Books Published in July 2004

popular books

BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 2004

Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed

New Books List: 544 titles

  • All Or Nothing At All

    Patricia Abbott

    Author of Goodbye Dear, I'll Be Back in a Year

    A watershed year, 1945 is an end and a beginning: the end of the largest and most profound war in human history; the beginning of an unprecedented period of growth for the United States and its emerge...

  • The Isle of Mists

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Three out of three! Sparr has found all of his Three Powers, and that adds up to big trouble for Droon. Armed with the Red Eye of Dawn, the Coiled Viper, and the Golden Wasp, Sparr is ...

  • Murder Suicide

    Keith Ablow

    HE POSSESSED WEALTH, FAME, GENIUS - An hour before inventor John Snow is to undergo experimental brain surgery, he's discovered outside Massachusetts General Hospital, dead from a single bullet wound. Did he commit suicide as the police suspect - ...

  • Duty and Desire

    Pamela Aidan

    Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice is beloved by millions, but little is revealed in the book about the mysterious and handsome hero, Mr. Darcy. And so the question has long remained: Who is Fitzwilliam Darcy? Pamela Aidan's trilogy...

  • Spur of the Moment

    Theresa Alan

    Theresa Alan, the wickedly funny author of Who You Know, takes readers on a raucous ride through the outrageous lives of three Denver roommates struggling to make it in the fast-paced world of improvisational comedy. Caught up in lowly temp jobs, dat...

  • Summer Madness

    Rochelle Alers
    in

    In Rochelle Alers' Summer Madness, a sexy brother with a mysterious past turns a pretty librarian's play-it-safe Hamptons vacation into a torrent of sensual delights. But can she trust him without knowing his whole story?...

  • Safe Haven

    Hannah Alexander

    Youthful master of disguise Fawn Morrison comes to charming Hideaway, Missouri, seeking refuge. Now that her dangerous game has turned deadly, she must entrust her safety to strangers. Karah Lee Fletcher relishes the challenges offered by Hideawa...

  • The Society Catch

    Louise Allen

    RUNNING AWAY FROM LOVE! Miss Joanna Fulgrave has turned herself into the perfect society catch to be worthy of dashing Colonel Giles Gregory. But all her hard effort to improve herself comes to nothing when it looks as if Giles is about to propose...

  • Primal Waters

    Steve Alten

    New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten's Meg: Primal Waters continues his thrilling action adventure series--the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor.Eighteen years have passed since Angel, the Megalodon s...

  • Wake Up, Sir!

    Jonathan Ames

    From the creator of the HBO series Bored to Death, the story of a young alcoholic writer and his personal valet, a hilarious homage to the Bertie and Jeeves novels of P.G. Wodehouse.Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young, loony writer with...

  • The Game of Sunken Places

    M.T. Anderson

    When Brian and Gregory receive an invitation to stay at a distant relative's strange mansion...well, they should know better than to go. Trips to distant relatives' strange mansions rarely go well. And this mansion is even stranger than most. Uncle M...

  • Blooming All Over

    Judith Arnold

    There may be a bigger deli than Bloom's somewhere in the world, but there's certainly none better! That doesn't mean it's the only place Susie Bloom ever wants to dine, though. Writing The Bloom's Bulletin is a fun sideline, but Susie is keeping her ...

  • Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name

    Tedd Arnold

    Wild and wacky art by Tedd Arnold illustrates this favorite camp song. With googly eyes that move and priced at $10.95!



    Meet Catalina Magdalena Whoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan...
    She had two holes on the bottom of her ...

  • Annihilation

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

    A journey through the unforgiving expanse of the endless Abyss awaits. At the end of that journey a ragged band of dark elves hope to find Lolth herself. Though they've managed to survive the fall of Ched Nasad, the demon-haunted ruins of Myth Dranno...

  • Farewell, My Only One

    Antoine Audouard

    A novel that brings to life one of the great romances of all time. “Evokes in gritty and poetic detail the streets of twelfth-century Paris.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewIn the early twelfth century, William reaches Paris full of hope and w...

  • Building Heroes

    Annie Auerbach

    An old abandoned building is being demolished to make space for a new after-school center. Bad weather threatens to disrupt construction plans, but the Hero City team knows they must complete the center in time for the next school year. Join thes...

  • Emergency!

    Annie Auerbach

    An emergency vehicles board book, with a flashing light to press on each spread.Flash, flash, let's dash!Race through this fun board book, pressing the button on every page to make the emergency vehicles light up.With sweet illustrations by Hayley Ke...

  • Uncanny X-Men Vol. 5: She Lies With Angels

    Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #437-441. A riveting tale about a young human and a young mutant falling in love, and what terrible consequences it will have not only for them, but for their family and friends. How will the X-Men react?...

  • Shadows of the Last War

    Keith Baker

    RACE TO UNCOVER SECRETS BURIED BY DISASTER The ruined House Cannith citadel of Whitehearth holds the key to constructing a terrible magic weapon. Agents of the Emerald Claw will stop at nothing to recover the ancient device. As malevolent forces h...

  • The Harem Bride

    Blair Bancroft

    A Fateful Night Miss Penelope Blayne is outraged. She considers herself perfectly capable of managing her late aunt's estate, but unfortunately, her aunt has chosen Jason Lisbourne, Earl of Rocksley -- the one man she wished never to see again...

  • Crossing the Line

    Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    The only way to come clean with everyone you've lied to -- and if you've lied to nearly everyone in your life -- is to come clean all at once. So what did I do? I threw a party, a New Year's Day party to launch my new life. And so Jane Taylo...

  • To Tempt a Rogue

    Adrienne Basso

    She Ran From A Broken Heart... A pillar of decorum and decency, Harriet Sainthill suddenly finds herself the object of scandal when her cad of a fiance jilts her. Ever practical, she accepts a position as a governess to a wealthy Scottish merchant,...

  • Timing Is Everything

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    At age forty, Esther Young had a comfortable routine, despite her sister's never-ending attempts at match-making. But when Tom Pearson stepped into her office, Esther's life suddenly changed. With their relationship moving along so quickly - and s...

  • Wives & Lovers

    Richard Bausch

    Wives & Lovers is a collection of three short novels from the author whom the Boston Globe calls "one of the most expert and substantial of our writers." Requisite Kindness -- published here for the first time -- tells the story of a man who must co...

  • The Beatles: Yellow Submarine

    The Beatles

    A whole new generation will be climbing aboard this sunny, psychedelic storybook, while nostalgic Beatles fans of all ages will be clamoring for a ticket to ride. Once upon a time (or maybe twice), some 80,000 leagues beneath the sea, there lay a...

  • Assassin

    Ted Bell

    Clive Cussler called Ted Bell's action thriller Hawke "rich, spellbinding, and absorbing." Now, a desperate race to avert an assault on America has Bell's brilliant intelligence agent battling terrorists on a breathtaking worldwide scale. Alexande...

  • Male Model

    Dave Benbow

    “[This] breezy beach read features dazzlingly beautiful boys, steamy sex . . . love and revenge” -- from the author of Daytime Drama (Publishers Weekly).   Designing window displays for the glamorous Cameron Fuller USA store ...

  • Let's Pretend This Never Happened

    Jim Benton

    PERFECT GIRLS MAKE PERFECT ENEMIES Dear Dumb Diary, School was okay today. Actually, it was better than okay. Angeline got her long, beautiful hair tangled in one of the jillion things she has dangling from her backpack, and the school nurse -...

  • The Burning Girl

    Mark Billingham

    Some fires never go out ... X marks the spot -- and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract kille...

  • Rebound

    ReShonda Tate Billingsley
    in

    A jilted bride is on the Rebound in ReShonda Tate Billingsley's tale of passion in unexpected places. A Houston attorney goes solo on the Belize honeymoon she was supposed to share with her husband -- and makes a sizzling connection with a handsome s...

  • The Tawdry Yellow Brick Road

    David Bischoff

    Madrigal "Maddy" Harper is a parole officer and the single mother of a mildly autistic 12-year-old son, Skylar. His fascination by the science fictional universe of Star Train brings them both to ElfCon, a fanfest and SF extravaganza. When Abner Fare...

  • Into the Prairie: The Pioneers

    Rosanne Bittner

    Into the Prairie continues Rosanne Bittner's retelling of the growth of America through the descendants of Noah and Jess Wilde, featured in the first book of this series, Into the Wilderness. Grandson Jonah Wilde, his wife Sadie, and their three-year...

  • Black Satin: Contemporary Erotic Fiction by Writers of American Origin

    J.H. Blair

    Some of today's leading African-American authors--including Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, Bebe Moore Campbell, Eric Jerome Dickey, Gloria Naylor, E. Lynn Harris, bell hooks, Jamaica Kincaid, and many others--lend their talents to a richly diverse col...

  • Anatomy of a Crossword

    Nero Blanc

    DOWN AND UP IN BEVERLY HILLS Crossword editor Belle Graham is headed for Hollywood. It seems that a crossword crime story is the perfect hook for a new TV series called "Anatomy of a Crossword." A little cajoling from starstruck friends and the ...

  • Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys

    Francesca Lia Block
    in

    With their parents away, four young people form a rock band that becomes wildly popular, carrying them into a "freer" life than they can cope with....

  • Witch Baby

    Francesca Lia Block
    in

    Once upon a time in the city of Shangri-L.A., someone left a baby on a doorstep. She had wild, dark hair and purple eyes and looked at the world in a special way.The family that took her in called her Witch Baby and raised her as their own. But even ...

  • Baby Be-Bop

    Francesca Lia Block
    in

    Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother....

  • The Four-Leaf Clover

    Cheryl Bolen
    in

    Lucky--that's how Norman Sterling felt when he fell in love with beautiful Mildred Gresham. And the four-leaf clover he just found by their Fourth of July picnic blanket is a sign that their love was meant to be. He's waited six long years to propose...

  • Visions of Liberty

    Baen Books

    The Future of Freedom—as Explored by Top Science Fiction Writers in a New Volume of All Original Stories.As Thomas Jefferson put it, That government is best which governs least. And, as Will Rogers wryly quipped, We're lucky we don't get all t...

  • Walking Money

    James O. Born

    State police officer Bill Tasker faces the toughest case of his career when he is framed for a crime involving more than a million dollars of stolen money, a corrupt FBI agent, and a murdered key witness. Reprint....

  • The Cat's Pajamas

    Ray Bradbury

    Ray Bradbury is, indisputably, one of America's greatest storytellers. The recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, he ranks among the most beloved -- and widely read -- of American auth...

  • Good Girl Wants It Bad

    Scott Bradfield

    Over the years, Scott Bradfield has been recognized by his peers in the literary world as a star. Now, with Good Girl Wants It Bad, the best-kept secret in contemporary fiction is poised to reach his widest audience yet. Weirdly endearing Delila...

  • The Alchemy of Fire

    Gillian Bradshaw

    Constantinople, 672 ad. Ex-concubine Anna is attempting to raise her daughter well, but as an Arab invasion threatens and Kallinikos an alchemist working on a secret weapon to use in the seige comes into their lives, a secret about her daughter is fo...

  • Dark Water Dive

    Kathy Brandt

    THE CRIME SCENE: A TROPICAL PARADISE... I, Hannah Sampson, recently retired homicide detective and team leader of the Denver police scuba team, swore never, ever to dive into the icy black water again. So why am I pulling on a dry suit one more ...

  • Vengeance Gun

    Lyle Brandt

    As marshal in the peaceful haven of New Harmony, former gunslinger Matthew Price finds his new life shattered when his wife is murdered and sets out to exact his own special brand of justice against those responsible. Original....

  • Divine Sarah

    Adam Braver

    Set over the course of one week in 1906, Divine Sarah reimagines the life of the legendary Sarah Bernhardt. Facing protests from the newly formed League of Decency, the controversial actress is forced to move her latest production from Los Angeles to...

  • Scandal

    Pamela Britton

    ROGUE, RAKE, RASCAL, AND GENTLEMAN! Rein Montgomery, the Duke of Wroxly, live as a commoner? His late uncle's will is painfully clear: Rein must survive without his wealth or title in the meanest of London's streets for one month, or else lose his...

  • Bait and Switch

    Larry Brooks

    The man: Wolfgang Schmitt: former model, newly single, habitual wiseass. It’s a profile only his ailing mother could love -- but it makes him perfect for one thing . . . The bait: Billionaire Nelson Scott wants Schmitt to seduce his wife -- settin...

  • Bengal Station

    Eric Brown

    Jeff Vaughan, a world-weary telepath employed by the spaceport on Bengal Station, discovers a sinister cult that worships a mysterious alien god. The Church of the Adoration of the Chosen One uses drugs to commune with the ultimate - and murder to si...

  • Arthur and the New Kid

    Marc Brown

    Arthur and his friends aren’t sure of what to make of Norbert, the new kid in their class. He wears a jacket and tie, sits at the fourth graders’ table in the lunchroom, and buys two slices of pizza for lunch. But when Norbert helps Francine answ...

  • Fannin' the Flames

    Parry Brown

    The fire and rescue squad from Los Angeles County’s Fire Department Station Twenty-seven’s “C-Shift” was a rock-solid team. The camaraderie among them was only made stronger by the fact that they were all minority. But when their unit becomes...

  • The Doctor's Wife

    Elizabeth Brundage

    "The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun." So begins The Doctor's Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives. From the outside, the Knowles family has it all. Michael is a rising...

  • The Mating Season

    Alex Brunkhorst

    Zorka Carpenter lives a life completely devoted to animals. In a glass house on a hill she spends her days absorbed in her menagerie. Enigmatic architect Richard Dorsey has spent his life trying to escape the fame he garnered in his youth. Living ...

  • Avengers: Living Legends

    Kurt Busiek

  • Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne - Volume 2

    John Byrne

  • The Wind Caller

    P.D. Cacek

    Listen to the leaves rustling. Hear the wind building. These could the first signs that Gideon Berlander has found you. They could be the last sounds you hear. Gideon hasn't been the same since that terrifying night in the cave, the night he changed ...

  • The Last Leprechaun

    June Calvin

    A Rake's Destiny Elizabeth Longford wants only one thing from her cousin John Blayne, Earl of Wayneathe -- his help in saving the cherished forest where they played as children -- and where they once caught a glimpse of a leprechaun. But Lord ...

  • Benji: Off The Leash!

    Joe Camp

    Benji Is Back! Follow the adventures of Benji and his wacky sidekick, Lizard Tongue, in this exciting novel based on the new movie! This brand-new story was written by Benji's creator especially for the new Benji after the huggable mutt was re...

  • Slave to Love

    Rebecca Campbell

    Among the assorted snobs and eager sycophants employed at London's fifth-largest auction house -- an enterprise as unimpressive as it sounds -- Alice Duclos and Andrew Heathley stand out as bright and brainy. Alice has a head for science, but her cau...

  • My Forever Love

    Marsha Canham

    FALLING FROM GRACE... Ciaran Tamberlane was once an honored warrior -- until the day he lost his faith in both church and crown, and was branded a traitor by his fellow countrymen. Excommunicated by the church and surrounded by dark rumors, he lives...

  • Lace

    Giselle Carmichael

  • Promise Him Anything

    Carla Cassidy

    She promised not to leave him. She lied.... A year ago, Juliette Monroe took her young son and fled from her violent husband with only the clothes on their backs--and the terrifying fear that he would find them. A powerful man of seemingly limitl...

  • That's What Friends Do

    Kathryn Cave

    If you are lost in the wood, I will find you. If you're afraid of the cold and the dark, I'll sit beside you. With subtle text and expressive illustrations, That's What Friends Do beautifully evokes the joys of giving and receiving true friendship....

  • AVP: Alien vs. Predator

    Marc Cerasini

    Two of 20th Century Fox's biggest franchises ever " Alien and Predator "come together in one movie!

    A team of drillers, scientists and archaeologists led by a billionaire industrialist travel to Antarctica to investigate ancient pyrami...

  • Roam

    Vanz Chapman

  • Hasty Death

    Marion Chesney

    SECRETS TO DIE FOR Lady Rose Summer refuses to abide by her parents' insistence that she marry. Even more distressing, she wants to become self-supporting by moving out with her maid Daisy and going to work in trade. On advice from Captain Har...

  • And Then Came You

    Maureen Child

    Nine years ago, Samantha Marconi was swept away in a whirlwind wedding...even though she'd only known her new husband for a month. When Jeff left her just weeks after the wedding-she found out she was pregnant and had nowhere to turn. So Sam did the ...

  • Strawberry Shortcake Sleeps Over

    Siobhan Ciminera

  • X-Men: Old Soldiers

    Chris Claremont

  • Essential X-Men, Volume 5

    Chris Claremont

  • X-Treme X-Men, Volume 8: Prisoner of Fire

    Chris Claremont

  • Hide Yourself Away

    Mary Jane Clark

    WATCH YOUR BACK. TRUST NO ONE. Nobody in this perfect seaside resort town ever imagined that the body of a missing heiress might be found deep in a tunnel beneath her family's crumbling Newport estate. Nobody, that is, but the last person to see her ...

  • The Buck Stops Here

    Mindy Starns Clark

    When Callie learns that the man she loves is somehow connected to the man who killed her late husband, she confronts Tom. But he informs her that his hands are tied by the National Security Agency and he can tell her nothing.

    Despite the se...

  • Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam

    Paul Clayton

    The year is 1968. Like thousands of other American boys, Carl Melcher is drafted and sent to Vietnam. His new company is infected with the same racial tensions plaguing the nation. Despite that, Carl makes friends on both sides of the color line. The...

  • Backstabber

    Tim Cockey

    Trouble is on the way when the corpse isn't even cold and Hitch is already on the scene--before the police. The apparent murderer, and Hitch's supposed friend, wants Hitch to scoop up the body and dump it into an unmarked grave. Hitch declines the in...

  • Fourth Victim

    Jan Coffey

    Two decades ago, the mass suicide of the members of a New Mexico cult shocked the nation. Miraculously, four people -- one adult and three children -- managed to get away safely. But now it appears that none of them will escape the tragedy that took ...

  • The Price of Pleasure

    Kresley Cole

    A man noted for his courage and integrity, Captain Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, an English girl lost at sea a decade before. He's given her ailing grandfather his word -- as a gentleman -- to find and protect her....

  • The Artemis Fowl Files

    Eoin Colfer

    HUMAN: PREPARE YOURSELF! How much do you know about the infamous Artemis Fowl and the People? Become an expert on everything in Artemis's world, with this hilarious and essential guide to the Artemis Fowl books. Featuring: - Two brand-new ...

  • Buddy Cooper Finds a Way

    Neil O. Connelly

    When you lose for a living, it's pretty hard to fail. Once, like all of us, Buddy dreamt of success. He and his wife, Alix, had just bought a new place, not too far from the beach. Their daughter, Brook, was out of the hospital. And the fans were ...

  • Maximum Security

    Rose Connors

    At the urgent request of Harry Madigan, Marty takes on the defense of Louisa Rawlings, a woman suspected of murdering her wealthy husband. Harry is Marty's law partner. He's also her lover -- but he used to be Louisa's. Marty is simultaneously int...

  • Showdown at Rio Sagrado

    Ralph Cotton

    Arriving in the town of Redemption to investigate the murder of a sheriff -- a crime in which an innocent man has been accused, Ranger Sam Burrack, in his quest to seek justice, must end the Rio Sagrado Gang's reign of terror over the town once and f...

  • Hey Nostradamus!

    Douglas Coupland

    Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and ...

  • Over and Under

    Mat Coward

    No Laughing Matter... Murder is horrible, of course, as Inspector Don Packham will attest. But when the weapon is a baseball bat - in a cricket pavilion, no less - well, that's a crime of another sort. The grim display appeared at the annual cricket ...

  • Weddings

    Colin Cowie

  • The Magical Elixir

    Tracy Cozzens
    in

    Step right up, ladies and gentlemen...only one dollar a bottle. The Independence Day picnic always means good business for patent-medicine salesman Allardyce Hannigan. But one look at pretty Katie Donovan stops him in mid-spiel. If there's a cure for...

  • Bad Ground

    W. Dale Cramer

    Poignant and thought provoking, this is a down-to-earth, sometimes humorous novel ¹lled with suspense, action, redemption, and even romance. Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Prine decides to honor his mother's dying wish and seek out his estranged uncle wh...

  • The Summer Guest

    Justin Cronin

    With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man’s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love. On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright...

  • Forged

    Laura Crum

    "I was cleaning the gun. An accident." Horse veterinarian Gail McCarthy doesn't particularly like her horseshoer, Dominic Castillo. For one thing, he was always late for a job. Worse, given the slightest pleasant word or look from one of his femal...

  • Lost City

    Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos

    An enzyme that could dramatically prolong life has been discovered in the North Atlantic--under two thousand feet of icy water in an area known as the "Lost City." But why are the people attempting to harvest its secrets dying mysteriously? Why are s...

  • Going East

    Matthew D'Ancona

    Mia Taylor’s life is enviable: she has a high-profile career, a glamorous, powerful family, and feels trust and love for the world that surrounds her. And then a terrorist bomb destroys it all in one night. Struggling to comprehend the loss of ever...

  • A Seahorse Year

    Stacey D'Erasmo

    In Stacey D'Erasmo's acclaimed second novel, a quintessentially modern family is ultimately transformed by the emerging breakdown of their teenage son, Christopher. When he disappears from his San Francisco home, his extended family comes together in...

  • This Old Souse

    Mary Daheim

    Murder, Seamy Secrets, Regular Milk Delivery A nostalgic trip back to Renie's old neighborhood wasn't meant to get B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's snooping engine revved up. But when the exotic and decrepit manse on Moonfleet Street that the ...

  • Calder Promise

    Janet Dailey

    Young and beautiful, with a mix of cool elegance and smoldering earthiness, Laura Calder will never be content to be some man's wife, living on a Montana ranch like her mother. She's thrilled to tour Europe with her sophisticated "Aunt" Tara, taking ...

  • Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown

    Paula Danziger

    Amber Brown thinks that second grae rules!  But when her teacher says desks have to be kept clean, Amber knows that is one rule she cannot follow.  She desperately wants the desk fairy, Deskarina, to visit her desk and leave a reward. ...

  • The A&E Consultant's Secret

    Lilian Darcy

    At eighteen years old Nell Cassidy was forced to give up her first love, the very striking Bren Forsythe. Now a successful A&E consultant, she's back in Glenfallon, and Bren is the new surgeon! Nell has her reasons for keeping people at a distance...

  • Warning Signs

    Kay David
    in

    Marine biologist Melody Harper must reunite with her former high school love, mounted patrol officer Robert Kellison, to protect overcrowded beaches from a toxic red tide. But how can she protect her heart from the man she's never stopped loving?...

  • Deadline

    J. Madison Davis

    When a woman's body is found at the bottom of a hotel air shaft in Times Square, it looks like a routine suicide. Enter Detectives. Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green. Something about the woman seems out of place in the tourist trap. Her clothing suggests w...

  • Parting the Veil

    Jay Davis

    For most of his life, John Creed never gave much thought to an afterlife. That all changed the day he died.He'd been clinically dead for ten minutes. At least, that's what the doctors told him when he woke up in intensive care. It had been a freak ac...

  • Proof

    Justine Davis

    THE WOMEN OF ATHENA ACADEMY SHARED AN UNBREAKABLE BOND...UNTIL ONE OF THEIR OWN WAS MURDERED. Top-notch forensic scientist Alexandra Forsythe returned to Athena to prove that the death of her dearest friend had been no accident. Armed with only he...

  • Swimming with Dolphins

    Lambert Davis

    With stunning underwater illustrations and a playful text, artist and first-time author Lambert Davis paints a magical portrait of a girl's visit to the beach and her exciting encounter with dolphins.

    "Let me tell you about something magical t...

  • Studying Boys

    Stephie Davis

  • My Long Tall Texas Heartthrob

    Geralyn Dawson

    Dear Friends, So why did I leave the glamour of L.A. for a double-wide trailer in Cedar Dell, Texas? Blame it on a biker named Snake. If he hadn't ditched my very pregnant, helpless sister, then I wouldn't be in this sleepy town playing mommy to ...

  • Garden of Beasts

    Jeffery Deaver

    Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: ...

  • Comics Creators on Spider-Man

    Tom Defalco

    The greatest creators in comics discuss the impact and importance of Spider-Man, and talk about how they have brought the web-slinger to life on the page over four decades. Illustrated with original script pages and all stages of artwork from sketchb...

  • An Elegy for Melusine

    Claire Delacroix
    in

    A romantic fantasy anthology with four novellas from renowned authors of romance and fantasy...

    USA Today best-selling author Claire Delacroix gives readers a revisionist version of the medieval legend of Melusine. USA Today best-selling autho...

  • Drive Me Crazy

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    After his blockbuster holiday novel, Naughty or Nice, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey is serving up his new novel with style, sexiness, and a bit of grit. "Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but who shares an exp...

  • The Inheritance

    Annabel Dilke

    The Chandler family lead a charmed life … In their ravishing country estate, surrounded by servants, they cling to the trappings of aristocracy and privilege. Eighteen-year-old Alice is marrying the heir to another great house. Her cleverer sist...

  • 'Twas the Night Before Christmas - Holiday Classics

    Disney Book Group

    From Thanksgiving to Kwanzaa with a little Christmas in between, these fun-to-read books are just in time for the holiday season! Illustrated with bright, vivid colors that capture the spirit of the season, they are sure to spread joy and cheer to...

  • Some Enchanted Evening

    Christina Dodd

    Once upon a time, high in the Pyrenees Mountains, there were two happy and prosperous kingdoms. In one kingdom, a son was born and declared the crown prince. In the other kingdom, three daughters were raised in royal splendor. This is the story of...

  • Minnie's Diner

    Dayle Ann Dodds

    With a singsong rhythm, comical illustrations, and a down-home flavor, Dayle Ann Dodds and John Manders serve up a humorous lesson in multiplication.

    Down on the farm one morning, Papa McFay orders his sons to hop to their chores. But from Min...

  • Sunlight and Shadow

    Cameron Dokey

    In a time when the world was young and many things were quite commonplace that are now entirely forgotten, Sarastro, Mage of the Day, wed Pamina, the Queen of the Night. And in this way was the world complete, for light was joined to dark. For all ti...

  • Lady Scandal

    Shannon Donnelly

    A LONG AND WINDING ROAD Alexandria, the beautiful young widow once known as Lady Scandal among the ton of London, is trapped in France when war breaks out once more. Returning to England with her niece will be a dangerous journey indeed, and one t...

  • Journey to Empowerment

    Maria D. Dowd

  • Chop Shop

    Tim Downs

    Intern forensic pathologist Dr. Riley McKay has noticed irregularities in autopsies at the Allegheny County Coroner's lab. Suspecting foul play, she seeks help from Dr. Nick Polchak, the "bug man" renowned for his ability to solve murders by analyzin...

  • Meet Benji

    Scout Driggs

    Benji is not your average puppy. He lives in a fort with a talking bird named Merlin. His best friend is a boy named Colby. And he must keep himself out of sight from the evil Mr. Hatchett. Follow along with Benji on his many adventures!

    ...

  • Benji's Big Adventure

    Scout Driggs

  • Buried Dreams

    Brendan DuBois

    New Hampshire magazine columnist Lewis Cole hadn't known Tyler Beach resident and amateur archaeologist Jon Ericson long, but well enough to call him friend, and was angry enough to want to know who killed him and why. His death was preceded by an ex...

  • Dog Blue

    Polly Dunbar

    Fetching illustrations from an exciting new talent enliven this tale of a boy who loves dogs and the color blue -- and finds a creative way to make his fantasies come true.

    Bertie wants a dog, a blue dog, more than anything in the world. For...

  • The Death of an Ordinary Man

    Glen Duncan

    Nathan's gravestone offers a short and hopeful summary: At rest. But Nathan is not at rest, and knows he won't be until he can find out how and why he died. A spectral spectator throughout the day of the wake, he listens to his wife, son, daughter, f...

  • The Big Love

    Sarah Dunn

    Alison Hopkins is firmly, undoubtedly, and undeniably in love. She and Tom live together, they send wedding gifts as a unit, and, most important, they're happy together-until the evening Tom goes out in the middle of a dinner party to buy some mustar...

  • Rain Storm // Choke Point // Winner Take All

    Barry Eisler

    Now Eisler takes Rain to the ends of the earth, where old habits die hard...and violently. John Rain has fled to Brazil to clear his killing conscience. But his talents are still in demand. The assignment: take out an arms dealer in Southeast Asia...

  • Awesome Bible Kids

    Stephen Elkins

    This is no ordinary Storybook: it's 48-pages of Bible stories with a read-along CD that slides into you CD holder.  In this collection of Bible stories, you'll meet all kinds of courageous kids from the Bible. Watch young David defeat Goliath! F...

  • Awesome Bible Heroes

    Stephen Elkins

    A 48-page picture book and CD in one, Awesome Bible Heroes will go anywhere you go. This collection of stories, starring brave Bible heroes, will keep little ones -- and not-so-little ones -- listening and singing along for hours. Kids will be amazed...

  • Punisher: Confederacy of Dunces

    Garth Ennis

    In the first story "In the Beginning," Frank Castle's old associate Microchip is back, and he's after the Punisher. But first, he's got an offer for Frank that he'd better not refuse. Get ready for blazing bullets, bloodbaths, and bold beginnings! In...

  • Alone at Night

    K.J. Erickson

    Tired of the politics, publicity and endless nights that go with major homicides, Detective Mars Bahr and his partner Nettie Frisch have moved to the Cold Case Unit, which covers the Minneapolis Police Department's oldest unsolved cases. One of their...

  • After Hours

    Lynn Erickson

    The daughter of famous parents, Portia Carr Wells has shunned the spotlight her entire life. But now, trying to continue the work of her late husband -- the former president of the Nature Preservation Society -- she finds herself more and more in the...

  • The Daughter Dilemma

    Ann Evans

    Part of the family? Kari Churchill came to Colorado to learn more about her father, a man who spent more time traveling the world than he did with his family. While retracing his last days, spent in this glorious mountain wilderness, Kari meets th...

  • The Prophecy

    Lynne Ewing

    VANESSA, Serena, Jimena, Catty, and Tianna are five seemingly ordinary girls from Los Angeles. But the truth is that they are all far from ordinary. They each have a secret power that separates them from others--and makes them DAUGHTERS OF THE MOON ...

  • The Sultan's Harem

    Colin Falconer

    From the author of the critically acclaimed When We Were Gods comes a dramatic, unforgettable novel of cruelty and passion, set in the great Harem of the Ottoman Empire.

    In Constantinople there is only one ruler: Sultan Süleyman the Magnifice...

  • Masters of Fantasy

    Bill Fawcett

    Some of the world's leading fantasy authors have contributed all-original stories set in some of their most popular series, in an enchanting anthology featuring the works of David Weber, Mercedes Lackey, Mickey Zucker Reichert, David Drake, Andre Nor...

  • Dark Destiny

    Christine Feehan

    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light.... Her childhood had been a nightmare of violence and pain until she heard his voice calling out to her. Golden and seductive. The voice of an angel. He...

  • Vanity and Vexation

    Kate Fenton

    A clever and cunning modern day retelling of the adored Jane Austen novel "Tall, dark, and arrogantly handsome---not to mention distinguished, powerful, and rolling in money. Mr. Darcy? No, that's just the woman director of Pride and Prejudice," r...

  • A Wife on Paper

    Liz Fielding

    Francesca walked into the room and Guy Dymoke was mesmerized. But she was pregnant with Guy's brother's baby. An impossible situation...and Guy had been hiding his feelings ever since. Years later, Francesca is now a widow, and when the will is re...

  • Texas Bride

    Carol Finch

    Forbidden Territory. That was where Maddie Garret was leading him -- not just through the wilds of Texas, but deep into the secret reaches of his heart. But could Texas Ranger Jonah Danhill, half Comanche and all lawman, accept the tragedy of his peo...

  • Savage Sisters

    Dirk Fletcher

    In Savage Sisters, Spur McCoy must escort seven nuns and a whiskey priest across the dangerous New Mexico territory, and in Hang Spur McCoy!, Spur, left for dead while trying to help a family of homesteaders, finds comfort in the arms...

  • Prodigal Prince Charming

    Christine Flynn

    A TASTE FOR DANGER A simple mistake had cost caterer Madison O'Malley her livelihood -- and the fault lay squarely with international playboy Cord Kendrick. Cord went out of his way to make things right...and Madison promised to keep the story out...

  • Outlaws

    T.T. Flynn

    In "Blood of the Dons," Mike O'Grady attempts the impossible - to return to the home of his ancestors. His father and mother have died, leaving Mike alone in the world. In his wildest dreams, Mike could not have anticipated the hostility and violence...

  • A Forever Family

    Mary J. Forbes

    SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME... Meeting handsome Dr. Michael Rowan and his adorable niece was like a one-two punch to Shanna McKay's heart. But while six-year-old Jenni instantly bonded with Shanna, the sexy single dad seemed determined to steer cle...

  • Irene

    Linda Ford

    Eager to leave England after the Great War, Irene agrees to a marriage of convenience with a widower in Alberta, Canada. She soon learns, however, that Zachary Marshall wants only a housekeeper and mother for his two small sons. Irene must be content...

  • Last Summer

    Michael Thomas Ford

    Michael Thomas Ford delivers a triumphant first novel about a group of gay men looking for love, losing the past, and finding themselves in the bars and on the beaches of Provincetown. Josh Felling has always been a romantic--up until the moment his ...

  • Veiled Intentions

    Delores Fossen

    She bet her badge and her honor when she bent the rules to hunt the deadly sniper who'd declared open season on newlyweds. Now police detective Katelyn O'Malley would answer to hotshot Sergeant Joe Rico, her new boss -- and temporary fiance. Joe h...

  • When Bruce Met Cyn...

    Lori Foster

    You first met Bruce Kelly in Lori Foster's steamy novel, The Secret Life of Bryan. Now, Bruce comes into his own--and a whole lot of trouble--when he falls for a woman who is nothing like he is, but she's everything he wants... WHEN OPPOSITES ATT...

  • I Shocked the Sheriff

    Mara Fox

    When Roxy Adams shows up in her bright yellow Porsche, Sheriff Luke Hermann knows he and his small Texas town will never be the same. Within twenty-four hours he's pulled her out of a catfight, almost hauled her off to jail and spent the most incredi...

  • Going Buck Wild

    Nina Foxx

    Let's go crazy! Successful Claudia Barrett seems to be doing it all right. She's a vice president at her firm, with an engagement ring on her finger from the man who's loved her since high school. So what if she's been wearing it for five years --...

  • Hooray! I'm Five Today

    Tor Freeman

    Hooray! Tor Freeman returns with some sweet surprises in this gentle birthday fantasy.It's Dinah's fifth birthday, and Tyler has a wonderful surprise for her. It starts with a knock at the door, and in bursts Brown Rabbit playing "Happy Birthday...

  • The Wilding

    C.S. Friedman

    It is two hundred years since the great Braxana general Zatar the Magnificent, and the psychic Azean general Anzha lyu Mitethe pursued their personal war among the stars, and in doing so altered the very flow of human history. The psychics of the Aze...

  • Mother Eternal Ann Everlastin's Dead

    Pat G'Orge-Walker

    In this hilarious and heartwarming new novel, Pat G’Orge-Walker of Gospel Today Television returns with the parishioners from the Ain’t Nobody Else Right But Us -- All Others Goin’ to Hell church, while introducing another congregation of crazy...

  • Cowboy Crescendo

    Cathleen Galitz

    A TEMPTRESS IN NANNY'S CLOTHING Wyoming rancher Toby Danforth was a man who marched to the beat of his own drum. So it was important to find a nanny for his motherless son who would do things his way. What he got was a stubborn beauty with a gift ...

  • Diary of a Viagra Fiend

    Jayson Gallaway

    Announcing a major new comic talent -- from dancing in S+M clubs to snorting Viagra, a brilliant, unflinching, and uproaurious set of stories from the edge of sex. It all starts when "Lolita," Jayson Gallaway's nineteen-year-old girlfriend, delays t...

  • Snoops in the City

    Darlene Gardner

    Tori Whitley is possibly the world's worst snoop. Who else would fall for the man she was investigating? As a favor to her private-detective cousin, she agrees to tail Seahaven businessman Grady Palmer. How hard can it be -- especially following a ma...

  • The Mysterious Miss M

    Diane Gaston

    THE REGENCY UNDERWORLD -- SEX, SCANDAL AND REDEEMING LOVE The Mysterious Miss M is a living male fantasy -- alluring, sensual, masked. But when Lord Devlin Steele finds himself responsible for her -- and her child -- he comes to know the real Ma...

  • Babyface

    Fiona Gibson

    For Nina, the path from singlehood to motherhood was easy. It's knowing what to do once she arrived that was the problem. When Nina met Jonathan through the personals, she thought he seemed nice enough. Little did she know that her quest for compa...

  • Twice Blessed

    Sharon Gillenwater

    Camille Dupree hoped to leave her shocking past behind when she moved to Willow Grove, Texas. She soon learned a good heart was a valued commodity and grew to admire the town's mayor, Tyler McKinnon, who helped her become a respectable businesswoman....

  • Climbing Chamundi Hill

    Ariel Glucklich

    At the top of the 1,001 steps up Chamundi Hill, there lies a 12th-century temple that houses the golden statue of Chamundi, the Hindu goddess worshipped by the Maharajas. A popular pilgrimage site, this sacred place honours this consort of Shiva who ...

  • On Fire's Wings

    Christie Golden

    She was born without caste or position in Arukan, a country that prized both.Then a chance encounter led her to a better life. But it also brought her to danger and destiny. Because Kevla Bai-sha's fevered dreams -- looming threats to their land and ...

  • Exterminators

    Christopher Golden

    Superman. Batman. Wonder Woman. The Flash. Green Lantern. They are the world's greatest super heroes, ?ghting endlessly against corruption and injustice. Each of them is a formidable opponent of evil, but banded together their powers are unmatched...

  • You Choose!

    Pippa Goodhart

  • The Company You Keep

    Neil Gordon

    Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Redford and starring Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Terence Howard, Anna Kendrick, Nick Nolte, and Stanley TucciIt is 2006. Seventeen-year-old Isabel Montgomery starts to receive emails fro...

  • UFO Files

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Alan Dean Foster, Gregory Benford, Ed Gorman amoung the authors represented in this book. Are there UFOs among us? This quest has generated countless works of fiction and nonfiction, TV shows, TV series, documentaries, movies, books, articles and ...

  • R is for Ricochet

    Sue Grafton

    Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but wasn't t...

  • Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City

    Martin H. Greenberg

    From Jack who trades in his leather jacket for magical picks to a talking cat who saves his human family, this unique collection of stories gives classic fairy tales a bold new twist and features contributions from such notable writers as Tanya Huff,...

  • What Might Have Been

    Martin H. Greenberg

    What would have happened if history had been different-if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way-or not at all? From a Confederacy that won the Civil War to a Europe converted to Viking paganism.These bold excursion...

  • Dragon Fantastic!

    Rosalind Greenberg

    A collection of dragon tales offers new perspectives on the legends of these fierce fantastical creatures, as well as a healthy dose of classic dragon lore, in an anthology featuring contributions by Alan Dean Foster, Dennis McKiernan, Esther Friesne...

  • A Time to Hate

    Robert Greenberger

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...

  • Reproduction is the Flaw of Love

    Lauren Grodstein

    It's a Saturday morning in Brooklyn. Joel Miller, age twenty-eight, stands outside his locked bathroom door. Behind it are his girlfriend Lisa, a Dixie cup, and a pregnancy test. While she stalls for time, Miller is left in his hallway to wonder an...

  • Big Bratty Book of Bart Simpson

    Matt Groening

    Bart Simpson is back with another big book dedicated exclusively to that rabble"rousing, misbehaving menace " Springfield's favourite son, Homer's only son, and TV's favourite son " Bart Simpson!

    Following the great success of Big B...

  • Hangin with the Lil Bratz!

    Grosset & Dunlap

    Meet the Lil' Bratz: Nazalia(tm), Zada(tm), Ailani(tm), and Talia(tm)! These lil' girls have big fashion sense! This fantastic poster book introduces each girl and includes four pullout posters-one for each stylin' lil' girl!...

  • Lil Bratz

    Grosset & Dunlap

    The Lil' Bratz love their friends, and they think school is pretty cool, too! School Cool! is packed with fashion tips for great school clothes, stories, fill-ins, and much more! And both books come with stickers!...

  • Friends 4-Ever

    Grosset & Dunlap

    The Lil' Bratz love their friends, and they think school is pretty cool, too! Friends 4-Ever! is full of tips for making new friends, quotes about friendship, stories, fun word searches, coloring activities, and much more!...

  • Kate and the Spies: The American Revolution

    JoAnn A. Grote

    Girls are girls wherever they live -- and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8"12-year-old girls: Lydia the Patriot: The Boston Massa...

  • Penelope at School

    Anne Gutman

    Pull the tabs to help Penelope on her first day of school in this beautiful, interactive storybook!Meet Penelope, an adorable blue koala who loves to play and learn. But, like all preschoolers, she can't do everything by herself. Children can pull th...

  • Mixed Blessings

    Cathy Marie Hake

    A routine medical exam told widowed Marie Cadant that her little boy had been switched with another at birth. But when she tracked down wealthy Peter Hallock -- the man who had her biological son -- she was surprised to find another single parent, an...

  • Mortal Love

    Elizabeth Hand

    Swirling between eras and continents, Mortal Love is an intense novel of unforgettable characters caught in a whirlwind of art, love, and intrigue. Mercurial Larkin Meade may hold the key to lost artistic masterpieces, and to secrets too devastating ...

  • The Spanish Consultant's Baby

    Kate Hardy

    When sexy doctor Ramón Martínez starts his new job, nurse Jennifer Jacobs can't help being attracted to him. But after an unhappy marriage, she's vowed never to wed again. She's determined not to fall for Ramón's dark good looks. Easier said than...

  • Four Boys Named Jordan

    Jessica Harper

  • The Ghost Writer

    John Harwood

    What evil lies within a family’s secret history? “A first-class creeper, a literary ghost story in the Victorian tradition” by the author of The Séance (The Boston Globe).   Timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two thin...

  • Winter Dreams

    Sandra Heath

    Passionate Intrigue Judith Callard has a nagging fear about the safety of her twin brother, an attache with the British embassy in Portugal. So she follows the official responsible for her brother's position--a man she spurned years earlier--i...

  • Shower of Stars

    Nancy Herkness

    In Shower of Stars, two unlikely lovers find that the brightest star in the night sky is only a glimmer compared to the blaze that burns in their hearts... Journalist Charlotte "Charlie" Berglund has nabbed an interview with Jack Lanett--a handsom...

  • Skinny Dip

    Carl Hiaasen

    Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can't tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his beautiful wife, Joey, off a cruise liner, he really should know better. An expert swimmer, Joey makes her way to a floating bale of Jamaican pot -- and then ...

  • Divas, Inc.

    Donna Hill

    Diva (n.): an extremely arrogant or temperamental woman.Delicious Diva Tip #13: When in doubt, just do it anyway. Tiffany Lane and Chantal Hollis are bonafide divas-in every sense of the word. They've also been Margaret Drew's best friends since they...

  • God's Pocket

    Ken Hodgson

    Jarbridge, Nevada, hosted the last big gold rush in the continental United States. Milo Goodman was there to witness it. He was seventeen at the time. Milo is of the impression that it should be easy to find the fabulously rich Lost Sheepherder's Min...

  • Blackbird House

    Alice Hoffman

    With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massa...

  • Heat

    Nancy Holder

    In his first year in Los Angeles, Angel, the vampire with a soul, came across an inter-dimensional hunter named Jhiera. The seductive woman was only trying to protect other females in her culture from being stripped of their emotions -- intense emoti...

  • An Ornithologist's Guide to Life

    Ann Hood

    "A collection of short stories that makes it possible to be proud to be human."―Carolyn See, Washington Post

    Looking at her characters as if through a pair of binoculars, Ann Hood captures the extraordinary in the ordinary. A pregnant woman ...

  • Lipstick, Lies and Lady Luck

    Brian A. Hopkins

    This collection brings us two short novels featuring Brian A. Hopkins' most memorable character, Martin Zolotow. Martin has a weakness for damsels in distress, a nose for sniffing out trouble, and the scars to prove that he can dish it out as well as...

  • Due Preparations for the Plague

    Janette Turner Hospital

    From the author of ‘Oyster’ comes a powerful and gripping literary thriller that is as timely and relevant as it is chilling.Lowell feels contagious with doom. A divorced father with young children, he dreads the anniversary of a hijacked Paris-N...

  • Kiss Me While I Sleep

    Linda Howard

    Efficient and unapologetic, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can't be touched by the law. Now Lily is playing a deadly, unauthorized game, seeking her own ...

  • The Cop

    Jan Hudson

    City Boy Moves Home -- For Now As Dr. Kelly Martin discovers, Cole Younger Outlaw is one ornery patient. The hard-bitten Houston cop doesn't seem happy about recovering from his gunshot wounds in Naconiche -- home of his protective family, the Dou...

  • The Other Brother

    Janis Reams Hudson

    Neighbor to the Cherokee Rose ranch all her life, Melanie Pruitt had a special relationship with each Chisholm brother. Sloan was her crush, Justin, her fun pal, and Caleb, her best friend in the whole world. But when a simple dance with Caleb at Slo...

  • The Awakening

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    Aurora Rose Norquest is different from her neighbors, different from most people. Still single at thirty-five, she spends every hour of her time in an elegant Manhattan apartment, quietly caring for her invalid mother.

    Then her mother dies, an...

  • A Whale of a Marriage

    Diann Hunt

    Since she first heard her father's tales of life aboard a whaling vessel, Adelaide has wanted to experience the adventure herself. But in 1856, "respectable" woman do no such things - and Adelaide is convinced her dreams will never become reality. Th...

  • Lightning Strikes

    Bobby Hutchinson
    in

    Smoke jumper Sean O'Shea parachutes into a raging brush fire -- and so does news photographer Linda Tate. Sean is furious. She's put them both in danger. Now they have to rely on each other to make it out alive....

  • Danger Music

    Jackie Hyman

    When an investigative reporter begins digging into a Hollywood cold case, someone will go to any lengths - including murder - to ensure the truth remains hidden. Freelance writer Kenny Rubin has an unusual magazine assignment: to solve the strangulat...

  • Whiplash

    Graham Ison

    When the traffic police call the local police station, who call CID, DI Brock is none too pleased to be forced to attend the scene of a traffic accident when he doesn't see how it's any of his business. But then it turns out that the body of a woman ...

  • The Heart's Voice

    Arlene James

    After a rodeo accident left her widowed, petite Becca Kinder returned to work at her in-laws' store to support her two small children and fix up a house growing more dilapidated by the minute. Dan Holden, the strong but silent carpenter who frequente...

  • My Chair

    Betsy James

    A joyful celebration of two essential childhood gifts: the imagination to go anywhere, and a special place to take off from.

    On a sunny morning in the city, children gather in the park with their chairs. Tall chairs. Small chairs. Wiry chairs....

  • Bought By Her Latin Lover

    Julia James

    Spanish millionaire Cesar Montarez wants Rosalind the moment he sees her; this electrifying attraction is like nothing he's ever felt before. But Cesar has little respect for money-hungry women -- mistresses or trophy wives. Rosalind is determine...

  • The Belles of Solace Glen

    Susan S. James

    SHE SOLVES MYSTERIES...AND DOES WINDOWS... Orphaned as a teenager, Flip Paxton is now forty-two, single and the town maid in quaint Solace Glen. With no husband, children or relatives of her own, she's always taking care of everyone around her. Bu...

  • Beyond Control

    Bronwyn Jameson

    The moment Kree O'Sullivan's and Sebastian Sinclair's fortunes crossed, she knew one undeniable truth: the man had power. The power to commandeer her apartment, which he did. And the power to destroy her business. But, to Kree's shock, the control th...

  • Day of the Dead

    J.A. Jance

    Thirty years ago, a local Papago girl was brutally murdered, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler left on the side of Highway 86. No one was ever charged for the crime. Few even cared. And no one suspected it was only the beginning...