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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1993

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New Books List: 496 titles

  • Arabian Jazz

    Diana Abu-Jaber

    "This oracular first novel, which unfurls like gossamer [has] characters of a depth seldom found in a debut." -- The New YorkerIn Diana Abu-Jaber's "impressive, entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate Ne...

  • Almost Perfect

    Alice Adams

    At the time Stella Blake meets Richard Fallon, she is nearly broke. Her semi-famous father, who has always neglected her, is dying. Her job at a San Francisco newspaper is only tentative. Richard, on the other hand, is wildly successful as a commerci...

  • Something Blue

    Jayne Addison

    Then comes marriage ... Uptown girl Quinn Barnett and downtown man Teddy Falco fell in love, married, and divorced--all within a few months. Now they only wanted to get on with their lives and forget they'd ever met. Except... fate, and the stork,...

  • Present of the Past // Legacy of Secrets

    Elizabeth Adler

    Maudie Molyneux, a sprightly 80-year-old, lives in poverty-stricken style at her crumbling stately home in Connemara. Then Shannon Keefe arrives with her wild tale of murder and ghosts, and it is Maudie who unravels the past for her. Shocked and s...

  • Blood Sacrifice

    Gary Alexander

    The serial killer stabbing young women to death in Cancun hotels with an ancient Maya sacrificial flint knife is aptly nicknamed Gilbert, after the hurricane that also devastated the tourist industry in Mexico's tropical paradise.Luis Balam - a rare ...

  • When Somebody Wants You

    Trisha Alexander

    A year in Cajun country was exactly what college professor Sloan Devereaux and his young daughter needed. This was a rare chance to study a fascinating way of life, and a welcome change from New York City's pressures. But the teacher had some lessons...

  • Ivy's League

    Heather Allison

    Is it true that winning isn't everything? The Hall sisters were no strangers to success. And Ivy, the youngest and shiest sister, had a lot to live up to. So when she started her new job, she was determined to show the world just what she cou...

  • Jagger

    Christopher Andersen

  • Darkest Hour

    V.C. Andrews

    GROWING UP ON THE THRIVING PLANTATION CALLED THE MEADOWS, LILLIAN BOOTH CHERISHES THE BRIGHTEST, HAPPIEST DREAMS.... Lillian's world is full of grand parties, of sunshine and promises, as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her lit...

  • Rhymin' Simon and the Mystery of the Fake Snake

    Bill Apablasa

  • Claim to Fame

    William H. Appelman

  • A Sudden Change of Family

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

    Summers with my family were almost perfect...

    That's when we'd go out to Whitmarsh Point, where my grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins lived. We'd swim and have lobster bakes, and I'd spend all my time with my best friend, my cousin Juli...

  • Lucky Penny

    Elizabeth August

    Find a penny ... All Celina Warley craved in her silent world was a child. But in a small town like Smytheshire, Massachusetts, a baby needed a father--and a woman needed a husband! Mr. Maybe had eluded her all her life, until Celina unearthed a p...

  • Shockscape

    James Axler

    HORROR AND HOPE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Emerging from a gateway into the snowy barrens of the Colorado Rockies, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior group are forced to strike a deal for survival. This part of white hell is controlled by Baron Nelson, a grief-...

  • Dancing With Shadows

    Rosemary Badger

    All that glitters... Alex Drummond seemed to have it all -- wealth, good looks and the ability to charm the skin off a snake. He was also the guardian of two nieces and a nephew, whose pain over the loss of their parents was tearing them apart. ...

  • Brothers of the Dragon

    Robin Wayne Bailey

    Caught in a war between dragon-riders and bloodthirsty unicorns, two brothers trained in martial arts lead the forces of Light toward victory! Both brothers were martial arts and wilderness survival experts. Yet they were unprepared for what lay t...

  • Master of Passion

    Jacqueline Baird

    She had some explaining to do In a show of true friendship, Parisa Belmont had agreed to help retrieve a folder of incriminating photographs. But when she found herself dressed like a cat burglar, ransacking an elegant Mayfair apartment, she sudde...

  • For Better, for Worse

    Jennifer Baker

  • The Hard to Catch Mercy

    William P. Baldwin III

    From lowcountry writer William Baldwin comes a new edition of his 1993 Lillian Smith Award-winning novel, The Hard to Catch Mercy. Including a new introduction by the author, this Southern Revivals edition makes available once more a story that touch...

  • Changeweaver

    Margaret Ball

    Unable to bear the child that will cure her of her magic powers, Tamai must leave her people and serve them in the outer world by convincing the British to defend them from the encroaching Russians. Original....

  • The Wrong Door

    Mary Balogh
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    WHEN THEY'RE BAD... THEY'RE BETTER Open the pages of this superb book and enter the world of the bad boys of romance. Make a date with a bevy of colorful rakes and devilish rogues in five exquisitely sexy stories by some of the most beloved, highly ...

  • A Precious Jewel

    Mary Balogh

    Luck is a Lady Once Miss Priscilla Wentworth had been a well-bred young lady. That was before family tragedy left her without shelter from poverty and want. Now Priscilla supposed she should count herself lucky that a gentleman like Sir Gerald Sta...

  • Hunter's Bride

    Linda Barlow

    THE HUNTER AND THE HERBALIST Holly MacLeish didn't understand how her grandfather could have made her promise to marry Skye Rawlins! He was insufferable, he was arrogant, and his wild and woolly ways made her cringe. He made no secret of his attra...

  • Portrait of Maud

    June Barraclough

    Born in the first decade of the 20th century, Maud is both beautiful and intelligent. At university her aloofness sets her apart, puzzling some and fascinating others. An admirer commissions a painting of her, which, many years later, is instrumental...

  • The Forms of Water

    Andrea Barrett

    At the age of eighty, Brendan Auberon -- formerly of the Order of Our Lady of the Valley, now confined to a nursing home -- has one last wish: to see his 200 acres overlooking what used to be Paradise Valley, before the villages were drowned to provi...

  • Feelings of Love

    Anne Beaumont

    The mystery man had surfaced at last! Tobias Hunter: Publishing magnate, owner of Woodlands Hall and Felice Lawson's new landlord - or so she hoped! Of course, she didn't actually have a lease, and there was that little matter of eigh...

  • A Dove at Midnight

    Rexanne Becnel

    AS PAWN OR PRIZE... Born into a world of savagery and sorrow, Lady Joanna Preston had hidden her chaste, matchless beauty behind hallowed walls -- vowing never to love or take any man to husband. Never did she dream that one day a fierce and noble w...

  • Broadcast Clues

    Dick Belsky

  • Sunset Deceptions

    Cherie Bennett

    Come to Sunset Island, the bestselling series about Samantha, Emma and Caroline -- away from home in the ultimate summer job! I got a real surprise today when my friend Raymond Saliverez showed up on the island. He has a big problem -- his student...

  • Did You Hear About Amber?

    Cherie Bennett

    Amber's used to being number one -- can she handle being anything less? Beautiful, talented, and ambitious, Amber Lynn Harkin is on top of the world. There isn't a guy who doesn't adore her, or a girl who doesn't want to be like her. Her dance group...

  • Deathwind

    D.R. Bensen

    Cole Brandon, a former lawyer and lone-riding salesman, rides into Bigsbee, a town with a reputation for tranquility, and tracks down the renengades of the Kenneally gang who slaughtered his family. Original....

  • The Berenstain Bears Gotta Dance!

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    BROTHER BEAR AFRAID TO DANCE? "No, dancing is just dumb," he says. But when Brother hears that Bonnie Brown may go to the big spring dance with Too-Tall Grizzly, he wonders if a dance-floor klutz can become a disco dynamo in less than a week. ...

  • Falling Stars

    Carly Bishop

    She wasn't the only one who wanted this man When the most wanted criminal in the state appeared on her doorstep, Dr. Andrea Vogel had the chilling hunch that her damning testimony had sent an innocent man on the lam. She vowed to vindicate fel...

  • Arrow to the Heart

    Jennifer Blake

    Around two of the most wonderful characters she has ever created, Jennifer Blake spins an utterly passionate story set within a steamy, languorous time and place: nineteenth-century Louisiana, where a Southern version of the medieval court of love st...

  • Taminy

    Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

    They said Taminy-a-Cuinn was a sorceress, and that she drowned in the Meri's Sea seeking a station denied her by tradition and nature. One hundred years have passed and Taminy has walked out of the Sea and back into the land of the living for a purpo...

  • Heat of a Savage Moon

    Jane Bonander

    No sooner had Rachel Weber arrived as a new bride in the rugged frontier town of Pine Valley, her husband was brutally murdered by Indians. Though she'd scarecly known him, Rachel felt compelled to find her husband's killers and bring the to justice,...

  • Cauldron

    Larry Bond

    The author of Red Phoenix and Vortex outdoes himself--with an epic adventure straight out of tomorrow's headlines. When France and Germany unite against America, Britain and the Eastern European democracies, the former Soviet Union is caught in the m...

  • Dream Time

    Parris Afton Bonds

    A HARSH BUT BEAUTIFUL LAND, AND THE TWO WOMEN WHO WOULD MAKE IT THEIR OWN For Nan Briscoll, Australia was a prison. Exiled there after a heartbreaking betrayal, she vowed to survive for one reason only: revenge against the man whose actions sealed...

  • Triple Treat

    Barbara Boswell

    MR. JUNE The Man: Tyler Tremaine. Confident, charming, used to getting his own way. The Woman: Carrie Wilcox. Warm, wonderful, and a lovely eyeful to boot. The Problem: Carrie was the single mother . . . of triplets! When Tyler heard that...

  • Love's Perfect Dream

    Caroline Bourne

    All New Orleans beauty Isabel Emerson wanted was to return to her beloved bayou plantation, Shadows-in-the-Mist ... but first she must journey to the wilderness to bring home her long-lost brother. She had no time to dream of moonlit kisses and soft ...

  • Run for Your Life

    Ann Allen Brahms

    Annik Miller is trapped. A man she once spurned, Gibson Spenser, has become her bitter enemy. He calls her endlessly, follows her everywhere, even threatens her. Annik fears that there is no escape...until she inherits a wilderness cabin in Main...

  • Shiva's Challenge

    J.H. Brennan

  • Keeping Christina

    Sue Ellen Bridgers

    When she befriends Christina, the new girl in school, Annie does not suspect that there is more to her than meets the eye and that Christina will have a huge impact on Annie's family and her oldest friends...

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    Laurey Bright

    Years ago, Ysande Cazalet had been like any other bride-to-be, until tragedy destroyed something far more precious than her own future. And now she had to stay away from the handsome stranger who made her dream again of marriage and family. For how c...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Dusts for Clues

    Emily Brightwell

    THE CASE WASN'T CLOSED YET... A servant girl's gone missing ... along with a valuable brooch. When the Inspector finds the brooch, pinned to the gown of a murdered woman, one mystery is solved --but another begins. Fortunately, Mrs. Jeffries isn't t...

  • Cape of Storms

    Andre Brink

    He is the chieftain leader of the Khoikhoi, a nomadic people derogatorily called “Hottentot”’ by European colonists. She is a white woman left behind by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama’s crew when they rounded Africa’s southern tip in 149...

  • White Lightning

    Sharon Brondos

    BACK A WINNER--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 to forge new Texas futures. THE RACE IS ON Lynn McKinney knows Lightning can outr...

  • With Much Love

    Cassandra Brooke

    This is the sequel to "Dear Venus", featuring Ruth Conway and Janice Blakemore. Ruth's affairs are legendary, but her love is reserved for her husband, Piers. So when Piers, newly appointed Charge d'Affaires in Madrid, takes his title a little too li...

  • Sweet Betrayal

    Helen Brooks

    "I'm sure you'll do exactly what you want regardless of anyone's feelings, Mr Stythe. You did ten years ago, and a leopard doesn't change its spots." Nothing could fade the bitter memories Candice Baker had of Cameron Stryt...

  • The Summer Noisy Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Seashore Noisy Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Rest in Pieces

    Rita Mae Brown

    Mrs. Murphy thinks the new man in town is the cat's meow....Maybe she should think again. Small towns don't take kindly to strangers unless the stranger happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous and seemingly unattached male. When Blair Bainbridge comes ...

  • Awakening Arthur!

    Page Bryant

  • Edge of Darkness

    Debbie Bryce

    HIRED GUNS When Meg Andrews had hired Clay Terhune to free her brother from a South American political prison he'd been nothing more to her than a mercenary who risked his life for a living in the dark, dirty corners of the world. But somewhere al...

  • Hot Copy

    Carole Buck
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    Hotshot newswriters Mitch Nelson and Christy Kavanaugh had loved their way through the big blackout of 1977. So imagine their surprise when they were reunited to cover the great light-out of '93. All thoughts of keeping things cool were doused along ...

  • The Wizard's Tide

    Frederick Buechner

  • Hoodwinked

    Caroline Burnes

    An arrow through the heart.... David Malachi's devil-may-care bravura made him a prime suspect as 'Robin Hood,' the burglar who had chosen Natchez as his personal Sherwood Forest...and his emulation of the fictional outlaw frustrated the hell out...

  • A Frog's-Eye View

    Rebecca Busselle

  • The Black Angel

    Cordia Byers

    ALL SHE HAD LEFT WAS HER PRIDE, AND IT WAS SORELY BATTERED BY HER OWN TRAITOROUS DESIRES... Ravaged by sea and sun, Brianna McClure lay at death's door when Roarke O'Connor, captain of the Black Angel, plucked her from a shipwreck in the p...

  • Summer Dreams

    Jean Anne Caldwell
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    A spirited miss enters a horse race to win the heart of a mysterious Earl -- and the odds are in favor of true love....

  • The Path to the Nest of Spiders

    Italo Calvino

    Italo Calvino's debut novel, first published in 1947, tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at the lowlife bar whe...

  • Glory Nights

    Charla Cameron

    MAGNOLIA ROAD There was perhaps no place in history more filled with romance and beauty than the old South in the days before the Civil War. Now, journey down Magnolia Road and visit the most majestic plantation of that gracious era.... CARIL...

  • The Cane Brake Men

    Judd Cameron

  • Strange Things and Stranger Places

    Ramsey Campbell

    A collection of outstanding horror fiction contains two novellas, Needing Ghosts and Medusa, along with eight shorter works about such places as forbidden castle ruins where children's games can be transformed into chilling reality. R...

  • American Girl

    Mary Cantwell

  • Hog Heaven

    Ann Carberry
    in

    Loralie was perfectly content tending the pigs on her farm...but positively pigheaded when a sincere and handsome suitor vies for her hand in marriage!...

  • Steam Bath

    Suzanne Carey
    in

    The elevator didn't work and neither did the air-conditioning, so prim-and-proper Melisande Taylor was stuck in a sweaty office with the man not of her dreams ~ sexy, irritating Joe Carbone. And Joe had a lot more on his mind than passing the time wi...

  • Mercy Hospital: Don't Tell Mrs. Harris

    Carolyn Carlyle

  • Runaway Heart

    Tena Carlyle

    A FUGITIVE OF LOVE Jonquil Rose Trevain couldn't forget the day her mother and three intruders were slain in a shootout on her family's tiny Arkansas farm. On the fun from a false murder charge, she'd joined the carnival circuit, enchan...

  • Match Made in Heaven

    Jeanne Carmichael

    DESTINY RUN AMOK Serena Trevelyan and James, Viscount Lynton, had been meant for each other from the cradle. But Jamie's mother had other, grander plans for her handsome son. When she sent Jamie to the Continent, however, she discovered there ...

  • Wave Dancer Is Missing

    M.J. Carr

  • The Wizard of Oz

    M.J. Carr

  • The Devil's Heart

    Carmen Carter

    The Devil's Heart -- a legendary object of unsurpassed power and mystery. Worlds that believe in magic consider it Darkness's mightiest talisman; worlds of science consider it a lost artifact of some ancient and forgotten race. Some say the Heart ena...

  • Talwar

    Robert Carter

    Imagine a corporation so powerful that it rules trade across the globe, fuels the first truly world war, creates governments and even gives birth to new countries . The year is 1746, and the corporation is the East India Company. The War of the Austr...

  • Dragon Rigger

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    DRAGONS IN THE STARS! In the Flux of hyperspace, area lm of dragons fights a desperate war against an awesome, unseen evil that threatens life itself. Tarskel, "the Nail of Strength," would shape the entire universe into a web of power and death, ...

  • Something New

    Carla Cassidy

    The Urge to Merge Schoolteacher Eve Winthrop's small-town days left her wistful for something new and exciting. She got it all -- and more -- the day Brice Maxwell roared into town on his motorcycle, wearing a black leather jacket and a devilish ...

  • Grandpa Baxter and the Photographs

    Caroline Castle

  • Stolen Fire

    Danette Chartier

    He caught her in his embrace when a woman collapsed in his arms. In a dark French alley, adventurer Drake Weston was not happy. But his spirits improved considerably upon discovering that the woman carried the famed Rajput emerald. He had at last got...

  • Hanukkah

    Yvonne Cherbak

  • Hellburner

    C.J. Cherryh

    Forced to help jinxed pilot Paul Dekker, Ben Pollard becomes entangled unwittingly in a lethal deep space political mess. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Heavy Time. and Cyteen. Reprint....

  • Chasing Destiny

    Cathryn Clare

    PIECES OF TIME Brash city cop Chase Mulholland and genteel country landscaper Dana Lacey had once, fleetingly, fit together -- in a kiss as profound, and disturbing, as the roiling depths of time. Now their paths were reluctantly converging -- at ...

  • Al Capsella Takes a Vacation

    Judith Clarke

  • A Daughter of Liberty

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    In 1778 America, fifteen-year-old indentured servant Diana escapes from her abusive master with the help of army deserter Emmett Shannon, whom she later marries, but when tragedy strikes Diana must learn to survive on her own...

  • Something Old

    Toni Collins

    Once in a very long lifetime Twenty-nine and still single Gabby Thorne doubted she'd ever get married. So when her handsome, blond, blue-eyed boss began wooing her the old-fashioned way, Gabby overlooked their age difference . . .even though it wa...

  • The White Path

    Robert J. Conley

  • The Black Ice

    Michael Connelly

    THE OFFICIAL REPORT SAID SUICIDE. BUT IN A CITY WHERE MURDER IS SPORT, HARRY BOSCH ISN'T READY TO BLAME THE VICTIM. Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with his...

  • Freshman Celebrity

    Linda A. Cooney

    Liza meets her match in a handsome and eccentric film student. Is it the perfect casting of these two wild souls-- or the ticket to a major flop? When Faith discovers that a university lab is abusing animals, she takes justice into her own hands! ...

  • The Red Horseman

    Stephen Coonts

    Rear Admiral Jake Grafton's mission to Moscow, to ensure the destruction of twenty thousand nuclear weapons, is undermined by member of the U.S. government. By the author of Flight of the Intruder. Reprint....

  • Seeing Red

    Ilene Cooper

  • Picture Perfect Romance

    J.B. Cooper

  • Cruel and Unusual

    Patricia Cornwell

    11:05 p.m. Convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the Commonwealth of Virginia's electric chair. In the morgue, Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been waiting for Waddell's body. It's a strange feeling, preparing for an autopsy before the su...

  • Into the Battle

    Dobrica Cosic

  • Cliff Hanger // Vineyard Fear

    Philip R. Craig

    FISH OUT OF WATER Escaping the city and its violence, ex-cop Jeff "J. W." Jackson found solace in fishing, cooking, and simply enjoying life on Martha's Vineyard--and nothing, he figures, will ever entice him to leave. However, suddenly there's a ve...

  • Tower of Shadows

    Sara Craven

    DESTINATION: FRANCE ATTRACTIONS: GREAT FOOD, WINE, ROMANCE...AND ROHAN SAINT YVES Here, in the fragrant province of Perigord, lay the mystery of Sabine's past -- the scandal and secrecy of her mother's banishment, and of her father...

  • The Sword and the Lion

    Roberta Cray

  • The Perfect Bride

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Position available: Wife, full-time, live-in. Alex Woodward - thirty-five years old, intelligent, successful, devilishly handsome. Why would a man with those qualifications want to hire a personnel company to find him a wife? Not any personne...

  • Sagebrush Bride

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    Renamed: McKenzie's Bride ANGEL OF MERCY Skilled in the medical arts, beautiful, headstrong Elizabeth Bowcock steadfastly remains in Sioux Falls to aid a community threatened by fearsome Cheyenne ... and solemnly vows to raise her innocent ...

  • The Indian Fighter's Return

    Jack Cummings

  • A Charmed Engagement

    Monette Cummings
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    A collection of six tales of Regency romance features the story of a lady eager to break her engagement to an unfaithful rogue and a young colonel who pursues his prospective bride across England. Original....

  • The Women of Liberty Creek

    Marilyn Cunningham

  • First Wife, Twice Removed

    Clare Curzon

    TOXIC LOVE Two disturbing deaths have Superintendent Mike Yeadings's team spread out from the Thames Valley to Amsterdam, looking for answers. The first victim, Penny Winter, a divorced mother of two, dies as a result of food poisoning. Someone...

  • Mary Malloy and the Baby Who Wouldn't Sleep

    Niki Daly

  • Silk and Stone

    Lisa Dane

    Different Worlds: Two hearts destined to be together...no matter how far apart they seem. The only rock that boutique owner Erica is interested in is the kind you put on your finger. Hoping to speed up a proposal from debonair Skip by joining him on ...

  • The Christmas Portrait

    Megan Daniel
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    A contemporary career woman finds herself living a scene from a holiday store window as she is whisked back in time into the swirling gaiety of a Christmas ball and the arms of a handsome stranger....

  • The Girl Who Trod On A Loaf

    Kathryn Davis

    Back in print, an astonishing novel of art, obsession, and the secrets kept by two very different womenIn Kathryn Davis’s second novel, Frances Thorn, waitress and single parent of twins, finds herself transformed by the dazzling magnetism of Helle...

  • First Wedding, Once Removed

    Julie Reece Deaver

  • Dr. Dimension

    John DeChancie; David Bischoff

    MAD SCIENTIST OR GENIUS? Dr. Demetrios Demopoulos had a dream--and a lot of burned-out parts. But, despite far too many experiments that had blown up his lab at Flitheimer University, Dr. D. was certain he was on the brink of building a working sp...

  • Liberty Campaign

    Jonathan Dee

    Combining finely tuned suspense with provocative insights into the nature of good and evil, The Liberty Campaign is a novel of stunning psychological depth and power.Gene Trowbridge, a sixty-five-year-old successful advertising executive, fills the d...

  • War Breaker

    Jim DeFelice

  • Bright Promise

    Connie Deka

    All the world looks bright -- when seen through the eyes of love... LILLIE: No one in town knew the REAL Lillie Valentine -- but one determined man would try to win her trust... TOM: He had a way with children as the town baseball coach. But ...

  • Touch of Lace

    Elizabeth DeLancey

    THEY SHARED A PROMISE TO CHERISH FOREVER -- AND A JOURNEY OF DREAMS AND DESIRE... Anna left Ireland for the promise of America. Stephen vowed to build a new life for his young son. Their voyage west bound them to a bold deception, for Anna had t...

  • The Obsidian Oracle

    Troy Denning

    The Severed Bonds of Friendship... The Dark Lens: An ancient oracle that can harvest the magic of the sun, hidden by the last dwarven knights for the sake of a new world. With it, Tithian of Tyr can evolve into a true sorcerer-king. Only Agi...

  • A Dangerous Guy

    Jacqueline Diamond

    SHE HAD CAUGHT HIM OFF GUARD... Donovan Lewis, P.I., was intrigued when Francesca Adamo stole a priceless diamond right from under his nose just to get his attention -- and perhaps a job. But her screwball stunt did more to prove that she was a th...

  • Attack of the Seawolf

    Michael DiMercurio

    When the U.S.S. Tampa falls into the hands of the Chinese during a covert mission and the submarine and its crew are held hostage, Captain Michael "Patch" Pacino and his state-of-the-art sub, the Seawolf, must rescue them. Reprint....

  • Winter's Tales

    Isak Dinesen

    In Isak Dinesen's universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a ...

  • Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Walt Disney

  • Tagged for Terror (Ring of Evil #1)

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Alien Factor

    Franklin W. Dixon

    A DEEP SECRET FROM DEEP SPACE PUTS FRANK AND JOE AND TOM INTO THE DEEPEST TROUBLE IMAGINABLE... Tom Swift has caught a falling star -- a visitor from outer space who is as beautiful as she is strange. But his secret encounter has set off alarms at...

  • Find Me A Tiger Mini Edition

    Lynley Dodd

    Each page in this book features a different animal, carefully camouflaged in its natural habitat. A rhyme tells readers what to look for, with animals such as a lion, seal, frog and chick to spot. Slinky Malinki, the black cat, also makes an appearan...

  • Strange Dreams

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    A new collection of fantasy short stories personally selected by bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson, these are the "strange dreams" that stir the heart and mind, written by authors past and present - from Rudyard Kipling and Franz Kafka to Theod...

  • Hold Back the Dark

    Jane Donnelly

    Nicolas always makes the rules Or that's how it seems to Clarry Rickard. Two years earlier, Nicolas Dargan had sent his brother, Nigel, out of the country. He'd done it to break up Nigel's engagement to Clarry, and she's hated him ...

  • You Need a Bath, Mustard

    Paul Dowling

  • Starpilot's Grave

    Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald

    BLOCKADED, RESTRICTED, AND FORGOTTEN--THE MAGEWORLDS WOULD NEVER THREATEN THE REPUBLIC AGAIN. A broken and drifting ship, its' long-dead captain still strapped in the command seat: that's what free-spacers call a starpilot's grave. When one of the...

  • Disobedience

    Michael Drinkard

  • A Boy in the Doghouse

    Betsy Duffey

    George loves his new puppy, Lucky, but Lucky is out of control. George has to train him soon, or his parents will take Lucky back to the pound. Lucky has a lot of work to do, too: he has to train George to sleep outside with him, scratch him behind t...

  • Duel on the Mesa

    Bill Dugan

    Dalton Chance's family has been massacred by a band of Indians, but only by trusting an Indian scout, Lone Wolf, can he find the men truly responsible for the horrible crime....

  • The Man Who Understood Cats

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    Jack Caleb is a Gold Coast psychiatrist, wealthy, cultured - and gay. John Thinnes is a burned out Chicago detective. When one of Caleb's clients is found dead in his locked apartment -- apparently of a self-inflicted head wound, Thinnes doesn't beli...

  • Defiant

    Tom Early

  • Unidentified Woman

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    CRAZY QUILT OF TERROR… To young and lovely Victoria Steane there seemed no pattern to the murders. Yet one by one they took place -- a man found drowned, a girl floating in the river, a woman strangled in the undergrowth. And these were just the...

  • Wild Embrace // Savage Wind

    Cassie Edwards

    WILDERNESS OF DESIRE Exquisite, flame-haired Elizabeth Easton thought Seattle was a raw, rough frontier harbor after her elegant upbringing in San Francisco. But she discovers what the real wilderness is when the noble Indian brave, Strong Heart, ...

  • Miss Durham's Indiscretion

    Marissa Edwards
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    A collection of six tales of Regency romance features the story of a lady eager to break her engagement to an unfaithful rogue and a young colonel who pursues his prospective bride across England. Original....

  • Players

    Richard Edwards

  • Unwanted Legacy

    Rachel Elliot (1)

    Flynn Donovan had changed -- and not for the better! He no longer bore any resemblance to the young man Kaylie had adored ten years ago. It was a shock to see him at the reading of her aunt Emma Anderson's will -- and to see what an arrogant s...

  • Lasting Treasures

    Julie Ellis

    Russian refugee Viktoria Gunsburg comes to Virginia as the bride of an American serviceman, but her marriage begins to disintegrate in the face of his wealthy family's disapproval and betrayal. Reprint....

  • Lone Star and the Ghost Ship Pirates

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki face a band of seafaring marauders as mysterious and deadly as the ocean depths!When the Star Sarah, the proudest frigate in Jessica Starbuck's Texas Star Line, is abandoned and torched, the Lone Star duo are determined to fin...

  • Triple Whammy

    Teryl Euvremer

  • Longarm and the Border Showdown

    Tabor Evans

  • Cloud Man

    Barbara Faith

    WORLDS APART Emma Pilgrim knew the assignment to photograph the ruined city of Monte Alban was a rare opportunity, a chance to study a civilization shrouded in the mists of time. But her journey into the past became something more -- an unimagined...

  • Lightning in the Blood

    Gregory S. Fallis

    Anka Stiffel helps suburban housewife Amanda Owen come out as a lesbian and an artist, but a disaster renders both women incoherent, and two private investigators must prove Anka innocent of attempted murder...

  • The Fortune Hunter

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A PROUD PENNY-PINCHING MISS Unless she raised the necessary funds, Nerissa Dufresne would have little choice but to sell her beloved Bath estate. Preoccupied by her troubles, she set out on an unchaperoned stroll--and suddenly spied a stallion bea...

  • Heroes Great and Small

    Marie Ferrarella

    FLEETING FATHERHOOD Widower Bromley Culhane had fallen utterly, irrevocably in love--with his adopted newborn daughter. Tiny Katie made his world complete... until Brom discovered she'd been kidnapped. Shattered, he'd returned the infant to her fr...

  • Tell Me No Secrets

    Joy Fielding

    I'LL TELL YOU NO LIES People are inexplicably disappearing from Chicago prosecuter Jess Koster's life. First her mother vanished without a trace eight years ago. And now a client, the victim of a brutal, sadistic rapist, is also missing. Someon...

  • Nude Men

    Amanda Filipacchi

    Jeremy Acidophilus's life is going nowhere, until he meets a beautiful woman in a coffee shop. Lady Henrietta paints new nude men and wants Jeffrey to pose for her. But things get complicated when Henrietta's precocious, voluptuous 11-year-old daught...

  • Words Of My Roaring

    Ernest Finney

  • MacLaren's Memory

    Mara Fitzcharles

    Brianna Dugan was trying to make the most of each minute of her trip to Boston. Her arms full of packages, she had just squeezed a shopping spree into the afternoon when the humid summer air hit her like a hot blanket. Before she knew what happened, ...

  • Sunchasers

    Rebecca Flanders

    HE ARRIVED ON A DAY AS DULL AS DUST The door of the Trail's End Cafe opened, and there he stood, silhouetted against the light, his shadow stretching across the floor -- like the hero of every Western Lyndsay Blake had ever seen. But Jed D...

  • White Horse, Dark Dragon

    Robert C. Fleet

    OLD WORLD MAGIC! Jim Marlowe and his young son came to Central Europe on a routine scientific assignment: to study the environmental impact of a planned mining operation. But nothing in the mountains of Karistan is quite what it seems - from the v...

  • Minetown Mistress

    Dirk Fletcher

    Spur McCoy, while searching for a missing colonel, finds himself distracted from his mission by two buxom beauties who have a special way of welcoming him to the town of Timber Break, Idaho. Original....

  • The Concrete Inquisition

    James Flynn

  • Lost Treasure

    Catriona Flynt

    Young Winslow had but one year left to make his land and timber empire a success before his grandfather's inheritance would go instead to his unscrupulous cousins. Hired by unscrupulous brothers to bed their cousin, Winslow Fortune, and learn his...

  • The Reluctant Duchess

    Olivia Fontayne

    LOVE CAN SETTLE THE MOST BITTER DISPUTE.... Newly widowed and barely three months from her lying-in, Lady Alexandra Richardson is in desperate straits. The last thing she needs is to be caught up in a dispute over the estate with her late husband&...

  • The Bad Penny

    Susan Fox

    The Kincaid Ranch, near Red Horse, Wyoming... Ethan Kincaid -- He's got a rough-and-ready sense of justice; he's a man who makes his own rules, a rancher who wears his authority with confidence. He's a widower and a loner -- and the l...

  • My Year With The Stork Club

    Maureen Freely

    With the arrival of their first child, typical couple Mike and Laura become prey to the Stork Club, a support group of mothers so deeply organized and so demonically caring that its power is irresistible...

  • Knights of Dark Renown

    David Gemmell

    Once the legendary knights of the Gabala defended the nine duchies. Their hearts were beautiful; their armor was beyond compare. They were greater than princes, more than men.But they were gone, disappeared through a demon-haunted gateway between wor...

  • Missing Joseph

    Elizabeth George

    Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancashire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: the vicar of Winslough, the man they had come to see, is dead...

  • More Than Words

    Mel Gilden

  • The Unmarried Bride

    Emma Goldrick

    A strange state of affairs Abby could hardly believe her luck when she inherited her uncle's private island hideaway. Peaceful and secluded, it was ideal for some much needed rest and relaxation. So it came as something of a shock to find hand...

  • Meet Crystal Starr: A Coloring Activity Book

    Beth Goodman

  • The Holy Grail

    Norma Lorre Goodrich

  • Death in Disguise

    Caroline Graham

    BARNABY'S BACK...IN A BIZARRE CASE OF UNHOLY ALLIANCES The residents of the little English village would believe almost anything about the goings on up at the Manor House. Anything, that is, except murder. But with the charismatic leader of th...

  • The Sheriff Speaks

    Alvin Granowsky

    After reading the traditional tale of Robin Hood, the hero who stole from the rich to give to the poor, the reader is invited to turn the book upside down and read an updated version told from the point of view of the Sheriff of Nottingham....

  • Rumpelstiltskin: A Deal Is a Deal

    Alvin Granowsky

  • Officer Down

    Michael Grant

    In retaliation for a U.S. crackdown on Colombian's drug cartels, the Pun+a1o Blanco, a narco-terrorist gang, targets New York City cops, and only four very different law enforcement people can stop the bloodbath. Reprint....

  • Wildfire

    Billie Green

    TANNER -- An Irresistible Outlaw with Desperado Eyes... He'd spent his life breaking the rules, a few noses, and more than a few hearts -- but Tanner West made Rae Anderson feel unsettled, exposed, and all woman! The pretty small-town Texas la...

  • The Killing of Ellis Martin

    Lucretia Grindle

    POOR LITTLE RICH DEATH In Kent, the greatest threat to peace and quiet in the quaint village of Wildesham was the new Channel Tunnel. But then a corpse's hand reaches from a shallow grave, beckoning Chief Inspector Ross and his feisty Welsh assist...

  • Cowboy Ed

    Bill Grossman

  • Irreparable Harm

    Lee Gruenfeld

    The questioner is a psychiatrist. The woman is Pamela Jacoby, a troubled police officer implicated in a horrific and gruesome killing. Now doctors and police need Pamela to overcome the trauma of that night - and a violent death in her past - to reme...

  • Dancing Through Life in a Pair of Broken

    Mickey Guisewite

  • Brave Men

    David H. Hackworth

  • James, Fabulous Feline

    Harriet Hahn

    The excellent adventures of the aristocratic British feline continue as James puts his best paw forward to solve crimes while indulging in the finer things in life James is enjoying life at Baron’s Chambers, the London apartment house where he shar...

  • Worlds Enough and Time

    Joe Haldeman

    WORLDS An Earth plagued by rampant violence, unrest and political fanaticism careens madly toward its ultimate doom. WORLDS APART In the aftermath of war, the insanity that destroyed a world reaches out to touch the inhabitants of one of Earth's...

  • Emma Chizzit and the Mother Lode Marauder

    Mary Bowen Hall

    DEATH PROSPECTS Emma Chizzit, sixty-something owner of A-1 Salvage, is hired to help with plans to preserve the historic gold mining town of Buckeye, California. The savvy sleuth soon discovers that she's not welcome, as rattlesnakes in picnic ...

  • Anticipation

    Paris Hall

    Sex . . . sin . . . love . . . indulgence beyond all imagining. These are the ingredients to this sizzling, unforgettable romp. The North Dallas Women's Center is a retreat for women of glamour and power, where they receive groundbreaking medical...

  • All It Takes Is Love

    Rosemary Hammond

    She had no choice! Rachel was worried. Just as she was getting back on her feet following her divorce, her ex-husband, Stephen, appeared. The small publishing company she worked for was losing money and Stephen's offer was its rescue -- on the...

  • The Furys

    James Hanley

    A boy returns home from seminary to a family on the verge of collapse For almost seven years, Mrs. Fury has done nothing but think of Peter. Of her five children, he is the youngest, her darling boy whose future she planned out long ago. It was for P...

  • Bohannon's Country

    Joseph Hansen

    From the author of the acclaimed Dave Brandstetter series and winner of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award comes a superb new collection of mysteries. Fascinating crime fighter Hack Bohannon roams along the central Californ...

  • The Wings of Morning

    Karen Harper

    Raised on the fiercely repressive Scottish isle of St. Kilda, feisty Abigain McQueen is both envied and scorned by the villagers for her independent ways. But nothing stops her from defying their primitive mores, which call for birthing practices tha...

  • Wedding Bell Blues

    Madeline Harper

    BRIDAL COUNTDOWN The Wedding Expert: Bridal editor Molly Prescott found the ideal couple to boost her magazine's sales. Their looks were picture-perfect and they'd let her organize the wedding her way. To top it off, the bride's brothe...

  • No Escape

    Madge Harrah

  • Dead Girls Can't Scream

    Janice Harrell

    She saw the body... Laurie Wentworth jogged past that corner every morning. As a member of the track team, it was part of her training. But she'd never seen anyone there before -- especially not someone stuffing a corpse into the trunk of his car. ...

  • The Murder Game

    Janice Harrell

  • A Sensible Wife

    Jessica Hart

    Was it only a business arrangement? Deborah had lost her money and her passport and she hadn't eaten in twenty-four hours. But should she accept the help of a stranger, especially one who exuded such total confidence in himself? Gil Hamilto...

  • Wasted Years

    John Harvey

    An uncannily familiar series of crimes in England's Midlands sends police detective Charlie Resnick back to his past, to a time when his marriage and his city fell apart, and when he confronted a similar crime spree. Reprint....

  • Horses with Wings

    Dennis Haseley

  • Artistic Differences

    Charlie Hauck

  • Hall Pass

    Robert Hawks

  • Long Storm

    Ernest Haycox

  • Requiem: and Tributes to the Grand Master

    Robert A. Heinlein

    A collection of works--most never before published in book form--by the first Grand Master (Science Fiction Writers of America). Includes major novellas "Tenderfoot in Space" and "Destination Moon," which was made into the famous George Pal film. Tri...

  • Sapphire

    Venita Helton

    Divided By War ... Bound By Passion When New Orleans beauty Arienne Lloyd first gazed into the eyes of the stranger who snatched her from the jaws of the sea, she thought she had died and gone to heaven. At the very sight of this powerfully handso...

  • Lord Dancy's Delight

    Emily Hendrickson

    The Pretty Problem Miss Amelia Longworth posed a pretty problem for handsome, dashing Geoffrey, Lord Dan~ He had made the error of saving her life not once or twice but three times while returning to London to claim his new title. Now Miss Longwor...

  • Jurassic Park: The Junior Novelization

    Gail Herman

    A story about the potential perils of advanced technology chronicles the chaos that ensues when the prehistoric monsters living in a theme park run amok, in the novelization of the popular new film. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Stolen on the River

    Gail Herman

  • Legend of Skull Duggery

    Gail Herman

  • The One-room Schoolhouse

    Jim Heynen

    In more than one hundred perfectly pitched, sometimes perverse, and always surprising stories, Jim Heynen displays his mastery of country wisdom, speech, and behavior as he reveals life in a Midwest where electricity is a magical novelty and cities a...

  • Focus on Crime

    John Buxton Hilton

    When a pastor is caught breaking the Eighth Commandment, he asks that Kenworthy be put in charge. But it's only when the clergyman's corpse is found--and the shop-lifting case becomes a murder case--that the inspector steps in... discovering a chain ...

  • The Darker Saints

    Brian Hodge

    ZOMBI The rain beats down on the hot New Orleans streets… A derelict staggers, no longer a man, but an empty vessel poured full of voodoo… This is the land of lace curtains and Mardi Gras. This is the world of the bayou and sizzling crawfis...

  • Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction

    Naomi Holoch

  • Bug in the Martini Olive

    Patricia Holt

  • Whistle Home

    Natalie Honeycutt