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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1993

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New Books List: 490 titles

  • Devil Knocks

    Frank Rich

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Spartan Run

    David Robbins

  • 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...

  • Body Count

    William X. Kienzle

    "As regular as the solstice, Kienzle annually provides a new Catholic whodunit, inviting the readers to shut out the rest of the world and spend a few absorbing hours watching his venerable alter ego, Koesler, peel back the layers of a puzzle to plum...

  • Dead Man's Island

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    When arrogant media magnate Chase Prescott is nearly killed by a box of cyanide-laced candy, he dials his long-time lover, retired newshound Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins, with a simple request: He’ll assemble all the suspects if Henrie O will kindly...

  • 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...

  • Let's Talk Terror

    Carolyn Keene

    Everybody’s talking about Marcy -- Chicago’s hip new teen TV talk show -- and Nancy has tickets to see it live. When host Marcy Robbins grabs the mike and goes on the air there’s sure to be plenty of fast talk and shock-filled fireworks. But th...

  • The Lost Keats

    Terence Faherty

    A man with more questions than answers, Owen Keane has one foot in the priesthood, the other in detective novels - a trait that finds him questioning his own vocation. So when a fellow seminarian disappears, Owen sees it as a chance to unravel a myst...

  • 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...

  • The Pacific Conspiracy (Ring of Evil #3)

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Trapped in the Indonesian jungle without reinforcements, the boys must penetrate the camp of an evil terrorist network--the Assassins--before the worldwide group can carry out its deadly scheme. Original....

  • The Rotary Club Murder Mystery

    Graham Landrum

    It's Rotary Day in Borderville (smack on the Virginia-Tennessee line), and attendance is way up. But the eagerly awaited district governor is late...literally. Shot with his own gun in his chain-locked motel room, it is unarguably a suicide. The c...

  • The Search for the Silver Persian

    Carolyn Keene

    When her friend’s cat, Purrfect, is kidnapped after entering a River Heights cat show, Nancy Drew investigates the case of the missing feline and uncovers a devious scam....

  • This Business Is Murder

    Joyce Christmas

    FORCED OUT OF A JOB AND INTO A MURDER INVESTIGATION Betty Trenka isn't exactly looking forward to retirement. She knows how to run an office better than men or women half her age. But she has no choice, and she takes her pension and retires to a s...

  • A Vow of Sanctity

    Veronica Black

    A Sister Joan Mystery.
    All is not well on beautiful Loch Morag in Scotland, where Sister Joan is resting at a spiritual retreat. Children make signs to ward off the evil eye whenever she passes. She suspects she is being followed. And in the dark ...

  • 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....

  • Out of the Mist

    Lauraine Snelling

  • Sealed With a Kiss

    Beverly Lewis

    Thirteen-year-old Holly is dealing with the major concerns of every preteen and teenage girl: boys, family, and school. But with the help of her friends and her faith in God, Holly is able to survive her first boyfriend and her first breakup, a crus...

  • Shooting Star

    Rosey Grier; Kathi Mills

    Former Los Angeles Ram Rosey Grier now writes a novel that probes the gritty reality of urban street life--a story that shows how one person can really make a difference. Brett Holiday, an aging football star, discovers that there is more to life tha...

  • Tale of Two Princes

    Eckart Zur Nieden

  • Tricia's Got T-R-O-U-B-L-E!

    Elaine L. Schulte

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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? ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bitter Possession

    Jenny Cartwright

    THOSE GUILELESS BLUE EYES! They'd seduced her once before...so successfully that she'd married charming and powerful Jack Hellec. But Rosie had learned the hard way that she couldn't trust those eyes -- or the man -- when he betrayed her just days a...

  • 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...

  • 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&#...

  • Captive Bride

    Rosemary Carter

    A wedding deception? "I want you to be my wife." Kyle had asked Liane to marry him not once, but twice, which at least should have argued sincerity on his part. Or, perhaps it was just determination -- if he was serious, wouldn't he...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • Freshman Freedom

    Linda A. Cooney

    Shipwrecked on a deserted island, Courtney goes natural--just in time to meet up with the island's sole inhabitant, a heartstopping hunk. Liza's new flame saves her life. But does this swashbuckling hero have more dangerous desires? KC gets hoo...

  • 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...

  • Gentle Persuasion

    Veda Boyd Jones

    Julie Russell holds athletes in contempt. Not only does she think they are overrated, but she's spent her life having her academic achievements overshadowed by the athletic accomplishments of her sister and brothers. As a teacher, Julie has seen spor...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Honey Dust

    Sue Cameron

    No one knows what goes on in Hollywood like insider and former columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, Sue Cameron. It's her beat--and now she spins a fast-moving tale baring the juiciest facts she's uncovered during twenty-five years of reporting abou...

  • Hush Little Baby

    Sally Emerson

  • 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...

  • Indy Girl

    Brenda Bancroft

    A.J.'s friends and family have been calling her Indy Girl since she was a toddler. Now this accomplished race car driver is determined to make the Indy 500 within two years. She won't let anything stand in her way. Not the business pressures at the f...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 "...

  • 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...

  • Legacy of Shame

    Diana Hamilton

    Dealing with desire Full of the cocky confidence of youth and conscious of her beauty, Venetia had practically thrown herself at sexy Italian businessman Carlo Rossi. Stunned at his cold rejection, she'd managed, over time, to put the sham...

  • 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...

  • Marriage in Jeopardy

    Miranda Lee

    She'd fallen in love with her own husband! Blake Preston's plane was missing, and Juliana was forced to admit that her husband of convenience meant everything. But if Blake was found, there'd be no room in their practical marriage for ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Private Sins

    Diane Levitt

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Willing or Not

    Liza Hadley

    A business proposal But Olivia only learned that after the wedding. She had something Gil wanted, and he had something she wanted, and together they could make Beaufort's a force to be reckoned with in the advertising industry. But Olivia h...

  • 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...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet

    M.C. Beaton

    ROMANCE--ANDMURDER--WAFT UPON THE SWEET COTSWOLD AIR.... The feisty Agatha Raisin, until recently a London public-relations executive, believes that the attractive new village vet has taken a shine to her. Yet before romance can bloom, Dr. Paul Bl...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Candlewick Book of Fairy Tales

    Sarah Hayes

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • No Clock in the Forest

    Paul J. Willis

  • Otherwise

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • Winds of Fury

    Mercedes Lackey

    VALDEMAR is once again in peril, threatened by Ancar of Hardorn, who has long sought to seize control of the kingdom by any means at his command. Yet this time Ancar may well achieve his goal, for by harnessing the power of Mornelithe Falconsbone...

  • 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...

  • Adventures of the Northwoods

    Lois Walfrid Johnson

  • Against the Storm

    Gaye Hicyilmaz

    Twelve-year-old Mehmet's move from his Turkish village with flowers everywhere to a shanty-town existence in the city of Ankara brings him almost unbearable misery, but his desire to create a life for himself helps him to survive...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Arnold Always Answers

    Deborah Kotter

    Bright collage illustrations in primary colors and a brief text introduce preschoolers to new vocabulary words, as well as to the concept of opposites, by following little Arnold as he makes a series of choices throughout his day....

  • Ask Me Something Easy

    Natalie Honeycutt

    Seventeen-year-old Addie cannot understand why she seems to do everything wrong and why her mother considers her the "bad sister" and her sister Dinah, "the good sister." By the author of The All-New Jonah Twist. Reprint....

  • Bamboo Hats and a Rice Cake

    Ann Tompert

  • The Banjo Player

    Elizabeth Starr Hill

  • Barry Bear and the Bad Guys

    Margery Cuyler

  • 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...

  • Beneath the Wind

    Cordelia Frances Biddle

  • Benny Bakes a Cake

    Eve Rice

  • Best English Short Stories Four

    Giles Gordon

    A collection of the best English short fiction features stories by Fay Weldon, Alice Munro, Brian Aldiss, Angela Carter, Seamus Deane, Mavis Gallant, Edna O'Brien, and Salman Rushdie, as well as unknown writers....

  • The Black Cat

    Allan Ahlberg

    In a dark dark streetThere is a dark dark house . . .In this FUNNYBONES story, the skeletons go sledging - WHEE! - and crashing - BANG!They can't see their bones in the white snow but they can see a black cat . . . until she slips into their dark, da...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Cave of Wonders

    Ann Braybrooks

  • 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...

  • Chess-Dream in a Garden

    Rosemary Sutcliff

  • Chipmunk!

    Jessie Haas

  • Clarissa's All-in-One

    Mitchell Kriegman

  • Consider This, Senora

    Harriet Doerr

    The long-awaited and highly praised second novel by the author of Stones for Ibarra. The American characters here find themselves waiting, hoping, and living in rural Mexico-a land with the power to enchant, repulse, captivate, and change all who pas...

  • Crane's Rebound

    Alison Jackson

    I'm a Basketball MANIAC! So spending two weeks at the county basketball camp was like a dream come true. They only take the best players -- and I made it! I was going to be a star! Then I met my roommate, Jake. Man, can that guy shoot baskets! And ...

  • Crazy in Alabama

    Mark Childress

    Comic and tragic, unique and outlandish, CRAZY IN ALABAMA is the story of two journeys--Lucille's from Industry, Alabama, to Los Angeles, to star on 'THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES' and her 12-year-old nephew Peejoe's, who is about to discover two kinds of...

  • 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...

  • Dangerous Games

    Stacie Johnson

  • Dare You

    James Mayhew

  • 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...

  • Death Among the Artists

    J.D. Forbes

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Divine Days

    Leon Forrest

    A unanimous chorus of critical acclaim greeted this powerful novel last year―one of the most significant works of African-American fiction since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

    This huge oratorio of a novel unfolds over seven days in the life...

  • Doctor Knickerbocker and Other Rhymes

    David Booth

  • Dog in, Cat Out

    Gillian Rubinstein

  • Don't Speak to Strangers

    Marion Rosen

  • Dribbles

    Connie K. Heckert

  • 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...

  • The Eastern Gun

    Clifford Blair

  • Ellen and Penguin

    Clara Vulliamy

  • Elvira

    Margaret Shannon

  • Elvis Rising

    Kay Sloan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Every Living Thing

    James Herriot

    Celebrate the return of the most beloved storyteller of our time!

    The waiting is finally over. For the first time in over a decade, the world's favorite veterinarian, James Herriot, returns us in a twinkle to the rural green enclave of Engla...

  • 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....

  • Fear Was My Father

    Kay Bergstrom

  • 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...

  • The Five-Dog Night

    Eileen Christelow

  • 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 ...

  • Freddie the Fly

    Charles Grodin

  • The Fugitive

    J.M. Dillard

    A man unjustly accused of a crime is pursued across treacherous terrain by the authorities in a work that has been made into a Warner Brothers film starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Funnybones

    Allan Ahlberg

    This is how the story begins.
    On a dark dark hill
    there was a dark dark town.
    In the dark dark town
    there was a dark dark street . . .

    This new edition of the classic story includes an accompanying CD, featuring the story read by a...

  • The Garden of Earthly Delights

    Nicholas Salaman

  • The Gingerbread Boy

    Sue Kassirer

  • Go to Bed!

    Virginia Miller

  • Good Guy, Bad Guy

    Yves Lavigne

  • 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...

  • Great-Uncle Dracula and the Dirty Rat

    Jayne Harvey

  • Halloween

    Golden Books

  • Halloween Fun

    Golden Books

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Henry's Halloween

    Jeffrey Dinardo

  • Here Come the Babies

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • How to Sneak into the Girls' Locker Room

    John Vornholt

  • The Hummingbird Garden

    Christine Barker Widman

  • The Immortal

    Ilow Roque

  • The Initiation

    Nick Baron

    Eager to fit in at the Cooper Riding Academy, Kimberly Kilpatrick turns her back on her boyfriend, Griff, and joins the popular clique, but when kids start drowning in a nearby lake, she begins to question her decision. Original....

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

    Roxie Munro

  • Jack O'Lantern's Scary Halloween

    Robert Kraus

  • Jajouka Rolling Stone

    Stephen Davis

    Beatniks, hippies, rock-and-roll stars, and other Western thrill-seekers parade through Jajouka, where money and greed have corrosive effects on a tribe that has existed in peace for centuries. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo....

  • James in the House of Aunt Prudence

    Timothy Bush

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Joy Ride

    Richard Lee Byers

    Mike, a teen who frequently drinks and drives, finds a kindred spirit at The Night Owl Club--the hottest hangout in town--when he meets a mysterious girl who encourages him to drink and drive. Original....