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New Books List: 647 titles


  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Joanna Wayne

    NO COLLINGSWORTH WOULD EVER TURN HIS BACK ON A WOMAN IN DANGER Langston Collingsworth was a man to be reckoned with. Powerful and president of the family oil business, opportunists looked at him and saw money, but he saw the land as his life force...



  • 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...



  • Betool Khedairi

    Dalal is a young woman living in a crowded Baghdad apartment with the childless aunt and uncle who raised her. In the same building, Umm Mazin, a fortune-teller, offers her customers cures for their physical and romantic ailments, Saad the hairdresse...



  • 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...



  • Kathleen O'Dell

    Can Agnes Parker keep her cool now that she's in middle school? Maybe. Can she make herself invisible? Never! Seventh grade is going to take some getting used to. The halls of the big middle school are super-crowded, the eighth-grade boys are super-...



  • 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 Itsukiā€™s best interests at hear...



  • Tadashi Kawashima

    SUICIDE VIRUS

    A strange virus is making its way around the globe, causing its victims to commit suicideā€"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 ...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Aoibheann Sweeney

    Miranda's father has always seemed to her as obscure and elusive as the thick New England fog that surrounds their isolated island home. When she was three years old, her parents moved from Manhattan to tiny Crab Island off the coast of Maine so he c...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Bali Rai

    It's eight months since Sophie went missing after attending a summer music festival. The police search has led nowhere and Jit, Sophie's best friend and soulmate, is slowly going crazy not knowing what's happened to her. He has to DO something. So he...



  • 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...



  • Keith Giffen

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



  • Urban Books

    Thereā€™s a sayinā€™ that if you come from my part of town, that youā€™re from around the way. Around the Way Girls 4 is a look at the life of some street-smart women who think they have the world in the palm of their hands, but are about to find out...



  • Anna Myers

    Would you betray your president to win the heart of America's most celebrated actor? Bella isn't evil. But even people with good intentions can end up doing bad things. Especially when they meet people with the power to persuade them to do almost...



  • 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...



  • Camilla d'Errico

    WICKED WISH-CRAFT?

    Hanaā€™s life as a lonerā€"in school and at homeā€"brightens only when sheā€™s masquerading as someone else online or chilling with her imaginary BFF (Best Friend Forever), rock star Avril Lavigne. But Hanaā€™s daily grind i...



  • Joy Nash

    Created at the dawn of time to protect humanity, the ancient warriors have been nearly forgotten, though magic lives on--in vampires, werewolves, the Celtic Sidhe, and other beings. But now one of their own has turned rogue, and the world is again in...



  • 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...



  • Alex Richards

    Goodbye small town hell . . . hello Big Apple! Sixteen-year-old Gemma Winters couldn't be more ecstatic-and terrified-about scora summer internship at one of the hippest daytime TV talk shows, Back Talk with Kate Morgan. To top it off, she's staying ...



  • Ellen Sussman

    "I behave badly to set myself apart. To test myself. To push myself. To prove something. To shock someone....I behave badly because I can." That's how Ellen Sussman describes her mischievous endeavors. In this anthology of personal essays, she's invi...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • Alastair J. Hatter

    Following up on the gritty street drama, It s on and Poppin , Deondra Dee Dee Davis is now out of jail on bail and set to find her brothers killer. Don Ruiz, now in control of Don Valdez s territory, discovers from the little black book that Jay and ...



  • 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...



  • Elin Hilderbrand

    THREE WOMEN -- burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues -- tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Her sister, Bre...



  • Kate Welsh

    FROG FOR A HOUSEMATE...PRINCE FOR A HUSBAND? Feisty tomboy Samantha Hopewell wasn't the marrying kind--and neither was her handsome new housemate, Italian speedboat driver Niccol Verdini. But when the sexy, oh-so- charming playboy was nearly kille...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Irini Spanidou

    The setting is New York City in the 1970s--a time and place of creativity, licentiousness, rebellion--and unforeseen perils. At its center is Beatrice: twenty-five, mesmerizingly lovely and intelligent, at once conventional and different from everyon...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Robin Wasserman

    FOUND: One girl, age 13. Unconscious. Unharmed. Unclaimed. Unidentified. LOST: Everything. JD is on the run, searching for answers about her past...and about the strange and dangerous abilities she's beginning to discover she has. She knows she can...



  • 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...



  • 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-...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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,...



  • Miranda Lee

    One night of shame...endless nights of pleasure Jordan has struggled to forget Gino Bortelli, the arrogant, sexy Italian with whom she had an affair ten years before. Things had ended abruptly, but Jordan still craved Gino's touch. No man yet ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ERŃit 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...



  • 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...



  • Margaret Mayhew

    Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Donna Douglas, a saga full of the romance and drama of World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.READERS ARE LOVING THE BOAT GIRLS! "I started reading this book last night and I absolutely devoured it, t...



  • 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...



  • Steven Torres

    Brian Hanson works as a therapist, counseling some very troubled people. When Tammy, a former addict, comes to him with a wild story of conspiracy and corruption, he sees her as a textbook case of paranoia. Then she turns up dead. What if Tammy wasn'...



  • Jennifer Lewis

    "IF YOU'RE HAVING MY CHILD, YOU WILL MARRY ME." Powerful oil tycoon Elan Al Mansur never wanted Sara Daly as his new assistant. Her lush curves and alluring scent would only prove a distraction to what mattered most to him: business. But one night...



  • 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...



  • Paul Meisel

    When it comes to basketball, the Porker twins, Brendan and Belinda, are at the top of their game. They shoot hoops every chance they get, they practice regularly, and at night they study televised pro games with their dad. He hopes that one day t...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Rosalind Laker

    A captivating romance - Paris, 1894. Lisette Decourt flees her home and attaches herself to travelling lanternist Daniel Shaw. Lisette is irresistibly attracted to the magnetic Englishman, and although Fate separates them, she cannot forget him. She ...



  • Dawn Thompson

    Joss Hyde-White left London for answers about who and what he was. What he found, with night falling, Cornwall consumed by a snowstorm quickly obscuring the road, was a carriage--a brougham by the look of it--its snow-covered horses standing like two...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Fargo cuts a trail of troubleā€¦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 heā€™s not the only one. But when Fargo sees how ruthless ...



  • Rae Meadows

    Fleeing heartbreak and boredom in Manhattan, Jane quits her job, drives west, and lands in Salt Lake City, where she takes a job answering phones at a Mormon-endorsed escort agency. As Jane struggles to find companionship and purpose in her new surro...



  • Torsten Krol

    Odell Deefus, who's not the sharpest tool in the shed, has one goal: to "try my hardest to be a good soldier against the mad dog Islamites." But while driving to an army enlistment office in Callisto, Kansas, his '78 Chevy breaks down on the side of ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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....




  • 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...



  • 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 Slimā€™s starts an archaeological dig near the ranch, it doesnā€™t take long before little Alfred gets cau...



  • Lori Wick

    Token Creek, Montana Territory, 1880--Cassidy Norton is a fine seamstress who makes her living sewing for others. Amid the bustle of a busy frontier town, her life is rich. What time her business doesn't take, her friends and church family fill. But ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Sandra Kitt

    Lights, camera, ATTRACTION... SAVANNAH SHELTON knows the City of Angels breaks hearts more often than it fulfills dreams. Her late father spent fruitless years trying to make it big as an actor. Among his possessions, Savannah finds papers that hi...



  • Roxanne St. Claire

    A PLEASURE DOING BUSINESS Miami millionaire Parker Garrison had dated his way through most every eligible woman in the city. So when he needed a last-minute escort he turned to his ever efficient assistant. Who knew unpretentious Anna Cross would ...



  • 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...



  • Carol Muske-Dukes

    Fresh out of graduate school, Holly Mattox is a young, newly married, and spirited poet who moves to New York City from Minnesota in the early 1970's. Hoping to share her passion for words and social justice, Holly is also determined to contribute to...



  • 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...



  • Steve Perry

    After their old headquarters were demolished by a competing security firm, the Star Risk, Ltd. team moved into swanky new offices. Unfortunately, there havenā€™t been any customers to impress -- until the Reverend Josiah Williams drops by.   He...



  • Joanna Klink

    A beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet The poems in Joanna Klinkā€™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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Christina Skye

    Ex-cop Gina Ryan traded in her Smith & Wesson to follow a dream. Now she's creating decadent desserts aboard a luxury cruise ship in the Caribbean. But a gorgeous passenger is about to send her perfect world up in smoke... Trace O'Halloran is a hard...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Mark Schorr

    The Bronx can be a tough place. And Luis Ramos can tell you it's even tougher to raise a daughter there. How can he keep her safe when every street leads to a new threat, an unseen danger? Now his daughter, Jasmine, is missing, and Luis will stop at ...



  • J.L. Powers

    Mexican guy. White guy. Classmates and enemies from across the border and on each other's turf. Big fight. White guy wins. Next day, he's dead. Everyone's a suspect. Everyone's guilty of something. Does what you look like or where you come from fi...



  • Doug Stumpf

    Brazilian-born Gil shines the shoes of the richest, most powerful men on the face of the earth--Wall Street traders and execs, uninhibited as they are ruthless. To most of these money mandarins, shoeshine boys are usually invisible, as are Gil's frie...



  • 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...



  • Jamie Malanowski

    A savagely funny and knowing political satire about a vice president with an irresistible itch to move up a notch. Godwin Pope, the current vice president of the United States, is bored out of his skull. The one-time software billionaire and hyperco...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Staton Rabin

    Alexei Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, is in deadly danger. ItĀ¹s 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...



  • 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...



  • Tasmina Perry

    "I THINK ONE OF DADDY'S LITTLE GIRLS KILLED HIM." For the four glamorous daughters of Lord Oswald Balcon, money can buy anything. From Fendi handbags to Ivy League educations, they live in a world of designer labels and unrestricted opulence -- ...



  • Ellen Schreiber

    The most important night of the year is drawing near . . . but not without a little trouble from the Underworld Dullsville's newest night-faring intruder may be only a tween, but Raven knows that Valentine Maxwell, the younger sibling of two nefario...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • David Klass

    I don't know if you've ever held a secret so powerful that it could make someone you love stop caring for you in the blink of an eye. If you ever find yourself in possession of such a secret, you might be braver or more honest than I was. You mig...



  • 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...



  • John Twelve Hawks

    A SHATTERING VISION OF A SOCIETY WHERE BOTH HOPE AND FREEDOM ARE ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR. TWO BROTHERS born into a race of Travelers -- prophets able to journey to different realms of consciousness -- have just discovered that their long lost father may ...



  • 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...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    ANA ELENA RAFAEL WAS BORN THE DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS... Ana was spawned by the Dark Lord himself, but every instinct she possesses screams that she isn't evil. She is good--just as her mother was. But Ana has to know the truth about her shape-shi...



  • 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, ...



  • Jonathan Maberry

    From the powerful imagination of a new horror master comes a bone-chilling tale set in a small town where good and evil are joined in a terrifying, deadly battle... Evil Endures Once an idyllic Pennsylvania village, Pine Deep awoke one morning t...



  • 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 ...



  • Brian Keene

    The streets of the city are no longer safe. They are filled with zombies--the living dead, rotting predators driven only by a need to kill...and eat. Some of the living have struggled to survive, but with each passing day their odds grow worse. For L...



  • 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...



  • Michelle McGriff

    Loneliness consumes Portia Hamilton after the death of her father. In the depths of her despair she is drawn to a charismatic church where she developed a crush on her pastor, Julian Marcum. Julian Marcum is pompous, arrogant, and leads a secret life...



  • Patrice Hannon

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



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Paul Johnston

    Revenge is sweet -- unless you're the target Writer's block is nothing compared to the tale London-based novelist Matt Wells is now caught in. A chain of seemingly innocent e-mails from a devoted fan turns sinister when Matt discovers his correspo...




  • 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 ...



  • John Ringo

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  • Mary Nichols

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  • Mike Carey

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  • John Saul

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  • Caroline Jayne Church

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  • Juliet Landon

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  • Disney Book Group

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  • Mary Jo Putney

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  • Celya Bowers

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  • W.E.B. Griffin

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    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

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  • Amanda Harte

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  • Charles G. West

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  • Leslie Alan Horvitz

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  • Clint Kelly / C.L. Kelly

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  • Angela Elwell Hunt

    In the path of a devastating hurricane, three very different women find themselves trapped in the elevator of a high-rise office building. All three conceal shattering secrets--unaware that their secrets center on the same man. The betrayed wife,...



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  • 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...



  • Timothy Carter

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  • Gail Dayton

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  • Marcia Muller

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  • Linda Ford

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  • ReShonda Tate Billingsley

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  • Carrie Tiffany

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  • Tony Bedard

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  • Kimberly Van Meter

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  • Andrea Wilder

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  • Nancy Coons

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  • Julie Kenner
    in

    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....



  • Johanna Edwards
    in

    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....



  • Serena Robar
    in

    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....



  • Dolores Gordon-Smith

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  • Linda Davies

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  • Rick Copp

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  • Peter Nadas



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  • Whitney Lyles

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  • Helen Barer

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  • Sivadasa

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  • Ellen Miles

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  • Kazu Kibuishi

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



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  • Jeff Rivera

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  • Suzanne Macpherson

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  • Caprice Crane

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  • Beryl Matthews

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  • Dave Jackson

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  • Kirsten Lobe

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  • Holly Chamberlin

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