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New Books List: 615 titles


  • James Patterson; Andrew Gross

    Someone in the Women's Murder Club is about to die... The Women's Murder Club returns in a shockingly suspenseful thriller. Plunging into a burning townhouse, Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers three dead bodies...and a mysterious message at the sc...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Harry Turtledove

    THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN! When Avram became King of Detina, he declared he intended to liberate the blond serfs from their ties to the land. This noble assertion immediately plunged the kingdom into a civil war that would prove long and bloody, ...




  • Michael Anthony Steele

    Mission: movie sequel! Agent Cody Banks, the junior James Bond, is back on the big screen - with gizmos, gadgets, spy skills and . . . acne.


    In the sequel to the original hit, our young Agent Cody Banks finds himself back at summer camp--i...



  • 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...



  • Frank Thompson

    After two short weeks under siege, the climactic battle of the Alamo lasted under an hour, but its aftermath spawned a legend. The Alamo: A Cultural History explores the transformation of the fort from its 1718 inception as a Franciscan mission to it...



  • Larry Stroman

    The first in an all-new Titan Books series, created by Carl Potts (The Punisher) and written and drawn by a host of comics’ superstars, with a new cover by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer (JLA: The Nail)!

    Meet the Alien Legion -- home to every cree...



  • Sophfronia Scott

    Crita has come a long way from her small-town Ohio roots. A successful tax accountant living in Manhattan, she finally has the independent life that she dreamed of as a girl. However, with one fateful phone call, Crita's life is turned upside down. S...



  • Chang-Rae Lee

    The New York Timesâ€"bestselling novel by the critically acclaimed author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life and My Year Abroad. At 59, Jerry Battle is coasting through life. His favorite pastime is flying his small plane high above Long Island. ...



  • 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...



  • Mercedes Lackey

    DRAGON RIDER Vetch had done the unimaginable. He had secretly raised his own baby dragon, a crimson female he named Avatre, and when she first took flight he had been on her back. Although Avatre was new to flight, with the help of his trainer and...



  • Nina Jaffe

    When the Amazons hold a contest to see who will be the ambassador of peace to the Mortals' World, Diana, princess of the Amazons, is determined to prove that she has the speed, strength, and bravery to be champion. Original....



  • Michael Romkey

    Through the endless waltz of time, a man becomes a monster and a monster reclaims his humanity by saving one human soul. . . . 1863 Even the opium pipe and its dark dreams isn't enough to erase the memories that haunt Nathaniel Peregrine. His hom...



  • Wilhelm Reich

    A new autobiographical work by one of the most original and controversial thinkers of our time.

    "I looked up every day from behind the bars to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Her light shone brightly into a dark night." With these word...



  • Sharon Shinn

    The award-winning author returns to Samaria in this richly romantic tale that begins where Archangel left off. In that time, the women who craved the attention of angels were known as angel-seekers, a term used with awe by some--and scorn by others....



  • Brian Jacques

    Ben and his black Labrador, castaways from the legendary ghost ship Flying Dutchman, swore never to go to sea again. But fate casts them adrift once more on a French pirate ship with two villainous seta-captains -- and a ghost -- in pursuit......



  • Hannah Tinti

    With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses.In these ten strange, funn...



  • Janis Hallowell

    A remarkable debut novel that 'dares us to imagine mystery in our lives, in our timeăż book that sends us away refreshed, with the potential to see the sacramental in the everyday' â€" Boston Globe Told from the viewpoints of four unforgettable char...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • John Wallace

    Little Charlie would do anything for his mama. He would smile his biggest smile for her, draw a special picture for her, and he'd even let her be his best friend! So when it's time for bed and Mama asks him to snuggle down, shut his eyes, and slee...



  • Catherine Mann

    A mission of the utmost secrecy. A country torn apart by war. A man with his defenses crumbling. With one week to complete a top secret mission, Major Jack "Cobra" Korba did not need emotional distractions. But when flight surgeon Monica Hyatt, ...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • Inez Snyder



  • Robert J. Randisi

    Young boys are being kidnapped and then strangled to death in Chicago, while the same is happening to girls in St. Louis. Is there one killer driving up and down I-55, or two separate killers? Detective Joe Keough and his partner, Harriet Connors, re...



  • Urban Books

    There’s a saying that if you come from my part of town, you're from around the way. Around the Way Girls is a fast-paced look at the lives of some street-smart women who might think they know it all but are about to get the lessons of their lives. ...



  • 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....



  • Elizabeth Redfern

    An exile and fugitive from England, Ned Warriner returns to his homeland in spite of the danger to search for his beloved, Kate Revill, unhappily married to an ardent anti-Catholic, and becomes caught up in the intrigues of the early seventeenth-cent...



  • 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...




  • Eugenie Seifer Olson

    A game that's fun for all ages! Some assembly required. . . . . . Step One: Open Box Warning: Some Pieces May Have Sharp Edges Former art student Toby Morris is twenty-five, and she knows she's supposed to be out there . . . somewhere . . ....



  • Robert B. Parker

    When Marlene Rowley hires Spenser to follow her cheating husband, Spenser finds not only a two-timing spouse, but another detective hired to shadow the wayward Marlene. Not the most trusting couple in town--but, as Spenser's about to learn, certainly...



  • 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...



  • S.B. Lyon

    Robert Leroy Parker rode away from his father's Utah farm to find his way in the world, and rides into the folklore of the frontier as the most dangerous.yet beloved.outlaw of the Old West, Butch Cassidy. But what kind of man is the real Butch Cassid...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Brian Lumley

    In addition to his stellar Necroscope series, Brian Lumley is highly regarded for his short fiction, for which he has won the British Fantasy Award. Beneath the Moors and Darker Places, a companion to The Whisperer and Other Voices, collects nine len...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Barry N. Malzberg

    Fourteen classic time travel stories, selected by award-winning author Barry N. Malzberg. The book features THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND by Nancy Kress, THE MAN WHO CAME EARLY by Poul Anderson, A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR US TEMPUNAUTS by Philip K. Dick, 3 R...



  • 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 ...



  • Janet Woods

    Now a wealthy young widow, former peasant girl Siana Forbes has overcome her humble beginnings to become mistress of Cheverton Manor, the handsome estate which her infant son Ashley will one day inherit. She is at last beginning to recover from her g...



  • Jake Lancer

    In the aftermath of the Civil War, the West is invaded by hordes of bold, dangerous men. And with the railroad coming to Black Creek, Kansas, the town becomes a magnet to every whore, tinhorn, outlaw, and killer in the territory. A gang of human vult...



  • 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...




  • 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'...



  • George Sand

    Set against the backdrop of France's industrial revolution, this 1859 novel by the controversial, passionately socialist George Sand follows the fortunes of the dynamic, young metal smith Etienne Lavoute, known as Sept-Epees (or Seven Blades), as he ...



  • 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...




  • Lemony Snicket

    This may look like just another book in Lemony Snicket's wretched series. Looks are deceiving.

    Just as Lemony Snicket has spent years researching the distressing lives of the Baudelaire orphans, now you too can record your own unfortunat...



  • Jean Reynolds Page

    Joanne Timbro and Darla Stevens grew up next door to each other in a small Texas town. Their childhood days nurtured a rare friendship that carried them into adult years. As young women, Darla and Jo enter into an agreement that will change their liv...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Judy Duarte

    FROM MIDWIFE TO MOTHER-TO-BE... One night of heart-stealing passion left Milla Johnson wanting much more from Dr. Kyle Bingham. But settling down wasn't in the gorgeous resident's game plan. And the practical-minded midwife had her own future to t...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • John Dunning

    Denver cop-turned-bookseller Cliff Janeway has just paid a hefty sum to acquire a real gem: a signed first edition by famed nineteenth-century explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton. But does he truly own the rare book? An elderly woman claims her grand...



  • Robert B. Downs

    Books Are WeaponsBooks have wielded an immense power for good and evil throughout the history of the human race. Here is a thoughtful and probing discussion of sixteen of the most important works of all time which influenced history, economics, cultu...



  • Martyn Waites

    Switching continuously between 1984 and the present day, Martyn Waites' gripping crime thriller follows the intertwined lives of a small group of characters, all linked in various ways to the miners' strike: Tony Woodhouse, a professional footballer ...



  • 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...



  • William Sleator

    When his best friend is killed in a plane crash, Ken makes a decision: He will never die. He finds a woman who claims she can make him invulnerable to pain and death for the unbelievably cheap price of fifty dollars. And her strange ritual works. Ken...




  • Vyvyane Loh

    This brilliant novel chronicles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. Central to the story is one Chinese family: Claude, raised to be more British than the British and ashamed of his own heritage; his father, Humphrey, whose Angloph...



  • Jane Feather

    Hailed for her captivating blend of romance and sensuality, New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather has enchanted readers and critics alike. In this second book in her dazzling new trilogy, Constance, Prudence, and Chastity Duncan, London's mo...



  • Juilene Osborne-McKnight

    Bright Sword of Ireland is the third in Juilene Osborne-McKnight's wonderful retelling of cherished Irish folktales. A dedicated researcher into the origins of Celtic myth and legend, Osborne-McKnight infuses her stories with passion, romance and mag...



  • 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...



  • Lori Handeland

    If anything ever happens to me, go to 445 Briar Lane, Wind Lake, Minnesota Colin Luchetti's brother Bobby is missing and the only clue is a cryptic note sending Colin to Wind Lake. What he finds when he gets there is unexpected -- a day-care ce...



  • 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...



  • E.S. Mooney

    "The Powerpuff Girls" is Cartoon Network's highest-rated show among kids 2-11. It's a mega-hit! And so are Scholastic's books, which have been bestsellers for over three years.

    Uh-oh! One of The Powerpuff Girls' enemies, Amoeba Boy Tiny, has a...



  • Diana Duncan

    KIDNAPPED! Tessa Beaumont's life was well-ordered and well kept, and she was well on her way to the altar when Special Agent Gabe Colton stormed into her workplace -- her life -- sporting a ski mask and brandishing a gun -- and took her hostage! S...



  • 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...



  • Todd Strasser

    Her street name is MaybeShe lives with a tribe of homeless teens -- runaways and throwaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold city streets, and no family except for one another. Abused, abandoned, and forgotten, they struggle against ...



  • Camille Minichino

    A CURE TO KILL FOR Retired physicist turned police consultant Gloria Lamerino turns her talents to the cutting-edge world of nanotechnology and the development of "smart medicines." It's a field that offers hope, even miracles, for patients. But f...



  • 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 ...



  • Inez Snyder



  • Jill Pitkeathley

    They were beloved sisters and the best of friends. But Jane and Cassandra Austen suffered the same fate as many of the women of their era. Forced to spend their lives dependent on relatives, both financially and emotionally, the sisters spent their t...



  • Joanna Catherine Scott

    Discovering the gravestone of a woman believed lost at sea in the early nineteenth century, Joanna learns the story of Cassandra, who eloped with a French lieutenant, nursed a sick mother-in-law, and eventually fled to New Orleans before her ship was...



  • 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, ...



  • 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...



  • Peter Esterhazy

    The Esterházys, one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, are closely linked to the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Empire. Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons of the arts, revered, respected, and occasionally f...



  • Ian Slater

    The fight against terrorism has reached the next level-- and now America will really go to war. A series of cataclysmic events is exploding around the world. Two divisions of Chinese ground troops move against a neighboring Muslim nation, while a...



  • Devin Grayson

    Over a decade ago, a child from a distant planet fell to Earth in a lethal hail of meteors that forever changed Smallville, Kansas. Now a teen, Clark Kent must master his unique abilities--while radiation from the glowing green meteor fragments mutat...



  • Kenny Kemp

    Presents a new approach to understanding the parables of Jesus, placing them in the context that they reflect the formative and often challenging experiences of Jesus as a young man developing in the period in which he lived. By the author of Dad...



  • Gail Herman

    Chapter book readers will love reading about the adventures of their favorite Big Red Dog!

    Jetta's necklace is missing and all signs point to Emily Elizabeth. But Clifford knows Emily Elizabeth is no thief! Clifford, T-Bone and Cleo sniff out ...



  • Josephine Page

    Chapter book readers will love reading about the adventures of their favorite Big Red Dog!

    Clifford wants to go on a whale watch with Emily Elizabeth and her friends. But Jetta is afraid he'll scare the whales away. After Clifford swims away, ...



  • Keith DuQuette

    Introduces children to an assortment of strange hybrid creatures, such as the Tortare--the tortoise and the hare--and their unique traits and talents through an illustrated collection of short-and-simple poems....



  • 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 ...



  • J.T. Edson

    In this game, the winning hand is the one that holds the gun!

    A cardsharp with a conscience, Frank Derringer comes to the crooked town of Tribune, Kansas, looking to even a score or two. But after cheating the cheaters who robbed a good frie...



  • DiAnn Mills

    After years of substance abuse, Rachel Morton found the Lord's compassion and redemption. Two years later, she's ready to redeem the time she lost with her three precious children. But Rachel's mother, who doubts her daughter's change, refuses to giv...



  • Olen Steinhauer

    Eastern Europe, 1956: Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar, who is a proletariat writer in addition to his job as a state militia homicide detective, is a man on the brink. Estranged from his wife, whom he believes is cheating on him with one of his co...



  • Gill Sanderson

    A knight in SCBU Special Care Baby Unit ward manager Jane Wilson has come to the Wolds Hospital to put the past behind her. After losing her husband, she's abandoned her dream of having a family to devote herself to the tiny babies in her care. Un...



  • Nina Jaffe



  • Melanie Jackson

    In the alternate world of the Wildside, earth is populated not only by humans but creatures of dark, seductive magic--pookas, sylphs, goblins and more. This wonderland is in delicate balance. And the goblins are always plotting. CURIOUSER & CURIOU...



  • Inez Snyder



  • Darnella Ford

    Dear Jesus, Gerry didn't work out because Gerry didn't work. And after spending one night in complete darkness because "pretty didn't pay the light bill," Gerry and I broke up and are no longer speaking. Marshall wasn't a viable suitor because ...



  • Steve Jackson

    The reader is transformed into the Creature of Havoc, a fierce and monstrous beast with a taste for fighting, to stop the evil necromancer Zharradan Marr and his legions of Chaos before they can seize control of all Allansia, in an interactive, fanta...



  • Monica Wellington

    While moving her crĂŞpe cart to different locations around Paris, young Suzette delights in all the sounds, sights, and smells of the city's colorful scenery as she meets with the tourists and mixes with the locals to sell her tasty treats....



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Melissa James

    OUT OF THE PAST Secret agent Brendan McCall had only a few days to find and protect beautiful Elizabeth Silver, the love he'd lost ten years ago, now on the run from an international killer. Yet when he found her, she denied her true identity, for...



  • David Mack

    Maya Lopez -- a.k.a. Echo -- a deaf young woman capable of assimilating an individual's fighting style by sight and who nearly took down Daredevil -- makes her return. Her entire life was once defined by her belief that DAREDEVIL killed her fat...



  • Elaine Moore

    Seduced and rendered immortal by the vampire Johann Nikolai in sixteenth-century Scotland, vampire Victoria MacKay uses the gifts of her Celtic bloodline to escape his influence and is pursued across Europe, Africa, and America for three centuries by...



  • Caridad Pineiro

    FALLING PREY TO PASSION FBI agent Diana Reyes knew too much about the darkness of the human soul. She had spiraled into that underworld once before -- and vowed never to fall again. Until she met him. Powerful, dangerous and the key to catching...




  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    With the dragon orbs and newly-forged dragonlances, the forces of good finally stand a chance against the minions of the Queen of Darkness. Then a new darkness--one from within--threatens the Companions. Old loves and new treacheries will shake the C...



  • 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...



  • Victoria Houston

    When temperatures drop in Loon Lake, Wisconsin, the lakes freeze over, tourists pack their bags and head home, and retired dentist Doc Osborne prepares for a much-needed respite. But this season, just as the weather gets colder, things heat up, as Po...



  • 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...



  • Ben Sherwood

    The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud tells the haunting story of a young man who narrowly survives a terrible car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries se...



  • Valerie Wolzien

    MURDER TAKES A HOLIDAY For Susan and Jed Henshaw and their friends Kathleen and Jerry Gordon, the tiny Caribbean resort called Compass Bay has everything. White sand, luxurious cottages, rum punches to die for--even a gorgeous unattached blonde or...



  • 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...



  • Robin Paige

    Coronation Day, 1902. Charles and Kate Sheridan are pleased to be witness to the crowning of their king. Expatriate author Jack London is also watching the festivities--but with a more skeptical eye. He has come to London to write an expose of the Ea...



  • 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...



  • Conn Iggulden

    In a sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to kidnap Julius C...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Kirsten Hall

    Discover a fish that swam in the sea before dinosaurs walked the earth. Explore the sunken ship Titanic. Find out why scientists can't find a giant squid alive! Dive into a deep sea adventure and see another world....



  • 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...



  • Mary Sojourner

    The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest. Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-l...



  • 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...



  • P.W. Storm

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