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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — APRIL 1993

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New Books List: 667 titles

  • Yours Truly

    Judie Angell

  • Your Child, My Child

    Jennifer Mikels

    The moment they placed her newborn baby in her arms, Anne LeClare knew she'd found the only love she could trust in an otherwise treacherous world. She'd face any odds, defy any danger, to keep her daughter safe. But her late husband's father wanted ...

  • You Can't Catch Me

    Annabel Collis

  • Ye Gods!

    Tom Holt

    Being a hero bothers Jason Derry. It's easy to get maladjusted when your mom's a suburban housewife and your dad's the Supreme Being. It can be a real drag slaying monsters and retrieving golden fleeces from fire-spitting dragons, and then having to ...

  • 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...

  • Wren's Quest

    Sherwood Smith

    Yearning for adventure, Wren journeys to find her family, but her travels are threatened by an assortment of shady characters, as well as by her traveling companion's preoccupation with magic. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • Won't Someone Help Anna?

    Francine Pascal

    From the minute she arrives at Sweet Valley Middle School, everybody loves Anna Reynolds. She's outgoing and funny--and almost as boy-crazy as the Unicorns! All of Anna's new friends are especially impressed that she can handle the pressures of schoo...

  • The Wolf and the Raven

    Diana L. Paxson

    They were children born to rival kings in a land cruelly ravaged by tribal warfare. At a tender age they were taken from their homes to be groomed for greatness--the Hun princess Brunahild entrusted to the mystical Walkyriun to study the ancient arts...

  • Wizard in Wonderland

    Jean Ure

    A spirited sequel to The Wizard in the Woods finds Joel and Gemma in Wonderland with their wizard friend Ben-Muzzy, but when the Airy Fairies steal Ben-Muzzy's broomstick, the friends face high adventure trying to retrieve it to return home....

  • The Wind Blows Backward

    Mary Downing Hahn

    Lauren and Spencer were best friends in junior high, but good-looking Spencer quickly becomes a popular jock in high school with no time for quiet, bookish jock Lauren. Now they're in senior year, and suddenly Spencer is back in her life, sharing ...

  • Wildest Hearts

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    Annie Lyncroft knew her scheme was outrageous. She'd come to the elegant penthouse to meet Oliver Rain, the richest and possibly the most dangerous man in the Pacific Northwest. Annie needed this sensual, secretive corporate maverick for what she wa...

  • 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...

  • The Wild Things

    Betsy Duffey

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Who's That Baby?

    Kristin Morgan

    Mystery man Whitney Arceneaux never considered herself a nosy neighbor--until a sexy stranger came to town. Whitney just couldn't resist keeping an eye on the mysterious man or his darling daughter. Her first encounter with the not-so-nice newcome...

  • Who's Orp's Girlfriend?

    Suzy Kline

  • Who's Counting?

    Nancy Tafuri

  • Who's at the Door?

    Jonathan Allen

  • Whispers

    Belva Plain

    Robert and Lynn Ferguson are a picture-perfect couple with two beautiful daughters and a lovely home in an exclusive, Connecticut community. Robert is on the fast track of a major corporation; Lynn is devoted to her family and good works. But the Fer...

  • Where the Truth Lies

    Lucy Cullyford Babbitt

  • Where the Boys Are

    Mel Gilden

    While Brenda and Dylan take a surfing trip to the Baja without her father's consent, and Donna tries to see a new band, the 90210 crowd prepares for the wedding of Kelly's mom and David's dad. Original. TV tie-in....

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Where Are You, Little Green Dragon?

    Klaus Baumgart

  • When Lilacs Bloom

    Clara Wimberly
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    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....

  • When Joel Comes Home

    Susi Gregg Fowler

  • What Time of Night Is It?

    Mary Stolz

  • What Remains and Other Stories

    Christa Wolf

    What Remains collects Christa Wolf's short fiction, from her early work in the sixties to the recently published title story, which was widely debated when it appeared in Germany in 1990.These powerful and often very personal stories examine a wide r...

  • What Are We Going to Do About David?

    Willo Davis Roberts

    When his constantly arguing parents decide to go their separate ways for a month, David is sent to spend time with a grandmother he hardly knows, a warm-hearted woman who teaches him the true meaning of family....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • A Warning of Magic

    Kate Kingston

    She had a secret purpose.... Merrill had only gone to Luke Travis's office to pay a bill because she was in the process of settling her cousin Elise's estate. At least that's what she'd told Luke. But then he unexpectedly offered h...

  • 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...

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

    Walt Disney

  • 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....

  • Wake up, Wilson Street

    Abigail Thomas

  • 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...

  • The Village of Bom Jesus

    Lloyd E. Hill

  • Viking Magic

    Angela Wells

    Destination: Denmark Attractions: Elsinore Castle, Tivoli Gardens...and Rune Christensen Gina Price had gone to Copenhagen on a mission -- to find her willful teenage sister. She hadn't planned on the help of a gorgeous Viking -- especially o...

  • Victoria's Conquest

    Laurie Paige

    Calculated risk Victoria Broadrick, the mayor of Paradise Falls, was as resourceful as she was beautiful. The lovely widow's plan to lure business tycoon Jason Broadrick back to his hometown was unemotional and entirely official--until she met her...

  • The Venus Deal

    Ken Kuhlken

    While the rest of San Diego is dealing with the rages of World War II, Tom Hickey--half owner of a local club--is making money. But when the club's young singer Cynthia Moon disappears, business drops precipitously. Sometime private detective Hickey ...

  • 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...

  • The Untraviolet Sky

    Alma Luz Villanueva

  • The Unicorn Peace

    John Lee

  • The Unicorn and Other Poems

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • The Ultimate Opponent

    James Raven

  • The Two Medicine River

    Richard S. Wheeler

    RIVERS WEST Discover one of the most thrilling frontier series of our time...tales of mountain men and intrepid women, pioneer families and Native American warriors. Discover North America in all its awesome splendor. THE TWO MEDICINE RIVER Down...

  • Two Against the World

    Mary Anne Wilson

    BODY HEAT Steven Rider was in the witness protection program, hiding in a Colorado mountain cabin. And no one was supposed to find him! But he found an unconscious, frostbitten redhead. Who was this sultry stranger? Was she as innocent as she look...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Twilight Gate

    Rhondi Vilott Salsitz

    En route to the home of their father, a troubled Vietnam veteran, George and his siblings discover that a gate has opened between the real world and the world that young George has created in his bedtime stories....

  • The Twenty-Five Mixtec Cats

    Matthew Gollub

    The healer in an Oaxacan village returns from market with 25 kittens, but the unfamiliar animals are viewed by the townspeople with suspicion and scorn. When an evil spell threatens the local butcher, the healer and his cats save her life and win the...

  • Turkey Drive and Other Tales

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

    John Irving

    Here is a treat for John Irving addicts and a perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. To open this spirited collection, Irving explains how he became a writer. There follow six scintillating stories written over the last twenty years ...

  • Trust Territory

    Janet Morris; Chris Morris

    FIRST CONTACT -- OR LAST? In the twenty-fifth century only the privileged few can set foot on Earth, and most human activity centers around Threshold Terminal, where special interest groups play out their power games of interstellar politics. No...

  • True Blue Hearts

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    From the moment he met petite, headstrong Zoe Yarberry, cowboy Rory Breen was a changed man. Well, he didn't exactly meet her--he just happened along in time to help her steal a horse. And he wasn't completely changed--he would always be a restless c...

  • The Trouble With Magic

    Mary Kay McComas

    PAYTON--An Enigmatic Loner Who Held the Key to Her Happiness... She'd persuaded him to visit the great manor house on Jovette Island convinced that once Payyon Dunsmore saw it, he'd help her save the place. But when Harriet Wheaton understood he s...

  • The Triumph

    John Kenneth Galbraith

  • Touched by Desire

    Lynsey Stevens

    Within reach Todd Jerome might have been Kris's matchmaking sister's hunk of choice, but Kris wasn't interested. In fact, she really didn't like the man--especially after his unenlightened comments regarding female pilots. She'...

  • 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...

  • Too Much, Too Young

    Carolyn Bridgwood

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Ashley McConnell

  • Tomorrow's Man

    Sue Peters

    Another knight in tarnished armor? Now a widow, artist Kit Fielding was "finished with men." Her experience with her unfaithful, irresponsible husband, Paul, had left her content to live a quiet life alone. She felt no desire to risk love or marriage...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Throat

    Peter Straub

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story brings the chilling Blue Rose Trilogy to an astonishing close -- secrets unearthed, demons revisited, and mysteries solved. • “A masterpiece…. The most intelligent novel of suspense to com...

  • The Three Young Maniacs and the Red Rubber Boots

    Karen Berman Nagel

  • Three Little Pigs

    Janet B. Campbell

  • Think of It

    Bette Killion

  • Think of an Eel

    Karen Wallace

    Graceful verses and fluid illustrations follow an eel from its birth in the Sargasso sea, through its years in the ocean and its trip to freshwater, to its return to the sea to have children, illuminating the life of this amazing creature....

  • Think of a Beaver

    Karen Wallace

    A poetic text and charming, realistic illustrations offer a close-up look at the lives of beavers, including how they build tunnels, how they communicate, how they play, and how they use their webbed feet....

  • Thieves of Innocence

    John Ankerberg

  • 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...

  • There Was Magic Inside

    David Galchutt

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • That Tickles! The Disney Book of Senses

    Cindy West

  • 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...

  • Texas Triggers

    Jon Sharpe

  • Testament

    David Morrell

    Master of the high-action thriller, David Morrell is a five-time New York Times bestselling paperback author (First Blood, The Covenant of the Flame). Back in print after eight years, Testament--a chilling novel of a race for survival against a fanat...

  • The Terrible Itch

    Shen Roddie

  • Tenderfoot

    David Thompson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Temporary Arrangement

    Shannon Waverly

    She didn't want to be there. He didn't want her to stay. The arrangement was temporary -- but their marriage was for keeps! The last thing high-powered Colorado lawyer Mark Johnson wanted was to be saddled with Kim Wade, his only sister&...

  • Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

    Michael Hague

  • Tatterhood and the Hobgoblins

    Lauren A. Mills

  • A Taste for Death

    P.D. James

    Their throats slit, the two men have turned the old vestry of St. Matthew's church red with blooed. In death united, in life no men could have been more disparate: onea Baronet and Minister of the Crown; the other and alcholic derelict. Commander Ada...

  • 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 Tall Ship Shakedown

    Neil S. Wilson

  • Talisman

    Jillian Dagg

  • Tacky the Penguin Book & Cassette

    Helen Lester

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Swimming in the Volcano

    Bob Shacochis

    A vibrant portrait of love and politics in the tropics from the National Book Awardâ€"winning author: “the finest first novel I have read in many years†(William O’Rourke, Chicago Tribune).   Winner of the National Book Award for First Fic...

  • Sweet Seduction

    Julie Tetel

    Fair Game A swirl of petticoats disappearing up a tree had been James Stewart's first sight of the impetuous Miss Shaw. And though he wondered whom she met at her early morning rendezvous, he wondered even more what she looked like without all tha...

  • 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...

  • Sunny Day

    Claire Henley

  • 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...

  • Summer Gloves

    Sarah Gilbert

  • Stormy Day

    Claire Henley

  • The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral

    Robert Westall

    """I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower ... And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if some wild beast was eating him.""

    When steeplejack Joe Clarke is hired to repair the stonework at Mu...

  • Still Married

    Diana Whitney

    LAST CHANCE FOR LOVE When Kelsey Manning first met Luke Sontag, the air crackled, charged with an excitement neither could deny. But time - and tragedy - had destroyed any chance of lasting love. Yet Kelsey knew her estranged husband, though rough a...

  • Stick Boy

    Joan T. Zeier

  • Stephanie

    Winston Graham

    Stephanie, a young woman with a brilliant future, finds that future at risk when she discovers that Errol, her worldly lover, may have had something to do with the recent murder of a prominent gentleman's daughter...

  • The Stepdaughter

    Carol Ellis

  • The Steel Kings

    John Maddox Roberts

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Star Light, Star Bright

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    When Cassie and her best friend, Andrea, enter the Prestige Model Search, they do it just for kicks. But Andrea wins! And asks Cassie to go with her to New York. At first the trip is a lot of fun. Then things change--Andrea's attitude, for example. S...

  • Springtime

    Ann Schweninger

  • Spider-Man: Venom Returns

    David Michelinie

  • Spider Kane and the Mystery at Jumbo Nightcrawler's

    Mary Pope Osborne

    From the author of the Magic Tree House comes a new kind of hero.... Leon Leafwing is up to his antennae in questions! 1. Where have his best friends disappeared to? 2. Who is the mysterious singing bee? 3. What evil lurks in the shadows of J...

  • Spider and a Pig

    Carol Morley

  • Spaghetti for Suzy

    Peta Coplans

  • Southwest Stories

    John Miller

  • South Wind Blew Softly

    Ruth Livingston Hill

    Nancy Lansing boarded the plane for Pine City, Florida, reluctantly. The idea of spending six months in a small town--even if it meant collecting a $25,000 inheritance from her uncle--seemed bleak to the vivacious young New Yorker. -- But life in P...

  • 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...

  • Sorrowheart

    M.K. Lorens

    Sorrowheart, an old mansion just off the campus of DeWitt Clinton College, holds the key to a mystery involving a serial killer and the new college president's effort to attrition older teachers, professor cum amateur sleuth G. Winchester Hyde is cer...

  • Sons of an Ancient Glory

    B.J. Hoff

    In classic B.J. Hoff style, Sons of an Ancient Glory continues the magnificent saga of the immigrants who came to America from the Emerald Isle, hoping to find promise-peace-and a future. Through tragedy and triumph, Morgan Fitzgerald, Michael and S...

  • 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....

  • Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of America

    Nan Lyons

    Just after Switzerland's Enstein Clinic releases formerly obese murderer Achille van Golk, culinary sleuths Natasha O'Brien and Millie Ogden once again set out on the trail of a serial chef killer--this time stalking American cooking experts. 35,000 ...

  • Some Things Never Die

    Robert Morgan

    Second in the Supernatural Mystery series featuring the P.I. with a knack for solving eerie crimes—Teddy London.

    The mother of a Chinatown murder victim insists her son was killed by vampires, but London is skeptical to say the least&...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Solomon Organization

    Andrew Neiderman

    From the bestselling author of The Devil’s Advocate comes this “fast-moving thriller with an up-to-the-minute premise: a secret conspiracy of men†(Publishers Weekly).   Scott Lester’s bitter divorce includes accusations of adultery, alc...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Slocum and the Forty Thieves

    Jake Logan

    When a snake-oil salesman's deadly potions kill four innocent people, Slocum, acting as sheriff of Brushwood Gulch, follows the murderer back east and along the way encounters a group of dangerous thieves. Original....

  • Siren Song

    Janis Flores

  • 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......

  • The Silverlake Stranger

    Sally Marcey

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Silent Gun

    Douglas Hirt

  • Siege Of Lightning

    R.J. Pineiro

    After the tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger, the technicians of NASA hope to create a fail safe shuttle, incapable of malfunctioning. With the space shuttle Lightning, all systems were go... Then lightning struck twice. America's greatest t...

  • Shooting Star

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

  • 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 ...

  • Shella

    Andrew H. Vachss

    From the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its na...

  • 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....

  • Shakedown Street

    Jonathan Nasaw

    Shakedown Street...it's not a place, it's a state of mind. That's why fourteen-year old Caro decides that no matter what, she'll survive by panhandling and picking trash, while her mother scrounges every cent from a nowhere job so she can get them a ...

  • Shadow Walkers

    Russ Chenoweth

  • 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...

  • Shadow of the Grizzly

    Larry Jay Martin

    California's great central valley, the San Joaquin, is a land of hope and promise, but also of danger. Stalking Clint Ryan's ranch is a band of vicious hardcases, who are nothing compared to the grizzly who lays in wait in the willows and cottonwoods...

  • Sexual Chemistry

    Brian Stableford

  • 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 ...

  • Secret Summer Dreams

    Beverly Lewis

    This summer should be one to remember... Holly Meredith has the perfect summer planned. Her dad has asked her to stay with him in California for a few weeks, and Holly is super excited. She's looking forward to getting to know her dad better, and ...

  • The Search for Sidney's Smile

    Marc Kornblatt

  • Sean Donovan

    Lori Wick

    CHARLOTTE DIDN'T KNOW THAT MEN LIKE SEAN DONOVAN EXISTED... Feeling betrayed by his father and alienated from the God he once loved, Sean Donovan leaves Santa Rosa as an angry young man. Joining a gang of thieves, he is caught during his first ban...

  • 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...

  • School Days

    Gail Herman

  • Sandman, Sleep

    Herbert Lieberman

  • Sandlot

    Alison Hendrie

    Scotty Smalls, who has just moved into town with his mother and new stepfather, makes friends with a group of boys who have their own baseball team, even though he does not know how to play and has never heard of Babe Ruth...

  • Sammy's Excellent Real-Life Adventures

    Daniel J. Hochstatter

    A shepherd boy briefly describes friends who exemplify such character traits as honesty, kindness, patience, and generosity and he asks the reader to find his friends and other things in each picture....

  • Saint Ben

    John Fischer

  • 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...

  • Russian Beauty

    Victor Erofeyev

  • 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...

  • A Rumour of Otters

    Deborah Savage

  • Road Pirates

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • 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....

  • Right on the Money

    Emma Lathen

    A GOLDEN CORPORATE MERGER...OR A PARTNERSHIP IN CRIME? To John Putnam Thatcher Sloan Guaranty Trust's intrepid VP, the merger looks from the outset to be a golden opportunity. ASI, a large water-fixture company is prepared to enter the lucrative r...

  • 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...

  • The Rich Detective

    H.R.F. Keating

    After winning a million pounds in a lottery, Detective Inspector Bill Sylvester resigns and uses his winnings to investigate the mysterious deaths of a series of dowagers who willed their estates to a prominent antiques dealer. Reprint....

  • Reversal of Fortunes

    Nina Porter
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    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!...

  • Return to Bloodstone House

    Jane Toombs

    Something wicked this way comes... Centuries before the first white man set foot on Mount Sangre, the ancient ones warned that something slept there, something unspeakably evil...And yet, one terrible night, that evil was awakened by innocents too...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Renegade

    Frederic Bean

  • Red Light Stop, Green Light Go

    Andrew Kulman

  • Red Dancing Shoes

    Denise Lewis Patrick

  • Real Heroes

    Marilyn Kaye

    When his father joins other parents in demonstrating against a teacher who is HIV-positive, Kevin is torn between his loyalty to his father whom he has always considered a hero and his admiration for his favorite sixth grade teacher...

  • Razor's Song

    Joe Monninger

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Rains Are Coming

    Sanna Stanley

  • Quiller Meridian

    Adam Hall

    Following the trail of a missing Russian spy, Quiller travels into the heart of post-Cold War Russia, seeking allies among his former adversaries, in order to solve the violent death of a British agent. Reprint....

  • Quiet Murder

    Nancy Livingston

    It looked like a burglary gone wrong... And it left a harmless old-age pensioner dead. However, burns and gashes on the man's face told a different story: Ernest Clare had been tortured. As fear hangs heavily about the residents of Inkerman Str...

  • The Quest for the Silver Castle

    Lela Gilbert

  • The Queen of Put-Down

    Nancy J. Hopper

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pudmuddles

    Carol Beach York

  • 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...

  • The Promise

    Robert Westall

  • 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....

  • The Princess in the Kitchen Garden

    Annemie Heymans

  • Princess and the Peacocks: Or, the Story of the Room

    Linda Merrill

    A princess in a portrait by the famous American painter, James McNeill Whistler, tells how he transforms the dreary room where she hangs in his wealthy patron's house in London into the spectacular Peacock Room....