Books Published in September 1988

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — SEPTEMBER 1988

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New Books List: 487 titles

  • Zelda Strikes Again!

    Lynn Hall

    Five more episodes in the zany life of Zelda Hammersmith, in which she crashes a stranger's funeral, sneaks on board an airplane, causes her substitute teacher to collapse, and gets in all kinds of trouble....

  • A Woman By Design

    Frances Kennett

    There was never a woman like Alice... Daring, defiant, hauntingly beautiful, Alice Hardy rose from a bleak childhood in the windswept Irish town of Cork to the heights of international acclaim. With a lust for adventure, she struck out on her own. D...

  • The Wizard of Whitechapel

    Simon Hawke

    IT ALL STARTED WITH A DREAM... A telepathic dream shared by a bumbling young wizard and a beautiful, streetwise thief; a dream that called them to England to save the last survivor of Camelot. Only when they awoke, the nightmare became real. An...

  • Without A Trace

    K.K. Beck

    Sunny Sinclair hasn't seen her fellow spy and
    wartime lover Alex Markoff since V-E Day. But their once-passionate love affair is about to come back to haunt her
    She must find her former lover For years, she has thought he was dead. But now, w...

  • The Witch's Handbook

    Malcolm Bird

  • Winter's Daughter

    Kathleen Creighton

    Nothing stirred Tannis Winter like the plight of the homeless, and she'd devoted herself to aiding the street people she'd chosen for her research. But when a mysterious-looking derelict began following her in her bag-lady disguise, she felt a moment...

  • Winner's Waltz

    Barbara J. Mumma

    Skating partners Whitney Backman and Brent Marks find their relationship changed after one ill-fated date, but the appearance of an attractive East German defector makes Whitney realize how much Brent means to her...

  • Win, Lose, Draw

    Sara Stamey

    KurtisP385XL47Ruth: Game Changer. Prodigal daughter. Spy.

    The Resistance coil is heating up on the primitive forest-world Andura, where human rebels fight the Cyber entities that control the peaceful but static galaxy according to strict WorldP...

  • The Willow Maiden

    Meghan Collins

  • Whose Shoes Are These?

    Ron Roy

  • White Light // Mazurka

    Campbell Armstrong

    In international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong’s page-turning thriller, counterterrorism agent Frank Pagan races against the clock to defuse a confrontation with the Russians that might change the map of Europe Escorting a hard-drinking, fu...

  • Where Are You Going, Emma?

    Jeanne Titherington

    Emma climbs over the stone wall in the meadow, on the first stage of a journey of discovery and adventure. "This quiet celebration of the beauty of nature and the appreciation of solitude combines with the reassuring presence of a loved one, resultin...

  • Wheel of the Winds

    M.J. Engh

    “This unusual, enjoyable second novel by Engh (Arslan) is a charming picaresque adventure set on another planet. To this unnamed planet comes the odd-looking man known as the Exile. The Warden, Lethgro, has captured the Exile after his escape f...

  • What's So Special about This Face?

    Jane Belk Moncure

  • What Feels Best?

    Anita Harper

  • The Whale's Footprints

    Rick Boyer

    When Doc and Mary's son Jack brings his friend Andrew Cunningham to Woods Hole and the guest is found dead the next morning, Jack is blamed, and Doc Adams becomes Cape Cod's temporary medical examiner to learn the truth...

  • A Week of Raccoons

    Gloria Whelan

  • Wee Willie Winkie

    Rudyard Kipling

    AT THE PIT'S MOUTH A WAYSIDE COMEDY THE HILL OF ILLUSION A SECOND RATE WOMAN ONLY A SUBALTERN THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW AND OTHER TALES THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING WEE WILLIE W...

  • The Web She Weaves

    Marcia Muller

  • We Think the World of You

    J.R. Ackerley

    We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as “a fairy tale for adults.” Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is i...

  • War of Worlds

    J.M. Dillard

  • War of the Maelstrom

    Jack L. Chalker

    The Magic of the Changewinds.....could alter the shape of every man and beast in Akahlar. The Evil of The Inner Hells....could take this power away from the Storm Princess, and place it in the destructive hands of the horned demon Klittichorn....

  • Wanderlust

    Elieba Levine

    ADVENTUREFrom New York to Kenya to Katmandu, Jane Perry sets out to explore the world and finds romance and excitement at every turn...PASSIONFrom Bali to Sydney to Hawaii, Jane follows her heart's desires... and leaves behind men who will never forg...

  • Voyage of the Planetslayer

    Jefferson Swycaffer

  • A Void in Hearts

    William G. Tapply

    A private detective is dead, and Brady suspects it’s murder. Les Katz may well be scum. A private detective, he does not hesitate to take the case when a Farrah Fawcett look-alike hires him to tail her husband. The photos he secures suggest ...

  • Visions

    Martin A. Grove

    Jason Coleman fights to keep his position as the head of Parliament Television Productions and Gillian Audley plots her climb to the top of the network, in a story of ruthlessness and ambition in the television industry...

  • A Very Parochial Murder

    John William Wainwright

  • Velocity

    Kristin McCloy

    A novel exploring the connection between grief and love, this is the story of Ellie Lowell, a college graduate shattered by her mother's sudden death, whose return to the rural North Carolina town of her childhood marks the beginning of an obsessive,...

  • Valley of Rainbows

    Rita Rainville

    A STRANGE ENCHANTMENT Cody Hunter had a job to do, building a cultural center on the island of Hawaii, and nothing was going to stop him--not frightened workmen, not missing keys, not things that went bump in the night, and certainly not Liann Mur...

  • USSA: The Past Is Another Country

    Peter Wludyka

    USSA: The Past is Another Country is about what might have been as seenthrough the eyes of 17 year old Alex Nurov, son of a prominent Russian fatherand a beautiful American mother. Growing up on a barrier island nearCharleston, S.C., Alex has to deal...

  • Ursula's Gift

    R. DiSilvestro

    Attempting to cope with life as a werewolf, young insurance executive Stanley Merriwether gets engaged, begins therapy with a psychiatrist who moonlights as a murderer, avoids his big-game-hunter father, and meets a motherly vampire...

  • Unwilling Heart

    Sharon Gillenwater

    It was unthinkable that the dashing and impossibly handsome Earl of Beckford should have romantic intentions towards a mere sevant. But lovely Sloane Donovan was no ordinary governess. She could ride a high-strung thoroughbred as well as any man, cha...

  • The Unknown Reality, Volume One

    Jane Roberts

  • Unforgettable

    Penny Richards

    SHE WAS ACTING LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL WITH A CRUSH. Like a haunting melody, their love was unforgettable. Amanda Farrell couldn't remember ever being young. She'd struggled for years as a single parent, finally earning a teaching degree and buying a modes...

  • Unforgettable

    Maura Seger

    Free at last... BLACK SHEEP'S RETURN Patrick had wasted five years of his life in prison for a crime he hadn't committed, but now he was back -- with vengeance on his mind. He intended to find the real criminal and make him pay for send...

  • Tyrone the Horrible

    Hans Wilhelm

  • Two for the Road

    Kit Windham

    When Madeline Dunbar signed up for a bicycle ride across Georgia, she didn't expect to face the collapsing tenant, blistering heat. . . And irresistible it handsome Terry Cronin. He offers to be her partner for the week-long ride-he'll take care of t...

  • Twisted Trails

    Jon Sharpe

  • The Turkey War

    Douglas Unger

  • Tucson

    A.R. Riefe

    A strong man and a gallant woman-in a treacherous land of danger and desire. -- The Arizona territory-where the Apache ran rampant as the distant battles in the Civil War drew away the U. S. Army. It was here that Tucson's impenetrable Fort Lowell ...

  • The Truth About Lorin Jones

    Alison Lurie

    Polly Alter, a single parent and compassionate feminist, researches the untimely death of painter Lorin Jones, only to be exposed to fast-paced worlds beyond her experience and her own difficult questions...

  • Trust

    Rita Clay Estrada

    The Montclair Emeralds and Trust Growing up in a truck stop didn't mean Katherine O'Malley didn't aspire to more. Stomeday she was going to be top-notch secretary. And in the meantime she also planned to convince millionaire Clay Reynolds that-rough...

  • True Colors

    Mary Blayney

    "HEY, MOM! TOM WINESKI'S RIGHT HERE IN JACKSON!" In Jackson? He was in her house! When single mother Janelle Harper woke up in her Wisconsin hometown, little did she know she would meet a man with enough sexual electricity to power the entire stat...

  • The Trouble With Thorny

    Lori Copeland

    Like father, like son Chelsey Stevens didn't know who was worse -- Thorny Bradford, the newest resident of Rosehaven, or his handsome son, Greg, whose estate was next door. As director of the upscale retirement home, it was Chelsey's responsibilit...

  • Trouble

    Helen Cresswell

  • Tracks

    Louise Erdrich

    Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people ...

  • Track of the Bear

    R.A. Montgomery

    CAN YOU SURVIVE THE ARCTIC TO SOLVE A DEADLY MYSTERY? Years ago your great-grandfather, the famous explorer Red Olsen, disappeared during an expedition to the Artic. You've always been convinced that Red discovered a small island there, even though ...

  • Touch the Stars

    Lynda Ward

    ALL HER LIFE SHE HAD PLAYED IT SAFE Now, having left a bad marriage and set up her own public-relations business in Denver, Kate Welles Brock was getting the first taste of what it felt like to really live. But living meant taking risks. Philan...

  • A Time to Love

    Beryl Kingston

    First published in 1988, A Time to Love is a a story of two lives meeting.

    Ellen Murphy was born to a world of rotting slums and starving children. Determined to escape from poverty and her drunken Irish father, she takes a job as a shop g...

  • Time Bomb and Zahndry Others

    Timothy Zahn

  • A Time and a Place

    Laura Gilmour Bennett

  • Till We Meet Again

    Judith Krantz

    Sweeping from the music halls of Belle Epoque Paris to Hollywood in the '30s, from World War II England to the contemporary vineyards and chateaux of Champagne, Till We Meet Again tells the story of three extraordinary women who never fail to accept ...

  • Thunder in the East

    Mack Maloney

    FREEDOM'S WATERSHED Disarmed and leaderless after a savage Russian sneak attack, the United States is united no longer. But a lone jet fighter ace has emerged to, lift America from the ashes of defeat. A fearless warrior of the skies, he has c...

  • Three Books by Richard Bach

    Richard Bach

  • The Things I Did for Love

    Ellen Conford

  • That Near and Distant Place

    Patricia Wright

    Here, the next four hundred years of Furnance Green begins, with a tale of secret bastardy and the violence of the Civil War â€" with the terror of the all-powerful smuggling gangs who held a county in craven fear. It tells of Liddy, who worked an...

  • That Malcolm Girl

    Parris Afton Bonds

    COLLISION COURSE! Roberta Malcolm had spent her life on the Mescalero ranch, and all her dreams centered on the high desert, the stark beauty of the West and a cutting-horse operation of her own. Then Hollywood -- and Jed Pulaski -- came to Mesca...

  • Tender Persuasion

    Sara Wood

    She couldn't admit that she loved him When widowed Jade Kendall sold her debt-ridden English manor house to Dane King, she was sure that such a city slicker would never last there. However, Dane, the attractive owner and literary agent for ...

  • Tender Is the Knight

    Jennifer West

    Juliet de Blaise's secure world was vanishing in a puff of smoke! She'd been content with her straitlaced fiance--until a wily conjurer cast a spell . . . and a mysterious knight galloped into her life. Though gritty Rocco Marriani rescued her from p...

  • Ten Tales of Christmas

    Lynne G. Miller

  • Ten Little Indians

    E. Patrick Murray

    HIDE AND SEEK Ten-year-old Shayla Bennett was proud of her Indian heritage. And when her foster parents were killed in a freak accident, she decided to survive on her own in the mountains of Montana -- just like a real Indian. She’d hide and s...

  • Temptations

    Elizabeth Bernard

    The glamorous life.... Leah Stephenson can't believe it. Her ex-partner, James Cummings, is back in San Francisco -- to star in a movie. And teenage ballet sensation Andrei Levintoff will appear in the same film! Leah and her friends are dying to fi...

  • Temptation's Darling

    Joanna Jordan

    LOVE'S GAMBLE A fiercely independent mountain girl, January Jones had no false illusions about men --not after escaping her abusive father, who was planning to sell her into a loathsome marriage. Alone on the trail west to join the Oklahoma Land R...

  • A Taste of Honey

    Jane Gentry

    WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY? Susannah Reid was content with her life...until Jefferson Cody hit town. She'd heard the worst about this rebel -- he was no gentleman and certainly wouldn't respect a lady. Susannah knew better than to let good old-f...

  • Tales of Trickery from the Land of Spoof

    Alvin Schwartz

  • Taking Savannah

    Pepper Adams

    STILL MARRIED! After six years, Savanah Winslow had finally forgotten her whirlwind marriage to Beau. She had a very nice life taking care of her elderly aunts and the product of that disastrous relationship --her son, Kit. Then Beau arrived with ...

  • Swordswoman

    Jessica Amanda Salmonson

  • Sword-Singer

    Jennifer Roberson

    THE PLACE OF SWORDS--- It was here that Del and Tiger -- she among the greatest of Northern sword masters, he a Southron warrior of legendary skills -- must make their way to free Del from the life curse under which she traveled. For this was where ...

  • The Sweethearts Dance

    Leonore Fleischer

  • Sweet Hoyden

    Rachelle Edwards

    Banished To The Country For The Season! 'Twas A Fate Worse Than Death! Pandora was outraged! Her first London Season as Lady Asheville and her husband deemed her conduct unbecoming to her new position. Worse, he'd prescribed a Season at Brocklesby ...

  • Sweet Dreams Clown Arounds

    Joanna Cole

  • Swampfire

    Patricia Potter

    A dangerous game... Defying her Tory father, Samantha Chatham donned a boyish masquerade and joined the notorious raiders tormenting the British in the Carolina swamps. Caught in the trap of her own deception, Samantha struggled with her longing f...

  • Survival Arts

    Ian Wedde

  • Summer Light

    Jude O'Neill

    Conservative Molly Proctor cherished stability. Yet one dizzying kiss from volatile Wiley Ranahan threatened to overturn her deepest convictions. His outrageous proposal of a "summer love" shocked her to the core. Knowing firsthand how destructive...

  • Study Break

    Alison Blair

  • Strong, Hot Winds

    Iris Johansen

    Sheikh Damon El Karim had kidnapped her son Michael and taken him to Kasmara! Cory Brandel was filled with fury at his betrayal -- and shattered by guilt. She'd kept the child a secret from his father when her passionate affair with Damon had ended f...

  • Stringer and the Deadly Flood

    Lou Cameron

    Everyone knows that Salton’s Sink is the driest patch of greasewood in the whole damned Colorado Desert. So when a slick land syndicate promises cheap water to a pack of greenhorn settlers, Stringer is more than a mite suspicious. One booze-thirsty...

  • A Stranger's House

    Bret Lott

    For a long time, Claire and Tom Templeton have wished in vain for a child. What they have instead is a house, a charming old Cape that is their consolation. In the gray chill of a Massachusetts autumn, the Templetons and two local handymen, loners an...

  • A Stranger's Glance

    Jessica Marchant

    Gemma didn't want a husband .. . But she did want a child. And Bart Rule, Gemma decided, was the perfect candidate for the father. It was going to be tricky, though. Bart was a wealthy man, frequently pursued by fortune hunters. Gemma would...

  • Stranger, You and I

    Patricia Calvert

    Bewildered by the news that his long-time pal, Zee, is pregnant from an encounter with a boy who cares nothing for her, seventeen-year-old Hugh finds their friendship severely tested as he tries to come to terms with his changing feelings and the des...

  • The Story of Wali Dad

    Kristina Rodanas

  • Stories In An Almost Classical Mode

    Harold Brodkey

    These 17 short stories represent the best of Brodkey's work over three decades....

  • Stepfather Bank

    David Poyer

    In a 22nd century world where the Bank owns everything, employs everyone, and governs by means of Credit, Monaghan Burlew scams his way through life without using Credit until the Bank tries to eliminate him and, as a result, ignites a revolution...

  • Starting School

    Allan Ahlberg

    Janet and Allan Ahlberg''s classic, Starting School.

    From first day nerves to finding your peg, this reassuring read is full of humour and fun for children and parents alike. A classic picture book which offers advice and enjoyment for the whole f...

  • Stalking Horse

    Jill McGown

    From the bestselling author of The Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Hill Series...Sixteen years ago, Bill Holt was jailed for the murder of two people: Alison, his lifelong friend whom once people had assumed he’d marry, and a private detective. He kne...

  • Stairway to the Moon

    Anna James

    STARTING OVER She was a famous man's widow, but Ella Butler was tired of being a living memorial to his name. She wanted tranquility and freedom, so she escaped to an island hideaway. But when Nicholas Manning swept her up in his arms, she ...

  • Stairway to Forever

    Robert Adams

  • A Spy in Isengard

    Terry Amthor

    Since your apprenticeship began, you have worked for the powerful and revered wizard, Saruman the White. But of late, you have grown troubled by what you see and hear within his mighty fortress of Isengard. Orcs and wildmen gather inside. You have se...

  • Spook Creepy Castle

    Keith Moseley

    Pop-up illustrations depict a guided tour through the chilling dungeons, spooky towers, and creepy rooms of a haunted castle. Movable flaps and tab reveal the hideous inmates and the grisly fate in store for the unsuspecting tourists....

  • Spock's World

    Diane Duane

    AT LAST--THE NOVEL STAR TREK FANS HAVE AWAITED FOR TWENTY YEARS! It is the twenty-third century. On the planet Vulcan, a crisis of unprecedented proportion has caused the convocation of the planet's ruling council --and summoned the U.S.S. Enterpr...

  • Spirits and Other Stories

    Richard Bausch

  • Spectre

    David Robbins

    SHADOW SLAYER A mound of freshly piled earth trembled fiercely, the sound of desperate clawing grew louder and louder, until finally a hand burst forth, pushing itself into the world like a child from a hellish womb. As silent and insubstantial...

  • Spectacles

    Ellen Raskin

  • Space Jokes and Riddles

    Jeffrey S. Nelsen

  • Song of Love

    Rachel Elliot (1)

    She was stranded at Castle Mackenzie And it would have been a lovely place to be stranded -- except for the presence of its unnerving young laird, Roddy Mackenzie! Claire couldn't fault his hospitality and his infectious good humor. But his...

  • Something in the Air

    Emma Lathen

    Wall Street banker/detective John Putnam Thatcher encounters intrigue along with a loan request from Sparrow Flyways, an airline whose expansion plans are not to be deterred, even by opposition from its shareholders....

  • Soldier of Gideon

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages, and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. Casca returns to the Middle East. But it's the twentieth century, and he's ...

  • Smuggler's Gold

    C.J. Cherryh

  • Slime

    William Essex

  • Slam Book Fever

    Francine Pascal

    Predictions ... Slam books are the newest craze at Sweet Valley High. They're do-it-yourself books of lists and predictions about everyone in school. They start out as fun but soon stir up big trouble. First, Jeffrey French, Elizabeth Wakefield's...

  • Sky Strike

    Jack Hawkins

  • Skin Deep

    Nora Roberts

    The high price of fame meant learning to deal with obsessive fans. But this one was different. He was watching and waiting, and Chantel O'Hurley was afraid. She needed help, and it came with a $500-a-day price tag, a P.I. with the kind of tough, go-t...

  • Sister Light, Sister Dark

    Jane Yolen

    "And you two shall be sisters. You shall be as images in a glass, the one reflecting the other...." Jenna was a warrior. Raised on a mountainside, she learned the arts of the warrior, and from the mountain woman the magic of the ancient lore. B...

  • Sippi

    John Oliver Killens

  • Simply Sam

    Deana Brauer

    LITTLE GIRL GROWN Samantha Smith was tired of Jake Silvercloud thinking of her as a pigtailed tomboy. Rakish, irascible Jake still called her Sam, while her girlhood crush on him had long since flowered into a woman's love. Suddenly Samantha was d...

  • The Silver Stallion

    Ann Sheldon

  • The Silver Bears

    Paul E. Erdman

    THE SILVER BEARS involves a Swiss bank controlled by the Mafia, an ancient silver mine rediscovered in Iran, bullion smugglers on the Persian Gulf and an American speculator living in England. With his great storytelling gift and singular experience ...

  • The Silence in the Garden

    William Trevor

    The Whitbread Awardâ€"winning author “demonstrates a master’s touch” in this tale of an aristocratic Irish family’s ruinous path toward modernity (The New York Times). An island estate off the coast of county Cork, Carriglas has been in the R...

  • Showdown at Lizard Rock

    Sandra Chastain

    SHE PUT HER BODY ON THE LINE, BUT HE WAS AFTER HER HEART... When King Vandergiff saw Kaylyn Smith standing on top of Lizard Rock protesting his company's construction of a private club around the town's hot springs, he knew he'd met his march! Sh...

  • A Shiver of Rain

    Kay Bartlett

    DANGEROUS EMBRACE Rachel Brewer thought she'd stumbled into the pages of a spy novel, and she wasn't thrilled. Especially since the "bad guy" was her late husband, Jack, and the FBI agent was the intractable but sexy Luke Warren. Luke insisted ...

  • Sharpe's Rifles

    Bernard Cornwell

    WHEN SHARPE RISES FROM THE RANKS TO TAKE COMMAND, HE FINDS HIMSELF WITH AN UNEXPECTED ALLY IN THE WAR AGAINST NAPOLEON It's 1809, and the powerful French juggernaut is sweeping across Spain. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the dem...

  • Shaka: King of the Zulus

    Diane Stanley

  • Shadows of Vengeance

    David Charles

  • Shadows & Dreams

    D.C. Richardson

    In the golden age of Hollywood, young, bold, and beautiful Jane Turner will do aything to succeed on the big screen and, in the course of her scheming, finds she possesses the powerful talent to match her ambition...

  • The Secret of the Lona

    Stephen Leigh

  • The Secret of Shady Glen

    Carolyn Keene

    A cemetery of dark secrets... and Nancy's in the middle of it! Shady Glen was no different from any other cemetery -- maybe a little spooky, but harmless nonetheless. At least that's what Nancy thought until she stumbled onto a treasure map...and s...

  • Second Earth

    Patrick Woodroffe

    The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony [literally meaning 'the 5 books of the origin of the universe'] is a fantasy 'creation myth-cycle' presented as a pseudo-scientific decipherment of an ancient document. Beginning with a description of how the document ...

  • The Searchers

    Will C. Knott

    Hawk saved the Quaker wagon train from a foul fur trader named Bannister and the savage Blackfoot band that Bannister armed and egged on. Hawk even taught the peaceful Quaker men to fight to get back their women and children. But he couldn’t st...

  • The Scarebird

    Sid Fleischman

  • Saying Good-Bye to Grandma

    Jane Resh Thomas

  • Savage Splendor

    Cassie Edwards

    Headstrong and stunningly beautiful, Jeanine fled to the lush forests of Minnesota, hoping to escape her uncle's brutal tyranny. Alone in the dark, untamed wilderness, she faces a danger far more startling. He was Lone Wolfe, a Chippewa Indian chief ...

  • The Satanic Verses

    Salman Rushdie

    Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to ...

  • Santa's Busy Elves

    Random House

  • Saigon, Illinois

    Paul Hoover

    The story of how one man wound up fighting the Vietnam War from a Chicago hospitalYoung slacker Jim Holder wants no part of the draft, the army, or Vietnam. So he registers as a conscientious objector and gets ready for alternative service. He’...

  • Roughneck

    Doreen Owens Malek

    GUILTY AS CHARGED Beau Landry was a real charmer, but Morgan Taylor was in Louisiana strictly for business. She was not about to become emotionally or physically involved with the key witness against her client. Just one dinner with the handsome, ...

  • Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive!) at Last

    Avi

    Pete Saltz, the pudgy poet from S.O.R. Losers, has fallen hard for Anabell Stackpoole, and she likes him, too. But both are much too shy to do anything about it. It's Pete's friend Ed Sitrow to the rescue, as he and other eighth-graders at South ...

  • Rockabye Crocodile

    Jose Aruego

  • Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Pop-up Book of Machines

    Robert Crowther

  • Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers

    Robert Adams

  • The Risk Pool

    Richard Russo

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully funny novel set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult."Superbly original ...

  • Rio Pasion

    James Luceno

  • Ringer

    James Stewart

  • Return to Bitter Creek

    Doris Buchanan Smith

  • Return of the White Witch

    Rob Bell

  • Resurrexit

    Leona C. Ross

  • Remember to Remember Me

    Marilyn Levy

    Seventeen-year-old Thea Montana lives happily with her mother and stepbrothers in LA but is often troubled by the lack of knowledge about her father, so when she discovers that he is a famous English rock star she is delighted...

  • Remember the Daffodils

    Jennifer Mikels

    Ariel Hammond was sure trouble had become her middle name. A thug was demanding protection money for her exotic-imports store. Her mother was dating Mr. Wrong. And to top it all off, a bouquet of daffodils announced that Pete Turner was back in Albuq...

  • Remember Santiago

    Douglas C. Jones

    Eben Pay, a United States attorney from the Native American territory, and his Native American companion, Joe Mountain, join the American troops in Cuba fighting the Spanish for Cuban independence, encountering the realities of war. Reprint....

  • Regency Rose

    Caroline Brooks

    THE INFORMAL EARL The Earl of Llandath seemed intent on thoroughly disrupting young and lovely Miss Kate Vaughn's life. When this dark and handsome nobleman returned from abroad to reclaim his ancestral estate, he raised clouds of speculation abou...

  • Redeye

    Richard Aellen

  • Redbird

    Patrick Fort

  • The Red Carpet

    Rex Parkin

  • Reckless Desire

    Madeline Baker

    "You say you love my daughter. I forbid it! You have no right to interfere in her life so long as she is bound to another." So spoke the great Cheyenne warrior Two Hawks Flying, and Cloud Walker knew his harsh words were only too true. Serenel...

  • Rebound

    David Everson

    Just when Lincoln Heritage University's basketball team is winning big, a star player falls from the dome of the state capital building, and P.I. Robert Miles jumps in to investigate payoffs, point-shaving, drugs, bribery, and murder...

  • Razzmatazz

    Patricia Burroughs

    DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS... . It was an adage that Kennie Sue Ledbetter had followed all her life--until the day she got stranded in the Reno airport with no way back to Texas. All she could do was hope and pray that Alexander Carruthers, the good ...

  • Random Walk

    Lawrence Block

    “Every now and then someone comes up to me at a speech or signing and says one of the two things. “I’ve liked all of your books.” I’ll be told â€but there is one I couldn’t make heads or tails out of’. Or just the opposite: “I’ve ...

  • A Question of Love

    Annabel Murray

    So this was how it happened! Venna had often wondered what it would be like. It wasn't, as novelists implied, a sudden bolt from the blue. It was just this quiet knowledge as she looked at him, this acceptance of the inevitable that had bee...

  • Private Woods

    Sandra Crockett Moore

    Seventeen years after the Vietnam War drove them apart, Sarah Lannom and Sonny Woods meet again. Sarah is to deer hunt with her husband when she finds that their guide is Sonny--the same Sonny she knew as a child, the same Sonny she was to marry. Sar...

  • Private Eyes Don't Blink

    Robert Kraus

  • Pritcher Mass

    Gordon R. Dickson

    The only hope for mankind's survival after the contamination of the Earth lay in the Pritcher Mass, a psychic forcefield construction out beyond the orbit of Pluto. Created by the efforts of individuals with extraordinary paranormal powers, the Mass ...

  • Prisoner of the Mind

    Margaret Mayo

    She was at war with her emotions When Conan Templeton, head of a large English corporation, had taken Lucy's father to court, he'd effectively killed him. Lucy never imagined she'd wind up being Conan's secretary, forced to endu...

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