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  • Murder with a Twist

    Allyson K. Abbott

    The regulars at Mack's Bar love putting their heads together to solve a good mystery. But Mack is learning there's a big difference between barroom brain teasers and real-life murder. . . Milwaukee bar owner Mackenzie "Mack" Dalton has a unique ne...

  • Guardians of the Galaxy by Abnett & Lanning: The Complete Collection Volume 1

    Dan Abnett

    With the fabric of the universe torn, all that stands between us and invading horrors is a team of cosmic misfits. Led by Star-Lord, the newly-minted Guardians of the Galaxy include a who's who of the mightiest -and most bizarre - protectors the star...

  • War of Kings

    Dan Abnett

    Collects War of Kings #1-6, Secret Invasion: War of Kings & War of Kings: Who Will Rule. What happens when an Inhuman - led Kree go to war with the Shi'ar led by the crazed Summers brother Vulcan? When these mighty powers turn their rage upon one...

  • The Widow's House

    Daniel Abraham

    THE RISE OF THE DRAGON AND THE FALL OF KINGS Lord Regent Geder Palliako's war has led his nation and the priests of the spider goddess to victory after victory. No power has withstood him, except for the heart of the one woman he desires. As the vio...

  • Murder in the Mystery Suite

    Ellery Adams

    WHO WOULD RESORT TO MURDER? Tucked away in the rolling hills of rural western Virginia is the storybook resort of Storyton Hall, catering to book lovers who want to get away from it all. To increase her number of bookings, resort manager Jane Stew...

  • Crave the Night

    Lara Adrian

    With the acclaimed Midnight Breed series, New York Times bestselling author Lara Adrian has written thrilling novels of electrifying romance and heart-pounding suspense--page-turners in which humans and vampires live tenuously side by side. In Crave ...

  • Mortal Beauty

    Ann Aguirre

    Revenge is a dish best served cold. In Ann Aguirre's "Mortal Danger," Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn't imagine bei...

  • Mortal Danger

    Ann Aguirre

    Revenge is a dish best served cold. In Ann Aguirre's "Mortal Danger," Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn't imagine bei...

  • The Reckoning

    Rennie Airth

    Inspector John Madden -- who debuted in River of Darkness -- returns in a gripping post-World War II murder mystery On a quiet afternoon in 1947, retired bank manager Oswald Gibson is shot in the head while fishing. In Scotland, a respectable fam...

  • Autumn's Secret Gift

    Elise Allen; Halle Stanford

    Sisters Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer are nature's royalty. In Mother Nature's realm, they're responsible for each magical turn of the seasons. When they're not keeping all of nature in balance, the girls play, imagine, and explore their way aro...

  • The Crystal Cage

    Merryn Allingham

    Captivated…or captured? Appearances don't always reveal the truth. Grace Latimer knows this better than most. Illusions of commitment and comfort have her trapped -- until bohemian adventurer Nick Heysham charms his way into her world. Commissio...

  • Julie 2014 Mini Doll and Book

    American Girl Books

    This 6-inch doll brings Julie's world to life on a smaller scale. She arrives dressed in an outfit authentic to her era. Plus, she comes with a mini abridged version of her first book. ...

  • Kit 2014 Mini Doll and Book

    American Girl Books

    This 6-inch doll brings Kit's world to life on a smaller scale. She arrives dressed in an outfit authentic to her era. Plus, she comes with a mini abridged version of her first book. ...

  • Rebecca 2014 Mini Doll and Book

    American Girl Books

    This 6-inch doll brings Rebecca's world to life on a smaller scale. She arrives dressed in an outfit authentic to her era. Plus, she comes with a mini abridged version of her first book. ...

  • Kaya 2014 Mini Doll and Book

    American Girl Books

    This 6-inch doll brings Kaya's world to life on a smaller scale. She arrives dressed in an outfit authentic to her era. Plus, she comes with a mini abridged version of her first book. ...

  • Addy 2014 Mini Doll and Book

    American Girl Books

    This 6-inch doll brings Addy's world to life on a smaller scale. She arrives dressed in an outfit authentic to her era. Plus, she comes with a mini abridged version of her first book. ...

  • Frostborn

    Lou Anders

    SMELLY TROLLS, THE WALKING DEAD, AND A FIRE-BREATHING DRAGON ARE NO MATCH FOR KARN AND THIANNA, TWO HEROES WITH PLUCK AND SMARTS. LOU ANDERS'S FIRST BOOK IS A HUMOROUS VIKING-INSPIRED FANTASY ADVENTURE THAT WILL APPEAL TO FANS OF RICK RIORDAN, BRANDO...

  • When I Grow Up: Benjamin Franklin

    Annmarie Anderson

    Meet one of America's Founding Fathers! These brand-new easy readers are the perfect introductory biography series for young children. Each book will feature a recognizable figure and will take the reader on an exciting journey from obscure childh...

  • He Laughed with His Other Mouths

    M.T. Anderson

    In the sixth and final Pals in Peril tale that “offers adventure, wit, and heart” (Booklist), Jasper Dash is off into the universe to search for his long-lost father! In this action-packed conclusion to the celebrated Pals in Peril series, Jas...

  • Abolition: Book One

    Kevin Andrew

    It has been five years since the abolition destroyed the valley, causing an economic meltdown and terminal illness. Forced to do anything to survive, a young man joins the Watch, a rebel group formed to protect what little they have left. No one know...

  • The Heat of the Night

    Amy Andrews

    It's supposed to be all hands on deck…not on each other! To Claudia Davis, her Australian beach hotel is paradise. To her business partner, Luke Hargreaves, it's a burden he's desperate to shake off! Then a cyclone hits, and it's down to them bo...

  • Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus

    Tom Angleberger

    A FIELD TRIP WITHOUT ORIGAMI? WHAT THE HUTT? The origami Rebel Alliance is off to washington, D.C.! After gloriously defeating the FunTime Menace, the seventh graders of McQuarrie Middle School expect their hard-earned field trip to be totally st...

  • Visions

    Kelley Armstrong

    Olivia Taylor-Jones, daughter of notorious serial killers, has just taken refuge in the secluded town of Cainsville when she finds a dead woman -- dressed to look like Olivia -- in her car. When the body vanishes, she convinces herself it’s just an...

  • The Islands at the End of the World

    Austin Aslan

    In this fast-paced survival story set in Hawaii, electronics fail worldwide, the islands become completely isolated, and a strange starscape fills the sky. Leilani and her father embark on a nightmare odyssey from Oahu to their home on the Big Island...

  • The Doctor's Return

    Narelle Atkins

    Megan Bradley Is Putting Down Roots After years spent traveling the globe, she never expected to be back in her hometown sharing an office with her former sweetheart, Dr. Luke Morton. Megan is focused on building her business, and doesn't have ti...

  • Jumped

    Colette Auclair

    A young woman in the equestrian fashion business finds herself head over heels for none other than her ex-husband in Colette Auclair’s steamy sequel to her 2012 Golden Heart finalist and “page-turning debut” (Library Journal), Thrown.Thoroughly...

  • Shadow Born

    James Axler

    DOMINION PLAGUE Earth remains the tortured battleground of near-immortal aliens. But these god kings never anticipated unified resistance from a group of humans possessing the tenacity and spirit to reclaim their planet. In the ongoing war for in...

  • Ready, Steady, Ghost!

    Elizabeth Baguley

    Gilbert wants to learn to haunt just like the big ghosts do. But he's very small, and the forest is very big. And-shiver-me, shake-me! What is that? Facing spooky creatures around every bend, Gilbert learns that a little courage is all it take...

  • The Nanny Proposition

    Rachel Bailey

    Two babies…one scandalous secret! Discovering he's the father of an orphaned newborn rocks botanist Liam Hawke's world. But that's where nanny Jenna Peters fits in -- a single mother herself, she immediately works her magic on his newborn daugh...

  • Gumballs

    Keith Baker

    Mr. Green loves guessing games. And he has a plan to guess the number of gumballs in a GIANT gumball machine! So does Mrs. Green. Her plan involves luck, but Mr. Green's plan involves luck and math skills. Will they both be winners? And what would th...

  • No Safe House

    Linwood Barclay

    The New York Times bestselling author delivers the follow-up to No Time for Goodbye--an electrifying novel of suspense in which a family’s troubled past is about to return in more ways than one. And this time, they may not be able to escape.... ...

  • Mrs. Sorenson and the Sasquatch

    Kelly Barnhill

    Kelly Barnhill's Mrs. Sorenson and the Sasquatch, a Tor.com Original, is "a warmhearted tale."--Locus When Mr. Sorensen - a drab, cipher of a man - passes away, his lovely widow falls in love with a most unsuitable mate. Enraged and sc...

  • Before, During, After

    Richard Bausch

    When Natasha, a talented young artist working as a congressional aide, meets Michael Faulk, an Episcopalian priest struggling with his faith, the stars seem to align. Within months they are engaged. Shortly before their wedding, while Natasha is vaca...

  • The Viscount's Frozen Heart

    Elizabeth Beacon

    THAWED BY HIS HOUSEKEEPER'S KISS Luke Winterley, Viscount Farenze, is duty-bound to fulfill his beloved aunt's last request -- even though it concerns bewitching housekeeper Chloe Wheaton. Years ago they fell in love, but the battle between duty ...

  • Kate the Great, Except When She's Not

    Suzy Becker

    Fans of Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries will love this illustrated series by the New York Times bestselling author of "All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat." Meet Kate Geller, a sassy flute-playing artist, who comes up with an original way to redefine...

  • His Girl From Nowhere

    Tina Beckett

    I can't tell you... Equine therapist Trisha Bolton has a secret. One she's not allowed to tell anyone. Finally given the chance to start over, she just needs the backing of local ultragorgeous neurosurgeon Mike Dunning! No stranger to betrayal,...

  • Guarded

    Mary Behre

    She’s given up on finding love... Veterinarian Shelley Morgan has always preferred animals to humans, and not simply because she can communicate with them psychically. Unlike most people she’s known, animals have never broken her heart. But af...

  • The Kennedy Connection

    R.G. Belsky

    Half a century after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, someone is killing people on the streets of New York City and leaving behind a bizarre calling card of that tragic day in Dallas. In this bold and entertaining thriller from a tr...

  • Dust and Light

    Carol Berg

    National bestselling author Carol Berg returns to the world of her award-winning "Flesh and Spirit" and "Breath and Bone" with an all-new tale of magic, mystery, and corruption.... How much must one pay for an hour of youthful folly? The Purebloo...

  • Return of Dr. Irresistible

    Amalie Berlin

    Sparks fly with her ex… Emergency medical technician Jolie Bohannon never expected to see childhood sweetheart Dr. Reece Keightly again. Not since he abandoned her all those years ago…. Now he's back to close down his family's circus -- and it...

  • 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas

    Marie-Helene Bertino

    An enchanting and staggeringly original debut novel about one day in the lives of three unforgettable characters Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the r...

  • Deadline

    Maggie K. Black

    THE PERFECT CRIME No one but reporter Jack Brooks believes three seemingly unrelated deaths are the work of a clever serial killer. Not even the woman he's convinced is the next victim -- beautiful wedding planner Meg Duff. Even when he tracks he...

  • Broken Souls

    Stephen Blackmoore

    Sister murdered, best friend dead, married to the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte. Necromancer Eric Carter's return to Los Angeles hasn't gone well, and it's about to get even worse. His link to the Aztec death goddess is changing his powers, ...

  • Wickedly Magical

    Deborah Blake

    Known as the wicked witch of Russian fairy tales, Baba Yaga is not one woman, but rather a title carried by a chosen few. They keep the balance of nature and guard the borders of our world, but don’t make the mistake of crossing one…Barbara Yager...

  • Shadows

    E.C. Blake

    In Masks, Mara Holdfast's life changed forever. As the daughter of the Autarch’s Master Maskmaker, she had a clearly defined future: a quiet, ordered life in the capital, making Masks with her father and doing work important to the ruling Autarch. ...

  • Some Boys

    Patty Blount

    Some girls say no. Some boys don't listen. When Grace meets Ian, she's afraid. Afraid he'll reject her like the rest of the school, like her own family. After she accuses Zac, the town golden boy, of rape, everyone turns against her. Ian wouldn't ...

  • Mojave

    Johnny D. Boggs

    ‘Til Death Do Us Part Stranded in the Mojave Desert, Micah Bishop is about to cash in his chips for good when he's rescued by an unlikely savior. Whip Watson is hand-delivering two dozen brides to the silver boom town of Calico, where miners are...

  • Miss Brooks' Story Nook

    Barbara Bottner

    Missy loves her librarian, Miss Brooks. And she loves to go to Miss Brooks’ before-school story time. But to get to Story Nook, she has to pass Billy Toomey’s house -- and she does not love Billy Toomey. Billy always tries to steal her hat...

  • Queen of Hearts

    Rhys Bowen

    Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal--but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene. My...

  • Flashlight

    Lizi Boyd

    Inside a tent it's cozy. But what is going on outside? Is it dark? Is it scary? Not if you have your trusty flashlight! Told solely through images and using a spare yet dramatic palette, artist Lizi Boyd has crafted a masterful exploration of night, ...

  • Palmetto Moon

    Kim Boykin

    June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found... Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley ...

  • Lonnie Gentry

    Peter Brandvold

    Life has not been easy for young cowboy Lonnie Gentry. Lonnie and his mother live alone, working hard, raising cattle and horses on their remote Colorado mountain ranch. Now the thirteen-year-old must travel over perilous mountains to return money st...

  • Cronus the Titan Tells All: Tricked by the Kids

    Eric Braun

    OF COURSE you think I was the worst father ever, that swallowing my own children was utterly monstrous. You don’t know the other side of the myth. Well, let me tell you… ...

  • A Song for Issy Bradley

    Carys Bray

    A mesmerizing literary debut novel of doubt, faith, and perseverance in the aftermath of a family tragedy -- for fans of Me Before You, Little Bee, and Tell the Wolves I’m Home. The Bradleys see the world as a place where miracles are possible,...

  • Not Very Scary

    Carol Brendler

    Melly is a brave little monster who is not afraid of anything. She loves surprises, and when her fun-loving cousin invites her over for a big surprise, Melly excitedly sets out for a visit. On her way, she notices skittish skeletons, a coal-black cat...

  • Bless the Dying

    Sandra Bretting

    Deep in the intensive care unit at St. James Medical Center in Southern California lies a young policeman slowly dying after a routine medical test goes terribly awry. For Rhetta Day, his former lover and now head of public relations for the hospital...

  • Thief of Glory

    Sigmund Brouwer

    A boy coming of age in a time of war… the love that inspires him to survive. For ten year-old Jeremiah Prins, the life of privilege as the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies comes crashing to a halt in 1942 after the Japanese ...

  • Whatever It Takes

    Dixie Lee Brown

    All three parts in one volume! Fans of Cindy Gerard and Jaci Burton will love the next thrilling novel in Dixie Lee Brown's suspenseful Trust No One series… Assassin Alex Morgan will do anything to save an innocent life -- especially if it me...

  • Life on Mars

    Jennifer Brown

    Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers comes from a family of stargazers and his quest to find life on other planets is unstoppable. But when Arty's family announces they're moving to Las Vegas, the City of Lights threatens to put an end to...

  • Mean Streak

    Sandra Brown

    From #1 New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown comes a heart-pounding story of survival, that takes the age-old question, "Does the end justify the means?" and turns it on its head. Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marath...

  • What If... ?

    Anthony Browne

    Young worriers will relate to -- and be comforted by -- this tale of a boy’s anxiety as he heads to his first big party. What if Joe doesn’t like the party he’s going to? What if he doesn’t like the food or the games or the people? As J...

  • The Healing Quilt

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Join retired Amish newlyweds Emma and Lamar Miller in Florida for the winter as they lead another quilting class with a new group of unlikely students: Jennifer, a pregnant new mom; Mike, a charter boat owner; Erika, a wheelchair bound teen; Kim, a w...

  • The Sign Painter

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    A deeply emotive story about a young mother struggling to get back on her feet after a devastating loss leaves both her and her daughter alone and living on the street -- from bestselling and award-winning author Davis Bunn. Amy Dowell had always ...

  • Where's Glimmer?

    Jessica Burkhart

    When Glimmer the Unicorn goes missing, Princess Bella will do anything to get her back in the second book in the Unicorn Magic series! Now that Princess Bella has officially been matched with her sparkly unicorn, Glimmer, it’s time to show her o...

  • Bella's Birthday Unicorn

    Jessica Burkhart

    My Little Pony meets Candy Fairies in this first book in a chapter book series from Canterwood Crest author Jessica Burkhart! In the magical Crystal Kingdom, being eight years old is a big deal for a royal prince or princess -- it’s the birthday...

  • Bewitched in Oz

    Laura J. Burns

    Even though sorcery is forbidden in Oz, Zerie Greenapple is determined to use her magic. When the Flying Monkeys find Zerie and her friends using magic, one of their gang is captured. Three friends go on the run through the wild landscapes of Oz to t...

  • Watch Your Step

    T.R. Burns

    When the Kilter Academy students go on retreat with their parents, it’s the more mischief the merrier in this third book of a trouble-loving middle grade series! Seamus Hinkle has encountered a good deal of mystery and a lot of secrets since he ...

  • The Traitor

    Grace Burrowes

    The past will overtake him... Abandoned in France since boyhood, despite being heir to an English barony, Sebastian St. Clair makes impossible choices to survive a tour of duty in the French Army. He returns to England hoping for the peaceful life o...

  • The Haunted Library

    Dori Hillestad Butler

    When ghost boy Kaz’s haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other human...

  • The Ghost in the Attic

    Dori Hillestad Butler

    After successfully solving the mystery of the ghost in the library, Kaz and Claire land the first case for their detective agency -- a haunted attic in a neighbor’s home! With a little help from Grannie, Kaz and Claire discover that what appeared t...

  • Rollercoaster Riot!

    Steven Butler

    Get ready for the third brilliant Diary of Dennis the Menace book: Rollercoaster Riot! All aboard THE VOMIT COMET! Guess what fellow menaces - The World's Biggest Rollercoaster is opening in Beanoland this summer!I just need to win an easy-peasy comp...

  • Taken by Tuesday

    Catherine Bybee

    He’ll do anything to keep her safe…for the rest of their lives. Judy Gardner: College graduate Judy stands ready to conquer the world…if she can get a job. Hoping to transition from aspiring architect to famous architect as quickly as possib...

  • Dark Wolf Returning

    Rhyannon Byrd

    When werewolf Eli Drake is banished from his pack, he leaves a devastated and heartbroken Carla Reyes behind. Three torturous years later, she tracks him down to a hole-in-the-wall Texas bar -- the pack is in trouble and war is on the horizon. Carla ...

  • Brave Chicken Little

    Robert Byrd

    Whack! What’s that? Could it be? A piece of the sky! Oh my! Chicken Little and his friends run, run, run to tell the king. Nothing stands in the way except...the sly Foxy Loxy. Surely they have time to stop for lunch with Foxy and his kits....

  • One Kick // Gone

    Chelsea Cain

    Meet Kick Lannigan. She’s twenty-one. She can pick any lock. She knows five ways to kill you with a jacket. Get ready to fall in love. From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrille...

  • With Every Breath

    Elizabeth Camden

    In the shadow of the nation's capital, Kate Livingston's respectable life as a government worker is disrupted by an encounter with the insufferable Trevor McDonough, the one man she'd hoped never to see again. A Harvard-trained physician, Trevor neve...

  • Bonjour Camille

    Felipe Cano

    It's Sunday morning, and Camille has so many things to do! From jumping on the bed (of course) to choosing a new favorite color, drawing faces on thousands of balloons, hiding all of the umbrellas, seeking out the unexpected on a map, and more, Camil...

  • The Supernatural Enhancements

    Edgar Cantero

    Months after the last of the Wells sons jumped out of his bedroom window in Axton House (incidentally forgetting to open it first), a strange couple of Europeans arrive in Virginia to take possession of the estate. A. is the 23-year-old unforeseen sc...

  • Matched to a Prince

    Kat Cantrell

    How could she be his perfect match? Prince Alain "Finn" Phineas pledged his love to Juliet Villere once -- and she betrayed him. Despite the desire he still feels, Finn would never act on those feelings again. Not even when Juliet is chosen for h...

  • The Lotus and the Storm

    Lan Cao

    A lyrical novel of love and betrayal in the aftermath of the fall of Saigon -- from the author of "Monkey Bridge" A singular work of witness, inspiration, and courage, "The Lotus and the Storm" marks the welcome return of Lan Cao’s pitch-perfect...

  • Katy Duck's Happy Halloween

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    Katy Duck goes trick-or-treating in this Halloween-themed Level 1 Ready-to-Read story for beginning readers. “Tra-la-la. Quack! Quack! I will be a magical dancing unicorn!” Katy galloped. She twirled. “No one will have a costume like...

  • Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble Volume 2

    Joe Caramagna

    Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, explode onto the scene with acti on-packed all-ages adventures! The Avengers face their deadliest foe yet (or is that their dead-est foe yet?), when Dracula, King of the Vampires, arrives to drain the team of t...

  • Sleepover with Beatrice and Bear

    Monica Carnesi

    This delightful story of an irrepressible bunny will engage readers on many levels as it celebrates creativity, making the best of circumstances, and the joy of the changing seasons. How can two friends share winter when one of them is hibernatin...

  • Further Out Than You Thought

    Michaela Carter

    Combining the eloquence and raw sensuality of Jeanette Winterson with the romantic, renegade spirit of Patti Smith, Further Out Than You Thought is a taut and erotically charged literary debut, set against the chaos of the 1992 L.A. riots, about thre...

  • The Guardians

    Sandra Carvalho

    In a world overrun by demons, the few humans that remain alive face an impossible fight. In the midst of this battle, Father Helder Pont, a young priest finds his way to safety in a church on the East Coast of the United States with two other men of ...

  • Taken in

    Elizabeth Lynn Casey

    When a trip to the Big Apple ends in murder, the sewing circle searches for a killer who’s rotten to the core. . . Winning an appearance on a top-rated, New York based morning show means the trip of a lifetime for librarian Tori Sinclair and th...

  • Gustav Gloom and the Cryptic Carousel

    Adam-Troy Castro

    Gustav and Fernie begin their journey to the Shadow Country to save their fathers! Fernie and Gustav leave the safety of the Gloom Mansion and begin their long journey to the Shadow Country to save their families from the evil Lord Obsidian. Aided...

  • Always, Abigail

    Nancy Cavanaugh

    Sixth grade to-do list: • Make the pom pom squad! • Get photo in the yearbook • With Alli and Cami, become the three most popular girls at Crestdale Heights Middle School! Abigail and her two best friends are poised for a life of pom-poms...

  • Outlaws

    Javier Cercas

    On a summer day at the arcade, timid sixteen-year-old Ignacio Cañas encounters two charismatic rebels: El Zarco ("Blue Eyes") and his gorgeous girl, Tere. Entranced, he crosses the border into their dangerous world, becoming their partner in crimes ...

  • Beware, Beware

    Steph Cha

    Working as an apprentice at a P.I. firm, Juniper Song finds herself nose deep in a Hollywood murder scandal where the lies may be more glamorous than most, but the truths they cover are just as ugly. When a young woman named Daphne Freamon calls look...

  • Murder at Midnight

    C.S. Challinor

    Ringing in the New Year turns deadly at Rex's Hogmanay celebration When barrister Rex Graves and his fiancée Helen d'Arcy host a New Year's Eve party at Gleneagle Lodge in the Scottish Highlands, an oncoming storm threatens to ruin the festiviti...

  • Book Fair and Foul

    Erika Chase

    For the mystery book lovers of Ashton Corners, burial plots tell the most intriguing stories. The members of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society are all chipping in as Molly Mathews, now owner of the bookstore the Book Noo...

  • The Bear's Sea Escape

    Benjamin Chaud

    More adventures await The Bear's Song's Little Bear and Papa Bear. When the bears seek warmth from their chilly perch atop the Paris Opera House, Little Bear is mistaken for a toy bear and whisked away . . . to a tropical island! Papa Bear sets out o...

  • A Blind Spot for Boys

    Justina Chen / Justina Chen Headley

    "A great photo knocks your heart open. So give some thought to that. What knocks your heart open." Sixteen-year-old Shana is officially on a Boy Moratorium. After a devastating breakup, she decides it's time to end the plague of Mr. Wrongs and de...

  • The Fiancee Caper

    Maureen Child

    To Catch a Thief, It Will Take a Thief He comes from a long line of charismatic jewel thieves. But Gianni Coretti made a deal to save his family and now walks the straight and narrow. When Marie O'Hara, a beautiful security expert, asks him to st...

  • A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Trade-Offs for the Overhaul of the Barricade

    John Chu

    Generation after generation, engineers have maintained the barricade, a shield that protects civilization against Turbulence, this strange force that destroys both minds and machines. As Turbulence grows ever more intense and the barricade begins to ...

  • The Girl from the Well

    Rin Chupeco

    I am where dead children go. Okiku is a lonely soul. She has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the spirits of the murdered-dead. Once a victim herself, she now takes the lives of killers with the vengeance they're due. But releasing innoc...

  • The Amish Blacksmith

    Mindy Starns Clark; Susan Meissner

    Apprenticed blacksmith Jake Miller is skeptical of Priscilla Kinsinger's innate ability to soothe troubled horses, especially when he has own ideas on how to calm them. Six years earlier, Priscilla's mother died in an awful accident at home, and Pris...

  • Sweetness #9

    Stephan Eirik Clark

    IT'S 1973, and David Leveraux is a young and ambitious flavor chemist working at a world-renowned flavor-production house. While testing a new artificial sweetener -- Sweetness #9 -- he notices some unsettling side effects in the laboratory rats a...

  • A Doctor to Heal Her Heart

    Annie Claydon

    Love when you least expect it… Sam Lockyear is certainly not the man Dr. Euan Scott thought he'd hired for his rehab clinic. Far from it -- she's a woman…and an incredibly alluring one! Euan is quickly wowed by Sam and her determination to hel...

  • The Objects of Her Affection

    Sonya Cobb

    HER HEISTS PAID THE BILLS. HER FAMILY PAID THE PRICE. Sophie Porter is the last person in the world you'd expect to be stealing Renaissance masterpieces -- and that's exactly why she's so good at it. Slipping objects out of her husband's office a...

  • Adultery

    Paulo Coelho

    I want to change. I need to change. I'm gradually losing touch with myself. "Adultery," the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of "The Alchemist" and "Eleven Minutes," explores the question of what it means to live life f...

  • Dark Skye

    Kresley Cole

    In this highly anticipated fifteenth novel in the Immortals After Dark series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole spins a sultry tale of a mighty warrior scarred inside and out and the beguiling sorceress with the power to heal him -- ...

  • Soda Pop Soldier

    Nick Cole

    When the virtual world gets real . . . Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat-sport arena where megacorporations field entire armies in the battle for dominance over real-world global-advertising space. Within the ...

  • Sweetshop of Dreams

    Jenny Colgan

    Rose is about to get a taste of the sweet life Rosie Hopkins's life is...comfortable. She has a steady nursing job, a nice apartment, and Gerard, her loyal (if a bit boring) boyfriend. And even though she might like to pursue a more rewarding care...

  • Foolproof Cakes: Tried and tested recipes for your favourite cakes

    Victoria Combe

    This book is a collection of cake recipes from contributors from all over the country. These precious recipes have been handed down the generations and have never failed. They include squidgy ginger cakes, luscious chocolate cakes, and the lightest...

  • Rogue in Red Velvet

    Lynne Connolly

    If Connie loses her standing in society, she risks losing everything...except Alex. When country widow Connstance Rattigan finds herself in a notorious London brothel instead of at the altar, only one person can save her from the auction block. Al...

  • Hollow

    Ava Conway

    Girl, Interrupted meet Beautiful Disaster in this thrilling and sexy debut novel, in which a college student learns her perfect life is a lie and finds new love where she least expects it -- a mental institution.Freaks, misfits, and psychopaths. Thos...

  • Magnolia

    Kristi Cook

    Jenna and Ryder are far from friends -- until a storm stirs up their passion in this contemporary southern romance from New York Times bestselling author Kristi Cook. In Magnolia Branch, Mississippi, The Cafferty and Marsden families are practical...

  • A Dancer in the Dust

    Thomas H. Cook

    From Edgar Award-winning author Thomas H. Cook, "A Dancer in the Dust" is a deeply moving literary thriller about ill-fated love: one man’s love for an extraordinary woman, and one woman’s love for her troubled country. Twenty years ago, Ray C...

  • The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances

    Ellen Cooney

    The Sanctuary is a refuge for strays and rescued dogs. Evie has joined a training program there, though she knows almost nothing about animals. Like the greyhound who won’t move, the Rottweiler with attitude problems, or the hound who might be a ca...

  • The Healer's Touch

    Lori Copeland

    Lyric Bolton doesn't ask for much―just friendship and acceptance from her rural Missouri community. But her family is regarded with suspicion and fear because of her mother's sickness―a sickness of the mind that grows worse by the day. Lyric is r...

  • Payoff

    Douglas Corleone

    When movie studio mogul Edgar Trenton’s teenage daughter, Olivia, is kidnapped during a violent home invasion in Calabasas, California, former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk is called upon to ensure a smooth ransom exchange. But once it becomes clear that...

  • Wolverine: Three Months to Die Book 1

    Paul Cornell

    Collects Wolverine (2014) #1-7. Wolverine no more?! After the events of "Killable", Logan has something to prove. Before he can take on Sabretooth again, he'll need to build himself back up, get better and stronger than he's ever been…but it's not ...

  • My First Shapes

    Kathleen Corrigan

  • My First 123

    Kathleen Corrigan

  • Shear Trouble

    Elizabeth Craig

    As the leaves begin to fall in idyllic Dappled Hills, someone puts too fine a point on a local ladies’ man. Fortunately, the detective skills of quilter Beatrice Coleman are a cut above the rest.... The Village Quilters of Dappled Hills, North ...

  • Season of the Dragonflies

    Sarah Creech

    As beguiling as the novels of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani, Aimee Bender, and Sarah Addison Allen, Season of the Dragonflies is a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets, and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. For genera...

  • Half in Love with Artful Death

    Bill Crider

    The local community college and an antique dealer team up to have a workshop for artists. One local man, Burt Collins, isn't fond of the art, and he isn't fond of having the artists in town. Sheriff Dan Rhodes is called to the antique store because C...

  • A Colder War

    Charles Cumming

    A top-ranking Iranian military official is blown up while trying to defect to the West. An investigative journalist is arrested and imprisoned for writing an article critical of the Turkish government. An Iranian nuclear scientist is assassinated on ...

  • Risky Business

    Melissa Cutler

    Welcome to Destiny Falls, New York, home of the Bomb Squad -- an ice hockey team full of rugged military heroes. But the season's biggest match-up isn't on the ice as one of their own prepares to go head to head with his new boss… Allison Whitely's...

  • Clam Wake

    Mary Daheim

    Innkeeper and irrepressible sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn and cousin Renie face off against a cold-blooded killer in a beach community in this delightfully charming Bed-and-Breakfast mystery from USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Mary D...

  • Roald Dahl's Doodle Book

    Roald Dahl

    This doodle book is the perfect way for every young Roald Dahl fan to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This 128-page doodle book includes activities based many of Roald Dahl’s most famous stories, including C...

  • The Texan's Little Secret

    Barbara White Daille

    Hiding The Truth Coming home might be the worst decision Carly Baron has ever made. Each minute on her family's busy ranch is one minute closer to seeing him -- her first love -- the man who broke her heart seven years ago. While coming face-to-f...

  • Terminated

    Ray Daniel

    Uber-geek Tucker and his beautiful wife, Carol, developed security software together for MantaSoft until the day he was fired and she was murdered. Now, six months later, another software engineer is dead, bringing new clues to light in Carol's cold ...

  • Sinister Attraction: The Neighbor's Deadly Secret Volume 2

    Kym Datura

    Richard began to look around Martin's house. He noticed that all the photographs and paintings were very old and there were none that were less than one hundred years old. Richard's throat began to get dry and he needed something to drink like a g...

  • Ark Storm

    Linda Davies

    The Ark Storm is coming--a catastrophic weather event that will unleash massive floods and wreak more damage on California than the feared "Big One." One man wants to profit from it. Another wants to harness it to wage jihad on American soil. One wom...

  • Garfield Goes to His Happy Place

    Jim Davis

    Fully Happy   To Garfield, happiness is a full tummy (followed by a long nap). Fans of the fat cat, hungry for laughs, can go to their happy place when they gobble up this latest treasure of pleasure!...

  • A Highlander's Obsession

    Vonnie Davis

    In the vein of Jennifer Ashley’s Shifters Unbound series and Shelly Laurenston’s Pride Stories, Vonnie Davis introduces two wandering souls who discover that true love needs no words in this explosive, fantastical novel.   Somehow able to te...

  • Servants of the Storm

    Delilah S. Dawson

    A year ago, Hurricane Josephine swept through Savannah, Georgia, leaving behind nothing but death and destruction -- and taking the life of Dovey’s best friend, Carly. Since that night, Dovey has been in a medicated haze, numb to everything around ...

  • Pete the Cat and the New Guy

    James Dean

    Pete the Cat is back in Pete the Cat and the New Guy by New York Times bestselling authors James and Kimberly Dean. There's a new guy in town, and Pete can't wait to meet him. After all, more friends mean more fun. But who can he be? When Pete finall...

  • The Caleso Murders

    Ramon DeColta

    When a dangerous criminal breaks out of jail, the Island detective is on the case

    Palerdo should have been executed for the murder of Carlos Mantiro. Granted clemency, he is sent to prison instead. Palerdo vows to kill Señora Mant...

  • Spider-Man: The Complete Alien Costume Saga Book 1

    Tom Defalco

    When Spider-Man returns from the Secret Wars with a snazzy new black suit, he's faster, stronger and has an unending inbuilt supply of webbing! All the better for tussling with foes such as the Rose, Black Fox, Red Ghost, Jack O'Lantern, Puma and the...

  • Magic School Bus: Ocean Adventure

    Bruce Degen

    Now early readers can take a ride on the Magic School Bus! With the help of Ms. Frizzle, young readers can develop their reading skills while they pick up fun facts about the world's ocean. Ms. Frizzle's class will teach you everything you ever wa...

  • The Cowboy Meets His Match

    Roxann Delaney

    One Big Secret… Broke and in need of a job, barrel racer Erin Walker has returned home after years of traveling the rodeo circuit. But the only job available is working for the man who broke her heart and left her pregnant and alone. Not a day ...

  • Bruno and Titch

    Sheena Dempsey

    Meet Bruno, a wildly inventive boy, and his new pet, Titch, a neurotic, slightly melodramatic guinea pig. Can they get past their differences? As the only guinea pig left in Mrs. Pinkerley’s pet shop, Titch is getting lonely and anxious. All he...

  • Baking Day at Grandma's

    Anika Denise

    A sugary sweet story perfect for families to read together! Three bouncing little bear siblings, wrapped tight in their winter clothes, can't wait to tromp through the snow for Baking Day at Grandma's! In a rhyming text that begs to be sung, the...

  • Exchange of Fire

    P.A. Depaul

    Faking her death was easy, living with her past is harder, but nothing is more dangerous than falling in love… Sandra Walsh was a deadly sniper for the Sweet Briar Group, a covert agency with assassins for hire, until her last mission went horri...

  • Llama Llama Trick or Treat

    Anna Dewdney

    With short and simple rhyming text, the Llama Llama board books introduce Llama Llama to babies and toddlers before they’re ready for longer full-length stories. And their small size and durable pages are perfect for little hands. In "Llama Llam...

  • Blind

    Rachel DeWoskin

    When Emma Sasha Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything from walking across the street to recognizing her own sisters to imagining colors. One of seven children, Emma used to be the invisible kid, but now it see...

  • Take the Key and Lock Her Up

    Lena Diaz

    Lena Diaz returns with another sexy, thrilling Deadly Games novel and the darkest question of all: What do you do when your freedom could cost you your life? Detective Emily O'Malley just stumbled upon a killer's lair--and the remains of a woman h...

  • Long Way Home

    Helenkay Dimon

    The Hanover brothers are trying to live down the con-man reputation of their late father. But they can’t blame their father for all their problems in life -- or in love…Callen Hanover has led a tough life. But after years of roaming, he’s final...

  • Cancel the Wedding

    Carolyn Dingman

    A heartfelt fiction debut that will appeal to fans of Emily Giffin’s Southern charm and Jennifer Weiner’s compelling, emotionally resonant novels about the frustrations of blood ties, Cancel the Wedding follows one woman’s journey to discover t...

  • Disney Junior Storybook Collection

    Disney Book Group

    Sail the Never Sea with Jake and the crew, diagnose toys with Doc in her backyard clinic, experience royal fun with Sofia, practice your best roar with Henry Hugglemonster, visit Minnie's Bow-tique, and join the Clubhouse's gang all in one book! This...

  • Ship of Secrets

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Frank and Joe solve a mystery on the high seas in this Hardy Brothers Secret Files adventure. It’s finally summer vacation, and the Hardy family is headed on a cruise to the Caribbean. As they board the ship with their parents, Frank and Joe can...

  • The Woman on His Arm - 2

    Suzann Dodd

    Meeting people at social encounters gives one the untested data of who they are. We hear their voices, see their faces, judge them on how they dress and instinctually put them into a category. No matter what a woman might think of a man that first ...

  • The Woman on His Arm - 3

    Suzann Dodd

    When a man doesn't look very attractive or has money he has to pay a beautiful woman to go out with him. If he does it just right, and gets the right woman, he'll never have to pay anyone to go out with him again....

  • Fan Atic

    Suzann Dodd

    Although a work of fiction, anyone who has ever been on a "fan board" knows the kind of insanity that goes on. Yet each fanatic thinks she's sane, it is the others who are nuts. The story focuses on Mabel with all her "perfect imperfections."...

  • Did she live before?

    Suzann Dodd

    Whether this is a story of a child who remembers a tragic past life or a delusion is up to you. The information is taken from notes made at the time....

  • The Death of Super Star

    Suzann Dodd

    This is a fictional treatment of the death of a famous entertainer. Although it may seem factual, it is pure fiction....

  • Terror of the Nightwatchman

    Tommy Donbavand

    The ninth crazy adventure in this comedy horror series for ghouls and girls may keep them up at night -- reading under the covers! When Luke and Resus wake up to discover that Cleo has been kidnapped, the intrepid pair follow a perplexing trail ...

  • The Sweetest Summer

    Susan Donovan

    A mermaid statue could be the cause of heartbreak or everlasting romance for a practical-minded police chief and his first love -- in the second of the delicious Bayberry Island trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Susan Donovan.... Every...

  • Quake

    Jack Douglas

    Escape From New York New York City has seen its share of disasters. Terrorist attacks. Blackouts. Hurricanes. Floods. But nothing has prepared the Big Apple for the biggest earthquake to ever hit the United States. 9.0 on the Richter scale. Manha...

  • Tabula Rasa

    Ruth Downie

    The medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, are back in the borderlands of Britannia, where he is tending the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge and are still smarting from the fa...

  • A Mother for His Children

    Jan Drexler

    FROM AMISH NANNY TO BRIDE? After her sweetheart's betrayal, Ruthy Mummert leaves behind the small-town gossip of her Amish community for the first opportunity she can find: a housekeeper position in faraway LaGrange County, Indiana. Ruthy didn't ...

  • You

    Zoran Drvenkar

    Five rebellious teenage girls open the door to chaos and run, with five kilos of heroin and a gun in their luggage. One notorious kingpin is haunted by his past -- and determined to find his missing cache of drugs. A legendary terror travels the high...

  • Catch That Cookie!

    Hallie Durand

    Solve the riddles to find the runaway gingerbread men in this funny and magical cookie hunt! Marshall knows one thing for sure, despite what all the stories say: Gingerbread men cannot run. Cookies are for eating, and he can't wait to eat "his "a...

  • Out of Hiding

    Rachel Dylan

    TRUST NO ONE This vow has kept P.I. Sadie Lane safe ever since she saw her parents murdered and then entered Witness Protection. But when she gets a lead on the long-ago killer she can't forget, Sadie joins forces with a dashing FBI agent leading...

  • Her Stolen Past

    Lynette Eason

    A STOLEN BABY When Sonya Daniels finds a kidnapped baby's birth certificate hidden in her late mother's home, she's shocked. What was her family's connection to the child, still missing for over two decades? And what happened to the little girl? ...

  • The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Hot Air Baboons

    Maxwell Eaton III

    In the fifth adventure of this popular young graphic-novel series perfect for fans of Captain Underpants and the Lunch Lady series, our bucktoothed heroes are up against a band of baboon bandits. It’s winter break, and Ace and Bub are hitting...

  • There's a Dinosaur in My Bathtub

    Catalina Echeverri

    Amelia has a dinosaur in her bathtub; a rather LARGE dinosaur. His name is Pierre, and he's from France. Amelia and Pierre have lots of fun adventures together, like travelling to the moon, eating giant ice creams and dancing upside-down. Magical...

  • Black Widow Volume 1: The Finely Woven Thread

    Nathan Edmondson

    Collects Black Widow (2014) #1-6. You've seen Black Widow as an Avenger and even an agent of S. H. I. E. L. D. But on her own time she searches for atonement for her past as a KGB assassin - in ways of which those teams just wouldn't approve. The Bla...

  • Guilty Parties

    Martin Edwards

    Severn House is proud to be publishing a collection of new stories from the glittering talent of the members of the Crime Writers’ Association: FRANCES BRODY N.J. COOPER BERNIE CROSTHWAITE CAROL ANNE DAVIS MARTIN EDWARDS KATE ELLIS JANE FINNIS CHRI...

  • An Act of Love

    Marion Ekholm

    She's not getting married. She's only engaged! Marley Roman should have already known that romantic plots hatched with her best friend Dede were doomed. But a fake engagement seemed like the only way for her, as the last old maid in the bunch, to...

  • Wild Cards

    Simone Elkeles

    After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her ch...

  • The Art Whisperer

    Aaron Elkins; Charlotte Elkins

    When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she knows trouble will follow. So she’s understandably apprehensive when her connoisseur’s eye spots something off about a multimillion-dollar Jackson Pollock painting at Palm Springs’s Brethwai...

  • Prelude for a Lord

    Camille Elliot

    Bath, England 1810 At twenty-eight, Alethea Sutherton is past her prime for courtship; but social mores have never been her forté. She might be a lady, but she is first and foremost a musician. In Regency England, however, the violin is consid...

  • Forecast

    Rinda Elliott

    Sisters of Fate Book TwoThe Lockwood triplets are charged with helping to save the world--but at a high cost.Coral is always in the middle, always the family peacemaker. She's the sister with the most to prove. When a freak snowstorm halts her Florid...

  • The Lady and the Officer

    Mary Ellis

    Serving for a brief time as a nurse after the devastating battle of Gettysburg, Madeline Howard saves the life of Elliot Haywood, a colonel in the Confederate Home Guard. But even though Maddy makes her home in the South, her heart and political symp...

  • Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land

    Ruthanna Emrys

    Tikanu, land of laws and patterns, magic and wild mint, is not found behind hidden doors. It passes across borders and takes root wherever its people settle. This collection of seven commentaries reveals a world waiting patiently at the edges of visi...

  • Fury Max: My War Gone By

    Garth Ennis

    Colonel Nick Fury, veteran CIA operative, has been at war for a lifetime. Now he sits alone in a dank hotel room, coughing his confession into a tape recorder, laying out a legacy of carnage stretching back to World War II. Because when that war ende...

  • Assail

    Ian C. Esslemont

    Tens of thousands of years of ice is melting, and the land of Assail, long a byword for menace and inaccessibility, is at last yielding its secrets. Tales of gold discovered in the region's north circulate in every waterfront dive and sailor's tavern...

  • Armistice Day

    David Estrada

    Another Bizzaro love story by David Estrada. If you like Audrey Tautou and grey aliens you are sure to love Armistice Day....

  • Henna House

    Nomi Eve

    This vivid saga begins in Yemen in 1920. Adela Damari’s parents’ health is failing as they desperately seek a future husband for their young daughter, who is in danger of becoming adopted by the local Muslim community if she is orphaned. With no ...

  • Dead Line

    Chris Ewan

    If you're a security expert, what do you do if your fiancée suddenly goes missing, presumably kidnapped? If you're Daniel Trent, a highly trained specialist in hostage negotiation, the answer is simple: You find out who took her and you make them...

  • Mighty Avengers Volume 2: Family Bonding

    Al Ewing

    Collects Mighty Avengers (2013) #6-10. The Falcon is on the hunt - and what he finds will rock the Mighty Avengers to their core! Years ago, Gideon Mace murdered Ava Ayala's family. But now that Ava is the White Tiger, she channels the power of an an...

  • Sandy's Story

    Ashley Fedor

    We all know the story of Little Orphan Annie, who is down on her luck during the Depression until she finds her beloved dog Sandy and her benevolent benefactor Daddy Warbucks. Now the story is told for a younger audience through the eyes of Sandy, pr...

  • After the Music: A Novella

    Christine Feehan
    in

    Terrified by mysterious threats, Jessica Fitzpatrick spirits away her twin wards, Tara and Trevor, to the remote island mansion of their estranged father, world-famous musician Dillon Wentworth. Ever since the fire that claimed his troubled wife's li...

  • The Twilight Before Christmas

    Christine Feehan
    in

    Seven sisters ...and a legacy of magical secrets. Bestselling novelist Kate Drake is one of seven sisters gifted with amazing powers of witchcraft. Returning home in time for her northern California town's annual Christmas pageant, Kate catches th...

  • Rupert Can Dance

    Jules Feiffer

    Rupert has a big secret. When his owner, Mandy, is fast asleep, he likes to slip on her dancing shoes and dance the night away. Then one night Mandy catches Rupert in the act. She's not upset; she's thrilled! And she's determined to give Rupert danci...

  • The Creeper

    Emerald Fennell

    Don't look behind you. Resist with all your power. He'll go away, perhaps, as long as you don't look. Arthur Bannister is back for another term at Shiverton Hall, where eerie events are unfolding. First, a burned stranger shows up in the middle o...

  • Cavanaugh Strong

    Marie Ferrarella

    Aurora's finest are back in action! Why are too many healthy seniors dying in nursing homes? Vice detective Noelle O'Banyon can't let the mystery go. And though she has no business working a homicide case, the love-shy single mom draws partner Du...

  • Unmanned

    Dan Fesperman

    As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now, he’s a washout drunk, living alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert. Haunted by what he saw on the display of the Predator drone he “piloted” -- an Afghan child r...

  • Of Metal and Wishes

    Sarah Fine

    Sixteen-year-old Wen assists her father in his medical clinic, housed in a slaughterhouse staffed by the Noor, men hired as cheap factory labor. Wen often hears the whisper of a ghost in the slaughterhouse, a ghost who grants wishes to those who need...

  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North

    Richard Flanagan

    From the winner of Australia's National Fiction Prize, author of the hugely acclaimed "Gould's Book of Fish," comes a magisterial, "Rashomon"-like novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present. In the despa...

  • The Trouble with a Highland Bride

    Amanda Forester

    A lady and a Captain find love on the verge of a devastating warGwyn Campbell was certain that she would meet her future husband at the Campbell clan’s May Day gathering. But she did not anticipate that the English would choose that day to attack t...

  • I Can See in the Dark

    Karin Fossum

    Riktor doesn’t like the way the policeman storms into his home without even knocking. He doesn’t like the arrogant way he walks around the house, taking note of its contents. The policeman doesn’t bother to explain why he’s there, and Riktor ...

  • Hard Knocks

    Lori Foster

    The tougher they are, the harder they fall… Professional mercenary Dare Macintosh lives by one hard-and-fast rule: business should never be personal. If a cause appeals to him and the price is right, he'll take the mission he's offered. But th...

  • Countablock

    Christopher Franceschelli

    Following on the heels of a successful abecedary, Countablock features thick pages cut into the shape of each numeral, creating a peek-through guessing game around the number form itself. One acorn becomes ... one oak tree! From snowmen to puddles an...

  • Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling

    Lucy Frank

    This novel-in-verse -- at once literary and emotionally gripping -- follows the unfolding friendship between two very different teenage girls who share a hospital room and an illness. Chess, the narrator, is sick, but with what exactly, she isn...

  • Saving Felicity

    Darlene Franklin

    For Felicity Finch, Could It Be Lights…Camera…Love? When family problems and financial woes threaten Felicity's historic bed-and-breakfast, she calls in reality show B & B or Bust. To save her business she'll do whatever it takes, even if it ...

  • Timeless

    Lucinda Franks

  • Falling For Dr. Dimitriou

    Anne Fraser

    The man to mend her heart Dr. Katherine Burns desperately needs time to grieve -- and what better place to do it than Greece? The peaceful shores are a far cry from the bright lights of bustling London! Yet when her new sanctuary is disrupted by a...

  • We Shall Remember

    Emma Fraser

    1939. Irena is a young medical student living in Warsaw when the German army invades Poland. Those closest to her are dying and when Irena realizes that no one is coming to Poland's aid, it's clear that she is alone. Forced to flee to Britain, Irena ...

  • Because They Marched

    Russell Freedman

    For the 50th anniversary of the march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman has written a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights. In the early 1960s, tensions in the s...

  • The Orphan and the Mouse

    Martha Freeman

    Set in 1949 and taking inspiration from E. B. White’s Stuart Little, this novel about a 10-year-old orphan named Caro and a mouse who join forces to expose baby-napping criminals and make the orphanage a safe haven for mice reads like a classic....

  • Brainquake

    Samuel Fuller

    The bagmen who transport money for organized crime live by a set of rules: no personal relationships, no ties, no women…and never, ever look inside the bag you’re carrying. Paul Page was the perfect bagman, despite suffering from a rare brain dis...

  • Playing with Fire

    Frances Fyfield

    There's no place like home. When Sarah Fortune inherits an apartment from one of her many lovers, she moves in and begins to receive letters from someone claiming the apartment belongs to him instead. At first she believes the letters to be harmle...

  • When the World Was Young

    Elizabeth Gaffney

    Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents’ Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn’t like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Wonder Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit -- especially in the shadow of her ...

  • Love and Let Spy

    Shana Galen

    Her name is Bonde, Jane Bonde... A beautiful and eligible member of the ton, Jane has more than a few secrets: she's one of the Crown's most elite agents. She may be deadly, but she doesn't know a thing about fashion, flirtation, or love...until D...