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  • Amanda Arista

    Violet Jordan Rule #2 of being a superhero: Find reliable sidekicks Dear Diary, Once I took down Haverty, the Primo of the city, I thought life was going to get better. After four assassination attempts, I'm thinking not so much. Haverty's pack...



  • Sophie Barnes

    Emily Rutherford is having a very bad day. Of course, having the man you've loved forever announce his engagement to your (now very former) best friend will do that. Emily is sure nothing good could possibly come out of this horrid situation. B...



  • Deborah Crombie

    New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense -- a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious ...



  • Emily M. Danforth

    When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her con...



  • Alex Flinn

    Bewitching can be a beast. . . . Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn't. I go to a new school now -- one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I'm not stil...



  • David Foenkinos

    Reminiscent of novels by Nick Hornby, Muriel Barbery, and Jonathan Tropper, internationally acclaimed novelist David Foenkinos delivers a heartfelt and deftly comedic tale of new love brightening the dark aftermath of loss -- and of wounded hearts fi...



  • Anna Funder

    All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. When eighteen-year-old Ruth Becker visits her c...



  • Alison Gaylin

    On a summer afternoon in 1998, six-year-old Iris Neff walked away from a barbecue in her small suburban town . . . and vanished. Missing persons investigator Brenna Spector has a rare neurological disorder that enables her to recall every detail o...



  • Dan Gutman

    My Weirder School weirder than ever! Mr. Burke cuts the grass, trims the bushes, and does the landscaping around Ella Mentry School. He wants to have a corn maze on the baseball diamond and drag races with his riding mower. What's up with the crop...



  • Kim Harrison

    Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the I.S. and the FIB, former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth: a human ha...



  • Robin Hobb

    Once, dragons ruled the Rain Wilds, tended by privileged human servants known as Elderlings. But a series of cataclysmic eruptions nearly drove these magnificent creatures to extinction. Born weak and deformed, the last of their kind had one hope for...



  • Erin Hunter

    The journey home begins. . . . Toklo, Kallik, and Lusa survived the perilous mission that brought them together, and now it's time for them to find their way home. Kallik and Lusa are ready to be among their own kinds again, but Toklo, devastated ...



  • Kathryn Littlewood

    Rosemary Bliss's family has a secret. It's the Bliss Cookery Booke -- an ancient, leather-bound volume of enchanted recipes like Stone Sleep Snickerdoodles and Singing Gingersnaps. Rose and her siblings are supposed to keep the Cookery Booke under lo...



  • J.B. Lynn

    Maggie Lee is not your average hitwoman. For one thing, she's never killed anyone. For another, after hitting her head in the car accident that killed her sister, her new best friend is a talking lizard -- a picky eater, obsessed with Wheel of Fortun...



  • Patricia MacLachlan

    Jake's grandfather, Billy, hears the talk of birds, is eighty-eight years old, and is going to live forever. Even when Billy gets sick, Jake knows that everything will go on as always. But there's one thing Billy wants: to rebuild the sod house where...



  • Melissa Marr

    Dangerous promises and beguiling threats swirl together in a dozen stories of enchantments, dark and light, by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr. Uncanny and unexpected creatures appear from behind bushes, rise from under the seas, or ma...



  • Mercer Mayer

    Don’t let his name fool you! Little Critter is a big boy who can take care of things himself! So when he decides he wants to go camping, he can set the site, pitch the tent, and cook his meal . . . with help from Mom and Dad, of course. Little Crit...



  • Mary Kay McComas

    As a teenager, Hannah Benson ran away from home in order to save herself. Now, twenty years later, the past comes calling and delivers life-changing news: her mother and sister have passed away, leaving Hannah the guardian of her fifteen-year-old nie...



  • Catherine McKenzie

    Kate's To-Do List: Go to rehab Befriend/spy on "It Girl" Write killer expose Land dream job Piece of cake! When Kate Sandford lands an interview at her favorite music magazine, The Line, it's the chance of a lifetime. So K...



  • Kai Meyer

    To New Yorker Rosa Alcantara, the exotic world of Sicily, with its network of Mafia families and its reputation for murder and intrigue, is just that -- exotic, and wholly unknown. But when tragedy strikes, she must travel there, to her family's ance...



  • Jane O'Connor

    Fancy Nancy is ready for the spotlight! Fancy Nancy and her best friend, Bree, couldn’t be more excited about their upcoming dance show. After all, it’s all about mermaids -- and who knows how to be a fancy, glamorous mermaid better than Fancy...



  • Jane O'Connor

    When Nancy is invited over to Bree's house for a special tea party, she has only one thing to say: oui! The girls enjoy a few charming cups of tea before a disaster occurs that sets the two at odds. Will Nancy and Bree be able to save their friendshi...



  • Olaf Olafsson

    A searing novel of love and war, betrayal and redemption. Having grown up in an exclusive circle of wealthy British ex-pats in Florence in the 1920s, Alice Orsini shocks everyone when she marries the son of a minor Italian landowner and begins res...



  • Ross Raisin

    Mick Little used to be a shipbuilder on the Glasgow yards. But as they closed one after another down the river, the search for work took him and his beloved wife, Cathy, to Australia, and back again, struggling for a living, longing for home. Thirty ...



  • Adam Rex

    Cold Cereal Facts Serving size 1 chapter Number of servings 40 Primary human characters 3 Scottish Play Doe, aka Scottpossible changeling Erno Utz genius Emily Utz supergenius Magical creatures at least 3 Mick Leprechaun (or Clurichaun) Harv...



  • Peter Robinson

    Chris Lowndes built a comfortable career composing scores for films in Hollywood. But after twenty-five years abroad, and still quietly reeling from the death of his beloved wife, he decides to return to the Yorkshire dales of his youth. To ease the ...



  • Matt Ruff

    A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East 11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Tra...



  • Sara Shepard

    My killer is out there. And my sister might be next. Two months before I died, my best friend's brother disappeared. I have no idea where Thayer went or why he left, but I know it's my fault. I did a lot of horrible things while I was alive, th...



  • Heather Williams

    Little House Big Adventure Almanzo Wilder is going west! He and his family are moving all the way from their cozy farm in Malone, New York, to the bustling town of Spring Valley, Minnesota. Almanzo can't wait to explore, but life in Spring Vall...



  • Adam Wilson

    Flatscreen tells the story of Eli Schwartz as he endures the loss of his home, the indifference of his parents, the success of his older brother, and the cruel and frequent dismissal of the opposite sex. He is a loser par excellence -- pasty, soft, a...



  • Katharine Ashe

    London gossips are asking: What use has society of an exclusive gentleman's club if no gentlemen are ever seen to pass through its door? After years as an agent of the secret Falcon Club, Lord Leam Blackwood knows it's time to return home to Scotl...



  • Linda Chapman

    Be careful what you wish for. . . . When new stepsiblings Milly, Michael, Jason, and Jess move to a town in the middle of nowhere, the last thing they expect is to find a magic book. But then they stumble upon The Genie Handbook, and their lives a...



  • Leah Clifford

    Eden won the battle-she saved her true love from the darkest evil. But the war has only just begun. With secrets swirling around her, powerful allies unraveling, and life-and death-as she knows it eroding, Eden and those she loves tread dangerous gro...



  • Doreen Cronin

    After his last run-in with Vince the Funnel and the mystery of the missing chicks, J.J. the search-and-rescue dog is ready for some much-needed R & R. But just when he thinks he has everything under control, there's a new problem to worry about: Diam...



  • Ian Douglas

    There is an unseen power in the universe -- a terrible force that was dominating the galaxy tens of thousands of years before the warlike Sh'daar were even aware of the existence of Sol and its planets. As humankind approaches the Singularity, whe...



  • Christopher Golden; Tim Lebbon

    The world knows Jack London as a writer who lived his own real-life adventures. But there are some parts of his life that have remained hidden for many years, things even he couldn't set down in writing. Terrifying, mysterious, bizarre, and magical -...



  • Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

    When Meg's parents go away for the weekend, letting Meg stay with fellow Pony Scout Jill, the Scouts are in for an extra-special sleepover! Meg, Jill, and their friend Annie get to tend Jill's ponies day and night. But when one of the Scouts forgets ...



  • Christopher Hebert

    An ambitious young man struggles to define himself and his future in a Caribbean nation plunged into violent revolution. Having spent his childhood trapped in the slums of a politically volatile Caribbean island, Alexandre dreams of escape. Within...



  • Kevin Henkes

    When Penny comes home from school, she is ready to sing her song. But the babies are sleeping, and Mama and Papa are worried that Penny will wake them up. Oh, but it is a good song, a really wonderful song . . . and Penny wants more than anything to ...



  • Caroline Linden

    A marriage of convenience . . . or of destiny? Gerard de Lacey is determined to find the man who is blackmailing his family, but with his inheritance and status at risk, a hasty marriage to a wealthy bride also seems in order -- just in case thing...




  • Sarah MacLean

    The rake requires respectability...but the lady wants passion. What a scoundrel wants, a scoundrel gets. . . A decade ago, the Marquess of Bourne was cast from society with nothing but his title. Now a partner in London's most exclusive gam...



  • Mary Anne Mohanraj

    The hero (antihero) of this narrative is a highly successful Los Angeles writer and advertising executive born Evangelos Arness, now known as Eddie Anderson, and bylined Evans Arness over his magazine pieces. That he has many names is significant sin...



  • Sophia Nash

    Six Regency heroes -- one royal hangover An infamous night has been lost to memory. The scandalous Dukes of the Royal Entourage must make amends. The first step is a heroic rescue. One of England's most disreputable peers, Alexander Barclay, Du...



  • Garth Nix

    One beastly beast that's more than meets the eye. Two aliens with slimy tentacles and too many eyes fixed on adopting a human son. Three inventors and a sea serpent, a princess, an orphanage, and two ships full of pirates. Four fantastic tal...



  • Lauren Oliver

    I'm pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex, pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school, push, push, push, like Raven taught me to do. The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. ...



  • Lauren Oliver

    Lauren Oliver's riveting, original digital story set in the world of her New York Times bestseller Delirium. The summer before they're supposed to be cured of the ability to love, best friends Lena and Hana begin to drift apart. While Lena shies a...



  • Maya Rodale

    EXCLUSIVE -- "TATTOOED DUKE" FINDS FORTUNE IN RUINS! Breaking news, scandal fans: You thought you knew the dangerous Duke of Wycliff, London's globe-trotting adventure addict. Here's what you don't know: he's penniless. Sebastian Digby's dukely life...



  • Lynsay Sands

    Let the hunt begin ... Lisa Madison wants a husband, and she has just the candidate in mind: Robert Langley. Trouble is, the infuriating man insists on seeing her as the impish girl she once was -- even as every other gentleman in London has taken...



  • Rob Scotton

    Splat loves watching his favorite superhero, Super Cat, on the family TV, but when the set breaks, Splat has no way to watch his cherished cartoon. Splat asks himself, "What would Super Cat do?" and decides to save the day by winning a brand-new TV. ...



  • Becky Thomas

    "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who's the fairest one of all?" Originating in seventeenth-century French folklore, the story of Snow White has long been one of the world's most memorable childhood tales. It is the story of an evil queen determin...



  • Dan Wells

    The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials -- engineered organic beings identical to humans -- has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, ...



  • Avery Aames

    Charlotte Bessette--proprietor of Fromagerie Bessette, affectionately known in Providence, Ohio, as the Cheese Shop--is busy setting up her tent for the town's Winter Wonderland faire, where she'll offer fine wines and scrumptious cheeses. In the mid...



  • Jason Aaron

    Collects Wolverine #5. 1 & 6-9. Once again, a mindless Wolverine is raging out of control, a danger to everyone around him. But this time, Cyclops is ready. He's always feared this day would come again, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to...



  • Jason Aaron

    Collects Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine #1-6. Spider-Man and Wolverine! Everyone's favorite wisecracking web-spinner and ferocious furball together at last, traveling to the edges of the Marvel Universe as they face such awful beings as the C...



  • Rachel Aaron

    Four years before the events of The Spirit Thief, Miranda Lyonette was a young apprentice Spiritualist on the cusp of a promising career. But on the eve of her return from bonding a wind spirit, a night that should have been a celebration, she finds ...



  • Dan Abnett

    Collects Annihilators #1-4. Marvel's all-star cosmic team - and cult faves Rocket Raccoon and Groot - in one massive story! The Silver Surfer! Beta Ray Bill! Gladiator! Quasar! Ronan! When the Dire Wraiths strike, it's the heavy hitters of the cosmic...



  • Marc Abraham

    Marc Abraham, the UK's favourite vet, introduces a cast of loveable characters in this story of his life as an emergency vet. From the bouncy retriever puppy with a sore tummy to the tiny gerbil pregnant with triplets, every poorly pet is cared for...



  • Chinua Achebe

    Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis....



  • Jennie Adams

    Stacie Wakefield is sick of playing second fiddle. When her gorgeous older sister steals her man, it's the last straw. She leaves and is definitely happier on her own. Until she meets her new boss -- brooding ex-soldier Troy Rushton.... After an i...



  • John Joseph Adams

    Celebrate 100 years of John Carter of Mars with this all-new collection of original stories and art! Readers of all ages have read and loved Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series since the first book, A Princess of Mars, was published in 1912. No...



  • Stacy Hawkins Adams

    If forgiving your ex-husband was easy, everybody would do it. Brent had cheated on Dayna and coldly said goodbye to her seven long years ago---dashing her hopes of having children or growing old with the love of her life. Working hard to make herself...



  • Saladin Ahmed

    From Saladin Ahmed, finalist for the Nebula and Campbell Awards, comes one of the year's most anticipated fantasy debuts, THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON, a fantasy adventure with all the magic of The Arabian Nights. The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, land o...



  • Kate Alcott

    Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy ...



  • Palmer Alex

    Award-winning new crime fiction: '[An] intelligent and compelling thriller that turns the notion of evil inside out' - Canberra times. Matthew Liu sees his parents gunned down on a lonely Sydney backstreet. A young woman, the killer, stares him in th...



  • Elizabeth Alexander

    Praise Song for the Day was commissioned for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. These inspiring words by award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander celebrate all that has made America what it is today and challenge us -- as individuals, as co...



  • Cristina Alger

    A sophisticated page-turner about a wealthy New York family embroiled in a financial scandal with cataclysmic consequences. Now that he's married to Merrill Darling, daughter of billionaire financier Carter Darling, attorney Paul Ross has grown ac...




  • Stefano Ambrosio

    The Wizards of Mickey are back in this third adventure that's bursting with comic book art. The brave wizards must go on a mission to free MickeyÍs master Nereus, the sorcerer who was captured by the Lord of Deception and his Black Phantom team....




  • Stefano Ambrosio

    The Wizards of Mickey are back in a fourth adventure, brimming with action and cool comic book art. The stakes are higher than ever when the wizards take on a sorcerer's contest. Will Mickey and his friends be able to win the most powerful prize of a...



  • Stefano Ambrosio

    There was a time for legends, wizards, and heroes. Join three brave wizards, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Donald Duck, in this action-packed adventure that's bursting with great comic book art, as the wizards challenge their enemies in the biggest magic...



  • Catherine Anderson

    IN CATHERINE ANDERSON'S STIRRING NEW NOVEL OF THE OLD WEST, A DESPERATE WOMAN'S IMPULSIVE RUSE BRINGS A ROUGH-LOOKING STRANGER INTO HER LIFE.... To support her orphaned niece, impoverished Brianna O'Keefe accepts work with a Colorado rancher. To g...



  • Laurie Halse Anderson

    Meet Jules and Josh, the new twins in town! While Josh adapts quickly to Ambler, Jules accidentally makes an enemy of Maggie. Hoping a pet will help her feel better, Jules adopts the class rabbit, Chewie, but things go downhill when there are complic...



  • Amy Andrews

    Rules are made to be broken...aren't they? Ali doesn't do reckless, and she certainly doesn't do one-night stands -- until one intoxicating night with the most lethally attractive man she's ever laid eyes on.... More shocking still...



  • James Andrus

    Art Through him, they'll live forever. His creation will be a testament to their perfection -- and to his skill. Each victim has a rare innocence, worthy of being immortalized in his macabre work of art. A beauty worth killing for... Imitates ...



  • Jessica Anthony

    After her mother died, Glory retreated into herself and her music. Her single father raised her as a piano prodigy, with a rigid schedule and the goal of playing sold-out shows across the globe. Now, as a teenager, Glory has disappeared. As we flash ...



  • Ashley Antoinette

    The Red Bottom Bandits may be the world’s most fashion-forward gang of masked outlaws. They’re the talk of D.C. for their daring robberies and fly gear. And their latest caper is penned by Ashley Antoinette (of Ashley & JaQuavis) at her sultry, s...



  • Gina Ardito

    Summer Raine Jackson thought she had the perfect life, until her husband's infidelity was broadcast live on a radio program. Floundering after her divorce, she takes a temporary job at her sister's parenting services company while simultaneously plan...



  • Lucy Arlington

    "My first day as an intern at the Novel Idea Literary Agency began with a caramel latte, a stack of five hundred query letters, and a dead man. I don't know which was worse: the queries or the corpse." After receiving her first pink slip at the ag...



  • Francesco Artibani

    At last, Mickey Mouse can return to the riverboat that he loved to find out why it sank. The only problem is, he’s not the only one interested in what might be found in the wreck. Join Mickey Mouse and Peg-Leg Pete on an action-packed adventure!...



  • Jeffrey Ashford

    Elaine Cane is scared of her suspicious, overbearing husband. But one day he goes too far -- he drunkenly tries to use force on her, so she flees the house. A sense of responsibility makes her return, to check he has not injured himself in his drun...



  • Ashley & JaQuavis

    One murder can change a million lives, and that is what happens to Kasheef Williams on a cold, black Friday. When a reunion with an old friend goes wrong in a Long Island night club, Kasheef is forced to protect himself by any means possible. . . and...



  • Ramona Ausubel

    In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years- across oceans, deserts, and mountains-but now, it seems, there is nowhere else to go. Danger is immin...



  • James Axler

    Centuries beyond the aftermath of a shattered earth, the aeons-old manipulation of humanity has brought forth a new chrysalis of star-born domination. His name is Ullikummis, exiled scion of an embattled but brilliant and calculating inhuman race. No...



  • Nicole Baart

    "I mean, we loved each other, we really did, but nobody told me that years would go by and in the end we wouldn't be the same people as we were when we began." DANICA GREENE ALWAYS HATED FLYING, so it was almost laughable that the boy of her dream...



  • Rachel Bailey

    Money has always given Matthew Kincaid whatever he wanted. Yet now his son needs something even his millions can't buy. The widower's sole recourse is the surrogate who gave birth to his child -- for she is also the boy's true biological mother. S...



  • E.D. Baker

    In this delightful sequel to Fairy Wings (originally titled Wings) the fairy princess Tamisin has been kidnapped from her home in the human world by Oberon, king of the fairies, who thinks he's her father. When Tamisin's boyfriend Jak finds out, he s...



  • Linda Barrett

    WHAT MAKES A HOUSE A HOME? When a broken arm forces Dr. Eric Mitchell to hire temporary help, the veterinarian who arrives on his doorstep takes him by surprise. Physically, Alison Truesdale seems too fragile. Emotionally, her smile never quite...



  • Lorraine Bartlett

    Her fate was sealed... If Katie Bonner's late husband hadn't invested all their savings in the craft fair Artisans Alley -- which Katie is now responsible for keeping in the black -- the Webster mansion could have been hers to remodel. For years s...



  • Anya Bast

    Niall Quinn, mage and the finest thief in the Black Tower, is the fae's best hope for freedom. But he meets his match in Elizabeth Cely Saintjohn. Torn between his duty and the shocking lust Elizabeth has stirred in him, Niall must convince her to ...



  • Josh Bazell

    It's hard to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed. So hard that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst f...



  • M.C. Beaton

    When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer, other ...



  • Andrea Beaty

    Ted paints his way into trouble -- and a new friendship -- in this comic adventure. One morning, Ted realizes that his room needs a little pizzazz -- and for that he needs an artist. Of course, when Ted can’t find an artist, he becomes one! Ted ...



  • Rebecca Belliston

    Against the odds, Sarah Augustina Dawson (Sadie) survived the wrath of Guillermo. But not without a price. Forced to leave her beloved Montana behind, she and Josh are on the run. Within the warmth of the South, she's determined to find peace and con...




  • Nina Benneton

    For anyone obsessed with Pride & Prejudice, it's Darcy and Elizabeth like you've never see them before! This modern take introduces us to the wealthy philanthropist Fitzwilliam Darcy, a handsome and brooding bachelor who yearns for love but doubts...



  • K. Bennett

    The Dead Shall Rise... As a lawyer, Mallory Caine considers it her duty to defend the innocent. As a flesheating zombie, she knows how to take a bite out of crime. So when a scared ten-year-old boy asks for her help -- claiming that his mother wan...



  • Robert Jackson Bennett

    Vaudeville: mad, mercenary, dreamy, and absurd, a world of clashing cultures and ferocious showmanship and wickedly delightful deceptions. But sixteen-year-old pianist George Carole has joined vaudeville for one reason only: to find the man he sus...



  • Alex Berenson

    In 2009, the CIA's Kabul Station fell for a source who promised to lead it to Bin Laden, but instead he blew himself up, taking the station's most senior officers with him. Now, more than two years later, the station is still floundering, agents are ...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    Once upon a time, in Manitou Hills, there was a home so radiant and vivacious it was christened with its own name: Fleurissant. Now it's in ruins, forgotten and neglected-except by a woman who sees her own life reflected in the broken windows of that...



  • Jo Beverley

    Lady May is back. And so is the scandal that sent her tumbling from her position as the toast of London, when her husband, the Earl of Maybury, was killed in a duel. Even a year of mourning hasn't quieted the rumors of her infidelity. G...



  • Anne Bishop

    An original novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Bridge of Dreams… In a small village outside the city of Vision, the people know no sorrow or grief. But this seemingly idyllic community is hiding a terrible secret. As a young c...



  • Terri Blackstock

    Emily Covington has turned her life around after a drug addiction, but her family still has trouble trusting her. Though Emily has committed herself to a year-long treatment program and has been sober for almost a year beyond that, even her mother wa...



  • Christine Blevins

    She spies for General Washington, betrays the Redcoats and battles for America's independence... It's 1777, and a fledgling country wages an almost hopeless struggle against the might of the British Empire. Brought together by a fateful kiss, Anne...




  • Ellen Booraem

    For years Mellie has been trying to live down the day she told her class that she had a fairy living in her bedroom. When her parents inherit her grandfather's inn and they move to a new town, Mellie believes she'll leave all that fairy nonsense behi...



  • Marco Bosco

    The Agency so secret that it doesn't even have a name has a case for DoubleDuck: Retrieve a stolen laptop that contains super-secret information before it gets into the wrong hands. But is it too late?...



  • Melissa Bourbon

    Former Manhattan fashion designer Harlow Jane Cassidy has a gift for creating beautiful dresses. But when Harlow becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation, she'll need more than her sewing skills to unravel the mystery.... Business is bo...



  • Jacklyn Brady

    Let the good times roll! It's carnival season in New Orleans, and pastry chef Rita Lucero has a lot on her plate. Filling orders for king cakes is becoming a royal pain. Her second-in-command at Zydeco Cakes -- the bakery she inherited from her e...



  • Jean Brashear

    After a scandal torches her career, hotelier Sophie Carlisle vows to rise from the ashes. She pours her all into turning a run-down house in Austin, Texas, into a fabulous boutique hotel. Now, with the opening mere weeks away, Sophie is running out o...



  • Audrey Braun

    When Celia Donnelly's husband, Jonathon, surprises her with a family vacation to Mexico, the harried book editor couldn't be happier. She is overworked and exhausted, a situation that has taken a toll on her eighteen-year marriage, not to mention her...



  • Sebastien Braun

    Who IS that hiding? Lift the flaps to play peekaboo with babies! Is there someone under that big hat? Behind the stack of blocks? Beneath the blanket? Every baby loves playing peekaboo -- and here is the perfect board book to keep the youngest o...



  • Simon Brett

    Invited to a Private View of the work of controversial artist Denzil Willoughby, the good citizens of Fethering are not quite sure what to expect. And it turns out to be a lively affair, culminating in several embarrassing confrontations. But what no...



  • Rogenna Brewer

    Operation marriage has to be a go... Like any good mother, Angela Adams wants a better future for her little boy. And the one way she can provide that is to enlist with the Marines. Unfortunately, there needs to be a husband on the scene for that ...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    Meet Shane Laughlin, the hero of bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann's new novel Born to Darkness, in a special eBook short story about his final mission as an officer with SEAL Team Thirteen--the mission that strips him of his command, earns him a ...



  • Cheryl Brooks

    THEY'RE GALAXIES APART... Even for a Zetithian, Tarq Zulveidinoe's sexual prowess is legendary. Believing it's all he's good for, Tarq sets out to perpetuate his threatened species by offering his services to women across the galaxy... BUT ONE ...



  • Stacia Brown

    Rachel Lockyer is under investigation for murder. It is 1649. King Charles has been beheaded for treason. Amid civil war, Cromwell's army is running the country. The Levellers, a small faction of political agitators, are calling for rights to the ...



  • Ed Brubaker

    Best-selling Cap writer Ed Brubaker and superstar artist Steve McNiven bring you the next huge chapter in Steve Rogers' life, and it's a perfect jumping-on point for fans of the Cap movie! A funeral for a fallen friend turns into a race against time ...



  • Ed Brubaker

    The critically acclaimed, award-winning creative team of Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark make their explosive debut! For the past few years, Matt Murdock's life has been teetering on the edge of destruction. Now, pushed beyond the limit, Matt finds hims...



  • Mollie Cox Bryan

    Having traded in her career as a successful investigative journalist for the life of a stay-at-home mom in picturesque Cumberland Creek, Virginia, Annie can't help but feel that something's missing. But she finds solace in a local "crop circle" of sc...



  • M.L. Buchman / Matthew Lieber Buchman

    First in a thrilling military romantic suspense series based on the real-life, elite helicopter pilots who transport Navy SEALs and Delta Force teams in and out of combat and covert missions. (SOAR are the heroes of Black Hawk Down.) NAME: Emily B...



  • Edgar Rice Burroughs

    An urgent message from Pellucidar, that world of primitive men and primeval jungles that lies inside the crust of the Earth, called on Tarzan of the Apes for assistance. Tarzan, used to the dangers of darkest Africa, heeded the call to Pellucidar,...



  • Mary Burton

    He Is Their Judge... In death, they are purified. Holding his victims under water, he washes away their sins as they struggle for their last breath. Then he stakes their bodies to the ground, exposing them for what they really are. Witches, sent t...



  • Kurt Busiek

    Collects Avengers #12-23, Avengers Annual '99, & Avengers #0. Threats including the Thunderbolts, Dominex, Lord Templar, Pagan, and the Wreckin Crew! Then: every man, woman and child in Slorenia is dead with a message from its murderer: Ultron h...



  • Shannon K. Butcher

    The guilt that Defender Dakota Kacey feels about her brother’s death is all-consuming, making her determined to find and kill the demon who murdered him. But the leader of the Defenders is worried about what Dakota is capable of, and calls in Liam ...



  • Ellen Byerrum

    When Washington, D.C., fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian's former boyfriend, cattle rancher Cole Tucker, is arrested for murder, she digs her cowboy boots out of her closet and flies to his defense. She is certain of his innocence-unil he abducts he...



  • Richard Lee Byers
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    Aoth Fezim and his mercenary company have restored their tarnished reputation and attracted new recruits for their depleted ranks. But they still have one big problem. Too many griffon mounts were killed in the battles in Thay Chessenta. If "the Brot...



  • Rachel Caine

    For millennia, Cassiel was a powerful Djinn-until she was exiled to live among mortals. Now the threat of an apocalypse looms, and Cassiel is in danger of losing everything she has come to hold dear... As the world begins to fall apart around her, C...



  • Laura Caldwell

    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But what if you can't tell which is which? When attorney Izzy McNeil's home is broken into, right after her boyfriend, Theo, moves in, she ignores the coincidence. When Theo is arrested on charges of ...



  • Laurie Calkhoven

    When the Nazis invade Paris, Michael, a thirteen-year- old French-American, wants to be a part of the Resistance. Starting small, vandalizing Nazi propaganda and refusing to hail Hitler, Michael works his way into the full-blown Resistance, escorting...



  • Kaye Calkins

    It was just another dinner party until Alexandra Moreton, a ravishing auburn-haired beauty, shows up. Deverell Bromfield doesn't recognize her as the spindly legged redhead with the flyaway hair he'd known as a youth. He hasn't trusted women since Ar...



  • Kristen Callihan

    Callihan has a great talent for sexual tension and jaw-dropping plots that weave together brilliantly in the end." --- Diana Gabaldon, New York Times bestselling author After a fire consumes the Ellis family fortune, the beautiful and resourceful ...



  • Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    Help Biscuit count his favorite things while learning to count to 10 in this sweet and exciting lift-the-flap!...



  • Opal Carew

    How far would you go for a taste of ecstasy? Crystal never dreamed her engagement would end this way. With her fiancé breaking her heart the day of the wedding…and his best man stepping in to mend it. Now she’s about to embark on her dream hon...



  • Mike Carey

    Collects X-Men Legacy #242-244 & #248-249. The greatest threats come from within. The X-Men have emerged victorious from the fight of their lives, narrowly defeating Bastion and his army of Nimrod Sentinels. But the wounds run deep--and when one ...



  • Jamie Carie

    The Guardian Duke is award-winning novelist Jamie Carie's most exciting story yet, a uniquely arranged Regency-era romantic adventure where hero and heroine know each other through written letters but have yet to meet. Gabriel, the Duke of St. Eas...



  • Kate Carlisle

    There may be grave consequences for bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright as she attempts to solve two murders tied to one book.... Brooklyn's chance to restore a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast seems a fairy tale come true -- until she realiz...



  • Aimee Carson

    Play with fire... Miami hotel tycoon Paulo Domingues knows that beneath her Southern priss, his event planner Alyssa Hunt is all sass. Little Miss Prim has Paulo's inner rebel roaring to life -- he's determined to seduce the fire out from behind it!...



  • Ron Carter

    "These are the times that try men's souls," writes journalist Thomas Paine at the end of 1776, a dark time in America's struggle for freedom. As the dramatic events depicted in volume 2 of the monumental Prelude to Glory series show, the high price o...



  • Ron Carter

    In 1777, aiming to crush the American rebellion and win for himself a lasting fame, British General John Burgoyne sets out from Canada with a massive army. Losing the help of his Indian allies and slowed by the nearly impassable terrain, the flamboya...



  • Ron Carter

    In epic style, the new historical fiction series Prelude to Glory chronicles the miraculous events that gave birth to a new nation. In Our Sacred Honor, the first volume in the series, master storyteller Ron Carter presents the early events of the Re...



  • Ron Carter

    The summer of 1777 proves to be a difficult and discouraging time for General George Washington and his poorly equipped and undisciplined Continental Army. Campaigning along the eastern seaboard, they are pitted against General William Howe and hi...



  • Ron Carter

    The founding of the United States may be the single greatest event in the history of the rise and fall of nations. Thirteen infant colonies challenged the mightiest military power on earth and won! The victory of the underfunded, ill-equipped, and in...



  • Ron Carter

    By the end of 1776, the Continental army is faced with the overwhelming truth that they are losing the Revolution. The British have pummeled them with a series of bloody battles that have shattered the American army and have forced them into a desper...



  • Lorene Cary

    Called a "well-paced, entertaining novel woven of many strands" by Kirkus Reviews and "a powerful take on family, history" by The Philadelphia Tribune, Lorene Cary's brilliantly rendered tour de force explores the enduring bonds of blood, love, and t...



  • Joe Casey

    Collects Avengers: The Origin #1-5. The true story of the Avengers is revealed right here! See untold details of the historic first meeting of Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp! You only THINK you know the full story....



  • Erin Cashman

    Born into a famous family of exceptionally talented people, fifteen-year-old Claire Walker has deliberately chosen to live an average life. But everything changes the night of the Spring Fling, when her parents decide it's high time she transferred t...



  • Carla Cassidy

    THERE WAS NO WAY TO SECOND-GUESS A KILLER WHO HAD CHANGED THE RULES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME When FBI profiler Amberly Nightsong is sent to Mystic Lake to consult with local cops about three ritualistic murders, the last thing she expects is to be ...



  • Dan Chaon

    Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in Stay Awake, Chaon returns to that form for the first time since his masterly Am...



  • Max Chase

    In The Enemy's Lair, the Star Fighters find themselves in a tough spot. They thought the Meigwors were on their side in the fight to save Earth. But it turns out they're an even bigger galactic menace than the Xions! Peri and Diesel need to return Xi...



  • Jennifer Chiaverini

    From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a powerful and dramatic Prohibition-era story that follows the fortunes of Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into the unknown for the safety of her children and the love of a good but f...



  • Maureen Child

    For security expert Garrett King, rescuing a damsel in distress is routine -- even if she is a runaway princess. And especially if she's a sexy, desirable woman he intends to keep very, very close. Garrett knows Princess Alexis Morgan Wells es...



  • Jane McBride Choate

    Amanda Clayson loves chocolate almost as much as she does making a home. An inheritance from her great-aunt brings her an old farmhouse in the foothills of northern California. To pay for the upkeep, she takes in boarders. Two elderly residents, a do...



  • Dianne L. Christner

    Return to Plain City, Ohio, where lifelong goals open paths to something new. Lil Landis aspires to become a head chef...a far cry from her Conservative Mennonite upbringing. But as she chases after her dream, problems seem to hinder her every move -...



  • CLAMP

    FINAL VOLUME
     
    Kimihiro Watanuki has passed through many trials by fire. Once an indentured servant, he has matured and become the poised and skilled keeper of the shop that grants wishes. But Watanuki’s final wish is for himself: to meet th...



  • Chris Claremont

    When you've got amazing stories by Chris Claremont, excellent artwork by Dave Cockrum, and the astonishing debut of fan-favorite Paul Smith, what you've got is a mutant masterwork! It starts off with an adventure in Belasco's mysterious Limbo realm t...



  • Simon P. Clark

    In "The Little Book of Mormon," eleven experts explain the history, beliefs, and rituals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which originated in the United States in the 1840s and has since faded in and out of public consciousness -- ...



  • Colleen Coble

    Lucy Marsh's worldly resources are running out, but she's fiercely determined to care for her younger brother and sister. When she discovers that their father's recent death was no accident, Lucy is eager to leave town. She accepts a proxy marriage s...



  • Nancy J. Cohen

    GETTING MARRIED CAN BE MURDER… In-demand South Florida salon owner Marla Shore barely has time to plan her own impending nuptials, let alone play hairdresser to the not-so-rich-and-famous at her friend's destination wedding. But when the venue i...



  • Suzanne Collins

    Here is the ultimate guide to the twenty-four Tributes participating in Panem's 74th annual Hunger Games. Follow the Tributes' journey from the Reaping to the Games, with a look at all the highlights along the way--the Tribute Parade, the stations of...



  • Cara Colter

    The man behind the uniform... Jaded cop Oliver Sullivan moved to picturesque Kettle Bend to leave behind bad memories. Locals leave him alone -- until a video of him rescuing a drowning puppy goes viral, making him a celebrity! Sarah McDougall ...



  • Mary Connealy

    In 1866 Colorado, Ethan Kincaid agrees to a marriage of convenience with the same casual disregard he gives every decision. Audra Gilliland, young mother of two, accepts his proposal because she wants to stop being a burden to her newly married stepd...



  • Sheila Connolly

    Nell Pratt’s search into a family’s history may bring more than just dark secrets to light… Nell Pratt, President of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society, is intrigued when Arthur Logan, elderly scion of an old Philadelphia family, approach...



  • Kerry Connor

    HE WAS THE LAST THING SHE EXPECTED -- AND EVERYTHING SHE NEEDED From the moment he finds himself staring down the barrel of her gun, Rancher Cade McClain knows Piper Lowry isn't just another stranded tourist. Armed and desperate, she's prepared to d...



  • Zoe Cooper

    Nativities is a darkly comic new play set in the wasteland of petty office politics, designated smoking areas and personal alienation. Excited about her new job as administrative assistant at a call center, Stella is eager to fit in with her workm...



  • E.J. Copperman

    The ghosts haunting Alison Kerby's Jersey Shore guesthouse are sad. Maxie wants to know who murdered her ex-husband, and Paul pines for his still-living almost-fiancee. The only one who isn't missing her ex is Alison-because The Swine just arrived on...



  • Jo Cotterill

    The fifth title in this wonderful series. For all fans of Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson - Sweet Hearts follows a huge cast of girls and their friendships, families and first loves! Lola Cassidy has it all - wealthy parents, a gorgeous boyfri...



  • Ralph Cotton

    Horse trader Will Summers wasn't looking to be anybody's hero, let alone stop a bank robbery led by the son of Gunn Point's most powerful man. But when the sheriff is gravely injured and his deputy sorely outmatched, Will knows that things are only g...



  • Connie Cox

    Dr. Jason Drake -- cynical genius, passionate lover...devoted father? Dr. Jason Drake is a brilliant diagnostician -- the man everyone turns to for answers when they cannot diagnose a sick child. Shaped by a painful past, his manner is brusque and...



  • Maggie Cox

    His most precious jewel The coveted Heart of Courage jewel -- when passed to each sheikh in the House of Kazeem Khan -- is said to guarantee love. But Sheikh Zahir rejects this legend. After the bitterness he's suffered, he sees emotion and ma...



  • Maggie Cox

    Whatever Marco Aguilar wants, he gets...by any means! Having made his fortune from nothing, billionaire Marco Aguilar has wiped the dirt of a poverty-stricken childhood from his expensive shoes. Now he can have anything he wants -- and his next ac...



  • Andy Croft

    During the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, a match was set up between Dynamo Kiev's players, playing as FC Start, and a German side. Kiev won. And when the Germans fielded a better side, Kiev beat them too. And again, and again. Until the half-starve...



  • Cath Crowley

    Senior year is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight, she's going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. He's out there somewhere -- spraying color, spraying birds and blue sky on the n...



  • Fay Cunningham

    A forensic sketch artist with an uncanny ability to reanimate the deceased through her drawings, Gina Cross is troubled by a new case. It concerns a murdered teenager who recently gave birth. But who is she and where is her baby? Police get a break i...



  • Barbara White Daille

    His Rodeo Carerr Is over... When Caleb Cantrell left home as a dirt-poor teenager, he never thought he'd return as a wealthy rodeo star. As a matter of fact, he didn't think he'd return at all. The accident changed all that. It ended his career...



  • Katie Dale

    When 17-year-old Rosie's mother, Trudie, dies from Huntington's Disease, her pain is intensified by the knowledge that she has a fifty percent chance of inheriting the crippling disease herself. Only when Rosie tells her mother's best friend, "Aunt S...



  • Tony Daniel

    A NEW HOPE FOR CIVILIZATION -- A LAST STAND FOR EARTH For alien Commander Arid Ricimer there was no going home. His species was winning the war with Earth, but the civilization he had fought for was gone, destroyed from within by ideologues and bu...



  • Cecilia Dart-Thornton

    A story from the world of Erith, the setting for the internationally bestselling Bitterbynde books, Cecilia Dart-Thornton's first trilogy. In the enchanted and magical world of Erith, danger comes to Kelmscott Hall as the trows seek to claim Mazarine...




  • Rana Dasgupta

    With an imaginative audacity and lyrical brilliance that puts him in the company of David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon, Rana Dasgupta paints a portrait of a century though the story of a hundred-year-old blind Bulgarian man in a first novel that ann...



  • Annalisa Daughety

    Imagine planning a fairytale wedding with a nearly limitless budget. . .but for someone else. Now imagine being stranded at the event hotel with a massive hurricane barreling down on you, a motley crew of tourists, and your estranged husband. Will we...



  • Erica David

    A new chapter book adventure in the superhero series that puts a fresh squeeze on everyone's favorite sponge! Barnacleboy is fed up with playing second banana to Mermaidman, and so he joins the forces of E.V.I.L. -- Every Villain Is Lemons -- with...



  • Peter David

    If you thought all the action on Mars began with John Carter's arrival - are you in for a shock! John Carter: World of Mars is the official prequel to the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures blockbuster film releasing March 2012, and reveals the shocking e...



  • Peter David

    Collects X-Factor (2005) #213-219. X-Factor has returned from Las Vegas and is ready for business as usual. And for the world's premier mutant detective agency, business as usual is anything but usual! A trio of lovely but lethal lasses has its sight...



  • Hilary Davidson

    Travel writer Lily Moore has been persuaded by her closest friend, photographer Jesse Robb, to visit Peru with him. Jesse is convinced that the trip will lure Lily out of her dark mood, but Lily is haunted by betrayal and loss. At Machu Picchu, the f...



  • Benji Davies

    Bizzy Bear's going on vacation, but he has to take a taxi, then a train, then a plane before he arrives at the beach and can set sail on his boat. ...



  • Benji Davies

    With chunky sliders to push and pull, this robust little board book is perfect for active toddlers. Rich in visual detail and with touches of humor, it is sure to become a classic in the family library. Bizzy Bear is helping out at the building si...



  • J.D. Davies

    1662: Restoration England. Cromwell is dead, and King Charles II has reclaimed the throne after years of civil war. It is a time of divided allegiances, intrigue, and outright treachery. With rebellion stirring in the Scottish Isles, the hard-pressed...



  • Tatiana de Rosnay

    Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Pari...



  • Ellie Dean

    THE SECOND CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEANIt is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital on the south coast to be near her badly injured husband, Adam. But her decisi...



  • Stephen Deas

    Having survived Jehal's betrayal, former Queen Zafir is determined to take back control of the kingdom. To that end, she seizes Jehal's wife and son as hostages. Desperate to save his queen and his heir, Jehal makes a tentative peace with the dragons...



  • Tom Defalco

    Derring-do and high adventure galore fill the pages of the fun-filled Avengers: Solo Avengers Classic Volume 1! Arrows fly and swords clash in these thrilling tales from your favorite Avengers' solo files. Starring Hawkeye -- and featuring the Black ...



  • Frank Delaney

    "Every legend and all mythologies exist to teach us how to run our days. In kind fashion. A loving way. But there's no story, no matter how ancient, as important as one's own. So if we're to live good lives, we have to tell ourselves our own story. I...



  • Jana DeLeon

    WHO IS GINNY BERGERON? She was only six when she walked out of the swamp after the LeBlanc School for Girls caught on fire. Sixteen years after the terrifying night that stole her memory, a child's scream lures Ginny back into the woods...where a st...



  • A.M. Dellamonica

    For centuries, the island nation of Redcap has been obligated to pay tribute to the powerful nation of Sylvanna. Suffering under the heavy burden of the contract that by rights should be declared illegal, the princesses of Redcap summon Gale, a weal...



  • J.M. DeMatteis

    Elves, Gods, and Over-Minds - oh my! What else can you expect when your team's starting lineup consists of a sorcerer, a gargoyle, a Valkyrie, a pair of X-Men, a former model, the Son of Satan, and more of Marvel's wildest warriors? Far out fantasy t...



  • Lauren DeStefano

    Rhine and Gabriel may have escaped the beautiful prison of Wither's mansion, but they are far from escaping danger. First they're chased for stealing a getaway boat, and then the fleeing pair ends up in the eerie den of Madame, an old woman who colle...



  • Joanna Devereux

    Everyone knows that you don't go into Ma Jessop's woods. Everyone but new boy Josh. He's not scared by spooky stories about a wild old witch who drinks human blood. To prove his point to Ella and her friends, Josh goes into the quarry at ...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    Unplanned Parenthood! She may work at a fertility clinic, but the mommy track is definitely not in dedicated nurse Erica Benford's future. So when a one-night stand with hunky private detective Sherlock Vaughn leads to an unexpected pregnancy, Eri...