
Wisecracking reporter and reluctant detective Billy Chaka is back. His latest misadventure finds him in Osaka to accept an award for an article he'd written years before about a teenage Bunraku puppet prodigy named Tetsuo. Billy quickly learns he may...
In the tradition of T. C. Boyle,Steven Millhauser, and Michel Faber -- with a penchant forthe macabre worthy of Irvine Welsh -- comes Eating Mammals.
Gypsies, businessmen, servants, masters, and unwise children come together ...
Mia would give all the jewels in Genovia for the perfect present Every year, Princess Mia spends the holidays in Genovia with Grandmere. This year, she's looking forward to the most perfect Christmas ever: her boyfriend, Michael, and her best friend...
Will an injury spell the end for Christina's racing career and her friendship with Melanie?
After taking a year off to train with her beloved Star for the Breeders' Cup, Christina is back in silks riding a few preliminary races. But all her...
Learning the Hard Way Carmen DuPrč knows she's one fine-looking woman -- and any man who insists on making a fool of himself over her deserves the heartless treatment she's so good at dishing out. As far as Carmen's concerned, being gorgeous entit...
The year is 1962. John Glenn is in orbit, Audrey Hepburn is breakfasting outside Tiffany's, and Elvis is recording "Bossa Nova Baby." The Gibson and Detente are both in fashion, and both are served icy cold. And in the Foreigners' Quarter of Istanbul...
THE SNOW-WALKER RULES THROUGH SORCERY AND FEAR. Since Gudrun came from the frozen mists beyond the edge of the world, the Jars people have obeyed her in hatred and terror. But the enchantress has one weakness: a son, Kari, banished to a forbidding f...
Charlie McKenzie was the best in the business of CIA dirty work -- until he was double-crossed by his bosses and jailed to cover up a mammoth intelligence blunder. Now they want him back. And Charlie wants to get even. A Russian spy has stumbled u...
A mother wakes one morning to find the police at her door to arrest her only childâ€"a star athlete and honor studentâ€"for murder.
The Smallwoods are one of those families who project a rosy image, exactly what we all hoped and imagined ou...
Something weird is going on! Mrs. Roopy, the new librarian, comes to school wearing a pot on her head! One day she thinks she's George Washington, and the next day she's Little Bo Peep! The worst part is, she doesn't even know how crazy she is! ...
The Lady Will Not Be Broken ... With soft whispers and a gentle touch, Tessa Seaton can tame the wildest beasts. The daughter of an impoverished baronet, controlled by an unscrupulous uncle, her remarkable talent for calming and riding unbroken ho...
Yorkshire's coppers Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe are investigating the suicide of prominent businessman Pal Maciver. It seems to be a clear-cut case: he shot himself while sitting at his desk in his locked study. But things are not quite what the...
Seven months, three weeks, two days -- that's exactly how long Alexa has to establish herself in an exciting career. At twenty-one, she's determined to gallop into "the Real World with a Real Job, a Real Life, and a Real Future." Moving in with her p...
A REGAL PASSION The exiled Princess Caroline has quite the dilemma. In the middle of an elegant ball given in her honor, she is stalked into a moonlit hedge-maze by a toweringly handsome man who then spirits her off to his so-called gentleman'...
Ivan Dolinar is born in Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948 -- the auspicious beginning of a life that will be derailed by backfiring good intentions in a world of propaganda and paranoia. At age nineteen, an innocent prank cuts the young Cro...
A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having ...
It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to...
A different world then, a different world now ... California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, strange new ideas in the air about war, music, sex, and dr...
The sheriff of Epitaph, Texas, Dan Shaye was a hard but just defender of the law -- a devoted husband and father who kept the truth about his violent past from the townfolk he protected. But then the hardcase Ethan Langer gang galloped into town look...
On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, is strolling home through a silent moonlit park when she is viciously attacked. When she awakes in the hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night. But then slowly, painfully, ...
Regina Moore and Karen Jackson, lifelong best friends, are living the kind of life most women only fantasize about. With beautiful homes, fulfilling careers, and two adoring husbands, their joy could not be greater, their worlds could not be richer. ...
Rowan's village of Rin is under attack by vicious ice creepers, creatures that flow down from the Mountain bringing endless winter to the land.
Rowan and his friends set out to stop the deadly creepers. But first, Sheba the witch gives Rowa...
All around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing. In Berlin, a woman vanishes from the city streets. In Paris, a man plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane crashes into the mountains. In Manhattan, a body washes ash...
Dear Reader, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to read this book, in which the Baudelaire siblings encounter an unpleasant amount of dampness as they descend into the depth...
Something precious and beautiful is being ruthlessly destroyed. And those who champion the small, fragile, threatened lives are endangered themselves. An agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Rachel Porter has been assigned to the northern Ca...
Hannah Ives struggled bravely through the ravages of illness, and fellow patient Valerie Stone was at her side. As cancer survivors they have a lot to celebrate when they meet again, but their reunion is short-lived. Soon Valerie is dead, and a suspi...
Middle-aged friends confront new beginnings & troubling ends in this smalltown saga debut novel by the creator of Designing Women and Evening Shade. Woodrow McIlmore is leading the perfect life in Paris, Arkansas: married to his high school sw...
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year“You just have to read it . . . . Utterly inventive. . . excruciatingly breathless." -- Maureen Corrigan, Washington PostFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful ...
OPEN WIDE AND SAY "AHHRRGGGGHHHHhhhhhhhuuuhhh." After years of chasing around sniffly munchkins with a tongue depressor, nurse Pauline Sokol has had it. She's sick of being an "angel of mercy" -- she'd like to raise some hell for once! But findin...
Over Her Head Charlotte Sinclair is seeking a bit of adventure in her life -- but that doesn't mean she relishes being kidnapped by a traitor to England! Straying innocently from a crowded ballroom, she overhears a conversation, and suddenly s...
A combination of Vince Flynn and Richard Marcinko, The Home Team series features a group of former Special Forces operators who have become the most lethal weapon in the war on terrorâ€"â€"a war that is now fought on our own soil. The story of one so...
COLLECTING CORPSES Molly Doyle crossed a continent to escape trouble, but it's becoming increasingly dangerous to be in the antiques business in her small adopted corner of California. The murder of a friend and fellow antiques dealer has shaken M...
Notorious man... Everyone knows about Dylan Moore -- his brilliant talent and his pleasure-seeking ways -- but no one knows the torment that lies beneath his reckless veneer. Only one woman gets a glimpse of the forces that drive Dylan's soul,...
Passion in Disguise Calliope Minton is never far from scandal. And her greatest pleasure is capturing the nobility at their worst. Donning a daring disguise, she poses as a society courtesan to get closer to London's leading bachelor. However, her...
A Fierce and Hysterical TaleOf Self-Destruction OnThe Road to Being Discovered
Hannah is a struggling actress living in New York's Tribeca, and like any young thesp she is bent on success: finding paying jobs that offer good m...
Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postm...
An illustrated story collection presented by Dora and her friends includes three classics, such as "The Three Little Pigs" and "Jack and the Beanstalk," as well as three Latin-American folk tales, such as "Three Magic Oranges."...
While enduring a failing marriage and the loss of her husband to a terminal illness, Lily Munroe found release in her passion for the exhilarating Iditarod race across Alaska. Now single again, she's more determined than ever to win the competition, ...
21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...
A New York Times and Washington Post Notable BookEntertainment Weekly's #1 Fiction Book of the YearA tremendously acclaimed and exquisitely realized novel of literary suspense, Harbor recounts the adventures of Aziz Arkoun who, at twenty-four, makes ...
Detectives are supposed to find things, but one day at the park, Bones loses just about everything: his magnifying glass, his dog, and even his detective bag. Can Detective Jeffrey Bones find the things he lost?...
With his bag of detective tools in hand, Detective Jeffrey Bones can solve any mystery. Good thing, because Mr. Green has lost his school bus! Will Detective Bones be able to solve the case? Find out in this Level 3 reader!...
Franny Marten's life is unraveling--after arranging to meet her boyfriend, Marcus Marks, for dinner, she finds his wife waiting for her instead. After the initial shock wears off, Franny finds she has more in common with Clare Marks than she could ev...
In this first of the Cottage Tales, animal lover and all-around Good Samaritan Beatrix Potter, author of Peter Rabbit, is ready to help solve local mysteries. And with her entourage of animal friends, she sets out to win over the human hearts of Sawr...
Being a Tooth Fairy was a low-key, wonderful gig: collect a few teeth; make kids smile. For Belle Moody, life was perfect -- until her aunt Lila lost their every dime! What would go under kids' pillows? Belle had to take a second job playing the ...
Maggie Madison has devoted her life to helping others. Practically abandoned as a child, Maggie understands what it is like to feel unwanted. Running a shelter for the street kids of Atlanta is hard work, and the necessities"money for food, repairs"a...
One morning, the family dog comes downstairs dressed exactly like Dad. The dog does a few things just like Dad would, but he also has a more canine approach to life that makes for quite an interesting day: he refuses to cook hot dogs at their barb...
BABY OUT OF THE BLUE Pregnant? Impossible! But somehow it's true. Maisie McDowell is about to become a single mom -- with no knowledge of how she got that way.... Dr. James Sutherland's patients usually suspected they were pregnant, but Maisie seem...
When Skeeter Hodges was gunned down in what used to be a quiet black Washington D.C., neighborhood, few mourned the loss. He was a vicious drug runner who took out his competition and intimidated witnesses into silence. To homicide and Phelps, Skeete...
In this second Unlikely Exploit, Fergal McNally's brain -- last seen in a pickling jar in the basement of Sacred Heart Hospital -- is stolen, and the remaining McNally children are mysteriously drawn to Fishbone Forest and the forgotten crumbling man...
Stella, Kate and Victoria are three schoolgirl friends, unexpectedly reunited after many years. Despite losing touch, their lives have become intertwined in a way none of them could have imagined. Detective Inspector Hayes finds himself with a string...
Chip Block, the hero of Parts, is back, and still worried about falling apart based on the things he hears. This time he’s made a list of all the strange, crazy things he’s heard people say: “I lost my head.” “My nose is running.” “I sa...
Abigail Swanson is living her lifelong dream of building her own design company when she begins to rethink her goals and decisions. Her sisterââ,¬â"˘s marriage and recent pregnancy cause her to feel desires that she had never suspected she had. As s...
Cassandra Leigh has a long-term lover who is handsome, charismatic, sophisticated--and married. Now Max has abandoned Cass and taken his wife off to America, leaving Cass all alone in her damp little cottage. Cass always dreamed that one day she a...
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FAT. Susan Callaway, bullied and overweight, faces daily humiliation at the hands of her classmates--and she's had enough. With her anger about to reach the boiling point, Susan lands in an alternative education class, a sort of group therapy for th...
With a trio of compelling "cold case" mysteries at its core, with its wonderfully sympathet and complex private detective hero, and with its effortlessly beautiful and intelligei prose, Case Histories is Kate Atkinson's breakout book -- the most acco...
Jacob, a young boy who is a servant in King Herod's household, overhears three strangers tell Herod about a new king. Jacob is so excited and wants to see the new king too, so he stows away in the strangers' caravan. What follows is an exciting adven...
On a stormy night in the Kingdom of Pergamontio, an insistent knocking brings Fabrizio, the servant boy, to the door. Outside stands a solider summoning Fabrizio's master, Mangus the Magician, to the king's castle. Because Mangus has been under house...
LIMITED TENURE The treacherous new world of post-nuclear America guarantees no inalienable rights -- no promises of freedom, liberty or justice for all. Instead, chaos and bloodlust thrive -- but so do the innate strengths of the human spirit, and t...
21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GO SHOPPING Alana Marshall Hughes has her priorities. They're Prada, Tiffany, and Gucci. The African-American princess has never met a pricey retailer that didn't practically cry with joy the minute she pranced i...
When a rugged stranger darkens the door of her family ranch, Martha Jean Flynn can tell right away that Ridge Longtree is nothing like the other cowboys who usually show up in search of work. For in the eyes of this raven- haired, half-Indian loner, ...
Lady Be Good Fiona Hawthorn would like nothing better than to venture out unnoticed. Alas, everywhere she goes, mayhem seems to follow. It isn't as if she invites trouble, it just seems to find her. Yet one gentleman refuses to believe the wor...
From the author of What the Body Remembers, an extraordinary story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement, inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan (code name “Madeleine”), who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasi...
Searching for her biological father, and the man who ruined her mother's life, Honor Cannon, arriving in Lowell, Texas, is distracted by a gorgeous drifter who teaches her how to let go of the past and to love. SINS OF THE FATHER Buck Star was ...
21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...
WHAT SHE DOESN'T KNOW... The victims are all found face-down in the murky waters of the creek that runs through Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee. They are naked, except for the black satin ribbon tied around their necks. And each murdered woman shares a s...
Christmas is not going as planned for the two women in this pair of romance stories, set on the historic Great Plains. Will the spirit of the season warm their hearts--or will they get left out in the cold?...
Christmas on the vast American plains holds little appeal for four women struggling to find a warm place to belong. Estelle is paralzed by grief over a fallen soldier and balks at holiday preparations - Kathleen thinks she made a mistake accepting a ...
A SHY GIRL -- A LOYAL SERVANT -- A CUNNING SPY AND REBEL -- UNTIL SHE DISCOVERS THE TRUTH... Lucy Wainwright, hardworking maid-servant to the daughter of the Baron of Cant, is perhaps a bit too good at her job. Lucy does what she's told, never li...
Deep in the Minnesota forest, where only the strong survive, four regular-sized pups Leader, Sniffer, Runner, and Thinker are pushed into the world. Then one last, very small pup is born into the wolf pack. He is called Runt. From the very start, R...
A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery Westminster, 1102. Once again about to depart for the Holy Land, Sir Geoffrey is furious to be summoned back by the King, trusting neither his methods of persuasion nor his motives. When he arrives at Court he fin...
The Faith to Face TyrannyFaith to Face the Third ReichTwo Stories of Undaunted CourageSet during the darkest days of World War II, King’s Ransom tells the heroic story of Tsar Boris III, King of Bulgaria, and his extraordinary efforts to save his c...
A BABY'S LOOSE IN BELLE... Simon Gilmore was back in town! And that meant trouble for Kit Davenport, who'd just gotten custody of her best friend's baby. Although he'd been strictly off-limits, Simon had always held a cherished place in Kit's heart....
For ten long years, the noblewoman Seriana has lived in exile, believing her husband, Karon, is dead, executed for the crime of practicing sorcery. Then she learns his soul has been anchored to their world through magic. And though he has been restor...
Duel Masters, the top-selling trading card game in Japan, hits American shores with fast-paced and funny creature combat excitement! It's the newest card game from Wizards of the Coast.
Don't miss these thrilling stories based on episodes from...
In this volume, a new universe, with its infinite shadow reflections, is brought into being by Dworkin via the Pattern he has created with his own blood. But his creation has caused a great upheaval in the faraway Courts of Chaos. While Oberon use...
Ana Kimble just wanted a little excitement. Now she's running for her life. After being abruptly handed a pink slip, Professor Ana Kimble finds herself at loose ends. So when Rachel Maza, a friend and former student, offers her a vacation at a sec...
Robert Harbert, better known as Harb, is Executive Vice President in Charge of Total Quality. CaroleAnne Winter is the assistant who runs his life. But even Harb can't ignore that CaroleAnne's behavior is increasingly peculiar. At the same ti...
The first victim was hospitalized on Friday. By Monday there is no denying it: The sleepy college town of Duane, Texas, is facing an outbreak of bubonic plague, the infamous Black Death. Is it only a coincidence that the vice president is scheduled t...
Max Greengrass is a stringer for the New York Herald in 1893. He's paid by the column inch. With no regular salary, Max must hustle for his stories, and late one night he nearly trips over one. He finds four cats lined up neatly on a Greenwich Villag...
A Lonely Laird Duncan MacDougall, the laird of Blackstone, was cursed centuries ago to wander as a ghost within the echoing walls of his island castle--and only one woman can free him. Can it be the new mistress of Blackstone, just arrived from ov...
Kelly works hard to love every minute of being single. She even started writing a column about it -- but she harbors a secret she could never tell her readers...she's married! She hasn't seen her hubby in five years -- until now! To her ...
HE'S UNCOVERING HER SECRET DESIRES TO FULFILL HER EVERY FANTASY When Nick Armstrong finds the red diary, he's shocked...and aroused. Here, in intimate detail, prim and proper Lauren Ash records her most secret fantasies. He knows he should never r...
BLITHE SPIRIT Lavinia Stewart was raised in Jamaica, footloose and fancy free -- and returning to England to become a lady at last has proved most difficult. Though she must make her debut, polite society and its endless rules only make her head a...
A hysterical new novel from the author of What's Wrong with Dorfman?
Once a gangly teenager in oversized clothes, Plato G. Fussell is now handsome and independently wealthy. But inside he's still a bundle of neuroses and anxieties, with a tend...
These paired novellas, from Debby Mayne and award-winning author Andrea Boeshaar, celebrate Christmas surprises -- and make for a perfect winter read. Follow Shari Flannering, driving through a storm and stopping at the inn of old family friends -- o...
Travel snags upset the holiday plans of four individuals, but kindly innkeepers open their doors and invite the sojourners in. Will the love they bring be allowed to stay? When a winter storm puts Shari's Christmas on hold, she takes refuge in a Wisc...
Alexander is autistic. When he is nine years old he is found dead in a bath of water. The only other person in the house at the time is his mother Ingrid. The circumstances arouse suspicion and the police take Ingrid into custody. Did she murder her ...
The inimitable T.C. Boyle has found another superb topic for his hyperactive imagination. At heart a moving and compassionate look at sex, marriage, and infidelity, The Inner Circle makes use of Alfred Kinsey's controversial studies on human sexualit...
Evan, Tessa, Linnet, and India: four remarkable women. Three generations of Hartes. One indomitable family whose loyalty binds them together and whose enemies want to tear them apart. Evan Hughes, Emma's American great-granddaughter, is trying to ...
Since childhood, Ariana Levesque has been haunted by a strange, frightening dream about a handsome young man and a dark, foreboding castle. But after a Gypsy fortune-teller divines a perilous destiny, Ariana finds herself caught up in a dangerous int...
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Anne-Sophie Brasme's Breathe is the haunting confession of nineteen-year-old Charlene Boher. From her prison cell, Charlene recounts her lonely adolescence. Growing up shy and unpopular, Charlene never had many fr...
CALLED, CHOSEN AND CAST AWAY... Valeria relishes the tales of the mysterious, powerful Mountain where the gods -- powerful beings in the form of white horses -- live. And she loves hearing stories of the elite Riders who ride the stallions in the ...
USA Today bestselling author Barbara Bretton returns to the scenic Jersey Shore for what should be the happiest day of Maddy Bainbridge's life... There's a wedding in the works at Paradise Point, and Maddy Bainbridge is finding the role of soon-to...
Garnet Diana Dulan swung open the doors of the Silver Dollar Saloon, sucked up a lunch full of cigar smoke, and listened intently to the sounds of men playing poker and the scrape of boots across the wooden floor; she felt right at home. After just m...
Larry Brown's idiosyncratic and powerful Southern novels have earned him widespread critical acclaim. Now, in an ambitious narrative structure reminiscent of Robert Altman's classic film Nashville, this "true original" (Chicago Tribune) weaves togeth...
Arthur fans will love this special collection of classic stories - available together for the first time in this handsomely designed treasury. Read along as everyone's favorite aardvark embarks upon six of his most popular adventures: Arthur's Un...
A shortcut through the forest to Grandma's house produces some eerie moments -- and some oddly familiar characters -- in a strikingly illustrated tale about facing fears.
One morning a young boy wakes up to find that Dad is gone. And in th...
Could the gorgeous man she'd found in her bedroom -- in her bed, to be precise -- really be who he claimed to be? The infamous pirate Tyree St. James caught in a curse for the last two hundred years? And after one night in his arms, did Clara Ferguss...
FAITH STUTZMANE IS GOING HOME.... Faith ran away from her Amish home ten years ago and is now chasing an unusual dream - of being a comedian. Recently widowed, though, she wants to find a stable home for her six-year-old daughter so she can travel...
As radiation poisoning creates a swath of death and destruction throughout Hama, Syria, the operatives of the United States' Counterterrorist Center must find--and destroy--the manufacturers of a pure-fusion neutron bomb before another one is detonat...
The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire worldâ€"Ara...
Davis and Isabella Bunn carry on the tradition begun in SONG OF ACADIA, the compelling historical fiction series crafted by Janette Oke and Davis Bunn. The descendants of those courageous North American settlers are chronicled in this new series, HEI...
It’s 1990, and New York City is in shambles: unemployment reigns, crack wars rage, and whole neighborhoods burn as delinquent landlords cash in. Struggling to come to terms with his father’s death, paramedic and photographer Frank Verbeckas desce...
When Jada Gracen has her heart broken, she flies to St. Thomas for a job interview, hoping for a fresh start. There she discovers something even better - Randall Larimore, her childhood friend and long-time crush, who just happens to own the cluster ...
When a deadly drug that turns its users into blood-craving zombies hits the streets of America, every agent in Spy High is assigned to discover its source. But one member of the Bond Team won't be joining in because of private business--the business ...
HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment. For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse ass...
21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...
Samira is the lowliest creature of the Night World: a mere succubus, a winged spirit bringing dreams of passion to sleeping men. She knows every wicked wish that lurks in their hearts, and yet she has never felt the touch of a man's loving hand. Nor ...
A female homicide detective confronts issues of racism, single-motherhood, and the challenges of faith in this spectacular new edge-of-your-seat thriller.Jael Reynolds is a divorced single mom who’s doing her best to raise her son in Dadesville, on...
As a fifteen-year-old, Giancarlo Lo Manto learned about injustice the hard way. His father was gunned down by the Camorra, the murderous clan run by Don Nicola Rossi. When his mother moved him from New York back to his family's ancestral home in Napl...
In July 1977, Ender's Game appeared as a novelette in Analog magagzine. The science fiction community immediately embraced it, nominating it for a Hugo Award, and when Orson Scott Card turned it into a novel in 1985, it won both the Hugo and Nebula A...
Despite her girlfriends' protest, advertising executive Jill Alexander has given up on the dating scene. A public relations powerhouse, she's put her heat and soul into furthering her career, but that hasn't stopped her from worrying about her biolog...
American expat Scott Nolan has recently moved to Ireland and enjoys a flourishing career as a doctor, a rising media profile as a persuasive campaigner against drug abuse, and is very much in love with Laura, his beautiful new wife. But one wintry Du...
BOLD, INNOVATIVE, AND eclectic -- that’s Rush Hour, the place for thought-provoking stories, essays, art, and poems from today’s most distinguished voices, both established and new. “Bad Boys” is the hard-hitting theme of Volume Two. Here are...
A 100 "Best of the Best" ALA Best Books for Young Adults of the Last 25 Years, Up Country is a heart-wrenching, powerful story from an exceptionally talented writer. Carl knows he's playing with fire every time he fixes up a stolen car ster...
Psychic investigator Jack Stein is back on the case.... The time: Two years after the Wyrmhole incident. Jack and Billie, his ever-enigmatic fourteen-year-old ward, have set up a new shop in a new town. The place: Yorkstone, with its clean stre...
Something's fishy in Bikini Bottom… When King Neptune's crown is stolen, Mr. Krabs is held accountable for the crime! So it's up to SpongeBob and his trusty sidekick, Patrick, to make the dangerous trip to Shell City to retrieve the crown and save...
Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle's charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt's "psychic" ab...
She has the power to tempt him beyond all reason.... Catherine Daniels arrives in Pine Creek, Maine, at just the right time for Robbie MacBain. She is on the run from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a housekeep...
There are so many things you can't explain. Like why isn't YOU spelled U? And why opening your mouth can get you into some very big trouble. Clarice Bean is in nonstop trouble these days -- almost as much as Karl Wrenbury, and he is the naughtiest ...
Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning and her staff are catering an unusual Charleston society benefit -- a "Ghost Crawl" through the spooky grounds of the historic Jasmine Cemetery. Sadly, the doctor who thought up the event doesn't l...
Diana Gordon doesn't want to play P.I. anymore--especially after being shot by a man she was nailing for insurance fraud. Enough is enough. It's time to get out of San Francisco for good. She couldn't ask for more peace and quiet than she finds in...
Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh, the Old One. It is 1926, and because of famine and civil war in China, they have left their village in Toishan province to become the n...
When Matt Harper moves in with his uncle while his mother works for the government in a mysterious job overseas, he knows his life will change. But so long as he can hit the slopes with his snowboard, Matt figures he'll get along okay. But then he ha...
Savannah is excited about throwing a holiday ice skating party and has already invited friends from her new school, when she learns that Jonas has invited the crowd from her old school to a party the same day....
Kim can't believe she has to baby-sit the tweebs.* And as if that weren't bad enough, she's got an even biggerish. Deep in the rain forest, Dr. Drakken is up to no good-as usual! He has created a dangerous mind-control chip. But how can a girl fight ...
When Boyd Matheson rides into Gradyville, Arizona, he discovers a town that lives in fear of a despot. Bull Grady founded the town, yet now demands that all business establishments pay him `rent'. Those who disobey risk death.
Grady has summoned ...
Prepping for his new movie in the tiny town of Pinecob, West Virginia, up-and-coming actor Joshua Reed lands himself another drunk-driving conviction, this time involving a stolen limo, a dark country road and a cow. Rather than let him rot in jail f...
In 1907, photographer Edward S. Curtis arrived at the Wind River Reservation, hoping to document the Arapaho way of life before it vanished altogether. To preserve the legacy of warriors in battle, Curtis staged an attack on a village, planning to ca...
Suddenly, a shadow fell across my brother. . . . It was Spud. She had appeared without a sound, like a ninja librarian. The name Spud Murphy strikes fear into the hearts of children everywhere. Grown-ups think she's a kindly old librarian, but ki...
21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...
Nick Hodges had always been a troublesome boy. Growing up an orphan in his Uncle Jack’s care in a small New England town wasn’t easy. Everyone was a little wary, a little watchful -- a little too watchful. One day, while Nick is walking in the wo...
As I drew, the house felt eerie in its silence. . . . A strange sense stole over me, as though Bland and I were two actors on stage, our movements spotlighted, black emptiness between us. But that darkness grew smaller as the space between us shrank....
MONTHS HAVE PASSED SINCE GREGOR first fell into the strange Underland beneath New York City, and he swears he will never go back. But he is destined to be a key player in another prophecy, this one about an ominous white rat called the Bane. The Unde...
With fascinating forensics, compelling characters, and ingenious plot twists, Beverly Connor's novels have been compared to those of the hottest crime writers on the scene. Now, she ratchets up the suspense to introduce one of today's most insightful...
In Beverly Connor's absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. Now Connor takes her ingenious heroine--forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon--on a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications... In the ...
Hailed as "a literary fantasist of outstanding power and originality" by Michael Moorcock and "a mythmaking Gothic queen" by Neil Gaiman, Storm Constantine is one of the most exciting and innovative fantasy writers of her generation. The author of ma...
Tony Boudreaux needed a rest. So when his lady friend, Janice, insists he escort her to the annual reception at the Chalk Hills Distillery, he immediately refuses. Her aunt, Beatrice Morrison, is the CEO of Chalk Hills and is anxious to host a lavish...
A volume of key writings on the Buddha, collected from a variety of languages and traditions
While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharm...
Bestselling author Stephen Coonts took fans by surprise with the phenomenal and heart-pounding tale of Saucer. Now Rip Cantrell and Charley Pine are back for seconds with with Saucer: The Conquest. Rip Cantrell is brought back to give the saucer ...
The whole town is abuzz when Morning Shade is plagued with Peeping Toms. Morning Shade has had its share of adventures, but this time the town really has something to talk about. Someone is spying on Stella's neighbors, and she's bound and determi...
THE ADVENTURES OF LIONBOY CONTINUE! Charlie Ashanti has helped a pride of lions escape the circus ship and travel by train all the way from Paris to safety in Venice. He has also managed to elude the menacing Rafi and Maccomo for the time being. But...
Karen and Rob are the well-intentioned parents of a teenage son, Tommy, who believe they can avoid the emotional fallout of their failed two-career marriage. Both are successful individuals who have pursued other personal relationships since thei...
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from South Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia's recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta's help to solve a perplexing crime. W...
For the first time in Wolfgang's life, the famous composer was at a loss for a tune. He tried every trick to get his imagination going. He sang standing on his head. He played his violin in the bathtub. He even threw darts at the blank music paper. A...
In Dead Man's Canyon, Ranger Sam Burrack is hunting the Carly twins-one evil and one good. Now one twin has turned up dead-but which one?...
Where do Maisy and all her friends live? This lift-the-flap surprise books let readers look at clues to help them guess -- then lift a flap and find out for sure.
IS THIS MAISY'S HOUSE? Maisy loves to have friends over to visit -- but whic...
How do Maisy and her friends get where they're going? This lift-the-flap surprise books let readers look at clues to help them guess -- then lift a flap and find out for sure.
HOW WILL YOU GET THERE, MAISY? Maisy and her friends are alwa...
A remarkable collection of fantasy tales by amazing authors including Bruce Coville, Tamora Pierce, Jane Yolen, and Gregory Maguire.
A girl is born with the fire of dragon blood in her veins and another longs for the feel of water against her ...
Catherine Donnelly had come to Whirlwind to care for her rebellious brother. Not to rescue the very man who doubted her sibling's innocence! But as the Texas Ranger recovered in her bed, she was forced to admit that Jericho Blue might be the one man ...
Set in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest, and Odessa, both before and after World War II, the eleven stories in The Bride from Odessa belong to a great Argentine cosmopolitan tradition: that of the uprooted exile, the plaything of history, who s...
In this gentle, poignant novel-in-verse, the acclaimed author of AMARYLLIS tells a family tale that is infused with joy, heartbreak, and hope.
Mom says
Dad's spirit lives
in every blade of grass,
in every tree, in all the ways
we l...
21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...
LEGENDS... They called her Lady of Frost, a fabled beauty whose allure no man could resist; yet neither could any breach her icy reserve. She called him Lord of Nothing, a knight with no land, no family, only a name made great by song and story; ...
With a buxom beauty by his side, Morgan attempts to rid a the wild frontier of a land-hungry, blood-thirsty group of criminals that have a penchant for tormenting innocent people who stand in their way. Original....
The Glides of Fort Cloud, Wisconsin, are a Spectacularly Dysfunctional Family. Rusty and Judy did the best they could when raising their three children, yet nothing turned out the way they planned. The Glide parents have just about resigned themselve...
This important collection showcases the most sensitive short fiction on the subject of the girl child by some of India's finest writers. The stories cut across social, economic and regional divides to reveal what life is like for a girl growing up in...
The author of the “enchanting” and “delightful” (USA Today) debut novel For Matrimonial Purposes returns with a romantic comedy about a new bride leading a secret double life.
After an arranged marriage in her native India, Priya moves with...
21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...
She was a suspect in his investigation...but Redstone employee Kate Crawford was also the most captivating woman securities expert Rand Singleton had ever known. Despite the protective feelings she stirred, he couldn't reveal his true identity. He'd ...
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL MAY PROVE DEADLY... As an "informer"--a private detective--Marcus Didius Falco has an insider's knowledge of the Empire's less than glorious side. He's also been in the middle of its most dangerous secrets more than onc...
In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwest...
Dear Aunt Millie, I can give good advice to everyone else, so why can't I solve my own problems? I'm really excited about taking over this column, but I can't figure out what to do about your nephew. Griffin makes my toes curl and I forget what...
If you have to ask, you'll never be on . . .THE A LIST Anna's an intern on the new hit TV show Hermosa Beach. Now everyone wants to be her NBF, from the editor of the school newspaper hoping for a pipeline to juicy gossip, down to that random kid ...
Failure of the Hive to contain the Umbrella Corporation's most deadly viral creation has led to an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions. Now the streets of Raccoon City swarm with the living dead, compelling Umbrella to deploy another of its bioweapo...
“Dramatic, adventurous, heroic, romantic. . . these historical chronicles, legends, myths, tall tales and fables, featuring warriors, kings, monks, explorers and clever common folk, imaginatively tell the history of Ireland.” -- ...
Death strikes at the county fair -- and real-estate agent Ellen McKenzie is the unlucky one to have stumbled upon the body. The victim, pinned to a bale of hay with a pitchfork, was a groom at a horse farm belonging to Ellen's new client, Irma Long. ...
This year, Santa and Mrs. Claus are having their entire family over for Christmas dinner. There's Uncle Alfred the inventor from Bermuda; Sister Olga the opera singer; eight young children, including Baby Willie; even a polar bear named Oscar. With a...
COP TO THE RESCUE Crashing his high-school sweetheart's society wedding might be going above and beyond the call of duty, but Officer Joseph Lowery instinctively detected something unsettling -- sinister, even -- about Erin Marshall's impending un...
Kurt Kurtovic wanted nothing more than to be left in peace, to make a life with his wife and child in Westfield, Kansas. Then September 11 happened and Kurt knew they'd never be safe again unless he did what only he could do, take terror to the t...
With immense characters, this thrilling medieval fantasy, filled with moral complexity and vision, announces the arrival of a special new writing talent. Phaedra, the beautiful daughter of a baron, has been visited in dreams by an elusive knight f...
In an effort to promote his "heavy metal" wartime agenda, General Jackson Monroe, once the finest of military snipers, meets with Afghanistan's Northern Alliance warlords, a setup that turns into a deadly power play that leaves Monroe responsible for...
When Anna Preston was introduced to her estranged family at their Belhaven estate, London's glamorous set became her new milieu, with never-before-dreamt-of trips to Paris and the French Riviera. There was now even the chance of a place at Oxford Uni...
Adventure awaits Take a trip inside Riley's head with Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust; travel to infinity and beyond with Buzz Lightyear and Woody; swim the oceans with Marlin and Dory; and more. Featuring retellings of all seventeen Disney-Pi...
Meet Bob Parr. He's your ordinary middle-aged suburban dad. He's got three kids and a loving wife. He hates his job and detests his boss. The only thing that sets Bob apart from the millions of other guys like him is that he used to be the celebrated...
With the wave of a magic wand, all your wishes come true in this magic-themed Friendship Box! Featuring the Genie from Aladdin, the Fairy Godmother from Cinderella, the three good fairies from Sleeping Beauty, and Tinker Bell from Peter Pan, these bo...
Three ordinary kids, Jared, Simon, and Wallory Grace, have entered another world -- without leaving this one! Two remarkable talents, New York Times best-sellers Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, have risked everything to bring this remarkable accoun...
From the bestselling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity. Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a ...
For one night only... Billionaire Slade Hawkings is certain that Alli Pierce is a seductress and a gold digger! He travels to the beautiful Pacific island of Valanu to confront her. But their instant sexual attraction gives him another idea... I...
Privilege has a price for three high-society Londoners in this eighteenth-century historical novel by the author of Room and The Pull of the Stars. In a time of looming war, of glittering spectacle and financial disasters, the wealthy liberals o...
BIZARRE OCCURENCES CAN HAPPEN Strange things are happening near Granite Creek, Colorado, all in the space of less than twenty-four hours. A Ute shaman dreams of being buried alive and hears the hooting of an owl, signaling impending death. A man wal...
P.I. Dean Harding's search for the mother of an abandoned baby leads him to an Austin, Texas, hospital -- and Dr. Kate Purvis, the OB who may have helped the mother give birth. But she's refusing to tell what she knows. So Dean goes undercover, hopin...
The land of Tencendor has been united for more than forty years, thanks to Axis, who is the legendary Starman. He defeated Gorgrael and brought peace to the three races--and upon fulfilling his destiny, Axis and his consort Azhure retired to the ethe...
Authors Christine Lynxwiler and Pamela Dowd deliver two witty, contemporary tales of motherhood and the trappings of "the perfect holiday." Penny Lassiter’s comfortable Christmas traditions are upset by her husband’s off-the-wall plan to reconnec...