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  • 5 Minutes and 42 Seconds

    T.J. Williams

    Cameisha Douglass has it all -- a sprawling home in a posh neighborhood, a fancy car, three healthy children, and a husband, Fashad, who is devoted to her. Her biggest worry is catching her daytime soap operas before the kids come home from school an...

  • The Abduction

    Gordon Korman

    TRAPPED! It's every brother's worst fear: As Aiden and his sister, Meg, are walking home from school one day, a van pulls over and Meg is kidnapped. There's no way for Aiden to stop it from happening. He's the only witness to his sister's disappearan...

  • The Abominable Snowman

    R.A. Montgomery

    FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN! Is the Abominable Snowman real, or just a legend? You and your friend Carlos are ready to risk your lives to find out. You will climb the highest mountains to bring back the world's first photographs of th...

  • Absurdistan

    Gary Shteyngart

    Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA (don't even ask), and patriot of no country save the...

  • After

    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...

  • Again

    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...

  • Alice in the Know

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    It's the summer before junior year, and Alice is looking forward to three months of excitement, passion, and drama. But what does she find? A summer working in a local department store, trying to stop shoplifters, and more "real life" problems than s...

  • All The Way

    Andy Behrens

  • Amazon Fever

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum and is always zooming off to strange places. Now Uncle Roy is taking Jeff with him to the steamy Amazon jungle. Maybe they’ll track down crocodiles or poisonous snakes or jaguars for Uncle Roy’s museum. Wrong! On ...

  • America's Victories

    Larry Schweikart

    In America's Victories, Professor Larry Schweikart restores the truth about our amazing military heritage. Just as he did in his acclaimed previous book, A Patriot's History of the United States, Professor Schweikart cuts through the distortions pas...

  • An American Haunting

    Brent Monahan

    Known throughout Tennessee as "Old Kate," the Bell Witch took up residence with John Bell's family in 1818. It was a cruel and noisy spirit, given to rapping and gnawing sounds before it found its voices. With these voices and its supernatural act...

  • American Jihad

    William W. Johnstone

    Art Jensen is a born warrior. A direct descendant of the legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen, he is destined to continue his ancestor's legacy of heroism. For the courage, strength, and honor of a man never dies... Into The Dark Lieutenant Colon...

  • And Able

    Lucy Monroe

    They're the good guys fighting the bad guys. They'll get the job done--if the price is right and so is the cause. Meet three sexy men who individually are READY, WILLING, AND ABLE to go the distance--and together, are unstoppable... Claire Sharp t...

  • Angel Eyes

    Myrna MacKenzie

    Sarah Tucker senses the unwelcome mat unroll the moment she arrives in her hometown of Gold Tree, Wisconsin -- especially from Luke Packard, her mother's next-door neighbor. It's been twelve years since she fled to an anonymous life in California to ...

  • Angelina and the Rag Doll

    Katharine Holabird

    Angelina is feeling very grown-up. Miss Lilly has asked her to help out in the beginners' ballet class. So Angelina gives away her babyish toys, including the little rag doll she's had since she was a tiny mouseling. But what happens when Angelina st...

  • Angelmonster

    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...

  • Animal Antics

    Fiona Simpson



    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...

  • Animal Instincts

    Gena Showalter

    Unleashing your inner tigress isn't easy when you're a doormat by nature! Still, after escaping a wretched marriage to a cheating SOB, Dallas party planner Naomi Delacroix isn't about to let another man sweet-talk her into sheathing her protective cl...

  • Another Lost Angel

    Steven B. Mandel

  • Apathy and Other Small Victories

    Paul Neilan

    The only thing Shane cares about is leaving: Usually on a Greyhound bus, and right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time its complicated: theres a sadistic corporate climber who thinks shes his girlfriend, a rent-subs...

  • Archer's Quest

    Linda Sue Park

    TWELVE-YEAR-OLD KEVIN, A Korean American math whiz, is shocked beyond belief when a young man, complete with bow and arrows, crash lands in his bedroom. And that's just the beginning. The man, called Skillful Archer, claims to be a legendary ruler fr...

  • Ardneh's Sword

    Fred Saberhagen

    It's been a thousand years since the time of Ardneh, the transcendant being that saved humanity from the vicious archdemon Orcus. It was a legndary battle between magic and technology that killed them both, but left behind tales of Ardneh's heroism a...

  • Around Another Corner

    Grace Thompson

    Ancret has a gift: the hats she creates are the most beautiful and fun designs this side of Ascot. She just needs two things for her life to be perfect: for her mummys boy boyfriend Jonathan to stop badgering her to give up her ambitions and marry hi...

  • Assassination of Jesse James

    Ron Hansen

    Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart nobody torn between dedicated wors...

  • At Last

    Carolyn Neal

    As far as April Nelson was concerned, long-lasting love did not seem to be in the picture. While others seemed to have the opportunity to meet, and marry a true love...her life was more or less content with her vocation as a veterinarian and strong t...

  • The Attack

    Yasmina Khadra

    From the bestselling author of The Swallows of Kabul comes this timely and haunting novel that powerfully illuminates the devastating human costs of terrorism. Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Arab-Israeli surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. As an admired an...

  • Aztec Rage

    Gary Jennings

    The fascinating history of Mexico that began in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Aztec continues . . . . Don Juan de Zavala was the most skilled fighter in all of New Spain--as gifted with weapons and horses as he was with women. These plea...

  • The Bachelor Trap

    Elizabeth Thornton

    It began as a game of seduction -- until love got in the way... From the nationally bestselling author whose novels are "delightfully entertaining" (Philadelphia Inquirer) comes the provocative tale of a gentleman with a secret...and the i...

  • Bad Prince Charlie

    John Moore

    We set our scene in Damask: A kingdom that couldn't get ransacked if it tried... But now that the king is dead, that's exactly what his brothers have in mind. Alt they need is a bad king to take his place. The population will rebel, the neighborin...

  • Bad Twin

    Gary Troup

    Sometimes evil has a familiar face . . . Paul Artisan, P.I. is a new version of an old breed -- a righter of wrongs, someone driven to get to the bottom of things. Too bad his usual cases are of the boring malpractice and fraud variety. Until now...

  • Basilisk 1: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls

    Masaki Segawa

    THE BATTLE BEGINS

    The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has ...

  • Be Nice to Mice

    Nancy Krulik

    Katie can’t wait for the school science fair. But when she hears that a sixth-grader named Selena is using her pet mice as part of a science experiment, Katie does her best to put a stop to it. When she turns into Selena on the day of the fair, she...

  • Beach Babe

    Jennifer L. Holm

    Meet Babymouse--the spunky mouse beloved by young readers for more than a decade! It’s summer time and Babymouse is going to the beach to surf and relax. But will sharks ruin her vacation? This groundbreaking young graphic novel series, full o...

  • Beachglass

    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...

  • Beautiful Buehla and the Zany Zoo Makeover

    Gary Hogg

    It's picture day at the zoo, and zookeeper Mr. Phibbs has to get the animals in tip-top shape -- in a flash. Good thing Beautiful Buehla is on call, ready for a complete animal makeover.

    And what could be more Beautiful than a pompadoure...

  • Becky/The Restless Sea

    E.V. Thompson

    Combined for the first time are two enchanting stories from acclaimed novelist E. V. Thompson. In Becky, Ferg...

  • Bed Rest

    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...

  • Bedtime Eyes

    Amy Yamada

    Amy Yamada is one of the most prominent--and controversial--novelists in Japan today.  She bursted onto the scene in 1985 with her short novel "Bedtime Eyes," which for critics embodied the spirit of the 'shinjinru'--i.e. Generation X-- in much the...

  • Behind the Curtain

    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...

  • Best Laid Plans

    Anne White

    Preparations for Emerald Point's lucrative tourist season are well under way, but Mayor Loren Graham fears murder could be this year's major attraction. First, she finds a body in a locked display case of French and Indian War memorabilia--but it dis...

  • Betrayal In Blood

    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...

  • Beware of Virtuous Women

    Kasey Michaels

    The perfect daughter...secrets within secrets, lies within lies Adopted daughter Eleanor Becket is dedicated to her family and its welfare. She is also a commendable commander, and a keeper of secrets, most especially her own. Who would ever expec...

  • Beyond the Limit

    Lindsay McKenna

    NOTHING'S MORE DANGEROUS THAN A LOVE YOU DIDN'T EXPECT... He's tackled tough military projects in hot spots around the globe...but Marine engineer Major Pete Trayhern has never faced anything as challenging as civilian Calandra Roland. Attractive ...

  • The Big Boom

    Domenic Stansberry

    The Big Boom features the return of Dante Mancuso, the hero of Stansberry's Chasing the Dragon, an obsessive private investigator working the streets of his San Francisco neighborhood. He is a dark-eyed, complex figure---melancholic, tender, with fie...

  • Big Bouncy Book of Bart Simpson

    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...

  • Big Trouble

    Marianna Jameson

    Naomi Connor is the hottest computer security consultant in the field. She's all about breaching unbreachable defenses before hackers can, but her new assignment is a security audit for the company she nearly destroyed years ago as an illegal hacker....

  • Bishop's Reach

    Kathryn R. Wall

    Bleached-blond call girls rarely bring good news, especially the one who bursts through the door of Bay Tanner's struggling inquiry agency and into her already complicated life. Karen Zwilling swears she's been viciously attacked but can't--or won't-...

  • Bittersweet Remembrance

    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...

  • Black Duck

    Janet Taylor Lisle

    It is spring 1929, and Prohibition is in full swing. So when Ruben and Jeddy find a dead body washed up on the shore of their small coastal Rhode Island town, they are sure it has something to do with smuggling liquor. Soon the boys, along with Jeddy...

  • Black Powder War

    Naomi Novik

    After their fateful adventure in China, Capt. Will Laurence of His Majesty's Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchase...

  • Blonde at Heart

    Natalie Standiford

    When Elle Woods, a sophomore in high school, falls for Hunter Perry, the star basketball player who advocates for school spirit, Elle decides to transform the cheerleaders, the basketball team, and herself....

  • Blood on the River: James Town, 1607

    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...

  • Bloodlust

    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...

  • Blown Away

    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...

  • Blue Nude

    Elizabeth Rosner

    Once a prominent painter, Danzig now shares his wisdom and technique with students at San Francisco’s Art Institute -- yet his own canvases remain empty. When he meets Israeli-born Merav, the beautiful new model for his class, he senses she may rei...

  • A Blush With Death

    India Ink

    In Gull Harbor, Washington, the local bath and body store--Venus Envy --takes care of all the town's beauty needs, from custom-blended oils to relaxing spa services. And behind the counter sits Persia Vanderbilt, the niece of the proprietor, who has ...

  • Bobby the Bold

    Donna Jo Napoli

  • The Book of Bright Ideas

    Sandra Kring

    Family. Friendship. Sisterhood. Secrets. For two young girls, an incredible journey is about to begin... Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn “Button” Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small town --...

  • Book of Doom

    John Peel

    Now that one of the Three Who Rule has escaped, the Diadem is in serious danger. Nantor, Pixel's ancient, evil self, has taken over the young magic user's body and is threatening to, once again, rule the worlds. Poor Pixel is alive in a small cell of...

  • The Bookwoman's Last Fling

    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...

  • Born to Rule

    Kathryn Lasky

    Attention, all Princesses Are you growing tired of royal balls and boring banquets with visiting kings and princes? Do you long to escape the confines of the palace and find yourself in a completely new place, surrounded by other princesses your own...

  • Bought For the Marriage Bed

    Melanie Milburne

    An illicit affair... Nina Selbourne's been left holding the baby, now her evil twin--who attempted to trap a wealthy playboy by getting pregnant--has passed away. Vengeance--marriage! Marc Marcello wants his brother's child--but, he mistakes pri...

  • The Boyfriend from Hell

    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...

  • Braced 2 Bite

    Serena Robar

    When Colby Blanchard is attacked and turned into a half-vampire, her senior year of high school becomes surreal as she vacillates between trying to save her life and worrying about losing her place on the cheerleading squad....

  • BreakupBabe

    Rebecca Agiewich

    Blog: an online diary. My Blog: How I got over the worst, most humiliating breakup in web-recorded history -- and became stronger, smarter, and better off without the biggest Loser on the face of the earth. Life is sweet for Rachel. She's livin...

  • Bridge of Dreams

    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...

  • Bust

    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 ...

  • The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan

    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 ...

  • Cage of Stars

    Jacquelyn Mitchard

    12-year-old Veronica Swan's idyllic life in a close-knit Mormon community is shattered when her two younger sisters are brutally murdered. Although her parents find the strength to forgive the deranged killer, Scott Early, Veronica cannot do the same...

  • Call of the Wolf

    Susan Krinard

    Two sensuous werewolf romances come together in an omnibus edition containing Secret of the Wolf, in which a tormented Quentin Forster, plagued by spells of amnesia, comes to hypnotist Johanna Schell for help, and To Catch a Wolf, in ...

  • Calypso Wind

    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...

  • Can Adults Become Human?

    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...

  • Candles Burning

    Tabitha King; Michael McDowell

    Calliope "Galley" Dakin is no normal little girl. She hears things that maybe a little girl shouldn't hear--and knows things a little girl should never know. Just seven when her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women wi...

  • Capturing Paris

    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...

  • Capturing The Cop

    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...

  • Cars Out for a Spin

    Disney Book Group

    Culture is an integral part of every society. From the savannahs of Africa and the rain forests of Latin America to bustling Asian cities and small European towns, people practice unique rituals, prepare their foods and build their homes in tradition...

  • The Case of the Monkey Burglar

    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...

  • The Cattle Baron's Bride

    Margaret Way

    THE CITY GIRL -- AND THE RUGGED OUTBACK CATTLE BARON The wilderness at the heart of the Australian Northern Territory was no place for delicate city beauty Samantha Langdon. Cattleman Ross Sunderland wouldn't have agreed to act as guide if h...

  • Charlie Monkey

    Roger Priddy

    Brand new series of multi-sensory board books.

    Featuring wacky characters and crazy tales.

    Includes a touch and feel element on every page.

    Each book features an electronic sound that kids will love to hear.

    ...

  • The Chase Is on

    Tennant Redbank

    Readers would rather walk the plank than miss out on these two amazing 8x8 retellings of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Each book will retell a different portion of the story and will provide kids with action-packed scenes from the fil...

  • Chasing Destiny

    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...

  • Cherokee Rose

    Al Lacy; Joanna Lacy

    The Brutal Road West It's late summer 1838. President Martin Van Buren issues an order that the fifteen thousand Cherokee Indians living in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina are to be evicted from their homeland. Forced to migrate to Indian Terri...

  • Chicks Ahoy

    Lynda Sandoval

    While working on the cruise ship that her father captains during summer vacation, Camille and her friend Jiggy, trying to make the best of a bad situation, party with their co-workers, but when Jiggy's partying gets out of control, Camille learns the...

  • Child of Mine

    Bonnie K. Winn

    It was love at first sight when Matt Whitaker opened his door to see a baby in his brother's arms -- Matt's nephew, Danny, abandoned by his heartless high-society mother. And then Danny's father was killed in an accident, and Matt, an ill-prepared ba...

  • Christopher Killer

    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...

  • City of Shadows

    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...

  • Claiming His Family

    Barbara Hannay

    A MARRIAGE RENEWAL... Erin has agreed to take her little boy to the Outback to meet his father -- her ex-husband -- whom she hasn't seen for five years. Seeing Luke again, Erin's not sure how she's supposed to act around the man she...

  • The Clan Corporate

    Charles Stross

    IN The Family Trade and The Hidden Family, Miriam got in touch with her roots. Now those roots have begun to strangle her. A young business journalist from Boston, Miriam discovered that her family comes from a parallel timeline, that she is very we...

  • Cloning Around

    Kol

  • The Coast of Akron

    Adrienne Miller

    "At last, The Coast of Akron! Adrienne Miller is one of the wittiest and most humane writers we have, bringing to mind at once Dorothy Parker, Mary McCarthy, and M.F.K. Fisher." -Dave EggersAdrienne Miller, in her dazzlingly ambitious and hilarious ...

  • Code Name: Blondie

    Christina Skye

    Miki is living every woman's fantasy -- stranded on a desert island with a rugged Navy SEAL. But little does Miki know she's a suspect in an international high-tech robbery, and her steely-eyed companion is ready, willing and able to do anything to m...

  • Code of Love

    Cheryl Sawyer

    At the height of the Peninsular War, English agent Sir Gideon Landor is assigned the task of deciphering the Grand Paris Cypher, a code created specifically for Napoleon, but his mission is complicated by Delphine Dalgleish, a young Parisian assigned...

  • The Cold Moon

    Jeffery Deaver

    On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks inves-tigators fear ticked away the victims' ...

  • The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

    Amy Hempel

    The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel gathers together the complete work of a writer whose voice is as singular and astonishing as any in American fiction. Hempel, fiercely admired by writers and reviewers, has a sterling reputation that is based on fo...

  • Come Together, Fall Apart

    Cristina Henriquez

    These eight short stories and novella travel from Panama's dusty city streets to its humid beaches to create an affecting portrait of a country in transition. They illustrate family bonds and generational conflicts, youthful infatuation and genuine p...

  • The Comeback Kiss

    Lani Diane Rich

    ALL IT TAKES IS ONE LITTLE KISS... In order to keep custody of her teenage sister, Tessa Scuderi told a small (okay, big) lie to the people of Lucy's Lake, Vermont, about what really happened ten years ago when Dermot Finnegan took off with her virg...

  • Comics Creators on X-Men

    Tom Defalco

    This text looks at the mighty mutants in 'X-Men' comics, including interviews with original co-creator Stan Lee, fan-favourite Chris Claremont, & artists Joe Madueira and Alan Davis. It containing sketches, script pages & background information on th...

  • The Coming of Dragons

    A.J. Lake

    A THRILLING SAGA OF MAGIC AND ADVENTURE BEGINS Edmund, a king's son in disguise, and Elspeth, a sea captain's tomboy daughter, are the sole survivors of a terrible shipwreck. But it wasn't just the roar of the sea that tore their ship to pieces. A t...

  • Complete Stephen King Universe

    Stanley Wiater

    The myriad worlds and universes King has created are, in reality, one world, one universe. Here is the guide to that universe.
    The Complete Stephen King Universe is the only definitive reference work that examines all of Stephen King's novels,...

  • Completely Irresistible

    Sheridon Smythe

    It all started with Larry, Moe, and Curly: three spoiled standard poodles with an uncanny knack for mischief. Kasidy Evans knew she'd have her hands full when she agreed to take on their care, but she never imagined she'd find them engaged in a tu...

  • Confessions of a Not It Girl

    Melissa Kantor

    Jan Miller feels that she is destined to live the world's least fabulous life. To make matters worse, her best friend is an offivial It Girl who graces the pages of fashion magazines and dates older guys. Jan can't even speak a full sentence around h...

  • Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater

    Sasthi Brata

  • The Conqueror Worms

    Brian Keene

    One day the rain just didn't stop. As the flood waters slowly rose and coastal cities and towns disappeared, some people believed it was the end of the world. Maybe they were right. But the water wasn't the worst part. Even more terrifying was what t...

  • The Consultant's Adopted Son

    Jennifer Taylor

    Beautiful nurse Rose Tremayne would have done anything to have kept her baby. Circumstances forced her into adoption, though there hasn't been a day when she hasn't found herself wondering what happened to her precious little boy. Then Ros...

  • The Cookie Heist

    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...

  • Corpse Suzette

    G.A. McKevett

    Despite New Year's resolutions to avoid irritating houseguests and nerve-wracking cases, California RI. Savannah Reid finds herself playing host to her assistant's cranky cousin--in town for an unwanted makeover at a local spa. But when the spa's ren...

  • Coupon Girl

    Becky Motew

    Hi, you've reached the voice mail of Jeanie Callahan. I'm auditioning right now for the lead role in the The Sound of Music. Hopefully, I am not throwing up or fainting. Oh yes, if you're a business owner and would like to offer your customers coupon...

  • Cricket's Serenade

    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...

  • Custody For Two

    Karen Rose Smith

    He'd lost the only family he'd ever known. His sister and brother-in-law were dead -- and their premature baby was fighting for his life in a Wyoming hospital. The globetrotting photographer lost no time rushing to the preemie's side. But much to...

  • Daddy Goes to Work

    Jabari Asim

  • Dalton's Undoing

    Raeanne Thayne

    He was known as a major player who'd left a swath of broken hearts across the Teton Valley. Yet when single mother Jenny Boyer saw the tenderness in Seth Dalton's eyes when he looked at her children -- not to mention her -- it was impossible for her ...

  • Dancing Queen

    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...

  • Darcy & Elizabeth

    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 ...

  • Dark Backward

    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...

  • Date Me, Baby, One More time

    Stephanie Rowe

    IF YOU THINK LIFE IS COMPLICATED, TRY IMMORTALITY. Justine Bennett is cursing her life. She's the Guardian of the Goblet of Eternal Youth, she hasn't left the house in ages, and it's been over 200 years since she's had sex. Oh, and the Goblet has ...

  • Dawn Runner

    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...

  • Day the Dinosaurs Died

    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...

  • Dead Before Dying

    Deon Meyer

    Someone in Cape Town has chosen a conspicuous murder weapon--a century-old German handgun, with ancient bullets to match, bullets that tear through flesh and bone. The killer has a preferred method: one shot to the head and one shot to the chest, lea...

  • Dead Connection

    Charlie Price

    Is Murray psychic? He talks to the dead and comforts them in their lonely graves, even as they provide solace for him--they are his best friends. When he hears a new voice in the cemetery, he's sure it's Nikki, the cheerleader who has been missing fo...

  • Dead Watch

    John Sandford

    Senator Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the aisle. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barbwired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and missing his head. ...

  • The Deadliest Denial

    Colleen Thompson

    The worst day of Claire's life begins with a 5:00 AM knock on her door, the summons every cop's wife dreads. But instead of telling her Spence has been killed in the line of duty, his sergeant has even worse news for Claire. Her husband is in jail. F...

  • Deadman's Bluff

    James Swain

    A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world's largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters wh...

  • Dear Granny

    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 ...

  • The Death Collector

    Justin Richards

    The foggy streets of Victorian London are thick with thieves. But when Eddie 'Dipper' Hopkins steals George Archer's wallet, he has no idea that he is entering a bizarre, dark world. In a heart-stopping race against time, he has only one chance to fo...

  • Decimation: X-Men - The Day After

    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...

  • Defenders: Indefensible

    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...

  • Definitely Dead

    Charlaine Harris

    Since Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has so few living relatives, she hates to lose one-- even her cousin Hadley, undead consort of the vampire Queen of New Orleans. Hadley's left everything she has to Sookie, but claiming that inherit...

  • Desert Crossing

    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...

  • The Detection Collection

    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...

  • Detective Camp

    Ron Roy

    Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are off to summer camp! And this isn't just any camp . . . it's a camp for detectives. The kids can't wait to spend a whole week following clues and learning about the science of crime solving. Soon the counselors have all t...

  • Devil's Bounty

    Ken Hodgson

    The Head Of An Outlaw, The Heart Of Lawman, The Soul Of The Devil Himself... Dallas Handley comes riding into the mining boomtown called Devil's Gate with an outlaw's head in his saddlebag and an ache in his soul. For eleven years, Dallas has made ...

  • Devlin And The Deep Blue Sea

    Merline Lovelace

    Liz Moore had just been jilted and vowed to kiss the next attractive man who crossed her path on the deserted Mexican beach. Enter Joe Devlin, the perfect specimen. His slow drawl pegged him as an American...and his six-foot-plus frame of hard muscle...

  • Diary of a Street Diva

    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...

  • A Different Kind of Heat

    Antonio Pagliarulo

    Luz Cordero is on fire. She’s burning up with rage. She was there the night her brother got killed. She saw the cop pull the trigger. She tried to do something positive about it by going to protests, but all her anger got her into trouble. Now Luz ...

  • Dirty Laundry

    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 ...

  • Dirty Sweet

    John McFetridge

    In the middle of the afternoon on a busy downtown Toronto street a man is shot in the head behind the wheel of his SUV. The killer drives away before the light changes. It could be road rage, or it could be a random act of violence. It could be, but ...

  • Disney Princess My Secret Diary By Cinderella

    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...

  • Dissension

    Cory Herndon
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    STREETS OF WAR The streets of Ravnica run red with blood. Guild fights guild and horrifying monsters ravage the city, destroying all who stand in their way. But as Ravnica crumbles, a method emerges from the madness, and -it becomes clear that...

  • A Distant Tomorrow

    Bertrice Small

    My dear readers, Five years have now passed since the Winter War between the Outlands and Hetar. But Gaius Prospero has not given up his scheme to become emperor, and unexpected tragedy causes Lara to once again heed the pull of her destiny. Find...

  • Do Dolphins Really Smile?

    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 ...

  • Dodge City

    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...

  • Dog's Birthday

    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....

  • Don of the Dead

    Casey Daniels

    She sees dead people Beautiful, smart, and chic, Pepper Martin never had to work a day in her life -- until her surgeon daddy was convicted of fraud, her wealthy fiance took a powder, and the family fortune ran bone dry. Suddenly desperate, t...

  • Don't Be a Chicken!

    Melissa Lagonegro

    Life can never be simple for Chicken Little -- trouble always seems to fall on him. But he’ll never give up, even when challenged by bullies and aliens. This simple Step 1 reader shows that if you believe in yourself, you can overcome anything -- e...

  • Don't I Know You?

    Karen Shepard

    In 1976 in New York City, Gina Engel was murdered in her front hall. The police believed the victim had known her attacker. But they had few suspects, and as time went on, the case remained unsolved. Yet the suspicions of those who knew Gina both int...

  • Doppelganger

    David Stahler Jr.

    Doppelgangers are monsters, hardwired for murder.They are not supposed to have doubts, but this one does. He wishes he could be different. More human, maybe. But even that can't stop him from killing people so he can take their places and live their ...

  • Down on My Knees

    Victor McGlothin

    In this highly entertaining, uplifting page-turner from acclaimed author Victor McGlothin, a successful single mother takes a vow of celibacy.... But she has no idea that trying to be good will make her want to be so bad... A single mom and busy ad...

  • The Dragon Quintet

    Tanith Lee

    Orson Scott Card's "In the Dragon's House" is a gothic yarn about the mysterious dragon that lives in the wiring of an old house, noticed by a young boy who shares its body in dreams and feels its true size and power. Mercedes Lackey's "Joust" tel...

  • Drawing a Blank

    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...

  • Dream of Life

    Michael Phillips

    From the coast of Africa to the Trail of Tears, the destiny of three races is altered forever as a country is plunged into Civil War. Chigua and Sydney LeFleure. Slaves with a past . . . and an unexpected future. Carolyn and Richmond Davidson. A ma...

  • Dream-Maker's Magic

    Sharon Shinn

    Kellen’s mother has always insisted that her only child was born male, not female -- so Kellen has been raised as a boy. At school, she meets Gryffin, whose mind is as strong as his legs are damaged, and the two become friends and allies. A few yea...

  • Dreamlight

    Janet Spaeth
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    Amid the rich history of Mackinac Island, the power of faith and love is tested. When Neal Wellington is forced to seek help, Ninette Curvier comes to his rescue. Will her faith give him the strength to face his past? When Jane Douglas nurses "Mad" A...

  • Dressed to Keel

    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 ...

  • Drop Dead, Gorgeous!

    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...

  • Drops of Corruption

    Jason M. Hardy

    When a notorious crime boss offers him the job of a lifetime, Scottish mage Bannickburn, living the life of luxury, must destroy a power-hungry rival mob with the help of shadowrunners, professionals who will do anything for money. Original....

  • Dual Action

    Don Pendleton

    OPEN ATTACK Mack Bolan is on the trail of a lethal mystery weapon used to destroy a U.S. military tank in Iraq. The supergun has proven armor-piercing capabilities and has fallen into the hands of a neo-Nazi group in the American Midwest. The gro...

  • The Durango Affair

    Brenda Jackson

    "I'M HAVING YOUR BABY." Savannah Claiborne's simple statement set off an avalanche in Montana ranger Durango Westmoreland's carefully ordered life. Suddenly, an unforgettable night of passion with the hazel-eyed beauty had turned into a lifetime o...

  • Dying Flames

    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...

  • The Eagle's Throne

    Carlos Fuentes

    Here is a true literary event -- the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world's great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle's Throne is a seriously entertaini...

  • East Wind, Rain

    Caroline Paul

    December 1941. The inhabitants of Niihau lead a simple life. Mostly Hawaiian natives, they work the ranch of Niihau's eccentric haole owner, who keeps his island totally isolated from the outside world, devoid of cars, phones, and electricity. But th...

  • Echoes of Coventry

    Richard C. White

    WHAT'S PAST A special six-part S.C.E. event that flashes back to previous adventures of the S.C.E. crew from the 23rd century to the height of the Dominion War, with special guests from all across the Star Trek universe! 2375: Before he joined the ...

  • Edge of Battle

    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...

  • Elemental

    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...

  • Elephants In The Bathtub And Other Silly Riddles

    Brenda Sexton

    This unique lift-the-flap format is full of silly elephants doing silly things and having colorful, wonderful, laugh-out-loud fun!

    This unique lift-the-flap joke book features zany elephant jokes and bright, bold, and hysterical illustrations ...

  • Emergency Vehicles

    Seymour Simon

    SeeMore Readers are designed for every young reader. Large, bright pictures instantly engage readers in the subject. Exciting yet simple text provides the information that kids, parents, and teachers want from key facts to fascinating trivia. Each Re...

  • The Englisher

    Beverly Lewis

    Annie Zook struggles to keep her promise to her preacher father to abandon her art and prove her worthiness to "join church." At the same time she is dangerously close to succumbing to another forbidden desire--a relationship with the handsome Englis...

  • Es, Volume 1

    Fuyumi Soryo

    MIND CONTROL

    Ryousuke Akiba calls himself ES, a code name taken from a mysterious scientific experiment. Ryousuke will live to be at least two centuries old and possesses strange mental powers: He can enter people’s minds, discover their dar...

  • Essential Classic X-Men - Volume 2

    Roy Thomas

    Enemies both infamous and obscure abound in another archive of the X-Men's early adventures! Mainstay malefactors like Magneto and the Juggernaut are joined by the thunderous threat of Factor Three! Plus: the first appearances of Banshee and Polaris!...

  • Ethics: Twelve Lectures

    David Wiggins

    Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly propo...

  • Even Vampires Get the Blues

    Katie MacAlister

    Paen Scott is a Dark One: a vampire without a soul. And his mother is about to lose hers too if Paen can't repay a debt to a demon by finding a relic known as the Jilin God in five days. Half-elf Samantha Cosse may have gotten kicked out of the Or...

  • Everything After

    Sharon Pywell

    Nineteen-year-old Iris Sunnaret thought her two brothers died bravely in combat during the Vietnam War. Months later, though, she hears a different account: that one brother killed the other. Determined to uncover the truth-and to keep her family fro...

  • The Evil Elves

    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...

  • Ex-Girl to the Next Girl

    Daaimah S. Poole

    Ever since Shonda stole Malik from his fiancee--at the altar, no less--she's believed that marrying him would be her ticket to happiness. But when he finally steps up and makes it happen, Shonda is in for a rude awakening. From the day he moves his e...

  • The Expendable One

    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...

  • Eye of Vengeance

    Jonathon King

    When a convicted murderer is dramatically gunned down in front of a corrections facility with a single bullet to the head, journalist Nick Mullins is quickly dispatched by his newspaper to cover the story. A veteran crime reporter, Nick is no strange...

  • Fallen Star

    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...

  • Falling Out Of Bed

    Mary Schramski

    Melinda had never questioned her perfect life. Why should she? Her husband's successful, she's not working for the first time in years and their only daughter is in college. Her father -- a workaholic, perfectionist, runner and health nut to boot -- ...

  • The Family Fortune

    Laurie Horowitz

    Jane Fortune's fortunes have taken a downturn. Thanks to the profligate habits of her father and older sister, the family's money has evaporated and Jane has to move out of the only home she's ever known: a stately brick town house on Boston's presti...

  • Fantastic Four Visionaries: George Perez - Volume 2

    George Perez

    One of the FF's top talent gives Mr. Fantastic a really new look... as the Molecule Man! Once the team deals with this ultimate infiltration, they still must face sorcery, Skrulls and super-powered statues! Plus: the power of Franklin Richards! G...

  • Far-Out Phil

    N.B. Grace

    When Phil gets invited to the party of the year, he must decide if he will stay at home and celebrate Unification Day, a holiday that celebrates world peace, with his family or go out with his friends....

  • Feet of Clay

    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...

  • Fergus Crane

    Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life -- attending school on the ship Betty Jeanne and helping his mother in the bakery. But then a winged mechanical horse appears and whisks Fergus off to meet his long-lost uncle. Not only that, he finds out that...

  • Fever Dreams

    Nicole Jordan

    Once again Nicole Jordan thrills and enchants with this fabulously seductive Regency romance, the next installment in the Paradise series. She is the woman of his dreams . . . and he will pay any price to possess her. From the moment he met t...

  • Fever in the Blood

    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...

  • A Field of Darkness

    Cornelia Read

    There are people who can be happy anywhere. I am not one of them. When the house on the next street went up in flames for the second night in a row, I wondered again what I was doing in Syracuse. Madeline Dare would be the first to tell you her mone...

  • Fight the Cure

    Jasmine Jones

    In this new adventure, the X-Men must fight for their very existence. A doctor has developed a treatment to "cure" mutants and make them human. Professor X's rival Magneto goes to wage war against the humans and their cure. With the X-Men distrac...

  • The Final Kill

    Meg O'Brien

    Abby Northrup finally has the quiet life she's dreamed of, living in Carmel at the former monastery she purchased and renovated. But The Prayer House is more than a peaceful home for Abby -- unofficially it is an underground safe haven for abused wom...

  • Fine-Feathered Death

    Linda O. Johnston

    Kendra Ballantyne, Esq., is flying high. Her license to practice law has been rightfully restored. She's dating the foxiest P.I. in all of L.A. And best of all, since she moonlights as a pet-sitter, she gets to see her furry best friends every day. A...

  • Finishing Touches

    Deanna Kizis

    When aspiring L.A. interior designer Jesse Holtz loses her dearest friend, Cecile, in a car accident, shes sideswiped by grief. Cecile was always the most beguiling girl in the roomthe kind of girl Jesse always wished she could be. With no manual for...

  • The Fire Arrow

    Richard S. Wheeler

    Barnaby Skye, the most durable and unforgettable character in modern Western fiction, returns in this harrowing tale of survival from his early years in the Rockies. In the midst of a brutal winter, Skye's beloved Crow Indian wife, Victoria, is cr...

  • Firebird

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    In the fantastic land of Markovy east of Europe, in the Iron Wood filled with werewolves and other unpleasant creatures, in the house of the dreaded Bone Witch, lives a young orphan girl named Aria. Her life is changed forever when a foreign knight, ...

  • Firetrap

    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 ...

  • Fireworks at the FBI

    Ron Roy

    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for the election season!  In the sixth book of the Capital Mysteries -- an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous ...

  • The First Betrayal

    Patricia Bray

    SOMETIMES THE MAGIC INSIDE US ISN'T MEANT TO BE DISCOVERED.... Orphan, exile, priest, Josan has been posted to a lighthouse on the farthest edge of the kingdom. As a member of the collegium, he once dreamed of making a real contribution to the Learn...

  • Flamethrower

    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...

  • Flying Lessons

    Peggy Webb

    If this is Beth Holt Martin's life, she wants a refund. It's true. At fifty-three, all Beth's got is a sex-starved marriage to Howard the psychiatrist, an (almost) empty nest and a suitcase full of long-forgotten dreams of becoming...well, someth...

  • Follow the Line

    Laura Ljungkvist

    Follow the line on a journey from the city to the country, from the sky to the ocean, from morning till night. Laura Ljungkvist uses her trademark continuous line style to create the perfect counting book for young children. Each scene contains quest...

  • For Pleasure...Or Marriage?

    Julia James

    A mistress is for pleasure, not for marriage... Tycoon Markos Makarios thinks he has the perfect woman in Vanessa: she's beautiful, adoring, living only to please him. In fact, she's the best mistress he's ever had. Until he has to war...

  • For the Love of India

    R.M. Lala

    Jamsetji nusserwanji tata was born in 1839, and in his lifetime india remained firmly under british rule yet the projects he envisioned laid the foundation for the nation's development once it became independent more extraordinary still, these instit...

  • The Foreshadowing

    Marcus Sedgwick

    It is 1915 and the First World War has only just begun. 17 year old Sasha is a well-to-do, sheltered-English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to be a doctor, she wants to nurse, yet girls of her class don't do that kind of work. But as the w...