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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1989

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New Books List: 409 titles

  • African Burn

    Gar Wilson

  • 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...

  • Attack of the Seventh Carrier

    Peter Albano

  • Blood Kin

    Michael McGann

  • Command and Control

    James D. Mitchell

  • Deathgrip

    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...

  • Devil's Deal

    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-...

  • Earthfall

    Jerry Brown

  • Hell-Bound Express

    Nick Carter

  • Machete

    Greg Walker

  • 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 ...

  • A Beautiful Place to Die

    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...

  • Emma Chizzit and the Queen Anne Killer

    Mary Bowen Hall

    SALVAGED Not one to spend her golden years rocking and reminiscing, Emma Chizzit is owner and one-woman crew of A-1 Salvage, looking for collectibles or hauling junk from old houses. Sure, some people get edgy--a woman her age in a battered pickup...

  • The Ghost of Craven Cove

    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...

  • Going Out in Style

    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...

  • Hardball

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Wrong Chemistry

    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 ...

  • 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...

  • Giant Steps

    Kenneth Tauloe

  • The Great Thistledown Flood

    Bron Smith

  • The Illustrated Pilgrim's Progress

    Jean Watson

  • Silent Tears No More

    Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton's friend Binky is interested in a guy at school but feels out of it. Her clothes, her hair everything seems out of style. The perfect solution seems to be a babysitting job that will allow her to get a new wardrobe. Everything begins to...

  • '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...

  • All or Nothing

    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...

  • 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 . ...

  • 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...

  • Bad for Each Other

    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...

  • Bedside Manner

    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...

  • The Best Gift of All

    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...

  • Betrayal of Love

    Diana Hamilton

    "A divorce? Is that what you want?" After four years apart, Leon's reappearance was an intrusion into Felicity's successful new life. She'd done her best to forget him. Leon Draker might not have changed much in that time, b...

  • 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...

  • Blue Bloods

    Margaret Ann Reid

  • 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...

  • A Carol Christmas

    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...

  • Class Reunion

    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...

  • The Closer We Get

    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...

  • Come Gentle the Dawn

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Denim and Diamonds

    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...

  • The Diamond's Sparkle

    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 ...

  • The Dragon's Revenge

    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...

  • Dream Again of Love

    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 ...

  • Dream Date

    Carla Bracale

  • 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...

  • Father Christmas

    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...

  • 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...

  • Halfway to Heaven

    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...

  • Intense Involvement

    Jenny Arden

    "I never give up on a challenge!" Brave words, but Elise was beginning to wonder whether her job as physiotherapist to the domineering Luc de Rozanieux would end in her resignation -- or her dismissal. She knew the dangers of getting in...

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    Mary Mackey

  • 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...

  • Letters of Love

    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...

  • 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...

  • Love Is a Long Shot

    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...

  • 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...

  • Make Room for Nanny // The Millionaire's Nanny

    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...

  • Makeshift Marriage

    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...

  • 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...

  • Montana Man

    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...

  • 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...

  • A Most Unsuitable Wife

    Roberta Leigh

    Could she make a go of child rearing ? Lorraine Ellis didn't know-her modeling career certainly hadn't prepared her for it--but she was determined to try. The loss of her brother had made her painfully aware of how alone she was. Yet ...

  • Mrs. Scrooge

    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...

  • One More Night

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Disturbed, angry, and at odds That just about summed up her reaction to Rick Emerson, Evonne thought bitterly. Ever since she'd first laid eyes on him. When she agreed to do her employer a favor, she'd expected to be helping a young, u...

  • Passion's Far Shore

    Madeleine Ker

    He preferred experienced women And that Dorothy wasn't. The trip to Japan wasn't her main reason for accepting the job as little Pearl's governess. Quite simply her warm heart had gone out to the motherless child. She hadn't kno...

  • Pearl

    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 ...

  • Poor Emily

    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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Renegade

    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...

  • Satin Dreams

    Maggie Davis

    STUNNING BEAUTY INSATIABLE AMBITION. EXPLOSIVE PASSION. She had it all. She was known throughout ultra-chic designer circles as Alix, the hottest American fashion model in all of Paris. Women envied her dazzling success. Men worshipped her stre...

  • The Snow Garden

    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'...

  • Storm Force

    Sara Craven

    Jay Delaney, on camera, had a dynamic appeal Offscreen, his blend of magnetism was even more potent. Not that Maggie was interested. She'd had enough problems in her life recently, and the last thing she wanted was an uninvited guest to dis...

  • Sweet Adeline

    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...

  • Ten Days in Paradise

    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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Tender Trap

    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...

  • Tiger's Eye

    Madeleine Ker

    He was tall, dark and dangerous Blaize Oliver was also a high-powered businessman who was out of Leila's league. Not that it mattered--she was only interested in her temporary role as his personal assistant. At least that's what she told h...

  • To Weave Tomorrow

    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...

  • Unfinished Business

    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. ...

  • Unforgettable

    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...

  • A Whole New Light

    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...

  • Wilderness Child

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Brainrose

    Nancy Kress

    When Caroline Bohentin, Joe McLaren, and Robbie Brekke undergo Previous Life Access Surgery, the journeys into their separate pasts turn out to have an interwoven, horrifying relevance to the future of humankind...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Elements of Creation Myths

    R.J. Stewart

  • Ice Dragon

    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...

  • Indian Story Book

    Richard Wilson

  • Not Just a Witch

    Eva Ibbotson

    Hecate Tenbury-Smith, who calls herself Heckie, is an animal witch. Even as a child she could give people whiskery snouts and thick black fur, and so her parents enrolled her in a school for witches -- good witches, that is. Now, a recent graduate, H...

  • Prentice Alvin

    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...

  • Shadowlight

    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...

  • Stealers' Sky

    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 ...

  • 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...

  • Views from the Oldest House

    Richard Grant

    As the sinister Chief Administrator attempts to forcibly resettle a ``post-Dissolution'' America, a young student named Turner Ashenden stumbles upon the inhabitants of the enigmatic Bad Winters Institute of Science and Philosophy and throws a psychi...

  • 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...

  • 7 x 7 Tales of Seven

    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...

  • Adam Blair

    Adam Blair

  • Advance, Retreat

    Richard Rive

  • Adventures of Freddie

    John H. Perry

  • African Short Stories

    Joan S. Kenna

  • Alias Madame Doubt

    Anne Fine

    Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband....

  • Alistair Maclean's Death Train

    Alastair MacNeill

  • All About Women

    Andrew M. Greeley

    You're in for an unforgettable experience when America's master storyteller turns his enormous narrative gifts to the passionate, haunting subject of the American woman, searching for--and often finding--love and faith... in Andrew M. Greeley's All A...

  • All for Nothing & Another Story

    W.P. Farnfield

  • 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...

  • And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees

    Michael Bishop
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  • Antaeus: Essays

    Daniel Halpern

  • Any Similarity to Persons Living

    Berkley Publishing Group

  • The Apprentice

    Deborah Talmadge-Bickmore

  • Aspects Of Love

    David Garnett

    A young boy, a beautiful actress, an elderly aristocrat - troubled desire and tangled emotions flowering against the glowing backgrounds of Southern France, Italy and Paris, in perilous defiance of the barriers of age. Such are the 'aspects of love' ...

  • 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...

  • Atlanta Burn

    Bob Ham

  • The Baby Who Would Not Come Down

    Joan Knight

  • 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...

  • Be Still My Heart

    Patricia Hermes

  • Beautiful Mutants

    Deborah Levy

  • Bedouin

    Fred Rendell

  • Bernie Entertaining

    Larry Bograd

  • Betsie's Secret

    J.H. Taylor

  • Biggest Valentine

    David Gantz

  • The Bird, the Beast & the Fishes Tail

    A.W. Spacey

  • The Blue House

    Naishan Cheng

  • The Book of Marvels

    Christopher T. Leland

  • The Book of Ruth

    Jane Hamilton

    PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: An “enthralling” novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family (Entertainment Weekly).   From the New York Times"bestselling author of The Excellent Lombards and A Map of the World, this is ...

  • Boomerang

    Barry Hannah

    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Prize for his first novel Geronimo Rex and twice nominated for the National Book Award, Hannah ( Hey Jack! ; The Tennis Handsome ) again exhibits his antic imagination and spare but striking prose style. In his eighth book,...

  • Brass Cross

    Bruce L. Blackie

  • Brats

    Mary R. Truscott

  • A Bundle of Papyrus

    Moelwyn Merchant

  • 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...

  • Can't Quit You, Baby

    Ellen Douglas

    “It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature.” " The Boston Globe

    Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, whit...

  • Canow Kernow

    Dyllansow Truran

  • Changes

    Emily Hallin

    Meg encounters resistance and competition in her relationship with Stanley--from his mother, who would rather he dated debutante Daphne Wainwright, and from Wanda Zetterquist, who wants Stanley for herself....

  • 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....

  • The Colorist

    Susan Daitch

  • 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...

  • The Confessions of Aleister Crowley

    Aleister Crowley

  • 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...

  • The Cornish Captain's Tale

    Laurence J. O'Toole

  • Crush on the Coach

    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....

  • Death Squad London

    Jack Gerson

    Former German police inspector Ernest Lohmann is called in by Maurice Kovel to investigate the mysterious "suicide" of Kovel's daughter, whose body has been discovered in the Thames, in a mystery set in 1936 London...

  • A Deepe Coffyn

    Janet Lawrence

  • The Devil's Mode

    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...

  • The Devil's Spy

    Michael Hastings

  • Digging Up

    Nancy Krulik

  • Double Life A.Jones

    Hila Coleman

    Angela, a sixteen-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood in New York City, learns not to judge people by their socio-economic class after she reluctantly accepts a scholarship to a fancy boarding school....

  • Double-Dyed

    Raymond Chaplim

  • The Edge of the Wood

    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...

  • The Education of J. J. Pass

    T.F. Rigelhof

  • 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...

  • The End of It

    Mitchell Goodman

    The End of It is a novel about an American fighting in Italy during World War II....

  • Equal Affections

    David Leavitt

    "Equal Affections tells the story of the funny, loving, and tragic Cooper family. Louise, the indomitable matriarch, has had cancer for twenty years. Her son Danny, a lawyer, lives in a New Jersey suburb with his lover Walter, who is slowly growing o...

  • Fat

    Barbara Wersba

  • Final Class

    John Markham

  • Final Performance

    Robert Carley

  • Flute

    Shona Ramaya

  • 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...

  • Free Flight

    Douglas Terman

  • Freedom Uncensored

    J.H. Taylor

  • Gathering Storm

    Brian Kelleher

    THE SECRET WARRIORS -- They were America's top test pilots -- but the test they were making now would never make the headlines. They had to sneak America's newest air weapon -- the F-86 Sabre Jet -- into the skies over Korea to see if it stood up aga...

  • The Ghost of Tintern Abbey

    Henry Gardner

  • Giotto

    Mario Bucci

  • Gloria's Birthday

    Norma Levinson

  • The Great Male Conspiracy

    Betty Bates

    Twelve-year-old Maggie vows to have nothing to do with the male sex when her brother-in-law deserts her older sister and their baby, her father becomes wrapped up in his research, and Todd, a classmate, teases her unmercifully...

  • H.M.S. Hood Vs Bismark

    Theodore Taylor

  • Hanged Man in the Garden

    Marion Halligan

  • Here Comes Kate!

    Judy Carlson

  • 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...

  • Holding Pattern

    Kali Hale

  • Homecoming

    D. Alexander Smith

  • Hopper's Places

    Gail Levin

  • Horse Show

    Bonnie Bryant

    THE SADDLE CLUB GIRLS GET SET FOR SOME BIG CITY EXCITEMENT! Stevie, Carole, and Lisa are thrilled when they get the chance to attend the American Horse Show in New York City with Mrs. Reg and their teacher Max. Not only is it the most important horse...

  • Hunter in the Dark

    Monica Hughes

  • Idle Women

    Susan Woolfitt

  • In Full Possession

    Helen Flint

    British author Flint makes her U.S. debut with this slender tale whose implausibility is unredeemed by the febrile brilliance of her taut, idiosyncratic prose. Television repairman Benedict Ashe, age 38, lives in Sheffield with his dying mother, Bet,...

  • Incognito Mosquito Flies Again!

    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...

  • Inn of Fear

    Alun Morgan

  • Jack Galaxy, Space Cop

    Robert Kraus

  • Jem

    Roderick Conway Morris

  • Jeremy Quacks

    Bruce Balan

  • John and Anzia

    Norma Rosen

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • Latacumba Assignment

    John H. Newton

  • 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 Legacy of Demons

    Pat Molloy

  • Looking On

    Betty Miles

  • The Magic Of Myrna C. Maxweather

    Sandra Dutton

  • Magical Hands

    Marjorie Barker

  • Marci's Secret Book of Flirting: Don't Go out without It

    Jan Gelman

  • The Market Bell

    T.F. Powys

  • Mercedes and the House of Rainbows

    Alan Jolis

  • Monster Valentines

    Joanna Cole

    Rosie and Prunella cannot agree on how to celebrate Valentine's Day because Rosie is a friendly monster and Prunella is a mean monster. The humorous sequel to Monster Manners and Monster Movie. Full color....

  • Morning

    Nancy Thayler