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New Books List: 1050 titles


  • Greg Bardsley

    It's 2008. In three days, family man and Silicon Valley speechwriter Dan Jordan will see his start-up stock vest. He'll cash out with $1.1 million, turn in his frenetic Valley life in for a slower one on the beach with his wife and two children, and ...



  • Jon Berkeley



  • F.T. Bradley

    One's a Secret Agent, One's Not. Twelve-year-old Linc is a trouble-maker with a dilemma. His antics on a recent school field trip went way overboard, landing his already poor family with a serious lawsuit. So when two secret agents show up at his...



  • Lauren Conrad

    Are the stars of The Fame Game ready for their close-ups? Madison Parker has discovered that not all publicity is good publicity. After turning herself in for stealing some bling, the reality star is stuck doing community service while her Fame G...



  • T. Glen Coughlin

    They're all just one shot away It's senior year and the last season for Diggy, Jimmy, and Trevor on the Molly Pitcher High School varsity wrestling team. And they all want the same thing: to win. But Diggy's got to compete with his older brot...



  • Sarah Crossan

    Inhale. Exhale. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe . . . The world is dead. The survivors live under the protection of Breathe, the corporation that found a way to manufacture oxygen-rich air. Alina --has been stealing for a long time. She's a l...



  • Jocelynn Drake

    Buyer beware...Looking for a tattoo - and maybe a little something extra: a burst of good luck, a dollop of true love, or even a hex on an ex? Head to the quiet and mysterious Gage, the best skin artist in town. Using his unique potions - a blend of ...



  • Karen Engelmann

    Life is close to perfect for Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat in the Office of Customs and Excise in 1791 Stockholm. He is a true man of the Town -- drinker, card player, and contented bachelor -- until one evening, when Mrs. Sofia Sparrow;...



  • Louise Erdrich

    One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the O...



  • Robin Farley

    Mia loves her dance class, and Mia loves her teacher, Miss Bird. So when Miss Bird asks Mia to help out in the little dancers' class, Mia is excited! She wants to teach the tiny ballerinas to dance, just like Miss Bird teaches Mia. But when the young...



  • Brian Farrey

    Enk vessara, enk talmin. You can't convict what you can't confirm. Jaxter Grimjinx is a born thief. At least, he's supposed to be. For generations, the Grimjinx clan has produced the swiftest, cleverest thieves in Vengekeep. The problem i...



  • Jessica Grose

    As a writer for Chick Habit, an increasingly popular women's website, Alex Lyons gets paid to be a bitch. She's churning out several posts a day, and she saves her juiciest ones for blog prime time, when working women eat their sad desk salads in the...



  • Emily Hainsworth

    Camden Pike has been grief-stricken since his girlfriend, Viv, died. Viv was the last good thing in his life: helping him rebuild his identity after a career-ending football injury, picking up the pieces when his home life shattered, and healing his ...



  • Oliver Harris

    Waking up on Hampstead Heath not far from a crashed squad car, Detective Nick Belsey wants out -- out of London and out of the endless complications of his life. When Alexei Devereux, a wealthy hermit, vanishes, leaving behind a suicide note and his ...



  • Kim Harrison

    Enter the Woods...If You Dare For centuries, the woods have been a pivotal part of the wonder and danger of fairy tales, for once you enter anything can happen. Elves, druids, fairies - who knows what you will find once you dare step into the fore...



  • Joe Hill

    A short story from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Joe Hill about a young woman who returns home from a military tour in the Middle East . . . and her dark past follows closely behind. ...



  • Matt Hilton

    When the bodies of two friends are found near the penthouse apartment of a known crime boss, Joe Hunter has revenge on his mind. He's never tolerated bullies, but this time it's personal. And no matter how many heads he has to bash to do it, Joe will...



  • Erin Hunter

    One secret could destroy them all... Yellowkit is a ShadowClan cat through and through and she can't wait to become a fearless warrior. Then Yellowkit trains as an apprentice and finally receives her warrior name, Yellowfang -- and much to her sur...



  • Allan Jones

    The valiant hedgehog Trundle's quest for the Crown of Ice leads him and his crew to the sacred island of Spyre. According to legend, only the Oracle can find the crown, and Trundle's spirited friend Esmeralda Lightfoot is convinced she's the chosen o...



  • Jeramey Kraatz

    The Cloak Society: An elite organization of supervillains graced with extraordinary powers. Ten years ago they were defeated by the Rangers of Justice and vanished without a trace. But the villains of Cloak have been biding their time, waiting fo...



  • William Kuhn

    After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. She needs some proper cheering up. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a p...



  • Jane Kurtz

    Dakar is scared. When her family left East Africa to spend a year or two in Cottonwood, North Dakota, Dakar's older sister, Jakarta, was adamant about staying behind. Now Jakarta is all by herself in Kenya...and she's missing. It's terrible to go ...



  • Lynda La Plante

    Still reeling from the death of her fiance, Detective Anna Travis has thrown herself into her new role as the chief inspector for London's murder squad. When Scotland Yard's missing persons bureau is unable to locate the son of a court employee, the ...



  • Dennis Lehane

    Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops....



  • Tahereh Mafi

    Set after Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me and before Unravel Me, the spellbinding sequel, Destroy Me is a novella told from the perspective of Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45. In Shatter Me, Juliette escaped from The Reestablishment by seducing...



  • Barbara Mariconda

    An enchanted flute that vibrates when danger is near, sparkling mist that unlocks a drawer of family secrets, and a bookcase that expands to conceal her hiding place -- these are the bits of magic Lucy P. Simmons has experienced since her parents dro...



  • Mercer Mayer

    When Mom and Dad tell Little Critter they have exciting news, he thinks they mean they're getting a new dog -- not moving to a new house! Will he be able to bring his sandbox? What if he has to go to a new school full of bullies? What if his new next...



  • Heather McElhatton

    Sometimes tying the knot just means getting strangled Not too long ago, Jennifer Johnson was stuck in a cubicle, lovelorn and addicted to Cinnabon frosting. Now she's married to her Prince Charming -- the handsome, wealthy son of a midwestern dep...



  • Catherine McKenzie

    Emma Tupper is a dedicated lawyer with a bright future. But when she takes a month-long leave of absence to go on an African vacation, she ends up facing unexpected consequences. After she falls ill and spends six months trapped in a remote village t...



  • Jane O'Connor

    Even a snow day is fancy when Nancy is around! Ooh la la! It's a blizzard. School is cancelled. And Nancy, JoJo, Bree, and Freddy are tres excited to go outside and play. From making snow angels to building snowmen to catching snowflakes . . . ev...



  • Lauren Oliver

    One night when Liza went to bed, Patrick was her chubby, stubby, candy-grubbing and pancake-loving younger brother, who irritated and amused her both, and the next morning, when she woke up, he was not. In fact, he was quite, quite different. Whe...



  • Ingrid Paulson

    Nothing ever happens in Norway. But at least Ellie knows what to expect when she visits her grandmother: a tranquil fishing village and long, slow summer days. And maybe she'll finally get out from under the shadow of her way-too-perfect big brother,...



  • Rob Scotton

    Splat the Cat's trusty mouse friend, Seymour, needs cheering up, and Splat wants to help. He's been working on something special for Seymour -- not just a thank-you card but a thank-you book! His book lists all the sweet and often hilarious reasons S...



  • Rob Scotton

    Splat the Cat and his class go on a field trip to the aquarium! Splat tries to impress Kitten with his excellent sea creature facts, but he might not know as much about underwater creatures as he first thought. Mrs. Wimpydimple reminds them to look, ...



  • Rob Scotton

    Splat can't wait to try out his brand-new roller skates! But when it starts to rain, Splat's sure that his day will be ruined. Is there anything fun to do inside? Beginning readers will love this easy-to-read addition to the Splat library! ...



  • Brian Sibley

    Immerse yourself in the world of the spectacular Harry Potter film series, and learn why Yule Ball ice sculptures never melt, where Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts are really "minted," how to get a Hippogriff to work with actors, the inspiration behind ...



  • L.J. Smith

    Destiny Rising is the gripping conclusion to the Hunters arc in the New York Times bestselling series, created by L. J. Smith, which also inspired the hit CW TV show The Vampire Diaries. Elena Gilbert has never been an ordinary teenager. In love w...



  • Diane Stanley

    Night after night, Molly has visions of a beautiful goblet: one of her grandfather's loving cups, which he filled with magic that bound people together. So it hardly surprises Molly when handsome King Alaric asks her to find a loving cup to help him ...



  • Katherine Tegen

    When George stays home from school for a snow day, he finds himself staring out the window, bored. But when he sees the beautiful white slopes in his yard, he gets himself dressed to face the cold weather. George starts rolling the snow into balls an...



  • Danny Wallace

    Jason Priestley (no, not that Jason Priestley) is in a rut. He gave up his teaching job to write snarky reviews of cheap restaurants for the free newspaper you take but don't read. He lives above a video-game store, between a Polish newsstand and tha...



  • Robison Wells

    Benson Fisher escaped from Maxfield Academy's deadly rules and brutal gangs. The worst was over. Or so he thought. But now he's trapped on the other side of the wall, in a different kind of prison. A town filled with familiar faces. People fr...



  • Sara Bennett

    LESSONS IN SIN Miss Clementina Smythe, the newest graduate of Miss Debenham's Finishing School, is worried. Though charming, well-spoken, and quite attractive, her obvious innocence may impede her current campaign to secure a groom -- one wealthy en...



  • Herbie Brennan

    Imagine your father has been found dead. Strange men armed with guns show up at his funeral. And those same men have begun to follow you. Now you're on the run. When Edward Michael "Em" Goverton uncovers the key to a five-hundred-year-old deadly ...



  • Brom

    Santa Claus, my dear old friend, you are a thief, a traitor, a slanderer, a murder, a liar, but worst of all you are a mockery of everything for which I stood. You have sung your last ho, ho, ho, for I am coming to take your head. I am coming to tak...



  • Kylie Chan

    The gods and demons of ancient China are alive and kicking . . . Emma Donahoe teeters on the edge of becoming fully demon, and must make a journey to the Kunlun Mountains in the West, home of the reclusive ancient goddess Nu Wa, in an attempt to ...



  • Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie created magnificent works of suspense for the theater, and eight of her riveting stage dramas are collected in The Mousetrap and Other Plays -- including the title piece, the longest running play in history, still a smash hit in Londo...



  • Jill Dawson

    Daring, clever, and alluring, Queenie Dove has spent a lifetime developing the skills of an accomplished thief. Born into a criminal family in London's East End during the Great Depression, and trained by a group of women shoplifters during the Blitz...



  • Christine Feehan

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan revisits and expands her classic novella Dark Descent, bringing to breathtaking new life her story of an immortal Carpathian hunter, a beautiful adventurer, and their dangerous journey toward an u...



  • Donna Fletcher

    It has been prophesied that four men, raised as brothers, will bring Scotland back to her rightful glory. Now the final brother is ready to take his place in history . . . "Trey MacAlpin is my husband.” When Bliss first speaks these words, they...



  • Jamie Freveletti

    The devil is awake in paradise . . . Biochemist Emma Caldridge comes to a remote tropical island in the Caribbean in search of minerals believed to reverse the aging process. What she finds instead are the bloody remnants of a bizarre religious r...



  • Julie Anne Long

    She rose to spectacular heights . . . From Covent Garden to courtesan to countess, beautiful, fearless, shamelessly ambitious Evie Duggan has riveted London in every role she plays. But the ton never could forgive her scandalous -- if shockingly sh...



  • Cathy Maxwell

    When a Chattan male falls in love, strike his heart with fire from above . . . Portia Maclean believes she is beyond love and marriage. Then one moonlit night, while attempting a daring masquerade in a desperate bid to protect her family, she fin...



  • Maya Rodale

    He's the only man she's ever loved . . . For ages, it seems, advice columnist Annabelle Swift has loved Derek Knightly, editor-owner of The London Weekly, from a distance. Determined to finally attract her boss's attention, she seeks advice from he...



  • Veronica Rossi

    Before Perry and Aria, there was Roar and Liv. After a childhood spent wandering the borderlands, Roar finally feels like he has a home with the Tides. His best friend Perry is like a brother to him, and Perry's sister, Liv, is the love of his lif...



  • Charles Todd

    "I was in Paris the day the French Army was mobilized." In 1914, while visiting her friend Madeleine, Lady Elspeth Douglas's life is thrown into chaos when war breaks out and the Germans quickly overrun Belgium, threatening France. Having just ag...



  • Lori Wilde

    It's Christmastime in Jubilee, Texas, but Lissette Moncrief is having a hard time celebrating . . . Especially after she accidentally smashes her car into Rafferty Jones's pick-up truck. Yes, he's a whole lot of handsome -- from the tips of his b...



  • Jason Aaron

    Collects Wolverine & The X-Men #9-13. AVX tie-in! Wolverine is torn between two teams! Cyclops comes to the Jean Grey School to extend an olive branch, but will Wolverine's X-Men join their estranged ex-teammates against the Avengers? Plus: Icema...



  • Scott Abbott; Amy Maude Swinton

    It’s the fourth Wednesday of November, and Patrick Guthrie is giving thanks. He’s giving thanks that his eight-year-old son, Braden, will finally have a procedure on his heart that will cure him of the same life-threatening condition that took Pa...



  • Tony Abbott

    Jeff, Mara, Brian, and Kelly are Goofballs and proud of it. Goofball private eyes. Together, they solve mysteries. How do they discover the truth? They use funny disguises (dressing up in aluminum foil), nutty inventions (dropped notes the bad guys m...



  • Dan Abnett

    Collects Nova #13-18. Not even Nova can stop the forece of nature that is Galactus so it's up to Rich Rider to help evacuate the planet. But can he expect any help from his friend and current herald - the Silver Surfer? Then, Nova rockets into the...



  • Marina Adair

    Regan Martin stopped believing in Christmas miracles six years ago when she lost everything -- her house, her job, and her impeccable reputation in the wine industry -- after she fell in love with a man she had no idea was married. Then Regan gets a ...



  • Lydia Adamson

    For the first time in one volume, two twisting tales featuring off-off Broadway actress turned sleuth Alice Nestleton and her crime-solving cats Bushy and Pancho… A Cat in a Manger It’s the holiday season and Alice is hoping for a merry littl...



  • Ann Aguirre

    In Ann Aguirre’s award-winning novel, "Enclave," humans have taken refuge in colonies below ground. Here is the story of what drove them there, told through the eyes of a teen who would later have vast influence over the fate of many, and who gave ...



  • Ken Akamatsu

    A TRICK OF FATE When the Festival of Ostia begins, Fate Averruncus emerges from hiding to set his evil plans into motion. But first he gives Negi a proposition. If Negi promises not to interfere with Fate’s plot, he will allow Negi and the girls t...



  • Ken Akamatsu

    INVINCIBLE It’s time for the final match to decide the winner of the Nagi Cup, but Negi must compete against martial arts legend Jack Rakan. Will Negi’s intense training and new trump cards be enough to beat the unbeatable hero? ...



  • Ken Akamatsu

    WIN OR DIE! It’s summer break -- a time when most kids are getting ready for a vacation full of fun and friends. But not Asuna. She’s prepping for the challenge of her life. She’s started a new school club that’s devoted to helping Negi find...




  • Gennifer Albin

    What a tangled world she weaves... For generations, Spinsters have been called by Arras’s Manipulation Services to work the looms and determine what people eat, where they live, how many children they have, and even when they die. Gifted with th...




  • Tamera Alexander

    Olivia Aberdeen, destitute widow of a man shot as a traitor to the South, is shunned by proper society and gratefully accepts an invitation from "Aunt" Elizabeth Harding, mistress of Belle Meade Plantation. Expecting to be the Harding's head housekee...



  • Tasha Alexander

    Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite society when she eloped with an Italian count. But now her father-in-law lies murdered, and her husband has fled, making him the prime suspect. Alone in her empty palazzo, there's ...



  • Victoria Alexander

    Camille, Lady Lydingham, knows precisely what she wants for Christmas -- an official engagement to a handsome, dashing prince. Her very proper suitor expects a proper English family and the perfect Dickensian Christmas, which leaves the lovely wido...



  • Martha Ambrose

    It's October on Coral Island, and Mallie Monroe is learning how to multitask: she's juggling two men, Nick and Cole; helping her office pal, Sandy, plan a fall wedding; and trying to find a way to adjust to her new assignment as the Observer's foo...



  • Martha Ambrose

    When free spirit Mallie Monroe finally decides to settle down, she hauls her antique Airstream trailer and teacup poodle to Coral Island, Florida, where she takes a reporting job at the local newspaper. Her restless, gypsy lifestyle is finally behind...




  • Beth Andrews

    She's on a mission to get out -- not get involved Single mom Tori Sullivan is ready to grab the life she's always wanted -- away from Mystic Point. And initially, newcomer Walker Bertrand seems the ideal partner for her adventure. His appeal makes...



  • Anna J.

    For Mina, Shanna, and Karen, using what they have to get what they want is always an option. Best friends since day one, these "get money chicks" have a thing for the hottest gear, luxurious lifestyles, and the ballers who make it all possible. All o...



  • Iris Anthony

    Lace is a thing like hope. It is beauty; it is grace. It was never meant to destroy so many lives. The mad passion for forbidden lace has infiltrated France, pulling soldier and courtier alike into its web. For those who want the best, Flemish l...



  • Piero degli Antoni

    From an award-winning author comes an audacious, high-concept noir set in Auschwitz that straddles past and present New York, the present: An old woman and her husband sit down for a breakfast of black bread and coffee at a table set for ten. Eigh...



  • Carrie Arcos

    How do you find someone who doesn’t want to be found? A girl searches for her missing addict brother while confronting her own secrets in this darkly lyrical novel. Rachel has always idolized her older brother Micah. He struggles with addiction,...



  • Victoria Ardito

    Summer Raine Jackson thought she had the perfect life, until her husband's infidelity was broadcast live on a radio program. Floundering after her divorce, she takes a temporary job at her sister's parenting services company while simultaneously plan...



  • Carey Armstrong-Ellis

    Ten creepy monsters met ’neath a gnarled pine. One blew away, And then there were nine. And so the countdown begins . . . A mummy, a witch, a ghost, a werewolf, a vampire, and others all gather, but one by one their crowd diminishes. At last t...



  • Amanda Ashby

    The final book in the lively, fun series for tween girls--just right for Disney Channel fans! With her powers under control and things with Jonathan on track, Sophie can now focus on learning the whole truth about her dad (not to mention trying to...



  • Jennifer Ashley

    Eric Warden knows that half-Shifter wildcat Iona is passing for human, living without a Collar in the human world. He also knows that if she does not acknowledge her Shifter nature and her mating hunger, it could kill her. Iona finds the mysterio...



  • Phillipa Ashley

    When Miranda finds herself fighting for her home, her job and her heart, sleeping with the enemy may not be the best tactic... With no family of her own, Miranda Marshall has developed a healthy respect - some would say obsession - with other pe...



  • Leah Ashton

    Eleanor has worked hard to transform herself from the lonely girl she once was. Switching braces for a breathtaking smile, dowdy clothes for fabulous dresses, and heartbreak for flirty, fun-only dates, she's now "Ella." But one man can se...



  • Kristi Astor
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    Guard well your desireswhat ere' they may befor the Dark Lords scour the nightlooking for thee…

    Centuries-old legends tell of enchanted forests, said to house otherworldly beings who hold court in the deepest, darkest part of the woods. During...



  • Dawn Atkins

    Welcome to New Hope, AZ New Hope? Not from where Cara Price is standing. Miles from her destination, a car that won't run and a daughter she can protect only by moving, lingering in this town is not on Cara's plan. And the harder she pushes to lea...



  • Jami Attenberg

    For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it...



  • Mary Stewart Atwell

    Daringly imagined, atmospheric, and original, Wild Girls is an exhilarating debut -- part coming-of-age story and part supernatural tale about girls learning their own strength. Kate Riordan fears two things as she grows up in the small Appalachi...



  • Lori Austin

    Cathleen Chase is no killer -- but as Cat O’Banyon, she is a ruthless bounty hunter who always gets her man. Catching one lowlife after another, she continues her search for the only man she really cares to locate. The one whose voice she will neve...



  • Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly and her mother, Eugenia, struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives when they return to their Virginia plantation. But the bitter realities of life after the war cannot be denied: their home a...



  • Albert Axell

    With Hitler's invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941, the Eastern front opened and politicians and generals around the world predicted the swift destruction of the Soviet armies. Nazi Germany threw its might against Russia: 5,000,000 men took part in the...



  • E.D. Baker

    Now that Annie has helped her sister Gwendolyn (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) wake up from the 100-year curse by finding her beloved prince, you would think that things would get back to normal. Think again! That beloved prince, Beldegard, is stuck in the ...



  • Keith Baker

    American Idol for alligators? Mr. Green is a singing sensation in the shower at home. But at the town talent show, he cannot sing a note...until Mrs. Green spies a nearby hose and comes up with a splashing idea! This popular story from Lucky Days...



  • Keith Baker

    This Level 2 easy reading adventure finds everyone's favorite alligator couple on a fishing trip. But Mrs.Green is so frustrated! Mr. Green is catching all the fish. What's his secret? Is it his lucky hat? His new fishing pole? Or does it have someth...



  • Ken Baker

    Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on that farm he had . . . a dragon? The animals aren’t happy that there’s a dragon on the farm. But Old MacDonald likes his dragon . . . until it starts swallowing up the animals! Can Old MacDonald save hi...



  • Sarah Ball

    It isn't until her boyfriend Tom heads off for his year abroad that Holly realises just how much she's going to miss him. But Tom's left her with rather more than just a passionate memory of their last night together. Holly's clothes are getting tigh...



  • Nina Bangs

    USA Today bestselling author Nina Bangs welcomes you back to the Castle of Dark Dreams, a place of otherworldly secrets and sensual men with the power to fulfill your most private fantasies. All Ivy had ever wanted was a safe, secure life with no ...



  • Iain M. Banks

    The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, probably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years ear...



  • Kate Banks

    It's time for bed, and a little boy chooses his favorite book for his mother to read to him. The bear in the book is preparing for his own deep slumber, hibernating through the winter while humans and other animals explore the snowy landscape around ...



  • John Banville

    The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present liv...



  • Pat Barker

    From Booker Prize winner Pat Barker, a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of the Great War. Admirers of her Regeneration Trilogy as well as fans of Downton Abbey and War Horse will be enthralled. With Toby’s Room, a sequel t...



  • Zoe Barnes

    Everybody's entitled to a bad day. But Cally Storm's bad day is worse than most. She loses her job, her home, her marriage and her self-respect, all in one fell swoop. At 30, she's back in her mum's spare room, contemplating a dismal future ... until...



  • Mac Barnett

    A twelve-year-old sleuth goes undercover -- and underwater -- to tackle three cases in this hilarious mystery. It’s a routine case… …or at least as routine as a cases get when you’re a twelve-year-old private detective who’s been sle...



  • Kelly Barnhill

    In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn't most fairy tales. Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling...



  • Judi Barrett

    Everything you ever wanted to know about Santa, as told to the author of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by the big guy himself. As you might imagine, the early life of Santa Claus was a liiiiiiiittle different from the childhood of your average...



  • Pamela Beason

    Wildlife biologist and writer Summer “Sam” Westin loves the wilderness. But her latest attempt to protect nature may just get her burned… Sam Westin is working on a twelve-week project for the National Park Service as a biologist and a vol...



  • James Becker

    A deadly weapon uncovered... A decades-old conspiracy... A race to save a city... Berlin, 1936: When African-American Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in the Olympic Games, Hitler refuses to place the medals around Owens’s neck and vows to de...



  • Macy Beckett

    When Mae-June July Augustine hightailed it out of Sultry Springs, Texas, with her heart in pieces, she swore she'd never return. But nine years later, one thing stands between June and her dream of opening an upscale martini bar: a month of community...



  • Eric Beetner

    A hit man with a crisis of conscience faces his biggest challenge yet: protecting an innocent victim against deadly forces during a desperate run for the coast in Eric Beetner's thrilling novel. For the last seventeen years, Lars has been on a jo...



  • Michael D. Beil

    Mysteries seem to find the Red Blazer Girls: when Sophie finds a secret message in the antique fountain pen she bought for her father, the girls are on a case. Soon, they're at the home of the pen's original owner, a secretive man who kept to himself...



  • Steve Bein

    Mariko Oshiro is not your average Tokyo cop. As the only female detective in the city’s most elite police unit, she has to fight for every ounce of respect, especially from her new boss. While she wants to track down a rumored cocaine shipment, he ...



  • David Bell

    Sometimes it’s easier to believe a lie. Twenty-five-years ago, the disappearance of four-year-old Justin Manning rocked the small town of Dove Point, Ohio. After his body was found in a shallow grave in the woods two months later, the repercussi...



  • Michele Ashman Bell

    It’s Christmas Eve, and Nikki Michaels is on the last leg of her drive to celebrate the holidays at home. Though Christmas doesn’t quite hold the same magic it did when she was younger, Nikki’s idea of a merry Christmas is sharing in the festiv...



  • Meg Belviso

    There's a Halloween party on Shivermore Street, and everyone -- from dancing mummies to musical witches -- is coming. There'll be whipped-cream-covered ants, pumpkin carving, apple bobbing, and a special surprise when the masks come off at the end of...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    God is dead! And Walker and Sunrise are investigating his murder. Yeah. God. Don't believe me? Then buy the book and find out what's going on in this cops and capes drama that has NO RULES!! Oh, and Deena Pilgrim returns and the how and why is going ...



  • Gregory Benford; Larry Niven

    In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven ("Ringworld") and Gregory Benford ("Timescape"), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astoni...



  • Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    Perfect for fans of Lauren Conrad's L.A. CANDY series, this e-original sequel to "Amen, L.A". is full of sizzle, scandal, and secrets. Before she moved to L.A., Natalie and her boyfriend, Sean, got really close. She's not sure how she feels abou...



  • Christopher L. Bennett

    2107 AD: A generation ago, Earth and the cislunar colonies banned genetic and cybernetic modifications. But out in the Asteroid Belt, anything goes. Dozens of flourishing space habitats are spawning exotic new societies and strange new varieties of h...




  • Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Gnarled tree branches; a mouse; strangely shaped shadows; the dark at the top of the stairs. Everybody's afraid of something, but that doesn't make you a scare-dy bear. It just makes you normal. That's the lesson in this ultra simple picture book tha...







  • Ari Berk

    Professor Ari Berk returns to reveal another trove of magical history to his avid readers: the history of the humble hobgoblin. Every house holds a mystery. Behind the door, beside the stove, under the stairs, along the roads -- Hobgoblins ha...



  • Sheryl Berk; Carrie Berk

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  • Nate Berkus

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  • John Billheimer

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  • Betty G. Birney

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  • Joanne Bischof

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  • Michael A. Black

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  • Adam Blade

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  • Francesca Lia Block

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  • Paula M. Block

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  • Anthony Blond

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  • Cheryl Bolen

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  • Martha Bolton

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  • Sheila Webster Boneham

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  • Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud

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  • Paul Boor

    Dr. Peter Mallow, a world-renowned university scientist hot on the trail of a lethal Asian bird flu, becomes concerned over the erratic behavior of his newest research student. He records his observations about the troubled young man in a common labo...




  • Melissa Bourbon

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  • Clara Bourreau

    A young boy discovers the real whereabouts of his absent father--jail! Anthony hasn't seen his dad in years. The reason: His father is busy traveling the world as a wildlife photographer -- at least, according to Anthony's mom and sister. The real...



  • Rhys Bowen

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  • Patty Bowman

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  • Sandra Boynton

    A delightful Christmas picture book filled with hilarious characters and dynamic art from the one and only Sandra Boynton! BOOM biddy BOOM biddy BOOM BOOM BOOM! What’s that noise filling the room? From this rousing beginning unfolds Christm...



  • Chris Bradford

    Jack Fletcher is battling the high seas. Ambushed by the Shogun's samurai, Jack and his friends have only one hope of escape - the Seto Sea. But with ferocious storms, man-eating sharks and ninja pirates at every turn, their chosen route is fraught w...



  • Chris Bradford

    Jack Fletcher has been left for dead. Bruised and battered, Jack Fletcher wakes up in a roadside inn wrapped only in a dirty kimono. He has lost everything, including his memory of what happened. Determined to discover the truth, Jack goes on a quest...



  • Chris Bradford

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  • Chris Bradford

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  • Chris Bradford

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  • Laura Bradford

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  • Peter Brandvold

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  • Jamie Brenner

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  • Jamie Brenner

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  • Jamie Brenner

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  • Heather Brewer

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  • Robin Bridges

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  • Phoebe Bright

    It's the series you've been wishing for -- each book comes with a special charm! It's just like magic! The new boy staying at the B&B is supposed to do magic tricks at a birthday party --- but he's not very good. His tricks are always going wrong!...




  • Tracy Brogan

    If Sadie Turner is good at anything, it’s putting stuff in order. So when she finds her “perfect” life in disarray, she hopes a summer vacation at her aunt’s lake house will help her piece it back together. She wants to relax, reboot, and hea...



  • Carolyn Brown

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  • Duffy Brown

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  • Hester Browne

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  • Ed Brubaker

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  • Ed Brubaker

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  • Ed Brubaker

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  • Ed Brubaker

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  • Alison Bruce

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  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

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  • Douglas Brunt

    A wryly comic, first-person debut novel offering a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul. ...



  • Ashley Bryan

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  • Megan E. Bryant

    In this new series of concept-based, shaped dinosaur board books, little ones will learn dinosaur names for every letter of the alphabet, identify bold shapes, practice counting skills, and discover the bright colors in the dinosaur world. Both kid-f...



  • Christopher Buehlman

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  • Caralyn Buehner

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  • Cullen Bunn

    Something's rotten in the San Andres Mountains - and it's eating the locals! Captain America and Hawkeye investigate, but all the patriotism and arrows in the world may not be enough to save the two Avengers from a hive of dino-monstrosities! And whe...



  • Heather Burch

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  • Robert Burleigh

    In 1845 in Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau began a radical experiment: he built a cabin in the woods and lived there, alone, examining the world around him. He spent his days walking the shores of Walden Pond, growing beans, observing pla...



  • Robert Burleigh

    What if there was but one dragon left in the world? What if dragons were more than just imaginary creatures? What if long ago they soared through our skies? And what if there was only one dragon left? Where might it hide from our machines, from ou...



  • Charles Burns

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  • Jimmy Burns

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  • Grace Burrowes

    No one would ever guess that Lady Louisa, the most reserved of the Duke of Moreland's daughters, had published a book of racy poems under a pseydonym on a dare. Before she can buy and destroy all of the copies, a dastardly fortune hunter seeks to com...



  • Annie Burrows

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  • Kurt Busiek

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  • Robert Olen Butler

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  • Rob Buyea

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  • John Bytheway

    As Latter-day Saints, we enjoy marking our scriptures. Sometimes we mark entire verses. Sometimes we mark sentences within a verse. Sometime we mark a single phrase. And sometimes, we find a sermon in a single word. This new book by bestselling autho...



  • Jen Calonita

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  • Elizabeth Camden

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  • Jack Campbell

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  • Dorothy Cannell

    During the course of a long, hot summer in the picturesque coastal village of Sea Glass, shattered lives are restored and new romance blossoms. Recovering from a painful divorce, Sarah Draycott has moved to the picture-postcard village of Sea Gla...




  • Jacqueline Carey

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  • Joanna Carl

    When Lee hires a free-spirited employee with a tie-dyed, troubled past, she discovers that even the counter-culture can conceal a killer… As much as the chocolate concoctions at TenHuis can tantalize people’s tongues, Lee’s newest hire is m...



  • Robyn Carr

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  • David A. Carter

    David A. Carter’s bestselling Bugs enjoy a snow day in this winter-themed Ready-to-Read that’s perfect for beginning readers. A family of Snowflake Bugs flutter to the ground. The happy Ice Skating Bug twirls around and round. Brr! I...