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  • Friendly Fire

    Alaa Al Aswany

    Alaa Al Aswany has won resounding critical acclaim for his deft and moving portrayals of the lives of contemporary Egyptians who constantly examine their relationship with Egypt's history, religion, class, and gender distinctions. In Friendly Fire he...

  • Evidence of Murder

    Lisa Black

    Forensic investigator Theresa MacLean takes on the worst kind of murder case -- one without clues -- in this second novel in a hot new series from Lisa Black Eight months ago, forensic investigator Theresa MacLean lost her fiance in a bank robbery g...

  • Pretty Dead

    Francesca Lia Block

    People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want. Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But...

  • The Child Thief

    Brom

    The acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief -- a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of F...

  • The Japanese Ninja Surprise

    Jeff Brown

    A FLAT NINJA? Stanley and his brother, Arthur, are such huge fans of the movie star ninja Oda Nobu that they decide to send him something even better than fan mail -- Stanley himself! Soon enough, Flat Stanley is in Japan, seeing the country with hi...

  • Hunter's Moon

    Meg Cabot

    The exciting conclusion to Meg Cabot's magical Arthurian manga! Ellie has only one day left to get her boyfriend Will to truly believe he's the reincarnation of King Arthur, or the world will plunge into eternal darkness. But Will refuses to belie...

  • Confessions of a First Daughter

    Cassidy Calloway

    Morgan is so over being first daughter. Morgan Abbott has no social life and no privacy, and her one major talent is screwing things up. Unfortunately for Morgan, every mistake makes front page headlines -- because her mom is the president of the ...

  • A Dark Love

    Margaret Carroll

    Only Caroline knows the truth about her husband, the brilliant psychoanalyst whose list of patients includes some of Washington, D.C.'s, most celebrated. Caroline has seen the darkest side of this cruel, controlling psychopath who watches her every m...

  • More

    Austin Clarke

    At the news of her son BJ's involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison, a maid at the local university, collapses in her basement apartment. For four days and nights she retreats into a vortex of memory, pain, and disappointment that becomes a rivetin...

  • Her Inheritance Forever

    Lyn Cote

    In 1836 Texas, Alandra Sandoval is the lady of Rancho Sandoval, determined to prove to a doubting world that a woman alone can run a ranch as well as any man. But when Comanches attack her ranch and kidnap her, Alandra must admit she needs protectio...

  • The Unfinished Angel

    Sharon Creech

    Peoples are strange! The things they are doing and saying -- sometimes they make no sense. Did their brains fall out of their heads? And why so much saying, so much talking all the time day and night, all those words spilling out of those mouths? Wh...

  • King of the Mild Frontier

    Chris Crutcher

    ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * New York Public Library Books for the Teen AgeA riveting, scorching -- and hilarious -- autobiography by the award-winning author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Deadline.From trying to impress a member of...

  • Never Cry Werewolf

    Heather Davis

    Moonlight can totally change your life. And it all starts so simply. You. Him. The moon. You're toast. Okay, so maybe Shelby has made a few mistakes with boys lately. But her stepmother totally overreacts when she packs Shelby off to brat camp. Sudd...

  • The Dead, the Damned and the Forgotten

    Jocelynn Drake
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    Not all hunters are bound by human laws . . . Revisiting the paranormal realms they've made famous in their wildly popular fiction, New York Times bestselling authors Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake -- plus New Y...

  • 86'd

    Dan Fante

    In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls ...

  • Reckoning

    Jeaniene Frost
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    Not all hunters are bound by human laws . . . Revisiting the paranormal realms they've made famous in their wildly popular fiction, New York Times bestselling authors Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake -- plus New Y...

  • Odd and the Frost Giants

    Neil Gaiman

    In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back. In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and he...

  • How to Paint a Dead Man

    Sarah Hall

    "Hall's writing manages to combine acute sensitivity and daring. ... Visceral and engaging. ... The emotional lives of her characters are skillfully realized in this bright weave of disparate voices"for whom art is at once a way of seeing and a way...

  • Breathing Water

    Timothy Hallinan

    Behind every great fortune is a great crime . . . For American ex-pat writer Poke Rafferty, a late-night poker game delivers an unexpected prize: an "opportunity" to write the biography of Khun Pan, a flamboyant, vulgar, self-made billionaire with...

  • Well Witched

    Frances Hardinge

    Ryan and his friends don't think twice about stealing some money from a wishing well. After all, who's really going to miss a few tarnished coins?

    The well witch does.

    And she demands payback: Now Ryan, Josh, and Chelle must serve her...

  • The Lost Conspiracy

    Frances Hardinge

    On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous...

  • Ley Line Drifter

    Kim Harrison
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    Not all hunters are bound by human laws . . . Revisiting the paranormal realms they've made famous in their wildly popular fiction, New York Times bestselling authors Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake -- plus New Y...

  • Girl Trouble

    Holly Goddard Jones

    A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant -- with his child. The nightmare of a college student's rape and murder is relived by both her mother and her killer, whose contradictory accounts call to question the very nature...

  • Proof of God

    Holly Goddard Jones

    In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonel...

  • Life Expectancy

    Holly Goddard Jones

    In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonel...

  • Good Girl

    Holly Goddard Jones

    In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonel...

  • An Upright Man

    Holly Goddard Jones

    In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonel...

  • Theory of Realty

    Holly Goddard Jones

    In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonel...

  • Allegory of a Cave

    Holly Goddard Jones

    In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonel...

  • Retrospective

    Holly Goddard Jones

    In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonel...

  • Parts

    Holly Goddard Jones

    In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonel...

  • Drawn in Blood

    Andrea Kane

    No stranger to the destructiveness of twisted minds, former FBI Special Agent Sloane Burbank never expected evil to invade the lives of her family . . . When her mother is viciously attacked in her posh Manhattan apartment, Sloane realizes this was ...

  • Rock 'n' Roll Soldier

    Dean Ellis Kohler

    Dean Kohler scores a record deal, only to have his dreams abruptly put on hold by the arrival of his draft notice. Now, he-s in Qui Nhon, Vietnam, serving as a military policeman. He keeps telling himself he-s a musician, not a killer, and that he-s ...

  • The Blonde of the Joke

    Bennett Madison

    "There are three and only three rules for shoplifting," Francie instructed me. From the very first day Val meets the outrageously blond Francie, she realizes that Francie has the gutsy courage and determination Val has always envied. But Francie ...

  • Two Lines

    Melissa Marr
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    Not all hunters are bound by human laws . . . Revisiting the paranormal realms they've made famous in their wildly popular fiction, New York Times bestselling authors Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake -- plus New Y...

  • Purple Heart

    Patricia McCormick

    When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he-s honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero. There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. A little boy who'd been Matt'...

  • Transgression

    James W. Nichol

    How can love survive a brutal time? In 1946 in North America, a child makes a grisly find in a deserted field -- a discovery that opens a shuttered window on a secret dating back to the beginning of the turbulent decade. In 1941 in occupied Fr...

  • Little Bird of Heaven

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, romantic, and captivating tale, set in the Great Lakes region of upstate New York -- the territory of her remarkably successful New York Times bestseller The Gravedigger's Daughter. Set in the mythical small ...

  • Rampant

    Diana Peterfreund

    FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNEW ABOUT UNICORNS... Astrid Llewelyn has always scoffed at her eccentric mother's stories about killer unicorns. But when one attacks her boyfriend -- ruining any chance of him taking her to prom -- Astrid finds herself head...

  • Dark Matters

    Vicki Pettersson
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    Not all hunters are bound by human laws . . . Revisiting the paranormal realms they've made famous in their wildly popular fiction, New York Times bestselling authors Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake -- plus New Y...

  • The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened

    Don Robertson

    If there was one genuine truth that Morris Bird III thought he understood, it was that the world forever and relentlessly changed. But only in one direction -- from simple to complicated. When he was nine, Morris Bird III learned the meaning of br...

  • Border Town

    Congwen Shen

    New in the Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics series, Border Town is a classic Chinese novel -- banned by Mao's regime -- that captures the ideals of rural China through the moving story of a young woman and her grandfather. Originally publishe...

  • I Can't Keep My Own Secrets

    Larry Smith

    From the editors of the international phenomenon and New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning comes a collection of six-word memoirs created by and for teens.From cancer to creativity, prom dates to promiscuity, and breaking hearts to ...

  • A Duty to the Dead

    Charles Todd

    England, 1916. Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. Growing up in India, she learned the importance of responsibility, honor, and duty from her officer fathe...

  • Viola in Reel Life

    Adriana Trigiani

    I'm marooned. Abandoned. Left to rot in boarding school . . . Viola doesn't want to go to boarding school, but somehow she ends up at an all-girls school in South Bend, Indiana, far, far away from her home in Brooklyn, New York. Now Viola is...

  • No Right Turn

    Terry Trueman

    Three years after his father's suicide, Jordan is a self -- described zombie. With no friends and no interests, Jordan has made sure he is invisible and alone because it's easier to get by that way. But then salvation comes in the most unlikely form....

  • DupliKate

    Cherry Cheva

    To Do List: Ace SATs Ace finals Ace AP physics project Avoid murdering lab partner Submit Yale application Resolve possibly evil twin situation Due date: December 15th Countdown: 11 days By the time Kate Larson accidentally fell asleep a...

  • Dawnbreaker

    Jocelynn Drake

    The dawn brings new terror for the creatures of the night . . . Those of her race fear Mira for the lethal fire she bends to her will -- a power unique among nightwalkers, both a gift . . . and a curse. The naturi despise Mira for what she is -...

  • The Commanding Stone

    David Forbes

    Gerin, King of Khedesh, has long since accepted the mantle of Amber Wizard -- the first in a millennium -- with all the terrible responsibility that accompanies it. He has prevented the dread wizard-king, Asankaru, from attaining the all-powerful Wor...

  • Bloodborn

    Kathryn Fox

    Two sisters were attacked in their own home. Only one of them survived. And now she must revisit hell if justice is to be served. Forensic pathologist Dr. Anya Crichton is incensed over the brutal crime, and she will do everything in her po...

  • The Solomon Effect

    C.S. Graham

    A German U-boat lost in the final days of the Second World War rested silent and dead in the deep waters off the Russian coast for more than half a century -- carrying a cargo too terrifying to contemplate. Now it has been found and its terrib...

  • The Everafter

    Amy Huntley

    Madison Stanton doesn't know where she is or how she got there. But she does know this -- she is dead. And alone, in a vast, dark space. The only company she has in this place are luminescent objects that turn out to be all the things Maddy lost whil...

  • Captured

    Beverly Jenkins

    She was the most irresistible treasure of all . . . Dominic LeVeq, the most notorious privateer ever to command the high seas, has just captured a coveted prize: a British frigate. On a dangerous mission against the Crown, Dominic should be thinki...

  • Taken By the Laird

    Margo Maguire

    A bride on the run... A young lady escapes to Scotland in the dead of night, desperate to avoid the horrid marriage her guardian had arranged. Traveling alone, fearing for her safety, Brianna Munro finds shelter at the imposing Castle Glenloch. Sh...

  • The Earl Claims His Wife

    Cathy Maxwell

    She'll be his perfect wife . . . Preoccupied with fighting Napoleon and making love to his mistress, Brian Ranson has ignored his wife since their wedding. But now that he's become the Earl of Wright, he's ready to fetch his bride back to London. ...

  • Totally Killer

    Greg Olear

    Conspiracy and pop culture collide in 1991 New York in this dark debut from Greg Olear. Taylor Schmidt -- twenty-three, single, and jobless -- arrives in the Big Apple desperate for work and hungry for love. Through the Quid Pro Quo Employment Ag...

  • Going Back

    Peter Robinson

    From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels.Ever since the publication of his first my...

  • Like a Virgin

    Peter Robinson

    From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels.Ever since the publication of his first my...

  • The Ferryman's Beautiful Daughter

    Peter Robinson

    From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels.Ever since the publication of his first my...

  • The Magic of Your Touch

    Peter Robinson

    In "The Magic of Your Touch" a young musician gets lost when he comes upon an old man playing a beautiful melody. He never anticipated what would happen next....

  • The Eastvale Ladies' Poker Circle

    Peter Robinson

    From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels.Ever since the publication of his first my...

  • The Cherub Affair

    Peter Robinson

    From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels.Ever since the publication of his first my...

  • Walking the Dog

    Peter Robinson

    From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels.Ever since the publication of his first my...

  • Birthday Dance

    Peter Robinson

    From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels.Ever since the publication of his first my...

  • Blue Christmas

    Peter Robinson

    From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels.Ever since the publication of his first my...

  • Shadows on the Water

    Peter Robinson

    From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels.Ever since the publication of his first my...

  • Out of the Darkness

    Jaime Rush

    They live ordinary lives, but they are extraordinary. They are the Offspring, children of a mysterious experiment gone awry -- and they are in terrible danger. Rand Brandenburg can see the future, yet thus far all he has done with his unique abili...

  • Syren

    Angie Sage

    In this fifth book in the Magykal series, Septimus ends up on a captivatingly beautiful island, one of seven set in a sparkling sea. He's stranded there with his badly injured dragon, Spit Fyre, along with Jenna and Beetle. There are some strange th...

  • The Renegade Hunter

    Lynsay Sands

    THE ARGENEAU FAMILY HAS A SECRET...ONE OF THEIR OWN IS A ROGUE VAMPIRE! Nicholas Argeneau was once a successful hunter who went after rogue vampires who broke the immortal law. Except no one has mentioned his name in the last fifty years, not since ...

  • Never Bite a Boy on the First Date

    Tamara Summers

    1. I've got a few issues: 2. I'm a vampire now. 3. One of my classmates was found dead, with telltale fang marks. 4. I didn't do it! (really!) 5. Nobody believes me, so . . . 6. I'm going to have to find the real killer. I've alr...

  • Ghost Rider, Vol. 3: Trials and Tribulations

    Jason Aaron

    Collects Ghost Rider (2006) #33-35 and Ghost Rider Annual #2. The all-new Caretaker struggles to pick up the pieces of her life, but the mad dog man-mountain called The Deacon has other plans. Also, Caretaker gives us a special guided tour of the lon...

  • The Ghost Road

    Tony Abbott

    Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Derek can't claim to be a normal fourteen-year-old anymore. Not after what he discovered at the Red House. His role in the war against the dead is more pivotal -- and more terrifying -- than h...

  • Tidings of Great Boys

    Shelley Adina

    Finals week is approaching and Mac is still undecided on where to spend the holidays. Normally she'd go home to Scotland, but spending two weeks alone in the castle with her dad isn't as appealing as it used to be. So she invites Carly, Lissa, Gillia...

  • Doubleblind

    Ann Aguirre

    IT'S NOT EASY TO TREAD LIGHTLY WEARING STEEL-TOED BOOTS. Sirantha Jax isn't known for diplomatic finesse. As a "jumper" who navigates ships through grimspace, she's used to kicking ass first and taking names later -- much later. She's not exactly th...

  • What a Dragon Should Know

    G.A. Aiken

    Only for those I love would I traipse into the merciless Northlands to risk life, limb, and my exquisite beauty. But do they appreciate it? Do they say, "Gwenvael the Handsome, you are the best among us -- the most loved of all dragons?" No! For cent...

  • Negima!? Neo, Volume 3

    Ken Akamatsu

    MAGIC LESSONS!

    Negi Springfield is a ten-year-old boy wizard with big dreams: He hopes to become a great wizard like his father, the legendary Thousand Master. But to do so, Negi must take a huge risk. He must study under the mysterious Evange...

  • The Tale of Applebeck Orchard

    Susan Wittig Albert

    Beatrix Potter's tales have bewitched readers for a century. Now, fans of all ages cherish Susan Wittig Albert's Cottage Tales mysteries, starring Miss Potter herself... After his haystack was torched, Mr. Harmsworth barricaded a common path through...

  • The Fab Five

    Mitch Albom

    Recounts the remarkable story of University of Michigan basketball players Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson, and chronicles their success in the NCAA tournaments of 1992 and 1993....

  • Tears of Pearl

    Tasha Alexander

    Looking forward to the joys of connubial bliss, newlyweds Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves set out toward Turkey for an exotic honeymoon. But on their first night in the city, a harem girl is found murdered -- strangled in the courtyard of the Sultan'...

  • Guinea Gold

    Louise Allen

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • A Wedding for Baby

    Laura Marie Altom

    It's been six months since Gabby Craig's boyfriend left her high and dry...and pregnant. But she can't get away from his eccentric though well-meaning family! And now Dane Bocelli -- handsome, responsible Judge Dane Bocelli -- has offered to be her L...

  • Evenings at the Argentine Club

    Julia Amante

    Victor and Jaqueline Torres imagined moving to the U.S. would bring happiness and prosperity-instead they found a world of frustration. While Victor put long hours into his restaurant business, Jaqui devoted her life to her daughters, until they grew...

  • Holiday Brides

    Jewel Amethyst

    This heartwarming holiday collection features Stefanie Worth's "HeavenSent.com," in which Brenna, with some help from two guardian angels, discovers that her soulmate has been in front of her the whole time. Original. 125,000 first printing....

  • The Stoneholding

    James Anderson; Mark Sebanc

    ONE MAN AGAINST THE DARK NIGHT OF CHAOS Darkness looms over the ancient world of Ahn Norvys, and the Great Harmony of Ardiel lies rent asunder. Prince Starigan, heir to the throne, has disappeared, and power has been usurped by a traitorous cabal. ...

  • Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware

    M.T. Anderson

    “The invention never flags.” -- Booklist (starred review)In this third weird and wacky installment of National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson’s Pals in Peril series, Jasper Dash and his friends must unravel a terrible mystery.It is a land of...

  • The Magic Cutlass

    Giles Andreae

    During the school play, Flinn finds himself slap-bang on the deck of a real-live pirate ship . . . and he's not alone! Pirate Diplodocus, Pirate Triceratops, Pirate Stegosaurus and, of course, his old arch-enemy, Captain T. Rex, are all there too. Th...

  • A Doctor, A Nurse: A Christmas Baby

    Amy Andrews

    Pediatric nurse Maggie Green is devoted to the children on the intensive care ward at Brisbane's Children's Hospital. Nash Reece is a top-notch doctor with a reputation as a heartbreaker. He's attracted to Maggie -- and, for the first time, one ni...

  • On the Edge

    Ilona Andrews

    Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between two worlds: on one side lies the Broken, a place where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is nothing more than a fairy tale; on the other is the Weird, a realm where blueblood aristocrats rule and the strength o...

  • Magic Mourns

    Ilona Andrews
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    From New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris and Nalini Singh and national bestselling authors Ilona Andrews and Meljean Brook, tales of man's worst friend... In these hound-eat-hound worlds, anything goes... and everything bites. F...

  • Sliding Home

    Kate Angell

    The left fielder for the Richmond Rogues had returned from six weeks of spring training in Florida to find someone had moved into his mobile home. That person was presently in his shower. And no matter how sexy the squatter might be, Kason wanted her...

  • Handsome and Gruesome

    Laurence Anholt

    There was once a smart gnome called Handsome and a tatty gnome called Gruesome. The evil scarecrow in the garden was especially mean to poor Gruesome and plotted to get rid of the gnomes. But his plan might just backfire....

  • Still A Dog

    Mark Anthony (1)

    Lance Thomas is up to his old tricks again. Even though he promised his wife several years ago that he was through with the lying and cheating, he just can't resist the lure of forbidden affairs. No longer tied down with a nine-to-five blue collar jo...

  • Footprints

    Alex Archer

    The search for a missing link becomes a hunt for a missing person... When her longtime friend claims to have evidence of Big Foot's existence, archaeologist Annja Creed can't resist checking it out for herself -- she's been debating the subject for ...

  • Specky Magee & the Battle of the Young Guns

    Felice Arena

  • Inukami! Vol 4

    Mamizu Arisawa

    It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to!Kawahira Keita and his plucky Inukami, Yoko, have settled into an uneasy partnership when they are approached by the butler for the fabulously wealthy Shindo family. He offers them anything they desire.....

  • Written Out

    David Armstrong

    The new DI Frank Kavanagh thriller - Unpopular novelist Tom Oliver initially isn’t much missed when he disappears at the end of a week tutoring at a writer’s centre in rural Shropshire. It eventually falls to DI Frank Kavanagh and his colle...

  • A Good Day for Haunting

    Louise Arnold

    After his triumph over a ghost collector and a doctor who does no good, Tom Golden thinks life is finally...well, golden. Grey Arthur and his ghostly crew have happily settled into their roles as Invisible Friends while Tom has made a new human frien...

  • Treasure of the Golden Cheetah

    Suzanne M. Arruda

    Venturing farther into deepest Africa, intrepid photojournalist Jade del Cameron sets out on a trek to Mount Kilimanjaro, and reaches new heights of adventure. On safari for a Hollywood film shoot about the legend of a lost treasure, Jade is to assi...

  • Tipping the Scales

    Trisha Ashley

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • Speed Limit

    Judy Astley

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • Snake in the Glass

    Sarah Atwell

    Glassblower Emmeline Dowell has made a home for herself among the artists of Tucson's Warehouse District. Between teaching her craft and selling her wares, she has plenty to do -- not to mention the occasional murder that shatters her routine ... ...

  • The Year of the Flood

    Margaret Atwood

    The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as ...

  • Losers Live Longer

    Russell Atwood

    The death of legendary private eye George Rowell looked like an accident -- but searching for the truth behind it will put down-and-out East Village detective Payton Sherwood on the corpse-littered trail of a runaway investment scam artist, a drug-ad...

  • Clash of the Constructicons

    Annie Auerbach

    Bulkhead's construction buddies Mixmaster and Scrapper are bad influences. They have no manners and are only interested in oil! Even with the Autobots warning him, it takes a rumble with Megatron for Bulkhead to learn his lesson and keep away from...

  • Murder At Midnight

    Avi

    A plot to overthrow King Claudio is brewing in the Kingdom of Pergamontio. Scholarly Mangus the magician -- along with his street-smart and faithful new servant boy, Fabrizio -- have been marked as easy scapegoats for the traitor lurking within the k...

  • Alpha Wave

    James Axler

    In the postapocalyptic world of Deathlands, the past and its way of life are as obsolete as myth. Now the days are filled with death, violence and little promise. Still, the human spirit endures, and a group of intrepid warrior survivalists dare to b...

  • Yotsuba&!, Volume 3

    Kiyohiko Azuma

    YOTSUBA heeeeeere! Guess what, guess what!? Yotsuba is going to a flower store with Fuuka! Yotsuba's gonna give flowers to everybody in the whole, wide world, even the police lady with her whistle that goes - PI! PI! PIPI! PI! PIPUUUUUUUU!!...

  • Yotsuba&!, Volume 5

    Kiyohiko Azuma

    Yotsuba met a robot at Ena's house! Betcha haven't met one ever! It was THIIIIIS big - but not bigger than Jumbo or anything - and it ate money! Yotsuba's never met anyone who ate money before! Maybe it gets more powers with more money!? Yotsuba shou...

  • Yotsuba&!, Volume 2

    Kiyohiko Azuma

    Ohhhhh! Yotsuba's back! Today, Yotsuba was drawing Jumbo, okay? That's Daddy's REALLY, REALLY BIG friend. He's real nice and I guess a big baby. But he's too big to draw in Yotsuba's sketchbook! So Yotsuba drew Jumbo on the street in front of our hou...

  • Yotsuba&!, Volume 6

    Kiyohiko Azuma

    Yotsuba's getting a biiiiike, Yotsuba's getting a biiiiiike!! Didja know the wheels of a bike go round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and roun - oh, Yotsuba's getting dizz...

  • Yotsuba&!, Volume 1

    Kiyohiko Azuma

    Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai...um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving's fun 'cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to...

  • The Ring of Fire

    P.C. Baccalario

    Every hundred years, four kids from four cities must save the world. Rome, December 29. A mix-up with their reservations forces Harvey from New York, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner's daughter, E...

  • Candor

    Pam Bachorz

    In the model community of Candor, Florida, every teen wants to be like Oscar Banks. The son of the town's founder, Oscar earns straight As and is student-body president. But Oscar has a secret. He knows that parents bring their teens to Candor t...

  • A Matter of Time

    Elizabeth Bailey

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • Dragon Kiss

    E.D. Baker

    Audun is on a quest to find Princess Millie, and to become human in order to win her heart. But The Dragon King has set out a number of tasks Audun must perform before he is permitted to even try to woo Millie...and each one is filled with E. D. Bake...

  • The Numerati

    Stephen Baker

    Learn how the crisis over digital privacy and manipulation evolved in this "utterly fascinating" look at the growth of data mining and analysis (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).   Award-winning journalist Stephen Baker traces the rise of...

  • Earth and the Solar System

    Carol Ballard

    ‘Earth and the Solar System’ explores the Sun and all the things that go around it. You will learn about each of the eight planets in the Solar System, as well as asteroids, comets, and moons. You will also find out how the Solar System is just o...

  • Mixtures and Solutions

    Carol Ballard

    Mixtures and Solutions shows you what mixtures and solutions are made from. You will learn about different types of mixtures, how solutions can be made, and how different solvents can be used. You will also learn about the different methods that can ...

  • The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

    J.G. Ballard

    Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imaginati...

  • Liars All

    Jo Bannister

    PRICELESS GOODS Brodie Farrell's eclectic agency, called Looking for Something?, has been hired to find a rare star sapphire tied to tragedy. As Brodie herself is preoccupied with a tougher challenge, finding a cure for her infant son's illness, t...

  • The Sari Shop Widow

    Shobhan Bantwal

    Pungent curry...sweet fried onions...incense... colorful beads...lush fabrics. Shobhan Bantwal's compelling new novel is set on the streets of Edison, New Jersey's Little India, where a young businesswoman rediscovers the magic of love and family... ...

  • Crazy Beautiful

    Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks because he wouldn't outgrow them so quickly. He chose hooks so that everyone would know he was different, so he wo...

  • Sparkle Like a Flower Fairy

    Cicely Mary Barker

    How do Fairies learn how to sparkle? It's not just the glitter. No, they must earn their sparkle, through their thoughtfulness and behavior towards others and the world around them.

    And with good manners come rewards . . . a bracelet, necklac...

  • Devon Delaney Should Totally Know Better

    Lauren Barnholdt

    And before I know it, this is what I'm saying: "Well, actually, I didn't four-wheel at my grandma's house. I mean, I did it over the summer while I was visiting her. But the actual four-wheeling I did was at this guy Greg's house. My ex-boyfriend, Gr...

  • Doomraga's Revenge

    T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Basil becomes Merlin's partner as they battle the mysterious shadows that threaten the new Avalon.A dark magic has been spreading across Avalon. Initially, the events seemed unrelated: a war in Fireroot between the dwarves and the fire dragons, bligh...

  • Word of Traitors

    Don Bassingthwaite
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    While trying to find the assassin who killed the Emperor of Dhakaan, the heroes launch a plan to keep the Rod of Kings out of the hands of his unstable successor. To do so, they must stay one step ahead of political factions; thwart a murderous new c...

  • Stray Affections

    Charlene Baumbich

    The last thing that Cassandra Higgins expects out of her Sunday is to be mesmerized at a collectors' convention by a snowglobe. She's enjoying some mommy time, with husband Ken at home tending their brood of four young boys, when she's utterly charme...

  • Romancing the Pirate

    Michelle Beattie

    THE SEA NEVER FORGETS... Alicia Davidson had always been told that the loss of her memory and the scar she carried on her beautiful face were the results of a childhood fall. But when her beloved father dies, she discovers the truth -- she was found ...

  • Fire Engines

    Ann Becker

  • A Birthday for Bear

    Bonny Becker

    Features an audio read-along! Bear does not like birthdays. He doesn’t like parties or balloons, cards or candles. In fact, Bear does not like anything to do with birthdays at all. He would much rather spend his birthday alone cleaning his house, b...

  • The Magical Ms. Plum

    Bonny Becker

    Ms. Plum is the magical teacher every schoolkid wishes for! Everybody wants to be in Ms. Plum's class. It's not just that she teaches the usual things in unusual ways. There's something more, something about Ms. Plum herself -- and her mysterious ...

  • Nick of Time

    Ted Bell

    In the grand tradition of epic novels like Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" comes a wondrous tale of time travel, adventure, and riches, in which twelve-year-old Nick McIver sets out to become "the hero of his own life." The setting is ...

  • The Nine Pound Hammer

    John Claude Bemis

    What if John Henry had a son? Twelve-year-old Ray is haunted by the strangest memories of his father, whom Ray swears could speak to animals. Now an orphan, Ray jumps from a train going through the American South and falls in with a medicine show ...

  • Secret War

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Starring Wolverine, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Captain America, Black Widow, Luke Cage and more! Brian Michael Bendis, the most popular and acclaimed writer in comics, reveals the darkest chapter in Marvel Universe history! When Nick Fury discovers a dis...

  • Evil for Evil

    James R. Benn

    BILLY BOYLE IS SENT BY HIS "UNCLE" IKE Eisenhower to Northern Ireland to find stolen weapons and to prevent the Irish Republic from joining the Axis in World War II. Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles have been stolen from a US army base in Northern Ir...

  • Cloud Capers

    Sue Bentley

    Storm is a magic wolf and the only cub left standing after the evil Shadow attacks his pack. To escape Shadow, Storm flees to the human world disguised as a puppy. He visits family after family, using his magic spells wherever they're needed most! ...

  • Where the Wild Things Are: The Movie Storybook

    Barb Bersche

    Where the Wild Things Are, one of the wildest and most memorable picture books ever created, is now a movie full of adventure and mystery? -- ?and huge hairy creatures. Follow Max, a rambunctious boy who feels misunderstood at home, as he sets out...

  • Violets and Vivaldi

    Charlotte Betts

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • Hostile Takeovers

    Michael A. Black

    Something's happening in the underworld of Cook County. Tensions are rising between two rival drug lords, and the streets are their battleground. Sergeant Frank Leal and his former partner, Olivia "Ollie" Hart, get involved when one of their informan...

  • In Jail, Ms. Wiz?

    Terence Blacker

    It all seems so simple. To stop the local library being closed down, Ms. Wiz sprinkles her special powder over a few books to bring them to life. But soon the greediest man in the world, some Flopsy Bunnies, and a very royal couple are on the loose. ...

  • Till Death Do Us Part

    Lauralee Bliss
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    Surrender yourself to the forces of love in four engaging Civil War Christmas romances. Join up with Leah Woods as she searches for her missing fiancé in Fredericksbur...

  • For Better, For Murder

    Lisa Bork

    Jolene Asdale is just one sale away from becoming a successful New York businesswoman. But her dream stalls when a dead body rolls out of the shiny Ferrari in her exotic car showroom. The victim is Tim Lapham, head of the Finger Lakes zoning board. T...

  • This Book Is Not Good For You

    Pseudonymous Bosch

    Within this book lies the secret to the best-tasting chocolate in all the world. I promise, your taste buds will tingle. Your palette will sing! Oh no, have I accidentally tempted you to listen to this book? I will warn you, however, the most delicio...

  • Service Dress Blues

    Michael Bowen

    "A winning pair of protagonists." -- BooklistRep Pennyworth, a trademark and copyright lawyer, has loyally followed his wife Melissa to Milwaukee in her quest for an assistant professorship in English Literature at UWM. On the night before the 2008 A...

  • 2 Good

    Celya Bowers

  • The Angel With the Wet Black Nose

    Rita Bradshaw

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • .45-Caliber Firebrand

    Peter Brandvold

    "He could hear the Indians galloping toward him, hear the yips and yowls and the thuds...not seventy yards away and closing fast." Cuno Massey had always stayed on the good side of the law. But he'd never found himself stuck in the middle of a feud ...

  • Waking Nightmare

    Kylie Brant

    FIRST HE LEARNS YOUR DARKEST FEARS... THEN HE MAKES YOU LIVE THEM. With a serial rapist loose on the streets of Savannah, hotshot detective Ryne Robel needs all the help he can get for his task force. And he needs it now, before another woman fal...

  • Going Bovine

    Libba Bray

    Can Cameron find what he's looking for? All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school -- and life in general -- with a minimum of effort. It's not a lot to ask. But that's before he's given some bad news: he's sick and he's going to ...

  • The Shocking Raid on Westminster

    Berkeley Breathed

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Bloom County and Opus delivers a humorous and heartwarming illustrated novel for kids and dog-lovers of any age!"Breathed, through words and lush illustrations, tells a story that will charm many readers."--The N...

  • The Errand Boy

    Don Bredes

    Every small town has its secrets. Onetime Boston homicide detective Hector Bellevance is married now and settled on the family farm with his pregnant wife, Wilma, and their strong-willed eleven-year-old daughter, Myra, happily spending his days ra...

  • Suspicion

    Kate Brian

    Forbidden fruit... Reed, Noelle, and former Billings Girls Kiran and Taylor have been living it up on St. Barths over winter break. The tropical sun has melted away all the tensions of last semester, and for the first time in months, Reed is happy...

  • Hunting Ground

    Patricia Briggs

    Anna Latham didn't know how complicated life could be until she became a werewolf. And until she was mated to Charles Cornick, the son -- and enforcer -- of Bran, the leader of the North American werewolves, she didn't know how dangerous it could be,...

  • Mercy Thompson Homecoming

    Patricia Briggs

    Mercy Thompson is a walker, a magical being with the power to transform into a coyote. She lives on the fine line dividing the everyday world from a darker dimension, observing the supernatural community while standing apart. When Mercy travels to...

  • Slow Burn

    Pamela Britton

    And the winner is... Dana Johnson? What? Turns out Dana's friend secretly entered her in the contest to win a dinner date with NASCAR driver Braden James. Burned by her former fianc, Dana isn't exactly eager to be swept off her feet by someone wh...

  • Darcy and Anne

    Judith Brocklehurst

    He's like a big brother to her... Fitzwilliam Darcy didn't necessarily dislike his cousin Anne de Bourgh, he just never desired to marry her. So when she turns up at Pemberley alone, of course he isn't going to send her back to her miserable life at...

  • Blind Spot

    Meljean Brook
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    From New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris and Nalini Singh and national bestselling authors Ilona Andrews and Meljean Brook, tales of man's worst friend... In these hound-eat-hound worlds, anything goes... and everything bites. F...

  • The Millionaire's Christmas Wife

    Helen Brooks

    Mistletoe, marriage and the millionaire Miriam knew her whirlwind marriage to millionaire Jay Carter wouldn't last. Plain and ordinary, she just didn't fit into his polished penthouse apartment or his glamorous lifestyle! Out of place and ...

  • Save the Last Dance for Me

    Benita Brown

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • To Hope

    Carolyn Brown

    A previous winner of the Professional Bull Riders' gold belt buckle, Jodie Cahill plans to ride again. But fate intervenes in the form of a broken wrist, and keeps her from winning another buckle. When the CEO of the PBR offers her a three-month tour...

  • Lucky in Love

    Carolyn Brown

    BEAU HASN'T GOT A LICK OF SENSE WHEN IT COMES TO WOMEN Everything hunky rancher "Lucky" Beau Luckadeau touches turns to gold -- except relationships. He's gone and lost track of the woman of his dreams, and now he's got himself tied up with a gold-di...

  • The Lost Symbol

    Dan Brown

    In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling -- a deadly race through a real-world labyr...

  • Hate List

    Jennifer Brown

    Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list...

  • Black Angels

    Linda Beatrice Brown

    The compelling story of three young orphans who must survive on their own during the Civil War. It?s near the end of the war, and rumors of emancipation are swirling. Eleven-year-old Luke decides to run away to freedom and join the Union Army. But...

  • Captain America: The Man With No Face

    Ed Brubaker

    Collects Captain America #43-48. Bucky has survived his first major trial as the new Captain America, but now a villain from his past has come to the U.S. and he'll have to face his history just as he's finding his feet in the present. Plus, can Buc...

  • Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty

    Nick Bruel

    Get ready to party! It’s Bad Kitty’s birthday, and she’s wishing for a special gift. If she doesn’t get it, well . . . things won’t be pretty for her guests. The guest list includes Chatty Kitty, Strange Kitty, Stinky Kitty, and her other ...

  • A Cousin's Prayer

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    LEARNING TO LIVE AND LOVE AGAIN A year after her boyfriend was killed, a traumatized Katie Miller returns to her Amish community in Indiana, struggling with depression and panic attacks. Will she ever find the courage to face her inner demons? Free...

  • NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society

    Michael Buckley

    YOU ARE HOLDING A TOP SECRET NERDS CASE FILE. IT CONTAINS HIGHLY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. SO DON'T LOSE IT, 'KAY? Meet the NERDS, a team of eleven-year-old super spies: DUNCAN "GLUESTICK" DEWEY. He's a paste-eater who can stick to walls. RUBY "PUFF...

  • The Banshee

    Eve Bunting

    “SCREE . . . SCREE . . .”Terry is half asleep when he hears the wailing, rising and falling like the waves of the sea. He wishes it were a dream, but he knows it isn’t. It isn’t an owl screeching, either. Or the Flannerys’ old cat. Could it...

  • Rose Cottage

    Anita Burgh

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • After You

    Julie Buxbaum

    The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature... Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the se...

  • Queen Of His Heart

    Adrianne Byrd

    A good man can be hard to find, and curvaceous Jalila Goodwyn has had enough bad dates to know. But while Jalila is describing the hilarious details of her latest encounter over brunch with her girlfriend, another diner overhears her story and makes ...

  • Piece de Resistance

    Sandra Byrd

    Having earned her chef's hat, Lexi Stuart bids au revoir to her glamorous and deliciously satisfying pastry mentorship outside of Paris and returns to her hometown of Seattle, Washington. There, she finds life unexpectedly complicated. She's put i...

  • Stage Fright

    Meg Cabot

    Room 209 is putting on a play for the Pine Heights Elementary School Spring Open House, and almost all the girls in Allie's class want the lead role, Princess Penelope...including Allie. Allie just knows her life is going to be ruined if she doesn't ...

  • Where the Wild Things Are: Puzzle Book

    Alice Cameron

  • The Fruit of Her Hands

    Michelle Cameron

    Crafting a richly textured, absorbing novel based on the life of her ancestor, renowned thirteenth-century Jewish scholar Meir ben Baruch of Rothenberg, Michelle Cameron paints a page-turning and deeply personal portrait of Judaism in medieval France...

  • The Dragon Players

    Frank Cammuso

    Award-winning artist Frank Cammuso's hilarious graphic novel sequel to THE DODGEBALL CHRONICLES.Artie King, the uncrowned good guy of Camelot Middle School, is back with his pals Percy and Wayne in tow as he tries to evade evil Principal Dagger, avoi...

  • When Good Friends Go Bad

    Ellie Campbell

    ** #1 Amazon Bestseller **
     
    Can you ever learn to forgive and forget?
     
    'Nominated as a "Top Ten Beach Read' Red Magazine
     
    All through school, tomboy Jen, snobby Georgina, hippy Meg and gentle Rowan, w...

  • Waiting for Mr. Darcy

    Chamein Canton

    Navigating the turbulent dating scene, three forty-something friends reject societal perspectives about imminent middle age while searching for men who personify their favorite Jane Austen hero. By the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice-winning...

  • Stealing Death

    Janet Lee Carey

    “I want that soul sack,” he said suddenly.
    “What?” the witch asked around the scrap of meat she was chewing.
    “I want it so no one I love will ever, ever, ever have to go inside again.”
    “It’s not for mortal hands to have.”...

  • Across the Endless River

    Thad Carhart

    From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, a historical novel about Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea, and his intriguing sojourn as a young man in 1820s Paris. Born in 1805 on the Lewis and Clark exped...

  • Raising Jake

    Charlie Carillo

    In Charlie Carillo's funny, insightful novel, a divorced man gets to know his seventeen-year-old son in a tale that rewrites the book on quality time together... Sammy Sullivan is working his way down the ladder of success. Divorced and pushing fi...

  • What Matters Most

    Melody Carlson

    Maya’s Green Tip for the Day: Recycled fashion is one of the most fun ways to go green. A pair of jeans could be transformed into a denim skirt. A sweater into a vest. A bunch of old ties into a dress. A blanket into a poncho. Accessorize it in new...

  • Wicked All Day

    Liz Carlyle

    New York Times bestselling author Liz Carlyle continues her enthralling historical series with the story of an impetuous, illegitimate beauty and the forbidding nobleman who protects her -- while fighting an obsession to possess her.... Miss Zoe A...

  • 5 Minutes to Marriage

    Carla Cassidy

    "I'd do anything to protect my boys...but marriage?" Someone was murdering the city's elite, and anyone could be next. Assigned to the case was Detective Kyle O'Brien, whose new partner was the blond, blue-eyed Jaren Rosetti, as sunny as Kyle was da...

  • Heat Wave

    Richard Castle

    Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she lead...

  • A Clean Start

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • Await Your Reply

    Dan Chaon

    In Dan Chaon's brilliant novel, the lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways. Miles obsessively searches for his troubled twin brother, who has been missing for ten years -- and learns that some version of the truth is always conceale...

  • Conquering King's Heart

    Maureen Child

    The King Claims His Prey For three years she'd haunted his dreams. And the memory of that heated anonymous night sent tycoon Jesse King back to Morgan Beach, California, determined to find her. He would have his mystery woman once more -- a King nev...

  • Once a Cop

    Lisa Childs

    Family Comes First Putting herself in the line of fire is a dangerous way to make a living. But Roberta Meyers is proud of her job with the Lakewood P.D. No one's going to tell the dedicated police officer how to live her life. Including Holden Thom...

  • Al Capone Shines My Shoes

    Gennifer Choldenko

    MOOSE FLANAGAN is back -- and now he owes AL CAPONE a favor! When twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan finds a note in one of his freshly laundered pillowcases, he knows exactly who it's from: Al Capone. Capone may be one of the most notorious criminals i...

  • Campaign for Seduction

    Ann Christopher

    For journalist Liza Wilson, covering the campaign of presidential candidate Jonathan Warner is a career-making opportunity. She's up for nightly news anchor, and this story will cinch her spotlight. Plus, she'll get to see the charismatic senator up ...

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  • Under the Cajun Moon

    Mindy Starns Clark

    What Secrets Can Be Found by the Light of the Cajun Moon? New Orleans may be the "Big Easy," but nothing about it was ever easy for international business etiquette expert Chloe Ledet. She moved away years ago, leaving her parents and their famous F...

  • The Splendor Falls

    Rosemary Clement-Moore

    Can love last beyond the grave? Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can't dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie's pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father's death, and what's breaking her spirit is her mother's remarriage -- a ...

  • Betrayed

    Amy Clipston

  • The Final Detail

    Harlan Coben

    For sports agent Myron Bolitar, it seemed like the perfect vacation. A tropical beach. A warm breeze. A little uncomplicated passion with a woman he barely knows. Myron is almost in heaven when his friend Win shows up with a message that blasts him b...

  • Educating Esme

    Esme Raji Codell

    At once "a pop culture phenomenon" (Publishers Weekly) and "screamingly funny" (Booklist), Educating Esmé  "should be read by anyone who's interested in the future of public education" (Boston Phoenix Literary Section). A must-read...

  • The Silent Spirit

    Margaret Coel

    In 1923, Arapahos and Shoshones from the Win River Reservation were recruited to appear as extras in The Covered Wagon, a silent film noted for being Hollywood's first Western to cast real Indians in an effort at authenticity. Charlie Wallowingbull n...

  • Blind Eye

    Jan Coffey

    Counting down to a Chernobyl-scale disaster, the clock starts now... Tick... Scientist Marion Kagan is the sole survivor after gunmen attack the facility where her team was working on a top secret project. Wounded and trapped in a collapsed bui...