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New Books List: 743 titles


  • Jeanne Adams

    HOT PURSUIT Security expert Gates Bromley’s number one priority is protecting art collector Dav Gianikopolis. But when he joins forces with CIA Agent Ana Burton tracing several pieces of stolen art, Gates is distracted by the leggy brunette who st...



  • David A. Adler

    Cam Jansen and her friends are volunteering at a talent show at the local senior center. They're having fun entertaining the guests and enjoying treats donated by Ken's Bakeshop. But during the show someone steals the wedding cake from Ken's truck ou...



  • G.A. Aiken

    I know what they see when they look at me. The charming, soft-spoken dragoness bred from the most powerful of royal bloodlines. A disguise stronger than any battle shield that allows me to keep all suitors at tail's length. A technique that's worked ...



  • Susan Wittig Albert

    Beatrix Potter's tales have bewitched readers for a century. Now, fans of all ages cherish Susan Wittig Albert's Cottage Tales mysteries, starring Miss Potter herself... Miss Beatrix Potter has returned to Near Sawrey, seeking refuge from the bluste...



  • Gary Alexander

    Standup comic Buster Hightower and his love, Carla Chance, live next to a hit man. Or maybe not. Their good friend and neighbor, former minor league basketball player Ted Snowe, doesn't actually kill his assigned targets. He immobilizes them and give...



  • Tamera Alexander

    SOMETIMES THE GREATEST STEP OF FAITH IS TAKEN NECK-DEEP IN FEAR. Determined to fulfill her late husband's dream, Rachel Boyd struggles to keep her ranch afloat with the help of her two young sons. But some days it feels as though her every effort is...



  • Louise Allen

    FROM PRIM AND PROPER… Seduced, abandoned and pregnant, Arabella Shelley is determined her baby’s father will support them. Horrified to discover his death, she is shocked at the demand of his brother, the handsome, inscrutable Viscount Hadleigh. ...



  • Jennifer Allison
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    Don't turn out the lights. Don't go out alone. And whatever you do, don't let down your guard. Because your neighbors might seem normal, but why do they collect knives and eat their steaks so bloody? And when the boy of your dreams finally asks you o...



  • Amy Andrews

    Italian surgeon Alessandro Lombardi had it all -- distinguished career, newborn heir, beautiful wife. But that life is gone forever now, and he and his little boy have come to Australia to start over. Things start looking up when bubbly nanny and ...



  • Amy Andrews

    One dance When Paige Donald buttons up her silk bridesmaid dress she feels beautiful for the first time in years -- giving her the courage to take deliciously dangerous Valentino Lombardi's hand on the dance floor. One kiss Paige spends one incr...



  • Alex Archer

    Archaeologist Annja Creed and her sword have never been outmatched -- until now. When a surprise party for her mentor Roux includes some uninvited guests, Annja finds herself fighting desperately for her life. The intruders escape but leave a sinist...



  • Jeffrey Archer

    Fifteen all new short gems with an international flare from one of the most popular novelists and short story writers of our time International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has spent the last five years gathering spellbinding stories from aro...



  • Zoe Archer

    To most people, the realm of magic is the stuff of nursery rhymes and dusty libraries. But for Capt. Gabriel Huntley, it’s become quite real and quite dangerous… IN HOT PURSUIT… The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark all...



  • John Arcudi

    Collects New Avengers: Luke Cage #1-3, Daredevil: Cage Match #1, Hero for Hire #1. When an old friend from Luke Cage's past is put in the hospital by a vicious attack, Cage leaves his New York City, Avengers Assemblin' adventure-filled life for the c...



  • Tedd Arnold

    The excitement is jam packed in Fly Guy's newest episode which features a comic book within the story. Buzz and Fly Guy are superheroes! The dynamic duo must battle a fiery dragon and a band of pirates. Will Fly Guy and Buzz Boy defeat their enemies ...



  • Suzanne M. Arruda

    After a brief sojourn in Europe, intrepid explorer Jade del Cameron returns to Kenya with bittersweet memories -- as well as the certainty that Africa is her home and Sam Featherstone is the man she wants to share her life. But soon she is haunted n...



  • A.C. Arthur

    Charlene Quinn can't believe her luck when she lands a major contract with L.A.'s hottest record label. Even more thrilling, she'll be laying down tracks with none other than Akil Hutton in his private Miami recording studio. Despite Akil's gruff, ta...



  • Diane Ashley; Aaron McCarver

    Alexandra Lewis's father has been exposed as a thief and killed in a shootout. Her grandmother insists that she carry out her duty to the family by marrying a wealthy man, regardless of whether she loves him. And Alexandra cannot understand how a lov...



  • Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

    Travis Tacey doesn’t have it easy: his mom’s in the hospital suffering from brain trauma after a terrible car accident, and his father has lost his good sense in the aftermath and kicked him out. Homeless, penniless, and only fourteen years old, ...



  • James Axler

    Devastation from the nukewar shattered civilization and left a planet both primitive and ripe for rebirth -- or retaking. While the balance of power has fallen to avaricious, amoral barons, a handful of humanity still holds hope of a future worth fig...



  • Natalie Babbitt

    A gifted artist and writer, Natalie Babbitt's novels are inspired by a brilliance and imagination that is completely original. She began her career in 1966 with the publication of a picture book, The Forty-Ninth Magician, a collaboration with her hus...



  • Peter Bagge

    Marvel is proud to present this hotly-anticipated anthology schowcasing its greatest characters re-imagined by the best, most exciting cartoonists working in independent comics today. Featuring the long-awaited Peter Bagge "Incorrigible Hulk."



  • Rachel Bailey

    In a merger tailor-made for the tabloids, tycoon Ryder Bramson sought Macy Ashley's hand in marriage. But his true goal was to buy her father's company -- and thereby wrest control of his own conglomerate from his illegitimate brothers. To ensnare Ma...



  • Blue Balliett

    A boy in a small town who has a different way of seeing. A mischievous girl who won't stay in one place. A mysterious notebook. A missing father. A fire. A stranger. A death. These are some of the things you'll find within The Danger Box, the ...



  • Stacey Ballis

    Melanie Hoffman lost the weight -- and found a new life. Once a high-powered lawyer with a high-calorie lifestyle, Melanie lost half her body weight, studied holistic nutrition, and opened Dining by Design, a gourmet take-out café specializing in...



  • Maya Banks

    The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super elite, top secret, family-run business. Qualifications: High intelligence, rock hard body, military background. Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the US governm...



  • Michele Bardsley

    Even vampires are afraid of ghosts. After the death of my husband -- and my dreams of motherhood -- I returned to the family estate in Broken Heart, Oklahoma. Little did I know I would literally give up my life as Elizabeth Bretton, the Silverstone ...



  • Mac Barnett
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    Ernest is annoying. Ernest is awkward. Ernest is...Ernest. And Dean wants nothing to do with him, until Ernest wins the most spectacular trip in the history of America - and is allowed to bring one friend....



  • Tracy Barrett

    Telemachos has a comfortable life on his small island of Ithaka, where his mother Penelopeia keeps the peace even though the land has been without its king, his father Odysseus, since the Trojan War began many years ago. But now the people ar...



  • Annie Barrows

    It's Science Fair time at Emerson School and the kids in Ms. Aruba-Tate's class are supposed to find a way to cool down the earth. Some kids are making litterbug-eating robots. Some kids are holding their breath for a very, very long time. But what s...



  • Rick Bass

    Late in 1959, the Brown siblings -- Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed -- were enjoying unprecedented international success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. They had a bona fide megahit on their hands, which topped both the country and p...



  • Anya Bast

    EVEN THE MOST POWERFUL HANDS NEED A DELICATE TOUCH… Emmaline Gallagher is a master of wielding personal glamour. As a free fae who lives among humans, she must hide her true self at all times as she works undercover within the powerful Phaendir --...



  • Charlene Baumbich

    With the big 5-0 fast approaching, Josie Brooks begins to question her structured, picture-perfect (mid)life. Josie Brooks, at the age of 47, thought she was leading an enviable single life. A successful consultant, she calls her own shots, goes...



  • Barbara Bazaldua

    The swashbuckling, computer-animated comedy -- Disney Tangled -- arrives in theaters Holiday 2010. This exciting chapter book retells the whole story from Rapunzel's point of view. ...



  • J.K. Beck

    Seven innocents have been brutally murdered on the streets of Los Angeles, yet the Shadow Alliance has no suspects and no leads. And as more bodies are discovered, the age-old feud between the vampires and werewolves threatens to explode and turn the...



  • Nina Bell

    A passionate love affair. A happy young family. And a successful 30-year marriage. But which one will be destroyed by the truth? Sophie and her sister, Jess, grow up knowing that a few little lies are necessary: You look great. It was only a joke. He...



  • Ted Bell

    British-American MI6 counterterrorism operative Alex Hawke has all but given up on life, ever since he lost the woman he loved almost a year ago. But now an old friend desperately needs his help -- His Royal Highness Prince Charles. A shadowy figure...



  • Don Bendell

    CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS... A son of both the Sioux and white worlds, Joshua Strongheart has two prized possessions -- his father's bowie knife and his stepfather's Colt .45 Peacemaker -- entrusted to him by his dying mother, who made Joshua promise...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    SECRET INVASION IS HERE! The shape-shifting alien race known as the Skrulls has secretly infiltrated every super-powered organization on Earth with one goal - full-scale invasion! In this comic event, page-after-page unveils reveal-after-reveal and s...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collecting: the groundbreaking third year of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN in one colossal trade paperback! Spider-Man beat Kraven. He defeated Dr. Octopus. He even survived a serious scrap with an artificially-enhanced Green Goblin. As it turns out,though, hi...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Daredevil #41-50 & #56-65. After Matt Murdock's public outing, the last thing he needs is the return of Typhoid Mary -- one of his deadliest foes, a schizophrenic predator who terrorizes her targets with a seemingly inexhaustible lust f...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Dark Avengers #13-16 & Dark Avengers Annual 1. The origin of the Sentry is revealed. Bullseye commits an unspeakable act of murder. Victoria Hand wonders if she's gone too far. And as he plans the final stages of his Siege of Asgard, No...



  • Ingrid Betancourt

    Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogotá, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt at the age of thirty-two gave up a life of comfort a...



  • Jake Black

    Packed with never-before-seen art and exclusive content, this guidebook to the entire Chaotic universe includes sections on the internationally successful trading card game, the 4Kids animated television series, and the popular online game. There's s...



  • Lisa Black

    Seventy-five years ago, a madman nicknamed the Torso Killer terrorized Cleveland. His horrific spree lasted four years and crisscrossed the entire city. Overall, he was credited with more than a dozen murders. And he was never caught. Today, foren...



  • Thomas Blackthorne

    It's spreading. The suicide cults of kids barely through puberty. They kill themselves in Cutter Circles, brought together by 3G phones and desolate dreams. It's a virus. A plague. Who knows how to stop it? Find out who caused it. Find out who's in c...



  • William Peter Blatty

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration is a thought-provoking, blackly comic journey into the heart of madness -- and the outer limits of belief -- that served as the basis of an acc...



  • Paula M. Block

    Star Trek: The Original Series 365 is the definitive, authorized guide to Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry's groundbreaking television program that first aired from 1966 through 1969 and went on to become a cultural phenomenon. A visual celebration of the...



  • Lesley M.M. Blume

    Perhaps you think fairies are figments of the imagination, or even relics of an ancient past. You may even think all fairies are lovely winged creatures, who dance in bluebell fields, granting wishes to anyone who should encounter them. You would...



  • Simon Bond

    Howard Marks is king of the dope-smoking world: Mr Nice is now at a staggering half a million copies sold, and the Book of Dope Stories has sold 100,000 copies in six months. Simon Bond is a well-known cartoonist: the classic 101 Uses For A Dead Cat ...



  • Martin Booth

    Part thriller, part character study, part drama of deceit and self-betrayal, The American (A Very Private Gentleman) shows Martin Booth at the very height of his powers. The basis for the 2010 action-packed film starring George Clooney!The locals in ...



  • Lisa Bork

    Jolene Parker and her police-deputy husband Ray have found new love in their life together. They're foster parents for Noelle, an adorable baby whose fugitive birth parents hightailed it out of their touristy Finger Lakes-area town. Jolene and Ray wa...



  • Pseudonymous Bosch

    The Secret Series continues in this dangerous and daring fourth adventure. Cass finds herself alone and disoriented, a stranger in a dream-like, medieval world. Where is she? Who is she? With the help of a long-lost relative, she begins to uncover c...



  • Erin Bow

    Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can work deep magic. As the wood-carver's daughter, Kate held a carving knife before a spoon, and her wooden charms are so fine that some even call he...



  • Rhys Bowen

    Penniless and thirty-fourth in line to the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself in a truly draining state of affairs. To escape her hateful brother, Georgie accepts an invitation from the Queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylv...



  • Libba Bray
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    It’s time to decide: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn? A must-have anthology with contributions from bestselling YA authors is now available in paperback!It’s a question as old as time itself: Which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? This all-origi...



  • Heather Brewer

    As a teenage vampire, Vlad has spent the last four years trying to handle the pressures of school while sidestepping a slayer out for his blood. Now he's a senior, and in this final, action-packed book in the series, Vlad must confront the secrets of...



  • Heather Brewer
    in

    Don't turn out the lights. Don't go out alone. And whatever you do, don't let down your guard. Because your neighbors might seem normal, but why do they collect knives and eat their steaks so bloody? And when the boy of your dreams finally asks you o...



  • Norman Bridwell

    Celebrate the new year with America's biggest, reddest, most-loved dog! Clifford and Emily Elizabeth are getting ready for a New Year's Eve party. They make resolutions, create party hats, and are allowed to stay up late to watch the ball drop on ...



  • Norman Bridwell

    It only takes a little to BE BIG! Clifford is cast in a movie and becomes a big star in Hollywood. He has a mansion and a pool shaped like a bone. But Clifford is tired of being famous--he misses Emily Elizabeth and just wants to come home! The...



  • Norman Bridwell

    It only takes a little to BE BIG! Emily Elizabeth is going to stay at her grandparents' house for a night--and Clifford isn't supposed to come. But the little puppy stows away in her backpack, and gets into a little trouble when the family goes fo...



  • Pamela Britton

    Cowboy from the Wrong Side of the Tracks Mark Hansen has hated the wealthy Cody clan his entire life. And he's secretly loved Nicki Sable just as long. But Nicki is totally beyond this cowboy's reach. She's not only tight with the Codys-she's his bo...



  • Maurice Broaddus

    THE WIRE MEETS EXCALIBUR IN THIS STUNNING FANTASY FROM THE DARK STREETS OF INNER CITY AMERICA From the drug gangs of downtown Indianapolis, the one true king will arise. The King Arthur myth gets dramatically replayed through the destiny of street h...



  • Brom

    "The Plucker," now updated with new art and an afterword from world-renowned dark fantasy artist Brom, is a window into a world where fairy-tale tradition collides with vileness and depravity, love and heroism, suffering and sacrifice. In this shadow...



  • Peter Brown

    Check out this rollicking, humorous, and heartwarming twist on the classic first pet story about a young bear and her favorite pet boy When Lucy, a young bear, discovers a boy in the woods, she's absolutely delighted. She brings him home and begs ...



  • Peter Brown

    When Penguin gets pooped on by a goose flying by, he becomes more determined than ever to learn to fly. So, with the help of his other flightless friends (aka the Waddlers), the foursome builds a flying machine that takes them on an adventure like no...



  • Rita Mae Brown

    With her high-powered Wall Street job in the rearview mirror, thirty-four-year-old Mags Rogers arrives at her great-aunt Jeep Reed's sprawling Nevada ranch to reassemble her life. In the passenger seat is Mags's beloved wirehaired dachshund, Baxter. ...



  • Ryan Brown
    in

    Don't turn out the lights. Don't go out alone. And whatever you do, don't let down your guard. Because your neighbors might seem normal, but why do they collect knives and eat their steaks so bloody? And when the boy of your dreams finally asks you o...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

    WHO IS LYDIA'S SECRET ADMIRER? LYDIA KING IS SUDDENLY A WIDOW and moves her son and herself to Charm, Ohio, to be close to her mother and help with her grandfather. But is her heart ready for romance when gifts begin appearing on her porch from a ...



  • Royce Buckingham

    In the desert town of Richland, Washington, there stands a giant sycamore tree. Horribly mutated by nuclear waste, it feeds on the life energy of boys that it snags with its living roots. And when Teddy Matthews moves to town, the tree trains its sig...



  • Michael Buckley

    WELL, WELL, WELL -- LOOK WHO'S BACK. I COULD HAVE SWORN I'D SCARED YOU OFF WITH THE TEAM'S LAST SPINE-TINGLING ADVENTURE. I GUESS YOU'RE MADE OF TOUGH STUFF. WE'LL SEE . . . ACCESS GRANTED. BEGIN TRANSMISSION: NERDS CASE FILE #2 THE BACKGROUND Th...



  • T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Following the internationally acclaimed Gold of Kings, Storm Syrrell returns in the compelling story of The Black Madonna.Antiques expert Storm Syrrell heads to Europe to investigate the clandestine trade in religious artifacts. She dismisses superst...



  • Matt Burgess

    What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend. Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose --...



  • Jessica Burkhart

    The tide had turned at the elite Canterwood Crest Academy . . . Will Sasha Silver dethrone Heather Fox and become the school's Queen Bee?...



  • Monica Burns

    The truth of the soul. Lysander Condellaire never understood why he had telepathic and telekinetic powers until the night his Praetorian father tortured him and left him for dead. Now, the half-angelic, half-demonic face he sees in the mirror is a...



  • Lee Burton

    Katy, a brave and untiring tractor, who pushes a bulldozer in the summer and a snowplow in the winter, makes it possible for the townspeople to do their jobs....



  • Sandra Byrd

    Now established in her quirky British village, Savvy works hard to get an article with her own byline published in the school newspaper. When an attractive and mysterious boy asks her for help with his school work, Savvy is slowly pulled into his cir...



  • Sandra Byrd

    In a shocking turn of events, all writers for the "Wexburg Academy Times" will cast their votes for next year's editor-and it looks like Savvy's vote will be the tie breaker! She must choose between a nasty-girl-turned-nice, with a sudden interest in...



  • Meg Cabot

    You can't have enough buddies... Allie's excited about her class field trip, even if it's only to a historic one-room schoolhouse. But she gets to ride on a bus, which she usually misses out on, living so close to school. But then Mrs. Hunter annou...



  • Meg Cabot
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    Don't turn out the lights. Don't go out alone. And whatever you do, don't let down your guard. Because your neighbors might seem normal, but why do they collect knives and eat their steaks so bloody? And when the boy of your dreams finally asks you o...



  • Meg Cabot
    in

    It’s time to decide: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn? A must-have anthology with contributions from bestselling YA authors is now available in paperback!It’s a question as old as time itself: Which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? This all-origi...



  • Don Calame

    Get ready for riffs on hot girls, Health class, and social hell The outrageously funny boys from Swim the Fly return to rock their sophomore year. In this hilarious sequel told from Coop's point of view, it's the beginning of the school year, and ...



  • Cassidy Calloway

    Morgan is a National Disaster. Morgan Abbott couldn't be happier. Super-cute Max has quit her Secret Service detail to be her (secret) boyfriend, and the annoying Brittany Whittaker has been ousted from class president, leaving the post open for ...



  • Candace Calvert

    Dr. Leigh Stathos loves working in the ER where she can remain emotionally unattached to her patients. Her motto: Treat them and street them. When a single mother and her two children are admitted with carbon monoxide poisoning, Leigh is there to tre...



  • Gail Carriger

    Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unex...



  • Carol Cassella

    Claire Boehning's medical career is just about to blossom when her brilliant husband, Addison, makes a breakthrough medical discovery. His biotech start-up strikes gold, and their family is catapulted into a life of luxury. Claire eventually drifts f...



  • Kendra Leigh Castle

    It's been thousands of years since Raum's angelic wings turned from white to black, and the Destroyer of Dignities and Robber of Kings never looked back. These days he's also on the outs with Hell and works with a motley crew of ex-demons on a new mi...



  • Elizabeth Chadwick

    A BITTERSWEET TALE OF LOVE, LOSS AND THE POWER OF A KING When Roger Bigod arrives at King Henry II's court to settle a bitter inheritance dispute, he becomes enchanted with Ida de Tosney, young mistress to the powerful king. A victim of Henry's sedu...



  • Eishes Chayil

    Inside the closed community of Borough Park, where most Chassidim live, the rules of life are very clear, determined by an ancient script written thousands of years before down to the last detail -- and abuse has never been a part of it. But when thi...



  • Lisa Childs

    When little Tommy Phillips walks into the Forest Glen sheriff's office and asks Chance Drayton to find his dad, the lawman's heart goes out to him. As a single father, he knows what it's like to be far away from your family. Then he meets Tommy's at...



  • Lisa Childs

    Hunter Liam McKiernan would do anything to lure vampire Jennifer Williams into his trap--even use her sister, Eve, against her. It was only fitting since he believed Jennifer killed his brother. But when he finally caught up with her, Jennifer was no...



  • Beth Ciotta

    She needs adventure. He needs taming. Things are about to get wild... When River Kane's fiance abandons her at the altar for being too conventional, she's heartbroken. But everything changes when her estranged archaeologist father sends her his jour...



  • Cassandra Clare
    in

    It’s time to decide: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn? A must-have anthology with contributions from bestselling YA authors is now available in paperback!It’s a question as old as time itself: Which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? This all-origi...



  • Amy Clipston

    Just in time, or just too late? In the tradition of her widely popular Kauffman Amish Bakery Series, author Amy Clipston weaves this tale of Anna Mae McDonough -- shunned by her family four years ago when she left her Amish community in Lancaster Co...



  • Margaret Coel

    When the Arapaho she plans to marry, Ned Windsong, is shot to death, Marcy Morrison is the only witness. Even though she identifies two Arapaho troublemakers, Ned's family believes Marcy was responsible. Convinced of Marcy's innocence, Arapaho attorn...



  • Rowan Coleman

    THE DOOR IS OPEN . . . For young widow Ellen Wood, her Victorian home is a refugea place to feel safe with her eleven-year-old son, Charlie. But when money grows so tight that Ellen could lose the house, her sister, Hannah, makes a radical suggestion...



  • Eoin Colfer
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    Long before Artemis Fowl appeared in Eoin Colfer's hit series, he was born in the form of Eoin's younger brother Donal--the "young criminal mastermind" of the family. And on one particular spring day, he concocts his most sinister plot yet....



  • Christopher Conlon

    Richard Matheson, the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, has inspired a generation of storytellers. Now, an outstanding cast of top writers pays tribute to his legacy with an all-new collection of original stories set in Matheson's own...



  • Cynthia Cooke

    A chilling phone call brings Laura Larame back to the Louisiana bayou, where her mother inexplicably vanished twenty years ago. She has no memory of one terror-filled night -- or of the man who saved her from a horrifying death. Sensual, enigmatic Dr...



  • Mark A. Cooper

    The next break-out action-adventure hit! Reluctant readers looking for excitement need search no further Eleven-year-old martial arts expert Jason Steed is spending his summer as a Sea Cadet on a British Navy Frigate off the Jakarta coast when reb...



  • Sue Corbett

    Big Heart + Big Brain = Funny, Feel Good Fiction! Wil?s sidearm throw can land a paper on your porch from twenty yards out. But he doesn?t know if he?ll be able to put his unusual talent to use because the big newspaper company has canceled delivery ...



  • Bruce R. Cordell
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Raidon Kane survived his clash against the eldest aboleth, but came away with his mind shattered. Destiny hands Raidon one last chance to avert the Abolethic Sovereignty's agenda, but only if he can find within himself the strength to care. Raidon, t...



  • Joshua Corin

    IF THERE WERE A GOD, HE WOULD HAVE STOPPED ME That's the message discovered atop an elementary school in downtown Atlanta. Across the street are the bodies of fourteen innocent men and women, each quickly and cleanly murdered. The sniper Galileo i...



  • Lyn Cote

    The House That Love Built Struggling single mother Rosa Santos is deeply touched when volunteers band together to build her a home. With a waitressing job, community college and church, Rosa barely has time to help, let alone dream about a husband a...



  • N.C. Christopher Couch

    Jerry Robinson is one of the living legends of American comics. As a member of the original Batman team, he created the first and most iconic of all supervillains, the Joker, and cocreated Robin, the archetypal sidekick. During the Golden and Silver ...



  • Dilly Court

    On a bitter winter's day, an unnamed girl lies dangerously ill in hospital. When two coarse, rough-speaking individuals come to claim her, she can remember nothing of the events that brought her to her present state, not even her name. According to t...



  • Bruce Coville



  • Greg Cox

    When the elder Spock surfaces from the future, will he be able to escape a sinister plan wrought by the enemies of the Federation, or will their quest to exploit Spock's knowledge succeed, with disastrous consequences?...



  • Judy Cox

    Nora is trying to be a good sport about having cousin Ellie's family as long-term guests now that her uncle has lost his job. However, her brash cousin Ellie, the Texas Terror, is taking over Nora's life. Nora not only has to share her room with Elli...



  • Christopher Paul Curtis
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    Kids. They think they got it so rough these days. But nobody has it worse than Papa Red did when he was a kid. And you better listen up when he talks. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka. ...



  • Mary Daheim

    This fall, Judith McMonigle Flynn can barely cope with her gaggle of guests at Hillside Manor B&B. And when diminutive daredevil and martial-arts movie icon Wee Willie Weevil insists on performing his dangerous stunts from Judith's roof -- and ends u...



  • Roald Dahl

    Roald Dahl's personal stories together in one edition! Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories? From his own life, of course! Boy includes tales of sweetshops and chocolate, mean old ladies, and the Great Mouse Plot. And th...



  • Roald Dahl

    In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr. Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory. Charlie just needs one golden ticket, and Mr. Wonka's delicious...



  • Gitty Daneshvari

    In this hilarious follow-up to School of Fear, eccentric headmaster Mrs. Wellington demands requests the presence of Madeleine, Theo, Lulu, and Garrison for a mandatory summer of retraining after discovering that each of her former students has secre...



  • Peter David

    You're Bolivar Trask, the reanimated leader of the Mutant Response Division. Your mission: Kill every member of X-Factor: How to accompoish that without collateral damage? Easy: hire the tam for what seems to be a routine case that will send them int...



  • Susan Page Davis
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    Marriage Arrives by Mail-Order -- Just in Time for Christmas Three unmarried women contact Mrs. Mayberry's Matrimonial Society for Christians of Moral Character seeking husbands and travel the Transcontinental Railroad hoping love awaits them. ...



  • Tony Davis

    It's really happened -- Roland Wright is joining the royal household at Twofold Castle as a brand-new page! This is his big chance to impress the King and his knights. But Roland encounters a few difficulties: - The Queen hates mice, so it looks as...



  • Alyssa Day

    Poseidon’s warriors have learned that the battle to protect humanity produces unexpected enemies--and alliances. And one of the most powerful of all Atlantean warriors will soon find both…in one daring beauty. A WARRIOR'S MISSION, A WOMAN'S DESI...



  • Aliette De Bodard

    IT IS THE YEAR ONE-KNIFE IN TENOCHTITLAN - THE CAPITAL OF THE AZTECS. The end of the world is kept at bay only by the magic of human sacrifice. A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. Acatl, High Priest of the Dead must find ...



  • Tatiana de Rosnay

    This stunning new novel from Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sarahs Key, plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change everything in the present. It all began with a...



  • Guillermo del Toro; Chuck Hogan

    From the authors of the instant New York Times bestseller The Strain comes the next volume in one of the most imaginative and frightening thriller series in many, many years Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world. ...



  • J.M. DeMatteis

    Clones, and jackals and symbiotes--oh my! Spider-Man's clone is back, costumed as the Scarlet Spider, and neither is sure which is the genuine article! Will the real Peter Parker please stand up? Plus: Aunt May on her death bed! Mary Jane pregnant! P...



  • Kathie DeNosky

    Melissa Jarrod treasured her secret no-strings affair with rich rancher Shane McDermott. Then a pregnancy test rocked the Aspen heiress's world. An out-of-wedlock baby would spook conservative investors in her family's luxury resort business just as ...



  • Lisa Desrochers

    FRANNIE CAVANAUGH has always been a bit of a loner. She's spent years keeping everyone at a distance, even her closest friends. That is, until Luc Cain enrolls in her school. He's hot, sarcastic, and dangerous -- and Frannie can't seem to stay away. ...



  • Carl Deuker

    Through the eyes of a distinctly non-athletic protagonist -- a fat high school journalist named Mitch -- veteran sports novelist Deuker reveals the surprising truth behind a mysterious football player named Angel. When Angel shows up Lincoln High, h...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Promises is a story of passion and mystery set on an 19th century plantation, where a beautiful young writer finds herself falling for the last man she ever expected to love....



  • Ivy Devlin

    Her parents are dead. She can't remember what happened. And now she's in love with the most dangerous creature in the forest. The only thing Avery Hood can remember about the night her parents died is that she saw silver--deadly silver, moving inh...



  • Kate DiCamillo
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    Joe's got a problem. He has to write to an author for a school assignment and get her to answer a bunch of questions. But the author he's chosen, Maureen O'Toople, just doesn't want to play along....



  • Kate DiCamillo; Alison McGhee

    Meet Bink and Gollie, two precocious little girls -- one tiny, one tall, and both utterly irrepressible. Setting out from their super-deluxe tree house and powered by plenty of peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes (for Gollie), they share three co...



  • Melanie Dickerson

    When destiny sleeps, it can only be awakened by true love’s kiss. In this historical romance loosely based on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, a woodcutter's daughter becomes the town healer's apprentice. Rose's job is to care for the sick and inj...



  • Disney Book Group

    Tinker Bell is excited to spend a month on the mainland to bring about summertime -- until she is captured by a human girl! Vidia and the other fairies must find a way to rescue Tink. But can they save Tink before the girl’s father reveals the worl...



  • Disney Book Group

    Ariel the mermaid and her friend Flounder play a game of hide-and-seek....



  • Disney Book Group

    Princess Aurora hosts a slumber party at the castle for the three good fairies....



  • Lucienne Diver

    Gina's Rules for Vampires on Surviving Super Spy School Training: 1. First, the dirt and sweat are just too horrible to contemplate. 2. Going goth to infiltrate a high school and see who's messing with supernatural powers means no color palette to ...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    IT’S RAINING…FROGS? Frank and his brother, Joe, have got the school talent show in the bag with their sword fight . . . or so they think. They and their classmates have been working on their talents for weeks, and they can't wait to be onstage s...



  • Christina Dodd

    Two lovers are torn apart by betrayal and reunited by... Samuel Faa, the adopted son of servants, is a Gypsy lawyer with the power to control minds. Isabelle Mason, of the Boston Masons, is wealthy, privileged, and refined, and she has the gift for ...



  • Richard Doetsch

    pBestselling author Richard Doetsch has crafted an ingenious tale of suspense and magic brought vividly to life with original videos that are integrated into the narrative. Embassy is a mind-blowing thriller that immerses you in its story in a way yo...



  • Kit Donner

    A wager, a scandal, a fortune at stake… Madelene Colgate has three days to find a husband -- or her family’s wealth is forever lost. It’s no wonder she plays into the hands of Gabriel Westcott, a devilishly handsome stranger all too happy to m...



  • Emma Donoghue

    To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where Jack is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, ...



  • John Donovan

    The 40th anniversary edition of a groundbreaking teen classic When the grandmother who raised him dies, Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old boy, must move to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Between alcohol-infused lectures about her...



  • Jose Rodrigues dos Santos

    Princeton, New Jersey-1951. Just off a small street, an unidentified man stands hidden, carefully monitoring an unfolding scene. A police-escorted motorcade stops at a small, unremarkable house while an old man with a shock of white hair jumps out of...



  • Kate Douglas

    As night falls in Abyss, an evil beyond measure awakens in secret -- an evil that the Demonslayers must vanquish in Kate Douglas's sensational new paranormal romance... DARK FLAMES A new, more dangerous vortex has opened in the besieged Earth and t...



  • Apostolos Doxiadis

    Uncle Petros is a family joke. An ageing recluse, he lives alone in a suburb of Athens, playing chess and tending to his garden. If you didn't know better, you'd surely think he was one of life's failures. But his young nephew suspects otherwise. For...



  • David Drake

    NO REST FOR THE LEARY Captain Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy, have been in the front lines of Cinnabar's struggle against the totalitarian Alliance. Now these galactic superpowers have signed a peace of mutual exhaustion -- but t...



  • Kathleen Duey
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    It’s time to decide: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn? A must-have anthology with contributions from bestselling YA authors is now available in paperback!It’s a question as old as time itself: Which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? This all-origi...



  • Michele Dunaway

    Chandy McDaniel was seventeen and pregnant when her world crashed around her. Fifteen years later, she's not -- repeat, not -- stupid enough to let Justin McCall back into her life. Especially after he and his family moved away from their Iowa hometo...



  • Clare B. Dunkle

    Young Tabby Aykroyd has been brought to the dusty mansion of Seldom House to be nursemaid to a foundling boy. He is a savage little creature, but the Yorkshire moors harbor far worse, as Tabby soon discovers. Why do scores of dead maids and masters h...



  • Wanda L. Dyson

    Sensational journalism has never been so deadly. The weekly cable news show Judgment Day with Suzanne Kidwell promises to expose businessmen, religious leaders, and politicians for the lies they tell. Suzanne positions herself as a champion of et...



  • Kathleen Eagle

    WHERE WISHES ARE HORSES, LOVERS WILL RIDE... Logan Wolf Track had horses in his blood. For this "Indian cowboy," teaming up with army sergeant Mary Tutan to enter the Double D's wild mustang training competition was a win-win proposition. This tough...



  • Gerald Elias

    Daniel Jacobus, reclusive blind concert master and amateur sleuth, returns to solve a most despicable crime and to clear an innocent man Just after his Carnegie Hall swansong and before his imminent departure for retirement in France, beloved violini...



  • Chris Eliopoulos

    Once upon a time, in a world of super heroes and villains, there lived a team of animals that saved the universe...and no one knew it. These creatures asked not for fortune or fame, merely to help the humans that pet them. But a new threat to the wor...



  • Simone Elkeles

    Nothing last forever Caleb Becker left Paradise eight months ago, taking with him the secret he promised to take to his grave. If the truth got out, it would ruin everything. Maggie Armstrong tried to be strong after Caleb broke her heart and d...



  • Jason Elliot

    In this bold novel, Jason Elliot illuminates the dark recesses of the intelligence community during a crucial moment in history: the struggle to avoid a terrorist attack. In the months before 9/11, former army officer Anthony Taverner is leading ...



  • Anna Elliott

    She is a healer, a storyteller, and a warrior. She has fought to preserve Britains throne. Now she faces her greatest challenge in turning bitter enemies into allies, saving the life of the man she loves . . . and mending her own wounded heart. Th...



  • Kate Elliott

    From one of the genre's finest writers comes a bold new epic fantasy in which science and magic are locked in a deadly struggle. It is the dawn of a new age... The Industrial Revolution has begun, factories are springing up across the country, and...



  • Adam Jay Epstein; Andrew Jacobson

    Is the kingdom's fate in the hands of an orphan cat? Running fast to save his life, Aldwyn ducks into an unusual pet store. Moments later Jack, a young wizard in training, comes in to choose a magical animal to be his familiar. Aldwyn's always bee...



  • Carol Ericson

    THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT HER WAS TO MARRY HER The moment Rod McClintock spots the disheveled bride on the side of the road, he knows life is about to become a lot more complicated. Callie Price is on the run and in need of his protection. She's also ...



  • Janet Evanovich

    LIZZY TUCKER has inherited a historic house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, taken a new job as pastry chef for Dazzle's Bakery in Salem, and set her sights on a comfortable future. The comfortable future and any hope for normalcy evaporates when dark-h...



  • Ann Evans

    One moment changes everything It was supposed to be the most wonderful night of their young lives. Cassie McGuire was barely eighteen and ready to elope with the man of her dreams, when tragedy struck. With the new future now facing her, there was n...



  • Danielle Evans

    Introducing a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about young African-American and mixed-race teens, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities. When Danielle Evans's short story Virgins wa...



  • Chris Fabry

    "I suppose you can dam up a man's life with a few words, but I need to put this story down to fill in the missing pieces. Or perhaps I can convince the people who know me as a hermit that there was some reason for it all. But this is not really for t...



  • Paul Feig
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    This all started when Steve wouldn't take out the trash. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka. ...



  • Alane Ferguson
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    Don't turn out the lights. Don't go out alone. And whatever you do, don't let down your guard. Because your neighbors might seem normal, but why do they collect knives and eat their steaks so bloody? And when the boy of your dreams finally asks you o...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    "you're just too gorgeous for my own good." Ethan O'Brien is run over by a beautiful woman as she emerges from a burning building, children in tow. An arsonist is loose in Aurora, and Ethan plans on stopping him. But the beauty is no victim, oh no. ...



  • Africa Fine

    Swan is the story of Delia "Duck" Dukes, a girl who escapes her small Texas town in the 1940s and 1950s, seeking to shed her reputation for being the ugly duckling in her family and escape an abusive stepfather. Although she moves to Chicago and purs...



  • Susan Fletcher

    In a new dragon novel by Susan Fletcher, Bryn must save a dracling from a dangerous modern world that seems to have no place for an ancient dragon....



  • Michael Thomas Ford

    The First Rule of Torching: Cleanse with fire. Josh is by far the best zombie Torcher around--at least, he is in his virtual-reality zombie-hunting game. Josh has quickly risen through the player ranks, relying on the skill, cunning, and agility o...



  • Gwynne Forster

    A MAN ON A MISSION... While his adoptive parents were alive, Judson Phillips never tried to find out where he came from. Now he's determined to uncover his roots, and falling for diplomat Heather Tatum -- a woman he can imagine making a life with...



  • Addison Fox

    MILLENNIA AGO, THE GODDESS OF JUSTICE CREATED A RACE OF FIERCE WARRIORS, EACH IMBUED WITH A SPECIAL POWER OF THE ZODIAC AND CHARGED WITH PROTECTING HUMANITY FROM THE DARKEST OF EVILS. For ages, the goddess Nemesis has sought divine vengeance against...



  • Jacquelyn Frank
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    Held captive, Amara is subjected to bizarre experiments that test the limits of her sanity. But nothing prepares her for being locked away - naked - with a sexy ex-cop...after they've been pumped full of drugs that increase their sexual appetites to ...



  • Heather Vogel Frederick

    Right before the start of freshman year, Emma's family unexpectedly moves to England. The book club members are stunned -- but thanks to videoconferencing, they can still keep the club alive, and they decide to tackle Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudic...



  • Stephen Frey

    New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey thrills readers with the mesmerizing tale of a small-town sheriff who must confront the worst violence that man and nature possess. Bruner, Wisconsin, is really two different towns. On one side are the...



  • Haruka Fukushima

     
    CATCH A FALLING STAR!
     
    Rui, Eisuke, and Taro embark on their last journey. Rui decides to date Taro. But when Eisuke returns as her teacher -- with his charming fiancée in tow -- Rui’s feelings become complicated again. Meanwhile, Ta...



  • Kathleen Fuller

    Ruth Byler has never failed at anything in her life, but Zach Bender is going to test the limits of her heart. Ruth Byler has only wanted one thing in her life--to become a school teacher. Her dreams are put on hold when Zach Bender crashes into the...



  • Meriel Fuller

    HER WARRIOR KNIGHT! With the country on the brink of anarchy, hard-hearted soldier Bastien de la Roche will do what it takes to restore calm. Capturing the spirited Alice Matravers, a servant to the royal court, he uses his charm to blackmail her ...



  • Cornelia Funke

    For years, Jacob Reckless has been escaping to another world--a world behind the mirror, where witches haunt the forests and fairies and dwarfs roam. A world for treasure hunts and magnificent quests--but also a world locked in a deadly war. Jacob...



  • Pat G'Orge-Walker

    Hang on to your seat as Pat G’Orge-Walker spins a hilarious, inspiring novel of mistakes and second chances, heartache and love, sin and salvation… Appearances mean everything to Delilah Dupree Jewel. So after hearing of her daughter-in-law’...



  • Marcus Galloway

    LAWDOG ON A LEASH Zeke Wolpert is sheriff of Keith County, Nebraska. He doesn't keep the peace so much as turn a blind eye to the illegal activities of outlaws who pay him for the privilege. To the disgust of the county's honest citizens -- and of Z...



  • Jack Gantos
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    Jack isn't like the Pagoda brothers. He knows the difference between fun and stupid. Launching yourself across the backyard in a makeshift Roman catapult? Fun. Smoking an entire pack of cigarettes as fast as possible? Stupid. But when it comes to eme...



  • Cristina Garcia

    National Book Award finalist Cristina García delivers a powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil. The lives of six men and w...



  • Steve Gerber

    After gaining superhuman strength, the Living Legend learns he'll need every bit of it against such team efforts as the Crimson Cowl's Crimewave, the Serpent Squad and Nightshade's Werewolves. Alongside his crimefighting compatriot, the Falcon, Cap d...



  • Marley Gibson

    Kendall has just discovered who Emily really is, lost her boyfriend, and nearly died doing the thing she loves most--ghost hunting. It's time to take a break and try to reconcile all the changes she's going through. So Kendall heads to the Sierra Mou...



  • William Gibson

    Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own... When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash...



  • Patricia Reilly Giff

    Elizabeth is drawn into a dramatic story from the American Revolution when she discovers a portrait of her ancestor, a girl called Zee, who has a striking resemblance to Elizabeth. The girls' lives intertwine and Elizabeth's present-day story alterna...



  • Gail Giles

    Dark has a sound. A song. Marc said he heard that darkness when he creeped houses, when he stood over people while they slept. The song the predator's heart sings when it hears the heart of the prey. Ames is not the person she was a few months ago....



  • Julia Glass

    In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locall...



  • Joel Goldman

    No Way Out...



  • Robyn Grady

    A wickedly sexy bad boy -- with a secret... Mechanic Pace Brodrick has stepped straight out of prim Phoebe's wildest fantasy -- oil-slicked and dangerously sexy, he's her perfect Mr. Right Now! Phoebe's been long overdue some exciteme...



  • Heather Graham
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    Don't turn out the lights. Don't go out alone. And whatever you do, don't let down your guard. Because your neighbors might seem normal, but why do they collect knives and eat their steaks so bloody? And when the boy of your dreams finally asks you o...



  • Jan Grape

    Nothing ever happens in this one-horse Texas town, sixteen-year old Cory Purvis tells her platonic boyfriend, Ty-Ty . . . until the two of them find a body in the haunted old Whalen house a few miles outside of Bent Bell. Half-naked, tied up and very...



  • Paula Graves

    HAS A BACHELOR DEDICATED ONLY TO THE LAW FINALLY MET HIS PERFECT MATCH? A man of duty and justice, Sheriff Aaron Cooper can't foresee trading his bachelor ways for love. So when he offers an innocent Melissa Draper protection, he doesn't realize w...



  • Risa Green

    In a world where nothing is certain, a little magic couldn't hurt...right? When Erin Channing's favorite aunt dies, Erin is bequeathed a pink crystal ball and a set of weird instructions. Granted, Aunt Kiki (aka Aunt Kooky) always lived outside th...




  • Jennifer Greene

    "Damn you. You've actually gotten to me." Harm Connolly wants to leave his bad history with women on terra firma. Two weeks of business on a cruise would help accomplish that. First complication: the sexiest woman he's ever met is on board the vesse...



  • Nikki Grimes

    Dyamonde Daniel is excited about the local library's poetry contest, and so is her friend Free. The prize is one hundred dollars -- just think what they could buy with that much money! But when they find out that Damaris, one of their classmates, has...



  • Grosset & Dunlap

    Meet Buddy. He's just like any other T. Rex . . . except that he lives with a family of pteranodons Join him for a peek inside his world, and meet all of his dinosaur family and friends. Packed with full-color images from the show, this simple board...



  • David Grossman

    From one of Israel's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life -- the greatest human drama -- and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army...



  • Sara Gruen

    Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but apes she gets -- especially the bonobos Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongojelani, and Makena, who are capable of reason and communication through American Sign Language. I...




  • Mary Downing Hahn

    When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crutchfield Hall, an old manor house in the English countryside. Anything will be better, she thinks, than ...