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New Books List: 556 titles


  • Linda Turner

    To Do (after High School graduation) 1. Go to college 2. Fall in love with the man of my dreams 3. Get married 4. Have two kids -- one at a time! Natalie Bailey may not have been very good with numbers, but even she knew that she wasn'...



  • 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...



  • Debbie Macomber

    Rancher Lonny Ellison has never known a woman like Joy Fuller. For one thing, she doesn't seem very interested in him, and as a former rodeo cowboy, Lonny's not used to that. Women mobbed the Wyoming Kid during his rodeo days! And another thing. He a...



  • Cara Lockwood

    Welcome to Bard Academy, where a group of supposedly troubled teens are about to get scared straight. When Miranda, a slightly spoiled but spirited fifteen-year-old from Chicago, smashes up her father's car and goes to town with her stepmother's c...



  • 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 ...



  • Keith McCarthy

    An invitation to spend time with childhood friends -- the Hickmans in their fairy-tale castle in a forest by the lake -- seems the perfect rest cure for solicitor Helena Flemming after cancer treatment. But when a man is found burned to death in ...



  • Claire Thornton

    QUIET GENTLEMAN OR RAKISH ADVENTURER? Lady Angelica Lennard wanted her brother brought out of France, and Benoit Faulkener was just the man to do it. Fully expecting a piratical smuggler, Angelica was mortified to discover a respectable shipowner...



  • 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...



  • Deborah J. Wolf

    Written with the poignancy of heartbreak and the indomitable promise of hope, Deborah J. Wolf's unforgettable debut novel delves into the fragile, ever-changing relationships between mothers and daughters in the worst of times--and in the best... A...



  • Gena Showalter
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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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Barbara Pierce

    A WICKED BARGAIN... Handsome, ambitious, and newly wealthy, Maccus Brawley has severed ties with his dangerous past and is close to securing his place in polite society. All he requires is some guidance in fashionable manners--and who better to inst...



  • Jeff Shelby

    Noah Braddock is just living from wave to wave, catching a nice break from his private eye business. The last time he traded his surfboard for a gun, Carter Hamm, his wild and woolly best friend, nearly died. So when a man asks Noah to look for his m...



  • Lydia Joyce

    On the edge of the Romanian wilderness, one woman flees the secrets that haunt her lover.... When four London Seasons fail to find her a suitable match, Alcyone Carter does the unthinkable and treks across Europe to marry a foreign nobleman she's ...



  • Mercedes Lackey; James Mallory

    Despite a great working of Wild Magic and High Magic that struck at the heart of the Demon Queen's evil plots, Knight-Mage Kellen and his Elven allies are still seen as enemies by the human Mage Council. The Elves and their allies must find a way to ...



  • Marianne Mancusi

    AND ALL THAT JAZZ Unless Dora Duncan can stop it, it's going to be another St. Valentine's Day Massacre. A year ago, her (now ex) boyfriend Nick stood her up at the worst possible moment. That was when she gave up important TV reporting for stories ...



  • 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...



  • Anne Holt

    In Norway, children are disappearing. First there was nine-year-old Emilie, whose backpack was discovered in a deserted alley. One week later, it was a five-year-old boy. And then another. As public panic escalates, police commissioner Stubo urgently...



  • Owen King

    Imaginative, gripping stories, along with the brilliant title novella set in Maine after the 2000 election, carry the weight of real emotion and revelation and showcase the impressive versatility of a rising talent.

    Owen King is a writer i...



  • Tomoko Hayakawa

    THE GHOULISH GRANNY

    Four of Japan’s most gorgeous guys have the near-impossible task of turning goth-loner Sunako into a lady. When they find Sunako all dressed up and ready for a night on the town, the guys think their luck may have finally...



  • T.L. Hines

    Jude Allman has died and come back to life three times, becoming a celebrity against his own wishes. When the world crushes in around this unlikely miracle man, this modern-day Lazarus, he escapes into the vastness of Montana. He changes his name and...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Sarah Monette

    A disgraced wizard and a crippled thief hold the fate of Melusine in their hands... Felix Harrowgate was a powerful wizard until his former master used Felix's magic to shatter the Virtu -- the keystone for the protections and magic of the wizards o...



  • Margaret Pemberton

    Original title: Never Leave Me A stirring romance set in the dark days of World War Two Passionate Lisette de Valmy dedicates all her loyalty to the French Resistance as the Germans occupy her country ? but finds her feelings torn when her heart i...



  • Angela Winters

    Los Angeles-based cosmetics tycoon Steven Chase has come a long way from his humble beginnings. Chase Beauty is a Fortune 500 company, and Steven's family, including socialite wife, Janet, and four grown children, live a life of privilege in exclusiv...



  • Vera Rosenberry

    Join Vera on her first day at a new school--jitters and all! When Vera's family moves to a new home, Vera must change schools. On the first morning, Vera has butterflies in her tummy--it's hard to fit in, and Vera misses her old school and friends. ...



  • M.J. Rose

    As one of New York's top sex therapists, Dr. Morgan Snow sees everything from the abused to the depraved. From high-profile clients with twisted obsessions to courageous survivors, the Butterfield Institute is the sanctuary to heal battered souls. ...



  • Marcia Muller

    Till Death Do They Part Commitment-phobic Sharon McCone has just shocked everyone she knows -- she's eloped with her sexy fellow investigator and longtime significant other, Hy Ripinsky. With her PI business booming and marital adjustments looming a...



  • Ellen Schreiber

    Can Raven stop Dullsville from becoming Vampireville? For goth-girl Raven, dating her dream boyfriend is complicated, especially because Alexander's secret means they can only meet at night. And now they must be extra wary, with Alexander's archr...




  • Sue-Ellen Welfonder

    Nothing could protect her from desire... Fearless and outspoken, Lady Mariota MacNichol must run for her life. Accused of murdering the unworthy rogue she once loved, she boldly takes possession of deserted Cuidrach Castle, the one place her enemi...



  • 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 ...



  • Tracie Peterson

    Helaina Beecham lived in a world of refinement, luxury, and sophistication until a devastating loss changed her life forever. Now she seeks justice with the Pinkertons. Though it is her search for fugitive Chase Kincaid that brings Helaina to the Al...



  • Kara Lennox

    When sexy, suave, millionaire spy Bryan Elliott rescued her, banker-turned-mole Lucy Miller knew his alias was well deserved. The dashing agent simply took her breath away. With danger at her doorstep, Bryan whisked her to safety at his pricey Manhat...



  • I. Michael Koontz

    Under Cloak of Darkness, a gripping 1950s Cold War thriller featuring ex-FBI agent John Apparite. After being recruited by an ultra secret organization whose existence is known only to elite D.C. brass and whose religion is to kill or be killed, Appa...



  • 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!....



  • 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...



  • Leigh Michaels

    With the holiday season fast approaching, Lissa Morgan is in dire straits -- she's stuck without a job, and the roof over her head is definitely temporary! So when a two-week live-in job is offered to her, Lissa snaps it up. What she doesn't ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Edmundo Paz Soldan

    Set against the backdrop of a globalization crisis in near future Bolivia, it is complete with a corrupt government, a greedy multinational corporation, a secret code-breaking organization called the Black Chamber, and a group of young computer hacke...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Nancy E. Mercado

    In this hilarious and diverse collection of short stories, ten well-known writers (including Avi, Angela Johnson, David Lubar, and Susan Shreve) relate their funny and memorable middle school moments. Illustrations....



  • Michelle Buckley

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



  • 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...



  • William W. Johnstone; J.A. Johnstone

    From legendary William W. Johnstone comes an exciting new saga of the American frontier town called Fury, built smack dab in the middle of the untamed Arizona Territory...and the only man who can give Fury a fighting chance... The last thing Jason ...



  • Paul Park

    Teenager Miranda Popescu is at the fulcrum of a deadly political and diplomatic battle between conjurers in an alternate fantasy world where "Roumania" is a leading European power. Miranda was hidden by her aunt in our world. An American couple adopt...



  • Taro Miura

    Who do you think of when you see a hammer and a saw? A carpenter! What about a shovel and a watering can?

    In Taro Miura's deceptively simple book children will discover more than sixty different tools, both familiar and new. Even the youngest read...



  • Sandra Scoppettone

    I'd had two murders since last spring, solved them both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for awhile. Just cause people saw my name in the paper they figured I was the best (which ...



  • Eduardo Santiago

    Written with buoyant humor and a sharp sense of human desire, this is the story of love pursued at any cost, of how friendship and history unite people for better or worse, and of the hope for that redemptive kiss capable of reconciling estranged lov...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Roxanne St. Claire

    A hot-blooded bodyguard. An heiress worth a cool billion. And one dangerous attraction.... Roxanne St. Claire delivers a heart-pounding thrill ride in the second Bullet Catchers novel! HE KNOWS ALL HER SECRETS... Max Roper never lets emotion get ...



  • Sharon Downing Jarvis

    A nasty neighbor who is sponsoring what could be an ugly anti-Mormon rally is just one of the concerns weighing on Bishop Jim Shepherd's mind. In his fourth year of service as bishop of the tiny Fairhaven Ward, he's also dealing with the death of one...



  • Reggie Nadelson

    Artie Cohen’s long-time girlfriend, Lily Hanes, has been found beaten up, raped and left for dead in an empty Parisian apartment. In the wintry French capital, Artie looks for Lily’s attackers and finds himself drawn in to a web of sex, death and...



  • 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...



  • Peggy Moreland

    SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH HIS BROTHER'S BABY Mack McGruder was there to pay her off...another one of his ne'er-do-well brother's women, claiming paternity. But Adrianna Rocci truly was having a McGruder heir...at that exact moment. HE OF...



  • 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.”   ...



  • Joseph A. West

    ONLY WAY OUT It's called the Whoop-Up Trail. It's a two-hundred-mile stretch of rough terrain between Montana and Canada littered with spiky brushwood, crawling with clawed and fanged critters of all shapes and sizes, and traversed by hostile Indian...



  • Pamela Toth

    "Don't you want me?" she asked in a small voice. Of course Wade Garrett wanted her. He'd wanted Pauline Mayfield ever since he'd convinced her to rent him a room in her boardinghouse. But he wasn't sure if he was ready to trust women again. Especi...



  • Christopher Fowler

    It's a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--it's business as usual for Bryant and May! But this time they ...



  • 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...



  • 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!...



  • Kathryn Shay

    What her husband doesn't know...could destroy them all Dan Logan thinks he's got it all: a great job as a D.A., the ideal marriage and two wonderful children. Now he's been nominated Citizen of the Year. Seems his rigid pursuit of honesty and inte...



  • Fiona Zedde

    Give Me More Desiree Nichols is no stranger to heartbreak, but when her hot, young boyfriend abandons her after two years of being together, Dez's foundations begin to crumble. To make matters worse, a family crisis is calling her home to face the p...



  • 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...



  • Mary (1) Kennedy

    How low will Jessie go . . . Landing the star role in Reckless Summer--filmed at my East-coast high school a few weeks ago--definitely had its perks. I was bestowed the honor of sharing romantic scenes, on and off the set, with Shane Rockett. He...



  • 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 ...



  • Eric Kraft

    To Peter Leroys adult chagrin, his home town of Babbington, a seaside village on Long Island, is being turned into a theme park, centering on the historic day on which he, a fifteen-year-old adventurer, returned after completing 4,000 miles of solo f...



  • Carol Marinelli

    Uptight and personal... Billionaire Anton Santini needs discreet protection...but he's not expecting Detective Lydia Holmes! How can this staid, sober policewoman pose as his mistress? Business and pleasure... Lydia surprises herself when, m...



  • Chris Jordan

    No parent believes it can happen to them -- their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddeni...



  • Glenda Larke

    I plunged into the darkness. When I emerged, I was on the other side of death, in a life about which I understood nothing. I was Ruarth Windrider. And I was human... Ruarth Windrider had lived his entire life as a bird -- until the Aware swordswoman...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Allison van Diepen

    Ty Johnson knows survival. Since inheriting his pop’s business at sixteen, Ty’s developed smarts, skills, and mad discipline. The supply game’s in his blood. And life is pretty sweet when you’re on top.But one slip -- or one serious competito...



  • Dandi Daley Mackall

    The center of attention wherever she goes, Storm Novelo is hiding a secret. Convinced no one would like her inner brainiac, she hides behind her public airhead persona -- and quits every project she starts before anyone can get too close. What will i...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • Tara Moss

    Mak is beautiful, street-smart and single, a model paying her way through a degree in forensic psychology. She's come to Vancouver to finish her studies. But instead she walks straight into a city gripped by fear of a killer, and a campus where the s...



  • Chris Moriarty

    Call Arkady a clone with a conscience. Or call him a traitor. A member of the space-faring Syndicates, Arkady has defected to Israel with a hot commodity: a genetic weapon powerful enough to wipe out humanity. But Israel's not buying it. They're sell...



  • Sean McKeever

    The highly acclaimed drama featuring the life of a teenage Mary Jane Watson returns! And this time, she's got some friendly neighborhood backup! With her circle of friends and recent relationship left in disrepair, MJ is on the market once again! But...



  • Sherri L. Smith

    Family sticks with family. That's the golden rule G'ma taught Kendall. But once G'ma's gone, Kendall has no family left--except for an aunt G'ma asked for at the end, who Kendall barely remembers. Only Aunt Janet knows what G'ma had in mind, but she ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Wild horses couldn’t drag him away from this fight…Skye Fargo isn’t riding through the rough south Texas landscape looking for trouble -- but Johnny Lobo’s gang of bushwhackers gave him some for free. After Skye barely escapes with his life, ...



  • 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...



  • Brett Lott

    The first volume in a collection of contemporary fiction that combines the artistry of critically accaimed writers with a clear Christian worldview.

    From Homer Hickam, the best-selling author of Rocket Boys--which later became the movie Octo...



  • Brenda Jackson

    Love struck In the real world there was no way flower shop owner Kylie Hagan would ever meet up with millionaire Chance Steele. But the world of single parents and teenage hormones brought them together the first time -- and a simmering passion th...



  • Gilbert Reid

    Adroitly capturing love and all its nuances, So This Is Love pulsates with underlying currents of violence, sex, passion, and the politics of desire. Tracing the globe, individuals find themselves caught in the entanglements of memory, forgetting, an...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Jake Logan

    Slocum plans on putting someone to pasture...Secrets run deep in Apache Wells, Arizona, where someone is preying on the premium ponies -- picking up horses and leaving them out to dry…in pieces. When John Slocum gets lassoed in to put a stop to it,...



  • Kay Hooper

    Special Agent Riley Crane woke up in a beach cottage fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood. Even more frightening, she didn't remember what had happened the night before. She barely remembered anything about the previous three w...



  • Adrienne Sharp

    Friends and lovers from an early age, ballet dancers Adam and Sandra find themselves ill-prepared for the demands of attaining their hopes of stardom, promised when an aging and ailing ballet master finds in Sandra a muse who may fulfill his dream of...



  • Thomas E. Sniegoski

    When teenager Tom Lovett learns that his narcoleptic "fits" are really cover for his alter ego, Tyler Garrett, to commit coldblooded murder as a hired assassin, Tom vows to take down the evil agency that created him while also fighting the evil withi...



  • Thomas E. Sniegoski

    Teenager Tom Lovett suffers from a rare form of narcolepsy that can knock him out for days at a time. At least, this is what his parents and doctors have always told him. But Tom's about to make a shocking discovery: He's actually a sleeper assassin....



  • Don Pendleton

    ASIAN STORM Mack Bolan goes undercover as the point man for a U.N. commando force in Malaysia. The mission is to halt the sale of components for black-market nukes to insurgents, but a double cross leads to a bloodbath with the good guys winning. ...



  • Lisa Papademetriou

    Trying to survive the sixth grade and all its relationship dramas, Allie Kimball begins to keep a journal where she records all the highs and lows of friendships, crushes, team events, and daily happenings throughout the fun, sad, crazy, happy year. ...



  • Louise Harwood

    Twenty-four-year-old London virgin Emily begins to wonder if she is crazy to wait for Mr. Right, especially with all of her friends falling in and out of lust on a daily basis, a decision that is further complicated when her one-time teenage boyfrien...



  • Monica Ferris

    As full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has untangled plenty of twisted skeins in the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mystery series. But she'll need more than a thimbleful of courage and common...



  • Cait London

    The Heiress and the Hunter Known as the Somerton heiress, Cameron is wary, because her life has been marred by tragedy. Determined to silence the whispers -- and end the nightmares -- that haunt her, she must uncover the secrets of her past. . . ...



  • Todd Strasser

    Racing. Cutting. Drifting. Slamming... Winner takes all. The cops cracked down on illegal races, and now the only street racing around is at the hottest casino on the strip. The casino owner is starting his own high-stakes, high-payoff drift team --...



  • Bob Reiss

    It's the night the President has resigned. In a Manhattan town house, the head of Lenox Pharmaceuticals, the world's most powerful drug company, lies dead. Through the morning darkness, security chief Mike Acela drives his BMW to the scene. Mike's jo...



  • L.H. Maynard; M.P.N. Sims

    When she buys a dilapidated old house, determined to restore it to its original beauty, Laura Craig unwittingly unleashes an ancient evil, bent on revenge and hungry for death, that has been trapped beneath the cellar for years. Original....



  • Dan Slott

    Collects She-Hulk (2004) #7-12. As a superhuman lawyer, She-Hulk has tried some of the strangest cases on Earth… but all of that is about to change! Empowered by the Living Tribunal, Shulkie is heading into deep space to practice Universal Law! Gue...



  • Alesia Holliday

    SUREFIRE TIPS TO MAKE HIM SO NOT INTO YOU... GUARANTEED! Like so many women, Shane Madison prefers to be nice, and hates confrontation. But also like a lot of women, sometimes Shane just wants a guy to hit the road, and fast. The solution: get TH...



  • Valerie Trueblood

    Who most deeply affects our lives? Sometimes it is those who touch us briefly, even unexpectedly. For May Nilsson, these include the lover she takes in her forties; the handsome, troubled young rebel she is determined to rescue; the police office...



  • Marie Ferrarella

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  • Diana Peterfreund

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  • Robyn Harding

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  • Andrew Nugent

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  • Gordon Korman

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  • Susan Meissner

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  • Jolie Mathis

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  • Kit Frazier

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  • James Gelsey

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  • Kat Martin

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  • Lisa Kleypas

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  • Jack Anderson; Robert Westbrook

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  • Vanessa Del Fabbro

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  • Luanne Rice

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  • Lara Parker

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  • Kavita Daswani

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  • Elizabeth Adler

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  • J.A. Konrath

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  • Scott Smith

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  • Francesca Lia Block

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  • Nina Bruhns

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  • Andrea Camilleri

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  • Andrew Clements

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  • Leo Kessler

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  • Marsha Diane Arnold

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  • Robert J. Horton

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  • Susan Crosby

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  • Kristi Gold

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  • Michelle Celmer

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  • Benjamin Harper



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  • Sara Mackenzie

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  • Deborah MacGillivray

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  • Christine Rimmer

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  • Robin Parrish

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  • 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....



  • Brian Callison

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  • 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...



  • Max Brand

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  • Marjorie M. Liu

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  • Tanya Michaels
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    The black sheep of a wild bunch, Noah Tanner is always living down his family name -- until he meets Bree McCormick. They discover that being bad isn't always a crime....



  • Jessica Andersen

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  • Ellen Byerrum

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  • Elmer Kelton

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  • Susan Kearney

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  • Laura Peyton Roberts

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  • Ueda Hajime

    GREETINGS, EARTHLING

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  • Michael Bowen

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  • Francine Rivers

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    A man of solitude, who felt at home among the hills. A man of conviction, who heard w...



  • Phillip Margolin

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  • Anna DeStefano

    Does going home mean living with the past -- or living down the past? The death of teenager Bobby Compton shocked the community of Rivermist, Georgia. It also destroyed the lives of Neal Cain and Jennifer Gardner. Neal was sent to prison, and Je...



  • Ellen Kushner

    Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake...



  • Kate Brian

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  • 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. ...



  • Dan Fesperman

    When the body of an American soldier is discovered in Cuban waters near the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo, Revere Falk, a former FBI agent, is reassigned from his job interrogating an accused al-Qaeda operative to investigate the soldier's my...



  • Susan Sizemore

    Can a heroic vampire protect his clan from danger -- and save himself from burning desire? As Prime of his vampire Family, Mathias Bridger is sworn to protect his own kind at any cost -- but years of acting as a fierce guardian of his people have ...



  • 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...



  • Joel McIver

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  • Laurien Gardner

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  • Michiko Yokote

    DRENCHED IN LOVE!

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  • Terry Goodkind

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  • Frank Borsch

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  • Nora Pelizzari

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  • Jennifer L. Holm

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  • James Lee Burke

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  • Jane Yolen

    A rock 'n' roll band to die for….

    When fourteen year old Callie McCallan scores a backstage pass to interview the lead singer of the famous band Brass Rat, she's thrilled. Peter Gringras is so cool. When he plays his flute, it's as if he has...



  • 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...



  • Jo-Ann Mapson

    After losing her teaching position at the local university, Mariah Moon will do anything to keep her gifted twelve-year-old daughter, Lindsay, in a prestigious private school -- which means moving in with her mother and grandmother in an apartment ab...



  • Diana Palmer

    Meet Colby Lane, the Long, Tall Texan Diana Palmer's fans have been clamoring for -- a man who is larger than life, and twice as exciting. The New York Times bestselling author delivers to readers a thrilling story set against the rugged, ever-changi...



  • Lilian Darcy

    The engagement of wealthy Australian rancher Dustin Tanner is just the scoop journalist Shay Russell needs to save her flagging career. But when she races to the Outback to interview the happy couple, she finds the story's gone bust. And then a sudde...



  • Julian Jay Savarin

    Muller wants to avenge his parents, but he also wants to destroy the Semper, who have despatched professional killers to get him, and his entire team. Hedi Meyer, the electronic genius goth, is the latest to be hit. Muller's investigations again take...



  • Brandon Massey

    The award-winning author of Dark Corner, Thunderland, and Within the Shadows, Brandon Massey delivers a chilling supernatural thriller of the ties that bind--and dark secrets written in the blood. . . Good fortune has smiled upon Gabriel Reid sin...



  • Michelle Wan

    In THE ORCHID SHROUD, Wan weaves another tale abounding in mystery and orchids as interior decorator Mara Dunn and orchidologist Julian Wood team up to solve two murders: one dating back to the 1870s; the other occurring almost right before their eye...



  • Tim Waggoner

    At the beginning of this fantasy from horror writer TIm Waggoner, everyone in the country of Athymar suddenly falls asleep. On awakening, most people have gained a minor magical ability (e.g., one man can change his eye color). "The Change" has a mor...



  • Patricia Kay

    SEVEN DAYS A BRIDE Not so long ago, she'd been planning his wedding to another woman. Now Felicity Farnsworth was sharing his honeymoon suite. It had been a shock when dashing Reid Kelly, the former fiance of one of her best friends, had invited h...



  • 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...