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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1993

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New Books List: 490 titles

  • 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...

  • Adventures of the Northwoods

    Lois Walfrid Johnson

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Altered Brand

    J. Jay Myers

  • And Now All This

    Imogene Sellarod

  • The Anonymous Client

    J.P. Hailey

  • 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'...

  • 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....

  • 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? ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bamboo Hats and a Rice Cake

    Ann Tompert

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Beneath the Wind

    Cordelia Frances Biddle

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Blood and War

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • 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 ...

  • Bobby's Watching

    Ted Pickford

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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&#...

  • 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...

  • 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 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....

  • 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...

  • Candlewick Book of Fairy Tales

    Sarah Hayes

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dangerous Games

    Stacie Johnson

  • 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...

  • Dare You

    James Mayhew

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Devil Knocks

    Frank Rich

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • False Confessions

    Steve Johnson

  • 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...

  • Fan Mail

    Ronald Munson

  • 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

    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....

  • Fear Was My Father

    Kay Bergstrom

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Framed

    Lynda La Plante

  • Freddie the Fly

    Charles Grodin

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Garden of Earthly Delights

    Nicholas Salaman

  • 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...

  • 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 Ghost Next Door

    R.L. Stine

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

  • The Gingerbread Boy

    Sue Kassirer

  • 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...

  • Go to Bed!

    Virginia Miller

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Great-Uncle Dracula and the Dirty Rat

    Jayne Harvey

  • 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!...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • Guns and Gold

    Clay Dawson

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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-...

  • 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...

  • Henry's Halloween

    Jeffrey Dinardo

  • Here Come the Babies

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • How to Sneak into the Girls' Locker Room

    John Vornholt

  • The Hummingbird Garden

    Christine Barker Widman

  • Hush Little Baby

    Sally Emerson

  • 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...

  • The Immortal

    Ilow Roque

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Jungle Adventure

    Helen Balmer

  • Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth

    Barbara Park

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

  • 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...

  • Karen's Newspaper

    Ann M. Martin

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

  • Katie's Too Big Coat

    Jane Stephens