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New Books List: 464 titles

  • Beside Still Waters

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    When evil leaves her destroyed, Eva Riley will never be the same. Her friendship with Jonesy must end. Even if he did feel more than friendship for her, knowledge of her soiled present and tragic future would turn his love sour. Pushing him away is a...

  • Body Box

    Lynn Abercrombie

    Terror He calls it the Body Box. It's a space too small for his victims to sit up or lie down. But it's the perfect place to keep them for his games--the perfect place to watch them while they die. Can't Be Bad choices and big mistakes have ...

  • Dreams of Justice

    Dick Adler

    Dick Adler reviews mysteries and thrillers every other week in his Crime Watch column for the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author, with the late Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, of Public Justice, Private Mercy: A Governor's Education On Death Row. Anthony Le...

  • Negima! Volume 8

    Ken Akamatsu

    THE WORST KEPT SECRET IN THE WORLD

    Ten-year-old magical prodigy and girls’ school instructor Negi Springfield has a new secret . . . and some of his more stubborn students are determined to uncover it. Few know that Negi has magical powers. ...

  • The Great Fake-Out

    Alice Alfonsi

    When Phil's class goes on a field trip to Pickford Tomato Ranch where everybody gets barefoot to stomp on tomatoes, Phil becomes nervous that his classmates will discover his secret that he's from the future since he only has four toes....

  • Midnight Magic

    Shari Anton

    ONE MAN'S FORTUNE From the moment the warrior arrives to claim her and her land, Gwendolyn de Leon's reaction is swift and fierce. She refuses to yield, not to the knight who slew her brother in battle. But Alberic of Chester is a powerfully sensu...

  • Forgotten Souls

    T.G. Arsenault

    Andrea Varney spent her childhood in cemeteries, finding a certain peace in the quiet cities of the dead. As the first whispers of the dead fill her ears, Andrea learns of a mission she must fulfill: to remember the dead who have lost their hold in t...

  • The Final Key

    Catherine Asaro

    The Final Key is the second and concluding part of the story known as Triad, which began in Schism. Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within the royal family, as Sauscony defied her father and joined the Skolian m...

  • Royal Blue

    Kathryn Attalla

    Advertising executive Nick Lanborne is about to land the biggest account of his career. His proposal for his campaign: hire Princess Alexis Markova, heir to the last ruling family of Montavia, to be spokesperson for a new fragrance called Royal Blue....

  • Atlantis Reprise

    James Axler

    GLORIOUS FOLLY For Ryan Cawdor, leader of a small group of post-apocalypse survivalists, it's the inner fire of survival that guides them through this hell on earth...to whatever lies beyond the daily fight for existence. There are times when the obl...

  • The Boys and the Bees

    Joe Babcock

    A gay 12 year old boy begins his first year of junior high with the vow that this will be the year that he kisses a boy. Like The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers -- only lighter, brighter and more youthful -- The Boys and the Bees is set in Minneapoli...

  • Bridge of Rama

    Ashok K. Banker

    The original Ramayana -- a classic tale of war between absolute Good and Evil -- was written 3,000 years ago by Valmiki, a reformed thief-turned-sage. Now, with breathtaking imagination, Indian novelist Ashok K. Banker has recreated this epic tale ...

  • Stop The Presses!

    Steven Banks

    SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick start a newspaper business. But when the first issue comes out no one wants to read it! Will the two budding businessmen figure out how to sell more newspapers? Find out in this newsworthy story!...

  • Where Three Roads Meet

    John Barth

    From the National Book Award winner, three linked novellas that “will stretch your mind, challenge your thoughts, and bend your reality” (Charlotte Observer).John Barth, “one of the greatest novelists of our time” (Washington Post Book World)...

  • Murder on the Mind

    L.L. Bartlett

    After a mugging in Manhattan leaves him with a broken arm and fractured skull, insurance investigator Jeff Resnick reluctantly agrees to recover at the home of his estranged half brother, Richard. At first, Jeff believes his graphic nightmares of mur...

  • The Manticore's Secret

    Samit Basu

    Book Summary of Manticore's Secret : Gameworld Trilogy 2 Being a Hero isn t easy but it s a lot easier than being a Dark Lord. Dark forces just aren t what they used to be in the good old days. The Manticore s Secret is the spellbinding sequel to The...

  • The Time In Between

    David Bergen

    In search of love, absolution, or forgiveness, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley of British Columbia and returns mysteriously to Vietnam, the country where he fought twenty-nine years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier. But his new encounte...

  • Blood Avatar

    Ilsa J. Bick

    BODY OF SECRETS... The first body that turns up in Farway, a secluded town on the planet Denebola, is from out of town. When the Denebola Bureau of Investigation and the legate's office from half a planet away decide to help identify the murder vict...

  • A Dark and Deadly Deception

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Chicago detective Marti MacAlister has her work cut out for her these days. First, during the filming of a big Hollywood movie on location in Lincoln Prairie, the body of one of the film's stars turns up dead, along the shores of the Des Plaines Rive...

  • Moonlight Masquarade

    Bonnie Blythe
    in

    Behind one feathered mask, four women of three different eras discover themselves surrounded by treachery and deception, intricate ploys, ill-bred engagements aristocratic crooks, fraudulent family, and even a few poor choices of their own. But love ...

  • Princess of Park Avenue

    Daniella Brodsky

    You can take the girl out of Brooklyn, but can you take Brooklyn out of the girl?

    Lorraine Machuchi has held on tight to her Brooklyn home, and to Tommy, the neighborhood guy she's been pining over for years. But the very guy she tossed ever...

  • 2Cool2BTrue

    Simon Brooke

    They're moving on up... Charlie Barrett, male model, is ready for a career change. It's not that modeling for ten years hasn't been fun -- the Paris shows, the VIP lists, the cool flat and even cooler model girlfriend. But he and Lauren are proba...

  • Chances

    Carolyn Brown

    Adelida Broussau took a big chance by saying she was Rueben Hamilton's new bride. But even a rat will stand up and fight when it's cornered and she was surely feeling the pinch of being pushed in the corner. Her sister, Maria, was dead. Her sorry, Ya...

  • Let's Do It Again

    Niobia Bryant

    WHERE'S THERE'S A WILL...THERE'S A WAY ? TO LOVE! Malcolm and Serena Saint James fell in love when they were school kids, and thought it would last forever. But a hasty marriage at eighteen led to an even quicker divorce...and a lifelong friendship d...

  • Transformers: Maximum Force

    Bob Budiansky

    Things go from bad to worse for the Autobots, with new adversaries, such as the Pretenders, stepping up to take them on! The balance of power shifts again in the ongoing battle for Earth... and Cybertron. Featuring several stories, this title is cont...

  • Transformers: Last Stand

    Bob Budiansky

    A terrifying new threat (if you're a robot!) surfaces - the Mechannibals! Autobot pretenders Landmine and Cloudburst are on the menu, and Decepticons Dreadwind and Darkwing are looking to serve them up on a platter. Featuring several stories, this ti...

  • Transformers: Treason

    Bob Budiansky

    Autobot leader Grimlock's erratic behaviour finally pushes Blaster over the edge. Out on his own, in open opposition to Grimlock's command, Blaster is suddenly public enemy number one... hunted by friend and foe alike. But Grimlock has other problems...

  • Transformers: Breakdown

    Bob Budiansky

    The stories that laid the groundwork for the entire Transformers Universe continue, as the Autobots mourn the death of their leader...Optimus Prime! Things go from bad to worse for the Autobots, as new adversaries step up to rock their world, from th...

  • Transformers: Dark Star

    Bob Budiansky

    Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Transformers with these classic collections! Featuring stories that have never before been collected, "Transformers: Dark Star" is packed with action and adventure for all ages! The saga of the Transformers conti...

  • Seas of Crisis

    Joe Buff

    The next world war draws toward its climax. Both the Allies and the Berlin-Boer Axis are bitterly deadlocked. But a familiar enemy from the past may hold the key to victory -- or could be the instrument of global Armageddon. In a war that needs e...

  • Scary Beautiful

    Niki Burnham

    Chloe Rand's life is great. She has a serious boyfriend, she's about to start her junior year of high school, and she has a tight group of girlfriends. But when her boyfriend moves across the country and decides the long-distance-relationship thin...

  • King Kong: The Junior Novel

    Laura J. Burns

  • King Kong: Escape from Skull Island

    Laura J. Burns

  • Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne - Volume 5

    John Byrne

    Learn the fantastic mysteries of Mister Fantastic's past as he searches for his time-tramping father and reveals his pre-FF invasion-foiling credentials in a fight against a monster in the classic Marvel style! Travel to a world of cowboys and amazon...

  • The Tennessee Kid

    Will Cade

    Sam, calling himself The Tennessee Kid, an outlaw rumored to be dead, in an attempt to impress his love interest, soon discovers that his clever ruse is all too believable when the real Kid's enemies, bent on revenge, come looking for him. Original....

  • Chasers

    Lorenzo Carcaterra

    It’s 1985, and the city that never sleeps is about to wish it had stayed in bed. The heinous machine-gun murder of innocent bystanders in a Manhattan restaurant shocks all five boroughs. The brutal slaying propels the surviving members of the Apach...

  • Lip Lock

    Susanna Carr

    Mistress Of The Moves Molly Connors can talk her way out of almost every situation. That is, unless she's around her boss, Kyle Ashton, a gorgeous computer tycoon with smoldering eyes and a long, lean body that doesn't quit. Every move he makes prom...

  • Desert Star

    Kim Carrington

    Engaged to Kyle, the man of her dreams, successful businesswoman Jill Alexander wants her best friend Bebe to find love too, but when her matchmaking attempts lead to disaster, she finds both her friendship with Bebe and her relationship with Kyle th...

  • With Love from Sam

    Rachel Carrington

    Karyn Morgan thought her life would end when the car she was driving spun out of control and capsized, killing her two-year-old son Sam. But she soon learns that agony carries its own life sentence when she discovers her husband, Jace, has never forg...

  • Cheating at Solitaire

    Ally Carter

    She's made a lot of money being single. But money isn't everything... Self-help guru Julia James is so good at being single that she's become famous for it -- advising women that they don't need a man to be happy. Then the unthinkable happens. Just ...

  • The Star Tablet

    Jay Caselberg

    While searching for his sixteen-year-old ward, Billie, who vanished with Dr. Antille, a professor on a quest to find a tablet of alien origin, psychic investigator Jack Stein stumbles upon an alien conspiracy that may alter the future of humanity. Or...

  • Endless Night

    Carla Cassidy
    in

    An innocent blind date spins out of control when two young lovers find themselves locked in a deadly embrace, trying to outrun the dark impulses of a killer.......

  • Brighid's Quest

    P.C. Cast

    TORN BETWEEN THE POSSIBILITIES... Fleeing her centaur clan's increasingly militant beliefs, Brighid Dhianna has begun to find peace and acceptance among the humans of Clan MacCallan. Still, she agrees to leave her newly formed friendships to guide...

  • A Fabulous Wedding

    Dianne Castell

    Her Second Chance After a health scare leaves Dixie Carmichael shaking in her cowboy boots, she puts her deli job on the back burner and pursues a lifelong dream of becoming an ace reporter. Ready to make a flaming statement about her brand-new outl...

  • Dead Reckoning

    Linda Castillo

    Assistant D.A. Kate Megason is about to prosecute the case of her career -- a senseless double homicide caught on video. But before she can bring it to trial, someone starts sending her terrifying messages. Someone who obviously knows Kate's deep, da...

  • Operation: Midnight Escape

    Linda Castillo

    AGENT-PROTECTOR AND THEN SOME Special Agent Jake Vanderpol swore he'd buried all tender feelings for Leigh Michaels. Until he learned that the arms dealer she'd testified against six years ago had escaped. Suddenly the memories were back... memori...

  • The King Imperiled

    Deborah Chester

    Now, evil strikes from the unlikeliest source amidst spells, intrigue--and heartless betrayal... Twelve years ago, King Faldain and his beloved warrior-wife Queen Alexeika, rescued their two daughters, taken forcefully from the palace by the barba...

  • Randall On The Run

    Judy Christenberry

    SHE'D SAVED HIS LIFE... When Jess Randall dragged a critically wounded man into her car, she had no idea he was a wanted whistle-blowing DEA agent. All she knew was that Steve Carter needed help -- help she could only find at her family ranch in Rawh...

  • The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe

    Sarah Churchwell

  • Icing on the Lake

    Catherine Clark

    New Year's Resolutions by Kirsten (with help from Crystal, Jones, and Emma) 1. Survive the month at my sister's house. Survive my 3-yr-old nephew and crazy sister. 2. Learn to ice skate better. Or not fall down. Or just get a cuter skating outfi...

  • Christmas Day Fiancee

    Lucy Clark

    The doctor's Christmas proposal! Dr. Marty Williams, the new pediatric registrar, is causing quite a stir amongst the female staff at St. Gregory's. Not only is he an excellent doctor, he is gorgeous, funny and single -- and he intends to stay tha...

  • The Dark Blue Depths

    Arthur C. Clarke

  • George and Rue

    George Elliott Clarke

    It was, by all accounts,, a “slug-ugly” crime. Brothers George and Rufus Hamilton, in a robbery gone wrong, drunkenly bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer. It was 1949, and the two siblings, part Mi’kmaq and part African, were both h...

  • The Scorpion's Gate

    Richard A. Clarke

    The insider whose warnings about terrorism on U.S. soil went unheeded--and whose book Against All Enemies rocketed to the top of the bestseller lists--now presents his first novel: an all-too-believable story of politics, oil, espionage, and the eart...

  • Bound By Honor

    Donna Clayton

    "DO YOU OWE ME, GAGE DALTON?" His answer, like his vow during their unceremonious nuptials afterward, had been, "I do." Before each other, they'd promised to love and honor, but unspoken was their own pledge. For Jenna Butler had saved this strang...

  • Shapers of Darkness

    David B. Coe

    The Forelands are at War The magic-wielding Qirsi and their Eandi masters have mobilized their forces. Tavis, an Eandi prince who was framed for murdering the princess to whom he was pledged, has at last avenged her death. Still, the murder and its ...

  • Dead Roots

    Nancy J. Cohen

    A haunted hotel, a family curse, mysterious Cossacks, hidden treasure, murdered guests . . . what looked to be a routine family reunion is turning into a serious Bad Hair Day indeed. One that's trouble all the way down to the .. . Marla Shore thou...

  • Trophy Wives

    Jan Colley

    ON THE HUNT FOR THE FINEST TROPHY Summerhill Lodge drew more than its share of exclusive clientele, and Ethan Rae was no exception. Lucy McKinlay couldn't help but notice the tycoon's rugged good looks, but it was the mystery lurking in those pier...

  • Road to Paradise

    Max Allan Collins

    As a young man, Michael Satariano fought Capone's gang in Chicago. Now in comfortable middle-age, he runs a mob casino in Lake Tahoe, with a loving wife, a teenage daughter, and a son earning medals in Vietnam. The year is 1973, and he believes his k...

  • What I Really Want To Do Is Direct

    Yvonne Collins; Sandy Rideout

    Roxanne Hastings has wanted to be a director ever since she started storyboarding home movies and demanding that her teacher recast her grade-school play... Even though working her way up the ranks of a film crew has been slow and sometimes grueli...

  • Dead Secret

    Beverly Connor

    In the depths of an unmapped cave, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon makes an astonishing discovery: a decades-old skeleton. Soon, the remains of two more bodies are found--one in an old car submerged in the waters of an abandoned quarry, another ...

  • Our House

    Pam Conrad

    Pam Conrad's treasure of a book is lavishly reillustrated by the incomparable Brian Selznick for a new generation of readers.

    Pam Conrad takes us into the lives of six kids in six different decades and celebrates the commonality of all our liv...

  • The Ying on Triad

    Kent Conwell

    Tony Boudreaux has only seven days to solve a ten-year-old murder and keep Bobby Packard from the needle. What he quickly discovers is that ominous forces exist that don't want Packard saved--forces that will go to any lengths to make sure Tony fails...

  • The Decoy Princess

    Dawn Cook

    Princess Contessa of Costenopolie knows everything a royal should about diplomacy, self-defense, politics... and shopping. She ought to. She had every reason to believe that she was groomed to rule. But her next lesson is in betrayal... The sudden...

  • The Snake Dance

    Dane Coolidge

    Milton Buckmaster, who was raised by the Navajos and goes exclusively by the name of Silver Hat, is faced with the difficult challenge of rescuing Lady Grace from the Hopi nation. It all starts when the eastern-educated son of a Hopi chief invites La...

  • A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies

    Ellen Cooney

    Charlotte Heath, a lively, independent redhead of humble beginnings, is married to the scion of the powerful Heath family. When, on her first outing after a long illness, she spies her husband, Hays, bending to kiss another woman in the village squar...

  • Mermaids Singing

    Dilly Court

    A desperate childhood. An uncertain past. One chance at happiness ... Born into poverty and living under the roof of her violent and abusive brother-in-law, young Kitty Cox dreams of working in a women's dress shop in the West End - a million mile...

  • A Different Kind of Man

    Suzanne Cox

    Emalea LeBlanc is a different kind of woman. Nicknamed "Doc" by the locals, she's a psychologist, a member of the volunteer search and rescue team and an avid motorcycle enthusiast. But she's haunted by memories of an abusive father and relationships...

  • What If?: Classic - Volume 2

    Jim Craig

    Daredevil's secret exposed? The identity of Thor passed down to another? A new Hulk? Multiple Spider-Men? Some of the ideas that shook Marvel's foundation got their start right in the realm of remote possibility overseen by the wondering Watcher! But...

  • Trust Me

    Caroline Cross

    SHE HAD TRUSTED HIM WITH HER HEART AND BEEN DEVASTATED. NOW SHE HAD TO TRUST HIM WITH HER LIFE. Lilah Cantrell: She couldn't imagine anything worse than being held in a Third World prison. Until she set eyes on Dominic Steele -- the very first man...

  • Last to Leave

    Clare Curzon

    Carlton Dellar, the esteemed poet, couldn't have hoped for a more eventful eightieth birthday. His extended family has gathered under the reproachful eye of his wife to celebrate what is silently suspected to be his last year. Hours later, the guests...

  • .52 Caliber Shoot-Out

    Kit Dalton

    Buckskin stumbles upon a whole new world of trouble when he arrives in San Diego and is immediately confronted by murderers, gunslingers, and claim jumpers, and once the smoke clears, he is only too happy to try his luck with the local ladies. Origin...

  • Destiny in Disguise

    Angie Daniels

    She has a secret…Mystery writer Desiree Davidson has been swept into a situation wilder than any she ever dreamed up in her books. She’s hiding out in a rundown house in Delaware, she’s changed her name to Destiny Davis, and has ...

  • The Reluctant Assassin

    Preston Darby

    When a man stumbles upon John Wilkes Booth's diary, he recounts the adventures of the most notorious assassin in U.S. history, detailing his relationship with General Custer and his rabble rousing days with Doc Holliday. Reprint....

  • The Life Saver

    Lilian Darcy

    Gorgeous Dr. Ripley Taylor is a lifesaver in more ways than one. Not only as a doctor, but also to his fellow doctor Jo Middleton -- he helped her out of her king-size rut (all work and no play, TV dinners with her cat) and revitalized her love life!...

  • Selected Writings

    Ruben Dario

    Born in Nicaragua, Rubén Darío is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distingu...

  • Missing in Action

    Peter David

    Peter David's unforgettable novels of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the Starship Excalibur remain one of Star Trek's most popular book series among fans. Now, David continues the thrilling new direction for the New Frontier universe begun...

  • X-Factor Visionaries: Peter David - Volume 1

    Peter David

    The name wasn't changed to protect the innocent, but everything else was as Peter David took over the series from the founding X-Men! Alumni of the X-Men, the New Mutants and the Avengers join refugees from odd corners of the X-Universe as the govern...

  • Oklahoma Sweetheart

    Carolyn Davidson

    The fact that Loris Peterson was carrying another man's child should have been enough to make Connor Webster despise her. But instead, he'd made her his wife! Some said that she had betrayed him. But Connor's fierce passion for Loris moved him to ...

  • Memory

    Bennett Davlin

    If your memories aren’t your own, then whose are they? One man is about to find out, as he accidentally ingests a mysterious drug that throws him into a hallucination so vivid that it seems real.   Now Dr. Taylor Briggs will embark on a journe...

  • Across

    Blue Dawson

  • Her Scoundrel

    Geralyn Dawson

    Dear Friends, Bad luck, bad timing and a truly bad decision have taken the mischief right out of this Menace. Grown-up and wiser, I'm finally ready to take charge of my life. I'm through being impulsive. I'm done being reckless. I will not take up...

  • Love Walked In

    Marisa de los Santos

    WHEN MARTIN GRACE ENTERS the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, Clare Hobbs--eleven ...

  • Otto

    Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

    Lisa St Aubin de Terán's Swallowing Stones is a fictionalized account of the extraordinary life of one Oswaldo Barreto Miliani, code-named Otto -- adviser to Castro, confidant of Salvador Allende, and sharp thorn in the sides of both the CIA and ...

  • Whirlwind

    Kathie DeNosky
    in

    Josh Garrett refuses to let storm chaser Kacie Davidson track a tornado across his Texas ranch alone. He's going with her. Now Kacie faces head-on danger from the powerful twister and from the mounting attraction between her and Josh....

  • Tycoon Takes Revenge

    Anna DePalo

    HAS THE PLAYBOY TYCOON MET HIS FATE? Clearly gossip columnist Kayla Jones, aka Ms. Rumor-Has-It, can't stand Noah Whittaker's type: old-money, charming and rarely without a beauty on his arm. The only thing he's good for is juicy fodder for her colu...

  • The Cardinal Rule

    Cate Dermody

    SOMETIMES A SPY HAS TO MAKE A TOUGH CHOICE. OR THREE. Somewhere in Italy, a powerful and secretive organization was creating an army of weaponized robots. The goal? To "persuade" the world that their vision of the future was the right one. And age...

  • The Cat Dancers

    P.T. Deutermann

    When two lowlifes rob a gas station, murder the attendant, and then incinerate bystanders who are filling up their minivan, the Manceford County, North Carolina, police quickly arrest the killers at a nearby motel. But a stubborn judge throws out...

  • Dean Devlin's Triangle

    Dean Devlin

    For centuries, the Bermuda Triangle has been the location of hundreds of mysterious vanishings. Ships big and small, fighter jets, by-planes, and crafts of all sorts have simply gone missing with no explanation and no clues. All kinds of theories hav...

  • Turnpike Flameout

    Eric Dezenhall

    TURNPIKE FLAMEOUT is a black comic ride through the underbelly of mega-stardom and the spins employed by handlers to ensure that crime pays. Quite well, actually.When a private jet crashes in the New Jersey Pine Barrens on the Fourth of July, the sea...

  • The Police Chief's Lady

    Jacqueline Diamond

    No One Knew Her Side of the Story... When Dr. Jenni Vine fled Los Angeles, she was trying to escape the taint of an old scandal. Luckily, most of the folks in small-town Downhome, Tennessee, seemed willing to give the lady doc the benefit of the d...

  • Chain a Lamb Chop to the Bed

    Denise Dietz

    Weight Winners, in Colorado Springs, is a support group for people who want to lose weight. Ellie Bernstein is its group leader. When Ellie's significant other, Peter Miller, a homicide detective with the C.S.P.D., invites her to vacation with him fo...

  • Vertical Dive

    Michael DiMercurio

    During NATO exercises, the French Navy unveils Le Vigilant, a nuclear submarine so advanced that it can elude any radar system in the water. But France's maritime marvel is about to become its own worst enemy. A band of Algerian terrorists has hijack...

  • The Pink Panther: Junior Novel

    Disney Book Group

  • Punisher: River of Blood

    Chuck Dixon

    The Punisher faces the Russian mob on its home turf, and the legendary Joe Kubert is there to lend his distinctive style to every explosive detail! Out of his element and outgunned, can the scourge of the American underworld hold his own in Mother Ru...

  • Close to Perfect

    Tina Donahue

    COVER ME, BABY... Real estate mogul Josh Wyatt is hotter than hot. That body. That wicked grin. Those eyes. The man can melt panty elastic with just one look--hell, he could melt driveway ice with just one look. And the tabloid photos of him emerg...

  • An Acquired Taste,

    Susan K. Downs
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    Couples clash over cups of coffee in these delightful novellas by a talented team of authors. In Fresh-Brewed Love, every reader's thirst for romance will be well satisfied. From a bookstore's coffee corner to neighborhood caf?s to a coffee company i...

  • All the Gold of Ophir

    David M. Drury

    When two of the Conglomerated Mining and Manufacturing Company employees are killed on the space station Jupiter - a "gold mine," as wealthy as the great Biblical mines of Ophir - in what appears to be an industrial accident, Private detective Mike F...

  • Tart Noir

    Stella Duffy

    They're the bad girls readers have been waiting for. And they're the heroines of this collection of wickedly edgy new stories of hot passion and cold calculation, written by the most exciting female voices on the British and American crime scene toda...

  • Patriot Trap

    Raymond Duncan

    Neal McGrath is not a spy. He's a university professor visiting Havana to research a book. Before he left the States, though, an old colleague from the CIA pressured him for a favor--get in touch with Elena Rodriguez, a beautiful and mysterious woman...

  • Yes, The River Knows

    Tracy Dunham

    Tracy Dunham's acclaimed debut Wishful Sinful introduced us to Tal Jefferson, an attorney who fled the big city in disgrace after losing a headline-making case. Now, in the second of this evocative series, Tal must confront the racism simmering benea...

  • Nose for Trouble

    Doranna Durgin

    It wasn't your typical Flagstaff, Arizona, sight: a dead man mysteriously drowned in the middle of a drought, sprawled on his failing lawn. New to the area, veterinarian Dale Kinsall is finding things a little too hot to handle. The body was the s...

  • The Shape of Sand

    Marjorie Eccles

    Life at Charnley was blessed, or at least so it seemed to the Jardine children. But one night their dreams of a propitious future suddenly come crashing down when a family scandal catapults them into the headlines. Nearly four decades pass and the...

  • The Renegades

    Clive Egleton

    When a British secret service operative turns up dead in a shoot-out at a London restaurant, the police initially suspect it was the result of a robbery gone bad, one with overtones of underworld drug gangs. But as the SIS investigates, it soon turns...

  • Life on Dropsie Avenue

    Will Eisner

    Published quietly in 1978, Will Eisner's revolutionary literary work A Contract With God marked the invention of the modern graphic novel, took on a life of its own, and inspired a generation of "sequential artists."

    Will Eisner (1917â€"2005) ...

  • Bloody Mary

    Garth Ennis

    IN 1999, WE ALL WENT BACK TO WAR. In a world only slightly worse than our own, a third great European conflict has dragged the major powers into a lethal war of attrition. Now, Mary Malone, the most dangerous assassin in a land of killers, must face ...

  • Unvanquished

    Howard Fast

    Originally published in 1942, The Unvanquished is the story of the Continental Army and George Washington in the desperate early months when the American Revolution faced defeat and disintegration. The book begins with the retreat across Manhattan...

  • The Marriage Miracle

    Liz Fielding

    Matilda Lang is terrified when she feels herself falling for hotshot New York banker Sebastian Wolseley. An accident three years ago has left her in a wheelchair, and Sebastian's the man who can make, or break, her heart.... Sebastian is compassi...

  • Portland Pussycat

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Cry from the Deep

    Ramsey Flynn

    A “superb account” of the disastrous loss of a Russian submarine off the nation’s northern coast and its repercussions (Publishers Weekly).On August 12, 2000, during one of the most important military demonstrations in post-Soviet history, an e...

  • Death at King Arthur's Court

    Richard Forrest

    Children’s book author Lyon Wentworth must solve an impossible locked-room murder with a medieval twist -- or risk landing on death row. Lyon Wentworth sprints through the woods, chest heaving, dragging a broadsword behind him. He doesn’t remembe...

  • Conrad's Lady

    Leo Frankowski

    One moment Conrad Schwartz was suffering from a severe hangover as he hiked through the mountains of present-day Poland, the next he was hurled back to the same country in the 13th century. He remembered from his history classes that in another te...

  • Crunch Time

    Mariah Fredericks

    Leo, Max, Jane, and Daisy don't have much in common. But when they all blow off their SAT prep in favor of forming their own study group, they actually begin to bond -- over why there's so much competition over a stupid test. And what it really measu...

  • The Warrior

    Judith E. French

    In ancient times, tales were told of fierce warriors and the brave women who risked everything to love them. Alexander is one such man--the only son of Alexander the Great, he has a destiny to fulfill. But in the heat of the Egyptian desert, a beauti...

  • The Protege

    Stephen Frey

    Having survived his rise to Chairman of Everest Capital, the world's largest private equity firm, and the ferocious attempts on his life that ensued, Christian Gillette finally seems safely perched atop the financial industry. He's just accepted ...

  • A Novel Idea

    Aimee Friedman

    Required reading has never been so hot. Once upon a time there was a Brooklyn hipster named Norah. Unlucky in love, and short on extracurriculars for her college apps, Norah decided to start a book group. She knew the perfect locale -- a local ind...

  • Miss Lulu Bett and Selected Stories

    Zona Gale

    Lulu Bett lives in a small town with her sister Ina and Ina’s husband Dwightâ€"a dentist who rules his household with self-righteous smugness. The unmarried Lulu has learned that she cannot question her role as chief cook, housekeeper, and gracious...

  • Finding Love Again

    Shelley Galloway

    Denise Reece returns to Peyton, Ohio for a variety of reasons. Her fiancée broke up with her, life in California didn't turn out like she hoped, and she's inherited a run-down theater. Things become even more confusing when she meets Ethan Flynn--th...

  • Body in Berkley Square

    Ashley Gardner

    When an opulent ball is marred by murder, Captain Lacey's insufferably upright former friend, Colonel Brandon, is the prime suspect. With the man's fate in his hands, Lacey finally has a chance to avenge the wrongs Brandon has done to him--but at wha...

  • Million To One

    Darlene Gardner

    Kaylee Carter may have just found her birth mother -- and the sense of belonging that's been missing all her life. But Sofia Donatelli's stepson, Tony, is suspicious. He thinks Kaylee's just another parasite who's come to sponge off h...

  • Saratoga

    David Garland

    Set against the backdrop of the unthinkable turmoil that accompanied the formation of America, Saratoga is the thrilling first installment in a series that will chronicle the birth of a nation and the stories of the men and women hopelessly caught in...

  • You Kill Me

    Alison Gaylin

    Is he a "sympathy vulture" -- or just a vulture? Usually, Samantha Leiffer wouldn't be caught dead using one of her mother's cheesy catchphrases, like "sympathy vulture," to describe anything--especially not her ex-boyfriend. But since her self-he...

  • Ask a Shadow to Dance

    Linda George

    Two riverboats. Two people in different centuries. Can love find a way to keep them together? While attending a dance on board the Memphis Queen III, Dr. David Stewart sees a woman standing in the shadows, dressed in black, with a veil covering her f...

  • Seduction

    Catherine Gildiner

    During her decade in prison, Kate Fitzgerald has learned a few things. The best way to survive is to absorb yourself in your own world. Never make eye contact with your fellow inmates. And the last person you can trust is your prison psychiatrist â€"...

  • Mistress of the Dark

    Sephera Giron

    Meet Abigail Barnum. She's new in town, eager to make it big in New York. Hers is the darker side of the city. Her friends are strippers and drag queens, and she works as a waitress in a tourist bar with a back room that's definitely for adults only....

  • Upsurge

    Kristi Gold
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    When a devastating hurricane threatens Florida, Marissa Klein and her attractive neighbor, Dr. Greg Westbrook, seek shelter from the storm together. And as the hurricane rages out of control, so does Marissa and Greg's long-denied passion....

  • A Most Shocking Revelation

    Kristi Gold

    "In this house, I'm not the sheriff." -- Gavin O'Neal If only his statement were true, Valerie Raines could have rested easy. But living in Gavin's home made her aware of her secret, vengeful motives for being in town, and she couldn't allow her a...

  • King Kong

    Christopher Golden

    The novelization of the blockbuster new film follows the discovery on a remote island of the giant ape, the beast's ill-fated affection for a young woman, and his capture and exploitation by greedy would-be entrepreneur Carl Denham. Original. (A Univ...

  • Get a Life

    Nadine Gordimer

    A young man's treatment for cancer inspires profound changes in his family. Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed wit...

  • The Adventure of the Missing Detective

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    From traditional mystery stories with devious doings and a plot full of clues to terse thrillers with edge-of-the-seat climaxes to the nail-biting tale of psychological suspense, no field of popular fiction can match contemporary crime writing in div...

  • S is for Silence

    Sue Grafton

    Cases don't get much colder than that of Violet Sullivan, who disappeared from her rural California town in 1953, leaving behind an abusive husband and a seven-year-old named Daisy. But PI Kinsey Millhone has promised Daisy she'll try her best to loc...

  • Dark Blue Death

    Jan Grape

    Austin Police officer Zoe Barrow, first seen in the Anthony award-nominated Austin City Blue, is assisting field officers in role-playing for the new police cadets at Austin Police Department's Training Academy. Zoe and fellow training officer Ann...

  • Nail Biter

    Sarah Graves

    Join the do-it-yourself enthusiast who mixes home repair tips and homicide when she discovers that her new dream house is built on a foundation of murder. COMPLETE WITH HOME REPAIR IS HOMICIDE REPAIR TIPS! Buying a beachfront fixer-upper in Eastpor...

  • Deadly Web

    Christine Green

    A Kate Kinsella Mystery The unheralded arrival of a new client causes Kate to pause before agreeing to take on the case. The investigation surrounds the death of surgeon Rupert Decker-White at a New Year party at Fair Acres Private Hospital. His wido...

  • Past Imperfect

    Crystal Green

    The Saunders sound-off. Where are they now? Saunders University keeps track of its notable alumni. Rachel James Once Miss Popularity and the campus "It" girl, even after surviving a difficult childhood and two dreadful adoptive parents, Rachel's...

  • Urn Burial

    Kerry Greenwood

    The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia's Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanati...

  • The Mavericks

    Leigh Greenwood

    The bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky -- they got into a man's blood until he knew there was nothing better than the life of a cowboy...except the love of a good woman. Hawk and Zeke had been insepar...

  • Catherine: The Great Journey

    Kristiana Gregory

    Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mother's efforts to arrange a marriage between Sophia and Charles-Peter, a young German duke and nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. As Sophia's mother moves to make the m...

  • The Constant Princess

    Philippa Gregory

    "I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known . . . and I will be Queen of England." Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Arag...

  • Masquarade

    Pamela Griffin
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    Behind one feathered mask, four women of three different eras discover themselves surrounded by treachery and deception, intricate ploys, ill-bred engagements aristocratic crooks, fraudulent family, and even a few poor choices of their own. But love ...

  • The Insatiable Spiderman

    Pedro Juan Gutierrez

    Pedro Juan Gutierrez exploded onto the literary landscape three years ago with his bestselling novel, Dirty Havana Trilogy. Hugely acclaimed for its honest depiction of a Cuban capital characterized by sleaze, sex, poverty and hedonism, in The Insati...

  • The Dead Can't Kill

    Anne Hampson

    When Sally Renshaw receives a solicitor's letter informing her of an unexpected legacy she is surprised, and not a little curious - especially when she is summoned to spend a weekend at Hazeldene Manor, along with five other beneficiaries of the will...

  • Diary of a Domestic Goddess

    Elizabeth Harbison

    The Goddess Rulebook: Rule #1: Figure out what you want -- and go after it Columnist Kit Macy's dream house was almost hers. Then the entire staff of her old-fashioned household magazine was fired by the new, hip, handsome boss. No job meant no...

  • Under The Mistletoe

    Kristin Hardy

    HE GAVE NEW MEANING TO THE TERM TURNDOWN SERVICE The devastatingly handsome manager of the Hotel Mount Jefferson, Gabe Trask, was all too eager to offer a wide array of amenities to Hadley Stone when he thought she was just a holiday guest. But onc...

  • Fugitive

    Christine Harris

    If you make the wrong choice, you die. Jesse is on assignment again, to track down and bring into C2 headquarters a man called Ari. Why is C2 so desperate to find this man? How will Jesse seize him when he is protected day and night by a clever, rut...

  • Rebecca's Heart

    Lisa Harris

    Rebecca's heart is open to love... But she discovers she's about to make the biggest mistake of her life. To avoid such a mistake, she cancels her plans and moves to Boston. There she takes a position as a seamstress in a furniture shop where she hop...

  • Bindweed

    Janis Harrison

    The murder weapon itself was unusual--a hornet's nest placed inside a small room. But the choice of victims was stranger still. Who would kill Toby Sutton, a slow-witted but endearing young man who did odd jobs for the shopkeepers of Hawthorn Street ...

  • The Next Room

    Sarah Harrison

    A brand new atmospheric and powerful novel from one of Britain's best-loved storytellers. Fee moves to Arbury Road to make a fresh start with her headstrong young daughter Hannah. Fee is fiercely independent since her split with Hannah's father and d...

  • The Colonel's Daughter

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    A poignant and emotional love story

    In the summer of 1954, George West met young Josella Grace, the daughter of a retired colonel, and fell passionately in love with the reserved but beautiful girl a love that seemed destined never to be fulfi...

  • Dear Departed

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    It's Detective Inspector Bill Slider's day off and he had hoped to have some quiet time with Joanna, his pregnant fiancee. But a woman's body is found in the park and he finds himself back to work sooner than he expected. At first glance, it looks as...

  • The High-Impact Infidelity Diet

    Lou Harry; Eric Pfeffinger

    A WHOLE NEW WAY TO CHEAT ON YOUR DIET Meet Brin and Martin, Cheryl and Doug, Dierdre and Randy. Three normal married couples who share a common problem: all of the husbands weigh over 300 pounds -- and not much of that’s muscle. The concerned wive...

  • Blessed Vows

    Jillian Hart

    When waitress Rachel McKaslin reluctantly let Jake McCall move into the apartment above her family's diner, she never dreamed the handsome tech sergeant would be so charming. Soon into their joyful courtship, Jake surprised her by proposing. Now, Rac...

  • The New Woman

    Jon Hassler

    Since 1977, Jon Hassler’s Staggerford series has entranced readers with its funny and charming depiction of life in small-town America. The New Woman is his latest visit to this Minnesota hamlet.At the age of eighty-eight, Agatha McGee has grudging...

  • Lambert's Peace

    Rachel Hauck

    Exhausted and anxious, Taylor Hudson hopes White Birth will be the perfect place to regroup and refocus. But her heart has unfinished business. Torn between the love she left behind and her blossoming career, Taylor needs Jesus' peace more than she n...

  • Love on the Lifts

    Rachel Hawthorne

    Winter Break super-secret perfect cocoa recipe: 8 oz steamed whole milk (no skim! doesn't work!) 2 tbsp. dark cocoa powder (big scoops) 1 tbsp. sugar (can't be too sweet) 4 dried, crushed mint leaves (or 1 tbsp. mint syrup) ...

  • The Wallflower, Volume 6: Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge

    Tomoko Hayakawa

    THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY

    How did four of Japan’s hottest guys end up living in the same magnificent mansion? The shocking revelations continue! And whatever happened to the idea of giving Sunako a major makeover? If the foursome wants to r...

  • Night Terrors

    Alice Henderson

    YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE

    Welcome to Sunnydale High, where midterms and peer pressure are the least of your worries. The Stake Your Destiny series returns Buffy Summers and the Scoobies to the glory days of high school. But this time you control the a...

  • Lovers And Enemies

    Anne Herries

    The first in a new English Civil War trilogy As England is thrown into Civil War and the Royalists and the Roundheads clash, an era of unrest and instability begins. During this time of chaos, young Caroline Saunders is also fighting with her own hea...

  • The Sacred Cut

    David Hewson

    The snow is falling on the ancient streets of Rome. And in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon's great dome, a woman's body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back....In David Hewson's ingenious new th...

  • On the Twelfth Night of Christmas

    Jo A. Hiestand

    As holiday festivities wind down, Derbyshire investigator Brenna Taylor is roused from a cozy office and called to a frozen pond -- and a waiting victim. Mercedes Salt mysteriously drowned during her morning walk on her rambling family estate. Tensio...

  • The Perfect Blend

    Anita Higman
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    Couples clash over cups of coffee in these delightful novellas by a talented team of authors. In Fresh-Brewed Love, every reader's thirst for romance will be well satisfied. From a bookstore's coffee corner to neighborhood caf?s to a coffee company i...

  • Double Dare

    Vicki Hinze

    IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE. BIOWARFARE EXPERT CAPTAIN MAGGIE HOLT IS AT THE MALL. AND SHE'S NOT SHOPPING. Intel said the crowded mall was the target where twisted mastermind Thomas Kunz would release his lethal supervirus. To add more pressure, this...

  • Catastrophies, Chaos & Convolutions

    James P. Hogan

    James P. Hogan stands among the foremost writers of science fiction today, and is renowned for his ability to combine accurate science from the cutting edge of present-day research with living, breathing characters in fast-paced, suspenseful stori...

  • The Devil's Game

    David Holland

    It is 1834, and the town of Bellminster is thrown into the turmoil of a by-election for Parliament. Reverend Tuckworth tries to stay away from it all, but when a political rally turns deadly, the town turns to Tuckworth in hopes of staunching the blo...

  • Chromosome 8

    Peter Holt

    When his lung-damaged daughter, Katya, lies at Death's door, Dr. Gastro Nister goes to extremes to save her, awakening a set of ancient genes left over from primeval times. Not only does Katya survive, but now she has astonishing new inhuman abilitie...

  • Fevreblau

    Kenneth M. Hoover

    Nikolai Sholokhov has arrived in Moscow for what is euphemistically called "Privilege," after spending eighteen months on the Moon calibrating an array for the Star Whisper Project - an ultra-secret program that has detected radio signals around a di...

  • The Epicure

    H.R. Howland

    As renowned Dr. Bennett Sykes, along with an elite society called the Epicureans, prepares to partake in an ancient ritual of eating human flesh to renew his soul, young Susie begins having visions of this madman and fears for the lives of those she ...

  • 'Twas The Night Before Chrismukkah

    Andes Hruby



    Celebrate the holidays in the O.C.

    It's the night before Chrismukkah and all through the mansions, not a creature is stirring except for Seth, Ryan, Marissa, and Summer.

    Catch the Chrismukkah spirit along with the gang.
    ...

  • Othello, Volume 6

    Satomi Ikezawa

    ULTIMATE MAKEOVER: YOU WON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE YOURSELF

    The only compensation for cute Yaya’s terminal shyness is the take-no-prisoners vengeance of her alter ego, the raucous Nana. But Yaya doesn’t even know that her Nana personality exists!...

  • Hot Wired

    Jane Isenberg

    A Bum Rap At long last, fifty-something New Jersey community college professor Bel Barrett can kick back and appreciate life with a loving new husband and the kids grown and on their own. But when an angry ex-student posts a nasty hip-hop screed ab...

  • Tender Is the Knight

    Jackie Ivie

    Sweeping from the cultured salons of 19th-century London to the wild Scottish Highlands, Jackie Ivie's seductive new novel weaves the tale of a desperate lady and a ruthless laird whose only common ground is the territory of desire... A LADY ...

  • Hand in Glove

    Andrea Jackson

    The ancient Staff of the Nakisisi is supposed to have religious and magical properties. Victor Santiago has agreed to recover the stolen artifact for his old mentor. Victor's Afro-Latin good looks and cool manner are used to shield his unquenchable...

  • Mr. Right Now

    Monica Jackson

    When three best girlfriends decide it's time to get married, the first order of business is to find some decent husband material. But looking for Mr. Right is about to lead three nearly-thirty sistahs down a rocky road of matchmaking... Luby Uniquo...

  • Baby of Shame

    Julia James

    Will one night of unforgettable pleasure lead to a lifetime of hatred and desire...? Rhianna has struggled against the odds to survive since that fateful night. But she knows that, one day soon, the secret she carries will cost her.... Sure en...

  • In Lucia's Eyes

    Arthur Japin

    Lucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at...

  • The Lady's Hazard

    Miranda Jarrett

    As the chef of London's premier gambling club, Bethany Penny caters to the most elegant lords of the ton, but prefers to help the city's neediest residents. When a mysterious soldier appears in her soup line she suspects that beneath his cool demeano...

  • The Crediton Killings

    Michael Jecks

    THE DEVONSHIRE TOWN of Crediton is awaiting an important guest, the Bishop of Exeter. But a band of mercenary soldiers is already in residence, and though mercenaries are a common sight in the fourteenth century, these men are bent on havoc. They ter...

  • Diamonds Take Forever

    Jessica Jiji

    Hot for the rock . . . If her old-fashioned family had never left Morocco, Michelle Benamou would have been in big trouble, being almost thirty and nowhere near married. Luckily, in the hardy multicultural stew of New York City, she's been able to...

  • On The Run

    Iris Johansen

    The photograph was a warning. He'd found them again. Now she has no choice but to go ... Grace Archer hoped this day would never come. She'd taken her little daughter, Frankie, and started a new life at a remote Alabama horse farm. But the man st...

  • Target

    Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

    Why had the men chosen him? What had they seen about him that said, I’m your target?
    Savagely violated by two strangers, 16-year-old Grady West retreats into a deep silence. Everything about the life he knew fades away. He switches to a new scho...

  • Destiny of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    Smoke Jensen was once the fastest draw in the West. He was also tired of taking on every tinhorn upstart out to make a reputation. So Jensen hung up his .45s for good. Or so he thought... WHEN A WAR NEVER DIES, A SOLDIER NEVER RESTS. In the bush c...

  • Little Kisses

    Jolie Jones

  • Undercover Lover

    Katherine D. Jones

    THE FIRST KISS WAS STRICYLT BUSINESS... From Texas to Teaneck, someone is killing wealthy married couples and clearing their homes of luxury items. According to law enforcement, an undercover couple stationed in one of the targeted cities is their b...

  • The Treasure Haunt

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    Get ready for more spooky fun from the best-selling authors of THE BAILEY SCHOOL KIDS. And you thought YOUR school was scary? These third-graders are haunted by a classroom full of GHOSTS!

    The Read-a-Thon is On! The kids at Sleepy Hollow Eleme...

  • Blackmailing the Society Bride

    Penny Jordan

    Marriage: Millionaire banker Marcus Canning has decided it's time to become a father -- and a husband.... Penniless: Lucy is facing crippling debts alone -- having kicked out her cheating, stealing ex-husband, Nick.... Wedded: Lucy knows sh...

  • Slow Motion

    Wayne Jordan

  • The Dating Game

    Shirley Jump

    NOW CASTING FOR LOVE AND THE AVERAGE JILL! The Average Jill: Mattie Grant, who'd trained for a spot on a survival show but instead landed on a dating show. Mattie had never backed down from a challenge, not even one as good-looking as Bachelor #1....

  • The Courtesan

    Julia Justiss

    SEDUCING THE SEDUCTRESS After years of dangerous fighting on the Peninsula, Captain Jack Carrington has returned home to take up family duties and find himself a wife. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he views a fencing lesson unlike any o...

  • Taking Flight

    Lynne Kaufman

    It was a simple plan: Engage in some innocent flirtation, feel desirable again. But finding happiness is never that easy... Professor Julia Benson's life is drifting. With a stalled marriage, the monotony of raising a family that seems to need her...

  • Blaze

    Barbara Keaton

  • The Kitten Caper

    Carolyn Keene

    WHO WOULD STEAL THE WORLD'S CUTEST KITTEN? For a class project Nancy and her friends must interview a neighbor with an interesting hobby. So they pick Terry Smith, who takes stray cats and kittens into her barn and finds them new homes. The girls ha...

  • What the Hyena Knows

    Thomas J. Keevers

    You might think that P.I. Mike Duncavan, disgraced ex-cop and disbarred lawyer, would have little pride left - but pride was one of the deadly sins that brought him down in the first place. So when his friend, criminal lawyer Stanley Janda, asks Mike...

  • Who Moved My Blackberry?

    Lucy Kellaway

    The television show The Office meets Bridget Jones in a novel set in an office so dysfunctional, it's bound to strike a chord with any nine-to-fiver. A compulsively readable, hilarious novel told through the e-mail messages of Martin Lukes. Martin Lu...

  • Hot Whispers of an Irishman

    Dorien Kelly

    When Ballymuir's sharp-witted artist Violet Kilbride, who inherited the gift of second sight from her beloved grandmother, decides to sell her nan's cottage in Duncarraig, she returns to a town that holds complicated memories. Vi fell in love with Li...

  • The Reich Flies the Flag

    Leo Kessler

    A new mission for the hard-bitten men of SS Assault Regiment Wotan Russia, 1942: Battling against the harsh conditions, the German offensive has stalled outside Moscow. A morale-boosting coup is devised by Hitler to revigorate the men. A plan is hatc...

  • Honor

    Kevin Killiany

    #58 STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS While repairing an observation post, P8 Blue and Domenica Corsi find themselves caught in the middle of an interplanetary conflict involving a pre-warp civilization -- with one side unwilling to fight, even to defen...

  • How Do I Love You?

    Leslie Kimmelman

    From little muddy feet to chocolate cheeks to favorite silly dances, there are many reasons to love -- and there are even more ways to express love.

    Celebrate the bond between parents and children in this sweet and playful counting book tha...

  • Even Now

    Karen Kingsbury

    Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. Shane Galanter--a man ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who even now remembers--as does he-- those l...

  • Dragon Champion

    E.E. Knight

    "Gray dragons are different, my son. It means you must be careful; your skin will be pierced more easily. But on the other hand, having no hunger for gems and gold will allow you to live in the Upper World and far from men." High in the mountains,...

  • Valentine's Rising

    E.E. Knight

    Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, ...