| TITLE: |   Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru by Michael A. Martin |
| DESCRIPTION: | To protect the cargo ships essential to the continuing existence of the fledgling Coalition of Planets, the captains of the United Earth's Starfleet are ordered to interstellar picket duty, with little more to do than ask "Who goes there?" into the darkness of space.Captain Jonathan Archer of the Enterprise seethes with frustration, wondering if anyone else can see what he sees. A secret, closed, militaristic society, convinced that their survival hangs by a thread, who view their neighbors as a threat to their very existence--the Spartans of ancient Greece, the Russians of the old Soviet Union, the Koreans under Kim Il-sung--with only one goal: attain ultimate power, no matter the cost. The little-known, never-seen Romulans seem to live by these same principles.The captain realizes that the bond between the signers of the Coalition charter is fragile and likely to snap if pushed. But he knows that the Romulans are hostile, and he believes they are the force behind the cargo ship attacks. If asked, Archer can offer no proof without endangering his friend's life.To whom does he owe his loyalty: his friend, his world, the Coalition? And by choosing one, does he not risk losing all of them? What is the solution to a no-win scenario? |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Mass Effect: Ascension by Drew Karpyshyn |
| DESCRIPTION: | When they vanished fifty thousand years ago, the Protheans left their advanced technology scattered throughout the galaxy. The chance discovery of a Prothean cache on Mars allows humanity to join those already reaping the rewards of the ancients' high-tech wizardry. But for one rogue militia, the goal is not participation but domination. Scientist Kahlee Sanders has left the Systems Alliance for the Ascension Project, a program that helps gifted 'biotic' children harness their extraordinary powers. The program's most promising student is twelve-year-old Gillian Grayson, who is borderline autistic. What Kahlee doesn't know is that Gillian is an unwitting pawn of the outlawed black ops group Cerberus, which is sabotaging the program by conducting illegal experiments on the students. When the Cerberus plot is exposed, Gillian's father takes her away from the Ascension Project and flees into the lawless Terminus Systems. Determined to protect Gillian, Kahlee goes with them? unaware that the elder Grayson is, in fact, a Cerberus operative. To rescue the young girl Kahlee must travel to the farthest ends of the galaxy, battling fierce enemies and impossible odds. But how will she be able to save a daughter from her own father? This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Battle of the Hammer Worlds [Helfort's War Book 2] by Graham Sharp Paul |
| DESCRIPTION: | He thought Hell was the worst they could throw at him. He was wrong. Back from tangling with the Hammer of Kraa, the most brutal, trigger-happy tyrants in humanspace, Junior Lieutenant Michael Helfort is assigned to the Federated Worlds heavy cruiser Ishaq, which is struggling to rise to the threat posed by a newly resurgent Hammer. Aboard the floundering ship, Helfort is coming to grips with a painful injury and the unpleasant truth that nobody likes a young hero--least of all senior officers. Without warning, the Ishaq and twenty-seven Fed merchant ships are blown apart in a horrific ambush, the first step in the Hammer's master strategy to destroy the hated Federated Worlds. Michael and a pitiful remnant of the Ishaq's crew escape the inferno. The Feds have no idea who's behind the heinous attack, and the Hammer are determined to keep it that way, consigning the Ishaq's survivors to a prison camp deep in the wilderness of the Hammer's home planet. No one's getting out alive to derail the Hammer's lethal master plan--especially not the FedWorlds hero who so humiliated them on the battlefield. It's payback time, and the Hammers intend to throw their entire space fleet into destroying Michael Helfort and the Federated Worlds. Too bad it won't be enough. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: |  The Great American Attraction: Two Brits Discover the Rollicking World of American Festivals by Rich Smith |
| DESCRIPTION: | After recovering in his native England from a frivolous-crime spree through the United States in You Can Get Arrested for That, Rich Smith is back again to take another look at this great nation and its extraordinary inhabitants. In The Great American Attraction, our young Briton--along with his new sidekick, Antony--crashes the weirdest parties, participates in the quirkiest competitions, and attends the wackiest events to find the true heart of eccentric, wonderful America. Rich is fascinated by America; and America, it seems, is fascinated with festivals, parades, and parties. Follow Rich and Antony on their rollicking tour of the most ridiculous, outlandish, and irresistible American celebrations, including: * The National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa * The World Cardboard Boat Regatta in Heber Springs, Arkansas * The Oklahoma State Penitentiary's Sixty-seventh Annual Rodeo in McAlester * The World's Longest Yard Sale, stretching five hundred miles from Covington, Kentucky, to Gadsden, Alabama * The World's Largest Machine Gun Shoot in Louisville, Kentucky. Along the way, you'll find out what Rich and Antony really think about American coins, PT Cruisers, baseball hats, dry counties, red plastic cups, "God Bless America," and our refusal to use adverbs. |
| CATEGORY: | Humor |
| PRICE: | $13.95 |
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| TITLE: |  The Gypsy Morph [Genesis of Shannara] by Terry Brooks |
| DESCRIPTION: | Terry Brooks won instant acclaim with his phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara. Its sequels earned Brooks legendary status. Then his darkly enthralling The Word and the Void trilogy revealed new depths and vistas to his mastery of epic fantasy. Armageddon's Children and The Elves of Cintra took Brooks's remarkable mythos to a breathtaking new level by delving deep into the history of Shannara. And now, The Gypsy Morph rounds out?with an adventure of unforgettably imaginative scope?the first phase of a new chapter in this classic series. Eighty years into the future, the United States is a no-man?s-land: its landscape blighted by chemical warfare, pollution, and plague; its government collapsed; its citizens adrift, desperate, fighting to stay alive. In fortified compounds, survivors hold the line against wandering predators, rogue militias, and hideous mutations spawned from the toxic environment, while against them all stands an enemy neither mortal nor merciful: demons and their minions bent on slaughtering and subjugating the last of humankind. But from around the country, allies of good unite to challenge the rampaging evil. Logan Tom, wielding the magic staff of a Knight of the Word, has a promise to keep--protecting the world's only hope of salvation?and a score to settle with the demon that massacred his family. Angel Perez, Logan's fellow Knight, has risked her life to aid the elvish race, whose peaceful, hidden realm is marked for extermination by the forces of the Void. Kirisin Belloruus, a young elf entrusted with an ancient magic, must deliver his entire civilization from a monstrous army. And Hawk, the rootless boy who is nothing less than destiny's instrument, must lead the last of humanity to a latter-day promised land before the final darkness falls. The Gypsy Morph is an epic saga of a world in flux as the mortal realm yields to a magical one; as the champions of the Word and the Void clash for the last time to decide what will be and what must cease; and as, from the remnants of a doomed age, something altogether extraordinary rises. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $18.00 |
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| TITLE: | Dragon Champion [Age of Fire Series #1] by E. E. Knight |
| DESCRIPTION: | After escaping those who killed his siblings, Young Auron, a rare, defenseless gray dragon, fears he might be the last of his breed. Armed with nothing but his claws and a boundless determination to survive, he sets off in search of his kind. But to find other dragons--or, at least, find out who's killing them off--Auron will have to search a world of mercenary elves, vicious humans, and dangers of all kinds. Finding allies in the strangest places--and himself along the way--Auron is on the trek of a lifetime. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | Hellgate: London [Covenant Book 3] by Mel Odom |
| DESCRIPTION: | As Templar Simon Cross fights to lead the hunted survivors of the demon surge toward salvation, time and supplies run short. Simon must penetrate the dark secrets of the demons--as well as those of his partner in peril, Leah Creasey--to keep his charges safe. But Leah's organization won't surrender their knowledge easily, even as new technology emerges from the Goetia Manuscript that could help Simon's cause.Warren Schimmer, linked to one of the darkest of the hellspawn--the demonic Lilith--is himself also targeted by infernal forces. No longer able to hide, Warren must emerge as a leader and turn a ragged band of Cabalists into an army. But when a vicious weapon that uses dreams against the human survivors of the city draws the Templars, the Cabalists, and the Hunters into the same arena, will they join forces ... or turn against one another? |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory |
| DESCRIPTION: | It is a world like our own in every respect ... save one. In the 1950s, random acts of possession begin to occur. Ordinary men, women, and children are the targets of entities that seem to spring from the depths of the collective unconscious, pop-cultural avatars some call demons. There's the Truth, implacable avenger of falsehood. The Captain, brave and self-sacrificing soldier. The Little Angel, whose kiss brings death, whether desired or not. And a string of others, ranging from the bizarre to the benign to the horrific. As a boy, Del Pierce is possessed by the Hellion, an entity whose mischief-making can be deadly. With the help of Del's family and a caring psychiatrist, the demon is exorcised ... or is it? Years later, following a car accident, the Hellion is back, trapped inside Del's head and clamoring to get out. Del's quest for help leads him to Valis, an entity possessing the science fiction writer formerly known as Philip K. Dick; to Mother Mariette, a nun who inspires decidedly unchaste feelings; and to the Human League, a secret society devoted to the extermination of demons. All believe that Del holds the key to the plague of possession--and its solution. But for Del, the cure may be worse than the disease. "Look out, Lethem! Daryl Gregory mixes pop culture and pathos, flavoring it with Philip K. Dick. Pandemonium possesses every quality you want in a great novel, and the good news is it's only his debut."--Charles Coleman Finlay, Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated author of The Prodigal Troll |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $10.00 |
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| TITLE: |  The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks |
| DESCRIPTION: | For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art--and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Kylar Stern, just surviving is a struggle. As a guild rat, he's learned to judge people quickly--and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, he must turn his back on everything he has ever known. |
| CATEGORY: | Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: |  Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs |
| DESCRIPTION: | Following her most successful book to date, Kathy Reichs--international number one bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the Fox television hit Bones--returns to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Temperance Brennan encounters a deadly mix of voodoo, Santeria, and devil worship in her quest to identify two young victims.In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery--a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog. Nothing is clear--neither when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was the skull brought to the cellar or was the girl murdered there? Why is the boy's body remarkably well preserved? Led by a preacher turned politician, citizen vigilantes blame devil worshippers and Wiccans. They begin a witch hunt, intent on seeking revenge. Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan--"five-five, feisty, and forty-plus"--is called in to investigate, and a complex and gripping tale unfolds in this, Kathy Reichs's eleventh taut, always surprising, scientifically fascinating mystery.With a popular series on Fox--now in its third season and in full syndication--Kathy Reichs has established herself as the dominant talent in forensic mystery writing. Devil Bones features Reichs's signature blend of forensic descriptions that "chill to the bone" (Entertainment Weekly) and the surprising plot twists that have made her books phenomenal bestsellers in the United States and around the world. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $17.99 |
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| TITLE: | Forgotten: A Novel by Mariah Stewart |
| DESCRIPTION: | Who Speaks For The Dead When They Scream Bloody Murder? Sheldon Woods kidnapped and killed an untold number of boys, then escaped the death penalty by making a plea bargain for multiple life sentences in exchange for revealing the whereabouts of some of his victims. More than a decade later, the full extent of his crimes is still unknown, and many of the dead have never been accounted for. But Lisa Walsh is certain her brother Christopher was one of them, and to honor her mother's dying wish, she's on a mission to learn the truth and recover the little boy's remains. FBI agent Portia Cahill, tasked with confronting the caged killer, is obliged to play his mind games to get what she's after, but she ends up with more than she bargained for when the remains of another boy's body are discovered. Determined to ID the mystery child, Portia reluctantly teams with James Cannon, the attorney who once defended Woods. But chasing a killer's grisly legacy, and the bones of the forgotten dead, will lead them into the lethal orbit of a monster who's seeding the graves of the past with a fresh wave of innocent victims. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton |
| DESCRIPTION: | A keenly intelligent, delightfully mordant novel that blends fact and fiction with the same deft hand that was at work in John Darnton's best-selling Neanderthal. Bad news is brewing in the inner sanctum of the New York Globe, the city's long-standing newspaper of note, whose back is to the wall. Readership, advertising, and circulation are plummeting--along with the paper's vaunted standards--and the cost cutters have their knives out. But trouble of a wholly different kind begins one rainy September morning when a powerful editor is found murdered in the newsroom, with the spike that he'd wielded to kill stories hammered into his chest. The problem for Priscilla Bollingsworth, the young, ambitious female NYPD detective assigned to the case--besides the fact that the mayor is breathing down her neck--is that there are too many suspects to choose from. She teams up with Jude Hurley, a clever, rebellious reporter, and together they navigate the ink-infested waters whose denizens include the paper's resentful old guard, scheming careerists, a bumbling publisher, a steely executive editor, and a rival newspaper tycoon named Lester Moloch. But the waters thicken considerably when more bodies turn up, dead all over. Armed with the firsthand knowledge he has acquired through forty years in journalism, John Darnton conjures up the cynicism and romanticism of the profession and gives us a cunning, pitch-perfect portrait of the declining--if not yet murderous--newspaper industry. Black and White and Dead All Over is a satirical mystery that entertains from first to last. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $19.95 |
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| TITLE: | Death Perception [A Psychic Eye Mystery] by Victoria Laurie |
| DESCRIPTION: | It took a while for Abby Cooper's FBI agent boyfriend, Dutch Rivers, to accept her psychic gifts as the real deal. But these days he knows better than to question Abby's visions. So when his favorite cousin Chase is kidnapped in Vegas, they both catch the next flight to Sin City. Abby's inner eye insists that Chase is still alive, but nothing else about the case adds up--especially Dutch's reluctance to involve his own Bureau. On top of everything, Dutch is battling a mysterious illness, and Abby keeps having disturbing dreams that predict his death. Dutch wants Abby to promise that if the investigation goes south, she'll head home to safety. But when the chips are down, Abby won't fold without a fight... |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey |
| DESCRIPTION: | Michael Harvey's sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way ("A magnificent debut that should be read by all"--John Grisham; "This book heralds the arrival of a major new voice"--Michael Connelly) opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O-Leary's cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. When PI Michael Kelly is hired by an ex-flame to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple. The tail leads Kelly to an old house on Chicago's North Side. Inside it, the private investigator finds a body and, perhaps, the answer to one of Chicago's most enduring mysteries: who started the Great Chicago Fire and why. The ensuing investigation takes Kelly to places he'd rather not go, specifically, City Hall's fifth floor, where the mayor is feeling the heat and looking to play for keeps. Ultimately, Kelly finds himself in a world where nothing is quite what it seems, face-to-face with a killer bent on rewriting history and staring down demons from a past he never knew he had. A fast-stepping, intricately woven narrative, rich with the history and atmosphere of a great city, The Fifth Floor is a worthy successor to Harvey's critically acclaimed debut. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $19.95 |
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| TITLE: | Blood Trail [A Joe Pickett Novel] by C.J. Box |
| DESCRIPTION: | It's elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different kind of hunter stalks a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears. Game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains--strung up, gutted and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been stalking. A spent cartridge and a poker chip lie next to his body. Ripples of horror spread through the community, and with a possibly psychotic killer on the loose, Governor Rulon is forced to end the hunting season early for the first time in state history. Are the murders the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? Joe Pickett, as always, is the governor's go-to man, and he's put on the case--tracking the hunter even as more bodies, and more poker chips turn up. Bold, fast-paced and with a controversial hook--hunters and anti-hunting activists--Blood Trail is proof that CJ Box keeps getting better and better. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $24.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Man with the Iron Heart by Harry Turtledove |
| DESCRIPTION: | What if V-E Day didn't end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in the fabled Alpine Redoubt, was in fact a real threat, ultimately neutralized by Germany's flagging resources and squabbling officials. But had SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Man with the Iron Heart, not been assassinated in 1942, fate might have taken a different turn. We might likely have seen a German guerrilla war launched against the conquerors, presaging by more than half a century the protracted conflict with an unrelenting enemy that now engulfs the United States and its allies in Iraq. How might today's clash of troops versus terrorists have played out in 1945? In this imagined world, Nazi forces resort to unconventional warfare, using the quick and dirty tactics of terrorism--booby traps, time bombs, mortar and rocket strikes in the night, assassinations, even kamikaze-style suicide attacks?to overturn what seemed to be a decisive Allied victory. In November 1945, a truck bomb blows up the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, where high-ranking Nazi officials are about to stand trial for war crimes. None of the accused are there when the bomb goes off, but their judges, all of them present and accounted for, are annihilated. Worse acts of terrorism follow all over Europe. Suddenly the Allies--especially the United States--must battle an invisible enemy and sacrifice countless lives in a long, seemingly pointless, unwinnable conflict. On the home front, patriotism corrodes, political fortunes are made and lost in the face of an antiwar backlash, and a once-proud country wonders how the righteous fight for freedom overseas has collapsed into a hopeless quagmire. At once a novel of thrilling military suspense, intriguing alternate history, and profound insight into contemporary affairs, The Man with the Iron Heart is a tour de force by a storyteller of exceptional imaginative power. |
| CATEGORY: | Alternate History |
| PRICE: | $18.00 |
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| TITLE: | Exit Music by Ian Rankin |
| DESCRIPTION: | It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests. And as Rebus's investigation gains ground, someone brutally assaults a local gangster with whom he has a long history. Has Rebus overstepped his bounds for the last time? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, controversial career, will Rebus even make it that far? |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $18.99 |
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| TITLE: | Anathem by Neal Stephenson |
| DESCRIPTION: | Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable--yet strangely inverted--world. Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outside--the Extramuros--for the last of the terrible times was long, long ago. Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fraas and suurs prepare to venture beyond the concent's gates--at the same time opening them wide to welcome the curious "extras" in. During his first Apert as a fraa, Erasmas eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was "collected." But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change. Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramuros--a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose--as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. Suddenly burdened with a staggering responsibility, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world--as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet ... and beyond. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
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| TITLE: | Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter |
| DESCRIPTION: | Mississippi, 1951: The last place any sane man wants to visit is Thebes State Penal Farm. Of the few who make the journey there, even fewer return.But when an old friend disappears inside Thebes, ex-Marine and Arkansas State Police Sgt. Earl Swagger takes a personal interest in the case. As he infiltrates the prison, what he experiences defies his wildest nightmares--a savage world where death is the only salvation. As tough as he is, Swagger barely escapes with his life--and his mind--intact. But he's not going to stay away for long. Recruiting six of the hardest, deadliest gunmen ever known, bloody vengeance is soon at hand. Because Earl Swagger is going back to Thebes. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $9.99 |
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| TITLE: | Sandpiper Drift by Vanessa Del Fabbro |
| DESCRIPTION: | When journalist Monica Brunetti enters the town of Lady Helen, she is awed by its beauty. The picturesque South African village takes hold of her heart, especially the beleaguered residents of Sandpiper Drift, who are threatened with eviction from their tranquil neighborhood beside the lagoon. And so Monica packs up her laptop, her adopted sons and her housekeeper, Francina--who's wrestling with a major decision of her own--for the journey of a lifetime. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $6.30 |
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| TITLE: | Family Sold Separately: A Novel by Kate Long |
| DESCRIPTION: | From internationally bestselling author Kate Long, a perceptive, vivid, and painfully funny novel about family ties and growing up On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Katherine wants only three things: a smidge of social grace, the body of Courteney Cox, and two parents. What she has instead is an almost complete lack of friends, a pudgy figure, and one extremely eccentric, nearly blind grandmother named Poll. Since Katherine's father died and her mother disappeared, Poll is her only family. And not only does Poll buy all of Katherine's clothes, but she forbids her to leave the house unless it's absolutely necessary. Would a chance to go to Oxford count? But the bigger question is: How can she abandon her grandma? Just when Katherine has resigned herself to a lifetime of watching daytime television, sparring with Poll, and visiting the town library for "fun," along comes a handsome, magnetic young man named Collum, who claims to be Katherine's long-lost cousin. But as Katherine is about to learn, when it comes to family, things aren't always as they seem. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $10.00 |
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| TITLE: | A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the internationally acclaimed author of Stella Descending and Grace, a captivating story of sisterhood and of the inescapable chords of childhood memory. Every summer Isak Lovenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarso. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erika's bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnar's outcast state, she suddenly turns away--a common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isak's family. Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammarso to see their father--now eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile there--the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried. Bold and starkly beautiful, A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $19.95 |
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| TITLE: | Deadly Beautiful by Sam Baker |
| DESCRIPTION: | Fashion and murder collide in Deadly Beautiful, Sam Baker's smart, hip, and thrilling new novel as newspaper reporter-turned-fashion writer Annie Anderson investigates a secret underground where many drop-dead-gorgeous models have gone to "make it"--and some have just dropped dead. A serial killer with a thirst for young American models-slash-escorts is on the loose in Tokyo, and the local press is all over it. When supermodel Scarlett Ulrich goes missing while on assignment in Japan, an international media frenzy erupts. At a tender age, Scarlett had the face that launched a million album covers, and her career exploded from there. Now, with only a few clues and no body, the authorities wonder if she's tied to the recent rash of Jack the Ripper-style killings. Annie Anderson swears that she's done with investigative reporting. After all, these days she jets off to Paris, Milan, her native London, and, now, New York City for Fashion Week--as a front-row writer for Handbag Magazine. But when Annie learns that Scarlett is actually the half sister of her best friend, she's on the next plane to the Far East to get the scoop on the missing supermodel. In the electric metropolis of Tokyo, Annie descends into the gritty, cutthroat underbelly of the international fashion industry to uncover the truth behind Scarlett's disappearance. But navigating this mysterious territory is riskier than she thought, and she'll need to watch her fabulously coutured back--because someone out there is dressed to kill. And Annie just might be the next hot number to be knocked off. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $18.00 |
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| TITLE: | How Far Is the Ocean from Here by Amy Shearn |
| DESCRIPTION: | Susannah Prue is a young, unmarried surrogate mother who, in the days before her delivery date, panics. Jumping into her car, she flees her Chicago home and a few days later pulls up to a bleak motel in the Southwest--the Thunder Lodge. There, she encounters misfits, much like herself, who also carry secrets: the motel's terse proprietors, their mentally disabled son, and a woman transporting her niece to the father she's never met. But when the parents of Susannah's baby discover her whereabouts, she can no longer ignore the profound power she holds over their lives. Beautifully written, How Far Is the Ocean from Here explores the ways in which people care for one another and the ways in which they fail, the kinds of families we create when we have no one else to turn to, and the strangeness and unpredictability of love. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $23.00 |
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| TITLE: | Bachelor Degree by Judith Marks-White |
| DESCRIPTION: | "Underneath it all--designer clothes and moxie aside--my mother was more than any daughter should ever have to handle."--from Bachelor Degree. Strolling the city sidewalks of Manhattan's posh Upper East Side are a bevy of well-dressed, attractive, and notably eligible single men, but can Samantha Krasner snag one before the competition does? Finding Mr. Right would certainly help keep her mother at bay. After all, the only thing separating their two apartments is Central Park. Not big enough. A successful gallery diva who must answer to a boss from hell, thirty-eight-year-old Samantha nonetheless finally feels as if she's leading her own life. But the ever-hovering, smothering Madeleine Krasner-Wolfe, a twice-divorced and filthy rich force of nature, always seems to have advice for her daughter about everything from fashion and beauty regimens to men. When Samantha signs up the new rising star of the art world, Blake Hamilton, Madeleine immediately sees him as a prospective son-in-law. Hoping to help her daughter land a husband before it's too late, Madeleine launches a flirt campaign that both infuriates and enthralls Samantha--compelling her to finally take action. From the toniest penthouses of Park Avenue to the trendiest SoHo lofts, Samantha is on a mission--if only her mother would get out of the way. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $10.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters by Lorraine Lpez |
| DESCRIPTION: | Having lost their mother in early childhood, the Gabaldon sisters consider Fermina, their elderly Pueblo housekeeper, their surrogate Grandmother. The mysterious Fermina love the girls as if they are her own, and promises to endow each with a "special gift" to be received upon her death. Mindful of the old woman's mystical ways, the sisters believe Fermina's gifts, bestowed based on their natural talents, magically enhance their lives. The oldest sister, Bette Davis Gabaldon, always teased for telling tales, believes her gift is the power to persuade anyone, no matter how outlandish her story. Loretta Young, who often prefers pets to people, assumes her gift is the ability to heal animals. Tough-talking tomboy, Rita Hayworth believes her gift is the ability to curse her enemies. And finally, Sophia Loren, the baby of the family, is sure her ability to make people laugh is her legacy. As the four girls grow into women they discover that Fermina's gifts come with complicated strings, and what once seemed simple can confuse over time. Together they learn the truth about their mysterious caretaker, her legacy, and the family secret that was nearly lost forever in the New Mexican desert. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $9.99 |
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| TITLE: | Dead Boys by Richard Lange |
| DESCRIPTION: | These hard-hitting, deeply felt stories follow straight arrows and outlaws, have-it-alls and outcasts, as they take stock of their lives and missteps and struggle to rise above their turbulent pasts. A salesman re-examines his tenuous relationship with his sister after she is brutally attacked. A house painter plans a new life for his family as he plots his last bank robbery. A drifter gets a chance at love when he delivers news of a barfly's death to the man's estranged daughter. A dissatisfied yuppie is oddly envious of his ex-con brother as they celebrate their first Christmas together. Set in a Los Angeles depicted with aching clarity, Lange's stories are gritty, and his characters often less than perfect. Beneath their macho bravado, however, they are full of heart and heartbreak. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $9.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway |
| DESCRIPTION: | A wildly entertaining debut novel, introducing a bold new voice that combines antic humor (think Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut) with a stunning futuristic vision (a la A Clockwork Orange and 1984, with a little Mad Max thrown in) to give us an electrifyingly original tale of love, friendship, and the apocalypse. There couldn't be a fire along the Jorgmund Pipe. It was the last thing the world needed. But there it was, burning bright on national television. The Pipe was what kept the Livable Zone safe from the bandits, monsters, and nightmares the Go-Away War had left in its wake. The fire was a very big problem. Enter Gonzo Lubitsch and his friends, the Haulage & HazMat Emergency Civil Freebooting Company, a team of master troubleshooters who roll into action when things get particularly hot. They helped build the Pipe. Now they have to preserve it--and save humanity yet again. But this job is not all it seems. It will touch more closely on Gonzo's life--and that of his best friend--than either of them can imagine. And it will decide the fate of the Gone-Away World. Equal parts raucous adventure, comic odyssey, geek nirvana, and ultra-cool epic, The Gone-Away World is a story of--among other things--love, pirates, mimes, greed, and ninjas. But it is also the story of a world, not unlike our own, in desperate need of heroes--however unlikely they may seem. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $20.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti |
| DESCRIPTION: | Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents. Twelve year-old Ren is missing his left hand. How it was lost is a mystery that Ren has been trying to solve for his entire life, as well as who his parents are, and why he was abandoned as an infant at Saint Anthony's Orphanage for boys. He longs for a family to call his own and is terrified of the day he will be sent alone into the world. But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren's long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents persuades the monks at the orphanage to release the boy and to give Ren some hope. But is Benjamin really who he says he is? Journeying through a New England of whaling towns and meadowed farmlands, Ren is introduced to a vibrant world of hardscrabble adventure filled with outrageous scam artists, grave robbers, and petty thieves. If he stays, Ren becomes one of them. If he goes, he's lost once again. As Ren begins to find clues to his hidden parentage he comes to suspect that Benjamin not only holds the key to his future, but to his past as well. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $19.95 |
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| TITLE: | Matrimony by Joshua Henkin |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the moment he was born, Julian Wainwright has lived a life of Waspy privilege. The son of a Yale-educated investment banker, he grew up in a huge apartment on Sutton Place, high above the East River, and attended a tony Manhattan private school. Yet, more than anything, he wants to get out--out from under his parents' influence, off to Graymont College, in western Massachusetts, where he hopes to become a writer. When he arrives, in the fall of 1986, Julian meets Carter Heinz, a scholarship student from California with whom he develops a strong but ambivalent friendship. Carter's mother, desperate to save money for his college education, used to buy him reversible clothing, figuring she was getting two items for the price of one. Now, spending time with Julian, Carter seethes with resentment. He swears he will grow up to be wealthy--wealthier, even, than Julian himself. Then, one day, flipping through the college facebook, Julian and Carter see a photo of Mia Mendelsohn. Mia from Montreal, they call her. Beautiful, Jewish, the daughter of a physics professor at McGill, Mia is--Julian and Carter agree--dreamy, urbane, stylish, refined. But Julian gets to Mia first, meeting her by chance in the college laundry room. Soon they begin a love affair that--spurred on by family tragedy--will carry them to graduation and beyond, taking them through several college towns, over the next ten years. Then Carter reappears, working for an Internet company in California, and he throws everyone's life into turmoil: Julian's, Mia's, his own. Starting at the height of the Reagan era and ending in the new millennium, Matrimony is about love and friendship, about money and ambition, desire and tensions of faith. It asks what happens to a marriage when it is confronted by betrayal and the specter of mortality. What happens when people marry younger than they'd expected? Can love endure the passing of time? In its emotional honesty, its luminous prose, its generosity and wry wit, Matrimony is a beautifully detailed portrait of what it means to share a life with someone--to do it when you're young, and to try to do it afresh on the brink of middle age. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $14.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith |
| DESCRIPTION: | For young Mark, the world has turned as bleak and gray as the Brighton winter. Separated from his real father and home in London, he's come to live with his mother and her new husband in an old house near the sea. He spends his days alone, trying to master the skateboard, while other boys his age are in school. He hates the unwanted stepfather who barged into Mark's life to rob him of joy. Worst of all, his once-vibrant mother has grown listless and weary, no longer interested in anything beyond her sitting room. But on a damp and chilly evening, an accident carries Mark into the basement flat of the old woman who lives at the bottom of his stepfather's house. She offers tea, cakes, and sympathy ... and the key to a secret, bygone world. Mark becomes caught up in the frenetic bustle of the human machinery that once ran a home, and drawn ever deeper into a lost realm of spirits and memory. Here below the suffocating truths, beneath the pain and unhappiness, he finds an escape, and quite possibly a way to change everything. A richly evocative, poignantly beautiful modern-day ghost story, The Servants marks the triumphant return of Michael Marshall Smith--the first novel in a decade from the multiple award-winning author of Spares. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $11.95 |
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| TITLE: | Emma's Table by Philip Galanes |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the moment Emma Sutton walks into the esteemed FitzCoopers auction house, the one-time media darling knows exactly what she wants: an exquisite antique dining table. What she doesn't realize is what she's getting: the chance to set things right. Fresh from a year-long stretch in prison and the public bloodletting that accompanied her fall, Emma needs a clean slate. She finds her life just as she left it, filled with glittering business successes and bruising personal defeats--rolling television cameras and chauffeured limousines, followed by awkward Sunday dinners at home. She knows, deep down, that she needs a change, though she can't imagine where it might come from or where it will lead. Enter Benjamin Blackman, a terminally charming social worker who moonlights for Emma on the weekends, and Gracie Santiago, an overweight little girl from Queens, one of Benjamin's most heartbreaking wards. Together with an eclectic supporting cast--including Emma's prodigal ex-husband, a bossy yoga teacher, and a tiny Japanese diplomat--the unlikely trio is whisked into a fleet-footed story of unforeseen circumstance and delicious opportunity, as their solitary searching for better paths leads them all, however improbably, straight to Park Avenue and the dynamic woman at the novel's center. Sophisticated yet accessible, lighthearted but also telling, Emma's Table is a thoroughly winning and surprisingly affecting tale of second chances. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $18.95 |
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| TITLE: | Broken by Daniel Clay |
| DESCRIPTION: | Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buckley had been a normal geeky teenager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of five slutty daughters, charging furiously down the sidewalk. Then Bob was beating Rick to a bloody pulp, right there in the Buckleys' driveway, and life on Drummond Square was never the same again. Inspired by Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, Clay's brilliantly observed and darkly funny novel follows the sudden unraveling of a suburban community after a single act of thoughtless cruelty. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $10.95 |
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| TITLE: | Being Written by William Conescu |
| DESCRIPTION: | Daniel Fischer has a secret. He knows he's a character in a book that's being written. He's the only one who knows, the only one who's aware of the author's presence--but what good does it do Daniel? He's just a minor character. The author seems much more interested in other people's lives. Now Daniel is determined to win a bigger part, and he'll do whatever it takes to get the author's attention and make this story his own. Suspenseful, subversive, and hilarious, Being Written is an audaciously inventive literary turn that gleefully calls into question who we trust, what we believe, and how the stories of our lives are created. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $10.95 |
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| TITLE: | Draining the Sea by Micheline Marcom |
| DESCRIPTION: | A striking literary exploration of the effects of political violence as it reverberates through the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the Guatemalan civil conflict of the 1980s, and present-day Los Angeles--from award-winning novelist Micheline Aharonian Marcom. Draining the Sea is the most ambitious and provocative book to date from acclaimed author Micheline Aharonian Marcom. The story unfurls inside the mind of a man who spends his nights driving the streets of Los Angeles, racked by memories and visions of the Guatemalan civil war, and, in particular, of a beautiful young Mayan woman who died violently in it. He was in love with her, but, it seems, may have played a role in her death. He also is very aware of the United States' complicity in the horrors of that conflict, further twisting his anguish. And in his mind, her fate resonates back to his own childhood as the grandson of survivors of the Armenian Genocide. Micheline Aharonian Marcom, herself descended from Armenian Genocide survivors, has always been haunted by the long-term effects of atrocity. In Three Apples Fell from Heaven, she told the tale of the forcible deportation and massacre of Armenians with unsparing directness. In The Daydreaming Boy, she imagined a man living in Beirut who is forced to face the emotional aftermath of his brutal boyhood as an orphan of the genocide. Now, in this darkly lyrical novel, Marcom offers a powerful testament about the far-reaching impact of political violence and lost love. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $26.95 |
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| TITLE: | Always Look Twice by Geralyn Dawson |
| DESCRIPTION: | When ex-Military Intelligence officer Mark Callahan discovers that someone is murdering members of his former unit, he must join forces with the only team member more dangerous than himself--his estranged wife, Annabelle Monroe. A private investigator, Annabelle would rather trade in her gun for a slingshot than partner with Mark. But she can't deny her old loyalties--or the sudden threat to their safety. So together, she and Mark will follow the bloody trail of a killer, only to come face-to-face with betrayal--and an overpowering desire... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Dark Embrace [Masters of Time] by Brenda Joyce |
| DESCRIPTION: | Aidan, the Wolf of Awe, has abandoned the Brotherhood and forsaken his vows. Feared by all and trusted by none, he hunts alone, seeking vengeance against the evil that destroyed his son. He has not saved an Innocent in sixty-six years--until he hears Brianna Rose's scream of terror across centuries, and leaps to modern-day Manhattan to rescue her.... Brie is a gifted empath who spends her time fighting evil from the safety of her laptop--and fantasizing about the medieval Highlander she met just once. Still, her life is pretty ordinary--until she awakens one night consumed with Aidan's pain and rage. When Aidan suddenly appears and takes her hostage, Brie cannot believe how dark and dangerous he has become. She knows she should be afraid, but instead, she will fight across time for his redemption ... and his love. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $7.20 |
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| TITLE: | To Catch a Thief by Christina Skye |
| DESCRIPTION: | Nell MacInnes can spot a forgery from a mile away. After all, she learned from the best--her father is one of the art world's most notorious thieves. His brutal beating by the very authorities who claim to keep the world safe from harm taught her one more valuable lsson--trust no one. The last thing rugged navy SEAL Dakota Smith needs on his mission is a tempting woman he doesn't trust. But a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci has gone missing, and the art conservator's skill in detecting forgery would be invaluable, if only her ties to the criminal world are as dead as she says they are. Soon an edgy partnership and white-hot attraction are forged between Nell and Dakota as they race to Draycott Abbey to track down a ruthless criminal with terrorist ties before time runs out--and the da Vinci is lost forever. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $6.30 |
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| TITLE: | Promise, Texas by Debbie Macomber |
| DESCRIPTION: | Some of the people in Promise are from old ranching families--like the Westons and Pattersons--folks who arrived in the Hill Country more than a century ago. And then there are newcomers like Annie Applegate, who's looking for peace but finds a great deal more. She agrees to marry a widowed veterinarian for the sake of his children...and discovers that marriage can lead to love. In Promise, everyone's life is a story! The people here, like people everywhere, experience tragedies as well as triumphs, sorrow as well as joy. This town, like towns everywhere, has its share of secrets. But--whether times are good or bad--you're never alone in a place like Promise. And as Annie Applegate knows, that makes all the difference. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $12.55 |
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| TITLE: | Intimate Enemy by Marilyn Pappano |
| DESCRIPTION: | God help him, he despised Jamie Munroe ... but not enough to try to kill her. In court, she'd helped his greedy ex-wife steal his fortune. In town, Jamie pretended he didn't exist. And yet, even she had to remember the hot chemistry they'd once shared in law school. A crazy part of him wanted to remind her...and keep her safe. Even though Russ Calloway had broken her heart years ago--and she was ashamed how often she watched him from her office window--accepting his protection felt so natural. Especially as her stalker's threats escalated. Where else did she feel safe but in the arms of her enemy? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | Sweet Trouble by Susan Mallery |
| DESCRIPTION: | Jesse Keyes has done some serious growing up. With a steady job and a vibrant four-year-old son, Gabe, she's in a far better place than when she left Seattle five years ago ... pregnant and misunderstood by almost everyone in her life. Now it's time to go home and face her demons. But her sisters, Claire and Nicole, aren't exactly impressed with the new and improved Jesse. And then there's Matt, Gabe's father, who makes it clear that he never wants to see her again despite the lust that still smolders between them. Jesse doesn't know if she can make up for all the mistakes of her past. But the promise of sweet nights with Matt might just give her the extra incentive she needs to make it worth the trouble.... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $6.30 |
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| TITLE: | The Bakery Sisters Bundle by Susan Mallery |
| DESCRIPTION: | With their parents gone, old resentments, misunderstandings and betrayals have driven a wedge between the three Keyes sisters, just when they most need one another. For musical prodigy Claire, turning her back on her career and returning to Seattle to start a new life, it comes as a shock to discover the animosity her sisters feel toward her. For her twin Nicole, saddled with the responsibility of running the family bakery and raising her wild younger sister, life seems supremely unfair. For youngest sister Jesse, the belief that no one wanted her has made her reckless and wild, until she realizes how much she needs her family. And all three have been unlucky in love. But they're about to have their worlds turned upside down by unexpected romance ... and a newfound bond with the family they had lost. Get all three books in award winning, USA TODAY bestselling author Susan Mallery's heartwarming trilogy for one low price. Bundle includes Sweet Talk, Sweet Spot and Sweet Trouble. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $16.95 |
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| TITLE: | Courting Disaster by Kathleen O'Reilly |
| DESCRIPTION: | Race car driver Demetri Lucas's life is comprised of two things: betting and winning. He lives hard and fast--and likes women to match. But when Demetri gets an opportunity to help an old friend by purchasing some horses from Quest Stables, he runs up against the most stubborn woman he's ever met.... Squeaky-clean country singer Elizabeth Innis is part of the prestigious Preston clan, so when an outsider makes a bid to buy the horses, Elizabeth is furious. Even worse, when she finally meets the interloping Demetri, she's ridiculously attracted to him--and it's mutual! The only problem? They mix like oil and water. But Demetri has a solution--a small wager. And his prize is Elizabeth.... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | Seducing a S.E.A.L. by Jamie Sobrato |
| DESCRIPTION: | She's the very model of restraint... Except for one not-so-tiny thing. Lieutenant Commander Kylie Thomas has been entertaining some inappropriate thoughts about her subordinate, Ensign Drew MacLeod. Not only is she his commanding officer--and a few years his senior--but she's worked too hard to mess up her career. Even for six feet of golden-haired, bronze-skinned, blue-eyed perfection. Then an office incident leaves her shaken, and Kylie decides she needs some physical therapy. Two glorious weeks in Hawaii with the one man who sets her nether regions aquiver sounds like just the cure for her nerves. If she's going to throw caution to the wind--along with her propriety and professional reputation--then she'd better make these two weeks count! |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | Heart of Stone by Diana Palmer |
| DESCRIPTION: | Boone Sinclair is a hallmark Diana Palmer hero: tall, strong and handsome. A businessman and a rancher, Boone had it all--except for Keely Welsh. The first time he spotted her on his property, he was determined not to let her get away from him. The lovely beauty would be his.... Every Long, Tall Texan gets his woman, and this one would not be denied. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | Baby Bonanza by Maureen Child |
| DESCRIPTION: | Twins? The startling revelation that his affair with Jenna Baker had produced two little boys was almost impossible to grasp. Tycoon Nick Falco had never considered himself the settling-down type, yet now that fatherhood had been thrust upon him, he was determined to give his sons his name. But their mother wasn't about to let him back into her life ... at least not without those three little words Nick had never, ever said. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Hands of Flame by C. E. Murphy |
| DESCRIPTION: | War has erupted among the five Old Races, and Margrit is responsible for the death that caused it. Now New York City's most unusual lawyer finds herself facing her toughest negotiation yet. And with her gargoyle lover, Alban, taken prisoner, Margrit's only allies--a dragon bitter about his fall, a vampire determined to hold his standing at any cost and a mortal detective with no idea what he's up against--have demands of their own. Determined to rescue Alban and torn between conflicting loyalties as the battle seeps into the human world, Margrit soon realizes the only way out is through the fire.... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $13.45 |
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| TITLE: | The M.D.'s Mistress by Joan Hohl |
| DESCRIPTION: | Such arrogance! Nurse Becca Jameson spent months side by side with Dr. Seth Andrews in a tiny, understaffed, under-funded African hospital. He was bossy, gorgeous, brilliant ... and she'd fallen for him, hook, line and scalpel. Now back in Philadelphia, he had the nerve to make this outrageous proposal ... how could he? And how could she refuse? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Solving the Mysterious Stranger by Mallory Kane |
| DESCRIPTION: | For three years he'd worked deep undercover, infiltrating a terrorist organization and preparing to bring his most critical mission to a successful end. Now, after just one night in the small coastal village of Raven's Cliff, Cole Robinson had come upon a very sexy wrinkle to his plans: Amelia Hopkins. The beautiful heiress was a distraction he never considered--until she became their hostage and Cole suddenly had a lot more to lose. After all, safeguarding a nation was part of his training. But falling for his captive was something no one could have prepared him for. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | On the Move by Pamela Britton |
| DESCRIPTION: | Vicki Bradford might work for the most ruthless sports agent in the business, but she's no quitter, even when she hits the lowest of career lows--acting as a glorified babysitter to NASCAR's disruptive newcomer, Brandon Burke. But his devilish grin and the gleam in his eye tell her he won't be so easy to tame.... Brandon isn't about to let his wild ways on and off the track be tempered by a buttoned-up stunner hired to make him behave. And he's not above a little pulse-pounding game of seduction to send her running. But one kiss ignites something powerful between them. And now it's a matter of how to avoid the crash and burn of two opposites steering recklessly toward love. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $6.30 |
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| TITLE: | Colton's Secret Service by Marie Ferrarella |
| DESCRIPTION: | "Striking a Secret Service agent will land you in prison." But the petite redhead with the cowboy hat and tire iron seemed unfazed by Nick Sheffield's words. The Secret Service agent had come to the tiny Texas town to unmask a potential threat to his employer--a U.S. senator. Could his quarry be this captivating single mother who aroused in him a passion that was anything but innocent? How dare this stranger show up and turn her life upside down! The last thing Georgeann Grady Colton needed was someone like Nick--handsome, suspicious, irresistible. As danger and desire collided, Georgie knew she was traveling a treacherous road: falling for a man who was taking them both to the point of no return.... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | His Expectant Ex by Catherine Mann |
| DESCRIPTION: | Just seconds after signing divorce papers, Marianna Landis fainted. Shocked, her now ex-husband Sebastian discovered Marianna was three-and-a-half months pregnant. The timing was perfectly in line with their last impetuous night together. Incensed that his "wife" would still be so intent on their separation, Sebastian vowed to do anything to win her back. Seduction had worked once before ... he'd make damn sure it would work again. For Marianna was carrying a Landis baby, and a Landis man keeps what is his! |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Natural-Born Protector by Carla Cassidy |
| DESCRIPTION: | Hank "handsome as sin" Tyler is all that stands between Melody Thompson and the wrath of her sister's killer. The lonely widower--formerly a rancher--makes a perfect hunk of a bodyguard but leaves much to be desired as boyfriend material. With a precocious eight-year-old daughter to raise, he's sworn off love and marriage. Which is fine with Melody, who intends to go back to her life in Chicago. Besides, romance would distract them from catching the killer. But as days go by, the leads are few, the danger grave, the desire unforeseeable... until the night Hank guards Melody's body more passionately than either intended! |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | For All We Know by Sandra Kitt |
| DESCRIPTION: | When Michaela Landry agreed to house-sit at her godparents' Memphis home, she expected a quiet, peaceful summer. Instead, her stay takes a dramatic turn when she finds a runaway teen and brings him to the nearest hospital. The only person he trusts is Cooper Smith Townsend, a local pastor whose calm demeanor and dedication are as attractive as his rugged good looks. Smith's experiences have inspired him to serve God and help others at the expense of his personal life, but Michaela's warmth and courage are irresistible. Now their greatest challenge will be to trust that a passion neither planned for is strong enough to overcome any obstacle.... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $6.30 |
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| TITLE: | The Rancher's Surprise Marriage by Susan Crosby |
| DESCRIPTION: | Cattle rancher Tony Young was seeing stars. Movie idol Maggie McShane--America's sweetheart--had just asked him to marry her! It was strictly a temporary business arrangement. But ever since they shared a dance and a night of incredible lovemaking, Tony wanted the pleasure of something a little more ... permanent. From the minute she met the sexy cowboy, Maggie knew he was the answer to her wedding woes. But when the charade ended, would they have to call the whole thing off? Or, with the Taka-Hanson Hotel throwing them the biggest wedding ever, could Maggie and Tony turn their sham marriage into a forever kind of love? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | Wed by Deception by Emilie Rose |
| DESCRIPTION: | Lucas had supposedly died eleven years ago, in the wedding day accident that had left Nadia in a coma. So who was this man standing outside her Dallas penthouse, claiming to be the man she'd loved? And why did her instant joy at finding Lucas alive suddenly turn to trepidation at the cool disdain in her groom's eyes? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Hot Pursuit by Wendy Etherington |
| DESCRIPTION: | NASCAR PR rep Kylie Palmer is a widow and a single mom ... and she sure isn't interested in dating--especially not someone with a dangerous job! But bounty hunter A.T. Treadway is young, gorgeous and every inch the perfect guy. Suddenly Kylie is struggling between her fear ... and a feeling she never thought she'd experience again. A.T. has his job cut out for him. His secret investigation to find a fugitive is drawing him deeper into the world of NASCAR--and closer to Kylie, a woman who is proving harder to pursue than his elusive target. But when their fragile relationship is tested, can A.T. convince Kylie that he's worth the risk? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $5.40 |
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| TITLE: | Virgin for the Billionaire's Taking by Penny Jordan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Jay was a maharaja's heir and billionaire businessman, and he'd hired Keira as his interior designer. But why did she turn from hot to cold and then back again? Was she a manipulating gold digger who was using the red-hot chemistry between them to try to increase her financial reward? Then Jay discovered that Keira was a virgin! And, according to his code, the cost of taking virginity was marriage. Was he prepared to pay the price? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Bodyguard to the Bride by Dani Sinclair |
| DESCRIPTION: | The most beautiful bride he'd ever seen--and she belonged to someone else.... But that wouldn't stop bodyguard Xavier Drake from protecting Zoe Linden with his life. And it would help him to focus on the problem at hand--convincing Zoe to stay with him when she learned he hadn't been hired by her missing fiance. The gunfire blazing around them assured she'd remain glued to his side. But it was her unexpected pregnancy that got under this tough guy's skin and brought out every primal protective instinct. On the run in her wedding dress, Zoe sensed she could trust the stranger who came to protect her. But neither were prepared for the consequences of their unexpected passion under fire.... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | The Sicilian's Innocent Mistress by Carole Mortimer |
| DESCRIPTION: | Was Luc short for Lucifer? Darci wondered, because Luc Gambrelli was the most sinfully tempting man she'd ever encountered! Her plan was simple: she'd teach womanizer Luc a lesson by leading him on then dumping him. But the irresistible Sicilian turned the tables on Darci! Unable to resist Luc's seduction, Darci feared he'd discover she wasn't a sophisticated tease, but was an innocent--and in way over her head! |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | At Her Pleasure by Cindi Myers |
| DESCRIPTION: | No more Ms. Nice Girl. Thanks to Nicole Howard's accommodating ways, her life has delivered a whole lot of disappointment. Armed with a pirate queen's autobiography--aka a girl's guide to seduction and sexual empowerment--Nicole heads to the Caribbean determined to unleash her inner diva for a steamy adventure. Hottie Ian Marshall and an almost-deserted island are the perfect ingredients for a little no-strings action. In fact, this fling is giving her everything she ever wanted ... and then some. Once their sensual games are over, however, will she be able to walk away from the best sex ... ever? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | The De Santis Marriage by Michelle Reid |
| DESCRIPTION: | Italian tycoon Luciano De Santis is breathtaking in every way: he has power, success--and a devastating effect on women. Now Luc needs a bride--and he's decided that ordinary Lizzy Hadley will be his wife! He's set his trap and blackmailed her, and he knows she can't refuse him. But there's one condition Luc fails to mention--as his wife, Lizzy must produce an heir! |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes by Lauren Baratz-Logsted |
| DESCRIPTION: | For herein Fortune shows herself to be more kind Than is her custom..... That's Shakespeare. In case you're wondering. If you were Delilah "Baby" Sampson, you'd already know that. Delilah got hooked on the Bard back in college. Then she briefly got hooked on Singapore Sling cocktails. And then she got tossed out of school. Yes, when Delilah discovers something she likes, she really sticks with it. These days, her addictions include sudoku, lime diet cola and now ... Jimmy Choos. Oh, Baby's gotta have those shoes! But on her window-washer salary, $700 for one pair is a stretch. Which leads us to her latest obsession--gambling. With an impromptu posse, including an elderly movie star, two Brazilian lesbians and Hillary Clinton (no, not that one!), Delilah hits the casinos and discovers that she's a natural-born high-roller. Every win puts her closer to those beloved Choos. And as the "21s" keep dropping, so do the men ... right at her feet. But for a girl who never knows when to fold 'em, gambling and casino guys are not healthy habits. She could end up losing her shirt, her head ... and a whole lot more. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $12.55 |
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| TITLE: | Italian Boss, Ruthless Revenge by Carol Marinelli |
| DESCRIPTION: | Sexy Italian billionaire Lazzaro Ranaldi chooses women like he chooses his cars--they must be sleek, sexy and easily upgraded to a new model. But there's something about Caitlyn that tempts him.... Lazzaro believes Caitlyn isn't as innocent as she seems. He won't be played for a fool! He'll get his revenge by cutting her out of his heart--and putting his ring on her finger! |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Deadly Redemption by Kathleen Korbel |
| DESCRIPTION: | Orla, youngest daughter of the Fairy Queen, is almost as famous for her powers of seduction as she is for her rebellious nature. So when her ill-advised attempt at the throne unleashes the threat of civil war, Orla faces a stern penalty: marry the fearsome prince of the enemy fairy clan, Liam the Avenger. As his wife, Orla is infuriated by the warrior's brusque, cold indifference--and her own uncontrollable craving for his touch. Now, as she works to redeem herself by restoring balance to the kingdom, Orla must dare to capture the one prize she may forever be denied: her husband's carefully guarded heart. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.75 |
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| TITLE: | At the Sheikh's Bidding by Chantelle Shaw |
| DESCRIPTION: | Erin Maguire is shocked to discover that her adopted son is the heir to a desert kingdom! Now they're en route to the land of Qubbah with little Kazim's uncle, the powerful and arrogant Zahir bin Kahlid al Muntassir! Zahir insists Erin marry him, and that his young nephew remain in Qubbah! She refuses to leave Kazim behind, but she's not of royal blood. Zahir will have a very ordinary virgin bride in his bed on his wedding night! |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.25 |
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| TITLE: | Millions to Spare by Barbara Dunlop |
| DESCRIPTION: | Identifying with your captor is one thing.... Marrying him is quite another! Reporter Julia Nash has waited years to join the top ranks of investigative journalists. When a business trip to Dubai reveals the key to a contentious mystery in the world of Thoroughbred racing, Julia knows her chance has arrived. But then she's caught snooping ... and held in the sold custody of Lord Harrison Rochester! As long as it takes. That's what Harrison vows when he holds Julia captive at his desert estate. He'll discover what the beauty has been up to--even if the search leads to an attraction neither could have imagined. But when Julia's safety is compromised, they are faced with saying goodbye ... or saying "I do." |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $4.50 |
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| TITLE: | Abby and the Playboy Prince by Raye Morgan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Prince Mychale has come to his mountain chateau to get away from the world. Instead, the royal bachelor finds himself playing host to runaway Abby and her adorable baby! Mychale's duty-bound to marry someone of the royal family's choosing. Abby's far from suitable, but to his surprise she makes him feel happy for the first time in years. Abby Donair has taken her sister's baby to her heart with no hesitation, but can she expect a royal prince to do the same... |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $3.60 |
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