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New Books List: 647 titles

  • Mr. Hands

    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...

  • Immortal Remains

    Steve Niles; Jeff Mariotte

    Existing in shadow, thriving in night, a terrifying serial killer stalks the residential streets of Savannah, Georgia - one whose brutal signature is now drawing the attention of other denizens of darkness, for better or worse. But there is more than...

  • Scorched

    Rachel Butler

    Beautiful assassin Selena McCaffrey trails a chilling history. From her birth as the love child of a rich Southern family to her childhood on the streets, Selena had one option: to survive. Now she wants nothing more than to put the past behind her a...

  • The Pleasure Trap

    Elizabeth Thornton

    The pursuit of a scoundrel is about to become a most desirable affair... From nationally bestselling author Elizabeth Thornton comes the sinfully seductive, delightfully romantic story of a woman who discovers a most thrilling type of pursuit. . ....

  • Murder in LaMut

    Raymond E. Feist; Joel Rosenberg

    It should have been so simple . . . Durine, Kethol, and Pirojil are three mercenaries who have spent twenty years fighting other people's battles, defeating the Tsurani and the Bugs and the goblins. Yet now it seems there are no more enemies to v...

  • The Sea Change

    Patricia Bray

    BETWEEN A MYSTERIOUS PAST AND A TREACHEROUS FUTURE LIES ONE LOST MAN -- AND A MAGIC THAT HAS CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER... After years of exile, shattered dreams, and confusion, Josan has finally discovered he is not the simple monk he appeared t...

  • Twice the Temptation

    Suzanne Enoch

    Two unforgettable tales. One dazzling diamond! Summer 1814... When Evangeline Munroe inherits the exquisite but supposedly cursed Nightshade Diamond, she considers it a bit of good fortune. Then she literally runs into Connoll Addison, Marquis...

  • Tangled Up In You

    Rachel Gibson

    Maddie Dupree isn't in Truly, Idaho, looking for a husband, a boyfriend, or anything in between. Maddie is determined to uncover the untold story about the town's sordid past--her past. As a child, Maddie lost everything, and now she's back at the...

  • Bewitching the Highlander

    Lois Greiman
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    Keelan has awakened from a deep slumber, in another time, in another place, and still haunted by demons of his past. Determined to recover the Treasure that caused his family's downfall, he arrives at the sweeping Scottish countryside...and disco...

  • King's Property

    Morgan Howell

    Born into hardship, Dar learns to rely on herself alone. When her family betrays her, Dar is conscripted into King Kregant's army and its brutal campaign to conquer a neighboring country. Now she is bound as a slave to a dreaded regiment of orcs, cre...

  • The Forever Summer

    Suzanne Macpherson

    The Awful Truth about Emily Ruth Lucas Griffin has come to Port Gamble for one purpose: to get the Griffin family summer home out of the clutches of his evil ex-wife, Emily Ruth Griffin. But before he can blink twice, she drops dead in the lo...

  • Highlander Untamed

    Monica McCarty

    Rory MacLeod is a bold and powerful Highland Chief with only one allegiance--to his clan. He vows revenge against the rival MacDonald clan, though duty demands a handfast marriage to Isabel MacDonald-- a bride he does not want and has no intention of...

  • Dangerous Admissions: Secrets of a Closet Sleuth

    Jane O'Connor

    Miranda "Rannie" Bookman--43, divorced mother of two, with a recent love life consisting of a long string of embarrassingly brief encounters--is beginning to feel like a dangling participle: connected to nothing. Her career as a copyeditor is down th...

  • Pieces of My Sister's Life

    Elizabeth Joy Arnold

    TWO SISTERS WHO SHARED EVERYTHING. ONE UNFORGIVABLE MOMENT. AND A SECOND CHANCE... Once, Kerry and Eve Barnard did everything together: sailing the Block Island harbor with their father, listening to their neighbor Justin's magical fairy tales, and ...

  • Embraced By Darkness

    Keri Arthur

    SHE'S HUNTING A KILLER--AND SHATTERING EVERY BOUNDARY SHE'S EVER KNOWN... Part vamp, part werewolf, Riley Jenson plays by her own rules, whether it's her stormy love life or her job as a guardian. But when her family's alpha male demands that she ...

  • Undertow

    Elizabeth Bear

    A frontier world on the back end of nowhere is the sort of place people go to get lost. And some of those people have secrets worth hiding, secrets that can change the future -- assuming there is one. . . . Andre Deschênes is a hired assassin, but...

  • Till Human Voices Wke Us

    Mark Budz

    Now he surprises us again with an ambitious new thriller set in three realities at once, where three different lives hang in the balance.... What if your world were rapidly running out of tomorrows? And what if the only way to save the future was ...

  • The Huntress

    Susan Carroll

    In a time of intrigue and betrayal, the huntress is on a quest that could jeopardize two empires and two great queens: Catherine de Medici and Elizabeth I. The year is 1585 -- and prophecy has foretold the coming of a daughter of the Earth whose p...

  • Tempted at Every Turn

    Robyn DeHart

    Meet the Ladies' Amateur Sleuth Society: Four unconventional ladies with a most unladylike interest in crime-solving -- but clueless when it comes to the needs of their own hearts. Proper, sensible Willow Mabson will do anything to protect h...

  • The Lure of the Wolf

    Jennifer St. Giles

    Mighty warriors sworn to protect humanity, the shape-shifters known as The Shadowmen move between two worlds. Now their dark leader has exiled himself from the spirit world, opening the door to the forces of chaos...and to the power of love. Half ...

  • The Devilish Pleasures of a Duke

    Jillian Hunter

    Adrian Ruxley may be a ruggedly charming rogue, but he's not a man to stand idly by while a lady is accosted--even at a wedding organized by the lady herself, Emma Boscastle, instructress in the social graces at her London academy for young gentlewom...

  • What Isabella Desires

    Anne Mallory

    Lady Isabella Willoughby has always been patient and proper. But secretly, scandalously, she longs to be wild--to wear daring gowns while dancing the night away. Above all, she craves one thing: To be more than merely a "friend" to Marcus, the dashin...

  • How to Kill a Guy in 10 Days

    Kayla Perrin; Brenda Mott

    Hailey McGraw, Lexie Muller's best friend, is back in town . . . and Lexie is ready to party! These girlfriends have got a lot to celebrate--shy Hailey is newly single, and wild Lexie's about to hit the big 3-0--and they've got nothing on their minds...

  • Thunderkill

    P.W. Storm

    The client is the CIA, as a beautiful, seductive Company agent enlists the help of Mad Dog and his men. The assignment is Uzbekistan, where an America-hating warlord plans to assassinate the country's newly elected, U.S.-supported president. But the ...

  • Unholy Birth

    Andrew Neiderman

    Congratulations, it's a boy... Now it's time to pray. Kate Dobson and her girlfriend run a successful California catering business and share a beautiful home in the Indian Canyons of Palm Springs. They are secure in their relationship and more th...

  • Hidden Moon

    Lori Handeland

    HE'S GOT A SECRET... Claire Kennedy left Lake Bluff, Georgia, for the bright lights of Atlanta and a promising career in journalism. Now, recovering from a cruel betrayal, she's back in the one place she always felt safe, starting over as Lake Bluff'...

  • Where Souls Collide

    Stefanie Worth

    REFLECTIONS OF THE PAST Detroit journalist Navena Larimore thought her romance with NBA star Maxwell McKnight would last forever, but forever came to an abrupt end fifteen years ago, leaving her brokenhearted. Now Maxwell is back in her life as the...

  • Nevermore

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of Amer...

  • The Rules of Gentility

    Janet Mullany

    "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman of fortune and passable good looks amuses herself in London with fashion, philanthropic works, and flirtation, until a suitable gentleman makes an offer. I consider the pursuit of bonnet...

  • Welcome to Eudora

    Mimi Thebo

    Eudora, a small town in the middle of wheat, oil, and cattle country, is on the verge of extinction. And Lottie Dougal, the local stationer with a healing touch, may be the only one who can bring the community back together -- if she doesn't destroy ...

  • The Pancatantra

    Visnu Sarma

    Enduring and profound, among the earliest and most popular of all books of fables

    First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical t...

  • The Candy Man Cometh

    Dan Danko; Tom Mason

    Speedy and the other sidekicks help out when the League of Big Justice faces its stickiest, most chocolatey supervillain yet--the Candy Man, who is determined to rot the world's teeth one cavity at a time....

  • Circadian

    Joanna Klink

    A beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet The poems in Joanna Klink’s new collection Circadian take as their guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and withdrawal of light, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleepin...

  • Escape from Davy Jones

    Jacqueline Ching

    Join Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner and the rest of the swashbuckling gang in these all-new stories based on the successful Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. Geared toward readers ages 5-7, these full-color, illustrated re...

  • Annie's Solo Mission

    Marcy Kelman

    Blast off with the Little Einsteins on these new fun-filled all-new adventures! Leo, June, Quincy, Annie and Rocket areback in a series of five new paperback missions involving pirates, knights,magic, and much more!Quincy's Dream Quincy discovers the...

  • Halloween Surprise

    Disney Book Group

    Boo! It’s Halloween, and the Little Einsteins are excited to trick-or-treat.  Children will have a great time accompanying Leo, June, Quincy, Annie and Rocket for a Halloween adventure through ancient castles throughout Europe. With each stop, the...

  • Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie

    Sivadasa

    One of the most important works of Indian narrative fiction, passed down orally through the centuries and first recorded in medieval times, The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie has at its center the half-mythical, heroic, and sagacious emperor Vikr...

  • Gundam Seed Destiny: Volume 4

    Masatsugu Iwase

    PEACEâ€"OR TOTAL DESTRUCTION?

    Chairman Durandal has a vision for a new worldâ€"a place without war or strife, where no one questions his authorityâ€"and he’s determined to force peace upon the universe, regardless of the cost! But with the s...

  • Airgear 5

    Oh!great

    LIFT OFF!

    Itsuki finally forms his own Air Treck team, but his roommate, legal guardian, and all-around hot babe, Rika, confiscates his Air Trecks and forbids him to ever skate again! Does she really just have Itsuki’s best interests at hear...

  • Kitchen Princess

    Miyuki Kobayashi

    HOME COOKING

    Thanks to a magical talent for cooking, Najika is attending Seika Academy, a top private school, and has a great job at the nearby Fujita Diner. Najika believes that her “prince,†the boy who once saved her life, is a fellow s...

  • Mu Shi Shi, Volume 2

    Yuki Urushibara

    DARK MOUNTAIN

    Mushi, a terrifying primitive life-form, take countless shapesâ€"most of them deadly to the human race. Enter Ginko, a mushi expert, known as a mushishi. Though his laconic smile and soft-spoken manner don’t seem imposing, he r...

  • Alive #1 : The Final Evolution

    Tadashi Kawashima

    SUICIDE VIRUS

    A strange virus is making its way around the globe, causing its victims to commit suicideâ€"and becoming a lethal pandemic in less than a week. Now a group of Tokyo teens who have survived the outbreak are wondering why they are ...

  • Disney Channel's Awesome Fan Book

    Disney Book Group

    See how much you know about your favorite Disney Channel shows & check out some cool fun facts about the stars! Do you know every word of every song in High School Musical? Do you want to go behind the scenes of Hannah Montana? Are you ready to ra...

  • X-Men Phoenix: Warsong

    Greg Pak

    Collects X-Men: Phoenix Warsong # 1-5.The Phoenix is back! But where has it been reborn? Fire and pain await the X-Men. Can they handle what's to come?...

  • Wonder Man: My Fair Super Hero

    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...

  • Hulk Visionaries: Peter David - Volume 4

    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...

  • Justice Denied

    J.A. Jance

    The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con--gunned down on his mother's doorstep--seems just another turf war fatality. Why then has Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont been instructed to keep this assignment hush-hush? Meanwhile, Beau's lover an...

  • The New World

    Michael A. Stackpole

    Time is running out. Nalenyr is besieged on all sides by those who would save the fabled land--and those who would enslave it. Soon the realm will be ravaged by the scourge of magical warfare--overrun by terrifying forces created by an ancient enemy,...

  • Never Deceive a Duke

    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...

  • Bad Monkeys

    Matt Ruff

    Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons--"Bad Monkeys" for short...

  • Number 8

    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...

  • Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and Me

    Holly-Jane Rahlens

    Nelly Sue Edelmeister knows exactly who she is: a skinny, brainy thirteen-year-old Berlin schoolgirl. But that's before she develops a hopeless crush on a certain British royal. And it's definitely before she meets the oddly attractive Maximilian Min...

  • The Social Climber's Guide to High School

    Robyn Schneider

    THE ART OF THE CLIMB Meet the Social Climber. Charming to the masses, fully intriguing, she is nothing if not unique and confident. Call her a rising star, a fashion-forward thinker, just don't mistake her for the (let's admit it) arrogant and awf...

  • Defect

    Will Weaver

    Maybe it was bad karma. Maybe it was just bad luck. Whatever the reason, fifteen-year-old David was born defective. His bug eyes, pinched face, and hearing aids are obvious, but there is a secret David keeps from everyone, even his foster parents. Be...

  • The Home for Wayward Supermodels

    Pamela Satran

    America’s thirst for all things model related will be quenched with this juicy novel about a young Wisconsin girl who is discovered during a graduation trip to New York City, by the author of the hit novel-turned TV show Younger.The Reasons Amanda'...

  • Mademoiselle Victorine

    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...

  • The Island

    Victoria Hislop

    The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located--a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ...

  • Love Life

    Ray Kluun

    Dan and Carmen have it all, it seems: They are young, rich, good-looking, satisfied in their work and love life, and are the parents of a beautiful three-year-old daughter. When Carmen is diagnosed with breast cancer, Dan is unable to cope with her i...

  • The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse

    Jonathan Selwood

    For years, painter Isabel Raven has made an almost-living forging Impressionist masterpieces to decorate the McMansions of the not-quite-Sotheby's-auction rich. But when she serendipitously hits on an idea that turns her into the "It Girl" of the L.A...

  • Sunstroke and Other Stories

    Tessa Hadley

    Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships. A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor a...

  • The Billionaire Next Door // The Billionaire

    Jessica Bird

    SEAN O'BANYON HAS GOT IT BAD FOR LIZZIE BOND. AND THAT'S NOT GOOD . . . Take-no-prisoners deal-maker Sean O'Banyon (aka SOB) ate Wall Street financiers for lunch. So why was he losing sleep over a fresh-scrubbed nurse in old jeans and a too-big T-...

  • Remodeling The Bachelor

    Marie Ferrarella

    I, Philippe Zabelle (wealthy software designer, callous playboy, totally un-handy man), do hereby hire contractor Janice Diane Wyatt to renovate my home (but not make significant changes in my life, like making me fall for her, a single mom). I ...

  • Missionary Daddy

    Linda Goodnight

    To: Ashley From: Samantha Re: Sis, I've seen him again! Remember the handsome missionary I met during the modeling shoot? Well, his name's Eric Pellegrino--he's the new assistant director at the adoption agency here in Chestnut Grove! He's...

  • Familiar Stranger

    Michele Hauf

    WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE ONE YOU LOVE MAY BE YOUR MORTAL ENEMY? Recruited by a secret paranormal organization to hunt demons, Jack Harris never guessed the revenge he sought for his partner's death would be this complicated. Jack's worldview is bla...

  • In His Dreams

    Gail Gaymer Martin

    Escape to beautiful Beaver Island could be the answer to Marsha Sullivan's need for a fresh start. Since her husband's death four years ago, Marsha had lost her way, but on Beaver Island, she had good memories to help guide her. Running into Jeff, he...

  • A Notorious Woman

    Amanda McCabe

    VENICE BELONGS TO THE MYSTERIES OF THE NIGHT, TO DARKNESS AND DEEP WATERS. And so does Julietta Bassano. The beautiful perfumer hides her secrets from the light of day, selling rose water and essence of violet to elegant ladies rather than taking h...

  • Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

    Laura Amy Schlitz

    Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters. Maidens, monks, and millers' sons -- in these pages, readers will meet them all. There's Hugo, the lord's nephew,...

  • The Septembers of Shiraz

    Dalia Sofer

    In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappear-ance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have ...

  • Curse of the Bane

    Joseph Delaney

    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...

  • Switched

    Sienna Mercer

    I have a twin? And she's a vampire?? When Olivia Abbott moves to town, she's excited to join the cheerleading team and make new friends. Then she meets Ivy Vega. At first, Ivy, pale and dressed all in black, looks like Olivia's opposite. Then the ...

  • I Am Not Joey Pigza

    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,...

  • Andrew Lost in Uncle Al

    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 ...

  • Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf

    Jennifer L. Holm

    Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing the lead role in the ballet recital to her ex-best fri...

  • Digby Takes Charge

    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...

  • Whooo's There?

    Mary Serfozo

    Quiet crept into the dark forest deep. Wrapped in the hush, everyone seemed asleep. Until . . . "Whooo's there?" said Old Owl.

    It's nighttime, but the forest is alive with sights, sounds, and even smells! Whooo's out there? That's what Old Owl...

  • Ooh La La! Connie Pickles

    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...

  • Delilah Darling Is in the Library

    Jeanne Willis

    'My name is Queen Delilah and I come from a land far, far away, really I do.' My mother says, 'Really you don't, darling.' But if Delilah did rule the world, what a fun place it would be! Except she would be the first to tell you that she's not naugh...

  • The Baker's Dozen

    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...

  • Smugglers

    Christopher Russell

    Smuggling is a dangerous game, but Reuben has no choice. Being on the wrong side of the law is the only way to bring in the money his family desperately needs. The smugglers are safe as long as they stick together - but someone has betrayed them, som...

  • It's Time for School with Tallulah

    Nancy Wolff

    Grab your lunch boxes and head to school because Tallulah is the teacher!

    This spunky cat makes learning fun--there's story time and show-and-tell of course, but also cool crafts like creating place mats and snackitty crackers (some snack!). T...

  • Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays

    Peter Nadas



    A superb collection of short stories, essays, and literary criticism from the great Hungarian writer

    The U.S. publication of A Book of Memories in 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist, an artist whom crit...

  • The Dancing Mind

    Toni Morrison

    On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties...

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

    J.K. Rowling

    Readers beware. The brilliant, breathtaking conclusion to J.K. Rowling's spellbinding series is not for the faint of heart--such revelations, battles, and betrayals await in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that no fan will make it to the end uns...

  • The Death of Corinne

    R.T. Raichev

  • Clan Ground

    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...

  • The Coyote Road

    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...

  • Love Your Pup

    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....

  • Roaring Acres

    L.P. Holmes

    The land rush is on! Half a million acres are open for settlement, but the wide-open spaces won't stay unclaimed for long. Nor will they be peaceful. Farmers are battling ranchers, gunmen are taking sides, and a small, sleepy trading post has become ...

  • God Loves You So Much

    Max Lucado

  • Monte Cook's Ptolus: City by the Spire

    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...

  • Captain America: War & Remembrance

    Roger Stern

  • Essential Defenders - Volume 3

    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...

  • Invaders Classic - Volume 1

    Frank Robbins

    The Big Three of Marvel's Golden Age - Captain America, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner - entered their first alliance when the U.S. entered World War II! But the Axis had more than bombs to throw at them, as they soon learned in a battle with th...

  • Union Jack: London Falling

    Marvel Book Group

  • DragonFire

    Donita K. Paul

    Three years of strife have passed since Kale and Bardon freed Paladin's knights. Now, fiery dragons scorch their beautiful countryside as an evil husband-and-wife wizard duo battle one another for supremacy. The people of Amara just want to be left a...

  • The Tin Roof Blowdown

    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...

  • The Road to Samarcand

    Patrick O'Brian

    An archaeological expedition with a cargo of priceless jade is pursued across the Gobi Desert into the snows of Tibet. This story begins where Patrick O'Brian's devoted fans would want it to, with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a ...

  • Up Close and Dangerous

    Linda Howard

    A mysterious plane crash . . . a dangerous trek through the Idaho wilderness . . . a smoldering attraction . . . and a deadly game of cat and mouse. In her latest tour de force of romantic suspense, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard blen...

  • Design Flaws of the Human Condition

    Paul Schmidtberger

    As can only happen in New York, two strangers find themselves railroaded into an anger-management class, where they soon become fast friends. Iris is there because of an eminently justifiable meltdown on a crowded flight, whereas Ken got caught defac...

  • A Shred of Truth

    Eric Wilson

    In The Best of Evil, Aramis Black uncovered family secrets and historical conspiracies, hoping that his own dark past had come to certain resolution. But now, in the dark of night, he finds his brother unconscious and tied to a statue in Nashville's ...

  • Blacklisted

    Gena Showalter

    Alien hunting can get a girl killed. It can also get her a date. High school senior Camille Robins and her best friend are determined to snag the attention of their crushes before graduation next month. Armed with red-hot outfits and killer hair,...

  • Always Sisters

    CeCe Winans

    Becoming the princess God intended you to be has a lot to do with discovering -- who you are as His daughter and who you can be as a sister to those who walk beside you. Award-winning singer CeCe Winans has a heart for God and a heart for you and yo...

  • It's All About Him

    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 ...

  • Obeying God at Jericho

    Diane Stortz

    Explore the world of Happy Day® Books -- filled with fun-to-read stories that teach Christian values. These books are specifically designed to teach Bible stories every child should know.

    ...

  • The Gold of Thrace

    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 ...

  • And Murder for Dessert

    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...

  • Forever My Lady

    Jeff Rivera

    Dio Rodriguez grew up on the streets and knew all too well the hard, cool feeling of the barrel of a gun tucked down the back of his jeans. But his hard exterior softened when he met Jennifer. Jennifer understands Dio like no one else and makes h...

  • The Feasting Season

    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...

  • Ghost

    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...

  • Innocence

    David Hosp

    Struggling Boston attorney Scott Finn is happy to do any legal work-until he lands the most twisted case of his career. Fifteen years ago, a female cop was viciously beaten and shot. Fingerprint evidence sent a man named Vincente Salazar to prison fo...

  • A Baby Before Dawn // Safe Before Dawn

    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...

  • Ultimates 2 - Volume 2: Grand Theft America

    Mark Millar

    Collects Ultimates 2 #7-13. Tony and Natasha are on the eve of their wedding... but when Nick Fury makes his move against the mysterious traitor that's been plaguing the team, the team will never be the same! Also, Captain America and Wasp hit a seri...

  • Irredeemable Ant-Man - Volume 1: Low-Life

    Robert Kirkman

    Collects Irredeemable Ant-Man #1-6. When a low-level S.H.I.E.L.D. agent gets a hold of Hank Pym's new Ant-Man suit, you know the Marvel Universe is in trouble. He's not concerned with saving the world or helping others. He's concerned with getting t...

  • Exiles - Volume 9: Bump in the Night

    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...

  • Wolverine: Blood and Sorrow

    Stuart Moore

  • Annihilation - Book 3

    Keith Giffen

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

  • The Penguin U.G. Krishnamurti Reader

    Mukunda Rao

  • Everybody Say Amen

    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...

  • Love in the Present Tense

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a moving novel about the bond between a five year old abandoned by his mother and the man who raises him. After accidentally killing a police office five years ago, Pearl has managed to protect ...

  • White Heat

    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...

  • Oracle Lake

    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...

  • The Sons of Heaven

    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...

  • The Wanderer's Tale

    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...

  • The Devil You Know

    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...

  • Reduced Circumstances

    Vincent H. O'Neil

    Moonlighting as a dispatcher for Midnight Taxi, Frank Cole hopes to supplement slow days as a background checker. It's not the best money he's ever made -- but it could be the dirtiest when he's dragged into a mystery involving high-end grifters, sto...

  • A Spy by Nature

    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...

  • Greed

    Robin Wasserman

    The end of the year, the end of an era... Lucky Miranda's finished strong. She has what she's always wanted: Kane. Reformed, relationship-ready, really boring. Harper has prom queen in the bag -- but sadly, her ...

  • Death Benefits

    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...

  • God of Thunder

    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...

  • The Space Opera Renaissance

    David G. Hartwell

    "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...

  • Trouble In Tennessee

    Tanya Michaels

    Here Comes Trouble! People who knew Treble James called her Trouble. Although she'd returned to Joyous, Tennessee, to help her sister through a rough pregnancy, the townsfolk expected their former wild child to get bored and run back to Atlanta lo...

  • The Last Dodo

    Jacqueline Rayner

    After a trip to the zoo, the Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo, and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There, in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day - bi...

  • The Prince's Ultimate Deception

    Emilie Rose

    ENGAGING THE PRINCE American Madeline Spencer arrived in glitzy Monaco with dreams of a vacation fling. Dangerously attractive and maddeningly mysterious Damon Rossi filled the bill. Their nights of soaring passion left Madeline breathless--and cr...

  • The Hellfire Conspiracy

    Will Thomas

    The hunt for a serial killer leads a private detective to Victorian London’s most powerful secret society in this “marvelously wrought†historical mystery (Kirkus Reviews).When a twelve-year-old girl from the upper classes goes missing in the E...

  • Partiers Preferred

    Randi Reisfeld

    A house near the beach. A bunch of hot strangers. A three-month party that's off the hook. This share house is in the heady hills of Hollywood, where the neighbors include the Brangelina posse and the O. Twins. How to pay rent? Jared do...

  • Parrotfish

    Ellen Wittlinger

    Angela, who has never felt comfortable as a girl, finally comes out as transgendered and begins life as Grady, a boy. While it feels natural to him, Grady isn't prepared for the reaction he gets from his family, friends, and classmates. With humor an...

  • Project Paris

    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...

  • The Rise of the Wyrm Lord

    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...

  • Rex on the Beach

    Stephanie Bond
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    A little con Investigator Lucy Bell is looking for a runaway groom. Fortunately, the almost-best-man (who's tastier than a double chocolate cheesecake) likely knows where he is. All Lucy needs is a little deception--and a whole lot of hot 'n' sw...

  • Blood Brothers

    S.A. Harazin

    Without his job at the hospital, Clay would be lost. The hard work, the struggles of the patients, the drama in the ERÑit makes his days worth something, and gives focus to his dream of someday becoming a doctor. Clay can't afford to go away to colle...

  • The End of Forever

    Lurlene McDaniel
    in

    Somewhere Between Life and DeathThe celebration isn't supposed to end in tragedy. But the lives of sisters Amy and Erin come crashing down when Amy takes the car and has a horrible accident.Time to Let GoLanding the lead in the senior musical opposit...

  • Miss Spitfire

    Sarah Miller

    Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in 1887. Desperate for work, she’d taken on a seemingly impossible job -- teaching a child who was deaf, blind, and as ferocious as any wild a...

  • The Curse of the Romanovs

    Staton Rabin

    Alexei Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, is in deadly danger. It¹s 1916, the struggling Russian people are tired of war and are blaming their Romanov rulers for it, and some are secretly plotting to murder the young heir and his family. But nobo...

  • The Mozart Season

    Virginia Euwer Wolff

    When Allegra was a little girl, she thought that the music was hidden inside her violin. Now that she is 12, she believes the music is in her fingers, and she has to train them well. Shes the youngest contestant in the Ernest Bloch Young Musicians Co...

  • Meet Me in Venice

    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...

  • Our Former Lives in Art

    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...

  • The Restless Dead

    Deborah Noyes

    Ten extraordinary authors spin hair-raising original tales collected by the anthologist of GOTHIC! With scary stories by: M. T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, Herbie Brennan, Nancy Etchemendy, Annette Curtis Klause, Kelly Link, Deborah Noyes, ...

  • Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living

    Carrie Tiffany

    In this sensual, witty, and startlingly original first novel, Jean Finnegan searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. Carrie Tiffany captures the frailty and beauty of the human co...

  • Getting Into Trouble

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly
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    A little con Investigator Lucy Bell is looking for a runaway groom. Fortunately, the almost-best-man (who's tastier than a double chocolate cheesecake) likely knows where he is. All Lucy needs is a little deception--and a whole lot of hot 'n' sw...

  • Shaken and Stirred

    Heidi Betts
    in

    A little con Investigator Lucy Bell is looking for a runaway groom. Fortunately, the almost-best-man (who's tastier than a double chocolate cheesecake) likely knows where he is. All Lucy needs is a little deception--and a whole lot of hot 'n' sw...

  • Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise

    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...

  • Mack McGinn's Big Win

    Coleen Murtagh Paratore

    Mack McGinn comes from a long line of winners: Gramp, the football hero; Dad, the (almost) Olympic soccer star; and Mack's older brother, Rory, who has enough trophies to start his own hall of fame. After Mack joins Rory at Danville Middle School, hi...

  • How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

    Margaret McNamara

    Mr. Tiffin and his students explore skip counting and estimation in a fun pumpkin-themed classroom experiment! This book makes a wonderful read-aloud companion to any math or science curriculum, and it's a fun way to reinforce counting skills at home...

  • Ned's New Friend

    David Ezra Stein

    Although it sometimes gets lonely out on the range, Cowboy Ned and his loyal companion, Andy, always find a way to keep each other entertained, but when Ned gets a crush on Miss Clementine and starts visiting her in town, Andy wonders if there will b...

  • Piggley's Treasure Hunt

    Catherine Lukas

  • Let's Decorate Halloween Stickers

    Roger Priddy

  • Queen of the Sea

    Ree Soesbee

    Dragonlance's favorite girl wizard takes on the Crescent Cabal!

    A tempest off the coast of Krynn threatens to overwhelm Planthas, and once again the Wizard's Conclave sends Nearra on a treacherous journey. As Nearra works to uncover the Cresce...

  • The Moon and Sandals, Volume 2

    Fumi Yoshinaga

    Rikuko has been in love with close friend Koichi for a long time, but has never revealed her true feelings. When she discovers Koichi is romantically involved with her older brother, Rikuko suffers a broken heart that could destroy their friendship....

  • Picnic

    Yugi Yamada

    • Relationships are tough, but relationships between friends can be even tougher. That's what Koreeda discovers when Noda ― one of his college buddies ― offers to become "friends with benefits." Until recently, Koreeda has had a s...

  • Flight, Volume 4

    Kazu Kibuishi

    A full-color graphic anthology of short stories by some of the hottest creators in the field, FLIGHT, Volume Four is the newest addition to a great success story in graphic novel publishing.

    Since 2004, when the first Volume of Flight burst on...

  • Epoch

    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. ...

  • Not Safe, but Good

    Bret Lott

    In C.S. Lewis's classic The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy asks if Aslan the lion is safe. It is quickly clarified that Aslan is not safe...but he is good. That concept serves as the foundation for this collection of short stories. While writ...

  • Hilldiggers

    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...

  • The Italian Single Dad

    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...

  • Marriage At Circle M

    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 ...

  • The Mediterranean Billionaire's Secret Baby

    Diana Hamilton

    She's carrying his baby--so she will be his bride! Italian billionaire Francesco Mastroianni was captivated by Anna. But their passionate affair was cut short when Anna's father attempted to blackmail Francesco into marrying her. Seven mon...

  • Needed: Her Mr. Right

    Barbara Hannay

    The black sheep's proposal Returning from a charity cycle ride through the Himalayas, Simone is determined to finally deal with the dreadful secret she's kept, and move on with her life. Until the diary into which she poured her troubled h...

  • The Single Dad's Marriage Wish

    Carol Marinelli

    A mother for his son. Dedicated consultant and devoted single dad Hamish Adams is the heartthrob of the emergency room. Hamish's life is a nonstop juggling act. Between caring for his young son and managing his demanding job, Hamish has no tim...

  • The Boss's Wife For A Week

    Anne McAllister

    Tycoon seeks wife for one week's employment... In order to secure a contract, Spence Tyack needed a wife for a week. A wife he could show in public, and bed in private. But who could fill the position? Certainly not his buttoned-down, efficien...

  • A Desirable Husband

    Mary Nichols

    Lady Esme Vernley's unconventional first meeting with a handsome gentleman in Hyde Park has damned him in the eyes of her family. His departure from protocol, far from offending her, however, just fires Esme's curiosity. Felix, Lord Pendlebury, is...

  • Whatever Next!. Jill Murphy

    Jill Murphy

    The moon and back before bathtime? Whatever next! Join Baby Bear as he finds a rocket, makes friends with an owl and has a picnic on the moon! A beautiful story of innocence and imagination, full of Jill Murphy's characteristic warmth and humour, Wha...

  • The Chess Machine

    Robert Lohr

    Vienna 1770: Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing...

  • Wishful Thinking

    Jason Lethcoe

    The leprechaun leaned toward Penelope Pill- conspiratorially. "What if I told you that there is a factory that can fulfill your deepest wish? Any wish you could imagine, like being able to fly, or to never grow old, or to eat ice cream every day for ...

  • Yellowbelly and Plum Go to School

    Nathan Hale

    When Plum, his beloved stuffed bear and best friend, goes missing during a day at school, Yellowbelly is worried about where he may be, but when they are reunited, the two friends are able to swap stories and teach each other new games that they had ...

  • Maggie and the Monster

    Elizabeth Winthrop

    Every night a monster comes into Maggie's room. The monster crashes into the furniture with her big hairy feet, knocks books off the shelf, and sits in the chair and grumbles to herself. Maggie doesn't know what to do until her mother suggests that m...

  • The Blabber Report

    TRUE Kelley

    Having been assigned to do an oral book report, Blabber Mouse avoids the unhappy event by wasting time doing an assortment of silly things, yet as the day draws closer, Blabber realizes that he will have to face his fears and so finally settles down ...

  • The Bad Luck Chair

    Susan Wilkowski

    When she walks into class and finds the notorious Bad Luck Chair placed before her desk, Addy fears the rumors that abound at Brookside Elementary and turns to her classmate, Katie, for guidance on how to rid herself of the bad luck that she is certa...

  • Bus Stop

    Janet Morgan Stoeke

    Insecurities and anxieties fade as a group of neighborhood kindergarteners step aboard the big, bright school bus for the first of many happy rides together, in a fun-filled picture book by the author of Waiting for May....

  • Mr. Bear's Holiday

    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!...

  • Ultimate Fantastic Four - Volume 8: Diablo

    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....

  • Marvel Adventures The Avengers - Volume 3: Bizarre Adventures

    Jeff Parker

  • X-Men: First Class

    Jeff Parker

    For millions of years, mankind's place on Earth was unchallenged - until five young people paved the way for a new kind of human. While students at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Iceman taught the worl...

  • Ultimate Fantastic Four - Volume 3

    Mark Millar

    This deluxe hardcover collects Ultimate Fantastic Four Vol. 5: Crossover and Ultimate Fantastic Four Vol. 6: Frightful, plus extras. In Crossover, it's the rise of the Marvel Zombies! Even in their short careers, the Ultimate FF have seen a lot of am...

  • Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

    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...

  • Real Vampires Live Large

    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...

  • Whiskey and Water

    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 ...

  • Grave Apparel

    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,...

  • Rembrandt's Ghost

    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...

  • 52

    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...

  • Decaffeinated Corpse

    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 ...

  • Scent of Darkness

    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 ...

  • Shift

    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 ...

  • Simon Says

    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...

  • Grand Designs

    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...

  • Valentine's Resolve

    E.E. Knight

    Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, ...

  • First Comes Love

    Whitney Lyles

    In the latest from the author of Always the Bridesmaid, Cate and Ethan are happily married at last-but it looks like the honeymoon is over. Cate Padgett is no longer a permanent bridesmaid. Having found a love of her own with Ethan, she's enjoyin...

  • Improper Etiquette

    Janice Maynard

    Three women...One naughty handbook It begins with three ordinary women and their separate, unexpected discoveries of a lover's guidebook by Miss Matilda, the impish tutor of snag-a-man sexual decorum, circa 1949. All three ladies originally scoff ...

  • The Inca Trail

    Peter O'Donnell

    The dark underworld of espionage and crime is lit up by the fatal charms of the gorgeous Modesty Blaise -- high priestess of pulp crime and goddess of cult thrillers!

    Modesty stumbles from a babysitting job into a mob war in The Reluctant Ch...

  • A Deeper Blue

    John Ringo

    THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL VX is not a good way to die. So when the President of the United States gets confirmed intelligence that a shipload of the stuff is headed for Florida, he orders that every stop be pulled out. Including bringing in his ult...

  • Fendi, Ferragamo, and Fangs

    Julie Kenner
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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....