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New Books List: 673 titles

  • Queen of Dragons

    Shana Abe

    They are the stuff of glittering legend, supersensual creatures able to shape-shift from human to smoke to dragon. Now they face an enemy determined to destroy their dazzling world of magic and passion. It's a stunning claim: the existence of a lost...

  • Mike's Mystery

    Marcie Aboff

    Mike and his friends are ready to friends are ready to donate books from their own libraries for the school's book drive. But when Mike realizes his favorite book from the Dino Spy - Private Eye series is missing, what will he do? Acting like a priva...

  • Nymphos of Rock

    Mario Acevedo

    Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Back home in the States, the reluctantly undead former infantryman pays penance for his war-time sins--making a living as a private detective able to unravel mysteries that baffle his morta...

  • In Perfect Harmony

    Alayne Adams

    Melody Sinclair is an overworked, underpaid woman juggling two jobs to make ends meet. She dreams of music stardom and has an uncanny gift for blending her angelic voice with just about any partner. The problem is, she just can't seem to find the rig...

  • The Stepmother

    Carrie Adams

    Bea Frazier was once the apple of her husband's eye--but now he's picked a more succulent fruit. . . . Bea thought she'd rediscover her incredible self after divorcing Jimmy. But being home alone with three daughters brings her demons back with a...

  • To Love and To Cherish

    Jennie Adams

    All that I am I give to you... When Jack left Australia a year ago, Tiffany thought she'd lost him for good. But in truth, Jack loved Tiffany too much to share the painful secret of his illness. He went away to cope the only way he knew how -...

  • There's No Place Like Here

    Cecelia Ahern

    Since Sandy Shortt's childhood schoolmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding becomes her goal - whether it's the odd sock that vanished in the washing machine, the car keys she misplaced in her rush to ...

  • The Lost Estate

    Henri Alain-Fournier

    'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen and loved every page. I find its depiction of a golden time and place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick HornbyThe Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant stu...

  • The Dangerous Mr. Ryder

    Louise Allen

    It is whispered about the Ton that one Mr. R -- long known for his ability to escape the honest bonds of matrimony in favor of a dishonest day's work -- has finally met his match! He knows that escorting the haughty Grand Duchess of Maubourg to En...

  • Final Theory

    Mark Alpert

    A Spellbinding Thriller about a Science History Professor on the Run for his Life and an Unpublished Einstein Theory that Could Change the World Debut novelist Mark Alpert brings one of the most explosive books of 2008, seamlessly weaving cu...

  • Caught By Surprise

    Laura Marie Altom
    in

    "It Girl," Tabby Summerwell has never felt more like a failure. And now she has a broken leg, to boot. But when her former high school sweetheart Brodie Kimball comes to her rescue, Tabby doesn't know if fate is mocking her... or giving her a seco...

  • The Soldier's Homecoming

    Donna Alward

    A hero for his country -- home to win her heart! Jonas Kirkpatrick left town to be a soldier without ever looking back. But Shannyn saw him every day in her little girl's green eyes.... Six years later, Jonas has come home, changed utterly ...

  • Lilah's List

    Robyn Amos

    You never forget your first crush... Dating R&B megastar Reggie Martin was number one on Lilah Banks's top-ten list of things she wanted to do before turning thirty. Now the divorced twenty-nine-year-old was finally going for it. But it wasn't Reg...

  • Doctor's Orders

    Jessica Andersen

    CASE: beautiful new doctor with soft touch -- and a target on her back RX: sexy, seasoned doctor with attitude -- and her best protection Dr. Parker Radcliffe thought his days of making love to Mandy Sparks had ended long ago...until she walked ...

  • Morning Light

    Catherine Anderson

    Born with second sight, Loni MacEwen has vowed to ignore the visions that have brought her so much heartbreak. Then she meets Clint Harrigan and realizes she has no choice but to warn the handsome cowboy that his son is in danger. A hardworking, n...

  • Serpent's Kiss

    Alex Archer

    Some say they are a cursed people. But those who try to find them will be just as unlucky... Working on a dig on the southern coast of India, the last thing Annja Creed expects is to be hit by a tsunami. Or to strike archaeological gold. But that...

  • Cat O'Nine Tales

    Jeffrey Archer

    An English lord requires one more chess piece to complete a set that would be worth a fortune. Another man, an accountant, realizes he's achieved nothing in his life—and sets out to make a fortune before he retires. And then there is the author...

  • The Serpent's Daughter

    Suzanne M. Arruda

    Joining her mother for a holiday in the ancient port city of Tangier, American adventuress Jade del Cameron expects their trip will be far less dangerous than her safaris in East Africa. But soon after their introduction to a group of European touris...

  • The Ruby Dice

    Catherine Asaro

    Two men, two empires. Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Concord: over two trillion people across more than a thousand worlds and habitats. Kelric ruled the Skolian Imperialate. War had come before--ten years ago, Jaibriol had lost his parents in the final ba...

  • Death of a Squire

    Maureen Ash

    After eight years of captivity in the Holy Land, Templar Bascot de Marins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now on a sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he is sometimes called upon to uphold the will of God and laws of man... Late in the autumn ...

  • The Kept Man

    Jami Attenberg

    A riveting debut novel from a rising literary star about a young woman whose husband has fallen into a coma, and her discovery of evidence that casts doubt on their marriage. Six years ago, Jarvis Miller's husband, an artist whose career was just...

  • Nine Fingers

    Thom August

    Twenty years ago, the Boss of the Chicago Mob thought Franco was having an affair with his wife. He couldn't prove anything, but the Boss still told the pianist to get out of town and never come back. As a reminder, he cut off Franco's little finger....

  • Time Transit

    Kay Austin

    HER FUTURE There's a reason Maude Kincaid is one of the best Time Rogues, and it's the same reason she's now dead -- or soon will be. Gut-shot and lying in a sub-orbital tram station reeking of brimstone, waiting for the atmospherics to give out, ...

  • Corgi in the Cupcakes

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Prehistoric Monsters!

    Robert T. Bakker

    A super-simple introduction to prehistoric animals, from the first weird and wonderful life forms on Earth to the earliest Ice Age humans"and much, much more.


    From the Trade Paperback edition....

  • Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers

    Sarnath Banerjee

  • One Bite Stand

    Nina Bangs

    He's a big, bad vampire. She loves the nightlife. Is it a match made in Heaven or are they heading straight for Hades? Harpies don't get callbacks. That's why Daria's job as night manager of the Woo Woo Inn is the opportunity of several lifetimes....

  • Saturday's Child

    Ray Banks

    Cal Innes is fresh out of prison and ducking a past muddied with ties to local gang lord "Uncle" Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan finds out Innes is working as an unlicensed PI and calls in a favor Innes doesn't owe, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mo...

  • Secrets of My Suburban Life

    Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    And you thought your life had a dark side.... Everything changed for Lauren ("Ren") after Harry Potter killed her mom. No, it's not what you think--Harry Potter didn't come to life and stab her or anything. A stack of those thick books crushed her...

  • The Case of the Four-Leaf Clover

    Maria S. Barbo

  • The Little Teacup That Talked

    Emilie Barnes

    Bestselling author Emilie Barnes and celebrated artist Michal Sparks, creators of A Little Book of Manners and A Little Book of Manners for Boys (more than 260,000 combined copies sold) present a colorfully illustrated, whimsical story of a little...

  • This Is How It Happened

    Jo Barrett

    He lied, he cheated. He destroyed her life. How difficult could killing him be? Madeline Piatro devoted four years of her life to her boyfriend Carlton--and, in return, got romance, flowers, and the best sex she'd ever had. But then he dumped...

  • Distant Heart

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Toni Rodden has escaped a life of prostitution and vows she'll never let a man control her again. After months on the wagon train, she's finally earned her place, albeit grudgingly from some, and has found a surrogate family in Fannie Caldwell and he...

  • 37

    Maria Beaumont

    On the eve of her thirty-seventh birthday, Fran Clark finds herself in a role she would never have envisioned: that of a surprisingly desperate housewife. As Fran halfheartedly attempts to relaunch her once-vibrant career as a voiceover artist and ob...

  • The Whole Truth

    James Scott Bell

    At the age of five, Steve Conroy saw his seven-year-old brother kidnapped from the very bedroom they shared. His brother was never found. And the guilt of his silence that night has all but destroyed Steve's life. Now thirty years old with a failin...

  • Powers, Volume 11: Secret Identity

    Brian Michael Bendis

    A dead Cosmic Avenger shows the world that there are forces at work that no mere mortal cop could possibly understand, but it doesn't matter either way because Internal Affairs has set their sights on Deena Pilgrim. Walker and Pilgrim have been homic...

  • Fall Of The Templar

    Derek Benz; J.S. Lewis

    Max Sumner and the Grey Griffins must stand together with the Knights of Templar against a deadly evil..... Now, Max, Harley, and Natalia face the greatest challenge of their lives, as Max must come to terms with his father's most wicked betrayal, a...

  • Breath and Bone

    Carol Berg

    A rebellious sorcerer risks it all to save his protégé, deliver justice, and protect his kingdom in this finale of the epic fantasy adventure duology. As civil war and winter lay waste to Navronne, Valen finds himself in high demand. The young monk...

  • Capitol Conspiracy

    William Bernhardt

    After two shocking murders rock the nation, the president barely escapes an assassination attempt at the Oklahoma City memorial. But the fusillade of sniper fire claims twelve unintended victims. In response, the president calls to amend the U.S. Con...

  • The Invisible Wall

    Harry Bernstein

    This wonderfully charming memoir, written when the author was 93, vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. It is a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love.“There are places that I h...

  • A Read-Aloud Board Book Collection

    Frank Berrios

  • Chance Fortune and the Outlaws

    Shane Berryhill

    For as long as he can remember, fourteen-year-old Joshua Blevins has wanted to be a superhero. He has the brains, the passion, and the heart. There's only one problem: he doesn't have any superpowers. But Josh isn't about to let that stop him. De...

  • One Thing or Your Mother

    Kirsten Beyer

    It's tough being a teenage Slayer. On the verge of failing her junior year -- thanks to annoying Principal Snyder, who seems to be acting even stranger than usual lately -- Buffy agrees to meet with a tutor. Not helping her studies is the fact that l...

  • The Martinez Marriage Revenge

    Helen Bianchin

    Back in her husband's bed! When Shannay Robbins's marriage to billionaire Marcello Martinez ended, she returned home carrying with her a precious secret.... Now, four years later, Marcello has tracked his wife down and discovered she ha...

  • Goodnight Sweetheart

    Charlotte Bingham

    A romantic wartime novel encompassing both love and tragedy. As Walter Berrisford paints beautiful Katherine Garland, she asks him to put a ladybird on her finger without his knowing why. He is appalled when he discovers that Katherine is a Nazi. ...

  • Todd's Fire Drill

    Susan Blackaby

    Todd makes a map for Fire Safety Week. It shows the escape routes his family needs to take in case their house catches fire. The map works well during a drill, but what happens when the smoke alarm beeps for real?...

  • Falling For The Rebel Heir

    Ally Blake

    All she wants is to feel safe Never going beyond the boundaries of her small town, Kendall York craves safety and security since the accident that injured her and claimed her fiance's life. Danger is his middle name Returning from his latest...

  • No Accident

    Emily Blake

    Kelly let a secret slip, and now she's being blackmailed. Will she pay up...or strike back? Tom must decide where his loyalties lie. How much will he risk to get what he wants? Alison is caught in a dangerous game. When will she make her next...

  • Seneca Shadows

    Lauralee Bliss

    Lucy Bland has lived a simple, peaceful life, far from the battlefields of World War II. But during the summer of 1943, military men come to train on her beloved Seneca Rocks. With their intrusion, her life changes abruptly - especially when the hand...

  • A Diet of Treacle

    Lawrence Block

    Anita Carbone was a good girl--and it bored her. That's why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she m...

  • The Spymaster's Lady

    Joanna Bourne / Joanna Watkins Bourne

    France and England,1802 SHE'S NEVER MET A MAN SHE COULDN'T DECEIVE... She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined...

  • Blue Heaven

    C.J. Box

    A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother are on the run in the Idaho woods, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder -- four men who know exactly who William and Annie are. And where their mother lives. Retired policemen from L...

  • The Clique

    Brandie

    Aside from the fact that they are all inmates in the grimy Walsh Facility for Women, three young women have something else in common: His name is Spencer, and each one has had a baby by him. Still, their lives are on the line in prison, and they have...

  • Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance

    Gyles Brandreth

    One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteries Lovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity...

  • Slade's Law

    Lyle Brandt

    While investigating the mysterious death of a fellow marshal near Serenity, Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade discovers that he is not welcome in this corrupt town, especially when he digs up a world of trouble by demanding that the corpse be exhumed. O...

  • The Valentine Gift: Our Day

    Jean Brashear
    in

    Every Valentine's Day is a gift A day to celebrate your love--and the hope, the belief, that it will be everlasting. In Valentine's Daughters by Tara Taylor Quinn, it's a day to remember old promises...and make new ones. In Our Day by Jean Bras...

  • Tempting Evil

    Allison Brennan

    BIG DIE COUNTRY Joanna Sutton can cope with the fierce winter storm bearing down on the small rural community of Centennial Valley, Montana; the popular romance writer has survived much worse in life. Haunted by the loss of her husband and child, ...

  • Fake Boyfriend

    Kate Brian

    He's absolutely perfect. If only he were real. Lane and Vivi have had it with Isabelle Hunter's boyfriend, Shawn Littig (a.k.a. Sluttig). He is the only person who can turn their smart, confident best friend into a complete mess. When Shawn Sluttig...

  • Iron Kissed

    Patricia Briggs

    I could smell her fear, and it satisfied something deep inside me that had been writhing under her cool, superior gaze. I curled my upper lip so she could get a good look at my sharp teeth. I might only weigh thirty or so pounds in my coyote shape, b...

  • Skinny-Dipping

    Connie Brockway

    IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO GROW UP. After a lifetime of avoiding obligations, Mimi Olson, queen of slackers, finds herself in northern Minnesota buried under an avalanche of them--including taking care of three unruly mutts and their twentysomething own...

  • A Pony Tale

    Samantha Brooke

  • The Horses

    Bill Brooks

    Jim Glass' long-sought peace is shattered when the ex-soldier and ex-Ranger discovers six of his corralled horses dead, their throats slit. Though he dreads doing so, he'll strap on his weapons and go hunting for the culprit--because someone capable ...

  • People of the Book

    Geraldine Brooks

    In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is o...

  • Evening Star

    Carolyn Brown

    Addison Carter was hired by Magnolia Oil to work as their company doctor in Healdton, Oklahoma. In 1917, oil companies didn't hire women to work for them, so that alone was quite a miracle. At least it was until she arrived from eastern Arkansas with...

  • A Picture of Guilt

    James Brownley

    The first of a new mystery series - When journalist Alison Glasby gets the opportunity to work with Fleet Street legend Bill Davenport, she jumps at the chance. Four children were killed in Norfolk in 1969, murdered by Leonie Dellar, and Bill Davenpo...

  • A Sister's Test

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    One woman's shattered dream... One man's second chance... And the faith that can heal broken hearts. Ruth is the second oldest sister in the Hostettler family, and she has one burning desire--to marry and fill her Amish household with children. ...

  • Stark

    Edward Bunker

    Ex-con. Author. Actor. Legend. Edward Bunker is one of the acknowledged masters of crime fiction. Written in the late 1960's and discovered after Bunker's death in 2005, Stark is his first and perhaps his most explosive novel ever. 1962. Oceanview, ...

  • Between Goodbyes

    Anita Richmond Bunkley

    In Between Goodbyes, Anita Bunkley tells the unforgettable story of a beautiful survivor with everything to offer--and to lose... Long, lean, and exotically beautiful, Afro-Cuban Niya Londres has achieved a great deal since coming to America ten ye...

  • Suite Embrace

    Anita Richmond Bunkley

    Tall, dark...and right for her? Skylar Webster was spending too much time with Mr. Wrongs. Then a freak accident had her eager for a fresh start. Working at a ski resort in Colorado seemed just the ticket, until Skylar walked into the luxury suite...

  • You Were Loved Before You Were Born

    Eve Bunting

    In glowing paintings and a gentle, soothing text, a family and neighbors prepare as a baby gets closer and closer to being born. Everyone loves the baby, even before he/she is born.Everyone in the family, and all the neighbors, too, are getting the h...

  • Bram Stoker's Dracula

    Michael Burgan

    On a trip to Transylvania, Jonathan Harker stays at an eerie castle owned by Count Dracula. When strange things start to happen, and the count escapes to London, Harker realizes that he and his friends are in grave danger. These reader-favorite tiles...

  • Cold Case Cop

    Mary Burton

    Even a cold case can heat up One year ago a wealthy socialite disappeared. No body was found, and the case was never solved. Lead detective Alex Kirkland knows all they had were dead ends. But when sexy, sassy reporter Tara Mackey decides to ask m...

  • Suddenly Single

    Shana Burton

    Vashti Hunter knew that something was wrong when she received her fiancé’s nervous phone call the night before their wedding, but she was too distracted by visions of wedding grandeur to listen to her instincts. Instead, what was supposed to be t...

  • Princess Mia

    Meg Cabot

    A princess on her own . . . Mia has been invited to speak at a gala for Domina Rei, an elite society of powerful businesswomen. But what could she possibly have to say? Now that Michael has broken things off, Mia can barely get out of bed, and he...

  • The Good Liar

    Laura Caldwell

    Kate Livingston and Liza Kingsley have been best friends since their childhood in the suburbs of Chicago. They know everything about each other. Or do they? When Liza sets up the newly divorced Kate with Michael Waller, an elegant man sixteen year...

  • His And Hers

    Dawn Calvert

    Tell Me What You Want... Sitting in her favorite coffee shop, Jane Ellingson realizes a frappucino can't fix a broken heart. She used to have a cool job, a best friend, and a fiance--and she lost them all in one really bad day. Hey, can she have a d...

  • Never Say Never

    Michele Cameron

    When she falls for Tyler, a white attorney, Desiree, a paralegal at a small Connecticut law firm, is torn between her family, who would never accept her dating a white man, racial intolerance, and love. Original....

  • Courageous

    Jack Campbell

    The Lost Fleet continues its perilous journey home.

    Badly damaged and low on supplies, the Alliance Fleet is raiding Syndic mines for raw materials-and Captain "Black Jack" Geary hopes they can continue to remain one step ahead of their enem...

  • Leader of the Pack

    Kate Cann

    Being hard is what Jack Slade is all about. He has no time for weaklings, especially not on his team. He is captain, and his new coach has helped him realize that anything that interferes with his game is not worth his time. Gem doesn't see it that...

  • Three Shirt Deal

    Stephen J. Cannell

    IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES Truit Hickman is a small-time crook doing life in a California prison for the murder of his mother. But now Hickman is claiming that his confession was coerced. Enter Secada "Scout" Llevar, the gorgeous Internal Affairs det...

  • Ultimate Iron Man II

    Orson Scott Card

    Collects Ultimate Iron Man II (2007) #1-5. When last we saw him, young Tony Stark was nearly blown to bits. How much of him survived his initial Iron Man trial run, and where does the young genius go from here? Plus: How does James Rhodes fit into ...

  • The Valentine Gift: The Hand That Gives

    Linda Cardillo
    in

    Every Valentine's Day is a gift A day to celebrate your love--and the hope, the belief, that it will be everlasting. In Valentine's Daughters by Tara Taylor Quinn, it's a day to remember old promises...and make new ones. In Our Day by Jean Bras...

  • X-Men: Blinded by the Light

    Mike Carey

    Presents the adventures of the X-Men as they face a mysterious enemy that is hunting down the few mutants that remain and their leader, Rogue, copes with the aftermath of her destruction of the alien menace Hecatomb....

  • Ultimate Fantastic Four - Volume 9: Silver Surfer

    Mike Carey

    Reed Richards' attempts to create a cosmic cube have caused him to pierce the barriers of a hundred universes. And falling through the opening into our unsuspecting reality is the keeper of the Power Cosmic-Ultimate Silver Surfer! 'Nuff said!Collects...

  • Baby Bunny and Friends Say Good Night

    Robin Suzanne Carol

  • Choosing Sophie

    Leslie Carroll

    When life throws you a curve ball... Venus deMarley has just been hit with a wild pitch. At forty she's finally found the perfect fiance, when Sophie--the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years ago--suddenly reappears. Venus has another c...

  • Threads of Silk

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Royal French Court intrigue surrounds a beautiful young couturiere and her dashing nobleman-husband as Queen Mother Catherine de Medici unfolds her devious scheme to preserve her reign. Rachelle Macquinet, couturiére from one of France’s most cele...

  • Girl Overboard

    Justina Chen / Justina Chen Headley

    The worst thing about having it all, is having to deal with it all - the good, the bad, and the just plain weird. Everybody thinks Syrah is the golden girl. After all, her father is Ethan Cheng, billionaire, and she has everything any kid could possi...

  • Star Crossed

    Jane McBride Choate

    Estrella ''Star'' Whitney is at the top of her game as one of Hollywood's most sought-after actresses, and she gets what she wants. On location in Wyoming, she finds out her agent has been passing on some more challenging roles, and she chooses to dr...

  • A Randall Hero

    Judy Christenberry

    When John Randall swerved to avoid a broken-down car on a deserted Wyoming back road, the cowboy never dreamed he'd find a beautiful woman inside. But like a knight without his steed, the rancher came to her rescue. She was, after all, alone...and ab...

  • Sweeter Than Revenge

    Ann Christopher

    Was Maria Johnson a pampered princess who relied on her good looks and her daddy's money? You betcha! But when her father cut off her funds and ordered her to become an executive assistant at his firm, Maria was forced to make her new position work. ...

  • Bad Sex: We Did It, so You Won't Have To

    Chronicle Books

  • Essential Power Man and Iron Fist - Volume 1

    Chris Claremont

    A new era of greatness begins for the most unlikely team of all! From a Night of the Town to the Day of the Death Machines, Power Man and Iron Fist - Heroes for Hire - face the Living Monolith, El Aguila, the Maggia and more! Guest-starring the Uncan...

  • Whispers of the Bayou

    Mindy Starns Clark

    From the author of the popular Million Dollar Mysteries and Smart Chick Mysteries comes a new stand-alone novel full of hidden staircases, buried secrets, and the promise of hope found in knowing God.Miranda Miller wasn't looking for the news the day...

  • Firstborn

    Arthur C. Clarke; Stephen Baxter

    The Firstborn"the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey"have inhabited legendary master of science fiction Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s writing f...

  • Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues

    Blaize Clement

    Floridian pet-sitting sleuth Dixie Hemingway puts her nine lives back on the line in EVEN CAT SITTERS GET THE BLUES Dixie has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The day she happens upon the dead body outside a fancy mansion is...

  • Next Door Daddy

    Debra Clopton

    Was There Room In Mule Hollow For A Pollyanna? When rancher Nate Talbert asked for a miracle to change his reclusive life, he wasn't sure he meant Pollyanna McDonald. The city woman, her eight-year-old daredevil and menagerie of unruly pets ha...

  • Diary of a Bad Year

    J.M. Coetzee

    In this brilliant new work of fiction, J. M. Coetzee once again breaks new literary ground with a book that is, in the words of its main character, ?a response to the present in which I find myself.? Diary of a Bad Year takes on the world of politics...

  • The Deadliest Strain // The Janus Effect

    Jan Coffey

    What can stand between America and a plague that devours human bodies from the inside out? Cases of sudden, unexplained deaths--marked by rapid decomposition--are cropping up across the U.S. Their cause: a supermicrobe that causes flesh-eating dis...

  • Godsword

    Emerson Cole

    Breathtaking suspense based on historical evidence and disturbing reality? A merciless industrialist claiming descent from Genghis Khan is intent on rebuilding an empire. ICE? investigator Connor Brock comes up against a powerful cartel whose ruthles...

  • Trespassed Hearts

    Lynn A. Coleman

    Strangers in town don't usually concern Randi Blake, but when she greets a newcomer by dumping Lobster Bisque all over him not once, but twice - she finds he's not that easy to forget. But Randi has no interest in romance, so she can't understand the...

  • Beginner's Greek

    James Collins

    When Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams he falls as madly in love as you can on a flight from New York to LA.Her name is Holly. She's achingly pretty with strawberry-blonde hair, and reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. She gives Peter he...

  • Mango Summer

    Phoebe Conn

    This was the lesson Delphine Antoine's mother had taught her from birth. A rare beauty, Delphine was trained to be an alluring temptress meant for a life of pampered luxury as the mistress of a rich man. Eager to put her erotic training to practical ...

  • Sword Song

    Bernard Cornwell

    The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Warrior by instinct and Viking by nature, Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has land, a wife an...

  • Texas Death Row

    Bill Crawford

  • Rich Girl

    Carol Culver

    It's a new semester at Manderley Prep -- where being wealthy doesn't make you popular but it certainly opens doors... Victoria Lee has the best life. Living alone in her parents' McMansion, Victoria can do pretty much whatever she wants. And what sh...

  • Harvey Moon, Museum Boy

    Pat Cummings

    To liven up his class trip, Harvey Moon brings his pet lizard, Zippy, along to the museum.

    Whoops.

    When Zippy escapes, Harvey's adventures begin. You'll be laughing and wondering what's next as knights, dinosaurs, and even mummies get ...

  • Firefly Rain

    Richard Dansky

    A riveting supernatural mystery like you've never read before. The prodigal son leaves the big city to return to his dearly departed parent's house in North Carolina only to find, now that he's home, that something is trying to make damn sure he s...

  • Vintage

    Olivia Darling

    POWER Madeleine Arsenault is returning home after her father's death--determined to prove that she can save her family's debt-ridden business and run the most prestigious champagne house in France.... LUST Kelly Elson's life is about to change in wa...

  • Garfield Large & in Charge

    Jim Davis

    Garfield Rules!   He’s the Lord of Lethargy, the Sultan of Snacking, and he’s back with an outrageous collection of comics. Loyal subjects of His Royal Roundness are hereby ordered to make merry at the fat cat’s kingdom, where laughter rei...

  • Just Cause

    Susan Page Davis

    "I didn't kill my husband!" But no one believed Laurel Hatcher. On trial for murder, Laurel prayed for a miracle. And she got one, sort of: a deadlocked jury. A mistrial meant going through the ordeal all over again, but at least she'd have more t...

  • The Ashleys // The Ashley Project

    Melissa de la Cruz

    The Ashleys rule Miss Gamble's Preparatory School for Girls. They are gorgeous, rich, impeccably fashion forward, and, yes, all named Ashley. Lauren Page has gone to the same school with them her whole life, and the Ashleys, if forced to remember, mi...

  • Gotta Keep on Tryin'

    Virginia Deberry; Donna Grant

    Lifelong best friends Gayle Saunders and Patricia Reid are running a successful doll company they built from scratch. But as their business has flourished in the last five years, their personal lives have paid the price. Pat adores her husband Mar...

  • Fantastic Five: The Final Doom

    Tom Defalco

    As the Human Torch and Lyja discuss the merits of leaving the F5 to form their own team and Sharon Ventura returns to confront her ex-husband the Thing, the real Doctor Doom returns with cosmic-like power and a thirst for revenge on Reed Richards and...

  • Chosen

    Ted Dekker

    THINK WITH YOUR HEART AND PREPARE TO DIE FOR YOU HAVE BEEn CHOSEN The land of the Forest Dwellers has been decimated by the Horde under the watchful eye of the vilest of all creatures, Teeleh. Thomas Hunter, supreme commander of the Forest Gua...

  • Infidel

    Ted Dekker

    FROM CHOSEN TO TRAITOR? After being stretched to their limits, the four heroic young Forest Guard recruits--Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal--are pulled into deeper danger on their mission to secure the seven lost Books of History. Celebrated...

  • Family By Design

    Roxann Delaney

    Recently divorced Becca Tyler is at the end of her rope. Her rental home has been sold to a mysterious new owner, and she and her three children have nowhere to turn. Until Nick Morelli comes back to town. Becca had stomped all over Nick's ...

  • Whiteout

    Vicki Delany

    After a painful family drama, Toronto computer expert Joanna Hastings takes a cabin in the remote woods of Northern Ontario to make sense out of her life and her shattered relationship with her daughter. But the town of Hope River is not content to l...

  • Guardian's Keep

    Lori Devoti

    ONLY THE STRONGEST GUARD THE PORTALS AND GATEWAYS TO OTHER REALMS Kol Hildr had spent the last century battling hellhounds and warlocks who sought to usurp his portal's magic. A mighty shape-shifter with the ability to change into wolf form, Kol m...

  • Where I Want To Be

    Maryam Diaab

    Swearing off men after she discovers that her boyfriend has a wife and kids, Alexis Hunter finds her resolve sorely tested by pro basketball player Massai Taylor whose gold-digging girlfriend is determined to keep them apart at any cost. Original....

  • Death on the Holy Mountain

    David Dickinson

    In 1905, Lord Francis Powerscourt investigates a series of art thefts from stately homes of the Protestant gentry in Ireland. Then people begin to vanish. As Powerscourt closes in on the killer, his own life is threatened and his patriotism is questi...

  • Annette and the Mystery at Moonstone Bay

    Disney Book Group

  • Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Go Goofy, Go!

    Disney Book Group


    Meeska, Mooska, Mickey Mouse! Welcome to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse! Join Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto in two ready-to-read tales that teach valuable lessons about letters, numbers, shapes, decision-making, and friendship

  • Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Mystery of the Missing Muffins

    Disney Book Group

    Meeska, Mooska, Mickey Mouse! Welcome to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse! Join Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto in two ready-to-read tales that teach valuable lessons about letters, numbers, shapes, decision-making, ...

  • Annette and the Mystery at Smugglers' Cove

    Disney Book Group

  • Annette

    Disney Book Group

  • A Surprise for Thumper

    Disney Book Group

     Thumper and his sisters discover surprises all around them in this adorable lift-the-flap board book! Charming illustrations featuring the bunnies' mischevious antics, and sturdy flaps--including a large one on the last spread--offer lots of surpri...

  • Disney's Little Einsteins Around the World with the Little Einsteins

    Disney Book Group

    The Little Einsteins are off on an exciting adventure around the world. Join Leo, Annie, Quincy, June and Rocket as they travel from the Palace of Versailles to the island of Tahiti from the Grand Canyon to the African savanna and more. At each stop ...

  • A Family Guide to Prince Caspian

    Christin Ditchfield

    Readers of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia realize that there is much more to these beloved books than talking animals, mystical creatures, and magic. Shimmering just below the surface of each story are spiritual treasures just waiting to be di...

  • Frenemies

    L. Divine

    South Bay High wouldn't be such a bad place to go to school if it weren't for all the drama. Not that Jayd Jackson's helping matters. She's right there in the center of it all--whether she wants to be or not. Maybe it just goes with the turf. After a...

  • The Sixth Form

    Tom Dolby

    From Tom Dolby, the acclaimed author of The Trouble Boy, comes an extraordinary new novel--a sensitive coming of age tale and a compelling work of suspense that explores the price of innocence betrayed and the complexities of personal truth. When se...

  • His Majesty's Mistress

    Robyn Donald

    The prince's bride--by royal decree! On the idyllic Pacific island of Fala'isi, Giselle Foster is swept off her feet and into the bed of a devastatingly gorgeous stranger--only to discover she's given away her purity to renowned playbo...

  • The Winter Rose

    Jennifer Donnelly

    When India Selwyn Jones graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, she is advised to set up her practice in a fashionable neighborhood. Instead, the idealistic India chooses to work in the East End, serving the poor. There, India...

  • The Sovereign's Daughter

    Susan K. Downs; Susan May Warren

    When revolution threatens the lives of the royal Romanov family, Imperial Tsar Nikolai is forced to entrust critical state secrets to a lowly chambermaid and a backward Mennonite merchant. Anton Klassen must protect the woman the tsar has put into hi...

  • First the Dead

    Tim Downs

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina all government agencies were ordered to assist with efforts to rescue those who had survived. "First the Living" was the clear mandate given to everyone--including those who were there as part of the DMORT team a...

  • Copper Sun

    Sharon M. Draper

    Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder, fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own -- hope. Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living in a beautiful vill...

  • Full Exposure

    Diana Duncan

    To the passengers aboard the cruise ship Alexandra's Dream, Ariana Bennett appears to be an unassuming librarian. But her real mission is to probe the underworld of antiquities smuggling and find the criminals who framed her father and caused his dea...

  • Death of a Six-Foot Teddy Bear

    Sharon Dunn

    Another murder mystery for the Bargain Hunters Network -- only this time, one of them is a suspect! Ginger and her husband, Earl, are in for a wild ride in Calamity, Nevada, along with the other BHN ladies -- college student Kindra, mother-of-four S...

  • The Sixth Wife

    Suzannah Dunn

    A gripping novel of love, passion, betrayal, and heartbreak in the unstable Tudor court following the death of King Henry VIII Clever, level-headed Katherine Parr has suffered through four years of marriage to the aging and irascible King Henry V...

  • Falcon Moon

    Cassie Edwards

    After trekking across the country, Wylena is happy to arrive in Arizona Territory to reunite with her brothers, but less happy to learn of their troubles. Her brother, Jeb, is wrongly accused of scalp hunting. He's also been courting a lovely Apa...

  • Monday Night Jihad

    Jason Elam; Steve Yohn

    After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Riley Covington is living his dream as a professional linebacker when he comes face-to-face with a radical terrorist group on his own home turf. Drawn into the nightmare around him, Riley returns to his former lif...

  • Snowed

    Nishawnda Ellis

    Have you ever loved somone so much that no force on earth could change what you felt? Sasha Freeman thought she found that type of love, only to realize she had been snowed. Sasha lives in a perfect world, where her career, finances and social life a...

  • Thunderbolts by Warren Ellis - Volume 1: Faith in Monsters

    Warren Ellis

    Collects Thunderbolts (2001) #110-115. They’re America’s newest celebrities, ready to take to the skies at a moment’s notice in pursuit of those secret, unregistered superhumans hiding among us! They’re the All-New, All-Deadly Thunderbolts!...

  • Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Volume 2 - I Kick Your Face

    Warren Ellis

    Collects Nextwave #7-12. What's NEXTWAVE: AGENTS OF H.A.T.E.? It's Super heroes fighting explosion sex Avengers Fin Fang Foomgiant flying submarine monstrosities former X-Force babee xplosions kicking Machine Man punching giant evil coprobot shot En...

  • Hell Girl, Volume 1

    Miyuki Eto

    SHE’S COMING FOR YOU. . . .

    When you thirst for revenge, there’s a surefire way to get it: Simply go to the strange website that appears only at midnight, and enter the name of your enemy. The Hell Girl will appear to drag your tormentor t...

  • My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    "When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families,...

  • Plum Lucky

    Janet Evanovich

    LOOKING TO GET LUCKY? Stephanie Plum is back between-the-numbers and she's looking to get lucky in an Atlantic City hotel room, in a Winnebago, and with a brown-eyed stud who has stolen her heart. Stephanie Plum has a way of attracting danger, luna...

  • The Missing Mom // A Mum for Amy

    Ann Evans

    A child unites them He was the love of Maggie Tillman's life. But when she and Will Stewart broke up, she was forced to make a decision--one that cost her far too dearly. And now a twist of fate brings her face-to-face with her past, and with the ...

  • A Killing Karma

    Geraldine Evans

    A Casey and Catt mystery - DCI Will Casey is asked by his parents to investigate a double murder at the Fenland commune where they live strictly unofficially. As if thats not enough, Casey also has to solve a very unpleasant murder on his own patch: ...

  • Bring Your Own Poison

    Jimmie Ruth Evans

    The demands of work and family barely leave Wanda Nell Culpepper with enough time to get serious with her own boyfriend, but she can't afford to pass up hefty tips from a bachelor party at the Kountry Kitchen. She's prepared to dodge a few roaming ha...

  • The Bunnies' Trip

    Lezlie Evans


    The bunny family is ready to take a big trip. But first they have to manage to get all their things packed:


    “We are not taking these or those --
    Just who put in this garden hose?”

    and once they are on the road...

    ...

  • Killer Heat

    Linda Fairstein

    IT'S AUGUST IN NEW YORK, and the only thing that's hotter than the pavement is Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper's personal and professional life. Just as she's claiming an especially gratifying victory in a rape case, she gets the call: the brutally beaten...

  • Saved

    Jack Falla

    Veteran Boston goaltender Jean Pierre Savard sees stardom and the money it brings as fate's make-up call for a life in which he lost his father, his wife, and most of his self confidence for anything not involving saves or sex. Now late in his ca...

  • Light Fell

    Evan Fallenberg

    Twenty years have passed since Joseph left his family and his religious Israeli community when he fell in love with a man, the brilliant rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph is preparing to have his five sons and the daughter...

  • Castaway Colt

    Terri Farley

    Darby is nervous about starting at her new school in Hawaii, and when she gets there it's even worse than she thought. Within the first week she's made an enemy -- her stuck-up cousin from the other side of the island.

    At least Darby has a n...

  • Downfall

    Greg Farshtey

    ENTER THE UNKNOWN Deep beneath the water, in a place known only as "the pit," the Toa must mount a final battle against the Barraki to retrieve the Mask of Life. Without it, their mission and the future of their world is in jeopardy. ...

  • The Heroines

    Eileen Favorite

    Although a true lover of books, Anne-Marie Entwhistle prefers not to read to her spirited daughter, Penny, especially from the likes of Madame Bovary, Gone With the Wind, or The Scarlet Letter. These novels, devoted to the lives of the Heroines that ...

  • Scottsboro

    Ellen Feldman

    A powerful novel about race, class, sex, and a lie that refused to die. Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and fa...

  • The Circle of Blood

    Alane Ferguson

    As the assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado, Cameryn Mahoney gets to witness all aspects of death, including the autopsy room. Yet somehow that feels easy, compared to her personal life. Now that her long-lost mother has...

  • Falling For The M.D.

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE GOOD DOCTOR After his father's death, successful doctor Peter Wilder faced off against a formidable enemy: a huge conglomerate vying to take over the small-town hospital his family had run for years. At least Peter knew he had every member of th...

  • How to Hook a Hottie

    Tina Ferraro

    Kate DelVecchio is a businesswoman. When it comes to matters of the heart, she has no time. Look at her own parents. Total dysfunction. At seventeen, Kate has one goal in life: to become a millionaire before the age of twenty. (Okay, twenty-five i...

  • When Ruby Tried to Grow Candy

    Valorie Fisher

    Ruby Louise Hawthorne can’t believe her eyes. Right there, in Miss Wysterious’s garden, teacups are growing on trees, shoes are sprouting like weeds, and eggbeaters are jangling from branches. So maybe Ruby should listen when Miss Wysterious tell...

  • Ring of Fire II

    Eric Flint

    GRANTVILLE: THE AMERICAN TOWN LOST IN TIME A mysterious cosmic force -- the "Ring of Fire" -- has hurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe, and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seemi...

  • Hello, Doggy!

    Elaine Fox

    Keenan James has made a career out of teaching women what men really want. He hosts a weekly roundtable, where he offers advice to the love-lorn, and now he's even been tapped to write a book--though he's never been able to commit to just one girl. U...

  • Elijah

    Jacquelyn Frank

    They are called the Demons, one of the elusive Nightwalker races living in shadow and struggling for survival against their human enemies. Their proudest warrior is Elijah, a man who bends for nothing and no one...until one woman brings him to his kn...

  • American Fringe

    Valerie Frankel

    Spring has arrived, and everything's coming up roses. Not only is Adora Benet madly in love with Nate, she's landed her own teen advice column in he local paper. When her response to an anonymous letter-writer prompts a senator to run for president, ...

  • Everyday Prayers

    Jennifer Frantz

    These beautifully illustrated collections of simple prayers introduce early readers to both reading and prayer. Written in simple verse, the readers use rebus pictures to encourage children to get involved in reading....

  • Bedtime Prayers

    Jennifer Frantz

    These beautifully illustrated collections of simple prayers introduce early readers to both reading and prayer. Written in simple verse, the readers use rebus pictures to encourage children to get involved in reading....

  • Lumby's Bounty

    Gail Fraser

    Tucked into the foothills of the Rockies lies the charming village of Lumby, where quirky but tolerant townsfolk usually make the best of any situation. Not a week goes by without some humorous mayhem occurring under the watchful eyes of the mayor, s...

  • The Apostate's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    In the latest Dame Frevisse Medieval Mystery, the blessed prioress is reunited with a lost soul she never expected to see again... The nuns of St. Frideswide's receive an unexpected guest -- the long-vanished Sister Cecely. Nine years ago she had fl...

  • Thimbletack's Mission

    Rebecca Frazer

    Thimbletack, the house brownie of Spiderwick Mansion, has made it his mission to protect the Field Guide at all costs, but when a new family moves into the mansion and Jared Grace takes the book, Thimbletack decides that it is time to take ac...

  • Fame

    Mariah Fredericks

    Do you have what it takes to be a star? Eve thinks she does. But the school musical is not what she has in mind. Eve doesn't do auditions, particularly not for Mr. Courtney, the music teacher, who's not a big fan of hers. However, when the tarot c...

  • Go With Me

    Castle Freeman

    The Vermont hill country is the stark, vivid setting for this gripping and entertaining story of bold determination. The local villain, Blackway, is making life hellish for Lillian, a young woman from parts elsewhere. Her boyfriend has fled the state...

  • Winged Creatures

    Roy Freirich

    Shots ring out in a local fast food restaurant. Teenager Anne Hagen and her best friend Jimmy hide under a table, watching a suicidal gunman randomly murder her father and others. Winged Creatures tells the stories of the survivors. . . Struggling...

  • The Year My Sister Got Lucky

    Aimee Friedman

    When Katie and Michaela Wilder are uprooted from NYC and planted in rural Fir Lake, Katie is horrified by their new surroundings: the too-friendly neighbors, the local uniform of sandals paired with socks, the very idea of milking a cow. But while Ka...

  • Shadowbridge

    Gregory Frost

    Sprung from a timeless dream, Shadowbridge is a world of linked spans arching high above glittering seas. It is a world of parading ghosts, inscrutable gods, and dangerous magic. Most of all, it is a world of stories.No one knows those stories better...

  • Happy Easter, Holly!

    Sonali Fry

  • The Blue Door

    David Fulmer

    As welterweight boxer Eddie Cero makes his way home through a dark Philadelphia alley, he steps in on two punks beating up an older man. It's a favor that's going to turn Eddie's life upside down. Sal Giambroni buys Eddie a round and offers him a par...

  • Sweet And Vicious

    Claudia Gabel

    Revenge is sweet, but payback can be vicious. Nola is sick of moping over the end of her friendship with Marnie, and decides to be just as cunning as Marnie and Marnie's new group of popular friends. So when Marnie "accidentally" runs into her first ...

  • Blood of the Wicked

    Leighton Gage

    The first book in Leighton Gage’s critically acclaimed police procedural series set in Brazil   Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil’s Federal Police is a good cop in a bad system -- Brazil's justice system is rife with corruption, and cons...

  • Darkling

    Yasmine Galenorn

    Three sisters ridding the Otherworld of evil--one monster at a time. We're the D'Artigo sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we're savvy--and sexy--operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixed- blood heritage short-circuits our ta...

  • Trickery Treat

    Diana G. Gallagher

    A portal opened -- as a means for amends, Leaves a vengeful spirit to roam. Helping him cross over is the only way, To restore peace within the home. It's Halloween, and Piper is busy decorating the Manor, which has become the neighborhood hot ...

  • The Opposite of Invisible

    Liz Gallagher

    Alice and Jewel have been best friends since grade school. Together, they don't need anyone else, and together they blend into the background of high school. Invisible. To Alice, Jewel is the opposite of invisible. Jewel is her best friend who goes t...

  • The Greek Tycoon's Secret Heir

    Katherine Garbera

    "YOU WILL MARRY ME." Marry Christos Theakis? Ava Monroe has always longed for his proposal. But Christos's demand is not just for Ava-- he wants custody of her son. A child he believes to be his brother's. Temptation leads Ava to join the ship...

  • Shadow Music

    Julie Garwood

    Prized for her exquisite beauty, Princess Gabrielle of St. Biel, the daughter of one of England's most influential barons, is a perfect bargaining chip for a king who needs peace in the Highlands: King John has arranged Gabrielle's marriage to a good...

  • Notes from the Back Seat

    Jody Gehrman

    Twenty-three-year-old Jersey girl Eve Vitali is on the verge of something . . . whether it be a relationship, the fabulous life that she reads about in the Styles section of the New York Times or a nervous breakdown. Despite her Jackie O. suit, Eve w...

  • Careless in Red

    Elizabeth George

    He found the body on the forty-third day of his walk... Devastated by the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak, and rugged coastline. But ...

  • Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow

    Jessica Day George

    From bestselling author Jessica Day George comes a rich new fantasy, based on a Norwegian fairy tale, set in a land of eternal winter.

    Blessed--or cursed--with an ability to understand animals, the Lass (as she's known to her family) ...

  • Eleanor vs. Ike

    Robin Gerber

    It is a time of turmoil, with the nation mired in an unpopular war in Korea and with Senator Joseph McCarthy stirring up fear of a lurking Communist "menace." Racial discrimination is rampant. A woman's place is in the home. And when a shocking act o...

  • Not Another Bad Date

    Rachel Gibson

    WHAT DOES A GAL HAVE TO DO TO GET A GOOD DATE IN THIS TOWN? Adele Harris can't even begin to answer that question. She's had so many lousy dates that she's sure she's cursed. Why else would every man she goes out with suddenly act like he's lost his...

  • Eleven

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Sam is almost 11 when he discovers a locked box in the attic above his grandfather Mack's room, and a piece of paper that says he was kidnapped. There are lots of other words, but Sam has always had trouble reading. He's desperate to find out who he ...

  • Water Street

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Brooklyn, 1875: Bird Mallon lives on Water Street where you can see the huge towers of the bridge to Manhattan being built. Bird wants nothing more in life than to be brave enough to be a healer, like her mother, Nory, to help her sister Annie find ...

  • Kyra

    Carol Gilligan

    Kyra is an architect, involved in a project to design a new city. Andreas, a theater director, is staging an innovative production of the opera Tosca. Both have come through political upheaval and personal loss. Neither wants to fall in love. Yet whe...

  • Thunderer

    Felix Gilman

    In this breathtaking debut novel by Felix Gilman, one man embarks on a thrilling and treacherous quest for his people's lost god--in an elaborate Dickensian city that is either blessed ...or haunted. Arjun arrives in Ararat just as a magnificent ...

  • Taming Mariella

    Dara Girard

    If they'd stop fighting, they'd be perfect for each other! Model-turned-photographer Mariella Duvall has just landed her dream job. And she isn't about to let anyone screw it up. Especially not Ian Cooper--the sexiest, handsomest but most ill-mann...

  • Celebutantes

    Amanda Goldberg; Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper

    Prepare to enter a world of what fashion designer Michael Kors has called “stylish intrigue, glamorous machinations, and such juicy fun.” Take a wild ride with Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Hopper, who have culled their insider’s purview to pee...

  • Shapeshifter

    J.F. Gonzalez

    Mark Wiseman thought he had his curse under control. He thought he had kept it a secret. He was wrong. Bernard Roberts is a very wealthy, powerful man, and he knows all about the curse that flows through Mark's veins. He also knows how Mark's parents...

  • The Bellini Card

    Jason Goodwin

    ISTANBUL, 1840: the young sultan Abdiilmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean...