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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1988

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New Books List: 459 titles

  • Conquest

    Lynn Abbey

  • The Killing Wedge

    Jerry Ahern

    TO SAVE HIS COUNTRY, HE GAVE UP EVERYTHING EXCEPT FREEDOM--AND HIS WILL TO FIGHT!On every street, in every major city, the battle for America is raging, and one man is caught in the killing crossfire. To the FLNA terrorists he is the deadliest of ene...

  • Monster Garden

    Vivien Alcock

  • Ryfka

    Patrick Alexander

  • Blood Stone

    Michael Allegretto

    Convinced that a jailed felon was not acting alone on the diamond heist that landed him in jail, Denver private eye Jacob Lomax attempts to flush out the unidentified accomplice and recover the diamonds...

  • Friendly Persuasion

    Laine Allen

    Who is this Nick Flynn? Emily Townsend's never met him, but he's sending her Godiva chocolates, long-stemmed roses, and a Gucci scarf! Then he appears on her doorstep, determined to get her consent to a controversial diplomat's visit to her inn. Emil...

  • Farside Cannon

    Roger MacBride Allen

    A powerful new laser is under construction on the far side of the Moon. Intended to improve communications between Earth and its colonies, it also holds the potential of being the most destructive weapon the Earth has ever seen.

    ...

  • Hrolf Kraki's Saga

    Poul Anderson

    Winner of the British Fantasy Award: The ancient legend of the Danish Viking king is retold in a tale of vengeance, battles, magic, and monsters. In the court of the Anglo-Saxon king, a visiting storyteller regales the assembled nobles with the enthr...

  • Fallen Hearts

    V.C. Andrews

    PROUD AND BEAUTIFUL, HEAVEN CAME BACK TO THE HILLS--TO RISE AT LAST As Logan's bride, she would savor now the love she had sought for so long. And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and...

  • A Taming Hand

    Jenny Arden

    She had been caught in her own web of lies Katherine Ford was content teaching at the small London college until she discovered that one of her students was Rhys Meredith's younger brother. It was inevitable that they would meet again -- Rhys,...

  • Llama

    Caroline Arnold

    Describes the characteristics and behavior of llamas and their usefulness to man, discusses other members of the lamoid family, and reports on the growing number of llamas now being bred in the United States...

  • Harvest the Sun

    Judith Arnold

    There's nothing like the sun-kissed West Coast T. J. Hillyard said it all: it had been a long time since vacationing Manhattan attorney Abbie Jarvis had been in Wheeler, California. Fruit trees and sunflowers still graced the lawns and gardens. Ch...

  • Full Spectrum

    Lou Aronica

    An anthology of outstanding, original science fiction brings together twenty-five stories by established masters of the genre--including Norman Spinrad, Lisa Goldstein, and Gregory Benford--as well as by talented newcomers...

  • Binding Spell

    Elizabeth Arthur

    This is the irreverent story of the residents of a small hick town in the mid-west of America. It focusses on the complicated and eccentric dreams and lives of the inhabitants, and brings their story to a climax when two visiting Russian professors a...

  • Always to Remember

    Brent Ashabranner

  • Uneasy Alliances

    Robert Asprin; Lynn Abbey

  • Valley of the Gods

    Richard Austin

    SOUTH-OF-THE-BORDER RAMPAGE! From the nuclear devastation of World War III rose the Guardians. Guerrilla freedom fighters in a United States fallen prey to invading forces. They are the last reminder of what America stood for--and the last hope of...

  • Dectra Chain

    James Axler

    The world blew out in 2001. Vast areas of what was the United States lie beneath an umbrella of noxious dust and radioactive debris, a mantle of destruction drawn over a land of doom. Much of the East Coast has been obliterated; the Southwest is a la...

  • Safe Passage

    Ellyn Bache

    Bache gives us an American family richly created and lovingly depicted.  On a chilly October morning, Mag and Patrick Singer awaken in their suburban Washington D.C. home to learn that the airport in Beirut has been bombed by Lebanese terrorists...

  • Trouble With a Capital "T"

    Judy Baer

    Minda is the leader of the Hi-Fives and very popular and powerful at Cedar River High School. No one's ever stood up to her before, but now Lexi Leighton has refused to compromise and Minda is mad!

    When Lexi tries to befriend Minda, it only mak...

  • New Girl In Town

    Judy Baer

    Her family had moved, and Alexis Leighton never dreamed it would be so difficult to make new friends. Back in her home town, Lexi had been constantly going out and doing things, but here no one seems to care about her at all.

    Finally a date wit...

  • Disney Babies Rock-a-Bye

    Darrell Baker

  • Disney Babies on the Go

    Darrell Baker

  • Disney Babies What's up High?

    Darrell Baker

  • Vermilion Sands

    J.G. Ballard

    Like a latter-day Palm Springs, Vermillion Sands is a fully automated desert resort designed to fulfill the most exotic whims of the idle rich. But now it languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie stars, solitary impresarios and a...

  • Delphine

    Molly Bang

  • Tarnished Angel

    Elaine Barbieri

    Young and beautiful Devina Dale was a rare woman. She was a courageous pioneer who dared to face the wild, tempestuous West, and nothing would stand in the way of her dreams. But Devina had haunting secrets from the past that threatened her safety an...

  • Lucid Stars

    Andrea Barrett

  • The Viscount's Wager

    Elizabeth Barron

    DISGRACED BY A RAKE! Katrina swore she would never forgive him. At a ton ball, the handsome Viscount Danville had openly courted her, gained her love, and even stolen a kiss from the lovely young girl...all to win a frivolous wager of his peers. ...

  • Viscounts Wager

    Elizabeth Barron

    Katrina swore she would never forgive him. At a ton ball, the handsome Viscount Danville had openly courted her, gained her love, and even stolen a kiss from the lovely young girl...all to win a frivolous wager of his peers. Her reputation shattered ...

  • To Warm the Earth

    David Belden

    The rule of men led to atomic war. Nuclear winter ice wiped Earth clean of cities. For centuries now, the rule of women has labored to restore balance. But warriors and kings are on the rise again.

    The priestesses in the snow-covered caves of Nort...

  • All Problems Are Simple

    Robert Benard

    Gr 11 Up-- These 19 stories share a common thread: all are views of college experiences, attitudes, and expectations mainly from the perspective of students either at school or temporarily away. The stories are set at various times in this century, b...

  • Stormblade

    Nancy Varian Berberick
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A SHAFT OF ARGENT STARLIGHT TOUCHED BY THE FORGE OF REORX HILTED AND GEMMED IN THE BLOOD OF HEROES UNITE! MOUNTAIN DWARVES OF THORBARDIN A KINGSWORD AT LAST, AT LAST. Deep in the cavern kingdom of Thorbardin, the powerful Stormblade is secretly ...

  • So Many Promises

    Nomi Berger

    Gifted with breathtaking beauty and extraordinary musical talent Kirsten Harald's life was filled from the first with SO MANY PROMISES. -- Nurtured by the love of her immigrant parents, Kirsten flourished, an exquisite flower that even the harsh po...

  • Being Invisible

    Thomas Berger

    Pushed around at work, deserted by his wife, and admonished by his sister, Fred Wagner is feeling practically invisible and wills himself physically invisible, with results both pathetic and hilarious...

  • Marriage Scenarios

    Ingmar Bergman

  • The Companion

    Chaim Bermant

  • Finishing Touch

    Jane Bierce

    PUBLIC NOTICE Rosemarie Davis loved her lakeside cottage. She enjoyed the peace and quiet of her surroundings and had repaired every inch of the place she now called home. And recently the scenery wasn't so bad, either. After all, tall, muscular C...

  • Firefly Summer

    Maeve Binchy

    IT WAS A SUMMER OF WARMTH ... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern ... lovely twelve-year-old twins ...and such wonderful dreams ... IT WAS A SUMMER OF INNOCENCE ... But all that is about to ch...

  • Imaginary Lover

    Natalie Bishop

    Still reeling from painful news that would irrevocably change her life, Candace McCall didn't want to attend -- her father's annual Christmas-in-July party -- or field the advances of his protege, Connor Holt. But instead of wooing the boss&#...

  • Wyrldmaker

    Terry Bisson

  • Dreams and Resolutions

    Roy Blatchford

  • The Yellowstone

    Win Blevins

    An adventurer's story told as never before. The Los Angeles Times. Imagine ... Exploration and the grace to surrender to the dark, delicious grasp of a river. Native Americans, the first few white people who dared to explore the West, and the settler...

  • Letters from the Country

    Carol Bly

  • Bedtime Hugs for Little Ones

    Debby Boone

  • And Tara, Too

    Barbara Boswell

    Jed Ramsey was as darkly sleek and seductive as his black racing car, a rake with women and infuriatingly sexy... and Tara Brady wanted no part of him! Even if two of her sisters were happily married to two of his brothers, she wasn't about to succu...

  • Texas Conquest

    Caroline Bourne

    HE WOULD NEVER GIVE UP Mariah Palmer had lived on the Brazos River all her life. It was her land, her home and one day she would see it free from Mexico forever. And if Santa Ana thought that his henchman, Matthew Cade, would take it from her, he...

  • The Wild Blue

    Walter J. Boyne

  • My Strange Quest for Mensonge

    Malcolm Bradbury

  • Sword and Sorceress V

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    A collection of fantasy fables about sword- and magic-wielding women features the works of Jennifer Roberson, Mercedes Lackley, Charles de Lint, Diana Paxson, and others who weave tales of courage, wizardry, and evil...

  • Love Is the Key

    Irene Brand

    "BUT I WON'T." With these words Alisha Defoe dramatically breaks the family bonds that chain her life. Now what is she going to do with her newfound freedom? She knows one thing: she needs to find a place where she's not known, where she can succ...

  • The Samaritan

    Chaz Brenchley

    In this psychological suspense novel, an ex-cop who has just resigned from the police force is drawn back into a nightmarish race against time to find the killer who murdered his friend. The only clue he finds leads to a senior man in the local br...

  • Hope's Gift

    Catherine Brighton

    Hope, considered to be the "slow one" of three children in a family of traveling actors in sixteenth-century Europe, discovers that she has a gift for healing the sick--a gift that is not for sale, despite her sister's plans....

  • Boy Like Astrid's Mother

    Mae Briskin

    A collection of fifteen stories explores the realities of modern life, acknowledging its alienation while focusing on and celebrating the efforts of everyday people to make connections with those around them...

  • The Real World

    Kandi Brooks

    Jennifer had loved Racine Huntington, her girlhood neighbor. She didn't even like Race Hunter, the arrogant big shot. Eight years earlier he'd skipped town, never knowing he'd fathered twins. Now he expected to sweet-talk his way into her bed again? ...

  • Wizard at Large

    Terry Brooks

    A SPELL FOR ABERNATHY It all began when the half-able wizard Questor Thews announced that finally he could restore the Court Scribe Abernathy to human form. It was his spell that had turned Abernathy into a Wheaten Terrier--though with hands and a...

  • Desert Dreams

    Virginia Brown

    HE RODE THROUGH THE NIGHT...TALL AND STRONG Every young brave wanted the half-breed beauty called Jolie LeFleur, but she yearned only for the paleface who haunted her dreams. Then, one hot and starless Apache night, a white man stole into her ten...

  • Thursday at Noon

    William F. Brown

  • Daughter of the Swan

    Joan Juliet Buck

    This disappointingly executed novel deals with the empty, licentious lives of the well-to-do, one of whom is Florence Ellis, a young woman desperately awaiting the great love of her life. Tragedies, plus an unconventional upbringing, have increased F...

  • Big Game Hunting in Central Africa

    William F. Buckley Jr.

    One volume in the Peter Capstick Library series which reprinted the classic African big game hunting books, all of which have become very scarce and expensive. This is the story of William Buckley who went to Africa for gold and diamonds and ended u...

  • White Lies

    Carol Budd

  • Inside Intelligence

    Bill Buford

  • When the Singing Stops

    June Burnett

  • Midnight Masquerade

    Shirlee Busbee

    Set in the lush green splendor of Louisiana horse country in 1812, Shirlee Busbee's seventh novel is the breathtaking story of a tempestuous love between the fiercely independent Melissa Seymour and the devilishly irresistible Dominic Slade. Crossing...

  • A Marked Man

    Ada Cambridge

  • Wyrms

    Orson Scott Card

    It is an alien sphere, but one controlled by Man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvation...or the destruction of...

  • Rogue's Lady

    Robyn Carr

    THE LURE OF INNOCENCE Vieve Donnelle always thought of herself as a girl who knew her own mind. But ever since she met Captain Tyson Gervais, her days were full of confusion and her nights were plagued by tantalizing dreams and half-understood yearn...

  • Morgan and the Artist

    Donald Carrick

  • Gathering Place

    Marisa Carroll

    WAS THIS THE MIRACLE SHE'D PRAYED FOR? Sarah Austin thought her heart would break the day she was forced to surrender her infant son to a stranger. Though pediatrics nursing eased her sorrow, she couldn't overcome her bitterness toward her family....

  • Brothers in Arms

    Michael Carson

    Fourteen-year-old Benson's attraction to other boys results in expulsion from St. Finbar's Seminary, but he finds acceptance and lessened anxiety in an alliance with the senior-class star back in school...

  • The Rangoon Man

    Nick Carter

  • The Little Sister

    Raymond Chandler

    The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.In noir master Raym...

  • By Flower and Dean Street

    Patrice Chaplin

    'Genuinely witty horrors' - The Observer

    London, the 1970’s. Jack’s back.

    The Ripper, most brutal and secret of murderers, makes a ghostly reappearance in present-day London when two people find themselves mysteriously possessed. <...

  • A Roommate Returns

    Emily Chase

    Is an ex-roommate about to become a new star? Former 407 roommate Shelly Hyde has come back to Canby Hall -- to invite Toby, Andy, and Jane to the opening night of a play in Boston. Shelley has a part in it, and it could be her big break. But t...

  • Fairy of Ku She

    Lucie Chin

  • Sebastian (Super Sleuth) and the Clumsy Cowboy

    Mary Blount Christian

  • Semper Fidelis

    Johnnie Clark

  • The Daring Duchess

    Norma Lee Clark

    A SCANDALOUS STRATAGEM Mary Marshall, the beautiful young Duchess of Runceford, had a problem. Although her noble title and vast wealth attracted a swarm of suitors in the London Marriage Mart, they repelled the handsome, hot-tempered Charles Leig...

  • Cradle

    Arthur C. Clarke; Gentry Lee

    Arthur C. Clarke brings his thrilling, eerie vision to a spine-tingling modern adventure that ranges from the unguessable past to the edge of tomorrow, from the vast ocean of stars to the bottom of the sea. For here, something powerful waits to awake...

  • Sweetly Sings the Donkey

    Vera Cleaver

  • The Crossing

    John Clive

    As Captain of Sea Victory, a battered World War II battleship, Nicholas Head risks his life to secretly shuttle refugees fleeing Beirut and, although a Jew, falls in love with a Palestinian photojournalist...

  • The Moonshine Blade

    Amanda Cockrell

    WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE IT'S DANGEROUS TO FALL IN LOVE... He's her husband's best friend and partner. Phil hull, undercover narc for the L.A.ED., a man with a passion for antique samurai swords, and a knack for rushing into danger... ...

  • No Special Hurry

    James Colbert

  • The Flower In The Mountains

    Don Coldsmith

    A young warrior named Red Feather embarks upon a journey that brings him face-to-face with death...and endangers the lives of his father and the woman Red Feather loves. THE FLOWER IN THE MOUNTAINS Once he was Jean Cartier, a French explorer. N...

  • The Trouble with Grandad

    Babette Cole

  • Foreign Exchange

    Brenda Cole

    Lorrie's infatuation with handsome and popular Sam Young is fueled by his request for a date, but his reputation as a heartbreaker and his on-again, off-again involvement with a cheerleader lead Lorrie to doubt his sincerity...

  • Then There Were 2

    Jennifer Cole

  • The Read-Aloud Treasury: Favorite Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Stories and More for the Very Young

    Joanna Cole

    The Read-Aloud Treasury makes  finding good children's literature easy. It  includes over thirty popular Mother Goose rhymes; poetry  from renowned authors like Arnold Lobel and Jack  Prelutsky; world-famous picture stories, many with  thei...

  • Better Than Ever

    Marion Smith Collins

    RISKY BUSINESS Nothing could have prepared public relations expert Bree Fleming for the shock of meeting Ryan O'Hara again. Even twelve years and Ryan's new position as Boston's police commissioner could not erase from Bree's heart...

  • Camp Girl-Meets-Boy

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Cabins nestled on rolling hills, a clean lakefront and happy campers. Camp Menunkechogue looks like a picture postcard. For 16-year-old Marissa, crummy old school is nothing but a void between summers. Camp is what she lives for and now finally she i...

  • Summer Nights

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Does love mean never having to say good-bye? They're having one last perfect party, before they all go out into the world. Beautiful Ann to her glamorous new job. Kip, determined to have a whole new image in exciting New York City. Beth, feeling l...

  • Sophomore

    Linda A. Cooney

    Class president Micki funds an art show over the basketball team, an action that causes tensions, Page learns she cannot have any boy she wants, Bets has her own boy troubles, and sophomore year is clearly going to be anything but easy....

  • Break Away

    M.E. Cooper

    Close up ... Sunny, optimistic Sara Gates and dark, brooding Torrey Easton are the most unlikely couple at Kennedy High. How could Sara, whose own life is as perfect as the old movies she adores, possibly understand Torrey's cynical point of view? M...

  • Dog Eats Dog

    Matthew H. Cooper

    When he is hired by a leading mining concern to set up some shady diamond deals, James Tennyson unwittingly becomes involved in an international crisis that can be averted only if he is willing to barter his life for knowledge that he possesses...

  • Passion's Captive

    Lori Copeland

    ALONE ON THE FROZEN KANSAS PRAIRIE Charity Burkhouser didn't stand a chance. Without a man's help the beautiful young widow would lose the homestead she'd traveled so far to claim and worked so hard to hold. When fate dropped a savagely wounded st...

  • Wildtrack

    Bernard Cornwell

    Nick Sandman's spine was shattered by a bullet in the Falklands. He has no money and no prospects, only a dream of sailing far away from his troubles on his boat, Sycorax. But Sycorax is as crippled as he is, and to make her seaworthy again, Nick mus...

  • Moonspun Magic

    Catherine Coulter

    She felt his tongue gently stroke her lips...and his hands, caressing her shoulders, moved downward to mold her hips. "No, please," she said, sobbing with desire... Beautiful Victoria Abermarle feared and fled the imperious desires of handsome Dam...

  • Planetfall

    Arthur Byron Cover

  • The Ghost Wore Gray

    Bruce Coville

    "What A Hunk! Too Bad He's  Dead..."



    Sixth-grader Nina  Tanleven convinced her architect father to let her  best friend Chris go with them to stay in the old  inn he's restoring. On theafternoon they arrive,  the girls find a...

  • Some of My Best Friends Are Monsters

    Bruce Coville

    Stuart Glassman is back for another wild and wacky adventure with his friend Robert, a ghost who has a heart made of mischief. This time around Robert has cooked up a Jekyll Juice potion that actually works. (That's because he consulted with the ghos...

  • Gathering Home

    Vicki Covington

    Covington's first novel is a quietly compelling coming-of-age story that takes on politics and religion, the Old South and the New South, families, love, and being able to come home again. Whitney Gaines has always known she was adopted. It's never b...

  • The Hunting Season

    John Coyne

    YOU DON'T GO ALONE INTO MAD RIVER MOUNTAIN Everything would be okay in the country, thought April Benard, in her new summer home. Here her children would be happy and safe. Here she could spend precious time with the man who had saved her life and...

  • The Grub-And-Stakers Pinch a Poke

    Alisa Craig

    The Grub and Stake Gardening and Archery club, rehearsing for a drama competition, finds that someone is trying to kill their leading man and it is up to actress/sleuth Dittany Henbit Monk to track down the muderer...

  • Witches, Wraiths and Warlocks

    Ronald Curran

  • Treasure

    Clive Cussler

    AN ANCIENT SHIP FOUND IN GREENLAND'S FROZEN WASTES...THE PRICELESS SPLENDORS OF A LOST CIVILIZATION...A PLOT TO PLUNGE THE WORLD INTO BLOODY CHAOS! Charts of lost gold...breathtaking art and rare volumes... maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits...

  • Spitting Image

    Kayla Daniels

    When Jason Forrester learned of the deception that had cost him his only child, he swore to do anything to get her back. But he hadn't counted on wrestling stubborn Claire Townsend, a firebrand of an adoptive mother. Dare he go so far as to make ...

  • A Priceless Love

    Emma Darcy

    It would be madness to succumb to him! A struggling young widow, Gina focused all her energy on earning money. Money enough for the operation that would save her daughter's eyesight. Yet when adventurer Liam Shannon, a man from her past, bu...

  • On the Edge

    Linda Davidson

  • Garfield Halloween Paint with Water

    Jim Davis

  • There Must Be Love

    Samantha Day

    Marriage was out of the question Vanessa Evans had vowed never to become involved with a man like Shane Wilder. The handsome writer of detective novels made it clear he was only looking for a short-term affair -- and she'd have none of that. ...

  • Sunburn Lake

    Tom De Haven

  • Wolf Moon

    Charles de Lint

    His name when he was human was Kern.  Now he is the most feared of beings: a werewolf.  When the change first came upon him, his parents drove him away with silver daggers.  Later, he sought human companionship, but he could not hide t...

  • Sherlock's Home

    Sharon De Vita

    ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WILLIE Willie Walker took her position as head of the Children's Welfare Agency very seriously. Too seriously, according to juvenile detective Michael Ryce. As far as Ryce was concerned, that petite, fire-and-brimstone, by-the-...

  • Libra

    Don DeLillo

    From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. KennedyIn this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles ...

  • Blue Skies, French Fries

    Judy Delton

    "Rat's knees!" said Molly Duff. "School starts tomorrow."Luckily, the Pee Wee Scouts have a meeting the next day. That's when they find out about the big surprise ahead.At the Pee Wee weenie roast, their Scout leader, Mrs. Peters, tells them ...

  • Praises and Dispraises

    Terrence Des Pres

    Examines the role of poetry in an increasingly apoetic world, illuminating the work of Yeats, Brecht, Breytenbach, Adrienne Rich, and Thomas McGrath, and urges a poetic acknowledgement of the political world around us...

  • Trial

    Lindsey Phillip Dew

    What does an LDS lawyer and Bishop do when he is appointed by the court to defend a criminal he knows is guilty of murder, especially when he knows his defense may result in an acquittal? John Lindsey is the young attorney faced with this dilemma. Th...

  • Beginnings

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Baby Donald's Busy Play Group

    Walt Disney

  • Walt Disney's Bambi's Fragrant Forest

    Walt Disney

  • A Killing in the Market

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Crime Wave

    Mark Dixon

  • The Dublin Affair

    P.S. Donoghue

    Guy Ryan, an all-American adventurer who inherits control of Rytech, a billion dollar corporation with close ties to the defense department, fights to keep a revolutionary technological advance from falling into Soviet hands...

  • The Sea Hag

    David Drake

    FROM PALACE Dennis flees the crystal walls of Emath when he learns the truth behind the city his father rules. TO WILDERNESS The jungle enfolds him, tests his sword arm with monsters and his courage with nightmares more terrible than any monste...

  • Max and Rufus

    Joan Drescher

  • The Wilder Shores of Love

    Sandra Dubay

    RAVEN--As wild and free as his Indian forebears, he stood bronzed and naked, watching the civilized world--the world he had rejected--sail by his island home. AURORA--As pure as the dawn, as gloriously beautiful as the rising sun, she was washed u...

  • Loyalties

    Galen C. Dukes

  • The Coming of Wisdom

    Dave Duncan

    SEVEN AGAINST SORCERY The Goddess had rescued Wallie Smith from certain death, endowed him with a magnificent new body, and gifted him with the legendary Sapphire Sword of Chioxin. She asked only one service in return... So Wallie became the Go...

  • Mignon G. Eberhart's Best Mystery Stories

    Mignon G. Eberhart

  • Demon Lord of Karanda

    David Eddings

    CAPTIVES OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY Zandramas had stolen King Garion's infant son and fled to use the child in some ritual that would make the Dark Destiny supreme. Garion and his friends had followed, but now they were captives of Zakath, Emperor o...

  • The Perfect Ten

    Judi Edwards

    Melody Ross expected little from life -- after all, that's what she'd always gotten. After her miserable childhood and disastrous teen marriage, a cozy apartment and simple job would do nicely, thank you. Caution was key. Then magnificent ...

  • Out of the Cold

    Robin Elliott

    THE MAN WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD Killer instinct ... complete control: Joshua Quinn had what it took to be a good secret agent. He was, after all, one of the very best. Or was he? He was beginning to have his doubts. His assignment was simply ...

  • Lone Star and the Nevada Bloodbath

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki set out to topple a ruthless lumber baron in the seventy-third Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial a...

  • Josephina

    Diana Engel

  • Speak to the Wind

    Mary Tate Engels

    He put out one fire only to start another Marla Eden's private life revolved around her beloved cabin. So when fire threatened it and Apache leader Joe Quintero saved the day, she owed him one. Working together, helping him hone his communicat...

  • Lost in the Dark Unchanted Forest

    John R. Erickson

    Little Alfred is having a hard time accepting his new baby sister, Molly. Hank tries to give him some advice, but Alfred decides to run away from home. It is up to Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, to save Alfred from the coyotes, bobcats, and...

  • Firecloud

    Lynn Erickson

    IT ALL STARTED INNOCENTLY ENOUGH Santa Fe photographer Robin Hayle snapped a picture of an Indian pot -- a pot that expert Adam Farwalker claimed was a forgery! Determined to get to the bottom of it, he and Robin suddenly found themselves embroile...

  • The Sorceress of Scath

    Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

    Isle Of The Demon Gods Once again, Alan MacDougall was forced to return to the worlds of Lucifer to save his beloved Elspeth. But this time, when, he entered the third Gate from the ruined tower, he found the Isle of Scath far different from the o...

  • Longarm and the Treacherous Trial

    Tabor Evans

  • Last Notes from Home

    Frederick Exley

    "Of his generation's metafictioneers, Fred Exley has created the richest and most American body of work .... LAST NOTES tells tales about corruption, confession, and the often terrible beauty of the bonds of love."- VILLAGE VOICE Frederick Exley...

  • Personal Firepower

    Edward Clinton Ezell

  • The Long Orbit

    Mick Farren

  • The Rescue

    Elizabeth Faucher

  • The Right Man

    Sandra Field

    She'd always believed in love at first sight To raise her tuition for medical school, Jocelyn Eleanor MacDougall was holding down two jobs in Toronto, one as a nightclub singer. It was there that she met Niall Morgan. Their attraction was imme...

  • Ghosts

    Eva Figes

  • Nelly's Version

    Eva Figes

    In acclaimed author Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the pop psychological thriller, her fifth novel opens as Nelly Dean, a middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia, checks into a small-town hotel with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it - ...

  • Search the Heavens

    Rebecca Flanders

    There's nothing like Southern hospitality Unfortunately Jaime Faber got off on the wrong foot in New Orleans, insulting a high priestess of voodoo, who in turn put a curse on her. In short order her car died, her telephone began spitting stati...

  • Kill or Be Killed

    W. Robert Foran

  • Heirs to Loving

    Rachel Ford

    She had one clue -- a letter from Les Forets That was how Jenni Green found the little French village and the ancestral home of her father, who had died when she was a child. She also found Monsieur Raoul -- owner of the Chateau Les Forets and ...

  • Rock Springs

    Richard Ford

    Ten “beautifully imagined and crafted stories†of the American West by the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of Independence Day (Joyce Carol Oates).   In these ten exquisite stories, Richard Ford explores the wind-scrubbed landscape of the Am...

  • When Tomorrow Comes

    Regan Forest

    They had a passion for privacy The whole town was curious about Kyle Sanders. It was odd for a stranger to settle in Rosewood, and the handsome architect had even bought land. Margie Donovan's land, to be precise, which made them neighbors. Cl...

  • To the Vanishing Point

    Alan Dean Foster

    Calm turns to chaos in a fantastical journey of the Sonderbergs, a typical American vacationing family, who pick up an other-worldly hitchhiker and find themselves on the road to hell as time and space come apart before them...

  • More City Jitters

    Christopher Fowler

    DARK ALLEYS AND VERY DEAD ENDS... Death lurks just around the corner in eight chilling new stories that show you the cold heart of the big city. Familiar things suddenly turn sinister: an elevator going down to a nightmare...an afterwork date who ...

  • Roofworld

    Christopher Fowler

    There’s a hidden battleground in the sky -- so says this classic novel from the award-winning author of the Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries featuring Bryant & May. You’ll never look at a roof the same way again. . . .   Welcome to Roofwor...

  • Night Passage

    A. Norman Fox

    Junction City, Montana, was about as plain as its name -- just a whistle stop on the way to nowhere. But to lone wolf Grant McLain, it spelled a second chance -- an opportunity to clear his blackened name and win back the woman he'd dreamed of for f...

  • Doomsday Device

    Peter Fox

  • Challenge

    George Foy

  • Hattie, the Backstage Bat

    Don Freeman

  • Lights, Camera, Death

    Eileen Fulton

  • Millions of Cats

    Wanda Gag

    An American classic with a refrain that millions of kids love to chant: Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats.

    Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman who were very lonely. They de...

  • Wishbringer

    Craig Shaw Gardner

  • Masques of Gold

    Roberta Gellis

    In a Grand and Passionate Age... London's colorful marketplaces proclaimed the city's splendor and wealth -- a golden prize disputed between King John's devouring greed ... and the warrior barons who challenged his throne. From the flames of the...

  • True Paradise

    Catherine George

    He expected her to expedite the deal! If Roberto Monteiro actually thought Charlotte was the kind of woman who'd use feminine wiles to gain her own ends, then he could think again. Yes, she'd intended to make him an offer for her grandm...

  • Watch Out! Man-Eating Snake

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Stacy Arrow's first day of school isn't going well at all. She was only trying to help when she told Jiwon, the girl with the black hair, that her drawing of herself looked like a cow. And she didn't mean to scare her with stories about man-eating sn...

  • The Young Petrella

    Michael Gilbert

    Patrick Petrella is considered something of a curiosity by his fellow police officers. He is the son of a Spanish policeman and an English school mistress. He speaks four languages and is as good at picking fine wines as he is locks. The short storie...

  • Tubular Android Superheroes

    Mel Gilden

    Meet Zoot, an alien in a trenchcoat, searching for truth in a city of sex, violence and good rays. They have the agility of surfers and the loyalty of samurai. They are the Surfing Samurai Robots, the invention of America's leading industrial geni...

  • Pockets Full of Joy

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    What was she going to do with an eleven-month-old baby to care for, Elaina McIvor wondered helplessly even as she cuddled Betsy in her arms. Who did Dr. Brad Bradshaw think he was, the stork, depositing the child on her doorstep and racing away into...

  • Eye of the Wind

    Donna Gilmer

    RAVEN'S OAK Gracious and majestic, the tidewater plantation had been home to generations of proud Seymour men and their beautiful brides. It was a house of fiercely upheld traditions and jealously guarded secrets... Master of all he surveyed, ...

  • Atlantic City Proof

    Christopher Gilmore

  • My Brother Tries to Make Me Laugh

    Andrew Glass

  • Halloween Sticker Fun

    Golden Books

  • Christmas Carols

    Diane Goode

  • The Nutcracker

    Diane Goode

    On Christmas Eve, a little girl helps break the spell on her wooden nutcracker and watches him turn into a handsome prince, who takes her to his kingdom where they are entertained by dances from many lands....

  • In Our Image

    Andrew Goodwyn

    A collection of 30 short stories arranged in five thematic sections: "Till Death Do Us Part", "Great Expectations", "Manhood", "The Double Standard" and "The Age of Dissent". The authors include Doris Lessing, James Joyce, Polly Toynbee, Philip Larki...

  • A Night of Passion

    Lucy Gordon

    A NIGHT TO REMEMBER... Veronica Grant would have done anything to save her daughter's life--even become indebted to mesmerizing Jordan Cavendish, the man who'd left her without learning of the child they'd created. It had been an evening she'd nev...

  • Through the Green Valley

    Barbara Gowdy

    The son of a peasant farmer, Michael Malone grows up surrounded by the poverty, hardships, and injustices of life in eighteenth-century Ireland, struggling to understand his place in society and to cope with the overwhelming effects of bitterness, an...

  • Marnie

    Winston Graham

    Inspiring the Hitchcock classic, Marnie is a psychological crime novel by the author of the Poldark series, Winston Graham.Marnie appears to be charming and efficient. A true professional. But inwardly she is unscrupulous, a rebel against society and...

  • Random Access Murder

    Linda Grant

    A NASTY BUSINESS The corporate secretary was blond, beautiful...and dead. Murdered, in fact, rather gruesomely. And Pl. Catherine Sayler's boyfriend has been arrested for the crime! Convinced he's been framed, Catherine sets out to find the real k...

  • Bummer Summer

    Phyllis Green

  • The Castle Keep

    Jennifer Greene

    IRISH COMFORT The opportunity to restore an Irish castle was a dream come true for medieval historian Carra O'Neill. But she didn't intend to be charmed by Glencorrah's chief architect, Micheal Fitzgerald. Carra was immune to the romance of Irelan...

  • The Companion

    Ken Greenhall

    Lovely, young, and seemingly harmless, Jillian Cole seems to be the ideal candidate to take care of older adults, but beauty and supposed innocence can only protect Jillian from her crimes for so long in this thrilling novel from the author of Baxter...

  • The Mind of Mr. Mosley

    John Greenwood

    They're rustling sheep on Mosley's patch -- the hill country of the Yorkshire-Lancashire border. Young Sergeant Beamish is in love. And Ruben Tunnicliffe of Upper Crudshaw has committed suicide by hanging himself with his braces in the earth closet a...

  • No Way to Say Goodbye

    Kay Gregory

    His callousness confounded Roxane With cold-blooded abruptness, Gareth Mardon terminated the jobs of most of his Vancouver office employees, including Roxane. Outraged, Roxane refused to admit the fascination she felt for Gareth's hypnotic mas...

  • Deception Trail

    Fred Grove

  • Key of the Chest

    Neil M. Gunn

  • Song of the Dwarves

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson

  • Nebula Award Stories 17

    Joe Haldeman

    This anthology of award winners and nominees includes an excerpt from Gene Wolfe's "The Claw of the Conciliator," Poul Anderson's "The Saturn Game," and Michael Bishop's "The Quickening" and stories by John Varley, Jack Dann, William Gibson, and Gard...

  • Ideal Bakery

    Donald Hall

  • Jane Austen's Lovers: And Other Studies in Fiction and History from Austen to Le Carre

    John Halperin

  • Petersburg

    Emily Hanlon

    Four people swept up in the turmoil of the Russian Revolution experience the bitter struggles, courageous calls to arms, and passionate love--both personal and patriotic--that carry them through a time of staggering conflicts and changes...

  • The Gang's All Here

    Janice Harrell

    They were the kids who had everything. The movers and shakers. The leaders. The stars that streaked across Lee High. THE IN CROWD The were best friends, inseparable since fourth grade. Sam, the golden girl. Marcy, the kid with the highest grade...

  • For the Defense

    William Harrington

    The legal and amorous adventures of Cosima Bernadin are chronicled as she leaves her six-figure salary and a prestigious law firm to start her own law firm suffering the vicious attacks of jealous colleagues...

  • Return to Eden

    Harry Harrison

    In West of Eden and Winter in Eden, master novelist Harry Harrison broke new ground with his most ambitious project to date. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants, the ...

  • The Wizard's Cat

    Colin Hawkins

  • Terrible, Terrible Tiger

    Jacqui Hawkins

  • Stamp Your Feet

    Sarah M. Hayes

  • Fear of the Dark

    Gar Anthony Haywood

    Black private investigator Aaron Gunner, hired to find the white man who walked into the Acey Deuce bar in South Central Los Angeles to blow away the owner, J. T. Tennell and Buddy Dorris of the Brothers of Volition, a black activist group. Buddy's s...

  • The Queen Bee

    Barbara Hazard

    TUG OF LOVE At first lovely young Miss Meryl Lancaster couldn't believe her suspicions. Surely she was imagining that Lady Gloriana Willoughby would want to sabotage Meryl's upcoming marriage to her son, the wildly handsome, utterly adoring Edward...