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New Books List: 671 titles


  • Mark Billingham

    Teenager Luke Mullen is missing. He was last seen by schoolmates getting into a car with an older woman, and it is unclear whether he has disappeared voluntarily or been abducted. Police looking for the boy are pretty certain they are dealing wit...



  • Dale Brown

    A new era appears to be dawning in the Middle East. But the free world must be wary of old enemies ... Rebel Iranian General Hesarak al-Kan Buzhazi is launching a coup that could destroy Iran's theocratic regime, and must turn to his old nemesis, ...



  • Hobson Brown

    Welcome to Wellington Boarding school for society's elite, overachievers, and rich screwups. No matter who you are, Wellington can be the deepest and most beautiful time of your life, or the loneliest and most difficult. And two new girls are...



  • Mary Jane Clark

    Murder in the morning When Constance Young, the undisputed star of morning television, is found dead at the bottom of her swimming pool, her colleague Eliza Blake is shocked. Determined to discover who wanted Constance out of the way--and why--she...



  • Anna David

    Celebrity journalist Amelia Stone is the quintessential Hollywood party girl: she stays out late, rubs shoulders (and occasionally more) with celebrities, and ingests copious amounts of cocaine. But after losing her job, her friends, and much of ...



  • Annie Dillard

    Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillnes...



  • Gardner Dozois

    "This anthology is a reminder of why science fiction captured the hearts and minds of generations of readers." -- Orson Scott Card What sets space opera apart from other fiction is its sheer scale: it is an exuberant celebration of the very large...



  • Terri Farley

    A lonely girl, a wild horse, and a Hawaiian island full of possibilities... Darby Carter loves horses, even though she's never actually ridden one. Darby's grandfather is an expert rider -- in fact, he owns a horse ranch in Hawaii. So when he agrees...



  • Emma Forrest

    Traditionally, women share their secrets with their hairdressers. But what about their manicurists, masseurs, chi gong teachers, and tattoo artists? In Damage Control, women wax poetic about the experts and gurus who help them love themselves, sharin...



  • Anthony Gagliano

    Ex-cop Jack Vaughn, the best thing to happen to crime fiction since Chandler's Philip Marlowe hung up his holster, moved from the gritty streets of New York to Miami to work as a personal trainer. The sun, sand, and tanned bodies of Miami are a welco...



  • James Grippando

    Peyton Shields had always wanted to be a doctor, and now, thanks to her relentless drive, stellar academic credentials, and a mountain of debt to Harvard Medical School, she's a first-year resident at a major Boston children's hospital. The hours are...



  • Kathryn Miller Haines

    It's 1943, and the war escalating in Europe and the Pacific seems far away. But for aspiring actress Rosie Winter, the war feels as if it were right in New York City--what with food rationing and frequent blackouts . . . and a boyfriend she hasn't he...



  • A.M. Jenkins

    Don't call me a demon. I prefer the term Fallen Angel. Everybody deserves a vacation, right? Especially if you have a pointless job like tormenting the damned. So who could blame me for blowing off my duties and taking a small, unauthorized break...



  • Maureen Johnson

    Sometimes you have to get lost. The Girl: Clio, seventeen, wants to spend the summer smooching her art-store crush, not stuck on a boat in the Mediterranean. At least she'll get a killer tan. The Mission: Survive her father's annoying antics....



  • Sabrina Jordan

    As the new, secret (shhh!!!) Dear Daisy, I must be an expert on romance, right? Wrong. Here I am living next door to Kyle, who is friendly, polite, and devastatingly cute in his board shorts--yet I act like a drama queen every time we talk. That's no...



  • Susan Kandel

    A new suspense-themed housing tract on the edge of the Mojave Desert is about to open, and who better to help promote the Cotswold-cozy development than mystery biographer extraordinaire Cece Caruso? For the grand opening weekend, Cece is staging a p...



  • Karyn Langhorne

    Black activist Erica Johnson wears her causes on her sleeve--literally. With her class of beloved fourth graders depending on her to represent their concerns, Erica's ready to confront golden-boy conservative senator Mark Newman. And she's willing to...



  • Starling Lawrence

    This is the story of an unlikely love at the dawn of the electric age in America. In 1914, Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that has claimed most of his family. He is also a ...



  • Elizabeth Lowell

    On what at first appears to be an ordinary day, everything changes for private banker Kayla Shaw when she barely escapes a brutal kidnapping attempt and finds herself accused of a shocking crime: the illegal laundering of hundreds of millions of doll...



  • Melissa Marr

    Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty--especially if they learn of her Sight--and wishes she were as blind to their presen...



  • Armistead Maupin

    Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contem-porary fiction. Now, almost twenty years after ending his ground-breaking saga of Sa...



  • Mary Reed McCall

    Only a lie will save his life . . . Sentenced to the gallows for trying to sell the treasures of the Knights Templar, Sir Alexander de Ashby has one chance for survival. The scoundrel must impersonate the late Earl of Marston, to whom he bears an u...



  • Joyce Carol Oates

    Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father--a former high school teacher--is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's...



  • Kim Ponders

    The author of The Art of Uncontrolled Flight uncovers the proud and sometimes backstabbing world of the Air Force Academy in an exciting novel about why people commit to military life--and where they draw the line. Brook Searcy thought she could ...



  • Philip Reeve

    The once-great traction city of London is now just a radioactive wreck, a ruin haunted by electrical discharges and the dashed hopes of the people who once called it home--people like Tom Natsworthy. Twenty years after he fled, intending never to ret...



  • Judson Roberts

    Halfdan Hroriksson has a longbow that he made himself, an axe he took from a man he killed, and a vow to fulfill. He's sworn to slay the man who murdered his brother. But first Halfdan must find a ship's captain who will take him i-viking, where ...



  • Oksana Robski

    Fans of Pink and Jade will eat up Tangerine, the third book in the cutting-edge Shades of Style series. Jean Guerra, a designer at Garments of Praise design firm, doesn't like surprises. These days though, the unexpected meets her everywhere. Since J...



  • Tony Romano

    It's the summer of 1957. In the heart of Chicago, first-generation Italian immigrants Angela Rosa and Agostino Peccatori are caught between worlds. Far from home and with five children born in the United States, the Peccatori family is left clinging ...



  • P.E. Ryan

    Sam Findley and Charlie Perrin. Best friends. At least they used to be. But a year ago Sam cut Charlie out of his life--no explanation, no discussion, nothing. Fast-forward one year, and both Sam's and Charlie's lives are spiraling out of control...



  • Jon Scieszka

    After being warped back to France in 1815, Joe, Fred, and Samantha are faced with a huge challenge -- make certain Napoleon loses the Battle of Waterloo. But there's one problem: Napoleon has stolen The Book and figured out how to change history. ...



  • Thrity Umrigar

    Tehmina Sethna's beloved husband has died this past year and she is visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home. Now Tehmina is being asked to choose between her old, familiar life in India and a new one in Ohio with her son, his American wife...



  • Robert Vaughan

    The memory of all the good men he killed during the Civil War still haunts former Captain Mason Hawke--fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands, who just happened to be wearing Union blue. Now only bad men can enflame his killing rage. A drifter who...



  • Bill Brooks

    Captain Gus Rodgers of the Texas Rangers is dying--and before he goes, he needs Jim's help to free his grandson from a Mexican prison. Trouble is, the Federale general holding him wants the head of the boy's brother, Billy, who has already confessed ...



  • Lois McMaster Bujold

    Ill-chance brought young Fawn Bluefield together with Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, but it was love and loyalty that joined their fates. While their unorthodox marriage has been grudgingly accepted by the clever farm girl's peop...



  • Meg Cabot

    Big Mouth. Big Heart. Big City...Big Problems Lizzie Nichols is back, pounding the New York City pavement and looking for a job, a place to live, and her proper place in the universe (not necessarily in that order). "Summer Fling" Luke's use of the...



  • Jacquie D'Alessandro

    The ladies in London are abuzz over Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, especially Miss Sarah Moorehouse. Her imagination is fired up, so when she spies Matthew Devenport, Marquess Langston, mysteriously sneaking home in the wee hours clutching a shovel, sh...



  • Donna Fletcher

    Forced to marry... Cullen Longton was stunned by the news: he has a son! Cullen is now determined to find his child, who was stolen by a vengeful enemy, and has followed the trail to a nunnery in the Scottish Highlands. A beautiful, desperate woma...



  • Neil Gaiman; Michael Reaves

    When Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award winner Michael Reaves teamed up, they created the bestselling YA novel InterWorld. InterWorld tells the story of Joey Harker, a very average kid who discovers that his world is only one of a t...



  • Mary Gentle

    Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King's Freak, surrounded by all the pomp, intrigue, and danger of the Iberian court. Fleeing a failed treacherous attack, Ilario crosses the sea to Carthage, where the mysterious Penitence sh...



  • Dan Gutman

    Something weird is going on! Mrs. Yonkers, the computer teacher, is the nerdiest teacher in the history of the world. She can type with her feet! She buys foam cheeseheads off eBay! She even puts a Webcam on a turtle! Is she trying to take over the ...



  • Rachel Hawthorne

    The Ragland Rattlers $1 Night $1 baseball cap with home team logo $1 program $1 hot dogs $1 drinks $1 popcorn But how much to get the hot pitcher to notice you exist?...



  • Joy King
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    Bianca's job as the new personal assistant to an arrogant NBA superstar is unending hell. But when the lights go down--and the uniform comes off--she's seduced by this hard-bodied athlete's off-the-court moves . . ....



  • Cindy Kirk

    SHE NEVER KNEW HOW GOOD BAD COULD BE! Jenny Carman is tired of playing by the rules. It didn't get her the promotion she so deserved, and it certainly didn't get her Mr. Right. Or even Mr. Right Now. It's time for her to do something besides spend S...



  • Nicholas Kulish

    Jimmy Stephens makes the worst mistake of his career as a gossip columnist when he wrongly accuses a big star of cheating on his wife. With lawsuits pending, Jimmy's imperious new editor blackmails him into taking the place of the paper's injured fro...



  • Wendy Lichtman

    Tess loves math because it's the one subject she can trust -- there's always just one right answer, and it never changes. But then she starts algebra and is introduced to those pesky and mysterious variables, which seem to be everywhere in eighth g...



  • Margo Maguire

    A love that can transcend time... 981 A.D.: Brogan Mac Lochlainn has heard of a magical stone that bestows great powers. Now the slaying of his father, the chieftain, has placed the clan's protection in Brogan's hands -- and he will brave ...



  • Electa Rome Parks
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    Kennedy Logan is too ashamed to reveal the truth about her steamy relationship with hot, insatiable Drake--his sweet lies and hellacious lovemaking--to anyone except her private diary . . ....



  • Julia Quinn

    2 March 1810 . . . Today, I fell in love. At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. And even at ten, Miranda learned to accept the expectations society held for her--until the afternoon when Nigel Bevelstoke, the handso...



  • H. Jay Riker

    For almost half a century, the SEALs have answered their nation's call to battle. And now the Navy's best are going to war five-hundred miles from the nearest sea--to stem the rising tide of violent terror in a volatile desert land. The intel is ...



  • Cheryl Robinson
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    Fresh from a break-up, uptight, unfulfilled middle school teacher Alexis heads to Texas, where they say everything is bigger--and where she finds a tasty Dallas police officer who's strapped with way more than a gun . . ....



  • Ian Sansom

    Mr. Dixon a member of the Ulster Association of Magicians, has gone missing--along with one hundred thousand pounds in cash. Israel Armstrong, bighearted and overly inquisitive, should stick to delivering library books to out-of-the-way readers and n...



  • Meta Smith
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    Lucky went from waitress to recording star, with a string of hits and a Miami mansion. Now she's back home in the Windy City to tease and torture the handsome, cheating stud who broke her heart. But the man's hot loving may be too hard for her to res...



  • R.L. Stine

    The most popular dude in school?It has to be Bernie Bridges. Just ask him!Bernie wants to win the Most Popular Rotten Student of the Year title. But first he has to prove he's the most popular dude on campus. How? Easy. He'll get Jennifer Ecch, the y...



  • Steph Swainston

    Steph Swainston returns to the dazzling, dizzying world of the Fourlands with the audacious sequel to her acclaimed novels The Year of Our War and No Present Like Time. Jant Comet, the messenger, has survived deadly insects, internecine politics, and...



  • Linda Windsor

    Not even a big budget can help Alex make her sister's wedding the event of the year. The usually calm and collected Alex is rattled when the man who walked out on her sixteen years ago to pursue a rock-and-roll career returns to be the best man. In d...



  • Lee K. Abbott

    Here are stories about fathers and sons, stories about men and women, and stories about the relationships between men by one of our most gifted story writers. The narrator of "The Who, the What and the Why," begins breaking into his own house as a so...



  • Megan Abbott

    A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a mob luminary who reigned during the Golden Era of Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. Notoriously cunning and ruthless, Gloria...



  • 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...



  • Tony Abbott

    A HIDDEN DOOR. A MAGICAL STAIRCASE. DISCOVER THE WORLD OF DROON! Eric, Julie, Neal, and Keeah are on a rescue mission! Galen, Max, King Zello, and Queen Relna are being held prisoner in the forbidding forest of Jabar-Loo, and it's up to the kids...



  • Diana Abu-Jaber

    A fingerprint expert's investigation of a series of crib deaths leads her back to the mystery of her own childhood. Lena is a fingerprint expert at a crime lab in the small city of Syracuse, New York, where winters are cold and deep. Suddenly, a s...



  • Gil Adamson

    In 1903 a mysterious young woman flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At nineteen, Mary Boulton has just become a widow--and her husband's killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is to...



  • David A. Adler

    A field trip to the zoo is fun for Cam Jansen and her classmates -- until lunchtime. Everyone else’s sandwich is safely delivered, but Danny can’t find his anywhere! Only Cam and her amazing memory can crack this mystery....



  • Brian W. Aldiss

    From one of science fiction's greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Orwell's 1984, and Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Both a searing indictment of a fear-drenched political...



  • Malin Alegria

    "Do you guys have Internet?"..."How about TiVo?"..."You do get American TV?" The house was dark. Wait a minute -- do they even have electricity? Even though Sofi Mendoza was born in Mexico, she's spent most of her life in California -- the close...



  • Tamera Alexander

    Though loss is often marked in a single moment, letting go of someone you love can take a lifetime... The threat of war--and a final request--send Veronique Girard from France to a distant and uninviting country. In the Colorado Territory, she sear...



  • Alice Alfonsi

    SERIES DESCRIPTION:Nerissa has been defeated, and order has once again been restored in Candracar, but Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin can’t rest easy just yet. Will doesn’t know where her re...



  • Louise Allen

    The liberty of trade... Miss Bree Mallory has no time for the pampered aristocracy! She's too taken up with running the best coaching company on the roads. But an accidental meeting with an earl changes everything.... The luxury of the Ton....



  • Woody Allen

    "I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me." -- Woody Allen Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Woody Allen has...



  • Laura Marie Altom
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    Pregnant and alone, event planner India Foster is happy to be mistaken for a member of the Silver Cliff high school class of '04. Especially when the Fourth of July fireworks pale in comparison to former student Graydon Johnson and the explosive attr...



  • Anita Amirrezvani

    IN THE FABLED CITY OF ISFAHAN, in seventeenth-century Persia, a young woman confronts a dismal fate: Her beloved father has died and left her without a dowry. Forced to work as a servant in the home of her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of t...



  • Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    Gwen and Vic are still celebrating their victory in the battle with the merlons when they learn that Vic's father has finally made it through the crystal doors to the magical island of Elantya. However, their victory is short-lived when they and thei...



  • Denny Andrews

    Eager to strike out on his own and create his own path, Luke Dawson leaves his life as a cowboy on his father s ranch. But unexpected events keep him from his trail, taking him in directions he never even imagined.
    First, he must save Sing Loo, a...



  • Kate Angell

    The bad boys of baseball, they are the top power hitters of the Richmond Rogues, and the team's best hope for a shot at the World Series. But when all three have to be benched for brawling, it's the beginning of a whole new ball game, and the opposin...



  • Jennifer Apodaca
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    Lexie Rollins is a wedding planner on the lam. All she did was defend herself (with a staple gun) against a sleazy groom--who knew the Assault and Battery charges would stick? Now Lexie's "vacation" at an exclusive resort has put her at the top of go...



  • Jeffrey Archer

    An English lord requires one more chess piece to complete a set that would be worth a fortune. Another man, an accountant, realizes he's achieved nothing in his life--and sets out to make a fortune before he retires. And then there is the author's ow...



  • Philip Athans
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    The finale of the acclaimed Watercourse Trilogy from The New York Times best-selling author Philip Athans! When the true mission of the Thayan Enclave is revealed, the richest man in Innarlith decides he wants to be the most powerful too, a once p...




  • James Axler

    Raw courage and knowledge of the arcane secrets of preDark technology have enabled Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions to live and roam a land tortured--but not destroyed--by apocalyptic madness. In a world where the price of living is paid in fle...



  • Marian Babson

    A Case of Feline Intuition Vanessa and her twin brother Vance are very close. So when someone pushes Vanessa down a flight of stairs and puts her into a coma, Vance wants revenge. He decides that masquerading as Vanessa will lead him to the villain....



  • Richard Bachman

    Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ("cancer of the pseudonym"), but this last gripping Bachman novel ...



  • Anita Rau Badami

    Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women ā€" Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo ā€" each in search of a resting place...



  • Judy Baer

    A new reality show plans to answer that old question with on-air makeovers. Even though it isn't her idea of reality, model Quinn Hunter reluctantly agrees to host the show. That way, she can help a needy friend and follow her true calling--teaching ...



  • Jeanette Baker

    Bailey Jones has always been a misfit in a town that sets a lot of store on family lineage, old money and homes that overlook the Chesapeake. As he makes plans to leave Marshy Hope Creek for good, a couple of things delay his departure. A developer u...



  • Jim Ballard

    Little Wave and Old Swell recounts a journey across the sea made by impetuous Little Wave and his sage teacher, Old Swell. Their allegorical adventure points young and old readers toward the enduring questions: Where did I come from? What is the natu...



  • L.A. Banks
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    Welcome to a world of werewolves, vampires, demons and mere mortals, where, in the name of revenge, five women are about to live out their wildest fantasies--even if it means crossing over to that other side... Five of today's most provocative a...



  • Alex Barclay

    In this electrifying thriller--a bestseller in Great Britain and Ireland--Alex Barclay creates a stunning array of contrasts--from the violence of a cop's world to the fragility of an embattled marriage, from the danger of New York's gritty streets t...



  • Terry Barnes

    Growing up in a small Midwestern town in the 60s, Matt wants nothing more than to run cross-country, hang out with his friends, and act cool. When Matt's father dies unexpectedly in a tragic car accident, his world is turned upside-down. Bitter over ...



  • Lauren Barnholdt

    there are two sides to every breakup. This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They're even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orienta...



  • Anya Bast

    Mira Hoskins doesn't know she's a natural-born witch who possesses the rare--and powerful--element of air. And she never expects to find herself tied to a mahogany bed frame captive of a man who aches to fulfill her every desire and le loose the magi...



  • Teresa Bateman

    While on an expedition with the Duke, his son, and a group of hunters to retrieve the magical horn from a unicorn, Tanisa, the servant girl, comes face-to-face with the magical creature and sees the power it possesses in its magical eyes when the Duk...



  • Marion Dane Bauer

    The time is 1950. The place is a small town in the Midwest. The girl is Claire, and she has a new black friend. But in an all-white town, how open can the girls be about their friendship?
    Now Claire faces being the ā€œnew girlā€ in school. A year...



  • Alison Bechdel

    CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYTime Magazine #1 Book of the Year ā€¢ National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Stonewall Book Award ā...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Ripped from the pages of New Avengers; comes an explosive hidden story of Marvel's secret past; the secret history of Marvel's most secret team - how they came together and how they are ripped apart. Plus: Spidey's got a new lease on life; new powers...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties of War, Iron Man #13-14, Civil War: The Confession. In the midst of CIVIL WAR, Captain America and Iron Man meet secretly, one last time, to see if there's any hope of working things out before further tr...



  • Janet Benrey
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    Contemporary Romance: Taking a wallpapering class at a local Home & Hearth Superstore, Brianna Griffith encounters Zach Wilson, an old flame. Kaitlyn Ferrer, an investigative reporter, is doing undercover work on the dating scene at the store when sh...



  • Ron Benrey
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    Contemporary Romance: Taking a wallpapering class at a local Home & Hearth Superstore, Brianna Griffith encounters Zach Wilson, an old flame. Kaitlyn Ferrer, an investigative reporter, is doing undercover work on the dating scene at the store when sh...



  • Ron Benrey; Janet Benrey

    An unexpected windfall had greedy church choir members seeing green, taking sides and preparing for battle. Their weapon of choice? Practical jokes. And Emma McCall wanted no part of it...until a VW Bug appeared on her bed-and-breakfast's porch. The ...



  • Jim Benton

    THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE ELSEWHERE. THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE ELSEWHERE. THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE ELSEWHERE. Dear Dumb Diary, Beautiful glorious news! Today they told us that something went stinkfully wrong with the heating or ventilation system or some...



  • Viken Berberian

    Moving seamlessly between the financial skyscrapers of New York and the crisp blue skies of Corsica and Marseille, Das Kapital is an extraordinary homage to Marx's seminal work for the twenty-first century. Wayne is the emblematic Wall Street tra...



  • Heidi Betts

    FORBIDDEN LIAISON... Creed Fortune had hungered for Maya Blackstone for nearly a decade, but he'd held back to protect his family's reputation. After all, the press would have a field day if they uncovered a clandestine affair between a Fortune he...



  • Jo Beverley

    For generations, the Cave family has been marked by scandal, madness, and violence. But after earning a reputation for bravery in the army, Horatio Cave, the new Viscount Darien, has come home to charm London society and restore the family name. He m...



  • Donna Birdsell

    It was a great idea -- why not bring lonely hearts together and make money? Real estate agent Cecilia Katz's brilliant brainstorm gave a whole new meaning to an open house. Especially with her hunky new assistant hiring the hot young studs to mingle ...



  • Karina Bliss

    She'd seen his type before... To everybody else, Jordan King is a selfless philanthropist and most-eligible bachelor, but newspaper columnist Kate Brogan has inside information that he is a home wrecker--handsome and full of false promises. Just l...



  • Lauralee Bliss

    Beth Colman reluctantly joins her sister and brother-in-law on a journey to a new land the Virginia colony of North America. Her sister is determined they find out what happened to their grandparents, original settlers in the lost colony of Roanoke i...



  • Miranda Bliss

    Best friends Annie and Eve know the bare bones of both cooking and amateur sleuthing. Now, they're in the trenches, struggling to keep a new restaurant, Bellywasher's, from going belly up... Annie and Eve have joined their former cooking teacher, ...



  • Barbara Block

    The new Robin Light mystery - When PI Robin Lights partner, John, asks her to drive to the home of a certain Benny Gibson, she is confronted by police cars and a body, and soon realizes shes been set up. When John then commits suicide, Robin is deter...



  • Philip Boast

    The second Septimus Quistus mystery - AD64: Liu Zhang, the Son of Heaven, born to be Emperor of the mighty China, needs disgraced ex-senator Septimus Quistuss help to return to China in secret to claim his birthright. But a rebel Hun army stands in h...



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    Jesse James and the rest of the James-Younger gang thought no one would ever expect them to strike a bank in the far reaches of Minnesota. But they were wrong. And what happened next changed the course of history......



  • Juan Bonilla

    After giving up the thankless life of a do-gooder, Moises Froissard now travels the world, saves lives, and makes more money in a week than he would in a year helping the poor. Moises is a scout for the Club Olympus, the world's most refined and expe...



  • Adriana Bourgoin

    Gretchen Fox is a planner and list-maker by nature, perfectly suited to her job as a hotel catering manager. And in her cautious, look-before-you-leap way, Gretchen was waiting until the time was absolutely perfect before she had a baby. Her body, ...



  • Marion Zimmer Bradley; Deborah J. Ross

    The long-awaited continuation to Marion Zimmer Bradley's popular science fiction Darkover sagaAfter generations of struggle to protect the unique native culture of Darkover from the ambitions of the ruthless Terran Federation, the Terrans have finall...



  • Gillian Bradshaw

    A dying woman with nothing to lose takes on ruthless enemies . . .When Antonia Lanchester is told she has only months to live, she decides to blow the whistle on her employers. Masterpiece Home Design, an upmarket home furnishing company, has links t...




  • Ann Brashares

    In the town of Waterby on Fire Island, the rhythms and rituals of summer are sacrosanct: the ceremonial arrivals and departures by ferry; yacht club dinners with terrible food and breathtaking views; the virtual decree against shoes; and the generati...



  • Cynthia Breeding

    In the dark of night, fires flare and passions burn bright. It is Beltane, an evening of Pagan revelry and wanton sexuality. There is magic in the air...and danger. Deep In The Highlands Caught in the spell of the sensual spectacle before her, D...



  • Helen Brenna

    Legend has it that the lost bowl of Inca ruler Manco Capac has the power to heal. And the one who finds it will gain the answers he seeks-- Lucas Rydall is looking for redemption. His search leads him to his ex-wife, Sydney Mitchell--and the son...



  • Barbara Bretton
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    After twenty-eight years of marriage, Kate and Ryan Donovan called it quits. Two years later at their daughter's wedding, they're seeing each other in a whole new light -- the City of Light, where romance beckons around every corner.......



  • Norman Bridwell

    Children will love this hilarious, all-new collection by Norman Bridwell about everyone's favorite Big Red Dog!

    A school day is never boring with Clifford, everyone's favorite Big Red Dog!

    Join Clifford in this oversized hardcover colle...



  • Pamela Britton

    A Little Filly Who Didn't Like Being Reined In... When Ty Harrison signed up to sponsor Carolyn Sheppard's barrel-racing career, he knew he was in for a bumpy ride. The diminutive rodeo star had a reputation for being a firecracker and was as inde...



  • Meljean Brook

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