August 2010 On Sale: July 27, 2010 Featuring: AJ Ashe 288 pages ISBN: 0061430994 EAN: 9780061430992 Hardcover $8.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Save the world and plan the prom! Love Sucks! by Melissa Francis AJ Ashe may have gotten rid of her vampire stalker and her evil ex-teacher, but things are hardly back to normal. For one thing, she still has to maintain a strict look-but-don’t-touch policy with Ryan, her hot ex-boyfriend-turned-stepbrother. For another, she has to learn to control her vampire superpowers—which means more than a few dates with Lex, mind-reading professional vampire trainer and too-sexy-for-his-own-good bad boy. And as if that’s not enough, she happens to be the key to her father’s plans to take over the world . . . and he’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. All this and she’s still got to plan the prom. Being a teenager is tough, but being a teenage vampire just flat out sucks! Teen angst complicated with paranormal abilities provides lots of surprises and tension. Previous Picks
January 2011 On Sale: January 1, 2011 Featuring: Lizzie Bennet; Charles Bingley; Will Darcy 288 pages ISBN: 0545240778 EAN: 9780545240772 Hardcover $17.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Welcome spring and thoughts of PROM! Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg After winter break, the girls at the very prestigious Longbourn Academy become obsessed with the prom. Lizzie Bennet, who attends Longbourn on a scholarship, isn’t interested in designer dresses and expensive shoes, but her best friend, Jane, might be — especially now that Charles Bingley is back from a semester in London. Lizzie is happy about her friend’s burgeoning romance but less than impressed by Charles’s friend, Will Darcy, who’s snobby and pretentious. Darcy doesn’t seem to like Lizzie either, but she assumes it’s because her family doesn’t have money. Clearly, Will Darcy is a pompous jerk — so why does Lizzie find herself drawn to him anyway? Will Lizzie’s pride and Will’s prejudice keep them apart? Or are they a prom couple in the making? Whatever the result, Elizabeth Eulberg, author of The Lonely Hearts Club, has concocted a very funny, completely stylish delight for any season — prom or otherwise. This hysterical rendition of…
February 2010 On Sale: February 1, 2010 Featuring: Joyce Conway; Justin Hitchcock 384 pages ISBN: 0061706248 EAN: 9780061706240 Paperback (reprint) $14.99 Add to Wish List Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Emotional and touching, filled with second chances Thanks For The Memories by Cecelia Ahern How is it possible to know someone you’ve never met? With her marriage already in pieces, Joyce Conway nearly lost everything else. But she survived the terrible accident that left her hospitalized-and now, inexplicably, she can remember faces she has never seen, cobblestone Parisian streets she’s never visited. A sudden, overwhelming sense of déjà vu has Joyce feeling as if her life is not her own. Justin Hitchcock’s decision to donate blood was the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time. He chased his ex-wife and daughter from Chicago to London-and now, restless and lonely, he lectures to bored college students in Dublin. But everything is about to change with the arrival of a basket of muffins with a thank-you note enclosed-the first in a series of anonymous presents that will launch Justin into the heart of a mystery…and alter two lives forever. Excerpt Chapter One “Blood transfusion,” Dr. Fields…
March 2011 On Sale: March 1, 2011 Featuring: Noel; Lisa; Frankie 384 pages ISBN: 0307273563 EAN: 9780307273567 Hardcover $26.99 Add to Wish List Fiction, Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Another Irish classic Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community. When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she’s born. But as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can’t do it alone. Fortunately, he has a competent, caring network of friends, family and neighbors: Lisa, his unlucky-in-love classmate, who moves in with him to help him care for little Frankie around the clock; his American cousin, Emily, always there with a pep talk; the newly retired Dr. Hat, with more time on his hands than he knows what to do with; Dr. Declan and Fiona and their baby son, Frankie’s first friend; and many eager babysitters, including old friends Signora and Aidan and Frankie’s doting grandparents, Josie and Charles. But not everyone is pleased with the unconventional arrangement, especially a nosy social…
February 2011 On Sale: January 25, 2011 Featuring: Abby Sinclair 384 pages ISBN: 1439198322 EAN: 9781439198322 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com Humorous Urban Fantasy, with unicorn A Brush of Darkness by Allison Pang She has no idea what lurks beneath the shadows… A fun and exciting dark urban fantasy debut featuring a young woman who finds herself involved in a series of supernatural kidnappings and must work with a sexy incubus to keep the victims—and herself— from vanishing forever. Six months ago, twenty-six-year-old Abby Sinclair was struggling to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Now, she has an enchanted iPod and a miniature unicorn living in her underwear drawer. With her lack of OtherWorldly knowledge, Abby needs all the help she can get. So when her Faery employer and some of her friends go missing, she must team up with the sexy and mysterious incubus who’s been haunting her dreams. As Abby’s sucked deeper and deeper into this dangerous world she barely knows—filled with daemons, angels, and faeries—she finds herself trapped at the center of it all. And she might not be able to escape. Enchanting, Exciting and Hilarious Debut…
Sister Fidelma Mystery #18 November 2010 On Sale: October 26, 2010 Featuring: Brother Eadulf; Sister Fidelma of Cashel 384 pages ISBN: 0312551207 EAN: 9780312551209 Hardcover $25.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Buy at Amazon.com Ancient Ireland — engaging series of mysteries The Dove of Death by Peter Tremayne In A.D. 670, an Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the southern coast of the Breton peninsula. Merchad, the ship’s captain, and Bressal, a prince from the Irish kingdom of Muman, are killed in cold blood after they have surrendered. Among the other passengers who manage to escape the slaughter are Fidelma of Cashel and her faithful companion, Brother Eadulf. Once safely ashore, Fidelma—sister to the King of Muman and an advocate of the Brehon law courts—is determined to bring the killers to justice, not only because her training demands it but also because one of the victims was her cousin. The only clue to the killer’s identity is the symbol of the dove on the attacking ship’s sails, a clue that leads her on a dangerous quest to confront the man known as The Dove of Death. Excerpt Chapter One Fidelma of Cashel leaned easily against the…
Inspector Benedict Devlin #3 September 2010 On Sale: September 14, 2010 Featuring: Inspector Benedict Devlin 304 pages ISBN: 0312599471 EAN: 9780312599478 Hardcover $24.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Buy at Amazon.com We’re all Irish on 3/17, so begins our books set in Ireland week. A good solid police procedural. Bleed A Deep River by Brian McGilloway The third book in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Devlin series When a U. S. diplomat is attacked during the opening of a Donegal gold mine, Inspector Benedict Devlin is disciplined for the lapse in security. The gunman turns out to be an environmentalist who is the brother of an old friend of Devlin’s. Then the shooter is found dead near the mine and Devlin begins to suspect that the business is a front for something far more sinister Excerpt Chapter One Friday, 29 September ‘They’ve uncovered a body out at the new mine.’ It took me a few seconds to realize the speaker was addressing me. I looked up from my desk to where Superintendent Harry Patterson loomed over me. ‘Excuse me?’ ‘They’ve dug up a body out at the mine,’ he said irritably. ‘We’re going out there. It’s a dead body,’ he explained,…
Dark-Hunters #2 September 2010 On Sale: September 14, 2010 Featuring: Talon; Sunshine Runningwolf 416 pages ISBN: 0312653832 EAN: 9780312653835 Hardcover (reprint) $24.99 Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Classic Dark-Hunter. Night Embrace by Sherrilyn Kenyon Special Release Dear Reader, Life is great for me. I have my chicory coffee, my warm beignets, and my best friend on the cell phone. Once the sun goes down, I am the baddest thing prowling the night: I command the elements, and I know no fear. For centuries, I’ve protected the innocent and watched over the mankind, making sure they are safe in a world where nothing is ever certain. All I want in return is a hot babe in a red dress, who wants nothing more from me then one night. Instead, I get a runaway Mardi Gras float that tries to turn me into roadkill and a beautiful woman who saves my life but can’t remember where she put my pants. Flamboyant and extravagant, Sunshine Runningwolf should be the perfect woman for me. She wants nothing past tonight, no ties, no long-term commitments. But every time I look at her, I start yearning for dreams that I buried centuries…
Court of Angels #1 March 2010 On Sale: March 1, 2010 Featuring: Marley Millet; Gray Fisher 400 pages ISBN: 0778327620 EAN: 9780778327622 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal, Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Suspense with a touch of paranormal brings the French Quarter alive. Out of Body by Stella Cameron Born of an ancient family of clairvoyants, Marley Millet finds that her psychic gift is both unsettling and incredibly dangerous. She never wants to “travel” again—but the choice is not hers to make. After glimpsing the fates of two missing New Orleans jazz singers, Marley knows she has no choice and must speak up before more women disappear. Flinty cop-turned-writer Gray Fisher, who interviewed both chanteuses before they vanished, takes a special interest in Marley’s incredible story—and in Marley. Scouring the wild clubs of the French Quarter, Marley and Gray make an unlikely and uneasy team. But their determination is matched only by the heat between them…and the evil they have uncovered. This chilling new paranormal series takes romantic suspense to a new level of merit. Excerpt Chapter 1 A woman would die. Unless Marley Millet could find the victim, and quickly, it would be too…
Sabina Kane #3 March 2011 On Sale: March 1, 2011 Featuring: Sabina 352 pages ISBN: 031603777X EAN: 9780316037778 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com Sabina has no regrets as she explores NOLA, prepare for an action-packed experience Green-Eyed Demon by Jaye Wells Things to do: 1. Rescue sister. 2. Murder grandmother. 3. Don’t upset the voodoo priestess. The clock is ticking for Sabina Kane. Her sister has been kidnapped by her grandmother, the Dark Races are on the brink of war, and a mysterious order is manipulating everyone behind the scenes. Working on information provided by an unlikely ally, Sabina and her trusty sidekicks—a sexy mage named Adam Lazarus and Giguhl, a Mischief demon—head to New Orleans to begin the hunt for her sister. Once there, they must contend with belligerent werewolves, magic-wielding vampires and—perhaps most frightening of all—humans. But as much as Sabina is focused on surviving the present, the past won’t be ignored. Before she can save those she cares about most, she must save herself from the ghosts of her past. You are going to have a great time with this Green-Eyed Demon, as long as you live through it. Excerpt CHAPTER…

