Books Published in May 1991

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 1991

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New Books List: 566 titles

  • Public Defender

    Joan Hewett

  • Bikes

    Anne Rockwell

  • Mr. Bear's Boat

    Thomas Graham

  • Begin the World Again

    Bettie Waddell Cannon

  • City Critters Around the World

    Amy Goldman Koss

  • Surprise Box

    Nicki Weiss

  • An Alphabet of Rotten Kids!

    David Elliott

  • Greyling

    Jane Yolen

  • Rhinoceros Mother

    Toshi Yoshida

  • Ernie and Bert's Summer Project

    Linda Hayward

  • Theodore Mouse up in the Air

    Michaela Muntean

  • Puppy Love

    Madeline Sunshine

  • Garfield and the Space Cat

    Leslie McGuire

  • Good Old Days

    Dave Werner

  • Beauty and the Beast: Favorite Fairy Tales

    Outlet Book Company Staff

  • Coming Triumph of the Free World

    Rick DeMarinis

    Rick DeMarinis possesses a power and an originality unique in contemporary American fiction. The Coming Triumph of the Free World, his second story collection, puts his flamboyant gifts on display: an amazing verbal energy, a blackly comic vision of ...

  • H Is for Homicide

    Sue Grafton

    THE LADY CAN WRITE . . . Any reader who needs a smart and sassy P.I. would do well to hire Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. . . . 'H' is for Homicide continues to show the author in strong storytelling form. . . . [It] finds Kinsey Millhone working on ...

  • Mojo and the Pickle Jar

    Douglas Bell

    A DEMON IN A PICKLE JAR?That's what Juanita claimed, but to Mojo the thing in the jar looked more like a diseased crab apple. But that was before Grandmother called the Dark Lady of Guadalupe--and blue lightning struck and the Hounds of Hell came out...

  • Foreseeable Future

    Reynolds Price

    A collection of three stories features "The Fare to the Moon," "Back before Day," and the title story, in which a soldier returns barely whole from the war and must find a reason to live. By the author of Blue Calhoun. Reprint....

  • The Sensationist

    Charles Palliser

    Beginning a tormented search for anonymous sensual pleasure, David, a man obsessed with women, pursues a trail of aimless conquest and the intimacy of strangers. By the author of The Quincunx. Reprint....

  • Elaine and the Flying Frog

    Heidi Chang

  • Event Horizon

    Jack McKinney

    GLOBAL WARNING In 21st-century America, ecological responsibility had spread like wildfire, cheeseburgers were in short supply, and citizens were recycling, reusing, end doing without -- all to reverse Earth's decline. But out beyond the recently ...

  • Breaking the Ice

    Kay Gregory

    He called her the Snow Queen And if that wasn't enough to jolt Sarah out of the ten-year sleep she'd consigned herself to since being jilted as a teenager, Brett Jackson had other plans. With customary arrogance and his sexy, impossible...

  • The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    All the world's a stage--and now Jim Qwilleran's apple orchard has become the stage for a real-life murder scene. The much-disliked director of the Pickax Theatre Club's Shakespeare production, Hilary VanBrook, is found dead after the closing-night c...

  • Superconductivity

    Charlene W. Billings

    A look at superconductivity--the flow of electricity through cooled mercury--describes what it is; its structure and features; and its potential uses in computers, medicine, transmission of power, and communication...

  • Secrets & Surprises

    Ann Beattie

    These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction. Today these stories -- "A Vintage Thunderbird;" "The Lawn Party,...

  • Love, Pain & the Whole Damn Thing

    Doris Dorrie

  • The Accident

    David Plante

  • The Penguin Book of First World War Prose

    Jon Glover

    Selections from the letters, memoirs, autobiography and fiction of the World War I. Edmund Blunden, Vera Britain, Oskar Kokoschka, Hasek, Paul Klee and Hemingway are among the contributors to this anthology, which contains several specially translate...

  • Grandpa's Song

    Tony Johnston

  • The Land of Gray Wolf

    Thomas Locker

  • Roger Loses His Marbles!

    Susanna Gretz

  • Pig in a Barrow

    Bert Kitchen

  • Rain, Rain, Go Away!

    Jonathan Langley

  • Tosca's Surprise

    Matthew Sturgis

  • Cats in the Sun

    Lesley Anne Ivory

  • Red Fox

    Hannah Giffard

    In search of food to feed his mate, Red Fox encounters angry guard dogs in a barnyard, a swift rabbit, and other things, and then returns home to discover that his mate, Rose, has given birth to a litter of pups...

  • A Guest Is a Guest

    John Himmelman

  • Earth Tigerlets, as Explained by Professor Xargle

    Jeanne Willis

  • The Turtle and the Moon

    Charles Turner

    The luminous pastels of Melissa Bay Mathis, from nightwater blues to predawn pinks, are the perfect accompaniment to this gentle story about a wistful turtle and the mysteries of moonlight. Even the youngest listeners will respond to the themes of ni...

  • Little Bear Sleeping

    Tony Johnston

  • Good Days, Bad Days

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Garfield Goes Camping

    Jim Davis

  • Me Baby!

    Riki Levinson

  • My Father's Luncheonette

    Melanie Hope Greenberg

  • Bronco Dogs

    Caron Lee Cohen

  • The Broken Boy

    Karen Ackerman

  • Three Blind Mice

    Lorinda Bryan Cauley

  • A Garden Alphabet

    Isabel Wilner

  • Little Duck's Bicycle Ride

    Dorothy M. Stott

  • Who Says That?

    Arnold Shapiro

  • Mismatched Summer

    C.S. Adler

    Serious, sensitive Meg is already worried about her mother, who has a terrible history with men and is now dating her boss, when mischief-making Micale arrives in Cape Cod and must share a room with Meg...

  • Finding Foxes

    Allison Lee Blyler

  • The Stream

    Naomi Russell

  • Renegade War

    James McPhee

  • Rebel Attack

    Mark Grant

  • Debt of Honor

    Larry Hicks

  • His Lordship's Pleasure

    Marion Chesney

    SHE HAD BUT ONE THING OF VALUE LEFT TO OFFER...HERSELF! Annabelle Carruthers could only dream of being kissed by such a dashing man as Lord Darkwood. For she herself was locked in misery -- married to a rake who drank and gambled their lives in...

  • Beyond the Fall of Night

    Arthur C. Clarke; Gregory Benford

    Arthur C. Clarke's brilliant novella, Against the Fall of Night, takes us billions of years into the future. A young man named Alvin rebels against the machine-fed ease of his existence, discovers the long-hidden truth about human history, and forces...

  • Flicker

    Theodore Roszak

    From the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and fantasy, full of metaphysical mysteries that will haunt the dreams of e...

  • Frontier Justice

    J.R. Roberts

    One horse and three people don't add up to smooth traveling under the best of circumstances. And when one's a woman, one's a child, and both are in shock after a wagon train massacre. the going gets even rougher. But Clint Adams has no choice. He'...

  • Jailbreak

    Giles Tippette

    Acclaimed western writer Giles Tippette takes the action south of the border, where blood is thicker than water no matter how many bullets are fired . . . Running the Half-Moon ranch is all the excitement Justa Williams needs in his life. But wh...

  • Sunset Graze

    Luke Short

    Word came to cowpuncher Dave Wallace that his friend Tip Macy had frozen to death in a blizzard. Wallace knew it was a damn lie. That's why he had a chip on his shoulder and a .44 at his side when he rode into town. But all that got him was a fast tr...

  • Outlaws of Mesquite

    Louis L'Amour

    FACEDOWN! "Who are you?" Milt Cogar was asked. "I'm a man ridin' through," Milt said. "Who are you?" Spencer stiffened. "Dan Spencer's the name, and I run this town." Milt lifted his eyes insultingly toward the collection of miserable sha...

  • Thief of My Heart

    Rexanne Becnel

    SHE WAS NO PRIM AND PROPER SCHOOLMARM From the columned veranda of Sparrow Hill, the dark silhouette of a stranger could he seen approaching astride a huge black stallion. Lovely Lacie Montgomery felt a warning chill. Her secret must be kept if sh...

  • Southern Oaks

    Brenna Braxton-Barshon

    NECESSITY BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. PASSION TORE THEM APART. Desperation forced her to buy a husband. In order to receive her birthright and save the family plantation from a corrupt uncle, the beautiful Brandelene Barnett had to marry. Yet she loved...

  • Bold Montana Bride

    Karen A. Bale

    HE AWAKENED HER PASSIONS. High-spirited Maddie Broderick refused to follow her father's advice and marry a rich man -- even though that was the only way to save the Broderick ranch. She would manage on her own before she'd marry for money...

  • Castaway Heart

    Colleen Campbell

    RESCUED WITH A CARESS After many long years alone shipwrecked on an uncharted desert island, beautiful Honey James had no memory of her past or even her name but the resourceful castaway knew her own mind! When handsome sea captain Christopher Ames ...

  • Savage Dance

    Cassie Edwards

    SECRET PLEASURES She was half-Indian and half-white, raised as the adopted daughter of a Pawnee chief. Now on the verge of womanhood, the beautiful Kiriki yearned to know the pleasures, adventures and secrets of life. If only she realized how deeply...

  • Quiet Fires

    Ginna Gray

    SHE LONGED FOR HIM. HE LONGED FOR HER. BUT NEITHER KNEW THE OTHER'S HEART. No one could understand why Elizabeth Stanton, with her pale gold hair, rose-ivory skin and dove gray eyes, was an old maid. No one knew that, ever since they were children...

  • Storm Winds

    Iris Johansen

    Eighteenth-century France, where cunning intellects and glittering ballgowns concealed treacherous hearts...where madness swept a nation, and the last sound many noblemen heard was the terrible song of the guillotine's blade. Brilliant and reputed...

  • Sweet Temptation

    Leigh Greenwood

    SHE YEARNED FOR HIS LOVE It was a dream come true. Sara Raymond was actually going to marry Lord Gavin Carlisle, the man she'd adored since childhood. She nearly burst with happiness...until she stood at the altar and looked into the dark, angry...

  • A Brilliant Mismatch

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    He was the last man she would choose to marry... A WILLFUL WOMAN Fiery Moira Pattinger vowed that her domineering father would rue the day he dared interfere with her choice of husband... and so made an impetuous promise to marry the next man to ...

  • Untamed Desire

    Kim Hansen

    IN A LAND OF WILD DESIRES.... From the moment she looked up into the stranger's steely eyes, Jessica knew she had found her heart's desire. But even though he'd saved her honor in the midnight blackness of a boomtown alley, she swore she'd never sub...

  • Tempest

    Catherine Hart

    Her love was stolen from her in an outlaw ambush on the night road to Dodge City-leaving, young Charity Prindle widowed and alone, with the fires of vengeance burning in her breast. The winds of desire swept across the Kansas plains carrying Chari...

  • True Colors

    Susan Kyle

    A HOMECOMING OF REVENGE...OR ENDLESS LOVE. Meredith Ashe returned to Billings, Montana, a great deal wiser and much richer than the scared, pregnant teenager she had been six years before. She was now 'Kip' Tennison, the sophisticated savvy widow ...

  • Journey to Desire

    Catherine Lyndell

    In an exotic land, their lost love blazed anew into glorious passion! FATE HAD ONCE TORN THEN FROM EACH OTHER...BUT A LOVE SO SPLENDID COULD NEVER DIE Despite the fire glowing in her windblown hair and defiant heart, Tessie Gallagher had yet to...

  • A Novel Affair

    Patricia Laye

    Her heart was an open book... DETERMINED TO BE A SPINSTER ...DESTINED FOR ROMANCE Octavia Devonshire has vowed she'll never marry--it might interfere with her plans to become a famous novelist. But how to fend off the bothersome suitors her anx...

  • Till Dawn Tames the Night

    Meagan McKinney

    FROM THE SAFE HAVEN OF A LONDON ORPHANAGE TO THE SAVAGE SEAS OF LOVE... A safe, respectable orphanage was the only home Aurora Dayne had ever known. Teaching there would mean security. But when the mysterious letter arrived, offering her a positio...

  • The Captured Heart

    Sheila O'Hallion

    Brianna Morris was a scrapping redheaded urchin with all the drawing-room graces of a stableyard puppy. Nevertheless, Andrew Ormsby, sixth duke of Ashford, was honor-bound to take his orphaned cousin in, while her brother went to war with Wellington....

  • Touched by Fire

    Michalann Perry

    HE DIDN'T NEED LOVE Trigg Hanahan would hustle his own mother out of her last dime. But the moment he looked into Ellari Lockridge's wide green eyes, the cynical con artist had the strangest urge to protect her. He told himself it was just business ...

  • Wild Colorado Passion

    Judith Steel

    SHE IS THE SPARK Lorelei Abbott was determined to operate and manage the Colorado mercantile she had inherited from her uncle. Accustomed to getting her way, the New York beauty refused to be daunted by the lawless roughness of the town of Durango o...

  • The Shifting Shadows of Moongate

    Michele Y. Thomas

    Ariel Mortow welcomed the chance to spend the summer in elegant Newport when she was commissioned to paint watercolor "interiors" of the Rockwells' fashionable mansion. But soon after her arrival it became clear that something was terribly wrong. Lo...

  • Yesterday's Shadows

    Marianne Willman

    DESTINY She was a young orphan traveling west in search of the father who'd left her years ago. Bettany Howard couldn't remember her mother, whose only legacy was her own silver eyes and moonlight hair. He was a Cheyenne brave riding back to t...

  • The Lost Locket of Windbrace Hall

    Beverly C. Warren

    No matter how far she ran she carried the terror with her! “Take care never to be alone again, my girl!” Falsely accused of theft, Juliet Fletcher fled across the barren windswept moors with nothing but the precious locket she treasured abo...

  • Blood Price

    Tanya Huff

    NIGHT STALKER It began with blood-and death amid the streets of late-night Toronto. Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto's homicide detail, now a private investigator, witnessed the first attack by the force of dark magic that would soon wreak its re...

  • Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants

    Rob MacGregor

    Indiana Jones has landed his first teaching post, in the archaeology department at London University. His brightest -- and prettiest -- student is a twenty-year-old Scottish girl, Deirdre Campbell, who claims she’s uncovered a golden scroll, proof ...

  • Stony Man II

    Don Pendleton

    STONY MAN Nestled in the hills of Virginia, equipped wit-state-of-the-art intelligence hardware, tracking devices and weapons, sits Stony Man Farm. Sanctioned by the President, it's run by a dedicated SOG man -- with a computer genius and a brilliant...

  • Death Load

    Don Pendleton

    JUNGLE HEAT Thailand's border explodes with violent conflict. Ruthless Khmer Rouge guerrillas are herding hundreds of refugees to be marched to Kampuchea and used as slaves... or worse. Now, however, the guerrillas have gone too far. A State Depar...

  • Madman Run

    David Robbins

  • Shining Path

    Duncan Long

    GUNS AND GOLD The Shining Path terrorist movement attacks a small village in Peru. The locals, led by American gold hunter Harlan Lloyd, valiantly and successfully defend their town and families. But all know that the guerrillas who lust after the...

  • Dark Lullaby

    Jessica Palmer

    The spirit of eleven-year-old Shelley Graves, killed in a house fire, follows the family to their new home, and through her younger sister, Sara, she attempts to take revenge on the family that secretly and horribly abused her. Shelley Graves was...

  • Prodigal

    Melanie Tem

    Following her brother Ethan's brutal kidnapping and murder, twelve-year-old Lucy loses her hold on the real world and begins seeing apparitions of her dead brother, and is soon drawn to the evil force that took his life...

  • Fear Itself

    Ric Meyers

    Grim, once a successful young executive named Geoffrey Robert Merrick--who interfered with his company's dealings with a South American drug lord--but now a gruesome creature, the victim of a car bomb, is determined to find his attackers...

  • Dreamland

    Garfield Reeves-Stevens

  • Birds of Prey

    David Drake

    In A.D. 262, imperial secret agent Aulus Perennius stands alone against the imminent collapse of Rome's empire, until a visitor from the distant future engages him in a mission of utmost secrecy and significance...

  • Castle Murders

    John DeChancie

    At Castle Perilous, a magical party ends in murder and the hunt begins for whodunit in this “fast-moving and funny” fantasy novel (Barbara Paul, author of Kill Fee). Partying to death? A parlous party at the Castle Perilous comes to a dea...

  • The Two in Hiding

    Ru Emerson

    STRANGE AND WONDROUS RUMORS ... spread through the kingdom of Rhadaz concerning the young duke Aletto and his sister Lialla, fled from the household of their uncle Jadek, who had ruled the land of Zelharri since the suspicious death of his brother y...

  • At Any Price

    David Drake

  • The Warrior

    David Drake

    THEY WERE THE BEST COLONEL ALOIS HAMMER. He welded five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe. LUKE BROGLIE: His brilliant mind could have succeeded in any business; but war was the business he...

  • The Expected One

    Mark E. Rogers

  • Bully!

    Mike Resnick
    in

    "In March 1909, Theodore Roosevelt went on a safari to central Africa. In this fictionalized account of that trip, Mike Resnick takes us on an amusing ""what-if"" with Roosevelt deciding to ""liberate"" the native Africans from Belgian rule and to se...

  • Mission of Magic

    Julie Dean Smith

    A princess must learn to wield her own magic if she is to save her kingdom -- and her own life -- from the cruel reign of her brother in this fantasy saga.Princess Athaya of Caithe paid dearly for revealing her magical gifts: the loss of loved ones, ...

  • Matrix Cubed

    Britton Bloom

    Affirming his loyalty to the Desert Dancers, Mercurian prince Kemal Gavilan struggles to secure his planet's future by overcoming his family's treachery and solving his father's murder. But he must save the inner planets as well. RAM has its own sola...

  • Shadow Leader

    Tara K. Harper

    WOLFSTALKERS Linked by an unbreakable telepathic bond, Dion and her wolf, Gray Hishn, were an unbeatable team. Together they could scout a trail better than any single human, and their unique healing talent had saved the lives of their companions ...

  • Redemption of Light

    Kathleen M. O'Neal

    The Final Conflict With the alien Magistrates determined to destroy all that remains of the human Gamant civilization, Jeremiel Baruch, commander of the Underground's fleet, launches his forces on a last desperate campaign against the enemy. Jeremie...

  • Hunter on Arena

    Rose Estes

    From Rose Estes, the bestselling author of Master Wolf, comes a thrilling tale of intergalactic fantasy. In the this second installment to the Hunter series, Braldt the Gladiator must battle feral horrors from the stars....

  • The World at the End of Time

    Frederik Pohl

    "Frederick Pohl succeeds where others wouldn't even dare..."

    The Denver Post

    Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part ...

  • The Technicolor Time Machine

    Harry Harrison

    Why pay for costumes, scenery, props or actors when the most brilliant drama of all time is unfolding before your very eyes, in vivid color--in 1000 A.D.? The head of ailing Climactic Studios has given producer Barney Hendrickson five days to get a m...

  • Mercenaries

    Bill Baldwin

    As the ravaged postwar Imperial Fleet stands helpless, nearby worlds fall to the League of Dark Stars. Commanding a squadron of Starfuries, Wilf Brim sets course to save the star kingdom of Fluvanna. If he fails, the Empire is doomed....

  • Hawk's Flight

    Carol Chase

  • The God Killer

    Simon R. Green

    On the Street of Gods, in the center of the city of Haven, the Beings of Power come and go. They are real and unreal, both and neither. They inspire worship and fear. The Streset is theirs and theirs alone. And now, someone or something is killing...

  • Starfire Down

    Lee McKeone

  • Guts and Glory

    G. Harry Stine

    America's Elite Force Of High-Tech Commandos Wage War To Save The Nation's Future! 21st Century Earth - a planet torn by superpowers waging war against each other with the most awesome arsenals of death in the history of mankind. But America has a st...

  • Blue Moon Rising

    Simon R. Green

    THE STUFF OF LEGENDS Rupert didn't especially want to be a prince. And he certainly never asked to be the second son of a royal line that really didn't need a spare. After all, a kingdom suffering from financial setbacks couldn't afford to have fa...

  • A> Loverboy

    Judith Arnold

    "I crave your body." Seeing this message on her computer screen, Lucy Beckwith wondered if she'd finally gone mad. It had to be a mistake; at the very least, someone's idea of a bad joke. "I want you, Lucy Beckwith." Her ad...

  • A Scandalous Lady

    Helen Argers

    THEIR WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN... The Hartford women are utterly flabbergasted to learn that the late Mr. Hartford was, in reality, Lord Standish! The revelation of his double life has left them in a tizzy... snubbed by society and bedeviled by deb...

  • The Man from Natchez

    Elizabeth August

    THE TAURUS MAN Waving a red flag to tempt the Taurus man will surely send this stubborn, bullheaded hunk charging in the opposite direction. Instead, woo him gently and let him think it was his idea! ONE TAURUS MAN IN PARTICULAR Rough-and-rugged...

  • Dreams to Keep

    Nomi Berger

    Tania Mickiewicz was just a child when the Nazis marched into her beloved Warsaw and brutally shattered her whole world. Orpaned and alone, she vowed to escape the poverty and persecution of her past, living only for the day she would exact her devas...

  • Cloud Dancer

    Peggy Bechko

    Woman Warrior As the Spanish put their mark on the "New World," young Cloud Dancer's peaceful life at Acoma Pueblo crumbled before her eyes. Alone and bitter, the beautiful maiden learned the fierce Apache ways of her lost love White Haw and vowed...

  • Man of Steele

    Judith Bowen

    HOOK, LINE AND SINKER A female deckhand was the last thing Mike Steele wanted right now. As far as he was concerned, women and fishing boats didn't mix. And pretty, petite Kimberly Bowring was no exception. Oh, he liked women all right -- but ...

  • Hot Pursuit

    Patt Bucheister

    Denver Sierra was a man who went after what he wanted--and he wasn't taking no from the elusive Courtney Caine! Shed defied his searching gaze, and offered her devastatingly rugged suitor no encouragement. Drawn to the lady whose warm smile and wary ...

  • Just Say Yes

    Dixie Browning

    BE MINE Daisy Valentine had taken her newly attained look-but-don't-touch attitude south of the border for some sun, surf and solitude. Four years as a not-so-gay divorcee had left her wary of any and all relationships -- especially those that...

  • What Lucinda Learned

    Beth Bryan

    Her future had been settled until she discovered love Lucinda Neville had hit upon a famous idea. By proposing marriage to her childhood friend and country neighbour, she would save him from the sponging house and he would save her from the Marria...

  • Earth Angel

    Linda Cajio

    Miles Kitteridge looked up at the beautiful hellcat he'd wanted for years--and felt his breath leave his body! Spirited, sensual Catherine Wagner was fighting a losing battle in trying to make her family improve its record on the environment. Catheri...

  • Backward Glance

    Robyn Carr
    in

    News of her "ailing" mother sent Leigh Brackon and her twin toddlers rushing home. But once there, she found her spry mom sipping medicinal wine and old flame John McElroy knee-deep in landscaping the backyard! Coincidence? Leigh suspected maternal m...

  • The Loving Swords

    Marjorie Burrows

    Caught in a Trap of Her Own Making Clemma Wells had only meant to buy time with the desperate story that she was carrying Will Brandt's child. She never suspected that Tom Cord would offer to marry her and give her a way out. If she told the truth...

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Stella Cameron

    JACK IRVING WAS DANGEROUS . . . . . . and cute. He flirted outrageously with Lauren Taylor and made a nuisance of himself until she agreed to date him. But what did Jack really have in mind? Lauren tried her hardest to ignore his romantic overt...

  • Lead With Your Heart

    Lorraine Carroll

    Even through the shimmering New Orleans haze, Kenley Farrell sensed the stranger's powerful sensuality. She soon discovered his name -- Blane Crawford -- a man whose haunting voice could make her forget her lessons in male treachery, a man whose ...

  • Duet

    Patricia Collinge

    TALK OF THE SEASON As a visiting professor at one of Canada's most prestigious conservatories, Marina Prohaska had expected to spend the year teaching and performing with the chamber music ensemble. She had no desire to go on tour -- especiall...

  • Shared Ground

    Marion Smith Collins

    THE SECRET GARDEN The little village of Shared Ground, hidden away in the mountains of Tennessee, was an enchanted place, where ancient knowledge was preserved in a centuries-old tradition. Beck MacDomhall was one of Shared Ground's chosen ...

  • Masquerade

    Janet Dailey

    New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey takes readers to the sultry French Quarter of New Orleans, where a woman must uncover the greatest masquerade of all... Awakening in a hospital room in Nice, Remy Jardin is shocked to discover she's b...

  • Ask Me Anything

    Margot Dalton

    He'd make her lose a million dollars Every other contestant on Ask Me Anything ignored the rules and studied between shows. Not Jennifer D'Angelo. She had a watchdog appointed by the show's sponsor, Forbes Motorcycles. And Charlie Mitc...

  • Romantic Notions

    Roz Denny

    It wasn't just the underwear When Sam Court came raging into Brynn Powell's lingerie shop, Romantic Notions, to return the frivolous undies his thirteen-year-old daughter had bought, he was shocked to find himself attracted to the propriet...

  • Firm Commitment

    Kate Denton

    "Just like a real family!" Ben Weston's four-year-old daughter wanted a "real family," complete with mommy. And the mommy she'd chosen was Anne Marshall. Anne was the newest architect on Ben's staff, a thirty-seven-y...

  • True Colors

    Dixie Dubois

    THE WOMAN INSIDE From his thick black hair to his silvery eyes, Julian Archer was every woman's dream-come-true. His compelling presence stirred Nikki's senses like a warm summer breeze. But Nikki Colomb had to fight his irresistible charms and de...

  • Polly and the Prince

    Carola Dunn

    Polly Howard, an absentminded artist, is saved from a fall by a shabby Russian vagabond. Kolya Volkov turns out to be a gentleman and a friend of her brother's employer. Exiled from Russia, penniless, he must make his own way in England. He has nothi...

  • Love at Second Sight

    Kara Galloway

    He was no kindred spirit Psychic Charlie Yost knew all about skepticism. It was written all over Ross Davies's face when she announced she was his birthday gift. But she had a job to do--help him locate the long-lost family treasure. And whether t...

  • A Time for Trust

    Karen Field

    Paul Cooper knew Elaine Malden's life was in danger But could he shield her from the truth -- that her brother had involved her in a conspiracy to kill a man on race day at the Indianapolis 500? And how could he overlook the fact that Elain...

  • Romancing Susan

    Theresa Gladden

    First Matt Martinelli stole her parking space. Then he tried to charm her into going out with him. But Susan Wright was determined to resist Matt's knock-'em dead grin and his gypsy eyes! He decided that this slightly frazzled mom was all wor...

  • Be My Wife

    Marcy Gray

    A GALLANT MAN His brother's death had left scars far deeper than those on his face -- and love was forever ruled out of Adam Neil's future. Then, beautiful, naive Cammy Anderson entered his life. He'd promised her grandmother he'd take care of Ca...

  • Lady Diamond

    Phyllis Halldorson

    DIAMONDS AREN'T A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND Why would the long, lean lifeguard Dinah Swenson had hired be interested in her? The love-shy divorcee had traded romance for a job managing an apartment complex, and her heart belonged to leaky faucets...

  • Lord Buckingham's Bride

    Sandra Heath

    A Foreign Intrigue Miss Alison Clearwell was a properly brought-up young beauty -- but now she was far from home and close to scandal. On her way to her uncle in distant Russia, she was fair game for the dashing and determined Prince Nikolai, w...

  • The Way Home

    Linda Howard
    in

    Anne Sharp had never expected in a million years that she would get an indecent proposal from the man who was also her boss. But when wealthy Saxon Malone has asked her to be either his mistress or secretary, Anne chose the former because she knows t...

  • With This Ring

    Sarah G. Joseph

    A CAPTIVATING NOVEL OF A ONCE-INA-LIFETIME LOVE... When Tony moved to Texas, he needed a friendly neighbor to help him settle in ... and it didn't to long for his friendship with Elise to bloom into something more special. Wedding plans were in th...

  • The Miracle

    Muriel Jensen

    WHO WAS BERNIE EMERSON? She was a woman who had few material possessions, yet carried herself with an air of elegance and breeding. She savored the taste of macadamia-nut ice cream every time she had it. She knew little about fashion, and was a b...

  • Spider's Web

    Allie Jordan

    A SWASHBUCKLING TENANT When novelist Fletcher Sims decided to rent the garage apartment of a Georgia university professor, he imagined his landlady to be a doddering white-haired matron. But Silvia Fitzpatrick took him by surprise. Her dark, shiny...

  • Crimson Sunrise

    Kristie Knight

    THE CHARLESTON WOMEN A grand and glorious trilogy of the colonial South...the women whose passions helped to shape a nation... and the men they dared to love. NOELLE ARLEDGE. She was young, beautiful, and innocent--but the heartache of war spark...

  • Stolen Dreams

    Lee Magner

    Once burned...TWICE SHY.... Blake Malone's memory was flawless. He recalled -- all too clearly -- the pain he'd felt when Elizabeth Rossi jilted him fifteen years ago. Now she had reentered his life, and suddenly it was impossible to remember an...

  • Secret Keeper

    Victoria Leigh

    Jake Gallegher made her want to break the rules, to flirt with the danger in his eyes--but impetuous, sexy Mallory Bennett wondered if challenging the gorgeous restaurant owner would get her kicked out... or get her kissed! Jake wanted desperately to...

  • The Daddy Candidate

    Cait London

    AND DADDY MAKES THREE... When a moment of passion with Max Van Damme left inn owner Irish Dalton a mother-to-be, she prepared an absentee parent plan for the sexy, systematic businessman. And when Max insisted on sticking around, Irish knew he fel...

  • Devil's Lady

    Dawn Lindsey

    The Devilish Lord Deveril Beautiful, flame-haired Miss Christina Castleford had found a way out of the shadow of scandal cast by her notorious grandmother. The eminently well-born Charles Heybridge had asked for her hand. As his wife, Christina at...

  • Lover's Gold

    Kat Martin

    aka The Duchess of Carbon County A PASSIONATE WOMAN When a hired gunman came to her small Pennsylvania town, Elaina McAllister knew with one look at his glinting blue eyes that she could never love this insolent stranger. But against all will, ...

  • Heaven in Texas

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    Billie Ballinger was destitute and downhearted when her car broke down outside the tiny West Texas town of Heaven. Her only option seemed the temporary refuge reluctantly offered by Heaven's mayor, Linc Snow. But with four motherless kids on the verg...

  • Sweet on Jessie

    Jackie Merritt

    MR. MAY Name: Hank Farrell Residence: Thorp, Wyoming Occupations: Horse rancher; rodeo bull breeder; helicopter pilot. Turn-ons: Worn jeans; thick steaks; his outdoor hot tub; Jessie Shroeder. Hank had thought he'd gotten Jessie ou...

  • No Quarter Given

    Lindsay McKenna

    U.S. Naval graduate Dana Coulter had one dream: to earn her wings. Yet from the moment she clashed with her handsome new flight instructor, she felt hopelessly grounded. Lieutenant Griff Turcotte bullied, browbeat and awoke a hungry passion in her th...

  • So This Is Love

    Cheryl Reavis
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    Little Huong Brenner knew all about the customs of her adopted country. On Groundhog Day you searched for a groundhog, so on Mother's Day . . . But to betroth her reticent father Jacob to attractive Jessica Markham, Huong had to rally her baffled new...

  • A Dangerous Man

    Marilyn Pappano

    NO SAFE PLACE Years ago, Shanna Cassidy had thought of Rory Hawkes as a bad boy, someone no nice girl would ever admit to knowing, but now she was a desperate woman. Someone had killed her father, and Rory held the only clue. But Rory Hawkes ha...

  • Paid in Full

    Rita Rainville

    IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT ... Gourmet chef Kim Cassidy knew the hungry gleam in hotel magnate Matthew Kingsley's eyes had nothing to do with the restaurant he'd hired her to manage. Certain that involvement with Matt could only stir up trouble, ...

  • Love Counts

    Karen Percy

    The wrong Mr. Right! It was in the tarot cards. Lindsay Ames was destined to meet a tail, dark and devastating Mr. Right. But the cards neglected to mention that he would be the wrong Mr. Right. Tim Reynolds--her honky business partner and a young...

  • Memories

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Chism Talbert had loved her first, and best - but he had broken her heart. He was the caretaker's handsome son. She was Minta Westerly, the privileged girl who'd surrendered to him one starry summer night - then been abandoned when he abruptly left t...

  • The Abduction

    Patricia Potter

    Scottish Border, 1550 Proud clan leader Elsbeth Ker longed for peace, but her stubborn English neighbors would have none of it--especially since the mysterious Alexander had returned to lead the Carey clan. Now the crofters had been burned out, an...

  • Stranger in Camelot

    Deborah Smith

    The wickedly handsome hero who appeared without warning on a sultry Florida night had to be a figment of Agnes Hamilton's imagination--or the answer to her dreams! The gallant rider swept her onto his horse and carried her through the storm, behaving...

  • No Trespassing Allowed

    Lass Small

    WARNING! Sling Mueller was every woman's dream of a strong, dark, gorgeous, dangerous man. But years ago he'd posted himself off-limits: "No trespassing, not the marrying kind." he'd had a load of responsibility running a ranch and raising a passe...

  • Deadly Coincidence

    Denise Richards

    MOST WANTED How had a pretty little girl from west Texas ended up an international terrorist? The question echoed through Agent J.D. Westat's head as he watched the gorgeous redheaded target of his investigation. When he'd first reviewed Laurie Mo...

  • The Last Great Affair

    Kristine Rolofson

    Mistaken Identity Arianna Simone couldn't believe her bad luck. First she went to the wrong wedding. Then, she was kidnapped by the best man, who believed she was a femme fatale out to ruin the nuptials! Max Cole swept her off to Block Island as ...

  • Hard Luck Lady

    Christine Rimmer

    LADY BEWARE Family obligations had brought Maggie Durrant back to Brandy City. The teenager who'd hated her hometown and feared becoming another good-for-nothing "Dreamin' Durrant" had returned a grown woman, armored with money and success. But ev...

  • Pushed to the Limit

    Patricia Rosemoor

    KING CRAWLEY He nursed a hatred so strong, prison walls couldn't contain it. Powerful and cunning, he vowed to do to her what had been done to him... . SYDNEY RAFERTY LORD In one short day, she had become wife ... and widow. Soon, even the m...

  • Tangled Lives

    JoAnn Ross

    Sultry deceiver La Rubia. The men of La Paz whispered her name in awe. The husky-voiced torch singer with the long blond hair and provocative figure was every man's fantasy. But La Rubia was only interested in seducing one man - General Ramirez. ...

  • The Dowager's Dilemma

    Irene Saunders

    He Came to Conquer Beautiful young widow Sarah Wyndham soon found out how vulnerable she was after the sudden demise of her much older husband. The handsome, domineering Viscount Jethro Newsome easily stripped her of her estate, using the law t...

  • Her Lucky Break

    Joan Smith

    A RELAXING HOLIDAY That's what perky policewoman Cathy Auden planned for her visit to Toronto. She certainly had no intention of spending her vacation tracking down an elusive criminal. Yet when handsome investigator Matt Wilson charmed his way in...

  • Strangers Who Linger

    Aimee Thurlo

    There was blood on his hands . . . Everyone believed Greg Marten was guilty. A kindly old priest had been brutally murdered, and Diana Clark had found Greg standing over the body. Greg was a stranger in town, with no proof of his innocence and no ...

  • Lavender Flame

    Karen Stratford

    LOVE'S PROMISE IN A WORLD DIVIDED After gears in exile, at long last Catriona Ferguson had been summoned back to her beloved Scottish highlands--a troubled land ravaged by Jacobite intrigue and dark superstition. Betrothed against her will to a ha...

  • The Black Hawk

    Lynda Trent

    Unexpected Peril... The daring privateer known only as the Black Hawk had chosen to renounce the sea. It was time for Robert Chandler to become a respectable mechant. But he never dreamed that Lady Bianca Stanford's bewitching golden eyes coul...

  • The Moon Pool

    Diana Stuart

    The mystical waters of the Moon Pool held healing powers, but for Maya Najero, it had been the scene of heartbreak. Eleven years ago, she'd shared a rapturous kiss there with Robert Pierson, then he'd cruelly scorned her. Time and distance hadn't was...

  • The Lady's Fancy

    Helen Tucker

    Lady's Fancy...Lady's Choice The ebony-haired daughter of a wealthy squire, Emmeline Howell was in no hurry to marry, for the men who courted her were nothing but clods and dullards. When at last she settled on a suitable mate, she found she would...

  • Debt of Love

    Karen Young

    She was tormented by remorse Free-spirited Alexandra Tate had always been as elusive as a summer's breeze. Hardly the woman for lawyer Tyler Madison, a man driven by his sense of duty. Then a random schoolyard shooting crippled Tyler's nephew, ...

  • Stand by Me

    Kay Wilding

    THEY WERE FROM TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS... From the stage of the French Quarter saloon, Jilly Blaine felt his stare. He was alone, impeccably dressed-and his eyes blazed into hers .. . . Why would a handsome young man like him come to Chez Bernie t...

  • The Sheikh

    Lynne Wilding

    ARABIAN NIGHTS Who was this willful, fair-haired female who dared to defy Sheikh Karim El Hareembi? The widowed father had expected a male tutor to arrive at Shalima Palace--not a beguiling beauty who was only too happy to give him a piece of her ...

  • What Lindsey Knew

    Ann Williams

    FORGET ME NOT . . . Private investigator Jonas Kingston couldn't believe it. The woman standing across from him--no sign of recognition on her face--was the same woman who had once destroyed his career with the police force. And now she wanted his...

  • My Dearest Cal

    Sherryl Woods

    MY DEAREST CAL... That's how the letter that caught Marilou Stockton's eye began. As a postal worker in the dead-letter office, she knew she shouldn't read more of this grandmother's heart-rending missive, yet one glance convinced her she had to s...

  • The Schemers

    Lois Wolfe

    AMID THE TREACHERY AND TURMOIL OF WAR, THEY SURRENDERED TO A MAGNIFICENT LOVE.... She was a well-bred British beauty unwittingly lured into a dangerous secret mission. He was a half-breed Cherokee soldier sworn to avenge his tragic past. A world a...

  • A Cat of a Different Color

    Lydia Adamson

    BODY OF A DEAD CAT LOVER Beautiful Off-Off Broadway actress-sleuth Alice Nestleton gasps as a sinister shadow looms at the top of her apartment house stairs. But it's only a moonstruck student from her acting class who comes bearing a gift-a gorge...

  • Silent Night

    Gary Amo

  • Last Spy Out

    Robert Andrews

    Several chase and spy scenes hint that Andrews (author of Center Game , former CIA officer and current arms-manufacturer lobbyist) could write a thriller superior to this paean to right-wing elitism, should he relinquish his role of self-appointed CI...

  • A Mind to Murder

    Anna Clarke

  • Mystery of the Missing Bagpipes

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    While at a bagpipe camp on an isolated Maine estate--where her father is attending a bagpipe school run by an eccentric millionaire--Kim must solve a mystery involving a stolen set of valuable, antique bagpipes...

  • Blood Stock

    John Francome

    Learning of his trusted father's involvement in treacherous scams that include insurance fraud, Fergus Drumgarrick faces financial ruin and finds his only allies in a beautiful lawyer and a rival investigator. Reprint....

  • The Burglar

    David Goodis

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In The Burglar (1953), first published like all his later novels as a paperback original, ...

  • Nightfall

    David Goodis

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In Nightfall (1947), David Goodis explores the theme of the innocent pursued, as artist Ji...

  • The Man Offside

    A.W. Gray

    When Jack Brendy is busted by the Feds for smuggling cocaine, his wife offers Dallas Cowboy-turned-loser Rick Bannion five thousand dollars to keep the government's sleazy informer off the stand. Reprint....

  • Shot

    Parnell Hall

    Stanley Hastings, who usually chases ambulances for negligence lawyer Richard Rosenberg, finally has his own client: mousy Melissa Ford, who wants him to look into her boyfriend David Melrose's background. In just one day's work, Stanley finds out so...

  • Cradle of Crime

    John Buxton Hilton

    Scotland Yard Inspector Kenworthy sifts through lies and family passions while investigating the suicide of Detective-Sergeant Lawson's mother-in-law, whose suicide note cites Lawson as the reason for her loss of a will to live...

  • Called by a Panther

    Michael Z. Lewin

    Meet Albert Samson, the best private eye who has been around in many a day. Can this go-for-it detective really be the Albert Samson we used to know? Advertising his wares on television? Having too many clients? If the workload is too intense, no ...

  • The Last One Left

    John D. MacDonald

    When a yacht explodes in the Bahamas, apparently killing six people, Sam Boyleston, an attorney from Texas and the brother of one of the victims, is compelled to investigate the circumstances, as does Raoul Kelly, a newspaper reporter.After the disas...

  • Where Lawyers Fear to Tread

    Lia Matera

    Murder of the First Part Overworked, overcaffeinated, and as cranky as a sequestered jury, Willa Jansson has a law review to get out. As second in command to the brilliant Susan Green, the ideal law student and perfect editor, Willa's rank jumps u...

  • True Crime

    Michael Mewshaw

  • Fly into Danger

    Jim Prentice

  • Fine Distinctions

    Deborah Valentine

    'A touch of Margaret Millar . . . worth watching' Sunday TelegraphEx-cop turned author Kevin Bryce and sculptress Katharine Craig now live in rural Ireland. After a row Katherine disappears and the next Bryce hears is that her car has been found, wi...

  • Blood Lies

    Patricia Wallace

    When P.I., Sydney Bryant, agreed to take on a routine "lovers profile" case for smitten pal, Victor Griffith, she had no idea that it would lead to murder. But the blonde and beautiful mystery lady in question was not quite what she appeared - and no...