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New Books List: 635 titles


  • Daniel Abraham

    Daniel Abraham delighted fantasy readers with his brilliantly original and engaging first novel, and in his second penned a tragedy as darkly personal and violent as Shakespeare's King Lear. Now he has written an epic fantasy of much wider scope and ...



  • Peter Abrahams

    In Echo Falls, secrets buried in the past don't always stay there.In the third book in the Edgar Awardâ€"nominated and national bestselling Echo Falls series, Peter Abrahams's talent for building suspense shines as Ingrid embarks on her most harrowin...



  • C.T. Adams; Cathy Clamp

    KATIE AND TOM ARE FINALLY GETTING MARRIED. Or they would be -- but things just keep going wrong. Tom's werewolf ex-girlfriend is stalking Katie. Both Katie's brothers are giving her the cold shoulder. The Thrall is gearing up for something, but Kati...



  • Jennie Adams

    Buttoned-up boss, rule-breaking PA! Sophia Gable is anything but conventional, and multimillionaire Grey Barlow knows this the second he meets her. With her bright clothes, and even brighter outlook on life, Sophia is no ordinary PA! And Grey is b...



  • Shelley Adina

    New Yorker Gillian Chang starts her second term at posh Spencer Academy boarding school in San Francisco prepared to focus on her studies, her faith, and her friends. She plays a dozen musical instruments and can recite the periodic table of the elem...



  • Chris Adrian

    The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering--illness, regret, mourning, sympathy--in the most unusual of ways. In "Stab," a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lea...



  • Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

    Biochemist Ted Sallis and his team are on a mission: To recreate the serum that spawned the world's first super-soldier. But like the swamp itself, there are dangers lurking beneath the surface. Ted's partner Eric, his girlfriend Ellen, the governmen...



  • Yamanaka Akira

    Fresh from Japan...Spider-Man J! Originally published only in that country, Spider-Man J enjoyed a large following of loyal readers. Now, fans here can enjoy Spider-Man J's manga-styled adventures, collected for the first time in America and translat...



  • Rochelle Alers

    Meet the Whitfields of New York... Tessa, Faith and Simone Whitfield know all about coordinating other people's weddings, and not so much about arranging their own love lives. But in the space of one unforgettable year, all three will meet intriguing...



  • Donna Alward

    In the arms of her Rocky Mountain Ranger... Tidy. Sensible. Safe. That's how Maggie Taylor wants things. Until she opens the door of her tiny mountain hotel to a tall, dark and very dangerous stranger. Nate Griffith offers a world of pleasu...



  • Caroline Anderson

    Fran Trevellyan is counting her blessings -- her marriage to Mike, her little stepdaughter, her home and friends in Penhally. Yet she is haunted by the one thing she wants most of all: a baby -- Mike's baby. After three years of trying, their marria...



  • Natsumi Ando

    SPITTING IMAGE

    A new student has arrived at Seika Academy, and he’s supposed to take Najika’s place as spokesperson for the cooking school. Seiya is arrogant and bossy, and he cooks with a precision that is the exact opposite of Najika’s...



  • Antonio Lobo Antunes

    The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demi...



  • A.C. Arthur

    Tired of their matchmaking mothers, Cally, Serena, and Nola decide to find men to pose as their boyfriends as their younger cousin's wedding approaches, but their seemingly foolproof plan goes awry when feelings get involved. Original....



  • Bridget Asher

    When Lucy Shoreman discovered that her charming, cheating husband was dying, she came home, opened up his little black book, and decided she wasn't going through this alone. After all Artie's sweethearts were there for the good times -- is it fair th...



  • Trisha Ashley

    Tina Devino is a moderately successful author, who aspires to bestsellerdom. As do her clients, because Tina is also a literary consultant, who uses her own experience to advise other would-be authors. But Tinas own life leaves a lot to be desired he...



  • Paul Auster

    Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget--his...



  • James Axler

    Damage Criteria The war to pull Earth and humanity back from the iron grip of slavery shifts against an inhuman enemy both calculating and unpredictable. For those with the knowledge and will to reclaim their planet, a blueprint for survival has e...



  • Sam Baker

    Fashion and murder collide in Deadly Beautiful, Sam Baker’s smart, hip, and thrilling new novel as newspaper reporter-turned-fashion writer Annie Anderson investigates a secret underground where many drop-dead-gorgeous models have gone to “make i...



  • Leanne Banks

    Beware of Billionaires Marry Alex Megalos? Though tempted by the Greek billionaire, Mallory James knew his exploits were legendary. Involving herself with a man like Megalos could only lead to heartbreak. But she hadn't counted on Alex's determinati...



  • Jo Bannister

    Brodie Farrell has all but put her detective agency, Looking for Something?, on hold while she tends to her new baby, born with a rare condition. Now, as her son's health issues stabilize and longtime friend Daniel Hood offers to care for him, she fi...



  • Negi Banno

    This 4-panel school story takes the formula popularized by Azumanga Daioh and grows it up just a bit, focusing on the school faculty rather than the students. Ever wondered what goes on behind the closed doors of the teachers' lounge? At Asashio High...



  • Adrienne Barbeau; Michael Scott

    Hollywood, California: three gruesome deaths within two weeks and every one of them a major star - an Oscar winner, an ingenue, and an action hero. A serial killer is working through the Hollywood A-list and celebrities are running scared. Each cr...




  • Joan Barfoot

    You might think life in a retirement home would be a trifle boring, but in the Idyll Inn of Joan Barfoot's latest marvellous novel, not everyone feels ready for the quiet life. But wait, maybe one resident does! Oh dear. Seniors begin to settle int...



  • Lisa Barham

    Imogene's going from starstruck to starlet! Imogene and Evie are headed to L.A. for a fashion-filled spring break. Hello, gorgeous beaches, celebrity sightings, and nonstop shopping on Rodeo Drive! Then the spotlight turns on Imogene and sudden...



  • Clive Barker

    Pinhead returns to screens in Fall 2022 in an all new Hellraiser streaming series! The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-bel...



  • Linda Barnes

    Bestseller and multiple award -- winning author Linda Barnes returns with the most personal case to date for her popular Boston PI, Carlotta Carlyle. Carlotta, in unfamiliar territory working on her own behalf, finds herself in the middle of a compli...




  • Brunonia Barry

    Every gift has a price . . . Every piece of lace has a secret . . . Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of The Lace Reader, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarde...



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

    The return of the shifter Geth! In the wake of the Last War, a new king has risen and seeks to unite the newly formed goblin kingdom of Darguun under his rule. He seeks an ancient scepter, a symbol under which to unite his people and hires Geth, a...



  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    When Laini Sullivan lands a job designing Nick Pantalone's coffee shop, there are two problems: one, Nick's nephew Joe hates all of her ideas and two, Laini has to admit he's right--she's a disaster at design. Still, she can't risk losing the job. To...



  • Carolyn Baugh

    Author Carolyn Baugh tells the moving story of a young American student living in the Garden City district of Cairo. Having come to study Arabic, she learns far more from the Egyptian women, young and old, she meets within the swirl and tumult of Gar...



  • Daphne Beal

    Alex , a twenty-year-old American student, is spending the year in Nepal, backpacking and photographing. As a favor to Will â€" her American friend â€" she uses one of her Himalayan treks to seek out Maya, a young Nepali woman desperate to flee her t...



  • Elizabeth Bear

    Kit Marley and William Shakespeare are playwrights in the service of Queen Elizabeth, employed by the Prometheus Club. Their words, infused with magic, empower Her Majesty's rule. But some of the Prometheans, comprised of England's most influential m...



  • James Becker

    An ancient inscription...a dangerous secret? An explosive debut thriller! Chris Bronson is devastated when his best friend's wife-- the woman he was secretly in love with--dies in a tragic accident. But when Bronson heads to Italy to console his ...



  • Galen Beckett

    Galen Beckett weaves a dazzling spell of adventure and suspense in an evocative world of high magick and genteel society -- a world where one young woman discovers that her modest life is far more extraordinary than she ever imagined. Of the three L...



  • Beth Beechwood

    Series Description:There's something magical happening in New York City... The Russos look like an average family: Mom and Dad run a Manhattan deli, while their kids, Alex, Justin, and Max, deal with school, friendships, and first d...



  • Andy Behrens

    What wouldn't a guy do to get the girl? How will garage band front man Duncan ever get the attention of his goddess like classmate Carly, who's so busy trying to save the world that she won't even look in his direction? An idea hits him, literally...



  • James Scott Bell

    Dispensing free legal advice from his "office" at the local coffee bar, attorney Ty Buchanan agrees to help a soon-to-be evicted mother with a 6-year-old daughter. But when the mystery woman turns up dead, the case moves from the courts to the street...



  • Nancy Bell

    When the lifeless body of local real estate king Tom Delgado is found, the discovery stirs up all kinds of gossip in Post Oak, Texas. Suspicion falls on his widow, Dovie, who discovered that funds from her husband's sizable bank account--as well as h...



  • C.F. Bentley

    The world of Harmony, along with its close-knit colony planets, had long ago isolated itself from the rest of the universe. Whether you were of human or alien descent you could not enter Harmony space. But in a universe where the human-based Confede...



  • Sue Bentley

    Flame meets Jemma Watson in an alley, and this ordinary girl soon realizes that she is dealing with an extraordinary kitten. Flame’s magic powers come in handy as Jemma auditions for dance school while trying to look after her younger siblings. But...



  • Sue Bentley

    Flame is a magic kitten and a prince in his own world. But when he finds out that his evil uncle is up to no good, Flame escapes to the human world. He visits family after family, using his magic spells wherever they're needed most! What do you do...



  • Sue Bentley

    Flame is a magic kitten and a prince in his own world. But when he finds out that his evil uncle is up to no good, Flame escapes to the human world. He visits family after family, using his magic spells wherever they're needed most! When Flame mee...




  • Mark Bernthal

    Kids will love visiting the police station with their favorite dinosaur, Barney! This 8x8 has a special price-- it's just $2.99!

    Join Barney and BJ as they visit the police station and learn all about how police officers do their job. Find out...



  • Gary Berntsen; Ralph Pezzullo

    A DIABOLICAL PLOT, A LONE OPERATIVE, AND A THREAT FAR LARGER THAN ANYONE IMAGINES. . . Writing with award-winning novelist Ralph Pezzullo, Gary Berntsen -- longtime CIA operative and the field commander who cornered Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan --...



  • Cordelia Frances Biddle

    Critics raved about The Conjurer, the first in Cordelia Frances Biddle's superb historical mystery series. Now Philadelphian heiress Martha Beale is back in a second thrilling installment laced with fast-paced intrigue and exquisite period detail. ...



  • Deirdre Black

    Ruby and her friends hear that an upcoming lunar eclipse will temporarily alter their personalities, and they go camping to see what will happen! Sure enough, the eclipse makes them act very strangely. It’s all fun until Doom Kitty disappears and t...



  • Lisa Black

    Early one Thursday morning, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is called to the scene of a gruesome murder. The body of a man has been found on the front lawn of a house in suburban Cleveland, the back of his head bashed in. Although it's not the bes...



  • Lawana Blackwell

    The children of Vicar Andrew Phelps and Julia Hollis from the popular Gresham Chronicles series have grown up and are dealing with their own challenges. Philip Hollis, now a successful London surgeon, has a controlling wife who resents his close fami...



  • Christine Blevins

    From the villages of eighteenth-century Scotland to the colonies of America, Christine Blevins takes us on a richly imagined, perilous adventure, as one woman seeks the life she deserves... They called her Dark Maggie for her thick black hair, bu...



  • Judy Blume

    The Pain and the Great One are going places! In seven comical new stories, Jake and Abigail are always on the move. A day at the beach finds the waves crashing, but only one of them wants to ride a Boogie board. The family takes a trip to the mall bu...



  • Stephanie Bond

    Carlotta Wren has always dreamed of taking a vacation from her life as daughter to fugitive parents and mother to her younger brother, Wesley. So when she is temporarily suspended from her job at Neiman Marcus, the invitation from hunky body mover Co...



  • Ben Bova

    Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself ...



  • Julie Bowe

    Be careful what you wish for. Ida May and her new best friend, Stacey Merriweather, are two peas in a pod. And when they discover a magical mermaid night-light that seems to grant wishes, they start a secret club -- just the two of them. But before ...



  • Amanda Boyden

    From the author of the acclaimed debut Pretty Little Dirty comes a complex, seductive novel about race and culture, set in New Orleans. Babylon Rolling is a glittering, gritty, unflinching novel of five families living along an Uptown block in the...



  • P.J. Bracegirdle

    Do you dare set foot in Spooking? It's the terrible town on the hideous hill -- and Joy Wells is a proud resident. A fan of classic horror stories, Joy is convinced that famous author E. A. Peugeot based his spine-tingling tales on Spooking. Tak...



  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It's a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has roots tha...



  • Gillian Bradshaw

    Spring, 266 BC. When Isokrates, helmsman of the Rhodian warship Atalanta, encounters a pirate vessel off the Lycian coast, he finds himself caught up in affairs of state more deadly than the naval battles hes accustomed to. Among the pirates victims ...



  • Marie Brennan

    Two women. One soul.Mirage wasn't supposed to exist. Born from the ritual that gives the witches of Starfall their power, she should have been destroyed. Instead she survived, and grew up to become one of the most lethal Hunters the land has ever see...



  • Marie Brennan

    Revolution has come to Starfall. To some, Mirei is a savior. Born from the union of opposing forces, her existence offers a way to heal the division between warrior and witch, and brings powerful new magic into the world. To others, Mirei is an abom...



  • Patricia Briggs

    Anna never knew werewolves existed, until the night she survived a violent attack...and became one herself. After three years at the bottom of the pack, she'd learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. Then Charles Cornick, t...



  • Terri Brisbin

    Marian Robertson rescued a child and destroyed her reputation. Now, to keep her family safe, she must marry the stern, dark-eyed warrior negotiating a truce between their clans -- and risk her heart to protect the truth. Manipulated into marrying...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    Suspense doesn't burn any brighter and desire doesn't run any deeper than when Suzanne Brockmann takes the helm, opens the throttle, and takes readers along for a breathless ride as she breaks the thrill barrier - again and again. With Into t...



  • Matt Bronleewe

    A mysterious book with a dangerous secret. An evil brotherhood out to conquer the world. One man stands between them . . . with his family in the balance. In the twelfth century, Henry the Lion collected the rarest relics in Christendom. A...



  • Meljean Brook
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    Meljean Brook's vampire Annie Gallagher needs help to save a young human girl, but she doesn't expect the help to come from the FBI agent she loved--and had to give up? when she was transformed....



  • Samantha Brooke

    Share your feelings with the Care Bears!

    Are you feeling happy or sad, silly or mad? The Care Bears have feelings just like you! Each Care Bear shares what he or she is feeling and why in this colorful 8x8 storybook....



  • Carl Brookins

    When Private Investigator Sean Sean arrives at his quiet suburban home near Minneapolis, Minnesota, on a summer afternoon and finds a blown up wheelchair, a body and several squad cars scattered across the street, he knows something’s gotten se...



  • Christopher Brookmyre

    Each society gets the serial killers it deserves...Simon Darcourt, an inventive killer with a sense of humour, is creating his own celebrity talent show, one that is generating more publicity than its contestants have ever had in their lives. The cat...



  • Danit Brown

    Ask for a Convertible is a wonderfully assured debut that ponders what it means to be Israeli, to be American, or to be a little bit of both. In there connected stories, Danit Brown introduces Osnat Greenberg: a slightly fatalistic, darkly funny, and...



  • Harriet Brown

    Girls will love exploring Kit's world with this interactive book. It features 30 pages of pull-tabs, spinning wheels, and other surprises: girls can peek inside Kit's kitchen cupboard, unscramble a secret hobo code, go on a lift-the-flap scavenger hu...



  • Sandra Brown

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's newest novel of suspense explodes with corruption, deception, and murder. When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find herself in bed beside Charleston PD detective Jay Burgess, she remembers noth...



  • Nick Bruel

    Pet owners beware! Bad Kitty really needs a bath, and she is forced to take one in this hysterical new illustrated how-to for young readers. The following are some items you will need for Kitty's bath: one bathtub, plenty of water, dry towels, a su...



  • Emily Bryan

    BURIED TREASURE All it took was a flick of the wrist. A deft touch of his sword point and Drake the Dragon bared her bound breasts. Then with the heat of his hands along her skin, he bared her soul. All the wantonness Jacquelyn had denied herself ...



  • Edna Buchanan

    U.S. Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness Protection Program relocates a mobster, now a government witness, to a small rural town after creating a new identity for him. The man proves to be a monster unleashed on an unsuspecting community. The resu...



  • Tobias S. Buckell

    Welcome to Chilo, a planet with corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. Fortunately, fourteen-year-old Timas lives in one of the domed cities that float 100,000 feet above the surface, circling near the edge of a monstrous perpetual storm...



  • Adrianne Byrd

    Heir-apparent Malcolm Braddock may be the sexiest community activist under the Houston sun, but clearly he's met his match in Gloria Kingsley, the late senator Harmon Braddock's strikingly beautiful executive assistant. Both were recently spotted in ...



  • Meg Cabot

    When you are starting at a brand-new school, you have to wear something good. Allie Finkle's starting her first day of school at Pine Heights Elementary! But being the New Girl is turning out to be scary, too, especially since one of the girls in Al...



  • Rachel Caine

    Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is taking a vacation from her duties when her idyll is interrupted by her worst nightmare: a reporter from a legitimate newspaper. The last thing Joanne needs is someone exposing the supernatural world she inhabits. T...



  • Stella Cameron

    Roche Savage is a dedicated, talented psychiatrist with a life-shattering secret: his sexuality isn't just vibrant, it's over-the-top. He's always avoided gentle, reserved women because he knows that if he lets himself get out of control he could fri...



  • Margo Candela

    Sometimes what we have is not enough. She doesn't know his name and he doesn't know hers, but they just might be perfect for each other. Alexander Velazquez, an ambitious lawyer from a working-class neighborhood, and Evelyn Sinclair, a daughter o...



  • Orson Scott Card

    Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing submissions from well-known sf and fantasy writers, as well as fostering some amazing new talents. This collection...



  • Jacqueline Carey

    Pat Foy leads a charmed life. She has a close-knit family, an expensive home, a passion for mystery novels, and a satisfying career as a landscape designer. But then her husband, Frank, is arrested for accounting fraud at the telecommunications firm ...



  • Mike Carey

    Felix Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after a successful case convinces him that he really can do some good with his abilities---"good," of course, being a relative term when dealing with the undead. His friend Rafi is still possessed, th...



  • Jeff Carlson

    "Compelling. His novels take readers to the precipice of disaster."
    --San Francisco Chronicle

    Nanotech researcher Ruth Goldman has developed a vaccine with the potential to inoculate the world's survivors against the machine plague, but the...



  • C.J. Carmichael

    Did you hear about Matt and Jane? The rumor at their law firm claims that Jane Prentice is the reason for Matthew Gray's divorce. Matt only wishes it were true. Ever since his marriage ended, he's put his social life on hold to become a better fat...



  • Alden R. Carter

    Andy has had enough of his dysfunctional family's impossible problems: his father's alcoholism, his mother's advoidance tactics, his older brother's condescension. He's walking away from it all--physically into the wilderness of the Wisconsin woods a...



  • Carla Cassidy

    HE STOOD FOR LAW AND SAFETY IN THE BAYOU Sheriff Lucas Jamison was the law in his small bayou town. And secretary Mariah Harrington had often weathered his powerful fury as she stood between him and her boss, the mayor. But when her son was kidnap...



  • Linda Chapman

    A very special "Stardust" book, "Lucy's Magic Journal" lets you read all Lucy's most secret thoughts, dreams and wishes, as well as letting you discover all the exciting things that you never knew about the magical 'Stardust' world! A must-have book ...



  • Lisa Childs

    The Groom Picks A Bride Brenna Kelly just took that fateful walk down the aisle...as maid of honor at her best friend's wedding. But when the bride's a no-show, Brenna suddenly has to cope with a runaway wedding...and her own runaway feelings for ...



  • Cinda Williams Chima

    The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. Everyone is doing their part: Seph is monitoring the Weirwalls, Jack and Ellen are training their ghostly army, even Anaweir Will and Fit...



  • Judy Christenberry

    From housekeeper to bride! When sexy Brad Logan hires Sarah Brownly, he doesn't expect his once quiet home to be filled with a rabble of kids and a housekeeper he can't keep his eyes off.... With Brad as her boss, Sarah's never felt more secure. B...



  • Siobhan Ciminera

    When she tries on a pair of farmer's work boots, Franny Fantootsie is transported to a pumpkin field, where she helps Ginnie take her pumpkin to the fair to enter in a contest, but Ginnie is too interested in winning to enjoy the fair....



  • Chris Claremont

    Beginning a new era for the Exiles - with a new team and a new mandate to safeguard the fate and future of the Omniverse. New leader, new members, new worlds, new adversaries! They've barely begun to get to know one another when they're thrust into t...



  • Mary Jane Clark

    It Only Tales a Moment for life to change forever. A seasoned television professional -- the host of the top-rated KEY News morning show -- Eliza Blake has reported on tragedies many times from behind the anchor's desk . . . and she has survived dev...



  • Megan Clark

    With beautifully drawn characters and evocative prose, Megan Clark tells a captivating tale of two unique women who cross paths--and embark on an uninhibited journey that brings them to very different destinations... Focused, ambitious Carissa is s...



  • Wahida Clark
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    Essence® bestselling authors Wahida Clark and Kiki Swinson deliver a double-shot of street lit fiction--two novellas about women betrayed who are out for nothing less than revenge... Enemy in My Bed WAHIDA CLARK She rules the weed scene i...



  • Arthur C. Clarke; Frederick Pohl

    Two of science fiction’s most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a fittin...



  • Breena Clarke

    Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington's Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses operate a tailor's shop and laundry, is s...



  • Barbara Cleverly

    Brutal murder embroils Scotland Yard commander Joe Sandilands in the intrigue and violence of late 1920s Paris in Barbara Cleverly's tour de force of suspense. In a box at the famed Theatre des Champs-Elysées, an ex-soldier and knight of the realm ...



  • Colleen Coble

    A story about the unexpected fulfillment of promises made long ago. Allie Siders is desperate to help her five-year-old daughter, Betsy, speak again. But with a stalker out for revenge, all Allie can think about is the safety that awaits them at t...



  • Tish Cohen

    Rachel Berman wants everything to be perfect. An overprotective single mother of two, she is acutely aware of the statistical dangers lurking around every corner--which makes her snap decision to aid a stranded motorist wholly uncharacteristic. Len B...



  • Beatrice Colin

    In the tradition of Michel Faber and Sarah Waters, a literary historical novel about an orphan girl's journey from poverty to film stardom, set against the grand backdrop of World War I Berlin, the cabaret era, the run-up to World War II, and the inn...



  • Kate Collins

    Last I heard, being a five-foot-two, green-eyed redhead wasn't a crime. But that's precisely why I, Abby Knight, was yanked out of my Corvette by a state trooper, handcuffed, and thrown in jail. This isn't your average case of mistaken identity. ...



  • Sheila Connolly

    An apple a day keeps the corpses away... When Meg Corey unexpectedly finds herself out of a job, an apartment, and a relationship, she seizes the opportunity to renovate the Massachusetts colonial house her mother has inherited from distant relati...




  • Matthew Cook

    • The besieged Imperial City lies inside the massive wall of the Armitage; outside, the attacking Mor have laid waste to most of the land. The Imperial Court seems unaware of their peril, but Kirin and Lia ― who have barely survived the Mor ...



  • Robin Cook

    Devastated by the news that her beloved grandmother has died after hip surgery in New Delhi, UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez flies to India, desperate for answers. Jennifer's grandmother appears to be another victim of medical tourism -- unin...



  • Deborah Cooke

    A DRAGONFIRE NOVEL For millennia, the shape-shifting dragon warriors known as the Pyr have lived peacefully as guardians of both the four elements and the earth's treasures. But now the final reckoning between the Pyr, who count humans among the e...



  • Jordan Cooke

    Love is in the air, and the cast members of The ‘Bu are behaving less like actors and more like the crazed contestants on a reality dating show. But nothing compares to the madness that ensues when Trent and Tanya take it to the next level and deci...



  • Brenda Cooper

    The colony planet of Fremont was supposed to be free of all genetically altered beings--a new home for a pure race. So when Chelo and her brother Joseph, along with two other genetically altered teenagers, were abandoned on Fremont, they were not wel...



  • Susan Rogers Cooper

    Romance novelist, suburban Texas mom and occasional sleuth, E.J. Pugh is dressed to kill for the Austin writer's convention where she will receive a coveted Lady Award. Leaving her husband, Willis, with their three moody teenagers, she's ready to min...



  • Colin Cotterill

    The fifth Dr. Siri Paiboun mysterySeven female Hmong villagers kidnap Dr. Siri on orders from the village elder who hopes that Yeh Ming, the thousand-year-old shaman who shares the doctor’s body, will consent to exorcise the headman’s daughter. H...



  • Bruce Coville

    This is a tale of two quests: Cara Diana Hunter's search for an ancient story that may unravel the secret of the long enmity between the unicorns and the delvers, and her father's journey to free Cara's mother from the Rainbow Prison. Cara's journey ...



  • Alan S. Cowell

    “A story that is at once a real-life thriller and an immensely sinister cautionary tale about the new Russia.†-- Star Tribune In this breathtaking true crime narrative, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the worl...



  • Kathleen Creighton

    He feared nothing... ...not even after a rock-climbing fall stripped Matt Pearson of his ability to walk. Now the former daredevil was gearing up for a dangerous river run that would test him as never before. So would seeing Alex Penny, his former...



  • Ellen Crosby

    Ellen Crosby's third tale of suspense set amid the vines of Virginia wine country involves a two-hundred-year-old bottle of Bordeaux that Thomas Jefferson may have purchased for George Washington and is turning out to be a wine to die for. It has ...



  • Patrick Culhane

    A young naval ensign must unmask a killer on board an ammunitions ship in this intriguing novel of suspense, set during World War II, from the acclaimed author of Black Hats When ensign Peter Maxwell was called up from the reserves just after Pear...




  • Mary Daheim

    Innkeeper and amateur sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn's worst nightmare comes true when Vivian Flynn -- husband Joe's first wife -- moves back into the neighborhood. Vivian, who has become mysteriously wealthy, plans to build a big, bad condo on their ...



  • Victoria Dahl

    TRUE PLEASURE... Raised by a titled, yet degenerate, father, Emma Jensen never imagined the gambling lessons she learned as a child would one day serve her well. When she finds herself in dire need of money, she concocts the alias of Dowager Lady De...



  • Lilian Darcy

    The doctor takes a family! Tammy Prunty is an excellent neonatal-intensive-care nurse--and a single mom of five children! There's simply no time in her life for relationships. Besides, she's sworn off men for good! Her gorgeous colleague, neonatal...



  • John Darnton

    A keenly intelligent, delightfully mordant novel that blends fact and fiction with the same deft hand that was at work in John Darnton's best-selling Neanderthal. Bad news is brewing in the inner sanctum of the New York Globe, the city's long-stan...



  • Peter David

    Collects X-Men (1991) #55, Uncanny X-Men #336, Cable (1993) #35, X-Force #58, X-Man #19, Incredible Hulk #445, Iron Man #332, Avengers #402, Thor #502, Wolverine #105. Professor X hasn't been himself lately – moody, inscrutable, but the psionic...



  • Andrew Davidson

    An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfor...



  • Adam Davies

    Otto Starks is a "pulse"--a highly specialized security guard who has hyperdeveloped senses and a nervous habit of popping tabs of cyanide. Otto was once a rising star but then he was rolled three times by the notorious Rat Burglar. Now, demoted and ...



  • Jo Davis

    MEET LIEUTENANT HOWARD "SIX-PACK" PAXTON -- ONE OF THE HANDSOME, HARD-BODIED FIREFIGHTERS OF STATION FIVE. FOUR-ALARM BLAZES HAVE NOTHING ON HIM. Howard may love being a fireman and riding his Harley, but there's nothing he values more than his bach...



  • Justine Davis

    A forbidden attraction Gabriel Taggert. Former naval officer, man of honor--and her best friend's husband. Cara Thorpe's feelings for the one man she could never have had always been her own shameful secret. And when her best friend disappeared wi...



  • Thomas J. Davis

    A book of love, hope, and warmth, The Christmas Quilt is a compelling and tender account of a family in the mountains of North Georgia. There were Sunday dinners at Granny's, blackberry picking, running the train tracks, a revival meeting, and swimmi...



  • Peter Dawson

    In "Outcast Deputy," Hugh Connor has to find a way to stop the men who want to take his land without getting himself killed in the process. Tom Marolt is a hardworking sheriff who takes a desperate gamble to end a rustling spree in "The Bullet."...



  • Susie Day

    Serafina doesn't have a boyfriend, doesn't have a best friend, and her parents fight all the time. But she does have a shiny new laptop (a present from her guilt-ridden and therefore overly-generous dad). And with the shiny new laptop, comes a shiny ...



  • Melissa de la Cruz

    It's her party and she'll freak is she wants to... Ashley Spencer considers her birthday to be the most important event next to ... well, okay, it’s just the most important event, period. Hello. So when the invite list is cast and the custom embos...



  • Matt De La Pena

    DANNY'S TALL AND skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy's not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he...



  • David Deans

    In a picture-postcard town, in the sunny suburban home of Bob T. Hash III, something altogether strange and amazing has occurred: An African gray parrot (and beloved pet) named Comenius has suddenly and unexpectedly transformed into a man. It seems t...



  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    It's been said that for any event, there are an infinite number of possible outcomes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow, and therefore all possibilities that could happen do happen across countless alternate realities. In these divergen...



  • Cindy Dees

    Seduced...by a mystery man A plane crash had left Maddie Ingersoll stranded, with a tropical storm approaching and a serial killer on the loose. And it had brought her close--far too close--to the most compelling, most sensual man she had ever enc...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    When Brooke Bernard learns she's pregnant, she knows exactly what's missing from her soon-to-be family. A daddy. That certainly isn't Oliver Armstrong, Brooke's new roommate. Oliver may be gorgeous and caring, but the ambitious developer defini...



  • Elaine DiRollo

    Not since the Brontës have we seen the likes of the Talbot sisters, plucky peach growers with a peculiar upbringing and a flair for subversion. Set in England and India in the mutinous year of 1857, A Proper Education for Girls tells the story of Al...



  • Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan

    Brian Higman is about to be in major trouble. He didn't do the "sloppy copy," or first draft, of his writing assignment -- and another big red zero is headed his way. His teacher, known as The General, is waiting. But how can he make her understan...





  • Disney Book Group

    Cinderella’s wedding day promises to be the happiest, most enchanting day of her life… if she can only get all the planning done! Little girls will have no such problems with their own pretend weddings, however -- since this handy 24-page book a...



  • Disney Book Group


    The bleachers at the school athletic field are broken and there's a little league game that afternoon. Squeeze hurts Manny's finger during the repair and she's convinced that she's a danger to all around her. She won't continue with the repair. M...



  • Tony DiTerlizzi

    Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling tale of chivalry and showmanship from Tony DiTerlizzi.Kenny is a little rabbit with a very big problem. His two best friends are heading into a battle of legendary proportions -- with each other! In on...



  • Christina Dodd

    Roaming the Russian steppes a thousand years ago, a brutal warrior struck a terrifying deal. In exchange for the ability to transform into a heartless predator, he promised his soul-- and the souls of his descendants--to the devil. Ruggedly handso...



  • Robyn Donald

    Virgin: held against her will Feisty Leola Foster has been kidnapped! Her captor is gorgeous, but arrogant, and she refuses to obey his superior commands. Who does he think he is--royalty? Leola then learns that the stranger is Prince Nico Magn...



  • Mike Doogan

    Wounded during an investigation and still grieving the loss of his son, Anchorage private detective Nik Kane is determined to keep himself busy with a cold case that's haunted him for twenty years. Danny Shirtleff was a cop who'd spent months underco...



  • Dave Duncan

    The nobles of Aureity have been breeding their children for psychic powers for generations. Women's powers are mental, including psychic control and mind-reading, making them ideal rulers. Men have superhuman strength and can teleport to any place th...



  • Barbara Dunlop

    Things Crystal Hayes could do without: her looks, men obsessed with her looks, and guys who think they're God's gift to the ladies. She'd rather be behind the wheel of a truck than navigating cheesy pickup lines. But when Crystal makes a delivery to ...



  • Jancee Dunn

    After earning rave reviews with her rock-and-roll memoir But Enough About Me, Jancee Dunn takes on fiction in this comically poignant debut, a perfect read for anyone who has ever looked back nostalgically and wondered what might have been. At th...



  • Suzannah Dunn

    Plain and dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor is overjoyed when she becomes Queen of England. After the misery of her childhood, when her father, Henry VIII, rejected her and her mother, Mary feels at last that she is achieving her destiny....



  • Kaitlyn Dunnett

    After a knee injury forces professional Scottish dancer Liss MacCrimmon to give up her life of performing strathspreys, reels, jigs and Highland flings, she returns to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, where she runs a Scottish Emporium. With on...



  • Lynette Eason

    The amnesiac patient in the makeshift Amazon hospital looks familiar to visiting American nurse Amy Graham. This isn't the first time she's seen those blue-gray eyes, the hard lines of his handsome face. When Amy sees his birthmark, she knows exactly...



  • David Ebershoff

    IT IS 1875, AND ANN ELIZA YOUNG HAS RECENTLY separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of ...



  • Clyde Edgerton

    Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the Army during the Second World War. Back on the road in post-war North Carolina, a member of a car-theft ring, he picks up hitch-hiking H...



  • Selden Edwards

    An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making. When Wheeler Burden -- banking heir, rock idol, baseball hero, bestselling author -- suddenly finds himself dislocated in time from 1988 San Francisco to Vienna in the ...



  • Will Eisner

    "There isn't a comics artists alive who hasn't benefited from Will Eisner's masterful work and formidable wisdom."―Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics

    In Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative, Will Eisner―one of the most infl...



  • Will Eisner

    "Comics and Sequential Art is a masterwork, the distillation of Will Eisner's genius to a clear and potent elixir."―Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

    Will Eisner is one of the twentie...



  • Kevin Emerson

    A compelling new take on contemporary fantasy & vampire stories with a new kind of hero, torn between dark and light, on a quest to discover the truth about his origins and his significance. Oliver Nocturne finds himself reunited with Emalie's cou...



  • Tea Emesse

    Will Rani's cousin's wedding be a haunting affair? Rani's cousin, Dali, is getting married to Frank, a wealthy widower, and Rani couldn't be more excited. But as the wedding plans begin to go awry, Rani becomes convinced that the spirit of Frank's...



  • Carol Ericson

    DR. MARINO WAS TALL, DARK AND GORGEOUS...AND COULD EASILY BREAK ONE NURSE'S FRAGILE HEART Coming to the rescue of beautiful nurse Lacey Kirk while she interrupted a murder wasn't the encounter Dr. Nick Marino had in mind when he first set ...



  • Steven Erikson

    IN Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that Love and Death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small, rotund man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. Dire portents ...



  • Miyuki Eto

    SWEET REVENGE

    Revenge is sweet . . . and easy: Just visit the Hell Girl’s website, and this goddess of damnation will drag your enemy into the inferno. And some people will do anything for revenge. There’s the girl whose best friend is sch...



  • Geraldine Evans

    A Rafferty and Llewelyn Mystery - When local loan shark John Jaws Harrison is found with his skull caved in in an alleyway backing on to rundown Primrose Avenue, DCI Joe Rafferty, and dour sidekick Dafyd Llewellyn, imagine the case will be easily sol...



  • Tabor Evans

    So much for happy trails. Longarm shows up in the rock-breakers' town of Happiness with a nasty knife wound courtesy of the prisoner he's lugging--and finds two poor hombres swinging, the constable missing, a cryptic note, and a whole heap of unan...



  • Musharraf Ali Farooqi

    A humorous, unforgettable novel that movingly captures a widow's struggle to reclaim her life and delicately portrays the subtle transformation of a very traditional woman. In a neighbourhood in Karachi, Mona, a recently widowed mother of two grow...



  • John Farris

    Six years after quitting the Florida Mob, Peter Mallory is about to be dragged back in. Stalked by a vicious killer and losing his hold on power, Mallory's old boss needs help--the kind of help only a man like Mallory can provide. But behind the ...



  • Gordon Ferris

    The second Danny McRae thriller finds him in a perfect partnership -- gang-busters by day, lovers by night. What could go wrong?Danny McRae is a private detective scraping a living in ration-card London. Eve Copeland, crime reporter, is looking for n...



  • Peter Ferry

    “A rich character study and a twisty whodunit, adding one more voice to the lively conversation about the boundaries between memoir and fiction†(Entertainment Weekly).   Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy C...



  • Carol Finch

    HIS PRETEND WIFE... Evangeline Hallowell has sworn not to rest until she finds the dirty swindler who conned her sister. So when Colorado's best bounty hunter, J. D. Raven, refuses to help, the determined heiress joins the trail as his "wife"--for...



  • Charles Finch

    The sitting room looked as familiar as the back of his hand, and immediately Lenox took a liking to the young man who inhabited it. He saw several small artifacts of the missing student's life---a frayed piece of string about two feet long of the sor...



  • Sean Michael Fish

    Coffin Rock- An adventure scenario for Deadlands. A Town Sliding into Hell! The mining town of Coffin Rock, Colorado, is a seething cauldron of trouble. The local soiled doves are a making a killing, some say ghosts walk the streets, and a mad serial...



  • Linda Ford

    What unseen hand guided Kody Douglas's horse to that bleak, windswept South Dakota farmhouse? The "half-breed" cowboy--a man of two worlds, at home in neither--would never know. But when he finds a lovely, vulnerable young woman there, abandoned in t...



  • Angie Fox

    It's never a good day when an ancient demon shows up on your toilet. For Lizzie Brown, that's just the beginning. Soon her hyperactive terrier starts talking, and her long-lost biker-witch Grandma is hurling Smuckers jars filled with magic. Just when...



  • Roz Denny Fox

    Sometimes love comes back to you Garret Logan's dead fiancee just walked into his pub. It's been seven years since Colleen died in a car accident, but he hasn't been able to break free of her memory. And now she's back with a new name, claiming no...



  • Matt Fraction

    The Skrulls are coming for Asgard, and they''ve got the gods in their sights! But it''s not just the pantheon who stand to suffer the repercussions of the aliens'' secret invasion - the citizens of small-town Broxton, Oklahoma are about to become col...



  • Matt Fraction

    The United States military is on high alert. Civilians are being evacuated. S.H.I.E.L.D. has been mobilized. The eyes of the entire world are on Southern California and the international crisis unfolding there -.and standing between it and a happy en...



  • Gary Franklin

    The Western frontier is full of dangerous men. But no one is more dangerous than a man with nothing left to lose... Joe Moss continues the search for his wife Fiona?on the run for a murder she couldn?t possibly have committed. But Joe must firs...



  • Mariah Fredericks

    Can you make something happen just by worrying about it? All Syd has ever wanted is to keep her family (human and animal) and friends safe and sound. Shy and quiet, Syd hides from the spotlight, despite her talent on the piano, and is happiest whe...



  • Martha Freeman

    Two eleven-year-old sleuths crack a case about the disappearance of a baseball coach in this humourous and offbeat middle-grade mystery, third in Martha Freeman's popular series. After their last success, Alex and Yasmeen made a pact to stop solving ...



  • Donna Freitas

    Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she's still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Seem strange? Well, to Antonia, saints are royalty, and she wants her chance at being a princess. All her life sh...



  • Stephen Frey

    Three men. Three secrets. One chance at redemption. New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey delivers a mesmerizing new thriller where life and death are played out against the backdrop of America's favorite game. Sarasota, Florida: Forc...



  • Robin Friedman

    The most popular guy at his high school, 17-year-old Parker Rabinowitz is wealthy, smart, and drop-dead handsome. He's a sure thing for YHP (Yale, Harvard, or Princeton) according to his college consultant, whom Parker has worked with since he was 14...



  • Abby Gaines

    After spending most of her life buried in books and academia despite her NASCAR roots, scientist Kim Murphy is a complete success. But when she stumbles across an old list--"Things To Do Before I Die"--Kim realizes that she hasn't really lived. Now i...



  • Philip Galanes

    From the moment Emma Sutton walks into the esteemed FitzCoopers auction house, the one-time media darling knows exactly what she wants: an exquisite antique dining table. What she doesn't realize is what she's getting: the chance to set things right....



  • Katherine Garbera

    Billionaire Donovan Tolley had it all--money, smarts and sex appeal. But none of that would get him what he craved--Cassidy Franzone, back in his bed. Now. He had to marry to keep his family's company, and Cassidy was the woman he wanted. But when...



  • Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    With no witnesses and no weapon, it seems like the case of the one-legged homeless man found lying in a cul-de-sac on São João Hill, shot through the heart, will remain unsolved. But Chief Inspector Espinosa can't shake thoughts of the hapless victim...



  • Steve Gerber

    Born on a planet populated by talking waterfowl, Howard the Duck found himself trapped in our world Howard was the archetypal outsider, able to see through the absurdities of human society in the 1970s with uncanny accuracy and an acerbic wit. This v...



  • Steve Gerber

    With Captain America, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, and the Thing around, it's hard to stand out in a crowd - but somehow, the Man-Thing manages it! Citrusville, Florida, faces censorship, prejudice, psychosis, and ghost pirates in stories as relevant ...




  • Chris Giarrusso

    Exploding from the panels of the Bullpen Bits comic strip, here come the Mini-Marvels in their very own comedy/adventure digest!Featuring Spidey, Wolvie, Iron Man, Hulk, and more Marvel favorites - reimagined for an all-ages audience!...



  • Debra Ginsberg

    What happens when a pseudo psychic suddenly gets the real gift? Marina Marks has been on the grift as a psychic since she was a child, forced into the business by a junkie mother who was always desperate for her next fix--and willing to use her so...



  • Colleen Gleason

    VAMPIRE HUNTER LADY VICTORIA GARDELLA GRANTWORTH DE LACY. AFTER NARROWLY ESCAPING FROM ROME, SHE RETURNS TO LONDON, WHERE NOT EVEN SUNRISE CAN STOP A VAMPIRE'S CARNAGE.... Ruining Victoria's homecoming, a vampire stalks the streets of London during...



  • Tod Goldberg

    Covert spy Michael Westen has found himself in forced seclusion in Miami--and a little paranoid. Watched by the FBI, cut off from intelligence contacts, and with his assets frozen, Weston is on ice with a warning: stay there or get "disappeared." Dri...



  • Sally Goldenbaum

    This brand-new mystery series spins a yarn about knitters and murder in a quaint seaside village. Not long after Isabel "Izzy" Chambers opens up a knitting shop in the sleepy fishing town of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, a diverse group of women begi...