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New Books List: 633 titles

  • The Dog Fighter

    Marc Bojanowski

    The anonymous narrator of this remarkable debut novel is a young drifter in search of his future. The son of a passionate beauty and gentle doctor, he roams the border between the United States and Mexico, eventually settling in a sleepy Baja town on...

  • Samantha's Irish Luck

    Joanna Campbell

    Samantha is in love and has finally found the perfect horse. But is her luck about to run out? Samantha and Tor's month-long honeymoon in Ireland turns into a much longer stay when Samantha meets Finn, a massive sporthorse that is a descendant of Re...

  • Temporary Insanity

    Leslie Carroll

    Meet Alice Finnegan: thirty-something, single and determined to take control of her own destiny ... even if she is stuck in a series of secretarial temp jobs and living with her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother -- a feisty, funny, former Ziegfeld ...

  • Before I Let Go

    Darren Coleman

    An Essence bestseller, Before I Let Go is the sexy story of three male best friends' dramatic search for love, intimacy, and the perfect relationship.Nate is a D-O-G with an obsession for conquering as many women as possible. But when he br...

  • Four Souls

    Louise Erdrich

    From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.After taking her mother’s name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pi...

  • Dark Places

    Jonathan Evans

    In a place so harsh that survivalis a struggle, one man has found the strength to kill ... Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challe...

  • Red Tide

    G.M. Ford

    Something has been set loose in the city -- an airborne horror that leaves a tunnel full of corpses below the streets of Seattle just as experts from fifty nations are gathering at a downtown hotel for an international symposium on chemical and biolo...

  • Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys

    Eric Garcia

    Cassandra French is a twenty-nine-year-old business affairs lawyer for a movie studio in Los Angeles. She has a creepy, platitudinous mother who is under house arrest for telemarketing fraud; and two best friends: studio exec Claire, who's sleeping w...

  • Way Past Legal

    Norman Green

    You never know, when it happens, what's going to change your life, what's going to bounce you out of the rut you've been in, send you flying off in some new direction. Manny's latest score left him with more money than he's ever dreamed of, but wi...

  • Forever Friends

    Lynne Hinton

    Come Back to Hope Springs, Where Friendships Last a Lifetime The women of Hope Springs Community Church have weathered some pretty fierce storms. Now their friendships are tested again when one of their own is leaving. Join Louise, Jessie, Charlotte...

  • The Postman Always Brings Mice

    Jennifer L. Holm

    James Edward Bristlefur has always been a dashing British aristocat, rooting out bad guys with great panache â€" until something goes horribly wrong; he becomes lost luggage and is adopted by an ordinary New Jersey boy. He is renamed Mr Stink. Oh,...

  • A Dangerous Path

    Erin Hunter

    FIRE ALONE CAN SAVE OUR CLAN... ShadowClan has a dark new leader, but will he be satisfied with his power now -- or does his desire for revenge burn even more strongly? Fireheart fears that there is a connection between the rise of Tigerstar and the...

  • Catwoman: The Junior Novel

    Jasmine Jones

    Life for Patience Philips has changed in ways she never could have imagined. When the timid artist for a cosmetics company learns that its latest line of "youth-enhancing" products is more deadly than beautifying, the company thugs make it their miss...

  • On the Couch

    Alisa Kwitney

    After going for more than a year without a date -- a record in New York City -- Marlowe Riddle has finally met a broodingly sexy, sharply intelligent man who is clearly interested in making more than polite conversation. The only problem: Joseph Kain...

  • A Coyote's in the House

    Elmore Leonard

    Buddy's an aging movie star. Antwan's a rough-and-tumble loner. And Miss Betty, the show girl, is a princess. Different in nearly every way, they share one thing: they're all dogs...at heart. Though Antwan's the leader of his pack and loves h...

  • By a Spider's Thread

    Laura Lippman

    Mark Rubin claims he and his beautiful wife had a flawless, happy marriage. Yet one day, without warning, Natalie gathered up their children and vanished. The police can't do anything because all the evidence indicates she left willingly. So the succ...

  • The Color of Death

    Elizabeth Lowell

    The fourth book in the Rarities Unlimited series Kate Chandler has accepted a commission that will solidify her reputation as a world-class gem cutter. But during what should have been a simple transfer, seven rare, priceless sapphires vanish with...

  • The Gravedigger's Cottage

    Chris Lynch

    Funny how much stuff
    you can lose when you move.
    The only thing you can't lose is yourself.
    No matter how hard you try.
    No matter where you go.

    Lost:

    1 absentminded dog names Loose Lucy
    2 i...

  • Three Wishes

    Liane Moriarty

    Australian triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle are about to turn thirty-three and one is pregnant, one has just had her life turned upside down, and one is only just keeping hers from skidding off the fast lane. Meanwhile, their divorced parents have...

  • Slow Way Home

    Michael Morris

    On the surface, Brandon Willard seems like your average eight-year-old boy. He loves his mama, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and G. I. Joe. But Brandon's life is anything but typical.Wise beyond his years, Brandon understands he's the only one ...

  • Love: Undercover

    Hailey North

    A: Apple -- some say this forbidden fruit started men and women down the path of sinful pleasure... One Night of Passion ... Just because small-town librarian and single mom Jenifer Wright does not need a man doesn't mean she doesn't want one. ...

  • Bro

    Robert Newton Peck

    Florida: 1933 A train, rushing through the night ... a car, stalled in its path ... a boy's life, shattered. Tugwell Dockery hasn't spoken since the horrific events that unfolded one afternoon six years ago at his grandfather's ranch. Now he's bac...

  • Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

    Louise Rennison

    The Sex God has left the country, taking Georgia's heart with him. So she decides to display glaciosity to all boys -- a girl can only have her heart broken so many times. Until she meets Masimo, the new singer for the Stiff Dylans. The Sex God is...

  • Between Two Rivers

    Nicholas Rinaldi

    Farro Fescu is the proud and observant concierge of Echo Terrace, a condominium in New York City. Passing through his lobby at all hours is an exotic cross-section of the world's population: an Egyptian-born plastic surgeon who specializes in gender ...

  • Unsettling

    Lynda Sandoval

    Lucy, the commitment-phobe, is about to do something she never thought she would: get hitched. She has fallen in love -- with the right man. Only there's one problem: every first marriage in her family has ended in divorce. Every single one. She thin...

  • Killer Smile

    Lisa Scottoline

    Everybody around lawyer Mary DiNunzio has decided she isn't allowed to be a Young Widow anymore, even though she didn't know there was an official cutoff. They're all trying to fix her up -- her South Philly Italian parents, her best friend Judy Carr...

  • Toes

    Tor Seidler

    When a litter of cats is born into the McDonahue family, one kitten stands out from the rest. Intelligent and aptly named, Toes has seven toes on each foot. The other kittens tease him and refuse to include him in their games. So one night, a lonely ...

  • Islands

    Anne Rivers Siddons

    “Anne Rivers Siddons’s novels are women’s stories in the best sense, pulling you into the internal landscape of her characters’ lives and holding you there.†â€" PeopleA poignant novel of the love that unites us and the secrets that drive u...

  • Jack In The Box

    John Weisman

    From a bestselling author with intimate knowledge of CIA tradecraft comes an electrifying novel of terrifying possibilities -- a story of betrayal and secrets that could implode America's war on terrorism ... and a nightmarish conspiracy firmly roote...

  • Kissing the Bride

    Sara Bennett

    AN UNEXPECTED PASSION Lady Jenova of Gunlinghorn feels she should marry, though not for love, for she vows never to entrust her heart to a man again. Then Lord Henry, her charming and devilishly handsome friend, arrives to offer his opinion on the c...

  • I'm No Angel

    Patti Berg

    Top 7 Reasons Why She's No Angel 7. Easily Palm Beach's sexiest private investigator, Angel Devlin always gets her man -- and bad boy millionaire Tom Donovan is at the top of her Most Wanted list. 6. Instinct tells her that drop-dead-gorgeous ...

  • Mr. Klutz Is Nuts!

    Dan Gutman

    Something weird is going on! Principal Klutz was hanging upside down from the school flagpole! He kissed a pig on the lips! He painted his bald head orange! And now he wants to bungee jump off the roof of the school, dressed like Santa Claus! ...

  • Miss Daisy Is Crazy!

    Dan Gutman

    Something weird is going on! Miss Daisy, who teaches second grade, doesn't know how to add or subtract. Not only that, she doesn’t know how to read or write either. She is the dumbest teacher in the history of the world! ...

  • Sandstorm

    James Rollins

    An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies ...

  • Death by Deep Dish Pie

    Sharon Short

    Like nearly everyone else in Paradise, Ohio, local laundromat owner and stain-removal expert Josie Toadfern eagerly awaits the upcoming July 4th Founders Day celebration with its highlight, the annual Breitenstrater Pie Company pie-eating contest, sp...

  • Goddess for Hire

    Sonia Singh

    Meet Maya Mehra... a hip chick from Newport Beach, California, who's just turned thirty, discovered she's the incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali, and happens to be unemployed and still living with her parents. Saving the world, though, may prove ...

  • The Scope of Justice

    Michael Z. Williamson

    One shot, one kill ... It is the code of the sniper, a lone professional in a military organization that prides itself on teamwork and strength in numbers. Feared by his enemies and distrusted by his allies, the sniper can turn tides and win battl...

  • Summer Boys

    Hailey Abbott

    First boy. First love. First time. Ella Peter was watching me all night -- I could feel it. I wish he'd make a move already. Too bad he's my sister's boyfriend. Beth Suddenly George is looking really good in his swim trunks. I dons, know wh...

  • The Last Mermaid

    Shana Abe

    531 a.d.: The tiny island of Kell is said to be enchanted, inhabited by an extraordinary creature who comforts shipwrecked sailors passing into the next world. Prince Aedan of the Isles believes in no such nonsense -- until he awakens on Kell itself ...

  • The Clerkenwell Tales

    Peter Ackroyd

    From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales to recreate the city’s 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Claric...

  • The Party

    Curtis Adler

    Back in the 1980s Denis and Michael O'Donnell were at the centre of Dublin's college scene. Sandy-haired and blue-eyed, the brothers held court in that famous house, throwing the parties, turning up the music, and breaking hearts all around them. But...

  • The Little Cat Baby

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Bright Eyes

    Catherine Anderson

    Zeke Coulter has no intention of getting married--until he buys a ranch next door to Natalie Patterson, a sexy divorcee with two kids, a zany extended family, and a philandering ex-husband involved in shady business dealings. When Natalie's twelve-ye...

  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

    Kevin J. Anderson

    In New York City in 1939, a reporter discovers that world's leading scientists are vanishing mysteriously and teams up with a skilled pilot and daring associate to uncover the truth and stop a made scientist out to achieve world domination. Original....

  • Capital Offense

    Kathleen Antrim

    Is the First Lady plotting to overthrow the President? This question seems inconceivable to journalist Jack Rudly, but so did the murder of his own father, Senator William Rudly. Now his father is dead and all roads lead to the White House....

  • The Australian's Convenient Bride

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Rough, handsome cattle-station owner Steve Kinane needs a temporary housekeeper -- and Chattie Winslow is perfect for the job. Chattie and Steve try hard to resist the intense sexual chemistry between them. Then Steve discovers the reason for Chat...

  • The Skinner

    Neal Asher

    Spatterjay: the most dangerous planet in the galaxy, a world where everything has teeth and is very hungry. Spatterjay can rip you to shreds in more ways than have been counted, or transform you into something no longer quite human, but nearly immort...

  • Separation

    James Axler

    CHAINS OF DESTINY Hard strength and resilience are needed to survive each new day in the treacherous world of postnuclear America. For Ryan Cawdor and his companions, honor, integrity and a willingness to kill are necessary as well, as they struggle...

  • Hound at the Hospital

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. AT ANIMAL ARK, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy and Jame...

  • The Sari Shop

    Rupa Bajwa

    "An impressive debut, full of lean and lyrical prose." ―Ligaya Mishan, New York Times Book Review

    Ramchand, a tired shop assistant in Sevak Sari House in Amritsar, spends his days patiently showing yards of fabric to the women of "status fam...

  • Chesapeake Tide

    Jeanette Baker

    A lot can happen in seventeen years, but falling out of love isn't one of them. Pride has always kept a tight rein on Libba Delacourt. The pride that drove her away from Russ Hennessey and into the arms of a traveling actor is the same pride th...

  • Lizard Walinsky

    Roberta Baker

    When best friends Elizabeth "Lizard" and Simon "Spider" are sent to different schools to attend first grade, they have a hard time adjusting without one another at first, but soon come to realize they can still be best friends even if they make new o...

  • Chasing Vermeer

    Blue Balliett

    When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. ...

  • Slightly Dangerous

    Mary Balogh

    Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality.... Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal... an...

  • The Hunted

    L.A. Banks

    Each millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress. This millennium's savior has come in the form of Damali Richards, a hip-hop diva with the heart of a warrior and an attitude to match. But a vampire civil war has cost Damali both her powers an...

  • Bad Move

    Linwood Barclay

    LIFE IN THE SUBURBS CAN BE MURDER... As a father of two overly curious, streetwise teenagers and husband to a wisecracking news-junkie journalist, work-at-home science fiction writer Zack Walker has a hard time convincing his loved ones to obey hi...

  • Without Blood

    Alessandro Baricco

    SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE â€¢ From the author of the acclaimed international bestseller Silk, an unforgettable fable about the brutality of war â€" and one girl's quest for revenge and healing.“Baricco continues to blend the best ...

  • The Cestus Deception

    Steven Barnes

    When the economically depressed government of Ord Cestus threatens to sell incredibly deadly battle droids to the Separatists, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine dispatches a team led by Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi to the planet. Their mission: to halt the ...

  • Double Cross

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
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    Love Comes Cloaked in Unexpected Disguises Raised in No Man's Land -- a wide-open tract west of the Oklahoma territory -- the Stafford siblings stitch together a legacy of faith and family history But each one struggles to recognize the arrival of...

  • Tamsin

    Peter S. Beagle

    From the bestselling author of The Last Unicorn comes an â€œengaging story of a friendship that transcends timeâ€(Library Journal)...Arriving in the magnificent countryside of Dorset, England, to live with her mother and new stepfather, the you...

  • Dead Lines

    Greg Bear

    With his acclaimed novels Darwin's Children and Vitals, award-winning author Greg Bear turned intriguing speculation about human evolution and immortality into tales of unrelenting suspense. Now he ventures into decidedly more frightening territory i...

  • If I Had You

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    From bestselling author Deborah Bedford comes the moving tale of an estranged mother and daughter, and the child who forces their old conflicts back into the light....

  • A Certain Truth

    James Scott Bell

    Trials of Kit Shannon book 3. Journeying aboard an ocean liner with her new husband, Kit Shannon is contacted by a desperate woman who fears something terrible is about to happen to her. When the young woman’s husband turns up dead, she becomes a s...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 9: Ultimate Six

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Six #1-7. What happens when Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, the Sandman, Electro and Kraven the Hunter escape a S.H.I.E.L.D. containment center and join forces? Who will they target as the sixth member of their deadly alliance? Spider...

  • Prisoner of Haven

    Nancy Varian Berberick
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    The latest title in a series based on characters from the best-selling War of Souls trilogy.

    This title is the next in a series that explores the lives of key characters from Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's New York Times best-selling War of S...

  • A Worthy Opponent

    Louise Bergin

    Love or Money Sensible Miss Judith Shelton is the first to admit she's a fortune hunter. But even as Judith concocts elaborate schemes to win the attentions of wealthy Viscount Westfall, she has only her orphaned siblings' best interests a...

  • Natasha: And Other Stories

    David Bezmozgis

    The multi-award-winning New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year featuring short stories about a Jewish family settling in Toronto.Basis for the film NatashaWinner of The Commonwealth Writers' First Book Prize for Canada and the CaribbeanT...

  • Deadly Deception

    Ilene Birkwood

    Kelly is a New Zealander who has returned to her home after working for many years in California. She is now working as a software consultant. When the key software engineer on the project dies in a climbing accident and the perfect replacement turns...

  • Weapons of Choice

    John Birmingham

    In the year 2021, a military experiment thrusts an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll. Shock is followed by jubilation at the time travelers' awesome new fi...

  • The Dead

    Ingrid Black

    Five years ago, Ed Fagan disappeared and since then nothing has been heard from the serial killer known as the Night Hunter. Now, a Dublin newspaper has received a letter from someone claiming to be Fagan, and the message is chilling: he's going to k...

  • The Cameo Clue

    Dorothy Bodoin

    It's a glorious fall in Maple Creek, Michigan, and newcomer Katherine Kale takes delight in her lovely Victorian home and life in this peaceful town. But when retired schoolteacher Cora Valentine dies after eating a poisoned caramel apple at the annu...

  • Dark Voyage of the Mittie Stephens

    Johnny D. Boggs

    Three passengers on the Mittie Stephens--Bobby Randow, a professional gambler suffering from amnesia; Apolline Rainer, a former brothel owner; and Laura Kelly, a fugitive--find their lives in danger when a gang of ex-Confederates hijack the s...

  • Wooing Miss Whately // A Rake's Reward

    Meredith Bond

    WILL SHE FIND THE TREASURE SHE SEEKS... Sara Whately has come to England from Philadelphia on a daring quest to recover long-buried family jewels and ease her father's financial straits. The dilemma: the jewels are hidden at the estate her grand...

  • Day by Day Armageddon

    J.L. Bourne

    This chilling horror novel recounts a man’s daily struggle to survive the Zombie Apocalypse: â€hands down the best zombie book I have ever read†(Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Patriot).As vague news reports of troub...

  • Trophy Hunt

    C.J. Box

    Pickett faces his most baffling--and dangerous--adventure yet... Local authorities are quick to label a rash of animal mutilations as the work of a grizzly bear, but Joe Pickett suspects that something far more sinister is afoot. And when the bodi...

  • Scoot on Top of the World

    Ed Boxall

    An energetic little dog sets off on the chase of his life -- but wanders a little too far -- in this beguiling new story from the creator of FRANCIS THE SCAREDY CAT.

    For Scoot, Sally’s beloved dog and friend, every day is an adventure, r...

  • Home Body

    Gerry Boyle

    There ain't no rest for the wicked… In Home Body, the eighth Jack McMorrow Mystery, Jack has reformed his bad boy ways and settled into seeming domestic tranquility with a steady job and a very pregnant Roxane. But the quiet life is short-lived whe...

  • Hep Cat

    William Bramhall

  • The Range Finder

    Max Brand

    James Lang has dedicated his life to perfecting long-range shooting. Though he does have some impressive skills, it's more by pure luck he's taken to be a dead shot and hailed as the next Wild Bill. When one of his new friends asks James to watch ove...

  • The Wild Reel

    Paul Brandon

    When young Irish artist Natasha Newlyn paints, she hears music; a wild, secret symphony of ancient jigs and reels that accompany her stunning watercolor landscapes. Natasha lives in a small sea village in the far west of Ireland, the perfect place fo...

  • The Book of the Film of the Story of My Life

    William Brandt

    Originally published in New Zealand and in the UK, Brandt's hilarious first novel about life, love, and the film business delves into the mind and mystery of the modern adult male....

  • .45-Caliber Revenge

    Peter Brandvold

    Bent on revenge, eighteen-year-old Cuno Massey sets out on a perilous journey to find and kill legendary buffalo hunter Rolf Anderson--the man who murdered his father and stepmother--and, along the way, joins forces with other people who also want to...

  • Her Stand-In Groom

    Jackie Braun

    Don't get mad...get married! When Catherine Canton is jilted at the altar, CEO Stephen Danbury rescues the beautiful bride -- and accepts her offer to become his wife instead! Catherine had proposed to Stephen so that he could fulfill the terms of...

  • The Highbinders

    Matt Braun

    In California, The Southern Pacific Railway was prying the West wide open, and the land was worth its weight in gold. While some men got in on the action, and some got out of the way, one group of settlers was making a stand-and holding up the railwa...

  • Separation Anxiety

    Karen Brichoux

    An entertaining new novel by the author of Coffee & Kung Fu explores the mysteries of friendship and love in the story of Wichita Gray, a young woman who does some serious thinking about what makes a man a friend or a man a lover after "break...

  • An Undivided Heart

    Vonette Bright; Nancy Moser

    Things are ever changing at Peerbaugh Place, and Evelyn Peerbaugh is once again opening her home to new boarders. This time she's got more than she bargained for. With one new tenant whose vanity exceeds all bounds and another who is a doormat to her...

  • The Countess Bride

    Terri Brisbin

    AS A BRIDE, SHE WAS WORTHLESS Indeed, Catherine de Severin could offer nothing in the way of power and land. A penniless orphan with a shadowed past, she was not a suitable match for a comte destined to control vast holdings. But Geoffrey Dumon...

  • Always Have, Always Will

    Quinn Brockton

    This popular new line of books follows your favorite Queer as Folk characters on a riveting journey of sexual self-discovery with stories about the beloved characters from the record-breaking Showtime series. USA Today raves, "There's never been anyt...

  • Profane Friendship

    Harold Brodkey

    In Profane Friendship, Harold Brodkey tells an odd and strangely beautiful Venetian love story, sounding its depths with the suppleness and virtuosity of style that in recent years have won him worldwide admiration as a uniquely gifted American wr...

  • Little Cricket

    Jackie Brown

    Twelve-year-old Kia Yang-nicknamed "Little Cricket"-has always lived among her extended family in their tiny Laotian village. But their peaceful lives are shattered one day when North Vietnamese soldiers destroy much of their village, and Kia and her...

  • Arthur's off to School

    Marc Brown

    Everyone's favorite aardvark, Arthur, is back in this exciting reissue -- just in time for school!Everyone's favorite aardvark, Arthur, is back in this exciting reissue -- just in time for school!Arthur and his friends are getting ready for school! G...

  • Good Night, D.W.

    Marc Brown

  • Arthur's Homework

    Marc Brown

    After helping his friends all week with their homework assignments, Arthur worries that his own homework will be late. Little does he know that his loyalty to his friends has its rewards in the most unexpected ways!...

  • Cold Case Squad

    Edna Buchanan

    "Like all things good and bad in the world, it began with a woman..." And so begins the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's Cold Case Squad, a new suspense novel that features a special homicide unit that breathes new life into old cases. A man an...

  • The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

    Edna Buchanan

  • Missing Justice

    Alafair Burke

    In the second entry in Alafair Burke's "sharp, new crime series," the search for a missing judge leads Samantha Kincaid into Portland politics and a labyrinth of crime, corruption, and cover-ups -(Publishers Weekly)Deputy District Attorney Samantha K...

  • In the Moon of Red Ponies

    James Lee Burke

    Former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland is the target of a psychopathic killer who has been granted his freedom--in a shattering tale told in the "fierce and beautiful prose" (The Seattle Times) of James Lee Burke. Opening a Montana law practice is a n...

  • First Impressions

    Laura J. Burns

    Ephram Brown has a pretty good life in New York City -- great friends, a gift for playing the piano, and a really cool mom. The only thing he doesn't have is the best relationship with his dad, famous neurosurgeon Dr. Andy Brown. How could he when th...

  • Shameless

    Paul Burston

    Martin is kind, decent, not bad on the eyes... and look where that's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute, and his friends John and Caroline both have enough excess baggage to fill a Louis Vuitton window display. Wh...

  • The Barkin Emeralds

    Nancy Butler

    The Captive Heart Miss Maggie Bonner is returning her mistress's rejected betrothal gift -- an emerald necklace -- to Lord Barkin in Scotland. But while Maggie is traveling on the open sea, her ship is overtaken by a pirate vessel captained by...

  • The Coast of Good Intentions

    Michael Byers

    This dazzling debut collection from a Seattle native features stories evocatively set along the Northwest coast, stories of quiet but astonishing lives. Here are ferry workers, carpenters, park rangers, living alongside crab factories, cranberry bogs...

  • Trust Fund Boys

    Rob Byrnes

    Integrating themselves into New York's wealthy gay social circuit in search of Sugar Daddies, Brett and Jamie instead find themselves immersed in a world of devious debutantes, diabolical social climbers, power-brokers, and Internet scandals where th...

  • One True Secret

    Bethany Campbell

    What if the truth doesn't set you free? Emerson Roth has one mission -- protect her family by keeping their secrets. If the decision was left to Emerson, she would stop the lies and live with the consequences, but she has her sister and elderly gr...

  • Speeding // Moving On

    Kate Cann

  • On the Road: A Write-In Reader

    Suzy Capozzi

    Barbie is going on a road trip! It’s time to pick up Stacie from camp, so Barbie packs a picnic basket and makes a day of it. This simple, easy-to-read story is interspersed with drawing, labeling, list-making, and fill-in-the-blank exercises to he...

  • Kenzie's Story

    Melody Carlson

    When Sierra lands in the hospital following a car accident, she thinks it's her own fault. What she doesn't know is that her two friends, Ryun and Kenzie, are about to let her take the fall for their mistakes. When she discovers their betrayal, Sierr...

  • Mr. Famous

    Wolper Carol

    When a couple of box-office bombs lead to a dramatic downturn in his career, an aging action star embarks on a journey of self-discovery and self-invention in the hope of getting in touch with his sensitive side and re-creating himself as a serious a...

  • T. Rex at Swan Lake

    Lisa Carrier

    Tired of being on display at the Natural History Museum, T. Rex, a dinosaur skeleton, makes her escape and decides to follow her dream, which is to dance on stage in a production of Swan Lake!...

  • When Did You Stop Loving Me

    Veronica Chambers

    A dazzling literary debut about a young girl and her father, a magician whose tricks and illusions both ease and hinder the painful realities of their lives WHEN DID YOU STOP LOVING ME is the warm and tender story of Angela, a young girl growing u...

  • You Remind Me of Me

    Dan Chaon

    With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends, award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes the Chicago Tribune, who can “convincingly squeeze whole lives into a mere tw...

  • Death With an Ocean View

    Nora Charles

    Nestled between fast track Ft. Lauderdale and nouveau riche Boca Raton, the once sleepy beach town of Palmetto is plagued by progress. The latest news has Ocean Vista condo board president Stella Sajak and other residents in an uproar. Developers pla...

  • Forced Mate

    Rowena Cherry

    By all the Lechers of Antiquity, what is a god-Emperor to do when his chosen mate is caught on tape speculating that he is a brute and a bore in bed? Renowned for his sexual prowess all over the galaxy, Prince Tarrant-Arragon has a reputation for dep...

  • Forge of Heaven

    C.J. Cherryh

    From C.J. Cherryh, one of science fiction′s greatest writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the exciting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars, now in mass market. In the second volume of "T...

  • With a Twist

    Maureen Child
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    Welcome to Steam, the hottest club in Savannah. Here the jazz is smooth, the dance floor is hopping and the attraction between three unsuspecting couples is rising as quickly as the temperature! Under the Cover of Night by Barbara McCauley O...

  • Meant To Be

    Edie Claire

    With just a phone call, Meara O'Rourke begins a remarkable journey. Her birth mother has died, leaving her half of a breathtaking historic inn. Alone and uncertain of her future, Meara arrives at Laurel Ridge-and feels at peace for the first time in ...

  • Beauty For Ashes

    Dorothy Clark

    IN THE PRIM-AND-PROPER PHILADELPHIA OF 1820, A SHOCKING MARRIAGE... It was the perfect contract for a marriage of convenience to a woman he didn't even know. Didn't want to know. Justin Randolph, a wealthy Philadelphia widower responsible for two ...

  • In This Skin

    Simon Clark

    Two teenage runaways, Robyn and Noel, are desperate for a place of safety. Fate takes them to the Luxor which has been sealed from the outside world for decades. They discover that people are drawn here against their will and that certain individuals...

  • Because of Baby

    Donna Clayton

    A FAIRY'S TALE It had seemed like a grand idea, temporarily trading her pixie wings for a womanly form to help handsome widower Paul Roland with his baby girl. And the moment she held the precious bairn in her arms, Fern knew true happiness for th...

  • Happy Is the Bride: A Novella

    Caroline Clemmons
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    Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue...Beth Pendleton didn't forget a thing. Mason Whittaker, the man of her dreams, will be waiting at the chapel, her friends are coming from far and wide, the dressmaker is putting the fi...

  • Victory

    James H. Cobb

    Ralph Peters follows a German officer in the starving days after World War II as he makes his way on foot back home, where a defeat far more terrible than the Allied victory awaits him.

    Jim DeFelice takes us to the height of the war when info...

  • Olympic Hopes

    Lynn A. Coleman
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    Dameon's family is in desperate need of money along with many others in the grip of the Depression. Hoping for prize money, he hitchhikes from Massachusetts to Lake Placid, New York, to compete in the Olympic speed skating event. Unable to compete, h...

  • Sweet Talkin' Guy

    Colleen Collins

    A honeymoon hotel... Daphne Remington's fate as the perfect socialite is practically sealed. But before giving in to la vie en beige and a matronly string of pearls, she's determined to have one last bit of fun. Only, her fling could be a bust whe...

  • Into the Web

    Thomas H. Cook

    Twenty-five years ago, an unspeakable crime was committed and Roy Slater fled--from the life he thought he wanted, from the memories he couldn't avoid, and from the devastating suspicions of those he called friends. But now that his estranged father ...

  • Lady of Poison

    Bruce R. Cordell
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    I shall burn thee with hunger, devour thee with blistering heat and with bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of beasts upon thee, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The spiritual heart of Faerûn beats in time with a hundred gods, and f...

  • Missing Monday

    Matthew Costello

    Waking up on Tuesday and unable to remember the day before, Janna, desperately trying to recall the previous day's events, learns the truth from a mysterious woman, which leads her down a path of terror, turning every moment of every day into a livin...

  • Testing His Patience

    Lyn Cote

    THE VERDICT IS...LOVE All D.A. Gil Montgomery wants is a robbery conviction, but what he gets is a mistrial, thanks to the new teacher in town, Patience Andrews. Gil meets his match in the headstrong Patience, who challenges Gil's expertise. Yet a...

  • Blowout

    Catherine Coulter

    Married FBI agents Savich and Sherlock work and play hard: devoted to their jobs, their son, and each other, they approach each new case with gusto, and appreciate every moment of downtime they can grab. But a long weekend getaway at a secluded c...

  • Double Running

    Carol Cox
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    Love Comes Cloaked in Unexpected Disguises Raised in No Man's Land -- a wide-open tract west of the Oklahoma territory -- the Stafford siblings stitch together a legacy of faith and family history But each one struggles to recognize the arrival of...

  • Rift

    Richard Cox

    In an age where reality and science fiction are colliding, Richard Cox's extraordinary debut thriller takes its place as an all-too-believable novel of white-knuckle adventure. For when an ordinary man makes one great leap for mankind, he triggers a ...

  • Murder at a Vineyard Mansion

    Philip R. Craig

    SILENT AS THE GRAVE It's particularly quiet on Martha's Vineyard this summer, since a shadowy figure called "the Silencer began his covert campaign of destruction--disabling the audio systems in the homes and vehicles of selfish, music-blasting is...

  • Mistress at a Price

    Sara Craven

    Fling? Another wedding, another hat...and more hours spent with a fixed smile plastered on her face. Until Cat meets Liam Hargreaves. The millionaire offers her one explosive, passionate encounter and Cat doesn't think twice. It's an experie...

  • Dead Soldiers

    Bill Crider

    Carl Burns just wants to be chair of the English Department at Hartley-Gorman College, a small liberal-arts school in Pecan City, Texas. But if you solve one crime in a small town, as Burns has done, folks think you can solve 'em all--as when some co...

  • Hot Contact

    Susan Crosby

    COMPLETELY CONSUMED... Her past was filled with questions, and private investigator Arianna Alvorado was determined to find answers. But she needed certain police files...files she knew Joe Vicente could access. The problem was, the fiery p...

  • A Rip in Heaven

    Jeanine Cummins

    The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book -- the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families.A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cum...

  • Staying Power

    Judith Cutler

    Detective Sergeant Kate Power of Birmingham CID has had bad luck with romance, so when a polite stranger flirts with her on an airline trip home from Florence, she's more than a little suspicious. She gives the man her business card and forgets all a...

  • Death of a Thousand Cuts

    Barbara D'Amato

    The Hawthorne House was once known for its remarkable success rate with autistic children. Now, fifteen years after it closed former residents have returned to Hawthorne House for their first-ever reunion. But the gala event turns into a bloody night...

  • Wanted Woman

    B.J. Daniels

    Nestled deep in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, the close-knit community of Timber Falls is visited by evil. Could one of their own be lurking in the shadows...? She skidded into town on a bike too powerful for most men, with ten thousand dollars...

  • Shades of a Chameleon

    J. Daniels

  • Superman: The Complate History

    Les Daniels

    The super-powered trilogy that captured the world's greatest superhero triumvirate of all time is now available in paperback. Relive the adventures of Krypton's favorite son inside and outside the comic book world in Superman: The Complete History. U...

  • Batman - The Complete History: The Life and Times of the Dark Knight

    Les Daniels

    The super-powered trilogy that captured the world's greatest superhero triumvirate of all time is now available in paperback. Relive the adventures of Krypton's favorite son inside and outside the comic book world in Superman: The Complete History. U...

  • The Dew Breaker

    Edwidge Danticat

    We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New Yor...

  • The Outback Wedding Takeover

    Emma Darcy

    Mitch Tyler is a hard-hitting hotshot Sydney lawyer -- who's put his troubled boyhood in the Outback behind him. However, all Mitch's old instincts come simmering to the surface when he realizes that Kathryn Ledger is in need of his protec...

  • The Most Evil, Friendly Villian Ever

    Lawrence David

    Recess is under attack! Horace Splattly (a.k.a. The Cupcaked Crusader), the ten- year-old turned superhero, is in a bind. Every day, just as recess at Blootinville Elementary is about to begin, a mysterious rain cloud appears over the playground, ...

  • Spider-Man 2

    Peter David

    Follow the adventures of one of the greatest superheroes of all time in the official novelization of the major motion picture!  Two years have passed, and Peter Parker struggles to cope with the demands of life as a college student, a Daily Bu...

  • Garfield as Himself

    Jim Davis

    This rollicking collection includes three books in one: Here Comes Garfield, Garfield on the Town, and Garfield Gets a Life!When Garfield hits the town, you can see the impact for miles. Now in this special collection, the funniest...

  • The Wild Wood

    Charles de Lint

    A young artist returns to her cabin in the deep woods of Canada to concentrate on her illustrations. But somehow, strange and beautiful creatures are slipping into her drawings and sketches. The world of Faerie is reaching out to her for help--and...

  • Better Than I Know Myself

    Virginia Deberry; Donna Grant

    The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at C...

  • Princess Don't Sweat

    Kaz Delaney

    Fifteen-year-old Madeline hates the idea of spending Christmas vacation in Australia with her mom's new Internet boyfriend, but when handsome Aussie hunk Mitch rescues them from the Outback, it's love at first sight for Madeline....

  • The Difference Between You and Me

    Kathleen DeMarco

    The Difference Between You and Me is Sex and the City meets The Player. When two vastly different women-one a ruthless go-getter, the other an unambitious script reader-find their lives intertwined, a startling revelation turns their mutual loathing ...

  • Shakedown Beach

    Eric Dezenhall

    THE GOVERNOR: "Rebound" Rothman -- married, family-values New Jersey Republican with White House fantasies, a terrible secret, and a controversial position on young interns: He's for 'em. THE TART: Simone Lava, the voluptuous Miss Little Egg Harbo...

  • The First Wife

    Diana Diamond

    Jane Warren swore she'd never marry again. Sure, age isn't a problem. Neither are her looks. Heaven knows that plenty of perfectly respectable men would consider themselves lucky to end up with someone like her. Then again, the last perfectly respect...

  • Jews, God, and History

    Max I. Dimont

    A rich study of Jews and Jewish history that offers a unique look at a people who have persevered through unspeakable adversity and have contributed incredible advancements to the world we know today. How have the Jews survived through so many millen...

  • A Squash and a Squeeze

    Julia Donaldson

    a bit of a classic... A goat on the bed and a cow on the table tapping out a jig? My readers collapsed in heaps, and then had to have it read again. And again.'' Vivian French in the Guardian 'Wise old man, won't you help me, please? My house is a sq...

  • Stolen Away

    Shannon Donnelly
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    As the brains behind her beautiful cousin's social success, Audrey Colbert has orchestrated the girl's match with the Marquise of Arncliffe. But when the bride-to-be is kidnapped, Audrey finds herself face-to-face with her cousin's fiance...

  • Public Displays of Affection

    Susan Donovan

    HE WAS HER FIRST... Charlotte Tasker has always been a good girl, so she married the most decent, reliable man she could find even though their love life was a bit on the predictable side. Thirteen years later, she's a widowed mom who runs her compa...

  • Double Deception

    Lena Nelson Dooley

    Since her mother died, Rissa's stepfather, Pierre Le Blanc, has been her guardian. She hates the life they lead - always traveling from one place to the other - and longs for a way to escape. She has no hope - until they arrive in Litchfield, Minneso...

  • Splash, Joshua, Splash!

    Malachy Doyle

    "Splash!" says Joshua, "Splash!" Joshua and his granny romp through a wonderful day out enjoying lots of watery delights in this charming picture book with boldly colored illustrations by Ken Wilson-Max. Joshua loves to shout "Splash!" as he stomp...

  • Crisis

    David Drake

    Humanity joins forces with its centuries-old enemy, the Khalians, to combat a common foe--the Syndicate of Families--that stands poised to seize control of the known universe, in an anthology that features stories by Christopher Stasheff, Poul Anders...

  • Total War

    David Drake

    National bestselling authors in the breakthrough military science fiction series.

    The Fleet must destroy a human foe capable of infiltrating the Fleet itself.

    Includes stories by:

    Anne McCaffrey * Katherine Kurtz and Scott ...

  • Falling

    Natalie Dunbar

  • Flyaway Katie

    Polly Dunbar

    Whoosh! Strange and wonderful things happen when a little girl lets her creativity fly in this buoyant picture-book debut.

    It’s a gray, gray day when Katie decides to liven herself up. After all, the birds in the picture on her wall look a l...

  • My Life with Corpses

    Wylene Dunbar

    Wylene Dunbar blends a sharply defined reality with a soaring, surreal leap of imagination in the story of an enigmatic narrator we know only as Oz, a Kansas girl raised by a family of dead people. Oz tells how she survived her childhood only to face...

  • The People of Sparks

    Jeanne Duprau

    “It is green here and very big. Light comes from the sky...“ When Lina and Doon lead their people up from the underground city of Ember, they discover a surface world of color and life. The people of a small village called Sparks agree to help...

  • The Big Secret

    Pete Earley

    Federal Chief Investigator Nick LeRue is an expert on unraveling a crime; he's brought down some of the smoothest operators on Capitol Hill and uncovered dangerous secrets in politicians' pasts. In his personal life, however, his commitment to his jo...

  • The Elder Gods

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    David an Leigh Eddings present the first volume in the new saga of The Dreamers--an enthralling and richly imaginative epic that introduces -two generations of living Gods...and the impending doom that threatens them. Somewhere beyond the farthest...

  • Siren Song

    Robert Edric

    The second stunning literary crime novel in the Song Cycle trilogy from the acclaimed author of Booker-longlisted Peacetime, and The Book of the Heathen.

    In this second book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cradle Song, Private investi...

  • Wind Walker

    Cassie Edwards

    Yearning for adventure, Maggie Tolan convinces her mother to leave Boston, and everything they have ever known, for the wilderness of the frontier. But by the time she reaches the Wyoming Territory, Maggie has lost her mother--and her desire to go on...

  • Thunderbirds: The Movie Storybook

    Kate Egan

    For fourteen-year-old Alan Tracy, it's no fun being stuck at home while your Dad and four older brothers are off on an exciting rescue mission. But mastercriminal The Hood has plans to liven up Alan's spring break: He is plotting to steal the fami...

  • Thunderbirds Forever!

    Kate Egan

    Alan Tracy always feels left out. While his older brothers all get to wear the Thunderbirds uniform and rescue people in need, he has to stay behind. His father tries to protect him, but Alan wishes he could go on missions like his brothers. Find ...

  • Rescue Mission

    Kate Egan

    Alan Tracy wants nothing more than to be a Thunderbird like his father and brothers. Now the Thunderbirds' headquarters has been captured by The Hood, an evil criminal mastermind, and the rest of Alan's family is off on a mission. This might be A...

  • The Last Dog on Earth

    Daniel Ehrenhaft

    Logan Moore hates everyone. The father who abandoned him. The stepfather who wants to control him. Kids who get in his face. Everyone. Except Jack. A mangy mutt that nobody wants. Except Logan. But Jack is in terrible danger. A mysterious disea...

  • Tell It to Naomi

    Daniel Ehrenhaft

    Dave Rosen has a secret. “Naomi,†the wise, witty, always-on-target, female writer behind his high school’s hit advice column, is, well, him. A native New Yorker who likes secondhand CD shops, The Simpsons, and meatball heroes.

    A kid lik...

  • And Not to Yield

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    The unforgettable stories of two legendary American frontiersmen by Randy Lee Eickhoff and Leonard C. Lewis in one low-priced edition!And Not to YieldNurtured by devout, staunchly Abolitionist parents, young James Butler Hickok leaves their hardscrab...

  • Ruby and the Sniffs

    Michael Emberley

    his is the adventurous tale of one irrepressible mouse's urban bravery-crafted with a clever nod to Goldilocks and featuring the unforgettable character Michael Emberley created in his hit picture book Ruby.Ruby's bright red overalls and backwards ba...

  • The Persistence of Memory

    Tony Eprile

    In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity. "The Baltimore Sun" declared Eprile's "horrifying yet heartrendingly beautiful" prose t...

  • Ten Big Ones

    Janet Evanovich

    AND NOW, TEN TIMES HOTTER THAN EVER BEFORE... "I'm Stephanie Plum. My mother says that I'm famous and have to set a good example. She's right, but I'm from Jersey and truth is, I have a hard time getting a grip on the good example thing." Swing...

  • Longarm and the Outlaw's Shadow

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s been around enough bad guys to know how to act like one…Escorting a wanted man from El Paso to Denver is a peach of an assignment for Longarm, until -- right before his eyes -- an assassin empties a six-gun into his prisoner.   Ch...

  • Longarm and the Montana Madmen

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm gets brutal with a few bloodthirsty brothers!U.S. Deputy Marshal Jed King was a legend to all who carried a badge. So when a band of Montana hoodlums -- including the infamous Fagan brothers -- murder King and two of his sons, Marshal Custis ...

  • My Passionate Mother

    Judy Feiffer

    The most frugal fishermen on the island of Pequod couldn’t resist throwing money at the bewitching young girl who sang and danced in the streets for change, and when Finn and Joe befriended the penniless Claire, little did they realize they would f...

  • Daddy Mountain

    Jules Feiffer

    Before your very eyes, this little redhead is about to do something extremely daring. And scary. And she'll show you-she'll actually document, step-by-step-exactly how she does it. First, she takes her Daddy and makes him stand very still. Then, bala...

  • The Wedding Caper

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    The long-awaited wedding of Sir Neville Hathaway and Lady Priscilla Flanders is only three weeks away--and an evening at the theatre should prove a welcome diversion. But before the final curtain, a noblewoman is slain in her private box... Betwe...

  • Cavanaugh's Woman

    Marie Ferrarella

    HE STOLE HER HEART... Handsome, hardworking Shaw Cavanaugh defined the term "top cop." So when Moira McCormick arrived in town to research her next film role, it was no surprise that the Chief assigned the stunning movie star to shadow the no-nons...

  • Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

    Helen Fielding

    At the close of the last millennium, Helen Fielding debuted the irrepressible (and blockbuster-bestselling) Bridget Jones. Now, Fielding gives us a sensational new heroine for a new era...Move over 007, a stunning, sexy-and decidedly female-new playe...

  • Trouble on Tracy Island

    Acton Figueroa

    When a submarine surfaces near International Rescue's hideaway, Tracy Island, Alan Tracy's family is away on a mission. Soon all the other adults on the island have been taken prisoner, and The Hood and his evil followers are pursuing Alan and his...

  • Hot August Nights

    Christine Flynn

    ONE NIGHT. ONE MAN. ONE BIG MISTAKE. Was there a woman alive who could resist Matt Calloway? If given a choice, most would have said Ashley Kendrick, the eldest daughter in the Kendrick dynasty. Ashley's poise and reserve were world renowned. But ...

  • Waking Raphael

    Leslie Forbes

    From the internationally bestselling author of Fish, Blood and Bone comes a sensuous and evocative new thriller that takes readers on a lavish journey through the maze of Italy past and present, where beauty, violence, and truth have the power to kil...

  • Dangerous Curves

    Jacey Ford

    THEY KNOW HOW THE JUSTICE SYSTEM WORKS.. . FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE LAW.. . Former FBI agents Aimee, Daphne, and Raine have left the Bureau to start a new kind of corporate security firm--where they can tackle anything from computer hackers to suspect...

  • Grant Comes East

    William R. Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

    In their runaway bestseller Gettysburg, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen answered the Civil War's ultimate hypothetical question: What if Lee's army had won the victory within its grasp at Gettysburg in 1863? Now, through the same extraordinary re...

  • Lost and Found

    Alan Dean Foster

    Ever since his classic debut, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first of the wildly successful Pip and Flinx adventures, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world. Now this writer of bold imagination and stunnin...

  • Full Dark House

    Christopher Fowler

    Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit...

  • Play Dead

    Anne Frasier

    WATCH YOUR BACK, ELISE. No one understands the dark side of Savannah better than homicide detective Elise Sandburg. As an infant, she was thought to be the daughter of a famous root doctor--and was abandoned in an ancient Low Country cemetery. Growi...

  • Secret Smile

    Nicci French

    Miranda's sister, Kerri, has a new boyfriend. He's a raven-haired, handsome charmer who seems to dote on Kerri. But Brendan isn't the man he says he is. Miranda should know, because she broke off her own affair with him just a few weeks ago when she ...

  • The Garden Angel

    Mindy Friddle

    In Sans Souci, South Carolina, talk is cheap, real estate even more so. No one knows this better than Cutter Johanson, a gruff tomboy who waits tables, writes obits, and makes every effort, however comical and in the face of her mercenary relatives, ...

  • Waking Beauty

    Elyse Friedman

    What would you do if you went to bed ugly, fat, and depressed and woke up the next morning in the body of a goddess? This is exactly the miracle that befalls Allison Penny, who has spent most of her twenty-two years on this earth in a serious slump ...

  • Hot Blood

    Lonn Friend

    This original award-winning erotic horror series, featuring contributions by such writers as Lawrence Block, Ramsey Campbell, and Nancy Holder, takes readers to a dark world of pleasure, pain, and unholy evil. Reprint....

  • Bitter Medicine

    Dave Galanter

    A routine salvage operation becomes a desperate rescue mission, as the U.S.S. da Vinci encounters a failing abandoned ship -- that isn't so abandoned! There is one survivor aboard the derelict vessel: a boy who carries a most deadly disease. Even as...

  • Mistress Minded

    Katherine Garbera

    THOUGHTS OF SEDUCTION Pretend mistress? When Jayne Montrose was offered the assignment by the man of her dreams, she couldn't refuse. Millionaire Adam Powell was her boss, and the situation was clearly temporary, but Jayne wasn't sure her heart wo...

  • Song of the Road

    Dorothy Garlock

    By 1935, countless vehicles had traversed Route 66, their hum creating a uniquely American song. Most were heading west-but roads go in two directions, and in Dorothy Garlock's riveting third novel featuring Route 66, the fabled highway is one that l...

  • Dinner for Two

    Mike Gayle

    Dave Harding's got a wonderful wife, a beautiful home, and a job he could do in his sleep... So no one is more surprised than Dave when he hears his own biological clock start ticking. Loudly. Unfortunately, his better half, Izzy, has no nine-month ...