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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JANUARY 1994

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New Books List: 609 titles

  • Lady Willpower

    Pepper Adams

    Eligible bachelor Joe Morgan, mayor of Morgan's Point, hadn't really thought about marriage, though he'd always supposed he would find some nice, politically suitable woman to be his wife. But enterprising Rachel Fox was not a candidate for the jo...

  • Killing Revenge

    Erle Adkins

  • Crane's Morning

    Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen

  • Thanksgiving

    Laura Alden

  • Followers of the North Star: Rhymes about African American Heroes, Heroines, and Historical Times

    Susan Altman

    A collection of poems about some of the historical experiences of African Americans and about such prominent people as Benjamin Banneker, Matthew Henson, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, and Leontyne Price....

  • In the Time of the Butterflies

    Julia Alvarez

    Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the ...

  • Kids

    Laurence Anholt

  • Chaos Mode

    Piers Anthony

    The third chapter in the Mode saga reunites some old friends...Colene, the young woman from Earth grappling with terrible suicidal depressions... Darius, the king from another planet who won her love... and Seqiro, the telepathic horse who shares the...

  • Unto the Soul

    Aharon Appelfeld

    In turn of the century Eastern Europe, a brother and sister have been chosen to guard an ancient cemetery of Jewish martyrs situated on an isolated mountain. The endless snows protect them from the pogroms and plagues that rage in the world below, bu...

  • Lady Adventuress

    Helen Archery

    SHE DREAMED OF BECOMING A DUCHESS... Fate had played her a cruel trick. Spirited and beautiful, Stara Carltons was an orphan whose guardians had spent her inheritance. As companion to pampered, wealthy Lady Gwendolen, Stara lacked the income or ...

  • Bridie of the Wild Rose Inn

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • Ann of the Wild Rose Inn

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • The Parent Plan

    Judith Arnold

    SOME PARENTS ARE HARDER TO MANAGE THAN OTHERS Stephanie Webb and her arrogant, too-gorgeous boss, Ben Strother, reluctantly joined forces to bring their parents together. Not permanently, of course. Just to show both of them that they'd been datin...

  • Deer at the Brook

    Jim Arnosky

  • Fatal Secrets

    Ralph Arnote

    Two years after they exposed Onyx Lu's international sex-slave/drug cartel, Willy Hanson and Ginny DuBois are tracked by the diabolical Lu and her army of Hong Kong hitmen. By the author of Fallen Idols. Original....

  • The Venus Diaries

    Harrison Arnston

    The pages of the Venus Diaries hold chilling fifty-year-old secrets that link the lives of an American World War II hero who became enormously successful and a fashion model-turned-assassin. Original....

  • The Latchkey Dog

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

  • Folks in the Valley

    Jim Aylesworth

    "From the alarm clock that wakens this Pennsylvania Dutch family in the morning to the 'Z' sound of their peaceful sleep at night, this rhyming alphabet book celebrates their way of life as it follows them through the day. Whether used to introduce r...

  • Seventh Heaven

    Elizabeth Bailey

    After a year of wealthy widowhood, Lady Louisa Shittlehope prided herself on her skill at discouraging the attentions of greedy suitors. A skill that she was sure to find handy when she accompanied her ward to town for the season to find the girl a s...

  • Blood and Roses

    Sharon Bainbridge

    When a woman turns into a vampire after a visit to the home of Sir Geoffrey, a mysterious and eligible bachelor, she seeks a cure from a doctor who claims to be a colleague of the man who killed Dracula...

  • Gamble on Passion

    Jacqueline Baird

    A gentleman of fortune...? "The first man to walk through this door will be the one I date for a month." Jacy's bet with her friend Liz was reckless--especially when that first man turned out to be Leo Kozakis. Jacy had gambled on L...

  • Jo Jo's Journey

    Grahame Baker

  • The Night Inside

    Nancy Baker

    Dependable grad student Ardeth Alexander finds herself trapped in a nightmare as the unwilling blood source for a captive vampire. When she discovers that her fellow prisoner is not the worst monster she faces, she realizes that the only way to surv...

  • Love's Bright Star

    Karen A. Bale

    HE WOULD NEVER LOVE ANOTHER He had known Sandrine Renard as a girl, running wild and free on the sprawling Montana range. But now she was a woman, a raven-haired beauty who stirred his deepest need with every glance -- a woman who was betrothed t...

  • Tender Marauder

    Linda Lang Bartell

    HE WAS HER GREATEST PASSION With his fierce strength and virile passion, Leif Haraldson was all the man Morgana had ever needed or wanted...until the siren call of the sea lured him from her arms and bed. Abandoning her for the promise of gold and...

  • The Mother of My Child

    Beverly Barton

    BLACK SHEEP Spencer Rand may have been a member of the premier family of Marshallton, Tennessee, but he'd also been a classic teenage rebel. Not only had he dared to become passionately entangled with the housekeeper's daughter--he'd gone and fall...

  • Across Time

    Nina Beaumont

    Evil Temptress Alessandro di Montefiore could not trust his wife. Isabella was a woman known as much for her powerful cruelty as for her startling beauty. Yet when she looked at him with a stranger's innocence in her passion-darkened eyes, he foun...

  • An Island Apart

    Lillian Beckwith

    Kirsty MacLennan is the cook at Islay, a respectable guest-house in a Scottish suburb. When her employer retires and the irritable Isabel takes her place, Kirsty decides it is time to leave - but where will she go?Her dilemma is unexpectedly solved b...

  • Losing David

    Elizabeth Benning

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Galloping Ghost

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    A HAUNTED RIDING ACADEMY! Brother is scared of horses. Sister is terrified of ghosts. The question is: Which is worse -- fear of galloping or fear of the Galloping Ghost? ...

  • Perfect Justice

    William Bernhardt

    A young Vietnamese immigrant is brutally slaughtered by a crossbow. The prime suspect is a ruthless member of a white supremacy group. When attorney Ben Kincaid reluctantly agrees to confer with the presumed murderer, he encounters a chilling certa...

  • Unforgettable

    Rosanne Bittner

    Orphaned at a tender age, sassy, street-wise Ally Mills fought her way to the dusty plains of Oklahoma. No one was going to keep her from her dreams of independence, not even tall, rugged Ethan Temple. The Cheyenne half-breed stirred feelings deep in...

  • My Sweet Valentine

    Irene Loyd Black

    Orphaned Cassandra Edwards loved to sit on the small hillock overlooking sprawling Ranleigh Manor, imagining that she lived the carefree life of a gentlewoman. But she was practical enough to know that her idle daydreams could never come true...until...

  • Swedish Folktales and Legends

    George Blecher

    One hundred-and-fifty newly translated Swedish folktales feature stories ranging from the ribald to the magical, where sirens, trolls, princesses, dunces, and rakes all come to life. 10,000 first printing....

  • The Grandpa Days

    Joan W. Blos

  • Dream Keeper

    Parris Afton Bonds

    ONE IMPASSIONED FAMILY--ONE ENDURING LEGACY Almost against her will, Annie Tremayne rose to the top of her family's shipping empire in 1870s Sydney Nothing could stop her--neither the manipulation of her grandmother, Nan Livingston, nor the amorou...

  • Looking After Lily

    Cindy Bonner

    Lily, an endearing and scrappy young woman, is as hardworking and independent as they come. Haywood is a tough Texas outlaw who likes his liquor hard, his women soft, and his life free of fetters. So when he promised he'd keep an eye on his jailed br...

  • The Miracle-Worker

    Carmen Boullosa

    In Mexico City a body is clutching papers and a tape recording. Is this a political murder? A miracle-worker has the power, by allowing the wishes of people to enter into her dreams, to answer their prayers. What does she so when a ruthless man petit...

  • Viper

    Mark Bouton

  • In Touch

    Paul Bowles

  • Swan Road

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    Standing on the cliff edge, Rhowenna let her black hair blow wildly in the sea wind, knowing the time for her destiny had come. Her gift of the Welsh "second sight" had brought a vivid vision of her future: one of a man far more passionate th...

  • The Pillow Book of Erotica

    Paula Breslich

    A collection of literary reflections on the joy and variety of erotic love features the words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anai+a5s Nin, Bram Stoker, and D. H. Lawrence and the images of Man Ray, Fragonard, and others. 15,000 first printing....

  • One Hundred and One Valentine Jokes

    Pat Brigandi

  • A Durable Fire

    Francesca Brooks

    WHEN A LADY'S FIRST LOVE IS LORD BYRON, HOW CAN ANY OTHER GENTLEMAN COMPETE? Antonia Marlowe had a most romantic and accursed fate placed upon her at the tender age of sixteen: she fell in love with the poet Lord Byron. He offered for her hand but...

  • Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery

    John Gregory Brown

  • The Indoor Noisy Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • The Country Noisy Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Winter Noisy Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Deadly Friends

    Mary Monroe Brown

    After fleeing Portland for a new life in Phoenix, Elizabeth Prudin learns that, one by one, the members of the small circle of friends with whom she shares a chilling secret are beginning to die mysterious deaths. Original....

  • Venus Envy

    Rita Mae Brown

    At thirty-five, Mary Frazier Armstrong, called "Frazier" by friends and enemies alike, is a sophisticated woman with a thriving art gallery, a healthy bank balance, and an enviable social position.  In fact, she has everything to live for, ...

  • Wedding Bells

    Lydia Browne

    A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN... JORDAN: Traveling the countryside disguised as a boy, she provided for her younger siblings by helping her uncle rob stagecoaches! SETH: After a holdup gone awry, the young preacher promised Jordan's dying uncle th...

  • Chocolate Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    For as long as Carole and Lisa have known their best friend, Stevie, she's been at war with one, or all, of her three brothers. But all that changes when Stevie's twin, Alex, contracts meningitis. This time Stevie is looking for a way to show one of ...

  • A Time to Love

    Kathleen Bryant

    COULD THE PAIN OF THE PAST COST HER THE FUTURE? To Willa Mitterhauser, the fishing lodge run by her aunt on Minnesota's Pine Lake is the place of her happiest childhood memories. It was there that she and her late brother Rick spent each summer an...

  • A Very Private Plot

    William F. Buckley Jr.

    Dangerous Cold War secrets come to light in the age of glasnost in this “smooth and skillful” spy thriller from the New York Times"bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). In the bleakest hours of the Cold War, the CIA did terrible things. The a...

  • Lady Rogue

    Cinnamon Burke

    PIRATE'S PRINCESS Smooth as silk, delicate as porcelain, Ivory Diamond was every inch a lady. She was also a ruthless player in her father's pirate empire. Equally comfortable behind an easel creating artistic masterpieces or behind a celestial cann...

  • They Whisper

    Robert Olen Butler

  • The Alleys of Eden

    Robert Olen Butler

  • Two Sons

    Nick Butterworth

  • The Bear and the Bird King

    Robert Byrd

  • He's So Shy

    Linda Cajio

    RICHARD -- A Green-eyed Heartbreaker of a Mystery Man... In buckskins or jeans, Richard Creighton was impossibly sexy, irresistibly gorgeous - and definitely out of her league! Penelope Marsh knew she was too old for a schoolgirl crush on the ha...

  • Geomancer

    Don Callander

    THE ROCK SPEAKS Hear now, stalwart sirs! Lovely ladies! Eager offspring! Hear the tragedy of the Stone Warrior Tribe, O brave and trusty Stones! Where once we were ordinary men--brave, strong, and mortal--in one great flash we became the very s...

  • Marigold and Grandma on the Town

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • Brothers and Sisters

    Bebe Moore Campbell

    “With wit and grace, Campbell shows how all our stories -- white, black, male female -- ultimately intertwine.” -- Time

    Set against the smoldering embers of post-riot Los Angeles, Brothers and Sisters confirms Bebe Moore Campbell’s reput...

  • The Call of Earth

    Orson Scott Card

    As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above t...

  • Prairie Light

    Margaret Carroll

    UNITED BY HERITAGES, DIVIDED BY PASSIONS Leaving her adoptive, prominent Boston family behind, Kat Norton arrives in Montana eager to learn about her Native American birth mother. She uses a false name to hide her background as she immerses hersel...

  • Wyoming Territory

    Franklin Carter

    Tough as nails Megan O'Connell, the owner of a successful saloon in the town of Cheyenne, forgets about her business when a band of Sioux attack the stagecoach on which her brother Liam and widowed sister Aileen are riding. Original....

  • Dreamskate

    Angela Cash

  • Sapogonia

    Ana Castillo

    In Sapogonia, edited and revised for its Anchor publication, Ana Castillo confronts the complex issues of race and identity facing those of mixed heritage through the struggles of Máximo Madrigal, an expatriate of Sapogonia, the metaphorical home...

  • Bridie and Finn

    Harry Cauley

  • Mattie

    Marsha Wilson Chall

  • Plagiarist

    Benjamin Cheever

    Arthur Prentice, the son of an aging, alcoholic, much-celebrated American author, embarks on a career with a prestigious magazine and finds himself undertaking an emotional journey that transforms every facet of his life. "An ingenious first novel."-...

  • Dara's Cambodian New Year

    Sothea Chiemruom

  • Mother Goose Magic

    Kay Chorao

  • Top Wing

    Matt Christopher

    When Dana Bellamy finds out what really caused the fire that destroyed teammate Benton Crawford's house, he's faced with a difficult decision. Should he keep mum and risk letting a good friendship go sour, or tell the truth and ruin a reputation?...

  • Hairs/Pelitos

    Sandra Cisneros

    This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us.

    A Dragonfly Book in English and Spanish.

    A Parenting Magazine Best Children's Bo...

  • Tournament of Hearts

    Cathleen Clare

    Back home after a long absence, Richard, Earl of Delafield, discovers that his family estate has been transformed into the site for a reenactment of a medieval tournament and that he is expected to play King to Damaris Grayson's Queen. Hero: R...

  • The Case of the Ludicrous Letters

    Anna Clarke

  • Alice's Masque

    Lindsay Clarke

  • The Guns of Peralta

    Richard Clarke

  • Petticoat Pirate

    Gwen Cleary

    A WILD AND WILLFUL BEAUTY When she fled finishing school in San Francisco, Eugenia Whalen little dreamed she would soon become a pirate plying the waters off the coast of the Washington Territory, waylaying shipments of oysters worth their weight in...

  • Skull and Dog Bones

    Melissa Cleary

  • Time of the Rose

    Bonita Clifton

    THE THORN IN HER SIDE When the silver-haired cowboy brought Madison Calloway to his run-down ranch, she thought for sure he was senile. How could the old-timer insist he was a wealthy cattle baron and famous pistoleer? Certain he'd bring harm to hims...

  • A Brood of Vipers

    Michael Clynes

    Rodger embarks on a mission to Florence, in search of an elusive assassin...In his fourth journal, A Brood of Vipers, Roger Shallot encounters treacherous conspiracies and terrible murders as he journeys from Tudor London to Florence. Paul Doherty's ...

  • Celtic Heart

    Kathryn Marie Cocquyt

    Follow the passionate lives of the Brigantes clan through the tumultuous events leading up to the Roman invasion of Britain. As their tribal way of life is threatened, the couragous Chieftain Solomon and the Druidess Saturnalia are tested by question...

  • Mardi Gras!

    Suzanne M. Coil

    Unearths the roots in religious festivals of America's biggest party and describes all the aspects of the celebration, from the costumes and glittering parades to the floats and even the cleanup afterward....

  • The Rationalist

    Warwick Collins

    Silas Grange is a handsome young doctor who prides himself on keeping his appetites under perfect control. But when Grange is summoned by a mysterious, voluptuous widow named Celia Quill, he submits readily to the power of her sensuality. Calmly, exp...

  • Trail of Death

    Dale Colter

    Bounty hunter Sam Slater unwittingly becomes the fall guy for the desert massacre of the 10th Cavalry, and now he must outshoot the army and Rowdy Burton's gang in order to claim a substantial reward. Original....

  • Missing Pages

    Cristina Comencini

  • I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

    Maryse Conde

    "Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contemporary American society and its ingrained racism and sexism."
    THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
    At the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged ...

  • Rumors of Angels

    John Vincent Coniglio

    Fast-paced and unpredictable, Rumors of Angels combines riveting moments in the courtroom with compelling human drama, as a savvy trial lawyer takes on a case involving prayer in schools. Consumer ads in Today's Christian Woman, Moody Magazine, and o...

  • Geronimo, an American Legend

    Robert J. Conley

  • Fatal Cure

    Robin Cook

    Public health care is one of the most important issues in America today. Now Robin Cook, the bestselling master of medical suspense, confronts this controversial subject with an all-to-possible scenario as powerful - and terrifying - as his groundbre...

  • Torsos

    John Peyton Cooke

    Arriving in 1935 Cleveland with a determination to clean up the city, Eliot Ness is greeted by a series of grisly murders and is introduced to the local underground that threatens to swallow up his own detectives. Reprint....

  • Freshman Suspect

    Linda A. Cooney

    KC is investigated for Brooks's death. Will anyone hear her pleas of innocence? Not satisfied with naming KC as the one who pushed Brooks over the cliff, Angela Beth stalks KC in order to drive her mad. Will KC go over the edge? Will Faith bump...

  • More Than Conquerors

    Kay Cornelius

    Lucinda Matthews, a honey-blond, gray-eyed belle, is the toast of huntsville, Alabama, society. Then war disrupts her devoted life. Ben Bradley, her devoted beau, joins the Confederate forces, and soon after, enemy troops occupy Huntsville. From t...

  • Copperhead

    Bernard Cornwell

    It is the summer of 1862 and the northern army is threatening to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital. Captain Nathaniel Starbuck, born in Boston but a Confederate hero at Manassas, is again in the thick of Civil War action. Bloodied but vict...

  • Fire Below

    Matthew J. Costello

    The year is 2018. The last frontier on earth is vast, dark, mysterious...the world's oceans. And the last hope for peace is the largest, most powerful submarine ever built... It began with a terrorist threat to the high-tech underwater resort of S...

  • In the Presence of Enemies

    William J. Coughlin

    ATTORNEY AND CLIENT, THEY BROKE THE FIRST LAW: NEVER FALL IN LOVE. ELIZABETH DAREN With evidence missing and key witnesses changing their stories, the battle for her dead husband's fortune is turning ugly. Someone is out to get her, and only one...

  • The Wyndham Legacy

    Catherine Coulter

    Marcus Wyndham never asked to become the Earl of Chase. The Duchess never asked to be illegitimate. And neither of these two asked that their fates become so entwined. Marcus is passionate, quick to rage, just as quick to laughter. He's tough,...

  • Cari's Secret

    Neva Coyle

    She's been in Minnesota, "helping a sick aunt." As she returns home to Redlands, California, she wonders how she can tell her grandparents the real reason she went to visit Aunt Hannah. She wonders how she can put the past year behind her and go on w...

  • The Night of the Paper Bag Monsters

    Helen Craig

  • Welcome for Annie

    Helen Craig

  • Gone

    Kit Craig

  • Starring Miss Seeton

    Hamilton Crane

    Holiday Homicide Miss Seeton's playing a backstage role in Plummergen's annual Christmas pageant. But the real drama is behind the scenes. When she accidentally uncovers a collection of rare silver, the next act turns out to be murder. Miss Seeton...

  • The Trouble With Thin Ice

    Camilla T. Crespi

    Spending the Christmas holidays at a cozy Connecticut inn where friends are getting married; Italian-born Simona Griffo is tense enough about an entire week of togetherness with her sometime-lover, never mind the fact that he's brought his fourteen-y...

  • Disclosure

    Michael Crichton

    A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry...A shattering psychological game of cat and mouse...A shocking accusation that threatens to derail a brilliant career... An up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom, Tom Sanders is ...

  • Sarek

    A.C. Crispin

    The novel begins after the events of STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, is dying and Spock returns to the planet Vulcan where he and Sarek enjoy a rare moment of rapprochement. But just as his wife's illness grows...

  • Diamond in the Rough

    Millie Criswell

    AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN They called her the meanest spinster this side of the Rockies! Miss Prudence Daniels meant to do things her way -- until a handsome stranger rode into the Rough and Ready Ranch, invading her private world, igniting sweet desire ...

  • All Shall Be Well

    Deborah Crombie

    Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James have never dealt with death so close to home. Jasmine Dent, a friend and neighbor of Duncan, is found dead. Because she was terminally ill, the initial consensus is suicide. But t...

  • Murder in a Minor Key

    David A. Crossman / D.A. Crossman

  • Line Rider's Revenge

    Chet Cunningham

  • Elfsong

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A mysterious spell had fallen over the bards of Waterdeep, rewriting the past in their memories and adding dangerous new tales to their repertoires. Khelben Arunsun, the archmage of Waterdeep, fears that this spell is part of a larger plot. He calls ...

  • Panic

    Chris Curry

  • The Mark of Cain

    Jack Curtis

    Offered land by the town elders of Elk City, Montana, in exchange for a season's service as a marshal, Sam Benbow puts his dream of owning a ranch on hold while he metes out justice with his sidekick, Skofer...

  • My Year

    Roald Dahl

  • Muzzle Blast

    Kit Dalton

    The series that's got more gunplay than a day at the O.K. Corral and more horseplay than a night in a frontier cathouse now delivers a Giant Special Edition. Molly is the kind of trouble Bucksking Lee Morgan likes, especially when she makes him a dea...

  • New Way to Fly

    Margot Dalton

    NEW LOOK--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and forge new Texas futures. APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING Rancher Brock Munroe is smitten ...

  • Loving the Enemy

    Rebecca Daniels

    He was the last man on earth she wanted to be alone with.... When the wall of snow roared down the mountain, Kyle Gentry instinctively dived for cover, pulling another skier with him. Trapped with her, he realized the woman he'd saved wasn'...

  • Survival

    Peter David

    RESCUE OVERDUE Deadly space raiders have destroyed the colony on Dantar. Now stranded on this remote planet, surrounded by the burning fires of the abandoned colony, Worf, his friends from Starfleet Academy, and cadets from the Klingon Empire fight ...

  • Storm Before Sunrise

    June Wyndham Davies

  • Private Reasons

    Justine Davis

    KYLIE THIS, KYLIE THAT Riding instructor Kylie Rainwood had been getting on Tyler West's nerves. His teenage daughter chattered about Kylie morning, noon and night, so why shouldn't Ty resent the woman who'd stolen his child's aff...

  • Last Act in Palmyra

    Lindsey Davis

    There are times when a shamus has to get out of town, even in A.D. 72. With money and woman troubles mounting in Rome, Falco is heading east to search for a missing Roman Circus performer and to carry out a secret spy mission for the Emperor. The wom...

  • Catcher Was a Spy

    Nicholas Dawidoff

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER
    Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd

    “A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.” -- The New York Times Book Review

    M...

  • Body of Knowledge

    Carol Dawson

    Carol Dawson's outrageous second novel chronicles the decline and fall of a strange dynasty--from post-frontier Texas to the present day. It's the story of a secret war, of obsession, fear, loathing, and betrayal. But most of all, BODY OF KNOWLEDGE i...

  • Awakenings

    Saranne Dawson

    THE LADY ENCHANTRESS Fair of face and brace of heart, Roslynd returned to her ancestral homeland seeking refuge. The last of the Dammai, the bewitching beauty knew naught of the secret forces that lay dormant within her ... forces that would imper...

  • A Gentle Taming

    Adrienne Day

    Adversity taught beautiful, tempestuous Lauren Cooper to be tough - but no one ever taught her how to be a woman. Since her mother's death six years earlier, she has had to run the family's failing Arizona ranch almost single-handedly - leaving her n...

  • The Three of Us

    Samantha Day

    Bad neighbors! Well, she did trespass, and her cat had attacked him. But Deanna didn't knowingly break up her neighbor's business meeting, and as for willfully damaging his house -- that was ridiculous. But this was the last straw! How dar...

  • Svaha

    Charles de Lint

    Out beyond the Enclaves, in the desolation between the cities, an Indian flyer has been downed. A chip encoded with vital secrets is missing. Only Gahzee can venture forth to find it--walking the line between the Dreamtime and the Realtime, bringing ...

  • Strong Spirits

    Elisa DeCarlo

    After dying and leaving only a paltry sum to his good-for-nothing son, Aubrey, Farquhar Arbuthnot sticks around, keeping a close, ghostly eye on his son, and sending Aubrey searching for an otherworldly ghost repellant.

    Attending a seance to c...

  • Suddenly

    Barbara Delinsky

    A COMPELLING NOVEL OF LOSS, LOVE, AND CHOICE An emotionally charged novel that reflects upon the consequences of one irrevocable act. In the idyllic small town of Tucker, Vermont, life flows at a rhythmic pace for pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer. ...

  • Greedy Groundhogs

    Judy Delton

    Groundhog Day is coming up, and the Pee Wees are desperate. They've learned all about hibernation and spring. Now they've got to spot a real live groundhog quickly -- or no furry groundhog badges for them. Squirrels don't count!...

  • Who Is Tapping at My Window?

    A.G. Deming

  • Grams, Her Boyfriend, My Family, and Me

    Pat Derby

  • The Invitation

    Jude Deveraux

    Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement - of traveling ar...

  • The Invitation: Perfect Arrangement

    Jude Deveraux

    Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement -- of traveling a...

  • The Invitation: Matchmakers

    Jude Deveraux

    Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement -- of traveling a...

  • Deadweight

    Robert Devereaux

    After killing her abusive husband, Danny, in self-defense, Karin spends her days tending flowers at his grave, unable to let go of him, that is, until he rises from the grave to abuse her again. Original....

  • The Bride of Santa Barbara

    Angela Devine

    An unmarried bride? How could you cope with a man who anticipated your secret fantasies even before you had them yourself...? Daniel Pryor had made a career out of turning people's dreams into reality. Now it was Beth's turn... He'd...

  • An Uncivil Servant

    Marian Devon

    THERE WAS SOMETHING DECIDEDLY PECULIAR ABOUT LADY PICKERING'S NEW MAID. Clearly, her lovely hands had never done a day's work. And when Lord Jeremy Pickering kissed her in a fit of pique -- promptly accepting a bucketful of suds in return ...

  • The Dying of the Light

    Michael Dibdin

    One of England's most acclaimed younger mystery writers, the creator of Detective Aurelio Zen, gives us a brilliant and haunting variation on the classic drawing-room murder novel. The setting is Eventide Lodge, where the guests have gathered for tea...

  • The Angelic Avengers

    Isak Dinesen

    Lucan has been orphaned, Zosine has been deserted, and London in the 1840s is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, isolation and a shared childhood, they set out to make a future for themselves in new surroun...

  • Toxic Revenge

    Franklin W. Dixon

    When someone develops a sinister plan to poison the entire planet and a United Plastics security guard is crushed in a factory machine, Frank and Joe Hardy must investigate dirty dealings at the large corporation. Original....

  • Collecting

    Bonnie Dobkin

  • Words and Pictures

    Siobhan Dodds

  • Dark Fire

    Robyn Donald

    Dancing with the devil... "You're certainly not in love with Paul. Because you want to go to bed with me." Devilish words indeed. But what made Flint Jansen so arrogantly assume that Aura would choose him over Paul -- his friend and Au...

  • Dinosaur Valentine

    Liza Donnelly

    A mysterious invitation to a Valentine's Day party starts a romantic adventure between a love-stuck dog and a tiny, dog-like comptosaurus. Full color....

  • Words Around the Year

    Roy Doty

  • Angel of Fire

    Jessica Douglass

    SHE WORE A BLACK STETSON, DIRTY DENIMS AND HAD A HUNTER'S EYE FOR REVENGE. Victoria Lansford Vowed to bring frontier justice to the murderous gang who savaged her family and left her to die. So she chopped off her lovely raven hair, perfected he...

  • Tyrannosaur

    David Drake

  • The Voyage

    David Drake

    Lissea Doorman wasn't one to refuse a challenge. Challenged by the rulers of Telaria to run a suicide mission, she put together a crew of tough mercenaries and brilliant specialists, ready for anything. Their journey took them through strange worlds,...

  • Unicorn Hunt

    Dorothy Dunnett

    With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccola series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid m...

  • Fire and Rain

    Kathleen Eagle

    Priscilla came to the Dakota territories to help her missionary father "civilize" the Indians. But the Minnesota-bred beauty was enchanged by the ways of the Lakota Sioux ... and by a proud warrior called Whirlwind Rider, who awakened a magnificent p...

  • The Bedeviled Baron

    Sarah Eagle

    FALSE COURTSHIP...OR TRUE LOVE? Hilary and the Baron had absolutely nothing in common-except a shocking reluctance to marry! To their family's dismay, the eligible pair had avoided the parson's noose to pursue unusual endeavors: Hilary loved to wr...

  • Seeds of Destiny

    Thomas A. Easton

    Driven out of the solar system along with their biological creations, the Gypsies plant the seeds of a new species on the planet Tau Ceti, but their seeds face destruction by those who expelled the Gypsies from Earth. Original....

  • Mondo Elvis: A Collection of Fiction and Poetry about the King

    Lucinda Ebersole

    Elvis is, and always will be, The King. Even as he (probably) lies in his grave at Graceland, he lives on in his music, his movies, on the Vegas stage, through the U.S. Mail, and on these pages.Mondo Elvis is a compilation of Elvis dreams, Elvis desi...

  • An Accidental Shroud

    Marjorie Eccles

    When a local antique dealer's body turns up dead at his cousin's building site, the case seems open and shut, but D.C.I. Gil Mayo and D.I. Abigail Moon soon find out that the family relationship is a lot more complicated than they had thought...

  • Enter The X-Men

    Mark Edward Edens

  • The Grail and the Ring

    Teresa Edgerton

  • There's a Troll in My Closet

    Carol Ellis

  • Commitment

    Julie Ellis

    Once again, bestselling author Julie Ellis enchants readers with a spellbinding novel that sweeps across the decades and into the heart of a remarkable woman... Carol Simon is nine years old when the Stock Market Crash of '29 plunges the nation i...

  • Lone Star and the Redemption Massacre

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki fight for a gold mine -- but a killer wants to make it their tomb!In the gold mining town of Redemption, Colorado, a snakepit of violence and greed, Jessie and Ki must do a little investigating when one of Jessie's friends is murdered b...

  • The Bingo Palace

    Louise Erdrich

    At a crossroads in his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother on the reservation. There, he comes to terms with his heritage, his future, and his first true love in this novel of spiritual death, lyrical prose, and wild hope: the lates...

  • The Case of the Double Bumblebee Sting

    John R. Erickson

    While Slim and Loper are away from the ranch for three days, Hank suffers from...is it a double bumblebee sting, or much worse? It falls upon Sally May to nurse the stricken Hank back to health. Her patience and compassion are seriously tested, while...

  • The Last Buccaneer

    Lynn Erickson

    HE WAS A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PIRATE! So what was Tess Bonney--a 1990's woman if there ever was one--doing in his world? Sucked through a whirlpool while diving for sunken treasure, Tess was transported back through time to a slave ship on the S...

  • The Colonel's Daughter

    Rita Clay Estrada

    SHE WOULDN'T BE HURT AGAIN Casey Lund's father abandoned her and her mother for the air force years ago. So Casey was forced to learn how to make it on her own. And she'd done darn well. Including raising two sons. Now the Colonel was dying and as...

  • Longarm and the Bounty of Blood

    Tabor Evans

  • Midnight Man

    Barbara Faith

    DESERT HEAT Her son had been taken from her, whisked away from everything he'd ever known. And Jenny Cooper Hurani swore she would get him back--even if she had to battle a desert inferno to do it! Only one man could help her now. A lone wolf, no ...

  • Viper Quarry

    Dean Feldmeyer

    STRANGERS DON'T COME TO BAIRD, KENTII(KY.... In fact, I almost missed it myself, and I was looking for it with some anticipation. The tiny town nestled among the splendid Appalachian Mountains represented my return to the Methodist ministry after ...

  • Aunt Connie's Wedding

    Marie Ferrarella

    Always a bridesmaid... As a teenager, Carole Anne Wellsley had felt suffocated by her sleepy hometown -- and by the boy next door. She cared about Jeff...maybe too much. But she couldn't stay in Belle's Grove, Missouri, and become a countr...

  • 13 More Tales of Horror

    A. Finnis

  • Delusions of Grandma

    Carrie Fisher

    Beloved and bestelling novelist Carrie Fisher’s “autobiographical...funny, and touching, single woman’s exploration of survival and motherhood in 1990s Hollywood” (Harper’s Bazaar) is a dazzling romantic comedy full of &...

  • Forever Always

    Rebecca Flanders

    "I AM YOUR ANGEL." His soft voice and his mesmerizing eyes became anthropologist Gillian Aldaire's only lifeline after a freak landslide trapped her in the Andes. And it was his touch that healed her. "I AM YOUR FANTASY." ...

  • Hunter Who Was King and Other African Folktales

    Bernette Ford

    Three traditional African folktales include "The Boy Who Sang to the Egg" and "The Tug-of-War," in addition to the title story about a hunter whose curiosity threatens his marriage to a beautiful queen....

  • River of Dreams

    Pamela K. Forrest

    TORMENTING PASSION Trudging through a raging snowstorm with a foundling child in his arms, Daniel LeClerc thought the lights twinkling in the distance must be a mirage. But when he reached the ramshackle cabin, the door was opened by a beautiful, bl...

  • Love in Full Bloom

    Margaret Fowler

  • Separation

    Dan Franck

    His first clue comes when his wife stops holding his hand in public. The second comes when she starts avoiding him at home. After the clues comes the certainty: his wife is in love with another man. After that, the only question is when she will leav...

  • Prime Time for Murder

    Valerie Frankel

    The bodyguard for sultry TV dating-game hostess Sabrina Delorean, Times Square P.I. Wanda Mallory is shocked when a guest on Sabrina's show soon loses his life to a bullet meant for Sabrina....

  • Heartbreak Handbook

    Valerie Frankel

    With the help of two or three (hundred) of their heartbroken friends, as well as numerous bonafide heartbreak therapists, authors Valerie Frankel and Ellen Tien provide traveller's advisories, hands-on strategies, and real-life tales from the heartbr...

  • The Warrior Queens

    Antonia Fraser

  • The Weaker Vessel

    Antonia Fraser

    The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women...

  • The Obstacle Course

    J.F. Freedman

    I ran at a fast, steady pace … concentrating on nothing except the obstacle in front of me, and then the one after that, I took each easily and with assurance, landing lightly on the balls of my feet after each jump. This is what I’m best at, whe...

  • Our Father

    Marilyn French

    "FRENCH'S MOST FOCUSED, DARING, AND POWERFUL NOVEL."
    --New Woman
    Famed presidential advisor Stephen Upton has suffered a stroke, and his four very different daughters gather in his perfectly appointed mansion outside Boston to await his death o...

  • Little Tiger Goes Shopping

    Vivian French

  • Paperweight

    Stephen Fry

  • Tall, Wide, and Sharp-Eye: A Czech Folktale

    Mirko Gabler

  • Frolic of His Own

    William Gaddis

    A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions, Carpenter’s Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on the American legal system....

  • Dudley's Tea Party

    Alex Galatis

    Yhis is a paperback in used condition. Soem wear marks on cover, pages are free from marks. Preparing to host a tea party, Dudley the Dragon takes a nice, hot bath with plenty of water and is alarmed when there is no water left for the party, in a st...

  • Mystery of the Kidnapped Kidnapper

    Nancy Garden

    Casey is a prisoner of a living dinosaur-like creature in the Boston Science Museum! This is a case for the Monster Hunters! Edward Crane Jr. calls in his monster-hunting friends to help him find his sister, Casey, lost in the museum. Soon the Monste...

  • House of Dreams // Lady of the Reeds

    Pauline Gedge

    In the tiny hamlet of Aswat, far to the south of the royal capital, a beautiful young girl wants more than the meager prospects her village offers. Determined and resourceful, she is quick to leap upon an opportunity when the great seer Hui, who is a...

  • Victory's Woman

    Gretchen Genet

    IN A LAND AFLAME WITH THE FIRES OF REVOLUTION... -- Andrew -- the charming, carefree soldier who sought glory on the battlefield, and returned a shattered man... Niall -- the legendary frontiersman and a former Shawnee captive, tormented by the pas...

  • Lair of the Dragon

    Catherine George

    When Naomi's journalist sister asked her to infiltrate the Lair of the Dragon, Bran Llewellyn's private Welsh retreat, she couldn't refuse. But she hated the deception of posing as Bran's secretary, especially once she discovered that...

  • Urban Romance

    Nelson George

    Hip music critic Dwayne Robinson has two main gigs: defending rap's rightful place in the music industry and scoring as many women as possible. But this smooth-talking b-boy has yet to try working love into his lingo--until "buppie" Danielle Embry sl...

  • Perfect Double // Charade

    Cindy Gerard

    LOGAN -- A Master of Seduction Whose Disguise Meant a Chance for Love... Saved by a stranger from a near fatal mugging, business mogul Logan Prince woke up in a strange bed -- and found a reluctant angel with a siren's body bandaging his woun...

  • Return of the Aryans

    B.S Gidwani

    This book tells the epic story of the Aryans - a gripping tale of kings and poets, seers and gods, battles and romance and the rise and fall of civilizations. Vast and absorbing, the novel tells the stories of characters like the gentle god, Sindhu P...

  • When I'm Big

    Debi Gliori

  • Best English Short Stories V

    Giles Gordon

    Representing the finest short fiction in the English language, this acclaimed anthology features contributions from Fay Weldon, William Trevor, Alice Munro, Martin Amis, John Banville, Barry Unsworth, Edna O'Brien, and Nobel Prize-winner Nadine Gordi...

  • Firestorm

    L.A. Graf

    Firestorm When a convert Elasian mining operation interferes with a Federation geological expedition, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise" are dispatched to the planet Rakatan to mediate between the rival parties. The Ela...

  • A Fine Place for Death

    Ann Granger

    BRUTAL YOUTH A teenage girl is slain in Bamford -- and the peaceful Cotswolds village will never be the same. Chief Inspector Alan Markby knows little about the victim -- an underage regular at a local pub who left in the company of an unknown man...