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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — APRIL 1993

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New Books List: 667 titles

  • That Kind of Woman

    Bronte Adams

    Twenty-six stories from a group of women at the forefront of modernism--Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair, and others--express the writers' excitement and frustration as they redefined the world for women with their courageo...

  • Daddy's Climbing Tree

    C.S. Adler

  • The Cain Conversion

    Richard Aellen

    The Manchurian Candidate meets the New World Order in this stunning thriller by the bestselling author of Crux and Flashpoint. Secret Service agent Bill Sullivan has a wife, two children, and a secret unknown even to himself: he is a multiple per...

  • Is // Is Underground

    Joan Aiken

    The children of London are disappearing -- can Is solve the mystery before she vanishes too? Is Twite, younger sister of the daring Dido, is on a desperate mission. An uncle she never knew just showed up at the cottage she shares with her sister Penn...

  • Public Life

    Ellen Akins

    Recruited to market Governor Henry Anderson in his bid for the presidency and then hired as a media advisor when he wins, former filmmaker Ann Matter becomes caught up in the scandals of his administration...

  • Cuddly Dudley

    Jez Alborough

  • Smart Bomb

    David Alexander

    Nomad is an elite commando fighting machine armed with technologically superior weaponry whose latest mission is to stop evil planners from launching a deadly weapon of the future on an unsuspecting world. Original....

  • The Mammoth Stone

    Margaret Allan

    The people of the mammoth have wandered the world for thousands of years, surviving starvation, plague, and predators, fleeing the ever encroaching ice, following the mammoth herds for life and sustenance. Finally they come to a place of prophecy whe...

  • Who's at the Door?

    Jonathan Allen

  • Whale

    Judy Allen

    In an enchanting story that blends elements of fantasy and natural history--and is accompanied by a fact sheet about whales and extinction--Anya watches ghost whales use magic to save a humpback whale and her calf from an oil slick....

  • Portrait of the Artist's Wife

    Barbara Anderson

    Victoria University Press is enormously proud to publish a new edition of one of New Zealand?s favourite novels, published to critical acclaim here and in the UK and US, and winner of the Wattie Award in 1992.

    ?The promise that was evident...

  • Yours Truly

    Judie Angell

  • Thieves of Innocence

    John Ankerberg

  • Renegade's Kiss

    Barbara Ankrum

    SHE COULDN'T LET HIM GO Widowed and alone as the Civil War raged around her, ebony-haired Andrea Winslow was relieved when Jesse Winslow, her brother-in-law -- and first love -- arrived at Willow Banks farm. But when be told her be intended to s...

  • Crypt of the Shadowking

    Mark Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When the evil Zhentarim attempt to take over the richest of the Caravan Cities, an ex-Harper agent tries to foil the wicked plot Under a dark cloud, Caledan Caldorien left the Harpers seven years ago. Now a mysterious and beautiful messenger fro...

  • Quantum Force

    Victor Appleton

    A QUANTUM LEAP INTO DANGER! Tom has just completed a supersecret project in the Swift laboratories: the creation of a powerful force field capable of protecting all types of vehicles, both on earth and in space. Now he's taken the device one step fu...

  • Harry Hates Shopping

    Ronda Armitage

  • Just Like Romeo and Juliet

    Judith Arnold

    "GO AHEAD...TOUCH IT." Two years ago, on a hot day in Verona, Italy, Gillian Chapell found love in the arms of a stranger. She hadn't believed that touching Juliet's statue would bring her luck in love, but as her friend had teased her, what did s...

  • Twisted Justice

    Jeffrey Ashford

    When Detective-Sergeant Gerry Stone's teenaged son stumbles home after midnight in a drunken stupor, one headlight broken on the car, Stone is irritated but unsurprised at the folly of youth. But irritation turns to distress when the policeman learns...

  • OBABAKOAK

    Bernardo Atxaga

    One of only a hundred or so books originally written in the Basque language during the last four centuries, Obabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic, Basque village. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellec...

  • Where the Truth Lies

    Lucy Cullyford Babbitt

  • Never Too Late

    Judy Baer

    Todd's older brother, Mike, has a new girlfriend and it shows! The body shop he owns has become a disaster area, and Todd's been left to organize the mess and juggle both of their responsibilities. Lexi thinks Nancy's really great, but To...

  • The Discovery

    Judy Baer

    Everyone is excited when Todd's older brother, Mike, announces his engagement to Nancy Kelvin. A pediatric nurse at the Cedar River Hospital, Nancy is bubbly and outgoing, just the opposite of her husband-to-be. Mike and Nancy's spring weddin...

  • Hidden Flame

    Elizabeth Bailey
    in

    Miss Theodosia Kyte knew she only had herself to blame for her present dire circumstances, but her only alternative was, she felt, totally closed to her. So as companion to the old tartar, Lady Merchistan, she mad the best of a bad job -- until Mr. B...

  • Minerva Cries Murder

    Mignon F. Ballard

    When Eliza Figg investigates her first mystery, she must delve deep into the atmosphere of the South. By the author of Cry at Dusk, Raven Rock, Deadly Promise, The Widow's Woods, and Final Curtain. ...

  • Deceived

    Mary Balogh

    SHE COULD NOT FORGIVE HIM - OR FORGET HIM Beautiful Lady Elizabeth Ward had been young and innocent when she wed the man she loved, Christopher Atwell. She thought his love matched hers - until she found him in the arms of another, learned of his ...

  • The Mystery of the Cupboard

    Lynne Reid Banks

    When Omri put away the cupboard and the miniature figures he had brought to life in The Secret of the Indian he vowed it would be forever. But now Omri has discovered an old journal written by his "wicked" great-great-aunt that reveals the secret of ...

  • Bedroom Eyes

    Becky Barker

    Skinny-Dipping When Liana awoke to the scent of freshly mown alfalfa hay, the beauty of a country morning came rushing back to her. She was glad to be back in the big white farmhouse that had belonged to her family for more than a century. During ...

  • Outrageous!

    Charles Barkley

    Charles Barkley, five-time NBA all-star, looks back at his life and basketball career in the same no-holds-barred fashion with which he views everything. Full of his shoot-from-the-lip opinions and outlandish exploits, this book, like the man himself...

  • Her Sister's Keeper

    Linda Barlow

    WHAT TRUE LOVE HAS TORN ASUNDER ONLY TRUE LOVE CAN HEAL VERITY TREVOR--The oldest, but never the favorite child, she was heir to the Trevor land, its vast fortune, and the curse put on her family by the rebellious Carnes...unless she defied societ...

  • Gospel

    Wilton Barnhardt

    Author of Emma Who Saved My Life and Lookaway, Lookaway Gospel concerns the search for a lost first-century gospel of the Bible, a document that could shake the foundations of Christianity. Wilton Barnhardt's narrative races through three continents,...

  • Lifesaver

    Janice Bartlett

    ---- republished as "Dangerous Waters" by Janice Kay Johnson - July 2013 Mermaid in Disguise The sun was setting over Devil's Lake when Megan spotted a boat offshore. She couldn't make out the faces of the two men aboard, but sh...

  • Where Are You, Little Green Dragon?

    Klaus Baumgart

  • Renegade

    Frederic Bean

  • Death of a Glutton // Death of a Greedy Woman

    M.C. Beaton

    THERE'S NOT A CLOUD IN CONSTABLE HAMISH MACBETH'S SKY.... Just plenty of warm sunshine and not quite enough of beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate Singles Club converge on Tommel Castle Hotel for ...

  • Nickle Plated Beauty

    Patricia Beatty

  • Five Little Ducks

    Ian Beck

  • The Ghost in the Mirror

    John Bellairs

    It was a warm summer day in 1951 when Rose Pottinger and Mrs. Zimmermann entered the tunnel. When they had emerged, it was snowing...and the year was 1828. Mrs. Zimmermann had felt that the ghost of Granny Wetherbee, who had taught Mrs. Zimmerma...

  • Sunset after Midnight

    Cherie Bennett

    A guy in my class is connected with a stable on the island where Molly could learn to horseback ride again. And I actually got her to agree! I think she's really coming out of her shell. This guy's a charmer though, and I hope Molly's not doing ju...

  • My Sister, My Sorrow

    Elizabeth Benning

    When she suddenly develops leukemia, Beth becomes her family's focus and she turns to older sister Janna and cancer survivor Eliot for support, as she discovers the true meanings of family and friendship. Original....

  • Rawhide Moon

    D.R. Benson

    Seeking revenge, soft-spoken lawyer Cole Brandon joins a cattle drive as a cook to find one of the members of the outlaw Kenneally gang that had been responsible for the slaughter of his family. Original....

  • Silk and Sword

    Pauline Bentley

    Conrad D'Artan made no secret of his hatred for the Twyneham name, nor of his all-consuming determination to see the D'Artan flag flying once again over Highford Castle. The land once his inheritance was now the prized dowry of a beautiful noblewoman...

  • Durable Goods

    Elizabeth Berg

    In the sweltering heat of a Southwestern summer, on a small army base in rural Texas, Katie waits impatiently for her life to change. Though battered by the recent death of her mother, her spirit remains miraculously stong. She is filled with longi...

  • River of Lanterns

    Ching Yun Bezine

    Undaunted by danger, Peony, the daughter of the people, joins forces with a mighty rebel leader whose ambition drives him to be as cunning and cruel as his enemies, in a novel set against the turbulent backdrop of fourteenth-century China. Original....

  • A Different Kind of Mom

    Jane Bierce
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    The students Laura Parsons nurtures along in her college classroom are like the children she never had. Until a retired intelligence officer enrolls in her Freshman Comp. And when his daughter starts playing Cupid, Laura discovers tha heartstirring w...

  • Mary Guy

    Kilty Binger

  • Temptation

    Cynthia Blair

    "A wonderful voice, fresh and poignant and funny, stingingly real and magically readable."
    Anne Rivers Siddons
    Feisty Rachel Swann is doing her best to juggle the pieces of her life. She's a struggling writer looking for a "big break," a divorc...

  • The Class Project Showdown

    Rick Blanchette

  • A Singular Miss Marsh

    Sara Blayne
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    Summoned to Cedars by the Duke of Ratherton, Rebecca Marsh never expects to find a group of children desperately in need of a mother, and a handsome Duke equally in need of a wife......

  • Some Days You Get the Bear

    Lawrence Block

    The bear is on the prowl in many different guises. He may be the master thief stealing into Graceland, an intense young passenger experimenting in terror, or a psychiatrist haunted by his patient's nightmare. Or maybe he's beautiful, lethal woman i...

  • Heavenly

    Carol Bogolin

    Temptation Wealthy, handsome, and successful, David St. John had mastered the high-stakes game of the business world. He possessed the skill and power to topple corporate giants, but these days his work left him with a hollow feeling. He needed a ...

  • Notes from Underground

    Eric Bogosian

    "A born storyteller with perfect pitch." - New York TimesThis volume features two of Bogosian's more unsettling works. Notes from Underground charts, in diary form, the life of an urban recluse who wants desperately to be "normal" but ultimately sink...

  • Miss Gabriel's Gambit

    Rita Boucher

    A DANGEROUS GAME Suddenly eligible after inheriting a barony and a vast fortune, dashing David Rutherford devises a clever scheme to defeat the army of marriage-minded maids who now flock to his door. He will wed only the miss who can best him at ...

  • Lala Salama

    Hannah Heritage Bozylinsky

  • The Modern American Novel

    Malcolm Bradbury

    An updated study of American literary tradition traces the development of the American novel from James and Dreiser, through the works of Faulkner and Hemingway, to the emergence of Jewish- and African-American authors, and the work of avant-garde wr...

  • Bad Week for the Three Bears

    Tony Bradman

  • Theory Of War

    Joan Brady

    'A modern work of genius' Spectator Winner of the Costa/Whitbread Book of the Year Award 1993 Forced into slavery as a child, Jonathan Carrick escapes to a new life but within him lies the need for revenge against George Stokes, the son of his former...

  • Mountain Fury

    Taylor Brady

    Like dust in the prairie wind, they scatter to the far corners of the territories -- drawn by destiny to the still-savage wilderness, where the dreams of a bold new breed are nourished in the rich western earth. Peril and promise await the childre...

  • The Cat Who Went into the Closet

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Qwill's moved into the old Gage mansion--and the cats are on a treasure hunt! The house's fifty closets are crammed with several generations of junk, and while Qwill investigates two recent deaths--those of the mansion's former occupant and a local p...

  • Alphabet of Animals

    Isabelle Brent

    Twenty-six colorful portraits, illuminated with gold, present an alphabetical look at exotic mammals, birds, and insects from around the world and are accompanied by a brief text filled with facts about each animal....

  • Mrs. Pargeter's Pound of Flesh

    Simon Brett

    Although she's never felt the need to change her own ample form, Mrs Pargeter could see nothing wrong with joining her weight conscious friend at Brotherton Hall Spa. While Kim strained to lose her excess inches, Mrs P would enjoy a luxurious rest...

  • Too Much, Too Young

    Carolyn Bridgwood

  • Behind the Great Wall

    Richard Brightfield

  • Date With a Plummeting Publisher

    Toni Brill

    There are meddling mothers and then there is Pearl Cohen. All she wants is the best for her daughter and, of course, some grandchildren. So what's the harm in a few blind dates? Although her previous attempt to fix her daughter up with a nice doctor ...

  • Cold Fire

    Helen Brooks

    "I am answerable to no one!" Jay de Rojas made his own rules, and Beth knew he'd be difficult to work for. But she needed an escape from the painful memories of her past, and the post of tutor to Jay's little nephew came as a godse...

  • Blood Dance

    James William Brown

    The insular, inbred country life on her Greek island home oppresses Amalia, who imagines herself possessed by gods, but her encounter with a Scandanavian tourist leads to a conflict that is expressed through five incantatory voices. A first novel....

  • Billy Bob Walker Got Married

    Lisa G. Brown

    HERE COMES TROUBLE Shiloh Pennington knows that Billy Bob Walker is no good. The whole town knows it. Just one look at his insolent walk and smoothly rippling muscles tells you he's nothing but trouble. So why, four years after her father broke th...

  • Under the Sun and the Moon

    Margaret Wise Brown

    Contains nineteen never-before-published poems by the noted children's author about subjects ranging from apple blossoms and autumn leaves to rabbits and raccoons. By the author of Goodnight Moon. ...

  • Hazards of the Heart

    Dixie Browning

    MR. APRIL Grumpy Man: Construction engineer Jake Hatcher -- long, lean loner. Rarely smiles. Doesn't talk much, either. Reason to Frown: A bittersweet memory of a family that no longer is. Reason to Smile: Single mom Libby Porter and ...

  • Athyra

    Steven Brust

    THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN A bit of an overstatement. Minus six, actually. Which leaves one. Me Vlad Taltos, sorcerer (sometime witch) and (ex-)assassin. Plus my two faithful jhereg. Which makes three, sort of. But even we can have a hard time when we ...

  • There's No Surf in Cleveland

    Stephanie Jona Buehler

    Philip Lorsch hates living in Los Angeles with his mother after his parents' divorce, and when plans to return to Cleveland for Christmas fail, Philip is further disturbed by the prospects of a snowless California Christmas with Mom and her new boyfr...

  • Granta 42

    Bill Buford

    The latest edition of the impressive international literary magazine features writing so amusing or powerful or urgent that it must be read now. Controversial and throught-provoking, Granta boasts readers around the world, numbering more than 140,000...

  • In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead

    James Lee Burke

    Hollywood has sent its emissaries to New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic in the steaming mists of the Louisiana bayou -- reawakening the ghosts of a past best left undisturbed. The restless specters wait in the shadows for cajun cop Dave Ro...

  • Highland Ecstasy

    Mary Burkhardt

    SHE HAUNTED HIM WITH PASSION When his youngest brother fell on the field of battle -- and King George stripped him of his title and lands -- Ian Sinclair swore everlasting vengeance against the English crown. But first the enraged laird had to regai...

  • Endangered Species

    Rex Burns

    Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager follows a murder/arson into the world of ecoterrorists and finds himself caught up in a plot to destroy the Denver metropolitan area....

  • Living In Little Rock With Miss Little Rock

    Jack Butler

    Narrated by the Holy Ghost, this most unusual novel tells the story of Charles and Lianne Morrison. He's a millionaire lawyer, possibly, a future governor. She's the beautiful ex-TV newscaster and former Miss Little Rock. "What begins as a soap opera...

  • Angels & Insects

    A.S. Byatt

    In these two “astonishing” novellas (The New Yorker), the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession returns to the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and...

  • The Shadow of the Sun

    A.S. Byatt

    This is the debut novel by the author of the bestselling Possession. Byatt tells the story of troubled, sensitive seventeen-year-old Anna Severell, who struggles to discover and develop her own personality in the shadow of her father, a renowned nove...

  • End Game

    Robert Cain

    In the almost-human robot's latest adventure, the United States military utilizes Cybernarc in Operation Takedown, a pivotal attack against the sources of the drug trade, but Cybernarc suddenly becomes the target of the drug kingpins. Original....

  • Dancing in the Dark

    Linda Cajio

    JAKE--A Virile, Muscled Wild Man Who Broke All Her Rules... He was primitive, savage, engaged in a sacred ceremony--and naked in the woods! Charity Brown couldn't believe it was Jake Halford, her company's new vice president, and she wondered how...

  • Passing Strangers

    Margaret Calaghan

    "No one says no to me, Melanie. No one." Chase Banister was the most stubborn man in all of England, as far as Melanie Sandford was concerned. He wanted Melanie's little house--which had been willed to her by his aunt Hilary, who'd...

  • Natural Enemies

    Sara Cameron

    Former lovers Sam Hawthorne, an American journalist, and Maya Saito, a biologist, are thrown together as they attempt to help James Wangai, an unorthodox African detective, track down ecoterrorists who have murdered Kenyan government officials. Repri...

  • His Magic Touch

    Stella Cameron

    Seeking vengeance for his lost birthright, handsome, highborn James St. Giles plots to seduce and defile his enemies' exquisitely innocent daughter -- thereby halting her impending nuptials to a wealthy lord. Though chaste and unworldly, lovely Celin...

  • Add a Little Spice

    Bethany Campbell

    She was a princess frozen by a spell At least, that was how Connor Munroe described Gina Calvino. Gina refused to believe that her hometown was dying. She refused to sell her family's secret combination of spaghetti sauce spices -- no matter h...

  • Three Little Pigs

    Janet B. Campbell

  • Wealth and Passion

    George Canfield

    Certain that only marriage to a rich American can save his family's heritage, Englishman Lord Ravendale sets his sights on the Claflin sisters, free and sensual Victoria and Tennessee, and the icy and beautiful Abby Kershaw. Original....

  • The Hired Husband

    Sandra Canfield
    in

    Grammy Bradford's dying wish was to see her granddaughter, Laura, married. So dutiful Laura reluctantly bought herself a temporary husband. Who'd have thought Grammy would take an instant shine to James Callahan, make a miraculous recovery--and want ...

  • Snap Judgement

    Sandra Canfield

    WOMEN WHO DARE Kelly Cooper Feisty. Independent. Stubborn as they come. And in no mood to be taken hostage. Will Stone Alias The Stone Man. Convicted of murder. Escaped from Fulsom prison. A desperate man with one thing on his mind--find ...

  • In the Sparrow Hills

    Emile Capouya

  • Dad Galahad

    Suzanne Carey

    A fairy-tale father Ned Balfour had never considered himself chivalrous. Then Jenny McClain showed up--pregnant with his brother's child--and Ned felt honor-bound to rescue the fair damsel. A marriage of convenience seemed like the perfect answer....

  • Mercy Hospital: The Best Medicine

    Carolyn Carlyle

    When they first sign up as Junior Volunteers at Mercy Hospital, Bernie, Nichole, and Shelley are certain the work will be an exciting life-and-death drama, but they soon discover that it is so much more than that. Original....

  • The Pool of St. Branok

    Philippa Carr

    WHEN THE BELLS OF ST BRANOK RING, DISASTER IS SURE TO FOLLOW... Angelet heard them that fateful day when she met a terrifying stranger at the pool, the day she and her childhood hero -- her cousin Benedict -- encountered an evil that brought her n...

  • Lucie Babbidge's House

    Sylvia Cassedy

    With all the teasing she must endure at school, Lucie Babbidge--called Goosie-Loosey by her schoolmates--looks forward to her hours outside school with her loving family and a pen pal in England. Reprint....

  • Fire and Rain

    Diane Chamberlain

    A COMPELLING DRAMA THAT DELVES INTO THE DEEPEST REACHES OF THE HUMAN HEART TO REVEAL ITS DARKEST SECRETS Valle Rosa, a small southern California town,-has been withered by drought and ravaged by wildfires that race through the canyons, destroying ...

  • The Kingdom of Kevin Malone

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    To escape the abuse of his now-dead father, Kevin Malone has created his own magical world, the Fayre Farre, and he is Prince Kavian. Amy, a former classmate, arrives in the final days before the epic battle between Prince Kavian and his nemesis. “...

  • Hannah's Hunk

    Sandra Chastain

    DAN -- A Risk-Loving Rebel with a Melt-in-Your-Mouth Southern Drawl... The man exiting the prison was going to be the perfect cover model for her new Fantasy Romance, but when the sexy ex-con pulled her into his arms and kissed her breathless, th...

  • The Pit

    Ann Cheatham

    Oliver struggles to understand the strange events that have occurred--the appearance of a red cross on his door, the nocturnal crying of a soul in anguish--and he begins to investigate a pit in the building site near his London home...

  • Miss Tonks Takes a Risk // Miss Tonks Turns to Crime

    Marion Chesney

    The fashionable Poor Relation hotel has rescued its six owners from genteel poverty, but they need ready cash for its upkeep. Once more, one of them must discreetly rob a rich relative. The faded spinster Miss Letitia Tonks is dispatched to disgui...

  • Little Lefty

    Matt Christopher

    Bill Bailey is the smallest member of the Blackhawks, but he can throw harder than anyone else on the team, including the regular pitcher. After hearing stories about "Little Lefty," a pint-sized pitcher who made the big leagues, he's determined to e...

  • Long Stretch at First Base

    Matt Christopher

    Matt Christopher is the writer young readers turn to when they are looking for fast-paced, action-packed sports novels. This book is no exception. He is the author of a number of titles, including Dirt Bike, Runaway, Face-Off, Ice Magic and many more...

  • Daredevil Bladers

    Lisa Clancy

  • Girl of the Year

    Catherine Clark

  • Goodbye, Desperado

    Kathy Clark

    HE MET HIS MATCH AT HIGH NOON Though known to millions as a 'cowboy's cowboy,' city slicker Matt Montana was secretly getting his first real western experience at the Rocky K Ranch. And Jamie Kimball was a burr in this macho man's saddle. Back in ...

  • The Mini Mob

    Nick Clarke

  • Dark Summer

    Jon Cleary

    In the heat of an Australian summer, Inspector Scobie Malone of the New South Wales police finds the body of a promising informer, Scungy Grime, floating face down in his family’s backyard swimming pool. Scobie is investigating Sydney’s major dru...

  • Coming About

    Bruce Clements

  • Alphabet Garden

    Laura Jane Coats

  • Warlord of Heaven

    Adrian Cole

    An alien warlord embarks on his final purge in the third novel in the epic Star Requiem fantasy series following Thief of Dreams. Adrian Cole’s acclaimed Star Requiem series welcomes readers to Innasmorn, a planet where the elements are worshi...

  • American Star

    Jackie Collins

    “‘Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain her readers, but also to teach them something; about the world and about themselves.” - Isabelle Broom, author of The Wedding SpeechWhat does it take to become a superstar? In one of her most r...

  • You Can't Catch Me

    Annabel Collis

  • Montana Showdown

    Dale Colter

    Journeying to Montana to rescue his cousin Lucy from an evil cattle baron, Sam Slater returns to a state where he is wanted for murder and encounters another deadly foe determined to kill him. Original....

  • Little Star

    Marita Conlon-McKenna

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

    Susan Connell

    ALEX -- A Gorgeous Greek God Whose Mouth Promised Pagan Pleasures... He was as mysterious and exciting as the Greek islands Sandy Patterson was seeing for the first time, but Alex Stoner wasn't exactly what she'd expected! Her husband had ...

  • Joe's Miracle

    Helen Conrad (1)

    A SMALL TOWN WITH A BIG SECRET Carly Stevens was back -- and nobody was talking. Everyone in Amereville, California, assumed she'd returned to look for her father. But she hadn't. For Joe Matthews, who had hired Carly to care for his t...

  • Dead Fit

    Stephen Cook

    While pumping iron at the Squash Club, police officer Judy Best finds that she has attracted the attention of Duncan Stock, an arrogant investment banker and a man later found dead under two hundred pounds of weights....

  • Mortal Memory

    Thomas H. Cook

    Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximately four in the afternoon. It was almost two hours later that Mrs. Hamilton, a neighbor from across the street, saw my father drive away. During those long two hours in which he remained in t...

  • Freshman Taboo

    Linda A. Cooney

    Will the Tri Beta sorority survive civil war between ex-best friends KC and Courtney? Lauren's magazine internship brings her more than journalism experience! Will coming face-to-face with death give Faith's life new meaning?...

  • The Bear under the Stairs

    Helen Cooper

    Only William knows about the big great bear living under the stairs. He's sure he saw one lurking there.A beautifully illustrated book dealing with childhood fears. Wonderfully poetic and reassuring.Helen Cooper is the only illustrator ever to win th...

  • I Got a Family

    Melrose Cooper

    All the ways you can love your family--and your family can love you--are celebrated in this happy book--to be shared with brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles, grandpas and great-grans, kittens . . . and any other member of the family. Full-color illu...

  • Spaghetti for Suzy

    Peta Coplans

  • Running Dead

    Robert Coram

    In the bestselling tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and David Lindsey comes a novel of intense suspense by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Robert Coram. Running Dead pits a master terrorist who holds the key to a decades-old secret about a leading po...

  • The Amazing Fate of Raoul Raccoon

    Agnes Couderc

    Determined to become famous and escape his parents' fate as clothes washers, ambitious raccoon Raoul tries his hand at various careers, including that of a sailor, a pilot, and a New York City police officer....

  • Walk in the Woods

    Christin Couture

    Nine adventurous children experience a rich tapestry of natural wonders when they take a walk in the woods, cross a quiet stream, gambol through a meadow, and hike up hills to enjoy a breathtaking view of the valley below....

  • Sheriff's Lady

    Dani Criss

    THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Sheriff Chris Ryker figured he knew people. A man had to, when he was the only law for miles around. But nothing about the hauntingly beautiful young woman stranded in his town made any sense - least of all the fear that ...

  • The Great American Elephant Chase

    Gillian Cross

    Tad and Cissie take care of Khush the elephant in the traveling show of Cissie's father, but when her father is killed in an accident, the two kidnap the elephant and flee the Hannibal Jackson, who claims that Khush belongs to him....

  • Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

    Chris Crutcher

    What do you get when you throw together one of the ugliest human beings outside a circus and the fattest boy in high school? Two kids with the "terminal uglies" who are inseparable best friends. When smart, sarcastic Sarah Byrnes was three years o...

  • Wilderness Flame

    Barbara Cummings

    When her mountain home was destroyed by rampaging Indians, Mennonite Hannah Yost fled into the perilous Pennsylvania frontier with nothing but her instinct for survival and the haunting memory of a handsome English officer's stolen kisses. But fate w...

  • Silent Stalker

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    “BEWARE OF THE ONE WHO HIDES, WHO WATCHES IN THE DARK!” Before Jenny Logan even entered the forbidding castle -- a replica of the Worthington’s ancestral home in England -- a terrified stranger warned her away. Was the warning real -- or ju...

  • Hard Women

    Barbara D'Amato

    A DAY IN THE LIFE Does anybody care about a dead hooker? That's the question Chicago journalist Cat Marsala is wrestling with. The hooker, Sandra love, is sleeping on Cat's couch in exchange for the Inside scoop on life as a prostitute. Now she's ...

  • Talisman

    Jillian Dagg

  • Legend!

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Boone Smith dragged into the sleepy town of Jones, Texas, hoping to leave his reputation as a notorious gunslinger behind him. Instead, his arrival set the town on its ear, especially when he took a hankering to Rose Taggart--the marshal's sweetheart...

  • Cowboys and Cabernet

    Margot Dalton

    RAISE A GLASS--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. A TOAST TO NEW IDEAS Tyler McKinney is out to prove y...

  • Made for Each Other

    Chareese Darter

    Victoria Bennett is fully prepared to leave her painful past behind after helping build a fashion empire from the ground up, but a man from her past will not let her forget all that is really important in life. Original....

  • Kevin and the School Nurse

    Martine Davidson

  • Golden Destiny

    June Wyndham Davies

    Unprotected and destitute, Connecticut-born single mother Alicia Langdon must rely on her own resourcefulness and the help of Chen Kai Tsue, an immigrant with a knowledge of herbs, to survive life in California's Gold Rush region...

  • Olympic Otis

    Gibbs Davis

  • Till the Old Men Die

    Janet Dawson

    THE PAST NEVER DIES, IT'S JUST COVERED UP. When Dr. Lito Manibusan, a Filipino professor of history at Cal State, is murdered, the police chalk it up to the random urban violence that is no stranger to San Francisco. But four months later, a woman...

  • Dreams Underfoot

    Charles de Lint

    Welcome to Newford. . . .

    Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dr...

  • The Lesson of Her Death

    Jeffery Deaver

    From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC seriesBill Corde looks down at the face of the murdered girl and sees the horror of sudden death. He cannot know, as he stands there at the trampled, muddy scene beside the ...

  • The Devil You Say

    Elisa DeCarlo

    Hired to bid for the mysterious Book of Shadows at Sotheby's auction house, London psychic Aubrey Arbuthnot discovers that his possession of the work has put a demon on his tail and two maidens in danger. Original....

  • Berlin Game

    Len Deighton

    BRAHMS FOUR WANTS OUT This alarming signal means that one of Britain's most reliable, most valuable agents behind the Iron Curtain is urgently demanding safe passage to the West. It sends a ripple of panic through the highest levels of the British...

  • Mexico Set

    Len Deighton

    THE STAGE IS SET Now, on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice his opposite number, a disaffected KGB major, to take the final, dramatic step-and defect. But the price of one Rus...

  • More Than Friends

    Barbara Delinsky

    FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND FORGIVENESS The Maxwells and the Popes are two families whose lives are interwoven like the threads of a beautiful, yet ultimately delicate, tapestry: the women were college roommates, their husbands are partners in the same l...

  • Repeat Performance

    Stacey Dennis
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    Things are finally looking up for Mary. Alone now after twenty-seven years of marriage - and four great kids - she's ready to sample life's heady freedom. But that's before a charming veterinarian and his irresistible grandson win their way into her ...

  • Her Special Day

    Teresa DesJardien
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    On the eve of her daughter's betrothal ball, Lady Cawley is unprepared for the tender passion her handsome husband reawakens in her heart....

  • The Darke Crusade

    Joe Dever

  • Where I Want to Be

    Cara Devito

    After the death of her father, fourteen-year-old Kristie gradually sorts out her feelings about her older half brothers with whom she lives in a small Arizona town and about the mother who had left her years ago....

  • Dangerous Waters

    Vida Devlin

    She risked everything for paradise...and passion. A glamorous South American cruise (with a dashing Latin purser aboard)...a million dollars...all lavished on Cindy by the cruise line on whose ship her aunt had a fatal accident. She set sail for Rio....

  • Disney's the Little Mermaid

    Walt Disney

  • Ariel the Spy

    Walt Disney

  • Arista's New Boyfriend

    Walt Disney

  • Mowgli's Journey

    Walt Disney

  • Disney's Box Office: Your Tickets to Reading Adventure

    Walt Disney

  • Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty: A Pop-up Book

    Walt Disney

  • Road Pirates

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Grandpa Bud

    Siobhan Dodds

  • Paradise Lost

    Robyn Donald

    Tide of passion Blair Doyle had set off in search of paradise--or at least a refuge from the real world, a place where she could pick up the pieces of a failed marriage and learn to feel again. On a strip of beach she met Hugh Bannatyne, a man ...

  • Sea of Desire

    Christine Dorsey

    DEFIANT CAPTIVE The daughter of a debt-ridden English gambler, Lady Merideth Banistar was shocked to discover her father had been selling information to the American revolutionaries. But now he was dead, and his murderer--the notorious colonial priv...

  • Pussyfoot

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Midnight Louie is aprowl again--and the game is definitely afoot when petite public relations freelancer Temple Barr finds herself at a striptease convention, up to her spike heels in muscle-bound males, siliconed females...and murder. As Temple trac...

  • Maelstrom

    Keith Douglass

    MASSIVE INVASION. INSTANT RETALIATION. A Soviet invasion force strikes, obliterating Finland... occupying Norway ... threatening Sweden. The European land mass is vulnerable--and the U.S. President authorizes DEFCON 2. Outnumbered, Carrier Battle ...

  • Night's Pawn

    Tom Dowd

    For years, Jason Chase was at the head of the pack, shadowrunning with the best in the business. When time dulled his flesh and cybernetic edge, he knew it was time to get out, or get dead. Now, his past has come back to haunt him. To protect a yo...

  • A Lingering Doubt

    Warwick Downing

    Jack Bard, a successful veteran lawyer, is pitted against Keane Williams, a grandstanding young prosecutor with designs on elected office. Bard's client Drusus Church is a former gang member whose climb from the mean streets of Long Beach is made con...

  • Ambushed in Africa

    Peter Reese Doyle

  • Jacob's Rescue

    Malka Drucker; Michael Halperin

    Based on a true story, and from the co-author of Rescuers, the courageous and vividly told story of one boy and the courageous family who risks everything to save him.Once Jacob Gutgeld lived with his family in a beautiful house in Warsaw, Poland. He...

  • Into What Far Harbor?

    Allen Drury

    After returning from World War II, a promising university student finds his way in a new world and confronts his attitudes about race, sexuality, and religion over the next twenty years. By the author of Advise and Consent. 50,000 first print...

  • The Wild Things

    Betsy Duffey

  • Time Expired

    Susan Dunlap

    It was part street theater, part civil  disobedience, and pure Berkeley: Someone was waging  guerrilla warfare on the city's meter maids and their  beloved parking meters. But when the prankster took  detective Jill Smith and her colleagues o...

  • Personal Effects

    Francesca Duranti

    Would-be Italian journalist Valentina embarks on an odyssey through pre-glasnost Europe in search of Milos Jarco, Eastern Europe's most famous and reclusive author, in the hopes of gaining an interview that would launch her journalistic career...

  • I Should Have Listened to the Moon

    Elisabeth Dyjak

    A twelve-year-old girl must come to terms with growing up and growing old when her best friend develops an interest in makeup and boys, and her somewhat confused and forgetful grandmother moves in to share her room...

  • Man of the Family

    Andrea Edwards

    Police detective Mike Mancini thought he knew everything about kids, dogs and things that go bump in the night. But he never counted on his daughter showing up for an unexpected visit, the presence of a huge dog named Fudge...or finding that his buil...

  • The Barbary Coast

    Josh Edwards

    THE FINAL BOOK IN THE SERIESThe burning quest that drives John Stone leads him to San Francisco -- a crime-ridden city where he’ll need more than his famed quick draw to keep himself alive. The trail of his long-lost Marie is hotter than ever -- in...

  • Hostile Intent

    Clive Egleton

    Clive Egleton, Britain's leading thriller writer, captures the current political scene in this post-cold war thriller, where the rules have changed, nuclear menace has merely gone underground, and the world's secrets are up for grabs.It is spring of ...

  • Happy Birthday, Lexie

    Lisa Eisenberg

  • Make No Bones

    Aaron Elkins

    A RAG AND A BONE...AND A MURDER Not much was left of Dr. Albert Jasper. His jaw bone and a few charred bits were installed in a place of honor in an Oregon museum to create a fascinating, if macabre, exhibit. It was a fitting end for a great foren...

  • The Stepdaughter

    Carol Ellis

  • Sorry, Wrong Number

    Patricia Ellis

    Please hang up and try your call again.... Meg Porter was starting to think there wasn't a worthwhile person of the masculine persuasion left in Brooklyn Heights -- not to mention the rest of New York City. And she knew it wasn't very brig...

  • Lone Star and the Gold Mine

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie's kidnapped and Ki's fighting back -- on a deadly trail through the rockies!While on a trip to the Rockies to check out the latest Starbuck investment, a gold mine, a bandit kidnaps Jessie, and Ki must rescue her before it is too late....

  • Russian Beauty

    Victor Erofeyev

  • The Virgin Suicides

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    Juxtaposing the most common and the most gothic, the humorous and the tragic, author Jeffrey Eugenides creates a vivid and compelling portrait of youth and lost innocence. He takes us back to the elm-lined streets of suburbia in the seventies, and in...

  • Longarm on the Butterfield Spur

    Tabor Evans

  • Fear in Fenway

    Crabbe Evers

    THREE STRIKES, YER DEAD! Every loyal Beantown fan knows the ever-chokeable Sox have had a long, hallowed tradition of booting away championship opportunities. And now it appears as if some irate rooter has finally had enough--as two former Bosoxer...

  • Flames of Love

    Colleen Faulkner

    A WOMAN DREAMING OF THE FUTURE Jilted by her prospective bridegroom, Lady Alexandra Lambert left England behind and set sail for colonial America. But in the unknown wilds of Maryland, she was captured by a band of renegade Indians. As she was about...

  • The Right Man

    Marie Ferrarella

    Once upon a time... Leanne Sheridan used to believe in romance -- but a painful divorce had cured her of those longings. Now she got her fill of fantasy doing voice-overs for cartoons where her happily-ever-afters only lasted from nine to five. Le...

  • Saint Ben

    John Fischer

  • Klondike Cutie

    Dirk Fletcher

    YUKON HO! A boomtown full of the most ornery vermin ever to pan a river, Dawson was the perfect place for a killer to hide -- until Spur McCoy arrived. Fresh from a steamboat and the steamiest woman he’d ever staked a claim on, McCoy knew the ...

  • Siren Song

    Janis Flores

  • Lady Samantha's Choice

    Olivia Fontayne

    A BEWILDERED BRIDE... Under the conditions of her father's will, Lady Samantha Ashley has a harrowing choice -- marry a perfect stranger, marry her awful cousin Gerald...or remain unwed and lose her fortune. Her head spinning, Samantha opts for ...

  • Checks and Balances

    Rebecca Forster

    As executor of her father's estate, Nicole decides to take the thieves who stole one of his inventions to court, with the help of a handsome attorney who has desired her from afar for years. Original....

  • Moonlight

    Suzanne Forster
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    Over three hundred years ago, Rachael Dobbs cursed the bloodline of her lover, Jonathan Nightingale, whose testimony condemned her as a witch. Only a journal and a golden locket hold the key to the spell--and in these breathtaking stories of danger a...

  • Son of Spellsinger

    Alan Dean Foster

    Bucking destiny's call, Buncan decides to form a wildly magic, and totally hip, rap band instead of becoming a spellsinger, and he and his band are soon trying to stop an invasion of hybrids. Original....

  • When Joel Comes Home

    Susi Gregg Fowler

  • Embrace of the Wolf

    Pat Franklin

    SOMETHING LIVES INSIDE THE WIND... The coastal town of Surfbreak was shrouded in mist and rain and secrets. It was here that one brave white man ventured long ago--and here that he died. SOMETHING LIVES INSIDE THE FOREST... Molly Snow wanted to...

  • Ten Mile Day

    Mary Ann Fraser

    On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the hi...

  • Brackus, Krakus: The Incredible Adventure of Mr. Skola's Tourist Club

    Mirko Gabler

  • Taboo

    Elizabeth Gage

    Kate Hamilton journeys to Hollywood during the golden era of the 1930s and 1940s, seeking stardom but unable to escape her dark past, and encounters Eve Sinclair, a ruthless former child star, and charismatic producer Joseph Knight...

  • Catherine Carmier

    Ernest J. Gaines

    A compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence--by the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. After ...

  • The Triumph

    John Kenneth Galbraith

  • There Was Magic Inside

    David Galchutt

  • The Last Arabian Night

    Craig Shaw Gardner

  • Dream of Glass

    Jean Mark Gawron