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  • Jason Aaron

    Collects Incredible Hulk #1-7. The Hulk and Bruce Banner are now separate entities - but Bruce wants the Hulk back. The Hulk is assigned to take Banner down, but Bruce isn't going without a fight. It all culminates in the fight everyone's been waiti...



  • Jason Aaron

    Wolverine travels to Tokyo to confront his most dangerous enemy yet. And a new Silver Samurai rises to take the place of the old one ... along with Wolverine's daughter! Prepare for an all-new, soon-to-be-classic Wolverine story, as talented writer J...



  • Jason Aaron

    Collects X-Men: Schism #1-5 & X-Men: Regenesis 1. The world refuses to trust mutantkind and after a mutant-triggered international incident, anti-mutant hatred hits new heights. Of course it's at this moment, when the mutant race most needs to st...



  • Jeff Abbott

    Sam Capra must commit an impossible assassination -- or he will lose the only person in the world who matters to him . . . Sam Capra has one reason to live: to rescue his baby son from the people who abducted him. An ex-CIA agent, Sam now owns bars ...



  • Randa Abdel-Fattah

    Lara Zany is known throughout the school yard as the Friendship Matchmaker-kids call on her expertise and follow her hard-and-fast rules to find best friendships. Lara's documented everything from friendship categories (the BOBF, or Bus Only Best Fri...



  • Marta Acosta

    Orphaned at the age of six, Jane Williams has grown up in a series of foster homes, learning to survive in the shadows of life. Through hard work and determination, she manages to win a scholarship to the exclusive Birch Grove Academy. There, for the...



  • Alma Flor Ada

    A young girl’s discovery of her cultural heritage helps her lovingly cope with loss in this tender tale from acclaimed authors Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel Zubizarreta. Amalia’s best friend Martha is moving away, and Amalia is feeling sad and ang...



  • Ellery Adams

    When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flakey crust. But her pies aren't just ...



  • Guy Adams

    A new, modern-day novelization of the classic Hammer film, "Hands of the Ripper"--a deeply unsettling tale of manipulation and terror! "He is raising the poker again and Anna bites her lower lip so hard she chokes a little in the blood that runs d...



  • David A. Adler

    It's up to Cam to solve this disappearing act! Aunt Molly takes Cam and her friend Eric to see a magic show at Teddy's Toys. During the show, Teddy's bird, Oscar, disappears! Where could he have gone? It's up to Cam to click! and find Oscar before...



  • C.H. Admirand

    Loneliness Will Take a Man Places... Jesse Garahan has plenty of Irish charm, but having had his heart demolished twice, he's sworn off women forever. Until the fateful day he meets Danielle Brockway and her tiny daughter on their way to their new...



  • Ann Aguirre

    When rebellion destroys the underground world in which Thimble and Stone have grown up, they take Stone’s son and try to escape the chaos. Along the way, they must evade the Freaks, beings who feed on human flesh. Leaving behind the roles of Builde...



  • Ania Ahlborn

    With nothing but the clothes on his back -- and something horrific snapping at his heels -- Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was still just a boy. Watching the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was le...



  • Laura Alden

    Good thing Beth Kennedy likes to multi-task. As a PTA secretary, children’s bookstore owner, and single mom, Beth has to work hard to schedule time for sleuthing… Beth is excited about the spring PTA project -- the Senior Story Session, which...



  • Malin Alegria

    A quinceanera for the record books? If Fabiola Garza had her way, her quinceanera would be as simple and as non-traditional as possible-just two airline tickets to New York City and her best friend in tow. Sadly, things hardly ever go Fabi's way. ...



  • Rochelle Alers

    Twins Ana and Jason, along with their cousin Nicholas, are successful thirtysomethings who are single -- and loving it. They have no idea that their relatives are betting on which one of them will get married first. But by the family's New Year's Eve...



  • Esri Allbritten

    In this laugh-out-loud-funny mystery, Angus MacGregor and the zany staff of Tripping Magazine, a travel magazine that covers paranormal destinations, investigate a bizarre story in a town brimming with secrets. Forty years ago, Maureene Pinter painte...



  • Robin Allen (1)

    Murder Most Rare As a health inspector and former chef, Poppy Markham thought she'd seen it all--until she steps into Capital Punishment. The restaurant's twisted concept--last meals of death row inmates--could be a hit only in outlandish Austin, ...



  • E.J. Altbacker

    Shark Wars grows more epic--and addictive--with every book, publishing each season! Peace has finally come to the Big Blue and with it a revelation: Gray is not the last megalodon in the ocean after all. Gray swims deeper into the mystery of his f...



  • Tara Altebrando

    High-school senior Mary Gilhooley and her friends have spent their entire lives--but especially the last four years--feeling like underdogs and also-rans. Having suffered constant ridicule from Oyster Point's resident bully king and superjock, Jake B...



  • Kathy Altman

    A hero in need of forgiveness Corporal Reid Macfarland has one mission: to make amends for the mistake he lives with every day. That friendly-fire incident in Afghanistan that killed a fellow soldier haunts him. Maybe if he can help the widow, he'...



  • Mary Amato

    On odd days, Tripp Broody uses a school practice room to let loose on a borrowed guitar. Eyes closed, strumming that beat-up instrument, Tripp escapes to a world where only the music matters. On even days, Lyla Marks uses the same practice room. T...



  • Jessica Andersen

    SHE COULD REMEMBER ALL BUT FOUR MINUTES OF HER LIFE. HE PROMISED TO MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME. When DEA agent Nick Lang came to town, even the toughest cases got closed. But his latest had become way too personal. He'd thought CSI Jennifer Prynne was ...



  • Kurt Andersen

    In True Believers, Kurt Andersen -- the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century -- delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic ...



  • Howard Anderson

    At once an old-fashioned-buddy-novel-shoot-'em-up and a work of deliciously imagined fantasy, Howard L. Anderson's dazzling debut presents the haunting story of a world where something has gone horribly awry . . . Having escaped from Australia's A...



  • Jodi Lynn Anderson

    Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair. . . . Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories or happy endings. Then she meets the alluring teenage Peter Pan in the forbidden woods...



  • Sarah M. Anderson

    Blue-blooded lawyer James Carlson is working on the case of his life. After winning this trial, his career will be set. He won't let anything...or anyone...alter his course. Then he meets his witness. Maggie Eagle Heart makes him question everythi...



  • Taylor Anderson

    In Taylor Anderson’s acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds an extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, the crew of USS Walker, and their allies battle an ever-growing host of e...



  • Giles Andreae

    There's something Billy Bonkers doesn't want you to know. Come closer...I'll whisper it: he has to wear his sister's underpants! And whether Billy's flying round a go-kart track, chasing a very smelly dog, or finding some priceless long-lost treasure...



  • Donna Andrews

    Meg helps run Caerphilly's summer arts and crafts festival while trying to smoke out a murderer -- turn up the heat, because Some Like it Hawk! The hilariously funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the award-winning New York Time...



  • Gina Apostol

    A young woman pieces together her troubled past in this story of rebellion and romance set in the Marcos-era Philippines. Soon after she leaves home for university in Manila, Soledad Soliman (Sol) transforms herself from bookish rich girl to commu...



  • Alex Archer

    He was one of Russia's most infamous rulers, and he alone held the key to a legendary Byzantine collection of books, given to him in the dowry of Princess Sophia of Constantinople. Ivan Vasilyevich -- otherwise known as Ivan the Terrible -- owned a l...




  • Kelley Armstrong

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong delivers the novel her fans have been clamoring for: Thirteen, the epic finale of the Otherworld series. It’s been more than ten years, a dozen installments, and hundreds of thousands of ...



  • Amanda Ashley
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    Like dusk from dawn, like fire from frost, we are divided from you. From ancient Greece to small-town Louisiana, in Transylvania and the Night World, for eons we have wandered, alone. We live, and we sense you. Different, we are yet the same. We are ...



  • Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    The rich stew of the author's creations -- SingleEarth, vampires, shapeshifters, Tristes, the Bruja Guilds -- are at full boil here in the story of two 20-ish young women trying to out run their very different pasts, and figure out where they fit in ...



  • Margaret Atwood

    What do you imagine when you hear the name . . . Bradbury? You might see rockets to Mars. Or bizarre circuses where otherworldly acts whirl in the center ring. Perhaps you travel to a dystopian future, where books are set ablaze . . . or to an out...



  • Rev. W. Awdry

    Thomas is racing to solve the Blue Mountain Mystery in this Little Golden Book retelling of the new Thomas & Friends direct-to-DVD/Blue-ray movie that is sure to entertain little boys ages 2-5. ...



  • James Axler

    INTEGRITY LOST After the Megacull, the weak died off, so that a century later, the living have descended from only the toughest stock. Still, it takes more than strength to survive Deathlands. It takes skill, cunning and a warrior's heart. But for...



  • Shelby Bach

    When Rory realizes fairy tales are the real deal at Ever After School, she embarks on a classic quest to fulfill her destiny. Rory Landon has spent her whole life being known as the daughter of a famous movie star mom and director dad. So when she...



  • Paul Bailey

    Stuck in a hospital and heavily medicated, Harry Chapman doesn't just hear the doctors, nurses, and other patients. Is that the voice of his mother, acerbic and disappointed in him as ever? Perhaps her presence would be understandable enough, but wha...



  • Brenda L. Baker

    The author of Sisters of the Sari presents a richly emotional journey of two women drawn together by an unexpected and unwanted bond… Lesley McCoy works in a day-care center, and she is planning to start a family of her own. Her husband, David,...



  • J.I. Baker

    n the early-morning hours of August 5, 1962, Los Angeles County deputy coroner Ben Fitzgerald arrives at the home of the world's most famous movie star, now lying dead in her bedroom, naked and still clutching a telephone. There he discovers The Boo...



  • Richard Baker

    After a hundred years, Jack Ravenwild -- thief, sorcerer, scoundrel, and accidental hero -- is released from a magical confinement, only to fall into the hands of the marquise Dresimil Chûmavh, ruler of an exiled drow clan who sees an opportunity in...



  • Stacey Ballis

    As the executive culinary assistant to celebrity Chicago chef Patrick Conlon, Alana Ostermann works behind the scenes -- and that’s just the way she likes it. But with developing recipes for Patrick’s cookbooks, training his sous chefs, picking o...



  • Art Baltazar

    Superboy discovers that an unwanted guest in the team’s cave is not really what he appears to be! Is the threat deadly to only The Boy of Steel -- or is the entire Justice League in danger, as well? Superboy struggles to find the balance between ...




  • Madhuri Banerjee

    The protagonist of the book is a single woman, who on reaching the age of thirty is on a mission to figure out her love life that has eluded her all this while. How she discovers herself in the process of finding that one great love is the plot of th...



  • Maya Banks

    Grace Peterson is desperate, in hiding, and on the run after escaping a shadowy group determined to exploit her extraordinary ability to heal others. Her only lifeline--an unerring telepathic ability she shares with her sister--has been severed, leav...



  • Mourid Barghouti

    In 1996, award-winning Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti returned to his home for the first time since his exile--first in Egypt, then in Hungary--following the Six-Day War in 1967, and wrote "I Saw Ramallah," a poignant and acclaimed memoir of the e...



  • Lauren Barnholdt

    In this humorous love story from the author of Two-Way Street , an unlikely romance is the best sort of surprise -- but the wrong secret can ruin everything. Kelsey’s not going to let one mistake ruin her life. Sure, she got kicked out of prep s...



  • Lindsey Barraclough

    In an exquisitely chilling debut novel, four children unravel the mystery of a family curse -- and a ghostly creature known in folklore as Long Lankin. When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their elderly aunt in the isola...



  • Elisabeth Barrett

    In this sexy new Star Harbor romance series, featuring the too-tempting Grayson brothers, a celebrity chef turns up the heat for a local café owner -- and things start to sizzle. Lexie Meyers decides there’s nothing sweeter than watching Sebas...



  • Lorna Barrett

    Tricia Miles -- owner of Haven't Got a Clue, the best mystery bookstore in Stoneham, New Hampshire -- once again plays amateur sleuth as she is unexpectedly reunited with a man from a chapter of her life she closed long ago... The town of Stoneham...



  • Greg Barron

    It took seven days to create the world ... now they have seven days to save it. Extremists hijack the conference centre where heads of state have gathered in an attempt to bring society back from the brink of global environmental catastrophe, and...



  • Lily Baxter

    When her home is destroyed in a bombing raid over London, Miranda Beddoes is forced to take refuge with her grandparents down on the Dorset coast. With both her parents doing their duty for king and country, Miranda longs to do the same. She joins th...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Nick Fury has gathered a special team of Secret Warriors. But these young heroes have a lot to learn in a very short time when they uncover a conspiracy that reaches from the Oval Offi ce to the temples of Japan - and even beyond death. The Leviathan...



  • Peter Bently

    When their teacher is out sick, Lee Price and his best friends are subjected to the world's meanest, most-math-obsessed substitute teacher--and she's an actual monster, to boot! But something's fishy about Miss Fit.. Will the kids find out before the...



  • Peter Bently

    Disaster strikes when the lead in the school play, Snow Fright and the Seven Dwarfs, loses her voice on the morning of the play. But Lee, Bella and Billy concoct a plan to save the day . . . and encounter Miss Gargoyle's mystery guest!...



  • Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    When Brother and Sister visit the Bearsonian Museum, they luck out. A real dinosaur dig is taking place! What sort of fossils will they find? A Stegosaurus? A Spinosaurus? The mighty Tyrannosaurus rex? Dig in with the Berenstain Bears and find out!...



  • Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    When Sister Bear tries out for the Bear Country School swim team, she washes away the competition! Racing past the other swimmers, Sister Bear makes Papa proud. In fact, Papa Bear is so proud that he decides to train Sister into a Bearlympic competit...



  • Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Something strange is afoot at the museum, and the cubs are out to solve the mystery! With the help of Professor Actual Factual, the Bears must find the culprit who planted fake fossils at the museum and recover the missing bones! But with Dr. Zoltan ...



  • Karen Bergreen

    Think you want to be the perfect mom? Think again….. Kate Alger has finally found the cure for her post-partum depression. After years of suffering, all it takes to bring this mommy back to life were a few gruesome homicides! When someone star...



  • Lou Berney

    Having left his life of crime behind, former getaway driver Charles "Shake" Bouchon has finally realized the dream of owning his own restaurant in Belize. Unfortunately, to do so he's had to go deep in debt to a murderous local drug lord named Baby J...



  • Beth Bernobich

    Queen's Hunt is the second title in Beth Bernobich’s River of Souls novels, following her startling debut, Passion Play. Filled with dark magic and sensual images, this is fantasy writing at its best. Ilse Zhalina has left to start a new life in...



  • Frank Berrios

    Lightning McQueen and Mater travel to all four corners of the globe in this all-new Little Golden Book featuring all of your favorite characters from Disney/Pixar Cars 2. It's a must-have for boys ages 2-5! ...



  • J. Mark Bertrand

    The Stakes Have Never Been Higher for this Homicide Cop Publishers Weekly calls J. Mark Bertrand's writing "gritty and chilling." He returns once more to the streets of Houston for another twisting mystery featuring Detective Roland March. This ti...



  • ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    How far will you go to save someone you love and trust when they’ve kept a dangerous secret for years? That’s the question facing Lance Kingston, a successful Houston magazine executive whose recent marriage to beautiful, high-powered attorney Ti...



  • Juliet Blackwell

    Lily Ivory is living her dream of owning a vintage clothing store -- and practicing magic on the side. But when she encounters a sinister sleeping spell, Lily comes face-to-face with a nightmarish evil… Taking a night off from running her succe...



  • Adam Blade

    A special edition Beast Quest-with twin baby dragons! New Beasts have been created in Avantia-- twin dragons Vedra and Krimon. But the Wizard Malvel plans to capture them, so Tom must take the dragons into hiding. Can Tom save the twin Beasts from...



  • Sara Blaedel

    It was clearly no ordinary drowning. Inspector Louise Rick is immediately called out to Holbraek Fjord when a young immigrant girl is found in the watery depths, a piece of concrete tied around her waist and two mysterious circular patches on the bac...



  • Annette Blair

    There's nothing Maddie loves more than fabulous vintage clothes, but the visions she gets while touching them are starting to wear her down. Even so, when a beautifully dressed girl comes to Vintage Magic in search of her past, Maddie isn't about to...



  • Daniel Blake

    “You’re not tainted. You’re not one of them. I need you alone. . . .” The woman who contacted Franco Patrese was the ultimate New Orleans society belle: beautiful, seductive, cunning, and, in this case, desperate. The personal assistant to...



  • Alex Bledsoe

    Twenty years ago, a barmaid in a harbor town fell for a young sailor who turned pirate to make his fortune. But what truly became of Black Edward Tew remains a mystery -- one that has just fallen into the lap of freelance sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse....



  • Michael Boccacino

    When the nanny to the young Darrow boys is found murdered on the outskirts of Blackfield, Charlotte Markham, the recently hired governess, steps in to take over their care. During an outing in the forest, they find themselves crossing over into The ...



  • Chris Bohjalian

    In his fifteenth book, The Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian brings us on a very different kind of journey. This spellbinding tale travels between Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012 -- a sweeping historical love story steeped i...



  • Stephanie Bond

    Soldier Mike Nichols has come to Sweetness, Georgia, for one reason: to get help for his troubled black Lab, a decorated rescue dog, at the town's new military dog training facility. He doesn't expect to be referred to dog groomer Lacey Lovejoy inste...



  • Amanda Bonilla

    “She needed a bargaining chip and this was it. Raif’s daughter’s life for hers. And he knew damn good and well I was right. Just like he’d assured me the night I’d killed Azriel, this was far from over. His daughter was alive. I knew it. An...



  • Ben Bova

    Orion has fought across time and space at the whims of his Creators, godlike beings from the future who toy with human history like spoiled children playing with dolls. Orion has been both assassin and hero, all the while striving to be reunited with...



  • Judith Bowen

    Cilla Prescott has one priority in her life -- her preschool in Glory, Alberta. It's rewarding work and she loves it, but it leaves little time for romance, which is just fine by Cilla. Not so fine for rancher Jeremiah Blake. Jeremiah has decided ...



  • John Boyne

    Eight-year-old Noah's problems seem easier to deal with if he doesn't think about them. So he runs away, taking an untrodden path through the forest. Before long, he comes across a shop. But this is no ordinary shop: it's a toyshop, full of the mo...




  • Beth Bracken

    Studies have found that participating in household activities at a young age is the best predictor of future success. Henry Helps is a series about a sweet little boy who really wants to help out around the house. These picture books will soon become...



  • Joanna Brady

    One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry’s husband vanishes from Wreckers’ Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends to the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but take charge of Wrecker’s Cay and her h...



  • Grace Brannigan

    Ever since Tye Jenkins was seventeen she'd been head over heels for Jake Miller, but she'd been too young and she'd chosen rodeo instead of Jake. Now, ten years later unfinished business brings them together, the same night Tye suffers a devastating ...



  • Chaz Brenchley

    A haunting tale of terror from a master of the genre. When she is offered an undercover assignment by newspaper editor (and her former lover) Tony Fledgwood, professional party girl Grace Harley jumps at the chance to disappear from London and es...



  • Ed Briant

    HOW TO CURE THE BROKENHEARTED, STOLEN BASS BLUES Toby and Zack’s first gig could make or break their Beatles cover band, the Nowhere Men. But ever since getting dumped by his girlfriend, lead singer Toby can’t quite pull off the Beatles’ fee...



  • Phoebe Bright

    A magical new series -- this book comes with a bracelet and two collectible charms! Wishes really do come true! Cassie is so excited to turn seven! She knows it's a special day, but she has no idea what kind of magic is in store. . . . On he...



  • Laura Brodie

    One night can alter a life forever… Emma Greene enjoys living in rural solitude with her husband and five-year-old daughter, Maggie, far away from her college students in Jackson, Virginia. But late one night, with her husband away and her daug...



  • Christine Brodien-Jones

    Zagora Pym has always wanted to be a desert explorer. Her father, Charlie Pym, is exactly that, and she's always loved to look over his maps of far away exotic places. One day she'd be trekking through the deserts of Africa and China, discovering hid...



  • Jessica Brody

    Being America’s favorite heiress is a dirty job…but someone’s gotta do it. Lexington Larrabee has never had to work a day in her life. After all, she’s the heiress to the multi-billion-dollar Larrabee Media empire. And heiresses are not su...



  • Lindsey Brookes

    "There are some things a man can't change. My bein' a babe magnet for one . . . " -Jimmie Joe Johnson Fact is, just about every single female in Possum Hollow, Alabama-along with most of the attached ones-has enjoyed my services. And not just as an a...



  • Terry Brooks

    The legendary hero Allanon takes center stage in the first of three gripping new stand-alone eBook short stories set in the world of the fantasy-fiction phenomenon that is Shannara -- by beloved New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks. T...



  • Sigmund Brouwer

    The future of the Immortals is in the hands of an orphan My greatest fear was that they would find us and make of us a sacrifice beneath a full moon. Now you, Thomas, must help us destroy the circle of evil. The last words of a dying woman wo...



  • Sigmund Brouwer

    Set in the turbulent years just before one of the most horrendous events in Jewish history, The Last Temple concludes the trilogy of The Last Disciple and The Last Sacrifice. Vitas is reunited with his wife and retires to Alexandria, determined to li...



  • Calef Brown

    Visit this one-stop pirate shop for all your swashbuckling needs, from #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Calef Brown. Are you a Privateer? A Mutineer? Or a happy-go-lucky Buccaneer? Do you need top quality pirate gear? W...



  • Jennifer Brown

    Kendra has always felt overshadowed by her older brother, Grayson, whose OCD forces him to live a life of carefully coordinated routines. The only way Kendra can stand out next to Grayson is to be perfect, and she has perfection down to an art -- unt...




  • M. Beth Brown

    Every night I'd lie there in bed and look out at the hills behind our house, listening. I knew there'd be consequences. Actions meant reactions. Sunrises meant sunsets. My fear was too permanent, lasting longer than eyeliner, something I wore ever...



  • Sandra Brown

    When a ruthless curator at San Francisco’s McFall Art Museum is murdered, his wife is the primary suspect. She is tried, convicted, and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective who cracked the case, is convinced that the wrong person was ...



  • Megan E. Bryant

    In this new series of concept-based, shaped dinosaur board books, little ones will learn dinosaur names for every letter of the alphabet, identify bold shapes, practice counting skills, and discover the bright colors in the dinosaur world. Both kid-f...



  • Cullen Bunn

    When Fear Itself is over, the hunt is on! Mystical hammers lay strewn across the entire Marvel Universe and it is Valkyrie's mission to find them, no matter what the cost, and no matter who stands in her way...even if it's Captain America & the Aveng...



  • T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Davis Bunn Strikes Gold Once Again! Marc Royce stares down from the helicopter on the Rift Valley slashing across Africa like a scar. Tribal feuds, drought, and dislocation have left their devastation. And he sees a new wound--a once-dormant volc...



  • T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    It’s not about understanding the prophecy. It’s about outliving it. Dr. Elena Burroughs’s life is spiraling out of control. Her controversial stance on dream interpretation has cost her a job, a romance, and all credibility in academic circl...



  • Heather Burch

    In this free illustrated short story from the popular Halflings series by Heather Burch, Nikki and the Halflings team intercept important information regarding the kidnapping of Hollywood's hottest teen celebrity, Mandy Mosen. Will they be able come ...



  • James Lee Burke

    Languishing in a recovery unit on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Dave Robicheaux is fighting an enemy more insidious than the one who put a bullet in his back a month earlier in a shootout on Bayou Teche. The morphine meant to dull his pain is st...



  • Doris Burn

    Andrew Henry has two younger brothers, who are always together, and two older sisters, who are always together. But Andrew Henry is in the middle--and he's always with himself. He doesn't mind this very much, because he's an inventor. But when Andrew...



  • Kurt Busiek

    Collects Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet, Maximum Security #1-3, Avengers (1998) #35-44, Avengers Annual 2001. Earth's Mightiest Heroes vs. the Universe's Mightiest Menaces! Faced with alien invaders, a gigantic killer crusader and insidious cons...



  • Meg Cabot

    Summer break . . . and the livin' ain't easy! Just because the students at New York College have flown the coop doesn't mean assistant residence hall director Heather Wells can relax. Fischer Hall is busier than ever, filled with squealing thirtee...



  • K.D. Calamur

    From NPR editor Krishnadev Calamur comes an engrossing murder mystery set in the heart of the new India. Mumbai, India: a city of beauty and squalor, old and new, wealth and poverty, honest work and deep corruption… and inevitable target of sca...



  • Dia Calhoun

    A girl’s struggle to save her family’s farm, told in verse, stands as a testament to the power of hope. Twelve-year-old Eva is trying to remain hopeful as banks threaten to foreclose on Acadia Orchard, the apple and pear farm in Washington sta...



  • Wanda B. Campbell

    For five years, Pamela Roberts, has balanced the demands of being a single mother and a devoted Christian. She unselfishly places the needs of her son, Matthew, above her own. Although she tries to convince everyone that she’s happy with Jesus alon...



  • Janice Cantore

    fter solving the mayor’s murder and exposing corruption among the top brass in Las Playas, Carly Edwards is happy to be back on patrol with her partner, Joe, putting bad guys behind bars. For once, everything in life seems to be going right. But...



  • Rebecca Cantrell

    In Rebecca Cantrell's A City of Broken Glass, journalist Hannah Vogel is in Poland with her son Anton to cover the 1938 St. Martin festival when she hears that 12,000 Polish Jews have been deported from Germany. Hannah drops everything to get the sto...



  • Orson Scott Card

    The all-new prequel to Orson Scott Card's science-fiction classic Ender's Game returns! With 44 million people killed by the toxic gas that the alien Formics unleashed in China, the only hope of a counter-agent lies with Mazer Rackham and the Mobile ...



  • Orson Scott Card; Aaron Johnston

    A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone in the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and founding colonies. The mining ship El...



  • Anna Carey

    When you're being hunted, who can you trust? For the first time since she escaped from her school many months ago, Eve can sleep soundly. She's living in Califia, a haven for women, protected from the terrifying fate that awaits orphaned girls in ...



  • Mike Carey

    When fifteen-year-old Kim Vesco moves from Chicago to Salem, MA, she finds that the local student body is divided into rival factions of witches and non-witches, with both sides bidding for her allegiance. And if that weren't enough, an unknown force...



  • Jamie Carie

    Tethered by her impulsive promise to marry Lord John Lemon - the path of least resistance - Alexandria Featherstone sets off toward Iceland in search of her parents with a leaden heart. A glimpse of her guardian, the Duke of St. Easton - the path les...



  • Eric Carle

    When a very lonely firefly goes out into the night searching for other fireflies, it sees a lantern, a candle, and the eyes of a dog, cat, and owl all glowing in the darkness. It even sees a surprise celebration of light. But it is not until it disco...



  • J.C. Carleson

    For disgraced CIA officer Dara McIntyre, a new assignment to monitor a troubled junior agent is yet another blow to her once high-flying career. Punished for her affair with a Jordanian spy, Dara is stuck in a dreary desk job at Langley headquarters ...



  • Patricia Carlin

    A boy and his brave puppy are ready to camp out in their backyard! The boy's not scared because if things go bump in the night, he knows Alfie will protect him: from space invaders, boa constrictors, and even alligators! Alfie's not afraid of anythin...



  • Isobelle Carmody

    Once shunned as a Misfit for the powers that set her apart, Elspeth Gordie has finally found happiness and love. But when she receives the long-awaited summons to begin her final quest, she must slip out in the night and leave all that she loves behi...



  • Rae Carson

    A sweeping, original digital story by the acclaimed Rae Carson set in the world of her epic The Girl of Fire and Thorns, which Tamora Pierce called, "Engrossing." Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. And it was not Alodia. Alodia...



  • Rachel Carter

    Lydia Bentley has heard stories about the Montauk Project all her life: stories about the strange things that took place at the abandoned military base near her home and the people who've disappeared over the years. Stories about people like her own ...



  • Stephen L. Carter

    From the author of the best sellers The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, an electrifying, provocative new novel that asks the question: What would have happened had Lincoln not been assassinated? Stephen Carter's thrilling new novel ta...



  • Cecil Castellucci

    A retelling of the Prince Lindwurm fairy tale, Brother Prince Snake is a story of love, sibling rivalry, and how a monster became King. ...



  • Richard Castle

    Days after being brought out of retirement to investigate a kidnapping, Derrick Storm has a dead US senator on his hands, an assassin to track down, and nearly six billion dollars' worth of gold bars--hidden by the Communist Party somewhere in the fo...



  • Joy Castro

    Nola Céspedes, an ambitious young reporter at the Times-Picayune, finally catches a break: an assignment to write her first full-length feature. While investigating her story, she also becomes fixated on the search for a missing tourist in the Frenc...



  • David Catrow

    The "Monster Mash" was a graveyard smash--and now it's a picture book by David Catrow! The "Monster Mash" gets Wolf Man, zombies, and other monsters to dance and party in this catchy, classic song. Dracula rises out of his coffin, vampires feast i...



  • Lauren Cecil

    A new Lalaloopsy story just in time for Halloween--and it includes stickers, all for $4.99! Patch Treasurechest has planned a spooky Halloween scavenger hunt for all his friends. As the girls solve each riddle and get new clues, they get closer an...



  • Clara Cella



  • Fred Chao

    Johnny Hiro, a hardworking busboy, lives in Brooklyn with his flighty but lovable girlfriend Mayumi. Every day, he struggles to make ends meet while fighting giant monsters, running over rooftops from crazed waiters, fending off businessmen-turned-sa...



  • Vannetta Chapman

    A Promise for Miriam, the first book in a brand-new romantic series from popular author Vannetta Chapman, introduces the Amish community of Pebble Creek and some of the kind, caring people there. As they face challenges to their community from the En...



  • Joelle Charbonneau

    Even as a struggling opera singer, Paige Marshall has never seen anything like the cutthroat competition of the Prospect Glen High School show choir. Coaching these championship-hungry students may be her toughest gig yet... Especially when her be...



  • Pauline A. Chen

    In this lyrical reimagining of the Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber, set against the breathtaking backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing, the lives of three unforgettable women collide in the inner chambers of the Jia mansion. When orphaned D...



  • Lee Child

    Jack Reacher must track down a spy in soldier's clothing -- by matching wits with four formidable females. Three are clean -- but the fourth may prove fatal. Summoned by Military Intelligence to Washington, D.C., Reacher is sent undercover. The a...



  • Maureen Child

    When scandal threatens the luxury auction house that bears his family's name, Vance Waverly suspects the media feeding frenzy is an inside job. Could his gorgeous assistant, Charlotte Potter, be plotting Waverly's downfall? There's one way to find ou...



  • Tera Lynn Childs

    When Lily Sanderson decided to remain Crown Princess Waterlily of the mer kingdom of Thalassinia, she knew she couldn't just coast along in the current. But since she's spent the last couple of years on land, Lily's not sure she has the fins to lead ...



  • Pamela Clare

    Charged with a crime they didn’t commit, the MacKinnon brothers faced a death sentence until they agreed to serve the British Crown in the colonies and take up arms against the French. Allied with the Indian tribes who lived beside them in the wild...



  • Chris Claremont

    The X-Men had fought many battles, been on adventures that spanned galaxies, grappled with enemies of limitless might, but none of this could prepare them for the most shocking struggle they would ever face. Jean Grey has gained power beyond all comp...



  • Bruce Clark

    Bruce Clark is the world’s best dad. Born and raised as a Scientologist, the religion-cult’s practices were his only reference points. At age 16, disillusionment had set in, and he was spewed out onto the streets uneducated and livid. Deep into a...



  • Dorothy Clark

    When Willa Wright's fiancé abandoned her, he ended all her hopes for romance. Now she dedicates herself to teaching Pinewood's children, including the new pastor's young wards. If she didn't know better, Reverend Calvert's kindness could almost fool...



  • Philippe Claudel

    A wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing thedarkly comic nature of the human condition. The Investigator is a man quite like any other. He is balding, of medium build, dresses conservatively -- in short, he is unremarkable i...



  • Anna Cleary

    Pia Renfern's holiday planning is easy -- relaxation and recuperation are the only things on her to-do list! And she can't imagine they'll be too difficult in the beautiful, exclusive Italian village of Positano.… But before she's even out of th...



  • Chris Cleave

    WHAT WOULD YOU SACRIFICE FOR THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE? KATE AND ZOE met at nineteen when they both made the cut for the national training program in track cycling -- a sport that demands intense focus, blinding exertion, and unwavering commitment. They...



  • Andrew Clements

    Can average be amazing? A girl challenges herself to become extraordinary in the latest from bestselling author Andrew Clements. Jordan Johnston is average. Not short, not tall. Not plump, not slim. Not blond, not brunette. Not gifted, not flunkin...



  • Colleen Coble

    Welcome to Hope Beach. A place of intoxicating beauty . . . where trouble hits with the force of a hurricane. Inheriting a beautiful old hotel on the Outer Banks could be a dream come true for Libby. The inn cries out for her restorer's talent and...



  • Ben Coes

    Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir has proof that Iran has finally succeeded in building its first nuclear weapon -- and plans on using it to attack Israel. But before Meir can recruit Dewey Andreas and execute his secret operation, he's abdu...



  • Lucille Colandro

    There was an old lady who's ready for school! That lovely old lady has returned just in time for the first day of school. Now she's swallowing items to make the very best of her first day back. And just in time for the bus... With rhyming text ...



  • Stephen Cole

    Jonah Wish is in an elite team of teenage thieves lead by master criminal Nathaniel Coldhardt. Coldhardt plans every mission with absolute precision. So when Jonah and the rest of the team break into a highly secure compound to steal a precious sword...



  • Chris Colfer

    ALEX AND CONNER BAILEY'S WORLD IS ABOUT TO CHANGE. When the twins' grandmother gives them a treasured fairy-tale book, they have no idea they're about to enter a land beyond all imagining: the Land of Stories, where fairy tales are real. But as...



  • Max Allan Collins; Mickey Spillane

    A beautiful reporter. A secret ritual in a graveyard. A disembodied hand on the side of the road. Mike Hammer returns in one of the most shocking cases of his storied career. Private Investigator Mike Hammer may be getting older, but he hasn't lost h...



  • Cara Colter

    When Grace Day accepts returning soldier Rory Adams's help for the military fundraiser she's organizing, memories of her teenage crush on him come rushing back. Growing up in practically a war zone, Rory's motto is "When you expect the worst, you ...



  • Gerry Conway

    Collects Amazing Spider-Man #88-92 & 121-122. The deaths that still shape the Spider-verse! During the early 1970s, a pair of plotlines changed comic-book mortality forever. Shock followed shock when Spider-Man lost a friend, a lover and an enemy...



  • Gloria Cook

    Trouble is brewing in the Cornish village of Nanviscoe, and this time it might be too much even for kindly widow Dorrie Resterick to solve . . . Dorrie Resterick has enough to worry about without the arrival of Stella Grey and her family in the v...



  • Ilene Cooper

    Ilene Cooper's fifth story of a boy and his beagle follows Bobby and Lucy as they roll with the tricks and treats of Halloween. Tricks and treats-that's what Halloween is all about. This year, Bobby has lots of both! He has a special treat planned...



  • Rose Cooper

    Sofia is spending the summer at Camp Krakatow! S'mores, crafts, bug juice, water sports, boys(!) . . . Sofia doesn't want to forget one second of sleepaway camp!...



  • Sophie Cornish

    Sophie Cornish and Holly Tucker are the founders of notonthehighstreet.com, an award-winning, multimillion-pound online marketplace selling 50,000 innovative, stylish products. But six short years ago they were maxing out their credit cards, trying t...



  • Ralph Cotton

    BURNING UP Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack’s on the trail of a gang of bank robbers, a mission that’s led him right into the path of a raging wildfire. As the pines around him go up in flames, Burrack is determined to catch the murderous Cheyenne ...



  • Catherine Coulter

    San Francisco Judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, is presiding over the trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill -- accused in a string of murders -- when the proceedings take a radical turn. Federal prosecutor M...



  • David Covell

    Friends. Enemies. And friends again! This is a story of two friends. Rat and Roach. They get along great! Except when Rat makes a mess . . . Or Roach cooks too fancy . . . Or Rat HUGS TOO TIGHT!! In fact, why are these two friends? Rat and Roach aren...



  • Cressida Cowell

    RIPROARERS COLOR: Greenish NASTY BITS: Knife-sharp talons, stinky breath, and a mouth full of sharp teeth THREAT TO VIKINGS: Slobbering, stinking Riproarers hide out in very small spaces in very dark caves and pounce upon their victims in swarm...



  • Greg Cox

    Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman return in the thrilling and hotly anticipated conclusion to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy.The blockbuster movie will introduce new faces to the franchise as well, including Selin...




  • Bill Crider

    When a pair of sewer monsters is discovered in the storm drains, a young boy and his friends blame the subsequent chaos on Mike "Gonzo" Chilton and must save the town of Midgeville from certain disaster. ...



  • Bill Crider

    Laughing at local reports of UFO sightings and the kid who claims he was abducted, Bob and Big T reluctantly follow the troublesome Mike Gonzo onto the UFO he discovers and are amazed when the ship takes off with them inside. ...



  • Jeff Crook

    A new mystery series starring a Memphis crime scene photographer with ghostly assistance Jackie Lyons is a former vice detective with the Memphis Police Department who is trying to put her life back together: her husband has sent divorce papers, s...



  • Katie Crouch

    Every society has its secrets. The members of Savannah's Magnolia League have it all: money, beauty, power, and love. Some may call them lucky, but we know better. Spells, potions, and conjures are a girl's best friends, and thanks to the Buzzards...



  • Kristyn Crow

    A spooky Halloween read-aloud guaranteed to tickle the smallest funny bones! After nine lives, Skeleton Cat is back for his tenth. And he has big dreams: to be a drummer. So he rattles and shakes his way through town to find the perfect band. And ...



  • Kathryn Cushman

    Julie Charlton is at the breaking point. She's overwhelmed and burned out, and in today's unrelenting society, her kids are, too. When her sister-in-law Susan, a Martha Stewart-in-training, lands the chance to participate in a reality TV series promo...



  • Kathy Leonard Czepiel

    A MOTHER’S CHOICES IN A T IME OF CRISIS THREATEN THE ONE PERSON SHE MEANS TO PROTECT -- HER ONLY DAUGHTER -- AND FORCE HER TO MAKE THE BOLDEST MOVE OF HER LIFE. The violet industry is booming in 1898, and a Hudson Valley farm owned by the Fletc...



  • Brian D'Amato

    In this mind-bending, stunningly inventive, and brilliantly researched sequel to In Courts of the Sun, one man holds the key to saving the world from the coming apocalypse . . . or ensuring its complete destruction. In Brian D’Amato’s first no...



  • Mary Daheim

    Bed-and-breakfast owner and amateur sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn can't escape murder, even when she's out of town doing a good deed for the inn-keeping profession. But -- oh, for the love of lederhosen -- it gets complicated when, once again, Judith...






  • Bryan Davis

    Headline: The Time Has Come As the long-awaited invasion of human forces looms, Jason, Koren, and Elyssa struggle to alert the soldiers to an unforeseen menace on the planet of Starlight---a deadly illness has been released, one that already has Kore...



  • Edith Kunhardt Davis

    A Step 4 HISTORY reader. "The drama of natural disasters provides prime material to entice young independent readers. In this volume, the account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius describes village life 2,000 years ago, the eruption itself and its af...



  • Sylvia Day

    Elijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality. Vashti is the second most powerful vampire in the world, a lethal beauty with a path of devastation in her wake. They are ...



  • Mark de Castrique

    When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Russell Mullins quits the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a Washington D.C. private protection company and is assigned to guard Paul Luguire, a Federal Reserve executive and its chief liaison with ...



  • Peter De Jonge

    When a home health attendant, Paulette Williamson, appears at Homicide South in Manhattan, she's introduced to the NYPD's Detective Darlene O'Hara and skeptically reports the confession of a senior citizen struggling with Alzheimer's. Gus Henderson, ...



  • Terry Deary

    Do your grandparents moan on about what life was like in the war? Want to know if they're telling the terrible truth? Read on to explore the horrible hardships the Blitzed Brits suffered while bombs dropped out of the sky! Find out what really happen...



  • Tom Defalco

    Legendary writer Tom DeFalco (Amazing Spider-Man) and acclaimed artist Horacio Domingues (Fantastic Four: True Story) bring you the origins of the original Avenger, Ant-Man! Hank Pym has had a life full of adventure and success, failure and humiliati...



  • Rachelle Delaney

    It's been one month since Scarlet McCray brought her crew, the Lost Souls, to Island X to guard a great treasure. Everyone has settled in nicely. But the pirates are coming. They can't resist the lure of unknown treasure, and they want revenge on Sca...



  • Rachelle Delaney

    Captain Scarlet McCray has a problem: her crew is bored. And their boredom means she's not being a good captain. So when Jem Fitzgerald arrives in the Islands with a map to a famous treasure, Scarlet offers up her crew, the Lost Souls. But searching ...



  • Rachelle Delaney

    It's been one month since Scarlet McCray brought her crew, the Lost Souls, to Island X to guard a great treasure. Everyone has settled in nicely. But the pirates are coming. They can't resist the lure of unknown treasure, and they want revenge on Sca...



  • J.M. DeMatteis

    The fan-favorite spin-off series starring your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man continues! Swing along with Spidey as he makes a jaunt over the Atlantic for some adventures in the UK, where he foils an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Margaret...



  • Susan Dennard

    PARASOLS, CORSETS, AND . . . ZOMBIES?! THE LUXE meets THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH in this gripping, witty debut, where readers will find romance and the macabre woven together in an irresistible mix. Eleanor Fitt has a lot to worry about. Her br...



  • Kristen L. Depken

    Buzz Lightyear, Sheriff Woody, and Rex from Disney/Pixar Toy Story set off on an all-new adventure in this original Little Golden Book that is perfect for boys and girls ages 2-5. ...




  • Anna DeStefano

    Ten-year-old Daniel has had a rough year. His mother's unexpected death has landed him in the custody of his uncle, elementary-school principal Joshua White. And though Josh is a pro when it comes to dealing with other people's kids, he can't get thr...



  • Philip K. Dick

    Gather Yourselves Together is one of Philip K. Dick’s earliest novels, written when he was just twenty-four years old. It tells the story of three Americans left behind in China by their employer, biding their time as the Communists advance. As the...



  • Monica Dickens

    The Colonel, owner of Follyfoot, the Home of Rest for Horses, has been ill and has to go away to convalesce. Dora and Steve are left in charge, with the strict instruction, 'Don't buy any horses'. But when Dora sees the rangy, cream-coloured lame hor...



  • Disney Book Group

    When the computer world of The Grid is taken over by an evil tyrant, one young man named Beck must join forces with the legendary hero Tron to free his home city. Under Tron’s tutelage, Beck will take on a secret identity to fight back, bringing a ...



  • Disney Book Group

    Woody and Buzz, Mike and Sulley, Russell and Dug--the gang's all here, plus more! This treasury stars favorite Disney*Pixar characters and features a padded cover, and beautiful full-page and spot illustrations. With twelve adventure-filled stories t...



  • Disney Book Group

    Perfect for bedtime, the second edition of the popular Bedtime Favorites storybook collection has 19 stories to choose from. Updated story selections will feature characters from Finding Nemo, Cars 2, Toy Story 3, The Lion King,



  • Disney Book Group

    Join Tangled stars Rapunzel, Flynn, Maximus, and Pascal for a hilarious wedding adventure, based on the animated short. Follow along with the story in this audio-enhanced eBook, featuring real character voices, vivid sound effects, and word-for-word ...



  • Disney Book Group

    Read along with Disney! This book takes readers around the world. It features characters from a number of different countries, along with their animal friends. Little ones will love seeing the fuzzy polar bear and koala. The book includes brand-new a...



  • Disney Book Group

    In celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Small World ride, this ebook invites readers to travel over snowy Russian hilltops, across sunny African plains, and over deep ocean waters. Featuring Joey Chou's playful art and the original song lyrics,...