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New Books List: 733 titles


  • Jeff Abbott
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    The editors of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith S...



  • C.H. Admirand

    The temporarily disbanded Committee for the Betterment of Emerson is at it again! This time they accuse Jessi Fahy of setting fire to Peterson's Stable, injuring Mr. Peterson, brawling in public and ruining the good name of the Flaherty's foreman, Jo...



  • Ken Akamatsu

    MASTER’S PAST
     
    While training with his master, Evangeline, Negi Springfield remembers that she knew his father and begs her to tell him anything she can about the Thousand Master. She agrees, and Negi learns things about his father -- and h...



  • Mick Anglo

    Who is the mysterious Marvelman? If you only know him from his dark, deconstructionist eighties revival, then you don't know Marvelman! Now, experience the saga of one of the most storied characters ever to emerge from the British comics market! Go b...



  • Mick Anglo

    Who is the mysterious Marvelman? If you only know him from his dark, deconstructionist eighties revival, then you don't know Marvelman! Now, experience the saga of one of the most storied characters ever to emerge from the British comics market! Go b...



  • Susannah Appelbaum

    After the perilous adventure of The Hollow Bettle (Book I), the dark reign of the Nightshades is over at last, and a new day has arrived in Caux, a land long ruled by poison and deceit. The ancient Prophecy-the coming of a Noble Child to cure the one...



  • A.C. Arthur

    Summer Haze? Or Love's Smoldering Caress? As head buyer for the prestigious Lakefield Gallery, Karena Lakefield travels the world seeking out the finest paintings. But there's one trip she'll always remember: a sizzling summer weekend with Samuel De...



  • Artist Arthur

    When fifteen-year-old Krystal Bentley moves to Lincoln, Connecticut, her mom's hometown, she assumes her biggest drama will be adjusting to the burbs after living in New York City. But Lincoln is nothing like Krystal imagined. The weirdness begins...



  • Ashley & JaQuavis

    The Cartel has come full circle with this fast-paced, groundbreaking novel, the finale to the hit series by New York Times bestsellers Ashley & JaQuavis. Miamor is fighting for her life in the belly of the beast. She’s been kidnapped, and she...



  • Chris Auer

    Eerie stories surround the old Victorian mansion-turned-museum known as Eckert House. But what was once thought to be fiction may prove to be fact after twelve-year-old Dan Pruitt makes a gruesome discovery. Dan and his friends set out to uncover the...



  • Chris Auer

    Many secrets come to light when twelve-year-old Dan Pruitt comes across the blueprints to Eckert House. He's certain he's found a hidden room. But when he and his friends set out to find it, they uncover more than a room. What they find will ultimate...



  • James Axler

    Spread across postapocalyptic North America, the nine great cities ruled by the alien-human hybrid barons have crumbled...ushering in not defeat, but a new epoch of alien rule of Earth. But their assault is threatened by a force of extraordinary huma...



  • Jacqueline Baird

    Naive Phoebe Brown fell for Mediterranean magnate Jed Sabbides after he wined, dined and bedded her with a fervor that made her feel cherished. But when Phoebe happily announced she was pregnant, Jed was appalled. Didn't she understand -- she was...



  • Rosecrans Baldwin

    A dazzling debut that is at once a lightly erudite novel of ideas and a darkly charming love story set on an island off the coast of Maine-the perfect sophisticated summer read. By turns funny, charming, and tragic, Rosecrans Baldwin's debut novel...



  • L.A. Banks
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    The editors of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith S...



  • Lauren Barnholdt

    Seventeen-year-old high school senior Shannon Card needs money. And lots of it. She's been admitted to Wellesley, but her dad just lost his job, and somehow she has to come up with a year of tuition herself. But Shannon's dream of making big bucks wa...



  • Nevada Barr

    With her new husband back at work, Anna Pigeon decides to spend some of her administrative leave time in New Orleans -- visiting a friend from the Park Service; Geneva, w-ho works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz NHP. Anna isn't in town long befor...



  • Lorna Barrett

    According to the gossip around Stoneham. New Hampshire. Tricia Miles cannot put down a real murder mystery. After all, the owner of the mystery bookstore Haven't Got a Clue has been spending more time soloing whodunits than reading them ... Trick's ...



  • C.J. Barry

    HER WORLD UNDER SIEGE... Seneca Thomas is an agent with XCEL, a secret government taskforce charged with capturing the dangerous shapeshifters that have infiltrated New York City, passing for humans. Her Native American heritage gives her a specia...



  • Ruth McNally Barshaw

    When her teacher assigns a report about animals and all the popular animals get snatched up, Ellie McDoodle is stumped for a topic. Then a neighbor asks Ellie to pet-sit her African gray parrot and it seems her problem is solved. But when the parrot ...



  • Beverly Barton

    NOWHERE TO RUN The crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths. NO PLACE TO HIDE Chattanooga grief counselor Audrey Sherrod...



  • Nicola Beaumont

    Danger. Deception. Conspiracy.... In the shadow of forgotten memories, lies the deadly truth. The arrival of a mysterious letter turns an accident into murder and drives Nina Thomas to investigate her father's death. But what lurks in the past is a ...



  • Jessica Beck

    Welcome Back to Donut Hearts -- where the coffee is hot, the donuts are fresh, and the crimes are brewing... ATTENTION, ALL COOKS! April Springs, North Carolina is hosting a grand tour of extraordinary kitchens, and everyone's invited! Local donut s...



  • Michael D. Beil

    When there are mysteries to be solved, the Red Blazer Girls are on the case! The discovery of the Ring of Rocamadour has secured the girls' reputation as Upper East Side super-sleuths, bringing many sundry job requests (no mystery too small, right?) ...



  • Alden Bell

    Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free. For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meag...



  • John Claude Bemis

    "Can you imagine eternal Darkness, sir?" So asks the sickly stranger who staggers into Peg Leg Nel's birthday party. Before the man dies, he tells Ray and his friends of a Darkness spreading like wildfire across Kansas, turning good people bad and...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects New Avengers #55-60. What if the villains fighting for control of New York City's underworld got their hands on a very powerful machine that could cause the immediate loss of power in any super-powered being? It means the Avengers are in b...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Dark Avengers (2009) #9-12 The Dark Avengers are pitted against a foe they cannot defeat: A man with the power over every molecule in the world! Norman can't talk his way out of this one as the world gets turned upside down and then...someon...



  • Charles Benoit

    This wasn't the way it was supposed to go. You're just a typical fifteen-year-old sophomore, an average guy named Kyle Chase. This can't be happening to you. But then, how do you explain all the blood? How do you explain how you got here in the fi...



  • Mike Benson

    In 1930s Harlem, Luke Cage, fresh out of prison, tries to find out what happened to his girlfriend Josephine while he was in prison, and takes a case involving the death of a white socialite on behalf of her widower....



  • Sue Bentley

    Ever since Julie's family moved, she has been very homesick. But when Storm, an Old English Sheepdog magically appears, Julie can't stop smiling. Julie and her new friend have a blast together at puppy training school....



  • Robin Benway

    I hugged my sisters and they fit against my sides like two jigsaw pieces that would never fit anywhere else. I couldn't imagine ever letting them go again, like releasing them would be to surrender the best parts of myself. Three sisters share a m...



  • Renee Bernard

    When Ashe Blackwell's grandfather challenges him to reform for a single social Season in London -- or forfeit his inheritance -- the rake agrees to the wager. But Ashe is assigned an unconventional chaperone: Miss Caroline Townsend, a young, inde...



  • Julie Berry

    When Cody Mack is called to the principal's office yet again, he finds something far worse than detention awaiting him: Splurch Academy, a frightfully sinister boarding school for disobedient children run by a group of monstrous teachers....



  • Julie Berry

    With Cody's archnemesis, Headmaster Farley, banished from the school, Cody should be celebrating...but something is bothering him, eating at him...literally gnawing on him. Dark forces are on the rise at Splurch Academy and Cody Mack isn't sure which...



  • Michelle Berry

    In the tradition of the Paris Review, The Notebooks is an exciting collection of original short fiction and in-depth interviews from Canada’s most celebrated and innovative young writers.A provocative examination of the writer’s life in the twent...



  • Alicia Bessette

    Alicia Bessette writes with compassion and tenderness to illuminate the many unexpected ways people save each others' lives every day-often without even knowing it. Poignant, bittersweet, and strikingly honest, Simply from Scratch is a radiant celebr...



  • John Birmingham

    March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now...



  • Thomas Blackthorne

    You thought Big Brother and Survivor were tough? WELCOME, SENSATION SEEKERS, TO KNIFE EDGE - the reality TV show where wannabe knife fighters are the celebrities in a nation going to hell. In a Britain on the edge of collapse, The ultimate respon...



  • Annette Blair

    At the Works Like Magick employment agency in Salem, Massachusetts, matching clients in need with magical temps is a piece of cake, especially when the temp happens to be heaven sent ... When Queisha Saint-Denis agreed to be a surrogate mother for a...



  • Lauralee Bliss

    Anson has no idea what's coming when he bumps into a pretty brunette on the canyon walk. But when she acts like she's seen a ghost -- and then interrogates him as if she thinks he is one -- his heart is drawn to her. Like her, he has also suffered lo...



  • Gwyneth Bolton

    Karen Williams has never been a big believer in fate. As she fights to make her neighborhood a safer place, her motto is determination, not destiny. But from the moment they meet, the community activist feels an instant, powerful connection to searin...



  • Don Borchert

    Taking Twain's original coming-of-age classic, Borchert has infused it with ataste of the macabre, as the world has been overrun by a Zombie epidemic, andthe South has been dubbed Zum....



  • Hector Borlasca

    Verse by verse, this level-one reader shows how much Jesus loves children. Jesus Loves Me uses whimsical illustrations, music, and reading to make this much-loved children’s song come to life. Simple sheet music is included so that parents or teach...



  • Amy Bourret

    Ten years ago, Ruby Leander was a scared, runaway nineteen-year-old who found a baby in an Oklahoma rest stop trash can. Overwhelmed by memories of her own abandonment years earlier, she made a split-second decision to put the baby in her car and kee...



  • Terrell L. Bowers

    Cullen Durant viewed the position of handyman at the Melbourne ranch as a break from his old job, a chance to taste some of the easy life. The only major problem was dealing with the two women on the ranch, until bizarre things started to happen. A r...



  • Jan Bozarth

    Zally Guevara always knows where she's going. She has a passion for maps of all kinds and can't wait to pack her suitcase and explore the world. But Zally doesn't have to wait to get her wish. With the help of a cup of magical cocoa from her grandmot...



  • P.J. Bracegirdle

    Joy Wells is fascinated by the strange noises coming from the old Spooking Asylum. She knows all about the famous legends that surround the place and is certain that she is hearing the guns of long-dead soldiers. But what if something more contempora...



  • Joan Brady

    A gripping tale of international corporate intrigue from the award-winning author of Bleedout . . . EASTERN EUROPE . . . Thirty years after Chernobyl, nuclear fallout is still claiming victims. ILLINOIS . . . Fresh out of prison, David Marion d...



  • Peter Brandvold

    Bounty hunter Lou Prophet thinks he's found paradise... He's wrong. After Lou Prophet rescues his old partner Louisa Bonaventure, they seek a fresh start in Juniper, Wyoming, once called Helldorado before it was cleaned up. But when they're wel...



  • Jackie Braun

    Waking up in Vegas with a hunky man by her side and a gold band on her finger, impulsive Serena thinks this might be one snap decision too far! She sneaks out of the honeymoon suite and back to her single life.... Politician Jonas must have been b...



  • Daniella Brodsky

    Vivian Sklar has always depended on her wise and feisty grandmother--not just because Grams raised her after Viv's mother took off twenty years ago, but because she seemed to have life all figured out. So when Grams dies, Viv feels completely alone. ...



  • Meljean Brook
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    Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman...



  • Cheryl Brooks

    HE IS THE SEXIEST, MOST IRKSOME MAN SHE'S EVER ENCOUNTERED... Micayla is the last Zetithian female left in the universe. She doesn't know what's normal for her species, but she knows when she sees Trag that all she wants to do is bite him... HE HAS ...



  • Terry Brooks

    For more than three decades, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks has ruled the epic fantasy realm with his legendary Shannara series. With each new novel the mythos has deepened, ever more fascinating characters have arisen, and increasing...



  • Carolyn Brown

    She's finally found a place that feels like home... When Cathy O'Dell buys the Honky Tonk, the nights of cowboys and country tunes come together to create the home she's always wanted. Then in walks a ruggedly handsome oil man who tempts her to tr...



  • Jeff Brown

    Special delivery: Danger! When Stanley's mother needs the secret ingredient for a special recipe, Stanley mails himself to Mexico to track down its mysterious maker. But when a band of spies threatens to steal the secret, Stanley's simple trip bec...



  • Sandra Brown

    Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn't let rules get in his way--in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so...



  • Nina Bruhns

    As the son of a British earl, Lord Rhys had dearly loved his life of action and indulgence as a rogue, a rake, a gambler and a womanizer. But now he loves his life as an immortal even more. Rhys's job is to supply his master -- a five-thousand-year-o...



  • Marianne Brun

    From middle-class suburbs to a full body massage parlor. Two years after being attacked, Kate McKenzie knows she cannot pretend it never happened. Her husband blames her for the assault and refuses to touch her. Rather than venture out, she spends...



  • Elizabeth Brundage

    Greed leads to destruction; lust leads to obsession; love leads to happiness; deception leads to chaos; compassion leads to resolution; knowledge leads to prosperity; indulgence leads to decadence; decadence leads to ruin In Hollywood, every story b...



  • Michael Byers

    A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Cl...



  • Rachel Caine

    UNNATURAL DISASTER Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin has defeated her longtime enemy and saved the world -- again. But at what cost? Standing at ground zero for the last attack, Joanne, the Djinn David, and the Earth herself have been poisoned by a subs...



  • Laurie Calkhoven

    You've learned a lot about the trees and wildflowers that grow in the woods around campus. When it's time for an overnight camping adventure in the woods, you lead the way. But when you and a few friends get lost in the thick of the forest, can you f...



  • Michael Capuzzo

    Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent turned private ...



  • Melody Carlson

    Lost in translation? Having learned some hard lessons about the costs of recklessness and fame, sisters Paige and Erin Forrester feel ready to take their fashion-focused TV show on location to Paris. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for many of th...



  • Robin Caroll

    With his father in a nursing home and his mother needing support, former Great Smoky Mountains park ranger Lincoln Vailes moves to the bayou town of Eternal Springs, Louisiana, to become a police officer. Recent college graduate and eager social work...



  • Lee Carroll

    WHEN New York City jewelry designer Garet James stumbles into a strange antiques shop in her neighborhood, her life is turned upside down. John Dee, the enigmatic shopkeeper, asks her to open a vintage silver box for a generous sum of money. Oddly, ...



  • C.J. Carver

    The assassination was quick, slick, and professional. Ex-soldier Sol Neill was brutally slain by a blonde woman, and Jay McCaulay is the only witness. When Max Blake, Sol’s friend, is arrested for the crime, Jay is determined to prove his innocence...



  • Carla Cassidy

    HE'S HOT, DANGEROUSLY SEXY AND HER HUSBAND FOR HIRE. Special Agent Riley Kincaid was fearless when it came to hunting ruthless criminals. But he was clueless when it came to marriage. Even a pretend one. Now, faced with a gorgeous single mother who ...



  • Cecil Castellucci

    Set in New York in the 1980s, this story of two ballet dancers (one American, one Russian) recounts the unforgettable night they spend in the city, and celebrates the friendship they form despite their cultural and political differences....



  • Philip Caveney

    After his adventures in Egypt and Mexico, Alec decides that a summer spent on the island of Crete will be a far safer option, however unbeknownst to him several young travellers have recently disappeared from the island . . . A chance encounter wi...



  • Michelle Celmer

    He'd danced with her on a dare. But Samuel Baldwin had seduced Princess Anne to quench his own desire. Chipping away at Anne's icy demeanor had been pure pleasure...until he discovered their passion-filled night had left him responsible for o...



  • Sarwat Chadda

    There's Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself....And Billi SanGreal. As the youngest and only female member of the Knights Templar, Bilquis SanGreal grew up knowing she wasn't normal. Instead of hanging out at the mall or going on dates, she spends her ti...



  • Veronica Chambers

    "This is the unbelievable story of how I went to college, gained twenty-five pounds, got dumped by my boyfriend, failed physics and became a worldfamous supermodel." So begins the Cinderella story of Beatrice Wilson, whose life changes overnight w...



  • Veronica Chambers

    Four friends. One quince. Miami is heating up! Amigas Incorporated is officially open for business! Alicia, Jamie, Carmen and Gaz managed to throw an amazing quince for their new friend Sarita. But now that they are sophomores AND in the quince pl...



  • Kathy Charles

    IN THE END WE ALL FADE TO BLACK. Pink-haired Hilda and oddball loner Benji are not your typical teenagers. Instead of going to parties or hanging out at the mall, they comb the city streets and suburban culs-de-sac of Los Angeles for sites of cele...



  • Melanie Chrismer

    This title introduces readers to tools that are used to help us measure things. Children learn how we can measure length, volume, temperature, time, and weight by using such tools as rulers, measuring cups, thermometers, clocks, calendars, and scales...



  • James Church

    From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes another riveting novel set in the mysterious world of North Korea Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for...



  • Chris Claremont

    Collects X-Men Forever #16-20 & X-Men Forever Annual #1. Big trouble on Bourbon Street! Be there as Nightcrawler and Rogue discover there's nothing easy about The Big Easy when their trip to New Orleans brings them face to face with a femme fatale k...



  • Roy Clark

    Early in the history of English, the words "grammar" and "glamour" meant the same thing: the power to charm. Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools, aims to put the glamour back in grammar with this fun, engaging alternative to stuffy instructional...



  • Judy Clemens

    When Casey Maldonado and Death hitch a desperate ride away from one disaster, they throw themselves right into the middle of another one. The semi in which they are traveling crashes, and before the Grim Reaper takes Evan the Trucker away, Evan whis...



  • Frank Coates

    Two men, an ancient nation ... and an impossible choice An ancient Maasai legend tells of a child born holding a stone in its palm. the story is a warning, and now a baby is born holding a stone in not one but each of its tiny fists ... In 1911, the ...



  • Lucille Colandro

    Our favorite old lady is back and swallowing autumn items! That wild old lady is back swallowing fall-themed items. What can you make from leaves, clothes, a pumpkin, and rope? That's right, a scarecrow! Perfect for back-to-school time....



  • Kresley Cole

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole comes this scorching tale of a demon outcast poisoned with vampire blood and the vulnerable young witch he vows to protect -- even from himself. A DANGEROUS DEMON SHE CAN'T RESIST... Malkom Sla...



  • Eoin Colfer

    Artemis Fowl has lost his mind...just when the world needs him most. Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the wor...



  • Suzanne Collins

    MY NAME IS KATNISS EYERDEEN. WHY AM I NOT DEAD? I SHOULD BE DEAD. Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 ...



  • Tim Collins

    Nigel Mullet isn't your typical teenager... HE'S A VAMPIRE! But unfortunately, when Nigel transformed, he didn't become all broody and interesting, and as for super strength and speed ... well, forget it! Nigel got acne, a voice that squeaks, a ten...



  • Linda Conrad

    "The mission always comes first." Undercover agent Jake Pierson figures one romantic dinner will get never-been-kissed librarian Mary Walsh to tell him everything she knows about her late father's criminal activities. But the more Mary talks, the mo...



  • Gloria Cook

    A touching saga set in 1920s Cornwall - After a tragic miscarriage, Beth Tresaile returns to Owles House, the place of her miserable childhood, accompanied by her best friend, Kitty Copeland. Beth feels she can no longer go on unless she gets revenge...



  • Robin Cook

    The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with another heart-pounding story of medical intrigue. With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laur...



  • Thomas H. Cook

    Middling historian Lucas Paige visits St. Louis to give a sparsely attended reading -- nothing out of the ordinary. Except among the yawning attendees is someone he did not expect: Lola Faye Gilroy, the “other woman” he has long blamed for his fa...



  • Deborah Cooke

    For millennia, the shape-shifting dragon warriors known as the Pyr have lived peacefully as guardians of the earth's treasures. But now the final reckoning between the Pyr, who count humans among the earth's treasures, and the Slayers; who are deter...



  • Caroline B. Cooney

    Missy and her cousin Claire are best friends who finish each other's sentences and practically read each other's minds. It's an eerie connection -- so eerie that Missy has questions she wants to put to her parents. But she's afraid to ask. So when Mi...



  • Andrew Cope

    SPUD - he's scatty and accident prone - but good with the gadgets . . .STAR - she's super smart and ready to pounce Together they're SPY PUPS, following hot in the paw prints of mum LARA (that's Licensed Assault and Rescue Animal to you).Every time t...



  • Dana Corbit

    A Bull in a Bakery To save his mother's business, rugged outdoorsman Logan Warren has to learn about wedding cakes and keeping customers. A confirmed bachelor, he can barely handle the brides that come in wanting buttercream this and frosted that....



  • Eireann Corrigan

    Finn and Chloe have it all figured out. Their school guidance counselor has told everyone that it's not enough to get good grades or do community service anymore - kids like that are everywhere, and colleges are bored of them. So what do you do? Chlo...



  • Colin Cotterill

    Three young Laotian women have died of fencing sword wounds. Each of them had studied abroad in an Eastern bloc country. Before he can complete his investigation, Dr. Siri is lured to Cambodia by an all-expenses-paid trip. Accused of spying for the V...



  • Ralph Cotton

    DEATH MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack gets more than he bargains for when he tracks a gang of bandits to a badlands outpost called Wild Wind. Fresh off a big score, the thieves ride with notorious desperado Silva "the Snake" Cer...



  • Cleo Coyle

    Clare Cosi, manager and head barista of the landmark Village Blend coffeehouse, has perfected the pulling of steaming hot espresso. But ,can she keep New York's Bravest from getting burned? When the firefighters of Ladder Company 189 pull Clare's ...



  • Bill Crider

    There's a big stink in Blacklin County, and everyone seems to think Sheriff Dan Rhodes should do something about it. The smell is coming from the giant chicken farm owned by Lester Hamilton. Rhodes sees this as a matter for the state's air-quality en...



  • Paul Crilley
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A SERIES OF BRUTAL MURDERS. A LOST TREASURE. AND THE ONE WOMAN WREN NEVER WANTED TO SEE AGAIN. Abraxis Wren, Sharn's most notorious inquisitive, hasn't had a case in months when his ex-wife shows up on his doorstep, framed for the murder of a man sh...



  • Pam Crooks

    UNTAMABLE Fallen lawman turned cowboy Jack Hollister believes he's not worthy of a respectable woman. His cheek is scarred from a speeding bullet, and he's as wild as the fierce Montana landscape he roams. UNTOUCHED Grace Reilly is all fine city cl...



  • Ellen Crosby

    . Ellen Crosby's fifth mystery takes readers into Washington's corridors of power, where Lucie Montgomery uncovers a political and financial scandal while trying to locate her missing friend. When Lucie Montgomery visits Washington, D.C., during c...



  • Alyssa Crowne

    What a fright! Kristina Kim can't wait for the Fall Ball at school. Everyone will be dressed up in fancy costumes! Kristina dreams of wearing a beautiful, sparkly, orange princess gown. But things don't go exactly like she planned. . . . If this pr...



  • John M. Cusick

    What happens when a robot designed to be a boy's ideal companion develops a will of her own? A compulsively readable novel from a new talent. David and Charlie are opposites. David has a million friends, online and off. Charlie is a soulful outsid...



  • Kaye Dacus

    CAN the HISTORIAN LEARN to LEAVE the PAST in the PAST? Sarah Mitchell, who's worked at the Middle Tennessee Historic Preservation Commission for more than a decade, is about to face a piece of history that could ruin the life she's built in Nashvill...



  • Victoria Dahl

    HE IS NOT WHAT SHE HAD IN MIND. Jude Bertrand is not an excellent dancer. Nor does he wear the most fashionable coats. But when Marissa York's brother approaches him, desperate to preserve Marissa's tenuous reputation, Jude does prove heroic enough t...



  • Susanna Daniel

    One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. It's the first time the Atla...



  • Lilian Darcy

    A BABY BOMBSHELL! It should have been Nate Ridgeway's promotion. Instead his hotelier boss had given the job to his pampered, flighty daughter, Atlanta Sheridan, and now Nate had to "babysit" her in her new role! Although Atlanta Sheridan (Lannie t...




  • Patricia Davids

    A Very Special Delivery As a nurse-midwife in Amish country, Amber Bradley helps expectant mothers have their babies safely at home. But when Hope Springs' new doctor arrives, he insists all maternity patients deliver at a hospital. Amber is determi...



  • Alan Davis

    Mutants are supposedly evolution''s next step, but the High Evolutionary doesn''t like where it''s headed! All over the world, mutants are robbed of their powers, leaving X-Men and adversaries alike on the edge of defeat! But who is the Evolutionary'...



  • Dee Davis

    As the demolitions expert for A-Tac, a black-ops CIA unit masquerading as Ivy League faculty, Tyler Hanson has two great loves: literature and explosives. She lives by the motto "Duty First" and doesn't have time for personal attachments... until a s...



  • Jim Davis

    The milestone 50th Garfield compilation book -- perfect for fans of the lasagna-loving legend!The fat cat returns for his 50th book -- a collection of hilarious strips featuring Jon, Odie, and all the famous characters in the world of the one-and-onl...



  • Justine Davis

    "Hostage situation under way. Repeat." Redstone, Inc., pilot Tess Machado is awaiting her boss when two armed men muscle their way onto her plane in the middle of the California wilderness. It's Josh Redstone -- of the Redstone empire -- they want. ...



  • Katharine Davis

    A gripping novel of two sisters who must reimagine the future-before they're ready to let go of the past. As a girl, Margot Winkler knew her big sister Lacey would keep her safe. Decades later, Lacey's home is often Margot's refuge. Lacey's life h...



  • Maddie Dawson

    What if you were married to a wonderful husband for twenty-eight years but in love with another man? What if you were in love with them both? Annabelle McKay knows she shouldn't have any complaints. She's been in a stable marriage that's lasted a...



  • Peter Dawson

    Ralph Frazer of the Bar Z in "Posse of Outlawed Men" has a strong hand. Sheriff Canby and Judge Solon do his bidding and have helped him in disenfranchising one rancher after another, so the Bar Z can grow. He has had a number of men posing as open-r...



  • Timothee de Fombelle

    A breathless, high-stakes quest to save the miniature world of the Tree -- and reunite loved ones lost -- unfolds with wit, suspense, and startling revelations. Toby's world is under greater threat than ever before. A giant crater has been dug...



  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    Before they became the crack team of engineers weve all come to know and love on the U.S.S. da Vinci, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team had plenty of adventures throughout the galaxy. Now some of those exploits are chronicled, featuring special g...



  • Ed Decter

    The final book in the rags-to-riches-to-rags trilogy that reads like an E True Hollywood Story. ...



  • Joseph Delaney

    You can't make alliances with witches and suchlike and hope to avoid being drawn toward the dark. As the Spook's apprentice, Thomas Ward's first duty is to protect the County from ghosts, boggarts, and other dangerous creatures. But now his mother...




  • J.M. DeMatteis

    The further adventures of the team that's not a team! Hulk! Dr. Strange! Namor! Silver Surfer! Hellcat, Valkyrie, and Nighthawk! Son of Satan, Devil-Slayer, Clea, Gargoyle, and the Beast! As several Defenders struggle to manage the mistakes of their ...



  • Anna DePalo

    Sawyer Langsford, Earl of Melton, never let anyone stand in the way of building his media empire. If he had to marry Tamara Kincaid to close a merger with her father, so be it. And though they got along like oil and water, Tamara had her own desperat...



  • Daniel Depp

    Fifteen years ago, Anna Mayhew won an Oscar for Best Actress. Rich, famous, and beautiful, she had the world at her feet. Nearly forty years old, Anna is being offered these days only bland supporting roles, the kind she got her acting started with. ...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Jude Deveraux sets wedding bells ringing in idyllic Edilean, Virginia -- but long-hidden secrets may change love's course. Engaged to the charming and seductive Greg Anders, Sara Shaw is happily anticipating their wedding, just weeks away. Every det...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    Falling in Love Wasn't Part of the Contract Surrogate mom Kate Evans, a widow with a five-year-old son, isn't looking forward to her upcoming delivery -- not because of the pain, but because when it's over the doctor will place her baby in the arms ...



  • Eric Jerome Dickey

    New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey returns with a flaming-hot stand-alone set in the world of conmen and thieves. We can plan all we want, but sometimes fate has a different agenda... Dmytryk was a respectable man... once. Col...



  • Matthew Dicks

    The author of SOMETHING MISSING returns with another hilarious and sneakily profound tale about a man whose behavior is truly odd, but also oddly relatable. Milo Slade, a thirty-three year old home healthcare aide, is witnessing the rapid dissolu...



  • Andy Diggle

    Collects Dark Reign: The List - Daredevil #1, DaredeviL #501-507. Meet Daredevil as you've NEVER seen him before! The cataclysmic events of Return of the King left Matt in the toughest place of his life - and forced him to make the hardest decisi...



  • Margaret Dilloway

    A lively and surprising novel about a Japanese woman with a closely guarded secret, the American daughter who strives to live up to her mother's standards, and the rejuvenating power of forgiveness. "How to Be an American Housewife" is a novel abo...



  • Lila DiPasqua

    Three sexy stories based on the fairytales of Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, and Puss in Boots. Once upon a salacious time, when fairy tales were written... Sleeping Beau: Five years ago, notorious rake Adrien d'Aspe, Marquis de Beaul...



  • Disney Book Group

    A little girl named Minnie is walking to her grandmother's house when she runs into Big Bad Pete....



  • Disney Book Group

    When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, he meets a group of new toys who make him feel like a star....



  • Disney Book Group

    Fly to Never Land with Peter, Wendy, and Tinker Bell in this Disney Reader perfect for children ages 4-6! Join in on the fun as Peter Pan and the Darling children meet the Lost Boys, see mermaids, and battle the swashbuckling pirates and the evil Cap...



  • Disney Book Group

    Woody has been stolen by a toy collector who plans on selling him and other Roundup dolls to a museum in Japan! Now it's time for Buzz and the toys to rescue Woody and his new friends. Can they rescue them before it's too late, or are the toys destin...





  • Stacy Dittrich

    Three recent homicides seemed unrelated until Detective CeeCee Gallagher noticed all three bodies had a similar mysterious mark. The more CeeCee investigates, the more clues point to a strange religious cult that's moved into a nearby farmhouse, and ...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    A HIDDEN TREASURE Frank and Joe Hardy may have stumbled onto something huge! On their way back from a dodgeball game in the park, the brothers find what at first appears to be an ordinary piece of trash. But on further inspection, the "trash" looks ...



  • Richard Doetsch

    An irresistible treasure, two master thieves, and a secret as old as mankind . . . Michael St. Pierre, a reformed master thief, thinks he has left his criminal days far behind him, when he receives word that his best friend, Simon, has been locked...



  • Tommy Donbavand

    Make no bones about it There's a headhunt underway -- and Luke is closing in on the final relic -- as the Scream Street series screeches ahead None other than the Headless Horseman, the world's most famous ghost, is appearing at Everwell's Emp...



  • Tommy Donbavand

    Make no bones about it There's a headhunt underway -- and Luke is closing in on the final relic -- as the Scream Street series screeches ahead Luke is just one relic away from opening the doorway back to his own world and taking his parents aw...



  • Sarah Dooley

    Olivia "Livvie" Owen feels things differently than her parents and two sisters. Livvie is autistic. Her family has had to move repeatedly because of her outbursts. When they again face eviction, Livvie is convinced she has a way to get back to a hous...



  • Brandi Dougherty

    Zoe's never been superstitious, so when she and her best friend Mia have their fortunes read at a carnival, she doesn't take it seriously. But the woman gives Zoe a necklace to seal her fortune, and as soon as Zoe puts it on, unexplained things begin...



  • Carole Nelson Douglas

    Temple Barr, publicist extraordinaire, is itching to bring off her most dangerous and exciting assignment, helping to launch an endeavor that many a Vegas showmen have dreamed of: a Las Vegas mob museum/casino. While city powers-that-be hem and ha...



  • Sharon M. Draper

    The time is summer vacation. Sassy and her family head to Florida by airplane to visit Grammy. It's Grammy's birthday and a huge celebration is planned at her beach house. Weather reports have indicated that a possible hurricane is swirling in the...



  • Alex Dryden

    When Finn, a former British spy, is poisoned by a Russian assassin, his ex-boss Adrian, the chief of MI6, wants vengeance. He also wants answers--information that only Finn's widow knows. But Anna, a former KGB colonel who betrayed her country for lo...



  • Diane Duane

    IN THE VIRTUAL TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY multiplayer on-line games have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment. And the most popular gaming universe of all is Omnitopia, created by genius programmer Oev Logan. For millions of people around...



  • Judy Duarte

    YOURS, MINE...AND OURS? Eva Galindo's dream of being a mother was about to come true -- twice over. The Brighton Valley biologist wasn't just having a baby...she was expecting twins! Meeting single father of twins Dan Walker seemed like the sweetest...



  • Phil Dunlap

    When U.S. Marshal Piedmont Kelly is asked by Cochise Sheriff John Henry Stevens to look into the suspicious activity of three unsavory bounty hunters, he rides into what looks like a battle's aftermath, with bullet holes riddling a ranch house, but n...



  • Steven Dunne

    DI Brook thought the nightmare was over- but the Reaper has left behind a horrifying legacy…A nail-shredding thriller for fans of Stuart MacBride and Thomas Harris.When an accidental drowning is found to be murder, Brook’s past relationship with ...



  • Laurie Alice Eakes

    Audrey Sinclair Vanderleyden sets her heart on fulfilling a promise to her deceased husband to continue practicing medicine, despite opposition from their families. But the old physician from whom they bought a practice stands in her way and refuses ...



  • Laurie Alice Eakes

    Gordon Chambers dreams of Alaskan gold. The last thing he wants is to be burdened with his late brother's responsibilities in New Jersey -- especially not two precocious little girls and their beautiful, uppity nursemaid. Determined to sell his broth...



  • Lynette Eason

    A WOMAN ON A MISSION Guarding witnesses? All in a day's work for deputy U.S. marshal Carly Masterson. Protecting the judge who was indirectly responsible for her mentor's death? That's another story. Still, she won't let harm come to Judge Nicholas ...



  • Mary Ellis

    Sarah Beachy has plenty to be joyous about as autumn leaves start to fall. She loves her job at the English bed-and-breakfast where she cooks and refreshes rooms between guests. She has a serious beau, and everyone expects an engagement soon. Why, th...



  • Karen Essex

    In this wonderfully transporting novel, award-winning author Karen Essex turns a timeless classic inside out, spinning a haunting, erotic, and suspenseful story of eternal love and possession. From the shadowy banks of the river Thames to the wild...



  • Loren D. Estleman

    Roy was Judge Roy Bean, the infamous, notorious real-life Justice of the Peace whose life has been the source of biographies, novels, plays, and films. Lillie was Lillie Langtry, the celebrated Jersey Lily of the British stage. They never met, but th...



  • Chris Ewan

    Charlie Howard isn't only a part-time crime writer and part-time thief; he's also a magician. For his next trick, he'll relieve Josh Masters, the famous illusionist vying for the affections of Charlie's friend Victoria, of $60,000 in casino chips sta...



  • Erin Falligant

    You love swimming at the pool, but you're terrified of the lake, or any body of water where you can't see bottom. You make up excuses not to join your friends when they go boating or swimming. But when you're teased about your fear, do you stand stro...



  • John Fante

    Fante's captivating letters trace his emergence from poverty to life as a Hollywood screenwriter. Complemented by many photos and interesting appendices, the book is most distinguished by Fante's letters to his mother--letters in which he is just as ...



  • Rebecca Farnworth

    The funny thing about love is that just when you think you've got it sorted, it turns round and bites you on the behind.Which is exactly what's happened to Carmen Miller.Her ex husband's girlfriend is pregnant, her career as a comedy agent is going d...



  • Bi Feiyu

    In a small village in China, the Wang family has produced seven sisters in its quest to have a boy; three of the sisters emerge as the lead characters in this remarkable novel. From the small-town treachery of the village to the slogans of the Cultur...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    Private investigator Jewel Parnell doesn't believe in fairy-tale romance. What she does believe in are low-risk, short-term flings and ignoring her mother's constant matchmaking attempts. But her newest clients -- a solemn, sexy professor and his gri...



  • Zoe Ferraris

    When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Detective Osama Ibrahim dreads investigating another unsolvable murder--chillingly common in a city where the veils of conservative Islam keep women as anonymous ...



  • Sean Ferrell

    Early one morning, after a sandstorm had ripped through north Texas, I wandered into Mr. Tilly's circus. I wore a black suit and blood ran down my face. When some of the carnies came up to me, I said, I'm numb. This became my name. A man with no m...



  • Bob Fingerman

    A GLOBAL PLAGUE has nearly vanquished mankind; the citizenry of New York City is no exception. Eight million zombies. Shoulder to shoulder. Walking the streets, looking for their next meal of human flesh. The residents of an Upper East Side walk-up h...



  • Elizabeth Fixmer

    Mary Clare is on the lookout for a miracle. Mary Clare O'Brian is determined to be a saint when she grows up (the halo will help cover her frizzy hair). But lately none of her prayers seem to be working the way she wants them to: her mother is losing...



  • Candace Fleming

    Here's a chapter book with all the kid appeal and absurd mayhem of Louis Sachar's classic Sideways Stories from Wayside School! These hilarious fables, complete with morals, will make you wish you went to Aesop Elementary. Welcome back to Mr. Jupi...



  • Katie Flynn

    It was only a mistletoe kiss, Miss Preece told herself, stepping out into the icy December evening and locking the library doors behind her. A mistletoe kiss means nothing, everyone knows that; but this did not quench the warm glow inside her. Hetty...



  • Giles Foden

    The D-day landings -- the fate of 2.5 million men, three thousand landing craft and the entire future of Europe depend on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day. A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing on an ...



  • Frederick Forsyth

    Meticulous research, crisp narratives, plots as current as today's headlines-Frederick Forsyth has helped define the international thriller as we know it. And now he does it again. What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, n...



  • Anne Fortier

    Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie's twin sister. The only thin...



  • Dick Francis

    Shell-shocked and missing a foot-lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan-Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent home by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen....



  • Laurie Frankel

    Beautifully written, a highly literate story of friendship, parenthood, and every other kind of love you can imagine. --Marisa de los Santos, author of Love Walked In When Jill becomes both pregnant and single at the end of one spring semester, sh...



  • Anne Fraser

    Having landed a temporary job at an exclusive Harley Street practice, shy nurse Rose Taylor is stunned when her playboy boss, the Hon. Dr. Jonathan Cavendish, expresses an interest. Sensible Rose tries to ignore his outrageous charm -- until some sho...



  • Martha Freeman

    Daughters of the first female president of the United States solve a White House mystery with the help of their dog. ...



  • Brian Freemantle

    The body of a murdered, tortured Russian has been found in Moscow, which isn't unusual in the crime-ridden city. What is different is that this corpse is on the lawn of the British embassy. Eager to prevent an international incident, London dispat...



  • Jeaniene Frost
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    The editors of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith S...



  • Kate Furnivall

    The national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine takes us back to Tsarist Russia for a sweeping novel of love and intrigue. Russia, 1910. Valentina Ivanova is the darling of St. Petersburg's elite aristocracy-until her romance with a Danis...



  • Sandy Fussell

    NIYA MTOT IS THE ONLY ONE-LEGGED samurai kid in Japan, famous for falling flat on his face in the dirt. The one school that will accept him is the Cockroach Ryu, led by the legendary sensei Ki-Yaga. He may be an old man overly fond of naps, but Ki-Ya...



  • Christos Gage

    Months of story threads finally weave together as Norman Osborn offers Taskmaster a seat at the Cabal''s table...the Avengers Resistance uncovers a horrifying secret...and members of the Initiative are called up for an assault on an enemy of incalcul...



  • Christos Gage

    A shocking new era begins for the Initiative! Where Camp Hammond once trained future Avengers, Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. now trains tomorrow's Dark Avengers! Under orders from Norman Osborn, your new Principals are Taskmaster and the criminal kingpin, the Ho...



  • Ana Galan

    A safari of animals love their glasses in this hilarious early reader.

    "Fancy glasses for the snake.
    Chimp needs glasses that won't break.
    Swimming goggles for the shark.
    Tiger wears them in the park."

    Each of these animals has...



  • Steve Gerber

    SC, TPB, in cello, New, Written by STEVE GERBER, RON GOULART, ROY THOMAS, DON MCGREGOR, GARDNER FOX and GERRY CONWAY. Art by PABLO MARCOS, WIN MORTIMER, RICH BUCKLER, JESUS BLASCO, JOHN ROMITA, CARLOS GARZON, ESTEBAN MAROTO and VICENTE ALCAZAR. Cover...



  • Brent Ghelfi

    A lightning-paced thriller, steeped in the legacy of the cold war and driven by our most dangerous current events In The Burning Lake, Alexei Volkovoy -- better known as Volk -- returns to America, this time to the glittering neon jungle of Las Ve...



  • Patricia Reilly Giff

    The author of the beloved Kids of the Polk Street School series introduces a new generation of readers to a multicultural group of kids who enjoy all the activities of an after-school center. It's Discovery Week at the Zigzag Afternoon Center! Eve...



  • Patricia Reilly Giff

    The author of the beloved Kids of the Polk Street School series introduces a new generation of readers to a multicultural group of kids who enjoy all the activities of an after-school center. I'M #1! That's what Mitchell McCabe's favorite T-shirt...



  • Susan Gilbert-Collins

    Why is someone who just defended her doctoral dissertation still wasting her time at her childhood home, two months after her mother's funeral, making coq au vin and osso buco? Olivia Tschetter, the youngest of four high-achieving South Dakotan sibli...



  • Stephen M. Giles

    Liars, thieves, and crocodiles...three cousins quickly discover this is one doomed family reunion Meeting for the first time, cousins Milo, Adele, and Isabella soon realize that nothing is as it seems: Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under ...



  • David MacInnis Gill

    Durango is playing the cards he was dealt. And it's not a good hand. He's lost his family. He's lost his crew. And he's got the scars to prove it. You don't want to mess with Durango....



  • Kieron Gillen

    Collects Siege: Captain America #1, Siege: Loki #1, Siege: Secret Warriors #1, Siege: Spider-Man #1, Siege: Young Avengers #1. We all know how the Avengers are involved in Siege, now five action-packed stories reveal how Osborn's plan sends shockwave...



  • Susan Gregg Gilmore

    Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of city's most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. That means speaking fluent French, dancing at cotillion...



  • Allen Ginsberg

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    Allen Ginsburg’s legendary and groundbreaking epic poem,



  • Debi Gliori

    It's Halloween and Daisy and Lily are all dressed up to go trick-or-treating. Lily just wants to get the best candy, but with Daisy the Witch Baby on the loose, it's sure to be anything but a quiet night....



  • Elizabeth Goddard

    Amber McKinsey is excited to learn she's been accepted as a summer intern for the Harrington museum. Working under Dr. Brandon Selman is the opportunity she needs to determine the direction of her future studies. But the reality is not the dream, and...



  • Maya Gold

    When Diana finds luxurious gown on the rack at Cinderella Cleaners, she knows it would be perfect for the masquerade ball in town. Too bad she's not allowed to attend the star-studded event. But thanks to a mask and a few friends, Diana sneaks in....



  • Golden Books

    Rintoo wants to be the fastest skater at the roller rink -- even though he's never skated before! Luckily, he has friends like Kai-lan and Hoho to lend a hand. Fans of Ni Hao, Kai-lan aged 3 to 6 will love this adorable Little Golden Book about the u...