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  • Julie Parsons
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    You thought you'd heard the whole story? They painted the town green in the acclaimed international bestseller Irish Girls About Town. Now Irish Girls Are Back In Town ...and their unique charm resonates throughout this high-spirited gathering of ...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    Galactic game shows are the center of this collection of fantastical stories that take reality TV to a brand new level far into the future and features contributions from Esther M. Friesner, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Ed Gorman, Robert Sheckley, and Sus...



  • Francis Ray

    The protege of a world-renowned artist, sculptress Phoenix Banister dreams of one day taking the art world by storm. Few people know that Phoenix has a secret that could ruin her career before it even starts. To protect that secret, Phoenix lives a v...



  • Jacquie D'Alessandro
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    The Hope Chest -- a glossy wooden box, inlaid with an image of a dark-haired woman, its mysteries sealed tight for generations. Or were they? Past The reclusive Maxwell Wolford, Earl of Dorsey, acquires the box -- only to discover that the beauti...



  • Ron Roy

    Y is for YACHT... Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are having a great time visiting their friend Sammi, the prince of Costra. They swim, soak in the sun, and admire the bright yellow yacht that is moored just offshore. But the owners of the yacht are actin...



  • Diana Love Snell

    TROUBLE NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD Her fear was palpable, the danger pursuing her larger than life. Zane Black knew he had no business risking his mission as an undercover DEA agent on the long-legged distraction he'd found stowed away on his plane....



  • Alison Strobel

    Some Decisions Change Your Day. Some Will Change Your Life.While the headlines screamed “Hollywood Heartthrob Marries Girl Next Door,” the public relationship of Jack Harrington and Grace Winslowe never revealed the private struggles that threate...



  • Gayle Callen

    A Gentleman's Passion Julia Reed's love of adventure led her far from home -- and resulted in her wrongful conviction for treason against the British Crown. Now she faces a death sentence, thanks to the determined efforts of Sam Sherryngton, the d...



  • Liz Carlyle

    From the grandeur of regency Mayfair to the dark danger of London's East End, be swept away with a powerful story of love born against all odds, as an honorable young widow stands fast against the cynical rogue who seems determined to consume her...



  • Paul Jenkins

    Collects Wolverine: The End #1-6. See the final days in the life of Logan, the man called Wolverine! It's the distant future, and a series of strange events sends the aging Wolverine on a globe-spanning quest to find the final truths behind his origi...




  • Richard K. Morgan

    In a world where real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, Takeshi Kovacs was once a galaxy-hopping Envoy. Now he battles against biomachines gone wild, searches for a centuries-old missing weapons system, and endures ...



  • Elizabeth George

    The police never suspected a serial killer was at large until they found the fourth murdered boy--the first white victim--his body draped over a tomb in a London graveyard. Suddenly a series of crimes and a potential public relations disaster have Sc...



  • Sandra D. Bricker

    Drew Nolan is the antithesis of everything that Victoria Townsend holds dear. The suntanned Floridian's sickeningly healthy and relaxed view of life contradicts her chain-smoking, business-suited, take out-ordering New York existence in every way. No...



  • Alan Rusbridger

    The loveable animals and their keepers at Melton Mowbray Zoo are back! Everyone has recovered from the disastrous weekend when the heating broke and Mr Pickles, the zoo director, asked all the keepers to take their animal home for the weekend. In fac...



  • Bethany Campbell

    Not even wild horses... Nothing could make Michele Nightingale betray the only family she's ever known. So when Adam Duran shows up -- an uninvited stranger bearing bad news -- at the Circle T, she wants nothing to do with him. But he insists on s...



  • Mister Mann Frisby

    Blinking Red Light was the debut of an explosive natural-born talent who set it off on the first page and never let up. Now, Mister Mann Frisby drives the urban thriller in a graphic new direction as three players cross tracks on the night streets...



  • Patricia Sprinkle

    It's a high-stakes game for Hopemore, Georgia, county magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough when she investigates the murder of a bridge maven.... State bridge champion Edith Whelan Burkett has been dealt a string of bad hands. Not only did her husband comm...




  • Liz Curtis Higgs

    A journey of the heart across the Lowlands of Scotland Haunted by a shameful past and wrestling with an uncertain future, Jamie McKie vows to return to his ancestral home of Glentrool and claim his inheritance--a daring venture that will test the ...



  • Alexander Zane

    Best-selling artist James Warhola and author Alex Zane have created a fun, read-aloud picture book with rhyming text and wonderfully amusing illustrations inspired by the song THE WHEELS ON THE BUS.

    "Racers start your engines! The drivers in t...



  • Geoffrey Grahn

    Can you guess what's going on behind the scenes in the topsy-turvy town of Grahnville? Turn the pages of Grahn's picture book and see how much fun it is to be fooled by his clever silhouettes.

    Grahnville looks like a perfectly ordinary town. T...



  • Sherryl Woods

    Recipe for Disaster -- or Red-Hot Romance? Take one part Maggie D'Angelo, the striking and independent food critic who's had her fill of casual men.... Add one part gorgeous photographer on a mission for seduction. Rick Flannery's playboy rep...



  • Diana G. Gallagher

    Two weeks before school starts, Meg Pryor takes a job filling in as a waitress at a café near Penn State. The coffeehouse is always filled with young artists, and Meg enjoys getting to know the customers and listening to their ideas. After spend...



  • Sandi Kahn Shelton

    Fast-paced, warm, and laugh-out-loud funny, What Comes After Crazy chronicles a quest for normalcy that nearly drives a woman nuts. Maz Lombard craves a nice, quiet life -- and who can blame her? Having grown up as the daughter of Madame Lucille, “...




  • David Robbins

    THE REBEL After the surrender of the Confederacy and the death of his wife, Jed Adams strikes out west to build a new life for his sons and himself. THE YANKEE Tom Waldron fought to keep the Union intact and now believes the unsettled land of th...



  • Kate Constable

    Calwyn and her friends have come to the distant Empire of Merithuros to rescue two children who have the magical gift of chantment. But the quest to save the children becomes a struggle for their lives, as it uncovers long-hidden secrets of the man C...



  • Geronimo Stilton

    Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are full of fun -- tastier than Swiss cheese and t...



  • Tomoko Hayakawa

    A BEAUTIFUL MIND . . . MAYBE

    A fabulous foursome of gorgeous guys may live in a magnificent mansion for free, but only if they can turn Sunako, the horror-movie-obsessed, fashion-illiterate niece of the owner, into a proper lady. Oh, and did t...



  • Lee Goldberg

    Dr. Mark Sloan's day at the office takes a turn for the worse when he looks out the window and sees a woman jump from the ledge of a building. Miraculously he is able to save her life, but she remains in a coma. Tormented by nightmares about the even...



  • Una Brankin
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    You thought you'd heard the whole story? They painted the town green in the acclaimed international bestseller Irish Girls About Town. Now Irish Girls Are Back In Town ...and their unique charm resonates throughout this high-spirited gathering of ...




  • Reeve Lindbergh

    While getting ready for a visit to their aunt and uncle's farm, two sisters talk about all the wonderful things they will do upon their arrival, from eating hearty country suppers and exploring the woods to napping in the hayloft and enjoying the bea...



  • Lisa Smedman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Arvin A mind-mage of growing power sets off on a secret journey to the barony of Sespech A human realm crawling with yuan-ti, where he encounters Karell A yuan-ti half-blood who in turn has her serpent's eyes set on Dmetrio Scion of the ...



  • William W. Johnstone

    The Last Gunfighter is a groundbreaking series that weaves together tales of frontier warriors and outlaws, lawmen and adventurers, and the innocents caught between them. This gritty, action-packed new adventure captures the fury of a Texas range war...



  • Robert J. Randisi

    Having lost a wife to violence and a son to retribution, onetime Texas sheriff Daniel Shaye has brought what remains of his shattered family -- two grown boys fiercely devoted to their father and justice -- to Vengeance Creek, Arizona. In a lawless t...



  • Flann O'Brien

    "Along with Joyce and Beckett, [Flann O'Brien] constitutes our trinity of great Irish writers. And who is funnier?" - Edna O'Brien The cream of Flann O'Brien's comic tour-de-force, the Keats and Chapman stories began in O'Brien's column in the Iris...



  • Jodi Picoult

    How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose? Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodho...



  • Thomas J. Craughwell

    A fascinating, creepy, frightening, disgusting, and hilarious collection of some of the world's most popular and enduring tall tales.With themes that run the gamut from funny to sick, risqué to informative, and frightening to disgusting, Urban Lege...



  • Ann Waldron

    Prize-winning journalist McLeod Dulaney is back--and under suspicion after she literally stumbles over a corpse packed into a garment bag. To clear her name, she must investigate some shadowy goings-on at the Princeton Seminary, where someone may hav...



  • Anna DePalo

    "HELLO, PRINCESS." She was a grown woman and a successful prosecutor, yet Connor Rafferty's raffish greeting made Allison Whittaker feel like that privileged teen he'd hauled from a blue-collar bar years before. It seemed that her family had emplo...



  • Dick King-Smith

    A nonsense story about Og and Ut, the gombrizils, who make friends with Tumblerum Wollycobble, the slobbadunk. They cure his indigestion and he helps them hatch their egg and bring up their daughter, Okay. Now part of the family, Tumblerum watches Ok...



  • Ingrid Monique

    Opposites Attract... From the moment Mara Evans meets Zander, the electricity zings between them like a high-tension wire. But this bronze, beautiful piece of eye candy is off limits to Mara. He's her best friend Shari's big brother, and Shari warns...



  • Carolyn Keene

    A Civil War reenactment should be fun, right? Not in our town! It feels like war fever's taken over. The tension started to build when we all chose sides. Confederate and Union sympathizers never did mix. And if that wasn't enough to heat things up, ...



  • Jean Stone

    Four best friends, one risky business, and a chance to say "I do" one more time. . . With their fledgling business Second Chances facing its first big break, four best friends turned wedding consultants face second chances -- and challenges -- ...



  • Susan Meier

    Dearest Godmother, I only have one more match to make to break this curse...if only I wasn't utterly distracted by my devastatingly handsome boss, resort owner Alexander Rochelle. I know I should stay away from him -- I am betrothed to a princ...



  • Jenna Kernan

    Jake Turner was a man of secrets...and even a woman he'd saved from a Crow massacre couldn't be privy to his true mission. But Emma Lancing was a woman of surprises, blossoming like a cactus rose during their arduous trek through the Western wilderne...



  • Boris Akunin

    It is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. In the treacherous atmosphere of a Russian field army, former diplomat and detective extraordinaire Erast Fandorin stumbles upon his most confounding case. Its difficulties are...



  • Paul Witcover

    Twelve-year-old twins Jack and Jilly Doone are closer than most siblings -- uncannily linked, sharing thoughts, sensations, and emotions as if one person -- as they enjoy a mostly parentless August at the Delaware shore. But in the fury of an onrushi...



  • Stephanie Laurens

    Bold, passionate and possessive, the Cynster men let nothing stand in their way when it comes to claiming the women of their hearts. Gerrard Debbington, Vane Cynster's brother-in-law, is one of London's most eligible gentlemen. Uninterested in mar...



  • Max Brand

    Peter Messenger was made for trouble. He was specially trained in the art of death, even though he'd never killed anyone. But his skills with his hands, a gun, or a knife were undeniable. And there was only one person he planned to use them on: Summe...



  • Dorothy Johnston

    I should ask your department's accountant whether he's missing nine hundred thousand bucks This is the anonymous message that changes Sandra Mahoney's life After taking time off to raise her young son, Sandra Mahoney is nervously re-entering th...



  • Charlotte Carter

    It is December 1968. In the wake of assassinations and the violence of the Democratic convention in Chicago, "Summer of Love" idealism has disintegrated into suspicion and disillusion. On the city's North Side, twentyishCassandra Perry longs to be in...



  • Jeanne Williams

    Book Three in Beneath the Burning Ground

    A Spur Award-winning Author

    Jeanne Williams is a master of the historical novel, and nowhere more so than in this epic story of the Kansas Territory in the years just before and during the War Between th...



  • Joe Babcock

    Like many gay sixteen-year-olds, Erick Taylor dreams of being a star. The problem is that he’s unpopular and stuck in Catholic school, and his parents, in their own desperate search for sainthood, fail to see that their son is on a path toward self...



  • Raye Morgan

    Nobody could put Rafe Allman in his place... until a corporate challenge put Shelley Sinclair in the position to teach the control-freak corporate bigwig what it's like to take orders for a change! But as their brainstorming sessions segued into stol...



  • Alicia Erian

    The story of a girl failed by her parents and by a conflicted America, Towelhead is an ultimately redemptive and moving work that no one can afford to ignore.The year is 1991. When Jasira's mother finds out what has been going on between her boyfrien...



  • Fiona Brand

    Deep within her soul Lady Victoria Quinton Mallory knows she has a gift. Since childhood she has dreamed of a sacred, long-lost past, of ancient mysteries and buried passion that will reawaken with a vengeance. Growing up at the mission in Valle Del ...



  • Scott Westerfeld

    Bixby, Oklahoma, is full of secrets. some come out at midnight. some should stay hidden. As the Midnighters search for the truth about the secret hour, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby's history, and a consp...



  • Deirdre Martin

    FOUR ALARM PASSION Free spirit Gemma Dante might be the black sheep of her big Italian family, but when it comes to business, her New Age boutique is the best in the Big Apple. Longing for a love life that's just as successful, Gemma casts a spel...



  • Cait London

    It had begun like any other assignment. Until the night she encountered Danya Stepanov atop a windswept cliff...then moved in with him. Her immediate feminine response to his masculinity frightened her, for Sidney Blakely didn't do the fair-lady bit....



  • Mignon F. Ballard

    DIVINE INTERVENTION Lucy Nan Pilgrim has lived her entire life in Stone's Throw, South Carolina, a place where nothing much happens, not even trouble. So when something bad does happen, everybody remembers -- like the time a little girl disappeared ...



  • Susan Kearney
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    The Hope Chest -- a glossy wooden box, inlaid with an image of a dark-haired woman, its mysteries sealed tight for generations. Or were they? Past The reclusive Maxwell Wolford, Earl of Dorsey, acquires the box -- only to discover that the beauti...



  • Julie Kenner
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    The Hope Chest -- a glossy wooden box, inlaid with an image of a dark-haired woman, its mysteries sealed tight for generations. Or were they? Past The reclusive Maxwell Wolford, Earl of Dorsey, acquires the box -- only to discover that the beauti...



  • Darlene Gardner

    Black and white. That's how FBI agent Max Dolinger sees the world. So there's no way he'll move in on his old buddy's ex-girlfriend. Even though the very thought of Sara Reynolds has Max thinking red-hot affair. But when Sara asks for his help, sudde...



  • Sabrina Jeffries

    Bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries pens the sizzling story of one of three half-noble half brothers, who makes a most unwelcome entrance into society...and a most unexpected match. Beautiful Lady Regina Tremaine has turned down so many suitors th...



  • Elle James

    WANTED: Single woman, very near-sighted, who doesn't care about height (3") or skin flaws (green and bumpy), who can see past minor details (like not being entirely human) to find and love the man beneath the warts. Craig Thibodeaux is cursed. Fro...



  • Jerry Borrowman

    At fifteen, Danny O'Brian dreams of being something different than what his union-leader father has become -- and now that the Richards family has moved to town, maybe it's possible. The Richards have everything that the O'Brians seem to lack -- ...



  • Marjorie M. Liu

    Long ago they roamed the earth; plentiful and powerful, men with form of beast. Dragons, tigers, crows: shape-shifters. Their world was magic. That world is gone, but some remain. HERS TO COMMAND He looked completely out of place in Dela Reese's...



  • Joan Medlicott

    From Joan Medlicott, the nationally bestselling author who created the wonderful world of Covington, comes a heartwarming story about three generations of women who find their way past old hurts and losses to understanding, forgiveness, and love. Wi...



  • Nancy J. Cohen
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    Doesn't it just figure? You meet the guy of your dreams. There's enough electricity to start a wild fire. And then there's a murder to put a crimp in your plans. But not necessarily... Reality show contestant Heather Payne's assignment is simple: ...



  • Jim DeFelice

    New York Times bestselling author Jim DeFelice's unconventional hero, FBI Special Agent Andy Fisher, returns in a chilling novel of international terror within our national borders. North Korean scientists have developed a new weapon -- the "E Bo...



  • Mildred Colvin

    A blood test that should have brought comfort brings confusion and pain instead. Now, Beth Murdock must face the truth - Stevie, the little girl she has raised as her own for almost two years, isn't hers. Jonathon McDuff doesn't know what to make ...



  • Stephanie Hemphill

    Sarah used to be the good girl. The one who always had her hand raised in class, always obeyed her parents. Until she met Robin. Once Robin comes into the picture, Sarah's life changes. Her closet begins to fill with black clothes. Good grades become...



  • Rett MacPherson

    A LONG HISTORY OF DEATH When Sylvia Pershing dies, genealogist Torie O'Shea becomes sole beneficiary of her boss and mentor's estate. Torie inherits an enormous amount of cash plus Gaheimer House, headquarters of New Kassel, Missouri's proud histori...



  • Hilary McKay

    A rollicking picture book follows little Sophie, who, determined to prove to her disbelieving parents that there is a dragon in the living room, faces her fears to find the truth--and gets a hilarious surprise!...



  • Jon Sharpe

    While entertaining himself in the arms of the local ladies, Skye Fargo falls victim to the scheming daughter of a bank robber who will do anything to find out where her father hid his loot before being thrown in jail. Original....



  • Stella Cameron

    Fleur Toogood is beautiful, opinionated and has a disastrous inclination to speak her mind. And she refuses to marry without love. But as the most eligible of Reverend Toogood's five daughters, she has been charged with making a brilliant match that ...



  • Patricia Rushford; Harrison James

    Two dead bodies. A web of conspiracies and cover-ups. A young detective, searching for answers to the case . . . and to his heart. The body of a retired, wheelchair-bound rail yard worker has been discovered on the tracks near his home. A tragic...



  • Kinky Friedman

    Kinky Friedman has always proven himself to be a master of the offbeat and irreverent, and still manages to pull off a helluva whodunit in the process. Now the Kinkster may have met his match in this superbly crafted, fiendishly clever tale of a murd...



  • Maryjanice Davidson
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    Doesn't it just figure? You meet the guy of your dreams. There's enough electricity to start a wild fire. And then there's a murder to put a crimp in your plans. But not necessarily... "It was Professor Tanten who did it, in the ballroom, with a m...



  • Joyce Dunbar

    Early one morning, Willa gets up and tries to make her own breakfast. But she's too small to reach anything. Luckily, her older brother, Willoughby, is there to help--and to tell her about the many things she'll be able to do all by herself once she'...



  • Michael Z. Williamson

    A new war against a new breed of monster The sniper works alone, or in a team of two -- a hardened military professional with only one opportunity to turn the tide of battle and make a difference ... with a single bullet. Still haunted by the ...



  • Sam Williams



  • E.E. Knight

    WELCOME TO THE YEAR 2070. EARTH IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive o...



  • Carter Crocker; Carrie A. Snyder

    Ossie is the runt of his litter, and so shy that he's never spoken a word! When he's wounded and left orphaned by a snake attack, it looks like the end. But Ossie finds an unexpected friend: Uncle Will, the old gator who is a legend in the swamp. Sur...



  • Michael A. Martin; Andy Mangels

    After almost a decade of strife against foes such as the Borg, the Cardassians, the Klingons, and the Dominion, the United Federation of Planets is at the dawn of a new era. Starfleet is renewing its mission of peaceful exploration, diplomacy, and th...



  • Jodi Compton

    On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-town criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now a zealous D.A.'s investig...



  • Michael Curtis Ford

    TWO MEN, TWO WORLDS, ONE MOMENT OF DESTINY... For centuries, Rome had ruled from Africa to the wilds of Britain. Now, from across a broad plain of waving grass, a new enemy had poured out of the East-to be led by a man whose goal was not just victor...



  • Rupert Holmes

    Two-time Edgar Award winner Rupert Holmes"author of the critically acclaimed Where the Truth Lies and creator of the Tony Award -- winning musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Drood"now fuses gripping suspense and evocative music in an innov...



  • Alice Mead

    The quandary of the illegal immigrant

    Linda Berati, an eighth grader in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, knows that her parents are Albanian and her little sister American. But what is she? And how did she get to New York? Her parents evade her questions,...



  • Camilla Gibb

    Soon to be a major motion picture starring Dakota FanningLike Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb’s widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are...



  • Jillian Hart

    After Heath Murdock chivalrously shielded Amy McKaslin from harm, the grateful single mom rolled out the welcome mat at her bustling family diner. Although something in the wistful waitress and her son called out to Heath, it would take much more tha...



  • Arthur C. Clarke; Stephen Baxter

    Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of la...



  • Gregory Benford

    Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Viktor the most famous astronauts of all time. Now, decades later, they are ordered by the Consortium to Pluto, where they will rendezvous with another star- ship led by the brilliant, arrogant Captain Sh...



  • Lisa Noeli

    KITTENS AND KISSES Lord William Kent hoped to spend a tranquil summer at his country house, but his young niece and nephew, Caroline and Charlie, have turned his life upside down. The dear children are running wild--along with their cherished pet ...



  • Victor Gischler

    Fifty years after he made baseball history, somebody just put a price on Joe DiMaggio's head. The high spot of Teddy Folger's life was the day in 1954 that he got a very unusual autographed baseball card from Joe DiMaggio himself. It's been downhi...



  • Karen V. Siplin

    Karen Siplin, whose first novel, His Insignificant Other, earned her critical praise from her peers and fans, presents Such a Girl -- a sexy and engaging new novel. In Such a Girl, Siplin brings to vivid life the story of a woman who ends a love affa...



  • Lisa Childs

    GHOSTLY WHISPERS Rocking chairs moving to and fro in the night...and an inherited house straight out of the eeriest of ghost stories. These were the things Sasha Michaelson found when she arrived on Sunset Island to collect the body of her identic...



  • Alton Gansky

    While Henry Sachs lies in a hospital bed, dying from a mysterious illness, Perry must uncover the secrets of his father's past to try to save his life. Perry believes that Henry's condition stems from a time when he worked to investigate a secret und...



  • Frances Housden

    Born to luxury and comfort, Chelsea Tedman never expected to be climbing Mount Everest. But her need to solve the mystery surrounding her sister's fatal fall on the mountain had Chelsea in Nepal, determined to climb the unforgiving terrain at all cos...



  • Akira Yoshimura

    Based on real characters and events, Storm Rider is a vivid historical portrait of Japan and America in the mid-nineteenth century, as well as an exciting high-seas adventure and a moving story of a man lost between two cultures.

    At the age o...



  • Rene Gutteridge

    In this exciting prequel to The Splitting Storm, we meet Mick Kline at a time when his life is spiraling out of control. Mick finds himself accused of the kidnapping of a woman he hardly knows, and he refuses to turn to his estranged brother for help...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Time appears to stand still in Naomi Fisher's Pennsylvania Amish community .... But she's running out of time to correct a terrible mistake. Naomi was content with her life... ...until her mother died in an accident. ...until her somber father n...



  • Megan McDonald

    Every morning, Judy measures Stink, and it's always the same: three feet, eight inches tall. Even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then one day, the ruler reads three feet, seven and three quarters inches! Can it be? Is Stink shrinking? ...



  • Nina Corbett

    Currently single, Ashley Taylor is determined to have a baby, whether she finds Mr. Right or not, much to the chagrin of her family, while her best friend Maya finally breaks off her long-term relationship with her controlling boyfriend and revels in...



  • Nita Abrams

    A HIDDEN AGENDA Serena Allen has taken refuge at her uncle's country house ever since a scandalous seduction left her reputation in tatters. But her aunt has never given up hope of making a match for her and is delighted when the handsome, ari...



  • Alison Hart

    When Molly's aunt flies in for a visit, she unknowingly brings trouble - and a frightening mystery. While searching for clues, Molly discovers that even on the home front, war can change friends and family forever. At the end of the story, the "Looki...




  • Aury Wallington

    Get the story behind the TV show--stories you won't find anywhere else! Everything's changing in the O.C.

    The events of the past few months have left everyone changed. Seth has found the person he wants to be and he's grown confident about mos...




  • Morag Prunty
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    You thought you'd heard the whole story? They painted the town green in the acclaimed international bestseller Irish Girls About Town. Now Irish Girls Are Back In Town ...and their unique charm resonates throughout this high-spirited gathering of ...





  • Elaine Fox

    Appetizers... Steve Serrano One sexy bartender with a wicked grin and a knack for turning up the heat ... Roxanne Rayeaux Ex-swimsuit model turned pastry chef who knows the difference between sweet and spicy ... In the soup... Roxanne has h...



  • Pam Lewis

    New York City, 1965: Two Manhattan prep school students, Carole and Naomi, make a pact to lose their virginity before graduation. Eddie, a slick Upper East Side dropout, is handsome, fatally charming, and more than willing to help the girls accomplis...



  • Aimee Friedman

    Hot sand. Hot clubs. Hot guys. What more could two girls want? Try the same guy. HOLLY: Dream date or bad Fate? She wants true love--and a break from her strict parents. Perhaps a spring fling will do? ALEXA: Flirting with destiny or flirting ...



  • Maureen Child

    Millionaire Simon Pearce's bride-to-be left him standing at the altar and wedding planner Megan Ashton was dumbfounded when she was asked to fill in. Literally. Be Simon's bride. For a year. For business reasons only. Her shock soon gave way to reaso...



  • David Mack

    STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS The da Vinci 's latest mission involves bringing precious cargo to the Mu Arae system -- an entire world that, through a miraculous feat of engineering, is being stored in a small, pyramid-shaped box. Unfortunately, a ho...



  • Matthew Kneale

    A well-intentioned English family unwittingly becomes complicit in state violence while traveling through China. A ploddingly respectable London lawyer chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he's always hungered ...



  • Donna Jo Napoli

    There are some strange new pets in Sly's neighborhood: a cat on a diet that keeps getting fatter, a fish that seems angry at its owner, and a peculiar pet named Wilson that suddenly disappears! Only Sly the Sleuth can solve these mysteries. Grade-sc...



  • Jake Logan

    Slocum gets caught in the crossfire between man and wife…John Slocum was deep in Red Rock Country when trackers knocked him out cold and rode off with his horse and money. As luck would have it, the bushwhackers who left him for dead were also leav...



  • Grace MacCarone

    The latest reader in the FIRST-GRADE FRIENDS series by bestselling author Grace Maccarone and Caldecott-Award-winning illustrator Betsy Lewin will be a Level 1 Scholastic Reader!

    Toothbrush? Check! Pajamas? Check! Huggy Bear? Check!
    Sam can...



  • Gene Riehl

    FBI agent Puller Monk is losing his mind. His father passed away six months ago and left him a predisposition for Alzheimer's disease. Add to that a lethal American spy raised by the North Koreans, and Monk's life just got a lot more complicated. ...



  • Patricia Harwin

    FILE "M" FOR MURDER Librarian and former New Yorker Catherine Penny has already sleuthed out the truth behind a deadly house fire since settling in the tiny English town of Far Wychwood. But nowhere is too far for painful memories to find her when h...



  • Kate Collins

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  • Rukhsana Khan

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  • Rebecca Forster

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  • Janet Beeler Shaw

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  • Kathy Herman

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  • Tom Calhoun

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  • Robert Stokesberry

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  • Marina Lewycka

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  • Laurence Klavan

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  • Erica Silverman

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  • Cynthia Cooke

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  • Jeanne Willis

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  • Susan Stephens

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  • Suzanne Macpherson

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  • Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

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  • Kasey Michaels

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  • Michael Reaves

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  • Orson Scott Card

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  • Fiona Quirina

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  • Elizabeth Peters

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  • Matthew Carnahan

    “The guys who were supposed to be my crew, my pals, my posse, had left me for dead, after I had gone above and beyond for them, after I had sussed out the perfect score, after I had done my homework, after I had overcome their stupidity, after I ha...



  • Pier Vittorio Tondelli

    "The author's lyricism and low-key humor successfully contend with the weight of an immense melancholy. And despite its casual texture, Tondelli's prose never deviates far from the 'seam of that other reality that we call art'."-The New York Times Bo...



  • John Mannock

    Part aircraft carrier. Part submarine. All weapon.And it’s aimed at the U.S . . . . The U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams -- UDTs -- are the best of the best. Island after island, throughout the Pacific Theater, their job has been to r...



  • Bernhard Schlink

    As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. He has never, however, forgotten his complicity in evil.Hired by a childhood friend, the aging Self s...



  • Elizabeth Bloom

    A cross between Jennifer Weiner and Lisa Scottoline, this novel follows a jilted bride uncovering sinister secrets at a multimedia empire.Isabelle Leonard made headlines when she danced on the tables at what would have been her wedding reception- if ...



  • R.L. LaFevers

    After dethroning Lord Mordig, Kenric is given a new assignment by the king to venture to Grim Wood and the land of the Fey people where he must go in search of the blade that will forever protect his people from harm, in the second addition to this f...



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    You thought you'd heard the whole story? They painted the town green in the acclaimed international bestseller Irish Girls About Town. Now Irish Girls Are Back In Town ...and their unique charm resonates throughout this high-spirited gathering of ...



  • Michael A. Stackpole

    In Nalenyr, the family of the Royal Cartographer stands in a unique position. They not only draw the maps, but also explore uncharted territories, expanding and updating the existing knowledge of the world. Their talent has yielded them enormous powe...



  • Justine Davis

    HE WAS BACK... Struggling single mom Grace O'Conner hadn't wanted Redstone security chief John Draven reentering her life and reminding her of the past. But she had no choice -- the project she was supervising was being sabotaged, and someone want...



  • Claire Davis

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  • Mae Nunn

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  • Kate Brallier

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  • William Dietrich

    The year is A.D. 449. Attila, ruler of the savage Huns, has become Europe's most powerful monarch and now is massing his forces to claim half of a crumbling Roman Empire. Under the guise of diplomacy, ambassadors have been sent to Attila's camp, secr...



  • Anthony Horowitz

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  • Dan Chernenko

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  • Vicki Delany

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  • Denise Hunter

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  • John J. Nance

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  • Fiona Hood-Stewart

    When eccentric Rowena Carstairs leaves her sizable estate to an illegitimate grandson who was given up for adoption at birth, Savannah attorney Meredith Hunter is obliged to track him down. Her search takes her to the wilds of Scotland, where she ...



  • Anne Mather

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  • Barbara Block

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  • Shel Silverstein

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  • Bruce Alexander

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  • Alan Titchmarsh

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  • Glen Ebisch

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  • Cassie Miles

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  • Kevin Stevens

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  • Pamela Clare

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  • Naguib Mahfouz

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  • Lisi Harrison

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  • DiAnn Mills

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  • Linda Lowery

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  • Haywood Smith

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  • J.R. Roberts

    VENDETTA Clint Adams has made his share of enemies over the years, but never one who was a threat to the country. U.S. Marshals have been pursuing a ruthless professional assassin whose kills include politicians and cattle barons. Galloway is a walki...



  • Owen Parry

    New Orleans, 1863 -- occupied and impoverished, yet defiant. The "embarrassed" corpse of a Yankee heiress washes up on a levee. Citizens disappear in the night from the alleys of the French Quarter. Tales of ritual murder taunt the authorities -- as ...



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    With her stepfather determined to marry her--and her fortune--to his youngest son, Vivian Woodruff is desperate to find a husband of her own choosing first. Infamous rakehell Anthony Mallory is the perfect candidate. She doesn't intend to remain marr...



  • Jack Dodds

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  • Ray Romano

    Everybody might love Raymond now, but when Ray Romano was ten years old, he and his brothers didn't always get along.

    Raymie has two brothers, Dickie and the Bean. Sometimes he loves his brothers. Sometimes he hates them.

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  • J. Torres

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