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  • Relentless Aaron

    Two young men lured by the promise of fame and limitless power learn the hard way that no empire lasts forever in the latest urban drama from RENTLESS AARON Hit records, loads of cash, gorgeous groupies -- Ringo has it all. But he wasn't born a rap ...



  • Tony Abbott

    Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Derek didn't ask for this. It's bad enough that his brother's body is hosting a dead soul. Then there's that whole business of the evil dead waging war. And don't even get him started on all the ...




  • Chaco Abeno

    In the throes of his first love, Kentarou Sawai can't even count on beginner's luck to get him closer to Karen Toguin, the girl of his dreams. When he spontaneously enrolls in Karen's high school just to be closer to her, his hopes are crushed when i...



  • Joe Abercrombie

    Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march...



  • Jeanne Adams

    In Jeanne Adams' pulse-pounding thriller, a woman who's lost everything must turn to the man she considers her worst enemy. But he isn't the one who wants her dead... No Escape Cursed. Bad things happen to men who get close to Victoria Hagan. No...



  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- the Orange Broadband Prize -- winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun -- are her most intimate works to date. In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind me...



  • Aeschylus

    Three masterpieces of classical tragedy

    Containing Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and Euripides' Medea, this important new selection brings the best works of the great tragedians together in one perfect introductory volume. Th...



  • Ken Akamatsu

    HAUNTED SCHOOL?

    Negi Springfield is a boy wizard who teaches English at an all-girl school in Japan. The school has never shown indications of being haunted, but suddenly there are disturbing signs of a visiting spirit: a strange voice, piano ...



  • Rochelle Alers

    Close friends since childhood, Kyle, Duncan and Ivan have become rich, successful co-owners of a beautiful Harlem brownstone. The one thing each of them lacks is a special woman to share his life with--until true love steps in to transform three sexy...



  • Carrie Alexander

    A summer holiday in the desert -- what had she been thinking? Extreme heat? Scorpions? Senior citizens? Check. This home-swap vacation had seemed like such a great idea at the time.... Huh. Yet Alice Potter might actually get the romantic adventur...



  • Monica Ali

    Gabriel L ightfoot is an enterprising man from a northern E ngland mill town, making good in London. As executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial H otel, he is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, is unde...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    Terra Incognita - the blank spaces on the map, past the edge of the world, marked only by the words "here be monsters." Two nations at war, fighting for dominion over the known, and undiscovered, world, pin their last hopes at ultimate victory on fi...



  • Laurie Halse Anderson

    Zoe Fleefenbacher has one blue eye and one green eye and bright red hair that goes on . . . forever. Her hair has always been unruly, but now she is in first grade and according to her teacher, Ms. Trisk, “first grade has rules.” It takes countle...



  • Natalie Anderson

    Italian where it matters! Luca Bianchi has sworn off women -- after all, his million-dollar business is much less temperamental. Then he meets Emily Dodds. One look at the hot body hiding behind the prim clothes, and Luca's libido is stuck on ful...



  • Poul Anderson

    Nicholas van Rijn, the most flamboyant member of the Polesotechnic League of star traders, could see dark times ahead. Fellow league members were using tactics verging on outright piracy, and others were all too eager to sell starships and high-tech ...



  • Kalman Andrasofszky

    There's no place like home - just ask young mutant Kiden Nixon. She survived the hard streets of Manhattan, and she's built a home - and a family - for herself, with her friends Tatiana, Bobby Soul, and his Li'l Bro. But with fewer than 200 mutants l...



  • Amy Andrews

    From ugly duckling to beautiful bride Dressed in her shapeless lab coats and baggy clothes, medical-research assistant Izzy Nolan doesn't look like she was once a top model. But ever since the tragic incident that left her emotionally and physical...



  • Mary Kay Andrews

    After her boss is caught in a political scandal, fledgling Washington lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help turn Birdsong -- the fading Victorian mans...



  • Toni Andrews

    I just want a normal life...even if I'm not entirely sure I'm human. My name is Mercy Hollings and I'm a successful hypnotherapist in Balboa, California. The problem is, my good fortune is dependent on a dark secret. I can make people do whatever ...



  • Kate Angell
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    From seeing-eye dogs to cats who sit in your lap, animals are there for us in more way than we can count. Helping us get through the day with a wag of the tail and a tilt of the head, they let us know that someone is on our side-no matter what. They ...



  • Kathleen Antrim
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    When some of the top thriller writers in the world came together in Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night, they became a part of one of the most successful short-story anthologies ever published. The highly anticipated Thriller 2: Stories You Ju...



  • Katherine Applegate

    The sixth book in a hilarious chapter book series about an accidental rule breaker from Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal"winning and bestselling author of The One and Only Ivan, Endling, and Wishtree.It seems like everyone in Roscoe’s class has...



  • Bridget Asher

    A bighearted, funny, fiercely perceptive tale about a happily married woman and the little white lie that changed everything.... For Gwen Merchant, love has always been doled out in little packets--from her father, a marine biologist who buried h...



  • Diane Ashley; Aaron McCarver

    Rebekah eagerly anticipates the return of her childhood sweetheart from college. . .and his long-awaited proposal. But when Asher instead tells her that their wedding must wait while he fights for his country, Rebekah's dreams seem to shatter around ...



  • Annie Auerbach

    Surviving among the fierce and enormous creatures, Buck is a weasel who has become the master navigator of a mysterious world deep beneath the tundra. He is the only one who can keep Manny, Diego, Ellie, Crash, and Eddie safe from his archenemy, R...



  • James Axler

    Rumors of an untouched predark ville in the mountains of West Virginia lure traders in search of unimaginable wealth. They're coming from all directions--the good, the bad, the worst. Ryan and his warrior group join in, although it means an uneasy tr...



  • Michael Baden

    The star crime-solving pair of Dr. Jake Rosen, world-famous pathologist, and top litigator Manny Manfreda, return in a gripping new thriller. New York City is on high alert for a serial killer -- a strange kind of thief who stalks his victims fo...



  • Paul Bagdon

    Pound Taylor had been wandering the desert for days, his saddlebags stuffed with stolen money from an army paymaster's wagon, when he came upon Gila Bend. It was a wide-open town without law of any kind, haven to gunslingers, drifters and gamblers. P...



  • Cyn Balog

    A captivating and witty dark fantasy that will have girls lusting after it. Morgan Sparks has always known that she and her boyfriend, Cam, are made for each other. But when Cam's cousin Pip comes to stay with the family, Cam seems depressed. Fina...



  • Sandra Balzo

    A freak snowstorm in early May strands coffee house proprietress Maggy Thorsen in her store, Uncommon Grounds, with no power and no plows in sight. There's not much to do but commiserate with the other tenants of the strip mall and wait. That is, unt...



  • Jackie Barbosa

    Forbidden fantasies and hidden pleasures are waiting. Enter the Red Door, a most exclusive brothel, where men enjoy all the sins of the flesh and women surrender to their own secret desires... "Wickedly Ever After" Known for his wicked ways, th...



  • Tessa Barclay

    The new ‘Gregory Crowne’ mystery - When the ex-Queen Nicoletta of Hirtenstein, Gregory’s redoubtable grandmother, summons him to Rome where she is redecorating the villa of an Italian politician, Greg reluctantly complies. It appears that a...



  • John Barnes

    Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of what he calls "the Madman Underground"--a group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy d...



  • Chuck Barris

    Art Deco Jr. is heir to a vast fortune, scion of one of America's most powerful men -- Art Deco Sr. -- though by the time we meet him in these pages, Art has fallen into a life of depravity: booze, drugs, you name it. The Deco family is almost too em...



  • Anya Bast

    Sarafina Connell is having the worst week of her life. It takes an even darker turn when an infamous playboy kidnaps her and reveals a world she never knew existed... It's a world where magick is real, and where Sarafina is given a chance to join ...



  • Dan Begley

    PhD candidate Mitch Samuel's life isn't going exactly according to plan: his girlfriend just dumped him (to be fair, he did forget to pick her up at the airport), his estranged father has landed in the hospital, and his literary masterpiece-one part ...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    This story starts at the conclusion of the blockbuster video game, Halo 2. This must-read novel reveals how the Master Chief, while onboard a hostile ship headed towards Earth, battles against Covenant forces! Interwined with Master Chief's interstel...



  • Sue Bentley

    Lola is feeling left-out and a bit alone at school. But when magical puppy Storm appears as a fluffy black-and-white shih-tzu puppy, it looks like Lola's lonely school days will come into a magical class of their own!...



  • Sue Bentley

    Never in Madison's wildest dreams had she imagined having a magic puppy for a friend! So when Storm, a tiny beagle puppy with a fluffy white muzzle, magically appears, Madison feels like the most special girl in the whole world. Who better to help he...



  • Sue Bentley

    Flame is a magic kitten and a prince in his own world. But when he finds out that his evil uncle is up to no good, Flame escapes to the human world. He visits family after family, using his magic spells wherever they're needed most! Kim is excited...



  • Sue Bentley

    A little pony sparkling with magic. But his big wish is for a special friend! And so Alexandra's show jumping dreams look like they might come true when glossy Palomino pony, Comet canters into the ring......



  • Margot Berwin

    In the heart of New York City, hidden in the back room of an old Laundromat, are nine rare and valuable plants. Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire tells the story of this legendary garden, and the distance one woman must travel--from the c...



  • Francesca Lia Block

    When Bee woke up, there was a girl standing in her room. "You are me," the girl said. Then she was gone. I am a thirteen-year-old double Gemini. I get bad grades, write poetry with my left hand, dance in my room, surf the net. I Google images of ...



  • Lesley M.M. Blume

    Franny Hansen is a 10-year-old piano prodigy living in Rusty Nail, Minnesota. Once the Coot Capitol of the world, in 1953 it's just a run-of-the-mill town with one traffic light and a bizarre cast of characters. She's long exhausted the talents of th...



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    After a priest is lynched, gunfighter Britton Wade is the only one left who can guarantee justice!In Santa Fe, Jeremiah Cole has been convicted and sentenced to hang for the lynching of a priest. Still, most people believe Cole will never be executed...



  • Stephanie Bond

    Carlotta Wren's world is crumbling beneath her well-shod feet. One of her closest friends has been arrested as the Charmed Killer, but Carlotta refuses to believe it. And to prove her friend's innocence, Carlotta goes against her boyfriend Peter's wi...



  • Marie Bostwick

    Come home to Marie Bostwick's poignant novel of new beginnings, old friends, and the rich, varied tapestry of lives fully lived... At twenty-seven, having fled an abusive marriage with little more than her kids and the clothes on her back, Ivy Pet...



  • C.J. Box

    It begins with a phone message: Tell Sherry April called. And suddenly Joe Pickett's family is shaken to the core. April, Pickett's foster daughter, was murdered six years ago. His daughter Sherry starts to believe there's a chance that April is stil...



  • Rebecca Brandewyne

    Sent away from Meadowsweet Farm after the tragic death of her mother, Hallie Muldoon has returned, determined to uncover the secrets that have kept her from her beloved childhood home. But some secrets are best left undisturbed.... Conjured by Hal...



  • Diana Lesire Brandmeyer

    She’s running from the past. He's aiming for the future. Will they connect?

    Randi prefers her life to be free of a love life. But that may be ending when Preacher Boy steps into her cab and dazzles her with his charm. Is she strong enou...



  • Lyle Brandt

    U.S. Deputy Marshal Jack Slade must stop cross-country carnage. The homestead killers have been cutting a bloody swath across Oklahoma Territory, leaving behind a trail of corpses, slaughtering whole families on isolated farms and stealing the...



  • Gary Braver
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    Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this poignant Thriller Short, bestselling author Gary Braver draws from personal e...



  • Libba Bray

    Life's a beach . . . and then you're undead? in this must-have collection, five of today's hottest writers--Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty), Cassandra Clare (City of Bones), Claudia Gray (Evernight), Maureen Johnson (13 Little Blue Envel...



  • Marie Brennan

    The year is 1666. The King and Parliament vie for power, fighting one another with politics and armies alike. Below, the faerie court has enemies of its own. The old ways are breaking down, and no one knows what will rise in their place. But now,...



  • Sarah Rees Brennan

    Nick and his brother, Alan, have spent their lives on the run from magic. Their father was murdered, and their mother was driven mad by magicians and the demons who give them power. The magicians are hunting the Ryves family for a charm that Nick's m...



  • Simon Brett

    A duke’s halfwit son and brainy daughter search for a kidnapped princess and a dangerous killer in this hilarious historical mystery series debut.It’s that glorious period between the two World Wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is celebra...



  • Heather Brewer

    Vladimir Tod NORMAL TENTH-GRADE STUDENT' OR POWERFUL VAMPIRE? It's another awful year at Bathory High for Vladimir Tod. The evil vampire D'Ablo is hunting for a ritual that could steal Vlad's powers. His best friend, Henry, doesn't want to be his dr...



  • Kate Brian

    She's Back.... After wasting away in a mental institution for a year and a half, Ariana Osgood is finally back where she belongs. She has a new look, a new name, and a new life -- all thanks to her former friend Briana Leigh Covington. Now enro...



  • Carleen Brice

    Still reeling from divorce and feeling estranged from her teenage son, Trish Taylor is in the midst of salvaging the remnants of her life when she uncovers a shocking secret: her sister is alive. For years Trish believed that her mother and infant si...



  • Terri Brisbin

    Brittany, 1066 Elise saved her family from ruin by marrying Simon, Count of Rennes. Yet this is no mere marriage of convenience -- Elise has already fallen in love with her new husband. Intending to please him, Elise sets out to be the bold and se...



  • Connie Briscoe

    Ten years have passed since Sisters and Lovers, and Beverly, now 39, is engaged to Julian, a man her family and friends agree is the epitome of a great catch: he's gorgeous, loyal, trustworthy, successful, and very much in love with her. Since this i...



  • Laura Brodie

    A mesmerizing debut novel about love, grief, and the ghosts who show up where we least expect them. Sarah McConnell's husband had been dead for three months when she saw him in the grocery store. What does a woman do when she's thirty-nine, childless...



  • Anita Brookner

    Literary master Anita Brookner's elegant style is manifest on every page of her brilliant new novel. Beautifully crafted and emotionally evocative, Strangers portrays the magic and depth of real life, telling the rich story of an ordinary man whose u...



  • Cheryl Brooks

    Sold into slavery in a harem, Lynx is a favorite because his feline gene gives him remarkable sexual powers. But after ten years, Lynx is exhausted. Thrown out without a penny, discarded and heartbroken, Lynx vows he'll never give a woman pleasure ag...



  • Mat Broome

    An unstoppable super-villain attacks New York City--and the Mighty Avengers fall before him! Now Iron Man races to find the only man who’s ever defeated Anti-Man-- THE BLUE MARVEL…a hero the world hasn’t seen since 1961! Will Tony Stark uncove...



  • Dale Brown

    The clash of civilizations will be won... by the highest bidder. Newly inaugurated president Joseph Gardner has followed through on his pledge to pull American forces out of Iraq. But the region has quickly re-emerged as a hot zone, as Kurdish natio...



  • Jason Robert Brown; Dan Elish

    The novel based on the groundbreaking musical by Jason Robert Brown and Dan Elish, 13, a story about friendship, fitting in, and what it means to turn thirteen. Now a movie-musical streaming on Netflix!“No one said becoming a man was easy."Evan did...



  • Hester Browne

    In New York Times bestselling author Hester Browne's delightful new novel, a fading English finishing school is about to get a twenty-first-century makeover. Out with white gloves and flower arranging, in with managing mortgagesand do-it-yourself man...



  • Ed Brubaker

    Nominated for three Eisner Awards - "Best Continuing Series," "Best Writer," and "Best Penciler-Inker Team!" Longtime Daredevil fans will not be disappointed as the critically acclaimed, award-winning creative team of Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark lea...



  • Robert Buettner

    Jason Wander is ready to lead the final charge into battle. After forty years of fighting the Slugs, mankind's reunited planets control the vital crossroad that secures their uneasy union. The doomsday weapon that can end the war, and the mighty f...



  • Anita Richmond Bunkley

    For Jewel Blaine, the spotlight and her fans are all the family she'll ever need. She is the star of the popular daytime soapie The Proud and the Passionate, after all. After a high-profile breakup, Jewel has come up with her own call sheet: no roman...



  • Chandler Burr

    Anne Rosenbaum leads a life of quiet Los Angeles privilege, the wife of Hollywood executive Howard Rosenbaum and mother of their seventeen-year-old son, Sam. Years ago Anne and Howard met studying litera-ture at Columbia--she, the daughter of a Briti...



  • Christyne Butler

    Landon Cartwright was a hero in Maggie Stevens's eyes. The roving cowboy showed up just in time to rescue the Crescent Moon owner from the men trying to steal her land. But the longer the sexy-as-sin loner stayed--working her ranch and bonding with h...



  • Rhyannon Byrd

    Sheriff Riley Buchanan is a good man...but a man possessed. Plagued by vicious and uncontrollable impulses, he lives in fear of surrendering to real love. Even after years apart, he still craves one woman, Hope Summers, above all others, and will do ...



  • Kim Byrne

    "I thought you were dead."

    Those were the last words Elise Moloney expected to hear when she came to Wickman College as a graduate student. Nestled along the windswept dunes and seacoast of Cape Cod, Wickman was home to a tragedy the year before ...



  • Rachel Caine

    In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace--until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He's kept a death grip on the town ever sin...



  • Laura Caldwell

    They say bad things happen in threes. When her fiance, Sam, disappears on the same day her mentor and biggest client is killed, hotshot Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil starts counting. But trouble keeps coming. Sam is implicated in the client's death, h...



  • Dennis Calero

    The coroner's men flipped the redheaded corpse over so Dukes and Magnus from Homicide could get a better look at her. 'Better' being a relative term in this case, with the claw marks that slashed her face into a featureless, bloody mask and turned he...



  • Tess Callahan

    Best friends since childhood, the sexual tension between April and Oliver has always been palpable. Years after being completely inseparable, they become strangers, but the wildly different paths of their lives cross once again with the sudden death ...



  • Stella Cameron
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    From seeing-eye dogs to cats who sit in your lap, animals are there for us in more way than we can count. Helping us get through the day with a wag of the tail and a tilt of the head, they let us know that someone is on our side-no matter what. They ...



  • Candace Camp
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    For richer, for poorer Claire Winters was a society girl. Jack Murphy was born a roughneck. But at a time when women were expected to play by the rules, Claire was determined to break all of them... For better Rebecca Murphy was planning her gra...



  • Alastair Campbell

    Alastair Campbell’s powerful first novel is a gripping portrait of the strange dependency between patient and doctor.

    Martin Sturrock desperately needs a psychiatrist. The problem? He is one.

    Emily is a traumatized burn victim; Arta a...



  • Kate Cann

    Rayne is still enjoying life at remote Morton's Keep, an escape from the city life she hated so much. But there are hints of something creepy and out of kilter still in the house, especially when a mysterious new housekeeper takes over. Then - sudden...




  • Ron Carlson

    A beautifully written and suspenseful tale of love and peril by an award-winning writer Backpacking into the Wind River Mountains on their tenth annual trip, Mack and his wife, Vonnie, find the magnificent woods and stunning mountains of Wyoming f...



  • Isobelle Carmody

    Are Alyzon's new abilities a blessing . . . or a curse? Alyzon Whitestarr doesn't take after her musically talented father or her nocturnal, artistic mother. In fact, she's the most normal member of a very eccentric family . . . until the day that...



  • Robin Caroll

    ANOTHER FACILITY'S BEEN SABOTAGED! And PR representative Sadie Thompson is on the case. When she's assigned to investigate the damage to her employer's oil rigs, she knows it's her chance. Finally, she can prove she's left her "bad girl" past behind...



  • Marisa Carroll

    Sanford Racing crew chief Ethan Hunt has earned a reputation as a tough but fair-minded boss. But now the widowed single father needs a very different kind of employee. Outspoken Cassie Connors seems an unusual choice for a nanny. But in no time, the...



  • Ally Carter

    WHEN CAMMIE MORGAN visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer. After all, she's there to watch Macey's father accept the nomination for vice president of the United States. But when you go to the world'...



  • Dean Vincent Carter

    Caught in the flood that is devastating the town, brothers Sean and James stumble across Dr Morrow and the carnage left at his lab. A specimen has gone missing and it is some kind of deadly parasite that moves from person to person, destroying its ho...



  • Sammi Carter

    No visit to Paradise, Colorado, is complete without a stop at Divinity candy shop for a taste of heaven. Owner Abby Shaw inherited Divinity from her aunt Grace -- and took the opportunity to leave corporate law and her cheating husband. Now she spend...



  • Emily Cassel

    What happens when your life doesn't go according to plan? Ryden Malby had a plan. Step One: do well in high school, thereby achieving Step Two: get a kick-butt college scholarship. Step Three -- limit her beer pong in order to keep said schol...



  • Carla Cassidy

    Brianna Waverly had barely escaped death once. So she had little choice but to accept the protection of former navy SEAL Troy Sinclair. Spirited away to a tiny cabin, her safe house was as far removed from her heiress lifestyle as she could imagine. ...



  • Dakota Cassidy

    She's never seen a sexier ghost. Delaney Markham doesn't just see dead people, she hears them, too. And FYI, communicating with tortured souls all day can really wreak havoc on your love life. After all, no one wants to date the crazy chick that t...



  • Dianne Castell
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    From seeing-eye dogs to cats who sit in your lap, animals are there for us in more way than we can count. Helping us get through the day with a wag of the tail and a tilt of the head, they let us know that someone is on our side-no matter what. They ...



  • Toni McGee Causey

    Previously published under the title: "Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day" Bobbie Faye is looking forward to the Lake Charles Contraband Days Festival with balloons, booze, and babies in pirate costumes. Instead, her trailer's flooded, ...



  • Ginger Chambers

    When love is the only thing keeping you warm... It was supposed to be a beautiful weekend with friends, celebrating love and family, but Jillian Davis has only one thing on her mind: divorce. After years of marriage to Brad Davis, she's finall...



  • Tim Champlin

    When Kent Rasmussen is hired to protect Nellie Newburn as she takes a huge sum of cash back home to her family, he is plunged into a decades-old family feud involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in buried treasure. Reissue....



  • Sean Chercover
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    Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this Thriller Short, bestselling author Sean Chercover displays his knowledge of t...



  • Maureen Child

    Seduction -- Hollywood Style No one ever denied Devlin Hudson. The COO of Hudson Pictures could have any woman he wanted, but what he wanted was a woman who made no demands. He'd thought Valerie Shelton was that woman. But his prim, proper wife had...



  • Tera Lynn Childs

    Seventeen-year-old Phoebe has recently learned that she?s a descendant of Nike (the goddess, not the shoe). Now, in order to learn to control her newfound?and very strong?powers, she?s being forced to attend Goddess Boot Camp. The only problem is, no...



  • Staceyann Chin

    No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Lottery, Jamaica, on Christmas Day. Staceyann's mother did not want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her...



  • Kate Christensen

    A vibrant story of female friendship and midlife sexual awakening from the acclaimed author of The Great Man Josie is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a comfortable life with her husband and daughter--until, while suddenly flirting with a man at...



  • Ann Christopher
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    From seeing-eye dogs to cats who sit in your lap, animals are there for us in more way than we can count. Helping us get through the day with a wag of the tail and a tilt of the head, they let us know that someone is on our side-no matter what. They ...



  • Daphne Clair

    At the mercy of the Venezuelan billionaire! Marco Salzano is furious! One moment of passion in the sultry heat of carnaval has had its price. Burning with suspicion and anger, the arrogant Venezuelan is going to track down his errant one-night sta...



  • Chris Claremont

    Storm gets younger, Polaris gets stronger, Jean Grey gets tentacles, and Psylocke gets a makeover from the Mandarin as the X-Men's eighties-era adventures continue! Waves of super-villainy strike the Savage Land, Muir Isle, and the Morlock Tunnels! H...



  • Andrew Clements

    It isn't that Abby Carson can't do her schoolwork, it's just that she doesn't like doing it. And that means she's pretty much failing sixth grade. When a warning letter is sent home, Abby realizes that all her slacking off could cause her to be held ...



  • Katie Cleminson

    For Eva, a young girl with a lively imagintation, a seemingly ordinary box becomes a portal to a magical, wonder-filled world. Eva wishes for a pet. She reaches into her magic box and pulls out Monty. But he's not quite what she had in min...



  • Max Allan Collins

    WHEN A NEW BREED OF EVIL EMERGES, A NEW BREED OF SOLDIER MUST FIGHT IT. While convoying new high-tech weaponry in Central Asia, Captain Duke Hauser and his right-hand man, Ripcord Weems, along with their NATO Special Forces Unit, are ambushed by ...



  • Ralph Compton

    THEY KILLED THE GUNFIGHTER. BUT THEY DIDN'T KILL HIS SON. Nathan Stone, the man they called The Gunfighter, lay dead in the dust of an El Paso street. The Sandlin gang kicked up that dust as they rode back laughing into Mexico, where the U.S. law c...



  • Michael Connelly

    Once a hotshot in the newsroom, crime reporter Jack McEvoy is now about to be laid off at the Los Angeles Times. Deciding to use his final work days to write the definitive murder story of his career, he focuses on Alonzo Winslow, an imprisoned sixte...



  • John Connolly

    Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of hi...



  • Lauren Conrad

    Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer . . . everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enli...



  • Sophie Cooke

    It is the blazing summer of 1981 and Catherine is laid low by childhood illness. Stuck inside her family's sprawling Victorian mansion at the foot of a Highland mountain, she can only look down into the garden and observe the goings-on upon the lawn....



  • Beth Cornelison

    Rescued by a handsome stranger Undercover investigator Jonah Devereaux barely knew Annie Compton, but that didn't stop him from nearly blowing his cover to save the pretty waitress from a ruthless killer. Convincing the stubborn single mom that she ...



  • Paul Cornell

    Collects Captain Britain and MI13 #5-9. Blade is back! And what is Lady Jacqueline Falsworth to him, except another dead vampire? Plus: Excalibur in the suburbs, the tears of a Skrull, and tea with Union Jack....



  • Nicola Cornick

    All's fair in love and matrimony... When an ancient tax law is invoked requiring all unmarried ladies to either wed or surrender half their wealth, it's not long before the quiet village of Fortune's Folly is overrun by a swarm of fort...



  • Nate Cosby

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  • Phillip Depoy

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  • Narinder Dhami

    A fast-paced and gripping thriller with an intriguing twist in its tail!

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  • Andy Diggle

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  • Kate Donovan

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  • Anne Doughty

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  • Dianne Drake

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  • Sharon M. Draper

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  • Cathy East Dubowski

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  • John R. Erickson

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  • Ann Evans

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  • Georgia Evans

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  • Harriet Evans

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  • Warren Fahy

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  • Judi Fennell

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  • Jennifer Manske Fenske

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  • Marie Ferrarella

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  • Anne Fine

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  • C.C. Finlay

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  • Michael Thomas Ford

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  • Alan Dean Foster

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  • Matt Fraction

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  • Anne Fraser

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  • Anthea Fraser

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  • Aimee Friedman

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  • Paula Froelich

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  • P.R. Frost

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  • Yasmine Galenorn

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  • Meg Gardiner

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  • Olivia Gates

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  • Jamila Gavin

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