WILDLY INDEPENDENT, SHE'S NOT ONE FOR PACK MENTALITY.On the outside, Sophie Garou is living every woman's dream: she has beauty, brains, and a big-time position in Austin's most respected accounting firm (not to mention a very sexy, v...

Meet the Sunshine girls—three mischievous sisters out to clear their father's name…and maybe get a little romance on the side.Hollywood darling Jolie Sunshine is accustomed to trashy headlines. But the shocking gossip surrou...

Alan Moore, like Neil Gaiman, constantly flirts with the too-smart-for-his-own-good aesthetic without alienating his readers. Promethea weaves Moore's trademark scholarly mysticism with wild, fun swipes at post-everything culture in...

Bestselling author of Fight Club, master of literary mayhem and provocation, Chuck Palahniuk is the only American writer who could possibly craft a book like Snuff.In the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men m...

The spectacularly successful move A Night at the Museum was a fantastic look at the off-hours wonders of the American Museum of Natural History. However, some of the real behind-the-scenes stories are more fantastic than anything a...

When sci-fi author Naomi Gibson is told to spice up her books, she sees her career spiraling into oblivion. Her agent tells her the name of the game in women's fiction is hot, raw, give-it-to-me-now, don't-make-me-hurt-you, boy, sex a...

Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds--everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she's being eaten. M...

The Chairman has been slaughtered, along with Hell’s first almost-successful attempt at creating an Anti-Christ, using Carlos Rivera’s body-double. Dante’s son has also been vanquished. Now the evil Lilith sits on Da...

This gritty coming-of-age novel by cartoonist Lynda Barry is about Roberta Rohbeson, age 16, daughter of a white mother and a black father, who is trying to get through eighth grade without going crazy. Roberta recalls a trip she took...

There's not much...to complain of in this pungent, airy, grave and transporting commedia dell'arte....The author plays a neat hide and seek, concealing large matters inside small ones....Mr. Cameron's largest achievement, however, is ...

Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-centur...

In this comic romance, fortyish divorcee Sarah Hurlihy starts a relationship with an unlikely man whom she meets through a personal ad. Meanwhile, Sarah's divorced dad and married brother each have their own relationship travails, and...

Meet Mel: Business owner. Dedicated mom. Natural-born Amazon.It's been ten years since Melanippe Saka left the Amazon tribe in order to create a normal life for her daughter, Harmony. True, running a tattoo parlor in Madison, Wisconsi...

In whimsical survey of human history, the author of A Treasury of Great American Scandals looks back at some of the greatest deceptions of all times, from the forged document that the Vatican used to lay claim to much of Europe, to th...

A Matter of Duty By Elizabeth Jewell Sequel to A Matter of Faces in the Shifting Faces anthology. A little over two years ago, Piper met Trey, a shapeshifter, who impersonated her dead boyfriend and then led her on the adventure of a ...

While caring for her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, and running the family cafe, Marisa, along with the town's nine other residents, is stunned when Agua Dulce is sold on eBay to a real estate developer who is determine...

When agent Kelly John Beach, an agent with the Smithson Group, is accidentally caught on video surveillance while breaking into a building owned by the notorious crime syndicate Spectra IT, the SG team comes up with a scheme to replac...

Agatha Christie, move over! Hard-core sex and scandal meet in this brilliantly funny whodunit.A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective R...

A gentleman and a very improper lady are bound together by a passion that crosses the line between upper class and underworld in Caroline Linden's daring new romance... What A Rogue Desires. After a wayward youth, David Reece, the you...

Surrounded by scandal during the London season, defiant beauty Morgan Beckett meets the perfect man in Ethan Tanner, Earl of Aylesford, but when he asks for her hand in marriage, she discovers that he has a hidden agenda--one that cha...

For archaeologist Ben Kazin and wealthy adventurer Louren Sturvesant an expedition to Africa to find the long-lost, legendary, ancient Egyptian city of Opet leads to a nightmare as a remarkable discover, an act of betrayal, and a two-...

Independent and headstrong, Elizabeth of Bredon wants only to become a nun, but her journey to the convent of St. Anne's threatens her choice. IIt's not the escort of holy friars who tempt her, but the man they are taking to do penanc...

This speculative fiction thriller puts a furry, bloody spin on racism by taking place in a world where 99.6% of the population are "lycos," turning into violent beasts at the full moon. The despised remainder of the populati...

Growing up in Valentine, Texas, can make anyone believe in happily ever after. But newly declared recovering romantic Rachael Henderson has decided that love stinks. After having not one but two grooms ditch her at the altar, she an...

Rebecca York continues her thrilling paranormal series that started with Beyond Control. Blessed with uncanny psychic abilities, Anna Ridgeway now uses her gift in a mind-reading nightclub act. But when she meets treasure hunter Zach...

To protect one man, she must risk the vengeance of many... A freed slave from a parallel universe, Quinn has come to this world on a vital mission. But she's stopped in her tracks by the seductive attentions of a mysterious spirit. ...

In the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, you'll find plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells, and even a few celebs trying to duck the paparazzi. But when murder joins this curious community, the Bayside Book Writers are ...

Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people of southern Sweden. Narrative combines mythical elements, Christian and pagan sensibilities, actual historical fig...

In BRICK LANE, after an arranged marriage, Nazneen moves with her much older husband, Chanu, from Bangladesh to London, where over the years she manages to make a place for herself in spite of her husband's inability to cope. As she g...

Three sinfully seductive short stories, filled with exciting passion and decadent desire, feature Lucinda Bett's 'The Bet,' in which Zoe loses a high-stakes wager, which forces her to become a co-worker's sex slave for twenty-four hou...