Books Published in August 1993

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1993

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New Books List: 490 titles

  • 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...

  • Yussel's Prayer

    Barbara Cohen

  • You Were Meant for Me

    Elise Title

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

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

    Ellen Datlow

  • A Year of Rhymes

    Bernard Cooper

    A young boy living in 1950s small-town America endures the ordeal of his own sexual awakening and the slow death of his brother to leukemia. By the author of Maps to Anywhere. 10,000 first printing....

  • 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...

  • The Wyndham Case

    Jill Paton Walsh

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

  • The Wrestler's Cruel Study

    Stephen Dobyns

    As Michael Marmaduke searches for his missing fiancee, he progresses from confused innocence to darker self-knowledge and grapples with the issues of kidnapping, the struggle between good and evil, and the meaning of heroism....

  • 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....

  • The Wizard's Shadow

    Susan Dexter

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

  • Without Remorse

    Tom Clancy

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

  • Winterkill

    David Thompson

  • Winter Walk

    Lynne Barasch

  • Winds of Fury

    Mercedes Lackey

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

  • 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 ...

  • The Willow Umbrella

    Christine Barker Widman

  • Willing or Not

    Liza Hadley

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

  • The Wild Woods

    Simon James

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

  • 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...

  • 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 Card Wedding

    Jule McBride

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

  • Who Can You Trust?

    Chelsea Brooks

  • Whitehorn's Woman

    Barbara McCauley

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Where's the Baby?

    Tom Paxton

  • Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego?

    John Peel

  • Where Dolphins Go

    Peggy Webb

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

  • Welcome to Jurassic Park

    Michael Teitlbaum

  • 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...

  • We So Seldom Look on Love

    Barbara Gowdy

    This masterfully crafted story collection by the author of the internationally best-selling novel Mister Sandman is a haunting audiobook that is certain to both disturb and entertain. With a particular focus on obsession and the abnormal, We So Se...

  • A Wanted Man

    Susan Clark Schofield

  • A Vow of Sanctity

    Veronica Black

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

  • Voices of the Wild

    Jonathan London

  • 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...

  • Visions of Cody

    Jack Kerouac

    "What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." -- J...

  • Virtual Girl

    Amy Thomson

  • A Very Stylish Affair

    Emma Darcy

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

  • The Very Scary Almanac

    Eric Elfman

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

  • The Verdict

    Francine Pascal

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

  • VARIATIONS ON NIGHT AND DAY

    Abdelrahman Munif

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

  • 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...

  • Under Eastern Stars

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

  • Uncle Jed's Barbershop

    Margaree King Mitchell

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

  • Two Little Shoes

    Razvan

  • 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...

  • The Twenty-Second Gear

    Mike Sirota

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

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Ilene Cooper

  • Trick or Treat, Little Critter

    Mercer Mayer

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

  • Tricia's Got T-R-O-U-B-L-E!

    Elaine L. Schulte

  • 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....

  • The Towers of the Sunset

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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

  • 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 ...

  • Tiny for a Day

    Dick Gackenbach

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

  • Tingalayo

    Raffi

  • Timothy Twinge

    Florence Parry Heide

  • 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...

  • Till Death Do Us Part

    Jennifer Baker

  • This Business Is Murder

    Joyce Christmas

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

  • There's Only One Harris

    Frank Remkiewicz

  • There's a Cow in the Road!

    Reeve Lindbergh

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tender Assault

    Anne Mather

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

  • Ten Tall Oaktrees

    Richard Edwards

  • 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...

  • Tale of Two Princes

    Eckart Zur Nieden

  • Taking Chances

    Janelle Taylor

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

  • 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...

  • Sword of the Sensei

    James Raven

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sweet William

    John Hawkes

    “A moving book, a warm, cranky book, in the end a book full of love of the horse.” -- The Washington Post
     
    In his most engaging, accessible novel to date, John Hawkes brings to life the sad, stately voice of Old Horse, nee Sweet William...

  • 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...

  • Sweet Annie's Pass

    Marilyn Pappano

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

  • Surf Ninjas

    A.L. Singer

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Summer of Fear

    Carolyn Haines

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

  • Summer Love

    Mel Gilden

    While Brenda and Donna prepare for their trip to Paris, Brandon takes a stranger under his wing, Andrea contemplates some political action, and David follows his dream of fame as a recording artist. Original....

  • Summer Cool

    Al Sarrantonio

  • 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...

  • Such Times

    Christopher Coe

    In haunting narrative, the acclaimed author of I Look Divine evokes gay life in the 1970s and early '80s and the years of loss that followed. Deftly interweaving past and present, Coe creates a moving portrait of people living on the razor's edge of ...

  • Stuck in the Middle

    Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna

  • Stubborn As a Mule

    Roz Denny

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

  • 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...

  • The Story of Jonah

    Bill Yenne

  • Stormy Weather

    Gail Douglas

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

  • Stop, Thief!

    Robert Kalan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Starfleet Academy

    Peter David

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Spider on the Floor

    Raffi

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

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

  • Spartan Run

    David Robbins

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Smooth Operator

    Ruth Owen

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

  • 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...

  • Slumber Party

    Margaret Wild

  • 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....

  • Slocum and the Nightriders

    Jake Logan

  • 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...

  • Silent Passengers

    Larry Woiwode

  • Silent Heart

    Deborah Simmons

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

  • A 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...

  • Signs of Devotion

    Maxine Chernoff

    A new collection of short stories from the author of Bop contains twenty tales permeated with such themes and motifs as characters searching for signs of acceptance and the truths revealed in a shared look, or an offhand remark....

  • Siggy's Spaghetti Works

    Peggy Thomson

  • Shooting Star

    Rosey Grier; Kathi Mills

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

  • Shoeshine Shirley

    Leah Komaiko

  • The Shining Ones

    David Eddings

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

  • Sheltering Rebecca

    Mary Baylis-White

  • The Shawnee Trail

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • 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 ...

  • Shake-Up

    Dean Hughes

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

  • Shades of Sin

    Sara Wood

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

  • The 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...

  • Seven Loaves of Bread

    Ferida Wolff

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Seducer

    Linda Turner

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

  • 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 Search for the Silver Persian

    Carolyn Keene

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

  • Sealed With a Kiss

    Beverly Lewis

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

  • Sea Elf

    Joanne Ryder

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

  • 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...

  • Say To This Mountain

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Santa's ABC

    Florence Johnson

  • 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 ...

  • Samantha's Pride

    Joanna Campbell

    Will Pride's winning streak ruin him? Wonder's Pride, the three-year-old colt of champion mare Wonder, is the newest star in Thoroughbred racing and the favorite for the biggest race of them all - the Kentucky Derby. But when Pride wins the Derby, i...

  • Sailor Cats

    Emily Whittle

  • 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...

  • Ruthless Stranger

    Margaret Mayo

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

  • Ruth Law Thrills a Nation

    Don Brown

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

  • Running Scared

    Kate Daniel

  • 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...

  • The Rotary Club Murder Mystery

    Graham Landrum

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

  • Rosebud

    Ludwig Bemelmans

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

  • The Roommate

    Diane Hoh

  • Riversong

    Craig Lesley

    River Song rejoins Danny Kachiah, the Oregonian Nez Perce drifter and failed rodeo rider first introduced in Craig Lesley's award-winning novel, Winterkill. Danny is determined to get closer to his son, Jack, to teach him traditional ways to steer hi...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Richie's Rocket

    Joan Anderson

  • Return to Paradise Island

    Louise Bergstrom

    When she was only a few months old, Eve Woodburn was abandoned, naked and crying, on a deserted Everglades island. The media called her "The Baby on the Beach." Eventually, little Eve was adopted by the Woodburns and taken to their home in Il...

  • Return Engagement

    Carole Mortimer

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

  • The Rest of Life

    Mary Gordon

    A National Bestseller
     
    In these beautifully rendered novellas, the writer introduces three women, each of whom tells the story of the lover who most altered her life. In Immaculate Man he is a priest, a virgin at the age of forty-three. In ...

  • Requiem for a Rustler

    R.C. House

  • 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...

  • Relative Strangers

    Jean Ferris

    Berkeley is willing to give her long-estranged father another chance, but when he offers to take her on a tour of Europe, a host of unpleasant surprises awaits her on the Continent. By the author of Across the Grain. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Question of Magic

    Tom McGowen

  • Quest to Riverworld

    Philip Jose Farmer

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

  • Programmed for Peril

    C.K. Chambray

    Living a prosperous life in Connecticut with her new fiance+a7, her daughter, and a successful computer business, Irish Morley suddenly finds herself stalked by a devastating secret from her past. Original....

  • The Prodigal Husband

    Pamela Dalton

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

  • Private Sins

    Diane Levitt

  • 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...

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

    JoAnn Ross

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

  • 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...

  • Playing Love's Odds

    Michaila Callan

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

  • Playing for Keeps

    Chelsea Brooks

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

  • 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 Pied Piper of Hamelin

    Michele Lemieux

  • Perfect Harmony

    Chelsea Brooks

  • 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 ...

  • Paris When It Sizzles

    Julie Kistler

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

  • 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...

  • A Painter

    Douglas Florian

  • The Pacific Conspiracy (Ring of Evil #3)

    Franklin W. Dixon

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

  • Out of the Mist

    Lauraine Snelling

  • Otherwise

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

  • Only a Dream Away

    Doreen Roberts

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

  • Onion Tears

    Diana Kidd

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

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

  • One Foot in Heaven

    Laraine McDaniel

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

  • O Canada

    Ted Harrison

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

  • NR Woodland Christmas

    Marie Angel

  • Not Where I Started from

    Kate Wheeler

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

  • 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 Noise of Time

    Osip Mandelshtam

  • Noah's Ark

    Lucy Cousins

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

  • 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...

  • No Need for Love

    Sandra Marton

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

  • No Moon, No Milk!

    Chris Babcock

  • No Clock in the Forest

    Paul J. Willis

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Night of Love

    Diana Palmer

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

  • A Night in the Lonesome October

    Roger Zelazny

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

  • 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....

  • Next Year I'll Be Special

    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • A Newbery Halloween

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of thirteen scary stories by Newbery Medalists Beverly Cleary, Madeleine L'Engle, Paul Fleishman, Eleanor Estes, and E. L. Konigsbury, among others, provides thrills and chills, ghosts and witches, to make any Halloween perfectly spooky....

  • 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....