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New Books List: 632 titles


  • 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...



  • 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 itsel...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Alessandro Baricco

    An unforgettable fable about the brutality of war " and one girl's quest for revenge and healing, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller Silk.When " in an unnamed place and time " Manuel Roca's enemies hunt him down to kill h...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Peter S. Beagle

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



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Nancy Varian Berberick
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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...



  • 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...



  • David Bezmozgis

    Now a Major Motion Picture A dazzling debut -- and a publishing phenomenon -- Natasha: And Other Stories is the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken the critics by storm. Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis bef...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • J.L. Bourne

    Once on the fringes of horror, the “zombie apocalypse,” has become one of the most buzzworthy genres in popular culture. Now, in Day by Day Armageddon, J.L. Bourne delivers an intelligent, gripping thriller that will leave both new and die-hard z...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 w...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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!...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Kate Cann



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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!...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 breaks his o...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Bruce R. Cordell
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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 Faern beats in time with a hundred gods, and f...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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, ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...




  • 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...



  • Wylene Dunbar

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  • Jeanne Duprau

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  • Pete Earley

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  • David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

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  • Robert Edric

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



  • Cassie Edwards

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  • Kate Egan

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  • Kate Egan

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  • Kate Egan

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  • Daniel Ehrenhaft

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  • Daniel Ehrenhaft

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  • Randy Lee Eickhoff

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  • Michael Emberley

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  • Tony Eprile

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  • Louise Erdrich

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  • Janet Evanovich

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  • Jonathan Evans

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  • Tabor Evans

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  • Tabor Evans

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  • Judy Feiffer

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  • Jules Feiffer

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  • Jo Ann Ferguson

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  • Marie Ferrarella

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  • Helen Fielding

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  • Acton Figueroa

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  • Christine Flynn

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  • Leslie Forbes

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  • G.M. Ford

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  • Jacey Ford

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  • William R. Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

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  • Alan Dean Foster

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  • Christopher Fowler

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  • Anne Frasier

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  • Nicci French

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  • Mindy Friddle

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  • Elyse Friedman

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  • Lonn Friend

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  • Dave Galanter

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  • Katherine Garbera

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  • Eric Garcia

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  • Dorothy Garlock

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  • Mike Gayle

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  • Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

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  • Jon George

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  • Kathleen George

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  • Lisa Glatt

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  • Debi Gliori

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  • Kristi Gold

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  • Terry Goodkind

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  • Carol Goodman

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  • Lucy Gordon

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  • Alexander M. Grace

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  • C.L. Grace

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  • Patricia Grasso

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  • Norman Green

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  • Martin H. Greenberg

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  • Robert Greenberger

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  • J.C. Greenburg

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  • Jennifer Greene

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  • Ed Greenwood

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  • Ed Greenwood

    It is known as the Silent House.
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  • Kerry Greenwood

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  • Deborah Gregory

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  • Andy Griffiths

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  • Judith Guest

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  • Gene Hackman; Daniel Lenihan

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  • George Hagen

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  • Cathy Marie Hake
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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...



  • Cathy Marie Hake

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  • Steve Hamilton

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