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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — FEBRUARY 1983

Best Reviewed

New Books List: 248 titles


  • Don Pendleton

    A headlong rush into Hell No human can go on forever without respite. But even on well-earned R & R in the pristine wilderness, Mack Bolan is again called to the howling hellgrounds of justice and death. Through the steep-walled canyons of Idah...





  • R.A. Montgomery

    YOU MUST CONQUER THE WILD COUNTRY TO WIN THE RACE FOREVER! You are an experienced race car driver, competing in the First African Dual Road Race Rally. You choose your car, meet your navigator, and you're off! You zoom along the wild and rocky roa...




  • William L. Deandrea

    Returning to the quiet, upstate New York town that is the home of his alma mater and the location of the wedding of a pair of old friends, network troubleshooter Matt Cobb finds himself up against murder...



  • Jane Dentinger

    Aspiring actress Jocelyn O'Roarke vowed she’d made her last diaper commercial. Her new job as understudy to the leading lady in a smash Broadway play was sure to make her a star. She’d even captured the heart of the dashing leading man. All she n...




  • Marilyn Manning

    HE WAS INFURIATINGLY PATRONIZING! Julie Brewster, a young fashion copywriter, considered herself lucky to have won a prestigious business trip to London. To placate her overprotective grandfather, she agreed to stay there with Morgan Stuart, an o...



  • Fern Michaels

    One of the most acclaimed storytellers of her time, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels weaves unforgettable tales of love, family, friendship, and self-discovery. Together in one volume for the first time, here are two classic stories...



  • Michelle Roland

    Darcy Cummins was beautiful, divorced--and toasting her new freedom alone. Until a stranger offered her a drink, and she daringly accepted his company, his kisses... and almost his bed... Then Darcy's mother introduces her to Jordan Ives--the tant...



  • Alice McDermott

    The New York Times Bestselling Author of After This and Charming Billy Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross...



  • Francesca Greer

    SIX MONTHS TO MARRY! Pa Travis gave Rae-Ellen an ultimatum. Your baby needs a father, he declared, and you're too young and beautiful to stay a widow. Pa had even picked the man for her, Jess Tower, her new foreman. He was handsome and arrogan...



  • Carole Mortimer

    How could she have let him kiss her? Besides her husband, no one had ever kissed Jessica until Matthew Sinclair did. And after seven years of coldness in a desperately unhappy marriage, she was shocked to find herself stirring in response to this ...



  • Shirley Hart

    It was no use -- no use at all. Cathy Taylor's promising acting career -- her whole life -- suddenly seemed doomed to fail. Wildly, impulsively, she had quit her Hollywood job and driven cross-country in hope of doing summer stock in Upstate New ...



  • Stephanie Richards

    Did she dare trust the enigmatic man who had once shattered her dreams? Garth Logan swept into Deirdre Mallory's life, stormy eyes flashing, accusing her of a deed she knew nothing about. But their bitter argument dissolved in one night of unforgetta...



  • Melinda Pollowitz

    She was afraid to love... Edie falls for Sean as soon as she sets eyes on him. But soon after they begin dating, he suddenly drops her for another girl. Hurt and angry, Edie thinks she'll never be able to forget him. Then she meets Jake. Fun-lo...



  • Christine Hella Cott

    SHE FLED FROM PASSION'S TORMENT Sal Si Puedes...Escape If You Can. The plantation's very name should have warned Eleni. She had come to this Peruvian hideaway to purchase rare gems, but found the mysterious gem dealer, Lucio Ferraz, far...



  • Jo Calloway

    Lesley Gardner had flown across the world, joined an archaeological dig in the heart of Africa, and buried herself in work to forget the crushing heartbreak she had left behind. Yet, she had given her promise. She would go home to Oregon for Chris...



  • Janet Quin-Harkin

    When Lisa's parents split up, she has to leave glamorous Hollywood, her father, and her movie-star mother - to live with a grandmother she hardly knows. How can she ever be happy again? All too often, Lisa finds herself escaping into daydreams -- ...



  • Rosemary Vernon

    Everyone's wondering who is behind "Dear Amanda", the new advice column in the school paper. Everyone, that is, but Tina. Tina loves playing Amanda. She's excited about her mysterious new identity, and thrilled by the success of her column - stude...



  • Nora Powers

    BY PASSION POSSESSED His burning kisses drove her to the farthest reaches of desire. But the cowboy named Cal, who plundered Melinda Adams' senses, was the same rich and arrogant Colin Marsden who now held her captive to his will. He alone could g...



  • Anne Hampson

    AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE When Jane left America for the Australian Outback, she left with high hopes for a happy new life. But there she met the handsome and domineering Scott Farnham and instead found herself in a heartbreaking trap. Even though it...



  • Anne Mather

    She had made her choice years ago As a girl, Jaime had learned how powerful love can be in the arms of a wealthy Italian count, Raphael di Vaggio. Yet she had rejected him to pursue her career. He had found someone else and for five years Jaime...



  • Ann Cristy

    It wasn't Teel's habit to lie--but then, Chazz Herman, with his devastating golden eyes and glittery jet-set world, was a dangerous man. He'd stop at nothing to get a woman he wanted--and he wanted every inch of Teel. If he thought she was a nun--she...



  • Rita Clay

    DATELINE: LOS ANGELES LEAD STORY: LOVE Fiercely independent Victoria Brown was hoping to land herself a job at a prestigious L.A. paper when she met wealthy and handsome Kurt Morgan. She was immediately attracted to him, and her plans began to c...



  • Jennifer Allyn



  • Eve Gladstone

    Winds of change from the north, Chinook winds, swept across the Montana plains to bring Niki into Steve's arms once more. In the heat of the Arabian desert their marriage had shattered; in the shadow of the Montana oil derricks they found each oth...



  • Freda Bright



  • Marianne Cole

    Brandeis Evans had to get away--from the loss of her husband and child, and from her medical practice, which resurrects their memory. Attempting to heal her ravaged spirit, she retreats to a small Ozark village. But Dr. Matt Wilde--a man more arde...



  • Sara Ann West

    ENCOUNTER WITH DESTINY Brad Morrison was her boss and fiance, but from the moment Abby Kent saw sculptor Travis Connery, she sensed danger ahead. Not even her feeble attempts to resist him--or her own tumultuous feelings--would suffice. Alone toge...



  • Prudence Martin

    With some misgivings, lovely Diana French said good-bye to her safe, quiet, staid life as a librarian and took the job at Quillian's Modeling Agency. Swept into the high-powered world of fashion and advertising, she was geared for excitement, steeled...



  • Sara Chance

    Tawny, feline Summer McAllister was a born sailor, captain of her own ship, but one look at jet-setter Brandon Marshall and her heart was caught. When Brandon chartered the Sea Mist for two weeks, he was astonished to find her in charge. From the mom...



  • Alexis Hill (2)

    "Those macho types don't appeal to me," Rachel Pritchard insisted. 'Jason Brand leaves me totally cold." Easy enough to say, but was it true? A blue-eyed Adonis in tight jeans and T-shirt, he had invaded her freshman Composition class. An unschool...



  • Deborah Kent

    Jody's not sure exactly when things begin to seem, well, funny. But gradually during her junior year she realizes she's not hearing quite right. It's so embarrassing! She can't follow her friends' conversations anymore and she can barely understand h...




  • Sara Francis

    Kate and Luke had one thing in common Neither trusted the other. She, badly hurt in a previous relationship, wasn't ready for commitment. He, an internationally renowned singer, suspected the motives of any woman who tried to get too close. ...



  • Pam Martin

    Although he was a knight riding gallantly through Tina's dreams, she was sure that in reality there was no room for him in her life. She already had her hands full with Stan, her steady, reliable boyfriend, and Bell, the mare she was preparing for th...



  • Bonnie Drake

    "To sum it all up, I see myself stranded, with neither past nor future, in a small house, with a very beautiful woman:' April Wilde's heart pounded, her mind was in a whirl. What was she to make of this handsome shipwrecked stranger? Marooned in h...



  • Kay Thorpe

    He wanted an heir more than a wife! The rigid conventions of Morley Grange had driven Emma's grandmother into exile when she had dared love a man beneath her social station. Now Emma had returned to her ancestral home and found love with the prese...



  • Mary Carroll

    A SCANDINAVIAN HOLIDAY had been Texan-born Lark Avery's idea of an amusing way to enjoy a summer. But when Tag Hansen's car ran into her, she was forced to change her plans. Her limited funds did not allow for such an emergency. It seemed like a str...



  • Susannah Windham

    A MODERN WOMAN'S DILEMMA When arrogant Manzanillo Arismendi grudgingly offers Leeanne Mullins, a young advertising executive, his prestigious account, she knows that she is in for trouble. Not only do they fight over how to handle his business...



  • Essie Summers

    She would never marry without love! When her stepfather's death left Luenda in debt, and with three children to support, she seemed to need a miracle -- and that's just what a friend's will provided. A year free of expense on an iso...



  • Helen Dalzell

    She took a deep breath, then plunged ahead! To save the home she loved, Kathryn proposed to Zac. There were no messy emotions attached--it was nice and simple. Several things puzzled her though--the elation she felt when he accepted, and the du...



  • Karen Van Der Zee

    She had to break free of his love Sanny Copeland was all too familiar with the pain and rejection love seemed to bring. Now she was immune to it. If Mark Taylor thought he could change her, that was his business. Hers was pursuing a career as a jo...



  • Marjorie Lewty

    He would do anything to get what he wanted Piran St. Just had told her so himself, and Polly was soon to find out how true his words would be. A wife would make it easier to win custody of his nephew Jules, and the little boy had become very at...



  • Nina Coombs

    "Deny that you want me," Greg demanded. "Just try and deny it..." Auburn-haired Mickey Callahan had never met a man as infuriating as architect Greg Bennett. Couldn't he understand that his cold steel skyscraper was all wrong f...



  • Penny Jordan

    She had weathered life's storms alone Tara had been only seventeen when she'd given herself to James. She had borne him twins in secret, inventing a short-lived marriage to protect her fatherless children and to hide her shame. The year...



  • Barbara Coy

    Stephanie hated moving to her grandmother’s isolated in Oklahoma. That was before she fell under the spell of rolling mountains, and windswept prairies, before she met a tall, dark-haired boy as rugged and exciting as the vast country she grew to l...



  • Margaret Gayle

    ALIX FELT HER VERY SOUL RUSHING TO MEET HIS Alix faced the archaeological trek, deep into the Sahara, with great trepidation. The notorious Lai Renard, sponsor of her late mother's expedition was to accompany her, too. She could not forget ...



  • Fran Bergen

    Operatic set designer Nydia Lear seemed to have every-thing she needed to make life complete, including a job with world-famous maestro Kurt Klausen. Kurt Klausen ... He intrigued Nydia, but she had a job to do and no time for love. Or so she thou...



  • LaVyrle Spencer

    Lee Walker strode through a man's world with the proud strength of her Cherokee ancestors, outbidding the toughest competition in the construction industry - and hiding the hurt of a secret loss. Then she unwittingly switches suitcases at the air...



  • Genell Dellin

    What do you do when you meet a guy and can’t get him out of your mind? What do you say when you fall for him and your brothers have told him things that make you sound like a gawky boy. How do you act… when you really want him to stand up and...



  • Mia Maxam

    INNOCENT DECEPTION Christina McIntire had inherited her father's garage business. She was a fine mechanic and worked on the most expensive cars in Florida. It was no wonder that when Scott Kirkner strolled into her garage, he mistook her for a boy. ...



  • Meg Hudson

    A PILGRIMAGE IN THE NAME OF LOVE... Monica knew it was foolish to real time as a tour guide. But she had to find out why Ian MacGregor--the handsome laird with whom she'd fallen rapturously, irrevocably in love a year earlier--had cut her off ...



  • Abra Taylor

    SEASON OF SEDUCTION...of innocence lost and ecstasy found. In keeping her tennis-pro sister out of trouble, Michele Haworth ran into a problem of her own: Damon Pierce, one-time demon of the circuit. Damon was the kind of man who played to win -- ...



  • Dixie Browning

    HE WAS THE LAST MAN ON EARTH SHE COULD TRUST. Love was a cruel teacher for Grace Spencer. It brought her nothing but pain and humiliation, and she was determined that no man would ever take advantage of her again. Now that her life was finally ...



  • Suzanne Michelle

    PROMISE FOR THE FUTURE ... Miranda Bowen, TV newswoman, had everything going her way when she met marine biologist Julian Hunter. From that first moment on the beach they had something special between them, something no fears, no fighting, could d...




  • Kerry Allyne

    His very presence put her on her guard Rowan had no choice but to go to work for the overbearing arrogant Fraser Delaney -- she needed the job, and besides, if she refused, it could jeopardize her best friend Tanya's job on Fraser's planta...



  • Nancy John

    Nina's future in the ballet seemed assured, as did her future in love. But nothing was as it seemed, and soon both were gone. Suddenly she was free to explore her relationship with British tycoon Dextor Rolfe, the man who had been tempting her...



  • Joan Wolf

    Chris was a struggling actor and Mary a struggling scholar, but their marriage was a perfect, passionate union -- until the glitter of Hollywood and a dazzling starlet stole Chris away. At the time when she needed him most, he betrayed and failed her...



  • Sara Craven

    Could he seduce her into forgetfulness? Courtney had always dreamed of one day desired by a lover and responding ardently to him. But with the right man -- not ever with Blair Devereux! For three long years, the memory of how Blair had ruined ...



  • Jennifer Dale

    Unable to fulfill her dream of becoming a classical pianist, Judith Vanover had turned to musical agenting. But she kept her standards high, scorning popular musicians -- until she met Oliver. Forced to accept the charismatic rock star as a client, s...



  • Judith Duncan

    SHE CARRIED HER HEARTACHE LIKE A SEARING FLAME Nightclub singer Jillian Lambert had a special earthy quality to her voice that excited critics and audiences alike. Her fans didn't know that the deep emotion she poured into her music was evoked by ...



  • Emma Bennett

    He was part of her past, and that was exactly where she meant to keep him. Yet, she would never forget her eighteenth summer, the summer he had appeared- not a boy, but a man with a man's passions- to teach her the searing pleasures of first love. ...



  • Sue Byfield

    She couldn't believe it had all happened Visiting her sister, Chris in Spain was a dream come true for Stacy -- for it was there she met Felipe. But she was inexperienced and didn't know how to handle the handsome womanizer or the over...



  • Lori Herter

    Yes -- she couldn't deny it -- she still wanted him. But it could never be as it had been before. A few short years ago Stacie Smythe had been his student at the university. Awed by his brilliance, overwhelmed by her own desire, she had becom...



  • Margaret Ripy

    Lacey Tyler and Cole Vancleave were fellow members of the Kentucky horse racing set, though it was his vengeful interest in her past that held them together. But the past lost all meaning in the passion that drew them into each other's arms. Their...



  • Faye Morgan

    Linda Redfield didn't stand a chance against prosecutor. Jefferson T. Langford. After all, she was just another public defender, a street-smart professional from the wrong side of the tracks who'd earned her law degree with hard work and determinatio...



  • Linda Randall Wisdom

    Unspoken, but not unremembered. How could Anne ever forget the brief hours she had shared with Kyle Harrison--or his anger when he discovered that she wasn't free to love? Three sears had passed, years which hadn't dimmed her pain, or the flame th...



  • Heather Graham

    "I'll never see things your way!" Leigh raged. Arrogant, imperious, Derek Mallory -- famed English rock star -- watched her with mock surprise. Had he summoned her to his palatial estate on Star Island to offer her the chance to prove ...



  • Suzanne Simms

    A CALL TO ARMS He was too smooth, too rich, too handsome--the perfect target for cartoonist Kit Sinclair's wicked pen. But tycoon James Steele struck back with a challenge of his own. All too soon Kit was spellbound by the wild, sweet magic of lip...



  • E.E. "Doc" Smith

    The evil conspiracy of Lady A takes a new and mysterious turn when Grand Duke Zander von Wilmenhorst - the secret Head of SOTE - is implicated in a deadly plot against the Empire. And an enemy is impersonating Jules and Yvonne d'Alembert and luring S...




  • Brian Stableford

    Despite the development of a faster-than-light drive, Earth’s space program has been in the doldrums for centuries, as has Earth itself. Hyperspace being impossible to navigate without beacons at which to aim, there is no alternative but to wait fo...




  • Orson Scott Card

    JUSTICE IS CRUEL But tender mercy is the cruelest of all. It was for mercy's sake that Palicroval the Fair left you to live after the desecration of your honor...to live and become great Queen Beauty, whose power makes the very gods tremble and...




  • Jo Clayton

    With skin as pale and eyes as black as death, a blood-red ruby depending from one nostril, he was Ser Noris, the most villainous wizard of all time. He had done it all-slain all adepts worth his scorn, attained immortality, become the dire tyrant of ...



  • Mike Resnick

    Traveling carnival owner Thaddeus Flint expands his tour from the American Northeast out to the stars, only to discover that some of the attractions don''t quite hold the audience like they did back on Earth. Realizing that his strip show has no m...



  • Jonathan Carroll

    Living in Vienna, Joseph Lennox, a young American writer haunted by the specter of his overbearing brother's tragic death, finds himself erotically, and ominously, involved with the strange and manic Paul and India Tate...



  • Marion Zimmer Bradley

    BLACK AND WHITE MAGIC WERE AT WAR .. . Domaris, disciple of the Temple of Light, was wrenched from her peaceful life by the arrival of Micon, the Atlantean prince, whose powers over wind and sun, earth and fire, are coveted by the sorcerers of the...



  • Tristan Jones

    Recounts the intriguing wanderings of the renowned adventurer as he travels the world's waterways, detailing the frustrating and time-consuming difficulties he finds when dealing with customs officials, police, and other bureaucrats...



  • Shelby Hearon

    Fifteen-year-old Jeanetta Mayfield finds her life dramatically altered by the discovery that she was adopted, while a young man, Harry James, transforms his life by adopting a new family, Jeanetta's biological parents...



  • Thomas Houser

    When a drug dealer is killed, the police question the victim's neighbor Agatha Tilden, who doesn't remember anything unusual--until a bloody knife is found in her bedroom. Fragments of memory begin to surface--an argument, screaming, blood. But who w...




  • Laurie Adams

    After learning in science class that boa constrictors make wonderful pets, Alice saves her money until she has enough to buy Sir Lancelot. There are two cliques in her class at Miss Barton's School for Girls -- the Peaches and the Turnips.  The Peac...










  • Louis Charbonneau

    Spilled blood is not easily washed away...The People’s Revolutionary Committee massacre was no accident. The annihilation of the PRC -- the domestic terrorist organization responsible for a string of deadly attacks in the U.S. -- was orchestrated b...



  • Ruth Hallman



  • Richard Price

    From the Bestselling Author of Lush Life

    Peter Keller, first college grad from a working-class Yonkers family, thought he was on the road to success. Until no law school wanted him. As he watches his friends advance into promising careers, h...





  • James McConkey

    These sequential meditations by one of our most skillful writers constitute a unique genre-part autobiography, part introspection, part observation, part narrative-in which a life is continually re-examined in the light of experience and time. Taking...





  • Desmond Ryan








  • Bettie Wysor



  • Susan Richards Shreve

    Ten-year-old Sammy talks about five disturbing events in his life--the death of the family dog, the suicide of his friend's older brother, life with a senile grandmother, cheating at school, and the divorce of his aunt and uncle...



  • Edmund Gosse

    At birth Edmund Gosse was dedicated to 'the Service of the Lord'. His parents were Plymouth Brethren. After his mother's death Gosse was brought up in stifling isolation by his father, a marine biologist whose faith overcame his reason when confronte...






  • Stephanie S. Tolan

    When Mrs. Skinner goes out on strike against her family to protest unfair labor practices, Mr. Skinner organizes a protest organization for children and husbands and the two Skinner sisters eventually decide to go out on strike as well...





  • Charles Swindoll

    Do others look to you for leadership? Do you face a major task or shoulder heavy responsibilities? Do you want to take your leadership skills to a higher level?When Nehemiah confronted the task of rebuilding Jerusalem's wall, he was heartbroken by th...





  • Ben Bova



  • Larry Weinberg

    Type of Work: Non-dramatic literary work

    This is a young adult race prejudice fiction book.

    Ben takes off to stay with his cousin Willis - his hero - but then he's pressured into joining the Hooded Avengers - or else....






  • Brian Moore

    One of The Guardian’s “1,000 Books to Read Before You Die”This underrated classic of contemporary Irish literature tells the “utterly transfixing” story of a lonely, poverty-stricken spinster in 1950s Belfast (The Boston Globe)Jud...



  • David Bannerman

    Donald Briggs O'Meara can be who he needs to be, when he needs to be. It's one of the reasons he's had such an extraordinarily successful career as a con man. And it's why, when the government needs someone special -- someone with the gift of gab, wh...







  • Klaus Mann

    A SAVAGE INDICTMENT OF EVIL, TOLD WITH AMAZING SKILL, MEPHISTO IS BASED ON THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR'S OWN BROTHER-IN-LAW, THE CELEBRATED GERMAN ACTOR GUSTAV GRUNDGENS. BANNED IN GERMANY FOR YEARS AFTER ITS INITIAL PUBLICATION, THE BOOK HAS BECOME A BES...




  • Katherine Moore



  • Alice Munro

    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love...



  • Torey L. Hayden

    His name was Kevin but his keepers called him Zoo Boy. He didn't talk. He hid under tables and surrounded himself with a cage of chairs. He hadn't been out of the building in the four years since he'd come in. He was afraid of water and wouldn't t...





  • Lilli Palmer

    Professor Kaspar Schulte finds his tranquil life transformed by the mysterious deaths of his wife and a night porter at a Yugoslavian resort, events that may be linked to several of his pupils, fanatical Croatian terrorists...



  • Monique Van Vooren

    The lives of three women--former courtesan Mariella Lodge, ambitious Denise Cunningham McAlpine, and appealing Mattie Maxwell--are entwined with that of ballet superstar Vladimir Volodin, whose true loyalty is to his art...



  • Russell McCormmach

    It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips, it is the end of a way of thinking in his own subject. Younger men have challenge...





  • John Vince




  • Steve Hayes

    Yesterday he was a Nazi spy. concealed in the U.S. Coast Guard, he fed America's secrets to the enemy. After the war he destroyed all traces of his past, watching, waiting for the moment to strike. Today he is a Washington politico. Charming, urba...




  • Paule Marshall

    While on her annual Caribbean cruise, Avey Johnson, a Black, middle-aged widow, finds her comfortable life unraveling and embarks on another voyage, an odyssey in search of spiritual and cultural regeneration...




  • Walter Tevis

    When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Th...





  • Wilanne S. Belden

    Minna, a White Witch who had learned just enough to set up on her own, was not interested in being a witch. She just wanted to be left alone. And she thought she had herself nicely situated in a place where no one would find her. But someone did. His...



  • Ann Schlee

    A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader....





  • Philippe Van Rjndt

    Dr. Michael Turner, the best American neurosurgeon, is flown to Moscow for clandestine surgery on the dissident Polish cardinal, Karol Stanislawski, surgery that costs Turner dearly and saves Stanislawski for the throne of St. Peter...








  • Wade Barker

    The Porn King's kindom is vast; beautiful women and children are his slaves, bondage his politics, and death his ultimate discipline. Chained to the wall of the Porn King's palace, death always arrives. But never quite fast enough. B rett Wallace en...




  • Hyemeyohsts Storm

    In this long-awaited second novel by the best-selling author of SEVEN ARROWS, Little Wolf, a follower of the Old Way, is the sole survivor of a village massacre. As he travels, his adventures mirror an inner search along the hidden pathways of the m...






  • Shana Alexander

    Based on the author's exclusive interviews with Jean Harris, as well as with Harris's and Tarnower's friends and families, this account examines the multifarious emotional entanglements that exploded the night Herman Tarnower was shot...



  • J.I.M. Stewart

    Penelope, the daughter of a local priest, is lured to a villa in the south of France where she is the victim of a cruel hoax. As to how she came into the situation, we are first introduced to her as a child and the background is set out with Stewart...



  • Herman Wouk

    Herman Wouk’s sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America’s most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the wa...



  • James Lincoln Collier

    A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears....





  • Faith Sullivan




  • Judie Angell

    Everything about the divorce was decided, ad that made Lee angry. No one had asked for her opinion, and at fifteen she felt she should have a say in the matter. The family house was rented, twelve-year-old Allison and seven-year-old Joel would live...






  • Joan Oppenheimer

    Shy, self-conscious fifteen-year-old Tracy Ayres is talked into taking a drama course during her first year of high school and meets a popular boy who, together with the drama coach, helps her overcome a bad self-image...



  • Florence Bowes

    “She’s not rich.” He sat down on the rumpled bed and pulled on short boots of fine brown leather. “Her uncle, David Douglas, is rich. Her father spent his inheritance living it up.” He grinned suddenly. “That’s a man after my own heart...



  • Frances Lynch

    A graveyard, sinister music, a small child's nightmare...A children's tune played on a hurdy-gurdyA small boy's nightmareThe same tune played by an old blind beggar outside a foggy graveyard - and heard again by an old, bed-ridden womanAnd heard agai...



  • Jon Sharpe

    WHERE WERE THE STOLEN WOMEN? A wily Crow warrior was kidnapping the women of Sunwater and hiding them somewhere in the Dakotas. And his raids were right under the guns of Fort Jasper's commander, a man of very small talent, militarily and otherwis...



  • Louis L'Amour

    THE NAME IS BOWDRIE It was a name that caused the most hardened gunmen to break out in a cold sweat. Chick Bowdrie. He could have ridden the outlaw trail, but the Texas Rangers recruited him because they didn't want to have to fight against him. P...



  • J.R. Roberts

    Sheriff Jack Tyler has a habit of looking the other way when there's trouble in Tylerville-but maybe that's because his old man happens to own the town. And maybe that's why they're none too happy when deputy Joe Bags decides to run against Tyler in ...



  • Leo P. Kelley

    He rode from Texas with his Colt at his side, his Winchester in a saddle scabbard, a look in his eyes that made men back off, and a lean, muscled strength that made women gaze at him long and hard. He called himself Cimarron, with his hand on his gun...





  • Don Coldsmith

    A FATHER'S QUEST Don Pedro Garcia impatiently measured time in the number of forced marches the horses could endure. He was an old man now, and he wanted to see his son who. rumor had it, was alive among the Indians of the Great Plains. Don Pedro'...



  • Tabor Evans

    SILVER WAS DISAPPEARING WITHOUT A TRACE... Peacock was a two-bit town stuck high along the Continental Divide. But that's where the narrow-gauge railroad picked up the payload from the silver mines. And that's where a slippery gang of train robber...



  • Jake Logan

    JOHN SLOCUM WAS NO CATTLE DROVER. But for an old friend's sake and a chance at 50.000 dollars, he'd ride through Hell -- and Hell might have been easier. Slocum had 2,500 head of steers, a handful of desperate wranglers. and his boss's desirable daug...





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  • Peter Straub

    Two monstrous evils. The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous, unstoppable creation of man's power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. And it makes the first look like child's...



  • Karl Edward Wagner

    One of the most important horror collections of modern times, back in print at last!Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) has earned a reputation as one of the finest horror writers of the modern era, but his work has been out of print and nearly unobtainab...