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  • The Final Quest

    Tony Abbott

    An immortal dragon. A long hidden secret. The kingdom of Droon is at the brink of war. . . The situation in Droon has never been more desperate. The wizard Galen is missing. Eric has been forced undercover with Gethwing, the all-powerful Moon Drag...

  • Embedded

    Dan Abnett

    The colony planet of Eighty-Six looks as dull as all its fellow new worlds to veteran journalist Lex Falk. But when a local squabble starts to turn violent, and the media start getting the runaround from the military high command, his interest is ser...

  • Tokyo Vice

    Jake Adelstein

    From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search...

  • Cam Jansen and the Basketball Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Cam and her friend Eric are having fun at a local basketball game. They watch the team?s retiring coach receive a basketball signed by his former players, including the governor. But after the game the ball is gone. Was it stolen? In another addition...

  • Murder at the PTA

    Laura Alden

    SINGLE MOM BETH KENNEDY GETS A LOT MORE THAN SHE BARGAINS FOR WHEN SHE BECOMES THE PTA SECRETARY -- AND DISCOVERS A KILLER IS RUNNING RAMPANT IN HER SMALL TOWN.... As the owner of a children's bookshop in the quaint town of Rynwood, Wisconsin, and...

  • Twice the Temptation

    Rochelle Alers

    Denise Eaton is proud of the day-care business she built from scratch. But now the scion of this Philadelphia family dynasty could lose everything. The man who holds the key to her future? None other than Rhett Ferrell, the man she passionately loved...

  • Charlie And The Pirates

    Gary Alexander
    in

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....

  • Tron Legacy: The Junior Novel

    Alice Alfonsi

    Sam Flynn is the rebellious 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer who disappeared when Sam was just a child. When Sam looks into his father"s disappearance, he finds himself pulled into the same world of brutal programs and gladiatori...

  • The Emerald Coast

    R.A. Allen
    in

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....

  • An Early Christmas

    Doug Allyn
    in

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....

  • Grim Reaper: End of Days

    Steve Alten

    Patrick "Shep" Shepherd was a promising major league rookie pitcher on September 11th, 2001. Shaken by the attacks, Shep was driven to enlist in the armed forces even if that meant leaving behind his soul mate and their newborn daughter. Eleven yea...

  • How Tia Lola Learned to Teach

    Julia Alvarez

    Tía Lola has been invited to teach Spanish at her niece and nephew’s elementary school. But Miguel wants nothing to do with the arrangement. He hasn’t had an easy time adjusting to his new school in Vermont and doesn’t like living so far away ...

  • Forge

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    WOULD YOU RISK EVERYTHING to be free? THE YOUNG SOLDIERS at Valley Forge are suffering from hunger, cold, and the threat of the British army. Their newly forged bonds of friendship might be enough to help them survive. But the chains of Curzon's pas...

  • Agent Q, or the Smell of Danger!

    M.T. Anderson

    It's time for Lily, Katie, and Jasper to head home from their exciting Delaware adventure, but the Awful Autarch's spies and goons are everywhere, and it's clear that *they* have other plans for our three intrepid heroes. Chock full of ups, downs, t...

  • Arisa, Volume 1

    Natsumi Ando

     
    Tsubasa thinks that her pretty and popular twin sister, Arisa, has the perfect life. Everyone at school loves Arisa -- unlike the hot-tempered Tsubasa, whose nickname is “the Demon Princess.” But when Arisa attempts suicide, Tsubasa learns...

  • The Power of Illusion

    Christopher Anvil

    A new collection of stories by the master of humorous science fiction adventure, including: - The full-length novel, The Day the Machines Stopped"--and what happens, not just to civilization, but to humanity and its chances of survival when all the ...

  • Hero Tales, Vol. 4

    Hiromu Arakawa

    Ryuukou's warning still ringing in his ears, Taitou hurries back to Taizan, only to discover that the Genrou-tou has left his hometown in ruins. Though Taitou is devastated by the loss of his father, the attack has given him a renewed sense of purpos...

  • Scoundrel

    Zoe Archer

    The Blades of the Rose are sworn to protect the sources of magic in the world. But the work is dangerous -- and they can’t always protect their own… READY FOR ACTION... London Harcourt’s father is bent on subjugating the world’s magic to Bri...

  • Shroud of Dishonour

    Maureen Ash

    Templar Bascot de Marins is preparing to rejoin the Holy Wars when he is called upon to investigate a gruesome murder in the Order's own chapel... The shocking discovery of a strangled prostitute in the Templar chapel throws the Order into disarray....

  • X-Men: Nation X

    James Asmus

    A mutnat nation has been created on UTOPIA, off the coast of California. But what does that mean to the X-Men? Magneto's return has stunned the X-Men, but that's not the only surprise they're in for as a herd of Predator X's come hungry for mutant ta...

  • Maynard

    Mary Stewart Atwell
    in

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....

  • While We're Far Apart

    Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    In an unassuming apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, three lives intersect as the reality of war invades each aspect of their lives. Young Esther is heartbroken when her father decides to enlist in the army shortly after the death of her mother...

  • In Search of Mercy

    Michael Ayoob

    Dexter Bolzjak is an ex-hockey goalie who was abducted and tortured by perverted sports fans eight years ago. Now he's muddling along in a Pittsburgh warehouse when he meets an old, terminally ill drunk named Lou Kashon. Lou wants to see his lost lov...

  • The Devil's Other Storybook

    Natalie Babbitt

    The Devil is back, just as full of vanity and other human feelings as he was in Natalie Babbitt's first collection, The Devil's Storybook....

  • The Fading Dream

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

    THORN OF BRELAND The Last War that shaped Nyrielle Tam into the Dark Lantern known as Thorn ended with a catastrophe the likes of which no side would claim: the Mourning. When it ended, an entire nation had been obliterated. . . and unbeknownst to t...

  • Love Letters from Ladybug Farm

    Donna Ball

    Renovating a broken-down mansion in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley gave three lifelong friends a welcome second chance. But after taking the biggest risk of their lives, are these women also willing to risk their hearts? All the effort Cici, Lindsay, ...

  • A Cup of Jo

    Sandra Balzo

    The new ‘Maggy Thorsen’ caffeine cozy - Maggy Thorsen's heart, uncharacteristically, is swelling with optimism. Sure, her original Wisconsin coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, was destroyed in a freak blizzard. But, with new business partner Sarah Ki...

  • A Matter of Some Scandal

    Daisy Banks

    Sometimes scandal is worth more than its weight in gold. Love was folly, in Prudence Wellbourne's innocence. Now well-coined, sophisticated and wiser, she can easily live without it. But the one man who holds the key to her stubborn heart calls that ...

  • Royal Holiday Baby

    Leanne Banks

    The princess is pregnant! Is the daddy a Texas tycoon? Valentina Deveraux was still in shock. She had always been the good girl, the model princess -- not the one getting mixed up in tabloid scandals. But one carefree night burning the bedsheets wit...

  • Petal's Problems

    Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no! May is almost over and that means only one thing: Petal's month is about to begin. For most people, this would be a good thing. They would look forward to discovering their gift and their power. But not our dear Petal....

  • The Ghostwriter Secret

    Mac Barnett

    Steve Brixton is America's next great kid detective (and now he has his own agency to prove it)! When twelve-year-old detective Steve Brixton gets a call that the Fairview diamond has gone missing, there are only two things to do: grab his new busin...

  • Ultimate Magic

    T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Avalon is on the verge of total destruction: an army of warriors, a swarm of fire dragons, and a lethal plague are all laying waste to Merlin s beloved land. But Merlin is nowhere to be found. Leading the fight in his place is Basil, the once tiny li...

  • Tandem

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    As obsession and loss become dark partners, how far must the people of Abbey Hills go to survive? Six months ago, brutal murders shook the small Ozark town -- murders that stopped after a house fire reportedly claimed the killer's life. Lauryn ...

  • The Rose Cottage Tales

    Emily Bearn

    Deep inside the broom cupboard of Rose Cottage, two mice live in great style. Tumtum and Nutmeg lead cozy and quiet lives, secretly looking after Arthur and Lucy, the disheveled human children of the cottage, never dreaming that so many exciting adv...

  • Busy Body

    M.C. Beaton

    This Christmas, be careful what you wish for... Cranky yet lovable Agatha Raisin has always been ambivalent about holiday cheer, though her cozy village of Carsely has long prided itself on its Christmas festivities. Until now. This year, local He...

  • The Goblin Gate

    Hilari Bell

    Jeriah's brother, Tobin, is in terrible danger. He's willingly crossed over to the Otherworld with a hedgewitch named Makenna and her legion of goblins. What Tobin doesn't know is that the Otherworld is a perilous dimension that leeches magic fro...

  • Red Alert

    Jake Bell

    It's winter break, and Nate has finally begun his training to become a superhero sidekick. The only problem is that Nate has to keep his training a secret from his best friends, Teddy and Fiona. While Doctor Nocturne is busy training Nate and helping...

  • Dredge

    Matt Bell
    in

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....

  • From Boardroom to Wedding Bed?

    Jules Bennett

    The Billionaire's Choice He'd been faced with the toughest decision of his life -- a future full of wealth and power, or the love of Tamera Stevens. And self-made billionaire Cole Marcum had never regretted his choice. Until now, when circumstances ...

  • Sophie the Chatterbox

    Lara Bergen

    Can Sophie handle the truth? When Sophie fessed up after putting a snake in Ms. Moffly's desk, she learned that being honest pays off! Now it's all truth, all the time for this third-grader. But sometimes the truth hurts. Sophie blabs so much t...

  • Passion Play

    Beth Bernobich

    Ilse Zhalina is the daughter of one of Melnek's more prominent merchants. She has lived most of her life surrounded by the trappings of wealth and privilege. Many would consider hers a happy lot; but there are dark secrets, especially in the best of ...

  • Idrakula

    Bekka Black

    The classic vampire story that started it all gets new life for a generation of connected teens 18-year-old Jonathan Harker is diagnosed with a rare blood disorder after visiting a Romanian Count. His girlfriend Mina and a pre-med student named Van ...

  • Kith

    Holly Black

    Rue Silver's life is not what it appears to be. Her mother is a faerie, and has been taken back to the faerie realm. As Rue goes to bring her back, she must travel deep into an inhuman world. At the same time, the faerie realm is venturing into our w...

  • Boys Don't Cry

    Malorie Blackman

    This is the explosively page-turning new novel for teenagers from the author of the award-winning "Noughts and Crosses" sequence. You're about to receive your A-level results and then a future of university and journalism awaits. But the day they're ...

  • Tusk the Mighty Mammoth

    Adam Blade

    Tusk the Mighty Mammoth rules the rotting forests of Gorgonia with razor sharp tusks. She terrorizes the rebels at war with the evil wizard Malvel and is holding Ferno the Fire Dragon captive. Can Tom and Elenna defeat Tusk before Malvel's guards tra...

  • The Killing Shot

    Johnny D. Boggs

    In 1880's Arizona Territory, a good man goes bad -- but for the best of all reasons... He's Got One Chance To Live...And A Hundred Ways To Die Deputy U.S. Marshal Reilly McGilvern is hauling criminals to Yuma when his prison wagon is attacked, and ...

  • Zora and Me

    Victoria Bond; T.R. Simon

    Racial duplicity threatens an idyllic African American community in the turn-of-the-century South in a dazzling debut inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston. Whether she's telling the truth or stretching it, Zora Neale Hurston is a rivetin...

  • Fangs for the Mammaries

    Baen Books

    Having inflicted the smug homes of suburbia with witches and werewolves. Esther Friesner now unleashes the undead to tap a vein of blood and humor, and drain the suburbs dry of both.Vampires and the suburbs are a match made in heaven, or maybe Levitt...

  • Konniger's Woman

    Terrell L. Bowers

    Keith Konniger enjoys his quiet, solitary life as a hunter. But when he rescues a woman and a child his world is turned upside down and then twisted a little bit more. Little could he know that his good deed would most certainly not go unpunished, as...

  • Playing the Game

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    From the blockbuster bestselling author of A Woman of Substance and The Ravenscar Dynasty comes an explosive novel about one woman's remarkable journey to success. Annette Remmington is a London art consultant and private dealer. With a roster of ...

  • A Jury Of His Peers

    Jay Brandon
    in

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....

  • Avenging Angels

    Lyle Brandt

    THANKS BE TO THE LAW When an entire family is murdered near the small town of Alva, Kansas, two things strike Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade: first, that he'll be riding out to Alva in the morning, and second, that there was no apparent motive for t...

  • Downright Distracting

    Jean Brashear
    in

    After working his way up the NASCAR ranks, Ryder McGraw is ready to lead his new team to victory -- until the team owner's daughter starts nipping at his heels! Hailey Rogers doesn't know the first thing about racing...and she challenges Ryder at eve...

  • America's Star-crossed Sweethearts

    Jackie Braun

    The private life of baseball superstar Angelo "The Angel" Casali is a mystery, but sources say a reunion with his estranged father is his reason for returning to Italy. And now that he's been seen stepping off the plane with stunning -- and scandalo...

  • Pure Sin

    Kate Brian

    The drama follows her wherever she goes: Ariana Osgood’s reign continues in this Private series spin-off. After escaping from the Brenda T. Trumball Correctional Facility for Women and stealing the identity of rich socialite, Ariana Osgood final...

  • King's Justice

    Maurice Broaddus

    THE WIRE MEETS EXCALIBUR IN THIS STUNNING FANTASY FROM THE DARK STREETS OF INNER CITY AMERICA From the drug gangs of downtown Indianapolis, the one true king will arise. Guided by the crazed visions of his advisor Merle, King knows that he must uni...

  • The Iron Duke

    Meljean Brook

    Seductive danger and steampunk adventure abound in the gritty world of the Iron Seas, where nanotech is fused with Victorian sensibilities -- and steam. After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now R...

  • My Give a Damn's Busted

    Carolyn Brown

    HE'S JUST DOING HIS JOB... If Hank Wells thinks he can dig up dirt on the new owner of the Honky Tonk beer joint for his employer, he's got no idea what kind of trouble he's courting... SHE'S NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT... If any dime store cow...

  • Roxy's Rules

    Lauren Brown

    If you thought running a business was hard, just wait until you hear what the dogs have to say about it! On the outs with the in girls at school, Roxy is looking for a distraction. A neighborhood pet-care crisis inspires Roxy to recruit fellow dog-l...

  • The Siren

    Alison Bruce

    All it took was one small item on the regional news for Kimberly Guyver and Rachel Golinski to know that their old life was catching up with them. They wondered how they'd been naive enough to htink it wouldn't. They hoped they still had a chance to ...

  • Cryoburn

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles Vorkosigan is back Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove--he's been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou-d...

  • Starcrossed

    Elizabeth C. Bunce

    In a glamorous castle full of Llyvraneth's elite, Celyn Contrare serves as a lady-in-waiting to shy young Merista Nemair. Her days are spent dressing in velvet, attending Lady Merista, navigating court gossip, and charming noblemen over lavish feasts...

  • X'ed Out

    Charles Burns

    From the creator of Black Hole: the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.
     
    Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room,...

  • Because of Mr. Terupt

    Rob Buyea

    Features seven narrators, each with a unique story, and each with a different perspective on what makes their teacher so special. It’s the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School. There’s . . . Jessica, the new girl, smart and ...

  • Wyoming Lawman

    Victoria Bylin

    Matrimony? Never again for deputy sheriff Matt Wiley. The only good thing from his first marriage is his daughter. His little girl might want a mother, but Matt knows that no woman should have to deal with his guilty secret, or his anger at God. He'l...

  • Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure

    Georgia Byng

  • Just Add Magic

    Cindy Callaghan

    Take three friends. Add an old cookbook. Combine with cute boys and a pinch of magic . . . and see what kind of chaos ensues....

  • The Good Sister

    Drusilla Campbell

    Roxanne Callahan has always been her younger sister's caretaker. Now married, her happiness is threatened when beautiful and emotionally unstable Simone, suffering from crippling postpartum depression, commits an unforgivable crime for which Roxanne ...

  • The Prostitutes' Ball

    Stephen J. Cannell

    Detective Shane Scully responds to a call in the Hollywood hills at a once-immaculate mansion, the scene of an infamous murder twenty-five years prior. He discovers the ......

  • The Dragons of Noor

    Janet Lee Carey

    A dreamwalker who has lost her way. A shape shifter who fears his own dark power. A fire herd punished for his magic. Can these three teens keep the human world of Noor and the magical world of Oth from splitting apart? The ancient trees of Noor ...

  • The Chocolate Pirate Plot

    Joanna Carl

    Ever since Young Blackbeard became the biggest movie of the decade, everyone has caught pirate fever, including the residents of Warner Pier. TenHuis Chocolade is raking in the booty and selling out of chocolate treasure chests, pirate hats and ships...

  • Spotlight

    Melody Carlson

    Feeling the heat. On the Runway has become a global phenomenon, and when Paige and Erin Forrester take their reality show to London, they get a reception to remember. Bombarded by crazed fans and the flashbulbs and interrogations of the infamous ...

  • Rocks and Plants

    Michael Carroll

    " Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place. Let dry ground appear." And That's exactly what happened. God called the dry ground "land." -Genesis 1:9 (NIrV) In Rocks & Plants, kids explore the physical world, examing the often overlo...

  • Pinned for Murder

    Elizabeth Lynn Casey

    The members of South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle are as loyal and close-knit as the day is long. But the new Yankee librarian, Tori Sinclair, is finding that some threads can bind dangerously tight. Tori Sinclair feels like s...

  • Iron Man 2: Public Identity

    Joe Casey

    An all-new adventure set in the movie world of IRON MAN and IRON MAN 2!

    When Tony Stark announced "I am Iron Man" at the end of blockbuster Hollywood mega-smash, his life changed forever. When IRON MAN 2 opens, it's months later and the wor...

  • Compass Rose

    John Casey

    Rose is spunky with an inborn talent for theatrics, but being slightly overweight and unpopular at the fancy new school where she's a scholarship student is bad enough. It doesn't help that her single mother is at war with her; her fisherman father l...

  • Worth Dying For

    Lee Child

    There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska .. and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing...

  • Cinderella & The CEO

    Maureen Child

    Scrooge had moved in next door and Ivy Holloway was at his mercy. Billionaire Tanner King wanted her year-round Christmas-tree farm shut down so he could have his peace and quiet. He had enough money and power to do it, too. Leaving Ivy with only one...

  • Fiber & Brimstone

    Laura Childs

    With its history of spooky folklore, New Orleans offers the perfect atmosphere for Halloween. But when real corpses start turning up, scrappy sleuth Carmela Bertrand dresses up as a detective in time for the holiday. With the help of her best frie...

  • Nightschool, Volume 4

    Svetlana Chmakova

    The Sohrem is rising, the Hunters are on the move, and Alex is caught in the middle! As forces conspire to draw the young weirn and her allies back to an empty school, the shadow of the enemy who has been pulling all the strings begins to show. But i...

  • Soccerland

    Beth Choat

    "One day I’m going to play for the U.S. Women’s National Team." That’s what Flora Dupre promised her mom, before her mom died of cancer. Flora and her mom had created a place called Soccerland, an escape world where they went and just talked so...

  • The Desperate Dog Writes Again

    Eileen Christelow

    Emma loves her human, George, but he can be so difficult! This time he has a visitor, who won't let go of his hand. Worse, she's brought along her dog, Hankie, and they've taken over Emma's spot next to George on the couch. What's a desperate...

  • Fear Not

    Reg Christensen

    Although the Prophet Joseph Smith called the book of Revelation “one of the plainest books God ever caused to be written,” for many readers it’s one of the most perplexing. Intimidated by the book’s unfamiliar imagery and seemingly hostile me...

  • Seduced on the Red Carpet

    Ann Christopher

    Discovered at sixteen, supermodel Livia Blake has lived a life most women only dream of. But beneath the glitz and glamour is a small-town girl who yearns for babies, a permanent home -- and the man to go with it. Then she meets Hunter Chambers at hi...

  • xxxHolic, Volume 16

    CLAMP

    The witch Yûko is gone, vanished and forgotten by the world with the exception of a small handful of people. But Kimihiro is determined to keep the wish-granting shop going, even if the shop’s arcane rules nearly kill him for the crime of setting ...

  • X-Babies Classic - Volume 1

    Chris Claremont

    They're young, they're proud, they're cantankerous! They are the mighty X-Babies! Seeking to capitalize on the success of the X-Men broadcasts to his race of couch potatoes, otherdimensional media mogul Mojo gets a new idea that is sure to be a hit: ...

  • Meanicures

    Catherine Clark

    When three best friends get together, the first thing they talk about these days is always the mean girls in their lives. They decide to banish their enemies by holding a ceremony and burning slips of paper with the mean girls' names on them. But soo...

  • Prairie Courtship

    Dorothy Clark

    No one could love a female doctor -- Emma Allen knows that well. But her spinsterhood bothers her less than the lack of opportunity to use her medical training. In Missouri, no one trusts a female doctor, either. Then the opportunity arises to join a...

  • Secrets of Harmony Grove

    Mindy Starns Clark

    What Secrets Lurk Deep Inside Harmony Grove? PHILADELPHIA ADVERTISING EXECUTIVE SIENNA COLLINS learns she is under investigation by the federal government for crimes she knows nothing about. Suspecting the matter has something to do with one of her ...

  • Exley

    Brock Clarke

    The bestselling author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England returns with another wry and insightful novel about truth and reality, this time featuring a confused young boy and his slightly unstable therapist. For nine-year-old Mil...

  • Yukon Cowboy

    Debra Clopton

    Wedding Bells Are Ringing in Alaska Hometown girl Bethany Marlow moves back to Treasure Creek to open a wedding planning shop for all the new brides. But when her former boss asks her to help lead a wilderness tour before she sets up shop, she can't...

  • The Lightkeeper's Bride

    Colleen Coble

    A thrilling romantic mystery set in the lush Victorian age. Central Operator Katie Russell's inquisitive ways have just uncovered her parents' plan for her marriage to wealthy bachelor Bartholomew Foster. Her heart is unmoved, but she knows the ma...

  • Snow Day

    Billy Coffey

    In this debut novel, Peter is a simple man who lives by a simple truth--a person gains strength by leaning on his constants. To him, those constants are the factory where he works, the family he loves, and the God who sustains him. But when news of j...

  • Designer Justice

    Phyllis Cohen
    in

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....

  • Dirty Rotten Tendrils

    Kate Collins

    I, Abby Knight, hometown florist, do solemnly swear that my friend Dave would not hurt a fly -- let alone a fellow lawyer. WHAT DO YOU CALL ONE MURDERED LAWYER? Spring is blooming in New Chapel, Indiana, but Abby's beloved small town has become a m...

  • Daughter of Winter

    Pat Lowery Collins

    As the ground of her past shifts, a girl finds her way to an unexpected future in this compelling historical novel about survival and strength. It's 1849, and twelve-year-old Addie lives in the shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts. Her father h...

  • The Memory Bank

    Carolyn Coman

    THE MEMORY BANK is the story of Hope Scroggins, who lives with her beloved sister Honey and the Dursley-esque parents they share. In fact these parents are SO horribly awful that one day, when the sisters disobey the rule against "no laughing", they ...

  • Murder Afloat

    Jane Leslie Conly

    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ORVILLE is a boy without a care in the world. He has his own pony, he's caught the eye of the charming girl next door, and he can buy chocolates by the fistful. But one day his mother sends him on an errand in town, and suddenly Ben...

  • Wrangler in Petticoats

    Mary Connealy

    Sally McClellen finds herself injured and in the care of the biggest wimp she's ever met. Logan McKenzie paints pictures of the wild west -- and claims he makes a living doing it. When the two of them see an elk she reaches for her rifle, he reaches ...

  • The Reversal

    Michael Connelly

    Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller never thought he would cross the aisle and work for the prosecution -- until imprisoned child killer Jason Jessup is granted a retrial based on new DNA evidence. Convinced Jessup is guilty, Haller takes the cas...

  • The Miracle Stealer

    Neil Connelly

    Andi Grant adores her 6-year-old brother Daniel, a "miracle child" who fell down a mine shaft and survived. People regularly come to him for blessings and healings (which sometimes seem to work), and Andi is horrified by his exploitation, esp. when s...

  • Fundraising the Dead

    Sheila Connolly

    At the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society in Philadelphia, fundraiser Eleanor "Nell" Pratt solicits donations -- and sometimes solves crimes. After all, murder is not good for public relations... At the museum, a few missing documents could be a major...

  • Silent Night Stakeout

    Kerry Connor

    CHRISTMAS HAD BROUGHT A KILLER TO HER DOORSTEP AND A SEXY DETECTIVE INTO HER LIFE All Regina Garrett wanted this holiday season was some R & R. What she got was mixed up in a murder investigation, and the personal protection of a very sexy homicide ...

  • Sugar and Spice

    Lauren Conrad

    Sugar and Spice . . . Not everyone's nice. Fresh from being betrayed by one of her closest friends, new reality-television celebrity Jane Roberts has learned a few lessons. Most important: know who to trust. And in Hollywood, that list is short. ...

  • A Man's Heart

    Lori Copeland

    One Man. One Promise. One Last Chance. Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Not just once, but twice. Now the man she loves can't stand the sight of her. Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. But Pop is gone,...

  • The Bride's Bodyguard

    Beth Cornelison

    Hired by the groom-to-be, former SEAL Jake McCall must make sure beautiful bride Paige Bancroft stays safe. When gunfire shatters the wedding, he discovers that the threat to Paige is hovering close. Now the country's national security depends on kee...

  • Black Widow: Deadly Origin

    Paul Cornell

    Before she steals the world's heart in Iron Man 2, get caught in the wicked web of Marvel's sexiest and deadliest super-spy! She's been everything from a Russian espionage agent to a Champion to an Avenger, now a skeleton from Natalia Romanova's past...

  • Penelope's Daughter

    Laurel Corona

    From the award-winning author of The Four Seasons comes a sumptuous novel that retells The Odyssey from the point of view of Xanthe -- the daughter Odysseus didn't know existed... Xanthe is the brave, beautiful daughter of Odysseus and Penelope -- a...

  • The Valcourt Heiress

    Catherine Coulter

    When Garron of Kersey returns home from the king's service to claim his title as Baron Wareham, he's shocked to find Wareham Castle very nearly destroyed by a man called the Black Demon. According to the last starving servants still clinging to life...

  • Nightshade

    Andrea Cremer

    CALLA TOR HAS ALWAYS KNOWN HER destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers. But when she violates ...

  • The Darkness

    Nina Croft

    Twenty-two years ago, vampire Darius Cole abducted and seduced witch Gina, forging an emotional bond between them and leaving Gina with a daughter. Then Gina's sister witches tore them apart and the bond faded -- until she feels the Darkness within D...

  • Blue Princess Takes the Stage

    Alyssa Crowne

    Emma can't wait to audition for her school play. She already knows exactly what part she wants: the enchanted princess! She'll wear a beautiful blue gown and sparkly tiara, and everyone will admire her as she glides gracefully across the stage. Bu...

  • Trail's End

    Mack Curlee

    Deputy U.S. Marshal Jed Colter goes in search of his father, who has been smuggled out of a Union prison camp near the end of the Civil War and placed in forced labor. The journey takes Marshal Colter on a trail that only leads west. Challenged by a ...

  • Santa in Montana

    Janet Dailey

    “Can Santa bring you a husband?” Montana winters are harsh, but bad weather won’t get in the way of the Calders’ Christmas reunion. Patriarch Chase Calder is determined to make this holiday the happiest yet -- especially for his daughter...

  • Family Matters

    Barbara White Daille

    Kerry Anne MacBride and her quirky family are a package deal -- get one, you get them all. The high school art teacher is stubborn and fiercely protective of her kin, making her the absolute wrong woman for a straitlaced, hardheaded, by-the-books law...

  • The Society of Dread

    Glenn Dakin

    Dr. Saint is no more, Lord Dove has disappeared, and the Dodo has slipped back into seclusion. But for Theo Wickland, descendent of the Victorian crime fighter of legend, The Candle Man, the adventure is just beginning. Now head of the Society of Goo...

  • Boots and Bullets

    B.J. Daniels

    LOCKED AND LOADED, B.J. DANIELS IS BACK WITH MORE WINCHESTERS OF WHITEHORSE Cyrus Winchester's last attempt at helping a damsel in distress led to a coma and a stay in the Whitehorse hospital. But the Montana private investigator can't seem to shake...

  • Indian Summer

    Elizabeth Darrell

    A Max Rydal Military Mystery - Basking in the warmth of an Indian summer, the British Military in Germany hold an Open Day to ease the stress of constant movements of personnel to and from war zones. Entertainments include medieval knights, jousting,...

  • Bound By Blood

    Elizabeth Darvill

    In war, the greatest battle is love. Vampire Mila Deluca is as powerful in magic as her trigger-finger is quick. Pack leader Bryce D'Angelo is as sexy a warrior as he is deadly. Two equally powerful species, the vampires and lycans are natur...

  • The Scorch Trials

    James Dashner

    THE MAZE WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING... Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what s...

  • Love Is Grand

    Annalisa Daughety

    AINSLEY DAVIS HAD IT ALL... ...A JOB SHE LOVED ...A HUSBAND SHE ADORED ...A BABY ON THE WAY But after her husband's unexpected death, she left her job and retreated to the safety of her parents' home. Two years later, Ainsley is still there, raisi...

  • The Balverine Order

    Peter David

    IN A LAND WITHOUT HEROES, THERE ARE TWO CHOICES: FIND ONE -- OR BECOME ONE... The days of magic and myth are fading away, giving way to the age of industry and science. As the aged last Hero sits upon the throne of Albion, two friends -- the privile...

  • I Will Save You

    Matt De La Pena

    Kidd is spending his summer at the beach. He'd do anything to get away from his group home and the dark memories there of his past. He's working as a caretaker at the campsite, and he'd be blind if he didn't notice Olivia. Blond hair, blue eyes, ...

  • Voltaire's Calligrapher

    Pablo De Santis

    Dalessius is twenty when he comes to work for one of the Enlightenment's most famous minds, the author and philosopher Voltaire. As the great man's calligrapher, Dalessius becomes witness to many wonders--and finds himself in the middle of a secret b...

  • Petty Magic

    Camille DeAngelis

    Evelyn Harbinger sees nothing wrong with a one-night stand. At 149 years old, Eve may look like she bakes oatmeal cookies in the afternoon and dozes in her rocking chair in the evening, but once the gray hair and wrinkles are traded for jet-black tre...

  • Dr. Colton's High-stakes Fiancee

    Cindy Dees

    "You'll always be mine." Dr. Finn Colton thought he'd left his past behind. But once he sets foot in Honey Creek, Montana, after years away, he sees that some things never change. The Colton family unit is still fragile. The woman who'd destroyed hi...

  • The Reluctant Wrangler

    Roxann Delaney

    Nikki Johannson's new job at Oklahoma's Bent Tree Boys Ranch is a wish come true. As housemother and riding instructor to a passel of troubled kids, Nikki can do the work she loves. And finally meet someone she's been chasing down for years -- ranch ...

  • Stork

    Wendy Delsol

    Sixteen-year-old Katla has just moved from Los Angeles to the sticks of Minnesota. As if it weren't enough that her trendy fashion sense draws stares, she learns to her horror that she's a member of an ancient order of women who decide to whom certai...

  • Rogue Island

    Bruce DeSilva

    Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and the prostitutes, the cops and the street thugs. He knows the mobsters and the politicians -- w...

  • Bones of Empire

    William C. Dietz

    In a far-distant future, the Uman Empire has conquered and colonized worlds. Once thought invincible, its reign is now fragile as alien subjects and enemies conspire against it.... Jak Cato is a cop -- bioengineered to see through the guises of the ...

  • Swift Justice

    Laura DiSilverio

    Former air force investigator turned Colorado P.I. Charlotte "Charlie" Swift works alone and likes it that way. But when her wealthy, silent partner's clueless, socialite wife, Gigi, shows up and announces she's on the payroll, Charlie finds herself ...

  • The Scariest One of All

    Disney Book Group

    Snow White's wicked stepmother needs a scary costume for a ball....

  • Sweet Surprises

    Disney Book Group

    Belle helps the baker's daughter find her own special creative talent....

  • The Search for Hamm

    Disney Book Group

    Whenever Andy leaves for school, Woody and the toys know it's safe to move around! But as Woody greets his toy friends one morning, something is wrong. His piggy bank friend Hamm is missing! Right away, Woody and the gang search for their missing fri...

  • Rocket Launchers

    Disney Book Group

    Enjoy this tale featuring Buzz, based on the film Toy Story....

  • Lost Brother

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Frank has gone missing in the woods and it's up to Joe to stop his brother from becoming one of the Lost....

  • Annexed

    Sharon Dogar

    Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex -- but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peters point o...

  • Powerful Greek, Housekeeper Wife

    Robyn Donald

    Sizzling affair... With the body of a Greek god, a tycoon's wealth and all the emotion of cold, hard marble, Luke Michelakis is an enigma. Intimidated and out of her depth in his glamorous world, Iona Guthrie has consigned their brief passionate...

  • Against All Things Ending

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    Thomas Covenant is alive again, restored to his mortal body by the unimaginable combined force of his own white gold ring, Linden Avery's Staff of Law, and the ancient dagger called High Loric's krill. His resurrection is Linden's defiant act of love...

  • Revolution

    Jennifer Donnelly

    BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She's angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she's about to be expelled...

  • The Displaced Belle

    Paige Winship Dooly

    Shane would rather pay others to care for his younger orphaned sisters. But when their latest home is burned to the ground and the woman caring for them dies, Shane decides it's time to go home. On the way, he collects not only his two sisters but an...

  • Curse of the Lake Monster

    Laura Dower

    Based on the new live-action movie on Cartoon Network! The movie is sure to score high ratings, and our novel is sure to score big sales. The kids from Mystery, Inc. are off on another adventure. They're heading to the lake at Erie Pointe, where t...

  • Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham?

    Dr. Seuss

    This simple board book based on the Beginner Book Green Eggs and Ham sports a green plastic egg for little ones to squeeze and spin. Kids can see their reflection in a mini-mirror on the back of the egg, spin it on its axis, and press the yolk to mak...

  • The Secrets Sisters Keep

    Abby Drake

    Sisters should be the best of friends, but . . . When it comes to family secrets, the four Dalton sisters have had more than their share. Then quirky, spirited Uncle Edward decides to throw a seventy-fifth birthday celebration and wanders off, lea...

  • The Dazzle Disaster Dinner Party

    Sharon M. Draper

    Sassy wants to cook a fancy meal and it turns out to be a disaster. The recipe goes wrong. The cooking is a mess. And -- the dog eats the cake. Thank goodness for friends and for all of the wonderful items Sassy stashes in her sack. Who knew stuff ...

  • Corpse in Waiting

    Margaret Duffy

    The brand-new Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley mystery - Ingrid Langley and her husband and colleague Patrick Gillard, late of M15 and now working for the Serious and Organized Crime Agency, decide to holiday in Bath. It may be close to home, but t...

  • The Cross-Eyed Bear

    John Dufresne
    in

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....

  • Enchanted Ivy

    Sarah Beth Durst

    What Lily Carter wants most in the world is to attend Princeton University just like her grandfather. When she finally visits the campus, Grandpa surprises her: She has been selected to take the top-secret Legacy Test. Passing means automatic accepta...

  • Cade Coulter's Return

    Lois Faye Dyer

    COWBOY, COME HOME When he left Montana thirteen years ago, Cade Coulter swore he'd never return. But Joseph Coulter's first-born couldn't turn his back on the ailing family ranch. Or the woman who'd been given a home at the Triple C. With his irres...

  • Friends in Need

    Joan Early

    When their seemingly perfect marriage is threatened by financial issues and constant fighting, Joanna Carpenter Dixon and Danny, who have always been faithful to each other, are tempted to stray, especially when a sexually frustrated friend gets invo...

  • All I Want for Christmas

    Cynthia Eden
    in

    Good girl toy inventor Christie takes a walk on the naughty side when she sparks a no-strings fling with Santa -- actually, sexy cop Jonas in a Santa suit. She loves her new "bad girl" persona, except as the holidays approach, she starts falling, and...

  • Olivia Claus

    Kama Einhorn

    It was the night before Christmas, and Olivia discovers that her favorite stuffed monkey, Mathilda, is missing. Not only is Mathilda missing, but other favorites keep disappearing around the house too. In the true spirit of Christmas, Olivia figures ...

  • Facelift

    Leanna Ellis

    When her colorful ex-mother-in-law moves in after a botched facelift, home stager Kaye Redmond begins her own journey toward emotional and spiritual renewal....

  • Ultimate Comics Iron Man: Armor Wars

    Warren Ellis

    Collects Ultimate Comics Armor Wars #1-4. The Iron Man armor has fallen into the hands of the world’s criminal underground. The Ultimates have disbanded, the world is in ruins and Stark’s money has finally found its limits. And the only way to...

  • Old World Murder

    Kathleen Ernst

    Hoping to leave behind her heartbreaking past, Chloe Ellefson makes a fresh start as the new collections curator at Old World Wisconsin. This outdoor ethnic museum charms visitors with authentic historical artifacts and costumed employees who churn b...

  • Meet the Beast

    Nate Evans

    Is there a monster living under your bed? Meet Otto Zeke and Hannah's new best friend-even if he is a beast. It's up to Zeke and his sister to keep this mini-monster out of their candy, out of their school...and out of trouble Will they be able...

  • Promise Me

    Richard Paul Evans

    "As you read my story, there is something I want you to understand. That in spite of all the pain -- past, present and that still to come -- I wouldn’t have done anything differently. Nor would I trade the time I had with him for anything -- except...

  • Olivia Goes to Venice

    Ian Falconer

    In her first brand new adventure in three years, Olivia takes her discerning eye for style to beautiful Venice on a family vacation that involves dodging pigeons in the Piazza San Marco, gorging on gelato, and barely staying afloat in a gondola. ...

  • The Case Of Colonel Warburton's Madness

    Lyndsay Faye
    in

    Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist)....

  • Crescendo

    Becca Fitzpatrick

    Nora should have known her life was far from perfect. Despite starting a relationship with her guardian angel, Patch (who, title aside, can be described as anything but angelic), and surviving an attempt on her life, things are not looking up. Patch ...

  • Halt's Peril

    John Flanagan

    Rangers walk the line between life and death every day, but never before has that line appeared so thin or death felt so certain. Hot on the trail of the Outsiders -- a cult that's been making its way from kingdom to kingdom, conning the innocent ou...

  • Whirligig

    Paul Fleischman

    A terrible accident ends one life, but is just the beginning for another... Brent Bishop is sent on a journey of repentance -- a cross-country trip building whirligigs. His wind toys are found by people in need: a Maine schoolgirl yearning for her...

  • Essential Ghost Rider - Volume 4

    Michael Fleisher

    Despite his posession by the demon Zarathos, Johnny Blaze seems to have found a home among the performers of a traveling carnival--but his adventures don't stop there! Get a ringside seat as the Spirit of Vengeance battles ghosts, misshapen freaks an...

  • The Queen's Jewels

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    In the brand-new novel in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher takes a cruise through some rough-and deadly-seas. Jessica Fletcher has always wanted to take a transatlantic voyage on the legendary Queen Mary II. Now, she's finally ge...

  • Mother Had a Secret

    Tiffany Fletcher

    As a teenager, Tiffany Fletcher knew that her mother, Vickie, had been brutally abused as a child. She knew that the abuse caused her mother's severe mental and emotional instability, which brought painful complications for the entire family. But unt...

  • 1635: The Eastern Front

    Eric Flint

    The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, a new nation led by Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by M...

  • Gingerbread Cookie Murder

    Joanne Fluke
    in

    When Hannah Swensen finds her neighbor Ernie Kusak with his head bashed in and sprawled on the floor of his condo next to an upended box of Hannah's Gingerbread Cookies, she discovers a flurry of murder suspects that's as long as her holiday shopping...

  • A Bullet for the Utah Kid

    T.T. Flynn

  • American Assassin

    Vince Flynn

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN INTRODUCES THE YOUNG MITCH RAPP ON HIS FIRST ASSIGNMENT, A MISSION OF VENGEANCE THAT MADE HIM A CIA SUPERAGENT. Two decades after the Cold War, Islamic terrorism is on the rise, and CIA Operations Dir...

  • When the Sun Goes Down

    Gwynne Forster

    "When the sun goes down on my life, you'll all come apart like ripped balloons." When stingy self-made millionaire and widower Leon Farrell dies, he leaves behind a legacy of family dysfunction--and a missing will. It's soon clear that his three ...

  • Tattoos and Mistletoe

    Susan Fox (1)
    in

    Charlie returns to her hometown to fix up her aunt's B&B, but she doesn't count on LJ handling the renovations. Nerdy LJ pined for her in school, but now he's grown into the town's hottest bachelor. Charlie's been burned before and won't let him get ...

  • Palo Alto

    James Franco

    A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco. Palo Alto is the debut of a surprising and powerful new literary voice. Wri...

  • Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

    Tom Franklin

    In the 1970s. Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single ...

  • A Perfect Scandal

    Tina Gabrielle

    A LADY SEEKING SCANDAL Lady Isabel Cameron has little use for marriage and propriety. Her dream is to study art in Paris. But her father has engaged her to a waddling, bankrupt, domineering lord twice her age. When her childhood flame Marcus Hawksle...

  • Avengers - The Initiative: Dreams & Nightmares

    Christos Gage

    A shocking new era for the Initiative! Where Camp Hammond once trained future Avengers, Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. now trains tomorrow's Dark Avengers! Under orders from Norman Osborn, your new Principals are Taskmaster and the criminal kingpin, the Hood. The...

  • No Ordinary Man

    Abby Gaines
    in

    Race car driver Eli Ward is happiest behind the wheel...when he isn't being pursued by too many eligible females. But ever since he asked Jennifer Ashby to pose as his girlfriend, the happy-go-lucky racing star has eyes only for her. Except Jen's no ...

  • My Father's Angels

    Gloria Gaither

    By award-winning author and lyricist, Gloria Gaither The companion picture books My Father’s Angels, Ordinary Baby, Extraordinary Gift and I Am a Promise all come with a bonus CD, making a trio of great music, inspiring lyrics, and dazzling art. My...

  • Ordinary Baby, Extraordinary Gift

    Gloria Gaither

    By award-winning author and lyricist, Gloria Gaither The companion picture books My Father’s Angels, Ordinary Baby, Extraordinary Gift and I Am a Promise all come with a bonus CD, making a trio of great music, inspiring lyrics, and dazzling art. My...

  • The Making of a Gentleman

    Shana Galen

    Stripped of his humanity... Armand, Comte de Valère, has spent twelve long years forgotten in a French prison. Now he's barely a man, until his beautiful tutor vows to help him come alive again... Prey to a terrible fate... Felicity Bennett finds...

  • Beautiful Darkness

    Kami Garcia; Margaret Stohl

    Some secrets are life-altering… others are life-ENDING. Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed...

  • That Runaway Summer

    Darlene Gardner

    An honest woman...with secrets For Jill Jacobi, who's on the run with her younger brother, Indigo Springs is the perfect place to hide. So no matter how powerfully attracted she is to the kind veterinarian, Dan Maguire is a risk she can't afford to ...

  • Trance

    Linda Gerber

    Ashlyn Greenfield has always known when bad things are going to happen. Each time that familiar tingling at the back of her neck begins, she knows what's to come a trance. She's pulled in, blindsided, an unwilling witness to a horrible upcoming event...

  • Ice Claw

    David Gilman

    Max Gordon: Wanted for Murder High in the freezing French Pyrenees, Max Gordon's race to win an X-treme sports challenge has become a race to survive. He witnesses the last moments of a mysterious Basque monk, who screams a cryptic clue before plu...

  • The Half-Made World

    Felix Gilman

    A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realism The world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the ...

  • The Weight of Stone

    Laura Anne Gilman

    An island nation has vanished. Men of honor and magic have died unnatural deaths. Slaves flee in terror. . . . Are the silent gods beginning to speak? Or is another force at work in the Lands Vin? Laura Anne Gilman's critically acclaimed, Nebula Awa...

  • Mummy Told Me Not to Tell

    Cathy Glass

  • The Extinguished Guest

    Jeanne Glidewell

    Stone Van Patten the online jeweler Lexie Starr met in Leave No Stone Unturned has moved back to the Midwest to be closer to her. He's purchased and restored a turn-of-the-century historic mansion naming it the Alexandria Inn in her honor. Together t...

  • Bright Young Things

    Anna Godbersen

    The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties. Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for N...

  • The Story of Holly and Ivy

    Rumer Godden

    Ivy, Holly, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones all have one Christmas wish. Ivy, an orphan, wishes for a real home and sets out in search of the grandmother she's sure she can find. Holly, a doll, wishes for a child to bring her to life. And the Joneses wish mor...

  • The False Friend

    Myla Goldberg

    From the bestselling author of Bee Season comes an astonishingly complex psychological drama with a simple setup: two eleven-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods. Only one comes out... Leaders of a mercurial clique of g...

  • The Shattering

    Christie Golden

    Thrall, wise shaman and the warchief of the Horde, has sensed a disturbing change . . . Long ago, Azeroth's destructive native elementals raged across the world until the benevolent titans imprisoned them within the Elemental Plane. Despite the t...

  • The Silver Sea

    Julia Golding

    Freydis has been left for dead following a raid on her father’s stronghold Her brother has been taken prisoner. Her father, a Viking leader, is bent on revenge and takes her on his quest, giving her Enno -- a most unusual slave -- to protect her. A...

  • A Christmas Waltz

    Jane Goodger

    To Lady Amelia Wellesley, it seems utterly romantic to surprise her dashing fiance at his home in Texas so the two can marry by Christmas. But Amelia's surprise goes awry when Carson Kitteridge calls off their wedding as soon as she arrives, leaving ...

  • Stranglehold

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    When political consultant Dev Conrad agreed to work with Congresswoman Susan Cooper, he didn t know that the worst threat her re-election campaign would face would come from ......

  • The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter

    John Gosselink

    Designed like a case file, chock-full of notes, journal entries, letters, e-mails, illustrations, and more, The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter is a hilarious middle-grade novel that argues why Thaddeus should be released from his in-school suspensi...

  • True Things (Adults Don't Want Kids to Know)

    Jimmy Gownley

    Meet Amelia Louise McBride. She was forced to move out of Manhattan after her parents decided to get divorced, and is now living in a small town. She's survived being the new kid, multiple trips to the principal's office, and even her first kiss. But...

  • The Accidental Wedding

    Anne Gracie

    After an accident, a dashing rogue awakens in a country cottage, where he is being nursed back to health by one innocent beauty and five not-so-innocent orphaned children... When Nash Renfrew wakes in the bed of lovely Maddy Woodford, he thinks he's...

  • The Dressmaker

    Posie Graeme-Evans

    Ellen Gowan is the only surviving child of a scholarly village minister and a charming girl disowned by her family when she married for love. Growing up in rural Norfolk, Ellen's childhood was poor but blessed with affection. Resilience, spirit, and ...

  • The Keepers

    Heather Graham

    New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Heather Graham introduces the thrilling world of the MacDonald sisters. Born into a legacy, they balance the fate of the world and the passion that might force them to risk it all . . . At the core of...

  • Christmas Present

    Amanda Grange
    in

    From two bestselling and a debut author comes heartwarming Christmas tales sure to delight Jane Austen fans From Amanda Grange, the bestselling author of "Mr. Darcy's Diary "and "Mr. Darcy, Vampyre, "Christmas finds the Darcy's celebrating the holid...