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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1992

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New Books List: 527 titles

  • The Zebra-Riding Cowboy

    Angela Shelf Medearis

    When a handsome city slicker shows up at the Z-Bar Ranch to borrow a horse, the cowboys there decide to make him the butt of a joke, offering him Zebra Dun, the meanest bucking bronco they have, in a colorful version of a traditional cowboy song....

  • The Young Pitcher

    Zane Grey

    Zane Grey (1872 â€" 1939) was an American author best known for writing Western novels, with his most famous being Riders of the Purple Sage. That work is widely considered the greatest Western ever written, and Grey remains one of the most famous au...

  • You Have the Right to Remain Silent

    Barbara Paul

    NOBODY'S TALKING Down the mean streets of Manhattan's Alphabet City, Marian Larch discovers that even a cop's tough emotional hide can be riddled by the area's violent, twisted crime. Another murder is added to her caseload, and it's a beauty: fou...

  • Yamato

    Ken Kato

  • World Wrestling Federation: Out of Ring Battle

    Golden Books

  • World of Silence

    Don Coldsmith

    The only survivor, along with his granddaughter, of an attack by the Forest People, Hunts-Alone and the young girl journey forward toward a new destiny, carrying with them the seeds of their ancient heritage. Original....

  • The Wind Monkey: and Other Stories

    Leo Berenstain

    Dramatizes the clash of Indonesia's native culture with the onslaught of Western society in stories featuring a woman travel writer caught in a web of occult mysteries and a Western scientist whose monkey is kidnapped for religious reasons. A first c...

  • Wild, Wild Wolves

    Joyce Milton

    Illus. in full color. A fascinating introduction to the world of wolves, one of nature's most enduring and misunderstood creatures. Wolf-pack behavior, body language, and the meaning of howls are all demystified in this natural history. "Nonfiction a...

  • Wild Iris Bloom

    Mavis Jukes

    Independent-minded and angry at being left at home while her parents travel on business, twelve-year-old Iris gives her babysitter the slip; but a disturbing incident makes her realize that she does need her family and friends...

  • Why Would Anyone Have a Crush on Horace Beemis?

    Jacqueline Shannon

  • Whoo-oo Is It?

    Megan McDonald

  • Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole?

    Jerry Spinelli

    It’s football season at Plumstead Middle School, and everything is up in the air. Sunny has become a cheerleader -- the first ever to wear a frown and beat up fans who refuse to cheer. Eddie has gone out for football to prove that he's grown up de...

  • Who Is the Boss?

    Josse Goffin

    Two arrogant, pompous men riding in a little striped boat on the calm blue sea are so busy arguing that neither notices the iceberg that threatens them, and it is up to a self-possessed duck to come to the rescue....

  • White Roses of Brambledene

    Joyce C. Ware

    "DRAW THE CURTAINS, MISS GRAYSON. SHE'S STILL HERE, YOU KNOW." Yearning for a few days' respite from her work as assistant to an austere New York physician, delicate Violet Grayson accepted the invitation to a weekend houseparty at Brambledene. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Whip

    Luke Short

    With a smoking rifle and a stinging lash, it was Gannon's job to cut a path through the outlaw gangs grown thick as a mesquite over the Midland stage route. The final challenge came when a hardcase crew knocked over one of his coaches carrying a heav...

  • Where in America Is Carmen Sandiego?

    John Peel

    When world-famous thief Carmen Sandiego and her helper escape from Alcatraz and begin robbing their way across America, the reader is challenged to locate them in the busy, colorful United States maps on each page....

  • Where Eagles Soar

    Peggy Hanchar

    SHE WAS AS PROUD AND FREE AS THE EAGLE SOARING IN THE OPEN SKIES OF THE GREAT FRONTIER. Daughter of an American fur trader and a beautiful Crow Indian woman, Raven was bold and headstrong -- the equal of any warrior brave. She did not share the ...

  • When Grampa Kissed His Elbow

    Cynthia DeFelice

    Grampa introduces Maggie to the magic of the natural world during her visit to the country, during which she witnesses hailstones in the summer, dancing mayflies, and a wren's nest lined with her own hair....

  • When a Sparrow Falls

    Jean Fiedler

    Busy with her teaching career and her impending marriage, Liz Ransome is suddenly, slowly terrorized by minor pranks, strange phone calls, and a whispered threat, and death may follow in twenty-eight days if she does not discover the identity of her ...

  • What Comes in Spring?

    Barbara Savadge Horton

  • What Bunny Loves

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • A Warrior's Heart

    Margaret Moore

    Safe Haven From the moment Emryss Delanyea stole her away to his dark and misty valley filled with ancient magic, Lady Roanna Westercott felt safe for the first time in years. Though he bore the scars of battle, the Welshman seemed invincible. Lit...

  • Walt Disney Bambi's Game

    Joan Phillips

  • Walks in the Sun

    Don Coldsmith

    Twelve brave young men set out, led by the  indomitable Blue Jay, seeking a better wintering land to  the mysterious south. But the quest becomes an  obsession that plunges the men--and the beautiful,  enigmatic woman who joins them--into a l...

  • 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...

  • A Visit to Amy-Claire

    Jane Mills

  • Viking Passion

    Flora Speer

    VIKING CAPTIVE Her spirit unbroken despite the terrifying raid that destroyed her home, Lenora vowed she would hate all Norsemen. But her vow proved difficult to fulfill when she was given to Erik the Far-Traveler. Unlike his brother, who had captur...

  • The View

    Harry Yoaker

    When the man in house Number Six builds an addition to get a better glimpse at the ocean, everyone in the neighborhood follows suit, in a crazed building bonanza that leaves the town with nothing but brick walls to look at....

  • Very Windy Day

    Elizabeth MacDonald

  • The Vanished Child

    Sarah Smith

    "Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why."New England, 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered. His grandson, Richard, the only witness, is shocked into silence, then disappears, presumed kidnapped and killed.Switzerla...

  • Valley of the Spotted Horse

    Paul Bagdon

    In need of a horse of his own, Scrapper John, the orphaned son of a rugged mountain man and a Native-American woman, enters the dangerous Valley of the Spotted Horses from which few have returned alive. Original....

  • 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...

  • Unjust Desserts

    Matt Wayne

  • Unholy Fire

    Whitley Strieber

    Father John Rafferty, a dedicated priest tempted by the beautiful young woman he has been counseling, must face the greatest test of his faith when an evil force embodied in someone near the church begins a killing spree. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • An Uncommon Intrigue

    Georgina Devon

    A BEWITCHING MISS Of noble birth on her father's side, Miss Mary Elizabeth Sinclair was decidedly startled to have the British Home Office employ her as a spy. While she did not mind rejoining her mother's gypsy family, nor posing as "Ta...

  • 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...

  • 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 of a Kind

    Ann H. Gabhart

    Eager to fit in at her new school, Birdie Honaker, a skinny redhead with a high IQ, befriends another new kid, Jobee Riggs, who is eager to fit in too, and the pranks they play together on the teachers could get them into big trouble. Original....

  • The Twins: Two by Two

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Twice Blessed

    Ninotchka Rosca

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Trophy Wives

    Lois Wyse

    Three extraordinary women--friends since childhood--who have struggled and schemed their way to becoming the second wives of America's unseen powerbrokers fight privately to hold onto the husbands they have won. Reprint....

  • A Treasury of Mother Goose

    Elizabeth Falconer

    A collection of thirty-nine Mother Goose nursery rhymes, accompanied by full-color illustrations, three-tiered pop-ups, and busy border designs, features "Jack Sprat," "Three Blind Mice," and many other favorites....

  • Treasure Nap

    Juanita Havill

    Mama tells Alicia a story about Mama and her family when she was a little girl in Mexico. After napping, Alicia awakens to find that the Mexican treasures of that past time are a very special part of her own life....

  • Trash Bash

    Judy Delton

    It's springtime, and time to save the earth. Molly's ready to start. If other people won't recycle, it's up to the Pee Wee Scouts to do it for them. Digging through people's trash and storing old light bulbs and egg cartons behind Molly's garage is h...

  • The Trail to Buddha's Mirror

    Don Winslow

    What begins as a routine missing person's case becomes a complex web of deceit, danger and international intrigue in this superb mystery. On sabbatical from duties as an operative for a group known as Friends of the Family, Neal Carey, is visited in ...

  • Trade Off

    Harrison Arnston

    Less than eager to take on another murder case in light of her failing marriage, attorney Laura Scott reluctantly agrees to defend John Slocum, a drifter who had been discovered bent over the mutilated body of a local teenager. Original....

  • Track Down

    Dan Mason

    Hired to track down a former slave accused of murdering a popular and prominent rancher, Lex Cranshaw finds himself playing bodyguard when an angry mob threatens to murder the suspect in cold blood. Original....

  • Tour De France

    James Becket

  • Touched by Magic

    Patricia Rice

    Nothing could break passion's spell SEDUCED AND CONQUERED Lady Cassandra Howard was nearly ruined. He rakehell brother forced her to frequent the London demimonde, then tried to sell her into a marriage with a dissolute lord. Though the world belie...

  • The Torching

    Marcy Heidish

    Georgetown author Alice Grey, determined to discover the truth about an eighteenth-century Massachusetts midwife burned as a witch, finds herself haunted by dark dreams and a serious of gruesome murders. Reprint....

  • The Toom County Mud Race

    Herb Karl

    In a novel that addresses racism, sexism, and big business, Jackie Lee Crockett plans to win the annual mud race but is hindered when he finds a mysterious silver bundle that belongs to the boss of a fruit-packing company....

  • 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...

  • Time Trap

    Sean Dalton

    When a time-traveler is mistakenly sent to Medieval Greece, he finds bandits, Crusaders -- and his own evil twin -- in this sci-fi series debut. In the 26th century, chaos threatens to overwhelm civilization -- but the historians on staff at the Time...

  • 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... -- ...

  • 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...

  • Tidal Wave

    Christopher Lampton

  • Three Little Witches

    Debra Hess

  • Thomas' Big Book of Words

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • This Is the Bear and the Scary Night

    Sarah M. Hayes

    Accidentally abandoned in the park by his young owner, an intrepid toy bear faces many challenges and perils--from being kidnapped by a swooping owl to falling into a cold pond--before he can be reunited with his beloved owner....

  • They Called Her Mrs. Doc

    Janette Oke

    There had never been a reason to think of any other life . . . until he walked into hers. The only daughter of a noted Montreal physician and educator, Cassandra Dell Winston enjoys all the opportunities of Eastern society and affluence. She...

  • There's a Building on Sixth Avenue

    Rodney Rigby

  • There's A Body In The Brontosaurus Room!

    Shannon Gilligan

  • Texas Manhunt

    Clay Dawson

  • Teddy B. Zoot

    J. Clarke

  • Taxicab Tales

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • Tarzana

    Babette Cole

    Tarzanna meets a boy in the jungle, who invites her to live in his world for a while, but Tarzanna hates it in the concrete jungle and, after freeing the animals in the zoo, persuades the president to send her home on Jungle Airways....

  • The Tall Book of Make-Believe

    Jane Werner

  • 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 ...

  • Sweeter Than Sin

    Sara Orwig

    DADDY'S GIRL: Dazzlingly beautiful, Cheramie was the daughter of San Francisco's richest business tycoon, the wife of a charismatic senator -- and a woman with a secret lover she would do anything to keep. -- SUPERSTAR: A retired baseball great, Je...

  • Sweet Silver Passion

    Pamela K. Forrest

    HE SAW DISASTER ABOUT TO STRIKE Just looking at the woman called Apache Sam filled Cooper with longing. She was a breathtaking sight with her long silver blonde hair and curves in all the right places. But to hire this woman to guide his wagon train...

  • Sweet Dreams, Willy

    Lizi Boyd

    Willy refuses to sleep at bedtime and lets his imagination take him on a romp through the night world to visit the birds, the fish, the moon, and the stars--but he soon discovers that everyone has to sleep some time....

  • Swamp Kill

    James Pruitt

  • 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...

  • Summer's Knight

    Virginia Lynn

    An innocent heiress, a notorious rake...and a passion that demanded total surrender ONE RESTLESS HEART A New Orleans heiress, Summer St. Clair never dreamed that fleeing from an arranged marriage would leave her stranded, penniless and alone, in ...

  • Summer of Night

    Dan Simmons

    It's the summer of 1960. The sixth-grade boys of Elm Haven, Illinois, are forging the powerful, magical bonds that a lifetime of growth and loss will never erase. Amid the sun-drenched cornfields and the sly flirtations of the town's young girls, tha...

  • The Suitable Suitor

    Alicia Farraday

    She was like a breath of fresh air Only just turned eighteen, Melody Maitland had had little choice but to become a runaway in order to avoid a loveless marriage. When discovered by Lord Dake, who in no uncertain terms advised her he meant to ...

  • Strike of the China Falcon

    Stephen Cassell

    Nearly shot down in an airplane over Mexico by Chinese bullets, ex-Vietnam War veteran Nick Thurston is determined to get to the bottom of a dangerous international terrorist plot called Operation Dragonfly. Original....

  • Stowaway for Love

    Glenna Finley

    STORM AT SEA Paige Collins was ready for the exciting unknown as a passenger on a cargo ship across the Atlantic. But she found herself asea in a way she did not expect when she met her lone fellow passenger, John Winthrop. Beautiful Paige wa...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • Steal the Stars

    Miranda Jarrett

    On the eve of revolution. WHAT PRICE LOVE? Blessed with the devil's own luck, Captain Gardner Griffin had outrun King George's fastest schooners as he smuggled guns to the American colonists preparing for revolt. Yet with a disreputable past an...

  • Starting Over

    Jesse Maguire

  • The Star Spangled Contract

    Jim Garrison

    A former CIA undercover agent, Colin McFerrin, discovers that the President has been targeted from within, and that his planned assassination is part of an elaborate plot aimed at an even more unthinkable objective. Reprint. NYT....

  • Stand Down

    Zack Emerson

  • Stacey's Ex-Best Friend

    Ann M. Martin

    Stacey can't wait! Her best friend from New York, Laine Cummings, is coming to Stoneybrook for a whole week. Laine can spend a day at SMS, attend club meetings, and maybe even go to the Valentine Dance. But the minute Laine arrives, things don't g...

  • Split Image

    Michael French

    Newly arrived in Los Angeles to live with his father, a virtual stranger to him, seventeen-year-old Garrett Murchinson is shocked to discover that his photographer father's secret trips to Korea could be endangering the United States. Reprint. VY...

  • Spirit of Love

    Emma Goldrick

    Was there more to her future than the past? Though her husband had died four years ago, Emily still had his ghost to talk to and a nursing career that kept her busy. Perhaps too busy. There seemed to be no cure for her overwhelming work load, the ...

  • Spider Kane and the Mystery Under the May-Apple

    Mary Pope Osborne

    From the author of the Magic Tree House series comes a new kind of hero… LEON LEAFWING is about to find out that there is one answer to three questions: 1. Who can solve the mystery of a terrible kidnapping? 2. Who can lead an army against an ...

  • 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 ...

  • Speedball

    D.A. Hodgman

  • Slow Poison

    Sheila Bosworth

    The witty, dramatic, and fiercely tender story of a Southern family whose prodigious charms are matched only by their propensity for tragedy   “Miss Cade passing.” The letter arrives with little fanfare and fewer details, yet the meaning is ...

  • Slocum and the River Chase

    Jake Logan

    When Confederate General McRae is kidnapped by businessmen interested in preventing the release of his upcoming memoirs, Slocum abandons whiskey and women to protect the general on a wild, lead-filled trip down the Mississippi. ...

  • The Sleepy Book

    Judy Hindley

  • The Sixth Battle

    Barrett Tillman

    Commander of a task force off the South African coast, Vietnam veteran Rear Admiral Chuck Gideon faces his greatest challenge as South Africa falls prey to Union of Eurasian Republic-sponsored invaders. Original....

  • 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...

  • Silent Witness

    Charles Wilson

    A rape and murder scene very seldom reveals all that happened during the commission of the heinous crime, and some thins are never learned -- and best not known. Following a stormy night that must have muffled her screams, a teenager is found dea...

  • Silent Prey

    John Sandford

    Once, Bekker indulged his brilliant obsession with death; now he is in prison. Once, he was hunted by a man who understood the genius of murder; now he wants revenge. . . . Lieutenant Davenport should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. . . ....

  • 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...

  • The Shortstop

    Zane Grey

    Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his bes selling ...

  • Shoot for the Moon

    Norma Howe

  • Shoofly Pie to Die

    Joshua Quittner

    Antique collectors Sam Popkin and Sara Amstel are ill-prepared for the ""treasure"" they discover in the Pennsylvania Dutch chest they have purchased--a dead body--and soon they are involved in an adventure-filled mystery....

  • Sex, Death and God in Los Angeles

    David Reid

    A patchwork of pop culture--with eleven unusual pieces of reportage, memoir, and fantasy--attempts to capture the elusive spirit of Los Angeles, a city growing "at a rate comparable to supercities of the Third World."...

  • Separate Houses

    Robert B. Shapiro

  • Seeing the Elephant

    Les Roberts

    #5 in the Saxon mystery series. Saxon returns to his hometown, Chicago, where one of his oldest pals, cop Gavin Cassidy, has died of a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol in a cheap hotel. Saxon arrives for the funeral to find his old crowdȁ...

  • 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 Secret of Montroth House

    Muriel Newsome

    Lorene Kilmer heads for the wilds of British Columbia and her two eccentric aunts when her father dies, and there she encounters an evil presence at their abode, Montroth House, a threat against her life, and an enigmatic, handsome stranger. Afte...

  • The Secret Defector

    Clancy Sigal

    A passionately realized novel about an affair between a wandering American and cutting-edge female novelistClancy Sigal’s fourth novel centers on expatriate Gus Black, a freethinker who moves to England in search of a new life. He absorbs the n...

  • Second Death

    Michael Zuroy

  • Sea Change

    Alison McLeay

    Katherine Summerbee, has been brought up on a boat by her gruff father with no luxuries and little love. She meets handsome, courageous Matthew Oliver, an Englishman who is smuggling Confederate gold out of Civil War-torn New Orleans on the eve of th...

  • Scared to Death

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    Muffie, Elliot and Quentin Bullock are three rude, crude kids. They swear. They play horrible pranks. They burp. No one will ever baby-sit for them-not if they want to make it out alive. Then Mr. and Mrs. Bullock accidentally hire the meanest hag of ...

  • Sc-Sacred Hoop

    Bill Broder

    The Sacred Hoop is a unique experience in historical fiction. From a retelling of Genesis to the saga of the Steam God (the Transcontinental Railroad) in nineteenth-century America, Bill Broder has illuminated in fiction the larger chronicle of human...

  • Savage Surrender

    Colleen Faulkner

    FEARLESS CAPTIVE Determination and a will to live were all that kept Lady Rachael Moreover from giving up in the first days after her capture by the Iroquois. She'd never surrender to those savages, no matter what they threatened! But the broad shou...

  • Sarah with an "H"

    Elaine Moore

  • Rush to Destiny

    Larry Jay Martin

    In this rousing frontier epic, Larry Jay Martin breathes life into one of the most exciting periods in American history--and into one of its most extraordinary heroes: Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a man whose hunger for adventure led him to feats of valo...

  • 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....

  • Run Wild My Heart

    Maureen Child

    A BOLD DECISION For beautiful Margaret Allen, traveling alone across the western plains was her only escape from a loveless marriage -- a marriage secretly arranged by her father as part of a heartless business scheme. In a fury, she left her quiet,...

  • The Run of the Country

    Shane Connaughton

  • Rules of Evidence

    Jay Brandon

    Raymond Boudro, San Antonio's best black criminal lawyer, has publicly branded white police detective Mike Stennett a racist. But now Boudro has accepted Stennett as a client, with one warning: The truth or I ruin you. Stennett is accused of beating ...

  • Rough Tough Rowdy

    William H. Hooks

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Rojak's Rule

    Steven M. Krauzer

    Branded a dirty cop when his partner is killed during a fierce shootout, police officer Victor Rojak turns in his badge and withdraws from the world, until his wife is abducted by a crime boss who has a personal vendetta against Rojak....

  • Rogue Warrior

    Richard Marcinko

    Here is the explosive autobiography of the brilliant, death-defying founder of the Navy's top-secret counterterrorist unit: Seal Team Six. Following that success, he organized a group of military terrorists to test the defenses of the Navy's faciliti...

  • Rituals

    Cees Nooteboom

    Inni knew that life was chaotic. He knew that there were two ways to live it. As he did, with indolence and lethargy, a dilettante drifting along. Or as Arnold and Philip did, each in his different way creating a personal system of ritual and control...

  • Rising Dog

    Vincent Kohler

  • Richard Scarry's the Cat Family Takes a Trip

    Richard Scarry

  • Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper!

    Barbara Spurll

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Red Dragonfly on My Shoulder

    Sylvia Cassedy

  • Red Bear

    Bodel Alan Stamaty

  • Rebel

    Arthur Moore

  • Range War

    Will McLennan

  • The Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love

    Elizabeth Cox

    Molly Hanner's marriage to William is slowly unraveling, and the pulls of entropy this exerts upon them and their three children painfully instruct Molly in the many ways people barely miss loving each other. But divorce is only a catalyst in Moll...

  • Racehorse

    Bonnie Bryant

    AN INJURED RACEHORSE NEEDS SPECIAL HELP FROM THE SADDLE CLUB! When Carole discovers that her horse Starlight has a slight injury, she's disappointed at having to spend the next two weeks without a mount. But Judy, the local veterinarian, has an idea:...

  • 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...

  • Pyramid of Dreams

    Marilyn Campbell

    FORBIDDEN FRUIT She was a stranger to his futuristic world, an outsider in the rainbow-hued crystal city who must not be allowed to return to her home. Yet though Aster would never be accepted by his people, Romulus found himself irresistibly draw...

  • The Pushcart Prize XVI: Best of the Small Presses 1991-1992

    Bill Henderson

  • Psyched!

    Dean Hughes

  • Proud Rooster and the Fox

    Colin Threadgall

  • Prophet of Moonshae

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Ffolk have forsaken their goddess, the Earthmother, and have turned to the new gods to protect them. Now, capricious and malevolent, one of the new lords has turned the worship of the Ffolk against them. It falls to the royal daughters of High Ki...

  • Promise You Won't Tell

    Ann Reit

    When exotic and graceful Pam moves into the apartment across the hall, Jo is certain that Pam is the best friend for whom she has always longed, but when Jo accidentally reveals Pam's secret, it threatens to destroy that friendship...

  • Promise Me Forever

    Cara Miles

    A ROGUE'S ARMS Lily Montague had no plans to wed any of the suitors gathered at her coming-out ball -- especially not Captain Matthew Hawke. With the merest glance from his smoldering eyes, the audacious American privateer dared her to resist his br...

  • The Prom Queen

    R.L. Stine

    DANCE OF DEATH.... A spring night...soft moonlight...five beautiful Prom Queen candidates...dancing couples at the Shadyside High prom -- these should be the ingredients for romance. But stir in one brutal murder -- then another, and another -- a...

  • 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...

  • Practice to Deceive

    Timothy Miller

    Two plastic surgeons of opposing temperaments--the devoted Lionel Stern and the unscrupulous Morris Gold--wind up on opposite sides of the table when Stern is asked to investigate the death of one of Gold's patients....

  • Poor Monty

    Anne Fine

  • Poisoned Ivy

    M.D. Lake

    When university student Donna Trask is murdered with a poisoned apple meant for Jeremiah Strauss, the university's most unpopular dean, security officer Peggy O'Neill must find the assassin before he or she strikes again. Original....

  • Point No-Point

    David Willis McCullough

    Ziza Todd, the feisty reverend and amateur sleuth, returns to the Hudson River Valley to take up her new church assignment in Quarryville, an incestuous town full of quirky characters and deep dark secrets. Soon after her arrival, the town has two mu...

  • The Pleasures of Love // The Merry Monarch's Wife

    Jean Plaidy

    SHE WAS READY TO ENDURE ALL -- FOR THE PLEASURES OF LOVE Newly married to King Charles II, Catherine of Braganza has left her sheltered upbringing in Portugal to become part of the notoriously licentious English court. She soon falls deeply in lov...

  • Play Dead

    Peter Dickinson

    A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author’s “gripping thriller” (Reginald Hill). Poppy Tasker never imagined this would be her life at age fifty: divorced, living alone...

  • Pins and Needles

    John Talbot

    Jean Pierre the elephant and his sidekick Bonsoir the mouse try to cope with a very uncomfortable problem--Jean Pierre's trunk has fallen asleep. In a seemingly endless series of visits to a variety of family and friends, the two are offered a succes...

  • Piglet Bakes Half a Haycorn Pie

    Betty G. Birney

  • A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman

    David A. Adler

    Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his goods - the wool from his sheep, the shawl his wife made, the mittens his daught...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • People of the Mesa

    Ardath Mayhar

    The Anasazi, a pre-Columbian tribe dwelling in what is now Colorado, face the greatest threat to their existence when a hostile tribe threatens, and the youthful Uhtatse assumes leadership of his people. Original....

  • Peek-a-Boo Family: My First Photo Album

    Diana Laufer

    A simple, rhyming text and colorful illustrations depict different kinds of animal families--including elephants, monkeys, bears, and monkeys--and provides special openings in which parents can slip photographs of their own children....

  • Pat-a-Cake

    Marilyn Janovitz

  • 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...

  • Partnership

    Anne McCaffrey; Margaret Ball

    Victim of a catastrophic prenatal accident that left her nothing but her brain functioning, Helva thought her life would amount to nothing. But Helva wanted to be more than a body in a box, drifting through life like a ghost in a machine. if she coul...

  • Pajama Party

    Amy Hest

  • Over the Moon

    Charlotte Voake

  • The Outsider

    Barbara Delinsky

    Cameron Divine -- The roguish research scientist came from light-years away on a mission. A flesh-and-blood woman changed everything. Summer VanVorn -- A simple folk healer. Sexy, vulnerable, she'd been waiting all her life the right man to co...

  • Our Yard Is Full of Birds

    Anne Rockwell

    A little boy lovingly describes all the birds that reside in his backyard--from the wren living in the birdhouse, to the pair of cardinals who seek shelter in the tall pine tree, to the yellow goldfinches splashing in the birdbath...

  • Other Voices, Other Vistas

    Barbara H. Solomon

    A selection of short stories includes the work of Nadine Gordimer, Bei Dao, Anita Desai, Kobo Abe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Chinua Achebe, Wange Anyi, R. K. Naryan, Yukio Mishima, and fifteen others....

  • 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 One That Got Away

    Percival Everett

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • On a Hot Hot Day

    Nicki Weiss

  • 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...

  • Noble Deception

    Eileen Winwood

    A brief encounter...and a lasting love Lady Juliana Westlake lived a staid and secluded life...or so it seemed. For the green-eyed beauty had a secret life as a spy - and it was while she was disguised as a French barmaid that she carried out the ...

  • Noah's Cats and the Devil's Fire

    Arielle North Olson

  • No Secrets

    Mel Gilden

  • No Bad Bears

    Michele Durkson Clise

  • 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...

  • Nightingale

    Michael Bedard

    Long, long ago there was an Emperor of China whose palace was quite the most wonderful in all the world. But when visitors came from afar, it wasn''t the palace that impressed them. Instead, they spoke of the song of the nightingale that lived i...

  • Night Squad

    David Goodis

    When a cop goes bad, he can always become a crook.  When a crook goes bad--that's when the Night Squad wants him.

    David Goodis's irresistibly readable study of corruption is a masterly portrait of a man clawing his way back from betrayal--an...

  • Night Sounds

    Warner Lee

    “CHOOSE,” THE VOICES SAID. “CHOOSE NOW.” AND DAVE GUTHRIE CHOSE.” From the flaming wreckage of the jetliner that crashed over one hundred souls, only Dave Guthrie was alive. Everybody hailed Dave’s miraculous good luck. It was more ...

  • Night Music

    Shelia B. Garner

    Kitty Barrett had thought she had found Mr. Right, but a series of savage cult murders soon lead her to believe that while she had been worshipping him, he had been secretly engaging in his own bloody worship practices. Original....

  • Nickajack

    Robert J. Conley

    In the East, his people has lived on the land for thousands of years. Now it was a nation bitterly divided, and Nickjack had decided to leave it behind. But when his country's broken heart came chasing after him in the West, he found himself with ene...

  • New Kid in Town

    Steven Kroll

    Phil is the new kid in town and he really wants to get on the baseball team, the famous Raymondtown Rockets. But at tryouts, Phil makes one embarrassing error after another. When the class bully nicknames him "the buntless wonder," Phil is so upset h...

  • Never Say Die

    Tess Gerritsen

    Friend...or foe? Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was taking a trip through hell. Saigon was teeming, hot and dangerous. But her search for the truth about that fateful flig...

  • The Neon Madonna

    Dan Binchy

    A retired international Vatican diplomat, Jerry O'Sullivan becomes the parish priest of a tiny coastal Irish village, but he soon finds himself in the midst of a controversy over alleged miracles at a tacky local shrine...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Mystery of Pony Hollow

    Lynn Hall

    Sarah Elgin doesn't believe in ghosts--until she explores her family's new farm and hears a frantic whinnying from an empty old stone house. Determined to rescue the animal trapped inside, Sarah breaks open the door and is shocked to find a dusty old...

  • My Phantom Love

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    The phantom of Fillmore High… When Aimee Harrison transfers to a city high school for the performing arts, she expects a world of drama, music, and sophisticated new friends to greet her. Instead, the students at Fillmore High don't want an intrud...