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  • Queen of Broken Hearts

    Cassandra King

    It's not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she's preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads, on a slice of breathtaking prop...

  • The Story of Me

    Stan Jones

  • Aidan's Chance

    Judi Lynne

    A regular visit for beautiful, strong-willed Kaitlin Wakefield from her English manor to her grandmother's turns dangerous when she leaves her home unescorted and is caught trespassing on Scottish soil. Nothing has prepared Kaitlin for her punishment...

  • Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Volume 1 - This is What They Want

    Warren Ellis

    Collects Nextwave #1-6. Action! Excitement! Explosions! The Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort, or H.A.T.E. (a subsidiary of the Beyond Corporation) put Nextwave together to fight Bizarre Weapons of Mass Destruction. When Nextwave discovers H.A.T.E. and B...

  • Franklin Richards: Lab Brat

    Marc Sumerak

    Move over, Mr. Fantastic - Marvel's First Family has a brand-new star! Franklin Richards finally hits the big time with this collection of all four critically acclaimed Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius one-shots! Join Franklin and his robot pal H.E...

  • Excalibur Classic - Volume 3: Cross-Time Caper - Book 1

    Alan Davis

    England's premier super-team takes their show on the road as their interdimensional odyssey begins, leaving their earthly enemies to the tenacious Technet! Plus: From the pages of Captain Britain's original series, see Jamie Braddock at the begin...

  • The Star to Every Wandering

    David R. George III

    IN A SINGLE MOMENT . . . the lives of three men will be forever changed. In that split second, defined paradoxically by both salvation and loss, they will destroy the world and then restore it. Much had come before, and much would come after, but...

  • Fear Itself

    Michael Reaves

    Batman strikes fear in the hearts of criminals, but there's a killer stalking Gotham who's even better at inspiring fright -- and his method just might be unbeatable . . . because it's invisible. Unbeknownst to the general public, a powerful new d...

  • The Da Vinci Cook

    Joanne Pence

    ANGIE RAISES HOLY HELL Just when dilettante chef Angie Amalfi's checkered culinary career seems to be looking up, she has to drop everything and hightail it to Rome. Her realtor sister Caterina's in a stew--accused of murdering a stranger she foun...

  • Exile

    Aaron Allston

    In the Stars Wars galaxy, evil is on the move as the Galactic Alliance and Jedi order battle forces seen and unseen, from rampant internal treachery to the nightmare of all-out war. With each victory against the Corellian rebels, Jacen Solo become...

  • See No Evil

    Allison Brennan

    A cunning killer hides in plain sight. A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote ou...

  • Killed by Clutter

    Leslie Caine

    A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE. INCLUDING MURDER... At first glance, decorator Erin Gilbert fell in love with the charming little bungalow on a quiet street in Crestview, Colorado. Until she stepped inside. There, eccentric ...

  • The Chick and the Dead

    Casey Daniels

    PEPPER MARTIN HAS A GIFT...AND SHE'D LOVE TO GIVE IT BACK! Ever since the former rich girl-turned-Cleveland cemetery tour guide banged her head on a headstone, she sees dead people. Worse still, she hears them--and they won't shut up! Now it's Did...

  • Ink

    Hal Duncan

    Once, in the depths of prehistory, they were human. But in a moment of brutal transfiguration, they became unkin, beings who possessed the power to alter reality by accessing the Vellum: a realm of eternity containing every possibility, every paradox...

  • Breakfast with the Ones You Love

    Eliot Fintushel

    Meet Lea Tillim, aka Cadaver Dimples, Star of Morgues and Emergency Rooms. Scarecrow thin, with a sharp crew cut and a dead face, Lea's a girl with a talent. She can think you into a heart attack if you cross her -- or, if she's feeling kind, just a ...

  • And Then He Kissed Her

    Laura Lee Guhrke

    Supremely sensible Emmaline Dove wishes to share her etiquette expertise with London's readers, and as secretary to Viscount Marlowe, Emma knows she's in the perfect position to make her dream come true. Marlowe might be a rake with a preference for ...

  • Too Wicked to Tame

    Sophie Jordan

    Would a Reluctant Beauty Ever Wed . . . Headstrong Lady Portia Derring has an impeccable pedigree . . . and not a penny to her name. Which is why she is alone on the rain-swept Yorkshire moor, waiting for a wealthy earl she has never met but whom...

  • The Scent of Shadows

    Vicki Pettersson

    When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was brutally assaulted and left to die in the Nevada desert. By rights, she should be dead. Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset--a grim, secret Sin City where Light batt...

  • Blood Sky at Morning

    Jory Sherman

    Those who inhabit the harsh, beautiful, blood-red land between Tucson and Fort Bowie have never seen the like of the Shadow Rider--who appears out of nowhere and vanishes just as suddenly in the desert heat. Now death and lies surround him again. The...

  • Murder Unfolds

    Sharon Short

    Secrets Spun Dry As her big 3-0 approaches, Josie Toadfern's life seems more or less wrinkle-free. Since the laundromat owner, stain removal expert, and confirmed snoop's local stain-busting column went regional, she's become a true small-town celeb...

  • Games of Command

    Linnea Sinclair

    The universe isn't what it used to be. With the new Alliance between the Triad and the United Coalition, Captain Tasha "Sass" Sebastian finds herself serving under her former nemesis, biocybe Admiral Branden Kel-Paten -- and doing her best to hide a ...

  • Arousing Suspicions

    Marianne Stillings

    Detective Nate Darling has put up with a lot of weird things since he's moved back to San Francisco--healing crystals, free range tofu, the SF Giants. But he's drawing the line at psychic dream interpretations. Tabitha March claims she can see ot...

  • Every Inch a King

    Harry Turtledove

    Otto of Schlepsig is risking his neck as an acrobat in a third-rate circus in the middle of nowhere when news arrives that the land of Shqiperi has invited Prince Halim Eddin to become its new king. Otto doesn't know the prince from Adam, but he does...

  • Warrior Angel

    Margaret Weis

    HE WILL MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH TO SAVE HER... Once a dedicated soldier of the Knights Templar, Derek de Molay was betrayed and killed. So instead of an eternity in Heaven, he has decided to battle the Dark Angels of Hell. But as the war between good ...

  • Tempting Grace

    Sasha White
    in

    What is your most wicked fantasy? Pleasure beckons and satisfaction is guaranteed in seven titillating stories of love that know no boundaries. Surrender to the passion and follow your desires into unexplored realms of sensuous delights. Awaken t...

  • Mimzy and Other Stories

    Henry Kuttner

    THE LAST MIMZY IS THE IDEAL INTRODUCTION TO AN AUTHOR WHO WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME -- AND WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME. These seventeen classic stories create their own unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm...

  • Storm Runners

    T. Jefferson Parker

    Stromsoe was in high school when he met the boy who would someday murder his wife and son ... Once Matt Stromsoe was best friends with brilliant, unpredictable Mike Tavarez. That was before Stromsoe joined the San Diego P.D. and Mike left Harvard ...

  • The Good That Men Do

    Michael A. Martin; Andy Mangels

    Pax Galactica. Enemies become allies. Old secrets are at last revealed. Long-held beliefs and widely accepted truths are challenged. Man turns to leisurely pursuits. In this golden age, two old friends are drawn together. They seek to understand,...

  • Lifeblood

    Hugh Matthews

    Troubled by memory flashes about his time in the Canadian army during World War II, Logan soon discovers that he had been a POW in a Nazi concentration camp, where he had fallen victim to the experimentation of ruthless Nazi scientist Wolfgang von St...

  • X-Rated Bloodsuckers

    Mario Acevedo

    When Felix Gomez returned from the War in Iraq with a disdain for daylight and a raging thirst for blood, he knew he couldn't settle for an ordinary 9-to-5 job. So after his discharge, the newly undead ex-infantryman chose the career that he felt bes...

  • Thrill of the Knight

    Julia Latham

    A lady's deception Lady Elizabeth Hutton will never succumb to the ambitions of a neighboring lord--even after his soldiers imprison the newly orphaned heiress in her own bedchamber. Ever resourceful, the proud beauty has devised a strategy to es...

  • The Marcelli Princess

    Susan Mallery

    Even a strong-willed woman can't resist the temptation of a charming prince. A smart, independent woman with a gorgeous four-year-old son, Mia Marcelli lost her one true love. Four years ago, while working undercover for the CIA, she watched Diego...

  • No Safe Place

    JoAnn Ross

    Chicago homicide detective Kate Delaney fiercely defends victims. Which is why -- despite death threats -- she's testifying to a federal grand jury about local police corruption. It's also why she's infuriated by the New Orleans police department's b...

  • Blood Secrets

    Vivi Anna

    Caine Valorian and his Otherworld Crime Unit crack all the unusual cases before any humans take notice. When a young woman is found ritualistically murdered it's his team of professionals with paranormal gifts who must stop the nameless evil stalking...

  • The Best Catch In Texas

    Stella Bagwell

    They said he had striking looks -- and Nicolette Saddler certainly felt that something had struck her straight in the heart when she first locked eyes with Dr. Ridge Garroway. But Nicolette had had her fill of good-looking, sweet-talking men and ...

  • Crusader's Lady

    Lynna Banning

    Soraya al-Din is a woman bent on revenge. Disguised as a boy, nothing will keep her from her quarry! Marc de Valery is a war-weary knight who has one last duty -- to protect King Richard on his perilous journey back to England. As the sun ris...

  • Shadow Surrender

    Linda Conrad

    He'd dreamed about her Navajo medicine man Lucas Tso had a special gift--psychic powers, coupled with vivid dreams about a mysterious woman. But when he came face-to-face with her, he wasn't prepared for the feelings that stirred within him. FBI a...

  • The Spaniard's Marriage Demand

    Maggie Cox

    From a Spanish seduction... Spanish film director Leandro Reyes's handsome features and commanding presence made women go weak at the knees. But he made Isabella feel as if she was different from all the rest. Only in the cold morning light did ...

  • The Prince's Convenient Bride

    Robyn Donald

    The passionate prince... When Prince Marco Considine sees model Jacoba Sinclair, he wants her... The supercool supermodel... But Jacoba can never surrender to Marco. She fears he'll discover her secret... And a reason for a convenient...

  • A Touch of Grace

    Linda Goodnight

    The moment her sister's body was discovered near Ian Carpenter's New Orleans mission, crusading journalist Gretchen Barker was torn between devastating grief and a desire for revenge. She mourned her sister's drug problems and the family trouble that...

  • Every Kind Of Heaven

    Jillian Hart

    Though she wanted a family of her own, love seemed so unreliable to busy bakery owner Ava McKaslin. Baking and honoring her faith were all she had on her life's to-do list. Until she hired Brice Donovan as her contractor. And her best-laid plans flew...

  • Royally Bedded, Regally Wedded

    Julia James

    From single mom to princess bride-- Lizzy Mitchell has something that Prince Rico Ceraldi wants: she's the adoptive mother of the young heir to the throne of San Lucenzo, Rico's Mediterranean principality! Lizzy will do anything for he...

  • Prom Crashers

    Erin Downing

    Will you go to the proms with me? It was love at first sight for Emily and Ethan. But then Em lost his number and, with it, all the hope of finding a real boyfriend before the end of senior year. All she knows about Ethan is his first name, that ...

  • The Sheikh's English Bride

    Sharon Kendrick

    An English rose ready for plucking? When billionaire playboy Xavier de Maistre discovers he's in line to rule the kingdom of Kharastan, he's not eager to claim his birthright. Until he meets Laura Cottingham, the English lawyer who confirm...

  • Herself

    Leslie Carroll

    Who says sex, politics, religion, and the merits of Star Trek are conversational taboos? The author of PLAY DATES takes all this on, and a little bit more, in a delicious new novel full of New York wit and Irish charm. Forty is fabulous for Tessa Cr...

  • Confessions of a Rookie Cheerleader

    Erika J. Kendrick

    A savvy young music exec for Rockstar Records, Hannah Love has a glamorous apartment and a tight pack of equally fine friends. But luxury and loyalty can't protect her from a broken heart, courtesy of her super-rich fiance. To recover, Hannah acc...

  • Scattered Leaves

    V.C. Andrews

    She was supposed to be hidden away. But when the truth is exposed, she can't stay silent.... After tragedy tears her family apart, Jordan March is shipped off by her domineering Grandmother Emma to live with Emma's long-forgotten sister. ...

  • The Perfect Royal Mistress

    Diane Haeger

    Born into poverty and raised in a brothel, Nell Gwynne sells oranges in the pit at London's King's Theater, newly reopened after the plague and the Great Fire devastated the city. Soon, her quick sense of humor and natural charm get her noticed by th...

  • Goldberg

    Gabriel Josipovici

    At the turn of the eighteenth century, a writer--a Jew--enters an English country manor, where he has been invited to read through the night to his host until the gentleman falls asleep. What unfolds then are seemingly unconnected stories covering a ...

  • The Diagnosis of Love

    Maggie Leffler

    This charming and accomplished novel chronicles a young doctor's journey to heal her own heart -- in a tale that will resonate with every woman who has ever tried to make a new start. Dr. Holly Campbell is trying to outrun the symptoms of her life...

  • Red Weather

    Pauls Toutonghi

    The setting is Milwaukee, Wisconsin--if not America's heart, then at least its liver--home to an array of breweries and abandoned factories and down-on-their-luck Eastern European immigrants. The year is 1989. Revolutions are sweeping through the ...

  • It Had to Be You

    Sarah Webb

    Still-unpublished author Molly Harper would die for a passion like those depicted in the novels sold at Happily Ever After, the bookshop she manages in the Irish village of Burnaby that specializes in romance fiction. And she'd love a boss--any boss-...

  • Ham on Rye

    Charles Bukowski

    In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddle...

  • Snake

    Jeff Stone

    Twelve-year-old Seh is a snake-style master and a keeper of secrets. Close-lipped and ever-watchful, he has used his highly attuned senses to collect information about his brothers, his temple, and even Grandmaster. Now, with the temple and Grandmast...

  • Ms. Coco Is Loco!

    Dan Gutman

    Something weird is going on! It's Poetry Month! And Ms. Coco, who runs the gifted and talented program, is poetry crazy! She cries when she sees a sunset! She thinks boys should have feelings! She talks in rhyme! All the time! Will A.J.'s life ever ...

  • Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters

    Mary Pope Osborne

    It’s a new kind of adventure for Jack and Annie! Join them as they research tsunamis and other natural disasters and find out the facts behind the fiction! Facts -- Photos -- Illustrations -- Definitions -- And Much More! ...

  • Dragon of the Red Dawn

    Mary Pope Osborne

    Merlin the magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to ask for help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania! The brother-and-sister team quickly head off in the magic t...

  • Punk'd and Skunked

    R.L. Stine

    Bernie Bridges has always dreamed about going to PPP -- the exclusive Preppy Prep Prep school. All the kids at PPP are rich, rich, rich! And if there is one thing that Bernie loves it's money, money, money!But how will Bernie get to PPP? All he and h...

  • The Return of Meteor Boy?

    William Boniface

    UH-OH! The super town of Superopolis is hiding a gigantic secret! Years ago, a young superhero named Meteor Boy mysteriously vanished during a dangerous mission. But what really happened to him? NOT ONLY THAT! There may be more to the Meteor Boy sec...

  • The Day My Mother Left

    James Prosek

    Jeremy's whole life changed the day his mother left. When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection ...

  • Beware Killer Tomatoes

    Jeremy Strong

    Jack's in trouble. Big trouble. Not only is he in hospital with a leg in traction (boring) but he knows the police are coming for him. Because of an accident a tomato-related accident involving a supermarket pyramid and an old-age pensioner. Whoops...

  • Thomas' Milkshake Muddle

    Random House

    Each new Thomas DVD creates great excitement. These three stories from the latest release are filled with the same gentle humor and familiar friends as all of the very popular Thomas Picturebacks.First, Thomas is taking milk to the dairy to make ice ...

  • Uh-Oh!

    R. Schuyler Hooke

    Based on an episode of the popular new TV show on Cartoon Network, Harry has accidentally broken Mom's favorite teacup. The dinosaurs suggest taking it to Dino World to fix, but once there, things go from bad to worse. Soon pieces of the cup are stuc...

  • Pirates!

    Jane E. Gerver

    When Robbie Rotten hears that there once was a real pirate in LazyTown, he decides to disguise himself as a pirate in order to make everybody do what he says, in a book where pictures replace specific words....

  • Turtle Tales: An Insider's Guide by Leonardotrade

    Jim Thomas

  • Basilisk 4: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls

    Masaki Segawa

    OF BLOOD AND DESTINY

    The titanic battle between the clans rages on. Akeginu and the blinded Oboro of the Iga clan encounter a powerful aristocrat named Ofuku, who will do whatever it takes to make her godson, Takechiyo, the next Shogun. If Ofu...

  • Suzuka, Volume 3

    Kouji Seo

    WINNERS AND LOSERS

    Everything was going just fine between Yamato and his gorgeous neighbor Suzuka . . . until Yamato opened his big mouth and said the three most dangerous words a guy can utter: “I love you.†Now Suzuka is giving him the s...

  • Love Roma, Volume 5

    Minoru Toyoda

    A LESSON IN LOVE


    Love at first sight doesn’t always last. But it has for Hoshino and Negishi. They’ve made it to their senior year of high school as a couple, and their relationship has only gotten stronger. Now that they’ve learned ...

  • Mamotte! Lollipop, Volume 1

    Michiyo Kikuta

    BOY CRAZY

    Junior high schooler Nina is ready to fall in love. She’s looking for a boy who’s cute and sweetâ€"and strong enough to support her when the chips are down. But what happens when Nina’s dream comes true . . . twice? One day, tw...

  • Negima! Volume 13

    Ken Akamatsu

    NEGI VS. THE THOUSAND MASTER!

    As the “Budókai†Martial Arts Tournament draws to a close, Negi finds himself facing one of his own students, Setsuna, in battle. But after the strange disappearance of Takahata-sensei, and an even stranger c...

  • Defiance

    Don Brown

    JAG Officer Zack Brewster faces another high-profile case... and a mission he hopes will rescue the best part of his past. From a murder in Paris to a courtroom in California to a terrorist camp in the Gobi Desert, Don Brown's follow-up to Treaso...

  • Written on Silk

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    A royal wedding masks the unfolding of Catherine de Medici’s murderous plot against the Huguenots. Will any of the Huguenot princes survive? Life and death rest with two people … Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet, couturiere from a celebrated silk-makin...

  • X-Factor Visionaries: Peter David - Volume 2

    Peter David

    Look back to Multiple Man, Quicksilver, Strong Guy and Wolfsbane's earlier days together as the U.S. government's motley mutants meet murder and mayhem in the Middle East! Then, it's stateside struggles against the Nasty Boys and the Mutant Liberatio...

  • Ghost Rider Team-Up

    Steven Grant

    The Spirit of Vengeance rides roughshod over Spider-Man, the Thing and the rest of the Marvel Universe! The Spider, the Ghost and the soul-stealer who hates them both - who will survive the Carnival of Fear? The Thing vs. the Ghost Rider in Death Rac...

  • Essential Ms. Marvel - Volume 1

    Gerry Conway

    Ms. Marvel's current successes are only the latest in a line of earth-shaking adventures that began in her original series, reprinted here in its entirety! New nemeses like Steeplejack and the Doomsday Man vie for the female fury's attention alongsid...

  • When Bobbie Sang the Blues

    Peggy Darty

    One Woman's Trash Is Another Woman's Mystery... When mystery writer Christy Castleman's Aunt Bobbie storms into town, she brings a burst of wild wind to quiet Summer Breeze, Florida -- and new life to the junk she scavenges for her trash-to-treasu...

  • Time's Child

    Rebecca Ore

    Earth, 2308. Multiple pandemic plagues have ravaged the earth beyond recognition. Working desperately, the Philadelphia National Archives uses a mysterious time machine to bring key members of the past into the future, to save humanity from destroyin...

  • World Leader Pretend

    James Bernard Frost

    Xeres Meticula is a failure. A casualty of the dot-com bust, he now lives in his parents basement and spends all day on one pursuit, winning The Realm. Fortunately hes not alone. Joining him in his world are Gek-Lin, an orphan in Thailand who spends ...

  • Beyond the Gap

    Harry Turtledove

    Count Hamnet Thyssen is a minor noble of the drowsy old Raumsdalian Empire. Its capital city, Nidaros, began as a mammoth hunters camp at the edge of the great Glacier. But that was centuries ago, and as everyone knows, its the nature of the great Gl...

  • Glass Empires

    David Mack
    in

    There are moments glimpsed only in shadow, where darkness rules and evil incarnate thrives. You hope against hope that in your lifetime, evil is relegated to the shadows. But what if it wasn't? What if you lived in a universe where your life was mea...

  • Perfecting Kate

    Tamara Leigh

    Kate's Creed: Thou shalt embrace singledom and be unbelievably, inconceivably happy. YEAH, RIGHT. Kate Meadows is a successful San Francisco artist looking for a nice, solid Christian man. So when not one, but two handsome bachelors enter her o...

  • No Legal Grounds

    James Scott Bell

    How far will a man go to protect his family? Attorney Sam Trask will go farther than he ever dreamed, even in his worst nightmare. Because his worst nightmare is about to come true... At age forty-seven, attorney Sam Trask finally seems to have h...

  • Rex Zero and the End of the World

    Tim Wynne-Jones

    Why does everyone seem so scared? That's what the new boy in town, Rex Norton-Norton, aka Rex Zero, wonders as he rides his bike through Ottawa's streets. Is it spies? Kidnappers? Or is it because of the shadowy creature some say is stalking Adams Pa...

  • Notes from a Spinning Planet -- Papua, New Guinea

    Melody Carlson

    I have to wonder -- if the AIDS crisis in Papua New Guinea is so hopeless, what difference will it make whether Aunt Sid writes a good story about it or not? What difference will it make that I'm here with her? I ask God to do something miraculous fo...

  • The Land of Promise

    Al Lacy; Joanna Lacy

    LAND RUSH! Brit Clairborne, United Cherokee Nation Chief of Police, and his sweet wife, Cherokee Rose, face challenging times. It's 1889, and the Cherokees are being moved onto reservations within the Oklahoma District. The remainder of the land p...

  • Silverboy

    N.M. Browne

    A spellgrinder's apprentice like Tommo rarely survives long enough to become a spellgrinder. Most of them die of the quivers, or from wounds suffered when their turn-knife slips. Working, sleeping and eating in the cellar with magical stones, their s...

  • Spirit Walker

    Michelle Paver

    As the Moon of No Dark waxes large, the clans fall prey to a horrifying sickness. Fear stalks the Forest. No one knows the cause--and only Torak can find the cure. His quest takes him across the sea to the mysterious islands of the Seal Clan. Her...

  • Anything But Ordinary

    Valerie Hobbs

    From the moment their romance begins in eighth grade, Winifred and Bernie are individualists. They pride themselves on being different, and have each other for support through the tough years of high school. So when they consider college, they send o...

  • The Perfect Fit

    Louise Kean

    Sunny Weston always wanted to be perfect . . . and that meant being thin. Now, after what seemed like a million years on the treadmill--and a million miles from the nearest brownie--she finally fits into those slinky black dresses she's been eyeing f...

  • Being Teddy Roosevelt

    Claudia Mills

    Riley O'Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to get a saxophone so he can take instrumental music. His mother can't afford to rent him a sax...

  • Ten Little Wishes

    Andrea Alban Gosline

    Peeking through the trees, gliding over ponds, or cozy in their homes, baby animals are busy at play with their parents. How many can be seen and counted? No matter what the number, all have warm and hopeful wishes for the new baby in the family.<...

  • That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown

    Cressida Cowell

    Emily Brown’s rabbit, Stanley, is NOT FOR SALE.Not even to her Most Royal Highness Queen Gloriana the Third.Not even for all the toys Emily Brown could ever desire.So when naughty Queen Gloriana steals “Bunnywunny†away, Emily Brown sets out to...

  • Meet the Robinsons: The Junior Novel

    Irene Trimble

    When a twelve-year-old genius has his most ambitious project--the Memory Scanner--stolen by the dastardly Bowler Hat Guy, Wilbur Robinson, a boy from the future, whisks Lewis into the future and helps him hunt down Bowler Hat Guy, save the future, an...

  • Me, Myself, and the Bowler Hat Guy

    Annie Auerbach

    Have you always wondered what it's like to be a villain? You'll laugh out loud as Bowler Hat Guy shares the story of how he met Doris, a robotic bowler hat, and became so wonderfully wicked. Sometimes, it's hard being evil.

    ...

  • Nickle Nackle Tree

    Lynley Dodd

    In the Manglemunching Forest there's a Nickle Nackle tree, growing Nickle Nackle berries that are red as red can be. And that's not all that's nestling on the twisty branches of this laden tree. Count up some fabulous Lynley Dodd creations, such as o...

  • Keep Moving Forward

    Katherine Emmons

    Lewis is an inventor . . . but his inventions never seem to work. He's ready to give up when a boy named Wilbur Robinson arrives in a Time Machine and whisks Lewis off to the future. The two boys embark upon an exciting adventure traveling throug...

  • Meet the Robinsons: The Movie Storybook

    Barbara Bazaldua

    Lewis is a brilliant inventor. He puts all his hope in his latest project, the Memory Scanner, a machine that will help him find his birth mother so they can become a family. But when Lewis unveils his invention at the school science fair, things ...

  • Two Sticks

    Orel Protopopescu

    Maybelle wanted SOME drum,
    A kettle, snare, not humdrum,
    A drum-dee-dum-dee-dum drum,
    Oh, any funky fun drum!
     
    But all she has is two sticks - her "tried and trusty true sticks." And so, on tables, chairs, and even her parents' bedro...

  • Meet the Robinsons: A Family for Lewis

    Sadie Chesterfield

  • Journey to the Future

    Apple Jordan

  • Celebrity Secrets

    Nick Redfern

  • Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers

    Megan McDonald

    GROSS ME OUT! STINK-O! SKUNKSVILLE! When Stink goes to the Everybody Stinks exhibit at the science museum, he discovers that his nose has amazing sniffing abilities. Before long, he's engrossed in toilet water, corpse flowers, and all things smelly,...

  • Aunt Dimity Goes West

    Nancy Atherton

    Everyone's favorite sleuth heads to the Rocky Mountains in the twelfth installment of Nancy Atherton's cozy mystery series Lori Sheppard barely survived her last adventure in Scotland before she's off on her next. This time in the mountain town o...

  • Swede Dreams

    Eva Apelqvist

    Swede escape! Calista Swanson has begun her study abroad semester in Stockholm, Sweden, and she couldn't be happier! There's finally some distance between her and the constant piano-playing of her annoying sister Suzanne. Calista and Suzanne are twin...

  • Letters from Wolfie

    Patti Sherlock

    Mark’s dog Wolfie is part malamute, part German shepherd, and all heart. Mark can hardly imagine life without his big, loving canine companion. But in 1969, the Vietnam War is still raging, and when Mark learns that the army needs scout dogs, he de...

  • Darkness Creeping

    Neal Shusterman

    Imagine being trapped forever in someone else’s nightmare, with no means of escape. Or caught on one of the most terrifying roller coasters of all time, when suddenly the tracks ahead just disappear. Enter the world of Darkness Creeping, where holl...

  • The Case of the Booby-Trapped Pickup

    John R. Erickson

    Hank the Cowdog is about to go on the ride of his life! When Slim’s pickup truck breaks down, the ranch ends up with a brand-new model on loan while the old one gets fixed. But a ranch dog like Hank isn’t used to power windows and door locks, and...

  • Good Sports

    Dori Chaconas

    Cork is a short muskrat who likes to win at games. Fuzz is a tall possum who also likes to win at games. Two best friends. Both like to win. What will happen when they play games against each other?...

  • On the Wings of Heroes

    Richard Peck

    The whole world was golden with forsythia in bloom that noontime when Bill walked me home for lunch. He'd come off the morning train with just time to see Mom first. His uniform buttons sparked sunlight, and there was a little strut in his step. I ro...

  • Prom Anonymous

    Blake Nelson

    Chloe Thomas is going to the prom. Of course, she doesn't have a date, she needs a dress, and she's the last person anyone expects to see there. But her two oldest friends asked her to go, and she said yes. Right away things start to fall apart. Laur...

  • Skippyjon Jones Up and Down

    Judy Schachner

    As always, Skippyjon invites readers to join in the magic that comes of a playful imagination. Little ones will learn all the ins and outs with Skippyjon Jones. He goes up and down, back and forth, and over and under. At the end of the day, he’s re...

  • Skippyjon Jones Color Crazy

    Judy Schachner

    Everyone’s favorite kitty boy is ready to color -- Skippy style! Skippy’s sky will be pink. His sun will be blue. As Skippyjon learns his colors and plays with crayons, he invites the very youngest fans to join in the fun. Who knows what color ou...

  • The Runaway Shopping Cart

    Kathy Long

    A typical ride in a shopping cart for Kaleb turns into something extraordinary when the cart rolls out of the store, out onto the streets, and all about town where he is chased by townspeople at each and every turn--ending up safely back where he beg...

  • Mr. Satie and the Great Art Contest

    Tomie DePaola

  • Damage Control

    Robert Dugoni

    Dana Hill is accustomed to stress: she's a successful attorney at a prestigious Seattle law firm, the mother of a young daughter, and the wife of a busy, self-involved man. But her carefully-balanced world is rent asunder when she is diagnosed with b...

  • Suddenly, You

    Shelley Galloway

  • Frontier Fury

    Will Henry

    When Kamiac, a murderous Palouse chieftain, attacks Colonel Stedloe and his troops, declaring war and annihilation of all other tribes, Sergeant Emmett Bell, trained in wilderness fighting, along with his chief of scouts, prepares to fight to the dea...

  • Astonishing X-Men, Volume 3: Torn

    Joss Whedon

    Collects Astonishing X-Men (2004) #13-18. Emma Frost's erratic behavior has the X-Men spinning in a non-stop downward spiral. Will an unlikely union be the final straw? After secretly lying in wait for months, the new Hellfire Club makes its move! Pl...

  • Changing Climate

    Louise Spilsbury; Richard Spilsbury

    'Geography Focus' introduces the most important Key Stage 2 geographical themes. Illustrated throughout, each book looks at how research is carried out which reinforces the pupil's own experience of geographical investigation, and includes case studi...

  • Essential Ghost Rider - Volume 2

    Gerry Conway

    Demons, vampires, cults, actors - nothing's too intense for the Sizzling Cyclist of the Seventies! After mowing down a mob of motorcycling miscreants, the Ghost Rider faces what waits in the Wild West of the Phantom Rider and the Two-Gun Kid! Plus: S...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes, Volume 1

    Marvel Book Group

  • Lost Echoes

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Since a mysterious childhood illness, Harry Wilkes has experienced horrific visions. Gruesome scenes emerge to replay themselves before his eyes. Triggered by simple sounds, these visions occur anywhere a tragic event has happened. Now in college, Ha...

  • Blink Of An Eye

    Rexanne Becnel

    To say that desperation clouded Jane Falgoust's judgment was a colossal understatement. With a hurricane bearing down on New Orleans, the failed nurse-turned-waitress viewed it as an opportunity--to escape her tattered life. But then she saw the dog ...

  • Big Sky Standoff

    B.J. Daniels

    LIKE A SHOWDOWN IN THE OLD WEST...THERE WOULD BE ONLY ONE MAN STANDING WHEN THE DUST CLEARED There was a standoff brewing between Dillon Savage and cattle inspector Jacklyn Wilde. Toe to toe, they were an equal match, but together they were an imp...

  • The Valentine Bride

    Liz Fielding

    How can she begin again when her whole life's a lie? Louise Valentine's just been offered a job. Max Valentine wants to use her famous PR skills to help save the family business. But since discovering she was adopted, Louise is feeling less than c...

  • Trace Evidence In Tarrant County // For Justice and Love

    Delores Fossen

    Sheriff Carley Matheson had her hands full: A sixteen-year-old unsolved murder and a strong hunch that the killer had resurfaced and struck again. As if things couldn't get any worse, the Texas Rangers had sent Sloan McKinney--the one man she'd alway...

  • One Summer In Italy...

    Lucy Gordon

    It was supposed to be just a holiday... But somehow Holly became enchanted by the pleading eyes of a motherless little girl and entranced by the girl's mysterious father, Matteo. Before she knew what was happening, she had been swept away to t...

  • Outback Baby Miracle

    Melissa James

    Wallaby Station, Outback, New South Wales As untamed as the Outback land he masters, cattleman Jake Connors is a mystery to Laila. Something hidden inside him calls to the woman in her, in a way no other man ever has.... In the heart of the Out...

  • Once A Cowboy

    Linda Warren

    Once...And For Always Brodie Hayes is a former rodeo star, now a rancher--a cowboy, through and through. But when he finds out some shocking news about the circumstances of his birth, he begins to question his identity. Luckily, private investigat...

  • The Forbidden Princess

    Day Leclaire

    WHERE'S THE ROYAL BRIDE? Minutes before walking down the aisle, Princess Alyssa Sutherland--possible heir to the Verdonian throne--vanished into thin air. Rumor has it that the lady in question wasn't marrying for love. Did Her Highness catch a ca...

  • Double Deception

    Terri Reed

    Her faith had always been strong enough to see her through tragedy--until Kate Wheeler's world turned deadly. Her husband had been murdered, and the discovery of his double life sent her on the run... into the protective custody of Sheriff Brody McCl...

  • Tantalize

    Cynthia Leitich Smith

    CLASSIFIED ADS: RESTAURANTS SANGUINI'S: A VERY RARE RESTAURANT IS HIRING A CHEF DE CUISINE. DINNERS ONLY. APPLY IN PERSON BETWEEN 2:00 AND 4:00 PM. Quincie Morris has never felt more alone. Her parents are dead, and her hybrid-werewolf first lov...

  • Jacob's Ladder

    Brian Keaney

    Three friends set out in search of their identities -- and a link to their past -- in a provocative adventure that builds to a deeply satisfying ending. Jacob awakens inexplicably in a gray, grim place called Locus, where people his age live in do...

  • Harmless

    Dana Reinhardt

    There was a man. He had a knife. He attacked us down by the river. It was just a harmless little lie. Anna, Emma and Mariah concoct a story about why they're late getting home one night--a story that will replace their parents' anger with conc...

  • Remainder

    Tom Mccarthy

    A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can't quite place. How he goes ...

  • Is the Bitch Dead, or What?

    Wendy Williams

    DJ Ritz Harper used every trick in the book to become a media darling in Drama Is Her Middle Name, shock-jock Wendy Williams's expose of a life she knows better than anyone. Playing a clever trick of her own, Williams left her heroine on the brink of...

  • Willow Run

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    1944Meggie Dillon’s life has been turned upside down by World War II. Her older brother Eddie enlisted and was shipped off to fight in Europe. And people say that anywhere else Grandpa would be turned in because he’s German, and people might thi...

  • Keeper

    Mal Peet

    When Paul Faustino of LA NACION flips on his tape recorder for an exclusive interview with El Gato -- the phenomenal goalkeeper who single-handedly brought his team the World Cup -- the seasoned reporter quickly learns that this will be no ordina...

  • Junie B., First Grader: Dumb Bunny!

    Barbara Park

    It's an Easter Egg-stravaganza! Lucille is having an Easter Egg Hunt at her rich expensive mansion! And guess what? The winner gets a play date to swim in Lucille's heated indoor swimming pool! Only, here is the problem. How did Junie B. get stuck w...

  • Hugo Pepper

    Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    A brilliantly inventive, fabulously illustrated addition to the Far- Flung Adventures series from the award-winning, bestselling author andillustrator team Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Set in the same world as the Fergus Crane and Corby Flood stor...

  • Into the Darkest Corner

    Elizabeth Haynes

    Catherine Bailey has been enjoying the single life long enough to know a catch when she sees one. Gorgeous, charismatic and spontaneous, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. And her friends clearly agree, as each in turn falls under his spell. ...

  • Jane and the Dragon

    Martin Baynton

    A feisty heroine who’d rather joust than sew seeks out her own adventures in these magical fairy tales for today’s young readers.

    Jane longs to be a knight, but everyone laughs at her. Everyone, that is, except the court jester, who lends ...

  • Disney's the Lion King Storybook and CD

    Disney Book Group

    When a young lion cub, Simba, loses his father, he is forced to flee by his nefarious uncle. He finds unlikely friends in Timon, a meerkat, and Pumbaa, a warthog. With the help of his new pals and his childhood friend, Nala, Simba returns to the P...

  • Disney's the Little Mermaid Storybook and CD

    Disney Book Group

    When the daring mermaid princess, Ariel, rescues the human Prince Eric from drowning, she falls in love with him. The little mermaid trades her voice to the scheming sea witch, Ursula, for the chance to visit the prince. Unless Eric falls in love w...

  • Wedgewood Grey

    John Aubrey Anderson

    John Aubrey Anderson continues the compelling story of the conflict between the physical and spirit worlds played out in the lives of Missy Parker and Mose Washington. When Mose Washington comes to the aid of a brutally attacked black woman in th...

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Bill Cain

  • Curse of the Holy Pail

    Sue Ann Jaffarian

    It's just a %$&# lunch box! Probably reeks of sour milk seasoned with rust. At least, that's what Odelia Grey thinks when millionaire Sterling Price shows her the crown jewel of his lunchbox collection. So why are people willing to cheat, lie, steal,...

  • Wintermaejic

    Terie Garrison

    In this captivating sequel to AutumnQuest, Donavah is learning to control her vast maejic powers under the tutelage of Yallick, a revered mage. Maejic is outlawed in Alloway, and dreadful news of the Royal Guard drives the majes―along with Xyla the...

  • Ambergate

    Patricia Elliott

    I am the girl with no name. I have a number branded on my left arm, but no name. . . .I have a secret. A secret I must never tell. . . .I committed a crime. I did something so wicked I must never speak of it. If I did, they would come after me. T...

  • Priscilla Superstar!

    Nathaniel Hobbie

    Reminiscent of Dr. Seuss and Hilary Knight, here is a third clever read-aloud starring Priscilla.After she tries out for the lead part in her rollerskating school's upcoming play and is disappointed, Priscilla learns what it really means to be a star...

  • Sweet Nothings

    Kol

  • Spider-Man: Reign

    Kaare Andrews

    Collects Spider-Man: Reign #1-4. In the future, a cold and hostile Manhattan has long ago traded freedom for security, imposed by the brutal soldiers of the Reign. But the long-vanished hero is a tired old man now. Can Peter Parker rediscover his onc...

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 12: Hard Lessons

    Brian K. Vaughan

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #58-60 & Annual #1. Storm & Wolverine travel to the Great White North, but find an all-new threat to the Ultimate Universe…Lady Deathstrike! Plus, witness the return of Ultimate Juggernaut! Only two small things sta...

  • Marvel Team-Up - Volume 4: Freedom Ring

    Robert Kirkman

    An all-new hero is introduced into the Marvel Universe, but is the world ready for Freedom Ring? And what does all this have to do with a reality-altering ring crafted from broken shards of the cosmic cube? Featuring Wolverine, Cable, Captain America...

  • Ultimate Annuals - Volume 2

    Charlie Huston

    In Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual #2, something strange has happened at Nursery Two, the Baxter Building's Think Tank counterpart in Oregon. It's disappeared, seemingly swallowed up by the earth itself! And if you think that heralds the return of the...

  • Marvel Romance Redux: Another Kind of Love

    Jeff Parker

    Continuing the noble pursuit of taking funny old pictures and putting funny words on top of them! We've asked some of the funniest writers in comics today to look at the romance comics of yesteryear and put in some new dialogue that'll make us laugh!...

  • Step on a Crack

    James Patterson; Michael Ledwidge

    From America's favorite thriller writer, James Patterson, comes his most sensational hero yet--Detective Michael Bennett, NYPD. The first lady was only the first victim. After her mysterious death, the world's most powerful people gather in New York ...

  • Fever-Hot Dreams

    Jaci Burton

    Jaci Burton Dream On When her husband Jack disappeared five years ago, Katie McKay was devastated - left only to dream about the passionately erotic nights they spent together. So when Jack reappears one night without any explanation, looking as irre...

  • Under Cover of Darkness

    Julie E. Czerneda

    FOURTEEN ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES OF SECRET AGENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE LEFT THEIR MARK ON TIME AND SPACE... From the true role of the Freemasons to Chronographers who steal pieces of time to an assassin hired by a group that reweaves the th...

  • Night Rising

    Chris Marie Green

    WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD -- AFTER DARK... Stuntwoman Dawn Madison is a girl with a lot of attitude. And a lot of issues, mostly about living up to the legacy of her mother, a world-famous movie star and sex symbol, whose untimely death left Dawn to be r...

  • Meow is for Murder

    Linda O. Johnston

    Kendra Ballantyne, Esq., has her life back on track. Her license to practice law has been rightfully restored. She's dating Jeff Hubbard, the foxiest P.I. in all of L.A. Best of all, she's still moonlighting as a pet-sitter. And those cuddly clients ...

  • The Dream Hunter

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    IN THE ETHEREAL WORLD OF THE DREAM-HUNTERS Condemned by the gods to live eternity without emotions, Arikos can only feel when he's in the dreams of others. For thousands of years, he's drifted through the human unconscious, searching for sensation. N...

  • Hell Hath No Curry

    Tamar Myers

    Three days before he's due to tie the knot with Priscilla Livingood, eligible bachelor Cornelius Weaver suffers a massive heart attack -- in another woman's bed. The scandal is about as good as television for the insular citizens of Hernia, Pennsylva...

  • Death Valley Demons

    Jon Sharpe

    The valley of death just got worse…Skye Fargo is riding through Death Valley when he comes across two bullet-riddled men. One lives long enough to point Fargo towards a cabin where an ex-federal marshal and his family lay butchered. But a prospect...

  • Sheer Pleasure

    Maggie Shayne

    In "Daydream Believer," a clairvoyant haunted by visions of a mysterious stranger finds herself drawn to a lawman with a psychic gift of his own. But it will take more than a glimpse of the future to save her from a killer-it will take the man of her...

  • Napoleon's Pyramids

    William Dietrich

    What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids? The world changes for Ethan Gage -- one-time assistant to the renowned Ben Franklin -- on a night in post-revolutionary Paris, when he wins a mysterious medallion in a card game. Framed soon afte...

  • Siren's Call

    Lori Wilde
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    Annie never forgot her first love or the day he pushed her away. But she's back in town and he plans to win her over. What girl could resist a handsome Scotsman to guide her on a treasure hunt?...

  • Fever Moon

    Carolyn Haines

    With Penumbra, Carolyn Haines branched out from the cozy Southern mysteries that made her name and into more serious territory. With her next literary crime novel, she moves to 1944 New Iberia, Louisiana, where Henri Bastion, a wealthy plantation own...

  • The Water Thief

    Ben Pastor

    Summer, 304 AD. Aelius Spartianus, historian and envoy, is researching the nearly two hundred year-old unsolved drowning of Emperor Hadrians male favorite, Antinous. Soon he finds himself embroiled in murder and mystery involving a lost letter by Had...

  • By Slanderous Tongues

    Mercedes Lackey; Roberta Gellis

    BY SLANDER...OR BY DARKEST SORCERY Great Harry is dead and in the dark pool that holds Visions for the FarSeers of the Bright Court and the Dark, the images change and waver. A pale, thin girl sometimes wears a crown and sometimes has no head. B...

  • Ground to a Halt

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the patrons happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam si...

  • Tongue In Chic

    Christina Dodd

    GETTING IN WAS THE EASY PART.... How can one little lie land Meadow Szarvas in such trouble? Sure, Devlin Fitzwilliam catches her breaking into his mansion to steal a priceless painting. And, yes, in sheer desperation she tells him she has amnesia...

  • Causing Havoc

    Lori Foster

    Sexy, sculpted extreme fighter Dean "Havoc" Conor has knee-melting good looks--and thick skin. But not from. his brutal sport's enclosed rings. Orphaned and torn from his sisters as a boy, he has no family. That is, until he gets a letter revealing h...

  • Strangled

    Brian McGrory

    Deadly and deep-seated political conspiracies are nothing new to Jack Flynn, the popular lead reporter of the Boston Record. But in Strangled, he finds himself in the middle of a case that everyone thought had closed forty years ago -- the Boston Str...

  • Moon Awakening

    Lucy Monroe

    Bestselling author Lucy Monroe introduces an enthralling new romantic tale that pushes the boundaries between love and hate, passion and pain--and man and beast... When Emily Hamilton's family is ordered to send a woman to the Scottish Highlands f...

  • Chasing Stanley

    Deirdre Martin

    What do a New York City dog trainer and a pro hockey player have in common? They both love Stanley, an adorable but naughty Newfoundland... When dog trainer Delilah Gould spots a rambunctious Newfoundland disobeying orders, she can't help but ste...

  • Remember to Forget

    Deborah Raney

    One morning changed everything about her life But could it also set her free? Maggie Anderson Graphic designer Maggie Anderson has lived under her boyfriend's tyranny for nearly two years...until she's carjacked in New York. Will this te...

  • In Another Man's Bed

    Francis Ray

    When Justine walks in on her husband with another woman, she flees their cabin, promising a swift divorce. Andrew pursues her in his car, intending to get his wife back. But when his car goes over a cliff, hours later Justine is looking down at her c...

  • Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakthrough

    Isabel Sharpe

    Welcome to Kettle, Wisconsin, a town where everyone knows nothing bad ever happens. Enter Lorelei Taylor--notorious, glamorous, and hot off a not-guilty murder verdict that stunned the nation. To the women of Kettle, bad things seem suddenly inev...

  • Ritual

    Alex Duval

    The A-list bites. Jason Freeman has gotten used to the fact that beneath its glamorous surface, DeVere Heights is full of unexpected secrets. And vampires. Then just when he thinks he's golden, he's attacked. With a crossbow. At first the attention...

  • Lose Yourself

    Kendall Adams

    I broke up with my boyfriend because he was cheating on me. Now he's come begging for forgiveness and wants to take me to the prom. I never imagined sharing that night with anyone but him . . . until I looked around and realized how many other hot pr...

  • Good Things

    Mia King

    A charming debut novel about a lifestyle maven who learns that living simply isn't simple. Deidre McIntosh became famous teaching women to live simply, and simply live-ironic for a woman who thrives on the chaos of a television career, and shares...

  • Mr. Thundermug

    Cornelius Medvei

    Mr. Thundermug is the inventive, entertaining, and--against all odds--poignant story of an animal who acquires the ability to eloquently speak human language. Using his own beautiful, eerie lithograph illustrations, Cornelius Medvei places us in a vi...

  • An Irish Country Doctor

    Patrick Taylor

    Barry Laverty, M.D., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he would rather live than in the emerald hills and dales of Northern Irelan...

  • A Wolf in the Fold

    David Robbins

    A KILLER BORN When it comes to taking lives, Lucius Stark is just about the meanest mongrel who ever aimed a gun in west Texas. For him, killing means making money, and if the price is right, he'll do the job. But even the hardest of men has a soft ...

  • Little Ghetto Girl

    Danielle Santiago

    After a successful life in the drug game, twenty-one-year-old Kisa Kane plans to retire -- settle down, find a good man, and raise a family of her own. Done with the thug life, she has everything a ghetto girl would want: plenty of money, drop-dead-g...

  • The Best of the Best, Volume 2

    Gardner Dozois

    For more than twenty years The Year's Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005 the original Best of the Best coll...

  • Wildfire

    Chris Ryan

    Ben gets the chance for a trip of a lifetime when his mum is invited to attend a big conference in Australia. In the midst of a drought, it's hot. And it's dry. Drier than it's been for years. And it only takes a spark to set off a fire... As world l...

  • Celebrity Skin

    Liane Bonin

    Two high school students, one a major television star and the other under constant academic pressure from her Korean-born parents, remain best friends in spite of loss, love, and the spotlight. Original....

  • Who's Who?

    Quinlan B. Lee

  • Wish You Were Here!

    Sonia Sander

    Readers can turn the wheel to complete the letters sent home by the VeggieTales, as each vegetable participated in a different activity during their travels, which include camping, skiing, and going to an amusement park....

  • Ruby

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

  • Saving Finnegan

    Sally Grindley

  • The Italian's Inexperienced Mistress

    Lynne Graham

    Angelo Riccardi didn't fo love. Because he'd been denied it a long time ago... When Angelo sought revenge Gwenna Hamilton added another, delicious dimension. Innocent and pretty, she had no chance when the Italian tycoon offered her the de...

  • Principles of Desolation

    Randall N. Bills

    When her mission ends in defeat and disgrace, Danai Liao-Centrella is assigned a battalion of her own as well as a new battlefield where she discovers that guarding the Capellan Confederacy takes precedence over everything in her life, even her own f...

  • Carolina Mist

    Mariah Stewart

    REUNITED AFTER YEARS APART, CAN TWO KINDRED SPIRITS REKINDLE THE PASSION OF THEIR FIRST LOVE? Since the age of nineteen, Abigail McKenna has been on her own. Working hard to fulfill her dream of professional success and financial security, Abby ha...

  • White Lies

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    The bestselling author of All Night Long and Falling Awake takes us beyond the everyday boundaries of the mind--and the heart--in a compulsively readable new novel of power, deception and danger. Level-ten parasensitive Clare Lancaster has resigne...

  • The Mosaic Crimes

    Giulio Leoni

    Florence, June 1300. The body of an artist, his face covered in quicklime, is discovered next to the mosaic he had almost completed. Dante Alighieri, the newly appointed prior of the city of Florence (and the man who will one day write that exhaustiv...

  • The Collaborator of Bethlehem

    Matt Beynon Rees

    For decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favorite former pupil, George Saba, a member of the Palestinian Christian minority, is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis in the killing of a Palest...

  • Water Like a Stone

    Deborah Crombie

    Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner, Sergeant Gemma James, take their sons to picturesque Cheshire for their first family Christmas with Duncan's parents -- a holiday both dreaded and anticipated. But not even the charming town of...