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  • Jason Aaron

    START READING with these Point One Issues! The House of Ideas proudly presents an exciting collection of one-shots that bring the history of its greatest heroes into the modern era of the Marvel Universe. Witness the birth of a new Spider-Man! The Av...



  • Neil Abramson

    In this explosive debut novel, Neil Abramson explores the beauty and redemptive power of human-animal relationships and the true meaning of communication in all of its diverse forms. As a veterinarian, Helena was required to choose when to end the...



  • Chinua Achebe

    The more Chike saw the ferry-boats the more he wanted to make the trip to Asaba. But where would he get the money? He did not know. Still, he hoped. Eleven-year-old Chike longs to cross the Niger River to the city of Asaba, but he doesn't have the...



  • Amy Ackley

    Sign Language tells the story of twelve-year-old Abby North. Her first hint that something is wrong with her dad is the scar that appears on his stomach after he goes in for kidney surgery. Soon, the thing she calls "It" has a real name: cancer. Befo...



  • Paul Adam

    'Be careful, Max... They will try to destroy you, as they are trying to destroy me...' His father is missing presumed dead and his mother is serving a twenty-year sentence for his murder, but teenage escapologist Max Cassidy is certain everybody i...



  • Jane A. Adams

    Against her better judgement, Rina Martin accepts an invitation to Aikensthorpe, a country house hotel with a sinister reputation. Gathered there are a collection of experts in the esoteric; their plan is to re-enact the incident in 1872 that left on...



  • Jussi Adler-Olsen

    The Keeper of Lost Causes, the first installment of Adler- Olsen's Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl MØrck, who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen's best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two ...



  • Maria Alaina



  • Sarah Alderson

    17-year-old Lila has two secrets she's prepared to take to the grave. The first is that she can move things just by looking at them. The second is that she's been in love with her brother's best friend, Alex, since forever. After a mugging exposes he...



  • Elise Allen

    Cara has never been one of those girls: confident, self-possessed, and always ready with the perfect thing to say. A girl at the very top of the popularity tower. One of the Populazzi. Now, junior year could change everything. Cara's moving to a n...



  • Tahmima Anam

    Pankaj Mishra praised A Golden Age, Tahmima Anam's debut novel, as a "startlingly accomplished and gripping novel that describes not only the tumult of a great historical event . . . but also the small but heroic struggles of individuals living in th...



  • Beth Andrews

    She's planning a wedding...not a romance! Keeping up appearances is Yvonne Delisle's forte. But this job is going to test even her Southern belle mettle! It's not challenging enough she only has six weeks to turn a ramshackle carriage ...



  • Tom Angleberger

    NOT SUCH A LONG TIME AGO, IN A MIDDLE SCHOOL NOT SO FAR, FAR AWAY... Something amazing happened. A weird kid named Dwight made an origami finger puppet of Yoda. (That wasn't the amazing thing just typical Dwight weirdness.) The amazing thing was th...



  • Vivi Anna

    For Jake Conroy and Gianna Morgan, killing demons came easier than making their relationship work. Even their incredible sex life hadn't been enough to keep them together. But when they're unexpectedly teamed up to hunt a demon, they discover their p...



  • Jeffrey Archer

    Previously published in the anthology Cat O’Nine Tales, this is the story of a star athlete who has a fateful run-in with a three-hundred pound woman. One of the author’s own personal favorites, In the Eye of the Beholder is Jeffrey Archer at...




  • Tedd Arnold

    A hilarious new Fly Guy adventure -- when Fly Guy joins Buzz's class on a trip to a flyswatter factory, it's the "best field trip ever!" When Fly Guy goes to school with Buzz, they learn that his class is taking a field trip to a flyswatter factor...



  • Melissa Arps

    The Disney princesses are getting married! From Belle's gown to Tiana and Naveen's first kiss to Ariel and Eric's collosal cake, young readers will love sharing in the wedding-day magic of this original Disney reader....



  • Jennifer Ashley

    HE IS A MAN OF SIMPLE TASTES -- AND COMPLEX PLEASURES... Cameron Mackenzie is a man who loves only horses and women -- in that order -- or so his mistresses say. Ainsley Douglas is a woman with a strong sense of justice and the desire to help o...



  • Dianna Hutts Aston

    Between 1921 and 1955, Italian immigrant Simon Rodia transformed broken glass, seashells, pottery, and a dream to "do something big" into a U.S. National Landmark. Readers watch the towers rise from his little plot of land in Watts, California, throu...



  • Rev. W. Awdry

    Sodor's newest star, Flynn the fire engine, arrives just in time to help Percy put out a fire and save Thomas. Little boys ages 3-6 will thrill to this Step 1 SIR based on the newest Thomas & Friends direct-to-DVD movie, "Day of the Diesels." ...



  • James Axler

    Earth's darkest days have given way to a new age of war. Launched by an ancient and powerful alien race, the battle has morphed through an aeons-old blueprint for domination. But with it has emerged a resilient group of freedom fighters, true avatars...



  • Ellen Baker

    Ellen Baker is beloved for crafting intimate domestic stories that resonate deeply with readers. In I Gave My Heart to Know This, the award-winning author returns with a sweeping multigenerational saga of the searing power of war, memory, friendship,...



  • Nicholson Baker

    Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker's fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, House of Holes. Baker, the bestselli...



  • Richard Baker

    In this value-added omnibus edition of his acclaimed trilogy, The New York Times best-selling author of Condemnation delivers an epic story that brings new life and new purpose to the beloved elves of Faerûn. When a half-elf, half-demon villain i...



  • Jo Bannister

    Nick Horn knows he's a dead man walking. Surviving the disastrous mountain climb that killed his best friend, Patrick, had destroyed his own life and hard-won reputation. Staying on the run from Patrick's vengeful gangster father has left him with no...



  • Linwood Barclay

    Glen Garber, a contractor, has seen his business shaken by the housing crisis, and now his wife, Sheila, is taking a business course at night to increase her chances of landing a good-paying job. But she should have been home by now. With their eight...



  • Steven Barnes; Larry Niven

    The Year: 2085. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system. A stable lunar colony is agitating for independence. Lunar tourism is on the rise... Against this background, professional "Close Protection" specialist Scotty Griffin, fresh off ...



  • Max Barry

    Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts. Prosthetist Lola Shanks love...



  • Gerry Bartlett

    Glory St. Clair here, the vampire with curves, back with another installment in my always exciting life. This time demons are trying to win me over to the Dark Side, and I'm trying to get my long-time lover to forgive me for a little slip during the ...



  • Janet Lee Barton

    Unable to give her husband children, Faith Anderson watched his love change to disappointment before he died in a riding accident. She's determined never to marry again, and instead plans to build a new life in Guthrie, Oklahoma, with thousands of ot...



  • Marion Dane Bauer

    Rose is a wild child. She doesn't care what her mother or teacher or schoolmates say -- she does what she wants. When she finds a delicate china doll in the attic, she takes it. Then the doll comes to life in her hand. She's loud, obnoxious, selfishl...



  • Marion Dane Bauer

    Bringing the biggest life stories to the smallest readers!Benjamin Franklin was curious about the world around him. He had wide and varied interests that led him to become a printer, a writer, an inventor, a statesman, and eventually one of the fathe...



  • Elizabeth Bear; Sarah Monette

    In Iskryne, the war against the Trollish invasion has been won, and the lands of men are safe again...at least for a while. Isolfr and his sister, the Konigenwolf Viradechtis, have established their own wolfhaell. Viradechtis has taken two mates, and...



  • Greig Beck

    A CATACLYSMIC EVENT When a massive amount of gamma radiation is detected somewhere beneath the desert of Iran, the world is on edge. Is it a nuclear weapon--or worse? Alex Hunter and his highly trained incursion team is on a mission to find out. Whe...



  • Michele Ashman Bell

    Mr. Meyers is the meanest, crankiest old man in the whole town. Unfortunately, Jimmy Tremaine needs his help. Not so much for himself, but for Lizzie and Charlie. They are his responsibility while Mom is at work and it’s getting cold in the hous...



  • John Claude Bemis

    In The Nine Pound Hammer, John Bemis introduced middle-grade readers to a whole new approach to epic fantasy, founded on characters and themes from American mythology and lore, including the legend of John Henry. Now in the third and final book, the ...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Avengers #1-6. There came a day! A day unlike any other...that not only ushers in the Heroic Age of Marvel Comics but unleashes onto the world the most blockbuster Avengers team ever! Who will answer the call? And will they assemble just in ...



  • Helen Benedict

    Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jas...



  • Zelda Benjamin

    Pastry chef Maddie Higgins is horrified when her prize-winning torta di chocolate gets a bad review. Choking critics is never a good thing, and she loses her job before the scathing article hits the morning paper. Forced to take a job in a friend's b...



  • K. Bennett

    HUNGRY FOR JUSTICE -- AND BRAINS Meet Mallory Caine. Attorney at law. Zombie at large. She's not like those "Living Dead" losers you see in the movies. She doesn't slobber, drool, or lurch -- she's smart, stylish, and sexy. Sure, she's a zombie and a...



  • Mike Benson

    Collects Deadpool Pulp #1-4. Wade Wilson, codename: Deadpool is the only one capable of hunting down a rogue CIA agent and recovering the stolen nuclear suitcase she's carrying before she hands it over to America's Cold War enemies. But who is this ...



  • Lisa Tawn Bergren

    There are no second chances. Or are there? Krista Mueller is in a good place. She's got a successful career as a professor of history; she's respected and well-liked; and she lives hundreds of miles from her hometown and the distant mother she c...



  • Jeanne Betancourt

    An early reader series for every horse lover and mystery fan! Penny, Tina, and Tom get permission to make the old shed into their clubhouse. After they clean it up, Tina and Tom's mom comes to them with a mystery: where did she lose her keys? With...



  • Kerry Blair

    True love is like a ghost. Many people believe in both, but few find either. Samantha Shade has been hired to find out if there is more than rats and bats and feral cats haunting the crumbling remains of San Rafael Mission, home of Father Rodriguez's...



  • Kerry Blair

    When Samantha Shade is offered the opportunity to run Nightshade Investigation, her uncle's private detective agency, she literally jumps at the chance. It has always been her dream to work at the famously quirky firm. But when a wealthy, eccentric c...



  • Karina Bliss

    Playing with dynamite, a girl could get burned... What does he know about love and marriage? And exactly how did he, Ross Coltrane -- a special forces elite soldier and demolitions expert -- end up playing middleman to his kid brother and the estr...



  • Detmar Blow

    “One of the most original and influential people of the twentieth century to me and many others.†-- Alexander McQueen With a career spanning thirty years in fashion, as an influential voice at Vogue, Tatler, and The Sunday Times Magazine -- ...



  • Georgia Bockoven

    As Jessie Patrick Reed's attorney, I'm writing to you on behalf of your father, Jessie Patrick Reed. I regret to inform you that Mr. Reed is dying. He has expressed a desire to see you . . . Elizabeth, even though sustained by a loving family, has...



  • Melissa Bourbon

    All the Cassidy women possess special gifts. Harlow Jane Cassidy's is creating beautiful dresses. But she's about to discover secrets in her own family and another gift-one that can reach beyond the grave.... When her great-grandmother passes away...



  • C.J. Box

    Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the...



  • Austin Boyd

    Austin Boyd's vivid writing plunges you into Appalachia with such descriptive realism that you taste the perfume of summer clover and melt into the tender heart of a young woman who would sacrifice anything for Daddy. Hearkening to the myth of Pandor...



  • P.J. Bracegirdle

    Joy Wells is thrilled when Spooking -- the terrible town on the hideous hill -- is chosen as the location for a horror movie. She's convinced the attention will finally prove that legendary author E.A. Peugeot set his creepy tales in her beloved home...



  • Ray Bradbury

    Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork of twentieth-century American literature -- a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. The origins and evolution of B...



  • Jacklyn Brady

    Sweet Success can be a motive for murder. There aren’t many things pastry chef Rita Lucero hates more than losing. But two years after her marriage to fellow baker Philippe Renier fell apart, she’s still trying to get him to sign the divorce pap...



  • Max Brand

    "Johnny's One Man Invasion" opens this new trio of stories. It was typical of Big Tim Mara, boss of a gang of border raiders, to invite Johnny Stevens to his wedding. Big Tim was marrying the girl Johnny loved -- and Johnny would be there, with his h...



  • Lyle Brandt

    U.S. Marshal Jack Slade puts his honeymoon on hold when a series of slasher murders makes the Wild West a little wilder....



  • Kylie Brant

    An unknown assassin has appointed himself judge, jury, and executioner, brutally taking out high-level human targets citywide. And the list of suspects is a sensitive one: an Iranian diplomat, a U.S senator, and a vengeful priest. It's just the kind ...



  • Jackie Braun

    Could her best friend be her best match? The one thing Chloe McDaniels has always depended on is her friendship with Simon Ford. Even if it's been tough thinking of the gorgeous guy who makes her heart flutter as just a friend! But now, with their...



  • Helen Brenna

    Nobody's perfect -- but she's close As Mirabelle Island's only doctor, Sean Griffin is in demand -- for his medical expertise. As a single guy...well, in a community this small, his social calendar isn't exactly full. Doesn't seem to matter how el...



  • Joanna Briscoe

    Dora Bannan hopes for a new life when she moves her husband and their three children to the wild moorland. She finds a job teaching music at a progressive school, where she also enrolls the children- their fellow students the progeny of back-to-the-l...



  • Martha Brooks

    On the prairies of Canada during World War II, a girl and her two young siblings begin a war of their own. Stricken with tuberculosis, they are admitted to a nearby sanatorium. Teenager Marie Claire is headstrong, angry, and full of stubborn pride. I...



  • Terry Brooks

    After more than three decades of captivating epic fantasy readers, the storytelling magic of New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks's Shannara saga continues to enthrall. Now the fascinating chronicle of Shannara's prehistory reaches a thrill...



  • Carolyn Brown

    HE WASN'T LOOKING FOR TROUBLE... But when the cops are knocking on your door, trouble's definitely found you. And this is where Wil Marshall finds himself after checking in to the Longhorn Inn. It could all be a big mistake, but Wil's not getting ...



  • Carolyn Brown

    Angels would have trouble getting along with Micah Burnet, and Tempest Lavalle's halo is twisted plumb out of shape by the time she gets to the plantation where her two married sisters are living. Micah was the handsomest of the three outlaws who esc...



  • Don Brown

    Lieutenant Commander 'Gunner' McCormick is assigned as an intelligence officer to Carrier Strike Force 10, being deployed to the Yellow Sea at the invitation of South Korea for joint exercises with the US Navy. During his pre-deployment briefing, he ...



  • Jeff Brown

    G'day, Stanley! Stanley and his brother, Arthur, have just won a trip to Australia! They fly down under on a private jet and go diving in the Great Barrier Reef. But when Arthur launches Stanley into the air for a game of boomerang, the flat kid i...



  • Ed Brubaker

    Collects Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier #1-4, Captain America Comics #1. Steve Rogers was transformed into Captain America by the legendary Super-Soldier serum - shortly before the formula was lost, seemingly forever. But now, years later, the grandson ...



  • Alison Bruce

    Kaye Whiting went to buy a birthday present and didn't come back. When DC Goodhew hears the recording of the mysterious call made to the station, informing them that Kaye is still alive and that a man named Peter Walsh is responsbile, he knows it's m...



  • Niobia Bryant

    For one newly single lady, it's time to make things hot... When Zaria Ali married her high school sweetheart, she jumped straight into adulthood. But twenty-one years later, her husband has left her for a younger woman, her kids are in college -- ...



  • Shannon K. Butcher

    Hope appeared out of nowhere, naked and alone, a woman without a past. The only thing she knows is that she is imbued with a strange power. It's in her blood. And two men want to posses it. One is Logan, a Sanguiner demon-fighter who needs Hope's ess...



  • Sandra Byrd

    To Die For, is the story of Meg Wyatt, pledged forever as the best friend to Anne Boleyn since their childhoods on neighboring manors in Kent. When Anne's star begins to ascend, of course she takes her best friend Meg along for the ride. Life in the ...



  • Tom Cain

    The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves around the financial world. Never before had such a large and prestigious organisation been allowed to fail, and to fail so quickly. It began a domino effect, hitting banks and economi...



  • Rachel Caine

    RACHEL CAINE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WEATHER WARDEN NOVELS, TAKES THE ZOMBIE GENRE BY STORM IN HER BRAND-NEW REVIVALIST SERIES. Bryn Davis knows working at Fairview Mortuary isn't the most glamorous career choice, but at least ...



  • Laura Caldwell

    Forbidden relationships are the most tempting. And the most dangerous. It was a crime of passion -- or so the police say. Valerie Solara has been charged with poisoning her best friend. The prosecution claims she's always been secretly attracted t...



  • Frank Cammuso

    The Knights seek fame and fortune by entering a talent show! A battle is looming at Camelot Middle School--a battle of the bands, that is! Artie, Wayne, and Percy enter the talent show seeking fame and fortune. But only one of them plays an instru...



  • Candlewick Press

    They’re cute! They’re fun! Join in on the new sensation from Japan -- a search-and-find game book all about Strawberry Moshi and her friends.

    Strawberry Moshi wants to go to the ball, but she needs to find the right costume to dress up a...



  • Candlewick Press

    Take twenty top kids' authors and illustrators. Give them free rein to take turns creating a zany progressive story. What could possibly happen next?

    It all starts with a train rushing through the night. . . . Well, actually, it starts when Jo...



  • Carla Capshaw

    A Warrior without Equal, a Woman without Options Triumphs in the Coliseum -- and society bedchambers -- made gladiator Alexius of Iolcos famous for his brutal skill and womanizing ways. Yet the only woman who intrigues him is Tiberia the Younger, ...



  • Kate Carlisle

    The first step...mix business with pleasure New hairdo? Makeup? A dress? Where did his efficient secretary go? Because the woman in front of Brandon Duke is not the Kelly Meredith who left on vacation two weeks ago. He is shocked -- and curiously ...



  • Isobel Carr

    The League of Second Sons A secret society of younger sons, sworn to aid and abet each other, no matter the scandal or cost... Their fathers and brothers may rule the world, but they run it, and when it comes to passion they refuse to accept secon...



  • Lee Carroll

    What secrets are hidden in her past . . . ? Jewelry designer Garet James is still coming to terms with the astounding revelation in BLACK SWAN RISING that she is the last in a long line of women sworn to protect the world from evil. Now she has r...



  • Timothy Carter

    Ricky Fallon had decided against killing himself -- just before slipping off a bridge to his death. Now he's a Cupid in the afterlife, helping people fall in love. The job would be cool if it weren't for the dorky pink bodysuits, his jerky boss, an...



  • Kay Cassidy

    Sixteen-year-old Jess Parker survives by staying invisible. After nine schools in ten years, she's come to terms with life as a perpetual new girl, neither popular nor outcast. At Mt. Sterling High, Jess gets the chance of a lifetime: an invitation t...



  • Erin Celello

    In a stirring debut novel, the discovery of a husband's troubling secrets after his death shakes his wife's faith in their marriage and herself. Macy Allen, an accomplished equestrienne, has relied on her horses and her husband, Nash, to pull her ...



  • Michelle Celmer

    Too Close for Comfort Nothing can put the brakes on Nathan Everett's bid to become Western Oil's CEO. Except dating their chief rival's daughter. But just when he thinks he's put his affair with Ana Birch behind him, there she is, gorgeous as ever...



  • A. Bertram Chandler

    The #2 omni edition of the classic science fiction of A. Bertram Chandler’s John Grimes books, with eight legendary adventure novels in one volume. Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander John Grimes (think Captain Kirk with more of a navy...



  • Sheela Chari

    Eleven-year-old Neela dreams of being a famous musician, performing for admiring crowds on her traditional Indian stringed instrument. Her particular instrument used to be her grandmother's -- made of warm, rich wood, and intricately carved with a my...



  • Ashlyn Chase

    In this third installment of Chase's lively, sexy, paranormal trilogy, we meet witch Morgaine, who is deathly afraid of the dark, and her vigilante vampire neighbor Sly, who has his reasons for hating sunlight. Sly needs Morgaine's magic to help heal...



  • C.J. Chase

    Her Ally...or Her Enemy? With a chip on her shoulder and a pistol in her pocket, Mattie Fraser comes to London determined to find answers. What fate befell her brother after he was forced to join the British navy? Military official Kit DeChambelle...



  • Ella March Chase

    In the second novel from Ella March Chase, we meet sixteen-year-old Jane Grey, a quiet and obedient young lady destined to become the shortest reigning English monarch. Her beautiful middle sister Katherine Grey charms all the right people--until loy...



  • Lee Child

    A young Jack Reacher knows how to finish a fight so it stays finished. He knows how to get the job done so it stays done. And, in one of his earliest challenges, he knows that his analytical brain is just as important as his impressive brawn. Oki...



  • Julie Chimes

    The remarkable memoir of healing and forgiveness from Julie Chimes, who survived a horrific stabbing on her own driveway

    In 1986, Julie Chimes allowed an emotionally distressed acquaintance to wait in her cottage for Julie's doctor boy...



  • Stephanie Chong

    "Welcome to Devil's Paradise." The arch demon's voice was low and deep. His fingers caressed her through the fabric of her dress. "Your soul -- or his, Serena. Choose." Fledging guardian angel and yoga teacher Serena St. Clair dares to enter Devil...



  • Dianne L. Christner

    LOVE IS RARELY PLAIN AND SIMPLE KATY YODER. LIVES A SIMPLE, sheltered lifestyle ensconced in the traditions of the Conservative Mennonite church and holds a naive black-and-white worldview. With her parents' approval, she moves in with a childhood...



  • Kathleen Churchyard

    The candles dripped onto the icing as Robin deliberated. What could she possibly wish? She wanted to wake up the next day and learn all her problems were gone. But since her problems weren't going to disappear, she didn't want to be Robin anymore. ...



  • Scott Ciencin

    Isaac Foster is far from cold-hearted, but this talented freestyler is pretty rigid in his ways. He's efficient, calculating, and believes there's a best way to do every trick in the book. Kai Palakiko, on the other hand, is an open-minded former sur...



  • Scott Ciencin

    Jake Thorson, the Vikings team captain, gets all the credit. He leads the team in home runs, and everybody loves him for it -- that is, everyone but his brother, Luke. Luke isn't popular, and he hasn't hit a single home run -- but he does have the te...



  • Alys Clare

    Very early one summer morning, Lassair slips out of her Fenland village on a deeply personal mission and discovers the body of a young woman, hidden where it has no place to be. The girl's identity is quickly discovered but, as she wonders who killed...



  • Chris Claremont

    Cannonball! Wolfsbane! Sunspot! Warlock! Karma! The adventures of the next generation of the X-Men continue alongside Psylocke, Captain Britain and Longshot against t...



  • Chris Claremont

    Cannonball! Wolfsbane! Sunspot! Warlock! Karma! The adventures of the next generation of the X-Men continue alongside Psylocke, Captain Britain



  • Judy Clemens

    Casey and Death are on the run...again. This time, Casey needs to make her disappearance permanent. After obtaining new identification and throwing herself off the grid, she travels to Florida to begin a new life as Daisy Gray, fitness instructor for...



  • Ernest Cline

    At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut -- part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slingin...



  • Jennifer Close

    Wickedly hilarious and utterly recognizable, Girls in White Dresses tells the story of three women grappling with heartbreak and career change, family pressure and new love -- all while suffering through an endless round of weddings and bridal shower...



  • Tish Cohen

    Careful. Some wishes do come true. When you have 37 siblings, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle. Andrea Birch feels totally ignored by her parents even though she's their only biological child. The constant revolving door at her house full of f...




  • Max Allan Collins

    It's 1962, and Twentieth Century Fox is threatening to fire Marilyn Monroe. The blond goddess hires Nate Heller, private eye to the stars, to tap her phone so she will have a record of their calls in case they take her to court. When Heller starts li...




  • Susan Conant

    When Dog’s Life columnist Holly Winter rejects applicants who want to adopt homeless dogs, she makes a lot of enemies. In dogs Holly trusts, and the dogs she trusts most are her beloved malamutes, Rowdy, Kimi and Sammy. But right now she could use ...



  • Mary Connealy

    RAFE KINCAID CONTROLS EVERYTHING IN HIS LIFE . . . until he meets Julis. Julia Gilliland has always been interested in the natural world around her. She particularly enjoys studying the fossils and formations in the magnificent cave near her father'...



  • Sheila Connolly

    WHERE DO MEG'S TROUBLES STEM FROM? Now that Meg Corey's apples have been harvested and sold, she's enjoying some free time. Especially since she's snowed in without power or heat. Luckily, her maybe-boyfriend, Seth Chapin, is keeping her company, ...



  • Kent Conwell

    Joe Phoebe and his partner, Ira Croton, ride boldly into the forbidding hill country of central Texas for two reasons: first, to take a job bullwhacking for Mills' Freight and Livery in Dead Apache Springs; and second, on the outside chance that some...



  • Eileen Cook

    The third in a series of books about Willow's adventures as she masters her secret fairy powers, navigates sprite training, tries to ignore her perfect older sister, and maintains a friendship with Katie, the most un-normal of humans. Willow Avery se...



  • Caroline B. Cooney

    Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. M...



  • Lori Copeland

    Bestselling author Lori Copeland (Walker's Wedding and Outlaw's Bride) sets her brand-new story in North Carolina the months after the Civil War. In the midst of chaos, there is also a sense of possibility and the hope of love when: Sisters Be...



  • Ralph Cotton

    THE CARDS HAVE BEEN DEALT Jack Bell left Elk Horn seven hundred dollars richer after a poker game against Early Philpot. What Jack didn't reckon on was Philpot being such a sore loser and sending a gang of lowlifes into the mountain after him to get...



  • Patricia Coughlin

    A woman with a dream of romance-and some sparkling summer magic. Incurably romantic dressmaker Sophie Bennet finds her attention divided between the handsome single father of a young bride-to-be, and the mystical appearance of a ghost-bride with a...



  • Maggie Cox

    Once, her star was on the ascendant. Now Freya Carpenter is being destroyed by her vengeful ex-husband, and only PR genius Nash Taylor-Grant can give the beautiful actress her life back... To Nash, she should be just another job. But keeping the v...



  • Cleo Coyle

    A divorced, single mom in her forties, Clare Cosi is a coffee shop manager by day, an irrepressible snoop by night. When something is wrong, she considers it her mission in life to right it, and murder is as wrong as it gets. Can coffee enhance yo...



  • Christie Craig

    HOTTER IN TEXAS Nikki Hunt thought her night couldn't get worse when her no-good, cheating ex ditched her at dinner, sticking her with the bill. Then she found his body stuffed in the trunk of her car and lost her two-hundred-dollar meal all over ...



  • Lynn Cullen

    From the author of The Creation of Eve comes a tale of love and madness, royal intrigue and marital betrayal, set during the Golden Age of Spain. Juana of Castile, third child of the Spanish monarchs Isabel and Fernando, grows up with no hope of i...



  • Carol Culver

    No one can die from a pie . . . or can they? Hanna Denton has returned home to Crystal Cove, California, to take over the pie shop her Grannie Louise owned for thirty years. Grannie has now moved to the ritzy retirement community on the hill and Hann...



  • Kaye Dacus

    Commodore William Ransome is searching for his sister, Charlotte, who has been captured by Salvador, the infamous "Robin Hood of the West Indies." When word comes that his wife, Julia, has been kidnapped by the evil pirate, Shaw, Commodore Ransome an...



  • Mary Daheim

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