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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — FEBRUARY 1997

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New Books List: 489 titles




  • Carolyn Zane

    WHAT A PROPOSAL! Prudence Mackelroy had prayed for a husband every night, dreaming of love, marriage ... everything brides and grooms did. And now her upcoming wedding was the talk of the town. Imagine her, formerly known as "Miss Priss the Preache...



  • Rebecca York

    His eyes saw all... Jenny Larkin. Ever since the accident that blinded her, she existed only in Ben Brisco's midnight memories. But now she was his best lead to find a killer. Ben only hoped she wouldn't remember him--or discover that he, too, kne...



  • Susan Wright

    When a ferocious plasma storm strikes the entire Bajoran system, Deep Space Nine becomes a port under siege, filled to overflowing with stranded space travelers, unpredictable aliens, and Klingon smugglers. Wof and Odo find themselves tested to the l...



  • Sherryl Woods

    WAGERED WOMAN When Sara Wilde's father sold the family ranch to rodeo rogue Jake Dawson, she was fit to be tied! Now Sara had to get Three-Stars back - whatever the cost. So she challenged Jake to a bucking bronco contest. If she lost, she agreed ...



  • Sarah Woodhouse

    Lucy Flecker, a widow and grandmother, sets her family into disarray when it is unexpectedly revealed that she has been left a beautiful house in Greece, by famous archaeologist Oliver Lussom, who it is alleged, has been her lover. Her family assumes...



  • Connie Willis; Cynthia Felice

    It has been fifteen years since Delanna Milleflores set foot on Keramos. Now her mother has died, and she has returned only to set and sell her estate. But Keramos has some surprising laws. To sell her farm, Delanna must first live on it for one year...



  • Lee Wilkinson

    Forgotten husband! After waking up in a hospital bed, Clare couldn't even remember her own name, let alone who she was married to! When Jos introduced himself as her husband, he was a complete stranger to her.... Clare couldn't deny the...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    FALLING IN LOVE SEEMED LIKE THE NEIGHBORLY THING TO DO... Tucker Hollis was the last thing cautious Margaret McAllister needed. Her perfectly organized, perfectly predictable life was just fine without the handsome single dad and his rambunctious ...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins
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    Matchmaking shop owner Papa Valentine dispenses sinful desserts, mouth-watering chocolates...and advice for the lovelorn... It was perfect Valentine's Day for Jessica Patterson. Flowers, perfume, diamonds...and chocolates from her favorite shop. Too ...



  • Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Laura's best friend, Jack! Laura and her bulldog, Jack, shared one exciting adventure after another growing up together on the wild frontier! ...



  • Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Mischief and adventure for three young pioneer sisters! Little Laura Ingalls's childhood comes to life here through the adventures she shared with her best friends -- her pioneer sisters! Gentle adaptations of Laura Ingalls Wilder's original Li...



  • Lori Wick

    "Do you have any idea how sorry I was for you?" he asked softly when he was able to really see her dark eyes. Callie compressed her lips, but the sparkle in her eyes gave her away. "Don't you dare laugh at this," he warned softly. Who is this woman...



  • John Whitman

    A new evil lurks: Star Wars - Galaxy of Fear Terror is everywhere ... Welcome to the city of the dead . . . When Hoole, Tash, and Zak stop on Necropolis to look for a new starship, Zak immediately makes friends with the local kids. And he's ...



  • John Whitman

    A new evil lurks: Star Wars - Galaxy of Fear Terror is everywhere ... Vanished? D'vouran seems like a normal enough planet. The friendly locals welcome Tash, Zak, and their uncle Hoole with open arms. But Tash has a bad feeling about this...



  • Gloria White

    METAL ON METAL In every life there's a turning point. For Ronnie Ventana, it came at the corner of Sunset and Santiago, the San Francisco intersection where her parents died in a car crash twenty years before. Now, at two A.M. on the same corner, ...



  • Angela Wells

    Getting married was the last thing Luc Benchard wanted to do. But if he didn't marry before his thirty-third birthday, lust two weeks away, he stood to lose a fortune. Aphra Grantly was single, and already living in Luc's family home! She wou...



  • Eric Weiner



  • Anne Weale

    Unprofessional behavior? Sophie's calm, cool professional facade hid many secrets. For a start Sophie had an incurably romantic nature. So, when she was offered a post as Marc Washington's PA, she jumped at the chance to return to Venice ... ...



  • Alan Warner

    Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morve...



  • Teresa Warfield

    The heart is a place where love grows MEG The war claimed her beloved husband and left her young son fatherless--but she refused to let it rob her of her spirit... RICHARD In the War Between the States, he nearly lost his legs--and his will t...



  • Bill Wallace

    Recounts the tale of Geronimo's trip to St. Louis and of his later years when he was confined to the reservation, as told from the perspective of thirteen-year-old Will Burke, who befriends Geronimo and learns from him lessons of character and courag...



  • Robert W. Walker

    When a popular computer game inspires a virtual crime wave of murderous proportions, a female police psychiatrist enlists the help of a former police detective to help her cross the edge between game and reality. Original....



  • Kate Walker

    Lucas Mallory -- star attraction of a celebrity charity auction. Tall, dark and handsome and fabulously wealthy, he is every woman's dream date. Georgia Harding -- successful businesswoman. She wants to impress her father at his sixtieth birth...



  • Charlotte Walker

    THE PAST IS A DANGEROUS PLACE The undercover assignment--protecting an amnesia victim from a ruthless killer--should have been simplicity itself. But the more time Detective Nick Davis spent watching over this beautiful, mysterious woman, the more...



  • Steven Voien

    In the deceptively stable nation of Terre Diamantee, a former Belgian colony in West Africa, Dvaid Trowbridge, an American field biologist is determined to track the elusive leopard in the rain forest. As he settles into his unorthodox research regim...



  • Anna Tuttle Villegas

    A moving debut novel recounts the unforgettable love story of handsome, kind-hearted Austin Barclay and vivacious, courageous Dorothy Meredith, who, despite all odds, become both lovers and best friends. A first novel....



  • Victor Villasenor

    From a pioneer of modern U.S. Hispanic literature, and the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Loco Love and Rain of Gold, comes a gripping, coming-of-age tale that exposes the intensity and sheer will of one brave young immigrant who crosses ...



  • Diego Vazquez Jr.

    “This funky, disturbing, lyrical, coming-of-age novel covers more ground―emotional, social, terrestrial, and celestial―than its brevity suggests. Focusing on how it could have felt to be a kid, Tex-Mex, sexually mixed-up, hip yet dumb, dange...



  • Diego Vazquez

    This debut novel joins the work of Sandra Cisneros, Richard Rodriguez, and Jimmy Santiago Baca in painting a rich, impressionistic canvas of growing up Chicano.

    Growing Through the Ugly begins: "This is my first day of being dead but I want to ...



  • Vivian Vande Velde

    In the mood for something surprising, spooky, and stunning? Vivian Vande Velde's spellbinding short stories are filled with magic and mayhem. Witness the boy who breaks his dance date because he's too cheap to spend the money. He learns about spells ...



  • Karen Van Der Zee

    Allergic to marriage? Jack Millard's dark good looks left characteristically cool Christina distinctly flustered, much to the delight of her daughter, who'd decided Jack was the perfect cure for Mom's man allergy! Finally persuaded ...



  • Allen B. Ury

    Twelve-year-old Jack Westin is horrified to discover that he's been enrolled in Home Economics. Now way! Gross! But Jack turns the tables when he surprises the class with a very special project--a platter of sauteed grubs. Mmmmm. But the joke's on Ja...



  • Dodge Tyler

    When a band of murderous Apaches tracks him down for the purpose of satisfying a grudge, Dan'l is infuriated when his niece is taken captive and vows to track down the warriors wherever they travel. Original....



  • Jon Tuska

    A collection of twenty-eight tales of the Old West includes previously unpublished stories by such classic Western writers as Zane Grey, Max Brand, and Alan LeMay, along with up-and-coming writers like Richard Wheeler and Cynthia Haselhoff....



  • Linda Turner

    THE HOTTEST STORY IN TOWN When it came to covering murders, reporter Blake Nickels was the best in town--until a lady named Sabrina Jones came along. Now, no matter what the story was, she always seemed to be a step or two ahead of him .... She...



  • Joanna Trollope

    Lizzie and Frances, identical twins nearing forty, have hardly marked a parallel progress together through life. Lizzie is confident and effusive, married, the mother of a large, vibrant brood, a successful gallery owner, and a consummate homemaker. ...



  • Lynda Trent

    THE COLOR OF MONEY Free-thinking L.A. artist Amanda Wainwright has spent most of her life trying to escape her family--a family torn apart by suspicion and jealousy. At the center of this web of intrigue is her mother, a wealthy, closed-minded Hous...



  • Marilyn Tracy

    HER ALMOST PROTECTOR He'd rescued her daughters, moved to her ramshackle ranch and vowed to protect her family with his life. Single mom Carolyn Leary knew Pete Jackson was a tall, broad-shouldered godsend. But her self-proclaimed bodyguard was al...



  • Jane Toombs

    FROM HERE TO PATERNITY The blonde and the baby definitely spelled trouble. Bachelor Zed Adams knew it the instant spitfire Karen Henderson and diaper-clad Danny stormed his peaceful Nevada ranch. Still, never had trouble looked so danged appealing...



  • Ann Tompert

    One moonlit night when the world was young, Rabbit danced in a grove of willow trees, nibbling twigs from a raspberry bush and dreaming of the coming spring. Rabbit's tail flowed out behind him, for in those days it was long and thick like Squirrel's...



  • Tracey Tillis

    Investigating the hit-and-run accident that has left her African-American senator father comatose, Maggie Thomas uncovers a pattern of revenge and deceit that stretches thirty years into her father's past and reveals a thirty-year-old secret. Origina...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    He's the perfect lover--on paper Jack Killigan has just sold his first book, a steamy romance novel, under the pen name of Candy Valentine. Now, if only he could convince his inspiration, Krysta Lueckenhoff, to see him as a man, not a brother. So,...



  • Laura Taylor

    Burned by an ancient betrayal, he would die for honor-or liver for her... Smoke, flames, and a cry for help called Clayton Sloan to the rescue, but the fierce Cheyenne warrior was shocked to find himself a hero in an unknown time. Rorn by fate fro...



  • Judith Tarr

    Queen in all but name, one woman's battle to rule her kingdom, from the Court of Jerusalem to the glorious city of Byzantium.Melisende was the oldest daughter of Baldwin of Jerusalem, a princess of the Franks and, since she had no brothers, heir...



  • Deanna Talcott

    TAKE ONE EX-HUSBAND. ONE CUTE KID. MIX WELL. Meredith Worth had inherited a sweet little girl -- and her ex, Rowe, had been appointed co-guardian. YIELDS ONE NEW FAMILY So now she and her sexy ex were 'instant parents,' pretending to be a nor...



  • Lois Szymanski

    When her pony escapes and returns pregnant, Meg begins dreaming about a legendary stallion that roams the hills and comes to believe that the horse or some equally wonderful magical force is the father of the forthcoming foal. Original....



  • Libby Sydes

    Annalise gazed out the castle window as a tall, shackled stranger was pulled from the carriage below. In his face was a terrifying beauty, chiseled features that bespoke an aristocratic lineage, fathomless eyes that promised revenge. This was Bryson ...



  • Melissa Sweet

    Complete with 25 shimmering jewel stickers in five different shapes and colors and illustrated with charming full-color drawings, this is the story of an Easter Bunny who has lost a dozen Easter eggs. Young readers can help him find each one and mark...



  • M.C. Sumner

    Noah and Harley were thrown together by circumstances beyond their control. Now they are bound together by forces beyond their comprehension. They must be careful whom they trust, for Noah and Harley have crossed the dark borders of the Extreme Zone,...



  • M.C. Sumner

    Noah, who has been victimized by alien abductors, and Kathleen, whose father has disappeared, discover their shared cause in a world where no one believes them and are introduced to the terrors of the Extreme Zone. Original....



  • Michael Stone

    They call him Streeter. Ex-linebacker, ex-bouncer, and currently Denver's best bounty hunter. He's got a lot to learn in the dame department, but he sure knows how to get himself tangled up in their affairs. When his ex-fiancee, Carol--a tough-talkin...



  • Michael Stone

    A GRITTY AND WITTY NOIR MYSTERY BY A REAL DENVER PRIVATE EYE STREETER is an ex-linebacker, ex-accountant, and ex-bouncer with four ex-wives and three ex-fiancees. Now he's a bounty hunter in Denver with an eye for detail--and the ladies. So he's o...



  • Shelley Stoehr

    Catherine Tavarelli can't believe what she's just found out about her brother, Mickey. He's supposed to be spending his days at college--instead, he's running errands for the local mob. Catherine also suspects that Mickey may be taking and dealing dr...



  • S.M. Stirling

    And now, the sequel... It's ten years later, and Joat, the eleven year old techno-demon from "The Ship Avenged," is an adult herself, and by hook, crook, and blackmail (with an assist from Rand, her very own Artificial Intelligence), she's become on...



  • R.L. Stine

    HE’S INTO HEAVY METAL. . .REALLY HEAVY METAL You and your friends decide to check out a new part of town. That's when you notice an old house with a sign that says "BEWARE -- DANGER" on one side, and "PLEASE COME IN" on the other. Of course, you d...



  • R.L. Stine

    Timothy has a dangerous story to tell. A story with powers to awaken the worst evil imaginable -- the evil in the heart of a child. Come and listen to Timothy’s story…if you dare....



  • R.L. Stine

    HE'S GOT HIS HEAD IN THE CLOUDS. FOR REAL. . . Wilson Schlame loves to make Jack Johnson feel like a total loser. And Jack's had it. That's how he ended up down at the beach. In a creepy, old abandoned house. In the dark. Trying to hide from Wilson. ...



  • R.L. Stine

    Fear Street -- where your worst nightmares live... Delia and Karina are always competing. From getting the best grades, to being the most popular, to dating the cutest guys -- they always fight for the top spot. This year, they both want Vincent --...



  • Dawn Stewardson

    In steamy New Orleans, three people witnessed the same crime, testified against the same man and were then swept into the Witness Protection Program. But now there's new evidence, and these three witnesses are about to come out of hiding... EYE W...




  • Jane Stern




  • Elissa Stein

    In this stomach-turning, gut churning collection of true tales of the sick kind, egestion experts Elissa Stein and Kevin Leslie have compiled a witty and truly outrageous bible of barfing which will astound and amaze.
    ...



  • William Steig

    Toby loves hiding from his parents -- upstairs, downstairs, just about anywhere. But when Toby begins to think that his parents will never find him, he just can’t stand it. ‘Here I am!’ he cries.

    ...



  • Jessica Steele

    The best of enemies! Carter Hamilton didn't approve of women in the boardroom--especially not redheads who gave as good as they got! Ashlyn Ainsworth certainly didn't want a directorship with Carter Hamilton's company. But, for her ...



  • Les Standiford

    Contractor-sleuth John Deal is the last of his kind--a builder who appreciates his craft. His friend Arch Dolan was the last of his kind, too, a Miami bookseller who sold books because he loved them. Now someone has killed him for it. And he's only t...




  • Teresa Southwick

    BABY ON THE WAY Everyone in town was talking about the pregnant and unmarried teacher. Kelly's condition--not to mention swelling belly--were a source of good gossip and great concern. For her baby's sake, Kelly knew escaping scandal meant...



  • Maris Soule

    He knew how to drive a woman wild .... He grinned at the cool beauty whose grip on a fluffy dog was about to slip, but Cody Taylor got even more pleasure from noticing Bernadette Sanders's reaction to his down and dirty appearance. Common sense t...



  • Gary Soto

    Ninth grader Rudy has a date with eleventh grader Patricia. Now he has to come up with the money, the poise, and the conversation to carry it off. This one-act play, by turns heartwarming and heart-wrenching, follows Rudy from his desperate search f...



  • Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    "What do you know about Gypsies?" With that simple question, April Hall and Melanie Ross begin a thrilling new game. Before they know it, the whole gang is in on it -- even Toby, who just has to steal the show by claiming to be a real, live, authenti...



  • Stephen Smoke

    When a corpse is found on a local millionaire politician's estate, Pasadena detective E. L. Nash, his partner, and Assistant DA Sarah Harmon begin an investigation that leads them into an evil world, inhabited by a killer with no fear, no shame, and ...



  • L.J. Smith

    VAMPIRE SLAYER She stalks the lonely back alleys of Boston, the deserted industrial docks of the harbor, seeking revenge on the vampires who killed her mother. Rashel Jordan knows where they live. But they don't yet know that the black-haired, green...



  • Teddy Slater

    Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages three to eight as they develop reading skills.

    Level 2 (Grades 1-3) books are written especially for children who are on their way to r...



  • Douglas Skeggs

    Once presumed lost, art held by the Czech dictator Ceausescu shows up at an auction, and Jan Capek must return to his native Prague to track down the source, hunting through the dangerous underground world beneath the city....



  • Linda Joy Singleton

    SPRING TO STARDOM To get the squad into the spirit and on the way to nationals, Wendi has given each of them a beautiful notebook in which to record their thoughts as they ready for the big event. And boy, do they use them --pouring their hearts out...



  • Janice Sims
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    On this special day dedicated to romance, wonderful things can happen: secret desires may be spoken, roses can arrive with a card saying "I love you," or a dizzying kiss is exchanged for the first time. Now, three favorite Arabesque authors--with som...



  • Patricia Simpson

    SHE HAD FORGOTTEN HER OWN TROUBLED PAST-- Evaline Jaye's childhood on an Indian reservation had taught her the power of the supernatural. Then a shattering experience compelled her to part ways with her past and her heritage. --UNTIL AN UNKNOWN F...



  • Sheila Simonson

    All Lark Dodge really wants to do is disappear for a while. She needs time to recover from her miscarriage and reevaluate her marriage to Jay, her ex-police detective husband. When her mother suggests that Lark fly to Ireland to keep an eye on her fa...




  • Samuel Shem

    From the Laws of Mount Misery:There are no laws in psychiatry.Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Mount Misery i...



  • George Shea

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    This Level Four I Can Read book is a perfect bridge to chapter books for elementary-grade kids—and it introduces the thrilling story of the Wright Brothers, flight pioneers. 

    When Tom Tate hears that Wilbur and O...



  • Kathryn Shay

    The last thing widower Luke Rayburn expects--or welcomes--is his adopted son Michael's request to find his birth mother. Sixteen years ago, the adoption was arranged by Luke's mother and her closest friend, whose teenage daughter was pregnant. The tw...



  • William Shatner

    The key to the stars is the key to empire. And to a young man's future... Young Jim Endicott has but one dream--to attend the Solis Space Academy, the gateway to the stars and the far-flung civilization known as the Confederation. But unbeknownst ...




  • J. Otto Seibold

    Mr. Lunch is excited about finally being able to fly, but he quickly learns that he is being placed with the luggage, and must devise a way to have fun on his plane trip regardless of where he is traveling. Reprint....



  • Melissa Scott; Lisa A. Barnett

    A guard in the great city of Astreiant, Nicholas Rathe must calm an angry and frightened population as he searches the overcrowded streets of the city for a kidnapper and the children he has abducted, before it is too late. Reprint....



  • Melissa Scott

    Desperately in need of vital nutritional supplies, the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager must risk dealing with an enigmatic race known as the Kirse, legendary for the bountiful crops of their world -- and for their secretive ways. Despite Néelix's warning...



  • S.D. Schindler

    Rooter, Oinky and their little sister, Hamlet, are three little pigs who aren't so little. They're getting bigger and bigger, and Mama decides it's time they each get homes of their own. She advises them to build strong houses, visit her each Sunday,...



  • Steven Schend

    At dawn of Highharvestide 1369, every practitioner of magic on the Sword Coast knew there was a problem. By midmorning, the Lords of Waterdeep confirmed the ill omens: Some brave souls worthy of the title 'Hero' must enter Undermountain on a mission ...



  • Meryl Sawyer
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    Matchmaking shop owner Papa Valentine dispenses sinful desserts, mouth-watering chocolates...and advice for the lovelorn... It's February 14th - Black Friday, as far as single-and-looking-in-vain Alexis Evans is concerned. Her only consolation? She'l...



  • Diana Saville

    After being satisfied for a time caring for her husband's children from a previous marriage, Elfie discovers it is no longer enough, but when she approaches her husband Hugh, who is twenty years her senior, about having a child of her own, he wavers....



  • Jeanne Savery

    A LORD FROM THE PAST Alexander Knightly. Viscount Hawkbeck, didn't know what the devil to make of the woman standing before him. With a commandeered ship in his possession, the adventurous nobleman had been enjoying a leisurely trip from Lisbon to...



  • George Saunders

    Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatche...



  • John Saul

    Master of terror in all its forms, John Saul now thrills us with a serial novel that brings to terrifying life the small New England town of Blackstone -- and the secrets and sins that lay buried there. From the top of Blackstone's highest hill the ...




  • Barbara Timberlake Russell

    After being hit by lightning and suspended between worlds, Calvin returns to his body and back to the world he knows, but he brings with him the spirit of Rory, the ghost of a troublesome boy, who soon makes Calvin's life very difficult with his viol...



  • Christopher Rowley

    LAND OF TERROR Surviving a volcano's blast and separated from the 109th Marneri Dragons, the extraordinary Bazil Broketail and dragoneer Relkin find themselves in a vast, untamed jungle that stretches south from the shores of the Inland Sea. Prowled...



  • Amye Rosenberg

    By using the colorful stickers inside, you can help Juniper deliver Easter treats to her animal friends -- and help her friends give Juniper some different goodies in return!

    Using the stickers that are marked inside, decorate Juniper's Easter...



  • Amye Rosenberg

    Remembering his mother's advice to share, Jelly Bean Bunny goes to a picnic with his cousin Juniper and shares all of their food with some newfound friends, a situation that leaves the cousins still hungry....



  • Kristine Rolofson

    Riding, Roping and Ranching are part of cowboy life. Diapers, Pacifiers and Baby Bottles are not! Rancher Dell Jones might be the best man in Wyoming--successful, dependable, loyal--but he was also the loneliest until he rescued Allison Reynold...



  • Paul Rogers

    One by one, the mother cat shows her kittens how to face the world alone and be safe while on their adventures, and then, one by one, they begin to venture out, leaving their safe and known world behind to face the next stage of their lives....



  • Evelyn Rogers

    IT WAS ONLY A FAIRY TALE... but to Meagan Butler "The Forever Bride" was the most beautiful story she'd ever read. That was why she insisted on going to Scotland to get married in the very church where the heroine of the legend was wed to her true ...



  • Hazel Rochman

    Here is an unusual collection of short stories, from a variety of distinguished writers from different cultures and different viewpoints, that explores the turning point in every adolescent’s life when he or she is forced to take that first step aw...



  • J.R. Roberts

    Any gambler knows that luck can change. But now Clint's friend Ken Witner wants to change his luck for good...and he's betting on a high-stakes poker game to finance his new future. A lot of class-A cardsharps -- including the great Bat Masterso...



  • Harold Robbins

    Following Jack Lear as he tries his hardest to fit in to the WASP world, this sexy, outrageous, and irresistible novel showcases Harold Robbins at his rip-roaring best. Jack Lear rises from a modest Jewish background to take on the WASP world, but ne...



  • Shelly Ritthaler

    In 1869, Amanda Chappell returns to the Wyoming Territory to take up a teaching position, and she becomes involved in the controversy over women having the right to vote while trying to cope with her feelings for Thomas Lewellen...



  • Christine Rimmer

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE AGREEMENT What other disaster could befall Natalie Fortune? Her long-awaited vacation had been waylaid, her "new life" postpone...



  • Len Riley

    A poor preacher's daughter from Florida arrives in the Harlem of the twenties determined to marry into the urban aristocracy, but when her penniless cousin catches up with her, she must find a way to protect her new identity. Reprint....



  • Eugenia Riley

    WISHING FROM THE HEART... Annie Dillon doesn't know what else could possibly go wrong. First her dream of turning a Texas ghost town into a tourist attraction left her broke and stranded in Deadend. And now a freak whirlwind has granted her wish for...



  • Michael Ridpath

    The excitement of million-dollar deals meets the daring of cold-blooded murder in this shocking financial thriller.

    Mark Fairfax is a young, gifted London bond trader with a high-paying job, a stellar track record and a beautiful girlfriend. His ol...



  • Christie Ridgway

    Why did the groom cross the road? That was what Eden Whitney wondered when a tuxedo-clad hunk hopped into her car and drove off with her--instead of his intended. But what did Riley Smith intend to do with her? 1) Pass her off as his new blushi...



  • Doug Richardson

    Crusading Texas lawyer Mitchell Dutton is running for the U.S. Congress - and is a virtual shoo-in come November. But his opponent has different plans. The opposition nominee, Shakespeare 'Shakes' McCann, is an almost total unknown - a dark horse c...



  • Sue Rich
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    Love and kisses, chocolate and romance--it's a mixed assortment for those who can't resist the twin delights of passion and chocolate....



  • Patricia Rice

    Fleeing to America to escape her wealthy and abusive father, a young woman is taken in and hidden by a Quaker family, but she is unable to keep her feelings for a local slaveholder's son secret when the Civil War breaks out Her real name was Lady ...



  • Nina Revoyr

    Two inner-city girls tackle love, basketball, high school graduation, and an uncertain future in this coming-of-age novel by the author of Wingshooters.The Necessary Hunger follows two basketball stars -- Nancy Takahiro and Raina Webber -- and severa...



  • Mike Resnick

    Twenty offbeat stories celebrate despots that never were, including a holy war-declaring Pope John XXIII, an assassinated president Reagan's successor Alexander Haig, and a Parliament-dissolving new king of England. Original....



  • Joy Reed

    TWO GENTLEMEN AND ONE LADY...ADD UP TO TROUBLE! No one had really taken notice of Miss Jane Reynolds before. Although she was an heiress, her quiet life with a widowed aunt had left her on the shelf at six-and-twenty. Now she was spending the summer ...



  • J.L. Reasoner

    Protecting a delegation of Russian aristocrats on a goodwill mission, Viktor predicts trouble when his charges murder a Native American, an event that sparks an ambush and places Viktor in a dangerous adventure to save his life. ...



  • Francis Ray

    Sometimes a man and a woman have to lose themselves... An ex-socialite who is now the president of her own successful advertising firm, Erin Cortland wasn't about to admit her fears to anyone. The terrifying nightmares began the day she witnessed a ...





  • Rita Rainville

    HOW TO HOOK A COWBOY Dr. Kathryn Wainwright didn't know much about men. Then her research took her out of the lab and into the wild--under the care of rugged cowboy Mac Ryder. Now the pretty scientist had a lot to learn: like how to rope a red-blo...



  • Carol Quinto
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    In "Cupid's Legacy," a wealthy spinster mistakes a nobleman for a handyman; while in "The Valentine Victorious" a woman is unaware of an earl's affection until she becomes engaged; and in "The Valentine's Day Husband," a notorious Marquis wins a woma...



  • Tara Taylor Quinn

    Her baby. His heartache. Marcus Cartwright is rich and handsome. What's more, he's in love with his wife. And Lisa Cartwright adores her husband. Their marriage, however, is falling apart. That's because Marcus can't give Lisa the baby they'...



  • Janet Quin-Harkin

    Disliking Tia's mom's new boyfriend, the twins fear that he will separate them again when he announces his plans to take Tia and her mother to Texas, and the girls, with the help of Tamera's father, plan a divide-and-conquer attack. Original....



  • Brad Quentin

    COUNTDOWN TO ECO-DISASTER! The Quest Team is setting up camp in Antarctica, where a mysterious runaway glacier threatens to destroy the last truly wild area on the planet. Is it a natural disaster, or a new kind of worldwide terrorism? Jonny, Jes...



  • Mary Quattlebaum

    To Calvin Hastings, days after school at Alfred Ludlott's house are the pits. Sure, Alfred has a big lawn and a dachshund named Fitz. But Calvin's talented and gifted younger brother, Monk, and his bossy, overachieving neighbor, Jenny Teitletot, are ...



  • Dianne G. Pugh

    A sexy and surefooted investment counselor, who made her ride to the top in her red Triumph, circa 1972, Iris Thorne seems unshakable. She's never looked back on her long climb up -- certainly not as far back as her blue-collar roots in East Los Ange...



  • Caroline Preston

    Follows a thirtyish graduate who unexpectedly finds herself helping a celebrity biographer research the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and ends up discovering surprising parallels between her own life and that of the queen of Camelot...



  • Diana Pomeroy

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  • Pat Pollari

    Hating Theresa Kale ever since she got sick in his magic hat years earlier, Freddy Hollis competes against his rival for the last slot in the sixth grade talent show, but as his tricks go from bad to worse, he plots to ruin Theresa's act. Original....



  • Candice Poarch

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  • Dav Pilkey

    In this lovable board book series, Dav Pilkey captures the humor of everyday canine behavior. The sweet personalities, lasting friendship, and hilarious antics of Big Dog and Little Dog will enchant little ones and entertain dog lovers of all ages.



  • Dav Pilkey

    In this lovable board book series, Dav Pilkey captures the humor of everyday canine behavior. The sweet personalities, lasting friendship, and hilarious antics of Big Dog and Little Dog will enchant little ones and entertain dog lovers of all ages.



  • Christopher Pike

    Transformed into powerful beings capable of bending the world to their wills, six teenagers struggle to overcome personal temptation and must band together to overcome an evil being that is threatening them. Original....



  • Joan Elliott Pickart

    MR. FEBRUARY NAME: Tux Bishop GAME: Private Investigator AIM: Find a suitable wife and settle down DAME: Not woman-in-jeopardy Nancy Shatner! Tux can't explain how he knows trouble is stalking a beautiful stranger. He just knows. He figures...



  • T.J. Phillips

    Emma Masterson, whose socialite mother Laura had been killed sixteen years earlier in a notorious murder/suicide, turns to amateur sleuth Joe Wilder to help make sure history does not repeat itself. Reprint....



  • Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    Genius physics professor Dr. Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby. But finding a father won't be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she's determined to spare her own child that suffering. Which...



  • Melanie Phillips

    British Education is in a state of meltdown. Throughout the system, from nursery classes to degree courses, the relationship between teacher and pupil has been undermined, and the idea that children should be taught a body of rules at all, whether i...



  • Tracie Peterson; Judith Pella

    The year is 1835 and Carolina Adams finds herself enchanted by an unlikely suitor...the railroad. Frustrated by society's expectations upon her gender, she longs to study more masculine subjects and is thrilled when her father grants her a tutor. ...



  • Tracie Peterson

    Professional, attractive, and dedicated to the youth of today, Cara Kessler seems to incorporate the ideal attributes of a political candidate. But as a young widow, running for office is the last thing Cara wants for herself or the daughter she is r...



  • Brenda Peterson

    The bond between women can be as crucial and life affirming as the umbilical cord is to babies. Yet it is also a bond that has been misunderstood, feared, and deliberately severed in the shadow of patriarchal cultures. Drawing upon ancient myth, ...



  • Arturo Perez-Reverte

    LUCAS CORSO is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers...



  • Don Pendleton

    DEATH FOR HIRE The world's most wanted terrorist is caught, only to make a vicious and successful bid for freedom. Now the Vulture and his underground army are moving across the U.S.A., eluding a nationwide dragnet and leaving a blood trail in the...



  • Francine Pascal

    In the words of 7-year-old Jessica Wakefield...



    I hate looking bad.



    And today I've got to look good!



    It's picture day for second-graders.



    That's me!



    No spills. No dirt. And n...



  • Francine Pascal

    Fashion! Models! Deadlines! Identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are interning at Flair - the hippest fashion magazine ever! As the assistant to famous photographer Quentin Berg, Jessica thought she'd be working on glamorous photo shoots...



  • Francine Pascal

    Tom Watts has found the perfect woman. Talented, intelligent, and a total knockout, Dana Upshaw is everything a guy could want. But can she ever live up to Tom's passion-filled memories of ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Wakefield?



    Gin-Yung S...



  • Francine Pascal

    Jessica Wakefield is going to be rich! As soon as she learns about the legendary Irish pot of gold in social studies class, she vows to find it. And when her older brother, Steven, discovers a treasure map, Jessica can almost feel the diamonds dangli...



  • Richard Parrish

    Attorney Joshua Rabb lives, loves and practices law on the razor edge of passion and prejudice that separates the Papago Indian Reservation and the lilywhite community of Tucson, Arizona in 1947. Now he is torn in two when overwhelming evidence seems...



  • Laura Parker

    On eve of the Battle of Waterloo, three British officers ask London's most celebrated poet and playwright to pen three very different letters to the women they love, and the letters change the women's lives forever. It began on the eve of the Bat...



  • Barbara Parker

    As a hot young prosecutor in Miami, Dan Galindo made one error in judgment that cost him everything - his job, his hone, his wife, and young son. Now it has just gotten worse. His girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment, bringing the police to ...



  • William J. Palmer

    Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins reveal the darker side of Victorian London -- and a killer’s identity -- in this “well-crafted adventure” (Publishers Weekly).   Charles Dickens is smitten with Ellen Ternan, a teenage actress, and heads ...



  • Lauran Paine

    Sam Sloan, an old buffalo hunter, finds his quest and spirit vision from the four directions of the wind, when an old Navajo, a Lakota woman, and a young girl join forces with him in a search for survival...



  • Robin Paige

    Sir Charles Sheridan is many things -- an amateur scientist, a renowned photographer, and a skilled detective. And due to Victorian customs, he will soon become a baron -- rendering him unable to marry Kate Ardleigh, an American writer of the popular...



  • Abigail Padgett

    Fifth in the Bo Bradley series, in this psychological thriller Bo reaches out to 15-year-old Janny Malcolm, a foster child found frozen in terror at a popular Goth hangout. An exquisite but battered doll is chained to Janny's wrist. She keeps the dol...




  • Christine Pacheco

    CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED? Catherine had expected to he Mrs. Clay Landon forever. But her workaholic husband was so caught up in securing their future that he'd neglected the present--and his wife. Would Catherine be forced to abandon her dreams ...



  • Howard Owen

    After a personal tragedy sends him into depression, Walker Fann once again finds a cause for living when he steps in the breach between two Southern communities, torn asunder by the act of a Black teen...





  • Kate O'Donnell

    From her perch in the branches of a high tree, Aislinn Delacy is stunned to see Brendon O'Donoghue gazing up at her. Just returned from exile, the handsome Irish rebel has sworn to fight the cruel English oppressors who condemned his people to persec...



  • Jane O'Connor

    On vacation in Wales, a young boy questions why he sees no boys his age and why the place continuously smells like smoke, and when he learns that the town's name means in the shadow of a dragon, he sets out to learn the true background of this very o...



  • Eric Nylund

    There is water pooled deep within the earth--a forbidden spring that flows through the history of humankind. There is a reborn ghost town in New Mexico where real phantoms congregate--along with artists, shamans, witches...and all manner of evil. ...



  • Kem Nunn

    Heart Attacks is California’s last secret spot -- the premier mysto surf haunt, the stuff of rumor and legend. The rumors say you must cross Indian land to get there. They tell of hostile locals and shark-infested waters where waves in excess of th...



  • Joan Lowery Nixon

    The Civil War has officially ended and Frances Mary Kelly's true love, Johnny, is back from the war. But to Frances's dismay, Johnny is hesitant to marry her. Attempting to ease her aching heart, Frances accepts an offer to go to New York City and es...



  • James L. Nelson

    Late summer, 1775. General George Washington discovers that his cache of gunpowder has dwindled to a mere nine shots per man. Desperate, he adopts the plan designed bg group of Rhode Island patriots--send a ship to Bermuda to capture British powder k...



  • Betty Neels

    Why did James keep helping her? It was deeply irritating to Leonora Crosby that she was always caught out in awkward moments by the new village doctor, James Galbraith. It shouldn't have mattered -- she was engaged to Tony, after all! -- but J...



  • Janet Neel

    When amateur sleuth Francesca Wilson once again becomes involved with a murder mystery, she finds herself confronting repercussions for both herself and her husband as both cope with the issue of domestic violence and the temptation to have an affair...



  • Linda Needham

    A LADY'S CHOICE Frustrated by the outrageous demand that she choose a husband or have one chosen for her, Mackenna Hughes blindfolds herself and vows to wed the first man she touches in the circle of eager suitors that surrounds her. But as she swir...



  • Donna Huston Murray

    Gin Barnes has to get street-smart, when murder moves to Beech Tree Lane. These days Ginger Struve Barnes, who's been known to solve a crime or two on Philadelphia's affluent Main Line, has troubles of her own. Her beloved husband, Rip, headmaster...



  • Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    GONE FISHING... Fish are mysteriously disappearing from the coastal waters of the United States, and it's anybody's guess what the problem is. Red tide, pollution? But soon angry fingers point north, to Canada, and the two countries trade threats ...




  • Carl Muller

    She will grow to plunder the senses of man and yet reject all man can offer. This prophecy of the wise men at the birth of princess Sihavathi of Vanga comes to pass when she turns seven. It is announced that she is in her flowers , and has grown to k...



  • Ian Morson

    IN ROME, POPE ALEXANDER IV LIES DYING. FROM THE EAST, AN ASSASSIN IS SENT BY A POWERFUL ROYAL FAMILY. IN WALLINGFORD CASTLE A YOUNG MAN IS HELD PRISONER, CHARGED WITH A MURDER HE DID NOT COMMIT... In the swirling mists of Oxford, Regent Master Wil...



  • Bradford Morrow

    When Grant hears of the violence against his family in the Rocky Mountains, he abandons Rome and his dying marriage to try and stop it, but only finds himself drawn into the darkness that surrounds the death of Giovanni, a close family friend...



  • Gilbert Morris

    David Rocklin enlists in the Confederate army to impress a young woman, but his aspirations crumble when he realizes he does not have the courage to be a soldier. Afraid for his life, David runs away from the army, only to face deteriorating health. ...



  • Gilbert Morris

    Two families--the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans--are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking the people and events through th...



  • Peggy Moreland

    RAWHIDE... J. D. Cawthon was a rugged Texas cowboy...he spent his solitary life riding the fence lines and birthing cattle. He knew he could handle anything the wild West threw at him. Until he spent one night of passion with Joanie Summers and foun...



  • Thomas Moran

    The Lukassers seem to be an ordinary Austrian family. Dr. Robert Weiss had passed through their village years ago, a stranger. He rented a room from them for the night. Niki Lukasser was a baby then, fighting the fever of appendicitis. Dr. Weiss save...




  • Paul Monette

    The final work by the critically acclaimed late author presents a classic fairy tale that brings the world of the Great Horned Owl to life as he sets his intolerant agenda for the forest, perceptively capturing the strangeness of society's rules and ...



  • L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    When Anna Marshall is transported from her boring and frustrating life in Ames, Iowa, to the very different world of Erde, she's angry and confused, but soon finds out that for the first time in her life she's uniquely powerful. In Iowa Anna was a mu...



  • Helen Mittermeyer

    A Proud Welsh Princess: In the year of our Lord 1327, the king decreed that Morrigan Llywelyn of Wales was to wed Hugh of Clan MacKay, a Scottish outlaw. Swearing never to bend to his will, Morrigan would tremble before the giant Scot, defeated no...



  • Elda Minger
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    Chocolate is the ultimate aphrodisiac. And these four enchanting stories of love, passion, and chocolate are guaranteed to melt your heart. Each story features a decadent chocolate dessert recipe to satisfy your sweet tooth and your hunger for romanc...



  • Deanie Francis Mills

    Years after witnessing her mother's brutal murder, Gypsy Halden is horrified when her husband is accused of killing someone and disappears, and she begins to realize a connection between the two incidents. Original....



  • Julie Miller

    BJ Kincaid was woman of contrasts. She was a computer wiz who sought comfort from teddy bears and her poodle, a child genius who'd never known adult love, a loner who secretly yearned for acceptance. Then a security leak threatened her job at LadyTec...



  • Sharon Mignerey

    Gripping and immensely readable, Sharon Mignerey's award-winning novel takes you on an unforgettable journey into the complex terrain of a woman's heart, as she tries to find a balance between love and work--only to be thrust into a world of treacher...



  • Karen Michaels

    Some like it hot... Cynical Lauren Tyler isn’t interested in love. Her parents are getting divorced--and Laurens pretty down on couplehood. The last thing on Laurens mind this summer is jumping into a relationship. But she underestimates the roman...



  • Elizabeth Ann Michaels

    A MOST UNCOMMON WOMAN DEFIES THE MANNERS AND MOR'ES OF REGENCY ENGLAND The Sensual story of Gabriella Spencer, whose spirited independence and unconventional ideas lead her into temptation and danger... The simpering ladies and strutting dandie...



  • Mark Miano

    A body of a man is discovered entombed beneath the ice of the Central Park reservoir. His eyes are frozen in terror; and a scream has been carved into his face with surgical precision. The coldest night on record is about to chill New York to the bon...



  • Barbara Metzger

    JUST WHAT MUST A GENTLEMAN DO TO PROVE HE 'S A NOTORIOUS RAKE? Stranded in London at the mercy of strangers, Miss Kathlyn Partland was mistrustful of Lord Chase's sympathy, surprised by his hospitality... and positively shocked by his outrageous o...



  • Jillian Medoff

    “[An] unusually honest, painfully funny novel about a tight-knit family’s struggle.”  -- Entertainment Weekly"My parents may love me, but I also know they view me as a houseguest who is turning a weekend stay into an all-expense-paid, lif...



  • Meagan McKinney

    From bestselling author Meagan McKinney comes a classic tale of romance and suspense, of dark shadows and menacing secrets, and of a bold young woman who must battle not only for her heart and mind, but her very soul... Left penniless after her fa...



  • Max McCoy

    DEATH UNDER THE ICE A violent storm, a dying Arctic explorer, and a curious wooden box make Indy the target of fanatical Nazi agents. Inside the box are a slice of Icelandic stone with mythological powers and a journal hinting at the existence of an...