Books Published in August 1993

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1993

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New Books List: 490 titles

  • 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...

  • Crinkleroot's Guide to Walking in Wild Places

    Jim Arnosky

    Crinkleroot shares his knowledge about the outdoors, offering commonsense advice on how to enjoy nature, protect oneself against insect bites, poisonous plants, and other hazards, and discover the many wonders of the natural world...

  • Shake-Up

    Dean Hughes

    As the Angel Park soccer team starts another season of play, tensions erupt between the dedicated soccer players and the youngsters who also play basketball, a situation that becomes worse when an earthquake strikes the area....

  • 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...

  • The Gingerbread Boy

    Sue Kassirer

  • Tingalayo

    Raffi

  • Two Little Shoes

    Razvan

  • Who Can You Trust?

    Chelsea Brooks

  • Perfect Harmony

    Chelsea Brooks

  • Playing for Keeps

    Chelsea Brooks

    When Jenny starts seeing the lead singer from a rival band, her brother Matt and the other members of California Dreams aren't sure if even a professional recording session can keep their group together...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Onion Tears

    Diana Kidd

    Nam-Huong is miserable living in a new country without her beloved family. Then why can't she cry?

    Vietnamese Nam-Huong wants to adjust to her new life in Australia, but she can't. She misses her parents and her beloved grandfather too much, an...

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Ilene Cooper

  • Et Tu, Babe

    Mark Leyner

    In this fiendishly original new novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Great-Uncle Dracula and the Dirty Rat

    Jayne Harvey

  • Stop, Thief!

    Robert Kalan

  • Leave That Cricket Be, Alan Lee

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • First And Ten

    Douglas A. Anderson

    With his teammates being murdered during a players' strike against the NFL, Buffalo Bills player Santa Arkwright becomes involved in a dangerous investigation that not only makes him the prime suspect, but also a primary target...

  • 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 ...

  • Freddie the Fly

    Charles Grodin

  • Nana's Birthday Party

    Amy Hest

    Every year, Nana throws herself a grand birthday party, with relatives from all over the city and her special birthday rules tacked to the door: NO JEANS, NO Gum, and NO PRESENTS, EXCEPT THE KIND YOU MAKE YOURSELF. Best of all, Maggie and her cous...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Alien Plot

    Piers Anthony

    Alien Plot: A man of our world is sent across the boundaries of an alien dimension. His task is to infiltrate the native culture--But once there he discovers that an alien plot of ground can become home.

    This brand-new story leads off a collec...

  • Barry Bear and the Bad Guys

    Margery Cuyler

  • Tiny for a Day

    Dick Gackenbach

    Second-grade genius Sidney comes up with a brand-new invention, a Mini-Box machine that can shrink him down to the size of a mouse, but Sidney soon discovers that being small brings its own unexpected complications....

  • The Five-Dog Night

    Eileen Christelow

  • Dare You

    James Mayhew

  • Dribbles

    Connie K. Heckert

  • Baskets

    Richard Kollath

    Comprehensive and creative, this is a hands-on introduction to the ancient art of basket making. The versatility and variety of the craft comes through with clear instructions for making hanging baskets, picnic baskets, centerpieces and more from vin...

  • A Difficult Man

    Lindsay Armstrong

    The personal touch Redesigning the interior of Gareth Walker's country house was Juanita's first opportunity to stake her independence in a world that had been so difficult to enter. She had no designs on the man himself -- though she was ...

  • 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...

  • Without Remorse

    Tom Clancy

    John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife, when he befriends a young woman with a checkered past. When the past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge a...

  • Clarissa's All-in-One

    Mitchell Kriegman

  • The Shining Ones

    David Eddings

    TO WAKE THE STONE Years past, the Child-Goddess Aphrael had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power. It rested at the very bottom of the deepest ocean, that nevermore should its awesome power sing temptation to mortal men. Then a menace arose, a ma...

  • 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...

  • Voices of the Wild

    Jonathan London

  • Bamboo Hats and a Rice Cake

    Ann Tompert

  • The Very Scary Almanac

    Eric Elfman

    A compendium of trivia, facts, and lore about the world of the supernatural and the occult furnishes information on topics ranging from cannibalism, Ouija boards, and the Bermuda Triangle to vampires, zombies, poltergeists, and werewolves. Original....

  • Lindbergh

    Chris L. Demarest

  • The Midnight Circus

    Peter Collington

  • James in the House of Aunt Prudence

    Timothy Bush

  • The Mouse Bride: A Mayan Folktale

    Judith Dupre

  • No Moon, No Milk!

    Chris Babcock

  • Rosebud

    Ludwig Bemelmans

    Tough Seattle cop Lt. Spencer Watley, killed in the line of duty, is reincarnated in the body of his former police dog to redeem himself not only by nabbing the cyber-crooks responsible, but also by helping a troubled teenager face physical and emoti...

  • The Shawnee Trail

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Nightmare, with Angel

    Stephen Gallagher

    After rescuing Marianne Cadogan from an incoming tide on a lonely and forgotten part of Britain's coast, ex-con Ryan O'Donnell is cornered into helping her escape a supposedly abusive father to reach the safety of her mother. Too late, he finds himse...

  • Chess-Dream in a Garden

    Rosemary Sutcliff

  • Ruth Law Thrills a Nation

    Don Brown

    In 1916 a young woman named Ruth Law attempted to fly from Chicago to New York City in one day--something no one else had ever done. This is the story of that daring attempt. Beautifully detailed watercolors dramatize a dangerous journey made by the ...

  • Ellen and Penguin

    Clara Vulliamy

  • Here Come the Babies

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Dog in, Cat Out

    Gillian Rubinstein

  • Doctor Knickerbocker and Other Rhymes

    David Booth

  • Candlewick Book of Fairy Tales

    Sarah Hayes

  • The Wild Woods

    Simon James

    As Sarah and her grandfather take a walk in the woods, following a squirrel through the trees and up a hill, Sarah decides to take the animal home, while Grandad warns her about the difficulties of owning a wild animal pet....

  • Winter Walk

    Lynne Barasch

  • O Canada

    Ted Harrison

    An artist celebrates the beautiful and varied Canadian landscape in these impressionistic descriptions and full-color paintings of Canada's provinces and territories, from Newfoundland to the Northwest Territories....

  • Elvira

    Margaret Shannon

  • Noah's Ark

    Lucy Cousins

    A simple retelling of the biblical story of Noah features striking full-color illustrations of the inhabitants of the ark, from Noah with his snowy white beard to pink flamingos, green alligators, and large, gray elephants....

  • 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....

  • Go to Bed!

    Virginia Miller

  • Devil Knocks

    Frank Rich

  • Requiem for a Rustler

    R.C. House

  • The Lost Padre

    Nelson Nye

  • High Country

    Jason Manning

    Tennessee woodsman Zach Hannah accepts a challenge offered by the Hudson Bay Trading Company and battles the fury of nature, hostile Indian tribes, and competitive fellow trappers in order to trap beaver. Original....

  • 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 ...

  • Maverick Guns

    Jack Ballas

  • 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...

  • Winterkill

    David Thompson

  • Lone Star and the Steel Rail Sellout

    Wesley Ellis

    A mysterious gold coin sets Jessie and Ki on the trail of a greedy killer!A coin slipped into Ki's pocket by a stranger leads Jessie and Ki into an ambush, and the Lone Star duo must tangle with a greedy baron and his henchmen who plan on blowing up ...

  • Longarm and the Captive Women

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Navaho Drums

    Tabor Evans

    MURDERED CAVALRY...MISTAKEN IDENTITY When Longarm takes to the canyons in response to an urgent appeal from General Sherman, he expects Indian trouble. Since the death of Kit Carson in '68, snipers in rimrock hideaways have turned Four Corners Cou...

  • Death Warrant

    Hank Edwards (1)

    With cattle baron Terrill and the T Bar Ranch in trouble and someone fixing to stir up a vicious range war, tough as nails Federal Judge Clay Torn must put aside his justice's robes and pick up a rifle. Original....

  • Colorado Gold

    Douglas Hirt

    In the Arizona outpost of Yuma to find out who is stealing money from an upriver mining company, Harrison Mandell must face a muddy stretch of the swirling Colorado River and a motley collection of misfits. Original....

  • Rebel Mine

    Joyce Adams

    SOUTHERN SPITFIRE After a Union bullet killed her beloved twin brother, golden-haired Brianna Devland risked her life time and again for the Rebel cause, vowing vengeance against all Northerners. Then she met Major Trevor Caldwell. With one breathle...

  • A Moment of Madness

    Barbara Allister

    A Fateful Flowering Once upon a time Georgiana Carrington had been an ugly duckling, a tall and gangling girl stumbling awkwardly through her first London season. Now time had passed, and Georgiana had grown to be an enchanting beauty. Once upo...

  • Adobe Palace

    Joyce Brandon

    A proud widow with a young son, Samantha Forrester staked her claim in wild, untamed Arizona in 1889. Indomitable and determined, she built her own cattle ranch -- but a high-born lady living alone was prey to the greedy vultures of this isolated fro...

  • The Bengal Rubies

    Lisa Bingham

    Aloise Crawford's father had imprisoned her for years in a French academy before he ordered her back to George III's England for a scandalous reason: to auction her to any suitor who bid highest for her and her dowry of the fabulous Bengal Ru...

  • Swept Away

    Jean Anne Caldwell

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

  • Master of Moonspell

    Deborah Camp

    Destiny calls lovely and spirited Julienne Vale to Moonspell in the Florida Keys -- to serve as governess to the motherless child of the grand estate's enigmatic master. And from her first glimpse of Captain Buccaneer LaFlamme astride a galloping sta...

  • The Glitter and the Gold

    Marion Chesney

    THEY'D BEEN MARRIED UNDER FALSE PRETENSES. NOW IT WAS TIME TO SET MATTERS TO RIGHT. Fanny and her groom had been tricked! Both sets of impoverished parents had decided to recoup their families' losses by marrying their offspring to the pro...

  • Hush Little Baby

    Sally Emerson

  • Pirate Moon

    Kathleen Drymon

    Katelin Ashford was a bit hotheaded, but hardly wicked enough to be exiled from her beloved London to the wilds of the Caribbean just to avoid a scandal! But her trip across the Atlantic turned out to be fraught with peril and passion when a storm bu...

  • Band of Gold

    Zita Christian

    A GOLDEN TRAIL TO HEARTBREAK AND HEAVEN "Take up a man's profession and there's not a man alive who will think of you as a woman!" Remembering her mother's words, young doctor Aurelia Breighton thought herself quite without cha...

  • Heart of the Wolf

    Saranne Dawson

    The stranger and his comrades had rescued Jocelyn from her enemies, yet the young princess wasn't sure if Daken was friend or foe. Long ago she had heard the stories of Daken's people and their magical power to assume the shape of wolves. If the lege...

  • Royal Rapture

    Robin Gideon

    A Dressmaker's Dream Natasha's amazing talent with needle and thread had earned her a coveted position as seamstress to the Russian Princess Anastasia. But the excitement of working within the sumptuous royal chambers could not compare with the thri...

  • Lord of Legend

    Charlene Cross

    SCOTLAND'S FLAME-HAIRED BEAUTY The hawk swooping after a female sparrow near her castle sent a chill of foreboding through lovely Chandra Morgan, Lady Lochlaigh. Legend said the ladybird would feel the hawk's talons in her heart as he carried her aw...

  • The Scandalous Masquerade

    Marissa Edwards

    A larcenous lady. Her dear mother would faint dead away! But their current straitened circumstances had left Cara Brentwood little choice but to don cloak and boots and roam the midnight highways in search of unsuspecting noblemen. After all, the ton...

  • Secret Captive

    Olivia Ferrell

    On a Montana prairie in 1866, Lydia Bannock awakes after a riding accident to find herself surrounded by a Crow hunting party. With no memory of her life before the accident, Lydia turns to the Crow for her future. She soon earns the tribe's resp...

  • Mine Forevermore

    Maria Greene

    To save her precious dress shop from ruin, Minerva was forced to become a pawn in a rich man's revenge. Against her better judgment, she agreed to seduce her benefactor's hated enemy, Roarke Harding, and then heartlessly cast him aside. But when and ...

  • The Magnificent Rogue

    Iris Johansen

    SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL PAWN IN A GAME OF LOVE AND DEATH When Princess Kathryn Kentyre is snatched from a life of captivity by the mysterious Black Robert of Craighdhu, she is torn between absolute terror and soaring hope. He had been chosen to protec...

  • The Temporary Bride

    Glenna Finley

    A DANGEROUS GAME OF LOVE Sassy career girl Dana McIntyre had gone out on one disastrous date with sophisticated Marc Elliot, her brother's law partner. She failed so miserably at acting like a "woman of the world," that she had avoided...

  • Summer of Fear

    Carolyn Haines

    Returning to the East Coast, riding instructor Connor Tremaine marries Clay Sumner, a charismatic politician who may not be telling all he knows about his first wife's death....

  • River of Passion

    Kathryn Hockett

    IRRESISTIBLE PASSION Damn! The last person rugged riverboat captain Dante Roth wanted on a perilous voyage up the Congo River was a prim and proper female physician with an icy manner! But he needed the money, and once he had shown Doctor Lawton wha...

  • Monday's Child

    Barbara Hazard

    Newly, and happily, widowed, Lady Sarah Lacy is lured home under the guise of her mother's illness so that her parents may take over the handling of her money. They even have a wealthy new husband picked out. But after a brief but hellish first marri...

  • Wild Sierra Rogue

    Martha Hix

    SHE WAS RIPE FOR SEDUCTION If she hadn't been absolutely desperate, Margaret McLoughlin never would have hired the very rogue who'd wronged her family to guide her through perilous bandit territory...and wouldn't now be standing face to face with th...

  • An Intriguing Affair

    Mary Kingsley

    The announcement of the Viscount Stanton's marriage was to be expected, thought Althea regretfully. She and Jeremy had been friends far too long for her not to know of his father's debts and his need for ready funds. But how could Jeremy offe...

  • The Princess and the Barbarian // Three Nights With the Princess

    Betina Krahn

    JEWEL OF THE REALM Lovely, tempestuous and devoted to her subjects, Princess Thera must marry before she can be crowned Queen Of Mercia. But her reluctant search for a husband has plunged her into gravest peril - and into the arms of a handsome barb...

  • Passion's Secret

    Doris Lemcke

    SHE'D NEVER GIVE UP Georgia born-and-bred Camilla Langesford was outraged when she learned that her father had struck a deal to save their ailing plantation ... with a Yankee carpetbagger of all people! She hadn't spent the last six years working ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Flames from the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    "Whether I live or die, the Rebel cause will go on." -- Ben Raines A DEADLY EVIL REBORN The evil Jesus Mendoza Hoffman, descendant of one of the most infamous Nazis of all time, and his fanatical New Army of Liberation pose a dire threat to the ne...

  • 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...

  • Spartan Run

    David Robbins

  • 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....

  • Heart-Beast

    Tanith Lee

    SEASON OF THE BEAST In the streets of the sukh, Daniel Vehmund moves among snake charmers and dagger jugglers. Wanted for murder, he travels the world, lured on by a brilliant diamond and a curse, caught in the sway of every full moon.... On a ...

  • 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....

  • Space Winners

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Stranded on the Quarantined World of Quebahr, the first high-school students selected to leave Earth for study in the Galactic Federation must overcome their lack of training and learn to adapt and survive. Reprint....

  • Legion of the Damned

    William C. Dietz

    When all hope is lost--for the terminally ill, for the condemned criminal, for the victim who cannot be saved--there comes one final choice. You can choose life--as a cyborg soldier in the Legion. Both more and less than human, these steel warr...

  • 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....

  • Majyk by Accident

    Esther Friesner

    DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAJYK? Kendar Gangle's the worst student magician on the world of Orbix. He's a flop at mastering Majyk--the stuff that puts spunk in spells--until he chases an Earth cat called Scandal into a Majyk cloud. Now Kendar has the bigg...

  • Countermeasures

    W. Michael Gear

    In the stunning conclusion to Gear's remarkable sci-fi trilogy, the rift between father and son -- both trained killing machines -- will reach an explosive climax. The Forbidden Borders -- an unassailable gravity-powered barrier -- confines riva...

  • Marooned on Eden

    Robert L. Forward

    Just what is it that makes us human? Just what quality impels us out to the stars, to search for meaning in our cold universe, to struggle against entropy and discover the nature of things? The scientists on the first mission to Barbard's Star and...

  • Blood and War

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • No Clock in the Forest

    Paul J. Willis

  • Quest to Riverworld

    Philip Jose Farmer

    By the banks of a ten-million-mile river, everyone who has ever died enjoys a new life, in a collection of science fiction stories--by Harry Turtledove, George Alec Essinger, and Philip Jose+a7 Farmer, among others. Original....

  • The Wizard's Shadow

    Susan Dexter

    BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT Crocken the peddler had made a bad bargain. For a bag of gold and a chance to keep breathing, Crocken had grudgingly agreed to conduct the shadow-remnant of a murdered wizard to the distant kingdom of Armyn. Crocken kept...

  • Galatea in 2-D

    Aaron Allston

    DA VINCI NEVER HAD DAYS LIKE THIS... Illustrator Roger Simons always thought that art should imitate life -- until the day his painting came to life and propelled him into danger. On one fateful day he learns three things that change his life: tha...

  • 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...

  • Dragons!

    Jack Dann

    A collection of dragon stories from some of the masters of the fantasy genre includes contributions from James P. Blaylock, Avram Davidson, Tanith Lee, Lucius Shepard, and L. Sprague De Camp. Original....

  • Harm's Way

    Colin Greenland

    In a teeming Victorian metropolis, a prostitute loses her life...and with that one quick slash of an assassin's blade, a child's fate is forever altered. Sophie Farthing is a survivor challenged by life with a gloomy and repressive father. Somewhe...

  • Book of Stones

    L. Dean James

    Dvi Darynson, the duke of Gosney, desires nothing more in this world than to attain the powers of magic ... until the lovely, Sandaa D'Lelan arrives at Castlekeep to serve as lady-in-waiting to Queen Jessmyn. But Sandal has come to serve other, darke...

  • Dark Horizon

    K.W. Jeter

    On July 31, 1991, the final episode of Alien Nation, "Green Eyes" aired, ending the series with a blockbuster finale and an exciting cliffhanger. In "Green Eyes" the Newcomers were faced with a deadly new bacteria created by a ruthless group of human...

  • 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 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....

  • Virtual Girl

    Amy Thomson

  • Relic of Empire

    W. Michael Gear

    THE CALL TO BATTLE... The Forbidden Borders, an unassailable gravity-powered barrier, confine rival human empires to a few star systems, leaving them to strive endlessly against one another for domination. Now the balance of power has shifted so dra...

  • Coming Up Roses

    Catherine Anderson

    NO ROSE CAN BLOSSOM WITHOUT LOVE Widow Kate Blakely knew nothing of love -- but she knew plenty about unhappiness. She'd married young, hoping to put down roots in a safe haven, but her husband had shattered her naivete and made her fear for h...

  • Paladin's Woman

    Beverly Barton

    TALL, DARK -- AND DANGEROUS Nick Romero, Navy SEAL, DEA Agent, Latin lover, was a man alone -- and satisfied to remain that way. Until the night he rescued Addy McConnell, a tall, cool woman with hair like fire. And, rumor had it, a soul like ic...

  • Flashfire

    Judith Arnold

    Matt Calloway He'd had his fill of fighting twenty years ago, but the way he figured it, when a buddy ripped you off, there was more than one battle to wage. Gary Villard Matt's former comrade in arms and a desperate man...desperat...

  • A Wedding for Emily

    Elizabeth August

    A lifetime of waiting Sixteen years ago, Ryder Gerard watched as Emily Sayer was deserted by her family and scorned for her unwed pregnancy. His dead brother was the father of her son--and Ryder worried that this boy would share the Gerard secret...

  • Hero in Disguise

    Stella Bagwell

    Partners in crime Tragedy had forced Victor Damien to leave crime reporting for the safer -- and saner -- world of business news. Now he was known as the Ice Man and nothing blew his cool -- until his boss gave him the bad news. Not only was he be...

  • Knight's Honor

    Suzanne Barclay

    The Family Rogue How could Jesselynn Harcourt look upon Alexander Sommerville, rakish son of a House her own had sworn to hate, and see anything more than the face of an enemy? Yet the man possessed a leonine glory that twisted her heart and set h...

  • Future Perfect

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Bed and Breakfast Juliana Anderson had carved out a pleasant life running a bed and breakfast in rural Massachusetts. Dressed in Victorian garb to match the old mansion, Juliana kept the place tidy, cozy, and running like a charm. Guests were tr...

  • Kane's Way

    Dixie Browning

    HOW NOT TO PLAN A WEDDING Aurora Hubbard's wedding was two weeks away, and she still hadn't decided on a dress, a church -- or whether this marriage would be a big mistake. So when her fiance's best man arrived, full of advice and funn...

  • Playing Love's Odds

    Michaila Callan

    Follow The Mark It was not the sort of investigation Logan Burke usually handled. Nowadays he was hired by your average Joe -- not sleek, polished corporate players in plush Houston office suites. But it was a straight-forward case of industrial e...

  • Believing Heart

    Lynne Marie Bryant

    DUKE -- A Tall, Dark Fantasy Pirate Whose Lips Tasted of Danger... He'd been shanghaied by a sunset-haired sea witch, Duke King realized as her boat sailed off beneath a moonlit sky and he took the lady in his arms! Mamie MacBride knew it was re...

  • Colorado Gold

    Linda Cajio

    A WOMAN OF DISHONOR Desperate family circumstances had forced Mary Alice Macaffee into a life of crime ... running a dozen fancy scams clear across Colorado -- and she wasn't about to let U.S. Marshal Hud Jackson get the better of her now! There was...

  • Twice in a Lifetime

    Christy Cohen

    FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, AN ACT OF BETRAYAL TORE FOUR BEST FRIENDS APART.... SARAH. A lonely newlywed in a new town, she was thrilled when Annabel came into her life. Suddenly Sarah had someone to talk to--and the best part was that her husband seemed t...

  • Tender Wishes

    Jo Anne Cassity

    Even the most stubborn heart can be swept away -- by true love... JOHNNA MAE Jilted by her fiance, Johnnie's tomboy spirit got the best of her -- and a perfect stranger got the brunt of her anger! ADAM Crossing paths with the lady scorned...

  • The Lady and the Tomcat

    Bethany Campbell

    Max Dunne is a pirate... And he's stolen Lindsey's young son's cat! But that isn't quite how Max sees the situation. He claims he found the odd-looking kitten abandoned in Key West, and after investing a small fortune to make "...

  • At Her Captain's Command

    Patricia Chandler

    SHE HAD COURAGE Angie de Vasconceles felt the power of the sea and, like her father before her, knew firsthand of its mercilessness. But she defied its strength, to prove the sea flowed in her veins. HE HAD POWER Captain Joseph Callais revered t...

  • His Woman's Gift

    Lacey Dancer

    Chase Away The Night Then Professor Sloane McGuire was asked to escort a certain guest lecturer during her visit to Duke University, he couldn't say no. Eve Noble's writings had touched him, made him think, wish and remember. She was living proof ...

  • Fire on the Mountain

    Marion Smith Collins

    DARKNESS That was Major Vincent Thornborough's new world. A fiercely independent man, the air force pilot wasn't prepared to accept help, especially when it came from Amanda Upton -- a woman with whom he shared a special past. Although Vin...

  • Family Matters

    Marie Ferrarella

    The aunt said: "The Iceman cometh," Daisy Channing muttered as she awaited the arrival of her buttoned-down Wall Street brother-in-law. The uncle said: "My sister-in-law is as nutty as a California almond grove," Andrew Ad...

  • Another Woman

    Margot Dalton

    Leah Temple is living a nightmare. Somewhere in her past -- a past she cannot recall -- is a secret she is terrified of uncovering. Paul Temple is fighting his own demons. His wife is back! Or is she? Gone is the conniving, devious shrew who'...

  • The Prodigal Husband

    Pamela Dalton

    Beautiful dreamer Elizabeth James had married, dreaming of the happy days and loving nights ahead with her new husband. But a husband who spent most of his days and nights on the road turned out to be her unhappy reality. After three lonely years ...

  • A Very Stylish Affair

    Emma Darcy

    Contents flammable! Sydney lawyer Jason Lombard is a ten on the male Richter scale in every superficial sense. He also seems unable to even look past Sophie's hair, which is a bit...well...flamboyant at the moment. She suspects her days as his...

  • Stubborn As a Mule

    Roz Denny

    Shadow Mountain Ranch, near Jessup, California Franzi DeLisle--She's not your typical rancher--she raises mules. But then, there's nothing typical about Franzi, from her skill as a tracker to her distrust of lawmen. She's tough and sel...

  • Stormy Weather

    Gail Douglas

    MITCH -- A Teasing Rogue Whose Wicked Grin Promised Endless Pleasures... Even though she wasn't wearing a sarong and lei, Mitch Canfield knew instantly that the pretty woman in the sunny yellow coat had to be Tiffany Greer! The native Hawaiia...

  • Instant Father

    Lucy Gordon

    Hunter and son Driven by ambition and power, Gavin Hunter had sacrificed everything that mattered--including his wife and child--to success. Now his son, Peter, needed him, and Gavin dropped everything to rush across the country to the desolate mo...

  • Presumed Guilty

    Tess Gerritsen

    Someone was sleeping in her bed.... But he wasn't really sleeping. He was dead. Miranda Wood hoped it was just a bad dream, but the man had been stabbed with her knife, in her house. And worst of all, he wasn't a stranger. So the nig...

  • A Silence of Dreams

    Barbara Faith

    'Til death do us part... Nicky Fairchild had backpacked her way to Venice hoping to find sunshine and warmth. Instead she'd nearly died of pneumonia, then been swept off her feet by Dr. Carlo Santini, the sensuously brooding widower who...

  • Mail-Order Male // Mail-Order Millionaire

    Carol Grace

    Special delivery Miranda Morrison had handled her share of irate callers at a Vermont mail-order company, but Maxwell Randolph Carter took the cake! It wasn't her fault the cranky meteorologist was stuck at a remote weather station in three fe...

  • Bride on the Run

    Leann Harris

    GOIN' TO THE CHAPEL Detective Lucas McGill never walked away from trouble -- except when trouble came in the form of a certain pint-size lady lawyer. Personally, Luke didn't like J.D. Anderson. Unfortunately, his body did. And somehow he&#...

  • More Than He Bargained for

    Carole Halston

    IT TAKES AVERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! Some might refer to him as "that cranky Clark Strong," though he liked his personality just fine. And he didn't need some sweet-talking next-door neighbor trying to alter his dispos...

  • Home Again

    Janice Kay Johnson

    THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES Rebecca Halstead wanted a rose arbor. A simple thing, really, yet neither of the men in her life was willing to help her. Her teenage son, Alan, had more important things on his mind-such as wreaking havoc on her relationship...

  • Indecent Exposure

    Kate Hoffmann

    IN THIS BUSINESS, ETHICS WAS THE "E" WORD When reporter Casey Carmichael found photographer Matt Garrison hiding in the same hotel closet as she was, looking for the same scoop, she knew she had trouble. Not only was he gorgeous, but he would sell...

  • Galatea's Revenge

    Elizabeth Jackson

    In Dangerous Hands It was bad enough that Sir Oliver Townsend mistook beautiful Georgiana Oversham for a lightskirt instead of the well-brought-up and wealthy young lady she was. It was even worse that he wanted her not only to satisfy his desires...

  • All for Quinn

    Kay Hooper

    QUINN -- A CHARMING SCOUNDREL WHO STOLE HER HEART, AND TOOK HER BREATH AWAY... He was a prince among thieves, a legend who could open any lock, elude any pursuer, but only a special woman had ever captured the mysterious Quinn -- and then only for...

  • After the Lights Go Out

    Barbara Kaye

    HOSPITALITY--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. TROUBLE'S BREWIN' Jealousy was the last thing Scott Har...

  • No Sweeter Heaven

    Katherine Kingsley

    A Clash of Cultures -- a Bond of Passion. He was legend among the French -- handsome and mysterious, loved by all but a man whose heart was known to none. She was a legend among the British -- a wild and willful heiress -- and it was said neither...

  • Paris When It Sizzles

    Julie Kistler

    Isn't It Romantic? When Annie Porter received the letter from the Framboise Champagne Company, she was thrilled. She was a finalist! Her romantic fantasy was one of four chosen by the judges. If she made it through the next round, scheduled to tak...

  • The Founders

    Coleen L. Johnston

    In 1750, young immigrant Thomas Gairden boldy rides from Pennsylvania Colony to start a weaving shop in booming Charles Town, South Carolina. He leaves behind his first love Sarah Roberts, who has been promised to his rival, Jamie Lowe. Battling th...

  • White Lily

    Linda Ladd

    THEY CAME TOGETHER IN LOVE AND WAR Ravishing, golden-haired Lily Courtland is both blessed and cursed with the eytraordinary gift of second sight. But even she can see no way to escape from the men who have abducted her--and from the nightmare of ...

  • Date With An Outlaw

    Lynn Lockhart

    SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL OUTLAW Deke Baxter was a man with a reputation that justice, Missouri, had barely recovered from since he peeled out of town on graduation day, blackening the starched shirts of the town fathers. And leaving young Carly Riddle w...

  • Escapades

    Cathie Linz

    BREAKING THE RULES Private investigator Rick Dunbar named his own price. A cool ten thousand was the tag for tracking down a spoiled runaway heiress like Holly Redmond. But sexy, unpredictable Holly was unlike anything Rick had expected. Her wacky...

  • Groom Wanted

    Debbie Macomber

    Aleksandr Berinski was a brilliant Russian biochemist, but his days in the United States were numbered--unless he got married! And who else could make him a groom but the very woman who needed him to stay--Julia Conrad? Her company would go under wit...

  • A Dad for Billie

    Susan Mallery

    It all began with a baseball .... From the moment it smashed through Adam Barrington's window, the banker's quiet life was never quite the same again. The guilty party, an adorable eight-year-old tomboy with a slightly erratic curveball, was soon tur...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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-...