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  • Hailey Abbott

    Hot days. Hotter nights. The girls are back. JESSICA: Connor and I are in love, and we're both ready to take the next step. So then why is he spending all his time with another girl? LARA: I thought Andrew and I were through, and I met an awesome n...



  • David A. Adler

    At her school's Green Fair, Cam and her friends are learning how to keep the earth green. Everyone is having fun at the exhibits -- until a student's remote-controlled car goes missing Was it stolen? It's up to Cam and her amazing memory to find Spee...



  • Ken Akamatsu

    HIS FATHER’S SON
     
    After hearing about his father’s heroics, Negi vows to prove himself -- by winning the martial arts tournament and freeing his students from slavery. With his teacher’s help, Negi has gotten much stronger, so it should...



  • R.C. Alexander

    Desi is a witch. And she knows she could be a great witch--if only her mom would teach her any spells. Unfortunately, Desi's mom is more concerned with keeping them safe and their abilities hidden. When her mom leaves town under mysterious circums...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    A pilot's widow, Stephanie Olmstead isn't afraid of flying...until the plane takes off, triggering a panic attack! Suddenly, the single mother of twins has a new man in her life. Brady McGuire, the pilot who saved her from a major meltdown, now sees ...



  • Ruth Ames

    Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt very different from her bubbly, outgoing parents. Unlike them, Emma-Rose has pale skin and jet-black hair, she prefers gray weather to sunshine, and she hates the taste of garlic. When Emma-Rose's grea...



  • Caroline Anderson

    Mother of the bride catches the bouquet! With just a few months until her daughter's wedding, Maisie feels butterflies at the prospect of seeing Jenni's dad, Rob, again after so many years. As parents of the bride, they'll be hostin...



  • James Anderson; Mark Sebanc

    In the wake of the catastrophic invasion that has levelled the Stoneholding, the last bastion of order in the world of Ahn Norvys, Kalaquinn Wright Pursues the mission entrusted to him. Freshly invested as High Bard, sets forth across lands that lie ...



  • Bella Andre

    A TOUCH IGNITES. A FIRE BURNS. AND THE HEAT HAS JUST BEGUN. Deep in the cool green mountains of the Adirondacks, wounded firefighter Connor MacKenzie has come to rebuild the 100-year-old MacKenzie family cabin -- and to be alone. A horrific blaze...



  • Beth Andrews

    Without the badge, he'd be perfect! The last thing Faith Lewis needs is a cop poking his nose in her business. Okay, yes, Nick Coletti is gorgeous. And charming. And great with her son. But dating the town's most popular boy in blue is hardly goin...



  • Ilona Andrews

    Atlanta would be a nice place to live, if it weren't for the magic. When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpre...



  • Julie Andrews

    While her friends and family may not believe in fairies, Geraldine knows, deep down, that she is a VERY fairy princess. From morning to night, Gerry does everything that fairy princesses do: she dresses in her royal attire, practices her flying skill...



  • Joelle Anthony

    The year is 2041, and sixteen-year-old Molly McClure has lived a relatively quiet life on an isolated farming island in Canada, but when her family fears the worst may have happened to her grandparents in the US, Molly must brave the dangerous, chaot...



  • Piers Anthony

    A remarkable epic of passion and courage, savagery and survival, Piers Anthony's Geodyssey is a saga unlike any ever written. It is nothing less than the story of humanity itself, told through the lives of a handful of extraordinary men and women reb...



  • Gill Arbuthnott

    Ten years ago, Alaric, leader of the Shadowmen, killed most of the Keepers--teachers of ancient knowledge that threatened his barbaric rule. Young Kit was captured, but his twin sister, Nyssa, escaped. Only later will she learn that both she and her ...



  • Alex Archer

    From the ashes of an ancient holy order comes an unholy relic… In the time of the Crusades, the Knights Templars were holy warriors who seemed to be blessed by God himself. But over the years, the order dissolved into mysteries both sacred and pro...



  • Keri Arthur

    Some nights never end. Some desires never die. . . . Shape-shifting werewolf and vampire Riley Jenson is through with death -- causing it, solving it, surviving it. Her soul mate, Kye Murphy, is dead -- and at Riley's own hands. Not even the sed...



  • Annie Auerbach

    A smart, funny junior novelization of Despicable Me, an animated movie about "world's greatest villain" Gru, coming from Universal Studios in Summer 2010! Includes a color insert of stills from the film! ...



  • James Axler

    The brutality of post-nuclear America has spawned a dark frontier where the harsh and unforgiving new rules of existence cannot obliterate the decency and determination that drive the true human spirit. It's tested and tormented but never destroyed. ...



  • James Axler

    FREEDOM SWATH The oligarchy of Overlords battling to resurrect alien rule on Earth remains ever threatened by a group of rebels determined to meet the ancient Sumerian enemies with a show of force. While glimmers of containment, if not victory, have ...



  • Heidi Ayarbe

    Maya's life has always been chaotic. Living with a con-man dad, she's spent half her life on the run. Whenever her father's schemes go wrong, Maya finds a scientific way to fix it. But when her dad ends up in prison and foster care fails, Maya gr...



  • Paolo Bacigalupi

    A GRITTY, HIGH-STAKES ADVENTURE SET IN A FUTURISTIC WORLD WHERE OIL IS SCARCE, BUT LOYALTY IS SCARCER... In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scave...



  • Camille Bacon-Smith

    Evan Davis and his partners, Brad and Lily, attract the jobs no other detective can handle-cases with a dangerous, otherworldly slant. But no one is better equipped for this because Lily and Brad are powerful daemon lords, and Evan is Brad's half-dae...



  • Tilly Bagshawe

    What happens when a woman who has everything loses everything? And when a woman who has nothing realizes she has nothing to lose? Blessed with the face of an angel and the guileless, trusting nature of a child, Grace Brookstein is the prize...



  • Leigh Bale

    To make amends for his troubled past, Joel Hunter goes back to the Herrera family farm in Nevada. The Herreras believed in him, supported him, and he let them down. Especially Mari, the beautiful girl he grew up with -- and secretly loved. A changed ...



  • Mary Balogh

    Born a commoner, Hannah Reid has been Duchess of Dunbarton since she was nineteen years old. Now her husband is dead and, more beautiful than ever at thirty, Hannah has her freedom at last: To the shock of a conventional friend, she announces her int...



  • Anjali Banerjee

    Eleven-year-old Poppy Ray longs to be a veterinarian, but she's never had a pet. This summer, she's going to spend a month with her uncle Sanjay, veterinarian and owner of the Furry Friends Animal Clinic on an island off the Washington coast. Popp...



  • Piper Banks

    MIRANDA BLOOM HEARTS HER BOYFRIEND. Can you believe it? Miranda Bloom, the human calculator (that would be me), has scored an adorable lacrosse-playing boyfriend and a summer job looking after a ten-year-old mini-genius, Amelia. This summer is going...



  • Lauren Barnholdt

    Meet Hailey Twitch... She's just like you. Well, sort of. She loves pink sparkly pencils and ice cream. But Hailey also has a secret: she's friends with Maybelle, a sprite that only she can see. Hailey and Maybelle are having fun, fun, fu...



  • Gail Barrett

    "I'm in this thing until I decide I'm out. You got that?" With terrorists hot on her heels, nuclear chemist Zoe Wilkinson races to elude capture. The last person she expects help from is her ex-boyfriend Cooper Kennedy. But when their plane crashe...



  • Brunonia Barry

    From Brunonia Barry, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, comes an emotionally compelling novel about finding your true place in the world. A respected Boston psychotherapist, Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless chil...



  • Dale E. Basye

    Welcome to Blimpo, where the, um, plump kids go. After his second escape from Bea Elsa Bubb, the Principal of Darkness, Milton Fauster makes his way to Blimpo--the circle of the otherworldly reform school, Heck, where he's sure his friend Virgil i...



  • Jes Battis

    It was strange. I'd seen his power. I'd seen him die once before. That was scary. But you could never tell what frightened a person. Maybe when' you controlled the forces of entropy and decay, the things that really scared you were impossible to desc...



  • Andrea Beaty

    ECIL BUNNIES FROM OUTER SPACE ATTACK EARTH! WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF EVIL, SUGAR-ADDICTED, SEVEN-FOOT-TALL RABBITS FROM ANOTHER GALAXY INVADED YOUR SUMMER CAMP? A) SCREAM. B) HIDE YOUR CANDY. C) SAY. "THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS EVIL. SUGAR-ADDICTED. SEVE...



  • Andrea Beaty

    Lily has read every Nancy Drew book in the library. She’s great at spying clues and keeping secrets. She has to be. She has secrets of her own that no one can ever find out. When summer brings lying, stealing Tinny Bridges to town, Lily must dep...



  • Robin Becker

    College-professor-cum-zombie Jack Barnes is a different breed of undead -- he can think. In fact, he can even write. And the story he has to tell is a truly disturbing -- yet strangely heartwarming -- one. Convinced he'll bring about a peaceful co...



  • Cathleen Davitt Bell

    Camp Frontier promises families the "thrill" of living like 1890s pioneers. Gen will be thrilled if she survives the summer stuck in a cabin with her family and no modern amenities. But ever the savvy teen, Gen sneaks in a phone and starts texting ab...



  • Jake Bell

    Sixth grader Nate Banks, who's obsessed with comic books, leads a normal life until he discovers his history teacher may be a superhero. As the three-time winner of the Ultimate Comic Book Trivia Championship of Knowledge, Nate Banks has always be...



  • Jake Bell

    Sixth grader Nate Banks, who's obsessed with comic books, leads a normal life until he discovers his history teacher may be a superhero. For a town in the middle of the desert, Kanigher Falls has been awfully cold lately. Sixth grader Nate Banks k...



  • Jennifer Belle

    From the bestselling author of High Maintenance comes a witty, heartfelt comic novel about marriage, motherhood, and discovering that the life you have is exactly the one you want. Isolde Brilliant used to have a life she recognized. She was worki...



  • Alexandra Benedict

    Like an irresistible siren, the veiled dancer with the bewitching green eyes lures dukes and earls down into London's underworld to see her dance--and succumb to her spell. Some say she's a princess, but only one man knows her darkest secret. She ...



  • Lara Bergen

    Sophie is about to get ... AWESOME! Sophie Miller's life is boring. Average. Blah. She's not the oldest or the youngest, the tallest or the shortest. She's not even the only Sophie in her third-grade class! Sophie knows she's special. And she'...



  • Lauren Beukes

    A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa. Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program; Lerato, an ambiti...



  • David Black

    After Jack Slidell's discovery of his law partner's death in an apparent drug/sex killing, he and the beautiful Caroline Wonder are suddenly hurled into a race for their lives, a hair-raising odyssey filled with outrageous characters and violent susp...



  • Holly Black

    Cassel comes from a family of curse workers -- people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're all mobsters, or con artists. Except for Cas...



  • Jenna Black

    Normal: It's all she's ever wanted to be, but it couldn't be further from her grasp... Dana Hathaway doesn't know it yet, but she's in big trouble. When her alcoholic mom shows up at her voice recital drunk, again, Dana decides she's had enough a...



  • Toni Blake

    WELCOME TO DESTINY, OHIO -- WHERE TWO FAMILIES HAVE BEEN AT ODDS AS LONG AS ANYONE CAN REMEMBER. Rachel Farris returned to her childhood home with one mission in mind: get Mike Romo out of her family's apple orchard business and out of their lives. ...



  • S.A. Bodeen

    Mason has never known his father, but longs to. All he has of him is a DVD of a man whose face is never seen, reading a children's book. One day, on a whim, he plays the DVD for a group of comatose teens at the nursing home where his mother works. On...



  • Alix Bosco

    When he lifts his arms to point the camera at me, the shirt bunches around the muscles of his biceps and his shoulders. 'What's this about? Who sent you?' 'There's a simple message: back off.' The photograph has printed. He holds it up, shakes it dry...



  • Marie-Claude Bourque

    "Make love to me, sorcerer. Show me your powers." Gabriel is the youngest member of the Priory of Callan -- an ancient Celtic brotherhood of cursed sorcerers and alchemists, each with deadly abilities and each haunted by a tragic past. Tortured b...



  • Julie Bowe

    Ida May finally fits in at school after becoming best friends with Stacey Merriweather, who is universally liked by their classmates. But then Ida's frenemy, bossy Jenna Drews, brings in a game of truth or dare, and all the girls are suddenly daring ...



  • Jennifer Finney Boylan

    Thirteen-year-old Falcon Quinn and his neighbors, Max and Megan, board bus number 13 for school on an ordinary day in Cold River, Maine. Only the bus doesn't take its ordinary route, and Falcon and his friends soon find themselves in an extraordinary...



  • Sandra Boynton

    Wake up and celebrate Little Pookie’s big day in this way-too-early board book from the beloved and bestselling Sandra Boynton. Is that you, little Pookie? It’s not even light. You ought to be sleeping. Look outside. It’s still night. ...



  • Lyle Brandt

    Deputy U.S. Marshall Jack Slade's on the trail of kith and kin killers. Slade can't help but remember his own murdered twin brother, while trying to keep one outlaw from busting his equally notorious twin out of prison. But with a Colt on his hip,...



  • Sarah Rees Brennan

    Mae always thought she was in control, but in the past few weeks, control has turned into chaos. She's learned that her brother, Jamie, has magical powers, and that Gerald, the new leader of the Obsidian Circle, is trying to persuade Jamie to join th...



  • Norman Bridwell

    Read all about Clifford's BIG ideas! Classic Clifford reissued! It only takes a little to BE BIG! Clifford and his canine friends decide to play at a construction site. Bad idea! Clifford and his friends get into trouble and learn that games ar...



  • Norman Bridwell

    Read all about Clifford's BIG ideas! Classic Clifford reissued! It only takes a little to BE BIG! It's Sunday, and Clifford and Emily Elizabeth are going to visit her grandma. But Clifford can't find Mr. Squeaky, his favorite toy mouse! Emily E...



  • Terri Brisbin
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    When A Lady Is Willing, There Will Always Be A Way... The wild lands of Argyll hold no promise for a woman cast away -- until a younger lover draws Agnes of Mull into his strong embrace. Breac's tender touch erases all sorrow...and his compelling ...



  • Pat Brisson

    Fifteen-year-old Molly Biden has always been studious, dependable, some might even say saintly. And she's sick of herself. So when she spots mysterious bad boy Grady Dillon, she devises a plan to make herself over into someone new, someone who will a...



  • Sigmund Brouwer

    Her genetic secret could change humanity forever. Her DNA grants her the ultimate power. But all she wants is to disappear. Looming buildings rise into the sky of a near-future America, shadowing the desperate poverty of the soovie parks, de...



  • Dale Brown

    Will the most powerful defense system in history be used to safeguard America -- or to force universal domination? The U.S. has unleashed Thor's Hammer, a missile-launching satellite that can strike anywhere on the planet in seconds. But when Pres...



  • Don Brown

    A wizard from the start, Thomas Edison had a thirst for knowledge, taste for mischief, and hunger for discovery -- but his success was made possible by his boundless energy. At age fourteen he coined his personal motto: "The More to do, the more to...



  • Felicity Brown

    Journey to the world of magical horses . . . Shine Anders is overjoyed to meet lovely Amia, the daughter of the legendary horse Jewel. Together they set out on an adventure to find the precious Ice Gems. Their journey takes a dangerous turn when S...



  • Ryan Brown

    Today's #1 New York Times bestselling thriller writers agree: Ryan Brown's compulsively readable first novel is unbeatable--a darkly humorous, rich and pungent zombie shocker that melds our national obsession with football and the newest wave of fasc...



  • Robert Gregory Browne

    The newspapers called it Casa de la Muerta, a grisly house of horrors in the Mexican desert where five Catholic nuns were brutally murdered. Freelance journalist Nick Vargas knows it's a terrific subject for a true crime book -- and a chance to revit...



  • Emily Bryan

    CAN AN ARTISTIC GENIUS . . . Crispin Hawke, a brilliant sculptor, is revered by the ton. His works are celebrated in every fashionable parlor. And tales of his fiery bed skills whispered behind every fashionable fan. TRANSFORM AN AWKWARD HEIRESS ....



  • Michael Buckley

    GET LOST IN A GOOD BOOK! Sabrina and Daphne Grimm have studied hundreds of fairy tales as part of their family business, but they never thought they'd actually be in one. And yet that's exactly what happens when they follow the diabolical Master i...



  • Marina Budhos

    Jaya, Maria, and Lola are just like the other eighth-grade girls in the wealthy suburb of Meadowbrook, New Jersey. They want to go to the spring dance, they love spending time with their best friends after school, sharing frapp - s and complaining ab...



  • Rick Burroughs

    Welcome to Bright Falls-a seemingly idyllic small town in the Pacific Northwest. The perfect place for Alan Wake, a bestselling crime novelist, and his wife, Alice, to relax for a few weeks. Maybe a second honeymoon and the fresh air will cure Wak...



  • Kurt Busiek

    Back from the dead (again!), Tony Stark's rebuilding his corporation from the ground up - but enemies old and new remind him his work is never done! With romance, rivalry, and robots to keep him busy, can Iron Man still help Avengers teammate Warbird...



  • 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 Sentinel's survival determines the fate of them a...



  • Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli

    While an end-of-the-world revivalist group shakes up Leetsville, Emily Kincaid is deep in the northern Michigan woods researching her latest story for the local paper. But her walk gets cut short when she comes upon an eerily motionless woman propped...



  • Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Captive Flame features the return of popular character Aoth and his mercenary band, the Brotherhood of the Griffin, introduced in Richard Lee Byers's trilogy The Haunted Lands. Deluxe, trade paperback packaging and Byers's signature twisted plots...



  • Georgia Byng

    Molly Moon can morph into any living thing. Can you imagine what it is like to find yourself in the body of a ladybug or your mom or your dad . . . or your teacher? ...




  • Meg Cabot

    EM WATTS IS ON THE RUN She's on the run from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself. With everyone she loves furious with her for something she can't explain, and nothing but the live Stark Angel fashion show on New Yea...



  • Candace Camp

    New York Times bestselling author Candace Camp's delectable Willowmere series continues with the story of the accomplished and pretty widow who takes on the American Bascombe sisters for their London debut -- only to discover that, when it comes ...



  • Anna Campbell

    Headlong into sin . . . A well-practiced rake, weary of easy conquests and empty pleasures, Tarquin Vale, Earl of Ashcroft, knows women -- and his every instinct warns him to beware of this one. Diana Carrick's brazen overtures have thrown the hau...



  • Chelsea M. Campbell

    Sixteen-year-old Damien Locke has a plan: major in messing with people at the local supervillain university and become a professional evil genius, just like his supervillain mom. But when he discovers the shameful secret she's been hiding all these y...



  • Trudi Canavan

    Sonea, once the despised commoner in the Magicians' Guild, is now a Black Magician of Kyralia. Though she is now part of the establishment, she comes to find that the past is not so easily left behind... Lorkin, Sonea's rebellious son, has volunte...



  • Elisa Carbone

    Jump. That is what P.K. has done. A totally wild, crazy jump from a restrictive life with her family into a life of total adventure--rock-climbing out west with a guy she barely knows. At first, everything's amazing. Not only are they climbing in awe...



  • Linda Carlblom

    What can be tamer than spending time with a bunch of sheep? When Bailey and Alexis visit a cousin's sheep ranch, they expect a low -- key, relaxing hiatus from every day life. Instead, they're thrust into the throes of a missing millionaire, code -- ...



  • Melody Carlson

    A recipe for success or a design for disaster? Although they're sisters, Paige and Erin Forrester are like oil and water, night and day, denim and silk. Paige is an outgoing fashionista who loves to be the center of attention, while Erin is more comf...



  • Melody Carlson

    Big Apple. Bigger Problems. The success of the Forrester sisters' On the Runway TV show lands them a hot ticket to Fashion Week in New York City. Paige is determined to garner the attention of New York's top designers, but her newfound fame threatens...



  • Patrick Carman

    Bestselling author Patrick Carman pushes the vbook to the next level with this thrilling book/video/web experience. In the 21st century landscape of bits and bytes, everyone leaves a digital footprint ... even the most advanced cyber criminals. An...



  • Michael Carroll

    Four thousand years ago the world's first super human walked the earth. Possessing the strength of one hundred men, skin impervious to attack, and the ability to read minds, this immortal being used his power to conquer and enslave nations. Now plans...



  • Mary Carter

    My Sister...



  • Elizabeth Lynn Casey

    The members of South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle enjoy their gossip, but the new Yankee librarian, Tori Sinclair, is really giving them something to talk about. Tori Sinclair is basking in the warmth of her new circle of frie...



  • Jayne Castle

    A top psychic for exclusive Psynergy Inc., Orchid Adams doesn't expect even the best marriage agencies on the space colony of St. Helen's to find her a husband who measures up to her dreams. It's just as well, because she's got her hands full with a ...



  • David Catrow

    David Catrow's loveable spaniel is back for his second adventure, now in paperback! Readers will dine with delight as Chef Max serves up one hysterical meal after another at his very own diner. New readers will laugh out loud as Max's pizza pie speci...



  • Eleanor Catton

    A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the...



  • Dori Chaconas

    The sixth installment in this popular easy-to-read series features best friends Cork and Fuzz babysitting a little porcupine. But one of them is doing all the work. . . . When Cork needs help, Fuzz is too busy to lend a hand. Then Fuzz gets into some...



  • Diane Chamberlain

    Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but that's where the sisters' similarities end. As teenagers, they witnessed their parents' murder, but it was Rebecca who saved Maya from becoming another of the gunman's victims. The tragedy l...



  • Veronica Chambers

    Four friends. One sweet fifteen. Miami is heating up! Miami, Florida, has it all--beaches, boys, sun, and fun. It also has quinceneras. Lots of them! The fantastic parties thrown for Latina girls turning fifteen are a staple of the Miami social sc...



  • Tim Champlin

    Matt Talbot was a scout with Sharp Grover and Bill Comstock at a parley with the Cheyenne chief Bull Bear along the Solomon River in western Kansas. The year was 1868. The Army was concerned about all the young braves coming to join Bull Bear's band,...



  • Kristen Chandler

    KJ Carson lives an outdoor lover's dream. The only daughter of a fishing and wildlife guide, KJ can hold her own on the water or in the mountains near her hometown outside Yellowstone National Park. But when she meets the shaggy-haired, intensely app...



  • F.J. Chase

    Security consultant Peter Avakian's job is to keep people safe, and that's not always easy. Even his Special Forces training couldn't have prepared him for a routine business proposal that was anything but. By simply acknowledging the offer, Avakian ...



  • C.J. Cherryh

    The civil war among the alien Atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri, his son and heir, has returned to the Bujavid, his seat of power. But factions that remain loyal to the opposition are still pr...



  • Simon Cheshire

    Put on your detective hat . . . Take out your magnifying glass. The Saxby Smart series lets readers solve the case! Using wit, logic, and the help of his friends, young detective Saxby Smart is back to work, recovering a valuable comic book, sear...



  • Julie Chibbaro

    The wet earth smells of mushroom and loam. I race through the trees. Branches reach for my eyes and tangle my hair. My kirtle rips, but I still run, faster through the woodland, escaping the murderous men who chase behind me with vicious, barking dog...



  • Lee Child

    A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long ...



  • Ann Christopher

    After Jillian Warner's much-publicized divorce from her ex-governor husband, Beau Taylor, all she wants is a quiet life -- out of the political spotlight. And quiet it is: the heiress and single mom runs a quaint B and B in Atlanta. But Beau is ba...



  • Lucy Christopher

    A girl: Gemma, 16, at the airport, on her way to a family vacation. A guy: Ty, rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar, eyes blue as ice. She steps away. For just a second. He pays for her drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And bef...



  • CLAMP

    Hanato Kobato is on a mission: she has a wish she wants granted. To do this, she has to mend the wounded hearts of the people she meets on her journey and fill up a magical bottle with the suffering she has relieved. The only catch is, she can't fall...



  • CLAMP

    Hanato Kobato is on a mission: she has a wish she wants granted. To do this, she has to mend the wounded hearts of the people she meets on her journey and fill up a magical bottle with the suffering she has relieved. The only catch is, she can't fall...



  • Chris Claremont

    Teen teams are nothing new, but only one super-group got started at age 12 and under! Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie Power prove you're never too young to save the universe when they use the powers they received from one alien race to foil the schemes ...




  • Mario Cleri

    Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II Europe. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose-or to be taken from him. Captured by the Nazis, Michael was treated as an experiment...



  • Carin Clevidence

    A fireworks factory explodes in a quiet seaside town. In the house on Salt Hay Road, Clay Poole is thrilled by the hole it's blown in everyday life. His older sister, Nancy, is more interested in the striking stranger who appears, dusted with ashes, ...



  • Gabriel Cohen

    Brooklyn South homicide detective Jack Leightner is at home enjoying a quiet day off when a stranger appears at his door and completely overturns his understanding of his own past. The following day, what looks like a mundane killing in a Brooklyn de...



  • Susane Colasanti

    What if your soul mate is ... your best friend's boyfriend? LANI AND ERIN are lifelong best friends -- and total opposites. Lani's a down-to-earth Taurus; Erin's a fiery Leo. Lani likes to do her own thing; Erin prefers an entourage. They've always ...



  • Meredith Cole

    Photographer Lydia McKenzie is taking portraits of prostitutes on the waterfront of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when her art project takes a deadly turn. She discovers the body of Glenda, the star of her series, floating in the East River. Lydia's new...



  • Steve Cole

    Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur -- he's an Astrosaur! He and his crew have taken off on his spaceship, the DSS Sauropod, to fight evil and keep space safe for plant eaters everywhere. On his latest mission Teggs is escorting a group of the Vegetarian ...



  • Susan Coll

    Ah, beach week: a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs' latest herd of high school grads flocks to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauched celebration. In this dark comedy, ten teenage girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of w...



  • Brandilyn Collins; Amberly Collins

    The day Shaley O'Conner has dreamed of all her life is shattered by a nightmare. On a lavish estate in California guarded from the media, Shaley's mom, rock star Rayne O'Connor, is marrying her teen sweetheart and Shaley's father, Gary Donovon. It's ...



  • Max Allan Collins; Mickey Spillane

    In midtown Manhattan, Mike Hammer, recovering from a near-fatal mix-up with the Mob, runs into drug dealers assaulting a young hospital messenger. He saves the kid, but the muggers are not so lucky. Hammer considers the rescue a one-off, but someone ...



  • Mary Connealy

    Wade Has a Hero Reflex But Abby has a Knife Reflex! Glowing Sun has never met a man she didn't pull a knife on -- including the man who's determined to marry her. Glowing Sun, a white woman raised by the Flathead Indians, is one of a handful le...



  • Karen Connelly

    Orange Prize-winner Karen Connelly’s compelling memoir about her journey to Burma, where she fell in love with a leader of the Burmese rebel army. When Karen Connelly goes to Burma in 1996 to gather information for a series of articles, she dis...



  • Kerry Connor

    The mysterious blue-eyed stranger who showed up in the middle of the night wasn't just looking for work. No, when "John Samuels" signed on with Maggie Harper to restore the decrepit old house, he was hoping for answers and a chance to face the demons...



  • Deborah Coonts

    A young woman plunges from a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter, landing in the pirates' lagoon in front of the Treasure Island Hotel in the middle of the 8:30 p.m. pirate show. Almost everyone writes her off as another Vegas victim. But Lucky O'Too...



  • Grace Coopersmith

    Lively young socialite Nancy Carrington-Chambers has always believed an excellent sense of style and strict attention to detail are what it takes to succeed, but her own husband Todd is showing symptoms of incurable tackiness, so Nancy flees their Mc...



  • William Corlett

    It is deep autumn and William, Mary and Alice Constant have returned to Golden House for the half-term holidays. At once they are thrown into the most crucial and desperate adventure of all. Matthew Morden is on the point of discovering for himself t...



  • William Corlett

    Thirteen-year-old William Constant and his two younger sisters, Mary and Alice, have come to ancient, mysterious Golden House in Wales for the holidays. Their lives will never be the same once they enter the Magician's House -- and discover their des...



  • Art Corriveau

    Nicky Flynn’s life just got a whole lot harder. His parents are going through a messy divorce, and as a result he’s starting a new life, in a new city, in a new school. Now his mom has brought home Reggie, an eighty-pound German shepherd fresh fr...



  • Donn Cortez

    A lavish penthouse party on top of a Vegas hotel and casino plays host to a bizarre set-up to murder in which a security guard is trapped and killed in a private elevator -- and the body soon vanishes . . . leading crime scene investigators Nick Stok...



  • Ralph Cotton

    Civil War veteran and former schoolmaster Sherman Dahl rides the Southwest as a gun for hire. Known by both the law and the lawless as "The Teacher," Dahl sells his services to those seeking justice--and is relentless in his pursuit of wanted men....



  • Harold Coyle

    Technology is changing the way wars are fought. Unmanned robots are used to drop bombs, launch missiles, and are even used in ground combat . . . but if things go wrong, who's really to blame? In the ever-challenging deserts of Iraq, US army offi...



  • Christie Craig

    WELCOME TO PRECIOUS, TEXAS …where fistfights serve as dinner theater and fire ants rain from the sky. The locals are usually very friendly, if a bit eccentric. No pictures please, or you may find yourself a guest of the county morgue. Photojou...



  • Brent Crawford

    Join Will Carter for his freshman year, when he’ll search for sex, love, and acceptance anywhere he can find it. In the process, he’ll almost kill a trombone player, face off with his greatest nemesis, get caught up in a messy love triangle, suf...



  • Ronald Cree

    When Gus González is adopted by TV star Nicholas Hernandez, he's swept into a glamorous world of fast cars, expensive toys, and hot celebrities. With Nick playing the real-life role of his new dad, Gus has got it made. But life in the limelight is...



  • Kathleen Creighton

    "Is my father a murderer?" Caring for a mother with Alzheimer's was heartbreaking enough for Lindsey Merrill. But when her mother made bizarre but adamant claims that Lindsey's loving father was a killer, it was too much to bear. So she turned to ...



  • Bill Crider; Clyde Wilson

    Private eye Ted Stephens is investigating a simple case of insurance fraud in Losgrove, Mississippi, but the case changes when a series of claimants are murdered and Stephens suspects the residents of the small town of keeping secrets....



  • Susan Crosby

    SHE WOULD GIVE UP ANYTHING FOR HIM... Even though Dixie Callahan had been in love with Joe McCoy since they were teenagers, she knew he'd never be happy living a small-town life, as her small-town husband. So she had to let him fly. Even if it meant ...



  • Clive Cussler

    Take a look at Casey and Lacey Nicefolk and you'll see two regular, all-American kids. But these brother-and-sister twins have a secret. Hidden in the family barn is the most magical-and coolest-gadget unknown to man: a mystical box that can turn any...



  • Glenn Dakin

    Murder, mystery, and adventure aren’t your typical birthday presents . . . But for Theo, anything that breaks up his ordinary routine is the perfect gift. A mysterious “illness” and Theo’s guardians force him into a life indoors, where...



  • B.J. Daniels

    FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE, THE WINCHESTERS OF WHITEHORSE ARE HEADING BACK TO TOWN AND STIRRING UP SOME TROUBLE... Following a trail of secrets back to his family ranch, Jack Winchester needed a cover to solve a decades-old mystery. And Josey Smith offer...



  • Lila Dare

    St. Elizabeth, Georgia, offers charm, Southern hospitality -- and, most recently, murder. Now, hairdresser Grace Terhune is ready to crack this case -- before things get snarled beyond repair... Everyone at Violetta's salon -- including Grace Terhun...



  • Lydia Dare

    He's lost the most important part of himself... Lord Benjamin Westfield is a powerful werewolf-until one full moon when he doesn't change. His life now shattered, he rushes off to Scotland in search of the healer who can restore his inner beast, o...



  • Tessa Dare

    In One Dance with a Duke -- the first novel in Tessa Dare's delightful new trilogy -- secrets and scandals tempt the irresistible rogues of the Stud Club to gamble everything for love. A handsome and reclusive horse breeder, Spencer Dumarque, the f...



  • Annalisa Daughety

    FINDING LOVE HAS BECOME A FEAT OF MONUMENTAL PROPORTIONS FOR A SHY PARK RANGER Park ranger Vickie Harris loves living in the nation's capital. She loves working at the Washington Monument. But she's never been in love. In fact, her personal life is ...



  • Meghan Daum

    From the acclaimed author and columnist: a laugh-out-loud journey into the world of real estate--the true story of one woman's imperfect life lived among imperfect houses and her quest for the four perfect walls to call home. After an itinerant su...



  • Erica David

    The Bobos want to be good for their mami. Diego can help. Go, Diego, go! ...



  • Peter David

    Collects X-Factor #46-50 & X-Factor: Layla Miller. It's Siryn in the fight of her life against the absolute last person that she would have expected to be battling. And Madrox, Layla, and Ruby find themselves under assault by the Sentinels just w...



  • James P. Davis

    Journey to the dark side of the City of Splendors. Jinn is an angel trapped in mortal flesh, sent down from the heavens to fight, die, and be reincarnated endlessly in the war against evil. But over the years, revenge supplanted justice, and now h...



  • Jo Davis

    AFTER A DAY OF PUTTING OUT FIRES, THE SIZZLING-HOT MEN OF STATION FIVE TEND TO START A DIFFERENT KIND OF BLAZE. TAKE ALL-AMERICAN -- AND ALL-SEXY -- TOMMY SKYLER... To the other men of A-shift, Tommy's a lucky guy who has it all. But deep inside, t...



  • Marlena de Blasi

    The story opens in Krakow in 1931, as a baby girl is conceived out of wedlock, the byproduct of a foolish heart and a tragic inheritance. The child's grandmother, a countess, believes that she is protecting her daughter when she claims that the baby ...



  • Michael de Guzman

    Twelve-year-old Henrietta cherishes her family's kooky existence working as clowns for a small traveling circus. But one shocking day, life throws a pie right in her kisser--in the form of a hit-and-run accident that takes away a loved one....



  • Cindy Dees

    When payback turns to passion Reporter Paige Ellis and billionaire Tom Rowe are bound to cross paths at the economic summit on the island of Beau Mer. But the sparks flying between them are off the charts. And then there's the body that washes ashor...



  • Nunzio Defilippis

    The House of M saga continues! First, special investigator of human and mutant affairs Ismael Ortega teams up with Lucas Bishop to take down terrorists from the Human Resistance Movement, beginning with a plot to kill hundreds by sabotaging a glamoro...



  • Robyn DeHart

    The Legend Hunters . . . The Men of Solomon's meet in secret, their very existence only a rumor among the best of Victorian society. They are treasure hunters, men of wealth and title, seekers of myths and legends. And no legend is as mystifying as ...



  • Mary E. DeMuth

    In a town she personifies, Ouisie Pepper wrestles with her own defiance. Desperate to become the wife and mother her husband Hap demands, Ouisie pours over a simple book about womanhood, constantly falling short, but determined to improve. Through al...



  • Sarah Dessen

    Ever felt as if your life is just going round in circles? Sarah Dessen's thought-provoking short story about moving on will resonate with teens everywhere.A Pocket Money Puffin for young adults by New York Times #1 author...



  • Denise Dietz

    SOAP BUBBLES cannot be pigeon-holed into one genre, nor should it be. It’s an array of mystery, romance, and legal drama. Often funny, sometimes shocking, Soap Bubbles depicts the glitzy microcosm of TV’s daytime drama, where rampant sexuality vi...



  • Andy Diggle

    Bullseye cuts loose! Reporter Ben Urich investigates a brutal massacre that has all the hallmarks of the notorious assassin Bullseye. But can Urich connect the murders to the Dark Avenger known as Hawkeye? Norman Osborn must bring H.A.M.M.E.R. down t...



  • Andy Diggle

    It's Thunderbolt vs. Thunderbolt, as Norman Osborn's black-ops hit squad targets former team-member Songbird - and this time, they're not underestimating this bird of prey! But even with a pack of blood-thirsty killers on her heels, Songbird has a fe...



  • Disney Book Group

    Experience this tale as old as time in this wonderful storybook and CD! The CD includes word-for-word narration, vivid character voices, and thrilling sound effects! Readers can follow along with the story and discover how Belle meets the Beast, befr...



  • Disney Book Group

    Ariel helps search for lost jewels in the underwater kingdom of Atlantica....



  • Disney Book Group

    While rehearsing for the King's birthday performance, Ariel meets a young mermaid who likes to sing....



  • Disney Book Group

    The Dwarfs help Snow White with an anniversary surprise for the prince....



  • Disney Book Group

    One rainy day, Belle and the enchanted objects have a tea party....



  • Disney Book Group

    Someone keeps surprising Belle with beautiful bunches of flowers....



  • Disney Book Group

    Aladdin and Jasmine find a legendary jewel in a faraway kingdom....



  • Disney Book Group

    When the lost glass slipper perfectly fit Cinderella's foot, the Prince knew he had finally found the girl he fell in love with at the royal ball. Now, it's time for the happy couple to plan their wedding! The only problem is. Cinderella has neve...



  • L. Divine

    Jayd Jackson's about to take the most important test of her life... With the Advanced Placement exams coming up, Jayd can't afford any distractions. Enter Rah's baby mama, the master of stirring up trouble. Despite her best intentions, Jayd gets e...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    The boys go on a chilling mission -- camping in the woods where children have suddenly begun to disappear. Every time a child disappears, the word "LOST" has appeared outside their tent…and they are never heard from again. The boys think they’ve ...



  • Peter Dixon

    Billy Crawford is a blond, eighteen-year-old surfer from Southern California, working in Fiji as a surfing instructor. But when he gets fired for leading his students into some dangerous surf, his endless summer seems to be over, and he decides that ...



  • Cory Doctorow

    In the virtual future, you must organize to survive At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual gold, jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhil...



  • Paul Doiron

    SET IN THE WILDS OF MAINE, THIS IS AN EXPLOSIVE TALE OF AN ESTRANGED SON THRUST INTO THE HUNT FOR A MURDEROUS FUGITIVE-HIS OWN FATHER. Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machin...



  • Susan Donovan

    SHE HAS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE. Her marriage is over. Her newspaper career went belly up. And it won't be long before her two teenage sons are off to college...and then what? Sometimes it seems like the only thing Ginger Garrison can count on is her be...



  • Paige Winship Dooly

    When her father disappears after a hurricane, Hollan scrambles to prove she can manage an island and care for a lighthouse on her own. That would be difficult enough for any woman, but Hollan is partially blind. When family members insist she either ...



  • Michelle Douglas

    4th May, Newarra Cattle Station, the Outback... Dear Diary, I came to the Outback to fulfill my sister's wishes and find my baby nephew's father. But poor Harry no longer has a daddy, so I'm staying with his uncle. Liam's an Out...



  • Tim Downs

    ""It's true what they say, you know: If you talk to God, you're religious; but if you hear from God, you're schizophrenic."" When a car accident leaves a famous movie star in a coma, nurse Kemp McAvoy thinks he has found his ticket to the life he'...



  • David Drake

    In this novel of magical menace to the survival of all humanity, David Drake introduces a new fantasy world, Carce, based on Europe during the later Roman Empire. Far in the north, a group of magicians perform a strange dance on a volcanic island ...



  • Sharon M. Draper

    Sassy's school is doing a musical performance that is going to be televised, and Sassy wants to sing with the choir. However, it's no secret that Sassy can't sing. But she has also been hiding a big secret . . . for the past year she has been taking ...



  • Mark Dubowski

    This amazing true adventure story about the discovery of the Lascaux Cave will have young readers feeling that they've discovered something pretty special, too!In 1940, four teenage boys and a dog dropped themselves into a hole in the forest floor. U...




  • Robert Dugoni

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROBERT DUGONI RETURNS WITH A PULSE-POUNDING COURTROOM DRAMA OF CORPORATE GREED, ESPIONAGE, AND THE LENGTHS ONE MAN IS WILLING TO GO FOR JUSTICE. On the heels of attorney David Sloane's latest win in a medical malp...



  • Dave Duncan

    A new adventure of brotherhood and magic from beloved fantasist Dave Duncan In the Kingdom of Jorgary, the days of feudal chivalry are fading as national armies are formed. But Ottokar Magnus is still baron, and his host of brothers include Anton,...



  • Tina Duncan

    Scandalous surprises: a secret baby! Hard-hearted tycoon Alex Webber is reeling. The passionate woman who once put fire in his blood is back...in his slick penthouse office...armed with a shocking surprise.... Alex's rigidly controlled life...



  • Sharon Dunn

    FACTS ABOUT THE MOUNTAIN SPRINGS SERIAL KILLER: * He targets women with long dark hair and blue eyes. * He finds his victims through an online dating service. * He's about to strike again. When a distress call sends Detective Eli Hawkins to Lucy ...



  • Margot Early

    They're making their own magic! The love potion Cameron McAllister just drank was supposed to help her get over someone -- not make her fall for her best friend! Now she's pregnant, and Paul Cureux is proposing...marriage. Cameron should be jumpin...



  • Tim Egan

    Dodsworth and his (crazy) friend the duck have just arrived in Paris. It is their first time in the City of Lights, and they are ready for some adventures magnifique! Right away they see mimes, painters, and people wearing berets. They climb the Eiff...



  • Daniel Ehrenhaft

    You know things are bad when your dreams come with a washed-up '80s soundtrack Henry Hen Birnbaum's sister, Sarah, missing for over a year, has come home unexpectedly, with no explanation at all. But he can't leave well enough alone; Hen needs to ...



  • Kama Einhorn

    Olivia’s lemonade stand is losing customers to the competition . . . Francine! Olivia decides it’s time to rethink the lemonade stand concept and turns hers into a full-scale backyard restaurant. Olivia and Francine decide there are enough thirst...



  • Cara Elliott

    An expert in antiquities, Lady Alessandra della Giamatti arrives in Bath to excavate newly discovered Roman ruins-only to find herself caught in a web of evil intrigue by a blackmailer threatening to expose her scandalous past. The one man who can he...



  • Helen Ellis

    I whisper, "What's so special about me all of a sudden?" Nick says, "The Turning." Mary feels different, but can't explain why. The fainting, the strange cravings... and worse, the things she's noticed about her body. Mary doesn't know where to tu...



  • Susan Middleton Elya

    Nell's birthday is in August, and as soon as it?s over, she starts to feel as though her next one is never going to get here. But then her mom reminds her that the year is packed with different reasons to celebrate, as each month in the calendar brin...



  • Robin Epstein

    Fifteen-year-old Grace Manning is a candy striper in a nursing home, and Mr. Sands is the one patient who makes the job bearable. He keeps up with her sarcasm, teaches her to play poker . . . and one day cheerfully asks her to help him die. At first ...



  • Jennifer Estep

    CURIOSITY IS DEFINITELY GOING TO GET ME DEAD ONE OF THESE DAYS. PROBABLY REAL SOON. I'M GIN BLANCO. You might know me as the Spider, the most feared assassin in the South. I'm retired now, but trouble still has a way of finding me. Like the other da...



  • Anna J. Evans

    From the author of Skin Deep--a novel of passion, power, and paranormal suspense... Samantha Quinn has been in the dark since age six, when her parents sacrificed her sight in a Satanic ritual. She is trying to get over her demonic past, but horri...



  • Tabor Evans

    RAINING CATS AND A LAWDOG When Longarm rides into the usually dry Warhorse, Arizona Territory, torrential storms greet him. But he's only in town long enough to find and arrest Ed Galloway, train robber and murderer of Longarm's friend. Then some v...



  • Deva Fagan

    All Prunella wants is to be a proper bog-witch. Unfortunately, her curses tend to do more good than harm. When her mixed-up magic allows a sneaky thief to escape her grandmother's garden, Prunella is cast out until she can prove herself. It's hard...



  • Kat Falls

    The oceans rose, swallowing up the lowlands. Earthquakes shattered the continents, toppling entire regions into the rising water. Now, humans live packed into stack cities. The only ones with any space of their own are those who live on the ocean fl...



  • Diane Fanning

    When Homicide Investigator Lucinda Pierce has to break the news to a 13-year-old boy that his parents have been murdered, his reaction comes as a shock: he claims that his father is not only still alive but also immortal, having sold his soul to the ...



  • Beth Fantaskey

    Jill Jekel has always obeyed her parents' rules--especially the one about never opening the mysterious, old box in her father's office. But when her dad is murdered, and her college savings disappear, she's tempted to peek inside, as the contents mig...



  • Christopher Farnsworth

    The ultimate secret. The ultimate agent. The President's vampire. Zach Barrows is an ambitious young White House staffer whose career takes an unexpected turn when he's partnered with Nathaniel Cade, a secret agent sworn to protect the president. ...



  • Jody Feldman

    Lauer Middle School has a super-secret society -- The Legend. No one knows who is in it. Or how they pull off the spectacular schoolwide events. Seventh grader Travis Raines may be about to find out. A shiny blue envelope marked For Your Eyes Only...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    LOVE WAS NOT ON THEIR AGENDA After Kate Manetti's prince turned into a frog, work became her new Number One. She didn't want a new relationship -- especially not with a client, and certainly not one sent by her matchmaking mother. Then wealthy bank ...



  • Audrey Ficociello

    Lullaby Baby: 50 Songs Lullaby Baby -- Every new parent, whether musical or not, needs a good repertoire of lullabies. Filled with 50 classic songs, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated songbook features an on-board sound module that lets parents lea...



  • Liz Fielding

    Soak up the sun, go on safari! Events planner Josie Fowler has scooped the wildest celebrity wedding of the year in a luxury lodge hotel in Botswana! She's surrounded by prowling leopards and crocodile-filled rivers, but more dangerous to her sanity...