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New Books List: 494 titles


  • Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Eric is tossing in his sleep. And his wild dream can only mean one thing -- Droon is calling him back. But when Eric, Julie, and Neal arrive, they find that something is very wrong. ...



  • Kobo Abe

    Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a l...



  • Linda Williams Aber

    Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is on the Barbie bandwagon with stories starring Barbie as a reporter with a nose for a mystery.

    Barbie's got a great new assignment. She's going backstag...



  • Rosemary Aitken

    Love, life and loss in Edwardian England Victoria Flower, motherless and nearing womanhood, is beginning to chafe against the restrictions of her life as the vicar's only daughter in a remote Cornish mining town. Her honourable and well-meaning fa...



  • Robert Alexander

    HE'S THE ONLY ONE ALIVE WHO KNOWS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. WHAT DARK SECRETS WILL THIS ANCIENT RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT REVEAL ABOUT THE FINAL DAYS OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA? Though the events are almost a century old, the imprisonment and execution of Tsar N...



  • Gini Alhadeff

    The all-knowing djinn of ancient lore can adopt many forms, but there are times when it chooses the limits of one body, one life. In this bewitching first novel, a djinn takes up residence in a restlessly brilliant woman, guiding her choices in life ...





  • Jeffrey Ames

    IN THE STREETS... A stolen BMW is recovered with a stash of cocaine, lurid photos--and a charred, dismembered body. Two three-time losers are ready to rat each other out--but Detective Benno, the new man on the Dallas Metro squad, knows they're bo...



  • Jessica Andersen

    When Cape Cod innkeeper Maddy Jamison takes in a group of marine biologists called Dolphin Friendly, she has no idea that they--and particularly their handsome leader Brody Davenport--will turn her life upside down. Ever since the deaths of her marin...




  • Susan Andersen

    LUCKY YOU! Lily Morrisette wants roots, respect, her own business, and independence. So what is she doing on a road trip with a good-looking marine who's carrying her into the heart of serious peril? It started out as an impulsive lark fueled...



  • Donna Andrews

    As a favor to her brother, Meg agrees to tend the switchboard at his computer game company Mutant Wizards. For companionship, besides a crew of eccentric techies, she has a buzzard with one wing and her boyfriend's mother's nightmare dog. Not to ment...



  • Sarah Andrews

    Forensic geologist Em Hansen might finally be falling in love again. But just as she's getting closer to FBI agent Jack Sampler, he takes off on a mysterious assignment. When he doesn't return Em believes he's in trouble but only knows two things abo...



  • Chris Archer

    Spies. Underground tunnels. Old maps. New enemies. Pirate oaths. Hidden treasure. Endless danger.
    This series has real boy appeal. It has a fast pace, adventure, international intrigue, and more.

    George is fascinated by his family's legacy,...



  • Lindsay Armstrong

    The sexual tension between Ellie and wealthy Australian Brett Spencer is overwhelming, but Ellie is dismayed when he proposes a marriage of convenience. How can she marry a man she is so sure could never love her? At first Ellie refuses to put her...



  • Nick Arvin

    From the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant at Coney Island in 1903 to the rekindling relationship of two high school sweethearts in a stolen SUV, each story in Nick Arvin’s remarkable first collection reveals a world where people struggle against...



  • Amanda Ashley

    HE HAS BECOME WHAT HE ONCE DESTROYED Edward Ramsey has spent his life hunting vampires. Now he is one of them. Yet Edward's human conscience--and his heart--compel him to save beautiful Kelly Anderson, and soon their growing love is his reason for...



  • Joan Avery

    Nothing can stop the furious Kathleen Callahan from seeking the groom who's deserted her -- not even the dirty cowboy to whom she finds herself handcuffed. Sage Duross is less than thrilled with the redheaded hellion on his arm. While she is clea...



  • James Axler

    While Kane, Grant, and Brigid Baptisite confront the possibility that there is a traitor in their midst, an age-old enemy joins forces with Viking warriors and unleashes the ancient prophecies of Ragnarok to bring about a new apocalypse - one of deat...



  • Katherine Ayres

    During the Great Depression, a boy who faces bullying stumbles upon a mystery and comes of age in this novel that integrates fact and opinion and has a rich 1930’s vocabulary. Extra material: An Author’s Note is included in the back of the book.M...



  • Richard Bach

    The ground thudded and trembled, the echoes again, as Cheyenne Jasmine Ferret cut a half-circle to stop, breathing hard, by Montgomery and his trusted mount Boffin. It was a familiar sight to all who lived beneath Montana's Sweetroot Mountains, these...



  • Calvin Baker

    A black former Frenchman and an older Mississippi family man serve together in World War II only to confront the painful post-war realities of American racism, which they experience in the wake of a murder, a police chase, and a desperate bid for fre...



  • Madeline Baker

    Sexy Native American Ethan Stormwalker vowed never again to speak to his ex-flame, Cindy Wagner. But when she showed up at his dude ranch wearing a wedding gown -- without a groom! -- all promises were off. Gone was the girl who had broken his heart,...



  • Trisha Baker

    Decades have passed since Meghann O'Neill fell in love with Simon Baldevar, a vampire who bestowed upon her his gift of immortality...and bound her to him with the birth of their twin children... Separated At Birth My name is Elizabeth, and I ha...



  • Tessa Barclay

    An elaborate birthday party for Elissa Paroskolos on a Greek millionaire's island turns sinister when Elissa shows signs of madness, and ex-Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein searches for explanations and uncovers a plot involving three nations....



  • Cicely Mary Barker

    Enhanced with brilliant illustrations, offers an in-depth look at Flower Fairies through a review of what they look like, the special clothes they wear, the different jobs they do, and the fun games they play when they have time off from watching the...



  • Margaret Barker

    An emergency rescue in the sparkling blue waters surrounding Ceres Island has recent arrival Staff Nurse Sara Metcalfe working as a team with local doctor Michaelis Stangos -- and from the moment she sees his fantastic athletic body diving into the w...



  • Steve Barlow; Steve Skidmore

    World Wide Web? Ha! This is the Outernet. Log on to the electronic highway that takes you out of this world... And into another galaxy.

    Jack, Merle, and Loaf have been planet-hopping across the galaxy ever since they discovered the Server. It ...



  • Mike W. Barr

    Captain James T. Kirk and the Starship Enterprise have been sent to the planet Nador to participate in a watershed event: the Nadorians' first true election, to vote on whether or not to join the United Federation of Planets. Supporting the Federat...



  • Nevada Barr

    Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key ...



  • Linda Barrett

    She was on top of the world Molly Porter was on her way to the Olympics, a member of the women's downhill ski team. A horrific accident left her, after years of recovery, alive and well, but carrying a lot of scars -- not all of them visible. Beca...



  • Max Barry

    A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever."Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wi...



  • Jay Basu

    In this powerful debut set in 1940s German-occupied Poland, a young Catholic boy unearths the secrets of his brother's mysterious life.Fifteen-year-old Gracian Sofka is a stargazer. Every night for the past year he has broken curfew to view the const...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    When a string of deadly warnings convinces Dallas mayor Jessica Kincaid that she needs a bodyguard, she hires Brant Harding. The former secret service agent takes the job for one very personal reason -- and it has nothing to do with this tempting wom...



  • Stephen Baxter

    Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettab...



  • M.C. Beaton

    Wretched after being dumped by her husband, bored with pottering about Carsely, and wishing every man would sod off, including her neighbor John Armitage, Agatha Raisin is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-h...



  • Francis Beaumont

    New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:

    The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
    Textual notes recording signi...



  • James Scott Bell

    Her calling to pursue justice in its purest form to the very best of her ability. The realm of law has long been in the hands of men, but Kit Shannon is determined to forge her way and represent truth-for those who most desperately need it. Her city ...



  • Nathaniel Bellows

    Orphaned at the age of eighteen when his father dies of cancer and his mother commits suicide, Warren and his twenty-year-old sister, Joan, face such challenges as the approaching holidays, their father's ruthless business partner, relatives who woul...



  • Meg Belviso

    Since its debut in 1996, DEXTER'S LAB has been one of Cartoon Network's top-rated shows. Now Scholastic teams up with the boy genius and his pesky sister Dee Dee for original chapter and picture books

    Oh no! Dexter's archrival Mandark is at it...





  • David Bergantino

    When his father is murdered under strange circumstances, college football star Cameron Dean begins to suspect that his mother and aunt may have had something to do with it, but when he travels to Denmark to visit an unexpected inheritance, an ancient...



  • Pamela Rafael Berkman

    In this collection of twelve dazzling and sensual stories, Pamela Rafael Berkman explores the perplexities of contemporary life through the eyes of women searching for love, truth, and faith. In the title story, a group of coworkers who order miniatu...



  • Neil Bissoondath

    The burning down of his house propels Alistair, now living with his daughter, her husband and child, to reflect on the causes and effects of life: how momentary impulses change the course of direction, how unexpected horrors still haunt him, how frie...



  • Chris Bohjalian

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant presents a resonant novel about the unconventional family that forms after Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont storm troop...



  • B.M. Bower

    Among the finest stories collected here are "From Hell to Kilpatrick" set against the background of a raging prairie wildfire. "The Sheepherder" offers a dramatic confrontation during a deadly Montana blizzard. "The Deserter" points out the drawbacks...



  • William Boyd

    William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart -- writer, lover, art dealer, spy -- as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century....



  • John Ed Bradley

    When journalist Jack Charbonnet meets Rhys Goudeau, a beautiful art restorer, he is soon caught up in intrigue more fascinating than any news story. She is determined to find a lost painting by the great, controversial Southern artist Levette Asmore...



  • Irene Brand

    LOST DREAMS As a teenager, Norah Williamson believed she had a calling from God, but she had put everything on hold for the sake of her family. Now her obligations were over, and she was finally ready to pursue her own dreams. Widower Mason Kin...



  • Rebecca Brandewyne
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    Attending a society party was to be Paul and Lily Clothier's last act as a married couple, until their participation in a parlor game ended in murder -- with Paul as the leading suspect! Only together could they find justice -- and love....



  • Peter Brandvold

    A MURDERED LAWMAN Sheriff Ben Stillman knows that every lawman could face sudden death. But that doesn't ease his anger over Marshal Boomhauer's brutal murder. And old Charlie's shoes have already been filled by his brash, young deputy--who i...



  • Una Brankin

    An exceptionally evocative first novel of young love and nostalgic regret 'Sometimes it takes a long, long time to know that love and hate can co-exist quite comfortably in the soul, but I learned quickly.' Grace grew up in the shadow of her widowed ...



  • Lilian Jackson Braun

    Dear Reader, Twenty-five years ago, Jim Qwilleran walked into my life...huffing into his large moustache, spelling his name oddly, drinking black coffee at the Press Club bar. He was tall but seemed world-weary. His entire earthly possessions fit ...




  • Noel-Anne Brennan

    After pledging her loyalty to her cousin Sithli, princess Rilsin Sea Becha, heir to the throne, realizes that she has made a grave mistake as she, unable to experience life and love, watches her cousin slowly destroy the kingdom, forcing Rilsin to ri...



  • Kate Bridges

    If Amanda Ryan's secret past were known, her fresh start in life would come to a dead stop. No one would readily accept a divorced, barren midwife. Not even, she feared, Tom Murdock. For though he'd roused her slumbering womanhood, she could never be...



  • J.E. Bright

    The first in the Care Bears 8x8 storybook series re-introducing the popular Care Bears and their caring and sharing world of Care-a-lot!

    In What Makes You Happy, children will learn what brightens each and every Care Bear's day.

    Childre...



  • Kristen Britain

    GHOSTLY RIDERS Karigan G'ladheon had been a Green Rider, one of the king of Sacoridia's elite magical messengers. Being a Green Rider was more perilous than Karigan had ever imagined, for a rogue Eletian had cracked the magical D'Yer Wall which ha...



  • Helen Brooks

    Name: Jacques Querruel Occupation: Self-made millionaire Reputation: The ultimate playboy Jacques Querruel appeared regularly in society magazines with a string of women.When he decided that he wanted shy, sexy Holly Stanton as his personal assi...



  • Larry Brooks

    FIND HIM. Bernadette Kane never believed that her sister committed suicide. And what she heard about her sister's mysterious--and sadistic--lover, Wesley Edwards, made her suspect the worst. With his good looks, private jet, and successful career, he...



  • Sigmund Brouwer

    Tweens will enjoy 15 weeks of devotions filled with fast-moving stories that will keep them engaged. In this devotional, kids get the chance to ask parents the spiritually challenging questions! These devotions urge a high level of Christian commitme...



  • Carolyn Brown

    Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can't laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Jackson Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and ...



  • Jeff Brown

    Heroes come in all shapes and sizes Any Doctor will agree that people are not flat. They are born round and stay that way their whole lives. But not Stanley Lambchop! He has been flat once before, after a bulletin board fell on him. When his brother...



  • Rita Mae Brown

    Spring fever comes to the small town of Crozet, Virginia. As the annual Dogwood Festival approaches, postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen feels her own mating instincts stir. As for tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, feline intuition tells her there's more ...



  • Lisa Bruce

    One day, Fran refuses to play with her doggie best friend, Fred. She is very busy making something and Fred can't figure out why she is behaving so strangely. Why doesn't Fran want to play? It turns out Fran is making a special present for Fred an...



  • Elizabeth Buchan

    Get ready to cheer for Rose Lloyd, a woman of young middle age who proves that starting over doesn't have an age limit. After twenty-five years spent juggling husband, career, and kids with admirable success, Rose suddenly finds both her marriage and...



  • Robin Burcell

    A DEATH IN THE FAMILY San Francisco P.D. Homicide Inspector Kate Gillespie's investigation into a bizarre apparent murder/suicide is threatening to careen out of control. A dead man might not be dead. The families of the deceased are hiding someth...



  • Wendy Burge

    A NOTORIOUS LORD For years, cynical Sion Sinclair has been trying to forget his past in the bottom of a bottle. Ostracized from the haute ton, and isolated in his country estate, he sees no reason ever again to behave in a civilized fashion--especia...



  • Frederick Busch

    Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish émigré parents. Then a new patient declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of a u...



  • Lisa Cach

    A desperate man. A dastardly plan. In... DR. YES Dr. Alan Archer didn't seem evil. With his boyish good looks and shy demeanor, he seemed more a mom's fantasy than every woman's nightmare. But Rachel Calais knew the insidious truth: The doc was do...



  • Tom Calhoun

    Meet J.T Law: the most relentless, and dangerous, manhunter in all Texas. Where sheriffs and posses fail, he's the best man to bring in the most vicious outlaws--for a price. And once he's on the job, his quarry can never ride fast enough or hide far...



  • Candace Camp

    SHE NEVER EXPECTED TO LOVE AGAIN... On the eve of her wedding to Michael Trent, the Earl of Westhampton, Rachel Aincourt tried to elope with another man -- only to be unceremoniously returned to her fiance by her strong-willed father. Burdened by gu...



  • Susannah Carleton

    Hero's Return Robert Symington has recently inherited the title Marquess of Elston, but a codicil to his father's will requires that he marry within a year or face unknown consequences. Worse still, Robert must choose from among twenty lad...



  • Marisa Carroll

    Did Faith Carson steal his sister's baby? Hugh Damon is convinced that Faith's daughter is actually his sister Beth's missing baby. Just after Beth gave birth she was in a terrible car accident that caused her to lose her memory. Her newborn infant w...



  • Carla Cassidy

    THE BABY BARGAIN It was the perfect plan. Melanie Watters wanted a baby badly, so she proposed marriage to the most confirmed bachelor in town -- her best friend, Bailey Jenkins. In return for getting Melanie pregnant, frustrated pageant-judge Bai...



  • Carla Cassidy

    Colette Carson didn't need a man in her life, but she wanted a baby more than anything. So she headed to the local sperm bank to make her dream come true. Then handsome rancher Tanner Rothman arrived in town and turned Colette's secure world upside d...



  • Whitney Chadwick

    This novel introduces Charlotte Whyte - a San Francisco art historian whose research takes her from art to murder - in a mystery of lost wartime art treasures, long-buried secrets and deadly betrayals....



  • Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    A powerful diamond dynasty. A long-forgotten murder. A love that will not be denied. Raised by her aunt and uncle at the rectory in the small English village of Grimston Way, lovely Evy Varley remembers little of her parents and nothing of South A...



  • Diane Chamberlain

    Gina Higgins has come to the Outer Banks of North Carolina--a stranger with a secret. But secrets are a fact of life in the close-knit community of Kiss River... Kiss River's historic nineteenth-century lighthouse has all but fallen into the sea, ...



  • Christopher Chambers

    Never try to outrun your past . . .

    Tough-minded FBI special agent Angela Bivens is just beginning to put her life back together. Still reeling from the bloody showdown where she took the lives of two serial killers, one of whom was her lover,...



  • Victoria Chancellor

    WAITRESS PREGNANT WITH PRINCE'S LOVE CHILD! Is Kerry Lynn Jacks's unborn child heir to the Belegovian throne? That's the rumor around the Ranger Springs water cooler. When Prince Alexi of Belegovia visited the small town a scant few months ago he ...



  • Deborah Chandra

    A tongue-in-cheek dental history of our first President"Poor George had two teeth in his mouthThe day the votes came in.The people had a President,But one afraid to grin."From battling toothaches while fighting the British, to having rotten teeth rem...



  • Clay McLeod Chapman

    Will has just returned home from sea to find his wife lying dead on the kitchen floor. Four states away, Phil has been waiting for his son to return home, only to discover his body decomposing at the bottom of a nearby swamp. Will's wife always wante...



  • Clay McLeod Chapman

    This edgy, darkly humorous short story collection will take hold of your imagination and won't let go.

    Sharply tuned, haunting, and darkly humorous, these stories take readers from the country fair to the suburban home to the boy scout camp...



  • Janet Chapman

    A feisty beauty tempted by a bold highlander's touch... When a plane crash strands brilliant scientist Grace Sutter on an icy mountaintop in Maine, she finds herself alone in the wilderness with the only other surviving passenger -- Greylen MacKea...



  • Remy Charlip

    Two cowboys--Little Old Big Beard and Big Young Little Beard--in search of their lost cow, Grace, are delighted when she finally finds them, in a tongue-twisting tale enhanced with vibrant illustrations....



  • Maureen Child
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    Assistant D.A. Gina Palermo was a nice girl -- with a gangster family. And when a threat to her life put this law-abiding daughter under the protection of one of her dad's mob men, Gina wondered if she could resist the tempting embrace of sexy Nick F...



  • Maureen Child

    While pastry chef Nora Bailey perfected the art of baking a cinnamon roll, she'd somehow wound up the last virgin in all of California. Now it was time for this old-fashioned girl to become an ex-virgin. Only, just as she was about to embark on her b...



  • Judy Christenberry

    LSCC Guest Member: Rich, talented architect Joe Turner Social Status: The last eligible bachelor of the Texas Turners Method of Seduction: Convincing someone to be his wife shouldn't be a problem...even if it's only temporary Thanks to some past...



  • April Christofferson

    A NEW CRIME FOR A NEW CENTURY Biopiracy: the theft of the healing secrets of isolated, indigenous peoples. Rapacious pharmaceutical companies swoop down on remote Third World tribes, steal their folk medicine, native cures, and even human blood, t...



  • Daphne Clair

    Zito and Roxane Riccioni were still married when they accidentally conceived their baby. But they hadn't lived together for over a year! Roxane's unexpected announcement left Zito in no doubt -- the marriage was definitely back on. Roxane ...



  • Mary Higgins Clark

    A dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride become an irresistible sleuthing duo in four acclaimed stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense.Henry Parker Britland IV -- wealthy, worldly, and popular -- is enjoying ...



  • Nancy Clark

    WHILE ALWAYS WELL-STOCKED WITH CLEAN SHEETS, Lily Hill is not expecting visitors. At least not in the numbers that descend upon her genteelly dilapidated New England ancestral home in the summer of '89. Brother Harvey arrives first, thrice-widowed an...



  • Donna Clayton

    All Conner Thunder wanted was to be alone, yet he couldn't ignore the cries of a woman in the woods near his cabin. The stranger with hair as pale as moonlight and secrets in her eyes needed a shoulder to cry on, but after a kiss meant to soothe turn...




  • Tim Cockey

    Libby, a former flame of Hitchcock Sewell, has returned to town with her two children, but minus one husband and one nanny. Libby's husband has been accounted for -- she left him back in Annapolis. However, the nanny, Sophie, is truly missing. As soo...



  • Loren L. Coleman

    Months have passed since the interplanetary communications net was destroyed, isolating planets across the Republic of the Sphere. Achernar is one of the few worlds still in possession of a working Hyperpulse Generator Station, a device that enables ...



  • Barbara Colley

    It's October in New Orleans, and most residents of the city's historic Garden District are rejoicing in the beautiful colors and crisp breezes--and relishing what promises to be a truly beautiful fall. But murder-solving maid Charlotte LaRue isn't on...



  • Colleen Collins

    The first time Blaine Saunders spies the antique brass bed, she has to have it. Practical in every other way, she's suddenly discovered a weakness for sensuous beds where dreams come true. But the chances of her beautiful bed being delivered to th...



  • Max Allan Collins

    The saga of Dark Angel continues!

    Someone is killing normal humans in the fog-enshrouded city of Seattle. The murders are brutal and grisly, but inside Terminal City they barely cause a ripple of concern. The transgenics who live there have p...



  • Susan Conant

    It's an offer dog handler Holly Winter can't refuse: train wiseguy Enzio Guarini's new Elkhound puppy, Frey. But can she ignore the fact that Guarini's killed so many people even the FBI's lost count? Hardly. One day into training and Guarini's right...



  • Kent Conwell

    "You got a choice. Hang as a horse thief or teach our schoolkids."

    That was the decision facing Mage Casebolt, a decision that made him wish he had never disembarked the riverboat at New Orleans.

    Bound for San Francisco to join his brothers i...



  • Stephen Coonts

    THE THREAT IS CLOSING IN. For sale: four nuclear warheads offered to the highest bidder by a rogue Russian general. The buyer: the Sword of Islam, a Mideastern anti-American network. The warning: one by one, they're to be detonated on unknown homela...




  • Tom Corcoran

    The murder of a long-missing woman, the death of a mentor, and the suicide of Key West's mayor are revealed on a warm April day. Alex Rutledge, a freelance photographer with ties to city and county law enforcement, first must help friend Sam Wheeler ...



  • Ralph Cotton

    VENGEANCE OR JUSTICE? Carl O'Bannion was only a boy when his parents were mercilessly gunned down by a gang of outlaws led by Jamison "Wolf" Avrial. Now, after ten years of perfecting his skills as a gunslinger, O'Bannion is huntin...




  • Michael Craft

    After 30 some odd years of success as a director on Broadway, Claire Gray has accepted her first academic position - that of a theatrical director at the richly funded Desert Arts College in Palm Springs. Having lived a largely peaceful life in Manha...



  • Robert Crais

    Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole--until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes. Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by thr...



  • Robert Crais

    P.I. Elvis Cole's relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. Then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son Ben is staying with Elvis, the boy vanishes without a trace. When the kidnappers call, it's n...



  • Andrew Crofts

    Shortly after the fourth Duke of Portland died in 1854, the fifth duke began construction of a fantastic underground palace beneath the family's estate. Was it a physical representation of a secret underground life he was living as a London businessm...



  • Caroline Cross

    REVENGE IS SWEET... A Barone wedding? He would be there! Gavin O'Sullivan couldn't wait to show Colleen Barone just what she'd been missing since she and her family had kicked him to the curb. He was no longer the rebel from the wrong side of town, ...



  • Laura Crum

    Nothing calls more urgently for a vet than a burning barn full of penned animals. Gail McCarthy has to push her way through the crowd around the Bishops' barn, repeating, "I'm a veterinarian." She's doing triage in her head--which one is the most ser...



  • Gena Dalton

    The only man Jo Lena Speirs had ever loved had finally come home. And though she hadn't seen Monte McMahan for years, she recognized him the instant she saw him. She would have known him anywhere, just by the way her heart left her body. Jo Lena knew...



  • Lawrence David

    When his entire town goes bald as a result of some mischievous plot, Horace Splattly is eager to solve the mystery, but his little sister is the only one who has the recipe for his power-inducing cupcakes and so Horace must make a deal with her--one ...



  • Amanda Davis

    A teenage girl navigates trauma and revenge on a journey to the circus in this “marvelous modern-girl odyssey, dark and comic and poignant and smart” (Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief).At fifteen, Faith Duckle was lured under the bleacher...



  • Justine Davis

    Corporate security guard Samantha Beckett knew that sexy electronics genius Ian Gamble would balk at having her as his bodyguard, so she decided that posing as his neighbor was the best way to keep her eye on him. Professionally speaking, of course.....




  • Shawna Delacorte

    Working for Jared Stevens was not how teacher Kim Donaldson wanted to spend her vacation, but doing so would pay off her father's debt and end the long-standing feud begun by their grandfathers. If only Jared hadn't matured into a handsome man with a...



  • Matthew B.J. Delaney

    It is May 1943. On the remote island of Bougainville, in the South Pacific, a squad of United States Marines beats their way through the thick jungle. They've landed to do battle with the Japanese soldiers on the island, but in short order, they begi...



  • Troy Denning

    BONUS: This original novella includes an excerpt from Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal and an interview with the author. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Growing up in the shadow of his heroic father, Lumpawarrump, son of Chewbacca, feel...



  • Tomie DePaola

    After receiving a diary for Christmas, Tomie spends the next year recording all the wonderful things he has done as the months roll by, but when he hears of the attack on Pearl Harbor on the radio, Tomie immediately knows that everything in the world...



  • Baba Wague Diakite

    Coretta Scott King Honor author/artist tells a tale from Mali about a magic gourd that can fill itself with whatever its owner desires. And hidden within is a powerful lesson about generosity.

    Draught and famine have come to the parched forest...



  • Anita Doreen Diggs

    Mel and Adrienne Jordan have the kind of marriage most couples only dream about. Mel feels lucky to have the smartest, sexiest wife a man could want, while caring for their infant daughter and tending to their lovely home in New York City keeps Adrie...



  • Disney Book Group

    Stanley is the only one in his class who hasn't lost a tooth yet, and he's getting a little worried. So he and Dennis take a trip into The Great Big Book of Everything to find out about the toothsome crocodile!...



  • Disney Book Group

    Stanley's pal Lester is sleeping over for the first time, and Lester is feeling a bit nervous. Stanley's room isn't his room. Stanley's bed isn't his bed. And Stanley's mom and dad aren't his mom and dad. Stanley's house is great. It's just - differe...



  • Disney Book Group

    Stanley wishes he were a dinosaur so that his big brother, Lionel, would pay attention to him. But when Stanley actually becomes a T.rex, the mightiest of the dinosaurs, he realizes that is is much better to be loved than feared....



  • Disney Book Group

    It's Harry the dog's birthday, and Stanley and his friends are planning a surprise for him. Now, if only they had a way to communicate with one another secretly. What they need is a special code! They turn to The Great Big Book of Everything to get a...



  • Joanne Dobson

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  • David Drake

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  • Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

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  • Alice Duncan

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  • Doranna Durgin

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  • Colleen Easton

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  • Cooper Edens

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  • Cassie Edwards

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  • Lisa Eisenberg

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  • Kate Elliott

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  • David Ellis

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  • Louise Erdrich

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  • Wendy Etherington

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  • Wendy Etherington

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  • Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes

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  • Tabor Evans

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  • Jonathan Falla

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  • Jerrilyn Farmer

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  • Nancy J. Farrier

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  • John Farris

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  • Jane Feather

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  • David Feherty

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  • Sandra Field

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  • Liz Fielding

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  • Donna Fletcher

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  • Justine Korman Fontes

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  • Delores Fossen

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  • Alan Dean Foster

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  • Alan Dean Foster

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  • Robert H. Fowler

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  • Diane Fox; Christyan Fox

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  • Joseph Freda

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  • Diane Freund

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  • Bonnie Gardner

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  • Craig Shaw Gardner

    Once upon a time, a brave young lad named Wuntvor, hapless apprentice to the mighty mage Ebenezum, journeyed from Vushta, City of Forbidden Delights, to the far distant Eastern Kingdoms in search of a cure for his master's malady of magicks (which ha...



  • Tracee Lydia Garner

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  • Michael Garrett

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  • William Gibson

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  • William Gibson

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  • Gail Giles

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  • H.B. Gilmour; Randi Reisfeld

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  • Robert Goddard

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  • Pippa Goodhart

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  • C.L. Grace

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  • Dewey Gram

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  • Crystal Green

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  • Grace Green

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  • Martin H. Greenberg

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  • Dan Greenburg

    When Zack and Spencer get the late-night munchies at a sleepover, they curb their hunger with some freeze-dried food that Zack got at the Air & Space Museum. After devouring freeze-dried ice cream and pizza, they come across an extra package of f...




  • Leigh Greenwood

    For the first time, international businessman, local millionaire and widower Ron Egan was faced with a dilemma that he couldn't negotiate his way out of. His teenage daughter was pregnant. Soon Ron was jetting from a boardroom in Geneva back to his h...



  • John Grisham

    The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a youn...



  • Kirsty Gunn

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  • Rene Gutteridge

    Attending her estranged father's funeral seventeen years after leaving home, TV anchorwoman Macey is attracted to a neighbor and is haunted by painful memories in her efforts to help her mother out of a difficult financial situation....



  • Jennifer Haigh

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  • Shirley Hailstock

    Tough, rugged carpenter Digger Clayton was good at avoiding his past -- he stayed far away from kids and pretty women. Until nursery school teacher Erin Taylor offered him a job he couldn't refuse, in a sweet, sexy voice that took his breath away...a...



  • Jessica Hall

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  • Oakley Hall

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  • Lauren Haney

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  • Jack Hanson

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  • Elizabeth Harbison

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  • Karen Harper

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