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New Books List: 633 titles


  • Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! It seems like Young Sparr and the moon dragon have joined forces, and the kids are going to need Galen's help. But first, they have to find him! Eric and his friends soon learn tha...



  • Peter Abrahams

    Ivy Seidel dreams of becoming a writer, a great American novelist. But running low on money and concerned that her writing might lack a depth and darkness, she takes a job teaching creative writing -- at a maximum-security prison. It is a world she h...



  • Boris Akunin

    In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertine...



  • Susan Wittig Albert

    High school football coach Tim Duffy is handsome, charming, and married into a wealthy local family. But now, an anonymous accuser has made shocking allegations of improper behavior-and China Bayles is asked to conduct a discreet investigation. W...



  • Steve Almond

    Two rambunctious, romantic flameouts. One boring wedding. One heated embrace in a quiet coatroom. This is not exactly the recipe for true love. John and Jane's lusty encounter at a friend's wedding isn't really the beginning of anything with any weig...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    Ms. Gracie Sherwood -- eight months pregnant and counting! -- is on the run from her mobster ex-husband and the U.S. Marshals who are supposed to be protecting her. No one is going to keep Gracie from winning the Culinary Art Invitational cooking com...



  • Lisa Alvarado

    Taina's turning fifteen-and is so dreading her Pepto-pink quinceañera, her Sweet Fifteen.What about her secret Jamaican artist boyfriend? Should she let Mami choose her escort, or follow her heart-and ignite a family riot?

    Grachi must choos...



  • Julia Alvarez

    Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of...



  • Jessica Andersen

    UNFINISHED BUSINESS A killer was loose in Colorado, and evidence specialist Cassie Dumont was determined to prove her expertise to the skeptical local cops. So the arrival of FBI agent Seth Varitek, a man she'd clashed with before, didn't sit well...



  • Jodi Lynn Anderson

    Most people aren't very comfortable in the woods, but the woods of Briery Swamp fit May Bird like a fuzzy mitten. There she is safe from school and the taunts and teases of kids who don't understand her. Hidden in the trees, May is a warrior princess...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson is best known for his epic science fiction novels such as Hidden Empire, Dune: House Atreides (with Brian Herbert), and Star Wars: Jedi Search. This collection of twenty-two tales and two essays displays the range...



  • Mary Kay Andrews

    Southern belle BeBe Loudermilk has lost all her worldly possessions, thanks to a brief but disastrous relationship with the gorgeous Reddy, an "investment counselor" who turns out to be a con man. All that's left is a ramshackle 1950s motel on Tybee ...



  • A. Manette Ansay

    From New York Times bestselling author A. Manette Ansay comes an unforgettable story of two families united by tragedy -- and one woman's deeply emotional journey toward a choice she'd never thought possible.On an ordinary morning in Fox Harbor, Wisc...



  • Kelley Armstrong

    In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-century -- and become his next target. Ever since she discovered she's pregnant, Elena Michaels has...



  • Stephen Arterburn

    One man faces his worst nightmare--twice. Ben Taylor's just a regular guy. Married to his beautiful Annie, with good kids, and a career that brings him great joy. But the world as he knows it suddenly shifts beneath his feet. While his job is s...



  • Jennifer Ashley

    THE PLAYBOY PRINCE His blue eyes beguiled. His muscular form could have satisfied any fantasy. He had a delicious foreign accent -- and to top it off, he was royalty! What woman would dare refuse the most sought-after lover in Europe? Miss Twice-a...



  • Adele Ashworth

    The scandalously handsome Samson Carlisle is not the deceiving nobleman Lady Olivia was searching for...but he's the lover she fervently desires. A lady's heart is a tempting plaything for the DUKE OF SCANDAL He stands apart from other ...



  • Dianna Hutts Aston


    The perfect book for Mother's Day!

    A mother has lots of preparation to do when expecting a baby--whether she's a bird weaving a nest in the tree outside, or a woman setting up a nursery inside her home. In this heartwarming picture book, ...



  • Louis Auchincloss

    Short stories from a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, in settings ranging from Edwardian garden parties to 1970s Manhattan.   While bringing to life stories of the past filled with privilege and glamour, these tales also explore their charac...



  • Lori Avocato

    Pauline Walks the Plank . . . A confirmed landlubber, insurance fraud p.i. Pauline Sokol's never heard the call of the sea -- or if she has, she didn't pay attention. But now the former RN is donning her nurse's whites once more to go undercover a...



  • Karen Ball

    Wilderness and Weather Are Easily Overcome. But Betrayal? Annie Justice sees things differently. Her unconventional condition, synesthesia, helped make her one of the most sought-after stained-glass artists in the country. And teamed with her German ...



  • Blue Balliett

    Supersleuths Petra and Calder, along with Calder's old friend, Tommy, have been cryptically drawn into another mystery -- this time involving a Frank Lloyd Wright architectural masterpiece, the Robie House. When the kids' sixth-grade class attempts...



  • Alexis Barad

    Nothing is more precious than the bond between a mother and child! Now young readers can celebrate this love with this adorable Little Golden Book featuring the beloved Precious Moments illustrations of Samuel J. Butcher!...



  • Linwood Barclay

    In Linwood Barclay's debut, paranoid Zack Walker transplanted his city-savvy wife and teenagers to the peaceful burbs--where nervous fathers rest easy. Well, not quite. Now, another suspense-filled adventure, the Walkers have moved back e and Zack ca...



  • John Barnes

    Giraut Leones, special agent for the human Thousand Cultures' shadowy Office of Special Plans, is turning fifty--and someone is trying to kill him. Giraut's had a long career; the number of entities that might want him dead is effectively limitles...



  • Nevada Barr
    in

    A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...



  • Annie Barrows

    THE MOMENT they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they would never be friends. But when Bean plays a trick on her sister and has to hide -- quick! -- Ivy comes to the rescue with her wand, some face paint, and a bucket of worms. Will they end up in t...



  • Karen Grigsby Bates

    When Alex Powell stops into a Los Angeles bookstore on a rainy spring night, she's planning to write a column on the author who is reading and signing books there. But what she gets instead is a firsthand look at the murder of a controversial African...



  • Jon F. Baxley

    Books in this series:THE BLACKGLOOM BOUNTY (500 pages)THE REGENTS OF RHUM (800 pages)THE SCIONS OF SCOTIA (800 pages)"A Cast of Characters in the Conan Vein" Kruzurk Makshare the magician is asked by the spirit of Merlin of Pendragon, his long dead ...



  • Cynthia Baxter

    Can a vet detective catch a killer who's hopping mad? Veterinarian and amateur sleuth Jessica Popper races down the rabbit hole and into a vintage case of passion and betrayal in Long Island's elite wine country in... HARE TODAY, DEAD TOMORROW ...



  • Theodore Beale

    Having fought legions of the Fallen before the gates of heaven and prevented a school shooting, Christopher, Jami, and Holli Lewis experience the greatest test of their faith when they are targeted by a legion of demons and dark princes. By the autho...



  • Carrie Bebris

    After the intrigues and excitements of their time in the city, the Darcys are more than prepared for a bit of peace and quiet at Pemberley. This is time that they can spend together as Elizabeth settles into her pregnancy. However, such serene solitu...



  • Frederic Beigbeder

    Windows on the World debuted at #2 on the French national best-seller list and won the prestigious Prix Interalli prize in 2003. Now available in paperback, this unprecedented novel will once again astonish, provoke, and embrace the reader as it atte...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    An all-new villain explodes on the scene, literally! But how can Spider-Man fight a new mysterious foe named Geldhoff if he can't even find a costume? And will Peter and Mary Jane finally just say what they feel?! Guest-starring the Ultimate X-Men. C...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    The Eisner Award-winning run of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev comes to a blistering conclusion! First, they outed Daredevil in the press; then they married him and made him the Kingpin of Hell's Kitchen. What could they possibly do to top that...



  • Elizabeth Berg

    It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently -- and violently -- across the state. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, ther...



  • Kristin Billerbeck

    Three friends. One spa. And an infinite amount of oversharing! From the outside, Morgan Malliard has it all: diamonds at her disposal, a willowy figure, a doting daddy and all the elegance that money can buy. But money can't buy happiness--or an i...



  • David Bishop
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The war to end all wars â€" or so it is hoped.
    For generations battle broke the once-proud kingdom
    of Galifar. As nation fought nation, adventure was never
    far away from those eager to find it.

    Hunters of evil, seekers of fortune, ...



  • Mary Blayney
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    Enter a world where no boundaries exist--and where every seduction is supernatural... Follow four of today's most provocative authors to a place where love can transform reality--and anything can happen. Here they present stories of ethereal circu...



  • Lauralee Bliss

    In 1843 Kentucky, Susanna Barnett longs for the finer things in life. Mammoth Cave brings them to her and her family. Not only does the cavern attract curious folks paying top dollar for tours, but its unique atmosphere promises to heal the sick. Sur...



  • Francesca Lia Block

    What you hold in your hands is more than a book. It is a gateway between worlds -- from deep space to Faerie to just around the corner. The seventeen authors who have contributed original stories to Firebirds Rising have won virtually every literary ...



  • Philip Boast

    A Roman mystery, introducing Septimus Severus Quistus Quistus, lucky seventh son, has everything ? then, in one fateful hour, Quistus's life is destroyed, his much-loved wife and family bloodily murdered, all except his seventh son and only daughter....



  • Alex Boese

    Can you grow a bonsai kitten? Should you stock up on dehydrated water? Is it easy to order human-flavored tofu? Or is this all just B.S.?

    In a world of lip synching, breast implants, payola punditry, and staged reality shows, it's hard to know...



  • Cat Bordhi

    How can you retrieve a treasure from the bottom of a pond without disturbing the water? This is the challenge left for Ben Maclennon by his grandmother, and the start of an enchanting new trilogy that will take readers deep into the heart of the ...



  • Robert Brace

    Ex-special ops Marine Lysander Dalton is hired by a mysterious D.C. power player to find the group responsible for buying black market plutonium before they make an A-bomb out of it--a dangerous mission that leads him to the world's wealthiest reclus...



  • Laura Bradford

    DEAD DAYS OF SUMMER Beaches, boardwalks and the promise of carefree summer days mark the start of tourist season in the small, scenic town of Ocean Point, New Jersey. But this scene is marred suddenly by the body of a young woman found bludgeoned to...



  • Laura Bradford

    FROZEN IN FEAR It was supposed to be the perfect winter getaway: snow, sleighs and a warm friendly tourist town on a remote Michigan island--what could be more romantic for New Jersey reporter Elise Jenkins and her new love interest, Detective Mitch...



  • Peter Brandvold

    Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk is forced out of hiding when Catherine McCormick, fleeing from a mining camp, asks for his help in avenging her ten-year-old brother, who was brutally murdered by a band of raiders. Original....



  • Jean Brashear

    A man lost in grief. A woman who can heal him. A secret that could destroy everything. Honey Creek Cottage is the house of Jezebel Hart's dreams -- and the place of Gamble Smith's nightmares. The place he built with his own hands, every ...



  • Marie Brennan

    When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. But what happens when the doppelganger survives? Mirage, a bounty hunter, lives by her wits and lethal fighting skills. She always gets h...



  • Noel-Anne Brennan

    When a chance encounter causes her to investigate her past, Forentel, the first daughter of a noble family, stumbles upon dark secrets and new powers, leading her on a quest across the desert to find a mythical city--a perilous journey that leads her...



  • Carolyn Brown

    Geneva Garner's mind was fixed on survival, her unborn child, escaping out of Savannah, and getting away from the men in the white robes with hoods over their heads. Covered in dirt and smoke from the cellar where she took refuge when the Klan burned...



  • Marc Brown

    Big brother Arthur's got a doozie of a dare for sassy little sister D.W.: Can she try to be PERFECT for one whole day? From the do's and don'ts of eating and etiquette to earning A's for best behavior, good manners are great fun when D.W. is your che...



  • Pamela Browning

    Finders, Keepers? When Chloe Timberlake agrees to look after the Frangipani Inn, her cousin's bed-and-breakfast, she expects to find the fabulous Florida inn of her youth -- not a derelict mansion that could collapse around her if she so much as sla...



  • Joseph Bruchac

    Wabi was born an owl -- a great horned owl who grew to become such a strong, confident creature that he was afraid of nothing. But now he is afraid. He fears that he might never win the heart of the girl he loves. Somehow, despite his own intentions,...



  • Alyssa Brugman

    Eighth grade is torture -- at least it is for Bindy! (1) Her best friend since kindergarten becomes her worst enemy. (2) She's stuck taking yoga in sports ed, where she unleashes the Very Bad Thing that gets the whole school talking. (3) She suffe...



  • Jen Bryant

    Like her mother, Georgia McCoy is an artist, but her dad looks away whenever he sees her with a sketchbook. Sometimes it's hard to remember what it was like when her mother was still alive . . . when they were a family . . . when they were happy. But...



  • Michael Buckley

    For Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, the latest in a long line of fairy-tale detectives, there is one mystery they want to solve more than all the others: Who kidnapped their parents more than a year ago? Sabrina enters the hideout of the Scarlet Hand, the ...



  • Jeff Buick

    A diamond formation worth untold millions, hidden deep in the jungles of Africa. Many have tried to find it. All have failed. Can Samantha Carlson do the impossible? The president of Gem-Star thinks so when he hires the geologist to lead a team into ...



  • Bartle Bull

    The master of the exotic adventure novel returns with a tale of romance, vengeance and intrigue. The story begins in 1920s Paris, where Shanghai Station's Russian count, Alexander Karlov, and Viktor Polyak, the Soviet agent who killed Karlov's parent...



  • T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    SERAFINA GAVI, the wealthy young Venetian who fell in love with the wrong man, eventually found herself in an English manor reduced to service as a maid. With her growing fondness for John Falconer, the painful memories of betrayal began to heal. But...



  • Meg Cabot

    Princess just want to have fun This spring, Mia's determined to have a good time, despite the fact that the student government over which she presides is suddenly broke. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) Grandmere has ...



  • Pete Callahan

    As the war for the Korean Peninsula rages on, tank commander Lt. Jack Hansen and Charlie Company must fight their way through a Communist stronghold, which will push them all to the limit, as they make their way to the South Korean capitol of Seoul. ...



  • Meisha Camm

    Darren Edmonds, a pillar of the community and a well-respected businessman, wins Nya's trust and love, taking her on a whirlwind romance and giving her the ultimate gift. He is, however, keeping a secret - and Nya's curiosity, which ultimately gets t...



  • Trudi Canavan

    AS THE IMMORTALS AWAKE, AN ENEMY SHAKEN BY AN UNEXPECTED DEFEAT REGROUPS WITH A SUBTLE, SINISTER PLOT. UNAWARE OF THE DANGER, THE WHITE FACE AN UNEXPECTED NEW CHALLENGE. After pitched battle, The White--the avatars of the Five Gods--have briefl...



  • Kevin Canty

    Richard Winslow is in a rut. His marriage is over and he is alone, teaching poetry as a visiting professor in Montana and continuing to avoid actually writing himself. He drinks to oblivion every night.At this freezing college, in the dead of winter,...



  • Alejo Carpentier

    A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king...



  • Cynthia Carr

    The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and conside...



  • Ally Carter

    CAMMIE MORGAN IS A STUDENT AT THE GALLAGHER ACADEMY FOR EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG WOMEN, a fairly typical all-girls school--typical, that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students recei...




  • Maud Casey

    Meet the Hennarts: Samantha Hennart, a poet with writer's block; her husband, Bernard, obsessed with the life of a nineteenth-century Belgian mystic with stigmata; their son, Ryan, a mediocre rock musician; and their eighteen-year-old daughter, Ma...



  • Dianne Castell

    In 'Til There Was U, Dianne Castell introduced the strong, family-centered O'Fallon clan, Mississippi men who are always there for each other. When Rory O' Fallon discovers a beautiful baby girl on his front porch, he's determined to find the little ...



  • Patrick Cave

    In a futuristic world, will everyone be replaceable? Mira had always lived quietly until the day a stranger is shot and killed in front of her. The woman's body is quickly removed, leaving bloodstained snow and a crumpled piece of paper on the gr...



  • Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Pursuing the family name as the finest silk producer in Lyon, the young Huguenot Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet is thrilled to accompany her famous couturier Grandmere to Paris, there to create a silk trousseau for the Royal Princess Marguerite Valois. T...



  • Marion Chesney

    THIS DEBUTANTE IS TO DIE FOR Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Ca...



  • Jennifer Chiaverini

    Elm Creek Quilts, the thriving artists' retreat at Elm Creek Manor, is a place that stakes its sterling reputation on the palpable creative energy and collective goodwill of its teachers and students. But when two of its founding members decide to le...



  • Chieh Chieng

    The Lums are cursed. Their early deaths come randomly, strangely, and often, be it by tainted cheeseburger or speeding ice cream truck. The most recent victim is Louis Lum's mother. Now Louis must move back home with his gangsta rap-obsessed fath...



  • Maureen Child

    PATERNITY TEST Surgeon Sam Lonergan lived a no-strings-attached life...until he met Maggie Collins, the young, sexy, housekeeper of his family's ranch. Their affair was hot, their secret rendezvous hotter. And after sharing incredible passion with...



  • Maureen Child

    "Who cares if I grew up with money? I deserve this job." --Kyra Fortune, associate VP Kyra Fortune can't believe she might get fired. Sure, she knows some people think she's a spoiled brat with more family connections than brains, but she knows ...



  • Laura Childs

    When social darling Delaine Dish throws a lavish benefit for the restoration of a run-down Victorian home, Theodosia Browning donates tea and treats from her Indigo Tea Shop. But the grand unveiling of Theo's spread proves a gruesome scene when a bel...



  • Cinda Williams Chima

    AN EPIC BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL... BEFORE HE KNEW ABOUT THE ROSES, sixteen-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life in the small Ohio town of Trinity. Only the medicine he has to take daily and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from ...



  • Jane McBride Choate

    Businessman turned naturalist, Matthew McCall, is ready for the greatest challenge of his life--restoring gray wolves to their former home in the high desert of Arizona. His love for the animals dates back to the stories with which his grandfather re...



  • CLAMP

    IN THE GOD’S HANDS

    Five friends continue their desperate search for Princess Sakura’s memories, which have been scattered across parallel worlds in the form of magically potent feathers. But this time Syaoran and Sakura are pulled from a t...



  • Chris Claremont

    In the wake of the Marauders' Mutant Massacre, the X-Men go mobile to plan their next move--but recruiting Dazzler and Havok brings them even more catastrophe! And with a teammate's life on the line, the mutant marvels are forced to fight the Fantast...



  • Mary Higgins Clark

    In a riveting thriller, worldwide bestselling suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark brilliantly weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother's search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead. When Margaret and Steve Frawley come home to Connectic...



  • Wahida Clark

    In this gritty urban drama by the New York Times bestselling author of Honor Thy Thug, a woman who has everything has everything to lose.Brianna and Shan couldn't be more different. Brianna believes that men were born to bankroll her lifestyle -- fro...



  • Jane K. Cleland

    A BIDDING WAR. After a price-fixing scandal at her prestigious New York auction house, Josie Prescott moves to the New Hampshire coast to restore her reputation -- and perhaps a few antiques along the way. A KILLER DEAL. As an antiques dealer, Josie...



  • Nicole Cody

    Forget the English. Forget the Reformation. Forget your sanity.... Try getting married when your betrothed can wield an iron pot with deadly accuracy, her mad uncle thinks he's William Wallace, and her two maiden aunts can't finish a sentence --...



  • Jan Coffey

    A fast-attack nuclear submarine cuts silently through the waters of the north Atlantic, hijacked by two dozen armed terrorists. The target: New York City. Fighting for their lives aboard the hijacked submarine, ship superintendent Amy Russell and...



  • Elaine Coffman

    HER QUEST FOR ADVENTURE IS EQUALED ONLY BY HER PASSION With her sword for protection, Lady Kenna Lennox of Scotland defies social convention and reopens her family's ancient distillery. This feat of wit and daring captures the attention of the sadis...



  • Paula Marantz Cohen

    Anne Ehrlich is smart, compassionate, and unfortunate in love. Years ago she allowed her wealthy family -- especially her beloved grandmother, Winnie -- to persuade her to give up the love of her life, Ben Cutler, a penniless boy from Queens College....



  • David Colbert

    Philip Pullman's epic fantasy series-His Dark Materials-chronicling the adventures of Lyra Silvertongue, her shapeshifting daemon Pantalaimon, and Will Parry on their multi-dimensional odyssey to save all of reality from the mysterious su...



  • David Colbert

    The author of The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter journeys into the fantasy world created by award-winning author Philip Pullman in the novels of His Dark Materials trilogy, examining the sources and meanings of diverse aspects of the ...



  • Kresley Cole

    Acclaimed author Kresley Cole introduces a sizzling new series with this tale of a fierce werewolf and a bewitching vampire -- unlikely soul mates whose passion will test the boundaries of life and death. A mythic warrior who'll stop at nothing to...



  • Barbara Collins
    in

    A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...



  • Joan Collins

    In this utterly compelling novel, two sisters born into privilege find themselves forced to make wrenching life decisions as they struggle with a troubled family legacy and the immense weight of wealth, fame, ambition, and betrayal.Misfortune's Daugh...



  • Jennifer Colt

    Someone in Malibu is murdering hot blondes. Who better to solve the crime than two hot redheads? Twin sisters Kerry and Terry McAfee are well on their way to becoming Los Angeles's most notorious Pls. With their bright red hair, canine sidekicks, an...



  • Gloria Cook

    Three young women do what they must do to survive in a male-dominated world In a poor copper-mining village, carpenter's daughter Amy Lewarne finds her life changed for ever when she finds Toby, her missing brother, dead. Titus Kivell, head of a bell...



  • K.L. Cook

    It's 1960 in the Panhandle town of Charnelle, Texas--a year and a half since sixteen-year-old Laura Tate's mother boarded a bus and mysteriously disappeared. Assuming responsibility for the Tate household, Laura cares for her father and three brother...



  • Inglath Cooper
    in

    A couple shattered by the loss of their daughter opens their home to an orphaned Russian girl -- unprepared for the emotion she unleashes. As guilt and grief war with the need to love a child again, the remarkable little girl offers healing and hope....



  • J. California Cooper

    J. California Cooper's irresistible collection of new stories explores the universal themes of romance, family, and the hopes that propel people's dreams. In "As Time Goes By" a young woman singlemindedly pursues material wealth, only to suffer f...



  • Lyn Cote

    The women of Ivy Manor-four generations of women who forged a dynasty amid the tapestry of the twentieth century . . . CARLY Carly Leigh Sinclair grew up in the last decades of the twentieth century in the home of her independent and ambitious m...



  • Carol Cox

    Annie Trenton and her late husband's partner, Silas Crockett, step off the train at the great world's fair in Chicago and walk smack into political intrigue. When a stranger accidentally collides with Silas, more than a satchel is unintentionally exc...



  • Gretchen Craig

    Set against a fascinating backdrop of 1830s Louisiana, Always and Forever is a sweeping saga of a Creole-American family and of two remarkable women whose friendship will be tested by prejudice, tragedy, passion, and the love of one extraordinary man...



  • Robert Crais

    Max Holman knew the two minute rule: Get in, get the cash, and get out. But two minutes can be a lifetime. . . . In one moment of weakness he botched a bank job and was sent away for years. Now released from prison, Max wants to reconcile with his es...



  • Bill Crider

    It starts when Blacklin County, Texas, oddball tough-guy Bud Turley asks Sheriff Dan Rhodes to guard an enormous tooth Bud found, which he claims belonged to Bigfoot. Shortly thereafter, the body of Bud's friend Larry is found in the vicinity of the...



  • Millie Criswell

    Take a cozy bed-and-breakfast, a missing guest and a mysterious stranger...throw in a pile of bones, a past-due bank loan and the cops...and it's no wonder innkeeper Beth Randall needs a vacation from her life! Her dizzy aunts mean the world to B...



  • Susan Crosby

    HE WANTED WHAT HE COULD NOT HAVE The mysterious "lady in red" who appeared at his Manhattan apartment inflamed his senses and ignited his passion, but John Harlan's new lover was the very woman he could never possess: his ex-fiance's twin sister, ...



  • Jennifer Crusie; Bob Mayer

    SHE is a director of dog food commercials who's just been recruited to finish a four-day movie shoot. But as soon as Lucy Armstrong arrives on set, she discovers that the staff is in chaos, the make-up artist is suicidal, and the stunt director just ...



  • Melinda Curtis

    Pilot Rachel Quinlan is fearless fighting forest fires, but on the home front it's a different story. She's still not completely over her crush on Cole Hudson, love of her sister Missy's life -- and he left Eden eleven years ago. Not that it matters,...



  • Charles D'Ambrosio

    “In the fall, I went for walks and brought home bones. The best bones weren’t on trails -- deer and moose don’t die conveniently -- and soon I was wandering so far into the woods that I needed a map and compass to find my way home. When winter ...



  • Mary Daheim

    In the middle of a hot summer night, Emma Lord is awakened by fire trucks rushing to the nearby home of newlyweds Tim and Tiffany Rafferty. At daybreak, Tiffany and her unborn child are safe, but Tim, never blessed with good luck in all his thirty-pl...



  • Bill Dare

    James has always lived in the shadow of his wealthy and hip best friend, Stefan, except in his relationship with Victoria, the girl of his dreams, until he does the unthinkable and engineers a meeting between his best friend and his best girl. Origin...



  • James F. David

    Ten years ago, the prehistoric past collided with the present as time itself underwent a tremendous disruption, transporting huge swaths of the Cretaceous Period into the world of the twentieth century. Entire neighborhoods and cities were replaced b...



  • Kay David

    Meredith Santera is the leader of the Operatives, always putting the needs of others in front of her own. And that means she chose the job over a relationship with Jack Haden. Now her job is putting her in contact with Jack once again. But this time ...



  • Diane Mott Davidson

    "I tripped over the body of Dusty Routt at half past ten on the night of October 19. . . ." Goldy Schulz has a lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference-room snacks for a local law firm. It's time-consuming, but Goldy is enjoying i...



  • Maryjanice Davidson

    Now, in this collection of four sensual novellas, worlds collide when she brings her beloved Wyndham werewolves together with the vampires ruled by Undead Queen Betsy Taylor. In three of her most popular novellas, a Wyndham werewolf finds their per...



  • Justine Davis

    The women of Athena Academy were becoming known as a force for justice around the world. And when new clues surfaced about the decade-old murder of Athena Academy founder and U.S. senator Marion Gracelyn, FBI forensic scientist Alexandra Forsythe jum...



  • Tish Davis

    Glenna Mayfield has been taking care of the family business for more than ten years, but it looks as if her time of independence is up. After her father, an ex-convict, has a stroke, she decides she can't handle things on her own. With so much person...



  • Delilah Dawson

    Kai Armstrong has been secretly watching Sonya Drummond for weeks. Not because her sexy curves drive Kai wild. Not because her every move sets his body on fire. Kai's watching Sonya because she's in possession of a stolen butterfly necklace--and he's...



  • Melissa de la Cruz

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  • Sharon De Vita

    CASSIE MILLER'S SYMPTOMS #1 Has no immunity to gossip, particularly regarding a certain single doctor. #2 Gets easily flustered and distracted when in presence of said doctor. #3 Heart starts racing at doctor's slightest touch. DR. BEA...



  • Zoey Dean

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  • Roxann Delaney

    BRIDE ON THE RUN She'd run from her fairy-tale wedding and with the help of a stranger she was now holed up in a remote location, trying to catch her breath. But Carly Albright knew it was only a matter of time before her past caught up with her.....



  • Sarah Dessen

    Annabel Greene is the girl who has everything. At least that's who she plays in the commercial for Kopf's Department Store: top student, popular cheerleader, dazzling prom queen surrounded by friends. In real life, though, Annabel is the girl who has...



  • Sarah Dessen

    A girl dresses in a bunny costume to earn her dad’s approval…. A boy bakes a cake and takes out his dad in the same afternoon…. These are just two of the offbeat and utterly captivating scenarios readers will find in this collection of stories ...



  • Isla Dewar

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  • Jacqueline Diamond

    The Wait Might Just Be Over Years after a teenage prank ended badly and a young boy's testimony put his best friend in jail, Downhome, Tennessee, is still trying to heal the scars of the old scandal. Now the two are back in town -- one trying to c...



  • Helen Dickson

    ''Break as many hearts as you please, Marcus, but you'll not break mine." In the dark days of rebellion against King James, a woman is wagered on a turn of the cards.... Marcus, Lord Reresby, is the loser. Now he must marry the dau...



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    Hannah Bridges is the most infuriating woman architect Whit Thomas has ever met--and the sexiest. If he could just get the tough contractor to stop proving herself at very turn, they might have time to discuss more important things, like his hands on...




  • Disney Book Group

    An interactive storybook based on the new Disney/Pixar movie, Cars, features four exciting board games--with cardboard playing pieces, flashing lights, and silly sounds--that take players through winding roads and curving racetracks....



  • Disney Book Group

    Just in time for Winnie the Pooh's eightieth anniversary, here's a new Winnie the Pooh book that children and parents alike will treasure for years to come. Pooh's eaten too much honey, and now the bear of little brain is stuck in Rabbit's door! W...



  • Richard Doetsch

    The most closely Guarded treasure on Earth. An explosive ancient secret. A breakneck journey into the heart of the Vatican. In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs ...



  • Keith Donohue

    I am a changeling -- a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own. . . . The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at ag...



  • Tim Dorsey

    SERGE GOES HOLLYWOOD! His marriage plans fizzled, so Floridaphile serial killer Serge A. Storms is on a new mission: to convince the West Coast movie industry bigwigs to do their business in his beloved Sunshine State. So it's off to Tinseltown wi...



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    A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...



  • Laura Dower

    Sometimes, love only makes sense backward. This is a teen romance like no other -- a thrilling tale of betrayal and heartache told in an incredible reverse format. Think MEMENTO meets SUMMER BOYS! It's prom night. Shy hippie chick Cady is hopin...



  • David Drake

    The Fortress of Glass is the first in the Crown of the Isles trilogy, which will conclude the epic Lord of the Isles series. A true trilogy, the action extends over the whole three-book arc. The Fortress of Glass begins the story of how the new kingd...



  • Jim Dratfield

    These frisky felines are sure to put a smile on anyone’s face. Renowned pet photographer Jim Dratfield has captured their playfulness in this collection of never-before-seen kitten photographs. These irresistible note cards are purrfect for any occ...



  • Eileen Dreyer
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    A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...




  • Hal Duncan

    VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURS It's 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours, the mythical tome within w...



  • Doranna Durgin

    Dear Ellen, I miss you terribly, and I'm sorry you're dead. I wish it weren't my fault. Karin Sommers's sister had died while helping Karin escape from the con man who'd entrapped her. But Ellen wouldn't die in vain. Acting on instinct, Karin too...



  • Clive Egleton

    David Garnett continues his fight against the Russian occupation force The British Resistance needs Garnett once again. Intervention is called for between the terrorist Hawks and puppet Doves, and as the Russians pull out of England, someone has to s...



  • Anthony Eglin

    ONE FAMILY'S LEGACY When California winemaker Jamie Gibson inherits Wickersham Priory, she moves to England to cultivate a new life on the massive 200-acre estate. But the once-grand gardens are now in disrepair, their overgrowth obscuring pathways ...



  • Tea Emesse

    Talk to an animal in its own language.

    Would you dare?

    Yumi Suzuki’s mom is acting really weird. When Yumi brings home a stray kitten, her animal-loving mom is furious. Mrs. Suzuki normally hates pizza but has been eating it every nig...



  • Jonathan Emmett

    A fast-paced adventure, inspired by the traditional story of "The Three Little Pigs", in which the brave trio attempt to outwit the Big Bad Wolf for the second time, this time by winning the 'Pie in the Sky Air Race'. Each pig builds a plane, out of ...



  • Garth Ennis

    On a pitch-black Brooklyn night, in a dead-end alley, Frank Castle brutally dispatches a crew of Albanian thugs menacing a young woman. Her name is Viorica, she's from Moldavia, and when she tells Frank her story, that's when the real killing starts!...



  • Olive Etchells

    Championship surfer Dave Treganza returns to his native Cornwall for a visit, only to find his sister-in-law and aunt in turmoil because Jonathan, his brother, has disappeared without trace. Before long Jonathan’s body is discovered down a derelict...



  • Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes

    Dear Reader: Mercury's in retrograde, and folks in Beaumont, South Carolina, are dealing with gossip, scandal, misunderstandings, and more secrets than ever. Local pediatrician Maggie Farnsworth has even bigger worries. Her wild-girl past has caug...



  • Cambria Evans

    It’s Martha Moth’s birthday, and her friends are coming over for dinner. She makes a quick trip to the store, where she picks up:

    1 polka-dot scarf, 2 itchy socks, 1 shrunken sweater, and 2 kinds of scrumptious yarn

    Now Martha’s r...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm -- wanted dead or alive!Custis Long has had his share of hard nights followed by even harder mornings-after. But none so bad as when he wakes up in Medallion, Arizona, with a head full of pain, no memory of how he got there -- and a dead redh...



  • Nancy Fairbanks

    Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She's finally decided to throw in the dishtowel -- and take on a dream job as a food writer. Now her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and even a dash o...



  • Stephanie Feagan

    THEY HIRED HER TO WATCH THE MONEY -- NOW SHE'S ACCUSED OF STEALING IT! It all started with Whitney "Pink" Pearl's bank statement. More than $200,000 mysteriously showed up in her account -- along with a paper trail linking her to embezzling from ...



  • Christine Feehan

    Christine Feehan has worked magic on a legion of fans with her darkly thrilling Carpathian tales. Now she delivers the provocative story of a female vampire slayer who proves as seductive--and mysterious--as the night dwellers she stalks... For as...



  • Raymond E. Feist

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MASTER OF FANTASY RAYMOND E. FEIST returns to a volatile world at the terrible dawn of the most dramatic conflict yet ... THE DARKWAR! A portent of annihilation awakens the powerful sorcerer Pug in the dead of night -...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE LIVED A BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS...WHO WAS FORCED TO MARRY A HANDSOME PRINCE. For as long as Princess Amelia could remember, Prince Reginald had always been a royal pain. But to secure an alliance for her country, she had to marr...



  • Rachel Field

    Bless this board and bless this bread.Bless this skylight overheadthrough which any eye may seewheeling gull and blowing tree.One morning in Maine, three visitors travel to a small island.The day is clear and bright â€" its beauty a blessing. There a...



  • Liz Fielding

    MARRIED FOR A DAY... Fleur Gilbert and Matt Hanover married in secret, believing their love could end their bitter family feud. They were wrong. Six lonely years later, Fleur hardly ever dreams she'll see Matt again. But Matt has never forgotte...



  • Sharon Fiffer

    She was a monastic person, one who would be happy to live as a recluse, a hermit . . . if only the other caves would hold occasional yard sales. Ay, there was the rub. Jane had to put up with all those other people because people begat stuff, and stu...



  • Donna Fleisher

    Can Chris forgive the unforgivable? If not, is she willing to pay the cost? A cost that may be more than she ever imagined . . . There's nothing Chris McIntyre hates more than child abuse. And now one of the children at Kimberley Square's new gym...



  • Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    ALL PART OF THE SHOW Jessica Fletcher is in the Berkshires attending a writers' conference at a historic mansion where her friends the Savoys are hosting a murder-mystery party. As both a crime solver and a mystery author, Jessica is an old hand at t...



  • Eric Flint; Virginia DeMarce

    RIDING THE RAZOR'S EDGE OF REVOLUTION The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: The Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between the King of Sweden, and the town o...



  • R. Barri Flowers

    In Eagles Landing, California, Assistant District Attorney Beverly Mendoza has been selected to prosecute a disturbing case, the brutal murder of a local judge and the rape of his wife. The defendant, Rafael Santiago, once vowed to get revenge agains...



  • Tracy Fobes

    The Portrait In a world where only the wealthiest man has the price of a bride, Rourke of Calandor holds no hope of knowing a wife's gentle touch, or having a helpmate of his own. A rebel against the established order, he will do anything to bring d...



  • Gaelen Foley

    From emerald jungles to the high seas to the glittering ballrooms of Regency London, beloved author Gaelen Foley tells a sweeping, sensual tale of the ruggedly handsome Lord Jack Knight and the passionate beauty who lays claim to his heart. An Eng...



  • David Forbes

    For a thousand years, there have been no great wizards in the world -- and even longer since a wizard-king reigned. Now all must welcome and fear the coming of The Amber Wizard As Gerin Atreyano takes his place as the Crown Prince of Khed...



  • Kate Forsyth

    Rhiannon, a wild and fierce half-human girl, tamed a winged horse to escape the vicious satyricorn tribe who raised her. In the human world, the handsome apprentice-witch Lewen has convinced her to stay with him and learn to use her strong magical ta...



  • Delores Fossen

    Tough-as-nails cop Jason Lawrence hadn't planned on parenthood. But after his brother's death, he'd raised his baby niece, Megan, becoming her father in every way that mattered. And there was no way that he was giving her up -- even to the biological...



  • Lori Foster
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    Attitude makes a huge difference in bed. It could be Axel Dean's motto. The sexy physician likes his women with sensual moxie, and Libby Preston definitely seems to fit that bill. There's that naughty grin. That hot bod. Her eager kisses and cheeky i...



  • Kathryn Fox

    A gripping and powerful new thriller -- the debut of a stunning new voice in suspense fiction -- and the first appearance of a tough and remarkable investigator, pathologist, and forensic physician, Dr. Anya Crichton. The only female freelancer in...



  • Roz Denny Fox

    How To Stay Warm in a Cold Climate Megan Benton, who works for the Coast Guard in St. Ignace, Michigan, knows that staying warm in the blustery month of March requires a strategy. * Have a cup of hot chocolate first thing. * Wear your scarf an...



  • Gina Freschet

    Feet Man has two gigantic problems -- his feet. His foot size is triple-extra-umpteen-large. He has never found a shoe that fits him, and whenever people see him, they always point and make fun of him. But then one day he discovers a tiny man stuck b...



  • Garret Freymann-Weyr

    Sixteen-year-old Leila Abranel was born some twenty years after her sisters. Her elegant sisters from her father's first marriage have lives full of work, love affairs, and travel. Leila doesn't know either of them very well, but she loves hearing ab...



  • David D. Friedman

    Harald: A simple family man, a teller of tales, who happens to be the most powerful general of his people, home of the cataphracts, much feared warriors. Some, like the young king of the neighboring kingdom, James of Kaerlia, might underestimate him ...



  • Michael Jan Friedman

    Star Trek: The Next Generation breathed new life into the Star Trek franchise and kicked off a whole new era of Starfleet exploration and adventure! Now the crew of the Enterprise-D continue their mission in these great comics stories!

    In The ...



  • Kathleen Fuller

    After trouble with his family and much debate, dejected rancher Jeremiah Jackson sets out from San Antonio to make his fortune mining gold in California. With his heart full of hope and determination burning within, he forges through the Sierra Nevad...




  • Marcus Galloway

    Sometimes the dead don't stay buried... Nick Graves ran wild in the years before he turned respectable and began plying the trade that his father had taught him. But when he woke to the truth that the life of a renegade would lead to nothing but ...



  • Jack Gantos

    On an unseasonably warm Easter Sunday, a young girl namedIvy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaughpharmacy across the street from the hotel where she lives withher mother. The discovery reveals a disturbing side to theeccentric ...



  • Katherine Garbera

    WAS ONE NIGHT WORTH ONE MILLION DOLLARS? Millionaire Max Williams would have said no -- then he set eyes on the scandalous and sinful Roxy O'Malley. The former showgirl's troubled past and uncertain future practically begged for a takeover -- by h...



  • Laura Gallego Garcia

    Dana attends a school of magic with only one other student. She has a great love only she can see. And only she can unravel these mysteries and become mistress of the Valley of the Wolves.

    Ever since Dana was a little girl, Kai has been her be...



  • Roberta Gellis

    That Nelda Roundheels had been murdered would have been of little interest to anyone - except that her body turned up in the bishop of Winchester's bedchamber with a letter to the bishop, from the king's most important enemy, rolled up in her breastb...



  • Judith Heide Gilliland

    On Monday, eleven-year-old Anna is a perfectly happy child.In a few days, her parents will return from their sailing trip andgive her a horse of her own! The terrible news arrives onTuesday, sweeping over Anna like a dense fog: her parents arelost at...



  • Victor Gischler

    Mike Foley can never forget the night he tagged along with his brother on a job for the mob that ended in a hail of bullets. Now his brother is dead, Mike's making wine in Oklahoma, and life is almost as good as it gets when you've been hiding out fo...



  • Seressia Glass

    In this sequel to Three Wishes, Brandt Hughes, brother of Maya Hughes, is consumed by guilt from the deaths of this wife and young son four years ago. Every day is a battle for survival, a battle that heââ,¬â"¢s not sure he wants to win. When his fo...



  • Robert Goddard

    Once Toby Flood played a Bond-like hero in a Hollywood film. Now he's serving a sentence in a crippled traveling production of a newly unearthed Joe Orton play -- a play that might have saved Toby's career if only someone enjoyed watching it. Painful...



  • Shari Goldhagen

    Separated by a decade and 200 points on their SAT scores, Jack and Connor Reed have a life in the Cleveland suburbs held together by spit and Chinese takeout. With his self-absorbed, over-the-hill parents dead by his twenty-fifth birthday, Jack has a...



  • Judy Goldschmidt

    Fashion Friendz-y is sponsoring a scavenger hunt at the local amusement park. First prize? Gift certificates to Fashion Friendz-y, of course! The girls sign up in a hot minute only to discover that one of the challenges is to ride the super-sized Fer...



  • Linda Goodnight

    ONCE UPON A PRINCE... Forced to take a little R & R after a few too many investigative...mishaps, P.I. Carly Carpenter initially viewed her vacation as punishment. Then she met blond god Luc Gardner -- a man so confident yet mysterious that Carly'...



  • Erin Grady

    If you listen hard enough... Diablo Springs--once a boomtown of gamblers, outlaws, and miners. Now a place where shifting sands whisper only of torment and loss...a place where shadows lure the unsuspecting into its abyss. It is where Gracie Be...



  • Laurie Graff

    A Fact About Frogging: With new species discovered every day, it's hard to find a rule to catch a good frog, except to say that when it comes to frogs there are no rules at all. Karrie Kline had kissed her share of frogs. But when it came to f...



  • Janice Graham

    Aware of the limitations imposed by her deafness, Veda Grenfell lends her considerable talents to her fathers prestigious tailoring firm rather than submit to a disappointing marriage. Spurning the advances of an ambitious Italian tailor, Veda finall...



  • Patricia Grasso

    Fancy Flambeau is the darling of the London stage, and captures the eye of every gentleman charmed by her beauty. Fancy, however, refuses to be any man's mistress, though Prince Stepan Kazanov relishes the opportunity to change her mind and show her ...



  • Ginna Gray

    Houston heiress Elizabeth Stanton lost nearly everything when a stunning betrayal by her ex-husband left her with only a fraction of the fortune her genteel Southern family had worked so hard for. Even now Mimosa Landing, Elizabeth's beloved home, co...



  • Kes Gray

    Say hello to quick-witted, determined Daisy-sure to be the Junie B. Jones of the picture book set! In this second book in the series, You Do!, Daisy notices that her mom has some of the same bad habits she chastises Daisy for having. Mom denies it bu...



  • Risa Green

    Lara Stone is back again, and nine months of being miserably pregnant was nothing compared to how miserable she is now that her baby has actually arrived.  But when Lara’s long-estranged dad shows up with a stripper on his arm, her husband beg...



  • Tim Green

    AN AMBITIOUS WIFE. A THIRST FOR POWER. A CHANCE TO HAVE IT ALL. "I never thought I could kill anyone. I don't mean in a rage, or in self-defense, or in a war. I mean killing someone to get what you want. That wasn't me. But even the best of us h...