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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1993

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New Books List: 490 titles

  • Cottonwood Station

    Michael Zimmer

    Holed up in a stone fortress in the middle of a dusty wilderness with a gang of cutthroats on the run from the law on the inside with them, a war party of Cheyenne bent on revenge haunting the barren hills surrounding them. Only one man who knows wha...

  • The Maid and the Mouse and the Odd-Shaped House: A Story in Rhyme

    Paul Zelinsky

  • A Night in the Lonesome October

    Roger Zelazny

    Jack the Ripper's faithful watchdog, Snuff, relates the shady tendencies of his master, as well as those of a vampire, witch, demented clergyman, and others who band together and are also accompanied by animal familiars. Reprint....

  • The Story of Jonah

    Bill Yenne

  • Hot Money // Bayside Deceptions

    Sherryl Woods

    CHARITY BASH BY THE BAY The "Save the Environment" gala was a black-tie affair at the palatial Vizcaya estate, Miami's Versailles. Molly DeWitt and dashing detective Michael O'Hara were in the swim with the society sharks when Molly hooked the mos...

  • Shades of Sin

    Sara Wood

    The rebel is back.... Ruan Gardini had been the local 'bad boy.' Four years ago, his zest for life and love of danger had made Natasha come alive for the first time... Natasha Trelawyn had been unhappy and withdrawn - until she'd ...

  • The Halloween Grab Bag

    Ferida Wolff

    A delightful extravaganza of clever ideas and fun offers plans for original homemade costumes and delicious, easy-to-prepare treats, along with Halloween riddles, tricks, crafts, games, and more. Original....

  • Seven Loaves of Bread

    Ferida Wolff

  • Silent Passengers

    Larry Woiwode

  • The Green Fox

    Winifred Witton

    AN UNEXPECTED INHERITANCE DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN GOOD FORTUNE. THE CHASE WAS ON! When Robert Greenwood learned he was heir to a title and property in France, he thought his ship had come in--if only he could overcome his seasickness to get there!...

  • Jericho's Journey

    G. Clifton Wisler

    "Moving to Texas offers the promise of big adventure . . . but the journey there is tougher than Jericho ever imagined!

    Leaving Tennessee for Texas in 1852 to make a fresh start seems like pure adventure to Jericho Wetherby. But as he and his ...

  • The Shawnee Trail

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • A Dangerous Magic

    Patricia Wilson

    The rancher and the librarian... He was wide-open spaces, solitude and strength - the kind of man to set women's hearts aflutter. She was a small-town girl who never dreamed she'd end up marrying a rancher. But if Catrina thought t...

  • Texas Jewel

    Shannon Willow

    GAMBLER'S PASSION When Bern Kendall first laid eyes on the poker-playing vixen, he didn't know whether to kiss her... or send her to jail. DEALER'S DESIRE When Caroline was given the choice of prison or employment, she took one look at the hands...

  • No Clock in the Forest

    Paul J. Willis

  • Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon

    David Williams

    An account of turn-of-the-century America--as retold by Essie Willams's grandson--recalls Essie's journey across the Midwest in a covered wagon, describing the hardships, tragedies, and joys of pioneer life...

  • Slumber Party

    Margaret Wild

  • Switchback

    Collin Wilcox

    In the shadows of the Golden Gate Bridge, Hastings investigates a glamorous murderThe killer is long gone from the crime scene when he realizes his mistake. It went perfectly, right until the end. He lured Lisa to the oceanfront park, entered her car...

  • The Hummingbird Garden

    Christine Barker Widman

  • The Willow Umbrella

    Christine Barker Widman

  • All Stories Are True

    John Edgar Wideman

    Set mainly in the Pittsburgh district of Homewood, these 10 stories depict African Americans from all walks of life--ancestors, family, and lovers caught in the vortex of American history and haunted by their own particular demons. "(Wideman is) one ...

  • Sailor Cats

    Emily Whittle

  • Star Flight

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    The lush, secluded mountains of North Carolina's Lake Lure had drawn Lauren Castle into their spell. It was here, in 1938, that Hollywood's glamour girl, Victoria Frazer, drowned during a scandalous affair with actor Roger Brandt. Few knew about the ...

  • Not Where I Started from

    Kate Wheeler

    Kate Wheeler's stories feature peripatetic Americans who seek love or enlightenment - or both - in far-flung corners of the globe. A startling mixture of gentle irony, mischievous humor, and unexpected danger marks the paths of all these characters a...

  • The Falcon and the Sword

    Patricia Werner

    SHE YEARNED TO SOAR FREE Captured by barbarians as a child, the orphaned Judith had spent her girlhood locked behind convent walls. Determined to escape her cloistered life, she fled to the safety of the Frankish court-only to be swept up into a fir...

  • Where Dolphins Go

    Peggy Webb

    When Susan Riley brings her troubled young son to the Oceanfront Research Center, she never expects to fall for Dr. Paul Tyler, once the finest cardiovascular surgeon in Mississippi, now a man desperately trying to drown himself in booze. Reprint....

  • The Faberge Cat

    Anne Weale

    What kind of man was he? Was Adam Fontenay the exciting, attractive man he seemed? Or was he the breaker of hearts, the cynical manipulator, that his reputation suggested? Jane Taunton wasn't sure. She first met Adam at a party--and impulsi...

  • Moonlight Melody

    Alicyn Watts

    With her night job as a singer at the Blue Moon and her new relationship with handsome lifeguard Joe Ormand, Denise Reynolds feels that her life is perfect--that is, until Joe's former girlfriend shows up. Original....

  • Summer Storm

    Teresa Warfield

    ALL THE ROMANCE AND BEAUTY OF AMERICA'S GREAT LAKES... CAPTIVATING NOVELS OF LOVE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET... KATHERINE The orphaned farm girl learned to be a lady at school. But no lesson could temper her natural spunk--or her passion for Nicholas ...

  • The Wyndham Case

    Jill Paton Walsh

    St. Agatha's College in Cambridge, England, provides the setting for nurse Imogen Quy's investigation into a series of deaths connected to the special library called the Wyndham Case, which has a strange and possibly violent legacy....

  • Brunus and the New Bear

    Ellen Stoll Walsh

    Benjamin and his stuffed bear, Brunus, have been best friends for a very long time. But when Benjamin gets a little bear named Heek, Brunus begins to think Benjamin is spending too much time with the new bear. Sad and jealous, he decides that Heek ha...

  • Ellen and Penguin

    Clara Vulliamy

  • How to Sneak into the Girls' Locker Room

    John Vornholt

  • Rapture in His Arms

    Lynette Vinet

    Sold into slavery following Cromwell's conquest of his divided homeland, fiery Irish patriot Donovan Shay had never known anything but life's cruel hardships. Yet even as he sweated and toiled on the exotic shores of a faraway island, he swore that s...

  • Cat and Mouse

    Tim Vicary

    Set in Ulster and London in 1914, this is the story of two sisters fighting for their ideals. Sarah is a suffragette, determined to free Mrs Pankhurst. Deborah, her sister, is alone on an Irish estate, neglected by her husband. When Deborah hears Sar...

  • A Member of the Family

    Nick Vasile

    Based on his own experiences in law enforcement--three decades of high-level mob investigations--Nick Vasile gives us a novel that reverberates with authenticity.Paul Dante is hired by the Washington D.C. Mafia to track down their godfather's missing...

  • The Seducer

    Linda Turner

    NIGHT WORK Horse trainer Jake Knight had been framed, and the conspiracy reached into the highest circles of Texas society, where a hard-edged nobody like him wasn't exactly welcome. To prove his innocence, he needed the help of an insider - someb...

  • Joke's on George

    Michael O. Tunnell

    Briefly surveys the life of the early American portrait painter and describes an incident in which George Washington, visiting his natural history museum, was fooled by a lifelike painting of two of Peale's sons climbing a staircase....

  • The Celtic Year: A Celebration of Celtic Christian Saints, Festivals and Sites

    Shirley Toulson

    Lavishly illustrated throughout with pictures of famous sites and artifacts, maps, and line drawings, this beautifully-written volume is also a collection of prayers, poems, and songs, taken from the rich tradition of both the Celtic Christian and Dr...

  • Bamboo Hats and a Rice Cake

    Ann Tompert

  • Dreams of Glass

    Brenna Todd

    ONCE SHE'D HAD A DREAM... Actress Haley Riverton had had the world at her feet until, poised on the brink of success, she was stalked and shot by a demented fan. Grateful to escape with her life, she fled to Oklahoma and turned her back on Hollywo...

  • You Were Meant for Me

    Elise Title

    MISERY LOVES COMPANY.. . Emily has loved Chris. Since second grade. He loves knowing he can count on Emily, his best pal, for TLC when love goes wrong. David has loved Liza. Since third grade. She loves knowing she can always depend on her best...

  • Homebody

    Louise Titchener

    The Toni Credella Mystery 1 After setting up residence in an apartment where a young woman was once brutally murdered, interior designer Toni Credella finds herself caught in the mystery of the woman's life and death. Finding a cheap apartm...

  • Siggy's Spaghetti Works

    Peggy Thomson

  • Virtual Girl

    Amy Thomson

  • Winterkill

    David Thompson

  • Say To This Mountain

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

  • Cannon the Librarian

    Mike Thaler

    Miss Cannon the librarian fights pirates, witches, ghosts, giants, dragons, and a dancing octopus, while her students go on reading their scary stories in quiet. By the author of The Teacher From the Black Lagoon. Original....

  • Dancing in the Dark

    Susan P. Teklits

    LOVE SNARED BY HATE Running from her abusive father, Maria Vandenburgh had nothing to lose by spurning London's high society for a passage to the Americas as nursemaid to Beau Gardiner's motherless son. And Beau had everything to gain--for he plan...

  • Welcome to Jurassic Park

    Michael Teitlbaum

  • Heartbreaker

    Laura Taylor

    MICAH--A Bold Viking Adventurer Who Needed Her Beyond Reason... He was furious, hostile, and desperate to seize control of his life--but Micah Holbrook was also more magnificently handsome than ever, Bliss Rowland decided when the Naval Intelligen...

  • Taking Chances

    Janelle Taylor

    Kirstin Lowrey wasn't accustomed to widowhood yet, but she was all too familiar with being at the beck and call of her three grown children and their children. Now, though, she had finally summoned the courage to start over again--a new job, anew...

  • Exiled Heart

    Susan Tanner

    Raised the son of an English knight, laian Gillecrist was horrified to learn his true sire was one of the Scottish barbarians he despised. His hatred notwithstanding, he would claim his birthright and protect it by marrying a lass from his new homela...

  • Daughter of Riches

    Janet Tanner

    Dangerous family secrets lurk beneath the surface of everyday life as Juliet Langlois, an Australian, and reporter Dan Deffians investigate an old scandal involving Juliet's beloved grandmother, who took the blame for murdering her own son...

  • Chess-Dream in a Garden

    Rosemary Sutcliff

  • By the Light of the Halloween Moon

    Caroline Stutson

    In this fun, cumulative tale, a little girl’s toe taps a tune as her legs dangle from a footbridge that has all sorts of creatures hidden underneath. There are cats and witches, bats and ghosts. With a rhythmic, bouncy text and imaginative illus...

  • Sweet Revenge

    Jean Stribling

    Letitia Ramsey never expected to meet the man of her dreams in the middle of a nightmare.As a result of her vindictive grandmother's dying wish, Letitia was left homeless and penniless. She set out for California;hoping to find refuge with the stepfa...

  • Summer's End

    Todd Strasser

    Sun, fun, and romance ...that's what Jess thought this summer would be all about. Everything was falling into place with Reed, but a tragic accident at the beach has driven them apart. Now Jess is hanging out with her friend, Andy. And Paula, up ...

  • The Dead Girlfriend

    R.L. Stine

    Is his girlfriend back from the dead? Annie just met Jonathan. She doesn't know about his last girlfriend. Doesn't know how beautiful she was. Doesn't know how popular. Doesn't know how she died. But Annie is about to find out. Because Jo...

  • The Ghost Next Door

    R.L. Stine

    “How come I’ve never seen you before?†Hannah's neighborhood has just gotten a little -- weird. Ever since that new boy moved in next door. But when did he move in? Wasn't the house empty when Hannah went to sleep the night before? Why does i...

  • The Seventh Night

    Amanda Stevens

    Tattoo of terror Compelled to visit the island of Columbe by a strange missive from her father, Christine Greggory found herself in a different world. Vodoun drums were everywhere, beating out a blood-pulsing rhythm that blurred all rational thoug...

  • Night Beasts

    T.W. Stetson

    An experiment in genetic warfare turns deadly when genetically altered winged bats multiply uncontrollably and begin devouring their human hosts, until only a few human survivors remain on the planet. Original....

  • The Death and Life of Superman

    Roger Stern

    "SUPERMAN -- DEAD!" --The Daily Planet

    On November 18, 1992, news of  Superman's death shocked the world as the legendary Man of steel was killed defending Metropolis from the monster called Doomsday.

    Here at last is the dramatic sto...

  • Katie's Too Big Coat

    Jane Stephens

  • Wind Across Texas

    Donna Stephens

    TAMED THE WILD WIND Beautiful and impetuous Shay Alexander longs to escape from her domineering father --- and needs to find a pliable male who will take her far away from Twin Creeks ranch. And so she sets her sights on hired hand Cale Breland ...

  • Haveli

    Suzanne Fisher Staples

    The world of Newbery Honor book Shabanu is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and ancient law. Shabanu, now a mother at 18, faces daily challenges to her position in her ...

  • Charles Dickens

    Diane Stanley

    Charles Dickens is one of the world's greatest and best loved writers. To read Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, or Nicholas Nickleby is to be drawn into a society that still seems fresh and real today: nineteenth-century London with its extr...

  • Father, May I Come?

    Peter Spier

    In 1687, young Sietze Hemmes helps rescue a vessel foundering off the Dutch coast, and three hundred years later, another Sietze Hemmes takes part in a similar rescue, in parallel stories that explore the themes of heroism and selflessness....

  • Lenins Brain

    Tilman Spengler

    Written by the editor of the German journal "Kursbuch", this is a story of opportunism and self-advancement, a scathing and grimly funny satire of Wilhelmine Germany and the early years of the Third Reich, set in the curious and Byzantine world of br...

  • A Time to Love Again

    Flora Speer

    A LOVE BEYOND TIME When India Baldwin went into work one Saturday to update her computer skills, she had no idea she would end up backdating herself! But one slip on the keyboard and the lovely young widow was transported back to the time of Charlem...

  • Con Man

    Maris Soule

    KURT--A Rugged Hunk Who Could Heat Her Up from the Inside Out... Instead of letting his usual investigator check out a prospective grant recipient, Kurt Jones decided he'd try undercover work, but once he met expert rider Micki Bradford, he wante...

  • Meaning of Sisterhood

    Beverly Sommers

    Ariel had always been a loner, a dreamer, a poet. But all that changed when Kirsten, the sister she never knew came to live with them. She's from southern California and is the exact opposite of brown-haired quiet Ariel. Ariel had always wanted a sis...

  • Minor Adjustments

    Beverly Sommers

    TO: Whom It May Concern FROM: Veronica Warner It started out just like every other day at work. I was sitting in my cubicle, staring at the stack of files that needed dictation. As an insurance adjuster for a taxi service, I never run out of wor...

  • Out of the Mist

    Lauraine Snelling

  • John Loves Sally

    Joan Smith

    Suspicious characters So the legendary secret agent known as the Silver Fox was back to his old tricks, was he? Well, CIA agent John McCallum intended to find out the truth about him--and the lovely young woman he claimed was his niece. Whoever Ms...

  • In the Cube: A Novel of Future Boston

    David Alexander Smith

    FUTURE BOSTON A century from now, Boston is like no other place on Earth: an enormous Cube containing millions of human, cybernetic and alien beings. The city is slowly sinking into the sea, but it's also the site of Earth's only interstellar port...

  • Balanced

    Lass Small

    HE WAS A NOSY NUISANCE! Hard-boiled Tim Bolt thought he knew a thing or two about women, until he was assigned to guard Carol Brown. He would keep at it--after all, her father was paying him big bucks--but he'd never been involved in a surveillanc...

  • Elvis Rising

    Kay Sloan

  • Rapid Fire

    Jack Slade

    At the end of the Civil War, General Jackson Kilby took some of his fellow Confederates south to settle in a new land: Parimba Province, Brazil. There they prospered, and were continuing to prosper when Jorge Suarez, a violent revolutionary and his a...

  • East of Forever

    Christina Skye

    Emperor's ransom of seeker's epitaph? Like a cat, a beauty prowls London's night-dark roofs, stealing into the boudoirs of the rich and powerful in search of an ancient jewel-encrusted pillow book, an erotic treasure, to barter for her captive fathe...

  • Lost in the Devil's Desert

    Gloria Skurzynski

  • The Twenty-Second Gear

    Mike Sirota

    When Jack Miller reaches the 22nd gear on his bike, he is transported to the Ultimate Bike Path, where he discovers rests with a sexy catwoman, chases windmills with Don Quixote, and coasts the gateway to hell. Original....

  • Surf Ninjas

    A.L. Singer

  • Montana Surrender

    Trana Mae Simmons

    THE CONVICT Wrongly accused of a vicious crime, Storm resolved to clear his name--and bring the real villain to justice. But then the lovely Jessica Callaghan innocently stumbled into his tangled web of deception, and stole his heart even as she ups...

  • Silent Heart

    Deborah Simmons

    France Was A Blood Bath Caught in the madness that gripped her homeland, Gabrielle knew that keeping her head meant keeping her secrets. There were few people she could trust, yet she found herself drawn to Alexandre Vestier, a man whose silence s...

  • A Kiss at Sunrise

    Charlotte Sherman

    Recently widowed and retired from a long teaching career, Ruth Nichols felt totally free for the first time in her life. Free, and ready for adventure. So, instead of selling the Coachman motor home that had sat in her driveway since she lost her hus...

  • Dancing With Myself

    Charles Sheffield

    “One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene in recent years.†-- Publishers Weekly“A master of hard science fiction.†-- NoumenonThis collection contains sixteen stories and science articles by the remarkable auth...

  • The Killing Corridor

    Jon Sharpe

  • Elvira

    Margaret Shannon

  • And Now All This

    Imogene Sellarod

  • The Seduction of Deanna

    Maura Seger

    A wounded American spy trapped in a loyalist's barn was as good as dead. Edward Nash had thought his time was up, until he was discovered by a pretty hellion with a soft spot for rebels and a look that sent his senses reeling. Torn between her loy...

  • Tricia's Got T-R-O-U-B-L-E!

    Elaine L. Schulte

  • Never Die in January

    Alan Scholefield

    Tough detective George MacRae and his sophisticated partner, Leopold Silver, return in a third mystery as Silver is ordered secretly to investigate MacRae's private life and discovers that his partner is the focus of a murderous revenge plot....

  • A Wanted Man

    Susan Clark Schofield

  • Wild Summer Rose

    Amy Elizabeth Saunders

    REVOLUTION CHANGED THEIR LIVES...LOVE CHANGED THEIR SOULS THE FRENCH MARQUIS When his grandfather died, Phillipe St. Sebastien inherited his beloved ancestral home, but no money. Without any other hope to save his family legacy, Phillipe traveled...

  • Encore

    May Sarton

    The bestselling author and newly minted octogenarian “demonstrates that old age can be a vibrant and liberating experience . . . fearless and triumphant†(Publishers Weekly). On the second day of her 80th year, May Sarton began a new jo...

  • Summer Cool

    Al Sarrantonio

  • Lovers' Secrets

    Glenda Sanders

    SECRET PANELS, GHOSTS, CRYPTIC WARNINGS... Life in the sleepy Southern town that Hayley Addison had left New York for had become alarmingly like a B movie. And she knew exactly when things had begun to spin out of control--it was when she'd met th...

  • Moth

    James Sallis

    Lew Griffin, now fifty years old, has abandoned his former career as a New Orleans private investigator for the safety of teaching. But his old life draws him back.   One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin’s dark and violent past has fli...

  • The Garden of Earthly Delights

    Nicholas Salaman

  • Chance McCall

    Sharon Sala

    A LIFETIME OF LOVE Chance McCall was hired on at the Triple T when Jennifer Ann Tyler was just a little tomboy with a china-doll face. She's been in love with him for years, but he's stubbornly kept his distance. Chance thinks that his monthly pay...

  • Sea Elf

    Joanne Ryder

    "A child reader [is] transformed into a sea otter and taken on an imaginative day trip....Ryder's poetically imagistic text is powerfully partnered by Rothman's robust...artwork, which depicts aspects of a sea otter's day in its natural habitat....Th...

  • Fear

    Anatoli Rybakov

    In the sequel to The Children of the Arbat, exiled for three years for publishing a political joke in a student newspaper, a young political idealist returns home to see the madness of the Great Purge. Reprint....

  • The Visitor

    Jenna Ryan

    Lightning split the tight A land of make-believe As she drove through Klausberg, Germany, vivid images jarred Delanie Morgen's concentration. Visions of sinister fairy tales invaded her senses as the dense, barren forest came alive. A dark p...

  • The Great Explosion

    Eric Frank Russell

    MISSION OF EMPIREEarthmen had colonized hundreds of planets in the four centuries of deep space exploration -- independent new civilizations founded by the discontented and adventurous of Terra.Trouble was, they were too independent -- and the Terran...

  • Dog in, Cat Out

    Gillian Rubinstein

  • The Prince & the Showgirl (Dance with a Dynasty)

    JoAnn Ross

    Once Upon a Time... When she'd still believed in fairy tales, Sabrina Darling had fantasized about becoming a princess. And it happened--sort of .... But she had learned there was no such thing as a happy ending when her marriage collapsed and her...

  • Zaddik

    David Rosenbaum

    A former detective investigates a deadly diamond heist among New York’s Hassidic community in this “big, bright and successfully old-fashioned†thriller (Publishers Weekly). Dov Taylor is an ex-cop. He’s also an ex-husband, ex-drinker, and ex...

  • Don't Speak to Strangers

    Marion Rosen

  • Love Only Once

    Sherry Roseberry

    A CAPTURED WOMAN Arriving in New Mexico as a mail-order bride, Falisha Harrington was captured and sold into white slavery south of the border. A COURAGEOUS MAN The spirited and sensuous beauty aroused Granger Hawks's desire... and seeing her in...

  • The Immortal

    Ilow Roque

  • Love Me, Love My Werewolf

    Stephen Roos

  • Devil, Delfina Varela and the Used Chevy

    Louie G. Robinson

    A portrait of life in the Mission District of San Francisco uses colloquial prose and Latino slang to capture a colorful group of Mexican-American characters in search of a piece of the American pie. A first novel. Original. Tour....

  • Wyoming Ecstasy

    Gina Robins

    The tempestuous tale of a man and a woman who are drawn together against their will into a love so strong that nothing can drive them apart. When handsome private investigator Nacona Bleu rejects July MacKenzie's bid for partnership because July is a...

  • Samurai Hunt

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams is having a fine time in San Francisco, enjoying the high-stakes poker, fancy eateries, and fast women...until he meets up with Toshiro Matsu, a samurai in California on a sacred quest. It seems a couple of desperadoes have stolen the ...

  • Only a Dream Away

    Doreen Roberts

    IN TOO DEEP Footloose rodeo rider Hank Tyler reckoned he'd taken one brain-scrambling tumble too many. Why else would he have agreed to endure six long weeks on the road, cooped up in a camper with a woman he'd spent fifteen years hating, all to b...

  • The Mischievous Maid

    Rebecca Robbins

    A SCANDALOUS ENTERPRISE After two unendurable years spent living with unloving relatives, beautiful but penniless Genevieve Quince flees to her late parents' abandoned country estate -- intending to support herself by turning the ramshackle manor in...

  • Spartan Run

    David Robbins

  • Born Innocent

    Christine Rimmer

    BORN INNOCENT Joe Tally had always cared for Claire Snow, but with a reputation as the town bad boy, he had to be content at remaining "just friends." Yet when one night of compassion turned into an evening of passion, Joe knew he had revealed too...

  • Dragonslayer

    Emilie Richards

    SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER US Thomas Slonehill: A minister who's lost his faith in God, in himself, in love. Garnet Anthony: A free-clinic nurse practitioner who has every reason to give up-but won't. Garnet had gotten herself on the wrong side o...

  • Devil Knocks

    Frank Rich

  • Benny Bakes a Cake

    Eve Rice

  • There's Only One Harris

    Frank Remkiewicz

  • Whispers in the Wilderness

    Colleen L. Reece

    The handsome cowboy from the Double J ranch in Arizona is not exactly what folks expect. As he follows the myrid trails that may lead him to his father, Reverened Joel Scott uses his riding, roping, and preaching talents to win souls for Christ. I...

  • Two Little Shoes

    Razvan

  • Sword of the Sensei

    James Raven

  • Lizzie Borden Trial

    Doreen Rappaport

  • Dakota Promises

    Dana Ransom

    HE WAS HER PAST The minute Norah Denby first laid eyes on handsome Rory Prescott, she knew her heart would belong to him forever. But the rugged South Dakota cowboy clearly didn't feel the same way about her, and when she realized that as his wife ...

  • The Spider on the Floor

    Raffi

    A new Raffi board book to delight the youngest of fans!

    Arachnophobes, beware: there’s a spider on the floor! A perfect silly song sure to delight and entertain toddlers everywhere, Raffi’s latest board book is a welcome addition to the s...

  • Tingalayo

    Raffi

  • Demons

    Bill Pronzini

    Searching for Nedra Merchant, a missing femme fatale whose trail of broken hearts includes a politician, a lawyer, and a psychopath, the Nameless Detective uncovers a web of sexual obsession that strikes a bit too close to his own heart. Reprint....

  • The Last Duchess of Wolff's Lair

    Jo-Ann Power

    “If you knew the shocking truth, you would flee this place…†As the only daughter of an impoverished vicar, Alicia Pennington had little choice but to grant her father's deathbed wish and wed the notorious, much-married Duke of Worminste...

  • Leave That Cricket Be, Alan Lee

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • Sixteen Candles

    Nicholas Pine

    When the biggest wallflower at Central Academy undergoes a sudden transformation into a pretty, popular girl, she is suddenly swamped with attention from the opposite sex, but popularity could prove fatal when one of her dates turns up dead. Original...

  • Bobby's Watching

    Ted Pickford

  • Missing Person

    Sara Pfoutz

  • A Sudden, Fearful Death

    Anne Perry

    In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horr...

  • King Arthur and the Legends of Camelot

    Molly Perham

  • Evil Code

    Don Pendleton

    NO IMMUNITY A Burmese delegate to the United Nations is smuggling heroin into the U.S. via diplomatic pouches. The Feds attempt to pursue the matter through official channels, but Mack Bolan knows that red tape is a poor weapon against the world's...

  • Garden of Deceit

    Laura Pender

    More than flowers in the garden... When a corpse was found in his flower bed, Robert Atwood felt sorry for the unidentified woman ... until he realized he was the police's number-one suspect in her murder. Katherine Lawrence was certain her old...

  • Nights of Fire

    Patricia Pellicane

    BEGUILLNG THIEF With the bank about to foreclose on her family's land, Emy Du Maurier desperately needed money. So she boarded a Mississippi gambling boat with the intention of fleecing an unsuspecting traveler But when she met Cole Brackston--a sha...

  • Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego?

    John Peel

  • Where's the Baby?

    Tom Paxton

  • The Mistress of Blackwater

    Paula Paul

    Overwhelmed by her husband's death, Caroline Forsythe arrives at the Blackwater Plantation on the edge of New Orleans, only to discover that her husband had been bankrupt upon his death and that her plans to sell the plantation are threatened. A ...

  • Betting on Love

    Ann Patrick

    Wild Hearts Michael was sick and tired of playing the hatchet man. This cloak and dagger assignment at the Glass Slipper would be the last time he'd go undercover for his father's corporation. Someone was stealing from the Las Vegas casino, and hi...

  • The Arrest

    Francine Pascal

    Will Elizabeth ever regain her self-respect? Elizabeth Wakefield has been arrested -- and her twin, Jessica, has finally stolen Elizabeth's boyfriend, Todd. The twins have drifted further apart than ever before -- is there any hope of reunion now? ...

  • Jessica's Monster Nightmare

    Francine Pascal

    Frightening dreams about a monster are keeping Jessica awake all night.  The kids at school tease her when they hear she's having bad dreams, and that just makes her nightmares worse!  How can Jessica get rid of the monster in her dreams so she c...

  • The Love Potion

    Francine Pascal

    A magical solution  . . .



    Peter Bums has a huge crush on Mary Wallace.  But Mary doesn't think Peter is the boy for her--and Mary's friends in the Unicorn Club are certain that Peter is the wrong kind of boyfriend for a Unicorn! ...

  • The Verdict

    Francine Pascal

    Innocent until proven guilty . . . The verdict isn't in yet on Elizabeth Wakefield. But her twin sister, Jessica, has already convicted her and won't even talk to Elizabeth. Now that Jessica has Todd, will life ever be the same for Elizabeth? P...

  • Aurelia

    Andrea Parnell

    The Siren's Call With the mark of Black Dawn upon her snowy flesh and the lure of riches beyond imagining, Ria Kingsley was diablesse. The she-devil. Or so Chane Bellamy had named her, certain the witchery of the sea coursed through her veins. Eve...

  • Small Town Secrets

    Andrea Parnell

    Successful businesswoman Brenda Baron thought a trip to Georgia would provide a perfect escape from the pain and humiliation of a devastating divorce -- and give her the chance to find the birth mother who’d given her up for adoption thirty years b...

  • Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth

    Barbara Park

    Sometimes life is P.U. Junie B.'s having a rough week. First she got punishment for shooting off her mouth in kindergarten. And now she's in big trouble again! 'Cause Monday is Job Day, and Junie B. told her class that she's got the bestest job of a...

  • Sweet Annie's Pass

    Marilyn Pappano

    ALL ALONE... Josiah Miller had once found happiness carrying out his ancestors' legacy--farming the rocky Arkansas Ozark soil and raising a family. Now, his marriage over and debt piling up, Josiah spent his lonely days cloaked in sorrow, pining f...

  • Night of Love

    Diana Palmer

    The Man: Steven Ryker, strong-willed, determined...dangerous to love! The Myth: That this tough guy didn't give a thought to any woman. The Legend: He was a man no female could resist, with a heart no woman could claim. The Awful Truth: Meg ...

  • My Messy Room

    Mary Packard

  • Smooth Operator

    Ruth Owen

    JACK--The Desire in His Eyes Melted Her Resistance Like Hot Blue Flame.... Security whiz Jack Fagen woke to the sound of alarm sensors, and knew an intruder had entered his garden! He tumbled his unexpected visitor to the ground, shocked to discov...

  • Lion of Judah

    Victor Ostrovsky

  • Mummies in the Morning

    Mary Pope Osborne

    Jack and Annie don't need another mummy. But that's what they get when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to ancient Egypt. There they meet a long-dead queen who needs their help. Will Jack and Annie be able to solve the puzzle, or will they en...

  • Alien Bootlegger and Other Stories

    Rebecca Ore

    In these stories Rebecca Ore explores the question of what it means to be alien: the unknown equation, the mysterious that can never be taken for granted, never be seen as ?ordinary.? She confronts us with visions of what it might mean to be the alie...

  • Heart of the Wilderness

    Janette Oke

    George McMannus traveled night and day from his wilderness cabin when the tragic news arrived that his daughter and son-in-law had died in a river accident. His only granddaughter, Kendra Marty, not yet four years old, had been left behind. McMannus ...

  • Foxfire

    Joyce Carol Oates

    New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’s strongest and most unsparing novel yet -- an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in ...

  • The Lost Padre

    Nelson Nye

  • Golden Trillium

    Andre Norton

    One of the famed triplet princesses who defeated the evil sorcerer Orogastus, Kadiya ventures forth into the choked swamplands of Ruwenda to seek her own destiny among the Oddlings she once led in battle. Armed with her mystical three-eyed sword, she...

  • Lempriere's Dictionary

    Lawrence Norfolk

    The Somerset Maugham Prizeâ€"winning, international bestselling debut novel: “a dazzling linguistic and formal achievement†set in 18th century London (Salman Rushdie).   In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere works feverishly on a cel...

  • Land of Hope

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    The family of Rebekah Levinsky emigrates from Russia and settles in New York City, hoping their dreams will come true. But instead of finding streets paved with gold, they find they must work seven days a week in a sweatshop simply to survive. Will R...

  • Tale of Two Princes

    Eckart Zur Nieden

  • Gentleman Rogue

    Barbara Neil

    RYDER STARR WAS NO GENTLEMAN Preying on the sensibilities of the not-so-good ladies of Nardingham, Ryder was determined to bring his misadventures to the attention of the man who had stolen his inheritance. Surely then Lord Matchless would be for...

  • Afterage

    Yvonne Navarro

    As a plague of vampires creeps across the country--reducing thriving cities to ghost towns--a few scattered survivors hide behind fortified walls and raid deserted stores for supplies as they plan to fight back. Original....

  • Altered Brand

    J. Jay Myers

  • Fan Mail

    Ronald Munson

  • The Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D. C.

    Roxie Munro

  • VARIATIONS ON NIGHT AND DAY

    Abdelrahman Munif

    Full of Machiavellian intrigue and searing political satire, Variations on Night and Day, the final volume of Munif's landmark Cities of Salt trilogy, chronicles the creation of a Persian Gulf nation by a corrupt Arab monarch and conniving British em...

  • Return Engagement

    Carole Mortimer

    LIGHTNING THAT LINGERS Cyn was certain the Harcourt wedding would finally launch her bridal consulting and catering business. But anticipation turned to shock when she met the groom--Wolf Thornton, the man she'd once intended to marry. Clea...

  • The Valiant Gunman

    Gilbert Morris

    Dan Winslow survived the Civil War with the dream of one day going West and becoming a cowboy with a ranch of his own. But it would be several disappointing years before this son of Sky and Rebekah Winslow found himself on the dusty cattle trail from...

  • North Star Conspiracy

    Miriam Grace Monfredo

    Glynis Tryon joined forces with Elizabeth Cady Stanton a few years back in the fight for women's rights. Now the independent librarian-sleuth finds herself embroiled in an equally compelling campaign against injustice--helping to lead fugitive slaves...

  • The Towers of the Sunset

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Towers of the Sunset continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Rather than accepting a marriage arranged by his mother, the powerful military matr...

  • Uncle Jed's Barbershop

    Margaree King Mitchell

    Coretta Scott King Award winnerA young girl’s beloved uncle is a talented barber without a shop who never gives up on his dream in this richly illustrated, stirring picture book.Everyone has a favorite relative. For Sarah Jean, it’s her Uncle Jed...

  • Stones of the Dalai Lama

    Ken Mitchell

    Bob Harlow is an academic; Vern Cugnet, an auto mechanic. Besides this difference, Bob has another distinction: his once pleasant life in Bismarck, North Dakota, is going to hell. Terrible things are befalling Bob, his family and friends: strange inf...

  • Go to Bed!

    Virginia Miller

  • Heartbreak Hotel

    Cassie Miles

    All shook up! Susan Quentin wanted a quiet thirtieth birthday, but she got lots more: a sexy wake-up call over the airwaves, deejay Johnny Swift in the flesh ... and an Elvis impersonator who died in her arms. By dubbing Susan's quaint bed-and-...

  • Lord of the Night

    Cara Miles

    PASSION'S PRIZE... When Jaime Mortimer storms into the chapel to halt the wedding between Lady Aleta Somerset and Lord Evan Grey, it is to claim the bride as his own and take his vengeance against the would-be groom. Betrothed to Aleta in his yout...

  • The Lake Effect

    Leigh Michaels

    "Offer him anything -- but get him back!' What was Kane playing at? High-powered lawyers don't abandon their careers, their life on the fast track, and take up beachcombing. Kane was up to something. But what? Alex's mission was...

  • Murder: The Musical

    Annette Meyers

    A KILLING ON BROADWAY Leslie Wetzon has an orchestra seat to the trendiest show in New York. Hotshot's got a can't-miss plot: passion, power, scandal, money, and murder. And that's just backstage. In the mezzanine someone's bludgeoned the producti...

  • Commando

    Lindsay McKenna

    Jake Randolph was no stranger to peril. As a mercenary, he'd faced danger and walked away unscathed. Yet, as a man, he'd confronted love-and lost much more than his heart. But his latest assignment, locating beautiful Shah Sungilo Travers, reminded J...

  • Stuck in the Middle

    Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna

  • Keeper of Dreams

    Lynn Armistead McKee

    In the ancient everglades, a woman had only her strength and her spirit to guide her... Stranded by a violent storm, the beautiful shaman Mi-sa was forced to turn to a stranger for help. Cota was not of her people...but no one else could help sav...

  • A Question of Magic

    Tom McGowen

  • Drop Everything, It's D.E.A.R. Time!

    Ann McGovern

    It's an ordinary school day, and the students, teachers, principal, and staff are all busy, until D.E.A.R. time--Drop Everything and Read time--when all the people in the school stop what they are doing and pick up books...

  • One Foot in Heaven

    Laraine McDaniel

    HOT PURSUIT IN PARADISE . . . When headhunter Mackenzie Ford finally found Sam McPhee--the elusive heir to a desert island--the man turned out to be nothing more than a devilish down-on-his-luck vagrant! But something in Sam's mesmerizing eyes ...

  • Whitehorn's Woman

    Barbara McCauley

    ARIZONA HEAT Jonas Whitehorn was a gorgeous, grouchy, all-round unbearable man, but that was his business. His grandfather, though, was Brook Devlin's business, and she wasn't leaving Arizona until the elderly potter agreed to sell his work. But w...

  • Wild Card Wedding

    Jule McBride

    THE BRIDE VANISHES! With only weeks left until her society wedding, bride-to-be Peachy Lofton fled Manhattan for the West Virginia backwoods-only to find herself staring down a shotgun at Bronson West. One look at her spike heels and feather bo...

  • Mischief

    Ed McBain

    Investigating a series of cryptic murders in the worst section of the city, detective Steve Carella of the 87th Precinct uncovers the trail of the returned Deaf Man, an elusive stalker of vandals and other mischievous outlaws. Reprint....

  • Ruthless Stranger

    Margaret Mayo

    "With a bit of cooperation it could work very well..." But Nicholas Grant expected Briony to do the cooperating while he walked roughshod over her life! Thornton Hall belonged to her and there was no way, Nicholas could take it away from ...

  • Dare You

    James Mayhew

  • Trick or Treat, Little Critter

    Mercer Mayer

    Carve out family time for this Halloween-themed full-color storybook with Little Critter -- including cards, stickers, and a poster!It's time to go trick-or-treating with Little Critter and friends! Children ages 3 to 7 will love this adorable Hallow...

  • Tender Assault

    Anne Mather

    Heart of paradise India had been thirteen when Nathan Kittrick was banished from Pelican Island. Now, shrouded in scandal, he'd come home, heir to his father's multimillion-dollar holiday resort -- a man determined to claim what was rightf...

  • No Need for Love

    Sandra Marton

    She wants a baby. He wants an heir. But what about love? Hannah has been married once before, but now she is perfectly happy on her own. Well...maybe not perfectly happy.... She has always wanted children. So when her boss, Grant MacLean, sugge...

  • A Foolish Heart

    Laura Martin

    "I would very much like to make love to you!" How dared Travis Steele make such a suggestion to his nephew's teacher, of all people? Travis was irresistible to most women, yet Simone Walker was determined to fight the attraction she felt ...

  • Karen's Newspaper

    Ann M. Martin

    Extra! Extra! When Karen meets an editor at The Stoneybrook News, she gets a great idea. The Three Musketeers can start their own neighborhood newspaper! But Karen's paper won't be filled with boring articles and hard words. It will be written jus...