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New Books List: 776 titles


  • Peter Abrahams

    A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside revelation? The need to know what's up? The confessions of a friend? The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear-window view of a murder next door? The search f...



  • Dwan Abrams

    Skyler Little is a successful, happily married psychoanalyst who is devoted to her husband and committed to providing her patients with the best Christian counseling possible. Skyler cares about her patients, but maybe a little too much when she find...



  • Poppy Adams

    From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly fifty years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely ventured out, ...



  • Shelley Adina

    Tall, blonde Lissa Mansfield is used to being one of the "in" crowd--but being accepted by the popular girls at posh Spencer Academy boarding school in San Francisco is turning out to be harder than she thought. And then there's her New-York-loudmout...



  • Ginny Aiken

    Someone had broken into Tess Graver's home and trashed the place. But this was no random robbery. The intruder was looking for something specific--but what? With her own secrets to keep hidden, Tess reluctantly turned to neighbor Ethan Rogers for hel...



  • Boris Akunin

    In the middle of the night, a disheveled and badly frightened monk arrives at the doorstep of Bishop Mitrofanii of Zavolzhsk, crying: “Something’s wrong at the Hermitage!” The Hermitage is the centuries-old island monastery of New Ararat, known...



  • Boris Akunin

    The ship carrying the devout to Jerusalem has run into rough waters. Onboard is Manuila, controversial leader of the “Foundlings,” a sect that worships him as the Messiah. But soon the polarizing leader is no longer a passenger or a prophet but a...



  • Lawrence Alexander

    It could Happen . . . Bobby Hart, an idealistic young senator from California, thinks that he's escaped the political spotlight when he decides not to run for president. Then, on a secret mission to Germany, he discovers that there is going to be...



  • Louise Allen

    A certain proper lady of our acquaintance is flirting with ruin. yet even the most virtuous would find it hard to resist such a dashing soldier... Freed from her unhappy marriage, Belinda, Lady Felsham, plans to enjoy herself. She suspects that th...



  • Sarah Addison Allen

    The tale of a young woman whose family secrets -- and secret passions -- are about to change her life forever. Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favorite season, she's a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten...




  • Tara Altebrando

    We were going to see the world together, Lindsay and I. We were going to eat it up, whole. But it didn't happen that way. It didn't happen that way at all.... When Chloe's parents decide to take her to Europe the summer before senior year of high ...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    Two's A Handful... Three's Trouble! Dr. Ella Garvey's eight-year-old twins loved to stir things up. But when they hatched a daring plan with her neighbor's son, Dillon, to keep a baby they'd found abandoned in the park, it was mischief times ten. ...



  • Gigi Amateau

    On the night that Chancey is born, a "fire star" gallops across the sky, a signal that a great horse has entered the world. But it will take many years of slights and hardships before the orphaned albino will believe that the prophecy is truly meant ...



  • Stephen Anable

    Spiraling off the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown has long been a place of escape, new beginnings, and diverse communities. Famous as an art colony, known for the Cape Cod School, its gallery scene is vibrant. Gay life is everywhere. Boston comic Mark ...



  • Jessica Andersen

    HE WAS A TRAINED AGENT WITH ONE NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL ON HIS AGENDA. SHE WAS A MUCH-TOO-ATTRACTIVE DISTRACTION WITH A TARGET ON HER BACK. FBI agent John Sharpe was closing in on a criminal he'd made his life's mission to put away for life. So rescuin...



  • Caroline Anderson

    Penniless, pregnant and alone, Iona Lockwood wants to settle and put down roots. Life's delivered her a few hard knocks lately.... When wealthy architect Daniel Hamilton finds Iona living in the empty building he's bought, he knows he should be as...



  • Natsumi Ando

    RECIPE FOR DISASTER

    Najika’s dreams are coming true: She’s in the finals of a national dessert contest and has found her Flan Prince. But then life goes from sweet to sour as she makes a startling discovery"and loses her sense of taste!...



  • Amy Andrews

    Locum doctor James Remington never stays in one place for long. But the warmth of the people in this welcoming Outback community is starting to make it feel like home--and so is nurse Helen Franklin. James has found it easy to win over the locals in ...



  • Toni Andrews

    Last month I killed a man... and now I'm afraid what I might do next As a hypnotherapist with a special talent, I'm very good at getting people to overcome their problems. My own problem, however, is that my talent comes from a dark place. If I te...



  • Janmarie Anello

    A Scandal? Spirited and sensual, heiress Leah Jamison knew she would marry one day, but she had thought it would be for love, not because of her father's trickery. Yet her anger soon melts into arousal when she experiences the expert caresses and b...



  • Kathi Appelt

    There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares ...



  • Alex Archer

    Annja Creed jumps at the chance to join a fellow archaeologist on a quest to find a relic. But she's not so thrilled about northern Siberia, where they are hoping to discover something buried in the long-undisturbed soil of Russia's frozen terrain. W...




  • Lindsay Armstrong

    Ordinary girl... Sienna Torrance is used to helping people get back on their feet. But she's finding rugged billionaire Finn McLeod an impossible patient! Spending every day with him is confusing for Sienna -- not least because of the searing at...



  • Elizabeth Joy Arnold

    IN THE HEART OF A FAMILY LIE SHATTERING SECRETS AND A LOVE THAT LASTS FOREVER.... When war and its aftermath take Josh from Natalie and her children, she must find a way to heal her broken family. So she begins writing letters from Josh that she h...



  • Tedd Arnold

    Oh, no! Is Fly Guy lost?Mom and Dad won't let Fly Guy go along on the family road trip. They're afraid he'll get lost. But when Dad accidentally shuts him in the trunk, Fly Guy goes along for the ride!Fly Guy gets lost at the picnic site, but he show...



  • Neal Asher

    The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus's wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no...



  • James Axler

    Beyond Redemption The fall of the baronies has led Earth deeper into the darkest days of a bitter struggle as old as the planet itself--a war for righteous destiny. As a force of elite rebels dares to break humanity free from the iron chains of al...



  • Kathleen Bacus

    Debra Daniels thinks she's found the answer to the age-old question women have been plagued with ever since Eve first said "Why not?" when Adam asked her on a stroll through the Garden. In need of a break from her matchmaking mother and a score of he...



  • Matthew Baek

    Baby Elisa loves her dog, Tag, so much that she can hardly hug, squeeze, and kiss him enough, but when things get a bit too rough, Elisa's mother must remind her little one that Tag needs to be treated kindly and carefully as well....



  • Deb Baker

    It's finally spring in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the locals have only one thing on their minds―the turkey-hunting opener.

    But for sheer adrenaline value, not even turkey season can compete with the local Credit Union getting held up at ...



  • Richard Baker
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Discover a whole new realm of adventure: Exiled from Myth Drannor, a swordmage returns to his childhood home to find it changed by corruption and evil Geran Hulmaster, a wandering swordmage, returns to the windswept shores of the Moonsea, where ...



  • David Baldacci

    "Dick, I need a war."Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. He's retained Dick Pender to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating world conflicts. Howe...



  • Blue Balliett

    TWO CALDERS ARE MISSING. When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery . . . including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sc...



  • Piper Banks

    Looking for love in all the wrong countries? Miranda Bloom's life has never been better. She finally has an almost-quasi-boyfriend, Dex McConnell, the star lacrosse player of Orange Cove High. But when holiday break rolls around, she jets off to v...



  • Michele Bardsley

    When you're immortal, being a mom won't kill you -- it will only make you stronger. Not just anyone can visit Broken Heart, Oklahoma, especially since all the single moms -like me, Patsy Donahue- have been turned into vampires. Now I'm forever fort...



  • Robert Barnard

    A mysterious envelope arrives on Eve McNabb's doorstep soon after she has buried her mother, a woman who kept many secrets. The puzzling letter inside this envelope hints at an illicit passion between the letter writer and Eve's mother, May McNabb. ...



  • Erica K. Barnes

    Three young women trying to make it the only way they want to... Kentia can't seem to meet her monetary needs. Since beauty and trickery are what she knows best, she uses them as her golden ticket. Kentia drains money from the wallet of her curren...



  • Gail Barrett

    She'd loved him--and he'd betrayed her Or so Sofia Mikhelson believed. So why was security specialist Luke Moreno back, entrusted with protecting a priceless necklace--and glowering at her as if she'd betrayed him? Then shots rang out--and sud...



  • Annie Barrows

    RED ALERT! Bean's just found out that her parents are leaving her for the afternoon with meanie Nancy, her big sister. What to do? Should Bean sit quietly on the living room couch and obey the rules? Or should Bean make a rope ladder and escape out h...



  • Joan Bauer

    HILDY BIDDLE wants something monumental to happen so she can finally prove herself to be more than a high school journalist The problem? Her town's biggest story stars a ghost, which is not an easy interview. But while the local paper is playing up p...



  • Beth Beechwood

    ELECTION FEVER! The East High school board only has enough money to renovate the gymnasium or the auditorium -- not both. Who will make this tough call? The students, by voting for what they want! Troy and the Wildcats are psyched about getting a ne...



  • David Benioff

    As wise and funny as it is thrilling and original?the story of two young men on an impossible adventure A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won?t ...



  • Zelda Benjamin

    When the Martinelli family chocolate shop display goes up in flames at a Brooklyn street fair, fate throws Alex Martinelli and Mike Simone together. Alex, an ER nurse with a passion for reading her daily horoscope, has several valid reasons not to ge...



  • Vanora Bennett

    “Bennett’s medieval England comes alive in ways a reader can immediately relate to, even while being transported away from the modern world.” -- Christian Science MonitorThe story of two sisters caught up in the maelstrom of historic events, Fi...



  • Hannah Berry

    A gorgeously drawn, strikingly original graphic-novel murder mystery

    Private detective Fernández Britten is an old hand at confirming the dark suspicions of jealous lovers and exposing ugly truths of all varieties. Battered by years of bear...



  • Annette Blair

    The Cartwright triplets--Harmony, Destiny, and Storm--are psychic sirens who use their magic for good and their good looks for seduction... Shelter... Beautiful bad girl Storm Cartwright can be charming when she wants to be. So when she hears the...



  • Ally Blake

    A millionaire magnate had her phone! When Chelsea realized she'd accidentally swapped cell phones with someone, she knew how this would play out: she'd trek back into town, swap phones with some middle-aged man with a paunch and be on her wa...



  • Emily Blake

    One family. Two sides. A whole town caught in between.
    In this soap-opera series, the twists keep coming--and no secrets are safe.

    Chad is in a coma, fighting for his life. Will he pull through...or take his secrets to the grave?
    Tom bl...



  • Judy Blume

    "Sometimes I think Mom and Dad love her more than me." -- The Pain "Sometimes I think Mom and Dad love him more than me." -- The Great One It’s back to school for the Pain and the Great One. The kids hardly agree on anything, but especially at sch...



  • Merlinda Bobis

    In her lush, luminous debut novel, Merlinda Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all the senses. Richly imagined, gloriously written, Banana Heart Summer is an incandescent tale of food, family, and longing--at once a love letter to mothers and daughte...



  • Andrea Boeshaar

    Caregiver or crook? Cadi Trent knows personal tragedy firsthand. As a child, her family was swept away in a flash flood, and only she survived. As an adult, she's an EMT who devotes her life to helping others. When her team, Disaster Busters, is call...



  • Chris Bohjalian

    In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lin...



  • Larry Bond; Jim DeFelice

    When the CIA is tipped off that one of its most wanted men is going to be in Bologna, Italy, Ferg and the First Team are tasked to apprehend him at any cost--but under no circumstances can Italian authorities be made aware. There is just one problem:...



  • Stephen Booth

    Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry must uncover the secrets of two grim murder scenes in England's Peak District--one inexplicable...and the other unspeakable. How do you investigate the murder of a woman without a lif...



  • C.J. Box

    It's elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mounta...



  • John Boyne

    An action-packed fictional telling of the events on the HMS Bounty. Fourteen-year-old John Jacob Turnstile has gotten into trouble with the police on one too many occasions and is on his way to prison when an offer is put to him - a ship has been ...



  • Jennifer Bradbury

    When Chris Collins and Winston Coggans take off on a post-graduation cross-country bike trek, Chris's hopes are high. He's looking forward to seeing the country, dodging a dull summer at a minimum wage job, and having one final adventure with his old...



  • Fiona Brand

    SHE KNOWS HIS SECRETS... ONE OF THEM IS THAT SHE HAS TO DIE. Within hours of finding a Nazi WWII codebook in her father's attic, librarian Sara Fischer becomes a target. Afraid for her life, and chilled by memories that have nothing to do with her q...



  • Helen Brenna

    Rachel Murphy always puts family first. Well, sometimes family and work--as a female NASCAR engine specialist, she has a lot to prove! She's got no time for romantic entanglements. Besides, having been orphaned at a young age, she's had enough abando...



  • Heather Brewer

    High school totally bites when you're half human, half vampire. Freshman year sucks for Vlad Tod. Bullies still harass him. The photographer from the school newspaper is tailing him. And failing his studies could be deadly. A trip to Siberia gives ...



  • Kate Brian

    The higher you climb, the farther you have to fall.... Reed Brennan knew being elected president of exclusive Billings Hall would change her life. What she didn't count on was being dumped by her boyfriend, Josh Hollis, or being held responsible for...



  • Kate Bridges
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    Milly Thornbottom has a crush on Mountie Weston Williams, and one stolen kiss changes their lives! After they're marched straight to the altar, can her crush possibly develop into more?...



  • J.E. Bright

    Scientist Dr. Bruce Banner, who desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that has poisoned his cells and transforms him into the raging creature know as The Hulk, encounters an evil adversary, The Abomination, whose destructive strength ex...



  • J.E. Bright

    My Search For a Cure: When scientist Dr. Bruce Banner volunteers his own cells to test a top-secret government project, his experiments take a disastrous turn. Over-exposed to harmful radiation, his cells begin to mutate â?? with monstrous results! ...



  • Stefan Brijs

    A literary page-turner about one man's macabre ambition to create life-and secure immortality The village of Wolfheim is a quiet little place until the geneticist Dr. Victor Hoppe returns after an absence of nearly twenty years. The doctor brings wit...




  • Kix Brooks; Ronnie Dunn; Bill Fitzhugh

    Exclusive CD! Brooks & Dunn's "Gotta Get Me One of Those" inside!Musicians by trade, Slim and Howdy have each come to a figurative crossroads in their lives. As fate would have it, they meet at these crossroads, never realizing it's a turning poi...



  • Grace Brophy

    In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the shocking murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman is barely credible. That is, until Inspector Alessandro Cenni of the State Police discovers that this retired cultural attach was not just a di...



  • Sigmund Brouwer

    In the rough, shadowy hills of Appalachia, a nation carved from the United States following years of government infighting, Caitlyn and her companions are the prey in a terrifying hunt. They must outwit the relentless bounty hunters, skirt an oppress...



  • Dale Brown

    Based on the Armstrong Space Station orbiting the earth, the Black Stallion spaceplanes of General Patrick McLanahan's Aerospace Battle Force can attack any target on the planet within hours--and its powerful network of satellites can invade any comp...



  • Don Brown

    It’s a mission that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear war. Now time is running out. It starts with a high-stakes theft: weapons-grade plutonium is stolen from Russia. The Russian army is about to attack Chechnya to get it back. But U....



  • Hobson Brown

    Back for her second year, Nikki Olivetti feels like she's finally finding her way at Wellington. And she's ready to show someone else the ropes, someone new, someone like Delia Breton, a transfer student from California with a dark past. Though Delia...



  • Tracy Brown

    Celeste Styles is starting over. After losing her cherished salon in a suspicious fire, she has finally left her adulterous relationship and her drama-filled life in Brooklyn for the peace and tranquility of Atlanta, Georgia. But when Rah-Lo heads do...



  • Robert Gregory Browne

    THE SOULS OF THE DEAD Naked. Incoherent. Covered with blood. That's how Detective Frank Blackburn finds her--a beautiful Jane Doe brandishing a pair of scissors near the scene of a brutal murder. Is she the perpetrator? Or is she the only eyewitness...



  • Ed Brubaker

    Collects Daredevil (1998) #100-105, Daredevil Annual (2007) #1. Things couldn't be going worse for Matt Murdock. Everything he thought he'd gotten back teeters on the edge of a precipice, ready to shatter all around him, as he fights a battle on bot...



  • Joseph Bruchac

    Louis Nolette is a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian from Canada who is recruited to fight in the northern Irish Brigade in the war between the states. Even though he is too young, and not American or Irish, he finds the promise of good wages and the U...



  • Megan E. Bryant

    Glowing fireflies are a sure sign that it's summer, but did you know that the greenish light that these bugs emit is meant to attract a mate? This is just one of the interesting facts that kids will learn about in Fireflies Includes tips on how to m...



  • Michael Buckley

    In Ferryport Landing, everyone gets a day in court -- even the Big Bad Wolf. Mr. Canis is put on trial for past crimes, and Mayor Heart's kangaroo court is determined to find him guilty. It's up to the Grimms to uncover evidence to save their friend,...



  • Lois McMaster Bujold

    Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers with their passionate hearts strong and united. The bigotry of blood kin, however, cannot be easily overcome. Leaving behind all that they have ever known, th...



  • John Burnside

    Acclaimed author John Burnside delivers a profound, page-turning novel about innocence, evil, morality, and the dark corners of the human psyche.  Mysterious illnesses affect the inhabitants of the post-industrial village of Innertown, and a per...



  • Augusten Burroughs

    "As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike ...



  • Robert Olen Butler

    Now available in an elegant paperback, Robert Olen Butler's acclaimed collection, Severance, depicts the final thoughts of people as they are losing their heads. Celebrated as "glorious" (Los Angeles Times), these fascinating stories reveal "the limi...



  • Victoria Bylin

    The long journey across the West ended in sorrow for one hopeful mail-order bride. Dani Baxter stepped off the train in Colorado, only to learn that her intended had died suddenly, leaving three young daughters behind. And suddenly she knew why God h...



  • Adrianne Byrd

    A dangerous attraction... Michael Adams is no angel. But she's no murderer either, even if she did joke with her sisters about killing her ex-husband, Phil, after their nasty divorce. How was she to know that someone really wanted Phil dead--or that ...



  • Meg Cabot

    Emerson Watts is gone. Emerson Watts didn't even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening and had zero interest in meeting the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard. But how was Em to know that di...



  • Lisa Cach
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    Ever been at sixes and sevens but longed to be a perfect ten? Ever wanted to swing, to strut, to dance through life and know the world is your oyster? Ever wanted to show a megaton more moxie than Marilyn Monroe? You'll be relieved to learn there are...



  • Jen Calonita

    The filming for sure-to-be-blockbuster movie Pretty Young Assassins has wrapped, and teen movie star Kaitlin Burke returns to life on the set of primetime drama Family Affair. After ten seasons of filming the hit favorite TV show, Kaitlin would have ...



  • Alan Campbell

    In this stunning follow-up to his epic fantasy debut, Alan Campbell propels readers into a captivating city battling for its own survival -- and that of humankind -- in a world of deities and demons, fallen angels and killers. After a destructive ba...



  • Alan Campbell

    AUTHOR SIGNED 1st UK printing hardcover in mylar protected dustjacket/first edition/new & unused; no marks, not remaindered, not exlib, not bookclub, dj price intact & full numberline/simple author signature, no inscription/fiction...



  • Ethan Canin

    In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family's generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great Ne...



  • Melody Carlson

    The Carter House girls are just getting to know one another when the subject of boys comes up. Rhiannon’s dating Bradford, the most popular jock in school, Eliza’s seeing Harry, and even DJ has dated Conner, although now he acts as if he doesn’...



  • Patrick Carman

    In bestselling author Patrick Carman's rich and riveting follow-up to The House of Power, an extraordinary world meets its destiny in an epic and unforgettable rebirth. The world of Atherton has collapsed and the three levels have become one. Hum...



  • Robin Caroll

    "Christian Crisis Hotline. How may I help you?" For once, it was phone counselor Felicia Trahan who desperately needed to dial in. She'd come home to her apartment to find Jolie, her roommate and coworker, dead. And few clues to the killer's ident...



  • Margaret Carroll

    Ruby Lattingly, the high-maintenance bride left at the altar in The Write Match, is back as the host of a television talk show that helps troubled couples either patch things up or break up. More often the latter proves to be the case. Naturally, as ...



  • Carla Cassidy

    PROTECTING A BEAUTIFUL AMNESIAC IN A MYSTERIOUS SMALL TOWN LED AN UNDERCOVER AGENT TO A WORLD OF SECRETS, AND THAT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING... FBI agent Ryan Burton spent his days investigating every sinister secret in the fog-shrouded village of Ra...



  • P.C. Cast

    In a bid to end the Trojan War, three powerful goddesses try to tame the incomparable warrrior Achilles with the love of a modern woman in this Goddess Summoning novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author P. C. Cast... Goddesses Hera, Athena, an...



  • Kendra Leigh Castle

    Can she trust the wolf within him? GIDEON IS A WEREWOLF OF THE Scottish Highlands. He loves the haunting beauty of his home, but faced with the prospect of being his clan's next alpha, he runs away to upstate New York to grapple with his destiny. As...



  • Jack Cavanaugh

    In the wake of a discovery of alien-written documents from the first century claiming that the life of Christ was a hoax, fallen angel descendant Grant Austin endeavors to prove that the documents are an attempt by Satan to discredit the true histori...



  • Marc Cerasini

    Tom and Mitch Hearn face new challenges, with their beloved Mr. Chance no longer in the picture and the emergence of the Black Ninja as an ally. After rescuing the prisoners of Julian Vane, the boys set sail for Dragon Island...and learn many secrets...



  • Aidan Chambers

    Using a pillow book as her form, nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn sets out to write out her life for her unborn daughter. What emerges is a portrait of an extraordinary girl, who writes frankly of love, sex, poetry, nature, faith, and of herself in th...



  • Allison Chase

    Debut author Allison Chase sweeps readers away to a rugged, windswept landscape where a haunted house holds the key to one man's tormented past...and one woman's restless yearning. THEY SAY THAT SPIRITS HAUNT BLACKHEATH MOOR.... They wed in has...



  • Anne Cherian

    A clash of hearts and cultures set against the divergent backdrops of rural India and downtown San Francisco. Handsome anesthesiologist Neel prides himself on his decisiveness, both in and out of the operating room. So when he agrees to return to ...



  • Lauren Child

    Charlie has this little sister, Lola. Lola says, 'I love drawing and scribbling and cutting and sticking and painting and colouring'. With lots of pictures to colour in, finish and even create, this activity book provides budding artists with plenty ...



  • Maureen Child

    According to airline tycoon Jackson King, business always triumphed over romance, and babies were best appreciated from afar. That was, until the beautiful stranger with whom he'd shared a mind-blowing tryst revealed he had fathered her baby daughter...



  • Lisa Childs

    A Bride At Last? Her sister's wedding is the last place Colleen McClintock expects to fall in love. Especially when the object of her affection is a man who has never given her a second look at the hospital where they both work. Sexy, irresistible...



  • Tera Lynn Childs

    A modern girl's comedic odyssey in a school filled with the descendants of Greek gods. When Phoebe's mom returns from Greece with a new husband and moves them to an island in the Aegean, Phoebe's plans for her senior year and track season are anc...



  • Judy Christenberry

    From city girl...to country wife! Jenny has distant, happy memories of her long-lost dad, and has finally gained the confidence to find him. Only one man stands in her way: the aloof and brooding Jason Welborn--her dad's business partner. And ...




  • CLAMP

    BATTLE AT DEATH’S DOOR!

    In mere minutes, Fai will be dead, and Kurogane’s only hope to save him is to make a deal with Yûko the witch, a woman he has never trusted. The deal sends Kurogane"alone"into the worst danger he has ever faced...



  • Wahida Clark

    In the sequel to one of Wahida's most successful titles [Payback is a Mutha], old scores are settled and before long, new tensions arise. Still recovering from the suicide of her best friend, Shan now pregnant by a married man is forced to make major...



  • Meg Waite Clayton

    Five women, one passion, and the unbreakable bond of friendship When five young mothers -- Frankie, Linda, Kath, Ally, and Brett -- first meet in a neighborhood park in the late 1960s, their conversations center on marriage, raising children, and ...



  • Colleen Coble

    Hannah Schwartz slipped away from her Amish family to meet with her beau, Reece Ericson. When she returned, she discovered her parents murdered and their handmade quilts stolen. Years later, a shunned Hannah returns to the scene of the crime in ho...



  • Rowan Coleman

    Both women have lived a hundred miles apart ever since Alison ran away with the love of Catherine’s life, Marc. But now Alison’s moving back to the town where they grew up, and they’re about to find out just how different both their lives could...



  • Max Allan Collins

    GLAMOROUS MAGGIE STARR IS AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS EX-STRIPTEASE ARTIST. THE DIVA CONTINUES "STRIPPING" THROUGH HER LATE HUSBAND'S NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE--DISTRIBUTING COMIC S TRIPS--WITH HER STEPSON, JACK STARR, HER V.P. AND CHIEF TROUBLESHOOTER. AND WHEN...



  • Max Allan Collins

    They're members of the Behavioral Analysis Unit, an elite team of FBI profilers tasked with examining the nation's most twisted criminal minds--and anticipating their next moves before they strike again.... The BAU team is called in to help Chicag...



  • Ying Chang Compestine

    A bilingual introduction to the Chinese New Year in English and Chinese.

    From the dazzling dragon dance to the scrumptious steamed dumplings to the firecrackers that frighten away evil spirits, this alphabet book celebrates the traditions of t...



  • Phoebe Conn

    His people whisper of her -- the golden-eyed prophetess descended from a god. Only she, so they say, can interpret the mystical Stones of Tomorrow and foretell happiness or grief, life or death. Egan of the D�l Cais is unmoved by the prophetess'...



  • Michael Connelly
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    Bosch delves into one of the first homicides he ever worked back as a uniformed rookie patrolman, a case that was left unsolved for decades....



  • John Connolly

    A POETIC AND OMINOUS NOVEL ABOUT A CHAIN OF KILLINGS, OBSCURELY LINKED OVER A LONG PASSAGE OF YEARS, AND THE SETTLING OF THEIR BLOOD DEBTS -- PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. As a small boy, Louis witnessed an unspeakable, racially motivated crime that ...



  • Glen Cook

    Glen Cook's popular P.I., Garrett, uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city of TunFaire, where no one is to be trusted -- especially not beautiful women. Garrett's P.I. instincts warn him that the knock on his door one winter morning means trouble...



  • Ellen Cooney

    The year is 1943. The Nazis have invaded Italy; American troops have landed. At Aldo's restaurant on the Adriatic coast, Lucia Fantini had entertained customers for years with her marvelous opera singing. But normal operations are over. The restauran...



  • Nicola Cornick

    "ALL MY WINNINGS TONIGHT AGAINST ONE NIGHT WITH YOU." Under a blaze of chandeliers, in London's most fashionable club, Jack Kestrel is waiting. He hasn't come to enjoy the rich at play, he's there to uphold his family name. But first he has to get p...



  • D.M. Cornish

    BEING The Second Part of The Foundling's Tale Return to the Half-Continent! Rossamund Bookchild is one of the emperor's lamplighters, sworn to tend the lamps along the highways and protect travelers from the ferocious bogies that live in the wild. B...



  • Patricia Cornwell

    At Risk featured Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano, a shrewd man of mixed-race background and a not inconsiderable chip on his shoulder; District Attorney Monique Lamont, a hard-charging woman with powerful ambitions and a troubling willing...




  • Ralph Cotton

    While fast on the trail of a bloodthirsty group of Yuma jailbreakers, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is pitted against one of the most infamous criminal gangs ever to pull a heist in the West, the Hole-in-the-wall Gang. Original....



  • Cressida Cowell

    FIRE-DRAGON COLOR: Red and gold NASTY BITS: Flaming scales THREAT TO VIKINGS: Unknown, but severe burns are likely. Impossibly huge and seemingly made of fire, the extremely rare Fire-Dragon is rumored to live inside Volcanoes. The heat is on fo...



  • John Coyne

    Before there were titanium woods and graphite shafts, golf clubs were made from the wood of hickory trees and had intriguing names like cleek, mashie and jigger. Golf was a game played not with high-tech equipment but with skill, finesse, and creativ...



  • Richard Edward Crabbe

    A riveting tale of river piracy, gang wars, and the worst catastrophe to hit New York City before September 11, 2001In 1904 the Hudson and East Rivers were vital to the people of Manhattan. They offered families an escape from the squalor of the tene...



  • Amanda Craig

    Hidden by London’s wealth, energy and need for cheap labour, the city’s immigrant population is powerless, despised and often illegal. So when a young woman’s body is discovered on Hampstead Heath one cold morning, she could be anyone...Rich...



  • Donald Crews

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    Donald Crews, the Caldecott Honor artist and award-winning creator of Freight Train, Truck, and many other classic picture books for young children, writes of his own childhood experiences visiting his grandparents in Florida.

    Four African...



  • Carol Culver

    Spring has officially arrived at Manderley Prep??and lust is in the air? Ethan Andrews is the one guy that Maggie has always wanted but never had the courage to go for. With her shortage of funds and Ugly Betty looks, she?s not even a blip on ...



  • Patricia Cumbie

    I want to shake Rita. She thinks all the screwed-up things in the world are happening somewhere else. But bad things are happening right here. It's a routine Libby's used to by now: pack up, move, start over, repeat. This time it's to Rubberville...



  • Claudia Dain

    On the night of her debut two years ago, Lady Louisa Kirkland fell for the devilishly handsome Marquis of Dutton. It's high time, she's decided, that he realized he loves her in return. Also, there is the little matter of Louisa's family pearls, now ...



  • David Daniel

    When Tom Knowles returns to the Massachusetts town where he grew up to help sell the family house and move his widowed mother, he finds his high school class is having its thirtieth reunion. Without much interest, he attends, and finds his boyhood fr...



  • B.J. Daniels

    A PERFECT VISION IN A STETSON The gorgeous hunk of cowboy flesh had a name--Hank Monroe--and just about every woman in Whitehorse dreamed of being his match. So why would the newcomer want to date plain ol' Arlene Evans? His arrival was enough to ...



  • Maurice G. Dantec

    The first major English translation of one of France’s most admired writers, Cosmos Incorporated is a triumph of science fiction"a masterwork of cataclysm, mysticism, and suspense.Fifty years of warfare, disease, and strife have decimated the wor...



  • Lilian Darcy

    FROM SHY MOUSE -- TO MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE? When successful millionaire businessman Ben Radford first met Rowena, he thought her frosty and uptight. But once Rowena started designing his garden, he was determined to discover why she'd put u...



  • Laura Dave

    A novel about loyalty, loss, and the endurance of love On their 35th anniversary, Gwyn Huntington and her husband Thomas have invited friends and family to their Montauk home. Instead of celebrating their decades-long love, they are toasting their...



  • Peter David

    THE HERO WHO’S ALL THE RAGE

    Scientist Bruce Banner is desperately researching a tormenting mystery: himself. He must find the cure that will counteract a radioactive element inside his body that causes him to transform, when furious, into th...



  • Bryan Davis

    Sixteen-year-old Nathan Shepherd has a great life traveling where the careers of his father, an investigator, and mother, a renowned violinist, take him ... until his parents are found murdered. Left with only a mirror and notes from his father's las...



  • James P. Davis
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The past will come back to haunt them... A group of warriors from Rashemen escorts an exiled wizard to a ruined citadel in the City of Weeping Ghosts. Once there, the wizard discovers a barbarian tribe is trying to unlock the secrets of the citade...



  • Susan Page Davis

    A village plundered; lives torn apart. Richard Dudley will never forget the night Indians raided the small village of Cochecho, New Hampshire. In the five years since, not a day has gone by that he has not missed his brother and mourned the fate of h...



  • Geralyn Dawson

    He's a hired gunman with walls around his heart. She's a determined woman with trouble on her trail. They have a history they cannot deny, and an attraction they cannot control. What they need now is a run of good luck... Cursed by tragedy...



  • Mike Dawson

    High Fidelity meets Wayne’s World in this utterly charming graphic memoir about a young man’s life-long obsession with the rock band Queen.All of us have had that one band with which we identify, the band that was always there for us during good ...




  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an ...



  • Tom Defalco

    Caught in the middle of a war between the Black Tarantula and the Hobgoblin, Spider-Girl learns that there's a new Crimelord in town who claims to possess the secret files of Wilson Fisk, the former Kingpin of Crime. Plus: Celebrate the 10th-year ann...



  • Gideon Defoe

    After adventures with Charles Darwin, Captain Ahab, and Karl Marx, The Pirate Captain faces off against his toughest -- though not his biggest -- challenge yet: Napoleon Bonaparte. Bruised from a crushing disappointment at the Pirate of the Year...



  • Dejon

    When a well-planned robbery goes horribly wrong, igniting a backlash of murder, rape, and mayhem through the streets of Queens, Nathaniel Wilson, a.k.a. Ice, lands in an upstate New York prison where things quickly go from bad to worse. Reprint....



  • Ted Dekker

    Everyone tries to be God at some point in their lives, and this time it's Billos's turn. Turning his back on all that he once held precious, he enters the forbidden book and lands in a reality that is as foreign to him as water is to oil. A place cal...



  • Ted Dekker

    A FINAL QUEST AND AN ULTIMATE BETRAYAL Deep in the mountains of Romania stands a fortress, and deep within that fortress lies a chamber. In that chamber, ruling the dead for over two thousand years, lives one Shataiki bat straight from the bowels of...



  • Troy Denning

    In the epic battle between the defiant champions of the New Jedi Order and the juggernaut that is the Galactic Alliance, the endgame is finally at hand. With so much lost -- and nothing less than the course of the future at stake -- there can be no t...



  • Agnes Desarthe

    At forty-three, Myriam has been a wife, mother, and lover?but never a restauranteur. When she opens Chez Moi in a quiet neighborhood in Paris, she has no idea how to run a business, but armed only with her love of cooking, she is determined to try. B...



  • Sarah Dessen

    Ruby can take care of herself. She's used to counting on no one and answering to nobody. But all of that changes when her mother vanishes and Ruby is sent to live with her older sister, Cora. Now Ruby's got her own room in a fabulous new house, she'...



  • Jude Deveraux

    At age twelve, Cassandra Madden fell in love with Jefferson Ames, a young man she met at one of her mother's business conferences. For years, Cassandra held on to this unrequited love in order to cope with her loneliness and the pain of her mother's ...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    He's The Last Person She Ever Expected To Love... Josh Lorenz is the last man Diane Bittner wants for a neighbor--he's the holdout juror responsible for letting her husband's killer walk. But she finds herself outvoted when their preteen daughters...



  • William C. Dietz

    FBI Special Agent Christina Rossi needs an assist: she has a career in limbo and a personal life from hell. Tracking a Chinese mob slave labor operation runs concurrent with personal betrayals and a new love - former Navy Seal Jack Dexter, a real est...



  • Disney Book Group

    Quincy has found a harp, which plays a song that will open up a mysterious golden pyramid. The team makes it their mission to race to Egypt, and open the pyramid to find out who lives inside. Kids will have great fun accompanying the Little Einsteins...



  • Disney Book Group

    Magnetic fun with WALL-E! WALL-E is the only robot left on Earth. But when EVE comes to visit, everything changes. Suddenly WALL-E is headed to outer space! Kids will get to relive their favorite moments by placing twenty magnets on four scenes fr...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    ATAC Briefing for Agents Frank and Joe Hardy MISSION: To join the cast of a new reality show called Deprivation House - featuring a group of teens competing to see who can survive the longest without modern luxuries - and to determine who's behin...



  • Gregory Dixon

    In his quest for cash and beautiful women, Jamell White, a.k.a. Sugar Daddy, runs a game on some of the biggest hustlers on the Gulf Coast, including a psychotic drug dealer, a crooked cop, and a Puerto Rican cartel. Original....



  • Joshua Doder

    When Tim is followed home by a dog on the street, he's determined to find out who the friendly stray belongs to. But with a little investigating, Tim discovers that Grk's owners don't live in his town, or even in his country. Max and Natascha Raffifi...



  • Kamryn Donavan

    While other ten-year-old girls were marrying their Barbie dolls off to Ken and G.I. Joe, Monica's Barbie had her pink Corvette all packed, ready to do things solo. It was around this age when her father had walked out on the family, leaving her mothe...



  • Emma Donoghue

    Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of her once-dear friend, the unhappily wed ...



  • Anne Douglas

    The new saga from the well-loved Scottish storyteller - The girl from Wish Lane is Eva Masson, brought up in poverty in 1920s Dundee, who falls in love with Nicholas North, son of the local mill owner. But things are not easy for Eva and she must fac...



  • Sara Douglass

    Tencendor is no more. The land is gone. But a few SunSoars remain, and a new foe walks the world. In a time of magic and danger, three new heroes have stepped forward--Ishbel Brunelle, priestess of the Serpent Coil; Isaiah, the Tyrant of Isembaar...



  • David Downing

    Summer, 1939. British journalist John Russell has just been granted American citizenship in exchange for agreeing to work for American intelligence when his girlfriend Effi is arrested by the Gestapo. Russell hoped his new nationality would let him s...



  • Wick Downing

    When she was not yet a teenager, Kate Hope started "reading law" in the office of "Judge" Hope, her half-blind grandfather, a grumpy eighty-nine-year-old lawyer with problems. One big problem is that he believes in justice for all, not just those who...



  • Carol Drinkwater

    THE HUNGER is the exciting tale of a girl swept up in the fight for a free and fair Ireland, set at the time of the Potato Famine. It's 1845, and blight has destroyed the precious potato crop leaving Ireland starving. Phyllis works hard to support he...



  • Glen Ebisch

    UNFINISHED MURDER Reports of a sea monster lurking in the waters of a New England lake lure journalists Amanda Vickers and Marcie Ducasse to West Windham, Maine -- and into a story involving murder. A wealthy widower holds a seance hoping to identif...



  • Cynthia Eden

    In her sexy and suspenseful new novel, Cynthia Eden introduces readers to a seductive world where powerful night creatures ignite dark, dangerous hungers... Dr. Emily Drake's patients tend to be a little unusual. Instead of the typical therapist's ...



  • Pamela Duncan Edwards

    This is the wood that was hauled up to the branch that held the treehouse that Jack and Jill built.

    From hammering the first boards of wood to hanging the roof and the light, come follow along with Jack and Jill as they build a new treehouse...



  • Selma Eichler

    Is truth stranger than fiction? Her love affair with her boyfriend, Nick, is in jeopardy, and her career is in free fall. So when full-figured Manhattan PI Desiree Shapiro is invited to speak at a mystery writers' convention in Connecticut, she fi...



  • Dorothy Elbury

    Miss Jessica Beresford is headstrong, impetuous and poorly-dowered. Benedict Ashcroft, Earl of Wyvern, knows he should steer well clear of her, no matter how dazzling her beauty. His late brother has seemingly lost the family fortune, and Ben's l...



  • Mary Engelbreit

    All your favorite Mother Goose rhymes!

    Hey, diddle diddle! The Cat and the Fiddle, Humpty Dumpty, Little Miss Muffet, and other popular Mother Goose rhymes are featured in this enchanting collection. It's the perfect introduction to classic ...



  • John R. Erickson

    Everyone knows that a dog’s gotta chew what a dog’s gotta chew. But when Hank’s doggie urges have him chomping on plastic -- including Little Alfred’s toy truck -- Hank knows he’s got to get things under control. Then Beulah -- the long-ea...



  • Kjell Eriksson

    In The Demon of Dakar, Ann Lindell and her motley crew of colleagues are faced with a most baffling murder case in which all clues lead straight back to a popular local restaurant named Dakar. The owner, Slobodan Andersson, has some shady connections...




  • Miyuki Eto

    REVENGE BECOMES HER

    The Hell Girl is the ultimate avenger. Go to her website at midnight, enter the name of your tormentor, and the Hell Girl will destroy your enemy. Some who turn to the Hell Girl are evil (the figure skater who’ll stop at ...



  • Mary Anna Evans

    Faye Longchamp is overjoyed to be back home, being paid to do archaeological work she would have done anyway--excavating a site once owned by her own family. That joy ends abruptly when intruders break into a dear friend's palatial house and leave hi...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm must stem a gold rush -- with lead.Longarm heads out to Montazuma, New Mexico, where town authorities are dropping like flies. Without a mayor, marshal, or murder suspect, the town seems to have a curse on men of distinction -- and with Vice ...



  • Pamela Binnings Ewen

    It is the dazzling decade, the 1920s, and a beautiful young singer is torn between her fierce desire for independence--to create something of her own to give meaning and purpose to her life--and a deep abiding love for her husband, a medical missiona...



  • Jennifer Fallon

    The gods of legend rise again as the tide rolls in... When a routine hanging goes wrong and a murderer somehow survives the noose, the man announces he is an immortal. And not just any immortal, but Cayal, the Immortal Prince, hero of legend, though...



  • Terri Farley

    When an earthquake sets off a tsunami on the shores of Wild Horse Island, the mustangs of Crimson Vale are chased by the waves and left stranded on a dangerous hilltop.

    Darby knows the lead mare, Medusa, will do anything to save her herd -- ...



  • John Farris

    Eden Waring is an Avatar, possessing astounding psychic abilities . . . and destined to fight an ancient evil. Her battles against Mordaunt, the ageless Dark Side of God, have been many, but the war is far from over. She destroyed Mordaunt's human bo...



  • Sebastian Faulks

    Bond is back in this electrifying new novel of intrigue and suspense. A masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy, Devil May Care picks up right where Ian Fleming left off -- at the height of the Cold War, with a story of almost unbearable ten...



  • Thea Feldman

    Learning to count has never been more fun!  Developed with early childhood education specialists, this beautifully illustrated volume introduces preschoolers to early math learning concepts.  Bonus math manipulatives are included to help preschoole...



  • Andrew J. Fenady

    No mission is too dangerous as long as the cause--and the money--are right. Four soldiers of fortune, along with a beautiful woman, have crossed the Mexican border to dig up five million dollars in buried gold. But between the Trespassers and their t...



  • Monica Ferrell

    This darkly exuberant debut novel--by turns a fierce, funny coming -of-age story and a teasing work of literary suspense--traces the precipitous rise and fall of a teenage impresario at the zenith of the New York club scene. Matthew Acciaccatura ...



  • Jean Ferris

    Since Queen Olympia's fateful fall into the river, newlyweds Christian and Marigold have been living happily ever after. And they had every intention of keeping it that way--until they find out that Olympia may not be as gone as they thought. Turns...




  • Carol Finch

    THE PROPER LADY AND THE GUNFIGHTER! Alexa Quinn wanted much more from life than a society wedding. She was determined to make her busy father see her true worth. So when secrets and lies threatened the good work he was doing, Alexa seized her chan...



  • Charlie Fletcher

    Now that George Chapman has upset the fragile truce between the warring statues of London, he has been drawn into a war that will test his mettle. He and Edie, a glint who can see the past, may have succeeded in their quest to find the Stoneheart, bu...



  • Meredith Fletcher

    YEARS AGO SHE'D SWORN REVENGE ON ATHENA ACADEMY Shannon Connor has begun to question the information she's uncovered about the prestigious school that wrongfully expelled her. Who is the mysterious source feeding her such explosive intel? Finding th...



  • Eric Flint; Marilyn Kosmatka

    THE DEADLIEST PREDATORS OF THREE SEPARATE EONS Captain Mark Stephens was overseeing the change of shifts at the state of Illinois' maximum-security prison when the world outside was suddenly ripped. They thought it was an earthquake until they fou...