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New Books List: 458 titles


  • Dwan Abrams

    What do you do when you think you've married the wrong person? If anybody has ever found themselves asking that question, it's Rayna. And coming up with the answer is no easy feat as far as she's concerned. Shortly after getting married, Rayna ...



  • Cherry Adair

    Aside from working for T-FLAC (and having the same last name), Lexi Stone and Alex Stone are polar opposites, right down to Lexi's mere mortality and Alex's paranormal powers. And though Lexi disdains Alex's rule-breaking bravado, she can't ignore ho...



  • Jane A. Adams

    Hanging by a thread… When a body washes ashore in the English town of Frantham, detective inspector Mac McGregor isn't surprised. In fact, he thinks he knows who the victim is -- but he's wrong. The true identity of the victim leads Mac into the...



  • Saki Aida

    • Shiba, a detective in the fifth anti-organized crime division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, a.k.a. "Anti-Gang 5," is on the handgun-smuggling beat. A so-called handgun confiscation specialist, the most important element of his investigat...



  • Ginny Aiken

    For years, Sheriff Hal Benson has been sweet on Meg Scott. But the tough lawman turns shy around the pretty pharmacist. When Meg is mugged one night while closing up, he runs to her aid. Even though it's out of his jurisdiction, he'll do anything in ...



  • Ken Akamatsu

    BLAST FROM THE PAST

    Asuna and her friends want to give Negi some fun in the sun at the beach before they all set out on a dangerous journey to the Magical World. But then Negi’s childhood friend Anya crashes the party"and all hell breaks l...



  • Hannah Alexander

    A terrible secret haunts Dr. Jama Keith. But she must return to her past--her hometown of River Dance, Missouri--and risk exposure. She owes a debt to the town for financing her dreams. If only she can avoid ex-fiance Terell Mercer--but River Dance i...



  • Sylvia Andrew

    Lonely spinster to loved bride Respected spinster Miss Emily Winbolt, so cool and cynical with would-be suitors, puts her reputation at risk after tumbling into a stranger’s arms. Suddenly, bleak loneliness is replaced with a wanton, exciting sens...



  • Donna Andrews
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    All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King...



  • Anonymous

    In 1792 a manuscript was discovered in Moscow which contained a hitherto-unknown epic poem in archaic Russian narrating the events of a military campaign of the 12th-century Russian Prince Igor. Published anonymously in 1795, debate has raged over th...



  • Christopher Anvil

    War is a serious business--or is it? Christopher Anvil turns his sardonic sense of humor loose on the subject and considers what might happen if: Someone devised a computer war game so realistic and addictive that the people in charge of batt...



  • Yuya Aoki

    SECRET SUPERPOWERS

    Kakeru’s life changed when he met the girl of his dreams, the beautiful Ayano. But falling in love with her came with strings attached: Ayano is a gifted psychic whose talents have made her the target of a group of supervi...



  • Katherine Applegate

    Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents Home of the Brave, a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope. Kek comes from Africa. In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He...



  • Charles Ardai

    Okay, not really. But what if, instead of having been founded 50 books ago, Hard Case Crime had been founded 50 years ago, by a rascal out to make a quick buck off the popularity of pulp fiction? Such a fellow might make a few enemies--especially aft...



  • Michael Armstrong
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    All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King...



  • Nancy Asire
    in

    Sixteen original stories set in mercedes lackey's valdemar universe Includes a new novella by Mercedes Lackey! Today's hottest fantasy authors visit Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world of Valdemar, adding their own special touches to the ancien...



  • Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    Sixteen-year-old Erin Misrahe just wants to be like everyone else in her new school. But Erin has more to worry about than passing AP Chemistry or making friends. In times of stress, she has always been overcome by her alter ego, Shevaun, whose viole...



  • Louis Auchincloss

    A prominent lawyer in 1940s New York investigates the mystery of his partner’s life and death in this novel by a New York Times"bestselling author.   Nearing the end of his days, Adrian Suydam, half the partnership of the law firm of Suydam ...



  • James Axler

    After a century of chaos following the nukes, Deathlands is forming pockets of civilization, aided by predark stockpiles of weapons, fuel and pieces of 21st-century knowledge. But these troves are hard to come by, and survival remains a blood quest. ...



  • Paul Bagdon

    Pound Taylor has just escaped from jail--and the hangman's noose--and he's eager to get back on the outlaw trail. For his gang he chooses his former cellmate and the father and brothers of his old partner, Zeb Stone. Pound wants to do things right, w...



  • Hilary Bailey

    A political thriller from a popular author - 2013. Britain is in chaos. Following a severe recession and a succession of short-lived hung parliaments, an election is called. Lord Gott, Treasurer of the Conservative Party, receives large sums of money...



  • Deb Baker

    Doll restorer Gretchen Birch and the other Phoenix Dollers can hardly wait to open their doll museum. But when an out-of-town doll maker meets her own maker, the Dollers' dream come true will soon prove more of a nightmare... All's well in Phoenix -...



  • Maggie Barbieri

    For professional academic and amateur sleuth Alison Bergeron, staying out of trouble is never on the syllabus... She thought that dating a good-looking cop would be exciting and involve lots of riding around in cruisers and putting away sleazy crook...



  • Beverly Barton

    It was the job of her dreams...but it became her worst nightmare.... All private security agent Lucie Evans wanted was a fresh start--and the chance to show Sawyer McNamara, her ex-boss, that she no longer craved his absolution for a crime she did...



  • Claire Baxter

    Romanced by the Italian playboy! She's pregnant, single and wants to settle down. Australian travel writer Lyssa Belperio may be pregnant and alone, but she can't wait to be a mom. A job offer on Italy's Amalfi Coast gives her the chance to make...



  • Michelle Beattie

    Set sail for adventure in this pirate romance from Michelle Beattie, as a woman in disguise meets her match...When her family was murdered by the brigand named Dervish, all that Samantha Fine cherished was swept away in the churning waters of the Car...



  • Nina Bell

    There's nothing like a death in the family to stir up old loves, rivalries and hatreds . . .In a world of winners and losers; friends and lovers; horses and dogs, Bramble, Felicity and Helena are sisters - but three very different women.Felicity, the...



  • Ron Benrey; Janet Benrey

    DEATH BY DESSERT? Who poisoned British executive Dylan Owen during a Christmas getaway? Dylan knows whoever tried to kill him is also staying at The Scottish Captain in Glory, North Carolina. But to trap the culprit, he'll have to recover first. W...



  • Steve Berry

    As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told that his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic. But what he now learns stuns him: His father's sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission ...



  • Lucinda Betts

    Travel to a magical desert land beyond the reach of time...a land of winged horses, djinns and demons, ruled by kings and queens of tribes forever lost, where sensual desire rules every living soul... A princess like no other, Shahrazad has skin th...



  • Neil Bissoondath

    A mesmerizing novel about the brutal and lasting effects of poverty and violence.Arun, a young man of privileged background, leaves his home in the prosperous north of his Southeast Asian island nation to teach in the devastated south, where a civil ...



  • James P. Blaylock

    Calvin Bryson has hidden himself away from the world, losing himself in his work and his collection of rare and quirky books. He never meant to let so much time go by without visiting his aunt and uncle in the tiny town of New Cyprus, California. Whe...



  • Win Blevins

    Eighteen years have passed since Sam Morgan came West from Pennsylvania and learned the perilous business of trapping in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Now, in 1840, he seems to face a bleak future. The fur trade has played out and he must...



  • Miranda Bliss

    Things are really cooking for Annie with her transition to the restaurant biz, full time. But what's meant to be the first day of the rest of her life might be the last day of someone else's... Annie is finally leaving the safety of her old bank j...



  • Sherrill Bodine

    GOSSIP QUEEN DETHRONED! Darlings, what a to-do at the Daily Mail today! After fifteen years as Chicago's gossip guru, Rebecca Covington has been demoted from divulger of secrets for the city's elite to headlining recipes in the Home and Food secti...




  • Jay Bonansinga

    A slashed female corpse...a footprint, a tire track...a trail of blood in a crowded shopping mall. Even the most jaded cops are horrified by the carnage. But to seasoned FBI profiler Ulysses Grove, the evidence spells out a much more personal message...



  • Charley Boorman

    Four million captivated viewers watched Charley Boorman complete his last adventure - LONG WAY DOWN - which took him from John O'Groats to Cape Town. Along with Ewan McGregor he achieved not only this amazing feat, but also circumnavigated the globe ...




  • Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

    From the Newbery Honor and Schneider Award-winning author of The War that Saved My Life comes Halfway to the Sky, a compelling novel perfect for fans of Rain Reign.   Twelve-year-old Dani is running away from home, or what’s left of home ...



  • Max Brand

    For 22 years Silas Durfee was a Texas Ranger. Finally he quit, wanting instead to try his hand at ranching. Thomas Bunce proposes to hire Durfee as mentor and protector for his nephew, Henry Vincent, to teach him how to hunt and fish, but to prevent ...



  • Jean Brashear

    Maeve Branch is neck-deep in embarrassment. Her husband disappeared with millions in embezzled funds and she discovered he'd been cheating on her for years! Now Maeve is broke and brokenhearted--shutting out everything except her family, her twin son...



  • Laurie Breton

    HE SEEMED LIKE SUCH A CATCH Just five days after they meet, Julie Hanrahan and Dr. Thomas Larkin exchange vows on a moonlit Caribbean beach, the whirlwind conclusion to a romance that's swept her off her feet. Tom is sexy, witty and charming and Jul...



  • Jan Brogan

    Hallie Ahern, a Providence, Rhode Island, reporter and recovering gambling addict, is trawling online chat rooms in search of a story for her newspaper's Web site when an anonymous source sends her a short video clip, a teaser. Featuring two girls st...



  • P.J. Brooke

    Sub-inspector Max Romero is asked to help investigate the death of Leila, a beautiful Muslim postgraduate student, researching the impacts of the Spanish Civil War on Max's home village in the Sierra Nevada. The prime suspect, Hassan, has links to a ...



  • Helen Brooks

    She's saving herself for her wedding night... Marianne Carr will do anything to save her home, and ruthless businessman Rafe Steed knows it! He has a score to settle with the Carr family, and after one meeting with this delicate beauty he decides he...



  • Terry Brooks

    After New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks completed The Sword of Shannara trilogy, millions of fans around the world clamored to immerse themselves again in his dazzling world. Brooks answered with a quartet of beloved novels -- The He...



  • Gemma Bruce

    The bragging, The pin-ups. The sweaty socks, please oh please, set me free! Female sportswriter J.T. Green wants out of the locker room - until star pitcher Tommy Bainbridge walks in. Tommy defines the word hot: He's tall, a terrific kisser, and a to...



  • Annie Bryant

    Meet the Beacon Street Girls...They're real, they're fun - they're just like you! Love is in the air at Abigail Adams Junior High. There's a big dance coming up, and the BSG are having fun thinking up dream dates. But as the day of the dance approac...



  • Geri Buckley

    A wry, wise new novel of Southern dreams and second chances. On the morning of her birthday, Vonda Thayer awakes from her American Dream to realize she's living a domestic nightmare. She plays happy homemaker to two whiny, self-absorbed teenagers, a...



  • Annie Burrows

    Debutante Katherine Malahithe has come to London determined to resist the fortune hunters only interested in her money. Her efforts to appear unattractive successfully ward off most suitors -- except for Viscount Maldon, a man who wants to avoid marr...



  • Jaci Burton
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    Such fine exquisite lace. Such soft leather. Such a nice tight fit. Four authors of erotic romance present wild and irresistibly dangerous fantasies in this sensational anthology of lust and lingerie... JACI BURTON - THE TIES THAT BIND Lisa Mitc...



  • Shana Burton

    Where do broken hearts go? To Las Vegas, of course! At least they do if they belong to real-estate agent London Harris and restaurateur Bernard Phillips. Too bad what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there. . .

    London and Bernard jet off to Ve...



  • Jim Butcher

    In the acclaimed Codex Alera novels, #1 New York. Times bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the people of Alera use their unique bonds with the elemental forces of nature for protection. But even nature may not be ...



  • Richard Lee Byers
    in

    Sixteen original stories set in mercedes lackey's valdemar universe Includes a new novella by Mercedes Lackey! Today's hottest fantasy authors visit Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world of Valdemar, adding their own special touches to the ancien...



  • Bethany Campbell

    WOULD HE REALLY SWEEP HER OFF HER FEET? Marie Lafayette has struggled for most of her life. So when her mother's dying confession reveals an astonishing truth, Marie walks away from her career to find answers at Fairchild Acres...where she might be ...



  • Chamein Canton

    In this sequel to Not His Type, full-figured beauty Cathy Chambers must deal with her own insecurities, the media, and her fiancé's ex-girlfriends while planning her wedding to the man of her dreams and baseball royalty Marcus. Original....



  • Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    Spend your Valentine's Day with little panda as he tries to find out what type of kiss is just right for him!

    A soft kiss. A sweet kiss. A sticky bamboo treat kiss. There are so many different kinds of kisses!

    Toddlers will love this...



  • Isobelle Carmody

    When a Misfit is kidnapped, Elspeth finds she has little choice but to join the growing rebellion against the Council. Her extraordinary mental powers could tip the scales of the struggle, but Elspeth feels torn between toppling the corrupt authorita...



  • Isobelle Carmody

    With the end of the wintertime that isolates Obernewtyn from the rest of the world, Farseeker guildmistress Elspeth Gordie again sets out for the lowlands. But she soon finds that not everyone welcomes the changes brought about by the rebellion. Ther...



  • Isobelle Carmody

    Friend becomes foe and trust is a thing of the past when the Misfits' most relentless enemy turns Elspeth's world upside down. Through coercion and mind control, Ariel stands on the cusp of his ultimate revenge--and it falls to Elspeth to rescue a fo...



  • Grace Carol

    Gig: newly minted lit prof transplanted to Atlanta. Currently: butting heads with Southern-fried brownshirts, resisting the faculty's sonnet-writing Mick Jagger figure and--God help her-- braving the shark-infested waters of online dating. Ronn...



  • Marisa Carroll

    It's the last race of the NASCAR season, and driver Dean Grosso is a serious contender for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. But success could cost him the one thing he holds most dear--his marriage. His wife, Patsy, has issued one heck of a...



  • Giles Carwyn; Todd Fahnestock

    rney beyond Ohndarien to the fallen city of Efften in the stunning conclusion to the epic Heartstone Trilogy A fallen hero defies his destiny . . . A scarred sorceress fights for love . . . A vindictive lover clings to hope . . . And a fathe...



  • Philip Caveney

    Egypt 1923.Fifteen-year-old Alec Devlin is on his way to the Valley of the Kings. Accompanied by his faithful valet, Coates, Alec is to spend his summer holidays working on his Uncle Will's archaeological dig. It's not the first time he's spent his s...



  • Ramona Cecil

    The wounds of war are deep. Charity Langdon knows this well, having lost her family and her home to Sherman's army. Now living in Indiana with her aunt and uncle, Charity finds it hard to forgive those around her, especially those who wore the Union ...



  • Victoria Chancellor

    Billionaire bachelor Wyatt McCall left some unfinished business behind when he skipped town fifteen years ago. Like Toni Casale, his former love. Now the take-charge mayor of Brody's Crossing, Toni is already putting Wyatt to work for the holidays. B...



  • Deborah Chester

    From the national bestselling author of the acclaimed fantasy trilogy The Sword, the Ring, and the Chalice.   Forsaking her spirit for her heart, Lea, sister of the emperor Caelen, has fallen in love with her kidnapper, Lord Shadrael, a man with...



  • Laura Childs

    The author of the Scrapbooking and Tea Shop mysteries cooks up a delicious new series with friendship, murder, and one spectacular breakfast after another. Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lost their husbands but found independence -- and, in each other, ...



  • Judy Christenberry

    The hardheaded, dyed-in-the-wool cowboy had been called many things...but could he ever be called husband and daddy? With her newborn and toddler in tow, struggling widow Elizabeth Ransom stepped onto the Ransom Ranch looking for the family she'd ...



  • Chunichi

    Jewel is young and beautiful, and with several hustles under her belt, she's all about making money. This doesn't leave much time for friends, but she'll always make time for Touch, the local hustler. He's been her friend since grammar school, when t...



  • James Church

    Now the inspector returns . . . In the winter of 1997, trying to stay alive during a famine that has devastated much of North Korea, Inspector O is ordered to play host to an Israeli agent who appears in Pyongyang. When the wife of a North Korean ...



  • Pamela Clare

    MacKinnon's Rangers They were a band of brothers, their loyalty to one another forged by hardship and battle, the bond between these Highland warriors, rugged colonials, and fierce Native Americans stronger even than blood ties. Though force...



  • Chris Claremont

    You asked for it, X-Fans, and now, you got it! Marvel.com asked you what Chris Claremont's next project should be. You, the fans, said you wanted to know what today's new generation of X-Men would be like if the Marvel Universe aged in real-time! Who...



  • Anna Cleary

    The rebel billionaire... Connor O'Brien is damaged, inside and out--proof of his dark and dangerous life. The innocent girl next door... Sophy Woodruff has never known a man as devastatingly sexy as Connor. Intense, brooding and distant, he's everyt...



  • Mary Connealy

    Michael is a fixer. Michael Davidson knows the demise of his marriage was his fault, and now, as a new Christian, he's determined to make things right. But when he finds his wife, he discovers she's given their child up for adoption. And while she ha...



  • Stacy Connelly

    HOLLY'S SECRET SANTA Holly Bainbridge had a simple wish this Christmas: to find a way to keep Hopewell House open for business. The former foster child knew how it felt to be without a family and was determined to make this a holiday the kids ...



  • Brenda Cooper
    in

    Sixteen original stories set in mercedes lackey's valdemar universe Includes a new novella by Mercedes Lackey! Today's hottest fantasy authors visit Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world of Valdemar, adding their own special touches to the ancien...



  • Bruce R. Cordell
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    29 TARSAKH, I385 DR THE HORIZON WAS ON FIRE Raidon Kane emerges from the Spellplague with a sapphire tattoo burned into his flesh, strange supernatural powers, and eleven missing years. The world had ended. How could he forget that? His daughter ...



  • Patricia Cornwell

    Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital?s psychiatric prison ward. The han...



  • Diana Cosby

    TRUSTING HER WAS UNTHINKABLE Lady Isabel Adair is the last woman Sir Duncan MacGruder wants to see again, much less be obliged to save. Three years ago, Isabel broke their engagement to become the Earl of Frasyer's mistress, shattering Duncan's heart...



  • Lyn Cote

    Nothing is impossible--as far as idealistic schoolteacher Verity Hardy is concerned. The lovely widow is certain teaching freed slaves in a Virginia town torn apart by the Civil War will help heal bitterness and old wounds. But she's finding that the...



  • Christie Craig

    GOOD COP Sue Finley murdered people...on paper. As a mystery writer, she knew all the angles, who did what and why. The only thing she couldn't explain was...well, men. Dating was like diving into a box of chocolates: sometimes the sweetest-looking ...



  • Sarah D'Almeida

    New from ?a gifted writer?( VICTORIA THOMPSON) who brings mystery to 17th-century France.As the Four Musketeers race to save Porthos?s servant from the gallows, they run afoul of Cardinal Richelieu, who is investigating a far more serious matter?a pl...




  • Peter David

    Collects X-Factor #28-32 & X-Factor: Quick and the Dead. Following the events of Messiah CompleX, X-Factor Investigations is in shambles. Jamie is a basket case from his trip to a nightmarish future, Layla's fate is completely in the air, and Wol...



  • Peter David

    They are the last of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Hawkeye, the blinded archer; the Wasp, pint-sized dynamo cursed with an incurable shrinking disease; Cannonball, mutant X-Man and Avenger; and former Ant-Man, former Giant-Man, former super hero Hank...



  • Robin David

    How to stay normal when things fall apart: an unexpurgated account. In two successive years Gujarat, and in particular Ahmedabad, was visited by two calamities, one natural and the other man-made. On 26 January 2001 an earthquake struck, killing thou...



  • Maryjanice Davidson

    Making Waves Fred the mermaid has taken the bait and chosen Artur, High Prince of the Black Sea, over human marine biologist Thomas. And just in time. The existence of the Undersea Folk is no longer a secret, and someone needs to keep them from flou...



  • Charles Davis

    Shady doesn't exist anymore. Neither does Benjamin Purdue. In a single day he lost his family, his love, his freedom and even his name for reasons he's never known. Now after spending twenty-one years in prison for crimes he didn't commit, the young ...



  • Justine Davis

    When an inappropriate man... He makes her uncomfortable. Edgy. But as strange accidents befall Lilith Mercer and Tony Alvera becomes her bodyguard, she realizes that her wariness of the street-rough, enigmatic, younger Redstone operative covers an a...



  • Autumn Dawn

    Crash-landing on a hostile planet with a variety of flora and fauna intent upon making her their lunch was Xera's most immediate concern, but not her only one. The Scorpio, sworn enemies of her people, were similarly stranded nearby, and Xera didn't ...



  • Tom Defalco

    At last, the battle you never thought you'd see: Spider-Girl versus Arana! 'Nuff said! Plus: It's the start of a Brand New May as Mayday Parker decides to make some startling changes when her mysterious stalker is finally revealed and Moose launches ...



  • Anna DePalo

    721 PARK AVENUE: Penthouse B TENANT: Gage Lattimer, dark and dangerous? SCANDAL: He'll never tell... A rich, powerful loner, Gage fit the description of the man who may have information about the mysterious demise of Jacinda Endicott's sister. Whic...



  • Lori Devoti

    On a mission for revenge against his adoptive family, vampire Drystan Hurst needs daemon Aimee Polk to help him put his plan into action. But Drystan doesn't expect to fall in love with Aimee--especially when it means choosing between her affection a...



  • Disney Book Group

    Matthew Gates's older brother Thomas is convinced a treasure lies hidden with someone or something named Charlotte. But Matthew wants treasure that is more accesible. So, when in 1848, the first rumors of gold in California start spreading, Matthew ...



  • Mike Doogan
    in

    All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King...



  • Carole Nelson Douglas
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    All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King...



  • Laura Drewry

    HELL HATH NO FURY... Deacon knew Rhea wouldn't exactly be happy to see him again. But he didn't think she'd shoot him. Right in the shoulder, no less. He'd experienced worse pain in his life, though. Besides, now Rhea would have to let him stay unti...



  • Judy Duarte

    SURPRISE HOLIDAY DELIVERY: EIGHT POUNDS, TWO OUNCES! He'd have a home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner at his mom's ranch, count his blessings, then superstar country singer Greg Clayton would go back on tour. But when a storm stranded him alone with th...



  • Phillip Thomas Duck

    He's handsome, intelligent, romantic and every woman's perfect husband. Too bad he's also three women's perfect husband. Under assumed names, Todd (aka Terry and Michael James) Darling has used his charm to seduce and betray women like Nikki, Jacquel...



  • Susanne Dunlap

    Amid the glitter and glamour of musical and court life in 18th century Vienna, fifteen-year-old Theresa Maria Shurman is trying to solve a brutal mystery. Who killed her father, an acclaimed violinist, and stole his valuable Amati violin? When Haydn ...



  • Lee Duran

    FH + JD Frankie Hale doesn't believe in love at first sight...until she meets Johnny Davis. And hours after that first meeting, he carves their initials into a tree, joining them forever. If only it were so easy. From the very beginning, their on-a...



  • William Durbin

    According to thirteen-year-old Ben Ward's father, lumberjacks look forward to two things: mealtime and springtime. In the winter of 1898, Ben leaves school for a job as a cook's assistant to his father at the Blackwater Logging Camp. As Ben spends lo...



  • Doranna Durgin

    smells like SOMETHING'S ROTTEN... The average crazy day for a vet like Dale Kinsall is a waiting room of furry patients and a staff of colorful eccentrics who like to meddle. But anonymous notes? Actually, make that anonymous rhymes? At first, he th...



  • Margot Early

    Bronwyn Davies is furious. Widowed, penniless and desperate, she came to Fairchild Acres looking for work--and to confront stockbroker Patrick Stafford, her son's real father. Sure, she wasn't expecting the red carpet rollout from her ex-lover...but ...



  • Cynthia Eden

    In her dazzling new novel of sensuality and suspense, Cynthia Eden introduces a stubborn Atlanta cop who meets his match in a woman with surprising secrets... Cara Firon doesn't look like a monster. In fact, the gorgeous blond nightclub singer poss...



  • Rosemary Edghill
    in

    Sixteen original stories set in mercedes lackey's valdemar universe Includes a new novella by Mercedes Lackey! Today's hottest fantasy authors visit Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world of Valdemar, adding their own special touches to the ancien...



  • Kate Egan

    A game of two against one.

    Venom and Carnage combine forces to defeat Spider-Man once and for all. With not one but two dangerous foes to fend off, Spider-Man discovers that the challenges of protecting the innocent have suddenly doubled...



  • Jason Elam; Steve Yohn

    LINEBACKER RILEY COVINGTON HAS NEVER DREADED THE START OF A NEW FOOTBALL SEASON. UNTIL NOW. The entire league is still reeling from the devastation of last season, and Riley's status on the team is put in jeopardy by a new threat. Just as minicamp k...



  • Simone Elkeles

    At Fairfield High School, on the outskirts of Chicago, everyone knows that south siders and north siders aren't exactly compatible elements. So when head cheerleader Brittany Ellis and gang member Alex Fuentes are forced to be lab partners in chemist...



  • Eliza Elliot

    Ever wonder what dogs are really thinking when they cock their heads and give you those puppy-dog eyes? Here's your chance to find out! Experience the Hotel for Dogs story through the eyes of Friday, Andi and Bruce's lovable Jack Russel Terrier, in t...



  • Warren Ellis

    Collects Ultimate Human #1-4. It's the Ultimate war between the Hulk and Iron Man! Desperate for a cure to his dark disease, scientist Bruce Banner begs Tony Stark for a release from the curse of the Hulk! Stark agrees, but in the midst of the experi...



  • Tabor Evans

    Devils River doesn?t offer much beyond ice-cold beer and a bodacious blacksmith who looks to Longarm like she can bang more than an anvil. But when Longarm throws killer Dolphus Lasher in jail, the entire murderous Lasher clan decides to paint the to...



  • Beth Fantaskey

    The undead can really screw up your senior year . . . Marrying a vampire definitely doesn’t fit into Jessica Packwood’s senior year “get-a-life” plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows u...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    "You can get through to him. I know you can." Though he heard her words, Trent Marlowe knew he had to be dreaming. What were the odds that Laurel would just reappear after vanishing seven years before? She'd turned his heart to stone a...



  • Monica Ferris

    As full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has become skilled at untangling suspicious threads in the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries -- especially when a regular becomes involved in a de...



  • Eric Flint; Virginia DeMarce

    The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th ce...



  • V.K. Forrest

    The Kahill vampire clan has lived among humans for hundreds of years in the peaceful village of Clare Point. In Undying, V.K. Forrest introduces readers to Arlan, a fierce clan member who must fight his desire for a love most forbidden... As part of...



  • Lori Foster
    in

    Think of the man you'd give anything to be with. Think of what you'd like to do to him...and what you'd like him to do to you. think of the fun you could have. Now, double it! Joining forces New York Times bestselling sensation Lori Foster, USA...



  • Gary Franklin

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