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  • Melissa de la Cruz

    Joanna and her daughters, bookish Ingrid and wild-child Freya, are just settling into the newfound peace that has been cast over their small, off-the-map coastal town of North Hampton. With the centuries-old restriction against practicing magic lifte...



  • Philippa Gregory

    Philippa Gregory tells the passionate story of Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, who gets caught in the middle of a battle for the crown of England. The White Princess opens as the news of the battle of Bosworth is brought to Prince...



  • Kirsten Mayer

    Based on the animated movie 'Despicable Me 2', this storybook features the hilarious adventures of the Minions as they turn into EVIL Minions and attack the dawn!...



  • Jason Aaron

    Collects Deadpool #900 and Deadpool #1000. Thrill as the Merc with a Mouth squares off against probe-happy aliens, trigger-happy mimes, mimes from outer space, urban cannibals, underage hit men, one seriously unhappy fanman and Lady Luck herself!...



  • Allyson K. Abbott

    Mack's Bar is one of those nice, friendly places where everybody knows your name. That's great when someone's buying you a round, but not so hot when you find yourself atop a list of murder suspects--with your fingerprints on the bloody knife! Mac...



  • Randa Abdel-Fattah

    Lara's friendship matchmaking days are over now that she has an Official Best Friend (OBF) in Tanya. But when when a new boy named Majur transfers to their grade and outplays Chris Martin, the school bully, on the soccer field, Chris's rule is sudden...



  • Shana Abe

    A rich portrait of post-Victorian England, The Deepest Night seamlessly blends thrilling romance with riveting history and adventure -- perfect for fans of Libba Bray and Lauren Kate. It’s 1915, and sixteen-year-old Lora Jones is finishing up he...



  • Alex Adams

    One woman's journey to reunite her family in a dystopian society. Twenty-seven-year-old Emma Frane is a radio talk-show host in City One. There, asking questions carries a death sentence. Emma has already lost her husband, child, and brother to Ci...



  • Dave Aikins

    This $7.99 board book is filled with multiple interactive elements meant to stimulate the five senses. This book is perfect for babies 6 months or older and comes with textures to touch and feel and flaps to lift. ...



  • James Aitcheson

    January, 1069: Less than three years after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the death of the usurper, Harold Godwineson, two thousand Normans march in the depths of winter to subdue the troublesome province of Northumbria. Tancred a Dinant,a loyal ...



  • Isabella Alan

    Welcome to Rolling Brook, Ohio, a quaint Amish community where life is less tranquil than it seems. Angela Braddock has come to Rolling Brook to lend a hand at her Aunt Eleanor’s traditional Amish quilt shop. But when Eleanor’s quilting cir...



  • A.K. Alexander

    Someone is torturing and killing high-stakes players in the horse-racing world, deliberately mimicking equine injuries. Legs shattered, knees hobbled, shot point-blank between the eyes, all signs point to an animal activist gone rogue. But San Diego ...



  • Margery Allingham

    Published as "The Galantrys" in America, "Dance of the Years" is one of Margery Allingham’s oft overlooked novels. Originally published in 1943, it is a fictionalized account of Allingham’s family heritage, which she insisted as the closest recor...



  • David Almond

    Stanley Potts’s uncle Ernie has developed an over-the-top fascination with canning fish in the house, and life at 69 Fish Quay Lane has turned barmy. But there’s darkness in the madness, and when Uncle Ernie’s obsession takes an unexpectedly cr...



  • Steve Alten

    On the brink of a disaster that could end all human life on earth, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun joins a team of scientists in Antarctica on a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to mine a rare ore that would provide for Earth’s long-term energy nee...



  • Kathy Altman

    A deal she can't refuse! Allison Kincaid can make a great sales pitch. But showing up at Joe Gallahan's motel asking for a favor is her toughest challenge yet. A year ago they were more than just colleagues at a big PR firm. When work came betwee...



  • Gigi Amateau

    A sequel to Chancey of the Maury River, this heart-tugging story focuses on Macadoo -- the gentle giant of the Maury River Stables. When Macadoo is just a colt, he challenges his father -- a huge Belgian stallion -- in order to protect his d...



  • Celia Anderson

    Books, chocolate and a Jacuzzi: could there be a better combination? Gorgeous Geordie Leo arrives in Clayton-on-the-Bream with a mission to make his mark. When he reveals his ideas for a bespoke bookshop and chocolate-themed cafe, struggling writer M...



  • Laurie Halse Anderson

    Jules and Josh are so excited when their parents hire ponies to attract customers to their sidewalk sale. But the Vet Volunteers notice that the ponies don't seem to be very healthy, and after an examination, they learn that the handler, Gus, has bee...



  • Beth Andrews

    Friends…with benefits? For Sadie Nixon, life is one big adventure with something new around the corner. And anytime she needs a break, she can always rely on James Montesano -- the best guy she knows. This time when she arrives in Shady Grove, ...



  • V.C. Andrews

    The Forbidden series continues in this thrilling e-novella, as Emmie must reinvent herself in Paris after her older sister, a high-priced escort, suddenly disappears. Emmie risked everything to track down her long-lost older sister, only to be lef...



  • Tom Angleberger

    SOME PROBLEMS ARE TOO BIG FOR ORIGAMI YODA ALONE... origami Yoda has used his Jedi-wise advice to help the kids at Mcquarrie Middle School conquer all sorts OF enemies, from dull school dances to embarrassing water stains. But this semester, Dwigh...



  • Conrad Anker

    In 1999, Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest, casting an entirely new light on the mystery of the lost explorer.On 8 June 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine were last seen climbing towards the summit of Ev...



  • Zoe Archer

    Two Lonely Hearts . . . Kalindi MacNeil survived the devastating enemy airship attack that obliterated Liverpool, but even her engineering skills can't seem to repair her broken heart. Seeking to put her life back together, Kali retreats to a des...





  • Frankie Ash

    In the village of Eludwid, seventeen-year-old Eramane Fahnestock goes about her life, cheerfully disregarding a prophecy made to her parents that she would have a great gift. Not yet wed and beset with boredom, Eramane cannot shake the feeling that s...



  • Amanda Ashby

    An ancient myth + a mean girl + a reluctant warrior = a lively take on good vs. evil The Black Rose--a powerful ancient force--has been let loose and has taken up residence in Celeste Gibson, popular girl at Cassidy Carter-Lewis' high school. Tho...



  • Katharine Ashe

    With seven troublesome half sisters to marry off, Duncan, the Earl of Eads, has one problem: he's broke. With the prospect of marriage to the pompous local curate, Miss Teresa Finch-Freeworth has one dream: to wed instead the handsome Highl...



  • Lindsay Jayne Ashford

    "Where would I begin to explain it all...?" Twenty-six years have passed since the death of Jane Austen. Armed with a lock of Austen's hair as perhaps her best clue, Anne Sharp, former governess to the Austen family and Jane's close friend, has de...



  • Amanda Ashley

    Mara. She is mysterious, alluring, a creature of the night, torn between two unforgettable men. . . Kyle Bowden. A gorgeous, golden-haired artist full of passion and life, Kyle is ready to give his soul to Mara--until he learns her terrible secret...



  • Dianna Hutts Aston

    The creators of the award-winning An Egg Is Quiet and A Seed Is Sleepy have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to the world of butterflies. From iridescent blue swallowtails and brilliant orange monarchs to the world...



  • Annie Auerbach

    The sticker-filled storybook Plants vs. Zombies: Brains and the Beanstalk is a mash-up of the insanely addictive video game and a classic fairy tale. In Plants vs. Zombies, winner of more than 30 Best Game of the Year Awards, plants -- including S...



  • Annie Auerbach

    In this colorful storybook with stickers, Plants vs. Zombies: The Three Little Pigs Fight Back, the famous fairy-tale pigs are thrown into the fun-dead world of Plants vs. Zombies, the award-winning video game. Instead of the big bad wolf, the bra...



  • Jenna Austen

    What do you read if you're too young for Jane Austen, but you love great stories and sweet romance?Jane Austen's little sister! Written in diary format, this is a completely fresh take on the themes in Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice.From t...



  • James Axler

    OUT OF THE GASLIGHT Kane and his Cerberus rebels have defied the odds and repelled an alien infiltration by minds of far greater complexity than those of man. But with Earth undefended and ripe for the plucking, a new threat emerges...one that has ...



  • Lori Baker

    "I write in retrospect, from the vantage of a distant shore." Flame-haired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, eighteen-year-old Carlotta Dell’oro recounts the lives of her parents -- solitary glassmaker Leopoldo Dell’oro and beautiful, unreachable C...



  • Eric Barclay

    Paige is just like every other kid. She goes to school. She practices her violin. She plays outside. The only problem is, she cannot quite see the chalkboard, her sheet music, or anything else! Despite Paige’s repeated refrain of “I can see just ...



  • Linwood Barclay

    Linwood Barclay now reveals the dark side of a small town -- and the even darker secrets that hide there... It’s been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver’s teenage son Scott died in a tragic accident. Ever since, he and his wife ...



  • Richard Bard

    After waking up with amnesia from a six-year coma, Jake Bronson’s past is lost to him. But that doesn’t mean the past hasn’t been looking for him -- or that it will let him live when it finally catches up. Jake’s placid, anonymous life in ...



  • Emily Croy Barker

    Earning comparisons to wildly popular fantasy novels by Deborah Harkness and Lev Grossman, Emily Croy Barker’s enchanting debut offers an intelligent escape into a richly imagined world. And with an appealing female protagonist, cinematic storytell...



  • David Barnett

    "Work Sets You Free", by David Barnett, is an original short story featuring the protagonist of the forthcoming novel Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl (Tor Books [US] and Snowbooks [UK], September 2013). Gideon is a young fisherman in Yorkshire, ...



  • Wilton Barnhardt

    Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina’s high society, where old Southern money -- and older Southern secrets -- meet the new wealth of bankers, boom-era speculators, and carpetbagging social climbers...



  • Andrea Barrett

    Winner of the National Book Award for her collection of stories Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett has become one of our most admired and beloved writers. In this magnificent new book, she unfolds five pivotal moments in the lives of her characters and in th...



  • Elisabeth Barrett

    As the sizzling Star Harbor series concludes, the fourth sexy Grayson brother, a dedicated DEA agent, shows a high-society beauty the true meaning of love. Cameron Stahl has everything, so why does she feel like her life is incomplete? A beautifu...



  • Gail Barrett

    Sullivan Turner doesn't see a hero when he looks in the mirror -- he sees only a hollow shell of the man he used to be. But redemption comes when he rescues a woman with a dark secret. Teenage-runaway-turned-social-worker Haley Barnes knows firsthand...



  • Guy Bass

    Mad Professor Erasmus has long forgotten his first creation, Stitch Head, leaving the lonely patchwork monster to take care of Castle Grotteskew all by himself. But when the professor is kidnapped by crusty pirates, Stitch Head decides to risk his al...



  • Battersea Dogs Home

    Zoe is fed up with being little. Her brothers keep teasing her, and she's too short to go on the best rides at the water park. But when her family decides to adopt a puppy from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Zoe is over the moon. Pippin, the adorabl...



  • Mark Batterson

    'One prayer can change everything.' A terrible drought had hit the land. Gardens died, rivers ran dry; the Israelites had one last hope: Honi the Rainmaker. So they called upon him to pray, and Honi did something strange ... something bold. Would God...



  • Elizabeth Beacon

    THE RECLUSE AND THE PAMPERED LADY As the long-lost black sheep of the aristocratic Seaborne family, Richard gave up everything to protect his wife and children -- his wealth, his home, even his name. Now a widower, he has been living hidden away ...



  • Cris Beam

    A New York Times Notable Book that “casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system” (NPR’s On Point).   Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herse...



  • Sean Beaudoin

    Teen rocker Ritchie Sudden is pretty sure his life has just jumped the shark. Except he hates being called a teen, his band doesn't play rock, and "jumping the shark" is yet another dumb cliché. Part of Ritchie wants to drop everything and walk away...



  • Aaron Becker

    Follow a girl on an elaborate flight of fancy in a wondrously illustrated, wordless picture book about self-determination -- and unexpected friendship. A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world wher...



  • Kate Becker

    A resourceful little girl with big ideas becomes a key part of the team when a community of family, friends, and neighbors builds a playground. Right now there is just an empty lot down the street, but this little girl dreams that one day there w...



  • Macy Beckett

    Feeling the Heat How do you stay under the sheriff's radar in a town that prides itself on knowing everyone's business? Leah's not sure it's possible, but she's determined to avoid Colton Bea for as long as she can. Seeing him again would be too h...



  • Sophie Bell

    A smart superhero book for girls with plenty of glitter--perfect for fans of The Powerpuff Girls. It all started with a mysterious purple goo... What happens when four best friends find themselves splattered with a bubbling, genetically alter...



  • Aimee Bender

    The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories. Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress who...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #16.1 & #19-22. The Daily Bugle is on the hunt to find out everything they can about the new Spider-Man… but what they discover will surprise them, you - and him! Then: Venom Wars begins! Miles Morales final...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Avengers Assemble #1-8. A perfect jumping-on point, featuring the cast of the summer blockbuster - but in Marvel Universe continuity! But who is behind the villianous Zodiac's return? None other than Thanos, the mad Titan, who has claimed...



  • Meg Benjamin

    Rose Ramos was a reference librarian, until she inherited her grandmother’s house -- and the family talent for connecting with the other side… Moving into the lovely Victorian in San Antonio’s King William District is a dream come true for R...



  • Michael Benson

    "Benson is a master of true crime." --Robert ScottDeadly DreamsJoyce Wishart was living out her life's dream, running her own art gallery in sunny Sarasota, Florida. But that dream ended in nightmare when a deranged drifter named Elton Brutus Murphy ...



  • Lori Benton

    “I remember the borders of our land, though I have been gone from them nearly half the moons of my life. But who there will remember me? What I have seen, what I have done, it has changed me. I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with up...



  • Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    The Berenstain Bears Thanksgiving Blessings Ride along with the Bear family on Thanksgiving Day as Brother and Sister learn about all the things they---and YOU---can be thankful for ... including faith, family, and the huge feast waiting for them at ...



  • Samantha Berger

    BEWARE OF CRANKENSTEIN! Who is Crankenstein? HE IS A MONSTER OF GRUMPINESS THAT NO ONE CAN DESTROY! MEHHRRRR!!! HE'S ALIVE! He may look like any ordinary boy, but when faced with a rainy day, a melting popsicle, or an early bedtime, one lit...



  • Lindsey Jensen Berke

    At preschool, recess is one of Julia's favorite times of day. She loves to swing from the monkey bars, draw on the sidewalk with chalk, and go on the slides. Today she decides to join the other girls in the sandbox. But one of her classmates tells...



  • David Riley Bertsch

    The gripping debut thriller featuring attorney-turnedfishing- guide Jake Trent, whose idyllic life is upended by a series of grisly killings. Early summer in Jackson, Wyoming, finds former East Coast prosecutor Jake Trent wading through a swift c...



  • Jo Beverley

    From five-time RITA Award winner Jo Beverley comes an exciting new novel set in the scintillatingly wicked Georgian age. Two lives are thrown into chaos by a centuries old feud and a wicked curse. Peregrine Perriam, son of an earl, has no desire...



  • Marion Billet

    When Noodle visits the park, he plays on the swing and watches the birds and the bees. And you can, too, with this touch-and-feel book. Noodle loves to go for a walk in the park to see the animals and flowers. He also loves to play at the playgrou...



  • Jane Bingham

    Vampires and Werewolves are certainly popular these days. Actually, there have been popular stories about these monsters for centuries. Are the stories based on any reality? Some people think so. Using the scientific method and other information, thi...



  • Jeremy Bishop

    A battle to the death with six-hundred-year-old zombie Vikings in the frozen far North was just the beginning... Undercover activist Jane Harper and father-and-son whalers Jakob and Willem Olavson thought they sent the walking corpses to their gr...



  • Benjamin Black

    When the body of his daughter’s friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State. “At first they thought it was the body of a child. Later,...



  • Fanny Blake

    A wry, honest, and heartfelt novel of female friendship, romance, and self-discovery Married to a man who no longer loves her, Lou realizes it’s time for a change. So she moves out and moves on, with a spring in her step and an exciting new busi...



  • Robin Blake

    Preston, 1741. The drowning of drunken publican Antony Egan is no surprise -- even if it comes as an unpleasant shock to coroner Titus Cragg, whose wife was the old man’s niece. But he does his duty to the letter, and the inquest’s verdict is acc...



  • Patty Blount

    Best friends don't lie. Best friends don't ditch you for a guy. Best friends don't post your deepest darkest secret online. Bailey's falling head-over-heels for Ryder West, a mysterious gamer she met online. A guy she's never met in person. He...



  • Dennis Bock

    After two acclaimed historical novels, one of Canada’s most celebrated young writers now gives us the vibrant, contemporary story of a man studying the suddenly confusing shape his life has taken, and why, and what his responsibilities -- as a husb...



  • V.A. Boeholt

    WHAT MAKES BURTON THE KIND SCARECROW UNIQUE? Building on the legacy of Burton the Kind Scarecrow, the third picture book in V.A. Boeholt's charming Friendship Tales from the Farm series, Burton's Harvest Party teaches a universal lesson of friendship...



  • Celia Bonaduce

    The Rollicking Bun -- Home of the Epic Scone -- is the center of Suzanna Wolf’s life. Part tea shop, part bookstore, part home, it’s everything she’s ever wanted right on the Venice Beach boardwalk, including partnership with her two best frien...



  • Ellen Booraem

    Perpetual scaredy-cat Conor O'Neill has the fright of his life when a banshee girl named Ashling shows up in his bedroom. Ashling is--as all banshees are--a harbinger of death, but she's new at this banshee business, and first she insists on going to...



  • Dominique Botha

    “You are too close to the water,” Paul whispered. “There are barbels in the mud. They will wake up if you step on them.”
    When Paul and Dominique are sent to boarding schools in Natal, their idyllic childhood on a Free State farm is over....



  • Dominique Botha

    “Jy is te naby aan die water,” fluister Paul. “Babers slaap in die modder. Hulle sal wakker word as jy op hulle trap.”Paul en Dominique se sorgelose kinderdae op ’n Vrystaatse plaas is vir ewig verby wanneer hul ouers se linkse politiek die...



  • Rhys Bowen

    As thirty-fifth in line for the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch may not be the most sophisticated young woman, but she knows her table manners. It's forks on the left, knives on the right--not in His Majesty's back... Here I am thinking the educat...



  • Beth Bracken

    Film stills and original dialogue from the beloved movie The Wizard of Oz tell the tale of a young girl named Dorothy who flies over the rainbow with her dog, Toto, befriends a Tin Man, a Scarecrow, and a Lion on a yellow brick road to the Emerald Ci...



  • Kelly Braffet

    Patrick Cusimano’s life can’t get much worse. His father is in jail, he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store, and his brother’s girlfriend, Caro, has pushed their friendship to an uncomfortable new level. On top of all that, ...



  • Max Brallier

    Based on Poptropica's popular Cryptids Islands, this illustrated novel follows the story of an eccentric billionaire who is promising a big reward to whoever can prove the existence of cryptids: legendary beasts like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster...



  • Peter Brandvold

    Spurr Morgan is ready to retire...but only after one last job. Deputy U.S. Marshal Spurr Morgan's ticker isn't what it used to be. After Spurr suffers a heart attack on the job, the Chief Marshal convinces him it's time to step down. Unwilling to...



  • Rachel Brimble

    Changing her life…again After two years in hiding, Angela Taylor knows her independence is worth it. As long as she can escape her past, she has everything under control. Until a flash flood hits the park where she works, and hot Chris Forreste...



  • Elise Broach

    Barnyard baby, Autumn day. Flannel baby Out to play! Little ones will love playing along with baby during a day full of fall fun, from hayrides to apple picking. This interactive novelty board book features large lift-the-flaps on each sprea...



  • Meljean Brook

    After a terrifying encounter in Hell destroys her trust in Michael, the Guardians' powerful leader, former detective Andromeda Taylor is ready to call it quits as one of the angelic warriors and resume her human life again. But when demonic forces th...



  • Carolyn Brown

    He's Tough as Nails and Ready to Ride... Rancher Dewar O'Donnell is just an old-fashioned cowboy at heart, and he can't wait to reenact the historic Chisholm Trail ride with his buddies. The trial-run cattle drive for a reality TV show sounds like...



  • S.G. Browne

    Does your lifestyle not fit the person inside you? Then try someone else on for size Call him whatever. Call him whomever. He can be any legally authorized fictional character or dead celebrity he wants for six to eight hours, simply by injecting...



  • Margaret Brownley

    It all started with an ad in a mail-order bride catalogue . . . Mary-Jo has traveled halfway across the country to meet her match, arriving just in time for his funeral. Returning home seems like her only option until her would-be brother-in-law p...



  • Ed Brubaker

    Collects Captain America (2011) #15-19. Still reeling from Hydra's Madbombs, Cap finds himself the target of a vicious media smear campaign. Who are the Discordians, and what will they blow up next? Targeted for death, Cap tackles Codename: Bravo a...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Join Emma Yoder Miller, the Amish widow-turned-newlywed, as she leads another quilting class with a new group of unlikely students, all with tattered pieces of their lives that need mending. Members of the patchwork group find friendship, faith, heal...



  • Leslie Budewitz

    The town of Jewel Bay, Montana--known as a Food Lovers' Village--is obsessed with homegrown and homemade Montana fare. So when Erin Murphy takes over her family's century-old general store, she turns it into a boutique market filled with local delica...



  • Zoe Burke

    Meet Annabelle Starkey. Shrewd, sweet, and sexy. A Stephanie Plum without the Jersey girl attitude, plus she’s a one-man kind of girl. Loves hats and shoes -- notices them in odd situations. Can see when she might need to shoot to kill. Annabe...



  • John Burningham

    A Nigerian folktale -- one of the first picture books John Burningham ever illustrated -- comes to life again with a new text by the venerable illustrator. Hare, Hippopotamus, and Elephant all live together in the forest. But often, when Hippo...



  • T.R. Burns

    Sometimes you find trouble, and sometimes trouble finds you. It’s Seamus Hinkle’s second semester at Kilter Academy, where he’s quickly become an ace troublemaking student. In fact, the headmistress has even entrusted him with a special assi...



  • Grace Burrowes

    HONOR OR HAPPINESS -- HE CAN'T HAVE BOTH. Tiberius Flynn travels to Scot land with orders to snatch his young niece away from her Highland relations. He thinks it's going to be an easy task, until he meets the feisty little girl and her fiercely p...



  • Sam Cabot

    The Historian meets The Da Vinci Code in this exhilarating supernatural thriller set in Rome, where rival groups are searching for a document that holds a secret that could shatter the Catholic Church. "This document, dear friend, will shatter the...



  • Jane Cabrera

    On the first day of Christmas,/My true love gave to me/A party in a pear tree. Jane Cabrera's signature animals celebrate Christmas with joy and love in this adaptation of the beloved holiday song. Her cheerful illustrations show magic mice, drumm...



  • Chelsea Cain

    Detective Archie Sheridan just has to get through the next few days, then his birthday and Halloween will be over. But with escaped serial killer Gretchen Lowell on the loose, the investigation into the murder of a DEA agent demanding his attention, ...



  • Rachel Caine

    In New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine's latest Revivalist novel, Bryn Davis's problems quickly turn from dead to worse... Already addicted to the pharmaceutical drug that keeps her body from decomposing, Bryn has to stop a secretive ...



  • Elizabeth Camden

    As owner of the 57th Illinois Watch Company, Mollie Knox's future looks bright until the night the legendary Great Chicago Fire destroys her beloved city. With her world crumbling around her, Mollie will do whatever it takes to rebuild in the afterma...



  • Kenneth Cameron

    New York, January 1896. Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned created of Sherlock Holmes, arrives with his wife Louisa at the Britannic Hotel in New York for his first American tour. While Arthur prepares his lectures, Louisa becomes entranced by the vibr...



  • Christian Cantrell

    I build levers to move objects that appear to be immovable. Alexei Drovosek represents the next evolution of human: no heart, immunity to cancer, and the uncanny ability to survive in conditions that would kill normal men. As an orphan growing up...



  • Kat Cantrell

    In this Billionaires & Babies novel, award-winning author Kat Cantrell presents an offer that can't be refused… When billionaire entrepreneur Michael "Shay" Shaylen becomes guardian to a baby boy, he knows there's only one woman who can teach h...



  • Cora Carmack

    Garrick Taylor and Bliss Edwards managed to find their happily-ever-after despite a rather . . . ahem . . . complicated start. By comparison, meeting the parents should be an absolute breeze, right? But from the moment the pair lands in London, ne...



  • Susan Carroll

    It’s 1981 and Belfast is burning. So, too, is freshly widowed Bessie Halstone: she burns with a desire to break with her troubled past. With her feckless husband gone, she leaves home hurriedly with her naughty nine-year-old son, Herkie, and no...



  • Rhonda Lee Carver

    A one-night stand leaves her questioning who she really slept with. Jasmine enters a bar in Texas looking for the man who got her pregnant. Keeping Shane Conner hostage in the men’s restroom, she tells him she’s carrying his child. His shock ...



  • Elizabeth Lynn Casey

    When a cantankerous Sweet Briar resident ends up six feet under, the ladies of the sewing circle have to deal with a town full of suspects... With the library's budget dwindling, Tori Sinclair is forced to let go of her predecessor, and fellow s...



  • H.M. Castor

    Destined for greatness...tormented by demons. The epic story of Henry VIII’s transformation from a handsome, gifted youth to a murderous, cruel king. Hal is a young man of extraordinary talents, astonishing warrior skills, sharp intelligence, an...



  • Adam-Troy Castro

    In Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors, things are not always what they seem in the Gloom Mansion. Gustav decides that he needs to rescue his father from the Dark Country, but he can’t do that without Fernie’s help. After Gustav convinces Fernie’...



  • Erika Chase

    Murder is nothing novel for the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society--but this time the police want to throw the book at one of their own... It's time to celebrate when club member Molly Mathews's childhood friend, Teensy Col...



  • Lauren Child

    Lauren Child teams up with a debut illustrator to tell a cautionary tale about the surprising perils of craving constant attention. Meet the Shrimpton family -- so talented, so eccentric, so larger than life, you couldn’t miss them if you want...



  • Lee Child

    Thriller master Lee Child returns with an exclusive eBook novella. In the midst of a savage heat wave and an infamous murder spree, a blackout awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps--and a young Jack Reacher takes action as only he can. ...



  • Conrad T. Chimera

    Fans of Lovecraft and the Twilight Zone will love these two delightfully strange short tales. The Batros, which was previously published in the October 2011 issue of Beyond Centauri, details an encounter with a winged creature in the night. Mr. Daven...



  • Gennifer Choldenko

    Alcatraz Island in the 1930s isn't the most normal place to grow up, but it's home for Moose Flanagan, his autistic sister, Natalie, and all the families of the guards. When Moose's dad gets promoted to Associate Warden, despite being an unlikely can...



  • Yangsze Choo

    Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. Bu...



  • Eileen Christelow

    Five excited little monkeys dress up for Halloween. They are going trick-or-treating with their favorite babysitter, Lulu. “Ghost, princess, goblin, banana, and alien,” Mama reminds her. “Don’t lose the rascals!” But soon those mischievous ...



  • Agatha Christie

    Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.Tommy and Tuppence sleuth after a clever counterfeiter who has been flooding both sides of the Channel with phony bills. In a dark alley, Tommy finds chalked Xs over all the doors -- but w...



  • Agatha Christie

    Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are called to duty at an international detective agency. On assignment, they are told to be wary of the number sixteen. If they see it in writing or hear it in conversation with a stranger, that means they are close to fi...



  • Agatha Christie

    A woman wants to prove that she was in two different places at the same time! Tommy and Tuppence are on the case....



  • Agatha Christie

    Captain Sessle is found stabbed through the heart with a hatpin, and the only clue is a bit of red wool in his hand. A pretty blonde is charged because she was wearing a bright red wool coat, but the Beresfords aren’t so sure. Was there more behind...



  • Agatha Christie

    While lunching in the chic Gold Room, Tommy masquerades as a blind detective. It is then that the Beresfords are approached by the elegant Duke of Blairgowrie for help in locating his missing daughter....



  • Agatha Christie

    Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.The Beresfords meet their first client, a man whose secret affair with a shopgirl goes terribly awry when she disappears. Tommy assures him they will find her within twenty-four hours, tho...



  • Agatha Christie

    During a lull in business, Tommy and Tuppence amuse themselves by perusing the paper’s personal columns. One cryptic ad reads, “Three hearts … 12 tricks … Ace of Spades … finesse the King.” Tommy is certain it is a secret message indicati...



  • Mae Clair

    The hunky young PhD knows all about seduction, but what does he know about love? Reagan Cassidy is settled in her life. She has a thriving interior design firm, an upscale condo, two cats, and a goldfish. As a favor to her uncle, she agrees to te...



  • Cassandra Clare; Maureen Johnson

    In 1920s Manhattan, Magnus Bane hobnobs with the elite at a glamorous Jazz Age hotspot. One of ten adventures in The Bane Chronicles. The immortal Magnus Bane is making the most of his time in the Roaring Twenties: He’s settled into New York soc...



  • Janice Clark

    A gothic, literary adventure set in New England, Janice Clark's haunting debut chronicles one hundred years of a once prosperous and now crumbling whaling family, told by its last surviving member. Mercy Rathbone, fifteen years old, is the diminut...



  • Lucy Clark

    One month to win her heart! Dr Richard Allington - fresh from romantic Paris - would be dangerously easy to fall for. But A&E Director Bergan Moncrief hasn't fought her way to the top, overcoming her troubled youth, to become a notch on the bedpost o...



  • Barbara Cleverly

    At dawn one morning in 1933, an amateur dowsing team digging the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a priceless gold coin in her mouth and a missing toe. The case falls on Assistant Commissioner of Scotlan...



  • Debra Clopton

    Ellie had no idea she’s not what Matthew ordered. And what’s wrong with being a “Bible thumper” anyway? She’s determined to show him she’s tougher than she looks -- and just the girl he needs....



  • Renae Colato Laainez

    "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" goes multicultural in this rollicking Spanish-English rendition. The barnyard animals on Old MacDonald's and Senor Pancho's farms have a hard time communicating. MacDonald's rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo! While Senor Pa...



  • Courtney Cole

    Ex-Army Ranger Gabriel Vincent is a badass hero. Or he used to be. Home from Afghanistan, Gabe can't stop thinking about that one horrible night on the battlefield, a night that changed his life forever. He knows he's messed up, but with the help of ...



  • Chris Colfer

    After decades of hiding, the evil Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty is back with a vengeance. Alex and Conner Bailey have not been back to the magical Land of Stories since their adventures in The Wishing Spell ended. But one night, they lear...



  • Kate Collins

    It’s finally time to say, "I do!” As long as I can keep my mom out of jail long enough to get her to the ceremony.... Someone’s Biting Mad. Abby Knight’s wedding is in less than two weeks, and everything is going wrong. The cooler in...



  • Tim Collins

    An unassuming werewolf joins forces with a teen vampire in this humorous addition to the Totally Lame Vampire series. Luke Thorpe is great at math and terrible at sports. He prefers to stay in the background when possible, but suddenly he s found ...



  • Mary Colson

    For many years, people in the mountains of North America have reported sightings of a strange being that appears to be very large, very hairy, and very smelly! It walks on two legs like a human, but looks more like an ape. People have nicknamed the c...



  • Susan Conley

    When Willie Pears begins teaching at a center for immigrant girls who are all hoping for French asylum, she has no idea it will change her life. As she learns their stories, the lines between teaching and mothering quickly begin to blur. Willie has f...



  • Mary Connealy

    It all started with an ad in a mail-order bride catalogue . . . David’s convinced he’s not long for the world. He needs someone to mother his boys when he’s gone -- nothing more. Can plucky Irish Megan convince him to work at living instead ...



  • Linda Conrad

    TEXAS COLD CASE Determined to solve the cold case of his mother's murder, Colt Chance returns home to Texas. Turns out the new deputy sheriff is the woman who broke his heart. But when someone targets Lacie, Colt'll have to decide between the v...



  • Carolyn Cooke

    From the author of "Daughters of the Revolution "and "The Bostons" (winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for fiction) come eleven stories about sex and death, violence and desire, love and madness, set in a vast American landscape that ranges fr...



  • Mary Coons

    In 1873, Persistence P. Pigly builds a beautiful brick home on the top of Pigville Hill that houses wonderful dreams. But as one disaster after another befalls Mr. Pigly's mansion, it slowly becomes nothing more than dusty remains of a time long forg...



  • Ilene Cooper

    Ilene Cooper's sixth story of a boy and his beagle follows Bobby and Lucy as they celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday in their own doggy way. Bobby has a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. He might soon become a big brother, his grandmother...



  • Douglas Corleone

    ormer U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk now works as a private contractor, tracking down and recovering children who were kidnapped by their own estranged parents. He only has one rule: he won’t touch stranger abduction cases. He’s still haunted by the dis...



  • Carey Corp; Lorie Langdon

    Veronica doesn't think she's going crazy. But why can't anyone else see the mysterious blond boy who keeps calling her name? When her best friend, Mackenna, invites her to spend the summer in Scotland, Veronica jumps at the opportunity to leave he...



  • Diana Cosby

    AN IMPULSIVE ACT. . . Lady Rois Drummond is fiercely devoted to her widowed father, the respected Scottish Earl of Brom. So when she believes he is about to be exposed as a traitor to England, she must think quickly. Desperate, Rois makes a shocki...



  • Lyn Cote

    Baby on Her Doorstep Schoolteacher Ellen Thurston never expected to find love in Pepin, Wisconsin. But the moment she discovers a baby boy outside her door, it's love at first sight. While the townsfolk don't approve of Ellen as a single mother, ...



  • Lucy Cousins

    The creator of Maisy introduces a lovable lemur who loves to hide - in a big, lush picture book with die-cut surprises and three different series of shaped card-stock pages. Where are you, Baby Jazzy? Jazzy the lemur and Mama JoJo love to play ...



  • Lucy Cousins

    Comical and original, this vivacious picture book from the creator of Maisy features a lovable new character -- and a novelty element that’s a hole lot of fun. Today my daddy said to me, "It’s time you learned to peck a tree." Little woo...



  • Caleb Crain

    An exquisite debut novel that brilliantly captures the lives and romances of young expatriates in newly democratic Prague It’s October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He’s arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia’s re...



  • Bill Crider

    Before classes start one morning, the body of English instructor Earl Wellington is found outside the building of the community college. Wellington was clearly involved in a struggle with someone and has died as a result. Sheriff Dan Rhodes pursues a...



  • Doreen Cronin

    Will the barnyard animals trick -- or treat -- Farmer Brown? Find out in this Halloween tale from the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of Click, Clack, Moo. Farmer Brown does not like Halloween. So he draws the shades, puts on his footy paja...



  • Ellen Crosby

    When photojournalist Sophie Medina returns to London from an overseas assignment, she discovers that her husband, Nick, a geologist and covert CIA operative, has been abducted. Three months later she is shocked when a friend in the British government...



  • Kate Cross

    Sworn to protect England from all enemies, the Wardens of the Realm are ever vigilant. But not all battles are fought on a battlefield...sometimes they are fought in the heart. As chief surgeon for the Wardens, Evelyn Stone fears her own life is...



  • Melissa Cutler

    Rising romantic suspense star Melissa Cutler reveals more secrets from the Coltons of Wyoming… An unsolved murder haunts those who live and work at Dead River Ranch. When called to care for the ailing Colton patriarch, Dr. Levi Colton must fac...



  • Arne Dahl

    When police find a Swedish literary critic tortured to death in a janitor's closet at Newark International Airport, they realize that the murderer has made off with the victim’s ticket and boarded a flight to Stockholm, where he apparently slipped ...



  • Christian Darkin

    It seemed as though a dragon, for it could be nothing else, had reared out of the ground in the night . . . and then been turned to stone by the first rays of the dawn sun. Starting with the living beast, the Megalosaurus herself, over 144 millio...



  • James Dashner

    "The Maze Runner Files" is a 50+ page collection of classified records and concealed information from the world of the "New York Times" bestselling Maze Runner series. Lost emails between WICKED employees, memos meant to be destroyed after reading, a...



  • Maryjanice Davidson

    Vampire queen Betsy "don't call me Elizabeth" Taylor is back--and there's going to be Hell to pay--in MaryJanice Davidson's bestselling series... It's no surprise to Betsy that her trip to Hell with her sister Laura landed them in hot water. Bet...



  • Peter Dawson

    After Fred Vance's father died, his mother married Milt Hurd. When his mother died, the Stirrup Ranch was left to Fred but with the provision that Milt Hurd be supported. Rather than stay on Stirrup, Vance left and sought his fortune in New Mexico Te...



  • Peter De Jonge

    When a home health attendant, Paulette Williamson, appears at Homicide South in Manhattan, she's introduced to the NYPD's Detective Darlene O'Hara and skeptically reports the confession of a senior citizen struggling with Alzheimer's. Gus Henderson, ...



  • Anna Dean

    The inquisitive Miss Dido Kent returns in "A Place of Confinement" to elucidate the mysterious disappearance of a young woman in the fourth installment of Anna Dean's charming Regency era series The dependably sharp Miss Dido Kent is suffering he...



  • Loretta Deangelis

    When ex-cop-turned-college professor Colt Keel dies in an explosion on his sailboat, lead investigator Jake Lester thinks it's an accident. Amy, Keel's wife believes it was murder, and she's determined to find the truth. When Jake realizes it was no ...



  • Terry Deary

    Stories of the First World War from the bestselling Terry Deary, author of the hugely successful Horrible Histories. France 1917 - the war in the air. An air observer is shot down behind enemy lines and meets the German flying ace, the famous Red Bar...



  • Terry Deary

    Stories of the First World War from the bestselling Terry Deary, author of the hugely successful Horrible Histories. Flanders, 1914. The German and British soldiers in the trenches make an unofficial Christmas truce, with carols and a football match....



  • Julianna Deering

    "Downton Abbey "Meets Agatha Christie in This Sparkling Mystery Drew Farthering loves a good mystery, although he generally expects to find it in the pages of a novel, not on the grounds of his country estate. When a weekend party at Farthering P...



  • Vicki Delany

    It’s the end of March and Trafalgar, British Columbia, is preparing for the last influx of the seasonal skiers. Teachers, parents, and students are preparing to relax at home or head off on vacation. But for high school English teacher Cathy Lindsa...



  • Jayne Denker

    One of Hollywood's hardest working women is about to discover there's a lot more drama behind the camera than in front of it. . . Faith "Freakin'" Sinclair probably shouldn't have called her boss a perv. . .or grabbed his "privates." But as creato...



  • Anthony DeStefano

    Soon after his popular A Travel Guide to Heaven was published, bestselling author Anthony DeStefano recognized that children also have many questions about heaven. In celebration of the tenth anniversary of that book, Anthony wrote this fun-filled, a...



  • Toby Devens

    Every five years my mother had her fortune read by Lulu Cho, owner of the Golden Lotus Massage Club for Men. Now it was my turn. And Lulu predicted one hurricane of a future for me Judith Soo Jin Raphael's childhood was shaped by her hardworking...



  • Anna Dewdney

    Llama Llama likes to sing. Gilroy laughs at everything. Llama sings out just the same. Gilroy says a not-nice name. Teacher has some things to say: calling names is not OK. Llama Llama is learning lots of new things at school and making man...



  • John Dickinson

    An uneasy truce is being held between Sally's devil, Muddlespot, and her angel, Windleberry. But then the cupids attack...For once, Muddle and Win are in agreement: cupids mean Trouble. They both know that when True Love is involved, things aren't si...




  • Kelly DiPucchio

    Get out your craft supplies, because the queen of DIY is back! It’s up to Chloe to create the perfect costume -- and save the day -- in this delightful follow-up to Crafty Chloe. The Parade of Books has arrived, and it’s Chloe’s chance to sh...



  • Disney Book Group

    400-page, 8 x 10 7/8 story book with a one-piece faux leather cover with a crack look, then stamped with a foil and 2-to-3 color inks, with a peel onlay in the center. Gilded edges on book block. Content picked up from Disney''s Read To Me Treasury V...



  • Disney Book Group

    Ariel adopts a little orphaned foal, who grows up to be Beau, the biggest, horsiest lapdog the court has ever seen! This beautifully illustrated storybook is chock-full of adventure, romance, and humor. ...



  • Disney Book Group

    Read along with Disney! Tinker Bell ventures beyond Pixie Hollow to patch things up with her friend Terence and restore an ailing Pixie Dust Tree. This reader featuring the Disney Fairies is based on Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure and included w...



  • Shannon Dittemore

    One halo brought sight to Brielle. Another offers sweet relief from what she sees. Brielle can't help but see the Celestial. Even without the halo, the invisible realm is everywhere she looks. It's impossibly beautiful--and terrifying, especially ...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    The boys track down an unusually undead suspect in this Hardy Boys Secret Files mystery. Bayport is buzzing with excitement when a film crew sets up shop to film the latest zombie flick. Frank, Joe, and their friends are really psyched that there ...



  • Ivan Doig

    A beloved character brings the power of the press to 1920s Butte, Montana, in this latest from the best storyteller of the West In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with hi...



  • Angela Dominguez

    Everyone knows about Mary and her little lamb. But do you know Maria? With gorgeous, Peruvian-inspired illustrations and English and Spanish retellings, Angela Dominguez gives a fresh new twist to the classic rhyme. Maria and her mischievous littl...



  • Carole Nelson Douglas

    Carole Nelson Douglas's Cat in an Alien X-Ray takes the Las Vegas gang on a science-fictional roller-coaster ride, as Midnight Louie, feline PI, and company encounter UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy nuts who are too bizarre even for tin foil hat therapy....



  • Roddy Doyle

    Jimmy Rabbitte hates jazz, always has. But his wife Aiofe loves it, and Jimmy loves Aiofe. So when, in attempt to convert him, she buys him two tickets for a Keith Jarrett concert he decides to take Outspan, former member of Jimmy's band The Commitme...



  • Laura Drake

    No white picket fences for her! It's not in Samantha Crozier's DNA to ignore the call of the open road. The wind in her hair and the pavement beneath her bike are all Sam needs. Until she crashes into Widow's Grove and the arms of Nick Pinelli, t...



  • Urma Droid

    Following the success of How to Speak Wookiee comes this essential manual for interacting with droid units in various situations. Droids are made to be reliable, helpful, and daring, but they can be frustratingly stubborn. This convenient sound guide...



  • Ursula Dubosarsky

    When their teacher goes missing during an outing, eleven girls grapple with the aftermath in this haunting, exquisitely told psychological mystery. The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man...



  • Jacques Duquennoy

    Little Ghost is hosting a dance party, and you’re invited! By simply tilting the book, children will be captivated by moving various parts of each party guest to replicate the instructed dance moves, or create their own! In addition, young readers ...



  • Hallie Durand

    Hop in for a hilarious, heartwarming ride with Mitchell, a kid with a need for speed. He may require a little boost getting into the driver’s seat, but once he’s behind the wheel, his "car" sure goes fast! With warmth and sly wit, Hallie Durand f...



  • Lynette Eason

    SHE WON'T GIVE UP Erica James has spent the past three years as a skip tracer, hunting down others and hoping one day it will lead to her kidnapped daughter. Now she has a new suspect-Max Powell's missing sister. Max, a private investigator, has f...



  • Dawn Eastman

    The aptly named Crystal Haven is "the "destination for tourists seeking psychics, seances, and the promise of contacting the spirit world. In this small western Michigan town, everyone knows the Fortune family. Rose is gifted with tarot card readings...



  • Sarah M. Eden

    Though she was only a child during the darkest days of Ireland's Great Famine, Katie Macauley feels responsible for the loss of her family s land and the death of her sister. Now a woman grown, Katie has left Ireland for America and the promise of ea...



  • Sarah M. Eden

    Though she was only a child during the darkest days of Ireland's Great Famine, Katie Macauley feels responsible for the loss of her family s land and the death of her sister. Now a woman grown, Katie has left Ireland for America and the promise of ea...



  • Gawain Edwards

    • Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller• Includes the original illustrationsFeatured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” G. Edward Pendray, one of the founding-fathers of modern rocketry and spaceflight, wrote scie...



  • David Ellis

    Defense attorney Jason Kolarich is back in another edge-of-your-seat thriller . . . and this time he may find himself in over his head, in more ways than one. James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny-looking, geeky loner, he walks into Jas...



  • Leanna Ellis

    What Must We Sacrifice to be Forgiven? Samuel Fisher has committed a sin of biblical proportions -- he killed his own brother, Jacob. Haunted by guilt and talked by a vampire out for his soul, Samuel starts down the same dark path of destruction t...



  • Marianne Ellis

    With the heat of summer comes the warmth of sunlight, shadows of the past, and Miriam's chance to win the heart of the only man she's ever loved--her husband. The death of Jakob Lapp, a beloved member of the Amish community and the builder of th...



  • Ed Emberley

    Children will love this monsterously fun story, featuring die-cuts on every spread. With each turn of the page, readers reveal Little Green Monster's little yellow eyes, his little red mouth, and even a cute, tiny white monster tooth. Then, when the ...



  • Margarita Engle

    When Tony’s mother is sent to jail, he is sent to stay with a great uncle he has never met in Sierra Nevada. It is a daunting move -- Tony’s new world bears no semblance to his previous one. But slowly, against a remote and remarkable backdrop, t...