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  • 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...




  • Max Lucado

    In Letters, you'll have front row seats to the opening night of "The Alphabet Garden," a special production by Hermie and his friends, featuring the letters A to Z. Of course, opening night rarely goes over without a hitch, and the mishaps will have ...



  • Alastair Reynolds

    The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence--and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situat...



  • Elmer Kelton

    Two novels from seven-time Spur Awardâ€"winning author Elmer Kelton, "truly a Texas legend" (former Texas Governor Rick Perry), After the Bugles and Llano River. After the BuglesJoshua Buckalew has left behind the deserted battlefields that claimed h...



  • Bill Pronzini

    The women in his life call him the Alias Man. From Santa Fe to Pennsylvania, from Vancouver to San Francisco, he has seduced and charmed, stolen and disappeared, leaving unbearable hurt in his wake. Then his three most recent victims-- Jessie, Sar...



  • Joanna Wayne

    LYING IN THE SHADOWS OF THE MOONLIGHT... John Robicheaux lived the simple life in Cajun country -- that was until his brother turned up dead in the bayou. He'd be damned before he'd let that crime go unpunished. And John's suspicions about the sud...



  • Jillian Hart

    Nursing a broken heart and wounded spirit, Kendra McKaslin vowed to make a fresh start -- alone. But then everything changed when handsome sheriff Cameron Durango showed up at her run-down riding stable to give her some much-needed business. Seeing t...



  • 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...




  • Quinton Skinner

    John Wright’s mind is playing tricks on him. He sees people he thinks he knows, but they are only strangers. His memory flickers in and out of focus. He has not seen his fiancée, Iris, in over three years. He fled their Los Angeles apartment one n...



  • Cheryl Wolverton

    A NEW BEGINNING Turning forty is a major milestone for Annie Hooper, who has been married, with stepchildren, since she was seventeen. The birthday gift of a trip to Holland offers some unexpected and exciting changes to her routine. And when a car ...



  • Mary Pope Osborne

    It’s a new kind of adventure for Jack and Annie! Join them as they research ancient Greece and find out the facts behind the fiction! ...



  • 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...



  • J.C. Greenburg

    Andrew, Judy, and Thudd drive the Water Bug deep into the ocean, where the only light comes from strange glowing creatures. Just as they're passing over the deepest place on earth, the trusty Water Bug loses power! Now instead of saving the giant squ...



  • Lyda Morehouse

    Amariah, the daughter of the archangel Michael and a legendary force in the cybernetic and law enforcement communities, discovers she might be the next messiah, while the antichrist and the Prince of Darkness prepare to marry and unleash Armageddon o...



  • 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!...



  • 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...



  • Else Holmelund Minarik

    On a beautiful spring evening, Little Bear and his friends pitch a tent in the garden. They are going to camp out for the very first time. But Little Bear finds that sleeping outdoors isn't quite as peaceful as sleeping in his own bed,especially w...



  • Beth Henderson

    LOVE ON THE RUN On the course of his trek across the green Texas countryside in the spring of 1868, J. W. Walford only stopped at the small, hidden ranch intending to purchase a horse with which to hasten his flight from the law. But when he stumb...



  • Geronimo Stilton

    Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are full of fun -- tastier than Swiss cheese and t...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Iain Lawrence

    Nicknamed after his hometown of Kakabeka, Canada, Kak dreams of flying with the Allied bombers in World War II. So at 16, underage and desperate to escape his abusive parents, he enlists in the Canadian Air Force. Soon he is trained as a wireless ope...



  • Robin Wells

    THE BACHELOR Holt Landen was in trouble. He'd been left a six-month-old child he never knew he had, and while he'd attracted plenty of babes in the past, they were always the kind in high heels and garters. Diapers were disturbingly new, and they cal...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    One Sheriff in Uniform, Two Babies in Diapers. Sheriff Noah Wheeler of Pritchett County, Arkansas, decided long ago that commitment isn't his style -- and there are at least seventeen local women ready to agree with him! But when he finds himself ...



  • Victoria Pade

    HER SISTER'S FAMILY A newspaper article had brought Kira Wentworth to Northbridge, Montana, in the hopes of reuniting with her long-lost sister. But it was Cutty Grant and the tragic news he delivered that first dashed her dreams but quickly compe...



  • Kathie DeNosky

    SHE WANTED A BABY... Tick, tick, tick.... Katie Andrews's biological clock was counting down loudly. But who in the one-horse town of Dixie Ridge could give her a baby without causing a scandal? Then loner Jeremiah Gunn breezed into her diner and Ka...



  • Jessica Matthews

    At Hope City Hospital, locum Nikki Lawrence is taking on more than she's bargained for. Not only is she working with the man who broke her heart and haunts her dreams, but she has to rescue a baby, abandoned in Emergency by its mother. Gorgeous ph...



  • Lewis B. Patten

    Spur Award-winning Author

    Alex Longmire very early earned a reputation for being fast with a gun. He never hired out his ability, but his reputation served to isolate him from everyone. When an attack against Alex by Rod Zellman ends with Zellman'...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Mary Jo Putney

    After building a fortune in the exotic East, American adventurer and merchant prince Gavin Elliott sets his sails for London to begin a new life. Then fate intervenes on an infamous island in the East Indies where a European woman faces degradation a...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt

    This early chapter book starring Batman and an all-new villain has forty pages and full-color, comic-book-style illustrations!

    Kids will enjoy reading this adventure-filled story featuring a favorite and timeless superhero--The Dark Knight, Ba...



  • Michael Reaves; Steve Perry

    As civil war between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy,' nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on t swamp world of Drongar, where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its own. . . . A surgeon who...



  • Ned Vizzini

    Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. . . until the day he finds out about the "squip." This pill-sized su...



  • S.K. McClafferty

    NOWHERE TO RUN Liz Moncrief still blames herself. For getting involved in the first place. For putting her career at the FBI ahead of everything else. For being just too damned obsessed with catching the serial killer who buried his young victims al...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Suzanne Strempek Shea

    In the latest novel from the award-winning author of Around Again, an American takes an unexpected trip to Ireland and finds the woman she was meant to become.Newly unemployed, Sophie White has nothing better to do when her recently widowed best frie...



  • Jule McBride

    Oh, brother! Signe Sargent has it made in Manhattan. Fab girlfriends to hang out with, a line on a hot new job and a crush on Gorgeous Garrity, the Big Apple's #1 bachelor. Except he's not quite responding to her charms, so for fun Signe casts a l...



  • 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...



  • Jacqueline Woodson

    You are so light you move with the wind and the snow.... And it lifts you up--over a world of sadness and anger and fear. Over a world of first kisses and hands touching and someone you're falling in love with. She's there now. Right there... Miah an...



  • Darcy Maguire

    He didn't know he was a father...until now! For four years wedding planner Skye Andrews has kept a secret from hotshot lawyer Nick Coburn -- they have a daughter.... Now Skye's working on a wedding where Nick is the best man -- and their attractio...




  • Lisa Jackson

    GUARDING HER, BODY AND SOUL Was hiding the identity of her child's father worth risking her life? Only Randi McCafferty seemed to believe so, and investigator Kurt Striker was hell-bent on changing her mind. Hired by her well-meaning but overbearing...



  • Debbi Rawlins

    July 19, 1983... The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers--Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound"--elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later... Their children were reunited. Repressed ...



  • Valerie Ann Leff

    980 Park, a fictional, pre-war co-op on the Northwest corner of Park Avenue and 83rd Street, houses the rich and famous-Sidney Sapphire, the blonde anchorwoman of ABC News, Angela Somoza, the gorgeous Nicaraguan jet-setter, Bob Horowitz, the former c...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    Far, far away, jutting out into the emptiness beyond, lie the Edge. Filled with strange peoples and terrifying crea!tures, this is a world unlike any other, where action -- and danger -- await at every turn. Abandoned at birth in the dangerous Deepwo...



  • Robin Lee Hatcher

    His secret addiction became her heartache. . . . When Deborah discovers she is married to an alcoholic, she is faced with a life she never expected. Somehow she must find courage and hope to step beyond the shadows....



  • J.R. Roberts

    When the mining town of Big Fork, Montana, hosts a high-stakes, high-risk poker marathon, it's Clint Adams's job to make sure the players keep their hands above the table—and away from their six shooters.What Clint doesn't know is that there's...



  • 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...



  • Jacqueline Winspear

    Maisie Dobbs is back, and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress'...



  • 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...



  • Patricia MacLachlan

    Happy with their simple lives around the home, Nigel the cat and Julia the dog find the arrival of Bittle the baby to be an exciting addition and so tend to her with all the love, affection, and care they can offer....



  • Christopher Whitcomb

    A fifteen-year member of the FBI who received its coveted Medal of Bravery, former agent Christopher Whitcomb electrified readers with his breathtaking memoir, Cold Zero. Now his remarkable past and hard-edged prose illuminate his highly acclaimed fi...



  • Myrna MacKenzie

    HER RELUCTANT CHAMPION Susanna Wright had vowed never again to be a damsel in distress. But then she was stranded and Brady Malone came to her rescue. Never mind that he considered himself a no-good loner with a dangerous temper. Susanna knew she ...



  • Paula Marshall

    Martin Chancellor, the blackest sheep of a disreputable family, is now the sole heir to the estates--and to his brother's promised bride! Martin's reluctance to marry fades when he sees Lady Kate Wyville, but he has no idea that she possesses a free ...



  • Ian Smith

    A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby ... a Nobel Prize -- winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . . The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian...



  • Melanie Milburne

    Baby by blackmail! Millionaire tycoon Byron Rockcliffe storms back into Cara's life, even though their marriage is long finished. Knowing that Cara's design business is on the verge of collapse, Byron offers to save her from financial ruin by givi...



  • Laurell K. Hamilton
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...



  • 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...




  • Sean Taylor

    Dynamic duo Sean Taylor and Bruce Ingman present a boinging, bouncing comedy -- and a masterful display of emergency trampolining skills.

    Holy moly! A terrible thing has happened to the Great Elastic Marvel, five times World Trampolining Cha...



  • Mary Logue

    When a quantity of dangerous pesticides is stolen from a local co-op in Pepin County, Wisconsin, Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is called in to investigate. The thief has left one bizarre clue: the finger bone of a child long dead. The pesticides soon...



  • Christopher Reich

    Here is an extraordinary collection of the world’s best literary espionage, selected by Alan Furst, a contemporary master of the genre. The Book of Spies brings us the aristocratic intrigues of The Scarlet Pimpernel, in which French émigrés duel ...



  • 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....



  • Lilian Darcy

    Down-to-earth, dependable Cecelia Rankin was not the kind of woman who believed in dreams-come-true...but that's exactly what seemed to be happening! She kept dreaming of her gorgeous, millionaire boss Nick Delaney -- no surprise there -- but with a ...



  • Bobbi Smith

    Casey Turner can rope and ride like any man, but when she strides down the streets of Hard Luck, Texas, nobody takes her for anything but a beautiful woman. Working alongside her Pa to keep the bank from foreclosing on the Bar T, she has no time for ...



  • Sue Margolis

    Playing “Winter Wonderland” for last-minute Christmas shoppers has got to be the all-time low point of Stephanie Glassman’s career. The aspiring jazz soloist and single mother has no singing prospects, no man in her life since her hot fling wit...



  • Jorie Green Mark

    Jorie Green was a practical, level-headed graduate student when she got engaged to Barry Mark. But something happened once she had that sparkly ring on her finger: she went a little insane. Bride in Overdrive is a comic, quirky memoir of one bride-to...



  • Ann Major

    HE WAS A MAN CONVINCED THAT LOVE CAME AFTER MARRIAGE... He believed a successful merger was made up of two parties with similar goals, backgrounds and wealth. So, tired of being alone, Cash McRay decided to pop the question to the daughter of a cl...



  • 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...



  • Lian Hearn

    A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor takes us deeper into the complex loyalties that bind its characters from birth. Fille...



  • Sara Orwig

    THIS TIME HE WAS PLAYING FOR KEEPS Colonel Jonah Whitewolf had always lived life on the edge, whether it was in the Special Forces or working for a security company, but nothing could have prepared him for the shock of stumbling upon his ex-wife.....



  • 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...



  • Sarah Strohmeyer

    Bubbles Yablonsky has been summoned. Heeding the call from her boss at the News-Times, she's racing her Camaro toward an abandoned coal mine and a potentially big story. What she finds is the love of her life, Steve Stiletto, knocked unconscious--and...



  • Rebecca York
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...



  • David Rosenfelt

    "I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It's an extraordinary accomplishment... With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven't missed an important play since the Carter administ...



  • 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...



  • Kate Spohn

    Lucy is a curious and adventurous mouse who wants to live in a real house. At first Lucy only visits the house occasionally. Each time, the sisters who live there bring her back to the woods and tell her not to come back. But she doesn't understan...



  • Sandra Hill

    The South Was Never This Hot...or Hilarious! Talk about a bad hair day! Louisiana beauty salon owner Charmaine LeDeux has a loan shark on her tail, and Raoul Lanier, the six-foot-three hunk of testosterone she thought she divorced, has just delive...



  • Madeline Baker

    He was gorgeous -- from his cutoff tee and skintight jeans... down to his scuffed boots. She'd only dared to sneak a peek. Then, with a knowing wink and a roguish grin, the sexy cowboy was gone. Callie Walker figured she must have been hallucinating....



  • 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...



  • Jim Ware

    A dry, forsaken blip on the edge of civilization. That's what Mike Fowler thinks of the little town of Ambrosia in the Arizona desert. He has no friends, no fun and no answers to the agonizing disappearance of his dad in a top-secret military mission...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Elizabeth Hand

    There's a new Catwoman in town--a feline adventuress unlike any you've seen before. Discover all her sizzling secrets as she cracks her whip and sinks her claws into her most petrifying, death-defying adventure yet. Patience Philips is a shrinking...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Kristi Gold

    WHEN A DESERT PRINCE... Sheikh Raf Shakir was hiding a painful past behind a controlled exterior. But the solitude of his horse farm was shattered when Imogene Danforth came to him with a proposal he couldn't refuse -- and a body he couldn't resis...



  • 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. ...



  • Deborah Gregory

    " The Cheetah Girls will inspire all those kids who want to become singers like us. Can`t wait for the movie! " -Destiny`s Child, Columbia Records The Cheetah Girls have made it big in their own movie on Disney Channel. Now see how it all began as...



  • Deborah Gregory

    "The Cheetah Girls will inspire all those kids who want to become singers like us. Can't wait for the movie!" -Destiny's Child, Columbia Records The Cheetah Girls have made it big in their own movie on Disney Channel. Now see how it all began as Gall...



  • 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...



  • M.E. Rabb

    Sam and Sophie's new case involves trying to find the lost love of Professor Leo Shattenberg, but the girls also want to find out if the gentleman sharing their last name might be their cousin, without revealing their own identities....



  • Tom Piccirilli

    BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words.This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews. A Choir of Ill Children...



  • Cathie Linz

    How had a promise to a friend landed him at the altar? U.S. Marine captain Ben Kozlowski wasn't quite sure, but he knew it had something to do with Ellie Jensen's soulful brown eyes and beautiful soft skin. Being near her had his pulse racing like a ...



  • Penelope J. Stokes

    When tragedy occurs, four friends come together in a bittersweet reunion and are forced to confront the falsehoods and also embrace the truth in their lives.

    On college graduation day, Grace and her friends -- Liz, Tess, and Lovey -- agreed to...



  • 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...



  • David Randall

    Twelve-year-old Clovermead Wickward's head is filled with stories of adventure. She dreams about the thrill of a sword fight and the excitement of heroic quests. The last thing Clovermead expects is for those dreams to come true. But it seems her fat...



  • 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...



  • Carsten Stroud

    A prophetic thriller from the author of Cuba Strait, Cobraville follows a covert CIA mission deep in the jungles of the Philippines during a savage civil war. Cole Langan's five-man unit -- in country to repair what they have been led to believe i...



  • Christina Skye

    She's an FBI agent. He's a Navy SEAL. Together they're igniting enough heat to blow both their covers. Summer Mulcahey is a workaholic FBI agent with a nose for crime, a mouth for trouble and a heart tied to the job 24/7. But Summer also happens t...



  • Tom Piccirilli

    Priest McClaren wants to put his past behind him. It's a past filled with loss, murder . . . and revenge. Now all Priest wants is to own a carpentry shop and earn a quiet living building coffins. But it looks like peace and quiet just aren't in Pries...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Max Lucado

    Hermie is tired of being a plain ol' green caterpillar. So he sets out on a search to "help" God find the perfect color. Hermie recruits Wormieâ"˘ to help him in his mission, and their usual caterpillar antics ensue as Hermie and a reluctant Wormie s...



  • David Poyer

    A NEW KIND OF SOLDIER Around the globe, Navy crews train to fight missiles, planes, torpedoes, and terrorism. But the Navy is being shaken from within, as women prepare for combat duty. On the Spruance-class destroyer USS Thomas Horn, some men won't...



  • Carol Marinelli

    An accident forces emergency nurse Leah Jacobs to share a home with E.R. Specialist Cole Richardson. Cole may be sexy as sin, but his ice-cool reserve is driving Leah mad. The drama and emotion of E.R. gives her a glimpse of Cole's tender side --...



  • Elise Title

    As the superintendent of a Massachusetts prison halfway house, Natalie Price thought she'd seen it all. But when the death of a beautiful Boston socialite makes breaking news, Natalie is drawn into one of the biggest scandals of her career. Headli...




  • Bret Anthony Johnston

    From an acclaimed and award-winning young writer comes an intensely moving debut collection set in the eye of life’s storms. In Corpus Christi, Texas -- a town often hit by hurricanes -- parents, children, and lovers come together and fall apart, ...



  • 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...



  • Charlene Sands

    What would it take to win the widow's proud heart? WHO KILLED BOONE SHAW? HIS WIFE, IT SEEMED Glory Shaw survived a nightmare only to awaken to a more disturbing reality -- her dead husband. Wanted for a murder she couldn't recall, she...



  • Marin Thomas

    Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Him To The Altar Again With one bad marriage under his belt and a little girl by his side, Jake Montgomery solemnly swears that he doesn't want another wife. Until a femme fatale in a wedding dress shows up snagged -- lik...



  • 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...



  • Alexander M. Grace

    When Fidel Castro takes twenty thousand American and Soviet hostages in a high-stakes bid to preserve his power, the American and Russian military join forces to implement an extraordinary rescue. Reprint....



  • 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...



  • Adam Langer

    Crossing California is a cinematic and unforgettable look at the end of an era, the turning point when the idealism of the sixties gave way to the pragmatism of the eighties.California Avenue, in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood, separa...



  • L.A. Meyer

    After being forced to leave HMS Dolphin and Jaimy, her true love, Jacky Faber is making a new start at the elite Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston. But growing up on the streets of London and fighting pirates never prepared Jacky for he...



  • Todd Strasser

    Impact Zone: The most dangerous part of the waveYou gotta beat it...or you'll eat it.Ever since he went up against the locals and broke into the lineup, Kai has had his own crew. Spazzy is a summer kid with a lot of fancy gear. He looks like a total ...



  • 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...



  • Janis Reams Hudson

    CALLING ALL POTENTIAL DADDIES! "Are you single?" Sloan Chisholm stared down at the little girl in the roadside cafe. She and her younger sister were as cute as all get-out. But their mother was a knockout, and Sloan knew he was a goner when he ...



  • Shirley Jump

    HAVING...ANOTHER MAN'S BABY Anita Ricardo had moved to town to make a home for her baby -- alone. She'd learned long ago that she didn't need anyone, not even Luke Dole, the sexy single dad she'd once fantasized about. But how could a hormonally c...



  • Emily Oz

    Meg Pryor wants to dance on American Bandstand more than anything else in the world. Luckily her best friend, Roxanne, knows how to work it! She not only manages to get them in, but the two of them dance their way into regular spots on the show. ...



  • 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...



  • Kylie Brant

    YOUR PARENTS' DEATHS WEREN'T ACCIDENTS... Billionaire securities expert James Tremaine couldn't believe the anonymous note. Private investigator Tori Corbett was his only hope of uncovering the truth, but keeping his hands off his beautiful employee...



  • 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...



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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...



  • Karen Harper

    Widower Luke Brand is a leader in the peaceful Amish community of Maplecreek. But now his people are under attack from unknown assailants -- and the main target appears to be the children. Although the community is reluctant to turn to the outside wo...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Chandler McGrew

    IT BEGINS WITH A BLACKOUT. All electrical power ceases to run. Even the sun seems a little dimmer. Cities come to a halt. And then their inhabitants vanish. But a small, clandestine group of warriors has been preparing for this moment for centuries. ...



  • Paul S. Kemp
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The shadows recede from a lost temple in a forgotten wilderness. The sun rises on a new calling for a man as loyal as he is mysterious. The day's beginning finds Erevis Cale holding in his steady hands more power than he dared hope for -- and m...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Mariah Stewart

    THREE DEVIOUS PRISONERS VOWMURDEROUS REVENGE. NOW THE SECOND IS FREE. With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim a...



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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Mariah Stewart

    THREE DEVIOUS PRISONERS VOW MURDEROUS REVENGE. NOW THE FIRST IS FREE. It was inescapably chilling, as if the murderer was methodically working his way down a page torn from the phone book. The three victims brutally killed in their own homes had...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Betty Webb

    DEAD, WHITE AND BLUE Patriot's Blood Press publisher Gloriana Alden-Taylor keels over and dies at a Scottsdale book convention after someone sprinkled her salad with hemlock. Private investigator Lena Jones takes a personal interest in the case when...



  • Richard Hatch; Brad Linaweaver

    When the dying sun of Paradis dramatically begins its contraction phase, a two year stay by the Galacticans and the colonials on what appears to be the perfect planet for rebuilding their civilization comes to an abrupt end—the planet's inhabit...



  • Sherryl Woods

    Destiny Carlton is finally ready for a little sweet revenge. For twenty years Destiny Carlton has put family and duty ahead of her own hopes and dreams. Now with the orphaned nephews she raised grown and married, it's time for the once free-spirit...



  • Dusty Richards

    When all the cards are wild, there are only three things to do: Lay 'em...play 'em...or slay 'em. When the hardened Apache scout called Deuces is court-martialed for cold-blooded murder, he's sentenced to hang. But an appeal saves him from the noo...



  • Sally Prue

    A bullied boy is lured by the dark power of revenge in this haunting fantasy by the author of COLD TOM.

    Stevie, 13, has started at a new school and is desperate for acceptance. Like any teenager, he is self-conscious and embarrassed by his fam...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • Joanne Mattern

    When Jimmy Neutron accidentally supersizes his dinosaur eraser and brings it to life with his latest invention, the Supersizer 5000, Jimmy and his friends must stop the giant from destroying Retroville. Original....



  • 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...



  • David Corbett

    Raymond “Strong” Carlisle made his mark as an ace sideman to the biggest names in R&B. Now he lies in the mud outside his home, shot dead from behind. He’s the first official casualty in a dirty war for control of Rio Mirada: a low-rent “city...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Robert B. Parker

    1941: Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier--and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Joseph Burke, veteran of World War II and Robinson's bodyguard--because under the media spotlight, hard truths are easier th...



  • Carol Cox
    in

    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...



  • Timothy Zahn

    Draycos, a golden-scaled draconic K'da poet-warrior, was on a scout fleet ship when it was attacked, with him the lone survivor. Forced to find a new symbiotic humanoid host, he found Jack Morgan. Jack has been on his own, making his way by shipping ...



  • Ed Greenwood

    The death of the Dragon has brought down the villainous Serpent and restored order to the land of Aglirta but the surviving members of the Band of Four have no time to grieve for their lost comrade. An anarchic berserker plague is spreading like wild...



  • Emily Rodda

    An ancient curse. Seven mysterious dragons. A race against time. Everybody in Deltora thinks the dragons have disappeared. But the young king Lief knows this isn't true -- and that the time has come to find them. The evil Shadow Lord has poisone...



  • Donita K. Paul

    One Dragon Egg Holds the Key to the Future. Once a slave, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. Yet this young girl has much to learn about the difference between slavery and service. A Desperate Search Begin...



  • David Sedaris

    David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his...



  • Carol Goodman

    Juno McKay intended to avoid the nearby campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she just can't turn down the chance to see her longtime friend, Christine Webb, speak at the Penrose College library. Though Juno cringes at th...



  • 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...





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  • Liz Tigelaar

    After getting caught in the middle of a race riot in North Philly, Meg ends up grounded just before her sweet-sixteen party, but when her boyfriend Luke shows up with tickets to see the Beatles live in Atlantic City, Meg is determined to go....



  • Ana Leigh

    RESCUE AND PROTECT... Mike Bishop's latest assignment should have been simple -- rescue a woman and the young boy in her care. But there was nothing simple about beautiful Ann Hamilton. Suddenly, Mike was thinking more and more about ways to mix b...



  • Jon George

    Phoenix Lafayette is a combat correspondent on the Pacific island of Guam during World War II, who comes to believe he can only survive the carnage by enacting for himself the mythical twelve labours of Hercules. And the woman who puts this idea i...



  • Kathleen George

    It happened in the night, when no one was around to see it. A Pittsburgh doctor, who dedicated himself to helping others, was shot through the heart. Now days have passed, and Dan Ross's wife, Elizabeth, has entered a twilight zone of grief, flooded ...



  • Celia Thomson

    Chloe King is a normal girl. She goes to class (most of the time), fights with her mom, and crushes on a boy…or two. But around her sixteenth birthday, Chloe finds that perhaps she isn’t so normal after all. There’s the heightened night vision,...




  • Chantal Thomas

    A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent palace succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution. Now e...




  • C.L. Grace

    The village of Walmer is a small, claustrophobic place where everyone knows everyone and everyone's business. Everyone knows the blacksmith, Elias, liked to drink and liked the ladies. Everyone knows his wife, Isabella, had been spotted many a time e...



  • Christine Rimmer

    THERE MUST BE FIFTY WAYS TO SAY I'M PREGNANT! So why couldn't Starr Bravo think of at least one? Maybe because though she'd been in love with rancher Beau Tisdale since she was sixteen, they'd agreed that this "summer of love" was just that. That ...



  • Nikki Rivers

    But first Hannah Ross has to make sure that the new ad campaign for Granny's Grains begins without a hitch -- after all, it was her idea to locate America's "perfect" family and then slap their faces on every cereal box. Yet when Hannah ventures t...



  • Sarah Micklem

    Introducing a mesmerizing debut in the rich tradition of Marion Zimmer Bradt--a passionate tale of love and war in which the gods grant a common girl uncommon gifts. A lowborn orphan, Luck is destined to a life of servitude. But when her mistress ...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    BORN HERO Jason Trayhern wore his father's glorious military legacy like a thorny crown.Though a skilled fighter pilot himself, Jason's rebel tactics didn't sit well with his commanding officers.They expected more from Morgan Trayhern's son, wh...



  • Harry Turtledove

    The Bronze Age. The era of Troy, of Gilgamesh, of the dawning of human mastery over the earth. For decades, fantasists have set tales of heroism and adventure in imagined worlds based on the real Bronze Age, from the "Hyborean Age" of the Conan stori...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Karen Cogan

    Fleeing her life in Sydney, Rebecca Dalton heads home to live with her father on their family ranch in the Australian outback. When she arrives, however, she discovers her father has died. Despite his death, and the shattering grief she feels, Rebecc...



  • John Harvey

    Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder has fled to the Cornish coast, but he can't escape the past. Susan Blacklock would be thirty now. But fourteen years ago she disappeared, and the case has gone unsolved -- though Elder had his suspects. Now, wi...



  • Victor Milan

    A DARK AND BLOODY CRUSADE... A Clan Jade Falcon force is en route to eradicate the Steel Wolves--but its true mission is the subjugation of The Republic of the Sphere. Constrained by an imposed peace for decades, the Falcons embark on their most s...



  • Al Sarrantonio

    This daring, star-packed collection is the fantasy publishing event of the year. Challenging the boundaries of modern fantasy, this all-original anthology features stories from Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Harry T...



  • 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...



  • Gemma O'Connor

    When the story of his father's death resurfaces after his stepfather, a former detective, writes a best-selling crime novel that thrusts the family into the spotlight, Gil sets out to find the truth, an obsession that has haunted him since he was eig...



  • Mary Leo

    When all else fails...marry him! That's what it's going to take to finally bust the bad luck surrounding Cate Falco's love life. Jilted at the altar ten years ago, her fiances ever since have been saying, "I'd rather not," before they, uh, could acc...