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New Books List: 516 titles


  • Carol Cox

    Catherine is moving from the ranch she's always called home to Phoenix. Hoping to help Arizona achieve statehood any way she can, she starts her job at a land investment company. With a quick promotion, Catherine soon forgets to keep the Lord as her ...




  • Nita Abrams

    As news of Napoleon's escape from Elba reaches England, a legendary spymaster discovers his own heart has become a battlefield... THE RISKS When Nathan Meyer agrees to escort a young woman home from France, he discovers too late that his family ...



  • Theresa Alan

    Yes, the rumors are true... ...I'm actually coming home to Colorado for the summer. Maybe it won't be so bad. After all, I've got cocktails, shopping, and gab sessions with my girlfriends to look forward to. Plus time with my dysfunctional family. Y...



  • Conrad Allen

    When the Oceanic sets sail from England's Port of Southampton, its ultimate destination is New York. But it must make one very important stop first: at Cherbourg, in France, to pick up internationally renowned financier and art collector J. P. Morgan...



  • Jennifer Apodaca

    On the surface, Samantha Shaw's life looks pretty good--she has a hot boyfriend, private investigator Gabe Pulizzi, and her own business, Heart Mates Dating Service. But raising two boys and keeping track of her ornery magician grandfather is tricky ...



  • Zoe Archer

    East End Meets Wild West To Lady Olivia Xavier, the cowboy who came to her rescue out of the foggy London dusk could have stepped straight from one of her favorite dime novels. But when she was thrown into his arms, his solid chest and strong embr...



  • Matilde Asensi

    A masterful blend of Christian scholarship and thrilling adventure, The Last Cato is a novel about the race to find the secret location of the Vera Cruz, the True Cross on which Christ was crucified, and the ancient brotherhood sworn to protect it. ...



  • Amanda Ashley

    Sexy vampires, dangerous devotion, unparalleled romance--no one does desire after dark like bestselling author Amanda Ashley. Now, in her enthralling new novel, she explores a passion as smoldering as it is risky... Vicki Cavendish knows she should...



  • Linda Ashman

    Trying his best to be good for his parents, Desmond has a hard time staying on track when the Naughtybugs, such as the Sloggies and the Squirmies, make their appearance and cause trouble for him in the most inappropriate places....



  • Victoria Ashton

    Why I hate Cameron Warner: 1. She stole my boyfriend. 2. She is the richest teen in NYC, with more designer shoes than a department store. 3. I have to plan a party so she can be crowned Debutante of the Year. Like I care! 4. Did I me...



  • Robert Asprin; Eric Del Carlo

    Resurrected in the lush body of courtesan Vadya, Raven, ordered to spy on General Weisel by the ruler of Felk, returns to the battlefield, using her beauty to extract information, while Weisel finally frees his mind and body from the control of Darda...



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  • Nancy Atherton

    The magnificent Dunrillin Castle seems like a good place to hide .. . When Lori Shepherd's husband receives a series of death threats aimed at her and their twin boys, she retreats to a remote island off the Scottish coast and to a fabulous castle...



  • Kate Austin

    Since when did life ever tell you where you were going? Josie Harris always drew comfort from the thought that she lived a charmed life. Unexciting, perhaps, but stable and predictable. In a rut? Josie counted that as luck -- at least one knew wha...



  • James Axler

    UNANSWERABLE POWER The war to free post-apocalyptic Earth from the grasp of its oppressors slips into uncharted territory as the fully restored race of the former ruling barons are reborn to fearsome power. Facing a virulent phase of a dangerous con...




  • L.A. Banks

    THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN IS THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL... Damali Richards knows all about a blood rush. The kind that happened when she first went skin-to-skin with former vampire Carlos Rivera. Or the kind that happened on the streets of Philadelphi...



  • Michele Bardsley

    Your wish is their command.... It's not easy to fall in love...especially in Sin City. Nobody knows this better than Greek deities Psyche and Eros, who keep a watchful eye on the mortals in Las Vegas. With a little divine intervention from Aphrodite...



  • Cicely Mary Barker

    After all the Spring Fairies audition for the Springtime Dance and the beautiful Narcissus Fairy gets the part as the lead, her initial excitement begins to wane as her nerves take over and she suddenly worries that she won't be able to perform her i...



  • John Barlow

    Returning home from his wool mill in France in 1869, self-made Yorkshire businessman Isaac Brookes never suspects that a chance encounter on a train will alter the world's gastronomical landscape. But when he meets, and almost kills, Rodrigo Vermilio...



  • M.C. Beaton

    A DREAM OF DYING In the Highlands village of Lochdubh, every season has its special flavor. Lanky, red-haired constable Hamish Macbeth relishes them all, but spring is the grandest. Now the winter storms have blown out to sea, the loch is smooth as ...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    The Avengers and the X-Men are faced with a common foe that becomes their greatest threat: Wanda Maximoff! The Scarlet Witch is out of control, and the fate of the entire world is in her hands. Will Magneto help his daughter or use her powers to his ...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Heroes glide through the sky on lightning bolts and fire. Flamboyant villains attempt daring daylight robberies. God-like alien creatures clash in epic battles over the nighttime sky. On the dirty streets below, homicide detectives Christian Walker a...



  • Charles Benoit

    "A spicy quest tale in an India at once modern and ancient." -- Publishers WeeklyAt 27, Jason Talley of Corning, New York, leads an orderly life, processing loans for a mortgage company. Its warmest spot is his friendship with Sriram Sundaram and his...



  • Raymond Benson

    Diane Boston lives with her Marfan syndrome-afflicted 13-year-old son in a suburb of Chicago and teaches social studies at the high school, with the students even voting her Teacher of the Year. But she has some dark secrets. Her ex-husband Greg alwa...



  • Steve Berry

    Onetime U.S. operative Cotton Malone teams up with his former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, to find the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the Knights Templar were exterminated in the fourteenth ce...



  • Heidi Betts

    CONNOR RIORDAN WAS THE LAST PERSON SHE WANTED TO WALK DOWN THE AISLE WITH... Even if it was only at her brother's wedding. It was too painful a reminder of Beth Curtis's girlhood fantasies, featuring none other than Connor himself. That crush had ...



  • Helen Bianchin

    The perfect union of wealth and beauty... Gianna and Franco Giancarlo had gone into their convenient society marriage with their eyes wide open. They acted the happy couple to create an alliance between their powerful, wealthy families -- and dispel...



  • ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    Denial isn't just a river. . . Raedella Rollins left the dusty town of Sweet Poke, Arkansas, on a Texas-bound bus with four mismatched suitcases, a newsroom job offer, and a promise to herself: never look back. Now, less than a decade later, she'...



  • Anne Bishop

    Long ago, Ephemera was split into a dizzying number of magical lands-connected only by bridges that may take you where you truly belong, rather than where you had intended to go. In one such land, where night reigns and demons dwell, the half-incubus...



  • Michael A. Black

    Ten years ago the hillbilly king of rock-and-roll, Colton Purcell, was cryogenically frozen after his premature death. Or was he? Chicago-based magazine reporter Harry Bauer intends to find out as he becomes involved in a convoluted murder plot stret...



  • Peter Blauner

    A detective investigating a brutal murder discovers an impossible link to a case he closed 20 years before. It has been two decades since Detective Francis X. Loughlin solved his first big case, the brutal murder of a woman doctor. The young man c...



  • Deborah Blumenthal

    Q: How does a thirty-five-year-old newspaper reporter with a vanilla-sounding name like Jenny George know so much about men? A: She doesn't. When her live-in boyfriend made a relationship trade-in (for the lingerie model starring in the ad camp...



  • Andrea Boeshaar

    Melody Cartwright can't believe what she's hearing: Her little sister is getting married - first. When Bonnie's mysterious fiance turns out to be Melody's ex-boyfriend from college and he claims he doesn't remember her, Mel has nowhere to turn. Luke ...



  • Anne-Laure Bondoux

    On the afternoon when Angel Allegria arrives at the Poloverdos' farmhouse, he kills the farmer and his wife. But he spares their child, Paolo -- a young boy who will claim this as the day on which he was born. Together the killer and the boy begin a ...



  • Alison Booth

    The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable Edition, offers a balanced selection of classic and contemporary stories, poems, and plays in a brief and affordable format.

    Designed to accommodate a wide range of teaching styles and needs, thi...



  • James O. Born

    Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Bill Tasker has been under stress lately, and his boss has a perfect getaway for him-Manatee Correctional Prison, where the governor wants an inmate homicide investigated. But there's a whole lot more than ...



  • Ben Bova

    2095. After long months of travel, the gigantic colony ship Goddard has at last made orbit around Saturn, carrying a population of more than of 10,000 dissidents, rebels, extremists, and visionaries seeking a new life. Among Goddard's missions is the...



  • Peter Bowen

    When Gabriel Du Pre's precocious granddaughter Pallas returns from her studies in Washington, D.C., the entire clan in Toussaint, Montana, is happy to see her. Except Du Pre, that is, because the crotchety old fiddlin' cowboy knows that where Pallas ...



  • Fiona Brand

    Special Forces agent Carter Rawlings was back -- and Dani Marlow's world was spinning in his wake. The local arson attacks for which she was being blamed were only part of the problem. The feelings Carter's reappearance had ignited threatened far mor...



  • Peter Brandvold

    Hiding out on the Colorado Frontier, Cuno Massey must elude Ruben Pachecha, the most feared bounty hunter, with the help of a fiesty outlaw named Marlene, who might be his salvation or his downfall. Original....



  • Barbara Bretton
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    Who is the mystery woman on the arm of megastar Jack Wyatt? The tabloids are wild and so is Jack, desperate to find his Cinderella blind date -- a single mother of two turned star of her own romantic adventure....



  • Patricia Briggs

    Werewolves can be dangerous if you get in their way, but they'll leave you alone if you are careful. They are very good at hiding their natures from the human population, but I'm not human. I know them when I ' meet them, and they know me, too. Me...



  • Pamela Britton

    She wouldn't know a NASCAR star if he hit her with his car...and he just did. Sarah was a kindergarten teacher until a sleazy ex-boyfriend got her fired. Now the only job she can find is driving the motor coach for racing star Lance Cooper. She do...



  • Kevin Brockmeier

    From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by th...



  • Parry Brown
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    Leticia, Jamilla, and Clarissa Holmes each know that they're one in a set of triplets--but that's about all they know. Now they're adults, thirty-three-year old women who are as different as can be. But they have one thing in common: they have never ...



  • Peter C. Brown

    The year is 1900 in gold-prospecting Alaska. Essie, a Midwestern farm girl fleeing from a stormy marriage, joins up with prospectors bound for Nome, where the golden sands teem with dreamers, schemers, and high rollers. When Leonard, Essie's stubborn...



  • Amanda Browning

    Paid to guard her body! She's in danger... Shelby Greer is horrified when she learns a mysterious man is threatening to harm her to get revenge on her father. A bodyguard is hired... Gray Compton is so sexy and charming. Shelby wouldn't m...



  • Megan E. Bryant

    What a beautiful day! The birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and Cottonâ"¢ is going to spend it working in his garden. But just as he’s about to start, he notices an egg among his flowers! Who does the egg belong to? Cottonâ"¢ wonders. Come al...



  • Tobias S. Buckell

    Fisherman John deBrun is only half a man. Twenty-seven years ago, he washed up onto the tropical shores of Nanagada with no memory of his past. Although he has made a new life for himself, his soul remains haunted by questions of his own identity. ...



  • Luisa Buehler

    When fifty-year-old skeletal remains of a man and a lion are discovered in an old circus wagon pulled from a marsh, Grace Marsden's curiosity is immediately piqued. But her excitement is interrupted by a chilling voice from the grave -- a threatening...



  • Laura J. Burns

    Darcy expects the state fair to be dull, but during breaks from working at the Creature Comforts booth she and Lindsay each meet a great guy, and soon they have more to look forward to than just the Saturday night dance....



  • Daniela Burr

    Beyond the rainbow lies a magical place where fairies flutter. . . Fly away with Barbie to Fairytopia! Once Elina was the only fairy in the Magic Meadow who did not have wings. But that all changed when she bravely stopped the evil sorceress Laver...



  • Laurie Calkhoven

    The luckiest girl in the world gets a lesson in love.

    The luckiest girl in the world swaps fortunes with the worlds biggest loser at a masked ball. As the now-unlucky lady struggles to regain her charmed life, she must deal with increasingly r...



  • Greg Capullo

    Captain America #398, Avengers West Coast #80, Quasar #32, Wonder Man #7, Avengers #345, Iron Man #278, Thor #445, Captain America #399, Avengers West Coast #81, Quasar #33, Wonder Man #8, Avengers #346, Iron Man #279, Thor #446...



  • Philip Carlo

    Anne Fitzgerald is young, beautiful and intelligent--but she may also be dead. She disappeared after interviewing a mysterious man named Santos Dracol, and it's up to detective Frank De Nardo to find her. But the more De Nardo investigates, the deepe...



  • Giles Carwyn; Todd Fahnestock

    A young man forced into a fight for survival . . . A concubine sorceress seduced into the ultimate test of will . . . An enigmatic spy in love with a forbidden queen . . . And a reawakened evil that could remake the world. Introducing a major n...



  • Mary Castillo

    What else could go wrong for 29-year-old ESL teacher and single mom Isa Avellan after she's been voted the un-sexiest woman alive by the entire student body? Well . . . She could be knocked unconscious by a well-kicked soccer ball and wind up s...



  • Diane Chamberlain

    An unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception. In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child. CeeC...



  • Benjamin Cheever

    The Cross family's new nanny is perfect. A natural with children, a whiz in the kitchen, and a gifted painter, the only thing Miss Washington can't seem to do is make a mistake. But thanks to Stuart Cross's artistic ambitions, his wife An...



  • Judy Christenberry

    MAY THE BEST MAN WIN... For Julia Chance and Nick Rampling, chasing after her mother and his father was more than a search for eloping lovers; it was an exercise in frustration. Of all partners, how did a jet-setting millionaire get stuck with a p...




  • Siobhan Ciminera

    Hop along with Cottonâ"¢ and meet all his PAAS pals! Kids will love getting to know the PAAS world by coloring and playing all the fun and easy activities. With so much inside including mazes, word scrambles, and connect-the-dots, plus a sweet theme ...



  • Chris Claremont

    Collects Uncanny X-Men #462-465. The return of Captain Britain! Brian Braddock is released from his duties as protector of the Omniverse to deal with a threat of even greater proportions… as if that was even possible! Meanwhile, Pyslocke and Rache...



  • Andrew Coburn

    By the time he was twelve years old, young Bobby Sawhill had killed two people, brutally and with no remorse. He was tried as a juvenile and sentenced to a youth detention center, where he refused counseling. All he seems to care about is bodybuildin...



  • Tobias Cole

    The railroad opened the West to dreamers, fortune-seekers, and anyone looking to start over. It also offered a tempting target for ruthless thieves with no respect for human life. It would take a special breed of protector to keep the train running s...



  • Jackie Collins

    Dangerous sex, family secrets, irresistible power, mega money and two murders equal one reckless week in New York. Lovers and Players takes you on a high-powered trip from Park Avenue to Brooklyn. Jackie Collins is back--in her most deliciously sc...



  • Mara Conlon

    Egg-spress yourself this Easter with this fabulous book of fun Easter crafts! From decorations -- paper flower wreaths, bunnies and chicks, woven-paper baskets, and more -- to beautiful and original Easter cards (including cards that pop up!), this b...



  • Trish Cook

    Trace thinks she knows enough about her newfound dad to make the leap from being genetically related to spiritually connected in a single visit-until she gets to his blinged-out house in California. He's made a room for Trace in his house, but can Sh...



  • R. Cameron Cooke

    Returning from deployment in the Middle East, attack sub USS Providence has received emergency tasking orders only miles from homeport. The mission: head for Indonesia and evacuate a U.S. citizen endangered by a violent rebellion. In the waters of...



  • T. Cooper

    A postmodern family saga by one of America’s freshest literary voices Upon landing at Ellis Island in 1903, Esther and Hersh Lipshitz discover their son Reuven is missing. The child is never found, and decades later, Esther becomes convinced that...



  • Ralph Cosentino

    When a little boy transforms himself into Fun-Boy and goes about his exciting tasks, disaster is sure to follow as good intentions turn into wild mishaps, in an amusing collection of twelve wordless tales....



  • Debra Cowan

    Battling a fire at a friend's house turns into a nightmare when firefighter Shelby Fox becomes the only witness to a murder. Unfortunately, a bad fall at the killer's hands leaves Shelby with traumatic amnesia and plunges her life into danger. As...



  • Josephine Cox

    It has been more than twenty years since Vicky Maitland last set foot on English soil. Two decades ago she left the city of Liverpool with her three children -- leaving behind the husband she dearly loved, who had cruelly and inexplicably turned agai...



  • Francine Craft

    Reporter Raven McCloud's latest investigation has landed her in the middle of a crime-ridden area of D.C. Fortunately, police officer Adam Steele offers her a ride home. To thank him, Raven invites Adam to join her and her young daughter for dinner, ...



  • Elizabeth Crook

    A MESMERIZING NOVEL ABOUT FOUR. GENERATIONS OF WOMEN BOUND TO A MYTHICAL LEGACY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST Meg Mabry has always felt oppressed by her family's legendary, past. In the 1890s her great-grandmother Hannah Bass wrote starkly revealing dia...



  • Caroline Cross

    Ex-Army Ranger John Taggert Steele couldn't believe the pretty little mess he was in. The case should have been easy: Track down runaway murder witness Genevieve Bowen and return her to police custody. But somehow he ended up shackled to the sassy br...



  • Elaine Cunningham

    A ten year veteran of the Providence Rhode Island vice squad Gwen "GiGi" Gellman began her life as a foundling and is used to being on her own. So when she finds herself unemployed and on the outs after a standard bust goes bad resulting in a bloodba...



  • Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Lucy knows there must be something, somewhere, that can tell her why she was chosen to see the terrible visions; why she feels the shadowy presence all around her.  But what?  Could the explanation lie with the mysterious stranger claiming ...



  • Clive Cussler

    Have you ever wanted to fly? Ten-year-old twins Lacey and Casey Nicefolk certainly have. But kids can't fly . . . or can they? They can if they know the mysterious Sucoh Sucop -- a man who claims to have an enchanted box that can transform any toy i...



  • Angie Daniels

    From acclaimed author Angie Daniels comes an exciting new novel that asks: Exactly how much trouble can four sexy, sassy, and stubborn women get into when they spend a week in Jamaica together? The answer: Plenty... For years, Lisa Miller has been l...



  • B.J. Daniels

    MURDER IN MONTANA After Hudson Savage betrayed her, Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on the seductive cowboy again. Until a bunch of old bones showed up on her family ranch. Suddenly her former lover was back in her life in a big way -- to in...



  • Claire Daniels

    Cally's Thanksgiving holiday becomes a hell of a day when her ailing Aunt Daphne keels over after the turkey dinner. But her illness isn't the cause. According to Daphne's devoted teenaged caretaker, someone has been trying to poison Daphne--someone ...



  • N. Frank Daniels

    No past. No future. Only now.

    Originally a self-publishing success launched on N. Frank Daniels's MySpace page, the novel Futureproof tells the story of Luke and his friends as they navigate Atlanta’s subculture of delinquents. In s...



  • Emma Darcy

    Will she succumb to the sheikh? Who dares trespass on Sheikh Zageo's palace on the exotic island of Zanzibar? Zageo demands that the intruder be brought before him! Emily Ross is appalled to find she's the sheikh's prisoner. To prov...



  • Cecilia Dart-Thornton

    The beautiful maiden Jewel is the center of her parent's joy. She is the embodiment of their true love and she has grown up surrounded by peace and love in abundance.Jewel's world cruelly shatters when her parents are suddenly killed and she and her ...



  • Peter David

    Marvel's monsters unleashed in four timeless tales by today's hottest creators! In Monsters on the Prowl, it's the Hulk, the Thing, Giant-Man and the Beast vs. a tidal wave of classic creatures when the Collector inadvertently lets loose Droom, Grogg...



  • Alan Davis

    The Avengers learn what too much of a bad thing can be when they face a city of robots and a village of Hulks! And in other international news, Blood Wraith has a big problem with Ultron's extermination of Slorenia! Meanwhile, Silverclaw shines and T...



  • Cody Fowler Davis

    Anderson Parker, an honest young trial attorney, faces off against his unscrupulous former boss, Justin Cartwright, in a court case in which three people were killed in a boating accident. Although his client is responsible, defense attorney Cartwrig...



  • Kathryn Davis

    In a thin place, according to legend, the membrane separating this world from the spirit world is almost nonexistent. The small New England town of Varennes is such a place, and Kathryn Davis transports us there -- revealing a surprising pageant of l...



  • Sylvia Day

    Oh, those naughty rakes. With their wicked winks, sensual smiles, and bad boy habits, you just can't take them out in polite society. But who wants to go out when you can stay in...? Stolen Pleasures Sebastian Blake, Earl of Merrick, long ago fl...



  • Mark de Castrique

    The night before a funeral that will thrust the mountain town of Gainesboro, North Carolina, into the national spotlight, the body is stolen from the embalming room and funeral director Barry Clayton is knocked unconscious. Ouch. How will Clayton & C...



  • David DeBatto; Pete Nelson

    A former Army military counterintelligence agent, David DeBatto has seen the war on terror from the inside. Now he follows his debut novel, CI: Team Red, with an explosive tale of a frightening new technology and the search for the most dangerous wea...



  • Cindy Dees

    A CULTURE WAS WAS BREWING -- AT THE WINTER GAMES She'd pushed beyond her family's traditions because Isabella Torres, intel analyst and soldier, had been driven to succeed -- especially as part of the first all-female Special Ops unit, the Medusas. ...



  • Claire Delacroix
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    Now, these brilliantly gifted authors come together with four tales of adventure that are as enchanting as they are exciting...A gifted seer receives a vision of a man whom she was not meant to marry, but was meant to love...A man and an elven woman ...



  • Kathie DeNosky

    ONCE RUN OFF THE RANCH, HE NOW OWNS IT Thirteen years ago, Nick Daniels had been minutes away from marrying Cheyenne Holbrook when the wedding came to a startling halt. Forced out of town by Cheyenne's powerful, menacing father, Nick vowed to retu...



  • Anna DeStefano

    She took the baby and ran... Eighteen-year-old Maggie didn't know what else to do. She'd promised her dying friend she'd keep the baby safe from his father, a drug dealer...and killer. Who else could she turn to but her uncle, Deputy Tony Rivers?...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    This Teacher Is Learning Her Lessons! A is for Adventure When schoolteacher Leah Morris tries to conquer the big city, she's thinking of her career. Except instead of a job, what she lands is one unforgettable encounter with a mystery man.... ...



  • Kate DiCamillo

    Once, in a house on Egypt street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, for he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, ...




  • Cameron Dokey

    "Once upon a Time" Is Timeless Before Rapunzel's birth, her mother made a dangerous deal with the sorceress Melisande: If she could not love newborn Rapunzel just as she appeared, she would surrender the child to Melisande. When Rapunzel was born c...



  • Crystal Downs

    THE BIGGEST GAMBLE OF ALL When her ex-boyfriend betrays her, Tracy Middleton loses her job as producer at a cable news station. Months later, still out of work and almost out of cash, she receives a job offer with a surprising salary. CEO Elaine N...



  • Dianne Drake

    Dr. Solange Léandre has dedicated her life to her rural clinic in the jungle of Kije island. Involving herself in the lively community is a happy refuge from her painful past -- a chance to heal through healing others. When specialist Dr. Paul Ki...



  • Michael Drinkard

    In his cannabis-infused pipe dreams, Salt imagines himself a man of independent means, rather than a Yankee hemp farmer under the thumb of his Tory father-in-law. Then Salt's teenage son shoots a British officer, and the Revolutionary War comes home,...



  • Sarah Dunant

    Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice to start life anew. In the shimmering city born out of water to become a mirac...



  • Lois Faye Dyer
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    Grandmothers know best...especially these three grandmothers, all soldiers' brides. Their generation lived through war and peace, good times and bad, love and loss. When Professor Chloe Abbott finds herself caught up in a troublesome mystery, she ...



  • Cindy Dyson

    Sweeping across centuries and into the Aleutian Islands of Alaska's Bering Sea, And She Was begins with a decision and a broken taboo when three starving Aleut mothers decide to take their fate into their own hands. Two hundred and fifty years later,...



  • Cassie Edwards

    TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA For sweet Jessie Filson the wild and woolly Western town seemed the end of the line. First orphaned and then widowed, she had no one to turn to except a distant cousin who had made a fortune in silver there. But when outlaws att...



  • Elsie E. Egermeier

    Complemented by a lovely gold-tone cross charm, this collection of biblical stories will help young people appreciate the narratives of the Christian faith. The vivid tales, closely based on Scripture, bring out the adventure, history, and moral w...



  • Selma Eichler

    Misstep or Murder? Flying home from a friend's wedding in Minneapolis, Desiree is seated alongside an attorney traveling to New York for a funeral. It seems his beloved aunt Bessie died from a fall down the basement steps. Before long, however, th...



  • Deborah Eisenberg

    Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. F...



  • Dorothy Elbury

    An officer in the East India Trading Company, Matthew Beresford has made a life a world away from England and his father's malevolence. Now it's time for Matthew to return home. There he finds Miss Imogen Priestley, who's worked tirelessly to ...



  • Stephen Elkins

    Parents can help their child discover how to be more like Jesus through biblical examples of friendship, humility, respect, joy, worship . . . any many others. Christian character traits are taught in an exciting way through Bible stories, life appli...



  • Stephen Elkins

    One of the most important things parents can teach their children is that they can know God in a personal, powerful way. As part of the Memory Bible Sing & Remember Book series, Knowing God offers 23 stories that each reveal a unique look at God's ch...



  • Kate Elliott

    In the wake of the cataclysm many new alliances are forming even as old ones dissolve. As Sanglant struggles to legitimize his own leadership, the Aoi are carrying out random attacks-while implicating him as their leader. Stronghand has begun a march...



  • Patricia Elliott

    Aggie+s life in the village is as normal and dull as any girl+s; she has never questioned the rule of the Ministration or the power of the divine beings-the birds. Then, the crippled master of the nearby manor, Murkmere, sends for Aggie to become a l...



  • Tea Emesse

    Can Nova rock her way past Ivy and into Joe's heart?

    Nova and the Charmed Three is the fifth title in a new series written specifically for tween girls. This fun series follows a group of friends who receive mysterious messages and win charms ...



  • John R. Erickson

    Hank runs into a dispute with a giant bullfrog over the Emerald Pond. Then, there’s a battle with a...Monster. It’s too scary to tell what kind of monster it is! However, things get really tough when Hank is entrusted with the job of guarding Lit...



  • Kjell Eriksson

    Winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, The Princess of Burundi introduces American readers to a leading crime writer from Sweden whose work has created an international sensation. Erikssons U.S. debut opens a week before Chri...



  • Heather Estay

    Look, I've been in scads of weddings, my own (leading to a dismal marriage and an even more dismal divorce) and approximately twenty-seven others. Which means that I've propped up hysterical brides, sobered up inebriated grooms, changed dirty diapers...



  • Loren D. Estleman

    Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the respectable young doctor. It was not until the Queen herself requested it, however, that Holmes was officially on ...



  • Ann Evans

    After many years away, Rafe D'Angelo has returned to Lightning River, Colorado, to give Frannie -- the five-year-old daughter he hadn't known he had -- a home after being rejected by her mother. When Rafe discovers that Dani Bridgeton, a woman fro...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s got to spend lead -- to save face.Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is sent to Arkansas to escort a hired gun back to Colorado for trial. But Longarm only gets Famous Frank Hungerford as far as the nearest train station before he’s played...



  • Robert Eversz

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  • Tracy Falbe

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  • Tracy Falbe

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  • Lou Fancher

    Welcome to the magical night world of star climbing. Run and dance with Leo the Lion and Ursa the Bear. Dive into a shimmering star pool with Pisces the Fish, and rest on the glimmering back of Cygnus the Swan. Lou Fancher lets imagination soar du...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    Dear Diary: The first face I saw after hitting my head on my brother's boat was that of a gorgeous stranger...a stranger that everyone said was my husband. Taylor Conway is the type of man that no one forgets, so I thought it was my brothers&#...



  • Robert Ferrigno

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  • George Fetherling

    Vividly conjured out of the hustle and crime of Canada’s poorest neighbourhood, this poetic and picaresque novel stakes a new claim on the fictional territory of Don DeLillo and Chuck Palahniuk.

    Bishop isn’t a man most women would find att...



  • Anne Fine


    Why do bad things happen to good dogs?


    It's a dog's life for Anthony. Not only is he lacking the respect
    he deserves from the neighborhood dogs and cats, but an
    skin condition has him frantic and frazzled. And just when
    Antho...



  • Dirk Fletcher

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  • Michael Flexer

    C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe has been a fantasy classic for more than fifty years and is now a major motion picture!

    Edmund isn't happy when he and his brother and sisters are sent to the Professor's house in the cou...



  • Michael Flexer

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    At first Lucy Pevensie is terribly sad when she is sent with her sister and brothers far away to th...



  • Eric Flint; David Drake

    THE BATTLE IS FOUGHT IN THE SIXTH CENTURY. THE VICTORY WILL BE FOR ALL TIME! The Malwa and their inhuman evil have been driven back to their Indian heartland, but there they coil to strike again. Ruled 'by a monster from the future that is part comp...



  • Gwynne Forster
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  • Rebecca Forster

    Grace McCreary says she tried to stop her wealthy, disturbed sister-in-law from jumping to her death off a penthouse balcony, but the police accuse her of murder. Though Josie swore off rich clients years ago, she succumbs to Grace's plea for help. T...



  • Lori Foster

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  • Elaine Fox

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  • Susan Fox

    SHE FOUND FAMILY... Adopted at birth, Marla is overwhelmed to discover she has a long-lost sister, but a tragic event means she has to keep her true identity a secret. One man stands in the way of her newfound happiness, sexy rancher Jake Craddock. ...



  • Jennifer Frantz

    Sid thinks he's found paradise when a tribe of mini-sloths that is convinced he's their Fire-god kidnaps him. When he realizes they are actually trying to sacrifice him to stop the oncoming flood, the situation doesn't seem quite so ideal!

    ...



  • Jennifer Frantz

    Manny, Sid, and Diego return for another incredible adventure. The Ice Age is coming to an end and the animals are enjoying the slippery water park that is their new world. But when there is news of an oncoming flood, the makeshift herd must journ...



  • Lorna Freeman

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  • Mark Frutkin

    A brilliant novel packed with delights: grand romance, alchemical potions, violins to make you weep, commedia dell’arte theatre, reappearing comets, rambling skeletons and cracks in time.

    It is 1682 in Cremona, Italy. With his manservant, an...



  • Diana G. Gallagher

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  • Katherine Garbera

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  • Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    A Rio de Janeiro ThrillerWhen his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a troubled psychiatrist comes to Espinosa for help, in the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series A hospital psychiatrist feels he's be...



  • John E. Gardner

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  • Ray Garton

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  • Amy Garvey

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  • Olivia Gates

    Had betrayal come from within? Working in war zones while treating the sick and wounded, Dr. Calista St. James was used to being under siege. But now, her team had been deliberately infected with a dangerous virus -- and all signs pointed to it be...



  • R. Patrick Gates

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  • Melanie George

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  • Elizabeth Gilbert

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  • Lois Gilbert

    When Elena Waters discovers her estranged son, Johnny, has been murdered in Taos, she returns to New Mexico after a ten-year absence, determined to find his killer in spite of opposition from her family and friends. Before he was murdered, Johnny's c...



  • Laura Anne Gilman

    On the eve of the Quest for the Holy Grail, every adult in King Arthur's castle falls into an enchanted sleep. The future of Camelot rests on the shoulders of fourteen-year-old squire Gerard, who has dreamed of becoming a Knight of the Round Table hi...



  • Roy Glenn

    When his wife is kidnapped by South American drug dealers, notorious club mogul Mike Black, along with an old friend, races against time to find his wife, while dealing with a corporate takeover, murder, and a faceless enemy who is determined to dest...



  • Laura Godwin

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  • Christopher Golden

    Aimee and Shane Lancaster are still confronting the fallout of the curse they triggered by moving to town but their lives become more challenging when tensions erupt in their group of friends and a secret love is confessed. Original....



  • Cassandra Golds

    Clair-de-Lune lives with her grandmother in the tippy-top of a peculiar old building. Every day she practices ballet, just like her mother before her -- the famous ballerina who died when Clair-de-Lune was just a baby. Since that day, Clair-de-Lune h...



  • J.F. Gonzalez

    It is supposed to be a romantic weekend getaway. Lisa is looking forward to spending time alone with her husband--and telling him that they are going to have a baby. Instead, it becomes a nightmare when her husband is arrested and Lisa is kidnapped. ...



  • Carol Goodman

    For more than one hundred years, creative souls have traveled to Upstate New York to work under the captivating spell of the Bosco estate. Cradled in silence, inspired by the rough beauty of overgrown gardens and crumbling statuary, these chosen few ...



  • Peter Graham

    C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe has been a fantasy classic for more than fifty years and is now a major motion picture!

    Peter Pevensie has the hardest job of all. He must keep his sisters, Susan and Lucy, and his troubl...



  • Alan Grant

    Meta-humans, aliens, magical entities, or mortals driven by iron wills. Super heroes, renegades, or villains-out for justice, vengeance, or cash. Whether legendary, infamous, or little known, these extraordinary beings are the true champions of the.....



  • Andrew M. Greeley

    This latest tale of Nuala Anne McGrail, the engagingly fey heroine of such irresistible books as Irish Cream and Irish Lace, begins with a foreboding dream of some terrible impending evil. Dermot Michael Coyne, Nuala's adoring husband and spear-carri...




  • Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Ten years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had rid himself forever of the Mud People Killer who'd kidnapped and murdered six people. Frank had shot him as he'd fled through a snowy night; had killed him, he believed, though ...



  • Martha Grimes

    Scotland Yard's Richard Jury is drawn into one of the strangest cases he's ever encountered, by a marl: who walks into a bar... ...and over three consecutive nights spins out the story of a good friend whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one ...



  • Sally Gunning

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  • Brian Haig

    Lt. Col. Sean Drummond, Haig's wisecracking series hero, finds himself partnered with an exotic female military police officer, Bian Tran, when Clifford Daniels, a high-ranking Defense Department official, is found dead in his Virginia apartment, an ...



  • Cathy Marie Hake

    After arriving in Reliable, California, Dr. Eric Walcott is stunned by the primitive conditions of the medical practices. Luckily for all of them, he's here to help... if he can just get that Chance woman to put away her plants and blossoms long enou...



  • Deborah Hale

    A ship full of women could only cause trouble! Of that Governor Sir Robert Kerr was certain, just by considering their chaperon! Though a widow, Mrs. Jocelyn Finch was young, vivacious and utterly determined to have her own way -- especially with ...



  • Lori Handeland

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  • Valerie Hansen

    TO: AL_CRANE@CSSENTINEL.ORG FROM: COLLEEN_MONTGOMERY@CSSENTINEL.ORG Boss, My reporter's nose smells a story brewing at the Double V Ranch. Word is that rancher Michael Vance has already lost several cows to a mystery ailment. This isn't the firs...



  • Elizabeth Harbison

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  • Kristin Harmel

    HOW TO SLEEP WITH A MOVIE STAR Don't forget your integrity. If you have it, locate it quickly because Cole Brannon is sexy and disarmingly genuine, like no other celebrity you've interviewed-and you've interviewed just about all of them. ...



  • HarperCollins

    Whether it is stuck in the ice, underneath a snowdrift, or floating down the river, Scrat's elusive acorn always seems to be just out of reach, in a gatefold title where children can lift flaps to help reunite this prehistoric squirrel with his favor...



  • HarperCollins

    There are 20,000 different kinds of butterflies in the world. Many have brightly colored wings. But butterflies don’t start life as beauties. Every butterfly begins as a tiny egg that hatches into a caterpillar. Then an amazing change takes plac...



  • HarperCollins

    From summer thunderstorms to winter blizzards, weather often packs a powerful punch. Lightning brightens up the night sky. Thunder rattles the ground. Hurricanes pound beaches. Tornadoes sweep across fields.

    In STORMS!, TIME For Kids® take...



  • HarperCollins

    A small earthquake may just rattle some teacups. But a rare huge quake can bring down cities. Those rumblings are a reminder to pay attention to our earth. Scientists keep careful records of quakes around the world. They try to predict when the ne...



  • Lori L. Harris

    Months after his wife had been brutally murdered, FBI profiler Alec Blade was on the desperate hunt to bring her murderer to justice. But after setting up residence in a sleepy Florida town, Alec made a startling discovery: The killer had a new targe...



  • Illona Haus

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  • Veronica Heley

    Grieving after a miscarriage, Araminta 'Minty' Sands has set aside the demands of running Eden Hall for a season of healing. But her convalescence in Europe is cut short when a crisis back home requires her husband Patrick's immediate attention. Mint...



  • Dee Henderson

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  • April Henry

    Cassie discovers that her stepfather, Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has been illegally prescribing a new behavioral drug to his patients?and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick commits Cassie to Peaceful Cove, a boot camp for troubled...



  • Marc Henry

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  • Mark Henry

    Thirty years ago, they came together on a war-torn frontier. Now, they'll stand together once more--to honor one of their own... It's a thousand miles from snowbound Montana to the Arizona Territory. But for Trap O'Shannon and Clay Madison, it's a ...



  • Will Henry

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  • Candice Hern

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  • Anne Herries

    Once a galley slave, now a Venetian merchant prince, Lorenzo Santorini is driven to seek revenge on his Corsair captor. He spares no time for softer emotions such as love. Yet when English beauty Kathryn Rowlands appeals for help in finding a frie...



  • Donna Hill
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    Leticia, Jamilla, and Clarissa Holmes each know that they're one in a set of triplets--but that's about all they know. Now they're adults, thirty-three-year old women who are as different as can be. But they have one thing in common: they have never ...



  • Donna Hill

    In this powerful collection, three acclaimed writers put their talents together to tell the unforgettable story of three sisters separated as infants--and how their paths finally cross in adulthood. Leticia, Jamilla, and Clarissa Holmes each know tha...



  • Teresa Hill

    Kate Cassidy has a secret...the whole town knows. She's engaged -- with no wedding date in sight. Maybe that's why she doesn't mind sexy pastor Ben Taylor flirting with her when she comes to offer her services as a Big Sister to troubled teens. Be...



  • Vicki Hinze

    The It Girls They're rich, fabulous...and dangerously underestimated. It Girl: Chloe St. John Mission: Bust an organized crime syndicate that's kidnapping women and selling them into the sex trade. And nab Manhattan's most wanted and elusive c...



  • Steve Hockensmith

    1893 IS A TOUGH YEAR IN Montana, and any job is a good job. When brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer sign on as hands at a secretive ranch, they're not expecting much more than hard work, bad pay, and a few free moments to enjoy their favorite p...




  • Cathy Hopkins

    "That William Lewis really thinks a lot of himself," I said. "He's such a smartarse." "Hhmm,"said Lucy, grinning. "That's what he said about you too." "He did? What a cheek! God, he annoys me. I really hate him." Lucy, TJ, and Izzie excha...