Books Published in May 1993

New Books List: 572 titles

  • 1st Culprit

    Liza Cody

    'Ruth Rendell, with a new Wexford story, and Dick Francis, with a cunning racetrack heist, lead the field in this superb new collection from the Crime Writer's Association. International stars, old favorites, and new talents combine in a collection t...

  • Actor

    Parnell Hall

    Stanley Hastings never gave up his day job. Being private eye for an ambulance-chasing New Yor lawyer specializing in accident claims has become hi career. He carries a .35 (millimeter camera to photograph cracks in the sidewalk) instead of a .38. He...

  • Afghan Tales

    Oleg Yermakov

    A collection of short stories probes the legacy of Russia's involvement in Afghanistan, examining the lives of a schoolmistress in a rural hamlet, a young man awaiting conscription, and a wounded veteran trying to rebuild his career. 10,000 first pri...

  • After the Promise

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Every bride and groom believes the vows exchanged on their wedding day will hold them together forever. But, as the years pass, busy lives may extinguish the passion of those vows. Sometimes it takes a near tragedy to rekindle the love...and the prom...

  • The Afterlife of George Cartwright

    John Steffler

    For George Cartwright - soldier, explorer, naturalist, entrepreneur, gentleman, adventurer - time stopped on May 19, 1819, the day of his death. In the 170 years since, his spirit has wandered the byways of his youth, his mind returning always to the...

  • Alabama Twilight

    Danette Chartier

    MAGNOLIA ROAD There was perhaps no place in history more filled with romance and beauty than the old South in the days before the Civil War. Now, journey down Magnolia Road and visit the most majestic plantations of that gracious era... ROSE OF...

  • Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

    Deborah Hautzig

  • Alex Haley's Queen

    Alex Haley

  • Alice in April

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    In Alice in April, Aunt Sally reminds Alice that she will be turning thirteen soon (like anyone could forget such a momentous occasion) and that she will be the “woman of the house.” Alice dives into her new role by planning her father’s fiftie...

  • All Summer Long

    Bob Greene

    1993 St. Martin's Griffin trade paperback, 2nd printing. Bob Greene (Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen). At their 25th high school reunion, three old friends come up with the idea to hit the road for one more mellow, footloose...

  • The Alley Cat

    Brian J. Heinz

  • Amarillo by Morning

    Bethany Campbell

    SHOW TIME--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. EVERYBODY LOVES A COWBOY And Cal McKinney is one of the b...

  • Angel of Passage

    Joan Avery

    THE IRRESISTIBLE ENEMY With the entire country sitting uneasily on the brink of civil war, the lovely Rebecca Cunningham led a dangerous double life. A dominating force of Detroit society by day, by night she moved runaway slaves across the river ...

  • Angel of the Lake

    Ana Seymour

    LOST AT SEA Josh Lyman was lucky to have survived the wreck of the S.S. Atlantic. His fragile young wife had perished instantly, but his rescue of a Norwegian emigrant girl had been proclaimed a miracle --- a miracle that plagued him with guilt ever...

  • The Animals' Lullaby

    Tom Paxton

  • Anno's Twice Told Tales

    Mitsumasa Anno

    When Freddy Fox finds a book and asks his father to read it to him, Freddy's father offers his own tales based on the illustrations that accompany two tales from the Brothers Grimm--"The Fisherman and His Wife" and "The Four Clever Brothers."...

  • Another Man's Poison

    Ann Cleeves

    Ursula Ottway may have outlived her time, but she's still a tough old bird. When she finds her beloved cats and some protected wildfowl dead of illegal poison, she angrily threatens to expose her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, as an anti-p...

  • Anything You Can Do

    Sara Garrett

    Checkmate Bailey Russell had heard about the hot-shot attorney before he arrived in Kansas City. Rumor had it that Austin Travers was a big gun who'd been brought into the rival firm to shake things up. But she'd never expected Austin to be drop-d...

  • The Apartment

    Debbie Macomber
    in

    No matter that Hilary Sullivan was twenty-four years old, played flute for the Portland Symphony and had her own apartment --- Hilary's mother was overprotective. So how was Hilary going to convince her that mother didn't know best when it came to ha...

  • Appearance of Evil

    Carolyn Coker

    THE FINE ART OF MURDER As houseguest of one of the Huntington Museum's board members, and busy with her restoration project, art restorer Andrea Perkins is dimly aware of the discovery of a corpse on the grounds of the museum. LAPD detectives T...

  • Arctic Spring

    Sue Vyner

    As winter ends, arctic animals emerge from their lairs, the seal surfaces from under the ice, and the polar bear guards her cubs, in an illustrated evocation of the excitement of spring in the far North....

  • Are We in Love?

    Francine Pascal

    Love or friendship? Annie Whitman's new stepsister, Cheryl, is finally having fun in Sweet Valley, thanks to the friendship of her neighbor Steven Wakefield. Soon everyone--even Steven's twin sisters, Jessica and Elizabeth--assumes that Steven and...

  • Arizona Embrace

    Leigh Greenwood

    HE SWORE TO HUNT HER DOWN To bounty hunter Trinity Smith, tracking down criminals wasn't just a living -- it was his life's work. And this time out, he was bringing in the most daring desperado of them all: Victoria Davidge, the gold-digging...

  • The Assassin

    W.E.B. Griffin

    A political assassin is ready to make his move. The police department's only clue is a single, perfectly typed bomb threat. And worse yet, the police aren't sure they can trust their own people. In a few short days, the corruption of one cop-and the ...

  • At Dead of Night

    Linda Amey

    Moving back to her hometown of Live Oak, Texas, with her teenage daughter, funeral director Blair Emerson becomes the star witness in an arson trial while being stalked by a mysterious stranger. Original....

  • At Sea

    Toby Olson

  • Atlantic Run

    Bart Davis

    Navy Captain Peter MacKenzie must stop a renegade Russian captain from running the Northern Star, once the pride of the Soviet Union’s now extinct submarine fleet, to Cuba....

  • Back to Before

    Jan Slepian

    Two cousins who have each lost a parent--one to divorce, the other to a heart attack--are swept into a time warp that takes them back in time when Linny's mother was still alive and Hilary's father lived at home....

  • Bad Attitude

    Tiffany White

    EVERY WOMAN WANTS AN OUTLAW And every woman in the world seemed to want Mitch Marlow, Hollywood's hottest hell-raiser. His bad-boy looks--complete with matching attitude--had made him a highly bankable movie star. But lately his reckless life-sty...

  • Bagels for Tea

    Serita Stevens

  • Bandit's Blood

    Clint Hawkins

  • Bank on It

    Sherryl Woods

    MURDER...COMPOUNDED WITH INTEREST Amanda Roberts was ignoring the rules every woman knows. She agreed to meet a strange man at night, in a dark, creepy place--a cemetery, no less. If she hadn't been so depressed over her love life, she might not h...

  • Bargain Bride

    Stella Cameron
    in

    A bold and breathtaking love blossoms from a marriage of convenience -- when a headstrong English miss loses her heart to the dashing knight in shining armor who rescued her from an unwanted wedding...but has designs of his own....

  • Battle Plan

    Don Pendleton

    FIRST BLOOD The Baltic has become a powder keg, and the fuse is communist North Haakovia. Its egomaniacal leader has an arsenal of nuclear and chemical weapons and an elite cell of terrorists. Unless the U.S. acts quickly, Eastern Europe will fall...

  • Beachhead

    Jack Williamson

  • Becca's Independence

    Judith Stafford

    HAD SHE WON HER FREEDOM ONLY TO LOSE HER HEART? A TANGLED WEB INDEED .. . Lady Rebecca Jane Alexandra Dunlevy had no qualms about becoming plain Rebecca Dunn if it meant escaping from a distasteful marriage. Using a distant family connection, s...

  • Bed Bugs

    Taylor McCafferty

    Three separate clients tell private eye Haskell Blevins that their houses have been ransacked but nothing has been stolen, but two clients suddenly call him off the case and the third is murdered. By the author of Pet Peeves. Original....

  • Bee's Sneeze

    Ellis Nadler

  • Belinda

    Pamela Allen

  • Belle of the Ball

    Joan Overfield

    THE LADY CHANGES HER MIND At twenty-six, Belle Portham has turned a cold shoulder on many a would-be suitor, preferring to marry for position rather than risk her considerable inheritance for some handsome rake with an eve on her fortune. Lord Mar...

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Nerdy Nephew

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Stuck-up Ferdy Factual learns that friendship takes more than just smarts Brother and Sister Bear try to welcome the new cub in town by taking him to school on his 1st day. They quickly learn that Ferdy Factual, son of the famous scientist Actual...

  • The Best Little Boy in the World

    John Reid

    The classic account of growing up gay in America.
    "The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled in sports . . . . The best little boy in the ...

  • Bestsellers Guaranteed

    Joe R. Lansdale

    If you have a taste for the bizarre... BOB THE DINOSAUR GOES TO DISNEYLAND--An inflatable toy dinosaur takes a dream vacation... that's full of hot air. MY DEAD DOG, BOBBY--He's still the greatest pet in the world ... even though he doesn't do ...

  • The Big Green Pocketbook

    Candice Ransom

    On her day in town with her mother, a little girl starts off with an empty big green pocketbook--just like her mother's--and along the way collects pieces of her day to put inside, inventing stories for each treasure. Color illustrations. Trophy edit...

  • Big Pig's Hat

    Willy Smax

  • Biomarkers

    William Evans

  • Bishop's Revenge

    William F. Love

  • Black Jack Brogan

    Julie Kistler

    HE WAS SUCH A BAD BOY He exuded raw sensuality, burned her with his searing smile and commanded her with his piercing eyes. He was Madison Talley's darkest fantasy, the sum and substance of her most decadent dreams. And he was standing right in fr...

  • Black Out

    Jack Gregory

    New York City detectives Ceretta and Logan investigate the death of a homeless woman, only to discover that she was once a wealthy socialite and that her knowledge of the city's elite may have led to her murder...

  • Blind Hunger

    David Drake

    Patty Hunsacker, a recently widowed blind woman, welcomes a stranger into her home who claims to be her husband's twin brother but is, in fact, her husband returned from the dead as a vampire. By the author of Brain Fever. Original....

  • Blood and Honor

    Simon R. Green

    THE ENCHANTED PRINCE Jordan had always prided himself on his acting abilities, but now he faced the challenge of his career. Magicked into looking exactly like Prince Viktor, middle son of the recently assassinated King Malcolm, Jordan had been hi...

  • Blood Music

    Jessie Prichard Hunter

    New York City is caught in the cold grip of a brutal serial killer who savagely rapes and murders his young, blonde victims. As the death count rises, he sends taunting notes to the newspapers, all with unsettling references to his obsession with cla...

  • Blood on the Plains

    Judd Cole

  • Blossom's Family Album

    Devra Newberger Speregen

  • Blue Hearts

    Jim Lehrer

    Charles Avenue Henderson and Bruce Conn Clark shared a CIA mission in late November of 1963 that helped change the course of world history. When Henderson, now living the quiet life of a bed and breakfast owner with his beloved wife in rural West Vir...

  • Blue Moon Soup Spoon

    Mimi Otey-Little

    An authentic blue moon, something rare and magical that can bring people together, makes stale food taste fresh and teaches a make-a-wish tune. By the author of Daddy Has a Pair of Striped Shorts. ...

  • Bodies Electric

    Colin Harrison

    On the 39th floor of a glass and steel monolith, Jack Whitman single-mindedly plays the Corporation's game of ruthless politics and secret manipulations hoping to numb the pain of a life shattered by a random moment of urban violence ... and the loss...

  • Books of the Keepers

    Ann Downer

    In the conclusion to the trilogy that began with Spellkey and The Glass Salamander, Caitlin the Seer, Badger, and their children live peacefully in their world after rescuing son Bram from the elvish underworld....

  • Bottom Liner Blues

    K.C. Constantine

    BIG TROUBLE IN A SMALL TOWN With its shut-down mines and restive white-ethnic, blue-collar inhabitants, Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, is in the midst of hard times. And no one has it tougher than its own police chief, Mario Balzic--working hours longer...

  • Bouncing

    Shirley Hughes

  • Boy and the Giants

    Fiona Moodie

    In a folktale from the Hebrides, when his friend Kate is kidnapped by a terrible giant, Thomas, a brave fisherboy, comes to her rescue, and because of the good deeds that he has done in the past, friends are eager to help Thomas....

  • Breath on the Mirror

    Dennis Tedlock

  • The Bride of the Unicorn

    Kasey Michaels

    IN A PAST OF LIES AND BETRAYAL, THEY SEARCHED FOR TRUTH...AND FOUND DESIRE MORGAN BLAKELY, MARQUIS OF CLAYTON: With a soul as dark as his raven black hair, England's most notorious spy had finally discovered a means of revenge against the man who ...

  • Bride of the Wildcat Purchase

    Judith E. French
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    A half-breed tidewater planter gets more than he bargained for when the docile mail-order bride he requested turns out to be a feisty and sensuous hellion who will not be tamed...

  • Bright Islands in a Dark Sea

    L. Warren Douglas

    WITCH HUNT Yan Bando suffered from the family curse -- a mindless, deadly violence that overcame him in the face of danger. And so he chose the most peaceful life he could imagine: poring over the meager documents of an era two thous.and years past,...

  • The Broken Circle

    Rodney Barker

    "As gripping a true-crime book as you're likely to read all year....Read[s] almost as if [it] had been written by Tony Hillerman."
    CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
    In Farmington, New Mexico, a town that borders a Navajo reservation, the tensions between white...

  • The Broken Sphere

    Nigel Findley

  • By Love Betrayed

    Sandra Dubay

    RELUCTANT LOVE When raven-haired Rebecca Carlyle agreed to become a spy for the British during the War of 1812, the lovely young widow had nothing but revenge on her mind--revenge for the death of her husband, who had died fighting the Americans. ...

  • By Love Unveiled

    Deborah Martin

    A WOMAN WITH A SECRET ... A MAN OF DANGER.. Lady Marianne Winchilsea was running for her life from those who thought she was involved in an attempt to kill the king. Forced to disguise herself, she trusted no one -- especially not Garett Lyon, the...

  • The Cabbage Patch Kids Visit the Doctor

    M.J. Carr

    It shows that going to the doctor is always okay and should not be a scary experience. Kids should be exposed to a book like this because going to the doctor is always a scary experience it seems for kids and this book really helped even me as a chil...

  • Calamity Mom

    Diana Palmer
    in

    A mom for all calamities . . . that was what Faulkner Scott's young son wanted. The motherless twelve-year-old was determined to appoint Shelly Astor his new mom after she saved his life. Then she met his dad! Who was going to save Shelly's heart fro...

  • Calder's Circus

    Maira Kalman

  • Caleb's Friend

    Eric Jon Nones

    When Caleb's harmonica falls out of his hands, a young boy from the sea rescues it, and the two became fast friends, a strong friendship in which each saves the other's life. By the author of The Canary Prince. ...

  • Camp Big Paw

    Doug Cushman

  • Can You Guess?

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Can't Buy Me Love

    Joan Smith

    Just in thyme... Real estate developer Wilf Jameson had found the perfect location for his country club. All he had to do to close the deal was buy the farmland that sat smack in the middle of his future golf course. His partner claimed the owner ...

  • The Case of the Choosey Cheater

    Linda Lee Maifair

  • The Case of the Giggling Ghost

    Linda Lee Maifair

  • The Case of the Hidden Treasure

    Francine Pascal

  • The Case of the Mixed-Up Monsters

    Linda Lee Maifair

  • The Case of the Pampered Poodle

    Linda Lee Maifair

  • A Cat With a Fiddle

    Lydia Adamson

    Available Digitally for the First TimeA holiday in rural Massachusetts seems like just the thing for talented actress turned cat-sitter Alice Nestleton -- until a killer strikes a sour note… Alice Nestleton has recently died… at the box office, t...

  • Chatterbox Jamie

    Nancy Evans Cooney

  • Chloe in the Know

    Judith Caseley

    In the third volume in the Kane family chronicles, Chloe, the eldest child, finds herself helping her brother, Harry, when he is unjustly accused of lying. By the author of Starring Dorothy Kane. ...

  • Circus Girl

    Michael Garland

    Vivid illustrations and a straightforward text capture the unique world of a traveling circus family, from the parade through town, to the rehearsals, to the big show itself, with its clowns, acrobats, animals, and more....

  • Closet Case

    Robert Rodi

    As he tries to conceal his homosexuality from his co-workers, Lionel Frank runs into some snags, including a crush on a straight Transylvanian anarchist medical student. By the author of Fag Hag. ...

  • Cobra Curse

    Bill Dolan

  • Cody's Ride

    Stan Wiseman

  • Comanche Moon

    Virginia Brown

    HE WAS A HALF-BREED GUNSLINGER WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD...SHE WAS HIS DEFIANT CAPTIVE...TWO HEARTS FATED TO CLASH AND AWAKEN TO LOVE ON THE LAWLESS NEW MEXICO PLAINS! Few dared to tangle with rugged Zack Banning, the son of a Comanche chief, and o...

  • Comanche Wind

    Genell Dellin

    Betrothed against her will while barely more than a child, lovely, impetuous Jennie O'Bannion believes her life is over. Then fate intervenes on the Texa frontier, when a proud Comanche warrior claims Jennie as his own -- abducting the strong-willed,...

  • Come and Play, Hippo

    Mike Thaler

  • Come Here, Cat

    Joan L. Nodset

  • Come to Me

    Amy Bloom

    National Book Award FinalistBloom writes about passion—shameful, blissful and perverse. . . . Her voice is sure and brisk, her language often beautiful; the result is humorous and well as heartrending fiction. . . . Her work has the power both ...

  • Conan and the Gods of the Mountain

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Fleeing the sorcerous destruction of a long-lost city, Conan fights side-by-side with Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, that notorious and voluptuous she-pirate. Pursued by deadly spies and assassins, the Cimmerian and Valeria find themselves caught sq...

  • Contessa

    Barrie King

  • The Countess and the Cowboy

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    COWBOYS AND INDIANS NEVER FOUGHT LIKE THIS When Letitia DeMarco won the deed to her ex's Montana ranch, she didn't know it came with a negative cash flow--and Tyler Barnes, a foreman with a state-size chip on his shoulder. Before she could even un...

  • The Cow Buzzed

    Andrea Griffing Zimmerman

  • The Cowboy and the Princess

    Joan Johnston

    COWBOY CRAZY Faron Whitelaw had some nerve calling Belinda Prescott a princess. A nearly bankrupt ranch was hardly a castle, and Faron, an ill-tempered cowboy who'd inherited half her kingdom, was certainly no prince. The man was lucky she didn't ...

  • Cradlesong

    Jessica Palmer

  • The Craft of Light

    Ru Emerson

    A WORLD OF MAGICAL ADVENTURE... ...is what three unsuspecting visitors found when they were rudely summoned from their everyday lives by an ancient Thread-wielder. As sorceress, shapeshifter, and soldier, each played a vital role in restoring to the...

  • Creatures Of Habit

    Julie Baumgold

    In the twilight of glittering, shameless New York, the most famous chronicler of eighties society was columnist Libby Alexander -- a.k.a. The Pimpernel. She was the all-perceiving eye among the citizens of a gilded arena. Now New York is in the grip ...

  • Crossing by Night

    David Aaron

    As Europe heads irrevocably toward World War II, Elizabeth Pack, a beautiful woman trapped in a loveless marriage to a stodgy British diplomat, is willing to do anything to stop the onslaught of the Nazi war machine. Reprint....

  • Crossing the River

    Caryl Phillips

    From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his thre...

  • Crow and Weasel

    Barry Lopez

    When two young men leave their tribal village and set out to go farther north than any other of their people, they meet with terrifying danger and spectacular beauty. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo....

  • The Crystal Dragon

    Richard A. Knaak

    Strange sinister dreams haunt the Wizard Cabe Bedlam and lead him to the desolate peninsula of Legar. Here an inquisitive band of wolf raiders has accidently discovered the resting place-and the sorcerous weapons-of an ancient, unhuman race, the Quel...

  • The CRYSTAL DROP

    Bettany Hughes

    This accessible and engaging history traces the practice of Christian devotion, prayer, and contemplation from the biblical and influential early periods through the diverse insights of the Reformation and modern eras....

  • Daddies Boat

    Lucia Monfried

  • Damaged Goods

    John Leslie

    Ex-football player and ex-cop Harry Molina is paid to keep people safe, and in sunny Miami, where Uzis are as common as retirees, a lot of people need his help. His friend Bryce, a financier with bad debts, has disappeared. Bryce's ex-wife is in dang...

  • Danilo the Fruit Man

    E.G. Valens

  • The Dark Secret of Hunters Hall

    Lee Karr

    "What are you afraid of, Donna?" Deanna Banning had fled her family home in Brimstone, Colorado, harboring a secret so shaming and terrible that its burden threatened to destroy her. But after toiling as a governess in faraway New York for...

  • A Daughter of Zion

    Thomas Nelson

    She survived the Holocaust at great personal cost. But will her past now destroy her? It’s January 1948. After suffering the horrors of years in a Nazi concentration camp, Rachel Lubetkin has at last come home to Jerusalem . . . and the family ...

  • The Dead Game

    A. Bates

  • Dead Magnolias

    M.L. Gamble

    Past sins haunted the South.... In the steamy dog days of an Alabama August, P.I. Teresa Worth struggled with her cases. Her kidnapped daughter remained top priority - then came hit-and-run murders, petty thieves and men like Wells Talmadge. T...

  • Dead Water Zone

    Kenneth Oppel

    For as long as he can remember, Paul has looked after his younger, weaker brother Sam. But when Sam leaves home to work as a research assistant in Watertown, he disappears into the dark folds of the city's noxious slum. When Paul goes looking for Sam...

  • Deadly Justice

    William Bernhardt

    Ben Kincaid is not a superstar attorney. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, there are only a few lawyers who win headlines and big bucks. So when the notorious Apollo Consortium offers Ben a job as their in-house counsel, he takes it--for the money. The violence...

  • Death in Delhi

    Gary Gygax

    THE PERILS OF THE EAST The Pharaoh's most resourceful Magister, Setne Inhetep, would be the first to admit he had weaknesses-such as his attachment to his beautiful companion, the Amazon warrior Rachelle...and the challenge of a seemingly unsolvab...

  • Death of a Fantasy Life

    T.G. Gilpin

    While searching for his runaway nephew in London's Soho district, university professor Anthony Ponton finds himself in the middle of the mystery concerning a stripper's murder, and he and his newfound stripper friend, Sylvia, decide to investigate...

  • Deception

    Eleanor Cooney

    A Confucian investigator and dedicated judge puts his own life in jeopardy by exposing the bloody machinations of the emperor's concubine, who is murdering her way to the top of seventh-century China's T'ang dynasty. Reprint....

  • Defenseless

    Nancy Knight

    Attorney Savannah Manning's blissful retreat from the bustle of her life is shattered when a shocking crime in a nearby town draws her into a murder case, with her defending a very unpopular client. A first novel. Original....

  • Destiny's Promise

    Laurel Pace

    Running From A Nightmare When Lucinda Chandler fled her powerful husband in an act of desperation and disguised herself as a governess, she'd never thought she'd find happiness. Still, her new life on a remote Georgia plantation seemed almost idyl...

  • Detective First Grade

    Dan Mahoney

    There's a secret war on the streets of the city. Only a New York cop can win it.His claim to fame is finding guns on the bad guys, and Detective Second Grade Brian McKenna has just spotted the beard carrying a piece. What he doesn't know is that he's...

  • Devil or Angel

    Audra Adams

    REALLY BAD BOY Brooke Pattersen had never seen anyone like Devon Taylor. This devil-in-nodisguise had seduced her right out of the loving embrace of her family and right into his...arms. But when her father put a stop to their romance, driving Dev...

  • Diamond Deceit

    Carolyn Keene

    An urgent message from Bess draws Nancy to beautiful Carmel, California. Fading movie star Joanna Burton has accused jeweler Marcia Cheung of replacing the diamonds in her necklace with fakes. But the case of the missing stones turns even more sinist...

  • Dollhouse

    Jacqueline Karas

  • Dolphin Sunrise

    Elizabeth Webster

  • Don't Climb Out of the Window Tonight

    Richard McGilvray

    Full-color illustrations mark this story, written by a seven-year-old boy, about a little girl who comes up with ten excellent reasons, including flying ghosts and jogging giants, for why she should not climb out her window....

  • The Dork of Cork

    Chet Raymo

    When Frank, an Irish dwarf, writes a personal memoir, he moves from dark isolation into the public eye. This luminous journey is marked by memories of his lonely childhood, secrets of his doomed young mother, and his passion for a woman who is as unr...

  • Double Vision

    Diana Hendry

  • The Down Home Heifer Heist

    Eve K. Sandstrom

    THIN ICE It's a mean winter in Catlin County, Oklahoma, as modern-day rustlers are taking a deep cut out of the area's cattle production. The operation is slick...and murder is just another day's work. Rancher Joe Pilkington, neighbor to Sheriff ...

  • Downtiming the Night Side

    Jack L. Chalker

    When former Air Force officer and NSA agent Ron Moosic is assigned for special duty in charge of security for a nuclear power plant, he has no idea that the plant is only a cover for a top-secret project involving time travel.The government has disco...

  • Dreaming

    Charlotte Lamb

    Date with an angel Luisa was drawn to Zachary West. It was more than a nurse's compassion for her patient that moved her, it was the man himself: temperamental, courageous and so very desirable. When she discovered it was her father's car ...

  • Dreamsicle // Hail Storme

    W.L. Ripley

    While on a hunting vacation in the Ozarks, former NFL star Wyatt Storme stumbles upon an underworld drug ring with plans to create a highly addictive drug called "dreamsicle," and he reluctantly assumes the role of detective...

  • Dune to Death

    Mary Daheim

    LIFE'S A BEACH...AND THEN YOU DIE! Bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle and her policeman beau Joe Flynn have finally gotten hitched--and they're off on a sunny honeymoon to beautiful Buccaneer Beach. But an unfortunate confrontation with a ...

  • Dusty Brannigan

    Janice Harrell

  • E I E I O: The Story of Old MacDonald, Who Had a Farm

    Gus Clark

  • Each Time We Love

    Shirlee Busbee

    THIS UNTAMED HEART Wild and willful Savanna O'Rourke has yet to meet her match in any male -- until she is abducted by a pair of murderous outlaws who think she knows the secret to a hidden treasure. And to escape, she must join forces with the ...

  • Echoes and Illusions

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    OUT OF THE PAST Lauren Ryder is content with her quiet life in a small, scenic town in Maine. She has it all--a thriving needlecraft business and a wonderful husband. But then the dreams start--dreams so real she fears she's losing her mind. Somethi...

  • Echoes of the White Giraffe

    Sook Nyul Choi

    This follow-up to The Year of Impossible Goodbyes provides a revealing look at the role of women in Korean society, and the coming of age of one exceptional young woman. Sookan, the unforgettable heroine of "Year of Impossilbe Goodbyes", is now fifte...

  • Eclipse Fever

    Walter Abish

    While Mexican literary critic Alejandro longs for Mercedes, his estranged and unfaithful wife, Bonnie, the daughter of Mercedes' lover, witnesses a murder, and Preston, an American industrialist, and his wife deal with an unscrupulous art dealer...

  • Ecstasia

    Francesca Lia Block

    Calliope and Rafe, sister and brother, were born of a woman of the Desert and a man who made magic with his mind, who could fight off illness and age with his potions. But now the children have grown and their parents are gone. Now Calliope and Rafe,...

  • Ekaterina

    Donald Harington

    A ghost tells the story of Ekaterina, an immigrant novelist who has a yen for pubescent lovers, and, based on the success of one of her novels, takes over the top floor of the Halfmoon Hotel in Aracata Springs...

  • Elephant Moon

    Bijou Le Tord

    Claude Monet's world is brilliantly displayed in an enchanting tribute to the artist and his works with the same palette of eight colors and similar style, along with poetic text to lovingly portray his life....

  • Emily Eyefinger, Secret Agent

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