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  • Close Contact

    Katherine Allred

    GEPs just want to have fun . . . A Genetically Engineered Person and self-proclaimed "party girl," Echo Adams loves her diplomatic job entertaining alien bigwigs for the Galactic Federation. But the Bureau of Alien Affairs has discovered she's muc...

  • Wayfarer

    R.J. Anderson

    In a time of deadly crisis, Linden alone has the power to save her people. The faeries of the Oak are in danger of extinction, and their only hope for survival rests in fifteen-year-old Linden. Armed with the last of her people's magic, she travels...

  • Freak Magnet

    Andrew Auseon

    A novel about freaks, geeks, crushes, and friends -- and how sometimes you can be all of them at once. Charlie is the freak. Gloria is the freak magnet. They're pretty much destined to meet. And when they do, sparks fly . . . for Charlie. Gloria, ...

  • The End of Time

    Avi

    As long as I could keep myself out of bondage, I would be true to Bear's teaching. And so it was that beyond all else, I was determined to keep my freedom. After the death of their beloved mentor, Bear, Crispin and Troth are more desperate than ev...

  • The Other Mothers' Club

    Samantha Baker

    Eve has had it--she's no wicked stepmonster in the making. She absolutely adores Ian, the new man in her life, and she's more than willing to open her heart to his kids. But nothing she does is right in their eyes, and she just can't take it anymore....

  • A Fierce Radiance

    Lauren Belfer

    Claire Shipley is a single mother haunted by the death of her young daughter and by her divorce years ago. She is also an ambitious photojournalist, and in the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, the talented Life magazine reporter finds herself on top ...

  • Zoo City

    Lauren Beukes

    Zinzi December has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job: missing...

  • House of Dolls

    Francesca Lia Block

    In a little house from another time, with lace curtains in every window and paintings hung in gold doily frames, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life. They wear fancy dresses, bake play-dough cakes, and spend their days enj...

  • Insatiable

    Meg Cabot

    SICK OF HEARING ABOUT VAMPIRES? SO IS MEENA HARPER. Meena Harper is familiar with the supernatural. After all, she knows how you're going to die. (Not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does.) But not even Meena's precognition can prepar...

  • 32 Candles

    Ernessa T. Carter

    32 Candles is the slightly twisted, utterly romantic, and deftly wry story of Davie Jones, who, if she doesn't stand in her own way, just might get the man of her dreams. Davie--an ugly duckling growing up in small-town Mississippi--is positive her...

  • Our Red Hot Romance Is Leaving Me Blue

    Dixie Cash

    Full-time hairdressers and part-time private detectives, Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin -- the Domestic Equalizers -- have dealt with cheating spouses, shady business deals, Elvis-obsessed shoe thieves, even murder. But ghosts? That'...

  • Forgive My Fins

    Tera Lynn Childs

    Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it's not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you're a normal teenage girl, but when you're half human, half merm...

  • The Truth About Delilah Blue

    Tish Cohen

    Delilah Blue Lovett has always been a bit of an outsider, ever since her father moved her from Toronto to L.A. when she was eight, claiming Delilah's mother no longer wanted to be part of their family. Twenty now and broke, but determined to be an ar...

  • Her Abundant Joy

    Lyn Cote

    In 1846, young widow Mariel survived the grueling voyage from Germany to start a new life in the "promised" land of ?Texas. Forced by circumstances to become a servant, Mariel is now determined to leave her harsh master. But how can a single ...

  • Tell Me a Secret

    Holly Cupala

    It's tough living in the shadow of a dead girl. . . . In the five years since her bad-girl sister Xanda's death, Miranda Mathison has wondered about the secret her sister took to the grave, and what really happened the night she died. Now, just as ...

  • Lanceheim

    Tim Davys

    A fast-paced literary and psychological drama in which the trials and tribulations of a group of stuffed animals illuminate the moral and philosophical dilemmas we all share While finishing what was to be his greatest symphony, famed composer Reub...

  • Bad Marie

    Marcy Dermansky

    Bad Marie is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. The only job Marie can get on the outside is as a nanny for her childhood friend El...

  • The Infinity Gate

    Sara Douglass

    Tencendor is no more. The land is gone. But a few SunSoars still remain, and a new foe walks the world. Ishbel Brunelle, priestess of the Serpent Coil, and Maximilian, the Lord of Elcho Falling, have raised the magic of Elcho Falling, and found ne...

  • Go, Mutants!

    Larry Doyle

    The author of I Love You, Beth Cooper returns with an ingenious contemporary satire set in an alternate universe populated by the aliens, mutants, and atomic monsters of B-movie legend. It came to Earth . . . and now its spawn goes to high school. ...

  • Stranded

    J.T. Dutton

    My best friend, Katy, says a person with a sparkly two-part name like Kelly Louise should be guaranteed a little glamour and excitement and not be forced to move back to Mom's middle-of-nowhere hometown -- now the center of a media frenzy since a far...

  • Lowcountry Summer

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    Follow New York Times bestselling author DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK back to Tall Pines Plantation in the long-awaited sequel to her beloved bestseller Plantation. When Caroline Wimbley Levine returned to Tall Pines Plantation, she never expected to make ...

  • Every House Needs a Balcony

    Rina Frank

    Braiding together past and present, Every House Needs a Balcony tells the story of a young Jewish girl -- a child of Romanian immigrants -- who lives with her family in the poverty-stricken heart of 1950s Haifa, Israel. Eight-year-old Rina, her older...

  • Stories: All-new Tales

    Neil Gaiman

    The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to find the answer to the question, "And then what happened?" Edited by Neil Gaiman, a literary magician whose acclaimed work defies easy categorization and transcends all bou...

  • What He's Poised to Do

    Ben Greenman

    Ben Greenman is a writer of virtuosic range and uncanny emotional insight. As Darin Strauss has noted, "Like Bruno Schulz, George Saunders, Donald Barthelme, and no one else I can think of, Greenman has the power to be whimsical without resorting to ...

  • The Rebellion of Jane Clarke

    Sally Gunning

    On the eve of the Revolutionary War, a young woman is caught between tradition and independence, family and conscience, loyalty and love, in this spellbinding novel from the author of The Widow's War and Bound Jane Clarke leads a simple yet rich l...

  • Damage Time

    Colin Harvey

    NEW YORK IS A MESS. It's 2050 and sea-levels have swamped the coastal regions. The walls are failing, the city has been carved up between the Chinese and the Muslims, and the USA is bankrupt. Detective Peter Shah serves with the NYPD as a Memory Asso...

  • Battles of the Clans

    Erin Hunter

    An inside look at each Clan's fighting secrets: * ShadowClan's night ambush technique * ThunderClan's surprise Lightning Strike tactic * WindClan's secret underground tunneling * RiverClan's water maneuvers * SkyClan's fear...

  • The Zombie Chasers

    John Kloepfer

    ZOMBIE ATTACK! When brain-gobbling zombies invade, a sleepover at Zack Clarke's house quickly turns into a Level-3 creep-over. Zack, his best buddy, Rice, and queen of mean Madison are on a mission to save the world from their flesh-eating neighbor...

  • The Shadow Hunt

    Katherine Langrish

    Wolf is on the run -- from the oppressive monastery where he was raised, from the ghosts and demons that haunt the windswept moors of Devil's Edge, and from the shadows in the landscape that resemble the Devil himself. When Wolf rescues a strange ...

  • Death Echo

    Elizabeth Lowell

    New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell cuts a new edge in suspense with this thrilling tale of passion, danger, and international intrigue in which a pair of former operatives must stop a deadly plot that threatens a major American city -...

  • Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto

    Eric Luper

    Seth Baumgartner just had the worst day of his life. His girlfriend dumped him (at Applebee's), he spied his father on a date with a woman who is not his mother (also at Applebee's!), and he lost his fourth job of the year. It's like every relatio...

  • Heart of Lies

    M.L. Malcolm

    Leo Hoffman was born with a gift for languages. When his dreams for the future are destroyed by World War I, the dashing young Hungarian attempts to use his rare talent to rebuild his life, only to find himself inadvertently embroiled in an internati...

  • The Rule of Nine

    Steve Martini

    The Old Weatherman dreams of a plan that could be his swan song, an attack to drive a stake through the heart of the right-wing establishment and bury it for good. Now he's found the money, the ideal weapon, and the professional who knows how to use ...

  • Tempting a Proper Lady

    Debra Mullins

    A Most Improper Alliance Two years ago, dashing Captain Samuel Breedlove disappeared without a word. But he's resurfaced in London a wealthy man, only to discover his fiancee preparing to wed another. Now Samuel needs to restore his good name and ex...

  • The Sister Wife

    Diane Noble

    What if the man you loved told you God wanted him to take another wife? What if that woman was your best friend? Set in the heart of the earliest days of a new nineteenth-century sect known as the Saints, The Sister Wife is a riveting account of tw...

  • Ooh La la!: It's Beauty Day

    Jane O'Connor

    What better way to fancy Mom up for her birthday than to treat her to a super-deluxe beauty day created by Fancy Nancy herself? It's a pampering paradise, and right in the backyard! With relaxing music, fragrant lotions, colorful nail polish, and foa...

  • Geek Chic

    Margie Palatini

    Meet Zoey Age: Eleven. Well, almost eleven. Backspace. Halfway to eleven. Factoid: 198 days to sixth grade. Problem: Coolability (see glossary inside). Connect the dots: A bad hair situation . . . Growing earlobes . . . Wanted: 1....

  • Ghost Hunter

    Michelle Paver

    Her cry rips the souls from your marrow. With her spear she snares them. She devours them. Eostra truly is an eater of souls. Winter is coming. Souls' Night draws near. Eostra, the Eagle Owl Mage, holds the clans in the grip of terror. Torak must ...

  • First Grade Jitters

    Robert M. Quackenbush

    Here is the story of a young boy who is about to enter first grade and doesn't know quite what to expect. Will his friends be there? Will he have to know how to read and spell? What if he can't understand anything his teacher says? Looks like a case ...

  • Soul Stealers

    Andy Remic

    FILE UNDER: Epic Fantasy • A Land Despoiled • A Dangerous Hero • Vampire Assassins • Blood-Oil! They came from the North, and the city fell. Now it is time for Kell to organise the resistance. But there are vampire assassins on his trail. ...

  • Wanted

    Sara Shepard

    In Rosewood, majestic estates sprawl for acres, and Tiffany toggle bracelets dangle from every girl's wrist. But not all that glitters is gold, and the town harbors secrets darker than anyone could imagine -- like the truth about what really happened...

  • Sixty-one Nails

    Mike Shevdon

    THERE IS A SECRET WAR GROWING BENEATH THE STREETS OF LONDON. A dark magic will be unleashed by the Untainted...Unless a new hero can be found. The smarter, faster brother to Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere has arrived. The immense Sixty-One Nails foll...

  • Swords & Dark Magic

    Jonathan Strahan

    Seventeen original tales of sword and sorcery penned by masters old and new Elric . . . the Black Company . . . Majipoor. For years, these have been some of the names that have captured the hearts of generations of readers and embodied the sword an...

  • Based upon Availability

    Alix Strauss

    From the very first page of this stunning novel, readers are drawn into the lives of eight seemingly ordinary women who pass through Manhattan's swanky Four Seasons Hotel. While offering sanctuary to some, solace to others, the hotel captures their d...

  • The Lovers

    Vendela Vida

    Twenty-eight years ago, Peter and Yvonne honeymooned in the beautiful coastal village of DatCa, Turkey. Now Yvonne is a widow, her twin children grown. Hoping to immerse herself in memories of a happier time--as well as sand and sea--Yvonne returns t...

  • As Simple As It Seems

    Sarah Weeks

    VERBENA COLTER KNOWS SHE'S BAD NEWS. Trouble from the get-go. How could she not be, with parents like hers? Her mother practically pickled her before she was even born, leaving Verbie to struggle with the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome. And her f...

  • Friends Forever?

    Tina Wells

    Mackenzie Blue is hitting the trails It's time for Brookdale Academy's camping field trip, but Zee has much more to deal with than a lesson about nature. . . . Pros: 1. My BFF, Ally, is visiting all the way from Paris Ooh la la 2. My fr...

  • The Duke's Captive

    Adele Ashworth

    Vengeance would be his... Ian Wentworth arrives in London with one goal: revenge. Now a duke of enormous wealth, he should settle down to the business of marrying and producing heirs. But nightmares of an ordeal from his past haunt him at every tu...

  • Five Days Apart

    Chris Binchy

    Bestselling Irish author Chris Binchy makes his American debut with a wonderfully charming and bittersweet story of friendship, love, and second chances. When the bright but tongue-tied David sees the magnetic Camille at a party, he plays it safe, ...

  • Imaginalis

    J.M. DeMatteis

    What if your dearest friends were trapped in a world that was dying? Mehera Beatrice Crosby has one great love--and it's not following the latest health fads (like her school friend Celeste), and it's definitely not Andrew Suarez (even if he does h...

  • Pray for Dawn

    Jocelynn Drake

    Pray for salvation . . . Pray for daylight . . . Murder has pulled Mira out of the shadows and back into the living world . . . As the fire-wielding enforcer of the nightwalker coven wrestles with the mind-destroying ghosts of her dark past...

  • Tutankhamun: The Book of Shadows

    Nick Drake

    As Egypt's young king is crowned, a vicious killer waits in the shadows. . . . Egypt's next Pharaoh, the young Tutankhamun, is ready to claim his birthright--a vast, powerful, and sophisticated empire. It should be at the height of its glory, but i...

  • My Dangerous Duke

    Gaelen Foley

    The Inferno Club: In public, this scandalous society of London aristocrats is notorious for pursuing all manner of debauchery. But in private, they are warriors who would do anything to protect king and country . . . They say that the very name of ...

  • Can't Get Enough of You

    Bette Ford

    NO REBOUNDS. . . Jenna Gaines has her Ph.D., a great teaching job at her alma mater, everything she ever wanted in life . . . almost. Once upon a time she wanted Scott Hendricks, but the NBA called and he left her to become a hoops star. Now his ca...

  • Running Dark

    Jamie Freveletti

    From internationally bestselling author Jamie Freveletti comes a riveting new thriller featuring brilliant biochemist Emma Caldridge, except this time there's nowhere to run. . . . Emma Caldridge is on mile thirty-six of the fifty-five-mile Comrade...

  • Wicked Girls

    Stephanie Hemphill

    What started out as girls' games became a witch hunt. Wicked Girls is a fictionalized account of the Salem witch trials told from the perspectives of three of the real young women living in Salem in 1692. Ann Putnam Jr. plays the queen bee. When he...

  • Oz Behind the Walls

    Augustus Hill

  • The Brazen Bride

    Stephanie Laurens

    They're bold, courageous, resolute . . . ex-officers of the Crown united against a deadly traitor known only as the Black Cobra. Shipwrecked, wounded, he risks all to pursue his mission--only to discover a partner as daring and brazen as he. ...

  • I Kissed an Earl

    Julie Anne Long

    Violet Redmond's family and fortune might be formidable and her beauty and wit matchless--but her infamous flare for mischief keeps all but the most lionhearted suitors at bay. Only Violet knows what will assuage her restlessness: a man who doesn...

  • Rapture Untamed

    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 . . . The most combative--and tormented--of all th...

  • A Groom of One's Own

    Maya Rodale

    MISS HARLOW'S MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE London, 1823 A handsome duke. His beautiful soon-to-be duchess. A whirlwind courtship. It is this author's privilege to report on the event all of London is talking about: the upcoming wedding of the Duke of Hami...

  • Life After Yes

    Aidan Donnelley Rowley

    A young woman deals with the aftermath of her father's death while she struggles to commit to a future with her fiance in Life After Yes, the poignant, wry, and very accomplished debut novel from Aidan Donnelley Rowley. A story of hope and light in t...

  • The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

    Lola Shoneyin

    When Baba Segi awoke with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to do something drastic about his fourth wife's childlessness. Meet Baba Segi . . . A plump, vain, and prosperous middle-aged man of robust appetites, Baba Se...

  • Bruiser

    Neal Shusterman

    Tennyson: Don't get me started on the Bruiser. He was voted "Most Likely to Get the Death Penalty" by the entire school. He's the kid no one knows, no one talks to, and everyone hears disturbing rumors about. So why is my sister, Bront, dating him?...

  • Commuters

    Emily Gray Tedrowe

    At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, to begin his life anew. But their decision to buy one of the town's biggest...

  • Claimed by a Scottish Lord

    Melody Thomas

    The Dragon's Captive Raised behind the walls of Hope Abbey, Rose Lancaster's sheltered upbringing never prepared her for a man like Lord Roxburghe. The fabled Black Dragon, Ruark Kerr hasn't been seen in his Scottish homeland for more than a decade...

  • The Genie King

    Tony Abbott

    A KINGDOM UNDER ATTACK. A CITY LOST IN TIME. A DANGEROUS MISSION ONLY NEAL CAN COMPLETE.... Neal, Julie, and Keeah are on a quest to find the all-powerful Moon Medallion. But this is no ordinary mission for the Moon Medallion is hidden in no ord...

  • The Time Weaver

    Shana Abe

    What if everything you loved, and everyone, suddenly vanished? Your parents, your children, your friends. Your home. Your town. Your species. All the living beings that defined your world, that gave your heart reason to pump the blood that a...

  • Blood Song

    Cat Adams

    Bodyguard Celia Graves has definitely accepted her share of weird assignments, both human and supernatural. But her newest job takes the cake. Guarding a Prince from terrorists and religious fundamentalists is hard enough, but it seems like the entir...

  • A Killer Plot

    Ellery Adams

    In the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, you'll find plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells, and even a few celebs trying to duck the paparazzi. But when murder joins this curious community, the Bayside Book Writers are there to get the...

  • What's a Housekeeper To Do?

    Jennie Adams

    Being housekeeper to crime writer Cameron Travers should be a pretty simple, safe job -- just what Lally Douglas wants. Once burned, forever shy Lally wants to blend into the background. Cameron Travers is attractive, intelligent, fun and very charm...

  • In Bed With

    Jessica Adams

  • Between the Assassinations

    Aravind Adiga

    Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads between the brightest minds ...

  • The Accidental Adventures of India Mcallister

    Charlotte Agell

    Fourth grade is a year of changes, challenges, and ordinary joys for India McAllister. She lives in Maine with her artist mom and their dog, Tofu. Her father lives in the next town over with his new partner, Richard and their bird, Beatrice Strawberr...

  • The Lord and the Wayward Lady

    Louise Allen

    FROM IMPOVERISHED MISS TO RESPECTABLE WIFE The closest milliner Nell Latham has come to high society is making fashionable bonnets for ladies. But when she's asked to deliver a message to the Earl of Narborough, she's soon swept up in a web of intri...

  • The Map of All Things

    Kevin J. Anderson

    After terrible atrocities by both sides, the religious war between Tierra and Uraba has spread and intensified, irreparably dividing the known world. What started as a series of skirmishes has erupted into a full-blown crusade. Now that the Uraban ...

  • The Suburb Beyond the Stars

    M.T. Anderson

    You haven't seen strange until you've seen what Brian and Gregory are up against.... Something incredibly strange is happening. It's not The Game of Sunken Places-Brian and Gregory have been through that before. But still...strange creatures have ...

  • Caught on Camera With the CEO

    Natalie Anderson

    TO: All staff -- is this the hottest kiss you've ever seen? Finally our playboy boss plays around at work! Watch this steamy clip of Alex Carlisle making out in the lift with the brand-new temp... Heartthrob Alex has recently been spotted prowling ...

  • Distant Thunders

    Taylor Anderson

    THE SKIES EXPLODE. After the battle in which the men of the destroyer Walker and their Lemurian allies repelled the savage Grik, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy is shocked by the arrival of a strange ship captained by one Commodore Jenks of the ...

  • Collected Prose

    Paul Auster

    The expanded edition of an essential collection of writings, essays, and interviews from Paul Auster, one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and 4 3 ...

  • Hidden Wives

    Claire Avery

    Fifteen-year-old Sara and her beautiful sister, Rachel, are too young to legally drive a car -- but are approaching spinsterhood in Utah's secret polygamist Blood of the Lamb community. Having long since reached the "age of preparedness," they will s...

  • Acting Out

    Avi

    With a star-studded lineup of writers, there’s a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains! Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office in The Raven, and the environment fights back against overdevelopment in...

  • Terror's Reach

    Tom Bale

    A burning summer's day explodes into violence. A murderous gang targets the exclusive south coast island of Terror's Reach, home to rival business tycoons Robert Felton and Valentin Nasenko. The residents are facing annihilation, and only one man sta...

  • CEO's Expectant Secretary

    Leanne Banks

    Maddox Communications was his life -- until he allowed a woman to come between him and his business. CEO Brock Maddox had been betrayed by his lover...his own secretary. And when he finally confronted Elle Linton, he discovered she'd been keeping an ...

  • A Stranger in the Family

    Robert Barnard

    Kit Philipson has always felt like something of a stranger in his family. Growing up as the only child of professional parents in Glasgow, Scotland, he had every advantage. His mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany...

  • Raised by Wolves

    Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    At the age of four, Bryn watched a rogue werewolf brutally murder her parents. Alone in the world, she was rescued and taken in by the mysterious Callum, the alpha of his werewolf pack. Now fifteen, Bryn’s been raised as a human among werewolves, a...

  • The Tyranny of Ghosts

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

    The battle for the kingdom of goblins reaches its peak! Geth and his allies have fled the city of Rhukaan Draal, after failing to dethrone Lhesh Tariic, and reach out to the Kech Volaar for help. There they seek information on how to destroy the e...

  • Twain's Feast

    Andrew Beahrs

  • Walks With Men

    Ann Beattie

    It is 1980 in New York City, and Jane, a valedictorian fresh out of Harvard, strikes a deal with Neil, an intoxicating writer twenty years her senior. The two quickly become lovers, living together in a Chelsea brownstone, and Neil reveals the rules ...

  • The Overton Window

    Glenn Beck

    A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed . . . can it be stopped? There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public...

  • I Know I Am, But What Are You?

    Samantha Bee

  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

    Aimee Bender

    The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted pa...

  • Fortune and Glory: A True Hollywood Comic Book Story

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Brian Michael Bendis, the New York Times bestselling, Peabody and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creator of Miles Morales, Naomi, Jessica Jones, and POWERS tells a comedic life lesson about the horrors of Hollywood.Before his acclaimed relaunches of S...

  • Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D.

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Spider-Woman (2009) #1-7. Ripped from the pages of SECRET INVASION and NEW AVENGERS, this explosive chapter follows the new adventures of Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman as she rediscovers her life in a world she did not make....

  • Twirling Tails

    Sue Bentley

    Kirsten and her best friend, Tracy, have been fighting ever since only Kirsten was chosen to be in the Limelight Majorettes parade. It will take Stormas magical help to put these two friends back on track....

  • The Worst Things in Life Are Also Free

    Jim Benton

    School's out for the summer, and that means no more Meat Loaf Thursdays, Sunday homework-cramming, or teachers (unsuccessfully) trying to act cool. It also means that certain Mackerel Middle Schoolers have a lot of time on their hands . . . and serio...

  • The Brimstone Key

    Derek Benz; J.S. Lewis

    Max---the leader Natalia---the brains Ernie---the changeling Harley---the muscle A year ago, the Grey Griffins were just regular kids from Avalon, Minnesota. That was before they learned about the existence of evil fairies, werewolves, and other thi...

  • See You Soon, Samantha

    Lara Bergen

    Three girls, three trips, one amazing summer! Samantha Macintosh isn't excited about spending the whole summer apart from her best friends, Liza and Mina. But she can't help being excited about a seaside vacation, complete with fun in the sun, carni...

  • A Busy Day

    Lara Bergen

    Lately Tianna has been feeling unsettled and she can't understand why. She has a great boyfriend, good friends, and for once a good foster situation too. But she just can't shake the thought that something, or someone, is after her. At a skateboardin...

  • Following Polly

    Karen Bergreen

    Would you call Alice Teakle a stalker? Or just someone with an, um, healthy obsession with golden girl Polly Linley Dawson? No one much notices Alice: not her boss, not the neighbors, not even her Mother. Besides, everyone follows Polly: her busines...

  • L.A. Cinderella

    Amanda Berry

    RED-HOT RED CARPET ROMANCE! Career-driven accountant Natalie Collins wasn't the type to wish for a Hollywood hero to rescue her. She preferred life away from celebrity glitz. Too bad the man who drove her wild was an A-list actor. With her understa...

  • Parallel Myths

    J.F. Bierlein

    “Unusually accessible and useful . . . An eye-opener to readers into the universality and importance of myth in human history and culture.” -- William E. Paden, Chair, Department of Religion, University of VermontFor as long as human beings have ...

  • Toast Mortem

    Claudia Bishop

    THERE'S TROUBLE IN PARADISE: The serenity of Hemlock Falls has been shattered by the arrival of the infamous Bernard LeVasque, who -- too bitter for someone's taste -- has been taken off the menu for good... THE GROUCHIEST CHEF in the world of ha...

  • Ender's Game: War of Gifts

    Jake Black; Aaron Johnston

    After Ender Wiggins leaves for Battle School, his enigmatic siblings Valentine and Peter try to solve injustice at their school, while in Battle School, Zeck Morgan's beliefs are challenged as he's groomed to fight the Formics....

  • A Cast-off Coven

    Juliet Blackwell

    Lily Ivory is not your average witch. She runs a vintage-clothing store called Aunt Cora's Closet, and with her magical ability to sense vibrations of the past from clothing and jewelry, Lily has made the shop a big hit -- and her mystery-solving ski...

  • Courtesan's Kiss

    Mary Blayney

    From Mary Blayney, the acclaimed author of Stranger's Kiss, comes this irresistible new novel of historical romance featuring the Pennistan family. In Courtesan's Kiss, an independent woman is determined to make her way in the world -- even if it's a...

  • Zombiekins

    Kevin Bolger

    Fourth-grader Stanley Nudelman is about as wimpy as they comeaheas cowardly, shy, and spends most of his time hiding from the school bully, Knuckles Bruzkowski Then Stanley stumbles upon the yard sale of his neighbor, Old Lady Imavitch, where he buys...

  • Blood Harvest

    S.J. Bolton

    The Fletchers' beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they barely have a chance...

  • Summer Shift

    Lynn Kiele Bonasia

    Forty-four-year-old Cape Cod clam bar owner Mary Hopkins is stuck in the cycle of her seasonal business; overwhelmed by the relentless influx of new names and fresh young faces, she feels as if life is passing her by. In the first days of the summ...

  • Darker Than Black

    Bones

    Ten years ago, the mysterious Hell's Gate suddenly materialized in the middle of Tokyo, and the stars of the night sky were obscured in darkness. In their place, new stars emerged, each corresponding to an individual endowed with supernatural abiliti...

  • The Forbidden Rose

    Joanna Bourne / Joanna Watkins Bourne

    France, 1794 THE ONLY PERSON SHE CAN TRUST WITH HER LIFE... Marguerite de Fleurignac, once a glittering aristocrat in a world of privilege, is on the run, disguised as Maggie Duncan, British governess. Penniless and alone, cornered by fanatics o...

  • Out of the Shadows

    Tim Bowler

    Nobody knows the city like Blade. You have to when you're on your own, when you can't trust anyone, when you've got a past you need to hide. Blade is practically invisible, perfectly alone, living only by his wits -- just the way he likes it. Until t...

  • Rock Paper Tiger

    Lisa Brackmann

    American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur--a member of a Chinese Muslim minority--at the home of her sort-of boyfriend Lao Zhang turns her life upside down. Lao Zhang disappears, and sudde...

  • I Don't Need a Baby to Be Who I Am

    Joan Brady

  • Peep Show

    Joshua Braff

    David Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his mother’s Hasidic sect or go into his father’s line of work, running a porn theater in the heart of New York’s Times Squar...

  • The Delta Girls

    Gayle Brandeis

    The disparate lives of two women -- a single mother working hard to make ends meet and a young figure skater at the top of her game -- entwine in an unforgettable novel of warmth, depth, and wisdom. Izzy and her daughter, Quinn, have been on the m...

  • My Name Is Memory

    Ann Brashares

    SOMETIMES LOVE LASTS MORE THAN A LIFETIME Lucy is an ordinary girl growing up in the Virginia suburbs, soon to head off to, college. On the night of her last high school dance, she hopes her elusive crush, Daniel Grey, will finally notice her. But a...

  • A Dinner, a Date, a Desert Sheikh

    Jackie Braun

    Recipe for a date with a sheikh! Ingredients: One wealthy desert sheikh, Madani Tarim One streetwise city girl, caterer Emily Merit The buzzing backdrop of Manhattan Add: A longstanding royal betrothal A determined "no...

  • Along Came a Husband

    Helen Brenna

    Along came trouble! Missy Charms just got the shock of her life. The man she thought was dead has turned up on her doorstep. Her ex-husband -- Jonas Abel. Four years ago, Missy Charms fell hard for Jonas. But his FBI job always came first. Missy o...

  • Carnal Sin

    Allison Brennan

    Santa Louisa is still reeling from the lethal rampage of the demon Envy, one of the Seven Deadly Sins released from Hell by black magic. The fiendish entity was finally trapped, but when more bodies bearing satanic marks surface in Los Angeles, demon...

  • Sweet Deceit

    Kate Brian

    TO THE GRAVE ... Ariana Osgood has been tapped for Stone and Grave, AthertonPryce Hall's most exclusive secret society. But so has her arch-nemesis, Kaitlynn. They go head-to-head during Hell Week, but Ariana has worked too hard for her luxe life at...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Speaks Her Mind

    Emily Brightwell

    AN ODD BIRD Olive Kettering was always eccentric, but recently her behavior had become downright peculiar. She'd joined an odd religious group, was estranged from her family, worked her servants mercilessly, and even insisted that there were people ...

  • I Love This Bar

    Carolyn Brown

    Funny, sexy, and sure to appeal to the huge audience of country music fans, this new trilogy features the Honky Tonk beer joint and its succession of lovelorn owners. Serving two counties, one wet and one dry, the Honky Tonk is the gathering place fo...

  • Come High Water

    Carolyn Brown

    Bridget O'Shea had sworn she'd never fall in love again. She had a hotel, The Black Swan, to operate alone, since her sisters--Catherine and Alice--had both married the previous year. And then there was Ella, her lovely baby daughter. The hotel and E...

  • The Malacca Conspiracy

    Don Brown

    Set in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the United States, The Malacca Conspiracy is a bone-chilling tale of terrorism on the high seas, of political assassination and nuclear brinkmanship. And for Zack and Diane---your favorite JAG characters fro...

  • This Is Where We Live

    Janelle Brown

    Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she's an aspiring filmmaker, he's an indie musician), are on the verge of making it Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release; he's got a new band that is a few ...

  • The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives

    Josie Brown

    Suburbia is a jungle, filled with lots of vicious creatures. Take the Paradise Heights Women's League board. Lyssa Harper should have warned golden-haired DILF du jour Harry Wilder what he was getting into when she invited him to meet the mommies ...

  • Daredevil by Ed Brubaker & Michael Lark - Volume 2

    Ed Brubaker

    The critically acclaimed, award-winning creative team of Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark continue their take on one of comics' most enduring legends! Featuring the threats of the Owl, the Kingpin, Lady Bullseye, and the Hand, plus Matt's unlikely new al...

  • The Art of Devotion

    Samantha Bruce-Benjamin

    In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha Bruce-Benjamin's brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share the poignant tale of love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal that bin...

  • The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno

    Ellen Bryson

    Water for Elephants meets Geek Love in this riveting first novel, an enchanting love story set in P. T. Barnum's American Museum in 1865 New York City Bartholomew Fortuno, the World's Thinnest Man, believes that his unusual body is a gift. Hired by ...

  • First Class Seduction

    Anita Richmond Bunkley

    She meets him at a sizzling hot spot in Acapulco...and spends the night swaying in his arms. But globetrotting flight attendant Lori Myles is stunned when her sexy Latin dance partner turns up on her flight to Houston. Graceful, gorgeous security exp...

  • Undercover Love

    Mary Sydney Burk

    Who is that? Sophie breathed. Lydia looked around her, seeing a tall, blond man looking at the displays in the stone window. . . . My goodness. I think I'm having a hot flash! Sophie said . . .He's about the best-looking thing I've ever seen in this ...

  • Assassin's Honor

    Monica Burns

    Archeologist Emma Zale sees the past when she touches ancient relics. It’s how she uncovered evidence of an ancient order of assassins -- the Sicari. When a sinfully dark stranger shows up on her Chicago doorstep demanding an ancient artifact she d...

  • Avengers: I am an Avenger II

    Kurt Busiek

    A half-dozen lineups in a single volume! Reborn, New, Mighty - an Avenger by any other name is still one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes! This collection highlights not only individual inductions - Ares, Cage, Firestar, Triathlon, and more - but team-wid...

  • Flash

    Michael Cadnum

    When two teenage brothers bungle a bank robbery, their attempt to hide evidence is witnessed--arually--by their legally blind neighbor....

  • Damaged

    Pamela Callow

    HOW FAR ARE YOU WILLING TO GO TO FORGET YOUR PAST? Haunted by the death of her sister and wounded by her ex-fiance's accusations, Kate Lange throws herself into her new career at a high-powered law firm. When the grandmother of a lonely private sch...

  • Reality Check

    Jen Calonita

    Sixteen-year-olds Charlie, Keiran, Brooke, and Hallie have just been signed up for their own reality television show. They can't even believe it. You'll be The Hills meets The Secret Life of the American Teenager, the Armani-suited executive tells th...

  • Northern Ex

    Colin Campbell

    A dark and gritty Yorkshire-set thriller from a former policeman Vince McNulty was thrown out of the Leeds Vice Squad for attacking a suspect in a child abuse case. Unable to adjust to life outside the force, he whiles away his time visiting ill...

  • The Chihuahua Races

    A.E. Cannon

    When Teddy Krebs's speedy if homely little dog goes missing right before the town Chihuahua races, fourth-grader Addie May Jones can't resist Teddy's plea for help. Soon, she has two mysteries on her hands....

  • A Night of Long Knives

    Rebecca Cantrell

    Journalist Hannah Vogel has vowed to never again set foot in her homeland of Germany while the Nazis are still in power. She has good reason: three years ago in 1931, she kidnapped her son, Anton, from the man claiming to be his father--Ernst Rohm, h...

  • Across the Table

    Linda Cardillo

    For three generations of Dante women, food means love… From her restaurant on Boston's Salem Street, and from her own kitchen, Rose Dante has served countless meals and built a tightly knit community of customers, family and friends. Her daughter ...

  • Bliss

    Opal Carew

    Experience BLISS! Kara is a sex columnist who thinks desire is purely physical and steers clear of any romantic notions about love. J.M. is a Tantra master who believes sex is a spiritual union that brings lovers together body and soul. They can...

  • Naamah's Curse

    Jacqueline Carey

    Wrestling with issues of faith and divine will, this thrilling novel by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Carey explores what happens when mortal men seek to mold the gods in their own images. Alone and far from the land of her birth, you...

  • Alyzon Whitestarr

    Isobelle Carmody

    Are Alyzon's new abilities a blessing . . . or a curse? Alyzon Whitestarr doesn't take after her musically talented father or her nocturnal, artistic mother. In fact, she's the most normal member of a very eccentric family . . . until the day that...

  • The Reckoning #3

    Michael Carroll

    First the Earth's champions, old and new, returned to a world that thought the era of superheroes had come to a close. Then an age-old conflict of good versus evil, heroes versus villains, was renewed. And now it all comes down to one battle--the bat...

  • Pray for Silence

    Linda Castillo

    One family. One horrific murder. An entire town under suspicion... The Planks moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to the small Amish community of Painters Mill hoping to resume the comforts of the Plain Life in Ohio. Less than one year later,...

  • The Star Shack

    Lila Castle

    Pete and Annabelle always believed they were a perfect pair-until junior year, when Annabelle became obsessed with astrology. Now they can hardly stand each other. Pete thinks Annabelle has become a total flake; she thinks he's an uptight jerk. To pr...

  • War of Kings: Warriors

    C.B. Cebulski

    Chris Powell gets a new lease on life as the ascension of Darkhawk begins! But when his past comes back to haunt him and new information about his amulet and its legacy are violently brought to light, Darkhawk realizes he may have to face a much dark...

  • X-Babies: Stars Reborn

    Jacob Chabot

    Little X-Men! Big Adventure! Stars Reborn! Things have changed in Mojoworld as Mojo's been ousted by Mr. Veech, who's replaced the The X-Babies - the number one, top-rated stars - with something newer, safer, friendlier, and...more adorable! The X-Ba...

  • Leaving Rock Harbor

    Rebecca Chace

    An unforgettable coming-of-age story and a luminous portrayal of a dramatic era of American history, Rebecca Chace's Leaving Rock Harbor takes readers into the heart of a New England mill town in the early twentieth century. On the eve of World Wa...

  • Strange Neighbors

    Ashlyn Chase

    He's looking for peace, quiet, and a little romance... There's never a dull moment when hunky all-star pitcher and shapeshifter Jason Falco invests in an old Boston brownstone apartment building full of supernatural creatures. But when Merry MacKe...

  • Mystery Lover

    Lisa Childs

    SOME SAID HE WAS A PHANTOM. OTHERS CALLED HIM A MONSTER. But for investigative reporter Jillian Drake, the masked man who'd rescued her from a burning building was a savior...and a mystery. He lurked in the shadows. He had no name, no face. But he...

  • A Murder of Crows

    P.F. Chisholm

    September 1592 -- and the redoubtable Sergeant Dodd is still in London with that dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey, dealing with the fall-out from their earlier adventures. Carey urgently needs to get back to Carlisle where he is the Deputy Warden an...

  • Bride Price

    Jane McBride Choate

    The town of Mesa Pines, Colorado needs a school teacher. Town mayor Tate Donovan is charged with finding the right person. Norah Hathaway doesn't fit his idea of a schoolmarm. She's too young, too pretty, too inexperienced. Norah resolves to prove --...

  • The Templar Throne

    Paul Christopher

    A man in search of the truth-against an ancient brotherhood that uses secrecy as the ultimate weapon. In the 14th century, Templar knight Jean de St. Clair was tasked with piloting the order's treasure-laden fleets off the coast of France. To this...

  • X-Men Forever - Volume 3: Come to Mother...Russia!

    Chris Claremont

    Gambit and Lil’ ‘Ro join teammate Kitty Pryde as she searches for herfriend, Peter Rasputin, and Colossus will have to get help from his former teammates to take on a threat that none of them could predict! Original....

  • House of John

    Stanley Bennett Clay
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    Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris Bestselling author and literary icon E. Lynn Harris captivated millions of readers with his powerful, groundbreaking stories of black men searching for love in a taboo world. Now three outstanding writers...

  • Cowboy for Keeps

    Debra Clopton

    "I Don't Need a Wife!" Rancher and lawyer Wyatt Turner found both his younger brothers their wives. Now, they're sneakily trying to repay the favor -- with the wrong woman. Amanda Hathaway is a too-young and bubbly physical therapist. And, yes, Wy...

  • The Sheriff and the Baby

    C.C. Coburn

    First Comes Baby! When Sheriff Matt O'Malley rescues a pregnant woman after a car accident and helps deliver her baby, he quickly begins to feel protective of her -- of both of them. Matt is increasingly drawn to Beth Ford and her daughter, Sarah --...

  • The Goats

    Brock Cole

    A boy and a girl are stripped and marooned on a small island for the night. They are the goats. The kids at camp think it's a great joke, just a harmless old tradition. But the goats don't see it that way. Instead of trying to get back to camp, they ...

  • The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie: A Book about Germs

    Joanna Cole

    It's Broadcast Day in Ms. Frizzle's class. Ralphie promised everyone he'd figure out what kind of show they should put on. But, Ralphie is sick and can't come to school. So, everyone climbs aboard the Magic School Bus, because if Ralphie can't come t...

  • The Amateur Historian

    Julian Cole

    Punchy and raw, a blend of hard-boiled old school and new bloody thriller. . . crime at its best. --Waterstone's (UK) Rick Rounder returns to his hometown a decade after failing to save a young girl from her suicidal father. He sets up as a private e...

  • Deceit

    Brandilyn Collins

    Sometimes the Truth Hides Where You Least Expect It Joanne Weeks knows Baxter Jackson killed Linda -- his second wife and Joanne's best friend -- six years ago. But Jackson, a church elder and beloved member of the town, walks the streets a free man...

  • A Woman of Influence

    Rebecca Ann Collins

    Contrary, opinionated, and headstrong, she's no typical Victorian lady... Truly a masterpiece that any Austen fan would enjoy. -Beverly Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence Becky Collins has always been determined not to submit to the ...

  • Hailey's War

    Jodi Compton

    Hailey Cain has a history of testing the limits of her fate: as a fearless bike messenger on the twisted, competitive streets of San Francisco; as a young female cadet in a sea of men at West Point. But Hailey also has secrets--the biggest of which l...

  • Seven Year Switch

    Claire Cook

    They say that every seven years you become a completely new person. Just when she's finally figured out how to manage on her own, Jill Murray's ex-husband, Seth, is back -- crashing into the man-free existence Jill and her ten-year-old daughter, Ana...

  • Angry Lead Skies

    Glen Cook

    Anyone else would have learned by now: When trouble comes knocking, don't open the door. There's a reason why Garrett's still in the P.I. business after all these years--he's not one to learn his lessons. Maybe that's why he lets himself get roped...

  • Walker's Wedding

    Lori Copeland

    "You can't let one woman ruin your whole life, son," the old foreman said. "You got to pray harder and ask that the good Lord will send the right woman. You got to produce an heir." WALKER THOUGHT HE HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO WORRY ABOUT MARRIAGE AND KI...

  • Night of the Living Deed

    E.J. Copperman

    7 BEDROOMS. 4 BATHS. 2 GHOSTS. Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter, so she's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a fixer-upper into a charming -- and hopefully profitable...

  • Creepy-Crawly Critters

    Jeff Corwin

    Read along as animal expert Jeff Corwin tells you all about the creepy-crawly animals that live in the southwestern desert. Over forty photos help bring this fascinating region to life! From the giant vinegaroon and velvet ant to the trapdoor spider ...

  • Star Crossed

    Jo Cotterill

    'You did WHAT?' screamed Mari. 'You turned down the cutest boy ever? Are you crazy?'

    Fliss isn't exactly outgoing. But on stage she really comes alive.

    And this summer, she's playing Juliet opposite her dream Romeo - Tom Mayerli...

  • Whiplash

    Catherine Coulter

    When Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father undergoes chemotherapy for colon cancer and the supply of the critical drug Culovort suddenly runs short, Kender hires P.I. Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hart...

  • The Queen's Daughter

    Susan Coventry

    Joan's mother is Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most beautiful woman in the world. Her father is Henry II, the king of England and a renowned military leader. She loves them both--so what is she to do when she's forced to choose between them? As her...

  • The Last Hunt

    Bruce Coville

    In the center if Luster stands an enormous tree called the Axis Mundi, the Heart of the World. But now that tree is wounded, pierced through by magic. And through that wound marches an army of Hunters, led by the sinister and vengeful Beloved. And th...

  • Carter's Big Break

    Brent Crawford

    After surviving freshman year (just barely), Carter is craving his summer break. Unfortunately, when he and his girlfriend, Abby, part ways, it looks as though summer just might break him. Things start to look up when he's unexpectedly cast in an ind...

  • The Passage

    Justin Cronin

    IT HAPPENED FAST. THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN. First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable:...

  • Snowbound

    Blake Crouch

    For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Will's wife, Devlin's mother, vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway and, suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Then one night, a...

  • A Little Wanting Song

    Cath Crowley

    A summer of friendship, romance, and songs in major chords. . . . CHARLIE DUSKIN loves music, and she knows she's good at it. But she only sings when she's alone, on the moonlit porch or in the back room at Old Gus's Secondhand Record and CD Store...

  • Green Princess Saves the Day

    Alyssa Crowne

    Holly Greenwood loves being outdoors, the color green, and, of course, princesses. She plays in Peterson Park almost every day. But then the mayor decides to sell the park and put buildings there instead. Holly can't let that happen....

  • The Outside Boy

    Jeanine Cummins

    Ireland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of...

  • The Spy

    Clive Cussler; Justin Scott

    It is 1908, and as the world plunges toward war, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter wants the Van Dorn Detective Agency to prove otherwise. Ace agent Isaac Bell soon realizes th...

  • Silver Guilt

    Judith Cutler

    Lina Townend is making a name for herself as an antiques dealer, in partnership with her old friend, Griff Tripp. When she is accused of stealing an item she is selling for her father, the disreputable Lord Elham, her plight attracts the attention of...

  • Do Best Friends Cheat?

    Margery Cuyler

    Jessica and Lizzie are best friends. They do everything together, from playing at recess to drawing pictures. But Jessica has a big new worry when Lizzie starts copying off her spelling tests. What should Jessica do?...

  • Ransome's Crossing

    Kaye Dacus

    Set in the early 1800s, this captivating, romantic second book of the Ransome Trilogy from author Kaye Dacus unfolds with the grace, power, and excitement of an ocean storm. Charlotte Ransome, desperate to reach Jamaica to see her secret fiancé, ...

  • Twelve-gauge Guardian

    B.J. Daniels

    ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE WHEN ANOTHER WILD WINCHESTER RETURNS TO WHITEHORSE The bad news is that journalist Raine Chandler is on the run from a killer, but her luck is about to change as she catches the eye of hunky Cordell Winchester. In town on famil...

  • The Wolf Next Door

    Lydia Dare

    They can't even be in the same room together... Ever since their failed elopement years ago, Prisca Hawthorne has taunted, insulted, and in every way tried to push him away. If only her heart didn't break every time Lord William Westfield left her...

  • Twice Tempted by a Rogue

    Tessa Dare

    Horses, gambling, and secrets are the game played by the men of the Stud Club -- until love raises the stakes in Twice Tempted by a Rogue. Luck is a double-edged sword for brooding war hero Rhys St. Maur. His death wish went unanswered on the battle...

  • Vows, Vendettas and a Little Black Dress

    Kyra Davis

    Overjoyed at Maryanne's engagement, amateur sleuth Sophie Katz can't wait for the wedding vows and party toasts to begin. But then Dena--best friend, bridesmaid and all-around vixen--is mysteriously shot just after the announcement. Leave this to the...

  • The Gunsmith's Gallantry

    Susan Page Davis

    Can the shy gunsmith and the widowed storekeeper find love when everything around them is in an uproar? Hiram Dooley has problems--women problems His sister's about to leave him to get married (if Sheriff Ethan Chapman ever proposes); his sister-in-l...

  • The Burning Wire

    Jeffery Deaver

    A series of horrific explosions has rocked New York City, and a new breed of terror-monger is at large: someone is harnessing high-voltage arc flashes with the searing power to melt steel and incinerate dozens. With little forensic evidence, Lincoln ...

  • 13 to Life

    Shannon Delany

    Everything about Jessie Gillmansen's life changed when her mother died. Now even her hometown of Junction is changing. Mysterious dark things are happening. All Jessie wants is to avoid more change. But showing a hot new guy around Junction High, she...

  • Spider-Man: The Complete Clone Saga Epic, Book 2

    J.M. DeMatteis

    Villains die and debut in the nineties'' pivotal Spider-saga! Spider-Man and his clone the Scarlet Spider are both fighting crime, and there''s plenty to go around when the Jackal arises - with more clones in the wings! But following a team-up with D...

  • The Lion

    Nelson DeMille

    In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The Lion's Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise k...

  • Punisher Max: Kingpin

    Steve Dillon

    An all-new Punisher series from the acclaimed team of Jason Aaron (Wolverine: Weapon X) and Steve Dillon (Punisher: Welcome Back Frank), two guys who were born to tell the exploits of Marvel's most brutal vigilante. Wilson Fisk is a bodyguard...

  • Night Moves

    Helenkay Dimon

    HE WAS JUST THE MAN TO PROTECT HER...ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT Noticing suspicious activity at her lab, Maura Lindsey used her smarts to dig into the actions of her boss. But when an explosion rocked their offices, the brainy beauty realized she was in ...

  • The World Above

    Cameron Dokey

    Gen and her twin brother, Jack, were raised with their mother's tales of life in the World Above. Gen is skeptical, but adventureous Jack believes the stories--and trades the family cow for magical beans. Their mother rejoices, knowing they can final...

  • Shadow on the Land

    Anne Doughty

    Another complete-in-itself story in the spellbinding ‘Hamilton’ saga - It is 1942, and the Second World War has been going on for three wearying years. Work is hard in the Ulster mills in Northern Ireland where Alex Hamilton struggles to keep ove...

  • Kiss It

    Erin Downing

    A girl’s gotta do who a girl’s gotta do. Chastity Bryan has never been shy about going after what she wants. And when sexy, mysterious, so-not-from-this-town Sebastian walks into Chaz’s life, she knows in an instant that what she wants next...

  • The Outer Banks House

    Diann Ducharme

    As the wounds of the Civil War are just beginning to heal, one fateful summer would forever alter the course of a young girl's life. In 1868, on the barren shores of post-war Outer Banks North Carolina, the once wealthy Sinclair family moves for th...

  • Movie for Dogs

    Lois Duncan

    The hilarious sequel to HOTEL FOR DOGS (made into the hit movie!) and NEWS FOR DOGS! Andi and her canine friends are back for their biggest adventure yet -- Hollywood! When Andi's brother Bruce wants to enter a dog-themed film-making contest, Andi...