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New Books List: 653 titles

  • Super What?

    Jax Abbott

    The Top 5 Ways NOT to Start Your First Day at a New School 1. Tell the hottest guy in class that he reminds you of an elf 2. Get enormongo cramps 3. Annoy one of the Populars 4. Make even the geeks pity you 5. Finally get the super powers y...

  • Kings

    Ken Abraham; Daniel Hart

    Based on a Biblical interpretation of the Rapture, Kings continues the story of those caught up in the events following this world-upending event. Azul Dante, the increasingly controversial figure whom some nations hope will restore order to the worl...

  • Murder in the Family: Anthology

    Adams Round Table

    A dozen of the leading authors of mystery and suspense introduce an anthology of original stories that focuses on the hidden secrets and motivations that can bring out the murderous impulses of various members of the family. Reprint....

  • The Improbable Cat

    Allan Ahlberg

    The Burrell family could never have foreseen the consequences of adopting the tiny stray kitten that appeared when David was twelve. But the sweet cat is not as harmless as it seems, and soon has them completely under its sinister spell. The only one...

  • Negima! Volume 2

    Ken Akamatsu

    KNOWLEDGE CAN BE DANGEROUS!
    For ten-year-old teacher Negi Springfield and his all-girl class, it’s time for final exams! If his students manage not to end up with the lowest scores in school, the principal has promised to make Negi an official t...

  • The Watchmen

    John Altman

    In a remote safe house in the American Northeast, a terrorist is questioned, a psychiatrist is tested, and an assassin is dispatched. . . . An Al Qaeda prisoner named Ali Zattout is moved from Pakistan to a CIA safe house for observation and interr...

  • Hot & Bothered

    Susan Andersen

    When Victoria Hamilton's "no strings, no last names" vacation fling resulted in a baby, she knew she had to begin a new life far from her family's corrupting influence. Now her father has been murdered, her half brother, Jared, is the prime suspect a...

  • Horizon Storms

    Kevin J. Anderson

    Caught in the middle of a titanic struggle between two alien superpowers, the factions of humanity and their allies, the Ildirans, are under siege. Can they resolve their differences to fight a common threat? For the leader of the Roamers, survival m...

  • Star

    Pamela Anderson

    Star is a breathless romp through tinseltown and tabloids. An insider's look at the world of inflated egos and inflated bodies, Ms. Anderson's novel goes beyond the air kisses and velvet ropes to show what really happens when A-list meets D-cup, when...

  • The First Stone

    Mark Anthony

    The Pale King has been defeated, his legions decimated. The Dark God Mohg has been destroyed. And the evil corporation, Duratek, has been disbanded, foiled in its efforts to strip-mine the world of Eldh. And for our heroes, three years have passed in...

  • The Perfect Tail: A Fred and Lulu Story

    Mie Araki

    Fred longs for a stripy tail like Raccoon's.He yearns for a spiky tail like Porcupine's.He dreams of a colorful tail like Peacock's.It takes a friend like Lulu to show Fred he's perfect just the way he is. The Perfect Tail is an engaging story just r...

  • A Bride for His Convenience

    Lindsay Armstrong

    For convenience -- Or for real? Rob Leicester's wealth was matched by his arrogance. Initially Caiti found working for the millionaire Australian resort owner tough. But hostility turned to attraction and virginal Caiti gave Rob everything. Sh...

  • Explicit Content

    Black Artemis

    When G Double D, the founder of the gangsta rap label Explicit Content, seduces her singing partner, Leila "Fatal Beauty" Aponte, into splitting up their act to pursue solo stardom, Cassie Rivers is driven to find her own path to success, but her com...

  • Sunrise Alley

    Catherine Asaro

    HER LOVER WAS AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- BUT THEIR LOVE WAS REAL When the shipwrecked, half-drowned stranger washed up on the beach near research scientist Samantha Bryton's home, she was unaware that he was an experiment conducted by Charon,...

  • Prisoner of the Iron Tower

    Sarah Ash

    Gavril Nagarian has finally cast out the dragon-daemon from deep within himself. The Drakhaoul is gone--and with it all of Gavril's fearsome powers. Though no longer besieged by the Drakhaoul's unnatural lusts and desires, Gavril has betrayed his bi...

  • Evidentially Guilty

    Jeffrey Ashford

    Dean isn't guilty of murder, but can he avoid being punished for it?
    Jerome Dean is delighted to be invited to a shoot at Ister but when the gun next to him fires low, a man rises out of a patch of brambles and collapses, later to die in hospital....

  • Avengers, Volume 4: Lionheart of Avalon

    Chuck Austen

    It seems like a routine mission when Captain America and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes head to Great Britain to deal with the Wrecking Crew’s latest scheme. But when matters get out of hand, it takes the bravery of an innocent bystander using ...

  • Uncanny X-Men Vol. 6: Bright New Mourning

    Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #435-436, 442-443, New X-Men (2000) #155-156. "In a world full of fear and hatred, all too often the unfortunate result is violence. Finally facing their own recent past, the X-Men come to terms with the widespread deva...

  • Mask of the Sphinx

    James Axler

    Inhuman tyranny The nine barons of post-nuclear America are succumbing to the tides of insurrection, a war that threatens to bring about the extinction of not only the weakening oligarchy, but the entire hybrid race. As the battle for power and te...

  • The Secret Purposes

    David Baddiel

    When the flood of Nazism enters Isaac and Lulu Fabian's lives, they're forced to flee their home in East Prussia. In Cambridge, England, the Fabians believe they have finally found the freedom that was denied to them in Germany. But the year is 1...

  • The Greek Tycoon's Love-Child

    Jacqueline Baird

    Bedded, then wedded -- by the Greek tycoon! When millionaire Theodore Kadros first sets his sights on beautiful Willow Blain there can only ever be one outcome: a night of incredible desire! But the next day Willow is gone.... However, their ...

  • Digby and Kate 1-2-3

    Barbara Baker

  • Checkpoint

    Nicholson Baker

    From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet....

  • Forsaken House

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

    Ten millennia of hubris, betrayal, failure, and retreat are coming to an end. House Dlardrageth is an ancient cabal of demon-spawned sun elves who burn for vengeance against the elven realms that defeated them long ago. Araevin is an elf mage from...

  • Ophelia's Fan

    Christine Balint

    "Reconstructs the vibrantly intoxicating atmosphere of the theatrical world in the early nineteenth century. Lavishly romantic." --Booklist Christine Balint reimagines the bittersweet life of Harriet Smithson, the tragedienne who brought Shakespeare ...

  • A Country Schoolhouse

    Lynne Barasch

    Tales from a small country school

    In 1940, Grandpa's country school had no lunchroom or indoor bathroom and used wood-burning stoves for heat, but it wasn't completely different from today's schools. Students studied spelling and geography, Un...

  • A Handful of Dust

    Tessa Barclay

    Latest title in the crime series featuring ex-Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein
    Gregory Crowne is hoping for a romantic interlude in France with his girlfriend Liz Blair, but their plans are shelved when they are drawn into the search for a miss...

  • Strange Cargo

    Jeffrey E. Barlough

    Set in a world where the Ice Age never ended and only a narrow coastline of civilization survives, where Victorian society exists alongside saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths, Strange Cargo is the newest and most darkly engrossing novel yet from ...

  • Count on Me

    Adam Beechen

    Meg Pryor's life has really changed. Her brother's been shipped off to Okinawa, she broke up with Luke, and she's dating a college guy, Drew. He's unlike anyone Meg's ever known. Well informed and socially conscious, Drew has taught her to questi...

  • It's Candy Time!

    Adam Beechen

  • The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie

    John Bellairs

    John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude, and alarm. For years, young readers have crept, crawled, and gone bump in the night with the unlikely heroes of these Gothic novels: L...

  • The Mansion in the Mist

    John Bellairs

    Anthony Monday takes a vacation to another world in this mind-blowing mystery from the author of The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb.   Summer is here and Anthony Monday has been asked to join his friend Miss Eells and her brother Emerson on a va...

  • Nowhere to Run

    Christopher Belton

    It's too much to be a coincidence. A series of computer-related crimes from different countries, all linked somehow to Japan. Some are minor. Some are deadly. But they are just enough to catch the eye of a young UN investigator. As he digs deeper he ...

  • Powers, Volume 6: The Sellouts

    Brian Michael Bendis

    "The award winning series that launched the career of Brian Michael Bendis continues! When the power who murdered Hitler is found dead, it is up to detectives Walker and Sunrise to dig into the secret history of powers past to find the killer.

  • Ultimate Spider-Man Script Book

    Brian Michael Bendis

  • When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories

    David Benioff

    In When the Nines Roll Over, David Benioff (The 25th Hour, City of Thieves) uses humor and rich characterizations to explore the sometimes thrilling, sometimes pathetic emotional lives of a diverse set of characters.  Over the course of eight st...

  • Fall Guy

    Carol Lea Benjamin

    Rachel Alexander hardly knew N.Y.P.D. Detective Timothy O'Fallon, who had a fatal "accident" while cleaning his service revolver in his Greenwich Village apartment. As a member of Rachel's 9/11 support group, O'Fallon had shared little and revealed n...

  • Invisible Fran

    Jim Benton

    There's nothing better than being a mad scientist -- at least according to Franny. So she's making in her mission to help her classmates discover their own inner mad scientists. All Franny needs for her latest experiment is a few volunteers, a half-c...

  • Best in Show

    Laurien Berenson

    Murder's on the ticket when intrepid poodle breeder Melanie Travis travels to Maryland for a world-famous dog show where the competition isn't the only thing that's cutthroat... There are dog shows. And then there's The Poodle Club of America Nati...

  • Jingle Bell Bark

    Laurien Berenson

    It's Christmas again, and Melanie Travis barely has time to pencil in some holiday festivities. Especially once she finds herself making a list of murder suspects--and checking it twice... This year, all Melanie wants for Christmas is a dull momen...

  • The Romanov Prophecy

    Steve Berry

    After the fall of Communism and a succession of weak governments, the Russian people have voted to bring back the tsar, who will be chosen from among the distant relatives of Nicholas II. Asked to perform a background check on one of the candidates, ...

  • Redemolished

    Alfred Bester

    Before his untimely death in 1987, Alfred Bester had estabilished himself as one of th world's gretaest science fiction writers. From radio to television, short fiction to full-length novels, he created a body of work that will be continued to be ...

  • The House of Flowers

    Charlotte Bingham

    Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jefferies and Kristin Hannah will love this uplifting and moving wartime saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. "'The author perfectly evokes the atmosphere of a bygone era" -- WO...

  • At Hell's Gate

    Ethan Black

    Conrad Voort's family members have enforced the law in New York City for three centuries, since Manhattan was a Dutch colony. Raised from childhood to be a detective, he heads a vast cop clan, with its own code of honor and obligation. But now he fac...

  • A Moment of Wrong Thinking

    Lawrence Block

    After a night out with friends, Matthew Scudder is reminded of an enigmatic case he had while still working as uniformed policeman. The case in question involves the suicide of a devout Catholic man in front of his wife and children … or was it...

  • A Universal History of Iniquity

    Jorge Luis Borges

    In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination...

  • I Love My Smith & Wesson

    David Bowker

    Manchester, England. Death stalks these streets in the form of a hired killer named Rawhead--a shadowy yet powerful figure desperate to control a ruthless mob family called The Priesthood. He will stop at nothing to invade their inner sanctum. Aut...

  • A Flame in Hali

    Marion Zimmer Bradley; Deborah J. Ross

    A DEADLY VENGEANCE On Darkover, it is the era of the Hundred Kingdoms -- a time of nearly continuous war and bloody disputes between minor kings who seek to increase their power by usurping their neighbors' domains. A time when Towers are conscripte...

  • Mountain Storms

    Max Brand

    When his father dies in a fall in the mountains, twelve-year-old Tommy is left to fend for himself. Through stamina, ingenuity, and a miraculous alliance with a grizzly cub whose mother he helped, the boy survives. When Tommy is older, he and the bea...

  • Crossfire

    Matt Braun

    They'd killed five men already, and stole a quarter of a million dollars in silver and gold. Now, a band of vicious thieves has drawn the best man that Wells Fargo can send: the rangy, mysterious Chicago-based Pinkerton agent named Ash Tallman. An op...

  • Employment Is Murder

    Daniel B. Brawner

    Simon is a 35-year-old, out-of-work New Age mythologist who inadvertently always ends up working for scam artists. When he lands a job with a company that sells platinum-plated golf putters, all goes well until his rival, another salesman at the comp...

  • Arabian Nights

    Theresa Breslin

    Every dream has a Dream Master to control it. But Cy has such a vivid imagination that he has met his Dream Master and can travel with him through Time and Space to actually live his dreams. But what would happen if a character from Cy's dream decide...

  • The Hanging in the Hotel

    Simon Brett

    For a gathering of the Pillars of Sussex -- an elitist, hard-drinking group of local businessmen Jude is recruited by the owner of a hotel to help keep the spirits flowing. But the next morning, she discovers that one spirit has flown away for good, ...

  • Upgrading

    Simon Brooke

    If you've got it, flaunt it... Young, ambitious, and pretty damn good-looking, Andrew Collins knows that the workaday world is not enough for him. He wants more than a boring job and a mediocre life. Mostly, though, he wants more money. So when he a...

  • The Passionate Husband

    Helen Brooks

    Marsha is shocked to see her soon-to-be ex-husband again. She hasn't seen Taylor Kane since she left him because she suspected him of having an affair. Now she's trying desperately not to fall for him all over again. After all, he cheated on ...

  • Tanequil

    Terry Brooks

    Dark magic has opened a gateway to the Forbidding and trapped within it Grianne Ohmsford, rightful High Druid of Shannara. Rescuing Grianne will be merely the beginning of the effort to return the Four Lands to some semblance of peace. Only her young...

  • Armageddon

    Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    Hidden in the Nevada desert is America's most advanced aerospace weapons--testing facility. Dreamland is the place where the nation's top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cuffing edge. And where the Air Force's top gu...

  • Lemon City

    Elaine Meryl Brown

    In this wry fiction debut, Elaine Meryl Brown plunges lucky readers into a gripping narrative of small-town hijinks and big-time hearts.Rule Number One: Never marry an Outsider. If you do, the boll weevil will bite you back. Rule Number Two: If you c...

  • White Hot

    Sandra Brown

    When her younger brother, Danny, commits suicide, Sayre Lynch breaks her vow never to return to her Louisiana hometown, and gets drawn back into her tyrannical father's web. He and her older brother -- who control the town's sole industry, an iron fo...

  • Color Me A Killer

    Steve Brown

    Think of Patsy Corwell's KayJear Petta, as a very attractive young woman with real "attitude", who takes no guff from anyone and creates her own rules when trying to salvage the lives of young people who are abducted, runaways or worse. She is tough ...

  • The Dark Pond

    Joseph Bruchac

    It's out there. I can feel it. An I am not going to wait for it to come to me. As soon as he arrives at the North Mountains School, Armie senses something strange about the dark pond in the forest. An eerie presence haunts his dreams and calls to Ar...

  • Berry Thankful!

    Megan E. Bryant

  • Fairy Princess Frolique

    Megan E. Bryant

  • Heavenly Match

    Niobia Bryant

    SHE HAS NO TIME FOR PLAYBOYS, HE MAY LOSE AT HIS OWN GAMETough-talking Anika Foxx is a dedicated social worker with no time for games. So when she meets cocky southern playboy Deshawn Jamison at a friend's wedding, she knows he's not her type. She is...

  • Goodbye, Charley

    Jane Buchanan

    Forming bonds in a time of war It's the summer of 1943, and for twelve-year-old Celie Marsh the war seems awfully close to her coastal Massachusetts home. She worries about bombs and submarines, and about her big brother, who can't wait to...

  • Neurolink

    M.M. Buckner

    In the 23rd Century, corporations have replaced nations, and executives have absolute rule. But when an underground enclave of independent workers threatens the system, executive Dominic Jedes must negotiate with them face to face....

  • The Double Cross Program

    Chris Bunch

    The Star Risk Team, led by M'chel Riss, finds themselves faced with corporate espionage and political intrigue when they are hired to stage a bizarre bank robbery that places them in the middle of war over an addictive new consumer product. Original....

  • Familiar Pursuit

    Caroline Burnes
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    Sadie Harte's Chihuahua is head over heels for the Chihuahua next door. It's impossible for Sadie and neighbor Buck Bosworth to keep them apart. And soon Sadie and Buck are finding it impossible to stay away from each other, too. Clever Chihuahua! ...

  • Falling For Prince Federico

    Nicole Burnham

    PRINCE PERFECT... Prince Federico diTalora of San Rimini was all too aware of his dreaded nickname. But when he met his sister-in-law's friend, Pia Renati, the widowed father became aware of other things. And that would never do. He had his duty, no...

  • Little Horse on His Own

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Little Horse had never known the sky to be so black, the air so still. He heard the big horses whinny again. Little Horse's fear grew. The adventures of Little Horse continue as he makes his way back to the valley of little horses and his mother The ...

  • Designer Knockoff

    Ellen Byerrum

    Home of the helmet hairdo and congressional comb-over, Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of fashion faux pas. If anyone should know, it's "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian. She dishes out advice to the scandal-scorched and clothing-clueless...

  • If You Dare

    Adrianne Byrd

    Once the world's most notorious thief, Damien Black retired at his peak rather than risk taking a wrong step that could cost him his freedom ... or his life. Now a seductive proposition is tempting him again -- a multi-million-dollar heist that would...

  • Teen Idol

    Meg Cabot

    Can an ordinary girl handle the spotlight? High school junior Jenny Greenley is so good at keeping secrets that she's the school newspaper's anonymous advice columnist. She's so good at it that, when hotter-than-hot Hollywood star Luke Striker com...

  • Heat Stroke

    Rachel Caine

    APOCALYPTIC ATMOSPHERICS In Rachel Caine's tempestuous follow-up to Ill Wind--forecast as "a fun read" by bestselling author Jim Butcher--the Wardens Association still protects the human race from extermination by climatic extremes, when they're ...

  • Goddess of Spring

    P.C. Cast

    This time around, a down-on-her-luck baker comes upon a cookbook that turns out to be a goddess-send... Lina's trendy bakery in Tulsa is proving to be less than lucrative, and she must come up with a plan. When she stumbles upon an Italian Goddess...

  • Conspiracy

    Grace Cavendish

    When Margaret Cavendish, one of Elizabeth I’s Gentlewomen of the Bedchamber, lost her life in a bungled attempt to kill the Queen, her daughter, Lady Grace, became a protégée to the monarch, who takes her under her wing. Now Grace, a spunky girl ...

  • One Dark and Dreadful Night

    Randy Cecil

    Good evening, and welcome to the Wayward Orphans Theatre. I am Maestro Von Haughty. Tonight I am proud to present three tales of terror and misfortune...

    A laugh-out-loud theatrical production that
    puts Broadway to shame!

    Maestro V...

  • Blackthorn Winter

    Sarah Challis

    In April, when blackthorn blossom clothes the hedgerows like a wedding veil, there sometimes comes a spell of frost or snow so severe that it seems as if spring and summer will never return. This is what country people call a blackthorn winter. For C...

  • Inheritance

    Lan Samantha Chang

    SPANNING SEVEN DECADES and set in China and America against a backdrop of political chaos and social upheval, this arresting debut novel tells a timeless story of familial devotion undermined by deceit and passion, and rebuilt by memory....

  • Someone Not Really Her Mother

    Harriet Scott Chessman

    How well do we ever know the people we love? Chessman examines this question in three generations of women in a contemporary Connecticut family. As dementia overtakes Hannah Pearl, she slips backward in memory to her escape from France in 194o; board...

  • Buffalo Medicine

    April Christofferson

    Tension is running high in Big Sky country over the controversial slaughter of buffalo that wander outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park and onto land where cattle graze. At the heart of the dispute is 'brucellosis,' a dangerous disease...

  • Slam Dunk

    Matt Christopher

    When a new school year starts, and thirteen-year-old basketball star Julian feels a lot of pressure as he realizes he is the only remaining player from last year's winning team, a friend's health crisis helps him regain perspective....

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 2

    CLAMP

    A WORLD OF MODERN MECHA AND MAGIC

    Syaoran, Fai, Kurogane, and Mokona venture to the Hanshin Republic to find one of the missing pieces of Sakura’s memory, transformed into magically powerful feathers. There, Syaoran meets his “Kudan”: a ...

  • Alison Rules

    Catherine Clark

    What is It About Alison? For one thing, she has rules: When stealing a rowboat, ALWAYS check that the oars are the same length, so you don't go in circles. In reference to your best friend's crush, KEEP your feelings to yourself. NEVER us...

  • The Funniest Thing Has Been Happening Lately

    Mary Higgins Clark

    A dozen of today's masters of mystery and suspense present an all-original anthology of compelling, provocative stories, revealing that the families that play together sometimes slay together. Featuring stories by: LAWRENCE BLOCK * MARY HIGGINS ...

  • Luke Ashcroft's Woman

    Elizabeth Clarke

    WESTWARD HO! Charlotte Dalton has been let down by the men in her life. Dismissed by her abusive father as a plain brown sparrow who would never attract a man, she is left untouched by her timid husband, and then widowed on the trail west before s...

  • Close Proximity

    Donna Clayton

    Private Investigator Rafe James knew attorney Libby Corbett wasn't safe -- even before the death threats. And just the thought of something happening to Libby shook Rafe to his core. He whisked her off to the Crooked Arrow Reservation where he cou...

  • The Damascened Blade

    Barbara Cleverly

    Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger AwardThe North-West Frontier, 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat back to base the High...

  • Bonds of Vengeance

    David B. Coe

    To the Brink of War After nine hundred years of peace, unrest among the magical Qirsi people has blossomed into a conspiracy against their Eandi rulers. Led by a mysterious Qirsi "Weaver" who can reach into the minds of others even in their sleep,...

  • Shadow Play

    David Cole

    A computer hacker and registered PI, Laura Winslow has seen death before, but it never looked quite like the apparent murder -- suicide of a reclusive Navajo and his female companion. A refugee from a violent world, Laura has become ensnared in an...

  • Blood of the Isle

    Loren L. Coleman

    Landgrave Jasek Kelswa-Steiner and his Stormhammers defend the Republic world of Skye from the Jade Falcon Clan by forging an alliance with the enemy, which could lead to the destruction of Skye. Original....

  • Lost Souls

    Michael Collins

    Discovering the dead body of a young child, a victim of an apparent hit-and-run accident, a police officer conducts a covert investigation when the case is thwarted by both the mayor and the police chief, who want attention diverted from the primary ...

  • The Engagement

    Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux

    Katherine Montbatten has suffered deep humiliation because of her broken engagement to Nicholas Thornton, the earl of Kenswick. Ostracized by members of the elite she and her cousin Theodora conspire to exact revenge upon the Thornton family. But Kat...

  • Family Sins

    David Compton

    When he investigates the brutal murder of a former lover, Father Michael Driscoll, tormented by his disreputable past, is plunged into a deadly power struggle between Irish and American crime families who have formed an alliance to rig a multimillion...

  • Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?

    Maryse Conde

    The deeply prolific and widely celebrated author of such books as Segu and Tales from the Heart, Maryse Condé returns with an unforgettable new novel, Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? Inspired by a tragedy in the late twentieth century, Condé sets th...

  • The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure

    Storm Constantine

    Hailed as "a literary fantasist of outstanding power and originality" by Michael Moorcock, Storm Constantine is one of the most exciting and innovative fantasy writers of her generation. A tale of intrigue and betrayal, bloodshed and pleasure, dark...

  • The Errant Earl

    Madeleine Conway

    CAN A NOTORIOUS RAKE IN TROUBLE... When Earl Lazenby of Edenbridge is grievously injured by a carriage accident in a small Cheshire town, the local doctor appeals to Miss Francis Wilbraham to take him in while he recovers. Though the earl is known f...

  • Pengarron Rivalry

    Gloria Cook

    Can happiness be found in a family ruled by duty?A new generation of the Pengarron family enter centre-stage with the departure of Lady Kerensa and Sir Oliver for London.Kelynen, their youngest daughter, is left resentful and upset by her father’s ...

  • Mary's Choice

    Kay Cornelius

    WHO WILL CAPTURE MARY'S HEART? Though she's tried to believe she's satisfied just as a first-grade teacher, Mary Oliver longs to be a wife and a mother. Walter Chance, a high-school friend, seems more than interested in Mary. And Todd Walker, h...

  • The Notorious Lord

    Nicola Cornick

    LORD NEWLYN'S PURSUIT! The sight of Cory, Lord Newlyn, rising naked from the Midwinter river, is enough to send ripples of shock through Rachel Odell's carefully ordered life. He has always been a friend, although now she's aware of hi...

  • A Terrifying Taste of Short & Shivery

    Katherine Coville

    Ghoulies, ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties inhabit these 30 chilling tales gathered from around the world. Creepy classic and contemporary stories from Australia, Germany, India, El Salvador, and elsewhere--including a healthy helping of American ...

  • They Are Soldiers

    Harold Coyle

    We see them everyday. They deliver our mail, teach our children, and build our homes. They are called on to defend our country in times of war and to prepare for action in times of peace. Throughout our nation's history they have been called many thi...

  • Bitch Slap

    Michael Craft

    Journalist Mark Manning has been successfully running his family's newspaper, The Dumont Daily Register, for several years now, and he sits on the board of two local companies, Quatro Press and Ashton Mills. So when the respective CEOs of these compa...

  • Magnolia Sky

    Susan Crandall

    The moment that Luke Boudreau had been both dreading and anticipating for the past five months had come. In all that time, he'd debated long and hard about what he would say, yet had found no words to convey his regret. He came to Mississippi as a ma...

  • English As a Second Language

    Megan Crane

    "I decided to go to England because of a guy. Pathetic but true. Not just any guy, but an ex-boyfriend. An ex-boyfriend I had, on more than one occasion, vowed never to think of again." Smart, sarcastic Alexandra Brennan is bored with her dead end...

  • White House Horrors

    Bill Crider

    The White House has seen many extraordinary events unfold within its well-guarded walls. And now such top writers as Brian Hodge, Max Allan Collins and Barbara Collins, Graham Masterton, Bill Crider, Billie Sue Mosiman, and Edward Lee tell the tales ...

  • The Mercenary's Kiss

    Pam Crooks

    A soldier of fortune, Jeb Carson was a law unto himself, only championing the causes he liked -- and he liked Elena Malone just fine. A woman of true grit, driven to reclaim her child, the soul-scarred beauty made him hunger for a lifetime of perfect...

  • World of King Arthur and His Court

    Kevin Crossley-Holland

    Drawn from both literary and historical sources, a fascinating tour of the magical world of Camelot vividly brings to life King Arthur and the legends surrounding him, including the sword Excalibur, the quests, the medieval romances, and much more. R...

  • Call Waiting

    Michelle Cunnah

    If he's going to call, he'll do it by Tuesday to ask you about Saturday ... If it works out on Saturday, he'll want to see you Wednesday ... And after over eight months of dating bliss, he should at least ask you to move in with him ... 1. Do no...

  • Sins of the 7th Sister

    Huston Curtiss

    How many times have you thought, “this has got to be true -- no one could make this up?” Well, in 1929, Huston Curtiss was seven years old, living with his beautiful, opinionated mother (whose image is on the cover of this book), and surrounded b...

  • A Meeting of Minds

    Clare Curzon

    A woman is found stabbed to death in her car outside a pub, clothed in only a fur coat. Detective Superintendent Mike Yeadings and his Thames Valley team discover that the victim is the new neighbor of Sergeant Rosemary "Z" Zyczynski. The woman, Shei...

  • Revisions

    Julie E. Czerneda

    Some of today's top science fiction writers explore the futures that might have been, including original stories from Julie E. Czerneda and other great names in the genre....

  • Charity's Gift

    Lucy Daniels

    While picking up supplies at the tack shop, Josie learns about an orphaned foal on a nearby farm. Josie immediately offers to help take care of some of the feedings. But the baby needs more than bottle feedings, and when Charity steps up to help, Jos...

  • The Rebel

    Jack Dann

    With The Rebel, acclaimed award-winning author Jack Dann pulls James Dean from the twisted wreckage and offers him a second chance to make an indelible mark on his art, his culture, and his time in an era of profound change and devastating social uph...

  • The Faery Reel

    Ellen Datlow

    This “wondrous” collection of fantasy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia A. McKillip, and others “is a treasure chest. Open it and revel in its riches” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   For this enchanting anthology -- a World Fantasy Aw...

  • Undead and Unemployed

    Maryjanice Davidson

    She may be the Queen of the Undead, but she still has "sole." Nothing can make Betsy Taylor give up her shoe fetish--even dying and rising as the new Queen of the Vampires. Being royally undead isn't all it's cracked up to be--there are still bill...

  • The Letter

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis

    A dozen of today's masters of mystery and suspense present an all-original anthology of compelling, provocative stories, revealing that the families that play together sometimes slay together. Featuring stories by: LAWRENCE BLOCK * MARY HIGGINS ...

  • Protecting Amy

    Susan Page Davis

    Tom Barkley never wastes time thinking about women. But that's before Fort Bridger comes in danger of attack and Major Travis asks the experienced scout to escort his daughter, Amy, to safety. Tom quickly realizes that his spirited traveling companio...

  • Dragon Precinct

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Humans and elves, dwarves and gnomes, wizards and warriors all live and do business in the thriving, overcrowded city of Cliff's End, to say nothing of the tourists and travelers who arrive by land and sea, passing through the metropolis on matters o...

  • The Great Sock-a-Thon

    Michael Delaney / M.C. Delaney

    When a ghost named Eliza Baker asks four girls to save the historic, but dying, tree she has haunted for seventy years from being cut down, they decide to host a sockathon--a zany fund raiser involving a chain of socks....

  • Too Close to the Sun

    Diana Dempsey

    Born and raised in California's lush Napa Valley, Gabby DeLuca, the beautiful winemaker for Suncrest Vineyards, is doing everything she can to keep her mind off her recently broken heart. The most important thing in her life right now is rescuing her...

  • Love in All the Wrong Places

    Frank Devlin

    Helen preys on single men on the make. Hoping to find her perfect love, she is doomed to seek it in all the wrong places, and the men she chooses always end up dead. The case is in the hands of San Francisco Police Inspector Rose Burke, and she i...

  • Marvel Age Spider-Man, Volume 2: Everyday Hero

    Todd Dezago

  • Liberty's Journey

    Kelly DiPucchio

    Lady Liberty has welcomed immigrants to New York for more than one hundred years-but she's never traveled beyond her island. She's curious to see the country that has become home to the millions who have passed beneath her torch. She wants to go on a...

  • The Dragon Man

    Garry Disher

    Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series   A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Dete...

  • Mirror Mirror

    Disney Book Group

    Move over J.Lo! Thanks to Gordo’s latest student film project, Lizzie and Miranda are about to star in their own music video. That’s until Gordo shows the girls some photos he took of them during a rehearsal and Miranda totally freaks, claimin...

  • Disneys: Aladdin

    Disney Book Group

    With a poof, and a puff, and a big kaboom, the Genie can make wishes come true! This magical Step 1 reader is sure to please the youngest Aladdin fans with its simple text and colorful illustrations....

  • Disney Princess: Dress-Up: A Sticker-Activity Storybook

    Disney Book Group

    Little girls love to play dress-up-and they love the Disney Princesses! Now they can help Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Jasmine, and Snow White decide on the perfect outfit for any occasion. This charming interactive book includes more t...

  • Disney Amazing Adventures: A Sticker-Activity Book

    Disney Book Group

    Kids won't be able to put down this interactive sticker book featuring their favorite Disney and Disney/Pixar characters, including Peter Pan, Buzz and Woody, Tarzan, and more! Simple text provides children with prompts to re-create their favorite sc...

  • Henry's Amazing Machine

    Dayle Ann Dodds

    Inventors, rejoice!

    From the time Henry is a baby he loves to put things together -- wheels with rods, switches with levers, cranks with gears. By the age of six, he's built an Amazing Machine that fills his entire room. But Henry doesn't mind...

  • Fire Along the Sky

    Sara Donati

    In a magnificent new novel, award winner Sara Donati returns to turbulent early-nineteenth-century America and her bestselling Bonner family saga. Three generations of Bonner women will face their most daunting challenges as they search for love and ...

  • Cat in an Orange Twist

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Temple Barr is a sharp and sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally looking up. Nobody is trying to steal her boyfriend, kill strippers, resurrect Elvis, or ruin her business, and no one she knows has been murdered--at least, not...

  • Most Loved Monster

    Lynn Downey

    When slimy-pie maker Mervin, tar pit diving Mella, spit-sharing Mattie, and eye-poppingly funny Max ask their Mama Monster whom she loves best, they get an unexpected answer, in this laugh-out-loud picturebook....

  • Morning Child and Other Stories

    Gardner Dozois

    A collection of over a half-dozen classic science fiction stories by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and editor Gardner Dozois. Includes: "Morning Child," "A Dream at Noonday," "Chains of the Sea," "The Hanging Curve," "The Bride" (with Jack ...

  • Halloween Night on Shivermore Street

    Randy DuBurke

    There's a Halloween party on Shivermore Street, and everyone -- from dancing mummies to musical witches -- is coming. There'll be whipped-cream-covered ants, pumpkin carving, apple bobbing, and a special surprise when the masks come off at the end of...

  • Unacceptable Risk

    David Dun

    Deep in the wilds of the Amazon jungle, a rare insect is discovered to possess an incredible substance within its body--one that can alter the cells of the human brain. It is a breakthrough that could bring untold power or unspeakable horror. Cove...

  • The Lavender Butterfly Murders

    Sharon Duncan

    Scotia MacKinnon has survived two decades of law enforcement work, three marriages, and too many years of single parenting. She relishes her laid-back lifestyle on San Juan Island, but even in paradise, Scotia knows when to head temporarily for calme...

  • Out of Order

    Barbara Dunlop

    Jailbird? No way. Until the cops come with irresistible proof -- and handcuffs! Yep, Shelby Jacobs is busted for gunrunning -- but all she knows is that her boss is a jerk. More temp jobs won't cover her bail -- or even get a decent lawyer. Lucki...

  • Clementine and Mungo

    Sarah Dyer

    Clementine is Mungo's big sister, and she knows a lot of things. When Mungo asks her how cats stay cool in the summer, she replies that they simply take their coats off when they get too hot. When Mungo asks why leaves turn colors in the fall and ...

  • The Fall

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    Most of us are lucky that some simple action---one that we've performed a hundred times---doesn't suddenly plunge our entire life into a private hell. But undeserved or not, unheralded or not, that's what happens to Joanne Lessing, a freelance photog...

  • Sam and Gus Light up the Night!

    P.D. Eastman

    Everybody loves lightning bugs! And with this interactive adaptation of P. D. Eastman’s classic, Sam and the Firefly, Sam and his mischievous friend, the firefly, come to life with a little help from toddlers. With a turn of a wheel, a lift of a fl...

  • Lunch at the Piccadilly

    Clyde Edgerton

    In his eighth deliciously funny novel, Clyde Edgerton introduces us to the irrepressible Lil Olive, who's recently arrived at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall. Lil longs to be back in her own apartment, and since her d...

  • The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

    Esi Edugyan

    The first novel from the acclaimed author of Washington Black -- an exploration of explores the sweep of history, the binds of blood, the challenges of middle age, and the pain of exile, witnessed through the experiences of one family whose hope b...

  • Savage Hope

    Cassie Edwards

    With help from the guiding beams of the local lighthouse, the Makah Indians of the Pacific Northwest made a successful living from the sea. Chief Bright Arrow was proud of the quiet, peaceful life he led with his people. But his idyllic world changed...

  • Gigi and Lulu's Gigantic Fight

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

    Best friends Gigi and Lulu are like two peas in a pod. They do everything the same, like wear pink striped overalls, and bring peanut butter sandwiches for lunch -- until one day, they have a gigantic fight.

    So when their teacher announces T...

  • Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans

    Dave Eggers

    A hilarious collection from McSweeney's that "achieves the sensation of being hit by a hip, humorous train.... Breaks mold after mold in hilarious fashion" (The New York Times).Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modern...

  • Assassination Day

    Clive Egleton

    SIS officer Will Landon assumes he is facing a routine task when he is asked to investigate and vet the sensational novelized memoirs of Ross Frazer. By all records, Frazer was an ex-Intelligence officer, quite possibly involved in some long ago poli...

  • Pyro

    Earl Emerson

    In his pulse-pounding thrillers, Earl Emerson takes readers into the heart of the world's most dangerous profession, where the next alarm might bring sudden death. Based on stunning, actual events in the author's life, this electrifying new novel is ...

  • Dying For You

    Geraldine Evans

    Rafferty becomes chief suspect -in his own double murder inquiry
    Detective Inspector Rafferty signs up with the Made in Heaven dating agency, discreetly using an alias. He's very much charmed by the first two women he meets, but love is fickle. Bo...

  • Longarm Sets the Stage

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm meets some actors studying their lines -- of fire!Down in Tombstone, Arizona, some uppity types get together every payday for some invitation-only poker at a fancy-schmancy hotel. But one night, an actor in bellhop duds stages a massacre. Soo...

  • Longarm and the Tall Timber

    Tabor Evans

    Somebody with an itchy finger seems to be running the chipper…In the speck of a town called Pitchfork, it’s all for one and one for all. So if even one man gets it in his noggin to scam his neighbors, an ax-man might just forget to yell “timber...

  • Rain Dance

    Terri Farley

    The Phantom Stallion's new foal is ready to be born, and River Bend Ranch's own Dark Sunshine is the mother. Samantha couldn't be more excited, and she's sure she can handle the new baby while everyone is gone on the annual cattle drive.

    ...

  • Iron Tigers

    Michael Farmer

    From the bestselling author of Tin Soldiers torn from tomorrow's headlines-a cutting edge novel of a new World War.

    In the wake of the second Gulf War comes the revelation of shifting alliances in the Middle East. In Iraq, a stable new gover...

  • Kindling

    Mick Farren

    The last bastions of freedom, the Kingdom of Albany and the Norse Alliance, stand at bay. They are threatened by the Empire of the Mosul, whose unstoppable forces, driven by the brutal theocracy of the Zhaithan and drawn by the promise of paradise, h...

  • Picture Imperfect

    Nancy J. Farrier

    Jazmyn Rondell has grown up in the shadow of fear. And despite recently giving her heart to Jesus, she finds it hard to trust Him. Her twin brother Jason seems determined to bring her out of her shell, but his methods leave much to be desired. Tho...

  • The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad

    Minister Faust

    Hamza and Yehat are The Coyote Kings"best friends, one a disgruntled dishwasher and the other a video store clerk, but each brilliant in his own right. Yehat builds prototypes of space-age inventions in his spare time, while Hamza, a former English...

  • Nature of the Beast

    Richard Fawkes

    THE FORCES OF ANNIHILATION Throughout the galaxy, the near-invincible armies of the alien Remor have set their sights on one goal: the complete extermination of the human race. Outnumbered and outgunned, The Interstellar Defense League cannot affo...

  • Diamonds and Deceptions

    Marie Ferrarella

    When the tall, dark stranger walked into her father's bookstore, sheltered Brooke Moss was more than ready for romance. In the blink of an eye, the beautiful dreamer saw beneath the wounds of the emotionally scarred private eye and gave herself to hi...

  • The Wake-Up

    Robert Ferrigno

    When Frank Thorpe, a deeply moral former undercover operative, sees a hard-charging art dealer knock down a Latino child at LAX airport, he decides to teach him a lesson. But Thorpe's plans get a little out of hand, and he becomes immersed in a crimi...

  • Alias

    Amy J. Fetzer

    WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO DARCY STEELE? In school, she was everyone's best friend. But these days, Darcy Steele was a single mother living in the shadows following a marriage gone dangerously wrong. Not even her closest friends knew her whereabouts --...

  • Something Rotten

    Jasper Fforde

    It's back to reality for Thursday Next -- and fiction never looked so good Detective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none o...

  • Surrender To Marriage

    Sandra Field

    Can she give up her secret and surrender to marriage? Seemingly, Jake Reilly has it all: power, wealth, property. But the internationally successful entrepreneur has come back to Cranberry Cove to claim the one thing that still eludes him.... F...

  • In Good Hands

    Charles Fish

    In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye. What gives the...

  • Ghost of a Chance

    Flo Fitzpatrick

    Enter Laughing Six straight men in the cast plus free Tex-Mex food? My friend Lida sure knew how to persuade me. I signed on the dotted line and dusted off my dance shoes. I knew Bad Business on the Brazos would have them rolling in the aisles and s...

  • Solos

    Kitty Burns Florey

    Emily Lime and her equally palindromic dog, Otto, live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (zip code 11211), in a warm community of friends and fellow artists. Her life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Marcus, a dog-walker and fellow Scrabb...

  • The Exile

    Allan Folsom

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Day After Tomorrow and The Day of Confession comes The Exile, an all new heart-pounding thrillerThe Los Angeles Police Department's famed 5-2 squad boards a commuter train in an attempt to take a cold...

  • Looking For It

    Michael Thomas Ford

    Mike Monaghan is the bartender at the Engine Room, a meeting place for the small but thriving community of gay men in Cold Falls, New York. As Mike pours beer, wipes glasses and hears everything, he's also witness to the men who come here looking for...

  • Last Chance at Love

    Gwynne Forster

    How Much Will She Risk For Love? Fired from her prestigious job, journalist Allison Wakefield is now working for a tabloid newspaper, and she's desperate to find a way to get her career back on track. Her new assignment, an explosive story involv...

  • Tailspin

    Lori Foster
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    Sadie Harte's Chihuahua is head over heels for the Chihuahua next door. It's impossible for Sadie and neighbor Buck Bosworth to keep them apart. And soon Sadie and Buck are finding it impossible to stay away from each other, too. Clever Chihuahua! ...

  • Bride of the Fat White Vampire

    Andrew Fox

    After morphing into 187 very large white rats in the name of self-preservation, Jules Duchon is back to his portly self, a member of that secret class of New Orleans citizens known as the undead. Though he would like nothing better than to spend his ...

  • Daddy's Little Matchmaker

    Roz Denny Fox

    A man looking for answers. Widower Alan Ridge wonders if Laurel Ashline, a weaver who's just arrived in Ridge City, Kentucky, can do what no doctor has: help his daughter, Louemma. He's skeptical about weaving as therapy but he'll do anything for Lou...

  • Shem Creek

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    “The strong pull of friendship, the leisurely pace of a tiny, waterfront Southern town, and the steady buildup of romance help buoy Frank’s well-drawn, memorable characters” (Publishers Weekly) in this New York Times bestseller.Meet Linda Brela...

  • The Big Balloon Race

    Jennifer Frantz

    Daisy Jo wants nothing more than to win this year's Big Balloon Race. Everything looks great as she shoots into the lead, but what will Daisy Jo do when Butterscotch's balloon gets snagged in a tree? Daisy Jo shows that good friends are always win...

  • A Play of Isaac

    Margaret Frazer

    In the pages of Margaret Frazers national bestselling Dame Frevisse series, the player Joliffe has assumed many roles on stage, to the delight of those he entertains. Now, in the company of a troupe of traveling performers, he finds himself cast in t...

  • The Barbarian

    Judith E. French

    Surrounded by the exotic luxuries of ancient Alexandria, courted by the world's most powerful men, Roxanne was a woman of privilege--and one with no memory of her past. Flashes of recollection bewildered her: images of a man as golden as any god, of ...

  • Enigma

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Without warning, a Starfleet ship is overwhelmed by a mysterious, alien aggressor -- one who appears to possess an intimate knowledge of the vessel's tactical technology. Then a second Starfleet ship is attacked. And a third. Twenty-eight-year-ol...

  • Tango Is My Life

    Mickey Friedman

    A dozen of today's masters of mystery and suspense present an all-original anthology of compelling, provocative stories, revealing that the families that play together sometimes slay together. Featuring stories by: LAWRENCE BLOCK * MARY HIGGINS ...

  • Dark Voyage

    Alan Furst

    “In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant...

  • Radiant

    James Alan Gardner

    Possessing physical attributes repulsive to "normal" humans, Youn Suu is Expendable -- a dedicated member of the highly skilled and highly disposable Explorer Corps. Embarking on a typically suicidal undertaking with her partner, Tut, Youn has been e...

  • Labor Days

    David Gates

    In this superb and subversive collection, the finest fiction writers capture the full experience of showing up, clocking in, and working it. Denis Johnson’s “Emergency” is set in a Vietnam-era emergency room, where stoned orderlies deal matter-...

  • Moon

    Jeremy Gavron

    On a farm in the highlands of Kenya, a young white boy befriends his father's enigmatic African driver, Ernest. But their time together is short-lived: as racial tension in the country escalates, confidences are betrayed, trust is broken and loyaltie...

  • The Affair at Greengage Manor

    Mona Gedney

    An Impeccable Life Richard Browning is a happy man. Indeed, the rakishly handsome master of Greengage Manor has finally achieved the sort of stable, respectable life he's long desired. But with a knock at his door, the harmony of his days is s...

  • Summer in the Land of Skin

    Jody Gehrman

    Twenty-five-year-old Anna -- restless, famished and emotionally numb -- is following the long-cold trail of her father, a celebrated luthier, whose death has always haunted her. She has tracked his former business partner to a sailboat on Bellingham ...

  • Overstars Mail: Imperial Challenge

    Roberta Gellis

    Cyn Lystris leaves Free Trade because he is tired of making deliveries with the goods in one hand and his blaster in the other. Overstars Mail offers him a mail delivery job on a government-approved route. Life as a mailman, however, proves no less e...

  • Doodler Doodling

    Rita Golden Gelman

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Virtual Villain

    James Gelsey

    SCOOBY-DOO is an "Ameri-canine" icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past three generations. The snack-sniffing sleuth and his pals are in the midst of a huge popularity boom.

    Zoinks! Can Scooby and the gang solve the mystery of the cre...

  • A Place of Hiding

    Elizabeth George

    An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey's wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his l...

  • The Ballet Class

    Adele Geras

  • Emily's Reasons Why Not

    Carrie Gerlach

    A hip, fast, and funny novel for anyone who has ever wasted her time chasing down the wrong guy for the right reasons. Emily's biological clock is ticking away ... and she never even heard the starting bell. Hollywood publicity pro extraordinai...

  • Body Double

    Tess Gerritsen

    Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact: the mysterious doppelganger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bi...

  • Staying Dead

    Laura Anne Gilman

    Manhattan's night life just got weirder... It starts as a simple job -- but simple jobs, when you're dealing with the magical world, often end up anything but. As a Retriever, Wren Valere specializes in finding things gone missing -- and then b...

  • Persuading the Playboy King

    Kristi Gold

    Breathless, Dr. Kate Milner couldn't help but stare at the King of Doriana and remember the electricity they'd shared in college. Years later, she was working in his clinic and found herself wanting to strip Marc of his regal robes and rediscover the...

  • The Shooting Script

    Lee Goldberg

    Dr. Mark Sloan is drawn to the sounds of gunfire at his neighbor's Malibu beach house. There, he discovers the bullet-riddled bodies of an aspiring actress and a Hollywood producer. An obvious suspect is the producer's wife-who has gunpowder residue ...

  • Holiday Sparkles!

    Golden Books

    Special times with family, friends, and neighbors are celebrated in this Christmas-themed coloring book -- and the shiny stickers will make the holiday bright! Children will love the sparkling snowflakes, stars, ribbons, and bows. They can use these ...

  • Dora the Explorer: Monster Bash!

    Golden Books

    Little Monster must be home when the hand on the big clock reaches 12 -- it’s a rule! But when he gets lost, Dora and Boots come to his rescue and help him find his way home in this 32-page coloring and activity book with puffy vinyl stickers. The ...

  • A Holly Jolly Christmas!

    Golden Books

    Rudolph brightens the holidays with this retelling of kids’ favorite Christmas story. The die-cut shape creates an irresistibly cute cover. A cut-out greeting card on the back cover is a fun way for kids to send holly, jolly holiday cheer!...

  • The Un-Magician

    Christopher Golden; Thomas E. Sniegoski

    THE MOST DANGEROUS BOY IN THE WORLD? TIMOTHY IS A FREAK, a weakling, an impossibility. He's the only person in existence without magical powers and has spent his entire life hidden on a remote island. When Timothy is finally taken back to the city o...

  • Beyond a Wicked Kiss

    Jo Goodman

    Wicked games and forbidden desires are the order of the day in the latest installment of bestselling author Jo Goodman's Compass Club quartet, as Evan Marchman -- West to his friends -- undertakes a dangerous mission that leads to unexpected temp...

  • Gino's Arranged Bride

    Lucy Gordon

    A convenient marriage -- all because of a very special little girl... Laura knows that all her little girl wants is a daddy to love her unconditionally. So for Nikki's sake, Laura marries Italian Gino Farnese for convenience.... But there...