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New Books List: 642 titles


  • Peter Abrahams

    In echo falls you never know what's coming next -- and everyone has a secret. Things are amiss at 99 Maple Lane: Ingrid's dad's job is in jeopardy, but he won't explain why. Ingrid's brother, Ty, is getting buff -- really buff -- but when Ty starts g...



  • David A. Adler

    It’s a rainy day when Cam and her classmates arrive at school. Meow! A cat with a spot on its tail is napping near the coat rack. How did a cat get in their classroom? Did it run away? Click! Read along as Cam solves this easy-to-read cat caper....



  • David A. Adler

    Gr 1-3-Adler has adapted the information in A Picture Book of Helen Keller (Holiday, 1990) into this offering for beginning readers. Youngsters will gain a sense of Keller's frustration as a child, her determination as a student, and her hard work...



  • Ken Akamatsu

    TIME AGAIN

    The sprawling, activity-packed, three-day Mahora Academy Festival is underway. Overwhelmed and exhausted by his schedule, Negi falls asleep and almost loses an entire day. But thanks to Chao Lingshen’s amazing, pocket-size inventi...



  • Michele Albert

    APPEARANCES ARE DECEIVING Fiona Kennedy can tell a forgery from the genuine article in a snap. Drop-dead-sexy Grif Laughton, however, is not so easy to read. He's clearly a masterpiece of the male variety -- and the attraction he sparks is defini...



  • Brian W. Aldiss

    In the winter of 2005, after the horrifying natural disaster of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, Steve Savile and Alethea Kontis joined forces to raise money to help the distressed survivors and have created Elemental. They solicited SF and fantasy sto...



  • Lloyd Alexander

    A companion book to The Chronicles of Prydain, this collection of short stories revisits beloved characters and reveals more about the history of the magical land of Prydain.Here, readers will find Dallben, destined to be an enchanter; Angharad, a pr...



  • Jennifer Allison

    If you think a school for girls is simply a place to wear ribbons in your hair and expose your dimpled knees, you've never been to Our Lady of Sorrows. When her mother suggests she apply for a scholarship to Our Lady of Sorrows, an exclusive Catholi...



  • Bridget Anderson

    As an only child, Alicia McKay's family history has always been shrouded in mystery. The only details she has are in her deceased mother's tattered journals, which she inherited after her father died. Determined to uncover family secrets, Alicia trav...



  • Scott Anderson

    David Richards is a mid-level diplomat assigned to the sleepy Middle Eastern kingdom of Kutar. Richards spends his days monitoring small development projects and his nights attending embassy cocktail parties and bedding various visiting American wome...



  • Amy Andrews

    Kidnapped for their devotion... Sergeant Richard Hollingsworth, dedicated army medic, has devoted his life to saving others. But now his medical skills have put his own life in danger -- and that of his beloved Holly. Saved by their past... The ...



  • Joani Ascher

    It was tradition for most of the residents of Grosvenor, NJ, to come into the town center for celebrations, eating, enjoying the festivities, and watching the annual Fourth of July fireworks.

    Except this year it was different. Greedy developer Ke...



  • Ashley & JaQuavis

    After the phenomenal success of their first novel, Dirty Money, Ashley and JaQuavis are back with their spellbinding sophomore novel, Diary of a Street Diva. Come with them as they take you into the world of Remy Morgan, the wife of Cease, a young hu...




  • Ace Atkins

    Tampa, Florida, 1955: a city pulsing with Sicilian and Cuban gangsters, cigar factories, sweet rum, and violence. The bludgeoning death of retired kingpin Charlie Wall shocks the city and sends cops and reporters and associates scrambling to discover...



  • Annie Auerbach



    When Verne the turtle and his woodland friends wake up from their hibernation, they find a suburban neighborhood encroaching on their forest home, Verne's first instinct is to retreat into his shell and leave, but then he meets R.J., a con-ar...



  • Avi

    APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING... Children become cats and birds, a once-invisible young woman pieces herself back together, and the identity of a mysterious baseball mascot is uncovered--all within this eclectic collection from master storyteller A...



  • James Axler

    The conspiracy of secrecy manipulating post-nuclear Earth takes a terrifying new turn as the mysterious oligarchy becomes something far more sinister. No longer shrouded in the cloaks of hybrid-human divinity, the nine barons have evolved into their ...



  • Nina Bangs

    He'd lived a thousand years for this? Reinn Mackenzie was one ticked-off vampire. Werewolves--furry pains in the butt. Werecats--sneaky whisker-twitching manipulators. Reinn hated them all. But most of all, he hated his job. Guardian of the Blood....



  • Steven Banks

    Tom is an undersized nerd with an oversized nose. He’s got frizzy hair and glasses. He’s the flag monitor. He knows it -- he’s a creep. What girl will ever like him?

    The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind. Tom may not look like ...



  • Brad Barkley

    Calliope (or Cal as she calls herself) wants nothing more than to stay put; to stop traveling cross-country with her mother, sleeping in a tent, and abandoning all belongings whenever they pull up stakes. Meanwhile, eliot misses the happy times he le...



  • Robert Barnard

    Some memories are better left buried in the past. Well-known author Graham Broadbent has managed to repress one particularly dangerous memory for many years, but a trip home to a school reunion brings back the shocking reality of a desperate youthful...



  • Linda Barnes

    When private investigator Carlotta Carlyle is wakened by a late-night phone call, she discovers that her "little sister," Paolina, the child with whom she was paired years ago by a local mentoring program, is missing. Carlotta combs the Bosto...



  • Aileen G. Baron

    War time Tangier, policed by Franco's Guardia Civil, thick with many nationalities including Germans and Allies, bitter with the insults of Colonialism, is a dangerous place. Archaeologist Lily Sampson, recruited from her studies in Chicago by the en...




  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #86-90 & Annual #1. The head of Roxxon Oil sics the world's greatest mercenary, Silver Sable, on Spider-Man to learn why the web-spinner has targeted Roxxon on his nightly patrols. How violently Ms. Sable wants to ha...



  • Christopher L. Bennett

    For years, many have believed that the rise of superpowered mutants represents a threat to the survival of ordinary humans. The uncanny X-Men have dedicated their lives to proving that peaceful coexistence is possible. When a refugee spacecraft crash...



  • Veronica Bennett

    "Captures all the bliss and folly of Mary Shelley’s disastrous surrender to love, and the sorrowful steps by which she became the author of FRANKENSTEIN." -- NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

    In 1814, poet Percy Shelley enters the life of young M...



  • Michael Benson

    Her Cheating Heart"Mommy...won't be with us anymore." That's what attorney Kevin C. Bryant, 45, told his two young sons in the spring of 2003. At the time, blonde, pretty, 26-year-old Tabatha Bryant was alive and well in an upscale suburb of Rocheste...



  • Jim Benton

    Read the hilarious, candid (and sometimes not-so-nice), diaries of Jamie Kelly, who promises that everything in her diary is true...or at least as true as it needs to be.Dear Dumb Diary,My social studies teacher, Mr. VanDoy, never smiles. I know tha...



  • Linda Berdoll

    Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have an exceedingly passionate marriage in this continuing saga of one of the most exciting, intriguing couples in the Jane Austen Literature. As the Darcys raise their babies, enjoy their conjugal felicity and manage the great ...



  • Lara Bergen

    Why was sweeping Cinderella's favorite chore? What was served for dinner at the ball? How many guests were invited to her wedding? Here's your chance to find out! Illustrated with storybook art and sweet doodlesâ"îby Cinderella herself!â"îan...



  • Heidi Betts

    HIS PREGNANT MISTRESS She was his kept woman...a secret lover living in Las Vegas luxury. It had been an ideal situation. Until Misty Vale discovered she was carrying Cullen Elliott's child. Misty was not the type a millionaire like Cullen coul...



  • Kirsten Beyer

    A strain of the deadly Marburg virus has come up for sale on the black market, and the seller has showcased the wares by infecting an African village. APO has one potential lead: a researcher named Magrite whose success in treating Marburg victims ma...



  • Sarah Bilston

    In a charming and witty novel in the tradition of Allison Pearson and Sophie Kinsella, Sarah Bilston tells the story of a busy career woman who finds her pregnancy a breeze -- until she's ordered off her feet for complete and total bed rest. Quin...



  • Ruth Birmingham

    Sunny Childs, the Atlanta PI helps her younger, flightier sister, Lee-Lee, make a documentary about a prisoner on death row. Convicted of the brutal sex murders of two local women, Dale Weedlaw is scheduled to be executed in a few days. No sooner doe...



  • Chuck Black

    A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom’s Dawn , Leinad and Tess, along with all the king’s people, must escape slavery by the po...



  • Chuck Black

    A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom’s Dawn, Leinad and Tess, along with all the king’s people, must escape slavery by the powe...



  • Wendy Blackburn

    Self-deprecating and bitingly smart, Delia is a recovering addict who forges her own brand of hard won wisdom on her journey in sobriety. When Delia entered treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at seventeen, her life changed forever. She believed...



  • Annette Blair

    Lust muddies a high-stakes battle only one can win. Marcus adores Jade the minute he sees her; she despises him as fast. Jade Smithfield’s late grandmother unwittingly sold a land option to the railroad before she died. Nevertheless, to keep a f...



  • Lucy Jane Bledsoe

    Gr 7 Up-Bledsoe combines memoir with survival tips and fun facts in this friendly, come-along book about her experiences in Antarctica. She builds a snow shelter and spends the night in it, observes wildlife, visits a number of research stations, ...



  • Nelson Blish

    The Soviet Union is no more. Various nation states struggle with each other even as their old enemy, the United States, races ahead in military strength and technology. But there are those within the ranks of the Soviet fleet who seek to regain their...



  • Stephen A. Bly

    In this closing book of the Horse Dreams trilogy, soul-searching Indiana schoolteacher Develyn Worrell has finally found her groove. Ready to savor the end of summer in a small Wyoming town she once visited as a child, she settles in for a time of pe...



  • Carolita Blythe

    Souci Alexander, a poor young woman from the mountainous interior of Jamaica, agrees to a platonic marriage in order to further an ambitious politician’s career. He is running for prime minister and believes that his mixed-race background is becomi...



  • C.J. Box

    Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them must have done her in, and when he becomes th...



  • Irene Brand

    In one night, Edward Moody lost his young wife and Rose Thurston became a surrogate mother to a sickly infant. Ten years later, Rose must face the man who's selfish actions gave her a family, and Edward must come to terms with the consequences of his...




  • Matt Braun

    The cattle trail from Texas to Kansas was long, hot and dangerous. And by the time cowboys got there, they had the money and means to make a boomtown explode--and make Dodge City a great place to be a defense attorney...as long as you weren't looking...



  • Chaz Brenchley

    For a thousand years, the great city of Sund stood impregnable while its enemy, Maras, remained outside the walls. Then the Marasi harnessed the powers of magic. Erecting an otherworldly bridge whose foundations were rooted in sorcery, the Marasi ove...



  • Mary Brendan

    Sir Jason Hunter could not let a young widow fall into ruin when he could so easily help. His intentions were purely honorable, but then the lady herself surprised him with an offer of a carte blanche! Helen Marlowe's despicable brother had ...



  • Simon Brett

    The Detection Club is the oldest and most exclusive crime writing organization and it has always represented the cream of British crime writing talent. The founding and early members were amongst the most famous and best loved figures in the golden a...



  • Emily Brightwell

    GUILTY BYSTANDERS After a perfectly decent local woman is killed during a robbery, the Witherspoon household receives a surprising visit from a stranger named Blimpey Groggins. He claims his best buddy was convicted of the crime. He also claims th...



  • Elise Broach

    There are some kinds of trouble you never see coming, like those thunderstorms that start from nothing at all. One minute the sky is bright blue and distant. Then, all of a sudden, it's dark and thick with clouds, pressing down right on top of you. T...



  • Lauren Brooke

    HORSES. FRIENDS . COMPETITION. TRADITION. WELCOME TO CHESTNUT HILL, an exclusive boarding school set among the rolling hills of Virginia. With a premiere riding program, Chestnut Hill has a long tradition of excellence. Here, the best and brightes...



  • Charlotte Lewis Brown

    The dinosaurs were the biggest, most powerful animals that ever walked the earth. Now they are all gone, extinct.

    Bold illustrations and a dramatic text re"create the devastation sixty"five million years ago when a giant asteroid slamm...



  • Dale Brown

    Tensions have never been greater along America's boder with Mexico. To aid his narcotics smuggling operatiosn, criminal kingpin Ernesto Fuerza - under the name "Comandante Veracruz" and the false banner of Mexican nationalism - is calling for an arm...



  • Ken Bruen; Jason Starr

    5 IMPORTANT LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST: 1. When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath. 2. Drano is not the best tool for getting rid of a dead body. 3. Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure. 4. A ...



  • Mary Buckham

    BEING BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON DIDN'T MEAN YOU COULDN'T TOSS IT ASIDE TO RAPPEL DOWN A BUILDING... For debutante Vaughn Monroe, joining the clandestine IR-5 Agency, a group trained to infiltrate the enemy by becoming one of them, was her true callin...



  • Julia Buckley

    Tough. Unflappable. Stubborn. Crazy? Everyone, even her husband, believes Lily Caldwell went off the deep end when her partner Danny died in a mysterious shooting that nearly killed her, too. Based on the life-changing vision she experienced while te...



  • Lynn Bulock

    My new job: "Gracie Lee Harris, dead body finder." First it was my con man husband. Now it's Frank, the no-good contractor renovating my apartment. I think Ray -- uh, Detective Fernandez -- is starting to wonder about me, since I'm always sticking my...



  • Anita Richmond Bunkley

    From the banks of Texas's Buffalo Bayou to the blue waters of Hawaii, this powerful novel from acclaimed author Anita Bunkley tells the story of one resilient woman's fight to save a family legacy--and create a future for herself and her daughter... ...



  • Eve Bunting

    Heave ho, me hearties! Little Badger is back, and this time he''s on a pirate adventure. Trouble is, his forest friends don''t believe he''s really a pirate. But Little Badger knows something they don''t. Old Badger told him. Get ready for high seas ...



  • Jason M. Burns; Bryan Baugh

    Twigs Dupree recently acquired the gift of immortality and has chosen to play hero. Shoot him in the head and he will keep walking. Strangle him with a wire and he will keep talking. Send him up against a killer that views entrails as Christmas tinse...



  • Laura J. Burns

    SWEET TALKIN' DEMON His story's sweet, his method's new -- But this man's so perfect, he can't be true. Find the secret, find his source Or an Innocent's life may run its course.... Phoebe can't believe her luck -- finally, she's met the pe...




  • Jim Butcher

    There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Wa...



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

    Rogue dragons become heroes when a millennia-old curse is revealed. But knowing the cause of a disease and curing it are two very different things. And when most of the victims of the curse would rather not be cured of it at all, it gets a whole l...



  • Lee Merrill Byrd

    Riley Martin is a boy whose great curiosity takes him to a place he never imagined and a future that might seem impossible. But impossible is a word that doesn't exist for Riley.

    A second grader from El Paso, Texas, he lies in a high hospita...



  • Candy Calvert

    Leaving behind a cheating ex-boyfriend and her stressful job as an ER nurse, Darcy Cavanaugh goes on a fall foliage cruise with her best friend Marie. Lost in a sea of senior citizens, Darcy and Marie, the shipboard nurse, do their best to enjoy the ...




  • Suzy Capozzi

    The Precious Moments" Princesses are here! And this adorable hardcover storybook is a great way to remind every little princess they are adored! Featuring sweet, simple text and the unmistakable artwork of Samuel Butcher, this unique book also has ...



  • Elisa Carbone

    400 years ago, a boy fought to survive in James Town... Samuel Collier came from nothing. A street urchin, an orphan and, even a thief, he seems headed for a life in the alleys of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards...



  • Elizabeth Doyle Carey

    Look out, Gull Island! Neeve,Phoebe, Kate and Hillary - the 12-year-old Callahancousins - are staying at their grandmother Gee's ramblingseaside estate. A whole summer without any parents!As the idyllic summer continues the girls discover thatbeing j...



  • Mike Carey

    Cerebro has been stolen - and the trail points directly at the government's premier think tank, the Baxter Building! The X-Men aren't happy about it - and the Baxter Building's most famous residents, the Fantastic Four, aren't happy about an angry te...



  • Peter Carey

    Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-"really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when ...



  • Patrick Carman

    The final thrilling installment of the NYT-bestselling Land of Elyon trilogy!

    The Land of Elyon has begun to fail, poisoned by the evil that creeps across the Dark Hills and into Bridewell.
    As she moves toward a thrilling conclusion, Alexa ...



  • Isobelle Carmody

    In the midst of the worst winter on record, Rage is beset with worry. Her mother still hasn’t fully recovered from her car accident despite Rage’s successful quest for healing magic. Her stoic uncle seems to be having second thoughts about lookin...



  • Robyn Carr

    Three seconds is all it takes to turn a whole life around. And if anybody knows about bouncing back after disaster, it's Clare Wilson. She's had it with being married to a serial cheater, and no way is he getting another chance. Even her own son t...



  • Tori Carrington

    Sofie Metropolis is the newest P.I. on the mean streets of Astoria, Queens. She's known for her trademark frappes and her itchy trigger finger. She even shot one of her own clients! Well, he was trying to kill her at the time . . . and she only hit ...



  • Margaret Carroll

    Kit McCabe may be a newly minted associate editor at New York's most exclusive bridal magazine, but her personal life owes more to bad karma than to romance. That is until she falls into a cab with Wall Street player Mark Dawson III, who is gorge...



  • Linda Castillo

    MIDNIGHT IN MONTANA When a federal transport was ambushed and overturned in the wilds of Montana, MIDNIGHT agent Sean Cutter was given forty-eight hours to track down a desperate woman. But falsely accused, Mattie Logan didn't want to be saved. It...



  • Grace Cavendish

    The Queen and her Maids of Honour are spending the summer at a nobleman's estate, where a new manor house is being built. But the work has to stop when a mysterious spook appears. Could the ghost of a murdered Earl be haunting the site of his death? ...



  • Lee Child

    Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man ...



  • Maureen Child

    SEDUCED BY THE BOSS Tired of going unnoticed by the boss she loved for years, Kara Sloan decided now was the time to pack her bags and quit. But just as she was about to storm away, Cooper Lonergan surprised her with a night of seduction. He co...



  • Kelli Chipponeri

    SpongeBob SquarePants, Sandy, and Patrick have started a band, and no one can get enough of their new song, "Jumping Jellyfish"! But what happens when their instruments mysteriously disappear? Can the band think fast enough to save their big ...



  • CLAMP

    KimihIro Watanuki has a wish on layaway with Yûko Ishikawa, the sultry time-space witch who can grant anyone’s deepest desire . . . for a price! Still, working like a slave in Yûko’s shop hasn’t dampened Kimihiro’s enthusiasm for his cute c...



  • Chris Claremont

    TAKE A STAND. The world has acquired a lethal new weapon against X-gene mutants, whose superhuman powers separate them -- for better, for worse, forever -- from ordinary mortals. Now, for the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their godlike...



  • Chris Claremont

    It was the worst day in X-Men history. Now it's the day after. The House of M is over, but the effects will be felt for the rest of their lives. How do the X-Men pick up the pieces in a world that has completely changed? Plus: Something's amiss at th...



  • Chris Claremont

    Collects Marvel Graphic Novel #4, New Mutants #1-7 & Uncanny X-Men #167. Cannonball. Sunspot. Moonstar. Karma. Rahne. Teenagers, thrown together by the one thing they had in common -- the X-Factor in their genes that made them different, made the...



  • Carol Higgins Clark

    The date is Saturday, April 2. Five April brides discover their wedding dresses have been stolen. One of the brides is private investigator Regan Reilly. Her wedding is in seven days. Regan Reilly and her fiance, Jack "no relation" Reilly...



  • Debra Clayton

    The fame and fortune of a successful rap star can be distracting and full of illusions. Blayze is the flavor of the month in the rap industry and he has learly let the fame go to his head. When he is accused of rape, however, his tune changes dramati...



  • Harlan Coben

    Six years... That's how long it's been since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasn't thrown a punch. He hasn't held, much less fired, a gun. But all that is about to change . . . because of a promise. The s...



  • Rachel Cohn; David Levithan

    It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who's just walked in to his band's show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure ...



  • Susane Colasanti

    When you find something real, everything else falls into place.... Seniors in high school, Sara and Tobey couldn't be more different. She is focused on getting into her first-choice college; he wants to win Battle of the Bands. Sara's other goal i...



  • Kate Collins

    When I swapped the thorny problems of law school for the budding business of my flower store, Bloomers, I vowed that I, Abby Knight, wouldn't be caught dead visiting that hateful campus ever again. But sometimes a girl's got to face down her dragons....



  • Suzanne Collins

    NOW, WITH THE THIRD PROPHECY fulfilled, Gregor is drawn ever deeper into a brewing crisis. For generations, rats have run the mice -- or "nibblers" -- out of whatever lands they've claimed, keeping them constantly on the move. But now the mice ar...



  • Cara Colter

    Of all the favors her beloved father could ask, helping Clint McPherson was the only one Brandy King wanted to refuse. Of course, her dad didn't know his right-hand man had once rebuffed her kiss. Well, that was then. This was... No different. Som...



  • Phoebe Conn

    Captain Christopher MacLeod has won many ships in the War for American Independence, but never before so great a prize -- a woman of exceptional beauty. No matter if her kiss sets him aflame, Chris knows she feels nothing but hatred for him. There is...



  • Linda Conrad

    From the moment Dr. Victoria Sommer laid eyes on sexy Navajo medicine man Ben Wauneka, her dreams filled with images of Ben protecting her, holding her -- making love to her. But Tory had a lot to learn about Ben's world, and with an eerie enemy stal...



  • Kent Conwell

    Davy Nelson rode into Crockett, Texas, exhausted but pleased. He figured he had just about completed the promise he had made to his dying partner on the battlefield near Seven Pines, Virginia, two years earlier.

    But, when he climbed down off his ...



  • Caroline B. Cooney

    Brit has had her driver's license only 11 days when her parents drop her off to stay at her grandmother's house for two weeks while they go on vacation. Little do they know Brit is headed for a three-state road trip with Nannie to pick up her college...



  • Avery Corman

    A highly praised observer of contemporary life and author of Kramer vs. Kramer and A Perfect Divorce, Corman zeroes in on single life, modern stress, and religious faith in The Boyfriend From Hell. Veronica Delaney, single, in her twenties, a freel...



  • Douglas Coupland

    A lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland's new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google. ETHAN JARLEWSKI AND FIVE CO-WORKERS WHOSE surnames begin with "J" are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape archi...



  • Bruce Coville

    Moongobble has successfully completed two of his three Mighty Tasks: He's collected the Golden Acorns of Alcoona and bottled the tears of the Weeping Werewolf. There's only one more Mighty Task to go, then Moongobble will become a member of the Socie...



  • Cressida Cowell

    THE VENOMOUS VORPENT COLOR: Bright yellow NASTY BITS: Deadly sting THREAT TO VIKINGS: Serious. Run away! Don't be deceived by the Venomous Vorpent's tiny size. It numbs the the skin before attacking. By the time you realize you've been stung, it ma...



  • John Coyne

    Returning as an honored guest to the exclusive country club where he worked in his youth, Jack Handley remembers the summer of '46 when he caddied for Ben Hogan in the last Chicago Open. Now a respected historian, Jack recounts to the assembled sons ...



  • Caprice Crane

    HEAVEN'S IN HELL... There's very little I know for sure. I know that men who wear khakis are immediately suspect, and that waitressing is what karma makes you do when you've been unforgivably bad. That pretty much covers it. AND BRADY JUST MOVED...



  • Sara Craven

    The bartered bride! Darcy Langton is stunned when she finds herself engaged to businessman Joel Castille -- traded as part of a business merger! While Joel represents everything that she detests in a mate, he's also the most charismatic man sh...



  • Sharon Cullars

    In this breathtakingly sexy novel, Sharon Cullars invites you into two worlds--modern Chicago and 1879 New York--and into the lives of two lovers whose unforgettable passion transcends time. But will their attraction bring an undying love...or set in...



  • Julie E. Czerneda

    With the alien Dhryn cutting a pathway through the inhabited spaceways-bringing about the annihilation of many of the races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following-time is running out for all sentient life-forms. Can bi...



  • Chris D'Lacey

    Is David up for the challenge? In the exciting sequel to The Fire Within, David must uncover the truth behind the mysterious clay dragons. David's quest is to discover the link between the fire of the last known dragon on earth and the icy regions o...



  • B.J. Daniels

    WEDDING PLANNER UNDER COVER By day, quiet and reserved Samantha Peters worked for a high-end wedding planner. By night she was a top-notch agent with Miami Confidential. Then she met sexy Alex Graham after tragedy struck outside the Weddings Your Wa...



  • Lilian Darcy

    Wealthy businessman Gino di Bartoli couldn't put his finger on exactly what was different about the high-profile horticulturist he'd hired to landscape his villa. But somehow "Rowena" seemed warmer, sexier, more vivacious...and he was suddenly attrac...



  • Lilian Darcy

    Flight doctor Christina Farrelly and G.P. Joe Barrett have been in love for two years -- part-time. Joe spends a week every month at the Crocodile Creek Medical Center, where Christina works. He lives for their time together, and can't give her more ...



  • Sandra Dark

    Fresh out of high school, Carrie Washburn was left alone in the world when her only living relative mysteriously turned his back on her. Since that terrible encounter with her Uncle Price Carmichael, she has struggled to pay her way through college b...



  • Laura Dave

    London is the Best City in America, is the insightful, wickedly funny story of two siblings who have found themselves at a crossroads. In mapping their struggles over one wild and emotional wedding weekend, Laura Dave gives us a brilliantly subtle an...



  • Peter David

    "I'm the best there is at what I do... Nobody's better at gettin' into trouble than me." The first of Peter David's occasionally seen and always entertaining Wolverine arcs, "The Gehenna Affair" sets Logan, Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman) and their frien...



  • Peter David

    The gray Hulk's life as a Las Vegas legbreaker is broken into by a circle of cyborgs, with Spider-Man in the middle! Next up is a triple threat by Doctor Doom, the Thing and... the green Hulk?! Follow the Hulk from casino conclaves to interdimensiona...



  • Maryjanice Davidson

    Fast. Powerful. Deadly. With bitchin' highlights. Ah, weddings--every single woman's reminder that she'll probably die alone, covered in cat hair and dressed in unflattering sweatpants. And as far as bad wedding experiences go, my friend Stacy's co...



  • Dyanne Davis

    Mia Black got what she wanted. All her life she's been saving herself for a handsome husband, and now she's about to get one. He's so hot, she only has to look at him and she melts. Mia can hardly wait to love. Damien Terrell doesn't ...



  • Katharine Davis

    After twenty five years of marriage, Annie and Wesley are living the type of elegant, sophisticated life in Paris that many Americans dream about. Their apartment in the Marais district is filled with wonderful food, accomplished friends, and good wi...



  • Kyra Davis

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  • Melissa de la Cruz

    Sometimes when the sun shines, it scorches. Third time's the charm as Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui head back to the Hamptons. This summer the au pairs are doing it right: in style, in step, and "in" everywhere. Mara has the VIP hookup at all the new ...



  • Charles de Lint

    Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. Since they were introduced in the first Newford story, "Timeskip," back in 1989, their friends and readers alike have been waiting for them to realize what everybody else already knows: that they belong together....



  • Cindy Dees

    Charlie Squad: Rules of engagement for special forces soldier Joe "Doc" Rodriguez's newest mission: Rule 1: Remember that Carina Ferrare is the daughter of Charlie Squad's most dreaded enemy -- Eduardo Ferrare -- and he will sto...



  • Tom Defalco

    Before the Avengers, before the New Warriors, mutandom's fiery favorite almost had a vocation in villainy thanks to the teacher from Hellfire, the White Queen! Can she find her way to heroism before things get too hot? Guest-starring the New Mutants!...



  • Ann DeFee

    Dr. Olivia Alvarado, town vet and sometime coroner of Port Serenity, Texas, is nobody's fool. So when Sheriff C. J. Baker charged into her life, the last thing Livy expected was a broken heart. She should've known better. Because he seemed absolutely...



  • Genell Dellin

    Chase Lomax grew up rough and hard, until he found a home in the rodeo. Now he's a five-time bronc-riding champion who's been on the circuit nearly twenty years -- a long time in a young man's game. Elle Hawthorne's no stranger to adversity. A rod...



  • Corinne Demas

    A humorous Level 1 Scholastic Reader about a duck, a truck, lots of muck, and a little luck!

    Dog chases Duck into the swamp, setting off a very muddy chain of events. Chuck tries to pull Dog out of the muck and also gets stuck. One by one, eac...



  • Grace Dent

    The perfect summer -- LBD style! Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude (known to all as les bambinos Dangereuses, or LBD) have signed up for the summer of their dreams. they're working at a seaside hotel, complete with all-night parties, nightclubs, beach blo...



  • Lori Devoti

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  • Kate DiCamillo

    Mr. Watson and Mrs. Watson have a pig named Mercy. Every Saturday, Mercy and Mr. Watson go for a ride in Mr. Watson's convertible. But one Saturday, things take a surprising turn. And a certain someone ends up behind the wheel....



  • Eric Jerome Dickey

    lie (aka "Ducati") is known as much for her extraordinary beauty as for the sexy yellow motorcycle she rides through the mean streets of Los Angeles. Tough, talented, and self-assured, Billie's used to doing things her way--but that was before love t...



  • Carol Dines

    ANGELICA VOGLIA HAS THE VOICE OF AN ANGEL.... But in seventeenth-century Rome, her talent is considered downright sinful. The pope has forbidden women to sing in public, so the gifted seventeen-year-old is forced to hide behind her shuttered windo...



  • Disney Book Group

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  • Franklin W. Dixon

    ATAC BRIEFING FOR THE REAL AGENTS FRANK AND JOE HARDYMISSION:Two guys are running around the state, committing crimes left and right -- and they’re leaving a clear trail for the police. They’d be a cinch to catch, but the thing is, the police are...



  • Emma Dodd

    With each present Dog opens at his birthday, different textures are revealed, such as a fluffy blanket and shiny dinner bowl, in a colorful novelty touch-and-feel book by the creator of Dog's Colorful Day....




  • Frances O'Roark Dowell

    HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PHINEAS L. MACGUIRE, BOY-SCIENTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE, AKA MAC: 1. He's allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can prove it. 2. He's probably the world's expert on mold, including which has the highest s...



  • Erin Downing

    Who needs Prince Charming if you've got a rock star? It's official. Olivia is a superfreak. Sure, she may have landed the hottest internship at an übercool TV music station. And yes, she's chilling with A-listers in London all summer. But when sh...



  • Sharon M. Draper

    In the third of the Clubhouse Mysteries series, Ziggy and his friends are excited about their overnight camping trip to Caesar's Creek State Park. The park is named after a Shawnee chief and their camp counselor is a descendant of Caesar! She fills t...



  • Laura Driscoll

    How smart are dolphins? They re good at doing tricks, and they love fish But how much do we know about the ways dolphins communicate and relate to each other? In Do Dolphins Really Smile?, curious young readers will learn all the dolphin basics, as ...



  • Margaret Dumas

    Charley Fairfax--heiress, theatrical producer, newlywed--is intent on living happily ever after with her tall, dark, and sarcastic husband Jack. The only mysteries before her are which play to choose for next season and how to decorate her dining roo...



  • Michele Dunaway

    Whoever said virtue is its own reward wasn't a preacher's kid or they'd know being virtuous was like being jailed with no possibility of parole. That's why -- after thirty years of living up to other people's expectations -- Olivia Jacobsen needs som...




  • John Dunning

    When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway...



  • Jeanne Duprau

    War looms on the horizon as eleven-year-old Nickie and her aunt travel to the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina. There, one of the town's respected citizens has had a terrible vision of fire and destruction. As the people of Yonwood scramble to m...



  • Alex Duval

    THE A-LIST BITES. Jason Freeman is stoked when his family relocates to exclusive DeVere Heights, Malibu. The in-crowd at his posh new high school is surprisingly friendly -- soon Jason's hitting all the best parties. He even meets the token hot-bu...



  • Julie Andrews Edwards

    In the heart of the great metropolis of New York City, the bright lights of Broadway shine. And down, down, down, beneath a theater known as the Sovereign, there sits a long-forgotten architect's model -- the Sovereign's miniature replica. In thi...



  • Daniel Ehrenhaft

    I don't know how this happened One day I'm snug in my loner existence at Carnegie Mansion School, and the next I'm tramping through the Scottish wilderness looking for my dad. Who's been kidnapped. Because of a feud that started in medieval times...



  • Earl Emerson

    No one writes with the power, authority, and poetry that Earl Emerson has demonstrated in his action-packed novels about fire and the people who make their living fighting it. In Firetrap, Trey Brown is a man tormented by race, by family, and now by ...



  • Sylvia Engdahl

    Eighteen-year-old Melinda Ashley never wanted to go to Mars. she had her life all planned out--marry ross and become a teacher. but when her estranged father convinces her to take an interplanetary vacation, she finds herself tempted to leave behind ...



  • John R. Erickson

    There’s never a dull moment on the ranch when Hank the Cowdog is around. In this latest installment to the series, Hank learns about a tool thief on the loose who uses a monkey to help him do his dirty work. And before long, Hank finds himself f...



  • Laura Esquivel

    When Malinalli, a member of the tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortes, she -- like many -- believes that he is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is to help Cortes destroy the Aztec ...



  • Maggie Estep

    In the newest Ruby Murphy mystery, New York’s inadvertent sleuth discovers more about her shrink than she could have ever imagined as the doctor turns the tables, enlisting her help in the hunt for a one-legged man who’s been kidnapped and hidden...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s settling a war -- on his terms.There’s a bloody war brewing between money-hungry gold-diggers and the fierce San Carlos Apaches over the most desirable element in nature -- water. U.S. Marshal Custis Long is assigned to settle this sit...



  • Pamela Binnings Ewen

    From AD 33, to the 1950s, to 2005, Walk Back the Cat tells the intricate, page-turning story of Wesley Bright. A corrupt, mediasavvy clergyman, he's out to destroy the Christian church of the God who was never there during his childhood.Like a cat re...



  • Terri Farley

    Samantha's friend Ryan wants to recapture his lost horse, Hotspot, who has been running free with the Phantom Stallion's herd. But Hotspot's foal, Shy Boots, needs her back at home -- the young horse is having trouble without his mother to protect...



  • Nancy Farmer

    Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon villa...



  • Tim Farrington

    Rebecca Martin is a single mother with an apartment to rent and a sense that she has used up her illusions. "I had the romantic thing with my first husband, thank you very much, she tells a hapless suitor. I'm thirty-eight years old, and I've got a d...



  • Alane Ferguson

    As the daughter of a Colorado County coroner, seventeen-yearold Cameryn Mahoney is no stranger to death. in fact, she's always been fascinated by the science of it. so she's thrilled to finally get some hands-on experience in forensics working as her...



  • Gina Fields

    Snowbird Walker lost her true love to a lie. Now, the consequences of sin and deception have yielded tragedy. The land she and her Cherokee people thought would bring solace and safety has become tainted with her dreams and disappointments. Marcus Gu...



  • Joseph Finder

    Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston and working for an electronics giant, a competitor to Sony and Panasonic. He's a witty, charismatic guy who's well liked at the office, but he lacks the "killer instinct" necessary ...



  • Dina Fischbein

    Animal Incognitum reads the sign over Raoulino's cage at the Metropolitan Zoo. That means no one knows what kind of animal Raoulino is, least of all Raoulino. He does know that he wants to go home -- home to the wonderful little island where he was c...



  • Jeremy Fitzkee

    Did you ever notice that juice rhymes with moose? Or that pale rhymes with whale? Eye-catching, funky art and unexpected rhymes come together in this little book to show just how silly everyday words can be. Kids will crack up at the outrageous carto...



  • Judy Fitzwater

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  • Robert Fleming

    Eddie Stevens is burning inside... ...and he's burning mad at the world. He's mad at the family he lost--his parents and sisters viciously killed by a gang in their own home; and he's mad at the foster family that "rescued" him--headed up by a power...



  • Meredith Fletcher

    SISTER V. SISTER They looked alike, fought alike...but when it came to spy games, Samantha St. John and Elle Petrenko had different codes. Upstanding CIA agent Sam played by the rules. Russian spy Elle had more colorful ways of getting the job done....



  • William R. Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

    After his great victories at Gettysburg and Union Mills, General Robert E. Lee's attempt to bring the war to a final conclusion by attacking Washington, D.C., fails. However, in securing Washington, the remnants of the valiant Union Army of the Potom...



  • Earlene Fowler

    After the death of her husband Cole, Ruby McGavin is shocked to learn that she's inherited part of a cattle ranch in Tokopah County, California. But she's even more surprised to find out that the family he claimed died years ago is very much alive. ...



  • Diana Pharaoh Francis

    Hailed by her peers as “promising” (David Coe),“talented” (Kristin Britain), and “masterful” (Carol Berg), Diana Pharaoh Francis crafted a unique magical world and one of fantasy’s most intriguing heroines in Path of Fate and Path of Ho...



  • Dorothea Benton Frank

    The move from New Jersey to Hilton Head, South Carolina, wasn't easy for the Russo family -- difficult enough for Big Al and Connie, but even harder for their daughter Maria Graziella, who insists on being called Grace. At thirty-one and still, shock...



  • Ariana Franklin

    A cultured city scarred by war.... An eastern emigre with scars and secrets of her own.... A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess.... A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. . . . A detective driven by decency and the desire for ju...



  • Carlos Fuentes

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  • Cornelia Funke

    By day, Ben is one brave brother--but when night falls, even the wildest boy sometimes needs protecting by his big sis. The third hit picture book by the best-selling Funke and award-winning Meyer.

    Brave as a lion, strong as an elephant, Ben i...



  • W.D. Gagliani

    Nick Lupo is a good cop--a bit of a renegade at times, with the instincts of a great detective...or maybe a wolf. Lupo has a lot in common with wolves, which is only natural considering he's a werewolf. He's battled the creature inside him for years,...



  • W.R. Garwood

    Harry Tracy needs money, but he doesn't know what he's in for when a tough-looking character called the Kid offers to take him to Hole-in-the-Wall. The gang there has plenty of schemes to get rich, schemes that can also land them in jail. Which is ex...



  • Gail Gauthier

    All cynical Kyle wants is to get through the seventh grade unnoticed, but a self-help book from his well-meaning mother changes all that. Magically, the book seems to know all about him. And it wants him to improve his life.Not only is he friendless,...



  • Shane Gericke

    A serial killer is playing a deadly game. There are no rules except one: The killer always wins. The loser always dies. Since joining the force, rookie cop Emily Thompson has had one ambition: to work homicide. Now she's got her chance. A twist...



  • Anthony Giardina

    Back in hardscrabble Winship, Massachusetts, in the early 1970s, Billy Mogavero was everything his best friend Timmy wanted to be--tough, sexy, graceful, a leader of young men. Twenty years later, Billy is a paint salesman still living with his paren...



  • Melanie Gideon

    Thomas Quicksilver, known to his classmates as "Pucker," has always been an outsider. His crazy mother, the secret of his family’s strange origins, and above all, the terrible scars on his face from a childhood fire -- these things have kept Thomas...



  • Keith Giffen; J.M. DeMatteis

    Wong possessed by Nightmare! Dormammu and Umar in unholy alliance! The Hulk and the Sub-Mariner at each other's throats! The Silver Surfer... uh... surfing. Can Doctor Strange reunite the Defenders and save Reality As We Know It? Only the Ancient One...



  • Louise Gikow

    POTATO CHIPS AND COOKIES AND POPCORN -- OH MY! A serious craving for chips lands RJ the raccoon in some grizzly bear-sized trouble. Now he's got one week to collect a whole winter's worth of junk food, or else he’ll be the big bear's next main cou...



  • Kristi Gold

    MASTER OF THE HOUSE Interior designer Selene Winston had arrived to remodel his mansion, not tangle in the sheets with her brutally handsome new boss. And yet the reclusive Adrien Morell haunted her dreams; his fantasies played through her mind. ...



  • Marita Golden

    In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapab...



  • Diane Goode

    Experience a picnic in the park with Mama and Jack, where nothing seems to go right, but fun is had by all " and a little dog joins the family.

    With "And then, who knows why..." as the cheerful refrain, Diane Goode tells how a boy's plan...



  • Mara Goodman-Davies

    Brad and Jen were fun to watch. Britney and Kevin, even better.

    But...what if you woke up on the A List?

    Jessica used to paint idly in her East Hampton garden. Now she ducks paparazzi hiding in the bushes. She used to live quietly, happ...



  • Linda Goodnight

    It was the surprise of a lifetime for recluse Molly McCreight when single dad Ethan Hunter entrusted her with his infant daughter while he delivered medicine to an elderly man during an ice storm. Past experience had taught Molly how fragile life cou...



  • Jason Goodwin

    It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent c...




  • Ariel Gore

    Orphaned at age four and raised by her black-clad, rosary-mumbling, preoccupied grandmother, Frankka discovered the ability to perform the stigmata as a way to attract her grandmother's attention. Now twenty-eight, Frankka's still using this extraord...



  • Eileen Goudge

    What does it mean to be a family? New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge's engaging new novel is a powerful adventure into the heart of marriage, motherhood, and four friends who discover they may be the best family they ever had. Fiftee...



  • Chris Grabenstein

    It's almost Labor Day, and the end of summer could mean the end of someone's life in this exciting sequel to Chris Grabenstein's Tilt-a-Whirl. Young Danny Boyle, the part-time summer cop "down the shore" in Sea Haven, New Jersey, gets taken on a w...




  • Erick S. Gray

    Camille, Jade, and Shy are best friends and have always had each other's backs. Jade and Shy's boyfriends, Roscoe and James, are partners in a lucrative drug business, but one night they get caught up in a shoot-out that goes horribly wrong. Shy's m...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    Blending science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and westerns, twenty noted authors, including Tanya Huff, Alan Dean Foster, and Jean Rabe, present an imaginative collection of hybrid stories, from a mountain man who encounters a demon in Yellows...



  • J.M. Gregson

    Chief Inspector Percy Peach, Detective Sergeant Lucy Blake and the team, hindered as usual by the direction of Chief Superintendent Thomas Bulstrode Tucker, have one of their most puzzling and compelling mysteries to solve.In an area famous for the L...



  • Pamela Griffin

    Leslie Edwards never expected to field the question-and-answer column "Dear Granny" in the Goosebury Gazette. Her Bible-based advice yields mixed responses, and the problems resulting are bigger than she'd ever imagined. In addition, to maintain the ...



  • Diana Groe

    Let Diana Groe take you on an unforgettable journey in this epic novel of adventure and passion that will sweep you from the icy fjords of Scandinavia to the sun-drenched streets of Constantinople. When Rika sang the Norse legends, her beautiful voi...



  • Matt Groening

    Bart Simpson puts the spring in Springfield with a brand-new collection of comics and stories brimming with delicious donuts, derring-do, water balloons, warm milk, sidekicks, spy rings, moviemakers, Molemen, zip lines, and zombies. Soar above roo...