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New Books List: 632 titles


  • Jessica Reisman

    From first-time author Jessica Reisman comes The Z Radiant, a novel about a far-future culture where illusion and reality can both be tailored to individual tastes, and a city where each inhabitant must make their own decisions about their lives and ...



  • 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...



  • Gilbert Morris

    The Texas Frontier provides for riveting adventure and inspiring characters as this historical fiction series draws readers into the struggle for freedom....



  • 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...



  • A. La Faye

    After Nathaniel's leg is crushed in an accident, his father brings home an orphan boy, John Worth, to help work the fields. Worth has come to Nebraska from New York City on the Orphan Train, which brings homeless children west to find new lives. Nat...



  • Kent Meyers

    This story of a horse trainer and a rich man’s wife is “a gorgeously written, exacting exploration of duty and retribution set in dusty rural South Dakota” (Publishers Weekly). When fourteen-year-old Carson Fielding bought his first horse from ...



  • 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...



  • Rebecca Winters

    The sweetest little boy... Leslie Hopkins's heart goes out to Cory Gallagher, a six-yearold boy who lost his mother over a year ago. She delights in her new job as his nanny and is ecstatic when the boy starts to warm up to her. She hurts only whe...



  • Andre Norton

    An all-original volume offering wizards of all kinds--from sorcerers and geomancers to witchdoctors and shamans--features a collection of stories by Andre Norton, Jane Yolen, Diana Paxson, Mickey Zucker Reichert, John De Chancie, and other notable wr...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Cassie Edwards

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



  • Melinda Haynes

    What are the limitations of what we do and don't know about our hearts? Oprah Book Club author Melinda Haynes, hailed as "the real thing, a true artist, a genuine writer" (the Cleveland Plain Dealer) for her bestselling debut, Mother of Pearl, return...



  • 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...



  • Lynne Kaufman

    They are four lifelong friends, with challenging careers and demanding families. And for one weekend each year they let their hair down and are as bad as they want to be. But this time it goes too far. Ann, Maria, Sabrina and Deb gather at a re...



  • 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...



  • Jennifer Greene

    WILD ABANDON She was no man magnet. From her Gypsy clothing to her feline fan club to her transparent attempt at seeming helium-headed, Violet Campbell screamed, "Run for your life," her lucrative lavender fields be damned. But Cameron Lachlan ...



  • Nancy Springer

    Ever since the Sheriff of Nottingham killed his father, Rook has run wild in Sherwood Forest, dreaming of his day for vengeance. Finally, he has found his chance. Not with the sheriff himself, but with the evil man’s son, snared by one of the mantr...



  • Juliet Landon

    She would do anything to protect her child... A pound of flesh for his protection... When her ancestral home was beset by a dangerous band of reivers, Lady Ebony Moffat feared for her young son's safety. In a blind moment of frenzy the widow st...



  • Jill Shalvis

    Bush pilot Lyndie Anderson has gotten by on her own, and she'd like to keep it that way. She lives only for her plane and the open sky. Then she's hired to fly a drop-dead-gorgeous fireman to a blaze in Copper Canyon, and suddenly she's struggling to...



  • J.A. Konrath

    Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is an insomniac Chicago cop with a train wreck of a personal life and a stalker bent on adding her to his murder list. Join Jack, her binge-eating partner, a sleazy PI, and two very stupid FBI agents on a wild hun...



  • Patricia Sprinkle

    Hopemore, Georgia, county magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough is experiencing some of the weirdest weeks of her life, weighing the cons and more cons of a strange animal in her yard, the return of an old boyfriend, and of course, murder.... Folks in Hop...



  • Carly Laine

    It's the carats that count! Dallas hair, diamonds the size of boulders, double-D cups stacked with silicone -- would these be the reasons Dylan Stone feels a jumbo attack of insecurity coming on? Considering that Texas boys equate "cheerleaders" w...



  • 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...



  • Rachel Timms

    Welcome to the world of Whatever You Want , a novel that turns twentysomething London into a fantasyland of endless possibilities. Play the game as Barbarella -- alluring, flirtatious, and sharp as the lash from a bondage whip -- or as Barnaby, with...




  • Sonya Sones

    My name is Sophie.This book is about me.It tellsthe heart-stoppingly riveting storyof my first love.And also of my second.And, okay, my third love, too.It's not that I'm boy crazy.It's just that even thoughI'm almost fifteenI've been having sort of a...




  • Carolyn Lieberg

    Half-sisters Carin and Hope, who have never gotten along, embark on a cross-country roadtrip to visit their father--a journey that unexpectedly forges a powerful bond between them, forever changing their lives....



  • Victoria Bylin

    For Everything There Is a Season Be it sorrow, hope or love -- and Jayne Dawson had weathered all three. Widowed before she was truly a wife, she'd found aid and comfort with Ethan Trent, a decent man beset by sorrows of his own. But could the griev...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

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



  • 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...



  • Norman Green

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



  • Lauraine Snelling

    On the verge of Mt. St. Helens’ historic eruption, three women must face the mountain: two to search for their missing husbands; the third, to rediscover her life…After a local mountain becomes a deadly and imminent threat, three strikingly diffe...



  • Christopher Stasheff

    THE FINAL ADVENTURE IN THE PHENOMENAL SERIES! After an incredible 35-year run, the story of Rod Gallowglass -- the Warlock in Spite of Himself -- comes to its fantastic finale in the weird and wonderful world of Gramarye. When Gwendolyn -- the...



  • 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...



  • Leslie Forbes

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



  • Elyse Friedman

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



  • Steven Sherrill

    Benny Poteat is, among other things, a tower jockey, his life defined by up or down. Working hundreds of feet in the air repairing tension lines and replacing burned-out lightbulbs, he observes the world from above.

    Benny has seen a lot of th...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    The Future of Freedom--as Explored by Top Science Fiction Writers in a New Volume of All Original Stories. As Thomas Jefferson put it, "That government is best which governs least." And, as Will Rogers wryly quipped, "We're lucky we don't ge...



  • 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...



  • Charlotte Douglas

    Daddy Material? Blake Adams thinks he's dreaming when he wakes up to find a beautiful baby girl on his doorstep. With her curly red hair and sparkling green eyes, "Annie" quickly makes an indelible impression on his hardened heart. Needing advi...



  • Joseph A. West

    A RACE AGAINST TIME Buck Fletcher plans to ride his horse for a $10,000 prize, money he needs to send his sick daughter to a faraway clinic. Then some outlaws steal his steed--and with it, his sick daughter's last hope. Though it's been ten years ...



  • Ruth Langan

    SECRETS UNDER THE SUN Eager to spend a sentimental summer on Lake Michigan, Blair Colby traveled to his late aunt's cottage in Devil's Cove, only to find the place ransacked. Blair had no idea why, but he was determined to find out. He soon enlist...



  • Karen E. Quinones Miller

    Eighteen-year-old Tiara Bynum is pretty as a princess and just as spoiled. Her castle is the Harlem housing project where she lives with her younger sister, Jo-Jo, and her doting father, Reggie. Every time Tiara snaps her perfectly manicured fingers,...



  • Lynda Sandoval

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



  • Inglath Cooper

    Country roads always seem to lead you home... Culley Rutherford is doing the best he can to raise his young daughter on his own. One night while at a medical conference in New York City, Culley runs into his old friend Addy Taylor. After a passion...



  • 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...



  • Barbara McCauley
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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...



  • Carly Phillips

    Ariana Costas may be a college professor in Vermont, but she's still a Jersey girl at heart--at least according to her lovable, eccentric Greek family. Then her twin sister, Zoe, disappears and her Jersey roots tug hard. Soon Ari is back home, duckin...



  • Jon Krakauer

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series 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...



  • Mary Helen Stefaniak

    Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Book Award "Fans of Amy Tan and Carol Shields will revel in the themes of remembrance, forgiveness, family devotion, and forbidden love." -- BooklistEvery family has its secrets. But toward the end of his life, Geo...



  • Victoria Christopher Murray

    The author of The Personal Librarian and Essence bestsellers Temptation and Joy returns with a story about one woman's personal and spiritual journey to overcome the consequences of her husband's dark secret.Grace Monroe has the ideal life: a devoted...



  • 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...



  • Acton Figueroa

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



  • 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...



  • Derek Wilson

    On a sultry summer night in 1994, Nathaniel and Katherine Gye are guests at a Civil War fancy-dress party. The theme of the occasion is apt because Tripletree, the Jacobean manor house in the heart of the Cotswolds where the event is being held, is s...



  • Mia Yun

    Translations of Beauty maps the tender yet tumultuous relationship of twin sisters Inah and Yunah, from their early years in South Korea to their coming-of-age in Queens, New York. At the heart of the narrative -- told from Yunah's intimate, engaging...



  • K.N. Casper

    The smuggling of drugs and weapons...and a murder. Everything points to a mole in the Tombstone customs office. But when agent Gage Engler goes undercover to investigate, he's shocked to find that Jill Manning, the new customs station chief, tops the...



  • 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 ...



  • Val McDermid

    Dr. Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan return in the award-winning series that is the basis for the hit show on BBC America. In a small grim room, the body of a woman is discovered, panic and pain etched in her face. The scene ma...



  • James Sneddon

    James Sneddon has mixed a coming-of-age story with the dark fantastic in his first novel, The Tolltaker, in which a young boy comes to terms with death, grief, and the unknown.

    Eight-year-old Bobby Burke doesn't want to move out of his grandparent...



  • Tor Seidler

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



  • William Steig

    Toby is at it again.

    When Toby and his parents go on a picnic, there's no telling who he'll pretend to be. An owl? A bat? A turtle? Can you guess?

    One thing is for sure: There's lots of fun in store for Toby ...



  • Virginia Kelly

    DANGEROUS COUNTRY, DANGEROUS MAN... When terrorists kidnapped her brother, Mary Beth Williams had ten days to come up with the ransom. In desperation, she went to South American diplomat Nicholas Romero for help. A man committed to saving lives, h...



  • Patricia Grasso

    Beautiful though she is, Victoria Douglas's reputation for reckless behavior has put her marriage prospects at risk. Only those closest to her know that the young woman's outrageous behavior is designed to mask a secret shame. Infuriated to discover ...



  • Leonard Tourney

    The crime's the thing.

    William Shakespeare is perhaps the most famous and prolific playwright of all time. Millions have read and seen his works, but few know the man behind the works. For all his fortune and fame, little did he know that the ...



  • Lois Richer

    HIS MISSING FAMILY RETURNS An accident took away Grayson McGonigle's wife and son, or so everyone in Blessing believed -- except Gray, who prayed daily for a miracle. Then, five months after their car plunged into the Colorado River, Mariss...



  • Robert Greenberger

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...



  • Charles Ryan

    While on a risky mission during World War II to rescue a powerful Mafia capo who can assist the Allies in taking over Sicily, Lt. John "Red" Parnell and his Blue Team become the targets of a ruthless German Waffen-SS officer who is driven by sheer ha...



  • Kate Egan

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



  • Stephen D. Sullivan

    Fans of the new movie based on the hit British TV series of the 1960s can follow the adventures of the Thunderbirds as they battle their nemesis, the Hood--a half-mechanical, completely maniacal villain played by Academy Award-winning actor Sir Ben K...



  • Kate Egan

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




  • Liane Moriarty

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



  • Liz Ireland

    EDIE AMOS MAY HAVE LOST THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, BUT SHE CAN'T LOSE THIS APARTMENT. Sure her journalist boyfriend has taken a dangerous assignment overseas, leaving Edie without a second thought. But a sunny two-bedroom apartment--with a balcony--doe...



  • Robin Jarvis

    Gamaliel Tumpin has never been much more than a klutz. He can't shape-change into a mouse like his werling peers, and he can't run as fast as everyone else ... about all he can do is fall flat on his face. Or so it seems. But when a dark force led...



  • Dan Jurgens

    Collects Thor (1998) #68-74. The day of man is over. Now is the time of gods on Earth. A character from the present is thrust into the future to witness the brave new world Thor has built atop the ruins of human society. Is it a utopia, or a totalita...



  • Rachel Pastan

    Intelligent, crisp, ironic, and well-paced, This Side of Married brings to mind a pleasing cross of Jane Austen and Laurie Colwin. It is a sparkling domestic novel of romantic love and familial loyalties that is as heady as a glass of good champagne ...



  • Raffi

    Raffi’s take on this traditional favorite is perfectly matched with Stacey Schuett’s adorable illustrations. A school play is the setting for Raffi’s latest Song to Read, and it’s filled with lovable kids of all ages pulling together to put o...



  • Robert Rosenberg

    Hopscotching from Arizona to Central Asia to Istanbul, this inspired debut novel is “a vibrant mix of the serious and the absurd” (Publishers Weekly).   In the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse, Anarbek Tashtanaliev singlehandedly s...



  • Kit Reed

    TV says it. Magazines say it. American society commands it. You must be thin. You must be young. Fad diets. Fat-purging pills. Fitness clubs. Liposuction. Breast implants. Steroids.In the tomorrow of Thinner Than Thou, the cult of the body ...



  • Kristin Hannah

    After years of trying to have a baby, Angela DeSaria is left with too many broken dreams and a ruined marriage. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her hometown and rejoins her loud, loving, slightly crazy family. In the small Northwest to...



  • Amy Schwartz

    When you're in the second grade, you learn new things every day.

    Before Ms. Jones's class, Andrew didn't know how to spell “neighborhood,” how to subtract 348 from 411, how to write in cursive, how to read a chapter book, or how to play...




  • Jim Starlin

    The most powerful, enigmatic villain in the Marvel Universe takes center stage in a galaxy-spanning tale woven by his creator, Jim Starlin (MARVEL UNIVERSE: THE END). He's held ultimate power in his hands, only to see it all slip away time and again....



  • 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...



  • Don Pendleton

    Stony Man The ultra secret counterterrorist force called Stony Man utilizes a brilliant cybernetics team and a dedicated fighting force to combat the ever-changing threats against the free world. Stony Man answers only to the President. But when p...



  • Janet Evanovich

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



  • 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 ...



  • Max Lucado; Ron DiCianni

    What do parents want for their children? Success? Happiness? Modern culture constantly feeds people lies about what's really important in life. True joy and lasting satisfaction come only from going God's way. This secret is hidden in the same pla...




  • Daniel Ehrenhaft

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

    A kid lik...




  • Judith Guest

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary People comes a gripping novel of suspense, exploring fragile family dynamics in the aftermath of tragedy... Acclaimed author Judith Guest makes a triumphant return with this poignant and powerfu...



  • 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...



  • Jack McDevitt

    Everryone knew the legend of Christopher Sim. Fighter. Leader. An interstellar hero with a rare talent for war, Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a ragtag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the back of the alien Ashiyyur. ...



  • 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!...



  • 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...



  • Kathryn Reiss

    Dollhouse of Horrors! Zibby Thorne doesn't know what possessed her to buy an antique dollhouse--she doesn't even like dolls. But when her friends and family start having bizarre accidents clearly connected to the dollhouse, she can't ignore the mena...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Ann Levalley

    Things are going well for Muffy Sergeant. She's the daughter of a famous doctor, director of The Arts Center's theater and fine arts program, and the longtime love of Philadelphia's most eligible bachelor. Life is perfect, or so it seems. Suddenly, h...



  • Mack Maloney

    Call it all-American pride. Call it vengeance. The Ocean Voyager is on course. A thirty-thousand-ton undercover assault warship set loose in the Middle East. For Colonel Ryder Long of the U.S. Air Force, fighting to win is in his blood. The same coul...



  • Dean Wesley Smith

    Our seventh anthology features original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Trek: Voyager®, and Star Trek: Enterprise" stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans! Featuring new stories by n...



  • J. Michael Straczynski

    He raised the bar for epic science-fiction storytelling on television with his television series Babylon 5, then followed it by elevating the way in which superhero tales are told with his critically acclaimed scripts for Marvel's The Amazing Spider-...



  • Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    Far, far away, jutting out into the emptiness beyond, lies the Edge. Both the land and the air are filled with strange peoples and terrifying creatures; action--and danger--await at every turn. On board the famous sky ship Stormchaser, Twig eagerly l...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Leslie Meier

    Lucy Stone is in the doghouse--with her next-door neighbor Mrs. Prudence Pratt. It seems that Kudo, the Stones' misbehaving mutt, has developed a taste for Mrs. Pratt's blue-ribbon winning chickens. And he's also developed an escape artist's talent f...



  • Sara Orwig

    SLOW BURN It began as an anonymous flirtation. Storm raging, lights flickering, two stranded travelers decided to share uninhibited conversation -- but no names -- during a stolen encounter. Talking turned into kissing...and the need to know each ot...



  • 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...



  • Julie Kenner

    He'd be a terrible spy. But he might make a good husband. Call him Teague. Finn Teague. A jack-of-all-trades, he's been everything from ski instructor to cook, but he's always craved a job that wouldn't bore the living daylights out of him. He longs...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Vickie McDonough
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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...



  • Kate Cann



  • Donna Simpson
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    When Sorrow Marchand accepts Bertram Carlyle's proposal of marriage, she is counting on the kindness she believes is hidden beneath his stern exterior. Her family's life is decidedly "original," if not truly eccentric, but Bertram is man enough to me...



  • George Ella Lyon

    Sonny is only one of the spies at the Bradshaw house in Mozier, Alabama. But as a child he saw a tray full of dinner come flying across the front hall at his father. His mother's aim was dead on. And Daddy's departure promptly followed.Loretta, Sonny...



  • Dorothy Garlock

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



  • Stephen King

    Susannah Dean is possessed, her body a living vessel for the demon-mother Mia. Something is growing inside Susannah's belly, something terrible, and soon she will give birth to Mia's "chap." But three unlikely allies are following them from New York ...



  • Will Thomas

    An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his apprentice, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar. When a student bea...



  • William Nicholson

    Cool, clear-eyed, and bluntly cynical, the young narrator of The Society of Others embarks on a journey without a destination. He hitchhikes through Europe only to find himself in a mystifying country where terrorists are inexplicably after him, and ...



  • Karen Ranney

    WAS EVER A BETRAYAL SO CRUEL? Jeanne du Marchand adored her dashing young Scotsman, Douglas MacRae, and every moment in his arms was pure rapture. But when her father, the Comte du Marchand, learned she was carrying Douglas's child, Jeanne was torn ...



  • Patricia Highsmith

    "Like Ripley, [Highsmith's characters] burn in a reader's memory." -- Susan Salters Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review In unmistakable Highsmithian fashion, Small g, Patricia Highsmith's final novel, opens near a seedy Zurich bar with the brutal...



  • Michael Morris

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  • Jake Logan

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  • Mary Balogh

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  • Bonnie Marson

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  • Kevin J. Anderson

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  • Neal Asher

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  • Robert Edric

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  • Anne Kelleher

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  • Karen L. King
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  • Ed Greenwood

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  • Dandi Daley Mackall

    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...



  • Anthony Weller

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  • Paul Ruditis

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  • Michael R. Phillips

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  • Stephanie Johnson

    Divorcing her husband due to his infidelity, Sinclair befriends one of her ex-husband's lovers in an attempt to ruin her life, but when an unlikely bond forms between them, Sinclair must decide what is more important--revenge or friendship. Original....




  • Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

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  • Max Lucado

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  • Paul Burston

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  • Eric Dezenhall

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  • Liz Maverick

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  • Lucia Nevai

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  • Karen Brichoux

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  • James Axler

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  • Rob Reuland

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  • Beth Kephart

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  • Erica Spindler

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  • Pamela Toth

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  • Nicci French

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  • Amanda Stevens

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  • Danielle Steel

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  • Robert Newcomb

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  • Michael Z. Williamson

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  • Ed Boxall

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  • Jesse McCann / Jesse Leon McCann

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  • Robert E. Howard

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  • Rupa Bajwa

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  • James Rollins

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  • Joanna Campbell

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  • James Patterson

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  • Anne O'Brien

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  • Michael Emberley

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  • Gilbert Morris

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  • Joylynn M. Jossel

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  • Matt Christopher

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  • Jeanine Cummins

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  • Larry Niven

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  • Lucy Gordon

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  • Richard Cox

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  • Brian Jacques

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  • Karen Kingsbury; Gary Smalley

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  • Mary Pope Osborne

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  • Cathy Marie Hake

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  • Barry Lopez

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  • Kate Egan

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  • Elizabeth Kerner

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  • G.M. Ford

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  • Debra White Smith

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  • Max Brand

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  • Dan Vining

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  • Arturo Perez-Reverte

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  • Mary Engelbreit

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  • Debi Gliori

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  • Miranda Jones

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  • Susan Donovan

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  • Yvonne Jocks
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    Society beauty Alice Prescott always dreamed of the perfect wedding -- but her rich fiance ended their engagement when her family's fortunes collapsed. Friendless and alone, she made her way to the rough frontier town of Denver, vowing never to t...



  • Harold Brodkey

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

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