A New York Times Bestseller with thirty-one international sales, soon to be a major motion picture from New Line Cinema!

He holds the secret that can end the world.

Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. As history has it, he was a poorly paid bookseller who became amazingly wealthy almost overnight. He founded hospitals, funded churches, and built houses for the poor. Nearly 700 years later he is also acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret to eternal life.

The records show him dying in 1418. But his tomb is empty.

Sometimes legends are real.

And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time. Humankind won’t know what’s happening until it’s too late. And if the prophesy is right, the twins are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it.

Nicholas Flammel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for nearly 700 years. The secret to eternal life is hidden within the book he protects—the Book of Abraham the Mage. It’s the most powerful book to ever exist. And in the wrong hands it will destroy the world completely.

It’s this book that was snatched out of Josh’s hands by Dr. John Dee. The same Dr. John Dee who was the court magician to Queen Elizabeth the first 400 year ago. And he plans on using it to restore the Dark Elders to power once more.

The twins have 30 days to find the book. The barrier between myth and reality is beginning to blur and Sophie and Josh must fight some of the most powerful magic in history to prevent our world from ripping at the seams.

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Red Helmet
by Homer Hickam

During the Sago Mine accident, Homer Hickam was asked by miners’ families to give the keynote remarks at their memorial services.  Perhaps reflecting upon that tragedy, the creator of October Sky has crafted a new novel about a New Yorker turned coal miner’s wife.  Former businesswoman Song Hawkins is just beginning to adjust to the quirks of rural life in Highcoal when she is forced to put on the Red Helmet of a novice miner to save her husband and his beloved town.  Red Helmet examines sacrifice in relationships with Hickam’s trademark humor.  Red Helmet was published by Thomas Nelson Books.

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The Far Reaches
by Homer Hickam

At the outset of The Far Reaches, the year is 1943 and World War II in the Pacific rages on, with Americans engaged in desperate battles against a cruel and cunning enemy. Coast Guard Captain Josh Thurlow is on hand at the invasion of Tarawa, as the United States Navy begins the grand strategy of throwing her marines at island after bloody island across the Pacific. But nothing goes as planned as young Americans go up against determined, fanatical defenders who revel in snipers, big guns and human wave attacks compressed onto tiny battlefields from which there is no escape save death.

Hickam expertly weaves the adventures of these hot-blooded characters tighter and tighter until the Sister's secrets and sins are finally revealed during a horrific battle in the lair of the warlord. With an incredible eye for historical detail, edge-of-your-seat writing, and the talent of a master storyteller, Homer Hickam delivers another page-turning tour de force.

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God Don't Like Ugly
by Mary Monroe

National Bestseller

Mary Monroe brings to life the bond between two girls from opposite sides of the track – and the shattering event that changes their lives forever. In this coming-of-age story, Annette Goode is an overweight child with a bad case of low self-esteem. Fatherless, poor, and repeatedly raped by her mother's lodger, she suffers in silence until she makes a friend of Rhoda Nelson, who helps her speak up for herself.

Set on the streets, porches, and parlors of 1960’s and ‘70s Ohio, God Don't Like Ugly resonates with clear-eyed wit and uncompromising honesty. Readers will find it full of laughter, inspiration and pure enjoyment.

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Falling Out of Fashion
by Karen Yampolsky

As a teenager at a prestigious prep school, Jill White studied her roommate's magazines, filled with airbrushed-beyond-recognition photos of whisper-thin blondes who hadn't finished a meal since third grade. She dreamed of one day starting a magazine of her own that would feature women of all sizes and colors - smart, witty, real women with aspirations beyond tinier thighs and shinier hair.

Flash forward several years and a couple of giant leaps up the career ladder to Jill Magazine, which is a huge hit. Mega-successful Nestrom Media takes over Jill's parent company, which allows Jill to rest assured that her magazine and lifestyle - complete with free designer clothes, celebrity friends, and a shamelessly huge salary - will be protected.

However, the ashes from the postcoital cigarette have barely hit the floor before Jill's new boss starts barking about getting ad revenue up and toning down risque articles in favor of fluff pieces with the reality star du jour. What smelled like team spirit devolves into a bitter game of manipulation and back-stabbing. With her name, her creation and her future all on the line, Jill realizes mean girls don't get left behind in high school - they grow up and work in publishing...

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Echo
by C.L. Kelly

After her disastrous attempt at perfumery, Cassie decides that a camping getaway with the Fergusons and their deaf son, Cody, is just what she needs. It isn’t long, however, before Cassie notes Cody’s distress and insecurity. She urges him to explore and bolsters his confidence, only to have him disappear! With bears in the vicinity and the threat of severe weather on the horizon, Cassie must find Cody before it’s too late and help him believe in God’s plan for him. But someone in the throes of evil may stand in her way…

Echo is the second of C.L. Kelly’s Sensations series of thrillers related to the five senses. This engrossing series reveals spiritual truths through its highly tactile characters’ experiences with sight, scent, sound, taste, and touch. Echo was published by Zondervan.

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A Person of Interest
by Ernest Hill

Recently widowed Felicia Fontenot, who has returned home to Brownsville, Tennessee, to care for her elderly mother, looks out her bedroom window early one morning and sees that the house across the street has become a crime scene. Her neighbor, Luther Jackson, has come home to find the bodies of his wife and son both burned beyond recognition after being doused with gasoline. Having secretly loved Luther for more than 20 years, Felicia has a powerful urge to comfort him and proclaim his innocence, even though Luther is the prime suspect in the double murder. Harboring a shameful secret, Luther does little to defend himself. His aunt, Daphne Gipson, perplexed by his silence, enlists Felicia's aid in uncovering the truth.

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Derelict
by Relentless Aaron and 50 Cent

His freedom came with a price.

Who's gonna hire an ex-con? That's just one question facing Jamel Ross after he is released from seven years in the Federal Pen. But that's not his only problem. There's a probation officer watching his every move. There are the women in his life, who all want a part of him - his girlfriends and one very sexy psychologist who worked overtime on Jamel in prison. Then there's the payback plan he's been dreaming of, getting revenge on those who put him away. It's a fine line between winning and losing, and Jamel must decide if the world will forever see him as a derelict, or if he will rise above the past. But someone has an agenda of his own - and he's ready to take Jamel down at any price.

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Down and Dirty: Another Landlord's Tale
by Gammy Singer

Landlord Amos Brown hasn’t been nicknamed Harlem Don for nothing. Ever since he inherited two brownstones from his estranged father, he ended his life of crime and began to take on the weight of his neighbor's problems, a wrenching habit that makes for sleepless – not to mention solitary – nights. However, now he can make a difference instead of being part of the problem. Yet just when he starts settling into his life as a landlord, his friend and mentor Deacon Steadwell is accused of murder. Amos is determined to release the ailing 83-year-old from jail. He doesn’t have the money to put up, but he’s got his brownstones.

No sooner has he secured Deacon’s release than the old man suddenly recovers and disappears – leaving Amos and his property in serious jeopardy. To find the answers he needs, he has to delve back into the streets. When someone else is murdered, Amos discovers that he is only a small part of a bigger picture. A surprising foe is threatening his beloved Harlem – can he save it? Down and Dirty was published in March 2006 by Kensington.

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A Meal to Die For
by Joseph Gannascoli with Allen C. Kupfer

Benny Lacoco, “the Food Fence”, has a lot of time to think while preparing a ten-course meal for a few old friends. Over dinner, he expects to learn if he’ll be either permanently out of touch or on the outs with some of them. Rumors indicate that someone in their circle may have opted to turn state’s evidence and enter witness protection. Lacoco uses the time in the kitchen to reflect on his own life up to this point and the tentativeness of his own future.

Included with each course (recipe included) is a flashback of his life’s turning points - from heisting Omaha Steaks, to scamming olive oil, to a quite different way of performing a hit.

And always in the back of his mind is the question - will this evening provide him with the just desserts of a life of crime?

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Dragonfrigate Wizard Halcyon Blithe
by James M. Ward

His yeoman voyage now behind him, Blithe must now accept new responsibilities as he ascends to the rank of Dragonfrigate Wizard Halcyon Blithe.

In the latest chapter of the young wizard’s nautical education he finds himself second in command of a captured enemy vessel that must engage a demonship in combat before returning to port. Upon his return he is assigned duty on a dwarven dragonship where he and his shipmates encounter the deceit of politics and diplomacy before they can regain the security of their Arcanian dragonship and the company of their trusted crewmates.

Combining elements of Hornblower with Harry Potter, and Robert Louis Stevenson with Robin Hobb, the Halcyon Blithe are nautical tales rich in magic and intrigue set against a panorama of fantastic naval battles as we follow the career of a young midshipwizard as he moves up through the ranks of His Majesty's Navy.

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Confidential Sources
by Barbara Fischkin

Confidential Sources is a satiric romantic comedy about love, marriage, parenting, journalism, foreign correspondents, international intrigue, autism and ice hockey. Ultimately, it's about how two people make a family, despite the distractions of wars at home and abroad. And how, on shakier ground, they maintain romance, too. Confidential Sources also looks at the fine line between fact and fiction. The protagonists are named Barbara Fischkin and Jim Mulvaney, as in real life, but they are fictional alter egos and the book is prominently labeled as a novel. Although Confidential Sources can be read on its own, it is a sequel to Barbara Fischkin's first novel, Exclusive. She is currently working on a book of narrative nonfiction for which she will follow her son Daniel as he continues to battle autism while entering adulthood and the world of work and community living. She is also the author of Muddy Cup: A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America.

Early praise for Confidential Sources: "I think this is even better than the last one, by the way. Depth and substance. You pulled it together admirably, with humor and guts. Good going." Peter Eisner, author and Deputy Foreign Editor, Washington Post

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Sins & Secrets
by Carolyn Chambers Sanders

In the bestselling tradition of Nikki Turner, this self-published Essence bestseller is about one woman’s determination to get to the top of the game – and stay there.

Candice, Amber and Toi are three young black women who have risen above life on the streets. Successful entrepreneurs, they’re all at the top of their game - but money and success don’t always equal happiness. Candice enters the world of professional sports, where numerous affairs will force her to question herself and what she wants out of life. When an old lover bullies Candice with past indiscretions, she will do anything to keep her previous life a secret. Now, her friends are in trouble, too, as an abusive boyfriend threatens Amber’s well-being and Toi discovers her fiancé’s dark secret. The three soul sisters must evaluate how much of their lives have left the streets, and how much remains…

“A brilliant, sensational novel… sexy as sin.” --Teri Woods, author of True to the Game

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The Finest Challenge
by Jean Rabe

They were the Finest Creations - mystically forged creatures of perfection sent by the creators to aid the Fallen (mankind) during their mortal existence. Though they resemble ordinary horses they are highly intelligent, capable of communicating telepathically, and completely moral. They are assigned to bond with individuals of great potential and to protect them from harm while guiding them along a path of virtue.

Kalantha has successfully rescued her brother from the shadow of the evil bishop's bellicose influence, but now finds herself cut off from both him and her Finest protector, Gallant Stallion. All three must race against the clock to curtail the unnecessary war that the Bishop’s minions have engineered. And, still lurking in the shadows and prowling the night skies is the avian menace whose dreams of a carrion-strewn countryside can still come through if their equine nemesis is neutralized.

The Finest series combines elements of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series with C.S. Lewis’s Narnia to tell an inspiring tale of moral and mystical intrigue.

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Letting Loose
by Joanne Skerrett

Heroine Amelia Wilson takes a break from her life as a Boston school teacher when she begins emailing Drew, a guy her friends met while vacationing on a tiny Caribbean island. Little does she know, her life is about to change drastically.

When spring break arrives and Drew invites Amelia to visit him, she takes him up on his offer and soon finds herself caught up in a whirlwind romance. Drew invites Amelia to spend the summer with him, and she happily accepts. With sun-kissed days and tropical nights with Drew, Amelia's life is far from predictable. But everything changes after she discovers a deep secret...

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Sudden Rain
by Maritta Wolff

The long-lost final manuscript from the late novelist Maritta Wolff is an exceptional rendering of middle class disaffection in the early 1970s. Sudden Rain infiltrates the interior lives of five couples in Los Angeles over the course of one stormy weekend and alters these marriages forever. The couples range in age from early 20s to late 60s: one couple’s 30-year marriage is crumbling, and their son has split from his wife of one year. A neighbor who thought she was happy with her husband starts to stray after having an eye-opening conversation with a friend, and another friend who knows she’s unhappy with her marriage looks for fulfillment only to stumble into a fatal accident. Everyone is caught up short and compelled at last to reconsider the choices they’ve made.

Maritta Wolff (1918-2002) won the Avery Hopwood Award for her first novel, Whistle Stop, at age 22. Sudden Rain is a vivid distillation of its time and place and a spellbinding achievement - one sure to invite comparison to the likes of such classics as John Updike’s Rabbit novels and Mary McCarthy’s The Group.

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The Majority Rules
by Eugene Sullivan

Tim Quinn, a Washington D.C. lawyer on the move, was flattered to be recommended by his friend Harry Winston to a vacancy on the bench caused by the unsavory death of one of the judges. He was also surprised to see how easy his nomination and confirmation turned out to be once Harry had given his approval and pulled more than a few strings.

Now Tim feels he has the chance to make a difference, and perhaps clear a path for an eventual trip to the highest court in the land. But Tim soon realizes that Chief Judge Winston's influence and favors come at a price - not just undue influence from the Executive branch, but partiality towards private concerns as well, including a certain attorney whose cases often come before their bench. Troubled, Tim contacts a former paramour to help him unravel the unseemly entanglements that occur behind the bench. But in doing so, he risks his own status as a judge, his good name, and perhaps even the lives of him and his family - it is sometimes deadly to disagree when The Majority Rules.

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Shadows in the Starlight
by Elaine Cunningham

A ten-year veteran of the Providence Rhode Island vice squad, Gwen “GiGi” Gellman began her life as a foundling and is used to being on her own. So when she finds herself unemployed and on the outs after a standard bust goes bad resulting in a bloodbath, she welcomes the occasion to break from routine. She scrapes together enough capital to start her own PI business specializing in “family problems.” But in doing so, she never guessed that she would uncover her own mysterious and mystical past.

When GiGi becomes involved in the case of a missing wife and child, she initially dismisses the matter as good sense on the wife’s part -- she knows the husband to be less than stellar in his role. But as her investigation progresses, GiGi discovers a pattern of lies and deceptions, some of which expose hidden ties to her own mystifying existence.

Otherworldly powers try to intercede, and soon GiGi finds not only her own life threatened, but those of her friends and family as well.

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She's Out of Control
by Kristin Billerbeck

She got it all together in What a Girl Wants, but now Ashley Stockingdale is having trouble knowing where to put it!

Having discovered rats in her luxury apartment, Ashley Stockingdale is living with her friend Kay, a.k.a. Martha Stewart But With Scruples.

Soon Kay wants Ashley to buy out half the house so they can remodel it in style. With no hint of a proposal on the horizon from her commitment-phobe boyfriend, Ashley goes on an independent-woman streak. She sinks her savings into the deal. As Seth squirms, wondering if the investment into Kay's house indicates Ashley doesn't see a future with him, the nightmare of remodeling begins.

Meanwhile - in lieu of a diamond? - Seth gives Ashley a darling if ill-advised gift: a puppy! More than a trendy accessory, this puppy requires nearly constant attention and more food than a family of four. He's out-growing his pink collars faster than you can say Diva Dog! The mayhem is escalating, but like everything else, Ashley knows she can handle it, or can she?

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The Senator's Daughter
by Victoria Gotti

National Bestseller

Victoria Gotti was hailed by Esquire magazine as one of the "Women We Love" in an article that called her "more than her father's daughter." Now, in a riveting first novel, she brings us into a dark world filled with politics, power, and the corruption they inevitably breed.

The murder of union strongman Joseph Sessio shocks all of Boston, Massachusetts. Few individuals outside of the Kennedy family have been as well known or loved by the blue-collar citizens of this historic city. The repercussions of his murder extend well beyond Sessio's immediate family and inadvertently impact the life of Taylor Brooke, the young and beautiful attorney assigned to defend Tommy Washington, the black youth accused of the crime.

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One Step Over the Border
by Stephen Bly

Award-winning author Stephen Bly weaves the tale of a pair of contemporary cowboys on a quest across the West. As a boy in Wyoming, Hap Bowman fell in love with a girl named Juanita. Ever since, he's experienced nothing but failure and misfortune. Laramie Majors -- quiet, reserved, and patient to a fault -- hasn't left Hap's side since they became rodeo partners right out of college. Now, after spending most of his adult life looking for Juanita, Hap wants to do one last big search that will take them all over the Southwest before he admits defeat. Together these two cowpokes find themselves reluctant heroes in a series of misadventures as they travel the West, all the while thinking that Hap's -- or Laramie's -- true love may be in the next town.

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Report to the Judiciary is a tense novel of legal and political intrigue featuring Tim Quinn (previously seen in The Majority Rules), who is assigned to investigate and compile a dossier on the newly appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Since the President has achieved lame duck status with a Congress more bent on politics than policy, he realizes that the chances of establishing a legacy before his Presidency comes to an end are slim at best. So when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court dies unexpectedly, the President appoints an interim successor to the position... the first black Chief Justice in US history. Not all conservatives rejoice, however, including one justice on the court who feels that the position should have been his. Now he is hell bent on claiming it no matter who gets in the way.

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The Killing Way
by Tony Hays

Tony Hays introduces readers to an older era investigator who relies on his keen eyes to see the unnoticed small clues crucial to solving a mystery: Malgwyn, the one-armed scribe. The Killing Way depicts King Arthur in the rugged post-Roman era, a time when a king could walk about a village without a retinue trailing behind.  This is not the romantic Camelot of knights in shining armor seeking the Grail.  Instead, Hays offers a historically accurate portrayal of life in Britain with a tale of murder and Arthur spun cleverly into it.