Books Published in June 1989

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1989

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New Books List: 494 titles

  • Final Rain

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...?John Thomas Rourke's remarkable survival skills enabled him to emerge unscathed from the nuclear devastation of W.W. III. But terrifying new storm clouds loom over th...

  • Vengeance

    Jerry Ahern

    The FLNA terrorists had thought that by breaking Patriot leader David Holden, they would be one giant step closer to conquering America. So they had kidnapped him and held him captive in a South American cocaine country, where he was subjected to rut...

  • My Kind of Game

    Marvin Albert

  • Ozzy

    Richard E. Allen

  • Eva Luna

    Isabel Allende

    “A remarkable novel” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s introducing her most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.Eva Luna is the daughter of a...

  • The Midnight Bride

    Barbara Allister

    PRIDE BEFORE A FALL Beautiful and proud Elizabeth Beckworth refused to wed. Even when her brother demanded that she do so to advance his ambitions. Even when the seductive Sebastian Hartley used all his worldly wiles to induce her to say yes. Even...

  • The Missing Movie Creature

    Mary Anderson

    Cassie and Barney are cousins who have nothing in common except that both admit they've never seen a monster.. Cassie has been dumped in boarding schools all her life and she considers her poor nine-year-old cousin Barney Prescott to be a major wimp....

  • Gates of Paradise

    V.C. Andrews

    STUNNED BY TRAGEDY, DESPARATE ADN ALONE, HEAVEN'S DAUGHTERS CLING TO THE FRAILEST OF DREAMS! The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatt...

  • But What of Earth?

    Piers Anthony

  • Mute

    Piers Anthony

    Mute is science fantasy of mutation and psi: special mental powers. The protagonist, Knot, is a double mutant: he has a physical deformity, and the psi power to make others forget him. Hes satisfied with his life--until the lovely Finesse walks into...

  • Year of the Monkey

    Ronald Argo

    Acclaimed as one of the most important novels of the Vietnam War, YEAR OF THE MONKEY takes us not only into the savage jungles where death waits in every paddyfield, but into the apocalyptic world of political corruption, where friendship and betraya...

  • Killer's Crossing and the Drifter

    Burt Arthur

  • The Gift

    Jacqueline Ashley

    Home... Back to the land of Sweet Water, West Virginia. Mary Rose Perkins needed to get back to her roots, to the life that she was destined for. There had never been any doubt that she would return to help her people. Setting up her medical pract...

  • Palace of Light

    Jacoba Atlas

  • Coming Back to Life

    P.M.H. Atwater

    According to a Gallup Poll, as many as eight million Americans have had at least one near-death experience. This fascinating phenomenon has been the focus of much investigation in recent years -- but its after-effects, the ways that near-death experi...

  • The Heart That Lingers

    June Masters Bacher

    This gripping novel opens on the sunny shores of Southern California, where Lauren and Eric (her childhood "brother" by means of a strange relationship which only they can understand) have grown up as "summer people." When unforeseen circumstances fo...

  • Thump Thump Rat-a-Tat-Tat

    Gene Baer

  • Teach Me

    Stella Bagwell

    Who's Teaching Whom? Bernadette Baxter saw no harm in giving her boss a few pointers on the art of courtship when he asked. After all, a man as kind as Mr. Atwood deserved the woman of his dreams. But after a few "practice" dates, Bernadette bega...

  • Devil's Plunder

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • My First Murder

    Susan P. Baker

    Former parole officer Mavis Davis, now a rookie private investigator, becomes embroiled in deceit, violence, and scandal while investigating the murder of Doris Jones, a woman with many disturbing secrets...

  • Codename: Electron

    Ned Bannister

    The Cadets make their way to the small town of Livingston, Kansas, to look into the disappearance of Cadet Matthias, and are captured by a Middle Eastern terrorist who plans to release deadly anti-matter...

  • Dawn's Uncertain Light

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    After The Fall … America's Great Dream is over. Centuries ago it was devastated by the ultimate war. The effects still linger. Food is scarce, water even scarcer and human compassion nowhere to be found. Even so, society is slowly rebuilding i...

  • The Price of Glory

    Lynn Bartlett

    WHAT PRICE FAME? Reporter Cassandra Blake would do anything for a story, even place her own life in peril. Then she met her new boss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seth Winter. Suddenly she didn't know which to fear more-terrorist threats or t...

  • Party Line

    A. Bates

    Some talk. Some listen. Some disappear. Mark can't stop calling the Party Line. It's easier to talk to girls when nobody knows who you are. But something weird is going on. One by one girls are disappearing, and Mark is convinced it has somet...

  • Blind Side

    William Bayer

    Geoffrey Barnett is a photographer. Due to a mysterious trauma in his past, he has for many years been unable to photograph people. When Kimberly Yates suddenly enters his life, Geoffrey's world is turned upside down. She nurtures him back to life-em...

  • Wee Color Wee Sing for Christmas

    Pamela Conn Beall

  • Peril Under the Palms

    K.K. Beck

    An exotic cruise churns up a murder wave. A Hawaiian haunting... When sugarcane heiress Antoinette Caulfield docks in Hawaii to visit her grandparents, she's met by a ghost: her school chum and chaperon, Iris Cooper, spots the figure of a woman i...

  • Lucky in Love

    Laurien Berenson

    He was the Rolls-Royce of heroes When Sam Donahue opened his luxury car showroom next to Lucky Panderholden's used car lot, Lucky knew she was in trouble. His slick European autos made her Late Model Lovelies look shabby by comparison. So Lucky ha...

  • Rolling Thunder

    Mark Berent

    Rolling Thunder is an historical novel about the decisive role politics played during the Vietnam War. Its characters range from men in the field to the Pentagon and the White House. Fighter pilots and Special Forces warriors try to do their be...

  • Ex-Lover

    Eleanor Bergstein

  • The Dragons of Komako

    John Gregory Betancourt

  • On My Honor

    Malacai Black

  • Roommates

    Alison Blair

  • The Apple Pie Adventure

    Cynthia Blair

    Identical twins Chris and Susan Pratt head to the Big Apple for college, thrilled that they’re embarking on the biggest adventure of their lives.  But when Susan’s paintings catch the eye of a SoHo gallery owner, they find themselves thrust ...

  • Lori

    Robert Bloch

    A young woman is plunged into a nightmare of supernatural madness and violence as the birth mother Lori never knew reaches out from beyond the grave to claim her daughter's body as her own and to consign Lori's soul to eternal damnation...

  • Before the Dawn

    Mickey Block

  • Here's Pippa!

    Betty Boegehold

  • Red Phoenix

    Larry Bond

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    From the author who collaborated with Tom Clancy on Red Storm Rising, this is the book that dares to show us the military hardware, global upheavals, and raw combat a second Korean War would unleash. How F-16s would blast across the 38th Parallel...

  • Nature Babies

    Lisa Bonforte

  • Simply Irresistible

    Barbara Boswell

    Surgeon Jason Fletcher was the hospital heartbreaker, a gorgeously virile playboy with no scruples--until he stepped in to protect Laura Novak from a hotshot younger doctor! Why had he, the man without a possessive bone in his body, suddenly felt jea...

  • Badger Game

    Michael Bowen

    Ex-lawyer Thomas Andrew Curry and Sandrine Cadette--romatic sparring partners and occasional sleuths--go into action when an avant-garde painting and their painter-client's lawsuit against a rival lead to murder, in a mystery set in 1962 New York...

  • The Curse of Slagfid

    Elizabeth Boyer

    THE UNDISCOVERABLE CURSE Leifr and Thurid were in trouble--worse than usual. In Leifr's efforts to recover his lost love, Ljosa, and Thurid's attempt to escape the Inquisitors they had fallen into the hands of the evil Master Wizard Djofull. Djofu...

  • Working Murder

    Eleanor Boylan

    Clara Gamadge puts down the phone with a tremor of excitement. Only a year ago that call would have come to her husband, gifted sleuth Henry Gamadge. Now Henry is dead, and Clara is summoned to deal with the latest convulsion in an old family tragedy...

  • If the River Was Whiskey

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    In sixteen stories­ -- “writing at its very, very best” (USA Today) -- the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain tears through the walls of contemporary society to reveal a world at once comic and tragic, droll and horrific. ...

  • My Dream Guy

    Carla Bracale

    Kate Weatherby's dream of dating a gorgeous hunk are all washed up when her parents cancel a trip to the beach at the last minute. Somehow, spending a week at Hidden Ranch on Lake Vallecito in her home state of Colorado seems a lot less appealing! ...

  • A Mighty Flame

    Irene Brand
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    Independent Paige Fallon is a temporary bread-and-breakfast hostess in the Cotswolds, where she is inflamed by Lord Derek's handsome son Burton. There is a minor mystery element, and the love affair is impeded by several things: his lack of deep Chri...

  • Change of Heart

    Irene Brand
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  • Chopper Pilot

    Cat Branigan

    They were America's elite, battle-hardened flyers, men who came from every service and every corner of the war. They lived with the agony and irony that was Vietnam and flew with courage and commitment. This is their story....

  • Annie's Pet

    Barbara Brenner

    Annie's on her way to but a pet with five birthday dollars. But by the time she reaches the pet store, the money is gone! Keep track of the disappearing dollars and find out how Annie ends up with a lot more than she bargained for....

  • Irresistible

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. JUNE & A MAN WITH A MISSION Major Quinn McNamara's assignment to infiltrate a dangerous rebel camp in the wilds of North Africa had just been changed. Now the fierce agent had to rescue a wealthy senator's daughter. If Quinn didn't save Jennif...

  • If Love Be Ours

    Joan W. Brown

    "With an overwhelming ambition to become a national TV anchorwoman, Katharine Hayes, successful investigative reporter in Washington, D.C., finds herself caught up in the intriguing political and social life of the national's capital."...

  • Facing the Music

    Larry Brown

    Facing the Music, Larry Brown’s first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St. Petersburg Times review pointed out, the central theme of these ten stories “is the ageless collision of man with woman, woman with ...

  • Temperatures Rising

    Sandra Brown

    Mysterious, elusive Chantal duPont was an enchanting forest nymph in a revealing white gown, beckoning Scout Ritland into the sultry night with promises of pleasure in her breathtaking blue eyes. But when the exquisite island princess pulled a gun an...

  • Until Spring

    Pamela Browning

    She didn't know her real name... And the streets were her home. But Jane Rhodes knew that she deserved a roof over her head, a job, a better way of life. She'd struck out from the blustery streets of Chicago, hoping to reach sunny Californ...

  • Witch Wood

    John Buchan

    First published in 1927 and set in the 17th century, this is a wonderful story of witchcraft in the forests of England....

  • John Macnab

    John Buchan

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Fire and Ice

    Patt Bucheister

    When John Zachary arrived in his office to find his three-year-old daughter, Amy, playing happily, he was relieved -- and intrigued by Lauren McLean, the lovely woman who'd charmed the child he barely knew. Unexpected custody of Amy had left the ...

  • Love and Laughter

    Carole Buck

    Even though Kelsey Howard has just thrown a pie in his face, Elias Fletcher, genius extraordinaire, senses this gorgeous comedienne is no clown. It's glorious luck, Elias thinks, that put him -- aim -- within her range. Spontaneous and vibrant, Kelse...

  • Willowswood Match

    Gayle Buck

    The love-shy young lady A most painful experience in love sent beautiful young Miranda Wainwright from her home in America to the estate of her aristocratic cousin in England. Here she could start a new life, far from humiliating memories of betra...

  • Ambition

    Julie Burchill

  • Spy Story

    James Burke

  • Phantom Filly

    Caroline Burnes

    Speed Dancer was missing, and the mysteriously sent video was the first clue in three years that he might still be alive. As horse trainer at Dancing Water Ranch, Dawn Markey had every reason to want to get their prize stallion back. Even when the tr...

  • Seminar on Youth

    Aldo Busi

    "Seminar on Youth" is an account of the adventures of a young peasant from northern Italy who becomes a homosexual prostitute in Milan and Paris. For money or company he pursues relationships, most memorably with an insecure French girl, and through ...

  • The Little Gate

    Nick Butterworth

    Part of a series of story books that are designed to help develop children's sense of the meaning of words and sentences, the structure of language and the shape of letter clusters and words. The pictures serve to help the children read the words and...

  • The Ten Silver Coins

    Nick Butterworth

  • The Rich Farmer

    Nick Butterworth

    An exciting re-launch of this delightful series taking the single titles to eight in total. The Rich Farmer tells the story of how every year he grew more and more corn until his barns were bursting. All his neighbours thought he must be very cleve...

  • Beamriders!

    Martin Caidin

    THE TECHNOLOGY: A Giant Step Into the Future In the thirty years since lasers were invented, we have learned to use them for jobs as diverse as eye surgery and missile defense. But the biggest advance is yet to come: one day soon we will be able to...

  • The God Machine

    Martin Caidin

  • Fallen Angel

    Deborah Camp

    They followed the perilous passions of their hearts... It was fate that left beautiful Justine Drussard stranded in Tombstone, and desperation that made her take a job in the local brothel. She counted on her wits and acting ability to get by with...

  • The Roses of Constant

    Bethany Campbell

    Evil inhabited the town Some kind of madness had overtaken everyone but Valery Essex. Lifetime neighbors were lying under oath. Planting evidence in her backyard. Making midnight phone calls designed to terrorize her. Unless Valery got to the hear...

  • The Folk of the Fringe

    Orson Scott Card

    Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological, and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Desere...

  • The Abyss

    Orson Scott Card

  • Peter Pan

    Jan Carr

  • Sanction to Slaughter

    Nick Carter

  • Spartina

    John Casey

    Winner of the 1989 National Book AwardA classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family ...

  • White Gamma

    David Chacko

  • Private Relations // Secrets at the Beach House

    Diane Chamberlain

    When his friend, a wealthy Jewish-Iranian banker and an illegal alien, is squeezed for money by a group of Muslim extremists threatening to turn him over to the INS, Fiddler steps in to help. Reprint....

  • Eye of the Storm

    Sara Chance

    WHO WAS CINNAMON CARTIER? Plenty of government people wanted to know. The brainy beauty had managed to mold an unknown candidate into a presidential hopeful, and her mysterious background made her a security risk. So Special Agent Ben Forsythe was...

  • Heir to the Dragon

    Robert N. Charrette

    BLOOD-SOAKED DYNASTY Theodore Kurita is heir apparent to the Draconis Combine, one of the most powerful realms of the Inner Sphere. But the Draconis Combine has never been a place of smooth transitions. Historically, a Kurita proves himself fit to...

  • Six Roommates and a Baby

    Emily Chase

    There's nothing the 407 girls can't handle. Is there? All the girls of 407, old and new converge on Boston to be godmothers at the christening of their form housemother Alison's new twins. And not everyone is happy about it. Then Al...

  • The Devil's Delilah

    Loretta Chase

    HOT-TEMPERED AND UNPREDICTABLE, DELILAH DESMOND WAS INDEED THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER. "Devil" Desmond, to be exact, society's most infamous rogue who had just completed his scandalous memoirs. A great many dreaded the tell-all publication, including hi...

  • Small Pleasure

    C.B. Christiansen

  • Letourneau's Used Auto Parts

    Carolyn Chute

    Tells the stories of the inhabitants of Miracle City, including Big Lucien, owner of the auto parts store, Crowe Bovey, a mechanic, Ernie Train, a country music star, and June Marie, who's in business for herself...

  • Nice Girls

    Janet Kotsel Clarke

    A novel about three girls seeking fame and fortune in New York. A blonde Californian escaping her family, a glamorous redhead from Manhattan high society and a plump, self-conscious small-town girl become room-mates and find that love and fame don't ...

  • Who Whispered near Me

    Killarney Clary

  • Anna Banana

    Joanna Cole

  • Maze

    Larry Collins

    SHADOW WAR - A BATTLE OF MINDS While the CIA is doing its research into psychic powers - aided in their experiments by a woman who has the uncanny ability to locate the co-ordinates of Soviet submarines - the Russians have an altogether bigger and m...

  • Albert's Memorial

    David Cook

  • Happy Endings

    David Cook

  • Old Tin Sorrows

    Glen Cook

    A CORPS OF CORPSES was what it seemed Garrett had committed himself to find when Blake Peters turned up to reclaim some overdue favors. Someone was trying to kill Peters' boss, wealthy, retired General Stantnor, in a most lingering, painful, and may...

  • Shadow Games

    Glen Cook

    After the devastating battle at the Tower of Charm, Croaker leads the greatly diminished Black Company south, in search of the Lost Annals. The Annals will be returned to Khatovar, eight thousand miles away, a city that may exist only in legend ... t...

  • Belonging

    Sally Cook

    Mandy felt like a fish out of water She'd always known she was adopted -- but the older she got, the more marked the differences became. So after very careful preparation she traced her real mother. Grant Livingstone, who found her in the g...

  • Sweet Sixteen

    Linda A. Cooney

    Carrie cannot wait until she and her friends can get away from her strick stepfather and celebrate her sixteenth birthday with her real father who lets them do as they please--regardless of the consequences...

  • Nemesis

    Louise Cooper

    THE TOWER OF REGRETS You who sit at my side by the fire; you whose restless ghosts walk in the shadows of my dreams; you children yet unborn: If you would see your people live and prosper, then let these ancient stones lie in solitude. For this is...

  • The Hideaway

    Barbara Corcoran

  • The Power of One

    Bryce Courtenay

    In 1939, as Hitler cast his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, hatred of a similar kind took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language--English, the langu...

  • Tiger Dawn

    Kathleen Creighton

    THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY Zoologist Sarah Fairchild had a mission in Indonesia: to protect the life of the endangered orangutan. But deep in the steamy rain forests she encountered an altogether different species -- the magnificent jungle pre...

  • Dogs on the Case

    Patricia Curtis

    Discusses dogs that are trained to use their scenting ability to locate drugs, explosives, missing persons, agricultural products, or other substances. Includes a directory of search-and-rescue dog organizations....

  • Sir William and the Pumpkin Monster

    Margery Cuyler

  • The Year's Best Fantasy

    Ellen Datlow

    Drawn from a range of periodicals, anthologies, and small-press publications, this collection of fantasy and horror fiction encompasses works by Jane Yolen, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Disch, and other notable authors...

  • Miami Midnight

    Maggie Davis

    Upon her return from Europe, Gabrielle Collier endeavors to help her alcoholic mother and save the family mansion, but when she becomes involved with the millionaire James Santo Marin she may be risking all that she loves...

  • Airwaves

    Suzannah Davis

    SHE HAD A SPECIAL WAY WITH WORDS Every morning Chattanooga woke to the sweet sounds of deejay Summer Jones. Host of WCHT's Coffee Club, she was the toast of the town -- until the station was sold to its biggest competitor. The new boss, Ryd...

  • The Door in the Wall

    Marguerite de Angeli

    Ever since he can remember, Robin, son of Sir John de Bureford, has been told what is expected of him as the son of a nobleman. He must learn the ways of knighthood. But Robin's destiny is changed in one stroke: He falls ill and loses the use of his ...

  • A Season of Swans // A Wild Legacy

    Celeste De Blasis

    After the firestorm of violence and tragedy that severed North from South and brother from brother, the Falconer dynasty--like the nation itself-- needs time to heal, to rebuild, to rise from the ashes. Waiting in the wings is a new generation of Fal...

  • Casey on the Loose

    Frank Deford

    A humorous and colorful account of the fateful day that Casey stepped up to bat and struck-out to unprecedented disappointment combines real and fictional characters to vividy convey the ups and downs of late-nineteenth-century life and baseball...

  • The Gryphon King

    Tom Deitz

    The contents of a mislaid box from the University of Georgia's Rare Book Library includes crumpled newspapers, British bestsellers, old leather-bound folios, and a sword that seems possessed by a mysterious evil...

  • The Way Things Are

    E.M. Delafield

    "'You've never told me about your marriage, Laura?' said Duke Ayland.

    . . . 'Yes. It's only - I'm very fond of Alfred,' said Laura, taking the plunge and temporarily unaware that almost all wives begin conve...

  • Thank Heaven Fasting

    E.M. Delafield

    "She could never, looking backwards, remember a time when she had not known that a woman's failure or success in life depended entirely upon whether or not she succeeded in getting a husband"

    When in the company of a young man ...

  • The Liars' League

    David Delman

  • The Pooped Troop

    Judy Delton

    Let the Fitness Festival Begin!The Pee Wee Scouts are getting into shape. It's exercise and sports galore! Mrs. Peters, their troop leader, explains each event and tells the Scouts how to earn the Fitness badge. Molly gets excited. About the bicycle ...

  • Sanctuary

    Joseph P. Desario

    “DeSario is a miracle worker. . . . [He] swings for the fences and knocks it clear out of the park.”   Booklist     In Joseph P. DeSario’s suspenseful novel, tabloid reporter Matt Teller’s discovery of a brutal crime leads...

  • Fortunes of the Heart

    Marian Devon

    HOW WOULD SHE MARRY HER ONLY LOVE? HE AVOIDED HER LIKE A PLAGUE! Though the world thought her sap-skulled for refusing Lord Littlecote's hand, Mary Anne Hawtry could not marry a man she didn't love. Unfortunately, Captain Anthony Rodes, the man sh...

  • Black Suits From Outerspace

    Gene DeWeese

  • The Bowstring Murders

    Carter Dickson

  • Disney's Christmas Stories

    Walt Disney

  • Mickey's Party

    Walt Disney

  • When We're Alone

    Jane Donnelly

    It was difficult to say no to him Colin Radbrook had made a name for himself as an investigative reporter -- and wasn't easily deterred from reaching his goal. And Livvy admitted that in other circumstances she might have succumbed all too ...

  • Love, Pain,and The Whole Damn Thing

    Doris Dorrie

    Four witty, bitter-sweet stories by talented young German film-writer whose film "Men" reached out beyond its obvious feminist audience to achieve great success in New York and London. Men and films, and the dreams that films embody, form the backgro...

  • Princess of Fire

    Shannon Drake

    Amid the Furious Cry of Battle, a Private War of Passion Had Just Begun . . . Hastings; 1066. Clouds of war darkened the horizon as Saxons and Normans clashed with a vengeance. Yet another battle raged ... as two sparring hearts collided ... ...

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    W.E.B. Du Bois

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."  Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and...

  • Twilight of the Dawn

    Elizabeth Nell Dubus

    As the Civil War casts its ominous shadow across a divided nation, four young scions of the Old South aristocracy embrace a passionate and dangerous destiny. -- Gabrielle Canno -- The alluring and sheltered plantation miss, whose fiery independence...

  • Island Deception

    Elizabeth Duke

    The deception seemed harmless Gemma was determined to make the most of her holiday on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef, where she'd come to heal a bruised heart. But that definitely didn't include falling in love -- particularly with...

  • Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    W. Glenn Duncan

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    Rafferty's Rule 19: When you can't tell the bad guys from the good guys, it's time to get the hell out.

    It hurts to admit it, but Toby Wells played Rafferty like a bar-room fiddle, and Luis Ortega is dead. And while the cops know Rafferty d...

  • Run That Sucker at Six

    N. Leigh Dunlap

  • The Last Exile

    Charles Durham

    A towering saga about one man’s journey into the wild Canadian frontier of the eighteenth century -- and into the passions that war within us all

    A student in Paris, Gabriel Dublanche watched in horror while members of the forbidden Huguenot...

  • The Assignment, or, on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers

    Friedrich Durrenmatt

  • The Ninth Buddha

    Daniel Easterman

    Former British Intelligence officer Christopher Wylam's son is kidnapped by a Buddhist group that thinks he is the reincarnation of a holy man, and Wylam battles a Russian agent through 1920s India, Tibet, and Mongolia to free the boy...

  • Message from Hong Kong

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    This lauded tale of menace and murder from one of the leading crime writers of the past two generations takes the reader on a search to exotic Hong Kong. A missing husband and a priceless jade hold the key to a terrifying secret.

    ...

  • Twilight of Empire

    Allan W. Eckert

    One of the premier chroniclers of our nation's turbulent frontier history, Allan W. Ecker now presents another spellbinding chapter in the conquest of the American wilderness.  Here is the powerful, compellingly human story of the white man's strug...

  • Above Suspicion

    Andrea Edwards

    NO WAY OUT When attorney Jonathon Tyler met Claire Heywood, he was shocked. Not only was the bewitching woman the image of his late wife, she was also in deep trouble. Jon wanted to help Claire, but when he discovered she was spying on him, he won...

  • Eden's Promise

    Cassie Edwards

    Beautiful, wild-eyed and golden-haired, Eden Whitney was the most delectable woman Zach Tyson had ever found trussed up in the hold of his pirate ship. As dangerous and turbulent as the dark seas he sailed, Zach knew a priceless treasure when he saw ...

  • Frontiers of the Heart

    Lucy Elliot

    A Dream to Share Three years had passed since Philippa DeGraff's thwarted attempt to stow away on the clipper ship Valkyrie, but memories of the rogue Captain Burke Sinclaire still singed her heart. No longer a rebellious child, she set sail for Cal...

  • Lone Star on the Warpath

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki declare war on a band of ruthless rustlers!There is no such thing as a "routine" cattle drive, and this time is no exception for the Lone Star duo. Jessie and Ki must track down the killers of her trail boss while fending off Brave Buff...

  • Sweet Desserts

    Lucy Ellmann

  • The Case of the Wounded Buzzard on Christmas Eve

    John R. Erickson

    Accompanying Slim and Little Alfred into town on a Christmas shopping trip, Hank and Drover run into a wounded buzzard and a gang of toughs so mean and heartless, they begin to wonder they'll ever make it back to the ranch. In this enhanced ebook, yo...

  • Drina Dances on Stage

    Jean Estoril

    After many months of diligent study at Chalk Green and in London, Drina takes a trip to Italy to visit her grandmother, and when several members of a touring ballet company fall ill, she gets her big chance to dance on stage....

  • Drina Dances Alone

    Jean Estoril

    When Drina and her grandparents move from London to Australia, she worries that her ballet may suffer, but the beautiful countryside inspires her to dance, and a talent scout from a dance academy is due in town...

  • Longarm and the Outlaw Sheriff

    Tabor Evans

  • Heather on the Hill

    Barbara Faith

    A storm-tossed cliff in the Scottish Highlands was the last place Blythe Warner expected to find magic. Yet from the moment gorgeous Cameron MacCabe stepped out of the mist to rescue her from certain harm, she was swept away by the sweetest enchantme...

  • Axman Cometh

    John Farris

    An artist haunted by the memory of the man who murdered her entire family twenty years ago struggles to end the nightmare by recalling his face, until she is trapped in an elevator with the killer from long-ago...

  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

    Elizabeth Faucher

    From Wikipedia: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 comedy film. The directorial debut of Joe Johnston and released through Walt Disney Pictures and Silver Screen Partners III, the film tells the story of an inventor who accidentally shrinks his and h...

  • Desperate Measures

    Joe Clifford Faust

    Late on payments for his spaceship and abandoned by his crew, James May jumped at the chance to hire a copilot who came complete with cargo. Next thing May knew, the copilot was a washout, the cargo was worthless, and his ship had been repossessed...

  • A Summer of Horses

    Carol Fenner

  • The Mace of Souls

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