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  • Extra Marital Affairs

    Relentless Aaron

    When Mason and Adena Fickle find their new sex partner, Loween, dead in their bed just hours after the threesome's hot and raunchy escapade, they discover the woman was neither who nor what she'd said she was. The ménage à trois should have been...

  • The Only Best Place

    Carolyne Aarsen

    Leslie Vandekeere thought her big-city career made her life worthwhile, but a move to small-town Montana shows her how big the world really is. Leslie had a good life: a happy family, a great career (even if it did pull her away from her home), a...

  • Rifkind's Challenge

    Lynn Abbey

    In a desert world ruled by men, Rifkind has always been one apart. A chieftains daughter, she learned to wield a sword while all other women were bound by tribal custom to children and the cooking fire. But when her clan was massacred, she set forth ...

  • After Summer

    Hailey Abbott

    Summer may be over, but the hook ups are hotter than ever. Beth George is supposed to be my boyfriend and my best friend. Now, it's like he's only interested in one thing -- and it's not my friendship. Ella Unbelievable. Ryan is an even bigge...

  • Sorcerer

    Tony Abbott

    A POWERFUL SORCERER. A MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. THE FUTURE OF DROON LIES IN SPARR'S HANDS. Call me Sparr. I am a sorcerer. An enchanter. A conjuror. Dark magic sings in my veins. My powers are nearly limitless. Spells, charms, curses -- I've used...

  • The Boss's Convenient Bride

    Jennie Adams

    A nine-to-five marriage arrangement... Claire Dalgliesh is shocked -- no, stunned -- when her cool, controlled boss declares that he needs a convenient wife -- and the woman he's selected for the job is her! Claire may have a crush the size of...

  • Love Is Random Too

    Kendall Adams

    Help! I was lagging behind everyone in the romance department to the point where it was mortifying. So my best friend talked me into asking out three guys at random--and now they all want to be my boyfriend! I know . . . I shouldn't complain, but...

  • Half of a Yellow Sun

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to schoo...

  • Fantastic Four: The Resurrection of Nicholas Scratch

    Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

    There is an order to everything. A balance to the world and the nether-realms beneath the world. And now that balance is being tipped, as dark forces gather like a storm. The occult mutants known as Salem's Seven are once more banding together. But t...

  • Lost and Found

    Ginny Aiken
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    Colleen of Erin by TAMELA HANCOCK MURRAY Colleen Sullivan seems to be the perfect match for Finn Donahue, a successful merchant. But Finn lacks compassion. His coffers are lined by a wealthy customer named Joey. On Christmas Eve, Colleen sets the tab...

  • Deception

    Randy C. Alcorn

    Who Done It...and Why? Ollie Chandler is a brilliant and quick-witted homicide detective who lives by Ollie's First Law: "Things are not what they appear." So when a university professor is found murdered and the motive looks like revenge, a stun...

  • Daddy Daycare

    Laura Marie Altom

    Bringing Up...Daddy? Fatherhood wasn't on CEO Travis Callahan's life plan, but his baby niece, Libby, needs him. He's always understood the word duty, and if his new role requires changing diapers and midnight feedings, so be it! Unfortunately...

  • Dr. Protector

    Jessica Andersen

  • May Bird Among the Stars

    Jodi Lynn Anderson

    May Bird has always been a bit. . . different. While most of her classmates were riding their bikes, she was running around the West Virginia woods, dressed as a warrior princess with her hairless cat at her side. And while most of her classmates wer...

  • The Pox Party

    M.T. Anderson

    RAISED BY A MYSTERIOUS GROUP OF RATIONAL PHILOSOPHERS, young Octavian is dressed in silks and given the finest of classical educations. His regal mother entertains the scholars with her beauty and wit, but Octavian questions the purpose behind his gu...

  • Caring for His Child

    Amy Andrews

    On her arrival at Ashworth Bay, Fran Holloway is met by her handsome neighbor, Dr. David Ross, and his young daughter, Mirry. Fran longs to be close to them, but her feelings of pain over the loss of her own little girl are still raw. As Fran and ...

  • Solomon's Jar

    Alex Archer

    Rumors of the discovery of Solomon's Jar--in which the biblical King Solomon bound the world's demons after using them to build his temple in Jerusalem--are followed with interest by Annja Creed. An archaeologist intrigued by the arcane, Annja pursue...

  • Shoo, Fly Guy!

    Tedd Arnold

    Fly Guy returns home to discover that Buzz has gone on a picnic without him! Sad and hungry, Fly Guy takes off in search of his favorite food. He gets shooed away from a hamburger, a pizza, a dog's bones, and even roadkill--leaving readers to guess w...

  • Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

    Tedd Arnold

    We all know the joke. We''ve all told it. Kids love to tell it over and over and over again, with as many different punch lines as possible. And now we''ve found out that famous award-winning artists love to tell the joke too—and they have some...

  • Juicy Secrets

    Victoria Ashton

    There are secrets everywhere . . . After-school nanny Liz Braun's wealthy boyfriend, Parker Devlin, has a secret--one so scandalous that he won't share it with Liz. When the secret is finally blown wide open on the evening news, all of Parker's s...

  • Lies of Light

    Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The Wizard Furthering the plots of the Red Wizards of Thay while spinning his own webs, he works in the shadows, manipulating the highest reaches of power. The Woman Tormented by the ghosts of the past and her own passions, she walks the fine li...

  • Wolfcry

    Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    Oliza Shardae Cobriana is heir to Wyvern's Court, home of the avians and serpiente, whose war with each other ended just before Oliza was born. But hatred is slow to die, and not everyone likes the expressive way in which Urban, a serpiente dancer, i...

  • Shatter Zone

    James Axler

    BLASTED EDENScattered remains have been salvaged from the abandoned cities that withstood the atomic onslaught at the dawn of the twenty-fi rst century, but the secrets of pre-Dark tech buried in the mass grave of civilization are known to only a few...

  • The Whitney Chronicles

    Judy Baer

    spin.ster: noun 1 : an unmarried woman or a woman for whom marriage seems dubious 2 : a woman who spins or weaves for a living Her mother, sister and friends (?) fear spinsterhood may be the fate of thirty-year-old Whitney Blake. And while she...

  • The Machine's Child

    Kage Baker

    Kage Baker's trademark series of SF adventure continues now in a direct sequel to The Life of the World to Come. Mendoza was banished long ago, to a prison lost in time where rebellious immortals are "dealt with." Now her past lovers: Alec, Nicholas,...

  • Invisible Lives

    Anjali Banerjee

    Lakshmi Sen was born with a magical ability to perceive the secret longings in others. Putting aside her own dreams to help run her widowed mother's struggling Seattle sari shop, Mystic Elegance, Lakshmi knows exactly how to bring happiness to custom...

  • Footloose

    Leanne Banks

    Think working for a leading international shoe company sounds like a dream job? Not if you're Amelia Parker, an overworked, downtrodden temp working for Bellagio, Inc.'s grande dame, Lillian Bellagio. But things are looking up for Amelia. She's just ...

  • Shattered Trust

    Leslie Esdaile Banks

    Brilliant beauty Laura Caldwell and her new husband, detective James Carter, try to begin a peaceful new life in a Cayman Islands paradise, free from the enemies of the past. It's a beautiful dream--but for this passionate pair, can it ever come true...

  • How Nancy Drew Saved My Life

    Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    Broken, smashed and stomped in the mud That's how Charlotte Bell's heart ended up the last time she let her emotions heat up on a nanny assignment. So taking a new position in frigid Iceland, working for Ambassador Edgar Rawlings, might be just wh...

  • I'm the Vampire, That's Why

    Michele Bardsley

    Does drinking blood make me a bad mother? Broken Heart is the city with the highest rate of divorce and highest percentage of single parents in Oklahoma. And I, Jessica Matthews, have been a member of the club ever since my husband dumped me for h...

  • Dawn of Empire

    Sam Barone

    FIVE MILLENNIA AGO, ON THE EASTERN BANK OF THE RIVER TIGRIS, THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY CHANGED FOREVER ... The people of Orak cherish their peaceful village and the life they have made. Though not proficient with the bow or sword, they possess a w...

  • The Centre Cannot Hold

    Mike W. Barr

    MERE ANARCHY A new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trek ® history, continuing with an adventure that takes place during the historic five-year mission! Book 2: THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD A few years after the disaster on Mestiko, the ...

  • Language of Love

    Janet Lee Barton
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    Historical Romance: Four generations return to a cabin in Cajun country to discover their family's secrets of love and redemption. After Capucine Louet is exiled from Nova Scotia and heads for Bayou Teche, she's given a journal while passing through ...

  • Sign of the Qin

    L.G. Bass

    In the first title of a trilogy, a host of warring guardians must unite to help the Emperor's son--the new chosen Starlord--to unlock the kung fu secrets of the Twelve Scrolls and save Earth from destruction, but first the Prince must join the twin l...

  • A Love So Tender

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    All her life, Aimee longed to secure Greg's affections. When she finally admits failure, Aimee flees to the sanctuary of her aunt and uncle's orphanage and finds Georgie - or rather, the motherless baby finds her. The 1870s lend little assistance to ...

  • Escape from Castle Cant

    K.P. Bath

    The baron's headstrong daughter Pauline's rescue from Castle Cant by her heroic half-sister Lucy was just the beginning of the madcap adventure launched in The Secret of Castle Cant, K.P. Bath's acclaimed debut novel. Now hungry and homeless, they ar...

  • The Final Storm

    Wayne Thomas Batson

    Pure evil collides as Paragor, the betrayer of the one true King Eliam, unites with the Wyrm Lord and the mythical Seven Sleepers to launch a full-scale assault on the Kingdom of Alleble. And while their enemies plot their next attack, Alleble's rema...

  • Love, Lies and Liquor

    M.C. Beaton

    OLD HABITS DIE HARD Agatha Raisin is lonely. Busy as she is with her detective agency and the meetings of the Carsely Ladies' Society, she still misses her ex-husband, James Lacey. So when he suddenly resurfaces and invites her on holiday at a sur...

  • Leaving L.A.

    Rexanne Becnel

    There's a first time for everything as thirty-nine-year-old Zoe Vidrine learned the hard way. She was pregnant! Now the aging rock 'n' roller had to change her tune fast. Her plan: leave behind the temptations of L.A.--and her famous hard-partying ex...

  • Keeping Secrets

    Beth Beechwood

    #1 FAN Miley Stewart might seem like a regular girl next door, but she’s got a big secret. When the lights go down, Miley is the pop star Hannah Montana! But keeping that secret -- and balancing school and homework with her newfound fame and fortun...

  • Bring It On

    Jasmine Beller

    Resident diva Devane will stop at nothing to get the star treatment she feels she deserves. Especially when she's overlooked for a solo in the group's first show and Emerson, her nemesis, isn't. During the performance, Devane does the unthinkable -- ...

  • Bust a Move

    Jasmine Beller

    Just when the date for the World Hip-Hop Championship is annoucned, everything starts to fall apart! Devane is still on probation, and Da Bomb, one of the group's core members, disappears right in the middle of the rehearsal period. Then Emerson's pa...

  • Step Into Darkness

    Naomi Bellis

    AT THE HEIGHT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, A VISCOUNT'S DAUGHTER ENLISTS THE HELP OF A MAN WHO TURNS OUT TO BE A PERILOUS THREAT TO HER FAMILY.... Otarah Leaford is desperate to rescue her father from he dungeons of Paris, and it seems that her succe...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 10: Hollywood

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #54-59. A major movie studio is making a summer blockbuster about Spider-Man, and the Ultimate wall-crawler swings by the set to give the producers a piece of his mind. But as the cameras roll, the real wall-crawler and D...

  • New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis, Volume 3: Secrets & Lies

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects New Avengers #16.1 & 17-23. Now free to rebuild his dark army, Osborn has assembled minions from A.I.M., Hydra and the Hand to take on got the media on his side, and people are listening. And he has another weapon the Avengers may not be...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 16: Deadpool

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #91-96 & Annual #2. Spider-Man teams up with his new girlfriend - the X-Men's Kitty Pryde, who gets a new super-hero identity for when she's not hanging with her mutant mates! Plus: Meet the dangerous Ultimate Deadpo...

  • Billy Boyle

    James R. Benn

    What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d bar...

  • Hidden Truths

    Christopher L. Bennett

  • Chow Down

    Laurien Berenson

    If Melanie Travis was planning on a quiet family summer with her Standard Poodle Faith, son Davey, and new husband Sam, her plans are about to turn upside down. An unexpected competition, a trip to New York, and--oh yes, a murder--later, Melanie find...

  • It's Harvest Time!

    Amy Beveridge

    Explore the world of Happy Day® Books -- filled with fun-to-read stories that teach Christian values. These books are specifically designed to help children honor God in every holiday and season.

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  • To Rescue a Rogue

    Jo Beverley

    Now, in a special treat, the New York Times bestselling author brings all twelve Rogues together to guarantee a splendid series finale for the last bachelor in their Company. Lady Mara St. Bride has never backed down from a good adventure, which w...

  • Beautiful Dreamer

    Christopher Bigsby

    In a small Southern town, a white man tries to prevent a lynching and finds himself branded by the mob --- and worse, finds himself sheltering the dead man's son. When the killers come around to finish the job, the two victims are forced to flee acro...

  • Stonewall Jackson's Elbow

    John Billheimer

  • Out of the Blue

    Charlotte Bingham

    A family finds peace through the unexpected struggle to aid a stranger in this captivating and moving saga. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jefferies.'An uplifting and ...

  • The Case of the Roasted Onion

    Claudia Bishop

    On their farm nestled in upstate Summersville, New York, veterinarian Austin McKenzie and his wife, Madeline, keep themselves busy looking after a variety of ailing farm animals and pets in poor health. But while they may be able to mend creatures gr...

  • A Final Judgment

    Michael A. Black

    Lawyers … Chicago-based Private Detective Ron Shade has a cop's inherent distrust of them, even though it's been years since he was relieved of his badge. Still, when his old friend, Rick Walters, who happens to be a member of the bar, needs h...

  • Trail of Whitened Skulls

    Tom W. Blackburn

    For the first time in paperback, all of the Cole Lavery stories, which first appeared in the 1940s, are together in one volume and follow the exciting adventures of this jack-of-all-trades as he goes up against river pirates, bandits, and a corrupt r...

  • Almost Perfect

    Dianne Blacklock

    The lives of three different people--Mac, whose perfect marriage is falling apart under the strain of infertility; bookstore owner Georgie, dealing with a deadbeat roommate and no romantic prospects; and Liam, a new customer whom Georgie believes mig...

  • You Had Me at Goodbye

    Jane Blackwood

    I'll Just Hold My Breath, Fancy Pants... Oh no. This is so not happening. Her whole life Kat Taylor has been reaching for the brass ring and coming away with nothing but sore knuckles. Not this time. Her flighty Aunt Lila gave her a charming house o...

  • Mr. Imperfect

    Karina Bliss

    It takes a funeral to drag bad boy Christian Kelly back to his rural New Zealand hometown. He'd do just about anything to blow out of town for the last time. And never see Kezia Rose again. His first love. And the only woman he'd ever hurt. But wh...

  • The Somebodies

    N.E. Bode

    There is a city beneath New York City, one made by and for Anybodies. There you can find Bing Chubb's Ballpark, Willy Fattler's ever"changing Underground Hotel, and a castle whose spire sticks up into the dirt"filled sky...dangerously close to...

  • Bubble & Squeak

    Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud

    Bubble helps her mother practice bedtime rituals, such as checking for monsters and reading a favorite book, that she proclaims that she has outgrown, but that her baby sister, Squeak, will need when she gets a little older....

  • River's Edge

    Marie Bostwick

    One extraordinary woman will come of age -- and come into her own -- in this haunting, elegiac portrait of an ever-changing America during the tumult and uncertainty of World War II. After the death of her mother, Elise Braun is sent to live with a ...

  • Max Unlocks the Universe

    Mark Bouton

  • Holy Ghost Corner

    Michele Andrea Bowen

    From the bestselling author of Church Folk and Second Sunday comes a hilarious and affecting novel about a god-loving, 40-something woman's quest for love.Theresa Elaine Hopson, 46, owner of Miss Thang's Holy Ghost Corner and Church Women's...

  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

    John Boyne

    Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one t...

  • Exiles in America

    Christopher Bram

    Zack Knowles and Daniel Wexler have been together for twenty-one years. Zack is a psychiatrist, Daniel an art teacher at a college in Virginia. In the fall of 2002, a few months before the Iraq War, a new artist in residence, Abbas Rohani, arrives wi...

  • Wheel of Fortune

    Max Brand

    A master of western fiction, the author presents a trio of exciting novellas that are filled with action, adventure, and unforgettable characters who discover the gray area between right and wrong. 125,000 first printing. Reprint....

  • Hell On Wheels

    Peter Brandvold

    BEN STILLMAN’S WILD RIDE!When Sheriff Ben Stillman accompanies Judge John Bannon and friends to a wedding in Sulfur, Montana Territory, he aims to have a nice long weekend of rest and respite from law dogging. But Angus Whateley has other plans...

  • Starship Rescue

    James Herbert Brennan

  • Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

    Kate Brian

    Boys. 7 of them, to be exact. Megan is used to moving from place to place -- it's typical for an army brat. But she drew the line at South Korea. She insists on staying in the States to finish her last two years of high school. So her parents made...

  • Fury

    Bill Bright; Jack Cavanaugh

    He just witnessed a murder...and now the killer is on his trail. But no one will believe him Ever since his parents drowned while crossing the Atlantic after a revival, Daniel Cooper has felt as if the world is out to get him. For the past year h...

  • On The Edge

    Pamela Britton

    Unknown NASCAR driver Adam Drake has some of the best moves Rebecca Newman has ever seen, both on and off the track. But she can't afford to feel anything but respect for the new driver she's hired to pilot her race car. With the financial securit...

  • The Gardens of the Dead

    William Brodrick

    When Elizabeth Glendinning, Q.C., dies of heart failure while making a desperate phone call to the police, her colleagues and family are devastated and mystified. What was she doing in east London at the time of her death, and what was she trying to ...

  • The Italian Tycoon's Bride

    Helen Brooks

    He wants her -- so he'll wed her! Maisie Burns is a nice girl, with little experience of the world. But that doesn't stop tycoon Blaine Morosini from wanting her! Maisie doesn't see the effect she has on the enigmatic Italian -- she th...

  • World War Z

    Max Brooks

    "The end was near." --Voices from the Zombie War The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, t...

  • Armageddon's Children

    Terry Brooks

    Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family's slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization...

  • Holiday Treats Cookbook

    Ann Bryant

    Enjoy all the flavors of the season -- and your favorite holiday treats -- with Strawberry Shortcake! This cookbook focuses on easy, tasty recipes that kids can make themselves (with a little help from their favorite grown-up). Useful cooking tips a...

  • Count On This

    Niobia Bryant

    In a sequel to the ever-popular CAN'T GET NEXT TO YOU, wild and adventurous April Dutton flies off to Las Vegas for a weekend of fun and games, and is swept off her feet by the dashing and handsome Alexander "Lex" Macmillan. Caught up in a whirlwind ...

  • The House Beautiful

    Allison Burnett

    B.K. Troop -- a middle-aged, witty, bipolar, alcoholic homosexual -- lives alone in a cramped New York apartment. His life is turned upside down when his best friend, Sasha Buchwitz, dies and leaves him her Manhattan brownstone. To afford the pro...

  • Reiffen's Choice

    S.C. Butler

    Reiffen, only twelve years old, is the true heir to the thrones of both Wayland and Banking. He and his friends Avender and Ferris live in a magical world of talking animals, dwarves, and shape-shifting bears but...he lives with the shame of knowing ...

  • Boo's Dinosaur

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    An early chapter book from Newbery Medal winner Betsy ByarsWhen Boo brings home a dinosaur that only she can see, her brother Sammy, doesn't want to encourage her antics. Boo and her dinosaur are inseparable until Boo says good-bye to the dino quite ...

  • The Black Tower

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    At the eerie Hunt mansion, Herculeah Jones has been reading aloud to Lionus Hunt, an elderly stroke victim who can only communicate by blinking his eyes (once for yes, twice for no). Mr. Hunt seems to be trying to tell Herculeah something, but his gr...

  • She's My Baby

    Adrianne Byrd

    No husband, no boyfriend, no pets and definitely no children... These were the "rules" that took magazine CEO Leila Owens to the top. Always in charge, in control, she was never rattled. Until she finds a baby in her kitchen on Christmas--and a se...

  • Ten in the Bed

    Jane Cabrera

    With an alligator, a cook, a trumpeter, and others in the bed, the little mouse finds it difficult to get comfy and so rolls over to get some additional room, but that leads to the pirate falling on the floor and a wild adventure erupting as everybod...

  • Firestorm

    Rachel Caine

    THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE. Rogue Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is racing to New York to warn her former colleagues of the impending apocalypse. An ancient agreement between the Djinn and the Wardens has been broken, and the furious Djinn, slav...

  • Welcome to the Bed and Biscuit

    Joan Carris

    Grampa's menagerie of pets are rubbed the wrong way when a needy little critter arrives in this lighthearted chapter book. Grampa Bender wouldn't be able to run the Bed and Biscuit animal boardinghouse without the help of Ernest the pig, Gabby the my...

  • Behind Those Eyes

    T.P. Carter

    Ever since Derrick had that party, I've been having a hard time. I've spent nights and days trying my best to shut out thoughts. Bad thoughts. Thoughts that leave me hung. Dreams. Good ones. Of Nat... An accomplished physician, Doctor Taiyler Ric...

  • Divine By Mistake

    P.C. Cast

    GOING...GOING...GONE! The most excitement teacher Shannon Parker expected on her summer vacation was a little shopping. But then her latest purchase--a vase with the Celtic goddess Epona on it--somehow switches her into the world of Partholon, whe...

  • Come to a Bad End

    Dianne Castell
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    Silver Gulch Sheriff John Snow thinks women have their place--in his kitchen or his bed. He would certainly never go for some women's libber businesswoman like Lillie June. The men in town want him to close down her fancy new spa, and he's happy to o...

  • Operation: Midnight Rendezvous

    Linda Castillo

    HE AIMS FOR THE HEART Deep-cover operative Mike Madrid tracked Jessica Atwood with ease, but one look at her revealed her innocence. On the run with an orphan in tow, the spitfire called out to Madrid, stirring passions he thought long buried. ...

  • New Mangaverse

    C.B. Cebulski

    The story they said would never be told! It's been a dark time since we last saw the Mangaverse. Most of the heroes have been driven underground - and now someone's killing them one by one! Join writer C.B. Cebulski (writer and consultant on the orig...

  • The Swing

    Joe Cepeda

    A rare book about finding the most important thing we all lose: time with those we love.

    A lantern, a mixing bowl, everything they ever borrowed from the neighbors, even their dog Leopoldo -- Josey's absentminded parents lose EVERYTHING. Somet...

  • Motif for Murder

    Laura Childs

    From Laura Childs, author of the popular Tea Shop Mysteries, comes scrapbooking-shop owner Carmela Bertrand, who delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But when her artistic tribute to a murdered man p...

  • The Rancher Takes A Family

    Judy Christenberry

    Cowboy dad in need of wife! Recently widowed rancher John Richey had sworn off women, but he'd do anything for his baby daughter--even remarry. After all, little Betsy was crying out for a mom, and he needed help. His foreman's niece seemed the pe...

  • Comeback of the Home Run Kid

    Matt Christopher

    The Home Run Kid is back! Sylvester Coddmyer III, star of The Kid Who Only Hit Homers and Return of the Home Run Kid, is about to face his biggest challenge yet. His second season with the Hooper Redbirds is over and he's looking forward to the st...

  • In Dreams

    Shane Christopher

    When five strangers are found tortured to death in the cellar of a seedy New York apartment, reporter Mari Kinsella makes a startling connection: the strange dreams that bound the victims in life-and in death. Dreams that Mari herself is beginning to...

  • X-Men - The End - Book 3: Men and X-Men

    Chris Claremont

    Collects X-Men: The End - Men and X-Men #1-6. The endgame of the last tale of Marvel's most popular mutants concludes! They've suffered through sneak attacks, betrayals, and fatalities - now, Professor X and Magneto are taking the fight back to the e...

  • Swimming Upstream, Slowly

    Melissa Clark

    After too many vodka tonics at her best friend's baby shower, twenty-seven-year-old Sasha finds herself having a ladies' room epiphany. How quickly life can change, she thinks to herself: one minute she's writing a master's thesis about a TV comedy s...

  • London Under Midnight

    Simon Clark

    The graffiti spread through London that summer like wildfire. Its population carried on with life as usual in one of the richest cities on the planet. But beneath the surface there is change. Men and women are going missing without trace. What has th...

  • The Lady of Serpents

    Douglas Clegg

    Hailed as the prophesied messiah of the vampyre, Aleric seemed destined for glory-until, like many of his brethren, he was captured by the sorceress Enora. Imprisoned, he is now forced to fight in the arena for her amusement. To end Enora's reign...

  • The Shalamar Code

    Mary L. Clifford

    This thrilling tale of romance and intrigue offers a close-up view of Pakistani culture in a post-9/11 world.

    Political unrest is on the rise in Pakistan, where remnants of AlQaeda are stirring up trouble in tribal territories. It’s clearl...

  • The Drowning Man

    Margaret Coel

    An ancient petroglyph depicting a human figure struggling under water, "The Drowning Man" is worth a quarter of a million dollars to the thieves who took it--but is priceless to the Arapahos, who believe it was carved by spirits. The theft is near...

  • Alone in the Dark

    Elaine Coffman

    When her dying father confesses that he is not her biological father -- and that he has a twin -- Washington, D.C., morning news anchor Ellery O'Brien is desperate for answers. Plagued by a recurring nightmare in which a blood-covered woman who has b...

  • Dragon Fire

    William S. Cohen

    William S. Cohen, former Secretary of Defense, US Senator and Congressman, has walked the most powerful corridors in the world. Now, in Dragon Fire, he takes us with him into the top-secret rooms where the fate of the world is held in the hearts and ...

  • The Lost Colony

    Eoin Colfer

    Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden f...

  • Death of a Writer

    Michael Collins

    For Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright literary career, death seems to be the only remaining option. But his suicide attempt fails, halted at the last moment by the intervention of Adi Wilts...

  • The Book of Lost Things

    John Connolly

    New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of st...

  • A Stranger Light

    Gloria Cook

      A saga “centered on the effects of war on families, revealing the . . . range of human emotions, from courage and compassion to lust, vengeance, and greed”(Booklist).    In the aftermath of the Second World War, Fa...

  • Blood Sky

    Will Cook

    "Blood Sky" deals with the effects of nature's unpredictability on a small group of ranchers when a protracted drought followed by an extended period of rain leads to frayed nerves and sudden violence. "The Contest" pits a determined hunter against a...

  • Monday Morning Faith

    Lori Copeland

    Dear Mom and Pop, Two days ago we all spent the afternoon in palm trees. One of the village dogs broke his leash and treed the whole community. The dog is mean, but I have managed to form a cautious relationship with him by feeding him scraps from ou...

  • Darkvision

    Bruce R. Cordell
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Exile of the Hidden City. Adept of forgotten mysteries. Sorceress of the Celestial Nadir. Haunted by nightmares and driven by desire, Ususi defied the will of her people and ran away, venturing alone into the outside world her people abandon...

  • Sharpe's Fury

    Bernard Cornwell

    The year is 1811. With the British army penned into a small part of Portugal, and all of Spain except for the coastal city of Cadiz fallen to the invader, the French appear to have won their war. Raised in the gutters of London and taught to fight, C...

  • Christmas in the Country

    Carol Cox

    A Christmas Wish by JEANIE SMITH CASH Relief at catching a flight fades as Abigail Forrester recognizes her seatmate as Nicholas Creighton, her ex-fiance. When a storm grounds the plane, and she must depend on Nick to get her home in time for the Chr...

  • Infinite Crisis

    Greg Cox

    For years, the rift between the Justice League's leaders has been widening. Batman's paranoia has given birth to an army of robotic assassins. Wonder Woman has declared herself judge, jury, and executioner, taking a foe's life in an act that was broa...

  • The Pregnancy Secret

    Maggie Cox

    Bedded by the billionaire As Jack Fitzgerald sees it, he was betrayed by Caroline...a betrayal that lost them their baby and gave him a bad name. Now a billionaire, he's back -- and determined to prove his worth to all those who once shunned h...

  • The Meaning of Night

    Michael Cox

    "After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver--booklover, scholar, and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always believed he was destined for greatness. A chanc...

  • Most Precious Gift

    Marty Crisp

    Trailing behind the caravan that is following the eastern star, in search of the newborn king, Ameer and his dog Ra try to find a tribute that will compare to those of the merchants and kings, and, while in Bethlehem, discover the best gift of all....

  • Monsterman

    Joseph Curtin


    Title: Monsterman
    Author: Curtin, Joseph J.
    Publisher: Thorndike Pr
    Publication Date: 2006/09/02
    Number of Pages: 308
    Binding Type: HARDCOVER
    Quantity on Order (estimate only): 0...

  • Summer Breeze

    Jacquie D'Alessandro
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    A new town, a new house and new start for the kids--everything divorcee Elise Stanford needed. But she doesn't quite recall ordering Seth McGuire, a green-eyed contractor ten years her junior....

  • Fire Star

    Chris D'Lacey

    There is a fire star coming, signaling a time of new beginnings. A time for dragons to rise again. A research trip to the Arctic and a contract for a new book - life can't get much better for David Rain. But as soon as David finds himself in the icy...

  • The Sheriff's Son

    Barbara White Daille

    Why Is Tanner Jones Back in Town? Seven-year-old Kevin has been a handful for single mom Sarah Lindstrom, and when the new sheriff walks through her door holding her son by the scruff of his neck for egging his car, she knows she's lost contro...

  • Look and Count

    Julie Dalton

    Using everything from gardens and food to coins and toys, this series introduces young readers to math that is fun and inviting with simple text and full-color photographs that help make the subjects easier to grasp....

  • Only Revolutions

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    Sam:
    They were with us before Romeo & Juliet. And long after too. Because they’re forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully:

    We’re allways sixteen.

    Sam & Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Model T...

  • When I First Saw You

    Angie Daniels

    An Online Proposal... When literary agent Chante Campbell, her heart filled with poetry and her life empty of romance, gets an all-expense paid weekend for her birthday, she never expects to spend it with her fiance--since she doesn't know she has o...

  • Kisses Aren't Always Sweet

    J. Daniels

    The mysterious death of a Nigerian diplomat's son puts the FBI on alert, and they are eager to extinguish the rising political tensions. Fearing an international conspiracy, they call in Special Agent Kimberla Bacon to go undercover and solve the cas...

  • Good With His Hands

    Alexa Darin

    WANTED Man who uses his mind instead of his hands--someone who can "wow" me and hold a decent conversation. Someone who knows that a dinner date consists of more than a six-pack and a bag of chips. Beer-guzzling, power-tool using jerks need not appl...

  • Chinese Puzzle

    Elizabeth Darrell

    A new case for detective Max Rydal Two members of a British regiment are murdered by the lethal injection of an unknown toxin: a senior officer in possession of NATO secrets vanishes from a high-security base in Germany. Is he the killer or the third...

  • Star Trek Comics Classics - The Trial of James T. Kirk

    Peter David

    These are the classic comics adventures of Kirk, Spock and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, now collected in graphic novel format with exclusive new background material!

    Captain Kirk’s actions in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock have le...

  • Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four

    Peter David

    Collects Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four #1-5. Doom returns! The Four from the Fantastik's greatest enemy has an insidious plan that takes them to the ends of the Earth! What does Doom want? Why doesn't Invisible Woman want to fight him? And what does S...

  • Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Vol. 1: Derailed

    Peter David

    Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #5-10. Is that the Hobgoblin terrorizing the skies? And if so, how is he connected to the shocking changes in Spider-Man's life? Plus: Spider-Man's career as seen through the eyes of a woman who is convinced that the ...

  • Angel's Rest

    Charles Davis

    Growing up in Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, eleven-year-old Charlie York lives at the foot of an endless peak called Angel's Rest, a place his momma told him angels rested before coming down to help folks. In 1967 his town was a poor boy's paradise...

  • Blood and Honor

    Graeme Davis
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Karrnath, born in war . . . The daughter of a noble family has gone missing. A proud and ancient house has fallen to ruin. Even the dead are disappearing. An a disgraced exile may be the only one who can save them....

  • Cruising

    Desiree Day

    FROM THE AUTHOR OF CRAZY LOVE COMES AN OH-NO-YOU-DIDN'T NEW NOVEL ABOUT FOUR FRIENDS ON THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME -- A CARIBBEAN CRUISE FULL OF SUN, FUN, AND MORE SEXY ESCAPADES THAN THEY EVER DREAMED OF! At first all they have in common is yo...

  • American Beauty

    Zoey Dean

    If you have to ask, you'll never be on . . . THE A-LIST It's graduation time for the A-List crew. That means lavish yacht parties, designer caps and gowns, and saying bye-bye to high school for good. Despite the festivities, Anna isn't in a party...

  • Blackout

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Taking advantage of the workings of serial killer Son of Sam in 1977 New York City, Spike and Drusilla indulge in their vampire natures while outmaneuvering a corrupt vampire community and endeavoring to murder vampire slayer Nikki Wood, who has move...

  • Spider-Girl Presents Fantastic Five

    Tom Defalco

    Meet the FF of the future and uncover their ominous past! The Torch, the Thing and the rest fight new versions of old foes in their effort to rebuild Marveldom's First Family! Guest-starring Spider-Girl and A-Next's Stinger! Collects Fantastic Five #...

  • Scuttle's Big Wish

    Sean DeLonas

    Based on the King Midas story, Scuttle's Big Wish tells the story of a mouse who loves cheese above all else"or so he thinks.

    When a magical golden beetle gives him a wish, he asks that everything he touches turns to cheese. The result i...

  • The Lawless Frontier

    Randy Denmon

    An Ugly Place To Die There's nothing pretty about Mexico in 1914. On the verge of a bloody civil war that's spiraling out of control, it's no place for hotheads or weak hearts--a place where only real men survive...if they're lucky. As an officer fo...

  • The Doctor + Four

    Jacqueline Diamond

    A Miracle Cure for Lonely Hearts Working in a small town was the easiest way for Dr. Sonya Vega to outrun her unhappy past, not to mention the sleepy little place fitted in perfectly with her dream to give at least one needy child a home. What she...

  • Back to Bologna

    Michael Dibdin

    Some cases are not quite what they appear to be. When the corpse of the shady Bologna industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Aurelio Zen is summoned to oversee the investigation. Anxiou...

  • Forces of Change

    Disney Book Group

  • Butterfly Suits

    Disney Book Group

    When Annie's new caterpillar friend misses his ride to the "Tree of Many Colors," it is up to Leo, Quincy, Annie, and June to get him there, and they are thrilled to discover that the new outfit he receives turns him into a monarch butterfly....

  • Dream Spinner

    Bonnie Dobkin

    Disfigured by a car accident that also killed her dad, Jori has been transformed from a popular high school student into a bitter loner. Fatherless, isolated, and betrayed by her best friend, Jori is angry at the world. And now her sister Lisa has di...

  • Spin Control

    Kate Donovan

    THERE'S JUSTICE -- AND THEN THERE'S TRUTH When FBI agent Justin Russo is charged with murdering a suspect, attorney Suzannah Ryder knows exactly how she'll "spin" the facts. After all, Justin is innocent and has the spotless record of a bona fid...

  • Stone Butterfly

    James D. Doss

    Daisy Perika is no stranger to eerie dreams, but when she has a nightmare, lives could be at stake. Convinced that her visions of a wisp-thin girl with blood dripping from her hands are omens, the old woman calls on her nephew, Charlie Moon. A pa...

  • All Shook Up

    Laura Dower

    Rude Awakening: I'm on top of the world. So where do I go from here? I mean, doesn't everyone know I'm afraid of heights? Madison should be happier than happy. She and Hart are officially a couple. She's hit it off with a new classmate from halfway ...

  • What Poets Need

    Finuala Dowling

  • Volcano

    Richard Doyle

    An island people are fighting for their lives -- a volcano in the Canaries has erupted -- soon ash and lava will annihilate everything, unless the locals can destroy the volcano first. A desperate group set out armed with high explosives.

    ...

  • Ice Cream Kisses

    Stephanie Doyle
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    Ice-cream-shop owner Gracie McMullen lives for Labor Day. Goodbye tourists, hello winter! But writer and city-boy Dean Wright is about to add an entirely new flavor to Gracie's off-season....

  • Some Golden Harbor

    David Drake

    The tyrannical Alliance continues its war against the Republic of Cinnabar, and Daniel Leary, newly promoted to Commander, and his crew have a new mission: Stop Dunbar's World from falling to an invasion by the planet Pellegrino. Nataniel Arruns, son...

  • Don't Be Afraid

    Rebecca Drake

    Be Afraid... It's a beautiful house--a perfect place to live. To dream. To start a life together. It's the perfect place for so many things, he thinks as he puts on the gloves and reaches for her, enjoying her screams. But today, it's a perfect plac...

  • Charming Jo

    Laura Drewry

    TROUBLE IN BLUE JEANS So far, Jo McCaine's run her Kansas ranch just fine by herself. Or so she always thought. But now she needs help -- a man with a strong back and the will to work. And if she has to hire the devil himself, she will. The tr...

  • Time for Bed

    Laura Driscoll

  • Body Trace

    D.H. Dublin

    A C.S.U. Investigation In the City of Brotherly Love, it's known as the C.S.U. Crime Scene Unit (C.S.U.): A group of forensic investigators who use cutting-edge technology to carry out crime scene investigations, helping to bring killers to j...

  • Primary Storm

    Brendan DuBois

    Lewis Cole, former Department of Defense analyst turned columnist in the small resort town of Tyler Beach, N.H., plans to lie low for the January chill--and the chaotic presidential primary. Trouble starts when a Secret Service agent corners him abou...

  • The Balance Thing

    Margaret Dumas

    Rebecca "Becks" Mansfield has a boyfriend who sets her on the edge, a job catering to the whims of a cartoon vampire, and she's shortly to be a bridesmaid in the fairy-tale wedding from hell. How could this have happened to the brilliant, brash-talki...

  • Cactus Flower

    Alice Duncan

  • Heat Of The Moment

    Diana Duncan

    Two years after a disastrous one-night stand, fate catapults wounded photographer Kate Chabeau and SWAT bomb tech Liam O'Rourke into an explosive reunion. When her life is threatened, Kate is remanded into Liam's custody and forced to face her deepes...

  • Gunpowder Plot

    Carola Dunn

    A magazine assignment takes a murderous turn for that intrepid sleuth, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, in this delightful new addition to Carola Dunn's mystery series set in 1920s England... Late autumn in the Cotswolds, and the countr...

  • Angel Food

    Kristy Dykes
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    Love Is on the Menu When four restaurant owners meet at a conference, they discover they have more than just good food in common. Sharing faith, fears, and hopes as single women, they vow to meet again -- but they might end up bringing guests. ...

  • Having a Lovely Time

    Jenny Eclair

    Meet the Dobsons and the Jamiesons: two ordinary families on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
    Joe Dobson left his wife and kids when his young girlfriend Nina discovered she was pregnant. Now he feels like a cliche and Nina feels like a drud...

  • A Very Merry Frostmas

    Kate Egan

  • What to Do About Frost?

    Kate Egan

    The Council of Legendary Figures has a problem. Jack Frost will not behave! To teach him a lesson, the council orders him to help Santa prepare for Christmas. But things quickly start to go wrong at the North Pole. Will Frost end up ruining Christmas...

  • The Loner

    Clive Egleton

    Ten years ago, Edward Mills was not a dangerous man. That was before he served a harsh jail sentence for stealing $1 million worth of bonds intended for a defecting Russian scientist. Mills was framed, and now that he's due for release, he wants to k...

  • The Shroud of the Thwacker

    Chris Elliott

    Known to millions for his television and film roles, Chris Elliott is one of the most beloved comedians of his generation. With his novel The Shroud of the Thwacker, Elliott delivers a laugh-out-loud parody that will delight mystery lovers as well as...

  • Give Me Liberty

    L.M. Elliott

    The American Revolution is about to ignite! Life is tough for thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn, an indentured servant in colonial Virginia. Yet in a twist of luck, he meets Basil, a kind schoolmaster, and an arrangement is struck lending Nathaniel's...

  • The First Cut

    Dianne Emley

    For two minutes she was dead. The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal, and it left her lifeless -- until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, Detective Nan Vining rejoins the Pasadena PD, only to confront a homicide case...

  • Lights! Camera! Molly!

    Tamara England

  • The Gingerbread Girl

    Lisa Campbell Ernst

    The lonely old woman and the lonely old man decide to bake a girl this time, but when they open the oven, she runs off like her brother did. Never fear, this smart cookie has a plan to outfox the fox. Will it work? Let's just say that the ending is s...

  • The Return Of David McKay

    Ann Evans

    David McKay had put Broken Yoke behind him ten years ago when he'd left to pursue his career--but that changed when he promised to help his frail grandmother fulfill her husband's wish to have his ashes scattered over a mountaintop. He'd expected ...

  • Longarm and the Deadly Lover

    Tabor Evans

    Love hurts…Out west, where it’s hard to tell the lawmen from the owlhoots, there are usually more than just two sides to a story. Take the attempted murder of Robert Muldoon, Chief of the Denver Police. Custis Long figures the perpetrator must ha...

  • Warrior

    Jennifer Fallon

    IT IS EIGHT YEARS SINCE MARLA WOLFBLADE buried her second husband. In that time, she has become the power behind Hythria's throne -- as much from a desire to control her own destiny in any way she can, as to protect her son, young Damin. But while ...

  • The 7 Professors of the Far North

    John Fardell

    A journey of epic proportions... When Sam visits Zara and Ben and their great-uncle, the quirky inventor Professor Ampersand, he never expects to embark on a fantastical adventure. But when Professor Ampersand and his group of professor friends ar...

  • Dark Celebration

    Christine Feehan

    With her erotically charged Carpathian tales, Christine Feehan has enthralled a legion of fans, captivated by a seductive world and the unforgettable characters--both human and not--who inhabit it. Now, she reunites all of them in a Dark Celebration....

  • Vanishing Act: Mystery at the U.S. Open

    John Feinstein

    Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson, are covering the tennis tournament. This year's main attraction is young, beautiful Russian phenomenon Nadia Symanova. On the first day of the event, she disappears on the way from the locker room to Louis Arms...

  • Cavanaugh Watch

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE LAST CAVANAUGH TO FALL... Assistant district attorney Janelle Cavanaugh understood how dangerous working on a high-profile criminal case could be. But when her assignment took a deadly turn, she was given a ruggedly handsome and infuriatingly ...

  • Romeo's Ex

    Lisa Fiedler

    Nay! All the poets, all the minstrels, all the Romeos on this earth could never convince me to fall in love. Rosaline won't let anyone or anything get in the way of her future as a healer. That is, until she meets Benvolio. Where Romeo's words had...

  • The Sheikh's Guarded Heart

    Liz Fielding

    Rescued by her prince of the desert... Saved from certain death in the unforgiving desert of Ramal Hamrah, Lucy Forrester is transported to a world of luxury by her rescuer, Sheikh Hanif. The tender care he offers her is more than Lucy has ever ex...

  • Paint It Black

    Janet Fitch

    In the aftermath of the death of her lover, art student Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout and the son of a famed pianist, Josie Tyrell, an art model and teenage runaway, struggles to uncover the meaning behind Michael's death and to deal with his mo...

  • Soccer Chick Rules

    Dawn FitzGerald

    When the school district put the athletic programs on the line -- foul move, by the way -- I figured a jockette's got to stand up for something other than a pop fly. Soccer Chick Rule Number 7: Never, ever give up! If the levy doesn't pass, there wi...

  • Pigtopia

    Kitty Fitzgerald

    Hailed as a "tour de force" (Los Angeles Times) and a "surprisingly sweet story" (Entertainment Weekly), Kitty Fitzgerald’s Pigtopia is a spellbinding debut, featuring one of the most singular characters to come along since Christopher Boone in The...

  • Across the China Sky

    C. Hope Flinchbaugh

    Though she was freed from prison, a new danger awaits.... For months she suffered in Shanghai Prison Number 14. When Mei Lin was released and returned to her life in the rural village of Tanching, she should have been content. She lived at home with ...

  • Playing God

    Kate Flora

    "Joe Burgess is the most realistically drawn and memorable police detective I've encountered in years. This is as much a moral fable as it is a whodunit." ~Edward Morris, Verified ReviewerOn an icy February night, the body of Steven Pleasant, a prom...

  • Just Desserts

    Aisha Ford
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    Love Is on the Menu When four restaurant owners meet at a conference, they discover they have more than just good food in common. Sharing faith, fears, and hopes as single women, they vow to meet again -- but they might end up bringing guests. ...

  • McNeil's Match

    Gwynne Forster

    After a bitter divorce, twenty-nine-year-old Lynne Thurston is faced with the prospect of not knowing what to do with the rest of her life. A highly ranked pro tennis player, she gave it all up six years ago when she got married. Now with nothing to ...

  • The Afghan

    Frederick Forsyth

    Combining meticulous research with crisp narratives and plots as current as the headlines, Forsyth shows us the world as it is in a way that few have ever been able to equal. And the world as it is today is a very scary place. When British an...

  • Murphy's Law

    Lori Foster

    ANYTHING THAT CAN GO WRONG... Nothing is going to go wrong. Ashley Miles has worked too hard for her independence to let some Bentley-driving hunk named Quinton Murphy interfere with her plans--or her freedom. Yes, the chemistry is phenomenal. Kind ...

  • Angels Of The Big Sky // The Single Dad's Guarded Heart

    Roz Denny Fox

    Former Navy pilot Marlee Stein has only a few simple goals when she and her young daughter, Jo Beth, move home to Whitepine, Montana. Help her brother run Cloud Chasers, their family's charter air service, fly mercy missions for Angel Fleet, and be a...

  • Under Orders

    Dick Francis

    Former Champion Jockey Sid Halley knows the perils of racing all too well--but in his day, jockeys didn't usually cross the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. And this is precisely how he finds jockey Huw Walker-- who had won the cove...

  • Romanian Rhapsody

    Darlene Franklin

    Haunted by the orphans she met in Romania, Carrie Randolph returns to work in an orphanage. Soon she finds herself mothering five toddlers full-time and dreaming of adopting one of them when her two-year mission is finished. Steve Romero's wife and s...

  • All You Need is Love

    Emily Franklin

    Having returned from a study-abroad program in London to be with her aunt who has breast cancer, seventeen-year-old Love struggles to decide what to do next with her life while also experiencing some tensions with her father....

  • Smonk

    Tom Franklin

    It's 1911 and the secluded southwestern Alabama town of Old Texas has been besieged by a scabrous and malevolent character called E. O. Smonk. Syphilitic, consumptive, gouty and goitered, Smonk is also an expert with explosives and knives. He abhors ...

  • Pale Immortal

    Anne Frasier

    The sleepy town of Tuonela, Wisconsin, is known for one thing: the killer who stalked its streets one hundred years ago, drinking the blood of his victims. And when the drained corpse of a young girl is found, the citizens fear their past has risen f...

  • Time Out - Detroit Slim

    Geavonnie Frazier

    An ex-playboy sets out on a quest for love in TIME OUT, endurin gpain and betrayal along the way. Trust is brought into question, lust and desire become weapons, and responsibility and consequences play a major role in the shocking turn of events tha...

  • Blood Kin

    Judith E. French

    Hidden behind the deceptive beauty of Tawes Island, secrets remain unspoken, waiting to be brought to light. Bailey Elliot arrives on Tawes to look into her own past, but its wary residents don't take to outsiders digging up long-buried scandal. ...

  • Love with Noodles

    Harry I. Freund

    Stockbroker Dan Gelder, age sixty, has a posh Fifth Avenue address, is two years a widower, and remains faithful to his deceased wife. Numbed by grief, he is annoyed by the attentions of the women introduced to him by friends. Then he meets Violet Fi...

  • Playing Dad's Song

    D. Dina Friedman

    Gus Moskowitz knows that sixth graders are too old to curl up under a quilt, but that’s the only place he can hide from the school bully, his nagging older sister, and, worst of all, his father’s death. It’s been two years since Gus’s father ...

  • Tomorrow Men

    Michael Jan Friedman

    The Ultimates -- the first government-sponsored cadre of Super Heroes -- was assembled to face threats to humanity too insanely powerful forother operatives to handle. Led by a general who gave an eye in the service of his country, the super-powe...

  • Hounding The Moon

    P.R. Frost

    Tess Noncoire was a best-selling fantasy writer--and a demon fighter, trained by the Sisterhood of the Celestial Blade Warriors to fend off demons seeking entrance to our world. But when she bonded with an imp as all Sisters did, she found herself pa...