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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1989

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New Books List: 409 titles

  • Honolulu Red

    Lue Zimmelman

  • Journey to Rilla

    Thomas Wylde

    His name is Dr. Bones. He races across a perilous galaxy in search of mysterious artifacts, lost worlds, and foreign species. If you're unafraid of the dangers of the universe, then you're ready for Dr. Bones. On the planet of Rilla, Bones uncovers a...

  • Idle Women

    Susan Woolfitt

  • The Peacock's Feather

    Sarah Woodhouse

    Dr Alexander French travels to Suffolk to start a new life. A country village is thrown into turmoil when a flamboyant stranger from Jamaica arrives to take possession of the manor. This novel is set in 18th century Norfolk and is a sequel to "A S...

  • The Neumiller Stories

    Larry Woiwode

    This volume collects Woiwode's original series, written for the New Yorker in the sixties and seventies and later incorporated into his second novel, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, but also a fresh harvest of more recent stories about the immigrant family ...

  • Sam Delamer

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Morris Has a Cold

    Bernard Wiseman

    "When Morris the Moose gets a cold, Boris the Bear knows just what to do to make him well-or Boris thinks he does. But Morris has ideas of his own.Go to bed? Oh no! A bed has legs, and Morris might fall off when it jumps or runs. How does Morris''s t...

  • The Middle Kingdom

    David Wingrove

    THE YEAR IS 2190. CHINA HAS ONE AGAIN BECOME A WORLD UNTO ITSELF AND THIS TIME ITS NLY BOUNDARY IS SPACE.... The world is City Earth, ruled by the Seven, China's new kings. Beautiful, controlled, sensual, this high-tech society is rushing toward w...

  • Indian Story Book

    Richard Wilson

  • The Tery

    Jim Wilson

    Heroes don’t always look the part.

    He was a tery, a lean, bearish creature with no name. The human soldiers left dead. Just another dumb animal on their extermination list.

    But he didn’t die.

    Animals weren’t the only ...

  • African Burn

    Gar Wilson

  • Night Brothers

    Sidney Williams

    MORE THAN ANIMAL -- LESS THAN HUMAN.. The drought-stricken Louisiana town of Bristol Springs was turning into a living grave. Little by little, its desperate citizens were watching their dreams die. But the terrible blight was bringing something e...

  • The Ordeal of Philip Yale Drew: A Real Life Murder Melodrama in Three Acts

    Richard Whittington-Egan

    An examination of the murder of Reading tobacconist, Alfred Oliver and the inquest into his death. Popular opinion was that the prime murder suspect was Philip Yale Drew, a flamboyant, eccentric actor but Whittington-Egan suggests that his hounding w...

  • Blackmailer's Summer

    Peter Whalley

  • Fat

    Barbara Wersba

  • The Illustrated Pilgrim's Progress

    Jean Watson

  • My Lady's Deception

    Linda Walker

    MAKE-BELIEVE LADY Lady Jane Marlingforthe knew that the world was full of fainthearted people who are completely overset by adversity. Penniless, her ancestral home sold for back taxes, and with no prospects on the horizon, Lady Jane almost caved in...

  • Machete

    Greg Walker

  • The Snows Of Yesteryear

    Gregor Von Rezzori

  • Starspawn

    Kenneth Von Gunden

  • Savage Deception

    Lynette Vinet

    He called her his angel, but she behaved like a devil! SHE DID HIM WRONG Delightful Diana Montaigne was promised to another man, but the moment she set eyes on Briarhaven's new overseer, the highborn beauty was aflame with uncontrollable des...

  • On My Life

    Leigh Verrill-Rhys

  • Beloved Avenger

    Joan Van Nuys

    The Pearls of Naipoor -- long ago, Lucian Thorne had been convicted of stealing the fabled jewels and stripped of his command. Becoming the elusive "Ghost," he sailed storm-tossed seas, preying upon the ships of the villain who had ruined him...

  • Body of Evidence

    David A. Van Meter

    Vietnam vet turned private eye Gardner Wells agrees to locate a friend's rebellious daughter in Mexico, but when the runaway's young son and a previous private investigator disappear, the case takes on dangerous dimensions...

  • Raptor

    Judith Van Gieson

    SAVAGERY FROM THE SKY. MURDER ON THE GROUND. A steady law practice, a stash of tequila, a lover she calls the Kid--only a debt of the heart to her dear, dead aunt Joan compelled the woman named Neil Hamel to leave the stucco comforts of Albuquerqu...

  • Yankee's Caress

    Terri Valentine

    HE LIVED ONLY FOR DANGER Hotly pursued by Confederate soldiers, Yankee spy Fox McClure had no choice but to grab a citizen to use as a shield for his escape. It wasn't until he'd leapt to his horse that he realized he'd snatched the most bewitchin...

  • Moonlight and Mistletoe

    Linda Vail

    'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS... And sexy Carol Applegate was wondering how she'd ended up snowbound with not one...not two...but three amorous, irresistible men. She was no Scrooge when it came to moonlight and men, but dare mention love--or m...

  • Lee Tanner

    Phillip Underwood

  • Flirting With Danger

    Linda Turner

    THE MIDNIGHT HOUR Sheer terror had driven cosmetics heiress Gabriella Winters to flee her family home in the dead of night. But when a frightening encounter aboard a freight train led to rescue by dark, handsome stranger Austin LePort, she knew sh...

  • Brats

    Mary R. Truscott

  • Canow Kernow

    Dyllansow Truran

  • Treason of Isengard

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    The second part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.The Treason of Isengard continues th...

  • Pawns

    Earl Todd

  • The Color of Neanderthal Eyes

    James Tiptree Jr.
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  • Bold Texas Embrace

    Victoria Thompson

    HOT-BLOODED RANCHER Art teacher Catherine Eaton could hardly believe how stubborn Sam Connors was! Even though the rancher's young stepbrother was an exceptionally talented painter, Sam forbade Catherine to instruct him, fearing that art would make ...

  • 'Tis the Season

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    She had interior motives Anna Tilford's Connecticut farmhouse was the perfect weekend escape from the pressures of designing interiors for New York's elite. But her peace was shattered when her country neighbor, Sam Garrison, announced that his ev...

  • Morning

    Nancy Thayler

  • Free Flight

    Douglas Terman

  • H.M.S. Hood Vs Bismark

    Theodore Taylor

  • Tender Pursuit

    Jennifer Taylor

    She needed a challenge That was why private investigator Martha Clark readily agreed to track down a real-life gigolo. After all, it made a change from her usual mundane insurance cases. Or so she thought--before she met Quinn Maxwell, her hand...

  • Betsie's Secret

    J.H. Taylor

  • Freedom Uncensored

    J.H. Taylor

  • Giant Steps

    Kenneth Tauloe

  • The Hills and the Valley

    Janet Tanner

      She grew up wanting for nothing -- but war and a family secret could put an end to her dreams: “This well-told story holds the reader’s attention.” -- Publishers Weekly   In the English coal mining town of Hillsbridge, Barbara Hall...

  • The Apprentice

    Deborah Talmadge-Bickmore

  • Sprinkled With Ruby Dust

    H.N. Swanson

    Hollywood's most famous literary agent recounts his career representing such twentieth century literary luminaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner in their efforts to find work as script-writers in Hollywood's booming, lucrative film indu...

  • The Gold Ball

    Hanne Marie Svendsen

    THE GOLD BALL ~~ "The story she tells is part epic family chronicle and part the life and death of an enchanted world - an island off the coast of Denmark - and its generations of inhabitants over the last four centuries, all of them descended from t...

  • Silvermore

    Patricia Strother

    DYNASTY OF DESIRE The great mansion on San Francisco's Russian Hill was built for love - the love of handsome, dashing Eben Silvermore and Ede Sothern, the aristocratic beauty whom this self-made millionaire vowed to wed. But neither he nor she c...

  • Cross Tides

    Elaine K. Stirling

    He was her destiny Talia Gibrian was dead--or so the world L thought. During a political coup in her homeland, the fiery freedom fighter had plummeted from the cliffs of San Vito and been swept away into the Mediterranean. But 7alia had survived a...

  • Elements of Creation Myths

    R.J. Stewart

  • Blue Moon

    Dawn Stewardson

    The year is 1862 Prospectors swarm over the Sierra Nevada, hunting for gold, desperadoes roam the range, and the Indians are on the warpath. Dr. Henry Lockhart is so busy setting broken bones that he hasn't any time for women. Just as well....

  • America's Sword

    Ryder Stacy

    Ted Rockson and his band of freedom fighters respond to a distress signal in post-nuclear America, crossing the Forbidden Zone to rescue a group of survivalists threatened by Cultmaster Chairman Jensen and his mind-destroying weapons...

  • Dear Santa

    Margaret St. George

    FLASH AND AMY WANTED TO BE A FAMILY AGAIN Their dad's job kept him in Los Angeles. Amy and Flash lived with their mother in Aspen Springs, which was supposed to be a great place for kids. Amy and Flash knew where they all belonged--together. Bu...

  • Kill the Messenger

    Elizabeth Daniels Squire

    READ ALL ABOUT IT Legendary newspaper publisher Isaiah Justice, owner of The Defender, is going to miss his paper's biggest story ever: someone has laced his bourbon with cyanide. His murder conveniently coincides with the takeover bid from a l...

  • Read Between the Lines

    Erica Spindler

    TEACHER'S PET Professor Katherine Reed's research had her in a cold sweat. There was only one way to study the effects of cohabitation on behavior-find a male roommate. But Katherine never imagined that sexy Michael Tardo--the bad boy from her pas...

  • Much Ado About Love

    Flora Speer

    A MAID: As a twenty-five-year-old virgin far past marriageable age, Halys did all she could to avoid male attention. And the male she wished most to avoid was Simon of Lyonne, the arrogant baron who had broken her heart when she was just fourteen. ...

  • The Bird, the Beast & the Fishes Tail

    A.W. Spacey

  • Moon Dance

    S.P. Somtow

    Set against a brilliant panorama of European expansion into the West in the late 1800s, Moon Dance is the horrifying tale of the illegitimate son of the Count von Bachl-Wolfling, leader of a pack of Viennese werewolves, and of the boy's all-too-human...

  • Dream Song

    Sandra Lee Smith

    IN SEARCH OF YESTERDAY'S SECRETS...AND TOMORROW'S LOVE Autumn O'Neill had come to Arizona on an archaeological dig for the remains of the mysterious Anasazi Indians. The recent UCLA graduate also hoped to discover her own Navajo roots. Yet when th...

  • Peter's Pip

    John Smith

  • Homecoming

    D. Alexander Smith

  • The Great Thistledown Flood

    Bron Smith

  • The Estuary Pilgrim

    Douglas Skeggs

    A Monet that was once a treasure of Nazi Germany becomes the center of a violent and mysterious international art fraud scandal when the painting--which was supposedly destroyed during World War II--resurfaces...

  • Miss Robinson Crusoe

    Tracy Sinclair

    Bliss Goodwin had survived a shipwreck and the perils of a desert island, but in Hollywood she was utterly at sea. Then handsome, commanding Hunter Lord rescued her from the hungry media and became her one safe haven in a frightening new world. As he...

  • Murder, Murder, Polis!

    Maureen Sinclair

  • Camp Champion

    Holly Simpson

    Heading off to gymnastics camp, Jo encounters a real distraction in the form of Steve Michaels, a tall, tanned champion gymnast who seems more interested in extracurricular activities than in training...

  • The Outrider

    Luke Short

    The collapse of the Mary E mine draws the attentions of Will Christie, whose investigation unearths unsafe conditions at the mines and evidence of owners who care more for their profits than for their workers...

  • Louder Than Words

    William Shore

  • The Tangled Lands

    Will Shetterly

    Computer game tester Kevin Fikkan meets Janny Laias, a game designer, and the two soon find themselves inside her latest creation, a game in need of debugging that is haunted by his faults and her nightmares...

  • Tempered Iron

    Steve Sherman

  • The Sands of Time

    Sidney Sheldon

    Four women leave their Spanish convent and enter an alien world of uncertainty, romance, and suspense....

  • What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

    Diana Shaw

  • Buzzard's Gap

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo agrees to shepherd two beautiful and hot-blooded sisters through a dangerous stretch of country, not reckoning on having a deal with a clan of twisted killers and rapists called the Bible Boys...

  • Some Swell Pup

    Maurice Sendak

  • Before the Wind

    Maura Seger

    IF YOU WOULD SEDUCE ME ... PROMISE ME YOUR LOVE Even her glorious beauty could not save nineteen-year-old Dominique from the maddened mob outside the Tuileries Palace. As lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, Dominique had lived a luxurious life in...

  • Too Cool to Get Married

    Daivd Seeley

  • Frozen Stare

    Richard B. Schwartz

    Jack Grant, Vietnam vet turned L.A. private eye, spends his days busting small-time insurance defrauders. But his latest client gives him the cold shoulder―literally― when he turns up dead in a tub of ice. Another body in a downtown meat freezer ...

  • The Big Silence

    Bernard Schopen

    IN NEVADA, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. IN NEVADA, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS. A man may vanish in the vast deserts, dusty towns, or glittering cities of Nevada as easily as mirages form on the sun-baked playa or the neon-washed streets. Private detective J...

  • The Comforts of Madness

    Paul Sayer

    THE COMFORTS OF MADNESS is the unspoken monologue of Peter, a 33-year-old catatonic psychiatric patient, who is selected for an intense and controversial process of rehabilitation.  Published in 1988, the book won that year's Constable Trophy, t...

  • Murder in Gray and White

    Corinne Holt Sawyer

    An unpleasant newcomer to Camden-sur-Mer resort checks out sooner than she intended.... It was the considered view of the elderly residents at the posh retirement community on the California coast that the stabbing death of Mrs. Amy Kinseth (only ...

  • Naja

    Julian Jay Savarin

    Gallagher must dive into a deadly North Sea tunnel and speedboat across the waters off Cornwall in order to save well-known film star Doria Luce and keep a deadly weapon out of the wrong hands. Original....

  • Lauren in the Middle

    Susan Saunders

    Lauren thinks new girl Ginger Kincaid, with her sophisticated Southern accent and her movie star name, is something else, but the Sleepover Friends see through Ginger's false airs and try to persuade Lauren to see her as they do...

  • A Promise of Fire

    Veronica Sattler

    In a bold young America, where smoldering tension would ignite the sparks of revolution, two strangers kindled a passion that would last a lifetime... Brittany Chambers -- all of Virginia knew her for her proud bearing and fierce, indomitable spirit....

  • The All-American Male

    Glenda Sanders

    Her pumpkin was a Porsche Tired of living in a gilded cage, heiress Cassaundra Snow decided to spread her wings and experience the "real" world. But while posing as the all-American working girl, she encountered Chuck Granger, all-American male . ...

  • Coinspinner's Story

    Fred Saberhagen

    The gods thought it a fine jest when they forged the Twelve Swords of Power and gave them to mere mortals to fight over. The jest turned sour when men learned that the Swords could kill the gods; now the gods are gone, and the Swords are scattered am...

  • Fool on the Hill

    Matt Ruff

    From the author of Lovecraft Country: Myth and reality collide on a college campus “in a comic fantasy of wonderful energy, invention, and generosity of spirit” (Alison Lurie).   Stephen Titus George is a young writer-in-residence at Co...

  • Legendary Lover

    Renee Roszel

    Remaining neutral was a losing battle For thirteen years Tessa Jane had nursed both a grudge and a grand passion for Cord Redigo. When he suddenly reentered her life, she wasn't sure which response would win out. Tess relied on the mythical lak...

  • John and Anzia

    Norma Rosen

  • Circle of Light

    Eliane Corbeil Roe

    When Lucy, a French-Canadian girl, allows herself to be talked into representing her school's eighth grade in a scholarship competition, she is surprised by the changes in others' attitudes toward her as well as by her own inner strengths....

  • A Taste of Death

    M.J. Rodgers

    The only rule in this game was survival. It was a high-risk, high-stakes, high-tech game of hide-and-seek. At one end of Varifoods International's state-of-the-art computer system was Personnel Manager B. A. Lee. At the other end were the ruthless...

  • Blood of the Children

    Alan Rodgers

  • Time Was

    Nora Roberts

    THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Studying the past hardly prepared anthropologist Liberty Stone for loving a man from the future. Caleb Hornblower, with hair as black as deep space and eyes as blue as the Oregon sky his ship had fallen from--made her lev...

  • Hands of the Strangler

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams can't resist getting tangled in other folks' troubles -- especially when those folks are pretty females. But when his pal Rick Hartman bets the Gunsmith he can't take a vacation without getting mixed up in someone else's bad business, Cl...

  • Advance, Retreat

    Richard Rive

  • Tender Offer

    Paula Detmer Riggs

    TO MEND A MARRIAGE... Casey O'Neill never would have gone looking for her ex-husband, Alex Torres, if she'd seen any other way out of her dilemma. Alex had turned his back on the corporate life--and on her--but now she had to convince him to come ...

  • The Education of J. J. Pass

    T.F. Rigelhof

  • Salt Lake City

    A.R. Riefe

    LAND OF PROMISE, LAND OF PERIL The Utah territory. A forbidding land of mountains and desert, savage Indian and hostile trapper. Here the Catton family came, following the Mormon leader Brigham Young, believing in his promise to make the desert bl...

  • King of the Shadows

    Scott Richardson

  • Cheyenne's Lady

    Patricia Rice

    Her heart pounded as his lips closed over hers. Never before had she been kissed like this...never before had she been so willing to surrender to love's passionate promise... Daughter of New Mexico cattle baron and an enchantingly lovely Mexican a...

  • Bedouin

    Fred Rendell

  • Flamingo

    Bob Reiss

    On sabatical from his crime beat at the "New York Daily News," reporter Raleigh Fixx travels to the Florida Keys to write a book on a bird sanctuary and becomes the suspect in the murder investigation of a man he had just met...

  • Blue Bloods

    Margaret Ann Reid

  • My Sister the Traitor

    Candice Ransom

  • Flute

    Shona Ramaya

  • Any Day Now

    Elizabeth Quinn

    FALLING IN LOVE WAS EASY--THE FIRST TIME. NOW ALL THE RULES HAD CHANGED... Kate Buchanan still remembered the jeans and t-shirt Nick Ricci wore the last time she saw him. She remembered every bitter word that passed between them, every tear she c...

  • Systems

    W.T. Quick

  • Emerald Embrace

    Marjorie Price

    The author of Renegade Heart and Desire's Dawning will set the racks on fire with this splendid story of a spirited Irish lass who finds rapture in the arms of a man she can never trust! The lovely Irish mill girl Carina O'Rourke was ready to pay ...

  • Gunner Kelly

    Anthony Price

    By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryAn innocent enough advertisement, placed by General Maxwell, retired war hero and beloved squire of Duntisbury Royal, equally innocent hamlet nestled in the English countryside. But t...

  • The Market Bell

    T.F. Powys

  • Chase the Thunder

    Patricia Potter

    A Common Goal Casey Saunders's father had been cruelly gunned down in the street. And Sean Mallory was the one man who could lead her to the killer. Mallory had been hunting Wilson and his gang of cutthroats across the Southwest. He didn't need...

  • Kaleidoscope

    Joyce Porter (1)

    She'd been betrayed by love . . . Years ago a spy had lured schoolgirl Ann Bennett into a false marriage, then callously ordered her death and fled to the Soviet Union. Ann had lived, but could not escape the shadow of her "husband's" espionage. ...

  • Writer's Chapbook

    George Plimpton

  • The Courts of Love

    Jean Plaidy

    "When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me-my triumphs and most of my misfortunes-were due to my passionate relationships with men." Raised in the pleasure-loving Aquitaine duchy of France, wher...

  • The Woman Who Loved Reindeer

    Meredith Ann Pierce

    Beneath a double moon in a beautiful land where the winter winds blow, a woman loved a reindeer...and lots him again. Her love was a trangle, a shapechanger -- par mortal man, part golden stag, torn between the human world and his own. As fires and q...

  • Down in the Valley

    David M. Pierce

  • The Magic of the Moon

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    She was blonde, beautiful, and had the longest legs he'd ever seen, but was Dr. Joy Barlow really good for what ailed architect Declan Harris? He'd been working night and day since his partner had died in an accident, and now this psychologist was pl...

  • Murder in Burgundy

    Audrey Peterson

    THE PLEASURE BARGE CRUISED FROM DIJON TO LYON. DEATH WASN'T ON THE SCHEDULE... Michael "Poppa" O'Connor, the famous American musical agent, had no sense of reserve. Everyone on board the Jacqueline was privy to the startling news that his first wi...

  • The Confession of Brother Haluin

    Ellis Peters

    Winter arrived early in 1142, bringing with it a heavy snowfall. The safety of the guest-hall roof at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul comes into jeopardy, and the brothers are called upon to effect repairs. But the icy and treacherou...

  • The 97th Step

    Steve Perry

    ONE MAN. THREE LIVES. IN A FIGHT-OR-DIE FUTURE ... MWILI was born on a cruel, desolate planet ... and dreamed of the stars. FERRET was a thief and smuggler on exotic worlds ... until his ruin. PEN was trained by the master warriors, the Sib...

  • Adventures of Freddie

    John H. Perry

  • The Phantom of Harley Grange

    Jane Percy

  • Salute to Truro

    Kenneth Pelmear

  • Amy's Pen Pal

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth Wakefield and her best friend, Amy Sutton, have big plans for the holiday weekend, including a fabulous party, a family barbecue, and the chance to see a dreamy deejay broadcast live from the Sweet Valley Mall.



    But the weeken...

  • Boy Trouble

    Francine Pascal

    Torn in two... Patty Gilbert is elated when she finds out that her boyfriend, Jim Hollis, is coming home from college for a weekend visit. But then she finds out that her older sister, Jana, is coming to visit the same weekend, and she tells Jim s...

  • Lila's Story

    Francine Pascal

    Competition . . .



    Lila Fowler is the richest girl at Sweet Valley High.  She wears designer clothes, lives in a mansion, and has an allowance at least three times the size of her friends'.  And as an only child, she's always had a...

  • The Twins' Mystery Teacher

    Francine Pascal

    Who's Mr. Marshall?

    Elizabeth and  Jessica Wakefield are identical twins who sit side by  side in their second-grade class. When their teacher  is out with the flu, everyone changes seats, and  the substitute teacher can't figure out ...

  • Assassins

    F.M. Parker

    The time is 1847, and the place is turbulent New Orleans during the staging of American forces for the invasion of Mexico. Timothy Wollfolk traveling to New Orleans to claim a huge inheritance, is shot and thought dead and thrown into the flooding Mi...

  • The Young Marauders

    Lauren Paine

  • Guilt on the Lily

    Roger Ormerod

    While traveling around Europe with his wife Amelia, retired detective Richard Patton receives an urgent message too late--its sender is found murdered and Patton, attracted to the mystery, uncovers the involvement of several of his former colleagues...

  • Night Prophets

    Paul Olson

    The year was 1989. George Bush Sr. was in the White House. Tiananmen Square, Ted Bundy and the Berlin Wall were in the news. The Little Mermaid was in theaters. Madonna, Prince, Duran Duran and Phil Collins were atop the charts. And in suburban Chica...

  • The Father of Love

    Janette Oke

    The heartwarming story of Marty and Clark Davis in the Love Comes Softly Series has captured the imaginations and emotions of readers from all ages and backgrounds. When Marty first travelled west, her dreams of a bright future were shattered with th...

  • The Cornish Captain's Tale

    Laurence J. O'Toole

  • Roman Circus

    Frank O'Neill

  • Spirit of the Hills

    Dan O'Brian

    The lives of three rugged individualists--Tom McVay, Bill Egan, and Katie Running--become dramatically intertwined as events collide in this novel of murder and revenge set in the Black Hills of South Dakota...

  • Dare to Go A-Hunting

    Andre Norton

    Throughout the civilized galaxy, in spacers' ports on the most far flung worlds, an ancient Terran legend echoes...about a race of magical beings called the Little People or the Fairy Folk. What if there is truth behind the old stories and songs? Wha...

  • The Regiment

    Christopher Nicole

    Sedgemoor, Blenheim, Salamanca, Waterloo, Kabul, the Somme...the regiment's battle honours were written in blood and sacrifice. One in a long line of Mackinders who have commanded the regiment, Murdoch Mackinder joins the Royal Western Dragoon Guard...

  • Latacumba Assignment

    John H. Newton

  • Corky's Brother

    Jay Neugeboren

    Neugeboren's debut collection of stories and third book. The title story, actually a novella, won the Transatlantic Review Novella Award, tells the story of Corky's baseball-playing brother, "probably the most famous guy in our neighborhood in Brookl...

  • A Bewitching Compulsion

    Susan Napier

    Clare Malcolm was in more than enough trouble She'd been having difficulty preventing her mother-in-law from exploiting her son Tim's talent as a violin prodigy. Now she was under pressure from maestro David Deverenko. Yet when David arid his d...

  • Parting Is All We Know of Heaven

    Molly Moynahan

  • Children of Time

    Deborah Moulton

    David reluctantly obeys the laws of the computer-controlled government of the future which demands that every child spend every other month with a foster parent until he is imprisoned by a mad woman in a castle with hundreds of other children...

  • Jem

    Roderick Conway Morris

  • Kedrigern and the Charming Couple

    John Morressy

    A VERY HAIRY PROBLEM Travel-weary wizard Kedrigern is off on another business trip. It seems King Ithian of Othion has a hairy problem indeed--his daughter Berzel keeps turning into a wolf whenever there's a full moon. And a silver bullet is simpl...

  • Worlds Apart

    Diana Morgan

    Thirty-one-year-old Kate Brody, proprietor of the only tavern on Blackwell Island, had shown up one frigid January day and decided to stay. The island's specialties--serenity and beauty--were just what she was looking for. That was all about to chang...

  • Inn of Fear

    Alun Morgan

  • That's So Funny I Forgot to Laugh

    Stephen Mooser

    When the school talent show coincides with Health Week, Rosa and Henry are certain their comedy performance will be sabotaged by the germs floating around or by the stage fright that suddenly afflicts Henry...

  • Men Were Deceivers Ever

    Gwyneth Moore

    SHE HAD ALMOST LOVED HIM BUT NOW SHE DESPISED HIM Miss Helena Hammond had suffered a tragedy that had left not only herself but her family at Point Non Plus deeply in debt and with no apparent escape. Therefore, Lieutenant Peter Clivedon's app...

  • Mother London

    Michael Moorcock

    The life stories of Josef Kiss, Mary Gasalee, and David Mummery--three patients in the same mental hospital--give voice to a secretive London whose ghosts lie buried beneath modern towers of concrete and glass...

  • A Legacy of Demons

    Pat Molloy

  • Crescent in the Sky

    Donald Moffitt

    BLUES FOR ALLAH For a thousand years the Great Awakening had spread the word of Allah to the stars. And for a thousand years there had been no Caliph to unite the disparate Islamic planets-the vast interstellar distances made the required pilgrima...

  • Quicksilver

    Helen Mittermeyer

    Fleeing her unseen pursuers, a woman appeared from the darkness-a lady of turquoise eyes and silvery blond hair who captivated dangerous, enigmatic Piers Larraby. But who was this gorgeous gamine on the run, and why did she fire his blood as no woman...

  • Command and Control

    James D. Mitchell

  • Looking On

    Betty Miles

  • The Emerson High Vigilantes

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

    When Paul agrees to help a classmate campaign for president of the student body on a law and order platform, he is drawn into increasingly violent vigilante activities, supposedly defending the school, which worry him and cause him to question the in...

  • Recovery

    Stanley Middleton

  • Two Brothers

    Stanley Middleton

  • Cupboard Kisses

    Barbara Metzger

    Lady or Lightskirt? Well-bred orphan Cristabel Swann tolerates her thankless teaching job--until her uncle dies unexpectedly. Arriving in London to claim her inheritance, Cristabel encounters something else entirely--a loutish naval captain who wo...

  • Year of the Horse: Vietnam

    Kenneth D. Mertel

  • Sweet, Wild Love

    Emma Merritt

    DEFENDER OF JUSTICE It was hard enough for Eleanor Hunt to get men to take her seriously in sophisticated Chicago --- it was going to be impossible in Blissful, Kansas! These cowboys couldn't believe she was a real attorney, here to try a cattle rus...

  • A Bundle of Papyrus

    Moelwyn Merchant

  • A Loose Connection

    M.R.D. Meek

    ATTORNEY LENNOX KEMP YEARNED FOR A MURDER TO BROOD ON. WOULD HE SETTLE FOR SUICIDE? Dorothea Copeland was a model of propriety--unlike her oldest friend, Amanda. Odd that outrageous Mandy, such a lover of life, would kill herself... especially af...

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    Lindsay McKenna

    Another nightmare or a dream come true? Though weary and frightened, hazardous-materials technician Brie Williams could still spot danger, and her rugged new partner seemed to be it. Did Linc Tanner's macho facade hide chilling threats...or enough wa...

  • Death Wore a Diadem

    Iona McGregor

    A finishing school matron's plans to use a visit by Empress Eugenie of France as a social stepping stone meets with disaster when theft and murder run rampant in the school and a jaded pupil must search the streets of Edinburgh to catch the culprit...

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    Mark McGarrity

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    Michael McGann

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    Mary Kay McComas

    Until tall, dark, and breathtakingly handsome Noble McEntire arrived in her small town, Emily Becket wondered if she'd ever lose her heart--but this seductive Yankee professor was a heart-stopping surprise! Shed always done what was expected of her, ...

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    Ed McBain

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    J.G. Maxon

    Preacher Orville Molway's words are cold comfort--almost as cold as the evil lurking in peaceful Sand Ridge, Ohio. One by one, young teenage girls are becoming pregnant--quiet, good girls who swear they have never known a man. Evie Wagner was the fir...

  • Class Reunion

    Jan Mathews

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    T. Chris Martindale

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  • Baby-sitters' Winter Vacation

    Ann M. Martin

    A week of skiing, skating, and snowball fights. Why can't homework always be like that? Every year, Stoneybrook Middle School (the whole school!) gets invited to Leicester Lodge in Vermont for a week of winter adventure! This trip sure isn't li...

  • Karen's Little Sister

    Ann M. Martin

    Karen Brewer, Big Sister Everybody used to love Karen. She was cute. She was the littlest sister. But now baby Emily is in their family, and Karen feels left out. Then Emily gets sick and everybody has to take care of her. Even Karen. And that'...

  • The Merry Devils

    Edward Marston

    HE HAD THE POWER TO ASSUME A PLEASING SHAPE, BUT WOULD HE TAKE TO THE STAGE...? The audience was merry indeed when a third devilish imp bounded onstage to join the two that had been written into the script. But backstage all was uproar. The third ...

  • The River and the Gauntlet

    S.L.A. Marshall

  • My Friends the Frogs

    James Marshall

  • Love Is a Long Shot

    Joanna Marks

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  • Final Class

    John Markham

  • Save D.A.D.

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    When the Deerfield Academy for Dance is in the red, the girls rally together to save their school, protesting with fliers, placards, and plaintive pleas--"Save D.A.D!"--but a confused news reporter misinterprets their cry and the money starts pouring...

  • The People: And Other Uncollected Fiction

    Bernard Malamud

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    Ann Major

    MR. DECEMBER Name: Tad Jackson Type: A rugged Texan with a raw sensuality as untamed as the open wilderness. Obsession: Doctor Jessica Bancroft--Kent-whose deceit had cost him his heart. Goal. To set the record straight. Years ago, Tad...

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    Don Madden

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    Debbie Macomber

    Nine long years ago a tearful Letty Ellison had fled Red Springs, Wyoming -- and her beloved Chase Brown -- to pursue her dreams. Life had dealt her some cruel blows, but with her head held high and her child in tow, she was finally coming home to th...

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    Alastair MacNeill

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    Mary Mackey

  • Murder for the Bride

    John D. MacDonald

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  • Stolen Dreams

    Catherine Lyndell

    Fate flung them together...and from the depths of treachery a splendid love arose! In the shadowy back alleys of London, she saved his life -- and stole his heart! Raised in a perilous world of thieves and rogues, Gillie lived by her wiles and ...

  • The Ransomed Bride

    Elizabeth Lowther

    A small brown wren in the midst of a golden family, Sabrina had always known that her brother Giles was a fool. What she hadn't expected was for that fact to affect her life so drastically. The periodic skirmishes between England and France had led t...

  • Trouble with Buster

    Janet Lorimer

    Danny had hoped his little sister, Bernice, would make some friends in first grade so she would stop tagging along with him. But someone like Buster was not what he had in mind. Everyone thinks Buster is a bad influence on Bernice, and they find out ...

  • The Quarterly

    Gordon Lish

  • Savage Thunder

    Johanna Lindsey

    Lady Jocelyn Fleming, Duchess of Eaton, was a feisty, flame-haired aristocrat -- newly widowed after a shockingly brief marriage to an elderly British lord. Wealthy and titled, yet aching with the pain of unexplored desire, her restless heart led her...

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    Dawn Lindsey

    A DASHING LORD SETS A BOLD BEAUTY'S HEART RACING OUT OF CONTROL RUNAWAY ROMANCE Lovely Cathleen Dunraven had to keep herself under the tightest control. She could not by word or gesture betray the roguish schemes of her beloved grandfather, Sir...

  • Three of the Best

    J.D. Lewis

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    Elizabeth Levy

    With her mom running for city council, Lauren has no time to take stock of the events in her life--especially her crush on her new gymnastics coach--but with the help of friends, family, and even the new coach, Lauren discovers the truth....

  • Beautiful Mutants

    Deborah Levy

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