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New Books List: 531 titles


  • Cherry Adair

    SHE WANTED SOME POINTERS... Catherine Harris can't think of a time she wasn't in love with Luke Van Buren. Unfortunately, he's too stubborn to see it. He treats her like a kid sister and clearly doesn't see her as a woman...with needs. Determined ...



  • David A. Adler

    When Cam Jansen, her father, and her friend Eric go to the library, Cam finds a mystery to read. But soon, she has a mystery to solve. Her father's shopping list has disappeared. Cam decides to use her amazing skills to investigate, and with a click,...




  • Terri Alcock

    Samantha Hope has a knack for getting embroiled in other people's problems. Even though she has sworn off the PI business, she finds herself being drawn into a dicey situation concerning her father and his wife May. Richard Howell had fallen into bad...



  • Randy C. Alcorn

    Jillian is picture-perfect on the outside, but terrified of getting hurt on the inside. Brittany is a tough girl who trusts almost no one. Ian is a successful athlete who dabbles in the occult. And Rob is a former gang-banger who struggles with guilt...



  • Rochelle Alers
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    Savannah wedding planner Katherine Langdon agrees to coordinate the "wedding of the season" between a spoiled debutante and her French fiance for one reason-the gorgeous father of the bride. Now she hopes that the wedding won't be the only occasion w...



  • Nelson Algren

    As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, "The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career--the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything that had earlier made him no more than just another...



  • K.A. Applegate

    The battle is still raging, and it's out-and-out war. Jake and the other Animorphs have found a way to slow the Yeerks down, but now the Yeerks have decided the best way to win is to just destroy everything and everyone who gets in their way.Just whe...



  • Hayde Ardalan

    It's every cat's worst nightmare: the cat carrier comes out, and the trip to the vet begins. But the irrepressible Milton handles the ordeal with style, and ultimately shows the vet who's boss. Cat lovers of all ages will surely see their won feline ...



  • James Axler

    A nuclear endgame played out among the superpowers created a fiery cataclysm that turned America into a treacherous new frontier. But an intrepid group of warrior survivalists roams the wastelands, unlocking the secrets of a pre-dark world. Ryan Cawd...



  • Elizabeth Bailey

    A YOUNG WOMAN DISAPPEARS. A HUSBAND IS SUSPECTED OF MURDER. STIRRING TIMES FOR ALL THE NEIGHBORHOOD. And in the midst of this mayhem, George, Viscount Wyndham, is in love. When his suit is rejected, he knows that something is amiss. Could it be true...



  • Alison Baird

    In The Wolves of Woden, we meet Maeve's O'Connor's grandmother, Jean MacDougall. It is 1940 and Europe is engulfed by war. Fifteen-year-old Jean is filled with the same anxiety that plagues the rest of the British colony of Newfoundland-loved ones ha...



  • Donna Ball
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    Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...



  • Leanne Banks

    MEMORY LOST...LOVE REGAINED? Handsome Dylan Barrows made having amnesia much easier for Alisa Jennings! She remembered very little about herself, but the sexy executive made her feel whole again. Dylan said they were just friends, but instinct tol...




  • Belinda Barnes

    HE WAS ONLY TWO, BUT HE KNEW A GOOD DEAL WHEN HE SAW IT! Will had never known a daddy before, but James Scott would be perfect for one. He knew how to ride bulls, how to ranch and how to scare away the monsters in the night. Toddler Will wondered...



  • Jill Barnett

    A SWEEPING ADVENTURE OF WORLD WAR II THAT IS TRULY UNFORGETTABLE In a time when ordinary people became heroes, they lived hard, loved hard, and fought hard: Kitty Kincaid must rely on her wits to survive capture by a deadly enemy in a faraway land...



  • Jean Barrett

    DEMANDING BLOOD Callie Burgess had one goal: to put a bullet in Lincoln McAllister. And when she finally met the gunfighter, his sardonic smirk and devil-may-care attitude had her itching to pull the trigger. But someone had beaten her to it, and ho...




  • Beverly Barton

    GUARDIAN ... AND LOVER He was there the night her father was murdered, though Caroline McGuire never knew it. And he watched her grow into womanhood, her silent, secret protector. But bodygard David Wolfe was forced out of hiding when he discovere...



  • Jules Bass

    Four ordinary New Jersey women--a lawyer, a nurse, an Avon Lady, and a modeling agent--head to Monte Carlo to spend a week in the playground of the rich and famous posing as four of the world's wealthiest women, only to discover that they have attrat...



  • Stephen Baxter

    Even as a young calf, Longtusk understood the hardships the few remaining of his ancient kind had encountered when the glaciers retreated and grassy forests stole over the vast tundra the herds called home. Worst of all was when the F...



  • Lisette Belisle

    AN ACCIDENTAL BRIDE? Though she'd spent a lifetime in her flamboyant twin's shadow, Rachel Hale adored selflessly, single-handedly raising her late sister's son. But with no time for dating, Rachel couldn't give her beloved nephew the daddy he des...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    When the staff that once belonged to the monk named Stick, who taught him to fight, is stolen, Daredevil is determined to get it back, and finds himself caught up in an ancient battle between the Seven and the Hand....




  • Joseph Bentz

    A moving love story, this novel examines the struggle of a young couple as they try to become a family. Will all their hopes be ruined or will they find a true understanding of who they are as a couple through the hardship each endures....



  • Elizabeth Berg

    You know people like me. I'm the one who sat in a folding chair out in the hall selling tickets to the prom but never going, the one everybody liked but no one wanted to be with. A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinsky has endured the i...



  • Lisa Tawn Bergren

    DRAWN BACK ONCE MORE TO THE ALASKA OF HER YOUTH, BRYN IS HAUNTED BY TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE. As a young woman visiting Alaska, Bryn Bailey--cousin to Trevor Kenbridge (Torchlight)--found love in the arms of Eli Pierce. But when she rejected Eli'...



  • Lisa Tawn Bergren

    Book 2 of the Best-Selling Full Circle Series
    Can the handsome handyman enlisted to renovate Julia’s estate also fix her mixed-up heart?

    After inheriting her family’s lighthouse and mansion, heiress Julia Rierdon--sister of Jake Rierdo...



  • Lisa Tawn Bergren

    BOOK 1 IN THE BEST-SELLING FULL CIRCLE SERIES
    Will the danger that stalks them destroy their life together before it begins?

    When Rachel Johanssen dared Beth Morgan to answer a personal ad in The Rancher’s Journal, she never thought her ...



  • Lisa Tawn Bergren

    Book 4 of the Best-selling Full Circle Series
    A dangerous search for an ancient ship leads to a heart’s treasure beyond price.

    Ever since her days as an undergrad student at Harvard, where she roomed with Bryn Bailey (Pathways)--nautical...



  • Lisa Tawn Bergren

    ALEXSANA'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG COULD SHAPE HISTORY AND END HER LIFE. Alexsana Rourke When biblical archaeologist Alexsana Rourke is chosen to lead the historically significant dig of Solomon's Stables, she knows she will be placing herself in e...



  • Lisa Tawn Bergren

    Reyne Oldre wasn't always afraid of fire. At one time, she was drawn to it. Then came the summer day when she--a leader of the Elk Horn Hotshots--led a team of firefighters in facing a fearsome storm that killed four. After the tragedy, Reyne retr...



  • Pamela Rafael Berkman

    With elegance, sympathy, and nuance, Her Infinite Variety celebrates the women in William Shakespeare's world. These lyrical stories move from Elizabethan London, where Shakespeare is drawn to the plight of the young wife of a wealthy friend, to a wi...



  • Isobel Bird

    Here within the healing circle, Bathe in the light and pain dispel, All that sickens, all that troubles, Wash away and be made well. Disillusioned, Cooper abandons the Wiccan circle and Kate and Annie are left without her. But when an illness t...



  • Sarah Bird

    After a year away at college, military brat Bernadette Root has come “home” to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, to spend the summer with her bizarre yet comforting clan. Ruled by a strict, regimented Air Force Major father, but grounded in thei...



  • Lauralee Bliss

    From the majestic mountains to the glorious seashore, experience the beauty New England offers the romantic heart. Four respected authors will take you on an unforgettable trip with true-to-life characters. Dorrie Shelton hopes a White Mountains vaca...




  • Montana Blue

    Brown Sugar Diaries by Dolores Bundy brings you a potpurri of explicit, vivid portrayed erotic short stories that takes an exotic plunge into the vibrant lifestyles of people who go beyond a devotion to unbridled pleasures....



  • Giles Blunt

    In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a frozen body has been found in an abandoned mine shaft. She is quickly identified as Katie Pine, a teenager who had disappeared months ago. At the time, Detective John Cardinal insisted that Katie was no ...



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    They are unlikely partners, Jack McKinnon, an even-tempered drifter and part-time gunsmith, and Tenedore Keogh, a consumptive dentist-turned-gunman looking for a quicker way to die. Recruited by the Texas Rangers because of their prowess with guns, M...




  • Michele Andrea Bowen

    Set in 1960s Mississipi, this novel is a powerful tale of love, faith, and finding your voice.Theophilus Henry Simmons is young, single, sexy, and just about the finest black man any wishful mother and daughter have ever seen in Charleston, Mississip...



  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Ten years later, Katie, a struggling actress in New York, is still haunted by the tragedy.  Her friend Carly remains in a coma, and Katie desperately wants to achieve success and stardom not only for herself but also for her two old friends...



  • Celeste Bradley

    Her Wicked Dreams When Izzy went to bed, she never expected to awaken to disgrace. Of course, it felt wonderful... warm hands on her flesh, rough stubbled skin on her cheek. It all seemed some wonderful dream. But that hardly mattered to the ton. ...



  • Rebecca Bradley

    Tig, a man possessed by a private demon that protects him against sickness and aging but that threatens everything and everyone around him, roams the world, intent on defeating this awesome power within himself. Original....



  • Sandra D. Bricker

    Sage McColl has the ideal life: she is rich, she has the perfect boyfriend, she is pampered, spoiled and living in luxury. But when her boyfriend turns out to be a dangerous criminal her best-laid plans go awry. After a terrible turn of events she is...



  • Emily Brightwell

    A RUTHLESS END FOR A RUTHLESS MAN Harrison Nye may have been involved in some dubious business dealings, but no one ever expected him to be murdered. Now Inspector Witherspoon must root out the perpetrator of the underhanded deed. Nye's business a...



  • Henry Bromell

    In this suspenseful and atmospheric spy novel in the tradition of Graham Greene and John le Carr, Henry Bromell unfolds a labyrinthine tale of intrigue and moral ambiguity.

    In 1958, at the height of the Cold War, CIA agent Mack Hooper arrived...



  • Bill Brooks


    The White Sands Region, New Mexico, 1908. It is twenty-seven years after the alleged death of Billy the Kid and rumors abound throughout New Mexico and the United States that the Kid is still alive. Those who believe him dead, are labeling the Ki...



  • Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    Hidden in the Nevada desert is America's most advanced aerospace-weapons testing facility. Dreamland is the place where the nation's top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. And where the Air Force's top gun...






  • Stan Brown

    The Crab Marches! The Crab have defended Emerald Empire against Shadowlands hordes for a millennium and beyond. Nothing will drive them from the Carpenter's Wall. Nothing but the destruction of the empire. Plague has gripped the land, dangli...



  • Dixie Browning

    Diet was a four-letter word. But then again, so was Rafe, as in Rafe Webber, the hard-edged playboy -- and culinary wizard -- who'd suddenly invaded Molly's week in paradise. A week in which this small-town girl had vowed to reinvent herself. But wit...



  • Joseph Bruchac

    October 15, 1838 Rode back and forth all day to see progress of other detachments ahead and behind. Just as in our party, they find it hard to rouse the people each morning from their blankets. It sometimes takes all of the morning to get everyone u...



  • Niobia Bryant

    Success is Sweet ...
    A financial analyst who thrives on the pressure and excitement of her job, Mia Gordon is far too invested in her career to be in the market for a relationship. But when she buys a house next door to quietly attractive Jordan ...



  • Eve Bunting

    Two young friends, one black, one white, explore the grassy fields near the construction site of their new homes. In 1862, this area was a Civil War battleground, and one boy's father helps them remember the freedom that was won so long ago. Full col...




  • Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    SHAMUR USKEVREN The matriarch of the Uskevren family swears revenge for the murder of a loved one. In her anger, she has forgotten one thing: In the world of intrigue and deception, of shadows and lies that is Sembia, nothing is ever what it seems...



  • Sandra Byrd

    61 Questions From Girls Like You

    Answering real-life questions from girls ages eight to twelve, Girl Talk addressed what's on girls' minds -- faith, family, school, friends, and more.

    Author Sandra Byrd understands the issues facing today's gir...



  • Gayle Callen

    She was a reluctant bride... When Lady Roselyn Harrington discovers an injured sailor from the Spanish Armada washed up on shore, she's stunned to see he's the fiance she abandoned at the altar two years before. When she'd first met Sir Spencer Thor...




  • Candace Camp

    HEAVEN IN TEXAS? Okay, maybe Antonia Campbell hadn't exactly found heaven in Angel Eye, Texas. But even if she did get mysterious midnight phone calls and her only bed warmer was a cat named Mitzi, her life as a country vet was a lot better than w...



  • Joanna Campbell

    Has Cindy given up hope? While recovering from surgery, Cindy McLean goes back and reads what she wrote in her diary so many years ago. Cindy is sure her racing career is over now, but years ago, it was just beginning. . . . Find out what happe...



  • Kate Cann

    He was gone and now he's back. Now what? I sat back on my bed, heart hammering. So that's what I was. A friend. You weren't my friend, Art. You were my lover. My first lover, my only lover. Friends make you laugh and support you and stop you fe...



  • Kate Cann

    It's no longer a question of if, but when... "Look, I've changed," he said, suddenly serious again. "I really have. I won't pressure you anymore. We'll take it slow. I promise I -- I won't jump on you anymore." I started to laugh. That promise ...



  • Lillian Stewart Carl

    First print-published by Ace Books in 1989.What if an Amazon queen had a love affair with Alexander the Great?What if their son had to defend his lands from the Mongol Horde?What if his sister was the priestess of a bull-cult on Crete?What if her son...



  • Melody Carlson

    A tree that has bragged about being the most beautiful in the forest becomes a Christmas tree fit for a king, but a barefoot little boy named Leo helps him find the inner beauty that comes from giving....



  • Janice Carter

    Who is the real Joanna Barnes? To Matt Sinclair, Joanna Barnes was the woman his father married six months after his mother died. Two years later, his father had been on the verge of divorcing Joanna when he'd suffered a heart attack. Most of his ...




  • Carla Cassidy

    Bound by honor and devoted to his country, dashing lieutenant Adam Sinclair readily agreed to help Princess Isabel Stanbury carry out her brilliant plan to rescue her father, the missing King Michael. But he hadn't counted on the feelings that accomp...



  • Meg Castaldo

    Alex Orlando is a foreigner in New York -- a California foreigner, housesitting for her Uncle Carmi while he vacations in Puerto Rico. She quickly becomes entwined with her attractive Swedish neighbor, Christian, but something isn't quite right about...



  • Linda Castillo

    TO SERVE... After nine years as one of Chicago's finest, Erin McNeal had come to sleepy Logan Falls for a second chance, not to be watched over by a man as infuriatingly overprotective -- and disarmingly attractive -- as Nick Ryan. ...AND PR...



  • Caroline Castle

    A wide-awake toddler who refuses to go to sleep is the latest offering from the creators of Gorgeous!

    Little Zeb, of Gorgeous! fame, is older now and, like many a youngster, refuses to go to bed, earning him a new title: Naughty. Like many a f...



  • Lorinda Bryan Cauley

    A wonderful picture book is filled with picture puzzles for youngsters, who are familiar with colors, shapes, letters, and numbers, that help them to count bugs, identify color combinations, find rhyming words, and much more....




  • Jack L. Chalker

    ON THE RUN FROM THE INTERSTELLAR MOB! For centuries, interstellar prospectors had searched for the fabled worlds of the Three Kings, the lost El Dorado of the galaxy. But none had succeeded. Only the mad cyborg Prophet, Ishmael Hand, had ever seen...



  • Ann Chamberlin

    The Merlin of St. Gilles' Well was named one of the 10 Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels the year by Booklist. Now Ann Chamberlin continues her acclaimed saga with another gripping mixture of brilliantly re-created history and ancient magic.A.D...



  • Ann Charters

    The companion volume to The Portable Beat Reader brings together more than seventy-five reviews, memoirs, poems, essays, and sketches that capture the beliefs, controversies, and credos of the Beat Generation writers of the 1950s, offering pr...



  • S.E. Chase

    NOWHERE TO RUN Inside a wealthy family's elegant home, a crime is about to be committed. A crime so shocking--so seemingly random--that a tiny upstate New York town will never be the same. Gradually, evidence will lead the authorities to the family'...



  • Sandra Chastain
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    Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...



  • Sandra Chastain
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    Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...



  • Sandra Chastain
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    Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...



  • Judy Christenberry

    The matchmakers of Cactus, Texas, are back -- and all the single folk better beware! Everyone was convinced that Diane Peters and Jeff Hausen were perfect for each other. Everyone but Diane and Jeff, of course. She was a carefree career girl with bi...



  • Scott Ciencin

    Five teenagers with remarkable super powers and their mentor, renegade agent John Lynch, match wits with Wager, an archvillain who has uncovered the secret formula that gives the young heroes their powers and plans to use it to seize control of the N...



  • Scott Ciencin

    Action-packed prose will thrill young readers in this exciting adaptation of the third Jurassic Park movie, written by a noted fantasy author who has become an expert in creating scientifically accurate dinosaur fiction for children. Also includes a ...



  • Scott Ciencin

    Jurassic Park Adventures is a new original series of exciting high interest, low reading-level fiction for young readers. Written by a noted fantasy author who has become an expert in creating scientifically accurate dinosaur fiction for children, ea...



  • Ginjer L. Clarke




  • Harlan Coben

    For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The pierci1ig screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her ali...



  • William E. Coles Jr.

    When the prison warden's wife, Katherine Soffel, helped her inmate lover and his brother escape from prison, they were killed and she was put in jail to live the rest of her life in humiliation, yet a century later, a young writer goes in search of K...



  • Jackie Collins

    The sexy page-turner picks up where the #1 New York Times bestselling Hollywood Wives left off showing Jackie Collins at her “ultra-celeb, super accessorized, bestselling best” (Publishers Weekly).Power. Sex. Money. Fame. The new Hollywood wives ...



  • Carolyn Cooke

    Carolyn Cooke's stories have been featured in several volumes of PRIZE STORIES: THE O. HENRY AWARDS and THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES. Her highly anticipated debut collection tells hilarious and often savage truths about people struggling within th...



  • Doug Cooney

    Ernie is a twelve-year-old tycoon, always on the lookout for a fast buck. This time he stumbles onto a money-making bonanza: pet funerals. He hires Dusty to decorate the burial boxes and Tony to dig the holes, but his prize find is Swimming Pool, a t...



  • Jane Cowen-Fletcher

    A young farmer brings his toy barnyard to life in Jane Cowen-Fletcher’s idyllic celebration of the innocence and wonder of childhood.


    Will loves farm animals. He loves to say, Neigh! Moo! Baa! and Wink! He has a special farmer’s hat an...



  • Michael Craft

    When a local teen dies mysteriously, the circumstantial evidence points to Mark Manning's teenaged nephew as a likely murderer leaving Mark and his lover Neal determined to find the truth and clear his nephew's name....



  • Philip R. Craig

    DEATH COMES CALLING J.W. Jackson abandoned Boston for the tranquil pleasures of Martha's Vineyard, hoping to leave the violence of the big city behind. But when the past comes looking for him in the guise of two brutal thugs, the former cop knows ...



  • Julie E. Czerneda

    IN SEARCH OF WORLDS When humans set out to explore the universe, they found a number of planets suitable for colonizing. The one thing they didn't find was intelligent life. And so the terraforming of worlds began, with eager immigrant families te...



  • David Czuchlewski

    who is horace Jacob little, and what is he trying to hide? "Legend has it that not even his agent had met him, that they communicated via post office box. Horace Jacob Little had insisted on blank covers for all his books. . . . No one knew what he ...



  • Ruth Jean Dale

    Once bitten, twice shy Cat person Emily Patton doesn't like trendy lawyer Michael Forbes and his perfect good looks. She doesn't like his ugly dog, either. So how she ended up with the mutt in her backyard and Michael as a permanent dinner guest is ...



  • Ruth Jean Dale

    Counting sheep only made her nights more restless... Oh-so-serious Thalia Mitchell is back in Shepherd's Pass, pretending she hadn't tried to seduce animal crusader Luke Dalton the last time she'd seen him...wrapped in a plastic shower curtain. But ...



  • Ruth Jean Dale

    Alice Wynn has nothing to lose -- and only fun and adventure to gain. So she agrees to impersonate her glamorous boss, Sharlayne Kenyon, who needs solitude to finish her scandalous memoirs. Jed Kilby is the bodyguard hired to protect Alice, since...



  • B.J. Daniels

    INTIMATE INVESTIGATION Amanda Crowe's baby girl had been kidnapped! In the shadowy world in which she lived, there was no one to trust except herself. She was going to get her baby back no matter the cost. But she hadn't counted on Jesse McCall gett...



  • Emma Darcy

    He didn't waste any time! Bryce Templar's father, William had given him an ultimatum: Bryce had one year to marry and produce an heir.... When Bryce met Sunny, the attraction between them was like a bolt of electricity. Business was for...



  • Lindsey Davis

    Some things never change. With his new villa, Falco also gets a timeless headache-building contractors. After the departure of two shady plasterers, a rank odor in the bathhouse soon leads to the discovery of a corpse under the mosaic floor. Should F...



  • Arwen Elys Dayton

    2600 BC The Champion was the first ship built by the Kinley race capable of traveling faster than the speed of li t. Its mission was to explore Earth--a tiny blue pla et light-years from their home world of Herrod. But he Champion's first mission wo...



  • Genell Dellin

    The Renegade Half-Choctaw Rafe Aigner is no man to trifle with: dark and dangerous, he's survived by his wits and the turn of the cards. But now he has a young son who needs him, so the time has come to settle down. Fate has brought him to Texas, an...



  • Nora Deloach

    DARK ENCOUNTERS AND DEADLY LESSONS I was happy to volunteer a few days back home to help Mama distribute clothing to the needy. But I didn't expect big-city dangers to follow me all the way to Otis, South Carolina. Instead of doing good deeds and ...



  • Kathie DeNosky

    DR....DADDY? Tyler Braden was shocked that his first maternity patient in a rural Smoky Mountain clinic was the one-night stand he could never forget. And stunned to discover that her baby was his. Almost 10 months ago he and Lexi Hatfield had mad...



  • Narinder Dhami

    Eleven-year-old Jack's difficulties in dealing with his younger sister Annie, a child genius, worsen when Annie claims to have a new friend from the twenty-fifth century and Jack worries that this development will keep him from going to visit his fat...






  • Debra Dixon
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    Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...



  • P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    A double murder and a robbery threaten the tentative peace of Ancient Egypt...The third mystery to feature Paul Doherty's engaging Judge Amerotke, The Anubis Slayings is a thrilling novel of murder, intrigue and sleuthing. Perfect for fans of Christi...



  • Shannon Donnelly

    WHAT IF A RAKE REFUSED TO REFORM? Convinced that reformed rakes make the best husbands, beautiful and spirited Clarissa Derhurst is determined to find one of her very own in London -- and reform him for herself. Only a rake will be capable of the ...



  • Emma Donoghue

    From Emma Donoghue, the national bestselling author of Room, Slammerkin is "[a] colorful romp of a novel" (The New York Times Book Review) following one woman's journey of self-discovery and survival at the dawn of the industrial revolution in eighte...



  • Kate Donovan

    Return to the rousing 1860's, where Chicago's Happily Ever After Co. is doing a brisk business in mail-order brides, and three spirited young women will risk it all on a once-in-a-lifetime chance at love... Hard To Resist Though her father had ma...



  • David Drake

    Lots of soldiers work for civilians they don't like, but these millennia-old Romans had it worse than most--their commanders were blue-skinned aliens! The guilds of star-traveling merchants had strict rules to prevent their technology from falling...



  • Emily Drake

    CAMP RAVENWYNG When an injury during soccer camp tryouts sidelined eleven-year-old Jason Adrian, he was certain he was doomed to a miserable summer. But his English teacher unexpectedly came to his rescue. She'd entered an essay of Jason's in a sp...



  • Diane Duane

    How do you fix what can't be fixed? Only the Transcendent Pig knows, and it's not telling.... But Nita Callahan needs to find out, and soon, because there are important things in her life that are broken. Her wizardly partnership with her best frien...



  • Betsy Duffey

    When the people in his life begin acting strangely--like his dad and mom planning a vacation without him or his sister, his grandfather not getting out of bed, and Germ trying to share the spotlight with Booker's success as a writer--Booker Jones mus...



  • Barbara Dunlop

    The assignment of a lifetime... Melina Thurston had promised herself that she would not fall for her handsome houseguest in the red suit. She's only supposed to be training her horses, not showing some city boy how to get along in the wild. Logan Ma...



  • Mary Eccles



  • Editors of Mysterious Press

    To commemorate this silver milestone, Mysterious Press presents 18 specially commissioned stories by the finest mystery and suspense writers working today....



  • Randy Lee Eickhoff

    At the height of the Vietnam War, twenty-seven members of a U.S. special elite team were dropped into North Vietnam to fight alongside the Rands and Montagnards against the communist regime. Their job was to ambush troops along the Ho Chi Minh Trail,...




  • Ella Thorp Ellis

    It’s the summer of 1945, and April is delighted that the war is finally over and her beloved father is home again. But she has a nagging cough and a fever, and she just can’t seem to get better. When she’s diagnosed with tuberculosis she’s in...



  • Virginia Ellis
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    Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...



  • Garth Ennis

    The Punisher, aka Frank Castle, returns to Manhattan to take on Ma Gnucchi and her crime family, and on the way he battles The Russian and encounters a vigilante squad composed of Elite, Mr. Payback, and The Holy....



  • Loren D. Estleman


    Ordinary people do not understand Oscar Stone. Everything he does, he does impeccably. He is a profound student of his art, completely versed in its traditions over the centuries. He is a student of ropes and their properties, a master of the lat...



  • Janet Evanovich

    BLOWN UP All New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has to do is bring in semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch. For an old man he's still got a knack for slipping out of sight - and raising hell. How else can Stephanie explain the bullet-ridd...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s got to snag a killer -- before he gets stung.Custis T. Long has plenty he’d rather be doing than investigating an old friend on a brand new murder charge. But just as he’s leaving for a visit to a pretty little Santa Fe senorita, a ca...



  • Dan Fante

    Bruno Dante is the best boiler-room salesman in Los Angeles. There's only one problem: he can't keep a good thing going. When he becomes involved with a beautiful but dangerous fellow Orbit Computer Supplies employee--sexy ex-stripper, gangbanger, an...



  • Wilma Fasano

    Sydney Boutilier, an eighth grade teacher, meets Chad Wyllie, a businessman and ex-professional hockey player. Their mutual interest in hockey draws them together but it also pushes them apart. Chad favors a rough, macho hockey style. Sydney argues f...



  • Heather Feldman

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  • Kathryn Fox

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  • David Frampton

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  • Jeffrey Frank

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  • Martha Freeman

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  • Eleanor Fremont

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  • Kristin Gabriel

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  • Eve Gaddy

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  • Neil Gaiman

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  • Cathleen Galitz

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  • Shelley Galloway

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  • P.L. Gaus / Paul L. Gaus

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  • James Gelsey

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  • Catherine George

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  • Jean Craighead George

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  • Mel Gilden

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  • H.B. Gilmour; Randi Reisfeld

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  • Darlene Graham

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  • Chloe Green

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  • Leigh Greenwood

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  • Kay Gregory

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  • Stephen Gresham

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  • Amelia Grey

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  • Elizabeth Gunn

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  • Charles Haddad

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  • David Hagberg

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  • Brian Haig

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  • Deborah Hale

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  • Barbara Hambly

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  • Steve Hamilton

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  • Barbara Hannay

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  • Valerie Hansen

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  • Thomas Harlan

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  • Rachel Hawthorne

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  • Sandra Heath

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  • Charles Heilbronn

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  • Judi Hendricks / Judith Ryan Hendricks

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  • Sue Hendrickson

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  • Sue Henry

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  • Donna Hill

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  • Donna Hill
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  • Tammy Hilz

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  • Nancy Holder; Jeff Mariotte

    In Los Angeles, Angel and Buffy compare notes and realize that both are dealing with cases of missing teenagers -- most of them children of the rich and powerful. Coincidence? They don't think so. But when Buffy checks in with Giles, she learns that ...



  • Kristi D. Holl

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  • Hazel Holt

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  • Elizabeth Honey

    Twelve-year-old Henni offers a fast, funny, action-filled account of a camping trip that no one will forget.

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  • Dorothy Hoobler; Thomas Hoobler

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