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New Books List: 511 titles

  • Die a Little

    Megan Abbott

    FEMME FATALES OBSESSIVE LOVE DOUBLE CROSSES How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeles' hard-boiled underworld? Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbott's debut, D...

  • The Seventh Beggar

    Pearl Abraham

    A modern-day young man becomes obsessed with the life and teachings of the legendary nineteenth-century Chasidic master Nachman of Bratslava, a kabbalist, storyteller, and charismatic spiritual leader who developed a cult following, in a novel intert...

  • Rosie Dunne

    Cecelia Ahern

    Sometimes you have to look at life in a whole new way . . . Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone seems to know it but them. Best friends since childhood, their relationship gets closer by the day, until Alex gets the news t...

  • Mr. Biff the Boxer

    Allan Ahlberg

    Mr Biff and Mr Bop are boxers and deadly rivals too. Mr Bop is fit and lean and Mr Biff . . . Well, Mr Biff likes a cream cake or two. Will he ever be able to toughen up in time for the annual charity match. Gulp!...

  • Mr. Cosmo the Conjuror

    Allan Ahlberg

    When Mr Cosmo the conjuror arrives in town with his wife and children, everyone gets very excited. His colourful caravan has six pigeons flying over it, six rabbits peeping out of it â€" but not one single person is driving it! Some amazing magical t...

  • The Underminer: or, the Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life

    Mike Albo

    Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, the Underminer remembers your every foolish ambition and humiliating mistake-and never fails to remind you. The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend. Mike Albo a...

  • A Touch of Magic

    Regan Allen
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    Deciding that love is a will o' the wisp that's not worth chasing, Stephen Anthony, Duke of Longford, plans to propose to an heiress for whom he cares nothing. But a mysterious guest at his celebratory house party has other ideas. Tess Dewood's elfin...

  • A Single Demand

    Margaret Allison

    She was the world's last virgin...until she slept with a sexy stranger -- who just happened to be the man of her dreams: suave, gentle and with eyes that undressed her with just a glance across a hot Bahama bar. Pinned under his gaze, Cassie Edwards,...

  • Buried in the Sky

    Rick Andrew

    Set both in the present and in the dust-laden reaches of Angola in 1976, <i>Buried in the Sky</i> is an album of stories about men and women and war. To the strains of the music of Bob Dylan and in long periods of boredom and inactivity, ...

  • Phaze Doubt

    Piers Anthony

    With resource-rich Phaze/Proton threatened by the imperialistic Hectare and with the Adepts and Citizens incarcerated or in hiding, it falls to Nepe and Flach, two children with special powers, to save their world...

  • Speak Ill of the Living

    Mark Arsenault

    Everybody thought the banker surprised by car-jackers was dead and buried until a photograph of him taken by his captors turns up. If the banker is alive, then whose ashes are buried in his grave? Eddie's chase after the story takes him across many n...

  • Articles of War

    Nick Arvin

    George Tilson is an eighteen-year-old farm boy from Iowa. Enlisted in the Army during World War II and arriving in Normandy just after D-day, he is nicknamed Heck for his reluctance to swear. From summers of farm labor Heck is already strong. He know...

  • Too Many Frogs

    Sandy Asher

    Rabbit lives alone. He cooks for himself, cleans up for himself, and at the end of the day, reads himself a story. It's a simple life, and he likes it. But one evening, Froggie shows up at his door. He wants to listen to Rabbit's story, too. While...

  • Night's Kiss

    Amanda Ashley

    Enter the lush, sensual world of bestselling author Amanda Ashley...a place where vampires indulge their appetites, but find they can fall prey to love and desire. Now, an everlasting devotion is sparked across time and space, igniting a passionate a...

  • The Care and Feeding of Pirates

    Jennifer Ashley

    Honoria Ardmore is as prim and proper as they come. Her sole moment of indiscretion was when she fell for a roguish pirate. But he died -- at least, that's what she assumed -- until the night he showed up eager to pick up where they had left off....

  • Human Resource

    Pierce Askegren

    While on assignment on the moon as the EnTek Corporation's new Site Coordinator, Erik Morrison just wants to get his job done and go back to Earth, but his plans are thwarted when he becomes a pawn in a deadly game of corporate espionage. Original....

  • Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin

    Nancy Atherton

    Hidden among her belongings are clues that Lori feels certain Miss Beacham wished to be discovered after her death Feeling a touch world-weary, Lori Shepherd decides to become a volunteer at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where she meets Elizabeth Beach...

  • Time Rogues

    Kay Austin

    It was all about to go up in smoke. As a candidate for the directorship of the Dallas Museum of History, Mackenzie Cates was thrilled to acquire the Pompeii exhibit. But it came with a string: Rick Mason, the love of her life, the sexiest archaeologi...

  • Evil Abyss

    James Axler

    Guardians of Power Shrouded in manipulation and mystery, a deadly order grips the treacherous post-nuclear world, one that conspires to weaken and subjugate humanity as it has for eons. Yet the oligarchy of hybrid barons is slowly losng its power ov...

  • The Go-To Girl

    Louise Bagshawe

    Gorgeous goddesses seem to surround lowly script-reader Anna Brown--from her deranged, glamour-queen boss to her perfect, pouting roommates. For Anna, being less-than-beautiful is hard to bear. With a dead-end job and a dead-beat boyfriend, she wonde...

  • Clabbernappers

    Len Bailey

    Clabbernappers is thrilling high comic adventure from a remarkable new writer.King Krystal of Elidor has a serious problem: Sarksa Pirates have captured the Queen! Desperate for her return, King Krystal summons a hero from the Dream Machine. Enter Da...

  • The City of Towers

    Keith Baker
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The world of Eberron began in the imagination of Keith Baker. Who better to take readers on their first foray into this magnificent new world? Hardened by the Last War, four soldiers have come to Sharn, fabled City of Towers, capital of adventure,...

  • The Lady and the Cit

    Blair Bancroft

    A Practical Pairing Miss Aurelia Trevor is in mourning...not for any person, but for her beloved Pevensey Park. Her conniving uncle and his loathsome son have claimed lordship over the estate which should rightly be hers, if not for the fact that ...

  • The Swimmer

    Zsuzsa Bank

    Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two young children, Kata and Isti. Staying briefly wit...

  • The Bitten

    L.A. Banks

    "Tell me your darkest fantasy," she murmured. "Tell me what you really want..." She is a woman who lives between pleasure and pain--the pure, scintillating pleasure of the flesh and the kind of pain that has rocked the world and left it strewn wi...

  • How Zinnia Got Her Name

    Cicely Mary Barker

    Now, two more Flower Fairies(tm) Friends book, bag, and necklace packages are available. These yellow and pink packages are fun and girly and are sure to catch a young girl's eye. Costing only $1.00 more than the original hardcover book-and including...

  • Buttercup Goes to the Ball

    Cicely Mary Barker

    Now, two more Flower Fairies(tm) Friends book, bag, and necklace packages are available. These yellow and pink packages are fun and girly and are sure to catch a young girl's eye. Costing only $1.00 more than the original hardcover book-and including...

  • Reluctant Housemates

    Linda Barrett

    You can go home again... Rachel Goodman never thought she'd return to Pilgrim Cove. Too many unpleasant childhood memories. But she's no longer an awkward, defenseless kid, so when the one person who'd been kind to her needs her, she gets ready to...

  • A Long, Long Way

    Sebastian Barry

    A powerful novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war from “master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal) Sebastian Barry, author of Old God's TimeIn 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the...

  • Basketball, or Something Like It

    Nora Raleigh Baskin

    Basketball clinics, a revolving door of coaches, incensed parents, and the importance of the right sneakers--is that what the game is about? Told from the perspective of four unlikely friends, Nora Raleigh Baskin's poignant novel focuses on the actio...

  • Second Chance

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Alisa Worthington has been an orphan her entire life. She dreams of having a family - but just when she thinks she's found a home, it is taken from her. Alisa flees San Francisco and false accusations against her, ending up in the small town of Relia...

  • In Hot Water

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    Married with a young son, Maci Malone Ramsey has a stable and secure life...until her husband, a prominent physician, is arrested in connection with the death of one of his patients. The case against Dr. Seymour Ramsey appears cut-and-dried -- especi...

  • Death of a Bore

    M.C. Beaton

    THE INK IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD Famous writer John Heppel is a bitter, self-important man who cruelly belittles the scribblings of the locals signed up for his writing course. So when Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds Heppel murdered, his...

  • Suspense and Sensibility: or, First Impressions Revisited

    Carrie Bebris

    Elizabeth Darcy and her beloved husband Fitzwilliam have taken on the responsibility of finding a suitable suitor for Elizabeth's younger sister Kitty, thereby assuring her a proper place in society. The angels smile on the young, a perfect match ...

  • The Wizard Test

    Hilari Bell

    Honor used to seem so clear to Dayven. Now it had faded into shades of gray. Like a wizard's robe. Dayven has passed the test he wanted most desperately to fail -- he's been proven to have the powers of a wizard. He had promised never to beco...

  • The Island Walkers

    John Bemrose

    A powerful first novel about a family that slips from fortune's favor and a town broken by the forces of modernityAcross a bend of Ontario's Attawan River lies the Island, a working-class neighborhood of whitewashed houses and vine-freighted fences,...

  • The Soul Weaver

    Carol Berg

    Gerick spent months imprisoned by the evil Lords of Zhev'Na, as they sought to corrupt him and make him one of them. Karon the sorcerer and his wife, Seri, managed to free Gerick's body, but a part of his soul remains a prisoner--a part of himself th...

  • Bought by a Millionaire

    Heidi Betts

    MILLIONAIRE BACHELOR SEEKS HEIR Chicago's Most Eligible Bachelor, Burke Bishop, wanted a child -- but didn't want to be shackled by marriage. Surrogacy seemed the only solution. When he met gorgeous Shannon Moriarity he knew he'd found the perfect m...

  • A Most Unsuitable Man

    Jo Beverley

    Damaris Myddleton never expected to inherit a vast fortune, but she's ready to use it to buy the most eligible title in England. When disappointed by a marquess, she simply sets her sights higher -- on a duke. But then there's plain Mr. Fitzr...

  • The Effects of Light

    Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

    - Blending themes of lost innocence, sexual awakening, and triumph over loss, The Effects Of Light follows in the tradition of such bestselling first novels as Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutton/Plume, 1999), and the #1 New York Times bestseller The L...

  • Odysseus: A Life

    Charles Rowan Beye

    Now in paperback, an informative and entertaining "biography" of Odysseus by an acclaimed classicist.

    Odysseus, the fictional Bronze Age hero, is an extraordinary figure who has captured our imagination over the millennia from culture to cu...

  • Friendship According to Humphrey

    Betty G. Birney

    After the long winter vacation, Humphrey can't wait to see his friends in Room 26 again and find out what Mrs. Brisbane has planned for the class. But he's shocked by a big surprise on the first day back -- a new class pet! Humphrey offers his paw i...

  • God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other Stories

    Tom Bissell

    Here are six fictional stories about Americans colliding with a remote and often perilous part of the world:

    Two journalists, stranded in wartime Afghanistan, are taken in by a warlord who becomes the arbiter of their fates.

    A female sc...

  • The Accidental Duchess

    Sandy Blair
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    Rachel O'Leary, a destitute governess, finds shelter in a shuttered London townhouse, knowing nothing of its owner or why it stands empty. But when Connor Kenroe, the eighth Duke of Killgory, returns from his long sojourn abroad and steals into his c...

  • The Undersea Treasure Hunt: Lift-the-Flap

    Stephanie Boey

  • In the Paint

    Philana Marie Boles

    Detroit art gallery assistant Danni Blair finds her life frustrating and turbulent as she is confronted with personal and professional upheaval, until her life is transformed by an emotional journey that will lead to a reunion with a former flame, br...

  • The Two Doors of Heaven

    John Bolin

    In this evangelistic book, John Bolin follows a fiction-meets-nonfiction approach to lead readers to a surprising encounter with Jesus -- as they ponder the reality of heaven and how to get there. The Two Doors of Heaven begins with an extended story...

  • Time Trap

    Ian Bone

    Kaz’s life hasn’t been going so great since her dad lost his job. Even their DVD player has been repossessed, and Kaz has to watch her assigned films in the library! Then a special DVD comes along -- a DVD that Kaz was meant to find. Kaz knows th...

  • God Sends Sunday

    Arna Bontemps

    God Sends Sunday was inspired by Arna Bontemps's great-uncle Buddy, whose down-home folk spirit animates this racy story of Little Augie, an irrepressible black jockey of the romantic 1890s. As a frail, undersized youngster, Little Augie leaves his g...

  • A Very Private Gentleman

    Martin Booth

    The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous--mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes...

  • Alternative Atlanta

    Marshall Boswell

    In a funny, poignant, wonderfully original debut novel, the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Trouble with Girls weaves a beguiling tale of fathers and sons, sons and lovers…and one unforgettable summer in a young man’s lifeâ€"somewh...

  • The God of Chaos

    Tom Bradby

    1942. The Nazi hammer is about to fall on the beleaguered city of Cairo. As tension mounts, a key British officer is found brutally murdered. Nobody can fathom the motives behind the killing, and it is certainly the wrong time to start asking questi...

  • 24 Girls in 7 Days

    Alex Bradley

    Jack Grammar, average American senior, has no date to the prom. Or so he thinks. Percy and Natalie, Jack's so-called best friends, posted an ad in the classified section of the online version of the school newspaper. They figured it couldn't hurt-aft...

  • To Wed a Scandalous Spy

    Celeste Bradley

    Lovely, high born Willa Trent was an orphan, raised by a local, somewhat odd family in the country, who want nothing but the best for their girl. So when she drags the unconscious man she accidentally hit with a slingshot home, they arrange a hasty m...

  • Josie and Jack

    Kelly Braffet

    THRILLINGLY DANGEROUS, WORRYINGLY LIKEABLE: SOME SIBLINGS ARE BETTER KEPT APART • NOW A FILM, DIRECTED BY SARAH LANCASTER Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie and Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existence in their decaying weste...

  • .45-Caliber Fury

    Peter Brandvold

    Second in the popular, no-holds-barred, all-action western series featuring Cuno Massey...from best-selling western author, Peter Brandvold... One day cold-blooded killers stole the life of Cuno Massey's young, expectant bride. Now, Cuno realizes his...

  • Girls in Pants

    Ann Brashares

    It's the summer before the sisterhood departs for college . . . their last to summer together before they head off to start their grown-up lives. It's the when they need their Pants the most. Tibby: Learns that the Pants have always known what she...

  • A Scandalous Marriage

    Mary Brendan

    William and June Pemberton have been happily married for three years -- but the longer they go on without June's conceiving, the more concerned she becomes. Especially since William's old flame is now free to marry again and, according to his...

  • The Debt

    Tom Brennan

    New York police officer Steve Burnett is having doubts about his job. He could do without the extra passenger on night patrol: Carl Shaw, a writer researching a novel. But when a thief almost kills Steve and his partner, Carl saves their lives, using...

  • Last Stand at Sweet Sorrow

    Bill Brooks

    Jake Horn was a healer -- until he was falsely accused of murder and had to run. Now the hands he once used to cure the ailing have a new purpose: wrapped around the handles of twin six-guns. A good man in a bad town Aptly named, the town of Sw...

  • Her Man Upstairs

    Dixie Browning

    Okay, so maybe hiring a centerfold stud to remodel my home was crazy. But I, Marty Owens, practical bookstore owner, was a desperate woman, and contractor Cole Stevens was a man with muscles and strong hands and a seductive voice promising me he coul...

  • Nice Big American Baby

    Judy Budnitz

    A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose worldâ€"and imaginationâ€"knows no boundaries. “I don’t know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from,” said Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, Flying Leap,...

  • Bloodline

    Jeff Buick

    The world thinks Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993. The world is wrong. Escobar went deep into hiding, taking with him the access code to a Swiss bank account containing hundreds of millions of dollars. His enemies want that code, ...

  • Get It Started

    Morgan Burke

    The party room. On Manhattan's Upper East Side. Everybody's fabulous. No one gets carded. Then someone dies. The Party Room is where the prep school crowd goes to drink up and hook up. The cocktails are chill and the bartender's hot. Everyone knows...

  • Vision In Blue

    Nicole Byrd

    Nicole Byrd is praised for her wonderfully witty and richly romantic stories, and her star continues to rise with this delightful tale about a young woman who discovers things she never knew about herself and finds them deliciously exciting... Who...

  • Sawyer's Quest

    Will Cade

    It's just a metal box. But what it contains might very well be worth its weight in gold--or blood. Inside the box is the latest manuscript by famous author Charles Oliver Farnsworth, and there are a lot of people who would do just about anything to g...

  • Excursion To Tindari

    Andrea Camilleri

    “The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily.” -- Donna Leon A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building one morning, and...

  • The Dark Hills Divide

    Patrick Carman

    WHAT LIES BEYOND THE WALLS? Twelve-year-old Alexa Daley is spending another summer in Bridewell with her father. She looks forward to exploring the old lodge where she stays each year, with its cozy library and maze of passages and rooms. She's also...

  • Winner Takes All!

    Jodi Carse

  • Boy Proof

    Cecil Castellucci

    What happens when an antisocial cinephile meets up with the worldly new guy at school -- a quick-witted artist who's savvy enough to see through her sci-fi disguise? Meet Egg. Her real name is Victoria Jurgen, but she's renamed herself after the k...

  • Depth Perception

    Linda Castillo

    Nat Jennings nearly died the night her family was murdered--and spent the next three years wishing she had. Now she is returning to the bayou town of Bellerose, Louisiana, driven by cryptic messages only she can hear--messages pleading for her help ....

  • Hot Tamara

    Mary Castillo

    Tamara Contreras will never again settle for unmemorable sex. Her long-time boyfriend may look perfect to her traditional Mexican-American parents -- something Tamara has never been -- but at twenty-six she wants more from life than marriage and moth...

  • Cinderella Man

    Marc Cerasini

    Inspired by the life of legendary athlete Jim Braddock, a once-promising light-heavyweight boxer forced into retirement after a string of losses. As the nation enters the Great Depression, Braddock works any job he can get to support his family, unti...

  • Today's Embrace

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    She gambled with her husband's trust. Everything is at stake. Evy Varley's marriage to Rogan Chantry is all she had hoped it would be--until she finds out that she is pregnant with a honeymoon baby. Fearing that Rogan won't allow her to travel whi...

  • The Bay at Midnight

    Diane Chamberlain

    Her family's cottage on the New Jersey shore was a place of freedom and innocence for Julie Bauer -- until tragedy struck when her seventeen-year-old sister, Isabel, was murdered. It's been more than forty years since that August night, but Julie'...

  • Vintage Cheever

    John Cheever

    In his finely wrought novels and short stories, John Cheever created men and women, young and old, suburbanites and city dwellers, all of whom, whether they reside in St. Botolphs or Bullet Park or mid-century Manhattan or some other mythic place, ar...

  • Destroyer

    C.J. Cherryh

    THEIR WORLD AT WAR It has been two years since the starship Phoenix left Alpha Station on a rescue mission to a faraway sector of space where over four thousand human spacers were under attack by a hostile alien race. Now, exhausted from their ...

  • Wild Ride

    Matt Christopher

    Knowing that the mountain trails are unsafe for bicycles due to fallen trees and other obstacles, Jonas helps organize a clean-up crew in early spring, but when he hears someone else biking on the trail he cannot resist a ride of his own....

  • Echoes of Yesterday

    Beverly Clark

    Singer Tammy Gibson, blinded in an accident at age fifteen, is haunted by the man that caused it, David. Years later they meet again and sparks fly. But can she really distinguish the man that stole her sight from the man she wants to love?...

  • Wounded

    Stephen Cole

    The moon was just a soft glow through the flimsy curtains in Kate's bedroom, but she feared even that intrusion. She pushed sweat-drenched hair from her eyes and turned on her bedside light. Looked around at the familiar things in the room. Told hers...

  • Wiped Out

    Barbara Colley

    Running Maid for a Day keeps Charlotte LaRue plenty busy. But her latest job involves more than dusting and mopping. She's got to contend with a feuding gardening club--and things certainly aren't coming up roses... The summer's off to a swelterin...

  • Nighttime Sweethearts

    Cara Colter

    Dearest Godmother, My very last match is almost made! Soon, the curse will be broken. If nothing goes awry... And that's asking quite a bit of fate. Because architect Rick Barnett's scars -- physical and emotional -- have made him a hard, cynic...

  • Beneath Dark Water

    Nancy Connor


    A child is missing. But does anybody care?

    Her name may be Talia, or Rachael, or Nico, but to Sherry Henderson, the little girl who shows up unexpectedly on her doorstep one day is simply Child. Sherry's own child is dead, killed in a rand...

  • The Story of Honk-Honk-Ashoo and Swella-Bow-Wow

    Ralph Cosentino

    After hearing the little dog barking at his door, Honk-Honk-Ashoo finds friendly Swella-Bow-Wow eager to enter his home and, after doing so, quickly becomes part of the family by happily participating in all of Honk-Honk-Ashoo’s daily activities an...

  • Stop and Go, Maisy!

    Lucy Cousins

    Leave it to Maisy to make even a traffic jam fun with this accordion-style flap book just brimming with vehicles -- and full of surprises.

    Beep-beep, ding-ding, nee-nah-nee-nah! Maisy and all her friends are out on the road today, but the tr...

  • Owen Noone and the Marauder

    Douglas Cowie

    Owen Noone is a charismatic minor league baseball player who gives it all up to sing punked-out folk songs. The Marauder is a shy college grad with a fledgling case of hero worship. Armed with their songbook of Lomax classics and two freshly minted g...

  • Road to Forgiveness

    Carol Cox

    Hallie has stolen Jacob's heart. But before seeking Hallie's hand in marriage, Jacob Garrett feels he must prove his worth to local ranchers - and himself. He's determined to expose a ring of cattle thieves, then fight in a war for Cuba's freedom. Hi...

  • The Forgotten Man

    Robert Crais

    In an alleyway in Los Angeles an old man, clutching faded newspaper clippings and gasping his last words to a cop, lies dying of a gunshot wound. The victim claims to be P.I. Elvis Cole's long-lost father--a stranger who has always haunted his son. ...

  • Dead Is Forever

    David Cray

    Blame it on the dragonfish. Exquisitely sculpted in yellow jade, it's a piece that collector and sometimes private investigator Philip Beckett simply cannot resist. To purchase it, against all his better filial instincts, he takes the case, for which...

  • Akiko: The Training Master

    Mark Crilley

    When Akiko’s Smoovian friends, Poog, Mr. Beeba, Gax, and Spuckler Boach, swing by to pick her up in an astroshuttle, she’s feeling bored with her “normal” life and more than ready to go -- anywhere. What she doesn’t know is that King Fropto...

  • Always the Sun

    Neil Cross

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: From the creator of Luther comes a gripping tale of the deep bonds between father and sonAlways the Sun finds one man pushed past his limit, walking a wobbly line between safeguarding and carnage.  While mour...

  • When It Rains...

    Angie Daniels

    Shattered by the loss of her youthful innocence after a sexual assault, St. Louis beauty salon owner Honey Love has spent the last nine years hiding her pain beneath a frigid exterior. But all that changes when private investigator Jay Andrews walks ...

  • The Iron Tree

    Cecilia Dart-Thornton

    Jarred grew up in the arid desert; a breathtaking place filled with a proud and fierce race of people ho feel the power of the land surge beneath their feet and live in tune with its magic. Raised by his mother alone, Jarred longed to know the histor...

  • Uncanny X-Men: The New Age, Volume 2: The Cruelest Cut

    Alan Davis

    Collects Uncanny X-Men #450-454. The X-Men investigate a series of mysterious murders in New York City. All the victims seem to have been cut to pieces by blades… Adamantium blades! But if Wolverine didn't murder these people, then who did?! Plus: ...

  • Babyji

    Abha Dawesar

    Sexy, surprising, and subversively wise, Babyji is the story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents’ scooter garage to read the Kamasutra. Before ...

  • Ferenginar

    Keith R.A. Decandido
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    Within every federation and every empire, behind every hero and every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the aftermath of Unity and in the daring tradition of Spock's World, The Final Reflection, and A Stitch in Time, the civilization...

  • The Medusa Project

    Cindy Dees

    QUITTING WAS NOT AN OPTION Air Force Major Vanessa Blake had been handpicked to lead the first all-female Special Forces team, the Medusas. But there was one bit of classified information the military hadn't shared with her -- their trainer, tough-a...

  • She'll be Coming Round the Mountain

    Chris Demarest

  • Give Me

    Irina Denezhkina

    Shortlisted for Russia's national bestseller prize and translated into twelve languages, Give Me marks the debut of a literary wunderkind, a gifted writer with a fine-tuned ear and unforgettable voice. The stories in Give Me are bracingly authentic a...

  • A Rare Sensation

    Kathie DeNosky

    Abigail Ashton had a weakness for injured animals and hotheaded cowboys. So when she found both a lame horse and rodeo rider Russ Gannon at Louret Vineyards, she decided to extend her vacation. Abby may have come to Louret to find the family she'd ne...

  • McCade on the Run

    William C. Dietz

    When a sacred artifact with divine powers is stolen by the space pirates, vengeful bounty hunter Sam McCade takes on the task of retrieving the treasure in Alien Bounty, while in McCade's Bounty, he embarks on a personal mission to re...

  • Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

    Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow's miraculous novel of family history, Internet connectivity, and magical secretsAlan is a middle-aged entrepeneur who moves to a bohemian neighborhood of Toronto. Living next door is a young woman who reveals to him that she has wings -...

  • Let the Games Begin

    Tina Donahue
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    Former shy bookworm Tiffany Taylor has always wanted Nick Marlow, not that he ever noticed. Now, with a controlling interest in Nick's Las Vegas casino and a new sultry look to match, Tiffany's got his full attention. But Nick has no intention of giv...

  • Deshi

    John Donohue

    In each life, the wheel of karma turns. Asian scholar and martial artist Connor Burke, who continues to labor under the stern tutelage of the master warrior Yamashita Sensei, is drawn once again into a murder investigation when the police discover a ...

  • All or Nothing

    Crystal Downs

    A wealthy, powerful family, good looks, gossipers following her every move - Veronica Hampton is used to having it all. But from the minute she literally bumps into old crush, Jeff Conley her perfect world is thrown off balance. Jeff's mysterious ...

  • Rodney the Inventor

    Scout Driggs

  • Johnny Too Bad

    John Dufresne

    A collection by "a generous and lyric storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle) known for his tragicomic voice and his unforgettable and lively characters.

    In John Dufresne's stories people are caught unawares by trouble and opportunity in the ac...

  • Emergency Engagement

    Michele Dunaway

    Sometimes Love Is an Accident Waiting to Happen... The first night Beth Johnson and her daughter rushed into his hospital's emergency room, Dr. Quinton Searle's medical opinion was that their problem would resolve itself over time. But that was...

  • High Stakes

    Barbara Dunlop

    Candice Hammond's renovation plans for the Lighthouse Restaurant are perfect -- until the maddening and madly attractive number cruncher Derek Reeves steps in. They're arguing about everything right down to the last fork and it's taking all her negot...

  • Best Man

    Matt Dunn

    He's your best friend. She's the love of his life. You've got six weeks to convince him otherwise. Adam Bailey is appalled when his best friend Nick announces that he's about to marry his new girlfriend, Sandra. Can't Nick see just how wrong the loud...

  • Savage Courage

    Cassie Edwards

    LAND OF ENCHANTMENT Lovely Shoshana was ripped from the arms of her Apache people to be raised as a white woman. But when she returns to the Arizona Territory, a perplexing dream begins to haunt her; a vision of a golden eagle carrying her mother ...

  • Robots: The Movie Storybook

    Kate Egan

    In a photo-packed storybook of the new movie releasing in theaters in March 2005, Rodney arrives in Robot City to find that the Rusties are in danger, and without the help of Big Weld, Rodney may not be able to save the Rusties from Ratchet in time. ...

  • Rodney and the Rusties

    Kate Egan

    When Rodney Copperbottom gets to Robot City, he is far away from home and lonely as can be, but lucky for him, Rodney soon meets the Rusties: a ragtag group of friends who become his new family. Original....

  • Cold Burn

    Kit Ehrman

    Steve Cline has managed the hunter/jumper show barns at Foxdale Farm for the better part of three years. But he has a deal with himself: When he no longer feels challenged, when the routine becomes stagnant, he will look for another job...and he pass...

  • Murder Can Mess Up Your Mascara

    Selma Eichler

    New York's plus-size PI, Desiree Shapiro, discovers that her latest would-be client is harder to say no to than a second--make that a third--slice of Little Angie's pizza. There have already been two attempts to kill charismatic pharmaceutical exec G...

  • The Case of the Falling Sky

    John R. Erickson

    When Hank hears a rumor that the sky is going to fall from the ranch’s resident rooster, he is naturally a bit skeptical. But then a report from Pete the Barncat and a strange dream seem to support the theory, and Hank realizes that he’d better t...

  • Our Ecstatic Days

    Steve Erickson

    In the waning summer days, a lake appears almost overnight in the middle of Los Angeles. Out of fear and love, a young single mother commits a desperate act: convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, she determines to stop it and ...

  • Tours of the Black Clock

    Steve Erickson

    Cutting a terrifying path from a Pennsylvania farm to the Europe of the 1930s, Banning Jainlight becomes the private pornographer of the world's most evil man. In a Vienna window, he glimpses the face of a lost erotic dream, and from there travels to...

  • Deadhouse Gates

    Steven Erikson

    IN THE VAST DOMINION of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers prepare for the long-prophesied uprising known as the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in size and savagery, this maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust will e...

  • Longarm and the Unwelcome Woolies

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm is one sure-shooting shepherd…Custis Long’s reputation as an expert animal driver lands him an unlikely assignment. The U.S. government asks him to drive 6,000 head of sheep to a Navajo reservation -- where the displaced Indians survive b...

  • Digging James Dean

    Robert Eversz

    A death in the family reunites ex-con turned paparazza Nina Zero with her long-lost sister, who now touts herself as a successful real estate agent from Seattle. Who cares if the sister looks like she's lived a life as battered and fake as the design...

  • Written in Blood

    Diane Fanning

    A 2006 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime. With intimate access to the families, award-winning journalist Diane Fanning's Written in Blood spins a heart-wrenching true crime tale that's been the subject of an acclaimed documentary, "The Staircas...

  • Moonrise

    Terri Farley

    Samantha's latest adventure with her mustang friend, the phantom stallion, in the wildly popular series.

    oSet in the modern day Wild West, Phantom Stallion has cowboys, horse rustlers, and mustangs â€" exciting new territory you can't find ...

  • Phantom Nights

    John Farris

    The year is 1952. Fourteen-year-old Alex Gambier is rebellious by nature and scarred by childhood tragedy in the southern community of Evening Shade. An outcast in his own family, mute from a bout with diphtheria at an early age, Alex expresses himse...

  • The Geographer's Library

    Jon Fasman

    "A brainy noir . . . [a] winningly cryptic tale . . . a cabinet of wonders written by a novelist whose surname and sensibility fit comfortably on the shelf between Umberto Eco and John Fowles."  -- Los Angeles Times"One of the year’s most lite...

  • Improbable

    Adam Fawer

    From a brilliant new talent comes a riveting novel of chance, fate, and numbers, and one man's strange journey past the boundaries of the possible. David Caine inhabits a world of obsession, rich rewards, and rapid, destructive downfalls. A compul...

  • Dark Secret

    Christine Feehan

    Christine Feehan has thrilled legions of fans with her seductive, sensual Carpathian tales. Now, she presents the enthralling story of Rafael, a savage hunter from the darkest jungles, and the beautiful prey he would never let escape... Rafael De ...

  • Snobs

    Julian Fellowes

    Julian Fellowes, creator of the Emmy-Award winning TV series Downton Abbey, established himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners in his first novel, Snobs, a wickedly astute portrait of the intersect...

  • Her Good Fortune

    Marie Ferrarella

    Back home in Texas and ready to get her life in order, Gloria Mendoza knew men were a distraction she couldn't afford. So when she was offered assistance from CEO Jack Fortune to get her business up and running, Gloria sensed it would take incredible...

  • Enchantments

    Linda Ferri

    The narrator of Linda Ferri’s charismatic debut is a fortunate daughter, growing up with her family in Italy and France, leading a life of wonder and plenty. There is horseback riding. There are late-night ice cream runs. There are neighbors, frien...

  • Out of Uniform

    Amy J. Fetzer

    BACK IN UNIFORM? Injured marine Rick Wyatt didn't need a nursemaid, especially not his estranged wife, Kate. Having her so close, tending his wounds, only brought back long- buried memories of everything they'd done together between the sheets -- an...

  • Her Wish-List Bridegroom

    Liz Fielding

    Yes, throwing champagne over her lowlife boyfriend -- and boss -- had proved rather career limiting. She'd been fired! So, having sworn off men for good, Juliet has headed back to her mom's house to start again -- only to bump into her childhood crus...

  • Meet the Robots

    Acton Figueroa

  • Rodney Goes to Town

    Acton Figueroa

    Join Rodney as he sets out to make a name for himself in the big city. Although he is only a young robot, Rodney's big heart and talent for inventing should make him a huge success.

    Unfortunately, Robot City no longer values young talent. I...

  • Cupid and the Cowboy

    Carol Finch

    Cupid, Meet Your Match Judd Foster is the perfect new project for Moon Valley's resident do-gooder, Erika Dunn. After serving in Special Ops, Judd has returned to his family's ranch, seeking solitude to overcome the traumas he's endured. But sweet...

  • The Rose of the World

    Jude Fisher

    This conclusion to the Fool's Gold trilogy follows three unpredictable gods as they try to escape the traitorous magician that is holding them captive, a desperate struggle that profoundly affects their world and the destiny of their peoples....

  • Puff

    Bob Flaherty

    Meet John Gullivan, age thirteen, obsessed with the moles that dot most of his body. Meet his brother Gully, who can't stop laughing at them. Now meet the brothers ten years later, in the middle of the most ferocious blizzard anyone can remember. Set...

  • I Spy

    Jacey Ford

    Former FBI special agent Aimee Devlin has a special talent for blending into the woodwork. The mastermind behind a fledgling corporate services firm, Aimee plans to use the skills she learned while with the FBI to make her and her partners rich. When...

  • Crime Time 42

    Barry Forshaw

  • After the Loving

    Gwynne Forster

    I Love You... In the much anticipated follow-up to "Once In A Lifetime," full-figured caterer, Velma Brighton is constantly comparing herself to her thin, beautiful sister Alexis, who seems to have everything. On Alexis' wedding day Velma's insecuri...

  • Mommy Under Cover

    Delores Fossen

    ASSIGNMENT: BABY Agent Tessa Abbot: This take-no-prisoners, tough-as-nails operative of a top secret U.S. security agency was prepared for anything...except a surprise pregnancy. Agent Riley McDade: His sexy yet deadly smile had seen him thro...

  • An Honorable Man

    Lori Foster
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    READY TO RISK IT ALL Three men come face-to-face with physical danger Their courage, their choices, will make these men heroes.... Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton Wulf's career ambitions cost him the one woman he ever wanted Liv Avery. Now he's de...

  • Look to the Heart

    Terry Fowler

    With a great circle of friends and a successful child care business, Deidra Pierce has what seems to be a complete life. But when a new client appears with the most beautiful baby she's ever seen - and enough mystery to raise questions - Deidra finds...

  • She Walks the Line

    Roz Denny Fox

    She's not only a cop, she's a woman from a traditional Chinese family. Mei Lu Ling's parents strongly disapprove of her career, but she's determined not to let her personal life interfere with her work -- especially now that she's been handed a case ...

  • Stealing Sophie

    Sarah Gabriel

    Connor MacPerson has no need for a bride, but this outlaw highland laird is determined to honor a promise. He snatches the bonny MacCarran lass, only to discover too late that he has the wrong sister! Quickly wedded and passionately bedded, Sophie...

  • The Wagering Widow

    Diane Gaston

    The marriage gamble... Guy, Lord Keating, laden with his father's debts, elopes with "heiress" Emily Duprey...only to discover she is as poor as he! Now his only hope of saving his family and dependents is a reluctant return to the gaming tables. ...

  • Sweetness & Lies

    Roberta Gayle

    Defense attorney, Kiley Johnson has a history of manipulating the law to win cases. This time, she's positive that her client, Stoney Copeland is innocent of murder - because she's his alibi. Things become more complicated when Kiley realizes that he...

  • Year of the Hyenas

    Brad Geagley

    From the oldest known court transcripts in history, Egyptologists have long known about the mysterious death of Ramses III, involving intrigue, ambition, greed, and crimes of passion on a huge, though hidden, scale. In Year of the Hyenas, Brad Geagle...

  • Desiree

    Roberta Gellis

    Marriage saved her from a tyrant. . .and kept her from the man she loved In order to protect herself from a ruthless suitor, Desiree or Exceat married the gentle Frewyn of Polegate--sacrificing passion in favor of platonic companionship. But thre...

  • Their Scandalous Affair

    Catherine George

    The price of his bride... The beautiful, but fiery, Avery Crawford wants to keep her affair with handsome millionaire Jonas Mercer private. She's survived a scandal in the past and now likes to keep her secrets quiet. Yet not only does Jon...

  • The Dominion

    David R. George III
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    Within every federation and every empire, behind every hero and every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the aftermath of Unity and in the daring tradition of Spock's World, The Final Reflection, and A Stitch in Time, the civilization...

  • Secret

    Lindsay Barrett George

    Can you keep the secret?Yes?Can you really?But what if it is the most exciting,the very best,the mostdelicious secret that has ever been whispered in your ear?

    ...

  • The Accidental Hunter

    Nelson George

    The first assignment is unusual. The second will set D Hunter in urgent pursuit of a mysterious entity that is kidnapping Top Forty hitmakers. Always cloaked in the color black, security specialist D Hunter lives on the periphery of the monied ...

  • Warrior Without a Cause

    Nancy Gideon

    BELOVED MERCENARY Tessa D'Angelo was tougher than she looked. She survived her beloved D.A. dad being linked to a drug scandal, and his unexplained "suicide." But what she couldn't survive was the stalker who wanted to silence her questions. Enter ...

  • Joshua in a Troubled World

    Joseph Girzone

    The bestselling Joshua series takes an invigorating, timely new turn as Girzone’s beloved hero spreads his message of love and compassion from the streets of our nation’s capital to the blood-soaked lands of the Middle East.Joseph Girzone possess...

  • True Crime

    Alan Gold

    Invesitgative reporter Lou Tedesco is covering the reopening of the grand old Bijou movie theater in the town of Seagirt when he finds his assignment taking a very different turn after two lovers are brutally murdered on the beach and he discovers ev...

  • The Eye That Is Divine

    Kat Goldring

    It's hard to tell if nosey schoolteacher and amateur sleuth Willi Gallagher brings trouble wherever she goes--or if she simply finds it when she gets there... Nobody could use a relaxing weekend like Willi Gallagher's friend Kenzie, whose ex has b...

  • Texas Tart

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    The West hath no fury like a woman scorned…On the outside, Cross Peak, Texas, is a clean and friendly city -- so friendly, in fact, that Skye Fargo is literally welcomed with open arms by the local ladies. But one sweet little thing wants something...

  • Kalpa Imperial

    Angelica Gorodischer

    In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories, and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Impe...

  • Ghosts Of Eden

    T.M. Gray

    T. M. Gray's supernatural thriller, Ghosts of Eden, is the story of a young woman's courageous homecoming, her struggle with a tragic past, and a battle whose outcome may determine not only her own fate, but that of the entire planet. The year is 194...

  • Irish Cream

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Countless readers have been delighted by Father Andrew M. Greeley's bestselling tales of Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman from Galway blessed with the gift of second sight and a knack for unraveling mysteries, and her hapless husband a...

  • The Millionaire's Secret Baby

    Crystal Green

    When a case of mistaken identity lands ranch cook Emmylou Brown in the arms of her childhood crush Deston Rhodes -- heir to a fortune and her boss at Oakvale -- their mutual desire unravels into a torrid night of lust. The evening takes a sharp turn ...

  • Hex And The City

    Simon R. Green

    John Taylor is the name. I work the Nightside. Only in that dark-heart of London where it's always three A.M., where human and inhuman can feed their darkest desires, do I feel at home. Probably because I was born here. What I do is find things --...

  • Deathstalker Coda

    Simon R. Green

    Lewis Deathstalker has succeeded at the impossible: he’s found Owen Deathstalker, presumed dead for the last two hundred years. Owen’s return strikes a crippling blow to the Empire as his military joins the rebellion. But Owen himself has a large...

  • The Ghosts of Baker Street

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Sherlock Holmes once declared: “This world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.” And when Dr. Mortimer asked if the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles was not of interest, Holmes said only: “To a collector of fairy-tales.” And yet...

  • Andrew Lost on Earth

    J.C. Greenburg

    Andrew, Judy, and Thudd have escaped the Big Bang only to find themselves trapped inside the Earth as it forms all around them! Meanwhile Uncle Al is stranded in the Ice Age. Somehow Andrew, Judy, and Thudd must fix their time machine and rescue Uncl...

  • Complete Short Stories

    Graham Greene

    The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction

    Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence -- this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including...

  • The Magic of Krynn

    Ed Greenwood

    The first book in a series of classic Dragonlance tales, now with a new cover.

    This re-release of the second volume of Dragonlance short stories ever published features a dramatic new cover treatment. It includes stories by some of the best-lo...

  • Just Disgusting!

    Andy Griffiths

    --Ever burped the alphabet? --Ever worn the same underwear two (or more) days in a row? --Ever puked so hard it came out your nose? Andy has, and it was competely disgusting. Now he's on a quest to gross out everyone around him with flesh-eating...

  • Simpsons Comics Barn Burner

    Matt Groening

    Simpsons Comics Barn Burner, brought to you by Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, takes the blue–ribbon prize for being one jimdandy of a good time.

    Get ready for the dadburndest, rootin''–tootin''–est riot of c...

  • Girl Alone

    Rupa Gulab

  • The President's Assassin

    Brian Haig

    "YOU CAN'T STOP US. THERE WILL BE OTHERS, AND THE PRESIDENT WILL BE HISTORY IN THE NEXT TWO DAYS." It's a mass execution: six people shot and killed in a Virginia mansion, one of them the White House Chief of Staff. But that isn't the reason Sean ...

  • Dream Guy

    Candy Halliday

    Fed up with bad dates and worse relationships, video game designer Annie Long decides that if she can't find the perfect man, she'll just have to create one. "Joe Video" (on DVD at fine retailers) is the ideal interactive boyfriend for the modern wom...

  • Hunter's Moon

    Lori Handeland

    Under a hunter's moon, blood turns from crimson to black -- Leigh Tyler was once a kindergarten teacher with starry-eyed dreams-dreams that turned into nightmares when the biggest mistake she ever made came back to tear her world apart. Now, Leigh l...

  • The Baby Doctor's Desire

    Kate Hardy

    When two very caring doctors cannot deny -- but cannot let on -- that they're attracted to each other, their only option is to have a secret affair! But for maternity consultant Kieran Bailey, keeping his relationship with Dr. Judith Powell private p...

  • Someone Safe

    Lori L. Harris

    CALLING 911 WAS NOT AN OPTION For Kelly Logan, staying one step ahead of the dangerous men whose ultimate goal was to keep her quiet -- no matter the cost -- seemed impossible on her own. Her only hope for survival rested on the strong, sinewy sho...

  • Witch Honour

    Narrelle M. Harris

    A group of witches gathers in the town of Tunston, on a simple undeveloped world far distant from our own. Magda, Tephee, Sylvia, and Leenan each have their own unique gifts of power. Witches are not trusted in this distant world, in which magic work...

  • Necessary Evils

    Neesa Hart

    IN WASHINGTON, D.C., THE RULES HAVE CHANGED. . . . In the midst of global chaos, White House Chief of Staff Brad Benton lost his family in the cataclysmic event he now knows was the prophesied rapture of Christians. Brad and the others have been lef...

  • The Flat Marriage Fix

    Karen Hayse

    Sonya Kane feels alone - particularly when she learns that her husband, Brad, is leaving her behind for a long cycle trip - and with complete strangers, at that. Sonya's not athletic and has no interest in biking - but her heart longs to be close to ...

  • The Lady of the Hall

    Veronica Heley

    Minty must overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to keep her home and her relationship with the man she loves In Book Two of the Eden Hall series, Minty has inherited her beloved Eden Hall---and a host of problems. The villagers depend on the H...

  • The Dog of the Marriage

    Amy Hempel

    Amy Hempel's compassion, intensity, and illuminating observations have made her one of the most distinctive and admired modern writers. In three stunning books of stories, she has established a voice as unique and recognizable as the photographs of C...

  • Walks In Shadow

    Joyce Henderson

    He stood on a hill, wild, proud, fierce, as beautiful as Texas was brutal, and she wanted him with a yearning so intense, so primal, it took her breath. But even after the magnificent black stallion is captured, no one can break him. No one until Hol...

  • Blind Canon

    Will Henry

    Holding a rich claim during the Alaskan gold rush, Murrah Starr, a half-breed Sioux, must take on the head of the local miners' association who is determined to steal his claim by brute force. Reprint....

  • Return of the Exile

    Mary H. Herbert
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The forces of darkness conquer . . . The dragon overlords are dead, the last of the dragon eggs taken by the Tarmak conquerors for use in their vile rites. The Tarmak have crushed every army sent against them, and now Linsha Majere herself is capt...

  • LeBron James

    John Hereas

    Scholastic and the NBA (National Basketball Association) continue to score with action-packed books on one of America's most popular sports. Catch all the action from a courtside seat!

    LeBron James arrived on the NBA scene in 2004 with a lot o...

  • Dr. Love

    Donna Hill
    in

    Curvaceous ad exec Tricia Spencer lives fast and furious...until her life comes crashing down around her. She gets back on her feet with the help of a handsome doctor--but to win his stoic heart, she'll have to create the best campaign of her career....

  • What We Do Is Secret

    Kief Hillsbery

    “Why am I a punk? Because I wasn’t anything before, except different. And now it’s like I’m different, but with a vengeance.” It’s been months since the suicide of Darby Crash, L.A. punk rock icon and lead singer of the Germs. He checked ...

  • Jennie's War: The Home Front in World War 2

    Bonnie Hinman

    Time Period:  July 1943 - June 1944  Ten-year-old Jennie Fleming is doing what she can to help win a war-she's hoeing weeds in her "Victory Garden." In 1944, with the United States battling both Germany and Japan in a worldwide conflict, ev...

  • Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

    Eric Hodgins

    The classic tale of leaving the city and building a house in the country, only to find country life isn't so simple. But it is hilarious. Mr. Blandings, a successful New York advertising executive, and his wife want to escape the confines of their t...

  • The Promise

    Kate Hoffmann

    The Quinns and the McClains. Two families from County Cork, Ireland. Three generations of lives inextricably intertwined by a legacy of promises. Made and broken. . . by Fathers. . . During Ireland's civil war, Aiden McClain found recognition...

  • The Narcissist's Daughter

    Craig Holden

    In his earlier acclaimed novels, Craig Holden created a thrilling vision of America that was at once lyrical and dark. Now, with The Narcissist's Daughter, he expands that vision in his most accomplished and controversial work to date, a drama about ...

  • A Rare and Curious Gift

    Pauline Holdstock

    Loosely based on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, "A Rare and Curious Gift" tells the story of Sofonisba, a brilliant painter gradually taking over her father's studio. Determined to avoid the depredations of men, she is fighting her own intensely ...

  • At the Spanish Duke's Command

    Fiona Hood-Stewart

    He wanted her at his command -- but as his wife...? Arrogant, autocratic -- but also superbly Spanish and sensual. Georgiana fell headlong for Juan Felipe Mansanto, Duque de la Caniza, even though he was supposed to be her guardian. And it seeme...

  • Mates, Dates, and Tempting Trouble

    Cathy Hopkins

    When Luke declares his love for her, T. J. is shocked because Luke has been dating her close friend and so decides to keep her distance from him, but when Luke and T. J. are thrown together on a class project, things take a turn for the worse between...

  • The Center of Winter

    Marya Hornbacher

    At the center of winter, in Motley, Minnesota, Arnold Schiller gives in to the oppressive season that reigns outside and also to his own inner demons -- he commits suicide, leaving a devastated family in his wake.Claire Schiller, wife and mother, tak...

  • Guns of Jeopardy

    Robert J. Horton

    A POWDER KEG READY TO BLOW For sixteen years, Lafe Owens has protected the Texas range from robbers and rustlers as president of the Teton Cattlemen's Association. Not only is he the most powerful cattle baron around, but he's well liked by everyo...

  • Tim Duncan

    Scott Howard-Cooper

    Scholastic and the NBA (National Basketball Association) continue to score with action-packed books on one of America's most popular sports. Catch all the action from a courtside seat!

    Get up close and personal with Tim Duncan, one of the NBA'...

  • Sonja's Run

    Richard Hoyt

    At the 1852 Christmas party hosted by Tsar Nicholas I, the plucky half-Chinese, half-Russian poet Sonja Sankova decks Peter "Colonel Cut" Koslov, who is infamous for his necklace of ears taken from serfs and Jews. In London that same night, American ...

  • Drive Like Hell

    Dallas Hudgens

    Wanting desperately to be behind the wheel, Luke Fulmer counts down the days to his sixteenth birthday, when he can finally get his license. Unfortunately, the first thing he does with it is "borrow" his neighbor's car. When he is pulled over and fou...

  • Running Wild

    Bobby Hutchinson

    Nice Guy Or Bad Boy? P.I. Maddie Bertusso has always had her feet planted firmly on the ground--which makes her the perfect person to rein in her beautiful, rebellious sister, Francine. Little sis's current conquest, Sebastian, is her craziest hook...