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  • Lady Amelia's Secret Lover

    Victoria Alexander

    Gentleman wanted -- for a scandalous assignation. A wife embarks on infidelity in this charming Victorian romance from the #1 bestselling author. Lady Amelia's Secret Lover is a historical romance novel with a decidedly modern bent: Lady Amelia ...

  • You Send Me

    Toni Blake

    The daughter of an over-protective father, Millicent Anderson has never been permitted an ounce of freedom? her father has kept her completely sheltered from boys, and even quashed her dream of being a teacher. But when a family trip leads her to tin...

  • Planet 51: The Junior Novel

    J.E. Bright

    Everything seemed to be going just right for Lem, until the day an "alien" dropped out of the sky and landed in his backyard. With his entire planet in a tizzy over the alien invasion, Lem knows that it's up to him to help Chuck get back to his ship....

  • Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters, 1978-1994

    Charles Bukowski

    Literary Criticism. Reach for the Sun is the third volume of Bukowski's letters from Black Sparrow Press, selected by Seamus Cooney....

  • Sunflowers

    Sheramy Bundrick

    "I'd heard about him but had never seen him, the foreigner with the funny name who wandered the countryside painting pictures." F rom a talented new author comes a poignant and haunting novel of creation and desire, passion and madness, art and lo...

  • Survival of the Fiercest

    Anna Carey

    Sibling rivalry never looked so good. Now that they're officially family, the Sloane sisters are stuck living together in an Upper East Side town house and sharing everything--from cute clothes to even cuter crushes. Is New York City big enough fo...

  • Riptide

    Margaret Carroll

    Christina achieved unparalleled wealth and prestige when she married Jason Cardiff, Wall Street wizard and Mayflower descendant. But once the cracks in the union began to show, even the towering privet hedges surrounding their East Hampton estate cou...

  • How Beautiful the Ordinary

    Michael Cart

    A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a...

  • The Most Wicked of Sins

    Kathryn Caskie

    They are the "Seven Deadly Sins"--the seven Sinclair brothers and sisters who live for scandal and delight in disgrace . . . until their father decrees that they must marry in haste . . . or regret in poverty! Lady Ivy Sinclair can't l...

  • Necessary as Blood

    Deborah Crombie

    Once the haunt of Jack the Ripper, London's East End is a vibrant mix of history and the avant-garde, a place where elegant Georgian town houses exist side by side with colorful street markets and the hippest clubs. But here races and cultures still ...

  • Secret Society

    Tom Dolby

    Secrets, secrets are no fun. Secrets, secrets hurt someone. . . . An eccentric new girl. A brooding socialite. The scion of one of New York's wealthiest families. A promising filmmaker. As students at the exclusive Chadwick School, Phoebe, Lauren...

  • Firebird

    Mark Doty

    "A beautifully written, hallucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America."  --  NewsweekIn his powerful autobiography, Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiff...

  • Atlantis

    Mark Doty

    The poignant, accomplished new collection of poetry from the author of My Alexandria--1993 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1993 National Book Award Finalist....

  • Love Overboard

    Janet Evanovich

    She's been called "side-splittingly funny" (Publishers Weekly), "a blast of fresh air" (Washington Post), and "a winner" (Glamour). She is, of course, Janet Evanovich, the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum mys...

  • The Red Limit

    Timothy Ferris

    The acclaimed science writer presents "an exceedingly vivid history of modern astronomy and cosmology, told in entertainingly biographical terms" (The New York Times). Hailed as "the best science writer of his generation," Timothy Ferriss is renow...

  • A Storm in the Blood

    Jon Stephen Fink

    Based on a true story--a brilliant, compelling, and provocative novel of the roots of terrorism and the perils of the immigration experience set in turn-of-the-century London On December 16, 1910, three unarmed London policemen were killed by a ga...

  • Shorts

    Alberto Fuguet

    Fuguet's own bicultural upbringing has provided him with the sensitivity to delve into the impact of America's pop culture in Latin America as well as the influence of all things "Latin" in the USA. He explores the cultural contradictions, the simila...

  • The Sand Fish

    Maha Gargash

    A fascinating window into a different culture--and an inspiring and unforgettable universal story of strength and self-reliance--from an extraordinarily wise and lyrical new literary voice Coming of age in the 1950s, seventeen-year-old Noora is un...

  • Hummingbirds

    Joshua Gaylord

    A wonderfully compelling debut novel about the intertwining--and darkly surprising--relationships between the teachers and students at an all-girls prep school Spend a year at the Carmine-Casey School for Girls, an elite prep school on Manhattan's Up...

  • Dr. Brad Has Gone Mad!

    Dan Gutman

    The weirdness never stops! Ella Mentry School's counselor wants everybody to stop arguing and get along with one another. He wants everybody to be polite! He wants everybody to live in peace and harmony! What is his problem? Now the boys have to pla...

  • The Shifter

    Janice Hardy

    Fifteen-year-old Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. She is also a Taker -- with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body.But unlike her sister Tali and the other Takers who ...

  • Year's Best SF 5

    David G. Hartwell

    Experience New Realms Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell returns with this fifth annual collection of the year's most imaginative, entertaining, and mind-expanding science fiction.Here are works from some of today's most acclaimed a...

  • Year's Best SF 4

    David G. Hartwell

    Travel to the Farthest Reaches of the ImaginationAcclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with his fourth annual high-powered collection of the year's most inventive, entertaining, and awe-inspiring science fiction. In short, the be...

  • Midnight Fugue

    Reginald Hill

    It starts with a phone call to Superintendent Dalziel from an old friend asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story. Gina Wolfe has come to mid Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fiancE, Commander Mic...

  • The Hidden

    Tobias Hill

    In southern Greece in 2004, a close-knit group of archaeologists searches for the buried traces of a formidable ancient power. A student running from a failed marriage and family, Ben Mercer is a latecomer to their ranks, drawn to the charisma of the...

  • Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children

    Conn Iggulden

    The bestselling creator of "The Dangerous Book for Boys" introduces the explosive, magical, and adventurous world of the Tollins. Complete with thrilling stories of danger, glorious drawings, maps, and diagrams, this is the definitive guide to these ...

  • The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons and Ghouls

    Alex Irvine

    Twenty-three years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic supernatural force. Following the tragedy, their father, John, set out to teach his boys everything about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the bac...

  • Angel in a Red Dress

    Judith Ivory

    REISSUE of STARLIT SURRENDER by Judy Cuevas AT FIRST THEY KISSED From the instant she set her thick-lashed gaze on handsome Adrien Hunt, Christina Bower knew he was like no other male. He was as graceful as a panther, as confident as a lion-and...

  • More of This World or Maybe Another

    Barb Johnson

    The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love....

  • Issue Is

    Barb Johnson

    The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love....

  • St. Luis of Palmyra

    Barb Johnson

    The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love....

  • Killer Heart

    Barb Johnson

    The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love....

  • Keeping Her Difficult Balance

    Barb Johnson

    In this short story from the "stunning" collection More of this World, Maybe Another, a woman is about to marry a man she grew up with (Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of Bastard Out of California).The lives of four unlikely friends intersect o...

  • What Was Left

    Barb Johnson

    In this short story from the "stunning" collection More of this World, Maybe Another, a young man grapples with childhood trauma as he comes of age (Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of Bastard Out of California).The lives of four unlikely friend...

  • Titty Baby

    Barb Johnson

    The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love....

  • If the Holy Spirit Comes for You

    Barb Johnson

    The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love....

  • The Invitation

    Barb Johnson

    The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love....

  • Invisible I

    Melissa Kantor

    Mysterious, charismatic, and one of a kind -- the only way to find Amanda is to think like Amanda. When enigmatic freshman Amanda Valentino arrived at Endeavor High, she chose three people -- Callie, Hal, and Nia -- to guide her through the choppy w...

  • In a Perfect World

    Laura Kasischke

    THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... It was a fairy tale come true when Mark Dorn--handsome pilot, widower, tragic father of three--chose Jiselle to be his wife. The other flight attendants were jealous: She could quit now, leaving behind the million d...

  • Audrey's Door

    Sarah Langan

    Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B's astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas. No stranger t...

  • Happy Hour Is for Amateurs

    Philadelphia Lawyer

    For some people, happy hour is never enoughThis is a book about escape. It's also about laughing gas. And bourbon and dope and sex and mushrooms and every other vice millions of us indulge in to forget our jobs, the office, and the stifling, corporat...

  • Whirlpool

    Elizabeth Lowell

    When an exquisitely crafted, authentic imperial Faberge egg mysteriously shows up at Laurel Swann's home studio, she knows it can only be from one person -- her father, who has drifted in and out of her life for as long as she can remember. But this ...

  • The Secret Sister

    Elizabeth Lowell

    Previously published as The Secret Sisters by Ann Maxwell May 1993. The Search For Her Sister Could Cost A Woman Her Life Christy McKenna, the smartest fashion writer in New York, thought she'd escaped her childhood in the impoverished rura...

  • Ten Storey Love Song

    Richard Milward

    In Ten Storey Love Song, over the course of a single dynamite paragraph, we follow Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and horrific drug psychosis, as Johnnie attempts to stop thieving and start pleasing Ellen in bed and forty-year-old truck driver Al...

  • The Hunt for the Seventh

    Christine Morton-Shaw

    With every step he takes around the carefully manicured grounds of Minerva Hall, Jim is haunted by the ghosts of children, long dead, whom no one else can see. Urging him to "find the Seventh," the children leave him cryptic clues pointing to a devas...

  • The Interrogative Mood

    Padgett Powell

    “If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell’s.” -- Richard FordThe Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and...

  • Unseen Academicals

    Terry Pratchett

    The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things -- wisdom, magic, their love of teatime -- but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. So when Lord Vetinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archcha...

  • Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

    Louise Rennison

    Ohmygiddygodspyjamas! The tenth marvy book in the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson is here! Get ready to laugh like a loon on loon tablets. It's the FINAL instalment of Georgia's fab and hilarious diary! Does Georgia escape the cakeshop of luuurve? Ca...

  • A Deep Dark Secret

    Kimberla Lawson Roby

    The "New York Times" bestselling author returns with the moving story of a family who learns to overcome betrayal and secrets with courage and love On the outside, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the perfect child. She's helpful with chores ar...

  • Bad Apple

    Laura Ruby

    "If I really wanted to open up, I'd confess that I really am the liar everyone believes I am." High-school junior Tola Riley has green hair, a nose ring, an attitude problem, and a fondness for fairy tales, which are a great escape from real life....

  • Comedy Girl

    Ellen Schreiber

    Trixie Shapiro may be one of the shyest students at Mason High, but she's also the funniest. When her best friend, Jazzy, signs her up to perform stand-up at Senior Talent Night, Trixie's terrified she'll absolutely choke. And as if a seemingly disas...

  • The Actual Real Reality of Jennifer James

    Gillian Shields

    This is the diary of Jennifer James.It contains:One Heroine: Jennifer James, burdened by brains, struggling to release her Inner BabeOne High School: London Road Comprehensive, a no-hope English school in a no-hope English townOne Prize: A scholarshi...

  • When Seducing a Duke

    Kathryn Smith

    Enchant. Tempt. Entice. Beguile. Just a few things a woman must do when seducing a duke . . . Rose Danvers charms her way into the glittering masked ball with only one man on her mind. She would risk certain scandal for a kiss from Greyden Kane, D...

  • Men in Black II: The Movie Novel

    Michael Teitelbaum

    The men in the crisp black suits and the really cool shades are back to keep the aliens from overrunning planet Earth. It's been five years since Agents Jay and Kay saved the world from a very big bug. Now a new alien menace is threatening to destroy...

  • The Financial Lives of the Poets

    Jess Walter

    Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job, his wife, his house, maybe his mind. Unless . . . In the winning and utterly original novels Citizen Vince and The Zero, Jess Walter ("a ridiculously talented writer" -- New York Times) painted an Ameri...

  • The Impossible Journey

    Gloria Whelan

    One Russian night in 1934, Marya and Georgi's parents disappear. Despite high risks, Katya and Misha had spoken against the government. The children, alone and desperate, fear the worst. Will they ever see their parents again?But all it takes is one ...

  • Burying the Sun

    Gloria Whelan

    Too young for the army, one boy takes saving the city into his own hands. The Russian city of Leningrad is darkening with winter and war, and Georgi's family prepares for the worst. His sister, Marya, packs up the great artwork at the Hermitage museu...

  • Fruitlands

    Gloria Whelan

    We are all going to be made perfect . . .In 1843, with all their possessions loaded onto a single wagon, ten-year-old Louisa May Alcott and her family bravely set out into the wilderness to make a new home for themselves on a farm called Fruitlands. ...

  • Summer of the War

    Gloria Whelan

    It's the summer of 1942. At her grandparents' island cottage in Michigan, 14"year"old Belle excitedly awaits the arrival of her exotic older cousin, Carolyn. Belle's expecting worldly sophistication and French style. But Carolyn brings much more ...

  • No Laughter Here

    Rita Williams-Garcia

    In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic voice to highlight an often taboo practice that affects millions of girls around the world every year, and to explore a perspective not ofte...

  • The Mysterious, Mournful Maiden

    Suzanne Williams

    Princess Elena is delighted to find a treasure on the seashorea beautiful comb that tames and softens her frizzy hair. However, she soon starts dreaming of a green-haired maiden who cries that she can't live without her comb. The princesses all want ...

  • Poppy and the Vanishing Fairy

    Suzanne Williams

    Mistress Lily is gone for the day, and Poppy hopes she'll hurry home. Then Mistress Lily doesn't come back on timesomething must be wrong! With the help of their flying ponies, Poppy and her friends set off to find out what's happened to their teache...

  • The Perfectly Proper Prince

    Suzanne Williams

    Princess Lysandra holds auditions for a talent show in order to meet other adventurous girls. During their first quest, the girls discover a frog prince, who is perfectly suited for Lysandra's sister, Gabriella....

  • Rose and the Delicious Secret

    Suzanne Williams

    Everyone is delighted when delicious treats start appearing overnight at Mistress Lily's Fairy School! Everyone except Cook, that ishe doesn't want someone else to do his job. Can Rose find out what's going on and restore harmony to the Cloverleaf Co...

  • The Stubbornly Secretive Servant

    Suzanne Williams

    The princesses are having a ball visiting Lysandra's sister, Gabriella, and brother-in-law, Jerome. And they can't wait for Jerome's handsome brother, Prince Jonathon, to join them. But when he never arrives, everyone panics. Lysandra and her friends...

  • The Awfully Angry Ogre

    Suzanne Williams

    Princess Tansy knows that whenever something terrible occurs in her kingdom, the ogre gets the blame. Yet anyone who challenges him is turned to stone! Tansy's two oldest brothers have been forbidden to fight the ogre, but they're determined to try. ...

  • The Gigantic, Genuine Genie

    Suzanne Williams

    At the bazaar, Princess Fatima buys a beautiful bottle that supposedly holds a real genie. But it turns out that Jasper the genie is powerlessand no bigger than a caterpillar! In fact, his only real talent seems to be getting into mischief. Will Jasp...

  • The Charmingly Clever Cousin

    Suzanne Williams

    Fatima invites her friends to visit her sister and brotherinlaw, Selime and Ahmed. The girls sense something suspicious when Ahmed's father becomes deathly ill, and then Ahmed goes missing. Ahmed's cousin Yusuf just might be to blame, but it's up to ...

  • Splendor

    Anna Godbersen

    New beginnings. Shocking revelations. Unexpected endings. A spring turns into summer, Elizabeth relishes her new role as a young wife, while her sister, Diana, searches for adventure abroad. But when a surprising clue about their father's de...

  • Destiny's Path

    Frewin Jones

    Her destiny must be fulfilled . . . Ranwen refuses to take orders from anyone--even the Shining Ones, the ancient gods whose power is feared throughout the land. They want her as their Chosen One, destined to save her country from the Saxons. But ...

  • Dial H for Hitchcock

    Susan Kandel

    Cece Caruso--mystery biographer extraordinaire, vintage clothing enthusiast, and part-time sleuth--is in freefall. First, she calls off her wedding, for reasons even she can't explain. Second, her newest biography (of Alfred Hitchcock) is way past de...

  • Parables and Portraits

    Stephen Mitchell

    A revised edition of the first book of poems by Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator of Rilke's poetry, The Book of Job, and the Tao Te Ching. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....

  • Topless

    Relentless Aaron

    Welcome to Fool's Paradise where the women are devious, the men are ruthless, and the raw, undeniable climate of smut dominates. This is Douglass Gilmore's kingdom, a family business that grew to become one of New York City's premier adult clubs. But...

  • The Matchmaking Pact

    Carolyne Aarsen

    The Parent Trap Lily Marstow and Alyssa Cane think they have the perfect plan. After all, helping their single parents fall in love shouldn't be that hard. But Silas Marstow wants nothing to do with the woman who lost track of his child for precious...

  • The Lost Empire of Koomba

    Tony Abbott

    A HIDDEN DOOR. A MAGICAL STAIRCASE. DISCOVER THE WORLD OF DROON! Keeah, Julie, and Neal are determined to find a cure for the poison that transformed Eric into the evil Prince Ungast. Their quest takes them to a lost empire deep in the desert, where...

  • Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero

    Dan Abnett

    IT IS THE YEAR 2010. NO, REALLY. Her Divine Majesty Queen Elizabeth XXX sits upon the throne. Great Britain's vast Empire is run by Alchemy and Superstition. Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker. Saviour? Pratchett goes swashbuckling i...

  • Sirens

    Chris Achilleos

    One of the most popular fantasy artist in the world, Chris Achilleos’ near photo-realistic paintings of fantasy, science fiction, stunning women and nature in all its forms have illustrated hundreds of books, magazines and posters for almost 40 yea...

  • The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

    Bill Adler

  • A Cornish Maid

    Rosemary Aitken

    Can two unlikely allies unite to uncover the truth?Edith Trewin, the general maid in the Killivant household, and Miss Alicia Killivant, the young lady of the house, are social worlds apart but share a streak of independence and intelligence. Edith i...

  • Negima! Volume 24

    Ken Akamatsu

    NODOKA IN PERIL

    The Festival of Ostia is the Magical World’s most amazing event"and includes a major martial arts tournament in which Negi and his friends will be active participants! But a team of professional bounty hunters blocks Nodoka...

  • Have a Little Faith

    Mitch Albom

    What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds--two men, two faiths, two communities--that wil...

  • Unleashed

    Jami Alden

    Danny Taggart is the biggest badass of all the Gemini Men. And there's only one thing a woman can do with a man this hot, hard, and ready for action.... He's the oldest of the three Taggart brothers. And the boldest. Tall, dark and rippling with m...

  • Click

    David Almond

    This well-received novel from a cast of acclaimed authors is now available in paperback! A video message from a dead person. A larcenous teenager. A man who can stick his left toe behind his head and in his ear. An epileptic girl seeking answers in a...

  • Hollywood Lies

    David Ambrose

    "Mr. President, never in the history of the world has one woman meant so much . . . Ladies and gentlemen . . . the late Marilyn Monroe". Seven suavely bewitching stories, all with a Machiavellian twist at the end: Marilyn Monroe as virtual reality's ...

  • Internal Affairs

    Jessica Andersen

    THE LAST TIME SHE SAW HIM WAS AT HIS FUNERAL... Until he turned up on her living-room floor with injuries he couldn't remember sustaining and no memory of where he'd been for the past few months. But Detective Romo Sampson's biggest problem is that ...

  • Their Christmas Family Miracle

    Caroline Anderson

    The tycoon who can save Christmas! Finding herself homeless three days before Christmas, proud single mom Amelia Jones is offered an empty picture-perfect country house to stay in. One look at her little children's hopeful faces and Millie accepts. ...

  • His Secret Agenda

    Beth Andrews

    Dean Garret is about to break the number one rule of undercover work. And it's all because his new "boss" is as pretty as a professional cheerleader and has a do-gooder's heart. Who can resist that combination? Still, Dean suspects Allison Martin is ...

  • The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy

    Sara Angelini

    Their attraction is so hot, it should be against the law... Judge Fitzwilliam Darcy is terribly bored -- ready to hang up his black robe and return to the life of a country gentleman -- until he meets Elizabeth Bennet, a fresh-faced attorney with a ...

  • Ho, Humbug, Ho

    Kate Angell
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    Forced into a scratchy white beard and a red velvet suit two sizes too small, hotshot ballplayer Alex Boxer knows his goose is cooked when the woman supervising his community service turns out to be cute as a Christmas elf but channelling the nutcrac...

  • The Little Marzipan Man

    Laurence Anholt

  • Snow White

    Anna J.

    Anna J. is back with a riveting novel depicting the devastation caused by cocaine use in a Southwest Philadelphia community.You have to use what you got to get what you want. For Journey Clayton, this statement rings more than true as she struggles u...

  • Jumper Cable

    Piers Anthony
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    In the thirty-third thrilling escapade in Piers Anthony's rousing Xanth fantasy series, an adventurous arachnid named Jumper must assume human form to save the enchanted realm from a cosmic peril. A cataclysmic battle between two all-powerful Demo...

  • Queene of Light

    Jennifer Armintrout

    An unimagined destiny -- an undeniable passion. In a time not long from now, the veil between fantasy and reality is ripped asunder creatures of myth and fairytale spill into the mortal world. Enchanted yet horrified, humans force the magical beings...

  • FrostBitten

    Kelley Armstrong

    For Elena Michaels, being the world's only female werewolf has its advantages, such as having her pick of the Otherworld's most desirable males. And she couldn't have picked a more dangerously sexy and undyingly loyal mate than Clayton Danvers. But n...

  • I Spy Fly Guy!

    Tedd Arnold

    When Fly Guy and Buzz play hide-and-seek, Fly Guy hides in his favorite place--the garbage can. But as Buzz finishes counting, the garbageman drives away with the garbage and Fly Guy, too. Buzz follows the truck to the dump, where he sees zillions of...

  • Christmas with Rita and Whatsit

    Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod

    Rita and Whatsit have a lot to do to get ready for Christmas, including writing to Santa (he needs a few suggestions, of course), decorating the tree (with sausages), and making a delicious snack for Santa and the reindeer. Together, Rita and Whatsit...

  • The Broken Teaglass

    Emily Arsenault

    The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher . . . a hidden cache of coded clues . . . a story written by a phantom author . . . an unsolved murder in a gritty urban park -- all collide memorably in Emily Arsenault's magnificent debut, at once...

  • Loot the Moon

    Mark Arsenault

    In this next electifying thriller from up-and-coming author Mark Arsenault, former journalist and beaten-down gambler Billy Povich returns to aid Martin Smothers, the Patron Lawyer of Hopeless Causes. Martin's old law partner, the well-respected s...

  • Jigsaw Guilt

    Jeffrey Ashford

    Death in suspicious circumstances - When Fiona Ross reported the disappearance of her close friend, Gillian Harvey, the police were far from satisfied that this was an inciden...

  • Immortal Sins

    Amanda Ashley

    DESIRE IS THE DARKEST MAGIC OF ALL Three centuries ago, vampire Jason Rourke succumbed to temptation with a wizard's lovely daughter -- and that brief taste of pleasure earned him a powerful curse. Trapped within a painting, unable to quench the hel...

  • The Longest Night

    Jennifer Ashley
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    'TIS THE SEASON FOR SEDUCTION It is the most anticipated event of the ton: the annual holiday ball at Hartwell House. The music is elegant, the food exquisite, and the guest list absolutely exclusive. Some come looking for love. Some will do almost ...

  • Though Waters Roar

    Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    Harriet Sherwood has always adored her grandmother. But when Harriet decides to follow in her footsteps to fight for social justice, she certainly never expected her efforts to land her in jail. Nor did she expect her childhood enemy and notorious sc...

  • Rust

    N.J. Ayres
    in

    Best-selling novelist Jeffery Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the past year. Featuring "gritty tales told with panache," this is a "must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories" (Booklist)....

  • Wubbzy's Christmas

    Kourtney Bailey

    It's Christmastime in Wuzzleburg and Wubbzy can't wait! Kids will love coloring in pictures of Wubbzy getting all the residents of Wuzzleburg in a festive mood. Book comes with a sheet of fun, holiday-themed Wubbzy stickers sure to get kids in the ho...

  • Neuropath

    R. Scott Bakker

    Tom's life is not what it once was. His marriage to the beautiful Nora is on the rocks and he now sees his two young children only on her say-so. His best friend Neil has moved to California to teach neurology. He has one success - a book on human ps...

  • At Home on Ladybug Farm

    Donna Ball

    From the award-winning author of A Year on Ladybug Farm comes the continuing story of three women who learn what it takes to turn a house into a home. A year after taking the chance of a lifetime, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget are still trying to mak...

  • My Wicked Vampire

    Nina Bangs

    The Castle of Dark Dreams is just part of an adult theme park, right? The most decadent attraction in a place where people go to play out their wildest erotic fantasies. Holgarth isn't really a wacky wizard, and Sparkle Stardust doesn't actually crea...

  • Transition

    Iain M. Banks

    There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and...

  • Voices in the Dark

    Catherine Banner

    "Asking for the truth can be as painful as telling it. . . ." Anselm Andros has clearly defined roles in his family and they are roles he plays very well--he is confidante to his mother, Maria. He is the confessor to his stepfather, Leo, a man haunt...

  • The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity

    Mac Barnett

    National treasures, criminal masterminds, and…secret agent librarians? Steve Brixton wants to be a crime-busting detective -- just like his favorite crime-busting detectives, the Bailey Brothers. Turns out, though, that real life is nothing like th...

  • The White Garden

    Stephanie Barron

    In March 1941, Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in England's River Ouse. Her body was found three weeks later. What seemed like a tragic ending at the time was, in fact, just the beginning of a mystery. . . . Six d...

  • Ivy + Bean Doomed to Dance

    Annie Barrows

    Ooops. Ivy and Bean have made a terrible mistake. They thought ballet meant leaping, kicking, and cool costumes. Instead, it means they're going to have to be the Two Friendly Squids in a ballet the teacher made up. How embarrassing. Should they brea...

  • Thirsty

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    "Hello, I'm Nina Parker...and I'm an alcoholic." For Nina, even in recovery, the truth of the declaration has demolished her hopes and condemned her to return to the town she ran away from nearly two decades earlier -- Abbey Hills, Missouri. But the ...

  • Tiana's Dream

    Barbara Bazaldua

    This chapter book is a complete retelling of the animated feature The Princess and the Frog. ...

  • There Goes the Bride

    M.C. Beaton

    For whom the wedding bells toll... Much as it goes against the grain, Agatha Raisin is trying to be a good sport. Even though her ex-husband James Lacey's upcoming marriage to the beautiful Felicity Bross-Tilkington fills her heart with dread, she t...

  • This Girl Isn't Shy, She's Spectacular

    Nina Beck

    Samantha Owens is sick of being a good girl. So she's skipping out on her stuffy boarding school and finishing up her senior year in New York City. There, Sam reunites with her former fat-camp roomie, the irrepressible Riley Swain, and is drawn into ...

  • Arch Enemy

    Frank Beddor

    The Heart Crystal's power has been depleted, and Imagination along with it. The people of Wonderland have all lost their creative drive, and most alarmingly, even Queen Alyss is without her powers. There is some comfort in the fact that the vicious R...

  • Crown of Earth

    Hilari Bell

    The third installment of this beautifully written fantasy trilogy picks up right after the cliff-hanger ending of Book Two, with Prince Edoran determined to rescue his friend Weasel, who has been kidnapped in Edoran's place. Edoran's journey is frau...

  • I Am Not a Psychic!

    Richard Belzer

    Comedy legend Johnny Leland has called in his chips. He's organizing a charity telethon and needs TV cop Richard Belzer to cohost. Not one to let down an old friend -- much less the guy who gave him his start in stand-up comedy -- The Belz gets ready...

  • Searching for Whitopia

    Rich Benjamin

    As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less multicultural. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in. A journalist-adventurer, Ben...

  • The True Saint Nicholas

    William J. Bennett

  • A Circus Wish

    Sue Bentley

    Sadie can't wait to get involved with the local circus youth group, especially when it turns out she's really good at acrobatics! Sadie wonders what to do when her best friend Jenny suddenly starts acting mean and jealous toward her. Luckily she find...

  • Forever a Princess

    Lara Bergen

    For everyone who’s ever wondered how Aurora gets ready for a royal ball, where Jasmine went on her honeymoon, or what Belle likes to bring to a tea party, this book holds all the answers. Packed with nine interactives -- including an invitation, a ...

  • Capitol Offense

    William Bernhardt

    In his thrilling novels of suspense, William Bernhardt takes us into the fault lines of the criminal justice system, where one mistake, a twist of fate, or an explosive secret can mean the difference between justice and its cataclysmic undoing. In Ca...

  • Path of the Planeswalker

    Doug Beyer

    Magic: The Gathering®’s entire planeswalker web comic series in one volume, now with never-before-seen material!

    Written by Magic:The Gathering’s creative team, and brought to life in lavish four-color illustration by some of the industry...

  • The Day Christ Died

    Jim Bishop

    "This reverent book will be of value to believers, whether Protestant or Catholic." Reinhold Niebuhr, The New York Times"This is a book about the most dramatic day in the history of the world, the day on which Jesus of Nazareth died. It opens at six ...

  • My Interview With The Avenger

    Tom Bissell
    in

    Best-selling novelist Jeffery Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the past year. Featuring "gritty tales told with panache," this is a "must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories" (Booklist)....

  • Torgor the Minotaur

    Adam Blade

    Step into the Dark Realm--home to the most dangerous Beasts yet!The good Beasts of Avantia are in danger. They have been captured by six terrible new Beasts and taken to Gorgonia, kingdom of the evil wizard Malvel. To free the Beasts, Tom and Elenna ...

  • Black Horse

    Veronica Blake

    Was there any warrior more handsome, more virile than the powerful young war chief bathing naked in the river? Meadow was certain she'd never forget the sight of his lean hips, his sinewed thighs and bronzed chest. He was all that a Sioux maiden coul...

  • The Last Season

    Eric Blehm

  • Sizzling Seduction

    Gwyneth Bolton

    Firefighter Patrick Hightower will take any risk in the line of duty. But risking his heart again? That's something he's vowed never to do. He prefers scorching affairs -- the briefer, the better -- though he might make a temporary exception for smar...

  • Strip Mauled

    Baen Books

    Werewolves and the suburbs are a natural go-together. Okay, so they're not the Obligatory/Iconic Suburban Golden Retriever or Chocolate Labrador, but they've got a much better chance of taking home the Best in Show ribbon than their Undead rivals,...

  • Trades of the Flesh

    Faye L. Booth

    A darkly erotic tale of prostitution, murder, and medical science in Victorian England Lydia Ketch is a young woman whose life some would call immoral and shameful. But with the death of her mother and the prospect of the obscene conditions of the...

  • My Shit Life So Far

    Frankie Boyle

  • Breaking the Rules

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Following a terrifying encounter, a beautiful young woman flees her quiet English countryside in search of a new life. She adopts the initial M as her name and embarks on a journey that will lead her onto the catwalks of Paris to New York, where she ...

  • Fat Cat

    Robin Brande

    You are what you eat. . . . Cat smart, sassy, and funny -- but thin, she's not. Until her class science project. That's when she winds up doing an experiment -- on herself. Before she knows it, Cat is living -- and eating -- like the hominids, our...

  • Waking Evil

    Kylie Brant

    A KILLER, A PROPHECY - AND THREE DEATHS FORETOLD Buffalo Springs, Tennessee, is a neighborly kind of place where folks leave their doors unlocked and crime is unheard of. But once every generation, a strange red mist settles over the town, and with ...

  • According To Jane

    Marilyn Brant

    In Marilyn Brant's smart, wildly inventive debut, one woman in search of herself receives advice from the ultimate expert in matters of the heart... It begins one day in sophomore English class, just as Ellie Barnett's teacher is assigning Jane Au...

  • Ickstory

    Sylvia Branzei

    The creators of Grossology continue the icky, sticky history lesson with this reader about mummies from around the world. With hilarious illustrations and disgusting facts about mummies, this Level 4 reader will keep readers wrapped up for hours!...

  • The Man She Once Knew

    Jean Brashear

    It's been years since Callie Hunter shook the dust of this town from her shoes. Now she belongs in Oak Hollow no more than her stilettos do. Yet here she is -- back to settle her aunt's estate. Nothing has changed...except for David Langley. ...

  • Confidential: Expecting!

    Jackie Braun

    Journalist Mallory Stevens's instructions were clear: expose the secrets of elusive radio talk-show host -- and Chicago's most eligible bachelor -- Logan Bartholomew. Not fall hopelessly in love with him! As their relationship goes off the record,...

  • Eidi

    Bodil Bredsdorff

    Some years have passed since the Crow-Girl set off on a journey, met Eidi and her mother, Foula, along with a few others, and persuaded them to come live near the little cove where a brook runs out to the sea. But when Foula has another baby, Eidi fe...

  • Next Comes Love

    Helen Brenna

    One cop wants her heart. The other wants her dead. Street-smart city girl Erica Corelli spent the three best days of her childhood on Mirabelle Island. Now her sister has disappeared and Erica's on the run with her six-year-old nephew. The boy's fat...

  • The Mitten

    Jan Brett

    When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing.One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in; first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. Finally, a big...

  • Ex-Mas

    Kate Brian

     Two Exes. One holiday adventure. Merry Ex-Mas? Seventeen-year-old Lila Beckwith's parents just left for vacation, and Lila's all set to throw the holiday party of the season. But when her Christmas-obsessed little brother, Cooper, discover...

  • Demon Forged

    Meljean Brook

    Acclaimed author Meljean Brook returns to the darkly sensual world of the Guardians with the tale of a prophecy, a devilish bargain, and a doomed love... Four centuries ago, Guardians Irena and Alejandro would have succumbed to the need burning betw...

  • Servant of a Dark God

    John Brown

    The launch of a towering new fantasy series introduces an elaborate new world, a strange and dark system of magic, and a cast of compelling characters and monsters. Young Talen lives in a world where the days of a person's life can be harvested, boug...

  • Daredevil: Return of the King

    Ed Brubaker

    Nearly two years ago, the Kingpin left America to try to build a new life and find a new purpose for himself. Is that new life now coming to the attention of old enemies? And how does this connect to Matt Murdock and his troubles in New York with Lad...

  • Sweet Thirteen

    Annie Bryant

    Charlotte's thrilled -- Sophie's on her way from Paris to meet the BSG, and Charlotte's writing a special story as a welcome gift. But is the fashionable teen who shows up at the airport the BFF Charlotte once knew? Everyone at Abigail A...

  • Sand Daughter

    Sarah Bryant

    Khalidah faces an arranged marriage at the behest of her father, a Bedouin Clan chief. But when a mysterious stranger named Sulayman reveals the machinations behind her pending union, she suddenly finds herself a pawn in a deadly plot involving her o...

  • The Time Quake

    Linda Buckley-Archer

    Time itself is splintering. If the catastrophic consequences of time travel are now impossible to ignore, Lord Luxon only has eyes for its awesome possibilities. He has his sights set on no lesser prize than America. Abducted to 1763, Peter and Kate ...

  • The Longing for Home: Reflections at Midlife

    Frederick Buechner

  • Ciao Bella

    Gina Buonaguro; Janice Kirk

    Graziella's husband Ugo fought in the Italian resistance since before the start of the war. Yet it has been months since the Germans retreated and there has been no sign of him since. She has begun to think that she has lost Ugo forever when the arri...

  • Gargoylz Get Up to Mischief

    Jan Burchett; Sara Vogler

  • Golden Age Marvel Comics - Volume 1

    Carl Burgos

    In September, 1939 a new voice hit the newsstands and changed the comic-book world forever: Marvel Comics #1, with its blazing Human Torch cover, had arrived! And this 64-page pulp package wasn't your typical assortment of super-powered, straight...

  • Big Midnight Special

    James Lee Burke
    in

    Best-selling novelist Jeffery Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the past year. Featuring "gritty tales told with panache," this is a "must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories" (Booklist)....

  • Best Enemies

    Jessica Burkhart

    Some Girls Just Have To Be The Best At Everything. If any two girls know about being the best, it's Heather Fox and Jasmine King. Just ask them; they'll be happy to tell you. But every girl knows that there can only be one "best." Can Sasha keep...

  • Love You to Death

    Shannon K. Butcher

    Delicate, expressive hands...long, graceful legs...One man is looking for his perfect woman--and he'll stop at nothing until he finds her. LOVE YOU TO DEATH It's been days since reporter Elise McBride has heard from her sister, Ashley. She's co...

  • Crossers

    Philip Caputo

    From the acclaimed author of Acts of Faith ("A miracle . . . You can hardly conceive of a more affecting reading experience" -- Houston Chronicle), a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about t...

  • The Chocolate Cupid Killings

    Joanna Carl

    When Lee McKinney Woodyard finds that her on liqueur bottle was used as a murder weapon, there's no sugarcoating it: Someone in Varner Pier is not as cordial as Lee would like... TenHuis Chocolade is wall-to-wall hearts -- mostly chocolate -- for Va...

  • Limelight

    Melody Carlson

    "I used to be a beauty...too good for our dusty little town...destined for greatness." Claudette Fiore used to turn heads and break hearts. She relished the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle because she had what it takes: money, youth, fame, and above a...

  • Beanball

    Ron Carlson
    in

    Best-selling novelist Jeffery Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the past year. Featuring "gritty tales told with panache," this is a "must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories" (Booklist)....

  • Riddle of Green

    Isobelle Carmody

    The conclusion of the Little Fur quartet!When Little Fur loses touch with the flow of earth magic, she knows that she must regain it, whatever it takes. A visit to the prophetic Sett Owl makes it clear that Little Fur has to embark on the most danger...

  • The Year of Living Shamelessly

    Susanna Carr

    A red-hot romance of a good girl gone bad-from a winning voice in wickedly fun erotica. Every year, Katie makes the same New Year's resolution: have an affair with her brother's kinky and wild best friend, Ryder. Every year, she faces the same dis...

  • Soulless

    Gail Carriger

    ALEXIA TARABOTTI IS LABORING UNDER A GREAT MANY SOCIAL TRIBULATIONS. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Wh...

  • Blood Water

    Dean Vincent Carter

    They're all dead now. I am the last one.Dr Morrow can't identify the 'thing' he found living in the lake but he knows it's dangerous . . . then it goes missing . . . Caught in the flood that is devastating the town, brothers Sean and James stumble ac...

  • Blood Money

    Maureen Carter

    When family loyalties are at stake, can a woman can be as hard as a man? Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is in a very dark place. Personal tragedy has pushed her close to self-destruct mode; both colleagues and friends have started to give her a wide ...

  • Fire

    Kristin Cashore

    She is the last of her kind... It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest ar...

  • Running Wide Open

    Ken Casper

    When an accident lands Trey Sanford in the care of Dr. Nicole Foster, everything he's worked for is suddenly at risk. The injured racing star will do whatever it takes to protect his family legacy -- and his own carefully guarded secret -- even if it...

  • Up Close and Personal

    Carla Cassidy

    Passion and murder have never been so intimately acquainted. With an ex-husband trying her last nerve and a daughter growing increasingly estranged, homicide detective Jordan Sampson needs a break. She hopes attending her fifteen-year high school ...

  • The Avenger

    P.C. Cast

    For Alexandra Patton, the Time Raiders project sends the reluctant psychic back to 60 AD Briton -- a world where she can barely understand the accents, let alone its culture of brutality and superstition. Armed only with her "freakish" ability to tal...

  • Divine Beginnings

    P.C. Cast

    Go back in time, fifty years before the events of New York Times bestselling author P.C. Cast's Partholon books... Something isn't right at Guardian Castle, and Aine can't figure out what. As Healer, she's supposed to be making things better, but ...

  • First Ballet

    Deanna Caswell

    The lights, the velvet curtain, the spotlight, the graceful dancers -- nothing beats going to the ballet for the very first time.  In this beautiful picture book,  Deanna Caswell and Elizabeth Matthews conspire to recreate all the joy and wonder of...

  • The Oilman's Baby Bargain

    Michelle Celmer

    Texas Cattleman's Club member Wyatt Brody has to marry. The only hitch? His bride-to-be despises him! He'd seduced Alexis Cavanaugh once...on his brother's behalf. So when the powerful Texan's sibling shockingly married someone else, it was up to Mi...

  • One Week In December

    Holly Chamberlin

    In this compelling novel from bestselling author Holly Chamberlin, a family reunited for the holidays explores the price of secrets the power of regret, and the choices that can change everything. The Rowans' rambling Maine farmhouse is just big eno...

  • Claiming King's Baby

    Maureen Child

    The King Claims His Heir It was supposed to be a last meeting to sign divorce papers. Then passion overtook them and Maggie King walked away with more than just a legal decree -- she was pregnant with the child Justice King had always refused to giv...

  • Tragic Magic

    Laura Childs

    With a cunning killer in a haunted house, one crafty sleuth doesn't stand a ghost of a chance... Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine scrap-booking shop, and her best friend Ava Gruiex, owner of Juju Voodoo, have a big project ahead of them. Mel...

  • The Demon King

    Cinda Williams Chima

    Times are hard in the mountain city of Fellsmarch. Reformed thief Han Alister will do almost anything to eke out a living for himself, his mother, and his sister Mari. Ironically, the only thing of value he has is something he can't sell. For as long...

  • Nightschool, Volume 2: The Weirn Books

    Svetlana Chmakova

    When Alex's sister, Sarah, vanishes and all memory and evidence of her existence is erased, Alex is determined to get to the bottom of her sister's disappearance. What better place to start her investigations than the Nightschool itself? But when she...

  • Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

    Francis Pharcellus Church

    A beautifully illustrated gift edition based on the legendary letter and essay that appeared in 1897 in The New York Sun. That letter and its editorial response have become a Christmastime legend. Little did F.P. Church know back in 1897 that his res...

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 23

    CLAMP

    WAKE-UP CALL! In the world of dreams, the two Syaorans fight over Princess Sakura's feather and the princess herself! But while one Syaoran has always been a powerful mage for good, the other has become a killing machine using Fai's magic. Their brut...

  • xxxHolic, Volume 14

    CLAMP

    Kimihiro is a mystery even to himself. He has no memory of his past, or even of his beloved parents’ names. Neither does he have any idea why he is being followed by malicious spirits. But his boss, the witch Yûko Ichihara, knows, and in this volu...

  • The Official xxxHOLiC Guide

    CLAMP

    xxxHOLIC: DELVE INTO MYSTERY

    Join Yûko, Kimihiro, Dômeki, and all your favorite characters on a journey deep inside the thrilling world of xxxHOLiC! Learn more about the folklore behind the story and the various connections to the other work...

  • Tsubasa Character Guide 2

    CLAMP

    THE SECRETS OF TSUBASA!

    Are you completely obsessed with Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, the bestselling epic manga by CLAMP? Now explore the magic behind the masterpiece in this official companion to CLAMP’s thrilling fantasy saga. In the sec...

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 24

    CLAMP

    TIME OUT!

    Syaoran, Fai, Kurogane, and Mokona are returning to the Kingdom of Clow"and toward an ultimate showdown with the ruthless Fei-Wang Reed. But entering a world that is cut off from time endangers the very existence of the once-happy ...

  • X-Men Forever - Volume 1: Picking Up Where We Left Off

    Chris Claremont

    Collects X-Men Forever #1-5. Comics icon Chris Claremont returns to his legendary run with X-MEN: FOREVER! Professor Xavier volunteers his X-Men to go on a mission to capture Magneto's sole remaining Acolyte, Fabien Cortez! But with Nick Fury watchin...

  • Tell Me Something True

    Leila Cobo

    Gabriella always loved the picture of her mother kneeling in front of a bed of roses, smiling, beautiful and impossibly happy. But then she learns that her late mother hated gardening; that she had never wanted the house in the Hollywood hills, the s...

  • Little Black Lies

    Tish Cohen

    Sara Black is tiptoeing across a fraying tightrope.

    As the new eleventh grader at Anton High"the most elite public school in the country"she sticks out like an old VW bus in a parking lot full of shiny BMWs. But being the new kid also bri...

  • Untouchable

    Kresley Cole
    in

    KRESLEY COLE delivers a breathtaking tale of a brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the first time ... and a Valkyrie aching for his touch. Murdoch Wroth will stop at nothing to claim Daniela -- the delicate Valkyrie who makes his heart bea...

  • And Another Thing...

    Eoin Colfer

    An Englishman's continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea . . . Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has not been entirely without incident. Arthur h...

  • His Vienna Christmas Bride

    Jan Colley

    An Impostor Groom The engagement was a fake, a desperate plan by Jasmine Cooper to pacify her dying father and prevent family turmoil. Shameless flirt and financial whiz Adam Thorne knew an opportunity when he saw one. The only thing greater than hi...

  • Snowbound Bride-to-Be

    Cara Colter

    Doorstep delivery: daddy and baby A heart-stoppingly handsome man with a baby in tow isn't on hotel owner Emma White's Christmas list. She's too busy making Christmas perfect for others. Emma's hotel is Ryder Richardson's only port in a storm. Othe...

  • Nine Dragons

    Michael Connelly

    For many years Detective Harry Bosch has known Fortune Liquors, a small store in tough south L.A. A matchbook he once picked up there had a motto -- Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself -- that guided him through some of his darkest days. Now...

  • Faded Steel Heat

    Glen Cook

    OH, THE HUMANITY... Since the end of the war, there had always been bigotry against non-humans in TunFaire. Even though many species had sacrificed in battle, some groups of humans thought the "Golden Rule" translated to "Humans rule. Now give us ...

  • A Brief History of Montmaray

    Michelle Cooper

    "There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings." Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal...

  • Pretty Little Parasite

    David Corbett
    in

    Best-selling novelist Jeffery Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the past year. Featuring "gritty tales told with panache," this is a "must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories" (Booklist)....

  • The Scarpetta Factor

    Patricia Cornwell

    It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta -- despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN -- to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Med...

  • Years Best Science Fiction 9

    Kathryn Cramer

  • Reality Tour

    Cheryl Crouch

    Chosen Girls is a dynamic new series that communicates a message of empowerment and hope to Christian youth who want to live out their faith. In Book 8, Harmony is beyond excited to be heading out on a road trip with the Chosen Girls. But her “ulti...

  • The Book of Genesis

    R. Crumb

    Nominated for three 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: From Creation to the death of Joseph, here are all 50 chapters of the Book of Genesis, revealingly illustrated as never before.

    Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one bef...