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  • Dining With Devils

    Gordon Aalborg

  • A Letter For Annie

    Laura Abbot

    Her homecoming changes everything The last time Annie Greer saw Eden Bay was in her rearview mirror. And she'd keep it that way if not for the SOS from the only family she has. While she may have come home, she has no intention of reconnecting...

  • Watersmeet

    Ellen Jensen Abbott

    From her birth, Abisina has been outcast--for the color of her eyes and skin, and for her lack of a father. Only her mother's status as the village healer has kept her safe. But when a mythic leader arrives, Abisina's life is ripped apart. She escape...

  • The Treasure Keeper

    Shana Abe

    She is a young drakon of untried powers. He is the powerful second son of the Alpha male from their clan of shapeshifting, supersensual beings. And what she is about to attempt will violate every taboo and break every law that bind the drakon togethe...

  • Twilight

    Azhar Abidi

    Refusing to join her son and daughter-in-law in their new home in Australia, Pakistani woman Bilqis Ara Begum witnesses the rising insurgency in 1980s Kashmir and observes a forbidden relationship between her servant girl and a neighbor boy....

  • Nine-to-Five Bride

    Jennie Adams

    WLTM: would like to meet Mr. Nice and Ordinary Marissa Warren was not at all concerned about turning thirty -- joining that online dating Web site was just a bit of fun! So what if she hadn't found her Mr. Right yet? She was in love with her f...

  • The Household Guide to Dying

    Debra Adelaide

    A brilliantly moving and darkly comic novel, which charts the attempts of dying heroine Delia -- a modern day Mrs Beeton -- to prepare her family for the future and lay to rest a ghost from her past. Inspired by her heroine, Isabella Beeton, Delia ha...

  • Cam Jansen and the Sports Day Mysteries

    David A. Adler

    Can Cam use her photographic memory to crack the case? Three Cam Jansen sports mysteries in one book! It's Sports and Good Nutrition Day at Cam Jansen's school. Cam's class is going to Franklin Park to run races, play soccer and baseball, and have ...

  • Haunting Bombay

    Shilpa Agarwal

    "[An] intriguing debut novel...Agarwal seeks to give voice to the dispossessed through the supernatural." -- USA Today "[Shilpa] Agarwal's work will definitely appeal to fans of Monica Ali and Jhumpa Lahiri by virtue of its characters and setting, bu...

  • Blue Diablo

    Ann Aguirre

    Right now, I'm a redhead. I've been blond and brunette as the situation requires, though an unscheduled color change usually means I need to relocate in the middle of the night. So far I'm doing well here. Nobody knows what I'm running from. And I'd ...

  • Wormwood

    Susan Wittig Albert

    Ex-lawyer and current herbalist China Bayles' adventures are "always intriguing?" (Booklist) In Wormwood, China visits a historic Shaker village to find peace, but instead finds long-buried secrets entwined in a modern-day mystery .. . China is wary...

  • Even More Up Close & Personal

    Lauren Alexander

  • Beyond This Moment

    Tamera Alexander

    LIVES ARE MADE UP OF TINY STEPS. SOME ARE CHOSEN FOR US; SOME WE CHOOSE. ALL HOLD THE POWER TO CHANGE WHO WE BECOME - BUT ONLY IF WE LET THEM. When Dr. Molly Whitcomb, Professor of Romance Languages, steps off the train in Colorado Territory, she m...

  • The Disgraceful Mr. Ravenhurst

    Louise Allen

    WE HEAR THE NOTORIOUS MR. R -- HAS HAD HIS ATTENTION CAUGHT BY THE UNLIKELIEST OF TREASURES... Stumbling upon his dowdy cousin Elinor on the Continent, Theo Ravenhurst hardly believes his luck. His dangerous lifestyle appears to have finally caugh...

  • Outcast

    Aaron Allston

    THE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY BEGINS HERE. . . . After a violent civil war and the devastation wrought by the now-fallen Darth Caedus, the Galactic Alliance is in crisis -- and in need. From all corners, po...

  • Take the Mummy and Run

    Mary Amato

    Orville and Wilbur Riot are back in the hilarious fourth book of the Riot Brothers adventures. Whether hunting for lost mummies or creating their own water park, there's never a dull moment. A companion to "Snarf Attack," "Underfoodle," and the "Secr...

  • A Not-So-Perfect Past

    Beth Andrews

    Nina Carlson knows all about Dillon Ward. Knows he served time in prison. Knows nobody put out the welcome mat when he moved to Serenity Springs. But that doesn't stop her from renting him a place to live. And when someone crashes into her bakery, he...

  • Magic Strikes

    Ilona Andrews

    When magic strikes and Atlanta goes to pieces, it's a job for Kate Daniels... Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with. And in Atlanta, where magic comes a...

  • Lock and Load

    Patrick Andrews

    While smuggling a Palestinian defector, who claims he has vital information for the USA's Homeland Security, through some of the tightest spots in the Middle East, the Unit goes up against a traitor in their own government who wants to destroy this e...

  • The Vampire's Quest

    Vivi Anna

    After escaping from the Otherworld Crime Unit, Kellen Falcon came to Nouveau Monde to crack a rare blood disease. But the European hotbed of temptation yielded sport no vampire could resist--criminologist Sophie St. Clair. And with only days to live,...

  • Prada Plan

    Ashley Antoinette

    Disaya Morgan’s infatuation with money knows no limits, and she will do anything to get it. When she is accepted into a New York organization known as The Elite, she is under the impression that she will be a high paid model, but soon realizes that...

  • Krapp's Last Cassette

    Anne Argula

    Quinn, a sharp-tongued private investigator in Seattle who's been busy waving goodbye to her philandering husband while fanning her hot flashes with her other hand, has just bumped into a case that threatens to expose the compassionate heart beneath ...

  • Rita and Whatsit At the Beach

    Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod

    Rita and Whatsit are off to the beach! Rita is looking forward to flying her kite, building a sand castle, and sneaking up on Whatsit. Whatsit is looking forward to chasing crabs, eating sugary things, and lying in the sun. The day doesn't go quite l...

  • Defying Desire

    A.C. Arthur

    Fashion model Tia St. Claire keeps things light when it comes to men...no strings, just flings. She's got her reasons, thank you. But even she finds Trent Donovan hard to resist--he's sexy, successful, persistent and built for a woman's wildest dream...

  • Dragons Luck

    Robert Asprin

    New York Times bestselling author Robert Asprin scales new heights in his series of Big Easy-dwelling dragons… Griffen McCandles is adjusting well to running his gambling operation in the French Quarter of New Orleans and to his newfound statu...

  • Devil's Garden

    Ace Atkins

    San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel -- girls, jazz, bootleg hooch... And a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. says it was Arbuckle ...

  • Celandine

    Steve Augarde

    Set seventy years before The Various, the second book in the trilogy follows the adventures of young Celandine at the onset of the First World War. Having run away from her detested boarding school, Celandine is too afraid to go home in case she is s...

  • Julia and the Master of Morancourt

    Janet Aylmer

    From the author of Darcy's Story comes a novel of romance, family tragedy, and intrigue in a volatile England at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Julia Maitland had an idyllic childhood with her brother and younger sisters on her family's estate i...

  • The Moment Between

    Nicole Baart

    Abigail Bennett was completely in control of her life until tragedy pushed her to the brink of something she's never experienced: Obsession. Now she's given up everything she's ever worked for to chase down the object of that obsession. His name is T...

  • The Hunted

    Wayne Barcomb

    A lightning-fast police procedural from an up-and-coming talent, The Hunted introduces a homicide detective who gets the shock of his life while tracking a most ingenious serial killer From a writer whose previous works Robert B. Parker declared "...

  • The Wolverine Files

    Mike W. Barr

    Timed to coincide with the release of X-Men: Origins: Wolverine, a collection of top-selected Wolverine comics explores his background and the challenges he faces as the team's most reluctant member, in a fan's collectible that covers everyth...

  • Borderline

    Nevada Barr

    Hoping a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Anna Pigeon and her husband, Paul, go to southwest Texas, where the Rio Grande is running high. The beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert and the power of the river work their magic -- unt...

  • Waveland

    Frederick Barthelme

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi's Gulf Coast, mostly retired architect Vaughn Williams, who is beset by the routine but no less troubling difficulties of late midlife, is doing what he can to remain, as he says, "viable." He scan...

  • Monster Birthday

    Guy Bass

    More than anything, Gormy wants to be a big, scary monster just like his dad. But monstering isn't as easy as it looks! It's Gormy's birthday and as a special treat his dad takes him for an outing to the land beyond the hill. This is Gormy's chance t...

  • Monster Trouble

    Guy Bass

    More than anything, Gormy wants to be a big, scary monster just like his dad. But monstering isn't as easy as it looks! Gormy's parents are going away for the evening and that can only mean one thing - a monster-sitter! Oh no! When Nana the Noog arri...

  • The Marigold Mafia

    Elisabeth Bastion

    Lucille probes into the death of a host in his garden after a journalist suggests that an eco-terrorist group may be responsible for the crime in order to stop the black market distribution of the harvest of stolen rare seeds....

  • The Hair Ribbons

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford
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    Three mothers' stories...three miracles of God While cleaning in a tiny old church, Beth Williams finds a gallon- sized mason jar filled with an odd assortment of items. "It's the Story Jar," explains Mrs. Halley, the newly widowed pastor's wife. ...

  • Living With Your Kids Is Murder

    Mike Befeler

    Home In Time For HOMICIDE Octogenarian Paul Jacobson trades his retirement community for a new life in Denver, Colorado, with his son, Denny. Still cantankerous, trouble-prone and short-term-memory challenged, Paul is now a "person of interest" in t...

  • The Red Blazer Girls

    Michael D. Beil

    It all began with The Scream. And ended with . . . well, if we told you that, it wouldnt be a mystery! But in between The Scream and The Very Surprising Ending, three friends find themselves on a scavenger hunt set up for a girl they never met, in se...

  • Powers, Volume 12: The 25 Coolest Dead Superheroes of All Time

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Homicide detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim investigate murders specific to superhero cases, and they both have a secret: They both have powers. This new story will blow the roof off of everything you know about crime comics and superhero ...

  • Mighty Avengers, Volume 3: Secret Invasion - Book 1

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Mighty Avengers #12-15. Nick Fury is back as the war with the Skrulls reaches a fever pitch! Plus, what's keeping the Sentry from taking out the shape-changing aliens single-handedly? And Hank Pym's a Skrull?!...

  • Mighty Avengers, Volume 4: Secret Invasion - Book 2

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Mighty Avengers #16-20. The return of Mar-Vell has brought with it more questions then answers and he will alter the events of Secret Invasion - but for which side? Also, find out all you need to know about Nick Fury's Secret Warriors....

  • Sins & Shadows

    Lyn Benedict

    Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary P1. She specializes in cases involving the unusual and unbelievable, in a world where magic is real, where hell is just around the corner -- and where death isn't the worst thing that can happen to you... When one of h...

  • Bridget Fidget

    Joe Berger

    One morning, a giant surprise box arrives. Quick as a flash, Bridget Fidget is out of bed and downstairs. It must be - a unicorn! Just what Bridget has always wanted. But the big box seems to be full of smaller boxes. Could it be a penguin? Or maybe ...

  • Hottie

    Jonathan Bernstein

    Alison Cole's got it all: She's gorgeous, dating a steamy surfer boy, and has just been crowned Beverly Hills High Freshman Class President. Then during a special "symmetry" surgery, a lightning bolt zaps her, and Alison instantly transforms into Hot...

  • The Next Best Thing

    Deidre Berry

    She Had The Perfect Plan. But Plans Aren't Set In Stone. No drama, no problems--that's Tori Carter's idea of the good life. Her tendency to plan everything to the max has made her the most successful event coordinator in the business--and the numbe...

  • The Secret Wedding

    Jo Beverley

    At the age of seventeen, Christian Hill impulsively defends young Dorcas Froggatt's honor -- and finds himself forced into marriage. That doesn't stop him from pursuing his military career abroad, where he swiftly puts his young bride out of ...

  • The Daisy Club

    Charlotte Bingham

    Daisy lives at Twistleton Hall, along with her unmarried Aunt Augusta, and the spirits of her four dead uncles from World War One. Her life therefore has been overshadowed by the Great War, as has those of her friends Freddie and Lorna who live nearb...

  • Three of Us

    Julia Blackburn

    This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable an...

  • The House Of Secrets

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    Can one woman's past build another woman's future? The house is special. Alissa Franklin knows this from the moment she walks into the run-down structure. Aided by carpenter Danny Pierce, she launches a restoration project to turn this place into he...

  • Fairest of Them All

    Jan Blazanin

    If life were a fairy tale, Oribella Bettencourt would have a "happily ever after" kind of future ahead of her. A Hollywood producer has come to Des Moines in search of a perfectly modern Princess Rapunzel, and Ori -- a model, dancer, and star of the ...

  • The Tory Widow

    Christine Blevins

    From the "talented"(Bertrice Small) author of Midwife of the Blue Ridge, a stirring novel set on the brink of the American Revolution. On a bright May day in New York City, Anne Peabody receives an unexpected kiss from a stranger. Bringing news of th...

  • Band Geeked Out

    Josie Bloss

    Senior year is here, and trumpet goddess Ellie Snow is facing her toughest decision yet. When she gets accepted to an all-girls college out east (which doesn't have a marching band), Ellie's lock-step life and future plans are thrown totally out of s...

  • 4 Bodies And A Funeral

    Stephanie Bond

    Ever had one of those days? A surprise visit from her father--who's on the run from the law--has given Carlotta Wren a lot to think about. Should she join her former fiance, Peter, in proving her father is innocent? If she does, are her body-moving d...

  • More Than Words, Volume 5

    Stephanie Bond
    in

    A little comfort, caring and compassion go a long way toward making the world a better place. Just ask the dedicated women handpicked from countless worthy nominees across North America to become this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words ...

  • The Immortality Factor

    Ben Bova

    Provocative, gripping, startling: bestselling author Ben Bova delivers a knockout read with his trademark blend of cutting edge science and unrelenting suspense.... Some see stem-cell research as mankind's greatest scientific breakthrough. Others ...

  • Up at the College

    Michele Andrea Bowen

    Yvonne Fountain Copeland is determined to move on after her husband of fifteen years decides to leave her because their marriage became "boring." Returning to her hometown of Durham, North Carolina, Yvonne is convinced that a change of scenery will h...

  • Hypersonic Thunder

    Walter J. Boyne

    The jet age began in 1939 with the brief hop of a secret German airplane. Seventy years later, the entire world depends upon the jet engine in every sphere - political, military, economic, and social. In Hypersonic Thunder, Walter Boyne weaves an int...

  • Marrying The Manhattan Millionaire

    Jackie Braun

    Successful executive Samantha Bradford never underestimates the opposition. So when her ex-fiance and business rival, Michael Lewis, comes back to town, she thinks she's ready for all his tricks. The confident swagger. The devastating smile. The irre...

  • From The Outside

    Helen Brenna

    With rumors that he has a mistress in every major city, rookie NASCAR driver Roberto Castillo is the quintessential playboy. That is, until Cargill Motorsports orders him to clean up his act. Fortunately, he's found just the girl to put a shine on hi...

  • The Glass Maker's Daughter

    V. Briceland

    From enchanted champagne flutes to rituals that hold the city together, magic lies at heart of Cassaforte. Bearing a striking resemblance to Venice, this medieval city of canals is the home of Risa Divetri, whose future is about to be decided. Ri...

  • Hoppergrass

    Chris Carlton Brown

    It is 1969, and Bowser has arrived at The Hill, an institution for delinquent teenage boys. No one is doing much to protect the boys who find themselves there, but Bowser doesn't expect to stay long. He thinks he might be crazy (and others agree), so...

  • Funny Misshapen Body: A Memoir

    Jeffrey Brown

    Funny Misshapen Body is the story of Jeffrey Brown's evolution as a cartoonist, from his youthful obsession with superhero comics to his disillusionment with fine art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Drawn with Brown's scratchy, spare,...

  • Dinosaurs Go Green!: A Guide to Protecting Our Planet

    Laurie Krasny Brown

    Every little thing you do to take care of our Earth makes a difference!Beloved author/illustrator team Marc and Laurie Krasny Brown tackle the important, timely subject of environmental protection and preservation in this classic Dino Tales: Life...

  • Black Dogs

    Jason Buhrmester

    In July 1973, Led Zeppelin played three sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. Before the final performance, $203,000 of the band's money went missing from a safe deposit box at the Drake Hotel in what was called the single highest depos...

  • All the Broken Pieces

    Ann E. Burg

    Two years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family -- and the terrible secret -- he left behind. Now, inside a caring adoptive home in the United States, a series of profoun...

  • The House in Grosvenor Square

    Linore Rose Burkard

    Readers who loved the author's first book, Before the Season Ends, will delight in this charming sequel set in Regency London.

    As Ariana Forsythe plans her wedding to Philip Mornay, she must adjust to the realization that she is soon to bec...

  • Unseen

    Nancy Bush

    SHE WOKE UP WITH NO MEMORIES... She wakes up in a hospital room...bruised...bloody...confused. She knows her name is Gemma La Porte--but that's all. She doesn't remember smashing her car. She doesn't remember anything from the last three days. But a ...

  • Turn Coat

    Jim Butcher

    When it comes to the wizard's White Council, Harry Dresden is thought of as either a black sheep or a sacrificial Iamb. And no one holds him in more disdain than Morgan, a veteran Warden with a grudge against anyone who bends the rules. But now Morga...

  • In A Mother's Arms: Home Again

    Victoria Bylin
    in

    When her troublemaking son vandalizes the town church, Cassie O'Rourke comes face-to-face with town sheriff--and former love--Gabe Wyatt. The honorable lawman offers to help tame her wild child, if he can come courting. For the love of her son, dare ...

  • Love Takes Time

    Adrianne Byrd

    All her life, Alyssa Jansen has loved handsome, wealthy Quentin Dwayne Hinton--a man who barely knows she exists. Now, after years away in France, Alyssa's back, and suddenly Q is seeing her in a whole new light. The surprising thing is, so is his br...

  • Edge Of Hunger

    Rhyannon Byrd

    Ian Buchanan has always felt the unknown--the deep, impenetrable darkness that lives within him. Yet he is determined to lead a "normal" life, ignoring the unsettling dreams in which he succumbs to his wildest desires.... Until psychic Molly Stratton...

  • Edge of Craving

    Rhyannon Byrd

    Since the moment he'd first laid eyes on Alia Buchanan, the warrior known only as Rhys had been obsessed with her. She consumed his waking moments. Tormented his dreams. But, as one of the few remaining descendants of a European dragon clan, Rhys ...

  • Straight Lies

    Rob Byrnes

    From award-winning author Rob Byrnes comes a wickedly entertaining caper involving red-hot men, cold hard cash, and deliciously dirty deeds... Two Partners In Crime Grant and Chase are a fun-loving pair of small-time hustlers with no money, little ...

  • Swim the Fly

    Don Calame

    Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time -- quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl on a date...

  • The Secret Life of Prince Charming

    Deb Caletti

    Quinn is surrounded by women with broken hearts. Between her mother, her aunt, and her grandmother, Quinn hears nothing but cautionary tales. Then she gets dumped and starts to wonder if there really are no good men. It doesn't help when Quinn discov...

  • More Than Words, Volume 5

    Candace Camp
    in

    A little comfort, caring and compassion go a long way toward making the world a better place. Just ask the dedicated women handpicked from countless worthy nominees across North America to become this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words ...

  • Relentless

    Jack Campbell

    Thawed out after a century of cryogenic sleep, Captain John "Black Jack" Geary has led the Alliance fleet through Syndicate Worlds space, thwarting the enemy at every turn -- even within his own ranks -- during the long journey home. Alliance prison...

  • She Shoots to Conquer

    Dorothy Cannell

    On a dark and foggy night, charming amateur sleuth Ellie Haskell, her husband Ben, and her plucky sidekick Mrs. Malloy find themselves stranded at a grand estate on the Yorkshire moors. Lord Belfrey of Mucklesfeld Manor has decided to save his crumbl...

  • Three Men and a Maybe

    Debbie Carbin

    Beth Sheridan likes her life the way it is. OK, so her job's a little dull and her social life leaves a lot to be desired. But none of that really matters because Beth is in love with Richard. And one day they will be together. Yes, there are a few t...

  • A Daughter's Journey

    Linda Cardillo
    in

    The bonds they share with their children are intricate, fiercely protected and often tested by the vagaries of modern life. This engaging collection celebrates those relationships--lost, found, newly forged, made stronger by a boundless and relentles...

  • Island of the Unknowns

    Benedict Carey

    In a trailer park called Adjacent, next to the Folsom Energy Plant, people have started to vanish, and no one seems to care. At first Lady Di and her best friend, Tom Jones, barely notice the disappearances -- until their beloved math tutor, Mrs. Cla...

  • New York Debut

    Melody Carlson

    The girls return from the holidays in time for a New Year's party, and Mrs. Carter announces that it's time to get ready for Spring Fashion Week. A designer friend has invited the girls to participate in the big New York event and they have one month...

  • The Chameleon Conspiracy

    Haggai Carmon

    The master criminal and con man known as the Chameleon has eluded international law enforcement for twenty years. Dan Gordon was sure he finally had him, but he was left empty-handed. Now he won't rest until the Chameleon is stopped. The Chameleon is...

  • Paradise Valley

    Robyn Carr

    A MOVING STORY ABOUT SURVIVAL, FORGIVENESS -- AND THE POWER OF LOVE TO HEAL A WOUNDED SPIRIT Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq--his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes ...

  • Very Mercenary

    Rayo Casablanca

    From the author of 6 Sick Hipsters comes a razor-sharp, darkly satirical, brilliantly warped new novel about murder, love, torture, art, ninjas, ambition, drugs...and everything in between. Leigh Tiller has just been kidnapped. The beautiful, ineffa...

  • The Underground Gators

    Tina Casey

    Legend has it that alligators live in the New York City sewers. But city life isn?t for everyone. Some of those alligators packed up and swam away in search of peace and quiet. Why, they could be living right under your feet. This explains a lot of t...

  • Last Gasp

    Carla Cassidy

    She lives in the present-with a son she adores and the perfect job-and dreams of the future.But single mom Allison Clemmins never let herself relive the day, years ago, when she found her mother and siblings murdered. Ever since, she's hated the man ...

  • Because I am Furniture

    Thalia Chaltas

    Anke’s father is abusive to her brother and sister. But not to her. Because, to him, she is like furniture -- not even worthy of the worst kind of attention. Then Anke makes the school volleyball team. She loves feeling her muscles after workouts,...

  • Toll Bridge

    Aidan Chambers

    To escape the pressures of suffocating parents and a possessive girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Piers takes a job as a keeper of a toll bridge and its cottage. There he befriends Adam, a charismatic wayfarer who shows up one day and refuses to leave. ...

  • West of Washoe

    Tim Champlin

  • Curse the Dawn

    Karen Chance

    Cassandra Palmer may be the all-powerful Pythia now, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped trying to kill her. Most of the supernatural power players don’t want the independent minded Cassie as chief clairvoyant -- and they’ll stop at nothi...

  • The Real Thing

    Elizabeth Chandler

    I could no longer deny what the heat in my cheeks meant when I was around Flynn. I was falling for my sister's boyfriend. There's just something about Flynn. Yes, he's a tall, unbelievably gorgeous, dark-haired football player, but . . . he's als...

  • Flipping the Script

    Paula Chase

    It's junior year at Del Rio Bay High, and from near and far, the guys are taking center stage... Now that Mina's boyfriend Brian is off to Duke University, life in Del Rio Bay is lonely. And Brian's busy schedule as a Duke baller isn't helping. As ...

  • War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle

    Howard Chaykin

    Set against the grim backdrop of Word War I, mysterious aviator Karl Kaufmann arrives on the western front dressed outlandishly and at the controls of his own plane. Overconfident and full of romantic ideals, he has come to fight and kill the Hun. Bu...

  • The Curse of the Ancient Mask and Other Case Files

    Simon Cheshire

    Saxby Smart is no ordinary school kid. He's the best detective in the world, or at least the best one who also happens to be in elementary school. In this brand new series--with three cases in each book--the reader solves the mystery alongside Saxby,...

  • Nightschool, Vol. 1: The Weirn Books

    Svetlana Chmakova

    Schools may lock up for the night, but class is in session for an entirely different set of students. In the Nightschool, vampires, werewolves, and weirns (a particular breed of witches) learn the fundamentals of everything from calculus to spell cas...

  • If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period

    Gennifer Choldenko

    At a school where the academic competition is fierce, the popularity race is fiercer, and if you're not rich, you're nothing, friends are good to have. Luckily, Walker and Kirsten have each other. But just when a tough seventh grade year is beginning...

  • Clash with the Rhino

    Jennifer Christie

    The Rhino is indestructible. When his bosses send him on a high-profile kidnapping mission, the tough-skinned Rhino is determined to prove his worth. With innocent lives in peril, Spider-Man must face off against this dangerous Super Villain.

    ...

  • New Mutants Classic - Volume 4

    Chris Claremont

    Collects New Mutants (1983) #26-34. To rescue their mentor's son and their ex-leader, the New Mutants travel across the world, to the past and the future, and deep into the astral plane! But to rescue their friends, they must face enemies hiding insi...

  • Cursed

    Carol Higgins Clark

    PI Regan Reilly moved from Los Angeles to New York City when she married Jack "no relation" Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad. To help a friend, Regan takes on a case that takes her back to her old stomping grounds. . . . On a snowy day in N...

  • Just Take My Heart

    Mary Higgins Clark

    A BROADWAY STAR'S MURDER IGNITES A SHOCKING SERIES OF DEADLY EVENTS.... After famous actress Natalie Raines is found in her home, dying from a gunshot wound, police immediately suspect her theatrical agent and jealous soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Al...

  • Killer Keepsakes

    Jane K. Cleland

    Missing in auction When her reliable assistant Gretchen fails to show up for work, antiques dealer Josie Prescott discovers the likely cause: a dead man on Gretchen's couch. But where is Gretchen? The police consider the missing woman their prime ...

  • The Faraway War

    Enrique Clio

    Henry Reeve was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1850. At fifteen, too young to join the military, he enlisted in the Union Army as a drummer boy. Three years later, he went on an expedition to Cuba to join the Cuban insurgents fighting the Spanish Arm...

  • Texas Ranger Dad

    Debra Clopton

    "That Boy Looks Just Like Zane!" Everyone in Mule Hollow can see the resemblance between former Texas Ranger Zane Cantrell and Rose Vincent's son. The same gold-flecked amber eyes. The same smile. Not that Zane is smiling. He's in shock! How could R...

  • Long Lost

    Harlan Coben

    It begins with an early-morning phone call. An old flame wakes Myron Bolitar from sleep. Terese Collins is in Paris, and she needs his help -- no questions answered. In her debt, Myron makes the trip and learns of a decade-long secret: Terese once h...

  • The Winner Stands Alone

    Paulo Coelho

    In The Winner Stands Alone, Paulo Coelho has returned to the important themes of Eleven Minutes and The Zahir: love and obsession. He offers a suspenseful novel about the fascinating worlds of fortune and celebrity, where the commitment and success a...

  • What I Thought I Knew

    Alice Eve Cohen

  • A Night at the Operation

    Jeffrey Cohen

    When his ex-wife goes missing after the death of one of her patients, Elliot Freed, the owner of an all-comedy movie theatre, embarks on a frantic search for her with the help of her second--and soon-to-also-be-ex husband--his eccentric family, and h...

  • Snog Log

    Michael Coleman

  • Exposure

    Brandilyn Collins

    Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? In Kaycee's newspaper column she's known for writing of her paranoia and fears. Is the new danger real--or is she going crazy? In this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith, the startl...

  • Always Watching

    Brandilyn Collins; Amberly Collins

    This daughter of a rock star has it all--until murder crashes her world. During a concert, sixteen-year-old Shaley O'Connor stumbles upon the body of a friend backstage. Where is God at a time like this? Can she find out who the killer is before he s...

  • A Stranger's Baby

    Kerry Connor

    ONE WOUNDED WARRIOR WAS A PREGNANT WOMAN'S BEST CHANCE AT SURVIVAL Jake Armstrong had no intention of getting involved with his very sexy -- and very pregnant -- next-door neighbor...until the night she was attacked. His only goal these days w...

  • In Safe Hands

    Linda Conrad

    A perilous attraction? The trail had gone cold in Major Colin Fairfax's high-stakes murder investigation. Then danger struck...and he took a bullet for a feisty redhead who had information on his brother's killer. Maggie Ryan assaulted his senses ...

  • Texas Hold Him

    Lisa Cooke

    As if losing the war to the Yankees hadn't been bad enough, Lottie Mason now needed $15,000 to keep her ailing father out of prison. The only place she could think of to get that kind of money was a riverboat poker tournament. Problem was, she didn't...

  • Toxic Beauty

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Bethany is tired of feeling plain and ordinary. Tired of being ignored. If only she was beautiful then everyone would want to be her friend, everyone would take notice - even Ryan. When a mysterious man offers to make all of Bethany's wildest dreams ...

  • Mermaid Queen

    Shana Corey

    As a child growing up in Australia, Annette Kellerman was a frail ugly duckling who dreamed of becoming a graceful ballerina. With pluck and courage, she confronted a crippling illness -- and countless naysayers -- to become an internationally known ...

  • Pregnant with the de Rossi Heir

    Maggie Cox

    Pregnant secretary, Italian boss! The last time Gianluca De Rossi saw Kate Richardson she was naked in his arms, her delectable body tangled up in silk sheets. Now his vanishing one-night stand is in his office -- as his new temporary secretary. An...

  • Murder at Graverly Manor

    Daniel Edward Craig

    Deadly secrets and royal blood Hotelier Trevor Lambert is about to fulfill his ultimate fantasy--managing his own bed and breakfast, a Victorian mansion in Vancouver called Graverly Manor. But there's one caveat: the elderly owner, Lady Graverly, ...

  • Sierra Ransom

    Emma Craig

    A rough California gold camp seems an unlikely place for two lonely people running from their pasts to meet. But when Sam Ransom first sees Zenobia Gray taking after a huge, bearded miner with a ladle, then delivering a baby and comforting a berea...

  • Was Superman a Spy?: And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed

    Brian Cronin

    Fascinating and often bizarre true stories behind more than 130 urban legends about comic book culture. Was Superman a Spy? demystifies all of the interesting stories, unbelievable anecdotes, wacky rumors, and persistent myths that have piled up like...

  • Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates

    Sean Cullen

    Meet Hamish X Orphan, Enigma, and Enemy to Pirates Everywhere The mysterious Hamish X is the scourge of the Orphan Disposal Agency -- Agents Candy and Sweet can’t seem to find a facility that can hold him. After arriving at the Windcity Orphanag...

  • Tempted At Midnight

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    A desperate beauty concocts a perfectly outrageous scheme for success -- and not only attracts the attention of the Ladies Literary Society of London, but also the last man she'd ever expected to tempt. Lady Emily Stapleford never dreamed that the...

  • In the Courts of the Sun

    Brian D'Amato

    A mind-bending, time-bending, zeitgeist-defining novel about the days leading up to December 21, 2012--the day the Maya predicted the world would end December 21, 2012. The day time stops. Jed DeLanda, a descendant of the Maya living in the year 2...

  • The Man in the Window

    K.O. Dahl

    A cryptic murder resurrects dark memories of past atrocities in this latest mystery from the master of Norwegian crime writing. Award-winning author K. O. Dahl received international acclaim for his gripping debut thriller, The Fourth Man, which i...

  • The Dark Volume

    Gordon Dahlquist

    Awakening from a fevered delirium, Celeste Temple finds herself in a fishing village on the remote Iron Coast. She has no idea where her companions, Cardinal Chang and Doctor Svenson, might be--nor whether any of her enemies survived the dirigible cr...

  • Prayers for Sale

    Sandra Dallas

    FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF TALLGRASS comes a powerful novel about an unlikely friendship between two women and the secrets they've kept in order to survive life in a rugged Colorado mining town. It's 1936 and the Great Depression has ...

  • Shotgun Bride

    B.J. Daniels

    HANDSOME AS SIN AND WILD AS THE WESTERN WIND That's the Corbett brothers for you, and Shane's no exception. No way is he settling down just because of some ridiculous marriage pact--especially not with a cowgirl from small-town Whitehorse who seems ...

  • Endangered

    Kathleen Dante

    Homicide detective Cyn Malva found a compatible lover in special-ops sniper Rio Rafael. Their no strings-attached relationship had been ideal, but now Rio is ready to change the rules in favor of a commitment he knows Cyn can't handle. Then Cyn becom...

  • SEALed with a Promise

    Mary Margret Daughtridge

    HE'LL DO ANYTHING TO MOVE THE MISSION FORWARD, NO MATTER THE COST... Navy SEAL Caleb Delaude is deadly charming. When he discovers that professor Emmie Caddington's personal connections can help him get the dirty work done, he sets out to win her ov...

  • Treason

    Peter David

    It is a time of political upheaval and uncertainty in the New Thallonian Protectorate. Following the brutal assassination of her husband, Si Cwan, former Starfleet officer-turned-newly-appointed-Prime Minister Robin Lefler must now face the growing d...

  • Wolverine - Volume 1

    Peter David

    Presents a collection of Wolverine comics that explores his origins and the challenges he faces, covering everything from his creation by the WEAPON X project to his relationships with his fellow mutants....

  • A Cloud of Suspicion

    Patricia Davids

    "What's he doing back in town?" With his black leather jacket, Patrick Rivers looks every inch the bad boy the townsfolk believe him to be. Ten years ago, he left Loomis, Louisiana, under a cloud of suspicion. Back to settle his stepfather's estat...

  • Fatally Flaky

    Diane Mott Davidson

    It's been a long summer for Goldy Schulz, who is engaged in planning a wedding reception for Aspen Meadow's nuttiest bridezilla. But then Doc Finn, beloved local physician and the best friend of Goldy's godfather, Jack, is killed when his car tumbles...

  • Tricking the Tallyman

    Jacqueline Davies

    Are kids interested in learning about the very first American census? Probably not. Do young readers clamor for stories set in the very, very olden days of the late 18th century? Uh, not really. Okay, but do they like nutty cat-and-mouse trickery, wa...

  • The After Wife

    Lexi Davis

    There's unlucky in love -- and then there's cursed. Still a virgin at twenty-four, Nia Youngblood just wants to find the right man to fulfill her hot dreams and sensual fantasies. And more important, a man who won't run away when she reveals her unco...

  • Imposters at Blue Heron Lake

    Susan Page Davis; Megan Davis

  • Girl Meets Cake

    Susie Day

    Geeky fangirl Heidi, 15, has a great fantasy life thanks to her TV and her laptop - and no wonder, when she's stuck at the boarding school for crazy drop-outs where her parents teach, with only a cake-shop Saturday job to escape to. At least she's go...

  • Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

    Anne Dayton; May Vanderbilt

    Ana, Christine, Riley, and Zoe have grown closer than ever over the past few months, but summer is over and it's time to put their friendship to the test. It's been a little over a year since Christine Lee's mom passed away in a tragic car accident....

  • Downshadow

    Erik Scott de Bie
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Dark Knight Must Choose: Justice or Vengeance Watchman by day, vigilante by night, Shadowbane's world is turned upside down when he runs across a powerful wizard--in the form of a confused, hunted girl who finds herself at the heart of a fell ...

  • Star Power

    Zoey Dean

    Twinkle twinkle, little stars! Mackenzie Little-Armstrong is on a mission: to help her talented BFFs rise and shine. Next stop, Hollywood Domination! But as Mac quickly discovers, a Tinsel-town takeover is not as easy as it seems . . Mac manages t...

  • Solving Zoe

    Barbara Dee

    Zoe Bennett feels lost at her fancy private school. She's not the star drama queen like her sister, or a brainiac math genius like her brother. Luckily her best friend, Dara, is just as content as Zoe is to stay in the shadows -- or is she? When ...

  • BoneMan's Daughters

    Ted Dekker

    WOULD YOU KILL AN INNOCENT MAN TO SAVE YOUR DAUGHTER? They call him BoneMan, a serial killer who's abducted six young women. He's the perfect father looking for the perfect fighter, and when his victims fail to meet his lofty expectations, he kill...

  • Lavender Morning

    Jude Deveraux

    Jude Deveraux captures the passions, intrigues, and secrets of a small Southern town -- and begins a breathtaking new series! Jocelyn Minton was only five years old when her mother died. After her handyman father remarried, Joce never felt lonelier...

  • A Girl Like That

    Frances Devine

  • Dark Crusade

    Lori Devoti

    Exiled rogue shape-shifter Kerr Vik once saw being transported to Gunngar as a fresh start. Until the one person he most regretted leaving behind--captivating witch Heather Moore--stumbles through the portal...and finds herself right in the middle of...

  • The Dakota Cipher

    William Dietrich

    Ethan Gage wants to enjoy the fruits of victory after helping Napoleon win the Battle of Marengo. But an ill-advised tryst with Bonaparte’s married sister has made that impossible. And the fantastic schemes of the wild Norwegian Magnus Bloodhammer ...

  • It's Hotter In Hawaii

    Helenkay Dimon

    Aloha, Gorgeous... Cassie Montgomery was in no mood for messing around--until she got an eyeful of the sizzling-hot miscreant breaking into her half-brother Dan's Hawaii home. Turns out he's not a criminal, but a friend who's just as suspicious of ...

  • Blood Moon

    Garry Disher

    The fifth Hal Challis investigation, set in southeast AustraliaIt’s been a busy few days for Inspector Hal Challis. The school year has just ended, and with the sudden influx of rowdy teenagers on break, Waterloo has become a hotbed for petty crime...

  • Clubhouse Adventures

    Disney Book Group

  • The Cake Man

    Gregory Dixon

    When his father, one of Houston's most notorious kingpins, is arrested and the money stops coming in, Chris King, not used to fending for himself, must learn how to rule the streets of Houston if he wants to survive another day. Original....

  • The Rich Man's Blackmailed Mistress

    Robyn Donald

    Purchased for his pleasure! Kain Gerard -- mesmerizing, sexy and filthy rich -- can have any woman he wants! So taming Sable Martin shouldn't be a problem. The scandalous gold digger has used her sensual charms to blackmail his cousin, and Kai...

  • Bittersweet Memories

    Cecelia Dowdy

    Karen Brown's fiance treated her well, had a good job, and was the treasurer of their large church. And then he embezzled thousands of dollars and disappeared with his lovely assistant. Reeling from shock, Karen moves back in with her mom. But whe...

  • Midnight Medusa

    Stephanie Draven

    As a child, Renata witnessed unspeakable horrors in war-torn Bosnia. Now a world away in New York City, Renata channels her pain and anger into her art, sculpting war criminals--all of whom die once her pieces are complete. It seems like just a sick ...

  • A Real Live Cowboy

    Judy Duarte

    HE WAS A TEXAN DOWN TO HIS STETSON AND BOOTS Isabella Mendoza knew what she wanted in a husband. And William "J.R." Fortune was so not that man. The irresistibly attractive businessman turned rancher might wear denim and spurs, but what happened w...

  • Wrongful Death

    Robert Dugoni

    Just minutes after winning a $1.6 million wrongful-death verdict, attorney David Sloane confronts the one case that threatens to blemish his unbeaten record in the courtroom. Beverly Ford wants Sloane to sue the United States government and military ...

  • News for Dogs

    Lois Duncan

    From the beloved author comes the sequel to Hotel for Dogs. It’s up to Andi and her brother Bruce to foil the plans of evil dognappers.Now that Andi is no longer running a hotel for dogs, she decides to start a new project -- a newspaper for dogs! ...

  • Secrets to Happiness

    Sarah Dunn

    Holly Frick has just endured the worst kind of breakup: the kind where you're still in love with the person leaving you. While her wounds are still dangerously close to the surface, her happily married best friend confesses over a bottle of wine that...

  • Ghost Trap

    Doranna Durgin

    When the bank repossesses her storefront, a would-be ghost whisperer decides to possess it right back. After years of manipulating people with fake readings, she finally proves her validity by amassing a horde of ghosts--but they-ve been taken agains...

  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

    Geoff Dyer

    Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman--a jaded, dissolutely resolute journalist--whose dedication to the cause of Bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently di...

  • Shepherd's Fall

    W.L. Dyson

    He is about to face the hunt of a lifetime. Bounty hunter Nick Shepherd is fearless when it comes to chasing down criminals. It's his difficult ex-wife, rebellious teenage daughter, and dysfunctional siblings that keep him awake at night. In charge ...

  • Immortal Danger

    Cynthia Eden

    Being Bullet Proof Sucks--Literally Once, Maya Black was a kick-ass cop patrolling the streets of L.A. She still keeps the city safe, but nowadays her bad guys of choice include demons, werewolves, and assorted nocturnal scum. Something Maya knows a...

  • Classic Western Stories

    Cooper Edens

    For more than a hundred years, the vivid stories of the American West have thrilled and enthralled audiences both young and old, and captured the imaginations of generations. Here are the adventures of outlaws and gunslingers, explorers and settlers,...

  • Savage Sun

    Cassie Edwards

    Shining Star The war had swept everything away--her youthful dreams, her beautiful Atlanta home, and her beloved parents. As golden-haired Rowena Dowell traveled toward the wilds of Arkansas, she wondered if she'd ever be happy again. Tall Moon ...

  • The Trail of the Wild Rose

    Anthony Eglin

    Death by any other name… Lawrence Kingston has been summoned to the bedside of a coma patient, the victim of a hit and run. The man is muttering strange and disturbing things about a rose-hunting expedition in China, and it's thought that Lawren...

  • Ruby's Slippers

    Leanna Ellis

    Wizard of Oz meets Cinderella When Dottie Meyers loses her ‘no place like home’ during a Kansas tornado, she wakes up to find a pair of ruby slippers left by her father who abandoned his family thirty years ago. With her sister hot on her trail...

  • Keeping Secrets

    Nishawnda Ellis

    Shaniece Turner, a liar, murderer, and master manipulator, finds her happily ever after with Detective Mark Anderton threatened by the man she framed for her cousin's murder, forcing her to take deadly action once again. Original....

  • Adios Oscar!: A Butterfly Fable

    Peter Elwell

    A fresh, funny story about a feisty caterpillar who breaks through his limitations -- and realizes his fondest dream, by a New York Times bestselling author.When Oscar the caterpillar discovers that he will one day become a butterfly, he's overjoyed....

  • The Eternal Tomb

    Kevin Emerson

    A compelling, contemporary fantasy with a vampire hero, torn between two worlds, and an outsider in both, who seeks to discover the truth about his origins and find out where he truly belongs.



    The Festival of Waning Sun has arrived, an...

  • Drover's Secret Life

    John R. Erickson

    For twenty-five years, readers have enjoyed watching Drover, Hank’s trusty sidekick try to finagle himself out of every dangerous situation that arises on the ranch. But what happened before Drover came to the ranch? Well, it’s all here - from hi...

  • Hissing, Volume 6

    Eun-Young Kang

    With Da-Hwa in the hospital, Da-Eh's wracked by built about the way she's treated her kind little brother all these years. Though her romance with Sun-Nam gets shelved as a result, the two are drawn closer by their affection for Da-Hwa. Does putting ...

  • Night's Rose

    Annaliese Evans

    FOR NEARLY ONE HUNDRED YEARS, Rosemarie Edenberg has worked tirelessly to wipe the dreaded ogre tribe from the earth. Now the tribe has gathered in London to work a spell that will destroy the scourge of their kind, the woman they call the Briar Ros...

  • Longarm and the Hell Up North

    Tabor Evans

    Where there’s Longarm, there’s hell to pay…Deputy U.S. Marshall Long’s latest assignment is to deliver Erroll “Bone” McCluskey in one piece to Bismarck, where a hangman and undertaker await. And there’s nothing more Longarm would rather...

  • Killer

    Wade Everett

    TO CATCH A KILLER No one has ever seen the man known as Tass Creel, a hired gun who strikes silently and disappears, leaving only tragedy in his wake. For twenty years he's been wanted by the Texas Rangers. No one has ever come close to catching him...

  • Fortune's Folly

    Deva Fagan

    Ever since her mother died and her father lost his shoemaking skills, Fortunata has survived by telling fake fortunes. But when she's tricked into telling a grand fortune for a prince, she is faced with the impossible task of fulfilling her wild prop...

  • Vis and Ramin

    Gorgani Fakhraddin

    A classic Persian tale of war and forbidden love in the eleventh century

    Believed by scholars to be the inspiration for Tristan and Isolde, Vis and Ramin was written between 1050 and 1055 and is considered the first epic Persian romance. At t...

  • Desert of Danger

    Greg Farshtey

    LEGO'S most successful property -- now in books for younger fans!

    Toa Mata Nui has been exiled to a strange desert world. It's full of dangerous creatures but possibly full of new friends, even if they've never even heard of a Toa before! How ...

  • Rides a Dread Legion

    Raymond E. Feist

    The remnants of the Clan of the Seven Stars are returning to their long abandoned home world ... but not as friends. The elves, led by the conjurer Laromendis, flee the relentless demon hordes sweeping through their galaxy -- and the conquest of war-...

  • The Heiress's 2-Week Affair

    Marie Ferrarella

    "Candace is dead." Shell-shocked detective Natalie Rothchild wasn't sure what stung more--knowing that her twin had paid dearly for flaunting their fortune at a Las Vegas hot spot--or prying information from the man who went AWOL after promising h...

  • B as in Beauty

    Alberto Ferreras

    Everyone in the world, it seems, is either prettier or thinner (or both) than Beauty Marie Zavala. And the only thing "B" resents more than her name is the way others judge her for the extra 40 pounds she can't lose. At least she has her career. Or d...

  • Secret Baby, Surprise Parents

    Liz Fielding

    Pregnant: with a baby in a million... Grace McAllister thought being a surrogate for her sister would be a truly selfless act. But secretly Grace longed for the baby inside her to be her own, conceived in passion with the only man she had ever lov...

  • Essential Dazzler - Volume 2

    Danny Fingeroth

    No matter how well she handles the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants, Moonstone and Blackout, the Tatterdemalion, and other villains, Alison Blaire never set out to be a super hero - just a superstar! But her big film break shatters that dream when she's ou...

  • Salammbo

    Gustave Flaubert

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Silvertongue

    Charlie Fletcher

    The city of London is in the middle of one of its most destructive wars in history. And yet most of its inhabitants don't even know it. The battle between the statues and gargoyles of London rages on. The stakes are high, with the spits engaged in ...

  • Madison Avenue Shoot

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    DON’T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT. When Jessica Fletcher's favorite nephew, Grady, asks her to visit him in New York City, she's happy to reunite. But Jessica quickly realizes that there's more to Grady's invitation than just family ties. He's working fo...

  • Little Fingers

    Filip Florian

    In a little town in Romania, a mass grave is discovered near the excavations of a Roman fort. Are the dead the victims of a medieval plague or, perhaps, of a Communist firing squad? And why are finger bones disappearing from the pit each night? Pe...

  • The Rancher & The Reluctant Princess

    Christine Flynn

    ROYALTY...IN COWBOY BOOTS? The secluded Montana ranch seemed the perfect hideaway for Pricess Sophie Saxe, on the run from the prying eyes of the paparazzi. She thought she'd found peace here, at least for a little while. But then Sophie found herse...

  • A Mighty Wall

    John Foley

    Gravity always wins in the end . . . sometimes gradually, sometimes with an avalanche. A life-long climber, seventeen-year-old Jordan spends as much time as he can scaling the sun-baked crags outside his Washington hometown. He's a bit of a pipsqu...

  • If I Stay

    Gayle Forman

    On a day that started like any other... Mia had everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, adoring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices. Then, in an instant, almost all of that is taken from her. Caught between life and d...

  • Healing The M.D.'s Heart

    Nicole Foster

    SHE DIDN'T HAVE A CURE FOR HEARTACHE And to Dr. Lia Kerrigan that's exactly what loving Duran Forrester and his seven-year-old son entailed. They stirred up feelings that made the pretty pediatrician long for things she didn't know existed. But how ...

  • Punisher War Journal - Volume 4: Jigsaw

    Matt Fraction

    All the players are assembled...the stage is set...the lights are lowered...and a conspiracy 18 issues in the making begins! This is it: the ultimate revenge saga as designed and engineered by Punisher's arch-rival, Jigsaw! He's killed off the loose ...

  • Squadron Supreme: The Pre-War Years

    Gary Frank

    It all starts here! Hyperion, Nighthawk, Blur, Power Princess, Doctor Spectrum, and the rest of the deadliest super-team around are joined by a new group of super heroes, as only J. Michael Straczynski and Gary Frank can imagine! As the U.S. governme...

  • The Servants' Quarters

    Lynn Freed

    A “beautifully told story of love and growth” set in post-WWII South Africa (Booklist). When disfigured soldier George Harding returns from the front, he moves a poor family into the servant’s quarters of his family’s South African estate, sa...

  • In the Dark

    Brian Freeman

    Two young lovers. A sultry summer night. One brutal, cold-blooded murder. In this stunning, atmospheric thriller, Brian Freeman takes you deep into Detective Jonathan Stride's complicated past. It's the case that has haunted Stride for thirty year...

  • Orange Planet 1

    Haruka Fukushima

    IT’S RAINING BOYS!

    Like a lot of girls, Rui has boy problems. But most girls would be thrilled to have a problem like hers: There are too many boys in love with her! First there’s Taro, the adorable boy next door. Then there’s Eisuke, a ...

  • The Happiest Mommy Ever

    Alice Furniss

    In this delightful children's picture book, a young boy asks while making cookies with his mother, Mommy, what is the happiest you ve ever been? His mother reflects on her life and responds, Well, once when I was just about your age, I was in a dance...

  • Checkered Past

    Abby Gaines

    NASCAR team owner Chad Matheson is most comfortable when he's in control. But his control took a time-out during a few days in Las Vegas--and he impulsively wed hotel heiress Brianna Hudson. The marriage lasted only one night, though, before they bot...

  • Don't Cry

    Mary Gaitskill

    In these ten stories Mary Gaitskill works her signature narrative magic, training her generous vision on a broad spectrum of American lives. Beginning with a story of young people adrift in the college town of Ann Arbor on the cusp of the Reagan era ...

  • Outlaw's Reckoning

    Marcus Galloway

    CASE CLOSED Bandit Gus McCord may have only one good eye, bdt hi partner, Doyle Hill, has the nose for sniffing out a golden opportunity. And that's just what he does when he discovers a black case guarded by the mysterious Mr. Mason. But instead of...