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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1992

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New Books List: 527 titles

  • Call to Battle

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY -- WOULD JOHN ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE... ? Once vital and proud, America has been reduced to a toxic wasteland in the aftermath of World War III. Buried in the poison ruins of nuclear attack, its spirit all b...

  • Confirmed Kill

    Mike Morris

  • Forgotten Days

    Kate Mueller

  • Speedball

    D.A. Hodgman

  • Storm Warning

    Don Pendleton

    DESERT RUMBLES America has destroyed the Iraqi war machine in the Mideast. Now It's payback time: Terrorist atrocities against the US. have citizens paralyzed with fear. Mack Bolan and Phoenix Force are dispatched to the Persian Gulf, while Able T...

  • Storming Iraq

    Greg Walker

    Bo Thornton must take on another of the dirtiest jobs on earth when he is commissioned to stop the ruthless Iraqi colonel who instigated the invasion of Kuwait and who is now crushing a Kurd rebellion. Original....

  • Swamp Kill

    James Pruitt

  • Tour De France

    James Becket

  • White Rhino

    Bill Dolan

    In the valley, vicious Equinox Women perform deadly mating rituals with captive men. In a cave, an ancient man longs for the return of the mystical White Rhino, and in a prison, a killer who wants Creighton's blood escapes. Before AfriKorps can sprea...

  • As the Sparks Fly Upward

    Gloria Dank

    Bernard Woodruff should have known better than to expect anything but disaster from a visit to his wife’s indolent but good-natured brother, Snooky.  In a cabin in the Vermont woods, the irrepressible Snooky rhapsodizes about the simple pleasu...

  • Body English

    Linda Mariz

    SHE HAD THE COLLEGE DEGREE Laura Ireland was a bright young anthropology grad student who'd come to Washington State to pursue her championship game of volleyball--a tall, all American beauty with a clean slate and a bright future. NOW SHE'LL G...

  • Catnap

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    "Catnap features two of the most lovable characters you'd ever want to meet: public relations expert Temple Barr, a petite redhead with a high heel shoe fetish; and the irrepressible Midnight Louie. When these two kneel nose to nose over a dead body ...

  • The Famous D A R Murder Mystery

    Graham Landrum

    The search for the grave of a Revolutionary War soldier takes a bizarre turn when four members of the Old Orchard Fort chapter stumble on a modern-day corpse. Though the sheriff dismisses the body as a transient battered in a drunken brawl, one of th...

  • Friends and Rivals

    Carolyn Keene

  • Happy Are the Merciful

    Andrew M. Greeley

    The prosecutor who sent Clare Turner to jail for murdering her adoptive parents begins to doubt the conviction and confesses to Bishop "Blackie" Ryan, who must find the real killer before he becomes the next victim. Original....

  • I.O.U.

    Nancy Pickard

    Winner of the Agatha Award and finalist for the Edgar Award.Jenny explores her own family’s unsettling, mysterious past, beginning with her mother’s death in the seventh book in the award-winning Jenny Cain mystery series that was called “excel...

  • Murder MacHree

    Eleanor Boylan

    "Clara Gamadge is a detective in the honorable tradition of Hercule Poirot....Boylan's writing is crisp and intelligent, her heroine endearing."
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    When Clara Gamadge's friend Armand Evers predicts his own death, he's right on ta...

  • Running Scared

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy’s friend George is set to run in a Chicago marathon alongside some of the country’s best female athletes. But when a top runner receives a series of death threats, Nancy races to stop a would-be murderer from crossing the finish line first....

  • Show Stopper

    Mary Monica Pulver

    BLUE RIBBON, BLACK HEART A horse show sets the pace for excitement when Kori Brichter's Arabian beauties place second in dressage. But excitement turns to terror when a trainer is murdered. It was no secret that Keith Bulward was a cruel and bruta...

  • Sir Gibbie

    George MacDonald

    The acclaimed tale of a mute orphan with an angel’s heart. “The most direct and most beautiful of all George MacDonald’s novels.” -- Greville MacDonald, author of George MacDonald and His Wife   One of the true high marks in George MacDo...

  • Almost Perfect

    Linda Joy Singleton

    Self-conscious about her permanent limp, Serena Waller is flattered when handsome, popular Sonny Sinclair asks her out, but as her feelings for Sonny grow, she begins to suspect he is dating her out of pity. Original....

  • Ariana's Magic

    Judy Kaye

    "LEAH LOVE MARC" Ariana Adams was leaving love notes all over the house. She wanted Marc, her "handsome stuffed shirt" of an older brother, and Leah Brock, her spirited irrepressible nanny, to fall in love. Which wasn't difficu...

  • As Sweet As Candy

    Linda Varner

    BACHELOR BABY-SITTER Ben Ryder figured that spending a week caring for his cute little niece, Candy, would be easy as pie. Boy, was he wrong! Instant fatherhood became instant panic when the adorable toddler locked herself in the car and promptly ...

  • Baby Mine

    Erica Spindler

    Maggie Ryan Adler was going to be a mother tomorrow. And all she'd carried for the past nine months was sadness over her separation from the husband she still loved. Unable to have a child, Maggie had finally convinced the man who'd never wanted chil...

  • Better Than Before

    Judith Duncan

    FAMILY SECRETS... Years ago, an adolescent crush and an unplanned pregnancy sent Carlie straight into the arms of Derek Pearson, the steady schoolmate who'd always loved her. Forgiving, dependable, it was Derek who picked up the pieces of her ...

  • Branded

    Linda Warren

    TANNER-His Bad-Boy Grin Tempted Her to Ride Off into the Sunset with Him .... He'd never touched her, never tasted her fire or pressed his lips to her honey hair when shed been another man's wife. But Tanner Danielson had wanted Julie Fielding fr...

  • Broken Wings

    Doreen Roberts

    COMMAND AND CONTROL... Freedom. That was what Commander Ward Sullivan of the Blue Angels Flight Team sought with each takeoff into the wild blue yonder. Freedom from the memory of Sarah and the haunting accusations of her family. A hero. Tha...

  • Call Back Our Yesterdays

    Phyllis Houseman

    LAURA'S WORLD As a boy, Miguel O'Brian had tried to fit in with the Pueblo people on the New Mexico reservation. The jet black hair and coppery skin he'd inherited from his mother marked him as one of their own, but the green eyes and the tall fra...

  • Call Me Sin

    Jan Hudson

    ROSS--He Was Rough, Rugged, and Rowdy Enough to Drive a Woman Wild .... He was drop-dead handsome, a desperado whose gaze made her dream of steamy nights, but Susan Sinclair never expected a real-life hunk to move in next door! Texas Ranger Ross ...

  • The Case of the Mesmerizing Boss

    Diana Palmer

    MR. MARCH Name: Dane Lassiter Description: A private eyeful at home... and on the range. Secret Sorrow: A family is forever denied to him. Current Focus: Tess Meriwether, gentle, vulnerable -- and targeted for danger. He had been a Texas...

  • Cast Adrift

    Donna Carlisle

    SWEPT AWAY... Tall, lean, overbearing Jess Seward wasn't exactly scientist Kelsey Morgan's fantasy in the flesh. But Kelsey had sacrificed a lot for two weeks at sea to complete her dolphin research. And she wasn't about to let any las...

  • Chance Encounter

    Molly Rice

    Carl set up a camera in her bedroom Then he proceeded to turn Joanna Keller's peaceful life upside down. Suddenly she was sharing her home with a man who carried a gun and was not afraid to use it. FBI agent Carl Donay was determined to catch t...

  • Charity's Angel

    Dallas Schulze

    THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS ... Charity Williams had been on mercy dates before. But when Gabriel London showed up at her bedside each day after the accident he'd caused, she got the feeling this one was different. Gabe had appointed himself her perso...

  • Dangerous Company

    Kay Gregory

    Would he ever leave? Circumstances had forced Emily Rogers to let Aaron Silverstone spend a night in her home, but that was as far as her hospitality went. She really couldn't allow him to stay any longer, even if the arrangement was above re...

  • Dark & Dangerous

    Marsha Canham

    Torn between desire and duty Assistant DA Megan Worth knew her Justice Department-paid vacation had too many strings attached -- specifically identifying Michael Vallaincourt, casino manager. She recognized him immediately. Michael had been her firs...

  • A Date With Destiny

    Miranda Lee

    A neighborly affair? Salome was still reeling from the heartbreak and anger of the sudden ending of her marriage. She hadn't accepted anything from her former husband except an apartment that had become her only refuge. Until neighbor Mike Ang...

  • Distant Shadows

    Alison York

    Will past wrongs destroy their love? Although Fay Danby had worked hard to establish her small interior decorating business, was crumbling before her eyes. And then the attractive Richard Ellerby crashed into her life--offering an important restor...

  • Dominic

    Lass Small

    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE With his old-world values and passionate nature, Dominic Lorenzo had built a fortune by keeping three things constant: work, family and pride. He had thrown over convention only once, in the untraditional way he'd obtained cust...

  • Echoes

    Nancy Morse

    FULL CIRCLE In the past decade, Catherine Coleman had found herself in many roles: rebellious teenager, society bride, rich man's daughter, and now penniless celebrity. With her marriage over and her fortune gone, Catherine had no choice but to re...

  • Fair Winds

    Helen Carras

    SUMMER ENCHANTMENT Eve Marsdon's friends thought she'd gone crazy. First they couldn't believe a schoolteacher from suburban Maryland had the grit to spend a summer in New York City studying sculpture. Then Eve announced that she'd been unable to ...

  • The First Wives Club

    Olivia Goldsmith

    Elise, Brenda, and Annie were all first wives. A movie star and heiress, Elise had connections that paved the way for her lawyer husband. Brenda's "Family" business launched her husband's home-entertainment empire. And good-girl Annie sustained her s...

  • Flannery's Rainbow

    Julie Kistler

    WHO WAS SLEEPING IN HER BED? Nothing could shock Flannery O'Shea--or so she thought. So when she returned home from a trip and found a naked, gorgeous, sexy man sleeping in her bed--she could only stare, openmouthed. Was the luck of the Irish fina...

  • For Love and Duty

    Maisie Mosco

    When her mother dies tragically, Bella Minsky must give up her dream to attend Oxford in order to attend to her younger brother and sister, and she takes over the family clothing store, transforming it into an international business. Original....

  • For Love or Power

    Rosalie Henaghan

    "I gave up on love a long time ago." Cameron's expression was bleak and embittered. "Don't ask for love, Catriona." His warning came too late. Not that she'd wanted to fall for him. After all, they'd been at war ...

  • The Golden Mask

    Robyn Donald

    She wasn't a child anymore! Eden knew little of life beyond her family's New Zealand sheep station. She realized exactly how little when Blade Hammond returned to Onemahutu. Five years had only enhanced his golden looks and rugged physique...

  • Honey, I'm Home

    Rena McKay

    MORGAN'S BACK ... AND SARA DOESN'T WANT HIM! Sara McKenzie had finally gotten her life together. The once carefree girl had become a woman who knew what she wanted--and how to get it. Sara had a nice apartment, a successful business and the perfec...

  • In the Market

    Day Leclaire

    There's only one thing a Thorsen does better than fighting ... "And that's winning!" Or so Rainer Thorsen claimed, flashing his ruthless I-always-get-what-I- want smile. And what Rainer wanted this time was her Uncle Cletus's p...

  • Intimate Strangers

    Alexandra Thorne

    THEY WERE DESTINED TO MEET, AND FATED TO FALL IN LOVE.... At thirty-two Jade Howard was facing a world of shattered dreams: once a bestselling novelist with all of Hollywood at her feet, she was now the critics' favorite target. And all she wanted...

  • Keep My Heart Forever

    Katherine Arthur

    From their first encounter Gale launched an offensive Maggie and Galen had been childhood friends. But when Maggie returned home to West Virginia, Galen treated her as his sworn enemy. Was it her success as a model, or her relationship with mi...

  • Keeper of the Light

    Diane Chamberlain

    THREE PEOPLE, ONE OBSESSION Christmas night on North Carolina's Outer Banks --a gunshot victim is brought into the emergency room where Dr. Olivia Simon is on duty. Midway through surgery, Olivia learns that the person whose heart she literally ho...

  • Knight and Day

    Carole Buck

    NO LAUGHING MATTER As a counselor at a center for abused children, Donna Day knew what secrets could do to a person -- and comedian Martin Knight was chock-full of secrets. Strong, sexy and blessed with a sense of humor that could make the saddest...

  • Love and a Blue-Eyed Cowboy

    Sandra Chastain

    HUNTER -- He Was Dangerously Sexy, His Eyes Full of Sinful Promises... He was bruised, broke, and brash enough to think he could win the top prize in the motorcycle scavenger hunt, but Hunter Kincaid hadn't counted on a smart-mouthed half-pint...

  • Love Lessons

    Sandra Lee

    He had a lot to learn! When hotshot TV reporter Ricardo de la Cruz got a lead on a controversial new holistic teaching method, he knew he had the elements for a scathing expose. Ready to condemn, he came to examine Angela Stuart's classroom. But n...

  • Loving Arms of the Law

    Mary Curtis

    From the moment he set eyes on Carol Jeffries, lawyer Steven Arnold was knocked off his feet -- literally. She was a regular Calamity Jane, and all her escapades somehow directly involved him. They were complete opposites, but he was drawn to the bea...

  • A Magnificent Affair

    Fayrene Preston

    MAX -- He Was the Best Kind of Kisser: a Man Who Took His Time -- and Took Her Breath Away He was a man who'd chosen not to be tied down to any one place or woman, but when Ashley Whitfield crashed her car into the garden of his seaside inn, M...

  • Man from Cougar Pass

    Barbara McCauley

    SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST Dependable businesswoman Cassandra Phillips couldn't believe she was out in the middle of nowhere slinking around an honest-to-goodness log cabin in search of her reckless runaway sister. And unfortunately she had to ask se...

  • Marriage of Inconvenience

    Debbie Macomber

    Rich Manning had known Jamie Warren forever. And he loved her--strictly as a friend. But all that changed the day Jamie asked him to be the father of her as-yet-unconceived child! Rich agreed on one condition: they marry. Suddenly, Rich was discov...

  • A Matter of Compromise

    Judith Yoder

    HE WAS TOO HOT TO TOUCH . . . ... in more ways than one. Susan O'Toole knew that Tony Brandon was off-limits. He was born into high society with all its trappings--and she was from the wrong side of the tracks. But the high-powered Washingto...

  • Moon Over Mombasa

    Wynne May

    Ceil Downing had always been determined, but this time she'd gone against her family's wishes. Despite their concerns, she'd gone off to Kenya to live in the house her great-aunt had left her. It was a bit isolated, but that didn't de...

  • Morning Has Broken

    Lynda Ward

    Clay McMurphy looked dangerous From the moment he stumbled, dazed and bleeding from a motorcycle accident, into her elegant restaurant, Christine Dryden knew her well-ordered life would never be the same. Clay's rough, leather-clad exterior held a...

  • Mr. Perfect

    Doris Parmett

    CHASE--He Could Charm a Lady's Socks Off-- and Then All the Rest... He was a confirmed bachelor with a taste for leggy blondes, so why did Chase Rayburn feel wildly jealous that Sloan MacKay would be dating guys who saw her personal ail bn a billb...

  • Naturally Loving

    Catherine Spencer

    An ill-timed attraction Emotions were running high the day Nina Sommers finally met her fifteen-year-old daughter--especially with a high-handed adoptive father telling her how to deal with her own child. Especially since Hugh Cavendish was the mo...

  • Navajo Wedding

    Suzanne Carey

    A BRIDAL PRICE Lara Stone's stepfather was in trouble, and the only person who could possibly help was his illegitimate son, Zack Silverheels. Lara knew Jack had never overcome the pain of being scorned by the man who refused to acknowledge him as...

  • Old School Ties

    Leigh Michaels

    However the cookie crumbles... The closing of the school in Archer's Junction had been a blow to the fiercely proud neighborhood. Now the abandoned building was a disgrace and cookie-store proprietor Heather DeMarco was determined to do someth...

  • Once Bitten, Twice Shy

    Robyn Donald

    Beauty and the beast Fashion model Simone Atkinson had her reasons for being afraid of men whose guarded expressions hid private demons. Which is why all alarms went off when Angus Grey began his pursuit. He'd obviously convinced himself he kn...

  • One Man's War

    Lindsay McKenna

    It was Vietnam, 1965, but the rockets' red glare wasn't hot enough for brazen, challenge-hungry pilot Pete Mallory. He fanned the heat by wagering he could seduce his C.O.'s sister and flyaway unscathed. But no-nonsense Tess Ramsey zeroed in on his s...

  • Operation Homefront

    Marilyn Pappano

    MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? At last Libby Harper had made a home for herself and her seven-year-old son, Justin. After years of moving around, they were finally going to stay in one place--except Justin didn't seem to be adjusting to his new life too well...

  • The Passions of Chelsea Kane

    Barbara Delinsky

    A WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR HER PAST After the death of her adoptive mother, Chelsea Kane is a woman consumed by a need to discover her natural heritage. She arrives in the New Hampshire town where she was born, aching for answers. It is while she is loo...

  • Pete's Dragon

    Lindsay Longford

    WHERE THERE'S SMOKE Little Petey Randall had already learned that life wasn't like the fairy tales his mommy told him. He knew his dad wasn't around much anymore, and sometimes Mommy looked so sad. Thank goodness for his new friend, the dragon, wh...

  • Philly and the Playboy

    Linda Turner

    FINDING MR. WRONG To pretty, caring Philadelphia O'Neil, playboy politician Morgan Stewart II got by on his good looks and good genes. So she decided to make sure his actions spoke as loud as his words by challenging him to a dare: if Morgan would...

  • Private Pleasures

    JoAnn Ross

    SHE TURNED HER BACK ON LOVE FOR THE PROMISE OF WEALTH AND SUCCESS... UNTIL A DARK SECRET FROM HER PAST UNLOCKED A PASSION TOO POWERFUL TO DENY JADE The girl from the wrong side of the tracks in Gallagher City, Oklahoma who grew into a breath...

  • Reluctant Hostage

    Margaret Mayo

    "Perhaps I ought to warn you that I make a formidable enemy." Not that Elizabeth Eaton needed warning! It hadn't taken her long to realize that Warwick Hunter wasn't the sort of man who was easily crossed. He believed that Libby...

  • A Roman Marriage

    Stephanie Howard

    Sometimes history repeats itself.... When Leah Blain was nineteen, she met handsome Vincenzo Petruzzi, and he swept her off her feet. Unfortunately, their marriage was a disaster from the start, and she left him--vowing never to return to him or t...

  • Roses After Rain

    Louann Gaeddert

    SHE' HAD EVERYTHING SHE WANTED...SO WHT WAS SHE SO RESTLESS? Meg -- a rising star at a high-powered New York law firm, she has a terrific career as an attorney, and a gorgeous, successful fiance. What more could she ask for? Rick -- he wants ...

  • Secrets

    Katharine Marlowe

    Struggling to recover from the trauma of her husband's death, Emma Bellamy was shaken anew when her friends and family began receiving vicious letters signed by her--letters that she swore she hadn't written--letters that revealed horrible truths abo...

  • The Stolen Diary

    Francine Pascal

    Will lies destroy Elizabeth's life? Todd Wilkins has decided that he and Elizabeth Wakefield should start dating other people. At her twin sister Jessica's urging, Elizabeth accepts a date with handsome Kris Lynch, a cartoonist for The Oracle. After...

  • Storky Jones Is Back in Town

    Anne Peters

    PISCES MAN Aviator David Waterman got the shock of his life when he was "bought" at a charity bachelor auction by childhood nemesis Storky Jones. David couldn't believe the gawky teenager he had teased had become the tall, elegant woman before him...

  • Stormy Voyage

    Sally Wentworth

    Tempest at sea Bad luck, dire circumstances and a hearty desire to save her skin left Zara no choice but to stow away on board the Spirit of the Wind. With immense relief, she escaped the Arabic port of Oran. Then she met the ship's captain, T...

  • Suspicion's Gate

    Justine Davis

    BADDER THAN BEFORE Years ago, teenage Nikki Lockwood had been the only one in town to see past Travis Halloran's bad-boy leather jacket and tough talk -- until she'd seen just HOW bad he was. He'd carelessly caused her father's death, then lied a...

  • Taken By Storm

    Tami Hoag

    STORM -- He Was All Muscle, All Heart -- and All Hers His smoky drawl made her think of rumpled sheets and long, deep kisses that lasted half the night, but Julia McCarver was furious when Storm Dalton threw her over his shoulder and vowed he ...

  • Till the End of Time

    June Flaum Singer

    Today, her name is Andrianna DeArte. Gorgeous and seductive, she runs only with the ultrarich, is seen only at the pleasure capitals of the world. They would all be shocked to learn that there is no Andrianna DeArte... only a woman haunted by a deadl...

  • The Time of Her Life

    Marjorie Eatock

    Evelyn Cass's old friends whispered about her behind her back; they felt sorry for poor Evelyn -- alone at fifty-five, having to sell her house and go to work! So brave! Funny though, how all of a sudden she was looking ten years younger... -- ...

  • To Love Again

    Marian Oaks

    Empty Nest...Empty Heart... That seemed to be Libby's agenda for the rest of her life. She filled her days with work, kept her house sparkling and her garden blooming, and learned to do alone all the things she and Jim had done together. Yet at n...

  • Troubleshooter

    Diana Hamilton

    No terms for a truce Wealthy businessman Tolly Devenko had made Imogen an offer she couldn't refuse -- a high-level job with his prestigious chain of department stores. The gossip-hungry press quickly jumped to the wrong conclusions about thei...

  • Trust Me

    Judith Arnold

    PROCEED WITH CAUTION Will Turner was reputed to be man at his finest. But Chloe Verona's experience with blind dates was bad luck at its worst. Would tonight be any different? It was -- when calamity capped the evening. Will eagerly offered...

  • Tune in Tomorrow

    Laura Michaels

    ONCE MORE WITH FEELING As a Washington, D.C. Correspondent, Liz Sherwood had made her mark. And she was looking at a plum promotion -- a job anchoring the nightly news for one of the major networks -- when her life began to fall apart. Always one...

  • Two Sets of Footprints

    Pamela Toth

    Sage Edwards was a man with a plan--convince Carly Golden to hire him on at The Rolling Gold and then cut out as soon as he had money in his pocket. The first task was easy. With a ranch that was falling down and a dearth of good men, Carly needed hi...

  • Two to Tango

    Kristina Logan

    ONE STEP FORWARD TWO STEPS BACK. . . Nicholas Hunter may have been a successful entrepreneur, but he had two left feet, and to his dismay, they were getting in the way of his latest merger. His Argentinian contact insisted Nick learn the tango--or...

  • Under Her Influence

    Kelly Street

    The lady and the lawman Sheriff Mitch Connor believed in rules -- professionally and personally. Which meant never getting involved with beautiful Tish d'Angeli. But from the moment he pulled her over for speeding, the sexy package of trouble ...

  • Under Sunny Skies

    Pat Warren

    Handsome, decorated fly-boy Blake Hanley had the world by the tail ... until a fiery crash broke his body, shattered his dreams and left him feeling half a man. A bitter, wounded lion, he wanted only to escape prying eyes and useless sympathy. But...

  • Vagabond Hearts

    Bobby Hutchinson

    Paradise ... Billy Reece and her mother-in-law were delighted to win a trip to Hawaii. After their husbands were killed in an accident, neither woman had ever expected to see much sunshine again. And they certainly never thought that a mix-up in the...

  • Walking on Air

    Casey Roberts

    He'd fallen from grace For Jason Brock, it was a long fall: from running an entire network to working at a small station in Arizona. But when he met producer Kate Gregory, Jason began to think that maybe he'd be able to pick up the pieces of his s...

  • Whirlwind

    Nancy Martin

    WELCOME TO TYLER. AMERICA'S FAVORITE HOMETOWN A town filled with memorable friends and unforgettable lovers. Share the passions, the hopes and dreams of America's favorite small town. WHERE ROMANCE BLOOMS When lively, brash Liza Baron arrive...

  • Death by the Light of the Moon

    Joan Hess

    No wonder my late unlamented husband never talked about his happy childhood. He didn't have one. This revelation strikes Claire Malloy the instant she meets her passel of venomous Malloy in-laws. Claire is invited down to their decaying Louisiana est...

  • Coyote Bird

    Jim DeFelice

    THE COLD WAR IS OVER. BUT NOW, A THREAT FAR MORE CHILLING WAITS OVER THE HORIZON. In Washington, D.C., the president is worried. Two of America's frontline spy planes have disappeared. In Tokyo, an aggressive, secretly remilitarized Japan is plot...

  • Quiller Solitaire

    Adam Hall

    Quiller''s survival skills have never been so crucial as in this eerily prophetic mission torn from today''s headlines. Standing over the smoldering corpse of the agent he had sworn to protect, Quiller vows to make things right. The killer''s trail l...

  • The Elf Queen of Shannara

    Terry Brooks

    The End of a Quest "Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren. It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. "There was not...

  • Beauty

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought provoking and finely crafted novel that thoroughly involves the reader in the life of one of the most captivating heroines in modem fantasy -- Beauty. On ...

  • The Bones of Haven

    Simon R. Green

    Haven is an old city, but still growing, with new houses built on the bones of the old. Down below the surface, the remains of older structures stir in their sleep--and dream dark thoughts of the way things used to be. These are the graves of the dea...

  • Born to Run

    Mercedes Lackey; Larry Dixon

    There are elves out there. And more are coming. But even elves need money to survive in the "real" world. The good elves, intrigued by the thrills of stock car racing, are manufacturing new, light-weight engines (with, incidentally, very little "c...

  • Catamount

    Michael Peak

  • The Chalchiuhite Dragon

    Kenneth Morris

  • Child of the Light

    Janet Berliner

    This remarkable book follows the lives of three friends, Solomon Freund, a Jew, Erich Wiesser, his Catholic neighbor and brother in blood, and Miriam Rathenau, whom both boys love, and who happens to be niece of Germany's foreign minister Walther Rat...

  • Crisis on Doona

    Anne McCaffrey; Jody Lynn Nye

    As a twenty-five year contract--arranging the cohabitation of the planet Doona between humans and the cat-like Hrrubans--comes up for renewal, an unknown entity works to sabotage the heretofore successful alliance. Original....

  • Crusade

    David Weber; Steve White

    In the middle of hard-won, uneasy peace between the humans and the cat-like Orions, a mysterious space ship appears. Sucked out of the warp point everyone avoids for its Bermuda Triangle-like magnetic pull, the ship responds to the Orion patrol&rsquo...

  • The False Mirror

    Alan Dean Foster

    For millennia, the alien union called the Weave had ben at war with evil Amplitur. When its new elite fighting unit appeared, it became frighteningly clear that Amplitur was subjecting humans to vile genetic manipulations. The Weave could reverse the...

  • Flying Dutch

    Tom Holt

    Think Life's Too Much? Try Flying Dutch! Life can get a bit tiresome after, oh, 400 years or so...Just ask Dutch sea captain Vanderdecker and his crew. They've been circling the globe ever since the immortality elixir they mistook for a beer chase...

  • The Hunter Victorious

    Rose Estes

    HUNTER AT BAY Once he was chieftain of a stone age land ... then a captive battling monsters on planet Arena. Now Braldt the Hunter, his woman Keri, and his kinsman from Earth are trapped on Valhalla, a doomed world of shapeshifters and science...

  • Hunting the Ghost Dancer

    A.A. Attanasio

    In order to be accepted into a new tribe, Timov and Hamr, two survivors of a doomed people, must hunt the savage ghost dancer, a vicious Neanderthal that has been terrorizing the tribe. By the author of Radix and Wyvern. Reprint....

  • The Jewel of Fire

    Diana L. Paxson

    With all but one of the four jewels of the Power recovered, Prince Julian, claimant and true heir to the throne of Westria, must summon his strength to retrieve the final jewel and save the kingdom. Original....

  • The Master of White Storm

    Janny Wurts

    GALLEY SLAVE, MERCENARY, MASTER OF WHITE STORM -- His past a mystery even to Haldeth, fellow galley slave and the one man he'd allow to name him friend. Korendir had sworn that the future would give him the wealth to build an unbreachable citade...

  • The Meri

    Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

    Witness to her parent's murder, Meredydd-a-Lagan is taken in by a teacher of the Divine Art and eventually apprenticed to the Meri--a bridge to the Spirit of the Universe--but she never forgets her vow of vengeance. Original....

  • Nightseer

    Laurell K. Hamilton

    SORCERER, HERB-WITCH, PROPHET, ENCHANTER...DEMON-TOUCHED Keleios the Half-Elf was but five years old when she saw her mother murdered by the evil witch Harque. For years she has asked the gods for the strength she'll need to avenge this foul death...

  • Rehearsal for a Renaissance

    Douglas W. Clark

    Traveling to Venice with the hopes of bringing some of the Englightenment back to his backward town of Pomme de Terre, Corwyn stumbles upon a terrible plot to sink the city of Venice into the sea. Original....

  • Spell of Fate

    Mayer Alan Brenner

    The author of Spell of Catastrophe and Spell of Intrigue delivers “a winner . . . An off-the-wall kind of fantasy” in the third Dance of Gods adventure (Interzone).   Trouble is converging on the imperial city of Peridol, and ...

  • The Stone of Time

    Rose Estes

    Swordsman Caltus Talienson, sorceress Bith, Hathor the troll, and the elf Endril band together to battle the forces of the Dark Lord of Mistwall, an evil force that has so far decimated the defenders of the Westwoods. Original....

  • The Tall Book of Make-Believe

    Jane Werner

  • Abeng

    Michelle Cliff

    Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere is her power felt...

  • Acts of Faith

    Erich Segal

    They met as children, innocents from two different worlds.  And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined. Timothy : Abandoned at birth, he finds a home--and a dazzling career--within the Catholic Church.  But...

  • Ah!

    Josse Goffin

    A collection of thirty-six full-color illustrations presents twelve works of art from the Louvre, Muse+a7e d'Orsay, and the Picasso Museum in large-format fold-out form, providing a visually stimulating introduction to the world of art. All ages....

  • Amelia's Fantastic Flight

    Rose Bursik

    In love with airplanes, Amelia builds one of her own and takes off on an adventure-filled flight around the globe, where she observes a baby sloth in Brazil, the pyramids of Egypt, a panda in China, and much more....

  • Anastasia Morningstar

    Hazel Hutchins

  • Andrew Wants a Dog

    Steven Kroll

  • Animal Stew

    Shen Roddie

    Once in the caldron, the animals in Eva the Enormous Giant's stew eat one another, until finally only Bear is left. Too much pepper makes him sneeze, and everyone escapes, leaving Eva with only pepper soup. A lift-the-flap book with large, simple art...

  • The Animal that Drank Up Sound

    William Stafford

  • Any Kind of Dog

    Lynn Reiser

  • Ariel above the Sea: Walt Disney's the Little Mermaid

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • At the Zoo

    Douglas Florian

  • Baby Animals: Five Stories of Endangered Species

    Derek Hall

  • Bambi: Peek-A-Boo

    Denise Lewis Patrick

  • Barbara Frietchie

    John Greenleaf Whittier

  • Barnaby and the Big Gorilla

    Alain Leonard

  • Basic Instinct

    Richard Osborne

    Nick Curran, a San Francisco detective, investigates the murder of a rock star, and finds himself becoming obsessed with Catherine Tramell, a beautiful, bisexual novelist, and the prime suspect in a series of ice pick murders...

  • Batter Up!

    Neil Johnson

  • Battlecry Forever!

    Joanna Campbell

    Certain that Battlecry, the unmanageable thoroughbred at her parents' stable, would behave himself under her tutelage, fifteen-year-old Leslie D'Andrea is delighted when her parents give her a chance to prove Battlecry's worth....

  • Bay of All Saints and Every Conceivable Sin

    Ana Miranda

    Ecclesiastical poet Gregorio+a7 de Matos deplores the corruption and hypocrisy he witnesses when an investigation into the assassination of a controversial political figure divides the already fragile government of seventeenth-century Brazil. 25,000 ...

  • Bea's 4 Bears

    Martha Weston

  • Beastie

    Georgess McHargue

  • Beaver Boys

    Bonnie Pryor

  • The Best Bug to Be

    Dolores Johnson

  • Best Wishes Whoever You Are

    Deirdre Corey

  • Beware of Boys

    Tony Blundell

  • Big Sarah's Little Boots

    Paulette Bourgeois

  • Bigfoot and Other Legendary Creatures

    Paul Robert Walker

    Stories about seven mysterious creatures from Big Foot to the Loch Ness monster keep readers guessing about their existence, and are each followed by a factual account of the current scientific research and speculation about the creatures....

  • Blood Confessions

    Al DiBartolomeo

    As a favor to his brother Frank, Vincent Vespers agrees to help the dying Don Carmine Tucci pen his memoirs and suddenly he becomes trapped in a deathly struggle for control of the don's empire. Reprint....

  • Blood Red, Snow White

    Diane Henry

  • Boss Dog

    M.F.K. Fisher

    Chronicles an American mother's year abroad with her two daughters in Aix-en-Provence. Part memoir and part fiction, this adventure is presided over by an aloof and proprietary mongrel, the Boss Dog, who frequents the young family's favorite cafe....

  • Bright Shark

    Robert Ballard

    Assigned to locate Dakar, the Israeli naval vessel that vanished years ago without a trace, troubleshooter Wendell Trent travels three miles below the ocean's surface, while two governments risk an armed encounter to abort America's search. 45,000 fi...

  • Bunny Hop

    Teddy Slater

  • Busy O'Brien and the Caterpillar Punch Bunch

    Michelle Poploff

  • A Busy Year

    Leo Lionni

    A charming exploration of the seasons with some of Caldecott-winner Leo Lionni's beloved mice.In January, two mice, Willie and Winnie, make a new friend: a tree. The tree tells them her name is Woody, and the mice promise to visit her all year ro...

  • But Not Kate

    Marissa Moss

  • By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

    Elizabeth Smart

    Originally published in 1945, this book of poetic prose encapsulates former journalist Elizabeth Smart’s relationship with poet George Barker. Instantly, upon picking up a book of his poetry while browsing through a London bookshop, Smart fell in l...

  • Caroline's Mystery Dolls

    Molly Mia Stewart

  • Chain of Command

    Kevin D. Randle

    With a heavily armed space armada from the galaxy's most hostile race bearing down on all opposing life forms, Brigadier General David Steven Jefferson attempts a desperate maneuver--capturing the aggressors's home world--that could end the war. Orig...

  • The Cherry Tree

    Daisaku Ikeda

  • The Chicken Book

    Garth Williams

  • City of Childhood

    Valerie Townsend Bayer

    As two researchers reconstruct the life of nineteenth-century English novelist Emma Forster, they uncover the outrageous secrets that lurk behind the staid Victorian facade of her family, in a multi-layered story within a story...

  • Class Clown

    Michael Pellowski

    When class clown Reggie falls for serious student Bernadette Brownle, whose interests lie in the debating team and Future Deep Thinkers Club, Reggie knows that winning her affections will be an uphill battle. Original....

  • Cloak of Darkness

    Ann Brahms

    Attending a Halloween party dressed in the identical costume as her best friend, Kelly, Piper Jordan is horrified when Kelly is murdered and even more shocked when she realizes the killer had intended to murder Piper. Original....

  • A Closed Eye

    Anita Brookner

    In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying pros...

  • Clothes Horse and Other Stories

    Janet Ahlberg

  • The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen: A Traditional Tale

    Anonymous

  • Coney Tale

    Paul Ratz de Tagyos

  • Cousins

    Paulette Jiles

    The author draws on memories from her own youth as she describes her meeting with Jim Johnson, a retired army officer, at a horse-trading show in Missouri, and their subsequent journey through the southern states in search of Jiles' extended family...

  • Crossing Eden

    Renate Johnson

  • The Devil and Mother Crump

    Valerie Scho Carey

  • Devil in Texas, the

    Aristeo Brito

  • Dirty Kurt

    Mary Serfozo

  • Disney's Beauty and the Beast Word Book

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • Disney's Darkwing Duck in Clean Money

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • The Dragon of an Ordinary Family

    Margaret Mahy

  • Dreaming In Cuban

    Cristina Garcia

    “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,...

  • The Elephant

    Richard Rayner

    The son of a British undertaker tells of his painful relationship with his father, in a coming-of-age story about lying, cheating, stealing, sexual hysteria, and the truth in provincial northern England during the sixties. 15,000 first printing....

  • Elizabeth Meets Her Hero

    Francine Pascal

    Dr. Mean



    Elizabeth Wakefield can't wait for the next class trip.  She's going to get to see a taping of her favorite TV show, Dr Snapturtle's Animal Hour.  The trip is a lot of fun until Elizabeth overhears Dr. Snapturtle yelling ...

  • The Elves and the Shoemaker

    Golden Books

  • Embrace The Serpent

    Marilyn Tucker Quayle; Nancy Tucker Northcott

    Fidel Castro is dead of a sudden heart attack. The Russians, anxious to regain their influence in the Western hemisphere, are about to install their stooge, Caesar Valles, as the new President of Cuba. Only the members of La Causa, a dedicated group ...

  • Enemy Ace: War Idyll

    George Pratt

  • Fag Hag

    Robert Rodi

    Natalie, an overweight, fun-loving secretary, is head over heels in love with a gay artist named Peter and will do anything to thwart his relationships with other men, until Peter meets Lloyd Hood, a gay survivalist and gun-shop owner. 15,000 first p...

  • The Falcon's Wing

    Dawna Lisa Buchanan

    After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Bryn tries to make a new life when her father moves them to a rural community in Canada to live with her elderly aunt and her cousin Winnie, a loving girl with Down's syndrome...

  • The Fantastic Stay-Home-from-School Day

    Nancy Hayashi

    Leona and her best friend and conspirator, Eddie, plan to cut school together with a package of Fig Newtons, but when Eddie's mother finds out, Leona is left on her own to tackle a disastrous day of truancy....

  • Farm Boy's Year

    David McPhail

    A month-by-month diary, accompanied by full-color paintings, chronicles the daily life of a young boy growing up on a New England farm in the 1800s as he sleds in January, gathers sap in March, harvests hay in July, and picks apples in October....

  • Farm Noises

    Jane Miller

  • Fighting Words

    Eve Merriam

  • The Firebird

    Robert D. San Souci

  • First Grade King

    Karen Lynn Williams

  • Fish Fry Tonight

    Jackie French Koller

  • The Flower Fairies Year

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • The Flying Shoes

    Bernice Myers

  • The Folk Art Counting Book

    Florence Cassen Mayers

    A guide to counting uses examples from American folk art to illustrate numbers from one to twenty, featuring such works of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century art as The Baby in the Red Chair, The Monkey Picture, and The Quilt...

  • Forever Friends: Precious Moments

    Golden Books

  • Fortunate Lives

    Robb Forman Dew

    The Howells family are revisited in the summer of 1991. David, 18, is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells....

  • Four Fur Feet

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Free Agent

    Robert Stokesberry

    With plans to level a major American city, a group of terrorists steals a shipment of plutonium, but they meet stiff resistance in the person of Ryan Austin, a lone warrior skilled in the martial arts and backed by high-tech weaponry. Original....

  • Funny You Should Ask: The Delacorte Book of Original Humorous Short Stories

    David Gale

  • Furry

    Holly Keller

  • The Garden in the City

    Gerda Muller

  • Gardening with Peter Rabbit

    Jennie Walters

    A gardening book divided into sections according to the seasons features kids' favorite cotton-tailed vegetable lover and shows young gardeners how to grow carrot ferns, make a cress hedgehog, create a fairy Christmas tree, and more....

  • Gertrude, the Bulldog Detective

    Eileen Christelow

  • The Girl with the Green Ear

    Margaret Mahy