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New Books List: 647 titles


  • 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 ...



  • Eileen Dreyer
    in

    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 ...



  • Marvel Book Group

    Featuring the Avengers (Wolverine, the Hulk, Captain America, & Storm) with the crazy adventures of Franklin Richards, Boy Genius! Entertaining activities & games, super Hero comic book stories, plus an all-new Spider-Girl story!...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    Combat vets David Sherman and Dan Cragg know firsthand the courage, sacrifice, and hell of war -- and their experiences have made the popular Starfist novels thrill rides of the highest order. Now the explosive action continues on the remote planet R...



  • 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 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Sarah Mlynowski

    At long last, Rachel's powers have arrived and she's a bona fide get-your-broom-ready witch! And it's happened just in time. No Manhattan for her this summer--she's spending her vacation at Camp Wood Lake. But she's having some serious issues: ...



  • Timothy Hallinan

    A thief, found dead in an alley. A man, disappeared from a city that never knew he existed. A boy, grievously hurt, who everyone called Superman. Bangkok, the glittering center of a country full of ghosts. Travel writer Poke Rafferty ...



  • Warren Hammond

    JUNO MOZAMBE IS A DIRTY COP. THE COLONY WORLD LAGARTO BOOMED when an indigenous plant was discovered to yield a uniquely intoxicating brandy... but when Earth synthesized a copy, Lagarto's economy crashed. Now, like many Lagartans, Juno lives in qui...



  • Donna Hill

    A reluctant member of the first wives' club--her husband left her for a woman half her age--Elizabeth Lewis had sworn off men. Then sexy contractor Ron Powers charmed his way into her life--and into her bed. With Ron, Elizabeth finally learned what i...



  • Susan Mallery

    Nothing's hotter than a disaster in the making... After three romantic flame-outs in a year and a restaurant career going nowhere, Dani Buchanan needs a fresh start. She goes looking for her biological father, but never expects to find a senator r...



  • Melanie Schuster

    Funny and feisty true-crime writer Dakota Phillips has almost everything she wants. She's still looking for the perfect man: very tall, very educated and very cultured--all wrapped up in rich chocolate brown. So far, her insecurities about her genero...



  • Kat Martin

    Autumn Sommers knows the danger of ignoring such powerful omens. Twelve years earlier, she could have prevented a tragic accident if only she had acted on those horrible nightmares. This time, she knows what she has to do. Her research into loca...



  • Nea Simone

    Five years have passed since Mignon Samuels first discovered the priceless journal that chronicled the lives of the strong women who came before her. Now she's ready to add her own history to that of the four previous generations documented inside. ...



  • Gayle Wilson

    Lindsey Sloan teaches the best and brightest students at Randolph-Lowen High School--exceptional teens with promising futures far from their small Alabama hometown. So when brash detective Jace Nolan arrives from up north and accuses her kids of sett...



  • Kirsten Lobe

    Somewhere between dating and eternal bliss lies a secret world of glamour, opulence, decadence and the real amorous adventures of the haut monde. Paris is a sexy, sinful romantic playground--and what could be more thrilling than to be an American ...



  • Patrice Hannon

    Advice delivered with sense and sensibility just in time for the major motion picture Becoming Jane Women have looked to Jane Austen’s heroines as models of appropriate behavior for nearly two centuries. Who better to understand the heart of a her...



  • Emilie Richards

    When is a family no longer a family? Gayle Fortman has built a good life for herself and her three sons in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Divorced f Eric Fortman, Gayle has made a success rom charismatic broadcast journalist of Daughter of the...



  • Jon Scieszka

    After being warped back to ancient China, Joe, Fred, and Anna are faced with some big tasks. They must rescue General Li Shimin from prison so he can defeat the awful ruler, Wang. Then they must figure out how to free Sam, who is trapped in . . . The...



  • H.P. Lovecraft

    A chilling new compendium of twenty classic horror stories by the grandmaster of the macabre features "The Nameless City," "The Cats of Ulthar," "Nyarlathotep," "The Quest of Iranon," and "At the Mountains of Madness," about a professor who stumbles ...



  • Susan Sizemore

    They are the Enforcers. An elite group of vampires who must serve and protect their secret community--and uphold the...Laws of the Blood Selena Crawford is a Chicago homicide detective. She is also the unwilling companion of Istuan, chief of the ...



  • Richard K. Morgan

    The future isn't what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs -- private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero -- into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in Altered Car...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • William W. Johnstone

    They Fought For Fame And Fortune The MacCallister clan was raised on a harsh, unforgiving frontier, where courage and blood bonds mattered the most. While Falcon MacCallister followed his father's mountain man legacy, his brother and sister made the...



  • Lucy Ann Peters

    She Said Gillian Wilcox came back to scenic Rocky Falls, Maine, to take over the family business--and things are humming along fine until developer Jack Turner walks into her life, planning to take over the town and her sawmill. So he actually seems...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Carolyn Haines

    Carolyn Haines's Southern Belle mysteries kick sleuthing up a notch with Sarah Booth Delaney, the sassiest heroine this side of the Mississippi... Displaced from its New Orleans venue, a red-hot touring production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is openi...



  • Susan Johnson
    in

    James Bell, Viscount Ormond, is a shameless rake, infamous for his skills in seduction--and Claire Russell doesn't intend for her sister to become his latest conquest. That is why she's come to the viscount's private masked ball. The flagrant sensual...



  • Andrew Martin

    It is the summer of 1905 and Jim Stringer is copiloting a special train filled with overheated excursionists headed to Blackpool, the seaside resort on the English coast. At the moment when the train picks up speed, a huge rock comes into view farthe...



  • Brandon Massey

    Beyond Your Darkest Dreams- From the deceptive safety of your very own bed to the seeming stillness of country roads and the bustle of urban streets, your darkest realities reveal themselves as you enter hidden realms, crossing the threshold into one...



  • Shannon McKenna

    The first collection of the super-sexy, beautifully written stories that put Shannon McKenna in the forefront of hot romance! Shannon McKenna writes blazing hot heroes and her readers know it. Men who are hard and handsome. Potent and protective....



  • J.J. Michael

    A mysterious healer with ancient secrets.A deadly game of deception and betrayal.A frantic hunt for truth and love.From outer appearances, Lindy Lee has it all: a successful career as a pediatrician, a gorgeous husband that adores her, and the son th...



  • Ridley Pearson

    Eight years ago in Sun Valley, all that stood between controversial New York State attorney general Liz Shaler and a knife-wielding intruder was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now, Fleming is the county sheriff, and Shaler's returning to Sun Valley to...



  • Thomas Perry

    Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Pa...



  • Lisa Plumley

    With no skills besides scoring the perfect stilettos, maxing out her credit card, and partying till dawn, Marisol Winston is about to get a lesson in the real world--and in love... After years of perfecting her party-girl image, Marisol wants to op...



  • Sara Reinke

    Dark Secrets When Brandon Noble and Angelina Jones first met, he was an awkward teenager harboring a crush on his tutor's sister. Five years later, Angelina is a streetwise cop who's sure she's seen it all, until Brandon comes back into her life--le...



  • Nora Roberts

    A woman who walks fearlessly into danger--but must draw on her courage to let love into her life. Police lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara found her calling at an early age, when a violently unstable man broke into her family's home, trapping and terror...



  • James Rollins

    From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind--unknown, unstoppable . . . and merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Operatives of the shadowy covert organization Sigma Force, Dr. Lisa Cumming...



  • Sophia Shaw

    A Seductive Dream Becomes... Hard-working Cadence Carter can't believe her dreams are finally coming true. With her artistic career finally taking off, she moves to sunny Orlando, Florida. Once there, things really begin to heat up when she meets ru...



  • Nick Stone

    Max Mingus wanted to turn down the case--fifteen million bucks on the table or not. The boy was dead, Max was sure of it. Three years had passed since Haitian billionaire Allain Carver's five-year-old son was abducted. Why bother now? The huge bounty...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Parker De Wolf
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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€...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • A.J. Hartley

    The mysterious death of a Catholic priest has been met with suspicion by his brother, Thomas Knight--and the grave silence of church authorities. All Thomas knows is that his brother died in the Philippines, the last stop of an international trek res...



  • T.L. Hines

    Would You Run Into a Burning Building? Candace "Canada Mac" MacHugh lives a ghost of her former life. Once a proud Butte, Montana, miner who daily risked her life setting explosives, she's now a garbage collector in her dying hometown. Her beloved fa...



  • Julia Holden

    Linda Stone barely remembers her mother. But she's about to go from knowing precious little about her to oh-so-blushingly much... What if you just learned that your mother was a famous-and infamous-international showgirl? That she wore a tall hea...



  • Allyson James

    Lisa Singleton has an unusual roommate -- a fifty-foot dragon named Caleb who has glittering scales and a bad attitude. Little does she know that Caleb is actually a powerful warrior sent to protect her from those out to steal her magic and destroy t...



  • Cherie Jeffrey

    A hilarious debut about one woman's search for the seductive voice behind her new invention...which is creating a lot of buzz. Twenty-nine-year old Annie Albright has been downsized, cheated on, and mistaken for a goody two shoes-all in one day. ...



  • Jaleigh Johnson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Explore some of the most dangerous places in the Forgotten Realms -- The Dungeons! An orphan mage returns to the only home she's ever known to find if transformed into a dungeon, her former master missing or trapped within. To make matters worse, ...



  • Joan Johnston

    From New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston comes a dazzling new Bitter Creek novel that features all of the passion and intrigue in Texas high society that her readers know and love, mixed with an explosive, spine-tingling tale of murder, w...



  • Susan Kearney

    Mandy Newman won the biggest lottery in history She and her coworkers picked the right numbers and hit the jackpot... and then someone stole the ticket. Now Mandy's fellow winners are being murdered one by one, and an attempted drowning convinc...



  • Jocelyn Kelley

    Her dear father died before convincing people of the existence of ghosts, so Jade Nethercott and her sisters set out to prove him right. Meanwhile, a ghost named Renshaw reveals to Jade his murderer's identity-Lord Bannatyne, notorious rake-so that s...



  • Julie Kenner

    It isn't easy when your daughter's figured out that her mom's a demon hunter-and wants to grow up to be just like her. Or when you suspect your dead husband used the forces of darkness to filch the body of another human. And your living husband isn't...



  • Michael Koryta

    Private investigator Lincoln Perry finds himself in the crosshairs of police investigations in two states when an old rival, Alex Jefferson, is brutally murdered. Accepting involvement in the case after a request from his former fiancee, Perry agrees...



  • Kristin Landon

    After the Earth was destroyed by ruthless machine intelligences known as the Cold Minds, the remnants of the human race sought refuge on far-flung planets. Humanity was saved by a hereditary guild of jump pilots who now control all travel and communi...



  • Ruth Ryan Langan

    From "a writer of heartwarming, emotionally involving romances" (Library Journal), an enchanting tale of an utterly delightful woman and the lawman who never wants to let her go... Still unwed at twenty-nine, Irish immigrant Molly O'Brien has earn...



  • Hailey Lind

    Since she went legit, Annie Kincaid's been applying her genius for fine-art forgery to her own faux-finishing business in San Francisco. She hasn't seen the inside of a jail cell since she was seventeen, although sometimes it takes all of her arts--f...



  • Jake Logan

    Slocum’s short fuse is going to blow some gold thieves sky high!Slocum’s lost his horse trying to raise a grub stake against cardsharps in Cripple Creek. Hungry and broke in a hostile boomtown, Slocum literally falls into a job -- when an explosi...



  • Penny McCall

    The frigid Rocky Mountain air is nothing compared to the chill between a gorgeous scientist and a hardened FBI agent. But out in the middle of nowhere, all it takes is body heat to melt the snow.... Alex Scott has been doing just fine on her own, ...



  • Kaye Morgan

    Maiden's Bay is a small, scenic town on the Oregon coast where citizens get their number fix thanks to Liza Kelly--sudoku maven with the Oregon Daily. Her challenging puzzles sharpen the mind, and her deductive skills unravel even the most enigmatic ...



  • Marcia Muller

    Sharon McCone is hired by her husband's security firm to track down "the ever-running man," a shadowy figure who has been leaving explosive devices at their various offices. She doesn't have to search for long. When McCone narrowly escapes an explosi...



  • Robin D. Owens

    Dufleur Thyme knows that emotion has no place in scientific experiments, and she cannot allow distractions in her own surreptitious quest to redeem her father's time reversal studies. For Saille T'Willow, time is running out. He's the premier matchma...



  • Robin Parrish

    The world changed after  that terrible day when the sky burned,  and now every heart is  gripped by fear Earthquakes, fire, disease, and floods pummel the earth, and its citizens watch in horror.  But in the darkness there is hope...



  • Mary Jo Putney

    A dazzling romantic fantasy that takes readers not only from the elegant streets of London to a dangerously tempting Mediterranean island but across time. Jean Macrae’s family is one of the most prominent clans of Guardians, humans whose magical...



  • Luanne Rice

    Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the past--and the son--they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette's calling led her to a voca...



  • Patricia Rice

    Somewhere off the coast of France, a sun-kissed isle lies hidden from discovery. For centuries, the people of Aelynn have used their magical abilities to protect a sacred chalice. But when a beautiful maiden from the outside world inadvertently tak...



  • Jennifer Roberson

    ALISANOS: THE DEEPWOOD -- a magical world that is home to demons, a thousand gods, and numerous other magical entities. But it is not just an environment. For the deepwood is sentient -- alive in a far different way than a normal forest. Even its m...



  • J.R. Roberts

    Invited to ride the Misty Morning, a riverboat for gamblers and cardsharps, Clint Adams, determined to win some much-needed cash, gets a bad feeling, especially when the passengers become the pawns in a deadly con game. Original....



  • John Saul

    After his father's untimely death sends fifteen-year-old Ryan McIntyre into an emotional tailspin, his mother enrolls him in St. Isaac's Catholic boarding school, hoping the venerable institution with a reputation for transforming wayward teens can w...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Fargo cuts a trail of trouble…Skye Fargo is in California at the behest of Hiram Stoddard, a powerful man who wants to establish the first stagecoach line along the Old Mission Trail -- and he’s not the only one. But when Fargo sees how ruthless ...



  • Jory Sherman

    When his parents were slaughtered by Arapahos, Jared Sunnedon and his sister Kate made it out alive, only to be taken prisoner. Then and there, they vow that if they are ever separated, they'll never give up the search for each other. After Kate is c...



  • Patricia Smiley

    Management consultant Tucker Sinclair is trying to get her own firm off the ground in Los Angeles. But when you get mixed up in a private investigator's business, trouble is always a prospect.... Tucker Sinclair has finally escaped the oppressivel...



  • Mark Terry

    Derek Stillwater, bioterrorism expert for the Department of Homeland Security, already has his bags packed for vacation when he gets the call: Sarin gas attack on a Detroit restaurant. Fifty-two dead. The killer calls himself the Serpent and demands ...



  • Shiloh Walker

    In this dazzling sequel to the bestselling Hunting the Hunter, Shiloh Walker returns to tell the story of another unique hero at the heart of a strange new world... HIS MISSION Vax was once committed to his life as a Hunter, tracking down the evil b...



  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The story starts in the Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthus, which is under assault by the forces of the Kingpriest. The wizards, knowing they must surrender, remove as many valuable artifacts as they can. An elven wizard named Feal-Thas takes a drago...



  • Phaedra Weldon

    First in an excitingly different and new paranormal series. Zoë Martinique has turned her unusual ability into a career. When she's traveling, she can't be seen which makes her an ideal professional snoop. Industrial espionage, surveillance, whateve...



  • Valerie Wood / Val Wood

    When Laura Page returns to the remote Holderness village of Welwick, it is to try and discover the mystery of her mother Susannah's early life. Now a prosperous business woman in Hull, Susannah never speaks of her childhood, when she was brought up w...



  • Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Since when are vacations ever relaxing? All Chicago police Detective Paul Turner is hoping for on his annual retreat from the city and his job is a little peace and quiet. This time he's headed to the Canadian Great North Woods for a couple of weeks ...



  • Dean Wesley Smith

    Ambassador Sarek meets his future wife. Captain Ransom atones for his sins. T'Pol pursues a composer, after she is captivated by the human's music. Strands of DNA are woven together from four Starfleet captains, creating one man with one mission. An ...



  • 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, ...



  • Gail Dayton

    • Kallista, now Reinine of all Adara, still has demons to seek out. She and her family journey south to her mate Obed's homeland in pursuit of the demon who absconded six years previously with Kallista's temple-bound ilian, Merinda, and her ch...



  • William Martin

    Rare-book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, the main characters from Back Bay and Harvard Yard, are back for another treasure hunt through time. They have learned of an early, annotated draft of the Constitution, stolen and smuggled...



  • Chris Ryan

    The new blockbuster from the bestselling author of The Increment and Greed -- a former SAS commander and the only member of his team to escape from Iraq during the Gulf War. Three people. Three stories. And a dangerous struggle for survival in a c...



  • Shirley Tallman

    Nineteenth-century attorney Sarah Woolson is still trying to get her life together. Against her family's wishes, she opens her own San Francisco law firm, only to find that clients---paying clients, that is---are wary of allowing a woman to manage th...



  • Blair Underwood; Tannarive Due

    An unputdownable and sizzling mystery in the heart of Hollywood, perfect for fans of Devil in a Blue Dress and Miami Vice.Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous, sexy actor and former gigolo, living on the fringes of the go...



  • Noelle Mack
    in

    Susannah Fowler is in possession of many temptations--an independent nature, a quick wit, and lush curves. She is also in possession of a fortune in stolen jewels hidden within her favorite corset. If rakehell Carlyle Jameson wants it, he will have t...



  • Sylvia Day
    in

    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...



  • Elizabeth Haydon

    Long ago, in the Second Age of history, a young Nain explorer by the name of Ven Polypheme traveled much of the known and unknown world, recording his adventures. Recently discovered by archaeologists, a few fragments of his original journals are rep...



  • Sherryl Jordan

    I was the first child born to a hunted people, in the first winter of their flight. My earliest memory is of being carried on my mother's hip across barren plains, with wild mountains all around, and of rough tents made of skins stretched across stic...



  • Stefan Petrucha; Thomas Pendleton

    Four ghost girls. A nightly ritual. When their precious bones are rolled, the ghosts tell of deaths so horrifying even the rats in the orphanage walls cringe. Tonight's tale . . . Seventeen-year-old Mandy has everything: popular friends...



  • Janette Rallison

    Sixteen-year-old Giovanna Petrizzo finds it hard enough to fit in. Three years since her family moved to Texas, she's still the newcomer compared to everyone around her. It doesn't help matters when her twin brother, Dante, takes on the mayor's son b...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Pamela Browning

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