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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1997

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New Books List: 531 titles

  • Annabelle's Wish

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • First to Fight

    David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    "Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol..." Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day's water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charli...

  • Goldfish Hide-and-Seek

    Satoshi Kitamura

    When Goldfish cannot find Heidi, his hide-and-seek partner, he ventures into the perilous world beyond his fishbowl, where he encounters a hungry Cat and is forced to come up with an ingenious scheme to escape and return safely home....

  • Turtle Bay

    Saviour Pirotta

    "Outlined in the tranquil telling of a friendship between a young boy and a seemingly odd man who proves to be 'old and wise, and full of wonderful secrets' is a beguiling look at the breeding process of Japanese sea turtles, who lay their eggs on la...

  • Night for a Fairy Ball

    Roberta Collier

  • A Big Year on Sesame Street

    Linda Hayward

  • When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care?

    Lewis Grizzard

  • Proust on Art and Literature

    Marcel Proust

    Essays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things Past

    Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Saint-Beuve, " this surprising and stimulating critical collecti...

  • Mary Mehan Awake

    Jennifer Armstrong

    The close of the Civil War finds Mary Mehan as emotionally traumatized as the demobilized soldiers around her, and she must begin a journey of emotional and physical renewal. This moving sequel to one of the most highly praised young adult books of 1...

  • The Black Stallion's Steeplechaser

    Steven Farley

    Sired by the champion Black Stallion, Black Storm is everything a race horse should be--strong and fast, brave and proud. But he is also very hard to handle, and his unruly nature makes him a misfit at Hopeful Farm. Young jockey Alec Ramsay continues...

  • Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog

    TRUE Kelley

    Did you ever wonder why your dog sleeps so much? Perhaps your dog is bored. Maybe it’s raining and your dog can’t go outside. On days like this, you can always read a book. But most dogs can’t read, even the smart ones. There is something reall...

  • Big Bag

    Golden Books

  • Chase the Moon

    Dinah McCall

    HE WAS PREPARED FOR DANGER--NOT FOR LOVE. Elijah Moon, his sons, his beautiful daughter Gracie, and their families are trying to dwell simply in this modern world. Living off the land in rural Kentucky, they adhere closely to the words of the Bibl...

  • Love like Hate Adore

    Deirdre Purcell

    What happens when someone you know and trust is accused of rape? What if that person is your brother who was placed in your sole charge from the age of a few months and whom you love as though he were your son? In Love Like Hate Adore, Angela Devine ...

  • Food Fright

    I.K. Swobud

  • Halloween Day

    Anne Rockwell

    It's Halloween and there's a party at school. This diverse group of preschoolers wears an equally varied set of costumes'from pirates to clowns to firefighters. Everyone's ready for their tricks and treats'they could start the party if only their ...

  • Dr. Skincrawl's Creepy Creatures: With 3-D Glasses

    Chris Angelilli

  • Boo Goes There?

    Peter Fasolino

  • Crescent City Kill // Crescent City Connection

    Julie Smith

    Who or what is The Jury? To her horror, NOPD detective Skip Langdon discovers it is a new, national, fast-growing, and very volatile organization headquartered in New Orleans. Its mission: to execute those who have "escaped" prosecution. What's mo...

  • Running With the Demon

    Terry Brooks

    In a sleepy steel-mill town, the ultimate battle between Good and Evil is about to begin... Sinnissippi Park, in Hopewell, Illinois, has long hidden a mysterious evil, locked away from humankind by powers greater than most could even imagine. But ...

  • Exegesis

    Astro Teller

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  • Sarahs Psalm

    Florence Ladd

    This searing first novel is the story of Sarah Stewart, a young black Harvard graduate in the 1960s whose growing interest in Africa -- and down a path of self-discovery, love, and the choice between loyalty and truth. This is at once the story of th...

  • Road Rage

    Ruth Rendell

    The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep. And they were about to vanish forever when the new highway cut through them. While Chief Inspector Wexford privately despaired about the loss of his hiking grounds, local residents and ou...

  • Fair!

    Ted Lewin

    From the overnight transformation of an empty field into a glittering midway...to the opening day parade and fireworks...to the barns filled with animals and their proud 4-H owners, Ted Lewin captures all the excitement, sights, smells, and tastes of...

  • Halloween Strut

    Stephen R. Covey

  • Country Fair

    Elisha Cooper

    Nothing looks or sounds or smells like a good, old-fashioned country fair--and this one is no exception. There are tall canvas tents and a whirling Ferris wheel. There are pigs and cows and horses and rabbits. Sheep are being sheared and teams of oxe...

  • Dorothy's Darkest Days

    Judith Caseley

  • That's how It Is when We Draw

    Ruth Lercher Bornstein

  • Four Scary Stories

    Tony Johnston

  • Where Is My Broom?

    Margaret A. Hartelius

  • Boogie Bones

    Elizabeth Loredo

  • Halloween Mice!

    Doug Cushman

  • The Doctor Is Sick

    Anthony Burgess

    "Fine, sly, rich comedy." -- New York Times Book ReviewDr. Edwin Spindrift, a very ordinary lecturer in linguistics, has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condit...

  • Wringer

    Jerry Spinelli

    The pigeon's eye is like a polished shirt button. The pigeon's eye is orange with a smaller black button in the center. It looks up at him. It does not blink. It seems as if the bird is about to speak, but it does not. Only the voices speak: "Wring i...

  • Still Close To Heaven

    Kathleen Kane

    HE WAS A ROGUE OF A GHOST Jackson Tate was a ghost. Since he wasn't good enough for heaven, and wasn't bad enough for, well... "the other place," his spirit was trapped in a run-down saloon in the Washington Territory. But then he ...

  • An Independent Woman

    Howard Fast

    The critically acclaimed author returns to his best-selling Immigrants saga to finish the life story of his beloved heroine, wealthy matriarch Barbara Lavette, who embarks on a new marriage and faces the challenge of her life. Reprint....

  • She Is the Darkness

    Glen Cook

    The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid. At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any writte...

  • The Demon Princes

    Jack Vance

    Jack Vance is undoubtedly one of the most gifted and versatile authors of science fiction today. The winner of a Hugo, a Nebula, and a World Fantasy Award, Vance lays claim to a career that spans more than five decades of critical acclaim and devoted...

  • The Eagles' Brood // The Sorcerer

    Jack Whyte

    Caius Nlerlyn Britannicus: Most know the new leader of the Colony as Merlyn; all call him Commander. He is responsible for the Colony's safety, and the people look to him for justice and salvation. It is a harsh life but a good one, and Merlyn is ded...

  • Life in the Iron Mills

    Rebecca Harding Davis

    This edition of Life in the Iron Mills opens up the novella to the consideration of a range of social and cultural issues within the ninteenth century through a broad selection of historical and cultural documents that focus on topics such a...

  • a/k/a

    Ruthann Robson

    An intricate and daring novel centered on the identities that two women create for themselves. Margaret Smyth is an escort for women who assumes different names and identities for each of her clients while struggling to finish law school to ensure...

  • From One Experience to Another

    M.Jerry Weiss

    Fifteen of the most distinguished and award-winning authors for young adults draw upon their own experiences to create fictional stories that explore adolescence: everything from dating and love, the meaning and boundaries of friendship, fitting in, ...

  • Where Next,Mr. Noah?

    Mike Dickinson

    This story has very short and simple text, with bright supporting illustrations, helping the beginner reader to follow the story. It is part of a series created especially for children who are just beginning to read for themselves....

  • Marmee's Surprise: A Little Women Story

    Monica Kulling

    Each of the four March sisters is special in her own unique way. Meg is a dreamer, Jo is a tomboy, Beth is shy and thoughtful, and Amy is a bundle of energy. But despite their differences, the girls pull together to get through a difficult winter hol...

  • The Hutt Gambit

    A.C. Crispin

    Here is the second novel in the blockbuster new trilogy that reveals the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man, smuggler, ...

  • For Better, for Worse, Forever

    Lurlene McDaniel

    Forever. When April Lancaster and Mark Gianni fell in love, that's how long they thought they would be together. But since Mark's death, April has never felt more alone. Then Brandon Benedict comes into her life. Brandon is lonely and angry--he an...

  • River Thunder

    Will Hobbs

    Jessie, Troy, and the rest of the crew from Downriver have returned to the Grand Canyon for adventure down the Colorado River. In the year since they last were together, each has changed; each feels more mature. But how will they interact now that th...

  • Turn the Cup Around

    Barbara Mariconda

    It's summertime in Maine, and 12-year-old Evie is ready to spend her vacation combing the seashore with her younger brothers at their grandmother's bed-and-breakfast. But instead, Evie discovers a secret cave along the rocky coast...and a mysterious ...

  • Twelve Shots

    Harry Mazer

    Guns. They are an undeniable part of contemporary life. Stories about their use--and misuse--spice the nightly news, the papers, and our favorite TV shows. Guns shape the course of history. They make us wild with excitement or red with anger, sick to...

  • They're Torturing Teachers In Room 104

    Jerry Piasecki

    Labeled the most difficult sixth-grade class in the history of Marbledale School, the students in Room 104 are in for a taste of their own medicine when new teacher Ms. Merriweather unleashes some mischief of her own. Original....

  • Richard Scarry's Best Balloon Ride Ever!

    Richard Scarry

    Richard Scarry fans will delight in this collectible hardcover edition of the classic Little Golden tale. Join Lowly Worm and all of the other favorite characters as they take the best balloon ride ever!...

  • This Is My Family

    Mercer Mayer

  • Hambooger And French Flies

    Pat Pollari

  • Out Of Bounds!

    Hank Herman

    Mark Fisher couldn't be more embarrassed. At every Branford Bulls game, there's a goofy guy in the bleachers yelling his lungs out, making up dumb cheers, and screaming at the coaches to put Mark in to play. It's Mark's father! Mark tells him to stop...

  • Pussy Willow

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Halloween, Is It For Real?

    Harold Myra

    Halloween is an odd mixture of creepy creatures, costume parties, and harvest festivals. It is also a confusing time for those hesitant to celebrate a holiday that traces its roots to pagan practices and beliefs.Written by Harold Myra, President of C...

  • An Illustrious Lord

    Helen Dickson

    Rachel Fairley wholeheartedly disapproved of her neighbor, Lord William Kingsley, because he had inherited a slavery plantation in Barbados. Rachel thought it abhorrent that his money came from such an inhumane industry. And when she finally met him,...

  • The Perfect Seduction

    Penny Jordan

    The Crighton family has been the cause of scandal and heartache for Bobbie Miller--and she wants revenge. All she has to do is seduce the sinfully attractive Luke Crighton and the family secrets will be hers to expose. But the perfect seduction backf...

  • Love Can Wait

    Betty Neels

    Marriage on his mind? Kate Crosby was determined to be independent. Her dreams were of owning her own catering business, not of marriage and babies! For now, she was happy enough putting her skills into practice as a housekeeper. She certainly was...

  • The Unconventional Miss Dane

    Francesca Shaw

    A dashing neighbor and a stolen kiss... Antonia Dane had returned to her recently inherited family home, Rye End Hall, to discover that the house and surrounding grounds were in a horrendous state of disrepair. Her neighbor, Lord Marcus Allington,...

  • Moon Lore: Myths and Folklore from Around the World

    Gwydion O'Hara

    A collection of authentic tales brimming with mythical characters from diverse times, places, and cultures--each connected to the universal lore of the Moon--this book weaves past, present, and future in classic stories that entertain and inform....

  • Batman and Mr. Freeze

    Shelagh Canning

  • Serpent's Tooth

    Faye Kellerman

    There are crimes so sudden, so heartless, and so terrible, they can shatter the strongest of faiths. A man walks into a trendy Los Angeles restaurant--a disgruntled ex-employee with an automatic weapon--and seconds later, thirteen people are dead ...

  • Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories

    James H. Pickering

    For Introduction to the Short Story, Introduction to Fiction, and Creative Writing: Fiction.A collection of carefully chosen, interesting stories with literary merit, the best-selling text-anthology Fiction 100 continues to offer instructors the flex...

  • The White Tribunal

    Paula Volsky

    In a land pockmarked with the grim relics of a long-ago war live a people consumed by the fear of magic. Those suspected of sorcery die at the hands of the infamous White Tribunal. And death and terror will reign until a young man pawns his soul for ...

  • Cry Wolf

    Tami Hoag

    NO ONE HEARD HER CRY FOR HELP... All attorney Laurel Chandler wanted was a place to hide, to escape the painful memories of a case that had destroyed her career, her marriage, and nearly her life. But coming home to the peaceful treelined streets ...

  • The Mermaid

    Betina Krahn

    If Celeste Ashton hadn't needed money to save her grandmother's seaside estate, she would never have published her observations on ocean life and the dolphins she has befriended. So when her book bursts upon the London scene, making her an instant ce...

  • Savage Wilderness

    Harold Coyle

    1754. On one side stand the British, under General Edward Braddock, joined by the American colonial militias; on the other, the French, aided by their Indian allies. From the shores of Lake Champlain to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, they are locked i...

  • Bozo the Clone

    Dan Greenburg

    "My clone looks like me.My clone talks like me.He helps me with my homeworkand takes care of my bullies.And he could be the answerto all my problems.Or he could be my biggest one yet!...

  • "Only Joking!" Laughed the Lobster

    Colin West

  • The Boy of My Dreams

    Dyan Sheldon

    Despite the serious misgivings of her oldest friend, Bone, who thinks that hormones have damaged her brain, Mike becomes convinced that Bill, a gorgeous college student, represents her romantic destiny....

  • Leave It to Beaver

    Lisa Rojany

  • The Animal Orchestra

    Nick Sharratt

  • Be Gentle!

    Virginia Miller

  • The Taste of a Man

    Slavenka Drakulic

    Meeting by chance and falling in love, both Tereza and Jose have complete lives in other countries, but they become caught in a terrifying web that seems to have them trapped, in a tale of obsessive love, passion, and their deadly results. Original. ...

  • Strange Deliverance

    Mary Brown

    Stumbling across the mysteriously deserted village of Deliverance, a group of refugees believes the picture-perfect settlement to be ideally suited to them and wonder about the impenetrable nearby forest known as ""The Wilderness."" Original."...

  • Exodus Road

    Blaine Lee Pardoe

    LEGACY OF A TRAGIC CRUSADE The Clans, for generations, bided their time waiting for the right opportunity to appear from the Periphery and conquer the Inner Sphere. They risked all at the Battle of Tukayyid--only to be soundly defeated. The result...

  • Who Rides With Wyatt

    Will Henry

    Wyatt Earp becomes the sheriff of Tombstone, a town known as "the Sodom in the Sagebrush," and with his long-barreled Colt shotgun, he cleans up the town, ridding it of stagecoach hold-ups, cattle rustlers, and gunfire in the streets. Original....

  • The Orient Express

    J.R. Roberts

    Summoned to Philadelphia by his old friend, railroad tycoon Sam Fortune, Clint Adams is invited to join Sam on a trip aboard the Orient Express from Paris to Istabul when it appears that a competitor will do anything to keep both men from ever arrivi...

  • Mercy Manhunt

    Jon Sharpe

    Traveling through Wyoming on a mission of mercy to find the passengers of a lone wagon train afflicted with smallpox, Skye Fargo must do battle with a bandit chief determined to steal the precious vaccine. Original....

  • Blood of Texas

    Will Camp

  • Longarm and the Maiden Medusa

    Tabor Evans

  • Slocum and Doc Holliday

    Jake Logan

    Slocum finds himself the victim of a trio of masked horse thieves who steal everything he has, including his money and a prize gelding belonging to the notorious Doc Holliday, and Slocum races against time to get back the horse before Doc returns to ...

  • Whispers of the Wind

    Tom Hron

    In the third in the author's series of thrillers set in the Alaskan wilderness, the legendary Wyatt Earp helps a U.S. marshall search for his kidnapped daughter and tries to run land-grabbers out of the territory. Original....

  • Beloved

    Jean Innes

    Gentian Valmar Mallory awakens in the rocking hold of a ship, rope-bound and unable to remember where she is...or who she is. She is convinced she has been kidnapped by pirates, or worse. Until the ship's captain, Lord Trevis Mallory, stuns her with ...

  • Waiting For Yesterday

    Jenny Lykins

    Columbus Ohio, 1997. When Barrett Overbrook arrived at the quaint roadside B&B, she was in an emotional tailspin. Her ex-boyfriend had married her twin sister that very day--and Barrett could no longer deny that the betrayal had shattered her. Soon a...

  • Rutherford's Return

    Alana Clayton
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    To have a tendre for them can ruin a reputation, but ladies simply can't resist Regency England's most dashing, daring rakes. They steal kisses and hearts with equal abandon -- and thrill us with romantic escapades that often lead to love... ...

  • Beyond the River

    Wynema McGowan

    THERE WAS A TIME ... when the frontier stretched as far as the eye could see ... justice was swift and death swifter...and only the brave and the lucky survived. And in the hill country of central Texas, a lonely stagecoach outpost became a fortress ...

  • Anticipation

    Laura Taylor

    Would passion be a ride to ruin . . . or a race to the winner's circle? He'd never learned why she'd fled Kentucky without warning, but Spencer Hammond knew Viva Conrad would have to face him now! Her uncle's death had left them partners, joined b...

  • Desire's Promise

    Karen A. Bale

    A PASSION FOR VENGEANCE... Cassidy Raines had come to St. Louis on a mission of vengeance. She wouldn't rest until she'd destroyed the powerful businessman who'd murdered her mother in a jealous rage. Planning to use her youth and beauty...

  • Silent Melody

    Mary Balogh

    Lady Emily Marlowe was beautiful, wild, and unspoiled. She could not hear or speak, though she listened with her eyes and answered with her smile. She was betrothed to a man who would have her as a pretty possession, a captive listener. But there was...

  • Brazen Angel

    Elizabeth Boyle

    A DOUBLE LIFE... She was every man's fantasy -- and most dangerous desire. One bewitching look, the whispered promise of unspeakable ecstasy, and London's richest and most notorious rakes followed the Brazen Angel like sheep -- ready to be f...

  • Deceive Me Not

    Eve Byron

    TO LOVE IN SILENCE Beautiful but sheltered -- haunted by her father's early demise -- Lady Melissa Seymour shields her fragile emotions behind the exquisite exterior she presents to British society. But one man has penetrated her guard and enter...

  • A Tender Masquerade

    Linda Cajio

    THEY WERE EQUALLY SKILLED IN THE ART OF DECEPTION As war between Mexico and the U.S. looms on the horizon, Rafe Timmons, a man forced to forsake his heritage, works undercover for the American government. Assuming the identity of a dead businessman,...

  • Windfall

    Emily Carmichael

    IN HIS WORLD, SHE IS A COMMONER Ellen O'Connell is a spirited no-nonsense Montana cowgirl...and a medical doctor. Having just finished her clinical training in Europe, she stops unexpectedly at a baronial mansion where Lord Chesterfield's yo...

  • Bringing Up Baxter

    Peggy Webb

    Windblown and wicked, he was Tarzan on a Harley .... It wasn't the muscles or the tan or even the tight leather pants that stole B. J. Corban's breath away--but when Crash Beauregard halted his motorcycle three feet away, she scented danger . . .a...

  • When Nick Returns

    Dee Holmes

    13 years ago a knee injury ruined Nick Scanlon's dreams of an NHL career. In his anger and despair he lashed out-heading down the road to heavy drink and self-destruction, alienating his friends, his family...and Eden parrish. Now he is back, a chan...

  • Elusive Love

    Catherine Lanigan

    Susannah Parker The down to-earth Indiana beauty almost believed Greg Walton Was the man of her dreams. As his wife, she enters a world of money and privilege -- and of rules and promises meant to be broken. From the depths of misery she finds fame ...

  • Wishing on a Star

    Raynetta Manees

    On her way to Hollywood to write the screenplay for the film version of one of her best-selling books, Natasha Logan finds herself torn between two sexy men--her co-writer, comedian, and producer Woody Hollister and sexy superstar Ric Weaver. Origina...

  • Night Scents

    Carla Neggers

    This time Piper Macintosh's great-aunt has really gone too far. Eighty-seven-year-old Hannah, who fancies herself a witch, has sold her historic Cape Cod house to a Tennessean whom she claims is the man for her niece. Piper doesn't think they're a li...

  • If Looks Could Kill

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    Madison Adair didn't witness her famous mother's brutal murder. But she saw it. Saw the gloved hand...felt the knife strike...knew her mother's terror. That was a lifetime ago. Now Madison, a divorced single mother, is successful in her own right...

  • This Is All I Ask

    Lynn Kurland

    A Sweeping, emotional novel capturing all the passion and majesty of the medieval period. Set near the Scottish border at a rugged castle on the edge of the sea, this is the story of a courageous lord who lost everything he held dear....of a strong y...

  • One Lonely Night

    Susan Kay Law

    Passion to last a lifetime... Kieran McDermott had given up on love long ago. Now he traveled around the country as a hired gun, righting wrongs and making evil men pay for their cruel deeds. When he nearly froze to death during a sudden snowstorm in...

  • Still Sweet

    Debra Marshall

    From the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find a home--and where true love is always right around the corner... OUR TOWN Scrub, Oklahoma, was home to a booming busi...

  • Falling In Love Again

    Cathy Maxwell

    A BRIDE SCORNED Highborn country heiress Mallory Edwards was dutifully fulfilling family obligations when she exchanged marriage vows with a dashing gentleman she barely knew. But the charming beast, John Barron, abandoned her on their wedding night...

  • Forever My Fancy

    Wanda Owen

    An innocent who knows little of the world outside her Mississippi plantation home, Fancy DuBose discovers a sultry, tempestuous new life in New Orleans, where she encounters Jeff Treherne, a handsome rogue with a reputation as a rake. Fancy DuBose...

  • For Love or Money

    Kathy DiSanto

    Whoever said a kiss was just a kiss had never kissed Brent Maddox.... The hunk at her front door couldn't be real, Jennifer Casey hoped, or else the most gorgeous man she'd ever seen had found her dirty, disheveled and utterly unprepared! When a ...

  • Silken Betrayal

    Francis Ray

    Executive secretary Lauren Bennett, a widow with a five-year-old son, becomes caught up in Jordan Hamilton's private vendetta against Lauren's powerful father-in-law, a ruthless man who has no idea that her young son--his grandson--exists. Original."...

  • A Quiver of Sighs

    Olivia Rupprecht
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    Valerie Smith was missing one thing: experience. Then she met Jake Larson, a handsome editor who took her writing - and her body - to places beyond her wildest dreams......

  • Sweet Lies

    Viveca Carlysle

    Forced out of a prestigious cosmetics firm by company politics, Jesslyn Owens starts her own business, only to become the prime suspect in a case of industrial espionage, pursued by Palladin Rush, hired by the government to investigate her. Original....

  • Slow Burn

    Leslie Esdaile

    SOMETIMES A WOMAN HAS TO LOSE HER HEART... Bad things can happen to good people, and lovely, divorced Claudia Harris has had more than her share. Now, her sister's sudden death in a freak medical accident has sent her into the depths of despair she ...

  • Sweeter Savage Love

    Sandra Hill

    THE STROKE OF SURPRISINGLY GENTLE HANDS... THE FLASH OF FATHOMLESS BLUE EYES... THE SCORCH OF WHITE-HOT KISSES... And once again, Harriet Ginoza was swept away into rapturous fantasy. The up-to-date psychologist knew the object of her desire was...

  • One Red Rose

    Julie Garwood

    THE CLAYBORNES ARE BACK -- AND LOVE IS IN BLOOM! Adam Clayborne has always put great stock in the power of books. As an escaped slave -- and a wanted man -- reading has been his only ticket to the wonders of distant lands. Adam is content with hi...

  • The Hidden Jewel

    Violet Ivanescu

    Dominque Chantal was already in mortal danger. She had been entrusted with the delivery of a precious medallion to a group planning to overthrow Napoleon. But her plight only increased when her carriage was ambushed, the medallion taken, and the lone...

  • The Captain's Bride

    Miranda Jarrett

    While trading in London, American sea captain Joshua Fairbourne takes on the heart's business as well: he seeks a soft-spoken, genteel wife to bring honor and elegance to his Massachusetts home. Miss Anabelle Crosbie may be English gentry, but her he...

  • Gray Hawk's Lady

    Karen Kay

    FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS A devoted daughter and genteel English lady, Genevieve Rohan proudly joined her father on the frontier to conduct a cultural study of the American Indian--and vows to conclude his work, now that the adventurous Viscount has f...

  • Ever After

    Joan Hohl

    WHEN PRINCE CHARMING FINALLY COMES ALONG... Born and raised in a small Pennsylvania town, Cyndi Swoyer wouldn't give up on her dreams. But she never expected her prince to finally arrive ...in a late-model Buick! His name was Bennett Ganster, he was...

  • The Rake Objects?

    Cindy Holbrook
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    To have a tendre for them can ruin a reputation, but ladies simply can't resist Regency England's most dashing, daring rakes. They steal kisses and hearts with equal abandon--and thrill us with romantic escapades that often lead to love... In Alan...

  • The Notorious Mr. Fremont

    Martha Kirkland
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    To have a tendre for them can ruin a reputation, but ladies simply can't resist Regency England's most dashing, daring rakes. They steal kisses and hearts with equal abandon--and thrill us with romantic escapades that often lead to love... In Alan...

  • A Halo For Mr. Devlin

    Marcy Stewart
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    To have a tendre for them can ruin a reputation, but ladies simply can't resist Regency England's most dashing, daring rakes. They steal kisses and hearts with equal abandon--and thrill us with romantic escapades that often lead to love... In Alan...

  • Masquerade

    Connie Bennett
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    When shy, unassuming Charlotte Nolan won a masquerade cruise, she had no idea that looks could be so deceiving -- or that her wildest romantic fantasies were about to come true....

  • Admit Desire

    Thea Devine
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    Nick's brother was getting married - to the woman who had left him at the alter two years before. And when Nick saw them together, he realized he wanted Francesca more than ever. But little did he know that she, too, would do anything to have him in ...

  • The Gold Digger

    Evelyn Rogers
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    Susan Ballinger was determined to marry for money. She never believed in love at first sight - until she met Sonny, a golden boy who took her to soaring heights of pleasure - and gave her so much more in the bargain....

  • Rosamunda's Revenge

    Emma Craig

    He'd been hired to escort miss Tacita Grantham from New Mexico Territory to San Francisco -- an easy job for a rugged Westerner like him. But he didn't count on her little rat of a dog sinking it's teeth into his leg. Nor did he plan on f...

  • A Well Pleasured Lady

    Christina Dodd

    A PROPER SPINSTER Prim, plain, desperately virtuous Lady Mary Fairchild stared at the seductive gentleman and wondered--did he remember the elements of the night they met? Surely not. In the ten years since, she had abandoned her youthful impetuousn...

  • The Rebel and the Lily

    Christine Dorsey

    Christine Dorsey's historical romances capture the adventure of long-ago times and the passion of heroes and heroines who lose their hearts to love. Now, she brings us the exciting second book in the trilogy featuring a renegade Scot, a rebellious I...

  • Savage Tears

    Cassie Edwards

    Long had Marjorie Zimmerman been fascinated by the Dakota Indians Minnesota Territory--especially their hot-blooded chieftain. With the merest glance from his smoldering eyes, Spotted Horse could spark a firestorm of desire in the spirited settler's ...

  • Heart of a Knight

    Barbara Samuel

    NO HEART EVER BEAT SO NOBLE -- NOR SO STRONG Britain, 1351. After an arduous exile to flee the darkness and danger sweeping her lands, Lady Elizabeth D'Auvers returns home to Woodell Castle, yearning only for her looms and her quiet life. To her...

  • From This Day Forward

    Victoria Thompson

    A magnificent historical romance set on a Texas plantation during the Civil War. It is an unforgettable tale of two men and one woman ...of honor lost and won ...of a love that will steal your heart... During the summer that the Yankees invaded Te...

  • Sweet Charity

    Rachel Wilson

    First loves can last a lifetime... GRACIE Jake had been her hero growing up. Now he was the only man she could trust... JAKE A preacher in a lawless town, Jake held services in a saloon for a gang of desperadoes... Running from a painful p...

  • Cherokee Wind

    Clara Wimberly

    He was the dark, mysterious stranger who strode, uninvited, into Rachel Townsend's coming-out party...and claimed her heart at first sight. With a woman's unwavering instinct, Rachel knew she had met the man she would marry, the man who had awakened ...

  • Hidden Memories

    Robin Allen

    Sage Kennedy is a woman of commitment, compassion, vision, and vitality--and nobody understands this dedicated and desirable woman more than her fiance, Ramion Sandidge. Having just orchestrated the new Georgia governor to victory in a heated and rac...

  • Festival

    Victoria Barrett

    Leaving behind a broken engagement in New Orleans, Catherine Morgan journeys to Scotland, where she encounters James Cameron, whose family had died under suspicious circumstances, and is swept back in time, into the life of a twelfth-century woman an...

  • Harvest Dance

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    A tall, handsome drifter appears in the rural Wyoming town of Meredith Trichak, illuminating her loveless life but filling her with a fear of the unknown. A CHANCE FOR NEW BEGINNINGS He appears during the harvest dance, a tall, lean stranger fa...

  • Black Velvet

    Kristen Robinette

    He had to decide: was she the perfect woman -- or the perfect suspect? Detective Aaron Stone needed a break in the murder case of drug dealer Owen Blake, but could a woman with the face of an angel be the killer he sought? Stunned to encounter t...

  • Devlin's Light

    Mariah Stewart

    Though India Devlin left her hometown to pursue a brilliant career as a criminal prosecutor, she has always loved historic Devlin's Light, returning to visit as often as her busy schedule permits. But after her brother is found murdered on the steps ...

  • Elizabeth and the Major

    Lynn Collum

    HE QUITE FORGOT HIS MANNERS... Miss Elizabeth Fields, a spinsterly vicar's daughter, had been invited to the strangest party of her rather uneventful life. She was to accompany her shy friend Juliet to an eccentric relation's estate where the finest...

  • The Colonel's Courtship

    Monique Ellis

    Could she ever forget him? At eighteen, Suzanne Hodges lost her heart to the handsome but penniless Lieutenant Stephen Gracechurch. They even made plans to wed. Until Suzanne's father mortgaged her future to Sir John Phelps, an aging luminary in...

  • Double Deception

    Patricia Oliver

    Between Two Fires Athena Standish was a beautiful young widow with a little girl to raise and a life on the icy edge of poverty to lead. Young Peregrine Steele might have been a trifle too impulsive for her, but he was too handsome, too adoring, a...

  • Saint's Haven

    Dawn Aldridge Poore

    Unmatched Hearts Lord Emrys was after her house, and by heavens, Sarafina Jones vowed, he would not have it! She had moved the orphanage she ran to a charming country village, and no pompous dandy was going to take away "Saint's Haven,"...

  • My Wayward Lady

    Evelyn Richardson

    A lovely and highborn teacher risks a scandal that could destroy her good name and her sister's chance for a mate by offering to teach the young women who worked in a notorious pleasure palace, the Temple of Venus, where she meets the devastating Lor...

  • Kate and the Marquess

    Sheila Walsh (1)

    The Maddening Marquess Beautiful, flame-haired Kate Sheridan was far from home - and close to confusion. Her well-meaning parents had sent her from her beloved Ireland to the London Marriage Mart to make a proper match, and trusted their old frien...

  • Blood Debt

    Tanya Huff

    THE HAUNTING Henry Fitzroy, vampire, writer, and bastard son of Henry VIII, had survived for centuries by obeying the vampires' code. He did not slaughter needlessly, did not draw attention to himself, and never invaded another vampire's territory. ...

  • Cold Iron

    Melisa Michaels

    HEAVY METAL MAGIC California P.I. Rose Lavine thinks she's seen it all. Been there, done that, didn't bother to buy the T -- shirt. So when she's hired to protect Jorandel, charismatic lead singer of the elfrock band Cold Iron, Rosie thinks it wil...

  • Code of Bushido

    Don Pendleton

    TERROR LAUNCH Accused of the most brutal terrorist strike in U.S. history, a cadre of Arab radicals are set to go on trial in Chicago, even as angry Americans demand blood retribution. Mack Bolan brought down these killers, and now he must keep t...

  • Call to Arms

    Don Pendleton

    KILLING GROUND A cross-country blitz against a paramilitary group terrorizing America now brings Mack Bolan to the Everglades, where a collaborating force of ultra conservatives is unleashing an all-out assault against their homeland. But a gre...

  • Outcry

    Harold Schechter

    Investigating a series of brutal murders, reporter Paul Novak stumbles into the legend of Ed Gein, the "butcher of Plainfield, Wisconsin," and follows local lore to the ramshackle home of a bizarre young man. Original....

  • Prairie

    Greg Tobin

    "Greg Tobin's PRAIRIE is a truly stunning achievement."
    --Norman Zollinger, Author of Riders to Cibola

    ANCIENT FOES IN A WAR WITHOUT VICTORS

    For centuries, the Crane band roamed the endless prairie, battling their ancestral enemies, ...

  • Drawn to the Grave

    Mary Ann Mitchell

    Beverly and Carl find love together, until she realizes that he is slowly turning her into a living corpse, trapped and powerless, only able to pray that Carl's next victim, Megan, can stop the cycle and save her life. Original."...

  • The Tank Lords

    David Drake

    THE SAGA OF THE SLAMMERS BEGINS! COLONEL ALOIS HAMMER: He welded five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe. When a planetary government faces unfriendly natives, guerrilla insurgents, or ruthle...

  • Wolf Moon

    John R. Holt

    DEADLY REUNION Nicole St. Claire is the last surviving member of a powerful family who gave their name to the small New York town they founded. Though the St. Claire name commands respect, it also gives rise to rumors of a wolf-curse that has haun...

  • Exodus from the Long Sun

    Gene Wolfe

    Exodus from the Long Sun concludes Gene Wolfe's masterful sci-fi epic series, the Book of the Long SunIt is the far future, and the giant spaceship, The Whorl, has traveled for forgotten generations toward its destination. Lit inside by the artifici...

  • Conan the Great

    Leonard Carpenter
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  • Merlin's Gift

    Ian McDowell

    A UNIQUE AND COMPELLING LOOK AT ONE OF THE GREATEST TALES OF ALL TIME: THE REAL STORY OF CAMELOT, AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF KING ARTHUR'S BASTARD SON, MORDRED. The once-spurned offspring of Arthur and Arthur's sister, the witch-queen Morgawse, M...

  • The City of Exile

    Deborah Turner Harris

    Queen Mhairi of Caledon agrees to give up possession of the mysterious and dangerous artifact known as the Anchorstone to her enemy, King Edwin of Beringar, in order to end the war between their kingdoms...

  • Opalite Moon

    Denise Vitola

    When three members of a secret sect called the Opalite are found murdered, Ty Merrick, a female detective and lycanthrope, must venture into the dark fringes of a corrupt society, a place where the normal and the supernatural collide, to uncover the ...

  • Agent of Chaos

    Rutledge Etheridge

    While the Silver and Gold Fleets struggle to recover from their Great Battle, the "Grounders" are safe from the plundering of the space clans, and when renegades target a world for destruction, it is up to a Grounder spy to thwart any alliance betwee...

  • Escape from Roksamur

    Mark Shepherd

    Asked to turn diplomat as the only man his brother, the king, can trust, Bard Alaire investigates the death of the previous ambassador and must journey to Suinomen, from where he once had barely escaped alive. Original....

  • Someone to Watch over Me

    Tricia Sullivan

    MIND CONTROL In a future where hidden Watchers can inhabit the bodies of well-paid slaves via satellite link, identity is no simple matter. For Adrien Reyes, life as a surrogate body is a trap he's desperate to escape. For Sabina Lazarich, it seem...

  • Donnerjack

    Roger Zelazny; Jane Lindskold

    Legendary scientist and engineer, Donnerjack strides like a giant across two worlds: our own-called Verite-and Virtu, the virtual landscape he helped to create. Lover and poet with a warrior's soul, Donnerjack hopes to build a sanctuary and a self...

  • Builder

    Alan Dean Foster

    Spun off from a computer game and a collaborative serial novel being created on the Internet, a novella introduces readers to a cosmos of infinite realms where entire cultures live independently in different dimensions. Original....

  • Wyatt's Most Wanted Wife

    Sandra Steffen

    The Bachelor: Wyatt McCully, dedicated -- and extremely eligible -- town sheriff. Though husband-hungry women were flocking to Jasper Gulch, there was only one single gal Wyatt wanted. The Bride: Lisa Markman, a woman with a yearning for marriage,...

  • Seven Reasons Why

    Neesa Hart

    THERE WERE SEVEN REASONS WHY... Small-town veterinarian August Trent knew she had to accept sexy attorney Zack Adriano's marriage proposal -- and they were all under the age of ten. Her foster sons' futures were at stake. If August wanted ...

  • Seduced by a Stranger

    Morgan Hayes

    Her fiance wanted her found.... Teddy Logan is on the run. She knows her fiance, Alan, is determined to find her, but she can't go back yet -- not until she's sure there's going to be a wedding. And Birdseye, Colorado, seems to be the ...

  • The Second Mrs. Malone

    Amanda Stevens

    Who was she? She'd been found wandering down a street in the middle of the night, covered in blood - not her own. She knew her name was Andrea, but not what had happened to the man whose wedding band she wore. Or why the family she was supposed t...

  • Marry in Haste

    Moyra Tarling

    "Marry Me..." Evan Mathieson had said once, in a husky whisper. But now Jade Adams's former groom-of-her-dreams was proposing a different--convenient--arrangement. The commitment-shy bachelor had suddenly become a father to his adorable little "ne...

  • I'm Having Your Baby?!

    Linda Turner

    SHE NEEDED TO REMEMBER... When Annie Taylor woke up in a handsome stranger's bed, she was appalled. When said stranger claimed to be her husband, she was amazed. But the biggest surprise was yet to come.... ...BUT DID HE WANT HER TO FORGET? Work...

  • Ride the Thunder

    Patricia Werner

    He looked too darned good...for a man who claimed to be more than a century old! Crazy at it seemed, Carin Sage could almost believe Gideon Avarest had appeared from an earlier era. That he'd come "riding the thunder" with the deadly Wyatt Earp ga...

  • It Could Happen to You

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    SHE WAS SCARED OF HER OWN SHADOW! Kim Berry kept her head down, her guard up and always drove under the speed limit -- until Zach McCain came roaring into her life. Suddenly Kim's well-ordered world was turned topsy-turvy. The excitement she f...

  • Her Ideal Man

    Ruth Wind

    HER DREAM COME TRUE...? Tyler Forrest had everything he needed--his son and the wide-open beauty of the Colorado mountains. He didn't want a big house, a lot of money ...or a bride. But when sexy, outspoken Anna Passanante showed up on his door...

  • The Man for Her

    Ann Evans

    Everybody knows Adam Connor is the ideal man for Jesslyn Russell. But... Jess knows she'd never fit into Adam's world. He's looking for a wealthy, sophisticated woman -- someone who'll help him make his farm, Rising Star, the most ...

  • Mommy and the Policeman Next Door

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE CASE OF THE KIDNAPPED MOMMY Officer Guy Tripopulous knew that this was not his usual type of case. The ransom note was smeared, the letters printed, and the victim's children seemed awfully...informed. But Guy was willing to play along. He...

  • Anybody's Dad

    Amy J. Fetzer

    CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'RE A...FATHER?! Tessa Lightfoot refused to share her long-awaited child with a total stranger, much less marry the man! True, Chase Madison had gotten her pregnant -- courtesy of his unwitting sperm-bank deposit. And his t...

  • Mother Nature's Hidden Agenda

    Kate Freiman

    A WONDERFULLY RIGHT MAN... Lily Davis had her life planned out in perfect sequence...and it didn't include falling in love with the sexy yet traditional Blake Sommers. But the rugged single father snuck in under Lily's skin and captured her ...

  • Lady on Top

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Polly Predictable! When Ali Kozinski realized that her neighbors knew her gardening schedule -- weed the tomatoes on Saturday, carrots Sunday -- she knew it was past time for a new and improved Ali Kozinski! Especially after sexy photojournalist K...

  • Alissa's Miracle

    Ginna Gray

    He'd told her that he could never have a child... and widow Alissa Kirkpatrick was so in love with enigmatic Dirk Matheson that she agreed to a childless marriage. She put away that dream of babies, moving on to her life with her handsome bridegro...

  • Nobody's Princess

    Jennifer Greene

    MR. AUGUST Prince of a guy: Alex Brennan. Honest, loyal...a fairy-tale hero. Damsel in distress: Began Stuart. Jaded, cynical...detests fairy tales. ONCE UPON A TIME... there was a free spirit named Began who believed in Prince Charming and...

  • Yesterday's Bride

    Alison Kelly

    Wanted: husband and father! It had broken Taylor's heart to leave her husband--but how could she stay with Craig when he seemed to have stopped loving her...and their baby? Now baby Melanie is a lively five-year-old, and she wants her daddy...

  • Touch Me Not

    Julie Kistler

    His senses were all-powerful... Caught in a cave-in, photojournalist Lucas Blackthorn was buried in a labyrinth under an ancient palace. When he emerged, he'd developed superacute senses. He kept them secret, but they made the world outside Blackt...

  • Outlaw in Paradise

    Patricia Gaffney

    As the owner of a saloon in Paradise, Oregon, Cady McGill is surviving in a man's world. She can't afford to let her guard down for anyone -- especially the man in black who arrives out of nowhere to arouse her suspicions...and her senses. ...

  • White Heather

    Jaclyn Reding

    WHITE MISTS Near the Isle of Skye in the western Highlands, Catriona MacBryan slipped through a secret door into Castle Rosmorigh. But the spirited Scottish beauty never imagined the truth--that she was not Catriona MacBryan at all, but a titled lad...

  • Outlaw's Kiss

    Nan Ryan

    A woman with a gun. Even a man as tough as Cordell Rogers couldn't stop his daredevil daughter Mollie from cutting her hair and riding with the Renegades. A wild, untamed spirit, she was a natural born outlaw. A man with a mission. Lieutenan...

  • Seaspell

    Bronwyn Williams

    Forced by circumstance to accept a teaching position in an isolated community on North Carolina's Outer Banks, a young woman meets a handsome lighthouse keeper with whom she weathers the storms of Cape Hatteras. Original....

  • The Beach House

    Georgia Bockoven

    The beach house is a peaceful haven, a place to escape everyday problems. Here, three families find their feelings intensified and their lives transformed each summer.When thirty-year-old Julia, mourning the death of her husband, decides to sell the ...

  • The Virgin Groom

    Joan Johnston

    THE JOY OF SEX... One minute, Mac Macready was a living legend in Texas every kid's idol, every man's envy, every woman's fantasy. The next, his fiancee dumped him, his career was hanging in the balance and his future was looking mighty uncertain....

  • Finding the Dream

    Nora Roberts

    Nora Roberts presents the final novel in a dramatic trilogy. Margo, Kate, and Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Laura who seemed to have it all--until she lost almost everything and had to ...

  • The Paradise Man

    Suzanne Simmons

    SHE SEEKS THE TRUTH No one knows the real reason heiress Jane Bennett has come to the Caribbean island of Paradise: she is seeking answers to questions that have haunted her for nearly twenty years. HE NO LONGER BELIEVES IN THE TRUTH Jake Ho...

  • By Candlelight

    Janelle Taylor

    THERE ARE SOME MEN A WOMAN CAN NEVER FORGIVE... Recently widowed, the mother of a teenaged daughter, Kate Rose has finally come into her own as head of her own talent agency. She has kept her past carefully hidden: the callous lover who abandoned...

  • Mission: Children

    Marisa Carroll

    It was like living in a movie, or a fairy tale. But was there a happily ever after? Devon once played the prince to Kathleen's pauper, but "society" put an end to that passionate interlude. Not to the passion, though. Togetherness w...

  • Strange Bedfellows

    Kasey Michaels

    36 HOURS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING One April weekend the community of Grand Springs, Colorado, finds itself cut off by a mudslide and a storm-induced blackout, which creates all kinds of troubles. A mayor is found dead, a baby is born and abandoned......

  • Nancy Whiskey

    Laurel Ames

    Nancy Riley Had Finally Found Her Destiny In Daniel Tallent, the man of her dreams. A man of dangerous secrets whose appeal rivaled the adventure and excitement of the American wilderness they traveled, and whose passion matched her own, newfound ...

  • Baby Business

    Laura Anthony

    HOW MUCH TROUBLE COULD ONE INFANT BE? It didn't take millionaire bachelor Clay Barton long to find out. Frazzled and frantic, he summoned the lovely pediatrician down the street -- who instantly transformed the tiny terror into an adorable, co...

  • The Princess and the Frog

    Lisa Bingham

    Once upon a time... Reclusive Edward Babcock had never seen a lovelier sight than the woman he pulled from the sea. She insisted she was a princess, and was quite certain he was her bodyguard Boris. Edward had spent a lifetime hiding his true iden...

  • Marrying Jake

    Beverly Bird

    HE COULD NEVER BE A HUSBAND Policeman Jake Wallace had a jaded heart--and he'd vowed no woman would snag it. Then he began the kidnapping investigation--and met Katya Essler, a gentle beauty who awakened his lonely soul .... SHE WAS MEANT TO BE A...

  • Operation: Baby

    Barbara Bretton

    He was tall, dark...and naked! Samantha Wilde had never seen a man who could make her swoon--until she saw her pilot out of uniform. One look at the guy and she didn't see the storm clouds brewing; by then they'd crash-landed into a romantic, lush...

  • Right Chest, Wrong Name

    Colleen Collins

    Russell Harrington used to be a mild-mannered English professor. He's always followed the rules--even his engagement to a proper, nice woman was considered appropriate. Until... THE BACHELOR PARTY! He ended up riding off into the night on the bac...

  • Husband in Red

    Cara Colter

    THE BRIDE LEAST LIKELY... Was that the infamous Sadie McGee diapering babies and telling bedtime stories to an adorable brood in the small town she once left behind? And who would have thought that rugged firefighter Michael O'Bryan would be p...

  • Never Trust a Lady

    Kathleen Creighton

    THE MAJOR PLAYER: Embittered Interpol agent Tom Hawkins. He'd sworn off women and family -- until he met a suspect he couldn't forget, maddeningly attractive Jane Carlysle.... THE PAWN: Divorced small-town mom Jane Carlysle -- known to co...

  • The Baby Doctor

    Bobby Hutchinson

    Does medical drama make your temperature rise? Then Bobby Hutchinson's medical series -- Emergency! -- should bring you to fever pitch! The Baby Doctor is the second enthralling episode in our medical series centered around St. Joe's Hospi...

  • Unexpected Father

    Kelly Jamison

    HE HAD A SON? Jordan McClennon never expected that his short, passionate affair with Hannah Brewster seven years ago had produced a child. But he just knew that six-year-old Kevin was living proof! True, Hannah had never told Jordan he was a fa...