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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — APRIL 1998

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New Books List: 598 titles



  • Scholastic Inc.

    Winner of Performance Magazine's 1997 Reader's Poll Award for Best Variety/Family Show Tour of the Year. Shhh! Barney the Dinosaur is planning a Super-Dee-Duper surprise party for BJ and it's going to be a musical extravaganza! Professor Tinkerputt w...



  • David Gemmell

    Enter the extraordinary action-filled saga that began with Legend--as the exciting Drenai adventure continues to unfold... A mighty warrior and a feared assassin among the Drenai, Waylander the Slayer is now a man hunted by his own people--with a ...



  • Gavin Curtis

    "Is -- Reginald -- at -- it -- again?" Papa shouts between notes. "Hush up," Mama says, "I just love this one." Papa sometimes comes home in a bad mood because he's the manager of the Dukes -- the worst team in the Negro National League. Reginald...





  • Rebecca Gold

      

    Following the successful visits to the Sesame Street firehouse, museum, hospital, and zoo, the gang sets out for a fun-filled day at the Sesame Street aquarium. Elmo leads the way as he and his friends see many underwater wonders and sea...



  • Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: You're about to enter a labyrinth where the unthinkable happens and the unimaginable becomes terrifyingly real. Escaping unwanted media attention after a notorious incident, Ramsey Hunt retreats into the solitude of a cabin high in t...



  • Ted Lewin

    It is early morning, and the haunting cry of the muezzin drifts in the air above the city of Fez, Morocco. Abdul and his grandfather are walking to work-past souk after souk of carpet sellers and weavers, leatherworkers and metalsmiths, then out thro...



  • Gerald Morris

    Life for the young orphan Terence is peaceful, spent with the old hermit Trevisant in a quiet wood. That is, until the day a strange green sprite leads Terence to Gawain, King Arthur's nephew, who is on his way to Camelot in the hope of being knighte...



  • John Marsden

    And then there were five.... It has been six long months since Ellie and her friends returned home from a camping trip to find their families and friends imprisoned by an enemy that threatens to steal Australia's freedom. Only they can stop this. ...



  • H.A. Rey

    Now back in print after a long hiatus, this title was first published the same year as Curious George. Illustrations show different landscapes and people who need to get to faraway destinations. Children guess the means of transportation to be used a...




  • Vivien Alcock

    Meeting a refugee child struggling for survival in a strange society, Lesley, Victoria, Christopher, and Robert try to provide a safe haven for their new friend and in doing so learn about their own strengths and limitations....



  • Edith Schaeffer

    A personal memoir captures the life of a young girl growing up in China and tells of her walks along busy streets, tasting buffalo cream on toast and, finally, her thoughts as she departs China on a ship to her new home in America....



  • Gordon Morrison

    Nature artist Gordon Morrison has created a brilliantly illustrated and informative portrait of the American bald eagle. The main story is told with full-color pictures, taking the reader through the eagle's life cycle - the chicks hatch; are protect...



  • HarperCollins

    "Cumbayah" is an enduring campfire song for children and a source of inspiration for adults. Though its roots are in the African-American tradition, it speaks to people of many different cultures, ages, and religious. With power and grace, Floyd Coop...



  • James Preller

    On a winters day, a mother and child take a stroll through the park, tossing sunflower seeds along the way. Unbeknownst to them, these seeds start an entire cycle of life around them. One stray seed sprouts into a sunflower, while a pair of cardinals...



  • Mette Newth

    When it was discovered that thirteen-year-old Tora has leprosy, she is sent from her family's remote mountain farm to the leprosy hospital in the bustling port of Bergen. In early-nineteenth-century Norway, lepers are quarantined in this hospital and...



  • Bruce Koscielniak

    In the sleepy English market town of Stratford-upon-Avon, poet and playwright William Shakespeare is at work tending his garden when a maiden and a lad stop by to announce that a merry troupe of players is approaching. The troupe, on its way to Londo...




  • Milan Kundera

    "After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul." -- L'UniteSet in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, Far...



  • Mary Pope Osborne

    Who would burn books? Jack and Annie find out when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to ancient China. There, a powerful emperor called the Dragon King has ordered that all books be burned. Will Jack and Annie be able to save at least one boo...



  • Gary Soto

    It's almost Cinco de Mayo, and Ricky's class is going to put on a play to celebrate the festive Mexican holiday. When asked to choose his costume, Ricky picks a big, bushy mustache, just like his dad's. He's tired of everyone telling him he looks lik...



  • Gerald Hausman

    In this traditional Native American tale, a mute boy is spiritually linked to a magnificent elk from the day of the boy's birth. The two are companions until the elk is killed, leaving the boy a precious bequest: its antlers, around which a cedar tre...



  • Eileen Christelow

    Jerome Alligator is going on a camping trip with his Swamp School classmates. Jerome and his pal P.J. are excited about swimming, hiking, fishing, and sleeping in a tent, but the class bully, Buster, turns out to be their tentmate, and he's up to his...



  • David Silva

    As Meanie the Witch, Dotty stars as a very cranky little witch whose faulty broom forces her to make an emergency landing in Balloony Town, where balloons grow on trees and everyone is happy. Although she manages to burst everyone's balloons and spre...



  • David Silva

    Dotty stars as Queen Cat the Great of the Land of Brrrr, whose insatiable desire for balls of yarn is beginning to unravel her subjects. When she decides to hold a Great Yarn Ball, the queen is surprised to learn that her subjects cannot attend - bec...



  • Elizabeth Winthrop

    Michael's parents live seven states apart, and it is extremely difficult for him to be with only one parent at a time, so when his father comes for a visit, he is able to spend a lot of time with him and learn things about him that he had never known...



  • Albert R. Carusone

    No one can spin a scary yarn like Al Carusone! In his second collection of shivery, creepy, hilarious tales, this amazing storyteller shows the macabre underside of kids' everyday lives. Practicing the piano, a coloring book, an itchy scab, the schoo...



  • Sanna Stanley


    "Luzolo's father is the village preacher, and [Luzolo] has promised she will sit still during his sermon because it is a special occasion...It seems as if every animal in the village, from chicks to monkeys, interrupts her father, but Luzolo mana...



  • Donna Brook

    Who first spoke English? Did it always sound the way it does today? How did it become the most popular language in the world? This book traces the journey of our language from its origins with the various peoples who invaded England to its present st...



  • Barbara M. Joosse

    After hearing strange noises in a secret passageway, Wild Willie, King Kyle, and Lucky Lucy wonder if its is the late Loony Loraine making the noises in Kyle's new home and begin a search to find out exactly what is going on....




  • Rob Childs

    Still touring the Cotswolds, Tanfield Rangers' afternoon kick-off is about to turn into a royal tournament. Pitched back in time, the Time Rangers score as top football entertainment for Elizabeth the First! The lads meet a boy called Will, who's des...



  • Mary Morris

    It was with her stories that Mary Morris first won attention and acclaim: her first collection, Vanishing Animals, received the prestigious Rome Prize, and her second, The Bus of Dreams, was widely hailed. In this new collection, Mary Morris once aga...



  • Mary Ann Fraser


    When Spanish missionaries arrived on the beautiful shores of what is now the Santa Barbara region of California, they built a mission that came to be called La Purisima (another name for the Virgin Mary). Its construction changed the lives of the...



  • Jane Breskin Zalben


    On the day of Uncle Izzy and Sashi's wedding, Beni has butterflies in his stomach. As he walks slowly and steadily down the aisle with the wedding ring on the pillow, he hears friendly voices cheering him on. But just when Aunt Gertie calls out "...



  • Mordicai Gerstein

    Murray has to get dressed for school. But his pants don’t want to go! They hide under the bed! They run around the room! And they end up swinging from the ceiling light! Murray’s socks try to help; his belt offers to lasso them. But the pants won...



  • Pamela Conrad




  • Alison Shaw

    The sights, sounds, and excitement of the sea are celebrated here in a variety of poems and vibrant photographs from award-winning photographer Alison Shaw. The collection encapsulates all the activities of seagoing from making sand castles on the sh...



  • Garrison Keillor

    A best-selling author and his wife collaborate on a coming-of-age story about twelve-year-old Rachel, who believes her parents' eccentricity is rubbing off on her and only feels normal when she plays with the Dairyland Symphony Orchestra. Reprint....



  • David Michelinie

    A vicious serial killer named Cletus Kasady has had his body chemistry altered by an alien creature. Now, Kasady can transform into Carnage, who, along with his lethal living costume, lives for chaos and random acts of senseless, brutal murder! Carna...



  • Kathleen Karr

    Although Kate loves to dream about being a mermaid, she puts her dreams aside when her father, the lighthouse keeper, leaves the lighthouse and puts Kate in charge of steering the boats to safety by keeping the lighthouse lit throughout the night. Si...



  • Jane Leslie Conly


    Frankie tags along when his older brother and cousin go out to steal bicycles from people in the "rich" part of town. On the spur of the moment, his cousin steals a pet rabbit from a stranger's backyard and gives it to Frankie. Frankie takes the ...




  • Rachel Coyne


    Through powerful words and images, this joyful picture book celebrates the special bond that is shared between mothers and daughters--across ages, colors, and nations. Virginia Halstead's magical pictures of women joining forces with the land cap...




  • Taylor Morrison

    In the vast plain of Tanzania's Serengeti there lives a remarkable animal: the cheetah. With its lithe body and terrific strength, the cheetah is able to reach speeds of seventy miles per hour in mere seconds. It is earth's fastest land animal. In th...



  • Jane Killick

    A comprehensive episode-by-episode guide to the second exciting season of Babylon 5!

    Babylon 5: The Coming of Shadows, opens with “By Any Means Necessary: Making Babylon 5 on a Budget,” a behind-the-scenes account of how series creator J...



  • Michelle Spring

    The shocking murder lingered in the tabloids for weeks. A sweet elderly lady viciously killed in a quiet corner of Cambridge, her skull crushed with a concrete block by her eleven-year-old foster child, Daryll Flatt. Hideous as the crime was, the cas...



  • Jane Harvard

    What happens when the students at America's oldest university enter the world's oldest profession?
            The Student Body is the smartest, sexiest beach book of the year, written by four Harvard graduates who are as diverse as their char...



  • Nicholson Baker

    Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling s...



  • Anne Tyler

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved Pulitzer Prize"winning author tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He h...



  • Terri Blackstock

    A dark shadow of fear has fallen over Newpointe, Louisiana. First one, then another of the town firemen's wives has been murdered, a third has barely escaped an attempt on her life. Incredible as it seems, a serial killer is stalking this sleepy litt...



  • Wendelin Van Draanen

    Grams told me my binoculars were going to get me into trouble. I just didn't believe her. Sammy Keyes isn't looking for trouble when she trains her binoculars on the Heavenly Hotel across the street. So when she spies a man with gloves pawing throug...



  • Rachel Isadora

    Twilight in Johannesburg, South Africa, finds the bustle of the city beginning to subside. Work is over, and it is time for rest. But in Kruger National Park the setting sun beckons the animals and their young from the bush. On the darkened plain it ...



  • Lynn Reiser

    Here is a book about everyday love and how one family expresses it. Four generations of mothers and daughters share family traditions that are the same but become slightly different as the times change. And whether they are sharing cherry pies or qui...



  • Joe Cepeda

    It's almost Cinco de Mayo, and Ricky's class is going to put on a play to celebrate the festive Mexican holiday. When asked to choose his costume, Ricky picks a big, bushy mustache, just like his dad's. He's tired of everyone telling him he looks lik...




  • Holly Keller

    In this funny, welcome sequel to I Am Angela, someone has infiltrated the school's computer system and scrambled all the report cards! The principal is at her wit's end, but Angela and her computer-club cohorts are on the trail of some cryptic E-mail...





  • Modern Library

    Continuing the Modern Library's series of classic compilations to gladden the heart, we are pleased to offer our celebration of mothers and motherhood. As with Christmas Classics, these poems and stories are ideal for sharing aloud--as bedtime storie...



  • Belva Plain

    In Legacy of Silence, New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain creates an unforgettable story of a remarkable family -- and a deception that reaches across continents, oceans, and generations.   Caroline Hartzinger flees wartime Europe with...



  • Phillip Margolin

    Judge Richard Quinn is young, idealistic, and honest to a fault. That's why he's handed the most sensational homicide case in Oregon history. Locked in a race for the U.S. Senate, Ellen Crease gunned down the intruder who murdered her wealthy husba...



  • Jane Smiley

    In this brilliant novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Jane Smiley delves into the domestic drama of the Robison family. While seventy-seven-year-old Ike Robison is dying in his bedroom upstairs, his wife defends the citadel of their ...



  • Jesse May

    In 1987, there was legalized poker in Nevada and in one county of California. Author Jesse May was seventeen years old and already hooked. By 1996, poker could be legally played in casinos in over twenty states of the union and five countries in Euro...



  • Linda Jaivin

    In this eye-popping first novel--a bestseller in both the United States and Australia--Linda Jaivin invites readers to overhear what women really talk about when they talk about sex.

    When four bright, successful friends meet in Sydney's design...



  • Jan Slepian

    Although Emily is growing up quite fast--pouring her own milk and going down the twisty slide--she still cannot spend the whole night at her grandma's because of her fear of the dark and the unfamiliar surroundings....



  • Linda M. Hasselstrom

    In the true stories, essays, and poems of Leaning into the Wind we meet the real women of the High Plains today. Included are reflections on cowboys, tractor-driving lessons, outhouses, ranch marriages, and family legacies....



  • Bruce Talkington

    Winnie the Pooh is confused and surprised when he happens upon a strange and colorful egg, but after much adventure, Christopher Robin helps Pooh and his friends understand what Easter eggs are all about....



  • Lynne Graham

    Race to the altar: Maxie, Darcy and Polly are The Husband Hunters. The terms of the will: the late Nancy Leeward has left each of her three god-daughters a share of her estate if they marry within a year and remain married for six months.... ...



  • Elizabeth Henshall

    WAS MAUDE DE VAILLANT A MERCENARY, A WITCH OR AN INNOCENT? That was the question on everyone's lips after the legendary tales of her birth and upbringing had been circulated. Though Maude, with her extraordinary skills, wanted nothing more than th...



  • Rosemary Gibson

    A brief encounter... and a second chance! For Clemency Adams, one disastrous marriage was enough. She'd decided to focus on her career in the future, and that meant trying to ignore the instinctive attraction she felt for the man next door--an...



  • Anne Weale

    Her future husband? Anny Howard was still a child when she met Giovanni--Van--Carlisle. He was nine years her senior, and Anny had soon developed a severe case of hero worship for Van. Over the years her youthful infatuation has blossomed into lov...



  • Tomek Bogacki


    Curiosity overcomes fear

    A little blue bird is afraid to learn to fly, but is still very curious about the world beyond his nest. "Mama, mama, what is out there?" he asks. "Nothing," his mother replies. "Now go to sleep." But the little bi...



  • Jane Peart

    Niki's heart was thrumming as the taxi stopped with a jerk in front of the gray, stone building behind tall, black iron gates. On a metal plaque was engraved Les Soeurs de Merci. Niki thrust several franc notes staring through the rungs of the gate. ...




  • Babette Cole

    From the creator of the hilarious Dr. Dog and Drop Dead and the refreshing Mummy Laid an Egg  comes a lighthearted yet helpful introduction to the difficult topic of divorce for children. Demetrius and Paula Ogglebutt have problem parents who never...




  • Katherine Kingsley

    CALL DOWN THE MAGIC With a shadowy past and only dreams for her future, Meggie Bloom was tending the lost souls at Woodbridge Sanitarium when the handsome stranger's cobalt gaze awakened her to a woman's desire. Suddenly the mind-reading gifts that ...



  • Everett Owens

    Ian Rowe never has a problem getting a date--with junior girls. But when he develops a major crush on blond beauty Jennifer Patt, he knows he doesn't have a chance. Not only is she the most sought-after female in the school, she's a senior. Everybody...



  • Bonnie Bryant

    It's time for the annual Willow Creek Junior High spring dance. Since the dance is open to everyone, the Saddle Club will be there and so will Stevie's boyfriend, Phil. Unfortunately, this also means that Veronica diAngelo will be there. The Saddle C...




  • Kent Conwell

    The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa is Conwell's eleventh book for Avalon, a list that includes the recently published titles Valley of Gold; Bumpo, Bill, and the Girls; Laughing Girl Creek; Jim Wells; and Painted Comanche Tree....



  • Emily Costello

    Fiona Fagan is a good soccer player, who could be great if she didn't have asthma and allergies in her way.  Fiona's parents decide that it is just too dangerous to her health to keep playing.  But with her teammates' encouragement, she decides t...



  • Karen Cushman

    In 1849 a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town. There Lucy helps run a boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way...



  • Ian Hamilton

    This collection of essays focuses on Salman Rushdie, Stephen Spender, R.S. Thomas, Elisabeth Thomas, Elisabeth Bishop and many others. They take biography as their starting point, but their final aim is to iluminate the writer's work. Not limited sim...



  • Dianne G. Pugh

    The violent death of a dear friend spells trouble for comfortable investment counselor Iris when the woman's husband and business partner, Kip, turns up at the top of the suspect list and the only witness to the crime is his five-year-old daughter. R...



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  • Jake Logan

    Slocum finds a rose that isn't as sweet as she looks.Slocum isn't the type to walk from a lady in trouble. But when he has to fight a band of buffalo hunters, it seems defending this little Rose is going to be a thorny affair......



  • Gary McCarthy

    Fleeing the brutal polygamist she had been forced to marry, Rebecca and her sister, Katie, who dreams of establishing a sprawling ranch of her own, fight for freedom and survival in Utah's mountain wilderness. Original....



  • Robert Reese

    In the wake of the 1886 Alaskan gold rush, New Orleans gentleman Clay Macon journeys to the rough frontier territory of Alaska in search of the fabled gold fortune his father left behind, only to discover some terrible secrets instead...



  • Jon Sharpe

    With the aid of a Pawnee Indian beauty, Skye Fargo attempts to head off an all-out war between a gang of outlaws disguised as U.S. cavalrymen preying on Indian women and the Plains tribes hell-bent on revenge. Original....



  • J.R. Roberts

    THE FAMILY HAT GUNS TOGETHER...RUNS TOGETHER! The little girl who shot Sheriff Frank Dobbs couldn't have been more than ten. But what do you expect from a kid whose mother, father, brother, and sister are across the street robbing the bank? It loo...



  • Dodge Tyler

    Daniel Boone rides into New Mexico to protect a man who once saved his life, when he finds himself in danger when the Spanish begin to set the Indian tribes against the fur-trappers of Taos. Original....



  • Ralph Cotton

    Arizona lawman Sam Burrack's draw and determination are sorely tested by Montana Red Hollis, a cunning and brutal killer who holds sway over the badlands, and Gentleman Joe Sharpe, a small-time gambler masquerading as a lawman. Original....



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm must decide whether to keep trailing a trio of bank robbers or stay in the enticing clutches a the wily widow who wants him to take the place of her late husband, Whisky Creek's last marshal. Original....



  • B.J. Lanagan

    During the Civil War, they sought justice outside of the law, paying back every Yankee raid with one of their own. No man could stop them. No woman could resist them. And no Yankee stood a chance when Win and Joe Coulter rode into town.   Normal...



  • Jasmine Cresswell

    Fifteen-year-old Maggie is convicted of her mother's murder. Maggie's guilty of many things.... But not of that. Seven years later she escapes from prison. Maggie Slade's been on the run for seven years now. Seven years of dead-end ...



  • Lynn Erickson

    Jack Devlin is a man on death row, convicted of murdering his socialite wife. Eve Marchand is the public defender who believes that the evidence against him is all too-cut-and-dried. When Jack escapes and contacts Eve, she's forced to make a decision...



  • Carola Dunn

    A MYSTERIOUS MISS... From the stage of the Royal Coburg Theatre, Lissa Findlay saw Lord Ashe watching her. She knew the notorious rake was looking for a mistress, and though circumstances had forced her to become an actress to survive -- a definite ...



  • Patti Berg

    Sometimes a fantasy... From the first moment she saw him on the screen, Adriana Howard has adored Trevor Montgomery, the dashing playboy movie star from the '30s who vanished mysteriously in a cloud of suspicion and innuendo. Becomes reality. ...



  • Margaret Summerville

    Foreign Affairs Lady Selena Paget possessed the rank, fortune, and figure to be a prize in the Marriage Mart, but alas, the gentlemen of the ton bored her senseless. Only the Earl of Heathfield attracted her -- a man of mystery, a reputed seducer,...



  • Martha Kirkland

    A Scandalous Predicament With her renowned father ill, Miss Sarah Sterling traveled to Donmore Hall by herself to clean and restore the priceless paintings left to the new heir, Matthew Donaldson. It was simply scandalous for a young lady to be un...



  • Maggie Osborne

    I leave all my worldly goods to my worthless daughters, but they got to earn it. If you three want an acre of my ranch, you got to drive a herd of longhorns to Abilene, Kansas. If you fail, then my fourth and worst wife, Lola, gets everything. May th...



  • Martha Kirkland
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    Celebrate the blossoming of a mother's love for her children and a man's devotion to the woman who cares for his family in these exquisite tales by three highly acclaimed Regency author... Hoping to make a good marriage for her beautiful s...



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    Celebrate the blossoming of a mother's love for her children and a man's devotion to the woman who cares for his family in these exquisite tales by three highly acclaimed Regency authors... Hoping to make a good marriage for her beautiful ...



  • Joan Smith

    The members of the Berkeley Brigade, London's most aristocratic and stylish foursome, find themselves once more enmeshed in mystery and romance.... Though Lady Corinne deCoventry and dashing Lord Luten are now officially engaged, their wedding is ...



  • Theresa Weir

    SHE KNEW TROUBLE WHEN SHE SAW IT -- BUT NEVER HAD IT LOOKED SO GOOD. Jobless, flat-broke, and anxious for a change of scenery, disc jockey Maddie Smith decides to visit her flaky, estranged sister in Nebraska. But she finds that after a brief en...



  • Linda Lael Miller

    After twelve years, the headstrong Annabel McKeige is back in the frontier town of Parable, Nevada. Back to face the husband she left behind ...the son she never saw grow to manhood ...and the home where her heart broke when she lost a beloved daught...



  • Colleen Faulkner

    Seven years ago, Celeste Kennedy had believed her fiance when he promised to love and take care of her forever. Instead, he had been cruel and deceitful, and Celeste refused to marry him -- even if it meant disobeying her father. Thrown out of her ho...



  • Jean Stone

    Once they were childhood friends who celebrated birthdays together, sharing laughter and tears and heartfelt dreams. Then they lost touch. Yet now, on the brink of turning fifty, one of them is desperate enough to contact the others--looking for more...



  • Lynn Kerstan

    EVEN OUTRIGHT REJECTION WOULDN'T STOP HER FROM PURSUING HER GRAND PASSION.... No man in London could match Lord Kendal's cool elegance nor rival his skills as a diplomat. His icy calm was as notorious as his untouchable heart. And few women had an...



  • Crystal Wilson-Harris

    Managing her grandparents restaurant in North Carolina after a car accident claims the lives of her family, Corinthia Justice tries to rebuild her life and meets race-car driver Brad Marshall, who implores her to sponsor him, and as their passion gro...



  • Sabrina Jeffries

    A Splendid Opportunity A shipload of women--theirs for the taking! Pirate captain Gideon Horn couldn't be more delighted. His men are tired of wandering the high seas and want to settle down with wives on the uncharted island paradise they've discov...



  • Christine Dorsey

    The entwined fates of a renegade Scottish beauty and a handsome British rogue come full circle. In the mists of a bygone age, even the dark shadow of war cannot destroy a love destined to outlast time.... Death and duty had called him home, but a...



  • Nadine Miller

    A Generous Heart The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Tess Thornhill devoted her life to the orphans of London's slums--many of whom were the by-blows of society's rakes and their conquests. Considered an old maid at five-and-twenty, she had no use...



  • Annie Kimberlin

    SPECIAL DELIVERY Maybe it was fate; maybe it was a poodle. Sylvie Taylor drifted out of the sky and into Ray's arms like some kind of auburn-haired sprite. Actually she fell off the roof. And she didn't really land in his arms, she fell on top of...



  • Kimberly Cates

    It may be just a fairy tale, but Mary Fallon Delaney cherishes the fable of Ciaran of the Mist, the legendary guardian said to keep watch over Ireland. And Fallon's homeland could use his otherworldly help: English troops, searching for an escaped cr...



  • Susan Leslie Liepitz

    Long Beach, 1998. When a little boy disappears on a field trip aboard the historic brig Mystic, psychic P.I. Cara Edwards knows she is the only one who can find him. As she retraces his steps on the ship, she is struck with a vision. A vision that le...



  • Sharon Pisacreta

    A FATEFUL FALL After colliding with a man as splendid as a god, Mattie Crawford felt her wrist and her heart go limp. Dazed by the pain, she let the concerned gentleman help her to a doctor. Soon, as drugged by laudanum as she was by Lord Cameron'...



  • Lynn Kurland

    Alexander Smith had found success in the world of corporate takeovers--but not happiness. That had always escaped him...along with true love. Then, at the MacLeod Keep in Scotland, he found a pirate map that miraculously answered his yearnings--with ...



  • Jean Innes

    Lost in a wager between her stepfather an the archaeologist Captain Ross Kilamarron, Stephanie Buchan is forced to marry the charismatic adventurer. Now, she must accompany him on an excursion to Arabia - and the oasis empire of a desert prince. As S...



  • Gwynne Forster

    When Selena Sutton moves from Wall Street to a little Texas town, she finds trouble in Prince Cooper, a spoiled playboy whose advances she fights off. Wanting to make amends for his older brother's behavior, Magnus Cooper shows Selena a tenderness th...



  • Libby Sydes

    It began as a marriage of convenience, and it ended in all-consuming love.... ONLY LOVE An impulsive kiss behind the schoolhouse and Jennifer Delaney's reputation was shot! Now she was about to lose her job and her beloved ranch--until a tall, ...



  • Margie Walker

    After her father dies in a plane crash, Marlena Lord runs for his congressional seat and enters the corrupt world of politics, where she meets and falls for devastatingly handsome Miles Chase, until she uncovers dark secrets about Miles and her fathe...



  • Norah Hess

    RUNAWAY PASSION When Willow Ames left El Paso to meet her new employer, she never expected he would be the arrogant, darkly handsome cowboy who's propositioned her just the night before. As virile and dangerous as the flashy black stallion he ...



  • Shannon Drake

    SWEEPING FROM SCOTLAND's UNTAMED HIGHLANDS TO THE TOWER OF LONDON AND WAR-TORN FRANCE... TWO PEOPLE DESTINED TO LOVE IN A DIVIDED LAND. Danielle D'Aville was the ward of Edward III, sworn to obey the King's order to marry her enemy Adrien MacLachl...



  • Loretta Chase

    She Needed to be Tamed She was a breathtaking firebrand, and Vere Mallory, the notorious Duke of Ainswood, had never seen anything quite like her. Although he thought he was rescuing Lydia Grenville from the clutches of a renowned wastrel, he quick...



  • Sandra Hill

    He was six feet, four inches of pure, unadulterated male. He wore nothing but a leather tunic, spoke in an ancient tongue, and he was standing in Professor Meredith Foster's living room. The medieval historian told herself he was part of a practi...



  • Jean Wilson

    Saving Pace Lansing from the hangman's noose for a second time by announcing their engagement, Mercy Goodacre is determined to melt his icy reserve and turn their marriage into one of passion and love. Pleasant Valley, Kansas 1875 Virtuous, ch...



  • Lorraine Heath

    SHE WAS GIVEN TO A STRANGER Cordelia McQueen was a virtual prisoner in her father's house. Until everything changed when she was shamelessly traded in a battle for land and water rights, and thrust into an unfamiliar world as the bride of Dallas...



  • Janet Nickoles

    WHITE ROSES.. Planted at the scene of every crime, the fragrant flowers were the trademark of a devious criminal. A jewel thief was stalking London, and Lord Nicholas Grey was certain the thief was his cousin and his enemy-Lord Edward Turner. Dete...



  • Janice Bennett

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE The last time Captain Anthony, Lord Lambeth, had seen Calpurnia Rycroft, she was little more than a mouselike chit. Now, she had become a lovely young woman who, if she were not penniless, would've had her choice of sui...



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    Celebrate the blossoming of a mother's love for her children and a man's devotion to the woman who cares for his family in these exquisite tales by three highly acclaimed Regency authors... Hoping to make a good marriage for her beautiful ...



  • Catherine Anderson

    THE PROTECTOR From the moment Heath Masters lays eyes on Meredith Kenyon, he knows there's something mysterious in this pretty woman's past. True, she seems like a good mother to her little daughter, but as local sheriff Heath has seen his share o...



  • Rebecca Sinclair

    HEART'S AWAKENING Moyra Elliott had retreated to her childhood home, the once-glorious Castle Wyndehaghen, to mourn the death of her father; when a wounded stranger appeared at her gates. Though she wished only to be alone with her memories, she c...



  • Linda Needham

    A SUDDEN MARRIAGE The stranger is huge--dark and forbidding. But to honor a deathbed promise to her foster father, Kailey Hewett must marry Simon de Marchand, the king's sheriff, an intimidating mystery of a man. As they ride away from her home and ...



  • Marcia King-Gamble

    WHEN FAME TURNED DANGEROUS... As a successful radio talk show host, beautiful Charlie Canfield was used to enthusiastic -- and harmless -- fan mail. But now someone has crossed the line of devotee into the frightening realm of obsession, and Cha...



  • Jane Bonander

    The sweet fragrance evoked the possibilities of love... When Lexy Tate dreamed of practicing medicine, she hadn't imagined setting up her practice in an abandoned brothel, or delivering a calf in a ramshackle barn. But as one of the first woman do...



  • Juliette Leigh

    In the midst of mayhem...she found marriage! A LOVELY MISS, A DASHING HEIR...AND A COLD-BLOODED MURDERER! Miss Anika "Niki" Owen, the beautiful, dark-haired stepdaughter of Lord Larch, could not believe her strange fortune. No sooner had she li...



  • Sandra Chastain

    A TENNESSEE BELLE WITH HER SIGHTS AIMED... Lily Towns was determined to marry Matt Logan, even if she had to use her shotgun to get him to the altar. She'd been a skinny little girl when she first boldly proposed. Matt had laughed and refused her, t...



  • Patricia McAllister

    Return to a time of passion and daring that sweeps from the windswept Highlands to the intrigues of England's Tudor. SHE WAS A PAWN OF TWO POWERFUL MEN... Embittered after his beloved wife's death at the hands of his hated enemy--Sir Jaspar Wic...



  • Teresa Medeiros

    Dear Reader, I never enjoyed being a wanted man until the day Miss Esmerelda Fine marched into the Tumbleweed Saloon and pointed her derringer straight at my heart. Who would have guessed some duke's granddaughter---an awfully pretty one at that--...



  • Karen Harper

    IN A CLINIC OF SHADOWS AND SECRETS, A VULNERABLE WOMAN BECOMES EASY PREY Determined to conceive the baby she and her late husband so passionately, wanted, TV anchorwoman Alexis McCall turns to a fertility clinic for help. Located in scenic New Mex...



  • Jonnie Jacobs

    When Lisa Cornell and her five-year-old daughter are killed, Wes Harding, a former classmate of Kali's, becomes the prime suspect. Kali agrees to assist her long--time legal mentor on the case but is stunned when Harding refuses to help his own defen...



  • Jacqueline Fiedler

    A ZOO FULL OF CAGEY CREATURES AM SKETCHY CLUES With a habit of looking everywhere except where she's going, thirty-one-year-old wildlife artist Caroline Canfield knows one thing for sure: accidents have a way of finding her. So after her free-spir...



  • Denise Vitola

    A female werewolf in a nightmarish Earth of the future, Marshall Ty Merrick goes after an assassin with strange powers who has rendered District One defenseless against a violent hurricane and kidnapped the man she loves. Original....



  • William W. Johnstone

    Ben Raines, the valiant hero of the Ashes series, details the important aspects of the Tri-States doctrine and provides his thoughts on the IRA, the IRS, racism, welfare, the justice system, the military, and other topics prevalent in society today. ...



  • Don Pendleton

    STRIKING DISTANCE Bolan's soft probe into rumors of foreign involvement in the American militia movement takes him to Idaho, and undercover in the Brotherhood of Patriots. What he discovers is a dead-serious agenda and a plot to destabilize the g...



  • Don Pendleton

    HOSTILE TAKEOVER An international consortium of the biggest players in organized crime has invested vast amounts of laundered money in the arms and weapons industry. But the U.S. President's global arms control initiative is jeopardizing the syndi...



  • Ryne Douglas Pearson

    When Simon Lynch, a sixteen-year-old computer wizard, breaks a government code, the National Security Agency sends a beautiful terrorist after him, with only FBI Special Agent Art Jefferson to save him...




  • Piers Anthony

    Spirituality, fantasy, and mythology merge in this “lighthearted, agreeably diverting yarn, duly respectful of India’s cultures and customs” (Kirkus Reviews). Hari, a remarkably well-set-up young lad, has spent his entire life in a ...



  • A.A. Attanasio

    While training Arthor, the Eagle of Thor, to lead the Celts in victory, Merlin realizes that his pupil is a naive and bloodthirsty boy who revels in killing, and Merlin must race against time to find the sword of goodness and light to release Arthor ...



  • Dean Wesley Smith

    PROPHET'S POWER: Haute, the lowly Na Pali slave who would soon be called the Prophet, had fled to safety in the desolate hill country. There he found the hidden wreckage of an ancient spacecraft, and even more important, found the artificial intellig...



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  • Doranna Durgin

    When his sovereign and best friend is murdered in his absence, Ehren, the First of the King's Guard, discovers that a high-level traitor is at work but finds himself in the position of having to protect the enemy. Original....



  • James Alan Gardner

    In the twenty-fifth century, Tober Cove is a wonderful place to be. With most of Earth's population long since departed for other planets, and with them the technology that makes such a journey possible, life here is simple and serene -- especially f...



  • Ryan Hughes

    Set on a planet in a Bermuda Triangle-like section of space, "Unreal" presents readers with a gripping story line set in a fully immersive world dominated by alien technology and medieval fantasy. "Unreal" is set to become the biggest PC game phenome...



  • Dorothy J. Heydt

    SIR MARY DE COURCY Sir Mary de Courcy is the current knightly Champion of the Winchester Lists--a world-renowned player in the VR game of Chivalry. As Mary Craven, she had been in graduate school working for her MBA when she won the grand prize in...



  • Don Debrandt

    Half-man, half-machine, Jon Hundred faces the challenge of a lifetime when he agrees to compete with a computerized mining machine to tunnel through a titanic mountain in order to free the inhabitants of the planet, Pellay. Original....



  • Emily Devenport

    THE DEATHNET Frozen in stasis for one thousand years, Edna has no memory of who she was or where she came from. Her past has been erased as punishment for a long-forgotten crime. Now reborn--and reprogrammed she has been chosen to infiltrate the v...



  • Dan Parkinson

    Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.—Edwin LimmerIt is a fateful day when Lucas Hawthorn awakes in his own home to find Edwin Limmer standing before him. Lucas first met old man Limmer back in 1952. Only now Limmer ...



  • Michael Flynn

    It is the early twenty-first century. There's a space station being built, and the first manned flight to the asteroids is in progress. The grand plan of Mariesa Van Huyten to give humanity a big push back into space, and in the process save the huma...



  • Mercedes Lackey

    TARMA She was one of the Shin'a'in sword-sworn--the most elite of all warriors, and she had taken blood vengeance upon the brigands who massacred her people. KETHRY She fled her oppressive arranged marriage and became a powerful sorceress of the...



  • Jack Dann

    Greg Egan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Pamela Sargent, Charles Sheffield, and five other prominent science-fiction writers narrate stories of cloning and its implications, temptations, and hazards, exploring the very meaning of identity and morality. Original...



  • Jake Page

    In this riveting, action-packed alternate history, the Apaches forge their own bold nation and enter the World of racketeering and politics--all the while maintaining their traditional ways--as a new neighbor to a United States that will never be the...



  • Annie Jones
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    A delightful collection of three romantic comedies, Fools For Love celebrates love and the laughter it can bring into our lives. In "Here There Be Dragons!" by Karen Ball, retired teacher Kitty Katz decides to start her own pet-sitting business and f...



  • Lois Richer

    LOVE'S GREATEST PRIZE Her dream was within her grasp. Melanie Stewart's contest award would allow her to continue the Lord's work. But Mitch Stewart claimed he had won the prize. And amidst all the confusion, Melanie discovered that the town was p...



  • Patricia Knoll

    When Clay Saunders finally realized that his adventurous lifestyle was no substitute for his ex-wife and son, it was too late. Rebecca was all set to marry the reliable new man in her life and Clay, she decided, would just have to accept that he had ...



  • Diana Whitney

    SPECIAL DELIVERY! The only thing executive Colby Sinclair worried about was business until his gurgling niece was abandoned on his doorstep. This bachelor didn't know the first thing about fatherhood... but he was determined to do right by this b...



  • Susan Spencer Paul

    Lady Lillian Walford had the Look of Perfection. Yet a fateful flaw doomed her to a life of silence. And although Anthony Harbreas, the gallant Earl of Graydon, had showered her with his attention, Lillian knew she was fit to be no man's wife. So why...



  • Natalie Patrick

    BULL-RIDING EX?-HUSBAND... Alyssa Cartwright was still married to the sexiest cowboy on the rodeo circuit, though Jacob "Cub" Goodacre thought she'd had their marriage annulled. But while Cub assumed she was ending their marriage, Alyssa was giving ...



  • Debbie Macomber

    Who's the father of Caroline's child? Everyone in Promise wants to know, but no one's ever asked -- or ever will. Maggie's five now, and Caroline Daniels has kept her silence all these years. It doesn't change how the people in this community feel ab...



  • Lynn Erickson

    Sometimes you have to turn to a cop -- even if he's your ex-husband! Lena Portillo's life shattered into a million pieces when her daughter was kidnapped. She couldn't stand by and do nothing. Hostage negotiator Mike Quinn couldn't stand by, ei...



  • Monica McLean

    FOR LOVE Carter King was determined to acquire an heir the same way he accumulated his wealth--with a shrewd business proposition. Marly Alcott topped the list of candidates to become his Cinderella bride; she adored children, needed money and appea...



  • Jenna McKnight

    The Cowboy Catch Cook? Drive cattle? Share a bathroom? Princess Moira hadn't counted on any of it when she'd changed places with Chloe Marshall and found a job on Dutch Cordwin's dude ranch. She also hadn't counted on Dutch. The cowboy had a way...



  • Carole Gift Page

    After nearly twenty years of marriage, Julie Ryan didn't want to admit that her marriage was in jeopardy. But when her husband, Michael, finally confessed that he felt emotionally distanced from her, she had no choice but to face the truth about hers...



  • Constance Laux

    Set along the fog-shadowed streets of Victorian London, Constance Laux:i latest historical romance pairs two lovers in an adventure filled with escalating danger and rising desire.... Hoping for news of her missing father, Lucy Barnstable admits a s...



  • Tara Taylor Quinn

    Her name is Anna. And she's pregnant. That's all she knows, all the doctors can tell her. Anna was in an accident, and when she regains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is or where she came from. She has no idea who the father of her b...



  • Lori Copeland

    Princess, the poodle, had a perfectly glorious life, a dog's life in fact.... Until that annoying bulldog, Jake, moved in next door. Jenny McNeill had a perfectly glorious life, a life every successful woman might dream of, until that irritatin...



  • Alice Orr

    SHE'D TRADED DANGEROUS DAYS... Phoenix Farraday never dreamed her image-enhancement business could lead to something sinister. Until she took on a very dangerous client. She fled to save herself - and suddenly found one sexy Slater McCain by her sid...



  • Nikki Rivers

    One man will change her life forever! Charlotte Riesling counted on predictability, her 9 to 5 life and her soup-for-one. But change was underfoot - and its name was Jacob. He'd scaled walls, tormented waiters and created scenes throughou...



  • Pam McCutcheon

    Pregnant! ...and the residents of Bachelor Falls insisted mom-to-be Lana Talbot marry the man of their choosing. Local dictates depended on it! Then Blake Warner, the long-lost daddy-to-be, blew into town like a white knight and offered make L...



  • Cheryln Biggs

    They raced down bayou roads in hot pursuit, but was she the prize he wanted to win? Slade Morgan made a woman want to tease him until he gave her what she'd always desired, but Chelsea Reynolds figured her flirting skills wouldn't win any man, le...



  • Carolyne Aarsen

    THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS No way would Sheryl Kyle trust in men -- or heaven -- again. Her heart had been broken a hundred different ways, her once-sunny soul shadowed by unanswered prayers. Now she hid behind a cynical, citified shell, where neith...



  • Nancy Gideon

    TROUBLE'S BACK IN TOWN He'd always been the wrong-side-of-the-tracks bad boy of Sweetheart, Iowa -- the kind a "nice" girl like Bess Carey wasn't supposed to want. But that hadn't kept her from loving him -- not even when h...



  • Tracy Sinclair

    DAUGHTER KNOWS BEST Who was the parent, and who was the child? Michelle Lacey's mother had gone and attached herself to some mysterious "millionaire" who seemed all too interested in her family's financial affairs. Now it was up to ever-resourcef...



  • Ruth Langan

    From the wilds of Montana emerges one last Jewel, an unknown brother burning with hatred for his father's mighty legacy. Malachite--as wild as the devil stallion he has vowed to vanquish. But he cannot conquer the way his Comanche blood rages for gen...



  • Catherine Mulvany

    In jeans and leather jacket he looked handsome as the devil -- and just as dangerous. . . . With his sexy mouth, silver-gray eyes, and drop-dead dazzling body, undercover cop Brody Hunter was perfect for the job Mallory Scott had in mind: playin...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    The chase Photographer Cleo Griffin was frustrated. She'd become famous for her calendar shots of sexy, sweaty, muscle-bound hunks--but she was taking more cold showers than she was photos! She needed a man! So, on her upcoming shoot in Montana, Cle...



  • Jessica Steele

    It all happened so fast! Gideon Langford suggested to Ellena that, to gain guardianship of baby Violette, she should marry him. It took Ellena a few seconds to get over her shock - just one of many since Violette's parents went missing on vaca...



  • Caragh O'Brien

    An expert in seduction, his tantalizing caresses claimed her body and soul... . With his every touch, he bewitched her and captivated her, but Milo Dansforth wanted more from Therese Carroll than a passionate interlude! The worldly art dealer need...



  • Maureen Child

    The stick was blue..and positive! Any way she looked at it, Denise Torrance's well-ordered life was about to turn upside down...and all because of an unexpected night with the man of her dreams! But when that very man insisted they marry for ...



  • Debbie Macomber

    MOVING TO MONTANA Her grandfather wants her to move home, and Molly thinks she just might. His ranch will be a good place for her sons to grow up, a place to escape big-city influences. Then she learns -- from a stranger named Sam Dakota -- that her...



  • Claire Delacroix

    She'd Only Herself to Offer, but Gabrielle de Perricault hoped 'twas enough to entice the courageous Yves de Sant-Roux to champion her cause. Though should he pledge his sword to her, a greater danger awaited, for this knight could easily breach the...