by Debbie MacOmber

Love 'N' Marriage by Debbie MacOmberChapter OneStephanie Coulter sauntered into the personnel office at Lock...

by Stephanie Clifford

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by Annie Jacobsen

Area 51 by Annie JacobsenFor KevinTime will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal wha...

by Terry Pratchett

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by Harper Lee

Go Set a Watchman (To Kill a Mockingbird #2)Harper LeeABOUT THE BOOKFrom Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel ...

by Rebecca Yarros

Full Measures By Rebecca YarrosChapter OneWho the hell would be pounding on the door at 7:05 a.m.?Three tiny knocks on my bedroom door echoed the harsher ones downstairs. Mom was going to chew their butts for interrupting her...

by Laura Bradley

The Brush-Off_A Hair-Raising Mystery - Laura BradleyoneIT’S STUCK! HE WAILED.Eardrums cringing, I pulled and pushed and squirmed harder just to avoid hearing any more of his contralto whine. Finally, red-faced and panting, I...

by Laurell K. Hamilton

Bullet - Laurell K. HamiltonAcknowledgmentsCarri, who took point on this one, and stayed at my side during some pretty rough weather. I keep waiting for her to rethink that I’ll quit work when you do, because apparently ...

by Christopher Fowler

Bryant & May on the Loose_A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery - Christopher Fowler1‘A BIT OF BAD LUCK’The ...

by Anne Perry

Brunswick Gardens by Anne Perry1PITT KNOCKED ON the assistant commissioner’s door and waited. It must be sensitive, and urgent, or Cornwallis would not have sent for him by telephone. Since his promotion to command of the...

by Elizabeth J. Duncan

A Brush with Death_A Penny Brannigan Mystery - Elizabeth J. DuncanAcknowledgmentsThank you to everyone who wrote to me after the publication of The Cold Light of Mourning with kind words of praise and encouragement. I am so gr...

by David Foster Wallace

The Broom of the System - David Foster WallacePENGUIN BOOKSTHE BROOM OF THE SYSTEMDavid Foster Wallace (1962-2008) is the award-winning author of several short story and essay collections; two novels; including the bestselling Inf...

by Simon Hawke

The Broken Blade - Simon HawkeAcknowledgmentsWith special acknowledgments to Robert M. Powers, Sandra West, Bruce a...

by John Sandford

Broken prey - John Sandford1CHARLIE POPE TRUDGED down the alley with the empty garbage can on his back, soaked ...

by Gary Rivlin

Broke, USA_From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.—How the Working Poor Became Big BusinessGary RivlinPrologueTommy’s ...

by Barbara Ehren

Bright-sided_how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America - Barbara EhrenIntroductionAmeri...

by Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waoby Junot Díaz2007This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today.Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously o...

by David Foster Wallace

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster WallaceDEATH IS NOT THE ENDThe fifty-six-year-old American poet, a Nobel Laureate, a poet known in American literary circles as ‘the poet’s poet’ or sometimes simpl...

by David Remnick

The Bridge_The Life and Rise of Barack Obama - David RemnickPrologueThe Joshua GenerationBrown ChapelSelma, AlabamaThis is how it began, the telling of a story that changed America.At midday on March 4, 2007, Barack Obama, the j...

by Henning Mankell

A Bridge to the Stars - Henning Mankell1The dog.That was what started it all.If he hadn't seen that solitary dog, nothing might have happened. Nothing of what later became so important that it changed everything. Nothing of...

by Kate Hewitt

The Bride's Awakening - Kate HewittChapter OneVITTORIO RALFINO, the Count of Cazlevara, stood on the threshold of San Stefano Castle and searched the milling guests for the woman he intended to be his wife. He wasn’t ...

by Ted Dekker

The Bride Collector - Ted Dekker1THANK YOU, DETECTIVE. We’ll take it from here.FBI Special Agent Brad Raines stood in the small barn’s wide doorway and scanned the dimly lit interior. Dusk fell on an ancient wood fl...

by Noah Boyd

The Bricklayer - Noah BoydBEFOREAS MICKEY STILLSON STARED AT THE GUN IN HIS HAND, HE ABSENTMINDEDLY reached up and adjusted the fake ear that was his entire disguise and wondered how a born-again Christian like himself had wou...

by Gary Paulsen

Brian's Winter - Gary PaulsenFOREWORDThis book was written for all those readers of Hatchet and The River who wrote (I received as many as two hundred letters a day) to tell me they felt Brian Robeson’s story was le...

by Richard Morgan

Broken Angels - Richard MorganBroken AngelsTakeshi Kovacs Book 2Richard MorganThis one’s for Virginia Cottinell...

by Anna Godbersen

Bright Young Things - Anna GodbersenPROLOGUEIT IS EASY TO FORGET NOW, HOW EFFERVESCENT AND free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early...

by Liz Murray

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by Lynn Abbey

The brazen gambit - Lynn AbbeyChapter OneIt was the 102nd day of the Descending Sun in the seasonless year on the Tablelands of the world men called Athas. Ral and Guthay, the sibling moons, had already slipped below the hor...

by Carol Shields

The box garden - Carol ShieldsChapter 1What was it that Brother Adam wrote me last week? That there are no certainties in life. That we change hourly or even from one minute to the next, our entire cycle of being altered, ...

by Robert Ludlum

The Bourne ultimatum - Robert LudlumPrologueDarkness had descended on Manassas, Virginia, the countryside alive with nocturnal undercurrents, as Bourne crept through the woods bordering the estate of General Norman Swayne. Startled ...

by Gary Paulsen

Brian's Return - Gary PaulsenA Note About ChronologyBrian was born with Hatchet—almost literally. Many readers view him as a nearly real person, someone they wish to know more about, and as a friend. I feel the same way....

by Gary Paulsen

Brian's Hunt - Gary Paulsen1He was in his world again. He was back.It was high summer coming to fall and Brian was back in the far reaches of wilderness—or as he thought of it now, home. He had his canoe and bow and...

by Dean Koontz

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by Christopher Fowler

Breathe - Christopher Fowler1. WELCOME TO SYMAXCORPWelcome to the bad world of big business. Companies are like icebergs, mostly hidden from view. Or they’re like hives, where everyone is given a specific job and a limited amount of knowledge. Almost any analogy works, because co...

by Tom Clancy & Steve Perry & Steve Pieczenik

Breaking point - Tom Clancy & Steve Perry & Steve PieczenikACKNOWLEDGMENTSWe’d like to acknowledge the assistance of Martin H. Greenberg, Larry Segriff, Denise Little, John Helfers, Robert Youdelman, Esq., and Tom Mallon, Esq...

by Kurt Vonnegut

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by Robin Kaye

Breakfast in Bed - Robin KayeChapter 1REBECCA LARSEN SHOULDERED OPEN THE DOOR OF HER new Park Slope apartment and surveyed the wreckage. A pizza box lay open on the coffee table, containing the remnants of a sausage and mushr...

by Dick Francis

Break In_THE DICK FRANCIS LIBRARY by Dick FrancisONEBlood ties can mean trouble, chains and fatal obligation. The tie of twins, inescapably strongest. My twin, my bond.My sister Holly, sprung into the world ten minutes after mys...

by Aldous Huxley

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by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World - Aldous HuxleyForewordAldous Huxley’s Brave New World has the modern age firmly in its sights. With devastating irony and fascinating precision, the novel, published in 1932, describes a futuristic world som...

by Harriet Brown

Brave Girl Eating_A Family's Struggle with Anorexia - Harriet BrownEpigraphThe wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth…—ADRIENNE RICH, from Diving into the WreckForeword by Daniel le Grange, ...

by Lisi Harrison

Bratfest At Tiffany's - Lisi HarrisonBRIARWOOD–OCTAVIAN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLTHE CAFéTuesday, September 8th7:23 A.M.ALL STUDENTS MUST KEEP OUT UNTIL 8 A.M. NO EXCEPTIONS.Puh-lease! Massie Block ripped the sign off the fr...

by Robin Becker

Brains_A Zombie Memoir - BeckerPROLOGUEWHAT YOU HOLD in your hands is a zombie memoir, the touching postlife story of a walking corpse and his journey toward self-acceptance and knowledge, told honestly and in the first person,...

by Brian Falkner

Brain Jack - Brian FalknerPROLOGUERight now, as you read this prologue, I am sifting through the contents of your computer. Yes, your computer. You. The one holding the book.I am reading your e-mails, looking at your digital p...

by John Saul

Brain Child - John SaulPROLOGUEThe late-August sun blazed down on the parched hills with an intensity that was usually felt only much farther south, and south, the sixteen-year-old boy thought as he moved stealthily through the...

by hobson woodward

A Brave Vessel:The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest BY hobson woodwardPREFACETo William Strachey the new play by William Shakespeare seemed oddly familiar. Watching The Tem...

by Eric van Lustbader & Robert Ludlum

The Bourne Objective - Eric van Lustbader & Robert LudlumPrologueBangalore, IndiaNIGHT DESCENDED LIKE a curtain of scuttling insects, coming alive with the setting of the sun. The noise was atrocious, as was the stench of unwash...

by Robert Ludlum

The Bourne Identity - Robert LudlumPREFACEThe New York TimesFriday, July 11, 1975FRONT PAGEDIPLOMATS SAID TO BE LINKEDWITH FUGITIVE TERRORISTKNOWN AS CARLOSPARIS, July 10—France expelled three high-ranking Cuban diplomats today in c...

by Robert Ludlum & Eric van Lustbader

The Bourne Deception - Robert Ludlum & Eric van LustbaderPrologueMunich, Germany/Bali, IndonesiaI SPEAK RUSSIAN well enough, Secretary of Defense Bud Halliday said, but I prefer to speak English.That suits me, the Russian colonel ...

by MARINA FIORATO

The Botticelli Secret - MARINA FIORATOACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe Botticelli Secret visits many cities, so I needed help from many people and was lucky enough to get it. Some of those who assisted me are family, some are eminent scholars, some fall into both categories.I’d like to thank ...

by Jaci Burton

Bound, Branded, & Brazen - Jaci BurtonacknowledgmentsTo my editor, Kate Seaver—thank you for the time you spent brainstorming this book. Your ideas and insights are so helpful and I always enjoy plotting books with you.To my a...

by Deborah Hale

Bought: The Penniless Lady - Deborah HaleAuthor NoteWelcome to the second book of my new series, Gentlemen of Fortune, about the self-made men of Vindicara Trading Company! While I love reading and writing about dashing aristocr...

by Christopher McDOUGALL

Born to Run_ A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - Christopher McDOUGALLCHAPTER 1To live with ghosts requires solitude.—ANNE MICHAELS, Fugitive PiecesFOR DAYS, I’d been searching Mex...

by Jim Lynch

Border songs - Jim Lynch1EVERYONE REMEMBERED the night Brandon Vanderkool flew across the Crawfords’ snowfield and tackled the Prince and Princess of Nowhere. The story was so unusual and repeated so vividly so many times ...

by Dan Abnett

TORCHWOOD:Border Princes - Dan AbnettONEThe End of the World began on a Thursday night in October, just after eight in the evening.It began with filthy, spitting rain creeping inland from the Bristol Channel, with a black SUV ...

by Lloyd Alexander

The Book of Three - Lloyd AlexanderAuthor’s NoteTHIS CHRONICLE of the Land of Prydain is not a retelling or retranslation of Welsh mythology. Prydain is not Wales—not entirely, at least. The inspiration for it comes from...

by Gayle Lynds

The Book of Spies - Gayle LyndsACKNOWLEDGMENTSMY LIFE is full of good and supportive people, many of whom helped with the writing of this novel. I'm particularly grateful to my extraordinary agent, Lisa Erbach Vance, of the...

by Guillermo Martinez & Sonia Soto

The Book of Murder - Guillermo Martinez & Sonia SotoOneThe telephone rang one Sunday morning, tearing me from the sleep of the dead. When I answered, a voice simply said Luciana, in a weak, anxious whisper, as if it were al...

by Jane Borodale

The Book of Fires - Jane BorodaleFixed Suns1There is a regular rasp of a blade on a stone as he sharpens the knives. The blade makes a shuddery, tight noise that I feel in my teeth. It’s November, and today is the d...

by Alexandra Sokoloff

Book of Shadows - Alexandra SokoloffCHAPTER OneSeptember 22It was a vision of hell.A dismally foggy day over stinking heaps of refuse—a city landfill, the modern euphemism for an old-fashioned dump. Caterpillar trucks and front-l...

by Tess Evans

Book of Lost Threads - Tess Evans1Moss and Finn‘HELLO. DOES MICHAEL CLANCY LIVE here?’Silence. The door between them remained shut.‘Michael Clancy. Michael Finbar Clancy?’‘Who’s asking?’‘Moss...

by Lawrence Block

The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams - Lawrence BlockCHAPTEROneNot a bad-looking Burglar, he said. I don’t suppose you’d happen to have a decent Alibi?I didn’t hear the italics. They’re present not to indicat...

by Randy Singer

By Reason of Insanity - Randy SingerSpecial Copyright NoticeThe text of this book is an eBook file intended for one reader only. It may be used by that reader on computers and devices that he or she owns and uses. It may ...

by Hannah Reed

Buzz Off - Hannah ReedOneIf I hadn’t been drinking champagne at noon on Friday, I would have been over at the honey house with Manny Chapman, my beekeeping mentor and owner of Queen Bee Honey, and possibly, just possibl...

by Richard Kadrey

Butcher Bird_ A Novel of the Dominion - Richard KadreyOneAuto-da-Fé"This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top."— Barry Gifford, Wild at Heart"They say that when your head gets chopped off, it can still see a...

by George R. R. Martin

Busted Flush - George R. R. Martin1Double HelixTO THE HUNGRY SOUL, EVERYBITTER THING IS SWEETMelinda M. SnodgrassI FIND MYSELF AVOIDING the passages about ashes and worms. The pages are thin, almost feathery beneath my fingers a...

by David Rosenfelt

Bury the Lead - David Rosenfelt1AS SOON AS I WALK IN, the woman gives me the eye.This is not quite as promising a situation as it sounds. First of all, I’m in a Laundromat. The actual name is the Law-dromat, owned by...

by Angela Knight & Nalini Singh & Virginia Kantra & Meljean Brook

Burning Up - Angela Knight & Nalini Singh & Virginia Kantra & Meljean BrookWHISPER OF SINNalini SinghTo May, Jennifer, and Kay ~ I couldn’t have askedfor better friends!The San Francisco GazetteAugust 2, 2072CITY BEATTrouble...

by Ron Rash

Burning Bright - Ron Rashpart IHARD TIMESJacob stood in the barn mouth and watched Edna leave the henhouse. Her lips were pressed tight, which meant more eggs had been taken. He looked up at the ridgetop and guessed eight o&...

by Lawrence Block

Burglars Can't Be Choosers - Lawrence BlockChapterOneA handful of minutes after nine I hoisted my Bloomingdale’s shopping bag and moved out of a doorway and into step with a tall blond fellow with a faintly equine cas...

by Bill Simmons

The Book of Basketball_ The NBA According to the Sports Guy - Bill SimmonsFOREWORDMalcolm Gladwell1.Not long ago, Bill Simmons decided to lobby for the job of general manager of the Minnesota Timberwolves. If you are a regular...

by Amanda Downum

The Bone Palace - Amanda DownumPART I: CrepusculePROLOGUE496 Ab Urbe Condita (1228 Sal Emperaturi) Three years agoDeath was no stranger in Erisín. The city named for the saint of death and built on the bones of its foun...

by Christine Barber

The Bone Fire_A Mystery - Christine BarberAUTHOR’S NOTEThe Spanish words used in this book reflect New Mexico’s unique Spanish dialect and, as such, do not share all of the characteristics of the better-known, modern-d...

by Robin Burcell

The Bone Chamber- Robin Burcell1Sydney Fitzpatrick pulled out a small scale model of a crime scene from the metal cabinet at the front of the classroom, then eyed the clock by the classroom door. Nine-forty. Twenty more minute...

by Cherie Priest

Boneshaker - Cherie PriestAcknowledgmentsThis one requires many rounds of thanks, so please allow me to make a list.Thanks to my editor, Liz Gorinsky, for her superlative skills, astonishing patience, and unparalleled determination;...

by Mark Spragg

Bone Fire - Mark SpraggAcknowledgmentsMy wife, Virginia, has been unwavering in her willingness to review drafts of this book, discuss the narrative and the motivations of the characters, sweetly courageous in challenging every li...

by Kenneth Cameron

The Bohemian Girl - Kenneth CameronAcknowledgementsI am indebted to my editor, Bill Massey, for both his expertise and his having put up with me in the first place. As well, this book and several others owe much to Tim Walle...

by David Leavitt

The Body Of Jonah Boyd - David LeavittOneEVERY THANKSGIVING, THE Wrights gave a big dinner to which they invited all the graduate students—the strays, Nancy Wright called them—who happened to be marooned in Wellspring over the...

by Christopher Buecheler

The Blood That Bonds - Christopher BuechelerChapter 1Darkness and DespairVermont Street. October.Her name was Two, and she sometimes thought she could smell her death, blowing in from the cemetery that lay south of her building ...

by Asa Larsson

The Blood Spilt - Asa LarssonAUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTSRebecka Martinsson will get back on her feet, I believe in that little girl in her red Wellington boots. And remember: in my story I’m God. The characters might ma...

by Dick Francis

Bolt - Dick FrancisONEBitter February, within and without. Mood to match the weather; raw and overcast, near to freezing. I walked from the weighing room to the parade ring at Newbury races trying not to search for the face ...

by Sara Paretsky

Body Work - Sara Paretsky1Dead in the AlleyNadia Guaman died in my arms. Seconds after I left Club Gouge, I heard gunshots, screams, squealing tires, from the alley behind the building. I ran across the parking lot, slipping ...

by Scott Westerfeld

Blue noon - Scott WesterfeldAcknowledgmentsLike all books everywhere, this series has been shaped and supported by a host of readers, editors, and friends. Most especially: Liesa Abrams, Holly Black, Gwenda Bond, Eloise Flood, Cla...

by Jonathon King

blue edge of midnight, The - Jonathon KingChapter 1I was a mile upriver, my feet planted on the stained concrete dam, back bent to the task of yanking my canoe over the abutment. It was past midnight and a three-quarter moo...

by Flynn Meaney

Bloodthirsty - Flynn Meaneychapter 1Turn me, Jenny demanded, looking up at me, her eyes so intense they could have bored me into the brick wall behind me. Turn me into a vampire.Her neck was milky white, like a blank canvas...

by Jarad Henry

Blood Sunset - Jarad HenryACKNOWLEDGEMENTSBlood Sunset is the culmination of a lot of hard work and commitment fr...

by Jim Butcher

Blood Rites - Jim ButcherACKNOWLEDGMENTSI would like to thank a whole bunch of people for their continuing support, encouragement, and tolerance of me personally: June and Joy Williams at Buzzy Multimedia, Editor Jen, Agent Jen,...

by Todd Strasser

Blood on My Hands - Todd StrasserAcknowledgementsI would like to thank the following people for their contributions toward bringing this story to life:Regina Griffin, Greg Ferguson, Dr. Petra Deistler-Kaufmann, Tina Pantginis, and ...

by Greg Bear

Blood Music - Greg BearINTERPHASEEach hour, a myriad of trillions of little live things—microbes, bacteria, the peasants of nature—are born and die, not counting for much except in the bulk of their numbers and the accumulatio...

by Barb Hendee

Blood Memories - Barb Hendeechapter 1I was with Edward the day he killed himself.It happens to us sometimes, especially the old, the ones who’ve lost the joy of then and can’t quite grasp the now. I don’t kno...

by S. J. Bolton

Blood Harvest - S. J. BoltonAbout the AuthorS. J. Bolton was born in Lancashire. She is the author of two previous critically acclaimed novels, Sacrifice and Awakening, out now in paperback. Sacrifice was nominated for the Inte...

by Donna Leon

Blood from a stone - Donna Leon1Two men passed under the wooden arch that led into Campo Santo Stefano, their bodies harlequined by the coloured Christmas lights suspended above them. Brighter light splashed from the stalls of...

by Darren Shan

Blood Beast - Darren ShanPART ONE: LochDamn The SandmanMY hands are red with blood. I’m running through a forest. Naked, but I don’t care. I’m an animal, not a human. Animals don’t need clothes.Blood on m...

by Julia Franck

The blind side of the heart - Julia FranckPrologueAseagull stood on the windowsill, uttering its cry, as if the Baltic itself were in its throat, high as the foaming crests of the waves, keen, sky-coloured, its call died away...

by Katrina Kittle

The Blessings of the Animals_ A Novel - Katrina KittleChapter OneON THE MORNING MY HUSBAND LEFT ME, HOURS BEFORE I knew he would, I looked at the bruised March sky and recognized tornado green.I’d seen that peculiar alga...

by John Saul

The Blackstone Chronicles - John SaulDear Reader,Over the past twenty years, it has been my pleasure to entertain you with books relating tales of terror and mayhem. But, as I’m sure you’ve suspected, there are at l...

by Brent Weeks

The Black Prism - Brent WeeksChapter 1Kip crawled toward the battlefield in the darkness, the mist pressing down, blotting out sound, scattering starlight. Though the adults shunned it and the children were forbidden to come her...

by Dan Morrison

The Black Nile - Dan MorrisonCHAPTER ONEAh, the Nile. What hasn’t been said of it?—Maria Golia, Cairo: City of SandThe deacon grabbed me as I rounded a corner of the covered market near Old Kampala. His wide eyes were...

by Martin Solares

The Black Minutes - Martin SolaresBOOK ONE YOUR MEMORY HAS A THOUSAND GAPS1The first time he saw the journalist, he reckoned him to be twenty years old and he was wrong. The journalist, from his perspective, reckoned the plai...

by Haruki Murakami

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki MurakamiINTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH EDITIONTo put it in the simplest possible terms, I find writing novels a challenge, writing short stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a for...