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  • Getting Lost with Boys

    Hailey Abbott

    Cordelia Packer hates the unexpected, but she's in for a surprise when Jacob Stein offers to be her travel companion, all the way from San Diego to her sister's place in northern California. Before she knows it, her neatly laid out summer plan has tu...

  • 6 Chambers, 1 Bullet

    Ralph "Sonny" Barger

    Everett John "Patch" Kinkade isn't fazed by violence and death. He has battled rival MCs in bare-knuckle brawls, survived laying down a bike at 90 mph over 400 feet of asphalt, and locked horns with shady law-enforcement agents. But when Patch le...

  • The Pale Blue Eye

    Louis Bayard

    From the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy comes an ingenious tale of murder and revenge, featuring a retired New York City detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening ...

  • Days

    Paul Bowles

    Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky b...

  • Crows over the Wheatfield

    Adam Braver

    Driving home at dusk, Claire Andrews, an art history professor at a prestigious New England university, accidentally strikes and kills a boy who darts into the path of her car. She is immediately cleared of blame but is nonetheless left psychological...

  • Queen of Babble

    Meg Cabot

    Lizzie Nichols has a problem: she can't keep anything to herself. And when she opens her big mouth on a trip to London, her good intentions get her long-distance beau, Andrew, in major hot water. Now she's stuck in England with no boyfriend and no pl...

  • Sweet Sixteen Princess

    Meg Cabot

    Sixteen is the magic number Mia doesn't always have the best luck with parties, so even though it's her sweet sixteenth, she doesn't want a birthday bash. As usual, Grandmčre has other ideas, and thinks a reality TV special is just the thing in o...

  • Grab on to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way

    Bryan Charles

    An engaging, often hilarious coming-of-age novel of uncertainty and discovery oozing with early 90s nostalgia. "Funny and unpredictable...(Charles) proves impressively adept at capturing the inchoate ache of adolescent longing."   ...

  • Bookmarked to Die

    Jo Dereske

    The crime-solving doyenne of the Dewey Decimal System, Miss Zukas is back in circulation! Librarian extraordinaire Miss Wilhelmina "Helma" Zukas wakes up on the morning of her forty-second birthday in the throes of more than one midlife crisis. H...

  • Day of the Scarab

    Catherine Fisher

    How will their struggle end? Madness reigns in the Two Lands. General Argelin has proclaimed himself king and is systematically destroying all enemies -- humans . . . and gods. Mirany, the young priestess, is in hiding. Alexos, the boy wh...

  • Just Short of Crazy

    Nina Foxx

    When smart, successful, levelheaded lawyer Alexis Pearson gets blindsided by her faithless fiance, who disses and dumps her, she decides to change everything. Gone are the trendy dreads in favor of her own soft and natural tresses. She's going to get...

  • Chasing the Jaguar

    Michele Dominguez Greene

    Think you have issues? Try these on for size: Your parents are separated, and Dad's already taking vacations with his new girlfriend. You and Mom share a small apartment in a gang-ridden neighborhood. You go to school with a bunch of spoiled rich ...

  • Tourist Trap

    Emma Harrison

    Entry name: Cassandra Grace Event: Horseback riding (jumping) Animal name: Lola (best horse in the world!) Fee enclosed: Um, almost . . . See, the thing is, I almost have enough money, I have tons of riding students who pay me, but there's thi...

  • Shamus in the Green Room

    Susan Kandel

    Los Angeles writer Cece Caruso is thrilled that her biography of the legendary Dashiell Hammett is headed for the big screen. Rafe Simic, the actor cast as the lead, may not be the sharpest knif in the drawer, but the money she'll make tutoring him i...

  • Blood Mask

    Lauren Kelly

    Awealthy, charismatic, and controversial "benefactress of art," Drewe Hildebrand disappears from her estate on the Hudson River, seemingly abducted in the night. Her young niece, Marta, found in a desolate wooded area close by, is too traumatized to ...

  • Anybody Out There?

    Marian Keyes

    Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible Walsh sisters and their eccentric mammy. In this funny, heartbreaking, and triumphant new tale, it's Anna Walsh's turn to shine! Life in ...

  • Marked Man

    William Lashner

    It must have been a hell of a night. One of those long, dangerous nights where the world shifts and doors open. A night of bad judgment and wrong turns, of weariness and hilarity and a hard sexual charge that both frightens and compels. A night where...

  • The Wrong Hostage

    Elizabeth Lowell

    Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law -- lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned dow...

  • Almost a Goddess

    Judi McCoy

    21ST-CENTURY PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL Kyra Position Title -- Muse of Good Fortune Evaluated by -- Mighty Zeus, President, CEO, Top God PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT Kyra's performance has, quite frankly, been a disappointment over these past one hundred yea...

  • Natural Flights of the Human Mind

    Clare Morrall

    Peter Straker lives in a converted lighthouse on the Devon coast with a fine view of the sea, two cats, and no neighbors. That's just the way he likes it. He speaks to no one except in his dreams, where he converses with some of the seventy-eight peo...

  • Back to Wando Passo

    David Payne

    Now, in his new novel, Payne introduces us to Ransom Hill, lead singer of a legendary-but-now-defunct indie rock group who has come to South Carolina to turn over a new leaf. A bighearted artist and a bit of a wild man, Ran knows that his wife Claire...

  • The Sweet Spot

    Kayla Perrin

    The Sweet Spot has nothing to do with football. . . . Just ask Kahari Brown, one of the NFL's sexiest stars. He knows how to handle a football, and always thought he had a way with the ladies. But his smooth moves off the field are only getting h...

  • Infernal Devices

    Philip Reeve

    HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A RUNAWAY TEEN Nearly twenty years after the events of Mortal Engines and Predator's Gold, Tom and Hester have finally settled down. The wild adventures of their past are now little more than stories to tell their daughter, Wr...

  • Viking Warrior

    Judson Roberts

    He's the son of a chieftain and a princess--yet Halfdan was born a slave. Now he is becoming a man and it is time for him to meet his destiny. Though raised a slave who could only dream of freedom, young Halfdan's fate may be about to change....

  • Piece of My Heart

    Peter Robinson

    The year is 1969. Rock 'n' roll, psychedelic drugs, and peace-loving hippies are thriving in Britain. But in the aftermath of a rock music festival, cold reality strikes when a woman is found murdered in her sleeping bag, callously left among the deb...

  • Casual

    Oksana Robski

    When her wealthy husband is shot to death by a hired killer, the rich widow embarks on a luxurious but precarious life of haute couture shopping, drunken orgies, gossip, red-carpet events, cocaine addiction, and torrid affairs in an exclusive Moscow ...

  • The Rainbow Wand

    Emily Rodda

    Ahuman child has become lost in the Realm and it's up to Jessie to find her. With the help of the magical Rainbow Wand, Jessie sets off to save the day -- only to discover a terrible secret that threatens the peace and safety of the Fairy Realm.

  • Public Enemy

    Will Staeger

    When quasi-retired CIA operative W. Cooper's routine of debauchery is interrupted by a request for his help in fencing millions of dollars in gold artifacts, Cooper doesn't see a downside--until, that is, everyone connected to the artifacts begins dy...

  • Dudes, the School is Haunted!

    R.L. Stine

    Joe Sweety's favorite T-shirt says: EXTRA-WIDE LOAD. - Joe is so big and mean, even his EARS have muscles! - But big, tough Joe has one deep, dark secret. He's terrified of ghosts! - Bernie Bridges now has the perfect way to pay Sweety back for bu...

  • The Obsidian Key

    Eldon Thompson

    So quickly heralded, Pentania's Age of Man is already under siege -- shaken by catastrophic war with the Demon Queen Spithaera and threatened by the return of banished creatures of legend and nightmare. Humanity will never be the same. In battl...

  • The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood

    Barb Bentler Ullman

    Welcome to NUTFOLK WOOD population 52 IN THE COUNTRY TOWN OF Plunkit, where Willa and her mom start anew after her parents' divorce, Willa catches sight of a strange sparkle by the creek and in the old woods. Her older-than-old neighbor, Hazel Wicke...

  • Reality TV Bites

    Shane Bolks

    Allison Holloway may be one of the last holdouts: a true reality TV junkie. (Hey, there's no shame in admitting you enjoy watching the Donald say "You're fired!" for the millionth time.) But when her boss signs up their interior design firm for Kamik...

  • The Duke in Disguise

    Gayle Callen

    The dashing nobleman was hiding a dangerous secret...and loving him would be the most scandalous, perilous, exciting thing Meriel had ever done. WHO IS THIS MAN? The Duke of Thanet may have hired her as a governess to his six-year-old son, but ...

  • Weapons Grade

    Dennis Chalker; Kevin Dockery

    The third instalment of the HOME TEAM series, a combination of Vince Flynn and Richard Marcinko. Exâ€"Navy SEAL Ted Reaper and his expert team must rush to stop terrorists from launching weapons of mass destruction at the next space shuttle launch in...

  • Summer in the City

    Elizabeth Chandler

    He took her in his arms and she sighed with happiness and they watched the sunset holding each other tightly. Lacrosse camp 9 a.m.-noon (can't be late! "Coach" Josh will freak out) Basketball camp 1:00-4:00 (so many screaming kids. . . ) ...

  • Honored Enemy

    Raymond E. Feist; William R. Forstchen

    In the frozen northlands of the embattled realm of Midkemia, fate can form strange alliances. It is nine long, bloody years into the ongoing Riftwar that is tearing Midkemia asunder. Having survived a disastrous encounter with their sworn enemy, the...

  • A Change of Heart

    Philip Gulley

    Sam Gardner never dreamed he would be thanking God for Harmony's self-appointed general of the religious Right, Dale Hinshaw. God does indeed work in mysterious ways.Amanda Hodge, who has been living with her Uncle Ellis and Aunt Miriam since her par...

  • A Fistful of Charms

    Kim Harrison

    The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that order. ...

  • Dogged Pursuit

    Lee Charles Kelley

    Hounding Killers Can Be a Deadly Business . . . Jack Field thinks that nothing can dampen his spirits this beautiful Maine October, what with his wedding to smart and sexy state medical examiner Dr. Jamie Cutter only weeks away. But when he hears...

  • Diary of an Ugly Duckling

    Karyn Langhorne

    What makes an otherwise sane woman appear on a reality TV show? Especially one as drastic as Ugly Duckling? For Audra Marks, the last straw comes when she loses her shot with handsome Art Bradshaw to the prettier and lighter-skinned Esmeralda Prin...

  • Sins of Midnight

    Kimberly Logan

    I've made a vow to avoid a scandal, but my best intentions cannot withstand the heat of pure passion and the ... Sins of Midnight My unladylike association with the Bow Street Runners has made me fair game for London's loose-tongued rumormongers, ...

  • On the Way to the Wedding

    Julia Quinn

    A funny thing happened... Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happ...

  • A Bite to Remember

    Lynsay Sands

    Rule #1: Never get involved with someone who won't be there for you when the sun comes up. Once bitten, twice shy, and sexy PI Jackie Morrisey wasn't going there again. Vincent Argeneau may be the hottest guy she's ever met, living or dead, but s...

  • Firegirl

    Tony Abbott

    "There is ... ," Mrs. Tracy was saying quietly, "there is something you need to know about Jessica.... From this moment on, life is never quite the same for Tom and his seventh-grade classmates. They learn that Jessica has been in a fire and was bad...

  • Males and E-Mails

    Jessica Adams
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    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • The End

    Cecelia Ahern
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    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • Are You Ready Boots?

    Maggie Alderson
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    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • A Time to Keep

    Rochelle Alers
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    When thirtysomething celebrity journalist Gwendolyn Taylor inherits an antebellum manor -- Bon Temps -- in Louisiana Cajun country, she decides to leave the hustle and bustle of Boston for the picturesque bayou. Little does she realize the mystery an...

  • Alentejo Blue

    Monica Ali

    Set in a small Portuguese village, Alentejo Blue is a story of displacement and modernization told through the lives of the locals and of people who are just passing through. The residents of Mamarrosa whose ancestors occupy the graveyards are restle...

  • Betrayal

    Aaron Allston

    Honor and duty collide with friendship and blood ties as the Skywalker and Solo clans find themselves on opposing sides of an explosive conflict. When a mission to uncover an illegal missile factory on the planet Adumar ends in a violent ambush --...

  • Maternal Instinct

    Caroline Anderson

    Made to be a mother If Eve Spicer was looking for a man, obstetric consultant Hugh Douglas would be almost perfect. He's kind, handsome and skilled with the mothers and babies, whose lives he saves every day. But Eve isn't looking! And she can't t...

  • Crystal Doors

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    Fourteen-year-old cousins Gwen and Vic have lived together ever since the mysterious deaths of Gwen's parents and disappearance of Vic's mother--until Vic's father accidentally transports them through a magical doorway to the island of Elantya. Vic a...

  • Almost Sisters

    Nancy Anderson

    Three women from diverse backgrounds and lifestyles are drawn together at a BYU Women’s Conference through a sharing of problems and a Guilty Secret. Juneau, named after the city in which she was born, hopes the conference will help to re-center he...

  • Billy Bonkers

    Giles Andreae

    Mad stuff just happens with Billy Bonkers! Billy is a bouncy, bubbly, bonkers boy. And wherever he goes, off-the-wall adventures always seem to follow. From bouncing so hard on his trampoline that he bounces up, up and away...into space, and eating s...

  • Sequence

    Lori Andrews

    Dr. Alexandra Blake has the job of a lifetime. As a cutting-edge geneticist at AFIP---the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C.---Alex is charged with using her research into the genetics of viruses to find a vaccine against bioterr...

  • Squeeze Play

    Kate Angell

    CURVEBALL: Getting thrown for a loop whenever Jacy Grayson was near him. THROWING HEAT Being around a vixen hotter than the steaming coffee she served at Jacy's Java. HOME RUN: Having the woman of his dreams say "yes." PLAY BALL: Risk Ki...

  • Love Once Again

    Devon Vaughn Archer

    Distraught over the death of his wife and daughter and still suffering the emotional scars of this tragic loss, Richard Lowery, a prizewinning photographer, may be beyond comforting. Yet he finds solace -- and surprising attraction -- in a stranger a...

  • The Turning

    Jennifer Armintrout

    I'm no coward. I want to make that perfectly clear. But after my life turned into a horror movie, I take fear a lot more seriously now. I finally became Dr. Carrie Ames just eight months ago. Then I was attacked in the hospital morgue by a vampire. J...

  • Blue Murder

    Vivien Armstrong

    A Detective Chief Inspector Roger Hayes mystery Hayes wakes up in hospital having been stabbed and knocked unconscious while trying to save an elegant lady from some muggers. While convalescing in the Isle of Man, he meets the woman's brother, the ow...

  • In The Dark

    Judith Arnold

    The most beautiful hotel in New Orleans, and someone's out to destroy it. The party at the Hotel Marchand is in full swing when all the lights suddenly go out. What does head of security Mac Jensen do first? He's torn between two jobs -- protectin...

  • The Cape Cod Caper

    Margot Arnold

    When a mutilated corpse is found in a cranberry bog on the Dimola estate, Penelope Spring is summoned to the Cape by Zeb Grange, an old flame. But by the time she arrives, an attempt on Zeb's life has been made, leaving him in a coma.

    As Penny...

  • The Night Buffalo

    Guillermo Arriaga

    Guillermo Arriaga is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer already familiar to fans of his films, the Academy Award -- nominated 21 Grams, Amores perros, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which won a Palme d'Or for Best Screen...

  • Strontium Swamp

    James Axler

    ETERNAL FIRE In their darkest moments, few citizens of the twentieth century could have envisioned the firestorm that plunged the world into the chaos of a nuke-altered reality. Twenty-second-century America may not be much worth fighting for, but R...

  • Blow the House Down

    Robert Baer

    Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11. Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor....

  • Kitten in the Candy Corn

    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, Jam...

  • Dog Lover

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    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • Showdown

    Tilly Bagshawe

    Bobby Cameron is a cowboy through and through. An alpha male of the old school, his classic good looks have made women swoon on the racing circuit from Kentucky to Dubai. After inheriting Highwood, his father's magnificent but debt-ridden ranch in Ca...

  • The Italian's Blackmailed Mistress

    Jacqueline Baird

    "You really expect me to sleep with you to pay my father's debt?" Italian magnate Max Quintano knew exactly how to get his way...by blackmailing Sophie into becoming his mistress. "Sleep is not what I have in mind." Sophi...

  • The Lavender Field

    Jeanette Baker

    The best views are seen from the heart... Cool, gracious, international relations attorney Whitney Benedict hasn't completely given up on marriage, but she does have a checklist of qualities for the man of her dreams: affluence, intelligence, good...

  • Final Gate

    Richard Baker
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    MYTH DRANNOR REBORN? ARAEVIN has gained too much power too fast, and the price of what will be both blessing and curse will be higher than any mere elf can pay. SARYA has opened wounds so old and so deep no one will ever be able to close them, but ...

  • Duchess of Aquitaine

    Margaret Ball

    BEAUTIFUL AND BRILLIANT, ELEANOR is the daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering court is the twelfth-century birthplace of courtly love. For all of the duke's boasts that Eleanor has the brains of a man and the soul of a warrior, everyone...

  • Room for Improvement

    Stacey Ballis

    Stacey Ballis tackles home improvement and reality TV -- and reminds us that sometimes life and love are better left unscripted…What do you get when you give two hopeful singles fashion consultants and interior designers, allow them four days to pe...

  • Wicked Pleasure

    Nina Bangs

    Second in the sizzling supernatural Castle of Dark Dreams series from New York Times bestselling author Nina Bangs.Brynn McNair may seem heaven-sent to the women who hunger for his body, but he’s actually a cursed demon of desire driven t...

  • King of Ayodhya

    Ashok K. Banker

    The original Ramayana -- a classic tale of war between absolute Good and Evil -- was written 3,000 years ago by Valmiki, a reformed thief-turned-sage. Now, with breathtaking imagination, Indian novelist Ashok K. Banker has recreated this epic tale ...

  • Loner's Lady

    Lynna Banning

    When a stranger turned up at her farm, in need of a place to rest, Ellen O'Brian didn't have the heart to turn him away. He looked darkly dangerous, but she could handle herself; she had learned hard and fast when her husband upped and left. Jess...

  • A Fairy's Work is Never Done

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • Bug Safari

    Bob Barner

    A young explorer finds dragonflies, bees, beetles, and an army of black ants on the move in this introduction to insects and other creepy crawlies. A four-page glossary provides information on the sixteen kinds of bugs seen in this story....

  • The Days of Summer

    Jill Barnett

    New York Times bestselling author Jill Barnett sweeps readers away to the sultry California coast in a profoundly moving story about the power of forgiveness. One fateful night, a deadly accident at a Los Angeles intersection changes the lives and f...

  • Reality Chick

    Lauren Barnholdt

    All-hour study fests . . . all-night parties . . . Going away to college means total independence and freedom. Unless of course your freshman year is taped and televised for all the world to watch. On uncensored cable. Sweet and normal Ally Cavanau...

  • Last Bite

    Nancy Verde Barr

    After ending a bad relationship, Casey Costello, an executive chef at a morning television show, swears off men. Who has the time anyway? She's busy overseeing a rambunctious food-prep crew in a kitchen the size of a closet; trying to please high-mai...

  • The Rogue's Kiss

    Emily Bascom

    Under cover of darkness, a highwayman silently waits. In an approaching carriage travels a beautiful woman -- entirely alone. Lady Roisin Melville is escaping London and the fortune-hunting gentlemen of the ton, only to be held up by a masked figu...

  • Claire Knows Best

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Claire Everett's life is finally on the right track. She is connecting with her four kids and getting along with her ex-husband and his pregnant wife. She's even attending church regularly. Now that she's dating Greg, the cute widower two doors down,...

  • A Sounding Brass

    Shelley Bates

    CLAIRE MONTOYA'S LIFE DOESN'T FIT HER ANYMORE. Brought up in a strict church in the small town of Hamilton Falls, Claire has seen disgrace fall on the leaders she trusted and watched her friends reject their faith. When Luke Fisher is invited to p...

  • Double Abduction

    Chris Beakey

    Mary Bennett and her brother Michael share a close bond, which has grown tighter as they've raised her five-year-old son Justin. But when Justin is abducted, Michael is a prime suspect. Michael was with Mary's older son Benjamin when he was abducted ...

  • Manny's Cows

    Suzy Becker

    At first, everything goes smooooothly. But . . . Flossie gets bus-sick. Goldie goes AWOL. Bathroom breaks are a nightmare. And the whole herd storms the gift store like bulls -- er, cows in a china shop!

    Niagara Falls will never be quite the...

  • The Powder Monkey

    Ted Bell
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    PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-w...

  • Attack of the Monster House in 3-D!

    Lara Bergen

    In order to destroy the Monster House, DJ and his friends need some questions answered. So, they set off to talk to an expert on ghosts, demons, and the paranormal, the wisest pizza-delivery guy on earth, known to all as Skull. The wise Skull tells t...

  • Puzzle Time

    Lara Bergen

    This interactive storybook features seven 24-piece puzzles starring your favorite Disney/Pixar characters, each in their most memorable moments. Each puzzle (color-coded on the back for easy sorting) is accompanied by a lively retelling of The Inc...

  • The Devils' Due

    Steve Berry
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    PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-w...

  • Express Male

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    Why is everyone calling her "Lila"? Music teacher and part-time lingerie saleswoman Marnie Lundy's biggest thrill is playing piano at the local mall...until the night everyone seems to think she's somebody else! Suddenly she's being addressed i...

  • Faith Will Overcome

    ReShonda Tate Billingsley
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    Determined to leave her small town and broken family behind, Faith Logan believes finding a man is the solution to all her problems. But a chance meeting with Darius Williams helps her realize that all she needs is faith to find true happiness....

  • The Flamenco Academy

    Sarah Bird

    The place is Albuquerque. Cyndi Rae Hrncir, called Rae, seventeen and shy, is twice spellbound, first by high school bad girl Didi ("Dirty Deeds") Steinberg, already embarked on a search for stardom, then by a devastatingly handsome young flamenco gu...

  • A Dinner To Die For

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam s...

  • Sacrificial Lion

    Grant Blackwood
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    PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-w...

  • Come Sundown

    Mike Blakely

    Reluctant hero, Honore Greenwood, has a knack for embroiling himself in the most violent conflicts of the Southern Plains. Known as Plenty Man to the Comanches, Honore serves as ransom negotiator for captives among the Indians. As if his life wasn't ...

  • Walk Proud, Stand Tall

    Johnny D. Boggs

    Years after sending outlaw Ollie Sinclair to the Yuma Penitentiary, lawman Lin Garrett may be the only man who can track Sinclair when he is released from prison and executes a daring train robbery. Reprint....

  • A Stitch in Time

    Allison Bottke

    In the course of one year Dee Decker . . . . . . has gastric bypass surgery and loses 150 pounds . . . separates from her husband . . . buys a whole new wardrobe . . . flourishes in her glamorous fundraiser job . . . and becomes a Christian. She's a ...

  • The Fly Guy

    Laura Bradford (1)

    ON CLOUD NINE Nature lover Sarah Dundee just landed her dream job: covering assignments all across the country for an environmental magazine. Her goal: fly there. In her own plane. Everything's under control--until flight instructor Logan Donnelly...

  • Under Pressure

    Kathy Brandt

    UNFATHOMABLE An underwater investigation job in the British Virgin Islands? Of course I'd take it. But I soon discovered my new duties wouldn't include a lot of time in the sun. It seems that no matter where your job lands you, as a homicide detecti...

  • A Woman Worth Loving

    Jackie Braun

    IN AUDRA'S GLAMOROUS WORLD, PICTURES TELL THE STORY... Audra Conlan has always been flirtatious, flamboyant and wild, until fate gives her a second chance she vows not to waste. This time she'll repent her mistakes, face her estranged family -- an...

  • Deadly Greetings

    Elizabeth Bright

  • Save Your Own

    Elisabeth Brink

    Meet Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg: a virginal, narcoleptic, atheistic Harvard Divinity School student struggling to finish her Ph.D. thesis. Gillian is barely equipped for life outside the walls of academia-but when her fellowship is revoked, she has ...

  • Rain

    Cary Brown

  • Shadow of Doubt

    Jeremy Brown

    DO YOU HAVE THE FORENSIC TOOLS TO SOLVE THESE MYSTERIES? --A man's eyeball is found at a crime scene. How is it matched to the victim? --A woman poisons her husband. Was it her cooking, or was it murder? --A man is killed in a hit-and-run car ac...

  • Heated

    Niobia Bryant

    She's Sexy In The City... Bianca King is living the golden life in metro Georgia with a booming veterinary practice and a steady string of dates--until her somewhat estranged father asks for her help in keeping the family ranch afloat. When Bianca r...

  • Kindness

    Elizabeth Buchan
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    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • Madeline Mann

    Julia Buckley

    Reporter Madeline Mann (Madman to her brothers) is a control freak. That is, a freak about anyone trying to control her, even people like her sensible mother, handsome lover, and annoying brothers. As a journalist in her hometown of Webley, Illinois,...

  • Say a Little Mantra for Me

    Yvonne Burgess

    There was something going on with Iris and Girlie. Something fishy that I didn't know about. Because it was bound to be fishy if they weren't letting me in on it.' So figures Gran of her daughter and grandchild, confined in their flat - with an unpla...

  • Leaving Jetty Road

    Rebecca Burton

    Nat, Lise, and Sofia are best friends. This year, their last year of high school, none of them foresees the changes that will occur in their lives. This is the year that Nat--the go-between, the peacemaker--gets a job and meets a drop-dead gorgeou...

  • The Rome Affair

    Laura Caldwell

    IT WAS AN AFFAIR...TO REGRET Rachel Blakely's charmed life is significantly tarnished after her husband Nick's infidelity, but she wants to give her marriage a second chance. Then a business trip to sun-drenched Rome with her best girlfriend Kit l...

  • What I Found

    Laura Caldwell
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    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • Secrets of My Hollywood Life

    Jen Calonita

    What if? Your picture was taped inside teenage boys' lockers across America, your closets were bursting with never-worn designer clothing, and the tabloids constantly asked whether you were losing your "good girl" status? It's a glamorous life, but ...

  • Scar Night

    Alan Campbell

    ANGELS, DEMONS, EPIC, AND STEAMPUNK MEET IN AN UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT FANTASY. In the city of Deepgate, suspended by chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss, there are two angels: one, an untested boy, The last of his line; the other, a psychotic mu...

  • Venetian Holiday

    David Campbell

    On the eve of Il Porto gallery’s opening, Kate Fujimori leaps across Venice’s rooftops---an easy routine for an expert cat burglar like herself. But her well-planned heist of the gallery’s featured painting, a famed Mona Lisa forgery, goes unch...

  • Secret Story

    Ramsey Campbell

    You're an underpaid civil servant who dreams of chucking it all to become a famous author. You live with your overbearing mother who always seems to interrupt when you're writing a key scene. Who always wants to know why you haven't brought home a ni...

  • You Made Me Love You

    C.J. Carmichael

    For six friends, summers on a British Columbian island revolved around the beautiful Simone DeRosier. A talented singer, Simone was destined for stardom. Years later when she made it big, she immortalized her friends in a hit song just before her une...

  • Chimera

    Lois Carroll

  • Reckless

    Michael Cart

    Bold, innovative, and eclectic -- that’s Rush Hour, the place for thoughtprovoking work from today’s most distinguished voices, both established and new.

    In Rush Hour: Reckless, you’ll find captivating poetry by Michael L. Printz Honor w...

  • Strangers' Gate

    Tom Casey

    Pilot and adventurer, Jason Walker follows his bliss--into the sensuous arms of sultry Charlotte Lansing. Unfortunately, Charlotte's husband, Alan, is a Wall Street raider, a drug-lord money-launderer and a particularly perverse pornographer. Marked ...

  • Love Is in the Heir

    Kathryn Caskie

    Fiddlesticks! I am sure the ladies Letitia and Viola Featherton are wrong when it comes to matchmaking. They insist that it has all to do with love. I, Miss Hannah Chillton, believe one has only to bring a couple together and let nature take its true...

  • The Bodyguard's Promise

    Carla Cassidy

    Bodyguard Clay West wasn't happy about his latest assignment: protecting a movie star. But seven-year-old Gracie Bryant needed his help and he intended to keep the adorable kid safe. Her mother, Libby, was another story. The drop-dead stunner made hi...

  • Ghost Hunter

    Jayne Castle

    RETURN TO THE WORLD OF HARMONY... Where deadly energy ghosts lurk in the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. Where dust bunnies prove to be loyal pets. And where a ghost hunter will discover that a woman's heart is the most dangerous adver...

  • Touch the Dark

    Karen Chance

    Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits-- talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren't usually dangerous; they just like to talk...a lot. The undead are another matter. Like...

  • Night Riders

    Giff Cheshire

    When Tully Gale, while chasing his spirited mustang, stumbles upon a dam that has been built by a greedy horse trader and his crew of cutthroats who, wanting the land for themselves, are causing a drought, he must find a way to outsmart them without ...

  • James Penney's New Identity

    Lee Child
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    PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-w...

  • Satisfying Lonergan's Honor

    Maureen Child

    TAKING WHAT WAS HIS They hadn't touched since that night fifteen years before but Donna Barrett still recognized the desire in Jake Lonergan's eyes. And the guilt. For he'd sought to make her his when she'd been his cousin's girl. It had been thei...

  • Vanessa's Match

    Judy Christenberry

    To Vanessa Shaw nothing is more important than family, especially since her recent reunion with her long-lost brother and sisters. So when she's asked to counsel a troubled teen, she puts everything into restoring her charge's sense of security -- wh...

  • Armed and Dangerous

    Dianne L. Christner
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    Committing themselves to at least a six-month contract with the Fred Harvey Company in 1908, four young women are determined to make a new start in Arizona while waiting tables at a restaurant along the rails near the Grand Canyon. Olivia has lost al...

  • Catching Waves

    Matt Christopher

    When it comes to surfing, fourteen- year-old Kai Ford knows his stuff; he's been riding the waves since he was ten. He respects the amazing power of the sea and knows - first-hand - how dangerous it can be. But what Kai doesn't seem to respect is the...

  • Hurricane Hannah

    Sue Civil-Brown

    Her plan? Ferry a client's plane to Aruba, play a little poker, get some sun... Not in her plan? An emergency landing on a volcanic island full of lunatics, an approaching hurricane, a dashingly annoying airstrip owner named Buck Shanahan (who see...

  • By a Slow River

    Philippe Claudel

    As the First World War rages on, the daily life of a small town near the front is hardly disturbed by the report of artillery fire and the parade of wounded in its streets. But within the space of a year, this illusion of ordinary days is shattered b...

  • Sophie and Sam

    Tori Cloud

    Help your child learn some of life's most important lessons!Sharing - yes. Whining - no. Telling the truth and cleaning up - yes. Arguing and not following the rules - no.Seems simple enough, but as a kid it may be unclear when they know the right th...

  • Owl Island

    Randy Sue Colburn

    In this accomplished and dazzlingly written new novel, Randy Sue Coburn brings to life with tremendous heart, humor, and wisdom the Pacific Northwest enclave of Owl Island and its many unforgettable inhabitants. Among the aromatic cedars and lush fir...

  • Chasing Dreams

    Cara Colter

    Dubbed the "brainy" one, Jessica King felt safest in an ivory tower. So working in a garage for brooding mechanic Garner Blake was well outside her comfort zone. But she would make the best of it because her father had requested it. Yet a daughter...

  • The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence

    Storm Constantine

    Darquiel har Aralis lives among the hidden tribe of Olopade, in ignorance of his identity, and as he grows up, Darq realizes he is different from any other har. After a disastrous attempt to incept his closest friend, he attracts the attention of the...

  • Undressed

    Kristina Cook

    A GENTLEMAN WITH A PLAN... Although Colin Rosemoor's reputation for fast living is well earned, he is not guilty of cheating at cards, a charge that casts him from polite society. Since his accuser has convinced the lady Colin planned to marry o...

  • A Gift Of Grace

    Inglath Cooper

    In a moment of grief, Caleb Tucker made the biggest mistake of his life. He gave away his wife's baby, born under the most tragic circumstances. Three years later he gets a second chance. All because Sophie Owens walks into his feed store with her...

  • Diamond Life

    Sheila Copeland

    A chance to hang out with old friends at a high school reunion becomes an opportunity for Nina Beaubien Ross to help some talented former classmates fulfill their dream of managing a musical group. Comprised of three beautiful ladies, the sexy all-gi...

  • In Protective Custody

    Beth Cornelison

    Firefighter Max Caldwell promised to care for his sister's newborn son, but he didn't know the first thing about babies. He had to learn fast, especially with ruthless drug smugglers, who wanted control of their "heir," chasing them. After witnes...

  • At Risk

    Patricia Cornwell

    A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is planning to run for governor, and as a sh...

  • Blood Lands

    Ralph Cotton

    BLOOD RUNS THICK They came upon Julie Wilder without warning and, in an act of vicious cruelty, left her father dead and her body and spirit violated. It took the kindness of a reputed killer named Baines Meredith to nurse Julie back to health and h...

  • Dead in Vineyard Sand

    Philip R. Craig

    From esteemed crime novelist Philip R. Craig comes a scorching new Martha's Vineyard mystery, the latest in a series renowned not only for its beautiful setting but also for its fine appreciation of an extraordinary island's rich heritage. It's a...

  • Forced to the Altar

    Susan Crosby

    "YOU'RE NOT MY PRISONER." Unfortunately, that's exactly how she felt, trapped in Zach Keller's remote castle. The handsome millionaire was supposed to be her protector, but under his watchful gaze she felt more exposed than ever. It didn't help th...

  • Some Girls

    Lynda Curnyn
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    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • Hearts On The Line

    Margaret Daley

    TO: AL_CRANE@CSSENTINEL.ORG FROM: COLLEEN_MONTGOMERY @CSSENTINEL.ORG Boss, I'm finishing up all my articles before Alessandro and I get married later this month. He's thrilled his uncle Max is out of the hospital and can attend the wedding. I...

  • The Runaway and the Cattleman

    Lilian Darcy

    Jacinda had run to Sydney to lose a man, not find one. So why couldn't she forget Callan Woods, the Australian who'd looked every inch the handsome cowboy? An ex-scriptwriter from L.A. and a cattle station owner -- Jacinda knew they were a...

  • Fall of Knight

    Peter David

    When former first lady Gwen DeVere Queen is discovered to be hale and hearty-after falling victim to a successful (and very public) assassination-the jig is finally up. Arthur Penn, aka King Arthur, reveals his true identity, and the existence of the...

  • Love Thine Enemy

    Patricia Davids

    A promise to her sister sent rising ballet star Cheryl Steele temporarily back to the hometown she had fled years ago in disgrace. Then an unexpected snowstorm and an injured foot soon landed her in the home of Sam Hardin. Sam's two little girls ...

  • Undead and Unpopular

    Maryjanice Davidson

    As Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor approaches the big three-one (in human years, that is), she has a lot on her plate. There are wedding plans to finalize, will no help from her fiance, Eric. And Betsy has decided to stop drinking blood, something Eric--t...

  • Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light

    Maryjanice Davidson; Anthony Alongi

    Where would you find weredragons, beaststalkers, and werachnids? You guessed. My family reunion... Getting through high school is hard enough. Then add my weredragon life, with the trips to Crescent Valley to morph into a dragon under the constan...

  • Eye of the Storm

    Dee Davis

    IT WAS TIME TO DESTROY THE GHOSTS OF HER PAST...BEFORE THEY DESTROYED HER! Everyone has skeletons in the closet, but Simone Cooper Sheridan's involve secret CIA operations in the steamy jungles of South America. Now, after years of disguising her ...

  • Lights, Camera, Hairballs!

    Jim Davis

    Break Out the Popcorn . . . It’s Showtime!Grab a seat and join Garfield as he takes a madcap look at movies -- including his own -- in this big, fat, hairy homage to films. This festival of fun features spoofs, reviews, trivia, and a blockbuster as...

  • Desert Drive

    Peter Dawson

    The heart of the American West lives in Peter Dawson's stories, with characters that blaze a trail across a country coming of age. This quintet includes Wanted for Blackmail, where Sheriff Walt Crowe, a wanted man, uses a local strongman for his own ...

  • Consider Lily

    Anne Dayton; May Vanderbilt

    A tale of love, trials, and faith set against a wonderfully drawn portrait of San Francisco, Consider Lily is chick lit with a heart. Lily Traywick thinks she must have been adopted. It’s easier than believing she’s actually related to Jane an...

  • Spider-Girl - Volume 6: Too Many Spiders!

    Tom Defalco

    Sworn to follow in her father's web tracks, May "Mayday" Parker's got a lot on her plate - but an upstart imitator wants to help himself to her heritage! Who is the new Spider-Man and what role will he play in Spider-Girl's reality? Guest-starring th...

  • Birdbrain Amos, Mr. Fun

    Michael Delaney / M.C. Delaney

    Oh no! Lovable Amos is heartbroken that his tick bird Amoeba has found a new, fun friend. Even worse, Amoeba’s new friend isn’t even real! Amoeba actually prefers her imaginary friend to her real-life hippopotamus one. Ready to swim any river nec...

  • Burden of Memory

    Vicki Delany

    Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who let love in the person of an unreliable screenwriter jettison her career, is now divorced, broke, and come to a "primitive, untamed northern forest" on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss...

  • Entranced

    Kathleen DeMarco
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    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • Do-Over

    Christine Hurley Deriso

    Imagine having the power to turn back time. Not 100 years -- just 10 seconds. Enough to take back those embarrassing missteps and wrong answers.Elsa’s mom died suddenly one year ago, but she appears one night to grant Elsa do-over power. Elsa think...

  • The Firebird Deception

    Cate Dermody

    IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SIMPLE. GET IN, GET THE GOODS, GET OUT. YET WHAT SHOULD BE SIMPLE ALMOST NEVER WAS ... Once more Alisha MacAleer was racing around Europe, this time searching for the black box from a downed aircraft. Yet for the first time as a ...

  • The Other Woman

    Diana Diamond

    Pam Leighton is a smart, ambitious, and sexy aide to a handsome Washington lobbyist named John Duke. For the last two years, she's also been his lover. It's an open secret that his glamorous and social-climbing wife, Catherine, tolerates--to a point....

  • Dad By Default

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Anyone Can -- And Will -- Make a Mistake Dr. Connor Hardison's dislike of single mothers has every upstanding citizen in Downhome on his side. The person who isn't impressed -- for a little while -- by the town's newest bachelor is his nurse, ...

  • Kid Gravity

    Disney Book Group

    These full-color compilations are a must have for fans of the immensely popular comics that run in Disney Adventures magazine and Comic Zone. Each book features a different character or theme picked from the top-rated magazine strips.Volume Four ...

  • Blown Away

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Frank and Joe are working on a new case...and it just might blow them away!The exclusive Billington Resort in Phoenix, Arizona has two high-profile events on Saturday: a vintage car auction and a celebrity wedding. They also have something they didn'...

  • The Whistling Season

    Ivan Doig

    “Can’t cook but doesn’t bite.” So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an “A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition” that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins t...

  • Touchy Subjects

    Emma Donoghue

    â€Excellent new collection… Her touch is so light and exuberantly inventive, her insight at once so forensic and intimate, her people so ordinary even in their oddities. … Unnervingly exact.’ â€" GuardianIn this sparkling collection of ni...

  • Move a Mountain

    Lena Nelson Dooley
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    Wedding bells are ringing, but there are storms on the horizon that may keep everyone from reaching the church. Christine's perfect wedding plans are sorely tested when the worst snowstorm in over a decade hits central Minnesota. Tornado warnings bla...

  • Never Say Never

    Lena Nelson Dooley

    When Charlotte Halloran's husband was killed by a drunk driver, her heart died, too. Now, one year later, Charlotte and her teenaged daughter are boarding a cruise ship to take their minds off their loss. But when the Pearl of the Ocean's captain cat...

  • Ain't No Sunshine

    Candice Dow

    In this page-turning novel from Candice Dow, a young woman's innocence is lost--and lost again--until she finds her way home through a series of powerful events, and a shocking revelation... The only kind of home beautiful seventeen-year-old Laila,...

  • Spirit Walker

    David Dun
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    PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-w...

  • Children of Chaos

    Dave Duncan

    On a dodecahedral world in thrall to the tyrannical, war-obsessed Hrag dynasty, no one could stop the Bloodlord from sending troops over the Edge to Florengia, invading its major cities, and offering them a choice between strict colonial rule and imm...

  • War

    Gwynne Dyer

    While modern science ponders whether human beings are programmed toward belligerence and warfare, there is no doubt that war has been humanity's constant companion since the dawn of civilization, and that we have become all too proficient in its cond...

  • The Magic School Bus Gets Crabby

    Kristin Earhart

    Based upon the award-winning TV show and bestselling book series, Magic School Bus Scholastic Readers make learning an adventure!

    Ms. Frizzle's class is on its way to a pool - a tide pool. The kids spot everything from seaweed to seashells. Bu...

  • The Apocalypse Stone

    Pete Earley

    "Judge not, lest ye be judged." These words have rarely if ever crossed the mind of Aberlene county judge Evan Spencer. From a middle class background, he graduated law school, married into wealth, and now has his eye on a Supreme Court seat. All s...

  • Ladies' Night at the Underwood Pet Hospital

    Nicki Earls
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    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • A Blast from the Past

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    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • Savage Beloved

    Cassie Edwards

    Terrified and alone, Candy Creighton huddles beneath the trapdoor in the floor of her father's cabin, listening to the blood-curdling whoops of attacking Indians. When she finally creeps outside, it is to find a fierce-looking Wichita chief thund...

  • Ghetto Princess

    Mia Edwards

    Barely eighteen, Kanika has everything to look forward to. She's fine, smart, and strong--qualities she inherited from a momma who made sure her little girl had every privilege--courtesy of Tony, one of Brooklyn's most powerful crime lords. Born to t...

  • The Last Assassin // Extremis

    Barry Eisler

    When freelance assassin John Rain learns that his former lover Midori has been raising their son in New York. he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even redemption. But Midori is being watched by Rain's enemies, and his sudden appearance wou...

  • Grease Monkey

    Tim Eldred

    Caught in the crossfire of an interstellar war, our Earth was bombed to flinders--and then repaired. The mysterious alien Benefactors who healed the planet also offered "uplift" to our dolphins and gorillas. The dolphins turned them down. The gorilla...

  • Unnatural Selection

    Aaron Elkins

    When Gideon Oliver's wife Julie attends a conservation forum on the emerald Isles of Scilly, Gideon tags along, expecting a holiday. To amuse himself, he explores the Neolithic sites there. But instead of ancient ruins, he finds evidence of a very re...

  • Forgivin' Ain't Forgettin'

    Mata Elliott

    A wrenching betrayal from long ago has left Cassidy Beckett a broken and unforgiving woman. For years, her solution has been to immerse herself in being a schoolteacher, running the reading program at her church, and burying her feelings behind her f...

  • The Recital

    Robert Elmer

    New Song, Second Verse Gerrit and Joan discovered the beauty of second chances when they fell in love. But life isn't "happily ever after" when the widowed dairy farmer and big-city piano teacher get married. When they move to Chicago to pursue a...

  • The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion

    Loren D. Estleman

    Johnny Vermillion's theater troupe brings masterpieces to the Wild West. The four actors are versatile enough to wear many costumes and play many roles. A few props, a little makeup, a costume and--voilĂ --applause on the rugged frontier. Johnny a...

  • Twelve Sharp

    Janet Evanovich

    Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, where bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is about to implode in Janet Evanovich's wildest, hottest novel yet! FIRST A STRANGER APPEARS While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos Stephanie disco...

  • Longarm and the False Prophet

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s out to save some souls -- from a killer…When U.S. Marshal Custis Long is ordered to find an old Indian nemesis, he knows the job is going to be rough. Many Thumbs has hopped the reservation with a band of followers, and Longarm has to f...

  • Conflagration

    Mick Farren

    The world is at war. The Republic of the Carolinas and the Virginia Freestate have already fallen to the invading Mosul, a ravening, barbaric horde led by an evil fundamentalist priesthood. Only the Kingdom of Albany, with aid from the Norse Alliance...

  • The Richest Knight

    Nancy J. Farrier
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    Committing themselves to at least a six-month contract with the Fred Harvey Company in 1908, four young women are determined to make a new start in Arizona while waiting tables at a restaurant along the rails near the Grand Canyon. Olivia has lost al...

  • Dark Hunters

    Greg Farshtey

    Explore the world of Bionicle.

    The Dark Hunters for thousands of years, that name has brought fear to the hearts of Toa and Matoran, and even members of the Brotherhood of Makuta itself. Gathered from every corner of the universe, these thieve...

  • Finding Home

    Marie Ferrarella

    Consider carefully before that first call to the local contractor: Can your marriage take it? Stacey Sommers certainly hoped so...but it was looking a little questionable. After the stunning news that her uncle had passed away and left her his dog...

  • The Jet-Set Seduction

    Sandra Field

    Monte Carlo, Paris, New York... From the moment Slade Carruthers lays eyes on the beautiful Clea Chardin, he has to have her. But Clea has a reputation, and Slade doesn't share his women. If Clea wants him, she'll come on his terms. Cle...

  • The Ranger

    Carol Finch

    Caught in the crossfire...between a mysterious Apache, who claims he's a Texas Ranger, and some very angry desperados, she doesn't know who to trust. The last thing Shiloh Drummond wants is a man in her life, although right now this ranger is all she...

  • The Burning Bridge

    John Flanagan

    For years, the Kingdom of Araluen has prospered, with the evil Lord Morgarath safely imprisoned by impassable mountains. For years, its people have felt secure. But the scheming hand of the dark lord has not been idle ... On special mission for the ...

  • Prophecy of the Dragons

    Matt Forbeck
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    Prophecy of the Dragons and The Dragons Revealed continue this series of adventures written specifically for readers ages 8 -- 12. This exciting line follows the adventures of three young children who, through their heroic deeds, become members of ...

  • Choke

    Darnella Ford

    For Vanessa, a low-income housing complex in the middle of the desert in El Mirage, Arizona, represents all that is wrong with her life. Her neighbors get it on all night long, she sees an abusive husband kill his wife, and then himself, and her own ...

  • Cry Of My Heart

    Linda Ford

    Nicole Thomas runs her antique store as she runs her life - risk-free. She's determined to protect her grandmother and sister, even if it means her own desires must go unanswered. Her father died pursuing dangerous thrills, and she'll never abandon t...

  • Full Circle

    Michael Thomas Ford

    From the author of Looking for It, a heart attack forces three gay friends to reunite, and one to reflect on their five dramatic decades of friendship.History professor Ned Brummel is living happily with his partner of twelve years in small-town Main...

  • Luscious

    Lori Foster
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    Bethany Churchill just quit her lousy job, dumped her lousy boyfriend and moved into a new apartment. She's not looking for love, but her hot new landlord is determined to change her mind. SWAT officer Lucius Ryder--known to the women in the building...

  • Rowan's Revenge

    June Francis

    He could have been just another supplicant, making his pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James at Compostela, yet there was nothing humble about him. Pride was evident in his every step. This was the man Kate had feared would catch up with her ever sin...