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  • Stephen Dedman

    The year is 2063. Earth has been reborn, unleashing long-dormant magical forces across the globe. Megacorporations rule from on high, while organized crime syndicates rule the underworld. Sliding through the cracks are the shadowrunners -- profession...



  • Rachel Caine

    WELCOME TO MORGANVILLE, TEXAS. DON'T STAY OUT AFTER DARK. It's a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad comes out. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows -- one that...



  • Kat Richardson

    Harper Blaine was slogging along as a small-time P.I. when a two-bit perp's savage assault left her dead. For two minutes, to be precise. When Harper comes to in the hospital, she begins to feel a bit ...strange. She sees things that can only be ...



  • Alice Henderson

    Buffy thought she'd finished the Master when she dusted him. But in Sunnydale things have a way of coming back. . . . The Master may be dead, but he is not forgotten. One of the vampire lord's devotees sets out to alter the past so that he can resurr...



  • Yasmine Galenorn

    We're the D'Artigo sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we're savvy--and sexy--operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Delilah shapeshifts into a tabby ...



  • Robert Ludlum

    TWO AMERICANS FIND THEMSELVES FACING A SHADOWY ORGANIZATION WORKING TO TWIST GLOBAL POLITICS TOWARD AN UNSAVORY END... Todd Belknap, a field agent for Consular Operations, is cut loose from the agency after a job gone wrong. But when his best frie...



  • William P Wood Jr.

    He was a war hero and a member of Congress. Now he's dead--shot down the day after he made a scathing speech blasting corruption in Washington. For Sacramento police detectives Terry Nye and Rose Tafoya, the investigation is a time bomb. They have ju...



  • Joe Schreiber

    "You have a very lovely little girl," breathed the voice on the phone. And just like that, Susan Young is drawn into a living nightmare. A stranger has kidnapped Sue's daughter, Veda. But he doesn't want her money, only her suffering -- and he wil...



  • David Baldacci

    Over the hill. Out of the loop. And trying to save their country . . . In Washington, D. C., four men with mysterious pasts call themselves the Camel Club. Their mission: find out what's really happening behind the closed doors of America's lead...



  • Justin Gray

    Bounty hunters Misty Knight and Colleen Wing star in this sexy action thriller, the latest project from writers Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti - an entertaining mix of gritty action, biting comedy and sharp visuals provided by talented newcomer Khar...



  • Stephen Woodworth

    Natalie Lindstrom has finally left the underworld behind for a new career in the art world. But there's one world she can't escape: the Other world of the dead. As a former Violet, an elite crime-fighter with the power to channel murder victims, Nata...



  • Colin MacKinnon

    An Afghan resistance fighter of the 1980s, once on the CIA payroll, has come back to haunt the agency. Kareem has become an enemy, a killer working closely with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, involved in drug trafficking and other crimes. He has arrange...



  • Sara Shepard

    EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE -- ESPECIALLY HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS SPENCER, ARIA, EMILY, AND HANNA. Spencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. Hanna uses some ugly t...



  • Daniel Kalla

    A compelling psychological thriller that probes the darkest compulsions of the human mind. Dr. Stanley Kolberg was not just murdered. His lifeless body was battered and broken almost beyond recognition, as though his unknown killer had been driven by...



  • William Boyd

    A masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest by one of the great literary writers of his g...



  • Gillian Flynn

    Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille Preaker's first assignment at her second-rate daily paper takes her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. As she works to uncover the truth, Camille finds hers...



  • Stuart Woods

    Short Straw reintroduces Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle, who first appeared in Stuart Woods's 1992 thriller, Santa Fe Rules. In his first adventure, Ed fell in love with the seductive Barbara Kennerly, and married her-against his better judgment. Turns...



  • Chris Kuzneski

    Three crucifixions on three different continents... The discovery of an ancient conspiracy... A secret that could destroy the faith of billions. On a Danish shore, a Vatican priest is found--hanging on a cross. Within days, the same crime is rep...



  • David Kent

    Faith Kelly has what it takes to extort what she needs from the country's Most Wanted. But when her new case takes its toll in intimate ways, it becomes the most dangerous one of her career. It's case officer Faith Kelly's job to protect criminals...



  • David R. George III

    IN A SINGLE MOMENT ...the lives of three men will be forever changed. In that split second, defined paradoxically by both salvation and loss, they will destroy the world and then restore it. Much had come before, and much would come after, but nothin...



  • Drew Karpyshyn

    "Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody the power, the other to crave it." --Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the Sith On the run from vengeful Republic forces, Dessel, a cortosis miner, vanishes into the ranks of the Sith army and ships ou...



  • Neal Asher

    From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien maker back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely...



  • Peter David

    President Laura Roslin bears a heavy burden. Since becoming the president of the twelve human colonies when the Cylons brutally attacked and destroyed all but a small remnant of humanity's billions, she has been the voice of civil authority, counterb...



  • Dave Galanter

    MERE ANARCHY A new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trek ® history, continuing with an adventure that takes place during the "lost years" following the historic five-year mission! Book 3: SHADOWS OF THE INDIGNANT As Admiral James T. K...



  • Deborah Fine

    The most spectacular tribute to the Star Wars phenomenon yet, this deluxe limited edition features the most comprehensive collection of photographs, production stills, sketches, and outtakes ever assembled. Nearly the entire Lucasfilm archives, with ...



  • Karl Schroeder

    It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion s...



  • J. Michael Straczynski

    Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #40-45. Just one chance. . . That's all Peter Parker has to win back Mary Jane Watson, the love of his life. Tired of playing second fiddle, to Peter's heroic responsibilities as Spider-Man, Mary Jane left him for a...



  • J. Michael Straczynski

    After receiving information from Ezeckiel that calls the origin of his spider-powers into question, Peter must face off against the otherworldy hunter Shathra, who has targeted Spider-Man as her prey....




  • Alane Ferguson

    Being a coroner’s assistant means that Cameryn has seen more gore than your average seventeen-year-old. But even Cammie is shocked when Kyle O’Neil, the most popular guy in school, discovers the gruesome corpse of their English teacher murdered i...



  • Michael Avon Oeming

    Collects Ares #1-5. Ares - who has invaded Olympus, attempted to take over earth, stood at the walls of Troy and fought toe to toe with and against Earth's greatest heroes - has turned his back on Olympus and centuries of brutal warfare to begin lif...



  • Richard A. Knaak

    Since the beginning of time, the angelic forces of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in an eternal conflict for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now spilled over into Sanctuary -- the world of me...



  • Peter Watts

    Two months since the stars fell....Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveil...



  • M.A. Foster

    Out of print since 1985, these three classic novels form a trilogy that chronicles the history of an alternate human race, the Ler, from their origins as a bioengineered "superhuman" race on Earth to their complex civilizations in space. Together, t...



  • Ed Brubaker

    The questions plaguing Captain America's dreams and memories have been answered in the most brutal way possible. And in the wake of this brutality, General Lukin makes his first all-out assault - tearing open old wounds and threatening to make new sc...



  • Gloria Skurzynski

    Having fled aboard their spaceship to the Isles of Hiva after winning the virtual war, Corgan realizes that leaving Brigand roaming the universe was a bad decision and so, with Sharla and Cyborg, begins to plot an attack against his nemesis to finali...




  • Brian Michael Bendis

    With the media hounding him after he is outed as Daredevil by a tabloid, Matt Murdoch attempts to cope with his unwanted notoriety as well as his lawsuit against the tabloid, the villainous Owl, and a lovely blind woman named Milla....



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Daredevil is simultaneously faced with murder charges, a new girlfriend, being outted by the tabloids, the return of one of his deadliest foes, Typhoid Mary, and the Kingpin's attempt to restore his fallen empire. And the surprise ending changes Dare...



  • Marv Wolfman

    It's the Sorcerer Supreme against the Emperor of the Undead! Dracula wants Earth to fall under the spell of the Darkhold, but Doctor Strange has joined Blade and the Nightstalkers in a quest to vanquish all vampires! See the origins of vampirism itse...



  • Michael Flynn

    IT IS A TIME OF WONDERS IN THE SHADOW OF THE PLAGUE. Centuries ago, one small town in Germany disappeared and was never resettled. Tom, a historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should h...



  • Stan Lee

    Re-live more of the FF's classic exploits as they stand united against Dr. Doom, Annihilus and Galactus! Featuring the first appearances of the Kree and the microversal Psycho-Man! Guest starring Spider-Man, Daredevil, Thor and the Warlock formerly k...



  • Roy Thomas

    Jaded by heroes who come back from the dead? Meet the hero who started there and stayed there! His stare's the only thing that's empty about the adventures of Simon Garth through mad science and madder magic! Terrors criminal, corporate and just plai...



  • Chuck Austen

    They are the Exiles, reality-hopping nomads forced to repari the broken chains of time. Failure means a fate worse than death; success, a new reality and a new mission. The Exiles' latest assignment brings them face-to-face with the Fantastic Four an...



  • John Byrne

    At last, the Thing returns from the Secret Wars - but he's been replaced in more than just the heart of the team! The FF learn the shocking secrets of their deadliest enemy, and it only costs them everything they hold dear! Plus: Franklin Richards vs...



  • Eric Nylund

    The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. But just how many Spartans are left? While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad faction...



  • David Weber; Linda Evans

    GATEWAY TO HELL'S FURY The Union of Arcana has expanded through the portals linking parallel universes for over a century and a half. In that time, its soldiers and sorcerers have laid claim to one uninhabited planet after another-all of them Earth,...



  • Justin Richards



  • David Grossman

    A consideration of one of the Bible’s most powerful stories from a leading Israeli writer In this fascinating reexamination of the story of Samson, David Grossman goes beyond the surface of the familiar tale to look into what the life of this extra...



  • William C. Dietz

    In a universe littered with the ruins of a technologically advanced past, there are those who seek to restore the galaxy to its former glory -- and those committed to preventing that. Runner Jak Rebo is caught between them. On Rebo's most recent job...



  • Charles Phipps

    Thomas Duvalle is the most gifted man of the future. A master scientist, a superb warrior, and a dashing gentlemen. He is a man who is about to be drawn into conflict between his adopted homeworld of Mars and his birth world of Earth...



  • Stan Lee

    Turn back the clock to 1962. After the debut of a quiet little magazine called The Fantastic Four and a relatively unknown teen hero named Spider-Man, Mighty Marvel decided to go out on a limb and put these two risky ideas together into a featuring s...



  • Grant Morrison

    Collects New X-Men #127-133. As protesters lay siege to the Xavier Institute, mutant mentor Professor X lies in a coma, trapped within the shattered form of his evil twin! Cassandra Nova inhabited Xavier's body and escaped to the stars in the wake of...



  • M. John Harrison

    Years after Ed Chianese's fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways we never could have predicted--and even more terrifying, parts of it have actually begun to fall to Earth, transforming the landscapes t...



  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    As a Retrieval Artist, Miles Flint helps the Disappeared, saving the lives of those oppressed under the Earth Alliance regime. He owes his livelihood, and his very sense of honor, to a woman known as Paloma. It was she who was responsible for setting...



  • Marc D. Giller

    In his riveting debut, Hammerjack, Marc Giller unspooled a futuristic thriller of global intrigue, corporate espionage, and techno-terrorism. Now he delivers a gritty new novel of deadly resurrection and a no-holds-barred fight for the future... O...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Fans of Jessica Jones have waited two years for two things: the return of award-winning artist Michael Gaydos to the pages of the book he was born to draw, and the birth of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage's baby. And guess what? They're both here! Plus: ...



  • David G. Hartwell


    "Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism." -David G. Hartwell, from the Introduction

    First published in hardcover in 1997, The Science Fiction Cen...



  • Greg Rucka

    Business is war. Welcome to the era of the hypercorporation, business entities so sprawling and vast that they field private armies and buy entire nations outright. These corporate empires---from Zentek to Core-Mantis OmniGlobal to dataDyne---are con...



  • J. Michael Straczynski

    The lives of Peter Parker and everyone close to him change forever! Haunted by unsettling dreams. Disturbed by a growing sense of dread. Convinced that people are out to get him. A portrait of someone on the edge of a nervous breakdown? Nah. Simply a...




  • Mark Millar

    Collects Ultimates Annual #1; Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual #1; Ultimate X-Men Annual #1; Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #1. The Ultimate Inhumans debut, two lives are forever changed, you'll never guess who's back and everyone guest-stars in the first-...



  • Brian K. Vaughan

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #54-57. It's the ultimate reality show as mutants convicted of capital crimes are released on an island where contestants hunt them down. Longshot has survived longest, and the X-Men are sent to rescue him until they become pa...



  • Robert Kirkman

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #66-71. After the events of Magnetic North and their recent encounter with the Master of Magnetism, our heroes kick back for a night on the town with their significant others. But who or what is the Magician and how is he goin...



  • Charles Phipps

    Book Two in the Machines Unbound Universe series.

    James Brody has fled the nightmare of Prime One to try and forge a family with his wife, Ecaterina. But strange dreams plague him and the death of their infant child leads him to seek the aid of an...



  • Robert A. Heinlein; Spider Robinson

    At his death, in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein left behind a legacy of novels and short stories that almost single-handedly defined modern science fiction. But one of Heinlein's masterpieces was never finished. In 1955, he began work on Variable Star --...



  • Neal Asher

    Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? Tracing the man's last-known s...



  • Mark Millar

    Collecting the entire best-selling, blockbuster storyline in one deluxe hardcover! The world's deadliest living weapon just fell into the wrong hands. It's Wolverine vs. the Marvel Universe as Logan shreds his way through the X-Men, Fantastic Four, S...



  • Chris Claremont

    Collects X-Men: The End - Dreamers and Demons #1-6. This is the X-Men's final tale! It's the epic finale to the story of the Children of the Atom as renowned X-Men scribe Chris Claremont joins with star artist Sean Chen for a trilogy that spans the l...



  • Chris Claremont

    Collects X-Men: The End - Heroes and Martyrs #1-6. The Xavier Academy has been reduced to a smoldering crater in a brutal sneak attack, and the casualties number in the hundreds. Now, Cyclops must mobilize the survivors to get to the bottom of who is...



  • Frank Tieri

    One is a villain that has been plaguing civilization since the time of the Pharaohs. The other is the deadliest vampire to ever walk the earth. Enemies since the Crusades, they've met again in 19th century London. It's the battle to end all battles a...



  • Jon George

    Two men are forced to fight for humanitys future in savage contests that unfold in our real and mythical pasts.The world is panicking as, in seven days time, millions will disappear when our universe causes changes to reality. Dr Jake Crux has proof ...



  • Anne Perry

    Anne Perry's intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder set during World War I follows the travails of an honorable English family--brothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley and their sisters, Judith and Hannah. In March 1916, Joseph, a chaplain ...



  • Sean Doolittle

    Matthew Worth is a mess. Somewhere between a good cop and a bad screwup, he botched a marriage and a career. His fellow officers think he's a joke. His commanders are tired of cutting him breaks. Even his wife has left him for a flashy homicide detec...



  • T.J. MacGregor

    Come Out... He's waited years for this moment. A perfect hideout. A screaming boy no one can hear. A woman who will finally know the pain of losing what matters most... Come Out... Mira Morales knows the burning house on the hill belongs to a...



  • Roy Glenn

    Carmen Taylor demands justice for the murder of her sister. The police will not help her forcing her to rely on the man who aided the prime suspect escape conviction. That investigation leads the pair into a world of drugs, prostitution, money launde...



  • Donna Anders

    When aspiring novelist Savannah Blum is asked to write the history of the Hawthornes, a prominent New York family, it's a dream come true. But as her research exposes secrets that go back generations, a mysterious figure shadows her every move -- fol...



  • Paul Batista

    USA Today Best-Selling Author Prominent defense attorney murdered in Central Park -- random act or a conspiracy? When Tom Perini, a legendary Heisman Trophy winner turned criminal lawyer, is found brutally murdered in Central Park, his widow Julie Pe...



  • Saskia Walker

    She is Abby Douglas, an investment advisor who has enticed many men. No commitments. No regrets. No games. Then she meets a dangerously sexy stranger in the elevator of her office building - and suddenly she's submitting to the kind of raw fantasies ...



  • Richard Powers

    On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from...



  • Robert Liparulo

    The germ--an advanced form of the Ebola virus--has been genetically engineered to infect only those people whose DNA matches the codes embedded within it. Within days, their organs liquify. A single person could be killed with perfect accuracy and ze...



  • Jeanne Kalogridis

    "My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini Giocondo, though to acquaintances, I am known simply as Madonna Lisa. My story begins not with my birth but a murder, committed the year before I was born..." Florence, April 1478: The handsome Giuliano de'...



  • John Grisham

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES“Both an American tr...



  • Will Beall

    A gritty and ferocious novel written by Will Beall, an LAPD officer who continues to patrol the streets he writes about. L.A. Rex is the story of Ben Halloran, a seemingly fresh-faced rookie assigned to the 77th Division, L.A.'s most v...



  • Janet Evanovich

    Those Metro maniacs Alexandra " Barney" Barnaby and NASCAR driver Sam Hooker are back! A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little something about cheating. First there was Hooker and that salescl...



  • Robert Whitlow

    Can he trust his client's dreams and visions-even when they threaten to destroy his future? Supernatural visions filled with images of keys, hatchets, hammers, and fires. An eccentric old man in jail-accused of robbing a church and knowing things ...



  • Jaclyn Moriarty

    PERFECT. adj. 1. being entirely without fault or defect: flawless. 2. Bindy Mackenzie, student at Ashbury High. 3. Jaci Moriarty's murderously funny follow-up to THE YEAR OF SECRET ASSIGNMENTS.Bindy Mackenzie is the smartest girl at Ashbury High. She...



  • Ray Blackston

    Who's ever heard of a reverse Rapture? Larry Hutch may have a few loose screws in his head, but he's determined to create a hit with his latest manuscript. While dealing with personal crises, he conceives of a strange new world: on a routine Monda...



  • Andy McNab; Robert Rigby

    A series of high-profile suicide bombing has devastated London and stymied British Intelligence. But none of that matters to Danny Watts and his ex-spy grandfather Fergus, who are living peacefully incognito in Spain--that is, until their cover is bl...



  • Patrick Suskind

    An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion -- his sense of smell -- leads to murder.

    In the s...



  • Jihad

    Rhythm Azure, a young freedom-fighting law student, lays her life on the line for Moses King, a gang leader sentenced to life without parole for a crime he did not commit, when she, while investigating the case, stumbles upon a government conspiracy ...



  • Joan Druett

    U.S. Exploring Expedition linguist Wiki Coffin sails with the famous convoy of ships toward Brazil, with no idea of the amazing events the fates and the winds have set in store for him. As the great flagship Vincennes, under the dubious command ...



  • Ted Dekker

    An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet... Carl Strople struggles to retain fleeting memories that betray an even more ominous reality. He's been told part of the truth--but what's the rest? Invasive techniques have stripped ...



  • Mark Anthony (1)

    While investigating one of hip-hop's most successful music labels, Gun Clap Records, undercover FBI agent Jessica Jackson is willing to do anything to keep her identity a secret. She helps the Feds hit a grand slam during their investigation when the...



  • Don Winslow

    Frank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex -- surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront when he's not juggling any of his other three part-time jobs or trying to get a quick set in on his longboard. He's a stand-up businessman, a devot...



  • John Katzenbach

    Scott Freeman is a man of reason -- a college professor grounded in the rational and practical. But he becomes uneasy after finding an anonymous love letter hidden in his daughter's room: "No one could ever love you like I do. No one ever will. We wi...



  • Lori Avocato
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    Be Of Good Fear, Christmas Is Here! And just in time comes this grand gift of seasonal mystery and romance from six of popular fiction's most supremely talented "Santas"-;for 'tis the season for scandals, suspense, and all sorts of unexpected surp...



  • Julie Miller

    WHO'S THE BOSS? Commissioner Shauna Cartwright knew she was stirring up a hornet's nest by reopening the Baby Jane Doe murder case. Now she faced the further wrath of the KCPD by recruiting the much-maligned Eli Masterson to get the job done. Afte...



  • Crystal Green

    FROM INSTANT HEIRESS... Her billionaire mentor's invitation to go sailing with his family seemed a timely break for diver Katsu "Kat" Espinoza. Until she saw the yacht's captain--Will Ashton, her treacherous, still-too-appealing ex--and her mentor m...



  • Suzanne Enoch

    It's not easy dating a billionaire... Samantha Jellicoe has never met a security camera she couldn't disarm. And even though she's promised her billionaire lover, the irresistible Richard Addison, to walk the straight and narrow, she c...



  • Judith Leon

    Nova Blair--code name, Dove--is known as the ultimate, tough-as-nails agent who always gets her man. So when ten prominent American tourists are kidnapped in Brazil, Nova launches into a race against time to rescue the innocents and uncover the ident...



  • Rebecca York

    HE WANTED BACK HIS LIFE...AND HIS WIFE After security expert Gage Darnell was rocked by a lab explosion, he regained consciousness a marked man. Wanted for murder, Gage went on the run for his life, with little time to uncover the conspiracy at Cr...



  • Leona Karr

    After her sister was attacked and left for dead, Ashley Davis traveled to the remote Greystone Island in search of answers. But identifying her sister's assailant while on the imposing and mysterious Langdon estate seemed impossible--especially when ...



  • Delores Fossen

    ONE UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT Natalie Sinclair was stunned to discover she'd been drugged -- and impregnated. Even more shocking was the identity of her baby's father: Rick Gravari, her sworn enemy. Now the only way to uncover the truth and reve...



  • Tara Janzen

    IN A TOP-SECRET MISSION, SHE'S THE PERFECT BAIT. AND SHE WOULDN'T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY... During a secret mission gone bad, covert operator Gillian Pentycote ceased to exist. Held captive by a madman, shot full of drugs that stole her memory, Gil...



  • Bonnie Hearn Hill

    Twenty-two minutes--that's all it takes for reporter Geri LaRue to realize her friend, award-winning journalist Leta Blackburn, is missing. Leta would have been covering the sensational story--and investigating the forensics report that showed the pr...



  • J.M. Jeffries

    Rogue CIA agent Odessa Ripley is back home in Phoenix on a mission of vengeance. To find her father's killer, she teams up with hotshot good-ole-boy detective Wyatt Earp Whittaker of the Cold Case Unit. What had looked like a random shooting turns in...



  • Harper Allen

    BEAUTIFUL, WEALTHY MEGAN CROSSE NEVER HAD TO FIGHT FOR ANYTHING. NOW SHE'S FIGHTING THE URGE TO KILL. Megan's preparing to walk down the aisle with her triplet sisters as her bridesmaids when their long-lost grandfather Darkheart interrupts with s...



  • Cassie Miles

    It was a powerful Rocky Mountain blizzard that caught scientist Shana Parisi unawares and threw her into the arms of a mysterious man in uniform. Luke Rawlins rescued her from danger, but it was the mesmerizing look in his eyes that captured her hear...



  • Mary Daheim
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    Be Of Good Fear, Christmas Is Here! And just in time comes this grand gift of seasonal mystery and romance from six of popular fiction's most supremely talented "Santas"-;for 'tis the season for scandals, suspense, and all sorts of unexpected surp...



  • Pamela Clare

    After the murder of a teenage girl, a mysterious man in a black leather jacket was seen lurking near the crime scene. Investigative reporter Tessa Novak has him in her sights as the culprit... That man was Julian Darcangelo--an undercover FBI age...



  • Janelle Taylor

    A FACE FROM THE PAST... Olivia Sedgwick never really knew her wealthy father, and she can't imagine why he bequeathed his summer cottage to her. It's a cozy little place, but Blueberry, Maine, holds only bittersweet memories for Olivia--heartrending...



  • Suzanne Macpherson
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    Be Of Good Fear, Christmas Is Here! And just in time comes this grand gift of seasonal mystery and romance from six of popular fiction's most supremely talented "Santas"-;for 'tis the season for scandals, suspense, and all sorts of unexpected surp...



  • Lois Richer

    SOME SECRETS REFUSE TO STAY BURIED... For Callie Merton, one of Finders, Inc.'s best agents, discretion had become a way of life. Even when she married fellow agent Max Chambers, there were matters she couldn't bring herself to discuss with him. ...



  • Tara Taylor Quinn

    On the outside, Arizona chief prosecutor Janet McNeil is the epitome of a driven, daring attorney who lives life by her own rules. But inside, her world is in chaos. Terrifying nightmares keep her in a constant state of anxiety. Yet saving face is im...



  • Fern Michaels

    SMART WOMEN...BRILLIANT CHOICES The women of the Sisterhood are fun, smart, sassy, and determined to get their way every time. But most of all, they are the best friends a woman wants by her side in good times and bad. Meeting once again in Myra R...



  • Dana Cameron
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    Be Of Good Fear, Christmas Is Here! And just in time comes this grand gift of seasonal mystery and romance from six of popular fiction's most supremely talented "Santas"-;for 'tis the season for scandals, suspense, and all sorts of unexpected surp...



  • Ginny Aiken

    A spitfire wife of a recently slain mob boss was much more than FBI agent Dan Maddox had bargained for when he signed on to protect Carlotta Papparelli. After turning state's evidence, Carlie was at the top of the mob's hit list, and it was up to Dan...



  • Cait London
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    Be Of Good Fear, Christmas Is Here! And just in time comes this grand gift of seasonal mystery and romance from six of popular fiction's most supremely talented "Santas"-;for 'tis the season for scandals, suspense, and all sorts of unexpected surp...



  • Barbara Freethy

    PLAYING IT SAFE... Christina Alberti, an expert art historian, has run from the shadows of her past, hiding the truth and building her name as a reputable jewelry specialist at the Barclay Auction House. Everything is perfect--until a legendary and ...



  • Jessica Andersen

    PROTECTING HER BECAME HIS JOB...AND HIS OBSESSION Dr. Meg Corning detested the way Erik Falco stormed the halls of Boston General Hospital as if he owned the place. The fallen-cop-turned-ruthless-businessman was throwing his weight around in his bid...



  • Susan May Warren

    An inexplicable ailment was striking down the children of Russia; in less than forty-eight hours, American medical missionary Sarai Curtiss had watched two young patients slip away, and she feared she might have an epidemic on her hands. Yet how coul...



  • Rene Gutteridge

    And now back to our regularly scheduled insanity. Channel 7 news producer Hugo Talley dreams of working with first-class professionals. Instead he's saddled with a weatherman who can't admit when he's wrong, an aging anchorwoman who refuses to rel...



  • Marta Perry

    'TIS THE SEASON...FOR MURDER As a teenager, Dinah Westlake had witnessed the murder of her pregnant cousin, but a concussion blocked her memories of that night. Now, ten years later, her cousin's widower, Marc Devlin, had returned to Charleston to...



  • Beverly Jenkins

    Wearing her shades, a black Stetson, and snakeskin cowboy boots, security agent Maxine "Max" Blake is the baddest thing walking. Ex-marine, ex-cop, and a whole lotta 'tude, Max doesn't have time for anything but her job. Her latest assignment: to pro...



  • Carol Stephenson

    With her healing gift and extra senses going haywire, epidemiologist Eve St. Giles knew the deadly flu outbreak in the small Swiss town was no natural disaster. Had someone manufactured a virus--one that targeted women? If Eve didn't track down the o...



  • Wendy Rosnau

    Appearances can be... Deadly! And this was a lesson Ash Kelly, explosives expert for ONYXX, should have learned long ago. For though he's more than lived down his past--as son of the world's most renowned drug lord--he once again has to pretend to...



  • Janice Thompson

    When a $25,000 night deposit mysteriously disappears from the Clark County Savings and Loan, Annie Peterson has reason to be concerned and to assume the role of amateur sleuth. Her husband's job at the bank makes him a potential suspect, but knowing ...



  • Carla Neggers

    Four days after Abigail Browning's wedding, her life changed in a way she never expected: her husband was shot, meeting his death along the rocky Mount Desert Island coast. Was it a random act of violence, or could someone have wanted Christopher d...



  • Irene Brand

    To Linc Carey, Maddie Horton had always been a gangly kid with braces. So when a gorgeous woman walked off the plane, Linc was stunned at the changes in his late commanding officer's daughter. The Hawaiian holiday was his belated graduation present t...



  • Barry Lyga

    Fanboy has never had it good, but lately his sophomore year is turning out to be its own special hell. The bullies have made him their favorite target, his best (and only) friend seems headed for the dark side (sports and popularity), and his pregnan...



  • Kylie Adams

    Senior year is cooling down, student scandals are heating up, and in sexy South Beach, one teen's wicked dirty trouble is another teen's good clean fun. Until the last killer party becomes exactly that -- a party that kills. Everyone wants to be ju...



  • Laura Florand

    Can an insecure American woman find happiness with a sexy Parisian waiter--even if she doesn't like the French?Laura has spent most of her adult life avoiding serious relationships, flitting around the world, and keeping her romantic expectations com...



  • Laurie Gwen Shapiro

    Landing an internship at an ad agency isn't what her principal or her mother wanted for Jordie Popkin, aspiring journalist. At sixteen, Jordie is glad of the chance to collect "real world" experience and finds working with the "creatives" at the agen...



  • Robin Merrow MacCready

    Winner of the Edgar Award!Careful planning and constant control is Claudine's protection. Order is her weapon. She's long buried her own needs and dreams to cover for her alcoholic mom. But when Mom suddenly disappeares-another alcoholic binge-sevent...



  • Geraldine McCaughrean

    A gallant solider, a sharp wit, and a man of letters, Cyrano de Bergerac seems like the obvious romantic hero. He has just one noteworthy flaw: an improbably large nose. And after a lifetime of loving the beautiful Roxane from afar, Cyrano must fin...



  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    The captivating chronicle of a young woman's struggle to save her homestead, a young man's determination to expose a pretender, and the yellowed pages of a diary that links their lives together will keep readers spellbound from the first page to the ...



  • Andrew Auseon

    Arty may be shorter--much shorter--than your average teen, but that doesn't mean his problems are small. If anything, they're huge. Whether he is dodging the fists of his hulking twin brother, dealing with the other misfits in his school, or falling ...



  • Alex Sanchez

    He clicked on Queer Eye, a show where five gay dudes gave some grungy straight guy a makeover -- plucking his nose hairs, redecorating his apartment, and teaching him to bake a quiche -- so he could confidently propose marriage to his girlfriend and ...



  • J. Minter

    They've loved, lost, and totally obsessed, and now the Insiders' girls are out for revenge . . . which means turning the Insiders into real boyfriends.

    Meet:

    Flan-the youngest and the ringleader. She's ready for Jona...



  • Kathleen Benner Duble

    Jesse is a dreamer. At fourteen he's already thinking about his future, and the excitement of Navy life is calling him. Lucy is just the opposite. She can't imagine ever leaving her beloved mountainside community or saying good-bye to those she c...



  • Janette Rallison

    If they gave out diplomas for what you learn at the mall, Charlotte could graduate with honors. Ever since she got a job as a perfume spritzer, she's become an expert on all things shopping related―oh and she's getting really good at spying on h...



  • David Dodge

    When a handsome swindler working the French Riviera meets a beautiful heiress on the beach at Cannes, sparks fly. But so do bullets--and soon he's forced to flee the country with both the police and the heiress on his trail. From the casinos of M...



  • Sarra Manning

    Isabel is the girl who rules the school with an iron fist and a gang of minions who do her bidding. Her friends are scared of her, her teachers can't get through to her, and that's just the way she likes it. With her razor-sharp edges and tall walls,...



  • Alisha Yvonne

    Holiday Simmons, a successful financial analyst, tries to discover what 'real love' is by taking advantage of the affection of two former male colleagues. Holiday likes the taste of having her cake and eating it too, but she soon learns that betrayal...



  • Jeannie Johnson

    An enthralling saga set during the Second World War - Bristol, 1939. Feisty, hard-working Mary Anne Randall runs a pawnbroking business from the washhouse at the back of her terraced home to support her three children and drunken, abusive husband. Wh...



  • Derrick Barnes

    A teen boy invents a smooth alter ego in his quest to win back his ex-girlfriend in this funny, off-beat novel.Diego is a sixteen-year-old boy with a problem. When he breaks up with the girl he loves due to his insecurities, he is crushed. Will he ev...



  • Brent Runyon

    Maybe everything will be different here. Maybe I should drive away and never come back. Maybe my brother didn't mean to. Maybe my brother was right. Maybe I can get someone to have sex with me. Maybe no one will ever love me. Maybe I should be an act...



  • T.D. Jakes

    New York Times bestselling author T. D. Jakes pens a powerful tale of a couple's attempt to survive a car accident, a fractured marriage, and the ultimate temptation. After years of disagreeing on what true happiness, success, and love really are, Da...




  • Lisa Klein

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!

    If you think you know Ophelia and Hamlet's story, think again...
    "A spellbinding tale of love, murder, and revenge." -- VOYA

    As ambitious and witty as she is beautiful, Ophelia is qu...



  • Travis V.P. Fox

    Tormented by the brutal death of her father and years of abuse at the hands of those she trusted, Ivy Davidson is forced to make a difficult decision--let a life of prostitution and drug addiction destroy her, or draw upon her inner strength to fight...




  • Sharol Louise

    The reading of the will takes place in twenty"one days ... Miss Madeline Pickett is on her way to London, to hug the family she never knew and the sister she’s always wished for. But why not have an outdoor adventure along the way? Jace Remingt...



  • Vonetta Pierce

    When she tests positive for HIV, Jasmyn, the ultimate drama queen and party girl, must decide whether or not to tell the men from her past and the love of her life, Kyle, who is now involved with someone else. Original....



  • Crystal Hubbard

    When Rev. Nedra Davis shocked her congregation by engaging in a torrid love affair with sexy bad boy Sinclair Reasoner, no one would have guessed the outcome. Four years later, and happily married, their world revolves around their passion for each o...





  • Leanne Shapton

    A SINGULAR EXPLORATION OF MODERN LOVE AND ALL ITS DEMONS, IN WORDS AND DRAWINGS

    In this brilliant gem of a book, artist/writer Leanne Shapton weaves together a voyeuristic tale of love and life through epigrammatic vignettes and sleek line d...



  • Paul Jenkins

    Collecting the best-selling - and controversial - romantic period piece that defied industry expectations and pulled back the curtain on Wolverine's mysterious past! At long last, all is revealed about the incredible forces that molded the world's mo...



  • Qiu Xiaolong

    Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the party to take the lead in a corruption investigation - one where the principle figure and his family have long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach of ...



  • James Church

    Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south. SIMPLE ORDERS FOR INSPECTOR O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department's turf and into a maelstrom of...



  • Michael Connelly

    In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a cal...



  • Peter Turnbull

    This is a Hennessey and Yellich Mystery.

    A badly burned body - male, presumed local. And then another charred corpse. Related? Crimes of passion or revenge? Family feud? Possibly the latter, but neither of the children seem likely perpetrator...



  • Steven Torres

    Angustias, Puerto Rico, 1982 Even a tropical paradise can have its little murders... In the early morning hours, a neighbor named Tomas Villareal knocks on the door of the home of Luis Gonzalo, the sheriff of Angustias, a small town in the mount...



  • Barry Maitland

    In a London neighborhood known for its artists and bohemian style, six year old Tracey Rudd is abducted from her home without any warning, or sign of violence. She is the third child abucted under similar circumstances in recent weeks. But this case ...



  • Nick Oldham

    A series of increasingly violent assaults is shrouding the happy-go-lucky resort of Blackpool in a veil of terror. It seems only a matter of time before one of these brutal attacks leads to the ultimate crime - murder. The police response, coordinate...



  • Archer Mayor

    Intriguing plots, complex characters, and a landscape come to life are mainstays of Archer Mayor's New England thrillers. With a gift for vivid writing, he has made "an honorable art form of the regional mystery," according to the New York Times Book...



  • Bill James

    An anthology featuring previously unpublished Harpur and Iles stories.All is not well in the underworld . . . With three entirely new Harpur and Iles stories, three more never before published together, plus a spicy little interlude with some crooks ...



  • Brian Freeman

    In this stunning follow-up to Brian Freeman's remarkable debut novel, Immoral, Detective Jonathan Stride discovers that there are only two ways to go in Las Vegas. You can hit the jackpot. Or you can get Stripped... They looked like isolated ca...



  • Margaret Duffy

    An Ingrid Langley and Patrick Gillard mystery. Having left the army, Patrick Gillard is at a loose end until his old friend James Carrick recruits him into the police unfortunately at a higher rank than James. The discovery of three corpses, hung by ...



  • Elizabeth George

    The brutal, inexplicable death of Inspector Thomas Lynley's wife has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Even more horrifying is that the trigger was apparently pulled by a twelve-year-old boy. Who is he? Where did he come from? And...



  • Katie MacAlister
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    Battling a demon lord is all in a day's work for the Dark One named Sebastian. But now he must take on a horde of unhappy zombies and an obnoxious teen vampire if he wants to win the hand of the one woman who can make him whole....



  • Lori Handeland
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    Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis---and weddings An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that questi...



  • Nora Roberts

    Blair Murphy has always worked alone. Destined to be a demon hunter in a world that doesn't believe in such things, she lives for the kill. But now, she finds herself the warrior in a circle of six, chosen by the goddess Morrigan to defeat the vampir...



  • Shana Abe

    In the remote hills of northern England lives a powerful clan with a centuries-old secret. They are the drikon, shape-shifters who possess the ability to Turn--changing from human to smoke to dragon. And from the very stones of the earth, they hear h...



  • Maureen Child

    KIERNAN MacINTYRE BORN 1538 DIED 1573 REBORN...MOMENTS LATER He was a Guardian. An immortal fighter of evil. The sexy, sword-wielding stranger standing before Julie Carpenter claimed he was out to destroy a demon and that she was its next targe...



  • Ronda Thompson
    in

    Lady Anne Baldwin longs to break free from her proper bonds. When she meets the mysterious Merrick, whose eyes glow like a wolf's, she may have found more than she bargained for....



  • Michele Hauf

    HER BLOOD WAS POISON TO HIM... Centuries past, through mists of a dark time where vampires and witches lived side by side, vampires gained power by enthralling a witch, ultimately draining her of her strength and depriving her of immortality. Unti...



  • Susan Squires
    in

    All Major Davis Ware wants to do is propose to the beautiful Emma Fairchild. Instead, he is called back into battle, and a desperate fate. And Emma will venture into hell itself to save him....



  • Mindy Klasky

    Which is more unlikely? Meeting a single, straight, reasonably attractive, willing-to-commit man? Or discovering a secret cache of magic books? For good girl Jane Madison, neither has a shot in hell of coming true--until the day she finds a ...



  • Sherrilyn Kenyon
    in

    Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis---and weddings An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that questi...



  • Kathleen O'Reilly
    in

    These bad boys won't just break your heart. They'll raise hell. They're Mr. Wrong times three. Jack, Nick, and Marcus are the illegitimate sons of Satan, and they've managed to sleep around, live it up, and wreak havoc in a manner that would make ...



  • Susan Krinard

    Inherited from an otherworldly father, enchanted blood flows through Donal Fleming's veins. Yet though his empathic ability for all creatures gives purpose to his calling as a veterinarian, life among his mother's mortal kind has left him wary, and h...



  • LuAnn McLane

    LuAnn McLane takes you to the achy breaky heart of country music with three magically sexy stories of guitar-pickin’, worlds colliding, and inhibitions crumbling...   “Crazy” ain’t just a song. It’s been a state of mind for Brooklyn’...



  • Minda Webber
    in

    Talk show host Lucy Campbell has made a career of interviewing Druid witches, trolls, and an occasional goblin. But now she wants more. Only she wasn't expecting to get involved with a vampire detective who has a slight incubus problem....



  • Dee Davis
    in

    These bad boys won't just break your heart. They'll raise hell. They're Mr. Wrong times three. Jack, Nick, and Marcus are the illegitimate sons of Satan, and they've managed to sleep around, live it up, and wreak havoc in a manner that would make ...



  • Julie Kenner
    in

    These bad boys won't just break your heart. They'll raise hell. They're Mr. Wrong times three. Jack, Nick, and Marcus are the illegitimate sons of Satan, and they've managed to sleep around, live it up, and wreak havoc in a manner that would make ...



  • Kresley Cole

    A VAMPIRE SOLDIER WEARY OF LIFE... Centuries ago, Sebastian Wroth was turned into a vampire -- a nightmare in his mind -- against his will. Burdened with hatred and alone for ages, he sees little reason to live. Until an exquisite, fey creature come...



  • Deidre Knight

    Warrior and royal guardian Marco McKinley has been assigned a vital mission on Earth, where a war between human fighters and other-worldly soldiers is rising. But he's also been warned about twists of fate yet to come -- ones that will transform him ...



  • Cameron Dean

    JUST ANOTHER NIGHT IN THE CITY Candace Steele is as tough as she is alluring For her, killing vampires isn't just a job--it's personal: She's still haunted by erotic memories of an all-consuming affair with Ash, a seductive vampire who thrilled. h...



  • Maggie Shayne

    Foretold centuries ago, it is a destiny they cannot escape... Far older than his legend, the immortal Vlad Dracul has wandered the earth for centuries in search of the reincarnation of his wife, Elisabeta. Now he believes he has found the woman poss...



  • Jessica Inclan / Jessica Barksdale Inclan

    Meet Rufus Valasay. As a member of Les Croyants des Trois, a powerful clan of telepaths and healers, he is sworn to protect the ordinary world of the Moyenne. But now, with his memory gone and danger approaching, Rufus has nothing to go on but his pa...



  • Jeanie London

    Nina is dead and must make amends.In life she refused to use her unique ability to see whether a soul ascends to Heaven or descends into Hell. Now, as a guide through the Passage between the living and the dead, she steers departing souls to Purgator...



  • L.A. Banks
    in

    Dark dreams haunt Jose Ciponte, dreams of a woman so beautiful he aches for her-and a deadly enemy who stalks them in the night. And now those dreams have become a reality......



  • Cheyenne McCray

    DESIRE Copper Ashcroft is an accomplished D'Anu witch, but the magic she wields is a potent force--strong enough to hurl her into a mysterious Otherworld when a spell backfires. Before Copper can escape, another being is pulled into her realm--Tiern...



  • Christine Warren

    WHEN A ROYAL REBEL... Queen Mab's niece, Fiona, has long been bored to tears by the intrigues of Court life. She'd prefer to cut loose at a punk club, knock back a few Thai beers, and hook up with a likely lad of similar interests. But when Fiona go...



  • Jennifer Skully

    She is a woman desperately seeking more... In a family of bona fide psychics, Opal Smith feels like, well, a misfit. So when she sees a phantom body falling from an overpass, she's thrilled because this is her first honest-to-God vision. Unfortunate...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    A DARK MISTRESS BECAME HIS DESTINY... Plucked from the depths of hell, former military sniper Reno Manchahi was hired by the government to kill a thief, but he had a mission of his own. Descended from a family of shape-shifters, Reno vowed to get ...