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New Books List: 717 titles


  • Patrick Carman

    Fifteen-year-old Will Besting is sent by his doctor to Fort Eden, an institution meant to help patients suffering from crippling phobias. Once there, Will and six other teenagers take turns in mysterious fear chambers and confront their worst nightma...



  • Dennis Cooper

    The Marbled Swarm is Dennis Cooper's most haunting work to date. In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind of our narrator, a mystery perpetually takes shape -- and the most compelling clue to its final nature is "the marbled swarm" ...



  • Karina Cooper

    New Seattle is changing. Witches and witch hunters have become allies, and the Order's grip on the city is slipping. But they won't go down without a fight... After the disastrous end to their last mission, Jessie, Silas, and Naomi regroup at thei...



  • Michael Crichton

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore In the locked office of a Honolulu building, three men are found dead, with no sign of struggle except for ultrafine, razor-sharp...



  • Katherine Govier

    Recounting the story of her life, Oei plunges us into the colorful world of nineteenth-century Edo, in which courtesans rub shoulders with poets, warriors consort with actors, and the arts flourish in an unprecedented moment of creative upheaval. Oei...



  • Sable Grace

    Zach was once the Order of Ancients’ most feared warrior, beating back the hounds of hell to protect the unsuspecting human race. But since he left the Order ten years ago, he’s been living as a mortal . . . until now. The gates of the underworld...



  • Mary Curran Hackett

    A mother's faith, a child's courage, a doctor's dedication -- a moving and thought-provoking tale of hope, love, and family He might be young, but Colm already recognizes the truth: that he's sick and not getting better. His mother, Cathleen, fier...



  • Erin Hunter

    With Leafstar’s encouragement, Sol, a former kittypet, has joined the ranks of SkyClan. He dreams of becoming a great warrior, and promises to be helpful and brave. But Leafstar soon begins to wonder if Sol respects the rules of the warrior code. A...



  • Erin Hunter

    The end of the stars draws near. Three must become four to battle the darkness that lasts forever.... With a divided StarClan driving a treacherous rift between the four warrior Clans, the spirits of the Dark Forest are gaining strength. Ivypool's...



  • Kim Kardashian

    Dollhouse is an addictively entertaining novel about an exciting, high-profile, complicated family with a huge heart and a lot of love. Written by superstars Kourtney, Kim, and Khlo Kardashian, Dollhouse is a delicious glimpse that goes behind the g...



  • Tahereh Mafi

    "You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. But things happen when people touch me. Strange things. Bad things. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but ...



  • Gregory Maguire

    The stunning conclusion to the smash New York Times bestselling series the Wicked Years Hailed as "bewitching," "remarkable," "extraordinary," "engrossing," "amazing," and "delicious," Gregory Maguire's Wicked Years series -- a sophisticated fanta...



  • Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    "Missing humans, missing cats, what's the difference?" A fire in the seaside village of Molena Point has left a twelve-year-old boy homeless--and the body of his alcoholic guardian is found in the smoldering ruins. A most curious tomcat, feline p....



  • Matt Rees

    The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl's brother's demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was rapidly drawing to a close . . . and that h...



  • Lisa Marie Rice

    Former Navy SEAL Max Wright is out of the Special Ops division forever after being almost killed by an Afghani RPG. He retreats to his former XO's beach house to lick his wounds. He wants to snarl at the world but finds it hard to snarl at his new ne...



  • L.J. Smith

    Haunted by the past . . . The year is 1888, and the scent of blood lingers heavy in the London air. Stefan Salvatore thought he could escape his violent origins by settling in the peaceful countryside of England, but when a heinous murderer named ...



  • John Weisman

    The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling military thriller writer and coauthor of the bestselling Rogue Warrior series goes beyond the headlines and worldwide speculation in this pulse-pounding fictional account of the breathtaking hunt for the wo...



  • Lori Wilde

    Come join a meeting of the First Love Cookie Club! "On Christmas Eve, if you sleep with kismet cookies under your pillow and dream of your own true love, he will be your destiny." Carrie MacGregor doesn't believe this--not one bit. She might be...



  • Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    The mission is classified . . . and illegal! In the blistering heat of the Sudan, the CIA has gone rogue. On the trail of a notorious terrorist, Agency operatives have overstepped their sanctioned boundaries. And now the ultimate weapon has fallen...



  • David Chandler

    When allies become enemies, to whom can a clever thief turn? Armed with one of seven Ancient Blades, Malden was chosen by Fate to act as savior....and failed dismally. And now there is no stopping the barbarian hordes from invading and pillaging t...



  • Robin Farley

    Mia is excited to learn a new dance. But when her best friend misses class, Mia worries about having a partner....



  • Matt Hilton

    Ex-CIA and Special Ops, Joe Hunter made a lot of enemies during his covert career--but none worse than the powerful man he left for dead in South America. Now, seven years later, someone with Hunter's face has embarked on a horrific killing spree in ...



  • Marjorie M. Liu

    Joining the Dirk & Steele Agency turned Eddie's life around. A pyrokinetic and former car thief, he cannot refuse an assignment to cross the continent in order to rescue an extraordinary woman in peril...even though he fears losing control of the des...



  • Margo Maguire

    She will give him what he desires. But first, a small favor . . . Lady Christina Fairhaven is devoted to her adoptive family -- and most protective of her wayward brother. So when battle-scarred and world-weary Captain Gavin Briggs arrives at her c...



  • Karen Ranney

    Shona Imrie should have agreed to Gordon MacDermond's proposal of marriage seven years ago -- before he went off to war and returned a national hero -- but the proud Scottish lass would accept no man's charity. The dashing soldier would never truly s...



  • Jaime Rush

    THEY LIVE ORDINARY LIVES, BUT THEY ARE EXTRAORDINARY. THEY ARE THE OFFSPRING, CHILDREN OF A MYSTERIOUS EXPERIMENT GONE AWRY -- AND THEY ARE IN TERRIBLE DANGER. Cheveyo: a name that stirs Petra like no other, reviving deep feelings of pleasure . . . ...



  • Lori Wilde

    Come join a meeting of the First Love Cookie Club! "On Christmas Eve, if you sleep with kismet cookies under your pillow and dream of your own true love, he will be your destiny." It's Christmas time at the Horny Toad Tavern, located in the he...



  • 50 Cent

    Thirteen-year-old Butterball doesn't have much going for him. He's teased mercilessly about his weight. He hates the Long Island suburb his mom moved them to and wishes he still lived with his dad in the city. And now he's stuck talking to a totally ...



  • 50 Cent

    A hard-hitting and inspirational novel about the redemption of a bully from international icon 50 Cent Thirteen-year-old Butterball takes readers on a journey through the moments that made him into the playground bully he is today. Loosely inspired b...



  • Jason Aaron

    First, Wolverine was sent to Hell. Then, he was forced to fight for control of his own mind against demonic invaders. All thanks to the machinations of a mysterious group called the Red Right Hand. Who are they, and what is their grudge against



  • David Acord

    Genius. Renaissance man. Iconoclast. Master of detection. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle funneled much of his real-life genius-and the brilliance of others around him-into Sherlock Holmes, creating a character greater than the sum of his parts. In this qu...



  • Riley Adams

    Welcome to Aunt Pat's barbeque restaurant -- family run and located in the heart of Memphis, Tennessee. Named in honor of Lulu Taylor's great-aunt, the restaurant on Beale Street dishes out the best that barbeque has to offer. But sometimes even the ...



  • S.J. Adams

    Do you feel lost? Confused? Alone? (Circle one): Yes or No. The Church of Blue can help. We are not a cult. $5 for a holy quest is a good deal. Since sixth grade, Debbie Woodlawn has nursed a secret, heart-searing crush on her best friend, L...



  • Tamera Alexander

    When Claire Laurent is forced to flee from New Orleans to Nashville, only a year after the War Between the States has ended, her path collides with that of Sutton Monroe. She considers him a godsend for not turning her in to the authorities, but when...



  • Ruth Ames

    Ashlee Lambert, the queen bee from THIS TOTALLY BITES, has had a tough time ever since she became a full-fledged vampire. But now that she's moving from New York City to sunny Los Angeles, she's excited to make a fresh new start. But Ashlee never ...



  • Diane Amos

    Determined to escape her stepfather's cruelty and drinking, twenty-two year old Elizabeth O Hara takes off from Boston with her young brother and sister for Welcome, Montana, an idyllic community, according to an article she s read in the newspaper. ...



  • Natalie Anderson

    Once she was bad... After one wild and heartbreaking affair in her past, Lena Kelly is now very, very good. She prides herself on her iron self-control -- working for the hottest sports team in New Zealand, it's all testosterone but no touchin...



  • Rian B. Anderson

    In a small, rural village on Christmas Eve, 1881, a widow and her young children sit shivering in front of a small fire. With no more wood, little food, inadequate clothing, and no money to speak of, the desperate widow offers up a humble plea to hea...



  • Piers Anthony
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    Picka Bones and his sister Joy'nt are off in search of adventure with three creatures newly arrived from Mundania--and not the sort of creatures you might expect! Join them in a madcap quest, in this 35th tale of the land of Xanth....



  • Alex Archer

    One mystery could change the fate of a nation? The skeletal remains of a confederate soldier, hidden deep within the Paris Catacombs. The legend of a long-lost Confederate treasure. An aged scrap of paper that reads simply, Berceau de solitude?Cra...



  • Maureen Ash

    Templar Bascot de Marins is summoned to Lincoln Castle to learn who murdered a servant engaged in an illicit affair with a married woman. Even though the jealous husband had a motive, Bascot's investigation uncovers a more shocking revelation about t...



  • Jay Asher; Carolyn Mackler

    It's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM. Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on--and discover themselves on Facebook, f...



  • Catherine Atkins

    Angelyn Stark has a secret. One day, her neighbor and friend, Nathan, saw something happen. Something between Angelyn and her stepfather. Then he told his grandmother, who was always looking out for Angelyn, and it turned into a mess. But Nathan d...



  • James Axler

    SHATTERED DEFENSES On postapocalyptic Earth, humanity fights for survival against alien oppressors. Orchestrating the resistance in an ever-shifting battle, the Cerberus rebels confront a new level of dark manipulation. At the helm, a mind-control...



  • James Axler

    GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE Existence after Skydark is a gamble against grim odds?winners and losers decided by guns, jack and raw nerve. Still, one intrepid group pushes on, working to understand the secrets of preDark tech at the heart of nuke-altered...



  • Kiyohiko Azuma

    Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends...



  • Gillian Bagwell

    Charles II is running for his life-and into the arms of a woman who will risk all for king and country. Jane Lane is of marrying age, but she longs for adventure. She has pushed every potential suitor away-even those who could provide everything f...



  • E.D. Baker

    Princess Millie and her fianc, Audun, are busy planning their wedding when disaster strikes. Millie's baby brother, Felix, has been kidnapped, and with the kingdom's best witches away, it's up to Millie and Audun to rescue him. Fans will be delighte...




  • Mignon F. Ballard

    September, 1943. As the second year of World War II draws to a close, h residents of the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing their best to support the war effort. The upcoming war bond rally -- complete with pageant and parade -- has everyon...



  • Maya Banks

    Why Hadn't She Cashed the Check? Despite his fiancee's chilling betrayal, developer Ryan Beardsley provided for Kelly Christian when he sent her packing. So he's livid to find her working in a dingy Houston diner, desperate and pregnant. Regardless ...



  • Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    Emily is sick and tired of being a middle sister. So when she gets an assignment to describe what she'd change about a classic novel, Emily pounces on Little Women. After all, if she can't change things in her own family, maybe she can bring a little...



  • Maggie Barbieri

    MURDER IS A CONTACT SPORT It's just another day at St. Thomas College until newly married English professor Alison Bergeron discovers a corpse in her car. The victim was a recent mailroom hire at the school. Alison barely knew him but he seemed l...



  • Lauren Barnholdt

    The next installment in this hilarious and heartwarming series featuring a seven-year-old mastermind who tries really hard not to blame her invisible friend for getting her into heaps of delicious trouble. Hailey's magic sprite, Maybelle, has finally...



  • C.J. Barry

    HER FAMILY IN DANGER… Shapeshifter Camille Solomon has one motto when it comes to dealing with humans: Use, or be used. Luckily, she has the skills to use -- fleecing gambling casinos. But when her father falls deathly ill, to save him she must...



  • Sarah Bartlett

    Throughout history, the human quest for knowledge of the divine, has ruffled the wings of many an angel, but also tested the wrath of the demon. This book not traces the history of angels and demons from their earliest roots to their modern day renai...



  • Guy Bass

    Dinkin's Anti-Everything Machine is way too scary to use; but before he has a chance to get rid of it, the machine is stolen by a mysterious and horrifying creature - Clawfingers! Can Dinkin and the Frightening Things take back the invention before C...



  • Stephen Baxter

    Ten thousand years ago, a vast and fertile plain exists linking the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature's bounty, but is also subject to its whims. Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland ...



  • J.K. Beck

    Enter the thrilling, seductive world of the Shadow Keepers, which Lara Adrian calls “exciting paranormal romance with a sharp, suspenseful edge.” Carissa de Soranzo will not rest until her kidnapped younger brother has been freed from the nob...



  • Tony Bedard

    The Qwardian known as The Weaponer has been constructing a shield from the remaining traces of the White Lantern Energy. He has a mean vendetta against Sinestro - and the reason why will shock you! For his retribution, The Weaponer is targeting Soran...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Comics Enemy #1-4, Ultimate Comics Mystery #1-4, Ultimate Comics Doom #1-4. Who is the face of true evil in the Ultimate Universe? What is the biggest secret the world doesn't know? Join the gathered heroes as they embark on an adve...



  • Lara Bergen

    Just in time for Valentine's Day, Sophie's found the sweetest name of all! Comes with a page of sweet, full-color stickers! Love is in the air! What better name for Sophie to try than Sophie the Sweetheart? After all, she's found the perfect ma...



  • Ari Berk

    They say the dead should rest in peace. Not all the dead agree. One night, Silas Umber's father Amos doesn't come home from work. Devastated, Silas learns that his father was no mere mortician but an Undertaker, charged with bringing The Peace to th...



  • Lee Bermejo

    Batman must come to terms with his past, present and future as he battles villains from the campy 1960s to the dark and brooding menaces of today, while exploring what it means to be the hero that he is....



  • Jessica Blair

    The death of her mother in 1813, brings added responsibility to seventeen-year-old Anna Mason. A self-confident girl, she has to shed her girlhood sooner than she would have expected as she assumes many of her mother's tasks in running the household ...



  • Jessica Blair

    In the early days of the 19th Century Whitby is a thriving port. Both the Coulson and the Campion families make a living by the sea. Sam Coulson has three sons: Martin, Ben and Eric. He has grand plans for expanding his whaling business; and as Seato...



  • Josie Bloss

    Dylann Mahoney is living one big unholy lie. Thanks to a humiliating and painfully public sexting incident, Dylan has become the social pariah at her suburban Chicago high school. She's ignored by everyone -- when she's not being taunted -- and es...



  • Roberto Bolano

    On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent his summers as a child. There, they meet another vacationing German couple, who introduce them to the darker ...



  • Stephanie Bond

    The hardheaded Armstrong brothers are determined to rebuild their tornado-ravaged hometown in the Georgia mountains. They've got the means, they've got the manpower...what they need are women! So they place an ad in a Northern newspaper and wait for ...




  • Joanna Bourne / Joanna Watkins Bourne

    He is her enemy. He is her lover. He is her only hope. Someone is stalking agent Justine DeCabrillac through London's gray streets. Under cover of the rain, the assassin strikes -- and Justine staggers to the door of the one man who can save...



  • Alan Bradley

    It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce -- an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving -- is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon dist...



  • Christianna Brand

    An island republic goes to insane lengths to canonize its most famous resident Juanita di Perli was a young woman when she decided to live the rest of her life on a table-top. She called it God’s will, but for the order of nuns that sprang up ar...



  • Christianna Brand

    A family patriarch is murdered on the eve of signing a new will Sir Richard’s family has spent years waiting for him to die, but despite his weak heart, the old man simply refuses to cooperate. In the meantime, he makes their lives miserable by ...



  • Jackie Braun

    She's an ordinary girl...with a crown! The life of a princess is no fairy tale. For just one week, Hollyn Saldani wants to escape the demands of duty and find what she once had: freedom...and the boy next door. So she runs away. Back to Heart I...



  • K. Ryer Breese

    Ade Patience has done what he was told he couldn't. He's broken the rules, used his powers to save a life. And no good deed goes unpunished. . . . Senior year finds Ade and his girlfriend, Vauxhall, deeply in love, indulging themselves with wild d...



  • Prudence Breitrose

    When ten-year-old Megan helps her uncle invent the Thumbtop, the world's smallest computer, mice are overjoyed, and they want one for every mouse hole. The Big Cheese, leader of the Mouse Nation, has orders: follow that girl -- even if it means hi...



  • Allison Brennan

    A TRIP TO THE DARK SIDE Aspiring FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her P.I. boyfriend, Sean Rogan, are heading to the Adirondack Mountains for a pleasant romantic getaway when they detour to help troubled friends, owners of a new resort who are battling m...



  • Simon Brett

    The affluent seaside resort of Smalting is unaccustomed to crime. So when human remains are found beneath the floorboards of one of its beach huts, the community is awash with suspicion and fear. Amateur sleuths Carole Seddon and best friend Jude ...



  • Emily Brightwell

    Ring in the season with another Mrs. Jeffries tale of holiday homicide. Under a bundle of mistletoe, art collector Daniel McCourt lies with his throat slit, a bloody sword next to his body. Inspector Witherspoon is determined to solve the case-pre...



  • Charles Brokaw

    An old friend summons dashing linguistics professor Thomas Lourds to Jerusalem to examine an ancient text. But Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also wants the same document. Khamenei and many others believe that the book contains a secr...



  • Meljean Brook

    As the mercenary captain of the Lady Corsair, Yasmeen has learned to keep her heart as cold as steel, her only loyalty bound to her ship and her crew. So when a man who once tried to seize her airship returns from the dead, Yasmeen will be damned if ...



  • P.J. Brooke

    23rd February 1981 - an attempted military coup in Spain. Thirty years later, young journalist Mariana Mora learns that her father's death that day was suicide. She doesn't believe it. As Granada moves through its winter cycle of pageants and ri...



  • Kevin Brooks

    What can he do with his new powers -- and what are they doing to him? Before the attack, Tom Harvey was just an average teen. But a head-on collision with high technology has turned him into an actualized App. Fragments of a shattered iPhone are e...



  • Ed Brubaker

    Collects Captain America #611-615 & 615.1. Not even Captain America can escape the sins buried in his past, and Bucky Barnes' future hangs in the balance as evidence of the Winter Soldier's crimes comes to light. And with Bucky's trial distractin...



  • Col Buchanan

    In Farlander, the first book of the Heart of the World series, readers met Ash, an aging master assassin of the famed order of Roshun, and his apprentice Nico, a boy who always managed to be in the wrong place at the right time. Ash and Nico, one wit...



  • Edna Buchanan

    "We belong together," he said. "Yes," she whispered fervently in his ear. "We do." From Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan, the novel she has always wanted to write: the gripping saga of star-crossed lovers across generations. A century ago, w...



  • Elizabeth C. Bunce

    As a pickpocket, Digger expects to spend a night in jail every now and then. But she doesn't expect to find Lord Durrel Decath there as well--or to hear he's soon to be executed for killing his wife. Durrel once saved Digger's life, and when she g...



  • Edward Bunker

    Seven stories from the papers of one of America's finest crime authors Roger doesn't mean for the preacher and his wife to die. Released less than a year earlier from San Quentin, he's trying to make a living the only way he knows how: theft. His...



  • Cullen Bunn

    Collects Deadpool Team-Up #883-888, Wolverine/Deadpool: Decoy #1. Everywhere Deadpool goes, insanity follows! Deadpool's ridiculous team-ups continue as the maniacal Merc with a Mouth partners with some of the Marvel Universe's most respected charact...



  • Diane Burke

    Everyone believes Amanda Stowe killed her husband -- except for a mysterious woman who promises her evidence will clear Amanda's name. Amanda has to meet her...even if it means jumping bail and praying she'll reach Alaska before law enforcement close...



  • Grace Burrowes

    A GENIUS WITH A TERRIBLE LOSS... Gifted pianist Valentine Windham, youngest son of the Duke of Moreland, has little interest in his father's obsession to see his sons married, and instead pours passion into his music. But when Val loses his music, h...



  • Shannon K. Butcher

    Roxanne "Razor" Haught is an expert in stealth security for corporate espionage cases. But now she's a target. Tanner O'Connell has no intentions of leaving Razor's side. Despite her objections to having a "babysitter", his orders as the newest membe...



  • Adrianne Byrd

    The sexy King brothers own a successful bachelor-party-planning business and a string of upscale clubs across the country. What could be better than living the single life in some of the world's most glamorous cities? Finding a woman worth giving it...



  • John Byrne

    It was the world's greatest comic magazine - again! Not since the days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had a creator so perfectly captured the intense mood, cosmic style and classic sense of adventure of Marvel's First Family. Fresh off an earth-shatterin...



  • Rachel Caine

    With her boss preoccupied researching the Founder Houses in Morganville, student Claire Danvers is left to her own devices when she learns that three vampires have vanished without a trace. She soon discovers that the last person seen with one of the...



  • Jen Calonita

    After her brilliant run on Broadway and surviving the harsh concrete jungle of New York City, seventeen-year-old Hollywood "It Girl" Kaitlin Burke is back in LA starring in a sitcom with her former-nemesis-now-BFF, Sky. The show is a huge success! In...



  • Marc Cameron

    When Terrorism Goes Viral, One Man Goes Ballistic. They can strike anytime, anywhere. A public landmark. A suburban shopping mall. And now, the human body itself. Three Middle Eastern terrorists have been injected with a biological weapon, human t...



  • Ramsey Campbell

    Something called Charlotte's name that night. Her sister and her cousins, comfortable in their sleeping bags, didn't hear it, but it lured Charlotte to the edge of the cliff, to a secret trapdoor buried beneath dirt and grass. Beyond the trapdoor l...



  • Jacqueline Carey

    Fellow orphans, amateur vigilantes, and members of the Santitos, Loup Garron-the fugitive daughter of a genetically engineered "wolf man"-and Pilar Ecchevarria grew up in the military zone of Outpost 12, formerly known as Santa Olivia. But now they'r...



  • Teresa Carpenter

    From playing the field...to playing happy families! An orphan baby wasn't on playboy Rett Sullivan's Christmas list, but as the holidays approach, he finds himself drowning in a sea of bottles, nappies and toys! Skye Miller was shocked to learn her...



  • Janice Carter

    She dreamed of having a family As a little girl, Tess Wheaton wished that her father would come back and rescue her -- but he never did. Although Tess grew up in the care of a loving guardian, she never had the parents she longed for. These days, ...



  • Elizabeth Lynn Casey

    When Tori Sinclair's philandering ex turns up dead, the police chief believes it was murder-and that Tori may have been involved. Now, only the girls from the sewing circle will be able to help keep her life from coming apart at the seams......



  • Cecil Castellucci

    A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world. "We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings. "I know what I am." Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood...



  • Rachelle Pace Castor

    It’s nearly Christmas, and the seven children in Millie’s family can’t wait for Grandma to arrive with her special Christmas apron, newly pressed and filled with generations of holiday memories. According to tradition, each grandchild will care...



  • Ginger Chambers

    When Robin Farrel was a child, a man drowned saving her life. Desperate to free herself from the guilt that still lingered after twenty years, Robin tracked down his six orphaned children and took a job as a chef in the seaside hotel they owned and o...



  • Henry Chang

    Two bodies are discovered at an address on the Bloody Angle, Chinatown's historic Tong battleground. NYPD Detective Jack Yu's investigation takes him across the country to another Chinatown, this one in Seattle, in pursuit of a cold-blooded Chinese A...



  • Jennifer Chiaverini

    The New York Times bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues, with a novel that celebrates one of America's most romantic and enduring traditions. Sarah McClure arrived at Elm Creek Manor as a newlywed, never suspecting that her quilting lesso...



  • L.S. Childers

    Whatever Melody Cannon wants, Melody Cannon gets -- or least that has been the case for the past decade. The famous Hollywood stylist is used to giving orders, but when Melody takes an early retirement from Tinseltown and returns home to the Washingt...



  • Anita Clenney

    They were driven apart by a timeless secret... Cody MacBain let the woman of his destiny slip away. A member of an ancient clan of Scottish warriors, he grew up beside Shay Logan as her secret protector, but his heart compelled him to become more. U...



  • Colleen Coble

    Eden's hope is rekindled when Clay delivers astounding news: their daughter has been found. Five years ago Eden and Clay Larson's baby was stolen and never found. Eden blamed herself, Clay lost himself in work. Their young and rocky marriage ended...



  • Matthew Cody

    The dead are up and walking, and the Gentleman is at the door... Featuring a kid hero, time travel, and otherworld portals in unexpected places (maybe there are monsters under your bed), The Dead Gentleman is a wild ride between parallel New York ...



  • Billy Coffey

    Andy Sommerville seems no different than others in his rural Virginia community, but what sets him apart is that his best friend is an angel. The angel is God's answer to a childhood prayer Andy offered to a twinkling star that his deceased mother on...



  • William S. Cohen

    It is America's worst nightmare: A nuclear bomb destroys a major city. Thousands of Americans are dead and many more will die from radiation poisoning. Threats promising more attacks spread through the media. Panic has broken out in many cities. How ...



  • Kate Collins

    I've finally agreed to tie the knot! But it's a murder mystery involving my assistant that has my stomach in knots.... THEIR FAMILY TREE IS ROTTEN TO THE ROOTS. Flower shop owner Abby Knight is aglow with happiness now that she's officially eng...



  • Ally Condie

    RULES ARE DIFFERENT OUTSIDE THE SOCIETY. Chasing down an uncertain future, Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky -- taken by the Society to his sure death -- only to find that he has escaped into the majestic, but treacherous,...



  • Gloria Cook

    1947. Kindly, unassuming widow Dorrie Resterick continually finds herself confidante to others’ troubles. She would prefer to keep in the background, but life throws her many a mystery, and once she even found a scrap of evidence in a dreadful loca...



  • Gary Corby

    Athens, 460 B.C. Life's tough for Nicolaos, the only investigating agent in ancient Athens. His girlfriend's left him and his boss wants to fire him. But when an Athenian official is murdered, the brilliant statesman Pericles has no choice but to ...



  • Nicola Cornick

    Her wicked ways were the talk of the ton Teresa, Dowager Marchioness of Darent, is rumored to have exhausted her four deceased husbands with her insatiable needs. So it's no surprise that every rake in the ton wants to bed her. If they only kn...



  • Larry Correia

    The Grimnoir Society's mission is to protect people with magic, and they've done so -- successfully and in secret -- since the mysterious arrival of the Power in the 1850s, but when a magical assassin makes an attempt on the life of President Frankli...



  • Thomas B. Costain

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