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  • Tony Abbott

    A KINGDOM UNDER ATTACK. A CITY LOST IN TIME. A DANGEROUS MISSION ONLY NEAL CAN COMPLETE.... Neal, Julie, and Keeah are on a quest to find the all-powerful Moon Medallion. But this is no ordinary mission for the Moon Medallion is hidden in no ord...



  • Shana Abe

    What if everything you loved, and everyone, suddenly vanished? Your parents, your children, your friends. Your home. Your town. Your species. All the living beings that defined your world, that gave your heart reason to pump the blood that a...



  • Cat Adams

    Bodyguard Celia Graves has definitely accepted her share of weird assignments, both human and supernatural. But her newest job takes the cake. Guarding a Prince from terrorists and religious fundamentalists is hard enough, but it seems like the entir...



  • Ellery Adams

    In the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, you'll find plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells, and even a few celebs trying to duck the paparazzi. But when murder joins this curious community, the Bayside Book Writers are there to get the...



  • Jennie Adams

    Being housekeeper to crime writer Cameron Travers should be a pretty simple, safe job -- just what Lally Douglas wants. Once burned, forever shy Lally wants to blend into the background. Cameron Travers is attractive, intelligent, fun and very charm...




  • Aravind Adiga

    Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads between the brightest minds ...



  • Charlotte Agell

    Fourth grade is a year of changes, challenges, and ordinary joys for India McAllister. She lives in Maine with her artist mom and their dog, Tofu. Her father lives in the next town over with his new partner, Richard and their bird, Beatrice Strawberr...



  • Louise Allen

    FROM IMPOVERISHED MISS TO RESPECTABLE WIFE The closest milliner Nell Latham has come to high society is making fashionable bonnets for ladies. But when she's asked to deliver a message to the Earl of Narborough, she's soon swept up in a web of intri...



  • Katherine Allred

    GEPs just want to have fun . . . A Genetically Engineered Person and self-proclaimed "party girl," Echo Adams loves her diplomatic job entertaining alien bigwigs for the Galactic Federation. But the Bureau of Alien Affairs has discovered she's muc...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    After terrible atrocities by both sides, the religious war between Tierra and Uraba has spread and intensified, irreparably dividing the known world. What started as a series of skirmishes has erupted into a full-blown crusade. Now that the Uraban ...



  • M.T. Anderson

    You haven't seen strange until you've seen what Brian and Gregory are up against.... Something incredibly strange is happening. It's not The Game of Sunken Places-Brian and Gregory have been through that before. But still...strange creatures have ...



  • Natalie Anderson

    TO: All staff -- is this the hottest kiss you've ever seen? Finally our playboy boss plays around at work! Watch this steamy clip of Alex Carlisle making out in the lift with the brand-new temp... Heartthrob Alex has recently been spotted prowling ...



  • R.J. Anderson

    In a time of deadly crisis, Linden alone has the power to save her people. The faeries of the Oak are in danger of extinction, and their only hope for survival rests in fifteen-year-old Linden. Armed with the last of her people's magic, she travels...



  • Taylor Anderson

    THE SKIES EXPLODE. After the battle in which the men of the destroyer Walker and their Lemurian allies repelled the savage Grik, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy is shocked by the arrival of a strange ship captained by one Commodore Jenks of the ...



  • Andrew Auseon

    A novel about freaks, geeks, crushes, and friends -- and how sometimes you can be all of them at once. Charlie is the freak. Gloria is the freak magnet. They're pretty much destined to meet. And when they do, sparks fly . . . for Charlie. Gloria, ...



  • Paul Auster

    The expanded edition of an essential collection of writings, essays, and interviews from Paul Auster, one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and 4 3 2 1 p...



  • Claire Avery

    Fifteen-year-old Sara and her beautiful sister, Rachel, are too young to legally drive a car -- but are approaching spinsterhood in Utah's secret polygamist Blood of the Lamb community. Having long since reached the "age of preparedness," they will s...



  • Avi

    As long as I could keep myself out of bondage, I would be true to Bear's teaching. And so it was that beyond all else, I was determined to keep my freedom. After the death of their beloved mentor, Bear, Crispin and Troth are more desperate than ev...



  • Avi

    With a star-studded lineup of writers, there’s a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains! Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office in The Raven, and the environment fights back against overdevelopment in...



  • Samantha Baker

    Eve has had it--she's no wicked stepmonster in the making. She absolutely adores Ian, the new man in her life, and she's more than willing to open her heart to his kids. But nothing she does is right in their eyes, and she just can't take it anymore....



  • Tom Bale

    A burning summer's day explodes into violence. A murderous gang targets the exclusive south coast island of Terror's Reach, home to rival business tycoons Robert Felton and Valentin Nasenko. The residents are facing annihilation, and only one man sta...



  • Leanne Banks

    Maddox Communications was his life -- until he allowed a woman to come between him and his business. CEO Brock Maddox had been betrayed by his lover...his own secretary. And when he finally confronted Elle Linton, he discovered she'd been keeping an ...



  • Robert Barnard

    Kit Philipson has always felt like something of a stranger in his family. Growing up as the only child of professional parents in Glasgow, Scotland, he had every advantage. His mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany...



  • Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    At the age of four, Bryn watched a rogue werewolf brutally murder her parents. Alone in the world, she was rescued and taken in by the mysterious Callum, the alpha of his werewolf pack. Now fifteen, Bryn’s been raised as a human among werewolves, a...



  • Don Bassingthwaite
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The battle for the kingdom of goblins reaches its peak! Geth and his allies have fled the city of Rhukaan Draal, after failing to dethrone Lhesh Tariic, and reach out to the Kech Volaar for help. There they seek information on how to destroy the e...



  • Ann Beattie

    It is 1980 in New York City, and Jane, a valedictorian fresh out of Harvard, strikes a deal with Neil, an intoxicating writer twenty years her senior. The two quickly become lovers, living together in a Chelsea brownstone, and Neil reveals the rules ...



  • Glenn Beck

    A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed . . . can it be stopped? There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public...



  • Lauren Belfer

    Claire Shipley is a single mother haunted by the death of her young daughter and by her divorce years ago. She is also an ambitious photojournalist, and in the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, the talented Life magazine reporter finds herself on top ...



  • Aimee Bender

    The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted pa...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Brian Michael Bendis, the New York Times bestselling, Peabody and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creator of Miles Morales, Naomi, Jessica Jones, and POWERS tells a comedic life lesson about the horrors of Hollywood.Before his acclaimed relaunches of S...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Spider-Woman (2009) #1-7. Ripped from the pages of SECRET INVASION and NEW AVENGERS, this explosive chapter follows the new adventures of Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman as she rediscovers her life in a world she did not make....



  • Sue Bentley

    Kirsten and her best friend, Tracy, have been fighting ever since only Kirsten was chosen to be in the Limelight Majorettes parade. It will take Stormas magical help to put these two friends back on track....



  • Jim Benton

    School's out for the summer, and that means no more Meat Loaf Thursdays, Sunday homework-cramming, or teachers (unsuccessfully) trying to act cool. It also means that certain Mackerel Middle Schoolers have a lot of time on their hands . . . and serio...



  • Derek Benz; J.S. Lewis

    Max---the leader Natalia---the brains Ernie---the changeling Harley---the muscle A year ago, the Grey Griffins were just regular kids from Avalon, Minnesota. That was before they learned about the existence of evil fairies, werewolves, and other thi...



  • Lara Bergen

    Three girls, three trips, one amazing summer! Samantha Macintosh isn't excited about spending the whole summer apart from her best friends, Liza and Mina. But she can't help being excited about a seaside vacation, complete with fun in the sun, carni...



  • Lara Bergen

    Lately Tianna has been feeling unsettled and she can't understand why. She has a great boyfriend, good friends, and for once a good foster situation too. But she just can't shake the thought that something, or someone, is after her. At a skateboardin...



  • Karen Bergreen

    Would you call Alice Teakle a stalker? Or just someone with an, um, healthy obsession with golden girl Polly Linley Dawson? No one much notices Alice: not her boss, not the neighbors, not even her Mother. Besides, everyone follows Polly: her busines...



  • Amanda Berry

    RED-HOT RED CARPET ROMANCE! Career-driven accountant Natalie Collins wasn't the type to wish for a Hollywood hero to rescue her. She preferred life away from celebrity glitz. Too bad the man who drove her wild was an A-list actor. With her understa...



  • Lauren Beukes

    Zinzi December has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she's forced to take on her least favourite kind of job: missing...



  • J.F. Bierlein

    “Unusually accessible and useful . . . An eye-opener to readers into the universality and importance of myth in human history and culture.†-- William E. Paden, Chair, Department of Religion, University of VermontFor as long as human beings have ...



  • Claudia Bishop

    THERE'S TROUBLE IN PARADISE: The serenity of Hemlock Falls has been shattered by the arrival of the infamous Bernard LeVasque, who -- too bitter for someone's taste -- has been taken off the menu for good... THE GROUCHIEST CHEF in the world of ha...



  • Jake Black; Aaron Johnston

    After Ender Wiggins leaves for Battle School, his enigmatic siblings Valentine and Peter try to solve injustice at their school, while in Battle School, Zeck Morgan's beliefs are challenged as he's groomed to fight the Formics....



  • Juliet Blackwell

    Lily Ivory is not your average witch. She runs a vintage-clothing store called Aunt Cora's Closet, and with her magical ability to sense vibrations of the past from clothing and jewelry, Lily has made the shop a big hit -- and her mystery-solving ski...



  • Mary Blayney

    From Mary Blayney, the acclaimed author of Stranger's Kiss, comes this irresistible new novel of historical romance featuring the Pennistan family. In Courtesan's Kiss, an independent woman is determined to make her way in the world -- even if it's a...



  • Francesca Lia Block

    In a little house from another time, with lace curtains in every window and paintings hung in gold doily frames, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life. They wear fancy dresses, bake play-dough cakes, and spend their days enj...



  • Kevin Bolger

    Fourth-grader Stanley Nudelman is about as wimpy as they comeaheas cowardly, shy, and spends most of his time hiding from the school bully, Knuckles Bruzkowski Then Stanley stumbles upon the yard sale of his neighbor, Old Lady Imavitch, where he buys...



  • S.J. Bolton

    The Fletchers' beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they barely have a chance...



  • Lynn Kiele Bonasia

    Forty-four-year-old Cape Cod clam bar owner Mary Hopkins is stuck in the cycle of her seasonal business; overwhelmed by the relentless influx of new names and fresh young faces, she feels as if life is passing her by. In the first days of the summ...



  • Bones

    Ten years ago, the mysterious Hell's Gate suddenly materialized in the middle of Tokyo, and the stars of the night sky were obscured in darkness. In their place, new stars emerged, each corresponding to an individual endowed with supernatural abiliti...



  • Joanna Bourne / Joanna Watkins Bourne

    France, 1794 THE ONLY PERSON SHE CAN TRUST WITH HER LIFE... Marguerite de Fleurignac, once a glittering aristocrat in a world of privilege, is on the run, disguised as Maggie Duncan, British governess. Penniless and alone, cornered by fanatics o...



  • Tim Bowler

    Nobody knows the city like Blade. You have to when you're on your own, when you can't trust anyone, when you've got a past you need to hide. Blade is practically invisible, perfectly alone, living only by his wits -- just the way he likes it. Until t...



  • Lisa Brackmann

    American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur--a member of a Chinese Muslim minority--at the home of her sort-of boyfriend Lao Zhang turns her life upside down. Lao Zhang disappears, and sudde...




  • Joshua Braff

    David Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his mother’s Hasidic sect or go into his father’s line of work, running a porn theater in the heart of New York’s Times Squar...



  • Gayle Brandeis

    The disparate lives of two women -- a single mother working hard to make ends meet and a young figure skater at the top of her game -- entwine in an unforgettable novel of warmth, depth, and wisdom. Izzy and her daughter, Quinn, have been on the m...



  • Ann Brashares

    SOMETIMES LOVE LASTS MORE THAN A LIFETIME Lucy is an ordinary girl growing up in the Virginia suburbs, soon to head off to, college. On the night of her last high school dance, she hopes her elusive crush, Daniel Grey, will finally notice her. But a...



  • Jackie Braun

    Recipe for a date with a sheikh! Ingredients: • One wealthy desert sheikh, Madani Tarim • One streetwise city girl, caterer Emily Merit • The buzzing backdrop of Manhattan Add: • A longstanding royal betrothal • A determined "no...



  • Helen Brenna

    Along came trouble! Missy Charms just got the shock of her life. The man she thought was dead has turned up on her doorstep. Her ex-husband -- Jonas Abel. Four years ago, Missy Charms fell hard for Jonas. But his FBI job always came first. Missy o...



  • Allison Brennan

    Santa Louisa is still reeling from the lethal rampage of the demon Envy, one of the Seven Deadly Sins released from Hell by black magic. The fiendish entity was finally trapped, but when more bodies bearing satanic marks surface in Los Angeles, demon...



  • Kate Brian

    TO THE GRAVE ... Ariana Osgood has been tapped for Stone and Grave, AthertonPryce Hall's most exclusive secret society. But so has her arch-nemesis, Kaitlynn. They go head-to-head during Hell Week, but Ariana has worked too hard for her luxe life at...



  • Emily Brightwell

    AN ODD BIRD Olive Kettering was always eccentric, but recently her behavior had become downright peculiar. She'd joined an odd religious group, was estranged from her family, worked her servants mercilessly, and even insisted that there were people ...



  • Carolyn Brown

    Funny, sexy, and sure to appeal to the huge audience of country music fans, this new trilogy features the Honky Tonk beer joint and its succession of lovelorn owners. Serving two counties, one wet and one dry, the Honky Tonk is the gathering place fo...



  • Carolyn Brown

    Bridget O'Shea had sworn she'd never fall in love again. She had a hotel, The Black Swan, to operate alone, since her sisters--Catherine and Alice--had both married the previous year. And then there was Ella, her lovely baby daughter. The hotel and E...



  • Don Brown

    Set in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the United States, The Malacca Conspiracy is a bone-chilling tale of terrorism on the high seas, of political assassination and nuclear brinkmanship. And for Zack and Diane---your favorite JAG characters fro...



  • Janelle Brown

    Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she's an aspiring filmmaker, he's an indie musician), are on the verge of making it Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release; he's got a new band that is a few ...



  • Josie Brown

    Suburbia is a jungle, filled with lots of vicious creatures. Take the Paradise Heights Women's League board. Lyssa Harper should have warned golden-haired DILF du jour Harry Wilder what he was getting into when she invited him to meet the mommies ...



  • Ed Brubaker

    The critically acclaimed, award-winning creative team of Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark continue their take on one of comics' most enduring legends! Featuring the threats of the Owl, the Kingpin, Lady Bullseye, and the Hand, plus Matt's unlikely new al...



  • Samantha Bruce-Benjamin

    In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha Bruce-Benjamin's brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share the poignant tale of love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal that bin...



  • Ellen Bryson

    Water for Elephants meets Geek Love in this riveting first novel, an enchanting love story set in P. T. Barnum's American Museum in 1865 New York City Bartholomew Fortuno, the World's Thinnest Man, believes that his unusual body is a gift. Hired by ...



  • Anita Richmond Bunkley

    She meets him at a sizzling hot spot in Acapulco...and spends the night swaying in his arms. But globetrotting flight attendant Lori Myles is stunned when her sexy Latin dance partner turns up on her flight to Houston. Graceful, gorgeous security exp...



  • Mary Sydney Burk

    Who is that? Sophie breathed. Lydia looked around her, seeing a tall, blond man looking at the displays in the stone window. . . . My goodness. I think I'm having a hot flash! Sophie said . . .He's about the best-looking thing I've ever seen in this ...



  • Monica Burns

    Archeologist Emma Zale sees the past when she touches ancient relics. It’s how she uncovered evidence of an ancient order of assassins -- the Sicari. When a sinfully dark stranger shows up on her Chicago doorstep demanding an ancient artifact she d...



  • Kurt Busiek

    A half-dozen lineups in a single volume! Reborn, New, Mighty - an Avenger by any other name is still one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes! This collection highlights not only individual inductions - Ares, Cage, Firestar, Triathlon, and more - but team-wid...



  • Meg Cabot

    SICK OF HEARING ABOUT VAMPIRES? SO IS MEENA HARPER. Meena Harper is familiar with the supernatural. After all, she knows how you're going to die. (Not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does.) But not even Meena's precognition can prepar...



  • Michael Cadnum

    When two teenage brothers bungle a bank robbery, their attempt to hide evidence is witnessed--arually--by their legally blind neighbor....



  • Pamela Callow

    HOW FAR ARE YOU WILLING TO GO TO FORGET YOUR PAST? Haunted by the death of her sister and wounded by her ex-fiance's accusations, Kate Lange throws herself into her new career at a high-powered law firm. When the grandmother of a lonely private sch...



  • Jen Calonita

    Sixteen-year-olds Charlie, Keiran, Brooke, and Hallie have just been signed up for their own reality television show. They can't even believe it. You'll be The Hills meets The Secret Life of the American Teenager, the Armani-suited executive tells th...



  • Colin Campbell

    A dark and gritty Yorkshire-set thriller from a former policeman Vince McNulty was thrown out of the Leeds Vice Squad for attacking a suspect in a child abuse case. Unable to adjust to life outside the force, he whiles away his time visiting ill...



  • A.E. Cannon

    When Teddy Krebs's speedy if homely little dog goes missing right before the town Chihuahua races, fourth-grader Addie May Jones can't resist Teddy's plea for help. Soon, she has two mysteries on her hands....



  • Rebecca Cantrell

    Journalist Hannah Vogel has vowed to never again set foot in her homeland of Germany while the Nazis are still in power. She has good reason: three years ago in 1931, she kidnapped her son, Anton, from the man claiming to be his father--Ernst Rohm, h...



  • Linda Cardillo

    For three generations of Dante women, food means love… From her restaurant on Boston's Salem Street, and from her own kitchen, Rose Dante has served countless meals and built a tightly knit community of customers, family and friends. Her daughter ...



  • Opal Carew

    Experience BLISS! Kara is a sex columnist who thinks desire is purely physical and steers clear of any romantic notions about love. J.M. is a Tantra master who believes sex is a spiritual union that brings lovers together body and soul. They canâ€...



  • Jacqueline Carey

    Wrestling with issues of faith and divine will, this thrilling novel by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Carey explores what happens when mortal men seek to mold the gods in their own images. Alone and far from the land of her birth, you...



  • 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...



  • Michael Carroll

    First the Earth's champions, old and new, returned to a world that thought the era of superheroes had come to a close. Then an age-old conflict of good versus evil, heroes versus villains, was renewed. And now it all comes down to one battle--the bat...



  • Ernessa T. Carter

    32 Candles is the slightly twisted, utterly romantic, and deftly wry story of Davie Jones, who, if she doesn't stand in her own way, just might get the man of her dreams. Davie--an ugly duckling growing up in small-town Mississippi--is positive her...



  • Dixie Cash

    Full-time hairdressers and part-time private detectives, Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin -- the Domestic Equalizers -- have dealt with cheating spouses, shady business deals, Elvis-obsessed shoe thieves, even murder. But ghosts? That'...



  • Linda Castillo

    One family. One horrific murder. An entire town under suspicion... The Planks moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to the small Amish community of Painters Mill hoping to resume the comforts of the Plain Life in Ohio. Less than one year later,...



  • Lila Castle

    Pete and Annabelle always believed they were a perfect pair-until junior year, when Annabelle became obsessed with astrology. Now they can hardly stand each other. Pete thinks Annabelle has become a total flake; she thinks he's an uptight jerk. To pr...



  • C.B. Cebulski

    Chris Powell gets a new lease on life as the ascension of Darkhawk begins! But when his past comes back to haunt him and new information about his amulet and its legacy are violently brought to light, Darkhawk realizes he may have to face a much dark...



  • Jacob Chabot

    Little X-Men! Big Adventure! Stars Reborn! Things have changed in Mojoworld as Mojo's been ousted by Mr. Veech, who's replaced the The X-Babies - the number one, top-rated stars - with something newer, safer, friendlier, and...more adorable! The X-Ba...



  • Rebecca Chace

    An unforgettable coming-of-age story and a luminous portrayal of a dramatic era of American history, Rebecca Chace's Leaving Rock Harbor takes readers into the heart of a New England mill town in the early twentieth century. On the eve of World Wa...



  • Ashlyn Chase

    He's looking for peace, quiet, and a little romance... There's never a dull moment when hunky all-star pitcher and shapeshifter Jason Falco invests in an old Boston brownstone apartment building full of supernatural creatures. But when Merry MacKe...



  • Lisa Childs

    SOME SAID HE WAS A PHANTOM. OTHERS CALLED HIM A MONSTER. But for investigative reporter Jillian Drake, the masked man who'd rescued her from a burning building was a savior...and a mystery. He lurked in the shadows. He had no name, no face. But he...



  • Tera Lynn Childs

    Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it's not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you're a normal teenage girl, but when you're half human, half merm...



  • P.F. Chisholm

    September 1592 -- and the redoubtable Sergeant Dodd is still in London with that dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey, dealing with the fall-out from their earlier adventures. Carey urgently needs to get back to Carlisle where he is the Deputy Warden an...



  • Jane McBride Choate

    The town of Mesa Pines, Colorado needs a school teacher. Town mayor Tate Donovan is charged with finding the right person. Norah Hathaway doesn't fit his idea of a schoolmarm. She's too young, too pretty, too inexperienced. Norah resolves to prove --...



  • Paul Christopher

    A man in search of the truth-against an ancient brotherhood that uses secrecy as the ultimate weapon. In the 14th century, Templar knight Jean de St. Clair was tasked with piloting the order's treasure-laden fleets off the coast of France. To this...



  • Chris Claremont

    Gambit and Lil’ ‘Ro join teammate Kitty Pryde as she searches for herfriend, Peter Rasputin, and Colossus will have to get help from his former teammates to take on a threat that none of them could predict! Original....



  • Stanley Bennett Clay
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    Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris Bestselling author and literary icon E. Lynn Harris captivated millions of readers with his powerful, groundbreaking stories of black men searching for love in a taboo world. Now three outstanding writers...



  • Debra Clopton

    "I Don't Need a Wife!" Rancher and lawyer Wyatt Turner found both his younger brothers their wives. Now, they're sneakily trying to repay the favor -- with the wrong woman. Amanda Hathaway is a too-young and bubbly physical therapist. And, yes, Wy...



  • C.C. Coburn

    First Comes Baby! When Sheriff Matt O'Malley rescues a pregnant woman after a car accident and helps deliver her baby, he quickly begins to feel protective of her -- of both of them. Matt is increasingly drawn to Beth Ford and her daughter, Sarah --...



  • Tish Cohen

    Delilah Blue Lovett has always been a bit of an outsider, ever since her father moved her from Toronto to L.A. when she was eight, claiming Delilah's mother no longer wanted to be part of their family. Twenty now and broke, but determined to be an ar...



  • Brock Cole

    A boy and a girl are stripped and marooned on a small island for the night. They are the goats. The kids at camp think it's a great joke, just a harmless old tradition. But the goats don't see it that way. Instead of trying to get back to camp, they ...



  • Joanna Cole

    It's Broadcast Day in Ms. Frizzle's class. Ralphie promised everyone he'd figure out what kind of show they should put on. But, Ralphie is sick and can't come to school. So, everyone climbs aboard the Magic School Bus, because if Ralphie can't come t...



  • Julian Cole

    Punchy and raw, a blend of hard-boiled old school and new bloody thriller. . . crime at its best. --Waterstone's (UK) Rick Rounder returns to his hometown a decade after failing to save a young girl from her suicidal father. He sets up as a private e...



  • Brandilyn Collins

    Sometimes the Truth Hides Where You Least Expect It Joanne Weeks knows Baxter Jackson killed Linda -- his second wife and Joanne's best friend -- six years ago. But Jackson, a church elder and beloved member of the town, walks the streets a free man...



  • Rebecca Ann Collins

    Contrary, opinionated, and headstrong, she's no typical Victorian lady... Truly a masterpiece that any Austen fan would enjoy. -Beverly Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence Becky Collins has always been determined not to submit to the ...



  • Jodi Compton

    Hailey Cain has a history of testing the limits of her fate: as a fearless bike messenger on the twisted, competitive streets of San Francisco; as a young female cadet in a sea of men at West Point. But Hailey also has secrets--the biggest of which l...



  • Claire Cook

    They say that every seven years you become a completely new person. Just when she's finally figured out how to manage on her own, Jill Murray's ex-husband, Seth, is back -- crashing into the man-free existence Jill and her ten-year-old daughter, Ana...



  • Glen Cook

    Anyone else would have learned by now: When trouble comes knocking, don't open the door. There's a reason why Garrett's still in the P.I. business after all these years--he's not one to learn his lessons. Maybe that's why he lets himself get roped...



  • Lori Copeland

    "You can't let one woman ruin your whole life, son," the old foreman said. "You got to pray harder and ask that the good Lord will send the right woman. You got to produce an heir." WALKER THOUGHT HE HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO WORRY ABOUT MARRIAGE AND KI...



  • E.J. Copperman

    7 BEDROOMS. 4 BATHS. 2 GHOSTS. Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter, so she's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a fixer-upper into a charming -- and hopefully profitable...



  • Jeff Corwin

    Read along as animal expert Jeff Corwin tells you all about the creepy-crawly animals that live in the southwestern desert. Over forty photos help bring this fascinating region to life! From the giant vinegaroon and velvet ant to the trapdoor spider ...



  • Lyn Cote

    In 1846, young widow Mariel survived the grueling voyage from Germany to start a new life in the "promised" land of ?Texas. Forced by circumstances to become a servant, Mariel is now determined to leave her harsh master. But how can a single ...



  • Jo Cotterill

    'You did WHAT?' screamed Mari. 'You turned down the cutest boy ever? Are you crazy?'

    Fliss isn't exactly outgoing. But on stage she really comes alive.

    And this summer, she's playing Juliet opposite her dream Romeo - Tom Mayerli...



  • Catherine Coulter

    When Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father undergoes chemotherapy for colon cancer and the supply of the critical drug Culovort suddenly runs short, Kender hires P.I. Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hart...



  • Susan Coventry

    Joan's mother is Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most beautiful woman in the world. Her father is Henry II, the king of England and a renowned military leader. She loves them both--so what is she to do when she's forced to choose between them? As her...



  • Bruce Coville

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  • Brent Crawford

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  • Blake Crouch

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  • Alyssa Crowne

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  • Jeanine Cummins

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  • Holly Cupala

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  • Clive Cussler; Justin Scott

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  • Judith Cutler

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  • Margery Cuyler

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  • Kaye Dacus

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  • B.J. Daniels

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  • Lydia Dare

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  • Tessa Dare

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  • Kyra Davis

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  • Susan Page Davis

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  • Tim Davys

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  • Jeffery Deaver

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  • Shannon Delany

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  • J.M. DeMatteis

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  • Nelson DeMille

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  • Marcy Dermansky

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  • Steve Dillon

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  • Helenkay Dimon

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  • Cameron Dokey

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  • Anne Doughty

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  • Sara Douglass

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  • Erin Downing

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  • Larry Doyle

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  • Diann Ducharme

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  • Lois Duncan

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  • Carola Dunn

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  • J.T. Dutton

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  • Pan Cindy Dr. Dye Bianca

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  • Imogen Edwards-Jones

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  • Peter Edwards

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  • Jennifer Egan

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  • Dave Eggers

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  • Jerry S. Eicher

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  • Jerry S. Eicher

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  • Bret Easton Ellis

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  • John R. Erickson

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  • Janet Evanovich

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  • Harriet Evans

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  • Molly Evans

    Mark Collins believes he's on borrowed time -- but he's going to make the most of it. A new job at idyllic Camp Wild Pines is the first step forward. Seeing to the needs of fun-loving kids is meant to recharge timid nurse Ellie Mackenzie's batteri...



  • Jennifer Fallon

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  • Josh Farrar

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  • Jane Feather

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  • Marie Ferrarella

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  • Carol Finch

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  • Ann Finnin

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  • Eric Flint; Ryk E. Spoor

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  • Amanda Flower

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  • Gwynne Forster

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  • Delores Fossen

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  • Lori Foster

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  • Paula Fox

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  • Diana Pharaoh Francis

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  • Dorothea Benton Frank

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  • Rina Frank

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  • Emily Franklin

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  • Angie Frazier

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  • Sundee T. Frazier

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  • Jackie French

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  • Jonathan Friesen

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  • Alan Furst

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  • Neil Gaiman

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  • Shana Galen

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  • Shelley Galloway

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  • Meg Gardiner

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  • Whitney Gaskell

    India and Jeremy Halloway are happily married, have creative careers, and live in a remodeled bohemian cottage in a historic West Palm Beach neighborhood. The only thing missing from their charmed life is the baby they both desperately want. After tw...



  • Catherine George

    In the presence of a Greek god... Isobel James, the last single girl (or so it seems!), can't believe she's come to Greece on her own, but she had to escape the wedding fever that's gripped her best friends. When reclusive tycoon Lu...



  • Nick Gevers

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  • Kieron Gillen

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  • Deeanne Gist

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  • Debi Gliori

    Lily is 9. Her sister Daisy is 1. And she's no ordinary baby. Somehow, when she was born, something went rather wrong... and now Daisy is a Witch Baby. Nobody knows this but Lily - she's the only one who can see when Daisy makes the fridge float in t...