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New Books List: 607 titles


  • Shirley Abbott

    Set in New York in 2001, Abbott's debut novel invites us into the lives of good people grappling with the hard choices and the sacrifices they must make to find love. In the manner of a contemporary Edith Wharton, Shirley Abbott exposes the inner liv...



  • Mario Acevedo

    Ex-infantryman Felix Gomez came back from Iraq decidedly undead. Back home in Denver, he embarked upon a new career where nighttime work is the norm: private investigator. Since then, he’s managed to survive lustful extraterrestrials, manic nymphom...



  • C.T. Adams; Cathy Clamp

    Josette Monier is a legend among the Sazi. One of the most powerful, beautiful, and oldest Sazi in existence, she lives in self-imposed exile. Her gift of sight is so strong that to be around other living creatures is to be in pain. What Jose...



  • Jane A. Adams

    MURDER AS A LAST RESORT... For Rina Martin, the sleepy seaside town of Frantham is the perfect place to retire from a successful acting career and open a cozy boardinghouse. For transplanted detective Sebastian "Mac" McGregor, it's a place to forg...



  • Lara Adrian

    IN A WORLD OF SHADOWS AND DARK, CONSUMING HUNGERS, DESIRE IS THE DEADLIEST WEAPON.... Fueled by pain and rage over a shattering betrayal, the warrior Rio has pledged his life to the war against the Rogues. He will let nothing stand in his way--lea...



  • Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

    After Peter Parker's identity as the Spider-Man is revealed he must now fight with a number of Spider-Man imposters and find out who is creating them, while at the same time he must contend with Mister Hyde, Venom and Eddie Brock, who has a symbiote ...



  • Ann Aguirre

    BY ALL ACCOUNTS, SIRANTHA JAX SHOULD HAVE BURNED OUT YEARS AGO... As the carrier of a rare gene, Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspace -- a talent that cuts into her life expectancy but makes her a highly prized navigator for the Cor...



  • Allan Ahlberg

    Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. The boys from the bottom pitch get a team up, but there's no chance they'll win, of course. They're just the odds and sods â€" one of them is even a girl â€" but th...



  • Joan Aiken

    Jane Austen wrote the untitled fragment that was later called The Watsons in 1803-5, and it was published posthumously in 1871. Joan Aiken, well known for her Jane Austen sequels and children’s books, finishes the fragment, introducing a new hero a...



  • Ken Akamatsu

    THE ULTIMATE BATTLE

    Boy wizard and high school teacher Negi is the only one who can stop Chao and her plans for world domination. But Chaoâ€"master magician, Martian warrior, and supergeniusâ€"may be the most formidable opponent the boy wonder...



  • Rochelle Alers

    ADINA's beauty and wiles have enabled her to adopt the fast-lane lifestyle of the rich and fabulous...until she learns there's a contract out on her life. She flees Brooklyn to start over in the upscale suburbs, living among the pampered and polished...



  • Alma Alexander

    What do you get when ordinary e-mail spam becomes infused with magic? Spellspam--and it's not supposed to exist. As far as Thea and her friends know, computers are meant to be inert vehicles for storing magic spells, not magical processors themselves...



  • Hannah Alexander

    She had made a solemn promise to see her younger sister to safety in California. But the endless journey across the frontier was proving a heartbreaking test of courage and endurance for Faith Beal. All she had to sustain her was her steadfast belief...



  • Ted Allbeury

    Max Farne knows the Italian Riviera like the back of his hand. He was there during the war, fighting alongside the partisans, and he’s spent the last few years buying and selling luxury yachts from the harbor of Santa Margherita. So Farne better th...



  • Lauren Allison; Lisa Perry

    You know that overprotective PTA mom who needs to be resuscitated after she finds out you fed her son a hotdog? Or that couple who sends out the annual holiday letter about how their little Timmy came up with an alternative to fossil fuels while you'...



  • Barth Anderson

    For hundreds of years, men have sought their hidden futures in the legendary images of the tarot--but what secrets of the past are harbored by the priestess, the magician, the hanged man...and the fool? The author of the explosive The Patron Saint of...



  • Gerald Anderson

    In the good old Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, murder is about as common as shorts-wearing tourists in January. But even in quiet Nordic towns, strange things can happen in the dead of winter.

    Eager to retire, insurance company owner "Pink...



  • Denny Andrews

    Luke Dawson winds his way through Dakota Territory, making the stagecoach routes safe. After the murder of his mentor, Wild Bill Hickok, and a confrontation with the murderer John Varnes, there is a bushwhacking against Luke. Discouraged yet determin...



  • Ilona Andrews

    Down in Atlanta, tempers -- and temperatures -- are about to flare... As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow across Atlanta like...



  • Mary Kay Andrews

    Chef extraordinaire Gina Foxton doesn't expect anything to be handed to her on a platter. After years of hard work, the former runner-up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion is now the host of her own local Georgia public television show called Fresh Start, and s...



  • Mark Anthony (1)

    Katrina Easely has stood by the side of her ruthless boyfriend Snipes for so long that she can barely see her way out of his sticky web. She's dropped out of college in the middle of her freshman year, and has even become estranged from her family an...



  • Clair Ni Aonghusa

    Finely observed and utterly transporting, Cláir Ní Aonghusa’s debut takes us inside a vibrant rural Ireland -- and three interconnected lives -- on the cusp of change. Eager to escape her failed marriage, Ellen hopes to recapture the magic of ...



  • Alex Archer

    When a mysterious man orchestrates an attack on archaeologist Annja Creed and then offers her an assignment, Annja is baffl ed. But the mission is too intriguing for her to refuse. She must fi nd an object that possesses a sacred and powerful secret ...



  • Jeffrey Archer

    If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson on any other day, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the prosecution witnesses happen to be a group of four upper-crust college friends--a barrister...



  • Ashley & Jaquavis; Amaleka McCall

    Like its predecessors, Girls from da Hood 4 introduces you to women from the streets of Brooklyn who known how to be on that grind.

    In “Prada Plan,” you meet Disaya Morgan. She is a person of meager beginnings who vowed never to be that w...



  • Elizabeth Aston

    In The Darcy Connection, Mr. Collins of Pride and Prejudice is now the Bishop of Ripon, living with his wife, Charlotte, and their two daughters, who have reached marriageable age. The elder, another Charlotte, is extraordinarily beautiful, and her p...



  • Sarah Atwell

    A crime is about to take shape... 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 murde...



  • Avi

    Horace Carpetine does not believe in ghosts. Raised to believe in science and reason, Horace Carpetine passes off spirits as superstition. Then he becomes an apprentice photographer and discovers an eerie -- and even dangerous -- supernatural powe...



  • James Axler

    More than a century past the fiery dawn of post-nuclear America, RyanCawdor and his companions journey across a land lost yet reborn, wherelawless violence and human perseverance clash, and unsolved mysterieshint at redemption. Though hope lingers un...



  • Deb Baker

    Doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch answers an invitation to a party at an unfamiliar dollhouse shop--and winds up in the thick of a murder mystery of miniature proportions. Now she must rally the help of her fellow Phoenix Dollers Club members wh...



  • Iain M. Banks

    In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight and a search for the one -- maybe two -- people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant thr...



  • Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    Lacey Underhill has what her Dutch grandmother refers to as luxe problemen: luxury problems. But Lacey's problems are very real and they are exactly two: her breasts. Twelve years old and in eighth grade, Lacey has developed faster than everyone else...



  • Cicely Mary Barker

    Jasmine wishes she could share her hobby of stargazing with the other fairies, and one night when panic ensues among the baby fairies, who think the stars are falling out of the sky, she has the opportunity to show her extraordinary talent....



  • Stephanie Barron

    The acclaimed author of the bestselling Jane Austen mysteries brings rich historical immediacy to an enthralling new suspense novel centered around Queen Victoria's troubled court...and a secret so dangerous, it could topple thrones. Windsor Castle,...



  • Anya Bast

    A water witch, Isabelle Novak has always led a chaotic, nomadic existence. But her life spins out of control when her sister--her only friend and emotional anchor--is killed by a demon. Driven by grief and a desire for revenge, she turns her back on ...



  • Pamela Bauer

    One night could ruin her life There's no turning back once Paige makes a colossal mistake that could cost her the best friend she's ever had. How can life possibly stay the same for her and Justin after they spend one passionate night toge...



  • Mary Jane Beaufrand

    The Italian Renaissance was a cultural explosion of art, architecture and learning, but it had a darker side. Two powerful families, the tyrannical Medici and their biggest rivals, the Pazzi, are tangled in a bloody struggle for ultimate power. Caugh...



  • Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    FOR A CHILD'S SAKE A child lay gravely ill, his parents praying for a miracle. But on opposite sides of the hospital bed. Jennie and Michael Stratton's marriage had fallen apart, leaving them both devastated and alone. Yet now, as Michael sat holdin...



  • Jim Benton

    MAY THE DUMB BE WITH YOU Dear Dumb Diary, Isabella is probably right. She almost always is. When I think back on all the things I've seen Angeline do, the one thing they have in common is that they're all dumb. (They're all strawberry-scented, to...



  • Lara Bergen

    Quiet Amanda Hays had the time of her life at summer camp. She made a ton of new friends, including spunky Allie. She even (accidentally) let everyone think she had a boyfriend back home. What harm could it do? A lot -- because now Allie is movi...



  • David Bilsborough

    Five hundred years ago a huge force defeated an evil, supernaturally powerful tyrant who terrorized and ravaged those who cowered under his lash. Now, terrible news from the north suggests that someone or some thing is once again preying upon the nor...



  • Charlotte Bingham

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



  • Anne Bishop

    The invitation was signed Jaenelle Angelline, and it summoned her family to an entertainment she had specially prepared. Surreal SaDiablo, former courtesan and assassin, arrives first. But when she enters the house, Surreal finds herelf trapped in a ...



  • Benjamin Black

    It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to an irascible Dublin pathologist named Quirke. Quirke's beloved Sarah has died, his surrogate father lies paralyzed by a stroke, and he’s b...



  • Cara Black

    Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc is head-over-heels when a former boyfriend, an investigative journalist, reappears and proposes -- but his professional past has caught up with him, and now Aimée must figure out who would want him deadAimée Leduc seems t...



  • Adam Blade

    ONE BOY'S JOURNEY TO HELP HIS VILLAGE BECOMES A QUEST TO SAVE THE KINGDOM. THE ENTIRE BEAST QUEST HAS BEEN LEADING UP to the final battle. Tom is ready to defeat the last of Malvel's Beasts: the Winged Flame, a phoenix living inside a volcano! And...



  • S.J. Bolton

    In this masterful debut that starts off as a mystery and becomes much more, Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, wind-swept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here...



  • Frank Bonham

    A collection of seven Western stories includes the title story, in which Lyle Kearny fights Gus Stoneman's plan to improve life for the settlers of the San Augustin Plains by building a dam on Kearny's land....



  • Rhys Bowen

    It's wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she's proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in d...



  • Celeste Bradley

    ONLY A DUKE WILL DO The only way for vicar's daughter Phoebe Millbury to inherit a family fortune is to find herself a duke -- just as her late grandfather demanded in his will. But Phoebe, who's still trying to make good after a romantic sc...



  • Kate Brallier

    Philosophers have said that we travel through our lives, past and present, surrounded by the same souls, that we spend each new life trying to mend the hurts we've done to one another in the past. In The Boundless Deep, Kate Brallier explores this id...



  • Max Brand

    The youngest of seven sons, Flash Baldwin had been a wastrel his entire life. Then he became a man on a mission. His father left him a six-shooter, a thoroughbred, and the charge to avenge his death. When Flash tracked down the killer, he was primed ...



  • Susan Breen

    Read Susan Breen's posts on the Penguin Blog.A witty, honest, and hugely entertaining story for anyone who loves books, or has a difficult mother. And, let’s face it, that’s practically everybody . . . On paper, Arabella Hicks seems more than qu...



  • Barbara Bretton

    Once upon a time, Hayley believed that a good woman (her) could turn a bad boy (her ex) into a knight in shining armor (pure fantasy). Ten years of marriage to Michael Goldstein finally drummed the truth into her head. People don't change with time -...



  • Heather Brewer

    NORMAL EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENT? OR POWERFUL VAMPIRE? Junior high really stinks for thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod. Bullies harass him, the principal is dogging him, and the girl he likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and Vlad has a secret: His mother wa...



  • Rogenna Brewer

    "The baby I'm carrying is not my husband's?" In just a few months Caitlin Calhoun went from a wife to a widow to a mother-to-be. All she'd wanted was to honor her dead husband by having his baby. But that's not what she got...



  • Gerri Brightwell

    MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, CLASS CLASHES, AND DANGEROUS DECEPTIONS London, 1893. Elderly Mrs. Bentley is on her deathbed, and her son Robert has returned from France. But in the Bentleys' well-appointed home, everyone has their secrets, including Robert's...



  • Andrew Britton

    With searing narrative twists, The Invisible plunges us headlong into today's shadowy, fever-pitched battle between terrorism and intelligence, as a covert counterterrorism operative risks everything, including the woman he loves, to save the life of...



  • Kevin Brockmeier

    Kevin Brockmeier--award -winning author of The Brief History of the Dead--has been widely praised for the richness of his imagination, the lyrical grace and playfulness of his language, and the empathic emotional complexity of his storytelling. And t...



  • Mike Brotherton

    The human colony on the planet Argo has long explored and exploited the technology left behind by an alien race, a race gone for hundreds of thousands of years. But then an archeology team accidentally activates a terrible weapon: a weapon that will ...



  • Carolyn Brown

    Dee Hooper and Jack Brewer grew up next door to each other in sleepy Buckhorn Corner, Oklahoma. From the time they were less than a year old they'd been best friends, but then Dee eloped with a man from Pennsylvania. Seven years later, she's brought ...



  • Ken Bruen

    Jack Taylor brings death and pain to everyone he loves. His only hope of redemption - his surrogate son, Cody - is lying in the hospital in a coma. At least he still has Ridge, his old friend from the Guards, though theirs is an unorthodox relationsh...



  • Nina Bruhns

    Prince from another planet? Oh, sure! Serenity Woodsen rushed to Charleston to send a con man packing. But the man who'd charmed her favorite aunt was nothing like she expected. Carch Sunstryker's regal bearing and blatant sex appeal were, well, o...



  • Kathleen Bryan

    Kathleen Bryan returns with the sequel to The Serpent and the Rose. Beautiful Averil is now the Duchess of Quitaine, but to keep her people safe, she made a vow to the traitor King of Lys. After a year, she would come to his Court in Lutece, and choo...



  • Sarah Masters Buckey

    It's 1935 and Kit Kittredge is volunteering backstage for a local theater company. She plans to write an exciting newspaper article about a new play that stars famous actors from New York City. But from behind the scenes, Kit and her friend Stirling ...




  • Elizabeth C. Bunce

    “In this slow-simmering but rewarding retelling, first-novelist Bunce presents an innovative interpretation of Rumpelstiltskin.” -- Horn BookWinner of the William C. Morris Award for a Young Adult DebutAn ALA Best Book for Young AdultsA Smithson...



  • Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    You hate our masters. I understand. But you thrive in their service. You are undead Even if it were possible for you to escape me .. . Where is there a place for a creature like you? What started as one wizard's ambition to take over the ruling cou...



  • Adrianne Byrd

    About last night... Daughter of a prominent senator, ambitious Washington, D.C., attorney Isabella Kane has big dreams that include marriage to equally ambitious Randall Jarrett. But a funny thing happened on the way to the altar. She met a luscio...



  • Rhyannon Byrd

    FIVE SECONDS EARLIER, MASON DILLINGER WOULD HAVE SWORN IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN... That a woman who was his perfect match even existed. And that he'd find her in a bustling cafe. Yet just the scent of sweet, mortal Torrance Watson ignited a driving, ...



  • Meg Cabot

    I like rules. What I'm not so crazy about is everything else. When nine-year-old Allie Finkle's parents announce that they are moving her and her brothers from their suburban split-level into an ancient Victorian in town, Allie's sure her life is ov...



  • Deb Caletti

    I suddenly see where I'm standing, and that's at the edge of change - really, really big change. Eighteen-year-old Indigo Skye feels like she has it all - a waitress job she loves, an adorable refrigerator-delivery-guy boyfriend, and a home life t...



  • Gayle Callen

    A pact with the devil... Miss Grace Banbury was in shock. Her mother put her up as a prize in a high stakes card game, and now the gentleman who won is ready to claim her! But Grace has other plans. She just needs the dastardly rogue to go along w...



  • Candace Camp

    THE MATCHMAKER'S ULTIMATE CHALLENGE... Lady Irene Wyngate has sworn she'll never marry, keeping suitors at bay with her caustic tongue. But there is one man she can't scare: Gideon, long-lost heir to the Earl of Radbourne. He was kidna...



  • Bethany Campbell

    Penny Branch is stunned to learn that her father has disappeared--and with him, millions of dollars stolen from his bank, his customers and even his family! But even worse is the fact that Penny's soon-to-be ex-husband, bank executive Craig Lockhart,...




  • Lillian Stewart Carl

    Blackness Tower: an enigma at the edge of this world, looking over the sea to the next. Drawing lonely, haunted souls to its ancient riddles, all seeking their own answers among its stones. Ewan Calder is an archaeologist looking for a galleon fro...



  • Alex Carr

    A riveting and intricate literary thriller from the author The New York Times Book Review says “speaks up in a voice that gets your attention like a rifle shot . . . clean, direct, and a little dangerous.” Army Intelligence reservist Kat Caldwell...



  • Cassandra Carter

    From best friend to frenemy to flat-out enemy For her Sweet 16, Jordan Wright gets rid of the frizzy hair, the conservative clothes, and finally likes the hip new girl smiling in the mirror. So when she hears about an open casting call for the hot...



  • Dean Vincent Carter

    Eight years ago, the Austrian emergency services were called to the scene of a bizarre car accident.Eight years ago two mangled bodies were found in the snow not far from the vehicle, clawed and chewed, it seemed, by some ferocious animal. Eight year...



  • Carla Cassidy

    IT'S HER THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY, and Annalise Blakely gets a strange package. Inside, along with one of her company's handcrafted dolls, is a note: I don't need this anymore. I have my own. Annalise puts the package aside; she has enough on her mind. ...



  • Cathy Cassidy

    Mouse is doing his best to stay out of trouble. Cat is doing her best to land herself in it. They've both had it pretty tough so when they meet by chance they thank their lucky stars. Weird and wonderful things happen when they're together - but how ...



  • P.C. Cast; Kristin Cast

    BLOODLUST AND DARK FORCES ARE AT WORKAT THE HOUSE OF NIGHT, and fledging vampyre Zoey Redbird's adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies. And, oddly enough, sworn enemies are also t...



  • Ramona Cecil

    A notorious riverboat gambler killed Rosaleen Archer's husband and Has taken her captive, forcing her to do unspeakable things. Convinced God hates her, Rosaleen looks to luck for help as she attempts to escape when the riverboat explodes. She awaken...



  • Dori Chaconas

    Cork is a short muskrat who likes to collect shiny stones. Fuzz is a tall possum who also likes to collect shiny stones. Fuzz tries to collect a Ă'stoneĂ" from a duckĂ•s nest and, in turn, the mama duck tries to collect him. Will Cork be able to save...



  • C.J. Cherryh

    Two Alliance-Union novels, Merchanter's Luck and Forty Thousand in Gehenna, bound in one omnibus volume for the first time!Merchanter's Luck -- His name was Sandor and he was the owner and entire crew of a tramp star-freighter that flew the Union pla...



  • Maureen Child

    It's only been a month since single mom Cassie Burke unexpectedly became the hottest demon killer in town-and already there's a price on her head and a website calling for her murder. Then a sizzling hunk of a faery shows up on her porch in need ...



  • Maureen Child

    BUSINESS NEVER YIELDED SUCH PLEASURE Just twenty more acres and millionaire Adam King would restore his family ranch to its former glory. So intense was his obsession, he even considered marrying the girl next door. For Gina Torino's father was wi...



  • Laura Childs

    Theodosia Browning and the staff of the Indigo Tea Shop are feeling the heat, and not just because it's August. The Charleston Film Festival has brought them a busy week of catering jobs -- and first up is the opening night gala at the historic Belve...



  • Dorian Cirrone

    That summer, Hurricane Emily was in the news. The headlines shouted things like: "Emily Rocks South Florida." I wanted to be like that Emily in the headlines. I wanted to take the world by storm. Not that I wanted to knock over mango trees or whi...



  • CLAMP

    Kimihiro Watanuki has been saved from death by the sacrifices of his friends, but his recovery time is cut short. His special connection with the spirit world is needed to investigate a terrifying haunted house, placate annoyed Warashi spirits, and f...



  • Chris Claremont

    Psylocke's reunion with her brother, Captain Britian, takes a turn for the worst when the diabolic minds of several of Excalibur's greatest foes decide that one world is not enough to conquer. The Exiles and Excalibur must join forces to save crossti...



  • Chris Claremont

    Collects Uncanny X-Men #376-377, Cable (1993) #73-76, X-Men (1991) #96-97, Wolverine (1988) #145-147. Setting his grand plan for godhood into motion, Apocalypse dispatches his agents to capture the world's most powerful mutants, the fabled Twelve: Pr...



  • Cassandra Clark

    In November 1382, the month of the dead, Abbess Hildegard rides out for York from the Abbey of Meaux. This is no ordinary journey--it is a time of rival popes, a boy king, and a shaky peace in the savage aftermath of Wat Tyler's murder--and Hildegard...



  • Daniel Clay

    Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buck­ley had been a normal geeky teen­ager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single fa...



  • Pearl Cleage

    The toast of Europe, Josephine Evans had spent thirty years abroad establishing her reputation as one of the finest actresses of her generation. In Amsterdam, she redefined who and what an African American diva could be, and her legions of loyal fans...



  • Sandra Carey Cody

    Jennie Connor's friend, Lilly, is in big trouble. Two patrons are poisoned while dining at her restaurant and the police are too busy with crowd control to notice a shadowy figure climb down the arbor and slip away. Jennie watches and wonders if Lill...



  • Jonathan Coe

    Following The Rotters' Club and its sequel, The Closed Circle, Jonathan Coe now offers his first stand-alone novel in a decade, a story of three generations of women whose destinies reach from the English countryside in World War II to London, Toront...



  • Paulo Coelho

    This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach Brida about ...



  • Rachel Cohn

    Jamal said only, "Laura..." And I knew, just knew by the rip through my gut and the instant convulsion in my heart, knew by Jamal's uncharacteristically unsmiling face. I knew because Laura always did what I wished I could do. First cousins Laura ...



  • Susan Conant; Jessica Conant-Park

    The Gourmet Girl returns to solve the murder of one bad egg. Chloe Carter has a lot on her plate-exams for grad school are coming up, and her chef boyfriend needs her support as his fledgling trendy restaurant comes into its own. The staff of Sim...



  • Kent Conwell

    A Melungeon beauty, the sister of an old boyhood chum, comes to private eye Tony Boudreaux, hoping he can help clear her brother's name. Tony takes the case out of a sense of loyalty but has no idea that the trail will lead to the underbelly of smugg...



  • Elisha Cooper

    Elisha Cooper spent a year hanging out at a Chicago high school -- listening and sketching students. He followed eight kids, mostly seniors, through their entire year, and by telling their specific stories he gives us a more general picture of what ...




  • Ralph Cotton

    THE WIDOW For the last eight years, the folks of Little Aces, New Mexico, have known Emma Vertrees simply as the wife of the recently murdered sheriff. But Emma has more in common with the wrong side of the law than her neighbors could possibly imag...



  • Dilly Court

    The captivating new saga set in turn-of-the-century London by the author of The Best of Sisters; The Cockney Sparrow; and Mermaids Singing.


    From the Hardcover edition....



  • Connie Cox

    Hank is a bad boy-turned respectable crop-duster who raises his son alone and turns his passion for flying into a nice living. Lacey, a successful corporate lawyer, returns home for their high school reunion and their childhood friendship matures int...



  • Francine Craft

    Curvy Melodye Carter runs a successful boutique dedicated to plus-sized beauties. The widow and mother of twin boys also has serious troubles. Her husband's mysterious death has been linked to another shooting, and now she's more than grief stricken....



  • Robert Crais

    Robert Crais's supercool California P.I. is back with a vengeance. It's fire season in the Los Angeles hills, and as an inferno closes in on the homes of Laurel Canyon, the LAFD makes a gruesome discovery--the days-old corpse of an apparent suicid...



  • E.M. Crane

    If all the world's a stage, Andrea Anderson is sitting in the audience. High school has its predictable heroes, heroines, villains, and plotlines, and Andrea has no problem guessing how each drama will turn out. She is, after all, a professional spec...



  • Mitch Cullin

    Hollis and Debra have settled into their golden years in a gated community outside of Tucson. Although they are devoted to each other, events that took place decades earlier have left Hollis with a deep-seated trauma -- and with a secret he has never...



  • Elaine Cunningham

    The finale to one of the Forgotten Realms world's most endearing sagas. Against the backdrop of the Recalamtion Wars in Tethyr, Arilyn Moonblade is called upon to make another difficult decision in a life of difficult decisions. The war may be dra...



  • Lynn Curlee

    Tales about proud gods and goddesses, fabulous creatures, ferocious beasts, and brave heroes from the world of Greek mythology have captured the imaginations of readers, young and old, for centuries. Now see them brought to life like never before, as...



  • Luke Cypher

    Once he was Tom Cade, lawman and gunfighter. Now he is Amos Hood, preacher. He left the way of the gun to spread the Word of the Lord. His calling leads him to the forsaken town of Jericho to bring guidance to the lost souls living there.   But...



  • Mary Daheim

    Emma Lord is shocked to hear the outrageous news: The Advocate is embroiled in a takeover bid. Worse, the ruthless acquisitioners are the heirs of Emma's longtime and tragically departed lover, Tom Cavanaugh. They have come to Alpine -- to stay. Soon...



  • K.O. Dahl

    INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED AUTHOR KJELL. OLA DAHL has attained cult status in his home country of Norway with his sharp, riveting bestsellers. Now, with his gripping and intelligent novel The Fourth Man, the master of Norwegian crime writing is crossin...



  • Margaret Daley

    Who, what, where, when and why. Those were the questions journalism professor Jameson King lived by. But the murder of his protege, a young newspaper reporter, remained a mystery. One that Jameson-- and the reporter's grief-stricken sister--vowed to ...



  • Jordan Dane

    Burdened by Grief, She Hunts a Killer They never found her sister's body, but Detective Rebecca Montgomery knows her murderer is still out there. In the five months since Danielle went missing, there have been two more brutal abductions. A savage me...



  • Peggy Darty

    It's an ordinary afternoon in Summer Breeze, Florida, when a young, wide-eyed girl steps into I Saw It First, the trash-to-treasure shop Christy Castleman and her Aunt Bobbie have opened. Clutching a jewelry box, Zeffie Adams tells Christy she needs ...



  • James Dashner

    What if every time you made a choice that had a significant consequence, a new, alternate reality was created -- the life that would've been? What if those new Realities were in danger? What if it fell to you to save all the realities? Atticus Hig...



  • Maryjanice Davidson

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  • JoAnn S. Dawson

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  • Alyssa Day
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  • Louis De Bernieres

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  • Charles de Lint

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  • Anthony De Sa

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  • Kimberly Dean

    The man of Devon Bradshaw's dreams is exactly that -- in her dreams. For the past seven months, he has watched her with dark, haunting eyes while she sleeps. Though she yearns to caress those powerful muscles and feel the intense heat radiating fr...



  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    A new Federation President has been elected, and his first order of business is to attempt to restore the alliance with the Klingon Empire. To that end, he sends Captain Picard to Deep Space 9, in the hopes that Picard's relationship with Chancellor ...



  • Ann DeFee

    More Than Georgia On His Mind Magnolia Bluffs, Georgia -- on the surface, it's the perfect small Southern town. But below the surface, as Zack Maynard discovers, is a different story. There's trouble afoot -- vandalism and maybe even murde...



  • Frank Deford

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  • Stacy DeKeyser

    What would you do? As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse not to be decent...Especially when you're responsible for a kid. It just figures that fifteen-year old Victoria's dad fails once again to be at the train station like he's promised. Fuming...



  • Ted Dekker

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  • Catherine Delors

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  • Janelle Denison

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  • Hannah Dennison

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  • Anna DePalo

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  • Nicolas Dickner

    Selected as the 2010 CBC Canada Reads Winner!

    Awards for the French-language edition:
    Prix des libraires 2006
    Prix littéraire des collégiens 2006
    Prix Anne-HĂ©bert 2006 (Best first book)
    Prix Printemps des Lecteursâ€"Lavinal



  • Helenkay Dimon

    IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME... For Gabby Pearson, being dumped in public before the dessert course has to be the lowest of the low--especially when it's the old, "It's not you, it's me" speech. Honestly, how about something original: "I have five minut...



  • Edward Docx

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  • Emma Dodd

    A common kid question leads to uncommon results in this terrifically charming picture book!

    Jack's mother says he can choose a pet . . . but what pet to get? An elephant? (So difficult to take on vacation.) A polar bear? (It wouldn’t like th...



  • Julia Donaldson

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  • Ceridwen Dovey

    Three men are hostages in the presidential palace and can hear the faint roar of a military coup in progress in the city below. All three of the men--the ex-President's barber, chef, and portraitist--have kept secrets from a lover or a daughter that ...



  • Ruth Downie

    IN THE HINTERLANDS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, GAIUS PETREIUS RUSO SEEKS REST ... ONLY TO FIND ANOTHER MURDER. Following her widely acclaimed, New York Times bestselling debut, Medicus, Ruth Downie sends beleaguered army doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso to the u...



  • Gyorgy Dragoman

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  • David Drake

    When the Republic of Cinnabar doesn't have enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its war with the Alliance, it sends the next best thing: Commander Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy. This time they're off to help the Bagari...



  • Judy Duarte

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  • Kathleen Benner Duble

    When seventeen-year-old John Hudson sets sail aboard the Discovery with his father, Henry Hudson, he is eager to explore the open seas and the New World. He is not, however, anxious to leave behind his girlfriend, Isabella Digges, a nobleman's daught...



  • Dave Duncan

    The legendary Maestro Nostradamus may be able to glimpse the ever-changing future, but even he cannot see the danger that is about to envelop him and his daring apprentice Alfeo when Nostradamus is hired to find a foreign spy by Venice's ruling Counc...



  • Clare B. Dunkle

    Martin lives in a perfect world. Every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow they've stuck to their windows and put up flowers. Ever...



  • Phil Dunlap

    US Marshal Piedmont Kelly shackles a stranger to a tree for the night after the man rides into his camp and tries to kill him. When dawn arrives, Kelly finds the man murdered in his sleep. Confused and worried, the marshal sets out to back track the ...



  • Meredith Duran

    In a debut romance as passionate and sweeping as the British Empire, Meredith Duran paints a powerful picture of an aristocrat torn between two worlds, an heiress who dares to risk everything...and the love born in fire and darkness that nearly destr...



  • Kathleen Eagle

    Mystic Warriors Horse Camp, where wayward Lakota youth can connect with the Lakota spirit. He has the land, the horses and the history. Now all he needs is the money--and any help he can get. Dillon's ex-wife, Monica, thinks he could use an ...



  • Laurie Alice Eakes

    LILY IS TIRED OF HER ONE-HORSE TOWN. Lily Reese can't wait to escape Browning City, Iowa. She's sure she'll be happier in the big city, if only she can save enough money to get there. But then Ben Purcell rides into town, threatening not only Lily...



  • Tony Earley

    Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and wise story of young love on the eve of World War Two....



  • Darcie Edgemon

    Although he is supposed to remember that killer whales are his enemy, forgetful Seamore swims in the ocean without a care in the world and doesn't even flinch when he encounters Kevin, a killer whale, swimming right beside him! 40,000 first printing....



  • David Elliott

    "Readers will not be able to resist smart, quirky Evangeline as she unicycles her way through yet another wild tale. Original and fun." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS

    When a letter marked URGENT!!! arrives at Evangeline Mudd’s bungalow, she is reminded...




  • Jennifer Cody Epstein

    Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River and into the seedy backrooms of "The Hall of Eternal Splendor," through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China ripped apart by civil war and teet...




  • Kathleen Ernst

    Kirsten Larson has been living on the Minnesota frontier for only a few weeks when her neighbor and friend, Erik Sandahl, disappears. Erik had promised to help the Larsons at harvest time--and he owes Uncle Olav money. Has Erik run out on his promise...



  • Eva Etzioni-Halevy

    The richly imagined tale of Deborah, the courageous Biblical warrior who saved her people from certain destruction In ancient Israel, war is looming. Deborah, a highly respected leader, has coerced the warrior Barak into launching a strike against t...



  • Tabor Evans

    A murderous undertaker wants to put Longarm six feet under...  Some dame with expensive tastes and many names has left no tracks, but she has left a pattern. Seems she shacks up with rich hombres, then takes off with lotsa loot -- and it’s up ...



  • Ildefonso Falcones

    An unforgettable fresco of a golden age in fourteenth-century Barcelona, Cathedral of the Sea is a thrilling historical novel of friendship and revenge, plague and hope, love and war.   Arnau Estanyol arrives in Barcelona to find a city dominate...



  • Terri Farley

    Darby is excited to go on a "volcano watch," camping out and observing the island's volcanoes, despite recent small earthquakes that could mean an eruption is coming. After all, Darby grew up in California, so she's used to the earth rumbling now ...



  • Jane Feather

    When a prince has more than marriage on his mind, it might be folly To Wed a Wicked Prince. The sophisticated elegance and spine-tingling intrigue of Regency-era London spring to life in bestselling author Jane Feather's seductive novel about a yo...



  • Raymond E. Feist

    The Darkwar rages, bringing bleak days of destruction and despair to Midkemia and Kelewan. To save both worlds, the powerful sorcerer Pug and select members of the mysterious Conclave of Shadows must journey deep into the dangerous realm of the blood...



  • Jody Feldman

    Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Welcome to the biggest, bravest, boldest competition the world has ever seen! The Gollywhopper Games! Are you ready? Gil Goodson sure hopes he's ready. His future happiness depends on winning the Golly T...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    Everyone has something to hide... One long-ago night changed Dr. Tania Pulaski's life forever. Now the fourth-year resident depended on the frantic pace of the E.R. to keep her focused when those secret nightmares resurfaced. But hiding in the con...



  • Joy Fielding

    New York limes bestselling author JOY FIELDING entangles an ambitious South Florida journalist in a heart-pounding race to save her children and herself from a killer’s deadly designs. A writer who pushes the limits in her controversial column f...



  • John Flanagan

    ATTACK! Far from home after escaping slavery in Skandia, Will and Evanlyn's plans to return are spoiled when Evanlyn is taken captive. Will employs his Ranger training to locate his friend, but soon fini;ls himself fatally outnumbered -- until Halt ...



  • Eric Flint

    Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities ranging from gho...



  • Bill Floyd

    Six years after her courageous testimony helped put her husband on death row for a string of gruesome murders, Leigh Wren has almost succeeded in putting her past to rest. She has moved from the West Coast to North Carolina with her young son, adopti...



  • Joanne Fluke

    Between baking up a storm for The Cookie Jar and unraveling the mystery of her cat Moishe's recent strange behavior, Hannah Swensen has a lot on her plate. But she'll always make time for her business partner, Lisc who's in the midst of preparing for...



  • Katie Flynn

    Daisy Kildare lives with her family in a cottage perched on the Connemara coast. The Kildares are poor but happy. But when their croft is wrested from them, Daisy's Aunt Jane, who is housekeeper to Dr and Mrs Venables, offers to take Daisy back to Li...



  • Jeffrey Ford

    In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who p...



  • Delores Fossen

    From the moment he first saw his son, ranchman Dylan Greer knew the baby he'd adopted was his in every way that mattered. And no one--not even the beautiful, strong-willed cop who claimed she was the child's mother--was going to change that. Collena ...



  • Jeff Foxworthy

    In this hilarious collection of poems, comedian Jeff Foxworthy creates a neighborhood filled with fun, family, friends, and more. Here you'll meet Cousin Lizzy, Uncle Ed and Aunt Foo Foo, cows with horns that don't go beep, dads in sweaters, also...



  • Matt Fraction

    A team of long-dormant Soviet super-weapons is awake, angry, and heading straight at the heart of Los Angeles ready to finish World War III! The front line of defense is a team that's been together since just before nine this morning! The queen of PR...



  • Emily Franklin

    It's Love's senior year at Hadley Hall, and she's stuck sharing a dorm with the evil Lindsay Parrish, who's imposing way too many rules during her reign as head monitor. On top of that, her handsome boyfriend, Charlie, has gone back to Harvard, and h...



  • Barbara Freethy

    Waking up in the hospital with no recollection of who she is, but sensing that she in mortal danger, a young woman, haunted by troubling flashes of memory, must place her trust in Jake Sanders, who claims to be her lover and her child's father. Origi...



  • Dwight Fryer

    Gillam Hale was born to free parents, and his life was untouched by slavery until his preacher father took him on a trip to minister to the Virginia slaves. Gillam wants beautiful Queen Esther from the moment he sees her, but the only way to purchase...



  • Isamu Fukui

    In an alternate world, in a nameless totalitarian city, the autocratic Mayor rules the school system with an iron fist, with the help of his Educators. Fighting against the Mayor and his repressive Educators is a group of former students called the T...



  • Kathleen Fuller

    Lily Thornton, daughter of the Duke of Breckenridge, unwittingly finds herself a suspect in a rash of jewelry thefts. In order to clear her name, she teams up with her best friend Emily's brother, the handsome Colin Dymoke, to find the real thief. To...



  • Abby Gaines

    Motor Media Group president Sandra Jacobs is desperate to find new sponsorship for scandal-plagued driver Will Branch. If she fails, her PR firm goes bankrupt--a frightening first step down the same road her invalid father is traveling now. Surpri...



  • Abby Gaines

    In truth, philanthropist singleton Tyler Warrington doesn't do empathy--he writes checks. Giving away millions is all part of a plan to schmooze into a big-shot government job. So when a baby is left at his doorstep, it's the PR opportunity of a life...



  • Debra Galant

    Nina Gettleman-Summer, a New Jersey yoga teacher, should be calmly guiding her high powered students through their savasanas and their chakras. Instead she is worried about...everything: her new meditation fountain overflowed causing one of her more ...



  • Katherine Garbera

    TALK OF THE ROYAL COURT When Count Guillermo de la Cruz announced his engagement to plain-Jane heiress Kara deMontaine just minutes after meeting her, the jet-set gaped in shock. But none was more stunned than Kara. The man of her dreams had just of...



  • Georgina Gentry

    He's A LoverFast-talking promoter Cash McCalley will be set for life if he can set up a prizefight in Dallas, Texas--should be a cinch, considering how Texan men appreciate a good brawl. What Cash doesn't count on is Texan women, one trouble-stirring...



  • Adele Geras

    Readers are invited to join Tilly for her special birthday treat as she discovers the bustle and excitement behind the scenes at a real ballet performance. From backstage warm-ups, to a trip to the dressing room, to an unexpected wardrobe change?Till...



  • Debby Giusti

    Granted, he hadn't known her long, but returning war hero Jude Walker expected to eventually marry the woman he'd met during his last leave. Not fi nd her missing. Or learn that her last known address was a homeless shelter in a dangerous part of the...



  • Yankev Glatshteyn

    Written in the form of a suspense novel, Emil and Karl draws readers into the dilemma faced by two young boys in Vienna--one Jewish, the other not--when they suddenly find themselves without homes or families on the eve of World War II. This unique w...



  • Julie Gonzalez

    Jane White goes by the pen name Gabriel when she writes letters to Bubba, her imaginary enemy. She's been writing to Bubba (short for Beelzebub) since second grade, blaming him every time something in her life goes wrong. It's never her fault! She do...



  • J.G. Goodhind / Jean G. Goodhind

    The new Honey Driver mystery - Chefs can be arrogant, competitive and downright murderous at times, so when Bath International Taste Extravaganza (BITE for short) organize a best chef competition, Honey Driver, the Hotels Association police liaison o...



  • Susan Goodwill

    When Walter, a bathrobe-clad octogenarian, robs the bank using a concealed banana as the hold-up weapon, Kate and Aunt Kitty speed after him in Kitty's mammoth 1974 Eldorado convertible. But instead of retrieving their cold hard cash, they find a ...



  • Gus Gordon

    Noodles loves Tuesdays. But he has so much to cram into them - cooking breakfast, chasing the postman, a swim at the ocean, burying some bones - that he really doesn't know where to start!This gorgeous picture book for toddlers and pre-schoolers is i...



  • Shelia M. Goss

    When a music producer and a singer get together, their working relationship quickly crosses the line and their drama from groupies and people from their past becomes the source of plenty of print for the paparazzi....



  • Robyn Grady

    A RUTHLESS MAN Multimillionaire Tate Bridges wouldn't let anything threaten what was his, whether it was his sprawling Australian media empire or his deeply troubled family. And he'd do whatever it took to protect his own -- even blackmail...



  • Laurie Graham

    From bestselling author Laurie Graham comes the late-life diaries of the Kennedys' fictitious nanny: an inside look into the early years of the Kennedy dynasty--with all the juicy bits intact. When Nora Brennan, fresh to America from Ireland, lan...



  • Amanda Grange

    It is the winter of 1793, and when Marianne Travis finds a man caught in a mantrap on a neighbouring estate she is determined to put an end to such cruel ways. She pays a visit to Lord Ravensford, the estate's new tenant, and to her relief she manage...