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New Books List: 556 titles


  • Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover The World of Droon! It's a dangerous time in Droon. Ko and Gethwing are about to wage war. Young Sparr is on a risky undercover mission to try to defeat the evil emperor from within. And a wicked anci...



  • Marta Acosta

    Vampires don't exist in this day and age...or do they? Milagro De Los Santos needs to get her career on track -- and a sexy man to come home to. At a party for her ex-boyfriend, she meets the unusually attractive Oswald Grant, who sweeps her off h...



  • Cherry Adair

    He would rewrite the past to save the woman he loves. The fearless Caleb Edge is one of three brothers assigned to the top-secret paranormal unit of an elite counterterrorism group. As a prized T-FLAC agent, Caleb uses his special mystical gifts t...



  • Elizabeth Adler

    New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Adler invites you on a decadent Mediterranean cruise--where nothing is what it seems, no one is telling the truth, and murder is on the agenda... When English tycoon Sir Robert Waldo Hardwick dies myster...



  • Susan Wittig Albert

    Beatrix Potter's stories have enchanted readers for a century. And now, fans young and old can enjoy Susan Wittig Albert's Cottage Tales mysteries, starring Miss Potter herself... All is not well in Holly How when Miss Beatrix Potter returns from ...



  • Alice Alfonsi

    Galleria, Chanel, Aqua, and Dorinda return for a cheetah-spotted sequel of diva-licious proportions, and now you can read all about it! The feisty foursome star in this junior novelization of the all-new Disney Channel original movie, chronicling the...



  • Louise Allen

    COULD HE REALLY FIND HER ATTRACTIVE? Miss Decima Ross knows for a fact that her overbearing family regularly remind themselves to 'Marry Off Poor Miss Dessy'. But who would ever want a graceless, freckled beanpole like herself? Hearing that she i...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    Charity's Faith and Love U.S. Marshal Charity Caldwell has been in love with Adam Logue for what seems like forever, but the fellow marshal sees her as nothing more than a friend. Scarred by the shooting of his first love, Adam doesn't think he's ...



  • Jessica Andersen

    A KILLER SHE COULD HANDLE... With her badge and her reputation on the line, criminal psych specialist Maya Cooper vowed to catch the serial killer whose attacks plagued Bear Claw Creek. She had no choice -- she was his next target! BUT NOT THE R...



  • Jack Anderson; Robert Westbrook

    Ron Wright's reputation and career as a journalist crashed and burned due to a massive cover-up scandal involving his sources. He was forced to hand back his Pulitzer Prize, and his marriage crumbled. But Ron never lost his nose for troublesome leads...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    THE EXTERMINATION OF EARTH is at hand. With his increasingly irrational leadership, Basil Wenceslas, chairman of the Hansa, has driven humanity into a corner. His punitive treatment of the Hansa colonies and the Roamers has made enemies for the peopl...



  • Sheryl J. Anderson

    Once again, journalist Molly Forrester takes Manhattan -- and this time, she'll do whatever it takes to get a KILLER byline...if it doesn't kill her first. "You need a body. A really cool dead body..." Molly's best friends know exactly what the Zei...



  • Jeannette Angell

    The author of her own memoir about being a prostitute, Callgirl, Angell ventures a sympathetic biography of a woman known as Peach, the madam of the escort service Angell worked for. Writing Peach's story in the first person, Angell gets at the h...



  • David Angsten

    Jack Duran embarks on a mission to Mexico in search of his incommunicado brother, Danwith his college buddies Rock and Duff in tow. Following a trail of shady dealings, they soon discover that Dan was searching for an ancient shipwreck laden with gol...



  • Moyoco Anno

    THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC!

    The competition to become Queen of the Magical World is heating upâ€"and the rivalry is destroying the friendship of witch girls Chocolat and Vanilla. Tired of living in Chocolat’s shadow, Vanilla has fallen under the i...



  • M. Apostolina

    Meri is back with a vengeance! When we last left our tale of deceit, blackmail, and really great shoes, our heroine Cindy Bixby had gotten rid of Meri Sugarman, the diabolical sorority president of Alpha Beta Delta. Now Cindy, along with her sorori...



  • Marie Arana

    Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this miraculous novel his dream has come true--until he discovers the recipe for cellopha...



  • Alex Archer

    An ancient order tied to the Vatican... A blood fortune buried in the caves of France... A conspiracy of power, greed and darkest evil... Archaeologist and explorer Annja Creed's fascination with the myths and mysteries of the past leads her to...



  • Marsha Diane Arnold

    All the Huffles are fast asleep, except for Jack. He heard a noise that rocked the floor. He heard a noise that shook the door. Jack heard . . . a snore! Just who is making this racket? Unable to sleep, Jack and his dog go searching. It must be Ma...



  • Randall Arthur

    When pastor Jordan Rau accepted a position with a European missions agency, his decision was based on money, not on an opportunity to serve God. However, shortly after his family's arrival in Germany, Jordan's priorities dramatically change - his you...



  • Catherine Asaro

    High in the Misted Cliffs liesa a mage unlike any other. With no teacher to guide her, no mentor to discourage her from the impossible, Mel Dawnfield pushed her magic to its limits -- and surpassed them. Only to find that her powers aren't enough ...



  • Ashley & JaQuavis

    Anari is the epitome of a good-girl-turned-bad after her world is brutally destroyed. Consumed with her desire for revenge, she and her best friend Monica enter a life of drugs, fast money and betrayal - adopting the lifestyle that pushed them into t...



  • Rev. W. Awdry

    The day passes quickly as Thomas, James, and all of the Really Useful Engines keep right on schedule. This book includes a large clock with movable hands. It is the perfect way to help all of Thomas’ friends stay right on time!...



  • Kathleen Bacus

    Two months ago, 23-year-old Tressa Jayne Turner knew just where she stood with "Ranger Rick" Townsend. Sure, her older brother's friend is what you'd call hott with two t's, but he's also responsible for her nickname "Calamity," and their sparring si...



  • Tom Bailey

    On the edge of the Adirondack wilderness, survival is a way of life for the Hazen family. Gary Hazen is a respected forester and hunter, known for his good instincts and meticulous planning. He and his wife, Susan, have raised their sons to appreciat...



  • Anita Ballard-Jones

    Relocating to the small Georgia community of Rehoboth, Rev. Oliver becomes obsessed with the senior pastor's daughter, Elizabeth, which leads to tragic results and a guilty secret for both Rev. Oliver and Elizabeth....



  • Steven Barnes

    The epic story of how primitive humans, without words or machines, set in motion civilization’s long, winding journey to the present. Thirty thousand years ago, in the heart of the African continent and in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, lived ...



  • Nancy Bartholomew

    WHAT STELLA WANTS A successful P.I. business. A sexy man she can love and trust. Relatives who stay safely at home. And good friends she can count on. WHAT STELLA'S GOT An anemic trickle of clients. An infuriatingly secretive (but hot!) former spec...



  • Beverly Barton

    CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH He's their secret admirer, wooing them with phone calls, love letters, and special gifts. From a distance, he admires them. Desires them. Despises them. And when he gets close enough, he kills them all. CLOSE ENOUGH TO KISS Ad...



  • Alexandra Bassett

    Ma'am, Let me assure you that I will not be manipulated by any feminine wiles into offering you another penny for such a dilapidated piece of property.--Sebastian Cavanaugh After conventional means fail, Sebastian, Marquess of St. Just, takes ...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    He was an expert at uncovering secrets, but Cal Webster had overlooked a huge one. His ex-wife had hidden her pregnancy from him. And worse, she had turned the baby over to his enemy. Cal was determined to get custody of his young son. But when h...



  • Elizabeth Bear

    For centuries, the human Mages of the Prometheus Club and the otherworldly creatures of Faerie have battled for control of Earth's destiny, with neither side capable of achieving victory over the other. Their impasse has come to an end.... She ...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects New Avengers #7-13. 1959: under presidential orders, Nick Fury assembles the first Avengers--Victor Creed. Namora. Kraven the Hunter. Dominick Fortune. Silver Sable. Ulysses Bloodstone. Their mission? Stop the Red Skull. Present day: Luke C...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #40-45. The U.S. Government is getting involved in the mutant-training business. With the help of Emma Frost, the President handpicks a class of "New Mutants" to serve his political agenda -- including Dazzler, Karma, Havok an...



  • Alex Berenson

    Years ago, John Wells was an all-American boy from Montana. Now, he is roaming the mountains of Pakistan as a member of al Qaeda. After a decade away from home, he despises the United States for its decadence. He hates America's shallow, mindless ...



  • Lara Bergen

    Ariel dreams of visiting the human world and dancing with the handsome prince, Eric. Finally, she gets her chance -- but the evil sea witch, Ursula, has stolen Ariel’s voice. Can Ariel get her voice back and win Prince Eric’s love before the sun ...



  • Lara Bergen

    Featuring a sparkly, padded cover, this beautiful companion to The Little Mermaid: Special Edition DVD vividly brings to life, once again, the story of a mermaid princess, who, in order to win the love of a handsome prince, makes a deal with ...



  • Mark Bernthal

    The trading card game sensation Duel Masters explodes with fast-paced and funny creature combat excitement! It's from Wizards of the Coast.

    When Shobu accidentally ends up in the Fire Civilization, he's in for the battle of his life -- with d...



  • Lucinda Betts
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    Three sinfully seductive short stories, filled with exciting passion and decadent desire, feature Lucinda Bett's "The Bet," in which Zoe loses a high-stakes wager, which forces her to become a co-worker's sex slave for twenty-four hours. Original....



  • MacKenzie Bezos

    “A sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart. A sure-footed excavation into the nuances of everyday terror -- the kind that turns devotion into despair, trust into treachery, love into loss. Its pull is irresistible.†  ...



  • Victoria Blake

    Increasingly paranoid over her feeling that she is being watched wherever she goes, private detective Sam Falconer undertakes an investigation into the disappearance of a young rower from Oxford University, uncovering a web of professional jealousy, ...



  • Nero Blanc

    A REAL BARN BURNER When crossword editor Belle Graham arrives at the Evening Crier, the latest news is a fire -- possibly arson -- at the Collins family stables. The Collinses made their fortune in bootleg whiskey before becoming a multimillion-d...



  • Francesca Lia Block

    Francesca Lia Block, this time with co-writer Carmen Staton, introduces readers to Ruby, a Midwestern girl named for the jewel that is believed to ward off evil spirits. Ruby's special gift is a sixth sense that makes her at one with nature and gives...



  • Lawrence Block

    John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial legacy...



  • Gwyneth Bolton

    As handsome as he is demanding, Carlton Harrington III makes his new employee, Latonya Stevens, work long, hard hours to hide his growing attraction for her. But after late nights at the office lead to searing seduction and a whirlwind marriage, the ...



  • Jay Bonansinga

    FBI profiler Ulysses Grove's escape to a peaceful rural retreat is shattered by a new case that thrusts him back into the harrowing world of serial killers--and a fight against evil that will take him to the edge of sanity and into the very eye of mo...



  • Hilary Bonner

    For journalist John Kelly, the violent death of local celebrity and rock superstar Scott Silver promises to be the best story he's seen since his days on Fleet Street. With a little work he may even turn it into the second chance he's been looking fo...



  • Frank Borsch

    A Breathtaking Space Opera in Six Volumes. After a tragic accident, Perry Rhodan encounters a gigantic spaceship of unknown origin. With a small team of specialists he enters the ship and attempts to unravel its mystery. They discover that the starsh...



  • Karyn Bosnak

    “Bosnak writes with a charming and original voice.†-- Chicago Sun-TimesA smart and bubbly romp, soon to be a major Hollywood motion picture starring Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Zachary Quinto, and Andy Samberg, What’s Your Number? by Karyn Bosnak...



  • Michael Bowen

    The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers, or at least one. . . . Vance Hayes died late one night when his snowmobile broke through thin ice near the Wisconsin Dells. The cold-hearted, hard-headed lawyer is unmourned by clients, colleagues, o...



  • T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    Over the past twenty-five years, T.C. Boyle has earned wide acclaim and an enthusiastic following with such adventurous, inimitable novels as The Tortilla Curtain, Drop City, and The Road to Wellville. For his riveting eleventh novel, Boyle offers re...



  • Max Brand

    Jessica Fenton Wilson is searching for Speedy, concealing the reason she wants him, just as Speedy has to live in obscurity because of the many enemies on his trail. ...




  • Lily Brett

    Ruth Rothwax, the heroine of Lily Brett's Too Many Men, which was hailed as "irresistible" (People) as well as "funny," "powerful," and "chilling" (O magazine), is back. The proprietor of a successful letter-writing business, Ruth has just branche...



  • Kate Brian

    Tradition, Honor, Excellence...and secrets so dark they're almost invisible Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy -- the golden ticket away from her pill-popping mother and run-of-the-mill suburban life. But when she a...



  • Poppy Z. Brite

    A sharp commentary on race relations in pre-Katrina New Orleans and a fast ride through the dark side of haute cuisine.Liquor has become one of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-man’s wildly creative, booze-l...



  • Pamela Britton

    Alison Forester has come to this idyllic California dude ranch to recruit Dr. Nicholas Sheppard for the burn unit at her hospital. Thanks to doctors like him, she survived the fiery crash that killed her parents. He's not going to waste his time and ...



  • Duncan A. Bruce

    Robert the Bruce was Scotland's greatest King ever. The Bruce, as he was known, was crowned King of Scots in 1306, a time when the ancient kingdom of Scotland was under harsh and illegal English occupation. As soon as King Robert began his reign, his...



  • Ken Bruen

    Somewhere in the teeming heart of London is a man on a lethal mission. His cause: a long-overdue lesson on the importance of manners. When a man gives a public tongue-lashing to a misbehaving child, or a parking lot attendant is rude to a series of c...



  • Nina Bruhns

    ONLY HIS KISS WOULD WAKE THIS SLEEPING BEAUTY... She was the king's private physician. Until the explosion tore through the royal palace, leaving Zara Smith with disturbing visions and no memory. A risky place to be in a sovereignty rife with intr...



  • Elizabeth Buchan

    What could be sweeter than Revenge? Only the sequel. For Minty LIoyd, proving herself as the perfect second wife has been harder than she imagined. She may have her prized Nathan and and their twin boys, but everything she does feels secondhand. Mean...



  • Linda Buckley-Archer

    1763 Gideon Seymour, thief and gentleman, hides from the villainous Tar Man. Suddenly the sky peels away like fabric and from the gaping hole fall two curious-looking children. Peter Schock and Kate Dyer have fallen straight from the twenty-first ...



  • Michelle Buckley

    A few fabulous trips.  Eight crazy people.  Tons of mad drama.
     
    “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.â€Â  For the eight members of the Destination: Anticipation Travel Club (DAT Club) -- this popular motto doesn’t exactly ring tr...



  • Mark Budz

    In a world where image is everything, where the past is more real than the present, the rich can reprogram everything -- and cast themselves in the starring roles. Everyone else is nothing but an extra.... As part of the supporting cast, Pelayo s...



  • Lily Burana

    TRY: a rodeo rider's mettle in the face of being thrown off time after time…In Denver, Colorado, Daryl Heatherly is a promising young artist, hoping to find the place she fits in. Back home in the country just outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming -- the r...



  • James Lee Burke

    When a nice young woman named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana passing hundred- dollar bills in local casinos, detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his new life of contentment.... Twenty-five years ago, lost in a drunken haze in F...



  • Claudia Mair Burney

    For Amanda Bell Brown, just living her life is murder! How's a woman supposed to grapple with faith, a fine man, and turning thirty-five when she keeps tripping in her high heels over mysteries -- and not just the God kind? Amanda Bell Brown kn...



  • Mary Burton

    After witnessing her gangster brother's treachery, Kristen Rodale lived in fear that he'd find her. The government failed to protect her before the trial against him, so her only chance at survival lay in running as fast as she could...and forgetting...



  • Milton T. Burton

    Distilled in Texas and the Delta, a straight-no-chaser crime novel set around the legendary Dixie Mafia Manfred Eugene "Hog" Webern, a retired Dallas County deputy sheriff, is talked into going undercover in Biloxi, Mississippi, in a multistate e...



  • Ellen Byerrum

    Home of the helmet hairdo and congressional comb-over, Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of fashion faux pas. If anyone should know, it's "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian. She dishes out advice to the scandal-scorched and clothing-clueless...



  • Nicole Byrd

    Whisked off to London by her newly revealed half brother, Miss Juliana Applegate is supposed to be looking for an eligible gentleman suitable for marriage. But when she arrives, an illness in her brother's household forces her to stay instead wit...



  • Brian Callison

    A new title from this bestselling author set in Cyprus and Germany - Cyprus, 1957. Bill Walker is a veteran Royal Military Police staff sergeant something of a legend within the Corps, albeit a tarnished one. Major Steadman is a murderous psychopath ...



  • Dana Cameron

    Just when everything is going beautifully for archaeologist Emma Fielding -- a position at a respected university, a beautiful home in New England, and the warm love of a devoted husband -- her world starts to crumble. What begins as a series of seem...



  • Andrea Camilleri

    The earthy and urbane Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano casts his spell on more and more fans with each new mystery from Andrea Camilleri. Two seemingly unrelated deaths form the central mystery of Rounding the Mark. They will take Montalba...



  • Jack Campbell

    The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized, be...



  • Andrea Canobbio

    The Natural Disorder of Things is at once a murder mystery, a tale of erotic obsession, and a meditation on order and disorder, on fullness and emptiness, and on fathers and the traces they leave on their children. Claudio Fratta is a garden designer...



  • Janet Lee Carey

    Now in paperback along with its sequel, what Booklist calls “an eerie, atmospheric tale, full of terror and courage, set in a convincingly realized magical realm.â€Do not wander in the deeps where the Shriker's shadow creeps. When he rises from be...



  • C.J. Carmichael

    Aidan Wythe and Rae Cordell had one incredible night together -- just before Aidan transferred Rae, his star VP, to Pittsburgh. Now, more than eight months later, Aidan arrives on Summer Island to spend his vacation. But instead of the empty house he...



  • Haggai Carmon

    Leaving the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, to work for the U.S. Department of Justice, Dan Gordon begins investigating a seemingly straightforward case of money laundering involving the Russian mob that soon becomes a race against time to s...



  • Matthew Carnahan

    When he wakes up naked by the side of the highway in the middle of the desert, twenty-two-year-old Bailey Quinn is only sure of a few things: He’s in a world of testicle pain. He’s tripping out of his head on peyote. And someone seems to have mad...



  • Susanna Carr

    Who knew that horseradish was an aphrodisiac? Not Michelle Nelson. She signed up again to help promote her hometown's annual Horseradish Festival out of the goodness of her heart. No one said anything about a major publicity stunt, a romantic local...



  • Ward Carroll

    After a mission in Iraq goes wrong, Navy SEAL Ash Roberts is reassigned to South Dakota, where he must rescue an ATF agent from the clutches of the Badlands Militia, a group of deadly paramilitary warriors who, armed with loads of firepower, are dete...



  • Carla Cassidy

    Lynn White's vow: I'll never be used again. Her adoptive father had turned out to be a criminal -- and left her holding the bag. The FBI had used her to catch him. Now Lynn White was nobody's pawn. She had a new life, close to Athena Academy and t...



  • P.C. Cast
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    Hunky werewolves, delicious demons, and drop-dead sexy witches all have the same address... MYSTERIA Hundreds of years ago, in the mountains of Colorado (just close enough to Denver for great shoe shopping), the small town of Mysteria was "acci...



  • Michelle Celmer

    EXPECTING THE MILLIONAIRE'S CHILD A single night of passion had shaken Tess MacDonald so deeply she ran away, to escape the breathtaking stranger who'd taken her to his bed. But there were some things nobody could run from. That was why Tess had ret...



  • Michelle Celmer

    Interior designer Selene Winston had arrived to remodel his mansion, not tangle in the sheets with her brutally handsome new boss. And yet the reclusive Adrien Morell haunted her dreams; his fantasies played through her mind. Soon she found herself s...



  • Elizabeth Chadwick

    A FORGOTTEN HERO IN A TIME OF TURMOIL A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal blazes into history on the strength of his sword and the depth of his honor. Marshal's integrity sets him apart in the turbulent court of Henry II and...



  • Paul C. Chafe

    For fifty thousand years the Kzinti Patriarchy thrived on battle fought for conquest. Against all odds the humans stopped them, and for five wars kept on stopping them. With its violent expansion checked internal strains have built up within the Patr...



  • Holly Chamberlin

    First comes love. Then comes marriage. Followed by boredom, infidelity, nasty surprises, and divorce. In this wickedly funny, tender and true novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin introduces four Boston divorcees looking for love, sex, fun--an...



  • Mark Childress

    You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, sharing a fascinati...




  • Judy Christenberry

    What could come of a little harmless flirtation, anyway? It wasn't as if she wanted to be a bride, after all. And maybe it will give Shelby Cook some answers about the mystery man who has been corresponding with her beloved Aunt Kay for the past fift...



  • Ann Christopher

    Some Hurts You Always Remember... Defense attorney Mike Baldwin has never lost a trial. He knows he can trust his razor-sharp instincts, and defendants who are straight up with him walk free. But those instincts always seem to fail him in his person...



  • Chronicle Books

    On each spread of this themed book there are two photographs that look the same...but seven things have changed from one photo to the other. The trick is to spot all seven! Includes a riddle on each spread and extra things to look for throughout the ...



  • CLAMP

    TIME WILL TELL

    The godlike being Ashura-Ă´ has killed the equally skilled and mighty rival, Yasha-Ă´. But now Ashura-Ă´ seems depressed. What this means to the country of Shura, none can tell . . . especially the five friends on a desperate jo...



  • Chris Claremont

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #466-471. Faced with a future she thought was destroyed. Rachel Grey will find out just what she's really made of when her entire family is placed on the intergalactic wanted list!....



  • Mary Jane Clark

    In Mary Jane Clark's latest blockbuster novel, you will enter the mind of a sociopath. It's a place where the rules don't apply. Where anything is fair game. And where murder is the ultimate means to an end. What kind of person... Gets what ...



  • Will Clarke

    Conrad had it pretty good in life -- a Porsche, pretty girls, and a trust fund full of oil money. But now, thanks to a brutal hazing incident at Louisiana State University's Gamma Chi fraternity, Conrad is dead -- a nineteen-year-old spirit suddenly ...



  • Alison Clement

    It seemed to June that she had the perfect marriage until the day Ronald Pruett was arrested for the murder of Vernay Hanks. Through her job at an elementary school, June knew both the victim's child and Pruett. Moreover, on the day of the murder, sh...



  • Andrew Clements

    On this particular Tuesday morning in May, the mystery that had Ted's full attention was that face. The one he'd seen at the Andersons' house. By morning recess, Ted had worked out three possible explanations for that face in the window. By lunchtim...



  • Barbara Cleverly

    London. 1926. One war is over, another is beginning, and murder is sealed with a kiss.... At midnight she was ravishing: a tall redhead wearing emeralds and a low-cut dress. An hour later, in her room at the Ritz, she was dead, the jewels torn fro...



  • Jaffe Cohen

    After his zodiac chart is read by a great psychic, Joel Eisenberg studies astrology and becomes the most famous media queen in the field. The author of a best-selling book and a nationally syndicated radio show regular, Joel manages to parlay his int...



  • Cara Colter

    Rand Peabody radiated iron will, fearsome strength, an ability to control things lesser men might back away from...which made him perfect for Chelsea King. Or so her father thought. He'd hired the soldier-turned-bodyguard because he'd believed Ran...



  • M.J. Conner

    Mariah's future is hopeless. Or so it seems, until she receives an offer to teach school in Cedar Bend, Kansas. Thirty-six-year-old spinster Mariah Casey accepts the new position and prays the Lord will bring her someone to love. The Lord answers wit...



  • Josh Conviser

    In the time it takes to read this sentence, Echelon will intercept more than 70,000 phone calls, e-mails, and faxes. Operated by the National Security Agency, Echelon is the most pervasive global eavesdropping network in history. Today, Echelon wi...



  • Stephen Coonts

    When he is assigned to Paris, CIA officer Tommy Carmellini joins his old boss Jake Grafton on a bold mission: To locate a French intelligence agent who has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine. Together they work to unravel a tangle of espiona...



  • Jerri Corgiat

    After breaking her ankle, widow and single mother Patsy O'Malley, who longs to pursue her own artistic dreams, finds herself rescued by former musician Zeke Townley who, while caring for her family and farm, takes her on an unforgettable journey that...



  • Nicola Cornick

    "Rumor has it a certain notorious Princess has not a feather to fly and is looking for a gentleman to ease her financial worries. Perhaps the Earl of S. is the man she seeks...." --The Gentleman's Mercury, 1816 Princess Isabella never...



  • Nicola Cornick

    A peaceful courtship Years before, he had come to Grafton Manor to be betrothed to the innocent and beautiful Lady Anne--a promise that was broken A prisoner of war! Now Simon, Lord Greville, has returned as an enemy, besieging the manor and ho...



  • Greg Cox

    What's in a name? Apparently everything. A killer is targeting women in the Los Angeles area who share a name with Sydney Bristow's former aliases. Sydney wants the case, but she's already hot on the heels of a terrorist armed with a secret form...



  • Maggie Cox

    The millionaire affair... Lysander Rosakis keeps his multimillion-dollar fortune to himself. The handsome Greek shipping magnate has learned to be wary of those who only want him for what his money can buy. So his seduction of British tourist I...



  • Kathryn Cramer

    "Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the "new sp...



  • Sara Craven

    The Frenchman's secret baby... Two years ago, Lady Allie Marchington fled an unhappy marriage for France, where she met irresistible Remy de Brizat. But they were driven apart when he discovered her secret. Allie was distraught, and her only ...



  • Susan Crosby

    Interior designer Selene Winston had arrived to remodel his mansion, not tangle in the sheets with her brutally handsome new boss. And yet the reclusive Adrien Morell haunted her dreams; his fantasies played through her mind. Soon she found herself s...



  • Jacquie D'Alessandro

    Impossible! Colin Oliver, Viscount Sutton, left his beloved Cornwall for London to find a bride-some comely, proper, wellborn lady to bear him an heir. Certainly not someone like Madame Alexandra Larchmont. Yes, she's the toast of the ton, and a ...



  • Janet Dailey

    With his rugged-cowboy good looks and the kind of smile that makes a lady's pulse race, Trey Calder could have his pick of women. But he's been holding out for someone special, and the minute he lays eyes on freelance photographer Sloan Davis, he kno...



  • Kavita Daswani

    Tanaya Shah longs for the wonderful world of Paris, the world that she fell in love with while watching Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina -- so when a proposal comes along for an arranged marriage with a man who is living in Paris, Tanaya seizes the chance. ...



  • Maryjanice Davidson
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    Hunky werewolves, delicious demons, and drop-dead sexy witches all have the same address... MYSTERIA Hundreds of years ago, in the mountains of Colorado (just close enough to Denver for great shoe shopping), the small town of Mysteria was "acci...



  • Alan Davis

    The British mutant team's earliest incarnation is still trying to find its feet, only to fall headfirst into the Inferno! Meanwhile, Mojo's first batch of X-Babies escape to Earth, but Excalibur has much worse doppelgangers to deal with before the Cr...



  • James P. Davis
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Lady of the Order of Twilight Witch of the Gargauthans Blood Magus Morgynn seethed for years under the yoke of ignorance her mother enforced. Then death came for Morgynn, and after embracing it she was reborn with frightening powers of incre...



  • Susan Page Davis

    Lucy lost Jack years ago. Jack Hunter's father was a drunk and a criminal, and Lucy Hamblin's father believed the apple lay near the tree. When her father forbade their love, Lucy buried her heart out of obedience, but she never stopped loving Jack. ...



  • Marianne de Pierres

    After the Tert war, bodyguard Parrish Plessis must pay off a blood debt to the Cabal Coomera tribe by entering a realm of tekno-darkness to find their missing shamans and to assassinate an ex-lover who had infected her with a high-tech parasite. Orig...



  • Vanessa Del Fabbro

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  • Anna DeStefano

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  • Paul Di Filippo

    In this, Di Filippo's first fantasy novel ever, Thomas the Rhymer confronts humans and faery and monsters, in a quest through lands known and unknown . . . but can he survive the machinations of the Faery Queen?...



  • Garry Disher

    It had taken months for Janine McQuarrie to succumb to her husband's pressure to have sex with strangers at suburban spouse-swapping parties. But after attending a few such events on the Mornington Peninsula, this Australian social psychologist rebel...



  • Disney Book Group

    The Disney Junior Graphic Novels provide young readers with 48-pages of four-color graphic stories at a great low price! Each novel features one of Disney’s most famous animated characters in a re-telling of their big screen adventure.  ...



  • Disney Book Group

    The Disney JuniorGraphic Novels provide young readers with 48-pagesof four-color graphic stories at a great low price! Each novel features one ofDisney’s most famous animated characters in a re-telling of their big screenadventure. 
    When Stitc...




  • Robyn Donald

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  • Carole Nelson Douglas

    Midnight Louie, alley-cat extraordinaire and Las Vegas's hairiest, hard-boiled PI, finds himself literally walking a tightrope when a fabulous museum opening at one of Sin City's swankiest casinos is marred by a little thing like death. Louie's l...



  • Ann Downer

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  • Dianne Drake

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  • Alex Duval

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  • Margot Early

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  • Robert Edric

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  • Bonnie Edwards
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    Three sinfully seductive short stories, filled with exciting passion and decadent desire, feature Lucinda Bett's "The Bet," in which Zoe loses a high-stakes wager, which forces her to become a co-worker's sex slave for twenty-four hours. Original....



  • Ake Edwardson

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  • Kama Einhorn

    Vroom! Youngsters love things that go! And Professor Grover and Elmo are here to tell them more about all those things that take us places, from bikes, wagons, and trucks to race cars, wheelchairs, and strollers!...



  • Kama Einhorn

    Arf, arf! What little kid doesn’t want to know more about dogs? Professor Grover and Elmo are here to teach them all about breeds, dog care, what working dogs do, and much more. Barkley, the big Sesame Street dog, appears as a special guest!...



  • Julie Ellis

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  • Tracey Enright

    A Novel of Life and Death...and Shoes Claire Fontaine is sassy, sexy, sophisticated, and rich. Henry Bennett is fat, sloppy, slow, and a bad dresser. He's a private eye, and as far as he's concerned, she's his assistant. As far as she's concerned...



  • Jennie Erdal

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  • Jimmie Ruth Evans

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  • Tabor Evans

    There’s a headstone with Longarm’s name on it…Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has bullet-holed of every member of Nate Hathaway’s gang except for the no-good desperado himself, who’s high-tailed it to a town called Lodestone.   The co...



  • Terri Farley

    The Phantom's lead mare is injured, and Samantha wants to help her. But she can't call the vet -- what if he won't let the mare return to the wild?

    So Sam starts treating the mare's injuries in secret. But the horse seems awfully calm for a ...



  • Christine Feehan

    Now she introduces Libby Drake, of the magical Drake sisters--each mysterious, gifted, and enchanted by prophecies of love... Dr. Libby Drake is sensible and practical. To her more adventurous sisters, she's always been the "good girl." Certainly ...



  • Marie Ferrarella

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  • Caridad Ferrer

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  • Monica Ferris

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  • Dan Fesperman

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  • Amy J. Fetzer

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  • Fannie Flagg

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  • Clyde W. Ford

    John Shannon's son J. J. is a huge fan of hip-hop artist Yousef al-Salaam, formerly Deuce F., who recently converted to Sufism, a mystical order of Islam. The popular musician also happens to be on a terrorist watch list. When al-Salaam is shot outsi...



  • G.M. Ford

    The nightmare began a year ago with the curious and unfortunate death of a delivery driver-blown to pieces. With a little prodding from the media, the terror spread, burning a bloody swath from East Coast to West. Bodies are piling up as a series...



  • Michael Foreman

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  • Gwynne Forster

    By day, she's Jacqueline Ann Parkton, Ph.D. But come nightfall, she lets her hair down.... The patrons of the swanky gentleman's club Allegory, Inc. know her as Jackie Parks, the chestnut-brown beauty with legs up to there, who serves them drinks ...



  • Delores Fossen

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  • Alan Dean Foster

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  • Christopher Fowler

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  • Gary Franklin

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  • Kit Frazier

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  • Scott Frost

    Detective Alex Delillo is in a state of shock. Turns out the dead body discovered near the river is that of her half brother -- one she never knew she had -- and he's the spitting image of her father. The father who walked out on his family...the sam...



  • Alexander Fullerton

    A riveting prequel to the WWII espionage series featuring British agent Rosie Ewing, in this “meticulously researched war novel†(Len Deighton).   Late autumn, 1942: A group codenamed Countryman are briefed by London to get a certain German ...




  • Ashley Gardner

    Cashiered cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey of the 35th Light Dragoons lost much on the battlefield during the Peninsular Campaign. But be still retains his innate sense of right and wrong when faced with injustice... Young women are disappear...



  • Darlene Gardner

    When Connor Smith has to unexpectedly care for his nine-year-old niece, he isn't prepared. In fact, he's overwhelmed. Blending their lives poses one problem after another until Jaye's violin teacher throws them a lifeline. Abby Reed not only knows...



  • Laurien Gardner

    Jane Seymour, shrewd, bright, plain Jane, won the love of King Henry VIII -- and alone among all his women, would give him his heart's desire... With a face better suited to a nun's habit than a wedding dress, Jane Seymour has no suitors a...



  • Kathleen O'Neal Gear

    According to the tradition of the Black Falcon People, each person has three souls: the eye soul, which stays with the body forever, the shadow-soul, where all evil is leeched and shed at death, and the reflection-soul, which lives on among the Bless...



  • James Gelsey

    A Scooby-riffic mystery series!

    The Gang get ready for some serious shopping when they head to the Happy Valley Mega Mall. Daphne, Fred, Velma, and even Scooby and Shaggy want to check out the new store, Dr. Yuckenstein's Make-A-Monster Labora...



  • F.G. Gerson

    Lynn Blanchett's Steps to Happiness: Step 1: Find a job. (Done! I'm doing PR for hotshot young designer Muriel B. -- which I'm totally unqualified for.) Step 2: Find a man. (Check! There's a rich, gorgeous man chasing me...so what if I find him...



  • Pamela Gien

    Lively and inquisitive, six-year-old Elizabeth Grace, a privileged child, bears witness to the terror and inhumanity that paralyze South Africa under apartheid in the 1960s. Lizzie's closest ally and greatest love is her Xhosa nanny, Salamina--but th...



  • Laura Anne Gilman

    Nobody said juggling a career and a relationship would be easy... Wren Valere used to have a simple life. Her partner Sergei would negotiate the terms of the Retrieval -- all right, the theft -- and she would use her magical Talent to carry it ou...



  • Laura Anne Gilman

    King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table are preparing once again to set out in search of the legendary Holy Grail. This time Morgain le Fay is determined to stop them at any cost, and she knows exactly who is standing in her way. When she kidnaps Ai...



  • Kathleen Givens

    In an age when Norse invaders threaten Scottish civilization, one woman will defend her clan’s honor and claim her own exceptional destiny. 1263: As the Highland village of Somerstrath prepares for the joyous wedding of Margaret MacDonald, the lai...



  • Alan Gold

    When the wife of a philandering rabbi is found dead, Rabbi Robert Geller is tried for her murder, but when the trial ends in a mistrial, despite the claims of two men who claim to be hired assassins, and Geller is released, Lou Tedesco launches a per...



  • Kristi Gold

    Interior designer Selene Winston had arrived to remodel his mansion, not tangle in the sheets with her brutally handsome new boss. And yet the reclusive Adrien Morell haunted her dreams; his fantasies played through her mind. Soon she found herself s...



  • Lee Goldberg

    OBSESSIVE. COMPULSIVE. DETECTIVE. Welcome to the all-new series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... Some people think Hawaii is paradise. But Monk knows that ...



  • Paul Goldstein

    Meet Michael Seeley, defender of artists' rights, take-no-prisoners intellectual property litigator--and a man on the brink of personal and career collapse. So when United Pictures virtually demands that he fly out to Hollywood to confirm legally tha...



  • Terry Goodkind

    On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end. As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only h...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    The novella has always held a hallowed place in literature, and nowhere is that more true than in the mystery field. Its length often allows a more in-depth examination of the fictional characters and crimes portrayed, while maintaining a wonderful s...



  • C.W. Gortner

    Juana of Castile, the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country's throne, has been for centuries an enigmatic figure shrouded in lurid myth. Was she the bereft widow of legend who was driven mad by her loss, or has history misjudged a woman ...



  • Heather Graham

    The gift of sight comes at a dangerous price When Deep Down Salvage begins the hunt for the Josephine Marie, it seems like any other dive...until Genevieve Wallace sees the vision of a dead woman in the water, her vacant eyes boring into Geneviev...



  • Susan Grant
    in

    Hunky werewolves, delicious demons, and drop-dead sexy witches all have the same address... MYSTERIA Hundreds of years ago, in the mountains of Colorado (just close enough to Denver for great shoe shopping), the small town of Mysteria was "acci...



  • Jane Graves
    in

    Stuntman Kirk McKenzie is back in town. It's Dr. Amanda Stevens's second chance to convince the daredevil that no rush could be better than the thrill he'd get if he fell for her instead....



  • Jane Graves

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  • Martin H. Greenberg

    Liberty is a recurring theme in science fiction. Here's a volume of explorations of this theme, combining landmark stories from science fiction's golden age with new stories by some of today's top writers, including Hugo winner and Grand Master Jack ...



  • Dan Greenburg

    When Cody is 14, he runs away from home, leaving behind his abusive mother, and flees across the country. He doesn't stop until he hits Texas and the Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. Under the guidance of Sunny, the ranch's owner, he cares for the animals in...



  • J.C. Greenburg

    Thanks to an invention mishap Andrew, Judy, and Thudd have been shrunk down to the size of bugs. That’s a serious problem when they get lost in a deep, dark, and bat-filled cave. Bats love to eat bugs! Will Andrew, Judy, and Thudd find a light at t...



  • Graham Greene

    In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him through the...



  • Jennifer Greene

    They couldn't be any more different Poppy Thompson: The self-proclaimed homeliest woman in town, she deals with animals for a living rather than people. Bren Price: The ever-proper minister's wife, she does everything her husband tells her, but...



  • Leigh Greenwood

    The bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky -- they got into a man's blood until he knew there was nothing better than the life of a cowboy...except the love of a good woman. Bret Nolan had never gotten us...



  • David Gregory

    What if a fascinating stranger knew you better than you know yourself?When her husband comes home with a farfetched story about eating dinner with someone he believes to be Jesus, Mattie Cominsky thinks this may signal the end of her shaky marriage. ...



  • Lois Greiman

    The warrior guards a dangerous secret... To the ladies of the ton he is the "Irish Wolf," an unobtainable object of their most hidden desires. But centuries ago, O'Banyon fell victim to an enchanting witch. Once ruthless in battle -- a...



  • Mark Gruenwald

    How many rooms in the X-Mansion? What makes web-shooters work? Find out as Spider-Man and the X-Men join forces to highlight the third volume of this Guide to the Greats! Featuring full profiles on Rogue, Shadowcat, Storm, the White Queen, Wolverine ...



  • Dan Gutman

    Something spooky is going on! Mrs. Patty, the secretary, gives out the best Halloween candy in the history of the world! But her house is haunted! People say she's a witch and her husband is a ghost. Is it worth A.J. risking his life for the best ...



  • Mary Downing Hahn

    When her widower father inherits a castlelike estate in the mountains of West Virginia, 12-year-old Jen is thrilled. It seems like a wish come true. But she quickly realizes that not all change is positive. Her dad has a mysterious new girlfriend, Mo...