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  • Wolverine & The X-Men by Jason Aaron Vol. 3

    Jason Aaron

    Collects Wolverine & The X-Men #9-13. AVX tie-in! Wolverine is torn between two teams! Cyclops comes to the Jean Grey School to extend an olive branch, but will Wolverine's X-Men join their estranged ex-teammates against the Avengers? Plus: Icema...

  • Ghost of Christmas Present

    Scott Abbott; Amy Maude Swinton

    It’s the fourth Wednesday of November, and Patrick Guthrie is giving thanks. He’s giving thanks that his eight-year-old son, Braden, will finally have a procedure on his heart that will cure him of the same life-threatening condition that took Pa...

  • Superhero Silliness

    Tony Abbott

    Jeff, Mara, Brian, and Kelly are Goofballs and proud of it. Goofball private eyes. Together, they solve mysteries. How do they discover the truth? They use funny disguises (dressing up in aluminum foil), nutty inventions (dropped notes the bad guys m...

  • Nova Vol. 3: Secret Invasion

    Dan Abnett

    Collects Nova #13-18. Not even Nova can stop the forece of nature that is Galactus so it's up to Rich Rider to help evacuate the planet. But can he expect any help from his friend and current herald - the Silver Surfer? Then, Nova rockets into the...

  • Kissing Under the Mistletoe

    Marina Adair

    Regan Martin stopped believing in Christmas miracles six years ago when she lost everything -- her house, her job, and her impeccable reputation in the wine industry -- after she fell in love with a man she had no idea was married. Then Regan gets a ...

  • A Cat Tells Two Tales

    Lydia Adamson

    For the first time in one volume, two twisting tales featuring off-off Broadway actress turned sleuth Alice Nestleton and her crime-solving cats Bushy and Pancho… A Cat in a Manger It’s the holiday season and Alice is hoping for a merry littl...

  • Foundation

    Ann Aguirre

    In Ann Aguirre’s award-winning novel, "Enclave," humans have taken refuge in colonies below ground. Here is the story of what drove them there, told through the eyes of a teen who would later have vast influence over the fate of many, and who gave ...

  • NEGIMA! 25

    Ken Akamatsu

    A TRICK OF FATE When the Festival of Ostia begins, Fate Averruncus emerges from hiding to set his evil plans into motion. But first he gives Negi a proposition. If Negi promises not to interfere with Fate’s plot, he will allow Negi and the girls t...

  • NEGIMA! 27

    Ken Akamatsu

    INVINCIBLE It’s time for the final match to decide the winner of the Nagi Cup, but Negi must compete against martial arts legend Jack Rakan. Will Negi’s intense training and new trump cards be enough to beat the unbeatable hero? ...

  • NEGIMA! 19

    Ken Akamatsu

    WIN OR DIE! It’s summer break -- a time when most kids are getting ready for a vacation full of fun and friends. But not Asuna. She’s prepping for the challenge of her life. She’s started a new school club that’s devoted to helping Negi find...

  • NEGIMA! 22

    Ken Akamatsu

  • Crewel

    Gennifer Albin

    What a tangled world she weaves... For generations, Spinsters have been called by Arras’s Manipulation Services to work the looms and determine what people eat, where they live, how many children they have, and even when they die. Gifted with th...

  • Everything Changes But You

    Maggie Alderson

  • To Whisper Her Name

    Tamera Alexander

    Olivia Aberdeen, destitute widow of a man shot as a traitor to the South, is shunned by proper society and gratefully accepts an invitation from "Aunt" Elizabeth Harding, mistress of Belle Meade Plantation. Expecting to be the Harding's head housekee...

  • Death in the Floating City

    Tasha Alexander

    Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite society when she eloped with an Italian count. But now her father-in-law lies murdered, and her husband has fled, making him the prime suspect. Alone in her empty palazzo, there's ...

  • What Happens at Christmas

    Victoria Alexander

    Camille, Lady Lydingham, knows precisely what she wants for Christmas -- an official engagement to a handsome, dashing prince. Her very proper suitor expects a proper English family and the perfect Dickensian Christmas, which leaves the lovely wido...

  • Killer Kool

    Martha Ambrose

    It's October on Coral Island, and Mallie Monroe is learning how to multitask: she's juggling two men, Nick and Cole; helping her office pal, Sandy, plan a fall wedding; and trying to find a way to adjust to her new assignment as the Observer's foo...

  • Peril in Paradise

    Martha Ambrose

    When free spirit Mallie Monroe finally decides to settle down, she hauls her antique Airstream trailer and teacup poodle to Coral Island, Florida, where she takes a reporting job at the local newspaper. Her restless, gypsy lifestyle is finally behind...

  • Island Intrigue

    Martha Ambrose

  • In This Town

    Beth Andrews

    She's on a mission to get out -- not get involved Single mom Tori Sullivan is ready to grab the life she's always wanted -- away from Mystic Point. And initially, newcomer Walker Bertrand seems the ideal partner for her adventure. His appeal makes...

  • Get Money Chicks

    Anna J.

    For Mina, Shanna, and Karen, using what they have to get what they want is always an option. Best friends since day one, these "get money chicks" have a thing for the hottest gear, luxurious lifestyles, and the ballers who make it all possible. All o...

  • Ruins of Lace

    Iris Anthony

    Lace is a thing like hope. It is beauty; it is grace. It was never meant to destroy so many lives. The mad passion for forbidden lace has infiltrated France, pulling soldier and courtier alike into its web. For those who want the best, Flemish l...

  • Block 11

    Piero degli Antoni

    From an award-winning author comes an audacious, high-concept noir set in Auschwitz that straddles past and present New York, the present: An old woman and her husband sit down for a breakfast of black bread and coffee at a table set for ten. Eigh...

  • Out of Reach

    Carrie Arcos

    How do you find someone who doesn’t want to be found? A girl searches for her missing addict brother while confronting her own secrets in this darkly lyrical novel. Rachel has always idolized her older brother Micah. He struggles with addiction,...

  • Nobody's Perfect

    Victoria Ardito

    Summer Raine Jackson thought she had the perfect life, until her husband's infidelity was broadcast live on a radio program. Floundering after her divorce, she takes a temporary job at her sister's parenting services company while simultaneously plan...

  • Ten Creepy Monsters

    Carey Armstrong-Ellis

    Ten creepy monsters met ’neath a gnarled pine. One blew away, And then there were nine. And so the countdown begins . . . A mummy, a witch, a ghost, a werewolf, a vampire, and others all gather, but one by one their crowd diminishes. At last t...

  • Out of Sight

    Amanda Ashby

    The final book in the lively, fun series for tween girls--just right for Disney Channel fans! With her powers under control and things with Jonathan on track, Sophie can now focus on learning the whole truth about her dad (not to mention trying to...

  • Mate Claimed

    Jennifer Ashley

    Eric Warden knows that half-Shifter wildcat Iona is passing for human, living without a Collar in the human world. He also knows that if she does not acknowledge her Shifter nature and her mating hunger, it could kill her. Iona finds the mysterio...

  • Miranda's Mount

    Phillipa Ashley

    When Miranda finds herself fighting for her home, her job and her heart, sleeping with the enemy may not be the best tactic... With no family of her own, Miranda Marshall has developed a healthy respect - some would say obsession - with other pe...

  • A Girl Less Ordinary

    Leah Ashton

    Eleanor has worked hard to transform herself from the lonely girl she once was. Switching braces for a breathtaking smile, dowdy clothes for fabulous dresses, and heartbreak for flirty, fun-only dates, she's now "Ella." But one man can se...

  • Dark Pleasures

    Kristi Astor
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    Guard well your desireswhat ere' they may befor the Dark Lords scour the nightlooking for thee…

    Centuries-old legends tell of enchanted forests, said to house otherworldly beings who hold court in the deepest, darkest part of the woods. During...

  • The New Hope Cafe

    Dawn Atkins

    Welcome to New Hope, AZ New Hope? Not from where Cara Price is standing. Miles from her destination, a car that won't run and a daughter she can protect only by moving, lingering in this town is not on Cara's plan. And the harder she pushes to lea...

  • The Middlesteins

    Jami Attenberg

    For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it...

  • Wild Girls

    Mary Stewart Atwell

    Daringly imagined, atmospheric, and original, Wild Girls is an exhilarating debut -- part coming-of-age story and part supernatural tale about girls learning their own strength. Kate Riordan fears two things as she grows up in the small Appalachi...

  • Beauty and the Bounty Hunter

    Lori Austin

    Cathleen Chase is no killer -- but as Cat O’Banyon, she is a ruthless bounty hunter who always gets her man. Catching one lowlife after another, she continues her search for the only man she really cares to locate. The one whose voice she will neve...

  • All Things New

    Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly and her mother, Eugenia, struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives when they return to their Virginia plantation. But the bitter realities of life after the war cannot be denied: their home a...

  • Russia's Heroes

    Albert Axell

    With Hitler's invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941, the Eastern front opened and politicians and generals around the world predicted the swift destruction of the Soviet armies. Nazi Germany threw its might against Russia: 5,000,000 men took part in the...

  • Unlocking the Spell

    E.D. Baker

    Now that Annie has helped her sister Gwendolyn (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) wake up from the 100-year curse by finding her beloved prince, you would think that things would get back to normal. Think again! That beloved prince, Beldegard, is stuck in the ...

  • The Talent Show

    Keith Baker

    American Idol for alligators? Mr. Green is a singing sensation in the shower at home. But at the town talent show, he cannot sing a note...until Mrs. Green spies a nearby hose and comes up with a splashing idea! This popular story from Lucky Days...

  • Fishing

    Keith Baker

    This Level 2 easy reading adventure finds everyone's favorite alligator couple on a fishing trip. But Mrs.Green is so frustrated! Mr. Green is catching all the fish. What's his secret? Is it his lucky hat? His new fishing pole? Or does it have someth...

  • Old MacDonald Had a Dragon

    Ken Baker

    Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on that farm he had . . . a dragon? The animals aren’t happy that there’s a dragon on the farm. But Old MacDonald likes his dragon . . . until it starts swallowing up the animals! Can Old MacDonald save hi...

  • Nine Months

    Sarah Ball

    It isn't until her boyfriend Tom heads off for his year abroad that Holly realises just how much she's going to miss him. But Tom's left her with rather more than just a passionate memory of their last night together. Holly's clothes are getting tigh...

  • Wicked Whispers

    Nina Bangs

    USA Today bestselling author Nina Bangs welcomes you back to the Castle of Dark Dreams, a place of otherworldly secrets and sensual men with the power to fulfill your most private fantasies. All Ivy had ever wanted was a safe, secure life with no ...

  • The Hydrogen Sonata

    Iain M. Banks

    The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, probably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years ear...

  • The Bear in the Book

    Kate Banks

    It's time for bed, and a little boy chooses his favorite book for his mother to read to him. The bear in the book is preparing for his own deep slumber, hibernating through the winter while humans and other animals explore the snowy landscape around ...

  • Ancient Light

    John Banville

    The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present liv...

  • Cash Out

    Greg Bardsley

    It's 2008. In three days, family man and Silicon Valley speechwriter Dan Jordan will see his start-up stock vest. He'll cash out with $1.1 million, turn in his frenetic Valley life in for a slower one on the beach with his wife and two children, and ...

  • Toby's Room

    Pat Barker

    From Booker Prize winner Pat Barker, a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of the Great War. Admirers of her Regeneration Trilogy as well as fans of Downton Abbey and War Horse will be enthralled. With Toby’s Room, a sequel t...

  • Bouncing Back

    Zoe Barnes

    Everybody's entitled to a bad day. But Cally Storm's bad day is worse than most. She loses her job, her home, her marriage and her self-respect, all in one fell swoop. At 30, she's back in her mum's spare room, contemplating a dismal future ... until...

  • Danger Goes Berserk

    Mac Barnett

    A twelve-year-old sleuth goes undercover -- and underwater -- to tackle three cases in this hilarious mystery. It’s a routine case… …or at least as routine as a cases get when you’re a twelve-year-old private detective who’s been sle...

  • Iron Hearted Violet

    Kelly Barnhill

    In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn't most fairy tales. Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling...

  • Santa from Cincinnati

    Judi Barrett

    Everything you ever wanted to know about Santa, as told to the author of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by the big guy himself. As you might imagine, the early life of Santa Claus was a liiiiiiiittle different from the childhood of your average...

  • Bear Bait

    Pamela Beason

    Wildlife biologist and writer Summer “Sam” Westin loves the wilderness. But her latest attempt to protect nature may just get her burned… Sam Westin is working on a twelve-week project for the National Park Service as a biologist and a vol...

  • Echo of the Reich

    James Becker

    A deadly weapon uncovered... A decades-old conspiracy... A race to save a city... Berlin, 1936: When African-American Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in the Olympic Games, Hitler refuses to place the medals around Owens’s neck and vows to de...

  • Sultry with a Twist

    Macy Beckett

    When Mae-June July Augustine hightailed it out of Sultry Springs, Texas, with her heart in pieces, she swore she'd never return. But nine years later, one thing stands between June and her dream of opening an upscale martini bar: a month of community...

  • The Devil Doesn't Want Me

    Eric Beetner

    A hit man with a crisis of conscience faces his biggest challenge yet: protecting an innocent victim against deadly forces during a desperate run for the coast in Eric Beetner's thrilling novel. For the last seventeen years, Lars has been on a jo...

  • The Secret Cellar

    Michael D. Beil

    Mysteries seem to find the Red Blazer Girls: when Sophie finds a secret message in the antique fountain pen she bought for her father, the girls are on a case. Soon, they're at the home of the pen's original owner, a secretive man who kept to himself...

  • Daughter of the Sword

    Steve Bein

    Mariko Oshiro is not your average Tokyo cop. As the only female detective in the city’s most elite police unit, she has to fight for every ounce of respect, especially from her new boss. While she wants to track down a rumored cocaine shipment, he ...

  • The Hiding Place

    David Bell

    Sometimes it’s easier to believe a lie. Twenty-five-years ago, the disappearance of four-year-old Justin Manning rocked the small town of Dove Point, Ohio. After his body was found in a shallow grave in the woods two months later, the repercussi...

  • Christmas in Bliss

    Michele Ashman Bell

    It’s Christmas Eve, and Nikki Michaels is on the last leg of her drive to celebrate the holidays at home. Though Christmas doesn’t quite hold the same magic it did when she was younger, Nikki’s idea of a merry Christmas is sharing in the festiv...

  • Halloween Night on Shivermore Street

    Meg Belviso

    There's a Halloween party on Shivermore Street, and everyone -- from dancing mummies to musical witches -- is coming. There'll be whipped-cream-covered ants, pumpkin carving, apple bobbing, and a special surprise when the masks come off at the end of...

  • Powers, Volume 14: Gods

    Brian Michael Bendis

    God is dead! And Walker and Sunrise are investigating his murder. Yeah. God. Don't believe me? Then buy the book and find out what's going on in this cops and capes drama that has NO RULES!! Oh, and Deena Pilgrim returns and the how and why is going ...

  • Bowl of Heaven

    Gregory Benford; Larry Niven

    In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven ("Ringworld") and Gregory Benford ("Timescape"), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astoni...

  • Little Lies

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    Perfect for fans of Lauren Conrad's L.A. CANDY series, this e-original sequel to "Amen, L.A". is full of sizzle, scandal, and secrets. Before she moved to L.A., Natalie and her boyfriend, Sean, got really close. She's not sure how she feels abou...

  • Only Superhuman

    Christopher L. Bennett

    2107 AD: A generation ago, Earth and the cislunar colonies banned genetic and cybernetic modifications. But out in the Asteroid Belt, anything goes. Dozens of flourishing space habitats are spawning exotic new societies and strange new varieties of h...

  • The Berenstain Bears to the Rescue

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Berenstain Bears Get the Scaredies

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Gnarled tree branches; a mouse; strangely shaped shadows; the dark at the top of the stairs. Everybody's afraid of something, but that doesn't make you a scare-dy bear. It just makes you normal. That's the lesson in this ultra simple picture book tha...

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Wild, Wild Honey

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Berenstain Bears' Soccer Star

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Neighborly Skunk

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Berenstain Bears Shoot the Rapids

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Secret History of Hobgoblins

    Ari Berk

    Professor Ari Berk returns to reveal another trove of magical history to his avid readers: the history of the humble hobgoblin. Every house holds a mystery. Behind the door, beside the stove, under the stairs, along the roads -- Hobgoblins ha...

  • Recipe for Trouble

    Sheryl Berk; Carrie Berk

    Meet Lexi Poole. To Lexi, a new school year means back to baking with her BFFs in the cupcake club. But the club president, Kylie, is mixing things up by inviting new members. And Lexi is in for a not-so-sweet surprise when she is cast in the school'...

  • The Sleeper's Moon

    Jon Berkeley

  • The Things That Matter

    Nate Berkus

    Does your home tell the story of who you are? In "The Things That Matter," Nate Berkus shares intimate stories from his life, introduces us to people who influenced him and helped him forge his sense of style, and opens up about the remarkable e...

  • My Husband and My Wives

    Charles Rowan Beye

  • Field of Schemes

    John Billheimer

    When a hotshot minor league outfielder asks his trainer, Dale Loren, for steroids, Loren supplies a harmless mixture of cold cream and lemon juice, telling him it's a brand-new steroid that can't be detected by baseball's drug testing regimen. Believ...

  • Winter According to Humphrey

    Betty G. Birney

    A hamsterific celebration of the best time of the year Room 26 is abuzz. The students are making costumes and practicing their special songs for the Winter Wonderland program and Humphrey is fascinated by all the ways his classmates celebrate the ...

  • Be Still My Soul

    Joanne Bischof

    Night’s chill tickled her skin. Lonnie pressed her hands together and glanced up. He was even more handsome up close. Having grown up the shy, awkward daughter of Joel Sawyer, she’d hardly spoken to any boy, let alone the one who had mothers whis...

  • Sacrificial Offerings

    Michael A. Black

    Things couldn’t be worse for Sergeant Frank Leal. He’s assigned a homicide at a seedy motel that suddenly develops into a “heater.” Leal’s regular partner‚ Olivia Hart‚ is reassigned to the SWAT team. He’s also saddled with a colle...

  • Stealth the Ghost Panther

    Adam Blade

    Tom must battle the most dangerous Ghost Beasts yet! The evil Wizard Malvel's final Beast has reached the doors of King Hugo's palace! Stealth the Ghost Panther lassoes victims with his three tails, scratching the good citizens of Avantia and turn...

  • The Elementals

    Francesca Lia Block

    From a star YA author Francesca Lia Block -- an adult novel about a student, haunted by the disappearance of a friend, who must face the truth The Elementals is on one level an intriguing coming-of-age novel about a young woman, Ariel Silverman, f...

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation 365

    Paula M. Block

    With the launch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gene Roddenberry somehow managed to recapture lightning in a bottle. This new incarnation of Star Trek was an instant hit, and its popularity inspired four films and three spin-off television series....

  • A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors

    Anthony Blond

    With the recent success of 'Rome' on BBC2, no one will look at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Caesars is a must-read for all interested in what really went on in a...

  • Marriage of Inconvenience

    Cheryl Bolen

    Proposing to the Earl of Aynsley seems a sensible -- if unconventional -- solution to Miss Rebecca Peabody's predicament. As a married woman, she will be free to keep writing her essays on civil reform. Meanwhile, the distinguished widower will gain ...

  • Josiah for President

    Martha Bolton

    When former Congressman Mark Stedman throws in the towel on his presidential campaign, his only choice is to return to his home state and decide how to spend the rest of his life ... until he meets Josiah Stoltzfus, an Amish farmer from Pennsylvania....

  • Drop Dead on Recall

    Sheila Webster Boneham

    When a top-ranked competitor keels over at a dog obedience trial, photographer Janet MacPhail is swept up in a maelstrom of suspicion, jealousy, cut-throat competition, death threats, pet-napping, and murder. She becomes a “person of interest” to...

  • The Dyno-Mite Dog Show

    Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud

    Knock. Knock. Listen up! Agnes and The Secret Knock Club are doing a community service project at The Brookside Retirement Village. But will the dog show (and canine wedding) be a success? Or a dog-gone disaster? Especially after Principal Not-Such-a...

  • Blood Notes

    Paul Boor

    Dr. Peter Mallow, a world-renowned university scientist hot on the trail of a lethal Asian bird flu, becomes concerned over the erratic behavior of his newest research student. He records his observations about the troubled young man in a common labo...

  • Deadly Patterns

    Melissa Bourbon

    Bliss, Texas, is gearing up for its annual Winter Wonderland festival, but when a mysterious Scrooge ends the merriment with murder, it’ll take more than a ghost from Christmas past to set things right. Designing a holiday fashion show set in th...

  • On the Run

    Clara Bourreau

    A young boy discovers the real whereabouts of his absent father--jail! Anthony hasn't seen his dad in years. The reason: His father is busy traveling the world as a wildlife photographer -- at least, according to Anthony's mom and sister. The real...

  • Masked Ball at Broxley Manor

    Rhys Bowen

    A delectable prequel to the national bestselling Royal Spyness mysteries featuring Lady Georgiana Rannoch -- thirty forth in line to the throne, and England's poorest heiress. At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady G...

  • The Amazing Hamweenie

    Patty Bowman

    A truly unique debut about a precocious cat with BIG dreams Dressed in his signature top hat and black cape, Hamweenie is poised to earn his place among the most famous celebrities and daredevils of all time. From the stage to the red carpet, the ...

  • Christmas Parade

    Sandra Boynton

    A delightful Christmas picture book filled with hilarious characters and dynamic art from the one and only Sandra Boynton! BOOM biddy BOOM biddy BOOM BOOM BOOM! What’s that noise filling the room? From this rousing beginning unfolds Christm...

  • The Ring of Wind

    Chris Bradford

    Jack Fletcher is battling the high seas. Ambushed by the Shogun's samurai, Jack and his friends have only one hope of escape - the Seto Sea. But with ferocious storms, man-eating sharks and ninja pirates at every turn, their chosen route is fraught w...

  • The Ring of Water

    Chris Bradford

    Jack Fletcher has been left for dead. Bruised and battered, Jack Fletcher wakes up in a roadside inn wrapped only in a dirty kimono. He has lost everything, including his memory of what happened. Determined to discover the truth, Jack goes on a quest...

  • The Ring of Sky

    Chris Bradford

    Jack Fletcher is running for his life. The port of Nagasaki is within reach, but the Shogun's samurai are closing in fast for the kill. So is too Jack's old school rival, Kazuki. Every road is blocked and every mountain pass guarded as Jack makes his...

  • The Ring of Earth

    Chris Bradford

    Jack Fletcher is on the run. With no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki and perhaps home...But the Shogun's samurai are hot ...

  • The Ring of Fire

    Chris Bradford

    Jack Fletcher faces his toughest challenge yet. After a snowstorm forces him to take shelter, Jack comes across a village in need of protection from raiding mountain bandits. Torn between moving on or helping, Jack is persuaded to stay and fight the ...

  • Storybook Dad

    Laura Bradford

    Real Life Is Not A Fairy Tale...Right? When Mark Reynolds first meets Emily Todd, he's smitten. So is Seth, his son-which is why Mark has to nip this attraction in the bud. Emily's been honest about her diagnosis, and Mark can't put Seth through ...

  • Double Vision

    F.T. Bradley

    One's a Secret Agent, One's Not. Twelve-year-old Linc is a trouble-maker with a dilemma. His antics on a recent school field trip went way overboard, landing his already poor family with a serious lawsuit. So when two secret agents show up at his...

  • The Last Lawman

    Peter Brandvold

    Sure, Spurr will retire someday…when the outlaws do. Federal Deputy Marshal Spurr Morgan may be an old dog in the business of tracking down desperados, but where his body may fail him, his instincts remain unmatched. Spurr has his sights set on ...

  • Society Sinners

    Jamie Brenner

    What price would you pay for happiness? For Charlotte, freedom from her marriage might be the one thing she can't afford. After a passionate night with Jake, Charlotte can't help but wish she was a free, unmarried woman. But when a trip to visit h...

  • Vice or Virtue

    Jamie Brenner

    What price would you pay for happiness? For Charlotte, freedom from her marriage might be the one thing she can't afford. After Charlotte is caught in a compromising position, she becomes a virtual prisoner, trapped by her husband in her own home....

  • Little White Lies

    Jamie Brenner

    What price would you pay for happiness? For Charlotte, freedom from her marriage might be the one thing she can't afford. Charlotte's cloistered, high society world quickly spirals out of control as she discovers her husband, William, is keeping ...

  • Second Chance

    Heather Brewer

    The stakes are life or death The summer after Joss failed to kill the vampire Vladimir Tod, he gets a second chance to prove himself as a Slayer. He is sent to New York City to hunt down a serial killer that the Slayer Society believes is a vampir...

  • The Unfailing Light

    Robin Bridges

    Lush and opulent, romantic and sinister, The Unfailing Light, Volume II in The Katerina Trilogy, reimagines the lives of Russia's aristocracy in a fabulously intoxicating and page-turning fantasy. Having had no choice but to use her power has a ne...

  • Wish Upon a Party

    Phoebe Bright

    It's the series you've been wishing for -- each book comes with a special charm! It's just like magic! The new boy staying at the B&B is supposed to do magic tricks at a birthday party --- but he's not very good. His tricks are always going wrong!...

  • The Christmas Wish

    Phoebe Bright

  • Crazy Little Thing

    Tracy Brogan

    If Sadie Turner is good at anything, it’s putting stuff in order. So when she finds her “perfect” life in disarray, she hopes a summer vacation at her aunt’s lake house will help her piece it back together. She wants to relax, reboot, and hea...

  • Mistletoe Cowboy

    Carolyn Brown

    'Tis the season for... •A matchmaking grandma on a long-disantance mission •Mistletoe temptation in every doorway •A sexy cowboy with a killer smile When Gran Presely agrees to sell Creed Riley the Rockin' C Ranch for a song at Christ...

  • Iced Chiffon

    Duffy Brown

    There’s always something to gossip about in Savannah, Georgia, and Reagan Summerside always seems to be in the middle of it. She’s busy enough running her consignment shop, The Prissy Fox, with her vivacious Auntie KiKi, but now the gossip -- and...

  • The Runaway Princess

    Hester Browne

    "The Princess Diaries" meets "Runaway Bride" in this wonderful novel about a London career girl who embarks on a whirlwind romance with a mysterious man--only to discover that he's a prince. Renowned for her fresh and lively characters and sharp wit...

  • Daredevil by Ed Brubaker & Michael Lark Ultimate Collection - Book 3

    Ed Brubaker

    Critically acclaimed, award-winning creators Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark conclude their explosive run! The Hand is back in New York, and Lady Bullseye is in league with them! The Kingpin has also returned, forging a surprising pact with Daredevil to...

  • Criminal: The Deluxe Edition - Volume 2

    Ed Brubaker

    The second oversized hardback of the award-winning crime series from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is finally here! The first edition has gone through four printings, in sellout after sellout, and now the rest of Brubaker and Phillips' noir masterpie...

  • Captain America by Ed Brubaker - Volume 3

    Ed Brubaker

    Collects Captain America #11-14 & Captain America #328. A new Scourge on the hunt! As the body count rises, Captain America must contend with a vicious new killer wearing the demonic visage of his old enemy. For Cap, the only thing tougher than t...

  • Winter Soldier - Volume 1: The Longest Winter

    Ed Brubaker

    Collects Winter Soldier #1-5 & Fear Itself #7.1: Captain America. He's been Bucky and Captain America - now, James Barnes returns to the role of the Winter Soldier! When ex-Russian sleeper agents awaken, Bucky and the Black Widow must go on the ...

  • The Silence

    Alison Bruce

    DC Gary Goodhew searches for the link between an old woman's terminal illness, a brutal murder, and a series of suicides in Cambridge. Joey McCarthy is stabbed to death in a parking lot in a random act of violence. Shortly afterward, Charlotte S...

  • Bumpy Ride Ahead!

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Welcome to Holmes County, Ohio, where twins Mattie and Mark Miller are in for quite a bumpy ride. When their selfishness begins to cause big trouble at every turn, will these energetic nine-year-olds learn the value of sharing before it’s too late?...

  • Ghosts of Manhattan

    Douglas Brunt

    A wryly comic, first-person debut novel offering a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul. ...

  • Who Built the Stable?

    Ashley Bryan

    Who built the stable where Jesus lay? Multiple Coretta Scott King Award"winner Ashley Bryan has a very good idea in this beautiful and moving new layer to the nativity story. Riding in an open Jeep across the plains of Africa, beloved and nation...

  • Shapeasaurus

    Megan E. Bryant

    In this new series of concept-based, shaped dinosaur board books, little ones will learn dinosaur names for every letter of the alphabet, identify bold shapes, practice counting skills, and discover the bright colors in the dinosaur world. Both kid-f...

  • Between Two Fires

    Christopher Buehlman

    His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was hailed as “genre-bending Southern horror” (California Literary Review), “graceful [and] horrific” (Patricia Briggs). Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age -- one ...

  • Snowmen at Work

    Caralyn Buehner

    If you were a snowman, what job would you choose? Ten years ago, on the publication of Snowmen at Night, we discovered the secret lives of snowmen. While we humans sleep, the snowmen go sledding, play baseball, and drink cocoa. But now it's reveal...

  • Captain America and Hawkeye

    Cullen Bunn

    Something's rotten in the San Andres Mountains - and it's eating the locals! Captain America and Hawkeye investigate, but all the patriotism and arrows in the world may not be enough to save the two Avengers from a hive of dino-monstrosities! And whe...

  • Guardian

    Heather Burch

    Vigilance. The mission to safeguard Nikki Youngblood depends on the fragile alliance of two half-angel, half-human guardians, both struggling with intense feelings for the girl who has been assigned to their care. Mace, steadfast and deeply in love, ...

  • If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond

    Robert Burleigh

    In 1845 in Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau began a radical experiment: he built a cabin in the woods and lived there, alone, examining the world around him. He spent his days walking the shores of Walden Pond, growing beans, observing pla...

  • Flight of the Last Dragon

    Robert Burleigh

    What if there was but one dragon left in the world? What if dragons were more than just imaginary creatures? What if long ago they soared through our skies? And what if there was only one dragon left? Where might it hide from our machines, from ou...

  • The Hive

    Charles Burns

    From the creator of Black Hole ("The best graphic novel of the year." -- Time; "Burns's masterwork." -- The New York Times Book Review), the second part of a new epic masterpiece of graphic horror in brilliant, vivid color. Much has happened sin...

  • Papa Spy: Love, Faith, and Betrayal in Wartime Spain

    Jimmy Burns

    In the 1930s Tom Burns was a rising star of British publishing, whose friends and authors included G. K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, the artist Eric Gill and the poet David Jones. And among his glittering social circle he had set his hea...

  • Lady Louisa's Christmas Knight

    Grace Burrowes

    No one would ever guess that Lady Louisa, the most reserved of the Duke of Moreland's daughters, had published a book of racy poems under a pseydonym on a dare. Before she can buy and destroy all of the copies, a dastardly fortune hunter seeks to com...

  • His Wicked Christmas Wager

    Annie Burrows

    The last person Lord Crispin Sinclair expects to see in a disreputable inn is the woman he's there to forget: Lady Caroline Fallowfield. He hasn't forgiven her for marrying another man -- or forgotten their mutual passion. When she implores ...

  • Avengers Assemble - Volume 5

    Kurt Busiek

    Fan-favorite AVENGERS scribe Kurt Busiek's most epic tale concludes in this star-studded volume! When the time-traveling Kang the Conqueror launches an all-out war against the present day, the entire planet becomes a battlefield - and the Avengers ar...

  • The Hot Country

    Robert Olen Butler

    In The Hot Country, Christopher Marlowe Cobb ("Kit"), the swashbuckling early 20th century American newspaper war correspondent travels to Mexico in April and May of 1914, during that country’s civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz and the ...

  • Mr. Terupt Falls Again

    Rob Buyea

    The kids and teacher of Because of Mr. Terupt are back in this warm-hearted sequel. Fifth-grade was full of unforgettable events for Mr. Terupt and his class at Snow Hill School. Seven students were particularly affected by Mr. Terupt. Now those s...

  • Sermons in a Sentence

    John Bytheway

    As Latter-day Saints, we enjoy marking our scriptures. Sometimes we mark entire verses. Sometimes we mark sentences within a verse. Sometime we mark a single phrase. And sometimes, we find a sermon in a single word. This new book by bestselling autho...

  • Winter White

    Jen Calonita

    It's time for the gowns to go on and the gloves to come off. Isabelle Scott and Mirabelle Monroe are still reeling from the knowledge that they're not cousins after all-they're sisters. But with cotillion season right around the corner, the girls ...

  • Against the Tide

    Elizabeth Camden

    Love and Lives are Threatened in Camden's Latest Offering As a child, Lydia Pallas became all too familiar with uncertainty when it came to the future. Now, she's finally carved out a perfect life for herself--a life of stability and order with no...

  • Tarnished Knight

    Jack Campbell

    Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet series delivers “military science fiction at its best”* in every action-packed adventure. Now the New York Times bestselling author puts the Alliance fleet’s enemy in the spotlight as the people of the Syndicate...

  • Sea Glass Summer

    Dorothy Cannell

    During the course of a long, hot summer in the picturesque coastal village of Sea Glass, shattered lives are restored and new romance blossoms. Recovering from a painful divorce, Sarah Draycott has moved to the picture-postcard village of Sea Gla...

  • Amazing Spider-Man for Young Readers, Volume 3: Dr. Octopus

    Joe Caramagna

  • Dark Currents

    Jacqueline Carey

    Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Kushiel’s Legacy novels, presents an all-new world featuring a woman caught between the normal and paranormal worlds, while enforcing order in both. Introducing Daisy Johanssen, r...

  • The Chocolate Moose Motive

    Joanna Carl

    When Lee hires a free-spirited employee with a tie-dyed, troubled past, she discovers that even the counter-culture can conceal a killer… As much as the chocolate concoctions at TenHuis can tantalize people’s tongues, Lee’s newest hire is m...

  • My Kind of Christmas

    Robyn Carr

    PATRICK RIORDAN ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT NOTHING COULD MATCH THE ADRENALINE RUSH HE GETS FROM HIS JOB. BUT THIS CHRISTMAS, PATRICK'S PULSE IS REALLY RACING... The Riordan brothers may have a reputation for being rough-and-tumble, but Patrick has alw...

  • A Snowy Day in Bugland

    David A. Carter

    David A. Carter’s bestselling Bugs enjoy a snow day in this winter-themed Ready-to-Read that’s perfect for beginning readers. A family of Snowflake Bugs flutter to the ground. The happy Ice Skating Bug twirls around and round. Brr! I...

  • Hidden

    P.C. Cast; Kristin Cast

    In the must-read tenth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling vampyre series, Darkness won’t stay hidden for long… The House of Night series is an international phenomenon, reaching #1 on U.S., German, and UK bestseller lists, and re...

  • Underwater Dogs

    Seth Casteel

    The exuberant, exhilarating photographs of dogs underwater that have become a sensation From the water's surface, it's a simple exercise: a dog's leap, a splash, and then a wet head surfacing with a ball, triumphant. But beneath the water is a...

  • Storm Season

    Richard Castle

    Derrick Storm is hired to bug an African head of state’s hotel suite -- but the routine mission quickly spirals out of control when Storm overhears a woman’s terrifying scream on the wire. Soon, he’ll discover an international conspiracy rea...

  • Summer and Bird

    Katherine Catmull

    When their parents disappear in the middle of the night, young sisters Summer and Bird set off on a quest to find them. A cryptic picture message from their mother leads them to a familiar gate in the woods, but comfortable sights quickly give way to...

  • No Fooling

    Dori Chaconas

    Cork is a muskrat who likes small, safe adventures. Fuzz is a possum who likes big, exciting adventures. When Fuzz convinces Cork to go with him on a snowy exploration in the eighth book of this popular series, both friends discover how brave they re...

  • The Savage Fortress

    Sarwat Chadda

    In a land of ancient temples, palaces, and snake charmers, where the heroes and villains of the past never die, one slightly nerdy boy from our time IS GOING TO KICK SOME MONSTER BUTT. After three weeks of vacation, Ash Mistry is ready to leave th...

  • Fury's Kiss

    Karen Chance

    Dorina Basarab is a dhampir -- half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. But so far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who ...

  • Skating on the Edge

    Joelle Charbonneau

    Rebecca Robbins, owner of the Toe Stop roller-skating rink, is back, this time joined by a tough and sassy roller derby team, and she has a new puzzling murder to solve. It’s Native American Summer Days in Indian Falls, and Rebecca is roped into...

  • Stealth Force

    Max Chase

    It is the year 5012 and the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War, a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe, the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force--an elite f...

  • My Last Empress

    Da Chen

    A sweeping story of passion and obsession, set against the upheavals of 19th-century imperial China, by the New York Times bestselling author Da Chen When Samuel Pickens’ great love tragically loses her life, Samuel travels the globe, Annabelle...

  • Postcards from the Dead

    Laura Childs

    New Orleans is in the throes of another fantastic Mardi Gras celebration when the party gets crashed by a murderer. Now a scrapbooking sleuth is going to have to stop the partying to catch the killer… There’s a parade rolling through the hist...

  • The Crimson Crown

    Cinda Williams Chima

    A thousand years ago, two young lovers were betrayed -- Alger Waterlow to his death, and Hanalea, Queen of the Fells, to a life without love. Now, once again, the Queendom of the Fells seems likely to shatter apart. For young queen Raisa ana’Ma...

  • Five Little Monkeys Jump in the Bath

    Eileen Christelow

    When five little monkeys eat some ice cream and play in the mud, they become icky, sticky monkeys . . . and Mama says it's time for a bath! But even after those silly little monkeys scrub themselves clean, they find a way to get mucky all over again....

  • Deck Z

    Chronicle Books

    Imagine being trapped aboard the doomed Titanic on an icy Atlantic ... with the walking dead. This fast-paced thriller reimagines the historical events of the fateful Titanic voyage through the lens of zombie mayhem. Captain Edward Smith and his inne...

  • Have You Seen Marie?

    Sandra Cisneros

    The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing: a lyrically told, richly illustrated fable for grown-ups about a woman’s search for a cat who goes missing in the wake of h...

  • Weathering Rock

    Mae Clair

    Drawn together across centuries, will their love be strong enough to defeat an ancient curse? Colonel Caleb DeCardian was fighting America's Civil War on the side of the Union when a freak shower of ball lightning transported him to the present, ...

  • His Vampyrrhic Bride

    Simon Clark

    A girl . . . a boy . . . and a fearsome Viking curse that will tear them apart and unleash a terrifying creature on the world . . . What is this striking yet ghostly figure doing gliding across my lawn at midnight? Chasing the dangerously beautiful w...

  • Tiger

    Anna Claybourne

    Animals on the Edge takes a dramatic look at endangered animals around the world, and what is being done to help them. Each book focuses on a different species, taking the reader on a journey to learn about what is being done to help animals in dange...

  • Hippo

    Anna Claybourne

    Animals on the Edge takes a dramatic look at endangered animals around the world, and what is being done to help them. Each book focuses on a different species, taking the reader on a journey to learn about what is being done to help animals in dange...

  • Rhino

    Anna Claybourne

    Animals on the Edge takes a dramatic look at endangered animals around the world, and what is being done to help them. Each book focuses on a different species, taking the reader on a journey to learn about what is being done to help animals in dange...

  • What Happens Next

    Colleen Clayton

    How can you talk about something that you can't remember? Before the ski trip, Cassidy "Sid" Murphy was a cheerleader (on the bottom of the pyramid, but still...) and a straight-A student, with two of the best friends a girl could ask for. Whe...

  • A Perfect Divorce

    Francesca Clementis

    Jenny and Mark have been together since they were at school, but are now going their separate ways. They are determined that their carefully planned separation will lead to the world's first truly amicable divorce. They'll divide up their possessions...

  • The Commonplace Book

    Jacob Clifton

    The first piece of short fiction by popular Television Without Pity writer Jacob Clifton is like nothing we’ve ever read, a piece of postmodern steampunk encompassing past, present, and future all at once. Jacob writes, “There's a level on which ...

  • Beta

    Rachel Cohn

    IN A WORLD CONSTRUCTED TO ABSOLUTE PERFECTION, IMPERFECTION IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND -- AND IMPOSSIBLE TO HIDE. Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Be...

  • Poison Princess

    Kresley Cole

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole introduces The Arcana Chronicles, post-apocalyptic tales filled with riveting action, the dark mysticism of Tarot cards, and breathtaking romance. She could save the world -- or destroy it. Sixtee...

  • Z. Apocalypse

    Steve Cole

    It's the end of the world as we know it . . . The stakes are higher than ever for Adam Adler, and he will be put to the test in a way he never imagined. Taken by a flying reptile with wings as big as a bus to the farthest reaches of Siberia, Adam ...

  • The Red Pyramid: The Graphic Novel

    Orpheus Collar; Rick Riordan

    Siblings Sadie and Carter Kane discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them--Set--has his sights on them. To stop him, the duo embarks on a dangerous journey across the globe, one that brings Carter and Sadie ever closer to the t...

  • Double Blind

    Brandilyn Collins

    Twenty-nine-year-old Lisa Newberry can barely make it through the day. Suddenly widowed and a survivor of a near-fatal attack, she is wracked with grief and despair. Then she hears of a medical trial for a tiny brain chip that emits electrical pulses...

  • The Yellow Packard

    Ace Colllins

    Buckle up for intrigue and adventure in scenic Depression-era America. George Hall, a draftsman, buys a 1936 Packard sedan from the estate of spinster Abigale Watling in Oakwood, Illinois. At first, the car brings George, his wife Jean, and their dau...

  • The Golden Fleece

    Padraic Colum

    Travel to ancient Greece, where gods and goddesses walk the earth and a youth named Jason must capture the famous Golden Fleece. Mythology buffs will love the classic stories of Greek heroes, from Hercules to Orpheus to Theseus. With an introduction ...

  • The Safe Man

    Michael Connelly

    Read the riveting detective story that inspired the Audible dramatization featuring Jack Quaid and Titus Welliver. Like his father before him, Brian Holloway is a safe man. That is, his specialty is opening safes. Every job is a little mystery, and h...

  • Books to Die For

    John Connolly

    The world’s greatest mystery writers on the world’s greatest mystery novels: Michael Connelly on The Little Sister . . . Kathy Reichs on The Silence of the Lambs . . . Mark Billingham on The Maltese Falcon . . . Ian Rankin on I Was Dora Suarez . ...

  • Ironskin

    Tina Connolly

    Jane Eliot wears an iron mask. It's the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain -- the ironskin. When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assis...

  • Starstruck

    Lauren Conrad

    Are the stars of The Fame Game ready for their close-ups? Madison Parker has discovered that not all publicity is good publicity. After turning herself in for stealing some bling, the reality star is stuck doing community service while her Fame G...

  • Avengers: The Bride of Ultron

    Gerry Conway

    Collects Avengers (1963) #157-166. It's a marathon of villainy as the Avengers face one powerhouse after another! Ultron wants his wedding to herald the Avengers' funerals, but he's only one item on the team's calendar of criminals to contain! There'...

  • Essential Thor, Volume 6

    Gerry Conway

    One of the richest periods in the history of Marvel's resident Thunder God comes your way in this grand collection of space-spanning sagas and time-travel tales! Thrill to Thor's descent into Pluto's dark realm, the first appearance of Firelord, Gala...

  • Nuts

    Kacy Cook

    An eleven-year-old girl cares for two orphaned squirrels. ...

  • Ember's Kiss

    Deborah Cooke

    For centuries, the shape-shifting dragon warriors known as the Pyr have hidden themselves from mankind, defending the earth’s treasures in secrecy. But as the final reckoning with the Slayers -- who are determined to eradicate both humans and the P...

  • The Damnation of John Donellan

    Elizabeth Cooke

    On August 30, 1780--at the height of the American Revolution--twenty-year-old Theodosius Boughton, the dissolute heir to a vast fortune and the seventh Boughton baronetcy, died suddenly and in painful convulsions after taking a medication prescribed ...

  • Skinny

    Donna Cooner

    Find your voice. Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful. These are the words of Skinny, the vicious voice that lives inside fifteen-year-old Ever Davies's head. Skinny tells Ever all the dark thoughts her classmates have about her. Ever knows she weig...

  • The FitzOsbornes at War

    Michelle Cooper

    Michelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history and romance with The FitzOsbornes at War. Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out in E...

  • The Bone Bed

    Patricia Cornwell

    A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. ...

  • Lookout Hill

    Ralph Cotton

    ONE BAD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is deep in Old Mexico, tracking two of the most heinous outlaws it’s ever been his bad luck to track. Hodding “Hot Aces” Siebert and Bobby Hugh Bellibar have nine bank robberies, three t...

  • Quake!

    Joe Cottonwood

    When the deadly Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 hits, fourteen-year-old Franny witnesses the devastation of her community and is called upon to save the lives of her family and her best friend. Reprint. ...

  • One Shot Away

    T. Glen Coughlin

    They're all just one shot away It's senior year and the last season for Diggy, Jimmy, and Trevor on the Molly Pitcher High School varsity wrestling team. And they all want the same thing: to win. But Diggy's got to compete with his older brot...

  • The Price of Retribution

    Sara Craven

    Hell hath no fury... To Tarn Desmond family is everything. So when powerful tycoon Caspar Brandon all but destroys her sweet sister, Tarn is determined to make this notorious playboy pay. Caz is intrigued by the pure beauty of the new girl in h...

  • The Twelve

    Justin Cronin

    The end of the world world was only the beginning… In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now th...

  • Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

    Kirstin Cronn-Mills

    The lives and loves of a teenage transboy music geek Gabe has always identified as a boy, but he was born with a girl’s body. With his new public access radio show gaining in popularity, Gabe struggles with romance, friendships, and parent...

  • Breathe

    Sarah Crossan

    Inhale. Exhale. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe . . . The world is dead. The survivors live under the protection of Breathe, the corporation that found a way to manufacture oxygen-rich air. Alina --has been stealing for a long time. She's a l...

  • Sherlock Bones and the Missing Cheese

    Susan Stevens Crummel

    What’s that smell in the Dell? It comes from a cheese, a great big cheese, a smelly, scrumptious cheese, if you please, made from the milk of a cantankerous cow -- oh, wow! The one-horned, two-eared, three-legged Cowabunga! But the Cowabunga ch...

  • The Journey Back

    Priscilla Cummings

    Escaped and on the run, can Digger find redemption? His bold escape from a juvenile detention facility nearly kills him, but soon an angry fourteen-year-old Digger is on the run, hijacking a tractor trailer, "borrowing" a bicycle, and stealing a c...

  • Dial C For Chihuahua

    Waverly Curtis

    Pepe may have soft white fur, big brown eyes, and mucho attitude - but he's no furry fashion fad. Pepe is different. Pepe can talk - even if his new owner, Geri Sullivan, seems to be the only person who can understand him. When Geri takes on her firs...

  • The Trouble With Cowboys

    Melissa Cutler

    It was their parents’ ranch, through the good days and the bad. But if they want to hang on to their land, their pride, and their family, the three Sorentino sisters will have to reinvent it from the ground up -- and one of them just may reinvent h...

  • Slap and Tickle: The Unusual History of Sex and the People Who Have it

    Tom Cutler

    Slap and Tickle is a romp through this enduringly popular subject, embracing vivid literature, language, history, and personalities. It covers sex in all its delightful variety, taking a light-hearted look at the biological mechanics, and drawing on...

  • Rain & Fire: A Companion to the Last Dragon Chronicles

    Chris D'Lacey

    A fascinating and comprehensive companion to the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series, the Last Dragon Chronicles! While the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Last Dragon Chronicles has come to a close, husband and wife Chris and Jay d'Lacey have collaborat...