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New Books List: 516 titles


  • Timothy Zahn

    It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery, only to become a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable--and doomed--Outbound Flight Project. The Clone Wars hav...



  • Sean D. Young

    Full-figured floral designer Rose Hart feels destined to always be a bridesmaid, never a bride. Her ex-boyfriend broke her heart and bruised her self-confidence, and now Rose finds it hard to believe that any man could really be attracted to her...es...



  • Pamela Samuels Young

    Determined to become the first African-American partner at one of L.A.'s most prestigious law firms, employment attorney Vernetta Henderson is thrilled when she's tapped to defend a prominent socialite accused of murder -- until she learns that Neddy...



  • J. Steven York

    As they occupy the planet of Vega with hopes of restoring peace, the Raging Bears discover a traitor in their midst when an underground rebellion, supported by the Draconis Combine, counters their every move with betrayal and deception. Original....



  • Stephen Wright

    A Civil War novel unlike any other: the story of a young man's journey through a nation blasted apart.Born in 1844, Liberty Fish is the descendant of both Carolina slaveholders and New York abolitionists. In hopes of reconciling the warring strands o...



  • Bonnie Worth

    Laugh and learn with fun facts about trees like the redwood, white oak, royal palm, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style and starring the Cat in the Hat! “Knowing trees’ names, my dear miss and dear mis...



  • Chris Wormell

    Far, far away in the high, high mountains in a deep, deep valley in a dark, dark cave lived a mighty dragon. He was an awesome and frightening creature who terrorized whole armies, destroyed castles, demolished forests, and kidnapped princesses. But ...



  • William P Wood Jr.

    Superior Court Judge Timothy Nash thinks the brutal murder trial in his court will be like many he's presided over before. He doesn't know it might lead to his own murder. Nash has been tapped as point man in a federal sting operation against the mos...



  • Linda Randall Wisdom

    TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT... Beautiful attorney Alexandra Spencer was used to being in control -- of her work and her life. But when a violent street crime resulted in memory loss, Alex was suddenly helpless, and turned to the one person she trusted t...



  • Rebecca Winters

    NEEDED: A FAMILY TO CARE FOR... Lush flower-filled meadows dwarfed by towering snowcapped mountains -- the majestic beauty of Yellowstone is the perfect place for Gilly Bryson King. She needs some peace and serenity after a tough few years.... ...



  • Sean Williams; Shane Dix

    Three people--a human rebel searching for ancient secrets, a former Exarch of Bedlam, and a pilot seeking revenge--are united in their cause to destroy the Archon, the artificial intelligence responsible for destroying the system of Bedlam, and gain ...




  • Phyllis Bourne Williams

    YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS Grant Price wants old classmate Melody Mason to work for his family's Boston investment company. Melody, the Wall Street Wizard, has suddenly retired from big business and hidden herself away in a quiet Tennessee town. It is G...



  • Charles Williams

    A DEVASTATING DAMSEL AND A SIMPLE PLAN... When Lee Scarborough came upon the brunette sunbathing topless in her back yard, getting involved in a heist was the last thing on his mind. But somehow that's where he found himself--sneaking through a stra...



  • Cathy Williams

    She rejected him once... Italian millionaire Angelo Falcone always got his way. But when he suggested to stunning model Francesca Hayley that they make their affair permanent, she turned him down--for reasons she couldn't tell Angelo.... No...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Never take no for an answer. That had always been Molly Walker's motto. So when Kyle Reeves refused to come to the Walker Ranch for a celebration, Molly set out to bring Kyle back one way or another.... Bruised and battered, the last thing Kyle ne...



  • Diane Whiteside

    Two sisters are ushered into a world of sweltering carnal delights that only two strapping nightstalkers can offer...

    A female cat burglar -- caught in the act -- is subjected to the most sublime punishment...

    A party girl with a craving for midn...



  • Sheri Whitefeather

    "What's the point of loving a woman when she might just cut and run?" -- Ethan Eldridge, veterinarian -- It's not easy living down a wild-child reputation. But Susan Fortune has never done anything the easy way. Who would have guessed she'd turn...



  • Kimberley White

    She was the high school plain-Jane, then she put her dreams on hold to help her ailing parents. Now Maddie Ingram is Hannaford Valley's "spinster librarian," and she's fed up with being ordinary. But the minute she starts stirring things up in her sm...



  • Jenny White

    Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sult...




  • Scott Westerfeld

    After centuries of waiting, trapped in the midnight hour, the darklings will hunt once again. The five teenage Midnighters of Bixby, Oklahoma, thought they understood the secret midnight hour--until one morning when time freezes in the middle of t...



  • Joseph A. West

    A KNOWN MAN Chance Tyree never looks for trouble. But with his reputation as a lethal gunfighter, trouble has a habit of finding him. In the Utah canyonlands, Chance ends up at the wrong end of a rope after he's accused of being a hired killer -- a...




  • Bobbi J.G. Weiss

    It's the town's fiftieth anniversary. In honor of the occasion, the mayor has decided to bury a time capsule in the front lawn of City Hall. He will choose two items submitted by students to be included in the capsule and buried for future generation...



  • Nicholas Weinstock

    After nineteen years of marriage, two roaring decades as an investment banker, and forty-six years in the bustle of upper-crust Manhattan, Bill Schoenberg has made one regrettable mistake and lost it all. Spurred by his mysterious downfall, he finds ...



  • Meredith Webber

    Fourteen years ago Dr. Nell Warren fell madly in love with Sheikh Khalil al Kalada -- although he could never be hers, for a brief time their passion was intense. Now Nell is faced with an emergency and is forced to find him. She journeys to the c...



  • Catherine Webb

    In Victorian London at the height of the industrial revolution, Horatio Lyle is a former Special Constable with a passion for science and invention. He's also an occasional, but reluctant, sleuth. The truth is that he'd rather be in his lab tinkering...



  • Margaret Way

    A mysterious portrait, an unexpected commission, a disappearance in the Outback. She might not know it, but these three things bring Jessica Tennant to Mokhani Station and the notice of cattleman Cyrus Bannerman. What Cy wants to know is if there&...



  • Wendy Wax



  • Linda Warren

    Camila Walker has spent years overcoming rumors and gossip to build a better life for herself and her twelve-year-old daughter, Jilly. Then Tripp Daniels, rodeo star, returns home demanding answers about Camila's relationship with his brother and, mo...



  • George Walsh

    How the unprepossessing Ulysses S. Grant, whose military genius ultimately preserved the Union, came to the forefront in the Civil War is a story as surprising as it is compelling. Forced to resign his commission in the peacetime army for drinking, a...



  • Ayelet Waldman

    In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman's passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life. Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man...



  • Kris Waldherr

    Filamena Ziani is the much younger sister of the most famous courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice, Tullia Ziani. Orphaned as an infant, Filamena has come of age bent like a branch to her sister's will, sheltered and lonely in the elegant but stiflin...



  • Judy Waite

    Inside the walls of the True Cause compound, Elinor feels safe and content with her fellow members and wants nothing to do with the Outsiders who want to investigate their private world, but when she remembers her childhood, Elinor begins to reflect ...



  • Sydell Voeller

    Rebecca Lorenzo, the young widow of a Hollywood actor who was killed by a crazed fan, is struggling to raise their young daughter, Wendy. Rebecca is embittered that God allowed her precious husband to die. She has turned her back on Him. Rebecca and ...



  • Evelyn Vaughn

    WHEN YOU CURSE YOUR ENEMY, YOU CURSE YOURSELF, TOO Nonpracticing witch Kate Trillo learned this when she walked in on her sister's murder and fought off the gloating killer. Staring into his cold eyes, she spoke the words that would make his life ...



  • Susan Vaughan

    How would he ever survive? Undercover in the Caribbean, maverick federal agent Simon Byrne reluctantly found himself partnered with the one woman he couldn't bear to be near. He had to keep his distance, remain professional -- even if that meant igno...



  • Brian K. Vaughan

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #61-65. Emma Frost, Alex Summers and the X-Men's greatest enemy star in an epic new storyline! When teenage mutant Lorna Dane accidentally commits a horrific crime, will the X-Men protect her, or leave her to the fury of S. H....



  • John Varley

    The son of one of the first men to fly to Mars and back, Ray Garcia-Strickland is now a disgruntled Martian, tired of the Red Planet's overdevelopment and the gravity-dependent tourist Earthies. But that doesn't stop him from fearing the worst when E...



  • Fred Vargas

    The opera singer Sophia Siméonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop, and three impecunious historians, Ma...



  • Celestine Vaite

    In Tahiti, it's a well-known fact that women are wisest, mothers know best, and Materena Mahi knows best of all -- or so everyone except for her own daughter thinks. Soon enough, mother and daughter are engaged in a tug-of-war that tests the bonds of...



  • Samrat Upadhyay

    “Startlingly good” stories of Nepali society set against the backdrop of violent Maoist insurgencies (San Francisco Chronicle).   From an author like “a Buddhist Chekhov,” The Royal Ghosts features characters trying to reconcile their tr...



  • Justin Tussing

    In Paducah, Kentucky, seventeen-year-old Thomas feels as reined in as the mighty Ohio, a river confined by high floodwalls protecting his small Southern hometown. But all boundaries vanish when Thomas experiences first love with Alice, his new histor...



  • Karen Traviss

    Following the eruption of the bloody Clone Wars at the battle of Geonosis, both sides remain deadlocked in a stalemate that can be broken only by elite warrior teams like Omega Squad, clone commandos with terrifying combat skills and a lethal arsenal...



  • Gemma Townley

    Jennifer Bell used to travel the planet with her boyfriend, fighting the good fight for Mother Earth. But after the breakup (not a good fight), Jen is recruited by another mother: her own. Harriet Bell is the founder of an environmental consulting fi...



  • Frank Tieri

    In this issue, an X-Man dies! Ah, heck, who are we kidding? A whole bucketload of X-Men die! The Director's mad pursuit of power continues and no one is going to stand in his way. Frank Tieri's Weapon X saga rockets into the future and where it's goi...



  • Kay Thorpe

    Leonie Baxter rejected Vidal Parella Dos Santos's first proposal because of his arrogance, his womanizing -- and his powerful sexuality, which left her trembling. Now the Portuguese billionaire is back in her life -- and this time he has a ho...



  • Sarah L. Thomson

    Amazing Snakes! is the fifth title in an award"winning series of I Can Read Books that features photographs from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), one of the world's most esteemed wildlife conservation organizations. The exceptional writ...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Fashion model Eve Dupree is fed up with being labeled "the pretty one" while her sister's called a genius. Eve's got loads of brilliant ideas, not the least of which is the invention she's building in her garage. But when she turns to the nerd next d...




  • Jane Tesh

    FINAL ELIMINATION Beauty pageants can be murder -- nobody knows that better than Madeline "Mac" Maclin, a former homegrown North Carolina beauty queen turned struggling private investigator. So when somebody starts sabotaging a local pageant, Mac kn...



  • Vickie Taylor

    Acclaimed author Vickie Taylor introduced an extraordinary ancient race of immortals in her dazzling novel Carved in Stone. Now, she presents a bold new adventure about the Gargoyles--a race of shape-changing immortals who have watched over humanity ...



  • Hiroyuki Tamakoshi

    THE SECRET’S OUT

    Kouhei’s childhood friend Kurara returns from her vacation in Hawaii with more than just a tan. It turns out that something went terribly wrong during the time she spent testing the new Gacha Gacha virtual reality technolo...



  • Steph Swainston

    The Knights Templars and The Key of Solomon the King are two separate texts, containing secrets of speculative matters, which have fueled many modern conspiracies with tendrils reaching from the Vatican to the Founding Fathers. THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS<...



  • Karen Hanson Stuyck

    Lauren Prescott is fifty, fat (according to her husband) and flat broke after he leaves her. To land a magazine job, Lauren writes a profile of a fitness guru who died while jogging - a death that looks increasingly suspicious the more she probes. He...



  • Anne Stuart

    When you dance with the devil, you hold hands with temptation... Christian Montcalm was a practical man, if a destitute scoundrel, but his plan to bed and wed the delectable Miss Hetty Chipple would take care of that sticky wicket. However, there ...



  • Wesley Strick

    "Out There in the Dark is an old school Hollywood blockbuster. . . . A terrific, grab-you-by-the-throat movieland epic."---Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent MidnightSince leaving Berlin, the proud, distinguished émigré director Dieter Seife has had ...



  • J. Michael Straczynski

    Trump Tower has nothing on Spider-Man! Spinning out of the pages of New Avengers, you won't believe what the fickle hand of fate has in store for Peter Parker, Mary Jane, and Aunt May! Collects Amazing Spider-Man #519-524....



  • Lyn Stone

    Special Agent Eric Vinland was in one hell of a fix. Because Dawn Moon had seen the killer who'd murdered her boss and stolen a valuable disk, she'd be masquerading as his wife on a Greek island where they hoped to outbid "other" terrorists for that ...



  • Katherine Stone
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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. Clara MacKenzie's granddaughter Elizabeth arrives at Clara's Oregon farm needing c...



  • David Lee Stone

    A nasty sect has arisen in Dullitch, the members of which are smart, savvy, and evil, and they want nothing more than to take over the entire kingdom, and all that stands in their way is Duke Modeset, Jareth Obegarde, and Jimmy Quickstint. Reprint....



  • Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    'We have to save the Free Glades . . . we must never surrender!' Undertown is destroyed! Dishevelled and homeless, those who once lived there--gnokgoblins, cloddertrogs, woodtrolls, waifs and many others--huddle by the ruins, preparing for a mass ...




  • Sandra Steffen

    Caroline's Ex-boyfriend: That slimeball attorney who was two-timing her with his own ex-wife. Caroline's OH-boy: This forty-three-year-old career woman is pregnant! Life certainly hasn't gone according to Caroline Moore's carefully constructed ...



  • Danielle Steel

    The house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense, from the marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, a young woman walks through its em...



  • Natalie Standiford

    The Dating Game has gotten too hot to handle--at least for the school principal and parents. When a controversy erupts after exes begin rating each other, the Dating Game is banned from the school's computers. But Mads, Lina, and Holly aren't giving ...



  • Michael A. Stackpole

    Under the shadow of invasion by a nameless enemy, there seems only one way to save Nalenyr from oblivion. The old heroes who once defended the land must be awakened. And accomplishing that requires a journey across the magical wasteland where they're...



  • Patricia Sprinkle

    Somehow mystery and warder have a .may of finding her, even when she's on vacation! When planning her vacation, Georgia magistrate MacLare Yarbrough envisioned a tropical isle where she and h husband would be concerned with nothing but sunbathing,...



  • Nancy Springer

    When Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared -- and on her fourteen birthday, to make matters worse -- she knows she alone can find her. Disguising herself as a grieving widow, Enola sets ...



  • Michael P. Spradlin

    Hawaii, here I come! So, it turns out I'm this reincarnated goddess. Whatever that means. Of course, being a goddess apparently doesn't come with perfect hair or decent skin or even any neat-o superpowers. Nope. Apparently the only thing ...



  • Walter Sorrells

    Nathan: the everyguy Daley: the leader Melissa: the girl next door Taylor: the princess Eric: the schemer Lex: the kid brother Jackson: the outsider Flight 29 Down has crash landed, and its seven remaining survivors have no idea where they a...



  • Jenna Solitaire

    My name is Jenna Solitaire and everything I thought I knew about myself, my family, and my future is wrong. My life is not my own. It never has been. I just didn't know it―until now…

    After the death of her grandfather, nineteen-year-old ...



  • Lemony Snicket

    Dear Reader,

    Like most fugitives who have vowed to investigate the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, I have always found a book to be invaluable in my research. The book you hold in your hands can be thrown into the mouth of a charging rhinoc...



  • Paul Smith

    A deadly mystery draws Kitty Pryde and her fire-breathing friend Lockheed from Astonishing X-Men to the shores of Japan. Ninjas and dragons will be the least of their worries! Featuring art by legendary X-Men artist Paul Smith and written by Age of A...




  • Charles R. Smith Jr.

    Picture books at a great price with extra-durable boards and rounded card-stock pages - super strudy but with a grown-up feel. Perfect for emerging readers!

    Hey! Let's PLAY!
    It's me . . . your BASEBALL.
    Whaddya say?

    When a rest...



  • Bryan Smith

    Hannah Starke was the first to die. And the first to come back. In the small town of Dandridge they all come back. The buried claw their way out of their graves. The recently killed get up and kill. As the dead attack the living, the numbers of the d...



  • Bobbi Smith

    A deadly sniper is terrorizing citizens. A good man has only months to live. A drunk teenage driver careens through the city streets. Where is God's and in this troubled world? For the devout members of Lydia Chandler's prayer group, faith pr...



  • Barbara Dawson Smith

    Dear Reader, This is the story of how I, a penniless upstart, became a countess. I never set out to be the heroine in a romantic tale of derring-do. As a spinster of five-and-twenty, I was much too practical to imagine myself tracking a dangero...








  • Judith Skillings

    Speed Kills There aren't many women in professional auto racing -- but that didn't stop Rebecca Moore from joining driver Ian Browning's pit crew. A former reporter and classic car restorer, Rebecca's love of fast cars and mastery of all things au...



  • Donna Lea Simpson

    Leaving England for a tutoring position at breathtaking Wolfram Castle in Germany has been no easy choice for Elizabeth Stanwycke. But the job offers her a chance to slip her tattered reputation--for while she is bold, beautiful, and imaginative, she...



  • George Shuman

    In his gripping debut, George D. Shuman crafts a pulse-pounding, tension-filled thriller about two brave women--one with uncanny psychic abilities--who unite to, catch a murderous madman .. . before he finds them first. Thirty years after a deadly...



  • Polly Shulman

    Jane Austen never had friends like this... "There is little more likely to exasperate a person of sense than finding herself tied by affection and habit to an Enthusiast." Julie knows from bitter experience. Her best friend, Ashleigh, veers wildly...



  • Gena Showalter

    All Atlantis seeks the Jewel of Dunamis, which legend claims can overcome any enemy. Grayson James, human agent of the ultra-secret Otherworld Bureau of Investigation has orders to keep it from the wrong hands -- or destroy it. What he doesn't know i...



  • Sharon Shinn
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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 ...



  • Tucker Shaw

    Lucas is a genius matchmaker, and everyone at Thomas Jefferson High School seems to need his expertise. When it comes to finding his own true love, things aren't so easy. He's just had his heart broken and the prospects aren't promising. But Luca...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Fargo rides hard for a rich man’s reward!Skye Fargo isn’t much for dancing on the strings of rich men, but when the payoff is a king’s ransom, his head can turn pretty quick. Benjamin Zared is one of the richest men in the country, and his son ...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Fargo protects a woman marked for death…When he saves a pair of brother-and-sister wagoneers from a gang of bushwhacking killers, Skye Fargo ends up taking on more than he bargained for. The siblings are headed for the human cesspit called San Fran...



  • Isabel Sharpe
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    Screenwriters Lindsay Kenyon and Gavin Harvey lived, loved and lost in the Hollywood fast lane. But when they get the chance to collaborate again, will the credits roll on a love story...or an epic disaster?...




  • Martin Scott

    THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE In the enchanted city of Turai, the royal family is corrupt, the politicians can be bought, and the civic guards have better things to do than guarding. Thraxas may look unprepossessing, being overweight and not quite overb...



  • Lee Scofield

    Mattie Adams didn't have the usual upbringing that most girls had on the American frontier. With her step-father running with the Dorsey gang, she was raised by her mother, and spent most of her time trapped in a hideout in the Rocky Mountains. Matti...



  • Sharon Schulze

    'Twas the fate of women to be at the mercy of men. But Lady Alys Delamare, an unwilling sacrifice to her father's ambitions, yearned for a life of her own choosing. And such a life, her rebellious heart proclaimed, included the handsome knight Sir...



  • Alice Schertle

    No role's too wild and woolly for a boy and a bear. After an unfortunate encounter with a washing machine, count on one-eared Bo to get gloriously grungy again adventure by adventure. Alice Schertle and David Parkins introduce this dauntless duo in r...




  • Les Savage Jr.

    This splendid new trio of short novels by the incomparable Les Savage, Jr., opens with "Comanche Legend." Comanche was the horse ridden by General Custer at the time of his defeat at the Little Big Horn. The Hart Farms has been using Comanche as a st...



  • Charlene Sands

    She would have it her way...or no way! One wild wedding... Molly McGuire struck a bargain with rancher Kane Jackson to help find her missing brother. They would be married in every way -- but one! Yet how could she keep her distance from a man ...



  • Patrick Sanchez

    From the author of Girlfriends and The Way It Is comes a no-holds-barred look at America's plastic surgery obsession through three heartrending, hilarious, and very real friends. . .TightBrenda Harrison has never been a slave to vanity and was never ...



  • Alison Sage

    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!

    Susan Pevensie wishes everything could be sensible and normal, but it's not. The world is at war, a...



  • Cynthia Rylant

    A deeply compelling collection of poems about God and our everyday world from a Newbery medalist.

    Cynthia Rylant takes teens on an invigorating spiritual journey as she explores what God's life on Earth might be like. Rylant's reflective an...



  • Patrick Ryan

    In the Florida of NASA launches, ranch houses, and sudden hurricanes, Teresa Kerrigan, ungrounded by two divorces, tries to hold her life together. But her ex-husbands linger in the background while her four children spin away to their own separate f...



  • Nan Ryan

    Kate Quinn arrives in Fortune, California, with little but a deed to a run-down Victorian mansion and a claim to an abandoned gold mine. But a beautiful woman on her own in a town of lonely, lusty miners also brings trouble. Sheriff Travis McLoud...



  • Roxanne Rustand

    Pregnancy is the last thing on her mind After all, isn't that one of the reasons Grant walked out on her last fall? He couldn't wait for her practice to settle down to have kids. Not to mention, her husband couldn't seem to commit to one woman. It...



  • Penni Russon

    Undine gets along well with her unconventional mother, she adores her baby brother, and she has a devoted kindred spirit in her best friend and next-door neighbor, Trout. It's inconvenient that Trout has a sloppy crush on her, but Undine tries to ove...



  • Ann Roth

    Life's Little Surprises As soon as he builds what he hopes is an award-winning house, Hank Adams will be on his way. He certainly isn't in sleepy Forest Glen, Washington, to put down roots. Well, that's just fine by Mia Barker. She doesn't need or...



  • Emilie Rose
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    Jenna Graham is helping actor Conrad Carr reconnect with his art and his life, while she mixes drinks and waits for her big break. She just hopes it's her career, not her heart!...



  • Maryn Roos

    On the fourth day, God made the sun. . . . And the rest is history! Jump at the Sun is pleased to present two stories of Biblical proportions in its new Bible Classics series. God Made the World allows young readers to experience His love for His ult...



  • Joni Rodgers

    Pia feels the walls of her life closing in around her, until she discovers a strangely sensual world that leads her to a new existence. Lily, Pia's brash, tough-talking sister, makes a tragic mistake that leaves her incarcerated, body and soul. B...



  • Joanne Rock

    She may be on a cruise liner, but lately, Rita Frazer's life looks more like a shabby dinghy. Working as a seamstress on a ship called the Venus, Rita hasn't been feeling very goddesslike. More like a Swamp-Thing with red hair and a mouthful of pins....



  • Kimberla Lawson Roby

    Whitney is a plus-size woman who just can't turn down a box of Krispy Kremes or find a man who will stay put. Taylor is in a long-term relationship with a boyfriend who's allergic to commitment. Charisse is married, with two adorable children, but so...



  • J.R. Roberts

    When his trusty Colt is stolen by some two-timing gamblers, Clint Adams follows its trail to the town of Mescall, where, in order to reclaim his gun, he must participate in and win an illegal boxing match. Original....



  • Alison Roberts

    Nurse Beth Dawson has come to the small town of Hereford, New Zealand, for a bit of peace and quiet after a tumultuous time. The last person she expects to meet is Luke Savage -- the high-flying, career-minded surgeon she was engaged to years ago. ...



  • John Ringo

    Featuring contributions from John Helfers, Robert A. Metzger, Kevin J. Anderson, and Sarah A. Hoyt, this stellar collection of thirteen brand new stories presents a speculative glimpse into the future, detailing their visions of Earth and humankind i...



  • Cole Riley

    Roy 'Cootie' Hodges, an old school pimp and thug, has served 10 years from a 15-year sentence for the murder of a drug dealer. Famed throughout the hood, remembered by the old and new alike, he's back on the streets, reclaiming his old moniker 'The B...



  • Kaitlyn Rice

    It's Not Who You're Running From... She'd caught the wedding bouquet, but now it was time to cut loose and see the world. Once Isabel Blume showed her boyfriend that she was more than an unpaid sitter for his kids, he'd beg her to return and marry h...



  • Evie Rhodes

    Homicide detective Micah Jordan-Wells has seen the worst humanity has to offer on the mean streets of Newark, New Jersey. He's earned himself high-profile celebrity status by catching more murderers than he cares to remember. None were as bad as the ...



  • Colleen Rhoads

    Uncovering a modern-day crime scene was not how marine archaeologist Wynne Baxter expected to use her diving skills. Yet when handsome family friend Simon Lassiter fell under suspicion in the death of his cousin and former fiancee, Wynne vowed to hel...



  • Randi Reisfeld

    Nickelodeon's tween show, starring Emma Roberts - niece of Julia - is a major hit!

    What teen doesn't want to be a famous rock star? Addie Singer is sick of being unfabulous and grabs her pink guitar and joins an all-girl band. Soon she realize...



  • Carl Reiner

    The hero of Carl Reiner's nutty and wonderful novel, Nat Noland, is hard at work on his fifth book, his own version of Genesis, concentrating on the relationship between Cain and Abel. While investigating their relationship, he starts to investigate ...



  • Diane Redmond

    Swept back in time to London during the 1590s, Joshua Cross finds himself in the care of Dr. Dee, the Queen's Conjurer, who must use his unique talents despite the machinations of his enemies when Joshua discovers that his best friend Dido is danger ...



  • Jaclyn Reding

    As a young widow with three children, Flora MacCallum thought happiness was behind her--until a friend asked her to run a bed and breakfast on the Massachusetts shore. Suddenly, it was a summer of many firsts--a new business, new friends, a new home ...



  • Paula Quinn

    EVERY WOMAN'S DESIRE Norman lord Dante Risande never met a woman he couldn't seduce...until a lovely slave named Gianelle refuses his bed and piques his interest. So when she's accused of murder, he can't sit idly by. As the king's right hand, it's ...



  • Bill Pronzini

    EVERYONE IS MOURNING SOMETHING Nameless has seen enough death in his years; spending his time watching someone drive to several funerals a day, funerals for people Nameless doesn't even know, is more than he can take. Then the bits and pieces ...



  • Patricia Potter

    With Beloved Impostor, a novel "wrought with emotion, tender in its telling, and heart-wrenching in its beauty" (The Best Reviews), bestselling author Patricia Potter launched a trilogy of three Scottish brothers bound by a dark destiny. Now, she ret...



  • Allie Pleiter

    Teaching Sunday school at her brother's church in the Bay area was supposed to help former champion athlete Esther "Essie" Walker understand boys -- the better to raise her newborn son as a stellar example of manhood. Fat chance! Enter the eight-year...



  • Tom Piccirilli

    The night Johnny Danetello drove a dying girl through the streets of Brooklyn in his cab, he was trying to save her life. Instead he ran down a cop and lost her and his freedom. Every day in prison, Johnny knew that Angie Monticelli's family blamed h...



  • Irene Peterson

    He Knows His Women... New Jersey PI John Preshin takes on all kinds of jobs. Discreet inquiries. Private investigations. Helping women find lost...articles of clothing from his office. Yup, no job too big or too small. Now if only he could figure ou...



  • Steve Perry

    A NEW CENTURY. NEW SUPERPOWERS. A NEW BREED OF HOMELAND SECURITY. Bypassing all safeguards, terrorists break into Fort Stephens, penetrating to the heart of the newest high-tech Army base. One after another, other bases are hit. Under attack, ...



  • Steve Perry

    A New York Times Bestselling Author

    In the deep woods of the Pacific Northwest, things aren't quite what they seem . . . Physician's Assistant Rick Scales has a quiet practice at the end of the road, near the Makah Indian Reservation, in Neah Bay,...



  • Julia Penney

    It was on her wedding day that Melanie Harris discovered the ultimate betrayal: her sister Ariel was pregnant by Melanie's fiance. Six months later, Melanie turns to psychologist Dr. Kent Mattson for help in resuming her life. Kent, a man plagued ...



  • Don Pendleton

    SUICIDE MISSION Mack Bolan is dispatched to shut down a high-tech arms deal brokered by the Yakuza. But a simple assignment takes an ugly twist when Bolan's cover is blown. Outgunned, outnumbered and on the run with a gutsy kid in tow, Bolan'...



  • Don Pendleton

    Dedicated to fighting terror wherever it's found, the warriors of Stony Man do not consider failure to be an option. But the men and women of this top secret unit remain ever vigilant in the knowledge that some day a threat so enormous may arise that...



  • John Peel

    Book of Reality finds Score, Helaine, Pixel, and Jenna journeying back to Calomir, Pixel's home planet of virtual reality. Pixel hasn't been back to Calomir since being snatched from the futuristic planet when he was first pulled into the magic and d...



  • Diana L. Paxson

    A new story and a new generation grows as Diana Paxson returns to Westria, her classic fantasy realm, in the first new novel in that land in more than a decade. Prince Phoenix has always been a bit restless, never quite measuring up to the expectatio...



  • Rebecca Pawel

    In the city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the conservative Catholic aristocracy, fear of the red menace remains strong in 1945. One rich, elderly lady summons the police to her home almost once a week, sure Communists are plotting against her. She ch...



  • Rebecca Pawel

    A police lieutenant in Fascist Spain finds his new assignment a threat to his family in this novel in the Edgar Award"winning series.   Spain, 1940: Potes, a remote northern mountain village, is Carlos Tejada’s first independent Guardia Civi...



  • Sandra Paul

    SIT... Dogs needed love and attention, but getting workaholic Luc Tagliano to bond with his newly inherited dog drove trainer Julie Jones crazy! The obstinate developer wanted immediate results -- because he planned on finding Puppy a good home else...



  • James Patterson; Maxine Paetro

    A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital's doctors, some of the best in the nation, are completely mystified by her death. How did th...



  • Erica Pass

    It's boys versus girls in the Super S School's Out Scavenger Hunt, and everyone is psyched! The All Grown Up! gang has to find a list of things that can be described with the letter S, like something slimy, something stinky -- and eve...



  • P.J. Parrish

    Not Every Soul Rest in Peace In a remote corner of the Michigan woods, behind rusted iron gates and crumbling stone walls, lie one of the country's most notorious sanitariums and its forgotten cemetery. The sprawling ruin is empty now, and the bulld...



  • Catherine Palmer

    Charles Locke is risking everything to make his fortune in a tea-trading enterprise. Sarah Carlyle believes money is the root of all evil and is determined to be rid of her fortune. When Charles and Sarah are thrown together at sea, their hearts are ...



  • Robin Paige

    Lizard Village, 1903. It's the dawn of a new century, and telegraph companies around the world are scrambling to be the first to send a wireless signal across the Atlantic. But Italian prodigy Guglielmo Marconi beats them to the punch. Naturally, his...



  • Sharon Owens

    At the end of a cobblestone path is a quaint Victorian pub untouched by the modern world. That's why it's a favorite among locals, and that's the way its owners, Jack and Lily Beaumont, want it. More than a business, it's a family tradition whose loy...



  • Robin D. Owens

    WITH THE SOUNDING OF THE CHIMES, AN EXOTIQUE IS CALLED... With the world of Lladrana threatened by encroaching evil, the Sorcerers must do the unthinkable -- Summon an outsider to stop the insidious Darkness slowly taking control of their land, and ...



  • Stephen Overholser

    All manner of folks journeyed West - swift and slow, young and old, town and country, straight and crooked. In those days the greenest greenhorn on a cattle ranch was usually a fresh-faced kid who had drifted West, a "maverick" cut loose from kin for...



  • Malika Oufkir

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  • Kristin Ostby

    It’s that time of year when everyone gets together to present their favorite egg designs at the Great Egg Show! With a ton of eggs to color, and patterns to use as inspiration for their own egg designs, this coloring book is perfect for all little ...



  • Juilene Osborne-McKnight

    The Sons of Mil long held the dream of the Island of Destiny close to their hearts. A dream perhaps, but to these restless, adventuring people it was a shining emerald prize to be won by those who were brave or foolhardy enough to sail to the very en...




  • Perri O'Shaughnessy

    The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Nina Reilly thrillers brings her prodigious storytelling gifts to this first-ever collection of short crime fiction. From desperate housewives to hard-boiled PIs to an appearance by Nina Reilly h...



  • Ellie O'Ryan

    On their quest to find the giant ark, Manny, Sid, and Diego and their new friends must cross a dangerous geyser field. Will this makeshift herd make it across, or will the bubbling geysers mean the untimely end of their journey?

    ...



  • Ellie O'Ryan

    It is not easy being the last mammoth on earth. Thankfully, Manny has found a herd to call his own. But when the ice around them starts melting, the pack must find a way to escape the oncoming flood.

    ...



  • Janeen O'Kerry

    The goddess Eriu waited. The new Ard-Ri, high king of all Ireland, had been chosen, elected by his people to enter the Mound of Kings and to induce her to accept him as a wife would a husband. He would be difficult to resist if she were judging on st...



  • Mae Nunn

    Texas beauty Claire Savage learned a hard lesson the day her father left to pursue his selfish dreams. Trust no one. Now in possession of an MBA, and the owner of her own business, she felt in control. A woman like her had no use for church newcomer ...



  • Steve Niles; Jeff Mariotte

    FBI Special Agent Andy Gray used to have a grip on things. But that was before the violent confrontation with the terrifying creature that had once been his former partner and friend turned his world upside down. Now Gray is looking for some answers,...



  • Kris Nelscott

    It's 1969 and the city of Chicago is in turmoil. The celebrity trial of the Chicago Eight---charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention---has begun. Protests abound over the trial and the conflict has caught the attention ...



  • Carla Neggers

    An idyllic cottage. An unlikely suicide. A conspiracy out to blow the lid off the Department of Justice. Three months ago Quinn Harlowe left the high-pressure hallways of the Justice Department to become an independent consultant and have more con...



  • Naomi Nash

    Vick Marotti has stopped pretending to cast hexes on her classmates for a relationship with super-adorable Gio Carson. Yet there's one thing she never expected to stand between her and her guy: popularity. Her high school might be the same, but a cha...



  • Lensey Namioka

    Sue Hua just moved from racially diverse Seattle to a suburban white-bread town where she feels like the only Asian American for miles. Then she meets Andy, a handsome and passionate violin player who just happens to be Asian like herself. Sue feels ...



  • Tim Myers

    Benjamin Perkins thought he had his hands full taking care of his family's specialty soap store and keeping his quirky clan in line and out of trouble. But he's about to learn that when it comes to murder, there's no such thing as a clean getaway... ...



  • Tamar Myers

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  • Tamela Hancock Murray

    Katherine Jones has always believed in being loyal to her friends - but that was before she learned that lifelong friend Miranda Henderson has written to Katherine's pen pal, Otis Rath, and misrepresented Katherine's abilities. Now Otis is coming to ...



  • Robert Muchamore

    CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack...



  • Robert J. Mrazek

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  • Pamela Morsi

    THE ROAD AWAY FROM HOME ALWAYS SEEMS TO LEAD BACK TO OUR MOTHERS. I am not, nor will I ever be, the kind of woman who wears pearls with her apron while cooking meat loaf for her husband. But when I was a kid, my mother, Babs, prepared me to be the n...



  • Trish Morey

    Real/fake? Jade Ferraro is a cosmetic surgeon at an elite Beverly Hills clinic. But to Loukas Demakis she's a fraud. Revenge/pleasure? Loukas plans to seduce top secret information from Jade, and then discard her when he's done. Mon...



  • Margaret Moore

    SHE'D ENTRUSTED HER LANDS TO HIS SKILL, BUT HER HEART WAS ANOTHER MATTER... Sir Henry was a knight-errant, capable of impressive prowess on the battlefield...and in bed. Finding two sisters -- one stunningly beautiful, the other steadfast and dete...



  • Eva Moore

    Timeless stories for children and parents to share

    This simple retelling focuses on several moments from Jesus' life and teachings. Incorporating art from the Read and Learn Bible, as well as new pieces, the full-color illustrations bring the ...




  • Sarah Monette
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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 ...



  • Doug Moench

    Debuting as both enemy and ally of the Werewolf by Night, Moon Knight's three personalities equaled one eerie adventure after another by Moench, Miller and more! Earning enemies like the brutal Bushman and the macabre Morpheus early in his career, Mo...



  • Stevi Mittman

    Let me tell you a story about a girl on Long Island, who always tried to play life by "the rules" -- as outlined in the Secret Handbook of Long Island Rules... That girl, uh, woman, is me, Teddi Gallo. I'm the mother of three kids under the age of...




  • Dan Millman

    This prequel to the bestseller, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, isa “spiritual journey [and a] creditable survival -- adventure-coming-of-age story (Booklist).In the heart of nineteenth century Tsarist Russia, an orphaned boy born of both Jewish a...



  • Mil Millington

    Hello. My name is Robert, and I haven’t been dead for sixty-three days now.If he hadn’t bought those crummy towels, Rob would be six feet under. But his poor shopping sense accidentally set off a convoluted chain of events that meant he lived whe...



  • Julie Miller

    Captured! By a bundle of baby. But Dwight Powers couldn't turn his back on the baby abandoned in his office -- or the boy's beautiful guardian, Maddie McCallister. Maddie was desperate to find Tyler's missing mother and Dwight was her designated h...



  • Melanie Milburne

    She was the little rich girl, he was the poor housekeeper's son, and their innocent affair was cruelly crushed. But now Kane Kaproulias has Bryony Mercer in the palm of his hand... She's been bought with cold, hard cash... Kane will take her and h...



  • Sharon Mignerey

    TO: AL_CRANE@CSSENTINEL.ORG FROM: COLLEEN_MONTGOMERY@ CSSENTINEL.ORG Boss, I'm finishing my article about the Vance Memorial Hospital fire. No fatalities, although several people, including firefighter Lucia Vance and visiting wildfire expert...



  • Marliss Melton

    ONE CHANCE Sara Garret thought the military lawyer she married would be the perfect husband and father. But he has become her worst nightmare. Now one vicious act has driven Sara to take their young son and flee. And she discovers that the only thin...



  • Maile Meloy

    From the award-winning author of Half in Love and Liars and Saints, a riveting story of love, sex, secrets, guilt, and forgiveness. Maile Meloy's debut novel, Liars and Saints, captured the hearts of readers and critics alike. Now Meloy returns with...



  • Evan McNamara

    The case that inspired the major motion picture The Frozen Ground. Robert Hansen was never someone you'd call normal. Bullied in his youth, he became a loner with emotional issues. After prison time for arson in his native Iowa, and arrests for shopl...



  • Sean McMullen

    At first Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian thought the huge oval thing that had fallen from the sky was a dragon's egg. When it opened, however, he knew that it was much, much worse. His world was being invaded by pitiless sorcerers from Lupan, who could...



  • Kate McMullan

    When Wiglaf and crew visit the Home for Aged Knights, they think they'll play a few games of medieval Bingo and leave. But it turns out that Grizzlegore, the world's oldest living dragon, is in the neighborhood and stirring up trouble! Can the DSA ki...



  • Suzanne McMinn

    Vengeance, by any means possible. That was PAX agent Cade Brock's mission. To find the man who had killed his parents and caused the mutations that made Cade so valuable to the PAX League. And then, to find the female treasure-hunter-turned-terrorist...



  • Patrick F. McManus

    Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight County, Idaho -- and a fellow who dropped twenty pounds on Atkins -- had been thinking about asking out Jan Whittle, his grade-school sweetheart. Problem is, he's already promised to celebrate his dad's seventy-fifth birth...



  • Adrian McKinty

    With the same poetic lilt and heart-stopping suspense that made Dead I Well May Be a critical favorite, the saga continues with The Dead Yard -- a thriller in which Michael Forsythe must insinuate himself into the good graces of a band of calculating...



  • Jilliene McKinstry

    Devon Kelly thinks it is amusing when her best friend, Patrick, is chosen as the McKenzie Man--the town's most eligible bachelor--by a local magazine. It doesn't bother her that the McKenzie Man Curse is famous for landing every McKenzie Man in holy ...



  • Patricia A. McKillip

    No stranger to the realms of myth and magic, World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia A. McKillip presents her first contemporary fantasy in many years-a tale of the tangled lives mere mortals lead, when they turn their eyes from the beauty and my...



  • Emily McKay

    He was her baby's father. He was her husband. Both statements were true. And false. Jake Morgan's seed had created the baby Kate Bennet was carrying. But she was only the surrogate...until she had the unexpected chance to keep her child. And J...



  • Ami Mckay

    The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of the Rare family. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing and...



  • Jay Mcinerney

    In this bestselling novel, the author of Bright Lights, Big City unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in a powerfully searing work of fiction.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russ...



  • Grant McCrea

    With dialogue reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Elmore Leonard’s works, a ripping pace and a cast of characters you won’t soon forget, Dead Money is a first-rate mystery like no other.When Rick Redman’s infuriating boss puts him on the Jules ...



  • Kelly McClymer

    Gould a forgotten cutie be Katelyn's newest catch? Katelyn Spears is a firm believer in the two-date rule. First dates are so awkward; every guy deserves a second chance. But a third? Not unless he's got serious Romeo potential. Enter Tyler. Ty...



  • Amanda McCabe

    ". . . the Regency house party motif is one of my favourites and from that point-of-view, Amanda McCabe's "A Tangled Web" does not disappoint." ~Tragatt, ReviewerTwelve years ago, young Diana's heart was broken when her father ended her illicit roman...