Books Published in October 2012

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  • A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis

    Nigel Jones

    The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution brought not peace but five chaotic years (1918-1923) of civil war, assassination, plots, putsches and m...

  • The Dead Man's Wife

    Solomon Jones

    A diabolical story about marriage gone awry -- The next thrilling novel in the all-new Colletti series from acclaimed author Solomon Jones She’s a cop-turned defense lawyer. Her husband is a research scientist. She lives in a half-million-dollar...

  • The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23

    Stephen Jones

    The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers. As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers a comprehensive overview of the year in...

  • Aftermirth

    Hillary Jordan

    "I stopped being funny the day my wife was electrocuted by her underwire bra." So begins Aftermirth, a dark comedy that explores the absurdity of death through the eyes of thirty-one-year-old comedian, writer, and actor, Michael Larssen. What is ho...

  • That's Not a Feeling

    Dan Josefson

    Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school tucked away in upstate New York. Suddenly, his parents are gone and Benjamin learns that he is there to stay. Sixteen years old, a two-time failed suicide...

  • Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies

    William Joyce

    Beware a tooth fairy queen scorned in this, the third chapter book of Academy-Award winner William Joyce’s The Guardians series. There’s a lot more to this tooth-swiping sprite than meets the eye! Now that the back story of Nicholas St. North...

  • Sanderson Man Snoozy

    William Joyce

    The second picture book in Academy Award winner William Joyce’s The Guardians of Childhood series tells how the Sandman dreamed up his sweet-dreams legacy. One foggy night, the Man in the Moon has a startling thought: When the moon is less than ...

  • Colter's Path

    Cameron Judd

    Jedediah “Jedd” Colter is a man with big dreams that go beyond the mountains of North Carolina. When he hears of a band of travelers bound for the gold fields of California, Jedd uses his hunting skills to convince the party’s organizers to hir...

  • Invisible Murders

    Lene Kaaberbol; Agnete Friis

    In the ruins of an abandoned Soviet military hospital in northern Hungary, two impoverished Roma boys are scavenging for old supplies or weapons they could sell on the black market when they find more than they ever anticipated. The resulting chain o...

  • The Lost Prince

    Julie Kagawa

    Don't look at Them. Never let Them know you can see Them. That is Ethan Chase's unbreakable rule. Until the fey he avoids at all costs -- including his reputation -- begin to disappear, and Ethan is attacked. Now he must change the rules to protec...

  • An Invitation to Pleasure

    Marguerite Kaye

    Susanna Hunter once ignored Captain Fergus Lamont's warnings not marry a fortune hunter -- a decision she lived to regret. Three years later and since widowed, she's surprised by his unexpected invitation to spend Christmas with him in the Hi...

  • Ring Songs

    Peter Kearney

    Ring Songs is a fight card of short stories where every round centers on a boxer answering the bell, the moment when hot blood rushes to the brain and he takes the first steps into the primal arena of his own self-defense. Step into the ring and expe...

  • Mousetronaut

    Mark Kelly

    A heartwarming picture book tale of the power of the small, from bestselling author and retired NASA astronaut Commander Mark Kelly. Astronaut Mark Kelly flew with "mice-tronauts" on his first spaceflight aboard space shuttle "Endeavour" in 2001....

  • His Mistletoe Bride

    Vanessa Kelly

    BLAME IT ON THE MISTLETOE… When Major Lucas Stanton inherited his earldom, he never dreamed his property would include the previous earl’s granddaughter. Phoebe Linville is a sparkling American beauty, yes, but with a talent for getting into t...

  • Moving Target

    Ross Kemp

    Former Special Reconnaissance Regiment Sergeant Nick Kane always stands by his friends. So when an old comrade is leaned on by gangsters, Nick's only too happy to help. But Nick quickly finds himself cast headlong into a spiral of violence that will ...

  • Stealing Parker

    Miranda Kenneally

    Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no o...

  • Spy in a Little Black Dress

    Maxine Kenneth

    Inspired by an actual letter in the John F. Kennedy Library written by Jackie and revealing her job offer from the newly formed CIA When young Jackie Bouvier receives her second assignment from the CIA, she knows it will go better than her first. ...

  • The Dutiful Wife

    April Kihlstrom

    A stipulation in his father's Will requires Edmund, Lord Rothwood to marry by his twenty-fifth birthday, or forfeit the bulk of his inheritance. In search of a dutiful wife who will let him do as he pleases, Edmund remembers young, docile Beatrix...

  • To Be a Family

    Joan Kilby

    The courage to try again What do you do when your dreams for tomorrow happen today? John Forster's plans to eventually be a father hit high gear when he's granted custody of his little girl. Although he does his best, it's soon clear she needs he...

  • Foxfire

    Karen Kincy

    Tavian and Gwen race to find a magical cure in the third thrilling Other novel Tavian has never forgotten his real mother, a shapeshifting Japanese fox spirit like him¬self, who abandoned him. On a trip to Japan, his homeland, he discovers that s...

  • Ask the Passengers

    A.S. King

    Astrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's lack of interest tell her they're the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly ...

  • The Secret Daughter

    Catherine King

    Set in London, Stockholm and the Southampton docks the novel will lead up to all the characters boarding the Titanic--who will survive? ...

  • The Preacher's Bride

    Laurie Kingery

    When her little brother died, Faith Bennett lost her trust in God. She's kept this secret from the good people of Simpson Creek, yet she can't deceive Gil Chadwick. She'll be Gil's friend, but without a faith to match his, she can never be the handso...

  • Captain Awesome Saves the Winter Wonderland

    Stan Kirby

    A new villain threatens to put “the big freeze” on the second grade’s holiday play. Can the Sunnyview Superhero Squad save the show? Eugene and Charlie can hardly wait for Sunnyview Elementary’s holiday spectacular, “The Winter Wonderlan...

  • Marvel Zomnibus

    Robert Kirkman

    The smash-hit Marvel Zombies saga is collected in one meaty, macabre tome! The dead walk - and leap, fly and climb walls - when Marvel's mightiest are transformed into flesh-eating monsters! After devouring every single person on Earth, the ravenous ...

  • The Road to Woodbury

    Robert Kirkman; Jay Bonansinga

    The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walk...

  • The Gift of Family: Smoky Mountain Christmas

    Karen Kirst

    Cole Prescott's Gatlinburg visit will be just long enough to free his wife from their mistake of a marriage. Then he meets the daughter he hadn't known he had. Little Abby needs a father, especially at Christmastime. And all Cole wants is a chance to...

  • Friendkeeping

    Julie Klam

    From the beloved and bestselling memoirist comes a funny and affecting look at making the most of our friendships in an age of isolation. With her inimitable wit and disarming warmth, Julie Klam shares with us her experiences, advice, and insight ...

  • This Is Not My Hat

    Jon Klassen

    From the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning I Want My Hat Back comes a second wry tale. When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly), trouble could be following clo...

  • Dead Poets Society

    N.H. Kleinbaum

    Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary!" Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect t...

  • Blue Autumn Cruise

    Lisa Williams Kline

    It may take a miracle---or a hurricane---to save this family vacation. Stepsisters Stephanie and Diana undergo another adventure when they embark on a Grand Cayman cruise with their extended family to celebrate their grandmother's 80th birthday. But ...

  • Sacrifice

    Cayla Kluver

    This is not the time for the fight to end. Now is when the fight will begin. This is the time to regain what has been lost. Alera Queen of a fallen kingdom, secretly in love with the enemy. Shaselle Daughter of a murdered father, rebel with a...

  • Golden Dawn

    Thomas M. Kostigen

    Trailing his IRA bomber uncle, journalist Michael Shea stumbles onto the biggest story of his life: a plot to smuggle nuclear material into Iran. Discovered and marked for death, Shea flees the Iranian secret service. His only help comes from the b...

  • FATWA

    Thomas M. Kostigen

    What would you do if an Islamic death threat, or “fatwa,” was issued against you? Where would you run to? How would you hide? In this electrifying short-story account, New York Times best-selling author Thomas M. Kostigen describes escaping f...

  • The Suburban Strange

    Nathan Kotecki

    Shy Celia Balaustine is new to Suburban High, but a mysterious group of sophomores called the Rosary has befriended her. Friends aside, Celia soon discovers something is not quite right at Suburban. Girls at the school begin having near-fatal acciden...

  • The Cloak Society

    Jeramey Kraatz

    The Cloak Society: An elite organization of supervillains graced with extraordinary powers. Ten years ago they were defeated by the Rangers of Justice and vanished without a trace. But the villains of Cloak have been biding their time, waiting fo...

  • Mercury Rests

    Robert Kroese

    After foiling an attempt to destroy the universe, Mercury has gone missing. And with the devil already putting the final fiendish touches on his next scheme to bring about the apocalypse, all that stands between Lucifer and his dreams of a hellfire h...

  • The Twelve Burps of Christmas

    Nancy Krulik

    George burps his way through the holidays! In the first Super Special of Nancy Krulik's popular series, George stars in two stories! Between the class play and his old best friend's surprise visit, the Christmas celebrations are shaping up to be a...

  • Freakling

    Lana Krumwiede

    A thrilling, fast-paced dystopian novel about the dangers of unchecked power and the dilemmas facing a boy torn between two ways of life. In twelve-year-old Taemon’s city, everyone has a power called psi -- the ability to move and manipulate o...

  • Mrs. Queen Takes the Train

    William Kuhn

    After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. She needs some proper cheering up. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a p...

  • Jakarta Missing

    Jane Kurtz

    Dakar is scared. When her family left East Africa to spend a year or two in Cottonwood, North Dakota, Dakar's older sister, Jakarta, was adamant about staying behind. Now Jakarta is all by herself in Kenya...and she's missing. It's terrible to go ...

  • Blood Line

    Lynda La Plante

    Still reeling from the death of her fiance, Detective Anna Travis has thrown herself into her new role as the chief inspector for London's murder squad. When Scotland Yard's missing persons bureau is unable to locate the son of a court employee, the ...

  • Redoubt

    Mercedes Lackey

    Mags, a young Herald trainee in Haven, the capital city of Valdemar, has very rare talents. Recognising this, the King's Own Herald trains Mags as a spy, tasking him with uncovering the secrets of a mysterious new enemy who has taken an interest in M...

  • Silent Revenge

    Laura Landon

    In just six days, Lady Jessica Stanton will turn twenty-five and inherit enough money to make her one of England’s wealthiest women. And when that happens, her stepbrother Colin will swoop in to take it all -- along with her freedom. The only solut...

  • Age of Apocalypse - Volume 1: The X-Terminated

    Dave Lapham

    Collects Age of Apocalypse #1-5 & Uncanny X-Force #19.1. The AOA X-Men make their final stand against the evil Weapon X - and lose! The X-Terminated must rise to take the fallen X-Men's place - but when Weapon X begins resurrecting dead X-Men to ...

  • Sugar Fork

    Walt Larimore

    In this sequel to "Hazel Creek" from award-winning author Walt Larimore, a loving rural family struggles to survive tragedy and cope with the invasion of modern ways in the 1920s. In the Great Smoky Mountains wilderness in 1926, Nate Randolph and ...

  • Don't Feed the Boy

    Irene Latham

    No kid knows more about zoo life than Whit. That's because he sleeps, eats and even attends home-school at the Meadowbrook Zoo. It's one of the perks of having a mother who's the zoo director and a father who's the head elephant keeper. Now that he's...

  • A Simple Autumn

    Rosalind Lauer

    A LOVE THAT REMAINS HIDDEN, A FORK IN A THORNY ROAD Jonah King has no desire to leave his close-knit community. All his hopes and dreams lie in Lancaster County, and many of them revolve around his longtime love for Annie Stoltzfus. For years he...

  • Snowzilla

    Janet Lawler

    It snowed without stopping for week after week. When it ended at last, Cami Lou took a peek. She bundled and booted and zipped up her brother. “Let’s build a huge snowman unlike any other!” Cami Lou and her brother build the biggest, hugest, mo...

  • Mystic City

    Theo Lawrence

    For fans of Matched, The Hunger Games, X-Men, and Blade Runner comes a tale of a magical city divided. A political rebellion ignited. A love that was meant to last forever. Aria Rose, youngest scion of one of Mystic City's two ruling rival familie...

  • Labor Relations

    Georgia Lee

  • Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense - Volume 4

    Stan Lee

    The Marvel Masterworks bring you the final, fantastic volume of TALES OF SUSPENSE with another dose of giant monsters, intergalactic alien invaders and weird menaces. Including each complete pre-hero issue, as well as the many never-before-reprinted ...

  • Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man, Volume 2

    Stan Lee

    Collects Tales of Suspense #51-65. See the return of Iron Man’s arch-nemesis, the Mandarin, and said vile villain’s origin. Then, witness the first appearance of the Avenger-to-be Hawkeye -- but he’s teamed up with Black Widow against Iron M...

  • The Price of Victory

    Sandra Leesmith

    Sterling Wade, a successful professional cyclist, finds the one thing he's missing in life: a woman to love. But Debra Valenzuela refuses to allow a relationship with any man to interfere with her determination to become a professional cyclist. Wh...

  • Live by Night

    Dennis Lehane

    Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops....

  • Falling for the Cowboy

    Mary Leo

    This Cowboy's Off-Limits... Single father Blake Granger-Doc Blake to his young patients-knows trouble when he sees it. But he needs a fill-in assistant pronto, and gorgeous Maggie Daniels is his only option. The big-city girl surprises him, though,...

  • More Than My Job's Worth

    Howard Lester

    Did you know that it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament? Were you aware that it is perfectly legal to murder a Scotsman within the wall of the ancient city of York, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow? Outrageous and hilarious rules...

  • Help, I'm Trapped in the Duvet!

    Howard Lester

    Most people understand that what an emergency is and only call out the police, fire brigade or ambulance when they really need to. However, there is a weird minority who will dial 911 if they lose their keys, if their phone isn't working, if they nee...

  • Swimming Home

    Deborah Levy

    As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water a...

  • Losing You

    Susan Lewis

    Lauren Scott is bright, talented and beautiful. At eighteen, she is the most precious gift in the world to her mother, and has a dazzling career ahead of her. Oliver Lomax is a young man full of promise, despite the shadow his own, deeply troubled,...

  • What Mess?

    Tom Lichtenheld

    Why is this room such a mess all the time? What's with that smell, and what's with the grime? What Mess? is a hilarious conversation between a boy and his parents about a room that's such a disaster zone, he'd have to clean it just to call it a m...

  • Zephyr Takes Flight

    Steven Light

    Soar along on a clever girl’s flight of fancy in a whimsical ode to free spirits, inventiveness, and flying pigs. Zephyr is a girl who loves airplanes. She draws pictures of them, makes them out of paper, builds them out of junk, and hopes one d...

  • Saving Gideon

    Amy Lillard

    Gideon Fisher wants one thing out of life -- to be left alone. This is not the Amish way, but he’s devastated after the death of his wife and son to the point of losing his faith. He buys a farm on the outskirts of the district and pulls away from ...

  • Starry River of the Sky

    Grace Lin

    MOON IS MISSING IN THE REMOTE VILLAGE OF CLEAR SKY, BUT ONLY A YOUNG BOY named Rendi seems to have noticed! Rendi has run away from home and is now working as a chore boy at the village inn. He can't help but notice the village's peculiar inhabitants...

  • Little Star

    John Ajvide Lindqvist

    A man finds a baby in the woods, left for dead. He brings the baby home, and he and his wife raise the girl in their basement. When a shocking and catastrophic incident occurs, the couple’s son Jerry whisks the girl away to Stockholm to start a new...

  • A Father's Secret

    Yvonne Lindsay

    Paternity Crisis There'd been a mistake at the fertility clinic. Now widow Erin Connell has to face the possibility that her baby son is not her husband's child. And worse, that Connell Lodge, her son's legacy and the only real home she's ever kno...

  • Flutter

    Gina Linko

    All Emery Land wants is to be like any other 17-year-old -- to go to school, hang out with her friends, and just be normal. But for as long as she can remember, she's suffered from seizures. And in recent years they've consumed her life. To Emery th...

  • The Twinning Project

    Robert Lipsyte

    Tom is a smart, talented loner with a chip on his shoulder and a big secret: an imaginary twin on another planet. Eddie is Tom's opposite, a friendly, athletic kid who always looks on the good side. Tom worries sometimes: does confiding in Eddie mean...

  • Black Panther: The Man Without Fear: Fear Itself

    David Liss

    The horrifying events of Fear Itself and Spider-Island propel T'Challa through a grueling gauntlet of challenges as Kraven the Hunter, a new Hate Monger and Lady Bullseye come gunning for the lone guardian of Hell's Kitchen. A series of brutal face-o...

  • Hart's Truth

    Kelly Long

    In 1920, a young doctor takes a job in a railroading town in the Pennsylvanian mountains and discovers the transforming power of love and faith. Hart Pagett is a young doctor with a desire to learn, but he doesn't count on lessons in love and faith f...

  • Far from Perfect

    Barbara Longley

    Steal away on a journey to the heartland, where a wounded soldier meets the one woman who could be his new beginning… Noah Langford narrowly survived the roadside bombing in Iraq that cost him his leg and forever his peace of mind. When his ste...

  • December Dread

    Jess Lourey

    Four shining stars for the Murder-By-Month Mystery series ‘Tis the season for grinning sales-elves on TV and maddeningly jolly muzak. But for Mira James and other Battle Lake-area women, the holidays are marred by something far worse -- a seria...

  • Have Fun, Molly Lou Melon

    Patty Lovell

    Molly Lou Melon's grandma taught her to be happy with herself no matter what, but that's not all she learned. Molly Lou heard all about how her grandma didn't have fancy store-bought toys when she was little. She made dolls out of twigs and flowers ...

  • Son

    Lois Lowry

    They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions and colors didn’t exist. That she had become a Vessel at age thirteen. That she had carried a Product at age fourteen. That it ...

  • Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox: The Great Pancake Adventure

    Matthew Luckhurst

    In this humorous twist on a classic tale, Paul Bunyan and his best friend, Babe the Blue Ox, leave life on the farm to work for a logger who pays them with their favorite thing: pancakes! Paul and Babe tromp across the country with the logger, fillin...

  • No Safe Harbor

    Elizabeth Ludwig

    The Thrill of Romantic Suspense Meets the Romance of 1800s America Lured by a handful of scribbled words across a faded letter, Cara Hamilton sets off from 1896 Ireland on a quest to find the brother she'd thought dead. Her search lands her in Ame...

  • The Beach at Galle Road

    Joanna Luloff

    When rumors of civil war between the ruling Sinhalese and the Tamils in the northern sector of Sri Lanka reach those who live in the south, somehow it seems not to be happening in their own country. At least not until Janaki's sister, Lakshmi--now a ...

  • Miss Lina's Ballerinas and the Wicked Wish

    Grace MacCarone

    Then one sunny day, a guest came to view Miss Lina’s ten dancers plié and tendu. Miss Lina announced, “This is Mister Brisé. He’ll watch you take class,” she explained, “and he may invite you to dance with the City Ballet.” Miss...

  • The Rancher's Unexpected Family

    Myrna MacKenzie

    One stetson needed...baby size! It's well-known in Larkville that "no" is pretty much the sum total of cowboy Holt Calhoun's vocabulary ever since his marriage ended. Single mom-to-be Kathryn Ellis won't take no for an answer. She needs Holt's ...

  • Kissed by Darkness

    Shea MacLeod

    Three years ago, Morgan Bailey narrowly survived a vampire attack that left her with heightened senses, uncanny speed, and a new calling: supernatural bounty hunter. Since that day, sexy, street-smart Morgan hasn’t met a vampire she couldn’t dust...

  • Kissed by Fire

    Shea MacLeod

    As a vampire bounty hunter, Morgan Bailey has seen her fair share of strange things. There was the time she got mixed up with a race of powerful immortals known as sunwalkers. Then there was that time she hooked up with a gorgeous Templar Knight. And...

  • The Complete Tolkien Companion

    MacMillan Books

    For all those who journey to Middle Earth, here is the complete guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages, and people. The Complete Tolkien Companion explains, translates, and links every single reference―names, dates, places, facts, famous...

  • Princess Elizabeth's Spy

    Susan Elia MacNeal

    For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, Princess Elizabeth's Spy features the return of the remarkable Maggie Hope, who is out to protect Britain's beloved royals against an international plot -- one that could change the cou...

  • Angels at the Table

    Debbie Macomber

    In this joyous and whimsical holiday novel, Debbie Macomber rings in the season with the return of Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy, delivering laughs, love, and a charming dose of angelic intervention. Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy know that an ange...

  • Destroy Me

    Tahereh Mafi

    Set after Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me and before Unravel Me, the spellbinding sequel, Destroy Me is a novella told from the perspective of Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45. In Shatter Me, Juliette escaped from The Reestablishment by seducing...

  • A Fatal Winter

    G.M. Malliet

    In A Fatal Winter, Max Tudor - Anglican priest, former MI5 agent, and village heartthrob - investigates two deaths at Chedrow Castle. But his growing attraction to Awena Owen complicates his case, as does the recent arrival at Chedrow Castle of a rau...

  • The Shadow Girls

    Henning Mankell

    Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin’s investments, and his editor, who...

  • The Gemini Virus

    Wil Mara

    Bob Easton thinks he has a cold. Before he dies in agony, four days later, he infects dozens of people. Local health agencies become quickly overwhelmed by the sick and dying and beg the CDC for help. Dr. Michael Beck and Cara Porter, a member of the...

  • Storms Gather

    Robert Marcum

    Randolf and Elizabeth Hudson were barely into their teens when they left the persecuted city of Nauvoo with their mother, Mary, and relocated to booming St. Louis. Mary had lost faith in the restored gospel after the deaths of her dear husband and th...

  • The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons

    Barbara Mariconda

    An enchanted flute that vibrates when danger is near, sparkling mist that unlocks a drawer of family secrets, and a bookcase that expands to conceal her hiding place -- these are the bits of magic Lucy P. Simmons has experienced since her parents dro...

  • The Dark Winter

    David Mark

    A series of suspicious deaths has rocked Hull, a port city in England as old and mysterious as its bordering sea. In the middle of a Christmas service, a teenage girl adopted from Sierra Leone is chopped down with a machete in front of the entire con...

  • Velveteen

    Daniel Marks

    Velveteen Monroe is dead. At 16, she was kidnapped and murdered by a madman named Bonesaw. But that's not the problem. The problem is she landed in purgatory. And while it's not a fiery inferno, it's certainly no heaven. It's gray, ashen, and crum...

  • The Mermaid Collector

    Erika Marks

    More than a century ago, lighthouse keeper Linus Harris left his beloved wife and waded into the ocean with three other men to reunite with their mermaid lovers. The mysterious Mermaid Mutiny of 1888 has become legend for the residents of Cradle Harb...

  • Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!

    Wynton Marsalis

    The creators of Jazz ABZ are back for an encore! With infectious rhythm and rhyme, musical master Wynton Marsalis opens kids’ ears to the sounds around us. What’s that sound? The back door squeeeaks open, sounding like a noisy mouse nearby --...

  • My Own Revolution

    Carolyn Marsden

    In 1960s Czechoslovakia, Patrik participates in and rebels against the communist regime, knowing that anyone could become an enemy in the blink of an eye. Fourteen-year-old Patrik rebels against the communist regime in small ways whenever he gets ...

  • One Hot Cowboy

    Anne Marsh

  • Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

    Katherine Marsh

    Fate: Is it written in the stars from the moment we are born? Or is it a bendable thing that we can shape with our own hands? Jepp of Astraveld needs to know. He left his countryside home on the empty promise of a stranger, only to become...

  • Wedding Date with Mr. Wrong

    Nicola Marsh

    Callie Umberto has had enough of dating disasters after the holiday fling of a lifetime ended abruptly and she swore off men for good. Now her ex-flame is back in her life. Pro surfer Archer Flett might be as gorgeous as always, but his commitment...

  • Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far)

    Ann M. Martin

    Pearl Littlefield’s first assignment in fifth grade is complicated: She has to write an essay about her summer. Where does she begin? Her dad lost his job, she had to go to a different camp -- one where her older sister Lexie was a counselor-in-tra...

  • The Space Between Us

    Jessica Martinez

    From the author of Virtuosity, a novel about two sisters and the secrets they tell, the secrets they keep -- and the secret that could tear them apart. Amelia is used to being upstaged by her charismatic younger sister, Charly. She doesn’t mind,...

  • Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man - Comic Reader 3

    Marvel Book Group

    From the hit DisneyXD Show, Peter Parker has taken the challenge to step up and become the ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN! When the Spymaster steals an experimental serum, Spider-Man must abandon the SHIELD tech he's been using and rely on his own abilities to ...

  • Marvel Universe Avengers Earth's Mightiest Comic Reader 3

    Marvel Book Group

    Based on the hit animated show on DISNEY XD, join CAPTAIN AMERICA, IRON MAN & THOR for a rousing adventure featuring daring & destruction in the Mighty Marvel Manner! See if Tony Stark's IRON MAN armor can hold up to the unstoppable fury of CRIMSON D...

  • Voices from the Other Side: Dark Dreams

    Brandon Massey

    From the untamed wilderness of ancient times to the concrete jungles of today, these sixteen excursions into nightmares will keep you awake long past the midnight hour -- and praying for daylight… Beyond The Shadows… …they linger, showing...

  • Nightmare in New York

    Anthony Masters

    Summer has always been such fun, the family together at Formentera. This year is different. Colin's dad mysteriously disappears, presumed drowned, leaving a note - SORRY. CAN'T HOLD ON ANY LONGER. Suddenly nothing makes sense. Colin heads for New Yor...

  • Noughties

    Ben Masters

    Inspired by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith, Ben Masters bursts on the literary scene with his lively and erudite debut novel about a college graduate on the cusp of adulthood. Eliot Lamb has had countless nights like this before. He's out with his ma...

  • The Red Hotel

    Graham Masterton

    Sissy Sawyer, an unredeemed hippy, has an uncanny ability to read the future " and the lives of those she holds dear may soon depend on it . . . One afternoon, shadows started to flicker along the corridors of The Red Hotel in Baton Rouge, Loui...

  • Holy Terror

    Graham Masterton

    A hot summer day in New York City gives Conor O'Neil no warning of the nightmare which is about to engulf him. After witnessing a fatal robbery, Conor is wrongfully arrested for the crime by a bent cop and immediately goes on the run, fearing for his...

  • Snow And Kisses

    Fukuko Matsuo

    Fukuko Matsuo's first collection is here, featuring ten short stories of sweet romance! In the title story, two friends meet in a snow covered field. One can never say what he means, and the other takes everything he hears too literally. Will they ev...

  • We Are Moving

    Mercer Mayer

    When Mom and Dad tell Little Critter they have exciting news, he thinks they mean they're getting a new dog -- not moving to a new house! Will he be able to bring his sandbox? What if he has to go to a new school full of bullies? What if his new next...

  • A Grid for Murder

    Casey Mayes

    Savannah Stone makes her living creating puzzles for logic lovers. But when a novice puzzle maker’s number is up, Savannah has to fill in the blanks to solve a murder... Savannah would almost rather drink poison than have tea with Joanna Clayto...

  • Warrior's Last Gift

    Melissa Mayhue

    An enthralling eNovella that combines time-travel, the Scottish Highlands, and a touch of Norse mythology--linking the Daughter of the Glens series with the Warriors series spin-off. When Jeanne MacGhie had nowhere to turn, Eymer Horvesson steppe...

  • Paradise City

    Archer Mayor

    Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation are alerted to a string of unrelated burglaries across Vermont. Someone, in addition to flatscreens, computers, and stereos, has also been stealing antiques and jewelry. Meanwhile, in...

  • Portrait of Eliza

    Ilsa Mayr

  • Taking Chances

    Molly McAdams

    Her first year away is turning out to be nearly perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything Eighteen-year-old Harper has grown up under the thumb of her career marine father. Ready to live life her own way and to...

  • In the Pink

    Susan McBride

  • The Taste of Wormwood

    Keith McCarthy

    Arthur Meadows has just returned home from a trip to south-west Europe, supposedly bringing back a consignment of cloth, but actually bringing back something far more deadly. Meanwhile, a young Asian couple are murdered in their small house in Glouce...

  • The Nutcracker

    Geraldine McCaughrean

    Open this scrumptious holiday edition of The Nutcracker and magically recreate the motion, color, and delight of the classic ballet. Paper engineering wizardry allows characters to dance into life simply by turning the pages?with no tabs for the read...

  • Circles around the Sun

    Molly McCloskey

  • Firebird

    Brent McCorkle

    What if God’s love were like the sun, constant and unchanging? What if one day you realized nothing could take that away? Firebird is a bright orange baby oriole who just loves the sunshine. But whenever a storm blows in, he frets and asks Mama ...

  • A Wedding in Great Neck

    Yona Zeldis McDonough

    The Silverstein family is coming together in Great Neck, Long Island, for the nuptials of the youngest daughter. Always considered the favorite -- and the object of much envy and resentment -- Angelica has planned a fairy tale wedding to her fiancé,...

  • The Story of Jack Frost

    Farrah McDoogle

    Get to know Jack Frost, the unassuming hero of the Rise of the Guardians movie! The Guardians are in trouble -- Pitch wants to take over the world, and they need help to stop him. Jack Frost is not a Guardian, but he does have incredible powers. H...

  • This Is Not a Drill

    Beck McDowell

    Two teens try to save a class of first-graders from a gun-wielding soldier suffering from PTSD When high school seniors Emery and Jake are taken hostage in the classroom where they tutor, they must work together to calm both the terrified children...

  • Jennifer Johnson Is Sick of Being Married

    Heather McElhatton

    Sometimes tying the knot just means getting strangled Not too long ago, Jennifer Johnson was stuck in a cubicle, lovelorn and addicted to Cinnabon frosting. Now she's married to her Prince Charming -- the handsome, wealthy son of a midwestern dep...

  • Lola's Secret

    Monica McInerney

    Nestled in a picturesque corner of southern Australia, the Valley View Motel has been run by the Quinlans for years -- and nobody adores the place more than Lola, the family’s lovable and mischievous Irish-born matriarch. So when she insists that h...

  • The Witch of Babylon

    D.J. McIntosh

    Out of the searing heat and sandstorms of the infamous summer of 2003 in Baghdad comes "The Witch of Babylon," a gripping story rooted in ancient Assyrian lore and its little-known but profound significance for the world. John Madison is a Turkis...

  • The Perimeter

    Will McIntosh

    A chilling new short story from Hugo Award winner Will McIntosh. The settlers of Cyan have not ventured far beyond the perimeter fence that keeps the planet's strange creatures at bay. But one unlucky woman is about to find out what lies beyond......

  • Dark Pleasures

    Amanda McIntyre
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    Guard well your desires what ere' they may be for the Dark Lords scour the night looking 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. Du...

  • All He Ever Wanted

    Emily McKay

    A Cain always gets what he wants. After dedicating his life to his family's company, Dalton Cain won't let his father just give away a fortune. He'll save his legacy. And he knows just the woman to help. But getting Laney Fortino to trust him agai...

  • Forgotten

    Catherine McKenzie

    Emma Tupper is a dedicated lawyer with a bright future. But when she takes a month-long leave of absence to go on an African vacation, she ends up facing unexpected consequences. After she falls ill and spends six months trapped in a remote village t...

  • Habit

    Tremell McKenzie

    Born addicted to the drugs abused by his mother before she died in childbirth, Habit Brue discovers that his conception occurred as part of a eugenics experiment to produce super-humans and that he may possess supernatural abilities. ...

  • How I Came to Sparkle Again

    Kaya McLaren

    Jill Anthony spent her young adulthood in the ski town of Sparkle, Colorado. But more than a decade has passed since she left when, only weeks after a very late miscarriage, she finds her husband in bed with another woman, she flees Austin, Texas fo...

  • From Notting Hill with Love...Actually

    Ali McNamara

    She was a girl, standing in front of a boy... Movie fanatic Scarlett O'Brien dreams of a life as glamorous and romantic as all the big screen flicks she worships. When a chance house-sitting job in iconic Notting Hill comes along, she knows livin...

  • Lovely, Dark and Deep

    Amy McNamara

    A resonant debut novel about retreating from the world after losing everything -- and the connections that force you to rejoin it. Since the night of the crash, Wren Wells has been running away. Though she lived through the accident that killed he...

  • Secret Santa

    Margaret McNamara

    The Robin Hill School first-graders celebrate the spirit of Christmas in this holiday-themed Level 1 Ready-to-Read story. It is Secret Santa Day at school, and Katie is wearing her special Christmas sweater. But Andrew makes fun of her outfit, cal...

  • In Need of a Good Wife

    Kelly O'Connor McNees

    Richly detailed, vivid, and unforgettable, this is an extraordinary novel about three women challenging the American West -- and unpredictable fate -- for a future only the most daring can secure… For Clara Bixby, brokering mail-order brides is ...

  • The Heart Broke In

    James Meek

    From James Meek, the prizewinning author of the international bestseller The People’s Act of Love, comes a rich and intricate novel about everything that matters to us now: children, celebrity, secrets and shame, the quest for youth, loyalty and be...

  • The Land of Neverbelieve

    Norman Messenger

    Somewhere in the middle of the sea (not always in the same place) lies the island of Neverbelieve, populated with unusual creatures and astonishing discoveries. Explore the Land of Neverbelieve in these lush, vibrantly illustrated pages. Meet the ...

  • Keeper of the Lost Cities

    Shannon Messenger

    TWELVE-YEAR-OLD SOPHIE FOSTER HAS a secret. She's a Telepath -- someone who hears the thoughts of everyone around her. Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers there's ...

  • The Birthday Scandal

    Leigh Michaels

    The wealthy Duke of Weybridge knows that everyone loves a good surprise…and a good scandal. He has bounteous amounts of both for the guests -- particularly for his nieces and nephew, Emily, Isabel, and Lucien -- at his extravagant seventieth birthd...

  • Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism

    Mike Mignola; Christopher Golden

    In the aftermath of a critical World War II battle, Father Gaetano is assigned as the sole priest at the Church of San Domenico in the small, seaside Sicilian village of Tringale. The previous pastor has died and there is a shortage of clergy at the...

  • Cocoa

    Ellen Miles

    Welcome to the Puppy Place--where every puppy finds a home! When Cocoa, a large chocolate Lab puppy, accidentally knocks over her elderly owner, Charles convinces his parents to foster this excitable dog. But can the Peterson household survive Coc...

  • Angry Ass Black Woman

    Karen E. Quinones Miller

    Karen E. Quinones Miller is AN ANGRY-ASS BLACK WOMAN You’d be angry, too . . . if you grew up poorer than poor in Harlem in the 1960s and ’70s, a place of unrelenting violence, racism, crime, rape, scamming, drinking, and drugging . . . with ...

  • Pandora Hearts, Vol. 12

    Jun Mochizuki

    With Pandora and the Baskervilles in a race to discover the whereabouts of the seals that secure Glen Baskerville's body, Oz and his friends are caught up in the ensuing fury of this ruthless hunt. Amidst this chaos, Oscar Vessalius organizes a brief...

  • A Lady's Lesson in Seduction

    Barbara Monajem

    Once a notorious rake, Camden Folk, Marquis of Warbury, is now consumed by desire for only one woman: beautiful young widow Frances Burdett. And the Yuletide festivities at his country estate present the perfect opportunity for seduction... After ...

  • The Christmas Train

    Thomas S. Monson

    In this children s picture book, President Thomas S. Monson recounts a Christmas memory from his childhood. As a boy, he yearned for an electric train. To his delight, on Christmas morning he got exactly that a train that operated through the miracle...

  • Amber House

    Kelly Moore; Tucker & Larkin Reed Reed

    "I was sixteen the first time my grandmother died. . . ." Sarah Parsons has never seen Amber House, the grand Maryland estate that's been in her family for three centuries. She's never walked its hedge maze nor found its secret chambers; she's ne...

  • Witch Hunt

    Syd Moore

    A chilling, gothic ghost story that delves into the dark past of the 16th century Essex witch trials. To find the truth, she’ll risk her life…Sadie Asquith has been fascinated by the Essex Witch Trials for as long as she can remember. And for goo...

  • The Secret Keeper

    Kate Morton

    From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours, The Forgotten Garden, and The House at Riverton, a spellbinding new novel filled with mystery, thievery, murder, and enduring love. During a summer party at the ...

  • Things I Love

    Megan Morton

    In THINGS I LOVE, interiors stylist extraordinaire and author of HOME LOVE Megan Morton inspires by example, sharing her infectious enthusiasm for the houses, people, and designs she loves. A fun, inspiring, and practical guide to loveable interiors,...

  • Will Moses' Mother Goose

    Will Moses

    From world-renowned folk artist Will Moses comes the board book version of his original and enchanting Mother Goose picture book. Featuring 22 of childhood's best-loved nursery rhymes and three double-page spreads of Moses' unmistakable paintings, th...

  • Merge // Disciple

    Walter Mosley

    Merge: Releigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for $26 million, quit his minimum wage job and set his sights on one goal: reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library, the ...

  • Pingo and the Playground Bully

    Brandon Mull

    In first grade, Chad and his imaginary friend, Pingo, meet other kids and their imaginary friends: Gary protects the galaxy with Sparky the robot; Tiffany helps save the day with Awesome Girl; and Dustin can hide Mr. Bob in his pocket. One recess, af...

  • The Arcade Catastrophe

    Brandon Mull

    It will take more than magical candy to win this war! Something fishy is going on at the new •amusement center in Walnut Hills. The trouble seems linked to the mysterious disappearance of Mozag and John Dart, who have spent their lives policing ...

  • Skeleton in the Closet

    Marcia Muller

    New York Times bestselling author, Marcia Muller, brings you another thrilling mystery with her famous private investigator, Sharon McCone.Sharon McCone is excited--and relieved--to move her detective agency into the perfect new office space. Unfortu...

  • Christmas Spirit

    Multiple Authors

    Enjoy rich holiday memories with this heartwarming collection of true Christmas stories from favorite LDS authors-everyday people who have received tidings of comfort and joy. From miraculous to dramatic, profound to heartwarming, this touching antho...

  • Weird Tales Vampires

    Multiple Authors

    This collection of ten blood-chilling tales will transport you into the unearthly netherworld of vampires and allow you to experience some of the most eerie and chilling tales ever created by the bizarre and fantastic imaginations of yesteryear's bes...

  • The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012

    Multiple Authors

    A selection of the best writing, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and blogs, published during 2011. Edited by Dave Eggers....

  • My Big Book of Nibbles

    Multiple Authors

  • The Scent of Danger

    Isaiah Mustafa

  • H.O.R.S.E.

    Christopher Myers

    One day at the basketball court, two kids, a familiar challenge--H.O.R.S.E.? But this isn’t your grandmother’s game of hoops. Not when a layup from the other side of the court standing on one foot ...

  • Paradise

    Joanna Nadin

    A move to a small seaside town gives Billie a chance at a new life--and new love-- until the underof the past pulls her toward a shocking secret. When sixteen-year-old Billie Paradise unexpectedly inherits her grandmother’s house, it couldn’t ...

  • The Maelstrom

    Henry H. Neff

    The world is at the brink of ruin . . . or is it salvation? Astaroth has been weakened, and the demon Prusias is taking full advantage of the situation to create an empire of his own. His formidable armies are on the move, and Rowan is in their sight...

  • Phantom

    Jo Nesbo

    When Harry Hole moved to Hong Kong, he thought he was escaping the traumas of his life in Oslo and his career as a detective for good. But now, the unthinkable has happened -- Oleg, the boy he helped raise, has been arrested for killing a man. Har...

  • A Kiss on the Keppie

    Leslea Newman

    In this warm family story by Leslea Newman, a toddler gets plenty of kisses from his parents and grandparents as he wakes up, eats breakfast, goes to the park, and finally comes home for dinner. Delightful watercolor illustrations by debut artist Kat...

  • Accidentally Amish

    Olivia Newport

    Escape the helter-skelter of the modern culture and join software creator Annie Friesen, hiding at the home of an Amishman. With her high-tech career in jeopardy, Annie runs from fast-paced Colorado Springs -- and straight into the hospitality of San...

  • X-Men: The Wedding of Cyclops & Phoenix

    Fabian Nicieza

    These are tense times for the X-Men. The Legacy virus, which has already killed many mutants both friend and foe, threatens to become a worldwide epidemic. Professor X has captured Sabretooth and locked him in the mansion basement, hoping to eventual...

  • The Dozer Strikes!

    Scott Nickel

    The Incredible Rockhead experiment isn't going according to plan. To capture Chip Stone and bring him to the secret testing facility, the evil General creates a new mutant--the Dozer! This super high-tech and somewhat sleep kid creature will stop at ...

  • It's All Downhill from Here

    P.J. Night

    This is one ghost who is determined to get his way...no matter what the price. Maggie Kim’s parents have always dreamed of operating their own hotel, so when the historic Wharton Mansion goes up for sale, they see it as the perfect opportunity t...

  • The Bathing Women

    Tie Ning

    From award-winning and bestselling Chinese writer Tie Ning comes a stunningly original novel that captures the spirit of a new generation of young professionals in contemporary China. "The Bathing Women" follows the lives of four women -- Tiao, a chi...

  • The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies

    Peter Normanton

    An engrossing A-Z of over 60 gory years of slasher and splatter movies, from Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later to Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters. Here you will find the low-down on over 250 movies with entries from 23 different countries. The index, whi...

  • When Snow Falls

    Brenda Novak

    After growing up in cheap motels, moving from town to town with her sister and mother, Cheyenne Christensen is grateful to be on her own. She's grateful, too, for the friends she found once her family settled in California. But she's troubled by the ...

  • Promised

    Caragh M. O'Brien

    A sixteen-year-old midwife once risked everything to leave the Enclave. But the time has come for her to go back. Gaia Stone has challenged the ruthless regime of the Enclave, she's crossed a terrible wasteland to live in Sylum, and she even adap...

  • A Wedding Renewal in Sweetwater, Texas

    Kim O'Brien

    Sylvia yearns to feel loved and cherished by her husband, Wilson--just like the heroines in the romance novels she reads. She begins making changes, but her husband just isn't getting the message. So she starts a Proverbs 31 makeover. Wilson is total...

  • On the Road to Mr. Mineo's

    Barbara O'Connor

    Summer days drift by slowly in Meadville, South Carolina--that is, until Sherman the one-legged pigeon flies into town and causes a ruckus. First Stella, who's been begging for a dog, spots him on top of a garage roof and decides she wants him for a ...

  • Paw Tracks

    Denis O'Connor

    Scarred by the rejection and humiliation which he suffers at the hands of his unloving father, the young Denis O'Connor finds solace in the woods and riverbanks of his native Northumberland.Nevertheless, his newly found happiness communing with natur...

  • There's No Day Like a Snow Day

    Jane O'Connor

    Even a snow day is fancy when Nancy is around! Ooh la la! It's a blizzard. School is cancelled. And Nancy, JoJo, Bree, and Freddy are tres excited to go outside and play. From making snow angels to building snowmen to catching snowflakes . . . ev...

  • Keeping Safe the Stars

    Sheila O'Connor

    When crisis hits, a young girl becomes the only one left to take care of her family Pride, Nightingale and Baby are the Stars. Orphaned and living with their grandfather, Old Finn, in rural Minnesota, the children, like their grandfather, are wary...

  • Sacrifice Fly

    Tim O'Mara

    Raymond Donne wasn’t always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York’s Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was un...

  • Phineas and Ferb Read-Along Storybook and CD

    Ellie O'Ryan

    The phun has just begun in this book-and-CD set that retells a hit episode of Phineas and Ferb. Character voices, awesome sound effects, and a bonus song on the CD add to the excitement as Perry the Platypus has to sneak away from Phineas and Ferb to...

  • My Robots

    Johan Olander

    In this intriguing volume, noted monstrologist and alienologist Johan Olander reveals the works of the talented inventor Lady Regina Bonquers III, a genius recluse who mysteriously disappeared in 1972. The collection includes some of the most fascina...

  • The Spindlers

    Lauren Oliver

    One night when Liza went to bed, Patrick was her chubby, stubby, candy-grubbing and pancake-loving younger brother, who irritated and amused her both, and the next morning, when she woke up, he was not. In fact, he was quite, quite different. Whe...

  • Critical Condition

    Sandra Orchard

    There's a murderer in the hospital, and nurse Tara Peterson is determined to prove it. With mysterious deaths in the cancer ward, anyone could be next. But no one wants to believe her…except undercover agent Zach Davis. The murderer wants Tara's su...

  • Pancho Claus Spanish Edition

    Jose-Luis Orozco

  • Who Is This Child?

    John Ortberg

    The child in Bethlehem would grow up to be a friend of sinners, not a friend of Rome. He would spend his life with the ordinary and the unimpressive. He would pay deep attention to lepers and cripples, to the blind and the beggar, to prostitutes and ...

  • The Twelve Days of a Muppet Christmas: and a Chicken in a Pine Tree

    Martha T. Ottersley

    Get into the holiday spirit with the Muppets as they count down to Christmas with friends-a-singing, fruitcakes flying, pine trees running amok, and...a chicken in a pine tree! This Muppet twist to a classic carol will have you singing long after the...

  • American Ghost

    Janis Owens

    JOLIE HOYT IS A GOOD SOUTHERN GIRL living in Hendrix, a small Florida Panhandle town. The daughter of a Pentecostal preacher who sells insurance on the side, and the best friend of a lively beauty who moves to the big city to pursue a career in inter...

  • Wyoming Fierce

    Diana Palmer

    Diana Palmer returns to Wyoming with a new romance featuring one of the ruggedly handsome Kirk brothers. Ranch owner Cane Kirk lost more than his arm in the war. He lost his way, battling his inner demons by challenging any cowboy unfortunate enou...

  • On Call

    Michael Palmer

    An original ebook short story from Bestselling thriller author Michael Palmer featuring Dr. Lou Welcome in his first crime-solving role: a murder at his medical school for which he is a person of interest. Working with a classmate -- and fellow suspe...

  • Silent House

    Orhan Pamuk

    Never before published in English, Orhan Pamuk’s second novel is the story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980. In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a widow, Fat...

  • Armageddon

    James Patterson; Chris Grabenstein

    In the fifth installment of James Patterson's action-packed Daniel X series, Daniel must now face an alien whose origins appear nearer to the depths of Hell than the outer reaches of the galaxy. Number Two is an unstoppable criminal that's slowly bee...

  • NYPD Red

    James Patterson; Marshall Karp

    It's the start of Hollywood on Hudson, and New York City is swept up in the glamour. Every night, the red carpet rolls out for movie stars arriving at premieres in limos; the most exclusive restaurants close for private parties for wealthy producers ...

  • Chasing the Skip

    Janci Patterson

    Ricki’s dad has never been there for her. He’s a bail bondsman who spends his time chasing parole evaders -- also known as “skips” -- all over the country. But now since Ricki’s mom ran off, Ricki finds herself an unwilling passenger in a f...

  • Beaded to Death

    Janis Patterson

    You'd think the life of a bead artist would be fairly uneventful. But that's not the case for Lilias Ruiz. Especially when she returns from an art fair tour and is greeted by a dead body. The police are convinced she's the killer and suddenly Lili...

  • Valkyrie Rising

    Ingrid Paulson

    Nothing ever happens in Norway. But at least Ellie knows what to expect when she visits her grandmother: a tranquil fishing village and long, slow summer days. And maybe she'll finally get out from under the shadow of her way-too-perfect big brother,...

  • Lula Bell on Geekdom, Freakdom, & the Challenges of Bad Hair

    C.C. Payne

    While Lula Bell Bonner tries desperately to fit in by not standing out, her wise and irrepressible Grandma Bernice says: Let your light shine! It's Grandma Bernice who provides the joy that balances Lula Bell’s difficult school life, but when this ...

  • Red Thread Sisters

    Carol Antoinette Peacock

    A poignant and compelling story of friendship, family, and love Wen has spent the first eleven years of her life at an orphanage in rural China, and the only person she would call family is her best friend, Shu Ling. When Wen is adopted by an Amer...

  • The Innocents

    Lili Peloquin

    NOTHING ever cam e between sisters Alice and Charlie. But then their lives were ripped apart when their parents divorced and their mother married again so quickly they didn't even get refills on champagne. Richard Flood (the third) has major skele...

  • Seismic Surge

    Don Pendleton

    STONY MAN When the President hits the panic button, it's Stony Man that answers the call. An elite, covert group, Stony Man strikes before terror can gain a foothold. The warriors of freedom understand the ultimate price and-in their mandate to pro...

  • Throw Down

    Don Pendleton

    Dead Man's Switch Armed with weapons of mass destruction, three anti-American groups prepare to unleash a deadly war against the United States. Mack Bolan is sent in to stop the attack before the killing can begin. And he knows every second counts....

  • Enemy Arsenal

    Don Pendleton

    WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER A massive black-market weapons bazaar, where someone with enough money could outfit a small nation, becomes Stony Man's highest-priority target. And Mack Bolan is determined to be on this year's guest list. Setting out undercove...