August 2010 On Sale: August 17, 2010 Featuring: Adam Frawley; Doug MacRay; Claire Keesey 400 pages ISBN: 1439196508 EAN: 9781439196502 Paperback (reprint) $16.00 Add to Wish List Fiction Media Tie-In, Thriller Crime, Suspense Buy at Amazon.com What if you had to chose between family and freedom The Town by Chuck Hogan Previously published as PRINCE OF THIEVES The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the bank manager. She nervously recites the alarm code, and the tumblers within the huge vault fall. The timing and execution are brilliant. It could be the perfect heist. But as the huge sum of cash is stolen, so too is one man’s heart — and that man is the Prince of Thieves… Charlestown, a blue-collar Boston neighborhood, produces more bank robbers and armored car thieves than any square mile in the world. In this gripping, intricately plotted thriller, Claire Keesey, the branch manager for a Boston bank and one of an influx of young professionals chipping away at the neighborhood’s insularity, is taken hostage during a robbery. She is released, but Doug MacRay, the brains behind the tough, tight-knit crew of thieves, can’t get her out of his mind. Tracking her down without…
How To Train Your Dragon #1 February 2010 On Sale: February 1, 2010 Featuring: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III 240 pages ISBN: 0316085278 EAN: 9780316085274 Paperback (reprint) $5.99 Add to Wish List Childrens Buy at Amazon.com There are big expectations if you’re the son of the viking king How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell Now a major motion picture Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn’t always like that. In fact, in the beginning, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the most put upon Viking you’d ever seen. Not loud enough to make himself heard at dinner with his father, Stoick the Vast; not hard enough to beat his chief rival, Snotlout, at Bashyball, the number one school sport and CERTAINLY not stupid enough to go into a cave full of dragons to find a pet… It’s time for Hiccup to learn how to be a Hero. Excerpt 1. FIRST CATCH YOUR DRAGON Long ago, on the wild and windy isle of Berk, a smallish Viking with a longish name stood up to his ankles in snow. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, the Hope and Heir…
November 2010 On Sale: October 26, 2010 Featuring: Aron Ralston 448 pages ISBN: 1451617704 EAN: 9781451617702 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Non-Fiction Memoir Buy at Amazon.com Buy / Stream 127 Hours film What would you do? 127 Hours by Aron Ralston A major motion picture nominated for OSCAR The International Bestseller Between a Rock and a Hard Place–Now the Major Motion Picture 127 Hours Hiking into the remote Utah canyonlands, Aron Ralston felt perfectly at home in the beauty of the natural world. Then, at 2:41 P.M., eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, an eight-hundred-pound boulder tumbled loose, pinning Aron’s right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. Through six days of hell, with scant water, food, or warm clothing, and the terrible knowledge that no one knew where he was, Aron eliminated his escape option one by one. Then a moment of stark clarity helped him to solve the riddle of the boulder–and commit one of the most extreme and desperate acts imaginable. Honest, inspiring, and undeniably astonishing, 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place has taken its place in the annals of classic adventure stories. Excerpt Fraying contrails streak…
Deluxe Edition February 2011 On Sale: February 1, 2011 Featuring: Nicolas Sinclair; Laney Parks 292 pages ISBN: 0983034001 EAN: 9780983034001 Trade Size $15.00 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Love on a cruise Love Script by Tiffany Ashley A New Book with a Track Record Determined to land a huge advertising account for his company, Nicolas Sinclair get a LITTLE carried away and tells the potential client he’s married and about to celebrate his first anniversary. Now, Nick has a serious problem – he has agreed to a high-stakes cruise with this important client and must find a willing “wife” to join him. Laney Parks is either in the wrong place at the wrong time, or the right place at the right time – She isn’t sure which. She isn’t even entirely sure how she got roped into posing as her hunky boss’s wife. She find “sticking to the script” SERIOUSLY unnerving, especially when it involves cuddling up and kissing in public – and sharing the close confines of a cabin – and its single bed – with him. Witty and fun story with just the right amount of romance. Previous Picks
January 2011 On Sale: December 21, 2010 Featuring: Roar 336 pages ISBN: 0061715808 EAN: 9780061715808 Hardcover $16.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Summer of love and chickens All You Get Is Me by Yvonne Prinz What happens when a city girl is transplanted onto a ramshackle organic farm in the middle of nowhere? Everything. Sixteen-year-old Roar has been yanked from her city life and suddenly she’s a farm girl, albeit a reluctant one, selling figs at the farmers’ market and developing her photographs in a rickety shed. And then she witnesses a crime that will throw the whole community into an uproar. Caught among the lure of a troublemaking friend, her love for a brooding boy, and her complicated feelings about her father’s human rights crusade, Roar is going to have to tackle it all. And with a camera around her neck, she’s capturing it all, too. Excerpt Thirteen black and white photos of the accident hang across the clothesline in my dark room like crime scene laundry. The last one is still in the developing solution. I push it around with the rubber tipped bamboo tongs as the image comes into focus. It’s the overturned SUV resting…
February 2011 On Sale: February 1, 2011 Featuring: Lilah Young; Brady Miller 304 pages ISBN: 0425239810 EAN: 9780425239810 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Puppy love Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis Co-owner of the town’s only kennel, Lilah Young has lived in Sunshine, Idaho, all her life. Pilot-for-hire Brady Miller is just passing through. But he soon has Lilah abandoning her instincts and giving in to a primal desire. It’s Brady’s nature to resist being tied down, but there’s something about Lilah and her menagerie that keeps him coming back for more. SMALL TOWN ROMANCE WITH ADORABLE ANIMALS AND THE WOMAN WHO LOVES THEM Excerpt Excerpt #1 “Legend says that if you take a moonlight dip, you’ll supposedly find your one true love.” “Of course.” He nodded. “It’s always midnight. So, do you swim often?” “Never at midnight.” He couldn’t help it, he laughed. With a slow shake of her head and a smile curving her mouth, she reached out and touched a finger to his curved lips. “You’re a cynic,” she chided. It’d been a long time since someone had touched him, unexpected or otherwise. A very long time, and he wrapped…
January 2010 On Sale: January 1, 2010 384 pages ISBN: 0061894451 EAN: 9780061894459 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Paranormal, Romance Anthology Buy at Amazon.com “Other” Cupid stories Bitten by Cupid by Jaime Rush, Pamela Palmer, Lynsay Sands New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands and Avon Books rising stars Pamela Palmer and Jaime Rush bring readers Valentine’s Day tales with a bite. Vampire Valentine by Lynsay Sands Mirabeau LaRouche knew she had a job to do, but she never expected her assignment to take her through New York CityŒs dark, dank underground-in her bridesmaid gown, no less! And when her partner turns out to be mortal private investigator Tiny McGraw, Mireabeau knows itŒs no ordinary CupidŒs arrow that has struck her heart this ValentineŒs Day. Hearts Untamed by Pamela Palmer Ten years ago Zeeland left D.C. to join the Therian Guard, needing to put some distance between himself and the still- too-young Julianne. Now he’s returned, in the midst of a Valentine’s celebration to find Julianne more beautiful than ever, still angry at him for leaving, and up to her lovely eyebrows in an intrigue that threatens both of their immortal lives. Kiss and Kill Cupid by…
February 2011 On Sale: February 4, 2011 Featuring: Jessica Bowman; Chad Martin 288 pages ISBN: 037387653X EAN: 9780373876532 Paperback $5.50 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary, Inspirational Fiction Romance Buy at Amazon.com Sometimes forgiving can be the best Valentine’s gift. Her Valentine Family by Renee Andrews Chad Martin has had his share of lies and deceit. The only bright spot, the sun in each and every day, is his beautiful toddler, Lainey. Then he runs into his first love on the Stockville College campus. Seeing Jessica reminds him of what is missing in his life. Jess had always been the type of woman he could love, honest and trustworthy. And his feelings from the past are still very much alive in the present. Jessica Bowman has returned home after six years away, but she hasn’t returned alone. Her adorable five-year-old Nathan is by her side and ready to start life in “Mommy’s town.” But Jessica doesn’t realize that her first love has also returned to Claremont, and she has no idea that he’s an instructor at the college where she’s taking classes. More than that, Jessica is now faced with the dilemma of explaining to Chad why she left so…
Blue Bloods February 2011 On Sale: December 28, 2010 192 pages ISBN: 1423134494 EAN: 9781423134497 Hardcover $14.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Even vamps fall in love… Bloody Valentine by Melissa De La Cruz Vampires have powers beyond human comprehension: strength that defies logic, speed that cannot be captured on film, the ability to shapeshift and more. But in matters of the heart, no one, not even the strikingly beautiful and outrageously wealthy Blue Bloods, has total control. In Bloody Valentine, bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz offers readers a new story about the love lives of their favorite vamps – the passion and heartache, the hope and devastation, the lust and longing. Previous Picks
October 2010 On Sale: October 14, 2010 Featuring: Callie Moore; Derek McNear 118 pages ISBN: 1453874186 EAN: 9781453874189 Paperback $5.49 Add to Wish List Romance Erotica Sensual Buy at Amazon.com A sexy romp as a Valentine treat Candy Store by Bella Andre On the verge of losing her candy store, Callie Moore decides to blot out her troubles with a tall, dark, handsome stranger. Derek McNear isn’t about to turn down a cute, curvy blonde who offers sizzling-hot sex in a commercial refrigerator at his best friend’s wedding reception. But the next day, when Callie discovers that Derek is the consultant she has hired to save her store, they find it difficult to concentrate on business. Especially when giving and getting pleasure in each other’s arms is so much more fun! Previous Picks