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  • Laura Abbot

    "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Meg with a baby carriage." Once upon a time, Meg and Scott Harper had it all. But then life got in the way, and they lost sight of what was important. Each other. Now twenty years have passed, ...



  • Shana Abe

    In this bewitching novel, Shana Abe transports us to an exhilarating world of romance, adventure, and magic. Here, among northern England's misted hills, live a race of extraordinarily beautiful and sensual beings with the ability to shape-shift from...




  • J.J. Ace

    For Elias, being murdered is just the beginning. The unlucky "winner" of a celestial lottery after his death, Elias has the role of Forerunner thrust upon him. He's given the powers of angels and devils in order to cast the thousand-year judgment of ...



  • Chantel Acevedo

    On the outside, Josefina Navarro's life seems fortunate enough -- she lives with her father and her nursemaid, Regla, who raises her after the death of her mother in a luxurious home in Vedado, one of Cuba's wealthiest districts. She attends society ...




  • Ken Akamatsu

    IT’S TRAINING TIME!

    After their adventures on a school trip to Kyoto, you’d think that Negi and his students would want to rest. But now that they’re back at Mahora Academy, relaxation is pretty low on the list! First there are Asuna’s...



  • Theresa Alan
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    Sure, you can turn Mr. Oh-So-Wrong into a toad, but finding Mr. Right isn't any easier for a witch. And choosing between conjuring up a new pair of Manolos and working on another love spell can be tough. After all, fabulous heels don't forget to call...



  • Carly Alexander
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    Sure, you can turn Mr. Oh-So-Wrong into a toad, but finding Mr. Right isn't any easier for a witch. And choosing between conjuring up a new pair of Manolos and working on another love spell can be tough. After all, fabulous heels don't forget to call...



  • Catherine Alliott

    Annie O'Harran is the wrong side of thirty. A harassed single mother (of almost teen-aged Flora), she's escaped her faithless first husband, and against all expectations met her hero. She has a blissful summer ahead to plan her wedding. But first ...



  • Sara Faith Alterman

    10:00 A.M. Julie Jorlamo is your run-of-the-mill, all-American girl living and waitressing in L.A. and trying to compete with the armloads of blonde, silicone- enhanced, would-be starlets for a little attention. 10:25 A.M. Julie Jorlamo has just...



  • Jessica Andersen

    TOUGH. TENACIOUS, TRUE BLUE. Secret Service agent Isabella Gray thought those traits described bounty hunter Jacob Powell to a T. When the secretary of defense's family was ambushed on her watch, she knew she needed to recruit the sexy ex-Special ...



  • Hesper Anderson

    From the author of the critically acclaimed memoir South Mountain Road comes a powerful story of one woman's emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening. Following her success as an Academy Award-nominated screenplay writer (Children of a Lesser G...



  • Rex Anderson

    Houstonian Tony Aapt would do almost anything but sell hamburgers to get out of the Private Investigations business he inherited from his grandfather, along with a pile of debt, so he reluctantly subsists on what he wryly refers to as "domestic recon...



  • V.C. Andrews

    APRIL HAD ALWAYS FELT LIKE AN OUTSIDER. Her older sister Brenda was tall, athletic, competitive, and sure of herself. But April Taylor was short, sensitive, and overweight -- and she couldn't bounce back from their father's cutting criticisms th...



  • Mark Anthony (1)

    When Lady cries rape on her mother's boyfriend, her mother throws her out of the only home she has ever known. Now Lady must find a way to survive on the cold, hard streets. After landing a dead-end job at a donut shop, Lady wonders how she will ever...



  • Devan Aptekar

    Dramatic action. Amazing gadgets. The thrill of super-villains being shut down by the guardian of Gotham City's shadows. That's right -- THE BATMAN is back!

    The incredible Bat-adventures continue with a new chapter book -- with two amazing Bat...



  • Tedd Arnold

    From bestselling author/illustrator Tedd Arnold, creator of PARTS and GREEN WILMA, comes the hilarious FLY GUY! It's easy to read and it comes with a shiny foil cover!"A fly was flying. He was looking for something to eat. Something tasty. Something ...



  • Sarah Ash

    In this third novel in her acclaimed Tears of Artamon saga, Sarah Ash once again transports readers to a realm where sorcery collides with political intrigue--and one man haunted by a dark legacy struggles between the forces of good and evil battling...



  • Anne Ashley

    Poor Miss Abbie Graham had never felt so betrayed! Betrothed to her grandfather's godson, Mr. Bartholomew Cavanagh, she had found him in a rather compromising position in the garden with another woman! Refusing to marry Bart has resulted in years...



  • Robert Asprin; Jodi Lynn Nye

    SCHOOL DAZE It's the biggest myth in the universe--that the Kland magician known as the Great Skeeve is really great. Though he's become an inter-dimensional legend, Skeeve couldn't have done it without a lot of luck and a little help from his fri...



  • Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    Nicias has never felt completely at home among the avians and serpiente in Wyvern's Court, despite his loyalty to Oliza Shardae Cobriana, the heir to both thrones. He is a falcon, the son of two exiles from Anhmik -- and images of this distant island...



  • James Axler

    BLOOD SUNSET Time, and the fallout of a nuclear holocaust, have ravaged 21st century America, but one fundamental impulse of human nature remains: the will to survive. And only the strongest do survive. Men like Ryan Cawdor, whose inner strength and...



  • Ben M. Baglio

    At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy and James are distracted from Halloween planning when local girl Amber Hutton runs awa...



  • Paul Bajoria

    The notorious inhabitants of London's criminal underworld are all in a day's work for Mog, the printer's apprentice, who prints their "wanted" posters. A real-life meeting with a convict entangles Mog in a secret scheme in this suspenseful tale....



  • Sandra Balzo

    Nothing marks opening day at a chic new gourmet coffee shop like an espresso machine rigged for death. When Patricia Harper, one of the three owners of Uncommon Grounds, is electrocuted while frothing the first latte, it's up to partner and coffee ma...



  • Tom Bancroft

    Worried about how Andi is adjusting to her mother's death, her father decides they should move from San Francisco to a small town near the Sierra Nevada mountains, where Andi discovers her mother's girlhood journals, makes some new friends, and becom...




  • Leanne Banks

    IT'S ALL ABOUT THE SHOES! Designing footwear is Jenny Prillaman's life, so getting the plum assignment to create a socialite's wedding shoes is a dream come true. Dealing with the heiress is another story. So is staying away from her dreamy new boss...



  • Leslie Esdaile Banks

    From the hurricane-ravaged Caribbean to Philadelphia's halls of power, this suspenseful sequel to Betrayal of the Trust follows gutsy Laura Caldwell, a financial genius and brilliant beauty who is ready to put a dangerous chapter in her life behind h...



  • Adrienne Basso
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    The Scottish highlands echo with legends of great battles, brave heroes -- and, hidden deep in the swirling mists, creatures that belong to the night. In this sensual new collection, meet three vampires whose highland blood drums fierce and hot in th...



  • Ann Bauer

    Edward is nearly four years old when he begins his slow, painful withdrawal from the world. For those who love him -- his father, Jack, and mother, Rachel, pregnant with their third child -- the transformation of their happy, intelligent firstborn in...



  • Robert Bausch

    Four characters burdened by the past intersect at a fading resort town when County Sheriff David Caldwell is called in to restore the order destroyed by the town bully, Cecil Edwards-a giant of a man who operates the Ferris wheel. Caldwell must also ...



  • Julie Beard

    "YOU'RE ASKING ME TO GIVE UP MY CAREER TO LOVE YOU? THAT'S NOT FAIR, MARCO." Angel Baker knew the risks. Every day she put her life on the line to protect those Detective Ric Marco and his overwhelmed police force couldn't. In twenty-second-centur...



  • Bob Beltz

    John Calvin had it all--and threw it away. He wanted to put as many miles between him and as Chicago as possible. As he hits the road, the highway has other ideas for him. And with each twist and turn, he realizes he just may end up finding himself a...



  • Carol Lea Benjamin

    A woman vanished -- without a word and without a trace -- five years ago. The daughter she left behind hasn't spoken since. And now the troubled young girl stands accused of a shocking and brutal crime. The distraught stranger at the Washington Squa...



  • Angela Benson

    Two hard years in prison have changed Wilford "Preacher" Winters for the better. He did his time, now he's going to "do the right thing." But the women in his life have other ideas.Tanya, the sleek and sexy mother of his two kids, is much too comfort...



  • Laurien Berenson

    Melanie Travis has her hands full these days, what with adding a husband and three more dogs to her already cramped home. The advanced obedience training for her dog Faith is a welcome respite from the stresses of house hunting--until murder forces M...



  • Carol Berg

    Heed my last word, Destroyer. You will never be free of us.... You are our instrument. Gerick was stolen away as a child by the evil Lords of Zhev'Na, who sought to make him one of them. Years later, he seeks refuge in a strange, sunless land of...



  • Lara Bergen

    Dive into the enchanted world of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with this beautiful retelling that features a sparkly padded cover. The Handsome Prince, the Magic Mirror, and the Seven Dwarfs are all here for fans young and old to relive one of the ...



  • Judith Berman

    A twelve year old awakens one morning to discover that she has been transformed into a human girl, instead of a bear, and embarks on a dangerous journey through both mortal and immortal worlds to restore her past, confront her fears, and preserve the...



  • John Gregory Betancourt

    "Fans of the late Roger Zelazny's popular Amber series should flock to this.... Betancourt captures the fantastic nature of the original and peppers his story with Amber-familiar terms such as Logrus, that mystical gift which enables its holders t...



  • Bruce Bethke

    This pair of robot mysteries, enhanced with a pair of essays by Asimov himself, reflects the colorful world of thinking robots, subterranean Earth dwellers and witty repartee that characterized the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning landscape of the belov...



  • Charlotte Bingham

    Exciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries.'An engaging, romantic...




  • Sandra Birdsell

    Children of the Day opens on a June morning in 1953, when Sara Vandal, convinced that her husband has been having a decades-long affair, decides that she is too sick to get out of bed. With ten children in the house (and a possible eleventh on the wa...



  • Millenia Black

    What a story! It made me wonder if I can install a Lo-Jack on my husband before his next business trip. Do they make one for men? -Lisa Earle McLeod, bestselling author of The Triangle of Truth The #1 Internationally Bestselling Family Drama You Simp...



  • Terri Blackstock

    The first installment in a thrilling series in which a global catastrophe puts a family’s survival at risk -- and both reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration.Birmingham, Alabama, has lost all power. Its streets are j...



  • Tyler Blackwood

    A wizard is coming. His plan to change the face of the planet has been foretold as the last of the seven ancient Dragon prophecies. After two hundred years of fighting, battle-weary Christopher Bartholomew discovers his perfect mate is a demon wolf, ...



  • Chris Blaine

    When he arrives in Cape May, New Jersey, at a historic B&B, former teacher Sam Ford is offered free room and board to home-school the owner's troubled son, a dream job that turns into a nightmare as ghosts from previous guests, who died gruesome deat...



  • Meredith Blevins

    Annie Szabo has discovered a miracle: Jimmy Qi, a kid from Chinatown with the power to heal using music. He's dazzling, he's a scoundrel, he's wise, and he makes a great newspaper article.
    But now everyone wants Jimmy: an evangelist; a tong societ...



  • Win Blevins

    Young Sam Morgan, the Pennsylvania runaway and now a seasoned Rocky Mountain trapper, joins a brigade led by Jedediah Smith, greatest mountain man of them all, heading west for the Mexican province of Alta California.

    With Sam on this dangerou...



  • Peter Bollinger

    It's Halloween. Algernon Graeves is in his attic trying to think of the scariest Halloween costume ever.He imagines himself a mummy, a vampire, a werewolf ... but none of those creatures are quite scary enough. So he thinks, and he thinks, and he ...



  • Meredith Bond

    SEARCHING FOR A WEALTHY HUSBAND... As the spirited daughter of a famed archeologist, Rose Grace has led a life of grand adventure. But in an instant, everything changes. Now it's Rose who must take charge of her unruly younger sisters, and it's Rose...



  • Marie Bostwick

    This would be easier if I were writing about someone else. Then I could change it, fatten up the thin parts and leave out the dull ones, turning them twice like frayed collars and cuffs, making them over into something more romantic than they really ...



  • Jane Bowles

    Jane Bowles has for many years had an underground reputation as one of the truly original writers of the twentieth century. The collection in My Sister's Hand in Mine of expertly crafted short fiction will fully acquaint all students and scholars wit...



  • T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    For fans of outrageous and fascinating animal narratives such as Netflix’s “Tiger King,” a collection of tales by the renowned T.C. Boyle that explore humanity’s wild sideSince his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979...



  • T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle speaks to a brand-new audience in this anthology of his classic, richly imagined short fiction about teenagers. 

    His many, varied novels are part of the American literary landscape -- but one of th...



  • Marlon Brando

    Fan-Tan is a hugely entertaining, swashbuckling romp, from one of the greatest actors of our time: Marlon Brando. The story of an eccentric early-twentieth-century pirate who sets out on the high seas from the Philippines to Shanghai, Fan-Tan follows...



  • Peter Brandvold

    When "Three Fingers" Ned Meade kills his ten-year-old son, which results in his wife's suicide, Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk, once a lawman of principle, embarks on a mission of vengeance against Meade--one that will make him a wanted man. Origina...



  • Gary A. Braunbeck

    Everything changed for Gil Stewart on the day he saw the old man die. Gil had witnessed the bizarre accident on the highway and stopped to help. The old man couldn't be saved, but just before he died he clutched Gil's shirt and whispered a warning: "...



  • Elizabeth Bright

    Jennifer Shane has just opened her own card-making business in Rebel Forge, Virginia. But she's beginning to wonder if it was such a good idea--especially since murder has left its calling card.... Custom Card Creations was Jennifer's chance to b...



  • Terry Brooks

    Young Penderrin Ohmsford is charged with the daunting task of rescuing his aunt Grianne, Ard Rhys of the Druid order, from her forced exile in the terrifying dimension of the Forbidding. Though Pen enlists the support of the noble dwarf Tagwen and th...




  • Margaret Wise Brown

    When a very dirty little boy tries to clean himself by imitating the bathing habits of various animals, he only gets dirtier, in a classic story--first published nearly forty-five years ago--now available as a picture book. Reprint....



  • Rita Mae Brown

    In The Hunt Ball, the latest novel in this popular series, all the ingredients Brown's readers love are abundantly present: richness of character and landscape, the thrill of the hunt, and the chill of violence. The trouble begins at Custis Hall, ...



  • Gabriel Brownstein

    From the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, a debut novel featuring Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is April 1922. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in New York on a spiritualist crusade. To packed houses at Carnegie Hall, he displays photo...



  • Maggie Bruce

    Brooklyn girl Lili Marino has found herself starting over in the tiny village of Walden Corners, New York, where she has the time and space to cultivate her first love: taking gourds from the garden and transforming them into birdhouses, bowls, and b...




  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

    One beautiful, hand-tied patchwork quilt is the common thread linking hearts and renewing lives in these two charming Christmas novellas. In the first story, the quilt is lovingly created by a dying woman. In the second story, the quilt is passed on ...



  • Megan E. Bryant

    Hogie is celebrating the one-year anniversary of his diner, so he asks his friends to bring all of their favorite recipes to the party, but the party isn't much fun when Hogie is too picky about his food....



  • James David Buchanan

    Creede, Colorado, is described as the cleft in the devil's chin. It's a hotspot for mayhem and violence, and exactly the kind of place that appeals to Bob Ford. Known as the man who shot Jesse James, Ford has a hammerlock on Creede that no law enforc...



  • Robert Buettner

    The battle of Ganymede taught Jason Wander about the devastation of war. After seeing the deaths of his troops, as well as his lover, the battle-scarred soldier is ready for peace. At twenty-five, General Jason Wander has fought and won man's only...



  • T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Serafina, the daughter of a powerful Venetian counselor, secretly abandons ship … and her family bound for America … in a desperate attempt to return to her beloved, the dashing art tutor her father had banished. Finding herself alone in England,...




  • Ann Burton

    The beautiful eldest daughter of a rug seller and a secret believer in her late mother's religion of Judaism, Rahab is banished by her spiteful stepmother to the streets of Jericho where she is forced to sell her body to survive, until two Jewish spi...



  • Mary Burton

    Nick Baron knew it was wrong to buy trust with a falsehood, but there was no other way. His reputation as the most dangerous bounty hunter west of the Rockies terrified even decent folks, not just the outlaws he hunted. So he sure as hell wasn't abou...



  • Laurie Wagner Buyer

    Side Canyons, a fictionalized account based on journal notes taken during a trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, is a tale of intimate relationship with the earth and the personal evolution of an impressionable woman in nine challengi...




  • Lisa Cach

    Single twentysomething seeks Prince Charming. Those without royal castles need not apply. Inspired by a famous talk show host to "live her best life," out-of-work tech writer Katy Orville flies off to London to find the man of her dreams. But in...



  • Laura Caldwell

    When Billy Rendell suddenly gets everything she wants, it turns out to be the last thing she needs... A long-awaited promotion. Freedom from emotional baggage. A newly -- ahem -- amorous husband. What's wrong with this picture? Well...everything....



  • Susan Chapma Calitri

    Sing along with this silly children's song complete with a CD recording and musical notation!

    Sing along and count down the ten adorable puppies taking up space on one very small bed! This well-known children's song will have all readers singi...



  • Ramsey Campbell

    Some crimes go beyond the laws of nature... There is a line most people do not dare to cross; an unseen border between reason and passion, logic and lust. But for some, this boundary is merely a doorway into a realm of unbridled passions and uncontr...



  • Julie Cannon

    The heartwarming saga of Imo Lavender and her spirited family continues in a third installment of the beloved Homegrown series. Life is moving on for Imogene Lavender, and reluctantly she leaves her farm in rural Georgia to follow her new husband, R...



  • Carolynn Carey

    Megan Marsh was just passing through McCray County, Tennessee on her way to a career in Chicago, but after a run-in with an overzealous deputy involving a bee, a slap, a speeding ticket, and a heap of misunderstanding, she finds herself suddenly imme...



  • Elizabeth Doyle Carey

    The Callahan cousins are back for the second installment of their vacation on Gull Island. Grandmother Gee has given the girls permission to fix up their very own quarters separate from the main house, and Neeve stumbles upon a troubling family secre...



  • Patrick Carman

    AN OLD EVIL. A NEW DANGER. Alexa Daley thought her troubles were over when she defeated the man who had threatened to bring down Bridewell from within. But now that the walls around her land have fallen, a new, unexpected threat has risen from outsi...



  • Josephine Carr

    After years of marriage, she's got her own apartment and her own life. A murder will occur in thirty days. It's up to Anne Johnson to prevent it... Free-spirited and freshly divorced, fifty-year-old Anne Johnson is living the good life. With ...



  • Carroll & Graf Publishers

    Including original stories by Neil Jordan, Gerard Donovan, Edna O'Brien, Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Claire Keegan, Colm Toibin, Niall Williams, and Mary Morrissy, this stunning collection of short stories illustrates the vibrancy and eclecticism of c...




  • Sammi Carter

    No visit to Paradise, Colorado is complete without a stop at Divinity Candy Shop for a little taste of heaven. For owner Abby Shaw, it's a sweet deal, too. When her Aunt Grace passed away, Abby inherited Divinity -- and with it the opportunity to lea...



  • Kathryn Caskie

    ONCE A RAKE, ALWAYS A RAKE! Gentle Reader, always remember that-and pray that I, Meredith Merriweather, heed my own warning. For I find myself caught in a scheme to prove that the notorious "former" scoundrel Lord Lansing, Alexander Lamont, is jus...



  • Nancy F. Castaldo

    When Queen Margherita makes a special request after tasting one of his famous pizzas, Raffaele of Napoli beams with pride and goes all about town to get just the right ingredients, but when a sneaky cat with a taste for anchovies puts an unexpected t...



  • Linda Castillo

    HOSTAGE TO LOVE Taking gorgeous corrections officer Emily Monroe as his hostage, undercover CIA agent Zack Devlin was trying to escape with his life. But when he helped himself to Emily's full red lips and her body melted into Zack's hard edges, s...



  • Denys Cazet

    Elvis knows what it takes to be boss. He's a rooster's rooster. Handsome, charming, and intelligent"no wonder the chickens love him so much. He has it all...until Cluck Gable, the peacock, shows up. Suddenly Elvis can't even get a decent breakfa...



  • Dori Chaconas

    When her shivering baby is born on a cold winter night, a mouse follows some animals to a special manger where she receives help from another mother, in a heartwarming Nativity story by the author of One Little Mouse. ...



  • Holly Chamberlin
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    Sure, you can turn Mr. Oh-So-Wrong into a toad, but finding Mr. Right isn't any easier for a witch. And choosing between conjuring up a new pair of Manolos and working on another love spell can be tough. After all, fabulous heels don't forget to call...



  • Graham Chapman

    Among the many blackguards who left their bloodstained mark on history, the foulest of them all was the pirate Yellowbeard. His name struck terror into the hearts of gentlefolk in the days when Queen Anne was a monarch rather than a table. Until rece...



  • Nancy Kapp Chapman

    Tripper the Dog shares the scrapbook he keeps detailing his travel to ten big cities all around the world, including Tokyo, Mexico City, Moscow, Rome, Paris, and Washington, D.C. By the creators of Doggie Dreams. ...



  • Nora Charles

    Once a snowbird, now full-time resident and sometime sleuth, Kate Kennedy "is a stylish and sophisticated Miss Marple, seeking justice in sunny South Florida instead of a rainy English Village, and meeting the most delightfully eccentric suspects in ...



  • Monique Charlesworth

    This is the story of two children caught in the midst of war.It is 1939 and thirteen-year-old Ilse, half-Jewish, has been sent out of Germany by her Aryan mother to a place of supposed safety. Her journey takes her from the labyrinthine bazaars of Mo...



  • Judy Christenberry

    4 Months + 5 Months = Baby! As good as accountant Jim Schofield was with figures -- he could count back and tell when Teresa got pregnant -- he was bad with words like commitment and marriage. But when the stubborn Texan realized he was going to be ...



  • Scott Ciencin

    This early chapter book featuring Batman and Poison Ivy has full-color, comic-book-style illustrations.

    Kids will love this adventure-filled story featuring a favorite and timeless superhero -- Batman, The Dark Knight!

    Poison Ivy has st...



  • Jill Ciment

    In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in Life magazine. She has not left Ta'un'uu"the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a stor...



  • Siobhan Ciminera

    Strawberry Shortcake loves spending the holidays with her berry best friends, but when everyone seems too busy with other plans, Strawberry must find a way to bring holiday cheer to Strawberryland. Original....



  • Robynn Clairday

    MESSAGE BOARD
    About Genesis Bell Queensheba at 1:02 a.m.
    i’ve heard you’d better not leave your guy alone with her! not if you DON’T want to lose him >:p
    It’s not her fault 007ugo at 1:45 a.m.
    You got it all wrong! If anyone’...



  • Mary Clanahan

    Inspired by the magical transformation of Namaqualand each spring " from near desert to fairyland flower carpets, Mary Clanahan has created a tale of natural wonder for children. Chief Nama Kwa thinks that the Great Spirit must have been angry when...



  • Chris Claremont

    SC, TPB, NM/M, New, in cello, Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT, BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH, LOUISE SIMONSON and WALTER SIMONSON. Art by JOHN ROMITA JR., RICK LEONARDI, JUNE BRIGMAN, BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH, BRET BLEVINS, ALAN DAVIS, ARTHUR ADAMS, TERRY SHOEMAKER, WAL...




  • Joan Clark

    Joan Clark’s An Audience of Chairs opens with Moranna MacKenzie living alone in her ancestral Cape Breton farmhouse, waging a war with the symptoms of bipolar disorder and grieving the loss of her two daughters, taken from her over thirty years pre...



  • John Clarke

    A novel of the 20th century in which the greatest thinkers and personalities engage in a two-week tennis tournament. "If you didn't know better you'd think this city had gone crazy. The streets of Paris are full of celebrities and media, and out at t...



  • Donna Clayton

    On her visit to Portland's popular Healthy Living Clinic, royal beauty Catherine Von Husden wanted oh-so-serious Dr. Riley Jacobs to notice her. But the good doctor was all business and didn't give her the attention she so craved. Nevertheless Prince...



  • Gena Cline

    To honor her father's dying wish, Glynette, a beautiful, talented young woman from the East, marries Anniston McCrae, an ambitious army captain who intends to make a name for himself in the West.

    She solemnly resolves to love Captain McCrae and b...



  • Chynna Clugston

    From the talented creator of bestselling comics Blue Monday and Scooter Girl, comes a funny, super-power graphic novel about the middle-school social hive, where only one girl can be the QUEEN BEE!Haley is smart, funny, nice, and determined to be sup...



  • Esme Raji Codell

    Old Scroogemacher was as sour as a pickle and had a tongue like horseradish. He was a tyrant to the poor workers in his waistcoat factory, and even on the last night of Hanukkah, he had the nerve to set the clocks back. What a shtunk. When his nephew...



  • Margaret Coel

    THIS IS FOR THE INDIAN PRIEST. The cryptic message was clearly meant for Father O'Malley. The unemotional voice on the answering machine -- speaking of revenge against old enemies -- wanted O'Malley to visit the site of the Bates Battle. In 1874, ...



  • Paulo Coelho

    The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not...



  • Paul Collicutt



    Blast off for rockets!



    This colorful celebration will satisfy burgeoning astronauts with a survey of rocket planes and spacecrafts. From a Fourth of July firework rocket to the space shuttle Columbia to the rocket that landed ...



  • Carolyn Conahan

    What could be better than a new dog for Christmas? How about getting dogs for all twelve days leading up to it?! This canine confection offers more than just a delightful twist on the traditional carol: by topping each other’s doggy deliveries, two...



  • Linda Conrad

    EVERYONE SAID THAT BILLIONAIRE COWBOY TYSON WAS UNTAMABLE The strong-willed Texan had a swagger in his step and a chip on his shoulder, and Merri Davis was just one more assistant who had been hired to try to keep him in line. Until a strange Gyps...



  • Natasha Cooper

    Barrister Trish Maguire tackles a thirty-year-old terrorism case when distinguished biographer, Beatrice Bowman, hires her to fight a libel claim by a new ennobled member of the House of Lords who says she misidentified him as one of the terrorists w...



  • Lori Copeland

    Book three in the popular Men of the Saddle series by beloved author Lori Copeland. Six years ago, Susanne McCord tricked Cass Claxton into marrying her in a shotgun wedding. They haven't seen each other since that day, but when they cross paths agai...



  • Melinda Copper

    A rabbit princess takes refuge from her wicked stepmother in the forest cottage of seven dwarfs, in a lavish rendition of the classic fairy tale inspired by the work of master painters throughout history and told with a charming animal cast....



  • Zizou Corder

    THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO CHARLIE THE LIONBOY'S GRAND ADVENTURE! After months of searching, not to mention leading a pride of escaped circus lions through Europe and all the way back to Africa, Catspeaker Charlie Ashanti has finally been reunite...



  • Michael Cordy

    How can a drug that makes people fall madly in love be a bad thing?So thinks Professor Bacci when he inadvertently unlocks the biochemical key to falling in love, and develops a drug capable of creating emotions indistinguishable from the real thing....



  • Primarius Corporation

    As seen on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.”

    Everyone knows the story of Jack and his famous beanstalk, but here’s a contemporary retelling with enough new twists and turns to surprise and delight parents and children alike. Watch Jack ...



  • Catherine Coulter

    FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most dangerous case of their careers in Catherine Coulter's explosive new thriller. Point Blank's propulsive story takes off when FBI agents Dillon Savich and Dane Carver are nearly killed whil...



  • Arthur Byron Cover

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  • Bruce Coville

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  • Joy Cowley

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  • L.F. Crawford

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  • Mark Crilley

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  • Cindy Cruciger

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  • Elaine Cunningham

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  • Melinda Curtis

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  • Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos

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  • Michael Dahl

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  • Maurice G. Dantec

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  • Emma Darcy

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  • John Darnton

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  • Peter David

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  • Carolyn Davidson

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  • Craig Davidson

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  • Maryjanice Davidson

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  • Jonathan Davies

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  • Dee Davis

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  • Barbara Davoll

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  • Barbara Davoll

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  • Barbara Davoll

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  • Barbara Davoll

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  • Desiree Day

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  • Hilary De Vries

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  • Zoey Dean

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  • Sis Deans

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  • Tiffanie Debartolo

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  • Keith R.A. Decandido

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  • Cindy Dees

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  • Tom Defalco

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  • Diane deGroat

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  • Joseph Delaney

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  • Corinne Demas

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  • Al Dempster

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  • Janelle Denison

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  • John Denver

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  • Stacia Deutsch; Rhody Cohon

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  • Anita Diamant

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  • Kelly DiPucchio

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  • Disney Book Group

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  • E.L. Doctorow

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  • Ronlyn Domingue

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  • Robyn Donald

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  • Charlotte Douglas

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  • Susan K. Downs; Susan May Warren

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  • Shannon Drake

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  • Eileen Dreyer

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  • Tananarive Due

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  • Alice Faye Duncan

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  • Carola Dunn

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  • Frederic S. Durbin

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  • Doranna Durgin

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  • Margot Early

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  • Cassie Edwards

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  • Robin Epstein

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  • Birdie L. Etchison

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  • Marcia Evanick

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  • Tabor Evans

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  • Lynne Ewing

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  • John Fardell

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