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  • Carolyne Aarsen

    IN LOVE WITH HER BOSS If Dylan Matheson knew the real reason she had become his secretary, Lisa Sterling suspected his gray eyes would turn to Arctic ice. Always protective of her stepbrother, she now needed to get inside Dylan's company to cle...



  • Tony Abbott

    A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon!Keeah, a junior wizard, has always dreamed of the day she would receive her Wizardbook. So when her mother presents her first one, Keeah is overjoyed. But what she doesn't realize is how...



  • Dan Allan

    It’s circa 1999 and the first sex chat rooms are in full swing. Late at night as his family sleeps, “Tag,” a lawyer trapped in the golden handcuffs of a loveless marriage, makes his inaugural visit to the newly launched Literoticus.com. He can...



  • Harper Allen

    A FATHER'S DUTY Former hostage negotiator Gabe Riggs wanted nothing to do with spoiled socialite Caro Moore, the ice princess who'd left him high and dry after one night of fiery passion. But a year later, she came begging for the rugged Navajo sp...



  • Louise Allen

    Hebe Carlton had little idea of her own charm until Major Alex Beresford arrived on the island of Malta. She made no attempt to cast out lures and treated him with warm practicality, showing an insight and ability to read him that few others had mana...



  • Elissa Ambrose

    HOW TO DESCRIBE BECKY ROTH: UNEMPLOYED, STRESSED, PREGNANT After losing her job at a greasy diner, Becky needed to support herself, but no one was looking for a pregnant vegetarian chef during a snowstorm in small-town Connecticut. Except Carter P...



  • Niccolo Ammaniti

    The international bestselling novel “of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping read … a deft masterpiece with never a false note” (The Guardian, UK).A BBC Two Between The Covers Book Club PickSouthern Italy, 1978. In the midst ...




  • Sarah Andrews

    PAINT BY MURDER Unemployed professional geologist and sometime FBI consultant, Emm Hansen desperately needs work. So when her best friend Faye tells her that she knows someone who could use Em's expertise as a geologist to authenticate a painting,...



  • V.C. Andrews

    He was her mirror image. Now the mirror has cracked. Celeste and her identical twin brother, Noble, are as close as can be -- until a tragic accident takes Noble's life. It's a loss that pushes their mother, a woman obsessed with New Age superstit...



  • Kate Angell

    GOOD VIBRATIONS Cade Nyland didn't think that anything good could come of the new dent in his classic black Sting Ray, even if it did happen at the hands of a sexy young woman. He was determined to win his twelfth road rally race of the year. Litt...



  • Judith Arnold
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    This April 1, anything is possible... Dare to discover... Thanks to a radio gag, Mark Lavin and Claire O'Connor find themselves "engaged" -- even though they don't know eachother! But when Mark and Claire try to prove otherwise, they find that th...



  • A.C. Arthur

    The Assignment… Cienna Turner is coerced into working on a sexual harassment case with Keith Page, who just so happens to be the most attractive man she's ever seen. Keith is delighted when he finds out he'll be working closely with the sexy, unatt...



  • Anne Ashley
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    REGENCY INTRIGUE AND SPLENDOR IN LONDON HIGH SOCIETY Miss Emily Stapleton broke her engagement to Lord Sebastian Hawkridge nearly five years ago upon discovering that he was in love with another. Now she's become entangled in something dark an...



  • Robert Asprin

    THE GAME IS AFOOT. Desperate to kick Phule out of the Space Legion, General Blitzkrieg sends a crack team of environmental investigators--including celebrity canine Barky the Environmental Dog--to sniff out Phule and his Omega Company's unnatural ...



  • Ace Atkins

    What would you do if you only had twenty four hours to save the life of a friend? Searching for lost souls and solving problems was never Nick Travers's intention when he started doing favors for his buddies. A former football player who sometimes...



  • Dawn Atkins

    In reality, she has an advertising job headed for permanent entry-level, a pricey apartment and a rat of a boyfriend. So now she has to make her wish come true. But she can get this figured out, right? She just has to hit on the plan and her life ...




  • Brian Augustyn

    This early chapter book starring Batman and his enemy the Mad Hatter has forty pages and full-color comic-book style illustrations.

    Kids will enjoy this early chapter book as they read an adventure-filled story featuring a favorite and timeles...



  • Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #428-434. What is the shocking secret behind Azazel and what does it have to do with Nightcrawler? Plus, Juggernaut and Northstar take on the Canadian Alpha Flight....



  • James Axler

    POINT OF NO RETURN Out of the ashes of the conflagration that savaged mankind two centuries ago, Deathlands was born--a tortured testament to a world long gone. Vet, in this kill-or-be-killed world where justice is the way of the past and blood is l...



  • Steven Banks

    Squidward is doing some cleaning and gives SpongeBob SquarePants an old toy guitar to get him out of his tentacles for the day. But when SpongeBob and Patrick crank up the guitar, it breaks-and the guitar just keeps playing and playing....




  • Brad Barkley

    In the spirit of Tobias Wolff and Richard Ford, these ten chilling, deeply felt stories from acclaimed author Brad Barkley explore the complexity of male friendships and marital relationships. Among the stories is "The Way It's Lasted," in which Bill...



  • Linda Barnes

    FROM THE IVORY TOWER... Harvard professor Wilson Chaney has a secret and somebody knows it. His adulterous affair with a freshman ended just weeks before she wound up dead. The sole trace of his infatuation is a stack of missing love letters--and th...



  • Jean Barrett

    IF ONLY HE COULD REMEMBER... He called himself Shane, but Eden Hawke knew he'd made it up. The gorgeous stranger had collapsed at her door in the middle of the night, and it was selfishness that made her take him in. For in his pocket he'd carried...



  • Linda Barrett

    Sea View House in Pilgrim Cove offers its residents the sea, the sun, the sound of the surf and the call of the gulls. But sometimes serenity is only an illusion... Laura McCloud has come back to Pilgrim Cove -- the source of her fondest childhood...



  • Beverly Barton

    HER SECRET WAS OUT! They shared a brief, passionate affair, before Agent Frank Latimer moved on to his next mission. Leenie hadn't expected anything more from Frank than those beautiful encounters they shared. Until she gave birth to his child,...



  • Graeme Base

    In a far-off desert world, evolution has taken an unexpected turn. The dominant life form is a creature covered in fur with steel panels beneath. It gnaws on bones and sniffs lampposts but fills up on oil, brake fluid, and petrol to keep running. And...



  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Torey Mitchell witnessed the cold-blooded murder of a man she didn't know - and her stepfather, who committed the crime, tries to convince her that what she saw makes her just as guilty as he. Terrified, she runs away - and ends up in the loving home...



  • Shelley Bates

    He'd find Kailey someday. One assignment at a time. One prayer at a time . . . Ever since a cult took his daughter, police investigator Ross Malcolm's mission has been to protect children. So when a secretive sect in Hamilton Falls, Washington, c...



  • James BeauSeigneur

    Combining the intrigue of Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) with the scientific accuracy and suspense of Michael Crichton, James BeauSeigneur concludes his powerful epic of man's ultimate destiny and its inextricable ties to Christopher Goodman-the clone...



  • Marty Beckerman

    The first exploration of the sex lives of modern teens, as reported from the frontlines by twenty-year-old Marty Beckerman. Innovatively combining fact and fiction, the book is filled with mind-shattering stats, news reports, and confessions from ad...



  • Gregory Benford

    Takes a scientist's imagination to the uttermost ends of time. Set more than a billion years from now, the novel begins with a young woman who yearns to escape the rigid, timeless Earth she knows. So she flees, in the company of an intelligent beast ...



  • Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    Is the Confederate battle flag a racist symbol -- or a proud reminder of Southern heritage? When Kate’s liberal-minded family moves from the suburbs of New York City to a small town near Nashville, Kate is convinced her life is over. Redford lives ...



  • Jessica Bird

    She thought she had everything she ever wanted-- until she met the only man she'd ever need. . . . Forced into the spotlight by her fabulous wealth, heiress Grace Hall isn't always prepared for the consequences of her standing. When a string of ...



  • Sallie Bissell

    Haunted by the death of her mother and tortured by the secret that died upon her best friend's lips, assistant district attorney Mary Crow is obsessed with finding the man who holds the key to both those tragedies. When her infant goddaughter is k...



  • Rosanne Bittner

    With rough miners stampeding to the Klondike's golden hills as her shipmates, Elizabeth Breckenridge sets sail for Alaska to find her brother in Dawson. But when Elizabeth falls overboard midjourney, she is rescued by a man very unlike her minister b...



  • Lawana Blackwell

    IT ALL BEGAN OVER AN INNOCENT CUP OF TEA Bethia Rayborn, soon to be betrothed to her childhood beau and happily employed as the wardrobe mistress at London's Royal Court Theatre, is quite certain all her dreams have come true. But then the drama unf...



  • Jane Blackwood

    LEAVE IT TO HER TO FALL FOR A DEAD GUY... So cooking for a recluse isn't exactly the dream job of the century. That's okay with Rose Pisano. The outrageous salary he's offering more than makes up for the boring factor--and just may make her dream ...



  • Jon P. Bloch

    Rick Domino is at the very top in his world - which is Hollywood - and his stock in trade is celebrity gossip. His finances, however, are the pits and can't begin to pay for his copious good taste. So when his producer 'suggests' he be a guest on a p...



  • Brett Ellen Block

    A woman is faced with the past she's tried to put behind her only to find that what transpired in her childhood has never been further away than her own shadow.The year is 1941. Rooted in the lonely outreaches of the Allegheny Mountains lies the town...



  • Lawrence Block

    "Burglary is, I should point out, not a career I would recommend for anyone. The fact that I evidently can't give it up doesn't mean I'm not well aware of the disagreeably sordid nature of what I do." Bernie Rhodenbarr A philosophical yet practic...



  • Deborah Blumenthal

    As Americans throw themselves body, soul and pocketbook into the latest weight-loss craze, Maggie O'Leary's informed column about the pitfalls of dieting is the one sane voice crying out against the dietocracy. Plus-size Maggie, also known as America...



  • Maribeth Boelts

    Desperately wanting the gold sticker for the last day of the school year, James is determined to do nothing wrong all day so that he can achieve his goal--even if that means no burping, spitting, or talking during Silent Reading....



  • Stephanie Bond
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    This April 1, anything is possible... Dare to deceive... Eric McDaniels hatches up a prank he's sure will thaw boss Kate Randall's icy-cool exterior -- inventing a secret admirer. That is, until Kate's frosty facade melts just enough to reveal wa...



  • Frank Bonham

    Four of the author's best stories are contained in this volume detailing the adventures of a gambler trying to clear his family name, a rancher who butts heads with a greedy cattle buyer, a gang of outlaws trying to survive the High Sierras, and a yo...



  • Jon Boorstin

    Part urban history, part thriller, part character study, this mesmerizing novel delves into the young life experiences of William James, the seminal nineteenth-century American thinker whose ideas have so profoundly influenced American thought. After...



  • Kate Borden

    When single mother Peggy' Jean Turner succeeds her late husband as mayor of Cobb's Landing, she faces a major challenge: rescue the New England village from its financial woes. Now she's singing the praises of the wealthy miracle man who bought the l...



  • Elizabeth Boyle

    Rebecca will have to take a page from her own book to keep the dashing Rafe Danvers from spoiling her success. But how does one play hard-to-get with a man one cannot resist? PASSION BY THE BOOK Rebecca Tate never intended to cause a revol...



  • Irene Brand

    RAINBOWS ALWAYS FOLLOW THE RAIN College sweethearts Amelia Stone and Chase Ramsey had married right after graduation, but infidelity destroyed their young marriage. Now, more than a decade later, severe flooding in West Virginia had brought the...



  • Beverly Brandt

    HIS LOVE LIFE WAS A NIGHTMARE... Country singer Bradley Nelson always had big dreams. He's sure they're coming true until his debut album tanks, his record contract is cancelled, and his rock star girlfriend kicks him off her tour bus in Reno. Single...



  • Jean Brashear

    A man who can't walk away from trouble -- and a woman who's nothing but Traveling incognito, Zane MacAllister, Hollywood's hottest heartthrob, has at last eluded the rabid gossipmongers and curiosity seekers who trail him like a pack o...



  • Patricia Bray

    LIVE FOR JUSTICE, DIE FOR THE SWORD Devlin of Duncaer has retrieved the Sword of Light--the legendary weapon of the Chosen One. But while Devlin was fulfilling his sacred quest, dark forces have swarmed the royal court. To defend his country's bor...



  • Laurie Breton

    Park Square. Mass Ave. The Combat Zone. All home to Boston's sex trade. Home also to runaways and lost souls, home to high rollers and politicians looking for action they can't find anywhere else. It is home, too, for Father Clancy Donovan, who spend...



  • Laurey Bright

    LARGE AS LIFE... AND TWICE AS THREATENING She'd been robbed, mugged, nearly run down by a car -- and now had to fight her unwelcome passion for her sexy new boss. When Sienna Rivers signed on as the resident archaeologist on Pacific Treasure S...



  • Poppy Z. Brite

    Two line cooks decide to open their own restaurant in New Orleans in the second book in the Rickey and G-Man series by novelist Poppy Z. Brite. New Orleans natives Rickey and G-man are lifetime friends and down-and-out line cooks desperate to make ...



  • Chip Brown

    A portrait of former Capitol Hill speechwriter Guy Waterman follows his decision to leave civilization and live off the land in a Vermont cabin, describing his passionate pursuit of mountain climbing and his controversial suicide. Reprint. 50,000 fir...



  • Simon Brown

    A Kingdom at War In the kingdom of Grenda Lear, four magical Keys of Power augment the authority of the monarch. On her deathbed, Queen Usharna divides the Keys among her four children, hoping to bring continued peace and strength to the kingdom....



  • Dixie Browning

    STUMBLING INTO SEXY TROUBLE! In-the-know columnist Maggie Riley had a mission in mind: to write a scathing expose about a scam artist at an overpriced retreat. Seducing a woman out of house and home was a crime! But fate, and a pair of ill-fitting...



  • Linda Bruckheimer

    Rebecca Jean Wooten St. Clair and her sister, Carleen, pack up their two teenage daughters and leave California via Route 66 for Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky, where they will celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of their mother, Lila Mae. Waiting for...



  • Bob Budiansky

    The collections of the classic comic strips from the 80s continue with one of the most dramatic and searing slices of Transformers action ever put to print!

    As the Autobots unveil their new secret weapon, Omega Supreme, and the stage is set for th...



  • Laura J. Burns

    TIME'S UP Willow is back in Sunnydale, but she's terrified: She knows her powers will be needed soon, but she's afraid that if she uses them, it's back to being the Big Bad. She can feel something strange happening, but the other Scoobies don't s...



  • Laura J. Burns

    As the Charmed Ones know, it's difficult to adjust to the ideas of having powers and saving innocents -- that's one of the reasons that their Grams bound their powers until the sisters were ready to receive them. In fact, many witch clans keep the po...



  • Bob Burton

    THEY'LL RUN... Dev Shannon loves his job. He makes good money, travels all over, meets interesting people--and drags them off in chains to face justice. Dev is San Diego's top bounty hunter, and there's never a shortage of bad guys for him to bring...



  • Kurt Busiek

    Collecting for the FIRST TIME the inaugural Avengers/T-Bolts crossover, in time for this month's all-new AVENGERS/THUNDERBOLTS #1! The T-Bolts and Earth's Mightiest Heroes stand side-by-side against Count Nefaria, master of ionic energy! But before t...



  • Nancy Butler

    LOVE HO! Miss Lydia Peartree was looking forward to an afternoon pleasure cruise off the coast of Devon. But she didn't expect the captain of the Rook to have the appearance of a pirate and the manners of a sea dog. Captain Matthew Frobisher, ...



  • J. Lee Butts

    Producer A. Maxwell Vought is determined to make a movie about one of Deputy U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden's most harrowing adventures, the capture of the ruthless Crooke boys, a vicious gang of outlaws who brutally murdered Mary Beth Tall Dog and kidna...



  • Meg Cabot

    Sleeping Beauty, Victoria, Cleopatra, Snow White, Elizabeth, Pocahontas, Mia Thermopolis: all princesses Do YOU have what it takes to be a princess? Princess Mia will help you find out...



  • Colette Caddle

    Recently married to Dermot and tipped as Ireland's hottest new designer, Celine Moore is relaxed, happy and looking forward to an exciting future. Why then just five years later, is she barely able to hold her head up high in her local Dublin neighbo...



  • Stella Cameron

    The Marquis of Granville's deadly efficiency makes him invaluable to the Crown. But his latest mission has nothing to do with his work for England and everything to do with avenging the murder of two members of his family. Killing would be too go...



  • Joanna Campbell

    Christina saved Star from a stalker, but can she protect him from Brad Townsend?

    When Christina first moved Star to Townsend Acres to keep him safe from his stalker, she couldn't stand the thought of keeping him under Brad's roof. But no...




  • Karel Capek

    A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot"

    Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922 -- garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produc...



  • Lillian Stewart Carl
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    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...



  • Teresa Carpenter

    SURPRISE! YOU'RE A DAD! High school principal Alex Sullivan considered the new school nurse strictly off-limits. But when the leggy blonde turned up on his doorstep with a chubby-cheeked baby -- claiming Alex was the dad -- he knew his bachelorhoo...



  • Tori Carrington

    WALK. DON'T RUN.... Whatever was going to happen, Aidan Kendall had decided to stay and ride it out. The truth was, he was tired of running. Tired of packing up his suitcase and hitting the road to nowhere. Tired of being alone, keeping people at ...



  • Ward Carroll

    Former fighter pilot Ward Carroll packs enough action and honesty to satisfy readers, critics, and Navy veterans alike.

    On a mission over Central Afghanistan, Punk is hit-and taken captive. After he escapes, the challenge isn't over. Because...



  • Caroline Carver

    A DARK HOMECOMING Georgia Parish left the small town of Nulgarra in northern Australia, vowing never to return. But her plane crashes in a remote rainforest, and soon Georgia finds herself back in Queensland struggling to comprehend a sinister fac...



  • Marc Cerasini

    Kim Possible and her best friend, Ron Stoppable, find new meaning in the phrase "gone bananas" when they discover the truth about world-famous scholar Lord Monty Fiske. The nobleman's obsession with something called Monkey Kung Fu has led him to spen...



  • Janet Chapman

    The first in a dazzling duo of romances featuring two sisters from the ruggedly beautiful Maine coast...and the men who sweep them away. Rachel Foster wishes Sub Rosa -- the seaside mansion she helped her father build and the scene of a terrible ...




  • Loretta Chase

    Alistair Carsington really, really wishes he didn't love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from civilization: Derbyshire -- in winter! There he hopes to kill two birds with one stone: avoid all tempta...



  • Jennifer Chiaverini

    The Master Quilter opens with the sound of wedding bells ringing in the ears of the Elm Creek Quilters. The close-knit group can hardly believe that their own Sylvia Compson planned her holiday wedding to sweetheart Andrew in complete secrecy, withou...



  • Maureen Child

    A CHANCE WORTH TAKING Everything about Lily Cunningham, the newly arrived public relations maven of Merlyn County, put widower Ron Bingham on edge, from his nerves to his heart. But no amount of breath-stealing attraction would change the facts: R...



  • Gennifer Choldenko

    MURDERERS, MOB BOSSES, AND CONVICTS... THESE GUYS ARE NOT YOUR AVERAGE NEIGHBORS. Not unless you live on Alcatraz. It's 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that's home to criminals like notor...



  • Judy Christenberry

    HOW TO LASSO A BACHELOR... In Michael Crawford's "Five Year Plan," marriage came dead last. Even if he wanted a wife, it wouldn't be the slender blonde who arrived at the Circle K claiming to be the long-lost granddaughter of the late childless ow...



  • Pamela Clare

    "I expect you to show my friend just how grateful you are. Your willingness is everything." With those harsh words, the hated Sasanach earl decided Brighid's fate: Her body and her virginity were to be offered up to a stranger in exchange for her ...




  • Dorothy Clark

    THOUGH HER SINS WERE LIKE SCARLET... Forced into prostitution by her stepfather, Angela Warren found salvation one dark, terrifying night in Crossroads Church. The words of a handsome visiting preacher and the strength she found in the Lord led...



  • Emma Chichester Clark

    Daisy is Arthur’s dog, and she’s devoted to him. But she’s very old, and lately she’s finding it hard to keep up with Arthur. One night, after she goes to sleep as usual, she wakes up in heaven. Heaven is a wonderful place, and Daisy loves it...



  • Douglas Clegg

    When a group of teenagers checks out the "mystery" in the back of a gas station, which is the remains of an ancient mummy, they unwittingly bring the attraction to life, unleashing a demon that is hungry for flesh. Original....



  • Paulo Coelho

    Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a te...



  • Miriam Cohen


    Homemade fun and simple pleasures abound

    Mimmy and Sophie are sisters who live in Brooklyn, New York, during the Great Depression. Even though their parents don't have a lot of money, Mimmy and Sophie still have lots of fun together, whet...



  • Rachel Cohn

    From the coauthor of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist comes “a slick and enjoyably glitzy read” (BCCB) that captures the struggles and glories of an ordinary teenage girl’s climb to celebrity.When fifteen-year-old Wonder Blake is plucked fr...



  • Don Coldsmith

    A Quest Into Legend
    From the moment he laid eyes on it, young Beaver of the Elk-dog People felt drawn to the spirit of the pipestone. Now he’s setting out on a vision quest to the only place the red stone can be mined: the Pipestone Quarry. Trav...



  • Reed Farrel Coleman

    In Redemption Street, ex-NYPD officer and freshly minted PI Moe Prager, travels up to a decaying Boscht Belt hotel to uncover the truth behind a decades old fire that killed seventeen people, including his high school crush. Away from his beloved Bro...



  • Lynn Collum
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    Widowed Serena Morgan is appalled to discover that her uncle has consented to introduce her gentle cousin Jane to London's most notorious rake, the Viscount Durwyn. But while Wyn may be as infamous as Serena imagined, he's also far more tempting than...



  • John Connolly

    On the Maine island once known as Sanctuary, policeman Joe Dupree is the guardian of its secrets, keeper of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary had been steeped in carnage once, centuries ago, when its settlers were betrayed to their enemies and sl...



  • Linda Conrad

    THE FORBIDDEN DANCE For an advice columnist, Lainie Gardner was suddenly without sound thought but on sensory overload when she found herself dancing in Sloan Abbott's arms. Theirs was an impossible relationship -- he, the Texas Ranger protector; ...



  • Kate Constable

    Kate Constable's lyrical, acclaimed fantasy debut--now in paperback!

    Calwyn has never been beyond the high ice-wall that guards the sisters of Antaris from the world of Tremaris. She knows only the rounds of her life as a novice ice priestess,...




  • Elisha Cooper

    Magic the cat isvery large, very round, and unable to make up his mind.

    Magic the cat issort of silly,sort of sleepy, andstuck in one spot.

    Look!Magic the catmay not be moving,but his imaginationhas taken flight.

    ...



  • Inglath Cooper

    You're invited to a reunion! Are you brave enough to attend? When Olivia Ashford first receives the invitation to her high school reunion, she dismisses it. After all, she'd left Summerville -- and John Riley -- and never looked back. But her life...



  • Louise Cooper

    Continuing the story in which Tamzin Weston and her guardian pony Moonlight confront the evil spirit of the Grey Horse. Tamzin and her new friend Marga are preparing for the pony Fun Day. But there's something suspicious about Marga and her pony Loss...



  • Darcy Cosper

    SEVENTEEN WEDDINGS. SIX MONTHS. ON THE STRONG SURVIVE. Joy Silverman and her boyfriend, Gabriel Winslow, seem perfect for each other. Living together in New York City, they have everything they want and everything in common--most important, that nei...



  • Lyn Cote

    ENJOY THE FIRST TITLE IN LYN COTE'S MOVING SISTERS OF THE HEART TRILOGY All Jack Lassater could count on were the computer systems he designed and his assistant, Gracie Petrov. But his right-hand woman had been keeping a secret: She'd loved him si...



  • Bruce Coville

    Enhanced with brilliant illustrations, an adaptation of the classic Shakespearian play, with important lines incorporated from the play, provides readers with the tragic tale of the Prince of Denmark....



  • Francine Craft

    SOMETIMES, THE SECRETS AND SORROWS OF THE PAST... Sherrie Pinson was devastated when her husband, Michael, was killed. Now, as the beauty salon owner struggles to make a new life for herself and her young daughter Tressa, Byron Tate intrudes on her ...



  • Michael Craft

    After a long and successful career as a theatre director in Manhattan, fifty-something Claire Gray succumbed to a tempting offer to establish the theatre department at the new and very well funded Desert Arts College in Palm Springs. It has proven to...



  • Peter Craig

    "[A] compulsively readable joy ride." -- Richard North Patterson "As close to the day-to-day workings of modern con men as any sane person would want to get. Hot Plastic is a fascinating look at changing times on the grift." -- Nicholas Pileggi, auth...



  • Sharon Creech

    RUN RUN RUN. That's what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she's barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating . . . thump-THUMP, thump-THUMP. It's a rhythm that makes sense in a year when everything's shifting: Her mother is pregnant...



  • Jasmine Cresswell

    The elegant DeWilde stores -- famous for making bridal fantasies come true. Now the love that built the DeWilde dynasty threatened to shatter it... Gabriel DeWilde had no idea why his supposedly happy parents, Grace and Jeffrey DeWilde, were divor...



  • Bill Crider
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    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...



  • Richard Croker

    It was the battle that altered the tides of war ... and the fate of a nation. On September 17, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Maryland, more than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed or wounded, making the Battle of Antietam the bloodiest day i...



  • Susan Crosby

    DISCRETION ADVISED Forced by her very public persona to control her emotions, Dana Sterling found herself at a loss when she came face-to-face with Sam Remington. After more than a decade apart, he was suddenly back in her life, her only chance at...



  • Jane Cutler


    Pretty is as pretty does

    Franny gets two dolls for her birthday. Rose has yellow curls, big blue eyes, and a frilly dress. She chants "Ring around the Rosy" when you squeeze her hand. Suzie is an old rag doll, all floppy and faded. Franny'...



  • Mary Daheim

    As her myriad of fans can attest, USA Today bestselling author Mary Daheim creates wonderful mysteries peopled with marvelous characters as quirky as they are endearing. The Seattle Times says Daheim is "one of the brightest stars in our city's liter...



  • Margaret Daley

    HEALING HEARTS... Just when Victoria Alexander was ready to abandon her lifelong dream of having a family, she bonded with a special child whose needs outweighed her own. Now Tory would do anything to help the little girl -- even if it meant marry...



  • Cami Dalton

    He's got all the right moves... Phoebe Devereaux could never forget Trace McGraw. In college he used his moves to give her a night she'd never forget. Now he's using those talents as a male stripper on the cruise ship where she works as a showgirl...



  • John Dalton

    Heaven Lake is about many things: China, God, passion, friendship, travel, even the reckless smuggling of hashish. But above all, this extraordinary debut is about the mysteries of love.Vincent Saunders has graduated from college, left his small home...



  • Niki Daly

    Jamela gets in trouble when she takes the material intended for a new dress for Mama, parades it in the street, and allows it to become dirty and torn. But there is a happy ending in store for "Kwela Jamela African Queen," and just in time.
    ...



  • Peggy Darty

    All Lilly Brown ever wanted is a family of her own to love. When a strange man arrives with information about the mother Lilly never knew, her heart burns with hope. But how can an orphan girl claim a birthright in one of the wealthiest families in N...



  • Carolyn Davidson

    SCAMS AND SCALAWAGS were all in a day's work for undercover government agent Gage Morgan. Songbird Lily Devereaux was not. No soiled dove, she was a lady in need of protection. But once vows were spoken, would he ever be able to let her go, as the...



  • Maryjanice Davidson

    From Just-Laid-Off Secretary to Queen of the Undead... It's been a helluva week for Betsy Taylor. First, she loses her job. Then, to top things off, she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites (besides waking up in the morgue dressed in ...



  • Patrick A. Davis

    Air Force investigator Martin Collins is used to bucking the system in the name of justice. But when he is called on to investigate the torture-style slaying of Major Franklin Talbot, Collins is embroiled in the most controversial case of his career....



  • Philip Davison

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  • Cynthia DeFelice

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  • Claire Delacroix

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  • Jacqueline Diamond

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  • William Dietrich

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  • Anita Doreen Diggs

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  • Robert B. Downs

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  • Eileen Dreyer

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  • Clare Dudman

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  • Diana Duncan

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  • Helen Dunmore

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  • J.T. Edson

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  • Martin Edwards
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  • Selma Eichler

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  • Dorothy Elbury

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  • Charles Elliott

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  • David Ellis

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  • Jill Esbaum

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  • Peter Esterhazy

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  • Tabor Evans

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  • Jennifer Fallon

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  • Jan Fearnley

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  • Jane Feather

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  • Jane Feather

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  • Raymond E. Feist

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  • Jo Ann Ferguson

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  • Liz Fielding

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  • Catherine Fisher

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  • Bill Fitzhugh

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  • Joanne Fluke

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  • Darnella Ford

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  • John M. Ford

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  • Michael Curtis Ford

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  • Lori Foster

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  • Elaine Fox

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  • Leo Frankowski; Dave Grossman

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  • David Freeman

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  • Don Freeman

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  • Brian Freemantle

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  • Stephen Frey

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  • Kinky Friedman

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  • Bernie Fuchs

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  • Cathleen Galitz

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  • Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

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  • Eric Garcia

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  • Michel Gay

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