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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — APRIL 1993

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New Books List: 667 titles

  • It Begins with an A

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • Author's Day

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • Of Swords and Sorcerers

    Margaret Hodges

  • Ocean Day

    Shelley Rotner

    A little girl narrator introduces young readers to the natural treasures of the seashore, including sand dunes, driftwood, crashing waves, seashells, grasses and tide pools, in a work complemented by color photographs....

  • J. B. Wigglebottom and the Parade of Pets

    Vivian Sathre

  • Once upon a Time and Grandma

    Lenore Blegvad

    Could grandma really have been a little girl once upon a time? Emma and her small brother find it hard to believe when Grandma takes them to see the house and neighborhood where she used to live. This warm, humorous story is enhanced by beautiful ful...

  • Benjamin Bigfoot

    Mary Serfozo

  • Silly Tails

    Jan Mark

    Why is it that no one has ever heard vegetables talk? You see, it all started back in the days when the vegetables lived in a vegetable garden on the opposite side of a hedge from a band of rabbits who lived peacefully munching grass. The carrots wer...

  • The Great Smith House Hustle

    Jane Louise Curry

  • Annie's Promise

    Sonia Levitin

  • The Magic Moscow

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • The Beginning of Unbelief

    Robin D. Jones

  • Harper and Moon

    Ramon Royal Ross

  • Jenna's Big Jump

    Faythe Dyrud Thureen

  • Stick Boy

    Joan T. Zeier

  • Shadow Walkers

    Russ Chenoweth

  • Get the Message

    Gloria Skurzynski

  • Three Little Pigs

    Janet B. Campbell

  • Tacky the Penguin Book & Cassette

    Helen Lester

  • Thelwell Country

    Norman Thelwell

    Since their debut in Punch over forty years ago, Norman Thelwell's cartoons and drawings have delighted millions of people all over the world. His portrayals of sporting pursuits, human beings at play, the life of the countryside, and, of course, ...

  • After Henry

    Joan Didion

    In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives ...

  • Where Love Goes

    Joyce Maynard

    From the author of To Die For comes this poignant, stirring, and occasionally hilarious story of a woman's attempt to remake her life after a searing divorce. Maynard's novel captures love as one approaches middle age in contemporary America....

  • The Unicorn and Other Poems

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  • Isabella's Bed

    Alison Lester

    Anna and Luis love to speculate about their grandmother's younger days in South America, and, one night, while sleeping in Isabella's big bed, the children are swept away to discover clues to their grandmother's past....

  • Anna is Still Here

    Ida Vos

    With the end of World War II, Anna, a young Dutch Jew who had been in hiding during the Nazi occupation, can safely emerge from concealment, but she experiences great difficulty in adjusting once again to a normal life....

  • If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun

    Marie G. Lee

    For Alice Larsen, a young Korean girl adopted as a baby by American parents, life is wonderful, until the arrival of Korean immigrant Yoon Jun and the encouragement of her parents leads her to take an interest in her Asian heritage....

  • Escape from Exile

    Robert Levy

    While making his way home from school during a blizzard, Daniel collapses, only to reawaken in an alien new world, populated by strange, telepathic creatures and caught in the midst of a devastating civil war....

  • Soccer Circus

    Jamie Gilson

    "Hobie Hanson is going on an overnight soccer trip. He and his male teammates are rooming with their coach, so how much trouble can he get into? Quite enough to delight any follower of the ubiquitous Hobie....Gilson's latest will not disappoint her f...

  • Project Wheels

    Jacqueline Turner Banks

    Angela has difficulty adjusting to the changes of junior high school, until she and her friends--Faye, Tommy, and the twins Judge and Jury--work together on a project to raise money to buy a motorized wheelchair for a classmate....

  • Defenders of the Universe

    Daria V. Kelleher

    Rachel joins a group of other youngsters from her new school who call themselves Defenders of the Universe--and who play a pretend game in which they protect Earth from evil everywhere--and finds herself up against a real-life villain....

  • The Gates of Zion

    Thomas Nelson

    The Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel's statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forces, within and without, which engulf the Middle...

  • A Light in Zion

    Thomas Nelson

    The Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel's statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forces, within and without, which engulf the Middle...

  • City Girl, Country Girl

    Marilyn Levy

    Hallie Barnes must decide whether to live with her mother and stepfather in Los Angeles or with her father and stepmother in Oregon. She spends some time with each of them to see where she feels best about herself....

  • 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 ...

  • Harold and Chester In Rabbit-Cadabra!

    James Howe

  • Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

    Michael Hague

  • Sexual Chemistry

    Brian Stableford

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Who's Orp's Girlfriend?

    Suzy Kline

  • Lala Salama

    Hannah Heritage Bozylinsky

  • Daddy's Climbing Tree

    C.S. Adler

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Soccer Mania!

    Erika Tamar

    Illus in black and white. Pete and his friends love to play pick-up soccer, and they're getting so good that when one of the kids' dads sees them in action, he delares it's time they formed an official team. This sounds like a great idea, but the kid...

  • 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...

  • Miss Spiders W Event

    Dick King-Smith

  • The Elvenbane

    Andre Norton; Mercedes Lackey

    Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father with a human m...

  • Bar-20 Days

    Clarence E. Mulford / Clarence Edward Mulford

    "Keep your hands where I can see them!" Marshall Edwards has shouted at the outlaws across the bar. "The first man I see move, I'll drop."But he couldn't see everything. He couldn't see the outlaws behind him or the bullet he took in the back.But Hop...

  • It's Raining, It's Pouring: A Book for Rainy Days

    Sarah Pooley

  • New at the Zoo 2

    Kees Moerbeek

  • One Fine Mesa

    Gail Herman

  • Over the Deep Blue Sea

    Daisaku Ikeda

  • Bad Week for the Three Bears

    Tony Bradman

  • School Days

    Gail Herman

  • Ambushed in Africa

    Peter Reese Doyle

  • Too Scared to Love

    Cathy Williams

    Passion against all odds... Roberta was looking for a fresh start -- she wasn't looking for romance! But as soon as she arrived at Grant Adams's home in Toronto, she knew she was heading for trouble.... As au pair to Grant's headstr...

  • Mary, Mary

    Evan Hunter

    Despite overwhelming evidence quite to the contrary, defense attorney Matthew Hope is determined to prove that an eccentric woman is innocent of murdering three young girls, even though it may mean having to divulge his own troubling secrets. Reprint...

  • America by Land

    Robert Olmstead

    Juliet and Redfield, two confused, star-crossed cousins, help each other find a sense of purpose and identity as they journey together across the country in search of the baby Juliet gave up for adoption...

  • The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage

    Margaret Mahy

    Captain Lionel Wafer and his fellow-pirates - Toad, Brace-and-Bit and Winkle, are no ordinary ruffians. Clinging to the belief that life should be simple, free and unplanned they set off in a converted teashop of a ship, renamed The Sinful Sausage, t...

  • 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....

  • Lady of Mercy

    Michelle Sagara

    Freed from the amnesia brought on by her long sleep, Lady Sara has reclaimed her true name, Erin of Elliath, and escaped her betrayer, Stefanos, the First Servant of the Dark Heart -- Sara’s husband and Erin’s sworn enemy. But the world has ch...

  • Avenging Angel

    Frank Rich

  • Departures

    Harry Turtledove

    From the undisputed master of Alternate History comes an original collection of twenty provocative stories springing from the imaginative reinvention of history. Traveling down ancient roads and into far-off futures, Harry Turtledove poses the what i...

  • High Country Climax

    Joseph Meek

  • Valley Massacre

    J.R. Roberts

    Tracking down political assassins isn't the sort of thing Clint Adams usually does. But when a friend asks him to lend a hand--and a gun--he agrees. After a day on the case, he knows why he doesn't care for this kind of work--nothing is what it se...

  • Texas Triggers

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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....

  • Tenderfoot

    David Thompson

  • The Kansan

    Robert E. Mills

    The Old West is full of fast guns and even faster women who will just as soon kill a man as look at him. But Davy Watson, the Kansan, is a dangerous man with a gun--or a woman. In Trail of Desire, the Kansan aims to save the sultry Deanna from the bu...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Longarm on the Butterfield Spur

    Tabor Evans

  • 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 ...

  • Desperado

    B.W. Lawton

  • The Silent Gun

    Douglas Hirt

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Singular Miss Marsh

    Sara Blayne
    in

    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......

  • 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 ...

  • A Different Kind of Mom

    Jane Bierce
    in

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Repeat Performance

    Stacey Dennis
    in

    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
    in

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

  • Forever After

    Jill Gregory

    DANGER drove her from the shadowy back streets of London. DESTINY swept her into a dazzling world of society and scandal. DESIRE transformed her into a woman who would risk everything for the love of one extraordinary man... One night of ...

  • 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 ...

  • Cheyenne Dreams

    Peggy Hanchar

    HIS GLOWING DARK EYES REFLECTED HER OWN HEART'S DESIRE Broken and beaten by the treacherous South Dakota trial that had taken the lives of all she knew and loved, Colly Mead bravely pushed on --until she could go no more. She surrendered to th...

  • Desert Eden

    Patricia Grasso

    HER INDOMITABLE SPIRIT Ravishing, emerald-eyed Heather Devereux set sail for France to marry the Comte de Beaulieu, a man she'd never seen. But a band of Arab pirates hijacked the ship bringing the beautiful young Englishwoman as a prize to their no...

  • Secrets

    Brenda Joyce

    Injured during a train robbery; Regina Shelton awakens with no memory of who she is -- and in the arms of the most handsome man she has ever seen. The dangerous stranger calls her "Elizabeth," and his touch sets her blood racing -- impelling ...

  • 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...

  • Listen to Your Mother

    Martha Gross
    in

    Cajoled by her mother and teenaged daughter into taking a cruise, widowed Maggie Bliss reluctantly boards the ship...never expecting to find romance and adventure with a risktaking computer whiz who's gambling on winning Maggie's love....

  • The Earl's Return

    Emma Lange

    The Avenging Earl Alyson Haydon had been a mere seventeen when she broke the heart of Damon Ashford. It had broken her heart as well when she was brutally commanded to wed another. But that was years ago. Alyson was a young widow now, and Damo...

  • The Magic

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    THE PIRATE Determined to ruin Farley Dunworthy, Captain Damian Tate of the Magic would use any means at his disposal - even his enemy's innocent niece. But the daring buccaneer never bargained on being captivated himself by the silver-haired b...

  • Wild Rose

    Sharon Ihle

    WINNER TAKES ALL Born beneath a wandering star, spirited Maxine McKain spent her girlhood roaming the mining tows of the California gold country. But her freedom ended abruptly when she was lost in a bet a San Francisco gambling saloon -- to seduc...

  • Hearts Are Wild

    Teresa Hart

    THEY WERE SISTERS AT HEART, three mail-order brides who meet on their journey westward. This is the sweeping tale of the courage thata changed their destinies forever -- and the passions that shaped the glorious frontier! LACEY HONEYCUTT. A cardsh...

  • Ryan's Enchantress

    Connie Harwell

    THE ENCHANTING BEAUTY She could ride, fish and hunt with the best of the boys, but auburn-haired Susan Bradford was determined to be more than just an innocent tomboy. And when she first felt the gaze of her handsome new neighbor, she was shocked to...

  • The Highwayman

    Doreen Owens Malek

    A tempestuous story of love and betrayal in Elizabethan England THE NOBLEWOMAN AND THE IRISH PATRIOT It was a bold and perilous plan--disguising herself as a boy and stealing aboard a ship bound for the far-off shores of Ireland. But from the m...

  • The Demon Lover

    Victoria Holt

    IT BEGINS AS A SMALL DECEPTION. IT BECOMES A NIGHTMARE OF PASSION AND TERROR... Kate Collison is exquisitely beautiful and filled with fiery spirit. Like all the Collisons before her, she paints miniatures. So when her father begins to lose his ...

  • Captivated Hearts

    Valerie King

    They were unable to resist the magic of Cupid's touch... A LADY'S DECISION When she first heard the Marquis of Brandreth's boast that he would make her fall in love with him, Lady Evanthea Swanbourne could not help but laugh. The nerve of the m...

  • Blissful Betrothal

    Valerie King
    in

    Arranging a brilliant match for her daughter to the very handsome Earl of Braunston delights Olivia Charing, but falling in love with her daughter's fiance is certainly not part of her plan......

  • Night Vision

    Deborah Nicholas

    DREAMS OF TERROR One-time cop turned mystery writer, Simone Gerard was making a splash in the book world with her series about a couple running a detective agency in 1960s New Orleans. Then nightmares about her supposedly fictional characters drove ...

  • The Butterfly Net

    Melissa Lynn Jones
    in

    When the widowed Baron Ranstow sets his amorous sights on Selina Springer as the perfect candidate for wife and mother, the independent-minded miss soon discovers that love can ensnare even the most resistant heart......

  • Fleeting Splendor

    Julie Moffett

    The Scottish Lass -- For Alana MacKenzie, life in the majestic Scottish Highlands was filled with the joy of watching her childhood friendship with Malcolm MacGregor grow into a deep, mystical love. But that love would be forever threatened the day t...

  • Gifts of the Heart

    Mary Kingsley
    in

    It takes a precious gift of life to reunite the Marchioness of Stowe with her aristocratic husband-and recapture the excitement of their magical first love....

  • The Nonpareil

    Dawn Lindsey

    THE LUCKLESS YOUNG LADY Clearly fortune was not smiling on Phila Ainsley First her parents died leaving her impoverished. Then she was forced to reside with a family whose daughters were much more beautiful and fashionable than she. Next her g...

  • Embrace the Wind

    Linda Sandifer

    SHE WAS AS ELUSIVE AS THE WIND Sky McClellan ... did she even exist? Pinkerton agent Matt Riordan thought he'd seen her once, silently skirting the edges of his campfire at night, haunting in her raven-haired beauty. If the rumors were true, this ...

  • The Duke's Deceit

    Leslie Lynn

    IT HAD BEEN AN INNOCENT LIE BORN IN THE FACE OF DESPERATION... When Mary Masterton informed the handsome stranger that they were engaged, he had no reason to doubt her. After all, his head injury had resulted in complete memory loss. Mary, however...

  • Lost.. and Found

    Marian Oaks
    in

    Celia Hamlin seems to have had it all: a happy marriage, successful career and a loving son. But she secretly grieves over the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption many years before. Then a kindly stranger comes along, bearing a precious g...

  • A Perfect Match

    Meg-Lynn Roberts

    Francesca Verdant found her prolonged stay in London rather tiresome, and she wasn't particularly impressed with any of the gentlemen she met, especially the one they called "My Lord Perfection". After rudely bumping her at the Chattering...

  • Tapestry

    Maura Seger

    A LOVE THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN Lady Aveline realized that at the age of twenty most women her age were mothers several times over, cloistered nuns or already dead. Instead she lived quite happily among the holy sisters of Thorney designing ma...

  • The Keepsake

    Marylyle Rogers

    LIZ: With waist-long hair as fiery as her temper, the wild-riding, very rich Lizzy Hughes of Wyoming's Double H Ranch felt her emotions boil over when she realized she had been tricked into marriage -- with a hoity-toity British duke. Handsome Gr...

  • Toast of the Town

    Margaret Evans Porter

    The Insistent Earl Trevor Cotterell, the Earl of Leafield, was not only wealthy and titled. He was strikingly handsome, virile, and charming to boot. So when he chose Flora Campion to be his latest mistress, how could she refuse? Flora might be br...

  • Reversal of Fortunes

    Nina Porter
    in

    When Phillipa's mama decides to reverse the family fortune by marrying the fascinating--and wealthy--Viscount Valdane, Phillipa is scandalized. What's a daughter to do when she's in love with her mother's betrothed!...

  • A Kiss to Remember

    Helen Playfair

    For the past ten years Lucia Morgan hasn't had time for love or romance. Since her husband's death, she has been raising her two sons, working at a dead-end office job, and designing boutique clothes to make ends meet. Then one night, Mitch C...

  • Unforgettable

    Leigh Riker

    A First Love, A Second Chance When novelist Jessie Simon returns to her small hometown to get over her divorce and what seems to be terminal writer's block, she is unpleasantly surprised to learn that Nick Granby is also back in town. Her older br...

  • Bermuda Quadrangle

    Garda Parker
    in

    When divorced Maureen Dixon accompanies her vivacious mother on a trip to Bermuda, she never dreams that a bout of seasickness will lead to romance with the ship's charismatic doctor. Or that her mother will meet a longlost love of her own....

  • Dangerous

    Amanda Quick

    From a magnificent ballroom ablaze with lights to an imposing country house steeped in shadows comes a breathtaking tale of an impetuous miss - and a passion that leads to peril... At five and twenty, Prudence Merryweather knew very well the risks...

  • Love's Secret Fire

    Deborah Satinwood

    She was his secret passion. War-weary and disillusioned, Forrest York returned home to the provincial town that had once so cruelly shunned him. But he couldn't forget the bewitching, golden-haired beauty who'd dared to befriend him when no o...

  • My Only Love

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    Her passionate nature and secretive past made Olivia Devonshire one of the most notorious women in England... Miles Warwick was a disreputable rogue, the black sheep of his family. But he never gambled on losing his heart to the woman he married for ...

  • Hidden Gold of Widow's Mountain

    Patricia Werner

    Whoever goes to Widow's Mountain...dies. For years, Hilary Fenton had dreamed of finding her father - ever since Gaspar Fenton had struck for the gold mountains of the Yosemite Valley to claim his fortune - and never returned. Then fate summoned ...

  • Beneath Passion's Skies

    Bobbi Smith

    Desperate to escape the clutches of her brutal brother-in-law, headstrong Angel Windsor kidnapped her young nephew and fled Philadelphia. But an even more dangerous destiny awaited the emerald-eyed innocent in New Orleans when she hired a notorious h...

  • Come Be My Love

    Patricia Watters

    Headstrong Sarah Ashley didn't travel all the way to Canada just to have her dreams smashed to bits by Vancouver Island's arrogant young governor Jon Cromwell. Come hell or high water, the stunning suffragette will open her own mercantile business - ...

  • My Loving Enemy

    Lisa Ann Verge

    HONOR PRIDE, AND HERITAGE ... SHE WOULD RISK ALL FOR HIS LOVE Headstrong heiress Alienor de Tournan cheered when her father captured the renegade knight who had stolen her dower lands and ruined her chances for marriage. Yet when she saw the gravel...

  • Nowhere to Run

    Pat Warren

    When Detroit socialite Carly Weston's father is murdered by a madman bent on vengeance, she is forced to flee from the killer, who has taken to stalking her. By the author of 'Til Death Do Us Part. Original....

  • Captive Splendor

    Rochelle Wayne

    With his Sioux brother convicted of a crime he hadn’t committed, rugged half-breed Bart Chandler devised a plan to save him from the hangman’s noose. He would kidnap the daughter of Fort Laramie’s commanding officer; then ransom her in exchange...

  • When Lilacs Bloom

    Clara Wimberly
    in

    About to tie the knot the second time, Georgia Lee drops everything when she receives an urgent letter form her ailing former mother-in-law. But when she arrives in Alabama, an old flame is rekindled...as a magical first love blooms anew....

  • Shattered Silence

    Judith Marshall

    The head of Megtex after her father's murder, Alison Archer begins to fear for her life when a disembodied voice on the telephone, eerie whispers, and flickering lights warn her that the killer will strike again. Original....

  • Sunbird

    Wilbur Smith

    A Journey of Wonder and Terror It all begins with a blurry, black-and-white aerial photograph. To the trained eyes of Dr. Benjamin Kazin, it is the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: evidence of an unknown ancient African civilization and the...

  • Capitol Hit

    Don Pendleton

    D.C. DEATH ZONE Washington DC is rocked by sudden violence that's linked to a group of Vietnamese believed to have brought their freedom fight to American soil. But Mack Bolan's hard probe uncovers a conspiracy orchestrated by someone high up in t...

  • Blood Feud

    Sam Siciliano

  • The Unicorn Peace

    John Lee

  • Moon of Ice

    Brad Linaweaver

    Thirty years after the Nazis win World War II, Hilda Goebbels, the daughter of Hitler's propaganda minister and now a world-famous anarchist, threatens to release her father's long-suppressed diaries--which could destroy the Reich. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • The Nomad Queen

    James Gordon White

    The acclaimed screenwriter of such Hollywood cult classics as The Thing with Two Heads and Bigfoot turns his creative talent to this epic sword-and-sorcery adventure. Armed with sharp steel and iron resolve, the deposed Queen Sheela sets out for the ...

  • The Starship Trap

    Mel Gilden

    En route to an important diplomatic reception, the U.S.S. Enterprise suddenly is set upon by a Klingon warship. This unprovoked assault, Kirk discovers, is in response to what the Klingon ship's captain claims are recent Federation attacks on several...

  • The Last Arabian Night

    Craig Shaw Gardner

  • Before the Mask

    Michael Williams
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Iapetus

    William S. Kirby

    On a one-way trip to the moons of Saturn, Jefferson Kayoto, a private detective fleeing some dangerous people, must face a colony of homicidal telepaths too lethal to live anywhere but Iapetus. Original....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Dragon's Tomb

    D.J. Heinrich

    Fain Flinn lies dead, his ashes blowing in the spring winds. Johauna Menhir takes up Wyrmblight, Flinn's fabled blade. Embittered, Jo vows vengeance on the three villains who wrought her beloved master's death. But the squire's duty lies first to ...

  • The City Who Fought

    Anne McCaffrey; S.M. Stirling

    SHELLPERSON WITH A MISSION Simeon was bored. Not with being a shellperson--like Helva, The Ship Who Sang, and Tia, The Ship Who Searched, he rather pitied "softshells" their mayfly lives and absurdly limited senses--but with running the mining and...

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Ashley McConnell

  • The Steel Kings

    John Maddox Roberts

  • 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....

  • Wild Country

    Dean Ing

    Ted Quantrill is a human weapon. He has been a soldier, a commando, and, finally a hit man for the United States government.

    But a man can grow tired of killing, and Quantrill has turned his back on the past. Here in the rugged wilderness of t...

  • Hidden Echoes

    Mike Jefferies

    Three strangers are pulled into a parallel world, where they encounter menacing obstacles as they try to prevent the impending destruction of Earth as predicted by Nostradamus. By the author of Shadows in the Watchgate. Original....

  • Fortress of Frost and Fire

    Mercedes Lackey; Ru Emerson

    ONCE A NECROMANCER ALWAYS A NECROMANCER At least that's what all the other elves are telling the young human Gawaine about his master, the Dark Elf Naitachal. Of course Gawaine doesn't believe them; Naitachal has always treated him well and honora...

  • Timeslide

    Simon Lang

    In search of rare historical data, the crew of the USS Skipjack go back in time to observe Earth during World War II and the planet Eisernon on the eve of its devastating One-Day War. Original....

  • Retief and the Rascals

    Keith Laumer

    Terran diplomat and interplanetary troubleshooter Jame Retief must stop the belligerent, five-eyed Groaci from invading the beleaguered planet of Bloor, which is already plagued by violence between rival gangs. Original....

  • Twisted Dragon

    Kevin Stein

    Jaeme, new lord of Castle Elfwood, Decutonius, an unpredictable mage, the druidess Laela, and the venerable knight Cedric must confront the evil that threatens to crush Elfwood in only three days. Original....

  • Predator

    William F. Wu

    When the MC Governor breaks itself down into six component robots and launches its parts into the remote past, only an experimental robot named Hunter and a hastily assembled team of human experts have a chance to retrieve them. Original....

  • The Mind Pool

    Charles Sheffield

    Calling all humans... In the 23rd century, out of all the races of the galaxy, only humanity has discovered the secret of travel between the stars-not so much because we're so smart, but because we are incredibly gadget-oriented. We are also, comp...

  • A Sword for a Dragon

    Christopher Rowley

    THE 109TH DRAGONS The most loyal bunch of dragon warriors and human attendants ever to march on campaign had just been reformed when Bazil Broketail and his human boy, Relkin, returned from a fruitless search for Bazil's beloved green dragoness. E...

  • Child of Thunder

    Mickey Zucker Reichert

    THE EIGHTH TASK OF WIZARDRY His duties in the world of mortals seemingly done--the Renshai safely established in a community of their own, Sterrane ruling peacefully in the kingdom of Bearn--Colbey must face the Seven Tasks of Wizardry and learn whe...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Hired Husband

    Sandra Canfield
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    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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Married in Haste

    Lucy Gordon

    A MATCH MADE IN...HEAVEN? Blazing passion had brought sexy industrialist Demetrio Corelli and fiery reporter Reva Borden to the altar. But pride and ambition had pulled them apart -- sending Reva away, heartbroken, and leaving Demetrio alone and f...

  • 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...

  • Hardworking Man

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Ranch hand Jared Walker was a man who worked hard and looked after his own. He damn sure didn't need any help from anybody--not even his long-scattered brothers and sisters. The way he saw it, he and his son were doing just fine, all by themselves......

  • 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....

  • Werewolf Moon

    Sharon Green

    IT HAPPENED WHEN THE MOON WAS FULL... In Elgin, New Mexico, howls could be heard in the night, shadowy figures of wolves seen in the moonlight. Was the myth true? Was a werewolf stalking and killing human prey? Laine Randall was in shock over th...

  • Beloved Deceiver

    Laurie Grant

    Unholy Marriage Elise de Vire was a widow of the battle of Agincourt, and would not rest until the last Englishman had departed France. Yet could she hide her true purpose from Adam Saker, the English knight she had been commanded to wed, or would...

  • Gentleman Butler

    Maria Greene

    Too handsome for a butler.... That was what Miss Marianne Darby thought about the new man. If only this elegant Mr. Sherry were a gentleman, she thought idly...not that it would matter a whit. She was sure no man could love her, whether he was fr...

  • Wyoming Wildfire

    Anne Harmon

    A SPIRITED WOMAN Lily wandered innocently into a rough part of town--but found a protector in the dark-haired man who plucked her from danger... A STUBBORN MAN The ranchers rugged body disguised a wounded heart -- a heart determined to resist lo...

  • Hunting the Wolfe

    Kay Hooper

    WOLFE--A Man of Danger Who'd Always Be Untamed... Security expert Wolfe Nickerson towered over her, but Storm Tremaine wasn't easily intimidated! She was the best at what she did--designing state-of-the-art security systems--even if her fierce gr...

  • Outside the Rules

    Linda Hughes

    Web of Danger W hen Jamie Royale arrived in Los Angeles for the insurance conference, she had a full itinerary. If she was going to open her own agency back home in Baton Rouge, she needed to soak up 'every bit of information offered in the semina...

  • And Baby Makes Three

    Muriel Jensen
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    Passion! Kye and Brenda Stuart's honeymoon was one they'd never forget. Their courtship was a whirlwind affair, so Brenda was determined to make every waking day--and night--of their marriage unforgettable. But there was one minor detail Brenda didn'...

  • The Rancher and the Runaway Bride

    Joan Johnston

    SHOTGUN WEDDING With three bossy, overprotective brothers looking over her shoulder, Tate Whitelaw was finding it impossible to become a woman. They still thought of her as a pigtailed little girl. So Tate hightailed it off the homestead--right in...

  • Worth the Wait

    Risa Kirk

    SHE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN HER OWN ADVICE Stay the hell out of Kentucky! Instead, Maggie Gallagher came charging home to find out why Jack Stanton was trying to buy her family's farm. Jack was as handsome - and just as seductive - as she'd reme...