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New Books List: 737 titles


  • Mary Kay Andrews

    After her boss is caught in a political scandal, fledgling Washington lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help turn Birdsong -- the fading Victorian mans...



  • Katherine Applegate

    The sixth book in a hilarious chapter book series about an accidental rule breaker from Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medalâ€"winning and bestselling author of The One and Only Ivan, Endling, and Wishtree.It seems like everyone in Roscoe’s class has...



  • Francesca Lia Block

    When Bee woke up, there was a girl standing in her room. "You are me," the girl said. Then she was gone. I am a thirteen-year-old double Gemini. I get bad grades, write poetry with my left hand, dance in my room, surf the net. I Google images of ...



  • Libba Bray

    Life's a beach . . . and then you're undead? in this must-have collection, five of today's hottest writers--Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty), Cassandra Clare (City of Bones), Claudia Gray (Evernight), Maureen Johnson (13 Little Blue Envel...



  • Dale Brown

    The clash of civilizations will be won... by the highest bidder. Newly inaugurated president Joseph Gardner has followed through on his pledge to pull American forces out of Iraq. But the region has quickly re-emerged as a hot zone, as Kurdish natio...



  • Chandler Burr

    Anne Rosenbaum leads a life of quiet Los Angeles privilege, the wife of Hollywood executive Howard Rosenbaum and mother of their seventeen-year-old son, Sam. Years ago Anne and Howard met studying litera-ture at Columbia--she, the daughter of a Briti...




  • Lauren Conrad

    Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer . . . everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enli...



  • John Crowley

    In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation's young men ship off to war, the call goes out for builders of the machinery necessary to defeat the enemy. To this purpose, a city has sprung up seemingly overnight in the windswept fields of Oklahoma: ...



  • Emma Darwin

    The cruel fate of the Princes in the Tower is one of the most fascinating--and most troubling--of all England's historical murder mysteries. But what was the truth behind the deaths of the young Edward V and his brother, Dickon, taken from their moth...



  • Guillermo del Toro; Chuck Hogan

    In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months...the world. At New York's JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have m...



  • Tom Gabbay

    Tom Gabbay plots his most riveting tale yet: Agent Jack Teller had to make an ugly choice in his youth . . . and now, decades later, he and the United States must deal with the blowback. Tehran 1953. Jack Teller, a new recruit to the recently est...



  • Kim Harrison

    My name is Madison Avery, and I'm here to tell you that there's more out there than you can see, hear, or touch. Because I'm there. Seeing it. Touching it. Living it. Madison's prom was killer--literally. For some reason she's been targeted by a ...



  • Matt Hilton

    Former military operative and ex-CIA agent Joe Hunter solves problems. And he's very good at what he does. But now the problem strikes too close to home. Hunter's brother has disappeared after stealing from the wrong man, a seriously deranged thrill ...



  • Anastasia Hollings

    Amelia Warner will stop at nothing to get what she wants: everything. Seventeen-year-old Amelia Warner is always on the outside. Moving from boarding school to boarding school with her brother and their father, the untenured professor, doesn't he...



  • Erin Hunter

    A graphic novel adventure from the world of Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series!

    In the third book of the Tigerstar & Sasha manga arc, a kittypet named Sasha searches for a new home -- and wonders if she might find it ...



  • Erin Hunter

    The secrets behind the warrior code will finally be revealed. * An ominous sign from StarClan that signaled the need to patrol borders * The unexpected help from a warrior ancestor that cemented the importance of elders * A secret coup that led ...



  • Beth Kephart

    Ever since her mother passed away, Katie's been alone in her too-big house with her genius dad, who restores old paintings for a living. Katie takes a summer job at a garden estate, where, with the help of two brothers and a glamorous librarian, she ...



  • Phillip Margolin

    Amanda Jaffe, the heroine of Wild Justice and Proof Positive, is back--in this twisting tale of international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past . . . and into the crosshairs of a killer. Charlie Marsh, a petty thief and con ma...



  • Jennifer McMahon

    When Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz form the Compassionate Dismantlers in college, the first rule of their manifesto is, "To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart." But their penchant for acts of meaningful vandalism and elaborate, o...



  • Ana Menendez

    A breathtaking novel of love, war, and betrayal Flash, a photojournalist, chases conflicts around the globe with her war correspondent husband, Brando. Now Brando is in Iraq, awaiting her arrival. Yet instead of racing to join him, Flash idles in...



  • Debra Mullins

    A disreputable duke All of London is abuzz with the shocking exploits of Thornton Matherton, Duke of Wyldehaven, a man as sinful and wild as his name. He plays fast and loose with money, drink, and women. Or does he? An impostor has tarnished Thornt...



  • Jill Nelson

    Sister Jill isn t just a foot soldier in what passes for war between the sexes. She s our commander-in-chief and follow we must. Pearl Cleage, New York Times bestselling author of What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary DayLet s Get it On is acclaimed a...



  • Audrey Nixon

    Someone needed to put a stop payment on Jennifer Check. The sign says Welcome to Devil's Kettle, Pop. 7,036. Come See What's Cookin'! No, seriously . . . that's what it says. Some people find it hard to believe that a babe like Jennifer Check...



  • Francine Prose

    What really happened at the back of the bus? Did they, or didn't they? Did she, or didn't she? Something happened to fourteen-year-old Maisie Willard--something involving her three friends, all boys. But their stories don't match, and the...



  • Michelle Radford

    If you had the power of mind control, could you resist using it? (Didn't think so. Fiona Blount feels your pain.) Fiona is coming to America! Her long-lost-now-found father is bringing her from London to meet his family. Of course, there's a secr...



  • Rob Reger

    13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel: 1. Mystery 2. A beautiful golem 3. Souped-up slingshots 4. Four black cats 5. Amnesia 6. Calamity Poker 7. Angry ponies 8. A shady truant officer 9. T...



  • Lance Reynald

    Caleb Watson is not like the other children at his Washington, D.C., private school. Having skipped a grade--and being younger and smaller than the rest of the boys--he finds that his Southern accent and sensitive, reserved nature set him even furthe...



  • Kristina Riggle

    Sometimes you find happiness where, and when, you least expect it. For Mirabelle Zielinski's children, happiness always seems to be just out of reach. Her polished oldest daughter, Katya, clings to a stale marriage with a workaholic husband and th...



  • James Rollins

    At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archae1ogist is found dead in St Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. Three murder victims on three continent...



  • Angie Sage

    Fans of Angie Sage's internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series will be delighted with this wonderful full-color compilation of extras such as maps, guides, and journals! New York Times Bestselling Series“A fresh take on the world of magic.â€...



  • Jacqueline Sheehan

    LIVING A DOG'S LIFE...NOW AND THEN Anna O'Shea has failed at marriage, shed her job at a law firm, and she's trying to re-create herself when she and her recalcitrant nephew are summoned to the past in a manner that nearly destroys them. Her twenty-...



  • Debra White Smith

    A woman is wrongly accused--and one man will risk everything to prove her innocence and save her life. The last thing Jack Mansfield ever wanted was to arrest his former sweetheart--especially with her crying five-year-old hanging on to her. But J...



  • Michael Stanley

    Two vicious murders, only hours apart Normally a peaceful wilderness retreat, the Jackalberry bush camp has suddenly become a ghastly crime scene--and the details are still emerging when Detective David "Kubu" Bengu is assigned to the case. Zimbab...



  • M. Glenn Taylor

    The novel, Taylor's first, tell the outlaw tale of Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nick-named for his live long oral affliction. He picks up a gun during the West Virginia coal mine wars and spends the remainder of his yea...



  • Joseph Bruchac

    Every monster can be overcome if you know the right way to go about it. Maddy has always loved scary stories, especially the spooky legends of her Native American ancestors. But that was before she heard about the Whisperer in the Dark, the most f...



  • Eve Bunting

    Right from the beginning I was suspicious of the man. Right from the minute he got on the bus. Maybe it was because he acted so strangely about the bag. But mostly it was because of the way he looked. And because my ears started tingling at the sight...



  • Alex Burrett

    In a voice so unfailingly chipper it's suspicious, Alex Burrett poses in fiction some disturbing yet certainly possible futures for the human race (and other ambitious, earthbound mammals). Always ready with an impeccable phrase or a sly wink, he sha...



  • Loretta Chase

    Spunky English girl overcomes impossible odds and outsmarts heathen villains. That's the headline when Zoe Lexham returns to England. After twelve years in the exotic east, she's shockingly adept in the sensual arts. She knows everything a...



  • Kira Coplin; Julianne Kaye

    An eager, aspiring make-up artist, Jackie O'Reilly has always dreamed of a high-profile Hollywood career--and now fate has made her fantasy a glittering reality. Filling in at the last minute for her boss, Jackie finds herself working with America's ...



  • Chris Crutcher

    A varsity letter jacket: it's exclusive. nearly unattainable, revered ... and everything that's screwed up about Cutter High, as far as T. J. Jones is concerned. That's why T. J. is determined to have the Cutter All Night Mermen -- the unlikeliest sw...



  • Chris Crutcher

    Every kid in this group wants to fly. Every kid in this group has too much ballast. Mr. Nak's Angry Management group is a place for misfits. A place for stories. And, man, does this crew have stories. There's Angus Bethune and Sarah Byrnes, who...



  • Peter David

    Josh Miller, sixth grader at Demarest Elementary School, has a secret. Everything that happens to Mascot, the superhero sidekick in the Captain Major comic books, also happens to Josh. So when Josh finds out that Mascot is slated to die in the next C...



  • Gardner Dozois

    Some of the most beloved names in science fiction spin all-new tales of interstellar adventure and wonder Neal Asher John Barnes Cory Doctorow John Kessel Jay Lake John Meaney Elizabeth Moon Garth Nix Mike Resnick Justina Robson Kristine...



  • Raymond E. Feist; S.M. Stirling

    Jimmy the Hand, boy thief of Krondor, lived in the shadows of the city. The sewers were his byways and a flea-ridden, rat-infested cellar his home. Although gifted beyond his peers, he was still but a nimble street urchin, a pickpocket with potential...



  • Gaelen Foley

    To restore family honor the Marquess of Rotherstone faces his most dangerous mission--finding the perfect bride . . . To London's aristocracy, the Inferno Club is a scandalous society of men no proper young lady would acknowledge. But though t...



  • Tim Green

    TROY'S GOT TO THINK FAST -- IF HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET BANNED FROM THE NFL FOR LIFE Most people think that Troy White works for the NFL Atlanta Falcons as a ball boy, but the team knows the truth. Troy is a "football genius.- with the extraordinary...



  • Rachel Hawthorne

    I may be promised to another . . . but thoughts of Rafe consume me. I don't know how much longer I can resist. Lindsey is wild and reckless, a natural rebel--maybe because her entire life was laid out for her even before she was born. Her parents ...



  • Lorraine Heath

    A Devilish Duke on a Quest for Pleasure... Frannie Darling was once a child of London's roughest streets, surrounded by petty thieves, pickpockets, and worse. But though she survived this harsh upbringing to become a woman of incomparable beau...



  • Anne Mallory

    Beneath every scornful smile... They were once cherished childhood companions, until a scandalous secret tore them apart. Now Valerian Rainewood and Abigail Smart are the fiercest of enemies. To Abigail, Rainewood is a notorious rake, hell-bent on...



  • Cathy Maxwell
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    What do you do with three dukes‚ a dog named Duke‚ and a devil? You put them into an anthology! We′ve combined five of today′s bestselling and popular authors into one volume to deliver romance like you′ve never experienced before.

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  • Jean Reynolds Page

    From Jean Reynolds Page--the critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Before and After and one of the most compelling voices in contemporary women's fiction--comes a dazzling novel of loss and redemption, of relationships that damage and thos...



  • Pamela Palmer

    They are called Feral Warriors--an elite band of immortals who can change shape at will. Sworn to rid the world of evil, consumed by sorcery and seduction, their wild natures are primed for release . . . Kara MacAllister's quiet small-town life is...



  • Vicki Pettersson

    In Sin City, a little girl suffers from a strange and terrible malady. If she dies, the Light will die along with her. Warrior, avenger, Joanna Archer has survived countless otherworldly terrors--and has found her rightful place among the agents b...



  • Julia Quinn

    Rumors and Gossip . . . The lifeblood of London When Olivia Bevelstoke is told that her new neighbor may have killed his fiancee, she doesn't believe it for a second, but, still, how can she help spying on him, just to be sure? So she stakes out a...



  • Sara Shepard

    ROSEWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA, SEEMS PICTURE PERFECT. BUT PICTURES OFTEN LIE -- AND SO DO ROSEWOOD'S FOUR PRETTIEST GIRLS. Hanna's on a mission to corrupt Rosewood's youth -- starting with a very attractive sophomore. Aria's snooping into her boyfriend's...



  • Relentless Aaron

    Two young men lured by the promise of fame and limitless power learn the hard way that no empire lasts forever in the latest urban drama from RENTLESS AARON Hit records, loads of cash, gorgeous groupies -- Ringo has it all. But he wasn't born a rap ...



  • Tony Abbott

    Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Derek didn't ask for this. It's bad enough that his brother's body is hosting a dead soul. Then there's that whole business of the evil dead waging war. And don't even get him started on all the ...




  • Chaco Abeno

    In the throes of his first love, Kentarou Sawai can't even count on beginner's luck to get him closer to Karen Toguin, the girl of his dreams. When he spontaneously enrolls in Karen's high school just to be closer to her, his hopes are crushed when i...



  • Joe Abercrombie

    Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march...



  • Jeanne Adams

    In Jeanne Adams' pulse-pounding thriller, a woman who's lost everything must turn to the man she considers her worst enemy. But he isn't the one who wants her dead... No Escape Cursed. Bad things happen to men who get close to Victoria Hagan. No...



  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- the Orange Broadband Prize -- winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun -- are her most intimate works to date. In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind me...



  • Aeschylus

    Three masterpieces of classical tragedy

    Containing Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and Euripides' Medea, this important new selection brings the best works of the great tragedians together in one perfect introductory volume. Th...



  • Ken Akamatsu

    HAUNTED SCHOOL?

    Negi Springfield is a boy wizard who teaches English at an all-girl school in Japan. The school has never shown indications of being haunted, but suddenly there are disturbing signs of a visiting spirit: a strange voice, piano ...



  • Rochelle Alers

    Close friends since childhood, Kyle, Duncan and Ivan have become rich, successful co-owners of a beautiful Harlem brownstone. The one thing each of them lacks is a special woman to share his life with--until true love steps in to transform three sexy...



  • Carrie Alexander

    A summer holiday in the desert -- what had she been thinking? Extreme heat? Scorpions? Senior citizens? Check. This home-swap vacation had seemed like such a great idea at the time.... Huh. Yet Alice Potter might actually get the romantic adventur...



  • Monica Ali

    Gabriel L ightfoot is an enterprising man from a northern E ngland mill town, making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial H otel, he is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, is unde...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    Terra Incognita - the blank spaces on the map, past the edge of the world, marked only by the words "here be monsters." Two nations at war, fighting for dominion over the known, and undiscovered, world, pin their last hopes at ultimate victory on fi...



  • Laurie Halse Anderson

    Zoe Fleefenbacher has one blue eye and one green eye and bright red hair that goes on . . . forever. Her hair has always been unruly, but now she is in first grade and according to her teacher, Ms. Trisk, “first grade has rules.” It takes countle...



  • Natalie Anderson

    Italian where it matters! Luca Bianchi has sworn off women -- after all, his million-dollar business is much less temperamental. Then he meets Emily Dodds. One look at the hot body hiding behind the prim clothes, and Luca's libido is stuck on ful...



  • Poul Anderson

    Nicholas van Rijn, the most flamboyant member of the Polesotechnic League of star traders, could see dark times ahead. Fellow league members were using tactics verging on outright piracy, and others were all too eager to sell starships and high-tech ...



  • Kalman Andrasofszky

    There's no place like home - just ask young mutant Kiden Nixon. She survived the hard streets of Manhattan, and she's built a home - and a family - for herself, with her friends Tatiana, Bobby Soul, and his Li'l Bro. But with fewer than 200 mutants l...



  • Amy Andrews

    From ugly duckling to beautiful bride Dressed in her shapeless lab coats and baggy clothes, medical-research assistant Izzy Nolan doesn't look like she was once a top model. But ever since the tragic incident that left her emotionally and physical...



  • Toni Andrews

    I just want a normal life...even if I'm not entirely sure I'm human. My name is Mercy Hollings and I'm a successful hypnotherapist in Balboa, California. The problem is, my good fortune is dependent on a dark secret. I can make people do whatever ...



  • Kate Angell
    in

    From seeing-eye dogs to cats who sit in your lap, animals are there for us in more way than we can count. Helping us get through the day with a wag of the tail and a tilt of the head, they let us know that someone is on our side-no matter what. They ...



  • Kathleen Antrim
    in

    When some of the top thriller writers in the world came together in Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night, they became a part of one of the most successful short-story anthologies ever published. The highly anticipated Thriller 2: Stories You Ju...



  • Bridget Asher

    A bighearted, funny, fiercely perceptive tale about a happily married woman and the little white lie that changed everything.... For Gwen Merchant, love has always been doled out in little packets--from her father, a marine biologist who buried h...



  • Diane Ashley; Aaron McCarver

    Rebekah eagerly anticipates the return of her childhood sweetheart from college. . .and his long-awaited proposal. But when Asher instead tells her that their wedding must wait while he fights for his country, Rebekah's dreams seem to shatter around ...



  • Annie Auerbach

    Surviving among the fierce and enormous creatures, Buck is a weasel who has become the master navigator of a mysterious world deep beneath the tundra. He is the only one who can keep Manny, Diego, Ellie, Crash, and Eddie safe from his archenemy, R...



  • James Axler

    Rumors of an untouched predark ville in the mountains of West Virginia lure traders in search of unimaginable wealth. They're coming from all directions--the good, the bad, the worst. Ryan and his warrior group join in, although it means an uneasy tr...



  • Michael Baden

    The star crime-solving pair of Dr. Jake Rosen, world-famous pathologist, and top litigator Manny Manfreda, return in a gripping new thriller. New York City is on high alert for a serial killer -- a strange kind of thief who stalks his victims fo...



  • Paul Bagdon

    Pound Taylor had been wandering the desert for days, his saddlebags stuffed with stolen money from an army paymaster's wagon, when he came upon Gila Bend. It was a wide-open town without law of any kind, haven to gunslingers, drifters and gamblers. P...



  • Cyn Balog

    A captivating and witty dark fantasy that will have girls lusting after it. Morgan Sparks has always known that she and her boyfriend, Cam, are made for each other. But when Cam's cousin Pip comes to stay with the family, Cam seems depressed. Fina...



  • Sandra Balzo

    A freak snowstorm in early May strands coffee house proprietress Maggy Thorsen in her store, Uncommon Grounds, with no power and no plows in sight. There's not much to do but commiserate with the other tenants of the strip mall and wait. That is, unt...



  • Jackie Barbosa

    Forbidden fantasies and hidden pleasures are waiting. Enter the Red Door, a most exclusive brothel, where men enjoy all the sins of the flesh and women surrender to their own secret desires... "Wickedly Ever After" Known for his wicked ways, th...



  • Tessa Barclay

    The new â€Gregory Crowne’ mystery - When the ex-Queen Nicoletta of Hirtenstein, Gregory’s redoubtable grandmother, summons him to Rome where she is redecorating the villa of an Italian politician, Greg reluctantly complies. It appears that a...



  • John Barnes

    Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of what he calls "the Madman Underground"--a group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy d...



  • Chuck Barris

    Art Deco Jr. is heir to a vast fortune, scion of one of America's most powerful men -- Art Deco Sr. -- though by the time we meet him in these pages, Art has fallen into a life of depravity: booze, drugs, you name it. The Deco family is almost too em...



  • Anya Bast

    Sarafina Connell is having the worst week of her life. It takes an even darker turn when an infamous playboy kidnaps her and reveals a world she never knew existed... It's a world where magick is real, and where Sarafina is given a chance to join ...



  • Dan Begley

    PhD candidate Mitch Samuel's life isn't going exactly according to plan: his girlfriend just dumped him (to be fair, he did forget to pick her up at the airport), his estranged father has landed in the hospital, and his literary masterpiece-one part ...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    This story starts at the conclusion of the blockbuster video game, Halo 2. This must-read novel reveals how the Master Chief, while onboard a hostile ship headed towards Earth, battles against Covenant forces! Interwined with Master Chief's interstel...



  • Sue Bentley

    Lola is feeling left-out and a bit alone at school. But when magical puppy Storm appears as a fluffy black-and-white shih-tzu puppy, it looks like Lola's lonely school days will come into a magical class of their own!...



  • Sue Bentley

    Never in Madison's wildest dreams had she imagined having a magic puppy for a friend! So when Storm, a tiny beagle puppy with a fluffy white muzzle, magically appears, Madison feels like the most special girl in the whole world. Who better to help he...



  • Sue Bentley

    Flame is a magic kitten and a prince in his own world. But when he finds out that his evil uncle is up to no good, Flame escapes to the human world. He visits family after family, using his magic spells wherever they're needed most! Kim is excited...



  • Sue Bentley

    A little pony sparkling with magic. But his big wish is for a special friend! And so Alexandra's show jumping dreams look like they might come true when glossy Palomino pony, Comet canters into the ring......



  • Margot Berwin

    In the heart of New York City, hidden in the back room of an old Laundromat, are nine rare and valuable plants. Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire tells the story of this legendary garden, and the distance one woman must travel--from the c...



  • Lesley M.M. Blume

    Franny Hansen is a 10-year-old piano prodigy living in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. Once the Coot Capitol of the world, in 1953 it's just a run-of-the-mill town with one traffic light and a bizarre cast of characters. She's long exhausted the talents of th...



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    After a priest is lynched, gunfighter Britton Wade is the only one left who can guarantee justice!In Santa Fe, Jeremiah Cole has been convicted and sentenced to hang for the lynching of a priest. Still, most people believe Cole will never be executed...



  • Stephanie Bond

    Carlotta Wren's world is crumbling beneath her well-shod feet. One of her closest friends has been arrested as the Charmed Killer, but Carlotta refuses to believe it. And to prove her friend's innocence, Carlotta goes against her boyfriend Peter's wi...



  • Marie Bostwick

    Come home to Marie Bostwick's poignant novel of new beginnings, old friends, and the rich, varied tapestry of lives fully lived... At twenty-seven, having fled an abusive marriage with little more than her kids and the clothes on her back, Ivy Pet...



  • C.J. Box

    It begins with a phone message: Tell Sherry April called. And suddenly Joe Pickett's family is shaken to the core. April, Pickett's foster daughter, was murdered six years ago. His daughter Sherry starts to believe there's a chance that April is stil...



  • Rebecca Brandewyne

    Sent away from Meadowsweet Farm after the tragic death of her mother, Hallie Muldoon has returned, determined to uncover the secrets that have kept her from her beloved childhood home. But some secrets are best left undisturbed.... Conjured by Hal...



  • Diana Lesire Brandmeyer

    She’s running from the past. He's aiming for the future. Will they connect?

    Randi prefers her life to be free of a love life. But that may be ending when Preacher Boy steps into her cab and dazzles her with his charm. Is she strong enou...



  • Lyle Brandt

    U.S. Deputy Marshal Jack Slade must stop cross-country carnage. The homestead killers have been cutting a bloody swath across Oklahoma Territory, leaving behind a trail of corpses, slaughtering whole families on isolated farms and stealing the...



  • Gary Braver
    in

    Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this poignant Thriller Short, bestselling author Gary Braver draws from personal e...



  • Marie Brennan

    The year is 1666. The King and Parliament vie for power, fighting one another with politics and armies alike. Below, the faerie court has enemies of its own. The old ways are breaking down, and no one knows what will rise in their place. But now,...



  • Sarah Rees Brennan

    Nick and his brother, Alan, have spent their lives on the run from magic. Their father was murdered, and their mother was driven mad by magicians and the demons who give them power. The magicians are hunting the Ryves family for a charm that Nick's m...



  • Simon Brett

    A duke's halfwit son and brainy daughter search for a kidnapped princess and a dangerous killer in this hilarious historical mystery series debut. It's that glorious period between the two World Wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is celebra...



  • Heather Brewer

    Vladimir Tod NORMAL TENTH-GRADE STUDENT' OR POWERFUL VAMPIRE? It's another awful year at Bathory High for Vladimir Tod. The evil vampire D'Ablo is hunting for a ritual that could steal Vlad's powers. His best friend, Henry, doesn't want to be his dr...



  • Kate Brian

    She's Back.... After wasting away in a mental institution for a year and a half, Ariana Osgood is finally back where she belongs. She has a new look, a new name, and a new life -- all thanks to her former friend Briana Leigh Covington. Now enro...



  • Carleen Brice

    Still reeling from divorce and feeling estranged from her teenage son, Trish Taylor is in the midst of salvaging the remnants of her life when she uncovers a shocking secret: her sister is alive. For years Trish believed that her mother and infant si...



  • Terri Brisbin

    Brittany, 1066 Elise saved her family from ruin by marrying Simon, Count of Rennes. Yet this is no mere marriage of convenience -- Elise has already fallen in love with her new husband. Intending to please him, Elise sets out to be the bold and se...



  • Connie Briscoe

    Ten years have passed since Sisters and Lovers, and Beverly, now 39, is engaged to Julian, a man her family and friends agree is the epitome of a great catch: he's gorgeous, loyal, trustworthy, successful, and very much in love with her. Since this i...



  • Laura Brodie

    A mesmerizing debut novel about love, grief, and the ghosts who show up where we least expect them. Sarah McConnell's husband had been dead for three months when she saw him in the grocery store. What does a woman do when she's thirty-nine, childless...



  • Anita Brookner

    Literary master Anita Brookner's elegant style is manifest on every page of her brilliant new novel. Beautifully crafted and emotionally evocative, Strangers portrays the magic and depth of real life, telling the rich story of an ordinary man whose u...



  • Cheryl Brooks

    Sold into slavery in a harem, Lynx is a favorite because his feline gene gives him remarkable sexual powers. But after ten years, Lynx is exhausted. Thrown out without a penny, discarded and heartbroken, Lynx vows he'll never give a woman pleasure ag...



  • Mat Broome

    An unstoppable super-villain attacks New York City--and the Mighty Avengers fall before him! Now Iron Man races to find the only man who’s ever defeated Anti-Man-- THE BLUE MARVEL…a hero the world hasn’t seen since 1961! Will Tony Stark uncove...



  • Jason Robert Brown; Dan Elish

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