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New Books List: 692 titles

  • Scalped

    Jason Aaron

    Red Crow sends his right-hand man, Shunka, to sort out a feud with a rival Native American casino, but now Shunka has become embroiled in a murder mystery. He knows he should walk away, but something inside won't let him, which means things are about...

  • The Dragon's Path

    Daniel Abraham

    All paths lead to war... Marcus' hero days are behind him. He knows too well that even the smallest war still means somebody's death. When his men are impressed into a doomed army, staying out of a battle he wants no part of requires some unorthod...

  • Hidden Embers

    Tessa Adams

    Deep in the New Mexico desert is a secret race on the brink of extinction: the pure-blooded shape-shifters of the Dragonstar clan. And they have one last desperate hope for survival... Quinn Maguire, healer of the Dragonstars, has been unable to c...

  • Shady Lady

    Ann Aguirre

    I'd spent my whole life settling, trying not to attract attention, and generally doing whatever it took to keep other people happy. I didn't want to do that again. Not when I was finally comfortable in my own skin. Sure, there were certain challenges...

  • Enclave

    Ann Aguirre

    WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE In Deuce's world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed 'brat' has trained into one of three groups-Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the nu...

  • Mourning Gloria

    Susan Wittig Albert

    China Bayles the ex-lawyer and current herbalist must stop a killer whose evil is burning through Texas... MOURNING GLORIA This spring China is busy selling her wares at Pecan Springs' Farmers' Market and enjoying the additional customers the ...

  • Periodic Tales

    Hugh Aldersey-Williams

    “Fascinating and beautiful . . . if only chemistry had been like this at school.” -- Matt Ridley, New York Times"bestselling author of Genome, in Prospect magazineLike the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic tabl...

  • Here I Am

    Rochelle Alers

    Born into a real-estate dynasty, Brandt Wainwright chose football over the family business, and now he's a Super Bowl MVP. That streak of good fortune runs out the day Brandt crashes his SUV into a tree. During the long recuperation, the fun-loving q...

  • What You Have Left

    Will Allison

    In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie asks for a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass ...

  • A Gift of Gracias

    Julia Alvarez

    After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony. Then, one night she dreams of a mysterious beautiful lady shrouded by trees with branches hung with hundreds of little suns. They are ...

  • Walk on the Wild Side

    Natalie Anderson

    A fling with sinfully hot champion snowboarder Jack Greene isn't Kelsi Reid's normal behavior...but one glimpse of his wicked eyes has Kelsi throwing caution to the deep blue sea (along with her clothes!). After all, who better to go crazy with than ...

  • Cheeky Monkey

    Daddo Andrew

    Back in print at last! ABC for Kids is delighted to announce the re-release of a range of best-selling, award-winning children's picture books. Including Children's Book Council winners and all-time favourites, no children's bookshelf is complete wit...

  • Geek Fantasy Novel

    E. Archer

    What happens when a science geek and magic collide? Be careful what you wish for. Really. Because wishes are bad. Very bad. They can get you trapped in fantasy worlds full of killer bunny rabbits, evil aunts, and bothersome bacteria, for example. ...

  • Through Her Eyes

    Jennifer Archer

    Every ghost has a story to tell. The last place Tansy Piper wants to be is stuck in Cedar Canyon, Texas, in the middle of nowhere, with a bunch of small-town kids. But when her mother decides to move to the desolate West Texas town, Tansy has no c...

  • Nobody's Darling

    Gina Ardito

    April Raine was married and pregnant at eighteen, divorced ten years later, and has struggled to provide for her children. Now a successful businesswoman, she accepts a challenge from a daytime talk show to compete in a thirty-day battle of the sexes...

  • Lady of the Loch: The Incredible Story of Britain's Oldest Osprey

    Helen Armitage

    During the last decade, the osprey has risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes - once extinct in Britain, now returned as a powerful symbol of hope. The opreys' story is a moving tale of triumph over adversity. Their slow but sure resurgence has attracte...

  • The Gathering

    Kelley Armstrong

    An ordinary town ... full of deadly secrets Strange things have been happening in sixteen-year-old Maya's small Vancouver Island community -- from the mountain lions that have been constantly approaching her to her best friend's hidden talent for ...

  • Mercy Burns

    Keri Arthur

    DARKNESS DESCENDS. LOVE ABIDES. BUT . . . MERCY BURNS Mercy Reynolds is a reporter in the San Francisco Bay area, but she's also more -- and less -- than human. Half woman, half air dragon, she's a "draman" -- unable to shift shape but still...

  • Your Friend in Fashion, Abby Shapiro

    Amy Axelrod

    Deeply affecting and laugh-out-loud funny, this coming-of-age novel captures the temper of the times and introduces readers to an unforgettable young heroine. The lightbulb of good ideas is burning bright for eleven-year-old Abby Shapiro. As perso...

  • The Something

    Natalie Babbitt

    Mylo...is afraid of an indefinable Something coming in through his window at night. Given some modeling clay by his concerned mother, he finally succeeds in making a statue of the Something...The clever, ironic story interprets common childhood fears...

  • Phoebe's Revolt

    Natalie Babbitt

    Phoebe Euphemia Brandon Brown hated the bows, frills, ruffles, sashes, and curls that were the fashion in 1904...The story of Phoebe's one-woman revolution and its outcome is sure to strike a spark in other little girls with minds of their own....

  • Nellie: A Cat on Her Own

    Natalie Babbitt

    Nellie, a cat marionette who loves to dance, finds adventure and freedom on a moonlit hilltop. ...

  • Picture of Innocence

    Jacqueline Baird

    She refuses to give in to him... Lucy Steadman refuses to be intimidated by brooding Italian Lorenzo Zanelli. He may hold the fate of her family's business in his iron fist, but she will not submit to his more personal demands. As a talente...

  • The Sixth Man

    David Baldacci

    Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind. THE SIXTH MAN Edgar Roy-an alleged serial killer held in a...

  • Running on Empty

    Sandra Balzo

    Home, Sweet Homicide… A frantic call sends reporter AnnaLise Griggs back home to Sutherton, North Carolina. Her mother's confusion and memory problems nearly caused her to drain all the blood out of the mayor's mother at the annual drive. The...

  • Mac Slater Vs. the City

    Tristan Bancks

    Can Mac Slater master Manhattan? Find out in the latest Coolhunting adventure! Mac Slater was elated to win a trip to New York City from the Coolhunters website. After all, if you can find cool in New York City, you can hunt cool anywhere. Right? ...

  • The Education of Bet

    Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    Bet feels confined by her place -- neither family nor servant -- in the home of her wealthy benefactor. Will, the boy who's been like a brother to her since they were four, is unhappy with his fate as well. So Bet makes a plan: She'll pretend she's a...

  • Sky Doll Spaceship

    Alessandro Barbucci

    Exceptional beings exist who possess the ability to take on any identity. Among them is Noa, the most famous last generation synthetic doll. Spaceship lifts the veil on some of her often very extravagant past experiences: call girl, sexy comic book h...

  • Quest for Honour

    Sam Barone

    At the dawn of history, an epic war is about to begin in the deadly quest for honour. The city of Sumer, ruled by a brutal murderer and his vicious, power hungry sister, is poised to give birth to the mightiest empire in history. No one stands a chan...

  • Dark Enchantment

    Anya Bast

    A SULTRY DREAM CAN BECOME A REAL-LIFE NIGHTMARE... Accounting consultant Charlotte Bennett isn't the type to lose control. Until she's seduced in a dream by a handsome, rugged man. In her dream state, she decides to let loose, letting pleasure and d...

  • The Silenced

    Brett Battles

    Professional "cleaner" Jonathan Quinn has a new client and an odd job: find and remove the remains of a body hidden twenty years ago inside the walls of a London building, before the building is demolished. But Quinn and his team are being watched...

  • We'll Meet Again

    Lily Baxter

    It is April 1939 and unaware that the German war machine is advancing towards the Channel Islands, seventeen-year-old Meg Colivet and her sister are enjoying a holiday in Oxford with their aunt. Here Meg meets charismatic German undergraduate Rayner ...

  • In Zanesville

    Jo Ann Beard

    The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that...

  • Sons of Brainiac

    Tony Bedard

    Chart the DCU spaceways as the most effective space police in the universe continue their galactic adventures. While super-genius Vril Dox begins rebuilding his interplanetary police squad L.E.G.I.O.N., Starfi rejoins the series as a new team member!...

  • Flip

    Martyn Bedford

    One December night, 14-year-old Alex goes to bed. He wakes up to find himself in the wrong bedroom, in an unfamiliar house, in a different part of the country, and it's the middle of June. Six months have disappeared overnight. The family at the br...

  • The Color of Night

    Madison Smartt Bell

    A stunning novel that burns to the touch. Mae, a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of an old lover escaping the wreckage of 9/11. ...

  • Zoobots

    Whatley Ben; Whatley Bruce

    These crazy creatures are not your normal zoo animals! Award-winning illustrator Bruce Whatley has created a wonderful picture book that celebrates the joy of friendship and the imaginative fun of recycled art. Ages: 4+ Zebo and her friends, Hyde and...

  • Her Innocence, His Conquest

    Jules Bennett

    All Work and No Play? Architecture kingpin and expert playboy Zach Marcum knew exactly how to get what he wanted -- both on the job and in the bedroom. Until sexy, independent and impossible-to-ignore Ana Clark charged into his life. Her constructio...

  • The Company Man

    Robert Jackson Bennett

    The year is 1919. The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built the guns that won the Great War before it even began. They built the airships that tie the world together. And, above all, they built Evesden-a shining m...

  • Once upon a Time, There Was You

    Elizabeth Berg

    From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Home Safe and The Last Time I Saw You comes a beautiful and moving novel about a man and woman, long divorced, who rediscover the power of love and family in the midst of an unthinkable crisis. ...

  • Sophie the Snoop

    Lara Bergen

    Sophie Miller never gives up! Even though she hasn't found the perfect name yet, she's still on the hunt. Will Sophie the Snoop be just the name she's looking for? Sophie already proved her super-sleuth skills when her piggybank went missing --- s...

  • Red Glove

    Holly Black

    Curses and Cons. Magic and the Mob. Cassel always thought he was an ordinary guy, until he realized his memories were being manipulated by his brothers. Now he knows the truth -- he's the most powerful curse worker around. A touch of his hand can ...

  • A Templar's Gifts

    Kat Black

    Something's wrong with Tormod MacLeod. Ever since returning home his visions have become more intense and disorienting, making him increasingly ill and constantly on the verge of collapse. But then he meets Aine, a fiery, no-nonsense Scottish lass wh...

  • Nixa the Death Bringer

    Adam Blade

    Fight the Beasts. Fear the magic! Taladon the Swift has returned! But to Tom's horror, his father is a ghost. To save Taladon, Tom must battle the Ghost Beasts and collect the pieces of the shattered Amulet of Avantia. First is Nixa the Death Brin...

  • Vampire Dragon

    Annette Blair

    Darkwyn, a former Roman warrior turned dragon, has landed in the 21st century -- in stark-naked human form -- needing the help of Works Like Magick to build a new life. His first job is as a bouncer in Drak's Place, a club for local wannabe vampires...

  • A Little Bit of Passion

    Beate Boeker

    Karen Larsen calls herself a modern gypsy because she has split her life into two perfect halves. In winter, she's a skiing instructor in the Teton Mountain Range; in summer, she works at the bookstore she owns on Long Island, New York. But one Easte...

  • West Texas Kill

    Johnny D. Boggs

    IN FOR JUSTICE IN FOR THE KILL Between the Pecos River and Rio Grande a vast, harsh land was ruled by Texas Rangers Captain Hector Savage. Savage's motive wasn't duty, it was money; he's turned this desolate place into a bloodied, terrorized kingdom...

  • Fighting Back

    Tim Bowler

    Blade returns to The Beast, the city he ran from years ago. The city where he grew up and where the ghosts of his past lurk around every corner. And he knows people are trying to find him. Lord H, aka Hawkthe dangerous man Blades been running from ...

  • The Master Falconer

    C.J. Box

    A dramatic short story of justice both old and new from the New York Times-bestselling author of Cold Wind. The West is not the way it’s portrayed in the movies. But when a man from the East brings trouble for Nate Romanowski and his friend Joe Pic...

  • Deadly Dreams

    Kylie Brant

    Risa Chandler's prescient dreams of death and murder haunted her nights. They also proved invaluable for Adam Raiker's brilliant team of forensic criminologists, the Mindhunters, until a tragic end to one case shattered Risa's confidence and drove he...

  • Walkin' on Clouds

    Carolyn Brown

    Isaac Burnet didn't want to go to Louisiana to deliver the letter from Delia to her sister Fairlee, but he did. He sure didn't want to be party to kidnapping the sassy, spirited lass on the eve of her wedding, or journey two weeks with a woman who di...

  • The Baby Planner

    Josie Brown

    The Nanny Diaries meets The Wedding Planner in this smart, dishy novel from the author of Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives -- featuring a woman who runs San Francisco's premier baby planning company and the mommies-to-be who seek out her services. ...

  • Hiss of Death

    Rita Mae Brown

    Beloved authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-conspirator, Sneaky Pie Brown, sow the seeds of an all-new mystery featuring Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and that incorrigible corgi Tee Tucker. This time aroun...

  • Minding Ben

    Victoria Brown

    At sixteen, Grace Caton boards her first airplane, leaving behind the tropical papaya and guava trees of her small village in Trinidad for another island, this one with tall buildings, graceful parks, and all the books she can read. At least that's w...

  • The Journey

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Can a heart once torn by love's rejection find a new beginning? Titus Fisher has often made poor choices. When he lived in Pennsylvania he chose the wrong girl, who broke his heart. When he moves to Kentucky, he finally discovers that he possesses...

  • Catfish Alley

    Lynne Bryant

    A moving debut novel about female friendship, endurance, and hope in the South. Roxanne Reeves defines her life by the committees she heads and the social status she cultivates. But she is keeping secrets that make her an outsider in her own town,...

  • Kat, Incorrigible

    Stephanie Burgis

    Katherine Ann Stephenson has just discovered that she's inherited her mother's magical talents, and despite Stepmama's stern objections, she's determined to learn how to use them. But with her eldest sister Elissa's intended fiance, the sinister Sir ...

  • Thunderbolts Classic - Volume 1

    Kurt Busiek

    Collecting Thunderbolts (1997) #1-5, Incredible Hulk (1968) #449, Tales of the Marvel Universe #1, Spider-Man Team-Up #7 & Thunderbolts Annual '97. Justice, like lightning! When the world's heroes disappear, a new team rises to take their place! ...

  • There Is No Year

    Blake Butler

    A family of three: father, mother, son. A house that gives them shelter but shapes their nightmares. An illness that nearly arrested the past, and looms over the future. A second family -- a copy family. Mirror bodies. Events on the horiz...

  • Sensational She-Hulk by John Byrne - Volume 1

    John Byrne

    From Savage to Sensational! With John Byrne writing and penciling, witness She-Hulk go where no super hero has gone before: right through the 4th wall! See She-Hulk vs. Spider-Man! Beheaded! Against the wrath of Dr. Bong! Alongside Santa Claus! On he...

  • Stay

    Deb Caletti

    Clara's relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she's ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession, and it's almost too late before Clara realizes how far gone Christian is--and what h...

  • Sea of Ghosts

    Alan Campbell

    When the last of the Gravediggers, an elite imperial infiltration unit, are disbanded and hunted down by the emperor they once served, munitions expert Colonel Thomas Granger takes refuge in the unlikeliest of places. He becomes a jailer in Ethugra a...

  • Total Abandon

    Opal Carew

    After her divorce Sandra swore off any involvement with men for a year. On the anniversary of Sandra’s divorce, her friend, Aimee, suggests she make a list of sexy things she’s never done, but would like to. After Sandra makes a few safe suggesti...

  • The Goddess Test

    Aimee Carter

    EVERY GIRL who has taken the test has DIED. Not it's KATE'S TURN. It's always been just Kate and her mom -- and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no...

  • Other People's Money

    Justin Cartwright

    In a world still uneasy after the financial turmoil of 2008, Justin Cartwright puts a human face on the dishonesties and misdeeds of the bankers who imperiled us. Tubal and Co. is a small, privately owned bank in England. As the company's longtime le...

  • Deadly Notions

    Elizabeth Lynn Casey

    South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle is one tight-knit group -- if you cross one lady, you cross them all. But when one of the town's most insufferable moms is murdered, the group finds itself fraying at the seams... Ever since ...

  • I Can't Make You Love Me, but I Can Make You Leave

    Dixie Cash

    When someone makes a killing in the country music business, it's time to call in Debbie Sue and Edwina -- the Domestic Equalizers -- whose motto is, "Don't get mad, get evidence." The career of former Queen of Country Music, Darla Denman, ain't wh...

  • The End of the Line

    Angela Cerrito

    Gripping and suspenseful, this powerful, no-holds-barred novel by an exciting new talent goes deep inside a young boy's mind. Thirteen-year-old Robbie is locked in a room with nothing but a desk, a chair, a piece of paper, and a pencil. He's starving...

  • The Jilting of Lord Rothwick

    Loretta Chase
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    On the eve of Queen Victoria's wedding to Prince Albert, the Marquess of Rothwick learns his fiancée, Barbara Findley, has broken their engagement! So he desperately rides out of London to seek her out . . . and to win her back. ...

  • Betrayer

    C.J. Cherryh

    The civil war among the alien atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the Bujavid, their seat of power. But factions that re...

  • The Story of the Lake

    Laura Chester

    At the turn of the century, Nogowogotoc Lake was considered the Newport of the Midwest, where some of the most affluent families from Milwaukee and Chicago spent their summers in luxurious "cottages" at the water's edge. The Story of the Lake weaves ...

  • City of Fallen Angels

    Cassandra Clare

    The Mortal War is over, and Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Drownworlders...

  • X-Men Forever 2 - Volume 3: Perfect World

    Chris Claremont

    When Storm, the usurper of Wakanda, plans to take over Genosha, the X-Men try to stop her, aided by the mysterious Ghost Panther, who claims to be the spirit of T'Challa, Storm's former lover and the rightful ruler of Wakanda....

  • Mobbed

    Carol Higgins Clark

    New Jersey native Carol Higgins Clark sends her sleuth Regan Reilly and her mother Nora "down the shore" -- the real Jersey Shore -- in this classic suspense novel featuring a mixture of murder, mayhem, and a cast of suspects you'll never forget. Ex...

  • The Law of Angels

    Cassandra Clark

    Summer, 1385. The sun is hot and high, promising a fine harvest - but storm-clouds of insurrection are gathering over England. Lollard heretics, driven from their base at Oxford by the iron fist of the Archbishop Courtenay, now roam the land sowing s...

  • Guilt by Association

    Marcia Clark

    LOS ANGELES DA RACHEL KNIGHT is a tenacious, wisecracking, and fiercely intelligent prosecutor in the city's most elite division. When her colleague Jake is found dead at a grisly crime scene, Rachel is shaken to the core. She must take over his toug...

  • I'll Walk Alone

    Mary Higgins Clark

    THE QUEEN OF SUSPENSE IS BACK! Mary Higgins Clark's new novel -- the thirtieth and most spine-chilling of her long career as America's most beloved author of suspense fiction -- is about the newest and most up-to-date of crimes: identity theft. Who...

  • Deadly Threads

    Jane K. Cleland

    Antiques dealer Josie Prescott's New Hampshire business is booming -- and expanding to include clothes. So to celebrate she's invited a vintage fashion expert to speak at her store. Only, the woman turns up dead right before she's scheduled to speak...

  • Roadside Assistance

    Amy Clipston

    A very bumpy ride. Emily Curtis is used to dealing with her problems while under the hood of an old Chevy, but when her mom dies, Emily's world seems shaken beyond repair. Driven from home by hospital bills they can't pay, Emily and her dad move in w...

  • Small-Town Moms: A Mother for Mule Hollow

    Debra Clopton

    Widowed mother Olivia Dancer arrives in Mule Hollow, Texas, to check on her nephew -- and his single father. But gorgeous rancher Gabe McKennon isn't exactly welcoming, for reasons that break and touch Olivia's heart. Until they're both won over by t...

  • The Lightkeeper's Ball

    Colleen Coble

    At the elegant Mercy Falls masquerade ball, Olivia's hidden identity will be revealed. It is the dawn of a new century and Olivia Stewart is heiress to an empire. Her family numbers among the Four Hundred-those considered the wealthiest and most d...

  • The Return of Black Douglas

    Elaine Coffman

    He'll help a woman in need, no matter where she came from... Alysandir Mackinnon rules his clan with a fair but iron fist. He has no time for softness or, as he sees it, weakness. But when he encounters a bewitching young beauty who may or may no...

  • Night of the Living Dandelion

    Kate Collins

    When a stranger comes into my flower shop and orders bloodwort, Dracula orchid, devil's tongue, and strangleweed, I can't help but wonder... IS THERE A VAMPIRE IN TOWN? After spraining an ankle, flower shop owner Abby Knight is forced to get ar...

  • Plant World

    Paul Collins

  • Red on Red

    Edward Conlon

    In Red on Red, Edward Conlon tells the story of two NYPD detectives, Meehan and Esposito: one damaged and introspective, the other ambitious and unscrupulous. Meehan is compelled by haunting and elusive stories that defy easy resolution, while Esposi...

  • Braking Brewster

    Mara Conlon

    It's a hot new train property for the 21st century. All aboard! Kids will love getting on board to follow the adventures of Wilson, Koko, and Brewster as they explore, work, and play in Chuggington! Honking horns! This Level 1 reader is trainst...

  • The Fifth Witness

    Michael Connelly

    Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate L...

  • The Runaway Spell

    Lexi Connor

    When B tries to help her friend George improve his soccer game, she accidentally turns him into a part-boy, part-zebra! Can she make his tail and ears V-A-N-I-S-H before the big game?...

  • Fourth Grade Fairy

    Eileen Cook

    All Willow Doyle wants is to be normal, to fit in at her new school, and to have a best friend. But there's no way Willow will ever be normal. There isn't anything normal about her or the Doyle family. Willow comes from a long line of fairy godmot...

  • Reflections

    Gloria Cook

    A Cornish saga from a much-loved author - Cornwall, 1920s. Beth Tresaile has been happily reconciled with her estranged mother for over a year and is looking forward to her best friend Kitty Copeland spending Christmas with them. But Kitty’s reques...

  • The FitzOsbornes in Exile

    Michelle Cooper

    Michelle Cooper combines the drama of pre-War Europe with the romance of debutante balls and gives us another compelling historical page turner. Sophia FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Germans...

  • An Uninvited Ghost

    E.J. Copperman

    Welcome to Alison Kerby's guesthouse. Ghost sightings twice daily. No breakfast is served, but murder is included. In exchange for help entertaining her guests on "spooky'' vacations, Alison Kerby told her resident gumshoe ghost that she'd help him ...

  • Sword of the Gods

    Bruce R. Cordell
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Born of the liquid Abyss, Faerun knows a new affliction ... THE ABYSSAL PLAGUE Demascus wakes up on the cold stone slab of an ancient altar. He doesn't know who he is. He doesn't know where he's from. He doesn't even know his own name until a strang...

  • Finding Emilie

    Laurel Corona

    Woman is born free, and everywhere she is in corsets. . . . Lili du Chatelet yearns to know more about her mother, the brilliant French mathematician Emilie. But the shrouded details of Emilie's unconventional life -- and her sudden death -- are elu...

  • Gun Law

    Ralph Cotton

    MARSHAL’S LAW On the trail of four wanted, Sherman Dahl, the hired gun known as the Teacher, finds his prey in the town of Kindred, New Mexico Territory. He kills all four in a saloon gunfight that leaves him wounded and in the care of soiled dove ...

  • What's the Time, Maisy?

    Lucy Cousins

  • Bare-Arsed Banditti: he Men of the '45

    Maggie Craig

    They were modern men: doctors and lawyers, students and teachers, shoemakers and shopkeepers, farmers, gardeners and weavers. Children of the Age of Reason, they wrote poetry, discussed the latest ideas in philosophy and science -- and rose in arme...

  • Rock Hard

    Olivia Cunning

    This second in the Sinners on Tour series features lead singer Sedric Lionheart who became a playboy after his fiancee, Jessica, broke his heart. Forced on a summer tour together for two entire months, but stubbornly desperate to stay apart, they fin...

  • The Year We Were Famous

    Carole Estby Dagg

    With their family home facing foreclosure, seventeen-year-old Clara Estby and her mother, Helga, need to raise a lot of money fast -- no easy feat for two women in 1896. Helga wants to tackle the problem with her usual loud and flashy style, while Cl...

  • Slow Dancing on Price's Pier

    Lisa Dale

    A family learns that time can erase mistakes when the heart remains true- from a refreshing new storyteller. Fifteen years ago, Garret Sorensen's family, trust, and heart were destroyed when Thea Celik betrayed him and married his brother. Now the...

  • Trail of Lies

    Margaret Daley

    SHE NEEDED SOMEONE TO PROTECT HER As the mother of a beautiful daughter and the wife of a wealthy entrepreneur, Melora Hudson seemed happy. No one knew about the secrets hidden behind closed doors -- secrets Melora was forced to keep. Now, two years...

  • A Dark and Stormy Night

    Jeanne M. Dams

    When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to a country house weekend, they expect nothing more explosive than the Guy Fawkes fireworks. Having read every Agatha Christie ever written, Dorothy should have k...

  • A Hard Day's Fright

    Casey Daniels

    Cemetery tour guide and reluctant medium Pepper Martin is enjoying quite a reputation on the ghostly grapevine. So when a free spirit from the sixties needs closure, she knows just who to haunt... What happened to a teenager named Lucy one night in ...

  • Cleaning Nabokov's House

    Leslie Daniels

    "I knew I could stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to the house, the house led me to the book, the book to the lawyer, the lawyer to the whorehouse, the whorehouse to science, and from science I jo...

  • Teeth: Vampire Tales

    Ellen Datlow

    Fascinated by vampires? Then feast on nineteen tantalizing, bite-sized tales exploring the intersections between the living, dead, and undead. The vampires in these stories range from romantic to chilling to gleeful -- and touch on nearly every...

  • Crunch Time

    Diane Mott Davidson

    When the rental house shared by chef Yolanda Garcia and her irrepressible aunt Ferdinanda is destroyed by arson, the pair moves in with cop-turned-PI Ernest McLeod. But then Ernest is shot dead and his house is set on fire, nearly killing Yolanda, Fe...

  • A Million Miles from Boston

    Karen Day

    School's out! That means Lucy is off to her favorite place: Pierson Point, Maine, where she spends summers with her family. And as she tries to forget her worries about starting middle school and about Dad's new girlfriend, Lucy can't get there soon ...

  • Lovin' Blue

    Zuri Day

    In her sexiest tale yet, Zuri Day delivers a tempting double-dare that breaks every rule... Thanks to a stroke of bad luck, Eden Anderson's childhood tormentor, Jansen McKnight, is now her temporary roommate. He's also a badass, gun-toting cop who...

  • Trauma Queen

    Barbara Dee

    Every tween girl knows what it's like to have a mom who can be a little embarrasing at times. But for Marigold, it goes way beyond embarrassing. Marigold's single mom is a performance artist, meaning she stages dramatic, wacky performances to express...

  • The Priest's Graveyard

    Ted Dekker

    TWO ABANDONED SOULS ARE ON THE HUNT FOR ONE POWERFUL MAN. SOON, THEIR PATHS WILL CROSS AND LEAD TO ONE TWISTED FATE. Danny Hansen is a Bosnian immigrant who came to America with hopes of escaping haunted memories of a tragic war that took his moth...

  • The Great Heist

    Kenneth Del Vecchio

    While investigating the theft of art and gold from The Vatican, a CIA operative uncovers a decades-old conspiracy surrounding the American moon missions. Were they real or an elaborate fraud? And why? A rollercoaster of suspense and adventure this no...

  • Rage of the Fallen

    Joseph Delaney

    A dangerous few months lie ahead -- ones which some of us will be hard-pressed to survive. Thomas Ward has served as the Spook's apprentice for three years. He has battled boggarts, witches, demons, and even the devil himself. Tom has enemies: The...

  • Then I Met My Sister

    Christine Hurley Deriso

    Shannon has been the backdrop of my life since the moment I was born. Summer Stetson lives inside a shrine to her dead sister. Eclipsed by Shannon's greatness, Summer feels like she's a constant disappointment to her controlling, Type A momzilla a...

  • Rest in Peace

    Frances Devine

    Ride along on a hair-raising adventure with Victoria Storm and her cohorts as they comb Cedar Chapel for clues to a murder. When the local pet store owner is found dead, the coroner deems it due to a fall. But Victoria, her fiancé Benjamin, and the ...

  • Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure: The Junior Novel

    Disney Book Group

    After taking a year off after graduating high school, Sharpay meets a casting agent who invites her to New York to audition for a new musical. But when Sharpay arrives, she finds out that the role up for grabs is actually for her pet yorkie! Will S...

  • A Super Summer Barbecue

    Disney Book Group

    When the Parrs are invited to a neighborhood barbecue, Mrs. Parr reminds them that they can't use their superpowers. After all, they don't want to be discovered. But will they be able to keep their identity as Supers a secret?...

  • A Monster of a Mystery

    Franklin W. Dixon

    When the actor who plays popular comic character Morpho the Morph Monster comes to town for a fan day--along with his famous Morpho Mask and Morph Spork--everyone, including Frank and Joe, is excited to meet the man behind the mask. But at the event,...

  • Taken by the Prince

    Christina Dodd

    Lovely Victoria Cardiff is very prim, very strict, very sure that England is the only civilized place in the world. She’s about to find out she’s right. Only Victoria knows the truth about dashing, dissolute, dangerous Saber Lawrence -- that he ...

  • Outlaw

    Angus Donald

    In the tradition of Bernard Cornwell and Ben Kane, Outlaw is a rousing historical novel that mixes legend with fact to bring to life the time, the lives and the struggles of late 12th century England. As the Henry II struggles with his rebellious c...

  • Killer Listing

    Vicki Doudera

    Million-dollar listings and hefty commissions come easily for Kyle Cameron, south Florida's star broker. But her career ends abruptly when she is fatally stabbed at an open house. Because of a family friend's longstanding ties to the Cameron clan, re...

  • Starfire

    Kate Douglas

    Conquered, the Demon King has been banished to Abyss -- but he is far from dead. A greater danger awaits Ginny Jones and the Demonslayers in this spellbinding, highly sensual paranormal romance... Stand By Me The women of Lemuria are still in c...

  • Potsdam Station

    David Downing

    In April 1945, Hitler’s Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth. John Russell’s son Paul is stationed on the Ea...

  • The Furthest Horizon

    Gardner Dozois

    “Diverse and remarkable speculations on futures so remote as to be all but beyond conjecture” by Brian Aldiss, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, and more (Kirkus Reviews).It is the essence of science fiction to chart the possibilities of the futu...

  • The Rise of the Corpses

    Ty Drago

    "On a sunny Wednesday morning in October, a day that would mark the end of one life and the beginning of another, I found out my grouchy next door neighbor was the walking dead. When you turn around expecting to see something familiar, and instead se...

  • Deadworld

    J.N. Duncan

    She's as tough as anything haunting Chicago's streets. But to deal with an inhuman power that won't stay buried, this FBI agent needs help that comes at an immortal price... Jackie Rutledge has seen her share of supernatural killers. But her lates...

  • In the Shadow of the Lamp

    Susanne Dunlap

    When sixteen-year-old Molly meets Florence Nightingale, she jumps at the chance to join the nurses heading to war. The work is grueling, but it soon becomes more than just a mission of mercy. Molly falls in love with both a dashing young doctor and a...

  • The Confession of Katherine Howard

    Suzannah Dunn

    The tragic, moving, and gripping story of the ascendance and fall of Katherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, and the best friend she nearly dragged down with her When twelve-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's h...

  • Jeannie out of the Bottle

    Barbara Eden

  • Hospital Babylon

    Imogen Edwards-Jones

    "Hospital Babylon" is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the reader on a journey through the various departments and wards where babies are made, thighs are reduced, noses str...

  • The Hanging Wood

    Martin Edwards

    Twenty years ago, a teenage boy, Callum Hinds, went missing in England’s Lake District. His uncle was suspected of having done the boy harm and interviewed by the police. When he committed suicide close to his cottage in the Hanging Wood, everyone ...

  • Dodsworth in Rome

    Tim Egan

    With trips to New York, Paris, and London under their belts, it's now time for Dodsworth and the duck to visit Rome! From throwing coins into the Trevi Fountain to winning a pizza-dough-throwing contest to looking up at the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Do...

  • To Be Queen

    Christy English

    With captivating and lyrical prose, Christy English, author of The Queen's Pawn, brings to life a woman born to rule in a time when men dominated the throne.... Taught by her father, the Duke of Aquitaine, how to be powerful in the midst of the ruth...

  • Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank

    Garth Ennis

    Collects Punisher (2000) #1-12. Frank Castle, the one-man army known as the Punisher, is forever redefined in the latest volume of our series of graphic novels handpicked by Marvel Editorial to showcase pivotal storylines written and drawn by some of...

  • The Disappearance of Drover

    John R. Erickson

    Hank and Drover are excited when a quick nap in the back of Slim's pickup turns into a trip to town. But the excitement turns to drama when they find themselves at the livestock show-and Drover decides to take off to visit his mother. Can Hank track ...

  • Mountain Ranger Recon

    Carol Ericson

    HIS UNDERCOVER MISSION BROUGHT HIM BACK TO HIS WIFE -- AND THE SON HE HADN'T KNOWN EXISTED Ian Dempsey knew he'd have a lot to answer for when he bumped into Meg, the wife he'd left behind to complete an undercover mission. Nearly three years had pa...

  • Miles to Go

    Richard Paul Evans

    When Alan Christofferson, a Seattle ad executive, loses everything he once believed defined his life, he chooses to walk away from it all on a cross-country pilgrimage that is both physical and spiritual. Join Alan's quest in The Walk by New York Tim...

  • Dance in the Dark

    Terence Faherty

    It's 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory, but the Vietnam War rages on. Scott Elliott, veteran operative of Hollywood Security, agrees to find the runaway daughter of a has-been star. Her trail skirts the new and burgeoning business of hard-c...

  • A Kingdom Besieged

    Raymond E. Feist

    After nearly thirty years and more than two dozen novels, Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Cycle has become one of the most iconic, beloved, and enduring sagas in modern fantasy. The Riftwars -- including the original Riftwar, the Serpentwar, the Darkwar, ...

  • The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

    John Flanagan

    Months have passed since Horace departed for the eastern nation of Nihon-Ja on a vital mission. Having received no communication from him, his friends fear the worst. Unwilling to wait a second longer, Alyss, Evanlyn, and Will leave their homeland be...

  • Skating on Thin Ice

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    COLD AS ICE Olympic pairs figure skating hopeful Christine Allen has traveled to Cabot Cove to train at the town's newly refurbished ice arena under the tutelage of former gold medalist Brian Devlin. Partnered with up-and-coming Russian skater Al...

  • Strawberry Fields

    Katie Flynn

    Liverpool: Christmas Day 1924. When twelve-year-old Sara Cordwainer, the unloved child of rich and fashionable parents, sees a ragged girl with a baby in her arms outside her church, she stops to talk to her, pressing her collection money into the ...

  • Ever After

    Gaelen Foley
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    How scandalous! Eleanor Monford, Countess of Archer, is in love with her own husband. And as Princess Charlotte of England weds Prince Leopold, Eleanor's "secret" is about to come out....

  • White Collar, Blue Collar, No Collar

    Richard Ford

    This vital and compelling collection of stories about work, compiled by novelist and short-story writer Richard Ford, explores tales of how we Americans are employed; how we find work and leave it; how it excites, ennobles, occasionally debilitates, ...

  • Where She Went

    Gayle Forman

    It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and...

  • G.I. Cowboy

    Delores Fossen

    ASSIGNMENT: BODYGUARD Battered ex-soldier Parker McKenna is facing his riskiest mission yet: guarding Bailey Lockhart. Returning to civilian life hasn't been easy, but Parker's new job with Corps Security and Investigations gives him purpose again -...

  • Pupstyle

    Dara Foster

    Flip the pages from the top right corner to see puppies before they're styled and bottom left corner to see after they're dressed up!

    This second installment of the Now You See It! series features adorable photos of puppies from the creator of...

  • News from the World

    Paula Fox

    A collection that traces the celebrated career of a grande dame of contemporary literature. This complete gathering of Paula Fox's short works spans forty-five illustrious years of her career, from 1965 to 2010. There are perfectly turned stories (t...

  • The Tomorrow Book

    Jackie French

    From bestselling author, Jackie French comes a book about the possibilities from the greener world of tomorrow. Suitable for ages 4-8. A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with...

  • Baby Wombat's Week

    Jackie French

  • My Favorite Cowboy

    Shelley Galloway

    How Do You Tame a Cowboy? Etiquette Lessons! Rugged, rough and rowdy, Jarred Riddell is everything a cowboy should be. That's the problem. 'Cause Jarred has set his sights on a pretty lil' socialite who has no use for his unrefined ways. Luckily, he...

  • Reunited...with Child

    Katherine Garbera

    It had been more than two years since Cam Stern's memorable affair with Becca Tuntenstall. And upon seeing her again, the club owner realized the heat still burned between them. He had to pursue her. This time, he would get to know her better...perha...

  • The Sarantos Secret Baby

    Olivia Gates

    He was as tall and dark as the devil...and was her family's hated adversary. But that didn't stop Selene Louvardis from wanting Aris Sarantos with her every breath. Or grabbing her one chance for a forbidden night with him. He was never supposed t...

  • Friendship Bread

    Darien Gee

    An anonymous gift sends a woman on a journey she never could have anticipated. One afternoon, Julia Evarts and her five-year-old daughter, Gracie, arrive home to find an unexpected gift on the front porch: a homemade loaf of Amish Friendship Brea...

  • Elizabeth I

    Margaret George

    New York Times bestselling author Margaret George captures history's most enthralling queen-as she confronts rivals to her throne and to her heart. One of today's premier historical novelists, Margaret George dazzles here as she tackles her most d...

  • In Transit

    Kathleen Gerard

    IN TRANSIT is a woman-in-jeopardy story, a post 9-11 novel, set in and around the NY-Metro Area. What starts out as a rather naive quest for a 22 year-old "Jersey Girl" with innocent intentions of becoming an NYPD cop and "marrying a man in uniform,"...

  • Flying Feet

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    When Charlie hears that special buzz in his head, he knows it means one thing: an idea for a new invention. But Charlie's ideas tend to backfire -- such as the flying feet that don't really fly. If only Charlie could make his inventions work, people ...

  • Deadpool Corps, Volume 1: Pool-Pocalypse Now

    Victor Gischler

    The Deadpool Corps embark on the universe spanning mission that only they can accomplish. Tapped by the Elders of the Universe to gather a crack team of his alternative universe selves for what amounts to an intergalactic suicide mission, Deadpool ju...

  • Abigail Iris: The Pet Project

    Lisa Glatt

    Abigail Iris has a half-birthday coming up, and it's the perfect excuse to ask for the adorable kitten up for adoption at her local farmer's market. She knows being a pet owner means new responsibilities, and with lots of other changes happening arou...

  • The Dark Saint: The Vampire Dimitri

    Colleen Gleason

    Previously published under the titles Lucifer’s Saint and The Vampire Dimitri. Regency London loves a society wedding -- even if there are vampires on the guest list. Dimitri, also known as the Earl of Corvindale, should be delighted that th...

  • Witch Baby and Me on Stage

    Debi Gliori

    Another enchanting illustrated story about Lily, who is the only person who knows that her baby sister is a witch It's coming up to Witch Baby Daisy's second birthday and her nursery class is putting on a musical performance, helped by the older ...

  • Devils' Due

    Christie Golden

    The year is 2494. Almost five years ago, Jim Raynor and Tychus Findlay were members of the Heaven's Devils, an elite Confederate marine unit praised for its nerves of steeland combat expertise. After making a stand against their corrupt commanding of...

  • Eona: The Last Dragoneye

    Alison Goodman

    Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army. The renegades are on a quest for the black folio, stolen by the drug-riddled ...

  • The Love of My Youth

    Mary Gordon

    Miranda and Adam, high-school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the same time in Rome, a city where they once spent a summer deeply in love, living together blissfully. At an awkward reunion, the two -- who parted in an atmos...

  • Sweet Jiminy

    Kristin Gore

    In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Jiminy Davis abruptly quits law school and flees Chicago for her grandmother Willa's farm in rural Mississippi. In search of peace and quiet, Jiminy instead stumbles upon more trouble and turmoil than she could...

  • At the Captain's Command

    Louise M. Gouge

    Duty and career -- Captain Thomas Moberly of His Majesty's Navy prizes them above all. So why is he tempted to relinquish both for Dinah Templeton? Though Dinah seems sweet and charming, the difference in station between an East Florida belle and the...

  • Beside Still Waters

    Tricia Goyer

    Despite initial presumptions, a young Amish woman's reluctant move across the country with her family to escape Englisch influences results not in lost love but deep spiritual discoveries....

  • Wickham's Diary

    Amanda Grange

    This prequel to Pride and Prejudice begins with George Wickham at age 12, handsome and charming but also acutely aware that his friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy, is rich, whilst he is poor. His mother encourages him to exercise his charm on the young Georgi...

  • Plague

    Michael Grant

    It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, po...

  • Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box

    Mira Grant

    A new short story from Mira Grant, the author of Feed. Every week five friends get together to play a game-- a game they call the Apocalypse Game. It's a fun time with chips and beer and plotting the end of the world. Except this time, one of them is...

  • The Last Warrior

    Susan Grant

    As a decorated soldier, the young General Tao knows only one kind of honor -- to his people. But when his own king betrays him, he discovers that his sacrifices, his successes, may not have been for the good of the country at all. Fate -- and his ...

  • Hitched and Hunted

    Paula Graves

    HE KNEW HIS WIFE HAD SECRETS. HE DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE DEADLY. On the day Jake Cooper said "I do" to his beautiful bride, Mariah, their future happiness seemed certain. But Jake always wondered what she wasn't telling him. And what it would take for...

  • Unearthed

    Jordan Gray

    Behind the colorful charm and vibrant history of the English seaside town of Blackpool is a legacy of secrets. Secrets people have killed to keep hidden. But for Michael and Molly Graham, finding the truth has become personal. Their friend clings to ...

  • Insight

    Diana Greenwood

    Some secrets won't let you go. Elvira Witsil lives about as far away from civilization as you can get, in a remote corner of Wisconsin where nothing much ever happens. In a house crowded with her mother, her cantankerous grandmother, and her little s...

  • Merely Players

    J.M. Gregson

    Adam Cassidy is one of Brunton’s most famous residents. He plays the lead role in a successful TV detective show. It is now his time for a crack at Hollywood and he doesn’t care who he has to betray in order to fulfil his dream. Meanwhile, DCI Pe...

  • Simpsons Comics Meltdown

    Matt Groening

    Featuring America’s favorite two-dimensional dysfunctional family, Simpsons Comics Meltdown, Matt Groening’s newest collection of four-color fiction, will cause a chain reaction of laughter that will shake you to the core....

  • Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Read-Aloud Treasury

    Johnny Gruelle

    Beloved dolls for the ages... Ninety years ago a story about a rag doll found in a grandmother's attic captured the hearts of Americans. Through many generations Raggedy Ann and Andy and their stories have been shared between parents and children an...

  • What if?: Dark Avengers

    Marc Guggenheim

    Marvel once again asks WHAT IF...? This volume comes packed with the off-the-wall stories fans have come to expect from this series, including the historic 200th issue! What If? #200 offers two titanic tales - the main story is one with a different P...

  • Toxicology

    Jessica Hagedorn

    Jessica Hagedorn's edgy and entertaining new novel centers on the lives of two women who are neighbors in Manhattan's West Village. Mimi Smith is a filmmaker of low-budget slasher movies in search of new material. Her neighbor Eleanor Delacroix is a ...

  • Skeleton Crew

    Cameron Haley

    Some people fear snakes. Me? Let it be known that Domino Riley hates zombies. Bodies are hitting the pavement in L.A. like they always do, but this time they’re getting right back up, death be damned. My mobbed-up outfi t of magicians may be the s...

  • Color Weaver

    Connie Hall

    Sheriff Reese McMurray didn't believe in the supernatural -- until his father went missing twelve years go. Evidence indicated that Summer White-Cloud, Reese's high school sweetheart, had somehow conjured the wendigo responsible for his death...so Re...

  • Rancher's Twins: Mom Needed

    Barbara Hannay

    Will Holly uncover the brooding cattleman's secret? Nanny Holly O'Mara has formed a close bond with her late cousin's little twins. When their estranged father, rough, rugged Australian cattleman Gray Kidman, arrives to take them home to the outback...

  • Slugfest

    Rosemary Harris

    Anthony and Agatha Award-nominated Rosemary Harris is back with her fourth Dirty Business mystery, Slugfest, set at a legendary Northeast flower show where more than the plants are dying. When Paula Holliday agrees to act as exhibit manager for a ...

  • The Price of Love

    Rosie Harris

    Lucy Collins and her brother Sam have lived side by side with the Tanner family all their lives. Lucy and Robert Tanner long for the day when they can marry and the future is full of promise for all three. Until tragedy strikes when Lucy's parents...

  • The Ghoul Next Door

    Lisi Harrison

    FREAK IS THE NEW CHIC CLEO STRIKES A POSE Cleo was the queen bee of Merston High. But now it's "Frankie this" and "Melody that." These new girls sure know how to get Cleo's lashes in a tangle. But when Cleo lands a golden Teen Vogue photo op for...

  • Alice-Miranda at School

    Jacqueline Harvey

    Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennigton-Jones can't wait to start boarding school. When she arrives at Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies, the adventure begins . . . only not quite as Alice-Miranda expects. The minute she set...

  • Romantic Revolutionary: Simon Bolivar and the Struggle for Independence in Latin America

    Robert Harvey

    Simon Bolivar was the archetypal romantic revolutionary. Born into privilege and nurtured in the Rousseau's philosophy of the Homme Sauvage, it was not until the young colonial visited Europe that the taper of revolution was lit that sent the young m...

  • Forever Vampire

    Michele Hauf

    Vail the Unwanted is a pure-blooded vampire. But raised by Faery, he has neither home nor peace, and when his aid is sought in the recovery of a priceless diamond gown, his price is information. Specifically the whereabouts of his accursed father. Hi...

  • A Hard Death

    Jonathan Hayes

    Brilliant forensic pathologist Edward Jenner returns in this explosive sequel to Precious Blood -- an edgy, electrifying thriller set in a small-town coastal community where nothing is as it seems. Edward Jenner, introduced in Precious Blood, has ...

  • The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams

    Rhonda Hayter

    Abbie Adams is a witch. She can't tell anyone, even her best friend, Callie, who notices Abbie acting strange. Instead she uses memory-erasing spells to keep things under control. Abbie hopes for some normalcy when her father brings home a kitten, bu...

  • Blood in the Snow

    Tom Henderson

    Washington Township, Michigan: Valentine’s Day, 2007. Stephen Grant filed a missing person’s report on his beloved wife, Tara. The stay-at-home father of two was beside himself with despair. Why would Tara abandon him and their family...

  • Emma Dilemma, the Nanny, and the Best Horse Ever

    Patricia Hermes

    Emma has always loved animals -- her two ferrets, the family’s friendly poodle, and her sister’s fluffy cat. But now Emma is in love in a way she has never been before -- with a big, beautiful bay horse named Rooney. Emma rides him at a nearby st...

  • Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman, Volume 3

    Jonathan Hickman

    Collects Fantastic Four #579-582. Faced with the death of imagination and growing pandemic of tomorrow fear, Reed Richards takes the future of discovery into his own hands. Think the world is a bad place, everything is going to hell, and the end time...

  • Secret Warriors - Volume 4: Last Ride of the Howling Commandos

    Jonathan Hickman

    Collects Siege: Secret Warriors & Secret Warriors #17-19. A shadow war has broken out between Hydra and Leviathan and it's up to Nick Fury to put the pieces together and take them out. Fury has assembled three teams to stop them, but there's anot...

  • Right Here, Right Now!, Volume 2

    Souya Himawari

    • At the war's height, Takakage and Mizuo once again cross paths. The two embrace, profess their unending love for each other, and swear mutual oaths...but there is talk of Takakage getting married. With their pers...

  • The Returning

    Christine Hinwood

    Cam Attling, having lost an arm, is the only one from his town of Kayforl to return after twelve years of war. All his fellow soldiers were slain, and suspicion surrounds him. When his betrothal to Graceful Fenister is called off and his role in the...

  • Mary Had a Little Lamb

    Mary Ann Hoberman

    In this familiar children's nursery song, Mary arrives at school one day with her friendly lamb following close behind her. Going against school rules, the students sneak the adorable lamb inside where they teach it the alphabet, to count to ten, and...

  • The Alarmists

    Don Hoesel

    The 2012 phenomenon that's going viral around the globe has led sociology professor Jameson Richards to study the impact on society when, like the Y2K scare, 12/21/12 comes and goes with hardly a wrinkle. This is the date that, according to the Mayan...

  • Desert Rider

    Ray Hogan

    The Outside Gun concerns Dan Wade who once worked for Big Bill Krask's Double K Ranch, but left because there was little chance for advancement. Then a letter comes to Wade in Abilene, asking him to come back to Burnt Springs to help out with a probl...

  • The Lipstick Laws

    Amy Holder

    At Penford High School, Britney Taylor is the queen bee. She dates whomever she likes, rules over her inner circle of friends like Genghis Khan, and can ruin anyone's life with a snap of perfectly manicured fingers. Just ask the unfortunate few who h...

  • Athena the Wise

    Joan Holub; Suzanne Williams

    These classic myths from the Greek pantheon are given a modern twist that contemporary tweens can relate to, from dealing with bullies like Medusa to a first crush on an unlikely boy. Goddess Girls follows four goddesses-in-training--Athena, Persepho...