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New Books List: 492 titles

  • The Cipher Garden

    Martin Edwards

    "Nearly every page yields new revelations in this delectable village caper." -- Publishers WeeklyWarren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor while working in a garden in Old Sawrey, a lovely village in England's Lake District. Soon it is Warren who...

  • Dig

    C.R. Corwin

    "Sublimely snappy prose...Maddy, full of life at 68, is a terrific narrator." -- Kirkus ReviewsMaddy Sprowls gets to The Hannawa Herald-Union on the stroke of nine. She makes her first mug of Darjeeling tea and settles down at her desk to read the ob...

  • Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

    Rehana Ahmed

    `This stunning collection of short stories from some of Britain`s top Asian

    writers will make you laugh and cry. It`s full of stories that will resonate

    with readers` experiences of walking that tumultuous tightrope through

    adole...

  • Essential X-Factor - Volume 1

    Marvel Book Group

    The death of Jean Grey re-defined the X-Men, but her resurrection did nothing less! Recovered by the Avengers and revived by the Fantastic Four, Jean's return re-grouped her fellow founders into a supposed mutant-hunting unit that ferreted out some o...

  • Machine Teen: History 101001 Digest

    Mike Hawthorne

    High school meets high-tech as an all-new model of Marvel hero debuts! Meet Adam Aaronson - the ideal teenager. Straight A student. Captain of the West Tech football team. Smart. Handsome. Charismatic. Every boy wants to be him. Every girl wants to b...

  • The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl

    Tim Pratt

    In this debut novel, acclaimed short-story author Tim Pratt delivers an exciting heroine with a hidden talent -- and a secret duty. Witty and suspenseful, here is a contemporary love song to the West that was won and the myths that shape us.... As...

  • The Conquering Sword of Conan

    Robert E. Howard
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In a meteoric career that covered only a dozen years, Robert E. Howard defined the sword-and-sorcery genre. In doing so, he brought to life the archetypal adventurer known to millions around the world as Conan the barbarian. Witness, then, Howard ...

  • Yuletide Peril

    Irene Brand

    When Janice Reid and her younger sister, Brooke, moved into their ancestral home, threatening letters and ominous phone calls made it obvious they were not welcome in Stanton, West Virginia. But Janice had always dreamed of providing a stable, safe h...

  • The Sheik and the Virgin Secretary

    Susan Mallery

    THE NOT-SO-PRINCESS DIARIES... The wedding of my dreams was only days away...until I discovered my fiance had a nasty habit of unfaithfulness. So to mend my wounded pride, I turned to the most eligible man I knew: my boss, Prince Rafiq of Lucia-Se...

  • Her Special Charm

    Marie Ferrarella

    HE WASN'T LOOKING FOR LOVE...OR ANYTHING ELSE EITHER! When Detective James Munro discovered a cameo necklace on a New York City street, he hoped only to return the keepsake to its rightful owner. He certainly didn't expect that owner to be so adorab...

  • Longarm and the Undercover Mountie

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure!U.S. Marshal Custis Long and Royal Canadian Mountie Sergeant Foster are crossing jurisdictions trying to find the hidden town of Natova -- a secret spot where outlaws with lots of money...

  • Out Of Sight

    Michelle Celmer

    A KEY EYEWITNESS HAD DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE... Special Agent Will Bishop had a mission to track down the one woman who could put a brutal killer in jail. After four years of hard work, he finally had a lead that took him to a Colorado retreat....

  • Taken By The Highest Bidder

    Jane Porter

    Sold in Monte Carlo: a beautiful English baroness! Samantha van Bergen has been wagered and won by the highest bidder: dark and sexy Italian, Cristiano Bartolo. Did he buy her to bed her? Innocent Sam is scared Cristiano will seduce her! But she...

  • Most Wanted Woman

    Maggie Price

    To: Lieutenant Joshua McCall Subject: Probationary Period Your reputation for bending the rules nearly cost you your badge, so we suggest you use your time off to think about how much being a cop means to you -- and to your family. This time, McC...

  • Holidays Are Murder

    Charlotte Douglas

    The holidays? -- Don't you just love 'em? Been overstressed at work? Ever wish the holidays would go on an extended vacation? Worried about finding the perfect gift? Or had unresolved conflicts with family that drive you up the wall? Detective ...

  • Blackberry Winter

    Cheryl Reavis

    I am illegitimate. But this was never a problem for me -- it was just me and my mother against the world. Mother never told me much about her past, and after a couple of unanswered questions in childhood, I stopped asking. Now, Mother is sick, and sh...

  • Dragonflies and Dinosaurs

    Kate Austin

    Kate Austin makes a captivating debut in this luminous tale of an unconventional road trip... and one woman's metamorphosis. At forty-two and given to the occasional panic attack, Randy Roman is taking a leave of absence from her life. After twent...

  • The Black Jack Conspiracy

    David Kent

    David Kent, the acclaimed author of The Mesa Conspiracy, is back with an explosive new novel from the files of Department Thirty -- a secret government agency that erases the identities of top-level criminals in exchange for the kind of information p...

  • Deep Cover

    Rachel Butler

    UNDERCOVER -- AND TOTALLY EXPOSED . . . Tall, lithe Selena McCaffrey turns heads on the streets -- and hides an assassin's knife beneath her clothes. In another life, Selena would have chosen a peaceful career as a painter. But as a child, fate plun...

  • Enduring Freedom

    H. Jay Riker

    The world changed forever on a September morning in 2001, as a fiendish enemy's war on America took a devastating toll. But out of the suffering and horror was born unparalleled courage and selflessness -- and the unwavering commitment of the nation'...

  • Worldwired

    Elizabeth Bear

    AS LONG AS THERE'S AN EARTH TO DEFEND, JENNY CASEY HAS A JOB. BUT SHE MAY OUTLAST THE WORLD SHE WAS CUSTOM-BUILT TO SAVE... Give Canada's Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she'll take a galaxy. That's just the kind of person a world o...

  • The Road to Ratchet Creek // Calamity Spells Trouble

    J.T. Edson

    A good town to die in ... There are six passengers on the stagecoach from Promontory to Ratchet Creek -- among them a beautiful singer with bad intentions, a lawman dressed in deacon's garb ... and a red-headed hellion named Martha Jane Canary, wh...

  • A Kiss Before Dawn

    Kimberly Logan

    It takes a thief to catch a thief...and one kiss to steal a heart. For one brief moment, Lady Emily Knight knew what heaven was when she shared a soul-searing kiss with Peter. But a penniless youth schooled in the London streets cannot love a beau...

  • Switched, Bothered and Bewildered

    Suzanne Macpherson

    SWITCHED . . . Identical twins Jillian and Jana Lee haven't been close since college, when Jillian stole Jana Lee's boyfriend. But now, to save her sanity, workaholic businesswoman Jillian wants to switch places for a week with her not-so-happy-home...

  • The Lord Next Door

    Gayle Callen

    Victoria must wed . . . and immediately! To rescue her family from financial ruin, lovely Victoria Shelby has no choice but to marry. Her options for a bridegroom are limited . . . until she remembers the shy servant boy next door. Then she disco...

  • An Invitation to Sin

    Suzanne Enoch

    Seven marriageable daughters. . .And Lord Zachary Griffin is just the man to help them. After all, what could be more tantalizing than teaching the beautiful Witfeld sisters all the special ways of driving a man into submission -- and marriage? A...

  • Kiss Me, Annabel

    Eloisa James

    The RULES OF MARRIAGE...according to Miss Annabel Essex A husband must be: RICH. Make that very rich. She's had enough of leaky roofs and thread-worn clothing. ENGLISH. London is the center of the civilized world, and Annabel has a pas...

  • Scandalous Miranda

    Susan Sizemore

    A SCANDALOUS YEARNING Lady Miranda Hartwell does not care what society thinks -- and if she wishes to employ a male personal secretary, she will! Of course it was not her specific intention to hire one as devastatingly handsome as Andrew "MacGrego...

  • A New Leash on Life

    Emily Carmichael

    SOMETIMES A WOMAN NEEDS MORE THAN A BEST FRIEND... Dog trainer Jane Connor has always preferred the company of canines, so when her kennel is destroyed in an Arizona wildfire, she finds her whole world in ashes. Jane managed to rescue all the animal...

  • Logarm and the Horses of a Different Color

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm has to rein in some rustlers…Longarm tracks some rustled army horses to Jefferson Boyd -- who swears he has government bills of sale. Longarm knows that he’s guilty, but Boyd will almost certainly beat the charge because there’s almost ...

  • Transcendent

    Stephen Baxter

    It is the year 2047, and nuclear engineer Michael Poole is still in the throes of grief. His beloved wife, Morag, died seventeen years ago, along with their second child. Yet Michael is haunted by more than just the memory of Morag. On a beach in Mia...

  • Rachel and Leah

    Orson Scott Card

    Rachel and Leah is book three in New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card's Women of Genesis series -- a unique reimagining of the biblical tale.Tracing their lives from childhood to maturity, Card shows how the women of Genesis change each...

  • The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys

    Jacqueline Simpson

    Stop off at any English village or town or wander through the countryside and you will almost certainly brush up against some deep-rooted local legend - whether it's the pub that claims to have given lodgings to Dick Turpin, or the haunted stately ho...

  • Aeon Flux: The Herodotus File

    Mark Mars

    Aeon Flux, a lethal, leather-clad spy, makes her perilous way through the intrigue, treachery, subterfuge, and perils of Bregna, a high-tech society controlled by her nemesis, Trevor Goodchild. Reissue. (A Paramount Pictures film, directed by Karyn K...

  • Perfect Day for Love Letters, Volume 2

    George Asakura

    SIX TALES OF LOVE

    • When Araki finds an old fax machine, he starts corresponding with the only girl who can receive his letters. But there’s a twist!

    • A brother’s dying request: deliver a videotape to his girlfriend . . . someo...

  • Nodame Cantabile, Volume 3

    Tomoko Ninomiya

    MUSICAL DISSONANCE

    Student prodigy Shinichi Chiaki just can’t shake Nodame, no matter how hard he tries. Now he is forced to tutor her and Mine all night. So much for music being comforting!

    Then Shinichi gets a golden opportunity: th...

  • Garfield's Book of Cat Names

    Jim Davis

    Is Your Cat Cowering Behind A Silly Name? Garfield Has The Answer!

    Muffin. Kitty. Snowball. All stupid names that no self-respecting cat would have—if it weren''t for the stupid human who gave it to him! Now Garfield has the definit...

  • Married to the Game

    Chunichi

    Married to the Game is an urban tale of sex, money, murder, and mayhem and shows the pros and cons of the drug game. Crystal is the epitome of a good girl turned bad after her world is brutally destroyed. Consumed with her desire for revenge, she, al...

  • Dream Jar

    Lindan Lee Johnson

    One little girl, with the help of her sister, discovers The Secret for turning bad dreams into good ones. Original, quirky, and rich illustrations complement this sparkling story that deals with the very real problem of children’s nightmares. Disco...

  • So Not the Drama!

    Acton Figueroa

    She can do anything-and you can help her! So Not the Drama! (Pick a Villain Chapter Book #4): For Kim Possible, being a teen superhero is no big. But when she hears that four of her wackiest archenemies are planning to rob four different branches of ...

  • Scorpion: Poison Tomorrow Digest

    Fred Van Lente

    Presenting the all-new, all-different Scorpion! After the vicious murder of her adoptive parents, Carmilla Black discovers her biological mother is the top scientist of the worldwide terrorist network A.I.M. Now, to unravel the secrets of her true id...

  • Shanna, the She-Devil

    Frank Cho

    She's bold, she's beautiful, and she's your best hope of escaping the raptors nipping at your heels. She's Shanna, the She Devil! Award-winning creator Frank Cho brings you Marvel's bodacious jungle girl as you've never seen her before: Reborn fr...

  • Toxin: The Devil You Know

    Darick Robertson

    Collects Toxin #1-6. Move over Venom, step aside Carnage, because Toxin is taking the spotlight! When a full-scale jailbreak leaves New York overrun with super-villains, Pat sees the perfect opportunity to use the creature sharing his body for good. ...

  • Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Volume 4: Wild Blue Yonder

    Mark Millar

    Collecting Marvel Knights Spider-Man #13-18. He's got an incredible new pad (you won't believe where), a new job, and - although he doesn't know it - a new nemesis who's everything that Peter isn't. But first, Spider-Man's got to deal with a more pre...

  • Demon Doppelgangers

    Greg Elliot

    Fascinated by the ancient treasures on display in the Greek Antiquities section of the museum where she temps as a museum tour guide, Paige begins to suspect that a strange stone egg recently added to the collection has evil qualities, a fear that is...

  • Prep

    Curtis Sittenfeld

    Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when she leaves her family behind in Indiana to attend the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. Over the next four years, her experiences at Ault -- complicated relationships with teachers...

  • The City Sings a Song!

    Abigail Tabby

    As Elmo and Zoe take a walk in the city, they take note of the rhythm and beat of all the sounds they encounter. From the honking of a horn to the movement of traffic, from the the clang of machines to the wails of sirens, the city’s noise is like ...

  • Dactyls!

    Robert T. Bakker

    Dactyls. Flying Dragons. Pterodactylus. Whatever you call them, they are simply wonderful! Renowned paleontologist Dr. Robert T. Bakker explains how scientists observe fossils and living animals to determine how dactyls flew, walked, climbed, fed, an...

  • Doodle Dog in Space

    Eric Seltzer

    Making their own homemade ship, Doodle Dog and his devoted friend, King, decide to blast off into space and soon find themselves whizzing past stars, dodging space rocks, and meeting new and unique friends--all while attempting to find their way back...

  • Dark Angel

    Geoffrey Archer

    __________________________The repercussions of a brutal murder echo across the years in this gripping novel from legendary thriller writer Geoffrey Archer.Tom Sedley's idyllic summer vacation in a leafy post war suburb of north London came to an abru...

  • The Grandma Cure

    Pamela Mayer

    Becky catches a cold and must stay home from kindergarten and her two grandmothers, Grandma Rosalie and Grandma Sophie cannot agree on how to take care of her until Becky helps them to cooperate using lessons she has learned in kindergarten....

  • Look What the Cat Dragged In

    Gary Hogg

  • Captain Universe: Power Unimaginable

    Steve Ditko

    He's the hero who could be you... but in these stories, being a burglar, a college professor, and an astronaut will have to do! Whether it's half-sized as a child or doubled as twins, the Uni-Power transforms its lucky recipient into Captain Universe...

  • Essential Marvel Two-in-One, Volume 1

    Jim Starlin

    The Thing can't stay out of trouble, but at least he makes friends wherever he goes! The Ever-Lovin' Idol o' Millions teams up with heroes both frontline and forgotten against menaces spanning time and space! Gods! Aliens! Spies! Demons! Dinosaurs! T...

  • Maximum Fantastic Four

    Jack Kirby

    Ushering in momentous change in comic-book illustration and ingenuity, Jack Kirby's immense artistic contribution to Fantastic Four #1 revolutionized visual storytelling and brought the art of reality to the extraordinary lives of super-heroes. The r...

  • Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Volume 1: Down among the Dead Men

    Mark Millar

    Collects Marvel Knights Spider-Man #1-4. A mysterious villain has discovered Spider-Man's secret identity. . . and is using the information to slowly destroy everything and everyone that Peter Parker cares about. But how far will Spider-Man go to pro...

  • Marvel Nemesis: The Imperfects Digest

    Marvel Book Group

  • Spider-Man vs. the Black Cat / Volume 1

    Marvel Book Group

  • My Boo

    Daaimah S. Poole
    in

    New Year's Eve is the time to make a naughty resolution, so shed your inhibitions and indulge in this sultry collection of escapades from four of the hottest writers around. A Philly girl's long-distance boyfriend never has time for her -- not ev...

  • Dangerously in Love

    Crystal Lacey Winslow
    in

    New Year's Eve is the time to make a naughty resolution, so shed your inhibitions and indulge in this sultry collection of escapades from four of the hottest writers around. A prim and proper young woman's wild side takes over after the man she's...

  • Whatever It Takes

    Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker
    in

    New Year's Eve is the time to make a naughty resolution, so shed your inhibitions and indulge in this sultry collection of escapades from four of the hottest writers around. A sassy older woman tries to break off her steamy relationship with her ...

  • Every New Year

    Brenda L. Thomas
    in

    New Year's Eve is the time to make a naughty resolution, so shed your inhibitions and indulge in this sultry collection of escapades from four of the hottest writers around. A shoot-out lands a respected doctor in the hospital with a bad case of ...

  • Remember Me

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    As a boy growing up in the sixties, Sam Tibbits always treasured the summer vacations he spent at Piddock Beach, exploring the sand and sea as only boys can. It was here he first met Aubrey, a local girl who became his childhood confidante...and late...

  • Facing Rushmore

    David Lozell Martin

    A federal agent assigned to collect intelligence on militant Native American tribes discovers a plot to reclaim the Indian's sacred land at Mt. Rushmore.The St. Louis Memorial Arch, 630 feet of gleaming stainless steel, twice the height of the Statue...

  • The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure

    Jack Pendarvis

    This debut collection of stories holds a fun house mirror to the everyday lives of characters as empathetic as they are absurd. You've met the characters in The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. They're the quirky visionaries and misguid...

  • Ex and the Single Girl

    Lani Diane Rich

    Dumped by her boyfriend on Valentine's Day (oh, the irony!), Portia Fallon has developed an obsession with Jane Austen movies, Cheez Doodles, and chardonnay...and is four felines and a Reader's Digest subscription away from turning into a crazy cat l...

  • Mary, Mary

    James Patterson

    Somebody is murdering Hollywood's A-list. Her calling card: "You've got mail." On a family vacation, FBI agent Alex Cross is asked to investigate the shooting of a top actress...and an e-mail sent to the Los Angeles Times with shocking details about ...

  • The Revealing

    Disney Book Group

    The W.I.T.C.H. GRAPHIC NOVELS provide readers with 128 pages of full, four-color illustrations. The perfect companion book to the novelizations, the GRAPHIC NOVELS bring the original comic-book story to life in book form....

  • Alabaster's Song

    Max Lucado

    A touching story of a young boy who befriends a Christmas angel.  Only a young boy can hear the song of Alabaster, the little angel on the Christmas tree.  This delightful sotry of a boy and a gap-toothed cherub teaches the value and wonder...

  • Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst

    Catherine Reid

    A “beautifully written” tribute to this tenacious and much-misunderstood creature of the wild (Bill McKibben).   When Catherine Reid returned to the Berkshires to live after decades away, she became fascinated by another recent arrival: the ...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Human Torch, Volume 1

    Carl Burgos

    Marvel presents more Golden Age goodness, reprinting the first four issues of HUMAN TORCH, #2-5a, from 1940-41. (Yes, folks, odd numbering was not solely the province of modern comic books; the Torch's solo book started with issue #2 and had two #5s....

  • New Thunderbolts, Volume 2: Modern Marvels

    Marvel Book Group

  • The Christmas Quilt

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    When Christmas Eve comes to Elm Creek Manor, the tenor of the holiday is far from certain. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the Master Quilter, has her own reasons for preferring a quiet, even subdued, Christmas. Her young friend Sarah McClure, however, tak...

  • Christmas, Texas Style: A Texan Under the Mistletoe

    Leah Vale
    in

    Lori Beth Whittaker comes home looking for tradition -- and discovers that for the first time ever, the Hooper Creek Christmas festival has been cancelled. She's determined the festival will go on, but one man stands in her way -- Jackson Hooper, her...

  • Christmas, Texas Style: Merry Texmas

    Linda Warren
    in

    Mariel Todd-Crandall and Grayson Crandall love their daughter, but since their divorce, it's hard to find time to spend with Chloe. But Chloe's sick of being ignored, and she knows her parents still love each other. So this Christmas she has a specia...

  • Christmas, Texas Style: Four Texas Babies

    Tina Leonard
    in

    To save his parents' ranch from falling into the wrong hands, Sam Johnston must marry. A quickie wedding to Lily Bartholomew brings more than he bargained for -- including some shocking news about his new in-laws. But the biggest shock of all is that...

  • Epiphany: An Angel for Christmas

    Rita Herron

    Atlanta Police Department Bulletin All police officers should be aware that the recent increase in crime activity that is running rampant through the city of Atlanta, Georgia, is quickly destroying the holiday spirit of our citizens. As sworn office...

  • Hollywood Life or Royal Wife?

    Fiona Hood-Stewart
    in

    When scandal threatens to engulf Hollywood sensation Victoria Woodward, Prince Rodolfo sweeps her off to his Mediterranean kingdom. But despite her dreams of a royal wedding, it seems Rodolfo's princess must be chosen for her blue blood, not her red-...

  • Crimson Heir

    Russell Davis

    Over 400 years ago her father named her Bright Sea Bird, but that was before she met Demetri Vasile and was introduced to the dark pleasures and ravaging pains of the Kingdom of Shadows. Now hiding in plain sight, her name is Khalida Raven and she’...

  • The Debutante

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    "You want us to pretend to be engaged. You're joking, right?" -- Lanie Meyers, Debutante Doesn't everyone want true love? No way. For sexy Miles Fortune, the youngest of the Fortune triplets, soul mates are for suckers. But when the playboy ranc...

  • Epiphany: Undercover Santa

    Debra Webb

    Atlanta Police Department Bulletin All police officers should be aware that the recent increase in crime activity that is running rampant through the city of Atlanta, Georgia, is quickly destroying the holiday spirit of our citizens. As sworn office...

  • Epiphany: Merry's Christmas

    Mallory Kane

    Atlanta Police Department Bulletin All police officers should be aware that the recent increase in crime activity that is running rampant through the city of Atlanta, Georgia, is quickly destroying the holiday spirit of our citizens. As sworn office...

  • Marriage Scandal, Showbiz Baby!

    Sharon Kendrick
    in

    The world's most glamorous couple, Jennifer Warren and Matteo D'Arezzo, are on the red carpet at their latest premiere -- despite having just split up! Watching their steamy movie together sparks unstoppable passion and with life-changing consequenc...

  • Sex, Lies and a Security Tape

    Jackie Braun
    in

    Rumor has it former film star Colin McKinnon's got serious political ambition. No wonder he can't afford to be seen with infamous Tempest Herriman. Too bad he's been caught on CCTV in flagrante with the wild child!...

  • Mistletoe Maneuvers

    Margaret Allison

    REVENGE IN THE BOARDROOM For years she had plotted her revenge, and now Lessa Lawrence was finally face-to-face with the man who'd stolen her father's legacy. Rick Parker was dark, driven -- and deadly handsome. But Lessa was a woman dedicated to ful...

  • Cerberus Storm

    James Axler

  • Lethally Blonde

    Nancy Bartholomew

    Madison. Becca. Porsche. Alexa. Vanessa. Chloe. The It Girls They're rich, fabulous...and dangerously underestimated. It Girl: Porsche Rothschild Mission: Pose as Hollywood big shot Jeremy Reins's girlfriend and find out who's making threats ...

  • Red Carpet Christmas

    Patricia Rosemoor

    WANTED: A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE No one knew his real identity...except for the unforgettable ex-girlfriend who'd just waltzed into his club's red-carpet holiday party. Gideon Maddox hadn't seen Simone Burke since he put her father away for killing his...

  • A Year And A Day

    Inglath Cooper

    She has the life most women dream of Too bad for Audrey Colby it's all a facade. Her seemingly devoted husband is really a monster. Their high-society "friends" protect his ugly secrets. The mansion they live in is just a gilded prison for her and...

  • Exit Strategy

    Kate Donovan

    ROOKIE AGENT MIRANDA CUTLER HAD LOOKED UP TO SUPERSPY RAY ORTEGA Her thanks? He'd seduced her, then left her holding the bag for an ill-fated op that nearly ruined her career while he went into self- imposed exile. One year later, the CIA wanted M...

  • That Night In Texas

    Eve Gaddy

    Dr. Lana McCoy moved to Aransas City, Texas, hoping to escape her past. But that fateful night in California keeps coming back to haunt her. Gabe Randolph loved running his charter fishing boat business. It meant he was outdoors, active and carefr...

  • The Marine And Me

    Cathie Linz

    Had Cupid's arrow made a direct hit? How on earth had an intrepid U.S. Marine just gotten maneuvered into dating the librarian next door? Mark it down to a sense of duty but for Steve Kozlowski, meeting Chloe Johnson was like walking over a land m...

  • Forbidden Captor

    Julie Miller

    BEAUTY AND THE BOUNTY HUNTER He'd fallen into enemy hands. Now, battle-scarred bounty hunter Bryce Martin and his comrades were imprisoned in dungeonlike torture chambers on wind-whipped Devil's Fork Island. He was at the mercy of the barbaric mil...

  • Boss Man

    Diana Palmer

    THE PERMANENT TEMPORARY... Blake Kemp was a man who knew his own mind and was as stubborn as the day is long in Jacobsville, Texas. As the town's leading lawyer, he had a reputation to uphold, and he didn't want the tender ministrations of...

  • Light from Heaven

    Jan Karon

    Father Tim takes on a new challenge in this inspirational installment in the beloved Mitford series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bathed in Prayer.  Father Tim Kavanagh has been asked to “come up higher” more than ...

  • Casanova in Bolzano

    Sandor Marai

    Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embers became an international bestseller -- a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world’s most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 G...

  • Open Ice

    Pat Hughes

    NICKY TAG! NICKY TAG! All his life, crowds have been cheering for Nick Taglio. He's been skating since he could walk, scoring goals since he picked up a hockey stick. He's only a sophomore but he rules the ice, because Nicky Tag's a fighter. Which ...

  • Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell

    Boris Vallejo

    The art of Boris Vallejo is characterized by beautiful maidens, heroic men and fearsome monsters while the work of his wife Julie Bell is famous for a sense of color and dramatic composition which puts her paintings in a class by themselves.

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  • King Kong: The Search for Kong

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

  • The Nutty News

    Ron Barrett

    It looks like a newspaper, but the resemblance stops there. Ron Barrett’s off-the-wall parody covers such interesting news stories as “Gerbile Elected President of France” and “One-Minute-a-Day School Opens;” an interview with New York’s ...

  • King Kong: Meet Kong and Ann

    Jennifer Frantz

    When actress Ann Darrow is kidnapped by the giant gorilla Kong, Carl Denham and his crew must venture into the jungle to save her. But is there more to this mighty beast that Ann originally thought?

    ...

  • Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross

    Alex Ross

    THE EISNER AWARD-WINNING, NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING MYTHOLOGY IS HERE IN PAPERBACK, IN AN EXPANDED EDITION WITH 32 NEW PAGES.

    Mythology returns, in a newly expanded paperback edition of the book Entertainment Weekly awarded a grade of A, saying:...

  • King Kong: Journey to Skull Island

    Jennifer Frantz

  • King Kong

    Julia Simon-Kerr

  • The Gift

    Pete Hamill

    Originally published in 1973 and long unavailable, THE GIFT returns to print in a paperback edition that features a bound-in reading group guide. This short novel portends the great literary promise that Pete Hamill would eventually fulfill in such b...

  • The Unknown Soldier

    Neil Hanson

    This is the fascinating and moving story of how the grave of the Unknown Soldier and the ritual of Remembrance Day came to be.

    During the Great War, three men -- one British, one American and one German -- give their lives in the battlefie...

  • Trust Me, Mom!

    Angela Mcallister

    Today is Ollie's very first trip to the store by himself. His mom has taught him well, so he knows exactly what to do: be safe, be polite, and never talk to strangers. But what will Ollie do when he is faced with a bug-eyed monster, a cackling wit...

  • Hair Scare

    Jeffrey Fisher

    This one-of-a-kind ode to haircuts tells the story of Radbert, who loves to cut hair. Everyone wants one of Radbert's famous haircuts, even the king. Radbert works hard to create the best haircut in the history of haircuts for him, but the king pr...

  • A Feather of Stone

    Cate Tiernan

    After seventeen-year-old Thais Allard loses her widowed father in a tragic car accident, she is forced to leave the only home she’s ever known to live with a total stranger in New Orleans. New Orleans greets Thais with many secrets and mysteries, b...

  • True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet

    Lola Douglas

    Teen star Morgan Carter's mom is trying to kill her. At least, that's what Morgan thinks when she's sent to Ft.Wayne, Indiana after a near overdose outside LA's Viper Room. Morgan's going to recover out of the spotlight.Way out. She's given a majo...

  • RSVP

    Melissa J. Morgan

    "Hey, Brynn!" Did you get your invite to the reunion yet? I just opened mine. It's gonna be just like old times! Especially because Nat's having a big slumber party at her apartment afterward. I wonder if Chelsea will come? It's got to be hard for he...

  • Ophie Out of Oz

    Kathleen O'Dell

    Fourth-grader Ophelia Peeler has always felt that she was just like Dorothy in Oz, skipping down the yellow brick road, until a move to Oregon, away from her best friend, sends her on a different path. Reprint....

  • Oh Say, I Can't See

    Jon Scieszka

    “I cannot tell a lie,” said general george washington. “the time warp trio helped me cross the Delaware river and surprise the enemy troops.” so how did Christmas eve in the twenty-first century turn into Christmas Day in 1776? well, it was s...

  • King Kong

    Anthony Browne

    It was Beauty that killed the Beast. King Kong is a giant gorilla, a massive monster of an ape who lives on a remote island. The mighty beast falls for a beautiful girl, Ann Darrow, and desperate to have her he finds himself lured into captivity. He ...

  • Temptation's Warrior

    Gabriella Anderson

    Payne Dunbyer, a mercenary knight, must do one more errand for the baron who's hired his services. He can then collect his pay and move on. Unfortunately, this last task is the most distasteful one yet. He must abduct the baron's former betrothed and...

  • And Don't Forget to Rescue the Princess

    Marc Bilgrey

    Al Breen is an unemployed New York actor who wants to spend a quiet summer on Cape Cod writing a play. But his plans are interrupted by a talking cat who zaps him into a medieval world where Al is mistaken for a brave warrior (hey, it could happen to...

  • Sleeping Dragons

    Cat Collins

    Jenna Wade is a cool, aloof, self-contained woman, definitely not the type to fall easily for any man. Yet, she finds herself doing just that when an injured stranger is admitted to the ICU where she works. Crossing her own social taboos and violatin...

  • Holding Heaven

    Jerry B. Jenkins

    Storyteller Jerry B. Jenkins and biblical artist Ron DiCianni transport you to the hardscrabble Middle East of the first century where you eavesdrop on interaction between a father and a son so profound that it will forever change how you view the In...

  • X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic - Book 2

    Scott Lobdell

    Collects X-Men: Alpha, Generation Next #1, Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1 #1, X-Calibre #1, Gambit and the X-Ternals #1-2, Weapon X #1-2, Amazing X-Men #1-2, Factor X #1-2, X-Man #1. Apocalypse has conquered half of humankind and is ready to destroy them a...

  • Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Mary Jane Begin

    A sorcerer's young apprentice attempts to practice magic in her master's absence, with disastrous results, in a classic tale that teaches that passion and hard work tempered by patience and discipline can help make dreams come true....

  • Excalibur Classic - Volume 1: The Sword is Drawn

    Alan Davis

    Believing the X-Men to be dead, Nightcrawler and Shadowcat vow to keep the dream alive alongside Captain Britain and the metamorphic Meggan - but the Warwolves have Phoenix on the run and she leads them to London, right into the formation of the X-Me...

  • Daredevil, Volume 12: Decalogue

    Brian Michael Bendis

  • The Jury

    Fern Michaels

    TEA, SYMPATHY. REVENGE. THE SISTERHOOD HAS THEIR OWN STYLE OF JUSTICE. The women of the Sisterhood know life isn't fair, but that doesn't mean they have to like it--or let it pass. Instead, these best friends share their joys, troubles, triumphs, ...

  • Have Mercy on Us All

    Fred Vargas

    In a small Parisian square, the ancient tradition of the town crier continues into modern times. The self-appointed crier, Joss Le Guern, reads out the daily news, snippets of gossip, and lately, ominous messages -- placed in his handmade wooden mess...

  • Boise Belle

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Death Draw

    Kit Dalton

    Buckskin Lee Morgan ends up foiling a volatile scheme by the citizens of Lafayette, Colorado, to earn fabulous wealth by keeping a promise to a dying woman to deliver a package to a mysterious Chinese man. Original....

  • Original Love

    J.J. Murray

    Peter Underhill was smitten by Ebony Mills the moment she joined his street hockey team--a coal-eyed, tomboy goddess, as dark and dazzling as he was pale and awkward. That she returned his affection was a boy's dream come true. But despite a bond tha...

  • Roommates

    Whitney Lyles

    All Elise wants is a normal roommate. One who doesn't, say, have constant sex on the squeaky top bunk--or leave just one chip in the tortilla bag... Elise thought starting her life over in San Diego would mean writing at the beach and rendezvousi...

  • The Heart of the Moon

    Tanith Lee
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    Struggling under the curse of a dead comrade, Clirando, a warrior priestess unready to face the powers trapped within her, must face "The Heart of the Moon" to reveal what has been hidden.......

  • Banshee Cries

    C.E. Murphy
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    In Banshee Cries, ritual murders under a full moon lead Jo Walker to confront a Harbinger of Death. Maybe this "gift" she has is one she shouldn't ignore -- because the next life she has to save might be her own!...

  • Moontide

    Mercedes Lackey
    in

    In an isolated land where the lure of the "Moontide" leads to shipwrecks, a woman is torn between obeying her father or her king. When she chooses to follow a Fool, she discovers magic she'd never expected...at a price that might be too high.......

  • Games of Pleasure

    Julia Ross

    Riding home after a rebuffed marriage proposal, Lord Ryderbourne notices a small boat dangerously adrift. Impulsively, he plunges his horse into the sea and saves the boat's unconscious occupant--a beautiful, bruised, and nearly naked woman... ...

  • The Holmes Factor

    Brian Freemantle

    The second in the Sebastian Holmes series, following The Holmes Inheritance It's just weeks from the outbreak of the First World War, a conflict few expect to erupt. If it does, Russia is pivotal. But Russia, having survived one abortive revolution, ...

  • The One That Got Away

    C. Kelly Robinson

    Fast-rising record exec Tony Gooden has his priorities in line: making money and loving the single life. But his game is thrown off balance when he sees Serena Kincaid, the only woman he ever put himself on the line for....

  • Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner

    Lisa Wingate

    Big Lizard Bottoms-where getting hitched is a local industry-is not any place Lindsey Attwood, a play-it-safe paleontologist who's sworn off romance, ever expected to find herself. She's here posing as a horse psychology student to help recover dinos...

  • What You Won't Do for Love

    Wendy Coakley-Thompson

    Change can be good--even when the events that lead up to it seem pretty bad. But as the characters in Wendy Coakley-Thompson's powerful new novel discover, a painful past may be the ticket to a fabulous future, if you can just hang on during the twis...

  • Emma Townsend Saves Christmas

    Melanie Murray
    in

    A country Christmas isn't exactly at the top of Emma Townsend's "Dear Santa" list this year. Flannels and work boots? No, thanks. She's a dignified Manhattanite now. So how did she end up back in the "winter wonderland" yet again? It's family traditi...

  • The Eight Dates of Hanukkah

    Laurie Graff
    in

    If singles events planner Nicki Heller thought she was confused before about what she wants from her relationship, then a blow to the head certainly isn't helping matters.The doctors have assured her family that Nicki's on the mend. But for now? Well...

  • Shoulda Woulda Coulda

    La Jill Hunt

    Working hard to care for his kids, Craig Coleman is determined to live a drama-free life until he encounters his brother's ex, while Paige Michaels comes-to-grips with her husband's betrayal and prepares to leave her seemingly perfect life behind. Or...

  • The Royal Pain

    Maryjanice Davidson

    In a world nearly identical to ours, the North won the Civil War, Ben and JLo got married, and everyone dresses well to attend the Grammys. Oh, and Russia never sold Alaska to the U.S. Instead, Alaska is a rough, beautiful country ruled by a famously...

  • Match Game

    Beverly Brandt

    Pop quiz -- Who are you really? On the most special day of your life, your wedding day, the cops bust in and wrongfully arrest you at the altar for money laundering and tax evasion. The only rings you leave the church with that day are the ones ma...

  • Dark Watch

    Clive Cussler; Jack Du Brul

    Joan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous irking working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the east -- the Far East -- to ask for...

  • Who Loves Ya, Baby?

    Gemma Bruce

    LET'S GET LUCKY Catch and cuff a perp without batting a false eyelash? No problem for NYPD undercover cop Julie Excelsior. But her big mouth just got her demoted...seems that the department doesn't appreciate a whistle-blower. Well, Julie is too res...

  • Til There Was You

    Dianne Castell

    Rory O'Fallon is surprised to discover a beautiful baby girl on his front porch. He knows the baby is his just as sure as he knows her mother must be in trouble to have left her. To find the love of his life, he's going to need help. It's time to cal...

  • Carrie Pilby's New Year's Resolution

    Caren Lissner
    in

    Like everyone else in the world, Carrie Pilby used to make a lot of resolutions she didn't keep. But this New Year's it's going to be different. She's going to be different. Really. The twenty-year-old genius is determined to be less geeky and more s...

  • Hardly Working

    Betsy Burke

    Dinah Nichols, PR chick for Green World International, knows how to spin a story. She has to, otherwise how else would rescuing loons get the media attention it deserves? But a visit from Higher Management guru Ian Trutch means she'll have to put som...

  • Arrested Development

    Owen Burke

    Fox's critically acclaimed show starring Jason Bateman and Jeffrey Tambor is touted as one of the best programs on television, with five Emmy wins for Outstanding Comedy Series, Writing, Directing, Casting, and Editing. Now fans will get an even more...

  • A Final Discord

    Tessa Barclay

    The new Crown Prince Gregory mystery from this well-loved author - When Gregory Crowne is enlisted to help Gilles Guidon, the eccentric son of a merchant banker, to assemble a jazz quintet for the Montreux Festival, he soon discovers there is somethi...

  • No More Playas

    Brenda Jackson

    Lance Montgomery, renowned relationship expert, has perfected the art of being a playa. His acclaimed workshops and bestselling books prove it. His most popular title, The Playa's Handbook, caused a major uproar among black women and men, and shot to...

  • The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

    Lauraine Snelling
    in

    A romance blooms between Blythe Stensrude and Thane Davidson after their dogs tangle leashes in the park -- until Thane assumes guardianship of his three-year-old niece. Blythe is sure motherhood is not for her, but how can she refuse Thane's request...

  • The Blood Kiss

    Shiloh Walker
    in

    Venture into a world beyond the ordinary, where the dark passions and voracious appetites of vampires, werewolves, demons, and a few undaunted mortals combine to unleash a potent...HOT SPELL Here are lovers like you've never dared to imagine: eyes...

  • Falling For Anthony

    Meljean Brook
    in

    Venture into a world beyond the ordinary, where the dark passions and voracious appetites of vampires, werewolves, demons, and a few undaunted mortals combine to unleash a potent...HOT SPELL Here are lovers like you've never dared to imagine: eyes...

  • Dragon's Eye

    James A. Hetley

    Two magical families living in the town of Stonefort, Maine--the shape-shifting Morgans and the Haskell witches--must overcome their individual differences to help young Gary Morgan claim his heritage and his family's alliance with the magical Dragon...

  • The Smell of the Night

    Andrea Camilleri

    Half the retirees in Vigata have invested their savings with Emanuele Gargano. But now the financial wizard has disappeared, along with their money. Has Gargano flown the coop or, this being Sicily, did he run afoul of the Mafia? The ingenious new no...

  • Touched By Venom

    Janine Cross

    Like her half-breed mother, young Zarq Darquel can't always hold her tongue. A lowly peasant on a large dragon estate, she goes unnoticed by the Temple of the Dragon--until she accidentally captures the attention of an eccentric and dangerous dragonm...

  • Shadow Over Kiriath

    Karen Hancock

    Legends of the Guardian King Book 3- Karen Hancock has created a beautiful and powerful fantasy series that continues to win new readers and remind them of who holds their hopes and victories in His hands. In Abramm's world, God is close to his follo...

  • Authorized Personnel Only

    J.J. Abrams

    Internal Memorandum For Your Eyes Only The contents of the dossiers herein are top-secret government files. This information must be kept completely confidential to ensure not only the safety of the field agents who risk their lives daily but al...

  • Distant Shores

    Marco Palmieri

    Washed up on a faraway galactic shore, Captain Kathryn Janeway of the U.S.S. Voyager faced a choice: accept exile or set a course for home, a seventy-thousand-light-year journey fraught with unknown perils. She chose the latter. Janeway's decision l...

  • Book of Shadows

    Migene Gonzalez-Wippler

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    Wicca is essentially a religion, as sacred and vital as other religions. Its central foundation is nature and all of its laws. Witches maintain a constant identification with the flora, fauna, the waters, the winds, and all other natural phenomen...

  • Thou Shalt Not Kill

    Anne Perry

    The greatest story ever told; the rise and fall of civilizations, empires, kings, despots, prophets and disciples; tales of love, betrayal, revenge, war, and disaster, the most fundamental and eternal myths and fables of Judeo-Christian society; the ...

  • Amethyst

    Lauraine Snelling

    Dakotah Treasures Book 4- Major Jeremiah McHenry is retiring from the army and returns to Medora to make a new life and find a wife. Will he be able to convince feisty newcomer Amethyst O'Shaunasy that he is the kind of man she's been looking for? Ja...

  • Lust For Life

    Adele Parks

    If the shoe fits... Here's what the Evergreen sisters have in common: jealousy. Eliza longs for the stability of Martha's picture-perfect marriage; Martha craves the spontaneity of Eliza's life with her sexy musician boyfriend. Now one of the siste...

  • Hot Flash Holidays

    Nancy Thayer

    The intrepid women of The Hot Flash Club are back for the holidays, soothing jingled nerves and stressed shoppers in their exclusive spa and celebrating the joys of the season. In her witty and delightfully wisecracking prose, Nancy Thayer tells a he...

  • The Make-up Girl

    Andrea Semple

    In this sharp and sexy new novel, Andrea Semple, one of fiction's freshest voices, takes a wickedly funny look at the ways we reinvent our lives, undoing ourselves along the way. British cosmetics counter girl Faith Wishart can make up anything, from...

  • Swastika

    Michael Slade

    TWO SERIAL KILLERS ARE TAKING HATE CRIMES TO THE EXTREME.... Dubbed Swastika and the Aryan, they're acting as cleansers of society--necessary evils to empower a new master race. But there's still one secret about them no one knows.... Assigned ...

  • Allison's Journey

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Growing up with her impatient, disinterested aunt and five older brothers, Allison Troyer is more comfortable playing ball than keeping house. Now, the nineteen-year-old tomboy must learn to run an Amish household. But a future of domestic bliss is h...

  • Flash Flood

    DiAnn Mills

    As if losing her job at Flash Communications wasn't bad enough, Alina Marlow's expert help has been promised to the last person she expected to see - her one-time fiance, Ryan Erikson. Her heart never let him go, but the secret that forced her to bre...

  • Bayou Secrets

    Kathleen Y'Barbo

    After secretly eloping, Genevieve Lamont finds herself abandoned by her abusive husband, estranged from her mother, and guilt-ridden over her father's death. Resigned, Gen works in New Iberia's five-and-dime in order to keep her most precious secret ...

  • Night Game

    Christine Feehan

    Gator Fontenot of. the Special Forces paranormal squad can't refuse an urgent request to save the elusive Iris "Flame" Johnson, a victim of the same horrific experiments that warped Gator. Now unleashed, she's a red-haired weapon of unimaginable dest...

  • Dead Weight

    J.R. Roberts

    While escorting a coffin to West Texas at the request of Rachel Chandler, a beautiful widow, Clint Adams encounters a wealth of unsavory characters who seem to know a lot about his cargo and even more about Rachel. Original....

  • In the Name of the Vampire

    Mary Ann Mitchell

    During his lifetime, the Marquis de Sade--and his perverse tastes--were infamous throughout France. Pain and pleasure were one to him. Other people existed only to satisfy his wants and desires. Today very little has changed. The Marquis still uses p...

  • Cold Blooded

    Robert J. Randisi

    NYPD Detective Sergeant Dennis McQueen has his hands full with a very bizarre case. A series of dead bodies have been found, all frozen--killed by various methods, but disposed of in the same manner. Just a coincidence, or is there a serial killer at...

  • Chimney of Gold

    Kent Conwell

    Jake Slade will never forget that face--the face of the Comanchero who murdered his mother, kidnapped his sister, and left him for dead with a slug in his chest fourteen long years ago. Nursed back to health by the Apaches, Slade lived with them unti...

  • The Killing Sky

    Robert Gandt

    Now Gandt's heroic fighter pilot Brick Maxwell is on a mission of international intrigue that leads to a personal war.... When a routine American--Israeli military exercise goes wrong, Brick Maxwell's wingman is shot down and taken prisoner by a P...

  • Mistletoe and Holly

    Liz Ireland
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    This Christmas, take some time out to indulge in these sweet, sexy stories from three of your favorite authors. Because while Santa may visit but once a year, romance is the gift that keeps on giving... For once, Holly is determined to fit into h...

  • The Second Wife of Reilly

    Jennifer Coburn
    in

    This Christmas, take some time out to indulge in these sweet, sexy stories from three of your favorite authors. Because while Santa may visit but once a year, romance is the gift that keeps on giving... Falling in love with Reilly was easy for Sa...

  • Fear the Night

    John Lutz

    A MADMAN'S OBSESSION IS A CITY'S NIGHTMARE He comes out when the sun goes down. He delivers death from the barrel of a rifle. He's made New York City his shooting gallery. Men and women, natives and tourists, young and old, have all been his victi...

  • Operation Barracuda

    David Michaels

    As part of a top-secret initiative called Third Echelon, National Security Agency special operative Sam Fisher has been given license to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect America. And he does......

  • The Texan's Reward

    Jodi Thomas

    Years ago, Texas Ranger Jacob Dalton bailed an orphaned girl named Nell out of trouble more times than he could count. But now the kid he once called "Two Bits" has grown into a beautiful young woman--and is in more trouble than ever before. Woun...

  • Ballistic Force

    Don Pendleton

    IRON FIST A raid on Korean gang activity in California takes a dangerous turn into a world crisis, when Mack Bolan uncovers intelligence involving North Korea's nuclear weapons program. A group of high-level defectors from the Project Kanggye Nucl...

  • Cherry on Top

    Kathleen Long

    Chances Are... Cherry Harte is ready to set the world on fire--figuratively, of course. Unfortunately, people tend to underestimate a girl whose insane family attracts loan sharks and bail bondsmen the way some people attract money. So when Cherry w...

  • Gallows for a Gunman

    Rod Miller

    Harlow Had Been Sentenced To Die At Dawn. For The Town Of Los Santos, Dawn Couldn't Come Soon Enough... Everyone in Los Santos had crossed paths with Harlow at one time or another, from the days when he was a snot-nosed boy stealing from kitchen ga...

  • Written on the Wind

    Joyce Henderson

    CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS White Fawn thought she knew who she was and where she belonged -- she was Comanche, and she belonged with her Indian family on the Texas plains. But all that changed after a raid turned deadly. The sole survivor, she was ab...

  • Desperate Tigress

    Jade Lee

    The Tigress: the Chinese symbol for female sexuality; the counterpart of the :male" Dragon; a priestess of a Taoist sect, ON PLEASURE'S PATH The final step was release. Shi Po had devoted her life to the Taoist ideal: enlightenment through ecst...

  • A Knight's Honor

    Connie Mason

    SAINT... He was a miracle sent by God to save her. That was what Mariah's aged and ailing husband called the mysterious knight who had been brought unconscious to their doorstep. She had to agree that he was a maiden's dream, his naked body ...

  • Killing Game

    Max Allan Collins

    The machinations of a new supervisor may have altered Gil Grissom's team of skillful CSIs, as Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and Warrick Brown are reassigned from the graveyard shift to the swing shift. That doesn't mean, however, that their paths w...

  • A Darker Crimson

    Carolyn Jewel

    Long ago the portal was sealed, and Los Angeles--now Crimson City--rid itself of demons for eternity. Or so Claudia Donovan believed. With the city's other "paranormals" more active than ever, and the treaty between the species all but dissolved, she...

  • Strange Brews

    Stobie Piel

    DELICIOUS DRAUGHT... Eliana Daere was the greatest herbalist alive. Trained by the wizard Madawc, she could brew a potion to bring on a gentle slumber, or a philter to drop a foe dead in his tracks. Only one man existed whom she feared--one man who ...

  • Lone Star Magic

    Karen Whiddon

    Broad shoulders and chiseled features set Prince Alrick of Rune apart from all but his twin brother. Both Fae princes are accomplished horsemen, swordsmen and seducers. So in the hope of becoming sole heir, Alrick accepts a quest to another time and ...

  • The Island of the Skull

    Matt Costello

    KING KONG Entrepreneur and filmmaker Carl Denham struggles to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry -- but all of his charisma and showmanship may have to take a back seat to the greatest adventure yet to come... Vaudeville re...

  • Dark One

    Ronda Thompson

    A PASSION IGNITED Rosalind Rutherford knows full well the scandal she courts when she attempts to seduce the notorious Armond Wulf--in fact, she's counting on it as a means to escape her sadistic stepbrother's control. Unfortunately, Lord Wulf's bet...

  • Time After Time

    Steven Erikson
    in

    Sixteen electrifying stories, centering around time travel and altered timelines, explore the profound impact of manipulating the past and the future, and feature contributions by Laura Resnick, Jody Lynn Nye, Liz Holliday, Dean Wesley Smith, and Dan...

  • Vacation

    Jane Green
    in

    This Christmas, take some time out to indulge in these sweet, sexy stories from three of your favorite authors. Because while Santa may visit but once a year, romance is the gift that keeps on giving... VACATION by JANE GREEN If Sarah knew mov...

  • Sweetest Taboo

    Yolonda Greggs

    While searching for her infant daughter, who was stolen from the hospital, Cai McIntyre, after a suspicious accident, suffers amnesia and ends up in the home of Christopher St. Clair and his nine-year-old daughter during a hurricane, placing all of t...

  • Duel of Hearts

    Sonia Icilyn

    WHEN YOU FIND THAT SPECIAL LOVE... Jasmine Charlesworth suddenly flees New York after she discovers her boyfriend is nothing more than a thief. She seeks refuge at her grandmother's home in London and lands a job at a jazz club, partly owned by the...

  • The Fine Art of Love

    Celeste O. Norfleet

  • Tales from Deadwood

    Mike Jameson

    It’s 1876. Dan Ryan, formerly of Custer’s 7th Cavalry, is leading a party of prospectors to the Black Hills -- Sioux Indian territory -- where gold was discovered the year before. Off-limits to whites, the region is overrun by so many fortune-see...

  • Menance

    Jack Warner

    Menace pits Grady Brickhouse, sheriff of Harte County, Georgia, against an unlikely but fearsome opponent - a full-grown Bengal tiger that has somehow found it's way into his jurisdiction. Brickhouse happens to be very good at this job: keeping th...

  • Body of Truth

    Deirdre Savoy

    Danger Surrounds Her... A nurse in the tough South Bronx, pretty Dana Molloy has always sacrificed her happiness to care for others. Now, on the eve of a much-deserved vacation, a drive-by shooting leaves her wounded and a teenager dead. When offic...

  • Dark Desires

    Eve Silver

    Dark Streets On the streets of Whitechapel, a man steps from the fog-shrouded shadows, looking for company. The women are always happy to take his coin--just before they take his knife... Dark Secrets Darcie Finch has come to the East London ...