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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — NOVEMBER 1996

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New Books List: 497 titles

  • Chaos in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    As a struggling America reemerges from the apocalypse, it descends into a new Civil War in the USA Todayâ€"bestselling author’s dystopian military thriller.   In the fiery aftermath of apocalypse, America crumbled to the ground -- and was rebo...

  • Fortune and Friends

    David Monnery

    This is the story of six individuals' different responses to winning a jackpot of #18 million. Once the initial shock of wealth beyond their wildest dreams has passed, the reality of the new situation is quick to make itself felt, as media, family an...

  • Skylance

    Don Pendleton

    When a crisis calls for covert intervention, the most effective counterterrorist installation in the world is called into action. Stony Man Farm, Virginia, is the nerve center where state-of-the-art computers and satellites can target anything on lan...

  • Stoneface

    James Axler

    PITY THE LIVING In 2001, the face of the earth changed forever in a nuclear firestorm. Generations after the apocalypse, Ryan Cawdor leads the courageous struggle for survival in a brutal world, striving to make a difference in the battle raging bet...

  • Blood Sport

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Selected to participate in an important fencing tournament, Frank becomes alarmed when the competition proves deadly, and after a top contender vanishes, the Hardy brothers suspect that a kidnapper is on the loose. Original....

  • Brewing Up a Storm

    Emma Lathen

    DRUNK WITH POWER When a nineteen-year-old boy dies in a drunk driving accident, Madeline Underwood decides to convince the world that Kischel Brewery's "soft drink" leads young people to try the harder stuff. But Underwood faces formidable enemies...

  • Cat Under Fire

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    "I'm a cat, like you -- Trust me, Dulcie! We're supposed to catch mice, not crooks. If you keep trying to play detective, you're going to get us. BOTH into big trouble!" Joe Grey never regretted the mysterious accident that gave him the ability to...

  • The Crazy Key Clue

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy’s puppy finds an old key in Bess’s backyard, and after Bess puts the key in the house, it disappears! Who took it? What’s the big secret? Nancy’s asking the questions, and the answer could be a real surprise....

  • Dead as a Dodo

    Jane Langton

    What is Homer Kelly doing in England? In addition to working as a visiting lecturer at Oxford, he's playing part-time detective, trying to solve the great mysteries of life--and the death of a young priest who has left a cryptic note saying simply, "...

  • Dead over Heels

    Charlaine Harris

    IF THE SHOE FITS... A man's body plummets from a low-flying plane onto the freshly mowed lawn of Aurora "Roe" Teagarden. When the corpse embedded in her backyard is identified as Detective Jack Burns of the Lawrenceton, Georgia, police...

  • Death at the Wheel

    Kate Flora

    Thea Kozak is smart, funny, and a very '90s kind of woman--someone who is carving a lucrative career for herself while juggling all the stresses of modern life. On top of that, she's trying to maintain a long-distance relationship with Andre, the dev...

  • Death-Fires Dance

    Janice Steinberg

    The San Diego canyon fires had destroyed forests, homes, and human lives. Reporting on the fires for public radio, Margo Simon thought she was covering a routine arson story. But it turned out that the victims had something in common. They were part ...

  • Fowl Play

    Patricia Tichenor Westfall

    Birds of a Feather After fifteen years in rural Ohio, native Chicagoan Molly West is still considered an outsider, but as director of the local meals-on-wheels program, she's becoming more at home with the Appalachian folk and their ways. The murd...

  • High Country Murder

    J.F. Trainor

    Angela Biwaban, the Anishinabe princess is back! In her fifth adventure, J.F.Trainor's feisty Native American possesses all the skills she needs to track a killer into the snowbound Rockies. But does she have what it takes to survive? With warrants ...

  • High Stakes

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy's visit to Eileen's posh horse farm is interrupted when Eileen's fiance+a7, who has been accused of theft, suddenly disappears, and the Hardy boys' horse-sitting job is disrupted by a murder. Original....

  • Irish Lace

    Andrew M. Greeley

    The beautiful and fey -- as they say in the old country -- Nuala Anne McGrail uses her psychic abilities to help solve mysteries. But even she will admit with a smile that she couldn't do it without Dermont Michael Coyne, her devoted admirer and ...

  • Killed in the Fog

    William L. Deandrea

    During a trip to England, a fog of mystery threatens Matt Cobb’s vacation—and his lifeMatt Cobb is ready to quit. His job as a special projects VP at a giant television network involves intense troubleshooting and an egotistical boss, and...

  • Loving and Losing

    Carolyn Keene

    Sure, love hurts. But speed kills. At Wilder, the pain is hitting home.A big-time cosmetics company is on campus looking for fresh faces to use in their ads, and both Pam and Reva are taking a shot. Rut their boyfriends, Jamal and Andy, aren't exactl...

  • Mad Season

    Nancy Means Wright

    Even without the mud, Ruth Willmarth has got her hands full. Her husband recently defected to New York City with another woman and left Ruth to manage the farm and the family. Then spring in this Vermont farming town takes a slippery and sinister tur...

  • The Old School Dies

    Kate Morgan

    SCHOOL DAYS, CRUEL DAYS No one liked Victor Salgo -- that much was clear. He was pompous and abrasive and rubbed just about everyone the wrong way. But that didn't prevent him from becoming headmaster of Hamilton's prestigious Jefferson School befor...

  • Perilous Friends

    Carole Epstein

    Suddenly unemployed, vivacious amateur detective Barbara Simons finds herself embroiled with a dead philandering husband, a gang of gay cigarette smugglers, and a Montreal detective with a thing for people speaking English. A first novel....

  • Riding for a Fall

    Lillian M. Roberts

    MURDER WASN'T PART OF HER PRACTICE. . . . Palm Springs veterinarian Andi Pauling is struggling to keep her new business afloat. So when Ross McRoberts appears in her doorway, he seems like an apparition conjured up by her own wishful thinking. A ...

  • Rueful Death

    Susan Wittig Albert

    In search of respite, China takes off to St. Theresa's Monastery with her friend Maggie, a former nun. The goal is a brief, tranquil retreat--but there's a conflict at the convent. The mother superior has recently died, and a battle over the future o...

  • Savage Cut

    Jo Dereske

    THE CRUELEST CUT She was the prodigal daughter, returning to the Michigan hometown she'd fled in disgrace seventeen years before. But now Ruby Crane is back at her family's isolated lakeside cabin--alone except for her fourteen-year-old daughter, Jes...

  • The Tears of Things

    Ralph M. McInerny

  • A Vow of Poverty

    Veronica Black

    With money tight and resources stretched, the Order of the Daughters of Compassion must find a way to increase revenue. So Sister Joan is sent to clean out several attic storerooms in the hope of discovering valuable antiques. But if the rooms are...

  • Wake Up to Murder

    Steve Allen

    America's favorite amateur sleuth tunes into a highly-rated new series...of murders. Steve Allen has just been asked to fill in as host for the popular morning talk show Good Morning U.S.A. But his debt is barely underway when the program is inter...

  • War and Peas

    Jill Churchill

    Wealthy old Auguste Caspar Snellen, the legendary "Pea King," is long gone, but his greatest legacy lives on: the Snellen Museum, an institution dedicated to the glorification of local lore and legumes. But at this year's annual Pea Festi...

  • Completely Alive

    S. Rickly Christian

  • Getting a Clue in a Clueless World

    Ross Campbell

    OK, you're a teenager and life is like this huge 'Where's Waldo?' picture, and God is out there somewhere but he's pretty hard to find, and it's all quite confusing and frustrating sometimes, and wherever you look for answers, folks just shrug and sa...

  • Hooked on the Book

    Tom Johnson

    Get hooked on the Bible? Well, you've tried but just couldn't see how you and your world fit into its pages. And there certainly are lots of pages . . . Which you might expect since God has lots of important things to say to you. Things that won't ju...

  • Hot Topics, Tough Questions

    Bill Myers

  • A Silence in Heaven

    Gilbert Morris

  • Abandon

    Neffetiti Austin

    It's 1969 and UCLA senior Denise Davis is at rallies and marches, determined to help make a difference. Then she meets charasmatic activist Carlton Wilson, and is swept into a heated relationship with him. But she thinks Carlton's ideas are too radic...

  • Abbie and the Cowboy

    Cathie Linz

    THE COWBOY KIDNAPS A BRIDE Dylan Janos had no intention of getting married for real. When he whisked Abbie Turner away, the footloose rancher was simply reviving a romantic Gypsy tradition. All he wanted were sizzling memories to take along when he ...

  • After All

    Lynn Emery

    Can Yesterday's Kisses... Baton Rouge news reporter Michelle Toussaint won't let anything come between her and her dream of becoming an anchorwoman. Then seductive contractor Anthony Hilliard comes home to Louisiana. For five years, Michelle has bee...

  • After That Night...

    Helen R. Myers

    THE MAN OF HER DREAMS... Through her rear view mirror Jordan Mills watched the man behind her. Sunglasses. Sexy five-o'clock shadow. Suddenly their eyes met. He drew down his glasses just enough to see her...and for her to see him. Stone Demare...

  • Baby Makes Three

    Marion Smith Collins

    BABY IN THE MIDDLE Three years ago, Lesley Macdonald had experienced a miracle - she'd adopted her little boy. She'd gone on to create a snug and loving cocoon for her small family, but suddenly a stranger appeared, jeopardizing their peace - and ...

  • The Bachelor and the Bassinet

    Deanna Talcott

    "WILL YOU MARRY ME?" Had Christian Jennings, Mr. Anti-Family himself, really uttered those words? Apparently so, since he was about to march down the aisle with Raylene Rafco! Not that he was in love or anything. No, making his beautiful bookkeepe...

  • Barefoot in the Grass

    Judith Arnold

    A touching and often humorous look at living and loving and surviving in the nineties. By one of Harlequin's most popular romance writers. You'll laugh and cry with Beth Pendleton as she moves from big-city bustle and life-threatening pro...

  • Boy Re-Meets Girl

    Patricia Hagan

    MOST LIKELY TO...MARRY!? After fifteen years, was it too much for Kelly Sinclair to ask that her high school sweetheart at least be fat and bald and boring? Yup. The fact was, the grown-up Robert Brooks was even sexier than before. He was also ric...

  • The Bride Wore Tie-Dye

    Pamela Ingrahm

    "MR. RIGHT, MEET MS. WRONG...." Now that he'd decided it was time to start a family, Trenton Laroquette was searching for exactly the right woman. But somehow his list of suitable candidates had narrowed down to just one: a free-spiri...

  • Bringing Up Babies

    Emma Goldrick

    An accidental mom! After the latest in a long line of romantic disasters, Hope Latimore had decided there was only one thing for it - she would have to enter a convent! That or take the job her father had arranged for her as a stand-in nanny. Only...

  • Christmas Nights

    Sally Wentworth

    Christmas wishes ... Christmas kisses. Paris Reid wasn't prepared to settle for less than the best where men were concerned! But the best was Will Brydon. After their affair had ended disastrously three years ago, Paris hadn't so much as l...

  • A Christmas Proposal

    Betty Neels
    in

    Dr. Oliver Hay-Smythe seemed to have met a modern-day Cinderella! Ever since Bertha's father had remarried, the kindhearted woman had been put upon by her family. She appeared to live in her stepsister's shadow, stuck doing the housework and wear...

  • Cinderfella

    Susan Wiggs
    in

    What the kids want for Christmas: The teenagers at the Santiago Center in Brooklyn want their shelter to stay open. Jack Riley, ace reporter and big-hearted Texan, volunteers at the center. His boss, Madeleine Langston, can grant the kids' wish...

  • The Comeback Mom

    Muriel Jensen

    She'd give anything to go back... On her thirty-fifth birthday, Libby Madison felt full of regrets. She wondered what would have happened all those years ago if she had adopted the two lovable orphans who'd come into her life. The next thing Li...

  • Cowboy Daddy

    Judy Christenberry

    This cowboy had no intention of being a groom... Until he found out he was going to be a daddy! But by then, Janie Dawson refused to marry him. Women! None of the four Randall brothers ever did understand them, and Pete was no exception. But w...

  • Cowboy Pride

    Anne McAllister

    "BRENNA NEEDS A HUSBAND," Jed McCal's nephew Tuck told him. Pregnant and alone, Brenna Jamison was back--trying single-handedly to run her father's touch. "WE NEED A WIFE," Tuck said. If footloose cowboy Jed McCall didn...

  • A Daddy for Christmas

    Rebecca Winters
    in

    Jill Barton loves her role as a stand-in mom for five-year-old Kip. But as soon as Jill meets Kip's father, the gorgeous Zane Doyle, she realizes why all Kip wants is "A DADDY FOR CHRISTMAS" by Rebecca Winters....

  • Desert Wedding

    Alexandra Scott

    Marriage...or mirage? She'd gone to the desert to escape from the past. And in Nathan Trehearn's arms, Georgia Maitland thought she'd found her future. The honeymoon wasn't even over when reality intruded in the shape of Nathan'...

  • Desperately Seeking Daddy

    Arlene James

    WANTED: HUSBAND TO RESCUE HARRIED MOM She had quit high school to get married and raise a family. But Heller Moore's dreams didn't exactly come true. Divorced and working two jobs to keep up the payments on her trailer home, the single mom hardly ha...

  • Discovered: Daddy

    Marilyn Pappano

    THE DADDY RETURNS Faith Harper knew everyone in New Hope, Texas, was wondering who'd fathered her unborn child. But the sweet -- unmarried -- Mom-to-be refused to name the daddy. And then agent Nick Russo unexpectedly returned to town. She co...

  • The Dominant Male

    Sarah Holland

    He knows what he wants Rhiannon was happily engaged to Bobby, who only offered her friendship and security. She thought she didn't want or need anything else -- until she met Gabriel Stone. He had the name of an angel, but the reputation of...

  • Dominic's Child

    Catherine Spencer

    Dominic's child was also Sophie's son... Sophie Casson and Dominic Winter shared one night of love ...the result was Ryan. Sophie was determined to bring the baby up by herself. After all, Dominic had made it perfectly clear that he regarded So...

  • A Family Likeness

    Margot Dalton

    She "sold" her baby... Fifteen years ago desperate circumstances had forced Gina Mitchell to do the unthinkable. Give up her baby daughter hours after birth. Now Alex Colton -- a man she's never met -- has checked into Gina's b...

  • Firm Commitment

    Linda Markowiak

    Michael Chalinski believes in keeping promises Michael Chalinski has promised to put the drunk driver who slammed into his wife's car behind bars. He owes it to his wife's memory, and he owes it to his twelve-year-old daughter, who's growing up w...

  • First-Time Father

    Emma Richmond

    The Good... Brogan Carpenter isn't used to men like Joshua Baynard. What does this tall, dangerously sexy hunk want with her - a widow with a young baby? The Bad... Babies just aren't on Joshua Baynard's agenda. But Brogan is - ...

  • The Fowlers of Sweet Valley

    Francine Pascal

    The women who came before Lila Fowler... Beautiful sixteen-year-old Lili de Beautemps is rescued from guillotine during the French Revolution by a dashing young man--but he disappears before she can even thank him. Will Lili ever see him again? ...

  • Gold Ring of Betrayal

    Michelle Reid

    They've never stopped being married . . . Nicolas Santino doesn't accept that Lia is his daughter. He believes Sara, his wife, cheated on him with another man, and Lia is the result of that betrayal. So Sara and Nicolas are separated ...

  • Grady's Kids

    Bobby Hutchinson
    in

    What the kids want for Christmas: Grady's kids want Fiona to marry their dad and live in their house forever. But Grady, stubborn, hard-up rancher that he is, doesn't want to risk disappointing his kids--or himself. Fiona's fallen in love with ...

  • The Healing Touch

    Rebecca Lang

    Theater nurse Elaine Stewart excelled herself working for the first time with the liver transplant team led by Dr. Raoul Kenton, but the stress had her fainting into his arms, which certainly got his attention! The attraction between them fairly sizz...

  • The Heart Knows Best

    Sondra Stanford

    It took every ounce of courage Diane Hunter possessed to walk into an office and face Jeff Corbett again. Four years earlier a bitter argument had cruelly ruptured their love. Now, while negotiating over her sister's booking at his Las Vegas hotel, t...

  • Heavenly Angels

    Carole Mortimer
    in

    Bethany seems to be the perfect mother for Nick Rafferty's three children -- and the perfect wife for Nick. So perfect, in fact, that Nick suspects he's being watched over by "HEAVENLY ANGELS" by Carole Mortimer....

  • Home for the Holidays // The Year the Cat Saved Christmas

    Barbara Bretton
    in

    College sweethearts almost break up on Christmas Eve, but their wise old cat gets in the way......

  • Honeymoon Assignment

    Sally Carr

    Despite Jake Armstrong's insistence, Sara was convinced that pretending to be the boss's wife was beyond the call of duty! Especially when Jake had been the one who had cruelly rejected her years before. But the story of a lifetime was breaki...

  • Honeymoon for Three

    Sandra Field

    Nine months... Cory Haines wanted a baby -- no strings attached! Her ex-husband had done more than enough to convince her that men were surplus to requirements. Apart from one basic detail... She needed a lover. Someone who would make a baby......

  • Honeymoon Hotline

    Christine Rimmer

    SHE WAS A DOCTOR OF LOVE... Nevada Jones was used to dispensing advice to the lovelorn - only, this time it was clearly a case of physician, heal thyself! Because even though she'd long ago decided that love was only for other people, hard-driving...

  • Honeymoon With a Handsome Stranger

    Elane Osborn

    DO YOU TAKE THIS STRANGER? Just because the man she'd planned to marry had stolen her last dime didn't mean Jillian Gibson was going to let herself be cheated out of her honeymoon, too. The trouble was, the only way she could afford her dream trip...

  • In Roared Flint

    Jan Hudson

    HERE COMES THE BRIDE... Single mom Julie Stevens...is about to get married -- again. Only, this time, she won't be jilted at the altar. Because this time, her groom isn't local bad boy Flint Durham. And this time, she sure as heck isn'...

  • It Takes A Miracle

    Karen Young
    in

    What the kids want for Christmas: Jessica and Jamie Kinsley want their uncle Nathan to get married again to his ex-wife, Emily. She kids want a real family, and now that Nathan's their guardian, they figure he should get back together with Emil...

  • Jessica Goes for Gold

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica is to take part in the California Games. It is the chance of a lifetime and Jessica intends to make the most of her place on the school's gymnastic team. Unfortunately, Dawn Maven, the star of the rival team also wants to win and she will do ...

  • Jilted Bride

    Elizabeth Power

    The marriage takeover It should have been the happiest day of Chelsea's life -- but where was her fiance? Only one man could be behind Chelsea's wedding disaster. Paolo Rossetti. He was her family's enemy and, somehow, Chelsea just kne...

  • Kissing Caroline

    Cheryl Zach

    The last thing Jake Magee needs is another girlfriend. His recent breakup left Jake licking his wounds, and bitter about romance. But everything changes when he meets beautiful but broken-hearted Caroline. Jake decides he'll keep his mind off his own...

  • The Last Honest Man

    Riley Morse

    He knew before she did that her answer would be yes... Jack Graham looked every inch a god as he fearlessly scaled the wall of rock while Hannah McKenzie watched in breathless wonder. No ordinary man could move that fast, or sense her presence so...

  • Living With the Enemy

    Laura Martin

    Fiance or foe? When Lucy Harper reluctantly agreed to use writer Alex Darcy's villa in Majorca to get over her husband's death, she had only one condition -- that her host would keep well out of her way. But Alex had other ideas. Assuming ...

  • Love and War

    Peg Sutherland

    Magdalena Murphy and Clarence Stirling almost got married--50 years ago--but one of them left the other stranded at the altar. The rest is history. The Murphys and the Stirlings were at war. Two generations later, Sandy Murphy and Drew Stirling ju...

  • Mackenzie's Magic

    Linda Howard
    in

    Meet Maris MacKenzie. . . and the handsome stranger she woke up to find in her bed! Unfortunately, she had no memory of Alex MacNeil. . . the previous day. . . or the prize Thoroughbred she had apparently stolen....

  • The Madcap Heiress

    Carrie Alexander

    She's an adventure just waiting to happen... First night on the job baby-sitting his Uncle Rocco's P.I. business and Tony Farentino gets a client. He's not supposed to take clients but, hey, she's offering big money. And she's a gorgeous, incredib...

  • Make Room for Mommy

    Suzanne McMinn

    MAGGIE WELLS WAS A "GREAT GAL." So how come she couldn't get a date? She was getting really tired of spending her weekends in front of the television. So she decided to volunteer at the community center. That's when she met little Brandy. BRANDY ...

  • Making Memories

    Ann Howard White

    SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME Who was she? The sudden amnesia chilled, her blood. Particularly since she was dressed as a prostitute, lying in a disreputable alley-- and straddled by a devastating, leather-clad stranger. Had he just rescued her from ha...

  • A Man from Oklahoma

    Lisa Harris (1)

    PLAYING WITH FIRE Jake Good Thunder--Undercover vice cop. Half Cheyenne, half Irish, he's 100 percent rogue. Julie Fitzjames--Intelligent, gorgeous...and Jake's old flame. Jake and Julie had once shared an explosive relationship back in Okla...

  • Marriage Minded

    Kayla Daniels

    A MAN WITH A PLAN... Just when Sara Moahan thought she'd gotten over the rugged bad boy, Ryder Sloan reappeared on her doorstep. But Sara was no longer the innocent girl who'd once fallen so foolishly in love. She was a single mother, with two littl...

  • Marrying Mom

    Olivia Goldsmith

    Phyllis Geronomous is witty, blunt, razor sharp - and the despair of her family. She's a senior citizen and an original, still trying to run the lives of her three grown children. As far as they're concerned, Phyllis's best attribute is that she's a ...

  • Marrying Nicky

    Vivian Leiber

    It was a green-card wedding... Nicholas Sankovitch needed a wife. And while prim, proper Toria Tryon was a least likely candidate, his eight year old daughter, Anya, was already head over heels in love with her. Single. Thirty. What did Toria h...

  • Megan's Mate

    Nora Roberts

    HER HEART WAS A FORTRESS .... The Calhouns had given sister-in-law Megan O'Riley and her young son a new life. All she wanted now was to put her shameful past behind her--so she buried her passions beneath businesslike efficiency and buttoned-up r...

  • Merry, Merry

    Fern Michaels
    in

    Struggling veterinarian Andi Evans figures her holidays are going to the dogs when she clashes with Peter King, a cosmetics magnate who wants to buy a piece of the land she owns. But the focus soon shifts from property to passion as, this Christmas, ...

  • Montana Lovers

    Jackie Merritt

    LONG, HOT MONTANA NIGHTS... Widowed mom Candace Fanon's treacherous body was betraying her deepest convictions! She couldn't stop thinking about sexy stranger Burke Mallory. He seemed to be everything she and her baby needed. Yet, somehow she knew...

  • Naughty or Nice

    Olga Bicos
    in

    Just when Phoebe Nichols is starting to get cold feet about her Christmas wedding, fate steps in: She's trapped overnight in an elevator with a handsome department store Santa. He's the most impossible man she has ever met --- impossible to resist, i...

  • Night before Christmas

    Sharon Holland

    Jeffrey, an orphan who has nothing but his cat, gets a job at a toy factory where he secretly fixes broken and discarded toys to deliver them to the orphanage, but when the village miser tries to stop Jeffrey's generosity, someone else sees his good ...

  • Now or Never

    Carmen Green

    Hoping to start over in Atlanta after the death of her daughter and the end of her marriage, Mia Jacobs vows to avoid relationships before meeting Adam Webster, whose own losses have made him renew his hope for happiness. Original....

  • Once and Forever

    April Thorne

    Christine Winters planned to fall in love only once and to make that once last forever, but Mark Harrison upset all her plans. Falling in love with him was easy, but how could she hope to make love last when he had no heart to give? She soon le...

  • One Big Happy Family

    Andrea Edwards

    A DATE WITH MR. DESTINY... When Samantha Scott was six years old, a mysterious old woman promised her true love if she found the courage to fight for it. Twenty years later, Sam was convinced that Mr. Right had taken a permanent vacation. Then...

  • The Rancher and the Baby

    Elizabeth August

    ONLY A MOTHER KNOWS Amelia Varden wasn't her baby's natural mother, but she'd raised the little boy from birth. Now, after lying to the world about their family ties, it was time to pay for her deception. Because someone had come to cl...

  • Remember When

    Judith McNaught

    Alone on a moonlit balcony at Houston's White Orchid Charity Ball, Diana Foster had no inkling of the extraordinary journey that would begin that night. Recently jilted by her fiance for a blonde Italian heiress--an insult delivered via a sleazy tabl...

  • The Return of Cord Navarro

    Vella Munn

    SHE'D HAD IT ALL Cord Navarro had been her first love--her only love. He had taken Shannon from girlhood to womanhood, and taught her the ways of his Ute ancestors. SHE'D LOST EVERYTHING It had been seven years since she had lain in her husband'...

  • Santerra's Sin

    Donna Kauffman

    A hero just born for trouble, and a lady strong enough to handle him! She provoked him, tempted him, made him hunger for what he could never have, but if he managed to keep her alive, would he ever be able to let her go? HE LIKED HIS SALSA HOT, AN...

  • The Second Mrs. Adams

    Sandra Marton

    An accident... Amnesia.... A chance to fall in love all over again! David Adams is going to have to let his wife back into his life. He'd been about to divorce Joanna, when she had the accident. True, sheer undergone a complete personality ch...

  • Second-Best Wife

    Rebecca Winters

    Luca della Provere was all Gabriella Holt had ever wanted in a man and more -- tall, dark and devilishly handsome. Gaby had taken one look into his eyes and fallen -- hard. But it hadn't taken her long to discover that Luke was well and truly out...

  • Silent Honor

    Danielle Steel

    A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions. His eighteen-year-old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions a...

  • Silver Bells

    Debbie Macomber
    in

    Celebrate the magic of Christmas with the Manning family. . It wasn't easy for Phillip Lark to single-handedly raise his rambunctious teenage daughter. But the girl had hatched a plot to find her father a wife, and lovely Carrie Weston seemed to fi...

  • Some Kind of Hero

    Sandy Steen

    TEXAS MEN MAGAZINE PRESENTS: Bachelor of the Month--Jared Markham This tall, gorgeous game warden is a real lone wolf. He's yearning for a woman to end his solitary days--and nights. Jared Markham isn't looking for love but he'd sure like a...

  • Storybook Bride

    Pat Montana

    STUBBORN COWBOY Kody Sanville had vowed never to trust a woman with his heart. The only thing the handsome half-breed held dear was his ranch. But with lawyers nipping at his boots, Kody was suddenly forced to do something he despised ...ask a bea...

  • Stryker's Wife

    Dixie Browning

    MR. NOVEMBER Reluctant Bachelor: Kurt Stryker didn't want to marry, but he sure needed a wife! Unsuspecting Bride: Sweet, sexy Debranne Kiley. The Proposal: Gulp! Rugged Kurt Stryker wasn't a man of many words, but he did have one heck of a h...

  • Surrender the Shadow

    Sandra Chastain

    To possess her, he had to cross the thin line between love and betrayal... No one could get in or out of dangerous places better than Conner Preston, the handsome enigma nicknamed the Shadow by his Green Beret buddies, but Erica Fallon presented a...

  • Temporary Husband

    Day Leclaire

    Wynne Sommers was invited to a wedding -- her own! Wynne Sommers needed a husband to secure her inheritance. She got Jake Hondo! He was a mean, moody rancher who needed to get married, on paper at least. Wynne wasn't his idea of a tempora...

  • Terms of Surrender

    Kate Hoffmann

    Feuds + Families Rivals + Lovers Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: DeWildes, Paris. M...

  • There's Something About the Nanny...

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Alan Magnus didn't believe in miracles... But his daughter finally liked one of the nannies! In fact, Deanna insisted she had wished for Misty (Elf of the Morning Mist), and Alan had to admit there was something different about this nanny.... ...

  • To Save his Child

    Margaret Watson

    THE WOMAN HE'S SWORN TO FORGET Caine O'Roarke worked alone and he liked it that way. Romantic entanglements had no place in a mercenary's world. He'd made only one mistake: Lexie Hollister, the boss's daughter. Forbidden in more ways than one. Wa...

  • Too Wise to Wed?

    Penny Jordan

    The seductress! Star Flower: She's cynical about marriage. No man really wants to be tied down. What he wants is fun without responsibility. Kyle Henson: He's opposed to sex without emotional commitment. So just why is he accepting din...

  • The Trial of Jessica Wakefield

    Francine Pascal

    When Jessica is arrested for cocaine possession, her relationship with new boyfriend Nick is tested, and Alexandra, who has received evidence of Jessica's innocence from a drug-abuse hotline, considers breaking confidentiality. Original....

  • The Trophy Wife

    Rosalie Ash

    Marry in haste... India had married Brad after a whirlwind romance -- and discovered his deep, dark secret just too late. Result: she'd fled from the groom before the wedding day was over. Brad refused to accept that their marriage was fini...

  • Trouble at Lone Spur

    Roz Denny Fox

    The Lone Spur Ranch Crockett County, Texas Lizbeth Robbins has been following the rodeo circuit for the past six years, learning the farrier's trade, dragging her little girl from town to town. But now her daughter's in school and Lizbeth...

  • The Unexpected Father

    Kathryn Ross

    Pregnant and alone--but not for long! Samantha Walker is facing a new life in a new town, widowed and pregnant. A man just isn't on her list of priorities until she meets Josh Hamilton. As far as Samantha can tell, Josh is in no position to...

  • A Vision of Sugar Plums

    Jennifer Blake
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    Meghan Castle is a real Scrooge about the holidays --- until she finds an abandoned baby in her store on Christmas Eve. Change is certainly in the air --- especially when late shopper Rick Wallman walks in with yet another delightful holiday surprise...

  • A Week 'til the Wedding

    Beth Henderson

    The good news: The man of your dreams is finally ready to tie the knot. The bad news: He's going to marry someone else. Brenda Burton has just one week to stop Fletch Layton from making the biggest mistake of his life. His witchy girlfriend...

  • When Night Falls

    Cheryln Biggs

    From behind his mask of mystery he dared to uncover his soul... Scarred by tragedy and devastated by guilt, Anton Reichard had hidden himself deep in the Louisiana bayou, running his empire with ruthless indifference -- until reporter Dani Coronea...

  • A Wild West Christmas

    Linda Turner
    in

    Years ago Priscilla Rawlings gave Wyatt Chandler her innocence. He repaid her by running out on her. Now he'd come back to the Rawlings ranch for Christmas, and Priscella had to face the one man who had broken her heart. . . but whom she'd never stop...

  • The Wolf and the Dove

    Linda Turner

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE ENCOUNTER Dr. Lucas Greywolf had carved a life for himself in Wyoming, tending to the needs of his people -- until Rachel Fort...

  • Won't You Be My Husband?

    Linda Varner

    Lauren West: Imagine, Nick Gatewood, the sexy town bad boy, gallantly rescuing me from an obnoxious male pursuer. But did he have to say we were engaged?! Nick Gatewood: It was nothing, really. Especially because I need one night of Lauren's time,...

  • Wrong Bride, Right Groom

    Merline Lovelace

    YOU MAY KISS...THE MAID OF HONOR! When her flighty sister decided she couldn't go through with her wedding, Abby Davis reluctantly agreed to give the groom-to-be the bad news. And when the prospective groom was assigned to active duty, his best ma...

  • Hope

    Len Deighton

    SPY, STAR, SURVIVOR As the Berlin Wall begins to crumble, Bernard Samson is caught up in an ever-changing situation and the devious squabbles that infest the service. And as cold-war loyalties shift in the freezing wind, Samson is forced back into...

  • Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer

    Dorothy Gilman

    In response to a desperate SOS, Kadi Hopkirk flies to the African country of Ubangiba, where her childhood friend, Sammat, is soon to be crowned king. Mrs. Pollifax, reluctant to allow the girl to venture alone into what she fears may be grave danger...

  • Stealth

    M.E. Morris

    Relinquishing his command of the U.S.S. Ford to take part in a top-secret military mission, Captain Joshua Dunne, aided by counterpart Sheila "Frosty" Kohn, must stop a nuclear terrorist in communist China. Original....

  • Beggars Ride

    Nancy Kress

    Two hundred years in the future regular human beings hate and fear the Sleepless and the SuperSleepless, genetically modified humans who are immune to disease and hunger, and need no sleep. When the Sleepless plot to take over the world and leave reg...

  • Blood Brothers

    Steven Barnes

    Austin Tucker was a Green Beret, a man with lightning reflexes and the training to use them. But his life was shattered one Thanksgiving night when strangers invaded his home and killed his son, his daughter, and his wife. Derek Waites was once an...

  • Carol for Another Christmas

    Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    From the Nebula Award winning author comes this modern Christmas classic.   The chief executive of a Seattle-based high-tech company, Monica Banks is a workaholic who has closed herself off to any kind of home life, family, or love. Then one sn...

  • Convergence

    Sharon Green

    In a world of magical adepts, every quarter-century the five greatest talents must be brought together. For only this powerful union of strangers can prevent the prophesied return of the Evil Ones who once enslaved the land. Lorand is of Earth, a ...

  • Dragoncharm

    Graham Edwards

    The Old Ones had prophesied that someday dragon would fight dragon until there were none left in the world, and now this prophesy begins to come true as the legendary Charmed Dragons confront an army of Naturals, and Fortune, a half-caste, holds the ...

  • The Dragonstone

    Dennis L. McKiernan

    VISION OF A FUTURE THAT MUST NOT BE... Arin's visions come to her unbidden, rising from the campfire that she sits by, night after night. They are flashes of things long past--or yet to come. They are beautiful, terrifying. But never before has sh...

  • Hogfather

    Terry Pratchett

    It's that most wonderful time of the year, Hogswatchnight, when the Hogfather himself dons his red suit and climbs in his sleigh pulled by--of course!--eight hogs, bringing gifts to all the boys and girls of Discworld. But this year someone else is r...

  • Indomitable Thunder

    Mark Acres

    Since the Darkfall, life in Mekanus had become constant war, infested by violent Nocturnals, Spikefists, Steel Devils, Axe Head, and the Red Hands, until Saraan and her brother Jordun, the orphaned children of a merchant prince, join forces to preven...

  • A Man Betrayed

    J.V. Jones

    At Castle Harvell demented Prince Kylock grabs the reins of power and hate by murdering his father. Harvell's two young refugees are torn apart by the storms of war: Headstrong young Melliandra is captured by brutal slavers and Jack, whose wild powe...

  • The Message

    K.A. Applegate

    **We can’t tell you who we are. Or where we live. It’s too risky, and we’ve got to be careful. Really careful. So we don’t trust anyone. Because if they find us. . .well, we just won’t let them find us. The thing you should know is that ...

  • Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles

    Pat Murphy

    Growing up on the edge of Missouri wilderness in the 1830s, Nadya knew she was not like other girls. But when she became a woman and the change came, she discovered just how different she was. For Nadya was a shapechanger, a werewolf like her moth...

  • Present Tense

    Dave Duncan

    THE GREAT GAME IS AFOOT! In the midst of the horror of the first World War, a stranger falls from nowhere into the mud and death of the Flanders battlefield--bruised, babbling, and star naked... with a remarkable story to tell. Wrongly accused ...

  • Rebel Moon

    Bruce Bethke

  • Sabriel

    Garth Nix

    Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to f...

  • Spider-Man: The Octopus Agenda

    Diane Duane

    An investigation into a simple cellular-phone fraud leads both Peter Parker and his alter-ego, the Amazing Spider-Man, to a fiendish plot: using unique counterfeiting equipment and a devastatingly large stock-pile of bombs, someone plans to desta...

  • The Dawn Star

    Stobie Piel

    UNTAMED DESIRE He was quite simply the most exciting hunk of a man Nisa Calydon had ever seen. Sececca's sinewy strength and chiseled features touched a chord deep inside her - reminding her of a love long gone, of the cruel betrayal of a foolish ...

  • Alistair Maclean's Code Breaker

    Alastair MacNeill

    At the Lisbon airport, a world-renowned cryptologist is captured along with vital coded documents about the operations of UNACO, a top-secret security organization, and UNACO's top agents race to find the kidnappers and find themselves confronting a ...

  • American Blood

    Jason Manning

    Another installment in the epic Falconer series by the author of the High Country frontier novels follows Hugh Falconer--tracker, trapper, explorer, and mountain man extraordinaire--as he leads an American army into perilous new territory. Original....

  • Andromeda: The Flying Warrior Princess

    Laura Geringer

    Trained as a warrior and longing for adventure, the beautiful Andromeda, a princess from the island of Joppa, teams up with Perseus to slay Cetus, a horrible sea serpent that is terrorizing her kingdom. Original....

  • Angels Don't Know Karate

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new karate teacher who seems to be guarding the kids and granting wishes really be an angel? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! "Why would an angel come here?" E...

  • Astronauts Are Sleeping

    Natalie Standiford

    Illustrated in full color. Inspired by a description of astronauts asleep aboard the Space Shuttle, Astronauts are Sleeping is a bedtime book that is at once a reverie and a visual tour de force. A bright, eager voice describes three sleeping astrona...

  • Ball Hog

    Hank Herman

    Jo Meyerson doesn't care that her annoying brother, Otto, sinks the most baskets for the rival Sampton Slashers. After all, she's on the Branford Bulls -- the team that crushed the Slashers in the last championship! But when Otto points out that she'...

  • Battle against the Sun

    Scott Peterson

  • Bed and Breakfast

    Lois Battle

    IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME in Beaufort, South Carolina. After Josie Tatternall -- a military widow turned B & B proprietor -- witnesses her best friend's narrow brush with death, she decides that life is too short to let old grievances stand in the way of f...

  • The Best American Short Stories 1996

    John Edgar Wideman

    A collection of short stories selected from national magazines and small literary journals features the work of authors such as Robert Olen Butler, Alice Adams, Rick Bass, Mary Gordon, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lynn Sharon Schwartz....

  • Beverly & Marigold

    Val Coleman

    In a first group of stories, a young boy named Beverly moves East to join the theater, the army, and the Southern Freedom Movement and finally becomes aware of the world of the homeless, which comes alive in a second group of tales about Marigold, a ...

  • Big Babies

    Sherwood Kiraly

  • Big Bear's Treasury; The Red Collection

    Candlewick Press

  • The Big Turkey Escape

    Jean Waricha

    Spending Thanksgiving on a farm with her family, Michelle befriends Tom the turkey and has lots of fun feeding him and cleaning his cage, until she discovers with horror that Tom is to be the main course for Thanksgiving dinner. Original....

  • Blast

    Diane Hoh

    When an explosion destroys the science building at Grant University, Sam and Will put their own lives at risk rescuing people still buried in the rubble, and when the building collapses on Sam, Susannah fears for his life. Original....

  • Bright Lights

    Sarah Ferguson

    Visiting her look-alike friend Emily in New York City, Princess Amanda looks forward to visiting all the sites of the Big Apple, and their adventures include witnessing a robbery plot and their friendship with a homeless boy. Original....

  • Broken Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    When a sick, abused horse is rescued and brought to Pine Hollow, every effort is made to save the horse's life, and Lisa, remembering the death of another abused horse, struggles to restore the horse's broken spirit....

  • Bruce the Balding Moose: 3-D Picture Book

    Corinne Mellor

    When Bruce the Moose looses his antlers and needs to do something before the big dance, young readers can choose to put Bruce in one of three disguises or find his antlers by lifting-the-flaps in this fun-filled, interactive book....

  • Bugs Bunny in Space

    James Preller

  • Can You Dance, Dalila?

    Nancy Carpenter

    Noticing Dalila's frustration at not being able to dance any of the dances she tries--such as the Waltz, Irish jig, and tango--Dalila's grandmother takes her to a performance of the West African Troupe, where she finally discovers her place in the wo...

  • Candlewick Book of First Rhymes

    Candlewick Press

    A fun-filled anthology of easy-to-read rhymes for young children includes classic Mother Goose rhymes as well as original poetry by today's best-known children's writers, accompanied by artwork from a variety of noted illustrators....

  • A Cat's Christmas

    Stefanie Samek

    The author of Purring in the Light: Near Death Experiences of Cats shares ideas for cat-themed ornaments, gift suggestions for even the most pampered feline, and recipes for holiday treats. 50,000 first printing....

  • Certain Poor Shepherds

    Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

    Bright and dazzling, a star appears behind the cedars on the eastern skyline. It is big and powerful, and it has a pure, clean scent, like something halfway between honey and water. Lila, the sheepdog, and Ima, the goat, are compelled to follow the s...

  • The Chameleon

    Sean Martin Blain

    Three murders, with one link. In each case the police are handed a ready-made suspect - someone the victim knows - and forensic evidence for conviction. But apparent coincidence spirals into incredulity when an Irish detective unearths new evidence t...

  • Christmas Magic

    Patricia Hermes

    Unable to stay out of mischief during the holiday season, Katie Potts soon has everyone including her best friend mad at her, chooses her twin brother's name for the Secret Santa exchange, and wonders if Santa knows of her antics. Original....

  • Cry Baby

    Phyllis Karas

    Feeling like the black sheep of her family when she prefers lacrosse to tennis, a fifteen-year-old girl learns terrible secrets that threaten to upset her home life, her best friend's happiness, and her relationship with a new boyfriend. Original....

  • Dark Sister

    Lynn V. Andrews

    In Dark Sister, Lynn V. Andrews sheds brilliant light on the dangerous, destructive aspects of women's power by following the remarkable story of Sin Corazn, an initiate in the Sisterhood of the Shields. As she begins her apprenticeship, Corazn is en...

  • Dear Future

    Fred D'Aguiar

    Ever since Red Head had been hit in the head by an ax at age nine, he has experienced terrifying visions of the future, and his magically inclined family members help him accept the strangeness and wonder of his life, but the possible reelection of a...

  • Deep Water

    Sally Gunning

  • Dragonfry!

    David Jacobs

    When toxic waste in the local swamp causes dragonflies to reach a killer size, a swarm of the prehistoric-sized creatures take over the local museum, trapping Judy Tyler and her neighbors inside. Original....

  • Enemy

    Dina Anastasio

    Stranded on Tartarus, the 58th Squadron is subjected to an advanced form of chemical warfare, an electromagnetic lightning storm that creates unprovoked violence, and if the Squadron cannot find a way off the planet, they will go to war with one anot...

  • The Exit Club

    Shaun Clarke

  • Fangoria Vampires

    Tony Timpone

    Since the nineteenth century, the vampire has inspired a wealth of unforgettable cinema, television, and literature, and now this anthology brings together the best of the worst, from Vlad the Impaler to Tom Cruise, from Nosferatu to Anne Rice, into ...

  • Fifteen and Screaming

    Fleur Beale

    Mum was sick, Jude was crazy and Gina was nuts. Life was one huge bundle of laughs. Lily has a crushing load of problems to cope with for someone of just 15, but there are a few light spots - friends and help can come from surprising quarters....

  • Fifth-Grade Frankenstein

    Terri Fields

    When an anticipated week of easy coasting with a substitute teacher gives way to terror under the thumb of the meanest substitute in the world, Allen turns to his witch friend for help, with disastrous results. Original....

  • Flight of the Blackbird

    Faye Mcdonald Smith

    Meet the Burke family: Mel, her husband Builder, and their daughter Sasha. They are the very image of upwardly mobile Americans--full members of Atlanta's black professional elite. Yet when Mel loses her corporate job due to the downsizing trend swee...

  • The Fragile Species

    Lewis Thomas

    The author of The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail now raises challenging questions about some of the major issues of our time--AIDS, drug abuse, and aging. With extraordinary perception, he discusses topics such as evolutionary biology, ...

  • Friends to the Finish

    Allison Estes

  • Gahan Wilson's Even Weirder

    Gahan Wilson

    Gahan Wilson's Even Weirder collects more cartoons from the macabre master and longtime Playboy contributor. Nearly 150 Gahan Wilson cartoons appear for the very first time anywhere in Gahan Wilson's Even Weirder. An additional 90 cartoons make their...

  • Germs! Germs! Germs!

    Bobbi Katz

    A rhyming story introduces young readers to germs and where they live, from food left out of the refrigerator to the inside of the body, and offers gentle rhyming instructions on how to keep germs away. Original....

  • A Ghost in the Music

    John Treadwell Nichols

    At forty-eight, Bart Darling is about to perform a movie stunt that will in all likelihood kill him. Lorraine, his hillbilly girlfriend who is carrying his child, gives him an ultimatum: call it off or she'll split. Bart summons his emotionally dista...

  • Girlhood Journeys: Juliet

    Anna Kirwan

    When Juliet learns that her friend, Marguerite, has been engaged to be married against her will to a stranger who recently came to town, she devises a courageous plan to set things right and save a her friend from a tragic event....

  • The Great Eye

    Phyllis Shalant

    A touching novel about a young girl's struggle to deal with the loss of her father, who moved out of the home, and sister, who has moved away to college, describes how, through a series of events and self-reflection, she finds the strength to cope an...

  • Great Writers and Kids Write Mystery Stories

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Halfback Attack // Crackerjack Halfback

    Matt Christopher

    Freddie Chase is a good football player with one major flaw: He's afraid to tackle. He tries hard to cover up his fear, but soon Coach Sears and the other Sandpipers know all about it. The team is fighting to finish the season at the top of the leagu...

  • Happy Hanukkah: A Look and Find Book

    Margery Gold

  • Harald the Ruthless: The Saga of the Last Viking

    Andrea Hopkins

    The famous Icelandic saga of Harald the Ruthless and his bloody conquests, battles and oaths, kingdoms lost and won, and treason and honor is retold in an ingenious graphic novel complete with stunning illustrations, historical notes, and maps....

  • Her Way

    Catherine Cookson

    In Her Way Dame Catherine Cookson sings and reflects,on the songs that evoke her most poignant and vivid memories. At the age of thirteen Catherine Cookson was told that she couldn't sing. From then on she suppressed a talent that only came to li...

  • Hijo de hombre

    Augusto Roa Bastos

  • Hop It Duggy Dog

    Brian Ball

    This is the third story to feature Duggy Dog. In this new adventure, he is desperately trying to catch up on his sleep after a rather disturbed night, but various things conspire to disturb him until eventually he decides he may as well give up and j...

  • A Horse for All Seasons

    Sheila Kelly Welch

  • The Hounds of Heaven

    Willy Poole

    Major Lord Frederick Fitzhugh has to leave the Life Guards due to problems with Lloyds. He becomes a master of foxhounds instead, but when foxhunting is banned, he takes the hounds to the Northern Balkans to hunt wolves - and beautiful countessses....

  • Human Factor

    Jessica Palmer

    It's 2334 and after 300 years of war, the world is at peace. However, Dirk is not happy with the world he has helped to create until he thinks he's discovered the secret of warp drive. The problem is that someone wants warp drive for themselves and t...

  • Hurry-up Halloween Costume

    Sarah Albee

  • Ibiza Beach

    Simon Gandolfi

  • The Iliad & The Odyssey

    Marcia Williams

    Homer's three-thousand-year-old epic poems are retold for a young audience, chronicling the story of the Trojan War and the exploits and adventures of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back from the war, presented in full-color, comic-strip style i...

  • Invasion of Mean Screen, the Computer Monster

    Scott Peterson

  • It Takes Two

    Maeve Haran

    Top divorce lawyer Tess Brien knows how messy and destructive courtroom battles can be, but she finds herself confronting the same realities as her hapless clients when her husband Stephen abandons his career to pursue a lifelong dream, sending famil...

  • Johnny Critelli and the Knifemen

    Frank Lentricchia

    Two short novels, one about three generations of an Italian-American family in 1950s New York and the other about a respectable gynecologist who turns his self-hatred on everyone around him echo the themes of family and violence in relationships. 10,...

  • Kai: A Mission for Her Village

    Dawn C. Gill Thomas

    When a famine hits the Yoruba village of Ife, in what is now Nigeria, Kai is selected by the king to go in search of help from the Yoruba in the North and travels great distances throughout her country and learns many things along the way....

  • Kancil and the Crocodiles: A Tale from Malaysia

    Noreha Yussof Day