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  • 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
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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 " Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo " 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 “new girl” in school. A year...



  • Alison Bechdel

    CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award&#...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Fantastic Four (1997) #536-537, New Avengers: Illuminati One-Shot, Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #529-531. 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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

    National bestselling author Meljean Brook returns to the sensual netherworld of Demon Angel for a startling romance of eternal love threatened by the consuming darkness of a Demon Moon... No one would call vampire Colin Ames-Beaumont kind. but one w...



  • Charlotte Lewis Brown

    Strange and wonderful creatures shared the earth with the dinosaurs. Kronosaurus ruled the seas with teeth as big as bananas and jaws more powerful than a Tyrannosaurus rex's. Flying Pterodaustro spit water through hundreds of long, thin teeth. D...



  • 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...



  • Jesse Browner

    a.d. 66: Having been falsely implicated in a plot to assassinate the emperor Nero, Titus Petronius has a choice: await the executioner at dawn, or die a noble Roman death by his own hand. Deciding that his will be a suicide like no other the world ha...



  • Megan E. Bryant

    Strawberry Shortcake lets down her hair as Rapunzel in the latest installment of our best-selling Berry Fairy Tales series with glitter on the cover! Rapunzel is mistakenly accused of stealing a rare strawberry from the witch next door, who flies int...



  • Edna Buchanan

    "Where the hell is Britt Montero?" So says Sgt. Craig Burch of Miami's Cold Case Squad at the end of the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's new novel, Love Kills. So have readers been wondering since reporter Britt Montero vanished after her lov...



  • Tobias S. Buckell

    The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically "free," mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive al...



  • Lynn Bulock

    This has been a year of family turmoil--and it's only June! Life hasn't been the same since I learned my long-presumed-dead mother is actually alive, and then my father was arrested for murder. I'm so thankful that Reverend Gregory Brown is here. My ...



  • John Burdett

    Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the bestsellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel. Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but...



  • James Lee Burke

    One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke eleg...



  • Niki Burnham

    Three girls. Three fates. One summer they will never forget. Seneca always gets what she wants. But this time she's reaching for the impossible. Drew, an elite athlete, is training hard . . . and running from her past. Claire seeks salvatio...



  • Adrianne Byrd

    Air force fighter pilot Sydney Garret was born to fly. No other thrill came close enough to shake her--until she met Captain James Colton and found a reckless passion that led to fifty-five hours together as husband and wife. When they went thei...




  • Meg Cabot

    "I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected. I wonder if she knows that at least one of her books made a grown woman finally feel like she'd been a normal girl all along. . . ." -- FROM Everything I Needed to Know About...



  • Jacqueline Carey

    My blood beat hard in my veins and hammered in my ears, like the sound of bronze wings clashing. And I understood for the first time what it meant that Kushiel, the One God's punisher, had loved his charges too well... The son of Terre d'Ange's mo...



  • Melody Carlson

    Why do bad things happen to girls with good fashion sense? Certain she's paid her corporate dues, thirty one-year-old Cassidy Cantrell struts through the office in her chic Valentino boots to turn in her latest project. She's confident she'll make...



  • Liz Carlyle

    In her dazzling new historical trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Liz Carlyle plunges readers into the steamy underworld of nineteenth-century London. Among the swirling glitter of English high society, a scandalous rogue gets more than he ba...



  • Teresa Carpenter

    Two babies...and a bridegroom! She's left to cope with twins... Rachel Adams's independent life is turned upside down when she's named guardian to two orphaned twins! It's hard to suddenly be a mom to two demanding babies, but in no time they ste...



  • Robyn Carr

    THE TIGHT KNIT COMMUNITY OF VIRGIN RIVER HAS BEEN A SAFE HAVEN FOR MORE THAN A FEW LOST SOULS OVER THE YEARS -- AND THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR MORE... A decorated U.S. Marine reservist, LAPD officer Mike Valenzuela was badly wounded in the line of ...



  • Tori Carrington

    Like Janet Evanovich or Jennifer Crusie, Tori Carrington mixes humor with danger and stealth with sex. The intrepid Sofie, a good Greek girl from working-class Astoria, Queens, is finding her feet as a budding private investigator and as a single gal...



  • P.C. Cast

    My Goddess, does Pea Chamberlain ever need a makeover! Her shoes, hair, clothes, makeup are all disasters, especially if she wants to attract uber-sexy fireman Griffin DeAngelo at the firemen's masked ball. And who better to coax Pea out of her pod t...



  • Cecil Castellucci

    Dad's an aging L.A. punk rocker known as the Rat. Daughter's a buttoned-up neat freak who'd rather be anywhere else. Can this summer be saved? Now that she's exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she'll bury her nose in a book and ...



  • Nora Charles

    Once a snowbird, now full-time resident and sometime sleuth Kate Kennedy “is a stylish and sophisticated Miss Marple, seeking justice in sunny South Florida instead of a rainy English Village, and meeting the most delightfully eccentric suspects in...



  • Maxim Chattam

    British-occupied Cairo, 1928: Several young children have disappeared and were then found, horribly mutilated, in the tombs just outside the city. Panic is spreading among the locals after a cloaked giant is sighted. Has a ghoul from One Thousand and...



  • Da Chen

    At the height of China's Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general's wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general's mistress, who threw herself off a cliff i...



  • Maureen Child

    Cassidy Burke is finding it hard to believe that she's next in a long line of demon dusters-Burke women paired with centuries-old cleaning solution to shine windows and spot demons. Sure, her "Clean Sweep" maid service is taking off, but wiping out s...



  • Jacqueline Ching

    Join Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner and the rest of the swashbuckling gang in these all-new stories based on the successful Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. Geared toward readers ages 5-7, these full-color, illustrated re...




  • 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...



  • Jon Cleary

    A story of the demands of a life in politics - Matt Durban is a seasoned politician, tipped to lead his party. His wife, Carmel, has been a loyal partner, but shes also got controversial political views of her own... And there are those who will stop...



  • Ann Cleeves

    Long a celebrated crime writer in Britain, Ann Cleeves' fame went international when she won the coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger for this amazing suspense novel, Raven Black. Like Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse or Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks, Cleev...



  • Barbara Cleverly

    Joe Sandilands is back and headed to France where he's scheduled to stay as the guest of a glamourous French war window on her estate. The widow needs Joe's help to support her claim that a shell-shocked soldier suffering from amnesia is actually her...



  • Cathryn Clinton

    A teenager finds solace in her art -- and her friends -- as she struggles to escape depression in this affecting new novel by Cathryn Clinton. After all the moves from town to town, after all her mom's boyfriends and drinking and anger, Jude hopes...



  • Carol Clippinger

    Here I am not someone's little sister. Not someone's daughter. Not someone's friend. This game beckons me--chooses me. I am a warrior. An Amazon. I am beautiful. And I play to win. Holloway Braxton takes no prisoners on the tennis court. She's nat...



  • Debra Clopton

    There's No Escape From the Mule Hollow Matchmakers And this time, their next "victim" was Sheri Marsh. Sheri had long endured the town biddies' attempts at matchmaking, even though she had no intention of ever settling down. As the pool of single wom...



  • Julie Cohen

    Seduced by her boss! She wasn't the kind of girl gorgeous men flirted with. She was plain Jane Miller--great at her job, organized, efficient, sensible. Except that every time she met Jay's deep blue eyes, she knew he wanted her. And she w...



  • Kresley Cole

    Burning vengeance... Ethan MacCarrick was a heartbreakingly handsome rake until a powerful nobleman ordered him brutally beaten and his face scarred for a crime he didn't commit. Ethan's reprisal -- bankrupting the nobleman and forcing his exile -- ...



  • Susan Colebank

    Everything is going just the way superachiever Jayne Thompkins planned. She's at the top of her class and captain of the girls' varsity tennis team. Her ultimate goal? Harvard. She wouldn't be killing herself with all these extracurriculars otherwise...



  • Nicholas Coleridge

    FROM ONE OF THE SHARPEST OBSERVERS OF THE MODERN SCENE COMES THIS WITTY, INTELLIGENT, AND IRRESISTIBLE NOVEL IN THE TRADITION OF GOSFORD PARK AND SNOBS. Anthony Anscombe has everything he could ever want: an exquisite family estate, enviable social ...



  • Cara Colter

    Almost every midnight, it's the same thing: Bowen Reeve's phone rings, and the tiny voice on the other end asks, "Are you my daddy?"...



  • Mark Combes

    It's not the spectacular diving that brings Phil Riley to Isla Tortuga. This sleepy corner of the Caribbean is the perfect refuge for ex-patriots who need a fresh start. With good friends, an ample supply of beer, and a dive shop to run, there's plen...



  • J.C. Conklin

    "Here, in the land of conspicuous consumption, marriage isn't considered a lifelong commitment. It's the ultimate accessory." -- from The Dallas Women's Guide to Gold-Digging with Pride Jennifer Barton's life has veered 180 degrees. A transpla...



  • Michael Connelly

    In his first case since he left the LAPDs Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous ...



  • Kent Conwell

    As soon as Jack Slade and his partner, Three Fingers Bent, arrive in the small Texas town of New Gideon, they know no one wants them there. There's been some rustling in the area, and folks aren't taking too kindly to strangers. But things don't get ...



  • Kristina Cook

    HE'S NOTORIOUS FOR HIS WICKED WAYS... Frederick Stoneham thoroughly enjoys the life he leads as one of London's most disreputable rogues. When his father arranges for him to wed Lady Eleanor Ashton, he believes his decadent lifestyle can car...



  • Patrick Cooper

    It is 1966, and the times, they are a-changin'. Fifteen-year-old Stephen is on his way to a summer program in France when he meets two glamorous new friends of his older brother, Rob, who has been missing for 18 months. They persuade Stephen to trave...



  • Patrick Cooper

    It is 1969, and Stephen meets up with old friend Astrid and her lover Spencer, and stays with them in the hippy household "The Hollies." Peace and love are tangible: until his passionate attraction for another girl in the household goes sour. He drif...



  • Bruce R. Cordell

    Dare you brave The Sinister Spire?

    The Sinister Spire is the second of a three-part adventure arc that started with Barrow of the Forgotten King, but is easily played as a stand-alone adventure.

    Chasing the tomb-robbers from Barrow of t...



  • Michael Cordy

    The year is 2008. Violent crime has become a global epidemic, nowhere more so than in the United States. Everything from the death penalty to liberal reforms has failed. Nothing has been effective. Until now. Project Conscience promises to be the sol...



  • Nicola Cornick

    Lord Hawksmoor is the Lord of Scandal -- celebrated by the pampered and paupers alike! Scandalous and seductive, Lord Hawksmoor is a notorious fortune hunter. A man women want to bed--and men want to do away with. Now he has tasted the woman of ...



  • Catherine Coulter

    It's been more than six months since her husband's brutal death, and Julia Ransom is just beginning to breathe again. She loved her husband, renowned psychic August Ransom, but the media frenzy that followed his murder sapped what little strength she...



  • Philip R. Craig

    J. W. Jackson, the ex-Boston cop turned fisherman, cook, and jack-of-all-trades, delves deep into the mysterious depths of his beloved Vineyard in author Philip Craig's most compelling caper yet. With his wife, Zee, and two kids visiting relativ...



  • Megan Crane

    Just a few months shy of her 30th birthday, Gus Curtis finally feels like she has it all: a strong career, great friends, and a wonderful boyfriend. But all of this comes crashing down when Gus discovers Nate, her "Mr. Right," hooking up behind h...



  • Nancy Crocker

    CAN ONE UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP SAVE A LIFE? Billie Standish has pretty much no one. Her parents are too caught up in their own lives, and the only two girls in town her age want nothing to do with her. When it looks like a nearby levee might brea...



  • Luke Cypher

    It's in one man's true nature to remain by the side of the woman he loves, rather than live without her in his own universe... Landscape architect Logan Marshall is out for a jog-in his werewolf form-when a trap catches his paw. As it saps his st...



  • Angie Daniels

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