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  • To Brie or Not To Brie

    Avery Aames

    Murder, revenge, and secrets: Shakespeare has arrived in Providence, Ohio... Charlotte Bessette -- owner of Fromagerie Bessette, known by locals as The Cheese Shop -- has a lot on her plate: setting a date with her fiancé, feeding the actors in ...

  • Only the Innocent

    Rachel Abbott

    Every moment of Sir Hugo Fletcher’s life has been chronicled in the British press: his privileged upbringing, his high-profile charity work to end human trafficking -- even his two marriages. But when the billionaire philanthropist is discovered mu...

  • A Berry Bitty Ballet

    Amy Ackelsberg

    The ballet has come to Berry Bitty City, and Strawberry and her friends have all been cast in the show. But Strawberry is sad that she won't actually get to dance in the show -- she's been cast as Cherry Jam's understudy. But everything changes when ...

  • The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination

    John Joseph Adams

    From Victor Frankenstein to Lex Luthor, from Dr. Moreau to Dr. Doom, readers have long been fascinated by insane plans for world domination and the madmen who devise them. Typically, we see these villains through the eyes of good guys. This anthology...

  • Under the Moons of Mars

    John Joseph Adams

    Ever since Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars in 1912, fans of all ages have marveled at the adventures of John Carter, an Earthman who suddenly finds himself in a strange new world. A century later, readers can enjoy this compilation ...

  • Soulbound

    Tessa Adams

    As the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter -- and a member of Ipswitch’s Royal family -- Xandra Morgan should be a witch of incredible power. But things don’t always turn out like you expect… While she hasn’t lived up to her family’s...

  • Pioneers of Space

    George Adamski

    Were His Astounding Claims Fact Or Fiction?Did He Really Ride In A Space Ship To The Moon And Beyond?Or was It All Merely A Rewrite Of A Work of Science Fiction Published Some Years Before, in the late 1940s?Polish born George Adamski shocked the Ame...

  • How To Get What You Want by Peony Pinker

    Jenny Alexander

    Peony wants a lot of things. She wants a dog, she wants her dad to stop being an agony aunt, and she really wants to get rid of her sister's horrible best friend Bianca. Then Mr Kaminski next door tells her the secret of how to get what you want, and...

  • How To Get The Family You Want by Peony Pinker

    Jenny Alexander

    Peony Pinker is fed up with her family. Her mum's working long hours setting up her gardening business and her dad isn't pulling his weight around the house, so they're arguing all the time. Her big sister, Primrose, is stressed about her exams and t...

  • Tuscan Rose

    Belinda Alexandra

    From an international bestselling author comes a richly woven tale of passion, longing, witchcraft, and magic set in Italy during World War II. A mysterious stranger known as The Wolf leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silv...

  • Extinction

    Mark Alpert

    A malevolent, artificial life form created by military scientists threatens to destroy humanity in this smart, Crichtonesque thriller Jim Pierce hasn't heard from his daughter in years, ever since she rejected his military past and started workin...

  • Pondlife

    Al Alvarez

  • Dancing to the Flute

    Manisha Jolie Amin

    Masterfully evoking the breathtaking beauty of India, Manisha Jolie Amin's lyrical debut novel follows a young boy whose life takes an unexpected turn when he is sent to live with a reclusive but renowned musician. Abandoned as a young child, Kalu...

  • Circuit Rider

    Dani Amore

    Mike Tower is a circuit rider, a traveling preacher charged with tending the lawless souls of the Wild West. Utterly fearless, he carries no gun, only the word of the Lord--and the shadowy mystery of a secret past. Sharpshooting, hard-drinking Bird H...

  • Override

    Heather Anastasiu

    Zoe is free. She has escaped the enslavement of the Community, disconnected from the hardware that had controlled her every thought and emotion, and evaded capture by the Chancellor intent on killing her. She is finally free, but she is far from safe...

  • A Real Cowboy

    Sarah M. Anderson

    Now that she's found him, how can she let go? Producer Thalia Thorne's career is on the line. She's promised to lure James Robert Bradley back to the limelight, no matter what it takes. But once in Montana, she sees that J.R. has built a new life ...

  • The Perfect Scream

    James Andrus

    Sooner Or Later The deaths are gruesome, unrelated accidents -- at first glance. But as the body count rises, the terrifying truth becomes clear. It’s not bad luck that’s stalking the members of the Tau Upsilon fraternity. It’s something far w...

  • Every Trick in the Book

    Lucy Arlington

    The national bestselling Novel Idea Mysteries return with Lila Wilkins, who has just been promoted to full-time literary agent. But great new writers aren’t the only people she’s trying to catch… Lila Wilkins has it all: the home of her drea...

  • Once Again a Bride

    Jane Ashford

    Pushed into a miserable loveless marriage, Charlotte Rutherford Wylde finds her late husband has spent her entire fortune and more astonishingly, he has an entire family that he never bothered to mention. The fashionable Wyldes are as surprised to...

  • P is for Princess

    Annie Auerbach

    Get ready for some alphabet fun with this exciting new format! On each page a Disney Princess introduces a new letter of the alphabet with a sturdy die-cut letter to trace and colorful flaps to explore! Beneath each flap is a new word that connects t...

  • Monsters Love Colors

    Mike Austin

    Did you know that monsters love to scribble, scribble, mix, dance, and wiggle! Why? Because monsters love to make new colors! Celebrate along with the hilarious monsters in this wild and energetic picture book from author-illustrator Mike A...

  • Savage Dawn

    James Axler

    OMNIPRESENT MENACE In postapocalyptic earth, the Cerberus rebels fight the forces of alien tyranny over humankind. While the losses are often painful, their victories bring renewed promise. Forging a brave new world from the wreckage of the old, the...

  • Demon to Die For

    Sidney Ayers

  • Fuse

    Julianna Baggott

    When the world ended, those who dwelled within the Dome were safe. Inside their glass world the Pures live on unscarred, while those outside--the Wretches-- struggle to survive amidst the smoke and ash. Believing his mother was living among the Wr...

  • Fortress Of Dwarka

    Ashok K. Banker

  • Matador

    Ray Banks

    Costa del Sol, Spain He wakes up screaming, a bullet in his head and his body buried in a shallow grave. He has no memory of life before this moment, just a single clue to the past: a ticket to a bullfight crumpled in his pocket with a phone number ...

  • Not Your Typical Dragon

    Dan Bar-el

    Everybody knows your typical dragon breathes fire. But when Crispin tries to breathe fire on his seventh birthday, fire doesn't come out--only whipped cream Each time Crispin tries to breathe fire, he ends up with Band-Aids, marshmallows, ted...

  • Domino Falls

    Steven Barnes; Tananarive Due

    Two bestselling award-winning authors team up with the second book in an exciting new paranormal series: What happens when an alien race brings Earth to the brink of Apocalypse, forcing a struggle for control of the planet? The date: A week after ...

  • Girl Meets Ghost

    Lauren Barnholdt

    A tween girl becomes a reluctant medium in this start to a hilariously haunting series. There’s an old saying that “dead men tell no tales” -- but that saying is definitely not true. Just ask twelve-year-old Kendall Williams, who can’t get...

  • Maximum Security

    Robert G. Barrett

  • Key Witness

    Christy Barritt

    When Elle Philips witnesses an armed robbery while standing in line at the bank, she sets into motion a deadly game of cat and mouse. Mark Denton, a security contractor and former navy SEAL, also witnesses the robbery, and is hired by Elle's father t...

  • One Hot Murder

    Lorraine Bartlett

    Where there’s smoke… Katie Bonner, the reluctant manager of Artisans Alley in the quaint shopping district of Victoria Square, is no stranger to ambivalence. Things have been going hot and heavy with pizza maker Andy Rust -- so much so that Ka...

  • The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs

    Dana Bate

    Hannah Sugarman seems to have it all. She works for an influential think tank in Washington, D.C., lives in a swanky apartment with her high-achieving boyfriend, and is poised for an academic career just like her parents. The only problem is that Han...

  • Frances and Bernard

    Carlene Bauer

    A letter can spark a friendship. A friendship can change your life. In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at an artists’ colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterward, he write...

  • Dancing in the Dark

    Robyn Bavati

    When her life’s passion is forbidden, how much will Ditty risk to follow her dream? When Ditty Cohen first sees a ballet on TV, the beautiful, gravity-defying dancing captivates her. She’s instantly connected to the graceful performers, and re...

  • The Rose Cottage Adventures

    Emily Bearn

    Tumtum and Nutmeg just want to live out their comfy lives in peace, unbothered by anything as distracting as an adventure. But the holidays are upon them, and it seems to be the time of year when Arthur and Lucy, the disheveled human children of Rose...

  • Blessing

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Her Secret Was Out... Uley Kirkland was in a pickle. Nobody in Tin Cup, Colorado, knew that beneath her cloth cap and mining togs, she was all woman. Nobody except Aaron Brown, the handsome newcomer who, thanks to her, was now locked up in the tow...

  • Medium Well

    Meg Benjamin

    Real estate agent Danny Ramos has always had a knack for selling homes, but when his boss saddles him with a neglected carriage house, Danny discovers that his abilities are more than simple intuition... On his first visit to the house, Danny is ...

  • American Elsewhere

    Robert Jackson Bennett

    Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of ha...

  • The Night Ranger

    Alex Berenson

    John Wells enters new territory, as he goes underground in East Africa to track four kidnapped Americans and the Somali bandits who snatched them, in the tough, thoughtful, electrifying new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Four...

  • The Berenstain Bears, Thank God for Good Health

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Have Brother and Sister taken care of themselves as God would want? Go with the Bear family to Dr. Grizzly's office and read all about it....

  • The Berenstain Bears, God Made the Colors

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Red, yellow, blue, and more, the Bear cubs take a color tour! Bear Country comes alive with color as Brother and Sister teach us about God's colorful world. Written in simple rhyme and classic Berenstain rhythm, level one readers will enjoy this tour...

  • The Berenstain Bears Ride Like the Wind

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    When Sister Bear begins taking riding lessons, she is thrilled to get on the fastest horse and go for an exciting ride. But when Sister is paired with a mild-tempered old mare named Bess, she's a bit wary. Will Sister Bear soon learn to never judge a...

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Great Ant Attack

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    The Bear Family thinks they're going out for a lovely afternoon picnic…but little do they know that they're in for a sharp surprise, including some bites to the behind! After a science experiment gone wrong unleashes a horde of stinging, breeding a...

  • Mistle Child

    Ari Berk

    In life, in death: family remains. Silas Umber has finally come into his own as the Undertaker of Lichport when a mysterious invitation calls him beyond the marshes to Arvale, the ancestral manor of the Umbers. There, his extended family endures, ...

  • Pathfinder

    Julie Bertagna

    Less than a hundred years from now, the world as we know it no longer exists. Cities have disappeared beneath the sea, technology no longer functions, and human civilization has reverted completely. Only Mara has the vision and the will to save the p...

  • Ambushed in Africa

    Sian Ann Bessey

    When Matt Williams sees the glowing light return to the forgotten shed on the grounds of the Missionary Training Center, he knows another exciting missionary adventure awaits that only he and his older sister, Emily, can fulfill. Their call to Nig...

  • Dogstar Rising

    Parker Bilal

    Summer, 2001. The mutilated bodies of young boys are turning up in the backstreets of Cairo, and the finger of suspicion is pointing at the city's Coptic community. As Makana, a private investigator who fled his native Sudan a decade ago, watches the...

  • A Week in Winter

    Maeve Binchy

    Maeve Binchy returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know...

  • Rome

    John Birmingham

    Alternate history master John Birmingham unleashes an astounding new installment in his Axis of Time series: an original eBook novella that begins when the future and the past collide. The year is 1955, ten years after a battle fleet from 2021 e...

  • Without Warning - After America

    John Birmingham

  • Without Warning - Angels of Vengeance

    John Birmingham

  • Pros and Cons

    Jenna Black

    An original eNovella in the acclaimed Nikki Glass urban fantasy series, taking place between the events of the novels Deadly Descendant and Rogue Descendant. As a living descendant of Artemis the Huntress, private investigator Nikki Glass knows ho...

  • Seance in Sepia

    Michelle Black

    When the price of an unusual picture called a spirit photograph, which some Victorian spiritualists claimed was a photograph of the departed taken during a seance, sells at auction for over a thousand dollars, Flynn Keirnan is determined to discover ...

  • The Graceful Demon

    Yelana Black

    Vanessa Adler isn't so sure she really belongs at the School of American Ballet. But dance runs in her family. It's been a part of her life for as long as she can remember. Her grandmother and mother were prima ballerinas, and her older sister Margar...

  • Dead Things

    Stephen Blackmoore

    Necromancer is such an ugly word, but it's a title Eric Carter is stuck with. He sees ghosts, talks to the dead. He's turned it into a lucrative career putting troublesome spirits to rest, sometimes taking on even more dangerous things. For a fee,...

  • Hit Me

    Lawrence Block

    BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND GRAND MASTER LAWRENCE BLOCK RETURNS TO HIS DEADLIEST HITMAN A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, ...

  • Lost to the Gray

    Amanda Bonilla

    Did he do the right thing? No one loves Darian like Tyler does. Not her friends. Not her fellow Shaedes. Not the Shaede king who wants her for himself. Tyler is the only one who sees beyond the swagger and swordplay that make her the most fearsom...

  • Real Mermaids Don't Need High Heels

    Helene Boudreau

    Just Your Average Teenage Mer-Girl The only thing that terrifies Jade more than the ocean is dancing at the Fall Formal. Because Jade has two left feet -- er, flippers. Who knew being a high school freshman is even more awkward than being a plus-s...

  • Farside

    Ben Bova

    Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder. Telescopes on Earth have detected an Ea...

  • The Face in the Mirror

    Rhys Bowen

    Molly Murphy -- Molly Sullivan, now that she and Daniel are finally married -- is bored. Having given up her detective agency when she married, she now finds that her life is much less exciting, her days an endless stretch of housekeeping and chores....

  • J Is for Jesus

    Crystal Bowman

    Sweet rhymes and bright fun illustrations bring the meaning of the candy cane to life for little ones at holiday time.Everyone loves a candy cane, but it’s easy to overlook the meaning of this familiar Christmas tradition in all the hustle and bust...

  • Shadow on the Crown

    Patricia Bracewell

    A rich tale of power and forbidden love revolving around a young medieval queen In 1002, fifteen­-year-old Emma of Normandy crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Athelred of England, whom she meets for the first time at the church doo...

  • Ice Breaker

    Tom Bradman; Tony Bradman

    When the spaceship colony Buzz Aldrin spots an ice planet, although it's no good for long-term habitation, it is
    a great place for a winter holiday! Armed with skis, snowboards and
    sledges, the children are taken for a fun-filled field<...

  • Crash Course

    Tom Bradman; Tony Bradman

    Life can be pretty tough when you're stuck on a spaceship because pollution has destroyed Planet Earth. Especially when your mum is the stressed-out captain, and your grades are slipping at school. But Luke's boring world is about to change when he a...

  • Bug Wars

    Tom Bradman; Tony Bradman

    Trapped on a colony spaceship ever since Planet Earth became too polluted to support human life, Luke whiles away his time playing computer games, just like any normal boy. But when an alien battleship arrives demanding that Luke comes aboard, it see...

  • Blast Off!

    Tom Bradman; Tony Bradman

    Luke, Yasmin and Yuri have been stuck on the Buzz Aldrin
    spaceship for so long that they can barely remember what living on
    polluted planet earth was like! So when the colony finally finds an
    earth-like planet that seems safe to land o...

  • A Life Worth Living

    Irene Brand

    DORA IS DISSATISFIED. Although she's at the center of New York society, Dora Porter still feels there's something missing in her life. But a textile mill wasn't what she had in mind. When she learns her father has purchased a Southern mill for he...

  • Final Victory

    Herbie Brennan

    Final Victory is the thought-provoking story of young boys who are caught up in the propaganda machine of Hitler's Germany during World War II. Jurgen Wolf is convinced that Hitler is a hero, whose vision of Germany should be defended at all costs. H...

  • A Natural History of Dragons

    Marie Brennan

    You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart -- no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to stand in a dragon’s presence, even for the briefest of moments -- even at...

  • The Gin Lovers

    Jamie Brenner

    Set against the turbulent and glamorous backdrop of Prohibition and the rise of the jazz age, "The Gin Lovers" is a sensual and romantic story of how one high society woman's passion and courage lead her to love. It's 1925, and the Victorian era w...

  • Abe Lincoln's Hat

    Martha Brenner

    Abraham Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents, started out in life as an absent-minded frontier lawyer. How did he nudge his memory? He stuck letters, court notes, contracts, and even his checkbook in his trademark top hat. When he took off his hat...

  • The Daylight War

    Peter V. Brett

    With The Warded Man and The Desert Spear, Peter V. Brett surged to the front rank of contemporary fantasy, standing alongside giants in the field such as George R. R. Martin, Robert Jordan, and Terry Brooks. The Daylight War, the eagerly anticipated ...

  • Finding Justice

    Rachel Brimble

    Old friends, new secrets Sergeant Cat Forrester lives by her own set of rules. When her childhood friend is murdered, Cat's world is thrown into chaos. Especially because Jay Garrett -- a man from her past -- is a suspect, and he needs her help to...

  • Philida

    Andre Brink

    "This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don’t say no. You don’t ask questions. You just do what they tell you. But far at the back of your head you ...

  • Treasure on Superstition Mountain

    Elise Broach

    Even though Henry Barker and his two brothers learned firsthand that the urban legend about danger on nearby Superstition Mountain wasn’t just a myth, this doesn’t stop them from planning their return. Along with their friend Delilah, the Barker ...

  • A Medal for Murder

    Frances Brody

    A pawn-shop robbery It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks up her second professional sleuthing case. But exposing the culprit of a pawn-shop robbery turns sinister when her investigation takes her to Harrogate - and murder is only o...

  • Yesterday's Sun

    Amanda Brooke

    A suspenseful tale of free will versus fate--an extraordinary story of love and family, and the risks we take to break free from the past Newlyweds Holly and Tom have just moved into their dream home, a charming English carriage house in the Londo...

  • Wildcat

    Cheryl Brooks

    Only One Woman Can Tame Him When horse breeder Sara Shield encounters Jerden Morokovitz riding naked and bareback, she's stunned by the magnificence of both man and stallion. But Sara came to Terra Minor hoping to get away from all the men. If ...

  • Fortress of Mist

    Sigmund Brouwer

    The throne is redeemed, but the battle is just beginning. In the dark corners of an ancient land, evil lurks in the shadows. Powerful druids haunt the spaces of their lost territory. Double-minded noblemen fight for domain and influence...

  • Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations

    Jeffrey Brown

  • To the Moon and Back in Ninety Days

    John Young Brown

    •Includes over 60 original illustrations and photos •Features biographical material by Ron Miller•Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerFeatured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” This 1922 novel by John Young Br...

  • One Gorilla

    Anthony Browne

    Primo primate artist Anthony Browne is at the top of his form with a simple -- and simply fascinating -- array of creatures for kids to count. What better attention-getter for small children than primates in all their variety? And who better t...

  • Sophia Grace and Rosie's Princess Tea Party

    Sophia Grace Brownlee; Rosie McClelland

    The precocious cousins from the ELLEN show host a princess tea party! Following their breakout performance of Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" on the ELLEN show, Sophia Grace and Rosie became YouTube sensations. After appearing numerous times on ELLEN, ...

  • Captain America: The Complete Collection

    Ed Brubaker

    Steve Rogers is dead! Long live Captain America! He was a hero to millions, an inspiration to America's armed services and the representative of his nation's greatest ideals. He lived for his country - and now, he has given his last final measure for...

  • A Goodbye to Yesterday

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Join Meredith and Luke Stoltzfus, an Amish couple who are faced with the greatest challenge of their young lives. Financial struggles. Arguments. A confirmed pregnancy. A last-minute trip to South Bend, Indiana. A drug addict on the run. A deadly enc...

  • Wait Until Dark

    M.L. Buchman / Matthew Lieber Buchman

    NAME: Big John Wallace RANK: Staff Sergeant, Chief Mechanic and Gunner MISSION: To serve and protect his crew and country NAME: Connie Davis RANK: Sergeant, Flight Engineer, Mechanical Wizard MISSION: To be the best... and survive TWO CRACK...

  • Captain America and Black Widow

    Cullen Bunn

    Captain America and the Black Widow are on a deadly collision course, as Kashmir Venemma and her multiversal corporation have sent them on a wild goose chase through countless worlds. Chased by a superpowered kill squad, Cap and Widow jaunt through t...

  • My Sister Celia

    Mary Burchell

    It was the happiest day of Freda's life when she discovered that her sister Celia, whom she had always believed dead, was very much alive and delighted to be reunited with her. But her affection for her new-found sister was to be put to its stern...

  • Desert Danger

    Jan Burchett

    A lion cub has fallen down a well, and now its mother is preventing the locals from getting any water! Ben and Zoe travel to the Kalahari desert to help, but with overwhelming heat, deadly creatures at every turn, and a powerful sandstorm raging arou...

  • Avalanche Alert

    Jan Burchett

    Following an avalanche in the Himalayas, a snow leopard and her cub have been separated from their territory and forced to eat sheep from a nearby village in order to survive. But now the locals have plans to protect their livestock by poisoning the ...

  • Jealousy

    Jessica Burkhart

    Lauren’s got to saddle up and sit tall if she’s going to make it to Thanksgiving at Canterwood Crest. Thanksgiving break is approaching at Canterwood, but no one’s even close to relaxing -- especially not Lauren. For one thing, her ex-boyfri...

  • Lady Eve's Indiscretion

    Grace Burrowes

    Lady Eve's Got The Perfect Plan Pretty, petite Evie Windham has been more indiscreet than her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Moreland, suspect. Fearing that a wedding night would reveal her past, she's running out of excuses to dodge adoring swa...

  • The Alaskan Rescue

    Dominique Burton

    A Place For Wild Hearts To Heal Sashi Hansen came to Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, to work herself closer to her dream: her own ballet studio. Instead, a wild bear has landed her in a nightmare. Her leg is broken, and she may never dance again. ...

  • Wanted . . . Mud Blossom

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    What happened to the class hamster? Find out in this Edgar Award"winning mystery story with some “delightfully comic twists” (Kirkus Reviews). When Junior brings home the classroom hamster, Scooty, he decides to build the best hamster tunnel ev...

  • Wife by Wednesday

    Catherine Bybee

    A wife by Wednesday…a love for a lifetime Blake Harrison: Rich, titled, and charming…and in need of a wife by Wednesday. Blake turns to Sam Elliot, who isn’t the businessman he expected. Instead, Blake is faced with Samantha Elliot, beautif...

  • Veiled Revenge

    Ellen Byerrum

    Home of the helmet hairdo and congressional comb-over, Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of fashion faux pas. If anyone should know, it’s “Crimes of Fashion” columnist Lacey Smithsonian. She dishes out advice to the scandal-scorched and clothing-cl...

  • Prophet of the Dead

    Richard Lee Byers

    The anticipated climax to a series that has been building in popularity, Richard Lee Byers is at his best working with tales of the undead. Prophet of the Dead fulfills on the promise of the title, giving fans a satisfying end to the current threats...

  • Dream Friends

    You Byun

    Melody has the most wonderful friend in her dreams. They do all sorts of magical things together. But when Melody wakes up, she’s back in the real world, where she hasn’t yet made a friend. Then her dream friend inspires her to make some moves th...

  • Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

    Candlewick Press

    Imagine an alternate universe where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Visionaries Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant have taken a genre already rich, stran...

  • Marriage with Benefits

    Kat Cantrell

    Her Ideal Ex-Husband "Will you divorce me?" Those are the four little words Cia Allende wants to hear Lucas Wheeler say. Of course, they have to marry first. The gorgeous Texas real estate tycoon shuns commitment, but a six-month fake marriage wil...

  • A Dream for Tomorrow

    Melody Carlson

    Bestselling author Melody Carlson (more than 5 million books sold) continues her Homeward on the Oregon Trail series with this second romantic adventure. Elizabeth Martin and her two children have made it through the easy part of their journey, bu...

  • India Black and the Shadows of Anarchy

    Carol K. Carr

    In Victorian London, India Black has all the attributes a high-class madam needs to run a successful brothel--wit, beauty, and an ability to lie with a smile. Luckily for Her Majesty's Government, all these talents also make her a first-rate spy... ...

  • A Cast of Stones

    Patrick W. Carr

    In the backwater village of Callowford, Errol Stone's search for a drink is interrupted by a church messenger who arrives with urgent missives for the hermit priest in the hills. Desperate for coin, Errol volunteers to deliver them but soon finds him...

  • Etiquette & Espionage

    Gail Carriger

    It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dis...

  • Perfect Scoundrels

    Ally Carter

    Katarina Bishop and W W. Hale the Fifth were born to lead completely different lives: Kat comes from a long, proud line of lovable criminal masterminds, while Hale is the scion of one of the most seemingly perfect dynasties in the world. If their fam...

  • Neferet's Curse

    P.C. Cast; Kristin Cast

    The White City, 1893: In turn-of-the-century Chicago, with the World’s Fair bringing bustle and excitement to her home city, sixteen-year-old Emily Wheiler should be reveling in her youthful beauty and the excitement around her. But her whole life ...

  • All This Talk of Love

    Christopher Castellani

    It’s been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America. That was the last time she would see her parents, her sisters and brothers -- everything she knew and loved in the village of Santa Cecilia, Italy. She locked ...

  • Cloneward Bound

    M.E. Castle

    Fisher Bas and Two were able to thwart the evil Dr. X, but after somehow surviving the explosion at TechX Enterprises, Two is in Hollywood looking for his "mother." Fisher must bring him back to Palo Alto before his cloning secret is discovered. When...

  • One Sunday

    Carrie Gerlach Cecil

    In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a beleaguered young woman must shed her career, identity, and power persona to learn how to love and forgive herself, others, and God. At age thirty-seven, Alice Ferguson has everything an ambitious, intellect...

  • Learning to Stay

    Erin Celello

    Elise Sabato is proud of her husband, Brad, for serving his country...and grateful when he returns home to her. But the traumatic brain injury he suffered in Iraq has turned him from a thoughtful, brilliant, and patient man into someone quite differe...

  • Bedroom Diplomacy

    Michelle Celmer

    A Scandal Waiting to Happen After her last politically minded suitor left her heartbroken and pregnant, Rowena has sworn off the Capitol Hill dating pool. But even she isn't immune to Colin Middlebury's British charms, and his skills exten...

  • How Dark the World Becomes

    Frank Chadwick

    Sasha Naradnyo is a gangster. He's a gangster with heart, sure, but Sasha sticks his neck out for no man. That's how you stay alive in Crack City, a colony stuffed deep into the crust of the otherwise unlivable planet Peezgtaan. Alive only--because i...

  • A Home for Lydia

    Vannetta Chapman

    A Home for Lydia, the second book in a new romantic series from popular author Vannetta Chapman, centers again on the Plain community of Pebble Creek and the kind, caring people there. As they face challenges to their community from the English world...

  • The Reluctant Earl

    C.J. Chase

    Caught in the Act Alone in a gentleman's bedchamber, rummaging through his clothing-governess Leah Vance risks social ruin. Only by selling political information can she pay for her sister's care. And the letter she found in Julian DeChambrelle's ...

  • The Canterbuy Tales

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    While Geoffrey Chaucer composed several magnificent works of poetry, his reputation as “the father of English literature” rests mainly on "The Canterbury Tales," a group of stories told by assorted pilgrims en route to the shrine of Thomas à Bec...

  • The King Next Door

    Maureen Child

    "Just give me one night." Single mom Nicole Baxter is perfectly fulfilled without a man in her life. But when billionaire Griffin King moves in next door, she considers a fling. Not only is he gorgeous and exciting, but he's not staying. It's an i...

  • Protecting the Pregnant Princess

    Lisa Childs

    A DOUBLE RESCUE MISSION A princess and her doppelganger are missing, and a grief-stricken king turns to Aaron Timmer for answers. As a bodyguard to the king, Aaron's mission is clear when one of the women is found: keep her out of danger and find...

  • The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere

    John Chu

    John Chu's sci-fi tale, "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). ...

  • Rain, Rain, Go Away

    Caroline Jayne Church

    Caroline Jayne Church makes a splash with this popular preschool song! RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY is already a well-loved preschool favorite. Now this board book with a full-foil cover will catch everyone's eye (rain or shine!) as Church's toddlers and s...

  • X-Men: Mutant Massacre

    Chris Claremont

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #210-214, X-Factor #9-11, New Mutants #46, Thor #373-374, Power Pack #27 & Daredevil #238. The Marauders - professional mutant assassins, employed by a mysterious evil, are tasked with wiping out the entire Morlock c...

  • X-Men: Fall of the Mutants - Volume 1

    Chris Claremont

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #220-227, Hulk (1968) #340, New Mutants (1983) #55-61. Two teams of mutants. Two tales of tragedy. The vicious Marauders have already slaughtered the tunnel-dwelling Morlocks, and now they plan to kill Cyclops' estranged...

  • X-Women

    Chris Claremont

    Four tales of action and suspense featuring the lovely ladies of the mutant world! First, international superstar Milo Manara joins X-Legend Chris Claremont for a highflying, death-defying, globetrotting adventure! Storm, Psylocke, Shadowcat, Marvel ...

  • Essential Marvel Team-Up - Volume 4

    Chris Claremont

    Spider-Man's parade of all-star team-ups continues as he fights side by side with Nick Fury, the Black Widow, Hawkeye, the Hulk, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, Ms. Marvel, the Black Panther, Nightcrawler, the Beast, Ghost Rider, Howard ...

  • The Dark Lady

    Maire Claremont

    The Victorian era was full of majestic beauty and scandalous secrets -- a time when corsets were the least of a woman’s restrictions, and men could kill or be killed in the name of honor.… Lord Ian Blake has returned from India a broken man. ...

  • Courting Miss Callie

    Dorothy Clark

    Seeking True Love Stunningly beautiful Callie Conner is sick of being pursued by shallow suitors. She wants a man of faith, honesty and moral integrity who will love and value her for more than her appearance. So she flees to her aunt's hotel, whe...

  • She's No Idol

    Jay Clark

    Abram and Juliette know each other. They’ve lived down the street from each other their whole lives. But they don’t really know each other -- at least, not until Juliette’s mom and Abram’s dad have a torrid affair that culminates in a deadly ...

  • The Rebel and Miss Jones

    Annie Claydon

    Awakening a wallflower… Plain Jane Sara Jones cherishes the quiet life, and is most certainly unfamiliar with danger. So when she finds her life literally in jeopardy, and she is rescued by what can only be described as a risk-taking stranger, s...

  • Sweet Home Colorado

    C.C. Coburn

    Repairing More Than Just A House Grace Saunders returns to Spruce Lake, Colorado, to oversee the renovation of a house she's inherited-and to get away from a bad divorce. She's not planning to run into her high school sweetheart, Jack O'Malley. Sh...

  • A Vacation for Pooch

    Maryann Cocca-Leffler

    Meet Violet. She’s going on vacation to sunny Florida. She packed her bag very carefully. Meet Pooch. He’s going on vacation to Grandpa’s snowy farm. Violet packed his bag very carefully, too. After they both leave, disaster strikes! When...

  • Let It Rain

    Maryann Cocca-Leffler

    A sweet picture book that celebrates springtime! The snow is melting, flowers are blooming, and a light rain is falling. Spring is finally here! Enjoy all the wondrous signs of the season with Maryann Cocca-Leffler's exhuberant celebration of spri...

  • Amber Morn

    Brandilyn Collins

    The whole thing couldn’t have taken more than sixty seconds. Bailey hung on to the counter, dazed. If she let go, she’d collapse -- and the twitching fingers of one of the gunmen would pull a trigger. The rest of her group huddled in frozen shock...

  • The Power Trip

    Jackie Collins

    A luxurious yacht in the Sea of Cortez, a birthday cruise for one of the world’s most beautiful women and an invitation no one can refuse. The Power Trip -- take it if you dare. From Hollywood icon and mega-seller Jackie Collins comes a thrill...

  • Seduction of the Innocent

    Max Allan Collins

    It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books - especially the scary, gory, bloody sort published by the bad boys of the industry, EF Comics. But on the way to a Senate hearing on whether these depraved publications sh...

  • The Ruining

    Anna Collomore

    Annie Phillips is thrilled to leave her past behind and begin a shiny new life on Belvedere Island, as a nanny for the picture-perfect Cohen family. In no time at all, she falls in love with the Cohens, especially with Libby, the beautiful young matr...

  • Not That Tutu!

    Michelle Sinclair Colman

    Taylor loved her tutu and wore it all the time, day and night. She wore it to school and she wore it in the pool, much to the mild annoyance and amusement of her friends and family. Will she ever give up that tutu? With style and humor, this charm...

  • The House Girl

    Tara Conklin

    Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine . . . 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves...

  • A Sunday Kind of Woman

    Ray Connolly

    First published in 1980, this is a tale of Charlie Fairweather, song-writer and occasional performer, for whom holidays meant quick affairs, quickly forgotten. But the woman he met in Sicily was different. Kate Sullivan was beautiful, sophisticate...

  • Buried In a Bog

    Sheila Connolly

    National bestselling and Agatha Award-nominated author Sheila Connolly introduces a brand-new series set in a small village in County Cork, Ireland, where buried secrets are about to rise to the surface... Honoring the wish of her late grandmother...

  • Trinity Rising

    Elspeth Cooper

    This sequel to Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper continues the story of a young man who has been sentenced to death, and then exiled, for his magical abilities. As Gair struggles with grief over the loss of the only home he had known, and his ...

  • Chance of a Ghost

    E.J. Copperman

    Alison Kerby’s guesthouse is haunted all year round. Surviving the dead of winter, though? That’s a spooky proposition. Even with a blizzard bearing down on New Jersey, Alison can count on at least two guests -- Paul and Maxie, the stubborn g...

  • Freaky Funfair

    Tracey Corderoy

    The Grunt and The Grouch take a ride on the giant Loop the Loop, find their dog an enormous dinosaur bone, and settle an argument in this three-in-one adventure. ...

  • Pick 'n' Mix

    Tracey Corderoy

    Join The Grunt and The Grouch as they get into trouble at the movie theater, find themselves in hot water at school, and are forced to tidy up their grimy house when a relative comes to visit. ...

  • Between Hell and Texas

    Ralph Cotton

    HE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN After Cray Dawson helps bring down the Talbert Gang, he gains the reputation of a shootist. But Cray doesn’t consider himself a gunfighter. All he wants to do is mosey on home to Somos Santos, Texas, and get back to chasin...

  • Maisy Learns to Swim

    Lucy Cousins

    Maisy ventures into the water in a story sure to make a splash with young children who are learning to swim. Today Maisy is going swimming for the first time, and she is a little nervous. Good thing Eddie and Tallulah are coming, too. Eddie is a n...

  • Rat and Roach Rock On!

    David Covell

    “Rat, I am ready to ROCK!" "Huh?" "You said I could sing in the band." "When?" "In the last book." "Oh. Right." Rat has finally agreed to let his friend Roach sing in his band... but not if Roach makes everyone wear shiny, sparkly outfit...

  • Rat & Roach Rock On!

    David Covell

    “Rat, I am ready to ROCK!""Huh?""You said I could sing in the band.""When?""In the last book.""Oh. Right."Rat has finally agreed to let his friend Roach sing in his band... but not if Roach makes everyone wear shiny, sparkly outfits. No way! Roach ...

  • A Good Death

    Christopher R. Cox

    A nail-biting debut mystery that plunges readers into the seamy side streets of late-90s Bangkok and across the untamed mountains of the Lao-Vietnam border, hot on the heels of an alluring woman who’s officially dead -- unless she’s masterminded...

  • Harvest

    Jim Crace

    A remote English village wakes on the morning after harvest, looking forward to enjoying a hard-earned day of rest and feasting. But two mysterious columns of smoke mar the sky, raising alarm and suspicion. The first column of smoke comes from the...

  • Knot What It Seams

    Elizabeth Craig

    When former folk art curator Beatrice Coleman retired to Dappled Hills, North Carolina, for peace and quiet and quilting, she never expected that murder would disturb the peace... Dwindling membership has the Village Quilters hanging by a thread,...

  • A Quilt for Jenna

    Patrick E. Craig

    Amish + Quilts = readers delight And in this first book in Patrick Craig's Apple Creek Dreams series, readers will follow Jerusha Springer's journey out of tragic circumstances to a new life of hope. Jerusha has spent months making the most beauti...

  • Kate's Turn

    Cheri J. Crane

    As far as Kate Erickson is concerned, prayer doesn’t work and testimonies are only illusions. She dismisses her parents as being old-fashioned and far too restrictive. Unimpressed with either her parents or the Church, 16-year-old Kate turns to...

  • Kate's Return

    Cheri J. Crane

    A Heartwarming Sequel to Kate’s Turn Linda glared at Kate. “Do you have any idea how hard it was this summer, thinking you were going to die? Then I hear you’ve snapped out of the coma. You come home and I think things are going to be fine: ...

  • The Lives We Lost

    Megan Crewe

    First, the virus took Kaelyn's friends. Then, her family. Now it's taken away her home. But she can't look back--the life she once had is gone forever. A deadly virus has destroyed Kaelyn's small island community and spread beyond the quaranti...

  • The Sound of Broken Glass

    Deborah Crombie

    In the past . . . On a blisteringly hot August afternoon in Crystal Palace, once home to the tragically destroyed Great Exhibition, a solitary thirteen-year-old boy meets his next-door neighbor, a recently widowed young teacher hoping to make a ne...

  • Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains)

    Laurie Boyle Crompton

    Blaze is tired of spending her life on the sidelines. All she wants is for Mark the Soccer Stud to notice her. Not as Josh's weird sister who drives a turd-brown minivan. And not as that nerdy girl who draws comics. What she gets is her very ow...

  • The Notorious Lady Anne

    Sharon Cullen

    From rising romance star Sharon Cullen comes a tale of the fiery passion between a noble naval officer and a female pirate that’s as tempestuous and as unpredictable as the sea. Nicholas Addison, celebrated captain of the Blackwell Shipping Fl...

  • Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles

    Ron Currie Jr.

    In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke. The protagonist of Ron Currie, Jr.’s new novel ...

  • Little Dinos Don't Yell

    Michael Dahl

    Even though Little Dino has a loud roar, she must learn that yelling all the time is not okay. ...

  • Little Dinos Don't Push

    Michael Dahl

    Little Dino must realize that pushing is not a proper behavior, even if she is very strong. ...

  • Little Dinos Don't Bite

    Michael Dahl

    Little Dino has lots of sharp teeth and starts using them to bite objects and other dinosaurs. He must learn to use them in the right way. ...

  • Little Dinos Don't Hit

    Michael Dahl

    Little Dino must learn that even though he's very strong, hitting is not proper behavior. ...

  • Bear Says ''Thank You''

    Michael Dahl

    With the help of his mom, bear completes a cute craft project while using his manners. ...

  • Pony Brushes His Teeth

    Michael Dahl

    Pony learns how to brush his teeth by watching Dad. ...

  • The Different Girl

    Gordon Dahlquist

    Veronika. Caroline. Isobel. Eleanor. One blond, one brunette, one redhead, one with hair black as tar. Four otherwise identical girls who spend their days in sync, tasked to learn. But when May, a very different kind of girl -- the lone survivor of a...

  • A Blind Eye

    Julie Daines

    Life has dealt Christian Morris one blow too many. After his mother’s untimely death left him in the care of his distant, workaholic father, family life became anything but happy. Now, after eight years of neglect and loneliness, he can’t think o...

  • Detection Mission

    Margaret Daley

    Who is she? While looking for a missing child in Sagebrush, Texas, K-9 detective Lee Calloway and his border-collie partner find someone else. A mystery woman running for her life, scared and injured. But she has no idea who she is -- or why someo...

  • Going Under

    Lauren Dane

    Two lovers fighting for their lives against a rising threat, and a passion that’s just as dangerous… In the wake of the Magister’s rampage, chaos rules. Left reeling, the Others and the humans scramble to create some sort of unity in the fac...

  • The Water Witch

    Juliet Dark

    A breathtakingly sexy and atmospheric new novel of ancient folklore, passionate love, and thrilling magic. After casting out a dark spirit, Callie McFay, a professor of gothic literature, has at last restored a semblance of calm to her rambling V...

  • The Void of Mist and Thunder

    James Dashner

    Suspense meets sacrifice in the action-packed conclusion to New York Times bestselling author James Dashner’s 13th Reality series. Atticus Higginbottom -- aka Tick -- has known all along that when the battle for every reality is on the line, his...

  • A Taste of Seduction

    Sylvia Day

    Sylvia Day returns to the "stunning new world"* of the Renegade Angels for a riveting new novel of a dangerous romance conceived in the shadows between the living and the damned. Dr. Karin Allardice, a renowned--and mortal--virologist, has been ki...

  • The Spy Who Lost Her Head

    Jane De Suza

  • Put Out the Light

    Terry Deary

    Winner of the 2012 Sheffield Children's Book Award.
    This thrilling adventure from bestselling 'Horrible Histories' author Terry Deary brings the Blitz to life.

    It's 1940 and war is underway. In Sheffield, England, a br...

  • The Burn Zone

    James K. Decker

    Plagued by overpopulation, disease, and starvation, humanity was headed for extinction -- until an alien race called the haan arrived. And then the real trouble began. It’s been a rough day for Sam Shao. As part of a program that requires human...

  • Sever

    Lauren DeStefano

    Time is running out for Rhine in this conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Chemical Garden Trilogy. With the clock ticking until the virus takes its toll, Rhine is desperate for answers. After enduring Vaughn’s worst, Rhine finds an unli...

  • Checkmate, My Lord // A Lady's Temptation

    Tracey Devlyn

    A desperate mother falls in love with the spymaster she's forced to betray. THE STAKES ARE HIGH, THE PLAYERS IN POSITION... Catherine Ashcroft leads a quiet life caring for her precocious seven-year-old daughter, until a visitor delivers a ...

  • The Marshal's Witness

    Lena Diaz

    EVERYONE HAS SECRETS. HERS MAY GET THEM KILLED. Breaking protocol and going on the run with a protected witness wasn't in U.S. Marshal Ryan Jackson's plans. And even though Jessica Delaney's testimony nearly put away a crime boss, Ryan can't affo...

  • The Education of Nia Simone Bijou

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    Eric Jerome Dickey, author of fourteen New York Times bestselling novels, imagines the formative college years of one of his most popular heroines, Nia Simone Bijou. From her first days at Virginia's Hampton University, impressionable, creative ...

  • The Unstoppable Wolverine vs. Sabertooth

    Disney Book Group

    Wolverine is many things. The most famous of the X-Men. A gruff hero with unbreakable metal claws and a superhuman healing factor. But he's about to face the greatest challenge of his life! The sinister Sabretooth is coming for him, and he wants to p...

  • A Great and Powerful Sticker Set

    Disney Book Group

    This sticker book features scenes from the upcoming Disney film Oz The Great and Powerful and features over 40 deluxe reusable stickers to use inside the book. Journey through the many different countries in the land of Oz along with wizards, winkies...

  • Oz the Great and Powerful: The Land of Oz

    Disney Book Group

    Oscar Diggs travels from dusty Kansas to magical Oz. There, he meets Munchkins, Winkies, Flying Monkeys, and three very powerful Witches. Will Oscar be able to figure out who is good and who is evil in time to save everyone in Oz? ...

  • Whose Birthday Is It?

    Disney Book Group

    Today is somebody's birthday, but Mickey can't figure out whose it is. Could it be Daisy's? Perhaps he should get her a new hair bow. Maybe it's Pluto's and Mickey can get him a bone. Young readers will have great fun following Mickey on this birthda...

  • True Love

    Disney Book Group

    Warm your heart with these beautifully illustrated stories about four Disney Princesses and their true loves, just in time for Valentine's Day! Celebrate Rapunzel's birthday with Flynn Rider, hop along with Tiana and her frog prince, get to know the ...

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Read-Along Storybook

    Disney Book Group

    Join Snow White as she flees the evil Queen and meets the Seven Dwarfs! This charming read-along storybook, featuring thrilling sound effects and word-for-word narration, is sure to provide hours of fun while also building vocabulary and encouraging ...

  • The Snowy Day

    Disney Book Group

  • Oz (Film) "Land of Oz" Storybook

    Disney Book Group

    When circus magician Oscar Diggs's hot-air balloon gets blown off course, he lands in the fantastical Land of Oz! To his surprise and delight, the locals worship Oscar, believing him to be the long-awaited wizard who will set them free from the evil ...

  • The Witches of Oz

    Disney Book Group

  • Winter Wishes

    Disney Book Group

    Share the wintry wishes and dreams of Cinderella, Ariel, and all the Disney Princesses in this sweet step 2, Step into Reading. For the first time, the Princesses come together in a seasonal story that is bound to have young readers learning to read ...

  • Fast Kart, Slow Kart

    Disney Book Group

  • Broken Wings

    Shannon Dittemore

    Giant angels with metal wings and visible song. A blind demon restored from the pit of darkness. And a girl who has never felt more broken. Brielle sees the world as it really is: a place where the Celestial exists side by side with human reality....

  • Secret of the Red Arrow

    Franklin W. Dixon

    The Hardy brothers must dismantle a dangerous crime gang in this first book of a fresh approach to a classic series. Teenagers Frank and Joe Hardy are supposedly “retired” from their detective work. But there is a new mystery in Bayport that n...

  • Masked Mayhem // Mystery of the Phantom Heist

    Franklin W. Dixon

    In this second book of a fresh approach to a classic series, Frank and Joe track down violent pranksters. Rich girl Lindsay Peyton is throwing the biggest and best Sweet Sixteen bash that Bayport has ever seen. But her party planning is off to a b...

  • The Office of Mercy

    Ariel Djanikian

    On the screen and on the page, dystopian fantasies have captivated the public imagination. In "The Office of Mercy," debut novelist Ariel Djanikian has conceived a chilling, post-apocalyptic page-turner that has earned her glowing comparisons to Geor...

  • Unforgivable

    Philippe Djian

    The Basque landscape is a delightfully sinister setting for the taut and cinematic Unforgivable, the #1 bestseller from French novelist Philippe Djian. Francis, a sixty-year-old author, has not written a word in the twelve years since his first wife ...

  • The Burn Palace

    Stephen Dobyns

    The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town. It’s a place where most of the population will likely die blocks from where they were born; where gossip spreads like wildfire, and the big entertainment on...

  • Homeland

    Cory Doctorow

    In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco -- an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole move...

  • Getting Skinny

    Monique Domovitch

    A RECIPE FOR MURDER Nicky Landry owning a restaurant is as crazy as an alcoholic owning a bar. But despite having to cram herself into a body shaper to look decent in a dress, life is pretty good. She's throwing the party of the year for her gradu...

  • Revealing The Real Dr. Robinson

    Dianne Drake

    Under the Argentinean sun… Those who work with Dr. Ben Robinson see a compassionate and brilliant doctor. But when he closes his eyes at night, he is haunted by the silence of the Argentinean jungle -- fragments of his previous life invade his t...

  • Indiscretion

    Charles Dubow

    "Every story has a narrator. Someone who writes it down after it's all over. Why am I the narrator of this story? I am because it is the story of my life -- and of the people I love most. . . ." Harry and Madeleine Winslow have been blessed with t...

  • Little Mister

    Randy DuBurke

    From dawn to dusk (and then some!), a toddler's life is busy, busy, busy. "Helping" Mommy in the kitchen. Playing the time-to-get-dressed chase. Investigating a mysterious box. The adventures are endless! This celebration of a toddler'...