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  • Judas Unchained

    Peter F. Hamilton

    In the star-spanning civilization known as the Intersolar Commonwealth, twenty-three planets have fallen victim to the Prime, a technologically, advanced alien species genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. But the Prime is not...

  • Thanksgiving, What Makes It Special?

    Harold Myra

    Unfolding the history of a blessed tradition, this delightful picture book explores the role God played in our country's earliest history and how His blessings endure today. From hungry Pilgrims and generous Native Americans to the ample feast of a m...

  • The Winter Witch

    Clay Bonnyman Evans

    When his divorced father moves in with his Jewish stepmother and stepbrother, Stephen sees problems arise between the families causing him to leave in anger, but after a meaningful encounter with an elderly neighbor, Steven learns the importance of t...

  • The Simpsons One Step Beyond Forever

    Matt Groening

    Filled with fun facts, quirky quotes, and memorable moments, The Simpsons One Step Beyond Forever: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (Seasons 13 and 14) guarantees a gaggle of giggles and guffaws for the most devoted fan or even the occasio...

  • These Three Remain

    Pamela Aidan

    The exciting conclusion to the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy recounts the climactic events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from its enigmatic hero's point of view. One of the most beloved romantic heroes in all of literature, Fitzwilli...

  • The Finest Christmas Tree

    John Hassett; Ann Hassett

    Every year Farmer Tuttle loads his truck with Christmas trees fresh from his farm and drives down to the city to sell them. Then he picks out a special Christmas hat to bring home to Mrs. Tuttle. But one year, people stopped buying real Christmas tre...

  • Charley's War: 1 August-17 October 1916

    Pat Mills

    From renowned comics writer Pat Mills and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun comes a truly classic piece of graphic storytelling: thrilling, horrifying and deeply moving. In 1916, Charley Bourne lies about his age to fight in France. But thoughts of glor...

  • Hostage

    Don Brown

    Zack Brewer faces a choice. It can prevent the next war. But it will cost the life of the person he loves the most. JAG Officer Zack Brewer’s prosecution of three terrorists posing as Navy chaplains was called the “court martial of the century”...

  • The Regime: The Rise of the Antichrist

    Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    Dynamic Romanian multimillionaire Nicolae Carpathia's sphere of influence steadily grows as he parlays his looks, charm, charisma, and intellectual brilliance into success in business and politics. But is it mere coincidence that those who oppose or ...

  • Essential Spider-Man, Volume 7

    Stan Lee

    From classics like Doc Ock to lesser known law breakers like Cyclone, we've got more villains than you can shake the proverbial stick at (although webbing is actually more recommended)! Illusion's the order of the day with the miscreant misdeeds of M...

  • Dinos in the Snow!

    Karma Wilson

  • Arthur and the Big Snow

    Marc Brown

    It's snowing, and that means no school! Arthur wants to join his friends at the hill for sledding and fun, but he has to wait with D.W. until the roads are ploughed. By the time Dad says they can go, all of Arthur's friends are back home sipping hot ...

  • Essential Werewolf by Night, Volume 1

    Mike Ploog

    Whether they came at him in committee, cult, or carnival, no nemesis was a match for Marvel's highest-ranking horror hero! With some of the most scintillating supernaturalism served out by the seventies! Guest-starring the hero who goes with everythi...

  • Hercules: New Labors of Hercules

    Jimmy Palmiotti

    Reeling from the tragic death of Thor, the Prince of Power knows his star is fading fast. So what better way to pump up his Q-rating than to relive his defining moment? When his most bitter foe throws down the gauntlet, Hercules agrees to the challen...

  • I Think She's Trying to Tell Me Something

    Dan Graziano

    About to hit the big 3-0, New York City sportswriter Jack Byrnes believes in a lot of things: his two best friends Jeff and Bernie, baseball, cold pizza to cure a hangover, baseball ... but Fate has never been one of them. Now, though, Fate has de...

  • Making Mischief

    Elizabeth Young

    Abby Morland's been making mischief since she was not-so-sweet sixteen, when she spied gorgeous Guy from the neighborhood being attacked by curvaceous Cara, the "Topless Piranha." It was a racy, tasty, spicy piece of gossip Abby couldn't resist passi...

  • Viriconium: Books 1 - 4

    M. John Harrison

    Available to American readers for the first time, this landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light. Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre a...

  • The Camel Club

    David Baldacci

    It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions. One man leads this aging...

  • Accursed

    Christopher Golden; Amber Benson

    Even death could not stop Britain's greatest defenders. In 1838, William and Tamara Swift inherit a startling legacy from their dying grandfather, transforming them into the Protectors of Albion, mystical defenders of the soul of England. But the ...

  • Strictly Business: The Fiance Deal

    Hannah Bernard
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    SECRET CHATS AT THE WATER COOLER, STOLEN MOMENTS IN THE STATIONERY CUPBOARD... 'THESE TWO COUPLES ARE FINDING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP THINGS...STRICTLY BUSINESS, Louise Henderson might be fighting for the same promotion as sexy lawyer David Tyler...

  • Santa Slave

    Leanne Banks
    in

    After her best friend disappears, Hilary takes matters into her own hands and finds herself caught in the throes of danger, while a hunky male operative hopes to mix pleasure with business....

  • Killer Christmas

    Kelsey Roberts
    in

    When several Santas are murdered at a swanky department store, the new CEO, Meghan Beckham, had better watch out, had better not cry -- because a serial killer has come to town....

  • Big Bad Santa

    Pamela Britton
    in

    Biologist Kaitlyn Moneypenny's research is finally leading to a big scientific breakthrough . . . and mortal peril. When bullets start to fly, so do the sparks between Kaitlyn and her Santa-clad rescuer....

  • In Golden Blood

    Stephen Woodworth

    Natalie Lindstrom has a gift: the power to speak to the dead, to solve crimes by interviewing murder victims. But now Natalie wants to escape. Escape from the voices that fill her head. Escape from the organization that has used her as a crime-solvin...

  • Strictly Business: The Temp and the Tycoon

    Liz Fielding
    in

    SECRET CHATS AT THE WATER COOLER, STOLEN MOMENTS IN THE STATIONERY CUPBOARD... 'THESE TWO COUPLES ARE FINDING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP THINGS...STRICTLY BUSINESS, After a disastrous first day Tallie is sure her hot new boss, Jude Radcliffe, will h...

  • Veto Power

    John Whitman

    THE ENEMY WITHIN The next twenty-four hours will be crucial to America's survival. A determined band of terrorists holds the key to bringing down the government by plunging the country into darkness, fear, and chaos -- a nightmare born not in a dis...

  • A Long Walk Home

    Diane Amos

    The call came out of the blue -- Annie's sister Dana is in rehab... can her thirteen-year-old daughter come stay in Maine with Annie? But the wild child in black and piercings is not the sweet little girl Annie remembers. So much for the new pink ...

  • Snowball's Chance

    Cherry Adair
    in

    Kendall decks the halls, unaware that a serial killer has her on the top of his list. Of course, being naughty with the sexy good guy sent to protect her would be so nice....

  • Crazy Cool

    Tara Janzen

    SHE'S SIZZLING HOT. HE'S ICY COOL.... He called her Bad Luck Dekker, a gorgeous socialite who trailed trouble in her wake. Christian Hawkins should know. Thirteen years ago he saved Kat Dekker's life only to spend two years in jail for a crime he did...

  • Black Lace

    Beverly Jenkins

    Over her head . . . The last thing Lacy Green needs is trouble -- and handsome Mayor Drake Randolph has "danger" written all over him . . . especially when "His Fineness" accidentally runs her off the road. Despite Drake's sensuous charm, irresist...

  • Let It Be Love

    Victoria Alexander

    Dashing Jonathon Effington, the Marquess of Helmsley, has had more than one lady willingly fall into his arms. But he's so delicious none has ever complained at their inevitable parting. And while Jonathon's no stranger to passion of the flesh, his h...

  • This Rake of Mine

    Elizabeth Boyle

    Everything ended with a kiss... When the rakehell Lord Jack Tremont kissed Miranda Mabberly, mistaking her for his mistress, neither realized his reckless act would cost Miranda her reputation, her fiance, and her future. But for Jack, it was a ki...

  • Keeping Kate

    Sarah Gabriel

    They call her Katie Hell... The brazen beauty is said to possess fairy magic, and has successfully charmed and seduced English soldiers out of their most carefully guarded secrets to aid her kinsmen. But now the infamous Kate MacCarran has met the...

  • Gypsy Lover

    Edith Layton

    A reputation in ruins . . . Lovely Meg Shaw is a respectable governess in a wealthy household -- and it is her duty to bring her charge safely home when the headstrong heiress runs away. But the perils for a young woman alone on dark English count...

  • The World Before

    Karen Traviss

    Three strikingly different alien races greeted the military mission from Earth when it reached the planet called Bezer'ej. Now one of the sentient species has been exterminated -- and two others are poised on the brink of war. The fragile bezer...

  • Vendetta Trail

    Robert Vaughan

    SOMETIMES A MAN'S GOT TO STOP RUNNING . . . A haunted drifter with a dark history, Mason Hawke calls no town home. Now the past he's managed to stay one step ahead of has caught up with him in New Orleans--in the enticing form of Rachel Brubaker, ...

  • Getting Old is Murder

    Rita Lakin

    WHEN IT COMES TO SLEUTHING, YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO START.... She's not Miss Marple. Her friends are no Charlie's Angels. Nevertheless, 75-year-old Gladdy Gold and her gang of Fort Lauderdale retirees are out, about, and hunting down a killer--one...

  • Gabriel's Ghost

    Linnea Sinclair

    After a decade of piloting interstellar patrol ships, former captain Chasidah Bergren, onetime pride of the Sixth Fleet, finds herself court-martialed for a crime she didn't commit -- and shipped off to a remote prison planet from which no one ever e...

  • Dark Truth

    Mariah Stewart

    WILL THE TRUTH SET HER FREE - OR SET A TRAP? Murder didn't end Nina Madden's life - it destroyed it. When her father was charged with the serial killings of several college students, Nina and her mother became pariahs in their small Maryland town....

  • Hostile Makeover

    Wendy Wax

    Business before pleasure...where's the fun in that? It was the first orgasm Shelley Schwartz ever faked. She swore she'd never do it, but she was late for a career-saving meeting at Schwartz and Associates and her options were limited. If she'd fa...

  • Where He Belongs

    Gail Barrett

    THE HARDEST TASK HE'D EVER FACE... Tongues wagged when Millstown's resident bad boy roared into town on the back of his Harley. Only a dire emergency could bring Wade Winslow back to the place where he'd never belonged and never would. But now som...

  • Lone Wolf's Woman

    Carol Finch

    Vince Lone Wolf is the justice system's last resort. And, in spite of his dangerous reputation, Julia Preston will give her soul if she can borrow him for just one night. Because her brother's life -- and the family ranch -- depend on Lone Wolf's re...

  • Her Brother's Keeper

    Valerie Hansen

    Church secretary Becky Tate couldn't deny that Serenity's new preacher was charming...and gorgeous. But what would make Logan Malloy grow pale at the thought of giving a sermon? How about if he'd never preached before? Logan was ordained, but had ...

  • The Bluest Eyes In Texas

    Marilyn Pappano

    BETTER DEAD THAN NEVER... Army hero Logan Marshall would avenge his foster parents' murders or die trying. So when P.I. Bailey Madison offered to help, he couldn't refuse the sexy blonde -- though it meant agreeing once the killer was caught, he'd...

  • Her Christmas Wish

    Kathryn Springer

    To: Uncle Eli From: Olivia Dear Uncle Eli, I don't think Daddy is getting me what I really want for Christmas -- a mommy. He's been sad since Mommy died, and I want him to be happy again. And ever since Leah, my new nanny, came to stay, he's...

  • Starting From Scratch

    Marie Ferrarella

    Meet the Editor... Elisha Reed loved working at her lucrative publishing house. On a daily basis, she wrestled with the literary world's divas and won. Her sterling reputation was the icing on the cake. Yes, Elisha knew the essential ingredients of l...

  • At All Costs

    David Weber

    WHAT PRICE VICTORY? The war with the Republic of Haven has resumed . . . disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington, Steadholder and Duchess Harrington, the single victorious Allied commander of the opening p...

  • Running from the Deity

    Alan Dean Foster

    In the outer depths of the universe lies the Great Emptiness, behind which lurks something dreadful -- something that is now raging straight for the Commonwealth. To avert catastrophe, Flinx must find a conscious planet-size weapons system and, using...

  • Stalking the Puzzle Lady

    Parnell Hall

    Cora Felton may look like everyone's favorite grandmother. But when Bakerhaven's beloved Puzzle Lady grudgingly hits the road as part of a television promotion for new and improved Corn Toasties, everyone's got a surprise in store--including a derang...

  • Now You See Me...

    Rochelle Majer Krich

    For feisty Los Angeles crime reporter Molly Blume, life is good. She is newly married (to the adoring and adorable Rabbi Zack), and her latest true-crime book is a hot seller. However, when an overardent fan's attentions arouse Molly's suspicion, her...

  • Predator

    Patricia Cornwell

    Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalizing clues about the inner workings of an e...

  • Black Powder

    Staton Rabin

    South Central Los Angeles, 2010 Fourteen-year-old Langston Davis's best friend, Neely, has been shot and killed in a gang fight. Langston wishes that he could turn back the clock. But he knows you can't change history. Or can you? When his ...

  • Summer Crossing

    Truman Capote

    “Witness the coming together of Truman Capote’s voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.” -- The Washington Post Book World “A great breezy read . . . with Capote’s tradema...

  • Knockin' Boots

    Tracy Price-Thompson

    Bestselling author Tracy Price-Thompson returns with another steamy novel, packed with wife swapping, down-low desires, racial self-hatred, and sexual swinging. . . .Kevin Lawson has a secret. This hard-charging army sergeant is drawn to seedy sex de...

  • Shadows of Death

    H.P. Lovecraft

    Descend into the nerve-shattering realm of America’s master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft -- to a dank place where gloomy maelstroms await the unwary, where the unnatural is surpassed only by the unspeakable, and where all pleasure is perverse. Take...

  • Sahm I Am

    Meredith Efken

    For the members of a stay-at-home-moms' e-mail loop, lunch with friends is a sandwich in front of the computer. But where else could they discuss things like . . . Success: Her workaholic husband is driving Dulcie Huckleberry around the bend. It'...

  • The Weeping Werewolf

    Bruce Coville

    In The Dragon of Doom, Moongobble successfully completed his first mighty task -- collecting the Golden Acorns of Alcoona. So now it's time for him to complete the second one. he must bring back a bottle containing the tears of the Weeping Werewolf! ...

  • Miss Lazar Is Bizarre!

    Dan Gutman

    Something weird is going on! Miss Lazar, the janitor, likes to dance around the school with a mop! She has a secret room down in the basement where she keeps the bad kids! She says cleaning throw-up is fun! Miss Lazar is the weirdest custodian in th...

  • You're Different and That's Super

    Carson Kressley

    The spring that Trumpet was born, there were so many new foals in the pasture that almost no one notices there was a sassy little colt who didn't belong to any of the mares.... Fab Five phenom Carson Kressley brings us the story of a one-of-a-kind p...

  • The Truth

    Al Franken

    The #1 New York Times bestseller by Senator Al Franken, author of Giant of the SenateSenator Al Franken’s landmark bestseller, Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was praised as a “bitte...

  • Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe: The Movie Storybook

    Kate Egan

    An ordinary game of hide-and-seek leads to the discovery of a lifetime! Before they know it, Lucy Pevensie and her siblings have traveled through a dusty old wardrobe and entered the magical land of Narnia. Once in Narnia, the real adventure begin...

  • Welcome to Narnia

    Jennifer Frantz

    Meet the Pevensies! Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucyhave stumbled out of Professor Kirke's wardrobe and into the land of Narnia. Read and learn about these four siblings and their adventures in this magical world.

    ...

  • Kitty and Mr. Kipling

    Lenore Blegvad

    After the world-famous author, Rudyard Kipling, and his wife move into the house next to their farm in rural Vermont, young Kitty is excited by her new and interesting creative neighbor from whom she learns a lot about the world, yet when the communi...

  • Pat The Christmas Bunny

    Edith Kunhardt Davis

    The perfect Christmas gift for pat the bunny fans! Children and parents will love all the touch-and-feel elements in this ultra-adorable Christmas story as well as the huggable plush Christmas bunny ornament that comes in the boxed set"an amazing v...

  • The Knee Book

    Graham Tether

    A charming, simple riff on knees, in the tradition of the classic Bright and Early "body part" books. Cheerfully illustrated in colorful pen and ink, the featured knees include those on mountain climbers, kangaroos, cats, skiers, skaters, t...

  • Beyond the Wardrobe: The Official Guide to Narnia

    E.J. Kirk

    Includes movie images from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media!

    Beyond the Wardrobe is the first official full-color guide to C. S. Lewis's best-selling fantasy classics tha...

  • Guru Guru Pon-chan, Volume 2

    Satomi Ikezawa

    DROOL MUCH?

    Thanks to the invention of the Guru Guru Bone, Ponta can now change from puppy to teenage girl at will. But human customs are hard to master, and she keeps finding herself in strange and awkward situations. Will Ponta have to spend...

  • Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Volume 3

    Kio Shimoku

    SISTERLY LOVE

    Kanji Sashara’s annoyingly normal little sister, Keiko, has fallen for video game master Kousaka. And now she’s willing to do whatever it takes to steal him away from his girlfriend, Saki Kasukabe . . . even if it means becom...

  • First and Fifteenth: Pop Art Short Stories

    Stephen Powers

    With an aesthetic found on the streets (literally, as a graffiti writer and sign painter), and influenced by such great artists as Chris Ware and Ken Lum, Steve Powers has painted a neighborhood of petty criminals, pettier crimes, and a superhero who...

  • xxxHolic, Volume 6

    CLAMP

    Kimihiro Watanuki takes a welcome break from his grueling service to the time-space witch, Yûko Ishihara, only to find himself mixed up in the strangest parade of the Japanese magical world. But a slipup reveals that Kimihiro is a powerless human! H...

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 7

    CLAMP

    SYAORAN OVERMATCHED?!

    Young Syaoran and his friends are on a quest to retrieve the magically potent feather-shaped shards of Princess Sakura’s memory. The search has led them to the country of "to, a world with the romantic feel of Japan in...

  • Edmund and the White Witch

    Scout Driggs

    Edmund doesn't believe his sister Lucy when she says she has traveled to a magical land called Narnia by stepping through an old wardrobe. But even though it sounds impossible, he decides to follow her and see for himself. Soon Edmund not only fin...

  • Santa Lives!

    Ellis Weiner

  • Balloons Can Be Murder

    Connie Shelton

    The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is days away, and Rachael Fairfield is attempting to break the women's altitude record--a danger that doubles when she begins receiving threatening notes. When she comes to Charlie Parker for help, Rachael...

  • Here Comes Darrell

    Leda Schubert

    All throughout the year, everyone in town can depend on Darrell to stop by and lend a hand in any of their many projects, but when he is called out to plow a steep driveway on a snowy afternoon and gets stuck far from home in the middle of a storm, t...

  • I Just Hope It's Lethal

    Liz Rosenberg

    The teenage years are a time filled with sadness, madness, joy, and all the messy stuff in between. Sometimes it feels that every day brings a new struggle, a new concern, a new reason to stay in bed with the shades drawn. But between moments of desp...

  • Everyone Else's Girl

    Megan Crane

    "Exactly ten days after I'd come back to care for my dad, it occurred to me that I had turned into a housewife. Here I was, an angry and bitter housewife with perfectionist leanings and early signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Not just any house...

  • My Fairy Winter Wonderland

    Maggie Bateson

    The fairies of Snowberry Wood live in a sparkling world of ice and snow. This story unfolds this magical world of frozen waterfalls, snowy markets and cosy cabins. These fairies can go from scene to scene, zooming down ice toboggans, skating on the l...

  • Red Rider's Hood

    Neal Shusterman

    Red rides around his tough urban neighborhood in his blood red Mustang. It satisfies his urge to wander, and it usually keeps him safe from the gangs in town, the Wolves and the Crypts. But when Red's grandmother is mugged by some members of the Wolv...

  • Horses of Myth

    Gerald Hausman

    The five stories in this handsome book pay homage to the noble animal that has carried humans through history. In lively tales that vary in tone to reflect different cultures, the Hausmans introduce the brave Arabian, the hardy American mustang, a ma...

  • Beyond the Dragon Portal

    Melissa Glenn Haber

    When her little sister Phoebe is captured and taken through the dragon portal into another world, Sadie is the only one who can save her, and as she journeys into this hostile new land, she becomes trapped in a terrible war and fights to rescue her s...

  • Angelina's Special Week

    Katharine Holabird

  • Blue Sheep Reverie, Volume 2

    Makoto Tateno

    In the city called Dawn is a man with the name of Night. Every evening, Kai is embraced by the Iron Lahti, opening himself to him. It's unclear if that can truly be called love, but that doesn't even matter anymore. Kai doesn't just want to be held s...

  • Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds

    Multiple Authors

    A unique anthology of avian literatureFrom the myths of ancient Greece to the fables of Aesop, from Chaucer to contemporary poetry and fiction, birds are central to literature because they connect us intimately to the natural world. Whether we watch...

  • Brassy the Fire Engine Saves the City

    Dennis Smith

    Brassy the fire engine is the only truck small enough to reach an out-of-control fire, and he and his friend Captain Bill save the city. A first children's book by the author of Report from Ground Zero. ...

  • Birds in the Hand

    Nelson

  • Brothers Together

    Ellen Weiss

  • Zathura The Movie Junior Novel

    Ellen Weiss

  • Zathura The Movie: Zorgons Attack!

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Zathura The Movie Deluxe Storybook

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Spectacular Spider-Man, Volume 6: The Final Curtain

    Mark Buckingham

    Paul Jenkins wraps up his five-year tenure as a Spider-Man writer and brings Spectacular Spider-Man to a close in a moving, self-contained tale that reunites him with artist Mark Buckingham. Plus, two spectacular standalone stories! First up: Ben...

  • New X-Men: Hellions

    Marvel Book Group

  • Mary Jane, Volume 2: Homecoming Digest

    Marvel Book Group

  • Daredevil: Redemption

    Marvel Book Group

  • The Da Vinci Cod

    Don Brine

    Where there's a CODE there's a COD ... In the not so distant past, a man had a Very Cunning Theory which he wrote down in a book, and it proved to be very popular indeed. In the very distant past, a man was born who had a wife, who had a child, wh...

  • When the Sandpiper Calls

    Peggy Darty

    Christy Castleman, a pretty, young novelist, has made a name for herself writing books about mystery and intrigue. The Sassy Snowbirds, a group of lively ladies, spread fun, friendship, and good deeds around the seaside town of Summer Breeze. Everyo...

  • The Penultimate Peril

    Lemony Snicket

    Dear Reader, If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of ...

  • Thebes at War

    Naguib Mahfouz

    Known and loved throughout Egypt as a work that celebrates the national character, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s Thebes at War tells of a high point in Egyptian history"ancient Egypt’s defeat of Asiatic foreigners who had dominated northern E...

  • Homer Book

    Matt Groening

    The Homer Book is now being released in hardback, as part of the ongoing series: The Simpsons Library of Wisdom.

    Homer Simpson is a man's man, an 'Average Joe', a loving father and husband, and a devoted beer drinker. But do you know the 'r...

  • A Perfect Pony

    Lois K. Szymanski

    A PERFECT PONY

    It's the most exciting day of Niki's life! She's saved up enough money to buy her very own pony and today is the day of the pony auction. She could take home a magnificent pinto or a proud Thoroughbred, but she sets her heart...

  • Ultimate Challenge

    Todd Hafer

    School is out, and Cody is trying to stay in shape for the statewide 'ultimate athlete' competition at the end of the summer. But his new stepmother is about to give birth, and all the attention on the coming baby makes Cody feel ignored in his own h...

  • Gertie the Goldfish and the Christmas Surprise

    Naomi Judd

  • The Bart Book

    Matt Groening

    The Bart Book is now being released in hardback, as part of the ongoing series: The Simpsons Library of Wisdom.

    Bart Simpson, the much–maligned, misunderstood, under–appreciated ''underachiever'', comes clean and (God help us!) ...

  • The Catalans

    Patrick O'Brian

    A dark story of love and betrayal set against the brilliant colors of the Catalan country in southern France. This novel, long out of print, is a powerful successor to Testimonies, Patrick O'Brian's first novel written for adults. It is set in tha...

  • A Really Good Snowman

    Daniel J. Mahoney

    On the day of the big snowman-building contest, Jack goes to join Angie and Melden in the park, with his tag-along little sister, Nancy, sticking to him like glue. Nancy loves to help Jack, but her “help” can be disastrous, so he’s relieved to ...

  • The King in the Window

    Adam Gopnik

    OLIVER PARKER, an eleven-year-old American boy living in Paris, is lonelier than he has ever been. Intimidated by his French school and its prickly teachers, and feeling distant from his father -- a journalist who spends more and more time staring at...

  • The Clue in the Jewel Box

    Carolyn Keene

    An antique dealer's revelation about a former queen's priceless heirloom starts Nancy on a trail of exciting adventures. Madame Alexandra, now living incognito in River Heights, asks Nancy to find her missing grandson. With only one clue to go on ...

  • Powder Monkey

    Paul Dowswell

    In the exciting tradition of Patrick O'Brian comes the saga of one boy's life in the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Thirteen-year-old Sam Witchall had always dreamed of a sailor's life, but he didn't realize how dangerous an...

  • Christmas Tree Fairy

    Marion Rose

    Meredith McCauley has always wished she could fly like a real fairy. One dark Christmas night, she meets the Christmas Tree Fairy, who has dropped her wand. Meredith tries to help, and when she shrinks to fairy size, she climbs the Christmas tree ...

  • Rufus at Work

    Norman Taber

    People don't appreciate how hard it is to be a cat.

    Rufus is a fat, lazy cat. At least that's what his owner Posy tells him. But Posy simply doesn't appreciate how hard Rufus really works. Guarding the birdbath, pruning the catnip, keeping ...

  • Last Hero Standing

    Pat Olliffe

    The great heroes of the Marvel Universe are vanishing without a trace! What has happened to Spider-Man, the Thing, the Scarlet Witch, Captain America, and the rest of the MU's heavy hitters? Spider-Girl, the Fantastic Five, and A-Next must join force...

  • Pretty Evil

    Lexi Davis

    Three sexy bachelors with big plans. Longtime friends Rice, Coach, and Geffen can't believe it when they see an abandoned property just a stone's throw away from Rodeo Drive -- the dilapidated wreck is more haunted house than Hollywood high life. But...

  • Imaginary Men

    Anjali Banerjee

    It seemed like a good idea at the time. Lina Ray has a knack for pairing up perfect couples as a professional matchmaker in San Francisco, but her well-meaning, highly traditional Indian family wants her to get married. When her Auntie Kiki introduce...

  • The Blood Price

    Jonathan Evans

    Paul Wood and his girlfriend, Talena, were just tourists in Sarajevo, a city still reeling from the aftermath of civil war. But an unexpected encounter makes them a desperate woman's only hope of escape. Now, to get her to safety, they must navigate ...

  • Marriage By Necessity

    Marisa Carroll

    Cottonwood Lake was so calm, it looked like glass. So why did Nate Fowler feel as if he was at the center of an out-of-control storm? Sarah Taylor. Here on his doorstep. The last person he'd ever expected to see was his ex-wife -- with a child, no...

  • A Fabulous Husband

    Dianne Castell

    The Colonel Has a Surefire Prescription for the Doctor Dr. Barbara Jean Fairmont desperately wants a baby in her life. Being forty and single, though, her hopes for adoption are fading fast. So when old high school flame Colonel Flynn MacIntire co...

  • Saving Joe

    Laura Marie Altom

    In a Cabin by the Sea Gillian Logue's first assignment as a U.S. Marshal takes her to a cabin on the Oregon seacoast. This is her chance to prove to her brothers -- all marshals -- and to herself that she's good at her job. She'll keep Joe Morgan ...

  • Silent Awakening

    Elaine Barbieri

    HIS SHIELD AND GUN WERE HERS TO COMMAND Stalked by a killer after discovering his nearly untraceable chemical weapon, scientist Natalie Patterson collided with one of New York's finest -- rugged homicide detective Brady Tomasini. The elegant scien...

  • When The Lights Go Down

    Heidi Betts

    Today is Gwen Thomas's 31st birthday. She's given herself T-minus 24 hours to change her life. 8:00 a.m.: Call out sick from library. 8:01 a.m.: Scour phone book for Emergency Beauty Technicians. 10:00 - Noon: Hair. Goodbye, mousy. Hello, au...

  • Follow Your Heart

    Rosanne Bittner

    Devastated by the droughts and plagues that have ravaged her family's homestead on the Nebraska Plains in the 1870s, settler Ingrid Svensson regards wealthy Jude Kingman as her sworn enemy. But Ingrid gradually sees that Jude shares her commitment...

  • Round-The-Clock Temptation

    Michelle Celmer

    "I'm here to protect you." -- Connor Thorne, Ex-Texas Ranger Connor's words sent Nita Windcroft's temper soaring. She didn't need a man glued to her side twenty-four hours a day. Especially a man like Connor -- one who was used to getting what he ...

  • The Texan's Suite Romance

    Judy Christenberry

    PRIVATE INTERVIEW WITH SEXY TEXAN AUTHOR Q: Dr. Alex Myerson, is it possible to overcome heartbreak and find that special person meant just for me -- er, I mean you? A: Read Making the Most of Life, Tabitha Tyler, and you'll have your answer! I...

  • A Scandalous Melody

    Linda Conrad

    SCANDAL JUST WALKED BACK INTO TOWN Rich and powerful Chase Severin had returned for revenge on the town that had once cast him out -- and the woman who had scorned him. Years ago, he and heiress Kate Beltrane had scandalized everyone with their fo...

  • Not Without Her Son

    Kay David

    Julia Vandamme's nightmare began after she said, "I do." Her only comfort is her sweet little boy, and she's stayed in her marriage just for him. Jonathan Cruz is their one chance for escape, but before she and her son can know freedom, Julia has ...

  • Strong Medicine

    Olivia Gates

    FIRST, DO NO HARM Dr. Calista St. James had been bound to that oath in her work for the Global Crisis Alliance. In the world's most dangerous countries, she had healed the needy and defied the ruthless mercenaries who'd tried to stop her. Then she'...

  • Standing Tall

    Sharon Gillenwater

    All the Chastain siblings wanted was to get their money back. They thought sneaking into the room of the robber who'd killed their father would be easy. No one was supposed to get hurt -- especially not Ransom Starr, sheriff of Willow Grove. To make ...

  • Her Gypsy Prince

    Crystal Green

    Blossom County Fair Where love blooms true. He was everything her mother had warned her about... To sheltered Elizabeth Dupres, the tanned, shirtless daredevil high atop the Ferris wheel looked like a swashbuckling pirate -- handsome, debonair...ba...

  • Camouflage Heart

    Dana Marton

    WARRIOR WITH A CAUSE Held captive in a Malaysian prison, Brian Welkins was ready to make his escape, when a beautiful wrench was thrown in his plans: hostage Audrey Benedict. And now, honor demanded that he rescue them both.... Once free, thoug...

  • Marital Privilege

    Ann Voss Peterson

    SHE'D WED A STRANGER... "My name isn't Alec Martin," he'd said. Laura thought she'd married a salesman and that their unborn baby would have the idyllic childhood she'd never had. But suddenly her ordinary husband knew how to do extraordinary thin...

  • Montana Secrets

    Kay Stockham

    Secrets kept. Lives changed forever. As a physical therapist, Grace Korbit has had some tough cases, but returning to her hometown to care for Seth Rowland will be the most difficult job she's ever had. When she left ten years ago, Grace was runni...

  • Knife of Dreams

    Robert Jordan

    The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Thrmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, when Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanit...

  • Consent to Kill

    Vince Flynn

    On the front lines of the global war on terror, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp races to save one more life: his own. An eye for an eye: that's what the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands in retribution -- and with his hate-filled plea, Mitch R...

  • And Only to Deceive

    Tasha Alexander

    Emily agreed to wed Philip, the Viscount Ashton, primarily to escape her overbearing mother. Philip's death while on safari soon after their wedding left Emily feeling little grief, for she barely knew the dashing stranger. But her discovery of hi...

  • Iron Orchid

    Stuart Woods

    When his plane exploded off the coast of Maine, authorities thought thcy had seen the last of Teddy Fay, the former CIA tech wizard who killed his political targets for sport. But then they find irrefutable evidence that he is alive and up to his old...

  • The Phoenix Dance

    Dia Calhoun

    A journey through madness and mania

    On the island of Faranor in the kingdom of Windward, twelve princesses dance their shoes to shreds each night. No one knows why. Not the king or queen. Not the knights, lords, or ladies-in-waiting. When t...

  • Jingle Boy

    Kieran Scott

    A funny holiday story about a boy whose Christmas is thrown into chaos. The perfect book to bring you a much needed dose of holiday cheer!   Sixteen-year-old Paul Nicholas is a self-confessed Christmas fanatic. That’s why he’s so smitten wi...

  • The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus

    Margaret Atwood

    For Penelope, wife of Odyseeus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan war was not a simple business. Already aggrieved that he had been lured away due to the shocking behaviour of her beautiful cousin Helen, Penelope mus...

  • In Case We're Separated

    Alice Mattison

    Spanning the length and breadth of the twentieth century, Alice Mattison's masterful In Case We're Separated looks at a family of Jewish immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s and follows the urban, emotionally turbulent lives of their children, grandchil...

  • How We Are Hungry

    Dave Eggers

    In this "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review), the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Circle demonstrates his mastery of the short story.“These tales reinvigorate … the short story with a jittery sense of adventure.” ...

  • The Electric Michelangelo

    Sarah Hall

    “Wickedly imagined and richly written. . . . Prose as highly colored as Hall’s has to to be savored.” -- The IndependentSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZECy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose mediu...

  • Zanesville

    Kris Saknussemm

    WHO IS ELIJAH CLEARFATHER?Futuristic bioweapon or good old-fashioned messiah? Reincarnated ex-porn star or mutant information-age revolutionary? The man who awakens in New York City’s Central Park with no memory of his identity and the enigmatic me...

  • Andrew Lost in the Ice Age

    J.C. Greenburg

    Andrew, Judy, and Thudd have escaped the dinosaurs only to find themselves surrounded by the woolly mammoths of the Ice Age! Can they locate their lost Uncle Al and travel back to their own time before the evil Dr. Kron-Tox puts his nefarious plan in...

  • Boys Rock!

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Oh yeah, it's summer V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N! Wally Hatford dreams of long, lazy days far away from school and even farther away from Caroline Malloy. Dream on, Wally. As the best speller among the Hatford boys, Wally gets roped into helping his brothers ...

  • Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett

    Colin Bateman

    Eddie Had never even heard of Oliver Plunkett"or his sacred old head"until the head was stolen. Now he has three days to find it and reap the rewards. And he has just the friends to help: Gary, a new classmate with a knack a for blowing things up...

  • How the Tiny People Grew Tall

    Nancy Wood

    Inspired by the indigenous creation myths, Nancy Wood's fanciful tale is brought to life with rich, humorous paintings by Rebecca Walsh.

    A long time ago, when everything was new, the Tiny People lived in the Center of the Earth. It was hot and...

  • Winter Friends

    Mary Quattlebaum

    A snowfall.
    A lost mitten.
    A chance meeting.
    A winter day just right for new friendships and fun.
    The weather outside may be frosty, but Mary Quattlebaum’s lively story in poems and Hiroe Nakata’s joyful illustrations celebrate the...

  • Angel: A Tale of Wonder

    Jennifer Eachus

    Soft, luminous illustrations capture a child's expressions of wonder in this gentle tale of a little girl and her very special friend."What is wonder?" Lara asked her mother. "Wonder," her mother said, "is when the song thrus...

  • Sunrise, Sunset

    Sheldon Harnick

    The first picture-book adaptation of the beloved song Sunrise, Sunset from the musical Friddler on the Roof follows a little girl as she grows up, falls in love, marries, and has a little one of her own. Ian Schoenherr's beautifully rendered illustra...

  • Troublesome Creek

    Jan Watson

    A charming historical novel set in the late 1800s. Born and raised in the hills of Kentucky, Laura “Copper” Grace loves the wilderness of her home in Troublesome Creek. But when her stepmother threatens to send her away to boarding school to beco...

  • Dermaphoria

    Craig Clevenger

    Clandestine chemistry and the L.A. underworld provide the atmosphere for this tale of painful lost memories and the heartbreak of finding them.

    Eric Ashworth awakens in jail, unable to remember how he got there or why. His only memory is a wom...

  • Warrior's Heart

    Donna Fleisher

    A new home. A new life. To have both, she must outlast a bitter storm. Once Chris fought for her country. Now she’s fighting for her faith. And she’s about to fight for her life. This is no mere storm. It’s a deluge of catastrophic proportions....

  • The Mind Box

    A.J. Diehl

    memories can be murder "In one of the most shocking crimes in Los Angeles history, producer Eddie Ealing was found brutally murdered this morning at his home in the Hollywood hills. The body was found butchered in an eerie scene taken straight fro...

  • The Long Mile

    Clyde W. Ford

    Winner of the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Best Mystery/Suspense/Thriller! This gritty detective thriller, set in New York City, relates one African-American man's riveting quest for truth and redemption.Framed for murder duri...

  • Attack of the Intergalactic Soul Hunters

    Timothy Carter

    When not fending off school bullies, Conrad and his best friend Knowlton are wrapped up in Infinite Destiny, their favorite sci-fi television show. It's no wonder Conrad often dreams about aliens and space chases, but one day the two science fiction ...

  • Sign of the Crescent

    Debbie Tanner Federici

    Teenagers are mysteriously disappearing in Tucson, Arizona, and other cities. One night, seventeen-year-old Taryn nearly becomes one of them when a revolting, unearthly creature attacks her. The touch of a Zumar warrior should render her unconscious,...

  • Wedding Vow of Revenge

    Lucy Monroe

    For vengeance...or passion? The instant Angelo Gordon sees model Tara Peters he's certain she will share his bed. But her beauty isn't the only attraction -- he wants vengeance! Tara is not an easy conquest. When she pushes Angelo away ...

  • Friends of the Heart

    Kate Banks

    A friendship transcends distance and time
    Ollie is a great whistler, while Lucrezia can’t whistle at all. Ollie has traveled the world, but Lucrezia is afraid of the dark and hates goodbyes. Yet, despite their differences, Ollie and Lucrezia hav...

  • Ask Albert Einstein

    Lynne Barasch

    An introduction to the very human side of Albert Einstein

    April’s older sister, Annabel, is in danger of failing math, so April enlists the help of a famous scientist, sending a math problem to Albert Einstein at his home in Princeton, Ne...

  • Shadows on the Stars

    T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Racing against time, three companions embark on separate, far-reaching quests. Elli must outwit a wrathful dragon and a deadly assassin on her search for a powerful crystal; Scree must confront the darkest secrets of his own past, and Tamwyn must jou...

  • Traitor // Boy Soldier

    Andy McNab; Robert Rigby

    SAS HERO TURNS TRAITOR For Danny Watts, 17, whose life-time ambition is to be a soldier, this news story is the beginning of the end. THE WORST SORT OF SCUM The grandfather he's never met, SAS hero Fergus Watts, sold out to the Colombian drug ca...

  • M or F?

    Lisa Papademetriou

    When Frannie is desperate to get the attention of her crush, her fabulous (and gay) best friend Marcus suggests that Frannie chat with him online. Too bad Frannie’s terrified. She won’t type a word without Marcus’s help. In the chat room, Ma...

  • It's All about Me!

    Nancy Cote

    An entertaining story of self-esteem and sibling rivalry follows a little boy, who is an only child and used to his parents' undivided attention, as he discovers that he has a sibling on the way and that it's no longer just about him!...

  • Deputy Harvey and the Ant Cow Caper

    Brad Sneed

  • A Chick Thing

    Daniela Burr

  • The Fire

    Annette Griessman

    When a fire destroys her family's home, Maria believes that they have lost everything, but her Mama reminds her of everything they still have--each other--in a celebration of strength and courage that pays tribute to the dedication and bravery of fir...

  • Welcome to Where?

    Jory Simms

  • The Baby on the Way

    Karen English

    By the Coretta Scott King Honor authorIn an urban rooftop garden, a young African American boy named Jamal initiates an intriguing conversation with his grandmother when he asks her if she was ever a baby. Turns out Grandma was even once ?the ...

  • The Orchard Book of Fairy Tales

    Rose Impey

  • Nothing Can Keep Us Together

    Cecily von Ziegesar

    Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I are the princes and princesses of private school, and graduation is just an excuse to throw a fabulous party--as if we need a reason. Enter the world of Gossip Girl--a world where ...

  • Lord Loss

    Darren Shan

    The door feels red hot, as though a fire is burning behind I press an ear to the wood -- but there's no crackle.. No smoke. Just deep, heavy breathing . . . and a curious dripping sound. My hand's on the doorknob. Inside the room, somebody giggles --...

  • City Christmas Tree

    Rebecca Bond (1)

    Maggie visits the Christmas tree man on Liberty Street, then brings her brothers, sister, and finally her parents, as they each dream their own dreams of what it means to have a Christmas tree in the city....

  • Stinky Riddles

    Katy Hall

  • The A-List Collection

    Zoey Dean

  • Santa Baby

    Janie Bynum

  • Thor: Blood Oath

    Michael Avon Oeming

    Collects Thor: Blood Oath #1-6. The Warriors Three are put on trial…for murder? Standing beside his brothers-in-arms, Thor ties himself to their fate, as they are sent on an impossible journey by the Giants to pay their debt for the killing of a G...

  • Exiles, Volume 11: Timebreakers

    Mizuki Sakakibara

    The story where all your questions will be answered! Why is the Timebroker so evil all of a sudden?! Who are the Timebreakers?! Who's been pulling the strings all along?! And when the heck is Beak going to make himself useful?! You won't want to mist...

  • Rogue: Forget-Me-Not

    Marvel Book Group

  • Tijuana Straits

    Kem Nunn

    When Fahey, once a great surfer, now a reclusive ex-con, meets Magdalena, she is running from a pack of wild dogs along the ragged wasteland where California and Mexico meet the Pacific Ocean -- a spot once known to the men who rode its giant waves a...

  • A Bit of Fluff

    Mark Gatiss

    Meet Lucifer Box: Equal parts James Bond and Sherlock Holmes, with a twist of Monty Python and a dash of Austin Powers, Lucifer has a charming countenance and rapier wit that make him the guest all hostesses must have. And most do. But few of his...

  • Hooking Up

    Randi Reisfeld

    Las Vegas has never seen stars as bright as these. The four young women of "The Council" know that what happens in Vegas--and among their clique--stays in Vegas. Meet the girls of The Council: Vegas is Courtney's playground. Her Daddy's glamm...

  • Courting Midnight

    Emma Holly

    1813, Regency England. Lucius White is the oldest living vampire in the world--a powerful, shape-changing upyr. But for the last several hundred years, his life on Earth has paled to mere existence. He needs little and feels less... Then a chance ...

  • Falcon's Mistress

    Donna Birdsell

    The Duke of Canby has been missing and presumed dead for six years before the fateful day when his clothes are found in the forest - and his falconer, Selena Hewitt, is accused of his murder. But Canby lives... Known as The Falcon, Canby is a spy...

  • Solace Glen Honeymoon

    Susan S. James

    Forty-three year old Flip Paxton, the cleaning lady of Solace Glen, finally has it all -- a booming business, a beautiful new home, and a ring on her finger. But the church bells no sooner chime than Flip's expectations of a romantic -- and tranquil ...

  • Don't Say A Word

    Barbara Freethy

    EVERYTHING SHE'S BEEN TOLD ABOUT HER PAST IS A LIE... Julie De Marco is planning a perfect San Francisco wedding when she comes face-to-face with a famous photograph, the startling image of a little girl behind the iron gate of a foreign orphanage...

  • Mrs. Malory and No Cure for Death

    Hazel Holt

    There is no doubt that John Morrison is an accomplished doctor. But his arrogant manner has made him many enemies in Taviscombe -- even the patients he care for don't much care for him. So it is not entirely surprising when he is found stabbed to dea...

  • Christmas Cheer: A Novella

    Gayle Buck
    in

    Christmas Cheer is hard to come by for a newly wed lady pining for her home and family -- until her husband gives her a holiday surprise to remember forever......

  • The Dogstar

    Edith Layton
    in

    An imperious viscount and a humble governess are at odds over who will take their friend's seven-year-old son for the holidays. To bring them together by Christmas, it will take a beguiling puppy and a wish upon The Dogstar.......

  • Lost and Found

    Andrea Pickens
    in

    In Lost and Found, a dutiful betrothal calls an English nobleman to London for Christmas. But when he is waylaid by a blizzard, the spirited ward of a Russian count stops his heart in its tracks.......

  • Christmas With Dora Davenport

    Nancy Butler
    in

    When a literary lady -- and confirmed Londoner -- has to arrange a country house party to impress her wealthy beau, she receives much more than domestic tips from a Welshman who longs to spend Christmas with Dora Davenport......

  • Scent to Her Grave

    India Ink

    Luckily for the residents of a Gull Harbor, Washington, the local bath and body store -- Venus Envy -- takes care of all their beauty needs, from custom blended oils to relaxing spa services. Behind the counter is newcomer Persia Vanderbilt, the niec...

  • The Dwarves of Whiskey Island

    S. Andrew Swann

    In this sequel to "The Dragons of Cuyahoga," political reporter Kline Maxwell receives information about the unexplained suicide of the former City Council President, drawing Kline into a case that has dark spells, destruction, and death written all ...

  • When Horses Fly

    Laurie Bishop

    A Delicate Operation Since her father's death, Cora MacLaren has lived with various sickly relatives, exchanging her resourcefulness and excellent nursing skills for bed and board. Her latest situation, however, presents unusual complications....

  • Dark Whispers

    Chris Blaine

    Purchasing a restored Victorian house called The Abbadon Inn in the picturesque shore town of Cape May, New Jersey, John and Karen Dalton stumble upon the love letters of Jack Cooney, a long-dead mobster, which reveal the bizarre and bloody history o...

  • Surrender to a Wicked Spy

    Celeste Bradley

    They are known simply as The Royal Four--but there's nothing simple about the elite band of spies who serve the King in secrecy. Their missions are dangerous, their love lives are scandalous...and each man in the Royal Four has his own secrets. This ...

  • Wooing the Wolf

    Barbara Metzger
    in

    For Christmas, two little angels hatch devilish plans to get an elusive lord to marry their beloved guardian in Wooing the Wolf......

  • A Singular Lady

    Megan Frampton

    For Love or Money During the Season, debutantes rush to London to find a man who'll fill their hearts with love -- or their bankbooks with money. The Honorable Titania Stanhope is of the latter category. She simply has no choice -- for her fat...

  • The Vigilante

    Jory Sherman

    When the law turns a blind eye on the crimes of a pair of thieves, Wiley Pope and Fritz Canby, the scions of two of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the territory, Lew Zane launches his own campaign for justice against the two men who had...

  • Private Demon

    Lynn Viehl

    A WEAKENED BODY... Jema Shaw is an antiquities expert. But she moonlights as a police forensic consultant--to escape an existence trapped between her domineering mother and the mysterious illness that's plagued Jema for years. A WOUNDED SPIRIT......

  • Dying In Style

    Elaine Viets

    Women would kill for Josie Marcus's job as mystery shopper, which takes her in and out of boutiques, supermarkets, even fast-food joints to report on quality and service. But it's hard work. Besides being a single mom to a nine-year-old, Josie is the...

  • Temptress

    Lisa Jackson

    THE DANGER Dark and deadly, a mysterious man stalks the halls of Castle Calon, staying forever hidden. He calls himself the Redeemer. And no one has seen his face. Not even Morwenna, lady of the keep. THE HEAT A bloodied warrior is brought to th...