-dirt, flaming g...

  • Flower of Life, Volume 3

    Fumi Yoshinaga

    • It is Christmas and Harutarou and his classmates have big plans for the holiday. But when the cake, the tree and the music turn up missing, all that is left for them to do is commiserate under the Christmas Eve sky.
    ...

  • A Woman in Jerusalem

    A.B. Yehoshua / Abraham B. Yehoshua

    A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily ac...

  • The Banquet Bug

    Geling Yan

    Geling Yan captivates readers once more in her breakthrough novel. This is the fantastical tale of Dan Dong, an unemployed factory worker whose life takes a series of unexpected twists after he discovers that, by posing as a journalist, he can eat ex...

  • Fright

    Cornell Woolrich

    A man. A woman. A kiss in the dark. That is how it begins. But before his nightmare ends, Prescott Marshall will learn that kisses and darkness can both hide evil intent--and that the worst darkness of all may be lurking inside him. Lost for more...

  • Lottery

    Patricia Wood

    Perry's IQ is only 76, but he's not stupid. His grandmother taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so he won't forget them. She taught him to play the lottery every week. And, most important, she taught...

  • When I'm Not Myself

    Deborah J. Wolf

    Once again, with astonishing truth and refreshing humor, Deborah J. Wolf brilliantly depicts a woman's real joys and sorrows during love, loss, and starting anew... Sometimes a marriage is over long before it officially ends. When Cara's husband pa...

  • Zane's Trace

    Allan Wolf

    A coming-of-age road story with a supernatural twist -- and a compulsively readable poetic novel about identity and belonging. Zane Guesswind has just killed his grandfather, or so he believes. So he steals the 1969 Plymouth Barracuda his long-gon...

  • Counting on Grace

    Elizabeth Winthrop

    1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a "doffers" on their mothers' looms in the mill. Grace's mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she...

  • The Duke's Baby

    Rebecca Winters

    The French Duke's contract bride! Lance Malbois, Duc du Lac: a hardened military man with a scar that crosses his cheek--and reaches right to his heart. But all he wants is to hold a child in his arms and be called 'Daddy.' Andrea F...

  • Barfing in the Backseat: How I Survived My Family Road Trip

    Henry Winkler; Lin Oliver

    Hank's dad has decided to enter a crossword-puzzle tournament, and he wants to make a family road trip of it! So the family piles into the car -- along with Frankie and Katherine the iguana (Hank and Emily each get to bring a "friend"). When they rea...

  • Absolute Certainty of Life after Death

    Donald J. Wilton

    THIS IS THE STORY OF TWO MEN. ONE VERY RICH. ONE VERY POOR. THEY BOTH DIED.Most people are intrigued by the subject of life after death. Whether in a classroom, at church, or talking with a friend over a cup of coffee, the same questions are asked ov...

  • Paper Hearts

    Debrah Williamson

    From the acclaimed author of Singing With the Top Down comes a poignant tale about makeshift families and the healing power of friendship.   Fifteen-year-old runaway Chancy Deel arrives in the picture-perfect town of Wenonah, Oklahoma, needing a...

  • Knifeboy

    Tod Harrison Williams

    Friends. Family. Housekeepers. All's Fair in Love, War, and Knife Selling. Check your dignity at the door as you stride across the welcome mat with Jay Hauser in this insightful and strangely touching story about young love, fear, manipul...

  • The Italian Billionaire's Secret Love-child

    Cathy Williams

    Pregnant by the ruthless tycoon After Charlotte Chandler was seduced by gorgeous Riccardo di Napoli, she was shocked to find he was from an elite Italian family and was one of the country's wealthiest businessmen. Knowing the powerful tycoon c...

  • Inhuman

    Eileen Wilks
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    Kai has a secret gift of sensing thoughts and desires. What she senses in her neighbor Nathan could be dangerous. Because he has a secret gift, too, and it's about to be let loose....

  • The Padova Pearls

    Lee Wilkinson

    A pearl beyond price... Rare beauty Sophia Jordan has captured wealthy businessman Stephen Haviland's eye. And in Venice he'll execute his ruthless plan.... Sophia is swept off her feet by the handsome British billionaire, not realizing th...

  • Almost Famous

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    All Stacy Carter thought she wanted was a quiet, traditional life. One man, one woman, two-point-five kids and a dog. Maybe a minivan. She never envisioned a stock car thrown into the mix! That was before she met Jake Hinson, recovering from a boatin...

  • French Kiss

    Lori Wilde

    Summer Jacobs was only looking for a hot fling when she ventured into the Bare Buns strip club. Her seize-the-day attitude lands her on stage with a gorgeous stripper and so begins a steamy affair. Buff and broad in all the right places, her delici...

  • Dockside

    Susan Wiggs

    LONG, LAZY DAYS... HOT SUMMER NIGHTS With her daughter grown and flown, Nina Romano is ready to embark on a new adventure. She's waited a long time for dating, travel and chasing dreams. But just as she's beginning to enjoy being on her own, she ...

  • Standard of Honor

    Jack Whyte

    In 1187 one of the few survivors of the Battle of Hattin, young Scots Templar Alexander Sinclair, escapes into the desert despite his wounds. Sinclair has learned about the execution of the surviving Templars after the battle, so when he is rescued, ...

  • Jacob's List

    Stephanie Grace Whitson

    A story of reconciliation ... against all odds Crushed by the loss of their only son, estranged couple Pamela and Michael Nolan reunite to realize some of the dreams on Jacob's bucket list. But for Jacob's parents, the list will prove to be about a l...

  • The Northern Devil

    Diane Whiteside

    Every woman needs a devil by her side. Rachel Davis would rather risk death than remain a prisoner of the ruthless man intent on gaining her inheritance. Trapped on a private train with the villain, she makes a desperate bid for escape and runs in...

  • Off the Record

    Elizabeth White

    Judge Laurel Kincade has it all---brains, beauty, and an aristocratic Old South family to back her up. A political rising star, she's ready to announce her candidacy for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Journalist Cole McGaughan has ambiti...

  • Lady Merry's Dashing Champion

    Jeane Westin

    In Restoration England, smart and determined Meriel St. Thomas, orphaned ward and lowly servant, is thrust into a game of international intrigue ... and the adventure of a lifetime... It seems Meriel -- called Merry -- looks exactly like the wife ...

  • Jaden's Secret

    Tracey West

    Get your game on!

    When new rare cards come to Duel Academy, Chazz & Dr. Crowler are determined to keep them away from Jaden. But, as usual, Jaden has a few tricks--and some serious dueling talent--up his sleeve....

  • Night Spies

    Tracey West

    Get your game on!

    Jaden may have defeated Nightshroud, but the Shadow Riders have not given up their quest to free the Sacred Beast cards! And Academy Island is already buzzing with rumors of a strange new arrival.

    The latest challenger...

  • The Bloody Trail

    Joseph A. West

    In this Ralph Compton western, a wagon train goes dangerously off course...

    Jeremiah Correy is leading his family in a wagon train to Oregon when his plans are waylaid by a group of bounty hunters led by Sam Madigan, who take a man from Correy...

  • The Cowboy And The CEO

    Christine Wenger

    Workaholic Susan Collins wasn't the Gold Buckle Ranch's typical visitor--or camp counselor. The high-powered CEO was more likely to write a check to help disabled children than to teach them arts and crafts. For Susan, it was all business, never pers...

  • Lost in Austen

    Emma Campbell Webster

    Bringing together Jane Austen's most beloved characters and storylines -- a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, decide the outcomeName: Elizabeth Bennet.Mission: To mar...

  • The Nurse He's Been Waiting For

    Meredith Webber

    A nurse, a police officer--a powerful chemistry Beautiful nurse Grace O'Riordan has always been in love with sexy police officer Harry Blake. Harry is recently widowed, so Grace knows she must keep her distance if the friendship she values so deep...

  • The Ace

    Debra Webb
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    They don't call Vegas Sin City for nothing. And now that prime tourist season is around the corner, it's time to kick some criminal butt. Enter three full-throttle Vegas detectives, ready to eat their undercover assignments alive.... Clarissa Ri...

  • Ghost Rider, Volume 2: Life and Death of Johnny Blaze

    Daniel Way

    Collects Ghost Rider (2006) #6-11. How did Johnny Blaze end up in Hell, anyway? It's simple, really: He died. And when he died, his eternal soul - long promised to Hell in exchange for "saving" Crash Simpson - descended into the Pit, taking the Ghost...

  • Wolverine: Origins, Volume 3: Swift and Terrible

    Daniel Way

    Collects Wolverine Origins #11-15. Like father, like son?! Having finally seen his face, Wolverine sets out to rescue his son from the grasp of the shadow society that once enslaved him. But Logan's son doesn't want to be saved -- he wants revenge ag...

  • Against the Empire

    Jude Watson

    As the Empire's power grows, Rebels face a choice: give in... or fight. Some form pockets of resistance on battleground planets, some go undercover, trying to fight the Empire from within. And others watch and wait. For Ferus Olin, hatred of the ...

  • The Devil's Possession

    Heather Waters

    She was a woman called to lead... Ordinarily, women do not become Highland chieftains. But Faith Maitland is no ordinary woman -- until a violent encounter in the forest crushes her courage and leaves her pregnant. And now, because no clan will accep...

  • The Overlord Protocol

    Mark Walden

    HOW FAR WILL OTTO GO TO PROTECT HIS FRIENDS? Otto Malpense and his friends thought their first year at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education was the most adventurous and exciting that they would ever encounter. They were dead wrong. When Ott...

  • Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four - Volume 6: Monsters & Mysteries

    Fred Van Lente

  • Last Dance at the Frosty Queen

    Richard Uhlig

    On the dock of a lake in a tiny town at the corner of Nowhere & Nowhere, he sits counting the seconds until his high school graduation--at which point Arthur M. Flood intends to leave his hick life far behind in the brown Kansas dust. That's the plan...

  • The Restitution

    M.L. Tyndall / MaryLu Tyndall

    Lady Isabel Ashton, scorned by society after the birth of her illegitimate child, longs to regain wealth and position-despite Christ's call on her heart. But when her son is kidnapped, she's forced to seek the aid of the man who pirated her purity. H...

  • In at the Death

    Harry Turtledove

    Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA’s worst enemy, while a holocaust...

  • American Cream

    Catherine Tudish

    After Nathan Rownd is injured in a tractor accident, his daughter, Virginia, leaves her suburban life and returns to Tenney's Landing with her teenage son to work the family farm. She struggles with the long periods of separation from her husband and...

  • Led Astray

    Pat Tucker

    When her wild friend Alex returns home, Keisha SaintJohn, a reformed party girl, decides to escape the boredom of her marriage by partying, running men, and kicking up drama, destroying her one chance at true happiness and pushing away the one man wh...

  • The Road Home

    Rose Tremain

    In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaura...

  • Ghost Gets Dressed!

    Janee Trasler

    Ghost and Monster are back for another hilarious Halloween misadventure!

    Ghost wears a hat...
    Ghost wears a scarf...
    Ghost wears mittens...
    Ghost even wears a hot pink coat!

    But Monster's had enough--he needs som...

  • The Novice Bride

    Carol Townend

    As a novice, Lady Cecily of Fulford's knowledge of men is nonexistent. But when tragic news bids her home immediately, her only means of escape from the convent is to brazenly offer herself to the enemy...as a bride! With her fate now in the hand...

  • The Swan Maiden

    Heather Tomlinson

    In the quiet hour before dawn, anything can happen. A third daughter can dream of being a creature of flight and magic, of wearing a swan-skin like her sisters. But Doucette must run the castle household while her older sisters learn to weave spells....

  • PrettyTOUGH

    Liz Tigelaar

    Bubbly, blond Krista brown is pretty and popular. Her sister, Charlie, is more interested in braving the Malibu waves than the halls of the school that Krista rules. but when Krista and Charlie are both recruited to the school's soccer team, they are...

  • The First Commandment

    Brad Thor

    A master assassin. A vendetta years in the making. And a counter terrorism operative who will risk everything -- even treason -- to keep the people he loves alive. Brad Thor, the New York Times bestselling author of Takedown, delivers an explosive...

  • Death of a Murderer

    Rupert Thomson

    Rupert Thomson--"a true master," according to the San Francisco Chronicle--now gives us his most powerful work yet: the story of a woman who, even after her death, inflames an entire nation, and of the man who comes under her spell. Having spent d...

  • Nappily Married

    Trisha R. Thomas

    Venus Johnston debuted with brazen personality and spirited humor in Nappily Ever After as she searched for the holy grail of marriage. Blessed with a beautiful baby daughter and a husband who is a former rap star with his own multi-million-dollar cl...

  • Women of Marvel - Volume 2

    Roy Thomas

    More classic tales of Marvel's leading ladies! Featuring Kitty Pryde, Black Cat, Dagger, Spider-Woman, Tigra, Rogue, Storm and more! Collects Avengers #83, Uncanny X-Men #168, Strange Tales #10-11, Spider-Woman #10 and more...

  • Ryan's Renovation

    Marin Thomas

    Manhattan Recluse Meets Queens Do-Gooder A sky-high Manhattan office tower is the perfect place for Ryan McKade to hide from wounds both physical and emotional. Until, that is, his meddlesome grandfather puts a stop to his seclusion and arranges f...

  • High-Stakes Honeymoon

    Raeanne Thayne

    Oops -- forgot the groom! While honeymooning solo might be unconventional, ex-bride-to-be Olivia Lambert couldn't see wasting a fabulous trip to Costa Rica just because her former fiance turned out to be pond scum. Imagine her surprise when a ha...

  • Battleline

    Jack Terral

    The SEALs known as Brannigan’s Brigands are in Afghanistan facing their biggest challenge yet. An elite force of Iranian extremists, along with mercenaries from every rogue regime, is poised to launch a major offensive. Their goal is simple: take o...

  • The Bomb

    Theodore Taylor

    It is 1946, a year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and World War II is over. But the U.S. government has decided that further tests of atomic bombs must be conducted. When Bikini Atoll is chosen for the testing site, the inhabitants of ...

  • Linden Woods

    Michael Taylor

    A story of love and heartbreak in the Second World War - With the country preparing for war, beautiful Linden Woods finds employment as a secretary at a Black Country steelworks, where she befriends the charismatic and liberated Penny, daughter of we...

  • The Sweet Spot

    TaRessa

  • Malice

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    New York District Attorney Butch Karp, recovering from an assassination attempt that came within a few millimeters of killing him, takes on a shadowy cartel that uses terrorists to further its criminal empire while sliding the United States toward a ...

  • The Haunted Playground

    Shaun Tan

    Gavin is obsessed with hunting for treasure with his metal detector. He finds the perfect spot, a huge, sandy playground. Then he meets a bunch of kids who have a mysterious treasure hunt of their own. Gavin gets the feeling they want him to stay for...

  • Shiki Tsukai, Volume 1

    Yuna Takanagi

    MAGIC WARRIOR

    On the day he turns fourteen, Akira discovers his destiny: He’s a shiki tsukai, a warrior with the magical power to control the seasons. He also meets the beautiful Koyomi, another warrior, who is sworn to protect him. For ther...

  • Lucinda, Darkly

    Sunny

    For time out of mind, Lucinda has dwelt in eternal darkness. Ad a demon dead princess, she exists in an endless, joyless realm. But she is about to discover a need she never knew existed -- not for power, not for blood -- but for a more dangerous pa...

  • Hulk and Power Pack: Pack Smash!

    Marc Sumerak

    When the Power Pack, a group of super-powered siblings, discover what happens to Dr. Bruce Banner when he becomes angry, they must decide if they will stand by him since it may mean fighting every other hero in the universe....

  • The Executive's Vengeful Seduction

    Maxine Sullivan

    Damien Trent's time for revenge was at hand. The Australian businessman had bided his time, waiting for Gabrielle Kane to return. She'd dared to leave his bed years ago without a word...but now she needed him if she was to save her family's company. ...

  • Taken By The Viking

    Michelle Styles

    Slave...or mistress! A VIKING RAID They claimed they came in peace, but soon Lindisfarne was aflame. Annis of Birdoswald fled in fear, but she could not escape the Norse warriors. AN HONORABLE CAPTOR One man protected her -- Haakon Harold...

  • Silver Surfer: Requiem

    J. Michael Straczynski

    For untold years Norrin Radd has surfed the galaxy, exploring the darkness between stars, witnessing the rise and fall of vast civilizations. Now his ride is about to come to an end. It starts with a small spot - a blemish that will spread until he i...

  • The Mysterious Cheese Thief

    Geronimo Stilton

    Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing adventure stories. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are funny, fa-mouse-ly funny. They are whisker-lick...

  • Stefan's Story

    Cynthia Stierle

    Easy-to-read text provides the inside scoop on the hilarity of what it is like to be Mr. Bean's travel buddy from Stepan, the little boy who travels through France with Mr. Bean in the new Mr. Bean motion picture from Universal Studios. Original....

  • Last Breath

    Mariah Stewart

    As renowned archaeologist Dr. Daria McGowan readies the most important project of her career--a university museum exhibit showcasing the priceless artifacts her great-grandfather unearthed a century earlier in the Middle East--she makes a shocking di...

  • Get More

    Nia Stephens

    This bombshell is about to find the boy of her dreams--and then some... Ask anyone at Briona's A-list private school and they'll tell you this It Girl's got the world on a string. It doesn't hurt that she's often mistaken for Beyonce, or that she's ...

  • Victory Square

    Olen Steinhauer

    The revolutionary politics and chaotic history of life inside Olen Steinhauer's fictionalized Eastern European country have made his literary crime series, with its two Edgar Award nominations along with other critical acclaim, one of today's most ac...

  • The Follower

    Jason Starr

    In New York City's work hard, play harder singles scene, a young woman looking for love can find herself the object of a deadly obsession. With each meaningless date and disappointing new boyfriend, Katie Porter is becoming more and more disillus...

  • A Deadly Dealer

    J.B. Stanley

    Amateur sleuth Molly Appleby has a keen knowledge of antiques, a special fondness for collectibles, and a canny acquaintance with the criminal mind... Covering the famous Heart of Dixie antique show for Collector's Weekly, Molly gets an unwelcome sc...

  • Risky Business Of Love

    Yahrah St. John

    Reporter Ciara Miller is working the congressional beat, waiting for the big story that will earn her a spot on the evening news. Then she meets senatorial candidate Jonathan Butler. He's powerful, charismatic and the sexiest man Ciara has ever ...

  • The Longest Christmas List Ever

    Gregg Spiridellis

    Little Trevor is determined to not leave ANYTHING off his Christmas list so he carries it with him everywhere he goes...for an entire year.  Trevor thinks of eveything he could possibly want:Binocular glasses with night-vision mode!A rip-roaring...

  • Love, Stargirl

    Jerry Spinelli

    LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date t...

  • Guardian of the Veil

    Gregory Spencer

    What if the fabric of our world were stretching or tearing...or getting thinner...and we could step through that veil into another world? It's been a month since the Misfits -- four friends who like to commiserate -- were catapulted out of their adv...

  • ES Vol. 6: Eternal Sabbath

    Fuyumi Soryo

    LIFE AND DEATH

    Dr. Mine Kujyou is out to save the world. She’s determined to stop Isaac, a genetically engineered superbeing, from destroying humanity. But her quest has led her somewhere unexpected: to an ordinary woman who can’t escape h...

  • Murder By Mushroom

    Virginia Smith

    Serving up murderous munchies at a church potluck social wouldn't win any popularity contests, as Jackie Hoffner discovered. Someone had laced the casserole she brought with poisonous mushrooms... and the deadly dish had fellow churchgoer and town fu...

  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    Tod Smith

    Are all the lights on? Is there a parent in the house? Are the windows shut and locked? Double-check! They HAVE to be if you are going to read this book, which is undoubtedly the scariest rendition of one of the greatest ghost stories ever told: Th...

  • The Fox

    Sherwood Smith

    Attending the King's Military Academy had been Inda's greatest dream. But Academy reality is far from what he'd imagined-for by defending the second son of the king, Inda becomes embroiled in a vicious political struggle among the nobility that he ha...

  • The Servants

    Michael Marshall Smith

    For young Mark, the world has turned as bleak and gray as the Brighton winter. Separated from his real father and home in London, he's come to live with his mother and her new husband in an old house near the sea. He spends his days alone, trying to ...

  • The Bracelet

    Karen Rose Smith

    Sometimes she hadn't known where she'd left off and he'd begun The bond between them was instant: Laura Malone a flower-power antiwar protestor, Brady Malone a duty-bound soldier heading off to Vietnam. He'd returned a changed man,...

  • The Careful Use of Compliments

    Alexander McCall Smith

    In the latest beguiling installment of this beloved series, Isabel Dalhousie -- the nosiest and most sympathetic philosopher you are likely to meet -- returns to investigate an irresistible puzzle in the art world. Isabel Dalhousie now has a son, Ch...

  • The World According to Bertie

    Alexander McCall Smith

    There is never a quiet moment on 44 Scotland Street. In The World According to Bertie, Pat deals with the reappearance of Bruce, which has her heart skipping--and not in a pleasant way. Angus Lordie's dog Cyril has been taken away by the authorities,...

  • Storm of the Dead

    Lisa Smedman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Lolth Always Plays to Win When goddesses sit down to play a game, the stakes are the souls of their worshipers, and their own immortality. Not even the other gods of the Demonweb Pits can resist the draw of that fateful game, and one has already fal...

  • Beyond Reach // Skin Privilege

    Karin Slaughter

    In a stifling hospital room in a small Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits, silent and angry--the only suspect in a horrific murder. Soon, a hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver will get the call that his young detective has been arr...

  • Spaceman Blues

    Brian Francis Slattery

    When Manuel Rodrigo de Guzmán González disappears, Wendell Apogee decides to find out where he has gone and why. But in order to figure out what happened to Manuel, Wendell must contend with parties, cockfights, and chases; an underground city whose ...

  • Letting Loose

    Joanne Skerrett

    Paradise When It Sizzles... Boston schoolteacher Amelia Wilson has always played it safe. But after a tough breakup from her boyfriend, she's ready to have some fun and take a few risks. So when friends hook Amelia up online with Drew Anderson, she...

  • Deceptions

    Susan Sizemore

    They are the Enforcers. An elite group of vampires who must serve and protect their secret community--and uphold the...LAWS of the BLOOD Olympias has long reigned as the Enforcer of Washington, D. C. Over the years, she has made many enemies--yet ...

  • Primal Desires

    Susan Sizemore

    Enter a world of dark, irresistible passions, where a powerful vampire finds the one woman who can satisfy his every hunger.... In Las Vegas, Jason Cage is known as "The Beast Master." But his onstage feats of magic are nothing compared to the abi...

  • My First Book of Su Doku: Numbers, Letters, Colors, & Shapes

    Rafael Sirkis

    Today's hottest puzzle game meets today's most basic learning concepts in our youngest version of Su Duko ever!

    Now even the youngest puzzle solvers can enjoy Su Doku! By completing these number, letter, shape, and color challenges, children w...

  • Fatal Charm

    Linda Joy Singleton

    In this vivid fifth volume of The Seer series, Sabine Rose is reunited with her ill grandmother Nona and her friends at Sheridan Valley. But the excitement of curing Nona-and discovering love with someone new-doesn't outweigh the burden of her father...

  • Last Jew Standing

    Michael Simon

    Detective Dan Reles gets caught between his father and a gangster with a passion for other people?s pain

    Lieutenant Dan Reles has a new house, a beautiful wife, a son, and a great career as head of Austin Homicide. But when his ex-con father?...

  • Dark Prince

    Eve Silver

    Fallen Angel... Along the barren, rocky coast of Pentreath in Cornwall, a woman's battered body washes ashore, and the whispers begin: Nowhere is safe. For evil has come to Pentreath...and to the uneasy shadows of Trevisham House... Tempting De...

  • The Secret Servant

    Daniel Silva

    While in Amsterdam, Israeli intelligence officer and master art restorer Gabriel Allon discovers a plot that is about to explode in the middle of London. The daughter of the American ambassador is to be brutally kidnapped. But Gabriel arrives too lat...

  • Last Breath

    George Shuman

    Following close on the heels of his celebrated debut 18 Seconds, George Shuman returns with yet another remarkable thriller featuring investigative consultant Sherry Moore -- a blind woman with an uncanny ability to view the final living moments of a...

  • Pretty Tough

    Nicole Leigh Shepherd

    Bubbly, blond Krista Brown is pretty and popular. Her sister, Charlie, is more interested in braving the Malibu waves than the halls of the school that Krista rules. But when Krista and Charlie are both recruited to the school's soccer team, they are...

  • I Conquer Britain

    Dyan Sheldon

    A bohemian Brooklyn teen crosses the pond to visit an uptight English family in the hilarious companion to SOPHIE PITT-TURNBULL DISCOVERS AMERICA. The exchange of daughters that began in SOPHIE-PITT TURNBULL DISCOVERS AMERICA continues! Excited (n...

  • Caught Off Guard

    Kathryn Shay

  • Alaskan Vengeance

    Jon Sharpe

    White snow, red blood…Skye Fargo loves poker, especially when the pot includes an Alaskan gold mine -- and he’s the winner. But when he arrives in Alaska to claim his riches, Fargo learns that there are plenty of vicious cutthroats, greedy Russia...

  • Nate the Great Talks Turkey: With Help from Olivia Sharp

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    A giant turkey is on the loose Nate, the great detective, and his dog, Sludge, hear the news on the radio. But Nate doesn't want to take a case that everyone in town is on. Not even when Claude claims that he saw the turkey, then lost him in the ...

  • Secrets of the Sea

    Nicholas Shakespeare

    Torn by tragedy from his early life on a remote farm in Tasmania, Alex Dove has returned years later to start over. A chance encounter with quiet, alluring Merridy Bowman--a young woman similarly haunted by a tangled and catastrophic history--results...

  • Suzuka, Volume 5

    Kouji Seo

    FIRST KISS

    Yamato has been in love with Suzuka since the first time he laid eyes on her. But when his old friend Honoka surprises him with a kiss, he can’t seem to take his mind off of her! Will hottie Honoka end up luring Yamato away from S...

  • The Lonely Moose

    John Segal

    Moose has no family, no friends, and rarely entertains visitors. That is, until the day he rescues a bird that cannot fly. Bird turns Moose's solitary life upside down. He sings in the mornings, talks all day long, and he likes to eat worms!...

  • Hair Ball from Outer Space

    Kirk Scroggs

    This kooky, creature-crammed romp for early readers keeps the pages turning with pictures--and laughs--on every page. In HAIRBALL FROM OUTER SPACE!, could Gramma really be brainwashed by aliens who want to take over the planet with fast food joints--...

  • King of Storms

    Amanda Scott

    A knight born to rule and a lady learning to love...Both will risk their lives and their hearts to protect the priceless treasure of the Templars. Lady Sidony Macleod may be used to domineering lords, but her dignity and grace have always held the...

  • When the Wizzy Foot Goes Walking

    Roni Schotter

  • Chill-out Scooby-Doo: Novelization

    Scholastic Inc.

    SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past 3 generations. This book is one of two tie-ins to the latest in WB's hit series of home videos.

    Get ready for the ultimate chiller - in China! What was supposed t...

  • Let's Go Rescue!

    Scholastic Inc.

    Learn to read with Diego and his friends as they rescue animals in this phonics book bind-up!Based on the best research on how children develop reading skills, the six books in this bind-up introduce a carefully selected progression of letter sounds,...

  • Useful Fools

    C.A. Schmidt

    Alonso, a dirt-poor teenager living in Peru, helps out at the public health clinic his mother, Magdalena, opened, so that he can see Rosa, the beautiful and wealthy daughter of the clinic's doctor. Alonso and Rosa are both shattered when Magdalena is...

  • The Whirlwind

    Alan Savage

    The fourth novel in the Second World War saga of the Bayley brothers. In the winter of 1942, it is the job of the youthful General Max Bayley, son of an English RAF World War I ace and a German mother, to protect transport planes dropping supplies t...

  • The Well of Ascension

    Brandon Sanderson

    Evil has been defeated. The war has just begun. They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Ventur...

  • Chill-out Scooby-Doo

    Sonia Sander

    SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past 3 generations. This book is one of two tie-ins to the latest in WB's hit series of home videos.

    Get ready for the ultimate chiller - in China! What was supposed t...

  • Once Upon a Nervous Breakdown

    Patrick Sanchez

    Patrick Sanchez delivers a hilarious, moving, and all-too-true snapshot of a generation of women stretched between extremes, frazzled by time and tides, and determined to make everything work without losing themselves in the process. Jennifer Costa...

  • Love, By George // Their Joined-Up Family

    Debra Salonen

    Name: George Breed: Harlequin Great Dane Identifying Traits: One blue eye, one brown eye... and a propensity for trouble! George was last seen escaping from the home of his recently divorced owner, restaurateur Brad Ralston. He wasn't we...

  • Cast In Secret

    Michelle Sagara

    STOLEN GOODS WERE SO MUCH EASIER... Still avoiding magic whenever possible, Corporal Kaylin Neya relished investigating a regular theft once again. Until she found out the mysterious box was taken from Elani Street, where the mages and charlatans ...

  • Mr. Putter & Tabby See the Stars

    Cynthia Rylant

    When Mr. Putter eats twenty-one of Mrs. Teaberry's pineapple jelly rolls right before bed, his stomach has a lot to say about it -- and Mr. Putter cannot sleep. Looks like it's the perfect night to take Tabby out for a moonlit walk.......

  • Burdens of Empire

    C.J. Ryan

    It's the 33rd century, a time of unparalleled peace and prosperity, but on a far-flung planet, humanity's reign may be about to end.... Alien terrorism, sectarian violence, armed insurgency -- it was a police action on a backwater planet that many on...

  • The Witch's Amulet

    Lucy Ruggles

    Trouble's brewing in Halloweentown! Summer has arrived in Halloweentown, but for Marnie Piper that doesn't mean beaches, suntans, and ice cream. It means trouble. As a resident advisor at Witch University's Summer Sorcery School, it is up to Marni...

  • What If . . . You Broke All the Rules

    Liz Ruckdeschel; Sara James

    In What If. . . You Broke All the Rules, Haley will turn 16 on Valentine's Day. But there won't be any big parties or celebrations to mark the occasion--her parents are so distracted by their own lives that they forget her birthday. Haley's dad is ab...

  • Monkey Star

    Brenda Scott Royce

    When Holly Heckerling heads to Hollywood to work as an animal trainer on a big-budget movie, she finds herself fantasizing about leaving New York behind for good. But she's reluctant to say goodbye to her boyfriend, Tom, or Tallullah, the monkey who ...

  • Mayflower Treasure Hunt

    Ron Roy

    The hunt is on! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are spending Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They can't wait to see the sights and have a Thanksgiving dinner just like the Pilgrims would have eaten. Then the kids learn about a sapphire necklace th...

  • Emile: or On Education

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Two hundred years before Jean Piaget did a twenty year longitudinal study of his children, Rousseau did this longitudinal study of an imaginary child. This novel is a story of how Rousseau would have raised such a child placed in his charge. As full-...

  • Duck Duck Wally

    Gabe Rotter

    Meet Wally Moscowitz. His day job is top secret. As ghostwriter for Oral B, the most famous gangsta rapper in the world, Wally is the real mastermind behind Godz-Illa Records' best-selling artist, and the best-kept secret in the Industry. But if word...

  • Mitch Takes A Wife

    Ann Roth

    Had He Come For Her? Mitch Matthews was a regular guest at the Oceanside B and B, but had never before arrived without a beautiful woman at his side. This time he was here alone, to work on his book. So why, if he'd come here for solitude, did he ...

  • White Flag Down

    Joel N. Ross

    In June of 1941, two years after signing a on-Aggression Pact, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Within six months, the Russians lost a thousand miles and three million men--and in, 1942, the relentless German Wehrmacht swept into Stalin's names...

  • Paradise X - Volume 1

    Alex Ross

    In Universe X, Captain Marvel led a charge against Death and killed her. But now that Death is dead, no one will ever die again. They may writhe in pain in hospitals because their bodies have been broken beyond repair, but they will not die. They wil...

  • Tide of Darkness

    Aaron Rosenberg

    After killing the corrupt Warchief Blackhand, Orgrim Doomhammer was quick to seize control over the Orcish Horde. Now he is determined to conquer the rest of Azeroth so that his people will once again have a home of their own in the... WORLD OF WARC...

  • Beyond Cool

    Bev Katz Rosenbaum

    Apparently being frozen for ten years hasn't made me any cooler... The next in the hot series about a girl whose life is really on the rocks. Floe Ryan was frozen at sixteen because of a rare disease. Now she's been thawed back to her normal ...

  • I Just Want My Pants Back

    David J. Rosen

    Jason Strider is a twentysomething young man in the city, with an English degree from an Ivy League university, a very small apartment in the West Village, a vapid job as a receptionist at a casting agency--and no particular idea what to do with his ...

  • The Playboy's Passionate Pursuit

    Emilie Rose

    Sexy, wealthy daredevil Toby Haynes had bet his best friend he could seduce starry- eyed Amelia Lambert into his bed. When she left him after a single night of passion, Toby swore he would win her back-- then he would be the one to walk away! M...

  • Caught Redhanded

    Gayle Roper

    Mysteries followed reporter Merry Kramer everywhere. Case in point: On a morning jog one day, she discovered the body of a murdered woman. The small-town journalist had to find out who'd committed the horrible crime. And the more she dug, the more sh...

  • Collectopia: A Friendship Scraptacular

    Catherine Rondeau

    COLLECTOPIA IS A world where imagination runs wild! In A Friendship Scraptacular, one of two titles in the Collectopia series, girls will spend hours scrapbooking, journaling, collecting, and laughing with their friends. With 128 pages of giggle-indu...

  • The Heir and the Spare

    Maya Rodale

    All of London is raving about the newly arrived American, Emilia Highhart. She has beauty, charm, wit, and a hint of the exotic. Unfortunately, grace is decidedly not one of her virtues. Staircases, doors, even floors have proven her enemies, often l...

  • The Wildcard

    Joanne Rock
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    They don't call Vegas Sin City for nothing. And now that prime tourist season is around the corner, it's time to kick some criminal butt. Enter three full-throttle Vegas detectives, ready to eat their undercover assignments alive.... Clarissa Ri...

  • Clint Adams, Detective

    J.R. Roberts

    While in Hannibal, Missouri, Clint Adams helps Sam Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, prove the innocence of a black man accused of killing a white woman, proving that the gun is mightier than the pen. Original....

  • Poltergeist

    Kat Richardson

    Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died-for two minutes. Now she's a Greywalker-walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "st...

  • The End of The Alphabet

    C.S. Richardson

    Ambrose Zephyr is a contented man. He shares a book-laden Victorian house with his loving wife, Zipper. He owns two suits, one of which he was married in. He is a courageous eater, save brussels sprouts. His knowledge of wine is vague and best define...

  • X-Men Pop-Up

    Caroline Repchuck

    Metallic pop-ups on every spread!

    Celebrate the select team of mutant teenage heroes known as the X-Men! This second in a series for real Marvel fans features original 1960s comic-book excerpts, leap-out-at-you metallic pop-ups, dramatic actio...

  • Death Head Crossing

    James Reasoner

    The Texas Two Step... Death-Head Crossing is just the name of a little town in Texas--until the population starts shrinking one body at a time. But the deaths are as mysterious as the face of the murderer, and only gunslinger Hell Jackson has what i...

  • Bad Girl in Town

    Realbuzz Studios

    Everyone needs a little Serenity--or do they?She's only five feet tall and 98 pounds - but she's one tense bundle of attitude and anger.Serenity's life is a mess on every front. Now she's got one last shot at a fresh start . . . but her new school se...

  • My Life So Far

    Chloe Rayban

    Hollywood Bliss Winterman and her mega-famous popstar mother Kandhi are moving to New York City, and as usual, things are anything but blissful. An army of stylists and assistants are constantly fluttering around her mum, Holly's father has a severe ...

  • The Money Gun

    Robert J. Randisi

    Faulkner is a money gun, a gun for hire, and has been for twenty-five years. But that doesn't mean he's a hired killer. He'll use his gun if he has to, but only as a last resort. That looks pretty likely on his latest job. He's agreed to watch his fr...

  • Buffalo Mountain

    Frederick Ramsay

    It's the bleak midwinter and the Shenandoah Valley is poised on the brink of an unusually icy and snowy season. Alexei Kamarov's body is discovered in a forest within the Picketsville town limits. His driver's license identifies him as Randall Harris...

  • The Death of Corrine

    R.T. Raichev

    Seeking refuge at her godmother's country estate in the wake of a series of death threats, French diva Corinne finds her peace and quiet compromised by the machinations of unwelcome guests, including agent Maître Maginot, private detective Jonson, a...

  • The Saturday Wife

    Naomi Ragen

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  • The Rebellion

    Jean Rabe
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Jean Rabe returns to the world of Dragonlance with a tale of slavery, rebellion, and the struggle for freedom! When a series of earthquakes strike a Dark Knight mining camp, goblin and hobgoblin slaves take advantage of the bedlam and revolt. A fa...

  • The Whopping Great Big Bonkers Joke Book

    Puffin

    What is the definition of a snail?A slug with a crash helmet.What sound do hedgehogs make when they kiss?‘Ouch!’This is Puffin's biggest and best joke book ever created, possibly in the world! Packed with so many crazy jokes, including knock knoc...

  • Fred and Anthony Meet the Demented Super-deGerm-O Zombie

    Elise Primavera

    Fred and Anthony may have escaped the evil dentist, Dr. Nietsneknarf -- but they never did finish their horrible hideous history project. So when the boys fail the class, they figure the only way to convince their diabolical teacher, Mr. Bomzie, to c...

  • Let's Decorate Christmas Stickers

    Roger Priddy

  • Case of the Groaning Ghost

    James Preller

    Got a mystery to solve? Who you gonna call? Jigsaw Jones! But not this time. When ghosts start haunting Jigsaw's classmates close to Halloween, there's a new ghost-buster in town -- Bobby Solofsky! He's stealing Jigsaw's clients right and left. N...

  • Ghost Cat and Other Spooky Tales

    James Preller

    A new collection of spooky, funny, and mysterious short stories for young readers from popular children's author James Preller.

    A scary new house.
    A horrible monster hiding in the closet.
    An imaginary friend that does very bad things. <...

  • Cold Moon Home

    Julia Pomeroy

    Fall is coming to Bantam, NY, the small town where Abby Silvernale waits tables at the InnBetween. Seasonal business is slowing down and her boss, Dulcie, is forced to cut back on shifts, leaving Abby no choice but to take a part-time secretarial job...

  • Secret Agent Reunion

    Caridad Pineiro

    He had risen from the dead Posing as the fearless assassin code-named the Sparrow had nearly cost Danielle Moore her life. Now the Lazlo operative must finish her mission. Then she meets her new partner. Agent Mitch Lama. Her former lover. A man w...

  • Starburst

    Robin Pilcher

    When the fireworks cascade over Edinburgh castle on the Festival's final night, the magic begins... Every summer, the Edinburgh International Festival attracts celebrated artists, musicians, comedians, and actors to the beloved Scottish city. Hund...

  • The Passenger

    Christopher Petit

    The mother of all conspiracy theories?' The Times James Collard and his son Nick are on flight 103, from Frankfurt to London, then going onto New York just beforeChristmas in 1988. James leaves the plane after the first leg in London, leaving ...

  • Hide In Plain Sight

    Marta Perry

    She couldn't turn her back on her family in their time of need. So when her sister was injured, financial expert Andrea Hampton traded the big city for Amish country to help turn her grandmother's house into an inn. But life with the Plain...

  • Love's Healing Touch

    Jane Myers Perrine

    In the middle of a busy hospital emergency room, Dr. Ana Ramirez couldn't help but notice orderly Mike Fuller's quick skills and impressive bedside manner. And, yes, his very good looks. So she proposed a simple cup of coffee to talk about his future...

  • Love, Lies & Videotape

    Kayla Perrin

    Jasmine St. Clair always dreamed of starring in movies. She just wasn't expecting her most famous role to be in the intimate home video that her sleazy boyfriend secretly made in hopes of furthering his own film career. With her "good girl" image in ...

  • Brain Freeze

    Rhea Perlman

    A complete summary of the story

    Crash!

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  • Orange Alert

    Don Pendleton

    FURY SPIRAL The prolonged conflict between the Irish Republican Army and the Protestant Nationals is escalating beyond Ireland's borders. Now America is being lured into the cross fire through a deeply rooted conspiracy designed to force the U.S. ...

  • Red Frost

    Don Pendleton

    If seconds count and justice demands rapid response and swift action against enemies prepared to unleash terror and mass murder, the covert agency known as Stony Man is the President's last means of delivering answering blows that conventional law en...

  • The Toy Farmer

    Andrew Pelletier

    Finding an old toy tractor driven by a miniature farmer in the attic, Jed delights in his new plaything, especially when his carpet begins to grow green shoots with large, prize-winning pumpkins coming right off the vine!...

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    Mal Peet

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  • Shugo Chara!, Volume 2

    Peach-Pit

    FRIENDS IN NEED

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    Diana L. Paxson

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    Gary Paulsen

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  • Shadow of the Gun

    Lewis B. Patten

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    Victoria Pade

    HOME WAS THE LAST PLACE HE WANTED TO BE... Only the direst emergency could bring Jared Perry back to the small town he'd left at eighteen, swearing he'd never return. But he couldn't turn his back on a family member in trouble. And he never expected...

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    Alison Pace

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  • The Accidental Sleuth

    Helen Macie Osterman

    TROUBLE NEXT DOOR Life is good for sixty-something Emma Winberry. She's got a beautiful Chicago lakefront condo, a loving new man to share it with, and her nose for trouble is hardly twitching. That is, until she tries to help a teenage visitor ne...

  • Monday with a Mad Genius

    Mary Pope Osborne

    History, mystery, and magic! Jack and Annie are on a mission to save Merlin from his sorrows! Charged with finding the second of four secrets of happiness, the brother-and-sister team travels back in the magic tree house to the period known as the...

  • Seduced By The Wealthy Playboy

    Sara Orwig

    SHE NEEDED HIS MONEY Unless Brittany Garrison came up with cold hard cash right away, she'd lose her beloved restaurant. So when handsome millionaire Emilio Jefferies offered her an irresistible proposition, Brittany signed on the dotted line and se...

  • Darkwing

    Kenneth Oppel

    As the sun sets on the time of the dinosaurs, a new world is left in its wake. . . .DuskHe alone can fly and see in the dark, in a colony where being different means being shunned -- or worse. As the leader's son, he is protected, but does his future...

  • Prada Princesses

    Jasmine Oliver

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  • The Ex Factor

    Anne Oliver

    Melanie Sawyer's intense affair with Luke Delaney was fuelled by an all-consuming desire. Both knew it couldn't last -- she was a waitress, he was the son of a millionaire. Feeling out of her depth, Mel ended it -- but was left with an enduring remin...

  • Loving and Losing

    Pamela Oldfield

    The latest book from a perennially popular author - September 1918: the First World War is nearly over, but a virulent form of influenza is sweeping through the world. No one is safe. Eve waits for her husband Harvey, a scientist, to return to Englan...

  • The Museum of Dr. Moses

    Joyce Carol Oates

    In "The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza" a woman's world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend's death--and what her father is capable of. Meanwhile, a businessman desperate to find his missing two-year-old grandson in "Sui...

  • In the Midnight Hour

    Patti O'Shea

    Anise is trouble Ryne is a magical troubleshooter, sworn to protect the innocent from being harmed by magic--and she's been chasing Anise, her former mentor, for six years. Deke is a private investigator who knows something key to defeating Ani...

  • Dead Right

    Brenda Novak

    The people of Stillwater, Mississippi, are asking questions about murder. Again. Twenty years ago Madeline Barker's father disappeared. Despite what everyone else thinks, Madeline's convinced her stepfamily had nothing to do with it. But the recen...

  • The Long Walk Home

    Will North

    The miracle of love after loss and longing The Long Walk Home is a story about grief and hope, about love and loss, and about two people struggling with the agonizing complexities of ?delity -- to a spouse, to a moral code, to each other, and to a...

  • Wednesday Night Witches

    Lee Nichols

    On the outs with her live-in boyfriend, Eve Crenshaw flees Manhattan for a different kind of island life off the coast of Maine. With the help of her college roommate, Natasha, and her friend Kim, she rents a seaside cottage and waits for her boyfrie...

  • Slummy Mummy

    Fiona Neill

    A smart, laugh-out-loud debut novel about a deeply flawed but endearing stay-at-home mom, a book for anyone who took Bridget Jones to heart a decade ago-and now has kids. Lucy Sweeney has three sons, a husband on a short fuse, and a tendency towa...

  • Accidental Mistress

    Susan Napier

    BEDDED -- BY MISTAKE! The things she had to do to save her family business! That night Emily Quest had dressed to the nines -- in a tight slinky dress, killer heels -- and had gone to an awful champagne-drenched party with Auckland's elite -- where...

  • April and the Dragon Lady

    Lensey Namioka

    April Chen is happily planning to go away to college, and she has a great new boyfriend, Steve. But as the only girl in her family, April is expected to take care of her grandmother. And Grandma, "the Dragon Lady," hates Steve and has other plans for...

  • The Void

    Mark Mynheir

    Someone's trying to play God... and he's turning Palm Bay into hell. Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agent Robbie Sanchez devotes her life to crime prevention, and it shows: She has no personal life and doesn't know the meaning of a day off...

  • Wart

    Anna Myers

    Stewart has plenty of reasons to dislike his new art teacher, Wanda Gibbs. Not only did she give him the awful nickname "Wart" at school but she has also started dating his dad. She must have placed his dad under some sort of spell, which is ...

  • The King's Gold

    Yxta Maya Murray

    One look at the centuries-old document she receives from a mysterious stranger is all it takes to plunge Lola Sanchez--a brilliant bibliophile and owner of the Red Lion bookshop--into the adventure of an already adventurous lifetime. The ancient writ...

  • Something Wicked

    Catherine Mulvany

    Falling passionately in love with a mysterious, sinfully sex man can lead to Something Wicked Investigative reporter Regan Cluny is in hot pursuit of a reclusive philanthropist who is financing a mysterious archaeological dig in the California de...

  • Cowboy Stories

    Multiple Authors

    From stampeding cattle to steadfast sheriffs, there is something irresistible about a good cowboy story. Cowboys are the quintessential American heroes and their exploits have inspired some of the greatest American writers to craft some of their fine...

  • Sweeter Than Honey

    Mary B. Morrison

    In this tale, Honey Thomas, a survivor who's risked everything to reinvent herself, now must decide what kind of life--and love--she wants. Lace St. Thomas operates Immaculate Perception, a wildly successful Las Vegas firm that pairs wealthy male...

  • From the Ashes

    Mark Stanleigh Morris

  • The Courtship

    Gilbert Morris

    Lanie Freeman and her siblings have survived the Great Depression without their father. They are convinced that he has been unjustly imprisoned. Lanie’s strong-willed sister, Maeva, runs away to Los Angeles to find the one woman in a city of thousa...

  • My Heavenly Hockey Club, Volume 2

    Ai Morinaga

    KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!

    Hana Suzuki has it good: she’s the only girl in the Grand Hockey Club, and all the other members are super-hot guys. But the dream may be over. If the Hockey Club doesn’t win its next match, the school will disband i...

  • The Rest of Her Life

    Laura Moriarty

    Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy -- the effects of ...