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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1993

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New Books List: 496 titles

  • Zeus and Co.

    David Lee Jones

    LOVE, MYTH MEGABYTES The trouble all started when California surfer and computer programmer Cyrus Major came across a mysterious file called Euterpe--only to discover it contained the honest-to-Greek-god Muse of lyric poetry imprisoned on a hard-d...

  • You Need a Bath, Mustard

    Paul Dowling

  • You Must Kiss a Whale

    David Skinner

    Left alone to babysit, thirteen-year-old Evelyn discovers papers in the attic that make up an unfinished story written by her father about a boy named Kevin and a letter that tells him: You must kiss a whale. Jr Lib Guild. First serial, Seventeen....

  • Yankee Wife

    Linda Lael Miller

    AFTER ALL, WHEN A SPITFIRE HEROINE AND A PROUDLY STUBBORN MAN DISAGREE ABOUT EVERYTHING BUT DESIRE, SPARKS MUST TURN TO FLAMES... Lydia McQuire's courage had never wavered during the bloodiest days of the Civil War. A year later, the pretty former...

  • The Wrong Door

    Mary Balogh
    in

    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 ...

  • The Wrangler and the Rich Girl

    Joan Johnston

    A DEBUTANTE IN A HAYSTACK Was she crazy? Garth Whitelaw didn't have time to hold Candy Baylor's hand and drag her around his ranch, and why on earth would the rich Texas debutante want to train horses, anyway? But she sure looked sexy in tight, wo...

  • A Wound in the Eye

    Dan H. McLachlan

  • 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...

  • Words Of My Roaring

    Ernest Finney

  • The Women of Liberty Creek

    Marilyn Cunningham

  • The Wizard's Tide

    Frederick Buechner

  • The Wizard of Oz

    M.J. Carr

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • A Winter's Rose

    Erica Spindler

    Rugged Jackson Reese had a heartful of scars to prove you shouldn't trust a society princess. So his troubled daughter's latest 'sitter' was worse than merely a thorn in his side - pampered, privileged Bentley Cunningham was the whole damn rose...com...

  • Winter in the Heart

    David Poyer

    W. T. Halvorsen is a scapegoat for the crimes of the rich and the mighty. Now, he must convince a judge and jury that organized crime and a corrupt corporation are threatening the lives of his entire community. His only friends outside the court a...

  • 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...

  • Windows on a Lost World

    V.E. Mitchell

    Windows On A Lost World While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the Starship Enterpriseâ"¢ explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows.But the mysterio...

  • William's Ninth Life

    Minna Jung

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • White Queen

    Gwyneth Jones

    In the year 2038, the earth has been ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Retroviruses run rampant through humanity. Economic disaster has destabilised the world, the US has undergone a socialist revolution, and the balance of power has cha...

  • The White Path

    Robert J. Conley

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • White Heather

    Karen Lockwood
    in

    Lord Glencannon returned to the Highlands to propose to a young lass he'd never forgotten. What he found was a lady-bethrothed to another......

  • The Whistling Wraith

    Kenneth Robeson

  • Whistle Home

    Natalie Honeycutt

  • Where or When

    Anita Shreve

    From the award-winning, bestselling author Anita Shreve, comes a haunting, passionate novel of lost and found love What would you do if, out of the blue, you received a letter from your first love? Sian Richards sees no reason why she can't write ba...

  • 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...

  • When It's Right

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Live the Fantasy... Once upon a time, a handsome prince wanted a wife--a beautiful princess he could live with happily ever after. But there were so marry princesses to choose from that he devised a test.... Author Alexandra Bennett was having a b...

  • What Emily Wants

    Fayrene Preston

    JAY -- A CHARISMATIC MYSTERY MAN WHO'D PAY ANYTHING TO UNCOVER HER SECRETS... If felt a little like making a deal with the devil, but Jay Barrett only wanted ten days of her company, not her body or her soul -- and Emily Stanton needed the money ...

  • What Do We Do Now, George?

    Helen McCann

  • Wet Work

    Philip Nutman

  • The Werewolf's Touch

    Cheri Scotch

    A TAINTED BLOODLINE Andrew Marley knew the dark secret that tormented his family for generations. It had cursed his grandfather, killed his father, drove his mother to madness. Now, newly sworn into priesthood, Andrew must face the evil within -- ...

  • 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...

  • Web of Loving Lies

    Barbara Leigh

    Broken Dreams Uprooted from New Orleans because of her sister's impropriety, Beth Ann Cadwalder found the Nebraska frontier much more to her liking, thanks to the attention of Indian scout James Thomas. But how could she convince the handsome Vir...

  • Wave Dancer Is Missing

    M.J. Carr

  • Watch the House

    Susanne Santoro Whayne

  • 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....

  • A Warrior's Quest

    Margaret Moore

    Impossible Desire Saucy as a tavern wench, Fritha Kendrick wore the mantle of her nobility lightly, eschewing courtly ways to tend to the practical needs of the local villagers. And Urien Fitzroy damned himself for wanting her. For the seasoned wa...

  • War Breaker

    Jim DeFelice

  • Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Walt Disney

  • Velvet

    Alec Kalla

    Kill Shot. Hank Eston, a man who pretty much minds his own business and expects the same of other's manages his uncle's sprawling cattle ranch in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. When a call from an old girlfriend, Sue Fenton, draws him into a w...

  • 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...

  • Unveiled

    Colleen Quinn

    IN ONE MAGIC MOMENT, LOVE UNMASKS A HEART IN DISGUISE... Katie O'Connor... Desperate and penniless, she was mistaken for the long-lost niece of the richest woman in Cape May. Masquerading as Fan Pemberton, she found herself adored by many. But Kat...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Ultimate Dinosaur

    Byron Preiss

  • Twin Oaks

    Anne Logan

    Adrienne Hamilton knew Twin Oaks Country Club needed a miracle to survive - and his name was Dillon Reynolds, the gorgeous, headstrong son of the owner. Now, in addition to copings with her own teenage daughter, an irresponsible ex-husband and a matc...

  • Twelfth Night

    Flora Speer
    in

    A medieval lord discovers that all things are possible during the Yuletide when a lady like none he has known before mysteriously appears at his castle to warm his lonely heart....

  • The Trouble With Jared

    Kay Hooper

    JARED - Mysterious, Savage, a Fierce Lover Who Made Her Tremble and Yearn,,, Years before, Jared Chavalier had been obsessed by her innocence, desperate to possess the beautiful young gemologist--but his forcing Danica Gray to choose between her c...

  • Triple Whammy

    Teryl Euvremer

  • 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...

  • Track to Bralgu

    B. Wongar

  • 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...

  • Touch the Dawn

    Chelley Kitzmiller

    BY LOVE UNMASKED Anyone who met beautiful young Heller Peyton could see she was a perfect lady, a picture of exquisite taste and flawless manners. No one would guess she was a daughter of shame, raised in the sordid slums of New York and come to S...

  • 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...

  • To Love Again

    Bertrice Small

    A NOBLEWOMAN IN EARLY BRITAIN, A SLAVE IN EXOTIC BYZANTIUM, SHE WOULD ALWAYS BE A MAGNIFICENT CREATURE OF LOVE AND DESTINY...Britain AD453, Beautiful, headstrong, and defiant, Cailin Drusus possesses the strength and pride of her Celtic-born mother, ...

  • To Live & Die in Dixie

    Kathy Hogan Trocheck

    BLOOD STAINS Callahan Garrity, housedeaner de luxe and occasional private investigator, has no idea what kind of mess she's getting herself into when she agrees to work for a prominent antiques dealer. During her days on the Atlanta police force, ...

  • To Kill the Leopard

    Theodore Taylor

    Aboard the oil tanker SS Galveston, American merchant mariner Sully Jordan has joined the dash across the North Atlantic to a besieged Great Britain. Beneath the surface of those same chill waters Kapitanleutnant Horst Kammerer prowls with U-122 -- ...

  • Tiny Mermaid's Hide and Seek Adventure

    Donald Smith

  • Tinker vs. Des Moines

    Doreen Rappaport

    Using edited transcripts of testimony, recreates the trial of John Tinker and two other students who were suspended from school for protesting the Vietnam War, and invites the reader to act as judge and jury...

  • Thirteen Going on Seven

    Marilyn Sachs

    When her twin sister begins to assert her individuality and her grandmother suddenly dies, thirteen-year-old Dezzey finds some comfort in her relationships with her grandfather and a new friend and in an interest in the environment....

  • Then Came You

    Lisa Kleypas

    A woman with a secret . . . Reckless beauty Lily Lawson delights in shocking London society. She will break any rule to get what she wants . . . and she is determined to stop her younger sister from marrying Alex, Lord Wolverton, a handsome and ar...

  • Test of Wills

    James Raven

  • A Temporary Affair

    Kate Proctor

    Just because modern-day man doesn't go around clubbing women over the head and dragging them off to his lair doesn't alter the fact that the fundamental instinct of every male is to chase the female. Max Bradley was pure male all right and on...

  • Telling Only Lies

    Jessica Mann

    An accidental remark on a television programme lands novelist Anne Medlicott in a potentially damaging libel suit. The programme is about Nazi sympathisers in England during the last war, and the other two guests are a distinguished exile from Ger...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tagged for Terror (Ring of Evil #1)

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Sword and the Lion

    Roberta Cray

  • 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...

  • Super Mario Brothers

    Todd Strasser

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sunburn

    R.L. Stine

    You could get burned... The perfect suntan. Soaking up the rays. Fun on the beach. That's what Claudia Walker had in mind when she accepted her friend Marla's invitation to spend the weekend at her Cliffside beach house. Little did she know that h...

  • Summer's Promise

    Todd Strasser

  • The Summer Noisy Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Summer Dreams

    Jean Anne Caldwell
    in

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

  • 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...

  • Striper Assassin

    Nyx Smith

    PREY FOR THE HUNTER For the world of humans knows her as Striper, the deadly Asian assassin and kick-artist. She has come to the City of Brotherly Love seeking revenge and made it her killing ground. But she is not the only predator stalking the d...

  • Stranger Who Lived in a Merry-Go-Round

    Ruth Silvestre

  • The Stranger from Nowhere

    Jim Miller

    Jim Miller, author of numerous books, including The Old Timers, The Long Guns, and the Ex-Rangers series, presents The Stranger from Nowhere about former Texas Rangers and their thrilling dealings on the rugged plains.The Stranger From Nowhere is aut...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Stradbroke Dreamtime

    Oodgeroo Nunukul

    Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Nunukul) spent her childhood with her family on Stradbroke Island, off the Queensland coast. The first half of this book, 'Stories from Stradbroke', describes episodes from her childhood days - some happy, some sad - and gives a...

  • Stony Man VII

    Don Pendleton

    A state-of-the-art mission control unit operating with cutting-edge electronic and surveillance equipment in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Stony Man's hellfire warriors -- Mack Bolan, Able Team and Phoenix Force -- comprise an ultrasecret, s...

  • Stone Boy

    Ronald Levitsky

    Saul True Sky loves his homeland in the Black Hills country of South Dakota. He will do almost anything to protect the sacred ancestral burial ground that lies on his property. His son, Will, shares none of his father's passion for tradition. A greed...

  • Stolen on the River

    Gail Herman

  • 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...

  • Still More Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs

    Q.L. Pearce

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Star-Spangled Bride

    Iris Johansen

    GABE -- A Larger-Than-Life Hero Who'd Always Be Her Light in the Darkness... The last thing Gabe Falkner expected was to be rescued by a golden-haired angel, but photojournalist Ronnie Dalton would dare anything to free the man who'd save...

  • Stacey's Big Crush

    Ann M. Martin

    Need a baby-sitter? Save time! Call The Baby-Sitters Club and reach seven experienced baby-sitters. Stacey's in Iuv again! Wes looks like a movie star, he's a genius, and he has the most perfect smile in the world. (Or so Stacey thinks.) There's onl...

  • A Springtime Affaire

    Jeanne Savery
    in

    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 Spirit of Things to Come

    Vivian Knight-Jenkins
    in

    For a spinster kindergarten teacher who loses her heart to a Colonial blacksmith, Christmas Day brings the timeless gift of love and unexpected miracles....

  • Spidertown

    Abraham Rodriguez

    A vivid and provocative portrait of life in the South Bronx focuses on the difficult choice that Miguel faces between his life as a drug runner and the possibilities of his relationship with Cristalena. A first novel. Reprint. Tour....

  • Spider-Man: Carnage

    David Michelinie

  • Speaking Out

    Susan Kuklin

    In a series of candid interviews, teenagers from a New York City high school discuss racial and sexual identity, stereotypes, how they view others of different ethnic backgrounds and sexual preferences, and ways to overcome personal differences....

  • South of Paradise

    Marcia Martin

    VALERIE, VERONICA, VICTORIA ...THREE NAMES FOR ONE WOMAN WITH A SCANDALOUS SECRET The first time he saw her, Richard Adams was intrigued by her striking beauty and grace. Then, like a thief in the night, she disappeared...with her employer's Merc...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Something Borrowed

    Linda Varner

    Whirlwind courtship Brooke Brady landed in Emerald City, Texas, planning to start a new life. Instead, she seemed to have borrowed someone else's--namely Dorothy's from The Wizard of Oz! First a twister whisked away her car. Then she was rescued b...

  • 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,...

  • Snowfire

    Anne Mather

    Where there's smoke... Running into Conor Brennan after eleven years produced a disturbing uneasiness Olivia couldn't quite understand. She'd always played doting aunt to the son of her closest friend. But now the boy had grown into a ...

  • Six Deadly Lies

    Peter Nelson

  • Sing, Little Sack!

    Nina Jaffe

    A wicked little man kidnaps young Marisol and makes her sing from inside his saquito. This tricks his audience into thinking the bag itself sings. But when Marisol's mother hears the familiar song, she knows at last where her little ni±a has gone. T...

  • Simply Irresistible

    Miranda Lee

    Ross Everton was the sexiest single guy the Outback had to offer! The most eligible man at the annual Bachelors' and Spinsters' Ball, the handsome rancher knew WHO he wanted -- and he wanted her NOW! Vivien Roberts thought she was a stree...

  • Simon Says

    John Peel

  • Silver Fury

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo discovers a web of hellish evil lurking under the surface of a dreary, sleepy town called Serenity, and the Trailsman finds himself stripped of his weapons and held in a trap set by an iron-fisted local. Original....

  • 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 ...

  • 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-...

  • Shiva's Challenge

    J.H. Brennan

  • The Ship's Clock

    Catherine M. Rae

    In nineteenth-century New York City, the five Ferguson children battle with their troubled, demanding father, and only after his death do they discover the haunting secret behind his bitter demeanor. By the author of Afterward. ...

  • 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....

  • Shadows

    Osvaldo Soriano

    In a comical tale of modern angst, a washed-up computer expert is forced to walk to the next train station when his train breaks down, and along the way, he meets an eclectic assortment of odd characters....

  • Sequoyah's Gift; A Portrait of the Cherokee Leader

    Janet Klausner

  • 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...

  • Seeing Red

    Ilene Cooper

  • Seduced

    Carla Simpson

    1870s San Francisco was a place of soaring promise and seductive temptation. For Boston beauty Allison Caufield, it was also a city of secrets. This was where private detective Will McKendrick had lived - the father she'd never known. And this wa...

  • Secret Woman

    Lynn Knight

    Among the distinguished writers featured in this superb collection of classic short stories are Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Elizabeth Taylor, Rebecca West, Antonia White, and Edith Wharton. Variously audacious, lyrical, and piquant, thei...

  • The Secret Lost at Sea

    Carolyn Keene

    When someone targets the seaport museum in Bridgehaven, Connecticut, destroying centuries-old nautical relics, Nancy takes times from her vacation to track down the vandal....

  • Secondhand Husband

    Dallas Schulze

    STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET Laura Halloran was going nowhere fast; hustling drinks in an L.A. dive seemed more a life sentence than a life. But the night Conner Fox escorted her home from a barroom brawl, everything was suddenly different. For this tal...

  • Seashore Noisy Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Satan's Contract

    Susanne McCarthy

    "Your daughter can pay the debt for you in my bed . " There was nothing Pippa could do to stop her parents from bartering with Shaun Morgan--using Pippa as the price. Shaun held all the aces: he'd inherited the family fortune, and Pippa's father w...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Runaway Clown

    Lois Walfrid Johnson

    The circus Big Top was coming with the most daring act ever performed…and a lot of trouble! Kate, Anders, and Erick had been the first to see the huge colorful poster that boldly proclaimed that the circus was coming to River Falls, Wisconsin. ...

  • The Runaway Bride

    Lynn Kerstan
    in

    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....

  • 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...

  • Rumpelstiltskin: A Deal Is a Deal

    Alvin Granowsky

  • Rumpelstiltskin

    Hilda Offen

  • Rough Edges

    Pat Pritchard

    Tall, Dark, And Dangerous Tessa North moved to Seattle with one thing in mind: the welfare of her thirteen-year-old nephew, Kris. His mother was dead, and his father was in Australia, working on a project that would take months. With his father on...

  • Romance on the Menu

    Tracy Sinclair

    Noelle Bartlett would go to any lengths to help her best friend--even pose as an aerobics instructor at an exclusive health spa. The Carefree Dunes resort might cater to the idle rich, but Noelle knew it was also a cover for an unsavory business--bla...

  • The Roller Birds of Rampur

    Indi Rana

  • Rhymin' Simon and the Mystery of the Fake Snake

    Bill Apablasa

  • Reversible Error

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp, his tough-as-nails lover and colleague, Marlene Ciampi, and three maverick cops track a serial rapist and a ruthless killer through the streets of New York City. Reissue....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Ren and Stimpy: Pick of the Litter

    Dan Slott

    The popular Nickelodeon cartoon characters star in all-new adventures, featuring the giant Ren-Bot fighting Stimpzilla, Ren and Stimpy getting fixed on Valentine's Day, and other original plots. Original....

  • 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 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....

  • Reckless

    Susan Sackett

    ARTFUL MINX The daughter of one of the most talented -- and reluctant -- art forgers in Paris, Delia Hampton had inherited more than a little of her father's ability. But she'd never really used it...until now. Her skill with a palette would help...

  • Rebellion

    William H. Keith Jr.

    The second volume in an action-packed military sf series. Devis Cameron, hero of the Xenophobe War and the Empire's reluctant champion, has been called upon to eliminate a newly discovered underground colony of Xenos . . . and to deal harshly with ci...

  • Rats on the Range & Other Stories

    James Marshall

    The reader meets a rat family that vacations at a dude ranch, a pig who takes lessons in table manners, a mouse who keeps house for a tomcat, and a buzzard who leaves his money to the Society for Stray Cats--or does he?...

  • Raphael: Big Trouble in Chinatown

    Stephen Murphy

  • Ransom My Heart

    Linda Windsor
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    Lady Jocelyn's betrothed had been held captive in the Holy Land for ten long years, and only by allowing herself to be kidnapped would she finally be able to join him. But the handsome rogue who spirited her away had no intention of reuniting her wit...

  • The Quiraing List

    Julian Jay Savarin

    Gordon Gallagher, an ex-RAF pilot and former intelligence agent, is drawn back into the espionage game when KGB and GRU agents mark him for death, convinced that he possesses a list of its members. By the author of Naja. Original....

  • The Pugilist at Rest

    Thom Jones

    Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Mirabella, Story, Buzz, and in The New Yorker twice more. "The Pugilist at Rest" - the title story from this stunning collectio...

  • Psychic Sisters

    Francine Pascal

    Extrasensory perception . . .



    Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are so different, it's sometimes hard to believe they're twin until the day they discover that they can read each other's minds!  When their friends hear about the twins'...

  • Prophet

    Mike Resnick

    Her name is Penelope Bailey, a young woman of normal appearance. Yet during her brief, turbulent life she has been known first as the Soothsayer, then the Oracle, and still later the Prophet. She looks like none of the three, nor indeed like anything...

  • A Promise of Thunder

    Connie Mason

    LAND RUSH Storm Kennedy couldn't believe her bad luck! With six million fertile acres open to settlers in the Oklahoma Territory, she lost her claim to the Sioux she held responsible for her young husband's death. And the only way Storm co...

  • Pride and Promises

    BJ James

    A TRIP TO REMEMBER Antonia Russell. To Ross McLachlan she was nothing but a glamour girl, a woman afraid to break a nail or muss her hair. True, she was a talented, beautiful actress, and there was a glimmer of something special in her eyes. But h...

  • The Price You Pay

    Barbara Summers

    When a prestigious cosmetics company in New York City prepares to launch a daring new ad campaign with a Black model, the search involves more than finding the right girl. Once found, she's got to stay alive. So far, of the many called and the few ch...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Precinct Command

    Christopher Newman

    Even cynical New York City is rocked by the brutal murder of Congresswoman Cora Davis. An outspoken advocate of warning labels on rock music, she is censored forever when she's bludgeoned and strangled in a Manhattan hotel room. Lt. Joe Dante's prime...

  • Powers That Be

    Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    Second Chance Strange things were happening on the icy planet called Petaybee. Unauthorized genetically engineered species had been spotted. Geologic survey teams sent to locate newly detected mineral deposits were either coming up empty-or disapp...

  • 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...

  • Pordy's Prickly Problem

    Janette Oke

    More than anything, Pordy wanted a friend. But she was too shy to try making friends. She didn't want to be teased or rejected. Only in her daydreams as heroine of the forest did the other animal creatures befriend a spiny porcupine.

    Learning t...

  • The Porcelain Dove

    Delia Sherman

    Berthe Duvet, chambermaid to a French duchess, narrates this tale of eighteenth-century Paris, describing the dazzling world of Marie Antoinette, Beaumarchais, and the Marquis de Sade, already living in the shadow of the guillotine. 35,000 first prin...

  • Pool Party

    Gary Soto

    Rudy Herrera is surprised and excited when he gets an invitation to a pool party. It's from Tiffany Perez, the richest and most popular girl in school. Rudy's grandmother, "El Shorty," thinks he is going off to shoot pool. His sister, Estela,...

  • Pleading Guilty

    Scott Turow

    Returning to the locale of Kindle County, Turow gives us Mack Malloy, ex-cop, not-quite-ex-drunk, and partner-on-the-wane in one of the country's most high-powered law firms. A longtime ally of the wayward, Mack is on the trail of a colleague, his fi...

  • Playing with Cobras

    Craig Thomas

    New York Timesâ€"Bestselling Author: “Top-notch . . . Brisk action, gripping suspense and a cynical look at international politics.†-- Publishers Weekly   Just as a high-level politician is on the verge of becoming India’s...

  • Players

    Richard Edwards

  • Pigs in Heaven

    Barbara Kingsolver

    A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees.

    ...

  • Picture Perfect Romance

    J.B. Cooper

  • Phoenix Caged

    John-Allen Price

  • The Pharaoh's Kiss

    Stephanie Howard

    Dislike. Distaste. Disapproval. Those were Harriet's first reactions to Dexter Ross. He represented the kind of man she knew meant danger, the kind of man she'd learned -- the hard way -- to stay away from. But he was her boss. And Harriet...

  • Personal Challenge

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Persistence Pays

    Kristal Ryan

    Hot Item! Katie O'Brien was baffled by the job offer. The newspaper needed a photojournalist, but she was a portrait photographer, specializing in babies and weddings. Then she learned that the photographer would team up with reporter Lenn Domina,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Overload

    Linda Howard
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    Blackout! The entire Southeast was without power ~ but there was still more than enough electricity between Elizabeth Major and Tom Quinlan! They were stranded together in a Dallas high rise for the duration ~ and setting off enough sparks to light u...

  • Othello

    William Shakespeare

    Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. In this edition of Othel...

  • Opening moves

    Srilala Sukla

  • 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...

  • One Small Fish

    Joanne Ryder

  • One Man's Vow

    Diana Whitney

    Family ties A single father with a houseful of boys, Judd Tanner didn't know much about raising his orphaned goddaughter. But he preferred to fumble with Tillie's braids and bows rather than ask Leslie McVay for help. Women, he knew, were experts ...

  • Once Upon a Crime

    Dawn Stewardson

    ONCE UPON A CRIME... . . . a long, long time ago, Abby Northberry and Ryan Vaughn were teenagers in love. And then someone robbed her father's jewelry store. Even after Ryan was arrested, Abby couldn't believe she'd been so wrong about her handsom...

  • On Our Way to the Water!

    Harriet Ziefert

  • On Our Way to the Forest!

    Harriet Ziefert

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Object Lesson

    Jordan Orlando

    When his former friend, Douglas Taft, is hospitalized under mysterious circumstances, Michael Cadenhead tries to find out why and stumbles into a puzzle involving Taft's aloof and enigmatic fashion model sister....

  • Numbers Game

    Graham Perry

    Don't waste a minute. Get in on the biggest puzzle craze in the country. People all over the country are already sharing this game with each other via E-Mail, faxes, and computer networks. The Numbers Game is a compendium of 300 of these fun-filled p...

  • 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...

  • Nobody's Fool

    Richard Russo

    This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York -- and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years -- is a classic American story.

    Divorc...

  • No Escape

    Madge Harrah

  • Nightmare Island

    Jim Razzi

  • A Night to Remember

    Francine Pascal

    After tonight, nothing will ever be the same in Sweet Valley . . . Identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield have worked together to create the most perfect prom Sweet Valley has ever seen--but when a jealous conflict turns deadly, the twins...

  • Night Manager

    John Le Carre

    Enter the new world of espionage, where the skills forged by generations of spies during the darkest days of the Cold War are put to even more terrifying use. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to un...

  • Negrophobia

    Darius James

    A scathing satire on racism introduces white teen Bubbles Brasil and her crazed, drug-affected idea of African-American culture, as she wanders through a grotesque nightmare world meeting such figures as the cosmic Sambo and the Licorice Men. Reprint...

  • 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...

  • My Lord Tyrant

    Margaret Summerville

    The Perfect Enemy Lord Alexander Moncrief, the sixth Earl of Glencairn, stood for everything that Miss Athena Blair was against. Athena was passionately opposed to aristocratic titles and extravagant wealth, and Moncrief not only possessed bu...

  • Murder Once Removed

    Kathleen Kunz

    FAMILY SECRETS TO DIE FOR Terry Girard returns from a weekend of research to find her adored aunt Cecile dead--a victim, apparently, of suicide. But Terry is convinced CeCe was murdered. She and her aunt were partners in an expensive genealogy ...