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  • Nerve Damage

    Peter Abrahams

    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...

  • Temporary Father

    Anna Adams

    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...

  • Memo: Marry Me?

    Jennie Adams

    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 the Birthday Mystery

    David A. Adler

    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...

  • Negima Vols. I-III

    Ken Akamatsu

    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...

  • Gift of the Unmage

    Alma Alexander

    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 Ready-Made Family

    Carrie Alexander

    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...

  • White Gardenia

    Belinda Alexandra

    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...

  • The Spirit of Liberty

    Ted Allbeury

    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...

  • Hired By The Cowboy

    Donna Alward

    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

    Kurt Andersen

    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...

  • Twisted

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    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...

  • To Outlive Eternity: and Other Stories

    Poul Anderson

    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...

  • Hades

    Russell Andrews

    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...

  • Scattered Leaves

    V.C. Andrews

    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. ...

  • Virgin Lies

    Roderick Anscombe

    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...

  • Forbidden City

    Alex Archer

    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 Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot

    Jeffrey Archer

    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...

  • The Great White Wyrm

    Peter Archer
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  • Pryde's Rock

    Malcolm Archibald

    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...

  • The Australian's Housekeeper Bride

    Lindsay Armstrong

    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, ...

  • Myth-Told Tales

    Robert Asprin; Jodi Lynn Nye

    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 Second Mrs. Darcy

    Elizabeth Aston

    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...

  • The Tent

    Margaret Atwood

    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 Friend of Women and Other Stories

    Louis Auchincloss

    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...

  • Cannibal Moon

    James Axler

    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 sel, ...

  • Dalmatian in the Daisies

    Ben M. Baglio

    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...

  • Aristides' Convenient Wife

    Jacqueline Baird

    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...

  • The Spinster Sisters

    Stacey Ballis

    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...

  • The Steep Approach to Garbadale

    Iain M. Banks

    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...

  • The Shrieking Shadow

    Rick Barba

    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....

  • Houseful Of Strangers

    Linda Barrett

    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...

  • Cover Girl Confidential

    Beverly Bartlett

    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...

  • Real Vampires Have Curves

    Gerry Bartlett

    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...

  • His Only Obsession

    Beverly Barton

    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...

  • Death of a Maid

    M.C. Beaton

    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...

  • Exiles - Volume 14: The New Exiles

    Tony Bedard

    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 ...

  • 3:57 A.M. Timing Is Everything

    Kendra Bellamy

  • Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection - Book 1

    Brian Michael Bendis

    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 ...

  • Capitol Threat

    William Bernhardt

    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...

  • The Dragon and the Virgin Princess: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
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    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...

  • Set Me Free

    Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

    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...

  • Whitethorn Woods

    Maeve Binchy

    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...

  • Belladonna

    Anne Bishop

    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...

  • Christine Falls

    Benjamin Black

    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...

  • Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis

    Cara Black

    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...

  • Sepron the Sea Serpent

    Adam Blade

    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...

  • Prescription for Love

    Andrea Boeshaar

    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...

  • Sweet Sensation

    Gwyneth Bolton

  • You Have to be Nice to Someone on Their Birthday

    Barbara Bottner

    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...

  • The Aftermath

    Ben Bova

    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 ...

  • In Dublin's Fair City

    Rhys Bowen

    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...

  • The Thief of Time

    John Boyne

    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...

  • Broken Bow

    Irene Brand

    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 ...

  • The Lawman

    Lyle Brandt

    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 ...

  • Their Very Special Gift

    Jackie Braun

    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...

  • Point Of Departure

    Laurie Breton

    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...

  • Just Like Heaven

    Barbara Bretton

    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...

  • Monkey Math

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • The Perfect Life

    Connie Briscoe
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    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...

  • The Assassin

    Andrew Britton

    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...

  • To The Limit

    Pamela Britton

    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...

  • Puss 'n Cahoots

    Rita Mae Brown

    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...

  • Gourdfellas

    Maggie Bruce

    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...

  • Priest

    Ken Bruen

    Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional horrifies even the most jaded citizen. Jack Taylor, devastated by a recent personal loss, has alway...

  • The Serpent and the Rose

    Kathleen Bryan

    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...

  • The Light in the Cellar

    Sarah Masters Buckey

    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...

  • Baseball Stars

    Virginia Buckman

  • Football Stars

    Virginia Buckman

  • This Time Around

    Anita Richmond Bunkley
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    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...

  • The Sacred Bones

    Michael J. Byrnes

    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...

  • The Nature of Jade

    Deb Caletti

    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...

  • All Saints

    Liam Callanan

    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...

  • A Dangerous Man

    Candace Camp

    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...

  • Accidentally Engaged

    Mary Carter

    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...

  • Vanishing Point

    Marc Cerasini

    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...

  • The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler

    Raymond Chandler

    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...

  • Secret Sins

    Kate Charles

    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...

  • Burning Bright

    Tracy Chevalier

    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...

  • Thirty Day Affair

    Maureen Child

    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...

  • Dragonwell Dead

    Laura Childs

    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...

  • Just About Sex

    Ann Christopher

    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...

  • The Accidental Florist

    Jill Churchill

    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 ...

  • New Excalibur - Volume 2: Last Days of Camelot

    Chris Claremont

    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...

  • The Bare Truth

    Elizabeth Clarke

    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...

  • Prom Dates from Hell

    Rosemary Clement-Moore

    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...

  • Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund

    Blaize Clement

    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...

  • The Return Of Jonah Gray

    Heather Cochran

    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...

  • Sweet and Low

    Rich Cohen

  • Shadows on Society Hill

    Evelyn Coleman

    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...

  • Acceptance

    Susan Coll

    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)...

  • Acts of Violets

    Kate Collins

    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...

  • The Prince And The Nanny

    Cara Colter

    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...

  • Simmer Down

    Susan Conant; Jessica Conant-Park

    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 ...

  • Golden Days

    Mary Connealy

    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...

  • The Lizard Cage

    Karen Connelly

    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 Silver Ship and the Sea

    Brenda Cooper

    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...

  • Vegas Nerve

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    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...

  • Blood of Paradise

    David Corbett

    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 ...

  • Fast Guns Out Of Texas

    Ralph Cotton

    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 ...

  • Summer's End

    Audrey Couloumbis

    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 Way You Make Me Feel

    Francine Craft

    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...

  • Target

    Joe Craig

    In the nonstop sequel to Jimmy Coates: Assassin? Jimmy is still being hunted by NJ7. He escaped from them once, but the government agency that created him won't let their eleven-year-old superassassin go. NJ7 want him working for them, or they wa...

  • The Watchman

    Robert Crais

    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 Enduring Faith

    Tracy Leininger Craven

    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's Abiding Hope

    Tracy Leininger Craven

    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 ...

  • Nicki

    Ann Howard Creel

    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...

  • The Search for Freedom

    Judy Culp; Ronald Culp

    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...

  • Yellowcake

    Ann Cummins

    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 ...

  • The Story of Jonas

    Maurine F. Dahlberg

    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...

  • So Dark the Night

    Margaret Daley

    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...

  • Shanghaied to the Moon

    Michael Daley

    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...

  • Farmer's Market Rounding

    Julie Dalton

  • Night Moves

    Cynthia Danielewski

    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. ...

  • The Billionaire's Scandalous Marriage

    Emma Darcy

    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, ...

  • The Darkness of the Light

    Peter David

    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...

  • Cutting Ties

    Peter David
    in

    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...

  • Witch Way

    Maryjanice Davidson
    in

    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...

  • Stan Lee Meets

    Alan Davis

    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...

  • Love Notes

    Mary Davis
    in

    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...

  • Frasier Island

    Susan Page Davis

    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, ...

  • Atlantis Rising

    Alyssa Day

    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... ...

  • Depths of Madness

    Erik Scott de Bie
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Angels on Sunset Boulevard

    Melissa de la Cruz

    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...

  • Somewhere Down In Texas // Texas Road Trip

    Ann DeFee

    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's Been Sleeping In My Bed? // Her Hero and Protector

    Shawna Delacorte

    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...

  • Skulls and Skeletons

    Danielle Denega

    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...

  • Gut-Eating Bugs

    Danielle M. Denega

  • Have You Seen This Face?

    Danielle M. Denega

  • Eye of the Archangel

    Forrest DeVoe

    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 ...

  • Antagonist

    Gordon R. Dickson

    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 ...

  • Rogue's Widow, Gentleman's Wife

    Helen Dickson

    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...

  • Under Presure

    Disney Book Group

    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...

  • Leo's Baton

    Disney Book Group

    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 We Became the Little Einsteins

    Disney Book Group

    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 " the one with the curious little rocket hanging over it. Building on the success of the Baby E...

  • Spider-Man: Saga of the Sandman

    Steve Ditko

    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...

  • Before Midnight

    Cameron Dokey

    "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's Confession

    Sierra Donovan

    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...

  • Medicus

    Ruth Downie

    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...

  • The Rescue Doctor's Baby Miracle

    Dianne Drake

    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, ...

  • The Alchemist's Apprentice

    Dave Duncan

    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...

  • Nice Girls Do

    Sarah Duncan

    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...

  • Death of a Garage Sale Newbie

    Sharon Dunn

    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 ...

  • Little Monkey Lost

    Keith DuQuette

    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...

  • Heart of the Matter

    Kristy Dykes

    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...

  • The Depth of Love

    Margot Early

    "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...

  • The God of Spring

    Arabella Edge

    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...

  • Midnight in Lonesome Hollow

    Kathleen Ernst

    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....

  • Longarm and the Holy Smokes Gang

    Tabor Evans

    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...

  • If Minds Had Toes

    Lucy Eyre

    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...

  • Search for the Golden City

    Greg Farshtey

    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...

  • A Wicked Gentleman

    Jane Feather

    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...

  • Mr. Hall Takes A Bride

    Marie Ferrarella

    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'...

  • Then We Came to the End

    Joshua Ferris

    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, ...

  • Intimate Danger

    Amy J. Fetzer

    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, ...

  • Flora's Lot // Bidding for Love

    Katie Fforde

    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...

  • Elk's Run

    Joshua Hale Fialkov

    Featuring more than 100 pages of never-before-seen material!

    The Harvey Award -- nominated sensation that rocked the comics world"and left readers hanging in sheer suspense"is now a full-length graphic novel that finally carries the stunni...

  • The Secret Life Of Lady Gabriella

    Liz Fielding

    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 For The Road

    Lolita Files
    in

    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...

  • Floods

    Jil Fine

  • The Life You Longed For

    Maribeth Fischer

    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...

  • Key Lime Pie Murder

    Joanne Fluke

    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 ...

  • Falling For The Heiress

    Christine Flynn

    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...

  • Relentless Pursuit

    Kevin Flynn

    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...

  • Thank You Bear

    Greg Foley

    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. “That...

  • The Sister Switch

    Pamela Ford

    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...

  • One Night With You

    Gwynne Forster

    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 ...

  • The Virtual Life of Lexie Diamond

    Victoria Foyt

    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...

  • Summer of Love

    Emily Franklin

    After a rough spring semester at Hadley Hall, Love Bukowski is ready for some sun on Martha's Vineyard. Running her Aunt Mable's cafe might not sound glamorous, but when she's working with her best friend, Arabella, anything can be fun. Plus, Mable's...

  • Rover

    Jackie French

    He was just a fat runt of a puppy. He didn't look much like his namesake, Mighty Rover, but when the witch gave Riki Snarfari his True Name, it stuck.

    She was just a poor farm girl. She lived alone with her mother in a quiet seaside village...

  • Princess Alice and the Magical Mirror

    Vivian French

    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! ...

  • The Girlfriend Project

    Robin Friedman

    On the outside, Reed is the high school hottie, but on the inside, he's still the clueless dork with braces and thick glasses who has never been kissed. Reed simply doesn't know how to talk with girls, and it's up to the Internet to get him up to spe...

  • Tea for Two

    Bob Fuller

  • Meet the Kids of Paddywhack Lane

    Bob Fuller

    The Parker family has just moved to Paddywhack Lane, and the kids are having trouble making friends in their new neighborhoodthat is, until their mom makes them dress-up costumes that are a hit with all! Readers will love the whimsical art and adorab...

  • Desperately Seeking Sonic

    Charlotte Fullerton

  • A Small-Town Girl

    Shelley Galloway

    She's The New Girl In Town Genevieve Slate never thought she'd return to small-town life. But she never expected that the man she loved would reject her, either. Now living in quaint Lane's End, Ohio, Gen's starting over. Her job a...

  • Innocence and Impropriety

    Diane Gaston

    A resolute man Jameson Flynn is a man with a mission. Nothing will knock him off course. Until one summer's evening in Vauxhall Gardens, when a woman's song reminds him of the world he left behind. A determined innocent Rose O'K...

  • People of the Nightland

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    It has been a thousand years since Wolf Dreamer lead his people up through the dark hole in the ice to a rich, untouched continent bursting with game. But the world has changed. Most of the magnificent animals are gone, and the last of the great glac...

  • Dragon Slippers

    Jessica Day George

    Many stories tell of damsels in distress who are rescued from the clutches of fire-breathing dragons by knights in shining armor and swept off to live happily ever after. Unfortunately, this is not one of those stories. True, when Creel's aunt sugg...

  • Annihilation - Book 1

    Keith Giffen

    Collects Annihilation Prologue & Annihilation: Nova #1-4. The Annihilation Wave has come! Annihilus, lord of the Negative Zone, has declared war! Hordes of loyal soldiers swarm from the center of the universe, and only a handful of heroes can res...

  • The Doctor's Wife

    John Glatt

    ***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***For months, the young son of Bart and Jennifer Corbin had told people that he was afraid of violence in their posh, suburban Georgia home. Then, on the morni...

  • Death Shoots a Birdie

    Christine Goff

    Christine Goff's bestselling Birdwatcher's Mystery series has shown readers that birding is delightful for everyone--but that a few cuckoos consider murder among its more exotic attractions. In her latest novel, a proposed land deal becomes grounds f...

  • Red Red Red

    Valeri Gorbachev

    Off on a big hurry to see something red, his friends follow behind as Turtle passes by an array of people and places to reach his special destination where together they all see just what Turtle set out to find....

  • Fools Rush In

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    MURDER...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL Summer 1963. In suburban Black River Falls, Iowa, there's more than just politics behind a troubled judge's decision to have private investigator Sam McCain probe a blackmail scheme involving a powerful senator's daughte...

  • Helpless

    Barbara Gowdy

    Nine-year-old Rachel Fox has the face of an angel, a heart-stopping luminosity that strikes all who meet her. Her single mother, Celia, working at a video store by day and a piano bar by night, is not always around to shield her daughter from the att...

  • Mr. Darcy's Diary

    Amanda Grange

    Mr. Darcy's Diary presents the story of the unlikely courtship of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy from Darcy's point of view--sharing his innermost thoughts and feelings. This graceful imagining and sequel to Price and Prejudice explains Darcy...

  • My Favorite Earthling

    Susan Grant

    Even a goddess can have a bad day... Keira, warrior-queen of the galaxy, is as famous for her beauty as she is for avoiding marriage. But when an upstart little planet called Earth threatens her world with its fleet of spaceships, the fate of her pe...

  • It's Like Candy

    Erick S. Gray

    Sisters River and Starr leave home in their early teens after a lifetime of abuse from their drug-addicted mother. Beautiful River joins a stick-up crew, but she doesnt know that her crew has one secret even shes not in on. When she falls in love wit...

  • The Brazilian's Blackmail Bargain

    Abby Green

    Seduced for revenge, bedded for pleasure! Six months ago Brazilian tycoon Caleb Cameron thought he'd uncovered Maggie Holland's plot to ruin him--using seduction! But Maggie was being manipulated by her stepfather. She'd fallen in love with Caleb-...

  • Deadly Retreat

    Christine Green

    The new Kate Kinsella mystery - After the tragic death of her boyfriend, private investigator Kate Kinsella needs a break, so her partner Hubert despatches her to a rural retreat in deepest Wales: Peace Haven, which turns out to be a New Age therapy ...

  • Future Weapons of War

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A volume of visions of future wars, fought with weapons out of nightmare, by todays top writers of military science fiction, as well as some writers who are not usually associated with military SF, such as best-selling writer Gregory Benford, and aw...

  • If I Were An Evil Overlord

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Who hasn't dreamed of being an evil overlord?Today's finest fantasy authors have delivered fourteen tales that run the gamut from humorous to serious, fantasy to science fiction. Certain to appeal to role-playing gamers, fantasy lovers, and megaloman...

  • A Real Basket Case

    Beth Groundwater

    The First Book in the Claire Hanover Mystery Series

    An Agatha Award Finalist for Best First Novel

    Feeling neglected by her workaholic husband, forty-something gift basket designer Claire Hanover joins an aerobics class at the urging ...

  • The Edification of Sonya Crane

    J.D. Guilford

    When Sonya Crane transferred to predominantly black Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School (PLD) in Atlanta, she hadn't planned on passing as biracial. But being one of only a few white students in the school, she finds that hiding her identity makes it ea...

  • Double Identity

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    So my only protection is a kindergarten teacher and a ninety-eight-pound female minister....And they don't even believe I'm in danger. As Bethany approaches her thirteenth birthday, her parents begin acting more oddly than usual: Her mother cries co...

  • Magic City

    James W. Hall

    Based on real events, and newly declassified documents, Magic Citylike the films L.A. Confidential and Chinatownevokes a time in our nations history when powerful men were willing to do whatever they thought necessary to achieve their goals. A simple...

  • Killer in High Heels

    Gemma Halliday

    L.A. shoe designer Maddie Springer hasn't seen her father since he reportedly ran off to Las Vegas with a showgirl named Lola. So she's shocked when he leaves a desperate plea for help on her answering machine-1 ending in a loud bang. Gunshot? Car ba...

  • Dear Catastrophe Waitress

    Brendan Halpin

    Mark thinks he has found The One in college. When Raquel abruptly takes off for Los Angeles to become a rock star, Mark tries to be happy for her -- until ROCK-L's first single sweeps the airwaves -- a song about Mark's stamina entitled "Two Minute M...

  • Anna and the King of Dragons

    Karen Harbaugh
    in

    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 meldin...