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New Books List: 568 titles


  • Carolyne Aarsen

    A HEART, A HOME...A HUSBAND? All her life, the only place that represented the loving home Melanie Visser always yearned for was a stately, gingerbread Victorian in the town she grew up in. Moving back home, Melanie discovers that her dream house ...



  • Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Magic on Main Street?!! The border between Droon and the Upper World has been crossed. And now evil Sparr is in Eric's hometown! On a search for the Coiled Viper, he's turning the Uppe...



  • Keith Ablow

    Twelve bodies, twelve states. What no one knows is that the "Highway Killer" is also a gifted psychiatrist who lures his victims into a false sense of security with his miraculous ability to understand their darkest emotional secrets. He is their con...



  • Peter Abrahams

    "Mackie dreaded the mail." From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a de...



  • Jon Agee

    After work the letter Z goes home, passing an alien in the shape of the letter A, a bridge in the shape of the letter B, and so on, until he runs into a Viper by a Woodpile, some Xeroxes, and a Yoga master, before reaching his destination....




  • Rochelle Alers

    In one night, Morgana Johnson-Wells takes two hard hits: first, news that her mother has died, then evidence that her husband is having an affair. Fleeing Baltimore to tend to her mother's estate in Salvation, Georgia, Morgana finds comfort in the co...



  • Hannah Alexander

    Someone had murdered her grandfather. And Sable Chamberlin was next on the villain's hit list. With the help of her friend Paul Murphy, she hoped to hide at her family's isolated Ozark home. But then an ice storm trapped the couple there with a buslo...





  • Lou Anders

    Imagine a future without cyberspace or without the Web or virtual reality. What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn’t you know?   Today’s top masters of speculative fiction offer ...



  • Caroline Anderson

    Claire Franklin has been left to bring up her sister's beautiful baby. She's convinced that Patrick Cameron is the father, though he insists that's impossible. Secretly suspecting that his late brother might well be the little girl's father, Patrick ...



  • K.J. Anderson

    London, 1899. As the British Empire lies in mortal jeopardy, a top-secret initiative unites several of the most illustrious (and sometimes infamous) personages of the age: Allan Quartermain, famed explorer and adventurer; Captain Nemo, master of ...



  • Kaare Andrews

    After his beloved uncle, Benjamin-sensai, is murdered, Peter Parker becomes the last living Spider-ninja, and is drawn into a fight between the Green Goblin and the Shadow Clan over a powerful amulet....



  • Mary Kay Andrews

    In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, Parker, telling her he's gone -- and has taken th...



  • Mark Anthony

    The enigmatic Shemal has known only two Runebreakers. One, her rival Kelephon, served the Pale King and his army of apocalypse. The other was Travis Wilder, the Runebreaker of prophecy. Now, in outcast and newly made Runebreaker Larad, Shemal has...



  • Allen Appel

    Professional historian-hero and time-traveler Alex Balfour returns in the most exciting of his critically acclaimed adventures. This time he wakes up literally in the middle of the Civil War. And this time, he’s not the only one traveling through t...



  • K.A. Applegate

    The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

    Tate is fighting for her life. Honey, Duncan and Char...



  • Lindsay Armstrong

    The not entirely convenient bride! Melissa Ethridge agreed to a marriage of convenience with Etienne Hurst to keep her family property from being sold. But what about giving up her freedom? Mel decides to be an unconventional bride and retain h...



  • Judith Arnold

    Ethan Parnell and Gina Morante meet when they accidentally wind up in the same time-share condominium on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. Right place for a tropical vacation, but wrong time for them both to appear -- and for sure the wrong two ...



  • Mark Arsenault

    In the fading manufacturing town of Lowell, Mass., Eddie Bourque, a political reporter for the shoddy Lowell Empire, looks into the brutal murder of his newspaper beat partner and rival, Danny Nowlin. Bourque suspects the killing is tied to a story N...



  • Kay Arthur

    This exciting addition to Kay Arthur and Janna Arndt's Discover 4 Yourself(r) Inductive Bible Studies for Kids series leads young believers ages 8-12 on a journey to God's heart using the inductive study method and the wonder of an adventurous spy...



  • Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk’s form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between her people and the ser...



  • Henry T. Aubin

    This little-known story of biblical times is “one of those contingent moments in world history on which whole civilizations pivot” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).   At the turn of the eighth century BC, a mighty Assyrian army entered Judah and fo...



  • Amy Axelrod

    When a little boy becomes convinced that aliens are soon coming to take him away to their planet, he thinks of all the benefits there will be with a new family, new classmates, and a new home far away from where no one believes him....



  • Ben M. Baglio

    At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. A stray tabby cat has turned up in Welford and Mandy is worried. The poor cat is about to have...



  • Roz Bailey

    When It Comes To Their Sex Lives, Nothing's Off The Record As the "sexpert" of a glossy fashion magazine, Maggie McGee delivers candidly wicked tips, freely culled from her own wild nights on the town. But now, Maggie's taking the thrills to a who...



  • Leslie Baker

    Despite the fact that Lulu, the troublesome terrier, always does things that cause Bridget the rottweiler to be in trouble, Bridget can’t bring herself to get Lulu in trouble when she finally has the chance, in a sweet tale about two very special f...



  • Mignon F. Ballard

    GOSSAMER AND GRAVESTONES While trying to come up with a clever excuse for her estranged husband's conspicuous absence at the family reunion, Kate McBride arrives at Bramblewood, her great-uncle Ernest's magnificent old estate in the North Carolina...



  • Jack Ballas

    GUNS DON'T MAKE THE MAN Cord Fain isn't a man to cross--whether he wears a gun or not. And he isn't about to go along for the ride while his trail boss, Colonel Bane Taggart, steals land from hardworking ranchers. But even after Fain quits, there ...



  • Nina Bangs
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    Museum curator Serenity So-Fine has traveled back in time from the year 2700 to retrieve the infamous erotic sculpture The Flame. But the work's sensual creator, Justin Hill, is about to take Serenity to places even she's never been. . . ....



  • Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    Twenty-nine-year-old Jane Taylor gets so blissfully caught up in the fact that she's pregnant -- and tells everyone -- that she can't own up to the truth when she finds out that she never was. Her live-in boyfriend, a suspender-snapping Do Right Dudl...



  • Elaine Barbieri

    Somewhere in the lush grasslands of Texas hill country was a place where the sun had once shone on love and prosperity, while the night hid murder and mistrust. There, three brothers and a sister fought to hold their family together, struggled to kee...



  • Margaret Barker

    Dr. Francesca Metcalfe is the most gorgeous woman Dr. Sotiris Popadopoulos has ever seen, and while they are temporarily working together at the hospital on Ceres Island he's sure they will get to know each other much better. Francesca insists she...



  • Tanya Maria Barrientos

    Twenty-five years after her mother's death, Nita DeLeon is sifting through family history and papers when she discovers an old letter from her Aunt Pancha hidden in an address book, a letter that sheds new light on her parents' lives in Guatemala and...



  • Rachel Basch

    In the vein of Gail Godwin's Evensong, a powerful novel that explores faith and sisterhood in small-town New England. Reverend Jordanna Nash is the "dangerously tall," bicycle-riding, female minister who commands the pulpit of Hutchinson Congregation...



  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    With Mama dead and no way to provide for herself, Star Campbell barely escaped from Luke's Saloon and ran straight into Michael Riley's arms. Suddenly doors open for her to start a new and better life. The only hitch is, she has a secret past that sh...



  • Adam Beechen

    Level 2: Reading Independently ? More complex stories ? Varied sentence structure ? Paragraphs and short chapters Jimmy Neutron is tired of being a boy genius. Sometimes he wishes he could just be a normal kid. That'...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    A follow-up to the best-selling Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Volume 1 continues the cooperative adventures of the wise-cracking Spider-Man and characters from the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Dr. Strange series. Original....



  • Christopher L. Bennett

    Having recovered from the catastrophic events of Wildfire, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team on the U.S.S. da Vinci meets its new second officer: Mor glasch Tev, an arrogant Tellarite who's the best there is -- and he knows it. Even as Captain G...



  • William Bernhardt

    Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid put his reputation on the line when he represented Ray Goldman. The seemingly mild-mannered man was charged with massacring an entire suburban Tulsa family. When the prosecution's star witness--Erin Faulkner, the lone su...



  • Helen Bianchin

    Diego de Santo: dynamic, charismatic, he's made millions and won a place in Sydney high society by sheer determination -- and he believes everything is for sale.... Cassandra Preston-Villiers: heiress to an empire, she's beautiful and soph...



  • Mark Billingham

    Thorne knew when he was looking at something out of the ordinary. This was a significant murder scene. This was the work of a killer driven by something special, something spectacular ... He looked at the dead man on the bed -- the position of him, a...



  • Cara Black

    The second Aimée Leduc investigation set in ParisWhen Anaïs de Froissart calls Parisian private investigator Aimée begging for help, Aimée assumes the woman wants to hire her to do surveillance on her philandering politician husband again. Aim...



  • Nero Blanc

    THE ______ THICKENS P.I. Rosco Polycrates and crossword editor Belle Graham take their puzzle-sleuthing skills to a sleepy New England town that's waking up to some nasty surprises... Folks in Taneysville, Massachusetts are in an uproar. A ...



  • James Blish

    James Blish (1921-1975) was one of those rare authors who sought to fuse the imagination and ideas of science fiction with the language and power of mainstream fiction. He wasn't rare for attempting this combination, he was rare because he succeeded....



  • Alice Borchardt

    With the knowing eye and fiery voice of an accomplished storyteller, Alice Borchardt takes us back to the amazing world of a re-envisioned Camelot in the continuing Tales of Guinevere. Remarkably strong, magically talented, a match for friend and foe...



  • Beth Bosworth

    Rachel Finch is twelve years old and in love -- not with a neighborhood boy, but with the Dewey decimal system, call numbers and the cellophane covers of library books . . . also with time travel, a superhero she knows only as S-Man and, above all, F...



  • Shari Boullion

    If Janet hadn't been late, the robbery would've been fine. Her pa wouldn't have died, she wouldn't have promised to go legit, and she wouldn't have found herself in this dusty little town pretending to be an oh-so-proper schoolmarm. Ha! Fooling the s...



  • Donna Boyd

    It was supposed to be a time for healing. But it soon turned to horror. Paul and Penny Mason are spending the summer at the family lake house with their troubled, teenage daughter, Elsie, in a last-ditch effort to save their crumbling marriage. But t...



  • Lizi Boyd

    Wouldn't it be fun to trade places with your pet? A little boy tries the idea on for size with the help of a multilayered outfit and an obliging black dog.

    It’s time to get dressed! First the underpants - one paw, then two. It’s a challeng...



  • Fiona Brand
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    BE WARNED four of today's most popular authors push passion and intrigue to the limit in four thrilling original stories... In a sleepy coastal town... Early retirement turns deadly for a defense expert--until a beautiful woman steps between him...



  • Max Brand

    Young Sammy wants nothing more than to get out from under the thumb of his overbearing spinster Aunt Claudia. When a tramp named Lefty wanders through town, Sammy is immediately taken in by his skill with a fiddle, his crafty charm and his trained bu...



  • Jay Brandon

    Murder by Moonlight. There’s but a bare sliver of moon on the dark night when a shot rings out and a man falls, dead, from the balcony of child psychologist Anne Greenwald’s father’s house during a party. Anne and her boyfriend, District Att...



  • Jean Brashear

    Chloe St. Claire grew up as a daughter of privilege -- but when she started to find the advantages empty, she began to carve out a life of her own. And that meant taking a job as a police psychologist. She's worked for the Austin Police Departmen...



  • Matt Braun

    The Invasion of Texas-1915! In Europe, men were dying in trenches. In Washington, sentiment was growing for war against the Kaiser. And in Mexico, an explosive plot was set in motion by a German agent, a deposed dictator, and an army of murderous ...



  • Norman Bridwell

    Children will love this hilarious, all-new story by Norman Bridwell about everyone's favorite big red dog!

    Clifford's going on a trip with Emily Elizabeth's class to a science park and an aquarium. In true Clifford style, he gets into a few sc...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    THE AWAKENING Safe, steady...and unsatisfying -- that pretty much summed up Maggie Stanton's life. Until a stranger stirred her imagination until she blushed, a stranger who made Maggie do the unimaginable: take a risk.... Shockingly, the man w...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    In his career as one of America's elite warriors, Lt. Sam Starrett can do no wrong. In his private life, he has done little right. Waiting for a divorce, Sam is determined to stay active in his young daughter's life. But when he shows up at the door ...



  • Kevin Brockmeier

    While playing alone in her backyard one afternoon, seven-year-old Celia suddenly disappears while her father Christopher is inside giving a tour of their historic house and her mother Janet is at an orchestra rehearsal.Utterly shattered, Christopher,...



  • Bill Brooks

    Killing the Legend City life is all Teddy Blue has ever known -- until the craven murder of his brother, a Chicago policeman, changes his world overnight. Determined to hunt down the killer, he joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and buries all t...



  • Helen Brooks

    The deal is: be his mistress! From the moment tycoon Kingsley Ward walks into Rosie's office, she recognizes the sexual invitation in his eyes. But when they sign a business agreement and Kingsley makes it clear he wants Rosie as part of the d...



  • Terry Brooks

    The fate of a world rests on an unlikely hero. . . . Tucked away in peaceful Shady Vale, the young half-elf Shea Ohmsford gives little thought to the outside world. Yet far to the north, the evil Warlock Lord has dispatched shadowy Skull Bearers, ...



  • Beth Brophy

    Journalist, wife, and mother of three, Claire Newman juggles work, soccer games, birthday parties, and errands. A successful writer at Nationweek, America's second largest newsweekly, she makes her living by being, as she says, "a relentless snoop," ...



  • Jim Brown

    When the citizens of Black Valley, a remote Oregon town, are terrorized by vicious, sadistic "Whitey" Dobbs -- nicknamed for his shock of bone-white hair -- five teenagers concoct a shiver-inducing act of revenge. But their plans to eliminate Whitey ...



  • Amanda Brownfield

    Firmly planted on the Wall Street fast track to success, Becca Reinhart has no desire to marry and raise a family. Ditto Edward Kirkland, a charming playboy who has never known what it means to work for a living, and hopes never to find out. Enter Em...



  • Dixie Browning

    Like a spent wave, washing broken shells back to sea, the clues to a long-ago death had been caught in the undertow of time... Cold cases were Gray Hollowell's specialty, and for a bored detective on disability, turning over clues from a twenty-se...



  • Alafair Burke

    After three years on the job in Portland's Drug and Vice Division, Deputy DA Samantha Kincaid gets what she wants: her first case with the Major Crimes Team. Kendra Martin, a 13-year-old runaway, has been found drugged, viciously assaulted, and left ...




  • Guy Burt

    In a dark room of a dilapidated house, as a storm rages outside, Matthew lights a candle and places it in the center of the floor. Its light spreads across the wall and illuminates Sophie, tied up in a chair facing him. She is frightened, fearful of ...



  • Candace Bushnell

    With a brilliant comic voice as well as Jane Austen's penchant for social satire, Candace Bushnell, who with Sex and the City changed forever how we view New York City, female friendships, and the love of a good pair of Manolos, now brings us a sharp...



  • Victoria Bylin

    JAKE MALONE HAD NOTHING MUCH TO BELIEVE IN -- UNTIL HE HEARD AN ANGEL SINGING IN THE DESERT.... Under the blazing Colorado sun a miracle happened. Soulless Jake Malone began to care about Alexandra Merritt, an indomitable, heaven-sent beauty, and...



  • Adrianne Byrd

    SHE WANTS A LITTLE COMFORT At thirty-eight, Brooklyn Douglas has her hands full raising a teenaged son and running her own business. What she doesn't need is everybody and their mothers trying to hook her up with "a good man." The last good man Br...



  • Meg Cabot

    What on earth is that princess up to now? Hammer in hand, Princess Mia embarks on an epic adventure for one so admittedly unhandy: Along with her cohorts from school, she's off to build houses for the less fortunate. It doesn't take Mia long to re...



  • June Calvin

    Love For Sale Amy Armstrong doesn't enjoy being sold off to a prosperous farmer like a prized cow at a county fair. But what choice other than marriage has she when he's the only man willing to take in a woman with no dowry and a dependent...



  • Laurie Campbell

    Being jilted at the altar by playboy Kenny Tarkington made Lucy Velardi vow to raise her daughter, Emma, on her own. She didn't need the help of any Tarkington, even her ex's handsome brother, Connor. The undeniable attraction between them wasn't eno...



  • Stephen J. Cannell

    WHEN THE SCIENCE EXISTS... Behind the impenetrable walls of a black-op government laboratory a top-secret weapon is being developed-a genetically engineered animal with superhuman strength and speed. It thinks. It obeys. It kills without conscience....



  • Suzy Capozzi

    Betty and her friends each have an exciting event coming up. Betty has a horse show, Hannah has a singing competition, and Zoe has a rollerblading race"all on Saturday! Will each of the girls remember to go and cheer for her friends, as well as mak...



  • Diane Carey

    For over a generation, the Los Angeles Police Department's S.W.A.T. unit has been one of the premiere law-enforcement units in the United States. An elite squadron of expertly trained tactical assault specialists, S.W.A.T. goes into action whenev...



  • Jacqueline Carey

    Bridget, Jean, and Sunny Crossley grow up in modest circumstances on Long Island, and all end up in the New York City of the 1980s. Free spirit Bridget, the oldest, is a well-traveled, sometime massage therapist in the East Village. Outspoken Jean is...



  • Emily Carmichael

    FROM FRONTIER GIRL...TO CITY WOMAN? Georgie Kennedy is so mad she could spit. Just weeks after she sold one of her Arizona gold claims to Cougar Barnes, some two-bit lawyer has the gall to tell her the mine wasn't hers to begin with. Georgie k...



  • Charlotte Carter

    From the acclaimed author of the Nanette Hayes mystery novels comes a thrilling new series featuring an unforgettable trio of sleuths. By turns gritty and gracefully written, Jackson Park is a compelling novel of noir suspense--a fast-paced page-turn...



  • Janice Carter

    As a little girl, Tess Wheaton wished that her father would come back and rescue her -- but he never did. Although Tess grew up in the care of a loving guardian, she never had the parents she longed for. These days, she's a successful businesswoman a...



  • Carla Cassidy

    Case #OK0773: Reckless endangerment of a single mother's sanity Investigating Officer: Breanna James Suspect: Adam Spencer, officer's next-door neighbor Background: From the moment she'd drawn her gun on him, Breanna knew he would be trouble...



  • Linda Castillo

    Dr. Elizabeth Barnes has devoted her heart and soul to medical research...at the expense of love in her life. But now--winning an award for her latest breakthrough drug--Elizabeth is at the top of her game, and she wouldn't change a thing. Until a...



  • Muncy Chapman

    As a young woman, she entered an arranged marriage, but her husband died before their only child was born. Now that baby boy is ten years old, and Amy focuses all her energy on raising Alex and making a living for them as a seamstress. That is unt...



  • Marion Chesney

    THE FASHION IN SHROUDS Beautiful but rebellious Lady Rose Summer's debut into high society is a complete disaster. When a marriage proposal appears imminent for Lady Rose, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentions are honorable. He calls...



  • Lisa Childs

    EVERY WOMAN HAS HER MYSTERY And Sarah Mars-Hutchins had more than one secret to keep. But her tumultuous past caught up with the young widow in the flesh when a devastatingly handsome former FBI agent came to question her. Royce "The Tracker" Grah...



  • Lana Citron

    Ed has had enough. Sal betrayed him once too often with Rob, her ex-boyfriend. So he killed her. To save her from herself. Determined to exact his warped revenge 'in memory of Sal who couldn't say no', Ed finds himself trying to cross town at 2am on ...



  • Daphne Clair

    She's a challenge! Gabriel Hudson is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in New Zealand -- and he's not used to being turned down. He's determined to seduce cool beauty Rhiannon Lewis, whatever it takes. Gabriel has every means...



  • Chris Claremont

    The New Mutants journey to Asgard; the X-Men battle the villain Mojo; and Wolverine, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Ghost Rider join forces during the mysterious absence of the Fantastic Four, as illustrated by Arthur Adams....



  • Mindy Starns Clark

    “He would never leave us.”

    Just like that, business investigator Callie Webber finds herself involved in the life of a young wife and mother whose husband has disappeared. . . possibly the victim of foul play.

    “I won’t go aw...



  • Molly Cochran

    Eight years ago, a young red-haired boy discovered that he was the reincarnation of Arthur, once High King of Britain, master of the Round Table, wielder of Excalibur and the Holy Grail, fated to one day reclaim his throne and lead the world into a n...



  • Jan Coffey

    Just weeks before Independence Day, the President is targeted for assassination by a powerful business cartel that is making final plans to rip off the American dream. Only two people stand between a national disaster and a glorious celebration -- an...



  • Kresley Cole

    In her exhilarating debut novel, Kresley Cole captures the drama, passion, and boundless adventure of the high seas--as one fiery lass finds herself caught in a tide of torrid romance. Raised as a free spirit aboard her American sea captain father...



  • Terry Collins

    The Rocket gang has discovered a brand-new sport -- street luge! Otto, Reggie, Twister, and Sam team up to celebrate the town's most radical new sport by organizing Ocean Shores' first street luge event. After Otto heads out for a test run on the tra...



  • Samantha Connolly

    Seeing double? That's what Sam Harrison thinks when his uptight, by-the-book museum co-worker becomes easygoing, flirty and funny -- overnight! Megan Dean puts aside her travel-book writing, as she has a job to do impersonating her twin sister, but s...



  • Rose Connors

    IS HOMICIDAL INSANITY EVER A LEGAL JUSTIFICATION FOR MURDER? Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson, formerly a prosecutor, faces hard questions as defense attorney for Buck Hammond. With TV cameras rolling, Buck took justice into his own hands. Now he...



  • Linda Conrad

    After a devastating car accident killed his wife, injured racing celebrity Cal Gentry came home to the family ranch to nurse his wounds and find a nanny for his infant daughter. And when tantalizing, dark-haired angel Bella Fernandez appeared at his ...



  • Lori Copeland

    Frustrated author M. K. Diamond is suffering from another bout of writer's block when the perfect plot unfolds in real life: a burglar in Morning Shade is breaking into homes and redecorating, of all things! If only Maude can keep her feisty mother-i...




  • Brenda Coulter

    Dr. Charles Hartman didn't need anyone -- being a doctor took up most of his time. Besides, he'd learned what all women were after: a doctor husband and his family's money. But after crashing into his life -- and his car -- in the hospital parking...



  • Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Are you ready for a wild ride? When six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and manages to save himself, everything's over, right? Not by a long shot. Sheriff Katie Benedict contacts Sam's father, Miles Kettering, ex-FBI agent, and...



  • Wilma Counts

    He Was A Formidable Adversary... A devoted champion for the less fortunate, Hannah Whitmore passionately pursues improvement of the dangerous working conditions in the textile mills--especially for the children. She is stunned, then outraged, when a...



  • Debra Cowan

    FROM THE DESK OF TERRA AUGUST Investigating the death of former fire investigator Harris Vaughn -- my mentor and friend -- has been tough, especially since we'd had dinner together only hours before his murder. There are a lot of suspects, which mea...



  • Maggie Cox

    Charming, wealthy and smoldering, attractive Kyle Hytner could have an international playboy lifestyle -- and any woman he wants. So why has he set his sights on Megan Brand? Megan is rebuilding her life, step-by-step. But the frighteningly intens...



  • Kathleen Creighton

    The gun trained on his chest left him with no choice.... Turning Caitlyn in to the police was the right thing to do, the law-abiding thing. So why did it have to hurt so bad...and cost her so much? Caitlyn Brown had never expected C. J. Starr to w...



  • Dan Cushman

    From Montana mining camps to the wagon trains on the Oregon Trail, this gripping novel brings to life the many escapades of the legendary road agent Comanche John, a defender of the innocent who often found himself on the wrong side of the law. Repri...



  • Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos

    A confrontation with a radical environmentalist group sinks a Danish cruiser off the Faroe Islands--and it's up to Kurt Austin and his colleague Joe Zavala to rescue the men trapped inside. But they soon discover that this was no isolated incident. ...



  • Judith Cutler

    Introducing Birmingham Detective Sergeant Kate Power, exiled from London's Metropolitan Police by personal tragedy and making a new start in the distant outpost of Birmingham CID. Her new Brummie bosses are good men, for the most part, but they can't...



  • Julie E. Czerneda

    HELP WANTED:Position open for goal-oriented professional.  Must be willing to work in zero gravity.  MAY THE WORK-FORCE BE WITH YOU.In this all-new, original anthology, today's top sf talents tackle tomorrow's jobs-in space and beyond. ...



  • Mary Daheim

    With major renovations under way at Judith McMonigle Flynn's fire-gutted Hillside Manor B&B, the distressed hostess is joining her family at the Stillasnowamish Casino on Native American land. Instead of breathing in soot and plaster dust, she's enjo...



  • Janet Dailey

    Someone was trying to kill him. That's the only clear thought that comes to Chase Calder when he regains consciousness, with no memory of who he is, why he came to Fort Worth, or who tried to put a bullet in his head the night a cowboy named Lare...




  • Quinn Dalton

    Years after running away from America and the mysteries surrounding her mother's death, Merle Winslow winds up editing trash novels at X Publishing in West London and shacked up with a drug-addled diplomat's son. Shaky and defeated, she heads home to...



  • J. Daniels

    Hennessy Cooper, an FBI agent, finds her life forever changed by her dangerous attraction to Tristan James "T.J." Jackson, the prime suspect in a rash of high-profile robberies and the subject of her undercover investigation, forcing her to choose be...



  • Lilian Darcy

    Four days ago, Libby McGraw had never even heard of Brady Buchanan. But if his claim was true, her carefully constructed life was about to be blown apart. One glance at the silky-haired baby cradled in Brady's arms told Libby more than any blood test...



  • Julia Darling

    It is late December and fifteen-year-old Caris is trying to hang an angel on a Christmas tree in a terraced house in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She is interrupted by the arrival of the police, who have come to announce that her mother, Louise, has been cau...



  • Peter David

    In Knight Life, King Arthur was elected mayor of New York City. Now, in One Knight Only, Arthur has a new job -- President of the United States... President Arthur Penn and his wife, Gwen, have been learning to navigate the intricacies of Congress a...



  • Carolyn Davidson

    Faith Hudson's marriage was a disaster. Her husband was better off in Boston without her. It had been clear to her then, and it was even clearer now that she'd traveled west and made her home on a Texas ranch. She had no plans of ever returning. B...





  • Patrick A. Davis

    When General Michael Garber, the newly appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is discovered dead in the private compartment of his airplane, Air Force investigator Martin Collins finds himself thrust into the most dangerous case of his care...



  • Jodi Dawson

    Faith Kincade would do anything for her family -- even agree to carry her sister's baby. Only, a tragedy has left Faith pregnant, alone, but determined to keep the child.... Nick Harrison vows to gain custody of his late brother's baby. But when h...



  • Nancy Raines Day

    Although he begins his delivery on a unicycle, Monkey's trip takes an unusual turn as the one wheel of the unicycle suddenly doubles and doubles again, transforming his vehicles along the way until he has 64 wheels by the time he reaches his destinat...



  • John Dearie

    Swearing off women after his fiancÉe cheats on him, Wall Street banker Jack Lafferty unexpectedly falls for corporate attorney Sarah Mitchell and must strive to win her back after a series of unfortunate events. Reprint....



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    Bride-to-be Leah Burton desperately wants to learn how to satisfy a man. Her lackluster fiance isn't offering his services...but Jace Rutledge definitely is. And with a copy of Sexcapades under her bed -- and Jace in it! -- Leah's sure she'll make th...



  • Janelle Denison

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  • Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Streets of Waterdeep... Where danger lurks round every corner as the avatars of the gods seek the Tablets of Fate. Where Cyric and Myrkul, god of death, plot to capture Midnight and twist the Tablets to their own dark ends, imperiling the v...



  • Kathie DeNosky

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  • Jacqueline Diamond

    One Night Was All It Took... for Dr. Jason Carmichael to believe that Heather Rourke had given birth to his baby. After all, there were the rumors that she'd taken off from work for two months for "personal reasons," right around the time she woul...



  • Helen Dickson

    When Captain Stuart Marston meets, woos and then marries Cassandra Everson in Barbados, he is unaware of her real identity. And then the truth is revealed -- she is none other than the daughter of his enemy, a notorious pirate who has terrorized the ...



  • P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    Spurred by dreams of conquest but dogged by treachery, the volatile young Alexander has set his ambitious eyes on the prize city of Halicarnassus in this new novel by Paul Doherty-a writer who offers what Publishers Weekly calls "a rare example of hi...



  • Robert Doherty

    THE SHADOWS OF HISTORY ARE THEIR HOME. THE BLOOD OF HUMANS IS THEIR SUSTENANCE. NOW THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THEM.... It began at the dawn of history, when a darkness rose from deep within an Egyptian tomb. For thousands of years--long before Earth w...



  • Renate Dorrestein

    Their ideal family life shattered by the senseless murder of their beloved and promising teenage son, Phinus and Franka Vermeer find their marriage increasingly strained in the ensuing emotional turmoil. Reprint....



  • Marcia Douglas

    A poetic novel melds the past and the present of the author's native Jamaica through the voices of a series of women, both real and mythological, whose lives embody the country's mythology, colonial history, and matrilineal traditions...



  • Sara Douglass

    Australian author Sara Douglass, author of the beloved Wayfarer Redemption series, presents a stunning standalone prequel to the Darkglass Mountain trilogy.Like his physician father, Garth Baxtor is gifted with The Touch. By laying his hands upon a p...



  • Tim Downs

    Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak (a.k.a. the Bug Man) is hired by thirty-year-old Kathryn Guilford, who is terrified of bugs, to solve her friend's death. When Polchak stumbles into the mystery of how Kathryn's husband was killed years earlier, the...



  • Emily Drake

    Camp Ravenwyng had opened a world of possibilities for Jason Adrian, and introduced him to wonderful new friends. For Jason, Bailey, Trent, and their fellow campers were Magickers, gifted with special abilities which the Council of adult Magickers wa...



  • Diane Duane

    The latest, greatest, high-tech thrill ride for Tom Clancy's legion of young fans.The amateurs are beating the pros in this year's spatball playoffs-and some big bettors plan to lose a fortune. When they threaten a star player, the Net Force Explorer...



  • Judy Duarte
    in

    The last thing they thought they wanted was each other...until a midnight confession changed everything!...



  • Alice Duncan

    Meet Daisy Gumm Majesty--spiritualist by trade, con artist to the core. There are plenty of scams to be scored in sunny Pasadena, where almost anything goes and Prohibition doesn't even slow a body down... Taking Care Of Business I may not reall...



  • Anne Marie Duquette

    Twins like Eric Kincaide and his sister, Naomi, know each other's every thought. But that closeness came between him and Lindsey Nelson, the woman he'd planned to marry, four years ago. When their wedding plans fell through, Lindsey ran as far and fa...



  • Arabella Edge

    "I, Jeronimus, am a man of phials, a measurer of powders on bronze scales, a potion brewer, an opium and arsenic merchant. The primped and perfumed Amsterdam burghers came to me in droves requiring cures for fevers, love balms, the miscarriage of a b...



  • Susan Edwards

    A DARK BEGINNING For years after his family was massacred, the half-breed Night Shadow harbored black dreams of vengeance -- and the hope of someday finding his kidnapped younger sister. Now was the chance. His enemy had shown himself and was to be ...



  • Kate Ellis

    Past and present come together in Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson's latest case. In the course of restoring the gardens at historic Earlsacre Hall, three skeletons are uncovered. The bones appear to be centuries old, but they hold an interest for ...



  • Garth Ennis

    From red-hot British comics creator Garth Ennis (Preacher, Just a Pilgrim) and a host of artists including Glenn Fabry (Preacher, Sláine) and Peter Docherty (Grendel Tales), and with an all-new cover by John Higgins (Watchmen), the hard-hitting, unc...



  • Garth Ennis

    A white skull on a field of black. In the Marvel Universe, no symbol inspires fear in the hearts of criminals like the stark calling card of the Punisher. His wife and children killed in a mob shootout, former serviceman Frank Castle wages a one-man ...



  • Joseph Epstein

    Witty, “utterly compelling” short stories about Jewish men of a certain age, by the New York Times"bestselling author of Snobbery (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review). Set in Chicago and populated by characters ranging from lawyers and profess...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm finds out just how bad the bad girls of Rio Blanco can be!U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long is off to Rio Blanco County to catch some thieves stealing Indian Agency cattle. Two of the rustlers are women, so it should be interesting. But Longarm...



  • Quinn Fawcett

    The world knows Ian Fleming best as the creator of that international sensation, James Bond, hero of countless novels and films. The real Ian Fleming was once an operative for British Naval Intelligence, ostensibly retired to a career in journalism a...



  • Christine Feehan
    in

    BE WARNED four of today's most popular authors push passion and intrigue to the limit in four thrilling original stories... In a sleepy coastal town... Early retirement turns deadly for a defense expert--until a beautiful woman steps between him...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    BABIES, INC. Accepting the secretary position at prestigious Mallory and Dixon had been step one in Mindy Richards's makeover. After all, she was newly single in the city...with twin babies-on-the-way to support. But her new life took a turn down me...



  • Liz Fielding

    CAUGHT BY A TYCOON! Billionaire Richard Mallory has spent his life swarmed by beautiful but unsuitable women. Now, just when he's given up on ever meeting Ms. Right, he finds Ginny -- in his bedroom! She's different -- natural, honest-looking, inn...



  • Anahita Firouz

    Set in the exotic, seductive world of pre-revolutionary Iran, In the Walled Garden tells the nostalgic and moving story of Mahastee and Reza, who loved each other as children but have not seen each other for 20 years. Mahastee, who has become trapped...



  • Jude Fisher

    A MAELSTROM OF MAGIC At the most recent Allfair, a time of truce, open hostilities have flared once more between the opposed countries of Eyra and Istria, threatening to bring all-out war to the world of Elda. But the opposing countries are not fu...



  • Scott Flander

    When a black city councilman is badly beaten on a West Philadelphia street and blames two of Eddie's best cops, they deny it. Called to the scene, Eddie -- uncertain of what really happened -- decides to back his men and finds himself accused of a co...



  • Lynn Flewelling

    A TRICK OF MAGIC, A TWIST OF FATE. As the orphaned nephew of the king, trusted companion to his cousin, and second heir to the throne of Skala, Prince Tobin's future is clear. But not as clear as the spring in which a hill witch shows him his true f...



  • T.T. Flynn

    Four of the author's best novellas are contained within one exciting volume that is filled with a colorful cast of characters, from a young man searching for his fugitive brother to a group of stagecoach passengers who must join forces to fight for t...



  • Mick Foley

    If you’re one of those crying-to-your-shrink-cause-your-childhood-was-SO-hard type of people, you should probably read #1 New York Times Bestselling author Mick Foley’s fiction debut, Tietam Brown, for a reality check. Even if you’re not one of...



  • G.M. Ford

    Beneath the rotting floorboards of an abandoned shed are human bones -- lots of them -- the last things a runaway rogue true-crime writer and his photojournalist ex-lover expected to find when they took shelter from a vicious Wisconsin blizzard. The ...



  • Susan Ford; Laura Hayden

    Eve Cooper takes a glider ride at the Air Force Academy. Shortly thereafter, the same glider is involved in a fatal crash. Just a coincidence, or did someone try to sabotage the plane? Is a killer stalking the President's daughter? Or is the real tar...



  • Andrew Fox

    He’s undead, overweight, and can’t get a date Vampire, nosferatu, creature of the night -- whatever you call him -- Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in...



  • Susan Fox

    When Reece Waverly became a widower with an infant son to care for, he turned to Leah Gray. They had a strong friendship and he knew she'd make the perfect wife and mother. It was a convenient marriage -- only Reece had no idea Leah had been secr...



  • Betsy Franco

    The voices of fifty-seven young American Indians emerge in a powerful collection of original writing coedited by the anthologist of YOU HEAR ME? and THINGS I HAVE TO TELL YOU.

    When the night isgone and the day isstill coming,we will be taken ...



  • Dorothea Benton Frank

    Anna Lutz Abbot thinks she has her independence, and therefore her happiness, intact. She is a capable woman, a sensible woman, not someone given to risky living. This all seems to be true enough until her lovely daughter returns from college for...



  • Leo Frankowski; Dave Grossman

    THIS TIME IT'S REAL, TANKER BOY! New Kashubia was a planet rich in heavy metals, but utterly lacking in carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Even dirt had to be imported at great expense. The colonists, moved there from Earth against their will, lived in...




  • Maggie Furey

    Returning to the world of Myrial, Maggie Furey continues her heroic saga of The Shadowleague. When all is lost, it's the actions of a few brave souls that will be remembered forever.... The Curtain Walls have fallen--leaving the world of Myrial vu...



  • Simon Furman

    Continuing Titan’s bestselling Transformers collections, this never-before-collected reprint of the extremely hard-to-find Transformers UK comic material collects the Space Pirates storyline, which relates directly to the events of the DVD smash-hi...



  • Pat G'Orge-Walker

    Follows Sister Betty, a member of Ain't Nobody Right But Us--All Others Goin' to Hell Church, whose life was forever changed when God called her on the phone in 1984, as she makes it her mission to save her fellow congregants from themselves, which i...



  • Kristin Gabriel
    in

    Widow Carmen Perez was about to sell the historic building at 10 Sandringham Drive in Seattle to Katherine Kinard for her day-care center. But what would happen to Carmen's sons, who lived there now? Carmen dreamed of having daughters-in-law, a house...



  • Jack Gantos

    In Jack Adrift, the Henry family sets sail on a new life in Cape Hatteras. Fourth-grader Jack is struggling to chart a course between his father's erratic, headstrong philosophy and his mother's small-town honesty. Just tell people what they want to ...



  • Katherine Garbera

    JUST ONE NIGHT... That was all Holly Fitzgerald would allow herself with the tall, dark and brooding CFO Joe Barone. Winning Baronessa Gelati's contest paled next to what she felt when the aloof Joe watched her with sexual desire blatant in his sh...



  • Lisa Gardner

    DEATH ALWAYS STRIKES ON TIME.... Each time he strikes, he takes two victims. He waits for the first victim to be discovered -- a body containing all the clues investigators need to find the second victim, who counts the seconds . . . to a slow but c...



  • Nancy Geary

    A Story of Murder, Manners, and Dark Family Secrets The salt air still peels the paint from the old clapboard mansions and the residents still send their pampered sons and daughters to Groton and Miss Porter's. In Manchester-by-the-Sea, nothing ca...



  • Giuseppe Genna

    Milan, 1962. Detective David Montorsi is obsessed with the murder of a young child found buried under a WWII monument. His lone investigation leads him to an elusive figure named Ishmael. Milan, 2001. Detective Guido Lopez investigates the random kil...



  • Marie Giordano

    I, Letticia ChiChi Maggiordino, will put to GOOD use the power of the Evil Eye...ChiChi Maggiordino will do anything to get God's attention. She will hold her breath, stand on tiptoe for an hour, walk a mile backward, climb all stairs on her knees.....



  • Shirley Glaser

    Milton Glaser, the founder of New York magazine, and the creator of the globally recognized I § NY logo, is beloved by art aficionados and design enthusiasts the world over. In this beautifully designed, enchanting book for children of all ages, Mil...



  • Robert Goddard

    Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters against their aged and irascible father. Michael Paleologus, retired archaeologist and supposed descendant of ...



  • Golden Books

    Bob the Builder is busy getting the town ready for a Christmas Eve concert! He is also expecting a very special guest for the holidays. Textured cards can be used to add patterns to the pages. Kids can decorate their own Christmas trees with the orna...



  • Golden Books

    Dora leaves a special gift for Santa under the Christmas tree, but he forgets to take it! She and Boots set out for the North Pole to deliver it. Includes decorative hologramatic stickers for an extra touch of holiday shimmer. Kids can send holiday w...



  • Golden Books

    A magic hat brings Frosty the Snowman to life in this retelling of the timeless animated classic. Children will enjoy coloring the big, bold images and decorating their homes with the bonus full-color window clings. The back cover includes a coin-tos...



  • Golden Books

    Casper loses his ghostly powers just when his friends need them most. Kids can help him save the day by finishing the mazes and puzzles in this book. Includes glow-in-the-dark stickers so everyone’s favorite friendly ghost can be added to books and...



  • Christie Golden

    When an unstoppable Borg plague breaks out upon Earth, blame quickly falls on the newly returned crew of the Starship Voyage . Did Kathryn Janeway and the others unknowingly carry this insidious infection back with them? Many in Starfleet think so, ...




  • Eileen Goudge

    After years in the shadow of her movie-star sister, Monica, Anna Vincenzi decided it was time to shed that extra weight and reinvent herself. Now she's a knockout--and her emerging beauty has escaped no one, least of all her sister. But when Monica i...



  • Carol Grace

    Carol Grace whisks readers away to Italy's sunny Amalfi Coast, where whitewashed villas and fragrant lemon trees sit high atop craggy cliffs...and romance is always in the air. Ever since high school, Anne Marie Jackson has dreamed of visiting It...



  • Heather Graham
    in

    Heather Graham: "Will they make it? And if they do, how on earth will they manage? And last, but never least, will they survive together? The combination of romance and suspense is irresistible. I love the genre, and hope to give back just a percent...



  • Lynne Graham

    Will the Frenchman discover he has a secret son? Tabby fell in love with Christien Laroche, but then tragedy struck and Christien wanted nothing more to do with her. How could Tabby confess to the arrogant Frenchman that she was expecting his baby...



  • Sara Gran

    From the author of the Claire DeWitt series: This “witty and poignant” novel of a woman moving on to a new stage of life, as her mother does the same (Rocky Mountain News).   Mary Forrest is in her late twenties and comes from a literary fam...



  • Alan Grant

    The Justice League learns that a mysterious volcanic island is not what it seems. Hawkgirl is puzzled that no birds reside on the island . . . and is left to battle an unknown foe on her own when the members of the League are found petrified! Can the...



  • Laurie Grant

    During their childhood, one girl devotedly followed Bowie Beckett everywhere; in turn, he teased the plantation owner's daughter unmercifully and loved her from afar. But now she is a beautiful woman and his boyhood feelings are a man's passi...



  • Crystal Green
    in

    His father had forbidden their match years ago. But now the Kingsley heir and his long-lost love were reunited.......



  • J.C. Greenburg

    After getting unshrunk, Andrew, Judy, and Thudd take a much needed vacation to Hawaii. While making modifications to Uncle Al’s latest invention"the submarine-like Water Bug"Andrew ends up stranding himself, Judy, and Thudd underwater!Andrew Lo...



  • James Grippando

    An allegedly "reformed" contract killer is the last client Miami criminal attorney Jack Swyteck wants. But Tatum Knight is the older brother of Jack's best friend--and the ruthless assassin swears he had nothing to do with shooting death of Sally Fen...



  • Jens Christian Grondahl

    While recovering from a devastating car accident, Lucca, a young actress with a string of love affairs behind her, is told by her doctor that she may never see again. Robert, her doctor, is recovering in his own way from his wife's infidelity and a f...



  • Grosset & Dunlap

    These wonderful hardcover compilations of favorite stories include a mix of beloved classics as well as recent hits-sure to appeal to girls and boys alike!

    Includes: We Look and See; We Come and Go; and The New We Work and Play....



  • David Hagberg

    A novel by David HagbergBased on the screenplay by Jonathan Mostow, John Brancato, and Michael FerrisThe novel of the blockbuster hit filmFor two generations of moviegoers, the Terminator movies have defined adrenaline-soaked action filmmaking. Starr...



  • Candy Halliday

    Mary Beth Morgan has finally hit the big time -- a gig on a hot new soap opera, a home on the beach and enough star power to show her face with confidence at her upcoming high school reunion. But Mary Beth can't believe her high school sweetheart, Za...