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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1989

Best Reviewed

New Books List: 409 titles



  • 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...






  • Betty Miles



  • Don Madden

    Incognito Mosquito lectures FBI agents on five of his greatest cases, involving Russian Cagey Bee spies, Maflia Boss Sy the Fly, and other infamous criminals, and invites the reader to solve each mystery...



  • Irving Howe

    Collecting fifty-two Yiddish short stories into a single volume, this anthology of tales about life in the shetl and other aspects of the Jewish experience includes some of the most important literature produced by Jewish writers in the last two cent...



  • Shona Ramaya



  • Chester Himes

    A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. 
     
    For love of fine, wily Imabelle, haple...



  • Chester Himes

    At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent: the final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat. “A sensual, surreal, cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe.” ...





  • 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...



  • Steven Barnes

    IN THE NIGHTMARE FUTURE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE Raised on the streets of a devastated twenty-first century torn by plagues, riots, and social decay, Aubry Knight was trained to be a lethal killing machine. Betrayed b...



  • Orson Scott Card

    Orson Scott Card, author of the bestselling science fiction novel Ender's Game, also created a series to satisfy fantasy readers.Prentice Alvin Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committi...





  • Hanna Johansen

    A seven-year-old boy identifies with sevensleepers, little squirrel-like creatures who sleep for seven months, and he insists on doing everything in sevens, including going to bed at seven o'clock, eating seven potatoes, and taking seven minutes to w...



  • 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...



  • Jackie Hyman

    The Radiants have long ruled the city of Ad-Omaq through their powers as adepts. Yet they are not the only magic wielders in the land. There is an older race, a horned people born of the mountains and drawing strength from nature itself. And to the R...



  • 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...



  • Martin Caidin

    Burning with the pure raging fury of countless suns, energy feeding on everything it touches, growing. Project Star Bright, top secret nuclear experiment, is now beyond control. Is this the way the world ends?...



  • Jerry Ahern

    A death grip is strangling our precious liberty as martial law marches across the land. The President has been murdered, and the Big Lie told the American people -- that David Holden and his Patriots are guilty! But there is one hope: evidence exists...





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  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Richard Austin

    HELL ON EARTH The Guardians emerged from the ashes of World War Ill. Their mission: to restore post-nuclear America to its former glory. Armed for justice, these guerrilla freedom fighters are civilizations last hope in a savage wasteland. Now-...




  • 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...



  • Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki track down a stolen train -- and find a freight load of danger!How in tarnation could an entire train disappear into thin Nebraska air-along with the army payroll it was carrying? That's what Colonel Marshal Harrison wants to know -- an...




  • Janice Bennett

    DRESS REHEARSAL Miss Augusta Carstairs was overcome with mortification every time she recalled her last encounter two years before with Major Edward MacKennoch. What had possessed her to so shamelessly try to induce him to kiss her, she couldn't...



  • Rachelle Edwards

    Cornelia Faraday considered herself all but betrothed to St.John Drimmer, her father's gentle curate, when she was whisked off to fashionable Tynings to make her social debut. -- Cornelia cared nothing for the beau monde, and even less for some of ...



  • Mary Balogh

    TWOFOLD TEMPTATION Dark-haired and beautiful Miss Alexandra Purnell had a problem that most young ladies would have adored. Not one but two handsome lords had offered her marriage - and Alexandra had only to choose between distinguished Edmund Rai...



  • Nadine Crenshaw

    WAR HUNGRY VIKING The crash of a wooden club and the howl of a Norse cur forever shattered innocent Edin's dreams of marrying her childhood sweetheart. And when the svelte young beauty found herself in the grip of her betrothed's killer, Edin vowe...



  • Carolyn Chase

    THIRTEEN COLONIES Thirteen novels of sensual romance and breathtaking adventure about the men and women whose pioneering spirit forged this great American nation. PRISONER OF DESIRE Lovely Caroline McLeod, penniless and proud, had staked all h...



  • Maria Greene

    He found her lying beside the fallen coach, an exquisite beauty...quite dead. Then her body mysteriously vanished -- until, days later, still haunted by her memory, Carey McLendon looked across a crowded salon and saw her once again -- radiant with l...



  • Jan Mathews

    After all these years, only minutes into their class reunion -- Dyana Kincaid is drawn to old beau Chad Weber like a moth to a flame. Despite his enormous success and fame, Dyana finds Chad is as wonderful and down-to-earth as he used to be. In Dyana...



  • Mary Mayer Holmes

    His passion took her where she had never been...his secrets threatened to destroy them both! THE POWER OF THE OCEAN HELD THEM IN ITS SWAY. THE POWER OF THEIR LOVE WOULD FACE THE MOST SAVAGE TEST OF ALL... At 24, Philadelphia-born Augusta Mayhe...



  • 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...



  • Lee Karr

    Blood Seeped Into the Flagstones... Aileen O'Connor grew up in England, believing that her soldier father had died fighting Napoleon and that her mother's native Ireland was a gentle, romantic land of shamrocks and leprechauns. Then, when she was...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Ana Leigh

    When beautiful, violet-eyed Evelyn MacGregor fled to San Francisco, she thought she had escaped forever the domination of her autocratic guardian, Adam Rawlins. Rolling pie crust and slicing apples in her homey little bakery, The Forbidden Fruit, Eve...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...




  • Charles L. Grant

    Night in Oxrun Station From the dark porch of a lightless house the music rises, seeking those listeners desperate for love...for only they will hear the hidden secrets of this very special song. Four people are trapped by their innermost desir...



  • Shaun Hutson

    As psychic investigators probe hidden areas of the mind, and as New York writer David Blake studies the methods of a miracle healer, they unwittingly release forces from deep in the human psyche--horrifying forces capable of incredible destruction...



  • Trevor Hoyle

    After a brief stay in the hospital, little Danielle returns home with an evil gleam in her eye and a destructive energy that cannot be tamed, and soon no adult is safe from his or her own seemingly possessed progeny...



  • 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...



  • T. Chris Martindale

    THE JUNGLE, VIETNAM Chris Stiles is more than a soldier. He’s a born hunter. In a single, shocking moment on patrol, he earns his first taste of a whole other war -- not the war between grunt and Cong, but between the living and the Undead. C...




  • Glen Cook

    THE VOICE OF THE DRAGON ECHOED ACROSS CANON SPACE... "Surrender or die!" For four thousand years the Guardships had issued that dictat. Built and armed by great mercantile houses, their computer cores alive with the engrams of great past leaders, ...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Robert Asprin; Lynn Abbey

    THE GRAND FINALE OF THE THIEVES' WORLD ADVENTURES! Welcome to SANCTUARY, a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy adventure talents, including: LYNN ABBEY ...



  • John Dalmas

    It's a thousand years after World War III and Earth lies supine beneath the heel of a gang of alien sociopaths (they look like snakes with legs) who like to torture whole populations for sport. The Lizards could not have conquered us in our heyday, b...



  • Richard A. Knaak

    He was a novice warrior, young and untrained, yet Cabe Bedlam fought the fierce shape-shifting Dragon Kings who sought to rule the world of man. Wielding his magic sword against their glittering scaled armor, he drove them back into their petty Drago...




  • Jo Ann Algermissen

    WINNING WAYS... Dr. Kristie Fairbanks had spent a lifetime trying to gain her father's respect and admiration. When he reluctantly let her assume management of the Fairbanks Care Centers, she saw her chance to prove herself. But then he hired hos...



  • Sandra Brown

    Cyn McCall desperately wanted something to happen, to shake up her life and turn it around -- but when Worth Lansing tempted her to share a weekend in Acapulco, did she dare go? Her husband Tim had died more than two years before, and Worth, his busi...



  • Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    There were boundaries around Daniel's heart Jamie Forrester had come to the Texas-Mexican border town with a head full of dreams, determined to help the youngsters she taught find a brighter future. But some children were illegals, and Jami...



  • Mary Blayney

    'TIS THE SEASON Annie VerHollan would have done anything for her adorable eight-year-old nieces -- even put up with their Scrooge of a father. So what if she'd loved Daniel Marshall -- and hated him -- for ten years! When the handsome widower offere...



  • Barbara Bretton

    ALL PATTY WANTED WAS A FATHER OF HER OWN Normally, chemistry didn't present a challenge to ten-year-old genius Patty. But man-woman chemistry was a different thing, and it had Patty stumped. Patty thought she only had to find the perfect fa...



  • Bethany Campbell

    She was filled with Christmas dread -- Why did Hedy's new home have to be on Holly Street -- where everyone "Made a big deal of Christmas" -- and right next door to irresponsible maniac extraordinaire, Ty Marek? "If there'...



  • Linda Cajio

    As James Farraday rode past on his polo pony, Anne Kitteridge sighed. The man was impossibly handsome, with Robert Redford's jaw, Cary Grant's smile, and a delectably muscled body that would make any woman melt! She'd known him all her life, had once...



  • Andrea Davidson

    ALL SPENCE WANTED WAS A MOTHER TO LOVE Spence Carruthers had a room full of toys, a live-in grandfather who knew all about fishing, and a father who'd forgotten how to count his blessings. Mark Carruthers had run so hard and so long from childh...



  • Sally Cheney

    APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING When governess Josephine Foster arrived at Westover Manor, she thought it rather odd to find herself presented to the young master as a worthy object for his affections. But since the man was the devilishly handsome De...



  • Sharon De Vita

    FOR YOU I PINE... Searching high and low for her grandfather in a Las Vegas casino was no easy task for Adeline Simpson -- she'd never even been out of Muncie, Indiana, before! Grandpa was nowhere in sight, but Mac Cole was. Adeline never imag...



  • Barbara Delinsky

    He gave her direction Picking up a hitchhiker in a blizzard was a dangerous thing to do, but Lily Danziger was already living on the edge. Having run from the so-called security of New England society, she and her newborn were on their own -- dest...



  • Carola Dunn

    Lord Pomeroy's sister plays the matchmaker when she pairs her brother up with the spinsterish horticulturist Claire, who is herself Cupid for her sister, Lizzie, and the charming George Winterbourne, who, in turn, has designs on Claire...



  • Christine Flynn

    Ellie Bennett had always wanted more than just to live under the collective thumb of her model-citizen family. But in Aubrey, Oklahoma, you did what was expected of you. Oh, she'd secretly dreamed of defiance, but her dream had never become a reality...



  • Janet Franklin

    A PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENT Carefree Rachel Carson's life had changed when she suddenly became sole guardian of her orphaned niece and nephew. For their sake, she'd deferred her dreams, taken a steady if unexciting job and converted her one-be...



  • Ruth Glick

    Elena Castille The petite artist had traveled all the way to Santa Barbara to marry the man she loved. When Stephen suddenly spurned her affections, she was distraught. Pride wouldn't let her return home to Venezuela. Stephen Gallagher A min...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    THE LADY WORE BREECHES Young Lady Samantha Mayne had no desire to be a proper young lady. Let her cousin Emma dress in fashionable gowns, attend glittering balls, and hunt a mate in the marriage mart. Samantha preferred to aid her brother George's...



  • Deborah Grabien

    Maeve, Queen of Connacht. . . Warrior, ruler, lover. She was everything men wanted. . . And her enemies feared most. At fifteen, the flame-haired queen was renowned throughout the Celtic world for her two-handed prowess in battle and her haunting, ot...



  • Carol Grace

    BREAKING THE RULES Maggie Chisholm was determined to be the perfect nanny, and she gave all to her six-year-old charge. But nothing in her training had prepared her for the boy's sexy father. Garrett Townsend was undeniably masculine -- and Ma...



  • Katherine Granger

    ALL WORK AND NO PLAY Lindsey Andrews wanted to be Publicity Director at Wentworth Enterprises so she could see her late father's dream come to life. But after arriving at the interview, having lost her heel and limping like a lame duck, she co...



  • Billie Green

    Getting assigned to interview Dylan Tate was an incredible coup for Keely Durant -- the spectacularly handsome actor and sax player hadn't talked to the press for years -- but how could she tell her editor that five years earlier she and this her...



  • Phyllis Halldorson

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE... Years ago, Flynn Warren had taken one look into Mary Beth's terrified blue eyes and had known exactly what to do. The grief-stricken young woman was alone in the war-torn country, and it was up to Flynn to get her ...



  • Carole Halston

    Though their tempest-tossed marriage had long since ended, Peter Roussell never got over fiery Tess Davenport. Back in New Orleans, he knew he had to see her again, had to claim her once more -- or forever exorcise the passion that ruled his life. ...



  • Celeste Hamilton

    MULTIFACETED LOVE Altruistic attorney Liz Patterson had little time for romance, a fact deplored by her Aunt Eugenia. Eugenia had given her niece heirloom diamond earrings -- no more brilliant than Liz herself, she'd said. Now Eugenia had found her ...



  • Lisa Jackson

    With his itch to travel spurring him on, young Colton McLean had vowed to wear blinders against sweetly tempting Cassie Aldridge. But one moonlit Montana night, passion had galloped out of control--and she'd tried to rope him into marriage. Refus...



  • Courtney Henke

    J. D. Smith watched the woman with the wild chestnut hair and sky blue eyes coach a football team of tough youths and wondered how it would be to tangle with the dragon lady! He longed to kiss Charly's defiant mouth, to watch her eyes change colo...



  • Joan Hohl

    CHRISTMAS EVE 1889 Shots rang out along with the peal of church bells. U.S. Marshal Matthew Hawk fell wounded onto the snow--not ready to die. He'd just determined to make himself a better life, find a wife, maybe start a family. But Matt had wait...



  • Coral Hoyle

    He had lost her once He would not lose her again When Roxanne Costain arrives at Rammsford Abbey in the West Country, she is none too pleased to discover Alexander Monk there. Four years ago, she had broken their engagement and had vowed never to ...



  • Brenda Joyce

    SHE WAS CALLED THE BELLE OF THE SOUTHWEST Beautiful Candice Carter enjoyed the attentions of every eligible man in the New Mexico Territory, until her reckless heart led her to near death in the desert. But rescue came from a savage...Jack Savage,...



  • Judy Kaye

    It wasn't an ordinary nurse-doctor romance It began with their confrontation over nurses' rights, since Kate Matthews was the nurses' representative at St. Mike's in Fargo, North Dakota, and Dr. Chase Kincaid had just been appointe...



  • Muriel Jensen

    THE CHILDREN WANTED A FAMILY TO BELONG TO It was their last Christmas together. Housemother Carol Shaw wanted to make it special for Frank, Nicky, Dorcas, Kathy and Candy -- children who'd never had a family and faced an uncertain future in foster h...



  • Carla Kelly

    A VOW NOT TO LOVE Miss Marian Wynswich had not been raised to be a proper young lady. Instead she had been educated to be as good as any man in everything from reading Greek to playing chess. Thus it was with dismay that she saw what falling in l...



  • Elisabeth Kidd

    No one, least of all Richard Wetherell, could predict what Lady Luisa Ingram would do next. When she turned up in Kent on the eve of Richard’s engagement to a local girl, he was exasperated but not surprised. Will the combined efforts of their frie...



  • Betina Krahn

    She made him want her... but would he ever love her? SHE HAD TO PERSUADE HIM Barter was a way of life in Rapture, Pennsylvania and Whitney (Whiskey) Daniels learned long ago that everything has its price. So when an officer of the new federal g...



  • Karen Leabo

    SEA HUNT The first thing deep-sea diver Jack Harrington saw when he surfaced from the water was a knockout pair of legs. The gorgeous gams belonged to Carrie Bishop--the most irresistible woman to hit exotic St. Thomas in years. The only trouble w...



  • Catherine Lanigan

    THEY WERE HIGH-STAKES PLAYERS IN A DANGEROUS GAME OF POWER AND PASSION... MAUREEN McDONALD She left behind the glamour of the big city to triumph in a barren and uncompromising land. But now she'll have to trust her heart to one man...or watch he...



  • Elizabeth Law



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Joanna Marks

    A SECOND CHANCE A frightened and confused sixteen-year-old girl had given testimony that sent Quint Jones to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now, after years o; struggling, she had a new life and a new name--Laura Reynolds--and she was managi...



  • 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, ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • Margaret Ann Reid



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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 . ...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Tabitha King

    Pearl Dickenson comes to Nodd's Ridge only to claim an inheritance but unexpectedly decides to stay, upsetting the tiny New England town's equilibrium with her exotic beauty. Settling in, she buys a local diner and turns it into a thriving gathering ...




  • Gloria Dank

    Wealthy Bella was the first to go. You could say she was a fashion victim. Bella Whitaker was quite sure her night on the town would be a night to remember. Her black velvet gown was all the rage, her diamond earrings opulent without being ostentatio...



  • Doris Miles Disney

    Wally Howard was prissy and puny, and he knew too well what it was like to be the runt of the litter. It was a dog's life, all right, but Wally was not about to roll over and play dead. Some of the tricks he knew were a bit extraordinary--because...



  • John D. MacDonald

    “SHE MAY LOOK LIKE AN ANGEL…but she’s a tramp.” That was when I hit him, my best friend. I thought of Laura and our three-day honeymoon. I thought of the sting of her full lips, the long lush lines of her warm, wonderful body, her throaty,...



  • Mark McGarrity

    A FORTUNE IN DIRTY MONEY RUNS THROUGH ATLANTIC CITY'S CASINOS. IT COMES OUT MAFIA CLEAN... Luke "Lucky" Furco controls the biggest money-laundering operation on the boardwalk--and Toni Spina is his favorite runner. Three years ago, Toni's gambl...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Kingsley Amis

    When a series of murders performed by a killer with a peculiarly thin blade take place in London, Detective Superintendent Bill Barry is recalled from retirement. Doctors, psychologists, lawyers and politicians join in the hunt, but the biggest crime...



  • Jay Brandon

    A PAWN TICKET TO DEATH Pawnshop owner Daniel Greer is losing everything. In the seedy and rapidly changing Houston neighborhood where he built a solid business, a new Vietnamese competitor is stealing his customers. Desperate and too trusting, Gre...



  • Gwendoline Butler

    Scotland Yard's eminent Detective John Coffin was a mere sergeant. Anticipating a promotion, he now buys a house that needs repairs and proves a catalyst to dire events. Workmen find the body of an adolescent boy under the floor--and Coffin, though i...



  • James Friel

    A story about a priest with a grudge, a father with a secret, a red-headed lesbian called Sonny, a blond young lover called Andreas, a woman hanged with her own tights and a girl who thinks she is a car. James Friel is the author of "Left of North"....



  • Caroline Graham

    A BLOODY DISASTER... The players of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS) were well rehearsed and ready for their opening night production of Amadeus. But no one was prepared for the leading man to give his all to the climactic scene. With o...



  • Ron Goulart

    After a dying man appears on his back porch, Jack Deacon becomes unavoidably involved in a series of bizarre coincidences--plots against a beautiful woman and a chase up the California coast--that culminate in his pursuit of the Tijuana Bible...




  • Alanna Knight

    Prior to a visit to Scotland from Queen Victoria, an unidentified corpse washes up on the rocks below Edinburgh Castle, the first in a series of baffling events that result in some suspicions that may have international repercussions...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Ed McBain

    Now available for the first time in paperback--the latest riveting novel in the bestselling 87th Precinct series. The hardcover of Vespers has sold almost twice as many copies as McBain's previous hardcover releases. This paperback edition will conta...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Carolyn Keene

    MYSTERY IN THE MISTS.... Nancy, Bess, and George have been invited by their former grade-school teacher June Braden to spend their vacation on the coast of Maine. Miss Braden's brother, Karl, was recently lost at sea and is presumed dead, but his da...



  • Carolyn Keene

    The Dean of Emerson College enlists Nancy to investigate the thefts of a valuable substance being used in a top-secret experiment. But when Nancy discovers that the experiment involves biological mutations, she knows she must find the culprit before ...



  • 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...




  • Robert Campbell

    Jimmy Flannery is a tough, red-headed little Irishman--a Chicago sewer inspector, Democratic precinct captain, and part-time sleuth with a heart of gold. In NIBBLED TO DEATH BY DUCKS, he returns from vacation to discover that Chips Delvin, his sewer ...



  • Philip R. Craig

    A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT... BUT YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO DIE THERE During his career as a cop on the back streets of Boston, Jeff Jackson saw enough of the evil that men do to last a lifetime. So he retired to the serenity of Martha's Vineyard, to spend...



  • Barbara D'Amato

    FOR A SOFT-SPOKEN GRANDMOTHERLY TYPE, LOUISE SUGARMAN HAD A LOT OF ENEMIES... As head of Common Sense, an organization to repeal Illinois' drug laws, Louise had earned the wrath of the PTA, police and church groups all over Chicago. Free-lance jou...




  • 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...



  • 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...








  • Alan Bold

    "Rarely has any collection of short stories had such a range as this. Satire, slap-stick comedy, pathos, realism, fantasy, murder are all here, and all told in fine, concise prose. We expect that from Alan Bold, one of Scotland's outstanding poets an...



  • Anthony Burgess

    Included in this collection are eight short stories and a 110-page novella, "Hun", about the life and loves of Attila and his fight against the patricians of Rome. The author has written over 50 books including "Any Old Iron", "Earthly Powers" and "A...






  • Dick Cluster

    Stated First Edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Review copy with publisher's folded, 8 1/2" x 11" letter laid in. Rubbing along the upper edges of the letter....




  • P.S. Donoghue

    A routine debriefing assignment for field operative Brent Graves turns into an international maze of deception and murder when a Soviet defector reveals sensitive information that could topple entire nations. Reprint....



  • Elizabeth Dunkel

    Kate Odinokov, an attractive 33-year-old advertising executive, contemplates suicide in this readable, if unremarkable, first novel, but admits, ``I could never kill myself: I love clothes too much.'' Already infatuated with her handsome Italian ther...