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  • Arthur Byron Cover

    A History Lesson? As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. As if real life wasn't already over...



  • Charles de Lint

    The streets of the city, and the ancient myths of the land. Mystery and portents; glittering dreams. The magic of friendship. Of art and music. And of love. Welcome to the world of Charles de Lint. Here is Lily, a photojournalist in search of the "a...



  • Charles de Lint

    When Max Trader, a quiet, responsible guitar maker and Johnny Devlin, a lady-killing, drunken, unemployed loser, inexplicably awaken in each other's bodies, Max must venture into the streets of Newford where he must confront Devlin and his own deepes...



  • Dan Brown

    When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors ...



  • T. Jefferson Parker

    One man's obsessive quest to protect the innocent -- while facing the guilt in his own past. Terry Naughton has come up against his share of heinous criminals in his years on the force -- but nothing has prepared him for the Horridus, the brillian...



  • Kage Baker

    In the twenty-fourth century, the Company preserves valuable works of art and extinct forms of life. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal with drugs, hormones, and implants, and trains them to serve the Company down the lo...



  • Susan Wright

    Every year, Starfleet Academy in San Francisco attracts many of the most talented and ambitious young people in the Federation. They come from all over the Alpha Quadrant, from hundreds of worlds and species, to prepare themselves for the challenges ...



  • Iain M. Banks

    Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old myst...



  • John Whitman

    A new evil lurks: Star Wars - Galaxy of Fear Terror is everywhere ... The Sikadian Garden on Sk'rrr is full of beautiful plants and flower . . . and some other, not-so-pretty things. There are also shreevs, batlike creatures that swoop down and...



  • Ted Pedersen

    Wondering where life will take him next, young Jake, inadvertently accompanied by Nog, is catapulted back in time to Normandy, France, in the middle of World War II, where history is about to be changed forever. Original....



  • Dafydd ab Hugh

    Rumors of a secret alliance between the Dominion and the Klingon Empire lure Captain Sisko and the crew of the Defiant on a desperate mission into the Gamma Quadrant, leaving Deep Space None vulnerable to a surprise sneak attack! Now an elite Klin...



  • Aaron Allston

    They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing pilots risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must go on a daring undercover mission--as the crew of an Imperial warship. ...



  • Thomas William Simpson

    Samantha Henderson is a devoted wife and mother. But life as she knows it is about to change. Sam's about to have her every dream fulfilled--but, in return, she and her family will pay a price, a very high price, for all this love and luxury.... I...



  • Charles L. Grant

    Crops whither in the fields. Fish float belly-up in rivers, lakes, and oceans. Orchards are barren. Cattle and sheep are dying on their feet. The world is slowly starving to death.

    Deep in the American heartland, a terrible family reunion is t...



  • Steven Barnes

    Iron Shadows...an exciting, fast-paced thriller about a charismatic cult with a dark underside, a riveting adventure filled with passion and danger.

    Cat Juvell has a black belt and a knack for solving difficult cases. She and her partner have ...



  • Nicolas Van Pallandt

    ILLUSION IS THE LIE YOU SEE.... The city of Kyara is a wasteland made livable, a shining tribute to the future's unlimited technology. But not all is perfect in this perfect world, where one woman has already met a sudden, nasty death. Gabriel ...



  • Greg Bear

    Remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, in which an expedition led by Professor George Edward Challenger discovered an Amazonian plateau where dinosaurs still roamed? In Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear assumes that Challenger's expedition really...



  • Robert Thurston

    THE CONSPIRACY EXPERIMENTS Dispatch Horse to the planet Huntress! The orders to investigate the secret experiment being done by the Falcons on the Smoke Jaguar homeworld came down from the Jade Falcon Khan herself. But does the covert mission requ...



  • Carolyn Ives Gilman

    Tedla is young, beautiful, and blond--but it is neither he nor she. And Tedla has a remarkable story to tell of witchcraft, lust, and rebellion on a far-off closed world which has taken its own evolutionary path. There, an asexual class of "blands" e...



  • Ted Edwards

    Everyone knows Hercules is the toughest of the tough, but how well do you really know the star of The Legendary Journeys? You love this weekly dose of eye-candy, but do you know how it all began? The answers are all here. Now for the first time ever,...



  • John Dalmas

    Seven centuries ago, Earth's infant first colony was mysteriously cut off without a ship of its own. For thirty generations the colonists have focused on survival, establishment, growth; their agrarian society evolving in an absence of war, with coop...



  • Mark Sumner

    Savvy McKinnon, a reporter for the Global Query tabloid newspaper, travels to a small town in Illinois to track down the reason for a series of bizarre incidents among the local townsfolk. Original....



  • Christie Golden

    HUNTING THE MOST REMARKABLE PREY ON PLANET EARTH WILL BE EASY... The planet Tyrus is in the throes of mutiny. A military dictatorship has seized the throne and dispatched an armada to invade a distant land. The mission: locate their future king an...



  • Mike Moscoe

    THE LOST MILLENNIUM When a designer plague threatens every living thing on earth, a desperate world sends two 21st century soldiers back in time. Their mission is to win a war that was lost six thousand years ago...and change human history from co...



  • Mona Clee

    In the year 2032, eighty-year-old Moira Burke watches as life on Earth becomes a series of natural disasters due to global warming--and the planet's only hope may be a bold new genetic experiment called "The Green Man." Original....



  • Steve White

    IT WASN'T MUCH OF AN EMPIRE ANYMORE--BUT IT WAS ALL THEY HAD... . Afterwards, Basil Castellan was always certain that it had all begun the day he'd been rescued by the dragon. Oh, it hacjn't been a real dragon, of course, or so he hastily assured ...



  • Susan R. Matthews

    Andrej Koscuisko is an Inquisitor for the Bench federation of worlds. It is his duty to root out--quickly, efficiently, quietly--anyone who would threaten the ruling order. Andre] has been posted to the penal facility at Port Rudistal. Here hundr...



  • Donald E. McQuinn

    THE PRISONER WITHIN Given one last chance to save himself from death and dishonor, Captain Lannat is smuggled to a tyrannical planet to hunt down Etasalou, the man responsible for his arrest and disgrace. But Etasalou holds a position of unassaila...



  • Chris Archer

    In the fourth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, an alien encounter gives a teen with psychic powers a dangerous premonition.   Elena Vargas has lived in Metier, Wisconsin, her whole life. But that doesn’t mean she actually believes all ...



  • Jane Killick

    A comprehensive episode-by-episode guide to the first thrilling season of Babylon 5! 

    Babylon 5: Signs and Portents, kicks off with a foreword by actor Michael O'Hare, better known to viewers as Commander Sinclair, and features a fascinating ...



  • Brian Daley

    Though they contemplated a final suicide mission of blood, guts, and glory, the Exts knew their warrior superskills were no match for the LAW--Legal Annexation of Worlds--who were sent into space by the mighty Periapt potentates to colonize new popul...




  • Spider Robinson

    Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer with his Heinlein-influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories. User Friendly is a new solid chunk of Spider's universe that is inimitably reader friendly....



  • David Zindell

    RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON

    Danlo wi Soli Ringess has returned from the Vild, the first lightship pilot to escape that hellish region of fractured space and deadly supernovas where giant computer-gods make war on each other.

    But the Civi...



  • Denis Hamill

    Explosive, street-savvy, and authentic, acclaimed columnist Denis Hamill's novels are drawn in the gritty ink that can only flow from the pen of a native New Yorker...and a superbly talented writer. Now, blending sinuous prose with a hair-trigger del...



  • John Kane

    It's Oscar time and five nominees for Best Actress anxiously wait for the big night. All of them have skeletons in their walk-in closets, but one has rummaged through hers to get a gun for her Chanel bag. Veteran Hollywood flak Kane keeps his eyebrow...



  • Anna Quindlen

    For eighteen years, Fran Benedetto kept her secret. And hid her bruises. And stayed with Bobby because she wanted her son to have a father. And because, in spite of everything, she loved him. Then one night, when she saw the look on her ten-year-old ...



  • Joe Connelly

    Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the Dead. Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes fr...



  • Gary E. Parker

    Life smiles on Connie Brandon: law degree nearly in hand, a loving husband and two wonderful kids, a vibrant faith in God in a quiet Missouri town.But her quiet family life is rocked when her husband, Jack, turns up dead in the Missouri River -- a...



  • Georgette Livingston

    The Chattering Chimp Caper is the twelfth book in the Jennifer Gray Veterinarian Mystery Series. The other eleven books, The Unlucky Collie Caper, The Dog Named Elvis Caper, The Deadly Dog-Bone Caper, The Black Cat Caper, The Telltale Turkey Caper, T...



  • Nancy Fisher

    A twisty, medical thriller that combines a deadly Ebola-like filovirus, art smuggling, and international intrigue, with a host of believable and engaging characters including a beautiful virologist, and the charismatic chairman of a medical aid organ...



  • Donna Ball

    WHAT SHE REMEMBERS IS TERRIFYING. WHAT SHE CAN'T REMEMBER COULD KILL HER The lucky survivor of a freak accident, Virginia Beach teacher Ellen Cox is pulled from the wreckage of her car shaken...and deathly afraid. Her name belongs to a stranger. T...



  • Douglas Cooper

    The critically acclaimed author of "Amnesia" presents his second book--the first novel ever serialized on the Internet--a thrilling story of ideas than spans continents and centuries, a psychological tour de force encompassing murder, the history of ...



  • Ralph Peters

    Relief worker Kelly Trost, the headstrong daughter of a prominent U.S. senator, came to a forgotten corner of the earth to make a difference. But now she has vanished into the dark heart of a lawless, oil-rich nation struggling through a violent rebi...



  • Max Marlow

    Summer 2023, and the Earth is experiencing devastating water shortages. Journalist Brett Manders, falls in love with Antonia Dariette, but when on a fact-finding mission in Africa, his plane crashes, Antonia is left alone. As she waits for news, she ...



  • Ann M. Martin

    Am I doing enough? Am I doing too much? Where exactly do I fit into all of this? I don't know. I SHOULD know, but I don't....



  • Lawrence Sanders

    Emmet Folsby found power in his publishing empire - and passion in his secret affairs. His wife, Constance, a dying invalid who was shielded from the truth. And their fiercely competitive children: a daughter and son with sexual secrets of their own....



  • Scott Jones

    During the Six-Day War in 1967, Bethlehem and east Jerusalem were captured by the Israelis, and sovereign dominion of the holy city returned to the Jews for the first time in over two thousand years. At that time, a Dead Sea artifact, the Temple Scro...



  • Jane Holleman

    Hardened homicide detective Rachel Collazo jumps on the case when the mysterious Kelly McLaughlin reveals clues about Rachel's sister's death, and the pair begins a deadly cat-and-mouse game that means death for the loser. Original....



  • Lawrence Block

    Keller is your basic Urban Lonely Guy. He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment. Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country... and kills s...



  • Kimberly Rangel

    Tortured by nightmares twenty years after her slumber party had made national news when a killer butchered three of her friends and drove another insane, Darby Jayson worries that the killer may not have been executed after all. Original....



  • Jerome Preisler

    Detectives Kellerman and Lewis find a roadside corpse, identified as a guard at Central Maryland Psychiatric Center for the Criminally Insane, but the escapee-fugitive at large is one of the smartest and most vicious hit-men in the history of Baltimo...



  • Bret Lott

    It started with a body, the head of it pretty much gone, the hands skinned. We found it the Saturday after Thanksgiving, out to Hungry Neck Hunt Club. Uncle Leland owns the Hunt Club, which might make him sound important, or rich. But he's not.Huger ...




  • Peter Carey

    The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. H...



  • Vern E. Smith

    An all-out drug war explodes in 1970s Detroit when a young Vietnam veteran decides to rip off heroin kingpin Willis McDaniel. In the chaos, rival outfits, the Mafia, and even junkies themselves try to step in to fill the void while one lone assassin ...



  • Linda Wolfe

    Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe recounts a powerful true-life crime story of her ownher search for the serial killer who murdered her friend In 1983 Jacqui Bernard was found dead. She was a philanthropist, a writer, an activist, and a f...



  • Lois Walfrid Johnson

    Danger lurks in the nighttime shadows! When they learn that they are being watched, Jordan and his daddy need to leave Springfield, Illinois, at once. With the crooked Dexter behind bars, Libby, Caleb, Peter, and Jordan make plans to take the stol...



  • Stephen A. Bly

    The Lewis and Clark Squad is in Montana to watch Jeremiah dance and compete in a pow-wow. Of course, they plan to play 3-on-3 basketball too. Excitement and then stress builds when Larry's prized, autographed basketball is stolen. The only clue is a ...



  • Erica Spindler

    THEY WERE ONLY WATCHING The mysterious lovers the three girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game no one else was supposed to know about. Especially not Andie and her friends, whose curiosity had deepened into a dangerous obsession.... ...



  • Patrick Chamoiseau

    New York Times notable book of the year
     
    In Fort-de-France, Martinique, a colorful group of musicians, street vendors, and hopeless disciples, including the author, gather under a tamarind tree to listen to legendary bard Solibo Magnificent...




  • Alton Gansky

    HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES? WOULD YOU BREAK THE LAW? LIE, CHEAT, STEAL? WOULD YOU KILL? After an event that shattered his world, David O’Neal courageously sets out to rebuild his life as a speech writer for Barringston Reliefâ...



  • Colleen L. Reece

    Sixteen-year-old Juli hopes her experience as a trial witness in a bank robbery case in Bellingham Bay, Washington, will give her material for writing mystery stories, until she and her church group friends receive death threats and warnings not to t...



  • Colleen L. Reece

    The last thing Juli Scott needs right now is another mystery, but she finds herself in peril when someone in their group witnesses something they shouldn't have seen. The challenge is to keep this unsuspecting witness from becoming a victim....




  • Janice Daugharty

    Just out of prison after serving time on a drug charge, Roper Rackard comes across a woman's body while mowing the tall grass at the far end of his new boss's property, and although he is innocent of her death, Roper panics. Terrified that he will b...



  • Jim Lewis

    After an astounding debut with his novel Sister, Jim Lewis once again proves his remarkable talent with Why the Tree Loves the Ax.Caroline Harrison is a young woman drifting across the country from a secret past to an uncertain future. Stranded by ac...



  • Andrew Goliszek

    When NASA investigator Linda Franklin is sent to unravel a mysterious plane crash, she finds herself staring into the wreckage of an aircraft that has never existed. Her inquiry leads her through the secret corridors of power in the Pentagon to confr...



  • Stella Cameron

    RAE FAITH MOODY KNOWS SHE CAN BEAT DALLAS CALHOUN IF SHE CAN ONLY RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO JOIN HIM. Young Rae Faith fled her home. She ran from town to town, covering her tracks, until her trail was cold. Then she settled in tiny Decline, Georgia...



  • Susan Kearney

    THE DADDY-TO-BE WAS TO DIE FOR... Summer Warren had signed a contract to carry a stranger's babies inside her. A surrogate contract that specified that she and the man would never meet. Yet when a nameless, faceless stalker began to track her eve...



  • Tracey Tillis

    Framed for the murder of her stepson, Shannon LaCrosse turns to private investigator David Courtney--a former cop who helped put her in jail--to ask for his assistance in finding the killer who framed her and now seems determined to end her life...



  • Lorena McCourtney

    DANGER LURKS IN THE SHADOWS AS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN STRUGGLES TO UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF HER PAST KAT CAVANAUGH She awakens in an Oregon hospital with a broken leg and no memory of her identity or her past. Who is she? How did she get here? Where d...



  • Kelsey Roberts

    Who would have thought that the search for Hannah Bailey's real mother could have turned so deadly? Certainly not Hannah. Shocked by the discovery that she'd been adopted, Hannah felt a strong pull toward the woman listed on her birth certificate as ...



  • Amanda Stevens

    Her father was innocent... Valerie Snow was just a child when her father was convicted of the Kingsley kidnapping. All this time, she's believed him guilty...and been wrong. Now, out for justice, she is surrounded by danger. Only one man will lis...



  • Suzanne Forster

    Sophie Weston was young and impressionable when she married Jay Babcock, a rich man with a wild heart. Everyone said he was wrong for her, but for Sophie, it was too late. She'd already surrendered to passion -- that suddenly turned to pain -- wh...



  • Diane Noble

    A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. AN ELEGANT CHATEAU. A SINISTER SECRET. Pelican Bay, California. A sleepy, seaside village where the biggest news in the weekly Pelican Journal is the release of local celebrity Theodora Whimple's latest mystery novel. ...



  • Carly Bishop

    SHE WAS OUT TO CAPTURE A KILLER Becky DiFalco was trapped -- snowbound -- in the Rockies with two men. One, the sexiest man she'd ever seen; the other, the shrewdest killer she'd ever been up against in her years with the Colorado Bureau of ...



  • Jeanne Savery
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    Pretty little Charity Morris thought all her dreams has come true when she maried her childhood sweetheart, the dashing young Lord Crandle. But Timon is out of charity with his bride-for reasons she cannot guess.It's not until Cupid reveals the ace u...



  • Karen Harbaugh

    Love Struck Pretty Miss Aimee was utterly dazzled by dashing Lieutenant Kenneth Hathaway. Then, without warning, he left for the Continent-and didn't return for years. Now Aimee hoped absence had made his heart grow fonder. Alas, absence had made ...



  • Mona Gedney
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    The wastrel Earl of Glenwood had often pressed his daughter to wed a wealthy gentleman, but Lady Diana Crosswell turned down all offers as marriage meant leaving her happy-go-lucky younger brother to fend for himself. But when handsome John Derringer...



  • Martha Schroeder

    Penniless Lady Margaret Enfield was given an option to save her home, Hedgemere. She could marry a wealthy stranger, Captain James Sheridan. The captain had spent his life at sea, escaping his past. And though Hedgemere satisfied his longing for a ho...



  • Allison Lane

    Country Affairs Penelope Wingrave was extraordinary -- from her flaming red hair to her scheme for raising ostriches. Alas, she was also on the shelf, too highborn to marry down, too poor to marry nobility. Her sister, on the other hand, was being...



  • Marian Devon

    SHE HADN'T SET OUT TO STIR THINGS UP -- ESPECIALLY HER OWN HEART... Though recently jilted at age seven-and-twenty, Claudia Wentworth was about to embark on a whirlwind adventure. It all began when she enlisted the aid of Lord Thornton after h...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    The Scandalous Secret... Emily Talcott has enough to worry about, trying to see her lovely younger sister suitably married before their father's lamentable lack of skill in cards sends them to the poor house. Now this well-bred miss is fending ...



  • Jenna Jones

    Sweet Serenity She thought he was a cad... As long as she lived, Miss Serenity Hoffenduffle would never forget the scene. Kidnapped in the middle of the night and brought to a house of ill repute, she was stunned to find her fiance, Randall Torre...



  • Martha Kirkland

    Falling in Love is as Easy as One, Two, Three... Constance Mitchell had the beauty, her younger sister Felicity possessed the brains, and their cousin Regina Farrington, formerly a lady's companion, had the only money among them... five hundred po...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    The Unexpected Season Left without a farthing by her papa's untimely death, Sophie Garnett was quite resigned to being a genteel lady's companion. Then a letter arrived, summoning her to the reading of a relative's will. She never expected the sec...



  • Cindy Holbrook
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    When Cupid wagers Venus she cannot bring two unlikely lovers together, the goddess of love finds herself faced with the Marquis of Waverly, a writer of love poems, and his lovely assistant, Amelia Thornton, who dispassionately analyzes the romantic n...



  • Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    In the continuing adventures of several interns for television's trashiest talk show, Roxanne seeks revenge on a behind-the-scenes spy, Lisha finds herself dreaming about Sky despite her romance with Alan, and Sky lets nothing stand in the way of att...



  • Lawana Blackwell

    When Life Seemed Its Worst, Gresham Awaited Julia Hollis' opulent life in Victorian London crashes to pieces when her husband passes away. Worse, she is told by his bankers that he gambled away their fortune. Now, the family's hope rests on The Larks...



  • Clare Curzon

    Mike Yeadings and his police team begin work on the disappearance of a powerful Japanese businessman's daughter and the murder of his chief executive, both of which have caused rising tensions in the industrial town of Thames Valley...



  • Leslie Glass

    April Woo faces her most challenging investigation yet. A man and woman lie dead on a snowy Manhattan sidewalk. The primary suspect is the murdered woman's husband, African-American ex-football star Rick Liberty. For Detective Woo, it's a homicide ca...



  • Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Detective Marti MacAlister investigates the murder of a young woman whose criminal contacts may put a homeless man at risk. And while Marti looks for one killer, another has come from the past and into her home-zeroing in on all that is dear to Marti...



  • Frank Smith

    BODY IN QUESTION A routine robbery investigation turns into something much more sinister when a corpse is found in the well of a cottage belonging to photographer Peter Foster. Foster fears the body is the ex-husband of his current girlfriend, a mode...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Emily Jane Todd has just found her guardian angel. Actually, the small-town librarian had just been stood up by her fiance when she ran into the errant angel with her car. And while he appears to be unscathed, "Michael" continues to insist that his p...



  • Victoria Barrett
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    Amanda Jensen wants to stand on her own two feet and make her card shop a success. Looking the other way when a local bag lady steals from her doesn't help, but she has a soft spot for the eccentric woman name Chatty. Besides, Chatty is not what ...



  • Rosemary Edghill

    In Salem, Massachusetts, Diana Crossways, a modern witch, sees an otherworldly figure exposed by lightning and tumbles back in time to 1647 England, where she comes face to face with a ruthless witch hunter with the power of life and death, who finds...



  • Angie Ray

    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1998 Handsome playboy Derek Sinclair didn't have time to go looking for love. Then one night, the ghost of Lady Allison Pelsworth appears, asking him to travel back in time and prevent her marriage to the wretched Wilfred. Now, ...



  • Victoria Alexander

    So, You Think You Know Romance? You don't. Not unless you know Spencer St. Gregory and Philippa Morgan. Now theirs was a love for the ages. Just boy meets girl -- a story we've all heard -- or think we have. I had. I thought I'd heard ...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly
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    By day, Abby Walden is a shy professor -- but by night, she's 'Candida,' author of a spicy love column. Joel Tandem, who resides just a fire escape away, also lives a double life. Though each thinks the other is the cat's meow, gettin...



  • Mary Anne Wilson

    FALLING IN LOVE IS A NO-BRAINER! After years of flawless matchmaking, fairy mother Angelina Moore has lost her grip. That's why she's sent to earth for a crash course in sensitivity training. The first lesson learned: emotions are much more compli...



  • Emily Carmichael
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    Eric Neal is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, but neither of their hearts are in it, and with the help of two of Cupid's agents, Hearts and Flowers, they'll soon find their true loves. Disguised as the 1966 Austin Healey Eric has just bought, Hea...



  • Margaret Brownley
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    When Paige Roberts wins the three-million dollar lottery, she's ecstatic. She doesn't even mind splitting it with the other winner -- until she learns it's her ex-husband. As Paige and Jeff are brought together, the old sparks start to fl...



  • Kathleen Nance

    "YOU'RE SO SERIOUS ALL THE TIME. YOU DON'T LAUGH MUCH. YOU DON'T SEE ANYONE. FACE IT, MOM, YOU NEED A GENIE." No, thought Zoe Calderone, a genie was exactly what a hard-working, pragmatic, single mother like herself DIDN'T need. But when she went ...



  • Stephanie Bancroft

    When a quick rub of an old brass teapot set off a tremor that reduced his antiques store to a shambles, Ladden Sanderson groaned. At least the exotic carpet he'd rescued from an estate sale would intrigue designer Jasmine Crowne, but what he really w...



  • David J. Walker

    The 'hollow ghost' haunting Chicago P.I. Malachy 'Mal' Foley's dreams is Lammy Fleming, one of Mal's high school classmates. Mal, a new kid in school, had befriended Lammy at first, but Lammy was slow, chubby, bad at schoolwork, and terrible at sport...



  • Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

    Luis is more than a Cuban refugee struggling to find a new life. He claims to be part of a formerly wealthy family, swindled out of their fortune by a prominent Cuban couple now living in Miami. And now that Luis has arrived in the states, he is sure...



  • Donna Huston Murray

    IS MAN'S BEST FRIEND ALSO HIS DEADLIEST ENEMY? The dog days of Bryn Derwyn Academy's summer holidays yawn ahead for Ginger Barnes--headmaster's wife, mother of two teenagers and occasional detective. But the tedium is soon shattered when Dr. Karl ...



  • Chris Rogers

    Houston bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan is a legend in the jails and courtrooms for her combination of brains, cunning, and macho style. But she's about to learn that there are limits to even her toughness. Parker Dann, accused of killing a child in...



  • Sarah Lovett

    Forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange has matched wits with some of the most twisted minds in the American criminal system, and survived. Now, she finds herself struggling to reach a ten-year-old girl found by police who has been terrified into ut...



  • Robert O. Greer

    THREE GRAND, TWO SHIRTS. ONE DEVIL OF A TIME… $3000 for Two Shirts. It seemed like a good deal at the time. All bail bondsman CJ Floyd had to do was mosey up the Colorado Diamond Breaks wilderness and bring back a skinny fireworks pusher named Bob...



  • Robert O. Greer

    SHAKE, RATTLE, AND DIE... They called him Daddy Doo-Wop: the one-time Chicago disc jockey who spun the vinyl that made a young CJ Floyd's heart soar all the way out in Denver. Now Daddy Doo-Wop has died on CJ's home turf, and the dead man's beauti...



  • Charlene Weir

    Hollywood comes to Hampstead, Kansas. with the filming of a new picture starring sexy actress Laura Edwards. But murder steals the scene when a stunt double is impaled on a pitchfork in Charlene Weir's taut new mystery....



  • John S. Marr

    Two children die of a disease thought to be nonexistence in the United States. Within hours, thoroughbreds at the legendary Churchill Downs are dying of a virus that cannot be identified, even by the most expert veterinarians. Called in to solve thes...



  • Rochelle Majer Krich

    Scandal has shaken the career of Dr. Lisa Brockman, a physician at a prestigious Los Angeles fertility clinic. First there's the murder of a young donor, then the allegations of egg switching, and finally the disappearance of Dr. Matthew Gordon, the ...



  • Peter Clement

    LETHAL DISCOVERY St. Paul's Hospital. Buffalo, New York. Scandal rocks the medical community when someone murders the chief administrator, plunging a long thin cardiac needle into his heart with deadly precision. LETHAL PURSUIT Top ER physician ...





  • Elizabeth Peters

    Raymond Chandler called it The Simple Art of Murder, a misleading title. It never has been simple to write mysteries. But it is an art, and often the crimes investigated are rooted in the worlds of art, architecture, and antiquities.
    Where there i...









  • Jen Banbury

    Jill, a part-time bookseller with a biting wit, gets her hands on a rare, first-edition novel by Jack London -- courtesy of a suspicious-looking dwarf. Soon, a polite assassin arrives, with the dwarf in tow, demanding the book back. But Jill has alre...




  • Adams Round Table

    The members of The Adams Round Table present an exciting collection of crime stories from such renowned writers as Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Warren Murphy, Justin Scott, Peter Straub, and other notable authors....




  • Elizabeth Foxwell

    From contemporary crimes to historical whodunits, here are classic and charming mysteries in the grand tradition of the television show, "Murder, She Wrote". Contributors include Anne Perry, Margaret Maron, Susan Dunlap, and 14 other top authors. ....






  • Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! Stacey's having a great time running the eighth-grade fund-raiser, selling secret "valentine-grams" to be delivered on Valentine's Day. But then the fun stops: Someone steals the bag of valentin...



  • Norman Partridge

    Jack Baddalch knows that there is something big at stake when the Chihuahua named Spike that he is escorting across the desert for his shady boss is stolen by a band of machine-gun-toting women in black leather. Original....



  • Malcolm MacPherson

    When a Chinese immigrant stands trial for the murder of a young woman, Judge Daniel Barr knows that the legal deck is stacked against the defendant. Even the man’s court-appointed attorney is incompetent. Now, an ominous suggestion that the real ki...



  • William Bernhardt

    Disillusioned with both the legal system and his private life, criminal attorney Ben Kincaid abandons his practice for a less stressful pastime: playing with a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. The musician's life is bliss - until a corpse crashes...



  • Joseph Finder

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  • Susan R. Sloan

    Seward Island is a tranquil community in the heart of the Puget Sound. But now, the daughter of a prominent family has been found murdered, her bloodied body rolled into a carpet and thrown into a Dumpster. While the killing sends police on a search ...



  • Mimi Lavenda Latt

    Young and idealistic L.A. lawyer Rebecca Morland had a rosy future. She and her husband, Ryan, had a happy and passionate marriage and planned to start a family. Then Ryan vanished. Recently named a partner at one of the city's most prestigious la...



  • John Grisham

    Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nin...



  • Betsy Howie

    A darkly comic, absurdist, and highly original story of one woman’s quest to find herself. In the dead of winter, her marriage over, a young woman leaves New York City with her two cats and drives north with little more than a few cans of Spam and ...



  • Elizabeth Ann Michaels

    A PASSIONATE MEDIEVAL SAGA OF A SPIRITED YOUNG WOMAN TORN BETWEEN A SACRED PLEDGE AND HER LOVE FOR A VALIANT NORMAN KNIGHT... Leah de Troyes is the daughter of The Savager, a ruthless land baron determined to use her as a political pawn--until she...



  • Shari Anton

    THE KING HAD GRANTED THEM A YEAR OF LOVE Gerard of Wilmont wanted nothing more than to make Ardith of Lenvil his cherished bride. But what if he and his Saxon flame were not blessed with the heir that would ensure their union would last forever? ...



  • Cameron Dokey

    Follow the travels of the hope chest created during the War of Independence as it continues its journey through American history and through the lives of generations of courageous young American women. Chicago 1871 Carrie can't believe she posses...



  • Theresa Michaels

    Widow Catherine Rose Hill had vowed she would never again answer to a man. But when a stuffy hardheaded banker with sexy eyes challenged her hard-won independence with soul-binding kisses, she wondered if her freedom was worth the price. Gregory ...



  • Betty Brooks

    He Made Her A Captive To His Will The rattlesnake struck Spotted Wolf just outside the white man's fort. Unable to save himself or free his Comanche brother held captive by the soldiers, he was at the mercy of the beautiful, ivory-skinned woma...



  • Millie Criswell

    He Had a Steel Will Texas Ranger Ethan Bodine slept with his gun, talked to his horse, and lived by an unbreakable code. Right was right, and wrong meant he brought a man to justice -- even if the outlaw was his brother Rafe. Now Ethan's only goal i...



  • Kat Martin

    When Elissa Tauber learns of her beloved brother's murder and that her native homeland is threatened, she is determined to expose the traitor. Posing as a recently widowed countess, she moves through the glittering world of the court, willing to bart...



  • Deborah Simmons

    Sleeping With The Enemy It was the last thing Elene Fitzhugh intended. She only prayed her array of sharpened daggers was ample protection against Geoffrey de Burgh's gentle coaxing and honeyed lies, for she was determined to be no man's bride-kin...



  • Erin Yorke

    A rebel heart held her fast...and young noblewoman Alyssa Howett knew she had no choice but to release Devlin Fitzhugh, the wild Irish hero who had freed her woman's soul. A warrior walked alone. His fealty was only to his sworn chieftain--or so Dev...



  • Judy Veisel

    When Marcus Blackerby, Earl of Rexford, was sent in seach of carrier pigeons to replace those slaughtered by Napoleon's men, he was determined to ruffle no more than a few feathers. His plan was simple: He would secure and invitation with Miss Amanda...



  • Nicole Jordan

    A CONVENIENT BRIDE Burdened by Family debts, Heather Ashford has no choice but to exchange her dreams of romance and accept the proposal of ruggedly handsome cattle baron Sloan McCord. However the widowed rancher is more than she bargains for. Tor...



  • Kate O'Donnell

    Cian O'Connor watched Bronwynn Fitzhugh toy with her betrothed. Cian despised her conniving ways, but she was his only hope to escape from bondage at Castle Carrick. So the Irish rebel took her hostage, never reckoning that the fiery beauty would bec...



  • Kathryn Hockett

    THE LEGEND'S LADY Whack! He slapped her on the posterior and swept her into a passionate kiss. Then Clint Tanner told Stephanie Winslow he mistook her for a whore. This crude cowboy couldn't be the legendary gunfighter Stephanie immortalized in di...



  • Jo Goodman

    Decker Thorne's carefree ways have done little to impress his employer, Jonna Remington, the poised and unflappable owner of Remington Shipping. But when he captains her best ship on a record-breaking voyage and saves her life in the same day, their ...



  • Karen Ranney

    An Explosive Encounter Mary Kate Bennett was married too early, widowed too young, and left to fend for herself without a penny. Her path was never meant to cross with Archer St. John's, except for a terrible carriage accident with the wickedly h...



  • Rosalyn West

    The Men of Pride County When War began, the boys of Pride County went off to fight for honor and glory. They returned as men: war-ravaged, shattered, yet determined to find lore and rebuild their lives in a world that had crumbled around them. These...



  • Robin Lee Hatcher

    AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Swedish immigrant Inga Linberg might not be as beautiful as her flirtatious sisters, but that doesn't mean she doesn't share their romantic ideas. When Dirk Bridger, a handsome but beleaguered Iowa farmer, approaches her minist...



  • Suzanne Robinson

    A LADY WHO KNOWS TOO MUCH... There's nothing like witnessing a murder to shake up one's life. That's what Miss Primrose Victoria Dane discovers when she accidentally stumbles upon the scene of a deadly crime. Suddenly the well-bred spinster is on ...



  • Cassie Edwards

    Ever since the sweltering summer day when Zoe Hawkins pinned on her father's tin star, she'd sworn to uphold the law in rough-and-ready Gracemont, Oklahoma. But how could the lovely sheriff maintain order when she couldn't even subdue her own waywar...



  • Alice Duncan

    He was irresistible. Handsome as sin. And he filled her nights with dreams no proper lady should enjoy.... HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED -- AND COULD NOT TOUCH... By day she was Claire Montague, prim, demure housekeeper of Partington Place. B...



  • Joan Lord Matthews

    Ravenna Marisse didn't believe in curses, but something was wrong at Harlixton Hall. None of the wives of the four brothers who resided there had safely delivered an heir. And when Anne Pembroke lay dying giving birth to her son, Raven's renowned ski...



  • Patricia Vaughn

    Between a man and a woman, there can be an arrangement... A young woman of color in 1800s French New Orleans had one destiny--to become the mistress of a rich Creole gentleman. For Sylvia Dupont, her exquisite beauty was a curse. She attracted males...



  • Cameron Dokey

    Share the dream, as the beautiful hope chest passes to a new generation and a young woman dares to follow her heart on a dangerous voyage in pursuit of true love. Baltimore 1850 Stephanie is crushed when she discovers that her father has sent the ma...



  • Heather Graham

    Nothing in her privileged life had prepared Yankee beauty Risa Magee for the dangers and intrigues of war ... until she bravely rowed through nighttime waters to carry a warning to a friend behind Confederate lines. Suddenly, she was the prisoner of ...



  • Maggie James

    AN UNTAMED LAND WOULD AWAKEN HER SPIRIT Tess Partridge traveled west to marry a man she had never met -- and found herself a prisoner in a makeshift jail when her plans went unexpectedly awry. Her cellmate was darkly handsome Curt Hammond, a man acc...



  • Francine Rivers

    In an ancient culture frighteningly similar to modern-day America, a young slave girl fights to save the family--and the man--she has grown to love....



  • Geralyn Dawson

    With just the right blend of laughter and romance, Geralyn Dawson weaves an air of enchantment in her tales of old-time Texas, with characters who charm their way right into our hearts. Now she pairs a handsome thief and an unconventional beauty to s...



  • Patricia Ryan

    When a fiercely loyal and rugged soldier with no desire for frivolous attachments sets eyes on a beautiful woman from his past, he risks his life and his heart to give her a life of happiness and eternal love. KNIGHT OF PASSION Nicolette de St....



  • DeWanna Pace

    Davage Jensen, the chief engineer of Union Pacific Railroad, should have sent her packing. But when the headstrong beauty, Key Calhoun, informs him that she is the "snow expert" headquarters has dispatched to solve the crew's current troubles, Davage...



  • Virginia Henley

    When Lynx de Warenne, Edward Plantagenet's most prized warrior, invaded Dumfries castle, he took possession of Jane Leslie's home--and soon wanted something more from the headstrong lass. Desperate for an heir, he proposed a handfasting: a Scottish c...



  • R.L. Stine

    Goosebumps now on Disney+!IT'S A MATCH MADE IN HORROR!When Slappy, the world's most evil ventriloquist dummy, shows up after being abandoned by his previous owner, things start to go wrong around the house. But this time Slappy may have met his match...



  • M.C. Sumner

    Harley, Scott, Dee, and Kenyon are forced to make a difficult decision about whether they can trust Chloe, a situation that will either put an end to an ancient rivalry with Umbra or bring about the deadliest peace of all. Original....



  • Dean Koontz

    WHEN YOU ARE DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ELSE, THE NIGHT IS NOT YOUR ENEMY, THE DARKNESS IS NOT INTIMIDATING, THE SHADOWS ARE NOT TERRIFYING. AND IF YOU'RE DIFFERENT ENOUGH, YOU... FEAR NOTHING Christopher Snow is different from all the other resid...




  • Christopher Pike

    The citizens of Madison are besieged by a satanic force that enters their skulls and changes them into aliens with a drive to transform humanity into a nightmarish race that exists only to inflict pain. Original....



  • John Peel

    Feeling a little...saur today?

    Every school kid knows that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago. But what would happen if maybe some dinosaur DNA managed to survive? And what if it could be revived and transferred into a living host?...



  • Kelly O'Rourke

    Looking to enliven her dull summer vacation, Christine Ray takes a job on a crew filming a documentary at Smith Grove Mental Hospital--where Michael Myers had been locked up for killing his sister fifteen years before escaping. Original....



  • V.C. Andrews

    Laura Logan dreams of a glorious Cape Cod day when all the dark secrets are swept away....For Laura Logan, life on Cape Cod has been nearly perfect, full of magical days spent enjoying the sea with her beloved twin brother, Cary. But then, like the c...



  • Bradley Denton

    Highlighting this collection is an ingenious new episode in the saga of Jimmy Blackburn, the eponymous serial killer of Denton's third novel. "Blackburn Bakes Cookies" might best be called the icing on the cake that is Blackburn's sto...



  • R.L. Stine

    Featuring a gamelike format, the first installment of a new Goosebumps series places readers into a story in which there is only one path that leads to the safe escape from the notorious Hall of Science. Original....



  • Robert Skinner

    Miles from Angola State Penitentiary, the body of a New Orleans social worker has washed up on the riverbank behind Audubon Park. Lottie Sonnier would have been just another homicide victim if she hadn't been a long-ago lover of nightclub owner Wesle...



  • Robin Paige

    Together they solved the murders at the Countess of Warwick's weekend house . . . and together they fell in love. Now newlyweds Charles and Kate Sheridan have moved into Kate's ancestral Georgian home Bishop's Keep, where Kate plans to devote herself...



  • Katherine Neville

    When her cousin is slain by an unknown assassin, Ariel Behn becomes the sole heir to a family legacy: a sinister cache of manuscripts that thrusts her into the deadly center of international intrigue--and an age-old enigma that spans the centuries. W...



  • Kate Bryan

    In 1875, a woman had to be tough to make it on her own. But that's just what Maggie Maguire was: smart, ambitious, and stubbornly adventurous. An unmarried woman who 'd ridden with the carnival she craved excitement and experience. In fact, even work...



  • Ann Woodward

    When the delicate and naive Lady Saisho runs off with the mysterious Dark Warrior, Lady Aoi races against time to break his dangerous hold on Lady Saisho and becomes trapped in his house, where the secrets of numerous deaths at the palace are reveale...



  • Margaret Miles

    WITCHCRAFT...OR MURDER? 1763. With the end of the French and Indian War and a new king on England's throne, it seems the colonies have entered a peaceful and prosperous new era. And though the fashionable ladies of Boston might find Bracebridge al...



  • Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Cyric the Mad Who betrayed his friends Midnight and Kelemvor and sought to destroy them. Who ascended to godhood and now spreads his lies and intrigues into every corner of Faerun. Who is the Lord of Murder, the Prince of Lies--and insane....



  • Jake Logan

    ALL SLOCUM WANTED WAS A DRINK The saloons around the Brazos River boasted the finest whiskey and the prettiest ladies known to man. But Slocum hadn't even wet his whistle when a nasty varmint tried to shoot up an innocent boy. Never one to suffer co...



  • Lauran Paine

    LAND OF LEGEND...AND DANGER Cache Cañon lies well outside Rock City in the Colorado high country. It was named for a legendary cache of gold hidden there, and now it's reputed to harbor a band of hold-out Indians. Although no one in Rock Ci...



  • Walt Coburn

    Known as "The King of the Westerns," "The Cowboy Author," and "The King of the Pulps," Walt Coburn ruled the roost for decades when it came to Western fiction. His work appeared in virtually every important Western magazine and became the standard by...



  • David Thompson

    Trying to cross the vast Western praries in their sixth adventure, Davy and his old friend Flavius brave a roaring wildfire and a stampede of buffalo, only to come face to face with the dreaded Comanches. Original....



  • B.J. Lanagan

    During the Civil War, they sought justice outside of the law, paying back every Yankee raid with one of their own. No man could stop them. No woman could resist them. And no Yankee stood a chance when Win and Joe Coulter rode into town.   All Wi...



  • P.A. Bechko

    Ethan Torregrossa is a town tamer on his way to Stillwater, California to help the Burr Stage and Freight Line out of a heap of trouble. Someone seems bent on destroying the line, and Ethan aims to remedy that. But one night on the River Hawks deck, ...