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  • Marcus Galloway

    After killing a man, Caleb Wayfinder, who once believed that the world was his for the taking, goes on the run, encountering the notorious Doc Holliday, who, recognizing him as a fiery tempered quick draw, takes him under his wing and turns him into ...



  • Howard Mittelmark

    This house has a terrifying history... Once upon a time, a group of student radicals found a leader, and followed him beyond all reason.Years before that, in the same house, a prophet was visited by an angel, and followed it to a horrible end. ...



  • 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...



  • Steve Berry

    "You have something I want. You're the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don't hear from you, you will be childless." Cotton Malone's teenage son has been kidnapped, and an anonymous e-mail from those...



  • Gillian Roberts

    Barring the usual teenage pranks, all seems peaceful at Philly Prep, the private school in Philadelphia where Amanda Pepper teaches English. No doubt the money that appears to be missing from funds collected to aid victims of a catastrophic hurricane...



  • David Hagberg

    A swarm of terrorist activity has put the United States on its most heightened alert level since September 11, 2001 Investigations into each of these seemingly unrelated acts uncover the same cryptic codeword: Allah's Scorpion. Former CIA Director K...



  • Timothy Zahn

    Never before has the incendiary mix of action, politics, and intrigue that has become Timothy Zahn's trademark, been mmore evident that in this new Star Wars epic. On the heels of the stunning events chronicled in Star Wars: A New Hope, the newly min...



  • Barry Jonsberg

    Calma Harrison is in love. Not just with herself, but also with the handsome checkout guy at Crazi-Cheep. So stocking shelves at the Crazi- Cheep seems like the perfect job--until that annoying customer tries to hold up the store. . . . And then t...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Keith Dixon

    Michael Jacobs, a talented but obscure New York City filmmaker, has just watched his third film flop at the box office. With few options available, Jacobs is tempted by the prospect of easy cash when Sebby Laslo, his producer, makes a one-time offer....



  • Katherine O'Neal

    Mason Caldwell is not who she claims to be. For one thing, she is alive and well. As a masquerade her life is a masterpiece. And only Richard Garrett has the power to expose the truth... The Art Of Seduction Frustrated by the world's indiff...



  • Penny Culliford

    Nothing much ever happens in Monksford. Even so, reporter Jemma Durham dreams of the story that will take her from the small Monksford Gazetteto a national newspaper. Then the town revives the tradition of the medieval mystery plays that were perform...



  • Jill A. Davis

    Emily has a tendency to live with one foot out the door. When her mother dramatically announces, "They've found a lump," Emily gladly leaves behind her career, her boyfriend, and those pesky, unans­werable questions about who she is and what she's d...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Candy Calvert

    ER nurse Darcy Cavanaugh is sailing the high seas again--this time for a wedding cruise. The wedding party includes raucous firefighters with a taste for practical jokes and raunchy ties. Leagues away from "The Love Boat," it promises to be a wild ri...



  • Maureen O'Brien

    Hillary Birdsong's idyllic New England childhood is brought to a sudden halt by the death of her beloved older brother. Brokenhearted and emotionally abandoned by her mother, Hillary consoles herself with city boy Miles, and at sixteen finds herself ...



  • Bronwyn Jameson

    THE PRICE OF PASSION Years ago, Max Fortune had a sizzling summer affair with Diana Fielding-Young that she'd ended without warning. Now the embittered Australian millionaire was tormented by memories when he returned to South Dakota and locked eyes...



  • Jan Ormerod

    A beautifully illustrated early chapter book about two sisters who love ballet--now in paperback!

    Little Sylvie likes to dress up and dance in the garden with her big sister. Sylvie wants to be a ballerina, too. Sylvie wants to be just like he...



  • Dee Lillegard

    When balloons fill the town and all the kids choose their favorite one, preschoolers can follow them throughout the town and see where they go during their fun-filled day, in a bright picture book with full-color illustrations....



  • 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...



  • Margot Early

    Jen Delazzeri never expected to see Max Rickman again. Their brief but intense affair was a mistake: they were young and he was grief stricken at losing his fiancee in a fire. Besides, he'd told Jen he didn't love her. All good reasons she'd kept the...



  • Bridie Clark

    Life is really looking up for Claire Truman. In a New York minute, she lands a plum job at a top publishing house, catapulting her out of editorial assistant status and tripling her salary. In the same stroke of good luck, Claire goes from loser magn...



  • 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...



  • Savannah Russe

    No one can tell that Daphne Urban is a vampire. But the government knows-and she's been recruited to spy for them. To get over a recent break-up, Daphne must throw herself into her work, joining her colleagues to chase down a ruthless enemy. Mysterio...



  • Bob Morris

    A young scuba guide, scouting new dive sites in the shipwreck-laden reefs that rim Bermuda, makes a fatal discovery: A treasure more valuable than gold or jewels. And some people are willing to kill for it. Enter Zack Chasteen, knockabout palm-tree f...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Michael Winter

    Michael Winter's The Big Why takes the tradition of the historical novel and twists it into the cool, sinuous, entertaining shape we've all been waiting for. His characters are real and from the past, but the lives they live feel contemporary and em...



  • Pamela Morsi

    "I just bought us a B&B on eBay!" While Emma Collins wonders who in their right mind would use her hard-won divorce settlement to purchase a bed-and-breakfast down in the Ozarks, her free-spirited sister Katy fantasizes dreamily about how this mo...



  • Bob Reiss

    A plague that will cause the death of millions. A plague that will destroy countries. A plague that will plunge the world into a dark age. A plague that will make nobody sick... When the first planes go down -- in Europe, in California, in Asia ...



  • Heidi Betts

    "I'LL EXPECT YOU TO SLEEP WITH ME." Businessman Chase Ramsey's audacious terms should have offended her, but Elena Sanchez had no choice. To save her family's business, she'd have to become Chase's mistress. Chase had waited years to avenge wha...



  • 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 ...



  • Kristin Harmel

    Do gentlemen really prefer blondes? Harper is the youngest attorney in her firm to make partner and, at thirty-five, the oldest one to remain unmarried. It seems the more successful she gets, the faster men run for the door. What to do? Apply her ve...



  • Patricia Briggs

    Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings. In return, the average law-abiding, solid citizen has little to worry about from the things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I wish I was an aver...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Asa Larsson

    It's midsummer in Sweden--when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priest--who made enemies and acolytes in equal number--has been f...



  • Amy Keating Rogers

    The latest show from the creator of The Powerpuff Girls is a smash hit! "An admirable tale of loyalty and adventure-based learning with a contagious sense of fun." -The New York Times

    Welcome to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, an orphanag...



  • Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    The year is 1817. In Switzerland, the Count Saint-Germain leads a comfortable life with his paramour Hero whose husband died fighting Napoleon. Saint-Germain's loving kindness cannot keep Hero from missing her children who are being raised by their h...



  • Raye Morgan

    Expecting the CEO's baby... Working for her heart-stoppingly handsome boss shouldn't have been so hard, but could Callie Stevens let her attraction get the best of her when he asked her to have his baby? Of course, love wouldn't enter ...



  • Nalini Singh

    A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL... How else to describe the pact Jessica Randall had made with wealthy New Zealand rancher Gabe Dumont? In exchange for marriage and an heir, he would save her family property. The agreement was calculating, completely devoid...



  • Amy Knupp

    Rundles and Salingers don't mix. Not since the tragic accident involving Zach Rundle's brother and Lindsey Salinger's mother. But when the well-being of Zach's five-year-old nephew is at stake, Zach and Lindsey are dragged together again. At first...



  • 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 ...



  • Penni Russon

    Six months have passed since Undine discovered the powerful magic within her and very nearly threw the entire world into chaos. Life has gone back to normal--almost. The magic still swirls relentlessly below her surface, demanding that she break her ...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Handsome but cynical Ethan was hardly a believer in Aislinn Flaherty's special "gifts." And despite her attraction to him, the full-time cake maker/part-time psychic vowed to ignore Ethan. Really. Until she started having "feelings" about his lon...



  • Cecilia Samartin

    In Broken Paradise Cecilia Samartin offers heart wrenching insight into the tender balance between hope and grief that shapes the immigrant heart and exposes the struggles of everyday people amid political turmoil. Cuba, 1956: Cousins Nora and A...



  • Peter Temple

    Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won't be long before he is recognized as what he really is--one of the nation's finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of l...




  • 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...



  • Andre Aciman

    Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' house, a cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Susan Page Davis

    Edward Hunter has been shipwrecked and marooned on a desert island for four years. He finally returns home and finds changes everywhere. His native Maine is now a state. His beloved father is dead, and Edward now owns the shipping company. And his fi...



  • Norman Mailer

    The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Ad...



  • 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...




  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Nora Gallagher

    Nora Gallagher's elegant debut novel, Changing Light, is a love story set in Los Alamos during the summer of 1945, in the shadow of the creation of the first atomic bomb. During the last summer of the war, in the beautiful New Mexico desert, a man...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Michelle Yu; Blossom Kan

    Set in New York City, China Dolls is the irresistible story of three best friends from childhood--each an unforgettable Asian woman--tackling their late twenties over drinks, laughs, and dim sum: M.J., a sportswriter struggling to fit into her fam...



  • Julie Carobini

    Even a laid-back beach girl has her doubts. Bri Stone has it all: the man of her dreams and their surf-ridin' teenage son, a chocolate-loving best pal, an adorable beach bungalow, and a kicky job as a Southern California tour bus host. She also has a...



  • Jay MacLarty

    WHEN HIGH-RISK COURIER SIMON LEONIDOVICH IS DRAWN INTO A GAME OF INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE IN THE NEW GAMING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, THE ODDS ARE STACKED AGAINST HIM LIKE NEVER BEFORE. While overseeing the frenzied but suspiciously troubled construct...



  • James Axler

    The baronial civilization that ruled postapocalyptic America stands on the threshold of a much more sinister plot: the complete domination of Earth. These oppressors are determined to relegate humanity to the status of slavery, and crush the nascent ...



  • P.B. Kerr

    Djinn twins John and Philippa Gaunt are on the trail of another magical mystery. As they travel from New York to London to Nepal to India on a whirlwind adventure, the twins try to help their friend Dybbuk find out who murdered his best friend using ...



  • Jenna Ryan

    IS NICK LAW MAN ENOUGH TO SOLVE THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL -- THE HEART? For Nick, the case of the Snow Globe Killer had grown as cold as the snow-covered Colorado mountains. Then architect Sasha Myer came to town--fitting the profile of every ...



  • 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...



  • Michael Norman

    Levi Vogue, Chairman of the powerful Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, is gunned down in the driveway of his home as he returns from a late evening tryst with Sue Ann Winkler, an exotic dancer employed in a Salt Lake City strip club. Sam Kincaid, ...



  • Dennis Bock

    The historical Norman Bethune--legendary in both his native Canada and China--was a visionary whose dedication touched millions, and as the narrator of this novel he springs to vivid life even as he approaches its end. Rebelling in childhood against ...



  • Alex Tyson

    After her father leaves, stranding her mother with six children, sixteen-year-old Jackie Smalls discovers that she is pregnant, and with no one to turn to after the baby's father denies paternity, she meets a loving guy who vows to take care of her, ...



  • 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...



  • Cordelia Frances Biddle

    Intrigue, passion, and murder surround the suspicious disappearance of famed Philadelphia financier Lemuel Beale in the winter of 1842. As his daughter and only child, Martha searches for her father. She begins to develop a romantic attachment to Tho...



  • Clare Langley-Hawthorne

    The stunning first novel in a new Edwardian mystery series featuring the young heiress Ursula Marlow An Oxford graduate, an aspiring journalist, and a devoted suffragette, Ursula Marlow is no ordinary Belgravian heiress. Despite her father's insi...



  • Tobias Druitt

    In this second book in the Corydon trilogy, trouble has invaded the Island of Monsters once again. The peace-loving Minotaur has beenkidnapped! Signs suggest he's been taken to the city of Atlantis, and so Corydon and his fellow monsters set sail to ...



  • Karen Rose

    1, 2 I'M COMING FOR YOU. In all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday has never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires--devastating, vicious, and, in one case, homicidal. He has another problem--hi...



  • Natasha Oakley

    The Andovarian royal family is mourning the untimely death of the king. An urgent summons orders the return of the heir -- His Serene Highness Crown Prince Sebastian II.... Just as Seb had tasted normal life, he was forced to do his duty. Accep...



  • 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...



  • Rachel Cohn

    When Cyd Charisse moves from San Francisco to start a new life in New York City, she leaves behind her family -- and her true love, Shrimp. She wants to find a cool job, the city's best caffeination and most perfect cupcake, and a hot new love. But ...



  • 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,...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Linda Cardillo

    My love for you grows day by day and nothing can stop it, not even the anger and disapproval of your family... Reading these words, written to her grandmother decades before, Cara Serafini finally learns the great secret, the triumph, of Giulia's ...



  • Mayra Montero

    Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, ...



  • Debra Webb

    One million dollars...or else For team owner Buck Buchanan every day at the Huntsville track is a rush. The noise. The dirt. The roar. The furor. NASCAR's golden boy has only one regret: Jenna Williams. Not that he blames her for ditching him twelve...



  • Linda Ford

    Darcy Hagen has inherited more than an old house from her estranged father. She now has joint guardianship of her half-sister, Amy. While excited about being part of the girl's life, Darcy dreads cooperating with Amy's big brother, Blake. She's never...



  • Justine Davis

    A face that haunted her dreams... Security agent Reeve Fox had never wanted to see Zack Westin again. Their mutual attraction had caused trouble the moment they met. And the last time she saw him was the most traumatic day in both their lives--he ...



  • 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...



  • Christopher L. Bennett

    Mere Anarchy A new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trek ® history, continuing with an adventure that takes place between The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan ! Book 4: The Darkness Drops Again The rebuilding of Mestiko is startin...



  • 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 ...



  • Karen MacInerney

    In this delicious follow-up to Murder on the Rocks, ruthless developers, annoying guests, a new ghost, and a former fiancé are stirring things up on Cranberry Island -- not to mention the cold-blooded murderer on the loose. Between baking bars and f...



  • Brenda Novak

    The Reverend Lee Barker went missing nineteen years ago... And the people of Stillwater, Mississippi, believe they know why. They're convinced he was murdered--by his stepson, Clay Montgomery. But only Clay--and his mother and sisters--can say for...



  • Allen Wyler

    Brain Surgery or Murder? When brain surgeon Russell Lawton is abducted at gunpoint by terrorists, he's sure there's a mistake: how could he be useful to them? To his horror, he learns they have kidnapped his only child, eight-year old Angela. Unle...



  • Beverly Connor

    Beverly Connor's "fabulous forensic investigation series" (Books 'n' Bytes) featuring forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon proves that the past is never really forgotten -- and that some memories can kill.... As a young girl, Juliet Price witnessed ...



  • Amanda Ashley

    IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT The city is in a panic. In the still of the night, a vicious killer is leaving a trail of mutilated bodies drained of blood. A chilling M.O. that puts ex-vampire hunter Regan Delaney on the case, her gun clip packed with ...



  • Michael Laimo

    When Johnny Petrie inherits an estate from a man he's never heard of before, he knows he can finally escape the hell of living with his religious zealot mother and drunken father. He doesn't realize that the hell he is moving into will be far, far wo...



  • Don Pendleton

    DEATH SPIRAL A ten-year-old mass execution in Bosnia has suddenly resurfaced to haunt the perpetrators. Members of an association of businessmen, which included Americans, who were willing to get their hands bloody for profit are mysteriously dyin...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • C.J. Cherryh

    THE PRODIGY In the aftermath of civil war, the world of the atevi is still perilously unstable. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to their seat of...



  • Kevin Ryan

    The United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire stand on the brink of war. Captain James T. Kirk and the Starship Enterprise™ are sent back to System 7348 -- site of a previous skirmish with the Klingons -- for a confrontation with the I.K.S....



  • Jon Sharpe

    Fargo chases down a Celestial star.After going bust in a San Francisco Fargo poker game, Fargo is desperate for cash.  So when a Chinese gentleman offers him a thousand dollars to find the man's missing daughter, Fargo reluctantly agrees. But hi...



  • Howard Norman

    Like many of Howard Norman’s celebrated novels, this intense and intriguingly unconventional love story begins with a crime. David Kozol has assaulted his father-in-law on a London street. What could possibly enrage David enough that he would strik...



  • 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...



  • Octave Mirbeau

    Passionate, calculating, only sometimes honourable but always honest, Celestine is one of the great female characters in literature. Rhoda Koenig in The Sunday Times The Diary of a Chambermaid was written as a satire of Parisian society in the wake ...



  • 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 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...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    Straight-Arrow M.D. Meets Shoot-From-The-Hip Lady Cop And they are so wrong for each other! Russ McKenzie knows they are so wrong for each other the first time he runs afoul of Rachel Byers and stares down the barrel of her gun. But when the to...



  • Maryjanice Davidson

    In these two wickedly funny, sexy novellas, MaryJanice Davidson introduces the sort of lovers who'll steal everything...your wallet, your keys, your inhibitions, and sometimes even your heart. THIEF OF HEARTS There's never a dull night in the ER...



  • Michael Parker

    These eleven arresting, comic, and moving stories by acclaimed writer Michael Parker testify to the driving force of love, the lengths to which we'll go to claim it and pursue it, the delusions we'll float to keep it going, the torment that goes part...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Ilsa J. Bick

    When several planets are left to fend for themselves, becoming pawns in a deadly game of territorial sovereignty, Katana Tormak, a warlord of Dieron, must join forces with the Combine's coordinator to gain control of these worlds and reestablish the ...



  • Debra Clopton

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  • Sherrilyn Kenyon

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  • Elizabeth Knox

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  • Carolyn Keene

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  • Julie Cohen

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  • Beth Harwood

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  • Brian James

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  • Deatri King-Bey

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  • David Stone

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  • James P. Hogan

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  • Veronica Wasserman

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  • L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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  • Pat White

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  • Gerry Conway

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  • Gerry Conway

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  • Harry Turtledove

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  • Jillian Hart

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  • Alan Davis

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  • Aaron Allston

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  • Don Pendleton

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  • Frewin Jones

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  • Christopher Pike

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  • Alison McGhee

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  • Karen Rose Smith

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  • Anthea Fraser

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  • John Lanchester

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  • Josie Metcalfe

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  • Barbara Delinsky

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  • Len Bailey

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  • Imogen Edwards-Jones

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  • Carolyn Keene

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  • Peg Marberg

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  • Michael Reaves

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  • Jack Campbell

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  • Carolyn Haines

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  • Jaci Burton

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  • James O. Born

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  • Mischa Berlinski

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  • Michael Palmer

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  • Jon Clinch

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  • Genie Davis

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  • Rich Wulf
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Ashrem's Legacy. Some say it was a super weapon, some a portal to other worlds. Whatever the truth, all know that the Legacy disappeared on the Day of Mourning. But now Ashrem's heirs have unearthed clues to the Legacy's whereabouts, and the hunt is...



  • J.S. Borthwick

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  • Nina Bruhns

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  • Day Leclaire

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  • Karen Kingsbury

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  • Karen McCombie

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  • Kim Shaw

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  • Paul Ruditis

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  • Peter May

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  • Marc Sumerak

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  • J.R. Roberts

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  • Minister Faust

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  • Will Henry

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  • Linnea Sinclair

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  • Elias Khoury

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  • Steven Grant

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  • Brian Keene

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  • David Mack
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    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...



  • Paul Bajoria

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  • Kage Baker

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  • Gabriel Josipovici

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  • Cathy Marie Hake

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  • Holly Kowitt

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  • Dori Chaconas

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  • Michael A. Martin; Andy Mangels

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  • Mia King

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  • Val McDermid

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  • Ramsey Campbell

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  • Claudia Bishop

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  • Patricia Sprinkle

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  • Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Seven authors--Ed Greenwood, Clayton Emery, Lisa Smedman, Dave Gross, Voronica Whitney-Robinson, Richard Lee Byers, and Paul Kemp--contribute sections to this seven-part novel that offers close-up portraits on the inhabitants of a remarkable city in ...



  • Charles Bukowski

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  • Gammy L. Singer

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  • Cat Bauer

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  • Dana Reinhardt

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