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  • Pearl Abraham

    An avid, near-six-foot-tall surfer, John Jude Parish cuts a striking figure on the beaches of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. When he isn't on water, John lives on wheels, a self-described skate rat--grinding and kickflipping with his friends, and...



  • Alayne Adams

    Cassidy French had everything -- idyllic farm life with a family she loved and a handsome sheriff's deputy boyfriend named Mitch O'Reilly with whom she wanted happily ever-after. Then a terrible accident changed everything. Her father was arrested, a...



  • David A. Adler

    Detective Jeffrey Bones is having fun eating cake and watching a clown perform tricks at Not-Me Amy's birthday party. But when the clown can't find her street clothes at the end of the party, it's up to Bones to solve this Easy-to-Read mystery!...



  • Emily Adler; Alex Echevarria

    Destiny Lozada is turning fifteen, and her parents want to throw her a traditional quinceañera, celebrating her transition into "womanhood" with a religious ceremony, a big expensive party, a silly dress and tiara -- the works. Destiny’s older sis...



  • Ann Aguirre

    I'm still a redhead. Before we left Texas, I touched up the roots with Gamier Nutrisse 64-R, and then I had some tawny apricot highlights put in. I guess that means I intend to keep this color for a while. Symbolic -- Tve made a commitment, at least ...



  • Ken Akamatsu

     
    ONCE UPON A TIME
     
    Child genius -- and powerful wizard -- Negi Springfield has had his share of magical adventures. But not even magic can help Negi with his latest challenge: acting with his students in the school play! It’s Cinderell...




  • Susan Wittig Albert

    Ex-lawyer and current herbalist China Bayles is known as "a leader among female sleuths" (Publishers Weekly). In Holly Blues, an unwelcome holiday guest creates a thorny situation for China and her husband... Life has been good to China Bayles, so s...



  • Lauren Alexander

    Shrek misses his glory days as a real ogre, so he signs a pact with the smooth-talking Rumpelstiltskin. But then Shrek finds himself in a world where Rumpel is king and he has never met Fiona! Join Shrek on a heroic quest to restore his world and win...




  • Drue Allen

    National security comes at a price. Dean Dreiser learned that lesson long ago. Now, domestic terrorists are testing a biological weapon in southern New Mexico, and Dean is forced to take a new partner -- Dr. Lucinda Brown. Lucy is the leading expert ...



  • Dawne Allette

    "I want you to know that we have very much in common. For nothing in my life would have predicted that I would be standing here as First Lady of the United States of America..." When Michelle Obama spoke these words in a London school, the effect on ...



  • David Almond

    David Almond turns his talents to drama in these two plays. Skellig is the dramatization of his highly acclaimed novel. What has Michael found in the derelict garage? What is this creature that lies in the darkness? Is it human, or a strange beast ne...



  • Madelyn Alt

    Exploring the spirit world has never been this much fun -- or this much trouble... Lately, Maggie has been attached at the hip to the smoking-hot Marcus Quinn. Things couldn't get any better -- until her sister, Mel, gives birth to two little bund...



  • Jessica Andersen

    According to Mayan doomsday prophecy, 12/21/12 marks the end of the world in a global cataclysm that can only be prevented by the Nightkeepers, magical warriors enlisted to fight the rise of the underworld demons. To fulfill the final prophecy the Ni...



  • Ilona Andrews
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    Tales of alpha angels...from four alpha authors. They soar through the night, unearthly creatures of legends and lore. Four masters of urban fantasy and paranormal romance explore the rapture of the heavens above, and the darkness below in four a...



  • Wendy May Andrews

    Emily must masquerade as an Earl's servant for reasons she's not willing to divulge. To her astonishment she finds she enjoys the role, but unfortunately finds herself attracted to the haughty young earl. He too struggles with an attraction to his be...



  • James Andrus

    One Man's Obsession... Pharmacy clerk William Dremmel is hooked -- on drugging pretty young women and lulling them into slow, blissfully quiet deaths. Then he packs his victims in luggage -- a nod to the cops that he works alone. Dremmel's no fool...



  • Kelley Armstrong
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    Jeremy Danvers, Clayton Danvers, and Logan Jonsen....



  • Kelley Armstrong

    My name is Chloe Saunders. I'm fifteen, and I would love to be normal. But normal is one thing I'm not. For one thing, I'm having these feelings for a certain antisocial werewolf and his sweet-tempered brother -- who just happens to be a sorcer...



  • Kelley Armstrong
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    Cassandra DuCharme & Aaron Darnell....



  • Kelley Armstrong
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    Have you ever wondered how lone wolf Clayton Danvers finally got bitten by the last thing he ever expected: love? Or how the hot-blooded bad-girl witch Eve Levine managed to ensnare the cold, ruthless corporate sorcerer, Kristof Nast in one of the Ot...



  • Stephen Armstrong

    In 2000 No Logo described a vision of rapacious corporations building brands at the expense of impoverished third world employees and ripped-off first world consumers. Now, only eight years later, No Logo looks almost optimistic against the rise of a...



  • Stephen Armstrong

    Recent years have seen the rise of a new and insidious club of global billionaires who are buying up once unfashionable industries from distressed third-world nations and former communist powers. This book explains the implications of this worrying t...



  • Elizabeth Aston

    Critically acclaimed and award-winning -- but hardly bestselling -- author Georgina Jackson can’t get past the first chapter of her second book. When she receives an urgent email from her agent, Georgina is certain it’s bad news. Shockingly, she...



  • Ace Atkins

    In July 1933, the gangster known as George Machine Gun Kelly staged the kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oil-man. He would live to regret it. Kelly was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, and what started clean soon became messy, as two of hi...



  • Annie Auerbach

    This 8 x 8 storybook follows one of the smaller plot lines from the film: the magical deal that Shrek makes with Rumpelstiltskin that meant to make him a fearsome ogre again. Young fans will love reading this storybook packed with full-color photos f...



  • Kiyohiko Azuma

    The ranch wasn't fun, huh? But maybe festivals will be less funner?! (Yotsuba's playing opposites, ha-ha!) Yotsuba got uninvited to Fuuka's school for a culr...a clart...a cultural festival! And she didn't promise Yotsuba there wouldn't be CAKE! Yots...



  • Natalie Babbitt

    From the author of Tuck Everlasting comes a powerful, multi-layered story about a man who never felt complete, the family he is unable to fully love, and the fabulous amusement park that he created. Everyone in town knows Herbert Rowbarge as the w...



  • Judy Baer

    Wanted: One Smart, Kind, Thoughtful -- And Totally Gorgeous -- Man! Since she was a child, Marlo Mayfield has kept a list of traits her Prince Charming must possess. After a series of bad relationships, Marlo's beginning to lose hope that her ideal ...



  • Stella Bagwell

    FOUND: ONE BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WITH NO MEMORY The long, lean deputy couldn't hide his fascination with the mystery lady he'd discovered. Something about her vulnerability, her wistfulness drew Brady Donovan as no one else ever had. In fact, when she lef...



  • Gen Bailey

    1755, the American colonies. While the English and French fight for control of the North American continent, the American Indians fight for their lives. Another war rages, however, within the hearts of one Seneca warrior and a white woman in danger ....




  • David Baldacci

    Evan Waller is a monster... He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything ... and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the glo...



  • Tristan Bancks

    Mac Slater is an inventor. He’s never really thought of himself as cool. Sure, he and his best friend Paul do all kinds of fun and crazy stuff: They built a flying bike and lots of other wild, fast-moving inventions. But when the creators of Coolhu...



  • Sara Harrell Banks

    In depression-era Alabama, Brother Sayre grows up in his family's boarding house with a number of railroad employees who serve as substitute fathers. Brother strikes up a friendship with Champion, the nephew of his family's maid, who has come south f...




  • John Barnes

    Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumors surrounding something called Daybreak. The group is diverse and radical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatred for the ...




  • Jefferson Bass

    Dr. Bill Brockton has been called in on a seemingly routine case, to exhume a body and obtain a bone sample for a DNA paternity test. But when the coffin is opened, Brockton and his colleagues, including his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady, are s...



  • Marion Dane Bauer

    It used to be just Stacy and her dad, ever since Stacy’s mother left them five years ago. But Stacy’s stepmother, Barbara, seems to have taken over their world -- and now she’s pregnant, too. One hot June morning Stacy runs away, not sure where...



  • Trevor Baxendale

    Dr Bob Strong's GP surgery has been treating a lot of coughs and colds recently, far more than is normal for the time of year. Bob thinks there's something up but he can't think what. He seems to have caught it himself, whatever it is - he's starting...



  • Karen Beaumont

    High on energy and imagination, this ode to self-esteem encourages kids to appreciate everything about themselves--inside and out. Messy hair? Beaver breath? So what?! Here's a little girl who knows what really matters. At once silly and serious, ...




  • Ted Bell

    A thrilling sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller Nick of Time, in which the young time traveler Nick McIver must prove his courage once more, on two fronts: in World War Two -- era England, where Nazis have invaded his homeland, and in Ame...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (2009) #1-6. This new chapter in the life of the teenaged Web-Slinger picks up in the aftermath of Ultimatum and completely redefines the status quo of Spider-Man for the next generation - complete with a new supp...



  • Zelda Benjamin

    Chloe Brandeau, a magical chocolatier struggles to maintain normalcy in her world that suddenly turned upside down with the inheritance of her aunt's run down apartment building. When a friend insists that having a man in her life could help, Chloe g...



  • Jules Bennett

    She'd always been in love with her boss. Secretly. And it had almost killed Abby Morrison each time magnificent multimillionaire Cade Stone began dating another woman. And now...he wanted her to plan his wedding! Abby knew Cade was making a mistak...



  • Sue Bentley

    Storm is a magic wolf who flees to our world to escape the evil Shadow. Disguised as a puppy, Storm visits family after family, using his spells wherever they are needed most. In A Forest Charm, Cassie is nervous about going camping. Who will she ta...



  • Elizabeth Berg

    As onetime classmates meet up over the course of a weekend for their fortieth high school reunion, they discover things that will irrevocably affect the rest of their lives. For newly divorced Dorothy, the reunion brings with it the possibility of fi...



  • Kate Bernheimer

    New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate B...



  • Jonathan Bernstein

    Alison Cole and the Department of Hotness are back and ready for action in the sizzling sequel to Hottieaall about a Beverly Hills princess who can shoot fire from her fingertips Ever since defeating her evil stepmother, Carmen, Alisonas life has ...



  • Jo Beverley

    When Bella Barstowe is kidnapped and taken to a Dover tavern, she believes her life and virtue will be forfeit -- until she's rescued by the notorious Captain Rose, a man who seems as dangerous to her as her original captors. Convinced her only o...



  • ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    The Good Girlz have always known their girlfriend Camille is a gifted dancer. But when she wins the Search for a Star talent competition, it's her incredible singing voice that blows them away--why didn't she tell them she could sing like Beyonce and...



  • Benjamin Black

    Quirke -- the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist -- is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor. April Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is somet...



  • Malorie Blackman

    "IT'S GOING TO BE WOOF-ONDERFUL!"There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don't want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better, he has some special clay,...



  • Derek Blasberg

    If you've ever wondered how to climb the social ladder with grace, how to feel confident in every situation, or even how to make a lasting impression (but not the kind that lands you on the latest "Worst Dressed List" -- Derek Blasberg is here, with ...



  • Ellen Block

    A magical novel that unravels one of life's greatest mysteries--how to go on after a devastating loss--through the power of words and their ability to heal, to transform, and to touch the heart. Luck: an event that could be for good or ill, depend...



  • Margaret Wander Bonanno

    A social experiment was conceived. Its goal was to breed the best, the brightest, the most malleable and most loyal soldiers to ever serve. To this end, the Romulan Empire used its own children, blinded by the belief that anything that would bring gl...



  • Ben Bova

    This is the tale of Lukka, the Hittite soldier who traveled across Greece in search of the vicious slave traders who kidnapped his wife and sons. He tracks them all the way to war-torn Troy. There he proves himself a warrior to rank with noble Hector...



  • C.J. Box

    It's Joe Pickett's last week as temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. Not ...



  • Michelle Boyajian

    As her husband's killer stands trial, a woman must come to terms with her marriage's hidden fault lines Katie Burelli is living a wife's worst nightmare. Her husband, Nick, a speech therapist, has been killed, shot at point-blank range by Jerry, o...



  • Tom Bradby

    A stunning new historical thriller set during the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

    New York, 1929, a city of speakeasies, swells and hoodlums at the fag end of the roaring twenties. It’s a hell of a time and place for a young cop to be trying to m...



  • Jean Brashear

    Grace Winters is the racing world's best-kept secret. And now the secret's out. The up-and-coming chef hopes her newfound celebrity as author of a NASCAR-themed cookbook will give her the financial security she craves. Falling for handsome, much-too-...



  • Peter V. Brett

    The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay...



  • Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

    To protect her daughter from the fast life and bad influences of London, her mother sent her to school in rural Ghana. The move was for the girl's own good, in her mother's mind, but for the daughter, the reality of being the new girl, the foreigner-...



  • Steve Brewer
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    An all-new mystery anthology edited and featuring a new story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris edits and contributes...



  • Steve Brezenoff

    This funny and engaging book follows the kids of Franklin Middle School as they solve mysteries in a museum, a zoo, a recycling center, and a frontier town. ...



  • Ed Briant

    Jason's dad is every kid's role model - a movie stuntman with a black belt and his own karate school. But to fourteen-year-old Jason, he's a top-ranking creep for chucking his family two years ago. Since then, Jason's done all he can to distance hims...



  • V. Briceland

    On his first sea voyage away from the magical city of Cassaforte, seventeen-year-old Nic Dattore awakens to find the vessel overrun by marauding pirates -- and everyone else on board kidnapped or killed. After slaying the pirate who attacked him, Nic...



  • Patricia Briggs

    When Mercy Thompson, mechanic and shape-shifter, attempts to return a powerful fae book she previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down. It seems the book contains secrets -- and the fae will do ju...



  • Christine Brodien-Jones

    Maxwell Unger has always loved the night. He used to do brave things like go tramping through the forest with his gran after dark. He loved the stories she told him about the world before the Destruction--about nature, and books, and the silver owls....



  • Meljean Brook
    in

    Tales of alpha angels...from four alpha authors. They soar through the night, unearthly creatures of legends and lore. Four masters of urban fantasy and paranormal romance explore the rapture of the heavens above, and the darkness below in four a...



  • Rita Mae Brown

    Acclaimed authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie Brown, are back with this new mystery starring Mary Minor Harry Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker. And this time they must catch a killer det...



  • Ed Brubaker

    Collects Captain America: Reborn #16. Captain America Steve Rogers is reborn, but is he the hero we know and love? Or is the new Captain merely a pawn of the Red Skull, or perhaps something worse? And what is Norman Osborn doing lurking on the fringe...



  • Ed Brubaker

    A midnight call to duty brings Captain America aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D Heli-carrier to identify the corpse of his most feared adversary: the Red Skull! The shocking murder of Cap's oldest enemy may not be the end of the Skull's plans, however, because...



  • Nina Bruhns

    Multi-award-winning author Nina Bruhns spins a web of lies and love in a searing novel of romantic suspense... Eight months ago, Dr. Gina Cappozi and CIA black ops commando Captain Gregg van Halen were lovers...until Gregg committed the ultimate bet...



  • Alafair Burke

    In New York City, Nights Are Dangerous. Days Are Numbered. When New York University sophomore Megan Gunther finds personal threats posted to a Web site specializing in campus gossip, she's taken aback by their menacing tone. Someone knows her dail...



  • Jessica Burkhart

    If the girls have learned anything, it's that only the strong survive at Canterwood Crest Academy. Just ask Jasmine.... Oh, whoops. You can't -- she's back at Wellington Prep. Well, then, ask Heather Fox. After all, she's the lone Queen Bee left stan...



  • Robert Burleigh

    Owen and his dog, Sheepie, are best friends. They like to play, take long walks, and chase each other in the yard. But Sheepie is getting old. He can’t fetch a stick as quickly as he used to, and sometimes Owen has to help him climb the stairs. The...



  • Jim Butcher

    Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover -- until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her caught between humanity and the relentless bloodlust of the yampiric Red Court. She disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her...



  • Meg Cabot

    Things aren't pretty for Emerson Watts. Em was sure there couldn't be anything worse than being a brainiac the body of a teenaged supermodel. But it turned out she was wrong. Because that supermodel could turn out to have a mother who's gone ...



  • Sadie Callahan

    Man of the West Over the last 130 years, the Campbell-Strayhorn dynasty has endured triumph and tragedy. Now the future of the sprawling Circle C Ranch -- even the survival of their tiny Texas town -- rests on the shoulders of the current generation...



  • Dana Cameron
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    An all-new mystery anthology edited and featuring a new story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris edits and contributes...



  • Ramsey Campbell

    Gavin Meadows always worried about his father. The old man could appear a bit paranoid at times, and his research projects sometimes seemed a little crazy. But now his father's missing, and Gavin is more than worried. And the more he looks into his f...



  • Mike Carey

    As the authorities as the Battle School prepare to advance Ender Wiggin to Command School, they do everything they can to push his comrade Bean to his limits to see if he too can make it to Command School....



  • Peter Carey

    Two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s latest feat of imagination is an irrepressible, audacious, and trenchantly funny novel set mostly in nineteenth-century America. Olivier -- an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville -- is a...



  • Patrick Carman

    You are indestructible. Three whispered words transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding that changes everything. At first, Jacob is hesitant to use the power, unsure of its implications. But there's something addictive about testing the limits ...



  • Jennifer Lee Carrell

    Kate Stanley, Jennifer Lee Carrell's dauntless Shakespearean scholarturned- director, made a memorable-and New York Times bestselling- debut in Interred with Their Bones. Having chased down her mentor's killer (and recovering one of Shakespeare's los...



  • Gail Carriger

    Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment o...



  • Nell Carson

    In Tell-All, New York City writer Kat Callahan is just finishing an explosive unauthorized biography of Hollywood's 'It' couple, Alex and Victoria Janssen, when they mysteriously disappear along with their 7-year old son, Jeremy. Now Kat's publisher...



  • Patrick Thomas Casey

    Set in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the first weeks of fall, Our Burden's Light tells the story of two families caught on either side of small town violence. One family combusts under the weight of loss and grief, while the other is quietly b...



  • Carla Cassidy

    Test Subject: Jared Maddox Ability: Mental telepathy Weakness: Willa Tyler, the only person he was able to communicate with while in a coma. From the moment he came out of a coma, Jared Maddox knew his whereabouts had been compromised and th...



  • Kay Cassidy

    Sixteen-year-old Jess Parker survives by staying invisible. After nine schools in ten years, she's come to terms with life as a perpetual new girl, neither popular nor outcast. At Mt. Sterling High, Jess gets the chance of a lifetime: an invitation t...



  • Adam-Troy Castro

    A is for Apocalypse, B is for Buried, C is for Cannibalistic . . . A stunningly illustrated and hilarious A-to-Z guide that bears witness to the zombie horde as it slowly overruns us. Assemble a motley crew of any survivors you can. Barricade you...



  • Philip Caveney

    Sebastian Darke; his snarky buffalope, Max; and fierce fighter Cornelius are off on another hair-raising quest after being hired by a rich merchant to seek out the legendary lost city of Mendip. Not only must they find it, they must bring back valuab...



  • Michelle Celmer

    Finally, after an intensive search Ash Williams had found his runaway mistress. Melody Trent couldn't even remember him, but Ash was determined to discover the truth. Had he fathered her child? And the only way to bring her to his home was to claim h...



  • Katherine Center

    How do you change your luck? Katherine Center's marvelously entertaining and poignant new novel is about choosing to look for happiness--and maybe getting lucky enough to find it. Sarah Harper isn't sure if the stupid decisions she sometimes makes...



  • Dori Chaconas

    Cork is a muskrat. Fuzz is a possum. Cork eats only veggie stuff. Fuzz eats beetles and worms. Cork likes to play hide-and-seek. Fuzz likes to play find-and-eat. Cork and Fuzz have nothing in common. Or do they?...



  • Barry Andrew Chambers

    He's Not Your Ordinary Frontier Hero. Then Again, He's Not Supposed To Be... Randall Foster was a young school teacher who got dragged into a deadly clash of clans. When the dust settled, the teacher was hand-picked by a covert government agency c...



  • Jennifer Chiaverini

    Another season of Elm Creek Quilt Camp has come to a close, and Bonnie Markham faces a bleak and lonely winter ahead, with her quilt shop out of business and her divorce looming. A welcome escape comes when Claire, a beloved college friend, unexpecte...



  • Lisa Childs

    An injury takes professional hockey player Brooks Hoover off the ice and back to his Michigan hometown to recuperate and map out his future... which wasn't supposed to include fatherhood! It isn't every day a man finds a baby on his doorstep. A baby ...



  • Svetlana Chmakova

    Betrayed by one of their own, the Hunters have become the hunted as their hideaway is invaded by a pack of ravenous werewolves! But it'll take more than a few mongrels to get the better of these kids. Meanwhile, Alex begins advanced training with Mr....



  • Matt Christopher

    Home run slugger Sylvester Coddmyer the Third has an amazing secret. For three seasons, he's been coached by men who look exactly like baseball legends: Babe Ruth, Eddie Cicotte, and Mickey Mantle. Are these men just impersonating famous ballplayers,...



  • Beth Ciotta

    Sometimes paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be. That's what I, Kylie McGraw, have discovered since sacrificing my dreams of traveling the world to run the family shoe store. But if I have my way, peaceful Eden, Indiana, is in for a major shake-u...



  • CLAMP

    LIFE WISH!
     
    Seconds before Sakura’s imminent death, Syaoran made a wish and managed to turn back time. But now time has returned to that exact moment, and the obsessed Fei-Wang will not allow Syaoran to undo his twisted plots and evil plans...



  • Carol Higgins Clark

    PI Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, arrive at his parents' beachfront home on Cape Cod late on an April night, just in time to experience the beginning of a major storm. The weather doesn't matter -- they're at t...



  • Mary Higgins Clark

    A LONG-HELD FAMILY SECRET THREATENS TO TAKE THE LIFE OF AN UNSUSPECTING HEIRESS IN THE BREATHTAKING NEW THRILLER FROM WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING AUTHOR MARY HIGGINS CLARK. At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow faces a momentous choice: e...



  • Heather Clay

    Raised on their parents' Kentucky horse farm, Charlotte and Knox Bolling grow up steeped in the cycles of breeding, foaling, weaning, and preparation for sale that the Thoroughbreds around them undergo each year. As sisters, they are as tightly conne...



  • Pearl Cleage

    From the acclaimed Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . . and Seen It All and Done the Rest, comes an Obama-era romance featuring a cast of unforgettable characters. Just when it appears that all her hard work on Ba...



  • Jane K. Cleland

    When Rocky Point, New Hampshire, antiques dealer Josie Prescott arrives at an old lighthouse estate for an appraisal of a valuable maritime artifacts collection, she makes a grim discovery. On the floor of the kitchen lies the caretaker, Frankie, blu...



  • Andrew Clements

    A 6000-POUND WRECKING BALL IS ABOUT TO DEMOLISH BENJAMIN PRATT'S SCHOOL. . . .AND HE HAS ONLY 28 DAYS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO STOP IT. Ben's harbor-side school is going to be bulldozed to make room for an amusement park. It sounds like a dream come t...



  • Barbara Cleverly

    Provence, 1926. Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is on leave, driving his way south to the Riviera while dropping off his niece at an ancient chateau. A troubling crime committed at the chateau just before their arrival leaves a clear messag...



  • Harlan Coben

    17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes ...



  • Colleen Coble

    For most, it's the safest place on earth. For Gracie, it's the last place she wants to be...and the one place she must return. With nothing but five dollars and the wedding dress she's wearing, Gracie Lister flees with her daughter by train to Wes...



  • Max Allan Collins
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    An all-new mystery anthology edited and featuring a new story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris edits and contributes...



  • Ralph Compton

    From bestselling author Ralph Compton -- the bold saga of a trail-blazing cattle drive in the blistering heat of the California gold rush. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains and br...



  • Beverly Connor

    Forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon is back and having a bone-chilling night to remember as she runs into one skeleton and two fresh corpses.... Diane is driving through a downpour on a windy mountain road after picking up a set of rare Indian arti...




  • Jerome R. Corsi

    The priest. . . . Brought back to life on an operating room table after a horrific car crash, Father Paul Bartholomew is haunted by frightening visions--especially the moments when he seems to inhabit the body of Christ at Golgotha. The skeptics. . ....



  • Stephanie Cowell

    Sometimes he dreamt he held her; that he would turn in bed and she would be there. But she was gone and he was old. Nearly seventy. Only cool paint met his fingers. “Ma très chère . . .” Darkness started to fall, dimming the paintings. He felt ...



  • John Coy

    Just before they're due to start middle school, Jackson, Gig, Isaac, and Diego, four sports-loving friends, all attend the same weeklong soccer camp. Diego is an experienced soccer player, and Gig has a natural ability for the sport he never realized...



  • Jim Crace

    Set in Texas and the suburbs of England, All That Follows is a novel in which tender, unheroic moments triumph over the more strident and aggressive facets of our age. British jazzman Leonard Lessing has spent a memorable yet unsuccessful few days...



  • Nina Crews

    Whether they’re trekking to a magical island to hunt dinosaurs or saving a city from destruction, Jack and his action figure Guy have exciting adventures. Sometimes, Jack’s little brother Gus joins them. When Guy gets caught in a branch while sky...



  • Katie Crouch

    When Hannah Legare was 11, her father went on a fishing trip in the Charleston harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her family accepted Buzz's disappearance, Hannah remained steadfastly convinced of his imminent return. Twenty y...



  • Alyssa Crowne

    She's a princess on a mission.... Isabel Dawson has two annoying big brothers, thinks purple is the best color in the whole world, and loves princess stories. When she reads about a princess on a royal quest, Isabel decides to go on a quest, too. She...




  • Lynn Cullen

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  • William Dietrich

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  • Barbara Dunlop

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  • John R. Erickson

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  • Michael Flynn

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  • Linda Ford

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  • Gwynne Forster

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  • Brian Freeman

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  • Natasha Friend

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  • Katherine Garbera

    The minute she walked into his life, he knew he had to have her. Ainsley Patterson was exactly the type of woman CEO Steven Devonshire desired. Business had brought them together, and they both had the same need to succeed. Why not tempt her with an ...