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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JANUARY 1991

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New Books List: 669 titles


  • W.E.B. Griffin

    Battleground - Book IV - continues the saga of The Corps with the story of one of the epic conflicts of the Pacific, the bloody months spanning Midway and Guadalcanal. From aviators to Raiders, officers to dog soldiers, no quarter is asked, and none ...




  • James McPhee



  • Don Pendleton

    UNFINISHED BUSINESS There's vermin on the streets of Chicago, and Mack Bolan is sent in as exterminator. He's got the right equipment... a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle and a lifelong vendetta against men like Hector Gurrola. The drug lord rules an e...



  • Duncan Long

    Captain Jefferson Davis "Oz" Carson and the Night Stalkers helicopter pilots are assigned to transport a prince across a terrorist-teeming Sahara Desert, where they must contend with kidnappers, assassins, and intrigue...




  • Jack Drake




  • Rob MacGregor

    In 1981 a new hero like no other burst upon the scene. Over the next ten years and three films we grew to know and love the legend that is Indiana Jones: bold adventurer, swashbuckling explorer, he lives forever in our imaginations, unraveling the...



  • Jerry Ahern

    In the assault on the forces of darkness, can one man survive? The commando raids would be launched simultaneously. Already inside the Soviet Underwater Complex, the US Marines were surfacing, stripping off their environment suits, PV-26 sh...




  • Jack Drake



  • Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    CHINESE RIDDLE What was in the Chinese box that a student survivor of Tiananmen Square smuggled into the States? What fiend in human form left footprints pointed backward in the snow? Remo and Chiun found every answer led to a bizarre new riddle. ...



  • Tom Willard



  • Jaqueline Girdner

    BODY OF EVIDENCE In Kate Jasper's offbeat, totally California lifestyle, there's no such thing as "routine"--a routine visit to her chiropractor, for example, leads to cold-blooded murder when a dead body turns up on the examining table. There are...



  • Katherine Hall Page

    THE THREADS THAT LEAD TO MURDER The beautiful handmade quilt Faith Sibley Fairchild buys at an estate auction promises to liven up her deathly dull vacation on Maine's Sanpere Island. THE OLD MAID'S PUZZLE Lovingly constructed by wealthy, deceas...



  • Antonia Fraser

    IT'S A CASE OF MURDER, PLAIN AND SIMPLE--EXCEPT THE PRIME SUSPECT HAS BEEN DEAD THREE HUNDRED YEARS! After the violent death of his predecessor, a former tennis superstar finds himself the new lord of Lackland Court. But he's about to learn that ...



  • Janet Neel

    Detective Chief Inspector John McLeish of New Scotland Yard tried to look sharp while his commander briefed him on a missing person. He'd just worked thirty-six hours, topped off by a blazing row with Francesca Wilson, who was racing to New York to b...



  • Carolyn Keene

    Nancy meets her match -- in the game of love and in the art of crime. Nancy's in Chicago to cheer the Emerson College basketball team, led by co-captain Ned Nickerson, against their archrivals. But she can't believe her eyes. Has Ned saved his sli...



  • Mary Bowen Hall

    A women's group receiving hate mail turns to Emma Chizzit for advice, a situation that leads Emma into a problem involving rape, murder, and a dishonest ultra-right-wing couple who are influencing one of Emma's friends...



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    Assisting archaeologist John Maxwell in his search for a priceless artifact, Frank and Joe become alarmed when he disappears, and their subsequent investigation brings them up against several deadly hazards. Original....



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    When a navy fighter pilot disappears while test flying the latest high-tech aeronautics design, the aircraft's designer is certain that the pilot is a spy who has kidnapped the plane, and the Hardy boys step in to investigate...



  • Carolyn Keene

    While Brittany Tate scours the River Heights Country Club in search of the perfect boyfriend, junior class treasurer Ellen Ming turns to Nancy Drew for help in clearing her father's name from a charge of embezzlement...



  • Michael Bond

    Ever eager to expand the influence of France's leading gastronomic guidebook beyond her native shores, the Director of Le Guide has been cultivating a useful transatlantic connection in the form of a certain Mrs Van Dorman. Ex-parfumier, presently a ...



  • P.M. Carlson

    On a sweltering summer day, reporter Olivia Kerr and her husband Jerry invite Olivia's colleague Dale Colby and his family to the beach. Accompanying them is a very pregnant Maggie Ryan, Jerry's sister, and her family. Dale's last-minute decision to ...



  • Mary Monica Pulver

    The sole surviving member of Detective Peter Brichter's wife's family is murdered soon after arriving for the Brichter's Christmas party at her former home, Tretower, where the remaining guests reveal some unpalatable secrets about Tretower's past...



  • Margaret Maron

    The fatal shooting of off-duty detective Michael Cluett, recently transferred from Manhattan to Brooklyn and days short of his 40-year tenure, sets off the series of intertwining investigations. After the shooting, lieutenant Sigrid Harald, Cluett&#...



  • Carolyn Keene

    Nancy goes in search of a missing painter -- and uncovers a new twist in the art of murder Nancy's summer in the chic Hamptons beach resort is growing hotter by the day. She's seeing more of Russian dancer Sasha Petrov, and she's not sure if it's ...



  • Joyce Christmas

    Antiques dealer Bedros Kasparian calls in his old friend Lady Margaret Priam to investigate when the body of a beautiful blackmailer and soon-to-be-ex-wife of a wealthy Hollywood lawyer, Sylvie Code, is found in his shop...



  • Camilla T. Crespi

    DYING TO GET AHEAD A large office is like a small town: you have to be an insider in order to know who is doing what to whom. And at the plush, elegant offices of HH&H Advertising, executive Simona Griffo observed plenty going on-cutthroat competiti...



  • Roy Lewis

    Planning officer Arnold Landon begins to research a book about his hobby, medieval architecture, but when the writer of the book is murdered, Landon is suspended from his job, and must clear his name before the real killer finds him...




  • Joleen Daniels

    Karl Hallstrom's blood was boiling. The object of his ire was pretty Jaime Mitchell, the sweetly stubborn social worker who planned to put his feisty grandfather in a home. But his angry assault revealed a chink in Jaime's armor, allowing him a glimp...



  • Sandra James

    The shame still haunted her After learning a shocking secret about her husband, Leslie Wilson had divorced him. A tranquil summer in San Diego with her friend Colleen's family would be just what she needed. Or so she thought. She hadn't co...



  • Connie Bennett

    She didn't trust anyone Crystal Elliott was the adult child of an alcoholic. As such, the guiding rule of her life was Don't Talk About It. Little wonder she had difficulty forming relationships. But she was almost ready to share everyt...



  • Peggy Nicholson

    It was like pleading with a stone "We might not have as much money as you," Kara Tate said, confronting Jordan Stonehall, "but we've got every bit as much pride." If it hadn't been for stupid, macho Texas pride--and cruel f...



  • Joanna Gilpin

    He fulfilled her wildest fantasies Ira Nicholson was the perfect lover -- and Diane Roberts wanted him. She was starting a new life, away from the demands of running a multimillion-dollar business. She had tried love once and failed miserably. Now...



  • Karen Toller Whittenburg

    AMERICAN GIGOLO OR ABSENTMINDED PROFESSOR... At first, Jessica Day thought she had just imagined him. What was a tall, dark, handsome man in a tuxedo doing at the local college pub? But as she got to know him, Jessie realized that she could nev...



  • Elaine K. Stirling

    Different Worlds Dawn Avery: Biologist. Her work--her life--was the rain forests of Central America. Michael Garrett: Corporate analyst. His business -- his roots--were solidly in Western Canada. Then it happened. One hot, steamy night in ...



  • Glenda Sanders

    They were an unlikely pair Dr. Sergei Karol was no mere mortal. He was microsurgeon, the specialist who saved Polly Mechler's brother from a disabling injury. But Polly wasn't intimidated by the great Dr. Karol. She had her own claim to fame. She ...



  • Christine Rimmer

    Casey Clinton was in a bind. Custody courts didn't favor single fathers, and he seemed perilously close to losing his beloved nephew. What he needed was a wife. And since his childhood buddy Joanna Vail had always stood by his side through thick and ...



  • Candace Schuler

    It was a scandalous affair Prim and proper Kate Hightower did everything by the book. Yet she'd run away from her wedding rehearsal, leaving her fiance practically standing at the altar. New Orleans was the ideal place to soothe her shattered nerv...



  • Angela Wells

    Alain du Gard seemed to have everything Once Alex had joked about what it would take to get her to the altar--an Yves Saint Laurent wedding gown, an exotic sports car, a honeymoon in St. Lucia. Now she knew that money didn't matter to her--...



  • Carolyn Fireside

    Stunning, sensual, and stubborn, Maggie Charleson was about to learn the rules of... Ambition--wanting her talent, not her wealthy father's ownership of New York's mighty football franchise, to make her a top journalist. Power--being blackmailed by...



  • Lass Small

    GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE... The truth was, Jan Folger had never really given Junior Busby a second thought--even though he'd lived next door to her for about a million years. But her charity group was holding a bachelor auction. They needed one mor...



  • Linda A. Cooney

    Winnie can't believe she's being romanced by two fabulous guys. Can she choose between them before she loses them both? Christopher will do anything to keep vulnerable Lauren from printing a frat hazing article. Will Lauren fall under his spell? ...



  • Linda A. Cooney

    DON'T MISS THE BOAT KC's a star in the university calendar. She can join any sorority, date any guy. Now that she can have anything she wants, can she make the right choices? Winnie's heart belongs to Josh, but Travis won't take no for an answe...



  • Patricia Wilson

    Lucy didn't trust Guy an inch The Comte de Chauvrais was the rudest and most insensitive man she had ever met. What had possessed her Aunt Wanda to accept an invitation to stay at his chateau? And why was he so interested in them? The whole...



  • Judith Christenberry

    HEART OF THE WILDERNESS When Susan McCormick set out to explore the Rocky Mountains, she was only looking for a little peace and quiet. But the majestic wilderness turned threatening when Susan took the wrong path and a storm blew in. The isolated...



  • Cathie Linz

    SLOW TO TRUST... So what if school librarian Alicia Donnelly was great with kids? Ever since her single parent ex-fiance had let it slip that maternalism was her main--and only--attraction, Alicia had sworn off struggling fathers looking for love....



  • Reva Korda

    An international takeover, vicious office politics, and a lovely younger woman all spell trouble for Becky Gagarin, a successful career woman who juggles her job as creative head of a top ad agency, her marriage, and her children. Reprint. LJ.



  • Libby Hall

    A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE 1890s--1990s Reporting for an underground newspaper, Jennifer Wright champions counterculture causes--and fears love's dangers. Test pilot Lij Branigan explores the limits of speed and performance in experimental ...



  • Jean Barrett

    JUNGLE LOVE Destiny had taken New Orleans executive Anne Richmond to the lush, untamed upper reaches of the Amazon ...and to Ross McIntyre, the brooding, dangerous American expatriate who was her unwilling guide through his beautiful, treacherous ...



  • Jane Silverwood

    Three abandoned orphans, one missing heiress ... When elderly communications magnate Owen Byrnside learned that twenty-six years earlier his only son had fathered a daughter, he yearned to locate his heir. It wouldn't be easy: the night the girl's...



  • Sharon Francis

    SULTRY VACATION Overwork and Boston cold had frazzled high-powered executive Raiford Cornell, so he prescribed himself some Florida warmth. But the southern sun wasn't the only thing heating up Raif once he'd seen the tempting smile and long legs ...



  • Annabel Murray

    A professional model and a townie What on earth was she doing here? Frankie asked herself. True, she'd like to have known her late aunt better, and especially why she'd left Frankie a large legacy on condition that Frankie run her aunt'...



  • Sally Cook

    The black sheep wasn't about to turn white And that was why Laura didn't relish the idea of telling Alex Gillon he was about to become the Earl of Exonby -- and the owner of a Gloucestershire estate. She liked it even less once she'...



  • Joanna Adams

    One man had the power to destroy her career -- and discover her hidden passion....



  • Sally Heywood

    There was more than one type of jungle predator Chrissy had expected danger. After all, collecting rare botanical specimens in the steamy Amazon rain forest almost guaranteed it. She hadn't prepared herself, however, for Rodrigo Garcia Mont...



  • Catherine Palmer

    Buried Treasures Archaeologist Kitt Tucker had spent her life studying the past, but she'd never been able to make sense of her own. And now she had to, because Garth Culhane, the husband who'd walked out on her so many years before, was back in ...



  • Barbara Boswell

    The Arrogant Tyrant with a Wicked Grin... Jack Blackledge was sexy, tough, and hard to handle - and Colleen Brady knew she'd have her hands full working as assistant to the difficult columnist! She'd come all the way to Buffalo to escape her overp...



  • Myrna Temte

    Single mom Susan Miller knew there wasn't a man breathing she could trust--least of all, new neighbor David Hunter, Wyoming's most notorious bachelor. True, his playboy smile brightened dishwater-dull days, and he had risked life and limb for her chi...



  • Anne Stuart

    TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES Though Katharine Lafferty was engaged to be married, her heart was still in mourning. Katharine had been nineteen and a college coed. Danny McCandless had been twenty-four and a well-dressed, coolheaded criminal. And his ef...



  • Suzanne Forster

    Her Fantasy Viking Warrior... When Stephen Gage collided with Lise Anderson, she felt actual sparks fly between them! His eyes were the color of infinity, his voice held the promise of exquisite sensuality, and his spirit seemed to recognize hers. T...



  • Charlotte Hughes

    The Rugged, Reckless Sheriff ... When Gator Landry came to warn her grandmother that a hurricane was coming to Lizard Bayou, Michelle Thurston felt breathless, shaken by memories of the wild Cajun boy who'd tempted a young girl to sneak out to mee...



  • Darcy Rice

    A MATTER OF TRUST From the minute she walked into her office, Stephanie Robinson knew it was going to be a long day. An irate client was waiting with a check for twenty-five thousand dollars--a check that had bounced. A quick search of the compute...



  • Francine Pascal



  • Joyce McGill

    FATAL VISIONS Victoria Shelton's special gifts had never brought her anything but pain, and she wanted no more reminders of them. So Michael Gallagher's urgent request--that she use her psychic abilities to help him find his missing friend and pa...



  • Leigh Anne Williams

    HE WAS AN INTIMATE STRANGER Oscar-winning director Sandy Baker wanted no partners on or off the set. But Victoria Moore couldn't help getting involved. Victoria's first and most autobiographical novel was being brought to the silver screen. Vic...



  • Susan Isaacs

    Long Island's oh-so-fashionable beach resort of choice for everyone who is anyone. Or who was: alas, one of the premier summer residents, movie producer Sy Spencer, has hosted his last power clambake - thanks to whoever has shot him and left him dead...



  • Arlene James

    BRIDE TO BE...OR NOT TO BE? When had Corinne Terral become engaged? She remembered accepting her friend's offer to use his home while he was away -- not his marriage proposal! But that was what he'd told his old-fashioned boss and next-doo...



  • Emma Goldrick

    Dr. Frank Wylie was in a class by himself Beth Hendley had to concede that no one else had ever shattered the hard-won peace she'd found as a schoolteacher. What had she done to deserve this husky ex-professional football player? He hated h...



  • Diana Palmer

    MR. JANUARY Man: Gene Nelson Description: Lean, rugged rancher and head honcho of the sprawling Triple N spread--until he made a shocking discovery. Reputation: Love 'em and leave 'em a man whose heart was made of ice... until mysterious All...



  • Leanne Banks

    ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID... When Joshua Daniels agreed to be in his friend's wedding, he had no idea he'd be paired off with a blue-eyed, golden-haired beauty. But Cassie Warner was every guy's dream come true: bright, clever, and sweet ecstasy in his ...



  • Nora Roberts

    IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT The calls came like clockwork -- a cold, hate-filled voice telling late-night radio announcer Cilla O'Roarke that she was going to die. The never-ending threats had finally made her a believer. She was desperate -- desp...



  • Linda Cajio

    The Handsome Blue-Eyed Devil... Jill Daneforth arrived in England determined to retrieve her mother's prized emerald necklace from a swindler who had stolen her legacy. But one look from her host, aristocratic Rick Kitteridge, took her mind off cr...



  • Julie Ellis

    Raised in the brutal tenements of New York, young Katie Freeman dreams of a better life with Harry Newhouse, her childhood sweetheart. Risking everything to make those dreams come true, Katie and Harry leave all they know behind for the boomtowns of ...



  • Penny Vincenzi

    _____________________________POWERTwo clever, stylish and ambitious women are fighting for control of a multi-million cosmetics empire. MYSTERYWhat is the secret that lies behind its charming, ruthless creator, Julian Morell? And why, when he dies, d...



  • Diana Whitney

    Jonathan felt the bullet slam into his chest, heard his lover's anguished scream. But then he'd plunged into a snowy darkness, and Cathy had disappeared, leaving him for dead. Now, eleven years later, an embittered, tormented Jonathan had finally ...



  • Carole Buck

    SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER HIM.... For six years, Elyssa Collins had dreamed of a nameless, faceless stranger who aroused her deepest desires. He was a man she couldn't remember -- and he was the father of her only child. Then Elyssa met pow...



  • Anne Weale

    Champagne and caviar--she had it all .. . Health, a challenging, successful career, her own comfortable home, holidays abroad, designer clothes, lots of friends. But Rosie Middleton didn't have a man. Rosie had lost her heart once--with dis...



  • Helena Dawson

    Her next commission would launch her career Charlie was convinced of it -- until she discovered that her eminent subject, Calum Sutherland, was none other than the disagreeable, narrow-minded businessman she'd earlier antagonized. Much as s...



  • Jeanne Allan

    "It's simple -- we'll get married." Clay made it sound so easy, Dallas thought. But marriage to a virtual stranger was a daunting prospect, even if it was the best solution to little Nicky's problems. Clay also made it clear...



  • Elizabeth August

    ALL IN THE FAMILY Never trust a man were words Emily Hartley chose to live by. And except for occasional bouts with loneliness, she did just fine...until bachelor father Jed Sawyer made her an offer she couldn't refuse. The rugged farmer wante...



  • Marisa Carroll

    Rachel McKendrick Phillips had nowhere left to run As a prisoner in a Vietnamese labor camp, Rachel had done things to survive that she couldn't bear to think about. Even safely home in the United States, her memories would give her no peace. S...



  • Francine Pascal

    Who's the new girl at Sweet Valley High? Looks can be deceiving………… Jessica can’t believe it! Her idol, rock star Jamie Peters, has moved to Sweet Valley. If only she could meet him, her career as a 'star' would really take off! Peek...



  • Ann Hammond

    ISLAND GIRL Architect Lane Stafford had thought of his trip to Florida as a working vacation -- until his car broke down on the isolated main road of Caloosa Key. With no sign of civilization in sight, Lane knew the fierce mosquitoes and scorching...



  • Maggi Charles

    Millionaire Derek Van Heusen believed only in what he could buy or build, and dreamy do-gooders rarely broke his stride. Until fiery Abigail Eldredge nearly stopped him in his tracks. Even as she slowed the mighty wheels of modern progress, his beaut...



  • Ruth Jean Dale

    "Anybody but Annie Page!" Newspaper publisher Nick Kimball needed a society columnist; Annie had the necessary contacts. But he didn't like her any more than he'd liked her late husband, Robert. According to Nick, Annie was a &#...



  • Amanda Browning

    "Morgan's coming home!" her stepfather cried Those three words should have released a flood of warm memories for Leigh. Instead, thoughts of their last disastrous encounter blotted out the rest. Just when she'd been coming to te...



  • Lori Copeland

    The Best-Looking Guy in Town... Dex Matthews was back, and Carly Winters still thought her ex-fiance was too handsome for his own good...and hers! The brilliant marketing director had challenged and charmed her like crazy when they'd first met, st...



  • Olivia Ferrell

    SUMMER'S SWEET PROMISE Fancy Connors had one long, hot summer to find out if her love for Rader Malone was real or just a long-held dream. She was barely a teenager when her handsome, older stepbrother had been driven out of her life. And now,...



  • Shirl Henke



  • Bay Matthews

    All her life, daughter-of-the-help Darcy had idolized Roman Zachery, the congressman's son. Their one night of hot, reckless, teenage passion had rocked her world. But Roman had married a proper wife, and Darcy had fled, carrying her fateful secret. ...



  • Doris Parmett

    A Gambler in Love... Katie Reynolds had loved Bill Logan ever since they were kids, but he'd never considered her anything more than his best buddy, his partner in crime. So when he came home to Cape May and invited her to dinner, she wondered if ...



  • Sandra Brown

    ALL HE WANTED WAS ENOUGH WHISKEY TO FORGET Ravaged by grief after a car crash took his cherished wife and unborn child, Chase Tyler had abandoned his family business. He'd hit the rodeo circuit and the bars with equal disregard for his life, unwilli...



  • Carolyn Bridgwood

    You have to love good more than you hate evil, otherwise there's no point in our being alive.... When Kitty Conway is orphaned at the age of eight, she is sent to live with her aunt and uncle, who live with their six children in a state of eccentr...



  • Sibylle Garrett

    WORLDS APART The world looked at Prince Jamal and saw only a wealthy globe-trotting playboy, but Reba Davis knew better. This fascinating, mysterious man had struggled all his life to find a balance between his people's ancient customs and the way...



  • Marcine Smith

    HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS Abbey Baird was coming home--to the small town she'd vowed to escape forever, and to face the man she'd once adored. Ten years had passed since she'd left behind the shadow of her past--and Travis Matthews--to make somet...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    THE CAPRICORN MAN The sexy, sensible Capricorn man doesn't fall in love overnight. He'll wait for a woman with warmth, sparkle...and patience. And just when you think he'll never be yours, the mysterious Capricorn's sensuous side slo...



  • Ryanne Corey

    ALL THE RIGHT MOVES The minute she walked into his bar, Thomas Murphy knew he was in trouble. She was Newport high society, a real class act. But she handled a pool stick like a pro, and she had a wicked left hook -- he could testify to that. Yes,...



  • Christina Harland

    Waiting for their husbands who are off fighting in Vietnam, Abbra turns to her husband's brother for love, Serena forsakes her decadent life for work in a Saigon orphanage, and Gabriella finds fame as a singer...



  • Elisabeth McNeill

      A high-born lady and her servant girl defy scandal with friendship and courage in this historical Scottish saga based on true events. Veronica Hay is an acclaimed beauty, but her downward spiral begins the moment she enters a loveless marriage...



  • Sheri Cobb South

    Crash course in love... If there's one boy at Maplesville High that Darby Haynes can't stand, it's Bruce Edwards. Darby first met him when his car plowed into hers at a busy intersection. She's been running into him - literally - ever since. It...



  • Ted Allbeury

    Did Winston Churchill betray a French Resistance network in order to appease Joseph Stalin? Philip Maclean, an Englishman, loved both France and a lovely young Frenchwoman, Anne-Marie Duchard. After the German invasion he escaped to England, but h...



  • Niel Hancock

    Return to the world of THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT... The magical universe where man, otter, bear, and dwarf together fought demonic forces of darkness in the struggle for their world. Here, in the twilight age of Atlanton Earth, you traveled with the might...





  • Walter Jon Williams

    The town of Atocha, New Mexico, is having trouble coping with technology. It is a place where the old values of family loyalty still hold sway, and where the Chief of Police can solve any crime because he knows everyone's secrets. But Atocha is about...



  • Louise Cooper

    THE SHATTERING SAGA BEGUN IN THE TIME MASTER TRILOGY CONTINUES With his dying breath, Keridil Toln, High Initiate of the mystic brotherhood known as the Circle, warned his colleagues of a danger beyond their imagining. For a servant of Chaos had ...



  • Katherine Kurtz

    A RACE OF GIANTS In Gwynedd lived the Deryni, that mysterious race of wizards with arcane mental powers. Often feared and misunderstood, they came to be persecuted by humans, forced into hiding lest their race be destroyed. They were a race of Hea...




  • Lynn Abbey

    Lord Ironhawk's son, Jordan Hawson; Althea; Drum, the blacksmith; and Jordan's kid brother, Squirt, search for Balthan, Althea's magician brother, the only one to know the truth about the evil infesting the land of Britannia...





  • Harry Turtledove

    COIN OF THE REALM Videssos was beset by enemies abroad and had fallen into decadence at home. But on his first night in' the imperial capital, The Empire's health mattered less to Krispos than finding a dry place to sleep. Driven by crushing ta...






  • Emily Rodda

    After complaining that her life is uninteresting, Rachel finds herself transported to a place where periodic storms occur which affect the inhabitants in strange ways and cause pigs to float in the air...



  • Judith Moffett

    In the early years of the twenty-first century, Earth teetered on the brink of ecological destruction. Then the alien Hefn came, determined to save the dying Earth - and to the Hefn, the ends always justified the means. Humans were given nine years t...



  • Diana L. Paxson

    She is called Cridilla--the youngest daughter of Leir Blatonikos, the mighty Celtic warlord who conquered three kingdoms. Beautiful, loyal and warrior-trained, she grows to womanhood in a magnificent, barbaric land--and learns lost secrets of the God...



  • Margaret Ball

    THE ONLY GOOD ELF IS A DEAD ELF Or so the militant order of Durandine monks thought, and they planned on making sure that all the elves in their world were very, very good. The elves of the Three Realms have sent out one last spell to bring help.....



  • Patricia A. McKillip

    From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bards of Bone Plain.The Wayfolk are a dark-haired, wandering people who shun doors and walls. Corleu is Wayfolk, albeit with hair the color of the moon. But when his companions and his own true love ...



  • L. Sprague de Camp

    The Producer thinks he''s God''s gift to women—whether they''re human or alien. The Director is delighted to work on a wild and woolly planet, where he can really behave like Attila the Hun. Some of the local natives are trying to steal the ...




  • Angus Wells

    Years ago, the sacred Book of Kyrie prophesied that a champion would lead the Three Kingdoms in battle against the demonic sorcerer Taws and his barbarian Horde--sent by the wrathful war-god Ashar to tear the kingdoms apart. When the young prince ...



  • Simon R. Green

    Every city has its favorite blood sports. Some cities prefer the traditional cruelties of bearbaiting or cockfights, while others indulge their baser appetites with gladiators and arenas. The city port of Haven gets its thrills from the dirtiest, blo...





  • Robert Denny



  • Victor Suthren

    In 1742, colonial American seafarer Admiral Edward Mainwaring is called on to defend the Royal British Navy against French and Spanish fleets at Toulon Harbor, a difficult test of his strategic acumen and swashbuckling skills...



  • Claudia Mills

    “Richardson doesn’t scare me!” Mrs. Richardson had the reputation of being the meanest teacher in the whole school, but H.P. (that's Heidi Patricia) wasn't worried. She was a good student and sure she could win her over. But the very first d...



  • Dorothy Haas

    Their books are overdue -- for a new home! First the Alcott School library springs a leak -- all over everyone! Then the roof caves in. And there is no money for a new roof. Does this mean the end of the library? Not if Peanut and Jilly have t...




  • Jovial Bob Stine

    Will the Real Ira Please Stand Up? Imagine what it would be like to have a double! A double could go to school while you stay home. A double could clean your room while you're outside playing. It all started when Ira Fishman won a camera from a...







  • Vivian B. Martin

    Astrology's legitimacy is one of humankind's oldest debates. Having been banned in virtually every age and place around the globe, today astrology still attracts growing numbers of serious students, many of them armed with statistics and trained in ...



  • Joan Phillips

    This book features the word children are most likely to encounter during their first year of school. The book in the series include some of the best loved characters around. as well as retelling of favorite nursery tales....



  • Anna Ross




  • Jasper Tomkins

    When a little bear neglects to drink the soup the other bears use to prepare for their winter sleep, she finds herself virtually alone, enjoying the solitary adventure until the wolves howl and she longs to join her slumbering family...





  • Andrzej Szczypiorski

    Reissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardiceA masterful novel that was a huge bestseller in Europe, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is a testament to the power of literature. Now wi...




  • R.S. Adams



  • George Plimpton

    George Plimpton is best known for taking to the arenas of professional sports and surviving to write about his experience--with grace, urbanity, and considerable good humor. But such classics as Paper Lion and The Bogey Man are only the most visible ...










  • Seth McEvoy








  • Peter McGehee

    Zero MacNoo, who abandoned his Arkansas home for Toronto, tries to organize a circle of support for a companion with AIDS while trying to avoid returning to Arkansas to face his crazed array of relatives and his mother's second marriage...



  • Harriet May Savitz

    "Are you afraid?" Making friends isn't easy, Allan realizes, especially when you're the new kid in town. Since moving to Ocean View, Allan has spent most of his time alone, out at Silver Lake, watching the geese and the beautiful, graceful white d...




  • Susan Sallis

    Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will love this incredibly poignant and emotionally resonant novel of friendship and fate from multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING!...











  • Susan Sullivan Saiter

    Midwestern teen Crosby Rawson fights to be middle-class while coping with a father who keeps getting fired, a mother who smokes too much and isn't accepted by the "ladies" of town and a strange brother who constantly watches television...






  • Shannon Gilligan

    While thinking of a way to keep their friend, math genius Davey Johnston, from being transferred to a special school, the members of the gang investigate the disappearance of the hands from the museum clock...



  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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