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  • Daniel Abraham

    City on the Edge of Chaos A son of the ruling family of the city-state of Machi, Otah was sent from his home to be raised away from the political intrigue into which he was born. Years later, he has witnessed and been part of world-changing events, ...



  • Vasthi Reyes Acosta
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    Contemporary Romance: Enjoy a contemporary romance collection of four heartwarming novellas that capture the sights and sounds of Christmas in New York City. Christmas plans are set askew when a schedule-bound professional organizer meets a free-spir...



  • Carrie Adams

    Nothing scares Tessa King more than the thought she will never have children. It doesn't matter how good her life is, and it is, it never feels good enough. She has four godchildren and dozens of friends, yet love eludes her. She knows how good a mot...



  • David A. Adler

    Cam Jansen, her friends, and their parents are at school for a book fair. Everyone?s favorite mystery writer, Jim E. Winter, is also there signing books. During the signing, Danny?s parents discover their car is missing. Was it stolen? Jim E. Winter ...



  • Susan Wittig Albert

    Beatrix Potter's stories have enchanted readers for a century. And now, fans young and old cherish Susan Wittig Albert's Cottage Tales mysteries, starring Miss Potter herself... Beatrix Potter receives an unexpected--and possibly long-term--visito...



  • Tasha Alexander

    The Elizabethan Age was a time of war, passion, and spectacular power. The Virgin Queen battled foes, lovers, and even her own sister, making an indelible mark on her beloved England and the rest of the world. THE GOLDEN AGE is the sequel to the 1998...



  • Victoria Alexander

    Who will be the last man standing? New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander's delicious series about four men desperately trying to avoid matrimony continues... Lady Cordelia Bannister simply cannot marry a man she has not cho...



  • Sherman Alexie

    Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-w...



  • Barbara Allan

    After her impossible-but-adorable mother quits the local theater group, Brandy Borne has a brilliant idea for beeping Mother out of trouble: open their own booth at the new antiques mall in town. But things turn grim when a body is found between the ...



  • Ted Allbeury

    Max Farne can finally relax, lounging on a boat moored at Santa Margherita, escaping the hot Italian sun in cool Italian bars. But following the sudden arrival of a beautiful woman, the disappearance of a rich man and the appearance of a soft-treadin...



  • Laura Marie Altom

    Two Left Feet? It takes two to tango, but Rose Vasquez hasn't felt like dancing since her husband died. For her little girl's sake, she's determined to make a new life in warm, friendly Hot Pepper, Louisiana. But something strange and wonderful is...



  • Mir Amman

    A dazzling Urdu epic that evokes a magical Indo-Muslim world Originally composed in the fourteenth century and made popular in 1803 by Mir Amman's colloquial retelling, this wonderfully entertaining story paints a portrait of a distant and colorf...



  • Jessica Andersen

    TALK ABOUT AN EXPLOSIVE FIRST DATE Secret Service agent Ty Jones had only one lead left to the madman who'd plunged Boston into a blackout, ambushed his teammates and kidnapped the vice president. Gabriella Solaro -- the woman who'd hacked...



  • Susan Andersen

    On the Steal the Thunder tour, the real show's offstage It's supposed to be the biggest summer of Priscilla Jayne Morgan's life. She's on the brink of country music superstardom, yet she had to fire her crooked-manager Mama, and the tabloids are ...



  • Gail Anderson-Dargatz

    "Anyone who thinks rural characters in Canadian fiction are dull and bland should pick up one of Gail Anderson-Dargatz's novels. . . . The only certainty in her world view is that anything can, and very often does, happen" (The Financial Post). That'...



  • Caroline Anderson

    For the love of a tiny baby... Emily Hamilton thought she'd never see Harry Kavenagh again. Then he's suddenly on her doorstep--cradling a little baby in his arms! The man she once knew, so strong and sure, now looks lost, and when Emily discovers...



  • Jodi Lynn Anderson

    At Hog Wallow Middle School, May Ellen Bird was always slightly invisible. Then she went on a long trip to the land of the dead, where ghost towns glowed blue in the dark dusk and spooky specters dwelled in cities on the Dead Sea. Back on Earth a...



  • Toni Andrews

    I've never been certain I'm human Oh, the X-rays and blood tests are normal, and most people have no reason to suspect I'm more than I appear to be. But if I tell you to do something? You do it--no ifs, ands or buts. I call my power the 'pr...



  • V.C. Andrews

    Two Friends As Close As Sisters. One Killer Secret That Will Tear Their Small Town Apart. In the dust and shadows of the attic, they shared everything -- fanciful stories, high school crushes, plans for the future, dreams to travel the w...



  • Maggie Anton

    THE SECOND NOVEL IN A DRAMATIC HISTORICAL TRILOGY ABOUT THE LIVES AND LOVES OF THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF THE GREAT TALMUD SCHOLAR, RASHI Troyes, France, 1078. As Salomon ben Isaac teaches his lively and daring middle daughter, Miriam, the intricacies o...



  • Alex Archer

    When archaeologist Annja Creed is hired to find the lost city of Promise in Brazil, she is more than intrigued. Legends abound of a magical place where slaves were rumored to have discovered the secret to eternal youth and life. But strangers are ...



  • Lily Archer

    We all know the stories of Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel. But have you ever heard of Alice Bingley-Beckerman, Reena Paruchuri, or Molly Miller? Of course you haven't. Not yet. What these girls have in common with their fairy tale sisters i...



  • Anne Argula

    Quinn, a newly divorced ex-cop, retains custody of her wild hot flashes, her twisted tongue, her fey sense of humor, and her propensity for trouble. Now trying to get a foothold as a P.I. in a new city, Quinn takes what she thinks will be a safe job ...



  • Kelley Armstrong
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    Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others. Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or bir...



  • Tedd Arnold

    Buzz is visiting Grandma, and Fly Guy comes along for the ride. Oops! Grandma swallows Fly Guy, then a spider, then a bird, then a cat, then a dog. . . . She's about to swallow a horse, when Fly Guy shouts: "BUZZZ!" Buzz is starting to worry, but ...



  • Maureen Ash

    After eight years of captivity in the Holy Land, Templar Bascot de Matins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now on a sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he hopes to regain his strength, and mend his waning faith -- but not even the peace of God's co...



  • Jeffrey Ashford

    The new mystery from this popular author - The disappearance of seven-year-old Elaine is especially disturbing for Detective Constable Perry, because she is the daughter of his estranged sister. Breaking protocol by pursuing his enquiries in a case w...



  • Jennifer Ashley

    He was known as "the crazy one." And Leda Stowe could see why after finding the stunning half-naked warrior in her lion's pen--unarmed and completely unafraid. Though he could somehow soothe the temperamental beast, nothing could calm the desire that...



  • Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    HAI HAS ALWAYS been an outsider. With a falcon mother and a deceased cobra father, she is considered a mongrel by most, an ally by some, and a friend by few. Hai's broken falcon wings are a painful reminder of the life she once led on the island of A...



  • Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    Will you dare to be scared? This chilling new collection of terrifying stories from today's top horror writers is sure to keep you up at night!

    This anthology brings together the best of today's horror writers in one spine-tingling collection....



  • Louis Auchincloss

    The Headmaster's Dilemma shows Mr. Auchincloss returning to the subject of his most famous novel, The Rector of Justin. Published in 1964, that novel took the form of a fictional biography, giving the reader the full life story of a much beloved and ...



  • Stephane Audeguy

    A kira Kumo, miraculous survivor of Hiroshima, reinvented himself as someone twenty years younger. Now an eccentric couturier and collector of all literature having to do with clouds and meteorology, he hires Virginie, a young librarian, to catalog h...



  • Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    When Violet Hayes ventures to Chicago during the time of the World's Fair, her one goal is to find her mother, who has been missing from her life since she was nine. Naďve, impressionable, and highly imaginative (having secretly ingested a diet of ro...



  • Avi

    When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where doz...



  • James Axler

    SAVAGE NEW WORLD After twenty-first-century America exploded in the chaos of a nuclear nightmare, a raw new landscape emerged, a world where death and dreams clash. Still, the best of the human spirit endures: the hope, the will to survive. But...



  • P.C. Baccalario

    Everyone in Kilmore Cove is hiding something. That's what Jason, Rick, and Julia realize when they first hear about Mirror House and its creator, the eccentric inventor Peter Dedalus. A close friend of Ulysses Moore, Dedalus has been missing for many...



  • Gilles Bachelet

    A companion to the breakout hit My Cat, the Silliest Cat in the World, chronicling the silliest cat’s younger yearsThe only thing cuter than a cat is a kitten, and the only thing cuter than a kitten is Gilles Bachelet’s remarkable kitten -...



  • Judy Baer

    Whitney Black left spinsterhood behind when she became Mrs. Chase Andrews, and marriage is all she'd hoped for. But when her friends Mitzi and Kim start going baby-crazy, she longs for her own little bundle of joy. Wouldn't it be fun if they all coul...



  • Roz Bailey

    In her witty, wry, insightful new novel, Roz Bailey follows the adventures of one woman who's discovering a new state--and a whole new state of mind... Some signs are hard to ignore... When Ruby Dixon's car is stolen--again--on the day her husba...



  • Deb Baker

    Doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch has found a new circle of friends in the Phoenix Dollers Club members. They share a passion for dolls that goes way beyond children's toys -- to the most fascinating creations in history. And as Gretchen soon di...



  • Jesse Ball

    One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man's last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi. What follows is a spellbinding game of cat and mouse as James is abducted, brought to a...



  • Leslie Esdaile Banks

    Financial genius Laura Caldwell seems to have it all--beauty, brains, wealth, and love with her courageous husband, detective James Carter. But between nature's wrath and criminals who just won't give up, will these newlyweds ever have peace in their...



  • Jo Bannister

    PRESENT IMPERFECT There is nothing as constant as change, a reality that seems to descend with a heavy hand when Brodie Farrell, newly single and unexpectedly pregnant, ponders the fate of her one-woman detective agency, Looking for Something. Her...



  • Shobhan Bantwal

    One sultry night, a young bride overhears an extraordinary conversation. The voices speak of a plot to murder a wife who has failed to produce a child and whose family has failed to produce the promised dowry... Megha is sick with horror when she r...



  • Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

    A group of dinosaurs is happily playing in the school yard when . . . oh no! Here comes the Mine-o-saur!

    He snatches all the toys. He grabs all the snacks at snack time. He hoards the blocks during recess. And all the while he yells, ?MINE, MINE, ...



  • Sandra Bark

    This book is certain to appeal to the millions of Jewish women interested in Jewish literature and the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Francine Prose, and Grace Paley. Beautifully packaged, it is an ideal Mother's Day or Bat-Mitzvah gift. This volume cont...




  • Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    LILAH KNOWS THE rules better than anyone, but between her newfound visions, an absolutely fatal attraction to a boy who isn't real, and the threat of a supernatural enemy with a sting deadlier than any Queen Bee, it's going to take everything she has...



  • Mike Baron

    Mobsters, terrorists, neo-Nazis, religious fanatics, armored killers - no one's too tough for the Punisher! Follow the trail of blood as Frank Castle's war on crime takes him across the country, south of the border, back to school and Down Under! Plu...



  • Annie Barrows

    IVY + BEAN ARE BACK IN ANOTHER ADVENTURE! Bean is bored, bored, bored . . . until her teacher gives her a book of world records, and Bean learns about the biggest, the smallest, and the strangest things in world. Soon the entire second grade has wor...



  • Dave Barry

    A brilliantly funny look at the tumultuous recent past from the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. Remember when everything was going to go to hell when Y2K struck? That didn't happen. Right? But what did happen? To provide a little perspective on a re...



  • Wayne Thomas Batson

    A young lad awakens on an island, alone and brutally injured, with no memory of his past . . . Captain Declan Ross searches for riches that will free him and his headstrong daughter, Anne, from the piracy business forever . . . Bartholomew Thorne, an...



  • Michael Gerard Bauer

    By the time ninth grade begins, Ishmael Leseur knows it won't be long before Barry Bagsley, the class bully, says, "Ishmael? What kind of wussy-crap name is that?" Ishmael's perfected the art of making himself virtually invisible. But all that change...



  • Annie North Bedford

    IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE, and Mickey must use Santa's sleigh to help deliver the Christmas mail! Originally published in 1956, this classic Little Golden Book features vintage Disney artwork that is sure to delight young readers....



  • Peter Behrens

    Driven from the only home he has known during Ireland's Great Hunger of 1847, Fergus O'Brien makes the harrowing journey from County Clare to America, traveling with bold girls, pearl boys, navvies, and highwaymen. Along the way, Fergus meets his thr...



  • Andrew W.M. Beierle

    In this stunning novel, Andrew W.M. Beierle brings to life characters at once unthinkably foreign and utterly real. Frank and fearless, sexy and witty, First Person Plural is a masterfully rendered, powerfully imaginative work, as complex and as extr...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #97-105. As Peter Parker tries to sort out his relationship with the X-Men's Kitty Pryde and Mary Jane, he's interrupted by the debut of the Ultimate Scorpion! But a conspiracy is uncovered as his identity is revealed to ...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #106-111. Ultimate Daredevil attempts to enlist Spider-Man in a crusade to bring down the Kingpin -- permanently. But with his Aunt’s life hanging by a thread, and his serious girl problems with MJ and Kitty Pryde, crim...



  • Emily Benedek

    Four airplanes are blown out of the sky…hundreds of civilians are dead, and the world is gripped by fear. As young American reporter Marie Peterssen investigates the attacks, she meets Julian Granot, a mysterious Israeli operative who offers her...



  • Alexandra Benedict

    He Must Protect Her From His Past... Unwilling to taint any woman with the terrible secret hidden in his heart, Sebastian, Viscount Ravenswood, has sworn never to marry. Luckily, whimsical Henrietta Ashby was never much of a temptation for the devil...



  • Helen Benedict

    Madge is biraccial and her light brown skin has made her feel like an outcast, until she spends a week with her cousin in New York City. There she befriends a small boy with skin the color of her own and no one to care for him. On impulse, Madge take...



  • James R. Benn

    Lieutenant Billy Boyle reluctantly accompanies Major Samuel Harding, his boss, in the first boat to land on the shores of Algeria during the Allied invasion. Their task is to arrange the surrender of the Vichy French forces. But there is dissension b...



  • Maggie Bennett

    A new saga from this well-loved author - Beautiful Elizabeth Pond is torn between two men: Richard de Boville, the son of a wealthy landowner whose common land enclosures have caused great poverty to local families; and the Squires son. Meg Venn, Eli...



  • Ronan Bennett

    Zugzwang--A chess term used to describe a position in which a player is reduced to utter helplessless: he is obliged to move, but every move serves to make his position even worse. The breakout book from a celebrated literary writer: a thriller se...



  • Veronica Bennett

    Young Jane -- or Jenny, as she is called -- is a girl with a head full of questions. Surrounded by her busy parents and brothers, Jenny finds a place for her thoughts in the companionship of her older sister, Cassandra. Theirs is a country life full ...



  • Ron Benrey; Janet Benrey

    Con games were unheard of in quiet Glory, North Carolina. But when the local church's financial secretary took some bad investment advice, a million bucks disappeared, someone died and now a local businessman faced murder charges. Undercover inve...



  • Laurien Berenson

    As the dog days of summer turn to the playful nip of autumn's chill, Melanie Travis is ready for a little relaxation. Her Aunt Peg has the perfect solution--a five-day symposium for dog show judges in Pennsylvania's idyllic Pocono Mountains. While Pe...



  • Lara Bergen

    Follow the adventures of a boy named Mowgli and his jungle friends as they face the dangerous tiger Shere Khan and the unknown world of humans. In this delightful retelling of the classic film, new and old fans will fall in love with


    Lara Rice Bergen

    Charlie and her best friend Nicole never dreamed that auditioning for the junior high's musical would lead to this much drama! Charlie gets stuck baby-sitting her little sister -- and her sister's imaginary friend -- at rehearsals. The school's t...



  • Lisa Tawn Bergren

    First time in paperback -- the second novel in the Gifted trilogy, “an exhilarating religious historical thriller.”(Midwest Book Review)

    In this epic trilogy in the tradition of In the Name of the Rose and The Lord of the Rings, an illumi...



  • Laurie Berkner

    A charming lyrical story and CD from Laurie Berkner that allows kids to explore all their different emotions!

    "This is the story of when I laugh
    When I'm feeling happy that's when I laugh
    And it makes me feel better
    It makes me feel b...



  • Eric Berlin

    Winston Breen finds puzzles everywhere, even on pizzas, and solving them is what he does best. But when his sister uncovers mysterious wooden strips with words and letters that even Winston can't figure out, the entire family is obsessed. It turns ou...



  • William Bernhardt

    She likes the sudden seconds of sheer terror. The neon dreams fit perfectly with the dreams that wake her up at night: about the man she loved and lost, about the constant temptations in her life, and about the odds that inevitably she'll be in the r...



  • Kristin Billerbeck

    BECAUSE SOMETIMES PRINCE CHARMING ISN'T... Haley's role as an L.A. princess is canceled when her producer husband finds someone younger for the part. Haley Cutler is the consummate trophy wife. Perhaps was is the more accurate term. Haley marri...



  • Betty G. Birney

    In the kingdom of Pine Glen . . .

    When a teenage wizard blunders a spell that sends a real, live medieval princess to the Peabodys' house, fourteen-year-old Casey Peabody is in for a royal mess! It was bad enough attending Pine Glen Juni...



  • Sophie Blackall

    The knock-knock joke: a kid classic. So many funny, punny punchlines. It was just screaming for its own book. To do this classic joke justice, we decided to gather fourteen of the best-known and most talented children?s book artists to illustrate the...



  • Jane Blackwood

    Unforgettable It seems like forever since Meghan Rose stormed off Will Scott's yacht, but he still stows her photo in his berth. Of course, nobody knows this; and Meg should have known better than to hit him with The Ultimatum. Sure, their four year...



  • Lauralee Bliss
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    Historical Romance: For Colonial settlers in Jamestown and Williamsburg who were enduring the hardships of carving a home out of the wilderness, Christmas was a reminder of where they came from and their hope for the future. But for some, finding the...



  • Lauralee Bliss
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    Historical Romance: For Colonial settlers in Jamestown and Williamsburg who were enduring the hardships of carving a home out of the wilderness, Christmas was a reminder of where they came from and their hope for the future. But for some, finding the...



  • Amy Bloom

    Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. Wh...



  • Rebecca Bond (1)

    Just where is small Billy going? Why does he have a doughnut tied to his belt? Does he know he is being followed by, first, a hen (with a cluck, cluck, cluck), then a cat (all quiet and slinky), and, farther down Main Street, a band . . . and firemen...



  • Coe Booth

    Tyrell is a young African-American teen who can't get a break. He's living (for now) with his spaced-out mother and little brother in a homeless shelter. His father's in jail. His girlfriend supports him, but he doesn't feel good enough for her -- an...



  • Gregoire Bouillier

    One gloomy Sunday afternoon, Gregoire Bouillier answered the phone only to hear the voice of the woman who'd left him, without warning, five years before. She wasn't calling to apologize or explain the way she'd abruptly vanished from his life--but t...



  • Gillian Bradshaw

    Roman Britain, 208 AD - Emperor Septimius Severus has arrived in Britain to conquer the barbarians in the north of the island. Memnon, an African scout, comes to Britain with his cavalry unit. When he saves the life of a beautiful young attendant of ...



  • Irene Brand
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    Historical Romance: For Colonial settlers in Jamestown and Williamsburg who were enduring the hardships of carving a home out of the wilderness, Christmas was a reminder of where they came from and their hope for the future. But for some, finding the...



  • Irene Brand
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    Historical Romance: For Colonial settlers in Jamestown and Williamsburg who were enduring the hardships of carving a home out of the wilderness, Christmas was a reminder of where they came from and their hope for the future. But for some, finding the...



  • Max Brand

    Stephen Macdona fled his home with only two possessions: his talent for survival and his prize mare, Christy. Before he can be charged with a killing he never meant to commit, he's south of the border with a new name. But it's Christy who attracts th...



  • Robin Brande

    Your best friend hates you. The guy you liked hates you. Your entire group of friends hates you. All because you did the right thing. Welcome to life for Mena, whose year is starting off in the worst way possible. She's been kicked out of her c...



  • Kate Bridges

    WRONG GROOM... All Genevieve Summerville wants is a good life for herself in the wild Klondike. She agrees to take handsome Canadian Mountie Luke Hunter as a stand-in groom while her fiance satisfies his gold-fever. But the best-laid plans go awry -...



  • Norman Bridwell

    Two stories about everyone's favorite Big Red Dog--in one book!

    Clifford makes friends everywhere he goes! This book includes two stories about fun and friendship: CLIFFORD'S CLASS TRIP and CLIFFORD'S PALS.

    In CLIFFORD'S CLASS TRIP, Cli...




  • Pamela Britton

    Indi's only rule: never date a driver. Todd's new rule: win a date with Indi. Good thing rules were meant to be broken . . . Indi Wilcox has a bad track record with race-care drivers -- and the skid marks on her heart prove it. So when she's forc...



  • Martha Brooks

    Seventeen-year-old Odella is haunted by family secrets. Why doesn't her great-aunt Gloria visit anymore? Why does her mother, Sally, drink so much? Sally's tragic car accident on a frozen lake when she was sixteen seems to have cast a spell over her ...



  • Terry Brooks

    Across the ruined landscape that is America -- hopelessly poisoned, plague-ridden, burned, and besieged by demon armies bent on exterminating all mortal life -- two pilgrims have been summoned to serve the embattled cause of good. Logan Tom has journ...



  • Hobson Brown

    Parker Cole, for example. She survived first semester, sure, but still doesn't fit in. Mostly everyone thinks Parker is weird--in her cowboy hats and capes and violet perfume--and even she agrees. But she dreams of being known beyond her persona, for...



  • Laurie Brown

    SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP HIM Deverell Thornton, the ninth Earl of Waite, must convince her to come back to his time and foil the plot that would destroy him... HIS PLEA IS IRRESISTIBLE Josie Drummond is a modern career woman, and she doe...



  • Bliss Broyard

    In this acclaimed memoir, Bliss Broyard, daughter of the literary critic Anatole Broyard, examines her father's choice to hide his racial identity, and the impact of this revelation on her own life.Two months before he died, renowned literary critic ...



  • Nina Bruhns

    He came for a message and left with her heart... Lazlo Group agent Witt von Kreus had spent his life battling injustice. But his purpose was suddenly lost in the heated caress of a woman he'd just met--Marina Bond. She was an SIS agent, involved i...



  • Bonnie Bryant

    THE SADDLE CLUB RIDES TO THE RESCUE! Stevie, Carole, and Lisa--founders of the Saddle Club--would do anything to help a friend in need. And now it looks as if they're going to get their chance when Stevie overhears a disturbing conversation between M...



  • Linda Buckley-Archer

    What happens when a seventeenth-century bad guy has twenty-first-century technology? An accident with an antigravity machine catapulted Peter Schock and Kate Dyer back to 1763. A bungled rescue attempt leaves Peter stranded in the eighteenth century...



  • Marina Budhos

    "You forget. You forget you don't really exist here, that this isn't your home." Since emigrating from Bangladesh, fourteen-year-old Nadira and her family have been living in New York City on expired visas, hoping to realize their dream of becomin...



  • Lynn Bulock

    A faded childhood photograph of the Barker girls was the only clue found at a crime scene. But it didn't explain who'd want Jessie Barker's sister dead. The snapshot brought back memories of another tragedy, shrouded in mystery, that left the Barker ...



  • T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    An entrepreneur with nothing more than a dream teams up with an actor just out of prison and a has-been scriptwriter. Is their effort truly inspired or doomed from the start? A true star, Brent had arrived, but a downward spiral ended in a terrible a...



  • Spencer Burke

    This book brings you face-to-face with pastors and elders, committed attendees, back-pew sitters, and people who have walked out of the church looking for something more. Their unlikely love letters give you an opportunity to hear firsthand from the ...



  • Jim Butcher
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    Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others. Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or bir...



  • A.S. Byatt



  • Georgia Byng

    She knows what you're thinking . . . no really,She knows what you're thinking.Molly Moon is back from the future -- and this time, she can read minds....



  • Sandra Byrd

    Who said that moving out and getting a life would be a piece of cake? Lexi Stuart is at a critical crossroads. She's done with college but still living at home, ready to launch a career but unable to find a job, and solidly stalled between boyfrie...



  • Chelsea Cain

    A Living Nightmare. Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful and brutal serial killer. In the end, she was the one who caught him... and tortured him and then let him go. Why did Gretchen spare Archie's li...



  • Candy Calvert

    Knives, poison, strangulation--ER nurse Darcy Cavanaugh is about to show-and-tell all kinds of deathly dos and don'ts for a mystery writers' workshop at sea. Teaching A Nurses' Guide to Murder in exchange for a Caribbean cruise was a small price to p...



  • Peter Cameron

    It's time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he's surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary--a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, h...



  • Candace Camp

    In a world where love was always a gamble, they meant to beat the odds No longer in the first blush of youth and without a marriage portion, Miss Constance Woodley could scarcely imagine why one of the leading lights of London society should take...



  • Orson Scott Card; Aaron Johnston

    THE HEALERS move in secrecy through the city streets, hidden in dark cloaks. They bring a deadly promise to the poor of Los Angeles. They can cure the incurable diseases -- Parkinson's, sickle cell -- and they ask for nothing in return. But the gen...



  • Lillian Stewart Carl

    Ghostly rumors and the promise of a romantic getaway lure American historian turned journalist Jean Fairbairn to remote, crumbling Ferniebank Castle. Jean's beau, ex-DCI Alasdair Cameron, has been hired for security as renovations to turn the castle ...



  • Melody Carlson

    Written by bestselling author melody carlson. Meet Morgan, Amy, Carlie, and Emily. They all live in the trailer park at 622 Harbor View in tiny Boscoe Bay, Oregon. Proximity made them friends, but a desire to make the world a better place -- and a wi...



  • Melody Carlson

    Written by bestselling author melody carlson. Meet Morgan, Amy, Carlie, and Emily. They all live in the trailer park at 622 Harbor View in tiny Boscoe Bay, Oregon. Proximity made them friends, but a desire to make the world a better place -- and a wi...



  • Melody Carlson

    Written by bestselling author melody carlson. Meet Morgan, Amy, Carlie, and Emily. They all live in the trailer park at 622 Harbor View in tiny Boscoe Bay, Oregon. Proximity made them friends, but a desire to make the world a better place -- and a wi...



  • Melody Carlson

    Written by bestselling author melody carlson. Meet Morgan, Amy, Carlie, and Emily. They all live in the trailer park at 622 Harbor View in tiny Boscoe Bay, Oregon. Proximity made them friends, but a desire to make the world a better place -- and a wi...



  • Melody Carlson

    For Colleen, life is spinning out of control. She just lost her husband, and her relationship with her young adult son Jamie is crumbling. Should she confess to him the secret that has been haunting her for twenty years? Jamie has a few secrets of hi...



  • Susan Carlton

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