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  • Lynn Abercrombie

    YOU CAN SENSE IT Atlanta Police Department Cold Case Unit Detective Mechelle Deakes wakes up to discover she's blind. Worse, once she stumbles out of bed, she realizes she's not in her own room... YOU KNOW IT'S THERE His partner missing, Lt. Ha...



  • Kendall Adams

    I've always had a wandering eye when it comes to guys, but now I have a boyfriend. I thought he was "The One"--until I met Number Two and Number Three! I don't know what to do, so you're going to pick a guy for me! Should I be a good girl or give...



  • Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

    It's that time of year again - or it will be when this book comes out - and this digest delivers six stories sure to put you in the holiday spirit! Industry legend Tom DeFalco (Spider-Girl) and artist Takeshi Miyazawa bring you a riff on the classic ...



  • Amy Alden

    Losing everything is only the beginning... DOUBLE TROUBLE Meet Madrid and London La Mira, identical twins, party girls, fashion statements, paparazzi darlings, and the richest pampered princesses who ever carried around a Yorkie in a chartreuse...



  • P.J. Alderman

    WHERE THERE'S SMOKE... Kaz Jorgensen is used to fear--the anxiety of negotiating treacherous currents as she captains her family's fishing trawlers, the terrifying nightmares of the day she almost lost her life on the river. But now a man is dead, a...



  • Hannah Alexander

    It was a tragedy for the entire town: beloved high school principal Edith Potts collapsed and quickly died. For nurse Jill Cooper, it was a crushing loss--and the first of many shocks. Two former sweethearts have suddenly returned to town, reawake...



  • Madelyn Alt

    Maggie O'Neill was just a small-town girl, stuck in a dead-end job--until she started working at Enchantments, Stony Mill's finest mystical antique shop. Now Maggie is Indiana's newest witch. Learning to cope with her new found powers is tough enoug...



  • Noel Alumit

    When Jory Lalaban, a Filipino postman, finds himself the target of a racially motivated shooting, he is forced to confront long buried memories of his life in the Philippines ? how he came to abandon the priesthood to become a worshipper of the Moon;...



  • Jodi Lynn Anderson

    After a magical summer living on a peach orchard, Murphy, Leeda, and Birdie confront a series of breakups, make-ups, and take-offs. They may have to leave one another, along with the orchard that brought them together. But despite their heartbreak, t...



  • Amy Andrews

    Nurse Harriet Remy and her surgeon husband, Guillaume, thought they had the perfect marriage. They loved working for an overseas medical-aid service and children were never part of their plan--until Harriet's fertility came under threat and her subse...



  • Shari Anton

    THE MAN OF HER DREAMS Lady Emma de Leon has just seen the man she knows will -- nay, must -- become her lover. Ambivalent as she is about her psychic gifts, she has been unable to forget the man who once came to her in a vision, touching her body wi...



  • Zoe Archer

    It is the most beautiful fungus botanist Sophie Andrews has ever seen. And the man who comes with it is a pretty fine specimen, too. Sophie knows the bottle of love potion the roguish peddler tries to push on her is a hoax, but she has no time to arg...



  • Mark Arsenault

    Billy Povich used to be a journalist. He lost his wife because of his gambling habit, and then she died in a car crash. Now he finds himself writing obituaries and living with his elderly father and seven-year-old son, Bo. Billy plans to kill the ...



  • A.C. Arthur

    Lincoln can't believe it--that beautiful babe who owes his casino $5,000 is Jade. He's never stopped thinking about her since that one hot night years ago. Now she's in his debt! Of course, he doesn't want her money.... At first, Jade's outraged--...



  • Jennifer Ashley

    Meagan Tavistock could easily see how Alexander had earned the nickname Mad, Bad Duke. His deep blue eyes promised sinful pleasure, his touch burned through the silk of her dress, and his rich voice intimated that as soon as they were skin to skin, h...



  • James Axler

    SHATTERED CONTINENT Journeying across the devastated frontier of postnuclear America, Ryan Cawdor and his companions have unlocked clandestine knowledge of preDark tech, secrets that give them an edge for staying alive, an edge augmented by an abilit...



  • Donna Ball

    Mountain Shadows With her kennel business booming and her part-time job with the Forest Service taking up all her free time, Raine Stockton is having a hectic summer when the FBI drops in to see her. It seems her old flame Andy Fontana may be back...



  • Mignon F. Ballard

    Augusta Goodnight, heavenly sleuth and guardian angel, is a welcome boarder with longtime resident Lucy Nan Pilgrim in the seemingly tranquil town of Stone's Throw, South Carolina. And Augusta's divine intervention is needed now more than ever. The l...



  • Jo Bannister

    What goes up must come down... And in the world of designer drugs, that often means death. Scram is the new high for Dimmock's teenagers, but it's a killer. Brodie Farrell, a professional "finder," is drawn into its dangerous world after a strang...



  • Jo Bannister

    The haunting new novel from an acclaimed crime writer - Laurence Schofield's world was torn apart when his teenage daughter vanished. No trace was ever found. But six years later, a TV crew filming in London records a few seconds' footage of a girl w...



  • Lisa Barham

    A girl. A dream job. A city full of possibilities... Imogene is obsessed with fashion. Combine that with her talent for trouble (aka maxing out her "emergencies only" AmEx) and suddenly she's not going to chere Paris with her best friend for ...



  • Stephanie Barron

    In her latest spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to watch over the printing of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. For it is up to Jane to tease a murderer out of the ton, les...



  • Janet Lee Barton

    Dani Phillips loves her job as the city manager of Magnolia Bay, Mississippi, and she adores her close-knit community. But when the town council decides to pursue an ad campaign to bring in tourists and save the dwindling economy, Dani keeps quiet. H...



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

    Sealed away for ages, a forgotten horror reaches out for new power. Three heroes know the danger. In the City of Towers, a tormented mystic and a soldier-wizard try to thwart a monstrous scheme. In the Shadow Marches, a disgraced warrior summons an ...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    RICH MAN'S SECRET BABY It had been five years since Molly Stewart Bailey fled east Texas, secretly pregnant with Worth Cavanaugh's child. Now he was the state's most powerful man and her mother's boss. Molly would do anything to protect her son, but...



  • Don Bendell

    After surviving a hijacking attempt, Major Bobby Samuels and Captain Bo Devore, looking deeper into the case, uncover an al Qaeda plot to unleash a nuclear attack on two major American cities, and must race against time to stop it. Original....



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #79-85. The Gang War to end all Gang Wars begins! The Kingpin is in retreat - and that kind of a power vacuum won't last long. It's about to be filled by a figure of unabashed dread in the underworld: Hammerhead! Plus: t...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    In the wake of the systematic destruction of the original Avengers, just what sort of threat to the world could persuade Captain America to assemble an allnew team? And following the events of Avengers Disassembled, who could possibly be on this team...



  • Ann Benson

    In the near future, in the hills of the American Northeast, a group of men, women, and children band together for survival against nature and human enemies, huddling in the only corner of the world they know. Among these people is Janie Crowe, a phys...



  • Jim Benton

    Eeny, meeny, hiney, moe...where might It's Happy Bunny go? Presenting a snarky new take on right and wrong from the LIMA Licensing Excellence Award-Winner for Best Art Brand License of Year (2004)!

    Like a light shining through the darkness com...



  • Millenia Black

    Behind the seemingly perfect façade of the Cavanaughs of West Palm Beach lie explosive secrets that threaten to tear them all apart as businesswoman Leslie hides a painful secret, her daughter Kathryn risks everything in a quest for love and attenti...



  • Annette Blair

    He sought his birthright Long ago, Rory MacKenzie's Scottish ancestor lost the bewitching woman he loved and regretted it forever. Before he died, he sent her his greatest work of art, a beautifully carved unicorn, as a token of his eternal devotion...



  • Ally Blake

    Just as Gracie had run out of money and was about to book her flight home to Australia, she'd been rescued! A gorgeous Italian had hired her to live in his magnificent Tuscan home and be nanny to his little girl! Luca was just as thrilled -- f...



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    When he arrives at his uncle's ranch, which is 1,200 miles from home and well beyond the eyes of his watchful parents, Caleb Hart, longing for adventure, gets more than he bargains for when he goes up against cattle rustlers, kidnappers, and outlaws....



  • Anne-Laure Bondoux

    Linus Hoppe has always lived in Realm One, an ideal world. Now, at 14, he must be tested by the Great Processor to determine where he deserves to live from here on. If he achieves a high score, nothing in his life will change. But if he scores too lo...



  • Drew Bowling

    From the boundless imagination and talented pen of a young storyteller springs the fabulous first novel in a major new epic fantasy series. Steeped in the traditions of its classic forebears, yet boldly original in its vision and sense of wonder, The...



  • Rebecca Brandewyne

    A stranger presses a letter into her hand...and unlocks the past she thought had been destroyed England, 1851: As she makes her way through London's crowded streets, Rose Windermere is nearly knocked to the ground by a man who whispers a dire...



  • Jean Brashear

    If it could happen once... Anne Marchand is a successful, independent businesswoman who loved her late husband, Remy, with all her heart, and no one could ever take his place. William Armstrong knows that, but he'll do anything in his power to mak...



  • Kate Brian

    Cheating, partying, blackmail, and now...murder? Can the Billings Girls remain untouchable? Reed's boyfriend, Thomas Pearson -- the popular, easygoing, irresistibly handsome and charismatic boy she fell in love with -- is dead. No one knows how...



  • Elizabeth Bright

    At Custom Card Creations, a specialty store in small-town Virginia, Jennifer Shane can show you how to make all kinds of personalized greeting cards. But what kind of sorry-for-your-loss card is appropriate when your worst enemy has just been murdere...



  • Pamela Britton

    WANTED: One Vet Tech, To Start Immediately (Jessie Monroe need not apply) The last person on earth Rand Sheppard wants to rely on is Jessie Monroe, but he needs a vet tech--yesterday--and she's the only one for hire. And unfortunately, it turns out ...



  • Claudia Mair Burney

    Amanda Bell Brown is a woman on the edge. How's a woman supposed to nurse a broken heart when her pet sugar glider is driving her batty, or is that squirrelly? The deafening tick of her biological clock and having no Jazz to soothe her makes Amanda ...



  • Jim Butcher

    In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the powerful forces of nature take physical form. But even magic cannot sway the corruption that threatens to destroy the realm of Alera once...



  • J. Lee Butts

    As the Dawson gang leaves a bloody trail of carnage across the Arkansas territory, the Brotherhood of Blood, a group of men charged with hunting down and disposing of criminals, is blindsided by a firefight, leaving only two men left to take down one...



  • Meg Cabot

    HEATHER SINGS THE BLUES Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College--a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even ...



  • Meg Cabot

    That is, it usually means those things. But when you're Princess Mia, nothing happens the way it's supposed to. For one thing, Grandmre seems determined to prove that boy (or Michael, as he is commonly known) isn't the right one for the crown prince...



  • Dawn Calvert

    FANTASY VS. REALITY One moment Andi Lofton-Hale was an English teacher worn out by another bad blind date, tucked in with a Regency romance. The next, she's face to face with the magnificent hero of Wedgfeld Hall: tall, black-haired, sinfully sexy...



  • P.M. Carlson

    The new Marty Hopkins mystery - Deputy Marty Hopkins is back on day shift, investigating the death of Zill Corson in an apparent arson-attack at his hunting cabin. It soon emerges that Zill shared his cabin with Don Foley, a former sheriff in the dep...



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  • Jay Caselberg

    While trying to decode the dreams he is being sent by aliens, psychic detective Jack Stein, kidnapped by agents of Outreach Industries who want to exploit his talent, is rescued by a woman named Billie who reveals that one of his friends is a traitor...



  • Carla Cassidy

    For eight-year-old Molly Ridge, it began as an innocent game of hide-and-seek. Then came the sound of a stranger in the darkness … her mother’s stabbing screams and dying plea t the terrified child… DON’T SAY A WORD… Haley For eight-y...



  • P.C. Cast

    SNATCHED BACK! After being mistaken for a goddess in the mythic world of Partholon, high school English teacher Shannon Parker settled in. She adores her sexy centaur husband, is getting used to her connection to the powerful goddess Epona and tho...



  • Elizabeth Chadwick

    HOW A HERO BECOMES A LEGEND Already known as a knight of uncommon skill and honor, William Marshal has earned the friendship of King Richard and the love of a wealthy heiress. But when the Lionheart dies, leaving his treacherous brother John on th...



  • Nora Charles

    He forecasts the weather on TV to the delight of his many fans. But the residents of Ocean Vista Leisure Adult Condominiums are less fond of Uncle Weatherwise--the newest arrival at the condo--especially when a hurricane that he predicted would bypas...



  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    Anton ChekhovThe Major PlaysIvanov * The Sea Gull * Uncle Vanya * The Three Sisters * The Cherry Orchard“Let the things that happen onstage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life,” Chekhov once declared. “For instance, pe...



  • Maureen Child

    IN BED WITH THE BOSS Everything changed the night that executive assistant Rachel Adler indulged her fantasy and slept with her boss. Shane Elliott was better than any dream, but having gone to bed with the executive, Rachel knew she could no longer...



  • Lisa Childs

    WAS HE HER SAVIOR OR HER WORST NIGHTMARE? Ariel Cooper is about to marry her soul mate, but she has a secret. She can see ghosts. For years Ariel's resented her gift, believing it a curse. She's been hiding it from her powerful, brooding fianc...



  • Chunichi

    Essence® bestselling author Chunichi is back and keepin' it raw. Ceazia Devereaux has seen it all on the streets. She's gone from a gangster's girl to being married to the game. After the murders of a few of her associates, she's ready to divorce he...



  • CLAMP

    Kimihiro Watanuki’s after-school job working for the mysterious witch Yûko Ishikawa has taken a dangerous turn. A recent assignment cost Kimihiro his right eye to a spider with a grudge. Now the missing eye has become the latest must-have item in ...



  • Nancy J. Cohen

    Fire up the flat iron and break out the bullet-proof blow drier, because Marla Shore--the sassy, South Florida beauty salon owner with a knack for fixing hair and finding trouble--is back. Now, just as her fiance Detective Dalton Vail's famously upti...



  • Jan Colley

    NO SECRET WAS SAFE The last thing New Zealand businessman Conner Bannerman needed was a stunning TV presenter turned gossip columnist living next door. Conner valued his privacy above all else, and he didn't trust Eve Drumm's assertion that she wasn...



  • Cara Colter

    Promises could break hearts and ruin friendships, but still Rick Chase found himself promising to step back into Linda Starr's life, to help his old friend get used to her empty nest. He'd offer her a job, and then his duty would be done...at...



  • Donn Cortez

    Christmas in Miami...the city is wrapped in its own unique festive cheer, and countless children breathlessly await the arrival of Santa Claus. Except this year there are hundreds of Santas. Miami has been invaded by the Red Menace. An annual gatheri...



  • Ralph Cotton

    Reputations can't be given. They must be taken. Considered the quickest gun alive, Fast Larry Shaw works as a hired killer until his wife is slain. Although he longs to be reunited with her, he won't lie down for anyone. So when the Katlin Gang c...



  • Suzanne Cox

    He was born into luxury... Returning to Cypress Landing brings back the best-- and worst--moments of Cade Wheeler's life. Because the bayou was where he'd first tasted the sweetness of love and the bitterness of loss.... She was born to be wild... ...



  • Pam Crooks

    Fighting for freedom... Hardened mercenary and fierce patriot Creed Sherman returns home, only to discover his childhood sweetheart married to his father! Hurt and betrayed, he means to leave America for good. Until he braves fire to save the life o...



  • San Culberson

    Life Is More Than A CelebrationNewly divorced attorney Fiona Daniels is determined not to make the same mistake twice. Or wallow in self-pity. Instead, she decides to celebrate her newfound freedom at a divorce party, where she proudly unveils hersel...



  • Clare Curzon

    One freezing February evening, a Filipino barman named Ramon witnesses someone plunging from the seventh story of a luxury penthouse. Instead of calling the police, he heads straight for the apartment from which the body has fallen. It belongs to an ...



  • Clive Cussler; Dirk Cussler

    Centuries ago, Genghis Khan's empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. His conquests are legend, his tomb a forgotten mystery--until now. When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team an Russia's Lake Baikal, it ap...



  • Maryjanice Davidson

    A Fish Out of Water Fred is a mermaid. But stop right there. Whatever image you're thinking of right now. Fred is not blonde. She's not buxom. And she's definitely not perky. In fact, Fred can be downright cranky. And it doesn't help matters that ...



  • Katharine Davies

    Eira is alone. Thirty-six years old and living on her own. She loved Jack, but their relationship had to end - she could never have a baby with an alcoholic. Now she works in a quiet museum, in the middle of a park, desperately lonely and aching for ...



  • Alan Davis

    Collects Fantastic Four: The End #1-6. Even the strongest family can be torn apart by tragedy - and in the futuristic world of tomorrow, the members of the once-Fantastic Four are divided and vulnerable to opponents from their past. What events could...



  • Dyanne Davis

    When Heaven falls in love with Hamid, a Pakistani medical student, despite their cultural and religious differences, she knows there will be problems, but she never guessed how many. Heaven's business is taking off, and she is reluctant to leave it; ...



  • Patrick A. Davis

    WHEN A U-2 SPY PLANE GOES DOWN IN A FIERY HEAP, THE PILOT'S DEATH IS A TRAGEDY -- BUT IT'S NO ACCIDENT. U.S. Colonel Ed Coffin is sent to South Korea, the land of his birth, to lead the most important and grim investigation of his career: a se...



  • Cate Dermody

    All former spy Alisha MacAleer wanted was to lead a normal life, complete with settling down near her family. Then a hail of gunfire followed CIA agent Brandon Parker's arrival on her doorstep. He'd done the impossible: created an AI, a sentient b...



  • Disney Book Group

    Captain Jack Sparrow has to find the chest of Davy Jones...or else! The voices of Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and the rest of the cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, not to mention the sound effects, bring t...



  • Disney Book Group

    Accompanied by a read-along CD, an enchanting book tells the timeless tale of Belle, who, through her great capacity to love, releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast....





  • L. Divine

    Back for another dose of high drama, Compton's sassiest, Jayd Jackson, is about to discover it really is a different world when she starts dating South Bay High's finest white boy. . .All Jayd Jackson wants is a drama-free year at South Bay High, a.k...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    Strange events involve Frank and Joe Hardy in a mystery which shrouds an ancient treasure -- the golden head of the Pharaoh Rhamaton IV. First, a cryptic unsigned warning from Egypt; second, the ghost of a bloodthirsty pirate of the eighteenth centur...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    A series of museum thefts launch the Hardy Boys on this baffling mystery. Rare collections of ancient pirate treasure are being stolen. Who is doing it? And how is the loot being smuggled out of the United States? Frank and Joe's celebrated detect...



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    Contemporary Romance: An anonymous, old-fashioned love note-a literature student's homework assignment-has been misplaced by its author. Jason finds the love note and mistakenly believes his new employee, Nicole, is hopelessly infatuated with him. Wh...



  • Charlotte Douglas

    The fortysomething cop-turned-P.I. has enough on her hands, dodging her mother's plans to turn Maggie's upcoming wedding to partner Bill Malcolm into an 800-guest circus. Then a friend asks them to provide security at the wedding uniting Florida's an...



  • Shannon Drake

    Who can resist a dashing highwayman? Ally Grayson never wanted to be a heroine -- she dreamed of writing great stories, not living in a fairy tale. But when she's abducted by a charming highwayman right out of a novel, Ally finds herself thoro...



  • Diane Duane

    THE HISTORIC SAGA BEGINS Born in the twilight years of Vulcan's violent and passionate past, those who declared themselves Rihannsu chose to reign free in the unknown reaches of space rather than to serve under the new tyranny of logic. Having s...



  • Diane Duane

    They call themselves Rihannsu -- the Declared. To the Federation, they are the Romulans. By any name they are adversaries as formidable as they are inscrutable. Self-exiled from Vulcan in ages past, they retain an ancient martial philosophy and a cod...



  • Clare Dudman

    When a traumatized Jewish girl is admitted to the town asylum for alleged nymphomania, Dr. Hoffmann of 1850s Frankfurt exhausts all traditional forms of treatment before resorting to a talking form of therapy, a technique that enables the doctor to c...



  • Michele Dunaway

    She Was Under His Spell After landing a plum position at the hottest talk show in the country, Cecile Duletsky is ready for just about anything. Anything but a complicated relationship, that is. When she meets gorgeous Luke Shaw at her sister's wedd...



  • Kathleen Eagle

    On a dark, lonely stretch of Midwest interstate, Nick Red Shield swerves his pickup and empty horse trailer to avoid a pair of terrified eyes. They belong to a woman -- battered, bruised and barely conscious -- in desperate need of a lift. Lauren...



  • Janet Edgar

    Special agent Zachary Marshall had tracked a deadly terrorist ring to a secluded resort--right to a woman he'd once loved. Was Julie Anderson a cunning traitor...or an innocent victim of ruthless criminals? Zach planned to use their shared grief o...



  • Cassie Edwards

    Nancy Partain's life in pioneer Michigan has become a nightmare of fear and degradation since her mother remarried. Her villainous stepfather will stop at nothing-- from making her sing nightly at his sleazy saloon to involving her in his underhanded...



  • Jo Edwards

    True love needs no disguise. Kaitlyn Nichols craves a little mystery and mayhem in her life. Having a secret agent for a father should do the trick, but unfortunately Dad is no 007, and danger is nowhere on the horizon. But all that changes...



  • Julie Andrews Edwards

    It's Valentine's Day, and poor Trusty the Mail Truck has broken down. Dumpy offers to lend a hand, and with Charlie and Pop-Up's help he delivers surprises all over town. But what about Trusty? Will he get a valentine this year?

    ...



  • Will Eisner

    The first graphic novel -- a mesmerizing fictional chronicle of a universal American experience. Through a quartet of four interwoven stories, A Contract With God express the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama of life on the mythical Dropsie Avenue ...



  • Will Eisner

    “Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him.”―John Updike

    In Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood, Eisner graphically traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over four centuries, creatin...



  • Warren Ellis

    Collects Ultimate Nightmare #1-5. As world communications systems break down, Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. leads a force comprised of Captain America, Black Widow and Sam Wilson to investigate, while, simultaneously, Charles Xavier dispatches his own te...



  • Lynn Emery

    Monette Victor spent fifteen years in prison for a crime she didn't commit. Now she's free, and making up for stolen time. She's bared her soul in a bestselling tell-all memoir, hosts a hit radio talk show, and has more speaking gigs than she knows w...




  • Marcia Evanick

    On the coast of Maine, a tiny fishing village is home to people of strong character -- and even stronger hearts. There is nothing Misty Harbor's residents like more than celebrating tradition, but sometimes it takes an outsider to help them embrace t...



  • Lezlie Evans

    This clever introduction to counting and cooperation follows Bunny One and Bunny Two as they, while making some yummy bunny stew, make a big mess and, making the best of a bad situation, decide to have a picnic!...



  • Tabor Evans

    You can run from Longarm, but you can’t hide…Killer Hangtown Harry Moon is wanted for just about every crime in the book. But Moon has kept such a low profile for so long, he can escape Denver -- and the keen eye of U.S. Deputy Marshal Long -- un...



  • Nancy Fairbanks

    Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She’s finally decided to throw in the dishtowel -- and take on a dream job as a food writer. Now her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and even a dash...



  • Greg Farshtey

    Exo-Force is LEGO's new A-list property for boys 6-9

    Meca One, leader of the robot rebellion has just unveiled a monstrous new battle machine--the Striking Venom--and plans to use it to crush the EXO-FORCE and Sentai Fortress. How can the huma...



  • Meredith Fletcher

    A TIDAL WAVE IS FAST APPROACHING. AND THAT'S THE LEAST OF HER WORRIES. Wilderness guide Kate Garrett is having the bad day of the century. The worst storm in Florida's history is about to hit land, and she's been taken hostage by a gang of escaped...



  • Eric Flint

    Arkansas has become a country of its own: a hybrid confederation of former slaves, Native American Cherokee and Creek clans, and white abolitionists--including a charismatic warrior named Pyrick Driscol. The Irish-born Driscol is building a fortune a...



  • Mary J. Forbes

    As tall as the Montana mountains that surrounded him and as ruggedly handsome as an old-time Hollywood cowboy, Ash McKee was the last thing Rachel Brant expected to find when she came searching for the pieces of someone else's past. But one brief gaz...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    From science fiction icon Alan Dean Foster comes a blazing new Pip & Flinx adventure for fans of the green-eyed redhead with awesome mental powers and his miniature flying dragon. In this dazzling new novel, Flinx confirms his status as the galaxy's ...



  • Roz Denny Fox

    A mother-to-be far from home... As a member of Montana's Angel Fleet, Mick Callen has airlifted injured climbers before. But this time is different--because he's more than a little attracted to one of the women he's rescued. However, Hana Egan's s...



  • Jacquelyn Frank

    Since time began, there have been Nightwalkers--the races of the night who live in the shadows of the moonlight. Love with humans is absolutely forbidden, and one man makes certain to uphold this ancient law: Jacob, the Enforcer... FOR 700 YEARS H...



  • Aimee Friedman

    Celebrity sightings. Sizzling nightlife. Endless shopping. Hollywood, here they come ... ALEXA: She's stopped believing in love at First sight....but can a Hollywood heartbreaker make her look twice? HOLLY: When a collision with destiny pulls h...




  • Katherine Garbera

    Go Ahead--Woo Me... Building a successful South Carolina resort has been Alexandra Haughton's passion. She's not about to let her pride and joy be bought by some huge conglomerate--and she's certainly not about to let the CEO, Sterling Powell, try t...



  • David Garland



    The American war of independence is entering a new phase. Gone are the days when the British forces could assume an easy victory followed by a heroic return to their homeland. The rebels have established themselves as a scrappy and resilient ...



  • Samantha Garver

    Uncommonly tall and extraordinarily independent, Harriet Mosley regularly rushes in where other ladies fear to tread. Indulging her taste for adventure, Harriet's friends pay for her to visit a house of spirits, rumored to be haunted by figments of i...



  • Nancy Gideon

    Thirty years ago, war claimed the only man Barbara Calvin ever loved. And for her family's honor, for the child Taggart McGee never knew she carried, she married his best friend and abandoned her dreams of a future with Tag. Now, as the killer kne...




  • Kristi Gold

    RECIPE FOR PASSION When her sham engagement finally ended, celebrity chef Corri Harris was free to indulge in a steamy affair. Sexy studio executive Aidan O'Brien seemed to be just the remedy for her bruised ego. The problem? Aidan was her boss! Wi...



  • J.F. Gonzalez

    Ronnie Baker thought his new girlfriend was perfect. But he couldn't see what his family did--that Diana and her children weren't quite normal, that somehow she was slowly sucking away his time, his money...his life. Don Grant has been tracking t...



  • Linda Goodnight

    The moment they met, social worker Mia Carano knew Officer Collin Grace was the perfect mentor for a runaway teen in her care. After all, the boy looked up to him, and desperately needed a role model. Though a childhood spent in foster care had h...




  • Chris Grabenstein

    Scott Wilkinson is a successful young advertising executive on his way to the top. Christopher Miller is an FBI legend who has been willing to do whatever it takes to see that justice is done. However, at age 50, he’s ready to spend more time with ...



  • Justin Gray

    All adventure, all action, for all ages! Join Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing for a wild ride of all-new, unforgettable exploits. Collects Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #13-16....



  • Dan Greenburg

    Run, Shluffmuffins, run! What do sarcastic troll doctors, disfigured giant ants, and a jackal assassin disguised as a public health official have in common? Well, they're all just part of the daily grind in Dripping Fang Forest. True -- it's never e...



  • Kerry Greenwood

    Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. When she alights she finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death in her arms, an...



  • Pamela Griffin
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    Contemporary Romance: An anonymous, old-fashioned love note-a literature student's homework assignment-has been misplaced by its author. Jason finds the love note and mistakenly believes his new employee, Nicole, is hopelessly infatuated with him. Wh...



  • Marilynn Griffith

    In all my thirty-five years, I, shoe designer Rochelle Gardner, have never had so many men interested in me! My teen son's dad is back in my life after suffering from amnesia (yes, really). The church deacon has had his eye on me for years (and never...



  • Jim Grimsley

    Jim Grimsley's previous science fiction novel, The Ordinary, was named one of the Top Ten science fiction books of the year by Booklist and won the Lambda Literary Award. His novels and short stories have been favorably compared to those of Ursula K....



  • Laurell K. Hamilton

    I am Princess Meredith, trapped in the kingdom of faerie, compelled to conceive a child, an heir to the throne, by engaging some of the realm's most beautiful men. Now Mistral, Queen Andais's new captain of the guard, has risked the Queen's jealous w...



  • Barbara Hannay

    All rugged cattle-station owner Daniel Renton wants is to build a relationship with his motherless daughter. The demons of his past drive him, but when newcomer Lily Halliday comes breezing into town, she's like a breath of fresh air. As he an...



  • Valerie Hansen

    Love wasn't on Trudy Lynn Brown's to-do list, though she certainly needed someone to help her get rid of the vandals threatening her campground. And her best friend's brother fit the bill. Injured in a white-water rafting accident, Cody Keringhoven h...



  • Fiona Harper

    Serena -- loves everything in life, except for blind dates! She's turned her back on her unconventional upbringing, and her deepest wish is to marry Mr. Right.... Jake -- is a highly successful and focused businessman. He's worked hard to ...



  • Lisa Harris
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    Contemporary Romance: An anonymous, old-fashioned love note-a literature student's homework assignment-has been misplaced by its author. Jason finds the love note and mistakenly believes his new employee, Nicole, is hopelessly infatuated with him. Wh...



  • Shirley Harrison

    Throughout her childhood, Grace Morrissey, the oldest in a family of six girls, had been known as the reliable and dependable one. But when she got the opportunity to get hitched and leave Atlanta, she fled and didn't think twice. Now a divorcee with...



  • Ellen Hart

    Joanna Kasimir, an old friend of Jane Lawless, left Minneapolis years ago to make it big in Hollywood and, unlike so many others, she succeeded. Unfortunately, her stardom came at a price. Early in her career, Joanna was involved with a man who quick...



  • Tomoko Hayakawa

    OUT OF THE DARKNESS

    Poor Kyohei is cursed . . . no, not by the devil or evil spirits. Not even by the dark, macabre Sunako, the girl he and his three pals have been trying to transform into a demure lady. Kyohei is cursed by his own good looks...



  • L.C. Hayden

    Newly retired police officer Harry Bronson has just one regret in his career: the murder he never solved. It was his first case as a rookie, and the only one he played strictly by the book. Perhaps that's why he still has the files with him more than...



  • Julie Hearn

    "Powers of the air, be here now. So mote it be." Conceived on May Morning, Nell is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own. She is a wild child: herb gatherer and healer, spell-weaver and midwife...and, some say, a witch...



  • Anne Herries

    Daniel, Earl of Cavendish, finds the frivolity of the ton dull after the adventures and hardship of the Peninsular War. But boredom rapidly disappears when he's drawn into the mystery surrounding the abduction of gently bred girls. His invest...



  • Rita Herron

    After rescuing Sonya Silverstein and her four-year-old daughter from a vicious attack, Brack Falcon had every intention of retreating into the Colorado mountains. But with a blizzard raging, a scared Sonya was desperate to safeguard her child. Now...



  • Mary Hershey

    Something of great importance entrusted to fourth-grader Effi Maloney has disappeared and she’s sure her big sister, Maxey, had something to do with it. Effi’s no pushover, but trying to stand up to Maxey is like trying to stop an earthquake. I...



  • Frederick Highland

    A crime of passion brings on a harrowing criminal investigation in a divided landSet in the exotic and turbulent world of Syria in the 1930s, Night Falls on Damascus tells the story of a French-Syrian police inspector, Nikolai Faroun, caught up in a ...



  • Sandra Hill

    From national bestselling author Sandra Hill comes the thrilling tale of a rough and ready Navy SEAL who embarks on the most dangerous voyage of his life--through time... A MISSION OF NO MERCY It takes nothing short of a miracle to catapult Lt. T...



  • Colby Hodge

    Fast-talking, hard-hitting, devil-may-care, Ruben can outmaneuver anyone who seeks to attack him, charm any he chooses to befriend. At the helm of his star ship he is invincible; in the bedroom of a beautiful woman, unstoppable. But the secrets of Ru...



  • Nancy Holder

    THIS IS YOUR BATTLE, ISABELLA. KILL HIM FIRST. OR HE WILL TEAR DOWN YOUR HOUSE. In her old life, Isabella DeMarco lived in New York with her father and had just started to fall for a handsome police lieutenant. Then she learned the truth--she is G...



  • L.P. Holmes

    ROUGH WATERS
    In the title novella of this Western trio, Boone Logan needs to get his 200 head of cattle across the Colorado River--no matter what it takes. Problem is, his brother, who was supposed to keep the holding corrals for the C Cross herd...



  • Hannah Howell

    Sir Artan Murray was right when he decided that the dying old man who bid him collect his niece didn't know her at all. The furious woman facing him is neither "sweet" nor "biddable." She demands the brawny Highlander return her to the wedding party ...



  • Linda Hudson-Smith

    Marlene Covington is the devout wife of a preacher who's been locked up for a crime that may have been committed by their troubled twenty-one-year-old son. Keisha Reed is an L.A. mom struggling to make ends meet, while the faithless father of her two...



  • Janis Reams Hudson

    'TIS THE SEASON...FOR LOVE When her best friend was nominated for a Bronze Star one year after her death, Amy Galloway went to Tribute, Texas, to support her friend's widower--and children. Never one to put down roots, Amy was surprised by the war...



  • Angela Elwell Hunt

    Based on the major motion picture, The Nativity Story is the very human, very dramatic, and uniquely inspiring saga of a journey of faith. Best-selling author Angie Hunt, who most recently wrote Magdalene, a historical fiction novel of the story of M...



  • Greg Iles

    True evil has a face you know and a voice you trust.... A Southern doctor is pulled into a terrifying ring of murderous secrets--in this powerhouse thriller from New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his n...



  • Shiho Inada

    MANSION OF MALICE

    The brave investigators of Shibuya Psychic Research must unravel a strange mystery. People are vanishing in a peculiar mansion. Eerie manifestations abound from the moment the team enters the house. Stairways lead to nowhere ...



  • Elle James

    "Cooperate or you'll never see your son again." Someone wanted tribal police chief Joe Lonewolf's attention, and now they had it. He had returned from war to learn he had a son -- by Maggie Brandt, the woman he had never stopped lo...



  • Miranda Jarrett

    A proper lady...and in improper lord! Lady Mary Farren is a sensible, practical country girl. But on her long-awaited Grand Tour, she's determined to find adventure. She's thrilled when the chance purchase of an unusual painting draws her into a m...



  • William W. Johnstone

    THERE'S NOTHING A MAN WON'T DO TO CLEAR HIS NAME They called him fastest gun alive, but Smoke Jensen is determined to stay on the right side of the law. That is, until he's jumped by six low-life robbers who steal his shirt--and his identity. Smoke's...



  • Annie Jones

    Meet Maxine and Odessa, the Queen Mamas of Castlerock, Texas. They may be getting on in years, but good luck keeping up with them! Most days they're on the prowl at the Five Acres of Fabulous Finds Flea Market, searching for treasures among the trash...



  • Jasmine Jones

    Chelsea learns that Devon’s father is getting remarried andmoving the entire family to Seattle, but Devon is too scared to tell Raven.Chelsea breaks the news to her best friend, who rushes to the wedding chapel,but it’s too late! Devon tells Rave...



  • Penny Jordan

    What he wants most for Christmas..is a bride... Silas Stanway is furious! How did he end up playing escort to Tilly at a Christmas wedding in Spain? He expects her to be scheming and desperate. Instead she's sweet and honest. But why does she ...



  • Brenda Joyce

    Raised as a pirate's daughter, Amanda Carre has not been tutored in the finer social graces. Alone in the world, she has never depended on anyone, until fate intervenes when Cliff de Warenne rescues her from a mob at her father's hanging. Now she mus...



  • Ismail Kadare

    A new novel from the acclaimed winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize for achievement in fiction.

    The Successor is a powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed t...



  • Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highw...




  • Shirley Karr

    The Naked Truth . . . Alistair, Viscount Moncreiffe, must confess: He is thoroughly bored with the proper ladies of the ton. The rogue longs for an adventurous beauty who will make his world more . . . interesting. So Alistair is delighted when f...



  • Barbara Keaton

    Two people searching for the same thing ...Ashalon is a professor of Egyptology at Cairo University in Egypt and he is none too happy to learn that another American is coming to his country to conduct a dig among the ruins of his ancestors. He vows t...



  • Carolyn Keene

    Can Nancy solve this chilling mystery? Who wears a blue scarf and old rubber boots, and has broccoli for a nose? It's Sherlock -- Nancy, Bess, and George's snowman! The girls are thrilled to be on winter vacation and take part in all of the season's...



  • Carolyn Keene

    Could aliens actually exist in small-town Vermont? Nancy suspects not...Nancy, Bess and George have driven from River Heights to northern Vermont to visit a friend of George and her mom's who owns a quaint, touristy small restaurant/café in a town n...



  • Anne Kelleher

    Through battle, blood and sacrifice -- only thus could the world be saved... Or so the bards sing. But at the dawning of the world, Catrione, a gifted Druid, knew only that the realms of Shadowland and Sidhe faced the gravest of danger from the go...



  • Faye Kellerman
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    When progressive state representative Davida Grayson is brutally murdered, homicide detectives Will Barnes and Amanda Isis investigate--and discover a labyrinth of dark secrets and bloody vengeance from which the only way out may be death....



  • Jonathan Kellerman
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    Detective team Baker Southerby and Lamar Van Gundy understand the rhythms of the music biz as intimately as the streets they work. But when rock legend Jack Jeffries ends up in a ditch with his throat slashed, they find out just how high the price of...



  • Mary Anne Kelly

    At the start, Claire Breslinsky is in Munich working as a model. She rents a room in a large apartment and meets a series of magical people---or so they seem to her. Isolde, her landlady and sister model, introduces her to a number of people, includi...



  • Alison Kent

    Strangers in the night--what could be hotter? With this newest addition to her dangerously sexy SG-5 series, Alison Kent delivers a sizzling story of one woman in search of excitement, a man all too willing to provide it, and a love worth risking eve...



  • Rob Kidd

    BEFORE THE BLACK PEARL, THERE WAS A TEENAGE STOWAWAY NAMED JACK SPARROW. . . . With their recent quest for the legendary Sword of Cortes complete, Jack and his crew take a break in their mate Tumen's village on the Yucatan peninsula. But when a char...



  • Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

    As a writer for an advice column, Lily B. keeps quite a busy schedule at school, but that doesn't stop her from handling all the other dramas that come her way, including a rock climbing adventure with friends and finding true love of her own. Reprin...



  • Helen Kirkman

    They had known each other only in dreams, but now a violent fate had made their waking worlds collide. The ethereal Lady Aurinia lived in danger from the powerful who would use her for their own ends. And yet she freely aided those in need, even k...



  • Richard A. Knaak
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    On the eve of his wedding, Nermesa Klandes uncovers a plot to kill Conan. And to his horror, he soon learns that the man chosen to do the murderous deed is a man whom King Conan trusts more than anyone -- Nermesa himself....



  • Dakata Knight

    While working for a ruthless drug lord, teenage assassin Sola, after killing one of her boss's rivals and an unidentified woman, becomes the prey of a faceless gunman who will stop at nothing to destroy her, forcing her to seek answers from an old as...



  • E.E. Knight

    Flung to freedom as their mother battles a group of slave-trading dwarves, young Wistala and her gray, scaleless brother, Auron, find themselves alone in the Upper World. And when Auron sacrifices himself so that she may live, Wistala must overcome h...



  • Jin Kobayashi

    SUMMER LOVE SHAKE-UP!

    Cute Tsukamoto Tenma is desperately trying to help juvenile delinquent classmate Harima Kenji win the girl of his dreams: Tenma’s friend Mikoto. But when Tenma hears Kenji say “I love you” to someone else, she begin...



  • Toshihiko Kobayashi

    SMOOCH!

    When Mugi and Yuu miss the last train home after a late night out, a friendly restaurant proprietor, Tetsu-san, invites them in from the cold. Impressed by Mugi’s passion for cooking, Tetsu offers him a job . . . which is how Mugi co...



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  • Lynn Kurland

    Legend has it that only the two magical swords held in trust by Neroche's rulers can defeat the evil of the black mage...and never have they been more needed, as the mage's assault begins to cover the kingdom in darkness. The king has lost the magic...




  • John Kurtz

    A castle, a ball gown, and a handsome prince . . . "Happily ever after" keeps getting happier! These two new Jump at the Sun Fairytale Classics are sure to be a big hit this spring. These superb retellings feature two of the most popular princesses o...



  • Katherine Kurtz

    Alaric Morgan has been pledged to the king's service from birth, for his Deryni blood makes him ideal to safeguard the powers of the Haldane kings and ensure that Prince Brion, King Donal's heir, shall have the protection of his hereditary Haldane ma...



  • Sylvie Kurtz

    The Meadows heiress had been kidnapped 25 years ago. Vanished by moonlight, and CEO Nicolas Galloway was the last to see her. So when reporter Valerie Zea arrived at the Moongate mansion to dig up new dirt, Nick was there to watch her every move. And...



  • Craig Kyle

    The New X-Men have been killed, blown up and absolutely decimated. Now, they're on the offensive! But after all they've been through, will they have the strength to defeat their toughest enemy yet? Hey, maybe the New Avengers could help! Collects New...



  • Al Lacy; Joanna Lacy

    Romance and revulsion, distance and determination frame a story that spans the continent in the late 1800s. McClain Reardon had saved ten-year-old Rya's life when the fugitive John Wilkes Booth held her at gunpoint in Virginia. Reuniting with McClain...



  • Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    Before there was the tribulation, before the rapture, before there was a legacy that could be left behind, there was Jesus. John's Story tell His glorious, dramatic story. John's Story: The Last Eyewitness is told by the one whom Jesus called beloved...



  • Stan Lee

    Written by STAN LEE Penciled by JACK KIRBY Cover by JACK KIRBY We've been ordered from on high, True Believers, and Marvel doesn't say "Nay" to our ol' buddy Odin! That's right, it's time for another captivating Masterworks collection of the one and ...



  • Nicole Leroux

    Leo is a little flying squirrel with a problem. As part of his family’s acrobatic circustroupe traveling through the forest, Leo is expected to perform feats of daring onthe high wire. Only he is much smaller than his brothers and sisters, and o...



  • Ali Liebegott

    Liebegott's debut novel is a coming-of-age coming-out in the tradition of Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle, but here, the portrait of an artist as punk waitress is more a celebration of sexuality than humanity....



  • Rob Liefeld

    Collects Captain America (1996) #1-12, Fantastic Four (1996) #12, Avengers (1996) #12, Iron Man (1996) #12, material from Heroes Reborn (1996) #1/2. In 1996, the hottest creators of the day teamed up to reimagine and reinvigorate Marvel’s greatest ...



  • Stephen Lindley

    Ever since Chicago ex-cop Kubiak opted for early retirement from a quiet career in Latent Prints, he has been finding himself reluctantly embroiled in mysteries that inevitably bring him back to where he started: into confrontation with the same Chic...



  • Eunice Lipton

    In this passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history, love and sex and art collide with hatred, withering French xenophobia, and death. How does Paris, with all its faults, remain not only the world's most visited tourist destination, but a...



  • Bentley Little

    Bram Stoker Award-winning author Bentley Little explores the unspeakable depths of human nature in this shocking horror novel.

    Cathy was only six when the man who lived in the house across the street killed his wife and then himself. Cathy hea...



  • Denise Little

    Bars and taverns are a time-honored human tradition--the perfect gathering places to trade news and gossip, to hang out, to complain, to celebrate, or just somewhere travelers can pass the time. Each has its own special and loyal clientele, though so...



  • Marjorie M. Liu

    Dirk & Steele had a creed: Protect the innocent in secrecy. No member of the Agency was "normal." Each was an outcast, a pariah, a beneficent shadow living under the sun but rarely in its warmth. "Blue" Perrineau was no different. And now, when it wa...



  • Jeph Loeb

    Collects Onslaught Reborn #1-5. Marvel's greatest heroes sacrificed themselves to stop the deadliest threat they had ever faced: Onslaught! The heroes' lives were saved only when Franklin Richards created a parallel universe, where we found those her...