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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — FEBRUARY 1992

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New Books List: 466 titles

  • In Memoriam to Identity

    Kathy Acker

    "In Memoriam to Identity is a weird, violent, searing, angry work, full of pain, dislocation, desire, hate and the raging drive of resistant creation. . . . Kathy Acker has invented a form of secret historiography, a language of shock and sensation t...

  • When Mama Retires

    Karen Ackerman

  • Boomer Down

    James B. Adair

  • Home Sweet Home

    Audra Adams

    MIAMI MEAT Under the steamy Miami sun, Rico Alvarez was a man with a passion, a man without time for society's rules. He had a shelter full of unwanted children to protect. But when the county threatened to close him down, Rico had to look to ...

  • Horrorscope

    Nicholas Adams

  • Suisan

    Phyllis Carol Agins

    Arriving from the human world--and fulfilling Dylan's prophesy--Suisan instills fear in the bitter dwarf, Adrian, and desire in the youngest dwarf, Roan, who obtains a magic growth potion in order to grow tall enough to bewitch the human woman. Origi...

  • Sesame Street Rainforest Adventure

    Liza Alexander

  • Souls

    Katina Alexis

    Vowing to return from the dead one day, the evil Maria Trapnell--a colonial Southern woman with extraordinary powers--sees an opportunity to fulfill her promise in Maria Demos, a modern-day descendant with extraordinary psychic powers of her own. Ori...

  • Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad

    Constance Allen

    In this Sesame Street Little Golden Book, Elmo and his friends put on a play all about feelings. Girls and boys ages 2 to 5 will giggle at seeing their favorite Sesame Street Muppets happy and sad, grouchy and glad!...

  • When Grandfather's Parrot Inherited Kenning Court

    Linda Allen

    With all of her relatives scrambling to find a hidden key that would make them the inheritors of her grandfather's beloved Kennington Court, Miranda comes up with some ideas of her own about where the key is hidden. Reprint....

  • We Are All Guilty

    Kingsley Amis

    Out of work, bored, and living with his parents in the slums of London, Clive Raynor breaks into a warehouse for kicks, but when the night watchman is seriously injured, Clive is blamed and pigeonholed as a typical hood....

  • Paradise Moon

    Donna Anders

    The Dark Side of Paradise When Leilani Jauwe set her mind to something, she was a woman to be reckoned with. But even her status as Dr. Pete's assistant -- which allowed her safe passage through the slums of Honolulu's Chinatown -- was no advantage ...

  • Girls High

    Barbara Anderson

    A novel made up of a group of linked stories set in and around a girls' high school. The action swings backwards and forwards in time as the central characters try to sort out their wants and desires against the often competing demands of lovers, sup...

  • Twilight's Child

    V.C. Andrews

    AS MRS. JAMES GARY LONGCHAMP, DAWN IS BLISSFULLY HAPPY. BUT A LEGACY OF DECEIT AND BETRAYAL STILL HAUNTS HER ... At last, Dawn can create a haven of warmth and love for her beautiful baby girl, Christie, and her darling Jimmy. Dawn is a huge success...

  • Aquamarine

    Carol Anshaw

    Olympic swimmer Jesse Austin is seduced and consequently edged out for a gold medal by her Australian rival. From there, Anshaw intricately traces three possible paths for Jesse, spinning exhilarating variations on the themes of lost love and paralle...

  • Steppe

    Piers Anthony

    Thrust naked and helpless at the moment of his death into a world he thinks is hell, a Turkish warrior chieftain discovers that this world, which is a strange recreation of his own, is inhabited by a race of humans known as Galactics. Reissue....

  • Memory and Desire

    Lisa Appignanesi

    When Dr. Jacob Jardine strolls through a bustling marketplace in 1934 Paris, he is drawn to the tantalizing Sylvia--half child, half temptress, the darling of bohemian Paris, and soon to become a heroine of the Resistance. Driven by inner demons and ...

  • Moonstalker

    Victor Appleton

    SPACE INVADERS! Tom Swift has developed an ultrapowerful telescopic device that promises to yield dramatic new insight into the deepest mysteries of the universe. But his first discovery is no more than two hundred miles up, and it's a shocker. A tin...

  • The Groo Carnival

    Sergio Aragones

  • What You Don't Know Can Kill You

    Fran Arrick

    When eighteen-year-old Ellen tests HIV-positive, she discovers that her boyfriend had a secret affair--the consequences of which will leave her constantly wondering if the dormant symptoms of AIDS will awaken....

  • Phule's Paradise

    Robert Asprin

    Be all that you can be ... in Phule's Company Clumsy, inane, sloppy, reckless, idiotic. They're the laughingstock of the military. Their latest mission: to guard an intergalactic casino called the Fat Chance from an unlikely criminal takeover... ...

  • Lights Along the Shore

    Diane Austell

    The Gentrys. They had left the comforts of the Old South and come to California, a sunlit Eden where ranchers put down roots and grew wealthy, while beautiful young women such as Marin Gentry danced until dawn and dreamed of undying love. But ahead w...

  • No Time for Tears

    June Masters Bacher

    The Heartland Heritage Series takes us back to a time when the American spirit was tested to its limits. To the Harringtons, the Depression seemed remote. Some belt-tightening. Fewer luxuries. At least they had their land... But then the drought. An...

  • Dishonourable Proposal

    Jacqueline Baird

    Pleasure before business No teenage crush, Katy's love for Jake Granton was as real as the searing heartbreak of his betrayal. After four years of modeling--and all the male attention a woman could possibly want--she'd actually convinced h...

  • Comanche Flame

    Madeline Baker

    HALF-BREED... He was a loner, a drifter, a fast gun whose aura of dangerous virility turned pretty heads all across the West. But if his reputation as an outlaw didn't warn decent women away, his Comanche blood did... HEARTBREAKER... He ...

  • Vox

    Nicholson Baker

    Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex -- sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic, classic that places Nicholas Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers....

  • Sassy Lady

    Becky Barker

    IRRESISTIBLE Maggie Malone had come to Oklahoma in search of a change. Life in the big city had lost its luster for the petite, dark-eyed bundle of energy who couldn't sit still for a minute. Maggie wanted a job that challenged her with each new s...

  • The California Voodoo Game

    Steven Barnes; Larry Niven

    WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE Dream Park, the ultimate in amusement parks, was about to embark on the greatest Game ever: the California Voodoo Game. Across the world bets were being placed; fortunes and reputations hung in the balance. Gaming careers wo...

  • Kiki's New Sister

    Jennifer Barrett

  • Highland Rebel

    Stephanie Bartlett

    SHE WAS A PROUD HIGHLAND BEAUTY FIGHTING FOR HER LAND AND HER PEOPLE ... Lovely Catriona Galbraith belonged to the lush rolling hills and misty valleys of the Isle of Skye. But now her homeland and heritage were being threatened by the very man wh...

  • Swinging on a Star

    Pamela Bauer

    He would have to learn to expect the unexpected. Zeb Farrell could not believe the lovely, sensuous woman he met at Juliet Osborne's wedding was her sister, Meridee, better known as " The Ice Princess ". He was about to make some drastic changes to t...

  • Changes of Heart

    Elizabeth Bennett

    SHE CHANGED HER LOOKS, HER LIFE, HER DESTINY. AND NOTHING WOULD EVER BE THE SAME.... To her prominent New England family, Janie was the misfit. Not as pretty or thin or popular as her older sisters, she hid away in quiet places, painting pictures ...

  • When I Grow up, Oh the Things I Can Be

    Michael Berenstain

  • Hop, Waddle, Swim!

    Michael Berenstain

  • Kangaroo Kids

    Patricia Bernard

    Homesick for the Australian bush in which he was raised, Tony Talbot happily adopts Midge, a baby kangaroo in need of a home, but hiding her from his mother in their tiny city apartment proves difficult. Reprint....

  • An Unwilling Bride

    Jo Beverley

    SHE VOWED TO DESPISE HIM... Miss Elizabeth Armitage was certain the world had gone mad! The school teacher wanted nothing more than to live her life free of the shackles of matrimony. Yet, after a harrowing meeting with the elderly Duke of Belcraven...

  • Song of the Wolf

    Rosanne Bittner

    AS THE WINDS OF CHANGE SWEPT ACROSS THE VAST WESTERN PLAINS, HER NAME WAS A CRY OF HOPE, FREEDOM -- AND DESIRE They called her Medicine Wolf, and she was born at a time when buffalo herds stretched farther than the sharpest eye could see-a time ...

  • Texas Princess

    Veronica Blake

  • The Paper Grail

    James P. Blaylock

    The second thriller in the supernatural trilogy by the World Fantasy Award"winning author -- An “intriguing and absorbing work from a major talent” (Kirkus Reviews).   Howard Barton came to Mendocino in search of a folded scrap of paper. ...

  • Lord Kelvin's Machine

    James P. Blaylock

    Within the magical gears of Lord Kelvin's incredible machine lies the secret of time. The deadly Dr. Ignacio Narbondo would murder to possess it and scientist and explorer Professor Langdon St. Ives would do anything to use it. For the doctor it mean...

  • Monsieur Pamplemousse Stands Firm

    Michael Bond

    LE GUIDE'S APPRENTICE RESTAURANT RATER IS QUITE A DISH! Nevertheless, when Monsieur Pamplemousse is sent on the road with the saucy Elsie, he is not amused--despite the fact that he finds her delectable! Their destination is the obscure Hotel d...

  • Paddington On Stage

    Michael Bond

  • The Trikon Deception

    Ben Bova

    In the near future: Earth is an ecological nightmare, and humanity may well go the way of the dinosaurs. But overhead orbits salvation. A vast metallic island in space, Trikon conducts research too risky to be held on earth--research which could save...

  • Faithfully Executed

    Michael Bowen

    When the rumor that a recently executed prisoner was already dead before he received his lethal injection threatens the President's reelection, Richard Michaelson conducts a secret investigation and discovers connections between the Pentagon, a Japan...

  • Rose

    Rose Boyt

  • The Burying Point

    Ann Brahms

  • The Real Thing

    Melissa Brennan

    Returning to Pizza Paradise after recovering from a motorcycle accident, Beth Perkins swears off boys, until Trevor, a new waiter, begins winning her over with his charm, and Vincent, her old boyfriend, vows to win her back. Original....

  • Too Much Too Young

    Caroline Bridgwood

    Four children born in 1959 in a small village outside of London--Stephen, Carolyn, Matthew, and Jackie--search the worlds of the media, medicine, finance, and the gay community to confront their pasts...

  • Gus and the Nice Lady

    Dixie Browning

    BREAKFAST IN BED Mr. Gus Galanos sure wasn't the friendly type. From the moment the stone-faced, sexy guest slammed into Phoebe Shaw's bed and breakfast, he hadn't smiled, said two words or taken one bite of her country cooking. One th...

  • One Last Time

    William J. Buchanan

    Spurred on by his father's near-fatal encounter with the killer steer Diablo, a young boy, along with his best friend, is determined to rope Diablo but is ill-prepared for the danger he is about to face. Original....

  • Island Lover

    Patt Bucheister

    A Hot-Blooded Hunk in Paradise... Judd Stafford had fought hard and lost, finally agreeing to take two weeks off from running his family's corporation and go to Hawaii for a vacation. But nobody could make him relax, or distract him from wonde...

  • Wolf's Lady

    Mary Butler

    Falsely accused of a crime, and cast into England's most notorious jail, Jenny Wilde thought herself doomed -- until a dangerous highwayman offered her a chance at liberty. All she need do was pose as a missing heiress and use her considerable wi...

  • The Whipping Boy

    John Byrne

    A priest and a female reporter come face-to-face with the nightmare of the whipping boy--a sideshow freak who takes on other people's woes and leaves them with an unspeakable evil. Original....

  • Are You Asleep, Rabbit?

    Alison Campbell; Julia Barton

  • Good Gossip

    Jacqueline Carey

    While Susannah decides to marry boring old Harry Tierney, Cole quits a hot job in journalism, Dee Kilmartin has an affair with a seventeen-year-old boy, and playwright Eileen Filley gets a job in a greeting card store. Reprint....

  • Quest for Vengeance

    Jeanne Carmichael

    His revenge would be bittersweet at best Richard Danvers, Lord St. Symington, believed his father had been driven to his death. Danvers had returned to England determined to destroy the man he knew to be responsible. His attention became divi...

  • Mind Tryst

    Robyn Carr

    Jackie Sheppard is a woman alone. Divorced from her husband, she had made a fine, strong life for herself as a lawyer in Los Angeles, until her young son's accidental death shook her to her core. Settling into a new home and practice in the different...

  • The Ruby Tears of Edgecliff Manor

    Elizabeth Carroll

    'The ruby ring - the blood and the tears -- will bring the family back together.' The letter was a godsend. After struggling for so long to make ends meet as a music teacher, Emily Woodstock was astonished to learn that she was the close...

  • Certain of Nothing

    Rosemary Carter

    Kirk Lemayne wanted sole guardianship of his dead brother's children and made it clear that he had no intention of relinquishing control to Jessica. So if she wanted a role in the upbringing of her young niece and nephew, she'd have to play the game ...

  • Black Ice

    Lorene Cary

    In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for fu...

  • Shotgun Wedding

    Barbara Catlin

    The secret bequest of baby B.J. had made single, childless Maggie Howard a mom -- an impossible dream come true. But if she couldn't produce the document, the dollars, or a devoted "daddy" to endorse her parenthood -- pronto -- the author...

  • Private Lessons

    Anne Cavaliere

    A CASE OF LOVE Art history expert Emory Byrd was bookish, brainy and bright -- not exactly the type to get involved with cops and robbers. But when Detective Nick Fiore flashed her his badge and an incredibly sexy smile, that was exactly what the ...

  • Deception Bay

    Patricia Chandler

    Why was Matt McCullough so friendly? Matt seemed to be the only person in Deception Bay who didn't want Elizabeth La Salle to leave. Sure, the townsfolk wanted their privacy, and by painting the Deception Head lighthouse, she'd bring in more touri...

  • Harmony

    Susan Taylor Chehak

    Strangely drawn to down-on-her-luck Lilly Duke, whose baby is the son of a Death Row murderer, happily married and well-respected Harmony resident Clodine Wheeler begins to leave little gifts for the shunned Lilly. Reprint....

  • Thief in the Night

    Sally Cheney

    The Country Girl Maggie Landers was spellbound the moment she laid eyes on her employers' houseguest, Jared Michaels. He was the handsomest, most sophisticated man she'd ever met -- and he was the first who'd ever kissed her. Then she ...

  • The Scandalous Marriage

    Marion Chesney

    AS FAR AS MATRIMONIAL PROSPECTS WERE CONCERNED, LUCY BLISS WAS TOLD SHE'D MAKE AN EXCELLENT CLERGYMAN'S WIFE. Her mother, however, had loftier aspirations for her lovely younger sister Belinda. Belinda would marry a duke. More specifically...

  • Temptation's Bride

    Maureen Child
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    Left standing at the altar months ago, Rachel returns to Temptation, California, to give her fiance a second chance. Maybe....

  • Sweet Remembrance

    Judy Christenberry

    A PASSION FOR MATCHMAKING... AND FOR LOVE Vivacious Georgina Debigh spice up a quiet country life with elaborate matchmaking schemes. In fact she had two fetching ladies in mind for her handsome brother and her scholarly, widowed father. So when...

  • Captive Kiss

    Amy Christopher

    HIS PASSION HELD HER CAPTIVE Terrified at the warwhoops in the night, Rachel Linton stood ready with rifle in hand. The small English settlement was no match for the raiding Indians, and Rachel found herself subdued by the iron grip and cold blue ey...

  • Good Morning, Miss Greene

    Kathy Clark

    MATCHMAKERS COME IN ALL SIZES When five-year-old Whitney Sloane took a shine to her kindergarten teacher, Miss Greene, it spelled trouble for her handsome dad. Whitney thought Allison Greene would make a great mom. She had only one problem -- ...

  • Poison Parsley

    Anna Clarke

    Widow Rosalind Bannister becomes mixed up with a well-known herbalist, and her jealous son is convinced that the man is up to no good, but the trusting Rosalind will not be swayed until she finds toxic plants missing from the refrigerator...

  • The Summerhouse

    Marion Clarke

    She was a lovely young innocent. He was an older man and a scholar. But Courtney Dunburn felt honour-bound to carry on her late husband's search for a legendary royal treasure. She had barely had time to dry her widow's tears when the handsome, arrog...

  • Nevada Temptation

    Gwen Cleary

    SHE WANTED THE TRUTH There was only one thing standing between Carson Mueller and her inheritance -- and he was carrying a gun. Six feet of pure muscle, he was dangerous, and serious as a hornet being chased from its nest. Carson wasn't quite su...

  • The Man in the Window

    Jon Cohen

    Iris Shula, a homely nurse resigned to her single status, finds her romantic life taking a definite turn for the better when disfigured hermit Louis Malone falls out of his window and into her life. Reprint....

  • The Clown-Arounds

    Joanna Cole

  • The Summer Of The Royal Visit

    Isabel Colegate

    As the city of Bath prepares for the arrival of Queen Victoria, the curate enters into a liaison with the wife of a prominent citizen; rumors of corruption surround the architectural competition for the design of a new hotel; and an imposter and a cl...

  • Every Night at Eight

    Marion Smith Collins

    ROYAL WEDDING... Selena Mastron belonged to two different worlds -- she was a sophisticated American woman...and the child of a Karastonian family that believed in arranged marriages. But since she was building a career, marriage was the last thin...

  • Dick Tracy Meets His Match

    Max Allan Collins

  • The Scalp Hunters

    Dale Colter

  • The Return of the Vampire // Evil Returns

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Devnee just wants to be beautiful -- but is she willing to pay the price? Devnee is so excited about having a bedroom in an attic tower. A tower sounds so romantic, like living in a private castle. Devnee hopes her new room will make her romantic ...

  • Freshman Heartbreak

    Linda A. Cooney

    If Josh knew about Winnie's fling he'd flip out! But he doesn't have to find out, does he? When KC swears nothing will keep her from following Peter to Europe, is she inviting disaster? Lauren's still hoping for a reunion with Dash -- then she see...

  • Making Changes

    Linda A. Cooney

    Sometimes making changes means taking chances. Jojo Hernandez wants to change her image. The kids at school, including her friends Miranda and Kat, act as if she's just another empty-headed cheerleader. But Jojo is determined to prove them wrong. ...

  • Submariner

    John O. Coote

    The author relates his experiences as a submarine commander for the British Royal Navy during World War II, describing patrols in the North Sea and the Mediterranean and enemy attacks that made submarine operations the most dangerous of combat servic...

  • Darkborn

    Matthew J. Costello

    Twenty-seven years after he and a few high school classmates dabbled in the occult--attempting to raise a demon from a stolen book of black magic--Will Dunnigan finds that the evil is reawakening and demanding revenge...

  • Her Brother's Keeper

    Patricia Coughlin

    After serving nearly a year in jail for a crime he hadn't committed, all Alex DeLancey wanted was to get on with his life. But it appeared the state had other plans -- in the person of Daisy Benjamin, his tough, street-smart parole officer. Gutsy...

  • Wild Tory Rose

    Linda Covington

    From Tender Irish Innocent. Proud, headstrong Meg Shahan was born into a world of poverty and servitude on a vast country estate in eighteenth century Ireland. Bold and breathtakingly beautiful, she yearned to become a great lady, but only one man ...

  • Captain Ding - the Double Decker Pirate

    David Cox

  • The Kneeling Bus

    Beverly Coyle

    “Perfect, dazzling stories that show you the world in a way you’ve never ever seen before.” "Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times
     
    These eight connected stories depict Carrie Willis’s coming-of-age as the daughter of a liberal minister ...

  • Wolf and the Angel

    Kathleen Creighton

    SHE NEEDED HIS STRENGTH Doctor Terry Duncan knew drifter-pilot Jack Wolf was trouble the minute she saw him. Not for a second did she buy his story that he just wanted to help her get medical supplies to Baja, Mexico. Unfortunately, she needed hi...

  • Scar Lover

    Harry Crews

    Scar Lover is a miraculous, true-to-the-bone story of love and redemption, at once a classic southern novel and purely, unmistakably, Harry Crews.

    Running from a past that has scarred and blamed him, and a tragic accident that has destroyed his fam...

  • Rising Sun

    Michael Crichton

    On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto Tower in downtown L.A.--the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate--a grand opening celebration is in full swing. On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the dead body...

  • The Texas Capitol Murders

    Bill Crider

    When a young cleaning woman is murdered in the Texas capitol building in Austin, Ranger Rayn Harnett must question the building's entire staff, legislators, anti-choice demonstrators, and the governor himself to get at the truth....

  • The Jury on Smoky Hill

    Jack Curtis

    When local vigilantes hang four of his prisoners, Sheriff Dave Cromwell turns in his badge, but the ensuing chaos convinces him that he should return to work and clean up the terrorized town. Original....

  • A Heavenly Houseguest

    Emily Dalton

    She had not wished to stay Now she had no wish to leave Miss Angela Fairfax had not wished to visit Castlerigg Abbey. Nor had she wanted to meet Sydney St. James, Marquess of Brynne, famous for his Town tricks and adventures. The design was to...

  • Flight of the Swan

    Lacey Dancer

    RICH HAD DECIDED TO SWEAR OFF ROMANCE FOR GOOD... UNTIL CHRISTIANA The minute Christiana Drake met the Luck twins, she was hooked. How could she resist a position caring for the mischievous duo who were about to drive their parents, Pippa and Josh, ...

  • Breaking Point

    Emma Darcy

    The honeymoon was over Rafe had wanted Tanya the moment he saw her. When he proposed, she'd been deliciously happy -- happy to give up her job without a second thought, and devote herself to decorating their beautiful new home in Sydney's ...

  • The Painted Alphabet

    Diana Darling

    Appalled with the corruption of his daily life, Siladri decides to live the life of an ascetic with his wife and niece, but arch-witch Daya Datu and her protegee conspire to kill Siladri and kidnap his niece...

  • Master of Namangilla

    Mons Daveson

    "Rich city girls spell trouble." That was Scott Courtenay's prejudiced, but firmly held, opinion. And it was no secret he disliked Victoria from the moment they met. Just because his stepmother, the quintessential city girl, had bee...

  • Destroy the Kentucky

    Bart Davis

    “More twists and turns and intriguing characters than any three adventure tales…tough to tear your eyes from” (Clive Cussler, New York Times bestselling author of the Dirk Pitt® series).SPIES, SOLDIERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS -- IN THE HUNT FOR THE...

  • Dirty Money

    Marc Davis

  • Double Blind

    David Laing Dawson

    Working the graveyard shift at a Baltimore hospital, Dr. Robert Snow is shocked by a bizarre trend among the patients brought in by the police in the wee hours of the night--they all seem psychotic, and all are infected with the HIV virus...

  • Shadow on the Sea

    Helena Dawson

    Was there something dark hidden in his past? Matthew Fenn was a complicated character, and Lucy doubted that she'd ever really understand him. She'd known -- from the day she began working for him -- that Matthew was different. He could...

  • Hide and Seek

    Lorraine P. De Sosa

  • Capitol Secrets

    Maureen Dean

    Laura Christen is the golden girl of politics--a tall blonde Congresswoman who's just made a boldly ambitious bid to become Speaker of the House. Now the media's glaring spotlight is on--and searching for Laura's secrets and scandals. Anyone who k...

  • Little Chick Chick

    Demi

  • Little Bitty Bunny

    Demi

  • The Marriage Mart

    Teresa DesJardien

    MARRIAGE BOUND Fiddlesticks, thought Lady Mary Wagnall. Finding a husband couldn't be that difficult. She knew she was no great beauty, and at the ancient age of 28 she was prepared to settle for an older gentleman, one happy to settle down and ...

  • Eternity

    Jude Deveraux

    Carrie Montgomery had grown up with seven adoring older brothers, and she was used to getting her way rather easily. Joshua Greene was looking for a hardworking, practical mail- order bride to help with the farm and feed and clothe his children. Yet ...

  • Wife for a Night

    Angela Devine

    She wanted a real marriage! Greece -- its shimmering seas and brilliant blue skies were a photographer's choice location to shoot. And that was Kate Walsh's only reason for being there -- until Philip Andronikos turned her safe, if lonely,...

  • Deadfall

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Trouble with Water

    Melvin Dixon

  • Do Bunnies Talk?

    Dayle Ann Dodds

  • The Prince of Darkness

    P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    Holy Terrors The beautiful Lady Eleanor, mistress of the feckless Prince of Wales, is banished to Godstow Priory by King Edward, eager to be rid of an embarrassment while negotiating his son's betrothal. Whispers of murder echo through the hall...

  • The Resolute Runaway

    Charlotte Louise Dolan

    High Risk Romance Miss Joanna Pettigrew knew the risk of running away in a daring gamble far a new life better than her odious old one She was without funds or family Her only so-called friend was Belinda Dillon, a belle whose only loyalty was to ...

  • Critical Care

    Richard Dooling

    A reawakening of his sexual desires becomes Dr. Werner Ernst's undoing when he becomes involved in a battle between a stunningly sensual woman and her devout sister over the fate of their comatose father. Reprint....

  • Flare Star

    Paula E. Downing

    When the Wolf II colony is bombarded by sudden bursts from its long-dormant sun, Jason Roarke, aboard an approaching supply ship, defies his captain and risks his career to prepare for the evacuation of the colony's survivors. Original....

  • Modern Classics of Science Fiction

    Gardner Dozois

    Brian AldissWilliam GibsonR.A. LaffertyUrsula K. Le GuinLucius ShepardBruce SterlingTheodore SturgeonHoward WaldropConnie WillisGene WolfeRoger ZelaznyThe best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause ...

  • Silent Assassin

    Jack Drake

  • The Pines

    Robert Dunbar

    A lonely woman lives in a ramshackle house ... deep in the woods ... where she cares for her disturbed young son. As brutal killings in the woods draw ever nearer, she comes to realize that her son has a psychic link to something in the forest.***Dee...

  • The Marriage Gamble

    Sarah Eagle

    SUDDENLY SHE WAS ENGAGED TO A TEMPTING STRANGER.... The papers announced Lady Damara's engagement to Simon Alton, Marquess of Emsley -- but the lady herself had never heard of him! So the spitfire redhead rushed to London to correct the mistak...

  • Summer's Chance

    Patricia Harrison Easton

    While spending the summer at her grandmother's horse farm, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth gains a clear sense of her own individuality as she learns more about her long-dead mother and the reasons for her grandmother's irascible behavior...

  • Savage Promise

    Cassie Edwards

    ICE & RAPTURE From out of the driving snow the silver-eyed warrior appeared to kill the vicious polar bear that threatened lovely young Letitia. Leader of the Tlingit Indians, Kanuga was a menace she would not so easily escape. And deep in his ...

  • Stampede

    Josh Edwards

    It’s John Stone’s first cattle drive, and it won’t be an easy ride—especially since he’s travelling with a band of vagabonds and desperadoes. But he’d brave anything to get one step closer to the women he loved and...

  • Under the 82nd Airborne

    Deborah Eisenberg

    Seven knowing, witty stories from the widely praised author of Transactions in a Foreign Currency....

  • Winter Challenge

    Rachel Elliot (1)

    Dane Jacobsen was a Viking incarnate Tall, blond and not about to take no for an answer. And that was bad news for Shannon Lea. Because once Dane walked into her life, he refused to leave. But Shannon didn't want to get involved with Dan...

  • Grover Goes to School

    Dan Elliott

  • Keeping Up With the Joneses

    Patricia Ellis

    THE LAST STRAW... Joanna Jones found her new neighbor, Joshua Jones, positively infuriating. He was actually amused that the postman kept putting the perfume-scented letters addressed to Mr. J. Jones into Ms. J. Jones's mailbox. He got a kick ...

  • Lone Star and the Trail to Abilene

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki ride herd, risk death, and raise hell on a cutthroat cattle drive in the one hundred and fourteenth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on Americ...

  • Shifting Sands

    Suzanne Ellison

    She found his name in the time capsule Reed Clapwell had no idea how that happened. But when he met Ellen Andrews, he was glad it had. And he was more than willing to help the beautiful geographer solve the rest of the mystery. But Reed was off...

  • Journal of the Flood

    David Ely

    Set in the near future, a haunting black comedy introduces a disturbing world where dams have been built to extend the east coast into the Atlantic and the Department of Interior Personnel Security force roams the country...

  • One Land, One Duke

    Ru Emerson

    Chris, Jennifer, and Robin must save Rhadaz, a fantastical land that has been oppressed under false rule for too long. It is time for these three from Earth to save a planet that is new to them. It is time for them to use their powers as warrior, ...

  • Longarm and the Ute Nation

    Tabor Evans

  • 101 Dalmatians

    Carl Fauburg

  • A Cloud on Sand

    Gabriella Ferrari

  • Danger from the Dead

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

    Vacationing at the guest cottage on the property of his brother, Gavin, Nigel Cleaver discovers the bodies of Gavin's wife, Annabel, and her half-sister, Caroline. By the author of Sleep of the Unjust....

  • 2XS

    Nigel Findley

    2XS, THE HALLUCINOGENIC CHIP OF CHOICE. To Excess--that's how they say it on the streets, before it destroyed their minds. Dirk Montgomery thinks he knows those streets. He's watched the change with the world, as the powers of magic grow and a...

  • Deathtrap: The Vault

    Danny Fingeroth

  • Long Ago in France

    M.F.K. Fisher

    In 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. Long Ago In France is Fisher's exquisitely evocative, delici...

  • The Damsels from Derbyshire

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    Years after the scandalous death of her father scarred her family name, Lady Tabitha returns to London as her younger sister's chaperone and falls for Lord Lovell, a gentleman who will only marry a woman from a scandal-free family. Lady Tabith...

  • Wyoming Wildcat

    Dirk Fletcher

    While on the trail of two missing government surveyors, Spur McCoy meets trouble in the form of two long-legged beauties with a penchant for pistols and a land-hungry rancher who unleashes his trigger-happy gunmen on Spur. Original....

  • Neptune's Lance

    Stephen K. Forbes

  • Terrible Swift Sword

    William R. Forstchen

    THE 35th MAINE HAS LOOSED THE VENGEANCE OF THE HORDES Swept through a time-space warp at the height of the American Civil War, Union Colonel Andrew Keane and his hard-fighting regiment found themselves stranded forever on a distant world ruled by ...

  • Rope the Wind

    Norman A. Fox

  • Shadows on the Mirror

    Frances Fyfield

    In her third critically acclaimed crime novel, Edgar Award nominee Frances Fyfield has created a wonderfully complex and fascinating new heroine, Sarah Fortune. A lawyer in a prestigious Mayfair firm, she loathes her dry profession and leads a most u...

  • Perfect Strangers

    Louann Gaeddert

    A TALE AS UNFORGETTABLE AS THE VIVID CHARACTERS AND THE ENDURING LOVE THEY FORGE! NATALIE had finally achieved the success that was her ticket out of the city. Living in a beautiful old farmhouse complete with apple orchard, a new husband, and th...

  • The Weerde

    Neil Gaiman

    One theory weaves like a constant thread of darkness through human history. The rumour of an ancient race, more powerful than we are. This book contains 11 chilling stories that expose this theory. Their authors are Storm Constantine, Mary Gentle, Co...

  • Love's Magic Spell

    Wendy Garrett

    SPELLBOUND BY HIS KISSES Forced by poverty and scandal to flee her native London, auburn-haired Lauren Stanton was pleased with her job as companion to a wealthy lady in New York, even though her employer was under the spell of a psychic medium who ...

  • Make Friends With Murder

    Judith Garwood

  • People of the Earth

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    A sweeping epic of prehistory, PEOPLE OF THE EARTH brings the true story of the ancestors of today's Native American peoples to life in an unforgettable saga of hardship and passion, of a woman torn between two peoples and two dreams, of the two men ...

  • Out of the Storm

    Catherine George

    She had no past! Leonora had awoken to discover she had no memory of her surroundings or of how she had sustained the excruciatingly painful wound to her head. She also had no memory of her past -- Leonora simply had no idea who she was! Dr. Pe...

  • A Suitable Vengeance

    Elizabeth George

    Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters th...

  • Golden Warrior

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    The Dangerously Virile Fighter Pilot... Eric Lind was utterly masculine, outrageously sexy, and had a rake's reputation to match--how could Sylvia Mathieson allow herself to get lost in his bluer-than-blue eyes when she refused to be one of a crow...

  • Keep Your Socks on, Albert!

    Linda Glaser

  • This Is Next Year

    Philip Goldberg

  • Long Distance Life

    Marita Golden

    "A novel of impressive artistry and power." The Washington Post
    Caught in the web of history, generations of an African-American family play out their parts on a world stage that constantly changes, protected always by the love of one another, whi...

  • A Good Man Walks in

    Ginna Gray

    World-weary FBI agent Travis McCall needed a hideaway. What he got was his twin cousins' cottage . . . complete with their latest charity case, "poor little rich girl" Rebecca Quinn. Their hometown heiress had the breathtaking poise of a marble Venus...

  • The Missing Championship Ring

    Rosalind Greenberg

  • Pink Topaz

    Jennifer Greene

    FIVE SMOOTH STONES . . . They were Regan Thorne's legacy--and the key to the dark mystery swirling around her. It looked more and more as if those five glorious jewels might just cost her her sanity--and maybe her life. Regan was used to handli...

  • Hot Zone

    Irving A. Greenfield

    On a rescue mission to save a downed Russian vessel, Admiral Jack Boxer discovers that its crew is dead and that high levels of lethal radiation caused by illegally dumped nuclear waste is filling the vessel. Original....

  • Scarlet Sunset, Silver Nights

    Leigh Greenwood

    LOOKING FOR ONE GOOD MAN Pamela White needed a man she could trust, not this handsome drifter whose dusty boots and skill with a gun told her he was on the run. But with her father away from the ranch, and Pamela's nearest neighbor encroaching o...

  • Goodbye Delaney

    Kay Gregory

    A fiance for one night That's what Jessica Delaney needed. And who better to fill the role than her surrogate brother, Jon? Good old easygoing Jon, who could always be counted on in a crisis. Good old Jon, who in this latest emergency had ...

  • The Pelican Brief

    John Grisham

    IN SUBURBAN GEORGETOWN A KILLER'S REEBOKS WHISPER ON THE FLOOR OF A POSH HOME... IN A SEEDY D.C. PORNO HOUSE A PATRON IS SWIFTLY GARROTED TO DEATH ... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. An...

  • Enemy's Enemy

    Jan Guillou

  • Under Water

    Sally Gunning

    Carlisle Brown and her twin sister Bentley had seemed like average teenagers when Peter Bartholomew hired them to work in his shop, but when Bentley turns up dead in the cool New England surf, Peter sets out to solve the crime...

  • Ghostland

    Jean Hager

    READING, WRITING AND MURDER The Cherokee Heritage Festival is about to begin, and Buckskin, Oklahoma, is bustling--until the murder of Tamarah Birch, a third-grade girl from the tribal boarding school, dampens the festivities for the townspeople a...

  • Crystalworld

    Isidore Haiblum

    Concerned about the fate of Magalone--the dimension not found on any starchart and that has been infiltrated by subversives--insane Dr. Sass calls upon Tom Dunjer, Chief of Security Plus, to journey to the remote dimension. Original....

  • Incinerator

    Timothy Hallinan

    When a wealthy man is set ablaze by the "incinerator"--a deranged pyromaniac who is stalking the homeless of L.A.--professor-turned-private investigator Simeon Grist is determined to catch the killer. Reprint....

  • Little Sister for Sale

    Morse Hamilton

  • Let's Go To The Petting Zoo

    Jack Hanna

    With each turn of the page in The Petting Zoo, children are introduced to a different animal and are invited to ruffle the flamingo's pretty feathers; to feel the giraffe's velvety horn; to pat the baby penguin's soft, fuzzy belly; to slide a finger ...

  • Penetrators

    Mark D. Harrell

    The author of Infiltrators designs a new mission for Special Forces Captain Matt MacIntyre, when a band of ruthless terrorists steals the deadliest toxin in America's chemical arsenal and is more than willing to use it. Original....

  • My Sister the Moon

    Sue Harrison

    An abused and unwanted daughter of the first Men Tribe, young Kiin knows the harsh realities of life in a frozen land at the top of the world. In an age of ice nine millennia past, her destiny is tied to the brave sons of orphaned Chagak and her chie...

  • Orchestrated Death

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    INTRODUCING DETECTIVE INSPECTOR BILL SLIDER Slider would rather do things his own way, even if that means rubbing the brass the wrong way. He may never make it from London's Metropolitan Police to the more glamorous ranks of Scotland Yard, but to ...

  • Missouri Guns

    Bryce Harte

    RIDING INTO THE WHIRLWIND When the Civil War ended, Slate Creed's toughest battles hadn't even begun. First they drove him from his Texas home for a crime he didn't commit. A crooked federal marshal with an itchy trigger finger started dogging his ...

  • Big Sky Burning

    Daphne Hartwig

    STARTING OVER Lovely Caroline Atkinson had come to Montana to forget. Here, amid the vast plains and breathtaking mountains, the high-powered Chicago executive was determined to put the heartbreak and betrayal of the past behind her. Then she me...

  • Painted Ladies

    James Neal Harvey

    The death of a beautiful call girl sparks an investigation that has Ben Tolliver, the N.Y.P.D.'s top sex crimes investigator, fighting both the clock and city hall to catch a killer before he strikes again. Reprint....

  • Agatha's Friends

    Thomas Hauser

    Soon after her next-door neighbor's murder, Agatha begins having horrific nightmares replaying the murder scene in her head, and soon she realizes that she alone knows the identity of the killer. Reprint. NYT....

  • The Richest Kid in the World

    Robert Hawks

    The richest kid in the world after a billionaire bequeaths his fortune to him, Josh Ellis enjoys life in a huge mansion surrounded by servants, but there are others who would have him use his newfound wealth for less-than-altruistic causes. Original....

  • The Killing Frost

    Thomas Hayden

    On a ship returning to England, four men--aging rebel Myles Burke; Alexander Carew, out to crush the Irish cause; scheming journalist William Durkin; and Con Gallagher, returning to reclaim his patrimony and his woman--are drawn into the Easter Rebel...

  • With the Next Man Everything Will Be Different

    Eva Heller

    Dissatisfied with her relationship with her boyfriend, Constance Wechselburger, a graduate film student, embarks on a disheartening, confusing quest in search of her vision of the ideal intellectual mate...

  • Fievel's Big Showdown

    Gail Herman

    In a book whose profits will be donated to RIF, Fievel Mousekewitz, of An American Tail, proves he's no fraidy-mouse, when he saves his sister from an evil cat with a tactic he learned from reading a book....

  • At the Sign of the Naked Waiter

    Amy Herrick

    Combining a gift for language, an exuberant sense of humor, and a boundless imagination, Herrick's coming-of-age novel is unlike any other. Navigating the mysterious path from childhood to adulthood, Sarah encounters a naked, winged man, rivalrous gh...

  • Possession

    Lori Herter

    DARK TEMPTATION A musician and a maker of fine violins, Alexandra Peters lived alone and preferred it that way. Until she met David de Morrissey. Mysterious and magnetic, he sweeps aside all restraint and compels her to thrilling new heights o...

  • The Sword and the Flame

    Pamela Hill

    The author scores of historical novels, Pamela Hill has gained a devoted following with her uniquely entrancing style of storytelling. Now, with The Sword and the Flame, she gives her audience yet another treasure for their shelves, telling the tale ...

  • Dead Man's Path

    John Buxton Hilton

  • Breach of Immunity

    Molly Hite

    On the trail of the transvestite rapist who has been targeting random members of Hinton's gay community, Lieutenant Anna Blessing and Detectives Scilla Carmody and Mike Annunzio begin to suspect that the suspect's modus operandi includes more than ra...

  • High Aztech

    Ernest Hogan

    Infected with a virus capable of infecting any human mind with religion, renegade cartoonist Zapata runs through Tenochtitlan--the erstwhile Mexico City-- pursued by the government, the Mafia, street gangs, cults, and garbage collectors. Original....

  • Pacific Street

    Cecelia Holland

    A small black woman and an Indian carpenter form a conspiracy against an enticing blond performer for the Shining Light saloon, in a vivid tale set against the backdrop of the ramshackle, half-built San Francisco during the Gold Rush....

  • Seasons of Gold

    Stef Ann Holm

    AN ENTICING WIDOW... A GUNMAN WITH A HIDDEN PURPOSE... SWEPT AWAY BY DANGER AND AN ALL-CONSUMING PASSION... Widowhood freed Holly Dancer from the shame of her marriage. Billy was dead...murdered. She vowed to turn her back on love and become and...

  • The Farrell Marriage

    Dee Holmes

    "HE'S ALIVE!" For three years, Christine Farrell thought the man she'd loved, married and depended upon was dead. She'd faced the hardest time of her life, comforting their children and rebuilding their lives -- without him. ...

  • Seven Eggs

    Meredith Hooper

  • Blood Relative

    Carolyn Hougan

    A suburban teenager is targeted by a traumatized survivor of a brutal dictatorship in this “fast-paced tale of obsession” (The New York Times).   Pretty and popular sixteen-year-old Mariah Ebinger enjoys a pleasant and peaceful life, though ...

  • Battle for Love

    Stephanie Howard

    She has a mouth made for kissing Shiona Fergusson may be Jake MacKay's stepsister, but there are no family bonds between them. In fact, Jake thinks she's nothing more than a gold digger, the temptress who left his dead brother destitute. ...

  • Pusan Perimeter

    Edwin Palmer Hoyt

  • Blood Trail

    Tanya Huff

    SILVER BULLETS -- For centuries, they had peacefully coexisted with ordinary humans in Canada. But now death had invaded the peaceful retreat of their London, Ontario farm. For someone had learned their most closely guarded secret. Someone knew th...

  • Victory Goal

    Dean Hughes

    The Angel Park kids have just started a new soccer team called the Pride, and fullback Sterling Malone decides to stop playing it safe and finds that the sweetest victories come from taking chances. Simultaneous....

  • New Crimes 3

    Maxim Jakubowski

    A collection of stories by American and British crime writers offers works by Norman Partridge, Julian Rathbone, William Schoell, Jack Adrian, Gabrielle Kraft, Robert B. Parker, John D. MacDonald, and John Dickson Carr...

  • A Step Away

    BJ James

    ON THE EDGE David Canfield had always lived on the edge--and now he was a step away from falling. But some long-legged woman with an easy smile and a heart that had been broken in a million pieces was trying to stop him. Raven McCandless had been ...

  • Valentine Hearts and Flowers

    Muriel Jensen

    CUPID WAS WATCHING... ...And his arrow was pointed at Jocelyn Foley and Rob Donnelly. He was ready to aim his bow, but decided that these hand-picked lovers-to-be needed more time before the fireworks began...before Salty Harbor, Oregon, exploded ...

  • Winter Bride

    Iris Johansen

    A Tanned, Tough, Reckless Lancelot... Jed Corbin slipped inside the island castle by night, determined to solve the mystery of the woman who'd won the prize that should have been his. But he never expected to tumble a captive princess to the floor...

  • Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the very short basketball coach from Ireland really be a leprechaun? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! Melody gasped. "He must be a leprechaun. He's from Ireland, he...