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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — SEPTEMBER 1983

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Winter's Tale
Mark Helprin

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The Oppermanns
Lion Feuchtwanger

New Books List: 336 titles

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  • Nora Roberts

    Ruth Bannion had never met anyone like Russian emigre choreographer Nickolai Davidov. Ruth was open, giving, but Nickolai's background had left him reserved, even wary, and his pride would not let him reveal his need for her. Fear of rejection ke...



  • Heather Graham

    Money...she needed it more than love, more than anything he had to offer. Sloan Tallet was tired of struggling, of doing it all on her own. When Westley Adams -- retired all-American quarterback -- arrived on her doorstep, she decided to marry hi...



  • Fern Michaels

    Any smart woman can learn to be a good homemaker. The real question is: Should the role take over her whole life? Dory Faraday, 31, is an executive on the rise at an ultra-sophisticated New York women's magazine. But she decides to give it all up ...



  • Fern Michaels

    INNOCENCE GONE Wren van der Rhys - rescued from London's alleys when the magnificent couple, Sirena and Regan, take her into their hearts, she ripens into a creature as enchanting and wild as Sirena, as headstrong and fierce as Regan. SAVAGE ...



  • Iris Johansen

    Jane Smith sneaked aboard Jake Dominic's yacht on a dare, never dreaming she'd collide with the bronze playboy-director in the flesh! But the muscled arms that captured her were inescapable--and suddenly Jane found herself agreeing to a month...



  • Lisa Jackson

    They didn't trust each other...and couldn't resist each other When Kane Webster buys First Puget Bank, he knows he is buying trouble. Someone is embezzling funds, and the evidence points to Erin O'Toole. Kane is determined to see her i...



  • Robert B. Parker

    BOONE ADAMS--He was so smart he wrote half the English papers for the freshman class, when he wasn't getting drunk at night and waking up hung over in the morning. To him life was full of promise . . . just the ones it didn't intend to keep. JENNI...



  • Francine Rivers

    Carla Gelsey returns to her childhood home intent on restoring the Victorian mansion she always admired. But handsome Blake Mercer is equally determined - along with the town council - to tear it down. When Carla hires a group of carpenters to begin ...



  • Sara Orwig

    She meant to fire a warning shot, but instead Lily Dunbar's aim faltered and she grazed the hunter himself. She had ventured too far into the wilderness of Reece Wakefield's vast Chilean ranch, now an oncoming storm thrust her into his arms and he re...



  • Stephanie James

    "I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU MINE, JESSIE. TOTALLY & COMPLETELY" Their strong wills clashed from the moment the small plane crash-landed in the desert. But only one could win: Lucas Kincaid, primitive male, who dared to claim Jessica Travers...



  • Thomas Perry

    A soldier of fortune. His cat. His ex-lover. With a clean shot at 10 million. All they have to do is read the want ads. Blackmail the CIA. Shut down a major American city. And get away with it ... When Leroy "Chinese" Gordon breaks into a pr...



  • Janelle Taylor

    When golden-haired Alexandra first saw the dark-haired stranger, her fury knew no bounds. How dare he intrude on her privacy as she swam in her secret pool! The moment Captain Joshua Steele set eyes on the angry young woman, he saw only a delectable ...



  • Mary Lyons

    "I never want to see you again! " Try as she might, Emily couldn't escape from the handsome Ludovic for long. Then they were unexpectedly thrown together, fleeing across the rugged African landscape. Ludovic's mockery of her wea...



  • Ruth Langan

    Once Lane Winters had been a girl with dreams of glory: She would sing and the world would listen. Ross Matthews was the man -- the lover -- she had left behind in her quest to make it on her own. The dream had come true. Her voice had indeed b...



  • Barbara Michaels

    THE HAUNTING Turning a decrepit old mansion into a beautiful country inn isn't easy, but for Andrea Torgesen, the hard work is exactly what her younger brother, Jim, needs after a serious car accident. Or, so she thinks -- until Jim is haunted by un...



  • Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    In a Fury of Ungodly Hatred and Ungodly Love Fierce guardian of her ancestral heritage, reigning beauty at the rakish court of Charles II, Annunciata Morland's restless spirit refused to be confined by her illustrious station. With a will of iron,...



  • Jake Logan

    SLOCUM DIDN'T LIKE BEING TAKENFOR A U.S. MARSHAL -- or a rustler, either. It seemed like every time he turned around, someone was trying to shoot him for being one or the other. So he decides to take matters into his own hands -- first with the stunn...



  • Elizabeth Mansfield

    Couldn't Pippa ever do something sensible...like fall in love? Love Revealed "Blast you, woman," he muttered through clenched teeth, "won't you ever see?" Almost viciously, he pulled her to him again, causing her spectacles to fall from her no...



  • Patricia Hagan

    UNDONE BY FATE With her dear father dead, Amber Forrest was alone in a foreign land, at the mercy of a cruel, domineering stepbrother who vowed he would bend her to his will and make her his bride. PURSUED BY DESIRE But Amber was a prize all me...



  • Maura Seger

    "I'VE COME TEN THOUSAND MILES TO SAVE MY FAMILY'S SHIPS. NO MAN WILL STOP ME NOW." So Erin Conroy declared as the Yankee shipping heiress arrived in Japan to discover that Storm Davin, the proud Southern Aristocrat she had refused ...



  • Tracy Sinclair

    "I DON'T WANT TO BE AN ACTRESS!" Lisa Brooks shouted at producer Logan Marshall. She hadn't been in Hollywood long, but already she hated that glittery world where everything--and everyone --was for sale. But Logan was cynical when it came to b...



  • Rebecca Flanders

    Once lovers, could they still be best of friends? The idea of sharing a house in California's Topanga Canyon enticed Kelly Mitchell. On her meager salary as a physical education teacher, she found that communal living offered a high quality li...



  • Roberta Gellis

    SHE WAS A HEADSTRONG BEAUTY CAUGHT IN THE FLOOD TIDES OF PASSION AND WAR. Tempestuous, amber-eyed heiress to the magnificent Roselynde dynasty, Sybelle knew that her time had come to choose a husband. But she was ruler of her own lands and would b...



  • Marion Zimmer Bradley

    It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin. He was so bored with his own company that the Mentorian medic was a welcome sight when he came to prepare him for cold-sleep. The M...



  • Marion Zimmer Bradley

    To Thendara House came the Terran Magda in exchange for the Free Amazon Jaelle, who had become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran enclave. The cross-currents of two cultures, one male-dominated, one egalitarian, combined with the h...



  • Renee Roszel

    HIGH-FLYING LOVER He was just another handsome pilot stealing her hard-earned job. Not even her journalism and public relations degrees from the Air Force Academy could secure Captain Ronda Voss's position as Chief Information Officer for the SAC ...



  • Phyllis Halldorson

    AN ACCIDENT OF LOVE Summer theater was an exciting new experience for actress Robyn Flannery, but when she was framed in a hit-and-run accident, it seemed like the end of her dreams. David Christopher, a handsome veterinarian and father of the ...



  • Barbara Faith

    CHARMED LIVES... She was April Juneau. One day spent watching the parade of light and shadow, the glory of the Spanish bullring, would change her life forever. He was Alejandro Cervantes, a matador, a man who wore the suit of lights and danced ...



  • Bill Pronzini

    His P.I. license reinstated, his old friend Eberhardt back on his feet, and things with his girlfriend Kerry patched up, Nameless is ready to roll again. On his first day back at work, he lands an assignment he would have thought went out with the Gr...



  • Loren D. Estleman

    A newscaster’s son disappears, and Amos Walker dives into the depths of Detroit to rescue the boy

    On screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a 10,000-watt smile, and the God-given abi...




  • Doreen Owens Malek

    A TOUCH OF FIRE Tall, honey-blond with gray-blue eyes, Jennifer Gardiner hardly fit the role of Publicity Director for the Philadelphia Freedom football team. A lawyer and a professional in a rough-and-tumble world of men, she'd learned to be ...



  • Anna James

    THE ART OF LOVING... J.T. had expected to find new artists on her buying trip to Europe. She hadn't expected to lose her heart to the most difficult of them all. He was Jake Marshall, and despite his talent he had shut himself off from his...



  • Richard Peck

    It's Halloween, 1914. Teenage psychic Blossom Culp sneaks into the house where the rest of her class is having a party-and that's when everything goes haywire. Suddenly Blossom is hurled into a time warp. Her psychic powers have found a way to send h...



  • Tabor Evans

    SOMEONE'S PLAYING TAX COLLECTOR AND MAKING OFF WITH A MINT! A Federal agent is missing and U.S. Marshal Long is the one sent to bring him home. But a hired killer is lurking in the shadows, just aching to put a bullet in Longarm's back. Could it b...



  • J.R. Roberts

    Dodge City is as wild a town as they come. In fact, when Clint Adams comes riding in, things are pretty much out of control. Young Deputy Sheriff Bill Tilghman is trying his darndest, but it will take a pack of lawmen to tame this town. A frighte...



  • Philip Jose Farmer

    The Green Odyssey' is an uproarious, hell-bent adventure story, combining fantasy, imagination and science, with a liberal dash of humor. It is in the best tradition of adventure science fiction, a swashbuckling tale of a resourceful spaceman who is,...



  • A.E. Maxwell

    Los Alamos 1945: The first nuclear weapon is about to be tested--and the second is about to be stolen!! Finn is the O.S.S. Captain charged with safeguarding all the processed uranium there is in the entire world--just enough to make two bombs. Th...



  • Jon Sharpe

    DOUBLE -- OR NOTHING... When luscious Viola Hemming, with her tantalizing younger sister, hired Skye Fargo to find the gang that kidnapped Viola's husband, she promised hard cash, and the kind of bonus no man could resist. And then the Army enlisted...



  • Margery Allingham

    THE CORPSE WENT BY BUS “The Goff Place mystery” remained unsolved, the body of the murdered pawnbroker never found. On the night of the killing, a bus had parked on the narrow cul-de-sac. Witnesses saw two elderly passengers dozing. Later a gh...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    BURIED ALIVE! The Hardys have come to Lake Tahoe to investigate the kidnapping of movie star Richard Chase. The disappearance is the latest in a series of suspicious incidents that have plagued the filming of Chase's latest flick, Horror Hotel. The b...



  • Billie Green

    A tornado brought them together in a storm cellar, where the unleashed forces of nature rivaled the tempest outside! But Maggie Sims and Mark Wilding were anything but perfectly matched. He was a tall, irresistibly handsome playboy who was used to ge...



  • Carole Halston

    For doctoral candidate Rebecca Blakely, writing about the past was no longer enough. For thriller author Ryan Prescott, writing about the present was no longer possible. In the clear air of Maine they learned to see beyond their limitations. As th...



  • Charlotte MacLeod

    AN OLD CODGER, A TOMCAT, AND A KILLER The venerable Herbert Ungley wouldn't have been caught dead without his toupee. So when his landlady's cat dragged it into her kitchen, Betsy Lomax knew something was amiss. When she found old Ungley lying beh...



  • Jeanne Stephens

    TOO GOOD TO BE TRUSTED? Layna adopted a facade on the glorious Greek cruise. She became a woman of poise and sophistication, a woman at home with a man like Caleb Danner. Caleb, however, knew more than he was telling, though by profession he was ...



  • Tom Wolfe

    When the future began...

    The men had it.  Yeager.  Conrad.  Grissom.  Glenn.  Heroes...the first Americans in space...battling the Russians for control of the heavens...putting their lives on the line.  The women had it.  While M...



  • Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Sam attempts to discover who is gassing the assembly-line workers at the parachute factory, the town's largest industry, and traces the culprit to the hotel his own family manages. Originally published as The Mad Gasser of Bessledorf Street. ...


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