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  • "Wicked" Women 101

    Susanna Carr

    In these sinfully delicious tales, Susanna Carr introduces three former sorority sisters who are ready to let down their ladylike hair, pick up their pens, and jot down a few notes on the art of being oh-so-wicked... Six Weeks to Sensuality Amy ...

  • 4th of July

    James Patterson; Maxine Paetro

    The Bestselling New Detective Series of the Decade Just Got Hotter, Deadlier, and More Suspenseful. In a deadly late-night showdown, San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer fires her weapon...and sets off a dramatic chain of events that leaves ...

  • 7,000 Clams

    Lee Irby

    Frank Hearn is a down-on-his-luck bootlegger and bruiser, looking for the big score in the heart of the Roaring Twenties. When he loses a shipment of top-quality booze to a double-crossing government thief, Frank hunts him down, roughs him up, and fi...

  • An Acre of Barren Ground

    Jeremy Gavron

    At number 30 the victim of a savage serial killer is found, and Inspector Abberline wonders whether he'll ever find the murderer they're calling Jack. At number 41 a man tries to hide his family in the shadows of a ruined London; 1500 years later, a ...

  • After Dark

    Cynthia Danielewski

    Detective John Delaney was shocked to hear that local businessman Daniel Gallows was strangled during a wedding reception held at Crosswinds, a new bed and breakfast in the historic district of St. Augustine, Florida. John was even more surprised to ...

  • Alice in Jeopardy

    Ed McBain

    Since her husband Eddie's tragic death in a boating accident eight months ago, thirty-four-year-old Alice Glendenning has struggled to maintain a normal life for her two children, Ashley and Jamie. To help make ends meet while she waits for the insur...

  • Alive Well in Pakistan

    Ethan Casey

  • All He Ever Wanted

    Allison Leigh

    Well, it looks as though steadfast single dad Cameron Stevenson may not be single much longer. The whole town has seen the smoldering looks he's directed at Faith Taylor, the rescue worker who saved Cam's son from a cave-in at the old Queen of Hearts...

  • All This Will Be Yours

    Phil Hogan

    Whatever you have you pass it down, father to son, son to daughter. Everything is an inheritance. You pass it down like wisdom or a good heart or the colour of your eyes...But it's only natural. You bestow the fruits of your labour on your children t...

  • Aloha Love

    Alice Wootson

    When helicopter pilot Jeanine Stewart popped in on her mechanic to have her chopper checked out, she had no idea she'd meet the man who'd win her heart: her mechanic's brother, Chris Harris. An architect with a serious fear of flying, Chris is more i...

  • Alone

    Lisa Gardner

    WHO CAN YOU TURN TO WHEN YOU'RE AT YOUR MOST VULNERABLE? State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff through the scope of his sniper rifle. Dodge has only one second to react, or a woman and her child may die. WHERE CAN YOU HIDE W...

  • Alternate Wars

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of eleven tales of alternate history by leading science fiction authors explores a world that might have been, from a Trojan War in which Helen surrenders or a Civil War fought by robots to a World War II in which participants race to ac...

  • Always Jan

    Roxanne Henke

    Jan Jordan is having a birthday -- a birthday she’s been dreading since she learned to count...surely life can be nothing but downhill from here.

    Kenny Pearson is old enough to know better, but he doesn’t care. As long as he can still k...

  • Always Look Twice

    Sheri Whitefeather

    SHE CAN READ MINDS, BUT CAN SHE SEPARATE TRUTH FROM LIES? Beneath the bright lights of Hollywood, women are being brutally murdered. The Slasher has come to L.A., and psychic Olivia Whirlwind is on the case. Brought in to help because of her abili...

  • The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, Volume 2

    Anne Mazer

    Compilation edition created exclusively for Barnes & Noble, Inc. Stories written by Abby (fifth-grade charcter) to describe her less than calm life. She writes an advice column for her fifth-grade newspaper. But how can she give advice when her own l...

  • Ambivalence, a Love Story

    John Donatich

    Ambivalence, a Love Story is a deeply nuanced accounting in which two people come together to make a marriage work. Rarely has marriage and its compromises been so intimately portrayed, especially when tested by depression, unemployment, miscarriage...

  • American Purgatorio

    John Haskell

    A mesmerizing first novel about a man, a woman, and a disappearance."I'm from Chicago originally. I went to New York, married a girl named Anne, and was in the middle of living happily ever after when something happened." So begins John Haskell's mes...

  • The Ancient Legacy

    Mitchell Graham

    The power of the Ancients was once harnessed on the hand of young Mathew Lewin in the form of a rose gold ring. But the treachery of a cruel and beautiful enemy changed all that. For three years, the world has believed Mat Lewin dead, slain by Tea...

  • Animal ABC

    Golden Books

    A bevy of bunnies explore an alphabet of unusual animals. From a big-jawed alligator and a honey-eating bear to a frolicsome kangaroo and finely groomed yak, the bunnies hop with frivolity through this beautiful book. Williams’s whimsical illustrat...

  • Arana, Volume 1: Heart of the Spider Digest

    Marvel Book Group

  • Assignment: Twins

    Leigh Michaels

    Nikki is always happy to baby-sit for her friend Laura's adorable twins, Zack and Anna. But now the babies' mom is unavoidably delayed -- and Nikki needs help! The babies' uncle, Seth Baxter, comes to her rescue! But the man is gorgeou...

  • The Astral Summer

    Ken Petti; John Amodeo

    I've always like the Astral Summer. Now that we all have our powers, Persuaja's promised to take us away so we can focus on our abilities. I'm nervous, though. I don't know how I will manage with two powers especially when I still haven't learned to ...

  • At Her Service

    Shari Anton

    Lady Joanna has seen how merciless men can be, and she has no desire for one in her life. But when outlaws raid her land, terrorizing her daughter and the villagers, she realizes she can't handle this alone. Yet if it is a man she must have, then...

  • At Risk

    Stella Rimington

    A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it’s an “invisible”-- Mi5-speak for someone traveling under a British passport. Virtually impossible to find before it’s too late.

    The job falls to Liz Carlyle, the most res...

  • The Attack of the Easter Bunnies

    Denys Cazet

    When the farmer says he's too old to play the Easter Bunny for his grandchildren, Minnie and Moo decide to take matters into their own hooves and find a replacement. But Elvis the rooster isn't interested. Hamlet the pig has to ask his mother (jus...

  • Augusta

    Carolyn Brown

    Augusta "Gussie" Dulan is the only Dulan sister to make it all the way to California on the wagon train for brides. Each of her four sisters has taken off along the trail to marry up with a man they fell in love with and now Gussie is hoping to find ...

  • Away With the Fairies

    Kerry Greenwood

    Seductive flapper and brave gal about town, Phryne Fisher, is called in to investigate the mysterious death of a famous author and illustrator. Working undercover in a women's magazine, Phryne's personal life is thrown into chaos when she is summoned...

  • Bachelor Father

    Pamela Bauer

    Who is Faith? That's what Adam Novak wants to know. She looks just like his ex-lover, now missing and presumed dead -- whose disappearance turned him from carefree bachelor into instant father to their six-year-old daughter, Megan. That&#...

  • Bad Heiress Day

    Allie Pleiter

    What would you do with $1 million? That's a question Darcy Nightengale never thought she'd need to answer. But a sudden inheritance of just over $1 million begs a more immediate response. And when Darcy learns of her father's last request that ...

  • Baker Towers

    Jennifer Haigh

    Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens--and the five children of the Novak family--...

  • Barbie Fairytopia: A Junior Novelization

    Tisha Hamilton

  • Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World

    Roger McKenzie

  • Bead on Trouble

    Barbara Burnett Smith

    Meet Kitzi Camden, former stateswoman. When she retired, Kitzi dreamed of doing what she loves best--beading. She certainly didn't plan to try her hand at amateur sleuthing. But lately, trouble seems to find her wherever she goes--even deep into the ...

  • The Beauty Bride

    Claire Delacroix

    More cherished than gold are the jewels of Kinfairlie, and only the worthiest of men may fight for their love... The Laird of Kinfairlie has unmarried sisters, each a gem in her own right. And he has no choice but to see them all wed in haste. ...

  • Beauty Sleepover Bash!

    Monique Z. Stephens

    Nazalia(tm) has a birthday coming up, and she''s throwing a beauty sleepover bash to celebrate! But when none of her friends can make it, Nazalia is totally bummed. When the Lil'' Bratz(tm) girls see how sad their friend is, they know something must ...

  • Beds Are Burning: Midnight Oil - The Journey

    Mark Dodshon

  • Before I Dream Bedtime

    Karyn Henley

    Best-selling author Karyn Henley has designed this Bible storybook especially for a child's bedtime routine. Her stories are written in a soothing style that will help your child to relax and fall asleep resting on God's Word. Beautiful four-color ar...

  • Belling the Kitten

    Jo Ann Ferguson
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    Jason Farraday is looking forward to the peace of a country inn after the dangers of the Peninsular War. But what he finds instead is spirited Amaris Woodward, a litter of lively kittens...and -- as Valentine's Day approaches -- the realization t...

  • Beneath a Panamanian Moon

    David Terrenoire

    WANTED: Private firm seeks former military personnel for overseas assignment. Must be proficient in firearms and explosives. Experience in special operations a plus. Successful candidate must also play piano. $1.5K/day. Compensation package includes ...

  • Berry Best Friends Book: A Fun with Friends Adventure

    Alison Saeger Panik

    FIRST SCHOLASTIC PRINTING. March 2005 hardcover, Jackie Glassman (My First Game Readers: Candy Land Big Bad Lord Licorice). While everyone is busy cooking their special dish for the fantastic picnic feast, Strawberry Shortcake discovers that she does...

  • The Berry Best Party Book

    Suzanne Francis

  • Best Friends For Life

    Jennifer Miller

  • Best of American Splendor

    Harvey Pekar

    Experience the heartwarming all-American story of a crank and his comic book.

    What’s a file clerk from Cleveland doing with an Oscar nomination? How did a movie about Harvey Pekar win the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival? ...

  • Better Off Dead

    Meryl Sawyer

    SHE'D BETTER RUN... Devon's used to a life on the run - when she entered the Witness Protection program, she had to give up her friends, her family...even her name. But now someone's cracked her FBI file and sent a hired killer after her, and Devo...

  • Better Off Wed

    Laura Durham

    The murder of a particularly difficult mother-of-the-bride has cast a pall on wedding planner Annabelle Archer's latest triumph -- and suspicion falls heavily on her sometime-business partner and friend Richard Gerard. Annabelle knows that even her t...

  • Between Midnight and Morning

    Cindy Gerard

    A tall, cool cowboy with a heartbreaker smile, J. T. Tyler had a line of women swooning in his wake. Then he met Alison Samuels, the town's new veterinarian, and found himself face-to-face with a challenge he couldn't ignore. J.T. wasn't interested i...

  • The Big Bug

    Michael Leviton

  • The Big Over Easy

    Jasper Fforde

    WELCOME TO THE SEEDY UNDERBELLY OF NURSERY CRIME ... Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of Reading's Nursery Crime Division. He's investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, ex-convict and lover of women...

  • Big Superhero Wish!

    Erica Pass

  • The Billionaire Boss's Bride

    Cathy Williams

    At the boss's pleasure... Billionaire Curtis Diaz is determined to uncover why his new executive assistant, prim and proper Tessa Wilson, fuels his desire like no other woman. Is there life beneath her sensible, shapeless business suits? On...

  • Bionicle Chronicles Collection

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

  • The Birthday Kitten

    Cynthia Pratt
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    Johnna and Ramsey Dillon's polite marriage of mutual respect suits them both until Ramsey brings home a mischievous stray kitten for his wife's birthday. The irrepressible cat sets in motion a string of events that nearly leads to catastrophe--until ...

  • Biting in Plain Sight

    Maryjanice Davidson
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    FEEL THE TOUCH OF DARKNESS... Follow a vampire hunter who can be as deadly as her prey. Meet a down-home southern girl who's found out, much to her chagrin, that vampires are her type. Feel the euphoria of fear in the shadow of a reluctant Queen o...

  • Black Hole

    Charles Burns

    Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards

    The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in...

  • Black Or White // Abiding Darkness

    John Aubrey Anderson

    This sweeping saga weaves a riveting tale about a young girl's battle with one of hell's minions determined to destroy her and those closest to her. This is the first volume in the Black or White Chronicles series relating stories of life in the Deep...

  • Blind Curve

    Annie Solomon

    FROM DARKNESS Bullets are whizzing around him, but he can't shoot back. In the middle of a weapons bust, undercover cop Danny Sinofsky suddenly goes blind. Now this man who has always looked out for himself can't cross a room without the help of his...

  • Blindsight

    Maurice Gee

    Alice Ferry is a retired Wellington scientist, a mycologist (fungi is her thing). One day a young man knocks on her door. Adrian is a great-nephew she never knew she had, the grandson of her brother Gordon. As her story unfolds we learn of her childh...

  • Blood For Brother

    Mackey Murdock

    After returning home from the Confederate Army, Rawls Slaton and his brother, Marcus, drive 750 head of cattle up from Texas to Kansas to make their fortune and encounter freak storms, corrupt businessmen, and Comanche warriors along the way. Reprint...

  • Blood Lust

    Vickie Taylor
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    FEEL THE TOUCH OF DARKNESS... Follow a vampire hunter who can be as deadly as her prey. Meet a down-home southern girl who's found out, much to her chagrin, that vampires are her type. Feel the euphoria of fear in the shadow of a reluctant Queen o...

  • Blood River

    Jory Sherman

    LONE MAN, SAVAGE LAND Chip Morgan and his kin knew life would be harsh on the Texas frontier. Yet they never thought the Comanches could be so rough...Seeming to come out of nowhere, Chief Red Hand's men swooped down in clouds of dust to steal Pa'...

  • The Blood We Shed

    William Christie

    This is the gripping story of Marines bonding together as they learn the art of war. It is a story of leadership, brotherhood in battle, and courage in the midst of chaos. Second Lietenant Michael Galway is the commanding officer of 2nd Platoon, E...

  • Bloodlines

    Jan Burke

    The year is 1958. O'Connor, a young reporter with the Las Piernas News Express, is desperate to discover who has perpetrated a savage attack on his mentor, Jack Corrigan. In and out of consciousness, Corrigan claims to have witnessed the burial of a ...

  • Blue Valentine

    Alison Tyler

    If a picture is worth 1,000 words, they why does photographer Alexandra Valentine go speechless whenever she snaps a photo? Especially when she's taking pictures of her sexy dates. Newly single, and busy living the sex-and-the-city lifestyle in L.A.,...

  • Boardroom To Bedroom: The Boss's Marriage Arrangement

    Penny Jordan

    The Boss's Marriage Arrangement by Penny Jordan Everyone in her office thinks Harriet is boss Matthew Cole's fiancee! Harriet has to keep reminding herself it's all just for convenience -- but how far is Matthew prepared to go with their...

  • Bob's Spring Parade

    Sarah Willson

    It's time for the Spring Parade! But first Bob and his team must remove a fallen tree from the parade route -- and fix a big bunny problem! Young readers will enjoy decorating the scenes with the enclosed holographic stickers....

  • Bodyguard Rescue

    Donna Young

    Nuclear physicist Kate MacAlister had made a valuable scientific breakthrough and someone wanted her formula badly enough to kill for it.... But staging her disappearance only brought her face-to-face with Roman D'Amato -- the enigmatic man who'd bro...

  • Bolo!

    David Weber

    CYBERNETIC COMRADES IN ARMS BOLOS. For a millennium and a half, they have been humanity's warriors. They have fought Man's battles, died in Man's wars, battled to save Man's children, even from his own kind. They have guarded Man's worlds . . ...

  • Boogeyman

    Jeff Mariotte

    When he was a boy, Tim Jensen knew the true meaning of fear, for it haunted his nights and set in motion the tragic events that would steal his sanity, take his youth, and shape the rest of his life. These days, Tim gets by most of the time...with th...

  • The Boss, The Baby and Me

    Raye Morgan

    In this secretary's opinion, Allman Industries' newest bigwig was a snake in the grass! After all, the feud simmering between the rival Allman and McLaughlin clans had divided Chivaree, Texas, for over a century. So why in tarnation had Kurt McLaughl...

  • A Box of Snowmen

    Caralyn Buehner

  • Bratz Boyz

    Grosset & Dunlap

    Introduces readers to an array of extreme sports, such as climbing, hiking, and rafting, through a review of the preparation and work that needs to be done in order to participate in these challenging sports. Original....

  • The Bride's Necklace

    Kat Martin

    IS HER HEART PURE ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THE NECKLACE'S CURSE? Knowing that she alone can protect her sister from the Baron Harwood, their lecherous stepfather, Victoria Temple Whiting snatches the family's heirloom necklace, believed to hold the power...

  • The Broker

    John Grisham

    In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that t...

  • Brooklyn Rose

    Ann Rinaldi

    In this novel set at the beginning of the twentieth century, a fifteen-year-old Southern girl marries and moves to the unfamiliar world of Brooklyn.It’s 1900, the dawn of a new century, and fifteen-year-old Rose Frampton is beginning a new life. Sh...

  • The Brunellesci Baby

    Daphne Clair

    From mistress to mother... Italian tycoon Zandro Brunellesci's brother has died. Zandro has no hesitation in deciding that his brother's baby must be raised as a Brunellesci -- and taken away from the woman he considers a most unsuitable mot...

  • Bubbles Betrothed

    Sarah Strohmeyer

    Debuting as a full-time reporter, Bubbles lands an interview with a woman accused of murdering a beloved high school principal. After the suspect keels over dead--in midrevelation--Bubbles's confidential notes become a life-threatening hot commodity ...

  • Business Affairs

    Shirley Rogers

    An impulsive bid at a bachelor auction had won Jennifer Cardon a romantic getaway with her sexy boss, Alex Dunnigan. Jennifer had always been incredibly attracted to Alex, but bedroom fantasies were one thing -- having her dreams come true in the fle...

  • The Butterfly House

    Marcia Preston

    In clear, luminous prose, Marcia Preston brings readers the story of three women, connected by friendship, family secrets and a single moment that binds them together forever. As a child, Bobbie Lee found refuge from her lonely life at her best f...

  • Cage's Bend

    Carter Coleman

    Born eleven months apart and coming of age in the Deep South of the sixties and seventies, Cage and Nick Rutledge are the eldest sons of a preacher and a Tennessee housewife. The firstborn, Cage, is the golden boy-star athlete and scholar, adventurou...

  • Calamity and Other Stories

    Daphne Kalotay

    Twelve luminous stories alive with friendship and secrets introduce a remarkable writer. Daphne Kalotay’s characters confront regrets and unrealized hopes in tales tinged with gentle humor. A newly independent woman finds herself in bed with an ex-...

  • Calendar Girl

    Naomi Neale

    ReSUMe Name: Nan Cloutier Address: Follow the gang graffiti until you reach the decrepit bakery. See the rooms above that even a squatter wouldn't claim? That's my little Manhattan paradise. Education: (Totally useless) Liberal Arts degre...

  • California Girl

    Patricia Rice

    THE OPEN ROAD WILL OPEN THEIR HEARTS Free spirit Alys Seagraves and her elderly, eccentric friend Mame are about to embark upon an epic road trip along historic Route 66 when Mame suffers a medical setback that throws a wrench into their plans. Ne...

  • Camilla Gryski's Favorite String Games

    Camilla Gryski

  • Cannibal

    Lois M. Jones

  • The Captive Wife

    Fiona Kidman

    A prize-winning novel that has become a New Zealand classic. When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney, in 1834, she meets with a heroine's welcome. Her survival during a four-month kidnapping ordeal amongst Taranaki Maori is hailed as nothing short of...

  • Card Games

    Dana Meachen Rau

  • Cars

    Steve Parker (1)

  • Cat Cross Their Graves

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    "That Kit will be the undoing of us all." Aging film star Patty Rose came to Molena Point, California, to enjoy her golden years running an inn. She didn't come there to be murdered. But it's Patty's body a cat named Kit discovers after hearing th...

  • Cat's Eyewitness

    Rita Mae Brown

    With the holidays approaching, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her best friend, Susan Tucker, take a much-needed time-out at the mountain monastery of Mount Carmel. But their worldly worries are soon overshadowed when, before their eyes, a statue of...

  • The Celebrity

    Robert Elmer

    Caught Between a Charade and the Truth.

    Jamie D. Lane is many things: multi-talented, handsomeâ€"and the most sought-after pop star in the world. But there’s one thing he isn’tâ€"happy. At the height of his singing career, a family tragedy...

  • Chainfire

    Terry Goodkind

    CRISIS After being gravely injured in a surprise attack, Richard Rahl awakes to discover his beloved Kaplan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, not even his closest friends believe that sh...

  • Challenge To Honor

    Jennifer Blake

    They were professionally trained, highly skilled men of valor, but the roguish, dangerous sword masters were not always respectable... When her brother challenges New Orleans's most infamous swordsman to a duel, Celina Vallier boldly confronts his...

  • Changeling Places

    Micol Ostow

    The Charmed Ones go into action to save their family, when babies all over town, including Wyatt, are switched for seemingly perfect replicas. Original. (A WB Television series, starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, & Rose McGowan) (Science Fict...

  • Chicken Chuck

    Bill Martin Jr.; Michael Sampson

    Chicken Chuck the rooster, who has set himself up as boss of the barnyard by virtue of the special blue feather in the middle of his forehead, finds his authority undermined by a circus horse with two blue feathers. Reissue....

  • Childhood: South Africans Recall Their Past

    Adrian Hadland

  • Chill Factor

    Rachel Caine

    GAMBLING WITH HER LIFE In Rachel Caine's Ill Wind and Heat Stroke, Weather Warden extraordinaire Joanne Baldwin, who protects the human race from monster storms, was killed, reborn as a Djinn, and then restored to her original form. She's been thr...

  • The Chinese Puzzle Box

    Chris Auer

    Still haunted by recent events, twelve-year-old Dan Pruitt no longer trusts his instincts. Then he and his friends discover a riddle hidden in an ancient Chinese puzzle box, and Dan realizes his instincts were right all along. Someone is trying to ge...

  • The Chosen

    Celia Thomson

    CHLOE KING MAY BE THE ONE.Despite a rocky few weeks, Chloe King is starting to get it. She's figured out who she is (a girl with catlike superpowers), where she belongs (at home with Mom), and what she wants to do (chill with her friends).Yes, she's ...

  • The Circus Comes to Town

    Quinlan B. Lee

  • City at War

    Michael Teitelbaum

    For years the Ninja Turtles hoped to rid the world of Shredder's terror. Now with Shredder out of the picture, everything should be just fine — but it's not. The chaotic remains of Shredder's Foot Ninjas, the Purple Dragons, and the New York mob...

  • Classic Dan Dare: The Red Moon Mystery

    Frank Hampson

  • Code Name: Fiancee

    Susan Vaughan

    SHE FELT AS FALSE AS THE RING ON HER FINGER When legendary antiterrorist agent Vanessa Wade was assigned to impersonate the glamorous fiancee of international businessman Nick Markos, she reluctantly found herself on one last undercover mission. B...

  • The Cold Dish

    Craig Johnson

    Introducing Wyoming’s Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author, the first in the Longmire mystery series Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love this outstanding first novel, ...

  • A Cold Treachery

    Charles Todd

    "You'll hang for this -- see if you don't! That's my revenge! And you'll think about that when the rope goes around your neck and the black hood comes down...." Called out by Scotland Yard into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutle...

  • Collected South African Obituaries

    Chris Barron

  • Collie with a Card

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Colorado Cutie

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Come Out, Come Out!

    Lowery Collins Pat

    Always eager for attention, baby Hildy delights in playing hide-and-seek with her family and friends, but when she suddenly doesn't get the response she desires, Hildy decides to hide for a good, long time in order to show everyone just how missed sh...

  • Coming Home

    Jean Brashear

    A house filled to the rafters with love. That was all Cleo Channing ever wanted. And when Malcolm Channing walked into her life and swept her off her feet, she soon had it all -- the house, an adoring husband, three beautiful children. But their ...

  • Con Men and Cutpurses

    Lucy Moore

    An enthralling anthology of 18th-century writings that gives a fascinating insight into the dreadful misdeeds of - and the horrible punishments meeted out to - an array of rogues and criminals, from murderers and swindlers to prostitutes and pirates....

  • Confident Readers Allies Crocodile

    Angie Sage

    He's large and wet and he's a crocodile. But Allie can't let the traffic warden tow him away, so she takes him home. that's before she realizes just how complicated it is, looking after a fussy and rather grumpy guest. How is Allie going to feed the ...

  • Confident Readers Crocodile Canal

    Angie Sage

    Allie, Gran and the crocodile go on holiday on a canal boat. But Ernest Python and his family are also on the canals and Ernest is still determined to catch the crocodie. Chases and comic confusion ensue, both on and under water as Allie and the croc...

  • A Conspiracy Revealed

    Mel Odom

    Seventeen-year-old Matthew Hunter must track down the man at the center of an evil conspiracy--and the person responsible for his parents' deaths--before he finds his way to the queen, in a fantasy thriller set in nineteenth-century England. Original...

  • Constantine

    John Shirley

    Hidden from mortal eyes are the angels and demons that coexist with mankind ... supernatural beings who seek to influence our lives for better and for worse. Amoral and irreverent renegade occultist and paranormal detective John Constantine is blesse...

  • Conviction

    Richard North Patterson

    Fifty-nine days. That's how long Rennell Price has to live -- after spending fifteen years on death row for the horrifying sexual assault and murder of a girl whose body was found floating in San Francisco Bay. But attorney Terri Paget, who has fough...

  • Cooking for Harry

    Kay-Marie James

    Harry became a fabulous cook. It began with a simple indulgence: secret bowls of buttery popcorn that he and his wife, Francie, would share after the children were tucked into bed. The aroma of melting butter, the hot kernels on their tongues, the sa...

  • Couch World

    Cathy Yardley

    P.J.'s life is simple. Wake up at 2:00 p.m. In someone else's place, on someone else's couch. Shower. Clothes. Club. P.J.'s a punter -- someone who fills in if a DJ isn't able to make a gig. San Francisco is a hotbed of glam bands and alternative roc...

  • The Counterfeit Countess

    Cheryl Bolen

    Abandoned By A Scoundrel Maggie thought she was married to an earl...but it seems that her late and unlamented husband lied to her from the day they met. Now--penniless, stranded in London, and suspected of a most vile treachery against the crown--s...

  • Counting Up, Counting Down

    Harry Turtledove

    Bestselling author and master of the short story, Harry Turtledove offers a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios that illustrate his literary skill and unbridled imagination. Inside you'll discover FORTY, COUNTING DOWN: ...

  • Cousin Cedric Goes Bananas

    Karen Wallace

    Cousin Cedric, the Egyptologist, invites the Primly-Proper children, Jack and Daisy, to Egypt so that they can help him return the Golden Bananas to the temple of the Weather Monkey before the climate goes totally awry...

  • The Cowboy Way

    Christine Wenger

    A RODEO ROMANCE! Young widow Beth Conroy had long ago vowed never to lose her heart again. She spent all her time caring for her son, who had been in a wheelchair since the accident that killed his father. Then Kevin won a trip to the ranch of his b...

  • A Crazy Kind of Love

    Maureen Child

    Lucas Gallagher is the geek who bought the land Michaela "Mike" Marconi wanted for her dream house. She thinks he's infuriating, annoying and totally rude. Yet, he gets to her more than any other man ever has. But though Lucas may be a scientist, he'...

  • Cross Bones

    Kathy Reichs

    When an Orthodox Jewish man is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her it ...

  • Cupidity

    Caroline Goode

    Dating in high school is like reality TV. It can get pretty surreal. Between the strict social ladder (geeks' lockers left, jocks' to the right), and silly, pointless rules (no hand-holding, no kissing, no breathing!), high school is the single wo...

  • Cusp

    Robert A. Metzger

    2031 A solar flare of incalculable power shifts the Sun's position as two immense walls erupt out of the Earth, encircling it along the equator and from pole to pole. The climatic and geographical chaos that follows pushes civilization to the brink o...

  • Custard and Pupcake's Book: A Pet Pals Adventure

    Nicole Okaty

  • Cyrils Cats Mouse Practice

    Shoo Rayner

    This work contains two stories about Cyril and his cat Charlie. Cyril finds homes for all but one of Charlie's kittens, who is a real chip off the old block. Finally, Cyril thinks he has found a home for Chip, but Charlie has other ideas. In the seco...

  • Daddy By Choice

    Marin Thomas

    Unconditional Love, Yes -- But Not Surrender Ex-rodeo rider JD Gonzalez may be a poor Texas rancher, but he's not dumb. He knows that money can't buy love. So when Josephine Delaney arrives in Brandt's Corner and announces that her motherless nephew...

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    Marie Ferrarella

    PLAYING WITH FIRE Devil-may-care detective Jared Cavanaugh dove into his undercover assignment -- investigating a money-laundering operation in a popular restaurant -- but working in close proximity to his beautiful "boss" was sweet torture. With he...

  • Dangerous Women

    Otto Penzler

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  • Dark Eye

    William Bernhardt

    Sometimes her eyes seduce. Sometimes they stare straight at the kind of sights most people turn away from. But in the blazing neon and searing sun of Las Vegas, she can't see the man who is watching her and thinking to himself: She is the one. . . . ...

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    Patricia Simpson

    FAY RAE LAMBERS IS CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO MEN... Simeon, debonair and charming, and Michael, street-smart and sarcastic. Simeon thinks Michael is crude and base; Michael thinks Simeon is evil. Really evil. When Rae's beloved mentor, Michael's fathe...

  • The Dark Queen

    Susan Carroll

    From Brittany's misty shores to the decadent splendor of Paris's royal court, one woman must fulfill her destiny -- while facing the treacherous designs of Catherine de Medici, the dark queen. She is Ariane, the Lady of Faire Isle, one of the Chen...

  • Darkest Dawn

    R.L. Stine

    The teens at Shadyside High are not intimidated by the old Fear Street lore, so when a hot new club is built on the Fear mansion site, no one thinks anything of it, until they learn that the evil of Fear Street has returned in a different shape....

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    Thom Lemmons

    In Daughter Of Jerusalem we will watch as Mary Magdalene, one who was lost, then found, reaches in compassion toward other wandering sheep of the house of Israel. We will observe how the women of the company of disciples function, if not as heads of ...

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    Shannon Drake

    The rustic oceanfront village of Bella Vista seems like something from an Italian postcard--until young women start disappearing, only to be found horribly mutilated. The police fear a sexual serial killer is at work--something to be hushed up to kee...

  • Dead Rising

    Jeff Rovin

    When a cadre of treasonous political leaders known as the Huntsmen seizes control of a top-secret government satellite capable of infiltrating and monitoring any computer network in the world, threatening to unleash its power against the U.S., Comman...

  • Deadlocked

    Joel Goldman

    Cruel Summer As a heat wave stifles Kansas City, a death-row inmate is served his final meal, makes his final confession, and uses his final breath to proclaim his innocence. For fifteen years, Ryan Kowalczyk denied having slaughtered a young couple...

  • Deadly Drive

    David Patneaude

    Nine years ago, a hit-and-run driver killed Casey's mother. Casey swears revenge if she ever finds out the identity of the driver. Complicating her feelings, every year on the anniversary of her mother's death, Casey receives an anonymous envelope fu...

  • Deceived

    Carla Cassidy

    Who can Lynn White trust when the man who raised her, her trusted godfather, might be lying to her face? How does she know what's real when she's used her highly unusual skills to retrieve stolen valuables from places no one else could enter -- u...

  • Deep Blue

    Tom Morrisey

    A suspense-filled search for hidden treasure---and hidden truths. While University of Michigan graduate student Jennifer Cassidy is researching the family history of Cecilia Sinclair, a long-deceased Southern expatriate, she discovers that something ...

  • Deke!

    Deke Slayton

  • Derik's Bane

    Maryjanice Davidson

    He's a werewolf with alpha issues--and a body to die for. She's the personification of unspeakable evil--and smells like roses. Now if they could just stop drooling over each other long enough to save the world... It's always good to have a psyc...

  • Devil's Bargain

    Don Pendleton

    DANCING WITH THE DEVIL Alpha Deep Six. Wet work specialists so covert, they were thought dead. Now this paramilitary group of black ops assassins and saboteurs has been resurrected in a conspiracy engineered somewhere in the darkest corners of mil...

  • Devil's Kin

    Charles G. West

    Jordan Gray rode with a posse of townfolk to track a gang of killers. While out looking for the killers, they doubled back and struck his homestead, slaughtering his entire family. Unwilling to wait for the town to form another posse, Jordan goes aft...

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    J.D. Rhoades

    KNOW WHO YOU KILL. Ex-cons DeWayne and Leonard thought it was a simple plan: Swipe the payroll from a local construction company and make off with easy cash. Pity they left the owner dead. Bigger pity is that the owner's son is a violent drug-dealer ...

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    Alastair Reynolds

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  • Diamond Matters

    Kadir Van Lohuizen

    Very luxurious edition: small size (11 x 12 cm), 216 pp, with twelve dropdown pages. With over 100 photographs in duotone and Tritone. Everything printed on five different paper types, bound in suede cover plate, which containes a real diamond....

  • Diary of a Crack Addict's Wife

    Cynthia Hunter

    An unflinching account of one woman's harrowing descent into a nightmare of violence, fear, and drugs describes falling in love with Mark Davis, a handsome man employed on Wall Street and secret crack addict, whose ever-worsening dependence on drugs ...

  • The Dinosaur

    Anna Milbourne

  • Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market

    Elisabeth Wynhausen

  • The Disappearing Desert Kittens

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Divided Kingdom

    Rupert Thomson

    One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their country’s inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violenc...

  • Do You Come Here Often?

    Alexandra Potter

    See the happy bride-to-be! Grace Fairley lives in South West London with her fiance, Spencer, a divorce lawyer. They've been engaged for two years and still haven't set a date, a fact that has started to irk Grace no end. In fact, things just hav...

  • Doctor Salt

    Gerard Donovan

    Sunless is one of the lucky few. He has problems - don't we all, these days? - but at least his health insurance will allow him to have them treated. So he boards the PharmaLake train in Salt Lake City, which takes him to his appointments in the Phar...

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    Kate Hardy

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  • Don't Worry, Be Hoppy!

    Golden Books

    Stickerific

    Here comes Peter Cottontail in a retelling of the popular animated special. Children can decorate the pages with their crayons and included stickers. They can also add the stickers to their own homemade Easter eggs, which can be di...

  • Down from the Cross

    Joyce Livingston

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  • The Dragon Of Doom

    Bruce Coville

    Edward is bored with life in the little town of Pigbone. Then Moongobble the Magician and his faithful toad, Urk, move into the cottage on the hill. Soon Edward has a job helping Moongobble. And Moongobble needs a lot of help because it turns out, h...

  • Dragon Sword

    Ree Soesbee
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Released from Maddoc's spell, Asvoria sets out to reclaim her most treacherous weapon: a magical sword. Davyn and his friends have one hope left. If they can locate the sword first, they may have a chance to stop Asvoria and free Nearra. Only one ...

  • Dragons, Phantoms, and Secrets: The Best New Fantasy from Arrow Writers

    Christopher Armstrong

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  • Dragonsblood

    Todd McCaffrey

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    Anne Bishop

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  • The Duke's Ballad

    Andre Norton; Lyn McConchie

    Dueling Magics

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    Debra Webb

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    Douglas Coupland

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    Yvonne Navarro

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    Christian Gossett

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  • Elektra: The Movie

    Marvel Book Group

  • Eleven on Top

    Janet Evanovich

    Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it's time for a change. So she quits. She wants something s...

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    Malorie Blackman

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    Marc Cheshire

    There's nothing Eloise loves to do more than dress up! And with so many choices, she will need more than Weenie and Nanny's help to pick the perfect outfit. Use and reuse the stickers to help Eloise dress up in her favorite costumes and have a fabul...

  • An Embarassment of Mangoes

    Ann Vanderhoof

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  • An Embarrassment of Elves

    Craig Shaw Gardner
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    SOME ARE FAIR. SOME ARE FOUL. ALL ARE FANTASTIC... Here are six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy, all with one common thread -- The Fair Folk. The elves' serenity is tested in a fable of a magical apprentice and the less-th...

  • Emma's Secret: The Cincinnati Epidemic

    Veda Boyd Jones

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  • The Empire of the Wolves

    Jean-Christophe Grange

    The international sensation -- a riveting and electrifying blend of mystery, terror, and tense, violent action

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  • Engaged to the Sheik

    Sue Swift

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  • Entangled

    Eileen Wilks

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  • Entombed

    Linda Fairstein

    Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived discover a human skeleton entombed -- standing -- behind a brick wall. When sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic ...

  • Erics Elephant On Holiday

    John Gatehouse

    Eric has always longed to have a pet of his own - a dog, cat or even a hamster. Winning an elephant at the church fete is not really what he had in mind, and he soon finds out that having an elephant as a pet lands him in a lot of trouble, especially...

  • Escape From Bridezilla

    Jacqueline deMontravel

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    Fran Shaff

    Marisa Orlando loves the sense of community she feels in her apartment building in Houston, where her neighbors all pitch in when another is in need. Therefore she's dismayed to find out that the building has been bought by a developer and that the i...

  • Every Boy's Got One

    Meg Cabot

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  • Except the Queen

    Jane Yolen; Midori Snyder
    in

    Sisters Serena and Meteora were once proud members of the high court of the Fairy Queen- until they angered her highness. Separated and banished to the mortal realm of Earth, they must find a way to survive in a strange world in which they have no po...

  • The Executioner's Game

    Gary Hardwick

    Luther Green is the very best at what he does. But the mastery of his profession is nothing he can brag about. It's nothing for which he will ever be officially recognized and it will never earn him a large paycheck. But there is a high likelihood th...

  • The Fairy Tales

    Jan Pienkowski

    Stunning silhouettes and luminous marbleized backgrounds breathe new life into the earliest versions of classic fairy tales, embodying the dark magic and enchanting worlds of "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella."...

  • Faithless

    Karin Slaughter

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  • Falling For You

    Kathryn Quick

    Stephanie Martin, a single mom with a teenaged son, believes in hard work, not in fairy tales. So when she finds herself flat on her back on the ice at the local skating rink, she has no idea that it's her very own Prince Charming coming to her rescu...

  • The Family Tree

    Carole Cadwalladr

    When Rebecca Monroe -- married to Alistair, a scientist who doesn’t believe in fate, but rather genetic disposition -- discovers that she is pregnant, she begins to question what makes us who we are and whether her own precarious family history wil...

  • Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne - Volume 3

    John Byrne

    Not since the days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the trailblazers of the Marvel Universe, had someone so perfectly captured the intense mood, cosmic style and classic sense of adventure of Marvel's first family of super-heroes. Writer/artist John Byrne...

  • Fantasy

    Karen Haber

    An outstanding array of fantasy prose offers a collection of fantasy stories from magazines, anthologies, and journals, published during the previous year and written by some of the genre's finest writers. Original....

  • Fascination

    William Boyd

    One of the most beguiling storytellers on either side of the Atlantic delivers a luminous new collection whose 14 stories are a series of variations on the theme of loveâ€"and its shady cousin lust. A film director’s journal becomes an unintended c...

  • A Father, Again

    Mary J. Forbes

    Jon Tucker was doing just fine living by his lonesome, steering clear of pets and people. Until his neighbor's cat gave birth to kittens on his favorite shirt. But after returning the new family to its rightful owner, Jon was finding it hard to s...

  • Fathers and Daughters

    Benjamin Markovits

    A book in which everyone gets happier in the course of the changing seasons of a single year. In prose that shimmers with emotional insight and precise observation, Benjamin Markovits unlocks the souls of three teachers and a student at a wealthy ...

  • Fear Me

    Stephen Laws

    Gideon loved women . . . to death. He seduced them, used them horribly, then discarded them, drained of their very lives. Until the day three women disobeyed him and dared to fight back, to seek revenge, leaving him in a pool of blood. Leaving them f...

  • The Fierce and Tender Sheikh

    Alexandra Sellers

    ROYAL AFFAIR The instructions were simple: seek out and return home with the long-lost princess of Bagestan now that her family had regained control of the throne. But when he found her, Sheikh Sharif Azad al Dauleh fell hard and fast for Princess...

  • The Firefighter's Baby

    Alison Roberts

    Jason Halliday is used to emergencies. But when an abandoned baby -- his baby -- is left at the station, the handsome firefighter is out of his depth.The only person he can turn to for help is paramedic Laura Green. Laura's not Jason's type -- he'...

  • First Mates

    Cecelia Dowdy

    A cruise around the Caribbean offered just what Rainy Jackson needed to get over her faithless ex-fiance -- sun, swimming and solitude. As the heat sank into her bones, she began to feel interest in the world again...and in handsome fellow passenger ...

  • First Young Puffin Rita In Wonderworld

    Rita Offen

  • First Young Puffin Space Dog Shock

    Andrew Martyr

    A talking space dog called Spog has crash-landed on Horatio's garden. Horatio is delighted, but his parents can't wait for their accident-prone visitor to go home. A number of adventures follow before Spog is rescued by his mum and dad....