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  • Jason Aaron

    Collects Wolverine #1-5. Wolverine goes to hell... literally! Someone's out to destroy Wolverine-permanently-and they may have succeeded. But if Wolverine's soul is in hell, how is his body terrorizing those closest to him?...




  • Diana Abu-Jaber

    Avis Muir is a brilliant pastry chef, Brian Muir a corporate real estate attorney. Their son, Stanley, is the proprietor of a trendy food market. Their beautiful daughter, Felice, is missing. A runaway at 13, Felice has spent five years modeling tatt...



  • Guy Adams

    When several leading society figures begin acting out of character, Holmes is enlisted on an investigation that will see him team up with famed ghost hunter Thomas Carnacki, and the famous occultist Aleister Crowley. As London fills up with mindl...



  • Jeanne Adams

    Caught In A Game Secrets are what drive billionaire security expert Davros Gianakopulos to succeed. And no one intrigues him more than striking art gallery owner Carrie McCray. But when a vengeful enemy traps Dav and Carrie in a ruthless battle of...



  • Tessa Adams

    Get fired up for this steamy fantasy romance novella in the Dragon's Heat series from Tessa Adams....



  • Aravind Adiga

    Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize -- winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same f...



  • G.A. Aiken
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    Escorting the highborn Bram through deadly Sand Dragon territory will try Ghleanna's patience... and her resolve. For Bram is determined to enhance the journey with a seduction no female could resist......



  • G.A. Aiken

    I was raised for battle. And as the first daughter of a warrior family, I've earned my reputation the hard way. Yet now I fight alongside uncivilized male Northland dragons who think a female is only good for breeding and waiting back home in the cav...



  • Susan Wittig Albert

    It's the heart of summer in 1913, and Beatrix is eager to marry her fiancé, solicitor William Heelis. But there are a few obstacles blocking the happy couple's path to the altar, like the troubled remodeling of Castle Cottage-Will and Beatrix's futur...



  • Gary Alexander

    Zillionaire is a quirky, fast-paced yarn that races from Washington State to Belize to Tikal, the great Maya ruin in Guatemala. A mystery drenched in dry wit and high-concept humor, Zillionaire will keep readers smiling as they try to figure out the ...



  • Dante Alighieri

    The second stage in Dante's journey to redemption, Purgatory is presented here in a verse translation by JG Nichols, with English and the original Italian on facing pages, notes and a concise introduction to each canto....



  • Khaled Alkhamissi



  • Julia Alvarez

    Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast! With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tía Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over. But Tía Lola and the children soon rea...



  • Adrianne Ambrose

    The misadventures of BFFs Betty and Veronica continue in this third installment of the middle-grade novel series. A mix-up at school puts Veronica on the school paper instead of Betty, and Betty in Veronica's role as the lead in school play. Now the ...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    Captain Nemo is the fictional life story of one of Jules Verne's most memorable characters from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. It covers his boyhood friendship with the dreamer, Jules Verne, adventures aboard sailing ships, b...



  • Laurie Halse Anderson

    From the author of Speak and Fever, 1793, comes the never-before-told tale of Sarah Josepha Hale, the extraordinary "lady editor" who made Thanksgiving a national holiday!Thanksgiving might have started with a jubilant feast on Plymouth's shore. But ...



  • M.T. Anderson

    Two fake psychics, one real haunted house--what could go wrong? A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. ...



  • Mick Anglo

    Who is the mysterious Marvelman? If you only know him from his dark, deconstructionist eighties revival, then you don't know Marvelman! Go back to the very beginning and witness firsthand the earliest atomic-powered adventures of the mightiest man in...



  • Alex Archer

    Men would do anything for it...but one woman will determine its fate Steeped in legend, the Pearl of Palawan has a history marked by destruction, vengeance and love. But more important, the mythical black pearl is rumored to grant a power long cov...



  • Kelley Armstrong
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    A journey may take hundreds of miles, or it may cover the distance between duty and desire.

    Sixteen of today’s hottest writers of paranormal tales weave stories on a common theme of journeying. Authors such as Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Cai...



  • Melissa Arps

    Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Jasmine, and Ariel are pretty and sweet -- and polite! In this storybook, the Disney Princesses share their rules on good manners....



  • Melissa Arps

    The Disney princesses gallop away with their beloved horses in all-new adventures! Ride with Belle and Phillippe, Cinderella and Frou, and Snow White and Astor in an original storybook....



  • Jade Ashe

    Go back in time with Batman and Green Arrow to defeat Morgaine Le Fey and retrieve the mythical sword Excalibur. This 48-page reader features exciting full-color art from the popular Cartoon Network television series "Batman: The Brave and the Bold."...



  • Katharine Ashe

    From Katharine Ashe comes an original, exclusive "Rogues of the Sea" Series novella . . . To the world, Lady Patricia Morgan is a proper lady. But in secret, she yearns for a scorching romance -- a single night of passion to make her feel alive. ...



  • Amanda Ashley

    A Vampire's Kiss Is Forever... Once featured in a horror movie, the crumbling Wolfram estate is said to be haunted by ghosts, witches, and worse. But Elena doesn't believe a word of it -- until she spends the night and wakes up in the arms of a co...



  • Mike Ashley

    The most complete guide ever to the real Arthurian world and the legends that surround it He defeated the Saxons so decisively at the Battle of Badon that he held the Saxon invasion of Britain at bay for at least a generation. He has inspired more st...



  • James Asmus

    One collection packed with stories that will forever change the way you look at yourself. CHILL as Lady Deadpool and Headpool try to find the root cause of their majorly abusive frenemieship. Then THRILL as Kidpool and Dogpool embark on a 100-ton mec...



  • Dawn Atkins

    He's a real game-changer... No better way to kick off her career than a fabulous weekend with a rock-star journalist! When Melody "Mel" Ramirez and Noah Stone part ways after those intense days, she knows nothing will stop her rise to the top as a...



  • Marlene Austion

    On the day Bethany Carlisle receives her doctorate, she learns that her grandmother has died. However, Bethany's dismay immediately turns to anger when she learns that the wealthy, eccentric, and distant woman who raised Bethany has taken pains to to...



  • Avi

    As a newsboy on the streets of 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks Geless has a hard enough time evading the grasp of the Plug Ugly gang, whose sinister boss wants to control all the newsies on the Lower East Side. But now Maks is burdened with a n...



  • James Axler

    America, defiled and reshaped by nuclear carnage, promises little but a struggle for survival. Still, a group of hard travelers trek the worst this hellish place can offer, surviving by their wits, razor skill and knowledge of preDark technology. The...



  • Marianna Baer

    Leena Thomas's senior year at boarding school starts with a cruel shock: Frost House, the cozy Victorian dorm where she and her best friends chose to live, has been assigned an unexpected roommate -- confrontational, eccentric Celeste Lazar. What ...



  • Elizabeth Bailey

    When the marchioness is found murdered at Polbrook mansion, the Dowager Lady Polbrook's new companion, Ottilia Draycott, finds herself in a house of strangers and every one of them a suspect. Only she can unmask and outwit a desperate killer and keep...



  • Todhunter Ballard

    Ray Donovan in Gunman from Rawhide isn't really a Donovan. He was adopted as a child by Pete Donovan, a prospector, and only when Pete died was he sent to the great Box D Ranch to be raised by Aunt Kate Donovan, a masterful woman who inherited the ra...



  • Maya Banks

    "Have we met?" Answer: a right hook! Because Bryony Morgan pulls no punches. Even when she's very pregnant and facing down the father of her unborn child. She fell for wealthy hotelier Rafael de Luca when he courted her for her beachfront real est...



  • Tyra Banks

    No one gets in without being asked. And with her untamable hair, large forehead, and gawky body, Tookie De La Crème isn't expecting an invitation. Modelland -- the exclusive, mysterious place on top of the mountain -- never dares to make an appearanc...



  • Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    The penultimate episode in the Sisters Eight saga! Finally! Zinnia's turn has arrived. The poor girl has been waiting for her time in the spotlight quite long enough. Really, it would be cruel to make her wait any longer. What will her power and her ...



  • Michele Bardsley

    It only takes one bite... Since the moment he showed up -- gloriously naked -- I've been having a hard time keeping my relationship with the clinic's newest amnesiac patient strictly professional. Damian might not remember his past, but sweet mamm...



  • Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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    A journey may take hundreds of miles, or it may cover the distance between duty and desire.

    Sixteen of today’s hottest writers of paranormal tales weave stories on a common theme of journeying. Authors such as Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Cai...



  • Tracy Barrett

    Ariadne is destined to become a goddess of the moon. She leads a lonely life, filled with hours of rigorous training by stern priestesses. Her former friends no longer dare to look at her, much less speak to her. All that she has left are her mother ...



  • Ella Barrick

    HER DANCE PARTNER IS A REAL HEEL When Stacy Graysin catches her fiancé and dance partner, Rafe, doing the horizontal mambo with a samba queen, she immediately nixes their engagement. But the two still co-own a professional ballroom dance studio. ...



  • Christy Barritt

    LISTED FOR DEATH The paper found in a terrorist's pocket holds six names -- and single mom Rachel Reynolds is the only one on the list who's still alive. Private security contractor Jack Sergeant wants to ensure she stays that way, but first he must...



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

    The ultimate guide to T. A. Barron's Merlin epic! A luminous gift for fantasy fans! In this extraordinary guide to T. A. Barron's award-winning and New York Times bestselling Merlin saga, readers will discover the mysteries of Merlin's worlds as ...



  • Sebastian Barry

    Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland, at the end of th...



  • Ned Beauman

    Kevin "Fishy" Broom has his nickname for a reason-a rare genetic condition that makes his sweat and other bodily excretions smell markedly like rotting fish. Consequently, he rarely ventures out of the London apartment where he deals online in Nazi m...



  • Mike Befeler

    After waking up in bed with a younger woman, octogenarian Paul Jacobson can't recall how he got there -- or who the woman is. So he grabs the nearest pair of pants and skedaddles. Outside, he discovers the canals of Venice Beach, California…and a d...



  • Nina Bell

    Clover Jones and Laura Dangerfield have been best friends since their children were born. Along with Clover's stylish, powerful friend, Alice, they share holidays, sleepovers, school runs, and childcare. They're like one big family. But all families ...



  • Julie Coulter Bellon

    Political campaign expert Kristen Shepherd excels at staying cool under pressure, but this time she's in over her head. After leaving her high-profile fiancé at the altar, she uncovers the shocking truth about the man she nearly married -- truth t...



  • Julie Coulter Bellon

    Having just finished a tour of duty in Iraq, Dr. Tyler Winthrop is ready to join his father, Craig, for a little downtime in Paris. But when Craig disappears, Tyler is yanked back into the brutal realm of danger and the unknown, and his fate quickly ...



  • C.A. Belmond

    Join the fun and frolic with American heiress Penny Nichols and her English hero Jeremy Laidley, as the adventurous couple sets off for more elegant travel and delightful sleuthing together! Penny and Jeremy are just returning from their honeymoon...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    The award-winning mash-up of cops and capes continues! Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim are caught in the middle of a war as the public turns on its caped protectors! Anarchy against powers is running rampant in the streets. A faction of young, ...



  • James R. Benn

    Billy Boyle is sent to London to investigate the murder of a Soviet official. Was it random or revenge for the recently uncovered mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest? Scotland Yard suspects Billy's friend Kaz, now working for the Polis...



  • James R. Benn

    In his time investigating crimes for both the Boston cops and General Ike's European forces, Lieutenant Billy Boyle hasn't encountered a serial killer. But now it looks like he may -- a serial killer with a particularly frightening agenda. Two off...



  • Renee Bernard

    From Renee Bernard comes the latest gem in her series of seductive gentlemen -- and the tempting women who entice them ... Like all the Jaded Gentlemen, Dr. Rowan West may have his secrets, but he's done his best to forgive the ghosts of his past ...



  • Ilsa J. Bick

    IT COULD HAPPEN TOMORROW ... An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky, destroying every electronic device and killing billions. For those spared, it's a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human.... Desperate to find out what...



  • Brian Biggs

    Beep, beep! Honk, honk! Henry is in a jam! On their way to a birthday party, Henry and his parents get stuck in traffic. A tree has fallen onto the road, and no one can get by. Luckily, there are plenty of emergency vehicles that are here to ...




  • Lauralee Bliss
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    Christmas is a simple matter among the Quakers of the historic Ohio River Valley, but can it be time to welcome love into four households? The Hall family runs an inn that welcomes travelers like Silas Jones who challenge their beliefs and woo their ...



  • Lawrence Block

    SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR... ...and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving,...



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  • Edward Bloor

    It's 2001 and zombies have taken over Tom's town. Meth zombies. The drug rips through Blackwater, PA, with a ferocity and a velocity that overwhelms everyone. It starts small, with petty thefts of cleaning supplies and Sudafed from the supermarket...



  • Stephen A. Bly

    Paul James Watson is the writer of mediocre paperback novels. His humdrum life is flat, routine, and generally unimpressive, and his Christian life follows suit. Watson becomes absorbed in the novels he writes and his character, Toby McKenna, a highl...



  • Coe Booth

    Tyrell's father is just out of jail, and Tyrell doesn't know how to deal with that. It's bad enough that his brother Troy is in foster care and that his mother is no help whatsoever. Now there's another thing up in his face, just when he's trying to ...



  • Lisa Bork

    Jolene Parker isn't sure what to think when her police deputy husband, Ray, unexpectedly brings home a new foster child. The impulsive son of a jailed car thief, twelve-year-old Danny has talents that include picking locks and hotwiring cars. Foll...



  • Pseudonymous Bosch

    I always feared this day would come. A secret is meant to stay secret, after all. And now we've come to this: the fifth and final (I swear!) book in my saga of secrets. A class trip to the local natural history museum turns dangerous, or perhaps dea...



  • Karyn Bosnak

    How many men does it take to find true love? When Delilah Darling reads a survey revealing that most people have 10.5 sexual partners in their lifetime, she begins to feel like a tramp. She's slept with nineteen men so far -- -- almost twice the ...



  • Karyn Bosnak

    Everybody's got a number. In fact, everyone has a few numbers. There's the one we tell our friends, the one we tell our boyfriends, and the one, if absolutely pushed, that we tell our parents. But only we know what our true number is. Well, I was get...




  • Rhys Bowen

    Royalty has its privileges, even when you're thirty-fourth in line to the throne, as Lady Georgiana Rannoch discovers on the glamorous -- and dangerous -- French Riviera . . . Why should my clueless brother, Binky, and his decidedly disagreeable w...



  • Frank Cottrell Boyce

    From the best-selling author of COSMIC and MILLIONS comes an evocative immigration tale about two brothers trying to survive -- a daring story that miraculously defies belief. When two Mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in Julie's...



  • William G. Boykin

    Taken from what could be tomorrow's headlines, Kiloton Threat is a novel that explores the frightening potential of nuclear weapons in the Middle East today. Out of the house churches of rural Iran, a Christian masquerading as a Muslim gains the conf...



  • Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

    This story of Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, tells a darker piece of America's history from an often unseen perspective-that of three of Jefferson's slaves-including two of his own children. As each child grows up an...



  • Mary Brady

    KayLee's To-Do List: 1. Get the job. 2. Convince the cowboy. 3. Find a way to make him stay. The only thing standing between KayLee Morgan and success is Baylor Doyle. She's in Big Sky Country to land the contract that will give her unborn baby sec...



  • Michael Brandman

    Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourist season when a string of car thefts disturbs what is usually a quiet time in town. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself...



  • Peter Brandvold

    Cuno Massey killed a pack of Deputy U.S. Marshals, but only because they were about to rape the women he was escorting to safety. Thrown into a federal penitentiary, he faces a death sentence-until the beautiful Camilla and her cutthroat gang bust hi...



  • Helen Brenna

    From Wall Street to...mom? What place does a single dad -- and his children -- have in the life of a woman with a strict no-kids policy? As completely irresistible as Adam Harding is, Marin Camden simply can't see how they fit together. After all,...



  • Heather Brewer

    Joss McMillan's perfect life crashes down the night he witnesses his sister's murder -- at the hands of a vampire. He then finds out his family's secret heritage: They are part of the Slayer Society, a group whose mission is to rid the world of vam...




  • Meljean Brook

    A stunning and sexy addition to the world of the Guardians about one man's revenge against the half-demon he once loved... Nicholas St. Croix is familiar with the evil of demons. After his father's death, a demon took over his mother's body and rai...



  • Sandra Brown

    In her newest book, Sandra Brown returns to the bayous of Louisiana to deliver a heart-pounding tale of corruption, betrayal, and murder . . . and the stakes couldn't be higher. When Honor Gillette's four-year-old daughter, Emily, informs her that a...



  • N.M. Browne

    Dan and Ursula return to the present day after months in King Arthur's England. They sought a way back home for so long, but now find themselves unable to cope with modern life. Ursula's incredible strength and Dan's experience on the battlefield mak...



  • Margaret Brownley
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    At a Glance... An exclusive collection of nine historical Christmas romances written by bestselling authors. A Closer Look... The American pioneer of the Nineteenth Century didn't have an easy life, but a snug little log cabin was a blessing aga...



  • Ed Brubaker

    Collects two cases of the Gotham Special Crimes Unit such as: The Joker terrorises the city at Christmastime when he begins randomly executing people with a rifle, and no one from the Mayor on down is safe; and, a story the focuses on an old case and...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter
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    Experience Christmas through the eyes of adventuresome settlers who relied on log cabins built from trees on their own land to see them through the cruel forces of winter. Discover how rough-hewed shelters become a home in which faith, hope, and love...



  • Regena Bryant

    Except on Sunday is a contemporary women's fiction novel. The setting for the story is among the members of the Baptist Methodist Assembly (BMA). The BMA is a fictional denomination established by three progressive African American doctors in the 194...



  • Michael Buckley

    Matilda "Wheezer" Choi, the asthmatic who can fly and kick butt courtesy of her nanobyte-enhanced inhalers, loves pro wrestling and hates anything "girlie." Maybe that's because she grew up with six brothers -- or maybe it's because her home life has...



  • Christopher Buehlman

    Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quain...



  • Mackenzie Cadenhead

    2 Months, 28 Days, 9 Hours, and 12 minutes earlier... Sally Simplesmith's life changed forever. She came face-to-face with death - a delightful, dearly departed little dog she lovingly calls Bones. But when the cadaverous canine is accused of a cr...



  • Rachel Caine
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    A journey may take hundreds of miles, or it may cover the distance between duty and desire.

    Sixteen of today’s hottest writers of paranormal tales weave stories on a common theme of journeying. Authors such as Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Cai...



  • Dennis Calero

    In the far-flung future, the galaxy's most advanced starship -- the S.S. Sutcliffe -- its crew and their families, including ten children, leave their homeworld. They're in search of humankind's birthplace, a legendary planet called Earth. But someth...



  • Barbara Cameron
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    The birth of one child forever changed the world two thousand years ago. On a snowy Christmas night in Lancaster County, another child changes the world for two very different couples....



  • Jon Canter

    For Richard and Sarah, leaving the rat-race of London for the sleepy village of Worth feels like a dream come true. But their new life isn’t quite as idyllic as it first seems. The cottage is tiny and the neighbours are excruciating. Soon they find...



  • Opal Carew

    There's only one thing hotter than a man in uniform...when he takes it off. Threesomes and men of the law have always been two of Janine's biggest turn-ons. So when her boyfriend offers to invite one of his buddies from the police force into thei...



  • Mike Carey

    Collects X-Men Legacy #238-241. An exotic furlough turns dangerous when Mumbai is overwhelmed by strange electromagnetic disturbances. In the wake of a particularly violent magnetic storm, the X-Men encounters a super-powered girl with a squad of mut...



  • Jamie Carie

    When her doting father dies, Lady Kendra Townsend is given a choice: marry the horrid man of her cold, money-grubbing uncle's choosing or leave England to risk a new life in America with unknown relatives. Armed with the faith that God has a plan for...



  • Patrick Carman

    There's mystery and adventure on every floor. There's no other place on Earth quite like the Whippet Hotel. Each and every floor has its own wacky design -- and its own wacky secrets. The guests are either mad or mysterious. And ducks are everywhe...



  • Patrick Carman

    Read, watch, and listen to each chilling story in 15 minutes or less! 3:15 means several things. It's a time when things go bump in the night. A place where spooky stories find a home. A feeling . . . that chill running down your spine. It mean...



  • Patrick Carman

    The ad promised you'd be able to see into the spirit world. But they couldn't work for real . . . could they? A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. ...



  • Rae Carson

    Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two princesses. The one who has never done anything remarkable, and can't see how she ever will. Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she ...



  • Chip Carter

    This latest title in the wildly popular Obsessed With series is the Star Trek fan s ultimate challenge. More than just a trivia book, this interactive game includes an electronic scoring module that allows readers to quiz themselves or compete agains...



  • Rhonda Lee Carver

    One hundred years ago, a little girl died mysteriously. Twenty years ago, another followed. Today, Fall Winters has to find out why. Twenty years ago, another followed. Today, Fall Winters has to find out why. The last person Jake Castle expects to s...



  • Jeanie Smith Cash
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    They were sisters once -- identical quadruplets -- given up for adoption at birth. Now each receives a letter advising her to claim her inheritance and the family she never knew. . .at Christmas. Holly feels betrayed when she learns she's adopted, wh...



  • Carla Cassidy

    WIDOW CREEK REFUSED TO GIVE UP ITS SECRETS...UNTIL NOW Lexie Forbes had come to Kansas looking for answers, but all she uncovered was a killer on her trail. Still, the FBI agent wasn't about to give up on her desperate search for the truth behind th...



  • Jennifer Castle

    Anyone who's had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It's all about Before and After. What I'm talking about here is the ka-pow, shake-you-to-your-core-and-turn-your-bones-to-plastic kind of crappy. Sixteen-year-old Laurel's world...



  • Richard Castle

    Fast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most thrilling mystery yet. The bizarre murder of a pa...



  • Ramona Cecil
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    Christmas is a simple matter among the Quakers of the historic Ohio River Valley, but can it be time to welcome love into four households? The Hall family runs an inn that welcomes travelers like Silas Jones who challenge their beliefs and woo their ...



  • Michelle Celmer

    What The Billionaire Wants... There's something suspicious about his sexy new secretary. Now Western Oil COO Jordan Everette is determined to reveal every one of Jane Monroe's secrets. And it isn't in this billionaire's nature to just ask question...



  • Elizabeth Chadwick

    Matilda, daughter of Henry I, knows that there are those who will not accept her as England's queen when her father dies. But the men who support her rival Stephen do not know the iron will that drives her. Adeliza, Henry's widowed queen and Matil...



  • Veronica Chambers

    After two years of planning the hottest quineaneras in Miami and beyond, the girls of Amigas Incorporated are facing their biggest challenge yet--high school graduation. While Carmen and Jamie know exactly what they want, Alicia is on the fence. Shou...




  • Blake Charlton

    In a world where one's magical prowess is determined by one's skill with words and ability to spell, Nicodemus is a wizardly apprentice afflicted by a curse that causes him to misspell magical texts. Now, the demon who cursed him has hatched a conspi...



  • Tera Lynn Childs

    Grace just moved to San Francisco and is excited to start over at a new school. The change is full of fresh possibilities, but it's also a tiny bit scary. It gets scarier when a minotaur walks in the door. And even more shocking when a girl who looks...



  • Gennifer Choldenko

    River and Niko find their dad is missing, and they have no choice but to track him down. But when they discover the clues lead to a shady reptile dealer, they start to think they might have gotten in over their heads. A short story from Guys Read: Th...



  • Ann Christopher

    Sensuality heals. Love cures. Lia Taylor needs Thomas Bradshaw like she's never needed anyone before. The hunky, super-ambitious Head of Surgery at Hopewell General is the only one who can save her young son. Falling for the seductive surgeon is a...



  • Matt Christopher

    Carl has to watch his back -- even against his own team! Last season, thirteen-year-old Cal Kelliher was the star quarterback of the middle school football team. The only seventh grader in a starting line-up of eight graders, he spent the year pla...



  • CLAMP

    Includes special extras after the story!

    Watanuki no longer leaves the wish-granting shop he inherited from the witch Yûko. What’s more, he must help everyone who walks through its doors -- even the monster that ate his eye! How can the sti...



  • Barbara Cleverly

    A story of murder, mystery and espionage (with a dash of romance) set in London in the long, hot summer of 1922, against the backdrop the Romanov murders and the disappearance of the Tsar's fortune. A beautiful and traumatized young Russian woman ...



  • Amy Clipston

    Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, where you'll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each woman's story unfolds, you will share in her heartaches, trials, joys, dreams ... and secrets. You'll discover how the si...



  • Harlan Coben

    After witnessing his father's death and sending his mom to rehab, Mickey Bolitar has to live with his estranged uncle Myron, and switch to a new school. The one saving grace is Ashley, Mickey's new girlfriend. But then Ashley vanishes without a trace...




  • Margaret Coel

    After a candidate for governor is murdered, and his estranged wife is arrested for first-degree homicide, journalist Catherine McLeod receives a call from an anonymous woman claiming she saw the real killer leave the scene of the crime but is afraid ...



  • Leah Hager Cohen

    Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family? The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, t...



  • Steve Cole

    Smashing space stations! While on another vital mission, Captain Teggs and his crew nearly crash into an unknown spaceship. But when it spins around, the gaping hole and the mark of the meat-eaters reveal that it's a carnivore space station! Wha...



  • Steve Cole

    Something very big and very dangerous is swimming in the seas of planet Aqua Minor. It's destroying all of the fish factories and making mincemeat out of all the submarines. So Captain Teggs and the brave crew on the DSS Sauropod set off to investi...



  • Steve Cole

    Battle Stations! Captain Teggs and his faithful crew are off on another amazing adventure in their spaceship, the DSS Sauropod. This time Teggs is taking some desperate dinosaurs and their precious eggs to begin a new life on a remote planet. But s...



  • Jackie Collins

    Jackie Collins' fierce and wildly beautiful heroine Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeance -- in a novel full of power, passion, revenge, and the raging family dynamics of the Santangelo clan -- and, as always, Lucky comes out on top. Lucky run...



  • Tim Collins

    With his newfound vampire powers and his girlfriend, Chloe, Nigel mullet is finally enjoying the immortal life. But things begin to go wrong when a new guy, Jason, comes to school. Suddenly the girls don't think Nigel is so good-looking. On top of th...



  • Jodi Compton

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