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New Books List: 845 titles

  • Rough Diamond

    Brooke Hastings

    Dani Ronsard and Ty Morgan, the heiress and the major league pitcher. What match could be more unlikely? Yet his muscled athlete's body awoke in her a response that more civilized men had never known, and the passion that lay beneath her veneer o...

  • The Awakening

    Mary Abshire

    Project Eve, #1 She's the only one of her kind. And she doesn't even know her name. Two investigatorsone human, one vampirefind a young woman among a mass of dead bodies. She has no memories, and nothing but her clothes, two receipts, and a mys...

  • The International Kissing Club

    Ivy Adams

    Piper, Cassidy, Mei, and Izzy have been best friends their whole lives. And they've always agreed on one goal: to get out of tiny Paris, Texas, and see the world. The school's foreign exchange program seems like the perfect escape: Piper will go to t...

  • Dylan

    C.H. Admirand

    THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULDN'T TAME... Dylan Garahan might be an old hand at lassoing fillies, but one night at the Lucky Star club, and he ends up wrapping his rope around someone that even his formidable strength can't tame. She's wily and beauti...

  • Darker After Midnight

    Lara Adrian

    The climactic novel in Lara Adrian's New York Times bestselling Midnight Breed series -- and her hardcover debut -- Darker After Midnight invites readers to enter a thrillingly sensual world where danger meets desire. In the dark of night, a blood...

  • Stand Vol. 2: American Nightmares

    Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

    Someone at Project Blue was keeping a secret. A secret they thought they could contain. They thought wrong. Now, with 99 percent of the country's population dead or dying, the viral strain developed at project Blue--dubbed "Captain Trips"--has brough...

  • American Dervish

    Ayad Akhtar

    Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he i...

  • Leela's Book

    Alice Albinia

    With a nod to the Indian masterpiece the Mahabharata, a multithraded, raucous epic about family and faith. Bold and entertaining, Leela's Book weaves a tale of contemporary Delhi that crosses religious and social boundaries. Leela -- alluring, tacit...

  • Stay at Home Dead

    Jeffrey Allen

    It's a day like any other for Deuce Winters, a stay-at-home dad in sleepy Rose Petal, Texas, where he and his three-year-old daughter Carly are making their weekly trip to the grocery store. But the discovery of a dead body in his mini-van quickly th...

  • Young Marvelman Classic - Volume 2

    Mick Anglo

    By shouting the famous name of his hero, Marvelman, the orphan Dicky Dauntless assumes the form of the redoubtable Young Marvelman! Watch as the Mightiest Boy in the Universe metes out atomic-powered justice to foreign spies, enemy assassins, made me...

  • Moth to a Flame

    Ashley Antoinette

    In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters. With reign over the city's drug trade, Benjamin Atkins made sure that his precious daughter, Raven, was secluded from the grit that the c...

  • The One and Only Ivan

    Katherine Applegate

    Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it a...

  • Labyrinth

    Alex Archer

    A book dealer lies imprisoned in a Boston mansion, an IV tube dripping a lethal narcotic cocktail into his veins. In thirty-six hours, he'll be dead. His final request is to receive a visit from one woman.... It wasn't the most hospitable invitati...

  • Mesmerize

    Artist Arthur

    You can't move forward until you deal with the past... Starting over is nothing new to diplomat's daughter Lindsey Yi. She's grown up changing schools the way other girls change clothes. Still, moving to Lincoln, Connecticut, is different. Althoug...

  • Immortal Hope

    Claire Ashgrove

    Centuries ago, Templar knights defied the archangels and unearthed the copper scroll that revealed the locations of the gates to hell. Cursed for their forbidden act, they now roam the earth, protecting mankind from evil. But darkness stalks them, an...

  • Everneath

    Brodi Ashton

    Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she's returned -- to her old life, her family, her boyfriend -- before she's banished back to the underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before...

  • His Brother's Keeper

    Dawn Atkins

    Common ground...uncommon attraction Maybe Gabe Cassidy couldn't save his brother, but he can save others like him. Which is why Gabe has dedicated himself to a program that keeps kids off the streets. So it doesn't make sense that he's at odds ...

  • Hope

    Shalom Auslander

    The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories...

  • The Lawless West

    Author Unknown

    In the field of Western fiction, three authors stand unmatched: L’Amour, Grey and Brand. Now three of their best short novels are collected in a single volume. Zane Grey’s From Missouri has been restored from the author’s own manuscript and ...

  • The Love Dare, Day by Day

    Author Unknown

    Truly loving another imperfect person is not merely a romantic feeling, but a daily decision. But what are the keys to consistently giving and receiving love? How are love and romance best experienced and expressed in the midst of life’s evercha...

  • The Last Nude

    Ellis Avery

    A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expa...

  • Easter Engines

    Rev. W. Awdry

    Thomas is rolling down the Easter rails in this step 2 leveled reader that will introduce children to reading -- and the exciting world of Thomas & Friends! ...

  • Haven's Blight

    James Axler

    The future rose from the ashes of nuke-scorched America with a vengeance. The unchecked wrath of Deathlands pits Ryan Cawdor and his companions against long odds. But their skill as survivors, strategists and warriors is unmatched and they've held on...

  • Outpost

    Allan Baillie

  • Young Justice, Volume 1

    Art Baltazar

    The acclaimed writers of "Tiny Titans" grow up a little and set their sights on "Young Justice"! Superboy, Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad and Miss Martian star in this 'tween series featuring the young sidekicks of the Justice League's most famous heroes....

  • Peace and Plenty

    Sarah Ban Breathnach

    As featured on Oprah's podcast, SuperSoul Conversations "When money is plentiful, this is a man's world. When money is scarce, it is a woman's world." Unearthed in a 1932 Ladies Home Journal, this quote is the call to arms that begins Peace and Plen...

  • Whispers in the Dark

    Maya Banks

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

  • A Charitable Body

    Robert Barnard

    Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger -- winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor -- to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire...

  • The Sense of an Ending

    Julian Barnes

    Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of ...

  • Extra Yarn

    Mac Barnett

    Extra Yarn, a Caldecott Honor Book, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner, and a New York Times bestseller, is the story of how a young girl and her box of magical yarn transform a community. With spare, gently humorous illustrations and a palette t...

  • At the Mercy of the Queen

    Anne Clinard Barnhill

    A sweeping tale of sexual seduction and intrigue at the court of Henry VIII, At the Mercy of the Queen is a rich and dramatic debut historical about Madge Shelton, cousin and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn. At the innocent age of fifteen, Lady Mar...

  • The Rope

    Nevada Barr

    Anna Pigeon's first case -- this is the story her fans have been clamoring for...this is where it all starts. In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barr's bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna...

  • Lunatics

    Dave Barry; Alan Zweibel

    One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of . . . Okay, we made that line up. What the...

  • Opening Night

    Diksha Basu

  • The Dead Do Speak

    Patti Battison

    SILENT AS THE GRAVE When her mother's burial ceremony is interrupted by a horrific discovery, detective sergeant Mia Harvey is relieved. She'd much rather solve a cold case than face her all-consuming grief. The investigation proves to be a grisly...

  • Halo: Primordium

    Greg Bear

    A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends. Since then, I've traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies--a greater reach than any hum...

  • Killer Crullers

    Jessica Beck

    WELCOME BACK TO DONUT HEARTS -- where the coffee is hot, the donuts are fresh, and the crullers are to die for... As owner of April Springs's one and only donut shop, Suzanne Hart is privy to the deliciously personal, downright eccentric tastes of...

  • Doctor's Guide to Dating in the Jungle

    Tina Beckett

    Rule #1 -- Don't flirt with your boss! Dr. Stevie Wilson knows the rules -- but in Brazil, in the confines of their medical boat, she's finding it virtually impossible to keep away from her lethally attractive boss, Dr. Matt Palermo. Even their ha...

  • Fear Itself: Avengers

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Avengers #13-17 & New Avengers #14-16. FEAR ITSELF hammers the Avengers! The Red Skull’s daughter has unleashed an evil as old as Midgard itself: The Serpent has risen to reclaim Earth, recruiting seven of its most powerful superhuman...

  • Siege

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Beginning with the ravaging effects of Avengers Disassembled and following the aftermath of House of M, Civil War and Secret Invasion, culminating with the evil Reign of Norman Osborn, the Marvel Universe has been left with its greatest villains hold...

  • The Doll Princess

    Tom Benn

    It's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two murders. On the front page is a glamorous Egyptian woman, a socialite and heiress to an oil fortune, whose partially clothed body has been found...

  • Smut

    Alan Bennett

    One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved ...

  • School. Hasn't This Gone on Long Enough?

    Jim Benton

    Dear Dumb Diary is a hilarious hit! Now after 12 books (each covering a month of her life), Jamie Kelly's upcoming diaries have a fresh look and a fun twist. It's Dear Dumb Diary: Year Two! The diary entries are still laugh-out-loud funny -- but this...

  • All Things Bright and Beautiful

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Missus Ursula, the Sunday school teacher, takes her Sunday school class on a nature walk to appreciate God's bright and beautiful creation. Includes a sheet of colorful stickers! ...

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    The Bear cubs and Papa are candy-crazy this Easter! But Mama, with help from Papa, tells the cubs about Jesus' resurrection and shows them that salvation is much sweeter than candy. Includes a colorful sticker set. ...

  • The Daemon Prism

    Carol Berg

    Dante the necromancer is the most reviled man in Sabria, indicted by for crimes against the living and the dead. He salves bitterness with a magical puzzle - a desperate soldier's dream of an imprisoned sorceress and a faceted glass that can grant on...

  • Mater's Awesome Easter

    Frank Berrios

    Boys ages 3 to 7 can celebrate Easter with Lightning McQueen and all of his friends from Disney/Pixar Cars and Cars 2! This holiday-themed Deluxe Paint Box book is like an Easter basket full of surprises! It's the perfect treat for fans and comes wit...

  • The Crown

    Nancy Bilyeau

    An aristocratic young nun must find a legendary crown in order to save her father -- and preserve the Catholic faith from Cromwell's ruthless terror. The year is 1537. . . Joanna Stafford, a Dominican nun, learns that her favorite cousin has been ...

  • The Alchemy of Forever

    Chelsea Black

    Seraphina's first love made her immortal...her second might get her killed. Incarnation is a new series that introduces a fresh mythology perfect for fans of bestselling series like The Immortals by Alyson Noel and Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garc...

  • The Shop

    J. Carson Black

    In Colorado, a pop star and her entourage are brutally murdered. At first the lead assassin, ex-Navy SEAL Cyril Landry, has no qualms about the killings--it's just another job for The Shop, a shadowy organization that has hired him to execute people ...

  • Big Cats

    Sharnika Blacker

  • City of the Lost

    Stephen Blackmore

    Joe Sunday has been a Los Angeles low-life for years, but his life gets a whole lot lower when he is killed by the rival of his crime boss-only to return as a zombie. His only hope is to find and steal a talisman that he learns can grant immortality....

  • Luna the Moon Wolf

    Adam Blade

    Tom must battle the most dangerous Ghost Beasts yet! At night, the Dead Wood comes alive with wild animals made ferocious by the spell of Luna the Moon Wolf. To save his father, Tom must collect the pieces of the Amulet of Avantia-which means batt...

  • It Takes a Witch

    Heather Blake

    Darcy Merriweather and her sister, Harper, hail from a long line of witches who have the power to grant wishes using spells. They've come to Enchanted Village in Salem, Massachusetts, to join the family business, but they soon find themselves knee-de...

  • Pink Smog

    Francesca Lia Block

    The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be, and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have. Despite how much Louise insists, no one will call her Weetzie. It's her dad's nickname for her, but it won't stay put. Neither will her dad. Charlie le...

  • Shock of War

    Larry Bond; Jim DeFelice

    Under secret orders from the President, U.S. Army Major Zeus Murphy sabotages a Chinese invasion fleet on the eve of its assault against Vietnam. But after Murphy and fellow officer Win Christian are trapped behind enemy lines, Christian's erratic be...

  • The Night Swimmer

    Matt Bondurant

    The Night Swimmer, Matt Bondurant's utterly riveting modern gothic novel of marriage and belonging, confirms his gift for storytelling that transports and enthralls. In a small town on the southern coast of Ireland, an isolated place only frequent...

  • Steamship to Zion

    Jerry Borrowman

    It is the spring of 1850, and the Chandler family is quietly leaving England for a well-deserved vacation earned by family patriarch Henry Chandler, a clerk for the Cunard shipping line. The holiday is a pretense. In actuality, the family does not pl...

  • The Spirit of the Game: How Sport Made the Modern World

    Mihir Bose

    The spirit of the game was first nurtured on the playing fields of the English public school, and in the pages of Tom Brown's Schooldays - this Corinthian spirit was then exported around the world. The competitive spirit, the importance of fairness,...

  • Never Eighteen

    Megan Bostic

    Austin Parker is on a journey to bring truth, beauty, and meaning to his life. Austin Parker is never going to see his eighteenth birthday. At the rate he's going, he probably won't even see the end of the year. The doctors say his chances of surv...

  • The Girl with the Crooked Nose

    Ted Botha

    In The Girl with the Crooked Nose, Ted Botha tells the absorbing story of Frank Bender, a gifted, self-taught artist who can bring back the dead and the vanished through a unique, macabre sculpting talent. Bender has been the key to solving at least ...

  • Power Play

    Ben Bova

    Dr. Jake Ross, a university astronomer, wants nothing more than to teach a few classes each semester a nd continue on his research. However, he is being aggressively recruited to be the science advisor to Frank Tomlinson, an ambitious politician wit...

  • The Art of Love

    Celya Bowers

    Peri Reed is a survivor. The next time a good looking man crosses her path, she’s going to be smarter and wiser. However, when a very good-looking man of Irish descent crosses her path, Peri is at a loss. Sure Brendan Donovan is good looking, stabl...

  • Corruptible Crown

    Gillian Bradshaw

    It is 1648, and the Civil War has been resurrected by a king still determined to be an absolute ruler and a parliament unable to agree how to govern without him. Blacksmith Jamie Hudson, weary and disillusioned, is forced to re-enlist, leaving his wi...

  • Dust of the Damned

    Peter Brandvold

    Mankind has fought the war against ghouls of all kinds since the beginning of time. The last stronghold of evil in the known world is the American frontier, but for how long? Bounty hunter Uriah Zane and US marshal Aubrey Coffin are humanity's last h...

  • House of Doors

    Chaz Brenchley

    War widow Ruth Taylor arrives at RAF Morwood, the great house formerly known as D’Esperance, hoping that nursing badly wounded airmen will distract her from her sorrows. But almost as soon as she enters the house, she experiences strange visions an...

  • The Gathering Storm

    Robin Bridges

    St. Petersburg, Russia, 1888. As she attends a whirl of glittering balls, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret: she can raise the dead. No one knows. Not her family. Not the girls at her finishing s...

  • Mad About the Earl

    Christina Brooke

    Designed to arrange matches of rank and affluence, the powerful Ministry of Marriage has no interest in love. But when does the heart ever play by the rules? Lady Rosamund Westruther has no objection to the match arranged for her by the Ministry -...

  • Fire in the Forest!

    Samantha Brooke

    When a forest fire breaks out in LEGO City it's up to the LEGO City fireman to put out the flames!...

  • Captain America and Bucky: The Life Story of Bucky Barnes

    Ed Brubaker

    Collects Captain America and Bucky #620-624. Think you know the story of Cap and Bucky's origins? Well, think again. The secret story of the early days of Captain America is revealed here, told from Bucky Barnes point of view. What was Cap and Bucky...

  • Secret Avengers, Volume 2: Eyes of the Dragon

    Ed Brubaker

    Collects Secret Avengers #6-12. Former Captain America Steve Rogers and his covert squad of Secret Avengers must save Shang-Chi and secure the mystical Eyes of the Dragon - along the way reuniting with an old friend from Steve's World War II days, b...

  • Bad Kitty for President

    Nick Bruel

    The votes are in--it's a Bad Kitty landslide! It's time to elect a new president of the Neighborhood Cat Coalition! Who will win the election? The candidate chosen by the kitties on the right side of the street or the candidate chosed by the kitt...

  • Queen Without a Crown

    Fiona Buckley

    November, 1569. Happily married to her third husband, Hugh Stannard, lady-in-waiting Ursula Blanchard is hoping to give up her undercover work for Queen Elizabeth l in order to enjoy domestic bliss. But when Hugh unwittingly endangers possession of h...

  • The Sisters Grimm

    Michael Buckley

    Since 2005, Michael Buckley's bestselling Sisters Grimm series has delighted fans with the story of the Grimm family, guardians of the world's fairy-tale characters. There's only one book left in the series, and this comprehensive guide provides the ...

  • Halflings

    Heather Burch

    Split. After being inexplicably targeted by an evil intent on harming her at any cost, seventeen-year-old Nikki finds herself under the watchful guardianship of three mysterious young men who call themselves halflings. Sworn to defend her, misfits Ma...

  • Wild Rescue

    Jan Burchett; Sara Vogler

    Twins Ben and Zoe travel the world on secret missions for their uncle's elite environmental organization, WILD. In these exciting, informative books, the two teens travel all over the world to save animals in danger and protect the environment. No ...

  • Vulture Peak

    John Burdett

    Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact -- more or less -- despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with s...

  • An Appetite for Murder

    Lucy Burdette

    Hayley Snow's life always revolved around food. But when she applies to be a food critic for a Key West style magazine, she discovers that her new boss would be Kristen Faulkner -- the woman Hayley caught in bed with her boyfriend! Hayley thinks thin...

  • Initiation

    Jessica Burkhart

    Lauren has moved around enough to have the "new girl" code down: 1. Lay low. 2. But not too low. 3. Don't amubush the in crowd. But Canterwood isn't just any school. And Lauren is about to face an initiation unlike any she's ever encounte...

  • Hulk by John Byrne & Ron Garney

    John Byrne

    Legendary creator John Byrne collaborates with a host of top-tier talent to deliver a Hulk saga unlike any other. Join the Green Goliath as he journeys to the American heartland - and into his own troubled past - and encounters friend and foe alike. ...

  • Spider-Man

    John Byrne

    Acclaimed writer/artist John Byrne takes the web-slinger's reigns and reinvents the Spider-Man mythos for the 21st century! Witness your favorite web-spinner's earliest adventures as he faces off - for the first time - against the likes of Dr. Octopu...

  • The Rose of Winslow Street

    Elizabeth Camden

    In the small town of Golden, Massachusetts, Libby Sawyer leads a quiet, predictable life. Yet beneath the surface, she is haunted by a secret. Newly arrived on American shores, Michael Dobrescu is far from predictable, and his arrival in Golden i...

  • Accused

    Janice Cantore

    Detective Carly Edwards hates working in juvenile -- where the brass put her after an officer-involved shooting -- and longs to be back on patrol. So when a troubled youth, Londy Atkins, is arrested for the murder of the mayor and Carly is summoned t...

  • The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen

    Thomas Caplan

    A former soldier turned movie star turned spy must stop a catastrophic nuclear weapons deal. This gripping thriller from Thomas Caplan propels readers around the globe-from Hollywood to Rome, the Black Sea to the Mediterranean-and to the very brin...

  • Katy Duck Makes a Friend

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    Dancing diva Katy Duck and her new neighbor Ralph must find a way to play together in this all-new Level 1 Ready-to-Read! When Katy Duck and her family get new neighbors, Katy can hardly wait to show off her dance moves. She is ready to curtsy, tw...

  • Night Running

    Elisa Carbone

    It's 1838, and James has made a secret plan to escape Master Graham's farm -- and slavery. James kneels down to tell his dog Zeus he has to stay behind, because Zeus is simply too noisy to bring along on a dangerous nighttime journey. But when two...

  • Shadows in Flight

    Orson Scott Card

    At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children--the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their tr...

  • Dragonswood

    Janet Lee Carey

    Wilde Island is not at peace. The kingdom mourns the dead Pendragon king and awaits the return of his heir; the uneasy pact between dragons, fairies, and humans is strained; and the regent is funding a bloodthirsty witch hunt, hoping to rid the islan...

  • X-Men: Age of X

    Mike Carey

    In a world where the X-Men never existed, and mutantkind has been hunted to extinction, the few remaining mutants have banded together to make their last stand. They spend each day securing the walls of their stronghold, Fortress X, beating back the ...

  • Pages of Sin

    Kate Carlisle

    The author of Murder Under Cover presents an all-new novella in the Bibliophile Mystery series starring Brooklyn Wainwright. After Wanda Frawley’s tragic suicide, rare book expert Brooklyn receives a box of Wanda’s old books -- including a co...

  • Heart Surgeon, Hero...Husband?

    Susan Carlisle

    Discovering that her tiny son desperately needs a new heart terrifies Hannah Quinn -- especially when she realizes ex-flame Scott McIntyre is the skilled surgeon in charge of the transplant. Entrusting her baby to Scott's miracle-working hands is one...

  • Injustice for All

    Robin Caroll

    A federal judge lies bleeding on his office floor, betrayed by a most unlikely source -- people who helped him bring criminals to justice. Now, why would someone working for the FBI need to disappear after witnessing this crime? When Remington Wya...

  • Hard Knocks

    Howie Carr

    Following the lead of Boston crime-thriller writers like Dennis Lehane and Chuck Hogan, New York Times bestselling author and radio sensation Howie Carr delivers a hard-hitting tale of survival, betrayal, deceit, and murder...in other words, a fictio...

  • The Whisperer

    Donato Carrisi

    A gripping literary thriller and smash bestseller that has taken Italy, France, Germany and the UK by storm. Six severed arms are discovered, arranged in a mysterious circle and buried in a clearing in the woods. Five of them appear to belong to m...

  • Grave Secrets

    A.G. Cascone

    Some secrets refuse to stay buried…. Amanda Peterson has a pet cemetery in her backyard. It’s where she’s buried all her family’s dear departed pets, like Ralphie the hamster, Herman the goldfish, and Snitch the canary. But when Amanda and...

  • Popular Clone

    M.E. Castle

    Meet Fisher Bas: 12 years-old, growth-stunted, a geeky science genius, and son of the Nobel Prize-winning creators of the Bas-Hermaphrodite-Sea-Slug-Hypothesis. No surprise: Fisher isn't exactly the most popular kid in his middle-school, tormented da...

  • The Nanny Bombshell

    Michelle Celmer

    Playing House When Sierra Evans gave her twins up for adoption, she didn't expect tragedy to leave them in the care of their uncle, a notorious millionaire playboy. Now Sierra will stop at nothing to protect her children -- even if it means going un...

  • The Anatomy of a Moment

    Javier Cercas

    In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Francos' dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firin...

  • Nameless

    Kyle Chais

    In the in between are the Nameless; names are for masters and they have none. They live in the Nameless realm; between being saved and being destroyed. They are Fallen. One Nameless spends his time watching humans in New York City and, in his endl...

  • The Fat Years

    Koonchung Chan

    Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history. Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one...

  • Secrets

    Linda Chapman

    Girls will love this story of fourteen-year-old Ellie and her horse Spirit. Even though Ellie and her beloved horse Spirit are no longer together, the special bond between them remains strong. Ellie still communicates with Spirit, but she's frantical...

  • Red Templar

    Paul Christopher

    After nearly losing his life in Africa, retired Army Ranger and historian John Holliday is ready for some R&R back in the U.S. But when a disheveled Russian called Genrikhovich intercepts him in the airport, Holliday's homecoming will have to wait. ...

  • Nutmeg Says Yum!

    Caroline Church

    This charming story from a bestselling author-illustrator will strike a chord with all young children - and their long-suffering parents!

    Praise forOne More Hug for Nutmeg:

    'The illustrations are wonderful . . . a real delight.'<...

  • Goodnight, I Love You

    Caroline Jayne Church

    Caroline Jayne Church and her loveable, huggable toddlers are back! A bestselling author and illustrator, Church's books have been enormously successful across all channels, but none of them have done better than her padded board books: I Love You Th...

  • The Way Between the Worlds

    Alys Clare

    Come to me! I need you! These words bring apprentice healer Lassair awake one morning in the spring of 1092, trembling with terror. Soon Lassair is certain that one of her loved ones is in terrible danger ... and when the news comes that a nun at C...

  • How Not to Run for President

    Catherine Clark

    When the middle school band is called to play for a presidential campaign rally, Aidan is right there with his clarinet, just in time to save the candidate's life. Interviewed by the media, he speaks up in favor of the need to save jobs -- like his m...

  • The Look of Love

    Mary Jane Clark

    Nestled in the Hollywood Hills, the ultra-luxurious Elysium spa and plastic surgery center caters to the rich and famous who are in need of "refreshing" -- a nip here, a tuck there, a little Botox, a little detox. When Jillian Abernathy, Elysium's o...

  • The Bracelet

    Mary Jane Clark

    Piper Donovan adores her brother. Her sister-in-law is another matter. Self-centered, greedy, and completely annoying, Zara is, inexplicably, the love of Robert's life. Piper puts up with her to maintain peace within the family. When an exquisite ...

  • The War of the Worlds

    Arthur C. Clarke

    Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke
    Commentary by Jules Verne and an anonymous reviewer from The Critic

    “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intellige...

  • The Cat Sitter's Pajamas

    Blaize Clement

    Author Blaize Clement has thrilled readers everywhere with the first six books in her pet-sitting mystery series. Now Blaize's beloved heroine Dixie Hemingway is back for another adventure, and she has her hands full when the worlds of celebrity hiji...

  • Whites of Their Eyes

    Andrew Clements

    This could be the last great Memorial Day weekend on Barclay Bay, and Ben knows it. This time next year, he might not be able to stand in the yard of the Oakes School and watch the harbor shake off winter -- boats buzzing just beyond the bulkhead and...

  • Swords and Ashes

    J.M. Clements

    Spartacus is the hit TV show which combines blood-soaked action, exotic sexuality, villainy and heroism. This original novel from the world of Spartacus: Blood and Sand tells a brand new story of blood, sex and politics set in the uncompromising, vi...

  • A Life of Joy

    Amy Clipston

    Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, where you'll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each woman's story unfolds, you will share in her heartaches, trials, joys, dreams ... and secrets. You'll discover how the si...

  • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover!

    Lucille Colandro

    There was an Old Lady who swallowed things over and over, and now she's come back to swallow a clover! She's back! That lovely old lady has returned just in time for St. Patrick's Day. Now she's swallowing items to make the perfect rainbow to hide a...

  • Lothaire

    Kresley Cole

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole continues her electrifying Immortals After Dark series with this thrilling tale, revealing secrets of the Lore, fierce realm of the immortals. . . . ALL FEAR THE ENEMY OF OLD Driven by his insat...

  • Freedom Train

    Evelyn Coleman

    An enthralling account of a young boy's struggle to help freedom triumph over fear in the 1940s American South. It's 1947, and twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason is proud to have an older brother who guards the Freedom Train -- a train that is travel...

  • Joanna's Adventure

    Mildred Colvin

    Life in Cedar Bend, Kansas, has become one predictable day after another. Joanne Brady helps her father with his patients, smiles sweetly at her beau, and secretly chafes over the boredom of it all. She wonders, is this really all life is meant to be...

  • Dreaming of Mr. Darcy // The Perfect Hero

    Victoria Connelly

    Fledging illustrator and Darcy fanatic Kay Ashton settles in the seaside town of Lyme to finish her book, The Illustrated Darcy, when a film company arrives to make a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion. Kay is soon falling for the handsome ba...

  • The Superstar Sister

    Lexi Connor

    Beatrix is back with more magical adventures -- this series spells F-U-N! The TV talent show "You've Got It!" is coming to B's school to find new stars! B's older sister Dawn has the perfect act -- a dance routine that's sure to steal the show...

  • Unraveling Isobel

    Eileen Cook

    Isobel's life is falling apart. Her mom just married some guy she met on the internet only three months before, and is moving them to his sprawling, gothic mansion off the coast of nowhere. Goodbye, best friend. Goodbye, social life. Hello, icky new ...

  • Our Children Can Soar

    Michelle Cook

    This unique picture book is part history, part poetry, and entirely inspirational. It takes the reader step by simple step through the cumulative story of the US Civil Rights Movement, showing how select pioneers' achievements led up to the landmark ...

  • Lucky in Love

    Deborah Coonts

    Lucky O'Toole, the Vice President of Customer Relations for the Babylon, one of Las Vegas' most over-the-top strip properties, is seriously regretting booking a reality television show, The Forever Game, into the small theatre at her hotel. One thing...

  • Love Blooms in Winter

    Lori Copeland

    A romantic new book from bestselling author Lori Copeland that portrays God's miraculous provision even when none seems possible. 1892 -- Mae Wilkey's sweet next-door neighbor, Pauline, is suffering from old age and dementia and desperately needs ...

  • Dark Knight, White Knight

    Paul Cornell

  • All the Pleasures of the Season

    Lecia Cornwall

    On the first day of Christmas: Lady Miranda Archer accepts a marriage proposal. On the first day of Christmas, fifteen minutes later: Miranda realizes she’s made a huge mistake. For the next twelve days: Miranda must find a way out o...

  • Death of Kings

    Bernard Cornwell

    The fate of a new nation rests in the hands of a reluctant warrior in this thrilling sixth volume in the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series. As the ninth century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dying, his dream of a unified Engla...

  • Tom Clancy's Act of Valor

    Dick Couch

    The Navy SEALs have been fighting terrorists around the world for more than a decade. And for all that time, the Bandito Platoon from SEAL Team Seven have been on continuous combat rotation. Now they have drawn a shipboard assignment off Central Amer...

  • Heidi Heckelbeck Casts a Spell

    Wanda Coven

    Meet Heidi Heckelbeck. Heidi is just like any other 8 year-old. She eats peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. She hates all vegetables. She picks on her younger brother, Henry. She begrudgingly does her homework. She's a witch. A witch? Yup....

  • Heidi Heckelbeck Has a Secret

    Wanda Coven

    Meet Heidi Heckelbeck. Heidi is just like any other 8 year-old. She eats peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. She hates all vegetables. She picks on her younger brother, Henry. She begrudgingly does her homework. She's a witch. A witch? Yup....

  • The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller

    Cleo Coyle

    Penelope Thornton-McClure and her bookshop's ghost-in-residence Jack Shepard are back on a new case in this delightful paranormal mystery from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle.A big bestseller leads to small town trouble.Bookshop owner Pe...

  • Taken

    Robert Crais

    "They ran hard toward the mountains, driving without lights. They had to move fast or Cole would be lost." When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter, she isn't afraid, even though she's gotten a phone call asking for rans...

  • The Captive Heart

    Dale Cramer

    The Epic Story of an Amish Community in Peril Ravaged by disease, preyed upon by ruthless bandits, the Bender family's second year in Mexico has taken a grievous turn. Faced with impossible choices, the expatriate Amish discover, more than ever be...

  • Bloodrose

    Andrea Cremer

    Calla has always welcomed war. But now that the final battle is upon her, there's more at stake than fighting. There's saving Ren, even if it incurs Shay's wrath. There's keeping Ansel safe, even if he's been branded a traitor. There's proving hersel...

  • The Way We Fall

    Megan Crewe

    It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they're old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick i...

  • The Last of the Gullivers

    Carter Crocker

    A stunning sequel to a storytelling classic, with a contemporary twist Michael Pine is a boy with no direction in life. Mixed up in gangs, he is headed straight for a juvenile detention center. Until he is given a second chance and discovers a wor...

  • Nocturne

    Deborah Crombie

    For a limited time, download Nocturne, an original short story by bestselling author Deborah Crombie, that leads into her forthcoming novel, No Mark Upon Her. In No Mark Upon Her, Olympic rowing hopeful and Metropolitan Police officer DCI Rebecca ...

  • Tempest

    Julie Cross

    The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy... he's in college, has a girlfriend... and he can travel back through time. But it's not like the movies -- nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there's no space-time co...

  • Don't Breathe a Word

    Holly Cupala

    Joy delamere is suffocating. From asthma, from her parents, and from her boyfriend, Asher, who is smothering her from the inside out. She can take his cruel words, his tender words . . . until the night they go too far. To escape, Joy sacrifice...

  • The Mighty Miss Malone

    Christopher Paul Curtis

    "We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But the Great Depression hit Gary hard, and ...

  • Abandon Changes

    John M. Cusick

    Rei’s a runner -- fast, smart, doesn’t ask questions, and keeps her mouth shut about the errands she runs. She doesn’t know what’s in the packages she delivers and she doesn’t care. It’s simpler that way. But Rei’s soon-to-be-ex, Sam, h...

  • Tick Tock Clock

    Margery Cuyler

    Tick tock, nine o’clock. The twins are here to run amok! Meet a pair of spirited siblings who show Grandma an afternoon like no other! Filled with lively illustrations and simple text, this rhyming I Can Read book reinforces time-of-day concepts...

  • A Promise of Safekeeping

    Lisa Dale

    Nine years ago, Lauren Matthews prosecuted the case of a lifetime. But her error in judgment sent an innocent man to prison for a long time. Now Arlen Fieldstone has finally been released, and Lauren has only one thing on her mind: asking forgiveness...

  • Flirt Club

    Cathleen Daly

    Isabelle and Annie are two self-professed middle -- school drama geeks who have no idea how to flirt with boys -- successfully. Their sweet, awkward, and painful attempts at romance are getting them nowhere, so they start Flirt Club, an after -- scho...

  • The Evil That Men Do

    Jeanne M. Dams

    Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are on holiday in the idyllic English village of Broadway when they stumble across the body of a man who appears to have fallen down a disused quarry. When it is revealed that the ...

  • Gone Cold

    B.J. Daniels
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    Ice Lake is the ideal romantic getaway for Morgan Sinclair and her new husband, Tom Cooper -- until Tom's past catches up with him. Snowed in with a man who isn't what he seems and a killer out for revenge, Morgan must unravel the truth before it's t...

  • Wild Wild Death

    Casey Daniels

    Her job has been cut, she's low on cash, and her detective sometime- boyfriend refuses to even talk about her ability to see the dead and solve their murders. So Pepper is most certainly down for a vacation to get her spirits up. But when her cute sc...

  • A Deadly Shade

    Lila Dare

    After an attempted murder at a supposedly haunted plantation, the ladies of Violetta's beauty salon unravel secrets that link a high school student, a centuries-old crime, and the roots to a very dark mystery....

  • Die Job

    Lila Dare

    After an attempted murder at a supposedly haunted plantation, the ladies of Violetta's beauty salon unravel secrets that link a high school student, a centuries-old crime, and the roots to a very dark mystery....

  • Lovetorn

    Kavita Daswani

    Can you find love when you think you already have it? Shalini is new to L.A. Not new like from New York City new -- or even Kansas new. New like from India new. And in the U.S., she has it all wrong: the way she dresses, the way she talks, the way...

  • Garfield Brings Home the Bacon

    Jim Davis

    Oink! Oink! Grab a fork and nab some pork! Garfield loves “the other white meat” in all its palate-pleasing permutations: breaded, barbecued, shredded, fried -- even frozen (porksicles, anyone?). If you’re hungry for humor, satisfy your cr...

  • The Legacy of Eden

    Nelle Davy

    For generations, Aurelia was the crowning glory of more than three thousand acres of Iowa farmland and golden cornfields. The estate was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaway's dream to elevate the family name -- no matter what relative or strange...

  • Sign the Open Market Edition

    Thomas De Wesselow

  • An Inconvenient Match

    Janet Dean

    His family destroyed hers. But Wade Cummings's job offer -- to care for his recuperating father -- is impossible to decline. Schoolteacher Abigail Wilson can swallow her pride for the sake of a summer paycheck that will help her sister. And when Abig...

  • Sex, Lies and the Southern Belle

    Kathie DeNosky

    High-Price Pregnancy A shocking family scandal has flipped heiress Lily Kincaid's world upside down. But she has her own secret to keep. How can she avoid telling the truth to the father of her unborn baby -- sexy, larger-than-life CEO Daniel Addiso...

  • Here Comes Peter Cottontail

    Kristen L. Depken

    The classic Easter story, Here Comes Peter Cottontail, is retold in a Step 2 Step into Reading. Based on the perennial holiday TV special from Rankin-Bass, this reader makes the perfect Easter gift for boys and girls ages 3-7! ...

  • Double Feature

    Julia DeVillers; Jennifer Roy

    Payton and Emma are headed for celebrity status in this L.A. adventure! They've had their share of identical antics in the past, but the stage is set for drama of the best kind as the twins set out to conquer Hollywood! It's bright lights, swimmin...

  • Llama Llama Wakey-Wake

    Anna Dewdney

    Start a brand-new day the Llama way with the first of two new board books by Anna Dewdney. A good day starts with breakfast and brushing, kissing and hugging. ...

  • Llama Llama Nighty-Night

    Anna Dewdney

    What's the best part of bedtime? Stories with Mama Before cuddling, Llama Llama must splish and splash in the tub, then put his red pajamas on. Dewdney's catchy rhymes, effortless rhythm, and adorable artwork can now be enjoyed by even younger a...

  • Dairy

    Nancy Dickmann

    Make a place for dairy in your diet. These foods make up some of the yummiest meals, and this book gives readers tips on how to incorporate the nutritional value of milk and cheese into diets in a healthy, balanced way. Read this book to learn about ...

  • Cinderella's Royal Wedding

    Disney Book Group

  • Rip Van Goofy

    Disney Book Group

    Goofy's take on Rip Van Winkle. ...

  • Mickey and the Beanstalk

    Disney Book Group

    In Happy Valley, the sun is always shining and everything is pretty and green. A magical harp sings a beautiful song, casting a spell of peace over the valley. But when the harp suddenly disappears, Happy Valley turns dark, and everything stops worki...

  • Rapunzel

    Disney Book Group

    Rapunzel has lived in her secret tower in the woods for eighteen years. Not one to remain idle, she keeps busy with music, painting, cooking, and even astronomy. With her best friend--a chameleon named Pascal--to keep her company, and a vivid imagina...

  • Fangtastic

    Lucienne Diver

    Top Five Perks of Gina Covello's New Super-Secret Mission • The five-alarm-fire hotties. A few degrees below my genius boyfriend Bobby, of course. • The wannabe vamps love me. An entourage, finally! • Fashion tips from the steampunk crowd. •...

  • Movie Mayhem

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Frank and Joe Hardy have been posing as extras on the set of the upcoming teen movie, Deathstalker. The star, an ingenue named Anya, has already had her trailer burn down, and the Undercover Brothers had their work cut out for them keeping her safe a...

  • Little Bunny Foo Foo: The Real Story

    Cori Doerrfeld

    Finally, the real Little Bunny Foo Foo song can be sung. You see, Little Bunny Foo Foo was provoked into bopping those field mice on the head after they stole her freshly baked cupcakes! And the so-called "good" fairy? Well, let's just say she was sp...

  • Pineapple Grenade

    Tim Dorsey

    Miami has always set the weirdness bar, but Serge Storms is back in action and ready to pole vault over it. First, there's the media frenzy over the "Hollow Man," a gutless corpse found on the beach. And yet people think it's perfectly normal to f...

  • Rosetta's Dress Mess

    Laura Driscoll

    Garden-talent fairy Rosetta likes one thing almost as much as her flowers -- pretty dresses! She can never wait to check out the sewing-talent fairies' latest creations. When they decide to have a fashion show, the fairies even let Rosetta design a d...

  • Titanic

    Laura Driscoll

    Level Three Discover the secrets of the Titanic 100 years after the sinking Learn all about the search for the Titanic's wreckage in this Level 3 reader featuring photographs of the ship's remains, as well as full-color artwork....

  • Bond Girl

    Erin Duffy

    When other little girls were dreaming about becoming doctors or lawyers, Alex Garrett set her sights on conquering the high-powered world of Wall Street. And though she's prepared to fight her way into an elitist boys' club, or duck the occasional er...

  • Rat Poison

    Margaret Duffy

    When vicious gang warfare breaks out in the city of Bath, it soon becomes apparent that a London crime lord is trying to move in to the area. DCI James Carrick has to enlist help from the Serious Organized Crime Agency. Patrick Gillard, late of MI5,...

  • Against the Light

    Dave Duncan

    The Hierarchy, high priests of the religious order the Light, has installed King Ethan as the monarchical figurehead, ruling both the magical kingdom of Albi and its predominant religion. Scattered throughout the land, worshippers in the old ways of ...

  • Cotton's Law

    Phil Dunlap

    Apache Springs Sheriff Cotton Burke discovers that Bart Havens, a thieving banker he's once run out of Texas for defrauding citizenry, is behind an ingenious plot that could destroy the town. But first, the vengeful Havens wants to see Cotton burn-an...

  • A Cowboy Comes Home

    Barbara Dunlop

    At a Crossroads After years of being the black sheep, an unexpected inheritance has finally drawn Caleb Terrell home. But that doesn't mean the cowboy-turned-CEO plans to settle down on his family's Colorado ranch. His single-minded goal is to sell ...

  • Gone West

    Carola Dunn

    In September 1926, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely ...

  • Wild Abandon

    Joe Dunthorne

    At a once vibrant communal-living property in the British countryside, back-to-basics fervor has given way to a vague discontent. A place that once buzzed with activity, from the polytunnels to the pottery shed, now functions with a skeleton crew. Fo...

  • The Burned Tower

    Sergey Dyachenko

    A truck driver on a lonely stretch of road, a hitchiker, and an ancient curse -- "The Burned Tower" is a brilliant and moving tale, steeped in folklore, by the masters of modern fantasy, Sergey and Marina Dyachenko. In 1999, "The Burned Tower" was aw...

  • Saving Daisy. Phil Earle

    Phil Earle

  • The New Ranger

    Marilyn Easton

    In this exciting storybook based on a TV episode, the Gold Ranger reveals himself and saves the Rangers from defeat against a deadly Nighlok! The shock of a sixth Ranger stuns the team...but there's still another secret. The Gold Ranger is the Red Ra...

  • The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Evil Penguin Plan

    Maxwell Eaton III

    Meet Ace and Bub, the flying beaver brothers! Ace loves extreme sports and is always looking for a new adventure. Bub loves napping and, well, napping. But when penguins threaten to freeze Beaver Island for "resort and polar-style living," the brothe...

  • The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Fishy Business

    Maxwell Eaton III

    The Flying Beaver Brothers are back, and this time they're hot on the trail of another eco-villain: Fish Stix Environmental Manufacturing. When Fish Stix sets up shop, most of the islanders are thrilled. After all, Fish Stix are the most popular, be...

  • Surf Princess

    Chelsea Eberly

    Girls ages 4 to 6 will love learning to read with this Step 2 reader based on Barbie's latest direct-to-DVD release. ...

  • Just Another Manic Mum-Day

    Mink Elliott

    Roxy, Jack, and their daughter Joey, three, are building a new life for themselves in sunny Sydney, Australia, but Roxy's finding it hard to settle down. When she discovers she's pregnant again, things become even more complicated -- how will she cop...

  • At the King's Pleasure

    Kate Emerson

    Married to one man. Desiring another. Beautiful Lady Anne Stafford, ladyin- waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon, is torn between her love for her husband, George, Lord Hastings . . . and the king's boon companion, the attentive Sir William Compton. ...

  • Avengers/Defenders War

    Steve Englehart

    Collects Avengers (1963) #115-118 and Defenders (1972) #8-11. Powerful pawns in a game of gods! Captain America vs. the Sub-Mariner! Thor vs. the Hulk! The Swordsman vs. the Valkyrie! These and other matches comprised the Silver Age's most sensationa...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel, Volume 4

    Steve Englehart

    Steve Englehart and Al Milgrom take the good Captain to the next level. Beginning with Nitro's pivotal first appearance and the fight for Compound 13, the action jumps into the Negative Zone where Annihilus confronts Marv's other half, Rick Jones. Th...

  • Green Beret Bodyguard

    Carol Ericson

    THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER He may have lost his memory, but not his mercenary skills. And once Jack Coburn learned his real name, he sought out the woman who could help him piece together the rest of his past. Lola Famosa had hired the green beret months a...

  • Love in a Nutshell

    Janet Evanovich; Dorien Kelly

    Number one bestselling author Janet Evanovich teams up with award-winning author Dorien Kelly to deliver a sparkling novel of romantic suspense, small-town antics, secretive sabotage, and lots and lots of beer Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husba...

  • A Tryst with Trouble

    Alyssa Everett

    Dogged for years by painful gossip about his father's homosexuality, the Marquess of Beningbrough -- Ben, to his friends -- has protected himself by becoming the ultimate man's man. Passed over by suitor after suitor in favor of her pretty but vapid ...

  • Not in the Heart

    Chris Fabry

    Truman Wiley used to report news stories from around the world, but now the most troubling headlines are his own. He’s out of work, out of touch with his family, out of his home. But nothing dogs him more than his son’s failing heart. With mo...

  • Her Deadly Web

    Diane Fanning

    Raynella Dossett Leath said she came home one morning in 2003 and found her husband’s body in bed—covered in blood, a Colt .38 by his side. But authorities were suspicious of Raynella’s story. Why would her husband of ten years sudd...

  • Jessica Rules the Dark Side

    Beth Fantaskey

    It's one thing to find out you're a vampire princess. It's a whole other thing to actually rule. Newly married Jessica Packwood is having a hard enough time feeling regal with her husband, Lucius, at her side. But when evidence in the murder of a pow...

  • Cole, Ninja of Earth

    Greg Farshtey

    Masters of Spinjitzu: a new force to save the world! The next chapter book in the Ninjago series! Cole is the leader of the team. As the Earth Ninja, he is (perhaps unsurprisingly) the most grounded of the four. And the strongest. There is no p...

  • Jay, Ninja of Lightning

    Greg Farshtey

    Sensei Wu has gathered a powerful team of ninja warriors. Now he must train them in the ancient art of Spinjitzu. If he fails, Lord Garmadon and his evil skeleton warriors will destroy the land of Ninjago and all of its inhabitants. Faced with s...

  • The Exterminators

    Bill Fitzhugh

    All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof. All he had to do was survive a half dozen assassination attempts, pull a ten million dollar con on a Bolivian drug lord, and then fall off the face of the earth with hi...

  • In the Lion's Mouth

    Michael Flynn

    It's a big Spiral Arm, and the scarred man, Donavan buigh, has gone missing in it, upsetting the harper Mearana's plans for a reconciliation between her parents. Bridget ban, a Hound of the League, doubts that reconciliation is possible or desirable;...

  • The Cowboy Tutor

    Linda Ford

    With the mortgage due and funds scarce, Madge Morgan can't afford distractions. Especially not from Judd Kirk, her sister Louisa's meek tutor and -- according to their mother's plans -- suitor. Madge's focus is on her housekeeping job...little knowin...

  • Albrek's Tomb

    M.L. Forman

    Two thousand years ago, the dwarf Albrek went looking for new mines in the land of Thraxon in the hopes of becoming rich. No one knows if he ever succeeded, though, as all trace of Albrek and his followers simply vanished from history. Now, however, ...

  • Nate

    Delores Fossen

    TO RESCUE HIS CHILD, A DETERMINED COP WILL PUT EVERYTHING ON THE LINE On the day Lieutenant Nate Ryland's baby daughter is kidnapped, he finds hope in the most surprising of allies: Darcy Burkhart, a woman he never thought -- never wanted -- to see ...

  • Brendan Buckley's Sixth-Grade Experiment

    Sundee T. Frazier

    Brendan Buckley is headed to sixth-grade and he has lots of big questions. Will he be able to keep his anole, Einstein, alive? Why won't new girl Morgan Belcher leave him alone? And what project will he propose for the national science competition hi...