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New Books List: 576 titles

  • My Father's Notebook

    Kader Abdolah

    When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the deaf-mute illegitimate son of a Persian nobleman, traveled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once there, he was to copy a three-thousand-year-old cuneiform inscription--an order of the first king o...

  • A Shadow in Summer

    Daniel Abraham

    In this brilliant and original epic fantasy of Machiavellian intrigue and unique magic, Daniel Abraham portrays fully realized women and complex, conflicted men in love, caught between the forces of money and power. The city-state of Saraykeht domina...

  • Marriage In Jeopardy

    Anna Adams

    On the surface, Josh and Lydia Quincy have it all -- a nice house, a baby on the way, work they both love. But one tragic act reveals cracks in their marriage that can't stay hidden. While Lydia mends physically from an attack that ends her dream ...

  • Touch of Evil

    C.T. Adams; Cathy Clamp

    KATE REILLY has a hard time trusting people. Six years ago, the love of her life turned her over to the vampire parasites who call themselves the Thrall. Katie survives the powerful bite of the master parasite only to discover that the Thrall's v...

  • Cruel Summer

    Kylie Adams

    One gorgeous celebutante. One hip-hop dreamer. One second-generation Hollywood badboy. One anime-obsessed Latina. One British hottie.... They're five friends living the highlife in sexy South Beach, Miami. And one of them won't make it to graduat...

  • Nightcrawler Vol. 2: The Winding Way

    Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

    Collects Nightcrawler (2004) #7-12. BAMF! Nightcrawler's back, but for how long?! As a badly injured Kurt lies on the brink of death, moments of his life flash before his eyes. Unfortunately, these memories are not how he remembered. Is his past a l...

  • Negima! Volume 9

    Ken Akamatsu

    MAHORAFEST MADNESS

    It’s almost time for the legendary MahoraFestâ€"the Mahora Academy Festivalâ€"and the whole school is buzzing with anticipation. Class 3-A is preparing a haunted house, even though the class really is haunted. Eva’s robo...

  • Grains

    Carol Alexander

  • Fair Warning

    Hannah Alexander

    Cop's wife, mother-to-be, respected ICU nurse -- Willow Traynor had a rich life. Then her husband was shot, supposedly in the line of duty, and she was hit by a speeding car. Doubting it was an accident, she quit her job and fled. At her brother's...

  • Rekindled

    Tamera Alexander

    At a different time, in a different place, under different circumstances... could two people fall in love once again? Ten years ago Kathryn Jennings made a vow. For better or worse. And that promise still holds true, even though her marriage has no...

  • The Pursuit of Happiness

    Tara Altebrando

    Dressing up as an eighteenth century farm girl is not how Betsy Odell imagined spending the summer before her senior year of high school, but her history professor father insists she take a job at Morrisville Historic Village. To make matters worse, ...

  • Drooling and Dangerous

    Mary Amato

    Orville and Wilbur Riot have never been strangers to adventure, and according to Riot Brother Rule #15, You can't do the same mission twice. So now they're back with more games, more missions, and loads more fun. One day they are spies on the trail o...

  • Girl in the Shadows

    V.C. Andrews

    SOME SECRETS SURVIVE THE LIGHT OF DAY. OTHERS SHOULD STAY LOST IN DARKNESS FOREVER. THE FAMILY SAGA THAT BEGAN WITH APRIL SHADOWS CONTINUES! April Taylor wasn't a little girl anymore -- but who was she really? The home she shared with her parents...

  • False Impression

    Jeffrey Archer

    When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her English country home on the night before September 11, 2001, it will take all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her death and a priceless Van Gogh, which...

  • At the Cattleman's Command

    Lindsay Armstrong

    THE OUTBACK WEDDING... Rugged Australian Tom Hocking's reputation is legendary throughout the Outback -- as a breaker of horses and a wooer of women. So wedding planner Chas has made up her mind to keep out of his way while she organizes his s...

  • Hugs on the Wind

    Marsha Diane Arnold

    A lyrical, luminous picture book about missing a loved one. Little Cottontail misses his grandfather and the hugs, smiles, and jokes they shared. As he plays in the meadow, he thinks of ways that the wind, stars, stream, and trees can help him send h...

  • Super Fly Guy!

    Tedd Arnold

    The second book in a humorous, easy-to-read series about a boy and his fly! Books have foil covers!Fly Guy loves the school lunchroom. He loves the dirty dishes, the smelly mop, and the garbage cans. But when the lunch ladies discover there's a fly i...

  • Exit Strategy

    Pierce Askegren

    Earth's Moon has been colonized for generations. Its inhabitants live and work under the auspices of the Allied Lunar Combine--a group of corporations whose drive and ambition transformed the barren satellite into a profitable, harmonious enclave. ...

  • Labyrinth

    James Axler

    NO TIME TO LOSEIt took only minutes for human history to derail in a mushroom cloud—now more than a century later, whatever destiny lies ahead for humanity is bound by the rules that have governed survival since the dawn of time: part luck, part...

  • U.S.!

    Chris Bachelder

    In this hilarious and wildly inventive novel, Chris Bachelder brings Upton Sinclair back from the dead to see what he might make of our modern world.

    U.S.! is a playful, darkly comic novel that imagines the serial resurrection and assassinat...

  • Racehorse in the Rain

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At ANIMAL ARK, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy is thri...

  • The Shape I Gave You

    Martha Baillie

    Ulrike Hugenot is a young pianist who arrives home to her Berlin apartment and discovers a fat envelope stuffed into her mailbox. She is astonished when she realizes that it is from her late father Gustave’s Canadian lover.

    “I am writing t...

  • Smoky Mountain Tracks

    Donna Ball

    Mountain Secrets Folks native to the Smoky Mountain community of Hanover County, North Carolina, are as much a part of the rugged landscape as timber rattlers and mountain laurel. That includes local Raine Stockton, dog trainer, ex-wife of a deput...

  • Lost Gold

    Todhunter Ballard

    Mary Thorne must convince a ruthless outlaw and vicious killer to help her find the treasure her grandfather buried in the Superstition Mountains, and concocts a clever scheme to claim her share of gold and stay alive. Reprint....

  • Mystery Bottle

    Kristen Balouch

    A boy in Brooklyn receives a package from Iran. When he opens up the mysterious bottle that lies within, a great wind transports him over the oceans and mountains, straight into the arms of his grandfather. Despite being separated by politics and geo...

  • Underfoot

    Leanne Banks

    Another flirty tale of fun and fabulous footwear from the gals of Bellagio, Inc.! Bellagio, Inc. public relations genius Trina Roberts had been a bad, bad girl when she'd gone to bed with a recently jilted groom and wound up pregnant. She knew Walke...

  • Night on the Mountain of Fear

    Dawn Barnes

    Max, Antonio, Maia, and Jamie are back in this high-drama action novel starring the Black Belt Club! Filled with comic-book-like illustrations, this fast-paced adventure follows our heroes into a scary desert world controlled by the evil Hate Master,...

  • Princess Izzy and the E Street Shuffle

    Beverly Bartlett

    The Princess Diaries for adults! This clever and witty debut follows a fictitious princess whose royal advisor is a mechanic who takes his advice from Bruce Springsteen. Spunky, plucky Isabella Cordage has taken Bisbania's royal family by storm, hav...

  • Brookland

    Emily Barton

    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the YearSince her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the tidal straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to br...

  • Unforgettable

    Janet Lee Barton

    Meagan Evans has returned to her hometown of Magnolia Bay, Mississippi, hoping to breathe life into its failing economy with her consultation business, Meagan's Color Cottage. She never expected the appearance of her high school sweetheart, Nick Cham...

  • The Grieving Tree

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

    For three heroes, the past is about to come back to hunt them. A renegade warrior, a mystic exile, and a magic-wielding soldier are on the run. Their enemies are closing in. Some want to control them, some want to rob them, and others just want them...

  • Totally Texan

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    UNTAMABLE TEXAN Successful Grant Wilcox was used to getting what he wanted. And what he wanted was Kelly Baker, the beautiful stranger passing through. It was just his luck that the gorgeous newcomer was also a whip-smart lawyer -- just the sort t...

  • Exiles - Volume 12: World Tour - Book 1

    Tony Bedard

    The Exiles return to prime Earth, only to find it not so prime anymore. So not only do the Exiles have House of M to deal with, they have to face the most powerful mutant on the planet! Collects Exiles #69-74....

  • Presumed Guilty

    James Scott Bell

    Murder, betrayal, and a trial that feeds a media frenzy. Can one woman stand against the forces that threaten to tear her family apart? Pastor Ron Hamilton's star is rising. His church is 8,000 strong and thriving. His good looks and charisma mak...

  • House of M: World of M Featuring Wolverine

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Wolverine #33-35, Black Panther #7, Captain America #10 & Pulse #10. Explore the people and places of the World of M! Includes stories of how Wolverine, Black Panther, Captain America and more have been transformed by the House of M....

  • The Paths of the Dead

    Caroline Benton

    A middle of the night call to a burnt out house is pretty much routine for Devon Fire Brigade photographer Gus Tavender. But finding a charred body locked in a secret room is not, and from that moment, very little in Gus’s life can be considered ro...

  • The Rogue's Return

    Jo Beverley

    After years of living in the New World of Canada, Simon St. Bride is ready to return to aristocratic life in England. But his plans a delayed by a duel and a young woman he feels honor bound to marl even though his family is unlikely to welcome her. ...

  • Playing the Field

    Phil Bildner

    All Darcy wants is to play on the baseball team, to hear her name announced, "Now batting, Darcy Miller," to play the field. Is that so much to ask? Unfortunately, it might be. In a few short months, Darcy Miller goes from typical senior in high scho...

  • Murder in Clichy

    Cara Black

    A botched assignment leaves Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc in possession of a cache of priceless Vietnamese jade. The jade’s history is steeped in colonial bloodshed -- and someone is willing to spill even more blood to get it backPrivate investigator ...

  • Murder in Montmartre

    Cara Black

    Aimee's childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop, where he is shot to death. Laure's gun has been fired, gunpo...

  • Animal Mysteries

    Sonia W. Black

  • The Devil's Knight

    Lucy Blue

    A dangerous destiny. . . On the battlefields of Norman Britain, Tristan DuMaine cheated death countless times. Now he only wants to live a quiet life at his borderlands manor. But it will take an otherworldly power -- the bite of a vampire -- to ...

  • Whispering by Moonlight

    Teresa Bodwell
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    Those deep-brimmed Stetsons. Those faded jeans. And that's just the beginning. Cowboys are everything a fantasy man should be -- tall, tough, and oh so handsome. In this sexy new collection of original stories, meet three men of the American West...

  • I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

    Gwyneth Bolton

  • High Iron

    Frank Bonham

    Here, for the first time in book form, are three of Bonham's best Western short novels. "The Sin of Wiley Brogan" is the good-humored tale of a young horse-breaker fed up with his lot in life, whose chance meeting with an entrepreneurial postal offic...

  • Oh Danny Boy

    Rhys Bowen

    Irish immigrant Molly Murphy is contemplating giving up PI work for something a little less...exciting. Molly has had quite enough excitement recently, thank you very much. Especially from the handsome but deceptive NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan. She ...

  • Pretty Little Dirty

    Amanda Boyden

    LISA SEES THE LIFE OF HER GORGEOUS BEST FRIEND CELESTE DIAMOND AS JUST ABOUT PERFECT: she has a gigantic house, two older sisters to coach her through the hazards of high school, and loving, lively parents. As Lisa's own home has long been a place d...

  • Crippen

    John Boyne

    July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the re...

  • Ballerino Nate

    Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

    Teased by his brother about wanting to become a ballerina, Nate begins to believe his jokes about having to wear a tutu and pink shoes when he discovers he is the only boy in the class, in a moving story about a young boy's big dreams and his strong ...

  • Elixir of Youth

    Gillian Bradshaw

    A biomedical thriller When Alison Greenall arrives in California to visit the father who walked out when she was a baby, she isn?t sure what to expect, but it certainly isn?t what she discovers. Her father has just had his research lab broken into by...

  • Body Work

    Fiona Brand

    Someone wants her dead and she can't remember why.... As a child, Jane Gale witnessed her mother's murder and was nearly killed trying to escape. Left for dead, she has suffered complete memory loss, unable to recall who she was before the "accident"...

  • Dogs of the Captain

    Max Brand

    When he earns Captain Slocum's respect, Don Grier gets a financial backer for his mission to find the truth surrounding the murder for which his father had been hanged, which leads him to a rough-and-tumble mining town where he must prove himself in ...

  • Bounty Gun

    Lyle Brandt

    While in Santa Rosa, California, bounty hunter Matt Price is made an offer he cannot refuse by local matriarch Joan Schaefer who wants him to exact his own special brand of justice against the men responsible for kidnapping her daughter. Original....

  • Westward of the Law

    Matt Braun

    In the Texas Panhandle, Newt Bascom and Sam Jordan are stock detectives who have the brains to outwit most rustlers--and the brawn to outfight the rest. Now, Bascom and Jordan are being dispatched on a once-in-a-lifetime job. Someone has made off wit...

  • Criminal Intent

    Laurie Breton

    The police said it was an accident -- a late-night crash on a fog-drenched Mississippi highway that took the life of Robin Spinney's deputy sheriff husband, Mac. Two years later Robin stumbles across his journal -- and the frantic final entry -- a...

  • Sweet 16

    Kate Brian

    TEAGAN PHILLIPS is obnoxiously rich, obnoxiously fashionable, and, this year, she's obnoxiously turning sixteen. No one's sweet sixteen party will be as glitzy, glamorous, decadent, and, well, obnoxious as Teagan's sweet sixteen party. She might sing...

  • The American

    Andrew Britton

    At thirty-three, Ryan Kealey has achieved more in his military and CIA career than most men can dream of in a lifetime. He's also seen the worst life has to offer and is lucky to have survived it. But being left alone with his demons is no longer an ...

  • Heart of Gold

    Lauren Brooke

    HORSES. FRIENDS . COMPETITION. TRADITION. WELCOME TO CHESTNUT HILL, an exclusive boarding school set among the rolling hills of Virginia. With a premiere riding program, Chestnut Hill has a long tradition of excellence. Here, the best and brightes...

  • Sour Puss

    Rita Mae Brown

    After an unexpected rekindling of their romance, Harry and her veterinarian ex-husband, Fair Haristeen, have happily remarried. But their nuptials are quickly overshadowed by the murder of a world-famous grape expert who was in town visiting the loca...

  • Rival's Son

    Simon Brown

    "With twists and turns that keep you guessing, Brown has produced a gem of strong characters and vivid locales ... This is a tale that delights in the unexpected." â€" NexusAfter surviving battle and sorcery, the people of Kydan are divided among the...

  • The Little Lady Agency

    Hester Browne

    Melissa Romney-Jones can bake a perfect sponge cake, type her little heart out, and plan a party blindfolded. But none of that has helped her get far in life or in love. When she gets sacked -- again -- she decides to market her impeccable social ski...

  • Captain America: Winter Soldier, Volume 1

    Ed Brubaker

    Cap is awakened in the dead of the night by agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., who need the kind of help only he can provide. But the corpse he finds on the Helicarrier brings him facetoface with the unthinkable, and opens doors to terror and manipulation he ne...

  • Geronimo

    Joseph Bruchac

    Acclaimed author Joseph Bruchac weaves history and suspense into a riveting account of Geronimo's last days.

    "He held up his right hand to show how his third finger was bent back from being struck by a bullet. Then he thumped his palm against ...

  • The Dramatist

    Ken Bruen

    Seems impossible, but Jack Taylor is sober. One reason hes been able to keep clean: his dealers in jail, which leaves Jack without a source. That dealer calls him to Dublin and asks a favorthe mans sister is dead and the guards have called it death b...

  • The Quilter's Daughter

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Abby Miller's life is picture perfect. Abby runs a successful quilt shop and is engaged to a wonderful Amish man. But then duty calls. When she leaves her beloved shop and patient fiancé to attend to her mother in need, a double tragedy strikes, ...

  • Could It Be?

    Niobia Bryant
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    Celebrity fashion stylist and New York "it" girl Ameena Jones makes it her business to know what's new, fresh and trendy in the city she loves. So when one of her best gal pals gives her a gift certificate for a night of speed dating, Ameena's certai...

  • The Stolen Sapphire

    Sarah Masters Buckey

    Samantha and Nellie set sail for Europe. Also aboard the ship is a world-famous archaeologist and the legendary sapphire that he is carrying to a London museum. When his priceless jewel disappears, Samantha realizes that every one of the passengers i...

  • Familiar Escape

    Caroline Burnes

    FAMILIAR ALWAYS KNOWS BEST Molly Harper's sister had been killed -- and her baby niece had been kidnapped. Now, the only man she could depend on to help her solve the crime -- and bring Baby Kate to safety -- was Thomas Lakewood. Trouble was, ...

  • Jael's Story

    Ann Burton

    Jael's dreams of a loving marriage are shattered when her new husband brings her home to live in the company of his other wife and concubine, demanding that she bear his a son, but Jael, after meeting a young warrior, finds the strength to change her...

  • The Arsonist

    Mary Burton

    Once he solved the Nero case, arson investigator Michael Gannon blasted out of town on his motorcycle. No way would he return to the job, but his nightmares persisted. Gannon found some relief in a small Virginia town...until the fires started again....

  • King of Murder

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Together with her best friend and reluctant sidekick, Meat, Herculeah Jones meets a famous mystery author, Mathias King, aka the Murder King. King's novels mirror gruesome, real-life murders, particularly A Slash of Life, which is about an unsolved l...

  • Body of Evidence

    Stella Cameron

    Emma Lachance is taken by surprise when she runs into her friend and high-school crush, Finn Duhon, on a construction site in Pointe Judah, Louisiana. But the last thing she expects to find is the corpse of her friend, a local journalist whose relent...

  • An Independent Woman

    Candace Camp

    Only one person ever treated Juliana Holcott with anything other than disdain -- Nicholas Barre, the orphaned heir to the estate where she spent her childhood. And when wild, rebellious Nick left home, Juliana was left to fend for herself. Forced ...

  • Three Little Secrets

    Liz Carlyle

    Once upon a time, they eloped. But then dashing Scotsman Merrick MacLachlan accepted payment from Lady Madeleine's father to have the marriage annulled. Or did he? Two times, Maddie has wed. Once for love, once for comfort. Yet once more she ...

  • A Woman Scorned

    Liz Carlyle

    Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and Jonet Rowland is surely that. But she is also lovely, rich, and it is rumored -- an unrepentant adultress. When her philandering husband, the marquis of Mercer, is mudered in his own bed, it's whispered tha...

  • The Silver Rose

    Susan Carroll

    From Brittany's fog-shrouded forests to the elegant dark heart of Paris's royal court, one woman must challenge a country's destiny -- and her own dangerous fate. France, 1585. She is the youngest and most powerful of the "Sisters of Faire Isle," ...

  • She'll Take It

    Mary Carter

    I, Melanie Zeitgar, do solemnly swear I will never shoplift again. Ever!* *Exceptions: Break-ups, weight gain, job losses, crummy auditions, great auditions where you don't get a call back, high Visa bills, cavities, the trauma of using automated t...

  • Chocolate Dipped Death

    Sammi Carter

    No visit to Paradise, Colorado, is complete without a stop at Divinity candy shop for a little taste of heaven. For owner Abby Shaw, it's a sweet deal, too. When her aunt Grace passed away, Abby Shaw inherited Divinity--and with it the opportunity to...

  • Are You Afraid?

    Carla Cassidy

    She thought the darkest part of her life was behind her… At the age of sixteen, Jessica Langford endured and escaped the grip of a serial killer who buried his victims alive. After overcoming this terrifying experience, she started her own rad...

  • Hell On Heels

    Carla Cassidy

    HEIRESS BY DAY...BOUNTY HUNTER BY NIGHT When the man who attacked her best friend skips bail, heiress-turned-bounty-hunter Chantal Worthington swears on her designer spiked heels to hunt him down. Problem is, another hunter's already on the case -...

  • Goddess of the Rose

    P.C. Cast

    It's not a green thumb that's kept the Empousai family's roses blooming for centuries--it's the drops of blood that their women secretly sacrifice for their gardens. But Mikki, the youngest, would rather forget this family quirk and lead a normal lif...

  • The Pink Panther Gets Lucky

    Marc Cerasini; Alice Alfonsi

    The incomparable Inspector Clouseau is on the case -- and he still doesn't have a clue! When the priceless Hot Pink diamond mysteriously vanishes during a magic show at the popular MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas -- along with the famous ...

  • Short and Tall

    Dori Chaconas

    Even though Cork is a short muskrat and Fuzz is a tall possum, they can still be best friends. Or can they? "I am older," Cork said. "I need to be taller. It is a rule." Can friendship break such rules?The gentle, humorous story in this second Cork &...

  • Lord Perfect

    Loretta Chase

    IDEAL The heir to the Earl of Hargate, Benedict Carsington, Viscount Rathbourne, is the perfect aristocrat. Tall, dark, and handsome, he is known for his impeccable manners and good breeding. Benedict knows all the rules and has no trouble following...

  • Pretender

    C.J. Cherryh

    THE HUMAN TARGET Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission in space, the crew of the starship Phoenix return home to find disaster: civil war has broken out, the powerful Western Association has been overthrown, and Tabini-aiji, its forceful leader...

  • The Traitors

    Peter Chester

  • Odd and Even Socks

    Melanie Chrismer

  • Multiply This!

    Melanie Chrismer

  • Surrender

    Pamela Clare

    A hand-picked cadre of warriors, they had the fierce courage of their Scots forefathers, combined with the stealth and cunning of the Indians who lived beside them in the wilderness. Battling the French in no-holds-barred combat, they forged a new br...

  • Blind Dates Can Be Murder

    Mindy Starns Clark

    Blind dates give everyone the shivers...with or without a murder attached to them. Jo Tulip is a sassy single woman full of household hints and handy advice for every situation. Her first romantic outing in months is a blind date--okay, the Hall o...

  • Clarke's Universe

    Arthur C. Clarke

    In A Fall of Moondust, time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist-cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the pitiless and unpredicta...

  • Mean Boy

    Lynn Coady

    Earnest, small-town Lawrence Campbell is fascinated by his poetry professor, the charismatic and uncompromising Jim Arsenault. Larry is determined to escape a life of thrifty drudgery and intellectual poverty working for his parents' motel and mini-g...

  • Married to the Mop

    Barbara Colley

    As owner of Maid for a Day, Charlotte LaRue is cleaning up New Orleans house by house. When it comes to hired help, she's the best there is, especially if murder runs in the family... Though she's short two employees, Charlotte answers a desperate ...

  • Steamed

    Susan Conant; Jessica Conant-Park

    Chloe Carter, food connoisseur and resilient survivor of failed romances, is forever on a quest for the perfect meal and the perfect man. Getting both in one shot is irresistible. That's why Chloe (aka Gourmet- Girl) accepts a date with DinnerDude on...

  • The Tenth Power

    Kate Constable

    Calwyn was once the most talented chanter in Tremaris, able to command seven powers with a single breath. But a terrible mistake has left her without her magic, just as her beloved Darrow has fallen prey to a sickness sweeping the chanters -- a sic...

  • Trouble Creek

    Ralph Cotton

    UP TROUBLE'S CREEK Dick Lowry and his gang think robbing banks is their natural right. It has never occurred to them that Ranger Sam Burrack might thwart them, especially in a one-horse town like Olsen. It's only when the gun smoke clears that the h...

  • A Family Forever

    Brenda Coulter

    When her fiance was killed just three weeks before their wedding, violinist Shelby Franklin's "happily ever after" dreams were shattered. The discovery of her unplanned pregnancy guaranteed those dreams would never be rebuilt. Tall, husky cyclist ...

  • The Good Sister

    Karen Crane

    THINGS ARE RARELY WHAT THEY SEEM If Mattie Owens had been the one to get in her car one January morning and drive away from an adoring husband, a beautiful home, a new baby, and a future bright with promise, no one would have been surprised and no...

  • No Greater Courage

    Richard Croker

    Midway through its second year the Civil War was no closer to resolution. Pressured by politicians to deliver a significant victory in Southern territory before the winter set in, General Ambrose Burnside, the newly appointed commander of the Army of...

  • Sin and Salvation

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Too many deaths and too many terrifying visions have taken their toll on Lucy Dennison. She wonders if she can trust anyone or anything anymore. In the chilling finale to The Unseen quartet, Lucy comes face-to-face with the force that has turned her ...

  • Patterns Everywhere

    Julie Dalton

  • Counting Money

    Julie Dalton

    The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe! With this series all about geography, emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities, nations, waterways, and habitats around the worldand right in their own backya...

  • Some Like It Haute

    Julie K.L. Dam

    Alexandra "Alex" Simons, style writer for The Weekly magazine, has landed in Paris for fashion week, her heart beating in perfect tempo with the hallowed words Prada, Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo. In those first heady hours, as she dresses in just the ...

  • Heritage

    Mary Eileen Davis

    By marrying into a wealthy Boston family, she hopes to inherit just that. Then a strange letter names her the heir of her alleged grandfather's home on Mackinaw Island. But, as she sorts through the past, she learns her true legacy may leave her more...

  • The Oregon Escort

    Susan Page Davis

    LYDIA IS HEADING TO OREGON. When her aunt dies and leaves her nothing, Lydia Jackson heads to Oregon City in a wagon train to fulfill a teaching position. When a wagon train escort officer starts to show her attention, Lydia feels she must reject ...

  • The Barbed Rose

    Gail Dayton

    Demons are coming. One woman has been chosen to face them.... Demon hordes still threaten the Kingdom while open rebellion has broken out within its cities, separating Kallista from her new family. Assassination attempts, magical attacks -- she...

  • Secrets & Lies

    Tom Defalco

    Lots of people have big shoes to fill, but how many have to fill the helmet of the Juggernaut? Teenager Zane Yama grows up fast and hits the big time head first when he inherits his father's unstoppability and joins the latest generation of Avengers!...

  • Betrothed For The Baby

    Kathie DeNosky

    HE CLAIMED ANOTHER MAN'S CHILD... Fearful that her ex's wealthy family would try to get custody of her unborn baby, there was only one man Cassie Marshall could turn to -- her boss, Hunter O'Banyon. When he offered his protection and his name, Cas...

  • Cause For Scandal

    Anna DePalo

    THE SCANDALOUS HEIRESS No-nonsense heiress Summer Elliott had a five-year plan...and nailing a coveted interview with bad-boy rock star Zeke Woodlow was part of it. Sleeping with Zeke was not. But when she posed as her flirtatious, flamboyant twin...

  • Gorilla, Gorilla - Volume 2

    Disney Book Group

    These full-color compilations are a must have for fans of the immensely popular comics that run in Disney Adventures magazine and Comic Zone. Each book features a different character or theme picked from the top-rated magazine strips. Volume Two ...

  • Disney's Lilo & Stitch - Volume 1

    Disney Book Group

    These full-color compilations are a must have for fans of the immensely popular comics that run in Disney Adventures magazine and Comic Zone. Each book features a different character or theme picked from the top-rated magazine strips. In Volume ...

  • Original Sin

    Brandt Dodson

    Colton Parker was just fired from the FBI, has a teenage daughter who blames him for her mother’s death, and now that he’s hung out his shingle as a P.I., his first paying client -- Angie Howe -- has enough money for only one day’s worth of ...

  • Helen Keller

    Sean Dolan

  • Mysteries of Eleusis

    Margaret Anne Doody

    In the winter of 330-329 BC Athens itself suffers a series of alarming thefts and home robberies. It seems that nobody is safe. The great philosopher Aristotle helps his former student Stephanos investigate a break-in and brutal murder at the house o...

  • The Bouncing, Dancing, Galloping ABC

    Charlotte Doyle

    Introduces the alphabet to preschoolers through simple text and lively illustrations as two playful brothers hop like rabbits, take piggy back rides, and participate in games during an adventurous, fun-filled day!...

  • The Jury Master

    Robert Dugoni

    In a courtroom, defense attorney Davy Sloane is a master manipulator who can grab a jury and make it dance. He enjoys a wildly successful career limited only by his conscience -- until he gets a phone call from a total stranger, Joe Branick, special ...

  • The Cymry Ring

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    A “skillfully written, wonderfully entertaining, and fascinatingly detailed” time-travel adventure from the author of the Caleb and Thinnes mysteries (Booklist).   British detective Ian Carreg never expected his life to unfold like this. A r...

  • Starlight

    Kristin Earhart

    Starlight is gone! Will Haley find her before the storm comes? Also included: Keepsake card of a real horse! Fun facts about Morgan horses! ...

  • Tiny Life in a Puddle

    Bobbi Early

  • How To Get Married

    Margot Early

    The truth about Amy Ludlow Fourteen-year-old Amy lives with her father in Ouray, Colorado. Her mother -- or so she believes -- died at the time of her birth. What William Ludlow knows that his daughter doesn't is this: Amy's mother isn't dead. He'd...

  • Your Big Break

    Johanna Edwards

    Breaking up is hard to do? Not anymore... Your Big Break, Inc. can help! It'd not just you, it's us! Property Retrieval - Dear John Letters Counseling Phone Calls - Breakup Recovery Kits Let us let them down easy for you... Call (617) 55-LEAVE ...

  • Doctors and Nurses

    Lucy Ellmann

    A hilarious new novel set in a rural doctor's office by the queen of "pitch-black comedy."

    Nursing is a noble calling. So what the hell attracted Jen, a gigantic nurse with a habit of killing her patients? Now she's had the temerity, and mis...

  • Wild

    Katherine Emmons

    When Taji, a troublesome teenage lion cub, finds himself on a ship bound for Africa, it’s up to his animal friends from the New York City Zoo to help him get back home. Relive all the adventure and excitement of the hit computer-animated movie The ...

  • Secrets in the Hills

    Kathleen Ernst

    Josefina has heard tales and legends all her life: rumors of gold and silver buried in the hills, and even stories of a ghostly Weeping Woman who haunts the countryside. She never imagined that such tales might be true until the day a mysterious stra...

  • The Ribbon Murders

    Sharon Ervin

    Jancy Dewhurst, 23, a pushy, disheveled newspaper reporter, nervously attends her first homicide and immediately locks horns with Jim Wills, 27, a natty cop who has no use for reporters meddling in an investigation. Observant, Jancy marvels that she ...

  • Nicotine Kiss

    Loren D. Estleman

    In this installment of Loren Estleman's signature PI series, Amos Walker, the quintessential hard-boiled detective, proves that he's mortal after all. Jeff Starzek, an old friend who smuggles cigarettes for a living, saves Walker's life, getting him ...

  • Longarm and the Railroad Murders

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s about to hit this railroad gang like a freight train…Longarm is after a vicious gang that rides fast horses, carries telescopic rifles -- and is driving up the body count on the Union Pacific railroad. But he’s also up against an agin...

  • Blue Wings

    Terri Farley

    The wildly popular series continues with a new adventure and an allâ€"new cover design!

    Summer is ending, and Samantha's dad's birthday is right around the corner. When her stepmom picks out a mustang for his present, Sam thinks it's a perf...

  • Where's Stanley?

    Donna Fasano

    If her husband turned up alive -- she'd kill him! Explaining to the seriously sexy cop why she hadn't noticed her husband missing for three days was both embarrassing and sobering. But the day Fiona Rowland lifted her head above the churning chaos...

  • Drag King Dreams

    Leslie Feinberg

    From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club where drag kings, dykes dressed as men, perform.A veteran of the women's and gay movem...

  • Shahnameh

    Abolqasem Ferdowsi

    A fresh and compulsively readable new translation of the Persian epic Shahnameh, for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.A combination of myth and history, Shahnameh is a classic work by one of Persia’s greatest...

  • Military Man

    Marie Ferrarella

    "I've been waiting all my life for a man I can trust." --Lucy Gatling, medical student A dangerous predator escapes from prison near Rcd Rock, Texas and Collin Jamison, CIA Special Operations, is the only person who can get inside the murderer's ...

  • Perfect Weapon

    Amy J. Fetzer

    Danger In Plain Sight Stay alive. That's all Dr. Sydney Hale can think. In one terrifying minute, her life was turned upside down. Now, the cops think she's a murder suspect, the government wants her to come in, and somebody will do anything, includ...

  • Darkhenge

    Catherine Fisher

    Rob's younger sister, Chloe, has been in a coma for three months, and his life is in disarray. To distract himself and avoid his grieving parents, Rob takes a job at a local--and mysterious--archaeological dig. There an ancient tree has been discover...

  • Deadridge Doll

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Grantville Gazette II

    Eric Flint

    RETURN TO THE AMERICAN TOWN LOST IN TIME A mysterious cosmic force--the "Ring of Fire"--has hurled the 20th century town of- Grantville back to 17th century Europe and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seemingly magical technology...

  • Boundary

    Eric Flint; Ryk E. Spoor

    DINOSAURS AND DEEP SPACE MISSIONS The find was made by a teenager. It was a 'funny fossil" no one had seen before out in the middle of the Montana badlands. And right in the middle of controversy: the strangely shaped fossil could help explain one...

  • Cherry Cheesecake Murder

    Joanne Fluke

    Hannah Swensen and her bakery, The Cookie Jar, bask in the glow of Hollywood glamour when Main Street becomes a movie set. And although tensions simmer as the cameras roll, no one expects the action to turn deadly...until it's too late... There's ...

  • Dead Heat

    Jacey Ford

    FORMER FBI AGENT DAPHNE DONOVAN JOINED HER PARTNERS IN CRIME, AIMEE AND RAINE, TO FOCUS ON FINDING MISSING PERSONS--AND CHEATING SPOUSES. BUT EVEN THE SIMPLEST OF CASES LEADS INTO TERRITORY FAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN SHE EVER IMAGINED... Tracking a b...

  • Love from London

    Emily Franklin

    Having left boarding school to attend the London Academy of Drama and Music, aspiring singer Love Bukowski feels she's living a dream, but it isn't long before she finds herself struggling to find her focus in the midst of life-altering events....

  • After the Rice

    Wendy French

    Megan Ismore's bungalow isn't big enough to house her problems---or her relatives. Married just ten months, Megan's life with Matt would be grand if it weren't for a fast-growing secret she can't bear to share. As if that weren't enough, she's dea...

  • A Splendid Obsession

    Cathleen Galitz

    THEY BOTH HAVE SECRETS... From successful model to has-been at age twenty-four, Kayanne Aldarmann had returned home to figure out what to do with the rest of her life -- and discovered the seductive bachelor next door might just have the answer. ...

  • Body Heat

    Katherine Garbera

    IS IT GETTING STEAMY IN HERE... Andi O'Rourke is a fire chief and a darned good one--one of only a handful of women in the U.S. to make it. Raised in a family of firefighters, she's a natural, barking out orders and keeping her guys safe at the same...

  • Her High-Stakes Affair

    Katherine Garbera

    ONE SEXY GAMBLE... Of all men for director Raine Montgomery to be attracted to! Scott Rivers was not only a professional gambler, but the man she suspected had bet $50,000 he'd bed her before they finished taping the Vegas poker showdown. No one -- ...

  • A Lady Raised High

    Laurien Gardner

    It was a marriage that would change England forever. Young Anne Boleyn entranced the most powerful man of his time, King Henry VIII. But she would not yield to him unless he offered her marriage and the crown. To win her, Henry would challenge the...

  • The Protector

    T.L. Gardner

    Imagine if your first breaths of life had come at the tip of a bloody hanger. The product of a failed abortion. Left for dead in a cold dark alley amidst the trash and vermin. Rescued by an old woman. At the age of two, you tumbled down a flight of c...

  • Train From Marietta

    Dorothy Garlock

    Born into a wealthy New York City family, Kate Tyler never fit in with high society...and became a nurse to tend to the desperate poor of the Depression. Offered the chance to work in a large California hospital, Kate departs for the West-and is kidn...

  • Penelope Nuthatch and the Big Surprise

    David Gavril

    In the vein of James Marshall, this picture book provides a gentle lesson about sulking. With humor and a light touch, this story shows that sometimes a bad attitude is the only obstacle to a good time. Silly Penelope Nuthatch receives a letter from ...

  • The Girl Next Door

    Roberta Gayle

    Assistant producer Shayla Tennison is thrilled to be involved with her first reality show "Lady's Choice." During the series, two famous women vie for the affections of twelve sexy bachelors. The only problem: Shayla has been asked to convince her fa...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Scary Skateboarder

    James Gelsey

    A scooby-riffic mystery series!

    It's like, totally radical when Scooby and Shaggy are asked to be guest judges at an extreme skateboarding competition! But it's a good thing the rest of the gang comes along too, because a spooky skateboarder s...

  • Fanning the Flames

    James Gelsey

  • The Great Cowboy Race

    Georgina Gentry
    in

    Those deep-brimmed Stetsons. Those faded jeans. And that's just the beginning. Cowboys are everything a fantasy man should be--tall, tough, and oh so handsome. In this sexy new collection of original stories, meet three men of the American West who k...

  • To Tease a Texan

    Georgina Gentry

    Throw a sassy whiskey slinger together with a down-on-his-luck cowboy and what do you get? A match made in the Last Chance Saloon... SHE'S NO LADY Lark Van Schuyler can take care of herself -- and has ever since she ran away from home and wo...

  • The Millionaire's Runaway Bride

    Catherine George

    The secret of the runaway bride-to-be... Moving home to the country offered Kate the chance to make a comfortable, secure life for herself. But there was a complication-her ex-fiance, millionaire Jack Logan. He was still gorgeous-and the attractio...

  • The Weather

    Olivia George

  • Drax the Destroyer: Earthfall

    Keith Giffen

    The crash of an interstellar prison transport spells big trouble for an isolated Alaskan town when Paibok the Power Skrull, Lunatik, the Blood Brothers and Drax the Destroyer come calling. It's not a social call. Oh... and you think you know Drax? Bi...

  • Playing in Traffic

    Gail Giles

    I WAS THE GHOST OF THE SCHOOL CORRIDORS. SKYE WAS THE DEVIL. AND I WAS DOOMED FROM THE DAY SHE SPOKE TO ME Skye Colby? She's the multi-pierced, multi-tattooed girl hanging around the cybercafés, always out at odd hours in marginal places. The jock...

  • Illusive Flame

    Dara Girard

    Victoria Spenser is a young woman desperate to leave behind her troubled past...including her psychic ability to detect fires as they happen. She arrives in America after years of living in Jamaica, hoping to live a quiet, normal life as a housekeepe...

  • The Dead Letter

    Lee Goldberg

    When Dr. Mark Sloan receives a package containing files, audiotapes, and videos from infamous P.I. Nick Stryker after his death, Mark has evidence that could put away some of the most powerful people in Los Angeles and must discover which one of them...

  • Intuition

    Allegra Goodman

    Sandy Glass, a charismatic publicity-seeking oncologist, and Marion Mendelssohn, a pure, exacting scientist, are codirectors of a lab at the Philpott Institute dedicated to cancer research and desperately in need of a grant. Both mentors and supervis...

  • The Wedding Arrangement

    Lucy Gordon

    A GORGEOUS ITALIAN WITHA PROPOSAL... Luke Rinucci is startled to discover that the tenant of his Rome residenza, Minnie Pepino, is young, blond and sensational! There is an immediate attraction between them, but despite her family's premature plan...

  • Snow White Bride // Charming the Billionaire

    Carol Grace

    Her skin was white as snow. Her hair as black as ebony. Her lips...darn near purple! But before the freezing beauty could explain to Zach Prescott how she'd wound up on his doorstep during a snowstorm in only a wedding dress, she fainted. His s...

  • The Island

    Heather Graham

    A slice of paradise in the turquoise waters of southern Florida, the island is a lush, breathtaking sanctuary. Few can resist its allure, or its primitive beauty - but fewer still know its secrets. On a weekend vacation Beth Anderson is unnerved...

  • The Greek's Chosen Wife

    Lynne Graham

    A wife on his terms? It's been eight years since Prudence's arranged wedding to Nikolas Angelis. Their relationship was never consummated and they have always lived apart. But now Prudence longs to have her own baby and she wants a divo...

  • Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

    Simon R. Green

    My name is John Taylor. I'm a PI for hire in the Nightside, the dark and corrupt city within the city of London. Where the sun never shines and where pleasure and horror are always on sale--for the right price. Not a nice place to visit or a nice ...

  • The Vampire's Curse

    Dan Greenburg

    In an astounding turn of events, the Shluffmuffins twins' long-lost father has reappeared years after his tragic Porta Potti accident. Wally and Cheyenne, of course, are thrilled to see their dear old dad again. But would it be rude to point out how ...

  • The Bones

    Seth Greenland

    FRANK BONES IS A SELF-DESTRUCTIVE, TAKE-NO-PRISONERS. BAD-BOY COMIC AT the bottom rung of Hollywood. Lloyd Melnick is a long-lost acquaintance whose work on the smash hit The Fleishman Show has made him the hottest comedy writer in town. As Frank dog...

  • Unplugged

    Lois Greiman

    SHRINK-WRAPPED... Christina McMullen, psychologist extraordinaire, has problems -- not least of which are her needy clients, a schizophrenic septic system, and her sizzling-then-fizzling romance with Lieutenant Jack Rivera. But Chrissy has yet ano...

  • Nothing but Trouble

    Bettye Griffin

    Both hilarious and poignant, Bettye Griffin's latest novel explores the lives and loves of three best friends who discover that there's nothing in the world they can't handle--as long as they stick together... Dana Covington never thought she'd be ...

  • The Warrior

    Heather Grothaus

    England, 1075, a time of raging feuds and men who pledge their sword for king and country, an era brought masterfully to life in this epic tale of a powerful Norman warrior and the woman who is his destiny... Tristan D'Argent returns from batt...

  • Essential Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe - Deluxe Edition Volume 1

    Mark Gruenwald

    The original encyclopedia of adventures: expanded, augmented and updated! Marvel's continuity kings continued their quest for completeness in these issues of dedicated Deluxeness! Top talent teamed to headline heroes like Captain America, Daredevil, ...

  • Penelope Says Good Night

    Anne Gutman

    Everyone has fallen in love with Penelope--an energetic and inquisitive koala created by the author and illustrator of the popular Gaspard and Lisa books!

    Children can pull the tabs on every spread and help Penelope get ready for bed. On one s...

  • The Homework Machine

    Dan Gutman

    Doing homework becomes a thing of the past! Meet the D Squad, a foursome of fifth graders at the Grand Canyon School made up of a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker. They are bound together by one very big secret: the homework mac...

  • My New Town

    Kirsten Hall

  • Micah

    Laurell K. Hamilton

    "RAISING THE DEAD WAS EASY; LOVE WAS HARD..." There are lots of reasons to raise dead--some private, some public. In t case, the Feds have a witness who died before he could speak on the record. They want him raised so his testimony can be taken. ...

  • The Last Ten Percent

    Michelle McKinney Hammond

    From bestselling author Michelle McKinney Hammond comes a captivating first novel filled with her hallmark wit and insight.

    Tracy awakens one morning to a radio report -- the ratio of eligible men to available women is slim to none. Now, ...

  • Pilot of the Future: Prisoners of Space

    Frank Hampson

    It’s chocks away and tally-ho once again as Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, returns! First published in classic British comic Eagle, these are the original adventures of one of the best known and loved of British comic characters, presented in a new...

  • The Mommy Quest

    Lori Handeland

    Life has never been easy for Tim. Abandoned and left to fend for himself, he's finally found a home with Dean Luchetti. But something's missing. Tim's convinced that what he needs is a mother and what Dean needs is a wife. And he thinks he's got the ...

  • The Sweet Golden Parachute

    David Handler

    A storm is brewing in Dorset. Poochie Vickers, the local aristocrat, is becoming even more eccentric in her old age. She's taken up shoplifting and reckless driving but refuses to see a doctor. Her worrisome daughter, Claudia, is angling to take ...

  • Magic Hour

    Kristin Hannah

    Deep in the Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest -- nearly one million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. Even in this modern age, much of it remains undiscovered and uncharted. From the heart of this old forest, a s...

  • Mysteries in Space

    Rosanna Hansen

  • Signs of Life

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

  • Her Honourable Playboy

    Kate Hardy

    Registrar Alyssa Ward is not pleased when she wins a date with the E.R. consultant, Honorable Sebastian Radley. She's not in the market for a relationship -- especially not with a renowned womanizer like Seb. But, then again, he is devastatingly hand...

  • Nightmare

    Christine Harris

    Jesse's next move might be her last.Jesse's latest assignment is to infiltrate a sleepover camp and locate two targets. One is a C2 agent working undercover. The other is a camper with unusual skills who has been placed at the camp by a vicious group...

  • Secret Alibi

    Lori L. Harris

    Expecting...answers. And Lexie Dawson wasn't talking. But somehow, some way, Jack Blade was going to get to the bottom of a confounding murder. The citizens of Cougar County deserved no less from their new police chief. And he'd get Lexie to talk, on...

  • The Pretty Committee Strikes Back

    Lisi Harrison

    New Year. New Pretty Committee. New LBRs? Massie Block: The Briarwood boys have invaded OCD and are taking over everything. Worse, the soccer boys have become so popular that the Pretty Committee's alpha status is in serious jeopardy. So Massie la...

  • Marriage Reunited

    Jessica Hart

    Four years ago Georgia Henderson had a fantastic job and a loving husband. But his demanding career often kept him away from home. Now, with her marriage behind her, Georgia's life has changed completely. She relishes her new role as mother to her ad...

  • Death on the Ladies Mile

    Diana Haviland

    In 1880's New York City, the ballrooms of the wealthy are warm and fragrant with the mingled scents of hothouse flowers and expensive perfumes and filled with bejeweled ladies in silks and velvets. But there is another side to the city. Here the poor...

  • Statute of Limitations

    Steven F. Havill

    It's Christmas Eve in Posadas County, New Mexico, and the bad-luck snowball really gets moving downhill for Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman. Former police chief Eduardo Martinez suffers a heart attack while chasing car thieves at a local motel; a d...

  • The Wallflower, Volume 7: Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge

    Tomoko Hayakawa

    PAPA? MAMA?

    Four of Japan’s hottest guys are doing their best in their mission to turn dark, macabre Sunako into a dainty young woman. Gorgeous Ranmaru is famous for his smooth way with the ladies. But when a cute toddler named Rin shows up ...

  • The Reluctant Hero

    Lorraine Heath
    in

    Those deep-brimmed Stetsons. Those faded jeans. And that's just the beginning. Cowboys are everything a fantasy man should be--tall, tough, and oh so handsome. In this sexy new collection of original stories, meet three men of the American West who k...

  • The Pandora Key

    Lynne Heitman

    She left the corporate world of airlines, lured by the dark arts of private investigation. Now Alex Shanahan is stirring up a cold case with global implications. Years after she dumped him for a younger man, the scheming ex-wife of Alex's partn...

  • Philosophy Made Simple

    Robert Hellenga

    Rudy Harrington has spent half his life in a rambling Chicago house, raising three daughters with his independent-minded wife. But his wife has died, his daughters have moved away, and Rudy is restless. In what he interprets as a moment of transcende...

  • Sneak and Rescue

    Shirl Henke

    MEN WHERE ALWAYS CHASING HER...WITH GUNS Toting a .38 and a loaded makeup case, retrieval specialist Samantha Ballanger distracted her enemies with disguises and disarmed them with a swift kick. Hired to find a missing teen at a sci-fi fan convent...

  • Pike's Folly

    Mike Heppner

    Nathaniel Pike, a headstrong billionaire, is purchasing a piece of federal land in New Hampshire's White Mountains and turning it into a huge, inaccessible parking lot. Orbiting Pike and his aspirations is a cast of perfectly flawed eccentrics: Marle...

  • The Shaggy Dog: The Junior Novelization

    Gail Herman

    LIFE HAS GONE TO THE DOGS Attorney Dave Douglas seems to have it all: a wife, two kids, a great job, and a beautiful house. But one day a sheepdog bites him, and everything changes. Suddenly, Dave is transformed into a dog! With no way to talk to h...

  • All Things Hidden

    Kathy Herman

    The Past Is Back Ellen Jones’s hands are full after she begrudgingly brings her aging father to Seaport. Lawrence’s memory is failing -- though he can’t seem to forget what he’s been holding against Ellen for the past forty years. But when h...

  • Mardi Gras Mambo

    Greg Herren

    In Bourbon Street Blues and Jackson Square Jazz, Greg Herren introduced the wickedly naughty--and irrepressible--Scotty Bradley, who's never met a drink he didn't want, a decadence he could resist, or a hunky trick he won't treat to a little bit of h...