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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1988

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New Books List: 462 titles

  • Anvil of Hell

    Don Pendleton

  • The Barrabas Strike

    Jack Hild

  • Bloodtrail to Mecca

    Nick Carter

  • C.A.D.S.

    John Sievert

  • Death Brigade

    Jack Hawkins

  • Desert Raid

    Steve MacKenzie

    In a deadly world of modern warfare, the art of combat is taken to In a deadly world of modern warfare, the art of combat is taken to its awesome limits. Only one fighting unit has the skill and ruthlessness to handle all this killing power. They're ...

  • Freedom Fight

    Richard Austin

    BORDER BLOOD-STORM! From the nuclear devastation of World War III rose the Guardians. Guerrilla freedom fighters in a United States fallen prey to invading forces. They are the last reminder of what America stood for--and the last hope of what Ame...

  • Heartlanders

    Mark Dixon

  • The Stalker

    Theodore Taylor

    In a chilling tale of revenge and retribution, a father tracks the man responsible for the sexual abuse and murder of his daughter, a criminal protected by diplomatic immunity, family power and influence, and his own crafty ingenuity...

  • Strike Force

    Dick Stivers

  • Tet

    Eric Helm

  • Bird in the Net

    Frank Parrish

    Dan Mallet, the clever and witty thief who lives in a ramshackle cottage in Wessex, England, works to solve the murders of two American visitors and to clear the prime suspect, the wife of a local minister...

  • The Borgia Dagger

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Cat Who Had 14 Tales

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    A courageous Siamese bags a cunning cat burglar...a country kitty proves a stumbling block in a violent murder...and an intuitive feline's premonition helps solve the case of the missing antique dealer....

  • The Clue in the Camera

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY FLIES INTO THE CITY OF THE GOLDEN GATE--AND LANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF AN UNDERWORLD MOB! When award-winning photojournalist Emily Foxworth invites Nancy, George, and Hannah to visit San Francisco, they look forward to a picture-perfect holiday ...

  • The Dead of Winter

    David Poyer

    Combing the woods of rural Pennsylvania in the hopes of finding the man who shot and killed his son in what the police called a hunting accident, Paul Michelson risks his life for the sake of justice. Reissue....

  • Deadline for a Critic

    William X. Kienzle

    "Kienzle's ninth may be hailed as his most complex and finest mystery." -- Publishers Weekly"... good character analysis and a tantalizing story make this one of Kienzle's best." -- Library Journal"As Kienzle addresses serious modern issues, he sto...

  • Extra Credits

    Mike Lupica

  • Murder at the Gardner

    Jane Langton

    TADPOLES IN THE COURTYARD POOL? A MUSTACHE PASTED ON THE VAN DYCK? A MURDER IN THE EARLY ITALIAN ROOM? After a series of seemingly harmless pranks at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the trustees call in ex-detective and Harvard lecturer ...

  • Murder in Writing

    Anna Clarke

    HAVE PEN, WILL MURDER A suspiciously placed patch of moss sends Paula Glenning's mentor Frances Coles tumbling down her garden steps. While Frances recuperates, Paula takes over her teaching duties at the Merle House writing circle. Unfortunately,...

  • Recipe for Murder

    Carolyn Keene

    Murder is brewing at a world-famous cooking school in Chicago where two chefs turn up dead shortly after Nancy Drew and Ned enroll for a course on a bet....

  • Trail of the Dragon

    Susan Kelly

    A MISSING TEACHER SENDS SCANDAL TO SCHOOL Liz Connors can't say exactly why she's gotten herself mixed up in a search for a missing person. But when her former employer Carl DiBenedetto, head of the English Department of a Boston-area college, ask...

  • Seekers in Sneakers

    Sharron Oyer

  • Against All Odds

    Patricia Rosemoor

    ALASKA'S GLACIERS LEFT HER COLD Dagny Havland had come a long way from the harsh rural conditions of her childhood. Her success in business was hard won and she wasn't about to give it up--especially for Thor Lindquist. Thor had tossed aside mo...

  • Ancient Secrets

    Kate Bradley

    UNDER WATCHFUL EYES Ryan McKay always trusted his instincts. This time they told him the woman he'd seen was guilty of smuggling pre-Columbian artifacts out of Mexico to her Arizona art gallery. Trailing her had been fascinating, but to see justic...

  • Blindman's Bluff

    Lass Small

    FIRST IMPRESSIONS Kimberly Miller and Logan Pederson would each get a sizable legacy - but only if they spent two weeks together, with no less than two hours per day alone. There was one small problem: they were perfect strangers. Logan wasn't...

  • Building Dreams

    Justine Valenti

  • Cajun Nights

    Susan Richardson

    Jeannie Kilmartin was dangerous -- and the most desirable woman Elliot Escudier had ever met! When the impetuous travel writer invaded his idyllic Louisiana marshes in search of a story, he knew she spelled trouble... and he was just the man to give...

  • Carousel Waltz

    Julia Searle

    I hope I never see him again! That's what Carolyn told herself after their first encounter; after Amory Grant's bombshell about not renewing the lease on her lace-making store. Then, after weeks of fruitless searching for new premises, ...

  • Catch a Falling Star

    Brooke Hastings

    Kristie Clarke thought she had it all -- a fresh identity and precious summers with Lizzie, the little girl who held the key to her past. She'd be reaching for the moon to expect more. Then Lizzie's adoptive father, cynical Ken Gunnison, ...

  • Caught in a Dream

    Susanne McCarthy

    The reality was--her Baron was no prince Cassy's grandfather indulged in two expensive pastimes--playing "lord cT ,: Manor" and betting the ponies. Both pleasures overreached his means to support them, and now the crunch had come--eviction from hi...

  • The Cinderella Dare

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Sometimes dreams do come true... But with unexpected results. When Mary Ellen Spencer was finally able to fulfill all her hopes and dreams and transform herself and her life, she found that it was not so easy to leave the old self behind. Going fr...

  • Colour the Sky Red

    Annabel Murray

    Her peaceful life was shattered Teale Munro had come bursting into Briony's little Devonshire shop one afternoon. Within minutes he'd accused her of lying, labeled her a redheaded tart, and finally insisted she was the woman who'd sedu...

  • Crazy for You

    Jahnna Beecham

    Piper Elliott has always dreamed of attending the glittering Harlequin Ball. Each summer the ball is held at the exclusive country club where Piper is a waitress, but only the most glamorous people in the resort town of Kittery Cove are invited. This...

  • Firefly in the Night

    Ginger Chambers

    The situation called for drastic measures What danger so threatened Marlie Richards that her own father had her kidnapped, spirited to a safe house miles from her Houston home and watched twenty-four hours a day? Marlie wouldn't know until she...

  • Fool's Gold

    Lynn Erickson

    A CASE OF GOLD FEVER... That's how Cripple Creek residents diagnosed it, and Abby McAlister had it bad. Holding down two full-time jobs to support her twin boys no longer made sense once Abby learned she actually owned a Colorado gold mine! Ty ...

  • Forever Spring

    Joan Hohl

    Now was the winter of discontent for Paul Vanzant. His children were grown, the wife he'd once loved -- but who'd bitterly betrayed him -- was gone. He felt rudderless on a chillingly cold sea... Then he met Karen Mitchell -- a woman in th...

  • Heat Lightning

    Lynda Trent

    Like man primeval, he called himself Adam. But who, Maya fretted, was he really, this Glorious stranger who'd stumbled, badly beaten, out of the night? She'd given him shelter--she was in danger of giving him her heart--but was their lightning-fast l...

  • Hot-Blooded

    Mary Anne Wilson

    A DEBT TO PAY Nick Dantry's life had been saved, but in the process another man's had been lost. First, though, the man had told Nick about a vast treasure hidden deep in the Brazilian rain forest. Nick vowed to find it and use it to help the old ...

  • If You Love Me

    Joan Smith

    'TIS THE SEASON Christmas was supposed to be a happy time. But for Robin Halton, returning home for the holidays--and her brother's wedding--would only conjure up dreams of what might have been. When she'd broken her engagement to Sean Blake three...

  • Intimate Details

    Barbara Boswell

    Wealthy and beautiful Vanessa Ramsey was used to men chasing her, throwing themselves at her feet -- and she'd earned her reputation as a vixen no man could tame. But when her father made Lincoln Scott an offer he couldn't refuse, she was the prize ...

  • Irish Rose

    Nora Roberts

    Burke Logan was a gambler, and luck had made him owner of Three Aces, one of the finest stables in Maryland. He'd come to Ireland to buy horses, but one look at Erin McKinnon's fiery beauty told him that he'd be leaving with a whole lot more. Erin M...

  • An Irresistible Force

    Sandra Kleinschmit

    IN THE LINE OF DUTY Clay Christensen needed an honest partner for his investigation, one who was above temptation. Now he wondered if he'd chosen too well. Kit O'Connell not only seemed able to resist temptation, but she also seemed able to resist...

  • Jed's Sweet Revenge

    Deborah Smith

    When Wyoming cowboy Jed Powers came to claim Sancia Island, he was prepared to evict a squatter--but instead found himself bewitched by a water nymph more beautiful than any wildflower. Thena Sainte-Colbet was an enchanting wildcat, an earth mother w...

  • Kiss Me Again, Sam

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    It had to be jet lag, or some crazy dream; Samuel Garter decided when he discovered adorable Austin Tyler hanging upside down from a huge hole in the ceiling over his bed! But she was deliciously real, an unlikely construction worker with silky aubur...

  • Land of Illusion

    Kay Thorpe

    They were alone in the world The night Ross rescued her, Nicola knew that naivete had caused her abduction. Furthermore, it was self-doubt about her acting ability that had made her accept a nanny position in the middle of a Venezualan jungle in t...

  • Lifeguard Summer

    Jill Jarnow

    Cathy Tolan's first summer as an ocean lifeguard on Fire Island promises to be exciting - if the waves don't knock her off her feet, Jay Matthews will. Warm, easygoing Jay is a senior lifeguard, and Cathy is sure he's the perfect boy for her. But ...

  • Look Homeward, Love

    Pat Warren

    Of all possible partners for a cross-country trucking run, Jake Murphy would've been Kara Finelli's last choice. The man was arrogant, defiant and at least as stubborn as she. Worse, his rugged sexuality could easily distract her from her dreams of h...

  • Love And Lucy Bloom

    Stuart Buchan

    Love, love, love. That's all Lucy heard about these days. She wasn't at all sure what it was, or even if she ever wanted it, now that everything around her had become so weird. Her mother had taken a house in the Hamptons for herself and Lucy, her fa...

  • Love in a Mist

    Sandra Field

    "Cut loose! Have an affair." A disastrous marriage had made Sally reclusive and fearful of men. She knew the advice was right, though -- it was more than time for her to make a new start. So, setting off for a holiday to the island of St. ...

  • Lucky Lady

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    BACK TO SCHOOL When Kelly Mallory's friends needed a favor, they knew they could count on her. But being the "nicest girl on the block" wasn't all it was cracked up to be -- Kelly needed to discover that her feelings mattered, too....

  • The Man of Her Dreams

    Glenda Sands

    KNIGHT IN TARNISHED ARMOR Critics called her "the emerging grand mistress of the sensitive, sensual scene," but for Charity Lovejoy, romantic interludes had always been confined to the pages of her books. She knew how love was supposed to be, and...

  • Master of Bucklands

    Minka Jones

    A chance to begin a new life... That's what coming from Ireland to Australia meant to Laurie Hayes. She could carry on with her training of horses -- work she loved -- with the colts at Bucklands. And it meant escape from the obsessively pe...

  • Momentary Marriage

    Annette Broadrick

    FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE Agent Jordan Trent didn't want to take Lauren Mackenzie along on this risky assignment. What was worse, they had to pretend they were married! Not one to mix business with pleasure, he was surprised to find that the real ch...

  • More Than a Mistress

    Joan Mary Hart

    Lisa had been young and in love-- and totally naive--when irresistible Scott Bradshaw proposed. Otherwise, she might have realized that a hardheaded, self-made millionaire would devote more vigor to amassing his fortune than to building a marriage. D...

  • More Than Words

    Elizabeth Glenn

    He had a way without words. Lee Ann Chung was at her wits end with her hopelessly unruly dog, Doofus, so she enrolled him in obedience school. There she met the star canine, but it was his master who exuded a rare brand of animal magnetism. Keller Hu...

  • The Nesting Instinct

    Corey Keaton

    A housewarming party... for two Megan Sinclair was determined to buy her ancestors' home, enticed by the valuable heirloom she thought was hidden inside. So bidding against a big-city investor--no matter how sexy--proved incredibly frustrating. ...

  • A New Desire

    Leigh Michaels

    He acted as if he were in charge of everything When Whitney Lattimer arrived in Kansas City, she'd already had it with Max Townsend. It was his fault she was dog tired. And who did he think he was, anyway, demanding the immediate presence of a...

  • A Not-So-Perfect Marriage

    Edwina Shore

    Ros knew she was being unreasonable, but her marriage to James had not been a bed of roses. Consequently she saw no reason to let him back into her life on any permanent basis when he appeared not to have changed his attitudes in any way at all! It w...

  • Over the Rainbow

    Sandra Lee

    Right time, wrong place After barely surviving a devastating tornado, Dana Cunningham swore she'd never set foot in Oklahoma again. But twelve years later she was back home, with the courage to face her demons. Or so she thought, until a storm sent ...

  • Playing Games

    Barbara Cummings

  • Pretenses

    Francine Pascal

    Too much mystery ... Cara Walker feels that her boyfriend, Steven Wakefield, isn’t paying enough attention to her. Suddenly he’s acting aloof and withdrawn. Cara’s good friend Jessica, Stevens sister, suggests that Cara add some mystery to the...

  • The Pride of His Life

    Bevlyn Marshall

    From her cameo brooch to her canopy bed, Victoria Langford was primly old-fashioned--hardly wisecracking, macho Serge Zhdanov's type. But a tumble over tangled leashes in Boston's Public Garden led to a startling kiss . . . and an attraction more pot...

  • Raindance

    Kate Proctor

    To save her reputation, she lied to him When Sally Hughes arrived in Africa, the situation at Zambezi Safaris was desperate. Despite her feelings, she knew that until they found the missing man, their main supporter, Paul Morrant, must not know th...

  • Return to Raindance

    Phyllis Halldorson

    UNFINISHED BUSINESS Carol Murphy had made something of Herself in the eight years since she'd left Raindance, Nebraska, in the wake of a scandal that had destroyed her young marriage. And she'd almost convinced herself the past was dead and buried ...

  • Sapphire Lightning

    Fayrene Preston

    She was his cousin's beautiful widow, an enchantress with topaz eyes -- and Linc Sinclair knew instantly she was all he ever wanted. Heat and desire had come up as suddenly as a summer storm, and his turbulent soul demanded he possess Toni Sinclair -...

  • Simple Gifts

    Pamela Browning

    Curtisville, Kansas, is one town in the Heartland It is farming, family and faith. It is the dreams of those rugged settlers who wanted a better life for themselves and for their children. It is a place where night comes slowly and quietly, where ...

  • Sizzle

    Barbara Brett

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    "" A] battle fraught with...the dirtiest of tricks...the stuff that destroys marriages, people, lives.... Sizzle through the summer with Sizzle.""--The Salem News

    It's the glitzy1980s. Fortunes are being made and lost--and made again. Wal...

  • Solitaire

    Lisa Gregory

    Once In A Lifetime She was born Jennifer Taylor in a small Arkansas town. She was blonde, beautiful, and called "poor white I trash" by every man who wanted her. And every man did. But Jennifer was innocent as only a young girl with big dreams ...

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

    Debbie Macomber

    BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Once upon a time there was a beautiful, rebellious New York socialite who wasn't interested in fortune or fame; Judy Lovin valued friendship, integrity and her job as a preschool teacher. Then her father's business collapsed, ...

  • Something Good

    Brenda Trent

    NO PLACE LIKE HOME After a lifetime of drifting, indulging her parents' farfetched schemes and consequent disappointments, Rachel Fentress was ready to settle down to something good, something worthwhile. She craved the security of a promising job...

  • Spirit of Love

    JoAnn Ross

    She was the woman of his dreams As a deputy district attorney, Justine Lamoreaux dealt in facts, not fantasy. So she had little patience for the claims of one Colin Tiernan. They'd never laid eves on each other, but he kept insisting he'd been dre...

  • Stranger at Winterfloods

    Mary Lyons

    What else could she do but take the man home? Surely when a handsome stranger manipulates you into giving him a lift and promptly faints with fever in the front seat of your car, the term "mannapping" hardly applies. Not knowing where he b...

  • Surrender the Dawn

    Jan Mathews

    Policewoman Laura Davis was raped while posing as bait in a sting operation. Federal agent Kyle Patterson felt guilty because he headed that operation. Now, several months later, they're partners in another dangerous undercover maneuver--and even the...

  • The Sweetheart Waltz

    Susan Kalmes

    NORTHERN LIGHTS Alaska was a beautiful place to visit, Alexandra admitted, but she wouldn't want to live there. How could she spend her life in a town where the social event of the season -- The Bachelor's Ball -- culminated in an auction for a chan...

  • There Is a Season

    Cara West

    HER WORST SINS HAD BEEN THOSE OF OMISSION.... Temporary office worker and would-be novelist Kate Hennessey had a creative imagination, especially when it came to men. But, despite bohemian fantasies, her old-fashioned values always won out. It ...

  • This Time Round

    Catherine George

    "I wouldn't intentionally hurt any woman." Leo Seymour's words were meant to be reassuring. But Davina Lennox couldn't help remembering that seven years ago, intentionally or otherwise, he had badly hurt her. She'd been ...

  • To Love a Stranger

    Beverly Bird

    TRAPPED IN A LIE Tyler Cort needed answers. He couldn't understand Samantha Gate's wariness whenever he got close to her, and he'd become determined to learn her secrets. No doubt about it. The woman was hiding something. What Sam couldn't tell...

  • To Love Again

    Carole Mortimer

    Would she always be "the kid next door"? Christi was twenty-two to Lucas's thirty-seven. They had lived in adjacent flats for four years now, and though Christi had been in love with her handsome divorced neighbor ever since they'd...

  • To Love Them All

    Eva Rutland

    What kind of man would want to hire a wife? A man like Stephen Prescott. A successful, driven, man who believed that "this love stuff doesn't last." A globe-trotting bachelor uncle with an orphaned niece and nephew suddenly thrust into...

  • To Tame a Tycoon

    Emma Goldrick

    He excited her...and he scared her Robert Carlton had dropped into Laura Lackland's world -- an island backwater in the West Indies -- by helicopter. He'd charmed her minx of a daughter with bedtime stories. And he'd sent Laura's p...

  • Together Forever

    Francine Pascal

    Newlyweds Jeff and Caitlin find their happiness threatened when Jeff is left paralyzed after a near-fatal accident, and his only hope of recovering lies in the hands of his longtime enemy, Dr. Julian Stokes...

  • Travelin' Man

    Charlotte Hughes

    So what if traveling salesman Brian Anthony was Mr. Body Beautiful with a damnably handsome smile -- Dannie Drysdale wasn't buying! Devastatingly gorgeous, ambitious men weren't her type, she reminded herself -- until Brian's mind-boggling kisses sw...

  • The Trusting Heart

    Carol Gregor

    She wasn't about to be a transitory pleasure Cool, self-reliant Kate Taylor had saved six long years to bring her son to see the African wilderness. Nothing would be allowed to intrude on their dream come true. And that included any advance...

  • Twilight

    Judith Arnold

    Was it love or a bad case of nerves? The way she'd been feeling lately, Susan Duvall couldn't tell. Since the discovery of her boss's unethical business practices, Susan's fast-track career had hit a roadblock and her emotions had been riding a ro...

  • Under Suspicion

    Lucy Hamilton

    HER DREAM COME TRUE WAS BECOMING A NIGHTMARE! Allison Schuyler felt as if she were watching her medical career go up in smoke before it even got going. She had barely started her internship when chief resident Cruz Gallego began accusing her of be...

  • Unwedded Bliss

    Katherine Granger

    RISKY BUSINESS Marc English was dumbfounded. Monica Bliss, the cool, successful lady lawyer, wanted him to father her child? Monica insisted that this relationship be strictly business: she wanted a child, but she was single, and she intended to s...

  • Wanted: Tony Roston

    Emily Hallin

    WHO WAS HE? His picture, gorgeous and smiling, had fallen out of Shelley's battered American literature book. She'd felt and immediate bond with this attractive stranger, but when a classmate found the snapshot propped up on her desk, the rumors sta...

  • A Warm December

    Jacqueline Topaz

    When wealthy executive Dave Anders goes to the vet to pick up his dog, he ends up chasing a monkey and kissing the vet herself! Dr. Merrie McGregor's dazzled by Dave's powerful sensuality but thinks she'll never see him again--until he shows up as Sa...

  • Winter Dreams

    Barbara P. Conklin

    Hearts don't lie... When Anna's family moves to the small, sleepy town of Blue Mountain, she's sure she's in for a lonely, uneventful junior year. Then she meets Michael Cartwright. He's charming, incredibility handsome - and recovering from an ac...

  • Without a Doubt

    Risa Kirk

    WHY WAS EVERYTHING GOING WRONG? Marketing executive Valerie Stafford was frantically racing around Portland International Airport trying to find her visiting niece when she literally ran into the handsomest man she'd ever seen. Mortified, she had ...

  • Divided Treasure

    David Williams

    While investigating complaints of pension fraud reported by workers at a candy factory in North Wales, British banker and amateur sleuth Mark Treasure stumbles onto two corpses and a hidden web of greed and infidelity...

  • Quiller's Run

    Adam Hall

    On a freelance mission in Southeast Asia. Probing the shadowed secrets of a devastating arms deal. Stalking a beautiful smuggler who seduces, then kills, any man who crosses her. Especially a man who knows too much. Like Quillen.....

  • Aesop's Fables: A Pull-the-Tab Pop-Up Book

    Claire Littlejohn

  • After the Fact

    Fred Saberhagen

    ASSASSINATION PLOT Once again Fred Saberhagen's remarkable new series character, Pilgrim, is at the center of strange and mysterious affairs. When last heard from, the Flying Dutchman of Spacetime was busy robbing the Pyramids so that he might fue...

  • Come Endless Darkness

    Gary Gygax

  • Elf Defense

    Esther Friesner

    When the King of Elfhame discovers that his mortal wife, Amanda Taylor, and their son, Prince Cassiodoron are hiding in Godwin's Corners, Connecticut, he is determined to use his magic to make them return...

  • Fang, the Gnome

    Michael Greatrex Coney

    THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE EARTH HAD THREE MOONS, and when the seductive sorceress Avalona could alter futures and bend "happentracks" with her spells. Indeed, in this vast chaotic universe called The Greataway, with its many imaginable futures, anyt...

  • Hex Witch of Seldom

    Nancy Springer

    This contemporary fantasy by award-winning author Nancy Springer sweeps readers along on a girl’s journey of enlightenment and transformation Raised in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania by her grandpap, Bobbi Lee Yandro has been seeing things...

  • Invitation to Camelot

    Parke Godwin

    You are cordially invited to a wondrous world of magic and adventure. Enter an enchanted kingdom where swords clash in blazing fury, ancient wizards cast astonishing spells, and valiant knights make battle with dragons to protect a lady fair. So, co...

  • King of the Murgos

    David Eddings

    BEGINNING OF THE QUEST The infant son of Garion and Ce'Nedra had been foully kidnapped. Now they began the great quest to rescue the child, with the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer, his daughter Polgara the Sorceress, and inevitably the little Dra...

  • Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty

    Avram Davidson

    In thirteenth-century China the Polo brothers--Marco, Niccolo, and Maffeo--request permission from Kublai Khan to return to Venice, but the aging ruler requires that they first bring him a legendary immortal princess...

  • My Big Book of Fairy Tales

    Simon & Schuster

  • Paradox Planet

    Steven Spruill

    Kane and Pendrake: Space Detectives... Elias Kane: ex-member of the Space Navy, gambler, private eye, he's the consummate - though unwilling - hero to billions of citizens on dozens of worlds. Now Briana, the new Imperator, sends him on a dangerous m...

  • The Questing Hero

    Hugh Cook

    Young Togura confronts exotic women, brawny pirates, quarrelsome dragons, and the crusty old Wizard of Drum on his quest for the index to the rediscovered odex of ore, a magical disc filled with the riches and knowledge of bygone civilizations...

  • Shadow of His Wings

    Bruce Chandler Fergusson

  • Taltos

    Steven Brust

    JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE DEAD. ALL EXPENSES PAID! Not my idea of an ideal vacation, but this was work. After all, even an assassin has to earn a living. The trouble is, everyone knows that a living human cannot walk the Paths of the Dead, an...

  • Tower to the Sky

    Phillip C. Jennings

  • 76 Hours: The Invasion of Tarawa

    Eric Hammel

  • Acts of Faith

    Hans Koning

    Haunted by his refusal to help a Basque nationalist years before, former journalist turned New York librarian John Balthasar stumbles upon a connection between Spanish exiles in New York and Cubans in Florida, the FBI, and a conspiracy involving nucl...

  • Alice Artist

    Martin Waddell

  • Alice Meets the White Rabbit

    Teddy Slater

  • All the King's Men

    William Mayne

  • Always and Forever Friends

    C.S. Adler

  • Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner

    Amy Schwartz

  • Apalachian

    Jack Kelly

  • Apple Tree

    Peter Parnall

  • The Ark Sakura

    Kobo Abe

    A classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication.

    In this Kafkaesque allegorical fantasy, Mole has converted a huge und...

  • Assignment: Or on the Observing of the Observer of Observers

    Friedrich Durrenmatt

    When F. accepts the assignment to investigate the alleged rape and murder of Otto von Lambert's wife, she becomes entangled in a world of mistaken identity, terrorism, political intrigue, and espionage...

  • At the Cafe Splendid

    Terry Denton

  • The Avenue, Clayton City

    Eric C. Lincoln

    The Avenue in C. Eric Lincoln’s fictional town is the principal residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars. Unpaved and marked by ditches full of frogs, snakes, and...

  • The Baby Blue Cat who Said No

    Ainslie Pryor

    Unwilling to follow the examples of his three siblings, Baby Blue Cat refuses his fish sandwich supper and fusses about going to bed like the rest of his well-ordered family, in a tale that is ideal for toddlers at the same stage. Reissue. Storytime ...

  • Bagthorpes Haunted

    Helen Cresswell

  • The Beginner's Book of Dreams

    Elizabeth Benedict

    Eight-year-old Esme Singer embarks on a ten-year search for inner truth, as she accepts--then rejects--the self-deluding role models of her alcoholic mother and an absent father who dreams of getting rich...

  • Better Than a Brother

    Edith S. McCall

  • Bohannon's Book

    Joseph Hansen

  • Borrowed Children

    George Ella Lyon

    Golden Kite Award winner1989 Booklist, Editor's Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher's Weekly , Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to ...

  • Bossyboots

    David Cox

  • Canal Zone Conquest

    Mark K. Roberts

  • Capers in My Kirk

    Angus MacVicar

  • Captains of the Sands

    Jorge Amado

    A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of BahiaA Penguin ClassicsThey call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the to...

  • Cecile

    Janine Boissard

    In the final installment of the adventures of the Moreau family, eighteen-year-old Cecile, youngest of the four sisters, still displays her irreverence and rebellion but begins to experience the unfairness and turmoil of life and love...

  • Center of Attention

    Francine Pascal

  • Century of the Wind

    Eduardo Galeano

    From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to the Age of Reagan, here is "nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere... recounted in vivid prose."-The New Yorker

    A unique and ep...

  • Chasing Shadows

    Louisa Dawkins

    The upper-class English family of Henry and Barbara Drayton begins an inevitable disintegration when their school-age son is discovered to be having an affair with his governess and their daughter, Joanna, comes of age as she travels the world lookin...

  • Clap Your Hands

    Sarah M. Hayes

  • Cold New Dawn

    Ian St. James

    Overlong, conventional novelizing about post-WW II Britain. Cold New Dawn starts engagingly, telling us about the grade-school days of Keir Milford and Dusty Miller--two likable chaps who consort like little colonels at school, with Dusty as the ace ...

  • Collected Stories of William Humphrey

    William Humphrey

    The essential anthology of early short fiction by an American master Set primarily in Texas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression, these extraordinary stories display the unique blend of irony, nostalgia, and sharp-edged lyricism that established ...

  • Colors

    Kirk Mitchell

  • Cookies Week

    Cindy Ward

  • The Courier

    Gerald Cole

  • The Crack in the Cosmic Egg

    Joseph Chilton Pearce

    With a new preface by the author. This enormously popular New Age classic, beautifully written and intellectually challenging, has inspired and guided millions of readers to develop new, creative, inventive modes of thinking....

  • Crampton Hodnett

    Barbara Pym

    Life has a certain reassuring if not terribly exciting rhythm for the residents of North Oxford. Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster companion to Miss Doggett, even if her employer and the woman’s social circle regard her as a piece ...

  • Daniel O'Rourke

    Gerald McDermott

  • Darkest Hour

    William P. McGivern

  • Death Ride

    Paul Hofrichter

  • Deliverance at Los Banos

    Arthur Anthony

  • Derelict

    Robert L. Hovorka Jr.

    Five survivors of the ill-fated spaceliner "Goddess," led by Ensign Pamela Dubois, discover a derelict ship controlled by a predatory cybernetic entity--and in their fear Dubois's companions decide to sacrifice her to the alien...

  • Disney Babies First Words

    Golden Books

  • The Doll Hospital

    Peter Menegas

  • Dukakis

    Charles Kenney

  • Earthrace

    Tom Keene

  • Eddie Black

    Walter Shapiro

  • The Enigma of Arrival

    V.S. Naipaul

    The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. • "Naipaul's finest work." -- Chicago Tri...

  • Even That Moose Won't Listen to Me!

    Martha G. Alexander

  • Fly on the Wheel

    Katherine C. Thurston

  • The Forbidden Territory

    Dennis Wheatley

    Dennis Wheatley's first published novel, introducing his modern trinity of musketeers in the epicurean Duke de Richleau, financier Simon Aron, and the wealthy young American, Rex Van Ryn.

    The Duke receives a coded message from his miss...

  • The Four Conditions

    Gary W. Campbell

  • The Four Hoods and Great Dog

    Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

    A move to the country introduces Steven and June Hood to the kitten Foudini and the largest dog anybody has ever seen, two talking animals who are preparing a return visit to the world from which they originally came and decide to take the children w...

  • The Fox Hunt

    Sven Nordqvist

  • Friends, Russians, and Countrymen

    Hampton Howard

    The United States intelligence agents who are portrayed in ''Friends, Russians, and Countrymen'' are too eccentric, too literate and too wisecracking actually to work for the American Government, but this is the only unpersuasive element in an otherw...

  • Goodbye Tomorrow

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

    A high school junior who has received two blood transfusions finds out he has the AIDS virus, though not the disease, and finds all his relationships changing--with his friends, his girlfriend, and even his family...

  • Grandma's Promise

    Elaine Moore

  • The Great Escape

    Philippe Dupasquier

  • Great Escape

    Simon Farrell

  • Great-Uncle Felix

    Denys Cazet

  • The Green Dark

    Marie Ponsot

  • The Green Lion of Zion Street

    Julia Fields

  • Hanna's Hog

    Jim Aylesworth

  • Happy Father's Day

    Steven Kroll

  • Hello, Goodbye

    David Lloyd

  • House in Clewe Street

    Mary Lavin

    This absorbing family saga, first published in 1945, reveals the poignancies of an Irish Catholic upbringing, and is a testimony to Mary Lavin's considerable power as a storyteller. Theodore Coniffe, austere property owner in Castlerampart, looks for...

  • Housekeepers Dog

    Jerry Smath

  • Houses of Ivory: Stories

    Hart Wegner

    This compilation of stories brings to life the culture and society in a region of Eastern Europe devastated by World War II, where Poles, Austrians, and Ukranians must adjust to overwhelming loss, new, harsh reality, and a bleak future...

  • How Spider Saved Easter

    Robert Kraus

  • Hunger for Horror

    Robert Adams

  • Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

    Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm

  • In Shadowland

    Mitsumasa Anno

  • In the Woods

    Ermanno Cristini

  • Incentives

    Clare Nonhebel

  • It's George!

    Miriam Cohen

  • Iva Dunnit and the Big Wind

    Carol Purdy

  • Jennifer's Rabbit

    Tom Paxton

  • Jocelyn

    Gloria Chisholm

  • John L. Byrne's Fear Book

    John Byrne

  • Johnny Castleseed

    Edward Ormondroyd

  • Journeys

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Just a Little Bit Lost

    Laurel Trivelpiece

  • King of the Birds

    Shirley Climo

  • Kristy and the Snobs

    Ann M. Martin

    Kristy's mom got married again last summer and now Kristy and her family live in a new neighborhood. The kids there aren't very friendly. In fact, they're...well, snobs. They criticize Kristy's clothes. They make fun of the Baby-sitters Club. And wor...

  • Labels

    Harold Carlton

    A behind-the-scenes glimpse of the glamorous, high-stakes world of fashion follows the lives and fortunes of three different women--the sensuous Mackenzie Gold; the refined Mia Stanton; and the unscrupulous Coral Stanton--as they pursue their dreams...

  • The Last Waltz in Santiago: And Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance

    Ariel Dorfman

  • Lazarus

    Alain Absire

    After being raised from the dead, Lazarus, separated by a haze from the rest of the world and unable to experience the physical sensations of existence, journeys to Jerusalem in an attempt to find Jesus the carpenter...

  • The Lion and the Jackal

    W.T. Tyler

    Political blunders and diplomatic hipocrisy lead to a bloody confrontation between Ethiopia and the African nation of Jubba, where jaded American diplomat Logan Talbot witnesses the folly of a third-world power-play between the U.S. and the Soviet Un...

  • Little People's Mother Goose

    Barbara Lucas

  • Long Blue Blazer

    Jeanne Willis

  • Love in the Time of Cholera

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the y...

  • Lullabies and Baby Songs

    Jannat Messenger

  • A Major Deception

    Linda Amey