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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1992

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New Books List: 527 titles

  • 19th Precinct

    Christopher Newman

    "Tough, gritty suspenseful...Newman is one of the best in the business."
    William J. Caunitz
    Author of EXCEPTIONAL CLEARANCE
    A ruthless IRA terrorist is loose on the streets of New York City. A C.E.O. and his mistress are killed execution-sty...

  • The 600 Mile Stretch

    Jim Miller

    For ex-Texas Rangers Wash and Chance Carston, Charlie Goodnights’ first cattle drive spelled danger and making it through alive turns out to only be half of the fight in this Western novel based on the real Charlie Goodnight and his legendary f...

  • 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...

  • Afterward

    Catherine M. Rae

    Left to care for her siblings, along with older sister Angela, when the rest of their family is killed in a 1904 excursion boat fire, Maud Evans questions Angela's decision to marry a wealthy older man...

  • 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....

  • Akira #4

    Katsuhiro Otomo

  • All the Dead Heroes

    Stephen F. Wilcox

    Assigned to investigate the career of one of the first Black major league players, Frank Wooley, free-lance reporter T.S.W. Sheridan finds that the rumors of wife beating and gambling are hiding an even ghastlier secret...

  • 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....

  • 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

  • Arabesque

    Kit Gardner

    A Match Made In . . . If she agreed to suffer one insipid season in radon society, Trista Fitzgerald would be free to urn to her beloved countryside--that was the deal e had made with her father. Then the infamous "Boudoir Murderer" frightened her...

  • 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...

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

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • At the Zoo

    Douglas Florian

  • Baby Animals: Five Stories of Endangered Species

    Derek Hall

  • 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...

  • Back in the Blue House

    Jeff Giles

  • Bad Brains

    Kathe Koja

    Still reeling from his divorce, would-be painter Austen takes a fall in a 7-Eleven parking lot that leaves him with brain damage and strange visions, a madness that sends him on a cross-country odyssey of debauchery and pain. Original....

  • Bambi: Peek-A-Boo

    Denise Lewis Patrick

  • The Bandit's Bride

    Ana Seymour

    Kidnapped! Snatched from her sleep by Pancho Villa's notorious outlaws, Meg Atherton's only thought was to get out of Mexico and back to her daddy's ranch. And sly Meg was sure she would have escaped, if not for Villa's American bandido, Timothy C...

  • Barbara Frietchie

    John Greenleaf Whittier

  • The Barefoot Baroness

    Joan Smith

    AFTER ONE DISASTROUS SEASON, LAURA HARWOOD HAD NO DESIGNS FOR SNAGGING A HUSBAND... She hardly felt qualified to accompany her cousin Olivia, Baroness Pilmore, to London for her debut. However, Olivia's fears of social failure proved unfounded...

  • 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

  • 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 ...

  • Beaver Boys

    Bonnie Pryor

  • The Best Bug to Be

    Dolores Johnson

  • Best Wishes Whoever You Are

    Deirdre Corey

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Blazing Texas Nights

    Victoria Thompson

    A FIERY HEIRESS Strong-willed Leah Harding had her hands full protecting her family's vast ranch from scheming landgrabbers. So when ruggedly handsome gunslinger Calhoun Stevens suddenly showed up with an unproven claim on her family, she swore to t...

  • Blood Bounty

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Borderland

    S.K. Epperson

    Not much had changed in remote Denke, Kansas, since the pioneer days: descendants of the same families still walked the streets; the same customs still held the residents together; the same fears still forced the people to hide their dark secrets fro...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bunny Hop

    Teddy Slater

  • Bury Him Kindly

    Pat Burden

    When a car is found abandoned near the well-protected property of local recluse Alice Meddlar and her simpleton son, Robby, the local residents smell foul play, and Chief Superintendent Henry Bassett steps in to investigate....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Cannons of the Comstock

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

  • Caroline and the Raider

    Linda Lael Miller

    Holding her lovely head high, Wyoming schoolmistress Caroline Chalmers did what no lady should: she marched right into the local saloon to sec the dashing and reckless Guthrie Hayes. Worse still, she went to ask him for help. She needed the former Co...

  • Caroline's Mystery Dolls

    Molly Mia Stewart

  • 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...

  • Casting for Murder

    Mikel Dunham

  • Cat's Claw

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Someone leaves murdered corpses on the doorsteps of the wealthy. Jared Eden is arrested for the crimes, and attorney/part-time detective Charlie Moon is hired to defend him. To discover if Eden is innocent or not, Moon turns to his ancient Indian her...

  • Catamount

    Michael Peak

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Chalchiuhite Dragon

    Kenneth Morris

  • 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...

  • Cherished

    Jill Gregory

    A wild land... A rough-riding bounty hunter... A spirited belle turned outlaw... A love that could only come with trust... Riding hell-bent through Colorado, Juliana Montgomery felt only outrage. Events had transformed her from a beautiful St. Lo...

  • The Cherry Tree

    Daisaku Ikeda

  • The Chicken Book

    Garth Williams

  • 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...

  • Child Star

    Lydia Weaver

    Ten-year-old Joey Norman helps his family survive the Depression by landing a silent movie role in Hollywood, but he worries about what will happen to his career when sound becomes a part of the motion pictures....

  • Christopher and Alexandra

    Maggie Gee

  • 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...

  • City of God

    Michael Jahn

    When a serial killer sets up house in New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine and is bent on punishing the city's sinners, New York City Detective Bill Donovan must tackle his toughest case yet....

  • 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

  • Company Man

    Brent Wade

  • Coney Tale

    Paul Ratz de Tagyos

  • Confirmed Kill

    Mike Morris

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Crossing Eden

    Renate Johnson

  • 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...

  • Cybernetic Jungle

    S.N. Lewitt

    His family destroyed and his dreams crushed by the corporation that controls his Brazilian home through technology and drugs, Paulo seeks revenge, aided by Zaide, a woman with a computer implant in her brain that provides access to government data. O...

  • Damsel in Distress

    Shannon Drake

    A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS An enemy of ruthless and powerful noblemen who would usurp the English crown, beautiful headstrong heiress Katherine de Montrain is forced to marry for her own protection-vowing to wed but never to submit to her handsome virile ...

  • Dance of Deception

    Suzannah Davis

    Amid the unrest of the Napoleonic wars, Genevieve Maples struggles to keep her grandfather's theatrical troupe afloat, unaware that Bryce Darcy Cormick, an actor in the troupe, is actually a spy. During an uneasy pause in the Napoleonic wars, lov...

  • 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...

  • Darktraders

    Eluki Bes Shahar

    Butterfly St. Cyr, an honest darktrading smuggler, must bring Tiggy, the young hellflower heir to the chief diplomat of the AlMayne mercenaries, back to the Starbringer family's home world fortress. Original....

  • 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...

  • A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy

    Ann Cleeves

    Vicars' wives do not usually get themselves murdered... ... especially when they are as vibrant and caring as beautiful Dorothea Cassidy. But murdered she unquestionably was; and from the outset Inspector Stephen Ramsay is hard put to figure out why...

  • Dead Time

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Eleanor Taylor Bland's legions of fans, as well as new readers, will now be able to read the highly acclaimed novel that launched one of the first-- and one of the best-- mystery series written by an African American writer about an African American ...

  • Deadly Allies

    Robert J. Randisi

    An anthology of mystery works by the two most influential mystery writers' organizations includes stories by Sue Grafton, Loren Estleman, Susan Dunlap, Sara Paretsky, Ben Schutz, Max Allan Collins, Jeremiah Healy, and others. 15,000 first printing....

  • Death and Taxes

    Susan Dunlap

    SCHEDULE M, FOR MURDER Until someone put a poisoned needle in his bicycle seat, Phil Drem was the meanest, most nit-picking IRS agent in Berkeley, California. But when Detective Jill Smith began searching Berkeley's backwaters for the tax man's...

  • Death As a Career Move

    Bruce Cook

    Hired by Majestic Studios to keep their name out the news after a corpse is found in their recording department, Los Angeles private eye Chico Cervantes investigates himself and discovers that the murdered man had had many secrets to hide....

  • 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...

  • The Death of Love

    Bartholomew Gill

    A first-time father at fifty-one, Irish police chief Peter McGarr takes his infant daughter and feisty wife to a country resort, where he is commissioned to investigate the murder of a high-powered banker....

  • Death of the Duchess

    Elizabeth Eyre

    With his bald head and black cape, the sleuth Sigismondo cuts an imposing figure as he courts death and danger in Renaissance Italy. At home among both royals and rogues, he is a master of the noble art of detection--and with his companion, the peasa...

  • Deborah Goes to Dover

    Marion Chesney

    The engaging Miss Hannah Pym delights all as she resumes her matchmaking adventures aboard the English stage... When lonely hearts chance across her intrepid path they're sure to find themselves en route for romance! Destined for Dover, Mis...

  • Deeper Than Roses

    Charlene Cross

    Emerald eyes wide with terror, auburn hair streaming, exquisite Kristiana Harcourt fled into the night. Her noble father lay dead. With his murderer, Edward MacHugh, in hot pursuit, she galloped wildly to freedom only to fall into the arms of a golde...

  • Defiant Rose

    Colleen Quinn

    IN A WORLD WHERE DREAMS COME TO LIFE, HER HEART FOUND A DARING PASSION... Rose Carney ... Across the new frontier, she ran Carney's Circus with an unsinkable spirit that was part of her show-business heritage. The world of fun-loving peformers was...

  • Del-Del

    Victor Kelleher

    A teenage girl in Sydney, Australia, records how her family is devasted by her older sister's death and by the bizarre behavior of her gifted younger brother, who seems to be possessed by a coldly unfeeling entity....

  • Desert Death

    Jon Sharpe

    HELL BY ANY OTHER NAME Jornada del Muerto meant Journey of the Dead. But Skye Fargo had another name for this New Mexico desert that no one in his right mind tried to cross. That name was Hell, and the Trailsman headed into its searing center to r...

  • The Devil and Mother Crump

    Valerie Scho Carey

  • Devil in Texas, the

    Aristeo Brito

  • Dirty Kurt

    Mary Serfozo

  • The Disappearance of Edwin Drood

    Peter Rowland

    Hired by Cloisterham choirmaster Jasper John to ascertain the fate of his nephew, Edwin Drood, Sherlock Holmes and his trusty Dr. Watson set out to solve the mystery that Dickens began in his unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood....

  • Disney's Beauty and the Beast Word Book

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • Disney's Darkwing Duck in Clean Money

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • 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...

  • The Dog Who Would Not Smile

    Stephen A. Bly

    Nathan T. Riggins panicked as he hurried from one empty building to the next. Where was everyone? How could everybody in a whole town just disappear?In the deserted Post Office, bags of unopened mail lay everywhere. With increasing dread, he looked t...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Earth's Vanishing Forests

    Roy A. Gallant

  • The Easter Charade

    Mona Gedney

    A FASHIONABLE HOLIDAY Andrew Norville regarded the high-handed Miss Harrington with astonished outrage. Not only had she convinced her impressionable young cousin to avoid his marriage proposal, she had swept the girl off to revel in the frivolous r...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Emerald Enchantment

    Patricia Grasso

    A WOMAN'S PRIDE Vulnerable young widow of a hot-tempered Irish chieftain, Kathryn Devereux sought her children's safety in marriage to her late husband's ambitious nephew, Hugh O'Neill -- who won an earldom with their union. Now Countess Tyrone, Kat...

  • 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 Fagin

    Pat Graversen

    Returning to her hometown of Blue Hill with her young son, Jason, Felice Sinclair realizes the town has changed over the years when Jason becomes the unwilling student of the high priest of terror who stalks the night. AN INNOCENT VICTIM It wa...

  • 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 Falcon and the Swan

    Diane Gates Robinson

    YANKEE'S BOLD KISS High-spirited Ariane Valcour's mettle was tested when she brought her wounded father back from the Shiloh Battlefield, but that was only the first of the Confederate belle's daring escapades. When Memphis fell to the Union Army A...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • The Fifth Level

    Edward Mathis

  • Fighting Words

    Eve Merriam

  • Fire on the Wind

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    The flames of revolution sweep relentlessly through India, threatening the life of free-thinking Sarah Faulkner. Fleeing the impending holocaust, the sheltered Victorian beauty is irresistibly drawn to Damien Coleridge, the renegade son of an English...

  • The Firebird

    Robert D. San Souci

  • First Grade King

    Karen Lynn Williams

  • First To Die

    Peter Nelson

    Seven teens trapped underground after an earthquake discover that the only person who knows their location is a criminal who would rather them dead.   For sixteen-year-old Mollie Fox, selling earthquake insurance is just a way to keep her belove...

  • 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...

  • Fish Fry Tonight

    Jackie French Koller

  • Five Against Death

    J.R. Roberts

    The town of Los Alamos is about to be swallowed whole by the notorious bandit El Gigante. Only four dare to fight back -- but they know it will be a losing battle unless Clint Adams agrees to step in. The Gunsmith isn't about to sell his hide for a p...

  • 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...

  • The Flower Fairies Year

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • 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 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...

  • A Foot in the Grave: and Other Ghost Stories

    Joan Aiken

    A collection of eerie tales illustrated with black-and-white images conjures up truly believable ghosts and lets them loose in modern settings with frightening results. Stories include: • Cold Harbour • Movable Eyes • Beezelbub's Baby...

  • 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 Forest Prime Evil

    Alan Russell

    JUST DYING TO SAVE THE TREES... Part hero, part activist, the Green Man is a modem-day Johnny Appleseed whose grass roots campaign to preserve the redwoods gets the ax when he is felled by a plummeting branch. But echoes of foul play reverberate t...

  • Forever Friends: Precious Moments

    Golden Books

  • Forgotten Days

    Kate Mueller

  • 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....

  • Fortune's Mistress

    Michele Stegman

    Raven Winthrop had thought her troubles were over when a swashbuckling seaman rescues her from a band of vicious pirates, but her hero is really a Winthrop family nemesis whose revenge is sweet indeed. When swashbuckling Jeffrey Fortune rescued he...

  • 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....

  • Free Radicals

    Jack McKinney

  • Friends and Rivals

    Carolyn Keene

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

    David Gale

  • Furry

    Holly Keller

  • Gabriella

    Brenda Hiatt

    She turned his consequence into his conscience Gabriella Gordon knew that she would have to agree to a London Season sooner or later or her Society sister would plague her to death. After only a few days in Town, the celebrated Duke of Ravenham...

  • 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....

  • Gate of the Tigers

    Henry Meigs

    When an American employee of a Tokyo computer firm is murdered, Lieutenant Mori of the Japanese police and Ludlow, a cynical CIA free-lancer, reluctantly team up to solve the crime. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo....

  • Gertrude, the Bulldog Detective

    Eileen Christelow

  • The Girl with the Green Ear

    Margaret Mahy

  • The Glory That Was

    L. Sprague de Camp

    When the World Emperor of the 27th century seals off Greece behind a force wall and Wiyem Flin''s wife soon disappears, Knut Bulnes agrees to help look behind the wall for the woman. The two soon find themselves in Classical Greece.

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  • The Go-Between

    Amy Hest

    Lexi often takes a pot of tea to Murray Singer at the newsstand for her grandmother, and Murray sends Lexi back with a newspaper and a note, but soon Lexi's go-between job becomes a matchmaking endeavor....

  • The Golden Bird

    Hans Stolp

  • Golden Boys

    Joseph Epstein

  • The Golden Deer

    Margaret Hodges

  • 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...

  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    Penny Ives

  • The Gombeen Man

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    Reunited with old friends and lovers at the funeral of friend and IRA hero Connor Larkin, American reporter Con Edwards quickly becomes involved in the intrigue surrounding Irish politics and terrorism...

  • Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays

    Mary Gordon

    Traces the relation of literature to human life, in a collection of essays, such as the title piece that takes on Dreiser, Faulkner, and Updike, and others about abortion, male domination, and the Church...

  • Good Morning, James

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

    Robert Olen Butler

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana” (People).  A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler’s Pulitzer Prize...

  • The Gorbachev Version

    Richard Hugo

    A routine investigation into a black market pharmaceutical antibiotic scam turns into a homicide case when the KGB's main suspect is murdered right before shocked KGB agent Pytor Kirov's eyes. Reprint....

  • Grand Slam

    S.S. Gorman

  • A Great Day for the Deadly

    Jane Haddam

    Fifteen hundred years after St. Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland an Armenian detective is dueling sin in a small upstate New York town. On the eve of St. Patrick's Day festivities, a young nun in training has been murdered. A man of irresolute f...

  • Great Days of a Country House

    John S. Goodall