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New Books List: 485 titles


  • Jason Aaron

    Superstar writer Jason Aaron's searing take on the Spirit of Vengeance finds Johnny Blaze facing off against the forces of heaven itself in an epic saga that sends Ghost Rider down a blazing new road! When the rogue angel Zadkiel tries taking over th...



  • Dan Abnett

    Collecting: the cosmic crossover! In Imperial Guard, one hazardous mission may be the solution that everyone is praying for, but are the opinionated and fractured Guard tough enough-and united enough-to accomplish it? In Inhumans, now led by Queen Me...



  • Robin Adair

    1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage? Before his own deportation from England, Nicodemus Dunne was a London policema...



  • Douglas Alan

    Circle of Lies is a hot new thriller from newcomer Douglas Alan, featuring John Delaney, an ex-NYPD detective turned lawyer and his lovely wife Katherine Adams, a tough but sexy Atlanta lawyer who gives as good as she gets. They're an unstoppable te...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    What Happens in Vegas -- Can Follow You Home! Cash Buckhorn never thought he'd see Dr. Wren Barnes again, outside of the occasional fantasy anyway. He certainly didn't expect her to appear unannounced on his front porch, six months pregnant with his...



  • Jodi Lynn Anderson

    The definitive version of the book you came up with! CAMMY HALL IS USED TO BEING A LOSER All of her attempts to rise beyond high school obscurity have ended in utter humiliation. Now that she's a junior, she's setting her sights a little lower:...



  • Poul Anderson

    A KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR IN A SAVAGE GALAXY Captain Dominic Flandry has been knighted for his many services to the Terran Empire--an Empire which is old, jaded, and corrupt, as Flandry well knows. And while that Sir before his name may be an added att...



  • Zoe Archer

    He protects the world’s magic -- with his science. But even the best scientists can fall prey to the right chemistry... LOOKING FOR TROUBLE Gemma Murphy has a nose for a story -- even if the boys in Chicago’s newsrooms would rather focus on her...



  • Francesco Artibani

    It's an all-new, all-different version of the X-Men as told by some of Europe's greatest comics storytellers! In this vivid re-imagining of the X-Men mythos, everything is not as it seems and teenaged versions of Cyclops, Beast, Wolverine, Iceman, St...



  • Robert Asprin; Jodi Lynn Nye

    As head dragon and owner of a successful gambling operation in New Orleans, Griffen McCandles has a lot on his plate. Especially since the Krewe of Fafnir-a society of dragons-has asked him to be the king of their Mardi Gras parade. Being the king i...



  • Steve Augarde

    Midge's discovery of the hidden tribes is like a dream to her now, their existence all but forgotten. But then a voice calls out to her in the winter darkness. The Various have returned, and their desperation has made them all the more dangerous. The...



  • Rev. W. Awdry

    Each new Thomas DVD creates great excitement. These three stories from the latest release are filled with the same gentle humor and familiar friends as all of the very popular Thomas Picturebacks.First, Thomas is taking milk to the dairy to make ice ...



  • Rev. W. Awdry

    One restless night, Thomas looks out and sees a shooting star flash by. Determined to see where it went, Thomas sets out into the darkened countryside. The strange nighttime sights and noises add up to a wonderful after-dark adventure for Thomas.From...



  • Kiyohiko Azuma

    Beep-beep-beep! Yotsuba here, and riiiight on schedule! Every day is a fun day, and today's gonna be even funner than the rest. We're busy, busy, busy! We should write down a schedule so we don't forget what we gotta do...like go to the bathroom! And...



  • Maya Banks

    The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super elite, top secret, family-run business. Qualifications: High intelligence, rock hard body, military background. Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the US governm...



  • Alessandro Barbucci

    Exceptional beings exist who possess the ability to take on any identity. Among them is Noa, the most famous last generation synthetic doll. Sky Doll Spaceship lifts the veil on some of her often very extravagant past experiences: call girl in the mi...



  • Gerry Bartlett

    DANGEROUS CURVES AHEAD... Glory St. Clair is a vampire with problems. First there's her on-again, off-again lover, Jeremy Blade, back in town and expecting her to fall into his arms. Doesn't he remember that they have issues? And what about smoking-...



  • Battersea Dogs Home

    Holly's parents promised that she could have a puppy when her new brother was born - and Holly can't decide which is more exciting: baby Adam or Rusty the terrier from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home arriving to live with her!

    Rusty takes ...



  • Battersea Dogs Home

    Sophie is so excited when her parents agree that they can choose a new puppy from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home as a friend for their Labrador, Morris!

    Cute Border Collie puppy Daisy is terrified of Morris at first, but soon follows him ...



  • Michelle Beattie

    LOVE AND GOLD HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON: THEY CAN ONLY BE BURIED FOR SO LONG… Abandoned by her father and married to a deceitful man, Claire Gentry fled from her life. Disguised as a man, Claire wagers all she owns in a poker game to locate the t...



  • James Becker

    Assessing the contents of a lavish English estate, museum conservator Angela Lewis discovers a crate full of sealed pottery jars-one of which holds a parchment which describes the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth. For Angela, the find is a mira...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Daredevil (1998) #66-81. During a character-defi ning run, Brian Michael Bendis crafted a pulp-fi ction narrative that exploited the Man Without Fear's rich tapestry of characters and psychodrama, and resolved them in an incredibly nuanced, ...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Z! When the power who murdered Hitler is found dead, it is up to Detectives Walker and Sunrise to dig into the secret history of powers past to find the killer. A past that included the untold tale of Walker's world before he became one of the world'...



  • Michael Benson

    The true crime story of a New York mother who killed and a daughter who wouldn’t die, from the author of A Killer’s Touch and Watch Mommy Die.Anti-Freeze For A HusbandIt looked like a suicide. A man’s corpse on the bathroom floor -- next to a h...



  • Heidi Betts

    Holiday Husband...and Father? This wasn't the type of Christmas present he'd been expecting. Trevor Jarrod -- a daddy? Yet the enticing woman seated in his office claimed the Aspen businessman was the father of her baby nephew. Quick as he could say...



  • ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    #1 national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley takes off on an adventure of romance, passion, and just a touch of suspense . . . set in one of the world’s most exotic locales. After her company is bought out by a tabloid magazine, car...



  • Jenna Black

    Delve deeper into the world of the fae with this Faeriewalker bonus story from Jenna Black.In "Remedial Magic," Kimber finds that having a prodigy for an older brother is not so fun…especially one who is magic wiz-kid. But Kimber has a plan to fina...



  • Juliet Blackwell

    SHE PUTS UP WALLS. HE WALKS THROUGH THEM. Since she took over her father's construction business, Melanie Turner has made quite a name for herself remodeling historic houses in the San Francisco Bay Area. But now her reputation may be on the line. ...



  • Lauralee Bliss

    From the outside, Brenda Stewart has it all. A rich, influential father. Friends in high places. Men clamoring for her attention. But inside, Brenda is miserable. Her father is overbearing, her friends are fickle, and the men want her money and the p...



  • Amy Blizzard

    Templeton, Missouri, is in desperate need of a doctor to treat the scarlet fever epidemic that has infected their town and claimed the life of their local doctor. Boston native Dr. John Carson is their only hope. Molded by a lifetime of pain and loss...



  • Don Bolognese

    "Your training in arms is to be used only for our work here in the armory; I will never allow you to go to war. Never!" Lorenzo felt as if he had been kicked in the stomach. Fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Arrighi, the son of the duke's master armorer, ...



  • Lorenzo Borghese

    Princess Pauline Borghese was one of the most fascinating women of her day. Now her story is unforgettably told by one of her descendants.... The sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pauline knows that her sole purpose has always been to make an advantag...



  • Helene Boudreau

    Freak of nature takes on a whole new meaning... If she hadn't been so clueless, she might have seen it coming. But really, who expects to get into a relaxing bathtub after a stressful day of shopping for tankinis and come out with scales and a tai...




  • Tony Bradman

    Ten Top-Scoring Soccer Stories Take a grandstand seat for some great soccer action: - a barefoot boy who beats the odds and amazes everyone with his stunning skills; - a goalie called Titch, who proves height isn't everything when it comes to sa...



  • Tony Bradman

    Ten top-of-the-league soccer stories. Meet Craig, who takes advice from a phantom footballer to help his team on a goal-scoring run in the league championship; Dave, an inexperienced goalie who has to make split-second decisions in a penalty shoo...



  • Rachel Brady

    Single mom Emily Locke is building a new life with her daughter. Hoping to spend more time at home, she's put her career on hold to work part-time for her private investigator friend, Richard Cole. It's a nice balance between work and family until ...



  • Kate Brian

    The year is 1915 when sixteen-year-old Eliza Williams arrives at the Billings School for Girls in Easton, Connecticut. Her parents expect her to learn the qualites of a graceful, dutiful wife. But Eliza and her housemates have a dangerous secret: The...



  • Helen Brooks

    Sensible...but ripe for seduction! Rachel Ellington is used to being invisible to men, and that's fine. One example of male deceit in the past was enough to put her off for life! Now she's being pursued by millionaire businessman Zac Lawson -- but w...



  • Carolyn Brown

    All Tyrell Fannin and his cousins Isaac and Micah Burnet want is to get out of a Texas jail and go home to Mississippi. Delia Lavalle didn't need three outlaws to escort her and her sisters to Louisiana but she doesn't really have a choice. The...



  • Jeff Brown

    THERE'S NO PLACE ON EARTH A FLAT KID CAN'T GO! STANLEY'S NOT THE ONLY FLAT ONE! When a flat skull is discovered in Africa, Stanley Lambchop decides to travel there with his brother, Arthur, and their father, George. Maybe studying the skull will gi...



  • Ed Brubaker

    Collects Captain America #606-610. Zemo and Bucky -- two characters linked through history whether they like it or not. And now Zemo has set his sights on Bucky and plans to destroy our new Captain America one step at a time....



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Sarah Must Follow Her Heart Sarah Turner ten s the lock on the Lehigh Canal in Walnutport, Pennsylvania. She'd like nothing better than to get away from the canal, having enough of it as a child when she led the mules that pulled her father's boat. ...



  • John Burnside

    Taking its title from Uccello's famous painting of a band of men - on foot and on horseback - massing for the chase, John Burnside's new poems take us on a journey out of the light and into the darkness, where we may just as easily lose ourselves as ...



  • Grace Burrowes

    AN EARL WHO CAN'T BE BRIBED... Gayle Windham. Earl of Westhaven, is the first legitimate son and heir to the Duke of Moreland. To escape his father's inexorable pressure to marry, he decides to spend the summer at his townhouse in London, where he f...



  • Jack Caldwell

    FRANKLY MR. DARCY, I don't give a damn... WHEN THE SMOKE HAS CLEARED FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS and the civil war has finally ended, fervent Union supporter Beth Bennet reluctantly moves with her family from their home in Meryton, Ohio, to the windswep...



  • Kate Carlisle

    Marriage and kids? Not for confirmed bachelor Cameron Duke. Then an affair with Julia Parrish changed everything. Once he discovered the pretty cupcake maker had borne him a son, Cameron's priorities did a complete turnaround. He would marry and give...



  • Nancy Carlson

    When Henry and his classmates spot a heart-shaped box on their teacher's desk, they start trying to guess who it's for. The students begin to think Mr. McCarthy has lots of girlfriends when they see him talking to the playground monitor, smiling at t...



  • Dakota Cassidy

    She was the perfect party-planning, haute-to-the max trophy wife. Now Maxine Cambridge is broke, unemployable and living with her mother and teenage son in a retirement village, with her self-esteem kicked to the curb. Until her geeky former classma...



  • P.C. Cast

    Isabel, a world-weary photojournalist, is grounded back home in Oklahoma when her car plummets off a bridge into a lake. Struggling on the edge between life and death, she's miraculously saved by the Water Goddess, but with one tiny caveat: Isabel mu...



  • Michelle Celmer

    Mr. December: Adam Blair, billionaire oil baron. Dream: Producing a much-wanted heir. Dilemma: Keeping the arrangement strictly business. The time had come to move on. CEO and widower Adam Blair was determined to find the right woman to carr...



  • Stephen Chambers

    The Spiderwick Chronicles meets Alice in Wonderland Jane is the only one who notices all the strange things happening: like a squirrel packing a suitcase, a blind man who can drive, and that adults, including her parents, appear to be hypnotized b...



  • Allison Chase

    HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVANTS A rare stone gifted to Queen Victoria by her secret suitor, Albert of Saxe-Coburg, has been stolen and possibly delivered into the hands of the Marquess of Harrow -- a man whispered to be slightly mad. Her Majesty asks ...



  • Howard Chaykin

    Collecting: three exciting tales exploring the storied history of America's greatest champion. First, Howard Chaykin pulls back the Iron Curtain on one of Captain America's wiliest nemeses-Soviet Russia and her never-ending parade of spies, saboteurs...



  • Maureen Child

    Pucker up for two irresistible millionaires who are about to meet their matches…under the mistletoe! "The Wrong Brother" by Maureen Child Well, she'd asked to be kissed. Who was Sam Hale to deny a beauty such a request? But when the businessman d...



  • Laura Childs

    The New York Times bestselling Cackleberry Club Mysteries serve up another delicious whodunit featuring friendship, murder, and one spectacular breakfast after another. After losing their husbands, Suzanne, Toni, and Petra bonded, gaining a newfound...




  • Tom Clancy

    TOM CLANCY'S GREATEST CHARACTERS FACE THEIR DEADLIEST CHALLENGE. After almost a decade, Tom Clancy--the acknowledged master of international intrigue and non-stop military action-returns to the world he knows better than anyone: a world of chaos, ca...



  • Amy Clipston

    In the Kauffman Amish Bakery series, bestselling author Amy Clipston compellingly unfolds the tensions, loves, and faith of the inhabitants of an Amish community and the family bakery that serves as an anchor point for the series. Was he really the ...



  • Amy Clipston

    Miriam thought she left Timothy and the Amish community behind. But the past has a way of catching up to you ... WILL THE DREAMS SHE GAVE UP YEARS AGO FIND HER AGAIN? Miriam Lapp, who left the Amish community four years ago, is heartbroken when she...



  • Jackie Collins

    Can’t get enough of Bobby Santangelo? Check out this unbelievably sexy and scandalous bonus story by New York Times bestselling author Jackie Collins. This e-book original also includes a special sneak peek of the sensational New York Times bes...



  • Nancy A. Collins

    MEET THE NEW GIRL ON THE PARANORMAL BLOCK... Like most Manhattan,tes, aspiring artist Tate can't resist a good rental deal even if it's in the city's strangest neighborhood, Golgotham. For centuries werewolves, Valkyries, centaurs, and countless oth...



  • Cara Colter

    Teacher Morgan McGuire is determined to embrace her newfound independence. Until one of her pupils needs her in ways she never expected. Soon Morgan's life becomes intertwined with that of sexy but cynical Nate Hathoway and his adorable daughter. Ch...



  • Mildred Colvin

    Tessa Stevens has a past she would rather forget. But when she comes face-to-face with a part of her past while on vacation, she is forced to reevaluate her future. Then she falls in love with the man of her dreams once again, knowing that he is as u...



  • John Connolly

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Whisperers

    “Connolly’s dark, lyrical prose will leave unshakable images lurking on the edge of the reader’s consciousness.” -- Booklist

    All John Connolly fans know ...



  • Sheila Connolly

    A SUSPICIOUS DEATH IS RIPE FOR RUMOR... When Meg Corey's mother arrives unannounced in Granford, Masschusetts, Meg's sure it's not just to pay a surprise visit to the apple of her eye. The timing is terrible -- it's harvest season and Meg is unders...



  • Beverly Connor

    Forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon knows her way around bones, but when an old colleague drops by and then drops dead, she has to revisit some ancient history. Diane Fallon has been working hard to put the past behind her, and she has established ...



  • Lyn Cote

    Unafraid, Unconventional...and Unwelcome A female physician with an adopted black daughter? The townsfolk of Idaho Bend will never accept Dr. Mercy Gabriel -- even when faced with a deadly cholera epidemic. But all Mercy needs is one man willing to ...



  • Ralph Cotton

    LAWLESS JUSTICE In the town of Bannet, Doss Edding, son of a wealthy land baron, led the cold-blooded Half Moon Gang on a spree of theft and murder that should have put him behind bars for the rest of his life. But the corrupt local law has set the ...



  • Anne Crompton / Anne Eliot Crompton

    A mysterious green stranger gallops into King Arthur's court and poses a unique challenge: any knight of the Round Table may try to chop off his head on the condition that if they succeed, he will have the same opportunity one year later. After a sha...



  • Alyssa Crowne

    A spunky series for any girl who dreams of being a princess. The book even looks magical --- it's printed on yellow pages! For as long as she can remember, Abby has wanted two things: to be a magical princess and to get a pet. And now one of her d...



  • K.J. Dahlen

    When a serial killer murders Sam Sebastian's wife, the New Orleans cop turns bounty hunter to track down the killer and administer justice. Joining him on his quest is FBI agent Cole Davidson, whom Sam soon finds is connected to the killer. As their ...



  • Margaret Daley

    Someone's after wealthy Texan Slade Caulder's daughter. Desperate to keep her safe while he determines the motive, the widowed father hires a bodyguard for Abbey. A female bodyguard, with the training to protect the girl -- and an understanding of a ...



  • B.J. Daniels

    NOTHING BRINGS FAMILY TOGETHER LIKE A WEDDING... The Winchester Ranch is a place of age-old scandal and deadly family secrets. For DEA agent T. D. Waters, the thriving ranch and mysterious Winchester clan have the answers he's looking for. With the ...



  • Jo Davis

    AFTER A DAY OF PUTTING OUT BLAZES, THE FIREFIGHTERS OF STATION FIVE TEND TO GIVE OFF THEIR OWN HEAT. BUT CAPTAIN SEAN TANNER IS ABOUT TO GET BURNED.... After a tragedy took the lives of his wife and children, Sean was a shattered man who drowned his...



  • Krista Davis

    WRAPPED UP IN MURDER... It promises to be a jolly holiday for Sophie Winston, until a scrooge steals the gifts from her family and neighbors and even pinches their holiday meals! Sophie quickly ends the neighbors' finger-pointing by organizing a toy...



  • Martin Day

    A First Doctor, Steven and Dodo novel A fireball erupts in the forests of the Ukraine, and when the locals investigate, they find what appears to be a metal coffin at the centre of the devastation. They superstitiously conclude that the casket co...



  • Rebecca Dean

    An irresistible tale of scandal and star-crossed love It’s 1912, and seventeen-year-old Prince Edward, England’s Golden Prince of Wales, is feeling the burden of his position. As heir to the greatest throne in the world, he hates the constri...



  • Shannon Delany

    "Beasts and BFFs" is a bonus 13 to Life prequel story from bestselling author Shannon Delany.Meet Jessie Gillmansen as she realizes that things might not be what they seem in the town of Junction. All Jessie wants is to avoid more change … but she ...



  • J.M. DeMatteis

    The Clone Sage continues as Peter Parker is put on trial for murder! A new Green Goblin debuts! The mass murderer Kaine is killed! The Jackal unleashes an entire army of Spider-Man clones, including the new and deadly Spidercide! The Gwen Stacy clone...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    A Christmas Miracle -- In Triplicate! Mark Rayburn always admired Samantha Forrest's fierce dedication, even if it often caused heated disagreements between the two doctors. But making a lifetime commitment to three babies without a moment's thought...



  • Nicolas Dickner

    From the author of Canada Reads winner Nikolski comes a sweet, smart and occasionally surreal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers -- if only one of them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh. ...



  • Disney Book Group

    To infinitiy and beyond! Woody, Buzz Lightyear, their pals, and a whole crew of new toys are along for the ride in this nonstop adventure....



  • Disney Book Group

    One winter morning, Joe and Jenny look out the window and see fresh snow sparkling on the ground. It's a perfect day for a sleigh ride and ice skating! Joe is excited to teach Jenny how to ice skate, but when the lesson begins, Jenny keeps falling......



  • Disney Book Group

    Timeless favorites--with a Disney twist! The magical world of Mother Goose comes to life in this classic fairy tale starring Mickey Mouse....



  • Disney Book Group

    Cinderella does all of the household chores for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. She doesn't have time for fun, so her only friends are the birds and the mice who live in the house. So when she rescues a little mouse named Gus from a trap one m...



  • Berlie Doherty

    Available for the first time as a paperback picture book, this exquisitely illustrated re-telling of "Rumpelstiltskin" is a must for any child's library. "Rumpelstiltskin" is one of the best-loved fairy tales of all time. Retold by Berlie Doherty, th...




  • Anne Douglas

    When attractive redhead Lorna Fernie is taken on to play saxophone in a postwar Glasgow dance band, she is at first over the moon - especially when she and likeable trumpet player, Rod Warren, fall in love. But then disaster strikes. Rod leaves her, ...



  • Michelle Douglas

    Pregnant Keira Keely is lodging at beautiful Candlebark Farm this holiday season, whilst she organizes a place of her own. Grumpy owner Luke Hillier seems too caught up in his own troubles to worry about anyone else's. But when Keira has a crisis Lu...



  • Ruth Downie

    In her fourth novel, Ruth Downie brings to life the corruption and treachery of Roman-occupied Britain, as it closes in on her winsome leading man. Gaius Petreius Ruso and his new wife Tilla have moved to the town of Verulamium, where a tax man named...



  • Amanda Downum

    Symir -- the Drowning City. home to exiles and expatriates, pirates and smugglers. And violent revolutionaries who will stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government. For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution ...



  • Cathy East Dubowski

    Sara Crewe is a student at Miss Minchin's fancy boarding school. She has the very best of everything. But when her rich father dies, she's left without a penny. Now Sara lives in the school's cold attic and works for crusts of bread. With some help f...



  • Alfred Neven DuMont

    The Diver is a beautifully written and observed novel about Albert -- eighty-two and suffering from Parkinson’s, following the death of his beloved twenty-year-old daughter, Glorie, who disappeared during a scuba dive off the Cayman Islands. Glorie...



  • Sharon Dunn

    "Stay off the King Ranch." Jenna Murphy wants to ignore the anonymous, puzzling note. How could she leave the work she loves at the ranch's Birds of Prey Rescue Center? But when someone attacks the birds under her care, she starts to worry. And when...



  • Amy Efaw

    Based on the author's own experiences as a cadet at the exclusive United States Military Academy at West Point, Battle Dress is the brutally honest tale of seventeen-year-old Andi Davis, who views her acceptance at West Point as a chance to escape h...



  • Kate Emerson

    Charming. Desirable. Forbidden. Brought to court with other eligible young noblewomen by the decree of King Henry VIII, lovely Elizabeth "Bess" Brooke realizes for the first time that beauty can be hazardous. Although Bess has no desire to wed the ag...



  • Carol Ericson

    Rio McClintock experienced a lot as a freelance CIA operative. But nothing prepared him for the smoldering attraction between him and a former princess. His mission was to destroy an empire built on smuggling drugs and weapons, and Tori Scott complic...



  • Loren D. Estleman

    Joseph Michael Ballista -- "Joey Ballistic" to his mob buddies -- knows most of the ways to make an illegal buck, or "a lefthanded dollar." Thats why hes in trouble again. But his crafty lawyer, Lucille Lettermore -- "Lefty Lucy" to just about every ...



  • Geraldine Evans

    Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty has just left his wedding rehearsal when Sergeant Dafyd Llewellyn calls to say that a local man has come home to find his wife dead - strangled - on the kitchen floor. Adrienne Staveley is soon revealed to be a wom...



  • Peter Everett

    In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E. J. Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels. Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq's photographs have become famous,...



  • Peter Everett

    At seventy, Henri Matisse is a trim, clean old gentleman with a passion for naked women. He is UN MONSTRE SACRE who depicts with passion and conviction only what he takes pleasure in, only what he chooses to see. He is art personified. If there were ...



  • Monica Ferris

    Owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth Betsy Devonshire heads for the Minnesota north woods to renovate an old cabin. But beneath the awful linoleum is something even uglier- the skeleton of a Nazi. Betsy's investigation yield...



  • Katie Flynn

    Two penn'orth of sky is all you can see from dirty, cramped Nightingale Court where Emmy lives with her widowed mother. Her main aim in life is to escape and she sees marriage as her best way out. When Peter Wesley, First Officer aboard a cruise ship...



  • Jess Foley

    Let much loved author Jess Foley sweep you away with this beautifully breathtaking saga of one woman's search for love and fulfilment. Fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Katie Flynn will absolutely love this.'An earthy tale of love, longing a...



  • Jess Foley

    Lose yourself in this captivating and heart-wrenching saga from much loved author Jess Foley, written in the bestselling tradition of Josephine Cox, Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court. You will not want to put it down...READERS ARE LOVING TOO CLOSE TO...



  • Jess Foley

    If you like Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Katie Flynn, then this absorbing, moving and highly emotional saga from much loved author Jess Foley is perfect for you. A wonderful coming of age saga you'll want to revisit time and time again...'A jol...



  • Linda Ford

    Just until Christmas -- that's how long rancher Derek Adams needs a nanny for his young sister. Winnie Lockwood knows it's a mistake to get too attached. Yet little Kathy's sweet smiles undo her best intentions. And Winnie can't help but pray she's f...



  • Sandra Forrester

    A heartwarming family story set during the Depression that reads like a classic. Everyone's been down on their luck since the Depression hit. But as long as Mary Bayliss Pettigrew has her beloved older brother, Leo, to pull pranks with, even the h...



  • Delores Fossen

    HER UNBORN SON WAS ALL THE FAMILY SHE HAD… Then he was stolen minutes after Bailey Hodges gave birth. Months following the hospital standoff, the terrifying memories still existed. Someone wanted her to die that night. Someone still wanted her dea...



  • Darlene Franklin

    Calvin cannot believe the challenges he is facing. In the Year of No Summer, repeated plantings of crops are freezing before they can bear fruit. His family and friends may run out of food. And Hiram Bailey is doing everything he can to keep his daug...



  • Margaret Frazer

    Te player Joliffe assumes many roles on stage, to the delight of those he entertains. Now, in the company of a troupe of traveling performers, he finds himself cast in the role of sleuth... In harvest time of 1436, the troupe's leader has fallen ill...



  • Esther Friesner

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-fictionality. You think their swords won't...



  • Susan Froderberg

    Katherine is seventeen, living alone in a trailer in southern Arizona. Her mother is feckless, and her father is up north, busy with his new family. When Son, the scion of a local rancher, invites her to marry him and live in his parents' big adobe h...



  • Nicholas Gage

    "A devoted and brilliant achievement." The New York Review of BooksIn 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" behind the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, 41, defied the traditions of her small village ...



  • David R. George III

    It's been said that for any event, there are an infinite number of possible out-comes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow, and therefore all possibilities that could happen do happen across alternate realities. In these divergent realms,...



  • Maria Geraci

    This sexy, funny new novel asks: Can a woman find a modern-day Mr. Darcy in Daytona Beach? At thirty, Grace O'Bryan has dated every loser in Daytona Beach. After the ultimate date-from-hell, Grace decides to turn her dwindling book club into a Bo...





  • Elizabeth Gill

    A historical tale of sacrifice, folly and passion, from a much-loved author 1907, County Durham. Lorna Robson works long and tiring hours in her aunt’s hat shop. Although she tries not to complain, the genteel poverty they live in depresses her...



  • Elizabeth Goddard

    Crash the wedding and meet photographer Polly Perkins who zooms in on a murder victim. As she studies an endless line of potential suspects from safely behind her camera, Polly finds love staring back at her. Will her uncanny ability to read emotions...



  • Jo Goodman

    HER HEART WAS LOCKED AWAY Rhyne Abbott is fierce, brave, and used to a life of isolation on her father's spread on the outskirts of Reidsville, Colorado. But when, overcome with sickness, she collapses, she knows she must return to town if she is to...



  • Lucy Gordon

    Romancing Miss Contrary... Solicitor Pippa Jenson is stunning, intelligent and successful -- and she just wants a man who sees beyond her looks! Her new client, brooding, levelheaded stockbroker Roscoe Havering, seems more interested in setting he...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    Space...the final frontier. Or is it? Many say there's no frontier more forbidding than a romantic relationship between a man and a woman. But what if one's a human, and the other's an alien? Here is an original collection of space opera stories wher...



  • Eloise Greenfield

    We were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their dreams and their children, to make a better life. When Eloise Greenfield was four months old, her family moved ...



  • Jackie Griffey

    In Griffey's sweet but uneven historical romance series launch, two friends seek their fortunes and mates by shipping off to the New World. At 17, Gwenneth Hume and Patience O'Connor enjoy a happy life near Grenfels Corners in the British Isles. Pati...



  • Kim Gruenenfelder

    After listening to her closest friends' latest travails in love, parenting, and careers, superstitious bride-to-be Nicole (Nic) believes she has the perfect recipe for everyone's happiness: a bridal shower "cake pull" in which each ribboned silver ch...



  • Peter Guttridge

    First gripping mystery in the Brighton Trilogy July 1934. A woman’s torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway station’s left luggage office. Her identity is never established, her killer never caught. But someone is keeping a diary... ...



  • Stephanie Haefner

    Karma may be a bitch, but sometimes she knows what she's doing. When author Lexi Marshall's perfectly fabulous life of designer clothes, nights on the town with her sexy boyfriend, and a successful writing career literally go up in flames, she must t...



  • Ruth Hamilton

    An absorbing tale of the strength and heartbreak of family ties Winter, 1940. Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth and she is left with twin baby sisters. Anna is a gifted child, with a warm personality to match, ...



  • Eric L. Haney

    Kennesaw Tanner used to be a shadow operative for the U.S. government. Now he operates on his own. The police say suicide. The mother says murder. It's up to Tanner to find the truth... A girl dies under mysterious circumstances, and the police decl...



  • Joyce Hansen

    MARIA PETERS is looking forward to turning thirteen. She imagines enjoying new adult prestige and responsibility, such as attending abolitionist meetings and listening to inspiring speakers like Sojourner Truth. She doesn't bank on all the unexpected...



  • Ellen Hart

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  • Alyxandra Harvey

    Hunter Wild is the youngest in a long line of elite vampire hunters, a legacy that is both a blessing and a curse at the secret Helios-Ra Academy, where she excels at just about everything. Thanks to her friendship with Kieran Black, Hunter receives...



  • Michele Hauf

    As a muse, Cassandra Stevens had been warned of the Fallen angel who'd one day come to impregnate her with a nephilim, an evil offspring. But no one could have foreseen that Samandriel -- the raven-haired, silver-winged Fallen one -- would sweep her ...



  • Brett Helquist; Jennifer Trafton

    Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge leads (much to her chagrin) a very dull life on the Island at the Center of Everything . . . until the night she overhears a life-changing secret. It seems that Mount Majestic, the rising and falling mountain in the cen...



  • Virginia Henley
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    It's been three years since Lady Sarah Caversham set eyes on arrogant Charles Lennox -- the husband her father chose for her to settle a gambling debt. Now Charles has returned, unaware that the innocent ingenue he wed is determined to turn their...




  • David Hine

    SC, TPB, in cello, New, Written by DAVID HINE and FABRICE SAPOLSKY. Art by CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO. Cover by PATRICK ZIRCHER. Published in November of 2010, Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 112 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99....



  • Keith Hollihan

    Intense and arresting, this powerful debut follows a female corrections officer who works with a young male inmate to uncover a criminal organization that has taken control of a maximum security prison....



  • Cheryl Holt

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  • Joan Holub; Suzanne Williams

    Artemis may be the goddess of the hunt, but that doesn't mean she always feels brave. Will she find the courage to talk to Orion (the new mortal "star" at school), to make him see her as more than a pal, and to ace Beast-ology class? The Goddess ...



  • Dave Horowitz

    Frank and Carl may not have the marketing savvy of Mister Pig, or the hi-tech cool of Big Ox; but when a hard rain begins to fall, our tenacious duo may just have what everybody needs....



  • Hannah Howell

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  • Crystal Hubbard

    Cinder's appearance at Gian's dojo sparks a protective and romantic instinct in him that catches the trainer by surprise. After finally escaping her abusive husband, Cinder has relocated from New England to Missouri and is taking steps to ensure that...



  • Shirley Hughes

    Charlie Moon's Auntie Jean runs a joke shop at the seaside. Charlie loves to go and stay there and try out the comic hats, masks, rubber spiders, fake flowers that squirt water, and cushions that squeak when you sit on them...even when his clever...



  • Anna Humphrey

    Goodman's Gifts & Stationery Store February 14 Cashier: Elyse 3 boxes of heart-shaped chocolate . . . $12.00 Chocolate is the only good thing about this nauseating holiday. 4 containers of candy hearts . . . $5.00 Ever since my ex c...



  • Phyllis Humphrey; Carolann Camillo

    Marilee Shaw's inheritance, the yacht Southern Star, is in default to the bank. To save it from the auction block, she decides to honor a Caribbean cruise planned for two couples. But with no captain available, she's forced to approach Gary Pritchard...



  • Gregg Hurwitz

    Guest-starring Deadpool! Herman

    Goncharenko lies at death's door,

    wasting away of cancer, but someone

    wants him killed, not dead. Someone

    desperate enough to hire a certain mouthy

    mercenary to do the ...




  • Alex Irvine

    A tale of heroism and exploit in the tradition of Robert E. Howard... Enter Remy, a quick-witted courier whose dangerous freight leads him into the vanguard of an ancient war between forces of light and the rising tide of shadows that threatens to...



  • Holly Jacobs

    Time to let go...and let someone else in Laura Watson thinks she'll never get over the pain of losing the man she loved. But when her son is born, Lieutenant Seth Keller is right there with her. The widowed Erie cop has his own reasons to grie...



  • Michele Jaffe

    Instead of celebrating Memorial Day weekend on the Jersey Shore, Jane is in the hospital surrounded by teddy bears, trying to piece together what happened last night. One minute she was at a party, wearing fairy wings and cuddling with her boyfriend....



  • Eloisa James

    An exclusive eBook original novella with bonus excerpts from A Kiss At Midnight and the forthcoming When Beauty Tamed the Beast from New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James. Featuring the handsome and mysterious Wick from A Kiss At Midnight. ...



  • Melissa Jensen

    Sixteen-year-old Catherine Vernon has been stranded in London for the summerAno friends, no ex-boyfriend Adam the Scum (good riddance ), and absolutely nothing to do but blog about her misery to her friends back home. Desperate for somethingAanything...



  • Janice Kay Johnson

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  • William W. Johnstone

    THEY WILL INVADE YOUR HOME. Home, Texas. Two men break into the house of an elderly couple. Guns are fired. Blood is spilled. When one of the intruders sues the homeowner and wins, the good people of Home take the law into their own hands. In a stunn...



  • William W. Johnstone

    INVITATION TO A HANGING They're hanging Billy Ray Cabot in Cloverdale, Nevada on Friday. Or so they think. Thursday brings Smoke Jensen to town. In another life, Billy Ray was almost kin to Smoke, and guilty or not, Smoke will blast Cloverdale sky...



  • Carrie Jones

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  • Marguerite Kaye

    England, 1924 It had been love at first sight when Jack Damarell, the Eighth Earl of Crieff, and American artist Lindsey van der Maier met on the steamer to England. Their marriage had been filled with white-hot passion--until Jack's dark memories...



  • Susanna Kearsley

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  • Tracy Kelleher

    Roommates...or soul mates? Successful physiotherapist and single mom-to-be Sarah Halverson is not one to take adversity lying down. But these days she's having trouble getting up! Thirty weeks into her pregnancy, Sarah finds that her bouts of dizzin...



  • Janette Kenny

    Love On The Run... Colorado sheriff Dade Logan has waited twenty years to reunite with his long lost sister, Daisy. But when she finally turns up, they barely recognize each other. That's because the beautiful stranger isn't Daisy, but her childho...



  • Beth Kery

    His touch would consume her -- if it didn’t kill her first… Dr. Sophie Gable wasn’t expecting her peaceful getaway to be shattered by the arrival of a half-dazed, dead-sexy guest. Thomas Nicasio has obviously been traumatized, and Sophie think...



  • Karl Kesel

    Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Uncovered at last: The 1940s daily newspaper comic strip starring Captain America that you never knew about! Travel with us through the mists of time to the tumultuous days of World War II, when skinny Steve Rogers wa...



  • Chip Kidd

    Shazam made his debut in Whiz Comics in 1940, and outsold his biggest competitor, Superman, by 14 million copies a month. It wasn’t long before a variety of merchandise was licensed -- secret decoders, figurines, buttons, paper rockets, tin t...



  • Susan Fraser King

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  • Gini Koch

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  • Mercedes Lackey

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  • Nick Lake

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  • Roger Langridge

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  • Bruce Lansky

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  • Jillian Larkin

    Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It's a dangerous combination. Every girl wants what she can't have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle -- and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now t...



  • C.E. Lawrence

    To Catch A Twisted Killer At first, they look like suicides. Two bodies within a week -- one found floating in New York's East River, another electrocuted in the bathtub. But forensics show that the victims were drugged, then killed. As the death ...




  • Tobsha Learner

    During the Falkland war a mysterious albino bat - a mascot on a British ship - escapes and bites two soldiers on opposing sides, who find themselves sharing a vivid dream. An erotic short story from tobsha Learner....



  • Tobsha Learner

    In 1860 a young virginal archaeologist takes a private commission from a beautiful older aristocrat and finds himself caught up in an ancient erotic invocation of immortality. A mystical short story from tobsha Learner....



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  • Tobsha Learner

    When a primordial forest starts to magically invade a vacant site, Gavin, a ruthless property developer desperate to solve the mystery, becomes involved with a hippy environmentalist. A sensual and sinister short story from tobsha Learner....



  • Tobsha Learner

    A balding Sydney rock and roll producer manages to balance his wife and his mistress - until one decides to wreak revenge upon the other using an ancient hex.A sinister, sensual short story from tobsha Learner....



  • Tobsha Learner

    In Oklahoma, a drought-stricken town is offered salvation by a handsome rainmaker. But his price is controversial - and one that the women of the town are more than willing to pay.An erotic short story from tobsha Learner....



  • Tobsha Learner

    In a Welsh village, a rather prudish young woman is sensually awoken by an outrageous inheritance from an old aunt who was rumored to be a witch. An erotic and sinister short story from tobsha Learner....



  • Tobsha Learner

    A young Orthodox Jewish widow in Brooklyn finds herself haunted by the snore of her dead husband then discovers he was embroiled in investigating corruption at work. A mystical short story from tobsha Learner....



  • Tobsha Learner

    A young Australian nun struggles with the loss of her faith until she experiences an extraordinary miracle herself on the remote shores of the Mediterranean. A sensual and erotic short story from tobsha Learner....



  • Day Leclaire

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  • Stan Lee

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  • YunHee Lee

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  • Lora Leigh

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  • Ann Lethbridge

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  • Susan Lewis

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  • Larry Libby

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  • Lesley Livingston

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  • Scott Lobdell

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  • Aaron Lopresti

    Nightcrawler! Colossus! Shadowcat! Wolfsbane! Captain Britain! Lockheed! Based on Muir Island, Excalibur has become Europe's most famous team of super heroes; now, they face their deadliest threat yet! The Hellfi re Club has infi ltrated the British ...



  • Jonathan Maberry

    Collects Klaws of the Panther #1-4. Klaw, Master of Sound, is no more dead than he is human. The killer composed of living sound is back with a new and deadly plan that will spill blood from the Savage Land to the streets of New York. Shuri, the new...



  • David Mack

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  • Molly MacRae

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  • Adrian Magson

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