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New Books List: 643 titles

  • Panic

    Jeff Abbott

    What if everything in your life was a lie? Things are going well for 24-year-old Evan Casher: his career as a documentary filmmaker is booming and his relationship with his new girlfriend, Carrie, couldn’t be better. After an urgent phone call fro...

  • Hot Ice

    Cherry Adair

    The only thing Taylor Kincaid likes more than diamonds is stealing them. But when she snatches the elusive Blue Star diamonds from a murderous terrorist organization--and inadvertently snags the secret security-system codes to a South African diamond...

  • Another Woman's Son

    Anna Adams

    Whose baby is he? Three months ago, Isabel Baker's life came crashing down after her husband confessed he'd fallen in love with another woman -- her sister -- and that they'd had a child together. Then tragedy strikes, and Isabel's sister and h...

  • Moon's Web

    C.T. Adams; Cathy Clamp

    Tony Giodone made his living as an assassin--until one of his marks ripped his throat out and turned him into a werewolf. Now he's the best hired killer there is. When a curvy woman in an expensive suit tries to hire him to kill her, his wolf sens...

  • Confessions of a Pregnant Princess

    Swan Adamson

    When Marcello Brunelli--aka Il Principe of one of Italy's oldest and most fabulous families--declared his love to down-on-her-luck, done-with-men Venus Gilroy, she learned a few eyebrow-raising things about love and life. And now she's willing to sha...

  • Little Beauties

    Kim Addonizio

    Diana McBride, a thirty-four-year-old former child pageant contender, now works in a baby store in Long Beach. Between dealing with a catastrophic haircut, the failure of her marriage, and phone calls from her alcoholic mother, Diana has gone off her...

  • The House in Amalfi

    Elizabeth Adler

    The secrets of her past lie in Italy... Lamour Harrington's husband died two years ago. It is the second time she has lest a man she loved to a tragedy: Her father died in a mysterious boating accident when she was seventeen. When a devastating disc...

  • Give The Dog A Bone

    Allan Ahlberg

    Give the Dog a Bone is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! The dog skeleton is falli...

  • Hole in One

    Catherine Aird

    Detective Chief Inspector (D.C.I.) C. D. Sloan works in the deceptively quiet town and county of Calleshire, where for many years he's endured the pressures of his demanding, unreasonable boss and the company of Constable Crosby, Sloan's all too cons...

  • All My Tomorrows

    Rochelle Alers
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    Disenchanted with the politics of working in an upscale Washington D.C. restaurant, twenty-seven-year-old chef Lydia Lord resigns from her job and resolves to make it on her own. She returns home to Baltimore with plans to launch a gourmet market...

  • The Prophet of Zongo Street

    Mohammed Naseehu Ali

    A dazzling collection of stories, The Prophet of Zongo Street takes readers to a world that seamlessly blends African folklore and myths with modernity. Set primarily on Zongo Street, a fictitious community in West Africa, the stories -- which are re...

  • Holding Out for a Hero

    Caroline Anderson

    Lights... Five years ago Ben Maguire wasn't just a good doctor, he was a brilliant doctor. Since then he has been living the life of his new persona -- as a daring and courageous TV presenter. Now Ben is about to face his toughest assignment y...

  • Perception of Death

    Louise Anderson

    Some things it’s better not to know. In Louise Anderson’s terrifying debut thriller, a twisted killer brings to life a woman’s worst nightmareâ€"a dark secret she hoped she’d never have to face again.Hardly ten A.M. and attorney Erin Paterson...

  • Star Struck

    Pamela Anderson

    Take a walk on the wild side... Star Wood Leigh is star struck in life and love. A hasty secret marriage to rock 'n' roll bad boy Jimi Deed triggers a chain of events that changes both of their lives. Together they soar to the heights of stardom a...

  • Hunger's Brides

    Paul Anderson

    On a frigid winter's night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding. In his hands he clutches a box he has found there. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose last affair has ...

  • Octopus Oyster Hermit Crab Snail

    Sara Anderson

    Start at the tips of the foamy waves, where the sun glints off the water, and go down to the depths of the sea, where the eel's phosphorescence glows in the dark with otherworldly intensity. Below the waves, there are to be seen, among a myriad of li...

  • Killer Cocktail

    Sheryl J. Anderson

    Sheryl J. Anderson introduced sexy and smart advice columnist Molly Forrester in her fabulous debut novel Killer Heels. Now she mixes up another sexy adventure that's equal parts humor, intrigue, and an appreciation for the greatest mystery of all--h...

  • The Amityville Horror

    Jay Anson

    “A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times) -- the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe.In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new ho...

  • Goin' West

    Charles Ardai
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    Lights...Camera...Murder! Behind the velvet ropes and closed curtains, buried in the back lots, you'll find the darker side of the spotlight. It's where stars are created overnight, and burn out just cis quickly. Where deals are made to be broken,...

  • Seymour Slug Starts School

    Carey Armstrong-Ellis

    A wonderfully funny new back-to-school title by Carey Armstrong-Ellis, illustrator of 12 Days of Kindergarten. Seymour's family has recently moved to a new home near the compost pile and he is now facing his first day of Slug School. He's so nervous-...

  • The Payoff

    Vivien Armstrong

    When the body of Lulu Starewski, an elderly eccentric antique dealer, is found in her home in an Oxfordshire village by her friend Tessa Cox, Detective Chief Inspector Roger Hayes is soon on the scene. A specialist in Russian Icons, Lulu owned a gall...

  • Deadly Corruption

    Jeffrey Ashford

    When unpopular Captain Sewell is found battered in his cabin aboard The Hakota, an old cargo ship, Felix Dunn takes command. Photographs are taken before a burial at sea and on arrival back in the UK, all leave is cancelled whilst the police investig...

  • Myth-Taken Identity

    Robert Asprin; Jodi Lynn Nye

    A GRAND OPENING NOT TO BE MYTHED Someone--or something--masquerading as Skeeve the Magnificent is racking up hundreds of thousands of gold pieces of debt. And it's up to Aahz the Pervect (not pervert!) to put an end to the shopping spree. Turns ou...

  • Successors

    James Axler

  • Remains Silent

    Michael Baden

    When a body is found beneath a construction site near the Catskill Mountains, New York City deputy chief medical examiner Jake Rosen is called to the scene, where he meets his match: Philomena "Manny" Manfreda, a beautiful crusading attorney. Togethe...

  • Million Dollar Dilemma

    Judy Baer

    "I'm a P.K., preacher's kid (or if I want to get fancy, a T.O., a theologian's offspring). I grew up afraid of my own allowance...." So when over $20 million falls into her lap shortly after she moves to Minneapolis, Cassia Carr views her Midas to...

  • The Archons of the Stars

    Alison Baird

    In the thrilling tradition of Mercedes Lackey and Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alison Baird concludes her exciting saga begun in The Stone of the Stars and The Empire of the Stars. Revealing the startling secrets of the Dragon Throne, this is a galaxy-span...

  • Olive's Pirate Party

    Roberta Baker

    Olive Elizabeth Julia Jerome worries that having her seventh-birthday pirate party at her Aunt Tiffany's house will be a disappointment, in a spirited story that celebrates kids' special relationships with elderly relatives....

  • The Silver Spell

    Anjali Banerjee
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The eighth title in a new fantasy adventure series for young readers.

    The Silver Spell continues a new series of adventures written specifically for
    readers ages 8-12. Sized to fit the young reader market, the series follows the
    adventur...

  • The Great Blue House

    Kate Banks

    An award-winning team again join their talents When summer ends, a family pack their suitcases and bid the big blue house farewell. All seems quiet. But soon the leaves change color; then comes the snow. A cat creeps into the house and curls up in th...

  • Fairly Odd Halloween

    Steven Banks

  • Breaking Faith

    Jo Bannister

    When she called her business "Looking for Something?" Brodie Farrell hoped to receive challenging commissions from interesting clients. Even by her standards, though, demon rock musician Jared Fry is hard to please. Fortunately his manager, the chari...

  • Luck

    Joan Barfoot

    One woman is an ex-beauty-queen, one is a recovering addict to virtue, and one is an artist. The man of the big old house on the hill, Philip Lawrence, is suddenly dead and his departure is bound to have dramatic effects. The abruptly widowed No...

  • Just Another Hollywood Ending

    David Bart
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    Lights...Camera...Murder! Behind the velvet ropes and closed curtains, buried in the back lots, you'll find the darker side of the spotlight. It's where stars are created overnight, and burn out just cis quickly. Where deals are made to be broken,...

  • The Binding Stone

    Don Bassingthwaite
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    IN EBERRON, THERE ARE TERRORS OLDER THAN THE NATIONS OF MEN. A chance rescue brings bitter rivals together. With a mysterious ally, the two warriors embark on a mission of vengeance, but the enemy waiting for them in the depths of the Shadow Marches...

  • Pocketful of Pearls

    Shelley Bates

  • Dearest Dorothy, Who Would Have Ever Thought?!

    Charlene Baumbich

    Charlene Ann Baumbich has won a loyal following of readers with the first three books in the Dearest Dorothy series, featuring the amusing and touching adventures of the townspeople of Partonville. Now Charlene Baumbich uses her wonderful gift of sto...

  • The Perfect Paragon

    M.C. Beaton

    AGATHA RAISIN...AND THE CASE FROM HELL She's nosed in on murder investigations, annoyed law enforcement on two continents, and been targeted by everyone from a hit man to a killer secretary. But now Agatha Raisin must take on her greatest nightmar...

  • Trace Evidence

    Elizabeth Becka

    A gripping suspense novel that introduces forensic expert Evelyn James as she tries to decipher trace evidence and solve a bizarre crime It's a cold Cleveland November day when forensic trace evidence expert Evelyn James is summoned to the scene of a...

  • Old Boyfriends

    Rexanne Becnel

    Road Trip for Three? They were three girlfriends whose love lives had seen better days, and they were driving to a reunion in New Orleans, the town they'd left behind. MJ, a gorgeous younger woman whose older husband died in the bed of...well, ...

  • Chuckie's Ghost

    Adam Beechen

  • Pirate

    Ted Bell

    Aboard a ship in the south of France, an American spy faces certain torture and death for the vital, explosive intelligence he possesses. In Paris, a ruthless and powerful descendant of Napoleon has forged an unholy alliance with China for its growin...

  • Willful Creatures

    Aimee Bender

    "Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book ReviewAimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastic...

  • The Pulse, Volume 2: Secret War

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Jessica Jones and Luke Cage's lives have been destroyed by the events of the Secret War, so what is Jessica going to do about it? Fans of Secret War - feel The Pulse as it pounds out more gritty intrigue even as it welcomes a new artist: award-winnin...

  • Daredevil, Volume 4: Underboss

    Brian Michael Bendis

  • The Final Crumpet

    Ron Benrey; Janet Benrey

    Etienne Makepeace, England's celebrated "Tea Sage," vanished without a trace in 1966, leaving the whole of Great Britain wondering what became of the famed radio personality. Forty years later his hastily buried remains are discovered beneath two sic...

  • Disney Princess: Time for the Ball - Clock and Storybook

    Lara Bergen

    Every morning the palace clock awakens Cinderella for a day of hard work. But one magical night, she gets to attend the ball-until the clock strikes twelve. Will she have enough time to make her dreams come true? Her fairy tale comes to life in this ...

  • Walt Disney's Cinderella

    Lara Bergen

    This beautifully illustrated padded storybook is a perfect way to share the true classic fairytale of  Cinderella with your little princess! Plus with it's sparkly padded cover, this book is a wonderful companion to the Cinderella: Special Edition D...

  • New Coyote

    Michael Bergey

    The creatures of legend have come upon hard times. Their power stems from human belief, but humans believe in "Science" now. We have little use for magic. Even Coyote - shiftiest and most adaptable of them all - can't quite comprehend this new view o...

  • Trophy House

    Anne Bernays

    Trophy House is an extraordinary and complex novel, at one level a romantic thriller, at another a deeply satisfying story about the disintegration of a marriage and the consequences for all concerned. It begins with the construction of a totally ina...

  • Coin Toss

    Mark Bernthal

    Don't miss these thrilling stories based on episodes from the Duel Masters TV show!

    Shobu finally gets invited to compete in the Temple! In order to reach the next level and battle the famous Hakuoh, he has to earn 50 winner's tokens.

    N...

  • Go to Sleep, Jeff!

    Bob Berry

  • Horrorscape 2

    John Gregory Betancourt

    The thrilling stories collected in this 12-story volume cover a wide territory. Intended for mature readers, included are monster tales, stories of psychological suspense, traditional ghost stories, and variations on fairy tales. Leading off with ...

  • The Greek's Bought Wife

    Helen Bianchin

    Made to marry -- for her baby's sake! Nic Leandros knows that most people want only his money. So when he finds out beautiful Tina Matheson is pregnant with his late brother's child, he's certain her price will be high.... However...

  • Wounds, Book 1

    Ilsa J. Bick

    While traveling to a medical conference, the Runabout Missouri encounters a strange anomaly that sends the runabout crashing to the surface of an unknown planet, leaving its two passengers -- Dr. Elizabeth Lense of the U.S.S. da Vinci and Dr. Julian ...

  • Heretic's Faith

    Randall N. Bills

    When he is chosen by the Oathmaster to be his protege and possible successor, Kisho, a member of an elite clan of warriors, must place his faith in the supernatural and the gifts of the Mystic Caste in order to save his brethern from a most certain d...

  • The Shock Engagement

    Ally Blake

    EVERYONE WAS TALKING ABOUT THEIR ENGAGEMENT... Emma's colleagues had been shocked and delighted she was marrying the oh-so-successful-and-gorgeous dot com millionaire Harry Buchanan. Only, the engagement was purely for convenience.... It wo...

  • The Killings of Stanley Ketchel

    James Carlos Blake

    Hailed as "one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life" (Entertainment Weekly), James Carlos Blake turns to the blazing story of Stanley Ketchel, the legendary ragtime-era middleweight boxing champion and daring rakehell, who...

  • Brushstrokes

    Toni Blake
    in

    Mia Drake is a down-on-her-luck artist in need of employment. So when her aunt suggests she take a job painting a local tavern, she jumps at the chance to make some money--and maybe get cozy with the bar's hunky owner, Rick Rose. But the last thing R...

  • Life Sentences

    Alice Blanchard

    Research scientist Daisy Hubbard has one driving purpose in life: to find a cure for the rare disease that killed her brother. A rising star in a prestigious Boston laboratory, Daisy is more comfortable with the mice who are the subjects of her endle...

  • Necklace of Kisses

    Francesca Lia Block

    Where were the kisses? Weetzie Bat wondered. And so begins a magical journey of discovery. As she turns forty and the relationship with her secret-agent lover-man Max falls apart, Weetzie packs up her lime green and bright orange bikini, orange suede...

  • Before You Know Kindness

    Chris Bohjalian

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a novel that examines wildly divisive American issues like gun control and animal rights with Chris Bohjalian’s trademark emotional heft and spellbinding...

  • Frozen

    Jay Bonansinga

    Fear Never Dies. Deep in the Alaskan wilderness, a mummified body is discovered in the ice, the victim of a bizarre ritualistic killing that happened nearly six thousand years ago. For journalist Maura County, this story is her ticket to the big ti...

  • Taking Care of Business

    Stephanie Bond
    in

    Stand-up comic Ellie Evans is determined to keep her relationship with comedy writer Charlie Webster strictly professional -- in spite of the attraction. But just when Charlie's about to check into the Heartbreak Hotel, he gets personal advice on how...

  • Death of a Turkey

    Kate Borden

    Mayor and single mom Peggy Jean Turner is happily anticipating her favorite holiday. But this year is different. Dealing with an obnoxious neighbor and organizing a reenactment of the first Thanksgiving for the tourists, she's being pulled in more di...

  • Brodie's Report

    Jorge Luis Borges

    At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these storie...

  • Cracks In The Rainbow

    Mark Bouton

    While driving to warn his partner Rick Dover of a lethal group, Stretch's Bronco erupts in a fireball and plunges into a canyon. Stretch's wife tells Dover the group had a computer connection, so Dover takes Stretch's PC to investigate. Dover and his...

  • Evan Blessed

    Rhys Bowen

    Constable Evan Evans scours a Welsh mountainside to find a missing woman--and then copes with the subsequent disappearance of his beloved Bronwen--in the newest novel in this series... Mt. Snowdon--Yr Wyddfa to the locals--is crawling with tourist...

  • Hot Animal Love

    Scott Bradfield

    Scott Bradfield's newest collection, Hot Animal Love, reads as if Raymond Carver penned Charlotte's Web -- though for the kids this collection is surely not. Bradfield's witty, sardonic prose is brilliantly on display as the harsh emotional realiti...

  • Gods and Monsters

    Christopher Bram

    Previously titled Father of Frankenstein, this acclaimed novel was the basis for the 1998 film starring Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser. It journeys back to 1957 Los Angeles, where James Whale, the once-famous director of such cla...

  • Bullet Creek

    Peter Brandvold

    MEN AT WAR Tom Navarro, a hostler at the Bar-V Ranch, has retired his gunslinging ways to find peace of mind. As much as he enjoys working for Paul Vannorsdell, and operator of the Bar-V, Navarro has plans of moving up north with the woman he loves ...

  • Dakota

    Matt Braun

    Teddy Roosevelt's wife and mother died on the same night in his home in New York City. To outdistance his grief, he turned his back on a promising political career and fled to the badlands. Dakota deals with the restoration of his spirit during this ...

  • Rebel Angels

    Libba Bray

    Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy -- spending time with her friends in the city, attending balls in fancy gowns with plunging necklines, and dallying with the handsome Lord Denby. Yet amid these distractio...

  • The Witness at the Wedding

    Simon Brett

    Carole Seddon's estranged relationship with her son Stephen has improved since he started seeing Gaby Martin, and she cannot be more pleased that they've decided to marry in Fethering. She does find it a bit odd, though, that Gaby's parents have no i...

  • Raven's Strike

    Patricia Briggs

    Centuries ago, the wizards of Colossae unleashed an unimaginable force of destruction: the Stalker. Only the sacrifice of their entire city could contain the menace they had wrought--but even then, the Stalker was only imprisoned, and it can still fi...

  • Satan's Tail

    Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    The beast isalive and prowling the high seas. As extremist Islamic pirates, armed and supported by a powerful Saudi terrorist, prey on civilian vessels in the Gulf of Aden, America aggressively answers with serious muscle -- a next-generation littora...

  • Chill Factor

    Sandra Brown

    Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town -- the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon...

  • The Lawyer's Contract Marriage

    Amanda Browning

    The plan is to bed her, not wed her... Samantha Lombardi was in love with lawyer Ransom Shaw. But, forced to marry another man to save her family from financial ruin, she had to convince Ransom that she'd never loved him at all. Six years l...

  • Vixen

    Ken Bruen

    For the Southeast London police squad, it's rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuos, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is unpredictable, wild, angry--and the cops don't ev...

  • Dear to Me

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Melinda Andrews loves deeply. She often pours that love into caring for hurt animals and sketching the deer that live in the woods behind her farm. This regularly gets her into trouble with her "maam" and "daed," who feel she shirks her duties to "te...

  • Strawberry Shortcake Treasury

    Megan E. Bryant

    Enjoy six of your favorite Strawberry Shortcake stories again and again in a beautiful treasury that includes Meet Strawberry Shortcake, Strawberry Shortcake at the Beach, and Strawberry Shortcake's Seaberry Mystery. ...

  • War Surf

    M.M. Buckner

    Nasir Deepra, a wealthy executive who rules 23rd-century Earth, instigates minor wars, broadcasting his "war surfing" escapades on the Net, until he meets a young girl with an insatiable thirst for danger who pushes him into a war that exposes his se...

  • The Dog from Hell

    Chris Bunch

    HELL UNLEASHED The Star Risk, Ltd., team is escorting a group of privileged -- and slightly wild -- girls from a finishing school on Earth to one of the luxury worlds. But what should be an easy contract turns deadly as the team runs a treacherous g...

  • Sticky Fingers

    Niki Burnham

    Busting my a** makes me feel good. Bulletproof, that's how Jenna Kassarian sees herself. It's all about control: As long as she works hard, nothing can hurt her. So Jenna constantly pushes -- for perfect grades, the ideal boyfriend, the best, best...

  • Lucius Dodge and the Redlands War

    J. Lee Butts

    When Ruby, his commanding officer's niece, goes missing, Texas Ranger Lucius Dodge, armed with three pistols, a derringer, and a bowie knife, sets out to find her and becomes caught in the middle of a rival clan war. Original....

  • Hostile Makeover

    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...

  • Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure

    Georgia Byng

    You're Getting Sleepy... And You're Starting To See Multiple Mollys. In Molly Moon's latest great adventures, she's bumping into earlier versions of herself--four of them to be exact--all kidnapped and transported back in time by Molly's most fearso...

  • Ready or Not

    Meg Cabot

    Top ten things Samantha Madison isn't ready for: 10. Spending Thanksgiving at Camp David 9. With her boyfriend, the president's son 8. Who appears to want to take their relationship to the Next Level 7. Which Sam inadvertently and shockin...

  • Devil's Bargain

    Rachel Caine

    NEVER TRUST A MAN BEARING RED ENVELOPES Jazz Callender -- don't ever call her Jasmine -- is an ex-cop with a goal: opening her own private detective agency and proving her former partner is innocent of murder. Too bad no one will lend her the mone...

  • Jewelry Box

    Rochelle Cane

    Every little girl knows that Princesses know jewels better than anyone. After all, no princess is a Princess without her sparkling tiara, her shining rings, and her shimmering bracelets. So join the Disney Princesses for a six-spread romp through all...

  • Cold Hit

    Stephen J. Cannell

    BETWEEN A COLD WAR Shane Scully has found his footing while his partner is going down in flames and a serial murderer rattles L.A.. Each corpse has been mysteriously defiled. Then, in the middle of the hunt, Scully gets an idea that may cost him his...

  • Godslayer

    Jacqueline Carey

    IF ALL THAT IS GOOD CONSIDERS YOU EVIL. ARE YOU? Supreme Commander Lord lanaros fled the realm of Men and chose darkness when he killed his adulterous wife and his liege king who cuckholded him. A thousand years have passed in service to his maste...

  • Twin Peril

    Susannah Carleton

    Double Trouble Michael Winslow, the Duke of Fairfax, must oblige to the duty of his dukedom -- and his nagging grandmother. It is time to find a suitable bride who will bear him an heir. Normally this would be a simple task, yet Michael wants a br...

  • Predators and Prayers

    Philip Carlo

    Someone is brutally murdering priests in New York City. The killer seems to be everywhere at once, striking almost at will. With pressure mounting, the mayor, the governor and the police commissioner all want this madman stopped before one more body ...

  • Flirting With Fireworks

    Teresa Carpenter

    One glimpse of her impossibly long legs and Mayor Jason Strong knew trouble had just arrived in Blossom, Texas. Her name was Lady Pandora -- and she claimed she could predict the future. Even though he didn't buy the beautiful gypsy's phony claim, he...

  • Fish, Bugs and Birds

    Michael Carroll

    God said, 'Let there be lights in the huge space of the sky...' And that's exactly what happened... And God said, 'Let the water be filled with living things. Let birds fly above the earth...' -Genesis 1:14, 19-23 (NIrV) In Fish, Bugs & Birds, curiou...

  • The Beekeeper's Daughter

    Janice Carter

    Just as ever bee returns to its hive... She came home to help her dad. But Annie Collins never expected to run the family business on her own. Nor could she have guessed that the daughter she gave up at birth would seek her out. Will Jennings ...

  • Bloodline

    Kate Cary

    MY DEAR DAUGHTER, I FEAR AN OLD ENEMY HAS RETURNED. AN ENEMY MY FRIENDS AND I• HAD HOPED OUR OWN CHILDREN WOULD NEVER KNOW. FROM WHAT YOU HAVE TOLD ME, I BELIEVE QUINCEY -HARKER IS DESCENDED FROM THE SAME EVIL, PARASITIC PRESENCE I HELPED REMOVE FR...

  • My Heart May Be Broken, But My Hair Still Looks Great

    Dixie Cash

    Welcome to Salt Lick, Texas, home of big hair, big ranches, and two of the biggest busybodies ever to wield a blow-dryer -- Debbie Sue and Edwina, also known as the Domestic Equalizers. Their motto: Don't run over him -- get over him! Their missi...

  • Family At Last

    K.N. Casper

    Sixteen years ago Nina Lockhart left Moscow to escape her past. Now she's helping a small Russian boy fit into his new life with his adoptive father, Jarrod Morrison, here in the States. But part of helping seven-year-old Sasha means returning to her...

  • A Fabulous Wife

    Dianne Castell

    They Had Their Differences As a Chicago cop, staring down a gun barrel had never fazed Jack Dawson. But his being in constant danger was his wife's undoing. About a decade was all Maggie could handle before she left him for the safety of a Mon...

  • Dear Enemy

    Jack Cavanaugh

    "American nurse Annie Rawlings finds herself behind enemy lines in WWII, captured and alone with a wounded German soldier. Through shared danger, faith, and a love of music, the two forge a bond that will be tested by prejudice and the separations of...

  • Minnie and Moo the Case of the Missing Jelly Donut

    Denys Cazet

    Cow friends Minnie and Moo search for a thief who stole Minnie's jelly donut and who may have left behind a blue feather as a clue to their identity. By the creator of Minnie and Moo Meet Frankenswine. Reprint....

  • The Young Widow

    Cassandra Chan

    A CHARMING WIDOW WITH A TROUBLING HISTORY As if by magic, Annette Berowne seems capable of dazzling men from the moment she meets them. But when Annette becomes the primary suspect in her husband's poisoning death, she arouses entirely different fee...

  • Ghoul Hunters

    J-P Chanda

    The Turtles are furious! A shrieking ghoul has been scaring people and robbing valuables from banks, stores, and museums -- and the mayor wants to cancel Halloween! No one messes with the Turtles' favorite holiday, so they decide to find o...

  • The Wicked, Wicked Ladies In The Haunted House

    Mary Chase

    Maureen Swanson is the scourge of the neighborhood. At age nine, she already has a reputation as a hard slapper, a loud laugher, a liar, and a stay-after-schooler. The other kids call her Stinky. So sometimes when Maureen passes the crumbling (and ha...

  • Bad Dog Goes Barktastic

    Martin Chatterton

    Bad Dog goes undercover in this rollicking canine caper!

    He's the baddest dog in town. A 100% high-steppin', bone-crunchin', cat-chasin' pooch with one small problem: he has three days left on Death Row at the City Pound for Unwanted Canines...

  • The Deep Beyond

    C.J. Cherryh

    This omnibus volume combines two Alliance-Union novels: Hugo Award nominee Cuckoo’s Egg and Locus Best Novel Award nominee Serpent’s Reach. In Cuckoo’s Egg:  They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was ugly ...

  • Turn My World Upside Down

    Maureen Child

    Jo Marconi has her hands full working hard at the family business and struggling to get her belated college degree. The last thing she needs is a ten-year-old boy to look after. But that's exactly what she gets when her stepbrother comes to live with...

  • Taking Back Mary Ellen Black

    Lisa Childs

    "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." -- William Shakespeare A starter marriage hadn't been the first act Mary Ellen Black had meant to script for herself, but bowing out provided hard-won perspective: The most impor...

  • Sex in the Hood

    White Chocolate

  • The Texan's Reluctant Bride

    Judy Christenberry

    Accustomed to hiring and firing in a snap, Pete Scholfield was at a complete loss when it came to finding a wife. So why, when he engaged Ms. Thomasina Tyler to relocate his business, did he find himself considering her for another role? Sure, the ch...

  • Peek-a-Boooo!

    Marie Torres Cimarusti

    Here is a Halloween book in the same large-flap format as the highly successful Peek-a-Moo! and Peek-a-Zoo! Toddlers will enjoy playing peeka-boo with familiar, friendly, not-at-all frightening Halloween figures. Guess who? Peek-a-hee-hee-hee-heee...

  • Extreme Exposure

    Pamela Clare

    It's been years since her child's father dumped her, and since then Kara McMillan has kept men at bay--although every day she aches more for a lover's touch. But to get that, the hard-boiled journalist must become vulnerable--a feeling she vowed neve...

  • Coming Home to Katoomba

    Lucy Clark

    The single father Oliver Bowan came to Katoomba to create a home for his daughter and seek custody. He wanted nothing to get in the way of that, but distraction came to the new head of E.R. in the shape of Dr. Stephanie Brooks. Their attraction wa...

  • The Tower

    Simon Clark

    The Tower stands in solitude. What began as a seventeenth-century manor house has grown over the centuries into something very different. Something evil. There are the stark walls, the shadow-filled rooms, the lonely corridors. But the Tower is haunt...

  • Incendiary

    Chris Cleave

    I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself. In an emotionally raw voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, a woman mourns the loss of her husband and son at the hands of one of history’s most notorious criminals. And in appealin...

  • The Palace Tiger

    Barbara Cleverly

    India, 1922. In this, the fourth in the acclaimed Joe Sandilands series, Scotland Yard detective Joe arrives in the princely state of Ranipur at the request of the Maharajah, an old ally of the British. The Maharajah is dying, and the succession is u...

  • We're in Trouble

    Christopher Coake

    Short fiction about love in the face of mortal threats, in a prize-winning collection by the author of You Came Back.   In this extraordinary collection of short fiction, characters wrestle with the moments in life that test us most deeply, in w...

  • There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat!

    Lucille Colandro

    This spooky twist on the wildly popular "There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly" is perfect for fun Halloween reading!What won't this old lady swallow? This time around, a bat, an owl, a cat, a ghost, a goblin, some bones, and a wizard are all on ...

  • Long Live Princess Smartypants

    Babette Cole

    A modern fairy tale for the twenty-first century and a second adventure for the irrepressible and highly popular Princess Smartypants. Princess Smartypants has decided she'd like to have a baby but doesn't want the husband to go with it. The King and...

  • Seduction By The Book

    Linda Conrad

    BEAUTY BESTS THE BEAST? The hurricane that imprisoned them...alone...in his island fortress was nothing compared to the storm raging within him. For two years, Nicholas Scoville had forbidden himself the pleasure of a woman, a self-imposed sentenc...

  • Home at Last

    Jerri Corgiat

    What she always wanted was right before her eyes. After shaking the Ozark dust from her designer stilettos for the last time, Marigold McKenzie O'Malley headed to Kansas City to find fame and fortune. But now, eight years later, Mari is unemployed...

  • The Man Burns Tonight

    Donn Cortez

    JACK RABBIT SPEAKS A tall figure stands alone, waiting to be engulfed in flames. It is the Burning Man, the giant wooden centerpiece of Nevada's famous weeklong arts festival. Every year, thousands flock to the middle of the desert to push the limit...

  • Thirty-three Teeth

    Colin Cotterill

    Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent seventy-two-year-old has an outstanding qualification for the role: cu...

  • Lyon's Gate

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Five years after Jason Sherbrooke leaves England for Baltimore and the Wyndhams (The Valentine Legacy), one of the premiere racing families in the area, he wakes up early one morning with Horace's ugly pug face staring him down, and k...

  • Slap

    Mat Coward
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    Lights...Camera...Murder! Behind the velvet ropes and closed curtains, buried in the back lots, you'll find the darker side of the spotlight. It's where stars are created overnight, and burn out just cis quickly. Where deals are made to be broken,...

  • Latte Trouble

    Cleo Coyle

    As manager of the historic Village Blend coffeehouse, Clare Cosi can steam a fantastically foamy cappuccino and press a perfect pot of Jamaica Blue Mountain. But suddenly she finds herself dealing with a mystery that's just too hot to handle... Th...

  • Desert Summer

    Michael Craft

    The first year in academia ends with a bang-up summer session for theater-director-turned-professor Claire Gray with a new production, a new love, and a dead body. Claire, a former Broadway director and now head of the Theater Department of Desert ...

  • His Wedding-Night Heir

    Sara Craven

    Will he get his wedding-night baby? Virginal beauty Cally Maitland has become accustomed to life on the run since fleeing her marriage to British aristocrat Sir Nicholas Tempest. But Nicholas isn't prepared to let Cally go. He has a harsh u...

  • Who's That Baby?

    Sharon Creech

    Who are you, babynewly bornwho's this little babe?

    Baby burritoes . . . are held very tight.Banana babies . . . are bundled up in the cold.Leaky babies . . . leak.

    No matter what kind of baby they are, all new babies see, hear, think, ...

  • Brazen Chariots

    Robert Crisp

    "Unquestionably the finest narrative of tank warfare to come out of World War II."―Los Angeles Times

    A tank officer's story of the desert war in North Africa, Brazen Chariots is one of the most widely praised war books ever published. Major ...

  • Storms of Destiny

    A.C. Crispin

    Disgraced outcasts, they hold the fates of empire and gods ... A dedicated priestess of Boq'urak, Thia has spent the whole of her young life in devout worship -- until she inadvertently discovers the unholy truth about the deity she serves. Cruel...

  • Bonechillers

    D.W. Cropper

    These thirteen, spine-tingling tales take young readers into a dark and twisted world of vampires, ghouls, werewolves, and other unspeakable creatures. Watch Estelle struggle against the cruel imposter that only looks like her brother. Sympathize wit...

  • The Wreckage

    Michael Crummey

    The Wreckage is a truly epic, yet twisted, romance that unfolds over decades and continents. It engages readers on the austere shores of Newfoundland’s fishing villages and drags them across to Japanese POW camps during some of the worst events of ...

  • What Mr. Mattero Did

    Priscilla Cummings

    Three junior high school girls accuse their music teacher of inappropriate actions. The story is told through the eyes of one of the accusers, Claire, who lives in the shadow of a disabled younger brother, and the teacher’s daughter Melody.  I...

  • It Begins

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Out walking alone one rainy night, Lucy becomes convinced that someone -- or something -- is following her. Spooked, she ducks into a cemetery to try and lose her stalker. Panicking in the darkness, she slips and stumbles into an open grave -- only t...

  • Rest in Peace

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Still stalked by an unseen force and plagued by unspeakable visions, Lucy feels she cannot carry on for much longer -- especially now that Byron, the one person who understood what she was going through, is dead. No one else believes her. She is stil...

  • Stop This Birthday

    Rowan Cutler

    Zephyr can hardly wait for her birthday. And when it comes, she has so much fun she wishes her birthday would come every day. When her wish is granted with hilarious results! Zephyr learns that some things are special because they come only once a ye...

  • Dead Man Docking

    Mary Daheim

    B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn and her closer-than-a-sibling cousin Renie would be crazy to turn down a free, 1930s-themed South Pacific islands cruise aboard the magnificent San Rafael, the pride of the Cruz Cruises fleet. Unfortunately, the fab...

  • Robots

    Jack Dann

    Featuring contributions from James Patrick Kelly, Mike Resnick, and Geoff Ryman, this electrifying collection of science fiction stories centers around the intricate and conflicted relationships between humankind and humankind's most brilliant creati...

  • Orange You Glad It's Halloween, Amber Brown?

    Paula Danziger

    Halloween is one of Amber brown's favorite holidays, and this year she has come up with a fantastic costume. It's so perfect that she's keeping it a secret even from her best friend, Justin, no matter what he bribes her with. Amber can't wait to reve...

  • Essential Wolverine, Volume 1

    Peter David

    Experience Wolverine's battle to keep the feral berserker within in check, while trying to be the best there is at what he does. Special guest appearance by the Incredible Hulk. Collects Wolverine #1-23....

  • Jennifer Scales and the Ancient Furnace

    Maryjanice Davidson; Anthony Alongi

    And you thought puberty sucked. Try morphing into a dragon. I knew that at this age I'd be going through a lot of changes -- but blue scales? Claws? A snout? Come on! This is ridiculous and just so unfair. And I can't believe my parents waited until...

  • Mrs. Hudson and the Malabar Rose

    Martin Davies

    Sherlock Holmes and Mrs Hudson are faced with a new challenge...Dangerous magicians! Precious gems! Dastardly Plans! Sherlock Holmes is just the man... But what if Holmes isn't the only brains at Baker Street?As snow falls on Baker Street, the wintry...

  • Uncanny X-Men: The New Age, Volume 3: On Ice

    Alan Davis

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #455-461. High adventure in the Savage Land! The X-Men discover a wondrous and advanced new civilization when they return to the isolated, Antarctic jungle - but it's none-too-friendly toward humans. . . or mutants! And ...

  • The Shattered Blue Line

    Patrick A. Davis

    INSIDE AN AIR FORCE ACADEMY SEX SCANDAL INVESTIGATION, ANOTHER HEINOUS CRIME COMES TO LIGHT: MURDER. Major Nathan Malone figured his DWI charge was about to get him fired from the Office of Special Investigations. Instead, he's pulled from his h...

  • Showdown At Anchor

    Peter Dawson

    The heart of the American West lives in Peter Dawson's stories, with characters that blaze a trail over a land of frontier dreams and nightmares and across a country coming of age. Sometimes, as in "A Tinhorn Takes a Tank Town," the conflict has to d...

  • The Quickening

    Ly de Angeles

    Most people see the Travelers as a ragged bunch of musicians, artists, and fortunetellers crossing the country in an old double-decker bus, but these magical creatures are actually the SĂ­dhe, the Fair Folk, an ageless, magical race bringing the l...

  • Twighlights Terror

    Anne De Graaf

  • The Twelfth Card

    Jeffery Deaver

    Schoolgirl Geneva Settle's research project into her slave ancestor Charles Singleton unearths more than just an interesting story. Suddenly Geneva seems to be the target of a professional assassin. A man who will ruthlessly kill anyone in his way un...

  • Security

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Starfleet Corps of Engineers When a new security guard reports for duty, it sets da Vinci security chief Domenica Corsi off in ways that confuse both her staff and her sometime lover Fabian Stevens. When Stevens confronts her, it only makes matters ...

  • Rafi and Rosi

    Lulu Delacre

    In this chapter book series, Rafi and his younger sister, Rosi, explore their surroundings and learn about the traditions, plants, animals, and environment of Puerto Rico. Young readers will enjoy the adventures of these curious siblings and will ...

  • Montana Blue

    Genell Dellin

    VENGEANCE OR LOVE? THE CHOISE WAS HIS... The cost of avenging the death of his sister was ten years in prison, but Blue Bowman willingly paid the price. Now he has one more score to settle: destroying the wealthy Montana rancher who abandoned his ...

  • Firehouse Field Trip

    Danielle Denega

  • Trick-Or-Treat, Smell My Feet!

    Lisa Desimini

  • Mercy Watson to the Rescue

    Kate DiCamillo

    Mr. and Mrs. Watson have a pig named Mercy. Mercy is a porcine wonder. One night, Mercy decides she does not want to sleep in her own bed. She would much rather snuggle up with Mr. and Mrs. Watson. This is not good news for the Watsons' bed. Or for...

  • Herbie Fully Loaded: Official Movie Scrapbook

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney Out of This World Cartoon Tales

    Disney Book Group

    Disney Cartoon Tales gives young kids a chance to enjoy all the fun of their older siblings' comic books and graphic novels! This clever new format interweaves colorful comic strips with blocks of prose to create exciting stories young readers won't ...

  • The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    In a pristine valley hidden in the Himalayas, Anand has a disturbing vision. His mentor and spiritual guide, the Master Healer Abhaydatta, is apparently in grave danger. What should he do? If he conveys this information to his elders, he'll waste pre...

  • Spy Set

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Four cases. Two brothers.

    One mission:

    Justice.

    Follow Frank and Joe Hardy through their first four cases working as undercover agents for ATAC (American Teens Against Crime) as they crack cases and catch criminals left ...

  • A Mouth Like Yours

    Daniel Duane


    A brutally honest novel about love and illusion from the author of Caught Inside

    Cassius Harper, ambivalent child of the seventies, is leading a modest and respectable life in San Francisco's flush nineties: he has a promising doctoral the...

  • Adultery for Beginners

    Sarah Duncan


    Isabel and Neil are old marrieds. Suburban old marrieds, at that. While the routine that's as comfortable as an old shoe seems to suit Neil just fine, Isabel--professional wife and mother and one the nicest women in the line at school pick-up--is...

  • Car Trouble

    Jeanne Duprau

    When Duff's Ford Escort BREAKS DOWN after barely a hundred miles, he uses his laptop and some quick thinking to piece together a way to continue his trip. What he doesn't plan on are the characters he meets along the road, including A HITCHHIKER WITH...

  • White Tiger

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    John Thinnes, a detective on the Chicago police force, and Jack Caleb, a well-known psychiatrist, were friends---unlikely friends, maybe, with very different lives, but men who liked and respected each other. And they had one significant experience i...

  • Crystal Gorge

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    After two devastating defeats and the utter annihilation of two armies, the hideous Vlagh still vows to invade the land of Dhrall. A voracious insectile overmind, she can breed millions of soldiers in mere days and even evolve entire new species in j...

  • The Talent Show

    Michelle Edwards

    Jackson Magnet is having a talent show. Howie is excited because everyone will be there to hear her sing. But at the final dress rehearsal in front of the entire school, she gets so scared she can't perform her song. Will Howie make it through Openin...

  • Ms. Bitsy Bat's Kindergarten

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

    Boy genius Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent-H for short- is the answer to his rich parents' prayers. He is their dear companion, their fiercest board game adversary, and their frequent guest at parties. But this prodigy's parents don't share his kn...

  • Unkempt

    Courtney Eldridge

    In the seven stories and one novella collected in Unkempt, Courtney Eldridge gives life to characters of astounding originality. Probing the darker corners of the human psyche, she shows -- with a sly and unexpected sense of humor -- the neurotic min...

  • Nine Wives

    Dan Elish

    Henry Mann is a 32-year-old bachelor who has spent the last few years watching everyone he knows get married. After the most recent wedding, where an intoxicated Henry proposes to no less than three women (including the rabbi), it dawns on him that b...

  • Hunter and Stripe and the Soccer Showdown

    Laura Malone Elliott

  • Lunar Park

    Bret Easton Ellis

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a chilling tale that combines reality, memoir, and fantasy to create a fascinating portrait of this most controversial writer but also a de...

  • Luka's Tortoise

    Julie Ellis (1)

  • Good Woman Blues

    Lynn Emery

    It didn't take much for Erikka Rochon's charmed Big Easy life to hit rock bottom: a car accident, a scandal -- and suddenly she's gone from climbing the corporate ladder to being driven out of town. Ordered to take some time off, an always-on-the-go ...

  • Mister Boots

    Carol Emshwiller

    Bobby Lassiter has some important secrets--but it's not as if anyone's paying attention. It's the middle of the Depression, and while Bobby's mother and older sister knit all day to make money, Bobby explores the California desert around their home. ...

  • Lights! Camera! Felicity

    Tamara England

  • Home to Me, Home to You

    Jennifer A. Ericsonn

    Alternating between a child's and a mother's voice, a tender story chronicles a day in the life of a mother and daughter separated by the mother's business trip, celebrating the joyful reunion when the mother returns home....

  • The Bonehunters

    Steven Erikson

    The Sixth Book of the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen from bestselling author Steven Erikson

    The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan and under the fanatical...

  • The Undertaker's Wife

    Loren D. Estleman

    From award-winning author Loren D. Estleman comes The Undertaker's Wife.The undertaker's wife waits; she weaves; she builds.The undertaker practices his art, the Dismal Trade, with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft o...

  • Relics

    Mary Anna Evans

    BURY YOUR DEAD Instead of digging up the dead, archaeologist Faye Longchamp's new job will give her the chance to help the living. Though she's heading the group set to uncover the mysteries of the Sujosa people, Faye and assistant Joe Wolf Manto...

  • Longarm and the Missing Mistress

    Tabor Evans

    A sexy songbird flies the coop.With her heavenly voice, chanteuse Miss Claire has just about every man in Denver wrapped around her little finger, but she needs a man like U.S. Marshal Custis Long to keep her alive. Notes of the not-so-musical kind h...

  • She's On The Money

    Stephanie Feagan

    She's Whitney "Pink" Pearl, the world's most fearless...accountant? Her boss gave her the ultimatum -- bring in more clients or else. So when the town's stingiest man asks Pink to investigate his mysteriously dwindling oil assets, Pink takes the c...

  • Goblin Giggles

    Gene Fehler

  • A Primrose Wedding

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    NEVER SAY NEVER... Primrose by name, wallflower by nature--the shy younger Dunsworthy sister would rather study ancient Egypt than endure the ton's endless scrutiny. In Rupert Jordan, Lord Fortenbury, Rosie has found a companion with a passion for...

  • Searching for Cate

    Marie Ferrarella

    Since her mother's death, FBI Special Agent Cate Kowalski had to cope with the deep emptiness she felt -- and the shocking revelation that she was adopted. The news came too soon after losing her fiance and destroyed the very foundation of her identi...

  • Naked Truth

    Amy J. Fetzer

    Catch Me If You Can Clandestine operative Alexa Gavlin has nothing left. No country. No contacts. And no memory. Thirty days have been chemically erased. Stolen by whom--she knows. Why--that's anyone's guess. Accused of murder and treason, Alexa bec...

  • Galactic Issue

    Acton Figueroa

    During his birthday bash, Maximus I.Q. serves a giant birthday cake with mind-altering icing that will bring the people at his party under his control forever unless Atomic Betty can arrive in time to save the universe. Kids....

  • A Sudden Country

    Karen Fisher

    A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption.James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious H...

  • Zap

    Paul Fleischman

    When they're not dusting off the old classics -- over and over -- high-school drama departments are constantly in search of new material. But what play could possibly suit the point-and-click attention spans of kids born with remote controls in t...

  • Bodie Beauties

    Dirk Fletcher

    With ambitious would-be gold miners flocking to Bodie, California, in search of a fortune, the town is overrun by gangs of thieves out to steal the gold, and Spur's visit to an old friend, John Trevarow, forces him into a deadly confrontation with a ...

  • Justice Served

    R. Barri Flowers

    There is a killer on the prowl, terrorizing the streets of Portland, brutally beating men to death. Each victim was recently on trial for domestic abuse, but each was released. The press is having a field day with the new vigilante killer, but it's u...

  • Confessions of a Small-Town Girl

    Christine Flynn

    Dear Diary, Sam MacInnes is back in town. He's still so gorgeous, but there's a haunted look in his eyes. People say he's a cop now -- he must see some awful things on the job. I used to have the biggest crush on him! He never noticed me, but I wr...

  • Unforgiving Shadows

    Ray Flynt

    Brad Frame lived a serene but aimless existence on Philadelphia's Main Line until his mother and sister were kidnapped and murdered. The tragedy transformed his life and gave him a sense of purpose. After helping the police catch their killers, and w...

  • Everything She's Ever Wanted

    Mary J. Forbes

    MEMO TO SELF: SECOND CHANCES ARE FOR THOSE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SEIZE THEM. Since the betrayal that had upended her life, Breena Quinlan hid. Hid her feelings in the pages of a journal. Hid her body beneath baggy clothes. Hid in an out-of-the-way Oreg...

  • The Girl in the Glass

    Jeffrey Ford

    The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to maste...

  • Dear Cordelia

    Pamela Ford

    Food reporter Liza Dunnigan has always dreamed of being an investigative journalist, and she's finally got her chance. Her assignment? Track down reclusive advice columnist "Cordelia." The only way to get to Cordelia is through her publicist, Jack...

  • Whatever It Takes

    Gwynne Forster

    Lacette Graham's twin sister, Kellie, has been competing with her since they shared a crib. And in thirty-three years, nothing has changed--except success, money, and men have come into play. But when the girls' parents separate, and their grandmothe...

  • The Lonely Girls Club

    Suzanne Forster

    At an exclusive California prep school, four young girls form a bond that will endure over two decades - a bond built on secrets, scandal and murder...a bond about to be broken. Mattie, a federal judge...Breeze, a wealthy entrepreneur...and Jane, ...

  • Sawyer's Special Delivery

    Nicole Foster

    AN EMT IN SHINING ARMOR... Sawyer Morente's specialty was saving damsels in distress. But Maya Rainbow wasn't his typical rescue: The hippie girl he barely remembered from high school had transformed into a woman unlike any he'd ever known. And wh...

  • Ain't No Valley

    Sharon Ewell Foster

    Anthony, a banking executive, and Naomi, a dentist, are two people who have trusted their jobs and status to make them whole--until they are suddenly without either. Against the backdrop of San Francisco and plans for a California wedding for Mary an...