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New Books List: 647 titles


  • Richard Abanes

    With no warning, white supremacists launch the most devastating attack on America to ever be witnessed. In Los Angeles, journalist Frank Delafield narrowly escapes death and starts his own investigation to find out how the deadly plot could have been...



  • Cherry Adair

    The last person on earth that art restorer Emily Greene wants to see is the devil-may-care Max Aries. She hasn't forgotten (or forgiven) the way Max dropped into her life a year ago, stole her heart, then vanished without a word. But the prodigal pla...



  • Paul Adam

    The Indian town of McLeod Ganj has been home to the Dalai Lama for more than forty years. Now, the Dalai Lama is dead, and his followers can only conceal his death for so long before word spreads to the rest of world. Maggie Walsh, a daring British p...



  • Jane A. Adams

    Naomi and boyfriend Alec Friedman travel to the Fenlands for the funeral of Alecs beloved Uncle Rupert, who ran an antiques business and wrote books on local history. At the funeral, it becomes clear that there were some suspicious circumstances, and...



  • Jennie Adams

    An Italian single father, a motherless child... Bella Gable never wanted to see rich, handsome Luchino Montichelli ever again! They had a brief romance in Italy when she was young and naive, but when Bella discovered Luc had betrayed her, it broke h...



  • Kim Addonizio

    Rita Jackson is a young woman on the skids, spending her time in shelters and on the dot-com-drunk streets of late 1990s San Francisco. She's a young woman haunted by the murder of her mother when she was thirteen, and a young bride haunted by the di...



  • Jan Adkins

    Diego de la Vega is more concerned with riding horses and making mischief with his best friend, Bernardo, than about fighting injustice. But all that changes when men start disappearing from the pueblo of Los Angeles and cattle go missing from his fa...



  • Elizabeth Adler

    FOUR WORDS WOULD CHANGE HER LIFE... Precious Rafferty is an American antiques dealer living in Paris. Though Precious--known as Preshy--lives in the world's most romantic city, she keeps her feet firmly on the ground. No man will ever sweep her off h...



  • Jonis Agee

    From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, whom The New York Times Book Review called "a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape," The River Wife is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the New Madrid earthquake of 1...



  • Richard Aleas

    Three years ago, detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever--and left a woman he loved dead. Now Blake is back, to investigate the apparent suicide of Dorothy Louise Burke, a beautiful college student with a double life. The ...



  • Hannah Alexander

    An exotic Hawaiian vacation was what Ginger Carpenter had planned. What she got was a tropical nightmare! An escaped murderer was on the trail of her two foster nieces once more. To protect them, she had to rely on Dr. Ray Clyde--the man she had neve...



  • Francesco Tullio Altan

    "A veritable classic that every home must have on its bookshelves," said the influential Italian newspaper La Stampa about Altan's irresistible character, Timpa. "She is a friend to wile away the hours with. . . . She observes the world with inter...



  • Donna Alward

    Secrets are hard to keep in a small town... But Grace Lundquist is determined to hide her pain. Hardworking and always cheerful, she's the town's sweetheart. Everybody loves her.... Grace knows that one man isn't fooled. When Mike Gardner looks ...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    In the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships. Among the humans, the Hansa's brutal Cha...



  • Kevin J. Anderson; A.E. Van Vogt

    This startling SF adventure novel is a collaboration between the classic SF Grand Master, A. E. van Vogt, and contemporary master Kevin J. Anderson. At the time of his death in 2000, van Vogt left a partial draft and an outline for the sequel to his ...



  • Dan Andreasen

    Here is a delectable counting book that goes all the way to thirteen--a baker's dozen. Steaming German chocolate cakes, perfectly formed cherry pies, and gooey jelly rolls are just a few of the jolly baker's sweet treats.

    Preschoolers will enj...



  • Taylor Antrim

    Journalist Taylor Antrim's debut is a clear-eyed examination of hidden worlds whose complexities and rules can only be understood from inside: the insular ecosystem of boarding school; the thorny dynamics of fathers and sons; and the self-deluding ex...



  • Alex Archer

    Archaeologist Annja Creed narrowly escapes an attack by unknown fi gures when she tries to collect a package near her loft. She later learns that the sender--an old colleague named Fellini--has been brutally murdered. Fellini had been researching...



  • A.C. Arthur

    From the ashes he was born and in the thunderous flames he will soon die. But not before branding her heart. Tayla Hampton thought she had escaped her past. She was wrong. Itââ,¬â"¢s caught up with her. Luckily she has a guardian angelââ,¬Â¦ or som...



  • Kay Arthur

    Bestselling author Kay Arthur and dynamic Bible teacher Janna Arndt offer a great new inductive Bible study for kids. You're a Brave Man, Daniel! lets kids join Max, Molly, and Sam (the great detective beagle) as they produce an exciting television s...



  • Catherine Asaro

    Deep in the sun-drenched desert, priestess Ginger-Sun carries the power of shape mages. And whispers abound: Is she descended from the beloved Sunset Goddess, or are her nighttime rituals filled with wickedness? Ginger herself is uncertain, until a s...



  • Neal Asher

    During a war between two planets in the same solar systemeach occupied by adapted humanswhat is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train...



  • Amanda Ashley

    ONE KISS CAN SEAL YOUR FATE... Cara DeLongpre wandered into the mysterious Nocturne club looking for a fleeting diversion from her sheltered life. Instead she found a dark, seductive stranger whose touch entices her beyond the safety she's always ...



  • Kate Austin
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    A woman pursuing her dream job in marine biology literally starts at the bottom--cleaning fish tanks at the local aquarium. Luckily, her handsome boss is there to ease the pain of climbing the career ladder....



  • Lori Avocato

    IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S PAULINE! Normally, insurance fraud investigator Pauline Sokol likes to keep her feet firmly on the ground. But her latest undercover assignment has the aero-phobic ex-nurse flying high--as she takes off to ground a ...




  • Ellen Baker

    Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker's superb novel is the story of a newlywed who falls in love with a grand abandoned house and begins to unravel dark secrets woven through the generations of a family. L...



  • Kage Baker

    This is the Kage Baker novel everyone has been waiting for: the conclusion to the story of Mendoza and The Company. In The Sons of Heaven, the forces gathering to seize power finally move on the Company. The immortal Lewis wakes to find himself bli...



  • Roberta Baker

    Olive has played over at her friend Lizard's house before, but tonight she is sleeping over for the first time.

    Making pepperoni-marshmallow pizza is tons of fun. But when it's time for bed, Olive finds out that Lizard sleeps without any ...




  • L.A. Banks

    From the national bestselling author L. A. Banks comes a walk on the wild side with The Cursed, the ninth novel in the popular Vampire Huntress Legend seriesThe Chairman has been killed and now Lilith, Satan's Consort, sits on the vampire throne as t...



  • Tessa Barclay

    While in London, Greg Crowne Crown Prince Gregory von Hirtenstein befriends pretty Polish countess Marcelina. When Marcelina is found dead, Greg is drawn into the police investigation. It emerges that Marcelina was in England to buy a lost Chopin man...



  • Michele Bardsley

    Sometimes it's hard to take your own advice -- or pulse. Ever since a master vampire became possessed and bit bunch of parents, the town of Broken Heart, Oklahoma, has catered to those of us who don't rise until sunset even if that means PTA mee...



  • Helen Barer

    Healing a broken heart by all means culinary has left food writer Nora Franke with too many unwanted pounds. She welcomes a stint at an elite fitness spa in Baja, where she'll make over the menu, teach a few cooking classes and shed her breakup weigh...



  • Lisa Barham

    Au revoir, NYC; hello Paris! That's right -- Imogene and Evie are headed to the fashion capital of the world. Armed with internships, petit fours, and beaucoup fashion sense, this summer is going to be beyond fabulous! But what happens when the hig...



  • Aileen G. Baron

    When the first member of the staff at a Turkish excavation is murdered and a mosaic floor disappears overnight from her site, archaeologist Tamar Saticoy plunges into a shady world of the antiquities trade in the quest to discover who is responsible ...



  • Gerry Bartlett

    It's not easy to keep a boyfriend, run a business, and survive for centuries as one of the immortal dead... It was hard enough when a sexy Scottish vamp bit me while I was feeling a bit...bloated. But when a frustrated vampire hunter firebombs my vi...



  • Janet Lee Barton

    Recently widowed Elise Morgan and her beloved mother-in-law, Frieda, have built a life for themselves together in Denver. But when Frieda decides to live with her other son, Elise is torn. She knows she should move on, but what will life hold for her...



  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    When thirty-something Tabby Brockman has the opportunity to reclaim her role as a killed-off character on the nation's #1 daytime soap opera, she figures this must be God's reward. But back on the set, she's faced with the same hateful head writer wh...



  • Wayne Thomas Batson

    Separated from his friend by a thousand miles and unable to return to The Realm of Glimpses himself, Aidan Thomas needs a way to reach Robby with the message of King Eliam, the one true King. Enter Antoinette Lynn Reed, a bright but headstrong yo...



  • Brett Battles

    Meet Jonathan Quinn: a freelance operative with a take-no-prisoners style and the heart of a loner. His job? Professional "cleaner." Nothing too violent, just disposing of bodies, doing a little cleanup if necessary. But in Brett Battles's electrifyi...



  • Stephen Baxter

    Three centuries have passed since Rome fell, as The Prophecy foretold. Now The Prophecy's scroll is in the hands of a young girl, the last surviving member of the family who received The Prophecy. She lives in tranquility, disguisd as a boy among the...



  • Elizabeth Bear

    Several years ago, Matthew the Magician ended an age-old war. It only cost him everything-and everyone-he knew and loved. Turning against his mentor, Jane Andraste, in the realm of Faerie left him physically crippled and his power shattered. But ...



  • Tony Bedard

    The Exiles enter into a world of swords and sorcery that any true X-fan will enjoy! Guest-starring the villainy of Kulan Gath! Plus: Ego the Living Planet - a father?! It's up to the Exiles, the Avengers, and the Fantastic Four to keep the Earth from...



  • Clare Bell

    Because she has shown her mastery of the red tongue, ratha now leads the Named. she oversees the Firekeepers--members of the clan with a special charge--and the rituals, herding, and governance; but she often wonders if the power of fire has corrupte...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    Millionaire of the Month: Matthias Barton Source of Fortune: The family business Source of consternation: His personal assistant His dependable assistant of five years had done the unthinkable: she had rendered Matthias speechless. She was takin...



  • Ilsa J. Bick

    Continuing the adventures of the U.S.S. da Vinci, as Captain David Gold, Commander Sonya Gomez, and the rest of the Starfleet's miracle workers solve the problems of the galaxy, one disaster at a time. Dr. Elizabeth Lense has left the da Vinci, re...



  • Phil Bildner

    In high school, anyone can get busted. It could be the senior class ski trip, or maybe it's the way you cope with the school bully, or how you entertain yourself in the world's most boring class. Every kid has some secret crime, something that the...



  • Maxine Billings

    Lynette and her husband, Robert, had come a long way since they first met twenty-one years ago. Together they had constructed a beautiful house--and made two beautiful children--in Robert's home state of Georgia. Lynette's happiness was a wonderful g...



  • ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    When her husband hears God's call to become a preacher, Rachel Jackson Adams is distressed -- she grew up a preacher's daughter, and knows how difficult life under the microscope can be for a reverend's family. But hot-headed Rachel has toned down he...



  • David Bilsborough

    It has been five hundred years since the Peladanes stormed the distant stronghold of Vaagenfjord. There, the dreaded rawgr Drauglir and his supernatural minions had held sway over the mortal world, in a long, terrifying reign. And now, the peace i...



  • Charlotte Bingham

    Her wonderful new story, sure to be another bestseller, is about love and heartbreak, but most importantly, the remarkable nature of female friendship. Christmas 1913: Kitty and Lady Partita are best friends despite vastly different backgrounds. P...



  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    This is my last hope, because I am desperate. Desperately in love with you and desperate to understand what happened. So begins the passionate letter Cassie Armstrong finds hidden among her grandmother's quilting supplies. It's signed with the mys...



  • Rhys Bowen

    And the mischief, mishaps, and musings of minor English royalty--circa 1930... My ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie. Thirty-fourth in line for the throne, I am, as they say, flat broke. When my brother, Binky, cut...



  • Celya Bowers

    Brad Killarney made a huge mistake. He accused his wife, Michelle, of having an affair with his boss, and now their marriage is over. After the dust from their divorce settles, he realizes that nothing is more important to him than Michelle and their...



  • Irene Brand

    Eighteen-year-old Nancy Logan is enjoying her life, working for a wealthy family, and saving her money. She's heard talk of war, but disregards it as rumor. But when Virginia secedes from the Union, her little part of the world is torn apart. Friends...



  • Gary A. Braunbeck

    The doll is odd, carved out of wood, with long arms and huge hands. Little Sarah named it Mr. Hands and loved the doll until the day she was murdered. Now her mother, Lucy, discovers something amazing about Sarah's doll--it allows her to control anot...



  • Samantha Brooke

    Based on the new Care Bears theatrical release: Oopsy Does it!

    When Oopsy Bear accidentally ruins the rollarcoaster at the new Funderland amusement park right before the grand opening it's up to him to try to fix it. But when a mean bear named...



  • Pamela Browning

    The wrong twin, And the right one... Only Rick McCullough knows the real reason he married Martine Barrineau instead of her twin, Trista. Best friends since the age of nine, the three were inseparable. But it was Trista with whom he'd always ...



  • Joseph Bruchac

    As a member of the Mohawk Bear Clan, Baron has always been fascinated by bears--their gentle strength and untamed power. But the Bearwalker legend, passed down by his ancestors, tells of a different kind of creature--a terrible mix of human and anima...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

    School's Out! And so is Rachel, with trouble following close on her barefooted heels! Nine-year-old Rachel Yoder is a delightfully high-spirited Amish girl who finds plenty of trouble amid the rolling hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. When she...



  • Emma Bull

    Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton. You think you know the story. You don't. Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a networ...



  • Lynn Bulock

    I seem to be gathering quite a collection of murder victims: first my husband, then my contractor. And now my ex-husband's fiancee has turned up dead. But I, Gracie Lee Harris, am on the job--much to the dismay of my boyfriend, homicide detective...



  • Alafair Burke

    When two young women are murdered on the streets of New York, exactly one year apart, Detective Ellie Hatcher is called up for a special assignment on the homicide task force. The killer has left behind a clue connecting the two cases to First Date, ...



  • James Lee Burke

    Hurricane Katrina has reduced the Big Easy to the level of a medieval society. Now, with looters descending and violence erupting in the streets, Iberia Parish sheriff's detective Dave Robicheaux combs the apocalyptic landscape for a quartet of crimi...



  • Shirlee Busbee

    From one of the most beloved voices in romance comes a lush new novel of a chance meeting, a forced marriage -- and the surprise of a love so passionate it cannot be denied. Set against the backdrop of Regency London and the English countryside, New ...



  • 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, its "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian. She dishes out advice to the scandal-scorched and clothing-clueless,...



  • Colette Caddle

    Following the premature death of her parents, 19-year-old Dee Hewson puts her college plans on hold to go travelling with her boyfriend, Neil. All goes well until they reach Las Vegas, where Neil develops a dangerous addiction to gambling. After two ...



  • Stephanie Calmenson

    "For monkeys like us, Bananas will please. But for you, birthday mouse, Here's a big chunk of . . ."

    Birthday cake? Mud pie? No, it's cheese!

    And it's just one of the wonderful presents Mouse gets at her birthday party in this f...



  • Mike Carey

    The creator of DC Comics' award-winning Lucifer series and one of the world's most celebrated comics writers, Mike Carey now makes his fiction debut with a brilliant thriller about ghosts, ghouls, and the luckless bastard who hunts them. Felix Casto...



  • Mike Carey

    The FF are pulled into a madman's scheme when those closest to them are drawn back through time as a lure to get the foursome to follow. And what awaits them in the year 1483 is a man with a quest to transform the world - literally....



  • Liz Carlyle

    New York Times bestselling author Liz Carlyle continues her captivating new historical trilogy with the tale of a dark and powerful man unexpectedly thrust into nobility -- and forced to confront his tormented past. They call her the porcelain pri...



  • C.J. Carmichael

    Who says history can't repeat itself? Few people can say they're starring in a real-life version of Romeo and Juliet. And single mom Leigh certainly doesn't want to play the role of disapproving mother. But when her daughter runs off t...



  • Stephen L. Carter

    When The Emperor of Ocean Park was published, Time Out declared: "Carter does for members of the contemporary black upper class what Henry James did for Washington Square society, taking us into their drawing rooms and laying their motives bare." Now...



  • Timothy Carter

    In his fourteen years, Vincent Drear has been sure of a few of things. First, the world is going to end. And until it does, he has two jobs: saving souls and protesting movies about boy wizards. But Vincent wonders if there's more to life than this. ...



  • Mister Cartoon

    Mister Cartoon has spent years creating what is now a veritable empire built on his hand-designed, street-inspired artwork. His incredibly detailed tattoos, logos, murals, and custom car designs have become status symbols for entertainers such as...



  • Kathryn Caskie

    All of London is abuzz with stories of the beautiful Royle sisters. Could these slightly scandalous triplets truly be the daughters of the highest prince in the land? One of them has already done very well for herself by marrying a duke. Now Anne Roy...



  • Linda Castillo

    HE WAS HER ONLY HOPE OF MAKING IT THROUGH THE NIGHT Chase Vickers never knew a day of fear. From one secret mission to another he'd stared down danger...until the blackout hit Boston, and Chase's only love became the target of revenge. Lily Garret...



  • Katherine Center

    Jenny Harris always expected that she'd fall in love, get married, and have a baby -- in that order. Now, very pregnant and not quite married, she actually doesn't mind that she and her live-in fiance, Dean, accidentally started their family a little...



  • Marc Cerasini

    In their hometown of New York City, 15 year-old twin brothers Tom and Mitch spend their free time skateboarding and reading comics. But one day they get attacked by a thug in ninja gear, and the secrets that have been kept from them for years are sud...



  • Marc Cerasini

    After discovering that they have been recruited to join their father and Mr. Chance in 47 R.O.N.I.N., Tom and Mitch are thrown into the fast-paced, dangerous world of the secret organization. They are sent to Tokyo, where they enroll in the Matsu Sch...



  • Holly Chamberlin

    Meet Sophie, Eva, and John. In college, they did everything together. Then they drifted apart. Now, twenty years later, they're about to reunite to compare lives, talk about the past, and plan for the future. But will it bring them closer together or...



  • Victoria Chancellor

    Can An Old-Fashioned Cowboy... The minute Raven York sets foot in Brody's Crossing, Texas, she knows there's been a mistake. Expecting to find a heritage garden to restore, she lands instead on the doorstep of the town's hottest cowboy, who's fighti...



  • Nicholas Christopher

    Xeno Atlas grows up in the Bronx, his Sicilian grandmother's strange stories of animal spirits his only escape from the legacy of his mother's early death and his stern father's long absences as a common seaman. Shunted off to an isolated boarding sc...



  • Paul Christopher

    A lost masterpiece draws Finn Ryan into the hunt for a prize beyond belief, but she isn't the only one on the hunt... Young archaeologist Finn Ryan is laboring for a London auction house when she gets some unlikely luck. Along with the handsome yo...



  • Caroline Jayne Church

    After using helicopters, bulldozers, and a megaphone in his attempt to get six disobedient sheep back into their pen and not succeeding, Digby the sheepdog is just about to give up when he learns about an important word from his barnyard friends that...



  • Siobhan Ciminera

    Who better than Puppy Scooby-Doo to teach little ones all about how to care for their own puppy? With tips for brushing, playing, feeding, and more, children will love this fun nonfiction book narrated by the world’s cutest pup -- Puppy Scooby-Doo....



  • Alan M. Clark

    The Blood of Father Time, Book 2: The Mystic Clan's Grand Plat, is a time-travel fantasy inspired by actual historical events and the outlaw clans of early eighteen-hundreds Tennessee. Joel Biggs, an alcoholic history professor, is tormented by memo...



  • Stephen Clarke

    The latest episode in Stephen Clarke's almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France is just as winning as the first. This "anti-Mayle" will have readers chortling over their croissants and café au lait while Paul West stru...



  • Leah Hager Cohen

    Late in her twentieth year, Beatrice mails a letter on the sly, sparking events that will change her life forever. The addressee is her grandmother, a legendary stage actress long estranged from her daughter, Bea's mother. Though Bea wants to become ...



  • Tish Cohen

    If you are one of Zoë's friends, you know her "invisible rules" for school survival, from what to wear to which boy is the Most Vile. Ever since the day Zoë neutralized the playground bully, she has been the go-to gal for classmates and teachers alik...



  • Allan Cole

    King of Kings, Lord over Men and Demons Alike: Only one ruler had ever held that title, and now Iraj Protarus, an orphaned prince exiled to a small village high in the Valley of the Clouds, dreamed of being the next great conqueror. The key to his de...



  • Jackie Collins

    Like mother, like daughter. No truer words for Lucky Santangelo's sixteen-year-old Max, who goes looking f: trouble when she hooks up with some guy she meets on the Internet. Soon the beautiful, willful Max finds herself in deeper waters than she can...



  • Kent Conwell

    After Sheriff Dan Ellis keeps Josh Carson and Tiny Hamilton out of the tar and feathering pot, he gives the two drifters a choice of thirty days in jail or bull-whacking for Frenchy Buckalew and her freight line. After only a few days on the line, t...



  • Monte Cooke

    Sheva Callister is a former adventurer and treasure hunter who is supposed to be retired after the death of her partner, Parnell. But when a noble from the city of Ptolus offers her a special, mysterious reward in exchange for her retrieval of a seem...



  • Nancy Coons

    Meg Parker, an American travel-book writer, lives in the Lorraine countryside with her two small children and a neglectful husband. Domestic life is beginning to take its toll until Meg is offered her dream assignment: to write a guidebook about Fren...



  • Rick Copp

    Once upon a time there were three very different little girls who ran a private detective agency. They never blew a case, never lost their man, and they accessorized very well Then, one day, they closed it down and went off to lead three very differe...



  • Lyn Cote

    That's what Sylvie Patterson wanted to know when she learned her cousin Ginger was dead. And so did Ridge Matthews, a state homicide detective working with Winfi eld's police department. Ginger's apartment was ransacked, followed by a string of suspi...



  • Ralph Cotton

    While in the Mexican badlands, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack teams up with a young Secret Service agent to stop Desmond Prew and his band of American mercenaries from stealing weapons from U.S. Army supply trains. Original....



  • Greg Cox

    Earth's greatest protectors-Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman-have vanished. The cities of Metropolis and Gotham are overrun with criminal activity both on the streets and behind the closed doors of powerful corporations as villains take advantage o...



  • Cleo Coyle

    In the world of high-octane coffee shops, asking for a decaf is a good way to get a hot jolt of scorn. But Clare Cosi, manager of the historic Village Blend, is determined to please all of her customers, even if it kills her... Get the Lead Out ...



  • Caprice Crane

    How hard is it to knock down a pushover? For twenty-five years, Jordan Landau's life has been eminently forgettable. From her combatively critical mother to her cheating boyfriend to her idea-stealing boss--there's almost no one in Jordan's life who...



  • Sara Craven

    Laine waited for her handsome new husband, Daniel Flynn, to come to her on their wedding night--knowing that their marriage was a sham. Daniel didn't love her--he was just fulfilling a promise he'd made to take care of her.... So Laine fle...



  • Ann Howard Creel

    This is an American Girl book. American Girl celebrates a girls inner star-that little whisper inside that encourages her to stand tall, reach high, and dream big. This book is used with some previous owners name and minor doodling on inside of front...



  • Cheryl Crouch

    Chosen Girls is a dynamic new series that communicates a message of empowerment and hope to Christian youth who want to live out their faith. These courageous and compelling girls stand for their beliefs and encourage others to do the same. When thei...



  • Jennifer Crusie
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    You're invited to spend the weekend with three extraordinary sisters... When she was sixteen, Dee Fortune kidnapped her two younger sisters and ran from danger. Now twenty-nine, she's still trying to control her shape-shifting power--no easy task ...



  • Charles Cumming

    This is what they told me a long time ago. Only make contact in the event of an emergency. Only telephone if you believe that your position has been fatally compromised. Under no circumstances are you to approach us unless it is absolutely necessa...



  • Ron Currie Jr.

    From a mind-blowing new talent, an audacious novel that imagines the world after God takes human form and dies When God descends to Earth as a Dinka woman from Sudan and subsequently dies in the Darfur desert, the result is a world both bizarrely...



  • Rebecca Curtis

    In this dazzling literary debut, Rebecca Curtis displays the gifts that make her one of the most talented writers of her generation. Her characters--young women struggling to find happiness, love, success, security, and adventure--wait tables, run aw...



  • Camilla d'Errico

    WICKED WISH-CRAFT?

    Hana’s life as a lonerâ€"in school and at homeâ€"brightens only when she’s masquerading as someone else online or chilling with her imaginary BFF (Best Friend Forever), rock star Avril Lavigne. But Hana’s daily grind i...



  • Janet Dailey

    Life in Glory, Wyoming, population fifty-one, isn't exactly exciting. The dusty old town isn't even on the map. And for rancher Luke McCallister, that's just fine. Broken by tragedy, the stoic cowboy spends his time at his Ten Bar Ranch o...



  • B.J. Daniels

    THIS NEW DEPUTY DIDN'T EXPECT HIS FIRST CASE TO INVOLVE A WEDDING AND A FUNERAL Deputy Sheriff Nick Rogers found out small-town life meant adjusting to two things--gossips and Laney Cavanaugh. And neither was much help in solving a bridal shower m...



  • Ellen Datlow

    Coyote. Anansi. Brer Rabbit. Trickster characters have long been a staple of folk literature--and are a natural choice for the overarching subject of acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's third "mythic" anthology. The Coyote Road featur...



  • Peter David

    Reed Richards is brought in on a consult to oversee a privately funded dimension-spanning device...a device that will give wealthy patrons the opportunity to experience interdimensional travel. Never mind that the consortium wants to launch a sweepin...



  • Peter David

    Meet Lady Killer - the dangerous assassin who comes head-to-head with the Avenger called Wonder Man! But Wonder Man doesn't want to just stop her - he's made a bet with a movie producer to rehabilitate her into a hero! Is this too much for even the m...



  • Peter David

    The golden god-man Glorian wants to give the gray Hulk an emotional makeover, but the mysterious Mister Cloot thinks they'd both look better in demon red! Peter David's remarkable run continues as the Hulk goes after gangsters, ghouls and the Grey Ga...



  • Linda Davies

    When love goes wrong, death is the most final settlement of all - Morganna Hutton is a young artist, beautiful and rich. When she falls in love with Archie Edge, she thinks he is the answer to her prayers. But the love of money is the root of all evi...



  • Caitlyn Davis

    Holly is spending the summer at the local country club, working at the hot grill and dishing out burgers and fries to all the hungry, cute boys. But the one boy she keeps focusing on is her fellow burger-flipper, Paul! He and Holly are always fightin...



  • Deborah Davis

    "Starting a new chapter" is how Kayla's mother, Marilyn, has always referred to their abrupt moves--five in the past two years. But what 15-year-old Kayla hates even more than moving is Marilyn's drinking. It once landed Kayla in foster care, and she...



  • Jennifer Davis

    Set against the backdrop of the Deep South, these nine haunting stories explore big themes -- authenticity, the relinquishing of childhood, the acceptance of dreams lost -- in a way that ultimately affirms the act of living and the value of human rel...



  • Sylvia Day
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    Justin, the Marquess of Fontaine and Lady Sophie Milton-Riley have no desire to marry. To satisfy their mothers' insistence that they would be quite right together, they set out to demonstrate how completely ill suited they are for one another. Justi...



  • Gail Dayton

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  • Parker De Wolf
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    ULTHER WHITSUN IS A FIXER. When you've got a problem, he's your man. But when he finds himself in possession of a strange relic, he gets even more trouble than he can handle. His enemies want the relic, he wants its owner, and the City Watch wants h...



  • Zoey Dean

    Recent Yale graduate Megan Smith comes to Manhattan with big plans for a career in journalism and even bigger student loan debt: $75,000. When she flails at her trashy tabloid job, she's given an escape hatch: tutor seventeen-year-old identical twins...



  • Camille DeAngelis

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    Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dark. Together they rid the county of witches, ghosts, and boggarts. But now there's some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in the cataco...



  • Kathleen Delaney

    Ellen McKenzie and her fiance, Chief of Police Dan Dunham, are on their way to the very upscale Harvest Festival Dinner, hosted by Ellen's niece, Sabrina, and her husband, Mark Tortelli. They are seasoned winery professionals. What could go wrong? N...



  • Roni Denholtz

    Andrew Pennington s life changes almost over night when his uncle and cousin die, leaving him as the next Marquis of Whitbury. Now, to his surprise and chagrin, he is the most sought-after bachelor in London.
    Justine Rawlings comes from a noble fa...



  • Phillip Depoy

    Having grown up in the rural mountains of Appalachia, folklorist and academician Fever Devilin understands that secrets, especially among mountain folk, never die--they just get buried deeper. No truer than with his own strange heritage, now exposed ...



  • Kate DiCamillo

    The porcine wonder is off to the drive-in -- and driven to follow that buttery smell -- in a comic crescendo that reunites a familiar cast of characters. Some may find it wonky to take a pig to the movies. But not Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who thin...




  • Helenkay Dimon

    Her mouth should be a dangerous weapon. So should his--but for different reasons. Thrown together by chance--and a pair of handcuffs--they're about to make Hawaii even steamier... Never Let Me Go Annie Parks came to Hawaii to gather information...



  • Garry Disher

    Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to Mawson's Bluff, his childhood home in the Australian Outback, where his father is dying. Sergeant Ellen Destry is left to head an investigation into a ring of pedophiles that has descended on the peaceful Mo...



  • Christina Dodd

    From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes the seductive Darkness Chosen series, about an ancient, dark evil that lives in the modern world.... A thousand years ago, a brutal warrior roamed the Russian steppes and struck a sinister ...



  • Brandt Dodson

    After closing a high profile case, Colton Parker's life is beginning to turn around. His detective agency has money in the bank, a growing clientele, and the relationship between Colton and FBI agent Mary Christopher is beginning to blossom. Things a...



  • Chris Dolley

    Peter Pendennis killed and dissected eleven people before they caught him. Now he was safely locked away in an institution-but one of the multiple personalities he is host to claims to be the astronaut John Bruce, who is now running for President of ...



  • Charlotte Douglas

    But weather isn't the only threat to P.I. Maggie Skerritt. Maggie's got her hands full when a nationally syndicated columnist enlists Pelican Bay Investigations to protect her from a stalker and a mysterious stranger with amnesia poses a threat to so...



  • David Drake

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    The Fortress of Glass began the tale of how the new kingdom of the Isles is finally brought into bein...



  • Eileen Dreyer
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    You're invited to spend the weekend with three extraordinary sisters... When she was sixteen, Dee Fortune kidnapped her two younger sisters and ran from danger. Now twenty-nine, she's still trying to control her shape-shifting power--no easy task ...



  • Eugene Drucker

    Set during the final weeks of World War II, The Savior is the story of Gottfried Keller, a young German violinist. Exempted from military service, Keller is burdened with the demoralizing task of playing for wounded soldiers in hospitals and makeshif...



  • Jean-Paul Dubois

    Paul Blick: born in France (but not Paris); son of a car dealer; provincial sociology student-cum-theoretical revolutionary; rioter of '68; married soon thereafter; briefly employed (by his father-in-law); soon to discover adultery and other satisfac...



  • Sabine Durrant

    Connie Pickles is fulfilling her destiny. She's in Paris, and she has big plans. She will fall in love with someone other than William. She will find her long lost grandparents. She will become très chic. But sometimes even destiny doesn't go to pla...



  • Cassie Edwards

    South Dakota 1850. Before he died from the Indian arrow that pierced his body while he was hunting gold outside Fort Chance, Shiona Bramlett's father, the colonel, revealed a shocking secret. Now, armed only with her father's map and her courage, she...



  • Johanna Edwards
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    Meet the vamps of the Vamps, Inc. modeling agency: Olivia, straight-A nerd turned overnight star model--unfortunately, her boyfriend doesn't know exactly how much she's changed...Big and beautiful Veronika, the new plus-size model for Vamps, Inc....



  • Ben Ehrenreich

    This audacious reimagining of The Odyssey finds Penny home alone while Payne, a modern-day Odysseus, gallivants around the world on battleships and attack helicopters, waging wars of conquest. A drinking, drugging crew of ne’er-do-well squatters su...



  • Barry Eisler

    If you had to kill three people to save your best friend's life, would you do it? When John Rain decides to get out of the business, his hand is forced by rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger. Hilger kidnaps Dox, Rain's trusted partner and closest friend...



  • Ann Dee Ellis

    Imagine if you had witnessed something horrific. Imagine if it had happened to your friend. And imagine if you hadn't done anything to help. That's what it's like to be Logan, an utterly frank, slightly awkward, and extremely loveable outcast enmeshe...



  • David Ellis

    Edgar Award-winner David Ellis shifts gears to deliver a stunning new thriller where every character has a secret-and every secret has a price. David Ellis's In the Company of Liars is an audaciously inventive thriller. In a David Ellis novel, no...



  • Julie Ellis

    Castros Cuba is no place to be young and idealistic. Chris Sanchez, a newly-qualified paediatrician, feels loyalty to his country, yet is frustrated by the hardship suffered by all but the wealthy elite. When Chris falls in love with pretty, caring E...



  • Alexandra Enders

    Can a mother reclaim the daughter she lost? Six years ago, Polly Birdswell--drinking and deeply unhappy--made a decision that changed her life forever. Believing she could spare her young daughter a legacy of self-destruction, she left her husban...



  • John R. Erickson

    This is no ordinary, run-of-the-mill ranch intrigue. No sir, this is a real, honest-to-goodness archaeological adventure! When an old friend of Slim’s starts an archaeological dig near the ranch, it doesn’t take long before little Alfred gets cau...



  • Kathryn Erskine

    Don't call her Matilda. Her name is Matt. And don't even think about getting close to her. She doesn't need anyone. Can't you tell by looking at her, dressed all in black with a spider painted on her face and her ice-cold stare? But most of all, do n...



  • Bill Evans; Marianna Jameson

    A Category 4 hurricane, with winds of up to 155 miles per hour, tears roofs off buildings, smashes windows and doors, and can send floodwaters up to the second floor. Evacuation is suggested for up to six miles inland. Hurricane Katrina was a Cat...



  • Harriet Evans

    From the bestselling author of Going Home, which Sophie Kinsella hailed as “fabulous,†comes a novel sure to touch and delight anyone who believes in love.Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. Her friends know it, her parents know it -- even Laura...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s going to blow a prairie pirate out of the water! U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long is practically vacationing at government expense in Grandview, Nevada, awaiting orders. But there’s no decent whiskey and, although “grass widowâ€...



  • Diane Fanning

    When Molly Mullet's husband dies from a gunshot wound inflicted right before her eyes, she abandons her work as a high school chemistry teacher and joins the police force. Now she faces another crossroad in her life. She follows a trail of blood into...



  • Christine Feehan

    Now, she tells the story of Hannah, one of the Drake sisters -- all gifted, enigmatic, and seductively enchanted... One of seven daughters in a line of extraordinary women, Hannah Drake has been the elusive object of affection for. Jonas Harring...



  • Anna Fienberg

    Jackson, a bona fide numbers freak, has never lived outside the city before. But his mother whisked them away to the suburbs after witnessing some after hours "dealing" at the casino she performed in, hoping they could just disappear. Soon, strange p...



  • Charles Finch

    Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chanc...



  • Debra Finerman

    When Victorine Laurent joins the chorus of the grand Paris Opera ballet, she expects to become the mistress of a wealthy man; this is how young women without family survive in the decadent City of Light. Yet when the artist Degas introduces her to Ed...



  • Bill Flanagan

    Meet Bobby Kahn: a smart enough, decent enough man of middle-of-the-road tastes and weaknesses, and network TV's boy-wonder programming executive--until, that is, the morning he gets unceremoniously fired. Frantic to land a new position before the ne...



  • Eric Flint

    A collection of outstanding science fiction and fantasy stories from the popular online magazine, Jim Baen's Universe, features contributions from such Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authors as Mike Resnick and Gene Wolfe, as well as David Dra...



  • Mary J. Forbes

    FROM DONOR...TO DAD It was a call that changed Will Rubens's life. The rugged Alaskan bush pilot had just learned he was his nephew's biological father. And the bearer of this shocking piece of news was a remarkable, irresistibly attractiv...



  • Bette Ford

    Funny, sexy, and hot, ex-NBA star Ralph Prescott is Vanessa Grant's dream lover. He's also a notorious, no-good player -- the wrong kind of man for a woman with big responsibilities. But at a mutual friend's lavish wedding, passion and curiosity get ...



  • Linda Ford

    Holly Hope surrounds herself with romance, even at work. Her cafe, J?ava Moi, is a haven for people in love. She simply adores special moments, thoughtful gestures - all the charm of romantic love. Steele Davis, on the other hand, lives up to his nam...



  • Frank Foster

    Former naval intelligence officer Lynn Woo runs a nature-tours charter business on Florida's Boca Grande island. She's traded her uniform for island prints, but the tenacity and smarts that served her well in the service come in handy when she gets i...



  • Lori Foster

    With his perfectly chiseled, lava-hot body, Simon Evans, an ex-fighter, also has a perfect life -- great job, great girl, and more than enough dough. All that changes, though, when he catches his girlfriend cheating. To shake things up, Simon goes fu...



  • Nicole Foster

    Julene Santiago couldn't understand why Rafe Garrett had let her leave all those years ago. Sure, no one believed that the rough-and-tumble rancher could measure up to the beautiful, brainy Jule. Certainly not Jule's father nor Rafe's adpotive ...



  • Susan Fox

    The rancher's convenient wife Fay Sheridan is facing the bleakest moment of her life. As a fierce storm surges around her, one man plucks her from despair and into safety: Chase Rafferty. Rugged rancher Chase knows there is a fun-loving yo...



  • June Francis

    A Stolen Kiss... Cicely Milburn has no intention of marrying anyone, let alone a Scottish barbarian! But when Lord Rory Mackillin rescues her from a treacherous attack she reluctantly accepts his help--even though his kisses trouble her dreams. ...



  • Jeffrey Frank

    On the eve of the 2000 election, the charmed life of Washington hostess Trudy Hopedale is quietly falling apart. Her daytime talk show is about to be hijacked by a younger, prettier assistant, and then there is the horrifying novel that her husband h...



  • Neil Gaiman

    Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers--but always embrace the unexpected: * A teenage boy who has trou...



  • Dave Galanter

    Corps of Engineers These are the voyages of the U.S.S. da Vinci. Their mission: to solve the problems of the galaxy, one disaster at a time. Starfleet veteran Captain David Gold, along with his crack Starfleet Corps of Engineers team lead by forme...



  • Jack Gantos

    Just when Joey Pigza's wired world finally seems to be under control, his good-for-nothing dad pops back into his life. This time, though, Carter Pigza is a new man â€" literally. After a lucky lotto win, Carter Pigza has a crazy new outlook on life,...



  • Katherine Garbera

    HOSTILE TAKEOVER Flatly refused a promotion by her tycoon father, heiress Tempest Lambert offered her services to his worst enemy. But was it the job she wanted, or just her new boss, the devastatingly handsome Gavin Renard? He'd made millions ...



  • Darlene Gardner

    Clay Dillon is everyone's hero -- especially to his family. So when his kid sister needs a kidney, he tracks down Jenna Wright. Jenna's the only one who can help, but to gain her trust he has to lie. Jenna believes Clay can be everything...



  • Olivia Gates

    Her boss and husband. Walking away from her husband, surgeon Roque Aguiar Da Costa, was the hardest thing Jewel Johanssen had ever done. After the loss of their baby and her subsequent infertility, Jewel was too hurt to see the truth--that Roque l...



  • R. Patrick Gates

    They Invade Your Body... Billions of pellet-sized spores have arrived. Swarming our cities, they find ways inside our bodies as they transform humans into hideous monsters, living only to feed on those closest to them--friends, parents, even childr...



  • Stephanie Gayle

    Convicting arsonists and thieves in Macon, Georgia, was never Harvard Law grad Natalie Goldberg's dream. The pay is abysmal, the work is exhausting, and the humidity is hell for a woman with curly hair. But when a steamy romance with her high-powered...



  • Steve Gerber

    The Day of the Defenders first gathered Doctor Strange, the Hulk and the rest of Marvel's legion of loners - but can they survive "Defenders for a Day?" If the second team calling themselves Defenders doesn't finish them off, the third one just might...



  • Keith Giffen

    Annihilation 1-6, Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus 1-2,...



  • Debi Gliori

    It's holiday time for Mr Bear and his family as they set off for a lovely few days camping. Map reading, tent erecting, burnt cooking and a terrifying monster ensure that the Bear family struggle home - in need of another holiday to recover!...



  • Lee Goldberg

    THE REAL OCD Welcome to the series of all-new original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... Only a special kind of person can keep up with Monk's brilliant. if idiosyncrat...



  • Mary Elizabeth Goldman

    Rich in both "rowdy" and big city sophistication, Dallas is a city of paradox. It's a city with attitude where men don't walk, they "stride," women with "big hair" speak with a distinct drawl because they want to. It's a city that has experienced, en...



  • Dolores Gordon-Smith

    When two comrades are murdered during the height of a village festival in 1922, crime writer and former Royal Flying Corps pilot Jack Haldean realizes that the killings are linked to a specific World War I battle involving a deadly adversary. Simulta...



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  • Heather Graham

    What better place than The Big Easy for a wild bachelorette weekend? When a fortune-teller shows bridesmaid Lauren Crow an omen of her gruesome death, she and her friends laugh it off as cheesy theatrics--until women begin disappearing in the nigh...



  • Ann Granger

    "In the corners of the room the shadows cast velvety veils. It would not be too difficult to imagine someone stood there and watched. I thought of Madeleine Hexham.... I glanced around me. It was likely that I'd been given my predecessor's room and t...



  • Jane Graves

    SHE HAS CAVIAR DREAMS ON A SPAM BUDGET Trophy wife Darcy McDaniel has just discovered that, thanks to her embezzling husband, her posh, upper-class life is gone for good. Now she's trading her suburban palace for a trailer park and her weekly salon ...



  • Dan Graziano

    Henry's got it good. He's a semi-successful, if not yet famous novelist. He's got a good job and good buds. Best of all, he's got Layla, his long-time, live-in lover, a fast-track associate at a New Jersey law firm. Henry loves Layla and she loves hi...



  • Abby Green

    His revenge was simple: she would be his bride... When Greek shipping magnate Alexandros Kouros wed Kallie Demarchis, media photos showed them madly in love. But behind the happy scenes lay a different story.... Love had nothing to do with it; ...



  • Crystal Green

    FROM BILLIONAIRE BACHELOR...TO DEDICATED DADDY? Wild child and wealthy heir Lucas Chandler used to dance with starlets and socialites -- until he had to dance at his own wedding! New York society was stunned when the former playboy announced his s...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    Fifteen original tales envision ever-more sophisticated technology-and the repercussions on humankind... As our world and daily lives become more and more involved with and dependent on complex technology, concern over what the future holds incre...



  • J.C. Greenburg

    Some families are ARE a little too close! A shock from a numbfish has shrunk Andrew, Judy, and Thudd to microscopic size. Just when they think Uncle Al has rescued them, a mosquito bite injects them into his bloodstream! They travel to his lungs and ...



  • Jennifer Greene
    in

    Crazy for the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" ever since she was a carefree teen, a successful attorney decides to visit the song's namesake Caribbean island. Too bad her assistant books her a ticket to Kokomo, Indiana, instead... where there's no beach, but a ...



  • Kerry Greenwood

    Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at the door. It is Alan Lee from the carnival. Alan and his friends want ...



  • W.E.B. Griffin

    Critics and fans alike welcomed the return of the Men at War series with The Saboteurs. Now Canidy, Fulmar, and colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services face an even greater task-to convince Hitler and the Axis powers that the invasion of the E...



  • Diana Groe

    In a strange land of flashing swords and swirling silks, spicy aromas and hot breezes that feel like a lover's breath, Valdis is utterly lost. Constantinople is so vastly different from her homeland in Scandinavia. And the harem she's forced ...



  • Philip Gulley

    It is hard to believe that it's Sam Gardner's sixth year as pastor of Harmony Friends Meeting. He never thought he'd last this long. But when circumstances come up that cause him to take a leave of absence from his post, the real question arises: wil...