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New Books List: 568 titles


  • Morgan Llywelyn

    1949 tells the story of Ireland's progress as seen through the eyes of one woman, from the bitter aftermath of civil war to the controversial dawn of a modern state. Ursula Halloran, the daughter of a famous revolutionary, comes of age in the turbule...



  • William Brodrick

    Based partly on the author's own life and family history, THE SIXTH LAMENTATION is an intelligent thriller full of twists, turns, and surprises that moves effortlessly back and forth in time between occupied France and modern day England. Edward Schw...




  • Stella Cameron

    Adam Chillworth is a hard man. The mysterious and talented portrait artist of 7C Mayfair Square is passionately in love with Princess Desiree, of Mont Nuages, though he has consistently refused her ardent adoration, convinced that he's too old an...




  • Jessica Steele

    Claire Farley wakes in hospital to find her memory has deserted her. Yet the biggest shock is her discovery that she's wearing a diamond engagement ring! Claire's fiance is the wonderful Tye Kershaw -- he's perfect husband material: carin...



  • Valerie Frankel

    From: Venus, Goddess of Love, 120 Main, Mt. Olympus To: Stacy Temple, lapsed temptress Stacy, Stacy, Stacy. You were so promising at the beginning: Sexy, smart, personable and funny. Great on dates and really great afterward-if you know w...



  • Michael Kumpfmuller

    This picaresque tale of a sexually voracious bed salesman whose life is dominated by his adventures with women opens in l962 as thirty-year-old Heinrich Hampel crosses the Berlin Wall leaving the West for East. This is not a political gesture but a d...



  • Cheryl Howe

    DESERT WILDFIRE It started with a stagecoach robbery. That was the spark that set fire to Lorelei Sullivan's plan for the future. She and her brother had moved to the New Mexico Territory to escape the past, to ranch, but Corey had destroyed al...




  • Joy Cowley

    When she loses her first tooth, Agapanthus discovers her new talent of being able to hoot through the space in her teeth and so, with the accompaniment of her dog, Major Bark, she sets forth to show everyone her new skill....



  • Scott Ciencin

    In the wake of the catastrophic events of Wildfire, Carol Abramowitz, Bart Faulwell, and Soloman are sent on a special mission to Vrinda, where the S.C.E. must introduce new technology to the world while avoiding getting embroiled in the political st...



  • Lisa Jahn-Clough / Lisa Clough

    Alicia has four friends, and her friends are great, but when she decides to throw a best friends party, they all want to know which one of them is her best friend. Is it Mitchell, Charlotte, Henry, Lucy, or Alicia’s dog, Neptune? They say she has t...



  • Brad Barkley

    A widow in her mid-thirties, Alison has been mourning for two years. Now living in small town West Virginia with her sister Sarah and brother-in-law Bill, Alison is unable to move on with her life. Finally, she promises Sarah and Bill that she will s...



  • Frank E. Peretti

    Mr. Henry knows that kids can have many different fears. That's why he shares the victories of some of the Bible's bravest characters: David, Esther, and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Forget suits of armor and superhero outfits, Mr. Henry s...



  • Frank E. Peretti

    What happens when kids mix a little faith with a big God? They get giant results, as Mr. Henry reveals in his humorous renditions of three Bible classics - Noah and the Ark, Moses and the Israelites, and Daniel and the Lion's Den. From the Moose ...



  • Frank E. Peretti

    God loves us just the way we are, and He wants us to love each other, too! That's what Mr. Henry wants kids to learn as he retells these stories from the Bible: the Good Samaritan, Jesus and the disciples, and Jesus and the little children. In hi...



  • Ruth L. Ozeki

    Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho -- heart of the potato-farming industry -- since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her best friend, a...



  • Linda Windsor

    Diana Wells lost track of God in her hard-earned quest for success in the New York advertising world. Now she's accused of embezzlement, fleeing for her life with nowhere else to turn. When trail outfitter Shepherd Jones runs Diana's car off the road...



  • Mary Murphy

    The Alphabet Keeper keeps all the letters caged in the dark. But one day they escape while she’s cleaning their cage"and then there is no stopping them! The clever letters are on the loose, rearranging themselves at every turn. With a few quick m...



  • Richard K. Morgan

    In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can affo...



  • Edward Carey

    Alva and Irva Dapps are identical twin sisters brilliantly portrayed living in an imaginary -- but altogether imaginable -- city. In this inventive tale of creativity, obsession, and passion, Edward Carey touches deftly on the fine line we all walk b...



  • Jean Van Leeuwen

    Long before the Wright brothers made their famous flight, a young boy from Baltimore became the first person ever to travel by air-in a hot-air balloon. One of the most exciting ways to fly, the air balloon was invented in 1783, although it would tak...



  • Carll Cneut

    Mr. Morf is a circus dog who walks the high wire every night. He’s very good at his job, but he’s lonely -- everyone in the circus has someone to love except for him. So he sets off in search of a companion, but none of the animals he encounters ...



  • Sharon Sala

    AMELIA BY DAY From nine to five, she was Amelia Beauchamp, typical small-town librarian. But when the sun went down, she was miniskirt-clad cocktail waitress Amber Champion. And she'd caught the eye of the town's biggest rake, Tyler Savage. The name...




  • Michael Walsh

    "When I think about them other mugs, I suppose I got off lucky, luckier than Luciano, although I never went for a ride like him, although he never got it from the Hudson Dusters like I did. Lucky ran dames, I ran after 'em, which may be the basic dif...



  • J.D. Mason

    Four different women come together under the sometimes tenuous but always unbreakable bond of friendship.

    Ruth Johnson has finally left her abusive husband of fourteen years and jumped feet first into "What the hell do I do now?" oblivion. T...



  • Lynna Banning

    A widow before she'd even been a wife -- Mary Margaret Hampton was in big trouble! Lonely loggers. One genteel lady. A dangerous combination, Tom Randall thought. He was trying to run a business, not a tea party! And if obstinate Meggy Hampton di...



  • Sharon Shinn

    National bestselling and award-winning author Sharon Shinn makes her long-awaited journey back to the planet of Samaria, With a new tale of an earlier time... Two hundred years ago, in order to keep the peace in Samaria, the god Jovah created a le...



  • Lorna Landvik

    The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delicious desserts, and a strong shoulder can't fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together -- the foundation of a book group they call AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating B...




  • Shirley Hughes

    Siblings everywhere will identify with this charmingly realistic story of Shirley Hughes’s Alfie and his trying but lovable little sister.

    Annie Rose and Alfie have lots of games they like to play together, like being scary monsters or runni...



  • Kelly Bennet



  • Dia Calhoun

    On the island of Normost, in the kingdom of Windward, 13-year-old Cerinthe Gale is a folk healer who dreams of being a dancer. When her mother falls ill, Cerinthe fights to save her -- but fails. She blames herself for her mother’s death, gives u...



  • Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    The scattered Tribulation Force is drawn inexorably toward the Middle East, as are all the armies of the world, when history homes in on the battle of the ages. By the time of the war of the great day of God the Almighty, homes have been uprooted, n...



  • Nancy Atherton

    A new will wreaks havoc at a grand Palladian country house -- and everyone s favorite supernatural sleuth is just in time to set things right When Lori Shepherd's husband, Bill, is summoned to the reading of a will at the resplendent country e...



  • Geoff Johns

    They are Earth's Mightiest Heroes, banded together from across the globe, united in their vow to protect the Earth from those enemies against whom no single super hero can stand alone... and this may be their greatest challenge. The capital cities of...



  • M.J. Rodgers

    Susan Carter needs to find a man. Not just any man, but the stranger who fathered her unborn child. In desperation, she turns to David Knight, one of the detectives working for White Knight Investigations. She's sure she'll look bad to David -- she d...



  • Shelley Fowles

    A Jewish folktale from Morocco

    When a grumpy old bachelor loses his last bean down a well, he is hopping mad. To his amazement, a devilish imp leaps out of the well and gives him a magic pot to keep him quiet. After hearing what the pot can do...



  • Sharon Kendrick

    Kiloran Lacey is furious when hotshot businessman Adam Black is hired as her boss -- she's used to being in charge! Even worse, Adam is the most devastatingly attractive man she's ever met -- and it isn't long before he makes her his mist...



  • Robert B. Parker

    In 1974, a revolutionary group calling itself The Dread Scott Brigade held up the Old Shawmut Bank in Boston's Audubon Circle. Money was stolen. And a woman named Emily Gordon, a visitor in town cashing traveler's checks, was shot and killed. No one ...



  • Miriam Moss

    When a Holly, a young hare, spends the day with her uncle at his hairdressing salon, she promises to be very good. But her uncle disappears to take a delivery at the back door, and Holly's irrepressible curiosity and fabulous sense of fun result i...



  • Lynnette Kent

    He's always loved her. Dixon Bell has loved Kate Bowdrey for as long as he can remember. Everybody in town knew him as the shy kid who carried around a guitar -- and as the guy who disappeared after high school graduation. After thirteen years awa...



  • Dan Chernenko

    Lost for more than four hundred years, the Scepter of Mercy lies beyond the reach of the kingdom of Avornis, in the lands corrupted by the Banished One. Cast from the heavens to an earthly exile, the Banished One seeks to use the scepter to reclaim h...



  • Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    A deadly earthquake fulfills yet another prophecy in Jerusalem, and Judd and Lionel make a startling discovery. From a new hiding place, Vicki and the others watch the frightening events unfold in Israel and try to warn kids around the world about...




  • Tracy Grant / Teresa Grant / Anna Grant

    London, 1817: Under cover of night, a cloaked stranger steals into the city to perform a grim task that began in the shadows of the past... On the same evening, amid the splendor that is Glenister House, London's beau monde celebrates, still flush...




  • Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    There are strange goings-on once again in Middleburg, and Bernie Magruder is deter- mined to get to the bottom of things, and maybe get his picture in the paper in the process. Someone has put up posters all over town warning townspeople that the dre...



  • Jackie Glassman

    While everyone is busy cooking their special dish for the fantastic picnic feast, Strawberry Shortcake discovers that she doesn't have all the ingredients she needs for her particular treat and so turns to her friends who are only more than happy to ...



  • Megan E. Bryant

    After a huge rainstorm leaves Strawberryland in a very messy state and Huckleberry's fort damaged, all the residents come out to clean everything up and rebuild the fort so that Stawberryland can be perfect once more. Simultaneous....



  • Angela Kessler

    From Angela Kessler, editor and publisher of the premier vampire magazine, Dreams of Decadence, comes an elite selection of prose and poetry as eerie and immortal as the undead themselves. Collected for the first time in one volume, these dark dreams...



  • Jack Cavanaugh

    Meg Foxe has stumbled upon a book so powerful that it changes her life. Its words comfort and soothe her troubled mind like nothing else. But there’s a problem. The book is banned throughout England. And Pernell, her husband, the man she loves more...




  • Marie Ferrarella

    "Will you deliver my baby?" Reporter Sherry Campbell thought she might be asking too much, but her baby was coming and the only one in sight was enigmatic corporate raider St. John "Sin-Jin" Adair. Despite his generosity, he disliked her because s...



  • Terry McGarry

    A troubled land. A priceless gift. And the dawn of a new light. Six years after a conflict that extinguished all magelight, Eiden Myr is in chaos. In a dying trader town, three little girls fight to protect a deadly secret, while a young lad-of-...



  • Laura Nyman Montenegro

    For Natalie, writing poetry is fun. But reciting poetry out loud, IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE, is not. So when Natalie’s poetry teacher takes her to a reading, Natalie is nervous. Shy. And ready to fly away. How will she muster the courage it takes to...



  • Sarah Dunant

    Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind ...



  • Emma Darcy

    Catherine's blind date with Zack Freeman, a notoriously charming Australian tycoon, was the last thing she needed! The second they met, Catherine recognized sexual challenge in Zack's eyes. Their date led to one unforgettable night -- with...



  • Helen Stephens

    A reassuring story about putting aside shyness to make new friends --- imaginary and real.

    Tilly is the new girl in town, which isn't much fun if you are shy and have no one to play with. Then Tilly meets Blue Horse. They fly to the moon, romp...



  • Jon Land

    The End of America Begins Today! In today's terrifying world, in which terrorists can wreak incredible havoc, Palestinian Detective Ben Kamal and his Israeli counterpart Danielle Barnea face an obsessed fanatic plotting nothing less than the total...



  • Gwynne Forster

    Arriving in North Carolina to meet the extended family she never knew she had, Regina Pearson is unwittingly pulled into their pain, secrets, and betrayals, until she meets a special man who shows her the true meaning of family and love. Reprint. 30,...



  • Justine Davis
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    A powerful man is murdered in his home, and not even his wealth and privilege can hide the trail of scandal he left behind. A scandal that is about to be unmasked by Chicago's top agencies.... Reunited over a corpse, forensics detective Josh Ben...



  • Jackie Merritt
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    A powerful man is murdered in his home, and not even his wealth and privilege can hide the trail of scandal he left behind. A scandal that is about to be unmasked by Chicago's top agencies.... Reunited over a corpse, forensics detective Josh Ben...



  • Joan Elliott Pickart
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    A powerful man is murdered in his home, and not even his wealth and privilege can hide the trail of scandal he left behind. A scandal that is about to be unmasked by Chicago's top agencies.... Reunited over a corpse, forensics detective Josh Ben...



  • Lauran Paine

    Nestled on the border of New Mexico since long before there was a New Mexico, the small town of San Ildefonso has survived a lot. Marauding Indians, bandoleros, soldiers in blue and raiders in rags have all come and gone. Yet the residents of San Ild...



  • John McManus

    Two years ago--at twenty-two--John McManus captivated writers and critics with his first story collection and became the youngest recipient of the Whiting Writers Award. Now McManus returns with a collection of stories equally piercing and visionary:...



  • Julie Elizabeth Leto / Julie Leto

    Bad Girl #2: Bestselling romance writer Sydney Colburn Her Motto: A hard man is good to find. Romance writer Sydney "Slow Burn" Colburn has a head for three things -- money, books...and sex. Luckily for her, she gets to play around with all thr...



  • Sharon Schulze

    THE BATTLE-WEARY WARRIOR HAD FINALLY MET HIS MATCH... More warrior than woman, Lady Julianna D'Arcy had sworn to defend her home against all enemies. She knew not if her unexpected guest was friend or foe, but infinitely more dangerous than any adv...



  • Oscar Casares

    "Terrific stories...Just about perfect" (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest. At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsv...



  • Elizabeth Nunez

    The year is 1954. A white woman’s body, stuffed in a coconut bag, has washed ashore in Otatiti, Trinidad, and the British colony is rife with rumors. In two homes, one in a distant shantytown, the other on the outskirts of a former sugar cane estat...



  • Nancy Parent

    In the new Tonka 6x9 reader series, children will learn about all different kinds of bulldozers and the tough work they can do!

    Bulldozers do lots of tough work! They can dig up huge rocks, lift heavy mud underwater, scoop up steel on a freigh...



  • Jim Knipfel

    Meet Roscoe Baragon"crack reporter at a major (well, maybe not that major) metropolitan newspaper. Baragon covers what is affectionately called the Kook Beat"where the loonies call and tell him in meticulously deranged detail what it’s like to ...



  • Barbara Keaton

    Shari Thomas, the optimistic voice of reasoning and love in "All I Ask," is back. Yet, after ending a long-term relationship, Shari isn't so sure she's ever been truly in love -- as experienced by her two closest friends. As Shari resigns herself to ...



  • Chuck Austen

    Ordinary New York City cop Frankie "Gunz" Gunzer now has a new call to duty -- not just to uphold the law, but to save all humanity. Plus: Emergencies on the brink of disaster are around every corner when you're riding the Wagon, and saving lives in ...



  • Myrna Temte

    BIG JAKE McBRIDE KNEW HOPE DuMAINE COULDN'T DRIVE HIM NUTS -- BECAUSE HE WAS ALREADY THERE! Hailing from Hollywood, Hope was young, rich, beautiful -- and all wrong for hard-as-granite Wyoming rancher Jake. So how dare she claim that visiting rough-...



  • Sigmund Brouwer

    Book 3 of WATCH OUT FOR JOEL! Joel is frightened of the old camp outhouse, but even he can’t put off a visit forever. When Tom plans a cruel surprise for Joel, his fears quickly go from bad to worse. Can Joel and his brother, Ricky, stop Tom withou...



  • Sophie Kinsella

    Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart. an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her boyfriend: I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. Secrets from her mother: I lost my virg...



  • Brandilyn Collins

    One thing I have learned. The bonfires of change start with the merest spark. Sometimes we see that flicker. Sometimes we blink in surprise at the flame only after it has marched hot legs upward to fully ignite. Either way, flicker or flame, we'd bet...



  • John R. Erickson

    Hank and Drover are just beginning an investigation when a pirate suddenly appears on the front porch! They soon realize that the pirate is just Little Alfred in disguise. Alfred chooses Hank as his first mate, and Hank enthusiastically agrees to be ...



  • Elizabeth Doyle

    A CRIME OF PASSION... Accused of a crime she didn't commit, Cassandra has come to Australia's balmy shores as a convict, no longer fit to become any man's bride. Her only comfort is serving out her sentence as a housekeeper to a kind and handsome do...



  • Hannah Bernard

    Jake Benford quickly discovers that being best friends with an eccentric genius can be trouble when Sarah Hamilton turns him into her very own guinea pig. Especially when she's researching human sexuality! And what's even more confusing is that he's ...



  • Robert Holdstock

    Centuries before he meets Arthur, Merlin wanders the Earth, eternally young, a traveler on the path of magic and learning. He joins Jason's search for the Golden Fleece. It is a decision that will cost him dear.... Hundreds of years later, Merlin ...



  • Terri Farley

    For Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse. Wildcats have been spotted nearby, but they haven't hurt the ranch horses -- yet. So Samantha is outraged when a neighboring rancher vows to kill the cats on sight. Her family'...



  • Liz Ireland

    IMPRACTICAL MAGIC Callie Hauseman may be descended from a long line of somewhat ditzy witches, but the family magic certainly isn't working for her. Why else would she the scattered-brain beauty be stuck in a dead-end job, socking away money to fin...



  • Rachel York

    Determined never to fall in love, Scarlett Faye Turner, who thrives on scandal, is thwarted by her attraction to gorgeous Gina Jamison, an infatuation that leads her on a powerful journey of self-discovery....



  • Dolores Stewart Riccio

    A group of delightfully eccentric women, who have a penchant for casting spells, find their peaceful world turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who, they believe, is connected to the disappearance of two young boys, causing them...



  • Michael Connelly

    On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills - and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As...



  • Johanna Stoberock

    “With her first novel, so elegantly crafted, Johanna Stoberock takes her readers on a globe-spanning journey through grief, love, friendship, jealousy, and betrayal to genuine self-discovery. When she lyrically evokes the experience of living in...



  • Daphne Clair

    The wedding that never was... Four years ago Sorrel fled to start a new life and left her fiance, Blaize, standing at the altar with no explanations. But now she's back, and as beautiful as ever. And seeing her again brings back all his memori...



  • Ann Voss Peterson

    SECRET BABY Alyson Fitzroy had a secret. A precious baby she struggled to protect, until the harrowing day her child was stolen! Now the only man she could turn to was Dex Harrington. The powerful D.A. who could put her baby's kidnapper behind bars f...



  • Laurie Paige
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    There were things best left hidden on Seven Devils Mountain. But feisty, fragile Alison Harvey was searching for something she didn't want to talk about. Only rancher. Travis Dalton could help her--but did he dare risk opening up to the vulnerable wo...



  • John Burnham Schwartz

    A young man and woman meet, love each other, and are consumed. It’s a story as old as romance itself, but in this enthralling novel John Burnham Schwartz tells it with heart-stopping new immediacy. In the middle of a rainstorm Julian Rose, a self...



  • Keith Maillard

    Author Keith Maillard received critical acclaim with his novel Gloria, which told the story of a young woman on the cusp of womanhood in a town called Raysburg, West Virginia. In this book, The Clarinet Polka, Maillard turns that same eagle-eyed atte...



  • John Helfers

    Net Force Explorer Daniel Sanchez finds himself in a wealth of trouble when a game of hide-and-seek on the Web leads to a breach of confidential Net Force files involving the CIA, forcing the Explorers to find the real culprit and clear Daniel's name...



  • Jessica Speart

    In many ways, hot-tempered field agent Rachel Porter deals better with endangered animals than she does with people--which is why her superiors at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dispatch her to the most god-forsaken places. Georgia's steaming coa...



  • David Liss

    In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659--a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where dec...



  • Jon Sharpe

    The Trailsman wants to get his hands on some thieves with the Midas touch! Skye Fargo has arrived in Denver with only one thing on his mind: a buxom dame named Molly. But trouble always crops up wherever Fargo hangs his hat -- and soon he hears ...



  • Jeremy Strong

    Patagonia Clatterbottom, the headteacher of Pirate School, is having a birthday. She takes the children to shop for a party and they are ambushed by the children of the School for Young Highwaypersons who take all the food. But Master Skittershins, t...



  • Hannah March

    Georgian London, 1760. A world of high fashion and even higher spirits--but also of squalid back alleys, violent quarrels, and shadowy intrigues. It is private tutor Robert Fairfax's mission to see that troublesome Matthew Hemsley matures into a f...



  • Alan Moore

    From the dream team of Alan Moore (Watchmen, Promethea) and Alan Davis (Avengers, Miracle Man) comes a supremely deranged duo. Titan Books is proud (and should be ashamed) to present D.R & Quinch!

    Outrageous, unrestrained and heavily armed, colleg...



  • Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

    For newly licensed private investigator Katie Hassworth, it's both, but that's a long story. The short of it is now she's been hired to find the killer of Alexa Chitting, owner of a prosperous marina, bludgeoned by conch shell. While the ...



  • Grant Sutherland

    Now, in his new novel of conspiracy, conscience, and terrifying deception--a novel stretching from the upheaval of the Gulf War to the inner secrets of the current Pentagon--a desperate man struggles to survive a battle for the truth...a battle witho...



  • Matthew Reilly

    THE CONTEST: YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE COME TRUE Dr. Stephen Swain has found himself locked in the after-hours darkness of the New York Public Library. It isn't a mistake. He's been entombed in the historic, sanctuary for a reason--as the guest of an unk...



  • Molly O'Keefe

    Mark Cook shouldn't mind that a Hollywood heartthrob is intruding on his family's ranch to learn how to be a cowboy. Or that Mr. Moviestar is getting a bit too close to his best friend, Alyssa Halloway. But, damn it all, he's jealous to the point of ...



  • Dean Wesley Smith

    When a series of bizarre disasters begin to happen around the world, Professor Josh Keyes traces the problem to the magnetic core of the planet and leads a band of NASA on a desperate mission aboard on an experimental ship to journey to the very hear...



  • Peter McAllister

    A murder nobody could possibly commit. A terrorist plot to unleash nuclear war. And a dark Soviet-era secret buried so deep its only trace is one word: COSMONAUT Aboard the orbiting International Space Station, troubled ex-astronaut turned homicid...



  • Meagan McKinney

    HE WAS AN ARROGANT AND UNTAMED COWBOY With his take-charge attitude and penetrating gaze, cowboy Bruce Everett spelled "Danger" from his Stetson to his boots, and Melynda Clay had sworn off men for good. She'd come to his dude ranch for a little res...



  • M.J. Rodgers

    Welcome to Twin Oaks -- the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion -- and one to set things straight... Check-in: When Tom Christen, the new preacher in Cooper's Corner, found a baby on his doorstep, he wasn't a...



  • Nancy Rawles

    For forty years Camille Broussard has cooked for other people. As a young bride she moved from Louisiana to Los Angeles and settled in the thriving community of Watts; but many of her hopes went up in the flames of the 1965 riots. Now it’s 1984--...



  • Ted Dewan

    Crispin is the pig who has it all to himself. And the last thing he wants is to share it with little piglets. But like it or not, three little piglets have just joined his family: making noise, making messes, and making Crispin miserable. Will Crispi...



  • Joe Connelly

    Some might say that Crumbtown isn’t a place. It’s a state of mind. And for the residents of this sinking, stinking, carcinogenic, potholed neighborhood, “There’s bad luck in the world, and then there’s crumbluck.” But for Don Reedy, a tru...



  • Craig Parshall

    Attorney Will Chambers reluctantly agrees to defend a young mother from Georgia and her farmer husband, suspected of committing the unthinkable against their own child. Soon he’s confronting small"town secrets, big"time corruption, and a govern...



  • Dan Brown

    While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve...



  • Karen McCombie

    Love is in the air! Billy and Sandie are getting a bit sick-makingly gooey, Grandma and Stanley are getting hitched, and Dad and Tor's new teacher are getting along just a little too well...As for me, Rowan and Linn, we're just getting scared-Grandma...



  • Sabrina Jeffries

    She won't let a thief steal her heart... It's difficult enough for Lady Clara Stanbourne to run her London home for reformed young pickpockets without having to contend with a criminal in business right next door! The mysterious Morgan Pry...



  • Louise Rennison

    Georgia thought she had put her "red-bottomosity" to rest when she finally chose Robbie the Sex God over Dave the Laugh. Anyway, Dave the Laugh is now dating her friend Ellen (which didn't stop Georgia from snogging him at a party...) But when Dav...



  • David Mack

    Better known by his secret identity of Daredevil, blind Matt Murdock must find a way to clear his name when Maya Lopez, the deaf woman he loves whose own alter ego is Echo, is told that Daredevil is her father's killer....



  • Sarah Lovett

    A string of deaths in laboratories around the world has the scientific community on edge -- and the FBI on high alert. To the FBI, the circumstances surrounding the scientists' deaths spell the work of an unusually skilled serial poisoner, and they h...



  • Lynne Graham

    KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR...OR AVENGING ANGEL? Five years ago Luciano de Valenza had rescued the Linwood family's failing wine business. In the process, he'd swept young, impressionable Kerry Linwood off her feet. But shockingly, when money wa...



  • Richard Laymon

    When a group of college students break out an old Ouija board during a party, they unleash the spirit of the Butler, who, in turn for complying with his wishes, promises them a treasure if they journey to a remote area in the mountains where either g...



  • Danielle Steel

    Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn't imagine what he ...



  • Holly Jacobs

    HE NEEDED A FIANCE...FAST! With his dark good looks and talent for seeking justice, Elias Donovan thought he had the best recipe for making partner in his law firm. But according to his family-minded boss, Donovan lacked one crucial ingredient: a ...



  • Robin Paige

    Lord Charles Sheridan and his American wife, Kate, are on an archaeological dig, excavating sections of Hadrian's Wall, when they receive a mysterious telegram. King Edward has summoned them to Glamis Village, a quaint hamlet north of Edinburgh, with...



  • Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    A Global Community raid forces the kids in Illinois to abandon the schoolhouse, but not before Vicki has a final word for her satellite audience. In Israel, Judd and Lionel attempt to stop an assassination plot and prepare for a deadly prophecy. W...



  • M.C. Beaton

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  • Valerie S. Malmont

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  • Elizabeth Chandler

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  • Denise Osborne

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  • Kathleen Givens

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  • Jon F. Merz

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  • Jacqueline Diamond

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  • Lynn Mason

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    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    After what seemed li...



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    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

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  • David Weber

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  • Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

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  • Chris Archer

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  • Thomas E. Sniegoski

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  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

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  • Sylvia Engdahl

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  • Lynn Messina

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    Mia thinks boys are immature. They only talk about cars and sports. They only think about sex.

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  • Tim Green

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  • Kim Barnes

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  • Joe Martin

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  • Sigmund Brouwer

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  • Louise Bagshawe

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  • Poul Anderson

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  • Susan Johnson

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  • Peter Steiner

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  • Walker Hughes

    The second GI Joe 6x9 reader has cool stickers inside, as well as a deep-sea adventure in which Wet-Suit and Moray face off in their diving gear!

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  • Pamela Sargent

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  • Anne Gutman

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  • Donald Moffitt

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  • Brent Hartinger

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  • Nancy Krulik

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  • Michael D. Warden

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  • Charlotte Fairbairn

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  • Douglas Niles

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  • Sonia Sander

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  • Edith Templeton

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  • Wendy Holden

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