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New Books List: 651 titles


  • Relentless Aaron

    Stew Gregory's drive for success is legendary, as is his lust for the ladies. Now that he's grown his Internet empire, Platinum Dolls, from a amateur website into a major player in the multi-billion-dollar industry of online adult entertainment, gorg...



  • Sheila Kay Adams

    Sheila Kay Adams brings us a novel inspired by the ballads of the English, Scottish, and Irish. These long, sad stories of heartbreak and betrayal, violence and love, have been sung for generations by the descendents of those who settled the Appalach...



  • David A. Adler

    There's a new girl in school! Her name is Jenny and she is makingfast friends with Cam and Eric. They're happy to help her find her way around, but when it's time for gym class, Jenny disappears. Where did she go? Is she lost? Did she go back to her ...



  • Boris Akunin

    PARIS, 1878: In a stately mansion on the rue de Grenelle, an eccentric antiquarian and nine members of his household are found murdered, and a precious Indian statue is missing. The only piece of evidence from the crime scene is a golden badge shaped...



  • Victoria Aldridge

    Caroline Morgan is determined to make a success out of her aunt's New Zealand business. But until Caro has a husband, the bank won't lend her the money she so desperately needs. Caro discovers Leander Gray, the younger son of an aristocrat and the...



  • Rochelle Alers

    From national bestselling author Rochelle Alers comes the unforgettable story of three strangers whose lives are forever changed on a sultry island off the South Carolina coast.... DR. HOPE SUTTON has everything she's always wanted: a winning ca...



  • Victoria Alexander

    What lengths would a young lady go to in her pursuit of the perfect match? And how far would a gentleman go to stop her? Cassandra Effington is one of the most delicious debutantes to ever waltz across a London ballroom. But while her identical...



  • Diane Amos

    The hilarious sequel to the smash hit Getting Personal.

    When Monique St. Cyr's mother, erotic fiction author, Ann Marie, leaves on a three-month honeymoon, Monique is certain her life is about to improve: that is until old-fashioned Aunt Lilly and...



  • Robyn Amos

    He's everything a girl could want... And everything this girl wants to run from! Moni Lawrence can't believe her good fortune! Thanks to an unexpected inheritance, she's leaving her tiny Virginia hometown in the dust and heading west to spread her ...



  • Bridget Anderson
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    From four of today's most exciting writers comes a compelling collection of stories about a group of sisters whose lives are about to take an unexpected turn... For Maxine, Morgan, Taylor, and Samantha Chambers, being the daughters of Liberty, Geor...



  • Caroline Anderson

    This businesswoman has motherhood at the top of her agenda! Rich and successful, Izzy Brooke has everything -- except love. Determined to change her life, she is reunited with single dad Will Thompson, the boyfriend she had as a teenager. And she'...



  • Sheryl J. Anderson

    Hilarious, sexy, and loaded with suspense, Sheryl J. Anderson's slick debut mystery pits advice columnist Molly Forrester against the magazine world, Manhattan's singles scene, and cold-blooded murder... When murder plays havoc with your career, s...



  • Sylvia Andrew

    She intrigued him... Edward Barraclough's happy bachelor existence is thrown into a spin when he is forced to look after his two orphaned nieces. Employing the right governess is vital. Miss Petrie has the girls' support, while he has reservations...



  • Jennifer Apodaca

    Samantha Shaw was thrilled to give up the soccer mom scene. With her cheating husband dead, a struggling dating service to run, and a brand-new relationship with ex-cop Gabe Pulizzi to figure out, her plate is pretty full. Trouble is, Sam's life has ...



  • Dosh Archer

    Black Spider thinks Yellow Bird should be more traditional. "Why don't you make a lovely, cozy nest?" asks Black Spider. "I like hotels, actually," says Yellow Bird. But is Yellow Bird willing to change his unconventional ways? He is a unique bird...



  • Philip Ardagh

    The very last words young Fergal McNally heard in his life were: "Don't lean out of that window!" The very last sounds were probably the air whistling past his sticky-out ears as he fell the fourteen stories, the honk of traffic horns below (getting ...



  • Kelley Armstrong
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    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...



  • Stephen Arterburn

    Meet six growing Young Believers -- Josiah, Liane, Noah, Paige, Shane, and Taz -- hot, new stars with their own pop band who are struggling with how to keep their faith in the face of their rising celebrity. These young role models have gained the be...



  • Stephen Arterburn

    Meet six growing Young Believers -- Josiah, Liane, Noah, Paige, Shane, and Taz -- hot, new stars with their own pop band who are struggling with how to keep their faith in the face of their rising celebrity. These young role models have gained the be...



  • Stephen Arterburn

    Meet six growing Young Believers—Josiah, Liane, Noah, Paige, Shane, and Taz—hot, new stars with their own pop band who are struggling with how to keep their faith in the face of their rising celebrity. These young role models have gained th...



  • Stephen Arterburn

    Meet six growing Young Believers -- Josiah, Liane, Noah, Paige, Shane, and Taz -- hot, new stars with their own pop band who are struggling with how to keep their faith in the face of their rising celebrity. These young role models have gained the be...



  • Stephen Arterburn

    Meet six growing Young Believers -- Josiah, Liane, Noah, Paige, Shane, and Taz -- hot, new stars with their own pop band who are struggling with how to keep their faith in the face of their rising celebrity. These young role models have gained the be...



  • Jennifer Ashley

    UNEXPECTED BOUNTY Widowed by an officer in the English navy, Diana Worthing was tired of self-important men. Then the legendary James Ardmore had the gall to abduct her, to demand information. A champion to some and a villain to others, the rogue ...




  • Avi; Rachel Vail

    Edward and Meg are like night and day. How could such different people be twins? Well, they are, but they don't have to like it -- or each other. For seventh grade, brainy Meg is attending ultra-competitive Fischer, while freewheeling Edward goes ...



  • James Axler

    Perpetual Burden Two centuries after Skydark, Earth remains chained to a sinister destiny spawned by hybrids and human traitors manipulating humankind from deep inside the chaos of forgotten worlds. Once a stone-cold protector of the ruling order,...



  • Robin Wayne Bailey

    The peace of Wyvernwood has been shattered. The war between Angmar and Degarm has begun, and their conflict has already spread deep into the southern and northern parts of the Great Refuge. But the war isn't confined just to the race of Men. The Grif...



  • Richard Baker
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The forces aligned against Menzoberranzan begin to take shape, and the threat to drow civilization is more terrifying than anyone has yet imagined. From the impenetrable shadows of the Underdark to the remote corners of the no less unforgiving World ...



  • Lynna Banning

    When she trekked into the mountains with Cord Lawson to save a life, she'd thought that book smarts alone mattered. Now one rain-soaked river swim and bare-chested kiss in the sun later, she knew that being alive meant feeling things. But could she s...




  • Cicely Mary Barker

    One of the most popular titles in our Flower Fairies(tm) Friends series is now available in an attractive transparent carrying bag sure to catch a young girl's eye. To heighten the bag's girl-appeal, a beaded necklace is included, too....





  • Steven Barnes

    BONUS: This short story features an exclusive author interview -- plus an excerpt from Steven Barnes’ Star Wars novel, The Cestus Deception. WHAT LIES BENEATH Dispatched as a Republic envoy to the Outer Rim planet Ord Cestus -- in a bid to halt ...



  • C.J. Barry

    Lacey Garrett was about to be free. Her fiance had run off with her business, her savings, and stuck her with his cat. What had she done to stop him? Nothing. But she'd just been beamed to another planet. Here, she wasn't an ordinary Earthwoman; ...



  • Beverly Barton

    SUBJECT: Jake Ingram, world financier FAMILY HISTORY: Leader of the Extraordinary Five siblings DEEPEST SECRET: His quest to defeat the Coalition might be the Extraordinary Five's undoing Financial genius Jake Ingram had always known he was diff...



  • L.G. Bass

    A volcanic eruption releases a vanguard of demons, sealed away for centuries beneath the earth. Soon after, the Emperor's first son is born, marked with the sign of the Qin-the brand of the outlaw! Could the child be the new Starlord, destined to res...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    Gaining back trust is hard enough... Jackson Cole is shocked when he hears a troubled friend has been found murdered in a New Orleans hotel room -- and he's the prime suspect in her death. Jackson realizes he has to fight for his life, but the one...



  • David Bedford

    Completely in love with his rainbow sweater, Mo Monkey wears it every single day and doesn't mind how dirty it gets, but when Mother Monkey wants to give it a good wash, Mo Monkey isn't very willing to give it up and comes up with a plan of his own....



  • Ron Benrey; Janet Benrey

    Corporate recruiter Pippa Hunnechurch finds herself in court when a leading software company sues her recruiting company for "consultant malpractice," a situation that turns deadly when the ruthless industrial spy who had orchestrated her legal woes ...



  • Linda Berdoll

    Every woman wants to be Elizabeth Bennet Darcy--beautiful, gracious, universally admired, strong, daring and outspoken--a thoroughly, modern woman in crinolines. And every woman will fall madly in love with Mr. Darcy--tall, dark and handsome, a no...



  • Thomas Berger

    Fed up with the sarcastic, opinionated, and disrespectful women he comes across, Ellery Pierce decides his only choice is to build the perfect woman. A technician at an animatronics firm, Ellery has the experience and tools ready at his fingertips. A...



  • Hannah Bernard

    Joanna dreamed of marrying Matt from the moment they first kissed. So their wedding day should be the happiest day of her life.... Except that Jo and Matt broke up five weeks ago! The split is a secret, the relationship is a sham -- and the marriage ...



  • Cecelie Berry

    From a dazzling array of well-known African American women, short fiction, poems, and personal essays that describe with warmth and humor their experiences as mothers and as daughters.A sparkling anthology devoted to exploring the lives of African Am...



  • Sian Ann Bessey

    When Matt and Emily Williams stumble into a forgotten shed on the grounds of the MTC they can’t believe what they find. Inside a mysterious envelope is a mission call . . . with their names on it! They have been called to serve with the Lord’s...



  • Mark Beyer

    For those of you who thought the comic strip was dead by the end of the twentieth century, here are 292 pieces of proof that you were wrong. Mark Beyer was breathing delirious, heartbreaking, otherworldly life into it by means of Amy and Jordan. Obvi...



  • Mark Billingham
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    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...



  • Laurie Bishop

    Annabelle Dearborn has been managing the financial affairs of her family's estate since her late father lost their wealth in a bad investment. To help pay expenses, she has opened their doors to boarders. But when she discovers an injured man in ...



  • Gary Blackwood

    Three award-winning novels are included in one volume that follows orphan-turned-actor Widge as he becomes immersed in deception, romance, and danger in Elizabethan London when he joins Will Shakespeare's acting troupe....



  • Luther Blissett

    In 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy known mysteriously as "Q." In this brilliantly conceived literary ...



  • N.E. Bode

    What if I were to TELL you that this is an all-true story, every word? You see, once there was a VERY REAL girl named Fern who found out that she'd been swapped at birth. This might disturb some people, but it made Fern happy because she'd never f...



  • Andrea Boeshaar

    The past was far behind her-at least that's what Blythe Severson thought. But then she received a wedding invitation containing a faded photograph, and old memories resurfaced. Even worse, Kylie Rollins entered her life. . . . Kylie's fresh young fac...



  • Larry Bond; Jim DeFelice

    The New York Times bestselling author of the classic technothrillers Red Phoenix and Day of Wrath, Larry Bond has won praise for the gritty authenticity of his military-political adventures as well as for his matchless talent at generating edge-of-yo...



  • Stephanie Bond

    PARTY 'TIL YOU DROP...DEAD? Jolie Goodman never yearned for a life in Atlanta's fast lane. All she wants is a career in real estate, and she's willing to sell shoes in Neiman Marcus over the holidays to make ends meet. But recently, her boyfriend ...



  • Ben Bova

    When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resou...



  • Celeste Bradley
    in

    Alfred Knight will do anything to avoid a scandal--even marry a woman he barely knows. But his bride has a most titillating secret...one she'll share as soon as she conquers her temptation for the man she was never supposed to marry!...



  • Laura Bradley

    Make an appointment for intrigue at Reyn Marten Sawyer's hair salon! Outrageous, flirtatious, and as colorful as a magenta mohawk, Reyn tracks twisted crimes, untangles tight knots, and never, ever leaves loose ends. HE GOT THE POINT -- RIGHT IN...



  • Jay Brandon

    Steve Greerdon is not a dirty cop . . .

    Eight years ago Chris Sinclair sent him to jail for armed robbery. Now, new DNA evidence shows that he is innocent and Sinclair sees that Greerdon is set free.

    Two police officers are murdered a...




  • Kate Bridges

    It was a humiliation no bride should bear, but Dr. Virginia Waters had survived it. Now she anxiously awaited her wedding to Zack Bullock, brother of her former fiance. But could this renowned and rugged Mountie make her forget her girlhood crush -- ...



  • Connie Brockway

    Connie Brockway sweeps readers back to the rough beauty of Regency-era Scotland and into the scintillating, passionate, and surprising love story of a mysterious Highlander and the woman he is pledged to protect. Desperate to keep her two sisters...



  • Dale Brown

    The destruction of a Russian air base by robotic U.S. warplanes has reawakenedthe bear -- and America must pay a terrible price. In retaliation, Russia's leader launches the most devastating military sneak attack since Pearl Harbor, decimating Americ...



  • Steve Brown

    When her godchild, Megan, mysteriously vanishes, lifeguard and runaway finder Susan Chase refuses to accept that the girl might be dead and follows a dangerous trail to a ruthless killer to find Megan before it is too late. Original....



  • N.M. Browne

    When Dan and Ursula become lost in a thick mist, they have no idea that once they step out of the other side they will find themselves in an England of thousands of years ago and embroiled in a civil war between ancient Britons and Romans. Soon they ...



  • N.M. Browne

    This evocative story of greed, power, and deception sweeps from the underground cave network of the Combers, living like spiders among the endless tunnels and ropes, to the beautiful city inhabited by Abovers. When a young man named Rej discovers the...



  • D.W. Buffa

    Attorney Joseph Antonelli dives into a case of White House intrigue, intimacies not forgotten, and suspicions dark and deep in this legal thriller in the Edgar Award-nominated series called "adroit and often elegant" (Los Angeles Times). The novels o...



  • Chris Bunch

    Hal thought the red and blacks had mounted a clever ambush. But there would have been more of them...and then he noted their obvious surprise as the hostile dragons screeched, started to climb, then changed their minds and came in for the easy The g...



  • Constance M. Burge

    The sisters are looking to mentor a young wicca just coming into her powers. But soon the Charmed Ones discover that their prodigy is in fact a changeling. They need to find the real witch, and fast...but where?...



  • Melvin Burgess

    Sex is . . . well, it's so rude, isn't it? You wouldn't think girls would like sex. You'd think it's too rude for them. Doing sex with a girl, it's a bit like putting a frog down their backs or scaring them with dead mice or throwing worms at them. T...



  • Elizabeth Burns

    Which could also be the same as saying everything's impossible in this family. It's the tightrope I walk between the Irish knowledge that cookies always crumble, and the Midwestern fact that a sunny disposition can get you anywhere...

    Bridget Fox'...



  • A.J. Butcher

    Devereaux Academy is not what it seems. The football team practicing beside the ivy-covered dormitory is merely a hologram, and the elderly receptionist could break your neck in three seconds flat. Devereaux's students rarely call the school by its p...



  • Ian Caldwell; Dustin Thomason

    Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. Famous for its hypnotic power over those ...



  • Deb Caletti

    Right away I got that Something About to Happen feeling. Right away I knew he was bad, and that it didn't matter. It is summer in the Northwest town of Nine Mile Falls, and sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen, ordinarily dubbed The Quiet Girl, finds he...



  • Dana Cameron

    The past's blood stains the present The opportunity of a lifetime awaits archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts: the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and ...



  • Joanna Campbell

    While cleaning out the spare bedroom at Whisperwood in preparation for the expected baby, Samantha and Tor come across their wedding album, stored away since their return from Ireland several years before. They settle down to relive the events tha...




  • Kathy Caple

    Everyone's favorite invertebrate sets out on a quest for employment -- -and ultimately, happiness -- -in a charming tale infused with humor and heart.

    When Worm hears about an upcoming art contest, he is sure he can win -- -all he needs is a n...



  • C.J. Carmichael

    Heather Sweeney has always wanted a baby. Unfortunately, she's in love with a married man, so her chances don't look good. Then one lonely night she turns to T. J. Collins, who always seems to be there for her when life is at its lowest. A few weeks ...



  • Emily Carmichael
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    This time they're playing to win in the game of love... The uproariously sexy chronicle of five women whose rules of romance are about to be broken... Welcome to Allheart.com, the online greeting card company where five friends--at work and at ...



  • Emily Carmichael
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    WANTED MEN They are a symbol of the Old West, from the tops of their ten-gallon hats to the tips of their spurs, and an image that sets women's hearts to quivering. There's nothing like a cowboy to stir a lady's imagination -- or to in...



  • Robyn Carr

    Nikki Burgess has survived a terrible marriage and an even worse divorce. And she's just about given up hope of ever finding love and happiness. But when her ex-husband suddenly dies, she gets custody of her kids again and a chance to start over and ...



  • Kathryn Caskie

    We, the undersigned, confined to spinsterhood through no fault of our own, hereby declare to guide our beloved niece Eliza Merriweather through the upcoming season and secure for her one, if not several, offers of marriage. We vow to consult the magn...



  • Carla Cassidy

    THERE WAS SOMETHING SHE WASN'T TELLING HIM... Something that could help catch a dangerous serial killer. FBI agent Nick Mead had precious little time to convince the troubled Native American beauty that she could trust him with anything and that h...



  • Linda Castillo

    After a childhood betrayal and tragedy, Lindsey Metcalf made a vow always to protect her younger sister, Traci. Although the two women have drifted apart, Lindsey's worst fears are triggered when Traci mysteriously disappears from her home in Seattle...



  • Jack Cavanaugh

    Songs in the Night book 3, the sequel to the award-winning His Watchful Eye. Following World War II, little has changed in Berlin. The Swastika has been replaced by the Hammer and Sickle, the soldiers by secret police, but a life of daily oppression ...



  • Daniel Chacon

    In the barrio of Fresno, California, the Molina family is living out the Chicano version of the American Dream. Father William works on an assembly line while his wife, the well-bred beauty Rachel, stays at home to care for their three children--and ...




  • Leonard Chang

    In this new installment, Allen Choice, now a full partner at Baxter & Choice Investigations, finds his life in upheaval by the reappearance of his ex-lover Linda. Over the objections of his current girlfriend Serena, Allen reluctantly takes on the ca...



  • Linda Chapman

    During the summer holidays, Sophie landed herself the main part in a locally shot big-screen film. Now she faces a new challenge - starting secondary school and trying to fit in whilst underplaying her recent stardom. Then when she is cast as Lucy fo...



  • Lee Child
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    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...



  • Lincoln Child

    Everyone's looking for the perfect match, a life-long partner, and Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe have found theirs, thanks to hi-tech matchmaker Eden Inc. But when the happy couple's life together ends in what looks like a double suicide, Eden Inc. has...



  • Matt Christopher

    While studying kung fu to try to overcome his clumsiness, Mark learns something that may interfere with his friends' plans for a group Halloween costume....



  • Catherine Clark

    2 Lobster rolls, 1 w/xtra mayo--yuck! 1 Lm'ade 1 Wtr Ignore Evan -- Swap Tues to avoid? Call Ben! RITE AFTR WRK Get tmrw off - qlty time w/ Ben Stop lookg @ EVAN!!!...



  • Martin Clark

    Of The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, Martin Clark’s first novel, the New York Times Book Review wrote, “Like Nick Hornby in High Fidelity and Thomas McGuane in Nothing But Blue Skies, Clark has produced an oddly stirring portrait of a man i...




  • Kate Clemens

    Want to hear something funny? Did you hear the one about L.A.'s hottest matchmaker who managed to mismatch herself? The "Love Finds a Way" mogul who discovered at the altar that her "perfect" guy was actually a philandering, no-good, pond-scum-suck...




  • Marcelle Clements

    A splendid Hudson River estate, complete with cook and rose garden. The landscape is inebriating, the women are in full, passionate bloom, and the men are incomprehensible. Susie-chic, smart, spacey, and no longer promiscuous- decides, at forty-five,...



  • Paul Cody

    A chilling, unforgettable literary novel by the author of So Far Gone journeys into the mind of Earl Madden, a former Boston schoolteacher committed to a state mental hospital, who struggles to deal with the idea that he may have killed his w...



  • Mark Cohen

    "I had spent seven years at the university and I'd taken great pains to avoid math classes. Now I was a private eye in search of a math professor." Three victims, three different states, and three apparently unrelated cases. When Boulder, Colorado...



  • Paula Marantz Cohen

    Carla Goodman’s life in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is a little bit stressful these days. Her doctor husband is frazzled, her son’s teachers say he needs Ritalin, and she’s in the throes of planning her daughter’s bat mitzvah. But it’s her swe...



  • Michael Coleman

    When a persistent youth offender is caught yet again after a robbery gone wrong, fifteen-year-old Luke is sentenced to community service as the partner to a blind runner, Jodi, with whom he unexpectedly develops a friendship....



  • Eoin Colfer

    In the future, in a place called Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. Freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the boys are put...



  • Max Allan Collins

    Lieutenant Horatio Caine leads a crack team of forensic scientists who investigate crimes amid the tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami. Together, they collect and analyze the evidence to expose the truth and to bring justice to tho...



  • Max Allan Collins

    When a modern-day Jack the Ripper terrorizes the city of London after the German Blitz, legendary pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury joins forces with Agatha Christie, England's First Lady of Crime, to catch a killer. Original....



  • Lynn Collum
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    Barclay Holmes is amazed when he learns that his father, the Earl of Fennerly, believes Barclay has eloped with his much-maligned friend Felicity Newman. A victim of her own sire's scandalous reputation, Felicity is truly honest, generous -- and ...



  • Michael Connelly

    FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her. ...



  • John Connolly
    in

    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...



  • Stephen Coonts

    WHEN THE SAFEST PLACE IN THE WIRLD HAS BECOME A KILLING GROUND... Unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his goals, CIA operative Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia. When he arrives, he finds the gu...



  • Stephen Coonts; Jim DeFelice

    DANGER: CONTAMINATED Dr. James Kegan, a world-renowned scientist specializing in germ warfare, has vanished from his upstate New York home. But this is no ordinary missing-persons case. Kegan has left behind an unidentified dead man with a .22 cal...



  • Francis Cottam

    They were just like the beaches at Normandy, Slapton Sand. That's why they trained them there - an army of invasion secluded in sleepy south Devon. But fifteen hundred soldiers perished at Slapton Sands, and no one seems to want to know why.
    ...



  • Ralph Cotton

    In his years as an Arizona Ranger, Sam Burrack believes he has seen every act of cruelty and brutality one man can bestow upon another. but nothing has prepared him for the butchery perpetrated by a gang of scalp hunters in the settlement of Clifton ...



  • Sandra Courtman

    First published in 1969, this second edition of Joyce Gladwell's story of her life reveals a deep awareness of some of the major social issues and personal problems of our time - race, colour, human relationships, mixed marriage and the search for Go...



  • Cressida Cowell

    GRONCKLE-- COLOR: A disgusting combination of green, beige, and brown NASTY BITS: Razor-sharp teeth and spikes THREAT TO VIKINGS: Minimal, if you have two legs Brutish, stupid, and altogether quite ugly, this fellow is slow and often too fat to fly. ...



  • Joy Cowley

    A Maori boy with the gift of sight in 1803--a slave to Maori warriors hunting for the Moa bird--and fourteen-year-old Jordan--a plane crash survivor marooned on a deserted New Zealand island in the present day--experience interconnecting visions....



  • Harold Coyle

    Harold Coyle takes us to the fierce fighting in the Pacific, where the Japanese and the Americans clash over a strategic airfield on the island of Guadalcanal. Their battlefield will earn the nickname Bloody Ridge from both sides.

    Harold Robbi...



  • Melanie Craft

    One sensible woman... One man with a reputation... Equals trouble for two... Molly Shaw's got a secret. By day she's a history professor; by night she's bestselling romance author Sandra St. Claire. And never the twain shall meet. Until a journa...



  • Kathleen Creighton

    When you're in trouble, find a policeman -- Starr family motto. While Joy Lynn Starr had plenty of the former -- her roommate was missing, and she couldn't get anyone to believe her -- the latter was in short supply. Until she happened on Scott C...



  • Mark Crilley

    Akiko and her crew"Spuckler Boach, Mr. Beeba, Poog, and Gax"are competing in an intergalactic race from one side of the universe to the other. Along the way they have to make it through the narrow passages of the Labyrinth of Lulla-ma-Waygo, the ...



  • Mark Crilley

    Billy Clikk’s just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill . . . hero? A guy whose hobbies include skateboarding, extreme mountain biking -- and a brand of snowboarding he wishes would include a few good old-fashioned body slams. Unfortunately, 12-year-old ...



  • Danielle Crittenden

    An important, shrewd, and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel that answers the question: What happens when Bridget Jones or the Sex and the City girls get married and have babies? Maybe you know Amanda. Maybe you are Amanda. Whoever you are, you will l...



  • Lynda Curnyn

    There should be a four-letter word for beauty. She has more shoes than Sarah Jessica Parker and a skin-care system that could make Madonna swoon, but unlike her celebrity counterparts, Grace Noonan doesn't have it all. Her latest utterly-eligible-...



  • Marci Curtis

    Bright photos enhance this charming tale of sibling love as two brothers go about their day together playing games, wrestling, sharing a laugh, and more. By the author of Big Sister, Little Sister....



  • Julie E. Czerneda

    Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor--Mac to her friends and colleagues--was a trained biologist whose work was her life. And working at the Base, set in an ideal location just where the Tannu River s...



  • John Dalmas

    All the Confederation of Worlds wanted was a little peace. But they realized that peace doesn't come cheap, so they decided to apply their personnel selection technology to war and pick the greatest potential warriors out of their planets-wide databa...



  • William Dalrymple

    White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the...



  • Barbara Daly

    When the lights go out... Blythe Padgett isn't thrilled her roommate's arranged a blind date for her. It also doesn't help that she forgets to tell Blythe his name. So when she runs into a sexy stranger in their building during a blackout, Blythe ...



  • Tony Daniel

    The future is at war for the soul of humankind... It is a time when civilization has extended itself far into the outer reaches of the solar system, and in doing so has developed into something remarkable. But humanity's progeny--the nanotechnolog...



  • Lucy Daniels

    Josie is excited that Jill Atterbury's cousin, Katrina, is visiting for the summer. When Katrina takes a bad fall trying to prove that she is the best jumper, Josie realizes that loving horses isn't just about riding, but taking care of the animal. W...



  • Lilian Darcy

    The last thing single mom Caroline Archer was looking for was romance -- her ex had put her off men for life! So she was surprised to feel an attraction for her new colleague, Declan McCulloch, who'd come from Ireland to work in their busy department...



  • Kay David
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    During a bank robbery Sarah is held hostage with the man who betrayed her, and her life will change forever in the next twenty-four hours.......



  • Kay David

    Hoping to start over, paramedic Andrea Hunt has come home to Courage Bay. But even she couldn't have known how her new life would begin -- with a tragic accident that leaves her responsible for her nephew. Kevin's a very special boy who copes with...




  • Dana Davidson

    Jason is a basketball star and one of the most popular guys in school. Brainy Kyra isn't, but she doesn't much care what other people think. Under normal circumstances, Jason and Kyra would live in their separate worlds until graduation. But fate int...



  • Maryjanice Davidson

    In a world nearly identical to ours, the North won the Civil War, Ben Affleck is the sexiest man alive, Martha Stewart is a better pastry chef than insider trader, and Russia never sold Alaska to the U.S. Instead, Alaska is a rough, beautiful country...



  • Bridgett M. Davis

    Not yet a woman yet more than a little girl, Rae Dodson is caught up in her family's drama. Her hip older sister, Kimmie, whom her mother favors, has moved from New Orleans to join them in Detroit, a city that moves as if in synch with the Stevie Won...



  • Michele Ivy Davis

    Evangeline Brown is a feisty, eleven year old who is ashamed of living with her widowed, alcoholic father in his run-down Florida motel with the butt end of a pink Cadillac sticking out of the office wall. She is stubbornly independent, but when Farr...



  • Peter Dawson

    Bill Ash, an escaped convict in "Spawn of Yuma," returns to find his father murdered. The "Colt-Cure for Woolly Fever" is Matt North's secret plan to force an entire range to reverse its decision to raise sheep. In "Posse of Outlawed Men," the disenf...



  • Mark de Castrique

    "[A] first-rate installment in an excellent series." -- BooklistBarry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father's funeral home in the peace and quiet of the Appalachian mountains. But Buryin' Barry is an undertaker with...



  • Michelle de Kretser

    Having come of age on the island nation of Ceylon, Sam Obeysekere is a lawyer whose life is guided by the British culture that dominates his homeland. Educated at Oxford, with a dazzling career in his sights, Sam is more English than the English. Onl...



  • Melissa de la Cruz

    SUMMER AU PAIRS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY For four energetic children, between 3 and 10 years old. Join a NYC family for the best summer of your life in East Hampton, July 4 - Labor Day. Pay: $10,000.00 Driver’s license a must. Familiarity with the ...



  • Barbara Delinsky

    On Big Sawyer island, life is as steady as the routine of the lobstermen who leave with the tide each morning and return with their haul each night. But for forty-year-old New Yorker Julia Bechtel, life and what's important in it are about to be ...



  • Sarah Dessen

    A long, hot summer That's what sixteen-year-old Macy Queen has to look forward to. Her boyfriend, Jason, is going away to Brain Camp. She's stuck with a dull-as-dishwater job at the library. And all of her free time promises to be spent studying f...



  • Julia DeVillers

    POP QUIZ What happens when your best friend accidentally turns in your secret, highly personal journal entry instead of your English essay? A. Your teacher reads it aloud in class, mortally embarrassing you right in front of the hottest guy in school...



  • Howie Dewin

    That big, green, swamp-loving oge is back! Join Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey in an exciting new books series from Scholastic!

    It's a totally "Shrek" take on some of your favorite fairytales--and happily ever after will never look or sound the same...



  • Kelly DiPucchio

    "I'm squished! I'm squashed! I'm buried in this heap! You're hoggin' up my space in bed. I'll never get to sleep!" This irresistible read-aloud is sure to be a hit with little bed hogs and their sleep-deprived parents. Kelly DiPucchio grew up on a sm...



  • E.L. Doctorow

    One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how ...



  • Christina Dodd

    As the middle child, Pepper Prescott's rebellious nature helped her survive when her parents disappeared and she and her siblings were sent to different foster homes around the country. Now an independent young woman, Pepper finds herself on the ...



  • Emma Donoghue
    in

    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...



  • Keith Douglass

    NATIONAL ALERT The SEAL Team is sent into Iraq to locate and destroy four hidden atomic weapons--but when their CIA mole is murdered before he can pass on vital information, the mission goes from difficult to impossible. Meanwhile, the Presiden...



  • Frances O'Roark Dowell

    In the old days, when Kate had no interest in romance, she never cared what other people thought. Now, it appeared, love was turning her into a rotten human being. Eleven-year-old Kate Faber wishes she could talk to her best friend, Marylin, about t...



  • Laura Dower

    The big green ogre returns -- and he's even funnier, more exciting, more romantic, and more fantastic! Scholastic is pleased to announce a full line of Shrek 2 books for this magical movie moment.

    Along with a full-color Shrek 2 movie storyboo...



  • Kathleen Duey

    Heart, who was discovered five years earlier wrapped in a unicorn-embroidered blanket, tries to keep a white mare and her colt safe, and after the unicorn Moonsilver is injured, she returns to her village to seek a healer, not knowing Lord Dunraven h...



  • John Gregory Dunne

    A grisly racial murder in what news commentators insist on calling “the heartland.” A feeding frenzy of mass media and seamy politics. An illicit love affair with the potential to wreck lives. In his grandly inventive last novel, John Gregory Dun...




  • Kate Egan

    Minotoro has the most toys. Minotoro has the most games. Minotoro even has the Golden El Rey trading card! Would he notice if Rikochet stole it?

    Oh, no! Will Rikochet dishonor his mask?

    ...



  • Kate Egan

    Peter Parker is trying to get to his friend M. J.'s play. He's riding his motorbike as fast as he can, but then his spider sense kicks in. A speeding car is about to crash into a pretzel cart, and a boy is in the way! Can Spider-Man save the day a...



  • Kate Egan

    The bank is doing business as usual until a mysterious stranger starts trouble. Is this just another robbery or one of Doc Ock's cunning plans to get his tentacles on Spider-Man? Peter Parker finds himself trapped in the bank, but he can't withdra...



  • Jane Eldershaw

    "There are only two kinds of women in the world, those who love shoes and those who had the misfortune to be born without the ability to experience total bliss on finding a pair of perfectly designed pumps in the right size at half price."Heart and S...



  • Robert Elmer

    The Pursuers Become the Pursued...

    Thanks to a very weird digital camera, normal 12-year-olds Austin and Ashley Webster from Normal, Illinois are still stuck inside the World Wide Web. They’re meeting cyber-people, chasing their aunt’s dog...



  • John R. Erickson

    It’s Hank’s job to clear the ranch of all intruders--and that includes gophers. But when Hank’s efforts causes a stampede in the middle of the cattle roundup, Loper decides that he wants Hank to learn some manners, so he’s sending him to--gul...



  • Maggie Estep

    Maggie Estep’s critically praised heroine, Ruby Murphy, is back! Back in Coney Island with a bunch of endearing misfits, back at the racetrack ogling thoroughbreds, and back learning that, on the seamy side of the sport of kings, survival can be a ...



  • Loren D. Estleman

    Loren D. Estleman is the quintessential noir detective writer, and Amos Walker is his quintessential noir detective. The hardboiled Amos Walker series continues with Retro.Walker has made a lot of friends--and a few enemies--in his years as a detecti...



  • Ravi Shankar Etteth

    When a diplomat at the Madagascan Embassy in Delhi is stabbed to death in seemingly scandalous and mysterious circumstances, the ambassador asks his old friend and fellow chess enthusiast, Jay Samorin, to help find the murderer as quickly and discret...



  • Tabor Evans

    One infamous pirate has sailors shivering in their timbers…He’s a quickdraw, a cow-punch, and a lady’s man. But lawman Custis Long will be the first to admit he’s no sailor. So when duty brings him down the Texas coast to investigate the fish...



  • Percival Everett

    Part parable, part fantasy novel, part laugh-out-loud satire, American Desert is the story of Theodore Street, a college professor on the brink of committing suicide. When the decision is taken out of his hands--he's hit by a car and his head is seve...



  • Terence Faherty
    in

    Ex-seminarian Owen Keane accompanies former lover Marilyn Tucci to Maine to bury her estranged husband. But dark mysteries surrounding the dead man's family converge as a murderer strikes at the heart of a tragic past filled with secrets, blackmail a...



  • Jerrilyn Farmer
    in

    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...



  • Keith Faulkner

    When Hippo gets a horrible case of the hiccups, nothing his friends try seems to work, until they all put their heads together and find the right solution, a cure that Hippo--and young readers--will never forget. By the creators of The Wide-Mouth...



  • Quinn Fawcett

    Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was once an operative for British Naval Intelligence. Rumors hold that Fleming's job occasionally required a bit of "wet work," slang for assassination, but he never spoke of it, nor of the other secrets of his...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    HAWK'S WAY Until Jack Hawkins, Teri Cavanaugh had never encountered a case she couldn't crack or a cop whose life wasn't an open book after day one as her partner. Male detectives wanted to be "Hawk." Women flat-out wanted him. Teri simply wanted ...



  • Acton Figueroa

    Being a hero isn't easy. As Peter Parker, I have to make time for school and work. But it is up to me, as Spider-Man, to help people in need. With great power comes great responsibility ...

    ...



  • Lolita Files

    It's the return of the sistahs! Tastes Like Chicken is Lolita Files's much anticipated continuing story of the lives of Misty Fine and Reesy Snowden, the dynamic heroines of the bestselling novels Scenes from a Sistah and Getting to the Good Part. Wi...



  • Jackie Fischer

    Finally Abby is thirteen. A real teenager who only wants to pierce her ears, have a boyfriend, and run her own life. But when her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Abby faces a life far different from what she hoped for. Set in the Bay Area in the ...



  • Christine Flynn

    They said he needed a wife.... A wife of breeding and class. But Gabe Kendrick, the first son of the revered Kendricks of Camelot, Virginia, wanted none of that. His ambitions and sense of duty had led him to follow his father's footsteps into pol...



  • Vince Flynn

    Fighting terrorism on foreign ground, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp does whatever it takes to protect American freedom. CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States, just as the nation's capital prepares for a grand M...



  • James Follett

    At long last a follow-up to the best-selling A Cage of Eagles
    It is now 1942 and the quickening pace of the war brings new problems for the senior German officer, U-boat ace Otto Kruger. The PoW officers under his command at No. 1 PoW Camp (Office...



  • Steven Ford

    A WOMAN AT DEATH’S DOOR Medical researcher Erin Connelly has an urgent agenda. Her daughter, Esperance, is dying and Erin knows of only one possible treatment to save her life. It’s called Enigma a mutated culture of smallpox. It’s controver...



  • Lori Foster
    in

    Some men you can't take anywhere...except the bedroom. No matter how you dress them up, they'll always be a little bit rough around the edges, a little too hot for polite society, a little too naked in their appreciation of a woman, and a little too ...



  • Sharon Ewell Foster

    Loneliness is a dark cloud over Baltimore for neighbors Mary, Puddin, and Moor. Unlucky in love and unhappy without it, they are each about to take a drastic step on the bumpy road of romance. Guided by advice from well-meaning friends, all three ent...



  • Earlene Fowler

    In this new novel in the bestselling series, Benni Harper wears multiple hats--as a cowgirl and a detective--roping in guests and suspects during one mystery-filled western week... Benni's friend and her husband have decided to open a dude ranch. ...



  • Susan Fox

    Coming home -- to be his bride...? When Selena Keith is injured in a car crash, Morgan Conroe demands she move into his home! Selena hasn't seen Morgan for two long years, though her love for him still burns strong.... Morgan has always been c...



  • Breen Frazier

    She’s young. She’s beautiful. And her Russian is off the charts. Sydney is the perfect choice for a deep cover infiltration inside K-Directorate. A high-stakes mission of sabotage where there’s no turning back. Extraction becomes impossibl...



  • Mariah Fredericks

    COOL IS COOL AND GEEK IS GEEK, AND AT ELDRIDGE THE TWO DEFINITELY DO NOT MIX. Sari and Jess are best friends and total opposites. They've liked each other ever since they discovered that they are the only two normal people at Eldridge Alternative. A...



  • Michael Fredrickson

    The murderer is known as Van Gogh. Leaving a bloody trail of bodies from coast to coast, the serial killer marks his targets with his gruesome signature: he harvests the victim's right ear. After ten such bodies, the FBI tracks him down and takes him...



  • Lorna Freeman

    TROOPER A horse soldier, Rabbit is nothing but a grunt in the Royal Army of Iversterre. A lost grunt, seeing as how his unit can't seem to find its way out of the mountains. But help comes from an unexpected source: a Faena--or "magical"--from the ...



  • Mister Mann Frisby

    Offered a lucrative dream job in which they are paid large sums of money to sleep with women with no strings attached, Dexter and a longtime friend find themselves caught up in a blackmail scheme that backfires, leaving them trapped in a dangerous pl...



  • Kimberly Fusco

    Lenore is Cornelia’s mother -- and Cornelia’s fix-up project. What does it matter that Cornelia won’t talk to anyone and is always stuck in the easiest English class at school, even though she’s read more books than anyone else? She feels str...



  • Susan Gable

    Lexie swore she would protect the child she carried -- even though she wasn't really her mother. To give her friend David the child he'd dreamed of, Lexie had agreed to be a surrogate mother, but that was before she learned the truth about...



  • Patricia Gaffney

    How much change can one summer bring? For thirty-two-year-old Caddie Winger, one summer can make the whole world look different. Jolted out of her comfy, self-made nest and forced to look at the world with new eyes, Caddie begins to take charge of...



  • Philip Galanes

    At the age of thirty-five, Matthew Vaber’s life is so messy it can only be at a turning point. In one direction is the neon glare of his father’s recent suicide, and in the other is the tough love of his fluorescent mother. He’d love to find lo...



  • Ashley Gardner

    Cashiered cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey of the 35th Light Dragoons lost much on the battlefield during the Peninsular Campaign. But he still retains his innate sense of right and wrong when faced with injustice... Something quite out of th...



  • Bonnie Gardner

    Mission Impossible? Nurse Patsy Pritchard wears her hospital uniform like camouflage gear, hiding a lonely heart she's declared off-limits to the men who try to get close. Then her eccentric aunt concocts a campaign with a handsome sergeant in min...



  • Olivia Gates

    Dr. Sherazad Dawson joined the Global Aid Organization's medical team in a war-torn state to escape her past. She never expected to find her future there! Amid the urgency of frontline medicine, an irresistible Italian doctor, Lorenzo Banducci, be...



  • Cindy Gerard

    SKIN TO SKIN... Tonya Griffin had been a lovestruck assistant when she had thrown herself at her boss. Twelve years later, Web Tyler was making the now-famous photographer a lucrative offer. Tonya had dreamed of this moment for years, but her reve...



  • Adele Geras


    Set in a splendid country house in England, this rich and absorbing novel begins as Leonora, daughter of a famous Edwardian painter, is about to throw herself a huge house party to celebrate her 75th birthday. Guests will include her two grown da...



  • Phillis Gershator

    Baby cheeps like a bird
    and I know why.
    When Mama and Papa go out
    baby starts to cry.

    A calming picture book about separation that will help ease a child's fears

    It's hard when Mama and Papa leave home. You want to go with the...



  • Patricia Reilly Giff

    Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby's name is an artist is now a twelve-year-old girl who's been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. Hollis Woods is a mountain of trouble. She runs away even from the...



  • Mel Gilden

    "Gilden proves that you can write first-rate humorous science fiction." -The Science Fiction Chronicle He called himself Zoot Marlowe, said he'd just blown in from Cay City, but even the wacked out surfer dudes could tell that the four-fout detective...



  • Alison Leslie Gold

    When Chiune Sugihara was growing up in Japan, he had never even met a Jewish person. There was no way Chiune could know that he would one day save the lives of thousands of Jews - and become a great hero to the Jewish people. Chiune Sugihara was a di...