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  • Summer Girls

    Hailey Abbott

    In SUMMER BOYS, Beth, Ella, and Kelsi ruled Pebble Beach. Now it's time for 3 new girls to rock the summer. JESSICA: Liam is the cutest guy I've ever seen and he loves the beach as much as I do. So how do I show him I'd make a better girlfriend t...

  • Crown of Wizards

    Tony Abbott

    A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon!Has Eric gone bad for good? The young wizard has joined forces with the villainous Moon Dragon, Gethwing, to seek out a magical artifact that will give them untold power.Keeah, Julie, Ne...

  • Nova Vol. 4: Nova Corps

    Dan Abnett

    Collects Nova #19-22. Could it be --the return of the Nova Corps? Will things ever be the same for Richard Rider? What is the Worldmind up to, and what will it mean for the future of the Human Rocket and the Nova Corps itself?!...

  • The Quest

    Mary Abshire

    Project Eve, #2 Retribution. At any cost. Now that she knows her name and what she is, she wants justice for everything she's lost. Though her memories elude her, she takes a job for a half-demon Senator and, aided by werewolves from a local clan, in...

  • Who Made You a Princess?

    Shelley Adina

    Shani Hanna returns to Spencer Academy for her senior year after an amazing summer spent with her friends Lissa, Gillian, and Carly. But the best part about summer was meeting Danyel Johnstone. Danyel is cute, smart, cool, and super nice. All Shani h...

  • A Necklace of Raindrops and Other Stories

    Joan Aiken

    Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There’s a flying apple pie, a cat that’s bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, a...

  • Negima! Volume 22

    Ken Akamatsu

    NEW TEACHER

    To help his students get home from the Magical World, Negi must become a more powerful wizard"and fast. Just when he’s beginning to doubt himself, he meets Rakan, his father’s old friend and rival. Rakan is an awesome wizard,...

  • Spider-Man J: Japanese Daze

    Yamanaka Akira

    Fresh from Japan... Spider-Man J! Originally published only overseas, Spider-Man J enjoyed a large following of loyal readers. Now, fans here can enjoy Spidey's manga-styled adventures, as well - collected for the first time in America and translated...

  • Siren's Secret

    Trish Albright

    Lady Olivia Yates enjoyed a wide array of scholarly pursuits. And she had an astounding vocabulary to prove it. Thanks to her archaeologist father, she also knew just about everything there was to know of ancient Egyptian artifacts -- including a cod...

  • Bad Girls Don't Die

    Katie Alender

    Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage; her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude. When a family fight results i...

  • Secret Agenda

    Rochelle Alers

    On paper, Vivienne Neal had a lifestyle most people would envy. Only she knows what a sham her marriage really was. So when her politician husband is killed in a hit-and-run accident, she moves to Florida and takes a job as a personal assistant to Di...

  • Backstabbers

    Rahsaan Ali

    Arrogant model Tracy Kane finds his life taking a dangerous turn when his boss, designer Christian Elijah, involves him in a deal with two ruthless African killers who have concocted a plot against New York City police officers that involves sending ...

  • Disrobed and Dishonored

    Louise Allen

    Hidden behind a mask, Jonathan Kirkland, Lord Redcliffe, has disguised himself as a highwayman to win a wager: to collect kisses from the first five women who pass. With only one kiss left, victory seems easy...until he encounters Miss Sarah Tatton, ...

  • Man Corn Murders

    Lou Allin

    In the rugged, red-rock desert of southeastern Utah, reporter Terry Hart and her aunt travel in their RV to explore the Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument, a 1.7 million acre wilderness. Following a historic Mormon road to the Colorado, they...

  • The Dead Drop

    Jennifer Allison

    For psychic investigator Gilda Joyce, a summer internship at the Washington, D.C., International Spy Museum gives her the perfect opportunity to sport her vintage spywear, cavort with real C.I.A. agents, and expand her knowledge of gadgetry and surve...

  • Hell's Aquarium

    Steve Alten

    The Philippine Sea Plate... the deepest, most unexplored realm on the planet. Hidden beneath its ancient crust lies the remains of the Panthalassa, an ocean that dates back 220 million years. Vast and isolated, the Panthalassa in inhabited by nightma...

  • The Marine's Babies

    Laura Marie Altom

    Captain Jace Monroe goes from combat duty to daddy detail when twin babies in identical pink blankets are left on his doorstep. Suddenly the overwhelmed new father has a mission: rounding up a nanny for the daughters he hadn't known he had! Enter ...

  • Hired: The Italian's Bride

    Donna Alward

    Mariella Ross has built a new life for herself at the Fiori Cascade hotel, and she isn't going to allow the new owner's devil-may-care attitude to disrupt her hard work! Even if Luca Fiori's laid-back charm and infectious smile are giving her butterf...

  • Enemies & Allies

    Kevin J. Anderson

    As America and the Soviet Union race to build their nuclear stockpiles, two extraordinary heroes must form an uneasy alliance. These studies in opposites--shadow and light--must overcome their distrust of each other to battle evil and injustice. ...

  • No Such Thing as the Real World

    M.T. Anderson

    Graduation from high school? A senior thesis? A betrayal by someone you love? A loss of innocence? The death of a parent? Losing the family you always wished you had? Facing a harsh reality? What's the line that separates ...

  • Sacrifice

    Alex Archer

    Bearers of the sword On assignment in the Philippines, archaeologist Annja Creed meets with a contact to verify some information. Easy enough. But when the man doesn't turn out to be whom he said he was, Annja finds herself handcuffed, blindfolded...

  • Kissing The Man Next Door

    Devon Vaughn Archer

    Hairstylist Mackenzie Reese is feeling fabulous and free! Her teenage son has gone cross-country to live with her ex, so Mackenzie's got a new lease on life--no men, no kids, no problem! Then sexy disc jockey Ian Kelly moves in next door...and it's m...

  • Good-Bye, We Must Be Staying

    Mandy Archer

    Livingstone does not like what he sees in Animalia: The animals are growling at one another and their animal instincts are taking over! Luckily Alex and Zoe are around to help . . . if they don't get eaten first!...

  • Inukami!

    Mamizu Arisawa

    A wacky love comedy about a boy and his dog-goddess.It,"s a night of wild binge drinking as the Inukami gang get hammered and find themselves making wishes to a genie in a bottle. But where there,"s Inukami trainers and alcohol, hilarity and ...

  • Green Wilma, Frog in Space

    Tedd Arnold

    Wilma's parents don't know quite what to do when their daughter wakes up green and requests bugs for breakfast. At school, Wilma's teachers are appalled by her unusually colorful antics. Wherever Wilma goes, surprises await herand readers of this irr...

  • Diamond Star

    Catherine Asaro

    I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL Del Valdoria was an heir of the Ruby Dynasty, rulers of the interstellar empire called the Skolian Imperialate. But he just wanted to sing holo-rock -- not a respectable activity for a Ruby prince. To make things more complicat...

  • The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie

    Jennifer Ashley

    It was whispered all through London Society that he was a murderer, that he'd spent his youth in an asylum and was not to be trusted -- especially with a lady. Any woman caught in his presence was immediately ruined. Yet Beth found herself inexor...

  • Shadow Box

    James Axler

    The collapse of the hybrid-ruled baronies offers a glimmer of hope for an Earth free from the shackles of the alien race that has subjugated humankind since the dawn of time. But the Annunaki threat remains ominous. For the Cerberus rebels, safeguard...

  • Black Eagle

    Gen Bailey

    With the English and the French at each other's throats, struggling for control of the North American continent, the battle lines have been drawn, changing forever the fates of a Mohawk warrior and a desperate woman on the run. After Marisa Jameso...

  • First Family

    David Baldacci

    It began with what seemed like an ordinary children's birthday party. Friends and family gathered to celebrate. There were balloons and cake, games and gifts. This party, however, was far from ordinary. It was held at Camp David, the presidential...

  • Seducing an Angel

    Mary Balogh

    He is to be wealthy, wellborn, and want her more than he wants any other woman. Those are the conditions that must be met by the man Cassandra Belmont will choose as her lover. Marriage is out of the question for the scandalous widow who must now bar...

  • Eternal Craving

    Nina Bangs

    Lies. He's been promised a new life as the hunter he once was. But Al soon learns that all the rules have changed. Now he must control his most basic urges--the need to kill, to feed, to mate. And the woman he wants looks at him with both heat and fe...

  • Billionaire Extraordinaire

    Leanne Banks

    Mr. May: Damien Medici, uberbillionaire Mission: Revenge...through any means Method: Seduction, of course! Finally he could avenge his family. And the key to achieving all Damien desired lay in the hands of his sweet new secretary, Emma Weatherfield...

  • The Tycoon's Rebel Bride // The Bride

    Maya Banks

    "I don't suppose you saved me a dance?" Tycoon Theron Anetakis had only one problem--and she just walked through his door. With his business takeover complete, he'd intended to arrange a marriage for himself to further secure his future. However.....

  • David Inside Out

    Lee Bantle

    David Dahlgren, a high-school senior, finds solace in running with the track team; he's a fast runner, and he enjoys the camaraderie. But team events become a source of tension when he develops a crush on one of his teammates, Sean. Scared to admit h...

  • Over My Dead Body

    Michele Bardsley

    Reality truly does bite. With my ex-husband out of my life after attempting murder (on me!), and my little daughter, Glory, having not uttered a word since that awful night, Broken Heart, Oklahoma, seems like the perfect sanctuary for us. And I, Sim...

  • The Killings on Jubilee Terrace

    Robert Barnard

    Vernon Watts may have been beloved by the millions of faithful viewers of the long-running soap opera Jubilee Terrace but his fellow cast members knew him for what he was -- an egotistical former music-hall performer whose untimely death in a pedestr...

  • Shadow Valley

    Steven Barnes

    Thirty thousand years ago, in the shadow of Kilimanjaro . . . Since the beginning of time, the peaceful Ibandi people had been sheltered by their god-mountains, Great Earth and Great Sky. When the savage Mk*tk threatened their way of life, their g...

  • His 7-Day Fiancee

    Gail Barrett

    No one plays nice in Sin City After being falsely accused of murder, mega-billionaire Luke Montgomery couldn't afford more scandal. Especially if he wanted to clinch his plan to crush rival magnate Harold Rothchild. However, when the handsome high r...

  • Summer at the Lake

    Linda Barrett

    A time to heal Kristin McCarthy hears him before she sees him. The melody of his saxophone glides across the summer night. The music's healing effect on her daughter has Kristin seeking the person who can play so beautifully. Too bad Rick Cooper is ...

  • A Love All Her Own

    Janet Lee Barton

    Socialite Abigail has always gotten what she wants. So when the plans for her nuptials go down in flames, she simply cannot stay in Eureka Springs. Bitter, angry, and humiliated, Abigail searches for somewhere to go. When Marcus receives a telegra...

  • The Brothers Boswell

    Philip E. Baruth

    The year is 1763.Twenty-two-year-old James Boswell of Edinburgh is eager to advance himself in London society. Today his sights are set on furthering his acquaintance with Dr. Samuel Johnson, famed for his Dictionary; they are going to take a boat ac...

  • Major Westhaven's Unwilling Ward

    Emily Bascom

    Lily is horrified to learn her late brother has placed her under the guardianship of brooding Major Daniel Westhaven! He's insufferably rude and arrogant, and clearly disapproves of her -- so why does Lily find herself longing for his touch? B...

  • A Flash of Hex

    Jes Battis

    In our line of work, there were demons and necromancers, and then there were...other things. Older things without names that you didn't ever want to meet. I swallowed a lump in my throat, knowing I was in the presence of evil... As an Occult Special...

  • Timecurse

    Tom Becker

    A notorious Darkside criminal is missing. And it's up to Jonathan to catch him In the midst of a bloodthirsty power struggle, Jonathan must find out the secret of a mysterious watch - and avoid getting killed while he does it. Along the way, he'll fi...

  • Tango

    Eileen Beha

    Tango lives the good life-a silver charm for his dog collar, a luxurious doggy bed, even tailor-made booties for walks in Central Park. Then, when his owners sail into stormy waters, the little Yorkie goes overboard! Washing up on an island far from ...

  • Three Fifty Seven A.M.

    Kendra Bellamy

    Essie Mae Richardson is an elderly, wise, and church-going soul. She lives alone, but spends most of her time worrying about those around her. Using God's guidance and wisdom picked up over the years, she keeps an eye on things happening around her a...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection - Book 2

    Brian Michael Bendis

    After being bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker develops superpowers and discovers the responsibilities that go along with them after his uncle is murdered, prompting him to use his abilities to fight crime....

  • A New Beginning

    Sue Bentley

    Lily loves working at Greengates Riding Stables, but she can't help feeling sad that she doesn't have her own pony. Or even her own pet. But when Storm, a golden retriever with sparkling midnight-blue eyes, magically appears, she can't believe it. A ...

  • Miss Harper Can Do It

    Jane Berentson

    A winning debut novel about what happens when a young woman finds her life on hold Twenty-four-year-old elementary school teacher Annie Harper is left behind in Tacoma, Washington, when her boyfriend David, an army lieutenant, is shipped overseas....

  • Home Safe

    Elizabeth Berg

    The bestselling author of The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted and The Year of Pleasures returns with a wonderful novel about a woman, a daughter, and a surprising change in life Beloved author Elizabeth Berg tells the story of the recently widowed Hel...

  • The Shards of Alara

    Doug Beyer

    Once upon a time, the plane of Alara was shattered into five planes, each distinctly populated with relative mono-magical culture that reflects each of the five colors. Now, the planes are beginning to realign and merge once more. As nefarious for...

  • Library of Shadows

    Mikkel Birkegaard

    Imagine that some people have the power to affect your thoughts and feelings when you read, or they read a book to you. They can seduce you with amazing stories, conjure up vividly imagined worlds, but also manipulate you into thinking exactly what t...

  • The Lancelot Murders

    J.M.C. Blair

    When Lancelot is accused of murdering Queen Guenevere's father, she begs Merlin to prove his innocence. Though inclined to leave the faithless knight to his fate, Merlin risks his very life to find the truth at King Arthur's bidding....

  • Blood Groove

    Alex Bledsoe

    When centuries-old vampire Baron Rudolfo Zginski was staked in Wales in 1915, the last thing he expected was to reawaken in Memphis, Tennessee, sixty years later. Reborn into a new world of simmering racial tensions, the cunning nosferatu realizes he...

  • Friend or Fiend? With the Pain and the Great One

    Judy Blume

    What's the difference between a friend and a fiend? Jake is so embarrassed by a reading circle blunder, he vows never to speak in class again. Abigail believes she can no longer trust one of her best friends. Their teenage cousins have turned int...

  • Final Finesse

    Karna Small Bodman

    Samantha Reid, the White House Deputy Director for Homeland Security, deals with national security threats on a daily basis. When a natural-gas pipeline explodes in America's heartland, she senses pending disaster and tries to convince reluctant offi...

  • Take My Place

    Beate Boeker

    Maren has one big goal in life; she wants to keep her independence. Her life is full to the brim with her two roles: being a single mom and owning the recently founded Start-Up Company. Men, she figures, are too exhausting to add to the mix; after al...

  • Perforated Heart

    Eric Bogosian

    Almost forty years after moving to Manhattan, author Richard Morris has achieved if not stratospheric renown then at least the accomplished career and caliber of fame that he envisioned for himself as a younger man. Now financially comfortable and ar...

  • The Eden Project

    John Bolin

    Anthropologist Alex Forsythe spent three years studying a remote tribe in the Amazon jungle when they mysteriously vanished without a trace. Months later, a teenage girl from the tribe turns up babbling about a horrifying place her people had been t...

  • Hedge Fund Wives

    Tatiana Boncompagni

    In this amazingly timely story about what the wealthy do when Wall Street lays an egg, the author of Gilding Lily once again delivers a witty and insightful treatment of today's woman, as she explores the sacrifices they make, the bargains they strik...

  • Cold Choices

    Larry Bond

    Following the events Jerry Mitchell encountered in Dangerous Ground, the pilot-turned-submarine officer is now a department head, the navigator, aboard USS Seawolf. Now on a mission deep in the Barents Sea, north of Russia, Seawolf explores the sea f...

  • 5 Bodies To Die For

    Stephanie Bond

    The Charmed Killer is on the loose in Atlanta and Carlotta Wren is caught up in the terror--especially when her body-moving side business brings her dangerously close to the action. And then... She's forced to take refuge in her former fiance's...

  • Falling from Fire

    Teena Booth

    High school freshman Teri Dinsmore is a nobody. Daughter of the oft-married “Best Lookin’ Gal in Town,” younger sister of a popular member of the “rowdies,” her only real friend is the rumpled, eccentric Wesley.Then a fire, indirectly cause...

  • Playing Dead

    Tim Bowler

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

  • Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress

    Elizabeth Boyle

    What if all you have are the memories of a rake... ...and the scandalous red dress that nearly brought you to ruin? Reminders of the kisses he stole? Or his seductive, rakish smile as he charmed his way into your bed, stole your innocence and your...

  • He Calls Her Doc

    Mary Brady

    Doctor, heal thyself? Maude DeVane is home in Montana to prove to the set-in-their-ways townsfolk that she's the doctor they need. What she doesn't need is an arrogant E.R. physician competing on her own turf. Especially if he's Guy Daley. Five...

  • Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile

    Gyles Brandreth

    Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s on a roller coaster of a lecture tour. But the adventure doesn't truly begin until Oscar boards an ocean liner headed back across the Atlantic ...

  • .45-Caliber Widow Maker

    Peter Brandvold

    "When you know how to use a .45, there are times when you can't very well not use it..." Cuno Massey is determined to start a new, peaceful life. But when he comes across a prison wagon under attack, he can't just ride on. A gang of outlaws is hell-...

  • Darkwood

    M.E. Breen

    Darkness falls so quickly in Howland that the people there have no word for evening. But for thirteen-yearold Annie, the dark is almost soothing compared to the misery of her cruel aunt and uncle's house. When Annie finally escapes, she finds hers...

  • Fatal Secrets

    Allison Brennan

    DEADLY QUEST When a top lieutenant in a notorious ring of human traffickers agrees to turn state's evidence, Immigration and Customs Enforcement senior agent Sonia Knight believes she'll finally take down the illegal operation's devilish mastermi...

  • The Red Squad

    E.M. Broner

    E.M. Broner brings us a wonderfully comic and moving novel about the interwoven lives of a group of restless Midwestern grad students in the 1960s. Forty years later, gray-haired and spread around the country, they learn that they were under surveill...

  • Pushin' Up Daisies

    Carolyn Brown

    Catherine O'Shea is the oldest and most responsible of the three O'Shea sisters. She has just buried her mother, one of the last victims of the flu epidemic of 1918. Her father had been one of the first to succumb to the flu and her fiance was killed...

  • What Would Jane Austen Do?

    Laurie Brown

    WHEN A MODERN WOMAN GOES BACK TO JANE AUSTEN'S TIME, SHE NEEDS TO KNOW... Everything! Eleanor agrees to travel back in time to prevent a deadly duel, but she doesn't know how to behave, what to say, and most importantly... HOW TO TELL A V...

  • The Great Scavenger Hunt

    Annie Bryant

    Great new adventures in the bestselling series from Aladdin M!X! Just in time for summer reading, Aladdin M!X offers two brand-new Beacon Street Girls books. In The Great Scavenger Hunt, the BSG and their classmates discover some exciting surp...

  • Kaleidoscope Eyes

    Jen Bryant

    Will Lyza's 1968 summer mystery lead to . . . pirate treasure? When Lyza helps her dad clean out her late grandfather's house, a mysterious surprise brightens the sad task. In Gramps's dusty attic, Lyza discovers three maps, carefully folded and s...

  • Make You Mine

    Niobia Bryant

    Can two strangers make that lovin' feelin' last? Three months after a first date that ended in a night of explosive passion, Caress Coleman and Julius Jones find themselves somewhere between roommates with benefits and true love. She's smart, beaut...

  • Losing Mum and Pup

    Christopher Buckley

    In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorf...

  • The Everafter War

    Michael Buckley

    FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE MASTER! After two years trapped in enchanted sleep, Daphne and Sabrina's parents are finally free. Unfortunately, they've awoken to chaos in Ferryport Landing. Prince Charming and his band of rebels are in hiding, plotting war ...

  • Gold of Kings

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Will she decipher the mysteries leading to the sacred relic, or be defeated by the foes racing to claim it and destroy her? A dealer in art and antiquities, Storm Syrrell arranges her life as she does her work -- into neat, orderly categories. But w...

  • The Vast Fields of Ordinary

    Nick Burd

    It's Dade's last summer at home. He has a crappy job at Food World, a "boyfriend" who won't publicly acknowledge his existence (maybe because Pablo also has a girlfriend), and parents on the verge of a divorce. College is Dade's shining beacon of pos...

  • Behind the Bit

    Jessica Burkhart

    In Chasing Blue, Sasha and her horse, Charm, have proven that they’re worthy competitors for the elite Canterwood Crest equestrian team. Things are definitely looking up . . . until Sasha finds out who her riding partner for the semester is: her ar...

  • Burning Alive

    Shannon K. Butcher

    They are the Sentinels. Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn. Now one warrior must fight his own desire if he is to dis...

  • The Magicians' Daughter

    S.C. Butler

    In Reiffen's Choice we learned how Reiffen chose magic. In Queen Ferris, we learned what he did with his magic. In The Magicians' Daughter, we learn what his magic does to him. Ten years have passed since Ferris, Reiffen, and Avender raised...

  • The Children's Book

    A.S. Byatt

    Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each, she writes a private book, bound in its own colour and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh the children play in a storybook worl...

  • Edge Of Danger

    Rhyannon Byrd

    Saige Buchanan travels the world studying her dark past, guided by a strange gift that enables physical objects to tell her their secrets. Yet nothing can protect her from her family's sadistic enemies. Until--in her hour of greatest need--she encoun...

  • Sleepaway Girls

    Jen Calonita

    When Sam Montgomery's best friend gets her first boyfriend, she's not ready to spend the summer listening to the two of them call each other "pookie." Sick of being a third wheel, Sam applies to be a counselor-in-training at Whispering Pines camp in ...

  • Critical Care

    Candace Calvert

    After her brother dies in a trauma room, nurse Claire Avery can no longer face the ER. She's determined to make a fresh start--new hospital, new career in nursing education--move forward, no turning back. But her plans fall apart when she's called to...

  • The Frightened Man

    Kenneth Cameron

    London in 1900 is a sprawling, chaotic web of change and expansion, perfect for a man like Denton, an American with a violent past seeking anonymity as an outsider. But his notoriety as the author of several dark novels--and the well-known story that...

  • While My Pretty One Knits

    Anne Canadeo

    They are a tight-knit bunch... The Black Sheep Knitters -- Maggie, Lucy, Dana, Suzanne, and Phoebe -- meet once a week without fail, sharing the varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as knitting tips, recipes, and small-town gossip, and ...

  • A Trace of Smoke

    Rebecca Cantrell

    Hardened crime reporter Hannah Vogel knows all too well how tough it is to survive in 1931 Berlin. Still, she is devastated when she sees a photograph of her brother's body in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead. Ernst, a cross-dressing lounge singer, had ...

  • Last Dance on Holladay Street

    Elisa Carbone

    The year is 1878, and 13-year-old Eva has lost all the family she’s ever known. Eva feels like an orphan -- but she’s not. Sadie Lewis, the woman who gave her up at birth, is alive and well in Denver. And Eva sets out to find her, carrying only a...

  • Sloane Sisters

    Anna Carey

    Style. Sabotage. Sisterhood. When Cate and Andie Sloane's Upper East Side dad met Stella and Lola Childs's British-model mom, nobody thought a transatlantic relationship would last. But then their parents drop the M-bomb--marriage--and it looks l...

  • Santa Olivia

    Jacqueline Carey

    Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth. Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US milita...

  • The Dark Planet

    Patrick Carman

    In the dazzling conclusion to the epic story of Atherton, Patrick Carman takes readers on the most rewarding journey of all, to the perilous realm of The Dark Planet: Earth. When Edgar discovers a way to leave the mysterious satellite world of Ath...

  • The Reckoning

    Michael Carroll

    Not long ago the world thought its superhumans dead after a great battle wiped out heroes and villains alike. Now, new heroes--and new villains-- have miraculously emerged in the form of teenagers. The new heroes find themselves on the cusp of WWIII,...

  • Interrogating The Bride

    Carla Cassidy

    Former navy SEAL Micah Stone could spot danger a mile away. And the alluring bride who'd stowed away on the plane he'd been sent to repossess set off every red flag in the book. Caylee Warren claimed she had nothing to do with her "fiance's" murder. ...

  • Wild Highland Magic

    Kendra Leigh Castle

    SHE'S A SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS WEREWOLF, BUT NO ONE'S EVER SHOWN HER HOW TO USE HER POWERS... Growing up in America with a father who hates his own nature, Catrionna Machines has always tried desperately to control her powers and pretend to be normal. N...

  • Murder in the Raw

    C.S. Challinor

    When beautiful French actress Sabine Durand mysteriously disappears, Rex Graves flies to the Caribbean paradise of St. Martin to investigate. But no one told the Scottish barrister that the island's white sand beaches would be filled with people walk...

  • Darkness Under Heaven

    F.J. Chase

    "HEROISM IS HAVING TO DO SOMETHING DRASTIC TO KEEP FROM GETTING KILLED." That's what security consultant Pete Avakian tells his dinner date, Dr. Judy Rose, on a night out in Beijing. Little does he know that his words are about to be illustrated in ...

  • Spot It!

    Delphine Chedru

    This stylish, unusual search-and-find picture book features fifteen animals and one farmer hidden in sixteen abstract designs. Following clues in the brief text, readers must search out the hidden creature in each spread, often disguised in clever an...

  • Hello Goodbye

    Emily Chenoweth

    A heartbreaking, beautifully-crafted debut novel about friendship, loyalty, and growing up--tracing a dying woman's final vacation with her family at a lavish New England resort The summer after Abby Hansen's first year of college, several months ...

  • Kiss the Sky

    Farai Chideya

    From political commentator, book author, and multimedia personality Farai Chideya comes an intense and darkly funny debut novel about a woman who learns what you stand to gain -- and lose -- if you follow your dreams of fame. Sophie Maria Clare Le...

  • Gone Tomorrow

    Lee Child

    New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn't. And if you think Reacher isn't going to get involved ... then you don't know Jack. Susan Mark, the fifth pass...

  • Once a Hero

    Lisa Childs

    Taking a bullet meant for someone else made Kent Terlecki a hero in the eyes of his fellow detectives. But Erin Powell doesn't see a brave cop--only the man who put her brother in jail. When the justice-seeking reporter enrolls in the Lakewood Citize...

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 21

    CLAMP

    FAI THE CURSED!

    Fai’s secret past is revealed in horrific detail, and all his lies laid bare. Now Fai must face the rage of Kurogane, and the one person who showed Fai kindness as a child is now his mortal enemy. Can Fai survive Kurogane, As...

  • Gambit Classic - Volume 1

    Chris Claremont

    Pagin' the Ragin' Cajun! When Storm is reverted to a teenage mutant thief, she's rescued by fellow felon Gambit in his first appearance! But befriending even one X-Man means making enemies like the Shadow King, Orphan-Maker, and the Hounds! After joi...

  • X-Men: Proteus

    Chris Claremont

    Collects Uncanny X-Men #125-128, Classic X-Men #32-33 and 36. One of the X-Men's greatest allies must face her darkest secret when a child born of violence bends reality to his whims! The paranormal Proteus battles the X-Men in body and soul, shaking...

  • New Exiles - Volume 3: The Enemy Within

    Chris Claremont

    Sabretooth and Cat finish their face-off against Madame Hydra and her evil band of crosstime killers. Then, the Exiles deal with the fallout of their last two missions... oh, and that pesky impending End of All that Is, the death and destruction of t...

  • New Exiles - Volume 4: Away We Go

    Chris Claremont

    In a world where dinosaurs and humans fight side by side to ensure global security, an invading alien force threatens to destroy all that they have accomplished. But the aliens' objective is not to destroy this world - it is only a means to their tru...

  • Embrace the Grim Reaper

    Judy Clemens

    Casey Maldonados life is over at least as she knows it. In one brief moment of fire and wrenching metal, everything important was gone. Casey is done. No financial gain or courtroom retribution will bring back what really matters. So she packs up, pu...

  • Martyr

    Rory Clements

    In this ingenious debut, Rory Clements introduces John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England's most remarkable investigator, and delivers a tale of murder and conspiracy that succeeds brilliantly as both historical fiction and a crime thriller. In a b...

  • By Whose Hand

    Sandra Carey Cody

    When Preston Barrons hands Jennie Connors the key to Barrons Bank and Trust Company and asks her to pay a 2 a.m. visit, her instinct screams 'give them back!' But how can she, when her paycheck depends on finding out who made an unauthorized transfer...

  • Neptune Avenue

    Gabriel Cohen

    "If we took it all personally," Brooklyn South homicide detective Jack Leightner tells his rookie NYPD partner, "there's no way we could do the job." Very soon, though, that notion gets shot to hell, as the deeply principled cop hears about the...

  • Waiting For You

    Susane Colasanti

    DEREK Friendly & popular Style: Cali surfer boy Awesome at flirting Future career: landscape architect Boyfriend potential: HIGH NASH Shy but sweet Style: Totally geeked out Only talks to girls when forced to Future career: robotics engin...

  • The Dopeman's Wife

    JaQuavis Coleman

    Once the streets pull you in, they own you. Or at least that's the way it's been for Nautica. Growing up in the ‘hood, all she's ever known is the fast life--fast money ill-gotten through scandals and relentless scheming. But when a big scam nearly...

  • Prelude

    William Coles

    Seventeen-year-old Kim is a student at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College-crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears ...

  • Maxxed Out

    David Collins

    Just when we really need it, a scathingly funny novel that skewers the ego-driven, morally bankrupt world of The Big Deal Billionaire Robert Maxx is a king in the world of real estate. Prestigious buildings bear his name, the press treats him lik...

  • Her Ladyship's Companion

    Evangeline Collins

    A debut novel of erotic intensity set in the Regency era. In the Scottish countryside of Selkirk, Lady Isabella Stirling resides at Bowhill Park, serving penance for a sin that nearly ruined her family. For five years she has been condemned to a l...

  • Above and Beyond

    Max Allan Collins

    IN THE HEAT OF BATTLE, THERE ARE MANY HEROES. Part of an elite covert military team, Lieutenant Duke Hauser and his buddy Ripcord Weems are dispatched to the small oil-rich South American country of San Sebastiao to help quell a revolution. The mu...

  • Hidden Voices

    Pat Lowery Collins

    While studying under Vivaldi, three girls in a Venice orphanage forge their own notions of love in a sensuous, engrossing novel told in three narrative voices. It is a longing and search for love that motivates three girls living in the Ospedale d...

  • Hired: Nanny Bride

    Cara Colter

    A nanny in a million... Playboy tycoon Joshua Cole doesn't expect to be confronted with a frumpy nanny and a howling baby in his expensively furnished office. But the child is his nephew, so he steps in to help! Dannie Springer has been hiding behi...

  • Rissa Bartholomew's Declaration of Independence

    Lynda B. Comerford

    The hilarious, heartwarming first installment in a friendship series from a fabulous new voice in middle-grade fiction.

    Rissa Bartholomew didn't plan on declaring her independence from all of her friends at her own birthday party, one week bef...

  • The Wildwater Walking Club

    Claire Cook

    Just one step ata a time. After losing her boyfriend and her job in one fell swoop, Noreen finds it hard to know what the next step is -- never mind take it. For the first time in a great many years, she has time to herself. So she puts on a new p...

  • Under a Mountain

    Sophie Cooke

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

  • Maverick Basin

    Dane Coolidge

    Waylaid at gunpoint by Isham Scarborough and his brother Red, Hall McIvor insists that he is just riding through and has no knowledge of a feud between the Scarboroughs and the Bassetts. When Wahoo Meshackatee becomes a prisoner too, he warns Hall to...

  • If the Witness Lied

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Choices do matter and forgiveness is possible. Jack Fountain knows that what's happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write. But it happened--to Jack; his parents; his sisters, Smithy and Madison. And to ...

  • Starry, Starry Night

    Wade Cooper

    Fabulous photographs, eye-catching design, and simple text constitute this Level 2 reader about our solar system! A $3.99 POB with foil on the cover!Learn fun facts about the Milky Way, and read about the sun, moon, planets, stars, and more! This har...

  • Three Times Blessed

    Lori Copeland

    How will Audrey and her fellow schoolmarms stay afloat when a flood threatens their small Texas town? Typically, Thunder Ridge, Texas, is dry as a bone. But Audrey Pride has arrived under a storm cloud, one that is deluging the shocked community ...

  • Riders From Long Pines

    Ralph Cotton

    NO GOOD DEED When some drovers stumble upon the bloody aftermath of a stagecoach robbery, they discover a hidden cache of money that belongs to the most powerful man in the county. Briefly tempted to fill their saddlebags and run, they decide to do ...

  • Rapiers and Goose Quills

    Harold Coyle

    The nine stories that make up Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot," written in the 1940s, not only foresaw a day when autonomous machines would assume the more mundane and dangerous chores performed by people, they also foreshadowed problems humans would encoun...

  • Lady Killer

    Kathleen Creighton

    Framed for murder...caught in a web of lies Brooke Grant, a recovering divorcee, had good reason to lie about her past. But when she's falsely arrested for the murder of her ex, it seems everyone in her life has motive to lie to her--the vengeful lo...

  • The Cattleman's Unsuitable Wife

    Pam Crooks

    A woman like no other... In the vast wilds of Montana Territory, strikingly beautiful Zurina Vasco dreams of respectability. When cattleman Trey Wells's betrothed is kidnapped, blame falls on Zurina's brother -- and a vengeful Trey demands...

  • For You I Do

    Angie Daniels

    Feisty Bianca Beaumont is finally engaged! She's blissful...until longtime family friend London Brown tells her she's marrying the wrong guy. Not that Bianca believes London at first, but the sexy former-investigator-turned-restaurateur has convincin...

  • Hunting Down The Horseman

    B.J. Daniels

    WITH ONE CORBETT DOWN, FOUR HANDSOME BROTHERS REMAIN TO FULFILL THE MARRIAGE PACT Brave, courageous and single, Jud Corbett loves the life he leads outside his hometown of Whitehorse--so it'll be up to his brothers to meet the nice Montana cowgirls ...

  • 16 1/2 on the Block

    Babygirl Daniels

    The one and only Latina Smith is back on the block, and she’s come a long way from her freshman year at Cass High School. Where Latina once played back-up in a four member clique, she’s not only joined an entirely new crew, but she’s made her w...

  • Kept Waiting

    Anna David

    Tired of gathering banal quotes from the B-list on the sidelines of the red carpet, Emma Swanson publicly yearns for a more substantial career but privately dreams of a hotshot boyfriend to transport her into the beating heart of the Hollywood scene....

  • X-Factor - Volume 6: Secret Invasion

    Peter David

    Collects X-Factor #33-38 & She-Hulk #31. She-Hulk and Jazinda are in pursuit of Longshot, who may hold the key to defeating the Skrull invasion. With Darwin and Longshot on the run, neither of them wanting to be found, you'd just assume that X-Fa...

  • She-Hulk - Volume 8: Secret Invasion

    Peter David

    Collects She-Hulk (2004) #31-33 and X-Factor (2005) #33-34. It's double the trouble as our gamma-ray glamazon finds herself on a collision course with the mystery-solving X-Factor and hip-deep in the Skrull infestation! What does She-Hulk's partner ...

  • Nightmare's Edge

    Bryan Davis

    Nathan Shepherd, in the company of his restored mother and two mysterious beings called supplicants, searches for his father in the land of dreams. With the collapse of the entire cosmos at hand, only his father holds the answers to what Nathan must ...

  • The Restless Shore

    James P. Davis

    One hundred years ago, the Akanamere was ravaged by the Spellplague, drying the lake and leaving behind a nightmarish landscape of frozen waves, distorted creatures, and a strange being whose song drives listeners to carry out what they believe are t...

  • Under Fire

    Jo Davis

    MEET ZACK KNIGHT, FIREFIGHTER AND PARAMEDIC -- THE HANDSOME GENIUS OF STATION FIVE. HE CAN TAKE ON ANY BLAZE, BUT NEEDS A CERTAIN KIND OF WOMAN. Zack fights fires and saves lives, yet his own thirst for life has run dry--until he comes to the rescue...

  • A Breed Apart

    Pierre Davis

    Lt. Elliot Elliot, aka E Squared. A botched drug raid yanks him off the street and into a cubicle at the Pearson Institute of Health Sciences, where he's reduced to hunting down stolen laptops. Then the ultimate insult: track down an escaped lab anim...

  • Trail To Justice

    Susan Page Davis

    Ruby finds freedom on the back of her horse, Lancelot. When the chance to compete in a hundred-mile endurance ride arises, Ruby is eager to hit the trail. Chuck finds his social life on the upswing when Ruby agrees to join him on a day-long trail ...

  • Eve of Darkness

    S.J. Day

    CURSED BY GOD, HUNTED BY DEMONS, DESIRED BY CAIN AND ABEL ... All in a day's work. For Evangeline Hollis, a long ago fling with a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks just became a disaster of biblical proportions. One night with a leather-cla...

  • A Grey Moon Over China

    Thomas A. Day

    Army engineer Eduardo Torres is caught up in the world's raging oil wars when he stumbles onto the plans for a quantum-energy battery. This remarkable device could slow civilization's inevitable descent into environmental disaster, but Torres has oth...

  • Befiddled

    Pedro De Alcantara

    Becky Cohen has a rough life. She’s an outsider everywhere she goes: shunned and mocked at school, at her violin lessons, and at home by her disapproving mother. Her only true friend is her brilliant little brother, newspaper-loving Benjy. She drea...

  • Shadows Still Remain

    Peter De Jonge

    A Beautiful Woman, Missing New York City, 2005. Thanksgiving weekend. A topless Kate Moss peers down from a billboard over rain-spattered Houston Street. Escaping a troubled past, Francesca Pena came to the city and reinvented herself. At New Yor...

  • A Gentleman of Fortune

    Anna Dean

    THE YEAR 1806 FINDS DIDO KENT IN SURREY, STAYING at her cousin's for a holiday. Though she is away from home, Dido can't help but feel something is amiss when a neighbor passes away quite suddenly. Soon, a local doctor pronounces an overdose as the c...

  • Courting the Doctor's Daughter

    Janet Dean

    A widow with three boys to raise, Mary Graves has no time for peddlers of phony medicine. She's a dedicated healer working alongside her doctor father. When a handsome stranger blows into town with his "elixir of health" and asks questions about her ...

  • Burglary for Beginners

    Terry Deary

  • Something About Mattresses

    Janet Deaver-Pack
    in

    Fairy tales are among the earliest fantasies we are exposed to when we are young and impressionable children. In one way or another they stay with us throughout our lives, whether in their original versions, or filtered through cartoon retellings. ...

  • Night Rescuer

    Cindy Dees

    A woman desperate to live. A man desperate to die. One last mission: deliver Melina Montez to a drug lord in the Peruvian rain forest. Immediately after: deliver himself unto eternity. Commando John Hollister's last op had gone bad. His men were dea...

  • Marvel Adventures Spider-Man - Volume 12: Jumping to Conclusions

    Todd Dezago

    The all-new, all-ages, all-action fun continues! It's wall-to-wall mayhem in the Mighty Marvel Manner with four original tales of everybody's favorite teenage wall-crawler! Featuring Doctor Octopus, The Prowler, Electro, and Scorpion!...

  • Tears of the Salamander

    Peter Dickinson

    Alfredo, a choir boy in 18th-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, and his mysterious Uncle Giorgio spirits him away to their ancestral home below a volcano. There he learns that Uncle Giorgio is the Master of the Mountain; he can control the vo...

  • Strangle a Loaf of Italian Bread

    Denise Dietz

  • Mary Jane's Grave

    Stacy Dittrich

    According to legend, Mary Jane was hanged as a witch and still haunts her grave. But when a teenage girl is found brutally murdered there, Detective CeeCee Gallagher knows no ghost is responsible. It's up to her to hunt down the very real killer befo...

  • Vamped

    Lucienne Diver

    Gina Covello's Perks and Pitfalls of Vamp Life 1. Hello?! Eternal youth and beauty! 2. Free. Designer. Clothes. 3. My hot new boyfriend Bobby went from chess dud to vamp stud. 4. No reflection! First order of business: turn my own stylist...

  • Galaxy X

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Frank and Joe Hardy have been sent on a mission to live on the edge! A new theme park, Galaxy X, is about to open. But someone out there obviously wants Galaxy X to go away. The park owner has received threatening e-mails, and accidents are becoming ...

  • In the Stormy Red Sky

    David Drake

    DANIEL LEARY IS CINNABAR'S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPACE CAPTAIN; HIS FRIEND, LADY ADELE MUNDY, IS ITS MOST EFFICIENT SPY--BUT THEY'VE GOT THEIR HANDS FULL THIS TIME AS THEY FACE: A Cinnabar Senator furious at losing an election--and still powerful enou...

  • Entertaining Angels

    Judy Duarte

    From the author of the heartwarming Mulberry Park comes an uplifting, unforgettable new novel that proves that though our path through life sometimes takes us in unforeseen directions, it may also lead us to the places and the people we need most... ...

  • Rapunzel Strikes Back

    Brendan DuBois
    in

    Fairy tales are among the earliest fantasies we are exposed to when we are young and impressionable children. In one way or another they stay with us throughout our lives, whether in their original versions, or filtered through cartoon retellings. ...

  • The Cold Light of Mourning

    Elizabeth J. Duncan

    The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day...and turns up dead. The last person believed to have...

  • Jaguar Night

    Doranna Durgin

    At dusk he prowled the Southwest, a huge, sleek black jaguar with startling blue eyes and a man's thoughts. A shape-shifting Sentinel, Dolan Trevio projected an intensely animalistic aura that hid the scars of his past. Yet as fierce as his pride wa...

  • Wild Thing // Cheetah Wild

    Doranna Durgin

    Mark Burton and Tayla Garrett are Sentinels, members of an ancient clan of shapeshifters who protect the earth and humanity. As part of the covert organization, Tayla and Mark had known each other for years...though neither of them recognized the dee...

  • In Care Of Sam Beaudry

    Kathleen Eagle

    Keeping the people of his Rocky Mountain hometown safe was Sheriff Sam Beaudry's top priority. But his quiet life suddenly came under scrutiny when a young stranger came to town, claiming to be Sam's secret daughter...upsetting his very existence, no...

  • Where It Lies

    K.J. Egan

    Jenny Chase loves her job as assistant pro at the Harbor Terrace Country Club. But her idyllic lifestyle is threatened when she discovers the body of a greenskeeper hanging from a rafter in the cart barn. The police rule the death a suicide, but Jenn...

  • Heir to the Throne

    Kate Egan

    Carter Mason's life is turned upside down when her father, Major Mason of the Princess Protection Program -- a fictitious organization that rescues princesses -- brings Princess Rosalinda to their Louisiana home. Rosalinda's country has been taken ov...

  • A Charming Murder

    Mary Louise Eklund
    in

    Fairy tales are among the earliest fantasies we are exposed to when we are young and impressionable children. In one way or another they stay with us throughout our lives, whether in their original versions, or filtered through cartoon retellings. ...

  • Twilight of Avalon

    Anna Elliott

    She is a healer, a storyteller, a warrior, and a queen without a throne. In the shadow of King Arthur's Britain, one woman knows the truth that could save a kingdom from the hands of a tyrant... Ancient grudges, old wounds, and the quest for power...

  • Reiki And The Seven Chakras

    Richard Ellis

    Reiki is a unique system of healing that allows you to harness and transmit energy through your hands, restoring balance and harmony within the body and bringing relief to a wide range of physical and emotional problems. This book, by renowned Reiki ...

  • The Branch and the Scaffold

    Loren D. Estleman

    When Judge Isaac Parker first arrived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the town had thirty saloons and one bank. Inheriting a corrupt court and a lawless territory roughly the size of Great Britain, he immediately put the residents on notice by publicly hang...

  • Longarm and the Val Verde Massacre

    Tabor Evans

    WHEN REVENGE IS INVOLVED, JUSTICE IS NEVER BLIND Charlie Bugg is a murdering, thieving scoundrel -- and it's up to Deputy U.S. Marshal Long to bring him to justice. Longarm tracks down the thief and quickly apprehends him, but the deputy soon learn...

  • Longarm and the Tin Cup Trouble

    Tabor Evans

    When Longarm’s in town, it’s win, lose…and die. Deputy U. S. Marshal Custis Long can think of lots of fun ways to spend his birthday.  But, tracking down a stolen stagecoach stash in a remote mining community complete with greedy lowl...

  • Sacrifice

    John Everson

    They're coming. They are a race of sadistic spirits known as the Curburide, and they are about to arrive in our world, bringing with them horrors beyond imagination. The secret to summoning--and controlling--them has fallen into the hands of a beauti...

  • Dust and Shadow

    Lyndsay Faye

    From the gritty streets of nineteenth century London, the loyal and courageous Dr. Watson offers a tale unearthed after generations of lore: the harrowing story of Sherlock Holmes's attempt to hunt down Jack the Ripper. As England's greatest speci...

  • Burning Wild

    Christine Feehan

    Bred by capricious parents for his innate leopard-shifting abilities, billionaire Jake Bannaconni has spent his life in an emotional vacuum -- especially after a tragic twist ,of fate left hi to raise his infant son alone. But when his path crosses t...

  • Fight Fire with Fire

    Amy J. Fetzer

    No Turning Back Dragon One operative Riley Donovan is an expert at bringing 'em back alive, but his latest assignment takes an extreme detour when his prey is captured...by someone else. Before you can say "international incident," CIA agent Safia T...

  • Initiation

    Susan Fine

    ...I had no idea what could come of packing all those boys into one school building...how the competition would play out in relentless insults, the constant sorting out that went on every day, all day, to determine who was okay and who was worthless....

  • A Spell for the Revolution

    C.C. Finlay

    After making early gains on the battlefields, General Washington's struggling young armies are being relentlessly pressed back by British troops and Hessian mercenaries. Among the enemy's ranks is a mysterious force from the Covenant, a secret societ...

  • Dark Places

    Gillian Flynn

    Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." She survived -- and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, when the Kill Club...

  • A Mother's Hope

    Katie Flynn

    Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying, a basket on one arm. As the sirens begin and the bombs crash down, she is filled with panic and, with a heavy heart, abandons her burden in a sheltered doorway, meaning to return later. Even as ...

  • The Doctor's Surprise Family

    Mary J. Forbes

    YOU CAN'T HIDE FOREVER When Kat O'Brien saw the rain-soaked stranger pull up on his motorcycle, her instincts went on red-alert. Except he was no stranger. He was Dane Rainhart, hometown war hero...and Kat's girlhood crush. Now the single mother was...

  • Legacy of Blood

    Michael Curtis Ford

    After victory against the Persians, Lysander and the other young warriors from Sparta are weary from battle. But then a messenger brings news that Taras, a distant outpost of the Spartan empire, is under siege. Sparta is in danger of losing a vita...

  • A Child's Garden

    Michael Foreman

    For a boy in a warravaged world, nurturing a fragile vine has far reaching effects in this simple, universal fable of hope and connection.

    A little boy’s home has been reduced to ruin and rubble, and now a wire fence and soldiers separate hi...

  • The Rose House

    Tina Ann Forkner

    A vivid story of a private grief, a secret painting, and one woman's search for hope Still mourning the loss of her family in a tragic accident, Lillian Diamon finds herself drawn back to the Rose House, a quiet cottage where four years earlier s...

  • Flinx Transcendent

    Alan Dean Foster

    After thirty-five years and more than a dozen Pip & Flinx novels, Alan Dean Foster delivers the final installment in this hugely popular series From science fiction icon Alan Dean Foster comes the highly anticipated final Pip & Flinx adventure for...

  • Revenge of the Fallen

    Alan Dean Foster

    "THE FALLEN SHALL RISE AGAIN. . . ." This cryptic warning is ignored by the national security adviser who feels the ruthless Decepticon threat is no more. The allies are victorious, the enemy has been defeated, and the world is safe. Small attacks...

  • The Veiled Threat

    Alan Dean Foster

    BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE, NOTHING IS EVER AS IT SEEMS. Life on earth has changed forever, as humans and their courageous robotic allies, the Autobots, must warily work together to protect the planet from the destructive forces of the evil Decepticons...

  • Star Trek

    Alan Dean Foster

    "Are you willing to settle for an ordinary life? Or do you think you were meant for something better? Something special?" One grew up in the cornfields of Iowa, fighting for his independence, for a way out of a life that promised only indifference...

  • The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers

    Angie Fox

    DEMON-SLAYING POWERS SHOULD COME WITH AN INSTRUCTION BOOK... Seriously. Why does a new hair dryer have a twelve-page how-to manual, but when it comes to ancient demon-fighting hocus-pocus, my biker witch granny gives me just half a dozen switch star...

  • The Turning Tide

    Diana Pharaoh Francis

    They were the best of friends: Ryland, the son of the king, is bound by loyalty. Shaye is both a majicar and a Weverton, both rebellious factions. Fairlie, a fiery metal-smith, is the iron bond that held them all together. Until now. Crosspointe's...

  • Operation Redwood

    S. Terrell French

    Clandestine e-mail exchanges, secret trips, fake press releases, and a tree-house standoff are among the clever stunts and pranks the kid heroes pull in this exciting ecological adventure. “Sibley Carter is a moron and a world-class jerk,” r...

  • Running from the Devil

    Jamie Freveletti

    A chemist for a cosmetics company and an ultramarathon runner, Emma Caldridge is en route from Miami to Bogota when her plane goes down in the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt from the wreckage, she watches in horror as guerrillas ...

  • After the Moment

    Garret Freymann-Weyr

    A new novel by the Printz Honor author Garret Freymann-Weyr, about a boy who discovers what happens when love fails us--or we fail love. Maia Morland is pretty, only not pretty-pretty. She's smart. She's brave. She's also a self-proclaimed train w...

  • Secret Keepers

    Mindy Friddle

    At age seventy-two, Emma Hanley plans to escape small-town Palmetto, South Carolina, and travel the globe. But when her fickle husband dies in undignified circumstances, Emma finds herself juggling the needs of her adult children. Her once free-spiri...

  • The PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009

    Laura Furman

    A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 features unforgettable tales in settings as diverse as post-war Vietnam, a luxu...

  • Legend of the Jade Dragon

    Yasmine Galenorn

    Delicious blends of tea aren't the only draw at the Chintz 'n China Tea Room--Emerald O'Brien, owner and medium, also offers her customers a tarot card reading. But Emerald, a single mother of two, never saw herself as a sleuth--which proves that eve...

  • Good Night, Pals

    Tina Gallo

    It’s nighttime, and the Playskool

    pals need to get ready for bed.

    What should they do first? Children will love reading about Go Go

    Dino’s bubble bath and Tubby’s favorite pajamas. This book also

    comes with a sheet of...