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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1991

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New Books List: 492 titles


  • Kate Coscarelli

    THEY WERE BOUND BY BLOOD, SCANDAL AND EXPLOSIVE SECRETS... Laverne Ruthlessly ambitious and domineering, she'll beg, bribe, Hackmait -- and bargain away her daughter's innocence -- to make her the greatest star Hollywood has ever known... until a...



  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    From the #1 New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of A Woman of Substance comes a billionaire tycoon’s lifelong search for the right woman’s love.   Born in Berlin and orphaned by World War II, Maxim Westheim is left to fend for himself. With ...



  • Stephen White

    A successful psychologist in Boulder, Colorado, Alan Gregory has a bright future - until police find one of his female patients dead. In her apartment, they discover a diary describing her sexual obsession with Gregory and his willing involvement. Ob...



  • Orson Scott Card

    "INTENSE is the word for ENDER'S GAME. Aliens have attacked Earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses--and then training them in the ar...



  • Michael Jan Friedman

    A routine survey of the planet Alpha Octavius Four turns disastrous as Spock is attacked and poisoned by a huge creature and Kirk's landing party is trapped underground by a violent earthquake. As Spock fights for his life in sickbay, Scotty organize...



  • Orson Scott Card

    In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ...



  • R.L. Stine



  • Robert Charles Wilson

    Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge -- a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end is t...




  • P.M. Griffin

    The immortal space saga of the STAR COMMANDOS begins anew with the long-awaited, updated and revised edition of this classic Science Fiction series. Come along with Commando-Colonel Islaen Connor on her secret mis-sion to Vishnu of Brahmin, investiga...



  • C.J. Cherryh



  • Chris Claremont

    WHERE DO YOU GO AFTER YOU'VE GONE TO THE STARS? Lt. Nicole Shea was once a top space pilot. She crushed a marauding Wolfpack--and established first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. Now they've taken away her flight rating and reas...




  • Charles L. Harness

    The powerful Peace Eternal corporation has a solution to Earth's staggering overpopulation problem: a government-supported program of clean, efficient mass murder. Billionaire philanthropist Michael Dore has a better way - Lamplighter, a remarkable ...



  • Larry Niven

    A WINNING TRADITION... Welcome to the hottest pocket in Larry Niven's Known Space: the time of the assault on pacifist humanity by berserker felinoids from the planet Kzin. This time humanity's representatives to the Warrior Race are Donald Kingsb...



  • Steve Perry



  • S.C. Sykes

    A DRAMATIC NEW SERIES OF BOOKS AT THE CUTTING EDGE WHERE SCIENCE MEETS SCIENCE FICTION The future is already here.... Computers, the space shuttle, biogenetics--what was once the domain of science fiction is now business as usual. Developments ...



  • Paul Preuss

    [A] combination of mystery and science fiction almost reaching the level of Isaac Asimov's classic LIJE BALEy-Daneel Olivaw novels. -CHICAGO SUN TIMESThe concluding volume in a series of science-fiction thrillers evolving from the works of Arthur C. ...




  • Robert Thurston

    HIGH-TECH BARBARIANS In the 31st century, the BattleMech is the ultimate war machine. Thirty meters tall, and vaguely, menacingly man-shaped, it is an unstoppable engine of destruction. In the 31st century, the Clans are the ultimate warriors. ...





  • Anthony Appiah

    With the deaths of young Scottish aristocrat David Glen Tannock and world-renowned scientist Dr. Charles Phipps--both members of the elite Cambridge society known as "the Apostles"--barrister-sleuth Sir Patrick Scott suspects that one of the Apostles...





  • Jim Weikart

    After Donald Jasen and his wife are found dead in a burnt-out car, Donald's brother, Jay, has custody of their two children and finds himself involved in a mystery surrounding thousands of dollars in cash hidden in the trunk of Donald's car...



  • Paul Bishop

    After losing his right eye during a particularly brutal soccer match against the West Germans, former goalie Ian Chapel becomes a coach for the L.A. Ravens and investigates the mysterious death of his predecessor. Reprint....



  • Edward Stewart

    The brutal murder of socialite Oona Aldrich--the first in a series of killings among the city's beautiful people--shakes up the society set, and Lieutenant Vince Cardozo follows a trail to find the self-proclaimed "Society Son of Sam"...



  • Tom Kakonis

    Professional poker player Tim Waverly, hounded by the local crime boss and pursued by an assassin, stands to lose his life unless he can come up with the tremendous amount of cash he needs to buy himself out of trouble...



  • William J. Caunitz

    A deserted street off Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue... a park on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side... a dressing room in a crowded Fifty-seventh Street boutique. Three young women are found murdered, victims of a serial killer, the only apparent link bet...



  • Marc Berrenson

    DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES Once a cop, always a lawyer, the twists and turns in Ben Green's hard-luck career have landed him a position as Special Investigator for the L.A.P.D.'s Internal Affairs Division. Under the thumb of a powerful police chief wi...



  • John Danica

    Posing as a big-time drug buyer, Philly FBI agent Joe Lerza--along with his buddy Nepp--enters a war between the town's Mafia, some rebellious punks, and a gang of bikers, all eager for control of the city's drug trade...



  • Len Deighton

    As a group of Marxist revolutionaries in Spanish Guiana prepare to unseat their country's leader, a group of high-powered men in Washington prepare to keep the current government intact and capitalize on the small country's newfound oil. Reprint....



  • Dorothy Gilman

    He Was Only Sixteen When Tragedy Struck....

    His name was Colin, and although he still couldn't believe it, his parents were gone, both dead from the plague. Scared, confused, and angry, he sought out a monk who told him about a haunted castle ...



  • Dorothy Gilman

    Novelist Dorothy Gilman, author of the bestselling Mrs. Pollifax series, had reached a point of no return in her life. With her sons in college, Ms. Gilman was searching for something unknowable, unnameable . . . until she bought a small house in a l...




  • Jack Curtis

    When a sniper begins picking off seemingly unconnected London residents, Scotland Yard detective Robin Culley searches for a link between the victims, a search that takes him to the highest level of British politics...



  • Lynda La Plante

    A dark and riveting race against the clock, Prime Suspect is an unforgettable introduction to this bestselling series from Edgar Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Lynda La Plante.The moment Jane Tennison takes over Scotla...



  • Leif Davidsen

    Danish diplomat, Jack Andersen posted in Moscow, becomes involved with the "so called" murder suicide of a prostitute, found dead, her wrists slashed, in the apartment of one of the embassy's secretaries...






  • D. Keith Mano

    Nebraska priest Father Michael Wilson journeys to New York City to investigate the disappearance of his brother, Tony, and finds himself overseeing Tony's business, a topless restaurant, and embroiled with drug dealers, Mafia wiseguys, strippers, and...



  • Ian St. James

    Summoned to a private Greek island, businessman Tom Lambert is offered the challenge of a lifetime--to take the reins of billionaire Maurice Stanton's empire--a job that brings passion and intrigue. Reprint....



  • Tom Sehler

    A forcibly retired marine investigates the disappearance of a young girl.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Steele is too honest for Washington. If any other Marine Corps investigator had noticed a congressman''s corruption, he might have kept his mo...



  • Walter Satterthwait

    In this perfect blend of mystery, satire and travelogue, Satterthwait ( At Ease with the Dead ) follows Oscar Wilde in his 1882 lecture tour through the American West. Wilde greatly amuses his audiences and Elizabeth McCourt Doe in particular, initia...



  • Laraine McDaniel

    Speak no evil... Alone on the desert's moonlit sands, Alexis Sinclair's partner became a murder victim in forty-five very silent minutes. Internal Affairs investigator Gage Morgan had uncovered no clues, no leads and no answers to the most disturb...



  • Lillian Stewart Carl

    After months of long-distance phone calls, Rebecca Reid is thrilled to be working with Michael Campbell again, this time on a dig at Rudesburn Priory in the Scottish Borders. It’s rumored that Robert the Bruce's heart was buried there, and that the...



  • Erica Quest

    When beautiful model Corinne Saxon is found murdered Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox has to begin to unravel the complex life of the model to try and establish which of the men in her life may have committed the dreadful deed. The list of suspe...



  • Christine Arness

    In this novel of romantic suspense, a young lawyer is drawn into a decades-old mystery . . .   An RT Book Reviews nominee for Best Contemporary Romantic Novel   Shattered by her husband’s tragic death, young lawyer Abigail ...



  • Rebecca York

    Rest in peace Ravenwood was the name of a nightmare Laura Roswell didn't understand. Yet the forbidding mansion was eerily familiar. Laura never guessed the dark secrets it sheltered until a spectral voice awakened her from a recurring dream o...



  • Margaret Westhaven

    The Perfect Stranger Beautiful Marianna Chapin knew next to nothing about the devastatingly handsome and charming "Mr. Henry Duke" who had bought the estate adjoining that of Marianna's stepmother. She knew only that this seemingly ...



  • Martha Jean Powers

    A FATEFUL PROMISE... When they first met, Anthea Bowmont had been searching for a way to save her sister from a desperate plight--and Hawkins Chadwicke was a soldier, headed for a battle he felt sure would mean his demise. On that evening, Hawkins...



  • Jo Beverley

    FOR LOVE AND MONEY Poor Amy de Lacy. Her father's death has left the family impoverished and she's the only one who can rescue them. Her older sister Beryl, sweet as she is, is just too plain to attract a husband. But Amy, with her stunn...



  • Monette Cummings

    Could love be born from deception...? Disguised as her twin brother, the dashing Captain Warne, Lucinda arrived in London determined to secure his inheritance ... well aware that she was risking both their reputations. But she seemed to be doing a...



  • Marion Chesney

    SHE WAS BY ALL RIGHTS A MERRY WIDOW, YET SHE FEARED HAPPINESS WOULD NEVER BE HERS... Matilda, Duchess of Hadshire, was a virtual prisoner of a cruel husband who romanced his mistress under her nose. Her only joy was dreaming of the handsome Earl o...



  • Karla Hocker

    SHE SPEAKS HER MIND Free-spirited Sophy Bancroft has been dismissed from several posts for "impertinence and unauthorized, irresponsible acts." But now, as she begins her seventh attempt as a governess, she vows that, this time, she'll c...



  • Barbara Allister

    The Honorable Mr. Huntington? Stephen Huntington modestly told Miss Rosemary Wyatt that his only title was that of Honorable. But Rosemary could see that this did not stop this wealthy, charming devastatingly handsome gentleman from being the catc...



  • Barbara Metzger

    SHOULD SHE STRANGLE THE RAKE... OR AID HIM WHOLEHEARTEDLY IN HER OWN SEDUCTION? Though Miss Rowanne Wimberly had come to be appreciated for both her charms and her sizable dowry, it was her innocent yet very public flirtation with the notorious a...



  • Mary Kingsley

    A LADY'S DILEMMA Lady Cecily Randall was no green girl to be seduced by a handsome face. The eminently dutiful daughter of the Duke of Marlowe, she'd been groomed to make a suitable match. So when the rather humorless Marquess of Edgewater p...



  • Irene Saunders

    War of Whispers Beautiful Miss Catherine Hayward was in growing danger from the sharp tongues and inventive imaginations of London society. Her widower father was far off in a foreign war. Her younger brother was perilously close to ruining his fu...



  • Patricia Veryan

    HE FEARED SHE WAS A WANTON, AND SHE'D HEARD HE WAS A LIBERTINE.... Captain Gideon Rossiter, his handsome face pale from his war experience, returned to England after six years to find naught as he had left it. His father was accused of bank fraud...



  • Jeanne Carmichael

    HOME was where the heart was Though not under ideal conditions, Hester Martingale was pleased to inherit a home of her own, and would stay on permanently if she could. She was welcomed into the neighbourhood by the disturbingly handsome Earl ...



  • Norma Fox Mazer

    When Toni’s luck runs out, real life comes calling Toni and Julie were both born right after their parents moved in next to one another, and the two girls have hardly been separated since. Julie is tall and outspoken and stands up for herself, but ...



  • Cherie Bennett

    Determined to become a successful model, Sam ignores the warning signs when a photographer with dubious credentials takes photographs of her in revealing outfits and then asks her to go away with him for the weekend...





  • Ann Cleeves

    NO ONE IN HEPPLEBURN HAS A BAD WORD TO SAY 4 ABOUT ALICE PARRY... ...But here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David's Eve. And when detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins...



  • Linda Randall Wisdom

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Alex Cassidy thought being single and turning thirty was an awful combination. The only thing worse was waking up the morning after her birthday bash with a hangover. And just when she thought she'd hit rock bottom, she opened h...



  • Warren Adler

    Fiona FitzGerald, senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate when the stunning wife of the Austrian Ambassador is kidnapped and murdered. Soon, bones belonging to a vanished young girl are discovered, ...



  • William J. Coughlin

    Detroit attorney and former alcoholic Charley Sloan lost his practice, his wife, and his fortune to booze. A chance at a comeback arrives in his former lover, Robin Harwell. She's now the desperate widow of a multimillionaire--and stepmother of the t...



  • James McClure

    “Afrikaner Tromp Kramer and Bantu Sergeant Zondi [are] two detectives who are as far from stereotypes as any in the genre†(P. D. James, bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberly).   The year is 1962. Young Lt. Tromp Kramer of the T...




  • John R. Erickson

    What happens when Hank the Cowdog finds himself stuck in town and facing the mean, monster Great Dane, “Rambo� Rambo’s only weakness is that he’s a car-barkaholic. He just can’t resist chasing and barking at passing cars. Join Hank as he r...



  • Cynthia Blair

    When the Pratt twins’ Christmas gift is a surprise trip to Hawaii, they expect a relaxing trip in paradise.  But Chris and Susan soon discover that a tiny island off Waikiki harbors a secret.  The clever, courageous girls can’t resist s...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Offers works by a variety of the best suspense authors and encompasses the breadth of modern suspense fiction, especially its darker and more ominous side, in works by Marcia Muller, Max Allen Collins, Robert Bloch, and others...



  • Michael Raleigh

    A killer terrorizes a diverse Chicago neighborhood in this “impressive first mystery†(Publishers Weekly).   Private investigator Paul Whelan’s specialty is tracking down missing persons. But when his good friend is found slain in an alley...



  • D.C. Brod

    When his pal, reporter Jeff Barlowe, is jailed for refusing to reveal the name of a source to the court, private eye Quint McCauley sets out to prove that Barlowe's source is not responsible for a recent murder. Reprint....



  • Loren D. Estleman

    Working undercover in order to stop a consumer advocacy agency from putting Detroit auto companies out of business, ex-cop and car lover Rick Amery becomes involved in the conflagration of a black gang war. Reprint....



  • Miriam Borgenicht

    WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS .. . A tragedy turns into a living nightmare when health counselor Linda Stewart's adopted infant daughter is legally reclaimed by the baby's natural teenage mother -- and both are found dead two days later. Linda&...



  • Robert Barnard

    AN INCONVENIENT CORPSE They met in the early 1950s, fledgling diplomats in the Foreign Office. Naive Peter Proctor was possessed by middle-class morality and ambition. Witty, reckless Timothy Wycliffe was an aristocrat whose shocking sexual appetite...





  • Gary K. Wolf

    It's a hoot. Wolf obviously gets as big a kick out of the convoluted plotting and the exaggerated private-eye lingo as he does the interactions between humans and Toons. The ingredients make a rich confection for anyone addicted to pop culture.
    W...



  • Alex Ullmann

    Trapped in his job as an editor at "Glee"--a glossy New York magazine founded by Russian emigre Kuratkin, father of his lover--Patrick fantasizes about a life of adventure as a correspondent in Afghanistan...




  • Zelda Fitzgerald

    This comprehensive collection of Zelda Fitzgerald’s work -- including her only published novel, Save Me the Waltz -- puts the jazz-age heroine in an illuminating literary perspective.Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. B...



  • Alice Kahn

    In the midst of a "caring" divorce, North America's first known yuppies Dirk and Bree have become celebrities after an appearance on national TV, and Bree's former lover, screenwriter Neil Blender, has stepped in to appropriate their story for a new ...



  • Susan Sontag

    This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers of our time....



  • Karen Harper

    "I need you, Lesley. I loved you from the first, as if it's always been for us. Tell me you believe me!" As the daughter of the fifth Earl of Malvern, Lesley Westram was dubbed "Scandal's Child" -- after all, her beautiful Italian mother got preg...



  • Thea Devine

    SHE NEEDED HIS HELP Kentucky 1880. Angelene knew it was dangerous to run away, but she couldn't face a life of crime with her outlaw family. The handsome stranger who offered to help her on the trail was a godsend...and a temptation. She was hau...



  • Wendy Garrett

    HE WAS HARD TO RESIST Billie had her hands full, running the Star M ranch all by herself and dealing with Indian attacks, cattle rustlers, and sudden storms. So far, she hadn't found time for romance, but when a handsome, tawny-haired cowboy rod...



  • Joanna Makepeace

    Coerced into marriage? NEVER! Rather than be forced into a loveless marriage, Aleyne Risby escaped, hoping to find the protection of her cousin. But during those troubled times of war, Aleyne was relieved, yet terrified of what would follow -- e...



  • Pamela Jekel

    OLIVA -- a headstrong Cajun beauty, she defied tradition to marry the man she loved, then seduced him back to her own beloved bayou; CELISMA -- the hauntingly lovely, fiercely loyal mulatto slave who tended the aging Oliva, then warmed the bed ......



  • Jane Archer

    HOT-BLOODED TROUBLEMAKER When an angry Drake Dalton burst into Selene Morgan's Love Potions apothecary shop, Selene stood ready for battle. Her New Orleans healing and midwifery trade was the only thing left of her family after the Civil War,...



  • Gwen Cleary

    HE HAD TO HAVE HER Locke Breckenridge had come to the Colorado mountains to get away from women and their highfalutin ways, but when Cornelia Lloyd Talbot settled her curvaceous form in town, he took one long look at her pouting red lips, her snappi...



  • Rachel Cosgrove Payes

    "How could she protect the child...when her own life was in deadly peril?" Orphaned and penniless, Tisha Hawkins had gratefully accepted the past as governess to Lady Trevelyan's small son. Her contentment was shattered when she witnes...



  • Diane Gates Robinson

    RESCUED BY LOVE Silver-haired Aimee Louvierre could scarcely bear to contemplate her future. Tonight, at a grand ball, she would be betrothed to the most hated man in New Orleans. But even as she awaited the dreaded moment, Aimee looked up-and into ...



  • Linda Francis Lee

    MAN To fulfill a promise, Clay Wakefield must command a majestic Mexican ranch --- and its spitfire heiress. She was a wild filly, but it would be his pleasure to break her. WOMAN Arriving home from overseas, Lorena Cervantes found her beloved ...



  • Catherine Blair

    Danger Was as Close as Desire High on the cliffs overlooking the sea, Devil Wind castle loomed dark and foreboding. This was Rochella's new home -- and she knew instantly that her husband, Lord Devlin, was equally unhappy with their arranged marr...



  • Katherine Sinclair

    A rare and lasting friendship would lead them ever closer to… A Distant Dawn Since their days growing up together at Rathbourne Abbey, they were best friends, as close as sisters, and forever bound to a destiny of war and love, heartache and hop...



  • Lisa Bingham

    THEIRS WAS A MARRIAGE OF DARK SECRETS, STUBBORN PRIDE, AND UNEXPECTED ARDOR Betrayed by the only man she ever trusted, Ginny Parker hastily agreed to a new life in the untamed Utah wilderness, and a marriage that was prearranged. Orrin Ghant, a m...



  • Virginia Brown

    SHE KNEW ABOUT MEN LIKE HIM Back in the states, prim Bethany Brasfield would never have trusted a hard-drinking adventurer like Trace Taylor. Here in the Peruvian jungle, however, her life and that of her archeologist father were in Trace's call...



  • Elisabeth MacDonald

    AN ELUSIVE LOVE Lucas Morgan had finally ended his wandering. In Estero Bay, California, he'd found peace and happiness. But he despaired of ever gaining the love and trust of fiery Californio Consuelo Estrada. How could he ever convince her that he ...



  • Deborah Camp

    SECRETS OF THE MIND. MYSTERIES OF THE HEART He swept into lovely Lily Meeker's sheltered world on a chill wind in a torrential rainstorm -- Griffon Goforth, the dark, enigmatic clairvoyant Lily's family had hired to locate her missing cous...



  • Laura Parker

    Regina, the raven-haired beauty... the green-eyed gamin of the moors... First orphaned, then wed and widowed in a week, she'd been a wife in name only. She fled London and the cruel uncle who sought to control her new fortune, thinking to reclaim her...



  • Edith Layton

    A DAZZLING BEAUTY IN A. CITY OF SPLENDOR AND SIN Post-Civil War New York was a golden city where wealth waited for the bold and everything had its price. It was here that well-born but impoverished Lucy Markham sought fame and fortune on the stage...



  • Shirley Parenteau

    Had She Truly Lost Her Senses? After all, the idea of a prim store clerk trekking off to the Klondike disguised as can-can girl was a crazy notion, to say the least. But the moment Julia Ames discovered her long-lost father's whereabouts, she knew...



  • Mary Daheim

    A Tender Education Eden Berenger grew up an unwanted orphan in a loveless household, until the Earl of Marlborough claimed her as his flesh and blood-hours before his imprisonment for treason. To spare her father's life, Eden was forced to obey the ...



  • Julie Garwood

    1066. In the resplendence of William the Conqueror's London court, the lovely Saxon captive Lady Nicholaa was forced to choose a husband from the assembled Norman nobles. She chose Royce, a baron warrior whose fierce demeanor could not conceal his ch...



  • Patricia Potter

    A FLIRT WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE Heiress Meredith Seaton was the talk of Vicksburg, Mississippi. But Merry's appearance as a vain, simpering Southern belle concealed a sharp mind and a burning mission--one that could place her life in jeopardy were it di...



  • Rochelle Wayne

    DANGER AND DESIRE SPARKS AN EVERLASTING LOVE! Caroline Hanley had no memory of the terrible day her parents were murdered and she was abducted by a renegade band of Apaches. Living among the Indians as one of them, she was resigned to marrying a b...



  • Cassie Edwards

    CHEROKEE PRIDE When her family's cabin was attacked by Indians, lovely young Brietta fled into the wilderness, only to be captured by the most handsome man she had ever laid eyes on. Though he was a Cherokee brave, the smoldering heat in his d...



  • Linda Hilton

    HE TAUGHT HER ABOUT DESIRE The widow Glorianna Johnson was plain old Anna to the town of Greene, Wyoming, but to Grant Brookington, the golden-eyed temptress couldn't be anything but Glory. Her creamy skin and lush curves could lead a man stra...



  • Jane Peart

    For Rod it was a moment out of a thousand dreams. Yet the reality was more than he could have imagined. "Blythe!" He said her name and in his voice was all the hope he'd thought was lost. The woman he saw was even lovelier than the girl he remembered...



  • Candace McCarthy

    Bran Donovan rued the day suspected Tory spy Molly McCormick had been captured and smuggled aboard his ship. With her wild raven tresses flowing about her shoulders and her sweet curves barely covered by a buckskin tunic, the half-breed beauty made s...



  • Patricia Camden

    Lovely, widowed Kaatje de St. Benoit feared for her life at the hands of Colonel Becket Thorne, the handsome and determined British soldier who demanded that she lead him to his sworn enemy, the ruthless Turk, El Muzir. For seven long years, hatre...



  • Jodi Thomas

    A SHOCKING PROPOSITION Bold and beautiful, Anna Meyer dared to walk into a campsite full of Texas cattlemen . . . and offer one hundred dollars to the man who'd help her forge a frontier homestead. A RECKLESS AGREEMENT On the brink of manho...



  • Anita Gordon

    BRIENNE By birthright, she was Baronne de Valseme--but the black-haired maiden was robbed of her legacy by plundering Norsemen. Now she returns to her former home, to be offered against her will as a bride to the enemy.... RURIK A powerful blond...



  • Elizabeth Chadwick (1)

    As the proud owner of one of the few bathtubs in rough and tumble Spindletop, Jessica Parnell was besieged by oil drillers, speculators, confidence men, and riffraff-every one longing to take advantage of her precious facilities. But of all the grimy...



  • Carol Finch

    Determined to live on her own terms, away from her conniving step-parents, high-spirited Moriah Laverty fled 'civilization' and disappeared into the wild mountains of New Mexico. She vowed to live free and unfettered: all she needed was to master a f...



  • Rebecca Sinclair

    SHE'D PROTECT HER CASTLE Marea MacKenzie's lifelong dream was about to come true: she was ready to mount a campaign to reclaim her clan's Kilclearnon Castle--stolen ten years ago in battle by the brutal Grahams of England. But on the eve of the lo...



  • Faye Summers

    THE END OF INNOCENCE Born on the same day as Queen Victoria, eighteen-year old Julia Forrest led a sheltered life, free from the torments of the wicked world around her. But when her mother was suddenly killed, the lovely young ingenue was cast i...



  • John Saul

    Something horrific is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. There must be a reason for the terror. They all know it - but no one ever suspected....



  • Brian Stableford

    The second in the trilogy that began with The Werewolves of London, continues the chronicle of the fallen angels, who manipulate earthly events through human instruments. Twenty-one years after David's first mission, he is called upon again to discov...



  • Robert R. McCammon

    Zephyr, Alabama, has been an idyllic home for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson...a place where monsters swim in the belly of the river, and friends are forever. Then, on a cold spring morning in 1964, as Cory accompanies his father on his milk route, t...



  • Steven M. Krauzer

    David McKay's mind-control powers make him valuable to the Facility, and they decide to train him as their new secret weapon, but David begins a desperate race to save his freedom, his mind, and his life...



  • Christopher Pike

    THE DEAD BOY WOULD NOT GO AWAY. Jean is on her way to Hawaii for a week of fun in the sun. But the vacation gets off to a gruesome start. The boy sitting beside her on the plane suddenly chokes and dies. Jean tries to push the incident out of her...





  • Andrew Laurance

    Nostradamus lives...in his descendant Paul Saralyn, who has no idea that the occult blood of a medieval prophet runs in his veins. He doesn't take his powers seriously. Until he encounters a terrifying network of persons like himself - gathered toget...



  • A. Bates

    Becky gets to spend the whole summer on a beautiful island, babysitting one little boy who is no trouble at all. It’s a dream job. There’s even a possible romance developing with the boy next door. Her employer is one strange lady who doesn’t s...



  • D.A. Fowler

    Free from the clutches of her sadistic grandmother, Valerie hears the voices of the dead speaking to her from her typewriter and begins behaving oddly--taking in boarders who die mysterious deaths and disciplining her cousin's children in a bizarre f...



  • Marian J.A. Jackson

    Mystery Writers of America Presents Ignoring threats to her life, Miss Abigail Patience Danforth braves San Francisco's seamy underworld to solve a murder. Encouraged by Miss Danforth's decision to become the world's first female consulting detectiv...



  • Ken Kuhlken

    The Loud Adios is set on the home front during World War II. Tom Hickey is in the army, an M.P. working the Tijuana-San Diego border, when a farm boy draftee about to ship overseas begs for help rescuing his sister from a gang of German and Mexican N...



  • Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The leader of the Wildrunners, Kith-Kanan, commits the ultimate heresy and falls in love with a human of intriguing background. His twin brother, the firstborn ruler of all Silvanesti elves, Sithas, declares war on the Ergothians, and Kith-Kanan must...





  • Richard S. Wheeler




    Barnaby Skye, along with his wives, agrees to take a Quaker missionary, Dr.William Penn Sitgreaves, his wife Abigail who accompanies him reluctantly, and his party, to Owen's Fort in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, where the Qua...



  • G. Clifton Wisler

    When wealthy landowner and town scion Abner Mills shoots four boys falsely accused of cattle rustling, the boys' uncle, Riley Rucker, plans his own form of justice, hiring a gang of gunslingers to seek revenge...



  • Bruce H. Thorstad

    Coffee Arbuckle, a Civil War veteran caught up in the madness of the Gold Rush, teams up with Mortimer Ridley, a fourteen-year-old boy fleeing the city's boredom, to fight lawlessness in the untamed West...



  • Terry C. Johnston

    The Modoc Indians and American officials had been flirting with war in the Oregon Territory for some time. When Modoc chief Keintpoos murdered a Civil War hero during negotiations, the U.S. Army launched a deadly offensive against the rebel tribe. Be...



  • Larry Jay Martin

    Gold fever has swept across California's Barbary Coast, and fires of passion, lawlessness, and violence burn in its wake. Nothing is forbidden and everything is for sale--human lives bartered for mounds of sparkling dust. John Clinton Ryan has come t...



  • Gary McCarthy

    Seeking his fortune in the California Gold Rush, Michael W. Callahan, soon nicknamed the "Gringo Amigo," finds a friend in a young Mexican man, Joaquin Murieta, and when an unspeakable act drives Murieta on a mission of revenge, only the Gringo Amigo...



  • Luke Short

    A tale of big Texas, of cattle, ranges and saloons; of punchers, cowboys and Ute Indians; and where the possibilities of fulfillment are as endless as the desert, and just as unpredictable. Jim Garry is a hard, embittered cowboy, who believes there i...



  • Josh Edwards

    After a near-fatal attack by a band of outlaws led by an old friend of his, John Stone is brought back to the outlaws' hideout, where Sally Drake nurses him back to health, while her jealous boyfriend decides Stone doesn't deserve the chance to recov...



  • Bill Reno

    THE BADGE To a violent land, a frontier yet untamed, came a man who wore a badge of law and order. He faced the myriad dangers - and paid the price in blood to become one of the most enduring heroic figures of the Old West. THE HUNTED Though slo...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Vowing to avenge the murder of his pal, Doc Shubert--killed by greedy raiders--Skye Fargo rides out to settle the score, aided by the bounty offered by the widow of a rancher also slain by the raiders...





  • J.R. Roberts

    When Clint Adams drifts into Placerville to do a little gunsmithing, he's counting on a peaceful, uneventful stay. But when he meets up with his old friend Bat Masterson, he knows there won't be a dull moment. Bat's got himself a human money-making m...




  • Dorothea Jensen

    Lars Olafson moves with his parents to the old family farm near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to live with his aged aunt Cass. Lars is miserable -- until he meets Geordie, a ghost whose stories of the Revolutionary War are as exciting as those of an ey...





  • Jennifer Wilde

    Spiderweb of Passion. The great, grim manor of Blackcrest held many secrets for beautiful young Deborah Lane. London and safety seemed worlds and centuries away as she tried to discover what had happened here to her lovely cousin, whose face and name...



  • Victoria Holt

    IT WAS DESPERATELY IMPORTANT THAT I DRAW MYSELF OUT OF THIS MAZE OF MISERY IN WHICH I WAS CAUGHT. Noelle Tremaston has led a charmed yet unconventional life as the daughter of the infamous Desiree, darling of the London stage. But the flurry and ...



  • Patricia Simpson

    WAS HE A MAN OR A MIRACLE? A deafening computer surge, a burst of lasers, and he appeared. Was he a hologram, a bizarre energy field endowed with manly mass? Or was he, as Jamie Kent dreaded, the ghost of Hazard McAllister, legendary Scots bluebea...






  • Josephine Cox

    A captivating historical romance of revenge, hatred, lust and true loveIt is 1870 and Emma Grady has spent seven years of servitude as a convict in Australia. Now, having earned her ticket-of-leave, she is held by chains of honour and friendship. Emm...





  • Jim Morrison

    The celebrated lead singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison is a legend of rock and roll. The American Night presents Morrison's previously unpublished work in its truest form. With their nightmarish images, bold associative leaps, and volcanic power of e...




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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh

    Their disdain for their visiting cousin, Bailey Bond, soon turns to admiration when Anna and Carl discover that they are able to climb through the window Bailey has painted on the guest room wall and visit other times and places...





  • Lisa Walker

    Misty, a teenager in a small midwestern town, marks her passage into adulthood during the 1960s and 1970s with recollections of the boys she has loved, her relationship with her parents, and her conflicting roles as dutiful daughter and outrageous re...



  • Sol Stein

    A long-running argument over life, love, and the theater between playwright Ben Riller and his deceased father, Louie, acts as counterpoint to Ben's struggle in the midst of moral and financial ruin, personal redemption, and Broadway intrigues...




  • Joan Lingard

    Continuing the story of the Latvian refugee family begun in Tug of War , this sequel opens with the Petersons' arrival in Canada, ready to make a new start after their country was lost to the Soviet Union in WW II. The twins, Astra and Hugo, quickly ...



  • Marilyn Kaye

    When the instructor for the new Physical Fitness class at Camp Sunnyside turns out to be Sarah's older sister, Alison, Sarah feels her summer fun is over, especially when Alison decides to be as tough on Sarah as she is on the other campers...




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  • O'Neil Denoux

    BLUE ORLEANS â€" LaStanza Novel #3 This is New Orleans â€" 1982 The case is not only a ‘whodunit’ but also a ‘whoisit’ - the case of a body dumped in a ditch along an isolated stretch of a deserted highway. The victim is shot in the back of ...



  • Juan Carlos Onetti

    In the provincial Argentine town of Santa Maria, Larsen, a pimp, tries to create the perfect brothel, while Julita, a widow unable to accept the death of her husband, takes his younger brother as her lover...



  • Joan Chase

    A collection of stories features the tale of a divorced woman reminiscing with her ex, a husband consumed by home improvements, a woman's recollection of her odd bond with the school tomboy, and a small-town wife obsessed with a drifter. Reprint....



  • Francine Pascal

    Jessica and the other boosters--Sweet Valley Middle School's cheerleading squad--vow they will not allow Winston Egbert to join the squad, despite the fact that he is a fantastic gymnast who makes up terrific cheers...



  • Paul Russell

    Country boy Tony is seduced by a smooth-talking pornographer, who brings the young man to New York to star in and recruit younger boys into a string of increasingly violent sex films. An escape, a marriage and a murder follow the story's cinematic ar...





  • Iain M. Banks

    'Banks once again demonstrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination' Sunday TimesHisako Onada, world-famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a count...




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    The Coromandel coast of southern India seems the ideal place for Mary and Blaise's honeymoon, but before long Mary begins to feel detached from her new husband and powerfully attracted to Krishnan, a local politician now in mortal danger...