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  • Relentless Aaron

    Sixteen-year-old Angel is a rising vocal star, blessed with a voice that can hold its own with the biggest names in the industry. With a surprise platinum single burning up the charts, Angel's career is about to soar...even if her love life seems per...



  • Hailey Abbott

    After years of watching couples come to blows over ice sculptures, Abby wants no part of the family business. She'd rather spend weekends kicking a soccer ball or antagonizing Noah, the cute son of a famous pastry chef -- not doing the Electric Slide...



  • Marcie Aboff

    From DreamWorks, the studio behind the megahit SHREK 2, a movie that proves that it's a jungle out there!

    Marty and Alex are best friends but even they don't always see eye-to-eye. Alex loves being the star of the zoo, but Marty wants somethin...



  • Eve Adams

    As touching as it is humorous, The Garden of Eden is a parable for our time with a powerful and ultimately redemptive ending that speaks to oft underappreciated virtues such as loyalty (sticking with those you love even when they screw up royally), t...



  • Alma Alexander

    The child Anghara Kir Hama was forced to flee the kingdom she rightfully ruled, escaping the murderous wrath of her brother, the usurper, who would see her dead to secure the throne. But her years spent in a strange desert land -- honing the miraculo...



  • Hannah Alexander

    It was a story to put Hidewaway, Missouri, in the national headlines... A Missing Child: Clarissa Cooper, twelve, vanishes near her home -- abducted, evidence suggests, by someone close to her. A Woman in Crisis: Noelle Cooper races back to her...



  • Victoria Alexander

    Pamela is a mystery Alexei is determined to solve ... Prince Alexei of Avalonia is a master at the art of seduction, but when a mysterious young woman he meets at a masked ball spends the night in his bed, he finds he is touched in ways he cannot ...



  • Jane Alison

    In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Natives and Exotics follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, as they wander a world scarred by colonialism.

    Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice, the c...



  • Isabel Allende

    A child of two worlds—the son of an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner and a Shoshone warrior woman—young Diego de la Vega cannot silently bear the brutal injustices visited upon the helpless in late-eighteenth-century ...



  • Steve Alten

    Master of suspense Steve Alten always takes readers to the edge with his non-stop, adrenaline-charged novels. Just in time for the movie, this new edition of his New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to MEG shows just how deep fear can run ...



  • Steve Amick

    The resort town of Weneshkeen, nestled along Michigan’s Gold Coast, has become a complex melting pot: townies and old timers mix with ritzy summer folk, migrant cherry pickers, wily river guides, and a few Ojibwe Indians. As the summer blooms, thes...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    In the tradition of Lord of the Rings and The Sword of Shannara, Gree is a workaday Orc without many aspirations, as greedy and nasty as they come. But soon, after he and his fellow orcs lay siege to a human castle, Gree comes upon a hidden treasure,...



  • Donna Andrews
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    CLAUDIA BISHOP AND DEAN JAMES invite you to dine in. There's murder on the menu... Main Course: Sixteen short stories Side Dishes: Sixteen all -- new recipes and author interviews Sink your teeth into these delicacies from today's masters of ...



  • Mary Kay Andrews

    In Mary Kay Andrews's bestselling third novel, a no-good lowdown, lying, cheating varmint of an ex-fiance gets the comeuppance he so richly deserves. This is a dishy and outrageous story that Mary Kay's readers will love. The night before her we...



  • Roderick Anscombe

    Working in a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane, psychiatrist Paul Lucas confronts the darkest and most frightening side of humanity. But he has never interviewed a patient like Craig Cavanaugh. The scion of a wealthy and influential f...



  • Jennifer Apodaca

    If only life came with operating instructions. Samantha Shaw's dating service, Heart Mates, is barely paying the bills, and her up-and-down relationship with private investigator Gabe Pulizzi isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of her knack for roman...



  • Mie Araki

    When kitten spies a butterfly, she boldly sets off on an adventure away from Mama's side. She creeps, leaps, crouches, and crawls until she finally has that butterfly cornered. Or does she? Poor kitten is in for a few big surprises. Lucky for her, Ma...



  • Nadeem Aslam

    WINNER OF THE KIRIYAMA PRIZE • If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers. Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. ...



  • Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Realms rise and fall, human lives tick by like seconds on a clock, and the dragons watch from on high. But when the mighty wyrms lose their minds, when they succumb to their basest, most violent impulses, time stands still. And that just happens t...



  • James Axler

    THE DRAGON AWAKENS The nine hybrid barons--mysterious oligarchs who ruled the fortified cities that emerged after Armageddon--are no more. Gone, not by the civil war fought by a courageous band of exiles, but trapped in a web of evil 4000 years in t...



  • Ben M. Baglio

    Lost pets are in luck with Andi, Tristan, and Natalie on the case. Orchard Park's premier pet detective team is always hot on the trail! When Andi, Tristan, and Natalie find a badly injured Labrador in a ditch by a busy street, they are horrified. H...





  • Emily Baker

    Her Secret Lover Wastrel, gambler, and ne'er-d-well...handsome Garrett Lynch has a wicked reputation and every woman knows it. Can it be possible that he is also the man known only as The Green Dragon, secretly fighting for Ireland against rampant E...



  • Sam Baker

    Who would leave a highly respected, hard-won position as an investigative journalist at one of London's top newspapers for a job at a fashion rag? That's the question on everyone's mind when Annie Anderson announces she's making the move. True, the l...




  • Elaine Barbieri

    Buck Star was a handsome cad with a love-'em-and-leave-'em attitude that had broken more than one heart. But when he lost his head over a conniving beauty young enough to be his own daughter, he jeopardized all he valued, even the lives of his own ch...



  • Tessa Barclay

    The compelling new romantic novel from one of Britain's best-loved storytellers When genealogist Laura Wainwright receives an enquiry from a Canadian named Neil Crandel, her curiosity is aroused ?{ not least by a piece of lace bought in the nineteent...



  • Robert Barnard

    Meet the Cantelos of Leeds, England. To call the Cantelos dysfunctional is actually a wild understatement. But is one of them also a killer? Clarissa Cantelo, a skilled clairvoyant, apparently thought so. Believing that her sixteen-year-old nephe...



  • Emily Barr

    Emily Barr's feisty new heroine charms both sides of the Atlantic while facing the demons from her past EVIE SILVERMAN appears to have it all. A semi-celebrity in the British tabloids, she's known as much for her fabulous sense of style as for her r...



  • Nancy Bartholomew

    SHE'S NOT GONNA TAKE IT! Sophie Mazaratti moved far away to escape the mess her sleazy ex left behind. But he's found her bolt-hole -- and so have his worst enemies, the mob. What's more, they think she's working with him -- and so does the FBI. N...



  • Janet Lee Barton

    John Harper arrives in Roswell to settle his Uncle Douglas's estate and finds he is not welcome. His name brings fear and loathing to the townspeople. Yet, from his correspondence, his uncle lauded himself as a champion of the New Mexico Territory. ...



  • Mary Beth Bass

    Claire Islington has everything. Only a selfish fool would complain or want more. And yet Claire does. For seven years, she's been haunted by desire. That's how long it's been since she allowed herself to chase her dream. Then, it almost killed her. ...



  • Rick Bass

    This novel of young men seeking glory in the Republic of Texas is “a surprisingly absorbing rendition of a terrible episode in American history” (The Oregonian).The Diezmo tells the incredible story of the Mier Expedition, one of the most absurd ...



  • Holly Baxter

    "Realistic characters, natural dialogue, well-integrated historical detail and a surprise twist ending mark this as superior mystery fare." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewTo think of Chicago in the 1930s is to conjure up pictures of the Chicago O...



  • Stephen Baxter

    Welcome to the infinite worlds of The Web
    February 7, 2027, is World Peace Day. All over the world, celebrations are in full swing. There's even free access to the Web today--a chance to sample the infinite worlds and endless possibilities of v...



  • Greg Bear


    She is a daughter of one of Mars's oldest, most conservative Binding Multiples--the extended family syndicates that colonized the red planet. But Casseia Majumdar has a dream of an independent Mars, born in the student protests of 2171. During th...



  • Ann Beattie

    From four time O. Henry Award"winning author Ann Beattie, a compellingly tender, acute, and revelatory collection of stories.Ann Beattie's Follies is a superb novella and collection of stories about adult children, aging parents, and the chance enc...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Homicide detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim investigate murders specific to super hero cases. And with all super heroes declared illegal, a Powers crime wave has hit the city, and hit it hard! Age 17 and up....



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Follow Matt Murdock through a story that literally spans the entire history of the Marvel Universe! Who was the Kingpin before the Kingpin, and what was his relationship to Matt?Collects Daredevil #66-70....



  • David Benz

    The Flip Side of Forever is a story that explores human nature and mental illness. Set in 1961, it is the story of Hamilton "Ham" Springs, a man who is by all outward appearances an ordinary guy. But on the inside, Ham is anything but normal-he's a w...




  • Steve Berry

    Papal secretary Father Colin Michener is concerned for the Pope. Night after restless night, something coaxes Pope Clement XV to the Vatican's private archive--something concerning the revelations of Fatima. When the Pope sends Michener on a mysterio...



  • Kristin Billerbeck

    She's got the rock, so when does happily ever after kick in? At long last, Ashley Stockingdale--patent attorney, fashionista, and homeowner--can finally add "fiancee" to her spirited resume. That means the next four months will be a dizzying and d...



  • Claudia Bishop
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    CLAUDIA BISHOP AND DEAN JAMES invite you to dine in. There's murder on the menu... Main Course: Sixteen short stories Side Dishes: Sixteen all -- new recipes and author interviews Sink your teeth into these delicacies from today's masters of ...



  • Lawrence Block

    The CIA, the FBI, the KGB, Interpol -- not one of the world's premier intelligence organizations knows quite what to make of Evan Michael Tanner. Is he a spy, a mercenary, a footloose adventurer, or simply a screwball sucker for hopeless causes? (A...



  • Jenna Blum

    FOR FIFTY YEARS, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole ...



  • Stephen A. Bly

    A fifth-grade school teacher in southern Illinois, Develyn Worrell's nightmare begins one summer when she discovers her husband's infidelity. She divorces him without ever telling her twenty-one-year-old daughter why. Although Devvy has a heart chang...



  • Larry Bond

    The US submarine Memphis should have been mothballed decades ago. Instead, she is charged with one last, secret mission: to locate leaking containers of Russian nuclear fuel on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. More than just an environmental nightmare,...




  • Ben Bova

    The planet closest to our Sun, Mercury is a rocky, barren, heat-scorched world. But there are those who hope to find wealth in its desolation. Saito Yamagata thinks Mercury's position makes it an ideal place to generate power to propel starships int...



  • Rhys Bowen
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    CLAUDIA BISHOP AND DEAN JAMES invite you to dine in. There's murder on the menu... Main Course: Sixteen short stories Side Dishes: Sixteen all -- new recipes and author interviews Sink your teeth into these delicacies from today's masters of ...



  • Celya Bowers

    Hidden Secrets Kasmira "Mira" Benton was raised by a single mother who did the best she could with what she had. She never revealed that Mira's father is Paulo Riaz, a notorious drug lord who's wanted by the DEA. Now a parent herself, Mira would lik...



  • C.J. Box

    A good friend and fellow game warden has killed himself, and Joe Pickett's been chosen to temporarily run his district. But Jackson, Wyoming, is a far cry from Joe's hometown of Saddlestring--and it doesn't help that now Joe feels compelled to invest...



  • Joseph Boyden

    Set in Canada and the battlefields of France and Belgium, Three-Day Road is a mesmerizing novel told through the eyes of Niska -- a Canadian Oji-Cree woman living off the land who is the last of a line of healers and diviners -- and her nephew Xavier...



  • Kathy Brandt

    FIRE AND WATER I'd come to the British Virgin Islands to escape. As a police diver and underwater investigator, I figured tropical waters and an island paradise beat murky, polluted city lakes any day. When I left Denver, my former partner in homi...



  • Lyle Brandt

    The Civil War is over. The American West is on the mend, but turmoil still brews south of the border. And one mans search for peace finds him the subject of a Mexican manhunt. Matthew Price is weary of the trail. He's tired of living by the gun--t...



  • Kylie Brant

    She didn't know her name, didn't know her nationality. The newly manufactured "Rianna Kingsley" only knew that her martial-arts skills and weaponry and assassination techniques went far beyond the average person's.... The men who'd tried to assass...



  • Jean Brashear

    THE TRUTH COULD SAVE HER... OR DESTROY HER Twenty years ago, Lucas Walker was seventeen, in love with Tansy Gerard -- and framed for the murder of Tansy's twin brother. Lucas's part-Cherokee heritage, "bad seed" reputation and desperate need to pr...



  • Theresa Breslin

    A young man lies bleeding in the street. It could be any street, in any city. But it's not. It's Glasgow. And it's May - the marching season. The Orange Walks have begun. Graham doesn't want to be involved. He just wants to play football with his new...



  • Terri Brisbin

    TIME WAS RUNNING OUT FOR THE DUCHESS OF WINDMERE... All Miranda Warfield had ever wanted was to be a wife to a man, not a title, but her marriage to Adrian, Duke of Windmere, had been merely a polite ton alliance for years. Now, miraculously, the ...



  • Connie Briscoe

    The memorable men and women of P.G. County are back in Connie Briscoe’s wickedly funny and deliciously daring novel of romance and betrayal, dangerous choices and seductive second chances.Barbara Bentley, the grand dame of Prince George's Count...



  • Elise Broach

    When Hero starts sixth grade at a new school, she's less concerned about the literary origins of her Shakespearean name than about the teasing she's sure to suffer because of it. So she has the same name as a girl in a play by a dusty old author. Her...



  • Elise Broach

    Having reached his limit with the loud, troublesome baby in the house, John tells his mother that it is time to make some changes and suggests that it is time for the baby to go back from where it came, in an amusing tale of sibling rivalry....



  • Amy Belding Brown

    In this novel about Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife, Lidian, Amy Belding Brown examines the emotional landscape of love and marriage. Living in the shadow of one of the most famous men of her time, Lidian becomes deeply disappointed by marriage, but consi...



  • Don Bruns
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    CLAUDIA BISHOP AND DEAN JAMES invite you to dine in. There's murder on the menu... Main Course: Sixteen short stories Side Dishes: Sixteen all -- new recipes and author interviews Sink your teeth into these delicacies from today's masters of ...



  • William F. Buckley Jr.

    The brilliant CIA agent goes up against infamous Soviet spy Kim Philby in this “lively, entertaining” Cold War thriller (Publishers Weekly).  Blackford “Blackie” Oakes is the greatest spy in American history, but he’s no longer allowed...



  • Lynn Bulock

    I, Gracie Lee Harris, being of (mostly) sound mind and (slightly chubby) body, do hereby declare I had nothing to do with the murder of my two-timing, con man husband. But I know three women who could have killed Dennis: his devoted but delusional mo...



  • John Burdett

    Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller. A farang -- a foreigner -- has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchai's mother an...



  • Morgan Burke

    the party room. On Manhattan's Upper East Side. Everybody's fabulous. No one gets carded. Then someone dies. The Prep School Killer is dead. Finally Kirsten can go on and leave the nightmare of her best friend Sam's murder behind her. Kirsten's at N...



  • Larry Burkett

    It begins in the 1960s-an unimaginable series of political machinations leading to one act of greed and destruction after another, until in the twenty-first century, the world faces a single, global dictator. Behind the takeover is an odd, yet fright...



  • Laura J. Burns

    Things are not going as Ephram had planned. When he arrives in Los Angeles with Amy and Bright, it seems clear that there is no way Amy is going to spend the next four years at UCLA. The traffic, the Sunset Strip, the perfectly tanned and impossibly ...



  • Frederick Busch

    Combining the pace of a detective story with the bold prose of a master storyteller, North is both an adventure and a pilgrimage. Alone and haunted by memories of his dead wife and child, Jack -- who prowled the backwaters of Girls -- returns to upst...



  • Timothy Bush

    One day Teddy Bear leans out of his boy's knapsack to pick a tempting flower. Buthe leans too far ... and finds himself on the ground, lost and alone.

    What will Teddy Bear see? Who will he meet? And will he be able to find his way home?

    ...



  • Jim Butcher

    Paranormal investigations are Harry 'Dresden's business, and Chicago is his beat as he tries to bring law and order to a world of wizards and monsters that exists alongside everyday life. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don't believe in...



  • Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea. That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same. The spiritual heart of Faern beats in time with a hundred gods, and for each, a thousand s...



  • Michael Cadnum

    Edmund and Herbert, newly made knights, return to England expecting to revel in the pleasure of being home. Instead, scheming Prince John has a new task for the weary Crusaders; they are to escort two young women on a pilgrimage to Rome, a journey th...



  • Dana Cameron

    In an historic, if isolated, New England hotel, some of the most respected names in archaeology are coming together to celebrate the work of Julius Garrison, a legend in the field. It's a conference Emma Fielding is determined to attend -- braving a ...



  • Barbara Campbell

    THE BATTLE OF THE TREE-LORDS Year after year, the tribe of the Oak had observed the Midwinter ritual. And though the past season had proved especially unkind, with plague claiming far too many of them, still they would not fail to gather for the b...



  • Joanna Campbell

    Life at Tall Oaks is great for Allie, but she's watching her friends Melanie and Kevin struggle with Jinx, the talented Thoroughbred colt they want to run in the Kentucky Derby.

    If Allie could just pinpoint the cause of Jinx's misbehavior,...



  • Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    Biscuit celebrates America's birthday. There's a parade and fireworks to watch, and lots of treats to share with friends and family. Unfold the flaps to see what surprises are in store this Fourth of July.

    ...



  • Philip Caputo

    Philip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with ...



  • C.J. Carmichael

    It's amazing how one decision could change your life Back in law school Sally Stowe and Colin Foster argued in and out of class. One night, after a study session in the library, Colin offered to drive Sally home. They ended up in his dorm room makin...



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    Efi Panayotopoulou is about to marry her childhood sweetheart Nick Constantino. Everything should be perfect. But their families seem hell-bent on turning the wedding into a farce -- or Greek tragedy. And Efi is about a baklava flake away from runnin...



  • Lizette Carter



  • Dianne Castell
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    Meet three people with a little something special whose love lives are about to turn wild, crazy, sensual, and oh-so-hot. Blame it on the moon? Sure. But who's complaining, anyway... For years, Julia Simon has had the worst luck, married to a man...



  • Jack Cavanaugh; Jerry Kuiper

    You have been selected for death stop precisely forty-eight hours from the time of this transmission You will die stop This is an official death watch notice stop Rookie news reporter Sydney St, James found the first Death Watch notice in a vehicle...



  • Grace Cavendish

    There’s a new arrival -- a mysterious and exotic young princess -- at Court and Lady Grace can’t believe how many rumours there are about her already. The exiled Banoo Yasmine from Sharakand is a beautiful girl with a pet panther and, everyone be...



  • Michelle Celmer

    UNLOCKING HIS SECRETS Playboy Tyler Douglas loved everything about women -- how they looked, the way they smelled, how they felt and tasted.... But after a recent embarrassing encounter, he was afraid to have anything to do with them. Until Tina D...



  • Andy Chambers

    A widely varied, immensely enjoyable, and historically important anthology, Future on Ice is a showcase for the hottest stories by the coolest SF writers of the 1980s. Complete with a preface, introduction, and story notes by Card himself, here ar...



  • J-P Chanda

    Today is Spongebob's Birthday! But where are all the balloons, the cake, and his gifts? This enhanced edition contains audio narration....



  • Patricia Chao

    When Catalina Ortiz Midori walks into a shabby New York dance studio for her first mambo class, she has no idea her life is about to change. A Japanese-Cuban immigrant who has lost touch with her Cuban roots, Catalina is mesmerized by the one-eye...



  • Janet Chapman

    Janet Chapman returns to the breathtaking Maine coast in the second novel featuring two passionate sisters...and the men who have what it takes to love them. Willow Foster is committed to protecting Maine's precious coastline. She's equally commi...



  • Martin Chatterton

    Bad Dog escapes the pound ... and ends up in the White House. Is this a step in the right direction?

    Bad Dog has three days left in the pound . . . until he's whisked away by the Secret Service. The most powerful man in the world needs a new f...



  • Catherine Chidgey

    From the writer described as “the most fabulous New Zealand writer alive” (Listener NZ) comes a masterful novel, with the power of Patrick Suskind’s Perfume.

    Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1898 is a frontier, where the progress of the modern wor...



  • Lauren Child

    Boy genius Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent-H for short- is the answer to his rich parents' prayers. He is their dear companion, their fiercest board game adversary, and their frequent guest at parties. But this prodigy's parents don't share his kn...



  • Maureen Child

    HOME WAS THE MOST DANGEROUS TERRITORY OF ALL FOR THIS MARINE... Brian Reilly was a man on edge. It had been two long weeks since he and his brothers had made a "no sex for ninety days" bet before Tina Coretti Reilly turned up on his doorstep. And ...



  • Laura Childs

    Charleston, South Carolina, is alive with music, dancing, and the arts as the Spoleto festival gets underway. But Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning feels far from festive when the inaugural Poet's Tea is forced into one of the Heritage Soc...



  • Meg Chittenden
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    CLAUDIA BISHOP AND DEAN JAMES invite you to dine in. There's murder on the menu... Main Course: Sixteen short stories Side Dishes: Sixteen all -- new recipes and author interviews Sink your teeth into these delicacies from today's masters of ...



  • Yangsook Choi

    Based on the author's childhood in South Korea

    The white peaches grown in Puchon are the best in all South Korea, and a rare treat for a little girl who lives in the town. She dreams of a peach orchard where she can play and eat as much of the...




  • Scott Ciencin

    A TURNING POINT FOR THE STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS! After the catastrophic events of Wildfire, the S.C.E. crew of the U.S.S. da Vinci is in disarray. Half of the ship's complement were killed at Galvan VI, and the survivors must put their lives b...



  • CLAMP

    Kimihiro Watanuki is the indentured servant of Yûko, the beautiful but completely unpredictable Space-Time Witch. He must work at her bizarre wish-granting shop until he can pay off his own wish: to be free of the spirits that haunt him. Yûko’s l...



  • Douglas Clegg

    There is a dark and isolated mansion, boarded-up and avoided, on a hill just beyond the town of Watch Point in New York's Hudson Valley. It has been abandoned too long and fallen into disrepair. It is called Harrow and it does not like to be ignored....



  • Rowan Clifford

    The little town of Cavity is no place for Rodeo Ron and his multicolored milkshake cows.

    Not a soul in Cavity will drink milk. They'll only drink extra-fizzy, extra-sweet sodas from Frothy and Fruity's. Which would explain everyone's uncontrol...




  • Jan Coffey

    A summer in Aruba, on the beach, in the sun-what else could a girl want? A summer romance, of course! Imagine spending your entire summer vacation on the beautiful Islands of Aruba. Who could ask for anything more? Well, for Morgan Callahan, spend...



  • Adrian Cole
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A world torn by generations of war . . . Erethindel, the fabled Crimson Talisman. Long sought by the forces of darkness. Long guarded in secret by one family. But now the secret has been revealed, and only one young man can keep it safe. As...



  • Kresley Cole

    With If You Dare, Cole introduces a thrilling new romance trilogy featuring fierce Scottish brothers with dangerous lives, dark desires, and a deadly curse. Can he exact revenge? High in the Pyrenees, a band of mercenaries led by Courtland MacCarri...



  • Stephen Cole

    Kate Folan comes from a family of werewolves. She'll only become fully 'wolf herself when she mates with a male werewolf. But she vows that will never happen. The last thing she wants is to give in to her evil heritage. Then she meets Tom Anderson. T...



  • Loren L. Coleman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In the bleak northlands, Grimnir, the living god of the plundering Vanir, is leading his hordes across Cimmeria. Tales of Grimnir's fury spread as refugees scatter throughout the land to escape his wrath.

    In the village of Gaud, the young warr...



  • Yvonne Collins; Sandy Rideout

    Leigh can think of a million ways she'd rather spend a summer besides visiting her movie-star mother, Annika. But her dad insists the two need some "mother/daughter bonding time" and packs fifteen-year-old Leigh off to Ireland, where she'll become he...



  • Jane Leslie Conly


    I'm afraid, but I can't call Mom or Dad, 'cause Jerry might wake up. If I try to tell Shannon, she puts a pillow over her head, 'cause she doesn't like to talk about Mr. Healy. She says remembering him makes her sad.
    "Charlie," he whispers.



  • Michael Connelly

    He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people op...



  • M.J. Conner

    Life in New York has grown too dangerous. So when faced with only two options - a life in a brothel or becoming a mail-order bride, Emily Foster chooses the latter and moves to Sanctuary, Montana. She'll have six months to make her decision. Surely s...




  • Glen Cook

    Garrett's having a pretty good morning until he finds a strange child named Penny Dreadful poking around his house. Before he can figure out what the mysterious urchin wants, he's hired to investigate how an old underworld boss ended up in a coma--le...



  • Glen Cook

    Croaker has fallen and, following the Company's disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors--determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter, what the cost. But in assembling a new fighting for...



  • Kristina Cook

    She Didn't Want Marriage Determinedly unwed, Jane Rosemoor has turned away countless suitors because she is secretly fearful of the mysterious malady that afflicts the married women of her family. But when she crosses paths with the sinfully han...



  • Trish Cook

    Your mom was a groupie in the 1980s. Therefore, your long-lost dad must be: a) a rock star of epic proportions b) a has-been of epic proportions c) none of the above Rock and roll brought her into this world.... Trace lives smack in the middle...



  • Martha Cooley

    - "The Archivist, Martha Cooley's first novel, was a national bestseller and a "New York Times Notable Book.- With the assurance, complexity, and depth of a work by Bulgakov, DeLillo, or Poe, Martha Cooley's extraordinary second novel is further evid...



  • Jilly Cooper

    ull of irresistible romance and laugh-out-loud moments, this is perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Marian Keyes, Dolly Alderton and Jane Fallon.-----------------------------------If Emily hadn't gone to Annie Richmond's party, she would never have met t...



  • Alex Cord

    Jesse Burrell's passion for life was extinguished the day his son died. Years later, it was rekindled by an internationally famous model, her own heart shattered by the death of her brother. Noted Western movie actor Alex Cord bares his soul in this ...



  • Francis Cottam

    First published in 2006, this is the story of Polish war exile Julia Smollen who has escaped the horrors of Nazi labour camp to forge a new life in California with her daughter, Natasha.

    It's an exciting time to be in America. With Sin...



  • Maria Couto



  • Cressida Cowell

    SKULLION COLOR: Black and purple NASTY BITS: Vicious teeth and claws THREAT TO VIKINGS: Watch out or it will eat you! The savage Skullion can't see, hear, or fly, but its keen sense of smell can easily sniff out a Viking snack. And it's not a daint...



  • Greg Cox

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