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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1987

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New Books List: 401 titles

  • Young Witches & Warlocks

    Isaac Asimov

  • Woodsedge

    Barbara Knight

  • Woman Who Had Everything

    Davidyne Mayleas

    Cameron Hightower builds a financial empire as magnificent as her love for Tim, but after destiny takes the love of her life, a secret--in the form of Cyrus Hansen, a cutthroat corporate raider--returns to haunt her...

  • Woman in the Wind

    Pamela Townley

    Dickie Bennet, an English farm girl, must use every ounce of her energy and intelligence to seek vengeance against the rich, and influential Redfield family, whose two sons ruthlessly raped her when she was a teenager...

  • Woe to Live on

    Daniel Woodrell

    Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe...

  • With No Reservations

    Joan Bramsch

    When Ann Waverly first saw the enigmatic stranger he resembled a bedraggled mountain man; her second meeting with Jeffrey Madison was decidedly more risque! But, dressed in rumpled fatigues or merely wrapped in a sheet, Jeffrey awakened in her a long...

  • Witches of Wenshar

    Barbara Hambly

    A Prevalence Of Demons Once, it was said, Wenshar had been a city of witches, summoning and controlling demons for their evil magic. Wenshar had been destroyed, and the witches were supposedly no more. But in nearby Tandieras, Kaletha claimed to h...

  • Wings of Love

    Alexandra Lang-Carlin

    Lovely young Julianna was nothing but an outspoken country lass when she dared match wits with Lord Charles Ashmont in the dusty lanes of St. Cuthberts. But she swore that one day she would marry the dashing, fair-haired lord. Restored to her righ...

  • Wings of Fear

    Carolyn Keene

    A desperate call from an old friend brings Nancy to Seattle to investigate a possible murder....

  • The Wilder Shores of Love

    Madeleine Ker

    He saw her at her worst and loved her anyway Margot had always had a rebellious spirit and determination to make it on her own--emotionally as well as professionally. But she was shaken by the sudden death of her father, feeling lost and vulner...

  • Wild Pitch

    A.B. Guthrie Jr.

    From a Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning novelist of the American West comes the first installment in a mystery series as entertaining as the Montana sky is big A self-made cattle baron with a bad habit of letting his stock graze on his neighbors’ property,...

  • Wild Paradise

    Patricia Coughlin

    Pampered young beauty Liz Randolph, captured by a band of treasure-seeking grave-robbers in the Central American jungle, rages against the group's leader Zach McCabe -- until she finds herself stirred with feelings she's never experienced bef...

  • Wild Nights

    Ann Miller

  • Wild Dawn Fever

    Melanie Davis

    SHE COULD HAVE ANY MAN--BUT ONE.... Wild Desire. Even as a young girl, carefree and spirited on her parents' Argentina ranch, Dawn Cesares was breathtakingly beautiful, her body hinting of the voluptuousness to come. And now that she's twenty, no ...

  • Wild Conquest

    Rene J. Garrod

    INNOCENT VICTIM It was to be her very first trip by herself to the big city, and Rausey Bauer couldn't contain her excitement. But then a man she had never seen in her life grabbed her, pushed her into his coach and had his driver hurry them out of ...

  • Wife for a Night

    Helen Conrad (1)

    She might have been in jail. Instead, she was luxuriating in a villa overlooking Lake Tahoe, playing "wife" to the man she'd tried to rob. Janet Sawyer was only trying to reclaim the cat Matt Tarrington insisted was his. But he'd caught her breaking ...

  • Who's Got a Secret?

    Susan Saunders

  • White Heat

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • Whispers at Midnight

    Andrea Parnell

    IF ONLY HIS KISS HAD BEEN HARD, BRIEF AND DEMANDING, BUT IT WAS NOT. IT WAS GENTLE AND PROBING, POSSESSING. A BUDDING THEN FERVID PLEASURE TOOK AMANDA'S BREATH AWAY, AND IT ONLY MATTERED THAT SHE WAS IN HIS ARMS, RESPONDING TO ITS SWEET SOLACE FOR AL...

  • Where Eagles Soar

    Emily Spenser

    He could flirt with life but not with her! An Arizona mountaintop was an unlikely and perhaps "risky" place to fall head over heels for a jet-setting adventurer--but Jenny Roberts did when she rescued Paul Conan Brant III. Nevertheless,...

  • When Your Lover Leaves

    Susan Trott

    Ronda Thompson begins to lose her grip on sanity when her enjoyable and fulfilling life is punctured by two dramatic events: a lover's unexpected abandonment for his wife and a rapist's rampage through her neighborhood...

  • Waterman

    Doug Hornig

    Craik, a disillusioned intelligence agent, settles in Brawlton, Virginia, but soon learns that the quiet fishing community is controlled by Judge Holder, an ominous figure who moonlights as a gun runner...

  • Wanton Angel

    Linda Lael Miller

    ONLY ONE MAN COULD EVER CLAIM HER... When Bonnie McKutchen left her wealthy husband inn a storm of heartache and betrayal, she fled New York with nothing but the dress on her back. Eli McKutchen finally caught up with her in a Washington mining to...

  • The Wanting

    Campbell Black

    It was the perfect summer home for Max and Louise and their twelve-year-old son. The California pine forest was peaceful, silent, isolated, and the old couple who lived nearby just loved to entertain young Denny. It was perfect... Until Louise mad...

  • Waiariki

    Patricia Grace

    Patricia Grace's popular first collection â€" sensitive stories of Maori life which explore Maori spirituality and values and pursue relationships between people, family and races. Also available as an eBook...

  • Voyage

    Charles Morgan

  • A Vote for Love

    Terri Fields

    Donna Newbury wants to be accepted at the Art Institute of America. When she needs extra credit at school, she volunteers to be the art coordinator on Tad Gordon's campaign for student body president. To Donna's surprise, she soon finds herself more ...

  • Velvet Fire

    Elda Minger

    HIGH PRICE It was a cruel twist of fate that brought Gwyn to the Dark Stallion. As a country vicar's daughter, the beautiful young woman had nowhere to turn after she was indentured to Janet Wickens, the madame of London's most fashionable ...

  • Velvet Deception

    Casey Stuart

    THE RAVEN Raven MacCennon knew she should not be intrigued by a man like Taber O'Flynn, yet she could not get the infamous revolutionary out of her thoughts. He was dashing, daring, fearless...and he'd eluded capture for so long that her fellow Engl...

  • Varkaus Consp: Grassy Knoll

    John Dalmas

  • Up for Grabs

    Lori Copeland

    When it came to journalism, Kenlyn Grant could sniff out a hot scoop with the best of them. And when gossipy neighbors decided that the devastating stranger in town was C.I.A. with a sinister mission, she was deputized to ferret out the facts. Travis...

  • The Unwanted

    John Saul

    Cassie Winslow is sixteen.  She has just lost her mother in a terrible accident.  Now, lonely and frightened, she has come to live with the father she barely knows and his new family in tiny False Harbor on Cape Cod.  Fo...

  • Unicorn Expedition

    Satyajit Ray

    Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edi...

  • Twilight Temptress

    Sonya T. Pelton

    Her innocence entranced him ... her passion bewitched him! Angela didn't know whom to trust. She had no memory of who she was or how she'd come to be at Tamarind Plantation. But one thing she was sure of- she was not Robert Fortune's bride. No matt...

  • The Trolley Car Family

    Eleanor Lowenton Clymer

  • Treasures of the Heart

    Anne Lacey

    Just because her magnificent ancestral home was pronounced doomed, did that mean headstrong Lane Hartleigh had to stand by and watch her treasure crumble into the mighty Mississippi? No way! She'd rally her lawyers, cajole her cousins, even launch an...

  • Travels with Dubinsky and Clive

    David Gurewich

  • Trail of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    THE MOUNTAIN MAN KNOWS WHAT GOLD DOES TO MEN'S SOULS! When gold is discovered near the little town of No-Name, Colorado, the citizens are overjoyed at their good fortune...until trouble gallops down Maine Street on a horse straight out of Hell. Fo...

  • Trade Secrets

    Carla Neggers

    She was spoiling for a fight Juniper Killibrew could be as prickly as her namesake plant. She prided herself on that. That and her dedication to the family firm. But when the company was sold out from under her, she wound up nose to nose with the in...

  • Touch Me in the Morning

    Catherine George

    She wrote of romance but longed for love Theo lived a double life. From nine to five, the horn-rim-bespectacled, prudish "Miss Grace," ever-efficient secretary to ladykiller James Hackett, earned enough money to support the after-hours rea...

  • Tomorrow's Love Song

    Georgia Bockoven

    How could one long-lost letter change her life? Amy Feinstein was stunned to uncover a long-buried truth. Her father had been the victim of a scam. He'd been cheated out of half ownership in a now fabulously prosperous firm. For this Amy vowed rev...

  • To Swallow a Toad

    P. Weston Wood

  • To Sail Beyond the Sunset

    Robert A. Heinlein

    Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The man-is a stranger to her, and besides ...

  • To Choose a Wife

    Phyllis Halldorson

    Wedding Jitters Vito Donatello called it a match made in heaven. His son, Marco, needed a wife. His goddaughter, Susan, needed a husband. And he needed lots of grandchildren to carry on the Donatello name -- and run Minnesota's largest superm...

  • Time and Tide

    Thomas Fleming

    Time and Tide begins with the Navy cruiser, Jefferson City, looming out of the dawn, fleeing a night of terror and death, the bodies of crewmen floating in water-filled compartments below decks. She has deserted her sister ships at the Battle of Savo...

  • The Tidewater Tales

    John Barth

    "Tell me a story!" Katherine Shorter Sherritt Sagamore orders her husband Peter Sagamore -- and so lets loose a flood of tales that floats them both past encounteres with their own lives and loves, entanglements with the CIA and toxic waste, and fant...

  • The Thistlewood Plot

    J.G. Jeffreys

  • This Side of Tomorrow

    Ruth Livingston Hill

  • Thirty Years on the Line

    Leo Stapleton

  • The Things We Do for Love

    Glenda Sands

    ET TU, BRUTE? Standing in an unemployment line appalled rugged engineer Austin Hastings -- until the prettiest woman he'd ever seen came in off the street, boldly caught his eye, and told him she could use a man like him. Intrigued by the possibili...

  • These Kingdoms

    Kenneth McKenney

    The search for Spanish gold leads English buccaneer Christopher Stone and his disgruntled crew to Tayasal, the last great city of the Mayan empire and a territory ruled by the death rites of the bloodthirsty Mayan religion...

  • Terrible Tide

    Charlotte MacLeod

    Cliff House may be haunted, but no ghost is as scary as the family’s secret history. Holly Howe is just beginning to succeed in the cutthroat world of New York modeling when a car accident ruins her good looks forever and she is forced to retreat ...

  • Temporary Shelter

    Mary Gordon

    In this collection of short stories, the author portrays the magnified misunderstandings of childhood - the frustrations of truths witheld, the jealous need for belonging and yet for privacy. She observes the guilt and confusion death brings to the l...

  • Telefon

    Walter H. Wager

    An edgy Cold War thriller, perfect for fans of The Manchurian Candidate and other terrifying conspiracy novels.   The Russians called the project TELEFON.   Collect 430 first-class English speakers who’d never left the country. Drill them...

  • Tatja Grimm's World

    Vernor Vinge

    Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge's first full-length novelAs a mud-spattered youngster, Tatja quickly realized she was different from the stone-age primitives with whom she grew up. Her insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge could not b...

  • Tar and Feathers

    Dorothy Nelson

    Dorothy Nelson's first book to be published in the United States focuses on a demented, dysfunctional Irish family. The Crawford family is dominated by Da (Joe), a manic-depressive thief and liar who has spent two years in prison for exposing hims...

  • Tales of the Dark

    Lincoln Child

  • Sympathy for the Devil

    Kent Anderson

    Censured by some critics for its brutality but heralded by others as a modern-day classic, Sympathy for the Devil is a terrifying, intoxicating journey through the violence, madness, and insane beauty of battle. It traces the story of a hardened Gree...

  • Swordspoint

    Ellen Kushner

    "Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood new-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as the single spot of claret on the lace cuff. And it therefore follows that evil lurks behind each ...

  • Sweet Vietnam

    Richard Parque

  • Sweet Talkin' Lover

    Anna Hudson

    He'd always had the power to infuriate her. She'd been an overeater all through her childhood, trying to stifle her anger and hurt. But now, newly slim, sleek, and stunning, Danielle Brewster had come home. Why did George Garavelli's horrendous nickn...

  • Survivors

    Barbara Siegel

    Fire Brats is a series set in the aftermath of World War 3, it follows the struggles of two teenagers Matt and Dani to escape a nuclear-bombed city and find a new life. Matt and Dani cross a huge river on a raft, and are taken in by a kindly old s...

  • Superman: The Man of Steel

    Andrew Helfer

  • Sundipper

    Paul B. Thompson

  • Summer Camp Creeps

    Tim Schoch

  • Summer

    Lisa Grunwald

    Jen, the daughter of a famous sculptor, narrates the story of her family's summer on Sanders Island and their struggle to accept that their mother is dying of cancer and to summon the strength to let go of her...

  • Suite for Calliope

    Ellen Hunnicutt

    At the center of a vicious custody battle, Ada Cunningham, a young musician, runs away and finds herself at a circus where she discovers a meaning to her life that transcends suffering and gives birth to art...

  • Success Stories

    Russell Banks

    In Sucess Stories, an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection, Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forceful writers in America today. Queen for a Day, Success Story, and Adultery trace fortunes of the Painter family in there ...

  • Substitute Lover // The Seduction Charade

    Penny Jordan

    He needed a make-believe lover It was such a strange request--Gray Chalmers asking Stephanie to pose as his lover to help him resist the attractions of a beautiful but married woman. Gray knew Stephanie, knew she didn't even like being touc...

  • A Streak of Luck

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE It seemed a dream come true when handsome, charming Gervais Fenton, Lord Sayre, asked for Lady Rachel Villiers' hand in marriage. Not only did Rachel adore Gervais at first sight, but marriage to him would free her from the web...

  • Strangers from the Sky

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

    IT BEGAN WITH ENTERPRISE--THE NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER THAT TOLD OF THE LEGENDARY "STAR TREK" CREW'S FIRST ADVENTURE TOGETHER. NOW HERE IS THE SECOND GIANT STAR TREK NOVEL. IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: United at last after countless years of warfare,...

  • Stickman

    Seth Pfefferle

  • The Squire

    Enid Bagnold

    Written in 1938, this novel about a woman having her fifth child is unique in its focus on the process of birth. Whilst others consider pregnancy and motherhood, this novel is rare in its treatment of the few days before and afterwards....

  • Spirit Meadow

    Lauran Paine

  • Southern Cross

    Jack McKinney

    A NEW ALIEN MENACE HAS COME TO RAVAGE EARTH-- Some twenty years before, the Robotech Masters sent their giant warrior-slaves, the Zentraedi, to plunder Earth of its Protoculture secrets. But heroic men and women repulsed the invasion in a war that...

  • Song of the Forest

    Colin Mackay

    Lyrical, intense, and foreboding, this is a remarkable first novel. Set in the Dark Ages, it tells of a year in the life of a remote village, the labors of its inhabitants, their struggles and fleeting pleasures in the face of threatening forces that...

  • Something New

    M.E. Cooper

    During her cousin's wedding, Amy forgets about her boyfriend Colin after she meets a handsome usher named Todd, but when the wedding is over, Amy discovers that her feelings for Colin and Todd have become confused...

  • Some Warm Hunger

    Bay Matthews

    Six long years ago, misguided ambition had made Jessie Harper say goodbye to rugged, beloved Bodie Lattimer. Now her driving desire to be the country's best horse trainer threatened to sever another relationship ... with her daughter. Years of dus...

  • Solar Kill

    Charles Ingrid

    SAND WARS! The Thrakian invasion had swept from world to world, turning once-fertile planets into vast, desert wastelands. To halt these world destroyers, the Dominion Empire sent in its finest warriors--the Knights. In their powered battle armor,...

  • Snowbound

    Lisa Jackson

    Teacher Bethany Mills was certain the past was buried -- until ruthless Brett Hanson dug it up again. The private investigator had tracked Bethany to Oregon and was hell-bent on recovering the fortune her ex-husband had embezzled in Boise. Though Bre...

  • Snow White Finds a Home

    Disney Book Group

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Suzanne Weyn

  • Slocum and the Wild Stallion Chase

    Jake Logan

  • Sleightly Deceived

    Patrick Kelley

  • Sleep Tight

    Matthew J. Costello

    SWEET TERROR It started with a little boy. A little boy who sneaked out to go to the pool and was never seen again. Old Miss Waverly disappeared soon afterward. And then that hotshot student vanished into thin air. Things like this just didn't hap...

  • Skye

    Lauran Paine

    THE MAN - Frank Cutler was minding his own business in one of those slab-board towns where life was even cheaper than whiskey. Until an angry clash put him at the small end of the law's gunsights. THE LAND - Big enough to hide a man forever. Until a...

  • Sky of Ashes, Sea of Flames

    Kimberleigh Caitlin

    TWO LOVERS CONSUMED BY THEIR DESIRES. ONE ENEMY, SWORN TO DESTROY THEM... With burnished hair of fire and a temper to match, Meaghan O'Leary was the most beautiful lass in all of Wicklow. Pursued by the diabolic Lord Radcliffe, she would only yiel...

  • Silver Sands

    Robin Elliott

    I FIZZLED OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF A KISS Froze up. It's time to go to bed with him and pool! Nothing. Any suggestions? Cam Porter stared at the computer screen, stunned by the intimate nature of the SOS. He became alarmed when the anonymous damse...

  • Siege

    Richard Hoyt

    SIEGE is a welcome find, the characters cleverly drawn . . . It is cynical, humorous, violent, and Byzantine. In other words., it admirably reflects the current world state of affairs. —Baltimore Sun A PIECE OF THE ROCKGibraltar-there's no way...

  • Shawnee Alley Fire

    John Douglas

  • Shaft 235

    Robert D. Bennett

    When Harry Burroughs, a Canadian journalist, disappears while investigating rumors of a secret opal mine in the Australian outback, Beau Lamont and Betty Raffin, fellow reporters, decide to take up the search...

  • The Shadow Dancers

    Jack L. Chalker

  • Seven Miles from Sydney

    Lesley Thomson

  • The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall

    Ridley Pearson

  • Seeds of Treason

    Ted Allbeury

    Intricate and compelling … Ted Allbeury is one of the most skilled wordsmiths we've got, ranking with le Carré, Deighton, Forsyth, and Gardner. — The Gloucester Citizen, U.K. Ted Allbeury is one of our best spy writers, quiet, though...

  • Secret of Love

    Glenna Finley

    Freelance reporter Miranda Carey embarks on a travel assignment aboard a European cruise ship and is surprised when her arrogant publisher Mitch Emerson turns up. Then, mysteriously pushed down a flight of stairs, she senses danger. When Mitch forces...

  • Seasons of Revenge

    William Paul

  • Season of Yellow Leaf

    Douglas C. Jones

    Follows fifteen years in the history of the Comanche people, from an 1838 attack by a Comanche raiding party on Madoc's Fort in Texas, to a surprise assault by white soldiers on a Comanche settlement in 1853...

  • Search for the Rainbow

    Sharon Brondos

    HER ONLY CRIME HAD BEEN TRUSTING HER HUSBAND But Bill Woburn didn't know that. All the police lieutenant knew for certain was that he'd helped convict Julie Chandlar's ex of some heinous crimes--and that she was still an object of suspicion. Ju...

  • Scout's Honor

    Glenna McReynolds

    Anna Lange entered the room in a cloud of midnight silk and a scent of danger. To Mitch Summers she was truly a lady who could take a man's breath away. He'd followed her into a world of high stakes and white sands, determined to sway her gambler's...

  • Satin Secret

    Emma Merritt

    HEATED MURMUR After young Marta Carolina had been attacked by pirates, shipwrecked in a storm and beset by Indians, she was convinced the New World brought nothing but tragedy...until virile William Dare rescued her. The rugged American made her fee...

  • Sapphire Heart

    Hayton Monteith

    He'd bossed and bullied her. He'd been the menace of her childhood. And now that Charity Bigham had come home to a legacy of wealth and treachery, Tell Layton was still there, watching out for her, insisting he wanted her. True to her name, Charity k...

  • Sapphire and Silk

    Leslie O'Grady

    Nicholas kissed her, and at that one moment took Aurora's breath away. She closed her eyes and forgot all doubts and misgivings. She was ready to surrender herself to him completely... Beautiful young Aurora Falconet had ample warning of the k...

  • Santa Claus Book

    Eileen Daly

  • Saint

    Christine Bell (1)

  • Round the World Air

    Katie Wood

    Aimed at the serious long-distance traveller this guide gives professional advice on the best places and best prices for a long journey. It suggests stop-offs and side trips; describes airport facilities round the world and places to sleep and eat....

  • Roses of Glory

    Mary Pershall

    ROANNA ROYSTON The beautiful tavern wench from the lusty London docks whom fortune made a lady ... she was as bold and rebellious as the wild mane of hair that tumbled round her shoulders -- until one man's savage passions possessed her. GILES f...

  • Roger's Version

    John Updike

    As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God’s existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theolo...

  • Roderick

    John Sladek

  • Robot Raiders

    Ellen Leroe

  • Robert Adams' Book of Alternate Worlds

    Robert Adams

  • The Rising of the Moon

    Peter Berrisford Ellis

    Recreates a fascinating turning point in history through the eyes of two brothers, Gavin and John-Joe Devlin, when an army of twenty-five-thousand men tried to establish an Irish Republic-in-Exile on the soil of British North America in 1866...

  • Rising

    Alison Smith

  • Richard Scarry's Busy Workers

    Richard Scarry

    Labeled drawings show a police officer, electricians, movers, a fire fighter, pilots, a limousine driver, gas station attendants, mechanics, heavy equipment operators, a butcher, cashier, baker, musicians, a dentist, teacher, and a nurse...

  • The Return of the Wild Geese

    Daniel Carney

  • Rescuing Diana

    Linda Cajio

    His was the face she'd seen only in her dreams, Diana Windsor marveled when Adam Roberts walked into the room. He was her knight in armor, her very own Indiana Jones... but how could she be rescued from firebreathing dragons in the real world? Capt...

  • Rep on the Run

    Pam Lyons

  • Remembered Magic

    Marisa Carroll

    A LASTING BEWITCHMENT BOUND THEM TOGETHER Amanda and Evan had struggled in the early days of their marriage. Though they'd lived in a rundown New York apartment, they'd transcended their circumstances, enthralled as they were by the magic ...

  • Reluctant Wife

    Lindsay Armstrong

    "We made a bargain," Adam reminded her Roz knew that Adam had married her without loving her. He needed a poised and beautiful hostess -- but her need was even greater. A fire had killed her beloved grandfather and destroyed her home, leav...

  • Reluctant Hero

    Francoise Sagan

  • Realm of Chaos

    J.H. Brennan

  • Ransom in Jade

    Fran Earley

    Her conscience was her undoing.... Ten years ago, as a live-for-the-moment college student, Melinda Harding had committed an act of folly while vacationing in the Guatemalan Highlands. Now, on her second visit, she intended to right the past wrong...

  • The Ram Of Sweetriver

    Colin Dann

    The Sweetriver flock has survived the terrible storm which destroyed their valley. But can they survive the long, hungry journey to find new pastures? Jacob, the ram of Sweetriver, must use every ounce of his courage to fend off danger and keep the f...

  • The Rah Rah Girl

    Caroline B. Cooney

    What’s wrong with being a cheerleader? Marcy’s family is disgusted when she decides that more than anything, she wants to be a cheerleader. And the harder Marcy tries to make the squad, the less understanding her family is. Anybody can be a ch...

  • A Question of Honor

    Jacqueline Ashley

    Helping people was a matter of honor to Frances McPhee Despite that, Frances wished she'd never agreed to accompany her ailing uncle to his Oklahoma cabin. Frankly, Uncle Fergus was a cantankerous old mule, though even he was preferable to the oth...

  • Puss in Boots

    Ed McBain

    Prudence Ann Markham was as careful as her name. Before heading out to her car in the deserted parking lot she packed up the film she'd been editing, checked the studio gear, set the alarm, and locked the outer door. It was 10:40 P.M.--but Prudence A...

  • Pure Temptation

    Sara Wood

    Eve thought of herself as plain Yet something within her responded deeply to glamorous, sophisticated Matt Cavell from the first time she saw him. Dancing wildly with a mysterious young companion in the soft Mallorcan night, he held Eve spellbound...

  • Psychodrome

    Simon Hawke

    Arkady O'Toole, a down and out gambler, agrees to participate in psychodrome, a mercenary conflict broadcast to jaded viewers, but someone from the past threatens to end his participation and his life...

  • Promises to Keep

    Wendy Susans

  • Pride of the Peacock

    Stephanie S. Tolan

    Thirteen-year-old Whitney and her friend Paul gain insight into their fear of nuclear war and new hope through their association with a sculptor who has lost her husband and the sculptor's beautiful peacock...

  • The Price

    Marvin Werlin

    Harry Stone is a self-made man and has come a long way from his humble upbringing in the East End of London. He is cold and ruthless and the only thing that truly arouses him is the making of money by whatever means he sees fit. He believes it must a...

  • The Pretenders

    Gwen Davis

  • Presumed Innocent

    Scott Turow

    Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades, Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too...

  • Polo Solo

    Jerry Kennealy

    Streetwise, smart-mouthed, and down-on-his-luck San Francisco private eye Nick Polo had gotten an offer he couldn't refuse. After all, he was sitting out a stretch in the slammer and a top city official was offering him a ticket to the street and his...

  • The Planet on the Table

    Kim Stanley Robinson

  • The Pirate's Lady

    Kay McMahon

    SAVAGE HUNTER When lovely Jennifer Grey discovered she was shipwrecked on Chad LaShelle's outlaw island, the innocent girl wished she'd died at sea with her fellow passengers. She'd heard of the notorious pirate's scurrilous reputation and the flawl...

  • Pinocchio Learns the Truth

    Walt Disney

  • Pink Satin Lady

    Alison Tyler (1)

    Teddy Shannon's business was booming. Her Teddy Girls, clad in pink satin, turned heads as they sped by on their bikes--the city's most unique messenger service. But when Teddy herself delivered a package to the devastating Gil Raymond, world-famous ...

  • The Pietrov Game

    Jeffrey Robinson

  • Peter Capstick's Africa

    Peter H. Capstick

    Peter Hathaway Capstick is a name synonymous with excitement, danger, and high adventure. Sportsman, adventurer, raconteur par excellence, Capstick has been recognized as a modern-day master of African hunting literaturea successor to the works of He...

  • Perfect Strangers

    Amanda Browning

    She must not lose him a second time! Doctors had ordered Zoe Winthrop not to try to see Ross Lyneham. His amnesia following the accident had robbed him of all memory of her. But Zoe was compelled to find out if there was still a chance for happine...

  • Perfect for Paris

    Danielle Barlette

  • Patchwork

    Ila Yount

  • Passion Rose

    Mallory Burgess

    WAR OF THE HEART Around them swirl the masked and splendid revels of King Richard III s treacherous court. Yet it is Dai Griffyth, a traitor to the Red Dragon of Wales and Red Rose of Lancaster, who fires Tallie's blood with desire's hunger ...

  • Parson's Pleasure

    Mollie Hardwick

    THE EXQUISITE 300-YEAR-OLD CLOCK WAS A FIND THAT ANTIQUE DEALERS WOULD KILL FOR. So when Doran Fairweather's feckless partner stutters out a lame explanation of how he acquired this masterpiece of clockmaking, she is sure it is stolen. Unless she ...

  • Oscar's Silly ABC's and Other Stories

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