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  • Wolverine: Back in Japan

    Jason Aaron

    Collects Wolverine #300-304. The Hand has already resurrected and recruited two of Wolverine's oldest and deadliest foes, but the key to their plan lies with the late Silver Samurai's teenage son - and the Hand has kidnapped his girlfriend to convin...

  • The Ice Dragon

    Tony Abbott

    The epic conclusion to the action-packed arc! It all comes down to this. Owen, Dana, Jon, and Sydney have to prevent Loki from finding the powerful Crystal Rune. That means they need to find it first, no matter what. But tracking down the rune ...

  • New Mutants Vol. 7: Fight the Future

    Dan Abnett

    Collects New Mutants (2009) #44-50. Guest-starring the Defenders! Dr. Strange's team protects humanity from the impossible - so what does this uber-powerful group want with the New Mutants? Then, Cannonball and Karma return! But why are they suddenly...

  • For the Sake of Love

    Dwan Abrams

    Xavier Roberts’ life seems to be coming together. He’s engaged to be married to an incredible woman, Summer Love, and he’s recently signed a recording contract. When he gets a surprise cancer diagnosis, however, he puts all his plans on hold an...

  • Chinese Whiskers

    Pallavi Aiyar

    Chinese Whiskers by Pallavi Aiyar is a charming fable set against the landscape of contemporary Beijing, seen through the eyes of two cats. Soyabean is a middle class cat looked after by a grandmother who embodies traditional Chinese morality. Tof...

  • This Gun for Hire

    Eric Ambler

    First published five years after he introduced Arthur Abdel Simpson in the comic thriller "The Light of Day," Eric Ambler turns the spotlight back to his compelling antihero -- a man you can’t help but root for. Arthur Abdel Simpson counts himse...

  • Intestate

    Charlie Jane Anders

    By now, it's hard to tell how human my father still is. But we're still family. What that means...is another question....

  • Unnatural Acts

    Kevin J. Anderson

    To Be Dead Or Not To Be Dead In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up -- to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble is no ordinary working s...

  • Young MacDonald Goes to the Show

    Crosbie Anna

    Young MacDonald is ready to try his luck at that most enjoyable and iconic of rural events, the annual A & P Show. Young MacDonald was first introduced to young readers in 2009, in Young MacDonald Had a Farm, when he inherited the family...

  • Tiger's Eye

    Barbra Annino

    Stacy Justice is looking forward to a lazy summer of hot dogs and beer; swims in the lake with her Great Dane, Thor; and hanging with her rekindled old flame, Chance. But when she gets a creepy anonymous call hinting that her father’s “accidental...

  • Bloodstone

    Barbra Annino

    All Stacy Justice wants to do is recover from the bizarre couple of weeks she’s had -- a whirlwind kicked off by the arson attack on her cousin’s bar, the Black Opal. But just when life should be settling down, a fourteen-year-old girl named Iv...

  • Opal Fire

    Barbra Annino

    Stacy Justice is just your average green-eyed, redheaded, twenty-something witch who would rather focus on her job as a reporter than practice the crazy magic her grandmother and great-aunts are into. She’s perfectly content to spend her free time ...

  • Luck of the Draw

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Bryce is summoned to Xanth as part of a wager between the Demons Earth and Xanth. To his surprise, he has left behind his home and family and eighty-year-old body forever, in exchange for youth and magic….and a quest. He must court and marry Prince...

  • Silent Mercy

    Lori Armstrong

    Recently returned from training at Quantico, FBI agent Mercy Gunderson stirs up trouble and uses her rarely seen feminine side to seduce her unsuspecting boyfriend, sexy-as-sin Sheriff Mason Dawson. When she revs up her Viper to get his attention whi...

  • Camellia

    Diane Ashley; Aaron McCarver

    Natchez belle turned riverboat maiden Camellia Anderson misses her old life of privilege. She misses the balls and she misses the suitors. . .then a chance to attend finishing school in New Orleans catapults her into an exciting world -- and a whirlw...

  • The Gamble

    Kristen Ashley

    Love is the greatest gamble of all.... Nina Sheridan desperately needs a timeout vacation. With a fiance who can't even remember how she takes her coffee, Nina wants some distance to rethink her engagement. Flying halfway around the world from Eng...

  • Best Place to Die

    Charles Atkins

    Retiree sleuths Lilian and Ada find that though their town might look postcard pretty, there’s something rank festering below the surface . . . Lilian Campbell and her best friend and lover, Ada Strauss, are woken early by the sound of sirens: t...

  • An Outlaw For Christmas

    Lori Austin

    A young woman gets her Christmas wish when the outlaw she loves returns for the holidays in this Western historical romance from Lori Austin. On an orphan train from New York to Kansas, young Ruth Kelly falls in love with the boy who protects her...

  • Traces of Love

    Patricia K. Azeltine

    Melissa Douglas is on the run. Accused by local businessman Devlin McCoy of murdering her beloved uncle, she flees for her life to Portland, where she meets Jacob Gilbert, a renowned tracker. Even though she is smitten with him, Melissa must pour her...

  • Written In The Stars

    Sarah Ball

    When Gemma Sinclair and her best friends were fourteen, they sealed up letters containing their hopes and dreams (along with a packet of Lovehearts and a picture of Jason Donovan) in a time capsule. Now thirteen years later, Gemma stumbles upon the u...

  • Extra Credit

    Maggie Barbieri

    Families can be Murder Hosting birthday festivities for her husband Bobby's teenage twin daughters gives English professor Alison Bergeron a reprieve from her role as Evil Stepmother. Relatives are coming out of the woodwork, including Bobby's ex,...

  • The Secret Life of Lady Lucinda

    Sophie Barnes

    Lord William finally meets his match in the latest Summersby Tale from Sophie Barnes, author of How Miss Rutherford Got Her Groove Back. Lucy Blackwell is desperate, reckless, and maybe a little bit crazy. That's the only possible explanation for...

  • There's Something about Lady Mary

    Sophie Barnes

    Sophie Barnes is back with another delightful Summersby Tale. This time, Ryan Summersby meets his match! Mary Croyden lives a simple life . . . and she likes it. But when she inherits a title and a large sum of money, everything changes. Forced t...

  • The Ingredients of Love

    Nicolas Barreau

    A charming restaurant A book and its mysterious author A little secret A romantic meeting Paris and all its magic . . . Cyrano de Bergerac meets Chocolat and Amélie in this intelligent, charming, and entertaining publishing sensation from Eur...

  • Just a Dog

    Michael Gerard Bauer

    Sometimes a dog isn't just a dog--sometimes he's the glue the holds a whole family together. Mr. Mosely is a special dog. Not just because he's so big (he's part Great Dane.) Not just because he's all white (with one black spot under his eye and a...

  • The Pirates' Treasure

    Emily Bearn

    "Tumtum & Nutmeg: The Pirates' Treasure" is the third of three short stories from "Tumtum & Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall." Tumtum and Nutmeg lead cozy and quiet lives, secretly looking after Arthur and Lucy, the disheveled human children o...

  • The Great Escape

    Emily Bearn

    "Tumtum & Nutmeg: The Great Escape" is the second of three short stories from "Tumtum & Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall." Tumtum and Nutmeg lead cozy and quiet lives, secretly looking after Arthur and Lucy, the disheveled human children of Ro...

  • The Adventure Begins

    Emily Bearn

    "Tumtum & Nutmeg: The Adventure Begins" is the first of three short stories from "Tumtum & Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall." Tumtum and Nutmeg lead cozy and quiet lives, secretly looking after Arthur and Lucy, the disheveled human children of...

  • Illegally Iced

    Jessica Beck

    Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart knows how to treat her customers. But sometimes life can get a bit sticky. When a spat she has with a local blacksmith--one that could have been solved with a handshake and a mixed dozen--ends with his murder, Suzanne is...

  • Leashing the Tempest

    Jenn Bennett

    Dating a demon, defeating evil, running a tiki bar: Arcadia Bell is a great occult mage in many respects. But then there’s the challenge of her boyfriend’s precocious teenage son…Arcadia "Cady" Bell may have saved the Hellfire Club’s children...

  • The Berenstain Bears Get the Don't Haftas

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    I don't hafta, Sister insists when Mama asks her if she has to go to the bathroom before a long trip. "I don't hafta," Sister repeats as Mama checks and double-checks before they set out. But what do you think Sister says once they're on their way? Y...

  • The Berenstain Bears Get the Noisies

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    RUM-TUM-TUM goes Brother on the horn. TAN-TA-RAH goes Sister on the horn. CRASH! go the blocks. And SLAM! goes the door. The noises just keep getting noisier and noisier--and poor Mama feels a headache coming on. But Papa Bear may have the perfect cu...

  • The Berenstain Bears Get the Screamies

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    After promising Mama that they will not get the screamies when she takes them for a day at the mall, the cubs get them anyway. But Mama has the cure: she throws her own 100% genuine screaming fit, Mama-style, and that teaches 'em!...

  • One Fine Fireman

    Jennifer Bernard

    A smoking-hot prequel to Jennifer Bernard's fabulous Bachelor Firemen series. If you love the novels of Rachel Gibson and Bella Andre, then this is for you! Kirk, a.k.a. Thor, one of San Gabriel's infamous Bachelor Firemen, certainly lives up to ...

  • Obsession Wears Opals

    Renee Bernard

    Darius Thorne has learned to use his wit and intelligence to strategize a better life for himself. He is the White Knight amidst the small secret circle of Gentlemen known only as the Jaded. The handsome scholar shields his heart by keeping a studied...

  • Never Let You Go

    Emma Carlson Berne

    A love triangle goes horribly wrong in this dark, romantic suspense-thriller from the author of Still Waters. Megan never meant to hurt her best friend, Anna. She made a mistake, and she’s spent all year trying to regain Anna’s trust. So when ...

  • March of the Aryans

    Gidwani Bhagwan

    In a remarkable feat of imagination and research, Bhagwan S. Gidwani takes us back to the dawn of civilization (8000 BCE) to vividly recreate the world of the Aryans. He tells us why the Aryans left India their native land for foreign shores and show...

  • Murder on the House

    Juliet Blackwell

    Bed-and-breakfast -- with a side of ghosts. Word has spread that contractor Mel Turner can communicate with the spirits of the dead, and she’s having a hard time maintaining a low profile. She decides to embrace her reputation for the chance to ...

  • Farewell to Freedom // The Night Women

    Sara Blaedel

    A journey to a new life or a prison of despair and death? A shocking murder on Copenhagen's idyllic streets and a foundling baby reveal a perverse criminal underworld that spans across Europe. A young woman’s body is found on the street in Copen...

  • The Marble Queen

    Stephanie J. Blake

    Freedom Jane McKenzie isn’t good at following the rules. She doesn’t like any of the things that girls are supposed to like. She’s good at fishing, getting into trouble -- and playing marbles. All she wants is to enter the marble competition at...

  • The Pirates! Band of Misfits

    Bloomsbury

    To tie in with the DVD release of "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists," this exclusive, fully illustrated guide takes us behind the scenes to discover how 2012's hottest film was made. Packed with previously unseen visual material, includin...

  • Burton the Kind Scarecrow

    V.A. Boeholt

    ABOUT THE BOOK Burton the Kind Scarecrow is the endearing first title in V.A. Boeholt's delightful Burton the Scarecrow -Friendship Tales from the Farm series. Introducing Burton, Farmer Green, and a host of their feathered and furry friends, the st...

  • Rock of Ages

    Tonya Bolden

    In her moving homage to the Black Church, Tonya Bolden has written a poem spanning centuries of oppression, freedom, prejudice, and joy. From times when slaves worshipped secretly in fields at night to the grand city churches of today, the Church has...

  • The Spring Un-Fair

    Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud

    When the members of The Secret Knock Club learn that the spring fair will be without a dunk tank, they decide to raise money to rent a tank. Agnes, as usual, comes up with a Big Idea - a rock band concert. She’ll be the vocalist, the other club mem...

  • To Love and to Perish

    Lisa Bork

    Full-throttle drama on the road to revenge Pulses are racing at the Vintage Grand Prix Festival, a veritable Mecca for car fans. But excitement turns to horror when a man is crushed by a speeding sports car. A witness swears the victim was shoved...

  • Forsaken

    Oliver Bowden

    Assassin's Creed: Forsaken is the latest thrilling novelization by Oliver Bowden based on the phenomenally successful game series. The new game, Assassin's Creed III, takes one of gaming's most popular franchises to new heights in its most realistic ...

  • My Valentine Story

    Crystal Bowman

    Valentines are fun to make and give. They tell people we love them. Who loves all of us? God, of course. 'How can I give God my heart? Loving him is where I'll start.' ...

  • Operation Beautiful

    Caitlin Boyle

    Spread a positive message with Operation Beautiful! You're beautiful just the way you are. Smile! Let your inner beauty shine. Imagine walking into a dressing room and finding notes like these stuck to the mirror. How would it make you feel? Operatio...

  • The Darkest Minds

    Alexandra Bracken

    When Ruby wakes up on her tenth birthday, something about her has changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp....

  • The Witches of the Blue Well

    Paula Brackston

    A captivating new original 20-page short story by Paula Brackston, author of The Witch’s Daughter, “The Witches of the Blue Well” is the story of Ceri, a young woman in early eighteenth-century Wales whose grandmother always told her the magic ...

  • Unbound // A Courtesan's Guide to Gerring Your Man

    Celeste Bradley; Susan Donovan

    London’s most celebrated courtesan, The Blackbird, was a woman before her time -- uninhibited, financially independent, and free to live by her own rules. Schooled in the sensual arts by the one man she loved the most, she recorded every wicked det...

  • Tickled to Death and Other Stories of Crime and Suspense

    Simon Brett

    Ranging from stark psychological suspense to frothy frolic, this stunning collection of twelve short stories demonstrates Simon Brett's astonishing versatility. In TICKLED TO DEATH, a lover of practical jokes is smothered to death in a custard pie. D...

  • Crime Writers and Other Animals

    Simon Brett

    In this collection of ten short stories, each with a surprising twist, Simon Brett covers all seven of the deadly sins, with supremely entertaining results. In THE MAN WHO GOT THE DIRT, two Angry Young Men have become Angry Old Men - and one of them ...

  • Clifford Shares

    Norman Bridwell

    Learn to share with the Big Red Dog! Clifford loves to share--his water with the birds, his bench with the girl, his ball with his friend--and everyone loves to share with Clifford! Perfect for the youngest puppy fans, this simple story is don...

  • Wish upon a Gift

    Phoebe Bright

    It's the series you've been wishing for -- each book comes with a special charm! Cassie has helped many wishes come true! Now she just has to earn one more charm for her bracelet. Then she'll finally be a real Lucky Star! But getting her final ...

  • Highland Surrender

    Tracy Brogan

    Defiant Highland beauty Fiona Sinclair is shocked by her brothers' treachery. To seal a fragile truce, they have traded her hand in marriage to their sworn enemy, a man she has never met, a man she was raised to despise. With no choice but to wed, Fi...

  • Just a Cowboy and His Baby

    Carolyn Brown

    She's Got Her Eyes on the Prize... Gemma O'Donnell wasn't the first woman to win the ProRodeo buckle for bronc riding, but she was darn well going to be the second. What she didn't count on was her main competition sweeping her off her feet. He...

  • Winter Soldier - Volume 2: Broken Arrow

    Ed Brubaker

    Collects Winter Soldier #6-9. Winter Soldier finds himself on a twisted trail from coast to coast and past to present, chasing the insane man who will become his worst enemy: a villain who knows that Bucky is still alive. In the aftermath of a tragic...

  • Captain America and Bucky: Old Wounds

    Ed Brubaker

    Collects Captain America and Bucky #625-628 and What If? (1977) #4. William Nasland and Fred Davis aren't household names, yet they were the patriots who carried on the legacy of Captain America and Bucky after the original heroes went missing in ac...

  • Invisible

    Carla Buckley

    Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Carla Buckley’s Invisible is a stunning novel of redemption, regret, and the complex ties of familial love. Growing up, Dana Carlson and her older sister, Julie, are inseparable -- Dana the impulsive one, Julie...

  • The Folly of the World

    Jesse Bullington

    On a stormy night in 1421, the North Sea delivers a devastating blow to Holland: the Saint Elizabeth Flood, a deluge of biblical proportions that drowns hundreds of towns, thousands of people, and forever alters the geography of the Low Countries. Wh...

  • Captain America and Iron Man

    Cullen Bunn

    Captain America and Iron Man head to Madripoor for a technology expo! What could possibly go wrong? Everything, that's what - especially when Batroc's Brigade shows up, and a technological nightmare threatens to bring the world to its knees! As Cap a...

  • The Bridegroom Wore Plaid

    Grace Burrowes

    His Family or His Heart -- One of Them Will Be Betrayed... Ian MacGregor is wooing a woman who's wrong for him in every way. As the new Earl of Balfour, though, he must marry an English heiress to repair the family fortunes. But in his ...

  • Love, Julie

    Christine Bush

    According to her wealthy father, Julietta Brightingham was raised to be a lady in New York society during 1890. She was not supposed to slide down drainpipes, play baseball in Central Park, or, worst of all, want to teach. Teaching was for impoverish...

  • Edge of Sanity

    Shannon K. Butcher

    Brace yourself for cutting-edge suspense in the scorching third novel of Shannon K. Butcher’s new action-romance series... “I NEED TO KNOW IF ANYONE WAS KILLED LAST NIGHT.” In his years working for the private security firm The Edge, Cla...

  • Love and Other Perishable Items

    Laura Buzo

    Love is awkward, Amelia should know. From the moment she sets eyes on Chris, she is a goner. Lost. Sunk. Head over heels infatuated with him. It's problematic, since Chris, 21, is a sophisticated university student, while Amelia, 15, is 15. Am...

  • Knight Awakened

    Coreene Callahan

    In AD 1331, warlord Vladimir Barbu seizes control of Transylvania. But in spite of his bloody triumph, his claim to the throne remains out of reach. The king of Hungary opposes his rule, the Transylvanian people despise his brutal ways, and the high ...

  • Losing It

    Cora Carmack

    Virginity. Bliss Edwards is about to graduate from college and still has hers. Sick of being the only virgin among her friends, she decides the best way to deal with the problem is to lose it as quickly and simply as possible--a one-night stand. B...

  • Ripe for Seduction

    Isobel Carr

    The League of Second Sons A secret society of younger sons, sworn to aid and abet each other, no matter the scandal or cost... After the scandalous demise of her marriage, Lady Olivia Carlow knows the rakes of the ton will think her fair game. S...

  • The Lady of Secrets

    Susan Carroll

    A gifted healer is trapped between treachery at court and the calling of her own heart in this richly woven historical tale of enchantment, mystery and intrigue. Queen Catherine de Medici is dead, and for Meg Wolfe -- successor in a line of legend...

  • The Accidental Genie

    Dakota Cassidy

    Caterer extraordinaire Jeannie Carlyle is asked to open up a rare bottle of gin for a party, but she’s shocked when a guy in poofy pants pops out and she gets sucked inside. Trapped in the bottle, Jeannie does the only thing she can think of and us...

  • An Invisible Murder

    Joyce Cato

    When traveling cook Jenny Starling starts her new job for the aristocracy living in a genuine castle, she is thrilled, envisioning nothing more arduous than days spent preparing her beloved recipes. When a fabulous jeweled dagger, one of the castle's...

  • Killer Crust

    Chris Cavender

    Eleanor Swift isn’t amused when Laughing Luigi -- the sketchy frozen pizza dough baron -- walks into her Timber Ridge, North Carolina, pizzeria. But the contract for his pizza-making contest seems on the up-and-up…and sprucing up her beloved pizz...

  • Bone River

    Megan Chance

    In the mid-19th century, Leonie Monroe Russell works alongside her husband, Junius, an oysterman in Shoalwater Bay in the Pacific Northwest. At night she continues her father’s lifelong obsession -- collecting artifacts and studying the native cult...

  • Read and Buried

    Erika Chase

    Hosting an award-winning novelist is quite a Christmas coup for the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straw Society. But when he’s murdered in Lizzie Turner’s house, she’s got a holiday homicide on her hands … For their very first...

  • For Pete's Sake

    Jane McBride Choate

    Mesa Pines, Colorado, is a place where new loves bloom and old flames are reignited. First introduced in the bittersweet romance Bride Price, the town sweeps readers away to the Rocky Mountains once again in this new tale of love, redemption, and sac...

  • Larrabee's Luck

    Jane McBride Choate

    Colorado rancher Johanna Kellerman needs a horse trainer. She can't believe her good fortune when Cade Larrabee shows up. Cade has a way with horses ... and with women. Blackmailed by General Victor Wingate, his former commanding officer in the Union...

  • I Love You

    Caroline Jayne Church

    A snuggly cloth book with a mirror from Caroline Jayne Church! I love my fingers. I love my toes. I love my eyes. I love my nose. I love my arms and belly, too. But most of all, I love you. Caroline Jayne Church brings her bestselling ...

  • Threat Vector

    Tom Clancy

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy is back and the stakes have never been higher. Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of C...

  • The Lion Heart

    Alan Clark

    A skillful mixture of ageing flyers, with planes to match, battling their way through arms smuggling, Middle East intrigue and the tale of a fabulous sword which once belonged to Richard the Lion-Heart. ...

  • The Friend

    Mary Jane Clark

    Like a billion people on earth, aspiring actress Piper Donovan is a fervent Facebook follower. But what she doesn't know is that a "friend" is following her. Possibly . . . stalking. A fan who starts by using the same beauty salon eventually comes cl...

  • The Cleaner

    Paul Cleave

    Joe is in control of everything in his simple life -- both his day job as a janitor for the police department and his “night work.” He isn’t bothered by the daily news reports of the Christchurch Carver, who, they say, has murdered seven women....

  • Guardians of Stone

    Anita Clenney

    Kendall Morgan is a human bloodhound. Spending her childhood hunting relics with her ambitious archeologist father, she knew the two of them shared a sixth sense for the history and location of objects -- sometimes even people. What she didn’t know...

  • Poison

    Molly Cochran

    Arthurian legend mixes with modern-day witchcraft in this haunting sequel to Legacy, which Publishers Weekly said “should please the legions of paranormal fans looking for a sophisticated supernatural thriller.” After the riveting -- and roma...

  • Rising Sun

    Robert Conroy

    It is the summer of 1942 and what historians have called the Incredible Victory in the Battle of Midway has become a horrendous disaster that could change the outcome of the war in the Pacific. Two of America's handful of carriers in the Pacific have...

  • The Almost Truth

    Eileen Cook

    From the author of Unraveling Isobel and The Education of Hailey Kendrick, a smart, romantic novel about a teenage con artist who might be in over her head. Sadie can’t wait to get away from her backwards small town, her delusional mom, her jai...

  • Nano

    Robin Cook

    After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies and escape New York City. I...

  • Curious Affairs at Midnight

    Isabel Cooper

  • Flower in the Snow

    Tracey Corderoy

    Luna and her polar bear friend (Bear) discover a beautiful gold flower growing in the snow. But when the flower fades, Bear goes on a search around the world for another to bring to Luna. It's only when he returns home that the true strength of their...

  • The Ghosts of Christmas

    Paul Cornell

    Which is harder: seeing your own future -- or truly knowing your past? A science fiction tale of Christmases past and yet to come....

  • The Believing Game

    Eireann Corrigan

    A private academy. A cult leader. A girl caught in the middle. After Greer Cannon discovers that shoplifting can be a sport and sex can be a superpower, her parents pack her up and send her off to McCracken Hill-a cloistered academy for troubled t...

  • Not Exactly a Love Story

    Audrey Couloumbis

    It's 1977. Fifteen-year old Vinnie isn't having a good year. He's recovering from the worst case of galloping acne his dermatologist's ever seen. His girl moved to California without even saying good-bye. And the ink on his parents divorce papers...

  • Heidi Heckelbeck and the Secret Admirer

    Wanda Coven

    Someone has a crush on Heidi Heckelbeck! Can she figure out who it is -- with a little help from her Book of Spells? The Brewster Science Fair is approaching, and Heidi and Stanley are busy working on their project. But when Heidi finds treats in ...

  • Holiday Buzz

    Cleo Coyle

    Holiday time is party time in New York City, but after a sparkling winter bash ends with a murder, Village Blend coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi vows to put the killer on ice… At the Great New York Cookie Swap, pastry chefs bake up their very bes...

  • Am I Free To Go?

    Kathryn Cramer

    The line between utopia and dystopia...is, often, who you are. Or who your neighbors think you are....

  • Shadow Days

    Andrea Cremer

    "Shadow Days", told from Shay's perspective, chronicles the days before the start of the New York Times bestselling "Nightshade", when Shay is taken away from the friends he loves and forced to live in his uncle Bosqu Mar's mansion, where the gargoyl...

  • A Touch of Steel

    Kate Cross

    The Wardens of the Realm are a group with extraordinary abilities, dedicated to protecting England from any threat. But in this steam-powered world, there’s a fine line between enemy and ally… Reeling from her brother’s death, beautiful Ame...

  • Burying the Past

    Judith Cutler

    Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman’s professional and private lives collide when a skeleton is unearthed in her garden Fran is preparing for her forthcoming wedding to Assistant Chief Constable Mark Turner, but renovations at the rectory...

  • Sadie's Prize

    Margaret Daley

    UNEXPECTED WINDFALL Sadie Spencer would stop at nothing to help her students. Even if it meant winning a date with one of Oklahoma's most eligible bachelors, Andrew Knight, to get him to listen to their needs. But on their "date," Sadie quickly sa...

  • Indigo Awakening

    Jordan Dane

    Because of what you are, the Believers will hunt you down. Voices told Lucas Darby to run. Voices no one else can hear. He's warned his sister not to look for him, but Rayne refuses to let her troubled brother vanish on the streets of LA. In her ...

  • Blood of Dawn

    Tami Dane

    Being a skeptic is somehow making Sloan Skye one of the best profilers in the FBI's new Paranormal Behavioural Analysis Unit. True, her so-called love life isn't any less tangled, but she's beginning to believe she's found a place where her uber-geek...

  • A Wedding Date in Hot Springs, Arkansas

    Annalisa Daughety

    All Violet can think about is how to make sure she has a date for her little sister’s wedding. Online dating, speed dating, blind dates. . .she doesn’t care what it takes. And when that doesn’t work, she hires a matchmaker, only to discover tha...

  • Dinosaur Thunder

    James F. David

    Eighteen years ago, the prehistoric past collided with the present as time itself underwent a tremendous disruption, transporting huge swaths of the Cretaceous period into the twentieth century. Neighborhoods, towns, and cities were replaced by dense...

  • X-Factor - Volume 17: The Road To Redemption

    Peter David

    Collects X-Factor (2005) #237-240. Madrox investigates a suicide case that isn't what it initially seems! Banshee clashes with…an actual banshee! Strong Guy asks M out on a date. (Yikes!) And Layla Miller races the clock!...

  • Hunted - After Earth: Ghost Stories

    Peter David

  • Double Danger

    Dee Davis

    Ignoring his instincts once cost Simon a vital op--and the life of his best friend, Ryan. Now as escalating, violent attacks hit A-Tac, another person he loves is in danger. Homeland Security agent Jillian Montgomery's investigation has suddenly brou...

  • Heart of Atlantis

    Alyssa Day

    As a war wages between the immortals of Atlantis and those of the vampire realm, a Poseidon warrior fights to save his world -- and the woman he loves. And no risk is too great. The desires of a high priest. Alaric, Poseidon’s High Priest, ha...

  • Wolf Pact, Part IV

    Melissa de la Cruz

    Lawson and Bliss team up at last to travel back in time and right the wrongs of their past. But will they find Tala in time? And will their bond for each other save them when they need it to most? ...

  • A Splendid Wife

    Amber Dermont

    This short story is excerpted from the upcoming collection of stories "Damage Control" by Amber Dermont. One by one, the wives of Portsmouth, Rhode Island are disappearing from Darling Vista Park. Detective Mitchell Landry searches for the rhyme, ...

  • Gangsta Divas

    De'Nesha Diamond

    The deadliest ride-or-die chicks in Memphis have a new rival. Meet the Cripettes. They’re the realest of the real -- raging war with both the Queen Gs and the Flowers. But when all’s said and done, only one gang can reign supreme… The street...

  • Shadow Of A Hero

    Peter Dickinson

    Letta begins to take an interest in Varina, the tiny Balkan state where her parents grew up. But after the collapse of communism the nation calls for independence, and Letta's enthusiasm for her parent's culture leads her to discover just how fragile...

  • Andromeda's Fall

    William C. Dietz

    The roots of the Legion of the Damned lie deep within the mythology of the future. But now, national bestselling author William C. Dietz goes back to the Legion’s early days with the story of one recruit’s rebirth and redemption… Hundreds o...

  • Lenore #7

    Roman Dirge

    Lenore discovers a new-born fruit fly, the kind that only live for one day. Reflecting on all she's seen due to her own immortality, Lenore decides to spend her life savings showing the fly one amazing day. Amusement parks, fine dining, Barcelona, an...

  • Whispering Death

    Garry Disher

    The long-awaited sixth installment in the Inspector Hal Challis series set in Australia, available in the United States at last! Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: dressed down by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; m...

  • I Love You!

    Disney Book Group

    Celebrate love, friendship, and family around the world with this new casebound board book--just in time for Valentine's Day! Each page introduces a different character who teaches the reader how to say "I love you" in their language. At the back of ...

  • Bambi: Read-Along Storybook

    Disney Book Group

    As a new fawn named Bambi explores the forest with Thumper, a mischievous rabbit, and a skunk named Flower, he discovers all the wonder and fun of life. This Disney classic is retold with word-for-word narration, plus sound effects and original chara...

  • Where Treasure Hides

    Johnnie Alexander Donley

    Artist Alison Schuyler spends her time working in her family’s renowned art gallery, determined to avoid the curse that has followed the Schuyler clan from the Netherlands to America and back again. She’s certain that true love will only lead to ...

  • Some Helpful Tips for a Better World and a Happier Life

    Rebecca Doughty

    WHAT ARE SOME helpful tips for a better world and a happier life? Begin each day making funny faces in the mirror. Invent occasions for celebration (like International Bunny Appreciation Day.) Help someone in need. Lend Mother Nature a hand. ...

  • The Nanny Who Saved Christmas

    Michelle Douglas

    This Christmas, Nicola McGillroy will: Be a great nanny to Cade Hindmarsh's two adorable little girls, and give them the best Christmas they've had since their mother left. Enter into the Christmas spirit and forget the fact she should ...

  • Down These Strange Streets

    Gardner Dozois

    In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear... In “Death by D...

  • Stealth

    Margaret Duffy

    In the new Ingrid Langley and Patrick Gillard mystery, the crime-fighting couple have their sights set on an author whose horror-filled crime novels might not be entirely fictional Although Ingrid Langley works part-time for the Serious Organized...

  • Rancher's Son

    Leigh Duncan

    A Cowboy Daddy In The Making? Sarah Magarity just broke the first rule of social work: don't get personally involved. But how can she ignore the orphaned tyke who shows up in her office on Christmas Eve? The chance to make a difference is awfully ...

  • Justin and the Bully

    Tony Dungy; Lauren Dungy

    Justin loves soccer -- but he doesn’t love being teased. Learn how to handle a bully in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read from Tony and Lauren Dungy. Justin is thrilled to be on a soccer team. But at his very first practice, he is approached by a tall ...

  • A Golden Betrayal

    Barbara Dunlop

    Nothing will stop him.... In his Arabian kingdom, Crown Prince Raif Khouri commands, and women do his will...but then he meets headstrong American Ann Richardson. To get back the priceless statue he's convinced her minions stole, Raif kidnaps her!...

  • The Valley of the Shadow

    Carola Dunn

    A cryptic message spurs Eleanor, Megan, and Nick Gresham on a frantic search for a refugee's missing family While out on a walk, Eleanor Trewynn, her niece Megan, and her neighbor Nick spot a young, half-drowned Indian man floating in the water....

  • Your Wicked Heart: A Novella

    Meredith Duran

    Jilted overseas and abandoned without a penny, Amanda Thomas is desperate to get home. She’ll do whatever it takes to secure a berth on an England-bound ship, even if it means pretending to be the wife of the absentee viscount who jilted her. But w...

  • Veronica

    Roger Duvoisin

    Veronica, a hippopotamus who wants to stand out from the herd and be famous, travels to the big city where she indeed does stand out. Causing traffic jams, blocking sidewalks, and devouring a pushcart vendor's vegetables in one big gulp, Veronica is ...

  • SEAL at Heart

    Anne Elizabeth

    He Lost Just About Everything On That Mission.... Being a Navy SEAL means everything to John "Red Jack" Roaker, but a mission gone wrong has left his buddy dead, his memory spotty, and his world turned upside down. His career as a SEAL is threatened...

  • Dying on the Vine

    Aaron Elkins

    Edgar® Award-winning author Aaron Elkins’s creation -- forensics professor Gideon Oliver -- has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth.” Now, the celebrated Skeleton Detective is visiting friends at a ...

  • Fury Max: My War Gone By Volume 1

    Garth Ennis

    Garth Ennis (Punisher MAX, Preacher) and Goran Parlov (Punisher MAX) reunite to bring you the life of Marvel's hardest soldier like no one else could. In the wake of World War II, Fury is fast running out of battles to fight. But the world's superpow...

  • The Boys: Bloody Doors Off v. 12

    Garth Ennis

  • Outcast

    Lewis Ericson

    When Tirrell meets Alexandra, he tries to put his troubled past behind him and turn his life around, but when he discovers that she is a major player in the illegal drug trade, danger closes in around him....

  • A Breath of Scandal

    Elizabeth Essex

    THE LADY IS A KNOCKOUT Forced by her family into an engagement with a man she can never abide, Antigone Preston knows only a scandal will save her from a loveless marriage. But knocking a man down to the ballroom floor with her fists brings dangerou...

  • Crimson Frost

    Jennifer Estep

    For a moment, a face flashed before my eyes -- the most hideous face I’d ever seen. No matter how hard I tried to forget what had happened, I saw him everywhere I went. It was Loki -- the evil god that I’d helped set free against my will. I sh...

  • The Trouble with Fate

    Leigh Evans

    My name is Hedi Peacock and I have a secret. I'm not human, and I have the pointy Fae ears and Were inner-bitch to prove it. As fairy tales go, my childhood was damn near perfect, all fur and magic until a werewolf killed my father and the Fae execut...

  • Longarm and the Deadly Restitution

    Tabor Evans

    PLUMMER'S HELPER That's what Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has become. In fact they can chisel it on his tombstone because new deputy Henry Plummer is bound to get him killed. Longarm's boss has asked him to take the mayor's son under his wing ...

  • Safe House

    Chris Ewan

    A brilliant thriller from the author of the acclaimed Good Thief's Guide series asks, how can a beautiful woman simply vanish? When Rob Hale wakes up in a hospital after a motorcycle crash, his first thought is for the gorgeous blonde, Lena, who ...

  • A Possible Life

    Sebastian Faulks

    From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war -- five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries. In Second World War Poland, a young prisoner closes his eyes and pict...

  • Engagement at Beaufort Hall

    Jane Feather

    When Imogen Carstairs discovers that her fiancé Charles Riverdale has been carrying on an affair with another woman throughout their betrothal, she immediately calls off the engagement, just three days before the wedding. In the wake of social scand...

  • The Yuckiest, Stinkiest, Best Valentine Ever

    Brenda A. Ferber

    Even boys will fall in love with this valentine! Leon has a crush. A let-her-cut-in-line-at-the-water-fountain kind of crush. And he's got the perfect valentine. But this valentine has no intention of getting caught up in any romantic conspiracy. ...

  • And Then You Dye

    Monica Ferris

    Betsy Devonshire, full-time owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, has hooked more than a few crooks in the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries. Now Betsy learns the hard way that a murder is still murder, any way you...

  • Shadow Creek

    Joy Fielding

    When an innocent group of campers ventures to the Adirondacks for a trip, they are followed by a murderous pair... A group of unlikely traveling companions--a woman, her two oddball friends, her teenage daughter, and her soon-to-ex-husband's new f...

  • He Walked Among Us

    Paul Fleischman

    The country has been swallowed by the Great Depression 2.0, complete with apple-sellers and Bruce Springsteen singing Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime on the radio. The Republican incumbent -- battling his high-living wife, a populist opponent, and the ac...

  • Gift of Faith

    Robert Fleming

    When unimaginable tragedy strikes his family, Reverend Clint, a man of strong faith questions his beliefs until he is assigned a group of church members in need of guidance and wisdom who help him get through a period of crisis and challenges....

  • The Chocolate Kiss

    Laura Florand

    The Heart of Paris Welcome to La Maison des Sorcieres. Where the window display is an enchanted forest of sweets, a collection of conical hats delights the eye and the habitués nibble chocolate witches from fanciful mismatched china. While in the...

  • Breaking Point

    Karyn Langhorne Folan; Paul Langan

    Bluford High: It's not just school--it's real life. Vicky Fallon can't take it. Her father lost his job, her parents are constantly fighting, and her little brother is out of control. Once an honor student, Vicky is quickly falling behind in her ...

  • Skinnydipping

    Bethenny Frankel

    “Who do I have to sleep with to get a drink on this plane?” Beloved by countless fans for being devilishly dishy, outrageously funny, and always giving it to us straight, four-time New York Times bestselling author Bethenny Frankel now makes ...

  • Emily and the Big Bad Bunyip

    Jackie French

  • Risk

    Jamie Freveletti

    Following the Dunkerque evacuation of WWII, a young British soldier finds himself stranded behind enemy lines in France. He evades capture with the help of a French family intent on resisting the German occupation. On his return to England, the Speci...

  • Forbidden Flowers

    Nancy Friday

    Today, women everywhere clamor for the latest erotic bestselling novels -- their scenes of daring sexual exploits have fired up our collective imagination. But before we turned to fiction for our turn-ons, Nancy Friday unleashed a sexual revolution w...

  • Wish Upon a Christmas Star

    Darlene Gardner

    Giving up is not her style The odds are about a million to one. But after eleven years, P.I. Maria DiMarco jumps at the possibility that her brother might still be alive. And when she makes a wish on a rare pre-Christmas shooting star, well, it co...

  • Black Sun Reich

    Trey Garrison

    Black Sun Reich: Part One of three in The Spear of Destiny, the first novel in a new steampunk, horror, alternate history, action-adventure series set in a 1920s where the Nazis have begun their subjugation of the world using the occult, advanced sci...

  • The Sheikh's Destiny

    Olivia Gates

    The marriage seduction He has found his destiny. But to claim the throne of Azmahar, Rashid Aal Munsoori needs Laylah Aal Shalaan. Seducing her into marriage will defeat his rivals-and if she becomes pregnant with his heir, his hold on his homelan...

  • Princess of the Silver Woods

    Jessica Day George

    When Petunia, the youngest of King Gregor’s twelve dancing daughters, is invited to visit an elderly friend in the neighboring country of Westfalin, she welcomes the change of scenery. But in order to reach Westfalin, Petunia must pass through a fo...

  • Betrayed by Shadows

    Nancy Gideon

    A good man drowning in bad deeds. A bad girl denying a good heart. Reluctant hero Giles St. Clair doesn't need a problem like Brigit MacCreedy. Fleeing the retribution of her dead lover's clan, Brigit is willing to do whatever it takes to protect her...

  • Uncanny X-Men - Volume 4

    Kieron Gillen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (2010) #15-20. AVX tie-in! The X-Men make their stand against the forces of Sinister in the culmination of everything the mad geneticist has planned since UNCANNY #1! Then, as the Phoenix makes its fiery return, Cyclops and Emm...

  • Journey Into Mystery Volume 4: The Manchester Gods

    Kieron Gillen

    Collects Journey into Mystery #639-641, The Mighty Thor Annual #1. The MANCHESTER GODS dread URBAN PANTHESISM arises in the north of Otherworld, the British Subconscious! Don't look panicked. We just mean "Civil War". A Civil War that Asgardia refuse...

  • The Vincent Brothers

    Abbi Glines

    Hot romance is the cure for heartbreak in this sequel to The Vincent Boys. Getting a boy to fall head-over-heels in love with you isn’t easy. Especially when he’s been in love with your cousin for as long as you can remember. Lana has lived h...

  • Little Boy with a Big Horn

    Golden Books

    POOR OLLIE! ALL he wants is to practice playing his big bass horn, but his family can't take the noise. So off Ollie goes in a rowboat to practice offshore. That's when he realizes that the bell buoy has drifted away -- and the fog is getting thick. ...

  • Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years

    David A. Goodman

    Assembled as a Special Exhibit on Memory Alpha, Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years celebrates the 150th anniversary of the founding of the United Federation of Planets. This unprecedented illustrated volume chronicles the pivotal era leadi...

  • Three Cowboys: Wyatt

    Paula Graves

    This Christmas, the McCabe brothers are coming home to Texas… Sheriff Wyatt McCabe has faced a lot of criminals, but none as ruthless as the one holding his sister hostage. Now, forced to work with Elena Vargas, Wyatt has to ensure his family's ...

  • Uglies: Cutters

    Devin Grayson; Scott Westerfeld

    Experience the riveting, dystopian Uglies series seen as never before -- through the eyes of Shay, Tally Youngblood’s closest and bravest friend, who refuses to take anything about society at face value. “From the moment we are born, we are co...

  • Foundation's Friends

    Martin H. Greenberg

    No work of science fiction in the twentieth century captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth in the stories and novels of Isaac Asimov. In this volume, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers expl...

  • Ruth's First Christmas Tree

    Elly Griffiths

    A spirited stocking stuffer for fans craving a taste of Ruth Galloway in their holiday season. It is three days before Christmas and a bitter wind is blowing across Norfolk.   Until her daughter was born, forensic archaeologist Ruth Ga...

  • The Other Side of Dare

    Vanessa Davis Griggs

    When a battle of wills threatens to tear a family apart, a child shall lead them -- straight to a shocking secret. Will they betray their faith -- and each other -- to keep it buried? After seven years of marriage, Paris Simmons-Holyfield and her ...

  • Baby Penguins Everywhere!

    Melissa Guion

    Can there be such a thing as too many adorable penguins? One day a penguin sees a most unusual sight: a hat floating in the icy water. Even more unusual? Out of the hat pops a baby penguin. But not just one baby penguin . . . or even two. But a th...

  • Essential Wolverine - Volume 6

    Larry Hama

    The ol' canucklehead returns in another bumper crop of modern classics! Wolverine faces the ghost of his former mentor Ogun, the menace of Bastion and his Prime Sentinels, Russian werewolf Volk, the Scottish assassin known as McLeish, Madripoor enfor...

  • My Bluegrass Baby

    Molly Harper

    A brand-new novel in an original eBook series from popular romance author Molly Harper! When Sadie & Josh compete for the same Kentucky Tourism Commission job, sparks fly -- turns out Kentucky really is for lovers. Sadie Hutchins loves her job at ...

  • Christmas Classics for Children: Stories by Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, and others

    HarperCollins

    The perfect collection to read this season, Christmas Classics for Children features seven stories written by beloved children's authors especially for the holidays. Stories include A Christmas Dream and How It Came True by Louisa May Alcott, A Kidna...

  • The Dead Shall Not Rest

    Tessa Harris

    The brilliant anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone returns in Tessa Harris’s vivid and compelling mystery series set in 1780s London… It is not just the living who are prey to London’s criminals and cutpurses. Corpses, too, are fair game -- dug up...

  • Blood Never Dies

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    Bill Slider and his team face a mystery when an unidentifiable man appears to have committed suicide but all signs point to murder A boiling-hot August day and a handsome young man is found dead in his bath, exsanguinated. Bill Slider’s colleagu...

  • Mail-Order Holiday Brides: Home for Christmas

    Jillian Hart

    Christina Eberlee is desperate for the safe haven promised to her by the Montana man whose bridal ad she answered. Yet she can't forget the handsome marshal who helps her on the journey. Maybe venturing from her planned path could lead Christina to t...

  • The Reaper's Heart

    Michele Hauf
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    A Romance for Every Mood! Discover four ways to fall in love with these four original novellas…A white witch and a soul reaper battle for each other’s hearts. A hot cowboy meets a sexy guest at a dude ranch and gets the ride of his life. A deadly...

  • An Inch of Time

    Peter Helton

    Private investigator Chris Honeysett must unlock the secrets of a Greek island paradise if he is to find a missing woman.... Chris Honeysett, artist and private investigator, receives an unexpected job offer that suddenly presents him with not onl...

  • Against All Enemies

    John G. Hemry

    John G. Hemry’s novels featuring Lieutenant Paul Sinclair "give SF its own JAG" (SF Reviews.net). Now, in the final novel in the series that melds science fiction action and page-turning courtroom drama, Sinclair finds himself fighting for justic...

  • Dying to Tell

    Rita Herron

    What happened to Sadie Nettleton’s twin sister at the psychiatric hospital all those years ago? Sadie Nettleton fled Slaughter Creek ten years ago, leaving behind the only home she’d ever known -- and the only man she ever loved. Unable to cop...

  • FF by Jonathan Hickman - Volume 4

    Jonathan Hickman

    The Future Foundation explores the furthest reaches of the Marvel Universe from Wakanda to the Negative Zone, encountering the Wizard and the Universal Inhumans along the way! Plus: What horror lurks inside Spider-Man and Human Torch's bathroom? Coll...

  • Deliver Me From Temptation

    Tes Hilaire

    Logan Screwed Up...Big Time When things go bump in the night, Logan bumps back. Vampires, demons, succubi -- you name it, he's fought it. His job as Paladin angel warrior is to protect humans. Not fall for one. She Never Believed in Divine Inter...

  • Blessed Are Those Who Thirst

    Anne Holt

    THE SECOND BOOK IN EDGAR-NOMINATED ANNE HOLT’S INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES FEATURING DETECTIVE HANNE WILHELMSEN, LAST SEEN IN BLIND GODDESS IT is only the beginning of May but in Oslo a brutal heat wave has coincided with an alarmi...

  • Pandora the Curious

    Joan Holub; Suzanne Williams

    Pandora is quite an inquisitive Goddess Girl -- but she could stand to be more cautious. Pandora is one of the few mortals at Mount Olympus Academy -- and probably the most curious of all the students in school. Her quizzical nature is famous -- ...

  • Poseidon and the Sea of Fury

    Joan Holub; Suzanne Williams

    A young Poseidon must triumph over aquatic terrors in this Heroes in Training adventure. The merciless Cronus and his Titan buddies are in hot pursuit of Zeus, Hera, and Poseidon, who plan to travel across the treacherous boiling sea in order to sa...

  • The Frozen Giant

    Kate Howard

    Scooby-Doo is probably the world's best-known and most loved cartoon pooch. Scholastic's books are the #2 Scooby licensed product in the world! Zoinks! Scooby and the gang are attending an ice carnival in the town of Giant's Ridge. Legend says an ...

  • Darkship Renegades

    Sarah A. Hoyt

    After rescuing her star pilot husband and discovering the dark secret of her own past on Earth, Athena Hera Sinistra returns to space habitat Eden to start life anew. Not happening. Thena and Kit are placed under arrest for the crime of coming back a...

  • The Bone Tree

    Greg Iles

    Penn Cage’s father, Dr. Tom Cage, stands accused of murder, and each effort to defend him unearths new, shocking secrets, leaving Penn to question whether he ever really knew his father at all. At issue is the murder of Tom’s former nurse, Viola ...

  • One Winter's Night

    Brenda Jackson

    Riley Westmoreland never mixes business with pleasure -- until he meets his company's gorgeous new party planner. But when he gets Alpha Blake into bed, he realizes one night will never be enough. That's when her past threatens to end their affair. S...

  • Death Comes in Pairs

    Loretta Jackson

    Jack Liege was acquitted of murder in the deaths of two sheepherders, but that hasn’t stopped the people of Douglas, Wyoming, from treating him as if he’s guilty. And so Jack hits the road, hungry for peace and a fresh start in the small town of ...

  • Come to the Table

    Neta Jackson

    Kat Davies is suddenly wondering if her good deed was a bad idea. Kat may be new in her faith, but she’s embraced the more radical implications of Christianity with reckless abandon. She invited Rochelle -- a homeless mother -- and her son to m...

  • Everything but a Dog

    Holly Jacobs

    Wannabe matchmaker Nana Vancy has donned her Cupid wings once again -- this time for Dr. Della McGraw, the distant cousin of her pal Annabelle. Together with her partners in crime, Annabelle and Isabel, she concocts a clever plan to find Della her k...

  • Christmas in Absaroka County

    Craig Johnson

    It’s holiday season in Absaroka County and Sheriff Walt Longmire gets personal in this delightful collection of four short stories from New York Times-bestselling author Craig Johnson. Full of Longmire’s dry wit and good heart, "Christmas in ...

  • Shoebox Surprise

    Jennifer Johnson

    Josif Sesely has been working hard. He doesn’t have time to track down a woman who, by some slim chance, may be the long-lost child of his mother’s best friend. But due to Mama Sesely’s determination, that’s just what he’s going to do. Adop...

  • Strike of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a 21-year shipping clerk - from way back East. What is he doing out here? The Mountain Man's former neighbour, Humbolt Puddle, has died and left his crumbling 600-acre ranch to his only living heir, just as a greedy and rut...

  • Firebase Freedom

    William W. Johnstone; J.A. Johnstone

    Eighteen months ago, America was invaded from within - by the self-proclaimed "Army of Allah." Now, U.S. veteran Jake Lantz and a ragtag team of survivalists have built a safe hold on Pleasure Island. From this home base in the Gulf, they can reclaim...

  • Eight Hours to Die

    William W. Johnstone; J.A. Johnstone

    William W. Johnstone, the beloved, bestselling frontier chronicler, brings to life the story based on the historical lawman born and bred in Cherokee Nation: Sixkiller. In the wild, wild west there is no man more dangerous -- on either side of the la...

  • Avengers: Red Zone

    Geoff Jones

    Collects Avengers #65-70. When the Red Skull infiltrates the United States government, he authorizes a biological weapon to be released from the peaks of Mount Rushmore, and it is up the Avengers to contain it!...

  • The Bones of the Old Ones

    Howard Andrew Jones

    A thrilling, inventive follow-up to The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones, a "rare master of the storyteller’s art" (Greenmanreview.com) As a snowfall blankets 8th century Mosul, a Persian noblewoman arrives at the home of the scholar Dabir...

  • The (Short) Story of My Life

    Jennifer B. Jones

    When you're the shortest guy in the sixth grade, standing tall isn't easy. Michael Jordan does not play basketball. He's not named after the Michael Jordan. In fact, he doesn't resemble an NBA player at all. Michael is the shortest boy in his gra...

  • Breathless

    Sophie Jordan

    For Az, it's supposed to be a fun summer vacation with her family. Nothing complicated. Just a quick trip to test the waters as she prepares for a year on her own. That all changes when she rescues a drowning girl and meets Tate--the most gorgeous hu...

  • Mistletoe Kisses with the Billionaire

    Shirley Jump

    Free-spirited journalist Grace McKinnon is happy jet-setting from one adventure to the next. That is, until work beckons her back home for Christmas, to Beckett's Run -- the cozy winter wonderland that contains everything she ran away from years ago,...

  • Hometown Girl

    Robin Kaye

    From the award-winning Robin Kaye comes the first in a delightful new series -- a sexy romance of a good girl who’s got it bad for a secret crush. Elyse Fitzgerald is on a blind date from hell in Brooklyn’s historic waterfront neighborhood of ...