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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1993

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New Books List: 490 titles

  • 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...

  • And Now All This

    Imogene Sellarod

  • The Button Man

    Brian Freemantle

    A serial killer's murder of a woman working in the American Embassy in Moscow leads to joint Russian-American murder investigation, full of Byzantine intrigues, political double-dealings, and media hysteria. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo....

  • 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...

  • Bloodletter

    K.W. Jeter

    Starfleet Command has learned that the Cardassians are planning to construct a base on the other side of the wormhole to establish a presence and claim the rich unexplored territory. Now, it falls to Commander Sisko, Major Kira, and the crew of Deep ...

  • Starfleet Academy

    Peter David

  • Against a Dark Background

    Iain M. Banks

    They had government permission to hunt down and assassinate her. What the religious Huhsz cult wanted was simple--the most deadly and enigmatic weapon constructed, the Lazy Gun, lost among the planets of the Thrial star system. Whoever controls the G...

  • 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...

  • Blood and War

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Great Explosion

    Eric Frank Russell

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

  • 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...

  • Meaning of Sisterhood

    Beverly Sommers

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

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

  • Afton of Margate Castle

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    Beautiful, headstrong Afton is taken from her parents at an early age and raised in the castle, a companion to the earl's daughter. Schooled in the ways of kings and surrounded by splendor, Afton falls in love with the earl's son, brave Calhoun, her ...

  • Alien Secrets

    Annette Curtis Klause

    Puck, expelled from boarding school on Earth, is on her way to stay with her parents, who are doing alien research on Shoon. On board Cat's Cradle, Puck befriends Hush, a native Shoowa, who is also returning to his home in shame. He was entrusted ...

  • Fan Mail

    Ronald Munson

  • If I Should Die

    Judith Kelman

    Fear made their hearts race, palms sweat, breaths come in panicked gasps.  Dr. Maggie Lyon's phobia patients sat in their therapy group, imprisoned by their own secret terrors, depending on her to set them free . . .  "The bridge was just a few s...

  • Killings

    A.W. Gray

    When a key witness is found murdered, the victim of a serial killer with an apparent taste for blood, Bino Phillips wonders about the disappearance of another witness and is distraught when the would-be Dracula targets Bino's secretary. Reprint....

  • Lempriere's Dictionary

    Lawrence Norfolk

    The Somerset Maugham Prize"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...

  • A Member of the Family

    Nick Vasile

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

  • Missing Person

    Sara Pfoutz

  • Montezuma's Man

    Jerome Charyn

    Teaming up with a cop who occasionally deals on the wrong side of the tracks, police commissioner Sidel plans to raid Mafia hideouts and finds himself on a trail of ancient puppets, heroin, and corruption that leads straight to Sicily. Reprint....

  • Mr. Smithson's Bones

    Richard Timothy Conroy

    When ancient and modern bodies suddenly start appearing around the Smithsonian Institution, ex-Foreign Service officer Henry Scruggs, now working for the Institution's stodgy Foreign Affairs Office, finds his quiet days completely disrupted...

  • Napoleon Must Die

    Quinn Fawcett

    When her husband is unjustly accused of theft and murder in Napoleonic France, Mme. Victoire Vernet sets out to clear his name and finds herself in the middle of a plot to assassinate Napoleon. Original....

  • 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...

  • Sacrifice

    L.L. Enger

    In the late 1960s, two young men left a small Michigan town. One was Gunsten Pedersen, who went on to a career with the Detroit Tigers. The other was Harry Summers, a gifted infielder who disappeared from Copper Strike on a rainy June night. Now an e...

  • Say To This Mountain

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

  • Strip Tease

    Carl Hiaasen

    Only in America could an innocent, if drunken, guest of honor at a strip joint bachelor party become a mortal threat against Big Money and Big Government. Only in South Florida, land of roadside honky-tonks and sinister pleasure boats -- not to menti...

  • To Die Like a Gentleman

    Bernard Bastable

    In 1842, the young Queen Victoria is on the throne, and the landed gentry is in its prime. At Elmstead Court, Sir Richard Hudson rules his household with a subtle tyranny.Despite simmering tensions, Miss Frances Weyland is impressed by the warmth of ...

  • The Trial of Abigail Goodman

    Howard Fast

    Abigail Goodman, a forty-one-year-old college professor and mother of two grown children, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and, after much soul-searching, has an abortion, only to be arrested and tried for murder. 50,000 first printing....

  • Garden of Deceit

    Laura Pender

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

  • 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-...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Visitor

    Jenna Ryan

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

  • 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...

  • Gentleman Rogue

    Barbara Neil

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

  • 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...

  • The Green Fox

    Winifred Witton

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

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace

    Marion Chesney

    The Poor Relation Hotel is the rage of London, but its French chef's extravagance and Society guests' unpaid bills have reduced its owners once again to genteel thievery. Cut off by her own relations, pretty, dainty widow Eliza Budley must...

  • 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...

  • Forbidden

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Annabel Jayquith and Daniel Ransom meet at a party. They fall instantly in love, unaware that their lives are inextricably bound together by the crime that shocked a nation. Daniel is the high-profile son of a slain US senator who had presidential...

  • Love Shack // Tease

    Katherine Applegate

    Grace thought moving out of her mother's place would fix her messed-up life. But now she's moved in with Justin, the first guy she ever wanted...and with Kate, the only girl Justin's ever loved. Kate's still crazy about Justin - but she can't forget ...

  • A Rainbow in the Glen

    Irene Hannon

    Romance is definitely not on the itinerary when Glynnis O'Connor takes her father to Ireland to visit his ancestral home. But she hadn't counted on Jason Randolph. A fellow American, Jason has rented a gatekeeper's cottage and spends his time sculpti...

  • Summer's End

    Todd Strasser

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

  • Sunset Embrace

    Cherie Bennett

    I don't believe it. My father showed up on the island. Then came his ditzy fiancee -- and then my mother! And I though I was getting away from my family! On top of everything else, I don't know what to do about Kurt. How do I know for sure that he's ...

  • 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...

  • Till Death Do Us Part

    Jennifer Baker

  • Under Eastern Stars

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

  • The Valiant Gunman

    Gilbert Morris

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

  • Lion of Judah

    Victor Ostrovsky

  • Mischief

    Ed McBain

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

  • 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...

  • Lovers' Secrets

    Glenda Sanders

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Demons

    Bill Pronzini

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

  • Feeding Frenzy

    Paul Kemprecos

    Cape Cod fisherman-sleuth Aristotle "Soc" Socarides juggles simultaneous investigations into a missing freighter, unexplained offshore attacks, and a children's vacation camp threatened with bankruptcy...

  • Shallow Graves

    Jeremiah Healy

    Boston PI John Cuddy doesn't know that he'll be working under the eagle eye of mob boss Tommy ''the Temper'' Danucci when he agrees to look into the death of fashion model Mau Tim Dani for his former employer, Empire Insurance. He learns soon enough ...

  • Take a Number

    Janet Dawson

    In Alameda County, east of San Francisco, the all-American pastimes of adultery, divorce, and mindless violence prosper--and a cad like Petty Officer First Class Sam Raynor, USN, fits right in. Private investigator Jeri Howard is working for Raynor's...

  • The Anonymous Client

    J.P. Hailey

  • False Confessions

    Steve Johnson

  • Grievous Sin

    Faye Kellerman

    Peter and Rina are delighted with their newborn baby girl, but the scene at the Los Angeles hospital is a nightmare. Budget cutbacks and staff shortages so compromise security in the nursery that Peter, the ever-anxious cop, worries about his family'...

  • Moth

    James Sallis

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

  • Never Die in January

    Alan Scholefield

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

  • Satan's Lambs

    Lynn S. Hightower

    A fearless female private investigator in the South takes on a satanic cult that practices human sacrifice in this gripping Shamus Award"winning mystery.   Seven years ago Lena Padget’s life exploded when Jeff Hayes, her devil-worshipping br...

  • Slow Burn

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    The deaths of a young woman and little girl in a suspicious fire that destroys a woman's clinic lead homicide detective Marti MacAlister and her partner, Vik Jessenovik, on the trail of an evil killer with a taste for young girls. Reprint....

  • Switchback

    Collin Wilcox

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

  • Framed

    Lynda La Plante

  • Monkey on a Chain

    Harlen Campbell

    High on a mountain above Albuquerque lives a man who's a throwback to the outlaw heroes of the Old West. Rainbow Porter lives on the edge, watches his back, and occasionally drops into the valley below to lend a hand to those in trouble.


    To hi...

  • Something Queer at the Birthday Party

    Elizabeth Levy

    Jill has the greatest plan for surprising Gwen on her birthday. Even Jill's dog, Fletcher, bribed with a salami slice, is ready to do his part. Then queer things start to happen. First the party invitations disappear; next a painting vanishes. The...

  • Stacey and the Mystery Money

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! Who would have believed it? Counterfeit money is showing up in Stoneybrook -- and someone gave Stacey a fake ten dollar bill. Of course Stacey doesn't have anything to do with the counterfeit...

  • Summer Cool

    Al Sarrantonio

  • Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego?

    John Peel

  • Women of Mystery 1

    Mary Higgins Clark

    A collection of mystery stories by noted female authors includes contributions by Amanda Cross, Mary Higgins Clark, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Antonia Fraser, Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Joan Hess. Reprint....

  • Zaddik

    David Rosenbaum

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

  • 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....

  • Stones of the Dalai Lama

    Ken Mitchell

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

  • 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...

  • Aurelia

    Andrea Parnell

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Gone West

    Kathleen Karr

    Johnny and Maggie Stuart, booksellers par excellence, are vibrantly young and full of faith as they begin their two-thousand-mile journey West to dispense the Word and their own special brand of love in the untamed wilderness. Ever the dreamer, Jo...

  • Heart of the Wilderness

    Janette Oke

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Love Only Once

    Sherry Roseberry

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

  • The 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Morning Gift

    Eva Ibbotson

    A Secret Marriage Twenty-year-old Ruth Berger is desperate. The daughter of a Jewish-Austrian professor, she was supposed to have escaped Vienna before the Nazis marched into the city. Yet the plan went completely wrong, and while her family and fia...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Rising Storm

    Suzanne Goodwin

    The search that Roz undertakes to find her missing grandmother, Sophie, leads her into discoveries about Sophie's intriguing and wayward past and forces Roz to confront her feelings for Michael, who is helping her with the search...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Savage Illusion

    Cassie Edwards

    Visions of Destiny A Blackfoot Indian raised by white settlers, Jolena Edmonds had never lived among her own people. Yet in her dreams, a hard-bodied brave came to her, filling her with a fiery longing. And on a trip through the Montana Territory,...

  • Saving Grace

    Julie Garwood

    England, thirteenth-century. A woman determined to fight for her freedom... a woman whose life would be transformed by the rare, unexpected gift of love. When Lady Johanna learned that she was a widow, she vowed she would never marry again. Only s...

  • 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...

  • The Seduction of Deanna

    Maura Seger

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

  • Seek Only Passion

    Deana James

    Her father was known as the Ice King and he hated her with a cold fury that well deserved the name. Hated her enough to force her to wed his most despised enemy, the debauched, debt-ridden Earl of Whitby. Still, Lady Noelle Rivers had her pride, and ...

  • Silent Heart

    Deborah Simmons

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

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Texas Jewel

    Shannon Willow

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

  • Whispers in the Wilderness

    Colleen L. Reece

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Bobby's Watching

    Ted Pickford

  • The Businessman

    Thomas M. Disch

    The Businessman presents the sinister tale of Bob Glandier, a morally repulsive Twin Cities executive who murders his estranged wife and attempts to go back to business as usual, until she returns sets about arranging his divine retribution. With hel...

  • The Dead Girlfriend

    R.L. Stine

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

  • The Ghost Next Door

    R.L. Stine

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

  • 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 ...

  • The Invitation

    Diane Hoh

    At the party of the year, a rich girl’s practical joke turns deadlyFor the high schoolers of Greenhaven, Cass Rockham’s fall party is the social event of the year. Each October, students wait by their mailboxes, praying for the gilt-edged...

  • The Last Aerie

    Brian Lumley

    Nestor and Nathan Kiklu are the twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope. United by blood, they also share some of their father's awesome powers--but what they do with those gifts cannot be more different!Nathan takes up the struggle against the meta...

  • Night Beasts

    T.W. Stetson

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

  • The Roommate

    Diane Hoh

  • Running Scared

    Kate Daniel

  • Sixteen Candles

    Nicholas Pine

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

  • Stone Dead

    Ellen Jamison

    When a women named Hally walks into an antique dealer and buys the doll the dealer wants to get rid of all hell breaks loose. The doll is strange enough to begin with: It is chained to a board as if it were into weird sexual stuff, not to mention the...

  • Curtains for the Cardinal

    Elizabeth Eyre

    Spiriting away the beautiful daughter of a prince who had killed his son in a fit of rage and was threatening to make her another victim, the black-cloaked Sigismondo finds himself in a deadly game of hide and seek. Reprint....

  • The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

    Ron Burns

  • North Star Conspiracy

    Miriam Grace Monfredo

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

  • The Servant's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    MINSTRELS AND MURDER AT A MEDIEVAL ABBEY It was Christmastime, and the sisters of St. Frideswide cannot turn away travellers...even the players knocking at the nunnery door. But along with the motley troupe comes the grievously wounded husband of ...

  • A Sudden, Fearful Death

    Anne Perry

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

  • Altered Brand

    J. Jay Myers

  • 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....

  • Cottonwood Station

    Michael Zimmer

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

  • 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....

  • Guns and Gold

    Clay Dawson

  • 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....

  • Jericho's Journey

    G. Clifton Wisler

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

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

  • The Killing Corridor

    Jon Sharpe

  • Law of the Gun

    Frederic Bean

  • 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...

  • The Lost Padre

    Nelson Nye

  • 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...

  • Requiem for a Rustler

    R.C. House

  • 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 ...

  • The Shawnee Trail

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Slocum and the Nightriders

    Jake Logan

  • Winterkill

    David Thompson

  • The Black Opal

    Victoria Holt

    Abandoned as a baby, her exotic beauty prompted hushed whispers of gypsy blood. But lovely Carmel March remained shrouded in mystery .... When tragedy struck her adopted home of Commonwood House, little Carmel had been bundled off to Australia. R...

  • 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...

  • The Seventh Night

    Amanda Stevens

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

  • 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...

  • 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....