
Sometimes the dead live on in your dreams . . . at least that's true for Roy Valois. His wife, Delia, died fifteen years earlier while working for a private think tank and he has never forgotten her. Roy is a well-known sculptor in the art world. His...
Thus says Cheveyo: mage, teacher, the first person in Thea's life to remain unimpressed by her lineage as Double Seventh, the seventh child of two seventh children. From birth, great things were expected of Thea, gradually replaced by puzzled disappo...
A brazen and violent crime occurs at the crossroads of the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish faiths-the shocking theft of ancient artifacts hidden for many centuries in a secret vault beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount. In its wake, thirteen Israeli polic...
Area 51: America's top-secret advanced military testing ground, hidden away in the Nevada desert, where the awesome weapons of tomorrow are being developed. But a mole inside the impregnable facility has been leaking highly advanced killing technolog...
Over the course of two prolific decades--from the time of his humble beginnings as a pulp writer for The Black Mask through the creation of his celebrated noir masterworks The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely to the Hollywood years of the 1940s--the...
Here comes the bride! Suburban supersleuth Jane Jeffry and her detective beau Mel VanDyne have finally decided to tie the knot. While Jane's planning the wedding of her dreams -- with no overbearing mother-in-law to steamroll the entire event ...
JFK is in the Oval Office. "Love Me Do" is climbing the charts. And in West Berlin, a wealthy ex-black marketeer, the Dane, is offering a stolen spy satellite for sale. Nothing unusual there, except the asking price: half a billion dollars. Too much ...
Lexie Diamond loves her computer. She loves to surf the Web more than anything else--and to the exclusion of a social life. Beyond being just a computer geek, Lexie has developed a unique philosophy that the essential truth about life is found on the...
If Princess Alice doesn't pass the test for "Descending the Staircase as if Floating on Air," she won't be allowed to go to the Garden Party or look into the Magical Mirror. Luckily, help arrives! ...
Despite dating one vampire and living with another, Rachel Morgan has always managed to stay just ahead of trouble . . . until now. A fiendish serial killer stalks the Hollows, claiming victims across society, and the resulting terror ignites a v...
In southern California, a young Mayan boy with a blue-crescent-moon tattoo on his chest dies mysteriously. In central America, a puzzling illness is spreading among tribal villages. And soon--very soon--Luke McKenna, a pediatric E.R. physician in Los...
Not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen... Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever. Ba...
Whenever the phone rang at the home of Paul and Roy Deacon in the early morning hours, it often meant that someone had died. The family owned the Deacon Memorial Funeral Home and had buried the loved ones of Mobile, Alabama's black families for more ...
When a twelve-year-old genius has his most ambitious project--the Memory Scanner--stolen by the dastardly Bowler Hat Guy, Wilbur Robinson, a boy from the future, whisks Lewis into the future and helps him hunt down Bowler Hat Guy, save the future, an...
He knows all too well how dangerous love can be.. . Charles Morwellan, eighth Earl of Meredith, has seen many happy Cynster unions, but he also watched his father's obsessive love nearly destroy their family. Yet he knows his duty, and so has chos...
Eight months ago, during the depths of a snowy winter, Alaric and Naia Underwood switched realities. Then in June, as floodwaters surrounded their two versions of the house called Withern Rise, they met again, and tragedy struck. It's autumn now,...
Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who--or what--could have lured the two sisters aw...
Television reporter Suzanne Shepard was a ruthless celebrity scandalmonger with a roster of high-profile enemies. But which one left her mutilated, lifeless body in the dark recesses of New York's Central Park? Federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas needs...
Captured by slave traders in the inhospitable desert, Lazar fought his way to freedom, earning the coveted position of Spur of Percheron. Charged with protecting his adopted city from enemies on both sides of its walls, he has led a charmed life as c...
Hope has it all: brains, beauty, and acceptance at Starwood, a prestigious arts prep school. A mere sophomore, she has won the lead in Romeo and Juliet, beating out seniors for the role--seniors who have been in movies and on Broadway! And with hands...
In this twelfth intricate and enchanting novel, the crafty feline trio faces perhaps their most feared enemy: two of their closest human friends are kidnapped and may not live to see freedom. Molena Point, California, nestled quietly on the Pacif...
At forty-two, Shelley Marino desperately wants a child. Though she and her older husband, Martin, have tried during the course of their marriage, their only hope now is adoption. Martin, who has seen his share of heartbreak, can't reconcile what Shel...
The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom strives to answer life's most imponderable question: What Do Women Really Do in the Bathroom? When the witty and urbane Claire St. John leaves New York City and returns to Austin, Texas, she realizes that a...
"We all must be true to our natures..." Madame Aphrodite Proper, reserved Francesca detests chaotic London and one of its most infamous inhabitants: her birth mother, the notorious courtesan Madame Aphrodite. Lovingly raised by the devote...
He would marry her and possess her in very way possible. The Duke of Kylemore knows her as Soraya, London's most celebrated courtesan. Men fight duels to spend an hour in her company. And only he comes close to taming her. Flying in the face o...
A diligent Dewey decimalist, Miss Wilhelmina Zukas believes in doing everything by the book. And if that means keeping the library open during the most blinding blizzard Bellehaven has ever experienced, so be it! But something more sinister than big ...
Here comes the bride . . . there goes the groom. Penny Bracket waited two years to marry dream man Bram Shiraz. Then on the morning of the Big Day, while she's trying on her veil, Penny receives the worst two-line letter of her life: "Penny, I ca...
A distinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death . . . A lost manuscript and its secrets buried for centuries . . . An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth . . . The Washington Post called Michael Gruber's previous...
A cruel twist of fate changed Simon Blackwell's life irreparably. A man of intense passions, he resolved to deny his emotions and desires forever, taking refuge in the wilds of the moorlands and shutting himself off from the world. But on one extraor...
When a loathsome rake steals one of her most cherished family heirlooms--and nearly her virtue as well!--Francesca Dunroy devises the perfect plan to put him in his place. At a ball being held in her honor--she didn't "take" in her first season, now ...
*NOW A HIT TV SERIES ON DISNEY JUNIOR*When Nancy decides to get a dog, she is certain that with the right dog, she can be fancier than ever. After all, a small, delicate, fluffy dog is the ultimate accessory for a fancy girl. But her family has other...
FIRST JOANNA ARCHER LEARNED SHE WAS MORE THAN HUMAN...THEN THE NIGHTMARE TRULY BEGAN Equal parts Light and Shadow, Joanna Archer must fulfill a destiny she never wanted. Once a photographer and heiress to a casino fortune, she is now dedicated to ...
In this sparkling collection, award-winning writer Rishi Reddi weaves a multigenerational tapestry of interconnected lives, depicting members of an Indian American community struggling to balance the demands of tradition with the allure of Western li...
The ABC's of Seducing a Spy Acquire a connection Beg an introduction Charm and Disarm Engage the senses Flirt for all you are worth Heath Bartlett doesn't want to believe that his childhood friend had any part in the dastardly crime he's inve...
When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she's still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give hers...
One look at her was enough to stop his heart... If it was still beating. Angus MacKay has been undead for almost five hundred years and it's not often something, or someone, surprises him. Until Emma Wallace. The sight of this luscious agent from th...
The worlds orbiting Cavanagh's Star are in turmoil. Civil war on Umeh--ignited by outsiders--threatens to annihilate the teeming masses of a grossly overpopulated planet. On Bezer'ej, the handful of native aquatic creatures who survived extermina...
The nation and the world gaze in awe at Chicago's magnificent "White City" in this summer of 1893. But Inspector Alastair Ransom sees the rot beneath the splendor of the great Exposition--and he is consumed with an over-powering need for vengeance. "...
She makes him feel like a superhero For all his success, Aidan Nikolas couldn't save his wife. And he couldn't save himself from what followed. But maybe he can save Beth Tully, her troubled son and her struggling business in one single bound. Bet...
Note to self: I'm in love with my boss! When I agreed to be Zach Swift's secretary, I was expecting demanding and high-flying -- not seriously gorgeous and generous! I usually don't like working in an office, because of how the acciden...
Bones and his parents got Grandpa a special present for his birthday. But by the time they all make it to the party, the gift is gone. How could it have disappeared so quickly? Will detective Jeffrey Bones be able to solve the mystery and sing ?Happy...
Ten-year-old prodigy Negi Springfield has just graduated from magic academy and is sent to Japan to teach English at an all-girls school. But as Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of Negima! show, life is not so easy when Negi must face troublesome students, labyri...
Lia Howard Pogue is flat broke and on the run. Her only hope for a new start is to rely on the kindness of strangers. One in particular--the rough and tough ex-Army Ranger who's all hard muscle and soft heart. Jake Robbin is more than ready to pu...
From internationally bestselling author Belinda Alexandra comes a sweeping, emotional journey that “depicts vividly the powerful lifelong bond between mothers and daughters” (Paullina Simons, author of The Bronze Horseman).In a district of the ci...
A riveting, fast-paced thriller - George Carling: Peer of the Realm and former spymasters' spymaster; the man who knew all the secrets of the Cold War. But now the press are hinting that he might be the Fourth Man, thinking his modus operandi were to...
Wanted: one contract bride! Alexis Grayson is good at looking after herself--she's been doing it all her life. So what if she's alone and pregnant? She'll cope! But gorgeous cowboy Connor Madsen seems determined to take care of her. And Alexis can...
Heyday is a brilliantly imagined, wildly entertaining tale of America's boisterous coming of age -- a sweeping panorama of madcap rebellion and overnight fortunes, palaces and brothels, murder and revenge -- as well as the story of a handful of unfor...
EVERYBODY TOLD HIM TO BE A MAN. NOBODY TOLD HIM HOW. High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background -- average student, average looks, average dysfunctional family. But since he got busted for doing graffi...
From the aftermath of World War III to a world inherited by robots, where humans are unwelcome . . . from a handful of human survivors on a starship desperately searching for other ships carrying survivors of the destruction of the entire Earth by an...
Content to escape his big city past in sleepy East End Harbor, former homicide detective Justin Westwood is nothing less than a magnet for dark times. When a Wall Street tycoon is found murdered in his Hamptons estate, common sense would implicate hi...
She was supposed to be hidden away. But when the truth is exposed, she can't stay silent.... After tragedy tears her family apart, Jordan March is shipped off by her domineering Grandmother Emma to live with Emma's long-forgotten sister. ...
On a blistering Boston summer day, a nine-year-old girl disappears while crossing a public park. The only witness is a homeless schizophrenic woman who believes she is under surveillance and whose memory may not be reliable. Dr. Paul Lucas, an expert...
A stunning artifact holds the key to an untapped power of global destruction-- While working on a dig in the California wilderness, archaeologist-adventurer Annja Creed uncovers evidence of a tragedy that's linked to Chinese miners during the day...
The very name of Judas raises among Christians an instinctive reaction of criticism and condemnationThe betrayal of Judas remainsa mystery. Pope Benedict XVI, October 2006 The Gospel According to Judas, by Benjamin Iscariot sheds new light on the the...
A young man's search for the truth . . .Northumberland, 1803: Matthew Pryde, a young engineer, is sent to a small coastal village to persuade the local landowner that a lighthouse must be built to prevent the high number of fatal shipwrecks that occu...
Perfect housekeeper... Rhiannon Fairfax believes everything should be calm and orderly. And she's made a career out of ensuring that other people's lives are perfect. Convenient wife... Then billionaire Lee Richardson hires her. Stormy, ...
THERE ARE NO TALES LIKE MYTH-TOLD TALES It's a nightmare when master magician Skeeve and Aahz the Pervect fall into Dreamland... Massha gets married with something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blew...up. Bunny turns ...
The next adventure of the Darcy family from the author of Mr. Darcy's Daughters -- the story of a reluctant heiress who has been left a widow by Darcy's cousin Christopher. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession o...
A delightfully pointed m?lange of fictional pieces from one of the world's most acclaimed and incisive authors, The Tent is a sparkling addition to Margaret Atwood's always masterful work. Here Atwood pushes form once again, with meditations on wa...
The mysteries of character are at the heart of these six previously unpublished pieces. In the title story, a teacher at a private girls' school ruminates on a long career, wondering if he was right to encourage his students to find a life less const...
POUND OF FLESH In the hostile new world of postnuclear America, there are many ways to die, but few are clean or quick. Long ago Ryan Cawdor and his band threw in their lot together--to do or die trying. It was a pact sealed in blood, one of selď¬, ...
All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. AT ANIMAL ARK, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy's spring...
To love, honor...and possess! Leon Aristides believes in money, power and family. So when his sister dies, leaving a son, he acts quickly and ruthlessly. He finds the woman who has guardianship of his nephew and insists she marry him! Helen kno...
Jodi and Jill Spingold are the Spinster Sisters. With a radio show, speaking engagements, DVDs, and two bestselling books, they've built a thriving cottage industry helping other single women find happiness. Their futures have never been brighter-unt...
Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of a fabulous new novel by the author of Matter and The Wasp Factory The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire!, now a hugely successful computer game. So su...
Team Spy Gear begin to lead credence to the existence of a Loch Ness monster due to the enormous thing lurking in the Carrolton Reservoir, but they soon learn it is Viper's evil plan involving dark matter, a spaceship, and a threat to humanity....
When a broken arm forces Dr. Eric Mitchell to hire temporary help, the veterinarian who arrives on his doorstep takes him by surprise. Physically, Alison Truesdale seems too fragile. Emotionally, her smile never quite reaches her eyes-- especiall...
She's the host of a wildly popular, top-rated morning show. Bride of a high-society golden boy. A veritable household name. An immigrant rags-to-riches story that's the American dream personified-and so perfect for Hollywood. Men want her. Women wish...
What -- did you think all vamps were pale, thin, and brooding? Don't I wish. Me, I just happened to be bloating when a sexy Scotsman sank his teeth into me, so here I am, Glory St. Clair, eternally "full figured." On the plus side, I can rock a cors...
Finding him meant risking herself. After her father's disappearance, Gwen Arnell was desperate to find him--even follow his route to a legendary island. She would do anything to shield him from harm, but who would protect her from the sensual priv...
A DEATHLY MESS A housecleaner who damages more, items than she dusts, Mrs. Gillespie is a notorious snoop who spreads malicious gossip throughout the Highlands. After winning her cleaning services in a church raffle, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbet...
SNIKT, to the sixth power! With the Exiles fired, it's time for a new group of dimension-jumping heroes. Wolverine has always been known as the best there is at what he does, so six Wolverines must be really, really, REALLY good at what they do! Can ...
Collecting the groundbreaking first year of Ultimate Spider-Man in one colossal trade paperback! High school, puberty, first dances - there are many pitfalls to being young. Compound these with intense personal tragedy and superhuman powers, and you ...
Tapped to fill out the term of a disgraced U.S. senator, attorney Ben Kincaid has barely gotten his political sea legs when he must advise the president's next Supreme Court nominee during the sometimes thorny confirmation process. Popular on both si...
Romance and fantasy collide in these enchanting stories featuring dragons-and love-in all their many forms. Four of today's most popular authors bring to life mythical creatures, otherworlds of yesterday and today, and the passionate melding of heart...
Elliot Barrow is a man of ideals. The founder of Ponderosa Academy, a school for Native Americans, he is a paragon of virtue. But when he is critically injured in a horrific fire, his family, colleagues, and friends begin to unravel the devastating c...
When a new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, everyone has a passionate opinion about whether the town will benefit or suffer. But young Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate of St. Ann's Wel...
Anne Bishop's novel Sebastian introduced readers to the realm of Ephemera, where bridges between magical landscapes transport you where you truly belong, rather than where you wish to go. Now the award-winning and national bestselling author continue...
THE HERO OF CHRISTINE FALLS, QUIRKE, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns, to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman's corpse. The next m...
Aimee is faced with a tight deadline on a computer security contract when a telephone call from a stranger leads her to an abandoned infant. She brings the baby to her home and names her Stella. She expects the mother to reclaim the child, but days p...
ONE BOYS JOURNEY TO HELP HIS VILLAGE BECOMES A QUEST TO SAVE THE KINGDOM. Floods. Starvation. Fear. This is what awaits the people of Avantia's coast if Tom and Elenna cannot stop Sepron the Sea Serpent. The huge and terrifying beast lurks in eeri...
Determined never to have financial worries like her ministry-driven parents had when she was younger, Ravyn has her life goals set. With her new condo and a great job-the perfect stepping-stone in her nursing career-Ravyn is sure she'll never have to...
When everyone forgets her birthday and she is sent down to the principal's office by her teacher, Rosemary loses all hope for her special day, but when the next day comes and realizations are made, Rosemary's wishes for a perfect day finally come tru...
In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse. With his wife and two children he plies the Asteroid Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the Syracuse ...
Plucky early-twentieth-century private investigator Molly Murphy is back in this sixth thrilling installment in Rhys Bowen's award-winning series. When New York theatre impresario Tommy Burke asks Molly to help him take care of some family busine...
It is 1758 and Matthieu Zela is fleeing Paris after witnessing the murder of his mother and his stepfather's execution. Matthieu's life is characterized by one extraordinary fact: before the eighteenth century ends, he discovers that his body has sto...
It's been a year since Paula Thompson's stepfather died, and the nephew he willed her home to has yet to show up. Paula's resentment toward this unknown man is growing as she waits to learn her fate. What will happen when he shows up? But what if he ...
HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER Jack Slade pulled up his roots a long time ago to take life one day at a time, risking his living, and his neck, at gambling tables across the west. A disappointment to his family, he's been estranged from them for years. Then ...
Would the most precious gift of all save their marriage? Reese Newcastle and her husband, Duncan, used to be able to finish one another's sentences. Now, neither is sure what the other is even thinking. Years of trying for a baby has driven a wed...
Everyone assumes that successful Boston Realtor Kaye Winslow has it all. Until the day she goes out to show an expensive new listing and vanishes into thin air, leaving behind her credit cards, her BlackBerry and an unidentified male corpse. None...
It all started with a red lace thong. Normally Kate is a twin set and pearls kind of girl who wouldn't be caught dead in such a thing. But that's exactly what happens when sudden chest pains leave her lying in a parking lot with her skirt hik...
Three fascinating women discover that life, love and everything else gets better with age!
Maxine Davis’s life is careening out of control -- her marriage is dull, her teenage daughters are driving her insane and she is days away from a bi...
Andrew Britton delivers a taut, electrifying read in his new novel The Assassin. Maverick CIA agent Ryan Kealey must fight against his own agency while the clock is ticking on a devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil... More than a year has pass...
She wants to design the perfect race car... Engineer Kristen McKenna loves to make things go fast. So when NASCAR team owner Matthew Knight offers her a job, Kristen's competitive spirit shifts into overdrive. But she has to struggle to keep her m...
Instead of a proper second honeymoon, the newly remarried Harry and Fair Haristeen leave cozy Crozet, Virginia, for Shelbyville, Kentucky, site of the famous saddlebred horse show. There they'll visit dear friends Joan Hamilton and Larry Hodge and en...
Brooklyn girl Lili Marino moved to the tiny village of Walden Corners, New York, to find a place where she could pursue her craft: taking gourds from the garden and transforming them into birdhouses, bowls, and beautiful works of art. She never expec...
FORBIDDEN MAGIC, FORBIDDEN LOVE In the Kingdom of Lys, where magic is worked in the form of Jeweled glass, the Knights of the Rose and the Ladies of the Isle guard the world against an ancient enemy. Long ago, the Serpent was imprisoned by the Young...
Molly wishes that she and her English friend, Emily, had exciting volunteer jobs that really helped in the fight to win World War Two. Instead, they're magazine delivery girls at Oak Knoll Hospital. Soon, however, Molly and Emily start to suspect tha...
Three fascinating women discover that life, love and everything else gets better with age!
Maxine Davis’s life is careening out of control -- her marriage is dull, her teenage daughters are driving her insane and she is days away from a bi...
I am not my illness. "Girl with Anxiety," "Trauma of the Week" -- no. I hate stuff like that. Everyone, everyone has their issue. But the one thing my illness did make me realize is how necessary it is to ignore the dangers of living in order to live...
The acclaimed author of The Cloud Atlas returns with a wondrous second novel. Set in a small beachfront Catholic high school, narrated by a beautifully complex heroine -- theology teacher Emily Hamilton -- All Saints is at once a mystery, a love stor...
AMERICAN WIDOW ELEANOR SCARBOROUGH IS ABOUT TO SET ALL OF REGENCY LONDON ON ITS EAR... Eleanor has always been looked on askance as 'the bossy American' by London society, the very antithesis of British virtue and propriety. Now, at the de...
I'm just the messenger. Please, don't kill me... Don't hate me because I'm psychic...everybody else already does. My name's Clair Ivers and these days my "gift" seems more like a booby prize. It all started when this crazy woman tried to bribe me i...
Life may not be getting any easier for curate Callie Anson, but it is definitely getting more interesting. Her relationship with policeman Marco Lombardi grows ever warmer, even though he seems to be keeping her away from his close Italian family. Th...
In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity. Next door, country boy Jem Kellaway moves in and strikes up a tentative friendship with street-savvy Maggie Butterfield. While England is roc...
Millionaire of the Month: Nathan Barrister Source of Fortune: Hotel Empire Dominant Personality Trait: Always gets what he wants. When grumpy, rich and gorgeous Nathan Barrister arrives at the Lake Tahoe lodge, all he can think about is how soo...
Each spring, Charleston's upper crust opens their sprawling gardens to the public for the Spring Plantation Ramble, an occasion for flower shows, rare-plant auctions, and contagious spring fever. Although Theodosia Browning barely knows a Phalaen...
A Dirty Little Secret? Sex therapist Dr. Simone Beaupre is living large. Her popular dating-and-advice column, 'Just About Sex,' has made her the toast of Cincinnati. And that's not all. Her column is about to go national. A 'phat' syndication de...
Dazzler died, but for some reason, it didn't stick. How is that possible? Dazzler and her new teammates attempt to find out what happened, and the answer will shock you! Then, New Excalibur is alerted that a de-powered mutant has been returned home t...
A young woman in service must know her place, obey the rules, and be a model of discretion. But how can Juliette Garrison know her place when she is the result of a torrid affair between a serving girl and the son of a lord? And how can she be discre...
MAGGIE QUINN, GIRL reporter. Honors student, newspaper staffer, yearbook photographer. Six weeks from graduation and all she wants to do is get out of Avalon High in one piece. Fate seems to have different plans for her. High school may be a natur...
Readers raved about Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter, the fabulous first novel from bestselling author Blaize Clement. Now, everyone's favorite pet-sitting sleuth Dixie Hemingway is back with another riveting tail about the four-legged fight against c...
Despite being attractive, intelligent and friendly, Sasha Gardner knows no man wants a phone call from her. Because Sasha is-- a tax auditor for the IRS. Every job has its downside. Auditing may interfere with her social life, but it's orderly. I...
Addy is overjoyed when Poppa's new boss offers the Walker family a home of their own on his property in Philadelphia's elegant Society Hill neighborhood. But Addy soon discovers that their new home holds frightening secrets, and one leads str...
A comic chronicle of a year in the life in the college admissions cycle It's spring break of junior year and the college admissions hysteria is setting in. "AP" Harry (so named for the unprecedented number of advanced placement courses he has taken)...
OK, I'll admit it: I, Abby Knight, actually love my hometown's corny annual Pickle Fest--and I've also been hoping the event will drum up business for my flower shop, Bloomers. But when the hired clown is found dead, the festivities screech to a halt...
Her royal boss! Feisty redhead Prudence Winslow is down to her last cent and cynical about finding Mr. Right, so she has sworn off men--for a year! But then she meets Ryan Kaelan, and his delightful motherless children who need her nanny skill...
Gourmet Girl Chloe Carter's dream boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, is prepping for the opening of Simmer, Boston's soon-to-be hottest new restaurant -- which means her love life is being put on the back burner. Josh is too busy to be her own personal naked ...
Amy Simons's small size belies her remarkable strength-strength that makes her thrive in the wild Alaskan frontier. But is she strong enough to accept her father's fate and move on with her own life and love? Braden Rafferty just wants to get away-aw...
Beautifully written and taking us into an exotic land, Karen Connelly’s debut novel The Lizard Cage is a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit.Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. Ar...
The colony planet Fremont is joyous, riotous, and very wild. Its grasses can cut your arms and legs to ribbons, the rinds of its precious fruit can skewer your thumbs, and some of the predators are bigger than humans. Meteors fall from the sky and vo...
Milt Kovak and his wife Jean have chosen Las Vegas for a second honeymoon. Milt looks forward not so much to gambling as to have a break from the duties of a small-town sheriff and for a rare pleasure of a feast on usually forbidden food. Alas, a cal...
El Salvador: America's great Cold War success story and the model for Iraq's fledgling democracy -- if one ignores the grinding poverty, the corruption, the spiraling crime, and a murder rate ranked near the top in the hemisphere. This is where Jude ...
SEE FAST LARRY DEAD IN HIS COFFIN .50 CENTS These are the words, crudely scrawled on a sign, that greet Cray Dawson when he arrives in Crabtown, Montana. Once, Larry Shaw and he gained notoriety as quick-draw artists in Texas, and he's surprised ...
The summer Grace turns thirteen is when everything changes. The Vietnam War is raging, and Grace's brother, Collin, is drafted. But Collin decides to take a stand and burn his draft card, igniting a war within the family. Grace suddenly finds herself...
The Diva Who Had Amnesia Singer Stevie Simms stumbles onto music mogul Damien Steele's doorstep, claiming she remembers nothing of her past--not even her name. Damien recognizes Stevie immediately. He can't resist her vulnerability or her charm, and...
Joe Pike--the ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex- mercenary from Robert Crais's superb P.I. Elvis Cole novels--headlines the explosive action of this page-turning New York Times bestseller. A wild-living young heiress slams into trouble in the L.A. night--the ...
Kathleen's Blazing Battle continues the story of an enthusiastic and determined twelve-year-old girl growing up at the dawn of the 1930s. Winter has melted into a scorching summer and Kathleen finds herself fighting to help save the family farm from ...
Kathleen McKenzie's displaced life with relatives on a farm in Ohio took a lot of getting used to. But nothing could prepare her for the long, dry summer. Like the withering crops, Kathleen's faith, too, is beginning to wane as she wonders if she'll ...
Meet Nicki Fleming Nicki Fleming is natural with animals. When the chance to train a service dog comes up, she just can't say "No," even if it means taking on more responsibility and having to give up some of the things she loves doing. When Sprock...
Tilman Wagner receives a telegram for help from long-time friend John McCandless Law, an army captain serving at Fort Davis, Texas. John's daughter, Lomida, and the girl's young schoolteacher, Madeline Brown, have fallen into into the hands of Mexica...
For her acclaimed collection of stories, Red Ant House, Joyce Carol Oates hailed Ann Cummins as "a master storyteller." The San Francisco Chronicle called her "startlingly original." Now, in her debut novel, Cummins stakes claim to rich new literary ...
Jonas has lived all of his thirteen years on a farm in Missouri, and even though he hears whispers about freedom, he thinks he'll never try to escape. He knows what happens to slaves who attempt to run away. Besides, Master William has promised to ma...
A LONELY CABIN. DEADLY SECRETS. DANGER IN THE WOODS. On a tragic night, photographer Emma St. James lost not only her vision, but her memory. The police believed she'd witnessed her beloved brother's murder, but her mind refused to rememb...
A New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age: Stewart jumps at the chance to travel into space, but it turns out his mission is more dangerous than he thought Stewart Hale is about to turn thirteen, and all he wants is to become a rocket pi...
New York Police Detective Jack Reeves is less than thrilled when his wife, Ashley, decides to organize a Fourth of July neighborhood block party. After a hard day of work, he prefers quiet evenings spent at home with her and their newborn son, John. ...
To wed and bed--that was the billionaire's proposal... Damien Wynter was as handsome and arrogant as sin. Heiress Charlotte didn't need his dark, primitive sensuality in her life, until the man she'd planned to marry disappointed her, ...
Peter David, a creative force in television, and a bestselling author of comics and novels, has created a fantasy world sure to delight his legions of readers. The Damned Worldonce known simply as Earthhas become home to twelve races, each of which h...
Some say the line between good and evil is narrower than we imagine -- a divide as subtle as a mirror, and perhaps just as deep. To peer into its black, reflective glass is to know the dark potential we each possess, and we cross that obsidian bounda...
Between day and night, between the living and the undead, between human and immortal there is a passion that crosses the boundary--magnetically pulling together pairs who seem to have nothing in common. Now, four of today's most thrilling authors exp...
Celebrating the 65th anniversary of Stan Lee's employment at Marvel Comics! In five all-new 10-page tales written by The Man himself, Stan meets his web-slinging creation, journeys to Greenwich Villiage to catch up with his old pal Doctor Strange, is...
Historical Romance: Suddenly fatherless, seventeen-year-old Laurel Rivers falls in love with the author of an anonymous song. Prudie Burke is a headstrong twenty-year-old who is wooed by a Chinese/American restaurant heir with fortune cookies. Eighte...
After specialized underwater training, Ensign Rachel Whitney is posted to a remote island in the North Pacific, a tiny scrap of rock guarding a highly classified secret. She could love her new assignment if her commanding officer, Lt. George Hudson, ...
Eleven thousand years ago, before the seas swallowed the Atlanteans, Poseidon assigned a few chosen warriors to act as sentinels for humans in the new world. There was only one rule-desiring them was forbidden. But rules were made to be broken... ...
The last thing she remembers is seeing her friends die... Now it's her turn.Eldritch and forgotten arcana wait within its vaults. Twisted accidents of magic prowl its halls. Sinister forces lure the unsuspecting deeper into death or madness. Its vict...
Pay to get in, Pray to get out. Johnny Silver is the world's soon-to-be biggest rock star, but on the eve of his debut concert in Los Angeles, he mysteriously disappears, causing global pandemonium. His friend Taj tries to discover the tr...
The Barbecue Isn't The Only Thing Heating Up! Marci Hamilton loves her hometown of Port Serenity, but life's been a little dull lately. So she enters a barbecue-sauce cook-off with her flamboyant sister, Sissy Aguirre. The events are held all over...
WHO WAS THE BEAUTY IN HIS BED? After a long day, the last thing private eye Reece Covington expected to find was a beautiful stranger hiding out in his remote mountain cabin. And when she awoke and told him she was in danger, Reece had an immediat...
It's a gruesome fact, but it's true: Bodies don't last long after they're dead. In murder cases and plane crashes, earthquakes and fires, police want to know: Who did the bones belong to? Was the victim male or female? Young or old? Tall or short? Ho...
Gordon R. Dicksons Childe Cycle of novels depicting the future of the human race has been one of the grand epics of science fiction. At the time of his death in 2001, Dickson was writing Antagonist, the tale of Bleys Ahrens turn toward darkness. Now ...
Amanda O'Connell is in a scrape. If she doesn't find a husband while she's in America, her father will marry her off against her will. Then Christopher Claybourne--a dark, mysterious rogue sentenced to death--inspires a plan. She'll marry him s...
SERIES DESCRIPTION Saving the universe never looked so good. The W.I.T.C.H. GRAPHIC NOVELS bring you the Power of Five with all the action and intrigue of the wildly popular chapter books in 128 pages of detailed, action-packed, four...
Oh, no! Leo has lost his baton. What happens when he can’t find it right before one of the teams most important missions? Can Annie, Quincy and June help him find it in time?Building on the success of the Baby Einstein’s 93% U.S. brand awarenes...
How did Leo, June, Quincy and Annie become the Little Einsteins? It all began when Leo stumbled upon the baby mobile that used to hang over his crib â€" the one with the curious little rocket hanging over it. Building on the success of the Baby E...
It was no day at the beach when criminal Flint Marko was mutated into one of Marveldom's most versatile villains and began a career of kicking sand in our favorite heroes' faces! Some of the best battles between Sandman, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Fou...
"ONCE UPON A TIME" IS TIMELESS Etienne de Brabant is brokenhearted. His wife has died in childbirth, leaving him alone with an infant daughter he cannot bear to name. But before he abandons her for king and court, he brings a second child to ...
Meg Reilly is a pregnant widow who ducks into a confessional to spill her deepest, darkest secrets. Trouble is, the man on the other side of the booth isn't a priest.
Craig Stovall is the owner of a local construction business--he's just there to...
THE BELOVED FIRST BOOK IN A NEW MYSTERY SERIES STARRING A BELEAGUERED ARMY DOCTOR IN ROMAN-OCCUPIED BRITAIN. Divorced and down on his luck, Gaius Petreius Ruso has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Emp...
A new life--a new hope... When Dr. Gideon Merrill finds out Dr. Lorna Preston is coming to film his search-and-rescue operation in a storm-devastated Brazilian village, everything he's tried to forget comes flooding back. Their passionate affair, ...
To the legendary clairvoyant Maestro Nostradamus, the future is forever in motion. But for young swordsman Alfeo Zeno, his apprentice and protector, the present is hard enough to contend with. His days are spent poring over astrology charts and makin...
Anna Carmichael is an accomplished garden historian, young, beautifuland already divorced.Work could make her feel like less of a failure at love, but the men she meets do nothing to simplify her life: Oliver Davenport, the charismatic, stylish grand...
Solving a murder mystery is much more than the BHN bargained for! What could Ginger the baby boomer, Kindra the college student, Suzanne the pregnant mother of three, and Mary Margret the silver-haired real-estate agent possibly have in common? Who ...
Bored at home and eager to see the world, Little Monkey jumps on a lily pad and ventures far away downstream, yet after a great day of playing with an ensemble of other monkeys, Little Monkey wants to head home and so turns to his new friends for hel...
Dr. Jeris Waldron would rather help children than worry about hair and makeup. Widowed from a demeaning husband, she overcame her insecurities by pursuing a career in child psychology. With a new practice and a new role as children's director at chur...
"I'm yours. And you're mine." Eve Swango and Tommy Baca belong to each other. Always have. Always will. It's been years since Eve followed Tommy into the wild, subterranean depths of a New Mexico cave. Years since she reali...
When the French painter Theodore Gericault died in 1824 at the age of thirty-three, he was mourned as one of the most promising artists of his generation. He was also one of the most controversial, endowed with a character marked by Byronic paradoxes...
Kit is visiting Aunt Millie in Mountain Hollow, Kentucky, in 1934. When a professor arrives to study Kentucky mountain traditions, Kit is thrilled to help with her research--until it becomes clear that somebody doesn't want "outsiders" nosing around....
GOING UP IN SMOKE The Haughton Brothers-better known as the Holy Smokes Gang-have broken free from the grips of the law. With wild ideas of overthrowing the government, they're wreaking havoc in the Rockies, preying on ore trains taking gold to t...
Fifteen-year-old Ben Warner is dizzy with boredom working at his local fish and chips shop. One evening, a young woman saunters in and, between mouthfuls of chips, invites him to visit her in the World of Ideas. Ben is excited, but suspicious. The Wo...
Exo-Force is LEGO's new A-list property for boys 6-9
The EXO-FORCE team has met its match--the Striking Venom. After the last fight between the robots and the humans, the Striking Venom left the EXO-FORCE fortress in ruins. But Sensei Keiken h...
When a gentleman has one secret too many, he is A WICKED GENTLEMAN Pooling their meager resources, Lady Cornelia Dagenham, her sister-in-law Aurelia, and their friend Liv Lacey arrive in London's Cavendish Square to spend a month at the home L...
Handsome, ruthless attorney Jordan Logan had an amazing track record: he'd never lost a case. So when he agreed to do a favor for his sister and become a substitute lawyer at Advocate Aid, he thought it would be a piece of cake. What Jordan didn'...
This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer. The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, ...
All The Secrets Inside Clancy McRae is mad as hell. Charged with creating technology-enhanced troops, she's discovered her top-secret nano-device has been surgically implanted in four U.S. Marines without her approval. Though it makes them smarter, ...
When Flora Stanza's uncle dies unexpectedly, leaving her a 51 percent share in the family antiques business, it gives her the perfect chance to leave her glamorous but less than happy London life for the quieter life of the country. Unfortunately, he...
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The Harvey Award -- nominated sensation that rocked the comics worldâ€"and left readers hanging in sheer suspenseâ€"is now a full-length graphic novel that finally carries the stunni...
Lady by day... Cleaner by night... Wife by the weekend...? Lady Gabriella March is the perfect domestic goddess -- at least, that's what her editor at Milady magazine thinks! In truth she's simply Ellie March, cleaner and aspiring writer, ...
Three fascinating women discover that life, love and everything else gets better with age!
Maxine Davis’s life is careening out of control -- her marriage is dull, her teenage daughters are driving her insane and she is days away from a bi...
When every mother's worst nightmare becomes Grace's reality, she must examine her entire life -- from the wrong choices to the right mistakes. Grace's son Jack is a miracle. At three years old, he's fighting a mysterious, deadly disease that hi...
It promises to be a busy week for Hannah Swensen. Not only is she whipping up treats for the chamber of commerce booth at the fair; she's also judging the baking contest; acting as a magician's assistant for her business partner's husband; trying to ...
Blackmailed by her conniving ex-husband, senator's daughter Tess Kendrick went from America's sweetheart to--that awful woman-- how could she?' Coming back to Camelot, Virginia, Tess was older and certainly wiser than when she'd left--and was in need...
On a late May morning in 1993, a mother and daughter were found murdered in their home in northeast Washington, D.C. Within a matter of days, an arrest was made. For the victims’ family and friends, and for a prosecutor obsessed with justice -- the...
Early one morning, a little bear found a little box.
He looked inside. Then he exclaimed,
“Why, it’s the greatest thing ever! Mouse will love this.”
Bear’s friends aren’t so sure of his newfound treasure, however. “Thatâ€...
What single mother Nora Clark knows about style would fit on the head of a pin. Yet with her identical twin begging her to cover her job as a personal shopper, she wriggles into her sister's clothes and does what she has to do. But backtracki...
And Judge Kendra Rutherford is guilty of letting handsome architect Reid Maguire become a tempting distraction, and allowing his legal battle to become entirely too heated and personal. But after losing his reputation in a bitter courtroom fight ...