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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — FEBRUARY 1998

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New Books List: 519 titles


  • Dafydd ab Hugh

    Rumors of a secret alliance between the Dominion and the Klingon Empire lure Captain Sisko and the crew of the Defiant on a desperate mission into the Gamma Quadrant, leaving Deep Space None vulnerable to a surprise sneak attack! Now an elite Klin...



  • Adams Round Table

    The members of The Adams Round Table present an exciting collection of crime stories from such renowned writers as Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Warren Murphy, Justin Scott, Peter Straub, and other notable authors....



  • Lydia Adamson

    DEATH IN DAPPLED GRAY Veterinarian Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale knows what made Aden Fox's cows sick. They wandered through a broken fence and grazed on poisonous Perilla Mint. What mystifies Didi is what smashed the fence: horse's hooves. There are...



  • Kathryn Alexander

    UNWILLING TO WED With her generous heart and dazzling smile, beautiful Micah Shepherd was Rob Granston's dream come true. The handsome attorney knew that Micah felt drawn to him, too. But why did she avoid him at every turn? Micah hinted at a trag...



  • Victoria Alexander

    So, You Think You Know Romance? You don't. Not unless you know Spencer St. Gregory and Philippa Morgan. Now theirs was a love for the ages. Just boy meets girl -- a story we've all heard -- or think we have. I had. I thought I'd heard ...



  • Irene Allen

    OUTSIDE THE MEETINGHOUSE THE WORLD CAN BE A DEADLY PLACE At the urging of an old friend, devout Quaker Elizabeth Elliot travels far from her peaceful New England home to visit a town simmering with the deadly fallout of a government cover-up. Reba...



  • Robin Allen

    Regal and stylish, soulful and sultry, Breeze Blackwell steps onstage and audiences burst into thunderous applause while chanting her name. The reigning queen of R&B, superstar Breeze has thousands of fans at her feet. But backstage, beneath her elec...



  • Aaron Allston

    They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing pilots risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must go on a daring undercover mission--as the crew of an Imperial warship. ...



  • Bethany Amber

    Set free by desire...Lalitha's fate is pre-ordained. Trained for the exclusive pleasure of the male sex, she is destined to be sold as a plaything to the libertines of the Hell Fire Club. There, in the caves of debauchery, the instruments of pleasure...



  • Robyn Amos
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    AT NEW YORK'S MOST ROMANTIC SETTING--VALENTINE'S DAY CAN BRING LOVE'S SPECIAL SURPRISE Amid Manhattan's most elegant restaurants, The Rainbow Room casts a golden glow with nights filled with fine dining, magical music and the splendor of dancing h...



  • Benjamin Anastas

    Meet William, a devout underachiever. He enters life as the firstborn of identical twin boys. It is the last time he will beat his overachieving brother Clive, or anyone else for that matter, at anything. This is William’s manifesto for the underac...



  • Bridget Anderson

    SHE RAN FROM DANGER... Lovely, educated Jade Bassett had married a handsome man who told her lies, took all her money, and then was found murdered. Reeling from her shattered world, she is running for her life on the streets of Atlanta, knowing that...



  • Sherwood Anderson

    Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories solidified the author’s reputation as a major American writer. Despite their narrative simplicity (similar in style to the work...



  • V.C. Andrews

    Laura Logan dreams of a glorious Cape Cod day when all the dark secrets are swept away....For Laura Logan, life on Cape Cod has been nearly perfect, full of magical days spent enjoying the sea with her beloved twin brother, Cary. But then, like the c...



  • Shari Anton

    THE KING HAD GRANTED THEM A YEAR OF LOVE Gerard of Wilmont wanted nothing more than to make Ardith of Lenvil his cherished bride. But what if he and his Saxon flame were not blessed with the heir that would ensure their union would last forever? ...



  • K.A. Applegate

    There's a new rumor in town. Someone has discovered an item that proves life on other planets exists. And they've been hiding it on a base called Zone 91. The Most Secret Place On Earth. Cassie, the other Animorphs, and Ax already know about life ...



  • Chris Archer

    In the fourth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, an alien encounter gives a teen with psychic powers a dangerous premonition.   Elena Vargas has lived in Metier, Wisconsin, her whole life. But that doesn’t mean she actually believes all ...



  • Hilary Bailey

    Spanning 30 years from 1886 to 1917, this novel, first published in 1997, follows the lives of two women from different ends of the social scale. They are reunited as adults and find that their friendship helps them through the bitterness and crue...



  • Kage Baker

    In the twenty-fourth century, the Company preserves valuable works of art and extinct forms of life. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal with drugs, hormones, and implants, and trains them to serve the Company down the lo...



  • James Baldwin

    A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war."Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American ...



  • Donna Ball

    WHAT SHE REMEMBERS IS TERRIFYING. WHAT SHE CAN'T REMEMBER COULD KILL HER The lucky survivor of a freak accident, Virginia Beach teacher Ellen Cox is pulled from the wreckage of her car shaken...and deathly afraid. Her name belongs to a stranger. T...



  • Margaret Ball
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    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...



  • Jen Banbury

    Jill, a part-time bookseller with a biting wit, gets her hands on a rare, first-edition novel by Jack London -- courtesy of a suspicious-looking dwarf. Soon, a polite assassin arrives, with the dwarf in tow, demanding the book back. But Jill has alre...



  • Stephanie Bancroft

    When a quick rub of an old brass teapot set off a tremor that reduced his antiques store to a shambles, Ladden Sanderson groaned. At least the exotic carpet he'd rescued from an estate sale would intrigue designer Jasmine Crowne, but what he really w...



  • Iain M. Banks

    Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old myst...



  • Patricia Barnes-Svarney

    Participating in a newsletter competition with members of her media class, Alex begins to smell a rat when her team falls way behind their rivals and suspects that a traitor may be in their midst. Original....



  • Steven Barnes

    Iron Shadows...an exciting, fast-paced thriller about a charismatic cult with a dark underside, a riveting adventure filled with passion and danger.

    Cat Juvell has a black belt and a knack for solving difficult cases. She and her partner have ...



  • Victoria Barrett
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    Amanda Jensen wants to stand on her own two feet and make her card shop a success. Looking the other way when a local bag lady steals from her doesn't help, but she has a soft spot for the eccentric woman name Chatty. Besides, Chatty is not what ...



  • Greg Bear

    Remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, in which an expedition led by Professor George Edward Challenger discovered an Amazonian plateau where dinosaurs still roamed? In Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear assumes that Challenger's expedition really...



  • P.A. Bechko

    Ethan Torregrossa is a town tamer on his way to Stillwater, California to help the Burr Stage and Freight Line out of a heap of trouble. Someone seems bent on destroying the line, and Ethan aims to remedy that. But one night on the River Hawks deck, ...



  • Cherie Bennett

    Beauty pageant winner, homecoming queen--Lara has the world at her feet. Until she gets fat. Despite a strict diet and workout schedule, Lara is soon a nameless, faceless, 200-pound-plus teenage blimp. She's desperate to get her to-die-for body back...



  • Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    In the continuing adventures of several interns for television's trashiest talk show, Roxanne seeks revenge on a behind-the-scenes spy, Lisha finds herself dreaming about Sky despite her romance with Alan, and Sky lets nothing stand in the way of att...



  • William Bernhardt

    Disillusioned with both the legal system and his private life, criminal attorney Ben Kincaid abandons his practice for a less stressful pastime: playing with a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. The musician's life is bliss - until a corpse crashes...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly
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    By day, Abby Walden is a shy professor -- but by night, she's 'Candida,' author of a spicy love column. Joel Tandem, who resides just a fire escape away, also lives a double life. Though each thinks the other is the cat's meow, gettin...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    WHAT A WEDDING! Angie Ellison had just married a gorgeous mystery man in a hastily arranged wedding ceremony. Clearly, the folklore about the comet passing by her small town was true -- it affected everyone's morals! Surely that was why she wa...



  • Carly Bishop

    SHE WAS OUT TO CAPTURE A KILLER Becky DiFalco was trapped -- snowbound -- in the Rockies with two men. One, the sexiest man she'd ever seen; the other, the shrewdest killer she'd ever been up against in her years with the Colorado Bureau of ...




  • Lawana Blackwell

    When Life Seemed Its Worst, Gresham Awaited Julia Hollis' opulent life in Victorian London crashes to pieces when her husband passes away. Worse, she is told by his bankers that he gambled away their fortune. Now, the family's hope rests on The Larks...



  • Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Detective Marti MacAlister investigates the murder of a young woman whose criminal contacts may put a homeless man at risk. And while Marti looks for one killer, another has come from the past and into her home-zeroing in on all that is dear to Marti...



  • Lawrence Block

    Keller is your basic Urban Lonely Guy. He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment. Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country... and kills s...




  • Stephen A. Bly

    The Lewis and Clark Squad is in Montana to watch Jeremiah dance and compete in a pow-wow. Of course, they plan to play 3-on-3 basketball too. Excitement and then stress builds when Larry's prized, autographed basketball is stolen. The only clue is a ...



  • Stephen A. Bly

    Cody Clark keeps having nightmares about his worst fears. Trapped on a railroad track. Surrounded by wolves. Caught in a dark, long and narrow tunnel. And his friend Feather faces the challenge of a difficult family situation. Meanwhile, their 3-on-3...



  • Stephen A. Bly

    It was the world's fastest summer. A summer of basketball. A summer of growing up. A summer of becoming best friends. School starts in a few days, but first comes the basketball league championship. The Lewis and Clark Squad is in the semifinals. The...



  • Stephanie Bond

    How do you spell "disaster"? W-I-F-E At least, that's what Alan Parish thought. Getting dumped at the altar saved him from making the biggest mistake of his life. From now on, it was the single life for him! And since he'd already paid for his honey...



  • Barbara Boswell

    MR. FEBRUARY The Brennan Man: The very handsome and sexy Dr. Devlin Brennan, expertly skilled in the operating room ...and the bedroom. The Brennan Charm: His bedside manner could win over any woman -- except Gillian Bailey, the one who really...



  • Mark Bourne
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    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...





  • Max Brand

    The wealthiest landowner in the province of Spanish-controlled Alta California has sent away to Spain for a suitable bridegroom for his beautiful daughter, Ortiza Tarabal. Francisco Valdez arrives with his slave, an Englishman known as El Rojo, a cou...



  • Lilian Jackson Braun

    As early spring comes to Moose County, Jim Qwilleran is looking forward to the peaceful beauty of nature's rebirth. What he gets instead is a chorus of noisy birds that constantly wakes him from a sound sleep ... especially when Koko insists on joini...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    Could a revolutionary used to running wild win the heart of a world-weary journalist? Liam Bartlett had nearly lost his life in San Salustiano, and for five years the correspondent had done his best to silence his ghosts. But when Marisala Bolivar...



  • Betty Brooks

    He Made Her A Captive To His Will The rattlesnake struck Spotted Wolf just outside the white man's fort. Unable to save himself or free his Comanche brother held captive by the soldiers, he was at the mercy of the beautiful, ivory-skinned woma...



  • Helen Brooks

    Should she confess to her husband? Marianne had been thrilled when Hudson de Sance proposed. But could she really go ahead with the wedding? She was being blackmailed, and the only solution seemed to be disappearing from Hudson's life.... ...



  • Dan Brown

    When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors ...



  • Margaret Brownley
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    When Paige Roberts wins the three-million dollar lottery, she's ecstatic. She doesn't even mind splitting it with the other winner -- until she learns it's her ex-husband. As Paige and Jeff are brought together, the old sparks start to fl...



  • Kate Bryan

    In 1875, a woman had to be tough to make it on her own. But that's just what Maggie Maguire was: smart, ambitious, and stubbornly adventurous. An unmarried woman who 'd ridden with the carnival she craved excitement and experience. In fact, even work...



  • Bonnie Bryant

    Stevie Lake is going on a class trip to New York City. While Stevie has visions of hanging out in Greenwich Village, her teacher has other ideas--long, boring lectures and a test. Well, Stevie has her own plans. She shakes her classmates and sets off...



  • Carole Buck

    VERY LOUD WEDDING BELLS... Keezia Carew never imagined that her best friend's kiss would send shivers up her spine, set her head spinning and sound off alarms. Or that sexy Fridge Randall would suddenly be hearing wedding bells! With one bad m...




  • Linda Cajio

    Let's make a baby! Sara Johanson wanted a child and a family of her own more than anything. So when she showed up on her estranged husband's doorstep, she expected his signature on four-year-old divorce papers--not an enthusiastic offer to make ba...



  • Richard Calder

    This extraordinary trilogy depicts a future gender war that crosses the boundaries of software, wetware, time, and reality itself in its imaginative leaps and bounds. Only love holds the future together in this tale of star-crossed teens whose tra...



  • Stella Cameron

    RAE FAITH MOODY KNOWS SHE CAN BEAT DALLAS CALHOUN IF SHE CAN ONLY RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO JOIN HIM. Young Rae Faith fled her home. She ran from town to town, covering her tracks, until her trail was cold. Then she settled in tiny Decline, Georgia...



  • Bebe Moore Campbell

    The author of Brothers and Sisters follows a successful producer who tries to revitalize the ghetto of her youth while trying to save her grandmother, a once noted singing star, from herself. Reprint....



  • Peter Carey

    The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. H...



  • Eric Carle

    The author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar teaches preschoolers how to count by two's and how to recognize eight colors, as each die-cut page of an interactive book reveals the painter's exotic rainbow cat....



  • Sally Carleen

    LITTLE GIRL FOUND Single father Sam Woodward refused to believe his beloved child was not his daughter. But here was Marcie Turne hesitantly offering official-looking papers claiming that she was his daughter's mother--and that a big mistake had b...



  • Melody Carlson

    A promise from the past... a hope for today... Fourteen-year-old Allison O'Brian has never known what it's like to, have a real family. Her mother, a popular and glamorous movie star, is more interested in her soaring career than in her daughter, hi...



  • Melody Carlson

    Fourteen-year-old Allison finds herself the center of a custody battle between her glamorous, but neglectful, movie star mother and her long-absent artist father who wants her to live with him in a small Oregon town...



  • Emily Carmichael
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    Eric Neal is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, but neither of their hearts are in it, and with the help of two of Cupid's agents, Hearts and Flowers, they'll soon find their true loves. Disguised as the 1966 Austin Healey Eric has just bought, Hea...



  • Michael Cart

    Eighteen year-old Andy Logan has finally made it to his first year og college, but not without some struggle. As he tries to settle in this new environment, he cannot help but recall the events and experiences that have led him there.

    It is in...



  • Rosemary Carter

    Married to the man? Flynn Henderson was all rancher, from the top of his Stetson to the tip of his boot. What came in between those boots and hat would make any woman's mouth water. Flynn was intent on one thing: revenge. Five years ago he...



  • Adam-Troy Castro
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    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...



  • Maureen Caudill

    Was this smoke-grimed, sexy-as-hell hero hot enough to make a lady stay home nights? Jason Cooper grinned as he plotted to convince writer C. J. Stone he was so boring, bland, and courteous, he couldn't be her magazine's Sexiest Businessman! But ...




  • Patrick Chamoiseau

    New York Times notable book of the year
     
    In Fort-de-France, Martinique, a colorful group of musicians, street vendors, and hopeless disciples, including the author, gather under a tamarind tree to listen to legendary bard Solibo Magnificent...



  • Elizabeth Chandler

    The Velveteen Rabbit longs to be loved because then he will be real. Find out how a treasured toy becomes real in this Rebus Sticker Storybook, which contains more than 35 brightly illustrated stickers!...



  • Giff Cheshire

    From moving tales of the hardships faced by ranchers, to wagon trains overcome by Indians on the Oregon Trial, to steamboat builders and pilots on the Columbia River, this eloquent collection of historical narrative is steeped in the frontier life of...



  • Rob Childs

    Worm's dreaming of joining an archaeological dig when suddenly the Time Rangers are flung back to Roman times. Captured, then sold as slaves, they're trapped in chains. Escape is essential, but making a break for freedom lands the lads in an ancient ...



  • Sue Civil-Brown

    EDEN IS NOT ALL IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE... Jillie McAllister escaped to Paradise Beach to start over somewhere beautiful and far away from her philandering ex-husband. But she's already lost her job, run over a mailbox, become embroiled in a heated ...




  • Mona Clee

    In the year 2032, eighty-year-old Moira Burke watches as life on Earth becomes a series of natural disasters due to global warming--and the planet's only hope may be a bold new genetic experiment called "The Green Man." Original....



  • Peter Clement

    LETHAL DISCOVERY St. Paul's Hospital. Buffalo, New York. Scandal rocks the medical community when someone murders the chief administrator, plunging a long thin cardiac needle into his heart with deadly precision. LETHAL PURSUIT Top ER physician ...



  • Walt Coburn

    Known as "The King of the Westerns," "The Cowboy Author," and "The King of the Pulps," Walt Coburn ruled the roost for decades when it came to Western fiction. His work appeared in virtually every important Western magazine and became the standard by...




  • Jonathan Coe

    A dream of a novel."--Erica Wagner, The Times (London)Following The Winshaw Legacy--Coe's ecstatically reviewed American debut, winner of the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize in England and France's coveted Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger--comes this beguil...





  • Christa Conan

    TROUBLE HAD NEVER BEEN SO APPEALING.... Special Investigator Doug Masterson was headed for some long-awaited R and R when trouble walked into his office. Tall, beautiful and with curves in all the right places, Arielle Hale had the face of an ange...



  • Susan Conant

    A DIFFERENT BREED OF MURDER Every week Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter and her beloved Alaskan malamute, Rowdy, visit the Gateway Nursing Home to spread cheer among the senior residents. Yet shortly after meeting ninety-year-old Althea Battlefie...



  • Joe Connelly

    Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the Dead. Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes fr...



  • Douglas Cooper

    The critically acclaimed author of "Amnesia" presents his second book--the first novel ever serialized on the Internet--a thrilling story of ideas than spans continents and centuries, a psychological tour de force encompassing murder, the history of ...



  • Arthur Byron Cover

    A History Lesson? As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. As if real life wasn't already over...



  • Jordan Cray

    The Internet...a world without rules, without boundaries. Where you can be anyone you want, whoever you aren''t. And it''s all just a click away...Mina and Camille share everything. So why would Camille take off without telling Mina? The cops think s...



  • Millie Criswell

    He Had a Steel Will Texas Ranger Ethan Bodine slept with his gun, talked to his horse, and lived by an unbreakable code. Right was right, and wrong meant he brought a man to justice -- even if the outlaw was his brother Rafe. Now Ethan's only goal i...



  • Clare Curzon

    Mike Yeadings and his police team begin work on the disappearance of a powerful Japanese businessman's daughter and the murder of his chief executive, both of which have caused rising tensions in the industrial town of Thames Valley...



  • Ruth Jean Dale

    Ready, Steady, Married! Can Dara Linnell marry a complete stranger? In a word, yes! She needs a husband to get away from her bossy, manipulative grandfather. And Zane is perfect for the job -- he's young, free and single. So what if she's ...



  • Brian Daley

    Though they contemplated a final suicide mission of blood, guts, and glory, the Exts knew their warrior superskills were no match for the LAW--Legal Annexation of Worlds--who were sent into space by the mighty Periapt potentates to colonize new popul...



  • John Dalmas

    Seven centuries ago, Earth's infant first colony was mysteriously cut off without a ship of its own. For thirty generations the colonists have focused on survival, establishment, growth; their agrarian society evolving in an absence of war, with coop...



  • Dennis Danvers

    The body is baggage. The soul is expendable.

    Nemo's mother and father left him behind to enter "the Bin"--joining twelve billion uploaded personalities who live in crime-free, disease-free and deathless virtual societ...



  • Janice Daugharty

    Just out of prison after serving time on a drug charge, Roper Rackard comes across a woman's body while mowing the tall grass at the far end of his new boss's property, and although he is innocent of her death, Roper panics. Terrified that he will b...



  • Trisha David

    Beth Lister will lose everything unless she marries Lyle. So, ever the sensible woman, she agrees to his proposal. But her husband is quickly forgotten when, on her wedding day, she's kidnapped by Kell Hallan, the wedding photographer! She thought he...



  • Annabel Davis-Goff

    Widely praised for her rich and elegant prose, Annabel Davis-Goff delivers the story of Molly Hassard, an Anglo-Irish orphan coming of age in a formerly privileged society. As the Protestant-Irish emerge from the postwar years, the refuse to face the...





  • Geralyn Dawson

    With just the right blend of laughter and romance, Geralyn Dawson weaves an air of enchantment in her tales of old-time Texas, with characters who charm their way right into our hearts. Now she pairs a handsome thief and an unconventional beauty to s...



  • Charles de Lint

    When Max Trader, a quiet, responsible guitar maker and Johnny Devlin, a lady-killing, drunken, unemployed loser, inexplicably awaken in each other's bodies, Max must venture into the streets of Newford where he must confront Devlin and his own deepes...



  • Charles de Lint

    The streets of the city, and the ancient myths of the land. Mystery and portents; glittering dreams. The magic of friendship. Of art and music. And of love. Welcome to the world of Charles de Lint. Here is Lily, a photojournalist in search of the "a...



  • Sharon De Vita

    ONE MAN'S VOW In one dramatic moment, police officer Michael Sullivan was without a partner, and mother-to-be Joanna Grace without the father of her baby. And now, Michael would fulfill his secret promise to take care of his friend's beautiful wife ...



  • Keith R.A. Decandido
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    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...



  • Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Cyric the Mad Who betrayed his friends Midnight and Kelemvor and sought to destroy them. Who ascended to godhood and now spreads his lies and intrigues into every corner of Faerun. Who is the Lord of Murder, the Prince of Lies--and insane....



  • Bradley Denton

    Highlighting this collection is an ingenious new episode in the saga of Jimmy Blackburn, the eponymous serial killer of Denton's third novel. "Blackburn Bakes Cookies" might best be called the icing on the cake that is Blackburn's sto...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Emily Jane Todd has just found her guardian angel. Actually, the small-town librarian had just been stood up by her fiance when she ran into the errant angel with her car. And while he appears to be unscathed, "Michael" continues to insist that his p...



  • Dean Devlin

    The No. 1 blockbuster movie Independence Day was only part of the story. After the alien invaders are downed and teams are sent out to find survivors, only some personal belongings of Dr. Brackish Okun, head scientist of Area 51, are found.

    Okun's ...



  • Marian Devon

    SHE HADN'T SET OUT TO STIR THINGS UP -- ESPECIALLY HER OWN HEART... Though recently jilted at age seven-and-twenty, Claudia Wentworth was about to embark on a whirlwind adventure. It all began when she enlisted the aid of Lord Thornton after h...



  • Ted Dewan

    How can the Sorcerer, a brilliant inventor, possibly clean up after himself when he spends all of his time working? His solution -- he invents a robot Apprentice to solve his clutter problem! But when the Apprentice is left to clean up the workshop...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    HOW TO MARRY... A Real-Live Sheikh - Don't let his sexy, take-no-prisoners gaze enchant you - Don't let his delicious, slow-and-sure kisses bewitch you - Don't even think about what's under his robe He swept into her hotel lobby swathed in whi...



  • Cameron Dokey

    Follow the travels of the hope chest created during the War of Independence as it continues its journey through American history and through the lives of generations of courageous young American women. Chicago 1871 Carrie can't believe she posses...



  • Cameron Dokey

    Share the dream, as the beautiful hope chest passes to a new generation and a young woman dares to follow her heart on a dangerous voyage in pursuit of true love. Baltimore 1850 Stephanie is crushed when she discovers that her father has sent the ma...



  • Robyn Donald

    A Nanny in trouble.... Job: Nanny with a difference required to love and care for two adorable dogs. Special Qualifications: Interminable patience, especially when it comes to Emma's new neighbor, the infuriating but magnificent Kane Talbo...




  • Alice Duncan

    He was irresistible. Handsome as sin. And he filled her nights with dreams no proper lady should enjoy.... HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED -- AND COULD NOT TOUCH... By day she was Claire Montague, prim, demure housekeeper of Partington Place. B...



  • Doranna Durgin
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    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...



  • Rosemary Edghill

    In Salem, Massachusetts, Diana Crossways, a modern witch, sees an otherworldly figure exposed by lightning and tumbles back in time to 1647 England, where she comes face to face with a ruthless witch hunter with the power of life and death, who finds...



  • Cassie Edwards

    Ever since the sweltering summer day when Zoe Hawkins pinned on her father's tin star, she'd sworn to uphold the law in rough-and-ready Gracemont, Oklahoma. But how could the lovely sheriff maintain order when she couldn't even subdue her own waywar...



  • Ted Edwards

    Everyone knows Hercules is the toughest of the tough, but how well do you really know the star of The Legendary Journeys? You love this weekly dose of eye-candy, but do you know how it all began? The answers are all here. Now for the first time ever,...



  • Randy Lee Eickhoff

    Doc Holliday was thirty-six when he found out he had the same incurable tuberculosis that took his mother's life--and one year to live. The doomed Holliday quickly plunged himself into the hard-drinking, violent world of the gunslinger. He traveled f...




  • Tabor Evans

    Relaxing in his favorite saloon, Longarm watches a woman gun down the drifter sitting next to him, and in his search for the vigilante, encounters a band of wild and dangerous Wyoming women who are pretty--and dangerous. Original....



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    The Scandalous Secret... Emily Talcott has enough to worry about, trying to see her lovely younger sister suitably married before their father's lamentable lack of skill in cards sends them to the poor house. Now this well-bred miss is fending ...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    Love, Marriage...and Baklava They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but Demi Tripopulous isn't so sure. Her family's restaurant makes the best delicacies around, but you don't see eligible bachelors flocking arou...



  • Joseph Finder

    Clair Heller Chapman has the perfect life. She's a star Harvard Law School professor and high-powered attorney. Her second husband, Tom Chapman, is a charismatic and successful money manager who adores her and her six-year-old daughter. But then o...



  • Jack Finney

    From the author of Time and Again and From Time to Time comes a collection of twelve moving stories featuring time travel.About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time cla...



  • Patricia Finney

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  • Nancy Fisher

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    When Gwyn comes home from her grandparents' golden wedding anniversary she doesn't expect to run into the man she almost married - or that together they'd toast 'The Anniversary That Never Was.'...



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  • Elizabeth Foxwell

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    When a professor runs into her prize student from ten years past, the attraction is instant. But when he doesn't recognize her, she pretends to be someone else. And now, their love is entangled in deception......




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    Floria Aemilia, a concubine to St. Augustine for more than ten years prior to his spiritual awakening, challenges St. Augustine's view of women and love as described in his Confessions, in a passionate and occasionally erotic fictional letter...



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  • Indira Ganesan

    In her first novel since her debut with The Journey, Indira Ganesan gives us the story of Sonil, who at fifteen has come to her adored grandmother's house on a paradisiacal island off the coast of India ("a tiny eye, to the teardrop that was Sri Lank...



  • Alton Gansky

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  • Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

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  • George Garrett

    A reporter investigates a crime spree that shakes a small Florida town in the week Martin Luther King is assassinated. “There are few recent novels as thought-provoking, as witty, and as entertaining as this one” (Washington Post Book World). Wit...



  • David Gates

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    The wastrel Earl of Glenwood had often pressed his daughter to wed a wealthy gentleman, but Lady Diana Crosswell turned down all offers as marriage meant leaving her happy-go-lucky younger brother to fend for himself. But when handsome John Derringer...



  • Rita Golden Gelman

    Based closely on the Book of Esther and featuring childlike artwork that captures the trappings of the period, a spirited retelling of the Purim story celebrates the Queen Esther's brave defense of the Jews against the king's tyrannical prime ministe...



  • Denise Giardina

    An astonishing historical novel in the tradition of Schindler's List--evoking powerfully the danger and heroism of the Nazi resistance. What is the price of acting morally in a time of great evil, when sin and necessity seem twinned? Saints and Villa...



  • Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Cinderella? In his search for the perfect woman, Steven Jackson had dated lots of candidates, but no one had quite fit the glass slipper. Then, while he was on vacation, his Cinderella came crashing through the ceiling of his hotel room, captured hi...



  • Carolyn Ives Gilman

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  • Leslie Glass

    April Woo faces her most challenging investigation yet. A man and woman lie dead on a snowy Manhattan sidewalk. The primary suspect is the murdered woman's husband, African-American ex-football star Rick Liberty. For Detective Woo, it's a homicide ca...



  • Christie Golden

    HUNTING THE MOST REMARKABLE PREY ON PLANET EARTH WILL BE EASY... The planet Tyrus is in the throes of mutiny. A military dictatorship has seized the throne and dispatched an armada to invade a distant land. The mission: locate their future king an...



  • Andrew Goliszek

    When NASA investigator Linda Franklin is sent to unravel a mysterious plane crash, she finds herself staring into the wreckage of an aircraft that has never existed. Her inquiry leads her through the secret corridors of power in the Pentagon to confr...



  • Jo Goodman

    Decker Thorne's carefree ways have done little to impress his employer, Jonna Remington, the poised and unflappable owner of Remington Shipping. But when he captains her best ship on a record-breaking voyage and saves her life in the same day, their ...



  • Nadine Gordimer

    "With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past." --The Boston Sunday Globe



  • Phyllis Gotlieb

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  • Carol Grace

    BEST-KEPT WISHES: Three high school friends, three heartfelt wishes made on prom night--three weddings to end all weddings! BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.... Tally James wished for a ranch of her own. What she got was a long, tall groom! But tha...



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  • Lynne Graham

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  • Anne Underwood Grant

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  • Charles L. Grant

    Crops whither in the fields. Fish float belly-up in rivers, lakes, and oceans. Orchards are barren. Cattle and sheep are dying on their feet. The world is slowly starving to death.

    Deep in the American heartland, a terrible family reunion is t...




  • Martin H. Greenberg

    This book is titled after Jack Ritchie's classic tale of betrayal and is a collection that demonstrates that evil has no geographical limits....




  • Robert O. Greer

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  • Robert O. Greer

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  • John Grisham

    Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nin...




  • Romesh Gunesekera

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    AT NEW YORK'S MOST ROMANTIC SETTING--VALENTINE'S DAY CAN BRING LOVE'S SPECIAL SURPRISE Amid Manhattan's most elegant restaurants, The Rainbow Room casts a golden glow with nights filled with fine dining, magical music and the splendor of dancing h...



  • Zoe Hall

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    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...



  • Barbara Hambly

    Chaos reigned in the Eastern Lands: as the fearsome Alketch army mounted siege, the young Prince Tir was snatched from the heart of Dare's Keep. Behind the terror was the depraved, hook-handed General Vair na-Chandros. He had learned that the royal c...



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  • Celeste Hamilton

    LET THE HONEYMOON BEGIN! Pretty Paige McMullen came home to Amarillo, Texas, just in time to get hitched to widower True Whitman, the rugged cowboy she'd loved ever since she was a young cowgirl. But little did her groom-to-be know she'd been wait...



  • Gerald Hammond

    After refusing to sign the necessary papers acknowledging the unwanted mating of his champion Scottish game-dog with corrupt official Ben Garnet's spaniel, John Cunningham becomes a prime suspect when Garnet is found half-dead...



  • Irene Hannon

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  • Karen Harbaugh

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  • Ric Lynden Hardman

    The year: 1881.  The place: Odessa, Texas.  Seventeen-year-old Wylie Jackson lands a job as assistant cook on what will be his first cattle drive.  Before he departs, Wylie's friend Alice charges him with taking her pet cattalo, Roselle, to her...




  • Miranda Harry

    Just between us... Dana Lipton has totally fallen for Chris Geller. Who wouldn’t? He’s sexy, funny, and smart--and he’s just as crazy about Dana as she is about him. But there’s one problem: Chris is her older brother Brian’s best friend, ...



  • Robin Lee Hatcher

    AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM Swedish immigrant Inga Linberg might not be as beautiful as her flirtatious sisters, but that doesn't mean she doesn't share their romantic ideas. When Dirk Bridger, a handsome but beleaguered Iowa farmer, approaches her minist...



  • Max Haynes

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  • Jane Heller

    KISSES ... KIDNAPPING ... KARMA Just another day in the life of Crystal Goldstein. No one is more surprised than pragmatic New York accountant Crystal Goldtein when at the urging of her best friend Rona--a New Age junkie--she suddenly finds hers...



  • Joseph Heller

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  • Dee Henderson

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