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  • Mario Acevedo

    Felix Gomez, Latino vampire detective extraordinaire, tackles a dangerous werewolf cabal in the fifth installment in Mario Acevedo's satirical supernatural series A sure-to-be-bloody civil war is brewing between rival werewolf factions, and P.I . ...



  • Vanora Bennett

    Catherine de Valois, daughter of the French king Charles VI, is born into troubled times. Though she is brought up in a royal court, it is a stormy and unstable environment. Before she is out of her teens, Catherine is married off to England's Henry ...



  • Lori Copeland

    Can Copper trust her heart -- and her life -- to a man she once despised? Copper is overjoyed that her friends Willow and Audrey found love and fulfillment after the war. The only remaining spinster, Copper vows to pour herself into her new teaching...



  • Josephine Cox

    They say you never forget your first love...and it's true. Eighteen years ago when he was still a boy, Harry made a decision that drove him from the place--and the girl--he loved. Somehow in the ensuing years, he made a new life for himself and fo...



  • Kimberly Derting

    A gripping tale of a girl with a morbid ability that could lead her to a killer . . . and the boy who would never let anything happen to her. Sixteen-year-old Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her unusual so-called...



  • Zoe Fishman

    A poignant debut novel about the transformative powers of yoga and friendship for four women on the verge of realizing their dreams With beauty, brains, and a high-paying Wall Street position, Charlie was a woman who seemed to have it all--until s...



  • Shilpi Somaya Gowda

    On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her newborn daughter's life is to give her away. It is a decision that will haunt her and he...



  • Claudia Gray

    Bianca will risk everything to be with Lucas. After escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school where they met, Bianca and Lucas take refuge with Black Cross, a fanatical group of vampire hunters. Bianca must hide her supernatural...



  • Tim Green

    Cooperstown! Josh is thrilled when all his hard training pays off in a big way and his team, the Titans, makes it to a national tournament in Cooperstown, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. More is on the line for Josh than just a trophy. Wi...



  • James Grippando

    In this timely stand-alone thriller ripped from the headlines, New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, whom the Wall Street Journal calls a writer to watch, explores a world in which the destruction of financial institutions and the people...



  • Dan Gutman

    What would you do if you knew there was going to be a terrible accident? When Stosh travels into the past to meet Roberto Clemente, a legendary ballplayer and a beloved humanitarian, he’s got only one goal: warning Roberto not to get on the doo...



  • Diane Hammond

    Ruth Rabinowitz believes. She believes that her daughter, Bethany, is a terrific little actress, so they have come to Hollywood, where dreams come true. Ruth's husband and Bethany's father, who thinks their quest for stardom is delusional, has been l...



  • Kim Harrison

    Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter -- and lived to tell the tale. But she's never faced off against her own kind ... until now. Denounced a...



  • Rachel Hawthorne

    I can feel every Shifter's emotions except Daniel's -- the only one whose heart I long to know. Hayden was born a werewolf, a Dark Guardian. But her ability to sense the feelings of fellow werewolves has made her life unbearable. She runs away, only...



  • Rachael Herron

    Abigail is more than ready for a change when she inherits a cottage from her beloved mentor, knitting guru Eliza Carpenter. Leaving the oppressive city for the greener pastures of a small California beach town, she intends to turn her cozy little win...



  • Holly Nicole Hoxter

    Lainey Pike can tell you everything you need to know about the people in her family just by letting you know how they died. Her reckless stepfather drove his motorcycle off the highway and caused the biggest traffic jam in years. Her long-suffering g...



  • Erin Hunter

    There will be three, kin of your kin . . . who hold the power of the stars in their paws. A mysterious murder in the ranks has ripped ThunderClan apart. But more secrets still remain to be discovered. Jayfeather is determined to find out who his r...



  • Erin Hunter

    After the sharp-eyed Jay and the roaring Lion, peace will come on Dove's gentle wing. Three ThunderClan cats, Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Dovepaw, are prophesied to hold the power of the stars in their paws. Now they must work together to unravel t...



  • Jacqueline Lepore

    The Extraordinary Adventures of Emma Andrews, Victorian Lady and Vampire Hunter "Though it is many decades later, it all comes back to me; back to those early days when the terror was new and I was dangerously untrained. When I was young and d...



  • Robert Lipsyte

    Mike has his junior year well under control. He's got a solid group of friends. He's dating Lori, one of the hottest girls in school. And Coach Cody has all but given him the starting spot as the Ridgedale Rangers' varsity center fielder. And then Os...



  • Laura Manivong

    When you're so skinny people call you Skeleton Boy, how do you find strength for the fight of your life? Twelve-year-old Vonlai knows that soldiers who guard the Mekong River shoot at anything that moves, but in oppressive Communist Laos, there's ...



  • Kevin Markey

    Record-breaking snowfalls in Rambletown have postponed Opening Day of the Rounders' baseball season three times! As the team tries to "warm up" on the icy field, they welcome a new center fielder: Orlando Ramirez. He's as fast as a cheetah and catche...



  • Marion McGilvary

    Once Edith Lutz had a life, a husband, and a home. Why did she run? Edith doesn't want to be found, so she's taken on a new look, a new name, and an anonymous new life in New York City. Hoping to escape her past and start over, she's now working a...



  • Miranda Neville

    The Marquis of Chase is not a reputable man. He is notorious for his wretched morals and is never received in respectable houses. The ladies of the ton would never allow him in their drawing rooms...though they were more than willing to welcome hi...



  • Jane O'Connor

    Calling all poets! Fancy Nancy Clancy is so poetic, even her name rhymes. And with limericks, couplets, free verse, and more, poetry is plenty fancy! So when her teacher Ms. Glass gives Nancy and her classmates an assignment to come up with their...



  • Lauren Oliver

    What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life? Samantha Kingston has it all: the world's most crush-worthy boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of every...



  • Lincoln Peirce

    BIG NATE IS IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF! Nate knows he's meant for big things. REALLY big things. But life doesn't always go your way just because you're awesome. Trouble always seems to find him, but Nate keeps his cool no matter what. He knows he's gr...



  • Jill Pitkeathley

    In Dearest Cousin Jane, an enchanting new novel that draws on historical fact, Jill Pitkeathley paints a luminous portrait of the true-life cousin of a literary legend -- from her flirtatious younger years to her profound influence on one of the worl...



  • Ron Rash

    New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is a storyteller of the highest rank (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel GarcIa MArquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complex...



  • Neil Russell

    His enemies are the most dangerous people in the world. So are his friends . . . The sole heir to a media empire, Rail Black is larger than life, richer than almost anyone, and living in opulent seclusion in Beverly Hills. His curse is a need for ...



  • Lionel Shriver

    Shep Knacker has long saved for "the Afterlife," an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go, Shep finally announces h...



  • L.J. Smith

    Elena Gilbert is alive--again. When Elena sacrificed herself to save the two vampire brothers who love her--the handsome, brooding Stefan and the sleek and dangerous Damon--she was consigned to a fate beyond death. Until a powerful supernatural f...



  • Kerrelyn Sparks

    Olivia's packing list: 1. Sunscreen 2. Bathing suit 3. Flip-flops FBI psychologist Olivia Sotiris was looking for a cool ocean breeze, sand between her toes, and a break from her crazy, chaotic, and sometimes all-too-dangerous life. But when...



  • Megan Whalen Turner

    Sophos, under the guidance of yet another tutor, practices his swordplay and strategizes escape scenarios should his father's villa come under attack. How would he save his mother? His sisters? Himself? Could he reach the horses in time? Where would ...



  • Simon Van Booy

    The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of grace, intensity, atmosphere, and compassion....



  • David Vann

    In Ichthyology, a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told obliquely, often through the boy's observations of his tropical fish, yet also reveals his father's last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry fo...



  • David Vann

    In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex ...



  • David Vann

    In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex ...



  • David Vann

    In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex ...



  • David Vann

    In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex ...



  • David Vann

    In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex ...



  • David Vann

    In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex ...



  • Carrie Vaughn

    On one side of the border lies the modern world: the internet, homecoming dances, cell phones. On the other side dwell the ancient monsters who spark humanity's deepest fears: dragons. Seventeen-year-old Kay Wyatt knows she's breaking the law by r...



  • Mildred Pitts Walter

    Ten-year-old Justin hates that his sisters and his mama are always fussing at him. They make him feel stupid because he can't clean his room or cook. But why should he? He'd rather be outside playing. After all, cooking and cleaning is just “women'...



  • Joss Ware

    Everything they know is gone. FROM THE RAGING FIRES, FIVE MEN EMERGE WITH EXTRAORDINARY NEW POWERS. THEY ARE HUMANKIND'S LAST HOPE...BUT THEY CANNOT SURVIVE THIS DARK, RAVAGED WORLD ALONE... Quentin Fielding had everything. Money. Power. Women. But...



  • Malena Watrous

    Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past . . . or anything ...



  • Amy Brecount White

    Something--some power--is blooming inside Laurel. She can use flowers to do things. Like bringing back lost memories. Or helping her friends ace tests. Or making people fall in love. Laurel suspects her newfound ability has something to do with an...



  • Kate White

    New York Times bestselling author and Cosmopolitan's editor-in-chief returns with a sizzling, page-turning thriller in which an ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder--and realizes it's not just the law that's hunting her. When Lake Warren lea...



  • Victoria Alexander

    A secret list of the desires of Lady Olivia Rathbourne: 1. Disregard convention 2. Follow my heart 3. Bed the Earl of Wyldewood A decade ago, Olivia had expected to marry the Earl of Wyldewood, only to have happiness stolen from her ...



  • Glenn Cooper

    The Library: Only a handful know it exists . . . It holds the world's most astonishing -- and terrifying -- information . . . But the one book that is the key to the greatest secret of all time . . . is missing. Former FBI Special Agent Will Piper...



  • Sophie Jordan

    What kind of woman would marry a man she only just met? The kind with nothing to lose. Long ago, Evelyn Cross sacrificed her good name, her freedom, and any hope for love. Now, in the remote English countryside, she struggles to survive and avoid...



  • Beth Kephart

    Georgia knows what it means to keep secrets. She knows how to ignore things. She knows that some things are better left unsaid. . . . Or are they? When Georgia and her best friend, Riley, travel along with nine other suburban Pennsylvania kids to ...



  • Sarah MacLean

    It's a well-known rule that a proper young lady should never steal into the home of a notorious marquess and demand a passionate kiss. But to romance this rake, Lady Calpurnia Hartwell will break all the rules... A lady does not smoke cheroot. Sh...



  • Rob Reger

    Emily is . . . 1. A mad scientist 2. A cat lover 3. A mural painter 4. A golem builder 5. A virtuo-spastic guitarist 6. A wicked skater 7. A wily troublemaker 8. A poltergeist tamer 9. A mystery solver 10. A master prank...



  • Kerry Reichs

    Sweet Lips, Tennessee . . . Toad Suck, Arkansas . . . Okay, Oklahoma . . . Truth or Consequences, New Mexico . . . Maeve Connelly's epic road trip is taking her through every colorfully named tiny town in America on her way to the far less imaginativ...



  • Juliana Stone

    Jaxon Castille: jaguar shifter, warrior, assassin. He has long hungered for the chance to make his former lover, Libby Jamieson, pay for her deadly betrayal. After three long years he's finally found her. The hunt is over . . . But the Libby that ...



  • Jason Aaron

    The acclaimed Ghost Rider run of writer Jason Aaron reaches its fever-pitched conclusion with six issues of insanity, all jam-packed with new villains, old allies, and the same old grindhouse action that Flamehead fans have come to know and love. The...



  • C.T. Adams; Cathy Clamp

    Eric Thompson's wolf howl can ruin electronics and send aircraft tumbling from the sky. Considered dangerous even by his fellow Sazi, Eric has become a lone wolf, living in self-imposed isolation. Yet when the very foundations of Sazi life come under...



  • Rochelle Alers

    Chandra Eaton can't believe she left her journals -- containing very private, very erotic dreams she's been having for the past two years -- in a Philly taxicab. Her embarrassment turns to intrigue when Preston Tucker finds and returns them. The soul...



  • Barbara Allan

    Spring has sprung a major leak in small town Serenity, as the Mississippi River drops in for an extended stay. With hundreds of homes and dozens of business flooded, how better to help the cozy town get back to normal than staging a city-wide church ...



  • Sarah Addison Allen

    In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestelling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world.....



  • Sandra Alonzo

    Fifteen-year-old Yancy runs away from home on the night his brother viciously attacks his horse, Shy. With just a backpack, a flashlight, his horse, and a journal, Yancy takes to the California desert on a journey of self-discovery. There he will lea...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    Successful oilman Tag O'Malley is shocked -- and overjoyed -- when he hears the news. He's a father! But the child comes with strings attached...namely, the baby's mother. A complete stranger! Olivia Marshall was planning to raise her baby on her ...



  • Donna Alward

    "Grouchy Noah was a challenge, but a Noah who started to trust Lily was far more difficult to handle..." Noah Laramie has come back home to run Lazy L Ranch. Injured and now out of the army, he wants to shut himself off from the world. Lily Germain...



  • Tom Angleberger

    MEET DWIGHT. A SIXTH-GRADE ODDBALL. Dwight does a lot of weird things, like wearing the same T-shirt for a month or telling people to call him "Captain Dwight." This is embarrassing, particularly for Tommy, who sits with him of lunch every day. But...



  • Aharon Appelfeld

    The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hat...



  • Alex Archer

    In a land of subzero temperatures and snow-covered vistas, survival is a challenge. But for the Araktak -- an isolated and mysterious Inuit people -- this harsh tundra is their heritage. Until now. A large mining company has purchased the land, and t...



  • Kay Arthur

    From bestselling author Kay Arthur and dynamic Bible teacher Janna Arndt comes a completely revised Discover 4 Yourself(r) Bible study on the book of Jonah (over 50,000 copies sold). Kids team up with Max and Molly and begin the greatest adventure...



  • Jabari Asim

    Poignant and powerful, this debut collection from preeminent writer and critic Jabari Asim heralds his arrival as an exciting new voice in African American fiction. Through a series of fictional episodes set against the backdrop of one of the mos...



  • Jeannine Atkins

    As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series. Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves,...



  • Swati Avasthi

    Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father's fist), $3.84, and a secret. He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, b...



  • James Axler

    Washed ashore in the North Atlantic, Ryan Cawdor and Doc Tanner discover two islands intact after Skydark, but whose inhabitants suffer a darker, more horrifying punishment....



  • Richard Baker
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    In Avenger, the final volume in the epic adventures of the Blades of the Moonsea, Geran violates his exile to stalk the streets of his former home, hunting down the one who hurt his family and rallying the oppressed people of Hulburg. But Geran's ene...



  • Sandra Balzo

    THE BEST-BREWED PLANS… By now, the only thing Maggy Thorsen can trust to stay smooth in her life is her coffeehouse's specialty roast. Though she's got wealthy real estate agent Sarah as her new partner, Maggy has only three months to renovate ...



  • Leanne Banks

    Success was one thing...acceptance, another. All his life, Leonardo Grant had yearned to be more than his rough beginnings had allowed. Now, after making millions, he believed marriage to the right woman could secure him the respect no amount of mone...



  • Maya Banks

    The Catch He'd wanted her for six months. And the opportunity had finally arrived to make Celia Taylor his -- at least temporarily. Billionaire businessman Evan Reese knew she was desperate to get him to sign with Maddox Communications. Perhaps he w...



  • Ray Banks

    It's the hottest summer on record in Manchester, England, and down-at-heel private eye Cal Innes is struggling to keep cool. He has taken a job evicting families on behalf of local slumlord Donald Plummer, while the English National Socialists bring ...



  • Linwood Barclay

    A warm summer Saturday. An amusement park. David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife, Jan, and their four-year-old son. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a nightmare after an inexplicable disappearance....



  • Shari Barr

    When Bailey and McKenzie arrive to help at a horse ranch in Montana, they're immediately entrenched in mysteries: a horse disappearing into thin air, spookiness in an abandoned western town, and ranch hand upheaval. And with all the unexpected action...



  • Gail Barrett

    "I left you once. I won't let you out of my sight again." Undercover mercenary Deven Kapur hadn't been able to save his family from the mafia that ruled the kingdom of Romanistan. To protect the woman he loved he'd abandoned her and infiltrated th...



  • Elaine Beale

    A keenly observed depiction of the effects of a mother's mental illness on her young daughter, Another Life Altogether is a profoundly moving, funny, and ultimately heartrending coming-of-age story. After years of living in the shadow of her mothe...



  • Simon Beaufort

    Murder, intrigue and marriage in the Welsh Marches of old . . . When Sir Geoffrey’s unpopular brother, Henry, is murdered, he unwillingly inherits Goodrich Castle in the Welsh Marches. Immediately, his sister pushes him towards a marriage that ...



  • Carrie Bebris

    Mr. and Mrs. Darcy are looking forward to a relaxing stay with dear friends when their carriage is hailed by a damsel-in-distress outside of the village of Highbury. Little do the Darcys realize that gypsies roam these woods, or that both their posse...



  • Andy Behrens

    Meet Kevin Pugh, 12-year-old couch potato. Now meet Cromwell, his part beagle, part potato chip dog. Kevin’s looking forward to spending his summer doing as little as possible. Unfortunately, Kevin’s father, former Chicago Bears star player/super...




  • Taryn Bell

    In this final challenge, the winner will be revealed! LINDSAY: Lately, I've been leading a double - and very glam - life. But the one person who threatens to expose could also be the one who wants to help me the most. SHIVA-ROSE: I'm living my dr...



  • Zana Bell

    As soon as Sass Walker's high-powered heels hit the New Zealand ground, she knows she's out of her element. But cool and professional as any top New York lawyer should be, she's determined to get the local tree huggers onside with her company's propo...



  • Jules Bennett

    Divide & conquer or seduce & conquer? Brady Stone had just learned the new manager of the property he wanted was a woman...and quite desirable. Charming Samantha Donovan into giving away corporate secrets would be even sweeter considering she was t...



  • Angela Benson
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    Assistant pastor Ronnie has a shameful secret: he's a compulsive gambler. And just when it seems he's run out of luck, he finds salvation in a miraculous win. But nothing can keep Ronnie from recklessly betting his family's future. His only way out i...



  • Jennie Bentley

    Avery Baker was once a New York textile designer, but inheriting her aunt's old Maine cottage has led her down a new career path -- home renovation. Finding a property's hidden potential has rewards and challenges -- especially when a mystery surface...



  • Renee Bernard

    From an acclaimed author known for her "sinfully sexy" romances comes the first in a tantalizing new series of erotic passion set in Victorian London... Galen Hawke desires nothing but revenge against the woman who betrayed his dearly departed frien...



  • Thomas Bernhard

    For twenty years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he's conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he's just blown the head o...



  • William Bernhardt

    Ben Kincaid has lost his bid to be elected to the U.S. Senate in Bernhardt's less than credible 18th thriller to feature the honorable Oklahoma lawyer (after Capitol Offense). Ben's wife, Christina McCall, also a practicing attorney, has moved the fa...



  • Helen Bianchin

    She wants her independence...he wants a good Greek wife! Loukas Andreou: a force to be reckoned with in business…and in the bedroom, as rumor has it. The same man who, to Alesha Karsouli's horror, she must marry according to the terms of her...



  • Anne Bishop

    For years the Shalador people suffered the cruelties of the corrupt Queens who ruled them, forbidding their traditions, punishing those who dared show defiance, and forcing many more into hiding. Now that their land has been cleansed of tainted Bloo...



  • Cara Black

    Just as Aimée is about to leave for New York City to follow up on a lead about a possible younger brother, her partner in Leduc Detective, René Friant, is wounded by a near-fatal gun shot. Eyewitnesses identify Aimée as the culprit. The police hav...



  • Daniel Black

    The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with their mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns...



  • Jenna Black

    Morgan Kingsley, a kick-ass exorcist, can deal with Lugh, the supersexy demon living inside her, but does he have to moan softly during her intimate moments with her mortal lover? Understandably, Brian is reluctant to share the pleasures of Morgan's ...



  • William Peter Blatty

    William Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic mega-bestseller The Exorcist. Now Blatty gives us Dimiter, a riveting story of murder, revenge, and suspense. Laced with themes of faith and love, sin and forgiveness, vengeance...



  • Karina Bliss

    When the librarian met the rock star... Is Rachel Robinson the only one on campus who doesn't know who Devin Freedman is? No big deal except that the bad-boy rock star gets a kick out of Rachel's refusal to worship at his feet. And that seems to hav...



  • Peter Bognanni

    Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who homeschooled him in the teachings of futurist philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. But when his grandmother has a stroke, Sebastian is forced to leave the dome and make ...




  • Rebecca L. Boschee

    Ren Edwards has made a successful career out of playing the well-to-do customer, spending company cash and demanding flawless service from high-end retailers. But underneath all those fabulous perks, she's just a single Scottsdale girl who can't live...



  • Barbara Bottner

    With the help of Miss Brooks, Missy’s classmates all find books they love in the library -- books about fairies and dogs and trains and cowboys. But Missy dismisses them all -- “Too flowery, too furry, too clickety, too yippity.” Still, Miss...



  • Rhys Bowen

    Irish immigrant and private detective Molly Murphy is thrilled to have a ticket to see world-famous illusionist Harry Houdini. But before he can even take the stage, the opening act goes horribly wrong -- and the sensational Signor Scarpelli's lovely...



  • Alexandra Bracken

    A TERRIBLE SECRET MAY TEAR APART THE FABRIC OF ONE GIRL'S WORLD. When Wayland North brings rain to Cliffton village, he is offered anything he wants. He chooses Sydelle. The skilled weaver with a fiery temper has dreamed of escaping her home but wan...



  • Alan Bradley

    From Dagger Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry...



  • Gayle Brandeis

    "My dad used to be Abraham Lincoln. When I was six and learning to read, I saw his initials were A. B. E., Albert Baruch Edelman. ABE. That's when I knew." Mina Edelman believes that she and her family are the Lincolns reincarnated. Her main task...




  • Kate Brian

    After her harrowing kidnapping, Reed returns to Easton to find that Billings has been torn down. Finally, after years of controversy, the school's wealthiest female has been overruled, and the historical dorm is gone. How will Reed and the rest of th...



  • Tonia Brown

    Everybody's looking for something. Captain Rose Madigan of the airship The Merry Widow is looking for a paying job for her all-female crew. Gabriella Upstairs, her newest recruit, is looking for a reason to be glad she's on board. And Madam Ruby o...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Listening FOR THE VOICE OF LOVE After a serious van accident leaves Amish schoolteacher Jolene Yoder profoundly deaf, she leaves home to learn how to read lips and communicate with sign language. But two years later, a family with children who have ...



  • Niobia Bryant

    Through good times and bad, longtime friends Jaime, Renee, Aria, and Jessa have shared just about everything. But all hell breaks loose when Jessa texts them a shocking revelation: she's been sharing her bed -- with one of their husbands. To make mat...



  • Col Buchanan

    The Heart of the World is a land in strife. For fifty years the Holy Empire of Mann, an empire and religion born from a nihilistic urban cult, has been conquering nation after nation. Their leader, Holy Matriarch Sasheen, ruthlessly maintains control...



  • Diane Burke

    WHISPERS IN THE DARK Three deaths, one connection -- the anonymous calls all three women reported in the weeks before they died. Detective Tony Marino wants to close this case before another woman disappears. Especially when he meets a fatherless li...



  • Gabrielle Burton

    The Donner Party You know how some died. Here’s how some lived. “My heart is big with hope and impatient with desire.” -- Tamsen Donner, a letter to her sister In the spring of 1846, Tamsen Donner, her husband, George, their five da...



  • Victoria Bylin

    Town founder Zeb Garrison is finally getting his wish -- a qualified physician is coming to High Plains. Yet when Dr. N. Mitchell turns out to be the very pretty Nora Mitchell, Zeb is furious. The storm-torn town needs a doctor, but Zeb needs someone...



  • Meg Cabot

    It's all good practice for later, when it really counts. Allie plans on having the best weekend ever when she finds out Erica's sister Missy is in the regional Twirltacular baton competition -- until Allie's mom announces that she has to go to Britt...



  • Deb Caletti

    Scarlet spends most of her time worrying about other people. Some are her friends, others are practically strangers, and then there are the ones no else even notices. Trying to fix their lives comes naturally to her. And pushing her own needs to the ...



  • Laurie Calkhoven

    Twelve-year-old Daniel Prescott cheers when the Sons of Liberty dump English tea into Boston Harbor. Then King George sends his soldiers to take over Boston and its port. Now Daniel's home is a city under siege, in the first book in a new series abou...



  • Jen Calonita

    Her star power in demand on a hit Broadway play, Hollywood teen starlet Kaitlin Burke packs up her entourage (ok, her showbiz family, friends, assistant, and publicist, but not the dreamy boyfriend) and moves to the Big Apple for the summer. Kaitlin ...



  • Candace Calvert

    Charge nurse Erin Quinn escaped personal turmoil to work on the peaceful California coast. But when a hazardous material spill places Pacific Mercy Hospital on disaster status and stresses staff, she's put to the test. And thrown into conflict with t...



  • Stella Cameron

    Born of an ancient family of clairvoyants, Marley Millet finds that her psychic gift is both unsettling and incredibly dangerous. She never wants to "travel" again -- but the choice is not hers to make. After glimpsing the fates of two missing New O...



  • Stephen J. Cannell

    From the perennial New York Times bestseller comes a powerful new novel in which Detective Shane Scully, who grew up as an orphan, must revisit his painful childhood to find out who murdered the kind and charismatic man who became a father to him ...



  • Kathy Cano-Murillo

    With glue guns, glitter, twigs, or yarn, the ordinary can become extraordinary . . . especially at La Pachanga. Owned by Estrella "Star" Esteban's family, the restaurant has a rep for two things: good food and great art. La Pachanga brings people tog...




  • Melody Carlson

    With graduation looming, the Carter House girls are struggling with college visits, prom dress warfare, and boyfriend situations that are going from bad to worse. Mrs. Carter ups the stress level by planning a typical over-the-top Mother's Day fashio...



  • C.J. Carmichael

    She's on the case! One missing person. One handsome adventurer. And one big case of mistaken identity: the detective's. Because Nadine Kimble isn't actually a private investigator -- she's a receptionist. To prove herself, she's determined to solve ...



  • Robin Caroll

    KILLER MELODY When she finds her coworker's body in front of the station doors, nighttime DJ Gabby Rogillio knows it was murder. But how can the police suspect the station's owner, a man who's been like a father to Gabby? She's determined to clear h...



  • Teresa Carpenter

    Wanted: Levelheaded nanny to look after tiny baby. Smart, efficient, ordered. Experience of working with stubborn single dads an asset! Found! Fun-loving, sweet, pretty former kindergarten teacher Nikki Rhodes. Excellent with babies (so good she'd...



  • Robyn Carr

    WITH HER BELOVED YOUNGER SIBLINGS SETTLED AND HAPPY, ERIN FOLEY HAS EMPTY NEST SYNDROME. AT AGE THIRTY-FIVE. So she's hitting the pause button on her life and holing up in a secluded (but totally upgraded-she's not into roughing it) cabin near Virgi...



  • Nikki Carter

    Let the fireworks begin... Now that she's been accepted into a summer enrichment program in New York City, Gia knows she's going to have the flyest summer ever. Especially since her mom and her annoying stepsister won't be around. And best of all?...



  • Amelia Casey

    "Stand and deliver!" The highwayman's call made Lady Anabel Mayward's pulse race...but not from fear. Tales of the "knights of the road" had always piqued her curiosity, but Sullivan aroused something new: desire. With an arranged marriage looming...



  • Carla Cassidy

    "The crib is empty." Peyton Wilkerson's world is shattered when her baby is taken from her very own home. Distraught, she finds comfort -- and a growing attraction -- in Sheriff Tom Grayson's arms. But knocking down the wall that Tom has erected a...



  • Jayne Castle

    She's called the 'Scarlet Lady' - but only Zinnia Spring would rise above her shocking nickname by dressing defiantly in red. Ever since a false tabloid story ruined her reputation and her interior design business, this headstrong lady has made a liv...



  • C.S. Challinor

    Scottish barrister Rex Graves will never understand why the devil his son Campbell chose a college in Florida over bonnie Scotland. During his visit, a tragedy strikes the small campus when a student is found hanging from a rope in his locked dorm ro...



  • Deborah Challinor

    A vivid and compelling story of enduring love and divided families from one of our bestselling historical novelists. When armed conflict drives a wedge between Maori and Pakeha, not everyone can choose sides easily. For Isla McKinnon, the choices are...



  • Fern Schumer Chapman

    It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon: Chicago, Illinois. And she will be doing it alone. This dramatic and chilling novel about...



  • Blake Charlton

    Nicodemus is a young, gifted wizard with a problem. Magic in his world requires the caster to create spells by writing out the text . . . but he has always been dyslexic, and thus has trouble casting even the simplest of spells. And his misspells cou...



  • Allison Chase

    Raised on their uncle's country estate, the four orphaned Sutherland sisters have formed a close friendship with young Princess Victoria. Shortly before her coronation as queen, Victoria asks the sisters to serve her in matters requiring the utmo...



  • Laura Childs

    The narrow cobblestone alleys of Charleston are bustling with shoppers looking for bargains on antiques, heaping bowls of crab chowder -- and of course Theodosia Browning's delicious teas. But when the clock strikes ten, the alleys clear, except for ...



  • Lisa Childs

    The exceptional skill to heal supernatural beings is Doctor Benjamin Davison's gift -- and his curse. His profession demands secrecy. A secrecy that once cost him his marriage because his wife, Paige, refused to accept his covert life. But even she c...



  • Sonya Chung

    Sonya Chung's astonishing first novel tells the story of a family divided between contemporary America and a small Korean town. Long for This World is about loss and renewal and what it means to go home. In 1953, on a remote island in South Korea,...



  • CLAMP

     
     
    Kimihiro is having some wish-granting success with his very first customer, but his efforts are interrupted by a disturbing dream of the witch Yûko vanishing forever. Even people Yûko has helped are saying they’ve never heard of her. ...



  • Horatio Clare

    A journey of 6000 miles across two continents and 14 countries is nothing to swallows: they do it twice a year. But for a writer and birdwatcher, this is the expedition of a lifetime. By trains, cars, buses, motorbikes, trucks, canoes, planes, one ca...



  • Pamela Clare

    The day Navajo journalist Katherine James met Gabriel Rossiter the earth literally moved beneath her feet. Nearly killed in a rockslide while hiking, she found her life in the tall park ranger's hands. Although she can't forget him, she thinks she'll...




  • Chris Claremont

    Collects X-Men Forever (2009) #6-10. As the X-Men attempt to recoup from brutal recent events, they're tested by an unlikely obstacle. Meanwhile, something big has surfaced in South America - an enemy the battered X-Men will have to face head-on!...



  • Simon Clark

    In wartime Britain, vampires and an ancient curse rule the night... Winter, 1942. Beth, Sally and Alec are the only guests in an eerie seaport hotel in Whitby with a peculiar subterranean tunnel linking it to the ocean. It is a hotel haunted by q...



  • Barbara Cleverly

    Award-winning author Barbara Cleverly returns with this spellbinding new mystery featuring aspiring archaeologist Laetitia Talbot. In Athens in 1928, Letty begins a perilous race to unearth a plot steeped in betrayal, seething with retribution, and a...



  • Max Allan Collins

    Smalltown sheriff J.C. Harrow made headlines when he apprehended a would-be presidential assassin -- only to come home that night and find his wife and son brutally murdered. This tragic twist of fate launched his career as the host of reality TV's s...



  • Rebecca Ann Collins

    Catherine Harrison and Becky Tate, daughters of Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, grew up in the shadow of Rosings Park, domain of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh; but as adults their paths have diverged dramatically. When a catastrophe at Ros...



  • Susan Conant; Jessica Conant-Park

    If you can't stand the heat... Still smarting over the breakup with her boyfriend, Josh, who took a job as a personal chef in Hawaii, Chloe Carter knows that assisting a cookbook writer may stir up painful memories. But the Gourmet Girl is desperate...



  • Stacy Connelly

    ALMOST A BRIDE? Emily Wilson's world tilted on its axis when Javier Delgado twirled her into his arms. The jilted bride-to-be never expected to meet a man like him at the wedding that should have been hers. Still, she knew the suavely handsome playb...



  • Sheila Connolly

    SO MUCH FOR APPLY-EVER-AFTER A bunch of baby-faced chefs who are fresh out of cooking school are looking to open a restaurant in Granford. They plan on using locally-grown foods, which is great news for city-girl banker turned newbie orchard-owner M...



  • Dawn Cook

    SECRETS ARE MEANT TO BE KEPT Alissa doesn't believe in magic. Her father's stories about the Hold, a legendary fortress where human Keepers learn magic from the enigmatic Masters, are just that--stories. But her mother insists that Alissa has inhe...



  • David Corbett

    From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves. Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, he’s stuck in a Californi...



  • Jeff Corwin

    Read along as animal expert Jeff Corwin tells you about the Florida Everglades and his experiences there. Over forty photos bring this fascinating region to life! From the American alligator of the freshwater marsh to the West Indian manatee of the F...



  • Ralph Cotton

    BORDERLINE INSANE No one outruns Fast Larry Shaw -- especially when he runs with them. In the delirium of a mysterious head wound, Shaw stumbles upon Dexter Lowe's boys on their way across the border. They're about to meet with Corio's Black River G...



  • Jack Coughlin; Donald A. Davis

    On the heels of the New York Times bestselling Dead Shot comes the most thrilling installment of the Kyle Swanson series yet, in which an attempt at a new peace in the Middle East is shattered by an unknown attacker, and only Swanson can find out who...



  • Debra Cowan

    "We have some unfinished business." Jilted. Betrayed. Hurt. Detective Robin Daly would never forget what being left at the altar felt like. Nor would she forget the part Nate Houston had played in it all. One word from him had caused everything to...



  • John Coy

    Four sports-crazy 5th grade boys deal with family, school, and friendship issues against the backdrop of their baseball season. Jackson's parents are divorced and his mother has started dating. Gig's dad is in the National Guard and has been calle...



  • Carolyn Crane

    JUSTINE KNOWS SHE'S GOING TO DIE. ANY SECOND NOW. Justine Jones has a secret. A hardcore hypochondriac, she's convinced a blood vessel is about to burst in her brain. Then, out of the blue, a startlingly handsome man named Packard peers into Justine...



  • Susan Crosby

    WILL THIS DOCTOR TAKE A WIFE? Having a secret crush on her boss was definitely taboo -- especially when tall, dark and hunky Ted Bonner didn't even know Sara Beth O'Connell was alive! And now she'd agreed to be a corporate spy to save the Armstrong ...



  • Neil Cross

    Everyone makes mistakes. But what if your biggest mistake was something you could never live down? Something so awful and despicable that it weighs daily on your soul? Nathan has never been able to forget the worst night of his life. Only he and an o...



  • Jennifer Crusie; Bob Mayer

    LIFE HAS ITS UPS AND DOWNS. Mary Alice Brannigan doesn't believe in the supernatural. Nor does she expect to find that Dreamland, the decaying amusement park she's been hired to restore, is a prison for the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons...



  • Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Unsettling. There's no better word to describe Miranda Barnes's ability to hear the cries of the dead, feel the wind move her hair when they run by, and -- dare she look into a mirror -- see the reflection of a ghostly woman behind her. There's only ...



  • Clive Cussler; Jack Du Brul

    On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor. In the present, Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed sate...



  • Bianca D'Arc

    Thrills, chills, and a smoldering sexy hero combine to unforgettable effect in Bianca D'Arc's irresistible new novel of paranormal romance... When police officer Sarah Petit investigates a disturbance in an abandoned building, she expects to find ...



  • Michael Dahl

    BATMAN has been kidnapped by the RIDDLER! The crook has left behind one of his infamous riddles, addressed to ROBIN. If ROBIN can solve the puzzle, he will locate the CAPED CRUSADER. But that first riddle leads to another. Then the RIDDLER turns off ...



  • Roald Dahl

    Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about a landlady's house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? Does Sir Basil Turton value most his wife or one of his priceless sculptures? Here are thirtee...



  • Don Dahler

    The follow-up to the critically acclaimed A Tight Lie---a darkly funny, fast-talking mystery with a dash of sports and no shortage of action Golf is a game of consistency, and after too many missed fairways, missed putts, and missed cuts, Huck Doy...



  • Margaret Daley

    WILL SHE EVER BE SAFE? Two years ago, Hannah Williams left the Witness Protection Program -- and she's been running ever since. To stay ahead of the mob, she changes her name and location constantly. So when she takes a job caring for a Montana ranc...



  • Angie Daniels

    Kellis Saunders has loved Diamere Redmond since they were kids. But when Diamere abruptly left town, Kellis vowed to put him out of her mind -- and her heart. Now the sinfully sexy nightclub owner is back...and he's ready to pick up where they left o...



  • Mary Margret Daughtridge

    SHE'S GOT IT ALL...EXCEPT THE ONE THING SHE NEEDS MOST Smart, successful businesswoman JJ Caruthers has a year to land a husband or lose the empire she's worked so hard to build. With time running out, romance is not an option, and a military husban...



  • Peter David

    THERE’S NEVER A DULL MOMENT IN THE LIFE OF BEN 10 Fifteen-year-old superhero Ben 10 and his friends arrive on the scene of an interstellar wreck only to find the fearsome Forever Knights, a secret society dedicated to stealing alien technology ...



  • Peter David

    When the colony planet Ariel sends out a mysterious distress signal, it is up to the Helljumpers of the 105th Marines to check it out, but soon two Helljumpers find their friendship and their lives on the line....



  • Alyssa Day

    Poseidon's warriors have learned that the battle to protect humanity produces unexpected enemies -- and alliances. But none more unexpected than the bond between a cursed Atlantean warrior and a woman whose sight uncovers any lie... A WARRIOR WITH N...



  • Karen Day

    MADISON IS NOT your average 12-year-old girl from Michigan in 1980. She doesn’t use lipgloss, but she loves to play sports, and joins baseball for the summer -- the first girl in Southern Michigan to play on a boys’ team. The press call her a st...



  • Zuri Day

    Zuri Day cranks up the heat with an explosively sexy tale about a woman who's about to get a crash course in lust... First grade teacher Gwen Smith was happily married -- until her husband got himself a twenty-something mistress and filed for divo...



  • Nina De Gramont

    Sixteen-year-old Sydney Biggs is a "good kid" -- smart, pretty, self-aware. No one doubts that she'll go far in life. But lately her mother worries that Sydney is wandering down the wrong path and getting all caught up in petty teenage rebellion and ...



  • Margriet De Moor

    On the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down onto the Netherlands, demolishing the dikes protecting the country and wiping a quarter of its landmass from the map. It ...



  • Zoey Dean

    After a rocky first week in L.A., Jojo Milford is quickly getting used to her status as Hollywood Royalty. She and stepsister Myla have a tenuous truce, at least at home. But with Jojo becoming more and more popular at Beverly Hills High, how long ca...



  • Virginia Deberry; Donna Grant

    ENTER THE WORLD OF UPTOWN Uptown . . . where money rules Uptown . . . where ambition trumps tradition Uptown . . . where politics come before everything Uptown . . . where a family’s secrets will bring them together -- or down After ...



  • Tom Defalco

    Mayday faces mutants, magic, and more! Spider-Girl battles old enemies and new, alongside her era's New Warriors and alone, while a mysterious figure plans his own web of intrigue around her! Featuring J2, Raptor, and other Spider-Girl super-peers! C...



  • Nunzio Defilippis; Christina Weir

    Ben and his Bakugan, Drago, enter the mysterious Evo Tournament in order to increase their power, but they face the unknown powers of the reigning champion and Runo, who has entered the tournament in order to stop them. ...



  • Frank Delaney

    She sprang from the womb and waved to the crowd. Then smiled and took a bow. And so we first meet Venetia Kelly, the beguiling actress at the center of this new, spellbinding, and epic novel by Frank Delaney, the bestselling author of Ireland and Sha...



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  • David Dickinson

    The scion of the Colvilles, who are wealthy wine merchants, is about to marry the daughter of the even grander Nash family. Immediately after the nuptials, the bridegroom’s uncle Cosmo is found clutching a gun, having apparently killed his own brot...



  • Helenkay Dimon

    PERMISSION TO APPROACH According to Judge Bennett Walker, trying to kill him is a dumb idea. They might make him wear a big black nightgown to work, but it covers a lot of muscles, and he's definitely packing beneath it. He's also an ex-prosecutor a...



  • Helenkay Dimon

    A GOOD AGENT NEVER LETS THE JOB BECOME PERSONAL... Who wanted her dead? That's what Claire Samson wanted to know. On the run and alone, there was only one man she trusted to find her. Recovery agent Luke Hathaway was the best at locating and saving,...





  • Stacy Dittrich

    When the bodies of local homeless men begin turning up missing major organs, Detective CeeCee Gallagher is hot on the trail of a killer. Only after her husband, FBI Agent Michael Hagerman, is the target of a car bomb, does CeeCee realize what she's r...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    The detective duo learns that the headmaster of the Willis Firth Academy is in peril along with his daughter--and the Hardys, too. Can the boys wrap up their mission before someone loses a life?...



  • Philippe Djian

    The Basque landscape is a delightfully sinister setting for the taut and cinematic Unforgivable, the #1 bestseller from French novelist Philippe Djian. Francis, a sixty-year-old author, has not written a word in the twelve years since his first wife ...



  • Christina Dodd

    Demure lady's companion Emma Chegwidden never defies society’s rules. Until the night she runs straight into the arms of the mysterious and menacing Reaper . . . a man who rides the night-shadowed countryside and conceals his identity behind a mask...



  • Frances O'Roark Dowell

    B z z z z z z z The buzzing sound? Do you hear that? There it is again. B z z z z z z z No? Well, I really shouldn't have asked. Most people can't hear it, anyway. But, if you could, you'd think it sounds like you're teetering on the e...



  • Sharon M. Draper

    Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And thereAs no delete button. SheAs the smartest kid in her whole schoolAbut no one knows it. Most peopleAher teachers and doctors inc...



  • Susanne Dunlap

    "Will I never see you again either?" I asked, feeling as though I was about to jump off a high mountain peak and hope to land without hurting myself. That's how impossible everything seemed at that moment, no matter what I did. "Perhaps we will me...