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  • Melinda Metz; 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 se...



  • Tom Grace

    In space, a technological nightmare orbits the Earth, stalking its prey. Sheathed in a black multifaceted skin, a secret all but invisible against the darkness of space, the killer satellite hunts with one of the deadliest weapons ever created. It is...



  • Lev Grossman

    Edward Wozny, a hotshot young banker, is about to leave for vacation when he is sent to help an important yet mysterious client. His task: search the family library for a precious, centuries-old codex that may not even exist. Enlisting the expertise ...



  • Benjamin E. Miller

    As a floating glacier, going against the current, heads toward Hawaii, an elite team of scientists joins a Marine Expeditionary Unit on the glacier and encounters a predatory force that could destroy the entire world....



  • Christopher Nicole

    On holiday in the Bahamas, Frances Ogilvie meets a strangely attractive man whom she allows to hypnotize her, she supposes as a party trick. But on her return to England she realizes that he has not removed the spell, that she is still under his cont...



  • Casey Moreton

    A high-velocity political thriller from a gifted first-time novelist follows the hunt for a videotape that terrifyingly reveals Washington's deadliest secret: the shocking identity of the vice president's assassin. First, there is the bullet -- the ...



  • Lisa Jackson

    HIS VICTIMS... A woman is frantic as she awakens in a dark, closed space. From above her comes the muffled sound of cruel laughter, followed by the hard splatter of dirt. Pure terror takes over as she realizes she's being buried alive, and her last ...



  • David Hewson

    THE FIRST IN THE ACCLAIMED NIC COSTA SERIES 'No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me -- nor made it seem so sinister' Peter James 'David Hewson’s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ri...



  • Michael Robotham

    London psychiatrist Joseph O'Loughlin seems to have the perfect life. He has a beautiful wife, an adoring daughter, and a thriving practice to which he brings great skill and compassion. But he's also facing a future dimmed by Parkinson's disease. An...



  • Brian Freemantle

    When Moscow's Organized Crime Bureau chief Dimitri Danilov teams up once more with William Cowley, head of the FBI's Russian desk, their attempt to thwart a unified global mafia makes for Brian Freemantle's most unique and explosive Danilov/Cowley th...



  • Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

    The first full-length novel starring the Starfleet Corps of Engineers! Now it can be told: The origin of the S.C.E.! In the twenty-fourth century, the U.S.S. da Vinci and its S.C.E. team led by Commander Sonya Gomez roam the galaxy, solving the tec...



  • Timothy Zahn

    A dangerous, mission to salvage a piece of Jedi past threatens to make Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker history.... After fifty years, the remains of Outbound Flight--a pioneering Jedi expedition viciously destroyed by the alien warlord Thrawn--have ...



  • John Vornholt

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...



  • Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...



  • Mark Schultz

    Superman. Batman. Wonder Woman. The Flash. Green Lantern. They are the world's greatest super heroes, fighting endlessly against corruption and injustice. Each of them is a formidable opponent of evil, but banded together their powers are unmatche...



  • Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    "THIS SEEMS ALL WRONG." Aari has returned! Now he and his lifemate, the brave and beautiful Acorna, can finish rebuilding their once-decimated homeworld. Yet Aari's travels through time have left him oddly changed, and he barely remembers Acorna o...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Richard K. Morgan

    Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn’t just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness an...



  • Brian Stableford

    The eleven stories in Designer Genes showcase the latest volume in this intriguing science fiction that explores intriguing future possibilities in biotechnology, ranging from stories of imminent technology reflecting issues that are already controve...





  • John M. Ford

    John M. Ford is an astonishingly versatile writer. He has written award-winning fantasy novels (The Dragon Waiting, winner of the 1984 World Fantasy Award), award-winning fantasy role-playing games (The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues), New York ...



  • Bruce Jones

    Doc Samson plots in secret to obtain a sample of Hulk's bood, and Hulk finds himself up against the mysterious Mr. Blue and has encounters with both Sandra Verdugo and his old girl friend, Nadia Blonsky....



  • Anne L. Harris

    A one-of-a-kind novel, like nothing you've ever read, Inventing Memory is a stunning blend of fantasy and reality, exposing the secret links between the mythic, the mundane, and the timeless mysteries of the human heart.

    Shula is a slave in fa...



  • Alan Grant

    In Mega-City One, some cases -- and some criminals -- are too bizarre for even the feared Judges (including Dredd!) to crack. That’s when they call for Psi Division, the élite psychic Judges -- and Psi’s top Judge, Cassandra Anderson!

    I...



  • Leo Frankowski; Dave Grossman

    THE VIRTUAL-REALITY MERCENARIES FACE A NEW MENACE--AND THERE'S NOTHING VIRTUAL ABOUT IT! First, the involuntary colonists of New Kashubia rescued their planet from crushing debt by becoming virtual-reality mercenaries, then they successfully revol...



  • Howard V. Hendrix

    In a secret war waged in worlds both virtual and real, the fates of nations depend on the definitive weapon. And that weapon is knowledge -- knowledge to die for. . . .The race is heating up between the U.S. and China to develop a quantum computer wi...



  • Jody Lynn Nye

    In Taylor's Ark and Medicine Show, Shona Taylor fought death and disease--with a menagerie of very special assistants. Now, in an all-new novel, Dr. Taylor takes on a new assignment, and discovers a chilling reality behind a picture-perfect planet......



  • Wil McCarthy

    In a novel that challenges our expectations at every turn, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy sweeps us into the future as only he can imagine it. Here is a thrilling odyssey of discovery and adventure aboard a ship of exiled rebels coming of age in an et...



  • Richard K. Morgan

    From the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angelsâ€"a turbocharged new thriller set in a world where killers are stars, media is mass entertainment, and freedom is a dangerous proposition . . .A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. Fo...



  • Steve Lyons

    The final installment in the Time Traveler Trilogy. Within our own universe lies another universe unknown to us...until now. This is the realm of The Micronauts-a place ruled by the tyrant Baron Karza, whose scientific marvels offer his people immort...




  • 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 ...



  • John Ringo; Linda Evans

    SURPLUS ON LOAN It was the last step in life for an obsolete bolo. Loaned out to a Concordiat ally, left to guard the backdoor against the Deng while the rest of the Dinochrome fought, and died, against the Melkonians. Well, SOL-0045 managed to st...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    Featuring contributions by such noted science fiction authors as Timothy Zahn, Julie E. Czerneda, and Gregory Benford, fourteen stories center around space stations throughout the galaxy, controlled by both humans and aliens, that are meccas for prof...



  • Marvel Book Group

    Including not one, but two titanic team-ups featuring everyone's favorite wall-crawler. Spider-Man goes to Japan to rescue a captured Wolverine, and it's up to the duo to solve a mystery in the land of the Rising Sun. Plus: Spider-Man and Daredevil t...



  • Walter Simonson

    Spanning epic tales of heroism and treachery, love and war, writer/artist Walter Simonson's groundbreaking work on THE MIGHTY THOR is regarded as that long-running title's definitive run. From the majesty and mystery of Asgard to the gritty streets o...




  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Robert L. Wise

    The story of one family's struggle for survival in an apocalyptic world -- where one choice will determine their future....




  • Brian Pinkerton

    When she sees her son, who had been kidnaped two years before, on a bus stopped at the curb, Anita Sherwood, unable to make the police believe her claims that her son is still alive, will stop at nothing--even murder--to get her son back. Original....



  • 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...



  • John Saul

    The dark history and dire secrets of a peaceful small town are summoned from the shadows of the past. Unholy forces are stirred from long slumber to monstrous new life. And two young misfits discover the chilling art of turning persecution into retri...



  • 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...



  • P.N. Elrod
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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...



  • Katherine Leiner

    Years after fleeing to the U.S. to escape the tragedy in her small Welsh town that had nearly cost her life and destroyed her family, Alys Davies rebuilds her life, marries, and finds success as a poet, until a new tragedy forces her to confront the ...



  • Lisa Teasley

    Ray Rose is a charming construction worker in Florida, plagued with guilt about a violent crime he committed. Ruby Falls is a beautiful animator whose freewheeling L.A. lifestyle is derailed when she stumbles upon a bloody crime scene at the Laurel C...



  • Ellis Weiner

    A one-time mild-mannered bookstore clerk transformed into a hard-boiled private detective thanks to a head injury, Pete Ingalls decides to open up his own detective agency, taking Raymond Chandler as his model, and finds himself on the trail of a var...



  • Brendan DuBois
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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...



  • Twist Phelan

    On the verge of leaving the family law firm for a better job, attorney Hannah Dain finds her career on the line when a real-estate deal suddenly goes awry, with two million dollars in investors' money disappearing, and sets out to uncover the truth a...



  • Joanne Meyer

    There's such a thin line between "psychic" and "psychotic"... For thirty-three years, Natalie "Rosie" Rosenstein has been "gifted" with a sixth sense--not that it ever helps her with men. No, the ESP thing is mysteriously on hiatus when it comes to ...



  • 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...



  • William Dietrich

    It has stood for three centuries at the edge of an empire--a massive structure built to keep the Roman conquerors separate and safe from the barbarians. Now, in the year A.D. 368, a senator's daughter has come to Britannia's shores, a beautiful, enig...



  • Eileen Dreyer

    Molly Burke, death investigator and trauma nurse for St. Louis's Grace Hospital, has her own share of lifelong demons. It makes her the perfect candidate to help the troubled children who have passed through her ER over the years. So many of them Mol...



  • 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...



  • Martin Edwards
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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...



  • John Ure

    For centuries, settled peoples have contemplated nomads with fascination and envy, or with disdain and fear. Both Americans and the British have had an obsession with nomadic peoples, stemming from their own wanderlust and admiration for the unfetter...



  • Jane Jakeman

    While Claude Monet paints the wintry mists over the Thames, the bodies of two young women are dragged from its murky depths, arousing fears of a return of Jack the Ripper.  Craston, a green diplomat at the Foreign Office, is unwillingly drawn into t...



  • David Ellis

    Children’s rights advocate Shelly Trotter is out of her depth in criminal court, defending a sixteen-year-old accused of a killing a cop. She took the case because she has a connection to the kid dating back to his troubled younger days, when the c...



  • Michael Curtis Ford

    ROME'S MOST RESPECTED AND FEARED ENEMY... To the Romans, the greatest enemy the Republic ever faced was not the Goths or Huns, nor even Hannibal, but rather a ferocious and brilliant king on the distant Black Sea: Mithridates Eupator VI, the last ...



  • 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 ...



  • Carolyn Wheat
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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 class...



  • Philip Davison

    When a corpse turns up with a bullet hole in the forehead on the green of a posh Long Island golf course, former freelance MI5 operative Harry Fielding is called in to investigate and finds himself paired with a volatile, troublemaking new partner, J...



  • Marcia Talley
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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...



  • Helen Dunmore

    Abandoned as a baby, with no ties to her parents, Rebecca grows up to create her own unique and unorthodox family consisting of Joe, a historian and loyal friend; her husband Adam, Joe's friend; and Ruby, her beloved daughter, until a terrible blow t...



  • 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...



  • Gillian Linscott
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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...



  • Peter Tremayne
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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...



  • Edna Ventre-Auerfeld

    She can cure the sick. She can give life to the dying. But can she save herself? Penny Chaney was a living miracle. The victim of a lethally sudden virus, no medicine could help her, and no doctor could bring her back. Then, in the realm between thi...



  • Howard Roughan

    Every perfect murder starts with a perfect lie... Howard Roughan's debut, The Up and Comer, was hailed as one of the most hip and entertaining thrillers of the year. Now Roughan returns at full stride with a scintillating novel of deception that ...



  • Bill Fitzhugh

    When a DJ stops showing up for work at WAOR-FM, Rick Shannon moves back to Mississippi to take the night shift. No sooner than he settles into the job, Rick finds a mysterious reel of tape that just might explain what happened to the missing DJ. His ...



  • Carole Nelson Douglas
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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...



  • Stephen Frey

    His novels of big money and murder in the world of finance have earned New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey a richly deserved reputation as a master of suspense who always delivers a high yield. Now he raises the stakes, and the risk factor...



  • 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....



  • David Liss

    Moments after his conviction for a murder he did not commit, at a trial presided over by a judge determined to find him guilty, Benjamin Weaver is accosted by a stranger who cunningly slips a lockpick and a file into his hands. In an instant he under...



  • 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...



  • S.W. Hubbard

    DECENT PEOPLE. DESPERATE MEASURES. The folks of remote, mountainous Trout Run, New York, are shocked when Mary Pat Sheehan's body is found in her crashed car. They're even more stunned when an autopsy reveals it wasn't the crash that killed her --...



  • Anne Perry
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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...



  • Laura Wilson

    Alice Conway's world was shattered when her fiance, famous comic Lenny Maxted, committed suicide. Now it's seven years later, and Alice is living quietly on an isolated farm in Oxfordshire, trying to forget the pain of her past--until an anonymous cl...



  • Jeff Rovin

    An experimental U.S. Submarine, the Tempest D, with a propulsion system five-times-faster than traditional drives is to be tested in the remote South Polar waters. Chinese intelligence learns of the test and sends their own submarine to observe. When...



  • Francine Pascal

    The sight of blood makes my heart race. The slightest noise makes my palms sweat. A tiny spider makes my stomach drop. Everything frightens me. And I've never been happier....



  • Chris Haslam

    Martin Brock is living a wasted life. He wants to be happy. He wants to have a girlfriend who can stand to be near him. He wants his friends to respect him. Burned out and self-deluded, he takes each day as it comes, dealing low-quality cocaine to to...



  • Andrew Taylor

    England 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of...



  • Heather Graham

    Accomplished dancer Lara Trudeau drops dead of a heart attack brought on by a lethal combination of booze and pills. To former private investigator Quinn O'Casey, it's a simple case of death by misadventure. But when his brother Doug, a Miami-Dade pa...



  • Connie Lane

    Lacie Jo Baxter was born and bred to dazzle: with the perfect smile, the perfect figure, and the perfect look of pure midwestern wholesomeness. But within the determined small-town beauty queen are untouched desires and a daring that hasn't been test...



  • Iris Johansen

    For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames of that long-ago night still burn in her nightmares: the heat, the choking smoke, the helplessness. She can never run fast enough... Now Kerry works as an arson investigator with her evid...



  • Jessica Hall

    Sable Duchesne is rescued from a burning warehouse in the New Orleans French Quarter. But another body is found in the rubble--the body of the favored candidate for governor of Louisiana. Evidence points to murder...and Sable is the only witness. ...



  • 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,...



  • Rosemary Heim

    Silent memories unlock simmering passions... He found her on the beach with no memory and a gun...FBI Agent Ryan Williams had a soft spot for women in distress and this one was a textbook example. He'd come to Paradise for some R and R -- instead ...



  • 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...



  • Mary McBride

    Popular Chicago columnist Shelby Simon is too busy giving people advice to get a love life of her own...until a series of letter bombs blows widowed cop Mick Callahan into her office. Sent to shield Shelby from the deadly threats, Mick spirits her aw...



  • Cassie Miles

    THE LAWMAN'S TOUCH When called to a crime scene, Native American sheriff Mace Sheridan found not only evidence of foul play but also a beautiful woman in her own private hell. Small-town waitress Nicole Ferris didn't ask for help, yet every protec...



  • Sharon K. Garner

    Sharon K. Garner (River of Dreams) returns with a new adventure romance! A double cross that keeps on giving, a Brazilian ex-mercenary who wants to live in peace, a children's book illustrator who's thrust into a danger she doesn't understand with a ...



  • 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...



  • Amanda Stevens

    HE WAS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY MALE The kind a small-town girl like Marly Jessop had rarely -- if ever -- seen in the flesh. Deacon Cage arrived in Mission Creek, Texas, like a specter in the night, stealthy and secretive. And his ability to stir M...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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, ...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    Joanne Ferguson returns with another engaging tale of Regency mayhem--and murder--featuring the intrepid Sir Neville Hathaway and his enchanting partner, Lady Priscilla Flanders. About to be wed, they return to his magnificent ancestral estate upon t...



  • Jenna Mindel

    "The Highwayman comes riding..." Nothing can stop Artemis Rothwell from making her London come-out. Not even rumors of the vicious Highwaymen, a gang of once-noble gentlemen who have turned to robbing-- sometimes even killing--innocent travelers...



  • Donna Simpson

    LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT... An angel--that's what Dante Delacourt, Viscount Pierson, spies as he staggers home one foggy night. Admittedly, he is quite in his cups, but the blonde vision in the passing carriage is surely the archetype of goodness--a mora...



  • Debbie Raleigh
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    Aware that even a rakehell must set up his nursery sometime, Lord Robert Marlow believes that choosing Anna Dashell for his bride will be a simple matter. He hasn't bargained on the interference of his childhood nemesis, spirited Charlotte Rowe--or h...



  • 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...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    Between the Covers Prim and proper, Tabitha Herbert seems to everything one would expect in a rector's daughter, but her passionate thirst for knowledge and adventure belies her appearance. So when she's asked to catalogue a collection of ...



  • Victoria Hinshaw
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    Practical Anne Talcott thinks she wants a staid, conventional husband to provide her with a home and children, but when the roguish Lord Dashworth sets out to prove that Anne secretly yearns for passion and adventure, he learns that he suddenly longs...



  • Glenda Garland

    A MAN OF HONOR Though he fought bravely for King and Country, Lord Thomas Dashley lost a friend and fellow officer to a stealthy French attack...and it is whispered that he was to blame. He has returned to England under suspicion but determined to e...



  • Jacqueline DeJohn

    From the glamorous uptown world of opera to the seedy underbelly of New York City's worst tenements, a page-turning roller-coaster ride of kidnappings, betrayals, bribes, hidden identities, and twisted intrigues By 1908 Francesca Frascatti has rea...



  • Aurelie Sheehan

    A single, young working girl living in the big city, Winona Bartlett struggles to juggle her safe job as a secretary at a New York City law firm with her aspirations of becoming a filmmaker and her disastrous love life, a situation that is complicate...



  • Adele Minchin

    Fifteen-year-old Leyla, a shy musician, has always looked up to her gorgeous and confident cousin, sixteen-year-old Emma, but when Emma learns she's HIV positive after having unprotected sex just once, everything changes....



  • Kathe Koja

    Some guys are bad news

    Sixteen-year-old Maggy's life consists of trying to be invisible at school, taking care of her alcoholic mother, and spending all the time she can at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café. She can lose herself there for hour...



  • Francess Lantz / Francess Lin Lantz

    Five best friends go coastal in this fabulously fun surfing series from Like Rae, the ocean has many moods. Some day it's restless, untamed. Other day it's laid back, dreaming. But it is peace that Rae finds while sitting alone in the trough just...



  • 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 ...



  • Marlys Rold

    A new adventure romance from the author of The Mercenary.

    Kelly Griffin has come to the coast of Asia to search for her missing brother, a wildlife photographer who is feared dead -- killed by the man-eating tigers that inhabit the island regions ...



  • Melissa Pritchard

    The award-winning, widely praised author of Disappearing Ingenue is at the top of her form in this witty, wickedly funny novel about a romance writer whose real life begins to outpace the wildest flights of her imagination. After one failed marria...



  • Marthe Jocelyn

    "Historical fiction buffs, especially those interested in the women’s suffrage movement, will enjoy sharing the eye-opening experiences of Mable Riley." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

    It’s the year 1901, and fourteen-year-old aspiring writer Mable...



  • 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...



  • Lisa Jahn-Clough / Lisa Clough

    Camille lives on one side of the hill, and Franzi lives on the other, but neither one knows that the other is there. They both love their own little houses and all of their animals, but something is missing. So one day Camille and Franzi each set off...



  • Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

    Robin’s neighbor Frankie is like walking sex. He’s 23, hot, charming, and used to getting what he wants. When Janice, Robin’s stepmom, first meets Frankie, they lock eyes with an almost audible sizzle. Not long after, Robin discovers they’re ...



  • Bette Nordberg

    With candor and compassion, Silver Angel award-winning writer Bette Nordberg explores the struggles and heartaches associated with homosexuality and AIDS to create a gripping novel that reveals the comfort of a personal relationship with Jesus. Colle...



  • Gilbert Morris

    Book 31 of House of Winslow. Jennifer Winslow had known only the finest life had to offer--until her family lost everything in the crash of '29. Moving from New York to a small farm in Georgia, Jenny struggles to adapt to her tough new life. Then, th...



  • Jo Manning

    The author of Seducing Mr. Heywood returns with another amazing romance.

    Jane Holland's mother warned her not to visit her relatives in Sicily when she went to Europe during college break, but when Jane reached Rome she found herself strangely dra...



  • Catherine Palmer

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  • Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

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  • Melanie Jackson

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  • Caridad Pineiro

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  • Kate Angell

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  • Maryjanice Davidson

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  • Naomi Nash

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  • Robert B. Parker

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  • Linda Barnes

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  • Carolyn Haines

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  • Eric Garcia

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  • Selma Eichler

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  • Kinky Friedman

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  • Reed Farrel Coleman

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  • James Patterson; Andrew Gross

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  • John R. Maxim

    The story begins not in Westport, Connecticut, where Bannerman and a group of his deadliest operatives have been trying to live otherwise normal lives, but in a fortified estate outside Washington, D.C., where the billionaire sociopath Artemus Bourne...



  • 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...



  • Lemony Snicket

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  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Olen Steinhauer

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  • Keith Miles

    Alan Saxon flies to Honololu to act as best man at the wedding of a close friend, Donald Dukelow, an American golfer who has always beaten Saxon in play-offs. In the party are the groom's mother, who hates the idea of her son marrying a Hawaiian beau...




  • Larry Segriff

    From the author of Wizardspawn.

    Jonathan Hayes has a great life -- a loving wife, two great kids, and dreams that are just starting to come true. All that changes when the police show up at his front door in force, arresting him for the murder of ...



  • Annette Meyers

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  • George Edward Stanley

    ATTACKED! Someone knocked out Todd and Noelle's friend Pops Verner, the night watchman at the department store, and stole his treasured pocket watch. He's pretty sure the robber is one of three men who work in the storeroom. But how can he figure ou...



  • Naomi Hirahara

    Hiroshima 1945. Los Angeles 1999. A summer of war. A summer of secrets. A summer of revenge. In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese American gardener, his lawn mower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But whi...



  • Timothy Harris

    Thomas Kyd is a recovering alcoholic still haunted by a terrible crime he committed in Vietnam involving a child. When 14-year-old Hugo Vine tries to hire him to spy on his movie star mother, Sally Vine, and her new husband, Kyd refuses to work for a...



  • Craig Parshall

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  • Brad Barkley

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  • 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...



  • Jennifer Chiaverini

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  • Jane Feather

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  • 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 ...



  • Cheryl Holt

    SHE HAS A WICKED SECRET... With her family in dire straits, Olivia Hopkins reluctantly agrees to seek a marriage proposal from the aging Earl of Salisbury. But the plan goes awry when she finds an erotic volume in the earl's library. The book se...



  • 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...



  • Helen Kirkman

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  • Dorothy Elbury

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  • Stephanie Laurens

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  • Melody Thomas

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  • Leigh Greenwood

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  • Elizabeth Boyle

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  • Judith A. Lansdowne

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  • Lawana Blackwell

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  • Peggy Darty

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  • 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...



  • Judith Stacy

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  • Paula Marshall

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  • Carolyn Davidson

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  • Loretta Chase

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  • Margo Maguire

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  • Ruth Ryan Langan

    In 1890 Massachusetts, Fiona Downey was no ordinary young woman. She had worked hard all her life to be admitted into the prestigious college where her proud father taught - in spite of those who sniffed that it was no place for a lady. But when her ...



  • Cheryl Howe

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  • Laura Kinsale

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  • Kate Silver

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  • Georgina Gentry

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  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

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  • Sasha Lord

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  • Lisa Higdon

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  • Stella Cameron

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  • Claire Delacroix

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  • Barbara Metzger

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  • Jane Feather

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  • 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...



  • Eloisa James

    Helene, the Countess Godwin, knows there is nothing more unbearably tedious than a virtuous woman. After all, she's been one for ten long years while her scoundrel of a husband lives with strumpets and causes scandal after scandal. So she decides...



  • Michael Romkey

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  • 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....



  • Brian Lumley

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  • Edo Van Belkom

    Highway To Hell Amanda Peck is stuck in a dead end job, lives with a deadbeat boyfriend, and is dead set on changing her life. With no thought to what tomorrow might bring, she packs her meager belongings and hits the road, hitching rides from truck...



  • Richard Laymon

    Neal has been carrying a gun in his car lately -- just to be safe: And it looks like it's a good thing he has. When he spots a woman tied naked to a tree and a man ready to kill her, he has no choice but to shoot the attacker. As a reward, the woman ...



  • Christopher Golden

    "So, at some point, the age of gods came to an end." Or so it was believed for eons...until Thrym the Hollow, Jotunheim's deposed King of the Frost Giants, rose from death. This time, he would not rest until his foes were eviscerated, and his...



  • Sephera Giron

    When Vanessa discovers the secret of immortality, which lies in the flesh of young virgins, she scours the world for victims, until she encounters something even more diabolical and powerful than herself, plunging her into a nightmarish realm of viol...